Good morning, peeps, and welcome to lok F Daily with Meet your Girl Daniel Moody recording from the Home Bunker.
You know, yesterday.
The Senate passed a ninety five billion dollar aid package that included aid for Ukraine, Israel, and Southeast Asia including Taiwan. And inside of that aid package, they decided to also ban TikTok if the company is not sold. I think that they extended the provision between within nine months to a year, you know, on.
The President's signatures. And I got to.
Tell you something like, and I posted a video on this this week, what a load of fucking bullshit?
Right Like?
Are you all with me on this? Because you have how many fucking crises are we dealing with in this country? How many fucking crises do we have going on around the world. But the only thing that you motherfuckers can come together and agree on is to ban an entertainment and information app because you want to tell us that what it is about privacy and spying? Are you dumb?
Because we already know that all of the platforms that we're on, including the ones that were not on, but the federal government listens into on a regular basis, it's doing more fucking spying and manipulation than TikTok is, or it's about the fucking same. So is it just that you don't have access to the data that is being collected on top of the data that you're already collecting
on us. It just makes no fucking sense. And the only thing that makes sense to me about it, frankly, is the fact that this generation, right, this young generation Generation Z, is with the shits, do you know what I'm saying? Like, they are so on it in terms of challenging capitalism and work culture and labor. They are so on it in recognizing the hypocrisy as it pertains to fighting for democracy and what that looks like here
in the United States versus elsewhere. They are so with it in understanding the colonist's mindset and patriarchy, and they are on that app right at a larger rate than anyone else's. So what is this really about? Because we're being manipulated, folks every single day in every single way. Open up your refrigerator. Do we really know what's in the food that's in there? No, Because in these United States you can have a certain percentage of shit that
causes cancer. The ingredients that are banned, let's say in
a Europe, totally welcomed here in the United States. So when we're looking at the decisions that these lawmakers are making, it has nothing to do with our best interest, but it has nothing to do with our safety, because I'd love to put a whole bunch of those members into a room and lock the fucking door and until they come up with an agreement on an assault weapons ban, a national protection for abortion, do away with a white supremacy, fully fund our schools in the way that they need
to be funded, come up with a healthcare plan that has us on par with other developed nations, and guess what, you don't get to come out until you do. But the one thing that they want to come to the table on and come to a bipartisan agreement with is TikTok.
Miss me with the bullshit. Coming up next, friends, we welcome back to the show doctor Suzanne Lachman, and we get into a conversation about Donald Trump, about his cultish followers, our own personal emotional well being during this time of torment, and how we manage our way through That conversation is coming up next, Folks, I am very happy to welcome back to WOKF Daily doctor Suzanne Lochman, who is a psychologist, who is a writer, whose new piece or most recent
piece up at Substack is entitled is Donald Trump's Declining speech due to aging or dementia? Trump is increasingly losing his train of thought in the middle of sentences. But where I want to start with you today, doctor Lockman,
is on Donald Trump's staunch supporters. Yes, Donald Trump, there is something that this man knows about his people, how to sell to them, whether it is selling lies, selling bibles, sneakers, whatever it is that he's trying to hawk at the moment, but he knows that there is some type of inexplicable connection that they have that not only do they take everything that he says to be true, even if he is not making any sense, not coherent, but they will
also open their own pockets to support a billionaire. Talk to me about these people and what you see and know.
The first thing that goes through my head, Danielle, is what we've heard a number of times now, and it's what his first wife said, which is that he keeps Hitler's gold mind come by his bed, and that is Hitler's autobiography, and it talks about how he came into power and the rules like you need to repeat everything forcefully three times in order for it to stick. The people that he and Donald Trump is appealing to the most base ugliness of a certain group of people, which
is just like the Nazis. I'm sorry to say, only I think in this case there are a lot of people that are way dumber than than the Nazis were. A lot of them are a few I think I've said to you before, and I stand by this, that there's people who are incapable of saying that they're wrong mm hmm. And therefore they're on this ship with him no matter what. If you actually sit and listen to him, he can sound really convincing, especially because he's delusional enough
to believe himself. And when you speak with force that way, and you repeat yourself and it's the same messages over and over and over, you're gonna win over people. And again, I think the fact and that and they were just talking about this earlier that the judged today, even though he was just sending out tweets that go against a gag order that the judge isn't going to address this for another ten days, which doesn't do much to help
people to see him as human as opposed to superhuman. Right, he really has managed, no matter what he's done, yeah, to appear above the law, and that makes it easier for these people who already are drawn in by hatred and division, which he is doubling and tripling down on every chance he gets. He had a name for Letitia James that was just so racist in one of his most recent rallies, not like Peekaboo Peekaboo James. People were laughing in the audience. Yep, he didn't start out as
overtly racist. But he's gone along and he sees who his base supporters are. He is joining them, and they are joining him more strongly than ever. And those who are sort of on the fence or not that bright see a leader who they can identify with because they feel like they're being persecuted.
But I guess the question that I have is it seems to me that it is enough just to have a leader that is in the same book, on the same page as you in terms.
Of who you hate.
But when I look at a leader and I say, how is this person actually changing my life right? Like? Is that not the question that most of us ask?
Like?
How is my life going to be better? Making a decision in an upcoming election. I'm making a decision, let's say, about what college I want to go to, and I'm seeing, well, one school offers this and the other one offers this, Well, which one is going to best suit me to help shift my life? They're not looking through this lens, So, doctor Lachman, I have a difficulty in understanding if they're not gaining anything, how does the opposition even begin to reach these people? Or and I know that I ask
you this every time we talk. Or are they just gone forever?
They're gone? They are unreachable. As I examine the different kinds of people that are engaged with him, involved with him, etc. Into him, it occurs to me that there are number of them. For example, in the New York City Fire Department, there are a lot of blue collar workers that are
pro Trump. And what I figured out about them, and this probably goes for a lot of other professions too, where you have an enormous amount of structure at work, You know where you're what's happening, you know when things are happening. You know what you're supposed to do, but when you get out into your home life, into the real world, you have no idea. There are a lot of people drawn to very structured jobs because they're lost
in the kinds of things that you're talking about. They don't they're not projecting into what the future will look like. They are not actually either believing that Biden is erasing two point seven billion dollars of student debts. They have him vilified beyond vilified. And the fact that, for example, there are so many New York City firefighters who are Irish Catholic and come from background similar to Biden's, makes the whole thing even more mind blowing, right, m hmm.
But it really has to do with the fact that there's also a lot of anger out there, and a good amount of it has well, it's always been there, but Trump has really just thrown a hot towel on a boil and it has grown. It will eventually and this is such a disgusting reference. I'm sorry, it will eventually pop, but it's still going.
Let's talk about the pop for a moment, right, because with every trial, with every charge, with every headline, we say those of us we on Earth one. This is going to be the breaking point. This is going to be the thing that finally finishes Trump off, finishes this movement off and it never does right. Which goes on to your earlier point of being able to continually ascend above the law and have this superpower you know, attributed
to you and your actions and your words. What in your mind when you say it'll eventually pop, it'll eventually crash. Everything that goes up has to come down. But it's been fifty years of this with Donald Trump, do you know in his life, it's been the last seven years of our lives in this country. What does the pop look like to you? What do you think it is.
I've thought it was going to be a number of things that it so far hasn't been. But I am not giving up hope. One of the things now, he's turning everything into a campaign rally, and I think that's to divert himself from the shame of having the fact that that he doesn't have the kind of money that he's supposed to have. He did that kind of information becoming available to the public is beyond mortifying and emasculating to him. That is his Achilles sword Achilles, thank you exactly.
That's along with his bonesbur that's one of them. He cannot stand the idea of people finding this out now, that is not a thing in this trial. So even though he's exhausted and falling asleep and using it to continue to bring his point home that he's basically Jesus being persecuted yep, on the cross and Jesus with gold sneakers. I don't think he did that well with the gold sneakers. Not sure how he did with the Bibles.
And currently while we're talking, his stock is dropping faster and faster like it. It's it's really amazing.
Right it is.
It is right now. I think below twenty five dollars his share.
The kind of stuff his people don't pay attention to. Mm hmm right. Okay. If you watched enough of like Jordan Klepper from The Daily Show interviewing Trump groupies, h you will see the complete and total ignorance of what the United States stands for, anything about the history of the United States, Why exactly Joe Biden is bad, why Trump is good, It's a lot of well I just know it, I just feel it. I know this to
be true. It's unquestioning the uh, you know, the term drink the kool aid, I don't know, you know, it's kind of old, and hopefully everybody knows that it's a reference to Jim Jones, right, the cult leader. Yeah, a cult leader who got a whole lot of people to die. There are people who are highly suggestible out there, and
Trump's got them wrapped around his finger. And because he has such a huge pulpit and so many ways to be seen, he's able to grab more and more of this vulnerable audience, which consists of people who have been terribly traumatized in their lives. I think I've mentioned that before. I think if you look below the surface, there's a lot of abuse that's been perpetrated on Trump survivors, and probably they're just perpetrating it themselves, which makes all of
this stuff he does all the more excusable. There are there is a higher threshold for abuse. Nafty language is condonable because that's what happens in their household. Giving women power, as we've learned, is a horribly threatening to many a Trump supporter, and you know, those the ugliness of that is coming out of the woodworks. And I think one of the reasons for that is the idea that when
you think of God, you think of a man. When you think of a head of household, you think of a man, When you think of commander in chief, what do you think of man? So the fact that Democrats have a bigger, wider tent and try to empower women, that it, unfortunately is a hugely divisive issue, so much so that when a very experienced white woman ran against a black man, the black man won fantastic. He was a wonderful president, but not the deep.
But the deep seated misogyny in this country definitely played a part. And the misogyny plays I think a central role in trump Ism, right, And I mean you saw it with the pushback to Nikki Haley, who was trying to present, you know, an alternative to Donald Trump, and you know, Republican voters said, I wouldn't vote for her.
Why because she's a woman, and I don't think that women should be have the time, I watched a number of Trump, a number of Republican Trumps supporters say these things, and so I just I wonder, then, if we don't have a pop moment soon, doctor Lockman, then what do you think happens? Do you know what I'm saying? Like, what do you think happens?
I know that I said, and you weren't around for this, that there was no way that he could win in twenty sixteen. And I'm not the only one who said that. He got beaten in twenty twenty by seven million votes. There's no way that he has gained that many followers. I know it can see that way. It's just because they're loud, and it's because many of them are from
Russia and China and they're just antagonists. They can't vote right right, So in the in terms of the youth vote, in terms of the woman vote, what's what really bummed me out in twenty sixteen was I thought, for sure women would rally against another woman, right, and there were so many who didn't. And unfortunately, there are a lot of misogynistic women out there.
Yep.
I think that he's alienated at least some of them more than he had in twenty sixteen. I think the Roe v. Wade issue has taken away some of his followers, as evidenced by the fact that all of these elections that have taken place have all gone Democrat, you know, the interim elections, even in the deep Republican areas like in Alabama there was one, which is wild. But nonetheless there's the pop. I don't know what it's going to be. I don't think any of us know what to be.
I think it's going to be as unfortunately, like a slow.
Ooze rather than a quick pop.
Oh god. Yeah, and it started the wheels of justice grind slow. And the thing about Democrats, and I think we're seeing this play out, is that they are terribly interested in looking fair fair. It's maddening, but the hope is that in the long term that means that their decisions will be more respected. Whether or not that's true, I don't know, but it's what they're doing, and hopefully
it will ring true at least for some people. Once he's declared guilty of yet something else and they figure out what the hell to do with Eileen Cannon, which is just insane in Washington, DC, and they can get the Georgia thing on track. All of this is also exhausting him.
I mean, that's that's fair, that's a that's a that's a fair point that while we're because I'm concentrated on our exhaustion, right, the collectives exhaustion. But to your point that it's also exhausting him.
Yes, yes, and we are seeing that in his rallies. Uh. It's the thing that you know, I'm focusing on is the fact that I see him becoming demented. He is developing dementia before our eyes.
My only pushback to you is because you don't have a direct ability to diagnose him. But others have said this, you're not. Obviously you're not the only person that has said this. But then we see this same similar conversation happening with Biden, you know, from the right. Tell me, tell me what the difference is. I guess with the with the few minutes that we have left gladly. Uh.
Doctor John Gartner from the group Duty to Warren said it best. Biden is aging and Trump is dementing. If you watch the State of the Union, for example, Biden, he might have gotten a little fatigued, he might have stumbled over his words, but he made perfect sense. He could follow up every point that he made, and he has a deep and thorough knowledge that is something that no one can debate. That guy Robert HRR tried to take that away from him and say, you know, he's a feeble old man who.
Doesn't remember a special counsel.
Yep, yep, and got laughed out of the room because he does trump. On the other hand, if you listen to him at these rallies, he is literally manifesting symptoms of dementia. Now, can I officially say he has dementia? No? And I say, it certainly looks like these are signs. And hey, guess what. We have way more ability, way more stuff that we can look at than we've ever had with patients. I've never had this much information about patients when I've made a diagnosis.
Right, like tapes and like video and tapes and audio and all of these things over the course of months or years to be able to play back baseline.
We have baseline like we don't baseline meaning when he was higher functioning, which you don't often have when you're diagnosing somebody who's come in for, you know, to find out if they got some kind of dementia. We've got baseline, and we're able to see his erosion in functioning. All you have to do is watch a rally and you'll see the word salad or you'll hear it. Yeah, that he doesn't rely how he started a sentence to know where to end it, and he meanders. The second he
goes off script, he's gone. He has something he called phonic aphasia, where he's merging words together. That is not something you hear Biden do. And that so anyone that's listening to this podcast right now they if you listen to any it's horrible to do or just look at the clips that demonstrate Yeah, Primes when he's mushed words together, that isn't just fatigue. That is fatigue, but it's also
the beginning of something more severe. Not to mention that his father had Alzheimer's oh uh huh okay, officially diagnosed known his father.
Yes, okay, well we will leave it there today, Doctr Lockman. Really appreciate you making the time as always for wok F Daily, and I just want to remind folks up on sub stack Dr Lockman's Peace entitled is Donald Trump's declining speech due to aging or dementia? Trump is increasingly losing his train of thought in the middle of sentences. Is up now.
Really appreciate you absolutely. I'm glad to come back and do part two of this and three and four. Oh, thank you.
That is it for me today. Dear friends on wok f as always, Power to the people and to all the people. Power, get woke and stay woke as fuck.