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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, Peeves, and welcome to wikf Daily with me
your girl Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks,
Happy fuck it Friday. We've made it to the end
of the week. Give yourselves a hug, Give yourselves a
high five. I don't know how you do that. I
guess by banging your hands together. Just applaud yourself, right,
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because frankly, if we don't celebrate these little things, we'll
go insane. So what do I want to talk about today?
I'm shaking my head for those of you that are
just listening to the audio, but if you are a
subscriber on Patreon, you're watching the video so you can
see me. But where do I want to begin? First off,
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I want to start with the Supreme Court. Fuck them,
like honestly I can and not even begin to state
how fucking done I am with this Roberts Court. I
would say that they would go down in history as
the worst Supreme Court, but I'm sure that book would
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be banned. But the reality is is that the Roberts
Court is hell bent on rolling back any bit of
progress that was made in the twentieth century and bringing
America back into the nineteenth century by giving full rein
to the NRA, by giving you full bodily autonomy over
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to men to dictate and jurisdic how women can move,
whether or not we have children, how we have children,
all of those things. But this latest slate of bullshit
around Alito's wife and the flying of these flags that
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are in reverence to January sixth, that are wholly anti
American right, anti constitutional. What do I mean by anti constitutional?
Let me just say, because I just literally made that up.
You're anti the Constitution. You don't believe in the values
the laws that dictate this country, right, Like, if you're
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flying a flag that is an upside down American flag,
you don't believe in American values. So but somehow you're
sitting on the Supreme Court telling the rest of us
what is right and what is wrong, what is law
and order when you don't believe in the tenants of
the Constitution. And for Alito's response to be like, oh, well,
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my wife likes flying flags, Well, apparently women can have power,
but only the power that Alito gives them, and it's
only one woman his wife go to fucking hell. And then,
as of the time of this recording, breaking news came
out that, uh, just John Roberts, who's being called before
the Senate Judiciary says, yeah, I'm not coming because there
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needs to be a separation of power. Are you fucking dumb?
So my response to the Senate Judiciary is, like, this
actually was not an invitation to a party that you
get to turn down. Like we're actually going to hold
you in contempt, right, Like we are ordering you to
come to sit before this body and explain to us
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how you have two incredibly unethical, fucking justices on your
court that you're doing nothing about. I want to bring
something to folks' attention. And this is an op ed
that was written by former guest of the show, representative
Jamie Raskin in the New York Times. It's entitled how
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to force Justices Alito and Thomas to recuse themselves in
the January sixth case? Right, Because here's the thing. Not
only is fucking Alito's wife flying insurrectionist flags at their homes,
but we know that Clarence Thomas's wife, Ginny, was actively
a part of trying to discredit our votes and overturn
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the election of twenty twenty. Of course, Merrick Garland and
his spineless fucking ass has not hauled in Ginny Thomas, right,
has not brought charges against her because oh, we don't
want to be seen as a political entity. Well here's
a fucking tip, regardless of whether or not you follow
the rule of law, which would have you look at
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Ginny Thomas, look into her spending her money, because you
know she's literally in bed with the Supreme Court justice.
There are actual rules right that should be followed, that
are dictated. But for Republican I guess it's just you know,
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a please ken you not necessary because they live above
the law. So here's what Jamie Raskin wrote, quote. Many
people have gloomily accepted the conventional wisdom that because there
is no binding Supreme Court ethics code, there is no
way to force Associate Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas
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to recuse themselves from the January sixth cases that are
before the Court. Justice's alitos, Alito and Thomas are probably
making the same assumption, but all of them are wrong.
It seems unfathomable that two justices could get away with
deciding for themselves whether they can be impartial in ruling
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on cases affecting Donald Trump's liability for crimes he is
accused of committing on January sixth. Justice Thomas's wife, Ginny Thomas,
was deeply involved in the January six Stop the Steel movement.
Above the Virginia home of Justice Alito and his wife,
Martha and Alito flew an upside down American flag, a
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strong political statement among the people who stormed the capital.
Above Alito's beach home in New Jersey flew another flag
that has been adopted by groups opposed to President Biden.
Justices Alito and Thomas face a ground swell of appeals
beseeching them not to participate in the Trump v. United States,
the case that will decide whether or not mister Trump
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enjoys absolute immunity from criminal prosecution, and Fisher v. United States,
which will decide whether January sixth insurrectionists and mister Trump
can be charged under a statute that criminalizes corruptly obstructing
an official proceeding. Justice Alito said on Wednesday that he
would not refuse himself from the January sixth related cases.
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Everyone assumes. Jamie goes on to write that nothing can
be done about the recusal situation because the highest court
in the land has the lowest ethical standards. Each justice
decides for him or herself whether he or she can
be impartial. Of course, Justice Alito and Thomas could choose
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to recuse themselves. Wouldn't that be nice? But begging them
to do right the right thing misses a far more
effective course of action. This is the part that I
want all of you to pay attention to the US
Department of Justice, including the US Attorney for the District
of Columbia and appointed US Special Counsel, and the Solicitor
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General General, all of whom were involved in different ways
in the criminal prosecutions underlying these cases and are opposing
mister Trump's constitutional statutory claims, can petition the other seven
justices to require Justices Alito and Thomas to recuse themselves,
not as a matter of grace, but as a matter
of law. The Justice Department and Attorney General Merrick Garland,
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you all know how I fucking feel about him, can
invoke two powerful textual authorities of this motion, the Constitution
of the United States, specifically the due process Clause and
the Federal statute mandating judicial disqualification for questionable impartiality twenty
eight usc. Section four fifty five. The Constitution has come
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into play in several recent Supreme Court decisions striking down
rulings by stubborn judges in lower courts whose political impartiality
has been reasonably questioned, but who threw caution to the
win to hear cases anyway. You see, folks, we actually
have laws. It is not up to these justices to
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decide for themselves what cases they can or cannot be
impartial on. Because I want to tell you what if
Sonia saw to mayor or any of the other justices
were to be flying a flag that was, I don't know,
maybe said black Lives Matter, maybe it's said Latino Heritage
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Month should be every month. Whenever the fucking case was,
you can guarantee that it would be fodder for right
wing media, that the pressure would mount, and that Democrats
would probably fucking join with the Republicans in kicking them
off the bench. So how is it that we have
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these cases that are sitting before these justices whose wives
have been absolutely and thoroughly involved with trying to overturn
an election and airing their desire for I don't know,
a constitutional less America, and they're allowed to consider whether
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or not Donald Trump should have absolute immunity. It doesn't
make any sense, and we we should stop acting like
these justices are above the law. Fucking Roberts doesn't want
to show up at the Senate Judiciary, then I don't know,
hold him in contempt. Figure out with other constitutional lawyers
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how you compel this man that is running a rogue,
right wing weaponized Supreme Court to show up, right that
you force him to, because I'm pretty sure that if
it was on the Democrats side, we wouldn't even be
having this conversation. I want Democrats to stop acting as
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if their hands are tied behind their backs, and that
we are betting on the better angels of people that
are heartless, that have no angels. We need to stop
assuming the best in people that continue to show us
the worst. It just doesn't make any fucking sense speaking
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of people showing us their worst. I would be remiss
if I did not also bring us back to the
horrific fucking images of Nicki Haley in fucking Israel signing
bombs that have ripped babies. Apart to say that Nicki
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Haley is depraved, I think would be too fucking kind.
She is a fucking poor excuse of a human being.
She is disgusting. Her actions this week should disqualify her
from ever being able to run for office, let alone
hold any office. And the fact that she would use
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what every country right is beginning to see and refer
to as a genocide as her VP fucking rehearsal is
some bullshit. Any bit of consciousness that we thought that
Nikki Haley could muster because she decided to go toe
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to toe with Donald Trump, we know now was nothing
more than political theater. That she is willing to go
above and beyond her as actually, to the fucking gutter,
to the sewers, in order to be considered a VP
pick for Trump. She is fucking disgusting. You know, I
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can remember when screams or four hundred dollars haircuts could
get you booted out of the political sphere, But somehow
signing bombs or shooting dogs another Republican woman favorite pastime
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is okay. What folks need to understand is that this
Republican Party embraces violence. They love it. It is their
energy boosts, It is what drives this party now. Their
desire to cause harm, to cause grief, to cause trauma
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without any accountability is their goal. And if given the opportunity,
because folks want to sit around and talk about, they're
going to protest the vote because you think that throwing
away your vote to some bullshit third party this time
around of all fucking elections, when our democracy is hanging on,
is what you want to do. Tell me how that
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is going to help the people in Gaza and Rafa
When you have the potential VP signing bombs and the
rest of the Republicans saying bulldoze it, finish them off.
How do you think your third party fucking vote is
going to line up with this shit. We don't always
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get to do the things that we want to do.
That's called adulthood, right. Some decisions that we make fucking suck,
but we make them nonetheless because we have to, because
we are adulting. We have to pay bills, we have
to pay taxes, we have to go to work, and
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we also have to vote to save our democracy. And
that does not mean throwing away your vote on fucking
RFK Junior or Cornell fucking West. I can't express to
people how fucking stupid that is, and not only stupid,
but dangerous. And you know I'm not one that likes
to talk down to people because I'm like, oh, you
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can make whatever decision that you want. Yeah, you can
make whatever decision that you want when it was the primaries.
Not when we're entering into the general election. No, you cannot.
I am so sorry for you, because if you think
that I find any joy or I'm out here rocking
a Biden T shirt, I am not. But I know
that as a black, queer woman, child of immigrants in
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this fucking country, I am not about to fucking put
more fuel and ammunition into trump Ism by throwing my
vote away, even if I live in New York. So
for you all that are finding these days tough, I
want you to multiply that times a million, because that
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is what it will be like under a Trump regime
that will never leave, that will arrest democratic members of Congress,
political opponents, throw them in jail. Oh, where is their trial?
We're considering them terrorists. They don't need a trial. That's
what will happen. Oh, we can't possibly happen here. Give
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me a fucking break. It will happen so fast it
will make our head spin. So we have one opportunity
in November to get rid of Donald Trump. As everybody
is waiting around and by the time that this show airs,
you know, there may finally be a verdict. But what
does that actually mean? If Donald Trump is found guilty.
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Do you think that he's going to be hauled off
there and thrown in jail. No, because he has the
money and the lawyers to appeal, appeal, appeal, appeal, like
he has done in every other fucking case. He's not
going to be remanded into the prison. Right, you can
await your appeal there. If only Donald Trump would be
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treated like anybody else. But well, you know that that's
not the case. So I'm not holding my breath on
this case or any of the other ones that are pending,
because the most important case is whether or not the
American people in November are going to decide that they
want to see this project we call democracy through that
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they want to give generations of young Americans the opportunity
to do a better job than the older generations have
in destroying our environment, in destroying women's access to bodily autonomy,
in destroying affirmative action. Right. But if Donald Trump becomes
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president for life, and then there's a Trump dynasty and
it's passed down to fucking Eric and Ivanka and this
person and that person. It can't happen here, it has
happened in other countries. Dictators are always elected democratically and
then they tear down the very institution that got them. Folks,
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the times are hard, they are dark, and they're not
getting better. But what is happening is that people are
becoming more conscious, people are becoming more woke, and that matters.
I wish that it didn't take the deaths of fifty
thousand Palestinians for people to recognize that Israel is running
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in apartheid state. I wish that it didn't take babies
being ripped apart the images of children watching their parents
lay burnt on the ground for the world to recognize
that something is wrong here, and not just here, but
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almost everywhere in every corner of this planet. America is
no innocent. America is the biggest perpetuator of violence around
the world. But we have an opportunity to push this
president because in a second term, Biden is not going
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to be facing another election, so we honestly has nothing
left to lose except his legacy, which I actually believe
that he cares about. So I would rather continue to
fight for the expansion of freedom with a Biden in adminished
in place, then be fighting for my life with a
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Trump regime installed. Those are the decisions that we have
to make. Those are the tough pills that I continue
to say that we are going to swallow because what
is at stakes too much for me to sit idly
by and tell you vote your conscience. Fuck that, vote
for justice, vote for freedom, vote for bodily autonomy, vote
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for clean air, vote for clean water. And there is
only one candidate out of this bullshit two choices that
we have that believes in any of that. It is
not just one issue that is going to lead this election.
It is every fucking issue that is at stake. Vote accordingly,
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love to see you rock this year. That is it
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for me today, dear friends on woke af as always,
power to the people and to all the people power,
get woke and stay woke as fuck.