WEBVTT - A Political Soap Opera 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:14.640 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wok F Daily with 0:00:14.760 --> 0:00:18.880 Meet your Girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Brooklyn Bunker. Folks, 0:00:18.960 --> 0:00:22.520 what a fucking week this has been. I mean, dear God, 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:27.320 I sit here today absolutely exhausted, and I just came 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:31.120 back from vacation, and my vacation feels like it happened 0:00:31.240 --> 0:00:34.639 at least two months ago, and it was literally a 0:00:34.640 --> 0:00:40.400 week ago, Folks. I can't express to you how this 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:46.120 news cycle has completely and utterly gutted my belief that 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:51.400 there is ever going to be any type of accountability, 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:58.120 any type of you know, real conversations in journalism about 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:01.959 the fall of our democracy. So let me start out 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:06.160 by saying I wrote a piece another piece I was 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:10.000 very hot with the words this week on medium, And 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:13.840 if you don't follow me on medium, you totally should, 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.920 because I post often. I post at least twice a 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.920 month to different op eds. But this week I went 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.240 in because there was just so much news, and so 0:01:23.400 --> 0:01:27.679 my latest piece, which I want to share a piece 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:32.160 of it with you all because I'm outdone. I'm outdone 0:01:32.240 --> 0:01:35.960 by what the media decides to pay attention to and 0:01:36.200 --> 0:01:39.320 the reasons that they decide to pay attention to certain 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:45.440 things versus others. When I woke up this morning, right, 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:51.440 you would think that every major headline, every major headline, 0:01:51.480 --> 0:01:55.360 every major story would be directed at the fact that 0:01:55.640 --> 0:02:00.880 a sitting president of the United States during the insurrection, 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:09.400 during an attack, an actual physical attack orchestrated by his followers, 0:02:09.520 --> 0:02:13.799 by himself. Donald Trump, himself, if you all do not remember, 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:22.960 back in December of twenty twenty, said that January sixth 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:26.680 was going to be wild. Right, Donald Trump was out 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:30.840 there on Twitter before his dumbass got banned, telling his 0:02:30.960 --> 0:02:34.919 followers to head to Washington, DC have their voices heard, 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.640 and that to stop the Steel rally was going to 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:42.360 be wild. Donald Trump on that day got up on 0:02:42.400 --> 0:02:47.720 the diets along with many other of his followers, touting 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:52.240 the lie, the big lie, about the election having been stolen. 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:58.959 Right then, fast forward to over a year fucking later. 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.560 The only people that have faced any type of charges, 0:03:03.560 --> 0:03:06.440 that have faced any type of quote unquote jail time, 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.959 if you can count a couple of months for trying 0:03:10.000 --> 0:03:12.960 to overthrow the governments of the United States, if you 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:17.040 can count that right as real time. The only people 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.440 that have been held accountable are the people that have 0:03:19.560 --> 0:03:26.239 actually entered into right the Capitol Building, or encourage their 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.800 followers like the leader of the Oath Keepers and the 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:36.000 Proud Boys two get violent. Right, So we're seeing these 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:38.520 people slapped with a couple of months here, a couple 0:03:38.560 --> 0:03:41.240 of months there, right, knowing, good, God damn well that 0:03:41.400 --> 0:03:45.840 these fucking people that march to the Capitol Building, built 0:03:45.880 --> 0:03:51.960 a guillotine, entered said Capitol building, stole property, abused and 0:03:52.360 --> 0:04:00.560 injured police officers get slaps on the wrist during that time. Though, 0:04:00.800 --> 0:04:04.360 as it as we come to find out, there's over 0:04:04.560 --> 0:04:11.720 seven hours missing in terms of White House phone lugs. Now, 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:17.400 let me bring this into focus when Nixon was brought down, 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:22.159 and by the way, we can account for the fact 0:04:22.200 --> 0:04:26.760 that accountability really doesn't ever happen in politics because Richard 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:31.640 Nixon was able to resign. Richard Nixon was not removed 0:04:31.760 --> 0:04:35.560 from office, right, he was able to resign. Had we 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:41.000 actually made an example of Richard Nixon and the eighteen 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:45.760 minutes that were missing from the White House tapes, that 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:51.160 would then show the cover up right of him trying 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:56.480 to steal an election. Eighteen minutes we have so far 0:04:56.960 --> 0:05:01.159 as an entire fucking work day was missing from the 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:05.800 White House phone logs. But that's not front page news. No. 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:12.119 What is continuing to be part of conversation all week 0:05:12.200 --> 0:05:15.920 long is the slap that we saw on fucking Sunday 0:05:16.480 --> 0:05:20.240 by Will Smith against Chris Rock for his comments his 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:24.280 joke I use in air quotes with regard to his wife, 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:32.200 Jada Pinkett Smith's alopecia autoimmune condition. Right you have madisone Cawthorne, 0:05:32.680 --> 0:05:36.160 whose dumbass finds himself in the press for a whole 0:05:36.200 --> 0:05:38.279 host as stupid shit that comes out of his mouth. 0:05:38.640 --> 0:05:43.599 But he decides to spill some tea with regard to 0:05:43.680 --> 0:05:50.440 being invited to a Washington political elite orgy right where 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:54.200 people are just freely doing bumps of cocaine, or so 0:05:54.279 --> 0:06:00.440 he says. And then Hunter Biden's laptop. These are the 0:06:00.520 --> 0:06:04.479 three stories that have been dominating the news cycle this week. 0:06:04.920 --> 0:06:09.479 And I'm sitting here saying to myself self, how is 0:06:09.520 --> 0:06:20.560 it that Donald Trump covered up, erased lost seven hours 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:29.240 worth of phone interaction during the historic violent event in 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:35.760 America's modern day history? And that is not enough for headlines? 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:41.880 So the Justice Department now has finally announced that they 0:06:41.880 --> 0:06:48.159 are expanding their investigation into those that were not actually 0:06:48.240 --> 0:06:52.240 in the Capitol building. But they're expanding their investigation into 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:57.720 the donors of said insurrection, right, And I know that 0:06:57.760 --> 0:06:59.680 before on this show, and so let me make it 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.120 clear now. Before in this show, I have said that 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:07.640 Jenny Thomas, Clarence Thomas's wife, funded buses for the insurrection. 0:07:07.920 --> 0:07:13.040 That has not been substantiated. But what has been substantiated 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:18.600 about Jenny Thomas is that she was at the insurrection. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:24.240 She used her platform and her political clout to encourage 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:28.440 other people to go to the insurrection, and then while 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:32.400 there was an invasion in our Capitol building, she was 0:07:32.440 --> 0:07:36.920 on the phone with Mark Meadows, Donald Trump's former chief 0:07:37.000 --> 0:07:42.400 of staff. So here's the thing. What's so curious and 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:47.000 interesting about this, which you think would be front page news, 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:53.040 is that Jenny Thomas is married to Clarence Thomas, a 0:07:53.240 --> 0:07:58.720 sitting Supreme Court justice who was the sole dissenter on 0:07:59.080 --> 0:08:03.880 the case that would allow the House Select Committee who 0:08:03.960 --> 0:08:08.720 is investigating the insurrection to be able to have access 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:13.680 to the phone logs. Now, the question we all need 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:19.520 to ask ourselves is why was Clarence Thomas the sole dissenter? Right? 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:23.640 What is it that Clarence Thomas knew and was he 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:28.760 concerned that when those phone numbers, when that information would 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:32.600 be released, that he would have to then explain to 0:08:32.640 --> 0:08:37.240 the public why his wife's phone number was showing up. 0:08:38.640 --> 0:08:41.640 But get this, because it gets even better than that. 0:08:41.720 --> 0:08:47.240 And you would think in a country that it loves salaciousness, right, 0:08:47.600 --> 0:08:53.000 we love reality TV, we love gossip, we love trash, 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:57.480 that you would think that this story, which pretty much 0:08:57.800 --> 0:09:02.800 reads like a fucking episode of Bridgeton combined with an 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:07.520 episode of gossip Girl wrapped in your favorite soap opera, right, 0:09:07.720 --> 0:09:12.720 all my children, as the world turns, you would think 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.800 that this would make news. Well, here's the other thing. 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:26.160 John Eastman, Trump Attorney, I just discovered, like Columbus was 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:32.360 an actual clerk for Justice Thomas. So there's a relationship there. 0:09:32.400 --> 0:09:36.440 So you're telling me, let's all connect these beautiful dots 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:42.359 sitting Supreme Court justice has a wife that attended the insurrection, 0:09:42.880 --> 0:09:46.640 was in regular contact with Mark Meadows, Donald Trump, stiff 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:50.760 chief of staff on the day of the insurrection, also 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:53.800 has a connection to the man that wrote the power 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:59.480 point slide presentation about the insurrection, John Eastman, and no 0:09:59.559 --> 0:10:03.280 one except for a handful of Democrats are currently calling 0:10:03.559 --> 0:10:07.760 for an investigation into Clarence Thomas to see whether or 0:10:07.800 --> 0:10:11.000 not what we see with our own two eyes is 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:17.679 actually what it is, which is a compromised Supreme Court justice. How? 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:23.160 How sway? How? How is no one talking about this? 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:30.440 How is this not the story of all stories? You know? 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:35.640 You go back to the days right of fucking deep throat, 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:41.040 You go back to the days of the I gotcha stories? 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:46.320 And I'm thinking, isn't this like a slam dunk too? 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:50.720 At the bare minimum, open up an investigation into Clarence 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:53.680 Thomas and start to ask questions about what he knew 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:57.120 and when he knew it. Isn't this wouldn't this be 0:10:57.200 --> 0:11:00.680 the opportunity and the time for Democrats to take off 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:04.440 the kid gloves and actually get serious about the courts 0:11:04.640 --> 0:11:08.560 and realize that not only did we have a Supreme 0:11:08.600 --> 0:11:12.080 Court seat stolen by Mitch McConnell, did we have over 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:15.800 three hundred federal judges put in place by Mitch McConnell 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.960 and Donald Trump, but that the ones that they actually 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:25.080 have are deeply in their pockets. Folks, Come on, right, 0:11:25.280 --> 0:11:30.080 so let me read you the opening to my piece, 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:34.880 which I entitled a slap an orgy and a laptop 0:11:35.280 --> 0:11:39.480 that is up at medium right now. Quote. There is 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.880 an old saying in media, if it bleeds, it leads, 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:47.599 meaning that stories that are the most salacious and horrific 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:52.679 drive the most traffic are the ones media outlets will push. 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:56.400 In the advent of social media and our capitalistic clickbait 0:11:56.520 --> 0:12:00.640 society we live in now, ratings and eyeballs equal money, 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:03.200 and where there is money to be made and power 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:08.760 to covet, morality dare not enter. Currently, there are three 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:12.199 stories that the media can't get enough of, and not 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:15.480 one of them has to do with the America's impending 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:20.000 nosedive into the arms of anti democratic forces that are 0:12:20.040 --> 0:12:23.760 hell bent on ripping up our constitution, destroying what's left 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:28.080 of our political norms, and tap dancing their way into authoritarianism. 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:32.600 America is captivated by the slap scene round the world, 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:37.120 Representative Madison Cawthorne's claim of cocaine and orgies running amuck 0:12:37.200 --> 0:12:42.319 in Washington's elite political circles, and Hunter Biden's laptop. Meanwhile, 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:46.200 the real political orgy that everyone needs to be paying 0:12:46.240 --> 0:12:51.240 attention to is happening between Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, 0:12:51.280 --> 0:12:55.200 his wife Jinny, former President Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows, 0:12:55.320 --> 0:12:58.760 and former Clerk to Justice Thomas, an architect of the insurrection, 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:05.600 John Eastman. And yet, folks, why isn't the news cycle 0:13:05.679 --> 0:13:08.440 focused on this? Well, let me tell you. Let me 0:13:08.440 --> 0:13:10.840 tell you why I think that the news cycle is 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:17.160 not focused on this because recent hirings and also the 0:13:17.200 --> 0:13:21.600 admission of the co president from CBS should tell us 0:13:22.240 --> 0:13:26.960 the real truth. We don't have to guess because what 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:34.400 was said by CBS's news co president Naraj Kelimani is 0:13:34.440 --> 0:13:38.280 this quote. If you look at some of the people 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.959 that we've been hiring on a contributor basis, being able 0:13:42.000 --> 0:13:45.000 to make sure that we are getting access to both 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.080 sides of the aisle is a priority because we know 0:13:48.200 --> 0:13:52.080 the Republicans are going to take over, most likely in 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:56.440 the midterms. So you see here, folks, what does this 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:03.000 spell out to you? Its spell out that journalism right 0:14:03.120 --> 0:14:06.360 in this day and age, isn't about integrity. It isn't 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.760 about breaking the news to the American public. It isn't 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:15.960 about educating this citizenury about their responsibility in this democracy. No, no, no, 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:22.520 It is about making sure that you are doing the 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:26.080 bidding of the people whose company you would like to keep. 0:14:26.760 --> 0:14:31.040 So would it make sense for say, CBS and other 0:14:31.200 --> 0:14:35.840 news outlets to decide to run segments and stories on 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:41.760 really diving into and continuing to run it over and 0:14:41.880 --> 0:14:44.680 over again, the way that they did Hillary Clinton's fucking 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:50.520 email story or Hunter Biden's laptop story. Right, think about 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:56.120 the ways in which Hillary Clinton's candidacy in twenty sixteen 0:14:57.080 --> 0:15:00.640 was tanked. It wasn't tanked just because Hilary didn't go 0:15:00.720 --> 0:15:04.560 to Michigan. It wasn't tanked just because the American people 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:07.560 don't like her, or fifty two percent of white women 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.200 decided that they would rather have their pussies grabbed by 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.680 Donald Trump than to have a woman that looks like 0:15:12.760 --> 0:15:16.080 them sit in the Oval office. No, it wasn't just that. 0:15:16.680 --> 0:15:21.040 It was the consistent feeding to America that you should 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:27.400 be suspicious of Hillary Clinton because she used a private server. 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.800 And if she's going to use a private server in 0:15:30.960 --> 0:15:34.840 private emails, then what else could she possibly been hiding? 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:39.200 Could she be hiding horns underneath or blonde you know, 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:45.680 bouquet of hair, right? Could she be hiding some evil 0:15:45.880 --> 0:15:50.160 armor underneath her pantsuits? All they needed to do with 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:54.520 the constant barrage in print, on TV, on radio, and 0:15:54.600 --> 0:16:00.520 everywhere else, was plant the seeds of something suspicious happening 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:06.040 and let the American people's imagination run wild, and then 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.840 when it would abate, continue to feed them a little 0:16:08.840 --> 0:16:11.920 bit more and a little bit more. So the question 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:15.360 that I have is, then, when you have a story 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:20.320 like that of a sitting Supreme Court justice, his wife, 0:16:21.680 --> 0:16:25.720 chief of staff to former twice impeach disgrace president of 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:30.080 the United States, and then a former Justice Thomas Clark, 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:38.760 entangled in the biggest political orgy of all time, a 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:45.480 desire and an attempt to overthrow an election, how the 0:16:45.920 --> 0:16:51.920 fuck do you cover anything else? Well, it's as if 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:58.360 you don't see that telling the truth and potentially smearing 0:16:59.080 --> 0:17:02.320 said Republican party that you believe is going to return 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:05.520 to power in a few months would be good for 0:17:05.600 --> 0:17:13.320 your bottom line. So fuck integrity, right, fuck education. We'll 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.760 bury that. We'll cover it so that folks can say, oh, no, no, 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:19.360 we did a story. It just won't be a one 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:24.320 above the fold. And it is not enough to say, well, 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:28.199 there's just so much news that is happening, because folks, 0:17:28.240 --> 0:17:33.080 there's been so much news happening since twenty fifteen, since 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:37.800 Donald Trump descended on those fucking escalators. There's been news 0:17:37.800 --> 0:17:41.320 happening over and over and over again. But it is 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:46.280 those that are sitting in the newsroom c suites that 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.119 are deciding what it is that they believe that the 0:17:49.160 --> 0:17:52.520 public should know. So wouldn't it be better if we 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:56.560 stir up some drama, some made up drama for the 0:17:56.680 --> 0:18:00.720 bidens the current sitting administration that we believe has already 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:05.199 neutered itself. And then we show favor and fancy to 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.480 the ones that we believe are actually going to get 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:11.280 into power, and then right they'll see us as friends 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.320 and they won't attack us so much, and then we'll 0:18:13.359 --> 0:18:15.439 be able to get our one on ones and our 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:22.920 sit down meetings. It's all a game. And the more 0:18:23.160 --> 0:18:27.600 that I become aware of the more dots that are connected, 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:34.560 the more disgusted I am, because, folks, in all honesty, 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:38.480 there is no where to look. There's no where to look. 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:45.679 There is no night coming to save America. There is 0:18:45.760 --> 0:18:49.520 no Captain America that's going to rush in and make 0:18:49.560 --> 0:18:55.960 everything right. Because everybody that has a responsibility to do 0:18:56.119 --> 0:18:59.520 something or the power to do something, even if it's 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:03.919 just to plant some seeds and shift shift some hearts 0:19:03.920 --> 0:19:07.760 and minds. They are actively choosing not to because it 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:14.800 doesn't work or mesh with their bottom line. Our democracy, 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:21.440 dear friends, has been sold. And so when we turn 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:25.800 around and we say to ourselves, well, it's all Republicans 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:29.960 and their misgivings and their bad doings. Of course those 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:34.960 things are absolutely true, but they also have help. They've 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:40.639 been enabled by mainstream media, right. And the thing is 0:19:41.359 --> 0:19:45.720 because I have conversations with my friends in media all 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:48.520 the time, and I have been telling them it is 0:19:48.560 --> 0:19:52.440 not enough for us any longer to just be talking 0:19:52.640 --> 0:19:58.880 withinside inside of our own echo chambers. It's not enough. 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:03.560 We have got to find a way to penetrate and 0:20:03.720 --> 0:20:07.320 get our words and thoughts out to the masses because, 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:14.360 dear friends, because mainstream media ain't gonna fucking cover it. 0:20:15.080 --> 0:20:18.160 So you have to rely on information that is coming 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.000 to you by people who are not bought and sold, 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:28.960 you know, surely. Chisholm the first African American woman, the 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:32.520 first black woman to run for the presidency in nineteen 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:40.880 seventy nineteen seventy two. Her moniker that she used was 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:49.159 Unboston unbothered, Right, unbought, Unboston unbothered. I think was the 0:20:49.200 --> 0:20:52.879 whole of it. And I think about how bold that 0:20:52.960 --> 0:20:55.639 was in nineteen seventy two to say that, but that 0:20:56.160 --> 0:21:00.359 it is even bolder to say that today, because there's 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:06.880 a reason why Republicans and Democrats both have allowed so 0:21:07.000 --> 0:21:10.800 much money to be in politics, because it suits their 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:15.600 personal bottom line. There's a reason why there's always been 0:21:15.640 --> 0:21:20.800 a campaign against the Elizabeth Warrens and the Bernie Sanders 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:25.200 of the world who want to call out corporate misgivings 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:29.000 and wrongdoings. Right, But there's a reason why they're allowed 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:32.359 to do that shit, And it isn't just one party's fault. 0:21:33.560 --> 0:21:41.080 When everything revolves around capitalism, and everything revolves around those 0:21:41.200 --> 0:21:46.320 with the most get to decide and delineate to the least, 0:21:46.720 --> 0:21:50.159 you are going to make sure, above all else that 0:21:50.320 --> 0:21:53.520 you stay at the top. So you are going to 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:58.240 get in bed with people that you should have no 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:02.800 business being in bed with. So when people say to me, 0:22:02.880 --> 0:22:05.600 you know, I don't trust the news, I don't trust 0:22:05.640 --> 0:22:08.040 this paper, I don't trust this outlet, I don't trust 0:22:08.119 --> 0:22:12.840 this network. Now I am beginning to understand why not 0:22:12.920 --> 0:22:16.040 even beginning to understand, because I fucking knew it was 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:19.600 why I was fired from Serious because you tell people 0:22:19.800 --> 0:22:23.760 the absolute truth and they don't want that. It's why, folks, 0:22:23.800 --> 0:22:27.359 you don't see me regularly anymore on cable news, because 0:22:27.400 --> 0:22:30.280 you continue to tell the truth and call people out 0:22:30.520 --> 0:22:33.320 and guess what they don't want that. They don't want 0:22:33.320 --> 0:22:39.119 that at all, because it's too much. The reason why 0:22:39.720 --> 0:22:43.000 I became an entrepreneur and the reason why I am 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:49.760 on independent channels as an independent podcaster is because I 0:22:49.760 --> 0:22:52.800 don't want anybody telling me what I can and cannot do, 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:56.240 and I don't want anybody deciding what is going to 0:22:56.359 --> 0:23:00.639 drive my voice, and it certainly is going to be 0:23:00.680 --> 0:23:08.560 anybody else's fucking bottom line. I tell you that. You know, 0:23:10.160 --> 0:23:13.800 one of the quotes that I pulled up in this 0:23:13.880 --> 0:23:18.760 piece sits so heavy with me now as somebody who 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:24.480 has done public relations and spin and crisis communications for 0:23:24.640 --> 0:23:32.720 part of my living, right, George Orwell said, this journalism 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:38.159 is printing what someone else does not want published. Everything 0:23:38.280 --> 0:23:47.840 else is public relations. That couldn't be more true. I mean, 0:23:48.040 --> 0:23:53.280 when you look at the fluff pieces right that were 0:23:53.720 --> 0:23:59.600 written about Amy Covid, Barrett. Right. You look at the 0:23:59.720 --> 0:24:07.760 car rich of her confirmation, Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation, right, and 0:24:07.840 --> 0:24:14.800 look at that of Judge Katangi Brown Jackson. See who 0:24:14.880 --> 0:24:23.640 it benefits? Right? And why when you see people on 0:24:23.720 --> 0:24:28.359 television saying a lot of hot shit or saying nothing 0:24:28.400 --> 0:24:32.280 at all. Oh, they don't want to upset the apple cart. 0:24:32.760 --> 0:24:34.280 Do you know why they don't want to upset the 0:24:34.280 --> 0:24:36.400 apple cart? Because they don't know who's going to own 0:24:36.440 --> 0:24:39.560 that apple cart at the end of the week. So 0:24:39.600 --> 0:24:44.040 it's best to have this perceived notion that is false 0:24:44.200 --> 0:24:49.560 of somebody's neutrality. News is not neutral. None of these 0:24:49.560 --> 0:24:53.320 fucking outlets are. Every single one of these people that 0:24:53.359 --> 0:24:55.199 are sitting up in the c suites that get to 0:24:55.240 --> 0:24:58.200 decide what it is you ingest on a regular basis 0:24:58.480 --> 0:25:04.920 have political affiliation, but their ultimate affiliation is to money, 0:25:05.040 --> 0:25:09.560 and money ain't got no morals. And so every time 0:25:10.000 --> 0:25:15.000 that Democrats are trying to appeal to people's better angels, 0:25:15.040 --> 0:25:20.000 I'm like, are you dumb? Right? Like, seriously, are you dumb? 0:25:20.040 --> 0:25:24.199 Do you not get it that everybody is in it 0:25:24.280 --> 0:25:28.040 to win it right, to get as rich as possible. 0:25:28.880 --> 0:25:33.400 That's it. That's the American dream, right, It isn't just 0:25:33.480 --> 0:25:35.280 the house and the pick offense. No, no, no. If 0:25:35.320 --> 0:25:37.880 you look on Netflix right now, if you look on 0:25:38.560 --> 0:25:43.080 Amazon primacy, all of the stories right that are on 0:25:43.240 --> 0:25:48.040 top right now are about how people became multibillionaires, or 0:25:48.080 --> 0:25:51.680 it is about the lifestyles of the rich and famous. 0:25:53.680 --> 0:25:59.679 Because we are addicted, addicted to wealth, and it is 0:26:00.080 --> 0:26:02.040 to us in all of these different ways. And so 0:26:02.920 --> 0:26:05.920 if you are given the opportunity, we all would love 0:26:06.000 --> 0:26:09.440 to believe that, we would say no, no, I have morals, right. 0:26:09.680 --> 0:26:13.320 I actually am one of those people, which is why 0:26:13.359 --> 0:26:17.360 I broadcast to you from my apartment and not my mansion, 0:26:18.880 --> 0:26:22.560 because I entered into a profession that if you wanted 0:26:23.200 --> 0:26:27.240 to get rich, right, you could, but you need to 0:26:27.359 --> 0:26:31.120 also be able to swallow a lot of hot shit. 0:26:31.840 --> 0:26:37.480 You need to be able to divorce yourself from your values. Right. 0:26:37.600 --> 0:26:41.600 You need to make compromises. And I'm not saying that 0:26:41.680 --> 0:26:44.560 all compromises are bad. They absolutely are not. And I'm 0:26:44.560 --> 0:26:47.280 also not saying that everybody that is on television is bad. 0:26:47.480 --> 0:26:50.800 They absolutely are not. But every single one of them 0:26:50.920 --> 0:26:54.879 has had to compromise. And I'll tell you that the 0:26:54.920 --> 0:26:57.560 people of color and the women have had to compromise 0:26:57.640 --> 0:27:04.359 the most. And so when I see and I listen 0:27:04.760 --> 0:27:07.680 to people like the co president at CBS, and then 0:27:08.000 --> 0:27:13.480 you know, uncovered tapes of of Nunez, the former disgraced 0:27:13.960 --> 0:27:16.959 president of CBS, right, who had to step down because 0:27:17.000 --> 0:27:19.760 of you know, somebody's affair or whatever. It was, some 0:27:19.840 --> 0:27:28.080 type of sexual indiscretion. Lee Moons, he said the same thing, said, yeah, 0:27:28.080 --> 0:27:30.639 Trump may be mad, maybe bad for the country, but 0:27:30.680 --> 0:27:34.120 he's good for ratings. I can tell you how many 0:27:34.119 --> 0:27:39.560 times that I heard that in the halls of MSNBC. Right, 0:27:40.400 --> 0:27:46.080 everybody knows, everybody knew that Trump was terrible for the country, 0:27:47.600 --> 0:27:54.119 but oh my god, he's fucking making it rain. I 0:27:54.280 --> 0:27:59.800 remember sitting in the chair at MSNBC and I was 0:28:00.000 --> 0:28:03.960 posted be on a segment. Then all of a sudden, 0:28:04.000 --> 0:28:06.840 they're like, oh, Danielle, we're canceled for the day because 0:28:07.000 --> 0:28:10.200 Donald Trump is going to be landing in some place 0:28:10.280 --> 0:28:14.000 giving some type of hate speech. And do you know 0:28:14.400 --> 0:28:19.600 what every single cable news station did. They had a 0:28:19.840 --> 0:28:30.040 live feed going of a tarmac just waiting for Trump's 0:28:30.040 --> 0:28:35.560 plane to land, and that was the whole conversation four hours. 0:28:36.280 --> 0:28:38.760 What will Trump say this is what he said last time. 0:28:40.000 --> 0:28:42.600 Oh my goodness, what do you think the plane is 0:28:42.600 --> 0:28:44.240 going to come in? What is he going to be wearing? 0:28:44.880 --> 0:28:50.720 What's Ivanka going to be doing? It was free press, 0:28:51.400 --> 0:28:56.479 it was free advertisement at a time when political ads, 0:28:56.520 --> 0:29:00.160 by the way that you see on television costs millions. 0:29:02.600 --> 0:29:06.720 The last couple of presidential races have been in the 0:29:06.960 --> 0:29:11.040 billions in terms of how much it actually costs to 0:29:11.280 --> 0:29:14.000 run for president. We have seen some of the most 0:29:14.120 --> 0:29:20.240 expensive Senate races ten hundreds of millions of dollars that 0:29:20.360 --> 0:29:25.959 they have cost. But every single news outlet in twenty 0:29:25.960 --> 0:29:31.080 fifteen and twenty sixteen gave Trump free coverage because people 0:29:31.080 --> 0:29:36.480 couldn't take their eyes off of the fucking circus. So 0:29:36.520 --> 0:29:41.120 when I say, you have a story like this political 0:29:41.400 --> 0:29:45.200 orgy that is literally unfolding in front of us, that 0:29:45.400 --> 0:29:49.640 has some key players from the Supreme Court to the 0:29:49.720 --> 0:29:55.960 White House right all the way around, and I'm asking, 0:29:56.400 --> 0:30:01.280 why the fuck is the lead story about Hunter Biden's laptop. 0:30:01.360 --> 0:30:04.280 Hunter Biden ain't in the fucking White House, not in 0:30:04.320 --> 0:30:09.200 the way that the fucking Trump spawn were with senior 0:30:09.280 --> 0:30:15.760 titles and all access passes, Like it's fucking political lallapalooza. 0:30:18.760 --> 0:30:24.880 But home, I wonder what's on that laptop? Mmm? Donald 0:30:24.880 --> 0:30:29.120 Trump's still going around saying hmm, you know, Zelinski should 0:30:29.160 --> 0:30:32.160 really open up an investigation. Who cares that his entire 0:30:32.200 --> 0:30:34.920 country is being bombed to smithereens? But oh, if he 0:30:34.960 --> 0:30:42.600 had only opened up an investigation, it's fucking wild. It 0:30:42.800 --> 0:30:49.040 is honestly really wild. On a day today, we're unlike, 0:30:49.480 --> 0:30:56.560 how how are these stories? Seven hours? Folks? Over seven 0:30:56.640 --> 0:31:05.080 hours of tapes are missing on accounted for. There is 0:31:05.240 --> 0:31:10.520 nothing that is there. How it is the White House. 0:31:12.760 --> 0:31:16.480 There are calls coming in all day, all the time. 0:31:16.760 --> 0:31:20.800 So the only way that you have that fucking day 0:31:20.880 --> 0:31:25.840 long gap is if somebody was being really mindful about 0:31:25.880 --> 0:31:29.040 making sure not to leave any evidence behind. And if 0:31:29.040 --> 0:31:32.120 you don't want to leave any evidence behind, sounds to 0:31:32.200 --> 0:31:35.440 me like you're in the midst of committing somebody's fucking crime, 0:31:36.480 --> 0:31:40.440 because who else would be picking up other phones and 0:31:40.600 --> 0:31:44.480 using different phones other than the one that is stationed 0:31:44.520 --> 0:31:49.360 on your desk in the fucking Oval office. Oh, let 0:31:49.400 --> 0:31:51.920