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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Broadcasting from the Civic Cypher Studios. 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 loves me and supports me regardless of what happens
in my life. He is my brother and it is
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an honor to do this program with me. It's the
q in the QR Code goes by the name of
q War.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The voice that you just heard. I have to cut
him off sometimes because he said I love and support
him no matter what. Rams has almost killed me on
the air before. I couldn't stop laughing. But I was
trying to drive a car that we were both in.
But I'm laughing so hard that I can't open my eyes.
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And because I'm laughing, I'm very seriously asking him to stop,
but I'm laughing and it's making him laugh harder instead
of stopping so that I can stop. And that moment,
for that it felt like an hour. Maybe it was
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just a few moments. There was no love. I was
very angry. I was very angry, but I was laughing,
so he couldn't receive my anger, and he also couldn't
stop laughing. It was very, very very frustrating and tedious moment. However,
he is the rn QR code and his name is
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Ramses John and.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
We needed to stick around a little. Later in the show,
we're going to be talking about a former NFL player
named Doug Martin who died in police custody under what
looks like mysterious circumstances. We're going to be talking about
Donald Trump pick who says that he has a Nazi
streak in him. He words clap back, talking about the
coldest divide and conquer Ever, better do better. Our January
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sixth rider that was pardoned was rearrested for threatening Hakim Jeffries.
We're going to talk about Republican senators being silent by
the truth and starting the show off with culture talking
about Trump accomplishing what he said and how we are
all worse for it. Right now is always at his
time for a feel good feature. In today's feel good
feature comes from Ebony Solange. Knowles is having a busy
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fourth quarter following her recent announcement of an archival library.
She was also appointed as the first Scholar in Residence
at the USC Thornton School of Music, make marking a
significant milestone for the institution. She will begin her three
year residency in the program this week, where she will
contribute to the development of the school's music curation program.
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This appointment reflects growing recognition of the importance of diverse
voices in music and arts education. Solange is an acclaimed
artist known for her innovative fusion of genres, bringing a
unique perspective that blends music, culture and social justice. Quote.
For decades now, I've won it. Sorry, for decades now,
I've watched the evolution of music and music curation, and
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I feel like I have something adequate to add to
the conversation unquote, she told The Los Angeles Times. She
goes on to say, I feel really inspired by the
idea of my fifteen year old self being able to
have someone sort of walk me through the footsteps of
what I was about to embark on. So if I can,
in any role be a vessel of guidance, it really
just sort of warms my heart that I am given
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the opportunity to be that in this space. And you know,
for somebody that grows up the sister of someone who
casts such a long shadow, I think that Solange has
really made this career her own.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know she.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I know, Solange being a more vocal social justice warrior
we'll call her, but you know, she's she wasn't deprived
when it came to the musical gifts and the family
and the fact that she is able to still do
both at the highest level. It is to be commended. Okay, Culture,
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Donald Trump accomplished what he said, and we're worse for it. Okay,
this is a long read here. We're going to have
to just get through it just to make sure that
we fitted all into this segment. It's a long read,
but I think it's worth it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
And then we both have our notes, so we'll go
back and just kind of highlight some things that we
think are we're talking about. But this comes from the route.
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No one likes to say I told you so, But
in the case of President Donald Trump, the phrase seems
to hit differently. Democrats warned that a second Trump term
would be the end of DEI and the start of
a blitz to the federal government, and in the span
of only eight months, the president proved folks like former
Vice President Kamala Harris completely right. And these are some
of the things that Donald Trump said that he wanted
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to do that he's actually accomplished since being elected. Okay,
number one, of course getting rid of DEI. On day
one of his second term, Trump signed an order we
all knew was coming. It moved in diversity, equity and
inclusion programs in federal departments and agencies. I'll add to
that that it also had a sweeping effect in the
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private sector across the country, resulting in the I think
it was the largest amount of black people being unemployed
since the pandemic, which in and of itself was a
tremendous milestone and a tremendous mass exodus from Black women
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from the workforce to the tune of once, the last
number I heard was three hundred thousand. I'm sure it's
much higher by now on black women losing their jobs
since Trump was elected. And that's a lot of people
when you consider the numbers. All right, let's move on
erasing Black history and the first few of Trump's second term.
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The federal government was thrown for a loop after the
DEI band but almost instantaneously, he also ordered the quiet
removal of black history moments from agency websites, which many
experts say is his attempt to rewrite history. Another thing
withdrawing from the World Health Organization during the pandemic. Trump
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expressed his repeated frustration with the World Health Organization and
disappointment with their handling of COVID nineteen. The Big Beautiful Bill,
the Republican led Spending Act, promised tax cuts for the wealthy,
bold attacks to medicaid and pelgrant recipients, and hits to
snap benefits. Pardoning capital insurrectionist. I think that goes without saying,
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so we don't need to describe that to you. Rolling
back segregation protections. Back in March, the administration moved to
take out language preventing segregation. A public memo was sent
out by the General Services Administration to ex explaining the
federal government will no longer prohibit contractors from having segregated restaurants,
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waiting rooms, or water fountains. Moving on, increasing of ICE funding,
Congress approved one hundred and seventy billion dollars for immigration
and border enforcement back in July. According to reports, about
seventy five billion will go directly to ICE, whose presences
have been amped up to fulfill the needs of Trump's
immigration mandate. Next one imposing stricter SNAP requirements. Along with
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cuts to Medicaid, the Big Beautiful Bill also restricts food stamps.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, will be cut
by thirty percent. Federally only recognizing two genders, Trump has
officially directed all federal agencies to only recognize two genders,
male and female, which are not changeable. Next one is
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bringing back the death penalty. Trump signed an executive sorry
in execution order directing the Attorney General to quote take
all necessary and lawful action to make sure states have
enough lethal injection drugs to carry out executions. And Trump's
immigration gold card. Most recently, the president has been touting
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his five million dollar Trump Card, which he launched, offering
permanent residency to wealthy migrants. And there's a lot more here,
but these are some of the ones that he warned
people about and that Democrats were saying, Hey, he's going
to do these things, and they are all.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
True.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Now, this is the reality that we live in. Eight
months is enough time to kind of, I guess have
these things rolled out pretty slowly. But once upon a time,
we didn't live in this world. Once upon a time
we lived in a world it felt like we were
moving in the right direction. I remember just after the
protest of two it sort of felt like, Okay, people
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are starting to listen. People are starting to recognize that
it's a lot more complicated than their minds have allowed
them to perceive it. A lot of people really loved
the idea of you know, hey, I'm not racist. I
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just have my own stuff to deal with. I have
my own problems, so I'm just not not concerned. And
I thought once upon a time there were a lot
more people recognizing, oh, our problems are connected with the
problems of the least of us. And we've been presented
with a caricature of black America. It's not an accurate
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reflection of who these people are. And obviously there were
some people that would never accept that those people now
run the government of the United States of America. And
so the rest of the show, we will talk about
some of these people who have power. We talked about
Pete Hegseth and his white supremacist tattoos. We talked about
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uh Steven Miller and his you know, white supremacist dog whistle,
you know, talking points. We spent a lot of time
talking about Elon Musk and his Nazi salute and you
know his Twitter page being indistinguishable from that of a
far right wing Nazi sympathizer. And these are all people
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who have power, have been given power, hold a lot
of sway over our material reality. And this is the
world we live in now. I know I said a
lot to anything to reflect on here.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
The biggest thing that I think you and I were
simultaneously looking forward to and not was the find out part.
Because people started coining the f around and find out thing.
They were saying it as this joke, as if we'd
be able to point the finger and laugh and say hahi,
jokes on you when it happened. But both of us
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realized right in the moment, no, we don't. We're not
going to watch people find out and then point at
them and say, told you so. We have to find
out too. And that is the most challenging part this,
This is the nobody wants to do this. Told youself,
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you know what I mean, Like there's the typically there's
something in that I told you so, Like see I
told you there's something in that. For the person saying it,
they've been proven right in a way that they can celebrate.
We never wondered how this was going to play out
rams Like everything you listed we pointed out while this
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man was running for president, saying it, while he was
saying it, while Project twenty twenty five was laying it
all out, and people denied it that it was true,
and those that reported him and voted for him, who
did not want to be perceived as racists, who did
not want to be perceived as mago I just wanted
to identify as Republican and couldn't vote for Kamala for
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whatever their boxes they checked, whatever their reasons were, those
people are not going to come out now and say, yeah,
I was tripping, or yeah I made a mistake, or
man I bad, I didn't see this coming. They're going
to double down on it. They're going to find the
mental gymnastics to forgive it, to excuse it, to give
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him some bail, and we're going to have to continue
to live in the world where that list gets longer.
We're not a year in yet. Imagine how expansive the destruction,
how far back we would have been set by the
end of this thing, And people keep saying we just
have a few more years, like it's insulting to say
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that it's insulting to me to pretend, like as Joe
Washed said, he lost in twenty twenty, refused to accept
the result and then tried to overthrow the election. There
was an actual insurrection attempt to win in twenty twenty six.
They are now openly cheating in the middle of the
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decade redistricting so they can get more votes in more seats.
They refuse to swear in a Democrat who won her
election to Congress almost a month ago. I think she's
from Arizona. So this idea that they're going to relinquish
control at some point and that he'll just up and
leave at the end of his quote unquote term, as
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if that'll even happen, it's insulting to me. We should
all know better. He's shown us and continues to show
us over and over again, who he is, and his
party shows us that there's nothing to do to hold
him accountable. So here we are. Well.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
One of the things that still every so often, I'll
admit it's infrequent, but every so often will cause I
would I won't say it causes a great reset. You
mentioned the mental gymnastics that we've seen at work, but
it will cause, if not a great reset. A glitch
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in the matrix? Is the truth right? The truth sill
set you free? And that brings us to the opinions
segment of the show. Republican Senator silenced by the truth Right.
So I'm gonna share a bit from the Atlanta Black Star.
Republican Senator Tim.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
She she she he.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I think that's how I say this. I've never had
to say.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
His name before. Is that a Michael Jackson lyric she.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I don't know how to say this guy's name. But again,
Republican Senator Tim she she high or she I think
that's how I would say this. Of Monte was left
speechless during a CNN interview last Tuesday night after being
reminded that recent energy funding cuts hurting his state were
not tied to the ongoing government shutdown, but instead came
directly from President Donald Trump's rollback of the Biden era subsidies.
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Appearing on CNN's The Source, Shihe was asked by a host,
Caitlin Collins about the Department of Energy's decision earlier this
month to cancel one billion dollars in clean energy funding
earmark for the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub, a multi state
project that includes Montana. The project had been promoted as
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a major economic driver, expected to bring high paying jobs
and expand hydrogen energy infrastructure in the region. Quote, the
Department of Energy just canceled a billion dollars to the
Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub. Part of that covers your state
of Montana, and your governor actually praised it when it
was happening, saying it was going to create good paying
Montana jobs and boost American made energy. They just yanked
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a billion dollars from that quote, Collins told SIHI, and
goes on to say, so that is taking away good
paying jobs in Montana, and he says, of course it is,
before launching into partisan talking points blaming Democrats for the
government shutdown. He says, as I said, we want the
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government to be open. You should be saying this to
Chuck Schumer, who's closing the government down. I'm agreeing, we
should have the government open right now. This is an
unnecessary shutdown. When Collins pressed again, noting that Energy Secretary
Chris Wright had confirmed to see an inn in an
October second interview that the funding cuts in Montana had
nothing to do with the shutdown, he appeared blindsided. After
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a long, uncomfortable pause, he finally snapped out of it. Well,
it's unfortunate we're still shut down. We shouldn't be right.
So that's one example where you know, I think that
they're so accustomed to blaming the left, owning the Libs, whatever,
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that's the primary agenda. Q shares this with us all
the time, with me in particular, because I'm with you
all the time that that's the main goal. It's like,
it's like two teams that hate each other, not one
half of the country. It's like we hate them and
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want them to lose, not even that we want to win,
we just want them to lose. That's kind of the
how it feels, right. So in that scenario, there's no accountability,
Like it's like, no, everything that you did is wrong,
whether or not it's wrong. And I think this next
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example is a lot simpler, and it also makes that case.
You know, we came across this on This would have
been a meme, but it it originates from Twitter. So
this is from someone named Senator Banks, and he put
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up a post saying the twenty twenty census was a fraud.
The Biden administration used a shady privacy formula that scrambled
the data and miscounted fourteen states. It included illegal immigrants
and handed Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count,
and I'm fighting to fix it. Okay, So this is
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from Senator Banks, is like official Senate account Okay. And
then Gavin Newsom responded, Donald Trump was the president in
twenty twenty, and so you see how there's like no rebuttal,
there's no accountability nothing, you know, it's just kind of like, well, whatever,
let's move on to the next attack. As opposed to,
let's shore up our argument. Let's shore up our why
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because the material reality is still the same. But they
just can't blame Biden for it. They will not take
accountability and blame Trump for it. Why would they ever
do that. It's only who can we blame on the left?
Not where can we take accountability and do right by
our constituents, do right by this country, do right by
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our country, fellow countrymen and women. And that approach has
become more and more prevalent in my estimation and based
on what I see, and I have to consume this
stuff regularly. So like a lot of people that listen
to me and Q a lot of people. I recognize
that you have to go to work, you have to
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get your kids together, you have to get ready for
that thing this weekend.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
You have to.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Man, I got holes in my socks. I got to
go to the store and buy new socks. I don't
shop at the store unless they are Deui store like.
I live and breathe this stuff, right, this is all
I do. So I've been able to monitor Republican behaviors
for such a long time that when I say I've
seen this type of behavior increase, this lack of accountability increase,
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I'm telling you the truth as I see it, not
what I want to be true. It's just it feels sad.
And let me make sure that I state this, okay.
So I spent most of my life in Arizona. In Arizona,
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Arizona was let's call it a red state for a
long time. Now it's a little purple, but liably a
red state for a good amount of time. There's no
way in the world I would have ever voted for
John McCain. But for people that don't spend a lot
of time in Arizona, John McCain is like one of
them guys in Arizona. Right, John McCain gained some favor
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from me when he was debating Obama. This might have
been in two thousand and eight, and he handed a
microphone to a woman and she got on the mic
and she started saying some stuff that was like borderline racist,
borderline just not factual, that sort of stuff. Right. John
McCain went back and took the micro from her and
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he said, no, no, we're not going to do that today.
And then when Obama won, he congratulated him, and then
he said in his concession speech, today has to be
in a very special day for African American people in
this country. I can only imagine how this must feel
for you, you know, coming to this country as slaves,
knowing that's your origin story here and then living through
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this moment. And it felt like he was celebrating that
with us, right. So I knew in that moment that Republicans,
maybe we didn't agree on how to get there, but
Republicans indeed had the capacity to be decent folks. And
after that I tried to view them through that lens,
and now I don't see it anywhere to the rest
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of the time is yours.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I want to read something that you said again, because
it highlights what we're dealing with and why so much
of my hope has left me. Because it's impossible to
combat when people have decided that the truth no longer matters.
I'm going to feel how I feel, no matter what.
I don't care how much truth, how much data, how
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much facts you present to me. It's not about facts
or data ramses. It's about rhetoric and narrative vibes. Senator
banks on X on Twitter. The twenty twenty census was
a fraud. The Biden administration used a shady privacy formula
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that scrambled the data and miscounted fourteen states. It included
illegal immigrants and helped Democrats. I'm sorry democrats extra seats.
Americans deserve a fair account, and I'm fighting to fix it.
Governor Gavin Newsom's reply, Donald Trump was the president in
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twenty twenty. In the regular world, that person would have
just been made a full love would have to apologize
and acknowledge that to someone. Except that's no longer the case.
They can just spin, move, move the goal posts, change
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the narrative so that they're still right, so that they
still don't have to accept that they've been lied to
and rams as you said this, and you can give
it its proper credit. And it's easier to fool a
man than to convince him that he's been fooled. Yeah,
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that was Mark Twain. Been dealing with that for a
decade now.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, all right, better do better. Pardon. January sixth rioter
arrested for threatening Hakim Jeffries. All right, tell me you're
in a cult without telling me you're in a cult.
All right, This from the BI in Christopher moynihan, a
January sixth rioter who was pardoned by President Donald Trump
earlier this year, has been arrested for allegedly making making
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a death threat against House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries, the
Democrat from New York, according to CB Sorry. According to
NBC News, Monihan is currently being held in Dutchess County
on a felon account of making a terroristic threat. New
York State Police said the FBI began investigating moynihan after
release after receiving a tip citing his homicidal ideations and
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suspected drug abuse. According to authorities, moynihan expressed plans to
kill Jeffries in New York City for the future. Quote.
The threat made against me was credible, it was serious,
and it was investigated thoroughly. I am grateful to law
enforcement for acting quickly to ensure my safety and the
safety of my family unquote, Jeffrey said in the statement.
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In February twenty twenty three, Monahan was sentenced to twenty
one months in prison for his role in the Capitol riots.
Prosecutor said moynihan was among the first rioters to breach
the Capitol grounds, entering the Senate galley sorry gallery, and
rummaging through Senator Ted Cruz's desk. Quote there's got to
be something in here we can explot a deleted use
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against these scumbacks unquote, moe Ahan said in a video
from the riot, later adding quote, we will restore our republic.
Down with Communism, down with Biden. After serving time, moynihan
was released early following a Supreme Court ruling that impacted
one of the charges against him. Moynihane's appeal was pending
when Trump issued a blanket pardon for insurrection insurrectionist on
January twenty twenty five, his first day back in office.
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Moinihan's bail has been set at ten thousand dollars casture
thirty thousand dollars bond. His next court of appearance is
scheduled for Thursday, October twenty third. So I think I
started off on the right foot here. There has been
a deep scrub level of brainwashing that has taken place,
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if not brainwashing, polarization, if not polarization, somehow, this current
administration has played to the deepest, darkest fears that many
people thought didn't exist anymore, perhaps myself included. You know,
(26:39):
Q made a comment the other day saying that we
grew up in a world, you know, for people who
aren't black, and listen to the show. One of the
things that we heard growing up in black circles frequently was,
you know, one day, that old racist generation is going
to die off, and you're going to live in a
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world that has more inclusivity and you know, people get
along better and you don't have to worry about those old, negative, racist,
you know, ill informed type of opinions and rhetoric and
philosophies impacting your reality. And you know, this administration not
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only violently shook us awake from that dream that we
believed in I use that word intentionally, but also kind
of turned back the clock quite a bit. And how
they did it was by perhaps playing two fears that
people had, a playing to racism that people held on
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some level that we were unaware of, and creating the
cult without the appearance of a cult, you know. I
mean to those of us who aren't in it, it
looks like that. And I know that people will go
back and forth on whether or not it's an actual cult.
I think it checks enough of the boxes to where
if I say it, you understand why I'm saying it.
So I'm not trying to be dismissive with that. But
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there's a lot of cult like qualities and politics in general,
especially so in the MAGA movement. I think that's a
fair assessment. I think that anybody will want to challenge that.
You'd have a hard time challenging me, because this is
something I've had to obsess over. But what happens is
that if you have a group of people that are
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prone to political violence, that are willing to take up
arms to attack on your behalf, and then you pardon
them and let them back out on the streets without
them being rehabilitated, which is what the criminal justice system
is supposed to do, without them having any real consequences
for their crimes or any accountability anything like that. There's
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no reason for them to not go back and do
the same thing, especially if you're the person who they
believe will protect them and they think they're doing your bidding. Right. So,
I know, I didn't leave a lot of time here.
It's a little bit short of a segment, but any
thought you want to shake you.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I think something like ten people of those given full
unconditional pardons post government insurrection, post attacking the government of
the United States, post harming police officers, post damaging the
Capitol building, at least ten of them have reoffended at
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least ten of them. And you know, the criminal justice
system in this country has never been about reform. It's
always been a capitalist endeavor with just legalized slavery. But
at least there was an accountability measure there, and they
didn't even get that with these that were pardoned. So
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of course they'll reoffend. Like you said, they're doing the
bidding of the president.
Broadcasting from the Civic Cypher Studios. 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 loves me and supports me regardless of what happens
in my life. He is my brother and it is
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an honor to do this program with me. It's the
q in the QR Code goes by the name of
q War.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The voice that you just heard. I have to cut
him off sometimes because he said I love and support
him no matter what. Rams has almost killed me on
the air before. I couldn't stop laughing. But I was
trying to drive a car that we were both in.
But I'm laughing so hard that I can't open my eyes.
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And because I'm laughing, I'm very seriously asking him to stop,
but I'm laughing and it's making him laugh harder instead
of stopping so that I can stop. And that moment,
for that it felt like an hour. Maybe it was
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just a few moments. There was no love. I was
very angry. I was very angry, but I was laughing,
so he couldn't receive my anger, and he also couldn't
stop laughing. It was very, very very frustrating and tedious moment. However,
he is the rn QR code and his name is
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Ramses John and.
Speaker 1 (01:29):
We needed to stick around a little. Later in the show,
we're going to be talking about a former NFL player
named Doug Martin who died in police custody under what
looks like mysterious circumstances. We're going to be talking about
Donald Trump pick who says that he has a Nazi
streak in him. He words clap back, talking about the
coldest divide and conquer Ever, better do better. Our January
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sixth rider that was pardoned was rearrested for threatening Hakim Jeffries.
We're going to talk about Republican senators being silent by
the truth and starting the show off with culture talking
about Trump accomplishing what he said and how we are
all worse for it. Right now is always at his
time for a feel good feature. In today's feel good
feature comes from Ebony Solange. Knowles is having a busy
(02:14):
fourth quarter following her recent announcement of an archival library.
She was also appointed as the first Scholar in Residence
at the USC Thornton School of Music, make marking a
significant milestone for the institution. She will begin her three
year residency in the program this week, where she will
contribute to the development of the school's music curation program.
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This appointment reflects growing recognition of the importance of diverse
voices in music and arts education. Solange is an acclaimed
artist known for her innovative fusion of genres, bringing a
unique perspective that blends music, culture and social justice. Quote.
For decades now, I've won it. Sorry, for decades now,
I've watched the evolution of music and music curation, and
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I feel like I have something adequate to add to
the conversation unquote, she told The Los Angeles Times. She
goes on to say, I feel really inspired by the
idea of my fifteen year old self being able to
have someone sort of walk me through the footsteps of
what I was about to embark on. So if I can,
in any role be a vessel of guidance, it really
just sort of warms my heart that I am given
(03:16):
the opportunity to be that in this space. And you know,
for somebody that grows up the sister of someone who
casts such a long shadow, I think that Solange has
really made this career her own.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know she.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
I know, Solange being a more vocal social justice warrior
we'll call her, but you know, she's she wasn't deprived
when it came to the musical gifts and the family
and the fact that she is able to still do
both at the highest level. It is to be commended. Okay, Culture,
(04:09):
Donald Trump accomplished what he said, and we're worse for it. Okay,
this is a long read here. We're going to have
to just get through it just to make sure that
we fitted all into this segment. It's a long read,
but I think it's worth it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely.
And then we both have our notes, so we'll go
back and just kind of highlight some things that we
think are we're talking about. But this comes from the route.
(04:33):
No one likes to say I told you so, But
in the case of President Donald Trump, the phrase seems
to hit differently. Democrats warned that a second Trump term
would be the end of DEI and the start of
a blitz to the federal government, and in the span
of only eight months, the president proved folks like former
Vice President Kamala Harris completely right. And these are some
of the things that Donald Trump said that he wanted
(04:55):
to do that he's actually accomplished since being elected. Okay,
number one, of course getting rid of DEI. On day
one of his second term, Trump signed an order we
all knew was coming. It moved in diversity, equity and
inclusion programs in federal departments and agencies. I'll add to
that that it also had a sweeping effect in the
(05:15):
private sector across the country, resulting in the I think
it was the largest amount of black people being unemployed
since the pandemic, which in and of itself was a
tremendous milestone and a tremendous mass exodus from Black women
(05:39):
from the workforce to the tune of once, the last
number I heard was three hundred thousand. I'm sure it's
much higher by now on black women losing their jobs
since Trump was elected. And that's a lot of people
when you consider the numbers. All right, let's move on
erasing Black history and the first few of Trump's second term.
(06:01):
The federal government was thrown for a loop after the
DEI band but almost instantaneously, he also ordered the quiet
removal of black history moments from agency websites, which many
experts say is his attempt to rewrite history. Another thing
withdrawing from the World Health Organization during the pandemic. Trump
(06:23):
expressed his repeated frustration with the World Health Organization and
disappointment with their handling of COVID nineteen. The Big Beautiful Bill,
the Republican led Spending Act, promised tax cuts for the wealthy,
bold attacks to medicaid and pelgrant recipients, and hits to
snap benefits. Pardoning capital insurrectionist. I think that goes without saying,
(06:44):
so we don't need to describe that to you. Rolling
back segregation protections. Back in March, the administration moved to
take out language preventing segregation. A public memo was sent
out by the General Services Administration to ex explaining the
federal government will no longer prohibit contractors from having segregated restaurants,
(07:06):
waiting rooms, or water fountains. Moving on, increasing of ICE funding,
Congress approved one hundred and seventy billion dollars for immigration
and border enforcement back in July. According to reports, about
seventy five billion will go directly to ICE, whose presences
have been amped up to fulfill the needs of Trump's
immigration mandate. Next one imposing stricter SNAP requirements. Along with
(07:32):
cuts to Medicaid, the Big Beautiful Bill also restricts food stamps.
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, will be cut
by thirty percent. Federally only recognizing two genders, Trump has
officially directed all federal agencies to only recognize two genders,
male and female, which are not changeable. Next one is
(07:52):
bringing back the death penalty. Trump signed an executive sorry
in execution order directing the Attorney General to quote take
all necessary and lawful action to make sure states have
enough lethal injection drugs to carry out executions. And Trump's
immigration gold card. Most recently, the president has been touting
(08:16):
his five million dollar Trump Card, which he launched, offering
permanent residency to wealthy migrants. And there's a lot more here,
but these are some of the ones that he warned
people about and that Democrats were saying, Hey, he's going
to do these things, and they are all.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
True.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Now, this is the reality that we live in. Eight
months is enough time to kind of, I guess have
these things rolled out pretty slowly. But once upon a time,
we didn't live in this world. Once upon a time
we lived in a world it felt like we were
moving in the right direction. I remember just after the
protest of two it sort of felt like, Okay, people
(09:03):
are starting to listen. People are starting to recognize that
it's a lot more complicated than their minds have allowed
them to perceive it. A lot of people really loved
the idea of you know, hey, I'm not racist. I
(09:24):
just have my own stuff to deal with. I have
my own problems, so I'm just not not concerned. And
I thought once upon a time there were a lot
more people recognizing, oh, our problems are connected with the
problems of the least of us. And we've been presented
with a caricature of black America. It's not an accurate
(09:45):
reflection of who these people are. And obviously there were
some people that would never accept that those people now
run the government of the United States of America. And
so the rest of the show, we will talk about
some of these people who have power. We talked about
Pete Hegseth and his white supremacist tattoos. We talked about
(10:10):
uh Steven Miller and his you know, white supremacist dog whistle,
you know, talking points. We spent a lot of time
talking about Elon Musk and his Nazi salute and you
know his Twitter page being indistinguishable from that of a
far right wing Nazi sympathizer. And these are all people
(10:35):
who have power, have been given power, hold a lot
of sway over our material reality. And this is the
world we live in now. I know I said a
lot to anything to reflect on here.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
The biggest thing that I think you and I were
simultaneously looking forward to and not was the find out part.
Because people started coining the f around and find out thing.
They were saying it as this joke, as if we'd
be able to point the finger and laugh and say hahi,
jokes on you when it happened. But both of us
(11:07):
realized right in the moment, no, we don't. We're not
going to watch people find out and then point at
them and say, told you so. We have to find
out too. And that is the most challenging part this,
This is the nobody wants to do this. Told youself,
(11:27):
you know what I mean, Like there's the typically there's
something in that I told you so, Like see I
told you there's something in that. For the person saying it,
they've been proven right in a way that they can celebrate.
We never wondered how this was going to play out
rams Like everything you listed we pointed out while this
(11:48):
man was running for president, saying it, while he was
saying it, while Project twenty twenty five was laying it
all out, and people denied it that it was true,
and those that reported him and voted for him, who
did not want to be perceived as racists, who did
not want to be perceived as mago I just wanted
to identify as Republican and couldn't vote for Kamala for
(12:10):
whatever their boxes they checked, whatever their reasons were, those
people are not going to come out now and say, yeah,
I was tripping, or yeah I made a mistake, or
man I bad, I didn't see this coming. They're going
to double down on it. They're going to find the
mental gymnastics to forgive it, to excuse it, to give
(12:30):
him some bail, and we're going to have to continue
to live in the world where that list gets longer.
We're not a year in yet. Imagine how expansive the destruction,
how far back we would have been set by the
end of this thing, And people keep saying we just
have a few more years, like it's insulting to say
(12:54):
that it's insulting to me to pretend, like as Joe
Washed said, he lost in twenty twenty, refused to accept
the result and then tried to overthrow the election. There
was an actual insurrection attempt to win in twenty twenty six.
They are now openly cheating in the middle of the
(13:16):
decade redistricting so they can get more votes in more seats.
They refuse to swear in a Democrat who won her
election to Congress almost a month ago. I think she's
from Arizona. So this idea that they're going to relinquish
control at some point and that he'll just up and
leave at the end of his quote unquote term, as
(13:38):
if that'll even happen, it's insulting to me. We should
all know better. He's shown us and continues to show
us over and over again, who he is, and his
party shows us that there's nothing to do to hold
him accountable. So here we are. Well.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
One of the things that still every so often, I'll
admit it's infrequent, but every so often will cause I
would I won't say it causes a great reset. You
mentioned the mental gymnastics that we've seen at work, but
it will cause, if not a great reset. A glitch
(14:21):
in the matrix? Is the truth right? The truth sill
set you free? And that brings us to the opinions
segment of the show. Republican Senator silenced by the truth Right.
So I'm gonna share a bit from the Atlanta Black Star.
Republican Senator Tim.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
She she she he.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I think that's how I say this. I've never had
to say.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
His name before. Is that a Michael Jackson lyric she.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
I don't know how to say this guy's name. But again,
Republican Senator Tim she she high or she I think
that's how I would say this. Of Monte was left
speechless during a CNN interview last Tuesday night after being
reminded that recent energy funding cuts hurting his state were
not tied to the ongoing government shutdown, but instead came
directly from President Donald Trump's rollback of the Biden era subsidies.
(15:16):
Appearing on CNN's The Source, Shihe was asked by a host,
Caitlin Collins about the Department of Energy's decision earlier this
month to cancel one billion dollars in clean energy funding
earmark for the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub, a multi state
project that includes Montana. The project had been promoted as
(15:37):
a major economic driver, expected to bring high paying jobs
and expand hydrogen energy infrastructure in the region. Quote, the
Department of Energy just canceled a billion dollars to the
Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub. Part of that covers your state
of Montana, and your governor actually praised it when it
was happening, saying it was going to create good paying
Montana jobs and boost American made energy. They just yanked
(15:58):
a billion dollars from that quote, Collins told SIHI, and
goes on to say, so that is taking away good
paying jobs in Montana, and he says, of course it is,
before launching into partisan talking points blaming Democrats for the
government shutdown. He says, as I said, we want the
(16:21):
government to be open. You should be saying this to
Chuck Schumer, who's closing the government down. I'm agreeing, we
should have the government open right now. This is an
unnecessary shutdown. When Collins pressed again, noting that Energy Secretary
Chris Wright had confirmed to see an inn in an
October second interview that the funding cuts in Montana had
nothing to do with the shutdown, he appeared blindsided. After
(16:43):
a long, uncomfortable pause, he finally snapped out of it. Well,
it's unfortunate we're still shut down. We shouldn't be right.
So that's one example where you know, I think that
they're so accustomed to blaming the left, owning the Libs, whatever,
(17:05):
that's the primary agenda. Q shares this with us all
the time, with me in particular, because I'm with you
all the time that that's the main goal. It's like,
it's like two teams that hate each other, not one
half of the country. It's like we hate them and
(17:26):
want them to lose, not even that we want to win,
we just want them to lose. That's kind of the
how it feels, right. So in that scenario, there's no accountability,
Like it's like, no, everything that you did is wrong,
whether or not it's wrong. And I think this next
(17:47):
example is a lot simpler, and it also makes that case.
You know, we came across this on This would have
been a meme, but it it originates from Twitter. So
this is from someone named Senator Banks, and he put
(18:10):
up a post saying the twenty twenty census was a fraud.
The Biden administration used a shady privacy formula that scrambled
the data and miscounted fourteen states. It included illegal immigrants
and handed Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count,
and I'm fighting to fix it. Okay, So this is
(18:32):
from Senator Banks, is like official Senate account Okay. And
then Gavin Newsom responded, Donald Trump was the president in
twenty twenty, and so you see how there's like no rebuttal,
there's no accountability nothing, you know, it's just kind of like, well, whatever,
let's move on to the next attack. As opposed to,
let's shore up our argument. Let's shore up our why
(18:55):
because the material reality is still the same. But they
just can't blame Biden for it. They will not take
accountability and blame Trump for it. Why would they ever
do that. It's only who can we blame on the left?
Not where can we take accountability and do right by
our constituents, do right by this country, do right by
(19:18):
our country, fellow countrymen and women. And that approach has
become more and more prevalent in my estimation and based
on what I see, and I have to consume this
stuff regularly. So like a lot of people that listen
to me and Q a lot of people. I recognize
that you have to go to work, you have to
(19:41):
get your kids together, you have to get ready for
that thing this weekend.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
You have to.
Speaker 1 (19:45):
Man, I got holes in my socks. I got to
go to the store and buy new socks. I don't
shop at the store unless they are Deui store like.
I live and breathe this stuff, right, this is all
I do. So I've been able to monitor Republican behaviors
for such a long time that when I say I've
seen this type of behavior increase, this lack of accountability increase,
(20:10):
I'm telling you the truth as I see it, not
what I want to be true. It's just it feels sad.
And let me make sure that I state this, okay.
So I spent most of my life in Arizona. In Arizona,
(20:30):
Arizona was let's call it a red state for a
long time. Now it's a little purple, but liably a
red state for a good amount of time. There's no
way in the world I would have ever voted for
John McCain. But for people that don't spend a lot
of time in Arizona, John McCain is like one of
them guys in Arizona. Right, John McCain gained some favor
(20:59):
from me when he was debating Obama. This might have
been in two thousand and eight, and he handed a
microphone to a woman and she got on the mic
and she started saying some stuff that was like borderline racist,
borderline just not factual, that sort of stuff. Right. John
McCain went back and took the micro from her and
(21:20):
he said, no, no, we're not going to do that today.
And then when Obama won, he congratulated him, and then
he said in his concession speech, today has to be
in a very special day for African American people in
this country. I can only imagine how this must feel
for you, you know, coming to this country as slaves,
knowing that's your origin story here and then living through
(21:41):
this moment. And it felt like he was celebrating that
with us, right. So I knew in that moment that Republicans,
maybe we didn't agree on how to get there, but
Republicans indeed had the capacity to be decent folks. And
after that I tried to view them through that lens,
and now I don't see it anywhere to the rest
(22:03):
of the time is yours.
Speaker 2 (22:06):
I want to read something that you said again, because
it highlights what we're dealing with and why so much
of my hope has left me. Because it's impossible to
combat when people have decided that the truth no longer matters.
I'm going to feel how I feel, no matter what.
I don't care how much truth, how much data, how
(22:29):
much facts you present to me. It's not about facts
or data ramses. It's about rhetoric and narrative vibes. Senator
banks on X on Twitter. The twenty twenty census was
a fraud. The Biden administration used a shady privacy formula
(22:51):
that scrambled the data and miscounted fourteen states. It included
illegal immigrants and helped Democrats. I'm sorry democrats extra seats.
Americans deserve a fair account, and I'm fighting to fix it.
Governor Gavin Newsom's reply, Donald Trump was the president in
(23:13):
twenty twenty. In the regular world, that person would have
just been made a full love would have to apologize
and acknowledge that to someone. Except that's no longer the case.
They can just spin, move, move the goal posts, change
(23:35):
the narrative so that they're still right, so that they
still don't have to accept that they've been lied to
and rams as you said this, and you can give
it its proper credit. And it's easier to fool a
man than to convince him that he's been fooled. Yeah,
(23:57):
that was Mark Twain. Been dealing with that for a
decade now.
Speaker 1 (24:01):
Yeah, all right, better do better. Pardon. January sixth rioter
arrested for threatening Hakim Jeffries. All right, tell me you're
in a cult without telling me you're in a cult.
All right, This from the BI in Christopher moynihan, a
January sixth rioter who was pardoned by President Donald Trump
earlier this year, has been arrested for allegedly making making
(24:24):
a death threat against House Minority Leader Hakim Jeffries, the
Democrat from New York, according to CB Sorry. According to
NBC News, Monihan is currently being held in Dutchess County
on a felon account of making a terroristic threat. New
York State Police said the FBI began investigating moynihan after
release after receiving a tip citing his homicidal ideations and
(24:46):
suspected drug abuse. According to authorities, moynihan expressed plans to
kill Jeffries in New York City for the future. Quote.
The threat made against me was credible, it was serious,
and it was investigated thoroughly. I am grateful to law
enforcement for acting quickly to ensure my safety and the
safety of my family unquote, Jeffrey said in the statement.
(25:06):
In February twenty twenty three, Monahan was sentenced to twenty
one months in prison for his role in the Capitol riots.
Prosecutor said moynihan was among the first rioters to breach
the Capitol grounds, entering the Senate galley sorry gallery, and
rummaging through Senator Ted Cruz's desk. Quote there's got to
be something in here we can explot a deleted use
(25:27):
against these scumbacks unquote, moe Ahan said in a video
from the riot, later adding quote, we will restore our republic.
Down with Communism, down with Biden. After serving time, moynihan
was released early following a Supreme Court ruling that impacted
one of the charges against him. Moynihane's appeal was pending
when Trump issued a blanket pardon for insurrection insurrectionist on
January twenty twenty five, his first day back in office.
(25:51):
Moinihan's bail has been set at ten thousand dollars casture
thirty thousand dollars bond. His next court of appearance is
scheduled for Thursday, October twenty third. So I think I
started off on the right foot here. There has been
a deep scrub level of brainwashing that has taken place,
(26:19):
if not brainwashing, polarization, if not polarization, somehow, this current
administration has played to the deepest, darkest fears that many
people thought didn't exist anymore, perhaps myself included. You know,
(26:39):
Q made a comment the other day saying that we
grew up in a world, you know, for people who
aren't black, and listen to the show. One of the
things that we heard growing up in black circles frequently was,
you know, one day, that old racist generation is going
to die off, and you're going to live in a
(27:00):
world that has more inclusivity and you know, people get
along better and you don't have to worry about those old, negative, racist,
you know, ill informed type of opinions and rhetoric and
philosophies impacting your reality. And you know, this administration not
(27:24):
only violently shook us awake from that dream that we
believed in I use that word intentionally, but also kind
of turned back the clock quite a bit. And how
they did it was by perhaps playing two fears that
people had, a playing to racism that people held on
(27:47):
some level that we were unaware of, and creating the
cult without the appearance of a cult, you know. I
mean to those of us who aren't in it, it
looks like that. And I know that people will go
back and forth on whether or not it's an actual cult.
I think it checks enough of the boxes to where
if I say it, you understand why I'm saying it.
So I'm not trying to be dismissive with that. But
(28:10):
there's a lot of cult like qualities and politics in general,
especially so in the MAGA movement. I think that's a
fair assessment. I think that anybody will want to challenge that.
You'd have a hard time challenging me, because this is
something I've had to obsess over. But what happens is
that if you have a group of people that are
(28:32):
prone to political violence, that are willing to take up
arms to attack on your behalf, and then you pardon
them and let them back out on the streets without
them being rehabilitated, which is what the criminal justice system
is supposed to do, without them having any real consequences
for their crimes or any accountability anything like that. There's
(28:53):
no reason for them to not go back and do
the same thing, especially if you're the person who they
believe will protect them and they think they're doing your bidding. Right. So,
I know, I didn't leave a lot of time here.
It's a little bit short of a segment, but any
thought you want to shake you.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
I think something like ten people of those given full
unconditional pardons post government insurrection, post attacking the government of
the United States, post harming police officers, post damaging the
Capitol building, at least ten of them have reoffended at
(29:34):
least ten of them. And you know, the criminal justice
system in this country has never been about reform. It's
always been a capitalist endeavor with just legalized slavery. But
at least there was an accountability measure there, and they
didn't even get that with these that were pardoned. So
(29:57):
of course they'll reoffend. Like you said, they're doing the
bidding of the president.
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