Democrats Are Better

Danielle discusses how Democrats do have moral superiority over Republicans, and the recent events in South Korea.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:11):
Good morning, peeps, and welcome to OKAP Daily with me
your girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the home bunker. Folks.
I don't normally spend a lot of time on this show,
or frankly, any of my shows talking about foreign affairs,
because I'm an expert in what happens in America and

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in American politics. But I will tell you that what
is transpired in South Korea and has occupied our airwaves
and social media has my Spidey senses off in Itzzy.
But let me start with my favorite topic, shall we,

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which is goddamn democrats. Like Honestly, frankly, I can't tell
you enough how many times I have said this over
the last ten years. I am not asking for Democrats

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to completely flip the table and say, well, if they're
not going to play by the rule of law, then
we're not going to play by the rule of law. No,
but there are times when you must recognize that the
law has its limitations. And right now, this both sides

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is a bullshit that Democrats find themselves in with the
comparison the audacity, first of all, to compare what has
happened with Hunter Biden and Joe Biden pardoning him, and
the myriad of crimes that Donald Trump has committed and

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also his inner circle has committed, and Donald Trump then
pardoned them all four the fact that Democrats are even uttering,
how can we possibly hold Donald Trump accountable when Joe
Biden pardons his unelected son for filling out a form improperly.

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But you want to compare that to thirty four felony counts.
You want to compare that to hiding documents when you
were asked by the National Archives on multiple occasions to
return them. You want to compare that to can you
do me a favor? Though? You want to compare that
to find me eleven seven hundred and sixty four votes? Though?

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You want to compare that to Mike Flynn being a
foreign agent. You want to compare that to Steve Bannon
grifting off of the American people and telling them that
they were going to be paying for a brick to
build a wall that oh, Donald Trump said that Mexico
was going to pay for and then pocketing that money.
You want to compare that to Charles Kushner, Jared Kushner's daddy,

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blackmailing and trying to pay off a prostitute to blackmail
his own sister, who is now going to be the
new ambassador to France. You want to compare Hunter Biden
to that, like, are y'all stupid? Like? That is the
question that I have for establishment Democrats at this time.
Are you all dumb? Because you act like you have

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no fucking sense and you act as if you haven't
learned anything anything over the past ten years. So for
people to say that this pardon is gonna send Donald
Trump over the edge, bitch, you should have had a
parachute a long time ago, because we've been over the
edge for the last decade. Miss me with it. But

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you want to talk about Joe Biden pardoning his son
on trumped up political charges that were only created so
that Merrick Garland's bullshit, lackluster, spineless Department of Justice could
have the perception of both sides. Did you hear the

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list of people and crimes that were committed by Donald
Trump and his inner circle? But Democrats right now have
themselves up in a tizzy over one pardon that if
his last name as Eric Holder, said former USAG said

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that if Hunter Biden's name last name had been Smith
or Thompson, or anything other than Biden, he wouldn't have
been awaiting sentencing to begin with. So in the push
not to quote unquote play politics, all Merrick Garland has
done is play politics. And frankly, the only mistake that

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Joe Biden made with regard to this is that he
should have never said that he was never going to
pardon his son. He should have said, I'm going to
allow the Justice Department to move through their investigation, which
is separate from my administration, and then we will see

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and keep it fucking moving. But the actions that Democrats
are taking right now are exactly the reason why people
want to abandon the Democratic Party to begin with. You see, folks,
the Republican Party has been waging war on Democrats on
democracy since the beginning of the Tea Party, okay, which

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started during the Obama administration, Right, so, since the Tea
Party and Donald Trump coming onto the stage asking for
Barack Obama's papers, right, they have been waging war on democracy.
And what have Democrats been doing just hang ringing, pointing fingers,

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trying to pretend that they are the adults in the
room when guess what, folks, everybody else has left the
fucking room. Because they're tired of the both sides ism.
They're tired of the run that Democrats are doing, running
up behind the Republican Party as they continue to move
into further extremism. Guess who's chasing them to the right.

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It is Democrats. So, friends, we can't sit around here
and say, oh, well, we have to be better, because
my thing is we are better. We don't have to
create trumped up charges. We don't have to create this
both sides ism and bullshit in order to showcase that

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we are better. No one should have said anything when
Hunter Biden was pardoned, not a fucking person inside of
the Democratic Party. They should have all done what Jasmine said,
which was bravo, and then follow that up with the
list of people that Donald Trump had pardoned who are
known criminals, which is what Rachel Maddow did. It is

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an abdication of duty and responsibility that Democrats continue to
show in this moment that while they should be bracing
themselves for the incoming of fascism, for the incoming of autocracy,
and how they plant to function in that, No, they're
gonna waste the next couple of weeks talking about Joe

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Biden pardoning his son and think that somehow what Republicans
are not laughing at them and thinking how ridiculous they are.
This is why we are in this space right now,
because Democrats abandoned their base in an attempt to try

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and court the Republicans that somehow they think don't follow
Donald Trump and somehow would be able to bring them
over as opposed to amplifying the issues and creating the
solutions to the problems that are actually plaguing their base.
We find ourselves here, folks, not just because Republicans have

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shown us who they are, but because Democrats don't know
who the fuck they are. That's why we find ourselves
in the place that we are in. And so let
us now look and take a gander at what has
happened in South Korea. So, folks, let me give you

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just a quick little history lesson martial law. What is
martial law? It's a word that is thrown around all
the time, a phrase that is thrown around, but I
don't actually think that we really know what martial law is. Well,
it says here martial law is the temporary substitution of
military authority for civilian rule, typically invoked during emergencies. It

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has been used folks roughly sixty eight times in the
United States's two hundred and fifty year history. Nearly read here.
In the US, it can be declared at both state
and federal levels, and is often associated with the suspension

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of constitutional rights such as habeas corpus. The Posse Commeatus
Act of eighteen seventy eight generally prohibits the military from
enforcing domestic law without congressional approval, but exceptions can be
made during periods of rebellion, invasion, or public safety emergency.

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Let me pause here. Why are we talking about this time? Well,
because the president of South Korea, President Yun, decided that
as he was being alerted to the fact, Well one,
his approval ratings are roughly around twenty two percent. He

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is the conservative in South Korea, and the parliament is
controlled by DP, the Democratic Party, and there were rumblings
that they were getting ready to impeach him along with
some of his cabinet. And to avoid that impeachment, this

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mffort decided that he was going to invoke martial law.
Y'all put a pin in that. So go back to
our history, lesson, when was the last time that the
US declared martial law. Well, it was in nineteen forty one,
actually December seventh, nineteen forty one, to be exact. And

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when did it occur? When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor,
the US federal government declared martial law in Hawaii, which
persisted through October nineteen forty four. And again, the United
States has only declared martial law roughly sixty eight times.

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No martial law was not declared during nine to eleven.
So I want to bring you through exactly what it
is that happened. South Korea's president declares martial law and
during that time, the military helicopters everything basically broke out

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at parliament to try and stop members of parliament from
entering the building to vote to end martial law. So
President Yun calls for martial law because Parliament is getting
ready to potentially impeach him, and he does this to

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suspend all political activity from stopping Parliament from organizing and voting.
And what do the members of parliament do. They break
into parliament, hopping the walls, breaking into windows to get
in to organize to vote. So the military was breaking

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into parliament, smashing the windows and attempting to storm the
National Assembly because they were initially following the president's martial
law order. Because why were they breaking in the military
because Parliament voted to unanimously, unanimously lifting martial law so

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that they could reclaim democracy. Because this mffor wanted to
hold on to power visa via dictatorship. He openly threatened
to stop democracy so that he wouldn't be impeached. And
then they had to break in to parliament to vote

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to stop the dictator and the military didn't know whose
rules to follow. Folks, Why am I talking about this
today because I don't know if this is foreshadowing or not.
So I'll read you this. Let this sink in. A
government trying to restore freedom is being silenced at gunpoint.

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This is the first time martial law in South Korea
is declared since nineteen seventy nine, when it preceded the
informans I will butcher this Yangzhou uprising President Yun Sukiel's justification.
He claimed martial law was to stop quote prepare for it, folks,

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anti state forces. That he claimed that the opposition party,
the Democratic Party, was working alongside North Korea. Do you
see follow the bouncing ball here, he basically lied to
say that the opposition to him were really enemies of

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the state and that they were working alongside the North
Koreans and he had to issue martial law in order
to stop these communist forces from taking over the country. Folks,
what does this sound like? This tweet goes on to say,
this isn't about protecting the nation, It's about consolidating power.

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Martial law is being weaponized to suppress dissent and control
the media because the added benefit of issuing martial law
in South Korea means that guess who gets to take
over the media? The president, So guess who gets to
stop any objections from coming in President Yun? Guess who

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gets to relay their message that I'm doing this for
your safety because the Democratic Party of South Korea is
working with North Korea and I'm here trying to save democracy.
Who does this sound like, folks? The person writing the
tweet goes on to say, South Korea is standing on

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the edge of authoritarianism and the world is watching this,
My dear friends, is what this should remind all of
us of. This is exactly what was happening. January sixth,
twenty twenty one. Donald Trump wanted to hold on to power,

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so he told his band of insurrectionists to go take
their country back because there was what illegalities as it
attains to the vote. Their vote was stolen. The Democratic
Party was stealing their votes. So you need to go

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take your country back. And this mob believed him. When
Donald Trump was told what was happening, did he call
in backup to help the police, No he did not.
Did he call in the military, No he did not.
What concerns me about what we just saw unfolding South

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Korea is that parliament is actually still controlled by the opposition. However,
for us here in the United States, Democrats don't control
a goddamn thing. On top of the fact that they
don't even control their fucking message. So going back to

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the top, the United States has only declared martial law,
which the President of the United States has the ability
to do, Congress has the ability to do, and governors
have the ability to do. But in cases of natural disaster, rebellion,
or unrest, laws can be suspended. What did I say

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yesterday about how Donald Trump will decide to manufacture crises
in order to push through his plans of authoritarianism. And
the thing here is that, unlike South Korea, again, Democrats

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do not control the House, nor do they control the Senate,
nor do they control the White House or the judiciary.
So what is to stop Donald Trump from coming in
and saying one that we have an invasion, language that
you have heard him use when discussing undocumented people in

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this country. He has said, we are in an invasion.
These are when you're able to institute, whether it be
the Insurrection Act, which is what his followers wanted him
to use on January sixth, which also, by the way,
allows you to designate a militia. So the fact is, yes,

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Trump has zero guardrails, and he has been given absolute
immunity by the Supreme Court. There is very little, friends,
except what a handful of Republicans that maybe still believe
in the rule of law. But if they did, then

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they would have voted to impeach Donald Trump. So either
he declares right that there is an invasion coming across
the border and we need to call in martial law,
or he manufactures a state of unrest, which is what
we did actually see during the twenty twenty summer of

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twenty twenty. The uprising following the murder of George Floyd. Again,
Donald Trump and the Republican Party is looking for an
opportunity to do exactly what it is the South Korean
president had done. But we don't have a parliament that
is working in our favor. So why are we all

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paying attention to South Korea right now? Because much like
Brexit was foreshadowing to the election of Donald Trump in
twenty sixteen, I believe that we are watching democracy crumble
around the world and be tested in ways that it
has not been tested in decades and decades and decades.

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So this is where we are. It is absolutely terrifying.
But I encourage each and every person to understand these
laws and understand what powers the president has and what
powers he has been given by the Supreme Court of

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the United States. They believe, folks, that they are at
war already, as Jasmine Crockett, Representative Crockett said so adeptly.
They already believe that we are at war. They already
see any opposition as enemy forces. So if you believe

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that you are at war, if you no longer see
the opposition party right as your colleagues from across the
aisle and you start to see them as the enemy within.
Believe me that they are going to find a way
to be able to suspend the Constitution to usher in autocracy,

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and I honestly don't know who is going to stop them.
And this is where we are. So while Democrats again
want to have conversations about what Biden should or should
not have done, Republicans are getting ready to take power

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and never let it go. And then what so, folks,
we are in for it. And I encourage people to
be paying attention to what is happening around the world
right now. You know, America is very good at existing
inside of our own siloed bubble because we're so far

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away from everyone else. But there have been bad actors
that have been taking their cues from Donald Trump, and
unlike in America, other people are managing to hold their
Trump lights accountable, whereas America has just re elected ours.

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And if that is not wild af I don't honestly
know what is that is it for me today? Dear
friends on wokf as always, power to the people and
to all the people. Power woke and stay woke as fuck.