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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Broadcasting from the Civic Cipher Studios.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome to the QR Code, where we share perspective, seek understanding,
and shape outcomes. The man you are about to hear
from is a man that lights up every single.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Room he walks into. He is the Q in the
QR code. He goes by the name of q Ward
just heard. I don't know if he's like, if he's
gonna like bribe me.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Like later, like yo, I said some really dope stuff
about you on the radio. I'm gonna need them two
hundred dollars, like I don't know what the real agenda
here is. But he's the R in the QR code
and his name is ramses.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Jah indeed, and we need you to stick around because
we've got a lot to talk about today. It has
been a long time since we've been in the studio
able to give you a full show, so we got
a lot of catching up to do. Stick around. Later
on in the show. For entertainment, we're gonna be talking
about how Bad Bunny has been announced to perform at
the Super Bowl, and certainly people online are having lots
of reactions about that. Prior to that, we're gonna have
(00:58):
some dialogue about Jasmin Crockett serving Byron Donald's his own medicine.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It is beautiful, It is gorgeous. I employ to stick
around for that. If nothing, it is amazing, you will
love it. Two wards.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Clapback is a heavy one this week because obviously there
was a lot going on in the world, particularly with
the Trump administration. There's this idea that people need to
adopt their agenda or resign. Soq's going to be talking
to us about that before the break for Better, Do Better.
(01:34):
We're going to be talking about how YouTube has paid
Trump two hundred or sorry, twenty four point five million
dollars after deeplatforming him post insurrection. We're gonna be talking
about the Michigan Mormon Church mass shooting, and we'll be
talking about the boxer named Terence Crawford who was held
at gunpoint during a traffic stop in his home state.
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All that and so much more, but as always, right
now to start off.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
With a feel good feature.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So today's fel good feature comes from the Black Information Network,
and we're talking about former NFL star and activist Colin Kaepernick,
who has pledged to fund an independent autopsy for DeMar
Trevion Trey Reed, a Delta State University student, found hanging
from a tree on campus. On September nineteenth, Civil rights
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attorney Ben Crump announced that Kaepernick would be funding a
second autopsy for Reed through the former Quarterbacks Know Your
Rights Camp autopsy initiative. Reid, twenty one, was found hanging
from a tree near Delta State University's campus pickleball courts
on September fifteenth around seven am. Delta State Police Chief
Mike Peeler said no evidence of foul play was found.
The Boulevard County Coroner's Office said its initial findings revealed
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no signs of attack before Reid's death. On Wednesday, September seventeenth,
An initial autopsy performed by the Mississippi State Medical Examiner's
Office ruled Reed's cause of death as hanging and concluded
it was suicide. However, Reed's family has awarded conflicting accounts
of the student's death from authorities. Attorneys for Reed's family
said police initially told them that the twenty one year
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old had died in his dorm room. Quote, the family
does not know exactly what happened on September fifteen, twenty
twenty five. Unquote Vanessa J. Jones, one of the family's attorneys.
Set Quote, we are seeking answers unquote. Kaepernick is paying
for a second independent autopsy amid.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
The conflicting reports. Quote.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Trey's death evoked at the collective memory of a community
that has suffered a historic wound over many, many years
and many many deaths.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Unquote.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Crump Set in a statement goes on to say peace
will come only by getting to the truth. We thank
Colin Kaepernick for supporting this grieving family and the cause
of justice and truth. Multiple law enforcement agencies, including the
Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, are involved in the ongoing investigation.
Cleveland Police Department officials have also handed over investigation materials
to the FBI and US Attorney's Office for review. So
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feel good features feel a little funny right now, But
it feels good that Colin Kaepernick is still active in
the space that he really helped bring to this generation's consciousness.
I love that, So shout out to Colin Kaepernick. All right,
let's talk about what's going on in the culture. So
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this boxer Terrence Crawford is somebody that I've heard about.
I don't I don't know if I've ever seen him
box anybody, but I feel like he is a big deal.
He I want to see. Is he the guy that
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fought recently and he gave the belt back to the
other guy that was boxing.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So let me help my brother out. Is that what
I'm talking about, the guy who gave the belt to
the other guy. So for sports fans, rams A sound insane,
ridiculous even asking if he's the guy that fought recently
and gave the belt back to the other guy. So
for the audience, especially those of you in southern California,
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the other guy is Canelo Alvarez, arguably the most famous
Mexican boxer of all time. Ramses refers to him as
the other guy. Terrence Crawford. On the other hand, if
you said he was the best boxer ever, no one
could dismiss it out of hand. So arguably the best
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boxer ever and the most famous and rich, wealthy, successful
Mexican boxer ever fought recently, and Ramsey says, isn't he
the guy that gave the belt back to the other guy?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Okay, let me let.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Me clear it up, because I mean no offense. I'm
not no, it sounds abusive, but I love my brother
what his lack of sports knowledge sometimes is hilarious. Yeah, yeah,
well I knew we were going to talk about this story,
and I didn't. I didn't necessarily connect it with that fight.
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But when I hear you say the details, and I'm like, okay,
you're right now. To be fair, I know of some boxers,
but I know of like Floyd Mayweather. Of course, I
know of Mike Tyson. Some I know of a guy
named Buster Douglas, you know, because of Mike Tyson, I'm assuming.
And then there's a Golden Boy. He's a famous boxer too,
he has like a popular name.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And then this guy Oscar.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yes, I couldn't it just I don't like I don't
like seeing people fight. Man, it's just not my thing.
I mean, I guess there's some special highlights or whatever,
but a long fight, I just it's not my thing.
I don't anyway, So this guy was held at gunpoint
during a traffic stop. So for the first time I'm
going to be reading this story, uh, and obviously CES
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going to to share his thoughts, but I think that
maybe we might both have some space for reflection. So
this from CNN renowned boxing champion Terrence Bud Crawford was
ordered out of his vehicle at gunpoint and given a
citation for reckless driving, police said, just hours after a
victory parade in his honor in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska.
According to a press release from Omaha Police, the incident
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occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning and has
promoted an internal affairs investigation. On Saturday, Crawford had attended
a celebratory parade in Omaha to marcus victory over Canelo
Alvarez earlier this month, which saw him crowned the undisputed
world super middleweight champion. Footage of that has been widely
circulated on social media apparently shows Crawford getting out of
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a car at gunpoint during a traffic stop.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Quote. While speaking with the.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Driver, an officer observed a firearm on the driver's side floorboard, unquote,
said the police press release. The press release goes on
to say for safety, all four occupants were ordered out
of the vehicle at gunpoint.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
The driver was later identified as mister Crawford upon verification
of his driver's license, and was issued a citation for
reckless driving. One passenger, a member of mister Crawford's security
team was also found to be carrying a legal firearm,
and the quote continues. Police have confirmed that all occupants
are legally permitted to carry firearms. A police supervisor and
lieutenant responded to the scene at mister Crawford's request unquote.
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A spokesperson for Crawford told CNN Sports that the thirty
eight year old has no comment on the incident. On Sunday,
Omaha Mayor John Ewing said that he had spoken personally
to Crawford about the traffic stop.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I acknowledged the seriousness of what occurred and how trust
between law enforcement and our community is important and shows
the need to be continuously vigilant about building relationships unquote.
Ewing added, there's another quote. Omaha Police Chief Todd Shmader
has pledged an internal investigation, which I support and want
to be full and thorough. We will gather all of
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the facts and will be transparent with the public about
our findings, all right. With his victory over Alvarez in
Las Vegas, Crawford unified a weight division for the third
time in his career. He has a forty two and
zero professional record with thirty one knockouts. And is considered
to be one of the greatest pound four pound boxers
of all time.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
So that's good, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
And now that I'm fully up to speed, I didn't
know he was that good of a boxer. Again, I
was thinking, Floyd Mayweather sounds like a big name, and
that's a name that I just know. It's just people
say it, I think more. But I didn't see this video.
I didn't see this video, and you did see the video,
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so talk me through it.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
The video is not much to see, and you don't
have to see it to know exactly how it went.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
We've lived it.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, it's the same experience what we had, except guns
weren't pointed at us already. And they're saying now that
the officer noticed a gun on the driver's side floorboard.
I just want people to find that video and watch
it and then imagine how difficult it is for that
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to be the truth. Now, after Bud got out of
the car, is it possible that they then found a
gun in the car on the driver's side floorboard? Of course,
But from where he's standing when he approaches the car
with his gun already drawn, the idea that he saw
a gun on the driver side floorboard just doesn't seem
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very plausible. He saw a black man driving a car,
which I guess is reason enough to draw your gun.
And then you find out everybody in the car not
only has a license to drive a car, but a
license to carry a gun. One of those people being
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paid security for one of the most successful, rich, and
famous people in the history of the city.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
They were in so.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Much to do about nothing is how they want us
to feel about this. They want it to happen so
much that we become numb to it and that we
don't react. And it's not a story. But here we
are man telling the same story again, you know in
certain name here, famous celebrity or person you've never heard of. Right,
there's some things that all these stories have in common,
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a police officer and a black man, and the justification
for drawing your gun. Will figure that out somewhere along
the way.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Can I add to this that.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I recognize because you know I do more than you,
But I have to spend some time. I try to
minimize the time, but I do have to spend some
time in those like far right corners of the internet
where they it's like a cesspool of disinformation and racism
and all that sort of stuff. And remember we spoke
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about that didn't do nothing memes and whatever that comes
from that part of the culture, I guess the collective
of American culture. I think a prominent narrative over there
is that black people cherry pick incidents, string them together
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to try to cultivate a narrative that suggests that the
police are unfair to them, when in reality, if black
people weren't doing anything wrong, the police would have no
problems with them, right. And if you only subscribe to
that type of information, you might end up thinking that
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if Rams is me me, if I only consume that information,
I might think, like, man, you know what, these guys
are just doing this to themselves. These black people are
just all they have to do is listen to police.
Who who wants to wake up as a police officer
and go out and just shoot people. That's not what
police do. I would think that if I only consume
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that information. However, I am Ramses and this happened to me.
Remember I told you this story about the police when
they pulled me out of my car at gunpoint on
my way to school, and then they went through my
backpack and threw all my stuff on the ground, and
they handcuffed my cousin. They can't cuff me, and they
ripped my skin off of my arms, and I was
bleeding when I got to class and I was late
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and I had a note, and they just told me
I fit the description for a suspicious character and then
they just let me go on my way and never
got any justification. They got to hurt me. They got
to hurt my cousin. He's six six foot six, actually,
he's like a really big guy, and they treated him
so bad. And I watched it happen and he was
having an asthma attack. That's why we were awake that
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early to get an inhaler in a yellow car. So
if I didn't see it myself, I might think that,
but unfortunately I've seen it many times times. So anyway,
time to move on. Some sad news that we didn't
get to because we were in in DC. There was
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a mass shooting. I'm sure many folks have heard about
it by now, but the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter day Saints in Michigan took place, and.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, these are never these are Forgive me for interrupting
go ahead.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
But it's just shows you how sad of a state
we were in, because you said there's a mass shooting,
and I thought about a completely different one.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, there's a there's a couple of them.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Actually we didn't, so yeah, it's like there was a
mass shooting. We said it singularly, like like there was
one and that everyone should know. But I'm sure a
bunch of listeners, just.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Like me, thought about one of the other ones.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yeah, I know where we are as a country now,
where all of us when you said there was a
mass shooting might have been thinking about two, three or
four different things.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
That's exactly what I was going to say. Yeah, this
one stood out to us.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I remember we talked about it a little bit when
we were I think we might have been having breakfast
or something, but when it broke, we weren't near the
studio or cameras or anything like that, so we just
had a conversation amongst ourselves.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
But this one was.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
You got to think a country that's still kind of
processing the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and a country that's
dead set on blaming the other side, and a country
that is coming to terms with what accountability looks like
for their own side. A country that fall short of
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holding their elected representatives response and continues to blame people
that don't hold the office responsible. You realize that it's
the people that were at church that suffer, you know,
or the people at school, or the people at the mall,
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or people at the wal mart, or people in the
crowd or whatever whatever this sort of thing that happens. Yeah,
I'll get to this story, all right. This from CNN.
Far below the piercing spire is atop every Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints chapel rests a sign
that beckons visitors welcome a testament to the face robust
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evangelizing efforts. But on Sunday morning, a visitor took advantage
of the church's open arms, plowing his truck into an
LDS chapel in Michigan, shooting worshippers with an assault weapon
and setting the building on fire. At least four people
were killed in the church house in Grand Blank Township.
Eight others were wounded. The assailant, a former Marine an
Iraq war veteran, died in a shootout with police. Sunday's attack,
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which was among three hundred and twenty four mass shootings
this year so far in the US is being investigated
as an act of targeted violence by the FBI, and
the agency said it has assumed leadership In the case.
A ford Er pickup with two American flags sitting straight
up against the back window in the bed, rammed into
the front of the chapel. A driver, forty year old
Thomas Jacob Sandford, fired several rounds from an assault weapon
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at the worshipper's police later said, but gunfire wasn't the
only danger. The suspect had started a fire inside the building.
Churchgoers rushed to protect children, shielding them and moving them
to safety. Ran Blank Township Police Chief William Renee said Sunday,
eight minutes after police arrived, the gunman was killed in
the parking lot, but the fire in the red brick
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church house had swelled. The infernal moved rapidly, quickly engulfing
the chapel with an unknown number of people's stone side
mass with plumes of thick black smoke filled the sky
and swallowed up the tall white spire. As the sun
went down, crews were still sifting through debris and working
tirelessly to find additional bodies. Up to seven people may
have been on account of or a law enforcement source
familiar with the investigation told CNN late Sunday, everyone has
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been accounted for as of Monday.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Police set.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I want to say something, and then, of course I
want you to have a long runway here, because I
know that there's a lot here, But I want to
say something I gather from like popular culture that lbs
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Mormon folks are. I know that these are Christian people.
I know that, but I also know that there's kind
of they're regarded in a sort of a strange way
in terms of like the public perception, and that always
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felt a little unfair to me. And I suspect that
it was because they were Mormon, because they were LDS,
that this man drove this truck into this church. Now
targeted SAX against any religious group, any ethnic group, any
any body is wrong, and obviously is the sort of
thing that we condemn. But I feel like, because I've
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kind of got a sense of this group being picked
on over the years, that it's kind of important to
kind of share at least one thing about this group
of people that I know. I spent much of my
life in Arizona. There's a significant population of Mormon people
in Arizona, and I've never encountered Mormon people that have
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been anything other than kind to me.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
They at least from the outside.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I'm not a Mormon person myself, but they seem to
be very happy people, very community centric, very supportive of
one another and of strangers, welcoming, charming, lovely, p people.
And I think that whatever it is that I've observed
in the larger culture that kind of I don't know,
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they're no different from any other religion, you know. So
people that pick on this one religion or that one
religion because of any specific thing, I feel is unfair
and it results in stuff like this, and this is
heartbreaking and tragic. And you know, if I could say
something for my Mormon brothers and sisters, because I will
call them my brothers and sisters, I hope that I
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can say something kind and maybe shift the cultural narrative
more towards something that's fair and accurate and representative of
the people that I've known who are of this faith.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Your thoughts here, Q, Yeah, I didn't need for the
runway to be longer for me, because this is not
specific to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints.
And this is not specific to any church or any school.
This is a unchecked epidemic in this country to all groups.
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Because we now pray and worship to I guess the
gun lobby at the altar of assault rifles, we've determined
that there's nothing we can do to stop people who
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are either eating or praying, or shopping, or learning, or
dancing or singing or just existing from being shot in
mass in places where that should never be a concern,
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because we've decided that we won't do anything about the
gun problem. Not that we can, not that nothing can
be done, but we determined a long time ago that
even the lives of our children were not worth the
decrease to our account balances. We decided that as a
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nation that losing our children as they learned and prayed
was just something that we had to accept because of
the amount of money that we profited from that industry
and those that lobby on its behalf. So, God bless
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everyone who prays to someone. God bless everyone who wants
good things for themselves, for their posterity, for other people.
God bless everybody who has empathy and you know enters
the world, and you know has great kindness, you know, charity, benevolence.
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I won't single out a certain organized religion because there
are so many, and I'm not going to fall into
the trap of deciding the one that I belong to
or the one that I will leave in is somehow
greater than all others. The group doesn't matter, The targets
don't matter, be it little black girls in church, or
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members of the Mormon Church or the Catholic Church, or
people who are of the Muslim faith, the fruit of Islam.
People who are just at school, they're at the mall,
or at their favorite nightclub, or at the library. People
who are just existing shopping at a grocery store should
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not have to worry about this happening.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Over and over again.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
But those who are in control and those who are
in power have shown us they don't care enough to
do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Moving on, I'm going to talk about some folks who
better do better, specifically YouTube. This is from CNN. YouTube
agreed to pay twenty four and a half million dollars
to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump after
he was suspended by social media platforms following the January sixth,
twenty twenty one insurrection. This makes alphabet own YouTube the
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last of the three big tech social media companies sued
by Trump, which included Meta and then Twitter now called
X to settle over his removal from their platforms. YouTube
will pay twenty two million dollars to settle the claims
made by Trump to the nonprofit Trust for the National Mall,
which is dedicated to restoring This is in quote, dedicated
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to restoring, preserving, and elevating the National Mall to support
the construction of the White House State Ballroom. That's the
end of the quote. According to a court document, the
social media company will also pay two and a half
million dollars to settle with other plaintiffs, such as the
nonprofit American Conservative Union. YouTube directed CNN to the court document.
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When asked for comment, Trump crowned over the settlement in
a true social post, writing quote this massive victory massive
isn't all caps proves big tech censorship has consequences. Meta
agreed to settle Trump's lawsuit in January for twenty five
million dollars. Exis settlement in February involved a payment of
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around ten million dollars according to The New York Times,
when they suspended his accounts, the platform said Trump's posts
about the riot risks in citing further violence. At the time,
legal experts said similar suits had been dismissed because tech
companies have the right to run their platforms as they
see fit. So what we have here is Donald Trump
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on his retribution tour in full swing. He wants to
be right, he wants the narrative. We all saw what
happened on January sixth. We know that he started it.
I didn't start it. Once upon a time, these companies
were brave, and these companies, you know, had consequences that
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were reflective of the shared reality, not a maga delusion.
And these companies made moves that kind of benefited humanity,
benefited the country. And these these these companies are all
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as culpable in terms of like him finding his way
back to the White House as the voters that voted
him back in. And now they're paying the consequences. Now,
I know that twenty five million dollars is nothing to
any of these companies. They lose that in a matter
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of minutes on the stock market, so it's not a real.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Loss for them.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
It's that Trump gets to say and further discredit. He
gets to say he's right and further discredit these platforms
in the future, if they try to hold him accountable,
he now can say, well, they had to settle with
me before for telling lies, even though they just said
the truth. Donald Trump did this, So we're going to
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make sure he doesn't do this anymore because this is
harming the country. That's all that happened. And we saw
him do it, All of us saw him do it.
Those people would not have shown up there and they
would not have done anything if Donald Trump hadn't said
he set the date and told him to come and
watched it happen as they were doing it. So these companies,
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they have to be companies. They're soulless corporations. I get it,
you know, I can't point to one individual and say
you're responsible, because there's board members and there's you know,
stockholders and all that, right, But the reality is that
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their settlement gives him the narrative, and that narrative being
chronicled as the truth makes all of us less safe
and all of us more susceptible to misinformation and disinformation.
And I mean there's a reason why this is called
better Do better. You know, YouTube is bigger than Donald Trump.
YouTube will be here longer than Donald Trump. YouTube can
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outlast Donald Trump. It's like they don't know that, and
I know what you're gonna say you, so I'll let
you say it, but go ahead.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
This pre compliance can no longer be attributed to fear.
We'd have to determine these people didn't know any better
if we were going to give them the benefit of
the doubt that they keep making these decisions because they're scared.
These people are making these decisions in good faces, because
they agree.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
These are said.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
These aren't they're not paying settlements. These aren't they're not
settling lawsuits. These are yes, sir, we agree, sir, payments
and yes alphabet one of the richest corporations in the
history of Earth. But twenty five million dollars is twenty
five million dollars. I'm not going to let us make
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that a small number and make it insignificant, giving that
man twenty five million more dollars to do what he
wants to do with it, and a sort of admittance
that you did something wrong when you know you didn't.
It's the pre compliance that we've been talking about and
will continue to talk about. But this is not because
they're afraid, because they agree
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, what a world.
Broadcasting from the Civic Cipher Studios.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
Welcome to the QR Code, where we share perspective, seek understanding,
and shape outcomes. The man you are about to hear
from is a man that lights up every single.
Speaker 1 (00:11):
Room he walks into. He is the Q in the
QR code. He goes by the name of q Ward
just heard. I don't know if he's like, if he's
gonna like bribe me.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Like later, like yo, I said some really dope stuff
about you on the radio. I'm gonna need them two
hundred dollars, like I don't know what the real agenda
here is. But he's the R in the QR code
and his name is ramses.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Jah indeed, and we need you to stick around because
we've got a lot to talk about today. It has
been a long time since we've been in the studio
able to give you a full show, so we got
a lot of catching up to do. Stick around. Later
on in the show. For entertainment, we're gonna be talking
about how Bad Bunny has been announced to perform at
the Super Bowl, and certainly people online are having lots
of reactions about that. Prior to that, we're gonna have
(00:58):
some dialogue about Jasmin Crockett serving Byron Donald's his own medicine.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
It is beautiful, It is gorgeous. I employ to stick
around for that. If nothing, it is amazing, you will
love it. Two wards.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Clapback is a heavy one this week because obviously there
was a lot going on in the world, particularly with
the Trump administration. There's this idea that people need to
adopt their agenda or resign. Soq's going to be talking
to us about that before the break for Better, Do Better.
(01:34):
We're going to be talking about how YouTube has paid
Trump two hundred or sorry, twenty four point five million
dollars after deeplatforming him post insurrection. We're gonna be talking
about the Michigan Mormon Church mass shooting, and we'll be
talking about the boxer named Terence Crawford who was held
at gunpoint during a traffic stop in his home state.
(01:55):
All that and so much more, but as always, right
now to start off.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
With a feel good feature.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
So today's fel good feature comes from the Black Information Network,
and we're talking about former NFL star and activist Colin Kaepernick,
who has pledged to fund an independent autopsy for DeMar
Trevion Trey Reed, a Delta State University student, found hanging
from a tree on campus. On September nineteenth, Civil rights
(02:22):
attorney Ben Crump announced that Kaepernick would be funding a
second autopsy for Reed through the former Quarterbacks Know Your
Rights Camp autopsy initiative. Reid, twenty one, was found hanging
from a tree near Delta State University's campus pickleball courts
on September fifteenth around seven am. Delta State Police Chief
Mike Peeler said no evidence of foul play was found.
The Boulevard County Coroner's Office said its initial findings revealed
(02:46):
no signs of attack before Reid's death. On Wednesday, September seventeenth,
An initial autopsy performed by the Mississippi State Medical Examiner's
Office ruled Reed's cause of death as hanging and concluded
it was suicide. However, Reed's family has awarded conflicting accounts
of the student's death from authorities. Attorneys for Reed's family
said police initially told them that the twenty one year
(03:07):
old had died in his dorm room. Quote, the family
does not know exactly what happened on September fifteen, twenty
twenty five. Unquote Vanessa J. Jones, one of the family's attorneys.
Set Quote, we are seeking answers unquote. Kaepernick is paying
for a second independent autopsy amid.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
The conflicting reports. Quote.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Trey's death evoked at the collective memory of a community
that has suffered a historic wound over many, many years
and many many deaths.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Unquote.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Crump Set in a statement goes on to say peace
will come only by getting to the truth. We thank
Colin Kaepernick for supporting this grieving family and the cause
of justice and truth. Multiple law enforcement agencies, including the
Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, are involved in the ongoing investigation.
Cleveland Police Department officials have also handed over investigation materials
to the FBI and US Attorney's Office for review. So
(03:57):
feel good features feel a little funny right now, But
it feels good that Colin Kaepernick is still active in
the space that he really helped bring to this generation's consciousness.
I love that, So shout out to Colin Kaepernick. All right,
let's talk about what's going on in the culture. So
(04:22):
this boxer Terrence Crawford is somebody that I've heard about.
I don't I don't know if I've ever seen him
box anybody, but I feel like he is a big deal.
He I want to see. Is he the guy that
(04:43):
fought recently and he gave the belt back to the
other guy that was boxing.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
So let me help my brother out. Is that what
I'm talking about, the guy who gave the belt to
the other guy. So for sports fans, rams A sound insane,
ridiculous even asking if he's the guy that fought recently
and gave the belt back to the other guy. So
for the audience, especially those of you in southern California,
(05:12):
the other guy is Canelo Alvarez, arguably the most famous
Mexican boxer of all time. Ramses refers to him as
the other guy. Terrence Crawford. On the other hand, if
you said he was the best boxer ever, no one
could dismiss it out of hand. So arguably the best
(05:35):
boxer ever and the most famous and rich, wealthy, successful
Mexican boxer ever fought recently, and Ramsey says, isn't he
the guy that gave the belt back to the other guy?
Speaker 1 (05:49):
Okay, let me let.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
Me clear it up, because I mean no offense. I'm
not no, it sounds abusive, but I love my brother
what his lack of sports knowledge sometimes is hilarious. Yeah, yeah,
well I knew we were going to talk about this story,
and I didn't. I didn't necessarily connect it with that fight.
(06:14):
But when I hear you say the details, and I'm like, okay,
you're right now. To be fair, I know of some boxers,
but I know of like Floyd Mayweather. Of course, I
know of Mike Tyson. Some I know of a guy
named Buster Douglas, you know, because of Mike Tyson, I'm assuming.
And then there's a Golden Boy. He's a famous boxer too,
he has like a popular name.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
And then this guy Oscar.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yes, I couldn't it just I don't like I don't
like seeing people fight. Man, it's just not my thing.
I mean, I guess there's some special highlights or whatever,
but a long fight, I just it's not my thing.
I don't anyway, So this guy was held at gunpoint
during a traffic stop. So for the first time I'm
going to be reading this story, uh, and obviously CES
(06:59):
going to to share his thoughts, but I think that
maybe we might both have some space for reflection. So
this from CNN renowned boxing champion Terrence Bud Crawford was
ordered out of his vehicle at gunpoint and given a
citation for reckless driving, police said, just hours after a
victory parade in his honor in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska.
According to a press release from Omaha Police, the incident
(07:21):
occurred in the early hours of Sunday morning and has
promoted an internal affairs investigation. On Saturday, Crawford had attended
a celebratory parade in Omaha to marcus victory over Canelo
Alvarez earlier this month, which saw him crowned the undisputed
world super middleweight champion. Footage of that has been widely
circulated on social media apparently shows Crawford getting out of
(07:43):
a car at gunpoint during a traffic stop.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Quote. While speaking with the.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Driver, an officer observed a firearm on the driver's side floorboard, unquote,
said the police press release. The press release goes on
to say for safety, all four occupants were ordered out
of the vehicle at gunpoint.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
The driver was later identified as mister Crawford upon verification
of his driver's license, and was issued a citation for
reckless driving. One passenger, a member of mister Crawford's security
team was also found to be carrying a legal firearm,
and the quote continues. Police have confirmed that all occupants
are legally permitted to carry firearms. A police supervisor and
lieutenant responded to the scene at mister Crawford's request unquote.
(08:25):
A spokesperson for Crawford told CNN Sports that the thirty
eight year old has no comment on the incident. On Sunday,
Omaha Mayor John Ewing said that he had spoken personally
to Crawford about the traffic stop.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
Quote.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I acknowledged the seriousness of what occurred and how trust
between law enforcement and our community is important and shows
the need to be continuously vigilant about building relationships unquote.
Ewing added, there's another quote. Omaha Police Chief Todd Shmader
has pledged an internal investigation, which I support and want
to be full and thorough. We will gather all of
(08:58):
the facts and will be transparent with the public about
our findings, all right. With his victory over Alvarez in
Las Vegas, Crawford unified a weight division for the third
time in his career. He has a forty two and
zero professional record with thirty one knockouts. And is considered
to be one of the greatest pound four pound boxers
of all time.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
So that's good, you know.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
And now that I'm fully up to speed, I didn't
know he was that good of a boxer. Again, I
was thinking, Floyd Mayweather sounds like a big name, and
that's a name that I just know. It's just people
say it, I think more. But I didn't see this video.
I didn't see this video, and you did see the video,
(09:42):
so talk me through it.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
The video is not much to see, and you don't
have to see it to know exactly how it went.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
We've lived it.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, it's the same experience what we had, except guns
weren't pointed at us already. And they're saying now that
the officer noticed a gun on the driver's side floorboard.
I just want people to find that video and watch
it and then imagine how difficult it is for that
(10:11):
to be the truth. Now, after Bud got out of
the car, is it possible that they then found a
gun in the car on the driver's side floorboard? Of course,
But from where he's standing when he approaches the car
with his gun already drawn, the idea that he saw
a gun on the driver side floorboard just doesn't seem
(10:32):
very plausible. He saw a black man driving a car,
which I guess is reason enough to draw your gun.
And then you find out everybody in the car not
only has a license to drive a car, but a
license to carry a gun. One of those people being
(10:55):
paid security for one of the most successful, rich, and
famous people in the history of the city.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
They were in so.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Much to do about nothing is how they want us
to feel about this. They want it to happen so
much that we become numb to it and that we
don't react. And it's not a story. But here we
are man telling the same story again, you know in
certain name here, famous celebrity or person you've never heard of. Right,
there's some things that all these stories have in common,
(11:28):
a police officer and a black man, and the justification
for drawing your gun. Will figure that out somewhere along
the way.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Can I add to this that.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
I recognize because you know I do more than you,
But I have to spend some time. I try to
minimize the time, but I do have to spend some
time in those like far right corners of the internet
where they it's like a cesspool of disinformation and racism
and all that sort of stuff. And remember we spoke
(12:01):
about that didn't do nothing memes and whatever that comes
from that part of the culture, I guess the collective
of American culture. I think a prominent narrative over there
is that black people cherry pick incidents, string them together
(12:25):
to try to cultivate a narrative that suggests that the
police are unfair to them, when in reality, if black
people weren't doing anything wrong, the police would have no
problems with them, right. And if you only subscribe to
that type of information, you might end up thinking that
(12:45):
if Rams is me me, if I only consume that information,
I might think, like, man, you know what, these guys
are just doing this to themselves. These black people are
just all they have to do is listen to police.
Who who wants to wake up as a police officer
and go out and just shoot people. That's not what
police do. I would think that if I only consume
(13:06):
that information. However, I am Ramses and this happened to me.
Remember I told you this story about the police when
they pulled me out of my car at gunpoint on
my way to school, and then they went through my
backpack and threw all my stuff on the ground, and
they handcuffed my cousin. They can't cuff me, and they
ripped my skin off of my arms, and I was
bleeding when I got to class and I was late
(13:28):
and I had a note, and they just told me
I fit the description for a suspicious character and then
they just let me go on my way and never
got any justification. They got to hurt me. They got
to hurt my cousin. He's six six foot six, actually,
he's like a really big guy, and they treated him
so bad. And I watched it happen and he was
having an asthma attack. That's why we were awake that
(13:50):
early to get an inhaler in a yellow car. So
if I didn't see it myself, I might think that,
but unfortunately I've seen it many times times. So anyway,
time to move on. Some sad news that we didn't
get to because we were in in DC. There was
(14:11):
a mass shooting. I'm sure many folks have heard about
it by now, but the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter day Saints in Michigan took place, and.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah, these are never these are Forgive me for interrupting
go ahead.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
But it's just shows you how sad of a state
we were in, because you said there's a mass shooting,
and I thought about a completely different one.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Yeah, there's a there's a couple of them.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Actually we didn't, so yeah, it's like there was a
mass shooting. We said it singularly, like like there was
one and that everyone should know. But I'm sure a
bunch of listeners, just.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
Like me, thought about one of the other ones.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yeah, I know where we are as a country now,
where all of us when you said there was a
mass shooting might have been thinking about two, three or
four different things.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
That's exactly what I was going to say. Yeah, this
one stood out to us.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
I remember we talked about it a little bit when
we were I think we might have been having breakfast
or something, but when it broke, we weren't near the
studio or cameras or anything like that, so we just
had a conversation amongst ourselves.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
But this one was.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
You got to think a country that's still kind of
processing the assassination of Charlie Kirk, and a country that's
dead set on blaming the other side, and a country
that is coming to terms with what accountability looks like
for their own side. A country that fall short of
(15:55):
holding their elected representatives response and continues to blame people
that don't hold the office responsible. You realize that it's
the people that were at church that suffer, you know,
or the people at school, or the people at the mall,
(16:16):
or people at the wal mart, or people in the
crowd or whatever whatever this sort of thing that happens. Yeah,
I'll get to this story, all right. This from CNN.
Far below the piercing spire is atop every Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints chapel rests a sign
that beckons visitors welcome a testament to the face robust
(16:37):
evangelizing efforts. But on Sunday morning, a visitor took advantage
of the church's open arms, plowing his truck into an
LDS chapel in Michigan, shooting worshippers with an assault weapon
and setting the building on fire. At least four people
were killed in the church house in Grand Blank Township.
Eight others were wounded. The assailant, a former Marine an
Iraq war veteran, died in a shootout with police. Sunday's attack,
(17:00):
which was among three hundred and twenty four mass shootings
this year so far in the US is being investigated
as an act of targeted violence by the FBI, and
the agency said it has assumed leadership In the case.
A ford Er pickup with two American flags sitting straight
up against the back window in the bed, rammed into
the front of the chapel. A driver, forty year old
Thomas Jacob Sandford, fired several rounds from an assault weapon
(17:21):
at the worshipper's police later said, but gunfire wasn't the
only danger. The suspect had started a fire inside the building.
Churchgoers rushed to protect children, shielding them and moving them
to safety. Ran Blank Township Police Chief William Renee said Sunday,
eight minutes after police arrived, the gunman was killed in
the parking lot, but the fire in the red brick
(17:42):
church house had swelled. The infernal moved rapidly, quickly engulfing
the chapel with an unknown number of people's stone side
mass with plumes of thick black smoke filled the sky
and swallowed up the tall white spire. As the sun
went down, crews were still sifting through debris and working
tirelessly to find additional bodies. Up to seven people may
have been on account of or a law enforcement source
familiar with the investigation told CNN late Sunday, everyone has
(18:06):
been accounted for as of Monday.
Speaker 1 (18:08):
Police set.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
I want to say something, and then, of course I
want you to have a long runway here, because I
know that there's a lot here, But I want to
say something I gather from like popular culture that lbs
(18:32):
Mormon folks are. I know that these are Christian people.
I know that, but I also know that there's kind
of they're regarded in a sort of a strange way
in terms of like the public perception, and that always
(18:53):
felt a little unfair to me. And I suspect that
it was because they were Mormon, because they were LDS,
that this man drove this truck into this church. Now
targeted SAX against any religious group, any ethnic group, any
any body is wrong, and obviously is the sort of
thing that we condemn. But I feel like, because I've
(19:17):
kind of got a sense of this group being picked
on over the years, that it's kind of important to
kind of share at least one thing about this group
of people that I know. I spent much of my
life in Arizona. There's a significant population of Mormon people
in Arizona, and I've never encountered Mormon people that have
(19:40):
been anything other than kind to me.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
They at least from the outside.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I'm not a Mormon person myself, but they seem to
be very happy people, very community centric, very supportive of
one another and of strangers, welcoming, charming, lovely, p people.
And I think that whatever it is that I've observed
in the larger culture that kind of I don't know,
(20:10):
they're no different from any other religion, you know. So
people that pick on this one religion or that one
religion because of any specific thing, I feel is unfair
and it results in stuff like this, and this is
heartbreaking and tragic. And you know, if I could say
something for my Mormon brothers and sisters, because I will
call them my brothers and sisters, I hope that I
(20:31):
can say something kind and maybe shift the cultural narrative
more towards something that's fair and accurate and representative of
the people that I've known who are of this faith.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
Your thoughts here, Q, Yeah, I didn't need for the
runway to be longer for me, because this is not
specific to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints.
And this is not specific to any church or any school.
This is a unchecked epidemic in this country to all groups.
(21:10):
Because we now pray and worship to I guess the
gun lobby at the altar of assault rifles, we've determined
that there's nothing we can do to stop people who
(21:32):
are either eating or praying, or shopping, or learning, or
dancing or singing or just existing from being shot in
mass in places where that should never be a concern,
(21:53):
because we've decided that we won't do anything about the
gun problem. Not that we can, not that nothing can
be done, but we determined a long time ago that
even the lives of our children were not worth the
decrease to our account balances. We decided that as a
(22:16):
nation that losing our children as they learned and prayed
was just something that we had to accept because of
the amount of money that we profited from that industry
and those that lobby on its behalf. So, God bless
(22:42):
everyone who prays to someone. God bless everyone who wants
good things for themselves, for their posterity, for other people.
God bless everybody who has empathy and you know enters
the world, and you know has great kindness, you know, charity, benevolence.
(23:05):
I won't single out a certain organized religion because there
are so many, and I'm not going to fall into
the trap of deciding the one that I belong to
or the one that I will leave in is somehow
greater than all others. The group doesn't matter, The targets
don't matter, be it little black girls in church, or
(23:27):
members of the Mormon Church or the Catholic Church, or
people who are of the Muslim faith, the fruit of Islam.
People who are just at school, they're at the mall,
or at their favorite nightclub, or at the library. People
who are just existing shopping at a grocery store should
(23:49):
not have to worry about this happening.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Over and over again.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
But those who are in control and those who are
in power have shown us they don't care enough to
do anything about it.
Speaker 2 (24:02):
Moving on, I'm going to talk about some folks who
better do better, specifically YouTube. This is from CNN. YouTube
agreed to pay twenty four and a half million dollars
to settle a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump after
he was suspended by social media platforms following the January sixth,
twenty twenty one insurrection. This makes alphabet own YouTube the
(24:27):
last of the three big tech social media companies sued
by Trump, which included Meta and then Twitter now called
X to settle over his removal from their platforms. YouTube
will pay twenty two million dollars to settle the claims
made by Trump to the nonprofit Trust for the National Mall,
which is dedicated to restoring This is in quote, dedicated
(24:47):
to restoring, preserving, and elevating the National Mall to support
the construction of the White House State Ballroom. That's the
end of the quote. According to a court document, the
social media company will also pay two and a half
million dollars to settle with other plaintiffs, such as the
nonprofit American Conservative Union. YouTube directed CNN to the court document.
(25:07):
When asked for comment, Trump crowned over the settlement in
a true social post, writing quote this massive victory massive
isn't all caps proves big tech censorship has consequences. Meta
agreed to settle Trump's lawsuit in January for twenty five
million dollars. Exis settlement in February involved a payment of
(25:28):
around ten million dollars according to The New York Times,
when they suspended his accounts, the platform said Trump's posts
about the riot risks in citing further violence. At the time,
legal experts said similar suits had been dismissed because tech
companies have the right to run their platforms as they
see fit. So what we have here is Donald Trump
(25:57):
on his retribution tour in full swing. He wants to
be right, he wants the narrative. We all saw what
happened on January sixth. We know that he started it.
I didn't start it. Once upon a time, these companies
were brave, and these companies, you know, had consequences that
(26:23):
were reflective of the shared reality, not a maga delusion.
And these companies made moves that kind of benefited humanity,
benefited the country. And these these these companies are all
(26:46):
as culpable in terms of like him finding his way
back to the White House as the voters that voted
him back in. And now they're paying the consequences. Now,
I know that twenty five million dollars is nothing to
any of these companies. They lose that in a matter
(27:09):
of minutes on the stock market, so it's not a real.
Speaker 1 (27:15):
Loss for them.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
It's that Trump gets to say and further discredit. He
gets to say he's right and further discredit these platforms
in the future, if they try to hold him accountable,
he now can say, well, they had to settle with
me before for telling lies, even though they just said
the truth. Donald Trump did this, So we're going to
(27:38):
make sure he doesn't do this anymore because this is
harming the country. That's all that happened. And we saw
him do it, All of us saw him do it.
Those people would not have shown up there and they
would not have done anything if Donald Trump hadn't said
he set the date and told him to come and
watched it happen as they were doing it. So these companies,
(28:00):
they have to be companies. They're soulless corporations. I get it,
you know, I can't point to one individual and say
you're responsible, because there's board members and there's you know,
stockholders and all that, right, But the reality is that
(28:24):
their settlement gives him the narrative, and that narrative being
chronicled as the truth makes all of us less safe
and all of us more susceptible to misinformation and disinformation.
And I mean there's a reason why this is called
better Do better. You know, YouTube is bigger than Donald Trump.
YouTube will be here longer than Donald Trump. YouTube can
(28:44):
outlast Donald Trump. It's like they don't know that, and
I know what you're gonna say you, so I'll let
you say it, but go ahead.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
This pre compliance can no longer be attributed to fear.
We'd have to determine these people didn't know any better
if we were going to give them the benefit of
the doubt that they keep making these decisions because they're scared.
These people are making these decisions in good faces, because
they agree.
Speaker 1 (29:11):
These are said.
Speaker 3 (29:12):
These aren't they're not paying settlements. These aren't they're not
settling lawsuits. These are yes, sir, we agree, sir, payments
and yes alphabet one of the richest corporations in the
history of Earth. But twenty five million dollars is twenty
five million dollars. I'm not going to let us make
(29:32):
that a small number and make it insignificant, giving that
man twenty five million more dollars to do what he
wants to do with it, and a sort of admittance
that you did something wrong when you know you didn't.
It's the pre compliance that we've been talking about and
will continue to talk about. But this is not because
they're afraid, because they agree
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah, what a world.
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