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Speaker 1: Good morning peeps in Welcome to Wika f Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody once again recording from the

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Speaker 1: home Bunker. Folks, you know, I know that the news

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Speaker 1: has beaten this story to death, but I can't help

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Speaker 1: but discuss it on here. Over the holiday weekend, Donald

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Speaker 1: Trump found himself dining with a known white supremist, white nationalist,

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Speaker 1: anti Semite named Nick Fuentes, along with Kanye West, and

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Speaker 1: the media spin out from this over the last couple

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Speaker 1: of days has allowed us once again to believe that

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump is both a genius businessman can do no wrong,

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Speaker 1: and yet a bumbling fucking idiot and doesn't know who

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Speaker 1: is coming to his home in Mara Lago because Donald Trump,

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Speaker 1: when brought the evidence to his face, who Nick Fentes is,

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Speaker 1: what he stands for, what he has said, what events

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Speaker 1: he has spoken at, Donald Trump is, oh, well, he

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Speaker 1: was nice to me, so I guess it doesn't matter

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Speaker 1: that he's not so nice to black people, or Jewish people,

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Speaker 1: or Muslim people or women at that right, because he's

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Speaker 1: also one of those fucking in cell misogynist like bullshit

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Speaker 1: guys that Donald Trump loves to pal around with, like

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Speaker 1: an Elon Musk I digress. But Donald Trump is been

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Speaker 1: able to say, and the media has said, well, he

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Speaker 1: didn't know who he was dining with. Well, there are

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Speaker 1: a couple of things that are wrong with that sentiment.

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Speaker 1: Number one, you can't both have people believe that you

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Speaker 1: were a genius and also a fucking idiot, right, because

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Speaker 1: this has been the normal pattern with Donald Trump. Oh

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Speaker 1: he doesn't know any better. Oh he had no idea.

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Speaker 1: Oh he minced up his words. Oh he didn't mean

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Speaker 1: to say that. Let me remind you that the man

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Speaker 1: is seventy fucking something years old. Okay, he is not

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Speaker 1: an adolescent. He is not a toddler. He's not a

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Speaker 1: fucking child. So this perpetual, like you know, naivete that

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Speaker 1: what he should know. The man was the former president

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Speaker 1: of the United States. Let's stop treating this motherfucker with

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Speaker 1: kid gloves. Let's stop giving Donald Trump the benefit of

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Speaker 1: the doubt, which he ran out of fucking years ago. Okay,

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Speaker 1: when he came down the escalator calling Mexicans rapists and murderers,

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Speaker 1: right when he said that he could grab a woman

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Speaker 1: has multiple sexual assault cases that have been brought against him.

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Speaker 1: So can we stop playing this bullshit game in the

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Speaker 1: media of Oh, because I don't say that I'm a

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Speaker 1: racist out loud, then that means that I'm not a racist,

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Speaker 1: Or we can all pretend that we don't know what

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Speaker 1: is in Donald Trump's heart, or the fact that the

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Speaker 1: Republican Party who has been silent on his dinner companions,

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Speaker 1: and the fact that this entire fucking party is associated

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Speaker 1: even when they do, the media still treats it up

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Speaker 1: at events with Nick Fuentes, has gone to talk about

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Speaker 1: white nationalism white Christianity. Paul Gossar has also spoken at

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Speaker 1: events with Nick Fuentes, has talked about white nationalism. If

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Speaker 1: it walks like a duck and talks like a racist duck,

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Speaker 1: it's a fucking racist duck. So can we stop playing

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Speaker 1: these stupid, fucking games where we pretend that we don't

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Speaker 1: know what Donald Trump is doing that we don't know

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Speaker 1: that he's a white supremaist. The man referred to African

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Speaker 1: nations as shiitthhole countries. The man referred to COVID nineteen

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Speaker 1: we bring in people from you know, those good Norwegian

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Speaker 1: countries like Finland or something like that. Donald Trump is

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Speaker 1: a white supremacist. Finally, Ben Rhodes, an MSNBC contributor, finally

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Speaker 1: white man, who is just like, can we stop pretending here?

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Speaker 1: So I would like to go even a step further.

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Speaker 1: Can we stop allowing the Republican Party to continue to

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Speaker 1: in fact that it is a well funded, well organized

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Speaker 1: political hate group. That's what it is. The reason why

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Speaker 1: Trump has told you himself that he is. Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: has surrounded himself with people who believe in the replacement theory,

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Speaker 1: people who discuss it. So what do they say? The

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Speaker 1: old saying goes that if you lay down with dogs,

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Speaker 1: This is the Republican Party. You know. When Hillary Clinton

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Speaker 1: back in twenty sixteen referred to Donald Trump's supporters as

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Speaker 1: a basket of deplorables, she didn't go further enough. She

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Speaker 1: fucking vile. Marjorie Taylor Green, Paul Goes or Donald Trump.

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Speaker 1: These people do not deserve to have political titles. They

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Speaker 1: where the fuck do we draw the line? Is there

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Speaker 1: no line for us to draw? I thought that it

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Speaker 1: was very clear right that anti semitism bad, racism, bad,

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Speaker 1: misogyny bad, homophobia, transphobia, bad, bad. I like, it is

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Speaker 1: so utterly frustrating to watch reporters contort themselves so as

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Speaker 1: Donald Trump at white supremacist. I don't know if that

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Speaker 1: person that gunned down although those black people in the

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Speaker 1: unless they write it up, unless it says so that

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Speaker 1: it's really fucking clear. What isn't clear to me is

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Speaker 1: the decision to tap dance around these issues. What isn't

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Speaker 1: clear to me is what is the media actually get.

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Speaker 1: What do they get from pretending? You know, the Republicans

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Speaker 1: when they come back for their news session, and it

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Speaker 1: is not clear whether or not Kevin McCarthy is going

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Speaker 1: to get the gavel back because there are many members

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Speaker 1: that is actually better because They're all a bunch of

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Speaker 1: spineless ass kissing white nationalists, right, Like, that's who the

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Speaker 1: Republican Party is. It's fascinating to me though, that we're

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Speaker 1: gonna go back. Republicans are going to take over the House.

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Speaker 1: The news is going to cover their bullshit hearings as

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Speaker 1: if there are some type of merit that is there.

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Speaker 1: Let's do a series of investigations into Hunter Biden and

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Speaker 1: What the fuck are you talking about, Ted Cruz, Like,

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Speaker 1: in all honesty, you allowed a man who called your

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Speaker 1: How many fucking lawsuits does Donald Trump have against him

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Speaker 1: right now, from everything from fucking tax evasion to you know,

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Speaker 1: the indictments. What I want are the fucking charges to stick.

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Speaker 1: But how Ted Cruz finds it within himself to say

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Speaker 1: but good, like with his own life. Like, yeah, Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden has presided over legislation that we know was fucked

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Speaker 1: like the fucking crime bill, right like his you know,

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Speaker 1: attacks on Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas's hearing, like all

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Speaker 1: But what we know for a fact is that Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden is not a fucking criminal like the one that

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Speaker 1: Ted Cruz fucking capes for that. The whole Republican Party

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Speaker 1: of is the media giving everyone the benefit of the doubt.

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Speaker 1: Oh do you When Donald Trump was asked on stage,

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Speaker 1: then weaponize the crowd filled with those proud boys and

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Speaker 1: still waiting around for Merrick Garland to decide that he's

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Speaker 1: going to have a special counsel to take more time

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Speaker 1: to run out the clock, do you know, come up

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Speaker 1: with nothing? Another nothing burger like the Muller report ended

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Speaker 1: up being What pisces me off is when people say like, oh, well,

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Speaker 1: Ted Cruz knows better, does he? Because when people continue

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Speaker 1: to act against the interests of this country, right, when

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Speaker 1: Senator Bill Cassidy tweeted yesterday President Trump hosting racist anti

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Speaker 1: the Republican Party. And my quote we treat said this.

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Speaker 1: Let's be clear, your base is filled with Nazis, white nationalists, racists,

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Speaker 1: Taylor Green has spoken at events with Nick Fuente's and

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Speaker 1: love and lift up. They don't denounce anything that Trump does.

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Speaker 1: And what people fail to realize, what they fail to realize,

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Speaker 1: is that their silence is their alignment, right Like, the

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Speaker 1: Republicans are not being held hostage by Donald Trump. They

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Speaker 1: are willing accomplices. They are aligned with Trumpism. And Trumpism

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Speaker 1: includes anti semitism, it includes racism, it includes hate in

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Speaker 1: all its forms. Oh, it's you know, it's fine to

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Speaker 1: be a homophobe. I guess if you're the governor of

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Speaker 1: you throw up Christianity in front of it, right, Like,

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Speaker 1: as normal legislation. To me, there is no distinction between

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Speaker 1: the transpols. They are the same fucking people. What I

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Speaker 1: Rhodes's book just say the fucking truth. Donald Trump is

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Speaker 1: a white nationalist. Donald Trump is the leader of the

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Speaker 1: Republican Party. The Republican Party is a white nationalist party.

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Speaker 1: That's it, end of story, and cover them as such.

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Speaker 1: That's it. You don't need people to say to you

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Speaker 1: I am a racist. You watch what they do, you

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Speaker 1: So in every single one of those aspects, Donald Trump

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Speaker 1: and the Republican Party has shown us who they are.

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Speaker 1: Believe them. Coming up next, friends, very excited that there

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Speaker 1: I have the opportunity to sit down with young people

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Speaker 1: tell me how was the Youth Summit experience for you?

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Speaker 1: The Youth Summit experienced? It was it was new because

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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 ok and stay woke as fack