1 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,800 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wik f Daily with 2 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, 3 00:00:19,640 --> 00:00:24,160 Speaker 1: there is you know, a lot of news already percolating 4 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 1: at the start of this good, good week and this 5 00:00:27,320 --> 00:00:31,320 Speaker 1: god forsaken fucking country. So let's just get right to it, 6 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:37,599 Speaker 1: shall we. Well, first up, Rhonda Santis' presidential campaign is 7 00:00:37,680 --> 00:00:40,440 Speaker 1: not doing well. It's probably doing as well as the 8 00:00:40,600 --> 00:00:43,080 Speaker 1: entire state of Florida, which is to say that it's 9 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:46,639 Speaker 1: hanging on by a fucking thread. Look, I don't want 10 00:00:46,640 --> 00:00:49,239 Speaker 1: to count my chickens before they hatch, because we are 11 00:00:49,640 --> 00:00:54,279 Speaker 1: very long time away from the real kickstart to the 12 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:58,520 Speaker 1: presidential twenty twenty four campaign season, and a lot can happen, 13 00:00:58,520 --> 00:01:01,400 Speaker 1: and a lot usually does happen. But anytime that a 14 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,520 Speaker 1: media outlet is comparing you to Ted Cruz, know that 15 00:01:04,600 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: you are not doing a good job, and that is 16 00:01:07,240 --> 00:01:11,720 Speaker 1: not a fucking compliment. Many are saying that Ronda Santis's 17 00:01:11,880 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 1: campaign is pretty much like Ted Cruz's of yesteryear, where 18 00:01:16,959 --> 00:01:18,759 Speaker 1: folks thought that he was going to be a good 19 00:01:18,800 --> 00:01:22,600 Speaker 1: contender and giving him, you know, lots of accolades, and 20 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:25,120 Speaker 1: then he gets on to the world stage and just 21 00:01:25,240 --> 00:01:28,679 Speaker 1: fucking fizzles. The same thing is happening with Ronda Santis. 22 00:01:28,720 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: But I want to read you this that Ebro, who 23 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:38,040 Speaker 1: goes by old man Ebro on Instagram and is a 24 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:41,120 Speaker 1: personality and host at Hot ninety seven here in New York, 25 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:43,880 Speaker 1: he posted this and I shared it in my stories 26 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:47,120 Speaker 1: if you follow me on Instagram at d two cents 27 00:01:47,240 --> 00:01:53,200 Speaker 1: dee tw ocnts. He posted this, And I want you 28 00:01:53,320 --> 00:01:55,440 Speaker 1: to just think about this as I talk about the 29 00:01:55,480 --> 00:02:00,360 Speaker 1: fact that Ronda Santis is firing roughly twenty staffers, that 30 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:05,280 Speaker 1: he is losing money, that he is doing a quote 31 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,000 Speaker 1: unquote reset, and the fact is that ron de Sant 32 00:02:08,040 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: has only launched his presidential campaign a few weeks ago. 33 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 1: If we really put things into real context, like there 34 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:23,639 Speaker 1: had been, you know, chatter about him launching his presidential campaign, 35 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,680 Speaker 1: but he didn't actually launch it until several weeks ago, 36 00:02:27,040 --> 00:02:29,480 Speaker 1: and you're already in the midst of like a full 37 00:02:29,520 --> 00:02:33,639 Speaker 1: blown reset and firing people, and you know, and now 38 00:02:33,680 --> 00:02:35,960 Speaker 1: he's going to sit down with Jake Tapper because you 39 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,560 Speaker 1: know that he hates all media unless he's controlling it. 40 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:43,720 Speaker 1: But this is what Ebro posted quote Florida is a 41 00:02:43,720 --> 00:02:48,280 Speaker 1: failed state. It is the inflation hotspot of the United States, 42 00:02:48,320 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: while the national average has dropped to its low its 43 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:54,200 Speaker 1: level in years. Insurance companies are fleeing and consumers are 44 00:02:54,240 --> 00:02:58,240 Speaker 1: being hit with skyrocketing costs. Rent prices are through the roof. 45 00:02:58,639 --> 00:03:01,800 Speaker 1: There is a historic teacher shortage. Doctors and nurses are 46 00:03:01,880 --> 00:03:06,000 Speaker 1: leaving in droves. Businesses are pulling massive development projects amid 47 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:09,000 Speaker 1: the state's attack on the free market. And that's before 48 00:03:09,040 --> 00:03:12,480 Speaker 1: you get into the attacks on the LGBTQ plus community, 49 00:03:12,800 --> 00:03:15,960 Speaker 1: the banning of books, the censorship of American history, and 50 00:03:16,000 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: the war on reproductive rights and more. When it's all 51 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:22,400 Speaker 1: said and done, Ron DeSantis may just go down as 52 00:03:22,440 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: the single worst governor in history. The other piece of 53 00:03:27,760 --> 00:03:32,000 Speaker 1: this as well, you know, is when you look at 54 00:03:32,720 --> 00:03:36,839 Speaker 1: and this was in a CNBC study the sound that 55 00:03:36,920 --> 00:03:40,120 Speaker 1: the ten worse states to live in, the ten worse 56 00:03:40,240 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: states to live in, were all controlled by Republican majorities. 57 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:49,280 Speaker 1: And let me tell you that Florida is on the 58 00:03:49,320 --> 00:03:54,520 Speaker 1: fucking list. And so, folks, it's like nine of the ten, 59 00:03:54,560 --> 00:03:58,200 Speaker 1: I'm sorry, were controlled by Republicans, and Florida was of 60 00:03:58,240 --> 00:04:00,840 Speaker 1: course on that list. So when you think about Ronda 61 00:04:00,920 --> 00:04:05,960 Speaker 1: Santis's campaign, his failure to launch all of the things 62 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: that he has going against him in the state of Florida, 63 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:12,840 Speaker 1: and the fact that he can't get through a sentence 64 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:19,200 Speaker 1: without uttering the word woke seventy five million times? How 65 00:04:19,240 --> 00:04:21,560 Speaker 1: do we think that Deronda Santis is going to play 66 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,599 Speaker 1: on the national stage when he can't even manage himself 67 00:04:24,880 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 1: and his state. Right, So, if I were a Republican opponent, right, 68 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:35,920 Speaker 1: I'm holding up Ronda Santis' stats in Florida, and I'm saying, 69 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:38,359 Speaker 1: do you want him to run the country into the 70 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,440 Speaker 1: ground the way that he's running his state into the ground? 71 00:04:42,520 --> 00:04:45,839 Speaker 1: Because these motherfuckers don't care about their constituencies. And that 72 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: is so clear because if you did, then you would 73 00:04:50,240 --> 00:04:53,599 Speaker 1: be creating measures that would be making people's lives better, 74 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:57,400 Speaker 1: not worse. That would be hoarding more people to come 75 00:04:57,440 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 1: to your state, not flee and find refuge states around 76 00:05:01,720 --> 00:05:05,839 Speaker 1: the country. And so when I hear the remarks and 77 00:05:05,960 --> 00:05:08,840 Speaker 1: see all the chatter about ron De Santis being in 78 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,240 Speaker 1: quote unquote turmoil, none of that is a fucking shock 79 00:05:12,320 --> 00:05:18,760 Speaker 1: to me at all. Because he won. He may have 80 00:05:18,880 --> 00:05:24,240 Speaker 1: the same cruel policy ideas and tactics that Donald Trump 81 00:05:24,279 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 1: has and the rest of the Republican Party has. He 82 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,240 Speaker 1: has none of the fucking charisma. You know. The thing, 83 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:34,320 Speaker 1: and I said this on my other show, The New Abnormal. 84 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:39,280 Speaker 1: The thing about Donald Trump, for better or for worse, 85 00:05:39,440 --> 00:05:44,159 Speaker 1: is that Donald Trump has been like a mascot for 86 00:05:44,279 --> 00:05:47,600 Speaker 1: white male mediocrity. It is something that they look at 87 00:05:47,680 --> 00:05:50,720 Speaker 1: that they look towards to rev them up right and 88 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:55,400 Speaker 1: make them feel like hanging out with blonde models and 89 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: having them on your arm, or shitting in gold toilets, 90 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 1: or you know, marrying a bunch of models is like 91 00:06:04,279 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: they can do it too. Donald Trump had always been 92 00:06:07,920 --> 00:06:13,320 Speaker 1: somebody that mediocre white men idolize, right, and that was 93 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:18,360 Speaker 1: before he came into politics. And so when you understand 94 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:22,360 Speaker 1: that about who Donald Trump's base is and why they 95 00:06:22,560 --> 00:06:26,120 Speaker 1: like him, and then you put those same metrics, use 96 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:30,240 Speaker 1: that same rubric on a Rond de Santis in all fit, 97 00:06:31,560 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 1: it doesn't match up because he has as much charisma 98 00:06:35,920 --> 00:06:39,320 Speaker 1: as a fucking brick, do you know what I'm saying? 99 00:06:39,400 --> 00:06:42,960 Speaker 1: Like he has nothing distinguishing about him. I watched the 100 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: clip the other day of Ron De Santis going into 101 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,600 Speaker 1: a dairy queen and I swear to God, his responses 102 00:06:50,640 --> 00:06:53,600 Speaker 1: to things have me believe that this man may in 103 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:57,880 Speaker 1: fact be the most life like robot I've ever seen. 104 00:06:59,080 --> 00:07:03,640 Speaker 1: Ronde Santis is in a dairy queen talking about I've 105 00:07:03,680 --> 00:07:08,160 Speaker 1: known about blizzards for a long time and like, you know, 106 00:07:09,400 --> 00:07:14,840 Speaker 1: happy to be a part what like the like the blizzard, 107 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:17,680 Speaker 1: like the ice cream item on the fucking menu. What 108 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:22,600 Speaker 1: are you talking about? You sound fucking dumb and crazy 109 00:07:24,280 --> 00:07:27,520 Speaker 1: like tie that in with his like god awful laughter 110 00:07:27,720 --> 00:07:31,680 Speaker 1: and his weird, whining, high pitch voice. I swear to God, 111 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:37,280 Speaker 1: a president DeSantis, I can't imagine getting seventy five million votes, 112 00:07:37,280 --> 00:07:39,400 Speaker 1: which is what Donald Trump got in the last election. 113 00:07:39,680 --> 00:07:43,080 Speaker 1: I can't imagine this man getting ten million votes. So 114 00:07:43,640 --> 00:07:46,360 Speaker 1: you know, we will see. And again I'm not, you know, 115 00:07:46,840 --> 00:07:49,800 Speaker 1: putting all of my eggs in one basket, but given 116 00:07:49,840 --> 00:07:54,600 Speaker 1: the state of Ron DeSantis's basket right now, he got 117 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:57,400 Speaker 1: a lot of patchwork he need to be doing and 118 00:07:57,440 --> 00:08:02,360 Speaker 1: maybe wants to stop off reading inside of the Ronda 119 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: Santis can do nothing wrong, bubble and actually get out 120 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:08,680 Speaker 1: to the people, because you will see other reports right 121 00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:10,920 Speaker 1: that are coming out that are saying major donors are 122 00:08:10,960 --> 00:08:14,440 Speaker 1: leaving Donald Trump and going and knocking on Ronda Santis' doors, 123 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:19,200 Speaker 1: which may be all fine and good, right for you 124 00:08:19,360 --> 00:08:24,000 Speaker 1: being able to fund your campaign, But what shows enthusiasm 125 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,960 Speaker 1: on the ground is not major donors giving you money. 126 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:31,760 Speaker 1: It is low dollar donors who are giving you small 127 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:35,520 Speaker 1: amounts of money. But there are so many people that 128 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:40,520 Speaker 1: like it really shows folks' enthusiasm. And when you look 129 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:44,679 Speaker 1: at that, Joe Biden is wiping the fucking floor not 130 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:48,680 Speaker 1: just with Ron DeSantis's campaign, but with every single other 131 00:08:48,760 --> 00:08:53,720 Speaker 1: Republicans campaign. And that is based on reporting by NBC 132 00:08:54,080 --> 00:08:59,520 Speaker 1: News and others that Joe Biden outraced right in small 133 00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:03,439 Speaker 1: dollar donors, every single Republican that's running right now combined 134 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:10,000 Speaker 1: bring in seventy two million dollars. Right. So, I think 135 00:09:10,000 --> 00:09:19,679 Speaker 1: that it's important folks to recognize that this is going 136 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 1: to be a really long campaign season. Is going to 137 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:27,600 Speaker 1: be a long presidential season and the most consequential one 138 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:32,800 Speaker 1: of our lifetime. But don't believe the hype that folks 139 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:35,960 Speaker 1: are putting up around these Republicans. Don't ignore it, right, 140 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:39,040 Speaker 1: don't take it for granted, but also just dig a 141 00:09:39,080 --> 00:09:42,920 Speaker 1: little deeper than their surface layer bullshit because when you, 142 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,199 Speaker 1: I don't know, take a tea spoon down into the 143 00:09:47,280 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 1: campaign of Rond de Santis, it comes up with shit. 144 00:09:53,480 --> 00:09:57,400 Speaker 1: Moving on, folks, I want to talk about Harlan Crow 145 00:09:57,760 --> 00:10:04,400 Speaker 1: for a minute. Crow is the billionaire benefactor to Clarence 146 00:10:04,440 --> 00:10:12,360 Speaker 1: Thomas and in a Pro Publica article which had we 147 00:10:12,480 --> 00:10:17,400 Speaker 1: so fucking disgusted folks like I'm just so sick to 148 00:10:17,480 --> 00:10:20,840 Speaker 1: death of the ultra fucking wealthy. I'm so sick to 149 00:10:20,920 --> 00:10:25,600 Speaker 1: death to find out in this article that Harlan Crow 150 00:10:26,480 --> 00:10:30,520 Speaker 1: pays half the amount of taxes that I do. So 151 00:10:31,360 --> 00:10:36,760 Speaker 1: if entrepreneurs in this country are taxed at thirty three listen, 152 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:41,360 Speaker 1: thirty three percent of their income right this. You know, 153 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,199 Speaker 1: we're so proud of people pulling themselves up from their 154 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,160 Speaker 1: bootstraps and like, you know, going out there and you know, 155 00:10:48,559 --> 00:10:52,719 Speaker 1: being cowboys and cowgirls and all this bullshit rhetoric that 156 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:58,640 Speaker 1: Americans say about business and titans and whatever. They actually 157 00:10:58,679 --> 00:11:01,959 Speaker 1: do not create a tax system and structure that would 158 00:11:01,960 --> 00:11:07,079 Speaker 1: have people not be chained to a corporation, a nonprofit, 159 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:12,600 Speaker 1: academia or anything because of the tax structure, right So, 160 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:17,680 Speaker 1: entrepreneurs are taxed, self employed people are taxed at thirty 161 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:27,040 Speaker 1: three percent. Harlan Crow, a fucking multi billionaire, because of 162 00:11:27,080 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: our broken tax system, has been able to pay about 163 00:11:33,640 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: fifteen percent. Fifteen percent, which is way less than most 164 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:53,600 Speaker 1: middle class people in the United States. That is fucking infuriating. 165 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 1: And that's not even the point of my conversation with 166 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:01,120 Speaker 1: you all today about this Pro public art. But when 167 00:12:01,160 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 1: I got to that point in the piece, I wanted 168 00:12:05,120 --> 00:12:10,840 Speaker 1: to throw the whole fucking country out right. So let 169 00:12:10,840 --> 00:12:15,520 Speaker 1: me just read you some of the highlight tax data 170 00:12:15,559 --> 00:12:19,040 Speaker 1: obtained by Pro Publica provides a glimpse of what congressional 171 00:12:19,080 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 1: investigators would find if Crow were to open his books 172 00:12:22,720 --> 00:12:26,560 Speaker 1: to them, which until now he has been denying access 173 00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:31,480 Speaker 1: to Crow's voyages with Thomas. The data shows contributed to 174 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:36,000 Speaker 1: guess what a nice side benefit, they helped reduce Crowe's 175 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:41,079 Speaker 1: tax bill. The rich, as we've reported, often deduct millions 176 00:12:41,120 --> 00:12:44,400 Speaker 1: of dollars from their taxes related to buying and operating 177 00:12:44,440 --> 00:12:48,280 Speaker 1: their jets and yachts. Crow followed that formula through a 178 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:51,880 Speaker 1: company that purported to charter his super yacht, but a 179 00:12:51,880 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 1: closer examination of how Crow used the yacht raises questions 180 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:00,200 Speaker 1: about his compliance with the tax code. Expert said bright 181 00:13:00,280 --> 00:13:05,560 Speaker 1: Crowe's representations to the IRS. Pro public reporters could find 182 00:13:05,800 --> 00:13:09,360 Speaker 1: no evidence that his yacht company was actually a profit 183 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:16,280 Speaker 1: seeking business, as the law requires they go on based 184 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:19,600 Speaker 1: on what information is available. This has the look of 185 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:24,400 Speaker 1: a textbook billionaire tax scam, said Senate Finance Committee Chair 186 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:29,720 Speaker 1: Ron Wyden, Democrat from Oregon. Quote. These new details only 187 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:34,120 Speaker 1: raise more questions about mister Crow's tax practices, which could 188 00:13:34,160 --> 00:13:38,079 Speaker 1: begin to explain why he's been stonewalling the Finance Committee's 189 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:44,319 Speaker 1: investigations for months. As Pro Publica reported in April, Crow 190 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:50,200 Speaker 1: lavished gifts on Thomas for over twenty years, often in 191 00:13:50,200 --> 00:13:54,079 Speaker 1: the form of luxury trips on guess what, Crowe's jets 192 00:13:54,320 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 1: and yacht. One focus of the investigations is whether Crow 193 00:13:59,640 --> 00:14:03,600 Speaker 1: discs closed his generosity toward Thomas to the IRS, since 194 00:14:03,760 --> 00:14:07,920 Speaker 1: large gifts are subject to the gift tax. Another is 195 00:14:07,960 --> 00:14:12,680 Speaker 1: whether Crow created his trips with Thomas as deductible business expenses. 196 00:14:13,320 --> 00:14:16,040 Speaker 1: While the data sheds light on how Crow might have 197 00:14:16,080 --> 00:14:20,040 Speaker 1: accounted for Thomas's trips, there are no clear implications of 198 00:14:20,120 --> 00:14:31,120 Speaker 1: Thomas's own taxes. Experts said, folks, I just I want 199 00:14:31,120 --> 00:14:36,560 Speaker 1: to scream, I want to scream because right now you 200 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:44,000 Speaker 1: have actors and writers on strike, you have other strikes 201 00:14:44,040 --> 00:14:46,960 Speaker 1: that are getting ready to be rolled out. And I 202 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: have called for a national strike on this show and 203 00:14:51,000 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: other shows for the last several months. And why is that? 204 00:14:56,280 --> 00:15:00,600 Speaker 1: Because the greed that is associated with capitalism and our 205 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:06,920 Speaker 1: broken economic system that only rewards the ultra wealthy needs 206 00:15:06,960 --> 00:15:10,120 Speaker 1: to be grinded to a halt because of people like 207 00:15:10,240 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 1: Harlan Crowe and others. Because when you read this piece, 208 00:15:17,720 --> 00:15:19,880 Speaker 1: and this is another piece that I want to read 209 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:24,600 Speaker 1: that I highlighted at the opening quote. For Crow, the 210 00:15:24,640 --> 00:15:27,800 Speaker 1: tax breaks from his yacht were just one way he 211 00:15:27,880 --> 00:15:31,520 Speaker 1: was able to achieve a lighter tax burden. The tax 212 00:15:31,600 --> 00:15:36,240 Speaker 1: code is particularly friendly to commercial real estate titans, and 213 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:40,600 Speaker 1: Crow generally enjoyed low taxes. During that same period, he 214 00:15:40,720 --> 00:15:45,760 Speaker 1: paid an average income tax of fifteen percent according to 215 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:50,720 Speaker 1: the IRS, It's a rate typical of the very wealthiest Americans, 216 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:56,080 Speaker 1: but lower than the personal federal tax rates of even 217 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:03,600 Speaker 1: many middle income workers. Holling Crow is worth billions of 218 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: fucking dollars and he is paying a fifteen percent tax 219 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:15,720 Speaker 1: rate in comparison, Like I said to myself, as a 220 00:16:15,760 --> 00:16:21,840 Speaker 1: self employed person and to many, many, many, many, many, 221 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:30,080 Speaker 1: many middle class people. The goal right has always been 222 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:36,000 Speaker 1: to create an invisible but very obvious economic cast system 223 00:16:36,440 --> 00:16:41,760 Speaker 1: in the United States, where our tax laws and codes 224 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 1: and our policies always benefit the super wealthy folks. Everything 225 00:16:53,480 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: about capitalism is a fucking lie. Everything is created to 226 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:05,560 Speaker 1: tell us and make us believe the lie that there 227 00:17:05,640 --> 00:17:09,639 Speaker 1: isn't more than enough. That when you listen to people 228 00:17:09,720 --> 00:17:14,320 Speaker 1: like Bob Eiger, the CEO of Disney, who had the 229 00:17:14,400 --> 00:17:20,560 Speaker 1: audacity to say that the things that the WGA and 230 00:17:20,640 --> 00:17:24,520 Speaker 1: the Actors Guild are asking for are quote unquote unrealistic 231 00:17:26,000 --> 00:17:30,840 Speaker 1: when the man is making twenty four million dollars a 232 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:36,359 Speaker 1: year and I'm sorry, he's actually making more than that. 233 00:17:39,280 --> 00:17:42,280 Speaker 1: It's why he was brought back as CEO, right like, 234 00:17:42,560 --> 00:17:45,120 Speaker 1: because he's the fixer. He does all the things, makes 235 00:17:45,160 --> 00:17:47,600 Speaker 1: all the hard decisions, and he gets paid tens of 236 00:17:47,600 --> 00:17:53,920 Speaker 1: millions of dollars. And you work and head a multi 237 00:17:54,000 --> 00:18:01,360 Speaker 1: billion dollar corporation who isn't paying its people, and instead 238 00:18:01,359 --> 00:18:05,480 Speaker 1: of CEOs and shareholders taking even a little bit of 239 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:09,000 Speaker 1: a hit because they are taking more than their fair 240 00:18:09,080 --> 00:18:16,879 Speaker 1: fucking share. If we were to operate and create an 241 00:18:16,920 --> 00:18:21,040 Speaker 1: economic system that operated from a place of equity, you 242 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:25,560 Speaker 1: would not have the ultra wealthy that have been making 243 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: gains over the last decade while everyone else's income has 244 00:18:32,760 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 1: stayed stagnant. I was reading something the other day that 245 00:18:40,400 --> 00:18:49,040 Speaker 1: said that millennials own less property and have less wealth 246 00:18:49,520 --> 00:18:53,800 Speaker 1: at this stage in their life than every other fucking 247 00:18:53,880 --> 00:19:00,040 Speaker 1: generation prior to them. Why is that they are the 248 00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:05,040 Speaker 1: most educated because we beat into their parents' heads and 249 00:19:05,080 --> 00:19:07,800 Speaker 1: their grandparents' heads that the way to achieve the quote 250 00:19:07,840 --> 00:19:12,160 Speaker 1: unquote American dream was to go to college. So they 251 00:19:12,200 --> 00:19:16,560 Speaker 1: all went and got degrees that saddled them, within some places, 252 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:20,600 Speaker 1: over six figures worth of fucking debt. And now they're 253 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:24,439 Speaker 1: so saddled with debt that guess what, they can't fucking 254 00:19:24,520 --> 00:19:28,360 Speaker 1: buy homes or cars. And guess what, because of that, 255 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:32,280 Speaker 1: they're also not getting married. And because of that, like 256 00:19:33,520 --> 00:19:40,280 Speaker 1: you see all of these things, the ripple effects of 257 00:19:40,359 --> 00:19:45,679 Speaker 1: the greed. It isn't that this generation isn't educated. It 258 00:19:45,720 --> 00:19:51,960 Speaker 1: isn't that they're not hard working. It is that the 259 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 1: people that are at the top, the one percent, have 260 00:19:56,000 --> 00:20:01,359 Speaker 1: realized that they could get even more if they just 261 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:06,160 Speaker 1: squeeze a little bit fucking harder. And if they make 262 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:12,280 Speaker 1: sure to pin all of us against each other, as 263 00:20:12,280 --> 00:20:16,800 Speaker 1: opposed to looking at who is truly the puppet master here. 264 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 1: It's not that there are people coming across the border 265 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:23,840 Speaker 1: that are stealing jobs. It's not that oh, affirmative action 266 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:27,200 Speaker 1: allowed for all of these unqualified black people and people 267 00:20:27,240 --> 00:20:30,439 Speaker 1: of color to take jobs. No, all of that is 268 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:35,840 Speaker 1: a fucking lie. It is a fucking lie that has 269 00:20:35,880 --> 00:20:41,199 Speaker 1: been weaved into our policy decisions and political ideology and 270 00:20:41,320 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: political platforms that keep this nation's people at each other's throats. 271 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:51,440 Speaker 1: Why the rich look down on us and fucking laugh 272 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:56,080 Speaker 1: as they move us around on their chessboard, on their 273 00:20:56,119 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 1: fucking monopoly boards. It only cost Harlan Crow a couple 274 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,200 Speaker 1: of trips on a jet and a couple of luxury vacations, 275 00:21:06,560 --> 00:21:09,320 Speaker 1: a mortgage, and a private school in order to buy 276 00:21:09,359 --> 00:21:14,680 Speaker 1: a Supreme Court justice. And because of our tax codes 277 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:19,359 Speaker 1: favoring the ultra fucking wealthy, right, he's been able to 278 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:26,240 Speaker 1: use his jet and his yacht as tax shelters. Right, 279 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: so long as I say that I have a quote 280 00:21:28,680 --> 00:21:32,920 Speaker 1: unquote business, and I'm running this as a business, even 281 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:37,480 Speaker 1: if I'm paying myself, then I can avoid taxes what 282 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:46,200 Speaker 1: the fuck? So, you know, folks, it's just the grift 283 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:51,119 Speaker 1: is so deep. The grift is so deep, it is 284 00:21:51,200 --> 00:22:00,480 Speaker 1: so wide, and it goes everywhere. If Republicans get the 285 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,879 Speaker 1: White House in twenty twenty four, there will be no 286 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,919 Speaker 1: more elections. We all know that. You guys know that. 287 00:22:09,200 --> 00:22:13,040 Speaker 1: But not only will there be no more democracy as 288 00:22:13,200 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: we know it, there won't be a middle class. There 289 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:21,560 Speaker 1: won't be anything other than the working poor and the 290 00:22:21,640 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 1: ultra wealthy, which is what you see in a lot 291 00:22:25,480 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 1: of countries around the world. That's it. There is no 292 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:36,679 Speaker 1: in between, because what access to education and what social 293 00:22:36,720 --> 00:22:41,119 Speaker 1: safety nets have allowed for is the creation of a 294 00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:45,119 Speaker 1: robust middle class that you do not see in a 295 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:49,679 Speaker 1: lot of nations around the world. And so if you 296 00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,880 Speaker 1: think that because are people around you, people in your family, 297 00:22:53,800 --> 00:22:58,119 Speaker 1: think that because they're not part of a marginalized community 298 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:03,880 Speaker 1: that is outwardly being under attack right now, that they 299 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:08,400 Speaker 1: are safe play this episode for them because they are 300 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:16,800 Speaker 1: not the rich. Is like the Big Nothing in The 301 00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:19,560 Speaker 1: Never Ending Story. If you've never seen that movie, it's 302 00:23:19,600 --> 00:23:27,440 Speaker 1: amazing nineteen eighty childhood fantasy film. And the Big Nothing 303 00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:33,679 Speaker 1: is just gobbling up, gobbling up this world until this 304 00:23:33,920 --> 00:23:37,200 Speaker 1: young man in the story gets the courage to believe 305 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:42,480 Speaker 1: that like he can fight against it. The Republican Party 306 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:48,960 Speaker 1: and the one percent are insatiable. They'll keep gobbling up 307 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:56,960 Speaker 1: the middle class, the lower middle class, and the poor 308 00:23:57,160 --> 00:24:02,040 Speaker 1: until there is nothing fucking left. And then they'll take 309 00:24:02,080 --> 00:24:04,320 Speaker 1: their rockets and they'll go to Mars and try and 310 00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:12,320 Speaker 1: occupy that. Folks gotta wake up because we are in truly, 311 00:24:12,760 --> 00:24:22,800 Speaker 1: truly extraordinary times. That is it for me today, Dear friends, 312 00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 1: on woke a f as always, Power to the people 313 00:24:27,000 --> 00:24:30,560 Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, Get woke and stay 314 00:24:30,960 --> 00:24:31,680 Speaker 1: woke as fuck.