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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Still broadcasting from the Civic Cipher studios. Welcome back to
the QR code, where we share perspective, seek understanding, and
shape outcomes. The man about to hear from is the
man who consistently keeps me grounded in his shared reality.
He's the Q in the QR code. He goes by
the name of q War.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
The voice that you just heard is the R in
the QR code, and he is the almost singular reason
that I have any hope or optimism at all. He
goes by the name ramses Jah.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
And we need you to keep listening because we got
to keep talking to you about the goings on in
these United States of America. We are going to spend
some time talking about the once great Lawrence Taylor. He's
a football player and he has joined Trump as sort
of like a new sidekick. And if you're wondering if
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you know who that is and wondering why that's happening,
well so is he. And we're going to explain that
to you in just a bit. But before we get there,
it's not for Q words. Clapback. And he told me
that when data disappears, democracy disappears. And I'm sure you
are going to elaborate, So talk to me.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
You. You know, there's an interesting thing that's happening now.
Once upon a time in the world of political corruption,
corrupt politicians try to sneak and do corrupt things. Right,
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the idea was to convince you they were doing things
in your best interest. Once again, to try to frame
even they're blatantly racist and blatantly anti American, blatantly anti people,
decisions and legislation, they would hide them in some sort
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of framework that would give the impression that there was
someone other than themselves that was benefiting from their decision,
from that legislation, the things that they were passing through,
regardless if they were a Republican or Democrat. The idea
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again was to convince you that something was being done
in your best interest. And that brand of political corruption
doesn't exist anymore. And a really strange thing about this
new brand is that that seems to be why it's
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so popular. Rams and I have heard people say that
they liked the president because he keeps it real, even
if while keeping it real, it's clear that he's stealing
from you. Hear that he's taking away basic social structure
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that existed, just to make sure people were getting at
least the minimum that he points out that hey, everybody
does this, I just do it in front of you,
where people are like, yeah, we like that. So now
anything that makes this person seem small, like they are,
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seem incompetent, like they are, seem unsuccessful, like they've proven
to be, they scream out fake news. They pretend things
never happened, and require you to just accept what they're
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saying as true, even in light of facts that are
to the contrary. Recently, Rams and I talked about data
coming out that was unfavorable to the administration, and on
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our show multiple times we framed this data as bad news,
when in essence, it was just data. I use an
example that when it rains and a weather man reports
that it rained, they're not delivering us bad news. They're
just telling us something that occurred. In that case, it
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was numbers, numbers based on job creation and our economy.
In a more recent story, and my brother had started
to use the word scary, and I nudged him the
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other day asked him, what did it feel like prior
to now, because it's been scary for me.
Speaker 1 (05:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:10):
So, now you know, there was a time where the
country didn't hide behind press releases and pr firms. And
we're now at a point where racism is just flat
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out saying we don't want you here, we don't want
you to vote, we don't want you to have any power. Now.
Corporations have partnered with that racism. Where's a suit now?
And in a lot of cases a pin our voices
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are being taken away from US companies like Google rolling
back DEI, the Supreme Court targeting voting rights, like the
highest Court remember that checks and balance, this thing you
learned in elementary school or junior high school or high school.
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The Supreme Court targeting voting rights, strategic erasures of things
data information, and again, like we talked about before, this
voluntary pre compliance. Media companies canceled, told they can't say things,
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firing successful talent. And as Google pulls the plug on nonprofits,
the administration looks to get rid of satellites that show
the effects of global warming. I read it on Yeah, like,
what are we doing? And people are so committed And
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we talked about this from a scientific standpoint, But people
are so committed to the decision that they already made
being right that even as everything shows them that it's wrong.
They won't change stances they continue to defend. So this
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isn't just about budget cuts, it's not just about state rights.
It's the quiet or now loud erasure of democracy right
in front of us. So I'm tired of hearing people
say both sides are the same when one is banning books,
erasing votes, and scrubbing DEI from every corner of American life.
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We're still here, but it's becoming harder and harder to
keep trying to have a voice.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Well the clock, the clock keeps ticking, and I wish
I could add more there, but we have to move
on to our dialogue segment because we're gonna talk about
Lawrence Taylor. I know Lawrence Taylor because I saw him
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in a movie called Any Given Sunday. And if you're
like me, you know like I love any Given Sunday, Right.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
So I love I love Any Given Sunday.
Speaker 1 (08:44):
That's an inside joke, but uh, but yeah, I remember
this guy from from that movie. I didn't know, like
you told me just before we started today's episode that
he was as big of a football player as he was.
I knew that he played real football. I don't know
how I knew that, but I did. In any event,
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he's like kind of the other guy was the other
guy's name that ran for Senator her short Walker, Hershall Walker.
That's him.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
So he's a football player.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
That was good. I remember herschel Walker was a good
football player too, right, And they're friends with Donald Trump,
or they're like close with Donald Trump. I guess Donald
Trump is a big fan of footballor something like that.
So any event, the way Donald Trump uses these guys
is a little odd because I remember when we had
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to cover herschel Walker, and I forgot the guy's name
because he's a forgettable individual, but I do remember that
he was. I think Dave Chappelle said that he was
visibly stupid. I think that's how he described him. And
I'm like, yes, that's the right way to say. It
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sounds mean, but there's I mean, we're all seeing this
right like we you know, and not only that, he's
not consistent, you know, he's anti abortion after having paid
women have abortions, and you know a hundred other things
that was wrong with him. And that was Trump's guy,
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and Trump was able to use him, and conservatives were
able to use him to suggest that somehow that meant
that Donald Trump wasn't as racist as he is, right,
And I take issue with this because again, you cannot
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like black people and use them, because this country was
founded on that very premise. He didn't like black people
and they used them, and this is what Donald Trump's doing.
So like the fact that people say, well, look he's
got a black guy there, Well, okay, so he likes
football players and he's using these people. They don't have
any talent to offer any position. They don't have any
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intellent nothing. If they can do anything, it's play or
teach football. Right now, let me get into this story
here about Lawrence Taylor, because Lawrence Taylor explains that he
doesn't know what's going on in his own words, and
then Q, obviously you have a lot more context here,
so I'll let you round it out. But from the
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Black Information Network, XNFL star and registered sex offender Lawrence
Taylor was tapped for President Donald Trump's Council on Sports,
Fitness and Nutrition, and he admitted, I don't know why.
And that's a quote coming out swinging all right. On Thursday,
Trump welcomed Taylor, a Hall of Fame linebacker for the
New York giants to the White House for his event
promoting youth fitness. Youth Fitness huh okay. Trump signed an
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executive order that re established the Presidential Fitness Test for
American Children and relaunched the President's Council on Sports, Fitness
and Nutrition. Taylor tended the event and was tapped to
serve as a member of the Fitness Council, alongside golfer
Bryson de Chambeau and Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison but Kerr.
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Introducing Taylor, Trump said, quote, acknowledged to be the greatest
defensive player in the history of the NFL. A friend
of mine for a long time, too long, right, Lawrence,
Lawrence Taylor. He's an incredible guy and just been my
friend a long time.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Knew him forever.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
The x nfler then spoke at the podium, admitting that
he doesn't understand his role on the council, but is
here to serve Trump quote, I'm just proud to be
on this team. I don't know why, i don't know
what we're supposed to be doing, but I'm here to serve,
and I'm here to serve you, unquote, Taylor said during
the event, he goes on to say, so I'm going
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to do the best I can for as long as
I can, all right. Trump also faced backlash for inviting Taylor,
who pleaded guilty in twenty eleven to misdemeanor charges of
sexual misconduct and patronizing a sixteen year old prostitute, to
the White House events centered around youth fitness. All right.
So that's a that's a good volley of shots fired.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Their que take it away. So just to rewind on
some things that you said about Donald Trump having these
black friends. Was the word that you used, and right
after you talked about how he uses these people, which
answered the question that you didn't even pose. What are
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these people as friends? Yeah, okay, what are we talking about? Yeah,
go ahead, here they are. They are PR people. Yeah, token, yeah,
token black people he can point to say, Look, I'm
not racist. Look at my black quote unquote friends. You
don't see a bunch of pictures of them together. They're
not present when he's not campaigning. They're they're there for
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good PR photo ops.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
They don't hang out his house.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, you know, a registered sex offender on your teen
fitness board or whatever, like you don't even care about
the bad optics anymore. At least he can say, look
at my African American. I caught that Harrison Butker being
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on that same stage misogynists, anti LGBTQ, anti diversity, equity
and inclusion. He calls DEI tyranny.
Speaker 1 (14:34):
Is he white?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Harrison Butker, of course he is. Okay, I didn't know, okay,
and thinks women need to maintain their place in the
home and in the kitchen. Oh wow, your life doesn't
have meeting unless you're a wife and a mother. He
said this to women who had just gotten their degrees
at their graduation living. Let's get the greatest assembly of
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people that we can and because again, man, they don't care,
like these are the people that we get to represent
our nation, spitting our faces and tell us that it's
raining over and over again. And imagine that. Man, he's
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he's a hero to a lot of black people, Lord Taylor,
so was herschel Walker. Yeah, because you're not talking about
guys that were just good. These are like some of
the greatest people to ever do what they did. When
they say, argue the greatest defensive player ever, a lot
of people don't even argue it. The only person that
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really has a seat at that table that you can
mention in that argument and people won't automatically decline. It's
primetime Deon Sanders. Outside of that, there's not much of
an argument for anybody else. So you know, somebody who
was once an inspiration to everybody I know that played
football growing up, we've now become adults and watched just
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to decline. Man, it's all of this is so sad
because all of it is so obvious, and people don't
know or don't care, or better those that know don't care.
And we're now in a position where the credits have rolled,
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the competition is over. They won, and they won everything,
and you can deal with every decision that they make
that they know. There's no repercussions, there's no accountability, there's
no checks and balances, there's none of that. We can
out loud do all the most harmful things ever. And
when something shows that I'm corrupt and a bad person
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and then I'm a criminal, I'll pretend it didn't happen.
I'll tell you you didn't see what you saw. I'll
scream fake news, and then throw another distraction at you.
As we now hear about him considering pardoning Sean Combs,
another one of his African Americans, for no reason. He's
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not even facing any significant time for a lot of crimes,
but he'll be able to say, look what I did
for this black guy. I told you guys, I'm not racist.
And some black people will cheer about that. When he
pardons black people that are famous and his partner doesn't
even have any impact or effect on their lives, black
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people still cheer. Look at all that Trump is doing
for us. He's there for us again. It's a very obvious,
straightforward out in the open grift. It's a pilfer every time,
and unfortunately some people keep falling for it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
Well, we're gonna have to leave it right here. The
clock as the finals say, and we're all out of time.
So that's it for us here on the QR Code.
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