1 00:00:11,720 --> 00:00:14,600 Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok AP Daily with 2 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:19,599 Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker, Folks, 3 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:22,360 Speaker 1: on this book Wednesday, I want to get into a 4 00:00:22,400 --> 00:00:26,239 Speaker 1: couple of things that are really pissing me off. First off, 5 00:00:26,720 --> 00:00:31,360 Speaker 1: let's dig into the Supreme Court, my favoritecesspool to wade 6 00:00:31,400 --> 00:00:35,479 Speaker 1: into these days. So I was looking at the Daily 7 00:00:35,520 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: Beast's website where they're you know, under the cheat sheet, 8 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:41,920 Speaker 1: and you folks know who listen to my show, you 9 00:00:41,960 --> 00:00:44,519 Speaker 1: know that I also host the New Abnormal over at 10 00:00:44,520 --> 00:00:50,840 Speaker 1: the Daily Beast, And there is an article entitled Scotis 11 00:00:51,000 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 1: Justices staff push libraries to buy her book. And in 12 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: this article they're talking about Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who they're 13 00:01:01,320 --> 00:01:05,800 Speaker 1: saying repeatedly push public institutions, including libraries and colleges to 14 00:01:05,880 --> 00:01:09,440 Speaker 1: buy her books. According to a report, this is coming 15 00:01:09,480 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: from the Associated Press. And here's what I want to 16 00:01:14,640 --> 00:01:15,840 Speaker 1: say about that. 17 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:18,920 Speaker 2: Can we not. 18 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:24,800 Speaker 1: Just can we fucking not make it seem as if 19 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,199 Speaker 1: somebody who writes a book and is pushing that book, 20 00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 1: which is the job of any author, right Like, folks 21 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:33,880 Speaker 1: need to understand that if you're gonna make it to 22 00:01:34,000 --> 00:01:36,000 Speaker 1: the New York Times Bestseller List. If you're going to 23 00:01:36,040 --> 00:01:38,400 Speaker 1: make it to these things, it is about the amount 24 00:01:38,520 --> 00:01:41,480 Speaker 1: of books that you are selling. So whether it is 25 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:44,880 Speaker 1: your publishing house, whether it is staff, whether it's friends 26 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:48,800 Speaker 1: that are able to buy in bulk, like that's the 27 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:51,840 Speaker 1: name of the game. This is not the same fucking 28 00:01:51,920 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 1: thing as Clarence Thomas Right and Samuel Lito entertaining fucking 29 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:03,640 Speaker 1: billlionaire benefactors who have cases in front of the court 30 00:02:03,840 --> 00:02:06,639 Speaker 1: or whose companies have cases in front of the court, 31 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: and they're saying like, oh no, these are just my 32 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:12,320 Speaker 1: friends that are flying me around on private jets or 33 00:02:12,360 --> 00:02:16,720 Speaker 1: taking me on luxury vacations, or paying for my son's 34 00:02:16,960 --> 00:02:20,560 Speaker 1: private school education, or buying my family's home and so 35 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,600 Speaker 1: my mother pays no mortgage. This is not the same 36 00:02:23,680 --> 00:02:27,440 Speaker 1: fucking thing. And this is the bullshit that mainstream media 37 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:29,840 Speaker 1: does in order to both sides it so that they 38 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 1: don't seem as if they're going after the conservative justices. 39 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:37,080 Speaker 1: So let us make up some false bullshit around the 40 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:41,040 Speaker 1: progressive justices to make it seem like it is a both, 41 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: And it is fucking not. Okay, it is fucking not. 42 00:02:47,919 --> 00:02:52,760 Speaker 1: We all know that what Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito 43 00:02:53,120 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: have been doing. Is not a fucking ethics violation. Words matter, 44 00:02:59,440 --> 00:03:03,280 Speaker 1: the way that we use them matters. This is not 45 00:03:03,520 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: an ethics violation like oops, I forgot to write something 46 00:03:08,919 --> 00:03:15,520 Speaker 1: in No, they are giving audience to and entertaining people 47 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 1: who would have never crossed their paths or entered into 48 00:03:19,480 --> 00:03:24,080 Speaker 1: their sphere, their fucking network had they not ascended to 49 00:03:24,200 --> 00:03:29,240 Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. They are entertaining and going on vacations 50 00:03:29,320 --> 00:03:34,120 Speaker 1: with people whose entire job, like Leonard Leo, is to 51 00:03:34,240 --> 00:03:38,320 Speaker 1: destroy and corrupt the justice system so that it swings 52 00:03:38,360 --> 00:03:41,640 Speaker 1: as far to the right as possible, so that decisions 53 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: about cases are made before those cases are even heard. 54 00:03:46,040 --> 00:03:51,760 Speaker 1: Billions of dollars were invested into his federalist society. And 55 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:56,520 Speaker 1: whether or not those people's names who are being given, 56 00:03:56,960 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: you know, audience with the Supreme Court justices are on 57 00:04:01,320 --> 00:04:05,680 Speaker 1: top of the cases, their companies and their businesses are affiliated. 58 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:12,120 Speaker 2: This is bribery. This isn't about ethics. 59 00:04:12,560 --> 00:04:16,720 Speaker 1: It is about bribes that they are being given and 60 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 1: have been given over decades. So how the fuck do 61 00:04:22,400 --> 00:04:29,239 Speaker 1: you make that comparison between Sonya suttamayor publishing a book 62 00:04:30,080 --> 00:04:34,839 Speaker 1: and making it a part of staff's responsibility to contact 63 00:04:34,920 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 1: libraries and bookstores to see if there's interest in said book. 64 00:04:39,440 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 1: Give me a fucking break. It is this type of bullshit, 65 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 1: lying ass quote unquote journalism that gives us a Donald Trump. 66 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:53,480 Speaker 2: Oh, Donald Trump is smart. 67 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:55,640 Speaker 1: Because he doesn't pay taxes, So I guess the rest 68 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:59,600 Speaker 1: of us are dummies, right, Oh, Donald Trump teflon Dawn. 69 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:02,640 Speaker 1: But we're not going to report on the fact that 70 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:06,400 Speaker 1: he has been named in over four thousand court cases 71 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:11,200 Speaker 1: over his decades in business. But then you want to 72 00:05:11,240 --> 00:05:16,440 Speaker 1: talk about, oh, well, we did investigate Hunter Biden and 73 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:19,200 Speaker 1: we came up with nothing. And it's just like, why 74 00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:20,960 Speaker 1: did you come up with nothing or why did you 75 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:24,000 Speaker 1: give a penalty? Oh, because you didn't want to seem political. 76 00:05:24,080 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 1: Give me a fucking break. These bullshit white supremacist Republicans 77 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:36,120 Speaker 1: are playing the fucking system and playing the media with 78 00:05:36,160 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 1: their fucking grievance about the liberal media. Tell me where 79 00:05:39,839 --> 00:05:41,840 Speaker 1: the media is liberal, Please point to it. 80 00:05:45,160 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 2: All you have to do. 81 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:49,360 Speaker 1: Is look at the c suites of the major networks 82 00:05:49,360 --> 00:05:51,160 Speaker 1: and you will learn and know. 83 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 2: That they are not fucking liberal. 84 00:05:57,040 --> 00:06:00,880 Speaker 1: It is the same lie that Republicans have told like, oh, well, 85 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,240 Speaker 1: what about so and so is doing over there? It 86 00:06:03,360 --> 00:06:08,200 Speaker 1: is some school yard bullshit. Well, I shouldn't be held 87 00:06:08,240 --> 00:06:12,400 Speaker 1: accountable because they're not held accountable. Your crimes are actual 88 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:20,560 Speaker 1: fucking crimes and should be investigated as such, because to 89 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:24,719 Speaker 1: not do so is to play politics, which is what 90 00:06:24,920 --> 00:06:29,599 Speaker 1: just this Justice Department has been really good at. They 91 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:33,400 Speaker 1: are playing politics because when you either slow walk cases 92 00:06:33,560 --> 00:06:37,840 Speaker 1: or ignore blatant criminality because you don't want the perception 93 00:06:38,360 --> 00:06:41,159 Speaker 1: that if you do your job that somebody is gonna 94 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 1: come for you, then what would the fuck would you 95 00:06:43,320 --> 00:06:55,960 Speaker 1: call that? Honestly, I am just so exhausted by the bullshit. 96 00:06:56,400 --> 00:07:02,479 Speaker 1: I'm exhausted by mainstream media. I'm exhausted by the stupid 97 00:07:02,560 --> 00:07:06,360 Speaker 1: questions that are fucking asked over and over again. Speaking 98 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:09,880 Speaker 1: of mainstream media and them not being liberal, I want 99 00:07:09,880 --> 00:07:14,600 Speaker 1: to bring up an article that I spoke about with 100 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:21,480 Speaker 1: my friend Jared Sex and Yates over on his show Muckraker, 101 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: and that podcast came out yesterday, so you guys can 102 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:28,840 Speaker 1: head over there and listen to my conversation with Jared 103 00:07:28,880 --> 00:07:35,840 Speaker 1: and Nick. And here's the thing. In my conversation, right, 104 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:42,000 Speaker 1: we were talking about the fact that the New York Times, 105 00:07:43,040 --> 00:07:47,840 Speaker 1: the New York Times took it upon themselves right to 106 00:07:48,760 --> 00:07:54,080 Speaker 1: publish an article from the editorial board, which is filled 107 00:07:54,120 --> 00:07:59,120 Speaker 1: with very wealthy, notable people, to say, quote, America is 108 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:04,160 Speaker 1: living on borrowed money. So this is exactly how not liberal, 109 00:08:04,760 --> 00:08:08,840 Speaker 1: even the New York Times, who gets that designation by 110 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:14,560 Speaker 1: the far right, and how we actually see through those lives. 111 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:20,240 Speaker 1: They go on in this piece to talk about federal 112 00:08:20,360 --> 00:08:24,360 Speaker 1: debt and to talk about the ways in which, by 113 00:08:24,400 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 1: the way, not mention the fact that Republicans hold this 114 00:08:27,280 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: country hostage with the debt ceiling, and that used to 115 00:08:29,880 --> 00:08:35,720 Speaker 1: never happen. It's only in recent decade past, right with 116 00:08:35,880 --> 00:08:39,240 Speaker 1: regard to Obama, a black man, becoming president of the 117 00:08:39,320 --> 00:08:42,800 Speaker 1: United States, that they decided to weaponize the debt ceiling. 118 00:08:43,440 --> 00:08:47,240 Speaker 1: And they talk about the fact that quote borrowing is expensive, 119 00:08:47,880 --> 00:08:51,600 Speaker 1: amounting share of federal revenue money that could be used 120 00:08:51,640 --> 00:08:54,160 Speaker 1: for the benefit of the American people goes right back 121 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:56,719 Speaker 1: out the door in the form of interest payments to 122 00:08:56,920 --> 00:09:01,240 Speaker 1: investors who purchased government bonds. Rather than collecting taxes from 123 00:09:01,280 --> 00:09:04,000 Speaker 1: the wealthy, the government is paying the wealthy to borrow 124 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:08,840 Speaker 1: their money. They go on to say that a way 125 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:14,560 Speaker 1: to deal with said debt issues is to take a 126 00:09:14,840 --> 00:09:21,199 Speaker 1: hard look at you guessed it, social Security and Medicaid. 127 00:09:21,720 --> 00:09:27,199 Speaker 1: You know, the two social safety net programs that actually 128 00:09:27,600 --> 00:09:34,960 Speaker 1: benefit taxpayers. Right, Those who one can't afford medical insurance 129 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:40,840 Speaker 1: get covered through Medicaid, right, and then those who have 130 00:09:40,960 --> 00:09:44,560 Speaker 1: been paying into the system their entire working life get 131 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:49,680 Speaker 1: that money back, right in terms of their social security. 132 00:09:50,840 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: They don't mention in here the ballooned budgets for defense, right. 133 00:09:56,679 --> 00:10:00,199 Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, they talk about defense spending 134 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:03,760 Speaker 1: in the way that, well, we need to have it 135 00:10:03,840 --> 00:10:10,240 Speaker 1: because of perceived threats. Mind you that the budget of 136 00:10:10,280 --> 00:10:16,480 Speaker 1: the Pentagon every year is given way more than they 137 00:10:16,559 --> 00:10:20,439 Speaker 1: ask for. And then there are those Republicans that are 138 00:10:20,480 --> 00:10:25,040 Speaker 1: tied to defense contractors that make a fucking killing literally. 139 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,520 Speaker 1: But when we look at the programs that actually benefit 140 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:35,560 Speaker 1: all Americans, those are the ones that the New York 141 00:10:35,559 --> 00:10:39,839 Speaker 1: Times editorial board decided to zero in on as a 142 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:42,840 Speaker 1: signal to the Democratic Party that you need to make 143 00:10:42,880 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 1: sure that you put that on your agenda. How are 144 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:50,319 Speaker 1: we going to deal with Medicaid and Social Security? 145 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:52,400 Speaker 2: Oh? I don't fucking know. 146 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:56,720 Speaker 1: Why didn't the editorial board write an article about the 147 00:10:56,800 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 1: amount of billionaires and millionaires that are in this country 148 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 1: that have been making money off of their absolute, unfettered, 149 00:11:04,360 --> 00:11:11,240 Speaker 1: fucking greed at the expense of the ninety nine percent. Oh, 150 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,760 Speaker 1: that's right, because the editorial board is a part of 151 00:11:14,800 --> 00:11:20,839 Speaker 1: that one percent. So once again you have this elite 152 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:28,440 Speaker 1: media institution coming for the working class and saying that basically, 153 00:11:28,720 --> 00:11:32,600 Speaker 1: let them eat cake. They're the ones that are contributing 154 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:36,000 Speaker 1: to the debt as opposed to those that actually fucking 155 00:11:36,080 --> 00:11:40,640 Speaker 1: refuse to pay their fair share. This is what the 156 00:11:40,720 --> 00:11:44,480 Speaker 1: New York Times wrote about. I can think about so 157 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:49,080 Speaker 1: many other topics that the editorial board could have tackled. 158 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:50,200 Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know. 159 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:54,120 Speaker 1: Maybe my other topic for woke Wednesday, which is the 160 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:59,520 Speaker 1: extreme fucking flooding that is happening in the state of Vermont, 161 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:04,600 Speaker 1: where one hundred and seventeen people and counting had been 162 00:12:04,679 --> 00:12:09,080 Speaker 1: rescued by boats, where a dam has damned near broke 163 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:15,040 Speaker 1: because of the amount of rain that was dumped in 164 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:20,880 Speaker 1: that state in twenty four hours. They have now declared 165 00:12:21,880 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 1: a state of emergency. I want to read you this. 166 00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,280 Speaker 1: A dam in Vermont was nearing capacity and threatening to 167 00:12:32,400 --> 00:12:37,040 Speaker 1: burst at any minute. Yesterday, officials in the state's capital 168 00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:42,440 Speaker 1: said as floods lashed the northeastern US due to intense storms. 169 00:12:43,240 --> 00:12:47,280 Speaker 1: The Montpeeler Police Department said at eleven thirty on Tuesday 170 00:12:47,520 --> 00:12:52,640 Speaker 1: that floods had slightly receded in downtown Montpeeler, but waters 171 00:12:52,640 --> 00:13:00,480 Speaker 1: were only about one foot away from the Wrightsville Dam spillway. Folks, 172 00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:06,960 Speaker 1: this is climate change, right, This is climate change. 173 00:13:07,600 --> 00:13:08,400 Speaker 2: I don't care. 174 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,079 Speaker 1: Where you live in the country where you are listening 175 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:15,200 Speaker 1: to this. If you're in the South, you're experiencing a 176 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:20,280 Speaker 1: heat wave that we've never seen before. We've had reports 177 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:24,480 Speaker 1: in the last two weeks of the Earth, the entirety 178 00:13:24,559 --> 00:13:31,080 Speaker 1: of the Earth experiencing the hottest temperatures on land for 179 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:33,680 Speaker 1: the last I don't know, one hundred and seventy five 180 00:13:33,720 --> 00:13:39,079 Speaker 1: two hundred thousand years, right, every day has been hotter 181 00:13:39,120 --> 00:13:42,280 Speaker 1: than the next. Parts of Texas were one hundred and 182 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:46,600 Speaker 1: twenty five degrees during the week of fourth of July. 183 00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:49,280 Speaker 2: You have. 184 00:13:51,440 --> 00:13:55,200 Speaker 1: One hundred million people in the United States because of 185 00:13:55,240 --> 00:14:00,520 Speaker 1: the Canadian wildfires, needing to stay indoors or wear masks 186 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:11,520 Speaker 1: because of the toxic air. You have wildfires, you have 187 00:14:12,280 --> 00:14:18,920 Speaker 1: massive tornado seasons, hurricane seasons that are coming earlier and 188 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:28,560 Speaker 1: lasting longer and causing billions of dollars worth of fucking damage. 189 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 1: Maybe the New York Times editorial boards should have written 190 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:36,320 Speaker 1: about that and how Republicans would rather invest more money 191 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:42,640 Speaker 1: in coal and in thus more money in oil, dragging 192 00:14:42,640 --> 00:14:45,040 Speaker 1: this country back to the nineteenth century or the early 193 00:14:45,120 --> 00:14:49,560 Speaker 1: twentieth century as opposed to looking towards the future, because 194 00:14:49,640 --> 00:14:55,200 Speaker 1: guess what, we can't actually fucking afford the debt that 195 00:14:55,240 --> 00:14:59,080 Speaker 1: we are going to incur due to climate change, because 196 00:14:59,280 --> 00:15:04,440 Speaker 1: as far as I I'm concerned, FEMA and the US 197 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:11,240 Speaker 1: government doesn't have bottomless pockets to rebuild every single state 198 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 1: and every single city that either becomes underwater or ripped apart. 199 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:23,520 Speaker 1: There are landslides that just happened in California that moved 200 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:28,040 Speaker 1: entire fucking neighborhoods halfway down a cliff. You had one 201 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 1: of the biggest insurance companies just announced that they are 202 00:15:32,040 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 1: no longer going to provide insurance for California. So what 203 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:42,920 Speaker 1: does that mean to the people that are there? So 204 00:15:43,000 --> 00:15:47,560 Speaker 1: you begin to see the ripple effects that stem from 205 00:15:47,800 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: the ignorance of denying that this is actually fucking happening. 206 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:58,360 Speaker 1: And instead, what do you have Republicans doing, Oh like 207 00:15:58,560 --> 00:16:03,960 Speaker 1: Greg Abbott in Axis passing legislation to make it so 208 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:07,800 Speaker 1: that you don't have to provide water breaks to those 209 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,200 Speaker 1: that are working outside. Let me ask, when was the 210 00:16:10,280 --> 00:16:13,680 Speaker 1: last time Greg Abbott, or any member of the Republican Party, 211 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:19,080 Speaker 1: or any member of the State House and Senate actually 212 00:16:19,120 --> 00:16:25,280 Speaker 1: worked outside. These are people working inside of air conditioned 213 00:16:25,320 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: offices and buildings with access to as much water as 214 00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:34,600 Speaker 1: they could possibly want. Passing legislation that is actually going 215 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:41,440 Speaker 1: to cause death at a time when their state is 216 00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:51,760 Speaker 1: experiencing the hottest fucking summer on record. So when we 217 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: think about, oh, the fucking liberal media or the corporate media, 218 00:16:56,640 --> 00:17:00,600 Speaker 1: as DeSantis's campaign likes to refer to it, because they 219 00:17:00,640 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: have eyes and ears and can see that his failure 220 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:08,080 Speaker 1: to launch isn't about the corporate media. It's about having 221 00:17:08,080 --> 00:17:12,959 Speaker 1: a fucking candidate that is as interesting as fucking paint drying. 222 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:18,960 Speaker 1: But this is what Republicans do. They blame the media, 223 00:17:18,960 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 1: and then what does the media do? They internalize and 224 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:24,639 Speaker 1: then they want to both sides and they want to 225 00:17:24,680 --> 00:17:30,160 Speaker 1: ignore the actual issues that we need to be talking 226 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 1: about that need to be front page fucking news every 227 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:39,760 Speaker 1: goddamn day, But instead you want to talk about how 228 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:47,040 Speaker 1: to slight and harm people who need their social Security check, 229 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:54,640 Speaker 1: people who need Medicaid, travel to countries that don't have 230 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,879 Speaker 1: these social safety nets, and trust me, trust and believe. 231 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,159 Speaker 1: I am not saying that America is perfect. And if 232 00:18:00,200 --> 00:18:02,000 Speaker 1: you listen to me on this show or any of 233 00:18:02,040 --> 00:18:06,000 Speaker 1: my other ones, you know good goddamn well that I 234 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:09,560 Speaker 1: don't believe that America is perfect or is an example 235 00:18:09,600 --> 00:18:14,520 Speaker 1: to anyone. But when I have traveled, for instance, to 236 00:18:14,680 --> 00:18:19,440 Speaker 1: places like India who do not have Medicaid or social security, 237 00:18:19,480 --> 00:18:23,199 Speaker 1: who do not have right infrastructure that it's supposed to 238 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:31,520 Speaker 1: help homeless people, unhoused people, I see a country that 239 00:18:31,840 --> 00:18:37,919 Speaker 1: is devastating. The poverty is like nothing you have ever seen. 240 00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:44,440 Speaker 1: I remember driving and a woman pushing up a diaperless 241 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:49,520 Speaker 1: baby up against the window, just begging for any any 242 00:18:49,640 --> 00:18:56,720 Speaker 1: scrap of money anything. That is what happens when your 243 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:02,440 Speaker 1: government turns your back on you. That's what happens when 244 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:08,840 Speaker 1: we say, oh, oh, well that you're low income, you're 245 00:19:08,880 --> 00:19:16,040 Speaker 1: in poverty. That's your fault. That's negligence, as opposed to 246 00:19:16,119 --> 00:19:20,320 Speaker 1: looking at the societal factors and systems that created that 247 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:23,119 Speaker 1: condition in the first fucking place. No, we blame the 248 00:19:23,160 --> 00:19:36,120 Speaker 1: individual or we blame an entire community. When I look 249 00:19:36,160 --> 00:19:38,800 Speaker 1: at both of these things that I'm talking about today, 250 00:19:39,160 --> 00:19:42,120 Speaker 1: whether it is climate change, whether it is our corrupt, 251 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:49,040 Speaker 1: grifting Supreme Court, all of it comes back down to money. 252 00:19:49,720 --> 00:19:58,280 Speaker 1: To the major grift. It is greed and cruelty that 253 00:19:58,480 --> 00:20:04,919 Speaker 1: is stalling actual policy on climate change because you have 254 00:20:05,119 --> 00:20:10,240 Speaker 1: members of Congress that are vested in companies that do 255 00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:16,680 Speaker 1: harm it to the environment, but they are totally filling 256 00:20:16,680 --> 00:20:25,080 Speaker 1: their comferts with those funds. You know, good god, damn well. 257 00:20:25,400 --> 00:20:29,240 Speaker 1: The Supreme Court is corrupt and has been. It's not 258 00:20:29,280 --> 00:20:38,679 Speaker 1: about ethics, It's about bribery. When we sit back and 259 00:20:38,880 --> 00:20:48,000 Speaker 1: look at it, billionaires are playing chess with our lives. 260 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:53,840 Speaker 1: This is real life monopoly, except there are real people 261 00:20:55,040 --> 00:20:57,440 Speaker 1: that aren't able to pass go and are going directly 262 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,360 Speaker 1: into jail. There are real people who are being kicked 263 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:03,520 Speaker 1: out of their homes in displace because you have mayors 264 00:21:03,520 --> 00:21:09,879 Speaker 1: that are being bought off and increasing rents in places 265 00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:14,320 Speaker 1: that where your income is not increasing. 266 00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:21,960 Speaker 2: The closer to. 267 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:28,639 Speaker 1: Power that people get, the bigger the fucking grift. And 268 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:32,680 Speaker 1: the assumption that we have always made is that people 269 00:21:33,320 --> 00:21:37,359 Speaker 1: that find themselves in public service are doing good on 270 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:40,880 Speaker 1: behalf of the public. And what we are recognizing as 271 00:21:40,920 --> 00:21:46,120 Speaker 1: we remove our rose colored glasses is that that has 272 00:21:46,359 --> 00:21:51,000 Speaker 1: never been the fucking case never. So I don't know 273 00:21:51,000 --> 00:21:57,000 Speaker 1: what bullshit golden error the Republican Party is trying to romanticize. 274 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:01,960 Speaker 1: And remember, but no one in this country was ever 275 00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:05,480 Speaker 1: doing well except for the wealthy, the white, and the 276 00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:11,440 Speaker 1: straight and the cysts. But they dangle carrots in your 277 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:13,560 Speaker 1: face to make you believe that if you just work 278 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:16,160 Speaker 1: hard enough, if you just go to college and impure 279 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:21,719 Speaker 1: a six figure debt, then you two can own a 280 00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:28,080 Speaker 1: helicopter and live in a multimillion dollar mansions. The media 281 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:31,959 Speaker 1: pushes reality TV at you. You know how many of 282 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:36,320 Speaker 1: those Real Housewives of whatever on Bravo have ended up 283 00:22:36,320 --> 00:22:42,280 Speaker 1: in jail because the more that they pretend to flawss, 284 00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:46,760 Speaker 1: the more that they have to like cheat in order 285 00:22:46,880 --> 00:22:50,640 Speaker 1: to showcase a lifestyle that they can't afford. But why 286 00:22:50,680 --> 00:22:53,119 Speaker 1: were they doing that in the first place, Because we 287 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:58,120 Speaker 1: put value in that shit, Because we say that if 288 00:22:58,160 --> 00:23:00,639 Speaker 1: you have all that money and all those brands and 289 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:07,199 Speaker 1: all those cars, then you must be brilliant. What if 290 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:12,240 Speaker 1: we changed our perception a bit and said, wow, how 291 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:15,480 Speaker 1: is it that we live in societies where people have 292 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:19,919 Speaker 1: yachts and helicopters on those yachts, and there are people 293 00:23:19,920 --> 00:23:28,560 Speaker 1: without homes. Give me a break. Wealth does not equal genius. 294 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:39,240 Speaker 1: It oftentimes just equals grit. That is it for me today, 295 00:23:39,320 --> 00:23:43,320 Speaker 1: Dear friends on Woke a f as always power to 296 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:45,480 Speaker 1: the people and to all the people. 297 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,680 Speaker 2: Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.