America is No More

At least the America that Danielle grew up knowing. White Christian nationalism is on the rise and no one seems to be rising up to stop it.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, Peevesend. Welcome to wik f Daily with me
your girl Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. Folks.
You know, I keep wondering how many red flags are
enough for us to recognize that the America that we
all grew up in is no more that what we

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believed to be. Institutions that were above reproach, people that
deserved our reverence are just political hacks that are full
of shit. I point to you on this Memorial Day

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a recent article that came out at the end of
last week that is surely yeah, is it an eye roll? Absolutely?
Is it something that we should really probably be paying
attention to. Yeah, I think so. So we've talked about
this on the show before, which is that Justice Alito,

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in front of his home had flown a flag that
was an upside down American flag on his home in Virginia,
and he said, well, that wasn't really me, it was
my wife. You know, she handles apparently the decorating, you

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know how nineteen fifties of him. And you know, this
goes in line with other politicians that love to throw
their wives under the bus or just like feign ignorance
in their own homes, you know. Well, come to find
out that the New York Times found another quote unquote

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provocative flag, as they've put in their article that quote,
the Justice's beach house displayed an appeal to Heaven flag,
a symbol carried on January sixth and associated with a
push for a more Christian minded government. I'll go you
one step further, New York Times, because you never seem

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to go far enough, which is that, No, this isn't
just about a quote unquote Christian minded government. This is
about Christian nationalism. It is about white Christian nationalism right
in this country that Justice Alito and his entire family,
including his little lady of a wife who's in charge

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of the decorating, believe in and so reminded that justices
are supposed to just look at the law. They're supposed
to be, you know, aligned with precedent, aligned with what
the law and the Constitution states. But what we have

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seen with regard to these justices is that that couldn't
be further from the fucking truth. They are all political,
fucking HAPs And frankly, what Justice Alito is showing, and again,
what's the recourse, what's the punishment? Is it just the

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finger wag. There is no punishment, friends, for a lifetime appointment.
You can't even call Justice Roberts before the Senate Judiciary
Committee because guess what, he just won't show up. And
for the New York Times to say it is a
provocative flag, give me a fucking break. What do you

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think would happen if Katanji Brown Jackson or Sonya sotomayor
right hung a Black Lives Matter flag at their homes? Now,
I am not trying to equate white Christian nationalism with
Black Lives Matter, But what I'm saying is, what do
you think that the right would do if that were

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to happen. What do you think would happen if Katanji
Brown Jackson's husband had been on the phone with Biden's
chief of staff trying to talk to them about the
upcoming twenty twenty four election. What do you think that
the right would do with that information? They'd be forced

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to resign. So when I see these stories that continue
to just mount, I don't want us to become desensitized
to the fact that we are supposed to be able
to hold our justices in esteem. But what Donald Trump
and what the Republican Party has done to the Supreme

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Court over the last several years is bring it into
the sewer. Is use and weaponize this Supreme Court to
push through a white nationalist agenda. I haven't heard yet
Biden's campaign talk about the importance of the courts or
expanding the courts. Oh, because that's too controversial. But apparently

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Justice Alito flying whatever flags he wants in front of
his house that denote his political allegiance and his ideology.
Apparently that's okay. So I want to read part of
this article in the New York Times about Alito's flag,
just so you have an idea of where our Supreme

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Court is right now. Quote. Last summer, two years after
an upside down American flag was flown outside the Virginia
home of Justice Samuel Alito Junior, another provocative symbol was
displayed at his vacation house in New Jersey, according to
interviews and photographs. This time it was the quote appeal

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to Heaven flag, which, like the inverted US flag, was
carried by rioters at the Capitol on January sixth, twenty
twenty one. Also known as the Pine Tree flag, it
dates back to the Revolutionary War, but largely fell into
obscurity until recent years, and is now a symbol of
support for former President Donald Trump for a religious strand

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of the Stop the Steel campaign for a push to
remake American government in Christian terms. Three photographs obtained by
The New York Times, along with accounts from a half
dozen neighbors and passer buyers, show that the Appeal to
Heaven flag was aloft at the Alito home on Long
Beach Island in July and September of twenty twenty three.

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A Google street View image from late August also shows
the flag. The photographs, each taken independently, are from four
different dates. It is not clear whether the flag was
displayed continuously during those months or how long it flown
was flown overall. Who gives a fuck? Who cares if

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it was flown throughout the year, if it was flown
for five minutes. We now have a black and white
understanding of what the flag means where it was carried previously, right,
and it is in front of a Supreme Court justices home,

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not once, but fucking twice, not one home but two homes.
So are we all just supposed to be like, oh, well,
you can fly whatever you want out of your home
when you're supposed to be the arbiter of law and
order in this country. And that is a symbol that
was used on one of the darkest days in modern history,

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in this coy for our Capitol building that had never
been breached, not in any war, except for on January sixth,
twenty twenty one. And you're telling me that two years
after that most disgusting display of white supremacy, that a
Supreme Court justice two years later is flying that flag

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and thinking nothing of it. And we're just supposed to
what dismiss it? I tell you, folks, You know it
is wild. It is ridiculous that these people are even
right in at like Justice Alito hasn't recused himself from
Donald Trump's immunity case, right, Clarence Thomas hasn't recused himself

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from anything having to do with Donald Trump, knowing that
both of their wives are clearly in bed with MAGA.
Justice John Roberts is not saying, you know what, our
poll numbers are in the shitter. This looks really bad. Y'all.
Two should sit this one out. We just continue to

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move along with business as usual while these people wreck
havoc on our country and try and mold it into
what they deem to be true. America is not a
fucking Christian nation. America was founded by some religious zealots

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who didn't want to pay taxes and fled the rule
of the king. America is indigenous land that was home
to many and many a tribes that believed in community,
that believed in alignment with nature and spirit and the universe.

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People of all different faiths call America home. What makes
America exceptional? If there is anything left that makes America exceptional,
it's a fact that, you know what. When I go
walking in one of my favorite parks in New York City,
I hear a barrage of languages. I see people meditating, praying,

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and it is beautiful. I see drivers at times pull
over with their prayermats so they can observe their islam
faith right. I walk past Jewish delis that are closed
on the high holidays. I see people adorned in all

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different modes, expressive of their religious faith, and largely do
so without harassment, without fear, because that's what it means
to have freedom of religion in this country. But what
these Republicans are doing aided and abedded by this grifting,

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cheating Supreme Court is to shape it into their vision
where they put prayer back in school, but not your
prayer or my prayer, but the prayer that they want
you to do. Let me take you into a dark
place in my mind. Donald Trump is elected and within
the first one hundred days, moss all across this country

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are closed. Synagogues are shuddered, All houses of faith that
are not white or Christian are shuddered because Trump says so,
and people say no, that could never happen, because blah
blah blah, stop with the that could never happen. If

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there is anything that we have learned over the last
nine years of trump Ism is that any fucking thing
is possible, That even the darkest corners of our mind
where we're just like you know what, I don't even
want to think it because if I think it, then
I give it energy, and if I give it energy,
I give it life. Those dark, dark things that we

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push out of our minds can happen and will happen.
The other day I posted a video on TikTok and
I was responding to a comment that was made, and
it was an honest comment and I think the person

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who had posted it. The comment said I hate that
I have to vote Biden, but I will. And I
responded to that comment and I said, I appreciate you right,
because I know that people are angry. I am angry,
I am disgusted, But I will tell you that I

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don't care if I have to wash down this hard
pill that we are going to need to swallow together
on November fifth. But I'm going to tell you, folks
that you don't have to be aligned with this man
on everything. You don't have to like him, We don't

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have to want to have a beer with him. We
don't have to want to put his face on a
T shirt or a flag in our front yard. But
what we need to do, what we need to reconcile with,
is that this time around, maybe we do want to
be like Republicans and be single issue voters, and that

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single issue be our freedom, be our rights, be our democracy.
If you care about women, right, if you care about women,
or you are a woman, or you have a uterus,
I suggest you take a look at what is happening
in places like Louisiana and Virginia, places where those Republican

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governors are voting to block access to contraception, where Donald
Trump himself came out and want to do double talk
on contraception right signaling to his religious zealot base that

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that's next on the chopping block. We then doing a
double talk and being like, oh no, no, I didn't
mean what I said. Donald Trump at this point means
everything that he says, and he should take him at
his word. And so when we look out at this
country right now, this post ro v. Wade world, twenty

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states no longer have full access to abortion. In twelve
plus of those states, abortion is banned outright, with no
exceptions for rape or incest or even right the life
of the pregnant person. They don't give a fuck. The

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other day at the Supreme Court hearing, you listen to
Justice's debate how much blood a patient would have to
lose in order for a doctor to be able to
administer abortion care, how many organs need to be failing.

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They don't see women and people with uteruses as whole,
complete human beings, worthy of life and dignity and respect
and autonomy. They see us as parts parts that they
don't care if they fail, are wherever able to rebound.
I don't know if these motherfuckers think that pregnancy and

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childbirth looks like this stork visiting your house, knocking on
the door and leaving and just a fresh, clean, healthy baby.
That's not what childbirth is. That's not what pregnancy is.
And most people don't know that until they become pregnant
that it is indeed a miracle if you choose and

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are able to give birth to a healthy child, because
the amount of things that can and do go wrong
is terrifying, the amount of things that can go wrong
in delivery terrifying. I had somebody say to me the

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other day that they were talking to a friend that
is trying to get pregnant, And I probably mentioned this
to you before, but it is sticking with me that
they're worried about flying around the country for work and
need to make sure that their flights are rooted through,
routed through states that still allow abortion, because what if

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she miscarries and her layovers in Georgia or Louisiana, It
doesn't matter that she's not from there, it matters what
hospital she would be denied care at. No person, no

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person should have to deal with that kind of stress
and worry, you know, That's one of the stories that
we used to tell as LGBTQ plus people with regard
to marriage equality. What if before we had marriage equality,
you were traveling with your partner and they fell ill,

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and you were denied the ability to make their care
decisions or even see them because you were gay, because
you were trans. We had to make it visual the
patchwork of protections that people had, and what folks need

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to think about, what they need to have on their person.
It's too much, folks. So when I say that there
is so much, so very much that is at stake
in this election, you don't need to check every issue

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and say, well, he's not Biden isn't one hundred percent
with me on all of the issues that I care about.
So I'm going to sit this one out, pick one
of them, and I will remain steadfast with the fact
that you cannot fight for democracy anywhere else in this
world if you lose it at home. Because if we

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lose democracy in this country, we lose our voice, we
lose our power, and we won't be able to exercise
it or wield it elsewhere. That's the truth, that's what
we're facing. Donald Trump is very clear. Maga is very clear.
It is laid out in Project twenty twenty five, in

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nine hundred plus pages on the Heritage Foundation dot org.
What their plan is, what's your plan for November twenty
twenty four. That's what we need to be thinking about
over the next several months. That is it for me today.

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Dear friends on wokf as always, power to the people
and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay
woke as fuck.