Speaker 1: Good morning, peeps, and welcome to wilk F Daily with
Speaker 1: me your girl, daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker, Folks,
Speaker 1: I am recording this a head of the vice presidential debate,
Speaker 1: so to hear my commentary on that. Hopefully you tuned
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Speaker 1: as well. But at the time of this recording, I'm
Speaker 1: having some wild thoughts, folks, and I'm gonna share them
Speaker 1: with you, which is I woke up this morning and
Speaker 1: I was filled with a sense of dread that I
Speaker 1: have not felt since July, since the change in the ticket.
Speaker 1: And in all honesty, this is what I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1: This has nothing to do with what the Harris Wall's
Speaker 1: team is doing. I think that they are doing phenomenal.
Speaker 1: I think that this ticket has revitalized people. I think
Speaker 1: that they're messaging their road shows. Everything that they're doing
Speaker 1: is Chef's Kiss perfect. So this is not at all
Speaker 1: as what would normally be my critique on what Democrats
Speaker 1: need to do and how they're shitty at messaging and
Speaker 1: dah da da da, da da da. What I woke
Speaker 1: up feeling a sense of dread around is that there
Speaker 1: are just really well funded people and to keys organizations,
Speaker 1: news outlets that are all conspiring to end democracy. And
Speaker 1: it just struck me that if this were a normal election, right,
Speaker 1: like if this were twenty twelve, and you know, it
Speaker 1: was really about the Republican candidate versus the Democratic candidate,
Speaker 1: and made the person with the best ideas win, right,
Speaker 1: the one that can convince the American people of your
Speaker 1: ideology wins, then I would say, hands down, Kamala Harris
Speaker 1: is going to win. She has plans for our health care,
Speaker 1: for our economy, for our education system. She has plans,
Speaker 1: not concepts of a plan, but an actual plan. And
Speaker 1: so if that were the case, and there warrant multi
Speaker 1: billionaires like Peter Teel, Elon Musk and these other right
Speaker 1: wing billionaire set that have all the money in the
Speaker 1: world in order to spread their lives, that convinced the
Speaker 1: American public that we should have a dictatorship, have a
Speaker 1: American oligarchy. Because something, you know, I have to tell
Speaker 1: you my mind has been working overdrive and I have
Speaker 1: not I did not sleep last night at all, Like
Speaker 1: I just my brain was just churning, churning, churning, and
Speaker 1: I started to think about something. Hang with me for
Speaker 1: a moment, one of my guilty pleasures, and I know
Speaker 1: I'm going to embarrass myself and I don't care. I'm
Speaker 1: telling you all. The truth of my guilty pleasures is
Speaker 1: that I hate love watch the Kardashians. Yes, I have
Speaker 1: fueled their multi billion dollar empire because I watch it.
Speaker 1: Funny enough, with very much an analyst's mindset, which is like,
Speaker 1: how did we get here, like as a society where
Speaker 1: at one time, let's just walk down the path of
Speaker 1: America and how you had these group of religious right
Speaker 1: wing zealots that left the British to flee from persecution
Speaker 1: because they were right wing zealots. They were not looking
Speaker 1: for religious freedom. They were looking to indoctrinate everyone around them.
Speaker 1: So let's just be clear on that they come to
Speaker 1: the United States and create this thing called democracy where
Speaker 1: you were not going to have to serve a king,
Speaker 1: and that there are not based on royal blood, this
Speaker 1: designation of wealth, that we are going to have a
Speaker 1: more equitably just system these coming from the people obviously
Speaker 1: that created the Transatlantic slave trade and used it in
Speaker 1: order to build said country. I digress. But what happened
Speaker 1: was instead of their being and there were still the wealthy, right,
Speaker 1: the Rockefellers and others, right, that were the titans quote
Speaker 1: unquote of industry, But we kind of moved away from
Speaker 1: this idea of these mini fiefdoms and people you know,
Speaker 1: had their own homes and their white picket fence and
Speaker 1: you know, their own backyards and all of these things.
Speaker 1: But over the course of time, and I've actually like
Speaker 1: been watching this through the Kardashians. The Kardashians were rich
Speaker 1: when the show started twenty years ago. I don't even
Speaker 1: know how long they've been on the air. It feels
Speaker 1: like forever. They were rich, living in Beverly Hills. One
Speaker 1: parent was an Olympian, the other one was a famed lawyer,
Speaker 1: sending their kids to school in Beverly Hills, private schools,
Speaker 1: you know, doing all these things. But if you go
Speaker 1: back to like the beginning of the show, they were
Speaker 1: regular rich. You have the big house, and you have
Speaker 1: a couple of nice cars, and you throw parties, right,
Speaker 1: But you're like working. They were going out and doing
Speaker 1: speaking and you know, and selling shit and like whatever.
Speaker 1: Kim Kardashian was organizing friends closets for money and like
Speaker 1: doing things. But because of Reality TV, because of their
Speaker 1: ability to recognize that they were indeed the product. So
Speaker 1: instead of them partnering, which is how they started partnering
Speaker 1: with brands, getting endorsements and then you know, hawking that
Speaker 1: brand stuff, they started to say, wait a minute, why
Speaker 1: am I only taking this piece when it's my celebrity
Speaker 1: that's selling X And so I am now going to
Speaker 1: commodify every aspect of my life from the eyes on
Speaker 1: Instagram to Twitter, to this, that and the other thing
Speaker 1: to the reality TV show And now they are uber rich,
Speaker 1: private planes and staff of fifty rich, multiple nannies, security,
Speaker 1: like the whole nine. They went from this regular idea
Speaker 1: of the quote unquote American dream, which is ascending to prosperity,
Speaker 1: to blowing that shit out of the water to where
Speaker 1: they have created this culture of celebrity worship and commodification
Speaker 1: of brand and image and all of these things. And
Speaker 1: they've done it, whether or not you like it or not.
Speaker 1: In probably one of the most brilliant fashions, which is
Speaker 1: why they are multi billionaires. Now that being said, they
Speaker 1: didn't start from nothing. They started from millions and then
Speaker 1: we're able to parlay that into billions. Right. But they've
Speaker 1: all these celebrities now have created these dynasties where we
Speaker 1: have gone back. We don't have a centralized king, but
Speaker 1: they all have their own dynasties that are being fueled
Speaker 1: by us. We are paying into it. And once these
Speaker 1: people and the industry realized you can control engagement through
Speaker 1: algorithms and all of these things and sell you stuff
Speaker 1: all the fucking time you're being sold to. It is
Speaker 1: like our tension became the ultimate product that has fueled
Speaker 1: this new age of like the Downton Abbey's and the
Speaker 1: Bridgeton and all of that fantasy type of thing. But
Speaker 1: it's happened in real life where the rest of us
Speaker 1: our wealth has decreased while the wealthy have become exponentially wealthier.
Speaker 1: So I think about this, folks, and I think about
Speaker 1: the position that we're in where twenty years ago, a
Speaker 1: six figure salary should have been able to buy you
Speaker 1: a home, having a six figure salary should have been
Speaker 1: able to buy you a home. Having a six figure
Speaker 1: salary in twenty twenty four means absolutely nothing, but it
Speaker 1: meant everything in two thousand. So because the uber wealthy
Speaker 1: has increased their wealth by such a scale in such
Speaker 1: a short period of time, there was never any trickle
Speaker 1: down that happened. Like we as middle class, working class
Speaker 1: people that get app just got bigger and bigger and bigger.
Speaker 1: It's wild to watch it in real time as you're
Speaker 1: watching these shows and you're sinking to yourself, well, wait
Speaker 1: a minute, what's happened with me over the last twenty
Speaker 1: years and my economic viability? While these people went from
Speaker 1: normal rich to filthy fucking PJ private Jet rich, what
Speaker 1: has happened to the rest of us? Well, corporations have
Speaker 1: bought up mortgages, driving prices through the roof. It has
Speaker 1: become just a known debt to even go to university,
Speaker 1: which you were told that you needed to do. So
Speaker 1: you're already you're told, oh, make six figures, right, but
Speaker 1: you're in order to do that, going into six figures
Speaker 1: worth of debt to then be locked inside of this
Speaker 1: trap of just keeping your head above water. Because I
Speaker 1: was saying to my mom the other day, and I
Speaker 1: promise you. I'm getting back to Peter Tiel and like
Speaker 1: these technocrats is that I don't even think in the
Speaker 1: grand scheme of things, what we perceived being the quote
Speaker 1: unquote middle class is even the middle class anymore? Like
Speaker 1: I think that for you to be considered middle class,
Speaker 1: you need to be making well into the six figures,
Speaker 1: like not with a one in front of it. And
Speaker 1: that's fucking wild. So we're making more money or working
Speaker 1: to make more money in order to actually have less.
Speaker 1: And so you have these people who are sitting in
Speaker 1: their fiefdoms, in their dynasties that they've created. Elon Musk
Speaker 1: is on the verge of becoming the world's first trillionaire.
Speaker 1: He's the most despicable, disgusting human being, which makes me
Speaker 1: think about higher powers and really like, this is what
Speaker 1: we're this is who we're giving this to, right, Like,
Speaker 1: what's the lesson here that the rest of us are
Speaker 1: supposed to learn, like to be as disgusting, as cunning
Speaker 1: as you know whatever, in order to just get yours?
Speaker 1: Like is that the lesson? But you look at these people,
Speaker 1: and because we're grinding so much harder than we did
Speaker 1: twenty years ago to get so much less, and we're
Speaker 1: so exhausted by doing it, but we're being force fed
Speaker 1: that we're not doing enough. You need to grind, hard,
Speaker 1: rise and grind in all of these things. These master
Speaker 1: manipulators who have created the algorithm that have turned our
Speaker 1: lives upside down and make us just center capitalism in
Speaker 1: a way that I don't think that we had really before,
Speaker 1: because it wasn't shoved in our face all the time.
Speaker 1: Of all the things you could have. Even look at
Speaker 1: the people cleaning you watch those cleaning videos on Instagram
Speaker 1: or on TikTok. These people that like have every gadget
Speaker 1: for everything, like the screen cleaner and the ear thing
Speaker 1: cleaner and the bub blah blah blah blah, and they
Speaker 1: have their fridges look like the Wegmans or a Target
Speaker 1: or what have you. And it's like this over consumption. Oh,
Speaker 1: I must have eighty six juice boxes in my fridge
Speaker 1: at all time and they must be aligned just so,
Speaker 1: and I must have this thing, and in a I'm
Speaker 1: not successful unless I have pop up, up, up, up, up,
Speaker 1: up up up. All of those things have just become more.
Speaker 1: Everything is more, and so because of that we worship
Speaker 1: wealth and we worship celebrity, and so it doesn't even
Speaker 1: matter that Elon Musk isn't smart, It doesn't matter that
Speaker 1: Peter Tiel is a lunatic. It just matters how much
Speaker 1: money they have and people listen to them, because at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, why is Reality TV, Real Housewives, this,
Speaker 1: the Kardashians blah blah, Why are they so successful? Because
Speaker 1: we want a window into what life could possibly be
Speaker 1: if we all won the lottery, and they weaponized that.
Speaker 1: The Republican Party has weaponized that that desire. And so
Speaker 1: I think about my parents when they were my age,
Speaker 1: like where they were and what they had, and I
Speaker 1: was having this conversation with my mom and she's just like,
Speaker 1: you can't even compare it because she's like, I made
Speaker 1: so much less than you guys made, but I was
Speaker 1: able to buy a home. I was able to do
Speaker 1: all of these things because interest rates may have been
Speaker 1: at five percent when I bought, but the homes were
Speaker 1: twenty thirty, forty fifty thousand dollars, so it balanced it out.
Speaker 1: But now you're looking at interest rates that are six
Speaker 1: seven percent and homes on average way I grew up
Speaker 1: on average or six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And
Speaker 1: this was a neighborhood that was like middle working class neighborhood. Teachers, doctors, firefighters, nurses,
Speaker 1: some sprinklings of doctors and lawyers, but it was like
Speaker 1: regular people. So you look at this and you look
Speaker 1: at these forces, the Republican forces that lie and tell
Speaker 1: people that the reason why your economic conditions are bad
Speaker 1: is because of Democrats and because of whatever lie that
Speaker 1: they want to tell you. But the thing is is
Speaker 1: that most of us are seeking an answer why am
Speaker 1: I struggling so much more than my parents did, but
Speaker 1: I make more money? The weaponization of wealth and the
Speaker 1: lies that they're able to tell, and the forces also
Speaker 1: that this collected one percent can hold on to their
Speaker 1: dynasties and then we have no choice but being forced
Speaker 1: to like work for them just to get a little breakoff, right,
Speaker 1: Like it's the serfdom, and it's absolutely wild. But when
Speaker 1: you look at corporate mainstream media and what they're doing
Speaker 1: to ensure that there is a Trump win, When you
Speaker 1: look at Elon Musk and what he's putting on his
Speaker 1: social media to two hundred million followers, when you're looking
Speaker 1: at those that are advocating their responsibility because they just
Speaker 1: want to keep their money. You just realize that, like
Speaker 1: while I say at the end of every show, power
Speaker 1: to the people, and to all the people. Power. The
Speaker 1: people have been slowly robbed of their power and agency
Speaker 1: over the last twenty thirty years. Oh it was cut
Speaker 1: the cord with the TV behind me, cut the cord
Speaker 1: and just get streaming. And then every outlet became streaming.
Speaker 1: So now if you're paying for cable and all of
Speaker 1: these streaming, you're actually paying more than what you were
Speaker 1: paying like ten years ago, because everything has its own
Speaker 1: fucking streaming app. They're coming at us from every direction.
Speaker 1: And I honestly don't know if we ever right size again,
Speaker 1: meaning that the ninety nine percent hold the ninety nine
Speaker 1: percent of wealth. I don't think that we do. I
Speaker 1: don't know if the insatiability of the wealthy is ever tamed,
Speaker 1: because the more that they have, the more that they want.
Speaker 1: I say all that to say that we're already living
Speaker 1: inside of the Hunger Games. We're already living inside of
Speaker 1: this kind of weird, altered reality where this certain set
Speaker 1: gets wealthier and wealthier beyond our wildest dreams and the
Speaker 1: rest of us struggle more and more and more, but
Speaker 1: we're told that we're the problem and not the system
Speaker 1: because a few have been able to succeed. But it
Speaker 1: was like succeeding when if you're running a marathon and
Speaker 1: I'm starting from mile twenty with fresh legs and everybody
Speaker 1: else is starting from mile one, but I win? How
Speaker 1: am I considered the winner? But that is where we
Speaker 1: are in America. And that is what the Republican Party
Speaker 1: is exploiting right now. And I'm refer it's the weaponization
Speaker 1: of wealth and envy and this like insatiable greed that
Speaker 1: the wealthy have like they can't ever get enough. And
Speaker 1: I don't know where it ends, I really don't, but
Speaker 1: it's something that has been keeping me up at night
Speaker 1: and making me wonder about how much does it take
Speaker 1: these days in order to be comfortable. By comfortable, I
Speaker 1: mean that if a bill comes up unexpected, you can
Speaker 1: pay it and it's not you know, there's no sweat
Speaker 1: on your brow, right, that you can have small luxuries
Speaker 1: like vacations and gifts for yourself, like and own a
Speaker 1: whole like what is that number? And I think that
Speaker 1: because the system has been so rigged again Republicans are
Speaker 1: able to exacerbate the pain that we're all feeling because
Speaker 1: it's the pain that they've created. Because I'm decades into
Speaker 1: the workforce and wondering when this is a trickle down
Speaker 1: actually happen, it doesn't, And just you know, honestly, I'll
Speaker 1: close out with this, which is that I poke fun
Speaker 1: at economic and anxiety because I think that it is
Speaker 1: code for racism. But there is actually a shared struggle
Speaker 1: that is happening. But instead of us dealing with that
Speaker 1: shared struggle, we're pitted against one another because of our race,
Speaker 1: because of our immigration status, because of our sexual orientation,
Speaker 1: our gender identity, and we never get to the core
Speaker 1: of the core. So if they can keep us struggling
Speaker 1: over that basic shit, then we don't realize that they're
Speaker 1: robbing us blind. That is it for me today, Dear friends,
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Speaker 1: stay woke as fuck.