Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Speaker 1: I am sure you are aware of the news that
Speaker 1: broke over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, which is that President
Speaker 1: Joe Biden has pardoned his son Hunter of his trumped
Speaker 1: up federal charges where he was to receive sentencing in
Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks. Now, I for one, am
Speaker 1: actually shocked by the fact that Joe Biden managed to
Speaker 1: muster the courage to do the right thing. Joe Biden
Speaker 1: has been trapped inside of his presidency around returning America
Speaker 1: to long gone norms that Donald Trump not only broke,
Speaker 1: but doused in lighter fuel and then blew up over
Speaker 1: the last nine years. When Donald Trump was leaving office,
Speaker 1: not of his own volition, of course, in twenty twenty,
Speaker 1: he pardoned a slew of his inner circle as well
Speaker 1: as Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner's father, all of them criminals,
Speaker 1: whether they had been charged for grifting, whether they had
Speaker 1: been charged with being potential foreign assets. I mean, you
Speaker 1: name it from Paul Manifore, Rogers Stone, Steve Bannon, Charles Kushner,
Speaker 1: Mike Flynn. The list goes on of the people who
Speaker 1: are criminals that Donald Trump pardoned. Hunter Biden is a
Speaker 1: recovering addict who didn't fill out a form correctly and
Speaker 1: evaded taxes for which he paid back with interest. How
Speaker 1: is that even remotely similar to the lies in the
Speaker 1: Griff that Steve Bannon did by telling people to send
Speaker 1: him money and he's going to put a brick with
Speaker 1: their name on it to build a wall when he
Speaker 1: put that money in his pocket. Mike Flynn, who notoriously
Speaker 1: did not register as a foreign agent for Russia and
Speaker 1: is a foreign agent for Russia. And the list goes
Speaker 1: on and on and on and so now you have
Speaker 1: people on the right who have this faux outrage over
Speaker 1: Joe Biden pardoning his son, and at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, like I had posted on social media over
Speaker 1: the weekend, I don't give a buck. I could care
Speaker 1: absolutely less. There are plenty of things that I wish
Speaker 1: that Joe Biden would do on his way out the door,
Speaker 1: knowing that he is never running for election again, knowing
Speaker 1: that in many ways his legacy is tarnished. Right, whether
Speaker 1: you look at aiding and abetting a war criminal in
Speaker 1: nat Nyahu in Israel, whether you look at the fact
Speaker 1: that he waited so long to say that he was
Speaker 1: not going to be running for reelection, which in many
Speaker 1: ways hampered the ability of Democrats to really fully rally
Speaker 1: and get on board when Donald Trump had so much
Speaker 1: runway from his appointment to Merrick Garland, the worst Attorney
Speaker 1: general in the United States, who is the reason why
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is now set to be the forty seventh
Speaker 1: and probably last president of these United States. The list
Speaker 1: goes on. We also know that Biden did a lot
Speaker 1: of good things, rolling out the vaccine, relieving student loan debt,
Speaker 1: lowering prescription drug costs, infrastructure in the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment,
Speaker 1: electing Katanji Brown Jackson, the first black woman to serve
Speaker 1: on the Supreme Court. Obviously, his running mate, Vice President
Speaker 1: Kamala Harris, is the first female, Black and Asian Vice
Speaker 1: president of these United States. And so, like I have
Speaker 1: said from long time that Biden's legacy is going to
Speaker 1: be very much a mixed bag, very much a mixed bag.
Speaker 1: And when we're living in a time of lawlessness and
Speaker 1: a crumbling empire, what does legacy actually mean? Anyway? That
Speaker 1: will remain to be seen, but the pardoning of his
Speaker 1: son is the least of the things that Joe Biden
Speaker 1: will be remembered for. I just hope that now we
Speaker 1: don't ever have to hunter Biden's name ever again. Moving
Speaker 1: on from that, as I've been saying on the Daniel
Speaker 1: Moody Show on YouTube, I am not interested in doing
Speaker 1: the blow by blow of all who is a part
Speaker 1: of Donald Trump's cabinet. I am not doing shows on
Speaker 1: every single announcement. I am not even participating on social
Speaker 1: media with regard to every single announcement because, frankly, I
Speaker 1: don't care. And why do I say that, Because, folks,
Speaker 1: I have spent how many years now on this podcast
Speaker 1: talking about the dangers of Donald Trump getting into power again.
Speaker 1: I have talked about how many people inside of Donald
Speaker 1: Trump's circle are fascist and white nationalists. We already know
Speaker 1: where this is going, right, because why I have been
Speaker 1: talking about it for nearly a decade at this point.
Speaker 1: But there are some people that I do think that
Speaker 1: it's important to lift up, not in the way to say,
Speaker 1: oh my god, isn't this person insane, but also to
Speaker 1: draw parallels to history that has loosely been left untilled
Speaker 1: by the mainstream. So we have right now in the
Speaker 1: place of potential FBI Director Cash Patel. Cash Patel is
Speaker 1: a former federal prosecutor. He served I think in both
Speaker 1: like an advisory position with the National Security Committee as
Speaker 1: well as I think in some position within the FBI.
Speaker 1: He is a right wing sycophant. He is a Trump loyalist.
Speaker 1: He has said that one of the major roles that
Speaker 1: the FBI needs to engage in is going after a
Speaker 1: free press and going after Donald Trump's political opponents. Does
Speaker 1: this sound like anything new to anybody? It doesn't. Most recently,
Speaker 1: my girlfriend, who made the wrong decision of reading social
Speaker 1: media before going to bed, gave herself all types of
Speaker 1: anxiety and nightmares around the levers of power that Cash
Speaker 1: Puttel was going to have at his disposal as FBI director,
Speaker 1: And then I had to remind her, and I'm going
Speaker 1: to remind all of you. The FBI has long been
Speaker 1: a very cedy organization with a lot of bad entities,
Speaker 1: bad apples that have been at the helm. It is
Speaker 1: supposed to be a largely a political separate body, right
Speaker 1: but we saw as recently with James Comy and his
Speaker 1: interference in the twenty sixteen presidential election as it pertained
Speaker 1: to investigating of Hillary Clinton and her email and what
Speaker 1: part that played in tipping the scales for Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and smearing Hillary Clinton's name and painting her as some
Speaker 1: type of alleged criminal. So you look back there, then
Speaker 1: I say, go take a trip down memory lane to
Speaker 1: the man who headed up the FBI as its first
Speaker 1: director and was at the helm of the FBI for
Speaker 1: nearly fifty years, which was j Edgar Hoover. J Edgar
Speaker 1: Hoover used the FBI to serve veil Martin Luther King
Speaker 1: and other black liberationists, used the FBI to serve veil
Speaker 1: citizens of this country who were against the Vietnam War,
Speaker 1: those that he said were quote unquote communists in a
Speaker 1: roundup of said individuals, largely found to be completely innocent
Speaker 1: of the trumped up charges and due process which clearly
Speaker 1: went out the window. And there are so many other
Speaker 1: things that Jay Edgar Hoover did while head of the FBI.
Speaker 1: So for us to again act as if things that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump is doing or is going to do are
Speaker 1: new right, as if portions of the American population haven't
Speaker 1: been under surveillance haven't been threatened, haven't been persecuted in
Speaker 1: ways by our own government for doing nothing other than
Speaker 1: wanting to be treated like full and equal citizens of
Speaker 1: this country. The only difference with Donald Trump is that,
Speaker 1: guess what, White people are going to get caught up
Speaker 1: in the fray as well. But Black people in this
Speaker 1: country are very well aware of how fucking corrupt the FBI,
Speaker 1: the Department of Justice, and other agencies have been. As
Speaker 1: it pertains to our communities, this shit is not new.
Speaker 1: It just has new technology. And instead of lying and
Speaker 1: having a veneer of accountability or bipartisanship, all Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is doing is ripping that veneer down and being very
Speaker 1: open and brazen about the things that have been done
Speaker 1: undercover for decades at the hands of these agencies. You know, folks,
Speaker 1: I'm at a place where I am walking myself back
Speaker 1: from my anxiety and depression because what I'm recognizing and
Speaker 1: what I'm coming to understand is that this shit is
Speaker 1: not new. Right. There are new players, and there will
Speaker 1: be new technological tactics that are used with AI and
Speaker 1: facial recognition and what have you. But we signed over
Speaker 1: our rights to George W. Bush with the Patriot Act
Speaker 1: in order to give away some of our civil liberties
Speaker 1: in the name of safety following nine to eleven. So
Speaker 1: to believe is if all has been on the up
Speaker 1: and up with the United States and oh no, now,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, here comes Donald Trump and the
Speaker 1: country is going down the tubes. Yes, in many ways
Speaker 1: that is true. But also understand the real history that
Speaker 1: America has been associated with and the dirt that America
Speaker 1: has been doing. So once you start to kind of
Speaker 1: wrap your mind around this, there is more of this
Speaker 1: sense of like, okay, So if the ancestors figured out
Speaker 1: how to move forward in times of strife and oppression
Speaker 1: and heightened white supreme violence, then we will too. That
Speaker 1: is what it's going to be. I continue to say
Speaker 1: that a lot of people are going to lose their
Speaker 1: lives and their livelihood and their liberty right when all
Speaker 1: is said and done. And we don't know when all
Speaker 1: will be said and done, because it won't be two years,
Speaker 1: it won't be four years, it will be a very
Speaker 1: long time. But the fact is is that if we
Speaker 1: want to understand how we move forward in this moment,
Speaker 1: that I encourage everyone to actually begin to read history
Speaker 1: and understand where we have been the real history. What
Speaker 1: came up over the holiday, which I hope all of
Speaker 1: you enjoyed with your family and friends. What came up
Speaker 1: with my family as we were talking about politics and
Speaker 1: like moving this country forward, is basically my mom said
Speaker 1: to me, Danielle, you know what I'm realizing. And I
Speaker 1: said what? And she said that America has been built
Speaker 1: on nothing but lies. That everything that we have been
Speaker 1: told about America is a lie. And she's like, and
Speaker 1: the more that you learn, the more that your eyes
Speaker 1: are open to the heinous, heinous history of America. So,
Speaker 1: my mother, as you all know, is an immigrant. Right
Speaker 1: she became a citizen about I think thirty or some
Speaker 1: eight years ago from Jamaica, and so she had to
Speaker 1: take right the citizens ship test. And I will tell
Speaker 1: you that immigrants to this country are way more versed
Speaker 1: in our history than natives of this country. We were
Speaker 1: lamenting the fact that my family gave up their citizenship
Speaker 1: to their home because they never imagined that they would
Speaker 1: be going back or need to go back to live there.
Speaker 1: They had made it, they had made it to America,
Speaker 1: and now here we all are where my family is
Speaker 1: thinking about reinstating their Jamaican citizenship and moving back as
Speaker 1: a point of safety and watching America crumple. They could
Speaker 1: have never imagined thirty forty years ago when they arrived
Speaker 1: that this is where we would be. And so it
Speaker 1: is this unnerving that is happening right now in this
Speaker 1: country where this idea of being woke is about being
Speaker 1: conscious to reality, like waking up from a day dream
Speaker 1: that would have had America be this shining beacon on
Speaker 1: a hill that just went around doing good in the
Speaker 1: world and bringing democracy to places, and all of it
Speaker 1: is bullshit. America only goes to places where they have
Speaker 1: their own vested interests in that are steeped in capitalism,
Speaker 1: manifest destiny, and wealth building. When we see other nations
Speaker 1: that are being ravished by civil war, that are being
Speaker 1: ravaged by horrible dictatorships, and we say, why is it
Speaker 1: America intervening And people say, oh, well, we can't be everywhere. Bullshit,
Speaker 1: We're not intervening because we have no vested interest in
Speaker 1: that place and upholding right, humanity and basic decency isn't enough.
Speaker 1: So it's like again, I had asked the question over
Speaker 1: the holiday, did Donald Trump break America? Or did Donald
Speaker 1: Trump reveal America, and the response has been overwhelming that
Speaker 1: Donald Trump revealed America to itself. He is just as
Speaker 1: representative of who this country is and who it has
Speaker 1: always been, as is Vice President Kamala Harris and Barack
Speaker 1: Obama and Joe Biden. Right, he too is America. And
Speaker 1: it's not it's under belly. It's just what we have
Speaker 1: chosen to look away from because the truth is really
Speaker 1: dirty when you actually google Thanksgiving and you don't get
Speaker 1: like the bullshit pilgrim and the oh and the feast
Speaker 1: and this, that and the other thing that we lied about,
Speaker 1: and instead it was a other fucking massacre to people
Speaker 1: that were welcoming to the new settlers. And then the
Speaker 1: response that they received was chicken pox, rape and torture
Speaker 1: and murder. Then you understand that it wasn't oh, these wonderful,
Speaker 1: you know, religious people that came and settled to this
Speaker 1: new world. It was a bunch of fucking barbarians. So,
Speaker 1: you know, folks, the thing that I just want to
Speaker 1: offer is that sometimes the way forward is found by
Speaker 1: looking backward, not resting in a place in the past,
Speaker 1: but really understanding that again, what is being disrupted here
Speaker 1: by Donald Trump is not actual laws but norms. What
Speaker 1: he is doing is lifting a veil or the hood right.
Speaker 1: And these people are proud white nationalists, whereas others that
Speaker 1: have been in these positions have pretended and gas lit
Speaker 1: the public into being something other than what they are.
Speaker 1: But the fact of the matter is is that America
Speaker 1: has never lived up to its ideals and principles, and
Speaker 1: there have always been people that have been living under
Speaker 1: oppressive regimes and the thumb of white supremacy, the boot
Speaker 1: of white supremacy and patriarchy. And we have used those
Speaker 1: that have managed above all else to find themselves in
Speaker 1: some form close to the top of the pyramid of hierarchy.
Speaker 1: But the fact is is that those are the exceptions,
Speaker 1: not the rule. So if we are to actually really
Speaker 1: figure out a way forward, then we need to get
Speaker 1: to the root of the root and stop pretending that
Speaker 1: quote unquote, this isn't who we are, when in fact,
Speaker 1: it is who America has always been. That is it
Speaker 1: for me today, dear friends on wokf as always, power
Speaker 1: to the people and to all the people. Power, get
Speaker 1: woke and stay woke as fuck.