Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet Your Girl Daniel Moody recording from an unknown bunker
Speaker 1: because I am on the road, folks, I want to
Speaker 1: start off today with Donald Trump over the weekend on
Speaker 1: Meet the Press and him talking about the fact that
Speaker 1: he is going to end birthright citizenship. And I have
Speaker 1: to be honest with you. I've said this before, but
Speaker 1: a lot of what this administration is about is shock
Speaker 1: and awe is, you know, disrupting nervous systems and creating
Speaker 1: fear and anxiety and anger. It's like a consistently being
Speaker 1: on air with a shock like that is what they
Speaker 1: want because they get off on the level of fear
Speaker 1: and anxiety that they're able to produce. And the fact
Speaker 1: of the matter is that Donald Trump, as President of
Speaker 1: the United States, does not have the power to end
Speaker 1: birthright citizenship. That is outlined in the Constitution. And even
Speaker 1: though we know that there have been a number of
Speaker 1: federal judges that were appointed to do Donald Trump's bidding,
Speaker 1: we also have to remember that judges are actual people
Speaker 1: who want their legacies to remain intact, who actually believe
Speaker 1: in the rule of law. And so while they may
Speaker 1: have been appointed by Donald Trump. The fact is is
Speaker 1: that they took an oath to the Constitution as well.
Speaker 1: And when pressed on a lot of topics, what does
Speaker 1: Donald Trump continue to say, Oh, we have concepts of
Speaker 1: a plan. I have to remind myself when I get
Speaker 1: into a place of deep anxiety and fear about what
Speaker 1: is to come, and folks, this is not me trying
Speaker 1: to minimize the fear or concerned that people have, because
Speaker 1: I know that it is very real and we do
Speaker 1: know what happened in the first administration. But I think
Speaker 1: that it is important to be reminded that these people
Speaker 1: are fucking idiots and that they actually don't know how
Speaker 1: government works. They don't care to know how government works,
Speaker 1: and the things that they think that they're just going
Speaker 1: to be able to do at the snap of the
Speaker 1: finger is not going to happen. That there are going
Speaker 1: to be a mountains of court cases and blockades that
Speaker 1: are put in their place in order to stop or
Speaker 1: slow down a lot of the actions that they want
Speaker 1: to take that go against the constitution of these United States.
Speaker 1: And you know, while we are watching as governments around
Speaker 1: the world crumble, as in Syria, that are becoming non
Speaker 1: functional as in France and that are teetering on authoritarianism
Speaker 1: as is happening here. We are witnessing that the people
Speaker 1: right have more power than we are being led to believe.
Speaker 1: And it's why I end my shows with power to
Speaker 1: the people and to all the people power because if
Speaker 1: we as people actually recognize that these autocrats, that these
Speaker 1: want to be autocrats, are actually afraid of the people
Speaker 1: that they are supposedly here to represent, then we recognize
Speaker 1: that they can't oppress us without our consent. We have
Speaker 1: to go along with the get along of their bullshit
Speaker 1: in order for their way to happen. Right like, we
Speaker 1: have to believe that while there is no rule of law,
Speaker 1: while the people have no power and they can do
Speaker 1: whatever they want, and if that is what they allow
Speaker 1: us to believe, what they make us believe, then yeah,
Speaker 1: they are going to get their way. But at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, no one can oppress you without
Speaker 1: your consent. And so collectively we have to understand the
Speaker 1: power that we have in this moment to slow this administration,
Speaker 1: this regime down and recognize that while they're talking about
Speaker 1: starting things on day one, that there are also right,
Speaker 1: whether it be the deport mass deportation. There are whole
Speaker 1: industries that will crumble if, in fact that happens. And
Speaker 1: there are also protocols, checks and balances that have to
Speaker 1: happen in order for this mass deportation plan to take place.
Speaker 1: There are laws that have to be put in place,
Speaker 1: there are policy measures that have to be passed. Again,
Speaker 1: none of this happens because Donald Trump thinks that he
Speaker 1: is fucking bewitched and can wiggle his nose and then
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you know, everything just goes all one.
Speaker 1: That's not how it works. And I think that we
Speaker 1: need to be reminded consistently of that fact. I have
Speaker 1: a bone two pick, and it is one that I
Speaker 1: am just. I am so fucking outdone. And I tell
Speaker 1: you that every time that I think that Democrats have
Speaker 1: reached a new low, right like, every time that I
Speaker 1: think that they can't show their spinelessness, they can't show
Speaker 1: an even more that they are not built for this moment. Boy,
Speaker 1: do they like go above and beyond to prove to
Speaker 1: people that they are not built for this moment? But
Speaker 1: can somebody fucking explain to me why Jim Clyburn had
Speaker 1: the audacity to say that Joe Biden should pardon Donald
Speaker 1: Trump so that we can have a clean slate. And
Speaker 1: who is the we that he is talking about, because
Speaker 1: I can tell you that there are people black people
Speaker 1: sitting inside of federal prisons that deserve to be pardoned
Speaker 1: for trumped up charges that they have been held on.
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is a fucking criminal. And so I am
Speaker 1: so confused about why Jim Clyburn, a man that has
Speaker 1: been in Congress for as long as he has been,
Speaker 1: that has worked with many of the administrations, would stare
Speaker 1: down the American people and say that Joe Biden should
Speaker 1: go ahead and pardon Donald Trump because somehow that would
Speaker 1: excuse the stealing of documents, the inciding of an insurrection.
Speaker 1: I have to tell you that this is why, this
Speaker 1: is why seven million people sat home. This is why
Speaker 1: people look at the Democratic Party and they say that
Speaker 1: you are no better, and why you have these Democrats
Speaker 1: that are so busy trying to either chase Republicans or
Speaker 1: chase the center that no longer exists, rather than rooting
Speaker 1: themselves in progressive policies and ideas that the people actually
Speaker 1: want that are actually popular. To pardon Donald Trump would
Speaker 1: just to be just to state fully and unapologetically that
Speaker 1: we are not a nation of laws. Because how is
Speaker 1: it that Brazil is able to hold their former president
Speaker 1: accountable and guess what, their entire country doesn't collapse, right,
Speaker 1: How is it that other nations who have had criminal
Speaker 1: presidents are able to hold them accountable? But here in
Speaker 1: the United States that is supposed to be somebody's beacon
Speaker 1: of democracy. That we're saying to you, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: overlook all of it. And in order to give America
Speaker 1: a clean slate, we must deny the truth about who
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is, right, because that's how the rule of
Speaker 1: law works. It is beyond disappointing. It is at the
Speaker 1: point of absolute disas gust that I find myself with
Speaker 1: the Democratic Party in this moment. And this is why
Speaker 1: I continue to say, these people are not built for
Speaker 1: this moment and it is time for them to retire.
Speaker 1: There is no center when you have one party that
Speaker 1: is built of extremists. Democrats are proving that they are
Speaker 1: not extreme enough in their progressive ideas, that they are
Speaker 1: not pushing enough for the people. And that's why seven
Speaker 1: million people stayed home, because they say, I see no
Speaker 1: difference between you all and frankly, I want to opt
Speaker 1: out of this system. Unfortunately, the fact of the matter
Speaker 1: is is that if you don't have a voice in
Speaker 1: this system, your non vote was a vote for Donald Trump.
Speaker 1: So we all know who pay attention that his win
Speaker 1: was nobody's landslide and nobody's mandate. But the fact of
Speaker 1: the matter is is that those seven million votes they
Speaker 1: were absolutely fucking needed. But instead of going after the
Speaker 1: American people and saying that we need you to understand
Speaker 1: not what is that danger, but what we are doing
Speaker 1: to make your day to day life better. What we
Speaker 1: are offering, what this economy that was turned around after
Speaker 1: Donald Trump bottomed it out because of his response to COVID.
Speaker 1: This is what Democrats are doing, and this is what
Speaker 1: we will push on so that we can be the
Speaker 1: model in the world and not the laughing stock. I
Speaker 1: want to switch gears for a moment and talk about
Speaker 1: the ways in which America is a laughing stock, and
Speaker 1: that is around our healthcare system. So we see right now,
Speaker 1: as allegedly the man who committed the murder and killed
Speaker 1: the CEO of United Healthcare, we see the reaction that
Speaker 1: people have had right I've talked about it. It is wild.
Speaker 1: It shows you how dark of times we are living
Speaker 1: in one where jokes are made about the murder of
Speaker 1: a CEO. But it also shows you how fucking harmful
Speaker 1: our healthcare system is towards millions of Americans. That man
Speaker 1: Brian Thompson, as president, overseeing an over three hundred billion
Speaker 1: dollars over three hundred and fifty billion dollar budget, was
Speaker 1: responsible for denying claims of thirty one point five million Americans,
Speaker 1: sick Americans who are paying into what I can only
Speaker 1: refer to as one of the biggest fucking Ponzi schemes,
Speaker 1: which is our healthcare system. Why do I call it
Speaker 1: a Ponzi scheme because you either pay out of pocket
Speaker 1: every single month or your employees pays out of pocket,
Speaker 1: only to have insurance companies take your fucking money and
Speaker 1: then deny you coverage and have the ability to say,
Speaker 1: oh no, we're going to cover this but not this,
Speaker 1: which is why millions of people go bankrupt when an
Speaker 1: unexpected illness befalls them or their family. Why in this
Speaker 1: country of supposed abundance are people being forced to do
Speaker 1: go fundmes in order to pay for necessary surgeries, in
Speaker 1: order to pay for medication most industrialized countries have universal
Speaker 1: health care, but in America we make it as complicated
Speaker 1: as possible so that the CEOs of these companies that
Speaker 1: have the ability to deny your claims to decline them,
Speaker 1: can make as much money as possible. That is why
Speaker 1: people reacted the way that they did, because if you
Speaker 1: kill one person, as I saw stated, you're a murderer.
Speaker 1: But you kill hundreds of thousands of people, oh well,
Speaker 1: you're providing quality for your shareholders. It's sick and it's twisted,
Speaker 1: and the darkness in people's response to this act of
Speaker 1: violence shows you that healthcare is actually something that we
Speaker 1: can all unite around because there isn't a person that
Speaker 1: does not have a story that is heartbreaking or terrifying
Speaker 1: or anger inducing that involves chasing down your insurer in
Speaker 1: order to get coverage of basic shit. So you know,
Speaker 1: I do not unlike corporate mainstream media, I am not
Speaker 1: wronging people for their reactions and their responses to this
Speaker 1: murder because what it illuminates is a much bigger problem
Speaker 1: And maybe instead of these CEOs now looking for security,
Speaker 1: maybe you should actually think about your fucking practices that
Speaker 1: are harming people as opposed to helping them. It's wild
Speaker 1: to me that you would get into an industry that
Speaker 1: is supposed to be about providing healthcare to people and
Speaker 1: you're getting high fived and celebrated for denying millions. It's
Speaker 1: disgusting and it is it is deplorable, but we have
Speaker 1: just lapped it up in this country as well. That's
Speaker 1: the way. No, it is not. It's the way until
Speaker 1: it isn't. And maybe this is the eye opening moment
Speaker 1: where people, you know, across party lines recognize that, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, why don't we have universal health care
Speaker 1: in the United States? Why am I supposedly needing to
Speaker 1: be woken up in the middle of a fucking surgery
Speaker 1: because oh, Blue Cross, Blue Shield didn't want to extend
Speaker 1: the anesthesia that you had because your surgery was running along.
Speaker 1: You see how they quickly reverse that decision. But they
Speaker 1: try and find these insurance companies try and find any
Speaker 1: way to screw people who are spending hundreds, if not
Speaker 1: thousands of dollars if you're in a family on healthcare.
Speaker 1: It makes absolutely no sense. And I'll tell you that
Speaker 1: when I was covering this on the Daniel Moody Show
Speaker 1: and on others, that people who listen from around the world,
Speaker 1: from Australia, from the UK, from Canada, where like, we
Speaker 1: don't get it. We don't get it, and it's disgusting
Speaker 1: and we are so sorry for you all. And I'm like,
Speaker 1: until Americans begin to demand better and also let go
Speaker 1: of the illusion that somehow America is better than other nations,
Speaker 1: when what is coming into our site is that we've
Speaker 1: been lied to, we have been bamboozled, we have been
Speaker 1: fed this line that America is exceptional, and it is not.
Speaker 1: It is actually exceptional in its cruelty. It is exceptional
Speaker 1: in its hate. It is exceptional in its low quality
Speaker 1: public education. It is exceptional in its obesity problem and
Speaker 1: its mental health crisis and its gun problems. Right, you
Speaker 1: can list out the ways in which America is exceptional,
Speaker 1: and a lot of them are fucking terrible. What I
Speaker 1: have continued to say about America is that we have
Speaker 1: the best pr of any country, because when you're actually
Speaker 1: here and you visit someplace else and realize that, why
Speaker 1: does our infrastructure look the way that it does. Whenever
Speaker 1: I see these memes of high speed trains in Europe,
Speaker 1: or in Japan or in other and they'll say, oh,
Speaker 1: my god, such and such country is in the future. No,
Speaker 1: they're not. America is just living in the nineteenth century.
Speaker 1: Everyone else has created policies, infrastructure right in a way
Speaker 1: that is forward thinking. America, however, in too many instances,
Speaker 1: is living and existing in the past. And we are
Speaker 1: at a moment, at a critical moment, when we have
Speaker 1: a new administration coming in that has no imagination right,
Speaker 1: that is not interested in innovation, that is not coming
Speaker 1: from a place of abundance, that it's going to be
Speaker 1: operating from a place of scarcity and pushing America to
Speaker 1: fall further behind. We live inside of a global society,
Speaker 1: and this idea that, oh, America first, when America is
Speaker 1: literally last in global metrics of so many things, is embarrassing,
Speaker 1: but it's also incredibly ignorant. So well, I don't wrong
Speaker 1: people for the feelings that they have expressed on social media,
Speaker 1: because it is again a symbolic of a much deeper
Speaker 1: problem that we have in this country that we refuse
Speaker 1: to address, and we are at a breaking point. And
Speaker 1: what I believe is that look, this administration that is
Speaker 1: coming in, they are coming in with a hammer to
Speaker 1: damage as many things, as many agencies our spirit as
Speaker 1: much as they possibly can. But I will reiterate what
Speaker 1: I said at the top. No one can oppress you
Speaker 1: without your consent. And we still have the Constitution of
Speaker 1: the United States, We still have the rule of law,
Speaker 1: and we still have the will of the people, and
Speaker 1: we need to exercise that and think about what does
Speaker 1: our resistance look like moving forward. That is it for
Speaker 1: me today, dear friends on WOKF as always, power to
Speaker 1: the people and to all the people. Power, get woke
Speaker 1: and stay woke as fun