WEBVTT - This Crumbling Empire

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<v Speaker 1>Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with

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<v Speaker 1>Meet your Girl Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,

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<v Speaker 1>I am sure you are aware of the news that

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<v Speaker 1>broke over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, which is that President

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<v Speaker 1>Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter of his trumped

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<v Speaker 1>up federal charges where he was to receive sentencing in

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<v Speaker 1>the next couple of weeks. Now, I for one, am

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<v Speaker 1>actually shocked by the fact that Joe Biden managed to

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<v Speaker 1>muster the courage to do the right thing. Joe Biden

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<v Speaker 1>has been trapped inside of his presidency around returning America

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<v Speaker 1>to long gone norms that Donald Trump not only broke,

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<v Speaker 1>but doused in lighter fuel and then blew up over

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<v Speaker 1>the last nine years. When Donald Trump was leaving office,

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<v Speaker 1>not of his own volition, of course, in twenty twenty,

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<v Speaker 1>he pardoned a slew of his inner circle as well

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<v Speaker 1>as Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner's father, all of them criminals,

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<v Speaker 1>whether they had been charged for grifting, whether they had

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<v Speaker 1>been charged with being potential foreign assets. I mean, you

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<v Speaker 1>name it from Paul Manifore, Rogers Stone, Steve Bannon, Charles Kushner,

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<v Speaker 1>Mike Flynn. The list goes on of the people who

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<v Speaker 1>are criminals that Donald Trump pardoned. Hunter Biden is a

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<v Speaker 1>recovering addict who didn't fill out a form correctly and

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<v Speaker 1>evaded taxes for which he paid back with interest. How

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<v Speaker 1>is that even remotely similar to the lies in the

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<v Speaker 1>Griff that Steve Bannon did by telling people to send

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<v Speaker 1>him money and he's going to put a brick with

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<v Speaker 1>their name on it to build a wall when he

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<v Speaker 1>put that money in his pocket. Mike Flynn, who notoriously

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<v Speaker 1>did not register as a foreign agent for Russia and

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<v Speaker 1>is a foreign agent for Russia. And the list goes

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<v Speaker 1>on and on and on and so now you have

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<v Speaker 1>people on the right who have this faux outrage over

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<v Speaker 1>Joe Biden pardoning his son, and at the end of

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<v Speaker 1>the day, like I had posted on social media over

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<v Speaker 1>the weekend, I don't give a buck. I could care

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<v Speaker 1>absolutely less. There are plenty of things that I wish

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<v Speaker 1>that Joe Biden would do on his way out the door,

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<v Speaker 1>knowing that he is never running for election again, knowing

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<v Speaker 1>that in many ways his legacy is tarnished. Right, whether

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<v Speaker 1>you look at aiding and abetting a war criminal in

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<v Speaker 1>nat Nyahu in Israel, whether you look at the fact

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<v Speaker 1>that he waited so long to say that he was

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<v Speaker 1>not going to be running for reelection, which in many

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<v Speaker 1>ways hampered the ability of Democrats to really fully rally

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<v Speaker 1>and get on board when Donald Trump had so much

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<v Speaker 1>runway from his appointment to Merrick Garland, the worst Attorney

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<v Speaker 1>general in the United States, who is the reason why

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump is now set to be the forty seventh

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<v Speaker 1>and probably last president of these United States. The list

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<v Speaker 1>goes on. We also know that Biden did a lot

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<v Speaker 1>of good things, rolling out the vaccine, relieving student loan debt,

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<v Speaker 1>lowering prescription drug costs, infrastructure in the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment,

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<v Speaker 1>electing Katanji Brown Jackson, the first black woman to serve

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<v Speaker 1>on the Supreme Court. Obviously, his running mate, Vice President

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<v Speaker 1>Kamala Harris, is the first female, Black and Asian Vice

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<v Speaker 1>president of these United States. And so, like I have

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<v Speaker 1>said from long time that Biden's legacy is going to

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<v Speaker 1>be very much a mixed bag, very much a mixed bag.

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<v Speaker 1>And when we're living in a time of lawlessness and

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<v Speaker 1>a crumbling empire, what does legacy actually mean? Anyway? That

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<v Speaker 1>will remain to be seen, but the pardoning of his

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<v Speaker 1>son is the least of the things that Joe Biden

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<v Speaker 1>will be remembered for. I just hope that now we

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<v Speaker 1>don't ever have to hunter Biden's name ever again. Moving

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<v Speaker 1>on from that, as I've been saying on the Daniel

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<v Speaker 1>Moody Show on YouTube, I am not interested in doing

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<v Speaker 1>the blow by blow of all who is a part

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<v Speaker 1>of Donald Trump's cabinet. I am not doing shows on

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<v Speaker 1>every single announcement. I am not even participating on social

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<v Speaker 1>media with regard to every single announcement because, frankly, I

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<v Speaker 1>don't care. And why do I say that, Because, folks,

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<v Speaker 1>I have spent how many years now on this podcast

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<v Speaker 1>talking about the dangers of Donald Trump getting into power again.

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<v Speaker 1>I have talked about how many people inside of Donald

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<v Speaker 1>Trump's circle are fascist and white nationalists. We already know

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<v Speaker 1>where this is going, right, because why I have been

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<v Speaker 1>talking about it for nearly a decade at this point.

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<v Speaker 1>But there are some people that I do think that

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<v Speaker 1>it's important to lift up, not in the way to say,

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<v Speaker 1>oh my god, isn't this person insane, but also to

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<v Speaker 1>draw parallels to history that has loosely been left untilled

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<v Speaker 1>by the mainstream. So we have right now in the

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<v Speaker 1>place of potential FBI Director Cash Patel. Cash Patel is

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<v Speaker 1>a former federal prosecutor. He served I think in both

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<v Speaker 1>like an advisory position with the National Security Committee as

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<v Speaker 1>well as I think in some position within the FBI.

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<v Speaker 1>He is a right wing sycophant. He is a Trump loyalist.

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<v Speaker 1>He has said that one of the major roles that

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<v Speaker 1>the FBI needs to engage in is going after a

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<v Speaker 1>free press and going after Donald Trump's political opponents. Does

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<v Speaker 1>this sound like anything new to anybody? It doesn't. Most recently,

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<v Speaker 1>my girlfriend, who made the wrong decision of reading social

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<v Speaker 1>media before going to bed, gave herself all types of

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<v Speaker 1>anxiety and nightmares around the levers of power that Cash

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<v Speaker 1>Puttel was going to have at his disposal as FBI director,

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<v Speaker 1>And then I had to remind her, and I'm going

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<v Speaker 1>to remind all of you. The FBI has long been

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<v Speaker 1>a very cedy organization with a lot of bad entities,

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<v Speaker 1>bad apples that have been at the helm. It is

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<v Speaker 1>supposed to be a largely a political separate body, right

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<v Speaker 1>but we saw as recently with James Comy and his

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<v Speaker 1>interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election as it pertained

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<v Speaker 1>to investigating of Hillary Clinton and her email and what

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<v Speaker 1>part that played in tipping the scales for Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 1>and smearing Hillary Clinton's name and painting her as some

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<v Speaker 1>type of alleged criminal. So you look back there, then

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<v Speaker 1>I say, go take a trip down memory lane to

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<v Speaker 1>the man who headed up the FBI as its first

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<v Speaker 1>director and was at the helm of the FBI for

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<v Speaker 1>nearly fifty years, which was j Edgar Hoover. J Edgar

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<v Speaker 1>Hoover used the FBI to serve veil Martin Luther King

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<v Speaker 1>and other black liberationists, used the FBI to serve veil

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<v Speaker 1>citizens of this country who were against the Vietnam War,

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<v Speaker 1>those that he said were quote unquote communists in a

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<v Speaker 1>roundup of said individuals, largely found to be completely innocent

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<v Speaker 1>of the trumped up charges and due process which clearly

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<v Speaker 1>went out the window. And there are so many other

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<v Speaker 1>things that Jay Edgar Hoover did while head of the FBI.

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<v Speaker 1>So for us to again act as if things that

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump is doing or is going to do are

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<v Speaker 1>new right, as if portions of the American population haven't

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<v Speaker 1>been under surveillance haven't been threatened, haven't been persecuted in

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<v Speaker 1>ways by our own government for doing nothing other than

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<v Speaker 1>wanting to be treated like full and equal citizens of

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<v Speaker 1>this country. The only difference with Donald Trump is that,

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<v Speaker 1>guess what, White people are going to get caught up

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<v Speaker 1>in the fray as well. But Black people in this

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<v Speaker 1>country are very well aware of how fucking corrupt the FBI,

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<v Speaker 1>the Department of Justice, and other agencies have been. As

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<v Speaker 1>it pertains to our communities, this shit is not new.

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<v Speaker 1>It just has new technology. And instead of lying and

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<v Speaker 1>having a veneer of accountability or bipartisanship, all Donald Trump

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<v Speaker 1>is doing is ripping that veneer down and being very

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<v Speaker 1>open and brazen about the things that have been done

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<v Speaker 1>undercover for decades at the hands of these agencies. You know, folks,

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<v Speaker 1>I'm at a place where I am walking myself back

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<v Speaker 1>from my anxiety and depression because what I'm recognizing and

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<v Speaker 1>what I'm coming to understand is that this shit is

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<v Speaker 1>not new. Right. There are new players, and there will

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<v Speaker 1>be new technological tactics that are used with AI and

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<v Speaker 1>facial recognition and what have you. But we signed over

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<v Speaker 1>our rights to George W. Bush with the Patriot Act

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<v Speaker 1>in order to give away some of our civil liberties

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<v Speaker 1>in the name of safety following nine to eleven. So

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<v Speaker 1>to believe is if all has been on the up

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<v Speaker 1>and up with the United States and oh no, now,

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<v Speaker 1>all of a sudden, here comes Donald Trump and the

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<v Speaker 1>country is going down the tubes. Yes, in many ways

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<v Speaker 1>that is true. But also understand the real history that

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<v Speaker 1>America has been associated with and the dirt that America

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<v Speaker 1>has been doing. So once you start to kind of

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<v Speaker 1>wrap your mind around this, there is more of this

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<v Speaker 1>sense of like, okay, So if the ancestors figured out

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<v Speaker 1>how to move forward in times of strife and oppression

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<v Speaker 1>and heightened white supreme violence, then we will too. That

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<v Speaker 1>is what it's going to be. I continue to say

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<v Speaker 1>that a lot of people are going to lose their

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<v Speaker 1>lives and their livelihood and their liberty right when all

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<v Speaker 1>is said and done. And we don't know when all

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<v Speaker 1>will be said and done, because it won't be two years,

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<v Speaker 1>it won't be four years, it will be a very

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<v Speaker 1>long time. But the fact is is that if we

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<v Speaker 1>want to understand how we move forward in this moment,

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<v Speaker 1>that I encourage everyone to actually begin to read history

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<v Speaker 1>and understand where we have been the real history. What

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<v Speaker 1>came up over the holiday, which I hope all of

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<v Speaker 1>you enjoyed with your family and friends. What came up

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<v Speaker 1>with my family as we were talking about politics and

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<v Speaker 1>like moving this country forward, is basically my mom said

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<v Speaker 1>to me, Danielle, you know what I'm realizing. And I

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<v Speaker 1>said what? And she said that America has been built

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<v Speaker 1>on nothing but lies. That everything that we have been

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<v Speaker 1>told about America is a lie. And she's like, and

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<v Speaker 1>the more that you learn, the more that your eyes

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<v Speaker 1>are open to the heinous, heinous history of America. So,

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<v Speaker 1>my mother, as you all know, is an immigrant. Right

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<v Speaker 1>she became a citizen about I think thirty or some

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<v Speaker 1>eight years ago from Jamaica, and so she had to

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<v Speaker 1>take right the citizens ship test. And I will tell

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<v Speaker 1>you that immigrants to this country are way more versed

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<v Speaker 1>in our history than natives of this country. We were

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<v Speaker 1>lamenting the fact that my family gave up their citizenship

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<v Speaker 1>to their home because they never imagined that they would

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<v Speaker 1>be going back or need to go back to live there.

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<v Speaker 1>They had made it, they had made it to America,

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<v Speaker 1>and now here we all are where my family is

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<v Speaker 1>thinking about reinstating their Jamaican citizenship and moving back as

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<v Speaker 1>a point of safety and watching America crumple. They could

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<v Speaker 1>have never imagined thirty forty years ago when they arrived

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<v Speaker 1>that this is where we would be. And so it

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<v Speaker 1>is this unnerving that is happening right now in this

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<v Speaker 1>country where this idea of being woke is about being

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<v Speaker 1>conscious to reality, like waking up from a day dream

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<v Speaker 1>that would have had America be this shining beacon on

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<v Speaker 1>a hill that just went around doing good in the

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<v Speaker 1>world and bringing democracy to places, and all of it

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<v Speaker 1>is bullshit. America only goes to places where they have

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<v Speaker 1>their own vested interests in that are steeped in capitalism,

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<v Speaker 1>manifest destiny, and wealth building. When we see other nations

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<v Speaker 1>that are being ravished by civil war, that are being

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<v Speaker 1>ravaged by horrible dictatorships, and we say, why is it

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<v Speaker 1>America intervening And people say, oh, well, we can't be everywhere. Bullshit,

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<v Speaker 1>We're not intervening because we have no vested interest in

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<v Speaker 1>that place and upholding right, humanity and basic decency isn't enough.

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<v Speaker 1>So it's like again, I had asked the question over

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<v Speaker 1>the holiday, did Donald Trump break America? Or did Donald

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<v Speaker 1>Trump reveal America, and the response has been overwhelming that

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<v Speaker 1>Donald Trump revealed America to itself. He is just as

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<v Speaker 1>representative of who this country is and who it has

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<v Speaker 1>always been, as is Vice President Kamala Harris and Barack

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<v Speaker 1>Obama and Joe Biden. Right, he too is America. And

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<v Speaker 1>it's not it's under belly. It's just what we have

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<v Speaker 1>chosen to look away from because the truth is really

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<v Speaker 1>dirty when you actually google Thanksgiving and you don't get

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<v Speaker 1>like the bullshit pilgrim and the oh and the feast

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<v Speaker 1>and this, that and the other thing that we lied about,

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<v Speaker 1>and instead it was a other fucking massacre to people

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<v Speaker 1>that were welcoming to the new settlers. And then the

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<v Speaker 1>response that they received was chicken pox, rape and torture

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<v Speaker 1>and murder. Then you understand that it wasn't oh, these wonderful,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, religious people that came and settled to this

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<v Speaker 1>new world. It was a bunch of fucking barbarians. So,

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<v Speaker 1>you know, folks, the thing that I just want to

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<v Speaker 1>offer is that sometimes the way forward is found by

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<v Speaker 1>looking backward, not resting in a place in the past,

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<v Speaker 1>but really understanding that again, what is being disrupted here

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<v Speaker 1>by Donald Trump is not actual laws but norms. What

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<v Speaker 1>he is doing is lifting a veil or the hood right.

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<v Speaker 1>And these people are proud white nationalists, whereas others that

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<v Speaker 1>have been in these positions have pretended and gas lit

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<v Speaker 1>the public into being something other than what they are.

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<v Speaker 1>But the fact of the matter is is that America

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<v Speaker 1>has never lived up to its ideals and principles, and

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<v Speaker 1>there have always been people that have been living under

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<v Speaker 1>oppressive regimes and the thumb of white supremacy, the boot

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<v Speaker 1>of white supremacy and patriarchy. And we have used those

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<v Speaker 1>that have managed above all else to find themselves in

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<v Speaker 1>some form close to the top of the pyramid of hierarchy.

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<v Speaker 1>But the fact is is that those are the exceptions,

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<v Speaker 1>not the rule. So if we are to actually really

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<v Speaker 1>figure out a way forward, then we need to get

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<v Speaker 1>to the root of the root and stop pretending that

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<v Speaker 1>quote unquote, this isn't who we are, when in fact,

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<v Speaker 1>it is who America has always been. That is it

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<v Speaker 1>for me today, dear friends on wokf as always, power

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<v Speaker 1>to the people and to all the people. Power, get

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<v Speaker 1>woke and stay woke as fuck.