Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and a welcome to WOKP Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy is an asshole, right. We know this. We
Speaker 1: know that it took fifteen votes to even get that
Speaker 1: Fisher Price gavel in his hand. We know that Marjory
Speaker 1: Taylor Green really has her hand up his ass and
Speaker 1: is the puppeteer that winds McCarthy up and makes him work.
Speaker 1: At the same time, we cannot discount that his shatter
Speaker 1: right now around using the power of the House of
Speaker 1: Representatives to open up an inquiry into impeaching Joe Biden
Speaker 1: based on absolutely fucking nothing other than Trump grievance at
Speaker 1: the fact that because he's been impeached twice, because he's
Speaker 1: been indicted twice and we're currently on indictment Watch number three,
Speaker 1: that then everyone must be investigated. And the funny thing
Speaker 1: is is that the only people who require investigation are
Speaker 1: people who've been suspected of actually breaking the fucking law,
Speaker 1: none of which Joe Biden has done. This is purely
Speaker 1: a speculative, fucking waste of tax dollar money, waste of
Speaker 1: fucking time for Kevin McCarthy to do this as we
Speaker 1: move into the thrust of twenty twenty four election cycle.
Speaker 1: And so what I find funny is that even a
Speaker 1: current Republican, which you know, never happens often, so it
Speaker 1: becomes news when I don't know, they get bitten by
Speaker 1: the reality bug. When Representative Ken Buck goes on CNN
Speaker 1: with Dana Bash and basically says that what Kevin McCarthy
Speaker 1: is doing is irresponsible, and this is what the representative said,
Speaker 1: and apparently he's a hard line This is according to CNN,
Speaker 1: A hard line member of the ultra conservative House quote
Speaker 1: unquote Freedom Caucus pushed back, and he said that this
Speaker 1: move by Kevin McCarthy to open this impeachment inquiry is
Speaker 1: nothing more than a quote unquote shiny object. He said this.
Speaker 1: It's not just me, it's the public. What he's doing
Speaker 1: is he's saying, there's a shiny object here, and we're
Speaker 1: going to focus on that. We need to get all
Speaker 1: these things done so we can focus on the shiny object.
Speaker 1: Most of us are concerned about spending. It's an existential threat.
Speaker 1: Buck said, quote to think it's responsible for us to
Speaker 1: talk about impeachment at this time adding that he feels
Speaker 1: the House investigations into the Bidens are fair, he said, right,
Speaker 1: but that the impeachment chatter is bullshit. And here's the
Speaker 1: thing is that this quote unquote ultrue conservative member recognizes
Speaker 1: what we talk about on WOKF all the time, which
Speaker 1: is that the Republicans don't have an agenda. They don't
Speaker 1: have an agenda to move this country forward. Everything that
Speaker 1: the Republicans have offered is to quote unquote own the Libs.
Speaker 1: There's no oh, we need to be fiscally responsible. No,
Speaker 1: because they added to the debt by seven trillion dollars
Speaker 1: under Donald Trump, so they don't actually give a fuck
Speaker 1: about spending. Spending is the word that they use when
Speaker 1: they want to talk about completely cutting out social safety
Speaker 1: nets so that they can balloon the Pentagon and wipe
Speaker 1: away everything else, so that we can just become a
Speaker 1: war heavy, military heavy country that makes no investments in
Speaker 1: the actual citizens of this country, which is what makes
Speaker 1: us distinctively different from authoritarian regimes and dictatorships. What makes
Speaker 1: us different is that we don't in America, as of
Speaker 1: right at this moment, enforce an agenda through a policy
Speaker 1: of fear, invest all of our money and strengths into
Speaker 1: the military, while there are people that are going hungry,
Speaker 1: while there is no public education, while there's no social security,
Speaker 1: no Medicaid. Right like, this is what the Republican Party wants.
Speaker 1: And so instead of once again the media calling out
Speaker 1: and saying, well, you're not actually talking about spending, because
Speaker 1: you all approve budgets that give the Pentagon way more
Speaker 1: money than they ask for, what you're really talking about
Speaker 1: is a divestment from public education, is a divestment from Medicaid.
Speaker 1: That's what you're talking about. Because there's more than enough money.
Speaker 1: If we were to actually tax the rich who are
Speaker 1: your donors, at a reasonable rate, more so than their
Speaker 1: executive assistants are taxed, then again we would have more
Speaker 1: than enough. So why is it that you Republicans function
Speaker 1: from a scarcity mindset and model and yet want to
Speaker 1: tell us once and again that America is this abundant country. No,
Speaker 1: you want to ensure that it is abundant for some
Speaker 1: and desolate for others who you deem to be unworthy. This,
Speaker 1: to me is the basis of all pushback and conversation
Speaker 1: around Republicans and their lack of an actual agenda. You
Speaker 1: look at this state of Florida, which is bleeding business, right,
Speaker 1: they are running from that state. Just recently, the Alpha
Speaker 1: Kata Alpha fraternity, which was planned to have their convention
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five in Orlando, has just pulled. You
Speaker 1: have other businesses, right, Convention business is huge down there,
Speaker 1: cause who doesn't want to be in the quote unquote
Speaker 1: Sunshine State if you've got to be at a conference.
Speaker 1: And yet you have businesses that are saying, we're taking
Speaker 1: our conventions, our summits, our retreats elsewhere. You listen to reports,
Speaker 1: and this is just anecdotal, but you listen to reports
Speaker 1: of people being interviewed small business owners and they're talking
Speaker 1: about how tourism is down in this state, which is
Speaker 1: completely and totally going to affect their bottom line. So
Speaker 1: when you look at the way that DeSantis is operating
Speaker 1: this state, fully focused on the culture wars and not
Speaker 1: actually on anything else, that is indicative of what the
Speaker 1: Republican Party is going to do nationwide. So instead of
Speaker 1: allowing them to go off on these tangents about fiscal responsibility,
Speaker 1: why not actually call them out on their irresponsibility as
Speaker 1: it pertains to giving the biggest tax breaks to the
Speaker 1: wealthiest people, and we're all still waiting on the motherfucking
Speaker 1: trickle down that we were promised four decades ago. How
Speaker 1: long it takes. And so when you actually have a
Speaker 1: member of the Republican Party say this is just a
Speaker 1: shiny object and a waste of fucking time, maybe the
Speaker 1: media should pay attention to that instead of providing the
Speaker 1: spotlight and the microphone in order for Kevin McCarthy to
Speaker 1: turn the next several months into a motherfucking circus. But
Speaker 1: I think that that is, you know, generally asking too much.
Speaker 1: What frustrates me, you know, is just the fact that
Speaker 1: there is so much that is happening, and yet I'm
Speaker 1: watching wall to wall coverage on Hunter Biden. I just
Speaker 1: want to remind folks Hunter Biden's issues have nothing to
Speaker 1: do with anyone's day to day Why because he's not
Speaker 1: a fucking elected official. He don't represent nobody but himself, right,
Speaker 1: nobody voted for him. He didn't lie to the people,
Speaker 1: he lied to his family, He embarrassed himself. But this
Speaker 1: individual act is the cause the resistance for the Republican Party.
Speaker 1: A man who is unelected isn't sitting at anybody's judgeship
Speaker 1: isn't doing harm to anyone, but the person who is
Speaker 1: doing collective harm, Donald Trump, who defrauded the American people,
Speaker 1: who caused an insurrection and an uprising against democracy and
Speaker 1: is still doing it. There's nothing to see here, folks.
Speaker 1: According to the Republicans, their front runner is a man
Speaker 1: that is on indictment Watch number three, who just the
Speaker 1: other day, Representative Ted Lewie read into the congressional record
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump is an accused and found guilty of ripe.
Speaker 1: But this is their motherfucking front runner, And like, we're
Speaker 1: not having real conversations in the media about those facts.
Speaker 1: Those are fucking facts. Yes, So how is it like
Speaker 1: that we're here? It's just, you know, the level of irresponsibility.
Speaker 1: And I just, you know, sometimes I trouble myself and
Speaker 1: I stay up way too late because my mind won't quit,
Speaker 1: and I ask myself, how did we get here? Where
Speaker 1: did the failure begin? Right? Like? How far back do
Speaker 1: we have to go? And I honestly think, y'all, it
Speaker 1: was Nixon for me anyway, I'm talking about modern era,
Speaker 1: modern times. If Nixon had not have been pardoned, if
Speaker 1: what had been seen as good for the country, would
Speaker 1: have been accountability and responsibility if Nixon had gone to
Speaker 1: jail for his crimes and received the sentence that was
Speaker 1: on par with lying and cheating the American public. I
Speaker 1: don't think that we would be here because Nixon wouldn't
Speaker 1: have been able to then, over the course of time,
Speaker 1: erase his criminality. You wouldn't be able to rewrite that
Speaker 1: fact because that motherfucker would have had a criminal record.
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he would have served the I mean
Speaker 1: probably because he was old, But I'm not saying he
Speaker 1: would have served the rest of his life and died
Speaker 1: in prison. Maybe. But the fact is is that in
Speaker 1: America we believe that a stain on this country would
Speaker 1: be accountability. When it is the denial of accountability that
Speaker 1: has us in this situation. And it isn't just with
Speaker 1: the cancer that is Donald Trump and Magadum. It is
Speaker 1: the culture of lying and greed that we have embraced
Speaker 1: with both arms. Everything is about denial. Richard Nixon could
Speaker 1: have a long life and deny after the temperature had
Speaker 1: simmer any real wrongdoing and become a folk hero. But
Speaker 1: had that man been made an example of to future
Speaker 1: politicians that you are not above reproach that actually running
Speaker 1: for office means that you are going to be held
Speaker 1: to a higher standard because you are not just choosing
Speaker 1: to represent yourself. You're choosing to represent a constituent body,
Speaker 1: whether that be your district, your state, or the nation.
Speaker 1: So if you are choosing to step into that place,
Speaker 1: you are not above reproach. You should be held to
Speaker 1: the highest standard. And so when we chose as a
Speaker 1: nation to absolve wrongdoing by a raisure, we set up
Speaker 1: the circumstances that we are living inside of right now.
Speaker 1: This also applies to slavery. We have allowed slavery to
Speaker 1: be discussed in this country as a quote unquote necessary evil.
Speaker 1: While it was so horrible. Everybody owned slaves. It was
Speaker 1: just what you did during that time, and we normalized
Speaker 1: the rape, the torture, the brutality, the dehumanization of an
Speaker 1: entire people. Now, in contrast, in Germany, after the Nuremberg trials,
Speaker 1: to hold Nazis accountable for their crimes against the Jewish people,
Speaker 1: they built monuments. It is embedded in their curriculum to
Speaker 1: teach about the atrocities of what went down, not to
Speaker 1: shame those generations, but instead to shine a light on
Speaker 1: if not vigilant, if we are not holding ourselves and
Speaker 1: our leaders to account, that we can fall down on humanity,
Speaker 1: on our country. And so it is our duty to remember.
Speaker 1: And so for me, when I am thinking truly about
Speaker 1: where we are right now, I think about our desire
Speaker 1: to just quote unquote be good, right to be seen
Speaker 1: as good, rather than to be seen as great, Because
Speaker 1: greatness is about what you are able to consistently overcome
Speaker 1: and move through, not what you're able to ignore and
Speaker 1: to pretend doesn't exist. Great people are not defined by
Speaker 1: what they haven't the obstacles that they haven't moved through.
Speaker 1: It is because of those obstacles. It is because of
Speaker 1: the overcoming and despite quote unquote all odds, being able
Speaker 1: to move through and learn through the falling down, learn
Speaker 1: through the darkness to get to the light. And so
Speaker 1: this country could have learned that we hold our politicians
Speaker 1: accountable because they're not infallible. That what it means to
Speaker 1: be a country of integrity and a quote unquote symbol
Speaker 1: of democracy isn't that we don't jail politicians. It's that
Speaker 1: we only want those politicians that have integrity and honesty
Speaker 1: and follow the rule of law to represent us. You know,
Speaker 1: the Vice President recently traveled to Florida and she said
Speaker 1: something in her speech that I want to lift up
Speaker 1: because she went there to criticize the new education guidelines
Speaker 1: and new lies. And this is according to an opinion
Speaker 1: piece in the Washington Post. And the opinion piece is
Speaker 1: by a Republican, Gary Abernathy. Why are Republicans so afraid
Speaker 1: of confronting America's racial past? And this is what Kamala
Speaker 1: Harris said and what he found himself as a quote
Speaker 1: unquote conservative nodding to quote, let us not be seduced
Speaker 1: into believing that somehow we will be better if we forget.
Speaker 1: Vice President Kamala Harris said, quote, we will be better
Speaker 1: if we were remember. We will be stronger if we remember.
Speaker 1: And then on top of that, Florida State Senator Bobby Powell,
Speaker 1: a Democrat, said this, and he was talking in the
Speaker 1: context about African American about black contributions to this society.
Speaker 1: And again, it is about telling the truth. And he
Speaker 1: said this, The full measure of African American history is
Speaker 1: not a handpicked Rosa Parks here and a Martin Luther
Speaker 1: King Junior there. It is the sweeping collection of stories
Speaker 1: spanning several centuries, the lessons of cruelty and inhumanity interwoven
Speaker 1: in the determination of a people to live and breathe free.
Speaker 1: It is as much Florida's story as the nation's story,
Speaker 1: and it needs to be fully told. America's story has
Speaker 1: never been fully told because it has been cherry picked
Speaker 1: to believe that George Washington never told a lion cut
Speaker 1: down a cherry tree, and Lincoln freed the slaves, and
Speaker 1: you know, and everything was great, and Lyndon B. Johnson
Speaker 1: passed the Civil Rights Act, and blah blah blah, and
Speaker 1: on and on and on. It's cherry picked. America is
Speaker 1: and has been exceptional in some ways because of the
Speaker 1: people that have pushed it to live up to its ideals,
Speaker 1: that have died, have sweat, have sacrificed, had palaces for
Speaker 1: the pushing. But when we cherry pick as a way
Speaker 1: of protection, we make ourselves more vulnerable to lies and
Speaker 1: authority and fascism, which is the place we have ourselves
Speaker 1: in now. If we were steadfast in our truth, a
Speaker 1: Donald Trump would have never been able to exist. But
Speaker 1: because only some of us know the truth, and the
Speaker 1: rest have been protected and wrapped in lies. We are
Speaker 1: here and that's something that keeps me up at night.
Speaker 1: We can be better than this, but being better is
Speaker 1: a choice of not moving around pain, but instead moving
Speaker 1: through it. That is it for me today. Dear friends
Speaker 1: on Woke af AS always power to the people and
Speaker 1: to all the people power. Get woke and stay woke
Speaker 1: as fuck.