Chained to the Bottom

me your Girl, Danielle Moody, recording from the Home Bunker. Folks, We've made it to the end of yet another week in America that has left my head spinning in so many ways on this bucket Friday, and I have so many things that I want to say fuck it to, but I want to start off today with the coverage of the Ocean Gate vessel that you couldn't have avoided knowing about if you tried, because clearly, the lives of five billionaires is more important than anything else right that

could possibly be happening. And you know, folks, I know that there are gonna be people that are going to listen to the comments that I'm making and be you know, offended, and say, a life is a life and we should care. And I wish that that was the fucking case, right. I wish that we honestly did care, and that everybody's lives did matter, and that you know, when we were to see stories whether or not those people had billions of dollars or not, that it would matter, right, that

it would it would matter what happened to them. But what we realize and what we know to be true is that in America it doesn't matter, right, So stories that people have been comparing this too is five days prior to this sub submersible ship going missing, and to call it a ship is loose because basically, as many have said, it was the size of a minivan, probably even smaller than that, in tube form that you couldn't stand up in or lay down in, that had about

a twenty inch window, was controlled by some game device, and the CEO boasted about the fact that if you care about safety, then you shouldn't go after this quote unquote two hundred and fifty thousand dollars adventure, right, And of course the CEO is one of the people that we now believe after a debris field was discovered by

coastguard that they may have all perished. But five days before this happened, before this caught national attention, dozens, right, dozens of people died after a migrant ship sunk off

of the coast of Greece. And you know, it is amazing to me that you would see a vessel filled with hundreds of people who are fleeing all types of things, folks like, all types of things that apparently you know, the countries that they're fleeing to probably were part of the fucking problem, right in destabilizing their countries, right, And there was no coverage. The only reason why I saw the pictures like I'm sure you have now on social

media with the comparison. And I always thank my friend aim and Mohedeen, host of Amen on MSNBC, because it was his Instagram post that alerted me to media discribe and see in the coverage where you have. As he'd said in his caption quote, one of these tragedies at sea this week has captivated the attention of global media, led to a massive mobilization of multinational resources specialized in rescue and recovery, generated global sympathy, and prompted important questions

about safety and regulations. Can you guess which one? And he had the picture of the submersible and the picture of the migrant ship. He goes on to say, no, this post is not saying we should not do everything humanly possible to save everyone, the billionaires and the explorers

in that Titanic submersible. This post is calling for the world everyone to work as tirelessly to save the hundreds of migrants who drowned in the Mediterranean as the five people that knowingly signed a waiver on the first page stating that death was possible. But you had multiple countries organized, use outstanding resources over days, with wall to wall media coverage to go after five billionaires, but not a fucking

thing was done for hundreds of migrants. So how do we live in a world where we say, right where you have Republicans have the audacity to say after black lives matter, that all lives matter, and it's let bits shut up, No they don't. You don't care about all lives. You care about white lives, and you care about wealthy lives. That's it. If you fall anywhere outside of that zone, you are fucked. And it is just so disgusting and so disheartening. It was similarly how I felt about the

initial coverage of Ukraine. You listen to those reporters as the war was beginning, and Ukrainians are fleeing, and it's horrible sights of war and tragedy and people picking up everything that they can carry and fleeing is a heartbreaking site. But why isn't it heartbreaking when it happens to black

and brown people? Why isn't it heartbreaking that the United States has invested money in breaking down countries in order to gain their resources, moving around leaders that will work to advance their financial interests and not that of those countries. And then when those people are forced to flee because of instability, you shut your borders and say, no, we're not taking them. At least Donald Trump and Republicans are fucking honest. We don't want you because you come from

shithole countries. We don't want you because we'd like those nice white folks from nor from Finland and Ukraine and what have you, because they look like us and they will help bolster our dwindling white population. But let's not pretend that we give a shit about war to one countries because there are places where we are comfortable seeing people desperate and miserable with nothing, because that is the

image that you have created. So when I look at these two pictures of the massive amount of wealth, do you understand how much fucking money you have to have to not give a fuck about two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. It's disgusting. The amount of wealth that is hoarded at the top could literally change the lives of millions of people. It's sick, and yet we as a collective global community worship it. Oh, they must be so smart,

they must be geniuses. No they're not. But we always equate wealth with some type of brilliance and that is not the case. And then by virtue, right, then also equate povered with someone's lack of intellectual capability, which means that we have decided that some people are just disposable and don't fucking matter. We say in the United States,

right that we don't have a cast system. You know, right now, the President of India is in the United States, and Nourendra Modi right is, has been Prime Minister since twenty fourteen. In two thousand and five, he was not allowed to come to the United States because of his involvement in a riot that killed one thousand Muslims in India. His administration now right over almost the last ten years, has been responsible for a religious cleansing that is happening

in India. But somehow this man has gotten the ability, the great privilege to be able to address a joint session of Congress, to speak with and be invited to the East Room of the White House and for the first time has taken questions from reporters because in his own country he doesn't do that. What kind of democracy doesn't have a free press. But you see, these are things that the United States is willing to overlook because you know money, because you know, India has resources that

can be used. So we'll overlook the human rights crisis that is happening at the hands of President Modi. And then it's amazing to me, right that then reporters of this country, yes, some have raised this issue, and you have members of Congress like Congresswoman Alexandria A. Cassio Cortez,

AOC who has said this about Modi. She said, quote, I will be boycotting Prime Minister Modi's addressed to Congress, and I encourage my colleagues who stand for pluralism, tolerance, and freedom of the press to join me in doing the same. In two thousand and five, Nourendra Modi was denied a US visa because of his violations of religious freedom, including his complicity in an anti Muslim riot that left

over one thousand dead. India currently ranks one hundred and sixty one out of one hundred and eighty in the World Press Freedom Index in part due to Modi's raids on BBC India's offices and his court challenges against a critical documentary. Additionally, a report from the US Holocaust Museum found that India is at high risk for mass killings, the eighth most at risk of one hundred and sixty

two countries studied. She goes on to say a joint address is among the most prestigious invitations and honors for the United Congress can extend, we should not do so for individual with deeply troubling human rights records, particularly for individuals whom our own State Department has concluded our engage in systemic, systematic human rights abuses of religious minorities and cast oppressed communities. So then how right, how does President

Biden invite Mody to the US money? Right, we got to get shit built somewhere, and that's all this is ever about. But on the same hand, I look at Western reporters asking questions of Mody about his human rights violations and presiding over a nation that is so poor and has such gaps in the haves and the have nots, and yet in this country we kind of overlook that shit. A black person is four times or more likely to die at the hands of police at a traffic stop.

Black women giving birth are four to five times more likely to die in the hospital while giving birth. The racial wealth gap in this country is astronomical. Reports on a daily basis about homes being devalued because black people owned it and losing out on tens of thousands of

dollars in their ability to build wealth when selling a home. So, how do we at all have the right or the place, or the frankly, the fucking audacity to call out other nations and their human rights and democracy violations without looking at our own fucking house you had. President Biden is receiving huge backlash for referring to the president of China

as a dictator. They've taken great offense to what that's the follow up question to ask the Chinese quote unquote president, ask him about the weaker population, you know, the population of Muslim wigers that are in the country that he has rounded up and put into internment camps. That he has entire agencies that look for wigas that have fled to bring them back to put them in internment camps in China. So is Biden wrong with what he said. No, But when you look around the world, I'm like, who

is doing it? Fucking well? None of these nations that are being led by men and have been led by men for so fucking long are doing anything right when it comes to human rights. I'm just tired, you know, frankly, of just the blatant hypocrisy of it all. Like America doesn't get to point fingers without pointing a finger at itself. It's actually a disgrace where our country stands right now. Do I think that Modive should have been invited to

the United States, Absolutely fucking not. Do I think that more should be being done in order to root out racism and white supremacy and creating actual laws that would do so, and domestic terrorism in this country? Yeah, is it ever gonna happen? No? You know so, My very big fuck it today is to capitalism. You know, like capitalism a system that requires people to be chained to the bottom in order to serve the very very few

at the top. To have so much wealth and do nothing good with it is really wild, And to be celebrated like you're some type of fucking god is also part of the sickness. And I just wonder, you know, what is the solution? Because I see, much like I, much like we are living inside the deterior of our democracy. We are watching the tear deterioration of capitalism as well. You have this push right, you know, go back to work,

go back to the offices. Why because of money has nothing to do with productivity, has everything to do with power and money. And if workers, god forbid, workers have power over their own lives and how they produce, well, my god, what will come next? Everything is about control and capitalism is about dangling out little carrots to make people feel that if they just work a little harder, grind a little more, do a little more of this, that and the other thing, than they too are going

to hit the jackpot of life. It's all a lie. The system wasn't built for the majority to have autonomy. It was built on an illusion, and we are living inside is all the glitches of the matrix that are all happening at one time. So yeah, my big fucket this week is to capitalism and greed. On so many levels.

Things are so fucking wrong. And when I dig, and I dig and I dig, at the root of it is money and power consistent struggle between the haves and the have nots, and creating desperate conditions so that you limit the thought, you limit the choice that the ninety nine percent have. That's the goal, and people need to wake the fuck up to it. That is it for me today, Dear friends on Woke a f as always, power to the people and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.