Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wik f Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: there is you know, a lot of news already percolating
Speaker 1: at the start of this good, good week and this
Speaker 1: god forsaken fucking country. So let's just get right to it,
Speaker 1: shall we. Well, first up, Rhonda Santis' presidential campaign is
Speaker 1: not doing well. It's probably doing as well as the
Speaker 1: entire state of Florida, which is to say that it's
Speaker 1: hanging on by a fucking thread. Look, I don't want
Speaker 1: to count my chickens before they hatch, because we are
Speaker 1: very long time away from the real kickstart to the
Speaker 1: presidential twenty twenty four campaign season, and a lot can happen,
Speaker 1: and a lot usually does happen. But anytime that a
Speaker 1: media outlet is comparing you to Ted Cruz, know that
Speaker 1: you are not doing a good job, and that is
Speaker 1: not a fucking compliment. Many are saying that Ronda Santis's
Speaker 1: campaign is pretty much like Ted Cruz's of yesteryear, where
Speaker 1: folks thought that he was going to be a good
Speaker 1: contender and giving him, you know, lots of accolades, and
Speaker 1: then he gets on to the world stage and just
Speaker 1: fucking fizzles. The same thing is happening with Ronda Santis.
Speaker 1: But I want to read you this that Ebro, who
Speaker 1: goes by old man Ebro on Instagram and is a
Speaker 1: personality and host at Hot ninety seven here in New York,
Speaker 1: he posted this and I shared it in my stories
Speaker 1: if you follow me on Instagram at d two cents
Speaker 1: dee tw ocnts. He posted this, And I want you
Speaker 1: to just think about this as I talk about the
Speaker 1: fact that Ronda Santis is firing roughly twenty staffers, that
Speaker 1: he is losing money, that he is doing a quote
Speaker 1: unquote reset, and the fact is that ron de Sant
Speaker 1: has only launched his presidential campaign a few weeks ago.
Speaker 1: If we really put things into real context, like there
Speaker 1: had been, you know, chatter about him launching his presidential campaign,
Speaker 1: but he didn't actually launch it until several weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and you're already in the midst of like a full
Speaker 1: blown reset and firing people, and you know, and now
Speaker 1: he's going to sit down with Jake Tapper because you
Speaker 1: know that he hates all media unless he's controlling it.
Speaker 1: But this is what Ebro posted quote Florida is a
Speaker 1: failed state. It is the inflation hotspot of the United States,
Speaker 1: while the national average has dropped to its low its
Speaker 1: level in years. Insurance companies are fleeing and consumers are
Speaker 1: being hit with skyrocketing costs. Rent prices are through the roof.
Speaker 1: There is a historic teacher shortage. Doctors and nurses are
Speaker 1: leaving in droves. Businesses are pulling massive development projects amid
Speaker 1: the state's attack on the free market. And that's before
Speaker 1: you get into the attacks on the LGBTQ plus community,
Speaker 1: the banning of books, the censorship of American history, and
Speaker 1: the war on reproductive rights and more. When it's all
Speaker 1: said and done, Ron DeSantis may just go down as
Speaker 1: the single worst governor in history. The other piece of
Speaker 1: this as well, you know, is when you look at
Speaker 1: and this was in a CNBC study the sound that
Speaker 1: the ten worse states to live in, the ten worse
Speaker 1: states to live in, were all controlled by Republican majorities.
Speaker 1: And let me tell you that Florida is on the
Speaker 1: fucking list. And so, folks, it's like nine of the ten,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, were controlled by Republicans, and Florida was of
Speaker 1: course on that list. So when you think about Ronda
Speaker 1: Santis's campaign, his failure to launch all of the things
Speaker 1: that he has going against him in the state of Florida,
Speaker 1: and the fact that he can't get through a sentence
Speaker 1: without uttering the word woke seventy five million times? How
Speaker 1: do we think that Deronda Santis is going to play
Speaker 1: on the national stage when he can't even manage himself
Speaker 1: and his state. Right, So, if I were a Republican opponent, right,
Speaker 1: I'm holding up Ronda Santis' stats in Florida, and I'm saying,
Speaker 1: do you want him to run the country into the
Speaker 1: ground the way that he's running his state into the ground?
Speaker 1: Because these motherfuckers don't care about their constituencies. And that
Speaker 1: is so clear because if you did, then you would
Speaker 1: be creating measures that would be making people's lives better,
Speaker 1: not worse. That would be hoarding more people to come
Speaker 1: to your state, not flee and find refuge states around
Speaker 1: the country. And so when I hear the remarks and
Speaker 1: see all the chatter about ron De Santis being in
Speaker 1: quote unquote turmoil, none of that is a fucking shock
Speaker 1: to me at all. Because he won. He may have
Speaker 1: the same cruel policy ideas and tactics that Donald Trump
Speaker 1: has and the rest of the Republican Party has. He
Speaker 1: has none of the fucking charisma. You know. The thing,
Speaker 1: and I said this on my other show, The New Abnormal.
Speaker 1: The thing about Donald Trump, for better or for worse,
Speaker 1: is that Donald Trump has been like a mascot for
Speaker 1: white male mediocrity. It is something that they look at
Speaker 1: that they look towards to rev them up right and
Speaker 1: make them feel like hanging out with blonde models and
Speaker 1: having them on your arm, or shitting in gold toilets,
Speaker 1: or you know, marrying a bunch of models is like
Speaker 1: they can do it too. Donald Trump had always been
Speaker 1: somebody that mediocre white men idolize, right, and that was
Speaker 1: before he came into politics. And so when you understand
Speaker 1: that about who Donald Trump's base is and why they
Speaker 1: like him, and then you put those same metrics, use
Speaker 1: that same rubric on a Rond de Santis in all fit,
Speaker 1: it doesn't match up because he has as much charisma
Speaker 1: as a fucking brick, do you know what I'm saying?
Speaker 1: Like he has nothing distinguishing about him. I watched the
Speaker 1: clip the other day of Ron De Santis going into
Speaker 1: a dairy queen and I swear to God, his responses
Speaker 1: to things have me believe that this man may in
Speaker 1: fact be the most life like robot I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: Ronde Santis is in a dairy queen talking about I've
Speaker 1: known about blizzards for a long time and like, you know,
Speaker 1: happy to be a part what like the like the blizzard,
Speaker 1: like the ice cream item on the fucking menu. What
Speaker 1: are you talking about? You sound fucking dumb and crazy
Speaker 1: like tie that in with his like god awful laughter
Speaker 1: and his weird, whining, high pitch voice. I swear to God,
Speaker 1: a president DeSantis, I can't imagine getting seventy five million votes,
Speaker 1: which is what Donald Trump got in the last election.
Speaker 1: I can't imagine this man getting ten million votes. So
Speaker 1: you know, we will see. And again I'm not, you know,
Speaker 1: putting all of my eggs in one basket, but given
Speaker 1: the state of Ron DeSantis's basket right now, he got
Speaker 1: a lot of patchwork he need to be doing and
Speaker 1: maybe wants to stop off reading inside of the Ronda
Speaker 1: Santis can do nothing wrong, bubble and actually get out
Speaker 1: to the people, because you will see other reports right
Speaker 1: that are coming out that are saying major donors are
Speaker 1: leaving Donald Trump and going and knocking on Ronda Santis' doors,
Speaker 1: which may be all fine and good, right for you
Speaker 1: being able to fund your campaign, But what shows enthusiasm
Speaker 1: on the ground is not major donors giving you money.
Speaker 1: It is low dollar donors who are giving you small
Speaker 1: amounts of money. But there are so many people that
Speaker 1: like it really shows folks' enthusiasm. And when you look
Speaker 1: at that, Joe Biden is wiping the fucking floor not
Speaker 1: just with Ron DeSantis's campaign, but with every single other
Speaker 1: Republicans campaign. And that is based on reporting by NBC
Speaker 1: News and others that Joe Biden outraced right in small
Speaker 1: dollar donors, every single Republican that's running right now combined
Speaker 1: bring in seventy two million dollars. Right. So, I think
Speaker 1: that it's important folks to recognize that this is going
Speaker 1: to be a really long campaign season. Is going to
Speaker 1: be a long presidential season and the most consequential one
Speaker 1: of our lifetime. But don't believe the hype that folks
Speaker 1: are putting up around these Republicans. Don't ignore it, right,
Speaker 1: don't take it for granted, but also just dig a
Speaker 1: little deeper than their surface layer bullshit because when you,
Speaker 1: I don't know, take a tea spoon down into the
Speaker 1: campaign of Rond de Santis, it comes up with shit.
Speaker 1: Moving on, folks, I want to talk about Harlan Crow
Speaker 1: for a minute. Crow is the billionaire benefactor to Clarence
Speaker 1: Thomas and in a Pro Publica article which had we
Speaker 1: so fucking disgusted folks like I'm just so sick to
Speaker 1: death of the ultra fucking wealthy. I'm so sick to
Speaker 1: death to find out in this article that Harlan Crow
Speaker 1: pays half the amount of taxes that I do. So
Speaker 1: if entrepreneurs in this country are taxed at thirty three listen,
Speaker 1: thirty three percent of their income right this. You know,
Speaker 1: we're so proud of people pulling themselves up from their
Speaker 1: bootstraps and like, you know, going out there and you know,
Speaker 1: being cowboys and cowgirls and all this bullshit rhetoric that
Speaker 1: Americans say about business and titans and whatever. They actually
Speaker 1: do not create a tax system and structure that would
Speaker 1: have people not be chained to a corporation, a nonprofit,
Speaker 1: academia or anything because of the tax structure, right So,
Speaker 1: entrepreneurs are taxed, self employed people are taxed at thirty
Speaker 1: three percent. Harlan Crow, a fucking multi billionaire, because of
Speaker 1: our broken tax system, has been able to pay about
Speaker 1: fifteen percent. Fifteen percent, which is way less than most
Speaker 1: middle class people in the United States. That is fucking infuriating.
Speaker 1: And that's not even the point of my conversation with
Speaker 1: you all today about this Pro public art. But when
Speaker 1: I got to that point in the piece, I wanted
Speaker 1: to throw the whole fucking country out right. So let
Speaker 1: me just read you some of the highlight tax data
Speaker 1: obtained by Pro Publica provides a glimpse of what congressional
Speaker 1: investigators would find if Crow were to open his books
Speaker 1: to them, which until now he has been denying access
Speaker 1: to Crow's voyages with Thomas. The data shows contributed to
Speaker 1: guess what a nice side benefit, they helped reduce Crowe's
Speaker 1: tax bill. The rich, as we've reported, often deduct millions
Speaker 1: of dollars from their taxes related to buying and operating
Speaker 1: their jets and yachts. Crow followed that formula through a
Speaker 1: company that purported to charter his super yacht, but a
Speaker 1: closer examination of how Crow used the yacht raises questions
Speaker 1: about his compliance with the tax code. Expert said bright
Speaker 1: Crowe's representations to the IRS. Pro public reporters could find
Speaker 1: no evidence that his yacht company was actually a profit
Speaker 1: seeking business, as the law requires they go on based
Speaker 1: on what information is available. This has the look of
Speaker 1: a textbook billionaire tax scam, said Senate Finance Committee Chair
Speaker 1: Ron Wyden, Democrat from Oregon. Quote. These new details only
Speaker 1: raise more questions about mister Crow's tax practices, which could
Speaker 1: begin to explain why he's been stonewalling the Finance Committee's
Speaker 1: investigations for months. As Pro Publica reported in April, Crow
Speaker 1: lavished gifts on Thomas for over twenty years, often in
Speaker 1: the form of luxury trips on guess what, Crowe's jets
Speaker 1: and yacht. One focus of the investigations is whether Crow
Speaker 1: discs closed his generosity toward Thomas to the IRS, since
Speaker 1: large gifts are subject to the gift tax. Another is
Speaker 1: whether Crow created his trips with Thomas as deductible business expenses.
Speaker 1: While the data sheds light on how Crow might have
Speaker 1: accounted for Thomas's trips, there are no clear implications of
Speaker 1: Thomas's own taxes. Experts said, folks, I just I want
Speaker 1: to scream, I want to scream because right now you
Speaker 1: have actors and writers on strike, you have other strikes
Speaker 1: that are getting ready to be rolled out. And I
Speaker 1: have called for a national strike on this show and
Speaker 1: other shows for the last several months. And why is that?
Speaker 1: Because the greed that is associated with capitalism and our
Speaker 1: broken economic system that only rewards the ultra wealthy needs
Speaker 1: to be grinded to a halt because of people like
Speaker 1: Harlan Crowe and others. Because when you read this piece,
Speaker 1: and this is another piece that I want to read
Speaker 1: that I highlighted at the opening quote. For Crow, the
Speaker 1: tax breaks from his yacht were just one way he
Speaker 1: was able to achieve a lighter tax burden. The tax
Speaker 1: code is particularly friendly to commercial real estate titans, and
Speaker 1: Crow generally enjoyed low taxes. During that same period, he
Speaker 1: paid an average income tax of fifteen percent according to
Speaker 1: the IRS, It's a rate typical of the very wealthiest Americans,
Speaker 1: but lower than the personal federal tax rates of even
Speaker 1: many middle income workers. Holling Crow is worth billions of
Speaker 1: fucking dollars and he is paying a fifteen percent tax
Speaker 1: rate in comparison, Like I said to myself, as a
Speaker 1: self employed person and to many, many, many, many, many,
Speaker 1: many middle class people. The goal right has always been
Speaker 1: to create an invisible but very obvious economic cast system
Speaker 1: in the United States, where our tax laws and codes
Speaker 1: and our policies always benefit the super wealthy folks. Everything
Speaker 1: about capitalism is a fucking lie. Everything is created to
Speaker 1: tell us and make us believe the lie that there
Speaker 1: isn't more than enough. That when you listen to people
Speaker 1: like Bob Eiger, the CEO of Disney, who had the
Speaker 1: audacity to say that the things that the WGA and
Speaker 1: the Actors Guild are asking for are quote unquote unrealistic
Speaker 1: when the man is making twenty four million dollars a
Speaker 1: year and I'm sorry, he's actually making more than that.
Speaker 1: It's why he was brought back as CEO, right like,
Speaker 1: because he's the fixer. He does all the things, makes
Speaker 1: all the hard decisions, and he gets paid tens of
Speaker 1: millions of dollars. And you work and head a multi
Speaker 1: billion dollar corporation who isn't paying its people, and instead
Speaker 1: of CEOs and shareholders taking even a little bit of
Speaker 1: a hit because they are taking more than their fair
Speaker 1: fucking share. If we were to operate and create an
Speaker 1: economic system that operated from a place of equity, you
Speaker 1: would not have the ultra wealthy that have been making
Speaker 1: gains over the last decade while everyone else's income has
Speaker 1: stayed stagnant. I was reading something the other day that
Speaker 1: said that millennials own less property and have less wealth
Speaker 1: at this stage in their life than every other fucking
Speaker 1: generation prior to them. Why is that they are the
Speaker 1: most educated because we beat into their parents' heads and
Speaker 1: their grandparents' heads that the way to achieve the quote
Speaker 1: unquote American dream was to go to college. So they
Speaker 1: all went and got degrees that saddled them, within some places,
Speaker 1: over six figures worth of fucking debt. And now they're
Speaker 1: so saddled with debt that guess what, they can't fucking
Speaker 1: buy homes or cars. And guess what, because of that,
Speaker 1: they're also not getting married. And because of that, like
Speaker 1: you see all of these things, the ripple effects of
Speaker 1: the greed. It isn't that this generation isn't educated. It
Speaker 1: isn't that they're not hard working. It is that the
Speaker 1: people that are at the top, the one percent, have
Speaker 1: realized that they could get even more if they just
Speaker 1: squeeze a little bit fucking harder. And if they make
Speaker 1: sure to pin all of us against each other, as
Speaker 1: opposed to looking at who is truly the puppet master here.
Speaker 1: It's not that there are people coming across the border
Speaker 1: that are stealing jobs. It's not that oh, affirmative action
Speaker 1: allowed for all of these unqualified black people and people
Speaker 1: of color to take jobs. No, all of that is
Speaker 1: a fucking lie. It is a fucking lie that has
Speaker 1: been weaved into our policy decisions and political ideology and
Speaker 1: political platforms that keep this nation's people at each other's throats.
Speaker 1: Why the rich look down on us and fucking laugh
Speaker 1: as they move us around on their chessboard, on their
Speaker 1: fucking monopoly boards. It only cost Harlan Crow a couple
Speaker 1: of trips on a jet and a couple of luxury vacations,
Speaker 1: a mortgage, and a private school in order to buy
Speaker 1: a Supreme Court justice. And because of our tax codes
Speaker 1: favoring the ultra fucking wealthy, right, he's been able to
Speaker 1: use his jet and his yacht as tax shelters. Right,
Speaker 1: so long as I say that I have a quote
Speaker 1: unquote business, and I'm running this as a business, even
Speaker 1: if I'm paying myself, then I can avoid taxes what
Speaker 1: the fuck? So, you know, folks, it's just the grift
Speaker 1: is so deep. The grift is so deep, it is
Speaker 1: so wide, and it goes everywhere. If Republicans get the
Speaker 1: White House in twenty twenty four, there will be no
Speaker 1: more elections. We all know that. You guys know that.
Speaker 1: But not only will there be no more democracy as
Speaker 1: we know it, there won't be a middle class. There
Speaker 1: won't be anything other than the working poor and the
Speaker 1: ultra wealthy, which is what you see in a lot
Speaker 1: of countries around the world. That's it. There is no
Speaker 1: in between, because what access to education and what social
Speaker 1: safety nets have allowed for is the creation of a
Speaker 1: robust middle class that you do not see in a
Speaker 1: lot of nations around the world. And so if you
Speaker 1: think that because are people around you, people in your family,
Speaker 1: think that because they're not part of a marginalized community
Speaker 1: that is outwardly being under attack right now, that they
Speaker 1: are safe play this episode for them because they are
Speaker 1: not the rich. Is like the Big Nothing in The
Speaker 1: Never Ending Story. If you've never seen that movie, it's
Speaker 1: amazing nineteen eighty childhood fantasy film. And the Big Nothing
Speaker 1: is just gobbling up, gobbling up this world until this
Speaker 1: young man in the story gets the courage to believe
Speaker 1: that like he can fight against it. The Republican Party
Speaker 1: and the one percent are insatiable. They'll keep gobbling up
Speaker 1: the middle class, the lower middle class, and the poor
Speaker 1: until there is nothing fucking left. And then they'll take
Speaker 1: their rockets and they'll go to Mars and try and
Speaker 1: occupy that. Folks gotta wake up because we are in truly,
Speaker 1: truly extraordinary times. That is it for me today, Dear friends,
Speaker 1: on woke a f as always, Power to the people
Speaker 1: and to all the people. Power, Get woke and stay
Speaker 1: woke as fuck.