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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Broadcasting from the Civic Cyper Studios. Welcome to the QR code,
where we share perspective, seek understanding, and shape outcomes. The
man you are about to hear from is always on
an airplane. He's mister always on an airplane, but he
never misses a microphone. He is a Q in the
QR code. He goes by the name of q Ward.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
The voice you just heard and the hesitancy that you
heard was my brother making things up on the fly,
and that's why it didn't flow out as naturally as usual.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Once upon a time that was true.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
That used to call me mister thirty seven thousand feet,
but that's when I was traveling every four days. And
that's just a lot that you guys don't want to hear.
But he is the R in the QR code, and
he goes by the name Rams's Jah, And.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
We need you to stick around. Later on in the show,
we are going to be talking about whether or not
the NFL is to blame for Trump's presidency. Stephen A. Smith,
who will be a future guest on the show, had
some interesting thoughts about that, and I think it gives
some insight into the president's psyche We're else going to
be talking about a mass shooting event in Pennsylvania that
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claimed the lives of three police officers we didn't get
to touch on last week. That'll give us some insight
into the goings on in this country insofar as mass
shootings and guns and who's responsible for what. Prior to that,
we're going to hear from q Ward in his clap
back discussing how every MAGA accusation is seemingly a confession.
(01:31):
First part of the show, we're going to end it
with a better do better. You may not know the
Defense Department has limited the access of the free press,
so we're going to get into the weeds there. Prior
to that, we're going to be talking about a judge
who was suspected of child sex crimes, the judge actually
that was apologetic over Dylan Roof's crimes. We're going to
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be talking about an Arizona man making terroristic threats to
a gay bar that I have a personal connect with.
And as always, we're going to start off with a
feel good feature. So today's feel good future comes from USA. Today,
New Mexico is the first state in America to guarantee
free childcare to every parent starting November first. Governor Michelle
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Luhan Grisham made the announcement on September eighth. The state
already had free childcare available to families with incomes at
or below four hundred percent of the federal poverty level,
but starting in November, the program will be available to
all parents, regardless of income. Quote. By investing in universal childcare,
we are giving families financial relief, supporting our economy, and
ensuring that every child has the opportunity to grow and thrive.
(02:37):
This quote comes from Luhan Luhan Grisham, and she said
that in a news release. Here's what to know about
the program and if other states are going to follow suit.
Childcare assistance program funds go directly to childcare providers, not parents,
said New Mexico Early Childhood Education Care Department Secretary Elizabeth Groginsky.
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I believe that's how that's pronounced. Child care providers in
New Mexico or eighty five percent are part of the program.
A parent applies for assistance through the state with a
specific care facility in mind. The state sets rates based
on the age of the child, the care facility, and
the quality of care centers that aren't in the program
have opted out and are likely to have higher tuition rates.
Graginsky said New Mexican families will save an average of
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twelve thousand dollars annually through the program, according to the
news release. And the reason this is a feel good
feature is because we recognize on this show that studies
have shown that if you want to impact crime rates,
if you want to impact the economic prosperity of low
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income communities, this is one of the easiest and most
sure fireway to do it. Childcare programs, after school programs,
things like that that are very easy. Outside of that,
investing in infrastructure so people can get around two jobs
and from jobs is another way to do that. Dealing
with food and security, food deserts, etc. Basically, when people
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were saying defund the police, they were talking about investing
in programs like this. Glad New Mexico is taking this step.
I know the defund the police part hasn't come into manifestation,
but the investing in communities seems like it is, and
we're excited to see what comes of it. All right,
and Q, you don't know this story, so I'm going
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to share it with you and with our listeners. You know,
I mentioned I had a personal connection to a situation
over the weekend. And you know, for folks listening, you
might notice a theme in today's program. There's a lot
of gun violence that's taking place in this country, and
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at present, the right specifically is trying to chronicle this
as a left wing liberal issue, ignoring the fact that
right wingers are the ones that espouse guns and gun culture,
that indeed, the number of political crimes stem from right
wing terror attacks, ignoring the fact that mass shootings in
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the way that we've come to understand them by a
long way, come from the right wing. And indeed, the
gun problem in this country is often held up in
terms of finding a resolution, it's held up by the right,
the political right in this country. And so you might
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notice this thing. But I'll share a bit of a
story Q with you and by extension, with our listeners.
So let me paint a picture here. An asy man
arrested after making terroristic threats to gay bar. This is
from azyfamily dot Com. A Phoenix man has been arrested
after police say he threatened to shoot up a gay
bar near his apartment, reportedly because he was angry about
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recent political violence across the country. On Wednesday, Phoenix police
arrested Trevin Michael Boke forty nine, on accusation of making
a terroristic threat and using a computer to threaten, both
of which are felonies. Court paperwork revealed that officers were
called out to Goke's apartment for a welfare check after
a crisis hotline reported that Gok had made threats to
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shoot up Cruis in Seventh, a popular LGBT bar near
Seventh Street in Osborne Road. This is in Phoenix, because
he said he was quote triggered by political events. When
officers arrived, Goki reported Lee refused to come out of
his apartment and allegedly made statements that the quote radical
left violence breeds a far right response. Police asked for specifics,
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and he mentioned the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk and
the school shootings in Minneapolis and Tennessee. In court documents,
police stated they asked Gokey about those events and how
they made him feel, to which he stated it didn't
make him happy and he quote wanted to harm others
unquote to send a message. Police revealed interesting documents that
Gok said that quote Charlie Kirk was a martyr, that
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he was a martyr for Charlie Kirk and political violence
breeds political violence unquote. All right. Police also detailed several
transphobic comments he allegedly made. Court paperwork also showed that
gok had previously called Phoenix PD to make a police
report in which he allegedly stated that if officers didn't
arrive quicker, he would quote shoot bystanders unquote. When police arrived,
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he reportedly said it worked, didn't it. A Police also
noted a previous call related to mental health. Gokey was
booked into the Maricopa County Jail on a two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars bond. In light of the arrest,
Phoenix Pride released a statement which read, in part quote,
we are in constant contact with our civic and public
safety partners, and we are always monitoring potential threats. However,
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to be clear, Phoenix Pride and the Greater Phoenix LGBTQ
plus and allied community will not be intimidated, silence, suppressed,
or subdued. Okay, So the glimpse into the reality of
the world we live in, this obsession with trans people
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by the right in this country, This obsession with trans
groomers and trans athletes and you know, all this sort
of stuff, which I have to say, we're a data
driven show. I have to say it's a non zero amount, sure,
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but if you added it all up collectively, it wouldn't
even amount to one percent. It wouldn't even amount to
a fraction of one percent. And it is a problem
that exists in the minds of people that consume Fox
News to a much greater extent than in the real world.
I think that there was a study that was done
on Fox News that said that Fox News spends on average,
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seventeen minutes an hour are talking about trans athletes are
trans people? I think the biggest issue that they discussed
was trans athletes men who have transitioned to women playing
in sports in high school and how that would be
an unfair advantage because of testosterone for the girls. And
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the study after that actually did an accounting of how
many people fit that description in the United States of America,
and I think in total it was three people, two
of which didn't fully meet the criteria, so that seventeen
minutes per hour on Fox News was really for one
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human being out of three hundred and forty five million,
and they've dedicated so much political and conversational oxygen to it,
and the result of that is it makes the world
less safe for people who actually are people that otherwise
would fly into the radar. These people have communities that
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are vibrant. They don't mean anyone any harm. And you know,
I mentioned my personal connection. I have a friend and
Q knows her through me, but we have a friend
who owns a bar in Phoenix, Arizona, and I actually
was DJing at her bar. She needed a DJ to
sub in and I'm like, yeah, I got you, you know,
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And I went to her bar, and this is before
I found out about this, but she had armed security
there and the night suffered as a result of it.
There were people that were out of course, but you know,
the crowd that she's accustomed to having obviously are very afraid.
They don't No one wants to get killed because someone
like this feels as though these LGBTQIA plus individuals and
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allied communities lives are theirs to claim because they're upset
about Charlie Kirk and or whatever else they've been fed
for however long from Fox News. And so this is
my way of kind of painting this picture of what
a dangerous climate that we're in. And you know, a
lot of times we talk about data on the show,
but we don't get to let the stories live because
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we don't often have personal connections to everything. Oh I
guess we do, but we don't often get to shine
a light on them in the moment where it's happening.
And this was one where it was happening and I
saw it, I saw the people, and we talked about
it everybody. That's all people could talk about. And people
had planned, so they came out. People had we already
planned our birthday, and you know, I have to come
support and I'm trying not to be intimidated, and of
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course I had those conversations, but the reality of the
situation is the night suffered, and these people deserve, you know,
life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the same
as any other American and yet and still it's being
compromised by one political faction of this country. And so
that's what happened to me over the weekend. Q. And
obviously I want to make sure you have a little
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bit of time to respond, So any thoughts, sir.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It seems the most dangerous place that a non white Christian,
heterosexual rich man can live is in the imagination of
a white supremacist, because in their imagination, they create this
world where all of us are the threat, the enemy within,
the most dangerous lurking problem for them. So they preemptively,
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and this is something that we're going to speak to later,
they preemptively do all the things.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
That they accuse all those groups of doing.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Right, I'm going to go out and harm all of
them because of the anger and the violence that they've stoked. Well, sir,
can you give us an example of a time where
they did something. No, I can't give you an example.
I just know what's going to happen one day, so
I'm going to go out and prevent it. It's the
type of thing that once upon a time all of
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us would have collectively thought was ridiculous, except now we're
being framed as the ridiculous ones for calling it out
and for pointing to it. This man threatening to go
harm people who not only meant him no harm, but
have never done anything harmful to him or anyone else.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
He knows. This is not a revenge plot.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
This is not a response to some violent thing that
happened to him, and using Charlie Kirk as the nexus
for this kind of feels like what the intention was
in the first place. Like they got excited, like finally
we have something. So now, even though they had nothing
to do with it, let's threaten the LGBTQ community and
HBCUs because we don't know, because we've always hated them,
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and this just seems like a convenient time to say
it out loud again. It's rams is just starting to
be really really ridiculous and really really dangerous.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Bro. Yeah, my heart breaks for that community. I've always
been and will always be an ally. Those are my
brothers and sisters and siblings. And to know that, you know,
for the most part, I've never even met one person
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who meant to anybody any harm. To know that they
suffer because of religion and because of you know now
politics constantly on top of trying to navigate a world
that really wasn't built for them specifically. I know that
I'm going to do my part, you know what I mean,
And if they need a brother, then I will be
that brother. And I hope that I was all right.
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Time to move on, got some opinions about a judge
who is suspected of child sex crimes. This one is
a little weird, so follow me. This is going to
take a minute, but this is from kp TV Fox
twelve of Charleston, South Carolina. A judge in South Carolina
was arrested because he was charged with child sexual abuse material.
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According to the United States Department of Justice, James B. Gosnell, Junior,
sixty eight, is accused of possession of child sexual abuse material.
He was officially suspended by Chief Justice John Kiddridge on Tuesday.
According to a court filing, investigators with the Department of
Homeland Security received a tip from the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children about several financial transactions with the
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distributor of child abuse material from the United Kingdom. The
payments came from a peer to peer online money transfer
account associated with his phone number, address, and email account.
In November twenty twenty four, Gosnell's attorney, Lionel Lofton, said
federal authorities executed a search warrant at Gosnell's home and
arrested him. After this search was complete, they found a
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flash drive containing numerous videos and images depicting child sexual abuse,
which include videos and images of miners, infants, and toddlers.
I'm sorry, I didn't know this was here engaged in
sexually explicit conduct. Documents state specifically that Kiddridge found Gosnell's
continued service as a magistrate in Charleston County post is
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a substantial threat of serious harm to the public and
the administration of justice. That was a quote. Sorry. It
stated the suspension was based on credible information provided to
the court. Gosnell is the judge who presided over the
bond hearing for Charleston church shooting suspect Dylan Rufe would
later be convicted of the June eighteen, twenty fifteen shooting
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deaths of nine parishioners of Mother Emmanuel Ame Church in
downtown Charleston. Gosnell's scheduled to appear for a bond hearing
at nine thirty am Wednesday. Lofton said, So it was
a little icky. I'm sorry. The reason that this story
stood out was because I have seen a number of
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prominent right wing individual either community members, maybe they're not
national figures or national figures or whatever, that are getting
kind of taken down for child sex crimes. It's kind
of gross. Now I will seed entirely that I'm subjected
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to my own algorithms. I will see it entirely that
I have not documented every case. We typically don't cover
this sort of stuff. We cover more broad, far reaching
systemic issues. Right. But once you get to the point
where it's like, Okay, I'm noticing a trend, you might
want to speak on it. Okay, Now, again, my algorithm
might be serving me a thing that reflects my sensibilities,
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and they're just as there may be just as many
liberal folks that are getting caught up for this. I
suspect that's not true because I come data, but because
I want to make sure that I'm giving as unbiased
of a response to this as I can. I just
want to say that my algorithm served this and stories
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like this to me, and I understand the implications of that.
But it was right around the same time that I
got an an interview came up and this was Tim Tebow.
Now I don't know much about sports, but I know
Tim Tebow. He's the guy that would, like, I think,
do a Neil thing and maybe put his fist in
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there or something like that whenever he played football, And
so it was called a t Bow thing t Bow
moment in the country. I don't know, but I know
the name, and he was talking on this podcast. So
based on the recent interview, Tim Tebow was saying that
Caucasian men, he was saying that middle aged Caucasian men
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are the biggest perpetrators of child abuse. And this was
made on the Sean Ryan Show in May twenty twenty five,
and when he was kind of giving his response and
making the statement, you could tell that he was kind
of struggling to get that bar off right now, It's
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not like me to take the word of Tim Tebow
or anybody. So I did a little bit of digging
and I found a source that I feel might be credible.
It's rain dot org r ai n n dot org.
It's the nation's largest anti sexual violence nonprofit. So I
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suspect the data that they've compiled and they've sourced it.
They've just organized it for me and I've organized it
for you to consume as a listener. But this data
feels like it comes from a credible enough source and
for people that want to dispute it, obviously rain dot
org have at it. But now you know where I
got it. From it says fifty seven percent of perpetrators
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are white, twenty seven percent Black, eight percent unknown ethnicity,
a six percent other, one percent mixed group one. And
so I think that looking at white men, and as
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if we look at the data we recognize that a
significant amount of white men tend to vote conservative relative
to relative to the liberal voting white males in this country,
that white men would be the place that one might
want to start when looking at people who are harming
children in this country. Now, the story prior to that,
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prior to this one, where we were talking about this
man wanting to shoot up LGB clubs because he feels
whatever he feels, and the stories that we're going to
cover later in the show, it's almost like a willful ignorance,
and you know there is a problem. And again I
listed all of the data I know, and there's different
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data that says that black in terms of like spanking children,
there's issues with black people. I'm not trying to hide
behind the data. I want to have a data driven
conversation with the country. But in looking at this which
I believe to be credible, I know where the problem starts.
And in looking at the media space I know where
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people are trying to chronicle the blame, and those two
things don't match. Now again, Q, I want to make
sure you have enough time to respond, so please, you
go to such lengths to be so kind and so
graceful and fair, stands so much benefit of the doubt. Like,
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even when speaking about this, you're like, it's kind of gross.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
No, it's very gross. Yeah it's disgusting. Yeah it's not
kind of gross. You speak about your algorithm serving you
something as if it's baseless, unfounded, and not supported by
data and facts. Even if your algorithm never put it
in front of you would still be true. So there's
this tip tooying around us to not offend or hurt
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anyone's feelings.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
That's so unnecessary.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
We're talking about really disgusting people here that don't deserve
to have their feelings spared. This is a judge responsible
for changing and altering the outcomes of people's lives based
on his decisions. Him being of sound mind in the
position to literally judge people while participating in something like
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this should just be called flatly gross and a minute
and a half of qualifiers to not have it come
across so heavy handed it's completely unnecessary.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Well, if I may, if I may, So when I
do that, it's not necessarily to couch anybody's feelings. It's
because I know that a lot of times when I
talk to people and the way they consume the media
that we create, if they hear something and it feels
too one sided, they tune out. If they hear something
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and there's no accountability or it's not a too history,
they tune out. And so it's an attempt to have
a dialogue that only goes one way. I'm trying to
anticipate their rebuttals, speak to them so that they can't
lean into them, and we can still have a moment
of growth where I'm sharing valid truths. And it sounds
like couching. It sounds like couching their feelings, but it's
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really to minimize tune out. I just don't want people
to ignore what I'm saying, which is true, because they
dismiss it because it doesn't feel like there's a degree
of accountability or not accounting for all of the facts.
So you're not wrong, it's just I don't think the
nature of the why is entirely accurate. So I'm doing
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my best, though I'm just guessing.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
So if me being heavy handed on the judge that
abuses children sexually turns you off, good yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Well yeah, And this judge, to be fair to your point,
is the person that was saying Dylan's Roof family was
suffering and you know a lot of people were harmed
on all sides and not really focusing on the nine
people that lost their lives and that shooting and those
of us in the black community that understand what an
ame church was that these folks invited this man into
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pray with them. Those of us that caught the words
of this judge were devastated by that, like, Yo, why
are you prioritizing you know whatever? And then to find
out this guy was one of the people that is
contributing to the rot is like it's not surprising, but
also you're right, you know this guy's affected outcomes going
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all the way back. All right, speaking of the rot,
let's move on to better, do better. The Defense Department
limits access to the press. This from NBC. Journalists who
covered the Defense Department at the Pentagon can no longer
gather or report information, even if it's some classified, unless
it's been authorized for release by the government Defense officials
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announced Friday, reporters who don't sign a statement agreeing to
the new rules will have their press credentials revoked. Officials said.
Multiple press associations quickly condemned the new rules and said
they will fundamentally change journalist's ability to cover the Pentagon
and the US military. They called for the Trump administration
to rescind the new requirements, arguing they inhibit transparency to
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the American people. The National Press Club denounced the requirement
as a quote direct assault on independent journalism at the
very place where independent scrutiny matters most, the US military unquote.
Democratic lawmakers also criticized the decision, with Senator Jack Read,
the Democrat from Rhode Island, the ranking member on the
Senate Armed Services Committee, calling the restrictions quote an ill
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advised affront to free speech and freedom of the press unquote.
Secretary exists, restrictions on the press are part of the
broader attempt by this administration to cover up missteps, stifle
independent journalism, and obscure the truth. This is according to
a statement from Read. He goes on to say American
journalists are should not and must not be mere stenographers
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for the party in power to or the Pentagon itself.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the new measures, writing on
x Friday, the press does not run the Pentagon, The
people do. The Pentagon sent a memo describing the new
measures to its in house press corps late Friday afternoon.
As part of new security requirements, Defense Department says, quote
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information must be approved for public release by an appropriate
authorizing official before it is released, even if it's unclassified unquote,
the memo said, citing that the department must safeguard classified
national security information. The memo said the Department of War,
the new secondary name for the Department of Defense, adopted
as part of a rebranding, may provide controlled unclassified information
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to individuals quote when there is lawful governmental purpose for
doing so unquote. Further, only author rice persons with quote
favorable determinations of eligibility for access, signed to prove non
disclosure agreements and have a need to know or may
be granted access to unquote classified national security information. Those
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who fail to abide by the rule could be suspended
or have their Pentagon access revoked. Okay, the only thing
I want to go back and point to and then
the rest of the time is yours cue is that
the Defense Secretary Pete Hegsas says the press does not
run the Pentagon. The people do. And the people elect
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the government in this country by the people for the people,
which means that by extension, Pete Hegs's job is a
result of the people choosing him to do that now
to keep them accountable. The press have their job to do,
and the press communicate to the people what's going on,
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because not everybody gets to go to the Pentagon, right,
And so I think that he's more wrong than he
knows with this statement. He said it loud with his
whole chest on X and I'm glad he did, because indeed,
the people run the Pentagon and have since the Pentagon
has been invented, and the press communicate with the people.
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And Pete Hegseth trying to change how that works in
the real world feels like it's very self serving for
him and for the president, not for the people. So
that's my pushback, he better do better. Any thoughts for
you to respond.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Herecure, Well, I don't know that he was wrong, okay, right,
he said the people run it, not the press. Oh
that's what I was getting. I don't know that he
was wrong, because that's what he said.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, the people.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Didn't appoint him right. The president did right, and the president,
for most of our lives, would appoint someone with emoticum
qualifications sure to do such a job. Instead, he just
picked one of his boys that his last job was
hosting a television show to run the United States Department
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of Defense. I'm not calling it the new name they've
given it, because that's ridiculous. So it's sad because the
people did or maybe elected the president like that. Maybe
that's kind of up for debate. Enough people showed up
to vote that he had a chance to win. I'll
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say that we know, even if votes for one candidate
were taken away, votes for him were cast by the
tens of millions. And it's a very very disappointing and
disturbing thought every time I have to relive it that
tens of millions of our countrymen and women wanted this
person to be the leader, and after all of that
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he's done, still do
Broadcasting from the Civic Cyper Studios. Welcome to the QR code,
where we share perspective, seek understanding, and shape outcomes. The
man you are about to hear from is always on
an airplane. He's mister always on an airplane, but he
never misses a microphone. He is a Q in the
QR code. He goes by the name of q Ward.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
The voice you just heard and the hesitancy that you
heard was my brother making things up on the fly,
and that's why it didn't flow out as naturally as usual.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Once upon a time that was true.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
That used to call me mister thirty seven thousand feet,
but that's when I was traveling every four days. And
that's just a lot that you guys don't want to hear.
But he is the R in the QR code, and
he goes by the name Rams's Jah, And.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
We need you to stick around. Later on in the show,
we are going to be talking about whether or not
the NFL is to blame for Trump's presidency. Stephen A. Smith,
who will be a future guest on the show, had
some interesting thoughts about that, and I think it gives
some insight into the president's psyche We're else going to
be talking about a mass shooting event in Pennsylvania that
(01:07):
claimed the lives of three police officers we didn't get
to touch on last week. That'll give us some insight
into the goings on in this country insofar as mass
shootings and guns and who's responsible for what. Prior to that,
we're going to hear from q Ward in his clap
back discussing how every MAGA accusation is seemingly a confession.
(01:31):
First part of the show, we're going to end it
with a better do better. You may not know the
Defense Department has limited the access of the free press,
so we're going to get into the weeds there. Prior
to that, we're going to be talking about a judge
who was suspected of child sex crimes, the judge actually
that was apologetic over Dylan Roof's crimes. We're going to
(01:53):
be talking about an Arizona man making terroristic threats to
a gay bar that I have a personal connect with.
And as always, we're going to start off with a
feel good feature. So today's feel good future comes from USA. Today,
New Mexico is the first state in America to guarantee
free childcare to every parent starting November first. Governor Michelle
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Luhan Grisham made the announcement on September eighth. The state
already had free childcare available to families with incomes at
or below four hundred percent of the federal poverty level,
but starting in November, the program will be available to
all parents, regardless of income. Quote. By investing in universal childcare,
we are giving families financial relief, supporting our economy, and
ensuring that every child has the opportunity to grow and thrive.
(02:37):
This quote comes from Luhan Luhan Grisham, and she said
that in a news release. Here's what to know about
the program and if other states are going to follow suit.
Childcare assistance program funds go directly to childcare providers, not parents,
said New Mexico Early Childhood Education Care Department Secretary Elizabeth Groginsky.
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I believe that's how that's pronounced. Child care providers in
New Mexico or eighty five percent are part of the program.
A parent applies for assistance through the state with a
specific care facility in mind. The state sets rates based
on the age of the child, the care facility, and
the quality of care centers that aren't in the program
have opted out and are likely to have higher tuition rates.
Graginsky said New Mexican families will save an average of
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twelve thousand dollars annually through the program, according to the
news release. And the reason this is a feel good
feature is because we recognize on this show that studies
have shown that if you want to impact crime rates,
if you want to impact the economic prosperity of low
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income communities, this is one of the easiest and most
sure fireway to do it. Childcare programs, after school programs,
things like that that are very easy. Outside of that,
investing in infrastructure so people can get around two jobs
and from jobs is another way to do that. Dealing
with food and security, food deserts, etc. Basically, when people
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were saying defund the police, they were talking about investing
in programs like this. Glad New Mexico is taking this step.
I know the defund the police part hasn't come into manifestation,
but the investing in communities seems like it is, and
we're excited to see what comes of it. All right,
and Q, you don't know this story, so I'm going
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to share it with you and with our listeners. You know,
I mentioned I had a personal connection to a situation
over the weekend. And you know, for folks listening, you
might notice a theme in today's program. There's a lot
of gun violence that's taking place in this country, and
(04:45):
at present, the right specifically is trying to chronicle this
as a left wing liberal issue, ignoring the fact that
right wingers are the ones that espouse guns and gun culture,
that indeed, the number of political crimes stem from right
wing terror attacks, ignoring the fact that mass shootings in
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the way that we've come to understand them by a
long way, come from the right wing. And indeed, the
gun problem in this country is often held up in
terms of finding a resolution, it's held up by the right,
the political right in this country. And so you might
(05:30):
notice this thing. But I'll share a bit of a
story Q with you and by extension, with our listeners.
So let me paint a picture here. An asy man
arrested after making terroristic threats to gay bar. This is
from azyfamily dot Com. A Phoenix man has been arrested
after police say he threatened to shoot up a gay
bar near his apartment, reportedly because he was angry about
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recent political violence across the country. On Wednesday, Phoenix police
arrested Trevin Michael Boke forty nine, on accusation of making
a terroristic threat and using a computer to threaten, both
of which are felonies. Court paperwork revealed that officers were
called out to Goke's apartment for a welfare check after
a crisis hotline reported that Gok had made threats to
(06:15):
shoot up Cruis in Seventh, a popular LGBT bar near
Seventh Street in Osborne Road. This is in Phoenix, because
he said he was quote triggered by political events. When
officers arrived, Goki reported Lee refused to come out of
his apartment and allegedly made statements that the quote radical
left violence breeds a far right response. Police asked for specifics,
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and he mentioned the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk and
the school shootings in Minneapolis and Tennessee. In court documents,
police stated they asked Gokey about those events and how
they made him feel, to which he stated it didn't
make him happy and he quote wanted to harm others
unquote to send a message. Police revealed interesting documents that
Gok said that quote Charlie Kirk was a martyr, that
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he was a martyr for Charlie Kirk and political violence
breeds political violence unquote. All right. Police also detailed several
transphobic comments he allegedly made. Court paperwork also showed that
gok had previously called Phoenix PD to make a police
report in which he allegedly stated that if officers didn't
arrive quicker, he would quote shoot bystanders unquote. When police arrived,
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he reportedly said it worked, didn't it. A Police also
noted a previous call related to mental health. Gokey was
booked into the Maricopa County Jail on a two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars bond. In light of the arrest,
Phoenix Pride released a statement which read, in part quote,
we are in constant contact with our civic and public
safety partners, and we are always monitoring potential threats. However,
(07:49):
to be clear, Phoenix Pride and the Greater Phoenix LGBTQ
plus and allied community will not be intimidated, silence, suppressed,
or subdued. Okay, So the glimpse into the reality of
the world we live in, this obsession with trans people
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by the right in this country, This obsession with trans
groomers and trans athletes and you know, all this sort
of stuff, which I have to say, we're a data
driven show. I have to say it's a non zero amount, sure,
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but if you added it all up collectively, it wouldn't
even amount to one percent. It wouldn't even amount to
a fraction of one percent. And it is a problem
that exists in the minds of people that consume Fox
News to a much greater extent than in the real world.
I think that there was a study that was done
on Fox News that said that Fox News spends on average,
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seventeen minutes an hour are talking about trans athletes are
trans people? I think the biggest issue that they discussed
was trans athletes men who have transitioned to women playing
in sports in high school and how that would be
an unfair advantage because of testosterone for the girls. And
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the study after that actually did an accounting of how
many people fit that description in the United States of America,
and I think in total it was three people, two
of which didn't fully meet the criteria, so that seventeen
minutes per hour on Fox News was really for one
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human being out of three hundred and forty five million,
and they've dedicated so much political and conversational oxygen to it,
and the result of that is it makes the world
less safe for people who actually are people that otherwise
would fly into the radar. These people have communities that
(10:03):
are vibrant. They don't mean anyone any harm. And you know,
I mentioned my personal connection. I have a friend and
Q knows her through me, but we have a friend
who owns a bar in Phoenix, Arizona, and I actually
was DJing at her bar. She needed a DJ to
sub in and I'm like, yeah, I got you, you know,
(10:26):
And I went to her bar, and this is before
I found out about this, but she had armed security
there and the night suffered as a result of it.
There were people that were out of course, but you know,
the crowd that she's accustomed to having obviously are very afraid.
They don't No one wants to get killed because someone
like this feels as though these LGBTQIA plus individuals and
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allied communities lives are theirs to claim because they're upset
about Charlie Kirk and or whatever else they've been fed
for however long from Fox News. And so this is
my way of kind of painting this picture of what
a dangerous climate that we're in. And you know, a
lot of times we talk about data on the show,
but we don't get to let the stories live because
(11:17):
we don't often have personal connections to everything. Oh I
guess we do, but we don't often get to shine
a light on them in the moment where it's happening.
And this was one where it was happening and I
saw it, I saw the people, and we talked about
it everybody. That's all people could talk about. And people
had planned, so they came out. People had we already
planned our birthday, and you know, I have to come
support and I'm trying not to be intimidated, and of
(11:39):
course I had those conversations, but the reality of the
situation is the night suffered, and these people deserve, you know,
life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, the same
as any other American and yet and still it's being
compromised by one political faction of this country. And so
that's what happened to me over the weekend. Q. And
obviously I want to make sure you have a little
(12:00):
bit of time to respond, So any thoughts, sir.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
It seems the most dangerous place that a non white Christian,
heterosexual rich man can live is in the imagination of
a white supremacist, because in their imagination, they create this
world where all of us are the threat, the enemy within,
the most dangerous lurking problem for them. So they preemptively,
(12:27):
and this is something that we're going to speak to later,
they preemptively do all the things.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
That they accuse all those groups of doing.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Right, I'm going to go out and harm all of
them because of the anger and the violence that they've stoked. Well, sir,
can you give us an example of a time where
they did something. No, I can't give you an example.
I just know what's going to happen one day, so
I'm going to go out and prevent it. It's the
type of thing that once upon a time all of
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us would have collectively thought was ridiculous, except now we're
being framed as the ridiculous ones for calling it out
and for pointing to it. This man threatening to go
harm people who not only meant him no harm, but
have never done anything harmful to him or anyone else.
Speaker 1 (13:13):
He knows. This is not a revenge plot.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
This is not a response to some violent thing that
happened to him, and using Charlie Kirk as the nexus
for this kind of feels like what the intention was
in the first place. Like they got excited, like finally
we have something. So now, even though they had nothing
to do with it, let's threaten the LGBTQ community and
HBCUs because we don't know, because we've always hated them,
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and this just seems like a convenient time to say
it out loud again. It's rams is just starting to
be really really ridiculous and really really dangerous.
Speaker 1 (13:50):
Bro. Yeah, my heart breaks for that community. I've always
been and will always be an ally. Those are my
brothers and sisters and siblings. And to know that, you know,
for the most part, I've never even met one person
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who meant to anybody any harm. To know that they
suffer because of religion and because of you know now
politics constantly on top of trying to navigate a world
that really wasn't built for them specifically. I know that
I'm going to do my part, you know what I mean,
And if they need a brother, then I will be
that brother. And I hope that I was all right.
(14:35):
Time to move on, got some opinions about a judge
who is suspected of child sex crimes. This one is
a little weird, so follow me. This is going to
take a minute, but this is from kp TV Fox
twelve of Charleston, South Carolina. A judge in South Carolina
was arrested because he was charged with child sexual abuse material.
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According to the United States Department of Justice, James B. Gosnell, Junior,
sixty eight, is accused of possession of child sexual abuse material.
He was officially suspended by Chief Justice John Kiddridge on Tuesday.
According to a court filing, investigators with the Department of
Homeland Security received a tip from the National Center for
Missing and Exploited Children about several financial transactions with the
(15:22):
distributor of child abuse material from the United Kingdom. The
payments came from a peer to peer online money transfer
account associated with his phone number, address, and email account.
In November twenty twenty four, Gosnell's attorney, Lionel Lofton, said
federal authorities executed a search warrant at Gosnell's home and
arrested him. After this search was complete, they found a
(15:42):
flash drive containing numerous videos and images depicting child sexual abuse,
which include videos and images of miners, infants, and toddlers.
I'm sorry, I didn't know this was here engaged in
sexually explicit conduct. Documents state specifically that Kiddridge found Gosnell's
continued service as a magistrate in Charleston County post is
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a substantial threat of serious harm to the public and
the administration of justice. That was a quote. Sorry. It
stated the suspension was based on credible information provided to
the court. Gosnell is the judge who presided over the
bond hearing for Charleston church shooting suspect Dylan Rufe would
later be convicted of the June eighteen, twenty fifteen shooting
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deaths of nine parishioners of Mother Emmanuel Ame Church in
downtown Charleston. Gosnell's scheduled to appear for a bond hearing
at nine thirty am Wednesday. Lofton said, So it was
a little icky. I'm sorry. The reason that this story
stood out was because I have seen a number of
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prominent right wing individual either community members, maybe they're not
national figures or national figures or whatever, that are getting
kind of taken down for child sex crimes. It's kind
of gross. Now I will seed entirely that I'm subjected
(17:19):
to my own algorithms. I will see it entirely that
I have not documented every case. We typically don't cover
this sort of stuff. We cover more broad, far reaching
systemic issues. Right. But once you get to the point
where it's like, Okay, I'm noticing a trend, you might
want to speak on it. Okay, Now, again, my algorithm
might be serving me a thing that reflects my sensibilities,
(17:41):
and they're just as there may be just as many
liberal folks that are getting caught up for this. I
suspect that's not true because I come data, but because
I want to make sure that I'm giving as unbiased
of a response to this as I can. I just
want to say that my algorithm served this and stories
(18:02):
like this to me, and I understand the implications of that.
But it was right around the same time that I
got an an interview came up and this was Tim Tebow.
Now I don't know much about sports, but I know
Tim Tebow. He's the guy that would, like, I think,
do a Neil thing and maybe put his fist in
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there or something like that whenever he played football, And
so it was called a t Bow thing t Bow
moment in the country. I don't know, but I know
the name, and he was talking on this podcast. So
based on the recent interview, Tim Tebow was saying that
Caucasian men, he was saying that middle aged Caucasian men
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are the biggest perpetrators of child abuse. And this was
made on the Sean Ryan Show in May twenty twenty five,
and when he was kind of giving his response and
making the statement, you could tell that he was kind
of struggling to get that bar off right now, It's
(19:08):
not like me to take the word of Tim Tebow
or anybody. So I did a little bit of digging
and I found a source that I feel might be credible.
It's rain dot org r ai n n dot org.
It's the nation's largest anti sexual violence nonprofit. So I
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suspect the data that they've compiled and they've sourced it.
They've just organized it for me and I've organized it
for you to consume as a listener. But this data
feels like it comes from a credible enough source and
for people that want to dispute it, obviously rain dot
org have at it. But now you know where I
got it. From it says fifty seven percent of perpetrators
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are white, twenty seven percent Black, eight percent unknown ethnicity,
a six percent other, one percent mixed group one. And
so I think that looking at white men, and as
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if we look at the data we recognize that a
significant amount of white men tend to vote conservative relative
to relative to the liberal voting white males in this country,
that white men would be the place that one might
want to start when looking at people who are harming
children in this country. Now, the story prior to that,
(20:41):
prior to this one, where we were talking about this
man wanting to shoot up LGB clubs because he feels
whatever he feels, and the stories that we're going to
cover later in the show, it's almost like a willful ignorance,
and you know there is a problem. And again I
listed all of the data I know, and there's different
(21:04):
data that says that black in terms of like spanking children,
there's issues with black people. I'm not trying to hide
behind the data. I want to have a data driven
conversation with the country. But in looking at this which
I believe to be credible, I know where the problem starts.
And in looking at the media space I know where
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people are trying to chronicle the blame, and those two
things don't match. Now again, Q, I want to make
sure you have enough time to respond, so please, you
go to such lengths to be so kind and so
graceful and fair, stands so much benefit of the doubt. Like,
(21:46):
even when speaking about this, you're like, it's kind of gross.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
No, it's very gross. Yeah it's disgusting. Yeah it's not
kind of gross. You speak about your algorithm serving you
something as if it's baseless, unfounded, and not supported by
data and facts. Even if your algorithm never put it
in front of you would still be true. So there's
this tip tooying around us to not offend or hurt
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anyone's feelings.
Speaker 1 (22:14):
That's so unnecessary.
Speaker 2 (22:15):
We're talking about really disgusting people here that don't deserve
to have their feelings spared. This is a judge responsible
for changing and altering the outcomes of people's lives based
on his decisions. Him being of sound mind in the
position to literally judge people while participating in something like
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this should just be called flatly gross and a minute
and a half of qualifiers to not have it come
across so heavy handed it's completely unnecessary.
Speaker 1 (22:46):
Well, if I may, if I may, So when I
do that, it's not necessarily to couch anybody's feelings. It's
because I know that a lot of times when I
talk to people and the way they consume the media
that we create, if they hear something and it feels
too one sided, they tune out. If they hear something
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and there's no accountability or it's not a too history,
they tune out. And so it's an attempt to have
a dialogue that only goes one way. I'm trying to
anticipate their rebuttals, speak to them so that they can't
lean into them, and we can still have a moment
of growth where I'm sharing valid truths. And it sounds
like couching. It sounds like couching their feelings, but it's
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really to minimize tune out. I just don't want people
to ignore what I'm saying, which is true, because they
dismiss it because it doesn't feel like there's a degree
of accountability or not accounting for all of the facts.
So you're not wrong, it's just I don't think the
nature of the why is entirely accurate. So I'm doing
(23:52):
my best, though I'm just guessing.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
So if me being heavy handed on the judge that
abuses children sexually turns you off, good yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:02):
Well yeah, And this judge, to be fair to your point,
is the person that was saying Dylan's Roof family was
suffering and you know a lot of people were harmed
on all sides and not really focusing on the nine
people that lost their lives and that shooting and those
of us in the black community that understand what an
ame church was that these folks invited this man into
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pray with them. Those of us that caught the words
of this judge were devastated by that, like, Yo, why
are you prioritizing you know whatever? And then to find
out this guy was one of the people that is
contributing to the rot is like it's not surprising, but
also you're right, you know this guy's affected outcomes going
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all the way back. All right, speaking of the rot,
let's move on to better, do better. The Defense Department
limits access to the press. This from NBC. Journalists who
covered the Defense Department at the Pentagon can no longer
gather or report information, even if it's some classified, unless
it's been authorized for release by the government Defense officials
(25:05):
announced Friday, reporters who don't sign a statement agreeing to
the new rules will have their press credentials revoked. Officials said.
Multiple press associations quickly condemned the new rules and said
they will fundamentally change journalist's ability to cover the Pentagon
and the US military. They called for the Trump administration
to rescind the new requirements, arguing they inhibit transparency to
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the American people. The National Press Club denounced the requirement
as a quote direct assault on independent journalism at the
very place where independent scrutiny matters most, the US military unquote.
Democratic lawmakers also criticized the decision, with Senator Jack Read,
the Democrat from Rhode Island, the ranking member on the
Senate Armed Services Committee, calling the restrictions quote an ill
(25:46):
advised affront to free speech and freedom of the press unquote.
Secretary exists, restrictions on the press are part of the
broader attempt by this administration to cover up missteps, stifle
independent journalism, and obscure the truth. This is according to
a statement from Read. He goes on to say American
journalists are should not and must not be mere stenographers
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for the party in power to or the Pentagon itself.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defended the new measures, writing on
x Friday, the press does not run the Pentagon, The
people do. The Pentagon sent a memo describing the new
measures to its in house press corps late Friday afternoon.
As part of new security requirements, Defense Department says, quote
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information must be approved for public release by an appropriate
authorizing official before it is released, even if it's unclassified unquote,
the memo said, citing that the department must safeguard classified
national security information. The memo said the Department of War,
the new secondary name for the Department of Defense, adopted
as part of a rebranding, may provide controlled unclassified information
(26:52):
to individuals quote when there is lawful governmental purpose for
doing so unquote. Further, only author rice persons with quote
favorable determinations of eligibility for access, signed to prove non
disclosure agreements and have a need to know or may
be granted access to unquote classified national security information. Those
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who fail to abide by the rule could be suspended
or have their Pentagon access revoked. Okay, the only thing
I want to go back and point to and then
the rest of the time is yours cue is that
the Defense Secretary Pete Hegsas says the press does not
run the Pentagon. The people do. And the people elect
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the government in this country by the people for the people,
which means that by extension, Pete Hegs's job is a
result of the people choosing him to do that now
to keep them accountable. The press have their job to do,
and the press communicate to the people what's going on,
(28:00):
because not everybody gets to go to the Pentagon, right,
And so I think that he's more wrong than he
knows with this statement. He said it loud with his
whole chest on X and I'm glad he did, because indeed,
the people run the Pentagon and have since the Pentagon
has been invented, and the press communicate with the people.
(28:22):
And Pete Hegseth trying to change how that works in
the real world feels like it's very self serving for
him and for the president, not for the people. So
that's my pushback, he better do better. Any thoughts for
you to respond.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
Herecure, Well, I don't know that he was wrong, okay, right,
he said the people run it, not the press. Oh
that's what I was getting. I don't know that he
was wrong, because that's what he said.
Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, the people.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
Didn't appoint him right. The president did right, and the president,
for most of our lives, would appoint someone with emoticum
qualifications sure to do such a job. Instead, he just
picked one of his boys that his last job was
hosting a television show to run the United States Department
(29:14):
of Defense. I'm not calling it the new name they've
given it, because that's ridiculous. So it's sad because the
people did or maybe elected the president like that. Maybe
that's kind of up for debate. Enough people showed up
to vote that he had a chance to win. I'll
(29:36):
say that we know, even if votes for one candidate
were taken away, votes for him were cast by the
tens of millions. And it's a very very disappointing and
disturbing thought every time I have to relive it that
tens of millions of our countrymen and women wanted this
person to be the leader, and after all of that
(29:57):
he's done, still do
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