Speaker 1: Good morning, Peeves, and welcome to wikf Daily with me
Speaker 1: your girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: Happy fuck it Friday. We've made it to the end
Speaker 1: of the week. Give yourselves a hug, Give yourselves a
Speaker 1: high five. I don't know how you do that. I
Speaker 1: guess by banging your hands together. Just applaud yourself, right,
Speaker 1: because frankly, if we don't celebrate these little things, we'll
Speaker 1: go insane. So what do I want to talk about today?
Speaker 1: I'm shaking my head for those of you that are
Speaker 1: just listening to the audio, but if you are a
Speaker 1: subscriber on Patreon, you're watching the video so you can
Speaker 1: see me. But where do I want to begin? First off,
Speaker 1: I want to start with the Supreme Court. Fuck them,
Speaker 1: like honestly I can and not even begin to state
Speaker 1: how fucking done I am with this Roberts Court. I
Speaker 1: would say that they would go down in history as
Speaker 1: the worst Supreme Court, but I'm sure that book would
Speaker 1: be banned. But the reality is is that the Roberts
Speaker 1: Court is hell bent on rolling back any bit of
Speaker 1: progress that was made in the twentieth century and bringing
Speaker 1: America back into the nineteenth century by giving full rein
Speaker 1: to the NRA, by giving you full bodily autonomy over
Speaker 1: to men to dictate and jurisdic how women can move,
Speaker 1: whether or not we have children, how we have children,
Speaker 1: all of those things. But this latest slate of bullshit
Speaker 1: around Alito's wife and the flying of these flags that
Speaker 1: are in reverence to January sixth, that are wholly anti
Speaker 1: American right, anti constitutional. What do I mean by anti constitutional?
Speaker 1: Let me just say, because I just literally made that up.
Speaker 1: You're anti the Constitution. You don't believe in the values
Speaker 1: the laws that dictate this country, right, Like, if you're
Speaker 1: flying a flag that is an upside down American flag,
Speaker 1: you don't believe in American values. So but somehow you're
Speaker 1: sitting on the Supreme Court telling the rest of us
Speaker 1: what is right and what is wrong, what is law
Speaker 1: and order when you don't believe in the tenants of
Speaker 1: the Constitution. And for Alito's response to be like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: my wife likes flying flags, Well, apparently women can have power,
Speaker 1: but only the power that Alito gives them, and it's
Speaker 1: only one woman his wife go to fucking hell. And then,
Speaker 1: as of the time of this recording, breaking news came
Speaker 1: out that, uh, just John Roberts, who's being called before
Speaker 1: the Senate Judiciary says, yeah, I'm not coming because there
Speaker 1: needs to be a separation of power. Are you fucking dumb?
Speaker 1: So my response to the Senate Judiciary is, like, this
Speaker 1: actually was not an invitation to a party that you
Speaker 1: get to turn down. Like we're actually going to hold
Speaker 1: you in contempt, right, Like we are ordering you to
Speaker 1: come to sit before this body and explain to us
Speaker 1: how you have two incredibly unethical, fucking justices on your
Speaker 1: court that you're doing nothing about. I want to bring
Speaker 1: something to folks' attention. And this is an op ed
Speaker 1: that was written by former guest of the show, representative
Speaker 1: Jamie Raskin in the New York Times. It's entitled how
Speaker 1: to force Justices Alito and Thomas to recuse themselves in
Speaker 1: the January sixth case? Right, Because here's the thing. Not
Speaker 1: only is fucking Alito's wife flying insurrectionist flags at their homes,
Speaker 1: but we know that Clarence Thomas's wife, Ginny, was actively
Speaker 1: a part of trying to discredit our votes and overturn
Speaker 1: the election of twenty twenty. Of course, Merrick Garland and
Speaker 1: his spineless fucking ass has not hauled in Ginny Thomas, right,
Speaker 1: has not brought charges against her because oh, we don't
Speaker 1: want to be seen as a political entity. Well here's
Speaker 1: a fucking tip, regardless of whether or not you follow
Speaker 1: the rule of law, which would have you look at
Speaker 1: Ginny Thomas, look into her spending her money, because you
Speaker 1: know she's literally in bed with the Supreme Court justice.
Speaker 1: There are actual rules right that should be followed, that
Speaker 1: are dictated. But for Republican I guess it's just you know,
Speaker 1: a please ken you not necessary because they live above
Speaker 1: the law. So here's what Jamie Raskin wrote, quote. Many
Speaker 1: people have gloomily accepted the conventional wisdom that because there
Speaker 1: is no binding Supreme Court ethics code, there is no
Speaker 1: way to force Associate Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas
Speaker 1: to recuse themselves from the January sixth cases that are
Speaker 1: before the Court. Justice's alitos, Alito and Thomas are probably
Speaker 1: making the same assumption, but all of them are wrong.
Speaker 1: It seems unfathomable that two justices could get away with
Speaker 1: deciding for themselves whether they can be impartial in ruling
Speaker 1: on cases affecting Donald Trump's liability for crimes he is
Speaker 1: accused of committing on January sixth. Justice Thomas's wife, Ginny Thomas,
Speaker 1: was deeply involved in the January six Stop the Steel movement.
Speaker 1: Above the Virginia home of Justice Alito and his wife,
Speaker 1: Martha and Alito flew an upside down American flag, a
Speaker 1: strong political statement among the people who stormed the capital.
Speaker 1: Above Alito's beach home in New Jersey flew another flag
Speaker 1: that has been adopted by groups opposed to President Biden.
Speaker 1: Justices Alito and Thomas face a ground swell of appeals
Speaker 1: beseeching them not to participate in the Trump v. United States,
Speaker 1: the case that will decide whether or not mister Trump
Speaker 1: enjoys absolute immunity from criminal prosecution, and Fisher v. United States,
Speaker 1: which will decide whether January sixth insurrectionists and mister Trump
Speaker 1: can be charged under a statute that criminalizes corruptly obstructing
Speaker 1: an official proceeding. Justice Alito said on Wednesday that he
Speaker 1: would not refuse himself from the January sixth related cases.
Speaker 1: Everyone assumes. Jamie goes on to write that nothing can
Speaker 1: be done about the recusal situation because the highest court
Speaker 1: in the land has the lowest ethical standards. Each justice
Speaker 1: decides for him or herself whether he or she can
Speaker 1: be impartial. Of course, Justice Alito and Thomas could choose
Speaker 1: to recuse themselves. Wouldn't that be nice? But begging them
Speaker 1: to do right the right thing misses a far more
Speaker 1: effective course of action. This is the part that I
Speaker 1: want all of you to pay attention to the US
Speaker 1: Department of Justice, including the US Attorney for the District
Speaker 1: of Columbia and appointed US Special Counsel, and the Solicitor
Speaker 1: General General, all of whom were involved in different ways
Speaker 1: in the criminal prosecutions underlying these cases and are opposing
Speaker 1: mister Trump's constitutional statutory claims, can petition the other seven
Speaker 1: justices to require Justices Alito and Thomas to recuse themselves,
Speaker 1: not as a matter of grace, but as a matter
Speaker 1: of law. The Justice Department and Attorney General Merrick Garland,
Speaker 1: you all know how I fucking feel about him, can
Speaker 1: invoke two powerful textual authorities of this motion, the Constitution
Speaker 1: of the United States, specifically the due process Clause and
Speaker 1: the Federal statute mandating judicial disqualification for questionable impartiality twenty
Speaker 1: eight usc. Section four fifty five. The Constitution has come
Speaker 1: into play in several recent Supreme Court decisions striking down
Speaker 1: rulings by stubborn judges in lower courts whose political impartiality
Speaker 1: has been reasonably questioned, but who threw caution to the
Speaker 1: win to hear cases anyway. You see, folks, we actually
Speaker 1: have laws. It is not up to these justices to
Speaker 1: decide for themselves what cases they can or cannot be
Speaker 1: impartial on. Because I want to tell you what if
Speaker 1: Sonia saw to mayor or any of the other justices
Speaker 1: were to be flying a flag that was, I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe said black Lives Matter, maybe it's said Latino Heritage
Speaker 1: Month should be every month. Whenever the fucking case was,
Speaker 1: you can guarantee that it would be fodder for right
Speaker 1: wing media, that the pressure would mount, and that Democrats
Speaker 1: would probably fucking join with the Republicans in kicking them
Speaker 1: off the bench. So how is it that we have
Speaker 1: these cases that are sitting before these justices whose wives
Speaker 1: have been absolutely and thoroughly involved with trying to overturn
Speaker 1: an election and airing their desire for I don't know,
Speaker 1: a constitutional less America, and they're allowed to consider whether
Speaker 1: or not Donald Trump should have absolute immunity. It doesn't
Speaker 1: make any sense, and we we should stop acting like
Speaker 1: these justices are above the law. Fucking Roberts doesn't want
Speaker 1: to show up at the Senate Judiciary, then I don't know,
Speaker 1: hold him in contempt. Figure out with other constitutional lawyers
Speaker 1: how you compel this man that is running a rogue,
Speaker 1: right wing weaponized Supreme Court to show up, right that
Speaker 1: you force him to, because I'm pretty sure that if
Speaker 1: it was on the Democrats side, we wouldn't even be
Speaker 1: having this conversation. I want Democrats to stop acting as
Speaker 1: if their hands are tied behind their backs, and that
Speaker 1: we are betting on the better angels of people that
Speaker 1: are heartless, that have no angels. We need to stop
Speaker 1: assuming the best in people that continue to show us
Speaker 1: the worst. It just doesn't make any fucking sense speaking
Speaker 1: of people showing us their worst. I would be remiss
Speaker 1: if I did not also bring us back to the
Speaker 1: horrific fucking images of Nicki Haley in fucking Israel signing
Speaker 1: bombs that have ripped babies. Apart to say that Nicki
Speaker 1: Haley is depraved, I think would be too fucking kind.
Speaker 1: She is a fucking poor excuse of a human being.
Speaker 1: She is disgusting. Her actions this week should disqualify her
Speaker 1: from ever being able to run for office, let alone
Speaker 1: hold any office. And the fact that she would use
Speaker 1: what every country right is beginning to see and refer
Speaker 1: to as a genocide as her VP fucking rehearsal is
Speaker 1: some bullshit. Any bit of consciousness that we thought that
Speaker 1: Nikki Haley could muster because she decided to go toe
Speaker 1: to toe with Donald Trump, we know now was nothing
Speaker 1: more than political theater. That she is willing to go
Speaker 1: above and beyond her as actually, to the fucking gutter,
Speaker 1: to the sewers, in order to be considered a VP
Speaker 1: pick for Trump. She is fucking disgusting. You know, I
Speaker 1: can remember when screams or four hundred dollars haircuts could
Speaker 1: get you booted out of the political sphere, But somehow
Speaker 1: signing bombs or shooting dogs another Republican woman favorite pastime
Speaker 1: is okay. What folks need to understand is that this
Speaker 1: Republican Party embraces violence. They love it. It is their
Speaker 1: energy boosts, It is what drives this party now. Their
Speaker 1: desire to cause harm, to cause grief, to cause trauma
Speaker 1: without any accountability is their goal. And if given the opportunity,
Speaker 1: because folks want to sit around and talk about, they're
Speaker 1: going to protest the vote because you think that throwing
Speaker 1: away your vote to some bullshit third party this time
Speaker 1: around of all fucking elections, when our democracy is hanging on,
Speaker 1: is what you want to do. Tell me how that
Speaker 1: is going to help the people in Gaza and Rafa
Speaker 1: When you have the potential VP signing bombs and the
Speaker 1: rest of the Republicans saying bulldoze it, finish them off.
Speaker 1: How do you think your third party fucking vote is
Speaker 1: going to line up with this shit. We don't always
Speaker 1: get to do the things that we want to do.
Speaker 1: That's called adulthood, right. Some decisions that we make fucking suck,
Speaker 1: but we make them nonetheless because we have to, because
Speaker 1: we are adulting. We have to pay bills, we have
Speaker 1: to pay taxes, we have to go to work, and
Speaker 1: we also have to vote to save our democracy. And
Speaker 1: that does not mean throwing away your vote on fucking
Speaker 1: RFK Junior or Cornell fucking West. I can't express to
Speaker 1: people how fucking stupid that is, and not only stupid,
Speaker 1: but dangerous. And you know I'm not one that likes
Speaker 1: to talk down to people because I'm like, oh, you
Speaker 1: can make whatever decision that you want. Yeah, you can
Speaker 1: make whatever decision that you want when it was the primaries.
Speaker 1: Not when we're entering into the general election. No, you cannot.
Speaker 1: I am so sorry for you, because if you think
Speaker 1: that I find any joy or I'm out here rocking
Speaker 1: a Biden T shirt, I am not. But I know
Speaker 1: that as a black, queer woman, child of immigrants in
Speaker 1: this fucking country, I am not about to fucking put
Speaker 1: more fuel and ammunition into trump Ism by throwing my
Speaker 1: vote away, even if I live in New York. So
Speaker 1: for you all that are finding these days tough, I
Speaker 1: want you to multiply that times a million, because that
Speaker 1: is what it will be like under a Trump regime
Speaker 1: that will never leave, that will arrest democratic members of Congress,
Speaker 1: political opponents, throw them in jail. Oh, where is their trial?
Speaker 1: We're considering them terrorists. They don't need a trial. That's
Speaker 1: what will happen. Oh, we can't possibly happen here. Give
Speaker 1: me a fucking break. It will happen so fast it
Speaker 1: will make our head spin. So we have one opportunity
Speaker 1: in November to get rid of Donald Trump. As everybody
Speaker 1: is waiting around and by the time that this show airs,
Speaker 1: you know, there may finally be a verdict. But what
Speaker 1: does that actually mean? If Donald Trump is found guilty.
Speaker 1: Do you think that he's going to be hauled off
Speaker 1: there and thrown in jail. No, because he has the
Speaker 1: money and the lawyers to appeal, appeal, appeal, appeal, like
Speaker 1: he has done in every other fucking case. He's not
Speaker 1: going to be remanded into the prison. Right, you can
Speaker 1: await your appeal there. If only Donald Trump would be
Speaker 1: treated like anybody else. But well, you know that that's
Speaker 1: not the case. So I'm not holding my breath on
Speaker 1: this case or any of the other ones that are pending,
Speaker 1: because the most important case is whether or not the
Speaker 1: American people in November are going to decide that they
Speaker 1: want to see this project we call democracy through that
Speaker 1: they want to give generations of young Americans the opportunity
Speaker 1: to do a better job than the older generations have
Speaker 1: in destroying our environment, in destroying women's access to bodily autonomy,
Speaker 1: in destroying affirmative action. Right. But if Donald Trump becomes
Speaker 1: president for life, and then there's a Trump dynasty and
Speaker 1: it's passed down to fucking Eric and Ivanka and this
Speaker 1: person and that person. It can't happen here, it has
Speaker 1: happened in other countries. Dictators are always elected democratically and
Speaker 1: then they tear down the very institution that got them. Folks,
Speaker 1: the times are hard, they are dark, and they're not
Speaker 1: getting better. But what is happening is that people are
Speaker 1: becoming more conscious, people are becoming more woke, and that matters.
Speaker 1: I wish that it didn't take the deaths of fifty
Speaker 1: thousand Palestinians for people to recognize that Israel is running
Speaker 1: in apartheid state. I wish that it didn't take babies
Speaker 1: being ripped apart the images of children watching their parents
Speaker 1: lay burnt on the ground for the world to recognize
Speaker 1: that something is wrong here, and not just here, but
Speaker 1: almost everywhere in every corner of this planet. America is
Speaker 1: no innocent. America is the biggest perpetuator of violence around
Speaker 1: the world. But we have an opportunity to push this
Speaker 1: president because in a second term, Biden is not going
Speaker 1: to be facing another election, so we honestly has nothing
Speaker 1: left to lose except his legacy, which I actually believe
Speaker 1: that he cares about. So I would rather continue to
Speaker 1: fight for the expansion of freedom with a Biden in adminished
Speaker 1: in place, then be fighting for my life with a
Speaker 1: Trump regime installed. Those are the decisions that we have
Speaker 1: to make. Those are the tough pills that I continue
Speaker 1: to say that we are going to swallow because what
Speaker 1: is at stakes too much for me to sit idly
Speaker 1: by and tell you vote your conscience. Fuck that, vote
Speaker 1: for justice, vote for freedom, vote for bodily autonomy, vote
Speaker 1: for clean air, vote for clean water. And there is
Speaker 1: only one candidate out of this bullshit two choices that
Speaker 1: we have that believes in any of that. It is
Speaker 1: not just one issue that is going to lead this election.
Speaker 1: It is every fucking issue that is at stake. Vote accordingly,
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Speaker 1: for me today, dear friends on woke af as always,
Speaker 1: power to the people and to all the people power,
Speaker 1: get woke and stay woke as fuck.