Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to okay f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker.
Speaker 1: On this new year, folks, Happy new Year to each
Speaker 1: and every single one of you, and thank you so
Speaker 1: much for all of the well wishes and tweets and
Speaker 1: dms over the holiday season. I hope that you all
Speaker 1: got as much rest and relaxation that you have set
Speaker 1: your intentions for the new year. Understand that, look, time
Speaker 1: is a construct and we can have a fresh start
Speaker 1: any day of the week, any day of the year.
Speaker 1: But sometimes it is good to follow the crowd and
Speaker 1: go on and say, you know what, in this new year,
Speaker 1: you're going to set goals, You're going to set intentions.
Speaker 1: You're going to let go of what happened in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two and be able to kind of look forward
Speaker 1: to this new fresh start this chapter, and folks, that
Speaker 1: is exactly what I am doing. Instead of starting with
Speaker 1: resolutions on all these things that we resolved to do.
Speaker 1: I actually watched a really interesting TikTok and it was
Speaker 1: of this white guy herbalist who was talking about the
Speaker 1: fact that the reason why most people fail at their
Speaker 1: resolutions by the time that they reach February, is that
Speaker 1: we need to actually be following the cycle of the
Speaker 1: environment and our seasons. If you live in an area
Speaker 1: that has seasons, rather than just the start of a
Speaker 1: fresh calendar, that winter should be a time when you
Speaker 1: go inward, when you are deeply reflective and meditative and
Speaker 1: prayerful and kind of planting those seeds right, storing your
Speaker 1: energy and making preparations, nesting in your space. And then
Speaker 1: as the season changes, right as it begins to get warmer,
Speaker 1: as we see, you know, the grass start to sprout
Speaker 1: back up and turn green and the budding on the trees,
Speaker 1: that then that is when you take on new activities
Speaker 1: and new tasks, but that you use this winter time
Speaker 1: as a time of reflection, as a time of rest
Speaker 1: and restoration, so that the spring then brings for you renewal.
Speaker 1: And so that is how I'm kind of moving into
Speaker 1: this year, this new year of twenty twenty three. I
Speaker 1: will tell you, as I stated on my last podcast
Speaker 1: for the year, that twenty twenty two provided personally and
Speaker 1: professionally a lot of ups, some downs, but a lot
Speaker 1: of exhaustion. Frankly, and one of the things that I
Speaker 1: am setting an intention for for the new year is
Speaker 1: that I am going to one once again as I
Speaker 1: did back in twenty twenty and then in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: one and fell off of it last year as the
Speaker 1: world seemed to be churning back. Is that I fell
Speaker 1: for the ropodope of capitalism and grind culture once again.
Speaker 1: I found myself working really long hours and found myself
Speaker 1: once again falling back into bad habit and trying to
Speaker 1: keep pace. And the thing is is that I'm no
Speaker 1: longer going to try and keep pace. I am going
Speaker 1: to listen to my body. I'm going to keep pace
Speaker 1: with what it needs and not what the world needs
Speaker 1: of me, and assume that those things will align as
Speaker 1: they will. That is my way of setting an intention
Speaker 1: for this new year. I'm super excited about the shows
Speaker 1: about the content, Folks. If you are not following me
Speaker 1: with the other podcasts that I do, I'm going to
Speaker 1: be doing more cross promotional talk about them. I have
Speaker 1: Democracy Ish, which comes out every Thursday morning with my
Speaker 1: friend Wahat Ali over at The Daily Beast. I also
Speaker 1: am the co host of The New Abnormal, which is
Speaker 1: a podcast with The Daily Beast with my friend Andy Levy.
Speaker 1: And so you can get multiple days of me in
Speaker 1: these different contexts with different folks, in different conversations, and
Speaker 1: so I encourage you to check those out as well
Speaker 1: as woke f and we will have new announcements coming
Speaker 1: later in the first quarter of the new year. And
Speaker 1: so I'm excited about all the things to come. But
Speaker 1: what I will not do, and what I encourage all
Speaker 1: of you not to do, is not to fall for
Speaker 1: the rope adope of capitalism and grind culture and bullshit
Speaker 1: and feeling like you have to keep up with the joneses,
Speaker 1: keep up with your neighbors, keep pace with the algorithms,
Speaker 1: Listen to your body, listen to yourself, listen to your heart,
Speaker 1: believe in your intuition, and move at a pace that
Speaker 1: makes sense for you and makes you happy, because at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, that is what matters. All Right,
Speaker 1: let's jump into how the year ended and then look ahead,
Speaker 1: shall we. So the end of twenty twenty two brought
Speaker 1: some hot, wild shit, right. We saw the January sixth
Speaker 1: Committee release their final report. We saw them provide four
Speaker 1: criminal referrals for Donald Trump, John Eastman, Rudy Giuliani, and others.
Speaker 1: We got bombshell reporting with regard to the fact that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump probably still has us stolen documents from the
Speaker 1: White House stashed not justin Mara Lago, but in other places.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump's tax returns over the last six years has
Speaker 1: been released, which brings into question what we've all wondered,
Speaker 1: which is how wealthy really is Donald Trump and where
Speaker 1: does his money rely. Well, we know that some of
Speaker 1: it from twenty fifteen to twenty seventeen, you know those
Speaker 1: years when he was president of the United States. He
Speaker 1: was elected in twenty sixteen, didn't want to release his
Speaker 1: tax returns, and then in twenty seventeen, you know he
Speaker 1: was president, he was holding some money in China, that
Speaker 1: he has given some loans, questionable loans to his children,
Speaker 1: and that he'd made zero goose egg charitable donations in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty when he claims to be the most charitable
Speaker 1: man there. There is also Donald Trump didn't really pay
Speaker 1: taxes for two years or the four years of his
Speaker 1: presidency either. And now I just want to remind folks
Speaker 1: that as this information comes to light, that there is
Speaker 1: no law that has been on the books that requires
Speaker 1: a candidate for the president or a sitting president to
Speaker 1: release their tax returns. It has been a political norm
Speaker 1: for the last you know, forty four presidents before Donald
Speaker 1: Trump became president when he decided to buck political norms
Speaker 1: and say fuck you because I don't want you to
Speaker 1: know where my money is. Because we know that Donald
Speaker 1: Trump is shady. We know that his businesses are shady.
Speaker 1: Oh that's the other thing that happened at the end
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty two, which is that that organization was
Speaker 1: found guilty on seventeen different charges and accounts, including fraud.
Speaker 1: So we know that they ain't shit, and you know,
Speaker 1: we're just waiting now on the multiple indictments to come
Speaker 1: reigning down now, folks, at the end of twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: I said, look, I don't know, I don't know if
Speaker 1: there is still an appetite frankly with the American people
Speaker 1: for Donald Trump to be brought to justice. What the
Speaker 1: Republicans are going to do when they decide whoever is
Speaker 1: going to be the new quote unquote speaker, as I
Speaker 1: want to say, puppet of the Maga Republican right which
Speaker 1: is now in control of the House, is they're going
Speaker 1: to try and distract the American people with their circus
Speaker 1: of bullshit committees and investigations and trying to bring down
Speaker 1: the Biden administration for no other reason than the Biden
Speaker 1: administration is a democratic administration that is actually trying to,
Speaker 1: you know, stop the belief that was caused by Donald
Speaker 1: Trump and the Republicans in this country in terms of
Speaker 1: our economic recovery with covid, our ability to build more
Speaker 1: equitable systems, you know, relieve people who are suffering under
Speaker 1: catastrophic student loan debt, create a patchwork of protections for
Speaker 1: people with uteruses. Now that Roe v. Wade is gone,
Speaker 1: we saw infrastructure bills passed, We saw gun legislation passed.
Speaker 1: We saw a lot of good things happen at the
Speaker 1: end of this year. But what we also saw is
Speaker 1: that the American people have consistently been underestimated, not only
Speaker 1: by the media but by the Republican Party in general.
Speaker 1: They put up candidates for the midterm elections like herschel Walker,
Speaker 1: like memot Oz, and others who were caricatures at best,
Speaker 1: but certainly not fit to serve. And now right now
Speaker 1: we're watching another saga playout, which is that of George Santos.
Speaker 1: The New York Long Island Republican who was elected and
Speaker 1: he is nothing other than a Charlatan fraud grifter. And
Speaker 1: it's now under investigation by the Nassau County District Attorney's
Speaker 1: office as well as you know, the fetes, because they're
Speaker 1: wondering where he got his donations from, whether or not,
Speaker 1: aside from lying about his entire background, his entire resume,
Speaker 1: did he lie in terms of the financial contributions that
Speaker 1: were coming into his account. One of the things that
Speaker 1: I got to say, folks, as I you know, I
Speaker 1: was on Long Island back home for a lot of
Speaker 1: the break and what was crazy is, first of all,
Speaker 1: it's walt to wall coverage on Long Island on the
Speaker 1: local stations as well as it was being covered by
Speaker 1: cable news because the story is just so crazy. But
Speaker 1: how does a George Santos come to be? He's a
Speaker 1: product of Trump is Um and Donald Trump. Right, the
Speaker 1: Republican Party decided that values and ethics no longer mattered, right,
Speaker 1: that winning and winning above all else's what is important.
Speaker 1: It's why Kevin McCarthy right now has said absolutely nothing
Speaker 1: about how bad George Santos is making the Republican Party look.
Speaker 1: Because why because Santos said that he's going to vote
Speaker 1: for McCarthy. Now, I'm confused about why McCarthy would believe
Speaker 1: any fucking thing that came out of that man's mouth.
Speaker 1: But you know, then again, Kevin McCarthy also thinks that
Speaker 1: he's powerful, right. He also thinks that he's going to
Speaker 1: do a great job as speaker. No, sir, you are
Speaker 1: going to be an indentured servant of the Magyar right right,
Speaker 1: the quote unquote Freedom Caucus that is now has control
Speaker 1: over the House. He has made so many concessions that
Speaker 1: you know, he makes doormats look good. Do you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying? Like, Kevin McCarthy is exactly the perfect
Speaker 1: example of what the Republican Party has turned into. They
Speaker 1: will capitulate and bow their head and kiss the ring
Speaker 1: of whomever so long as they have some semblance of power. Now,
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy is going to have zero power as Speaker
Speaker 1: of the House. He is going to be owned by
Speaker 1: the Marjorie Taylor Greens, the Matt Gates's, the Paul Goes
Speaker 1: to all of these people. He is going to be
Speaker 1: owned by because he's made all of these concessions, putting
Speaker 1: people on committees, giving them chairmanships, giving them the right
Speaker 1: to discount the speaker with only five votes, then he
Speaker 1: said that he would bring that down to one vote.
Speaker 1: One person could say, I want to take on the speaker,
Speaker 1: and Kevin McCarthy said, okay, boss, what do you need? Boss?
Speaker 1: So he is indicative and embodies exactly what the Republican
Speaker 1: Party has done under the thumb of Donald Trump. And
Speaker 1: Trump is a they've let go of their values, They've
Speaker 1: let go of their center, they've let go of any
Speaker 1: spine and backbone that they might have had, and they
Speaker 1: bow to power. So how does a George Santos come
Speaker 1: to be simple? You allowed Donald Trump. And what I've
Speaker 1: been saying on this show and every other show for
Speaker 1: as long as I can remember since Donald Trump came
Speaker 1: down that escalator, is that if you allow this to slide,
Speaker 1: you allow this man to remake one of the two
Speaker 1: major political parties to become president of the United States,
Speaker 1: what comes after him will be worse. And so you look, now,
Speaker 1: carry she won't give up right her quest to become governor.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter how many legal bills it costs her,
Speaker 1: doesn't matter how fucking stupid and pathetic she looks she's
Speaker 1: gonna go after this and still continue to talk about it,
Speaker 1: just like Donald Trump three years later, is still talking
Speaker 1: about how the twenty twenty election was stolen from him. Oh,
Speaker 1: by the way, we all remember that Donald Trump has
Speaker 1: announced that he is running for president in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: But have we seen nara campaign rally? Right? Have we
Speaker 1: seen anything that would give Republicans some impression that he
Speaker 1: is serious about doing anything then covering his own ass? No? Right,
Speaker 1: So when you look at the state of the House
Speaker 1: and you see that what has been announced so far
Speaker 1: this week, as we are in our first week of
Speaker 1: the new year, that Joe Biden is gonna keep pressing forward,
Speaker 1: Dark Brandon gonna keep doing what he does regardless of
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy or whomever, Scalasie or whomever having control of
Speaker 1: the gavel in the House. He is holding a bipartisan
Speaker 1: event with Mitch McConnell. Now here's the thing. You should
Speaker 1: not trust Mitch McConnell with anything. I wouldn't trust him
Speaker 1: as far as I can throw him, and I have
Speaker 1: a good arm in back. Mitch McConnell only does things
Speaker 1: that are politically expedient for Mitch McConnell. So when we
Speaker 1: see that one of the first engagements that Biden is
Speaker 1: going to have is going to be at a bipartisan
Speaker 1: event with Mitch McConnell, we have to ask ourselves what
Speaker 1: is Mitch McConnell going to get out of this, aside
Speaker 1: from giving the middle finger to Kevin McCarthy into House Republicans.
Speaker 1: The same thing with the Republican governor of Ohio who's
Speaker 1: also going to be do an event with Joe Biden.
Speaker 1: So essentially, what some Republicans are signaling is that they
Speaker 1: are at least going to pretend at this time to
Speaker 1: be the adults in the room and work with the
Speaker 1: current sitting president to get some things done, whether it
Speaker 1: is just for their own states or for actually for
Speaker 1: the country. Kevin McCarthy or whomever's in the House, be damned.
Speaker 1: What we know is that Republicans are hell bent on
Speaker 1: turning the next two years into Benghazi on Crack, which
Speaker 1: is wasting taxpayer dollars, pulling together bullshit hearings all to
Speaker 1: do what nothing. And the goal I believe that Republicans
Speaker 1: have is to distract and destroy. So then what position
Speaker 1: then should Hakkin Jeffries and the House Democrats take now
Speaker 1: that they're going to be in the minority come the
Speaker 1: middle of this week. Well, Kim Jeffries, for all people
Speaker 1: have said about him, oh he's not progressive enough, always
Speaker 1: too progressive, has shown himself in committee hearings to be
Speaker 1: a fucking boss right to know how to message and
Speaker 1: know how to stick it to Republicans. So my thought,
Speaker 1: my advice to Democrats as they get ready to take
Speaker 1: on the role of minority in the House, by a very,
Speaker 1: very slim Let's just say, if there were a couple
Speaker 1: of accidents right, Democrats could take the House back. I'm
Speaker 1: just saying, I'm not wishing for anything to happen to anyone,
Speaker 1: but I'm saying that's how thin the fucking margin is
Speaker 1: that Republicans have in the House right now, that Kim
Speaker 1: Jeffries needs to be the communications leader and bull horn
Speaker 1: of the Democratic Party, what does that mean. It means
Speaker 1: that he needs to allow Republicans to implode. He needs
Speaker 1: to allow Republicans to show their hand to the American
Speaker 1: people and to show their ass which they can't help
Speaker 1: themselves but to do, and then in doing so, in
Speaker 1: letting Republicans have enough leash in order to hang themselves.
Speaker 1: That He then messages in a way that says, look,
Speaker 1: all the Republicans said that they wanted was this gavel
Speaker 1: that they wanted power. What are they doing for you?
Speaker 1: What new bills and legislations in order to make your
Speaker 1: lives easier in order to make society more equitable are
Speaker 1: they putting forward? How does going after Hunter Biden's laptop
Speaker 1: actually how you now, which you, by the way, have
Speaker 1: lower prescription drugs because of the Biden administration and Democrats,
Speaker 1: how are they doing anything to make sure that you
Speaker 1: can put food on your table, gas in your car,
Speaker 1: and medicine in your medicine chest and a roof over
Speaker 1: your head all at the same time. Now they will say, oh, well,
Speaker 1: we're going to do an eye for an eye, an
Speaker 1: investigation for an investigation, But you see, investigating Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and the Republicans for their attempt to overthrow the will
Speaker 1: of the people to try and overthrow our election is
Speaker 1: about this safety and sanctity of our democracy and the
Speaker 1: health thereof So if we're not able to recognize who
Speaker 1: the actual threat is to our country, if we're not
Speaker 1: able to showcase that, then how are we able to
Speaker 1: defend ourselves against them. That was the purpose of the
Speaker 1: January sixth Committee, is to say, hey, American people, our
Speaker 1: democracy is not safe. We have no rules on the
Speaker 1: books that would have ever had us in a position
Speaker 1: where we knew what to do when the main insurrectionist,
Speaker 1: the leader of the insurrection, was the sitting president. We
Speaker 1: have no blueprint for this because never in the two
Speaker 1: hundred and forty semitey years of this country did we
Speaker 1: ever believe that a sitting president of these United States
Speaker 1: will try and overthrow the government. So while I appreciate
Speaker 1: the work and the energy that has gone into painting
Speaker 1: the picture to the American people of just how guilty
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is and how he has ended up now
Speaker 1: with four feminal referrals from the January sixth Committee, the
Speaker 1: question remains if anything is going to be done about
Speaker 1: it right, because it is not enough that we have
Speaker 1: a report that showcases exactly who was in charge, exactly
Speaker 1: who the architects were, exactly every single point of their plan.
Speaker 1: And if this didn't work out, this is the pivot
Speaker 1: we're going to make. And if this doesn't work out,
Speaker 1: then this is the pivot that we're gonna make this
Speaker 1: was not an act of happenstance or emotion in the moment.
Speaker 1: What the January sixth Committee laid out for us at
Speaker 1: the end of last year was that this was a
Speaker 1: poorly orchestrated but thought out strategy and plan put together
Speaker 1: at the behest of the former twice impeached President of
Speaker 1: the United States. So that investigation was about the health
Speaker 1: and well being of our nation and whether or not
Speaker 1: the coup has stopped, has been thwarted, And what we
Speaker 1: know is that it hasn't. It's just been slowed down.
Speaker 1: Each election is more consequential than the last. But I
Speaker 1: believe that this year, dear friends, is actually going to
Speaker 1: be a very wild political one. I think that if
Speaker 1: George Santos being sworn in is any indication for the
Speaker 1: circus that we are in for my God, go get
Speaker 1: your top hat and your lion tamers, because that's what
Speaker 1: we're going to be doing. But also, I'm going to
Speaker 1: tell you, maybe it's because I've slept a lot, maybe
Speaker 1: it's because I've been working out and I feel very clear,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to tell you that I believe that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is going to be indicted this year. Do
Speaker 1: I know who is going to take the lead on
Speaker 1: those indictments. No, but I can tell you that between
Speaker 1: the case that Jack Smith is looking into the special
Speaker 1: Council that was appointed by Merritt Garland, which by the way,
Speaker 1: we did not need but now have, Jack Smith is
Speaker 1: looking into two things. He is looking into the stolen
Speaker 1: documents from the White House. He is looking into the insurrection. Well.
Speaker 1: They have over a million documents that have been turned
Speaker 1: over to them from the January sixth Committee. They have
Speaker 1: public hearings to review, They have one hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: five page introduction to the report. They have thousands of
Speaker 1: Republicans that have testified under oath. So if this Department
Speaker 1: of Justice decides to do nothing, it's not a failure
Speaker 1: of the January six Committee. It will be a failure
Speaker 1: of government because the American public does not move forward,
Speaker 1: does not begin a healing process until we examine the wound,
Speaker 1: which is what the January six Committee opened up. We
Speaker 1: clean it out, meaning that we clean out all the
Speaker 1: motherfuckers that were responsible for creating that wound in the
Speaker 1: first place, and then we begin to patch it up.
Speaker 1: Once it's been cleaned out, the cleaning out part is
Speaker 1: now handed over to the Department of Justice. But the
Speaker 1: Department of Justice is not the only place that we
Speaker 1: are looking at impossible dietments to come from. We're also
Speaker 1: looking at Fanie Willis in Fallon County in Georgia, who
Speaker 1: has called a special grand jury in order to be
Speaker 1: able to get testimony of Lindsey Graham, of Raffnsburger and others.
Speaker 1: For those you know, eleven seven hundred and some odd votes,
Speaker 1: you can find me though. Donald Trump said that in
Speaker 1: his own words caught on tape, at some point in time,
Speaker 1: the chickens do come home to roost. At some point
Speaker 1: in time, the everest of evidence becomes too big not
Speaker 1: to look at. And what message, then, are you sending
Speaker 1: to the American public when you decide to turn your
Speaker 1: back on the crimes of the rich, white and the privileged,
Speaker 1: but take everybody else to task. Those are some of
Speaker 1: the decisions that this Department of Justice is going to
Speaker 1: be making this year, and I believe that it is
Speaker 1: going to be made sooner rather than later. There was
Speaker 1: something that my friend Mary Trump, who I do her show,
Speaker 1: the Mary Trump Show every Tuesday at noon, and you
Speaker 1: can catch it on YouTube and it'll be up today
Speaker 1: when you guys are listening to this show, will this
Speaker 1: show will go up in the morning, and then the
Speaker 1: Mary Trump Show will be live at noon and I
Speaker 1: will be joining her. She said something when I interviewed
Speaker 1: her for The New Abnormal, which was there isn't going
Speaker 1: to be one significant blow that is going to bring
Speaker 1: down Donald Trump. It is going to be, in her words, quote,
Speaker 1: a death by a thousand lashes. I believe, and as
Speaker 1: our friend Glenn Kirshner has said that once the first
Speaker 1: indictment comes out and the fear and the shock and
Speaker 1: the awe is taken away, I believe that there will
Speaker 1: be a flood of indictments that come forward. Now, if
Speaker 1: you watched Reverend Owl's Politics Nations special, which I believe
Speaker 1: aired a couple of times over the holiday break on MSNBC,
Speaker 1: Susan del Percio gave her prediction for twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: and she said that at the end of twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: Donald Trump would not be running for president. Now, Ali
Speaker 1: Velshi and I said, well, what is that mean, you know,
Speaker 1: shake your crystal ball again. Does that mean he will
Speaker 1: be indicted? Does that mean he will be on trial.
Speaker 1: She said, I'm not going to say because I don't know.
Speaker 1: But what I will tell you is I do not
Speaker 1: believe come the end of this year that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: will be running for president. Well right now, you know,
Speaker 1: folks are calling his campaign the title of an older
Speaker 1: Matthew McConaughey movie, Failure to Launch. Donald Trump announced that
Speaker 1: he was running for president, but he has done very little,
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, nothing other than release NFTs,
Speaker 1: which his campaign didn't even do, just Donald Trump did,
Speaker 1: which is money going into his pockets that his fan
Speaker 1: base is so readily able to wanting to open up
Speaker 1: their own wallets and purses in order to give to
Speaker 1: Donald Trump. But you know, grifts Gon grift. So we
Speaker 1: will see, folks. But I will tell you I do believe.
Speaker 1: And maybe it's because again I am rested and I
Speaker 1: am ready for the beginning of this new year. But
Speaker 1: I think that we are going to see indictments. I
Speaker 1: think we are going to see a spectacle come out
Speaker 1: of the House and that it's going to come back
Speaker 1: to bite Republicans in their ass. I believe that Republicans
Speaker 1: are going to receive the type of energy this year
Speaker 1: that they deserve. That is it for me today. Dear
Speaker 1: friends on wike APP, I am so grateful and happy
Speaker 1: to be back with all of you, back in this
Speaker 1: chair and back on the MIC. I am excited for
Speaker 1: what is going to be in front of us this year.
Speaker 1: I am proud of what is behind us, and I
Speaker 1: hope that you start this new year feeling refreshed, doubling
Speaker 1: down in your self care, doubling down in your boundaries,
Speaker 1: and looking forward to what we can do and achieved
Speaker 1: together as always, dear friends, Power to the people and
Speaker 1: to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke
Speaker 1: as fuck.