Pulling the Tentacles of the Wealthy Woke Off Your Government

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🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

“Follow the money.” It’s one of the age-old principles of investigative journalism because it can lead to the discovery of a “dark money cabal,” as it did for author Tyler O’Neil. After years of reporting on the organizations and people who funnel money into leftist causes, O’Neil determined that “their nefarious influence” needed to be exposed and wrote "The Woketopus: The Dark Money Cabal Manipulating the Federal Government.” The Constitution “you learned about in school with its nifty checks and balances, that's not really how it works,” O’Neil says. “I think our government today is less a republic and more it operates like a classical monarchy, where you have this administration that … is handing down all these rules,” O’Neil says. “And Congress still has the ability to check them, but rarely does so to the degree that it should, as the founders intended. From green energy policies to gender ideology, and even law enforcement, the tentacles of the wealthy woke have been, and are, at work. Take energy policy, and consider that “a lot of the bureaucrats who run the [Environmental Protection Agency] and some of these other agencies, they came from woke activist groups,” O’Neil tells "The Daily Signal Podcast." The issue, according to O’Neil, is that “a lot of the laws, a lot of the rules that we have to live by are passed in the administrative state” and not through elected leaders in Congress who are answerable to the American people. O’Neil join “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the ways the radical left “Woketopus” has infiltrated nearly every aspect of the U.S. government, and how the Trump administration can pull off the tentacle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.2	Welcome to a Daily Signal bonus edition. I'm Virginia Allen. Today I have the unique privilege of sitting down with my colleague, the Daily Signal's managing editor, Tyler O'Neill, who has just published his second book, The Woktipus, the Dark Money Cabal, manipulating the federal government. We discuss how the tentacles of this Woktopus, the dark money cabal manipulating the federal government. We discuss how the
0:56.8	tentacles of this woktopus have so influenced all of the government, everything from gender
1:03.4	ideology to even our law enforcement. Stay tuned for my conversation with Tyler O'Neill, author of the
1:10.7	woktipus, right after this.
1:13.5	Well, I am so pleased to welcome to The Daily Signal podcast, our own Tyler O'Neill.
1:19.0	He serves as managing editor here at The Daily Signal, and he is the brand new author of his second book, The Woktipus.
1:26.3	Tyler, thanks for being here.
1:27.7	Thanks for having me. It's so exciting. Well, it's great to have you on the other side of the
1:31.9	mic. You're often the one who's sitting in this chair doing the interview. So we're
1:35.1	reversing some roles today. But the full title of your book is The Woktipus, the Dark Money
1:41.6	Cabal, manipulating the federal government. So let's just start with
1:45.2	that title, the woketipus. What does that mean? Yes. Well, so woke, woke is one of those
1:51.5	terms that a lot of people, you know, a friend of mine unfortunately got in trouble because
1:57.0	she was asked to define woke and she had trouble with it. But that's because it is kind of hard.
2:01.7	It's a comprehensive worldview of a lot of different aspects.
2:05.3	And the way that I define it is critical race theory, gender ideology, climate alarmism,
2:11.8	and a preference for technocratic government.
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