Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok AP Daily with
Speaker 1: Meet your Girl Daniel Moody, recording from the Home Bunker, Folks,
Speaker 1: on this book Wednesday, I want to get into a
Speaker 1: couple of things that are really pissing me off. First off,
Speaker 1: let's dig into the Supreme Court, my favoritecesspool to wade
Speaker 1: into these days. So I was looking at the Daily
Speaker 1: Beast's website where they're you know, under the cheat sheet,
Speaker 1: and you folks know who listen to my show, you
Speaker 1: know that I also host the New Abnormal over at
Speaker 1: the Daily Beast, And there is an article entitled Scotis
Speaker 1: Justices staff push libraries to buy her book. And in
Speaker 1: this article they're talking about Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who they're
Speaker 1: saying repeatedly push public institutions, including libraries and colleges to
Speaker 1: buy her books. According to a report, this is coming
Speaker 1: from the Associated Press. And here's what I want to
Speaker 1: say about that.
Speaker 2: Can we not.
Speaker 1: Just can we fucking not make it seem as if
Speaker 1: somebody who writes a book and is pushing that book,
Speaker 1: which is the job of any author, right Like, folks
Speaker 1: need to understand that if you're gonna make it to
Speaker 1: the New York Times Bestseller List. If you're going to
Speaker 1: make it to these things, it is about the amount
Speaker 1: of books that you are selling. So whether it is
Speaker 1: your publishing house, whether it is staff, whether it's friends
Speaker 1: that are able to buy in bulk, like that's the
Speaker 1: name of the game. This is not the same fucking
Speaker 1: thing as Clarence Thomas Right and Samuel Lito entertaining fucking
Speaker 1: billlionaire benefactors who have cases in front of the court
Speaker 1: or whose companies have cases in front of the court,
Speaker 1: and they're saying like, oh no, these are just my
Speaker 1: friends that are flying me around on private jets or
Speaker 1: taking me on luxury vacations, or paying for my son's
Speaker 1: private school education, or buying my family's home and so
Speaker 1: my mother pays no mortgage. This is not the same
Speaker 1: fucking thing. And this is the bullshit that mainstream media
Speaker 1: does in order to both sides it so that they
Speaker 1: don't seem as if they're going after the conservative justices.
Speaker 1: So let us make up some false bullshit around the
Speaker 1: progressive justices to make it seem like it is a both,
Speaker 1: And it is fucking not. Okay, it is fucking not.
Speaker 1: We all know that what Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito
Speaker 1: have been doing. Is not a fucking ethics violation. Words matter,
Speaker 1: the way that we use them matters. This is not
Speaker 1: an ethics violation like oops, I forgot to write something
Speaker 1: in No, they are giving audience to and entertaining people
Speaker 1: who would have never crossed their paths or entered into
Speaker 1: their sphere, their fucking network had they not ascended to
Speaker 1: the Supreme Court. They are entertaining and going on vacations
Speaker 1: with people whose entire job, like Leonard Leo, is to
Speaker 1: destroy and corrupt the justice system so that it swings
Speaker 1: as far to the right as possible, so that decisions
Speaker 1: about cases are made before those cases are even heard.
Speaker 1: Billions of dollars were invested into his federalist society. And
Speaker 1: whether or not those people's names who are being given,
Speaker 1: you know, audience with the Supreme Court justices are on
Speaker 1: top of the cases, their companies and their businesses are affiliated.
Speaker 2: This is bribery. This isn't about ethics.
Speaker 1: It is about bribes that they are being given and
Speaker 1: have been given over decades. So how the fuck do
Speaker 1: you make that comparison between Sonya suttamayor publishing a book
Speaker 1: and making it a part of staff's responsibility to contact
Speaker 1: libraries and bookstores to see if there's interest in said book.
Speaker 1: Give me a fucking break. It is this type of bullshit,
Speaker 1: lying ass quote unquote journalism that gives us a Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: Oh, Donald Trump is smart.
Speaker 1: Because he doesn't pay taxes, So I guess the rest
Speaker 1: of us are dummies, right, Oh, Donald Trump teflon Dawn.
Speaker 1: But we're not going to report on the fact that
Speaker 1: he has been named in over four thousand court cases
Speaker 1: over his decades in business. But then you want to
Speaker 1: talk about, oh, well, we did investigate Hunter Biden and
Speaker 1: we came up with nothing. And it's just like, why
Speaker 1: did you come up with nothing or why did you
Speaker 1: give a penalty? Oh, because you didn't want to seem political.
Speaker 1: Give me a fucking break. These bullshit white supremacist Republicans
Speaker 1: are playing the fucking system and playing the media with
Speaker 1: their fucking grievance about the liberal media. Tell me where
Speaker 1: the media is liberal, Please point to it.
Speaker 2: All you have to do.
Speaker 1: Is look at the c suites of the major networks
Speaker 1: and you will learn and know.
Speaker 2: That they are not fucking liberal.
Speaker 1: It is the same lie that Republicans have told like, oh, well,
Speaker 1: what about so and so is doing over there? It
Speaker 1: is some school yard bullshit. Well, I shouldn't be held
Speaker 1: accountable because they're not held accountable. Your crimes are actual
Speaker 1: fucking crimes and should be investigated as such, because to
Speaker 1: not do so is to play politics, which is what
Speaker 1: just this Justice Department has been really good at. They
Speaker 1: are playing politics because when you either slow walk cases
Speaker 1: or ignore blatant criminality because you don't want the perception
Speaker 1: that if you do your job that somebody is gonna
Speaker 1: come for you, then what would the fuck would you
Speaker 1: call that? Honestly, I am just so exhausted by the bullshit.
Speaker 1: I'm exhausted by mainstream media. I'm exhausted by the stupid
Speaker 1: questions that are fucking asked over and over again. Speaking
Speaker 1: of mainstream media and them not being liberal, I want
Speaker 1: to bring up an article that I spoke about with
Speaker 1: my friend Jared Sex and Yates over on his show Muckraker,
Speaker 1: and that podcast came out yesterday, so you guys can
Speaker 1: head over there and listen to my conversation with Jared
Speaker 1: and Nick. And here's the thing. In my conversation, right,
Speaker 1: we were talking about the fact that the New York Times,
Speaker 1: the New York Times took it upon themselves right to
Speaker 1: publish an article from the editorial board, which is filled
Speaker 1: with very wealthy, notable people, to say, quote, America is
Speaker 1: living on borrowed money. So this is exactly how not liberal,
Speaker 1: even the New York Times, who gets that designation by
Speaker 1: the far right, and how we actually see through those lives.
Speaker 1: They go on in this piece to talk about federal
Speaker 1: debt and to talk about the ways in which, by
Speaker 1: the way, not mention the fact that Republicans hold this
Speaker 1: country hostage with the debt ceiling, and that used to
Speaker 1: never happen. It's only in recent decade past, right with
Speaker 1: regard to Obama, a black man, becoming president of the
Speaker 1: United States, that they decided to weaponize the debt ceiling.
Speaker 1: And they talk about the fact that quote borrowing is expensive,
Speaker 1: amounting share of federal revenue money that could be used
Speaker 1: for the benefit of the American people goes right back
Speaker 1: out the door in the form of interest payments to
Speaker 1: investors who purchased government bonds. Rather than collecting taxes from
Speaker 1: the wealthy, the government is paying the wealthy to borrow
Speaker 1: their money. They go on to say that a way
Speaker 1: to deal with said debt issues is to take a
Speaker 1: hard look at you guessed it, social Security and Medicaid.
Speaker 1: You know, the two social safety net programs that actually
Speaker 1: benefit taxpayers. Right, Those who one can't afford medical insurance
Speaker 1: get covered through Medicaid, right, and then those who have
Speaker 1: been paying into the system their entire working life get
Speaker 1: that money back, right in terms of their social security.
Speaker 1: They don't mention in here the ballooned budgets for defense, right.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, they talk about defense spending
Speaker 1: in the way that, well, we need to have it
Speaker 1: because of perceived threats. Mind you that the budget of
Speaker 1: the Pentagon every year is given way more than they
Speaker 1: ask for. And then there are those Republicans that are
Speaker 1: tied to defense contractors that make a fucking killing literally.
Speaker 1: But when we look at the programs that actually benefit
Speaker 1: all Americans, those are the ones that the New York
Speaker 1: Times editorial board decided to zero in on as a
Speaker 1: signal to the Democratic Party that you need to make
Speaker 1: sure that you put that on your agenda. How are
Speaker 1: we going to deal with Medicaid and Social Security?
Speaker 2: Oh? I don't fucking know.
Speaker 1: Why didn't the editorial board write an article about the
Speaker 1: amount of billionaires and millionaires that are in this country
Speaker 1: that have been making money off of their absolute, unfettered,
Speaker 1: fucking greed at the expense of the ninety nine percent. Oh,
Speaker 1: that's right, because the editorial board is a part of
Speaker 1: that one percent. So once again you have this elite
Speaker 1: media institution coming for the working class and saying that basically,
Speaker 1: let them eat cake. They're the ones that are contributing
Speaker 1: to the debt as opposed to those that actually fucking
Speaker 1: refuse to pay their fair share. This is what the
Speaker 1: New York Times wrote about. I can think about so
Speaker 1: many other topics that the editorial board could have tackled.
Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: Maybe my other topic for woke Wednesday, which is the
Speaker 1: extreme fucking flooding that is happening in the state of Vermont,
Speaker 1: where one hundred and seventeen people and counting had been
Speaker 1: rescued by boats, where a dam has damned near broke
Speaker 1: because of the amount of rain that was dumped in
Speaker 1: that state in twenty four hours. They have now declared
Speaker 1: a state of emergency. I want to read you this.
Speaker 1: A dam in Vermont was nearing capacity and threatening to
Speaker 1: burst at any minute. Yesterday, officials in the state's capital
Speaker 1: said as floods lashed the northeastern US due to intense storms.
Speaker 1: The Montpeeler Police Department said at eleven thirty on Tuesday
Speaker 1: that floods had slightly receded in downtown Montpeeler, but waters
Speaker 1: were only about one foot away from the Wrightsville Dam spillway. Folks,
Speaker 1: this is climate change, right, This is climate change.
Speaker 2: I don't care.
Speaker 1: Where you live in the country where you are listening
Speaker 1: to this. If you're in the South, you're experiencing a
Speaker 1: heat wave that we've never seen before. We've had reports
Speaker 1: in the last two weeks of the Earth, the entirety
Speaker 1: of the Earth experiencing the hottest temperatures on land for
Speaker 1: the last I don't know, one hundred and seventy five
Speaker 1: two hundred thousand years, right, every day has been hotter
Speaker 1: than the next. Parts of Texas were one hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five degrees during the week of fourth of July.
Speaker 2: You have.
Speaker 1: One hundred million people in the United States because of
Speaker 1: the Canadian wildfires, needing to stay indoors or wear masks
Speaker 1: because of the toxic air. You have wildfires, you have
Speaker 1: massive tornado seasons, hurricane seasons that are coming earlier and
Speaker 1: lasting longer and causing billions of dollars worth of fucking damage.
Speaker 1: Maybe the New York Times editorial boards should have written
Speaker 1: about that and how Republicans would rather invest more money
Speaker 1: in coal and in thus more money in oil, dragging
Speaker 1: this country back to the nineteenth century or the early
Speaker 1: twentieth century as opposed to looking towards the future, because
Speaker 1: guess what, we can't actually fucking afford the debt that
Speaker 1: we are going to incur due to climate change, because
Speaker 1: as far as I I'm concerned, FEMA and the US
Speaker 1: government doesn't have bottomless pockets to rebuild every single state
Speaker 1: and every single city that either becomes underwater or ripped apart.
Speaker 1: There are landslides that just happened in California that moved
Speaker 1: entire fucking neighborhoods halfway down a cliff. You had one
Speaker 1: of the biggest insurance companies just announced that they are
Speaker 1: no longer going to provide insurance for California. So what
Speaker 1: does that mean to the people that are there? So
Speaker 1: you begin to see the ripple effects that stem from
Speaker 1: the ignorance of denying that this is actually fucking happening.
Speaker 1: And instead, what do you have Republicans doing, Oh like
Speaker 1: Greg Abbott in Axis passing legislation to make it so
Speaker 1: that you don't have to provide water breaks to those
Speaker 1: that are working outside. Let me ask, when was the
Speaker 1: last time Greg Abbott, or any member of the Republican Party,
Speaker 1: or any member of the State House and Senate actually
Speaker 1: worked outside. These are people working inside of air conditioned
Speaker 1: offices and buildings with access to as much water as
Speaker 1: they could possibly want. Passing legislation that is actually going
Speaker 1: to cause death at a time when their state is
Speaker 1: experiencing the hottest fucking summer on record. So when we
Speaker 1: think about, oh, the fucking liberal media or the corporate media,
Speaker 1: as DeSantis's campaign likes to refer to it, because they
Speaker 1: have eyes and ears and can see that his failure
Speaker 1: to launch isn't about the corporate media. It's about having
Speaker 1: a fucking candidate that is as interesting as fucking paint drying.
Speaker 1: But this is what Republicans do. They blame the media,
Speaker 1: and then what does the media do? They internalize and
Speaker 1: then they want to both sides and they want to
Speaker 1: ignore the actual issues that we need to be talking
Speaker 1: about that need to be front page fucking news every
Speaker 1: goddamn day, But instead you want to talk about how
Speaker 1: to slight and harm people who need their social Security check,
Speaker 1: people who need Medicaid, travel to countries that don't have
Speaker 1: these social safety nets, and trust me, trust and believe.
Speaker 1: I am not saying that America is perfect. And if
Speaker 1: you listen to me on this show or any of
Speaker 1: my other ones, you know good goddamn well that I
Speaker 1: don't believe that America is perfect or is an example
Speaker 1: to anyone. But when I have traveled, for instance, to
Speaker 1: places like India who do not have Medicaid or social security,
Speaker 1: who do not have right infrastructure that it's supposed to
Speaker 1: help homeless people, unhoused people, I see a country that
Speaker 1: is devastating. The poverty is like nothing you have ever seen.
Speaker 1: I remember driving and a woman pushing up a diaperless
Speaker 1: baby up against the window, just begging for any any
Speaker 1: scrap of money anything. That is what happens when your
Speaker 1: government turns your back on you. That's what happens when
Speaker 1: we say, oh, oh, well that you're low income, you're
Speaker 1: in poverty. That's your fault. That's negligence, as opposed to
Speaker 1: looking at the societal factors and systems that created that
Speaker 1: condition in the first fucking place. No, we blame the
Speaker 1: individual or we blame an entire community. When I look
Speaker 1: at both of these things that I'm talking about today,
Speaker 1: whether it is climate change, whether it is our corrupt,
Speaker 1: grifting Supreme Court, all of it comes back down to money.
Speaker 1: To the major grift. It is greed and cruelty that
Speaker 1: is stalling actual policy on climate change because you have
Speaker 1: members of Congress that are vested in companies that do
Speaker 1: harm it to the environment, but they are totally filling
Speaker 1: their comferts with those funds. You know, good god, damn well.
Speaker 1: The Supreme Court is corrupt and has been. It's not
Speaker 1: about ethics, It's about bribery. When we sit back and
Speaker 1: look at it, billionaires are playing chess with our lives.
Speaker 1: This is real life monopoly, except there are real people
Speaker 1: that aren't able to pass go and are going directly
Speaker 1: into jail. There are real people who are being kicked
Speaker 1: out of their homes in displace because you have mayors
Speaker 1: that are being bought off and increasing rents in places
Speaker 1: that where your income is not increasing.
Speaker 2: The closer to.
Speaker 1: Power that people get, the bigger the fucking grift. And
Speaker 1: the assumption that we have always made is that people
Speaker 1: that find themselves in public service are doing good on
Speaker 1: behalf of the public. And what we are recognizing as
Speaker 1: we remove our rose colored glasses is that that has
Speaker 1: never been the fucking case never. So I don't know
Speaker 1: what bullshit golden error the Republican Party is trying to romanticize.
Speaker 1: And remember, but no one in this country was ever
Speaker 1: doing well except for the wealthy, the white, and the
Speaker 1: straight and the cysts. But they dangle carrots in your
Speaker 1: face to make you believe that if you just work
Speaker 1: hard enough, if you just go to college and impure
Speaker 1: a six figure debt, then you two can own a
Speaker 1: helicopter and live in a multimillion dollar mansions. The media
Speaker 1: pushes reality TV at you. You know how many of
Speaker 1: those Real Housewives of whatever on Bravo have ended up
Speaker 1: in jail because the more that they pretend to flawss,
Speaker 1: the more that they have to like cheat in order
Speaker 1: to showcase a lifestyle that they can't afford. But why
Speaker 1: were they doing that in the first place, Because we
Speaker 1: put value in that shit, Because we say that if
Speaker 1: you have all that money and all those brands and
Speaker 1: all those cars, then you must be brilliant. What if
Speaker 1: we changed our perception a bit and said, wow, how
Speaker 1: is it that we live in societies where people have
Speaker 1: yachts and helicopters on those yachts, and there are people
Speaker 1: without homes. Give me a break. Wealth does not equal genius.
Speaker 1: It oftentimes just equals grit. That is it for me today,
Speaker 1: Dear friends on Woke a f as always power to
Speaker 1: the people and to all the people.
Speaker 2: Power, Get woke and stay woke as fuck.