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as well. But at the time of this recording, I'm having some wild thoughts, folks, and I'm gonna share them with you, which is I woke up this morning and I was filled with a sense of dread that I have not felt since July, since the change in the ticket. And in all honesty, this is what I'm gonna say. This has nothing to do with what the Harris Wall's team is doing. I think that they are doing phenomenal. I think that this ticket has revitalized people. I think

that they're messaging their road shows. Everything that they're doing is Chef's Kiss perfect. So this is not at all as what would normally be my critique on what Democrats need to do and how they're shitty at messaging and dah da da da, da da da. What I woke up feeling a sense of dread around is that there are just really well funded people and to keys organizations,

news outlets that are all conspiring to end democracy. And it just struck me that if this were a normal election, right, like if this were twenty twelve, and you know, it was really about the Republican candidate versus the Democratic candidate, and made the person with the best ideas win, right, the one that can convince the American people of your ideology wins, then I would say, hands down, Kamala Harris is going to win. She has plans for our health care,

for our economy, for our education system. She has plans, not concepts of a plan, but an actual plan. And so if that were the case, and there warrant multi billionaires like Peter Teel, Elon Musk and these other right wing billionaire set that have all the money in the world in order to spread their lives, that convinced the American public that we should have a dictatorship, have a

American oligarchy. Because something, you know, I have to tell you my mind has been working overdrive and I have not I did not sleep last night at all, Like I just my brain was just churning, churning, churning, and I started to think about something. Hang with me for a moment, one of my guilty pleasures, and I know I'm going to embarrass myself and I don't care. I'm telling you all. The truth of my guilty pleasures is

that I hate love watch the Kardashians. Yes, I have fueled their multi billion dollar empire because I watch it. Funny enough, with very much an analyst's mindset, which is like, how did we get here, like as a society where at one time, let's just walk down the path of America and how you had these group of religious right wing zealots that left the British to flee from persecution because they were right wing zealots. They were not looking

for religious freedom. They were looking to indoctrinate everyone around them. So let's just be clear on that they come to the United States and create this thing called democracy where you were not going to have to serve a king, and that there are not based on royal blood, this designation of wealth, that we are going to have a more equitably just system these coming from the people obviously that created the Transatlantic slave trade and used it in

order to build said country. I digress. But what happened was instead of their being and there were still the wealthy, right, the Rockefellers and others, right, that were the titans quote unquote of industry, But we kind of moved away from this idea of these mini fiefdoms and people you know, had their own homes and their white picket fence and you know, their own backyards and all of these things. But over the course of time, and I've actually like

been watching this through the Kardashians. The Kardashians were rich when the show started twenty years ago. I don't even know how long they've been on the air. It feels like forever. They were rich, living in Beverly Hills. One parent was an Olympian, the other one was a famed lawyer, sending their kids to school in Beverly Hills, private schools, you know, doing all these things. But if you go back to like the beginning of the show, they were

regular rich. You have the big house, and you have a couple of nice cars, and you throw parties, right, But you're like working. They were going out and doing speaking and you know, and selling shit and like whatever. Kim Kardashian was organizing friends closets for money and like doing things. But because of Reality TV, because of their

ability to recognize that they were indeed the product. So instead of them partnering, which is how they started partnering with brands, getting endorsements and then you know, hawking that brand stuff, they started to say, wait a minute, why am I only taking this piece when it's my celebrity that's selling X And so I am now going to commodify every aspect of my life from the eyes on Instagram to Twitter, to this, that and the other thing to the reality TV show And now they are uber rich,

private planes and staff of fifty rich, multiple nannies, security, like the whole nine. They went from this regular idea of the quote unquote American dream, which is ascending to prosperity, to blowing that shit out of the water to where they have created this culture of celebrity worship and commodification of brand and image and all of these things. And they've done it, whether or not you like it or not. In probably one of the most brilliant fashions, which is

why they are multi billionaires. Now that being said, they didn't start from nothing. They started from millions and then we're able to parlay that into billions. Right. But they've all these celebrities now have created these dynasties where we have gone back. We don't have a centralized king, but they all have their own dynasties that are being fueled

by us. We are paying into it. And once these people and the industry realized you can control engagement through algorithms and all of these things and sell you stuff all the fucking time you're being sold to. It is like our tension became the ultimate product that has fueled this new age of like the Downton Abbey's and the

Bridgeton and all of that fantasy type of thing. But it's happened in real life where the rest of us our wealth has decreased while the wealthy have become exponentially wealthier. So I think about this, folks, and I think about the position that we're in where twenty years ago, a six figure salary should have been able to buy you a home, having a six figure salary should have been able to buy you a home. Having a six figure salary in twenty twenty four means absolutely nothing, but it

meant everything in two thousand. So because the uber wealthy has increased their wealth by such a scale in such a short period of time, there was never any trickle down that happened. Like we as middle class, working class people that get app just got bigger and bigger and bigger. It's wild to watch it in real time as you're watching these shows and you're sinking to yourself, well, wait a minute, what's happened with me over the last twenty

years and my economic viability? While these people went from normal rich to filthy fucking PJ private Jet rich, what has happened to the rest of us? Well, corporations have bought up mortgages, driving prices through the roof. It has become just a known debt to even go to university, which you were told that you needed to do. So you're already you're told, oh, make six figures, right, but you're in order to do that, going into six figures worth of debt to then be locked inside of this

trap of just keeping your head above water. Because I was saying to my mom the other day, and I promise you. I'm getting back to Peter Tiel and like these technocrats is that I don't even think in the grand scheme of things, what we perceived being the quote unquote middle class is even the middle class anymore? Like I think that for you to be considered middle class, you need to be making well into the six figures, like not with a one in front of it. And

that's fucking wild. So we're making more money or working to make more money in order to actually have less. And so you have these people who are sitting in their fiefdoms, in their dynasties that they've created. Elon Musk is on the verge of becoming the world's first trillionaire.

He's the most despicable, disgusting human being, which makes me think about higher powers and really like, this is what we're this is who we're giving this to, right, Like, what's the lesson here that the rest of us are supposed to learn, like to be as disgusting, as cunning as you know whatever, in order to just get yours?

Like is that the lesson? But you look at these people, and because we're grinding so much harder than we did twenty years ago to get so much less, and we're so exhausted by doing it, but we're being force fed that we're not doing enough. You need to grind, hard,

rise and grind in all of these things. These master manipulators who have created the algorithm that have turned our lives upside down and make us just center capitalism in a way that I don't think that we had really before, because it wasn't shoved in our face all the time. Of all the things you could have. Even look at the people cleaning you watch those cleaning videos on Instagram

or on TikTok. These people that like have every gadget for everything, like the screen cleaner and the ear thing cleaner and the bub blah blah blah blah, and they have their fridges look like the Wegmans or a Target or what have you. And it's like this over consumption. Oh, I must have eighty six juice boxes in my fridge at all time and they must be aligned just so, and I must have this thing, and in a I'm not successful unless I have pop up, up, up, up, up,

up up up. All of those things have just become more. Everything is more, and so because of that we worship wealth and we worship celebrity, and so it doesn't even matter that Elon Musk isn't smart, It doesn't matter that Peter Tiel is a lunatic. It just matters how much money they have and people listen to them, because at the end of the day, why is Reality TV, Real Housewives, this,

the Kardashians blah blah, Why are they so successful? Because we want a window into what life could possibly be if we all won the lottery, and they weaponized that. The Republican Party has weaponized that that desire. And so I think about my parents when they were my age, like where they were and what they had, and I was having this conversation with my mom and she's just like, you can't even compare it because she's like, I made so much less than you guys made, but I was

able to buy a home. I was able to do all of these things because interest rates may have been at five percent when I bought, but the homes were twenty thirty, forty fifty thousand dollars, so it balanced it out. But now you're looking at interest rates that are six seven percent and homes on average way I grew up on average or six hundred and fifty thousand dollars. And

this was a neighborhood that was like middle working class neighborhood. Teachers, doctors, firefighters, nurses, some sprinklings of doctors and lawyers, but it was like regular people. So you look at this and you look at these forces, the Republican forces that lie and tell people that the reason why your economic conditions are bad is because of Democrats and because of whatever lie that

they want to tell you. But the thing is is that most of us are seeking an answer why am I struggling so much more than my parents did, but I make more money? The weaponization of wealth and the lies that they're able to tell, and the forces also that this collected one percent can hold on to their dynasties and then we have no choice but being forced to like work for them just to get a little breakoff, right,

Like it's the serfdom, and it's absolutely wild. But when you look at corporate mainstream media and what they're doing to ensure that there is a Trump win, When you look at Elon Musk and what he's putting on his social media to two hundred million followers, when you're looking at those that are advocating their responsibility because they just want to keep their money. You just realize that, like while I say at the end of every show, power

to the people, and to all the people. Power. The people have been slowly robbed of their power and agency over the last twenty thirty years. Oh it was cut the cord with the TV behind me, cut the cord and just get streaming. And then every outlet became streaming. So now if you're paying for cable and all of these streaming, you're actually paying more than what you were paying like ten years ago, because everything has its own fucking streaming app. They're coming at us from every direction.

And I honestly don't know if we ever right size again, meaning that the ninety nine percent hold the ninety nine percent of wealth. I don't think that we do. I don't know if the insatiability of the wealthy is ever tamed, because the more that they have, the more that they want. I say all that to say that we're already living

inside of the Hunger Games. We're already living inside of this kind of weird, altered reality where this certain set gets wealthier and wealthier beyond our wildest dreams and the rest of us struggle more and more and more, but we're told that we're the problem and not the system because a few have been able to succeed. But it was like succeeding when if you're running a marathon and I'm starting from mile twenty with fresh legs and everybody else is starting from mile one, but I win? How

am I considered the winner? But that is where we are in America. And that is what the Republican Party is exploiting right now. And I'm refer it's the weaponization of wealth and envy and this like insatiable greed that the wealthy have like they can't ever get enough. And I don't know where it ends, I really don't, but it's something that has been keeping me up at night and making me wonder about how much does it take

these days in order to be comfortable. By comfortable, I mean that if a bill comes up unexpected, you can pay it and it's not you know, there's no sweat on your brow, right, that you can have small luxuries like vacations and gifts for yourself, like and own a whole like what is that number? And I think that because the system has been so rigged again Republicans are able to exacerbate the pain that we're all feeling because

it's the pain that they've created. Because I'm decades into the workforce and wondering when this is a trickle down actually happen, it doesn't, And just you know, honestly, I'll close out with this, which is that I poke fun at economic and anxiety because I think that it is code for racism. But there is actually a shared struggle

that is happening. But instead of us dealing with that shared struggle, we're pitted against one another because of our race, because of our immigration status, because of our sexual orientation, our gender identity, and we never get to the core of the core. So if they can keep us struggling over that basic shit, then we don't realize that they're

robbing us blind. That is it for me today, Dear friends, on this woke Wednesday again, make sure to tune into the Daniel Moody Show, which is live on my YouTube channel Monday through Thursday. Head over to YouTube, type in Daniel Moody channel and subscribe. Share it with your friends. I'm making a lot of fresh, incredible content over there that I'm really proud of and building a community where we can chat in real time, so do head over there and check it out. As always, Power to the

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