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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Still broadcasting from the Civic Cipher Studios. This is the
QR code where we share perspective, seek understanding, and shape outcomes.
The man you're about to hear from is a man
that I have missed terribly all week, and I miss
him every time we're not able to do our show,
but I am in good spirits because we are back
in the saddle. He was the Q in the QR code.
He goes about the name of qube Ward.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
The voice that you just heard, does a much better
job than me at maintaining his sanity. In light of
everything that we're dealing with collectively right now, I'd have
a hard time waiting these waters without him, my brother
they R in the QR code, he goes by the
name ramses Jah.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And be sure to stick around a little. Later on
the show, we're going to be sharing some thoughts and
some tips on making the most of this economic blackout
we are enjoying. Prior to that, we're going to ask
the question do you find any validity in astrology? But
right now it's Q words clap back, and he's going
to be talking to us about the Trump administration bombing
(01:01):
drug boats in the Caribbean and pardoning drug smugglers in
the country. Que take it away.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So family, oh man, gather close. You actually don't have
to gather that close, because the hypocrisy in this story
is so loud and violently contradictory that if people weren't
actually dying behind it, it would feel like satire. We
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need to talk about how poor black and brown people
in the Caribbean are being killed by US forces under
the claim of drug smuggling, while that very same political
movement is partning actual high level drug smugglers here at home.
(01:52):
The clearest picture of what law and order has become
in our country, because as we knew the whole time,
this is not about drugs or safety. Who is being
punished versus who is being protected and to what end.
So picture this small fishing boats, makeshift rafts, families fleeing
(02:15):
a collapsed government, fisher and trying to survive brutal poverty,
Haitians escaping violence, Dominicans, Jamaicans, Venezuelans looking for food or
safety or a chance at a better life. And then
US military forces, Coastguard DA and other partners not just
(02:39):
intercepting these boats to make arrest, but faces covered, weapons drawn,
of course, no way to identify who they are with
full authority over who lives and dies. We've seen boats rammed,
We've seen people drowned, I seen survivors detained, no charges, ramses,
(03:04):
no due process, and even when unalived, we suspected drugs
smuggling is what we're being told. Nothing proven, nothing confirmed,
nothing verified, just suspected, and suspicion alone has become a
literal death sentence with impunity for people who are already
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desperate and trying to find a better life, not folks
that are actually smuggling anything. Some of them verified literal fishermen,
you know, fishing, some even fleeing danger. But the moment
they're labeled drug smugglers, and you know they just so
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happen to be poor and brown, their lives become disposable.
This is where that mask starts to slip, because at
the same time that these people are being killed on
suspicion of drug smuggling, the president pardoned a real life, documented, admitted, tried,
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and convicted drug trafficker, not framed, not suspected, not misunderstood,
not wrong place, wrong time, admitted, serve time for it.
Part of an international network and of course he got
(04:40):
a presidential pardon. Very important to point out, not because
some further investigation happened and proved him innocent, not because
he turned his life around and decided on a new path,
not even because of his own mercy, but because of wealth,
access us, proximity to whiteness, and proximity to power. Oh
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and don't forget some political usefulness, because that always comes
in handy. So I need to be very very clear
about this poor refugee on a raft or a boat,
drug smuggler death, a wealthy trafficker with connections good man party?
(05:25):
Did I get that right? Rams?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Sounds like that.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
So as we suspected, this was never about drugs, because
if drugs were the issue, you wouldn't sink fishing boats
and then pardon traffickers. If morality was an issue, innocence
would matter, If safety was an issue, evidence would matter.
But none of those things matter to this movement. It's
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not about combating crime. It's actually kind of wielding crime
as a weapon, punishing powerless people, protecting powerful people. Mercy
for those who are loyal to him, violence for people
who are vulnerable or in dissent in any way. Identity
politics wrapped in badges and American flags. It's a really
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interesting worldview. If you're poor, dark, foreign, or desperate, you're guilty.
One hundred percent of the time. You're guilty. You're always guilty,
You're always the criminal. But if you're wealthy, white, connected,
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and loyal, you are always redeemable. That's their version of
law and order. And zoom out rams you can see
the pattern everywhere. It doesn't matter where you look. The
people screaming law and order beat police officers on January sixth.
The people shouting protect our children are shielding Epstein's friends.
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The people calling migrants criminals are partning traffickers. The people
yelling about sovereignty invited a hostile foreign government into the
White House. The people defending the constitution supposedly are violating
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it with pride, with their full chest. Again, violence for
the weak, mercy for the powerful, punishment based on political
identity us versus them. We now live in a country
where innocence does not protect you and guilt does not
condemn you. Only power does, only proximity does, and only
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loyalty does.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well. Sometimes these are bleak, but I appreciate the realness
of it. You know, if nothing else. We get to
remind people that they're not crazy. As you know better
(08:13):
than anyone, it is possible for a human being to
be like, am I crazy? Am I? Just not? Am
I missing something? So I appreciate the weight of the statement.
Let's move on though, maybe a little bit of levity
in this next one. Do you find any validity in astrology?
(08:37):
You first? You first?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Me first is criminal astrology, the practice of interpreting the
influence of celestial bodies on human affairs and destiny. So
I guess that'd be part of the problem for me.
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Is the quickest way to get me to know is
the idea of destiny and the ideal of celestial influence,
because the celestial beings would have to be the cruelest
beings to ever exist for all that's happening in this
world right now to be happening on their watch without
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their influence. The corrupt, evil and powerful all over the
world are trouncing on the vulnerable, the weak, and the
powerless every day in some form in places all over
the world, and they're throwing parties about it, and they're
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celebrating about it, and they're having opulent parties and opulent
dinners and playing golf and going on that they're just
living their lives while stomping on people. So does do
my libre scales influence what that means for my children? Right?
(10:04):
Because celestial can go beyond just the stars, you can
get very easily into religion, Okay, very very easily into
the spiritual realm. I think all of these things would
kind of tie together if you start having those conversations,
because they're not fact or science based.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
They're you know, faith based.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So yeah, once you get into the idea that there's
an influence of the celestial on human affairs and destiny
and how things play out for us, and you're watching
what's happening in the world right now, it should feel
a bit ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Okay, Okay, while we're kind of on the border of
astrology and religion, A question that I kind of always
ask myself is that if God and God could be anything,
you know, but I will just use the sort of
platonic ideal God, Right, whatever comes to your mind listening
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to me and you have this conversation of God, That's
what I mean. If God, whatever, all powerful consciousness that
has caused all this to come into manifestation is, if
God is all powerful and God is good and all
that sort of stuff, why would God make this? Why
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would God create intentionally create imperfect beings and then demand
that those imperfect beings be perfect or else space damnation,
knowing that it would be impossible for all those beings
to do so, right, That would be cruel, in which
case that makes God not all good, that there's no
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reason to do that, especially if God could just make
everybody the way that God wanted to, where they just
worship and cultivate a relationship with God all day and
all night. If that's within your wheelhouse, why not just
do that and then no one has to suffer? Right?
So that's where that's the first one. Go ahead, que
jump in.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Well, some would argue to the question that you just
posed he sent his son to create that pathway from
eternal damnation to eternal life.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
It feels more complicated after you've sinned. It feels more,
certainly more complicated than just just make a planet, put
a bunch of people on there that are going to
worship me and thank me for stuff all day and
then it'll be easy, you know. And you just got
to think, like, why would there be this great challenge
for these little individual carbon units endowed with consciousness to
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meet meet this challenge, or el's face damnation, you know
what I mean. It'd be one thing if it was like,
meet this challenge and then it determines how cool your
afterlife is. But the fact that damnation exists feels like
that part feels particularly cruel for me. So I struggle
with that. But as far as astrology is concerned, which
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is not quite as far as the conversation we just had,
I had a problem with astrology for a long time
because so I'm what is known as a leo, right,
and leos are the best ones, okay, And everyone always says,
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oh man.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
You're such a Leo. Look at all that hair. Look
at your yellow corvette, look at your whatever whatever thing,
Look at how you dress, look at your anything. It
doesn't matter. You want attention, you want the microphone, you
want to And I'm like, well, you know what, from
the outside looking in, I bet it does look like that.
You know, I thought that car was pretty. You know,
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these are the things that you need to kind of
make your way in the world. My hair just grows
like this. I had a different reason for it right.
But let's assume that you're you're right, and maybe I've
been fighting against that Leo energy my whole life, but
it's really who I am in my heart of hearts.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Well, someone really close to me. His name is Squeak.
Squeaks DNA is on this show, and he's like on
of one of my OG's in radio. But he's also
like a person who's very very incredibly close to me
and Q. He's a very special person and just kind
of got me and Q started in this whole path,
I guess by extension Q in radio and Squeak and
(14:33):
I have the same birthday. And Squeak doesn't have a
yellow car, and he doesn't you know, he's Squeak is
like very calm, very quick, very different spirit, very different energy.
He's he's not rushed. He works in radio, but he's
I don't know that he's ever set first mic on
a show. I guess for a second on Friday Night
Flaves he did a long time ago, but it was
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because he had to not because he sought that position
and a very different person. And then people will get
into well, well, you know, it matters what time of
day you were born or where you were born, right,
that sort of stuff. Right, So then they go there
and I just thought, like, you know what, you're chasing
ghosts because if you read the description of a leo
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or a libra or a I don't know the rest
of them, but whatever I know, scorpion is one of them.
That sort of stuff you read the description of all
these things, they apply to everybody and your brain.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And that's the point, right, they tap into your cognitive bias. Yeah,
saying the very general, vague things you apply to everyone,
and you hear it and you're like, and.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yo, yes, me, yeah, thank you, c that was exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Do have hair in a car?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, that's so, so you know, and and again, and
it does apply to everyone, but it also applies to
people in different circumstances. So when one sign might say, oh,
you are very family oriented and you dislike arguing, or
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you want to be you want to acknowledge, you want
to be acknowledged for your hard work, and you you
know whatever, And no matter who reads it, well, there's
times in your life a good number that match that description.
So you say, yes, these these adjectives, these you know,
these things do describe who I am, And so your
brain makes it real. How in the world are there
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only twelve categories of people right now? Again, when it
comes to the the numbers thing of like what time
of day you were born and where your location of
your birth, that feels just kind of like a little okay, sure,
But that to me means that the person that was
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born at Kaiser Permanente when I was born the day
I was born, that was in the room next to
me at the same time. They're the same exact person
as me, right, And you would expect this person to
have the same light path. And I just cannot conceive
of the great consciousness of the universe putting together that
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mechanism for producing humans and personalities. It feels very thin. Now,
with that said, I do have to say something. Once
upon a time I was sitting at a table with
a person who didn't know me all that well, but
the rest of the people at the table were my friends,
and they knew me quite well, decades long. Friends having
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a meal, and I spouted all this stuff, and she said,
give me your day of birth and where you were born,
and I did, time of day, all that stuff, and
she read me embarrassingly so and I didn't yield, but
I have to say that's the truth, and it did happen,
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and all my friends were laughing and like, oh man,
that's definitely you. So I will see that. But I
think you kind of know my opinion on the whole overall.
So that's what I got for it. I feel like
you want to add something, you go ahead.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
No, just you know, I don't like to to say
it's nonsense as offensive to people that believe it.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, I wouldn't say that, but it's just not for me.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I guess well, you wouldn't say it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I'm smelling what you're stepping in there. All right, Okay,
let's talk about this boycott. Okay, for folks that don't know,
we're in the middle of a boycott. You weren't supposed
to spend anything on Black Friday. But the truth is,
you really I kind of don't have to spend anything. Man,
don't If you're critical of this government and you know
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Democrats are your last chance at trying to get some
political representation off the ground, and you recognize that they're
having a tough time doing so because of the nature
of the government right now, you still have some power,
and that power is in your pocket. Now. I love
this power because I wield it so well. I think,
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you know, at least for me, I can spend consistent
with my heart. But right now we're boycotting, right and
you know, cyber Monday, you know, may as well share
a couple things with you. I might talk a bit here, Q,
but I'm going to do my best to get through
it quick. Let's first share from the bi in as
boycott sweep the nation, this h millions of Americans have
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the power to step back from corporate spending and support independent,
black owned businesses. Major activist groups, including the People's Union USA,
No Kings, and Blackout the System are calling for coordinated
economic blackouts targeting corporate giants. The boycotts are encouraging zero
spending at major retailers and tech platforms. Each group involved
in the blackout has a distinct focus, but I'll share
common message of calling out corporate power. No Kings is
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part of the we Ain't Buying It campaign is targeting
companies they say have undermine DEI or immigrant rights, including
target home Depot in Amazon. The People's Union USA is
calling for a free zone spending at all big box
retailers to redirect money toward local economies and small businesses.
Blackout the system is encouraging participants to avoid major corporate
spending entirely, including canceling streaming services, as a critique of
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economic structures working exactly as designed for the wealthy. I
want to share some of these companies, but I'll do
that in just a second, because you know, if you
plan on participating or are currently participating, you probably know
some companies, and if not, they're very easy to find. Again,
this article comes from bi innews dot com, the Black
Information Network, and you're welcome to look it up, but
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I want to I want to jump in here and
share a few things.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
First off, so for folks that don't know, my background,
educational background is in business. I went to business school
and then I went back to business school. I have
a master's degree in business management. So these things I
pay attention to there in my YouTube, algorithms and all
that sort of stuff, they pop up and I just
kind of interested, and I'm interested in the psychology of it.
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I was a marketing marketing for my undergrad the psychology
what motivates a person to take an action to buy
a thing? Right, But all business is relevant to my
mind that has been conditioned to receive information and make
sense of it. And I learned something a long time
ago that businesses would start moving to a subscription based model.
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All businesses. I don't care if you're getting plumbing services,
I don't care if you're whatever made so everything. They
were going to put you on a subscription model so
that they could extract money from you until you die. Right,
So selling a one and done sort of a thing,
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it has that business model has eroded further. You know,
obviously them making light bulbs that burn out after a
few months back in their early nineteen hundreds. That it's
an example of like, you know, planned obsolescence, that sort
of thing where you know, eventually you the thing you
buy is not going to work anymore, and it's built
into the design of it. This is an evolution of
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that concept. Right, we want you to give us a
small amount of money every single month forever. Right where
you're going to subscribe to your car and if you
have the top tier, then your car includes air conditioning,
and if you have the mid tier. It doesn't like
that that level of turning a human being into a consumer, Right,
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I say that to say that in this country, we
have been led down this road by big businesses. Right.
I know this because I've been watching this happen. I learned,
I learned how to do it. I learned that we
had already been walked up to that point in the
early two thousands when I was still in school. And
then I've seen it continue to kind of free fall. Okay,
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So in this country we exist as hyper consumers. We
buy so much stuff that we don't need. I was
having a conversation with a friend not too long ago
about washing my baby in a sink, right, And I
was washed in a sink too. And they sell baby
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bathtubs that you can put in a bathtub made of
plastic and all kinds of wasteful stuff, so you can
wash the baby in a bathtub. What's wrong with washing
a baby and sink? You know what I mean? Like
this has worked for human beings since human beings existed, right,
And all of a sudden, we need to make a
thing to solve a problem that doesn't exist, so that
you can buy it, and we'll market it in such
a way that where you feel like you need to
have it, or else you're letting your baby down or
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you're not keeping up with the Joneses. Right, So this
is the world that we live in now. Because this
is the world that we live in, we need to
understand from where our power comes. Okay. Our power comes
from our capacity to participate in this nonsense. Okay, And
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I challenge everyone listening to me to just stop spending money. Obviously,
you need to buy food, choose a grocer, choose a
company that most closely aligns with your values, buy your
food there. You need to probably put gas in your
vehicle or charge vehicle, whatever the case is. Those sorts
of things, they're kind of built into life unfortunately, so
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of course you need to buy food. You're not it's
illegal to forage for food, right. That's because of slavery.
When they let the slaves go, they wanted them to
work and otherwise arrest them. So you can't go and
pick your own food. You have to work and get
food and pay for it at a grocery. Stress is
the way the country is set up. So fair play.
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But the rest of the stuff you don't have to
participate in. And if everybody had the same type of
thinking that, you know what, all the stuff that we
don't need. We don't have to spend all this money
on Amazon, dot coms and whatever until this president leaves office,
because if we spend money, then he gets to take
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credit for theomy. If the economy does well, and if
we don't spend money the economy doesn't do well, then
he and his legacy and the people propping him up,
it all crumbles. Right. Those soldiers aren't going to go
do anything. They're not going to execute human beings on
his behalf if they're not getting paid to do it. Well,
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maybe some of them will, but you know the point.
I think the point is still will make There's not
a country in the world that will run if you
take their currency and devalue it, if you wreck their economy,
it just will not run. That is a country that
is preparing itself to be overthrown. Now. You may not
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be a sort of burned down of building activists like
me I like talking about myself like that. You might
just be someone that says, you know what, I really
don't think. I think it's a slap in the face
for Donald Trump to take credit for any positive thing
in this economy simply because he's the president. And so
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I just will not contribute to that. And if that
is your thinking, I want you to just be conscious
of how you spend your money, not just now, not
just this weekend, but moving forward. We got three years
of this and I challenge you to keep your money
in your own pocket. Okay, you might be able to invest,
You might be able to make a better path for
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your children, maybe they don't have to deal with this
nonsense when they come of age, or your grandchildren. I'm
not sure what station you're at in life. Maybe you
might be able to you know, it's like when a
person quits smoking and they have extra money, or a
person stops drinking a heavy alcoholic and they stop drinking
and they're like, wow, I have thousands of extra dollars. Right.
If we divorce ourselves from this hyper consumption lifestyle, we
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end up with more of the fruits of our own labors.
Obviously they're being stolen by billionaires, but we can keep
more of our own by not giving it back to them.
And we can vote with our dollars every day, day
in and day out out, that we disapprove of this government.
And it is more possible than you know. I'll give
you the last word to Kim, so sorry, but it's
more possible than you know. There's an eBay for every Amazon.
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There is a whatever you need, you can find an alternative.
Be creative. As for resources, plug in a community by local,
you know, anything that you can and do your very best.
I want to make sure you got the last thirty seconds,
so I'll cut it off their cue anything any thoughts
to add there.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Sorry, thirty seconds is impossible. I'm gonna remind you of
that every time you do it. I'm sorry it out
and toss to me with no time to say anything.
It's very, very inconvenient for poor people to have to
find alternatives. Yeah, so it's an easy thing for us
to say because we can go somewhere else. Some people
can't and that sucks.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
So so for those who can, obviously, this is for you.
For those who can't, please you know, make your way
the best you can, and we'll be doing this on
your behalf and hopefully it will be we will represent
you well. So is that in mind, I think it's
time to leave it right. I'd like to thank you,
each and every one of you for tuning in to
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Still broadcasting from the Civic Cipher Studios. This is the
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The man you're about to hear from is a man
that I have missed terribly all week, and I miss
him every time we're not able to do our show,
but I am in good spirits because we are back
in the saddle. He was the Q in the QR code.
He goes about the name of qube Ward.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
The voice that you just heard, does a much better
job than me at maintaining his sanity. In light of
everything that we're dealing with collectively right now, I'd have
a hard time waiting these waters without him, my brother
they R in the QR code, he goes by the
name ramses Jah.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
And be sure to stick around a little. Later on
the show, we're going to be sharing some thoughts and
some tips on making the most of this economic blackout
we are enjoying. Prior to that, we're going to ask
the question do you find any validity in astrology? But
right now it's Q words clap back, and he's going
to be talking to us about the Trump administration bombing
(01:01):
drug boats in the Caribbean and pardoning drug smugglers in
the country. Que take it away.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
So family, oh man, gather close. You actually don't have
to gather that close, because the hypocrisy in this story
is so loud and violently contradictory that if people weren't
actually dying behind it, it would feel like satire. We
(01:30):
need to talk about how poor black and brown people
in the Caribbean are being killed by US forces under
the claim of drug smuggling, while that very same political
movement is partning actual high level drug smugglers here at home.
(01:52):
The clearest picture of what law and order has become
in our country, because as we knew the whole time,
this is not about drugs or safety. Who is being
punished versus who is being protected and to what end.
So picture this small fishing boats, makeshift rafts, families fleeing
(02:15):
a collapsed government, fisher and trying to survive brutal poverty,
Haitians escaping violence, Dominicans, Jamaicans, Venezuelans looking for food or
safety or a chance at a better life. And then
US military forces, Coastguard DA and other partners not just
(02:39):
intercepting these boats to make arrest, but faces covered, weapons drawn,
of course, no way to identify who they are with
full authority over who lives and dies. We've seen boats rammed,
We've seen people drowned, I seen survivors detained, no charges, ramses,
(03:04):
no due process, and even when unalived, we suspected drugs
smuggling is what we're being told. Nothing proven, nothing confirmed,
nothing verified, just suspected, and suspicion alone has become a
literal death sentence with impunity for people who are already
(03:30):
desperate and trying to find a better life, not folks
that are actually smuggling anything. Some of them verified literal fishermen,
you know, fishing, some even fleeing danger. But the moment
they're labeled drug smugglers, and you know they just so
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happen to be poor and brown, their lives become disposable.
This is where that mask starts to slip, because at
the same time that these people are being killed on
suspicion of drug smuggling, the president pardoned a real life, documented, admitted, tried,
(04:19):
and convicted drug trafficker, not framed, not suspected, not misunderstood,
not wrong place, wrong time, admitted, serve time for it.
Part of an international network and of course he got
(04:40):
a presidential pardon. Very important to point out, not because
some further investigation happened and proved him innocent, not because
he turned his life around and decided on a new path,
not even because of his own mercy, but because of wealth,
access us, proximity to whiteness, and proximity to power. Oh
(05:04):
and don't forget some political usefulness, because that always comes
in handy. So I need to be very very clear
about this poor refugee on a raft or a boat,
drug smuggler death, a wealthy trafficker with connections good man party?
(05:25):
Did I get that right? Rams?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
Sounds like that.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
So as we suspected, this was never about drugs, because
if drugs were the issue, you wouldn't sink fishing boats
and then pardon traffickers. If morality was an issue, innocence
would matter, If safety was an issue, evidence would matter.
But none of those things matter to this movement. It's
(05:51):
not about combating crime. It's actually kind of wielding crime
as a weapon, punishing powerless people, protecting powerful people. Mercy
for those who are loyal to him, violence for people
who are vulnerable or in dissent in any way. Identity
politics wrapped in badges and American flags. It's a really
(06:17):
interesting worldview. If you're poor, dark, foreign, or desperate, you're guilty.
One hundred percent of the time. You're guilty. You're always guilty,
You're always the criminal. But if you're wealthy, white, connected,
(06:38):
and loyal, you are always redeemable. That's their version of
law and order. And zoom out rams you can see
the pattern everywhere. It doesn't matter where you look. The
people screaming law and order beat police officers on January sixth.
The people shouting protect our children are shielding Epstein's friends.
(07:03):
The people calling migrants criminals are partning traffickers. The people
yelling about sovereignty invited a hostile foreign government into the
White House. The people defending the constitution supposedly are violating
(07:23):
it with pride, with their full chest. Again, violence for
the weak, mercy for the powerful, punishment based on political
identity us versus them. We now live in a country
where innocence does not protect you and guilt does not
condemn you. Only power does, only proximity does, and only
(07:46):
loyalty does.
Speaker 1 (07:53):
Well. Sometimes these are bleak, but I appreciate the realness
of it. You know, if nothing else. We get to
remind people that they're not crazy. As you know better
(08:13):
than anyone, it is possible for a human being to
be like, am I crazy? Am I? Just not? Am
I missing something? So I appreciate the weight of the statement.
Let's move on though, maybe a little bit of levity
in this next one. Do you find any validity in astrology?
(08:37):
You first? You first?
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Me first is criminal astrology, the practice of interpreting the
influence of celestial bodies on human affairs and destiny. So
I guess that'd be part of the problem for me.
(09:00):
Is the quickest way to get me to know is
the idea of destiny and the ideal of celestial influence,
because the celestial beings would have to be the cruelest
beings to ever exist for all that's happening in this
world right now to be happening on their watch without
(09:20):
their influence. The corrupt, evil and powerful all over the
world are trouncing on the vulnerable, the weak, and the
powerless every day in some form in places all over
the world, and they're throwing parties about it, and they're
(09:41):
celebrating about it, and they're having opulent parties and opulent
dinners and playing golf and going on that they're just
living their lives while stomping on people. So does do
my libre scales influence what that means for my children? Right?
(10:04):
Because celestial can go beyond just the stars, you can
get very easily into religion, Okay, very very easily into
the spiritual realm. I think all of these things would
kind of tie together if you start having those conversations,
because they're not fact or science based.
Speaker 1 (10:21):
They're you know, faith based.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
So yeah, once you get into the idea that there's
an influence of the celestial on human affairs and destiny
and how things play out for us, and you're watching
what's happening in the world right now, it should feel
a bit ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
Okay, Okay, while we're kind of on the border of
astrology and religion, A question that I kind of always
ask myself is that if God and God could be anything,
you know, but I will just use the sort of
platonic ideal God, Right, whatever comes to your mind listening
(11:09):
to me and you have this conversation of God, That's
what I mean. If God, whatever, all powerful consciousness that
has caused all this to come into manifestation is, if
God is all powerful and God is good and all
that sort of stuff, why would God make this? Why
(11:34):
would God create intentionally create imperfect beings and then demand
that those imperfect beings be perfect or else space damnation,
knowing that it would be impossible for all those beings
to do so, right, That would be cruel, in which
case that makes God not all good, that there's no
(11:56):
reason to do that, especially if God could just make
everybody the way that God wanted to, where they just
worship and cultivate a relationship with God all day and
all night. If that's within your wheelhouse, why not just
do that and then no one has to suffer? Right?
So that's where that's the first one. Go ahead, que
jump in.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Well, some would argue to the question that you just
posed he sent his son to create that pathway from
eternal damnation to eternal life.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
It feels more complicated after you've sinned. It feels more,
certainly more complicated than just just make a planet, put
a bunch of people on there that are going to
worship me and thank me for stuff all day and
then it'll be easy, you know. And you just got
to think, like, why would there be this great challenge
for these little individual carbon units endowed with consciousness to
(12:43):
meet meet this challenge, or el's face damnation, you know
what I mean. It'd be one thing if it was like,
meet this challenge and then it determines how cool your
afterlife is. But the fact that damnation exists feels like
that part feels particularly cruel for me. So I struggle
with that. But as far as astrology is concerned, which
(13:05):
is not quite as far as the conversation we just had,
I had a problem with astrology for a long time
because so I'm what is known as a leo, right,
and leos are the best ones, okay, And everyone always says,
(13:30):
oh man.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
You're such a Leo. Look at all that hair. Look
at your yellow corvette, look at your whatever whatever thing,
Look at how you dress, look at your anything. It
doesn't matter. You want attention, you want the microphone, you
want to And I'm like, well, you know what, from
the outside looking in, I bet it does look like that.
You know, I thought that car was pretty. You know,
(13:52):
these are the things that you need to kind of
make your way in the world. My hair just grows
like this. I had a different reason for it right.
But let's assume that you're you're right, and maybe I've
been fighting against that Leo energy my whole life, but
it's really who I am in my heart of hearts.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Well, someone really close to me. His name is Squeak.
Squeaks DNA is on this show, and he's like on
of one of my OG's in radio. But he's also
like a person who's very very incredibly close to me
and Q. He's a very special person and just kind
of got me and Q started in this whole path,
I guess by extension Q in radio and Squeak and
(14:33):
I have the same birthday. And Squeak doesn't have a
yellow car, and he doesn't you know, he's Squeak is
like very calm, very quick, very different spirit, very different energy.
He's he's not rushed. He works in radio, but he's
I don't know that he's ever set first mic on
a show. I guess for a second on Friday Night
Flaves he did a long time ago, but it was
(14:56):
because he had to not because he sought that position
and a very different person. And then people will get
into well, well, you know, it matters what time of
day you were born or where you were born, right,
that sort of stuff. Right, So then they go there
and I just thought, like, you know what, you're chasing
ghosts because if you read the description of a leo
(15:16):
or a libra or a I don't know the rest
of them, but whatever I know, scorpion is one of them.
That sort of stuff you read the description of all
these things, they apply to everybody and your brain.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
And that's the point, right, they tap into your cognitive bias. Yeah,
saying the very general, vague things you apply to everyone,
and you hear it and you're like, and.
Speaker 1 (15:39):
Yo, yes, me, yeah, thank you, c that was exactly.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Do have hair in a car?
Speaker 1 (15:45):
Yeah, that's so, so you know, and and again, and
it does apply to everyone, but it also applies to
people in different circumstances. So when one sign might say, oh,
you are very family oriented and you dislike arguing, or
(16:05):
you want to be you want to acknowledge, you want
to be acknowledged for your hard work, and you you
know whatever, And no matter who reads it, well, there's
times in your life a good number that match that description.
So you say, yes, these these adjectives, these you know,
these things do describe who I am, And so your
brain makes it real. How in the world are there
(16:27):
only twelve categories of people right now? Again, when it
comes to the the numbers thing of like what time
of day you were born and where your location of
your birth, that feels just kind of like a little okay, sure,
But that to me means that the person that was
(16:48):
born at Kaiser Permanente when I was born the day
I was born, that was in the room next to
me at the same time. They're the same exact person
as me, right, And you would expect this person to
have the same light path. And I just cannot conceive
of the great consciousness of the universe putting together that
(17:10):
mechanism for producing humans and personalities. It feels very thin. Now,
with that said, I do have to say something. Once
upon a time I was sitting at a table with
a person who didn't know me all that well, but
the rest of the people at the table were my friends,
and they knew me quite well, decades long. Friends having
(17:30):
a meal, and I spouted all this stuff, and she said,
give me your day of birth and where you were born,
and I did, time of day, all that stuff, and
she read me embarrassingly so and I didn't yield, but
I have to say that's the truth, and it did happen,
(17:51):
and all my friends were laughing and like, oh man,
that's definitely you. So I will see that. But I
think you kind of know my opinion on the whole overall.
So that's what I got for it. I feel like
you want to add something, you go ahead.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
No, just you know, I don't like to to say
it's nonsense as offensive to people that believe it.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Yeah, I wouldn't say that, but it's just not for me.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
I guess well, you wouldn't say it.
Speaker 1 (18:26):
I'm smelling what you're stepping in there. All right, Okay,
let's talk about this boycott. Okay, for folks that don't know,
we're in the middle of a boycott. You weren't supposed
to spend anything on Black Friday. But the truth is,
you really I kind of don't have to spend anything. Man,
don't If you're critical of this government and you know
(18:46):
Democrats are your last chance at trying to get some
political representation off the ground, and you recognize that they're
having a tough time doing so because of the nature
of the government right now, you still have some power,
and that power is in your pocket. Now. I love
this power because I wield it so well. I think,
(19:09):
you know, at least for me, I can spend consistent
with my heart. But right now we're boycotting, right and
you know, cyber Monday, you know, may as well share
a couple things with you. I might talk a bit here, Q,
but I'm going to do my best to get through
it quick. Let's first share from the bi in as
boycott sweep the nation, this h millions of Americans have
(19:30):
the power to step back from corporate spending and support independent,
black owned businesses. Major activist groups, including the People's Union USA,
No Kings, and Blackout the System are calling for coordinated
economic blackouts targeting corporate giants. The boycotts are encouraging zero
spending at major retailers and tech platforms. Each group involved
in the blackout has a distinct focus, but I'll share
common message of calling out corporate power. No Kings is
(19:54):
part of the we Ain't Buying It campaign is targeting
companies they say have undermine DEI or immigrant rights, including
target home Depot in Amazon. The People's Union USA is
calling for a free zone spending at all big box
retailers to redirect money toward local economies and small businesses.
Blackout the system is encouraging participants to avoid major corporate
spending entirely, including canceling streaming services, as a critique of
(20:15):
economic structures working exactly as designed for the wealthy. I
want to share some of these companies, but I'll do
that in just a second, because you know, if you
plan on participating or are currently participating, you probably know
some companies, and if not, they're very easy to find. Again,
this article comes from bi innews dot com, the Black
Information Network, and you're welcome to look it up, but
(20:37):
I want to I want to jump in here and
share a few things.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
First off, so for folks that don't know, my background,
educational background is in business. I went to business school
and then I went back to business school. I have
a master's degree in business management. So these things I
pay attention to there in my YouTube, algorithms and all
that sort of stuff, they pop up and I just
kind of interested, and I'm interested in the psychology of it.
(21:03):
I was a marketing marketing for my undergrad the psychology
what motivates a person to take an action to buy
a thing? Right, But all business is relevant to my
mind that has been conditioned to receive information and make
sense of it. And I learned something a long time
ago that businesses would start moving to a subscription based model.
(21:28):
All businesses. I don't care if you're getting plumbing services,
I don't care if you're whatever made so everything. They
were going to put you on a subscription model so
that they could extract money from you until you die. Right,
So selling a one and done sort of a thing,
(21:48):
it has that business model has eroded further. You know,
obviously them making light bulbs that burn out after a
few months back in their early nineteen hundreds. That it's
an example of like, you know, planned obsolescence, that sort
of thing where you know, eventually you the thing you
buy is not going to work anymore, and it's built
into the design of it. This is an evolution of
(22:09):
that concept. Right, we want you to give us a
small amount of money every single month forever. Right where
you're going to subscribe to your car and if you
have the top tier, then your car includes air conditioning,
and if you have the mid tier. It doesn't like
that that level of turning a human being into a consumer, Right,
(22:30):
I say that to say that in this country, we
have been led down this road by big businesses. Right.
I know this because I've been watching this happen. I learned,
I learned how to do it. I learned that we
had already been walked up to that point in the
early two thousands when I was still in school. And
then I've seen it continue to kind of free fall. Okay,
(22:50):
So in this country we exist as hyper consumers. We
buy so much stuff that we don't need. I was
having a conversation with a friend not too long ago
about washing my baby in a sink, right, And I
was washed in a sink too. And they sell baby
(23:11):
bathtubs that you can put in a bathtub made of
plastic and all kinds of wasteful stuff, so you can
wash the baby in a bathtub. What's wrong with washing
a baby and sink? You know what I mean? Like
this has worked for human beings since human beings existed, right,
And all of a sudden, we need to make a
thing to solve a problem that doesn't exist, so that
you can buy it, and we'll market it in such
a way that where you feel like you need to
have it, or else you're letting your baby down or
(23:33):
you're not keeping up with the Joneses. Right, So this
is the world that we live in now. Because this
is the world that we live in, we need to
understand from where our power comes. Okay. Our power comes
from our capacity to participate in this nonsense. Okay, And
(23:55):
I challenge everyone listening to me to just stop spending money. Obviously,
you need to buy food, choose a grocer, choose a
company that most closely aligns with your values, buy your
food there. You need to probably put gas in your
vehicle or charge vehicle, whatever the case is. Those sorts
of things, they're kind of built into life unfortunately, so
(24:16):
of course you need to buy food. You're not it's
illegal to forage for food, right. That's because of slavery.
When they let the slaves go, they wanted them to
work and otherwise arrest them. So you can't go and
pick your own food. You have to work and get
food and pay for it at a grocery. Stress is
the way the country is set up. So fair play.
(24:36):
But the rest of the stuff you don't have to
participate in. And if everybody had the same type of
thinking that, you know what, all the stuff that we
don't need. We don't have to spend all this money
on Amazon, dot coms and whatever until this president leaves office,
because if we spend money, then he gets to take
(24:59):
credit for theomy. If the economy does well, and if
we don't spend money the economy doesn't do well, then
he and his legacy and the people propping him up,
it all crumbles. Right. Those soldiers aren't going to go
do anything. They're not going to execute human beings on
his behalf if they're not getting paid to do it. Well,
(25:19):
maybe some of them will, but you know the point.
I think the point is still will make There's not
a country in the world that will run if you
take their currency and devalue it, if you wreck their economy,
it just will not run. That is a country that
is preparing itself to be overthrown. Now. You may not
(25:42):
be a sort of burned down of building activists like
me I like talking about myself like that. You might
just be someone that says, you know what, I really
don't think. I think it's a slap in the face
for Donald Trump to take credit for any positive thing
in this economy simply because he's the president. And so
(26:03):
I just will not contribute to that. And if that
is your thinking, I want you to just be conscious
of how you spend your money, not just now, not
just this weekend, but moving forward. We got three years
of this and I challenge you to keep your money
in your own pocket. Okay, you might be able to invest,
You might be able to make a better path for
(26:25):
your children, maybe they don't have to deal with this
nonsense when they come of age, or your grandchildren. I'm
not sure what station you're at in life. Maybe you
might be able to you know, it's like when a
person quits smoking and they have extra money, or a
person stops drinking a heavy alcoholic and they stop drinking
and they're like, wow, I have thousands of extra dollars. Right.
If we divorce ourselves from this hyper consumption lifestyle, we
(26:48):
end up with more of the fruits of our own labors.
Obviously they're being stolen by billionaires, but we can keep
more of our own by not giving it back to them.
And we can vote with our dollars every day, day
in and day out out, that we disapprove of this government.
And it is more possible than you know. I'll give
you the last word to Kim, so sorry, but it's
more possible than you know. There's an eBay for every Amazon.
(27:11):
There is a whatever you need, you can find an alternative.
Be creative. As for resources, plug in a community by local,
you know, anything that you can and do your very best.
I want to make sure you got the last thirty seconds,
so I'll cut it off their cue anything any thoughts
to add there.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
Sorry, thirty seconds is impossible. I'm gonna remind you of
that every time you do it. I'm sorry it out
and toss to me with no time to say anything.
It's very, very inconvenient for poor people to have to
find alternatives. Yeah, so it's an easy thing for us
to say because we can go somewhere else. Some people
can't and that sucks.
Speaker 1 (27:44):
So so for those who can, obviously, this is for you.
For those who can't, please you know, make your way
the best you can, and we'll be doing this on
your behalf and hopefully it will be we will represent
you well. So is that in mind, I think it's
time to leave it right. I'd like to thank you,
each and every one of you for tuning in to
the QR Code. Today's show was produced by the Great
(28:06):
Chris Thompson, person that helped me on the ground in DC.
He didn't even know it. If you have some thoughts
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Speaker 2 (28:41):
I am q word on all social media as
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Well, and be sure to join us next time as
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