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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and a welcome to ok F Daily

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Speaker 1: with Meet your Girl Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,

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Speaker 1: it is fuck It Friday, and you know, usually on

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Speaker 1: this day I go through and run down all of

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Speaker 1: the things that I want to say fuck it to,

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Speaker 1: you know, because essentially this day for me had traditionally

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Speaker 1: been about just blowing off steam and getting things out

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Speaker 1: I'm not feeling the blow off steam so much as

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Speaker 1: we're going to refer to today as feel it Friday,

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Speaker 1: because I have a lot of feelings that have been

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Speaker 1: coming up for quite some time, and I want to

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Speaker 1: share them with all of you. So first off, let's

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Speaker 1: start with the political stuff, and then I'll go into

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Speaker 1: what is conjuring up these thoughts and these feelings that

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Speaker 1: I'm having. But basically, so to provide a summary of

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Speaker 1: the week, the Republicans have no idea what it is

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Speaker 1: that they are doing right. They have no desire to

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Speaker 1: actually lead this country. They have no desire to offer

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Speaker 1: anything to the American people. You all know this. Mitt

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Speaker 1: Romney has recently announced that he is not going to

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Speaker 1: seek reelection and at the age of seventy six that

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Speaker 1: he feels like it is time for him to move on,

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Speaker 1: and signaling and stating that he believes the same should

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Speaker 1: be true for both Joe Biden and Donald Trump, because

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Speaker 1: they're not offering the American people anything, particularly as it

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Speaker 1: comes to climate change, which is an issue that has

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Speaker 1: become significantly important to the youth of this country. Gen

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Speaker 1: Z and Alpha and others right that will come behind

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Speaker 1: them because they're going to be the ones that deal

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Speaker 1: with the fact that the older generations that are still

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Speaker 1: in power, that refuse to give up power, who are Octinagerians,

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Speaker 1: are not going to do anything about climate change. They

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Speaker 1: actually don't care. And while I disagree strongly with Mitt

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Speaker 1: that Joe Biden, I have no idea why this man

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Speaker 1: wanted to be president of this nation. To be honest,

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Speaker 1: he is a public servant to the core of his being.

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Speaker 1: And to think that from the age of twenty nine

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Speaker 1: a desire to put America first. And that's wild because

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Speaker 1: I think that Honestly, Joe Biden is probably truly the

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Speaker 1: last of the real statesmen. And it was funny because

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Speaker 1: Joy Read the other day was showing clips of Biden

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Speaker 1: throughout the years as we're also I'm going to pivot

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Speaker 1: for a moment to the impeachment inquiry. Is that Joe

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Speaker 1: Biden has lived his life in public service in front

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Speaker 1: deal because he was vice president to the nation's first

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Speaker 1: of like thirty thousand dollars. Now it's fifteen million, because

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Speaker 1: he was able to sign really lucrative book deals. Right,

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Speaker 1: Joe Biden, unlike Donald Trump, never used his position to

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Speaker 1: the job because he cared about the people of Delaware

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Speaker 1: and he cared about this country. It's why Barack Obama

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Speaker 1: chose him to be vice president of the United States,

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Speaker 1: because he was one of the last great statesmen. And

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Speaker 1: there was this picture that she put up, and it

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Speaker 1: was of a younger Biden sitting next to Ted Kennedy. Now,

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Speaker 1: for those of you who you know, maybe too young

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Speaker 1: I had, through the course of my career on Capitol

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Speaker 1: And for all of the deep wounds and pain that

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Speaker 1: used to be the case, right Like it wasn't. You

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Speaker 1: didn't enter into public service to get rich, right Like

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Speaker 1: everybody fucking knows that. Trust me, if I knew, if

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Speaker 1: And I'm gonna be really honest, I don't have many

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Speaker 1: regrets in my life up until this point, thank God. Right, However,

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Speaker 1: if I could do things a bit differently career wise,

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Speaker 1: later years right turning to the public good. Because knowing

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Speaker 1: just how your voice is elevated, progress can be accelerated,

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Speaker 1: would never have been able to without that certain level

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Speaker 1: And I have no I know many people who have

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Speaker 1: just like, I'm working for the public good. You know,

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Speaker 1: doing education policy. I'm not doing the sexy like you

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Speaker 1: as a coverer ass And so when I think about,

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Speaker 1: Mitt Romney has been part of the problem for so long.

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Speaker 1: The man is so fucking spineless, right like. And the

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Speaker 1: Romney and his failed bid in twenty twelve for the presidency,

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Speaker 1: it is not just because, oh, you've decided that you're

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Speaker 1: Romney missed me with it. As it pertains to this

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Speaker 1: the sham impeachment that is being led by Marjory Taylor

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Speaker 1: Kevin McCarthy did nothing more than succumb to the whims

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Speaker 1: just like, Kevin McCarthy has no power and he's not

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Speaker 1: that's what you want. You don't care truly about democracy.

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Speaker 1: And if you think that you're going to be the

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Speaker 1: this time. You know, I started WOKF six years ago

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Speaker 1: It was a huge for me, kick in the gut

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