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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WIKA F Daily with

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Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from the Brooklyn Bunker.

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Speaker 1: We'd be moving around a lot these days, from studio

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Speaker 1: to home and back again. You know, folks, I get

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Speaker 1: to a place often where I am just wanting to

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Speaker 1: throw out my hands, where I'm wanting to be like,

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Speaker 1: I'm just done. I'm done in general, right because every

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Speaker 1: time that I open up the news, every time that

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Speaker 1: I look, you know, at the papers, every time that

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Speaker 1: I go into Twitter, it just feels like I'm just dripping,

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Speaker 1: dripping in like sewage and acid and just toxicity. It's

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Speaker 1: no wonder why people opt out of social media after

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Speaker 1: a while. It's no wonder why there is like extreme

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Speaker 1: burnout from the news and people are just like after

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty, they don't even want to turn on. But

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Speaker 1: the reality is is that if you don't if you

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Speaker 1: don't check in right, then you can't have a voice.

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Speaker 1: Then you don't know what's going on. So here are

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Speaker 1: some things that I want to bring to your attention

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Speaker 1: that are happening right now that just shouldn't be. And

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Speaker 1: I'm going to continue to talk about COVID on this show,

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Speaker 1: because we're still in a pandemic, and yet the majority

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Speaker 1: folks that this week, the United States has more positive

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Speaker 1: COVID cases than any other country in the world. How

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Speaker 1: the fuck is that happening when we literally have more

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Speaker 1: vaccines than every other country in the world. Do you

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Speaker 1: know why that is? Because we're the ones creating the vaccines.

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Speaker 1: They're being created in the United States, and the federal

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Speaker 1: government has purchased all of them, essentially so that every

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Speaker 1: yet we're still seeing reports, like I said yesterday, of

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Speaker 1: hospitals having to close down emergency rooms. Of the Arkansas

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Speaker 1: governor now after his fucking bullshit getting on the airwaves

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Speaker 1: and telling people the hospitals are at capacity. Yeah, motherfucker.

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Speaker 1: What did you think was going to happen when you

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Speaker 1: didn't have a mask mandate in place? What did you

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Speaker 1: think was going to happen when you were telling folks

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Speaker 1: that they shouldn't send their kids to schools with masking,

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Speaker 1: telling school boards and city councils that they can't have

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Speaker 1: mask mandates. And then you in these Red states have

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Speaker 1: the lowest vaccination numbers because you all believe the Trump bullshit.

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Speaker 1: And you know what pisses me off even more is

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Speaker 1: that when that fucking orange piece of shit had one

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Speaker 1: of his hate rallies recently and he says, oh, you

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Speaker 1: know you should, folks, you should get the vaccine, he

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Speaker 1: was booed by his own fucking sycophants. That's how far

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Speaker 1: gone these people are. And so I continue to say, look,

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Speaker 1: should be asking, folks is and when they're headed to

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Speaker 1: your house to go get you anti vaxer, to go

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Speaker 1: bring you to the emergency room to ask the question

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Speaker 1: were you vaccinated? Let me see your vaccin vaccination card.

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Speaker 1: Oh you weren't vaccinated. Well, there is no room at

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Speaker 1: the end for you, because what needs to start happening

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Speaker 1: is that we are going to keep our beds in

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Speaker 1: this hospital for people in actual need. You didn't need

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Speaker 1: you don't need a hospital bed either, because the same

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Speaker 1: people that we're telling you to prevent your severe illness

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Speaker 1: and death, who you didn't want to believe because you

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Speaker 1: think that your Facebook and YouTube education is greater than

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Speaker 1: their seven, eight, nine, ten years of schooling in the

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Speaker 1: medical industry, then fucking google your way out of your symptoms.

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Speaker 1: Once you catch COVID, don't now flood into hospitals begging

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Speaker 1: nurses and doctors and health administrators to start saying, being like, no,

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Speaker 1: to the hospital for what for the imaginary hoax of

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Speaker 1: that you don't know anything about, and it's microchips and this,

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Speaker 1: that and the other thing. Why do you believe in

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Speaker 1: didn't believe in those same doctors when they were trying

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Speaker 1: receive care. And people may say, oh my god, Danielle,

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Speaker 1: that is so harsh. We don't want people to die,

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Speaker 1: years of living under Donald Trump, right, and now their messiah.

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Speaker 1: They don't even listen to their messiah after he says

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Speaker 1: Just still love me, Still give me money so that

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Speaker 1: of the court cases that are being waged against me

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Speaker 1: because I'm a fucking criminal. And we continue to talk

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Speaker 1: school districts for wanting to keep people safe. Thousands of

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Speaker 1: children have already been infected with COVID nineteen. Many are

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Speaker 1: going to die and are dying right now. And what

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Speaker 1: is Joe Biden doing about it? Because I can recall

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Speaker 1: going to give you any funding unless you kiss my ass.

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna help you. I'm not gonna send FEMA,

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Speaker 1: like you. Well, how about we turn around and use

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Speaker 1: that same type of energy for the greater good, which

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Speaker 1: is Hey Florida, Hey Texas, Hey Tennessee, Hey Arkansas, Mississippi,

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Speaker 1: and the rest of y'all. If you do not roll

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Speaker 1: even like the fact that nalists are using the term

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Speaker 1: anti masker. Just call them pro death, Just say that

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Speaker 1: because that's some Western privilege bullshit. Because there are people

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