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Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to WOKF Daily with Meet

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Speaker 1: your Girl Danielle Moody from the Home Bunker. Folks. You know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes I find it difficult to turn my attention back

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Speaker 1: domestically to the fuckery that is the Republican Party when

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Speaker 1: there seem to be so many more pressing and serious,

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Speaker 1: serious society altering, cultural altering, globally destabilizing things that are happening.

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Speaker 1: To pay attention to the fact that House Republicans don't

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Speaker 1: care about America. They don't care about government, they don't

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Speaker 1: to hold its its standing, and so on today's show,

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Speaker 1: I bring on our friend Kurt Bardella, you know, former

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Speaker 1: Republican Democratic now Democratic strategists, columnist and analysts, to talk about,

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Speaker 1: speakership that took three weeks to then anoint a basic misogynist,

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Speaker 1: in some type of biblical puritanical bullshit that they make

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Speaker 1: say that it's through the domin of toxic masculinity and

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Speaker 1: folks that you know that we will be great again.

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Speaker 1: Mike Johnson, So I do. I find it hard And

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Speaker 1: most of the time I kind of just want to

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Speaker 1: ignore the fucking Republican Party as a whole. But I can't.

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Speaker 1: We can't because ignoring them is dangerous, right. That is

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Speaker 1: what happened with Donald Trump and just pretending that he was,

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Speaker 1: what this man was espousing in twenty fifteen and twenty sixteen,

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Speaker 1: and so here we are. It's just that everything feels

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Speaker 1: there is possibility, And I'm I'm not quite sure in

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Speaker 1: Because the anger that I have for this administration while

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Speaker 1: is continuing to rise over their global stance on dehumanization.

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Speaker 1: I know that I don't want this country to fall

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Speaker 1: into the hands of the Mike Johnson's, the Marjorie Taylor Greens,

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Speaker 1: the Donald Trumps of this country. I do not want that.

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Speaker 1: And it just seems as if you know, it is

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Speaker 1: very much midnight in America, and that we are closer

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Speaker 1: I'm just telling you what I see and what I

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Speaker 1: So on today's show, I get into conversation with our

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Speaker 1: friend Kurt Bardella about what he thinks about the Republican Party,

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Speaker 1: what he offers that Democrats should be doing in this moment,

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Speaker 1: Kurt is coming up next, folks. You know that whenever

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Speaker 1: many moons ago. At this point, now, Kurt Bardella, you know,

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Speaker 1: oh you read is writing at USA Today La Times,

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Speaker 1: and Kurt, let's just start with this. It took three weeks,

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Speaker 1: three different people to finally get the Republicans to actually

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Speaker 1: After multiple failed attempts, the booting of Kevin McCarthy, the

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Speaker 1: Let me pull out his repertoire that I wrote down.

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Speaker 1: Representative Mike Johnson out of Louisiana, who was elected on

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Speaker 1: the Trump train in twenty sixteen. This is a man

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Speaker 1: who has voted to steal the twenty twenty election, who

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Speaker 2: This guy, Maga Mike as he's been already nicknamed, is

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Speaker 2: to install into the positions of power people predominantly white men,

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Speaker 2: with this radical viewpoint of extremism, that anyone who differs

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Speaker 2: be outlawed, should be made illegal. Someone who believes that

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Speaker 2: the fact that we are headed towards becoming a majority

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Speaker 2: that that's dangerous. These are people who espouse it with

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Speaker 2: and in the other use the instruments of power to

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Speaker 2: who are less fortunate, who have less resources. These are

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Speaker 2: the same people who talk about God but have no

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Speaker 2: problem human trafficking migrants from one part of this country

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Speaker 2: people who believe in quote unquote being pro life, but

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Speaker 2: of war everywhere that we look. This is exactly the

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Speaker 2: it's not an accident that he is now the figurehead

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Speaker 2: it's incredibly disturbing that someone who played such a central

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Speaker 1: So this man is now two heartbeats away from the presidency.

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Speaker 1: He is in the succession line of succession for the presidency.

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Speaker 1: And while some people seem to have been taken off

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Speaker 1: to understand Matt Gates and a Lauren Bobert and a

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Speaker 1: And so I wonder while mainstream media chases its tail

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Speaker 1: Now that Republicans have installed maga mic, what's the goal here? Right? Like,

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Speaker 1: what's what's what's the endgame? What's the win for them?

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Speaker 1: Because this they wanted to cheer, right this they cheered,

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Speaker 1: Where does it? Where does it go?

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Speaker 2: I think that the endgame is what's started on January sixth.

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Speaker 2: be it. If that means getting rid of all the

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Speaker 2: democratic norms that have upheld this country for two centuries,

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Speaker 2: so be it. They don't care about those things. They

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Speaker 2: we see it all the time in the partisan Jerry

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Speaker 2: Like that's the slogan, because that's what's happened. And the

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Speaker 2: all week long the media toss around phrases like moderate

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Speaker 2: And if the definition of a moderate is someone who

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Speaker 2: a moderate. You better start calling the squad a moderate

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Speaker 2: because they believe in democracy. And if that's the only

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Speaker 2: better damn well apply that to democrats Otherwise, what the

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Speaker 1: What really worries me? As we are eight years deep

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Speaker 1: there seems to be nothing that deters the Trump train,

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Speaker 1: right that we thought that if you get rid of

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Speaker 1: the person. The person is now saddled with foreign indictments

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Speaker 1: ninety one charges, they will leave. If you show that

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Speaker 1: all of these election deniers, these people who walked into

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Speaker 1: courtrooms and lied right about the twenty twenty election, are

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Speaker 1: now facing their own indictments. Oh, that will deter people, Right,

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Speaker 1: it hasn't. It has incurred, and we are just months

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Speaker 1: away from the calendar year changing to twenty twenty four,

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Speaker 1: and Joe Biden's poll numbers right now, and everybody who

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Speaker 1: listens to this show knows that I don't believe them,

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Speaker 1: But I got to say something. I hadn't seen the

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Speaker 1: You know, Kurt, everything that you just laid out is

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Speaker 2: You know, I don't think so, because if you were

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you real quick before I let you go.

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Speaker 1: The government shut down is still looming. Right. All they

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Speaker 2: I think that they're gonna punt one more time and

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Speaker 2: And that's why I say he's in over his head.

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Speaker 1: Do you think that we get Do you think that

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Speaker 1: Do you think that eventually a full of like the

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Speaker 2: No? No, I think that he'll get booted. I think

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Speaker 2: that they'll say he's in over his head. He's an amateur,

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Speaker 1: Unreal? All right, Kurt, Well we will. We will hold

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Speaker 1: it there and he'll come, but we will come back

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Speaker 1: I don't know, because God, I only wish I had

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Speaker 1: a crystal ball. Kurt Bardella always appreciate you and your

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Speaker 2: You see you? My friend?

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Speaker 1: That is it for me today. Dear friends on woke

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Speaker 1: f as always power to the people and to all

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Speaker 1: the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fun.