Part 1 - October 30, 2025. Viral Racist AI Videos of Black Women Complaining about EBT payments

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Broadcasting from the Civic Cipher studios. Welcome to the QR Code,
where we share perspective, seek understanding, and shape outcomes. A
big shout out to the one, the only q Ward
who again is away on family business taking care of
all that needs to be taken care of. Have no fear.
We will have him back in the studio soon, but
for now, he's got to do what he's got to do,

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and we are sending him all of our well wishes
and offering all the support in the world that he
needs in this time. But have no fear. I am
still here. I go by the name of Ramsys John
and I want you to stick around because a little
later on in the show, we are going to be
having an overview of a viral moment where a teacher

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was singing to a student and she ended up calling
the student a monkey. Now, this was a black student
and there was a lot of outrage because of the song,
and the teacher is keeping her job. I have some
interesting thoughts to offer that we're also going to be
talking about out an economic blackout that is being planned

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for November twenty fifth through December second that I am
feeling optimistic about I definitely want to talk to you
about that. For Better, Do Better, it's important to discuss
Donald Trump still teasing a third term in office and

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what that could mean and should mean to you now
and potentially in the future. We're also going to spend
some time discussing how Donald Trump is still referring to
Jasmine Crockett and aoc as low IQ. And actually we're
going to pick behind the curtain and give you a
little bit of strategy that I've come across in Trump world,

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and that might give us some insight into why he's
doing that. And we're going to start off the show
with some racist AI videos of black women complaining about
losing their EBT benefit. It's all that and so much more.
But as always, we start off with a feel good feature,
and today's feel good feature comes from the Root. Now,
this isn't a typical feel good feature, but I will

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explain at the end. All right, tables have turned for
a former New York State trooper after he confessed to
making up a shooting and blaming an imaginary black man
for the crime. The criminal complaint against Thomas Macia said
he was looking for attention or sympathy, and now He's
headed to prison, all because of an unprovoked lie. It
all started in October twenty twenty four, when Massia quote

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initiated a radio transmission for shots fired unquote while on duty.
According to the complaint obtained by ABC News Excuse Me,
the then twenty seven year old officer had claimed he
was shot by the driver of a black Dodge Dodge
Charger described as either a black or dark skinned Hispanic mail.

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The crime scene was temporarily shut down by state police
in an effort to locate the non existent shooters, caused
alarm and inconvenience to the public, the complaint said. A
multi state man hunt was launched, involving law enforcement from
New York, New Jersey, and Delaware, said Nassau County District
Attorney and Donnelly. It was revealed during a news conference
that Messia stage the October thirtieth shooting after hours of preparation.

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Messia dropped nine twenty two caliber shell casings at the
scene and later drove to Hempstead Lake State Park, where
he shot himself in the leg. According to NBC News,
Then he brought the same gun to his home before
driving back to the parkway and reporting that he had
been shot, according to officials. Last week, Messia was sentenced
to six months in prison and five years probation as

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part of the plea deal. CBS News reported he was
originally facing four years behind bars. The court also ordered
him to pay two hundred and eighty nine five hundred
eleven dollars in restitution for the pointless man hunt. And yeah,
that doesn't feel good, but the reason that we're calling
it a feel good feature today is because there is
at least some accountability. Q might be upset that it's

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only six months, but it's not zero months, and you
know that's not nothing, as we like to say around here.
All right, let's talk about some big news going on
in the culture today. So I don't know if you've
seen them, but I definitely have. There are videos going
around that are disturbing of black women complaining about being

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on welfare and not getting their welfare benefits. Initially, when
I saw some of these videos, I thought to myself,
Oh my god, why does everybody get to have an
Instagram account? You know, on and on and on. Because
I believe that I'm fighting the good fight and I'm

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trying to use data driven arguments to convince people that
the caricature of black women on welfare, the welfare queens,
is indeed a caricature, is not representative of, you know,
people who actually need that assistance from the government. I know,

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and we'll see upfront that there are a group of
people who perhaps abuse the system and have no ambition,
but the vast majority of human beings that use that
the welfare system in this country do not qualify for that.
But because this caricature exists in the minds of, let's

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be honest, many conservative people in this country, the thinking
is that welfare queens, black women, all that sort of
stuff are abusing the system and whatnot. And so when
I saw these videos, I'm thinking, oh my god, all
they are doing is playing into this stereotype. And we're
using data driven arguments to let people know that that

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is noticative of the people that actually use the welfare system.
But it turns out that I've been watching artificial intelligence
videos and other people have watched them too. So I'll
share this article from the route. Unless the government shutdown
is resolved before then, millions of people will lose their
snap benefits. November first, and social media has been on

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fire with outrage. There is a related conversation causing rage
and controversy within the black community. AI generated videos and
you won't believe what they're showing. Using exaggerated African American
vernacular English or aave. These fake videos show black women
scolding what appears to be a state employee for not

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being able to use their snap benefits. And this viral video,
a black woman yells as she demands benefits to take
her six kids to McDonald's. In another video, a black
woman yells into the camera about her EBT card being
cut off, with a view of her apartment in complete disarray.
Now I want to say this, some of these videos

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are watermarked, so it's very easy to see, Okay, these
are just racist people, you know, creating these bringing these
stereotypes to life using artificial intelligence. But some of these
AI videos are not watermarked. It is there was almost
the immediate thing that came out after this Sora platform

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was announced that all the videos would be watermarks so
people would know the difference between AI and original content.
Almost immediately there was a workaround. I don't think it
took twenty four hours. So some of the videos that
I saw that I now know, we're artificial intelligence, were
watermarked and still are not watermarked. But I think that

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this gives us an opportunity for those people who are
who consider themselves allies, who recognize that there's a lot
more context that goes into conversations about people that are
dependent on benefits and welfare and so forth. Having the

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data that I'm about to share with you might help
you as you have conversations, you know, while you're living
your life again around the Thanksgiving table with your racist uncle,
or you know, around the water cooler at your work.
That's what we always say around here. We try to
give you what it is you need to make the
changes in your world and help these ripples turn into

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a way. So I'm going to share some data from
Pewresearch dot org. The numbers vary from month to month,
but in April twenty twenty three, the most recent month
with available figures, forty one point nine million people in
twenty two point two million households received SNAP benefits. That

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translates to twelve point five percent of the total US population. Okay, now,
no matter which way you cut it, that's a lot
of people that are dependent on getting bailed out. That
is indicative of how healthy the job market is, how
healthy the economy is, but also how healthy the people are.

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What does the healthcare system look like? A lot of
these people are old, you know, do we take care
of our old people? And on and on. Right, But
no matter which way you cut it, twelve and a
half percent of the population is a lot of people. Now,
there are people that might assume when you hear the
word welfare, when you hear the word SNAP, when you
hear the word EBT, and then you see that figure

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twelve point five percent, that indeed that is the black population. Right.
There are people who's their thoughts don't rise above that,
and they don't realize that that is a racist prison
that they've placed themselves in, or the people around them
have built for them to place themselves in. So I'll
continue in. Most Americans ages sixteen to fifty nine who

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aren't distabled must register with their state SNAP agency or
employment office, meet any work, job search, or job training
requirement set by their state, accept a suitable job if
one is offered to them, and work at least thirty
hours a week. Failure to comply with those rules can
disqualify people from getting SNAP benefits. Okay, so this flies
right in the face of that welfare queen with six

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kids taking them in McDonald's. That is just again a
racist caricature of what the truth is for the vast
majority of people. I'm not saying fraud doesn't exist. I'm
saying that it is relative to the people that actually
needed it is a minuscule amount of fraud. And indeed,
a lot of the fraud that we've uncovered comes from

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white men. We've covered it many times, So yeah, I'll continue.
In addition, non disabled adults without dependents must either work
or participate in a work program for eighty hours a month,
or participate in state workfare program. If they fail to
do so, they can only receive snap benefits they're three
months out of any thirty six month period. Until recently,

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this additional work requirement applied to people ages eighteen to
forty nine. The Debt Limit deal recently enacted raises the
maximum age to fifty four, a change that will be
phased in over three years starting in October. The new
law also exempts veterans, homeless people, and young adults aging
out of foster care from all work requirements. Non Hispanic

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white people accounted for forty four point six percent of
adult SNAP recipients and thirty one point five percent of
child recipients in twenty twenty. Ok So that's almost forty
five percent would be non Hispanic white people receiving welfare.
About twenty seven percent of both adult and child recipients

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were black. Okay. Hispanic people who can be of any
race accounted for twenty one point nine percent of adult
recipients and thirty five point us eight percent of child recipients.
The vast majority of both adult and child recipients were
born in the United States eighty two point three percent
and ninety seven point one percent, respectively. Okay, So for

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people that think that immigrants are coming into this country
and getting on welfare, most people that are on welfare
were born in the United States. Again, eighty two point
three percent of adults. But just because you know, the
rest of the people were not born in the United
States doesn't mean that they aren't citizens. Okay, So eighty

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two point three percent born here, and I would imagine
a good chunk that have become naturalized citizens at some point.
Now I'll conclude here among adult recipients, sixty two point
four percent had a high school diploma or less education
in twenty twenty, and despite the program's work requirement, sixty
one point six percent said they had not been employed

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at all that year. So, yes, it's true that it's
easier to find yourself in that predicament when you are
less educated. But the fact of the matter is that
people fall on hard times, people get sick, things happen

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that are unexpected, and most of this country leaves paytrick
to paycheck, and so they are one sickness, one job
loss away from having to use these snap benefits. So
I want everyone to know this so that when they
see these racist videos that people are creating of these
black women talking about their six kids and how they're
not going to be able to feed them, that you

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are being lied to. This lib was established by Republicans
in the eighties, I think Reaganomics, and it is one
of those zombie myths that doesn't die. Indeed, you're more
likely to encounter a black sorry, a white man who's
abusing the system, and a white woman who's using the

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system than you are that racist caricature. All right, moving on,
Donald Trump still calling Jasmine Crockett in AOC low iq
so Q and I talked about this a few times.
This is really really gross. I mean, Donald Trump has

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done so much gross stuff that it's kind of I'm
not telling you anything new. Even his supporters realize how
gross this is, and they either love it or excuse it.
But this has racist and sexist overtones. And I think

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the degree to which people can organize their thoughts and
their words, the degree to which people can formulate coherent sentences,
the degree to which people can aspire to accomplish things
on their own without having some sort of head start
granted to them, I think that those are better indicators

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of intelligence, resourcefulness, fortitude, et cetera than most anything else.
Donald Trump, let's not forget, was born rich. That's how
he was able to go to the schools that he
went to and you know, start the businesses that he started.

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In my estimation, he is the epitome of someone who
failed upward. Donald Trump is most of his net worth
was created once he became president, and since then, Donald
Trump his businesses and his net worth barely. I don't
even think it beat the market. I think I've read

(16:01):
that somewhere, so don't hold me to it. But I
read somewhere. I believe it to be true that had
he just invested his money, he would have done better
because of all the bankruptcies and all the film businesses
along the way. So for Donald Trump to continue to
call these two women low IQ is particularly insulting and baseless.
I'm going to share the story so you understand what

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we're talking about here. This from the BION representative. Jasmine Crockett,
the Democrat from Texas, has fired back at Donald Trump
after the president again called her a low IQ person
while boasting about his performance on a basic cognitive exam.
Quote He's never been known to be an Einstein unquote, Crockett, sorry,
told CNNs Caitlin Collins. She goes on to say, this

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is not a guy who got it on merit when
it came to going to college. This is someone who,
but for him being born with a silver spoone, probably
wouldn't have gotten into anybody's institution, unlike Mequote, Crockett said
she could guarant that Trump's IQ qualifies as low if
he's taken a test recently. Quote what's his IQ? He

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doesn't even know what his IQ is? Unquote. The Democratic
lawmaker said, she goes on to say he don't even
know which scores are lowot. Crockett's comments came after Trump
said Monday, October twenty seventh that he had taken an
aptitude test, but what he really described was the Montreal
Cognitive Assessment, the same person woman man camera TV test

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he took in twenty twenty. The assessment screens for cognitive
impairment or dementia, not intelligence. Despite that, Trump has repeatedly
bragged about passing the test and claimed that neither Crocket
nor Representative Alexandria Ocassio Cortez, the Democrat from New York,
could do the same. During her appearance on CNN, Crockett

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called out what she said was a pattern in Trump's remarks. Quote,
he consistently is obsessing over two women of color. I
don't know what black woman hurt him in his past, honey,
but it is really taking him through it unquote, she said,
adding that Trump should quote focus on his real job.
Ocassio Cortes also responded on X jokingly asking Trump if

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the doctors administering his test had him draw a clock.
A common part of the exam used to screen for
neurological issues, so one of the things that I think
is important to connect to this moment is. I think

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it's best illustrated by the question why does he keep
saying things they're patently false? And I came across something
that I want to share with you. I think you'll
get a kick out of it, because I certainly did.
For those that remember, once upon a time, there was
a person named Anthony Scaramucci. He was the former White

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House communications director under Donald Trump. There's a video that
I encountered recently of him describing his time with Donald Trump,
and I'll share it now.

Speaker 2 (19:09):
Stop Trump from lying. I used to go to rallies
with him. I did seventy one campaign stops with him.
We all own this, by the way, and so I've
owned it more openly than others. We would come up
from the campaign rally, we'd go back up onto the plane.
I'd look over at him and say, what the hell
did you say that for? That wasn't anywhere near the truth.
He would be loosening that red tie and getting himself

(19:29):
another shirt. He always changed shirts in between these rallies,
and he would say, what the hell. Difference doesn't make
No one cares. And in fact, if I say it,
often enough, people won't believe it. He told Leslie Stall that,
you know, he said that if I just keep repeating it,
there's a large enough group of people. Trump business smart guy.
People shouldn't underestimate him. He once said to me, you know,
a billion people know who I am. A half of
a billion of those people hate my effing guts, he goes,

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but think of the possibilities on the other half a billion,
and he's selling them bibles and bigcoins and all different
types of things. So I guess the point is Trump
make it worse for all of us because now politicians
look at to say, okay, all politicians lie. You know,
that's the same way you and I are breathing. But
now Trump has like made it even bigger.

Speaker 1 (20:09):
We couldn't. So again, that is Donald Trump's former White
House communications director. So when he says that he did
seventy two campaign stops with Donald Trump, I believe him.
When he says Donald Trump had to change his shirt,
and I believe him. And when I say that Donald Trump,

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or when he says rather that Donald Trump says, half
a billion people hate my ef and guts, but imagine
what we can do with the other half. I believe
him that sounds like Donald Trump. I don't believe when
he says Donald Trump is a smart guy, but I
know what he's trying to say. Smart feels different. Donald

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Trump is more cunning, manipulative, clever. I think even cunning
and clever is high praise for Donald Trump. But I
recognize that he has the ability and the he's devoid

(21:16):
of the I guess the moral what would I call it?
The moral standing to take advantage of people. He's a
grifter and he's gotten really good at that. He is
a liar and has gotten really good at that. And
he's really he's gotten really good at using his celebrity

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to mobilize people toward whatever ends he deems will serve
his interests. This is part of the reason why people
can know that Donald Trump doesn't pay his debts and
still enter into business arrangements with him. So, yes, Donald

(21:59):
trum Trump does do that very well. But the thing
I want us to take away from that is that
Donald Trump will say something that's not true, be called
out on it, say who cares? Effectively what he's saying effectually,
what he's saying is that if I say it enough,
it will be true. Enough to enough people. And so

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when you see him repeating lies about how intelligent he
is or how unintelligent other people are, or really any lies,
you're getting a peek behind the curtain, a peek into
the playbook. Now, this is something that you and I
would talk about quite a bit. We could see the
strategy because we saw him doing the same thing over

(22:43):
and over again, and we sort of clocked it. We
just didn't have an insider like Anthony Scaramucci to confirm
it for us. And this guy is the president and
again he said like politicians lie like like you and

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I breathe. Sure, maybe that's part of the gig. But
the weaponization of lying to grift from his own base
and then weaken the entire country, the standing of the country,
and under the guise of kind of making it stronger.

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You know, there's these performative things that he's doing that
suggest that the US is stronger on the world stage,
et cetera. The long term implications of that is that
it erodes this great American experiment that we've been conducting
for two hundred and fifty years. And again, a lot
of people that have come to love him because of
his celebrity. I don't know that they really do the

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legwork necessary to realize that that's really what we're up
against collectively. So bear that in mind. All Right, let's
move on, because Donald Trump is still teasing a third term.
I'm glad we did this show in this order. All right,

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let's jump into this. This is from Black Enterprise. After
boasting on Air Force one about receiving perfect MRI results,
President Donald Trump teased the idea of serving a third
term in the White House, saying he would love to
do it since he has the best numbers ever. Okay,
so watch this. We we just talked about how Donald

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Trump we'll say things over and over again, you know again.
Anthony Scaramoucci, his former White House Press secretary or whatever
that position, communications director, said, Trump says things over and
over again because if he says it often enough, his
base will just accept it as true. Right. This is

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Trump saying on Air Force one that he would love
to do it since he has the best numbers ever.
I'm going to interrupt my reading of this Black Enterprise
article to share something with you from Newsweek from October
twenty eighth. All Right, President Donald Trump's net approval rating
has slipped to its lowest amid his second term in office.
A new poll from The Economist and Yugov shows on Tuesday.

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The data highlights increasing voter discontent amid ongoing economic uncertainty,
the prolonged government shut down, and criticism over major administration
policies like tariffs and immigration. Okay, so let's go back
Black Enterprise saying that he boasted on Air Force one
about receiving perfect MRI results, and he's the idea of

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serving a third term in the White House, saying he
would love to do it since he has the best
numbers ever. Okay, so he's going to keep saying that
because if he says it enough to the enough people,
it'll be true. All right, Back to the rest of
the Black Enterprise article. He then ranted against Democratic Congresswoman
Jasmine Crockett and Alexandria Ocasio Cortes, calling them low IQ.
We just talked about that. According to The New York Times,

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the Constitution sets a two term limit for presidents. The
twenty second Amendment states, quote, no person shall be elected
to the office of the President more than twice unquote,
regardless of whether the terms are consecutive. Seeing how the
Trump administration and its MAGA loyalists have found loopholes to
manipulate decades old legislation, it should come as no surprise
that the president and his supporters have continued to keep

(26:23):
the idea alive. In a recent interview, Trump's former strategist
Stephen Bannon said that quote, people need to get accommodated
quote to the fact that Trump will be president again
in twenty twenty eight, even though he is the oldest
person ever elected to the presidency. Bannon said the American
people need him to be the president. When asked about
the twenty second Amendment, Bannon said, there is already a

(26:46):
plan to get around that. Quote. There's many different alternatives.
At the appropriate time, we will lay out what the
plan is. But there's a plan, and President Trump will
be the president in twenty twenty eight. Unquote, he said,
this is not the first time the indicted politician has
flirted with the idea of a third term. In twenty
twenty before sorry, before losing to Joe Biden, he raised

(27:09):
the idea during a stop in Nevada. Quote, fifty two
days from now, we're going to win Nevada, and we're
going to win four more years in the White House,
and then after that will negotiate, right because we're probably,
based on the way we were treated, we are probably
entitled to another four after that. While some of the
President's most loyal followers have supported the idea, others have
expressed that it's not going to happen. House Speaker Mike Johnson,

(27:32):
the Republican from Louisiana, answered questions about the narrative and said, quote,
I don't see the path for that unquote. It's been
a great run, but I think the president knows, and
he and I have talked about the constrictions of the Constitution.
Okayote all right, So, once upon a time I thought

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that Donald Trump making it to the White House was silly.
He had no real policy to stand on other than
talking about things that would the things that a rich
person who's disconnected from day to day life in the
United States would say. And you know again, that celebrity

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certainly helped him the name recognition, the fact that he
presented himself to the world as a successful businessman, although
he was not. He was a mediocre businessman who was
very good at getting attention. But he ended up winning

(28:42):
the presidency after that I thought, and a lot of
people thought that a lot of the things that he
suggested and things that came out of the White House
were just them simply trolling. Indeed, that's what they said
to excuse a lot of the behavior. Oh he's just trolling.
He's just playing with you, guys. Stop taking everything so seriously.

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And then a lot of those things actually happened. The
things that were practical and based in a shared reality
actually did happen. And now sort of like nothing is
off limits. So the fact that he's teasing a third term,
I think is something that we need to bear in mind. Again,
the strategy is if I say it enough, it will
normalize it and people will just kind of accept it.

(29:27):
So let's just know that that's a strategy, and this
is what he's talking about. Also, I would expect them
to come up with a strategy that prevents Obama from
running for a third term. However that looks, so be
mindful of that and regardless of what comes next. I

(29:51):
think it's up to us to make sure that the
Constitution is followed. And we'll talk about that more and
how we do that. In just a second,