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New American Oligarchy

Published Dec 13, 2024, 8:00 AM

Goodness doesn't matter in America, and hasn't for quite some time. And yet the mainstream media still wants us to side with greedy corporations and CEOs.

Good morning, peeps, and welcome to ok F Daily with me your Girl daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker. You know, folks, this week, I feel like we are just spiraling out of control, Like as a country, as a world, I really do feel like most of us are hanging on for dear life. I talked about this on The Danielle Moody Show one of the episodes that I entitled The United States of Dystopia, And it's this feeling that everything that we've been told, right, like, think about the things that you've been taught since you were in grade school, you know, to be kind, to be empathetic, like you know, right versus wrong, you know, setting a moral compass, like all of these things, sharing right, Like all of these things are principles that were to lead us to educate us on being kind, good humans. And what we see is that like that was all just one big fucking gag because it is the greedy, the vile, the monstrous, the hateful that succeed. Whether you were looking at the murder of the CEO of United Healthcare and the fact that this man was in the midst of insider trading that had his claim to fame as a great CEO is having denied tens of millions of people healthcare coverage when they needed it so that he could pocket the money as well as his shareholders. That these are people that don't stock again to enrich themselves off of the despair of other people. But he's at the top of the pyramid. You look at Elon Musk, whose fortune is like teetering on, you know, being into the trillions of dollars, and he's being labeled as a genius because of his amassed wealth and not a greedy son of a bitch right, who hates people, who hates freedom of speech, who hates trans people, but he is celebrated. You look at Donald Trump, who has been named to be the Person of the Year by Time magazine, which we know is not necessarily an award, but it is recognition again of the vileness that has ushered him into office yet again. And you know, when you sit and you look, it's just like, why are we teaching young people to be decent? Why are we teaching them to be kind? And as a matter of fact, the words that come out of our mouth are very contrary to the actions that are taken by those around them that they see and they see, notably what success is supposed to look like. You know, I was at an event the other day, and this is how folks. I also know that like, I am old right because I believe in those virtues of like empathy and kindness, of like, you know, engaging in things like conversation that leave you feeling nourished and recognizing like that's just not where we are. I went to this event where you know, I honestly I was surrounded by like twenty somethings. And this is not like an admonishment on the younger generation, It's just an observation where you know, I remember going to you know, company events, networking events, you know, congressional receptions, et cetera, et cetera, when I was in my twenties, and the whole point, right was to network, right, was to connect, broaden out your network, which would then help you right moving forward in in your career. And I go to this event for a you know, an online magazine, and there was no conversation that was being had between people except for the people that you came with. There was just a parade of folks with their phones and selfie lighting and creating content just in every corner as individuals, not as like a collective, right, And again there was no there wasn't even any necessarily any branding that was out that would tell you who this event was being thrown by, or like why you should care about it. It was just happened to be in an instagrammable restaurant and that's all that people were doing, not talking to each other. So there was like why are you even here? You know? And that's kind of where like I know that that's just it's like why are you even here? It's not to connect with other people. It's not to engage with people. It's to engage with like, you know, these imaginary followers that you'll never actually meet in real life. Most likely, it's to show people how great and how cool and how slicky you are. Look at where I am, and all of it is just like one big fucking illusion. And so like I found myself sitting there and I'm just looking around, and I you know, and I was a marker for me of a moment when you realize that, like you're old, right, because like I care about conversation, I care about the content that people are putting out and folks are ingesting and like that was not the thing, that was not the vibe. You know, I care about who we highlight, who we put a spotlight on as like you know, the person of the year or like, and again it has nothing to do with what good people are doing, because good is not actually celebrated in this country or rewarded. It's those that have like that are so self serving, so self involved, so fucking greedy. Those are the ones that get the most followers. Those are the ones that get elected. It isn't about like who is doing good and how to model that, And I just I honestly, it had me just really thinking this week about what kind of society we will live in moving forward. And I do think that it is not going to be community based at all. I do think that it is going to be every person for themselves, a dog eat dog type of dystopia where we could give a shit less about who lives next door and down the street and how we can be of service and of help like that being of service right is going to be something that goes extinct. And I just think that we're going to experience just this hardening of our spirit, of our hearts of our connection, because what we see being rewarded are people that do the exact and total opposite of the lessons that we were taught in elementary school. So it's like, you know, whether or not you're directing kids to model themselves after Donald Trump and Elon Musk and others, you know, by virtue of who is celebrated and the fact that we adore like just you know, the adoration for wealth. I mean, we're just so we're bankrupt everywhere else. I don't know what the answer is. I don't know how to bring us back to a place where kindness and empathy and generosity is celebrated. The fact is is that I don't think that we're ever going to get back to that place right, and I think that that is where I find myself struggling. Is the way to combat the onslaught of hatred, vitriol, harshness. The only way to combat that is going to be through collective love, joy, empathy, and community building. Because the way that fascism and authoritarianism takes hold is by pitting people against each other, is by creating this false sense of scarcity, is by having neighbor turn against neighbor. But if you see now through the environment, through like the lens of like extreme capitalism, where you know, as was said with the movie Wall Street back in the eighties Gordon Gecko, greed is good. Not only is greed good right as seen in this country, but it is elevated right. It is made to be the model that we should all aspire to. And so, knowing this, and people continue to ask me, Danielle, then what do we do? What do we do? And I'm like, you got to start locally. You have to, you know, define for yourself, for your family, for your friends, Like really, what is what is your moral compass? What connects you and keeps you grounded in goodness? And you know, the whole purpose now is to turn these self serving, you know, greedy oligarchs into our new you know, kings and queens that like we serve at their pleasure, and if we kiss the ring and we obey, then maybe they'll show some kindness on us. Maybe they'll you know, throw a few coins our way, and then those coins that we are able to grab then make us just a little bit better than those that are below us, you see. And that's the goal and the role and so if you know the game right ahead of time, like you can decide to opt out of it and opt into building real relationships, opt into finding value in things that are internal rather than external. All these people want is attention and adoration, And what if we were to decide that we're not going to give it to them, We're not going to bestow it to them. And I think that in a twisted, weird way, we're seeing that happen with this, with the celebration of this alleged shooter. You're seeing people really look through a lens that is allowing us to really critique how we got to this place in the first place. Like I said this, you know, on on the episode of The New Abnormal, which is out today as well, and I said, you know, with my co host Andy, I was just like, the problem that the media is having around this shooter, Luigi Maggione, this alleged shooter, is that they can't just shrug their shoulders and say he was crazy, right, like, oh, he's insane and this is just you know, and brush him off. It's like, no, he was educated in the same you know, elite systems. He comes from a wealthy family, is in fact, a rich, you know, white man who you know, by virtue of having his own pain right, his own chronic pain, started to look at this system that profits off of his pain and profits off of everyone's pain, and that really strike a chord. You know, if you looked at his alleged manifesto, it was one that like doesn't read like a crazy person like these other manifestos that we've seen where people are hailing Donald Trump after they shoot up a synagogue or a church or what have you, you know, because of their racism and their hatred and their bodas. It's like, no, you can't look at this system and say that people can only as Elizabeth Warren stated, and that she's receiving pushback for people can only be pushed so far. And right now, billionaires who are trying to create this new American oligarchy are going to push people to their breaking point. As the saying goes, when there's nothing left to eat, you eat the rich. Right when there's no more appeals to be made to those that gleefully rejoice in your suffering, than you're going to takestic radical action. I say that, you know, violence is not the answer, but it seems to be the only answer that America actually listens to. You can't look at this country whose founding was steeped in violence, right, and then look at people for celebrating this shooter and say, oh, you're depraved, really, because I think that denying healthcare to millions of people who pay into a system that is essentially a Ponzi scheme is fucking depraved. I think that sending weapons that murder children and women and innocent civilians and saying that this is justified is fucking depraved. America is being revealed in this moment, and it feels like things are being turned upside down. But I really don't think that they are. I think that they've never been right side up. I think that we have been fed and narrative that has this belief that if we just work hard enough, right, if we just do good and do right, then you too can reap the rewards of this parasitic capitalistic system. And that is not the truth. The people with the immense amount of wealth in this country, they didn't fucking work for it. It was inherited. Right. So when people say like, oh, I'm you know, I'm wake up and rise and grind and like, hustle so hard and blah blah blah, you know, to make my way into being a millionaire or a billionaire. It's like, nah, you were just born into the wrong family because those people did not hustle hard. They inherited stolen wealth and profits from other people, and we were told to again adore them, to aspire to them. You know, it wasn't until I'll tell you this, the marriage of Megan and Prince Harry right and the treatment that she received from the royal family, from the people of the UK and the media there, that it took a lot of folks to realize, why aren't we fucking celebrating this royal family to begin with? These people who have a mass their wealth on the backs and deaths and murder and torture and thieving that they have done for generations. But somehow we're like, oh my god, look their royalty there. You know, they're blue bloods, they're this, that and the other thing. They're craven, they're craven. But they go and they've conquered and colonized and made the very people that they conquered and colonized worship them. Oh, look at their philanthropy. Look at their fucking philanthropy. You mean that they stole and extracted and then they sprinkle around stolen goods and we called that philanthropy. All we've ever done is celebrate the villain. But you would know that they were villains because they have been the author of the story, contorting it to fit their end. So if you're looking for leadership and for those to be a moral compass, you need look no further than yourself, because I see no one around us that we should be aspiring to. They are setting a prime example of everything that is actually wrong, and it's disheartening. But the minute that we turn our eyeballs and our dollars away from those that do us harm, they will cease to have power. And that's what we need to remember. That is it for me today, Dear friends on wok af As always power to the people and to all the people. Power, Yet woke and stay woke as fock

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