August 12, 2025 • 28 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Still broadcasting from the Civic Cipher Studios. This is the
QR code where we share perspective, seek understanding, and shape outcomes.
The man you're about to hear from is a measured man,
fantastic father, and i'd say a balanced individual.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
He is the Q in the QUI coute goes by
the name.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Q War, the voice you just finished listening to, goes
over a lot of hurdles and does like a bunch
of gymnastics to try to say overly kind things about
his brother and co host.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
He is the R in the QR code.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
His name is Ramsy's Jah.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's not too hard to do it anyway, We want
you to stick around a little. Later in the show,
we're gonna be talking about how Jasmine Crockett flamed Donald
Trump on TMZ Live and brought his intelligence into question.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
We love when people speak truth to power.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Also, we're going to be talking about how Ice rated
a LA Area home depot twice in the same day.
It's getting scary out there. But before we get there,
listening to qboards clapback as he talks about how Trump
has militarized the nation's capital Q.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
So I guess we're left with the question, our president
would have you think that the reason the National Guard
is on the streets of Washington, DC, along with local
and federal law enforcement, is public safety, not military occupation.
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So we're watching, once again democracy be trampled on and
shredded up on our streets on camera, right in front
of us, and we're being told not to believe our
lying eyes. So democracy, safety, civic trust, not today in
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DC while the nation's capital was being militarized at a
time where crime is down.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
No, I didn't stutter. Crime is down in DC.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
And this isn't protection people, because that's what they want
you to believe. This is blatant intimidation. National Guard boots
once again, federal police, and a government that's telling homeless
people to leave immediately because you know, that's not state
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sponsored violence, because of course homeless people have somewhere they
can leave to in some way to mobilize and get there.
The President has ordered up to one thousand National Guards
to Washington DC streets and taken direct federal control of
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the police department under the pretext of crime and homelessness.
Except Washington DC violent crime at thirty year lows directly
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contradicting the rationale and the rhetoric being used by the
federal government to take the city over. This comes from
a president who couldn't or wouldn't send the same National
Guard to protect the capital on January sixth, when democracy
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was literally under attack. So when a city has less
crime than it has in decades and you declare an
emergency and bring in troops, what you're saying is protecting
the public, and as we saw in January sixth, protecting
our country.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's not important. Protecting power, however, is.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
On January sixth, the threat was real, the violence was real,
the stakes actual democracy, and suddenly the National Guard was
nowhere to be found. We don't have to ignore who's
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now being blamed. The homeless, literally, those without homes now
the very convenient scapegoat for a performance of control, told
simply to go away, not given the option of shelter,
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not offered homes, not offered a place to live or
a way to get there, pushed out of sight while
the government behind mask of authority. And I say pushed
out of sight loosely because I'm sure, I'm absolutely certain
the idea of homelessness being a crime will lead to
a lot of them being arrested, and as you would
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have it turned into cheap or free labor. This mirror
is broader trends by this administration deploying federal forces at protest,
shielding political events, and using military optics to intimidate dissent.
On January sixth, the President resisted sending troops to stop
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his supporters, but today boots on the ground instantly.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
When the enemy is the poor, voiceless, and powerless.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
They want to call it law and order, but selective
law enforcement based on loyalty to one person, once again,
does not feel like freedom or democracy.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
So we do all of this at what cost?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Think about what this sets up if they can federalize
DC because crime is some undefined created worry. What happens
when voters show up to protest this, when sanctuary cities
push back on policy abuse. The preview showing this evening
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is not a preview. It's the main event. They're not
solving homelessness, they're trying to push it out of view.
They're not curbing crime. They're manufacturing fear, and they're telling
us that this force protects democracy. My brother Rams would
have me ask myself if they couldn't be bothered to
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deploy the National Guard when a violent mob threatened to
assassinate the vice president and storm the capitol. Why would
they be so eager to deploy them against people with
no homes and no power. Real protection is not built
through equity, not by this administration. That's how we thought
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it worked with them. It's built through intimidation. This is
not governance. It's what we've called it all along, a coup.
I expected it to be a slow motion coup, except
it's been a fast forward, aggressive version of the same.
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And I wish we could say we hardly noticed. Except
it's happening almost every day in four K in real time.
I thought at one point, at some point something would happen.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's starting to feel like not so much.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Well, we definitely live in interesting times, you know, when
we're talking about you know, for the dialogue, we're about
to have the ice raids taking place in LA and
them hitting a home depot twice in the same day,
you you recognize that these are vulnerable populations. You know,
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we're talking about homeless people in DC, you know, and
day laborers really in Los Angeles, but they're both vulnerable populations.
They don't have, you know, power to push back. They're
economically disenfranchised. If people had a lot of money, they
would not be homeless. And if they had a lot,
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if they had enough money, they would not be homeless.
And if people had enough money, they would not be
day laborers in front of home depot hoping for someone
to pick them up and put them on a job site.
But yeah, these ice raids is uh, this is crazy,
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you know, to me and to a lot of people.
People that voted for Donald Trump. They believed him when
he said he was going to go after the worst
of the worst. They believed him when he said, Mexico
is sending all these people and they're not sending their best,
and they're sending blah blah blah. And so those people
expected the lies that he told them to be true
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because they believed him initially. So they wanted numbers, right,
They wanted this administration to do something. They called the
Democrats to do nothing Democrats. Donald Trump was the stark
contrast to that. And if they felt immigration was the
reason that they weren't thriving, you know, then because they
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had been convinced of that lie, then they wanted to
see some numbers. So Donald Trump felt pressure to put
some members up right, which he in turn translated that
pressure to these agents and gave them an unlimited budget
to hire whoever off the out of whatever corner of
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the United States, regardless of how they feel, regardless of
their ideologies or their sensitivities, or their proclivities or whatever,
and regardless of their biases and their prejudices. And when
it turned out that there weren't actually a bunch of criminals,
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sure there was some, but as we know you and
I know Q, immigrants commit crimes at a much lower
rate than citizens of the United States. And as we
know that, you know, they're not criminals. They don't have
criminal records. Some do, of course, but you know, the
majority don't. The line the goalposts shifted from violent criminal
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offenders to them simply being in the country illegally being
the crime, completely overlooking the fact that immigrants made this
country what it is. Look at the inscription on the
Statue of Liberty. Immigration is a part of the fabric
of this society, particularly along the southern border all those states.
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And to then demonize people for being immigrants or for
not being citizens, whichever way.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You want, to look at.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It is crazy work because it's not very easy to
become a citizen. The presidency changes every four years or so,
so the process changes every four years and paperwork gets
shifted back. It takes years even if everything worked pertly,
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so some people keep getting kicked down to step one.
But you know we're talking about these ice rates now.
They're just trying to get whoever. These aren't criminals. These
are people actually working. They're our freeloaders, are not stealing,
none of no crimes. They're actually working. They're trying to
get jobs. I've used day laborers before to help me
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with my shower. The kindest people you would ever like.
They came into my home with my son, kind good people.
I spoke my best broken Spanish as I could, and
they helped me out. I wish I could do it again. Man,
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I just don't have any projects right now. But let
me get to this article. I don't want to pontificate
too long. This is just very frustrating for both of us,
and I know you got to say some stuff too. Q.
All right, this from the La Times. It's pretty long.
I'm not even sure if I'll get through this. I'm
so sorry. Q, but we'll make it up all right.
Federal agents detained day laborers outside of a home depot
and van Eyes during two raids on Friday morning, raising
questions over whether their actions may violate a court order
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the band's agents from using racial profiling to carry out
indiscriminate immigration arrests. The operations, sorry, took place around seven
thirty five am and then again at eleven fifty AM
outside the home Depot in Roscoe Boulevard, according to Majay
and Ortiz, executive director of Instio Institutio the Educacion del
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Sur de California, Sorry if I said that wrong, which
runs a rescue center for day laborers directly next to
the store. The Department of Homeland Security, which includes Customs
and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, confirmed the
operations in a statement to The Times on Saturday, calling
them targeted immigration rates that resulted in the arrest of
seven undocumented immigrants from Guatemala, Honduras in Mexico. Homeland Security
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spokeserson Tricia McLaughlin said four of those individuals had criminal records,
including for driving under the influence of alcohol, disorderly conduct,
and failing to adhere to previous removal orders. None of
those sound violent to me, all.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Right, anyway.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Quote what makes someone the target for immigration enforcement is
that they are legally in the US, not their skin color, race,
or ethnicity. Unquote, McLaughlin said, quote America's brave men and
women removing murderers MS thirteen, gang members, pedophiles, rapists, truly
the worst of the worst from the Golden State communities.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Unquote.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
US Border Patrol Sector chief Greg Bobino had told Fox
News on Friday, the federal agents always abbie by law
during enforcement operations. Quote in Los Angeles right now today,
as a matter of fact, we have agents out on
the streets right now making apprehensions as you and I
are speaking.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Unquote.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
It goes on to say they're doing that again legally,
ethically and morally. A number of unmarked white bands started
circling the parking lot, and immigration agents began quote grabbing
people first, then asking people for ID unquote, said Artis,
adding that our organization has confirmed ten people were taken.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
The agents came straight for the day labor center. It
is very clear they are targeting day laborers and they
are targeting the organization. Unquote.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
This from.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
She goes on to say that immigration agents conducted another
raid near a home depot in Cypress Park on Saturday.
Artists said she was aware of half a dozen arrest
during the incident. Further details were not immediately available. On
July eleventh, the US district judge issued a temporary restraining
order blocking federal agents in southern and central California from
targeting people based on their race, language, location, or location
without reasonable suspicion that they are here in the US
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illegally at the time, Immigration advocates believe the order would
legally bar agents from roving such places as home depots
and car washes indiscriminately stopping brown skin Spanish speaking workers.
The temporary restraining order was upheld last Friday by the
ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals. The Trump administration has
sense appealed to the Supreme Court, saying the ruling quote
threatens to upend immigration officials' ability to enforce the immigration
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laws in the Central District of California by hanging the
prospect of contempt over every investigative stop unquote, all.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Right, you a couple of minutes for you. The floor
is yours. Any thoughts here?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I often wish we were less informed. Often we were
less intelligent and less informed, because we could figure this
out without the information available to us, just by being
intelligent and having eyes that work. But we're informed and intelligent,
which means we're off most of the time. And to
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tell us that they're not targeting people and that they're
being ethical and moral is an insult to our intelligence.
Did they know that we see all these videos of
all these agents beating people to the ground for simply
being present. They're not catching them in in the process
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of committing some crime. In most cases, the numbers and
the data shows that these are not people with violent
criminal records. So they say after somebody was driving under
the influence In the next sentence, MS thirteen and rapist
and you know, all these trigger words to make people
think that they're getting the worst of the worst off
the streets, and it's just not true, and we know better.
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And they continue to lie to us and to their constituents,
but they're kind of not really lying or telling them
what they want to hear.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Because what we've.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Learned around is over these years is that most of
the supporters of this are not defending Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
They're defending themselves.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
The things that they love about him are things that
they see about themselves in him. So they don't want
us to say bad things about him, because then we're
saying bad things about them. So they like and welcome
these lies so they can sleep at night and so
they can present themselves as decent Americans.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Hey, we're not racist.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
We would never want people to be targeted because of
their race. They're being targeted because there's criminals and they're
here illegally, and we just all know better than that. Man,
it's so upsetting, bro. Yeah, Well, onto our final segment, Entertainment.
We normally will look for some form of news coming
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out of the entertainment sector places like TMZ, and we
found a little bit of a heat rock that we
share it. Even though she's not known for being an entertainer,
she's known for being a politician. So that's kind of
on brand for us, and it checks the box. Here,
Jasmine Crockett flamed Donald Trump on TMZ Live. I'll share
a little bit of the story and then I will
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actually pull up her audio so that you can check
that out. So this from TMZ representative Jasmine Crockett says
President Trump's latest attack on her is a warning sign.
She says he either has dementia or he's just dumb
as a rock The Democratic congresswoman from Texas joined TMZ
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Live Monday and asked about Trump calling her a very
low IQ individual and lenging her to take a cognitive exam.
Rockett said, the only one lacking any brain cells here
is Trump, and she rattled off a list of differences
between their life achievements, going jab for jab, with the
President mixing in some shots at his social media platform.
The Texas representative says Trump's latest salvo should be concerning
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for all Americans. She can't believe anyone takes them seriously
and wonders why Republicans aren't held to the same standard
as Democrats. Crockett unloaded on Trump and wondered if it's
dementia don or dumb down behind the keyboard, and also
telled her whether she's willing to take him up on
his exam offer. So let's hear this in her own words.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I didn't understand why this morning he went on to
the social and started this attack with you, saying that
you're a low IQ individual, something we've heard him say
about Charlemagne the God recently, but you're a low IQ
individual and that you need to take the test, referring
to the competency test, which by the way, is different
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from an IQ test. That also seems strange. But why
this attack this morning seeming loud of nowhere.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
It's funny that you point out that he doesn't even
know the difference in the test that he takes in
the IQ test, Yet he's the one that's suggesting that
I need the IQ test, not to mention, I mean,
based on the fact that my daddy isn't the one
that got me into my schooling, and the fact that
I have a little bit more education than he does.
Many I have more earned degrees than he does. I
don't have time to play games with him. And the
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fact that you are the sitting president of the United States,
and for whatever reason, you are waking up before I'm
even awake on today so that you could try to
drag me on your bootleg website, Like it doesn't even
make sense to me, Like why is it that people
take him seriously? And then the bad part is that
when we get four years from now and it's time
to elect somebody, unfortunately the entire country will look at
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whoever is running on the Democratic side and they will
have one bar that they use to say, you've got
to meet this standard or this level. Yet you allow
this full land. Frankly, anybody can be president after him.
I mean, we're talking about somebody with thirty four count
convictions of felonies in addition to the fact that somebody
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who literally does not know how to govern, or doesn't
want to govern, doesn't want to do what's right. So
every time you look around, he's invoking emergency powers. And frankly,
if you listen to him, you would be concerned not
only about his mental acuity, but you also would be concerned.
I'm not concerned that he's an unintelligent man. I know
he's unintelligent, that part is clear, But like I'm wondering also,
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like is it dementia non that we're getting. Is it
just dumb don that we're getting. Like, I don't know,
but there is a problem, Like Houston, we have a brother.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
She goes on to say that she absolutely would be
willing to take a competency test, and.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Yeah, and I.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Love that she rattles his feathers and that he wakes
up the middle of the night and tweets about her.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
She's a very special person. Q and I.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
We've had the privilege of talking to her a number
of times. She's been on our shows before. She I
don't know that she's been on this show. Yeah, she
hasn't been on this show yet, but she's certainly been
on Civic Cipher with us. And you know, she's dubbed
the clap back Queen. So you know, again, whenever there's
somebody speaking truth to power, you know, we tend to
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applaud that. But when it's a black woman, especially during
a time when black women are kind of suffering the
most that they've ever suffered, at least economically speaking, in
this country, in this country's history of modern history, I
should say, you know, we we love to see that.
That's she is our great defender at the moment, and
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you know, I certainly applaud her cue any anything.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Here.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
It sucks to live in a country where when measure
against one another, someone like Jasmine Crockett has looked at
as lesser than when judged against our current president by
seventy eighty million people right at go, Like, if you
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just show both pictures, then he's better without a word
being spoken, without resumes being compared, without college degrees or
education level, or even test scores being compared against each other,
the black woman is somehow, by definition to them, less qualified,
less deserving, less accomplished, less intelligent, and no matter the metric,
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except for wealth, which he either inherited or conned people
out of, she trumps him in every category but a
long way.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah, but we live here, you know where.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Again, the most qualified candidate in the history of the
United States presidency loses to a man with no experience,
with no qualifications, who just so happens to be a
thirty four time convicted felon.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
An unrepentant, convicted felon.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
That's important to say out loud, because committing a crime
does not disqualify you forever from ever being able to
serve people. But an unre convicted felon who was running
for president while these convictions were being announced. So this
is not someone who did something years ago that they've
learned from and improved from. Nope, unrepentant, unapologetic, smug arrogant,
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And we can go on and on. So I get
some joy sometimes and hearing her clap back at him.
But then the reality kicks back in and I realized
he gets to be the president and she has to
serve in a lame duck Congress that can't do anything
to serve its constituency because the people who are in
charge are evil. Like, it's becoming harder and harder for me,
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and I'll have to keep asking our audience to forgive
me to find hope or joy or you know, anything
to smile about or feel good about it, any of.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
This stuff, because what's real is too real.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
While we're talking about this, people are being beat up
on the street because they're poor, arrested because they're homeless
by our nation's military, federal law enforcement, and the nation
capital's local PD. Now being asked to serve the same
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people that attacked them, like imagine the insult, and for
a lot of them willingly serve the same people that
attacked them because it was a spider man mean that day,
white supremacist law enforcement officers trying to protect the country
that they thought was on the same side as them,
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except the guy who lost turned his mob against them.
So people who were screaming back to blue the day
before attacked the police because Donald Trump said so, and
those people were pardoned forgiving and put back on the street,
and now those same officers who were attacked have to,
in the name of that same president that ordered them attacked,
attack citizens who've done nothing but be poor. Once again,
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this is America, and it's becoming harder and harder by
the day to be proud of the fact that this
is the nation that we're from and that we live in,
and that this is the president whose power we have
to submit to.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Well, I understand and I appreciate that. I think that
how I look at it, how I feel about it
maybe is that if you're going to be in this
undesirable position, that you probably want somebody as outspoken and
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as powerful and is brilliant and as well educated. I mean,
she's a lawyer, as Jasmine Crockett, and you know, whenever
I do come across her clapbacks, I feel a little
less alone. She's the one person in the room with
you pointing at everyone else sitting looking like the dogs
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when the room is on fire. So she's the person saying, hey,
this is not normal, everything is not fine. To continue
with that analogy, so I know it's definitely a bleaque
time I wouldn't pretend like it isn't. But I'm glad
we got her on our side because that's not nothing
so well.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Out in mind.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
That's it for us here, so we appreciate you tuning
in to the QR Code. One day, we promise we're
gonna do shows that are a little bit lighter, but
for now, our job is to inform and do all
this research and make sure everybody's telling the truth to you,
to us, and we're telling you careful what you promise, well,
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Speaker 2 (28:51):
And until then, peace
Still broadcasting from the Civic Cipher Studios. This is the
QR code where we share perspective, seek understanding, and shape outcomes.
The man you're about to hear from is a measured man,
fantastic father, and i'd say a balanced individual.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
He is the Q in the QUI coute goes by
the name.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Q War, the voice you just finished listening to, goes
over a lot of hurdles and does like a bunch
of gymnastics to try to say overly kind things about
his brother and co host.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
He is the R in the QR code.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
His name is Ramsy's Jah.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
It's not too hard to do it anyway, We want
you to stick around a little. Later in the show,
we're gonna be talking about how Jasmine Crockett flamed Donald
Trump on TMZ Live and brought his intelligence into question.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
We love when people speak truth to power.
Speaker 1 (00:47):
Also, we're going to be talking about how Ice rated
a LA Area home depot twice in the same day.
It's getting scary out there. But before we get there,
listening to qboards clapback as he talks about how Trump
has militarized the nation's capital Q.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
So I guess we're left with the question, our president
would have you think that the reason the National Guard
is on the streets of Washington, DC, along with local
and federal law enforcement, is public safety, not military occupation.
(01:31):
So we're watching, once again democracy be trampled on and
shredded up on our streets on camera, right in front
of us, and we're being told not to believe our
lying eyes. So democracy, safety, civic trust, not today in
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DC while the nation's capital was being militarized at a
time where crime is down.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
No, I didn't stutter. Crime is down in DC.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
And this isn't protection people, because that's what they want
you to believe. This is blatant intimidation. National Guard boots
once again, federal police, and a government that's telling homeless
people to leave immediately because you know, that's not state
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sponsored violence, because of course homeless people have somewhere they
can leave to in some way to mobilize and get there.
The President has ordered up to one thousand National Guards
to Washington DC streets and taken direct federal control of
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the police department under the pretext of crime and homelessness.
Except Washington DC violent crime at thirty year lows directly
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contradicting the rationale and the rhetoric being used by the
federal government to take the city over. This comes from
a president who couldn't or wouldn't send the same National
Guard to protect the capital on January sixth, when democracy
(03:38):
was literally under attack. So when a city has less
crime than it has in decades and you declare an
emergency and bring in troops, what you're saying is protecting
the public, and as we saw in January sixth, protecting
our country.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
It's not important. Protecting power, however, is.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
On January sixth, the threat was real, the violence was real,
the stakes actual democracy, and suddenly the National Guard was
nowhere to be found. We don't have to ignore who's
(04:29):
now being blamed. The homeless, literally, those without homes now
the very convenient scapegoat for a performance of control, told
simply to go away, not given the option of shelter,
(04:51):
not offered homes, not offered a place to live or
a way to get there, pushed out of sight while
the government behind mask of authority. And I say pushed
out of sight loosely because I'm sure, I'm absolutely certain
the idea of homelessness being a crime will lead to
a lot of them being arrested, and as you would
(05:14):
have it turned into cheap or free labor. This mirror
is broader trends by this administration deploying federal forces at protest,
shielding political events, and using military optics to intimidate dissent.
On January sixth, the President resisted sending troops to stop
(05:36):
his supporters, but today boots on the ground instantly.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
When the enemy is the poor, voiceless, and powerless.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
They want to call it law and order, but selective
law enforcement based on loyalty to one person, once again,
does not feel like freedom or democracy.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
So we do all of this at what cost?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Think about what this sets up if they can federalize
DC because crime is some undefined created worry. What happens
when voters show up to protest this, when sanctuary cities
push back on policy abuse. The preview showing this evening
(06:24):
is not a preview. It's the main event. They're not
solving homelessness, they're trying to push it out of view.
They're not curbing crime. They're manufacturing fear, and they're telling
us that this force protects democracy. My brother Rams would
have me ask myself if they couldn't be bothered to
(06:48):
deploy the National Guard when a violent mob threatened to
assassinate the vice president and storm the capitol. Why would
they be so eager to deploy them against people with
no homes and no power. Real protection is not built
through equity, not by this administration. That's how we thought
(07:10):
it worked with them. It's built through intimidation. This is
not governance. It's what we've called it all along, a coup.
I expected it to be a slow motion coup, except
it's been a fast forward, aggressive version of the same.
(07:33):
And I wish we could say we hardly noticed. Except
it's happening almost every day in four K in real time.
I thought at one point, at some point something would happen.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
It's starting to feel like not so much.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
Well, we definitely live in interesting times, you know, when
we're talking about you know, for the dialogue, we're about
to have the ice raids taking place in LA and
them hitting a home depot twice in the same day,
you you recognize that these are vulnerable populations. You know,
(08:26):
we're talking about homeless people in DC, you know, and
day laborers really in Los Angeles, but they're both vulnerable populations.
They don't have, you know, power to push back. They're
economically disenfranchised. If people had a lot of money, they
would not be homeless. And if they had a lot,
(08:48):
if they had enough money, they would not be homeless.
And if people had enough money, they would not be
day laborers in front of home depot hoping for someone
to pick them up and put them on a job site.
But yeah, these ice raids is uh, this is crazy,
(09:09):
you know, to me and to a lot of people.
People that voted for Donald Trump. They believed him when
he said he was going to go after the worst
of the worst. They believed him when he said, Mexico
is sending all these people and they're not sending their best,
and they're sending blah blah blah. And so those people
expected the lies that he told them to be true
(09:33):
because they believed him initially. So they wanted numbers, right,
They wanted this administration to do something. They called the
Democrats to do nothing Democrats. Donald Trump was the stark
contrast to that. And if they felt immigration was the
reason that they weren't thriving, you know, then because they
(09:53):
had been convinced of that lie, then they wanted to
see some numbers. So Donald Trump felt pressure to put
some members up right, which he in turn translated that
pressure to these agents and gave them an unlimited budget
to hire whoever off the out of whatever corner of
(10:15):
the United States, regardless of how they feel, regardless of
their ideologies or their sensitivities, or their proclivities or whatever,
and regardless of their biases and their prejudices. And when
it turned out that there weren't actually a bunch of criminals,
(10:36):
sure there was some, but as we know you and
I know Q, immigrants commit crimes at a much lower
rate than citizens of the United States. And as we
know that, you know, they're not criminals. They don't have
criminal records. Some do, of course, but you know, the
majority don't. The line the goalposts shifted from violent criminal
(11:03):
offenders to them simply being in the country illegally being
the crime, completely overlooking the fact that immigrants made this
country what it is. Look at the inscription on the
Statue of Liberty. Immigration is a part of the fabric
of this society, particularly along the southern border all those states.
(11:28):
And to then demonize people for being immigrants or for
not being citizens, whichever way.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You want, to look at.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
It is crazy work because it's not very easy to
become a citizen. The presidency changes every four years or so,
so the process changes every four years and paperwork gets
shifted back. It takes years even if everything worked pertly,
(12:02):
so some people keep getting kicked down to step one.
But you know we're talking about these ice rates now.
They're just trying to get whoever. These aren't criminals. These
are people actually working. They're our freeloaders, are not stealing,
none of no crimes. They're actually working. They're trying to
get jobs. I've used day laborers before to help me
(12:22):
with my shower. The kindest people you would ever like.
They came into my home with my son, kind good people.
I spoke my best broken Spanish as I could, and
they helped me out. I wish I could do it again. Man,
(12:43):
I just don't have any projects right now. But let
me get to this article. I don't want to pontificate
too long. This is just very frustrating for both of us,
and I know you got to say some stuff too. Q.
All right, this from the La Times. It's pretty long.
I'm not even sure if I'll get through this. I'm
so sorry. Q, but we'll make it up all right.
Federal agents detained day laborers outside of a home depot
and van Eyes during two raids on Friday morning, raising
questions over whether their actions may violate a court order
(13:05):
the band's agents from using racial profiling to carry out
indiscriminate immigration arrests. The operations, sorry, took place around seven
thirty five am and then again at eleven fifty AM
outside the home Depot in Roscoe Boulevard, according to Majay
and Ortiz, executive director of Instio Institutio the Educacion del
(13:27):
Sur de California, Sorry if I said that wrong, which
runs a rescue center for day laborers directly next to
the store. The Department of Homeland Security, which includes Customs
and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, confirmed the
operations in a statement to The Times on Saturday, calling
them targeted immigration rates that resulted in the arrest of
seven undocumented immigrants from Guatemala, Honduras in Mexico. Homeland Security
(13:50):
spokeserson Tricia McLaughlin said four of those individuals had criminal records,
including for driving under the influence of alcohol, disorderly conduct,
and failing to adhere to previous removal orders. None of
those sound violent to me, all.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
Right, anyway.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Quote what makes someone the target for immigration enforcement is
that they are legally in the US, not their skin color, race,
or ethnicity. Unquote, McLaughlin said, quote America's brave men and
women removing murderers MS thirteen, gang members, pedophiles, rapists, truly
the worst of the worst from the Golden State communities.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Unquote.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
US Border Patrol Sector chief Greg Bobino had told Fox
News on Friday, the federal agents always abbie by law
during enforcement operations. Quote in Los Angeles right now today,
as a matter of fact, we have agents out on
the streets right now making apprehensions as you and I
are speaking.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Unquote.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
It goes on to say they're doing that again legally,
ethically and morally. A number of unmarked white bands started
circling the parking lot, and immigration agents began quote grabbing
people first, then asking people for ID unquote, said Artis,
adding that our organization has confirmed ten people were taken.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Quote.
Speaker 1 (14:51):
The agents came straight for the day labor center. It
is very clear they are targeting day laborers and they
are targeting the organization. Unquote.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
This from.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
She goes on to say that immigration agents conducted another
raid near a home depot in Cypress Park on Saturday.
Artists said she was aware of half a dozen arrest
during the incident. Further details were not immediately available. On
July eleventh, the US district judge issued a temporary restraining
order blocking federal agents in southern and central California from
targeting people based on their race, language, location, or location
without reasonable suspicion that they are here in the US
(15:23):
illegally at the time, Immigration advocates believe the order would
legally bar agents from roving such places as home depots
and car washes indiscriminately stopping brown skin Spanish speaking workers.
The temporary restraining order was upheld last Friday by the
ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals. The Trump administration has
sense appealed to the Supreme Court, saying the ruling quote
threatens to upend immigration officials' ability to enforce the immigration
(15:46):
laws in the Central District of California by hanging the
prospect of contempt over every investigative stop unquote, all.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Right, you a couple of minutes for you. The floor
is yours. Any thoughts here?
Speaker 3 (16:01):
I often wish we were less informed. Often we were
less intelligent and less informed, because we could figure this
out without the information available to us, just by being
intelligent and having eyes that work. But we're informed and intelligent,
which means we're off most of the time. And to
(16:21):
tell us that they're not targeting people and that they're
being ethical and moral is an insult to our intelligence.
Did they know that we see all these videos of
all these agents beating people to the ground for simply
being present. They're not catching them in in the process
(16:45):
of committing some crime. In most cases, the numbers and
the data shows that these are not people with violent
criminal records. So they say after somebody was driving under
the influence In the next sentence, MS thirteen and rapist
and you know, all these trigger words to make people
think that they're getting the worst of the worst off
the streets, and it's just not true, and we know better.
(17:08):
And they continue to lie to us and to their constituents,
but they're kind of not really lying or telling them
what they want to hear.
Speaker 2 (17:17):
Because what we've.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Learned around is over these years is that most of
the supporters of this are not defending Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
They're defending themselves.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
The things that they love about him are things that
they see about themselves in him. So they don't want
us to say bad things about him, because then we're
saying bad things about them. So they like and welcome
these lies so they can sleep at night and so
they can present themselves as decent Americans.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Hey, we're not racist.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
We would never want people to be targeted because of
their race. They're being targeted because there's criminals and they're
here illegally, and we just all know better than that. Man,
it's so upsetting, bro. Yeah, Well, onto our final segment, Entertainment.
We normally will look for some form of news coming
(18:09):
out of the entertainment sector places like TMZ, and we
found a little bit of a heat rock that we
share it. Even though she's not known for being an entertainer,
she's known for being a politician. So that's kind of
on brand for us, and it checks the box. Here,
Jasmine Crockett flamed Donald Trump on TMZ Live. I'll share
a little bit of the story and then I will
(18:31):
actually pull up her audio so that you can check
that out. So this from TMZ representative Jasmine Crockett says
President Trump's latest attack on her is a warning sign.
She says he either has dementia or he's just dumb
as a rock The Democratic congresswoman from Texas joined TMZ
(18:54):
Live Monday and asked about Trump calling her a very
low IQ individual and lenging her to take a cognitive exam.
Rockett said, the only one lacking any brain cells here
is Trump, and she rattled off a list of differences
between their life achievements, going jab for jab, with the
President mixing in some shots at his social media platform.
The Texas representative says Trump's latest salvo should be concerning
(19:16):
for all Americans. She can't believe anyone takes them seriously
and wonders why Republicans aren't held to the same standard
as Democrats. Crockett unloaded on Trump and wondered if it's
dementia don or dumb down behind the keyboard, and also
telled her whether she's willing to take him up on
his exam offer. So let's hear this in her own words.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
I didn't understand why this morning he went on to
the social and started this attack with you, saying that
you're a low IQ individual, something we've heard him say
about Charlemagne the God recently, but you're a low IQ
individual and that you need to take the test, referring
to the competency test, which by the way, is different
(20:01):
from an IQ test. That also seems strange. But why
this attack this morning seeming loud of nowhere.
Speaker 5 (20:07):
It's funny that you point out that he doesn't even
know the difference in the test that he takes in
the IQ test, Yet he's the one that's suggesting that
I need the IQ test, not to mention, I mean,
based on the fact that my daddy isn't the one
that got me into my schooling, and the fact that
I have a little bit more education than he does.
Many I have more earned degrees than he does. I
don't have time to play games with him. And the
(20:27):
fact that you are the sitting president of the United States,
and for whatever reason, you are waking up before I'm
even awake on today so that you could try to
drag me on your bootleg website, Like it doesn't even
make sense to me, Like why is it that people
take him seriously? And then the bad part is that
when we get four years from now and it's time
to elect somebody, unfortunately the entire country will look at
(20:50):
whoever is running on the Democratic side and they will
have one bar that they use to say, you've got
to meet this standard or this level. Yet you allow
this full land. Frankly, anybody can be president after him.
I mean, we're talking about somebody with thirty four count
convictions of felonies in addition to the fact that somebody
(21:10):
who literally does not know how to govern, or doesn't
want to govern, doesn't want to do what's right. So
every time you look around, he's invoking emergency powers. And frankly,
if you listen to him, you would be concerned not
only about his mental acuity, but you also would be concerned.
I'm not concerned that he's an unintelligent man. I know
he's unintelligent, that part is clear, But like I'm wondering also,
(21:34):
like is it dementia non that we're getting. Is it
just dumb don that we're getting. Like, I don't know,
but there is a problem, Like Houston, we have a brother.
Speaker 1 (21:44):
She goes on to say that she absolutely would be
willing to take a competency test, and.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
Yeah, and I.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Love that she rattles his feathers and that he wakes
up the middle of the night and tweets about her.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
She's a very special person. Q and I.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
We've had the privilege of talking to her a number
of times. She's been on our shows before. She I
don't know that she's been on this show. Yeah, she
hasn't been on this show yet, but she's certainly been
on Civic Cipher with us. And you know, she's dubbed
the clap back Queen. So you know, again, whenever there's
somebody speaking truth to power, you know, we tend to
(22:28):
applaud that. But when it's a black woman, especially during
a time when black women are kind of suffering the
most that they've ever suffered, at least economically speaking, in
this country, in this country's history of modern history, I
should say, you know, we we love to see that.
That's she is our great defender at the moment, and
(22:51):
you know, I certainly applaud her cue any anything.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
Here.
Speaker 3 (22:56):
It sucks to live in a country where when measure
against one another, someone like Jasmine Crockett has looked at
as lesser than when judged against our current president by
seventy eighty million people right at go, Like, if you
(23:16):
just show both pictures, then he's better without a word
being spoken, without resumes being compared, without college degrees or
education level, or even test scores being compared against each other,
the black woman is somehow, by definition to them, less qualified,
less deserving, less accomplished, less intelligent, and no matter the metric,
(23:44):
except for wealth, which he either inherited or conned people
out of, she trumps him in every category but a
long way.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Yeah, but we live here, you know where.
Speaker 3 (23:59):
Again, the most qualified candidate in the history of the
United States presidency loses to a man with no experience,
with no qualifications, who just so happens to be a
thirty four time convicted felon.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
An unrepentant, convicted felon.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
That's important to say out loud, because committing a crime
does not disqualify you forever from ever being able to
serve people. But an unre convicted felon who was running
for president while these convictions were being announced. So this
is not someone who did something years ago that they've
learned from and improved from. Nope, unrepentant, unapologetic, smug arrogant,
(24:44):
And we can go on and on. So I get
some joy sometimes and hearing her clap back at him.
But then the reality kicks back in and I realized
he gets to be the president and she has to
serve in a lame duck Congress that can't do anything
to serve its constituency because the people who are in
charge are evil. Like, it's becoming harder and harder for me,
(25:12):
and I'll have to keep asking our audience to forgive
me to find hope or joy or you know, anything
to smile about or feel good about it, any of.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
This stuff, because what's real is too real.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
While we're talking about this, people are being beat up
on the street because they're poor, arrested because they're homeless
by our nation's military, federal law enforcement, and the nation
capital's local PD. Now being asked to serve the same
(25:50):
people that attacked them, like imagine the insult, and for
a lot of them willingly serve the same people that
attacked them because it was a spider man mean that day,
white supremacist law enforcement officers trying to protect the country
that they thought was on the same side as them,
(26:11):
except the guy who lost turned his mob against them.
So people who were screaming back to blue the day
before attacked the police because Donald Trump said so, and
those people were pardoned forgiving and put back on the street,
and now those same officers who were attacked have to,
in the name of that same president that ordered them attacked,
attack citizens who've done nothing but be poor. Once again,
(26:36):
this is America, and it's becoming harder and harder by
the day to be proud of the fact that this
is the nation that we're from and that we live in,
and that this is the president whose power we have
to submit to.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Well, I understand and I appreciate that. I think that
how I look at it, how I feel about it
maybe is that if you're going to be in this
undesirable position, that you probably want somebody as outspoken and
(27:21):
as powerful and is brilliant and as well educated. I mean,
she's a lawyer, as Jasmine Crockett, and you know, whenever
I do come across her clapbacks, I feel a little
less alone. She's the one person in the room with
you pointing at everyone else sitting looking like the dogs
(27:43):
when the room is on fire. So she's the person saying, hey,
this is not normal, everything is not fine. To continue
with that analogy, so I know it's definitely a bleaque
time I wouldn't pretend like it isn't. But I'm glad
we got her on our side because that's not nothing
so well.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Out in mind.
Speaker 1 (28:03):
That's it for us here, so we appreciate you tuning
in to the QR Code. One day, we promise we're
gonna do shows that are a little bit lighter, but
for now, our job is to inform and do all
this research and make sure everybody's telling the truth to you,
to us, and we're telling you careful what you promise, well,
we try, we do our best, and we do that
(28:24):
with the help of today's show producer Chris Thompson. If
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Speaker 3 (28:41):
I am q Ward on a social media as well,
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Speaker 2 (28:51):
And until then, peace
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