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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Broadcasting from the Civic Cipher Studios. Welcome to the QR Code,
where we share perspective, seek understanding, and shape outcomes. The
man you are about to hear from is the man
with fans everywhere making up fantasies about him. He is
the Q in the QR code. He goes by the
name of q Ward.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
So I told y'all Ramses be lying, right.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Nah, Man, tell you true every time.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
We're gonna tell you the truth today. I'm glad you
said that true story.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
The R in the QR code stands for Ramsey's jaw,
and in some cities that's both of us. Y'all are
Ramses Ja, Yes, ma'am, we are, Yes, ma'am, we are.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Well. Anyway, we need you to stick around because we
have another informative show in store for you. A little
later on the show, we're gonna have him some dialogue
about how Donald Trump doesn't believe he's going to get
into heaven and to preach kids on this radio show.
Definitely have some thoughts about that. Prior to that, to
(01:07):
Ward is going to clap back about how the right
has stopped pretending to be anything other than what they are.
It's a sad state. Before we break, we're going to
be talking about how Dominion voting systems has now been
sold to a Republican elections director. Sold. There is definitely
(01:31):
some cause for concern for people who are wondering if
election integrity will still be a thing post Project twenty
twenty five, post Trump two point zero. And of course
we're going to start to show off talking about what's
going on in the culture and the remaining Israeli hostages
(01:51):
have been released by Hamas, so a major development there
within the culture. But as always, we like to start
off off with a feel good feature, and we might
spend a little extra time on this one, so be
warned and yeah, buckle up. This from bionnews dot com.
Tennessee State Rep and our dear friend Justin Pearson, nationally
(02:14):
known as a member of the Tennessee three, has launched
his bid for Congress. According to Axios, Pearson thirty, announced
that he will challenge Representative Steve Cohen, the Democrat from Tennessee,
in the primary race for Memphis ninth Congressional district. Pearson
one of the Tennessee lawmakers who made headlines for protesting
gun violence on their chamber floor is backed by Justice Democrats,
(02:37):
the progressive group that helped elect Representative Alexandria Cassio Cortez,
the Democrat from New York, and other members of the Squad.
His CAD candidacy signals a push from the party's left
flank to replace in trench Democratic incumbents with the younger,
more progressive leaders. Cohen, seventy six, has held the Memphis
(02:58):
based seat since two thousand. A longtime congressman, maintained that
he remains the preferred candidate of his district. Quote, nobody
who's run against me in the nine terms has won
a precinct against me unquote. Colin toad Axios goes on
to say, it's a black district. It's the second blackest
district in America. I'm the only white person with a
majority minority district. I've always had someone coming up and
(03:20):
thinking they could take advantage of people's racial interests. The
people of Memphis had not had that. They have supported
me unquote. Pierson, along with Representative Justin Jones, was expelled
from the Tennessee House for protesting gun violence on the
chamber floor in the wake of a March shooting at
Nashville's the Covenant School. A third Democrat, Representative, Gloria Johnson,
also joined the protest, but wasn't expelled. Pearson was later
(03:42):
reinstated and met with former President Joe Biden, cementing his
spot as a rising figure in the Democratic Party. With
Memphis ninth Congressional District safely Democratic, the real contest will
be the twenty twenty sixth primary, not the general election.
The race is expected to draw national attention as Pearson
tries to become the next insurgent agressive to unseat a
long term incumbent. Okay, a couple of things I want
(04:03):
to say here and then of course gets your thoughts here.
As I mentioned, pretty much everybody here with the exception
of Cohen, are friends of ours. Representative Gloria Johnson, she's
a supporter of ours. She follows our social media as
very vocal supporter of the show. Justin Jones. We've done
in person events with both Justin Justin Jones and Justin Pearson. Again,
(04:24):
dear friends of ours. We're really supportive of these two
guys and really like what they stand for. One of
the things that I think is worth mentioning is that
both Justin's after they were expelled from the Tennessee House,
were reinstated with I think over ninety percent of the
vote in the Tennessee House. So the fact that you know,
(04:48):
this primary is between Justin Jones or sorry, Justin Pearson
and represent I think Justin has a pretty good shot
here of actually securing the nomination, and I think that
(05:13):
we might actually see him in Congress, which would be fantastic.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
What say, Q, I've kind of lost faith in elections.
We've heard a man say multiple times he rigged an
election in one and literally nobody cares. No one reacted,
no one did anything, No recounts happened, nothing changed, nobody
(05:36):
marched in the streets, nobody got mad, nobody got angry.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So I don't know. I don't even know how to.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Like, everybody keeps talking about midterms, and everybody keeps talking
about elections moving forward with the guy who has not
only said that he's rigged the elections that he wouldn't
have won without rigging them, has made it clear he
has no intention on going anywhere, has has already floated
the idea of starting global conflict just to make sure
that an election doesn't happen. Like, I don't know how
(06:05):
to feel about elections at all. When someone can rig
one say they rigged it, still win, Like, how do
you feel like you can win after that when you
know the other side has the capacity to know how
and the willingness to do that, and that the people
won't get angry about it won't and if they do
(06:28):
get angry, nothing they can do about it.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Like got it.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So if anybody can win, he can. But because I
don't know about the advocacy of fair elections anymore, like
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah that's fair. Well, I think that from what I
took first off, Representative Cohen is seventy six years old,
so that's one thing. Justin's thirty. Justin has been an
amazing orator, and just he's shown the type of leadership
(07:00):
that I think really matters at this point in time,
the type of things that we were expecting to see.
He's the type of person to be able to show it.
And because of the fact that this is really the
primary is really the election, because there's so many Democrats
in the district that this doesn't really seem likely that
there would be any interference. If indeed that like this
(07:23):
probably wouldn't be where they would focus that that interference.
So in terms of this, I wanted to say a
contest at first candidates go. He's the candidate I'm most
excited about, regardless of what he's hearing for. Like, I'd
vote for him for whatever he decided he wanted to
do good. I would work on his campaign team for
(07:44):
free and canvas and call and march and volunteer, hang signs,
take pictures, do black flips.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
If he started a gymnastics team.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Obvious that if he needed a picture for his underhand
softball hardball, little league, Major League baseball softball team, I
would do that. He's a flag football artificial quarterback to
both teams.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'll do that.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Like he's the person that I have the most hope
for and I get the most excited about. He's the
person that when he finishes speaking, is like, okay, so
why would we do anything else? Everybody doesn't think that
he's the one that should be talking all the time.
That message in that voice, in that tone from that
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man needs to be what everybody's hearing every day. And
you and I spoke in a recent past where I
was like, hey, man, Justin is conspicuously quiet, and I
didn't mean that he was quiet. I meant it's weird
that this party is not platform recognized the superstar that
they have and don't realize that this is the moment
(08:53):
when he should be amplified and elevated and popped up
more than anybody else in the country.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So, as far as him as a candidate brought up,
he's the home run candidate for me for everything. But
I just I don't know how I feel about the
infrastructure or the voting for.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
The election systems.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, no elections in general after what just happened recently.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, Oh, we're going to get to that. So well anyway,
excited to see what comes. And I know we're going
to get him back on the show here pretty soon.
I should probably text him again you see how he's doing,
because I know he's been busy with this. But yeah,
shout out to Justin Pearson for leveling up. All right,
let's talk about what's going on in the culture with
(09:39):
this Israeli Hamas situation. So the remaining Israeli hostages have
been released by Hamas. This fromiheart dot com. All twenty
of the remaining living Israeli hostages were released by Hamas
on October thirteenth, in adherence with the first part of
a ceasefire agreement between the two sides. NBC News reports
the hostages who were taking cap on October seven to
(10:00):
twenty twenty three were met by members of the Israeli
military as they crossed over the border back into their
home country. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a group
representing the hostage families, confirmed that only four of the
twenty eight bodies of the deceased hostages held by Hamas
would be returned on Monday, which it claimed was a
blatant breach of the agreement by Hamas. The remaining forty
(10:21):
eight Israeli hostages being released was reported to be part
of the first phase of the announced peace deal between
Israel and Hamas, shortly after President Donald Trump's original announcement
last Thursday, October ninth. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum
previously said its members felt quote a mix of excitement, anticipation,
and concern un quote following the agreement, which came two
(10:43):
years and one day after the Israeli hostages were taken
captive by Hamas. AMAS has confirmed it will participate in
the hostage and prisoner exchange however, hasn't said it would
disarm and disband, which it was a key stipulation in
Trump's proposal. The first phase also hasn't given a medium
or long term plan on Gaza's future, as the Israeli
(11:03):
Defense Forces said it would adjust deployment lines soon, but
reiterated that parts of Gaza were still considered a dangerous
combat zone and confirmed that troops were deployed and operating
anywhere in the strip. A previous ceasefire lasted from January
nineteenth to March eighteenth, which was followed by a barrett
A barrage sorry of deadly airstrikes launched by Israel across
(11:24):
the Gaza Strip. Israel blamed Hamas for the hostilities, claiming
the militant group refused to meet its demand to release
more hostages. At the time, the United Nations Commission, comprised
of a team of independent experts, formally accused Israel of
committing genocide against Palestinians and Gaza and called on the
international community to end the campaign earlier this month. We
(11:45):
don't have too much time here, but I want to
make sure that if you have any reflections here Q,
that you're able to share them.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
First, I wish all of us could get back to
being compassionate, empathetic human beings instead of members of all
these different separate tribes, all these different separate religions, all
these different separate races, all these different separate things that
were all created to keep us separate. You've heard at
(12:13):
protests before that the People United can never be defeated.
It's been said so much that it kind of became corny,
but it's really the most true thing ever stated. People
United could really do anything and everything, and those in
power have kept us divided intentionally so that we could
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not rise up together as a people. Anything about peace,
anything that will stop people from being just violently slaughtered,
anything that brings an end to unimaginable, horrific violence that's
been going on in that part of the world for
way too long, is something that makes me feel better.
(12:58):
Talking about it as a political story bugs me because
I think something that everyone should have wanted from the
very beginning. Everyone was for this thing to stop. Something
happened that was wrong. So the answer to that was
to do something one hundred thousand times more violent, more horrific,
(13:19):
and justify it every day and then for us to
fight back and forth about whether or not one of
us is right versus wrong, when both of us should
be saying, Hey, the babies over there being burned up
and having bombs dropped on them and being starved to
death shouldn't like that. Shouldn't have been a controversial position.
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That shouldn't have been a controversial take. So I'm hoping
that something like this could have people on both sides,
as I do my air quotes, saying, yeah, some peace
and an end to this violence should be the case.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Now, we're going to offer our opinions on the cell
of Dominion Voting Systems to a Republican elections director. This
is what Q was referring to earlier election integrity. Let's
get right into it. I'll share this from CBS News.
(14:24):
Dominion Voting Systems, one of the nation's largest election technology companies,
has been acquired by Saint Louis based Liberty Vote. The
acquisition caps a half decade that saw Dominion thrust into
the public eye amid false accusations of election rigging. Liberty
Vote announced the purchase of Dominion Thursday afternoon. The terms
of the deal were not immediately disclosed. Liberty Vote was
(14:46):
founded by Scott lean Decker. I think that's how I
say this, A former Republican elections director for Saint Louis.
He also founded Knowing, which describes itself as the largest
provider of electronic poll book technology in the United States,
used in dozens of states. Knowing says it was built
exclusively in America and has a bipartisan team of former
(15:10):
election administrators, directors, and poll workers. According to a company's
spots person. In a statement Thursday, Liberty Votes said it
would be one hundred percent American owned and that as
of today, Dominion is gone. Dominion was incorporated in Toronto,
but in two thousand and nine it moved its headquarters
to Denver. Quote, Liberty Vote signals a new chapter for
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American elections, one where trust is rebuilt from the ground up,
leon Decker said. He goes on to say Liberty Vote
is committed to delivering election technology that prioritizes paper based transparency, security,
and simplicity so that voters can be assured that every
ballot is filled in accurately and fairly counted. All Right,
I'm going to say something, and I think that Q
(15:54):
is going to I think I know what you're going
to say, and what I'm going to say might be
a little disturbed to UQ because there's some optimism where
there's no real reason to have any optimism, because I
know with the article saying a Republican a former Republican
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election what is this guy's title elections director now owning dominion.
Republicans as a whole, especially Republicans that are high up
like an elections director, are kind of on the hook
for Project twenty twenty five. They're kind of on the
(16:45):
hook for the Big Lie, kind of on the hook
for the insurrection. And we've seen Republicans as a whole
do things that are morally bankrupt time and again. So Republicans,
when if I'm painting with broad strokes, and especially like
(17:07):
up this this high up the ladder, are kind of
on the hook for a lot of stuff. So there's
no reason to presume that this individual Scott Leanedecker has
acquired dominion voting systems, paired it with Liberty Vote, and
will you know, call it fair in a manner of speaking,
(17:34):
because we've seen them lie time and again, like the
Republican side of the aisle lied about the twenty twenty elections.
That's why Dominion won the lawsuit against Fox News and
Judy Ruley Giuliani and they won a lawsuit against I
think like Newsmax or News Nation or something like whatever
(17:55):
one of those other like rinking dank places was because
all these Republicans were lying, and then Fox News was
All their texts were laid bare, right, so they knew
that they were lying to the American people. As they
were lying, they never went on and admitted that with
all their chests, so their viewers never dropped. The listeners
(18:17):
viewers all that sort of stuff. People that read their
articles had never turned over because they didn't fall on
the sword like they should have. Right, And that is
very dishonest, and it comes from that side.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I never want to say Democrats are blameless, because people
aren't blameless. But I see the hypocrisy.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I see the.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Misdirection and the manipulation from Republicans. So this is why
I'm saying this high up the ladder with broad strokes.
This is how this looks. I don't have any reason
to think that this person has a modicum of authority
because Republicans, in my view, have lost their integrity. As
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sad as it is to say that they very much
earned that assessment from me. But the thing I will
say is that I hope that with this person's background
already having owned a voting system thing this person in
(19:22):
the article, at least it says there's bipartisan teams. I
can't verify that, of course, but if that's true, there's
at least a little gap for a little bit of
hope that maybe this person is not one of those
Triple Trumper drank the kool aid far right maga folks.
This person is actually running a viable business and recognizes
(19:43):
that this business needs to exist in perpetuity. And if
half of the country lays bare the inconsistencies in their reporting,
maybe this might not be a viable business long term.
You know, I see your faceque and I've talked a lot,
but that's what I hope, and your the floor is
(20:05):
yours to pick it apart. But I hope. I hope
that I hope. That's all I can do is hope.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
So I'm glad you packed your hope because I ain't packed.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
No, I ain't packed none.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I know.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Uh, there's kind of nothing left for me to say.
Like you said everything I would say and then said
but I have hope at the end of it.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I did the eight mile eminem thing, right.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, you said all the things I would say, and
then instead of like putting a period, you put hope
at the.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
End of it.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I know, I don't.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I mean, yeah, the.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
A Republican election official bought Dominion voting systems.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
The same company that sued Fox News and others for
close to a billion dollars, which proves capitalism mixed with
some racism. It's kind of undefeated. These people who fought
for the integrity of their company, who fought for the
(21:24):
reputation of their company, after they got very very rich
from a lawsuit, sold that company to someone who can
now do what they want with it. And there's a
thing that happened, right, Like Kamala Harris should be our president,
(21:45):
but she's not. And I think in some people's minds, well,
a return to quote unquote normalcy would be electing a
Democratic candidate. And I don't feel that way. Like everything
about the current system is broken, all of it. I
(22:06):
don't have any hope that it can be repaired. And
I definitely didn't gain hope by a Republican purchasing the
company that counts the places, counts the votes. You're talking
about the same Republicans that think the only way an
election as fair as if they win and if they
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don't it's rigged. Those people you think might shoot us
a fair one on votes, like on this thing, specifically
like this, they've campaigned for like a decade now on
either we win or it's rigged.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I can I offer this please?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
So here's what I add, whatever else because I ain't
got it.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Okay, So do you remember we went to a campaign event.
It was at a church. It would have been in
like Mesa, right, and there was a Republican gentleman who
was an elected official. He got a mayor mayor, right,
So it was a Republican mayor got up and he said,
you know what, I'm a lifelong Republican. I'll die a Republican.
(23:13):
My family's all my friends a Republican. But what Donald
Trump is doing is wrong. And that's why I'm here
campaigning against him because I don't want to see this
my party going that direction. I don't want to see
the country go in that direction. Right. No, Obviously history
has told us that that was unsuccessful. All the Republicans
(23:34):
that had tried to stand up for the party that
they once knew. Lost that fight along with the rest
of us. Right, But I can see a couple of
things in this that make me that allow for that
little crap crack of hope. Now, I'm not putting money
on this or anything, but I'm like, I hope that
(23:56):
this guy does shoot the fair one. That's all I
could say.
Broadcasting from the Civic Cipher Studios. Welcome to the QR Code,
where we share perspective, seek understanding, and shape outcomes. The
man you are about to hear from is the man
with fans everywhere making up fantasies about him. He is
the Q in the QR code. He goes by the
name of q Ward.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
So I told y'all Ramses be lying, right.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
Nah, Man, tell you true every time.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
We're gonna tell you the truth today. I'm glad you
said that true story.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
The R in the QR code stands for Ramsey's jaw,
and in some cities that's both of us. Y'all are
Ramses Ja, Yes, ma'am, we are, Yes, ma'am, we are.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
Well. Anyway, we need you to stick around because we
have another informative show in store for you. A little
later on the show, we're gonna have him some dialogue
about how Donald Trump doesn't believe he's going to get
into heaven and to preach kids on this radio show.
Definitely have some thoughts about that. Prior to that, to
(01:07):
Ward is going to clap back about how the right
has stopped pretending to be anything other than what they are.
It's a sad state. Before we break, we're going to
be talking about how Dominion voting systems has now been
sold to a Republican elections director. Sold. There is definitely
(01:31):
some cause for concern for people who are wondering if
election integrity will still be a thing post Project twenty
twenty five, post Trump two point zero. And of course
we're going to start to show off talking about what's
going on in the culture and the remaining Israeli hostages
(01:51):
have been released by Hamas, so a major development there
within the culture. But as always, we like to start
off off with a feel good feature, and we might
spend a little extra time on this one, so be
warned and yeah, buckle up. This from bionnews dot com.
Tennessee State Rep and our dear friend Justin Pearson, nationally
(02:14):
known as a member of the Tennessee three, has launched
his bid for Congress. According to Axios, Pearson thirty, announced
that he will challenge Representative Steve Cohen, the Democrat from Tennessee,
in the primary race for Memphis ninth Congressional district. Pearson
one of the Tennessee lawmakers who made headlines for protesting
gun violence on their chamber floor is backed by Justice Democrats,
(02:37):
the progressive group that helped elect Representative Alexandria Cassio Cortez,
the Democrat from New York, and other members of the Squad.
His CAD candidacy signals a push from the party's left
flank to replace in trench Democratic incumbents with the younger,
more progressive leaders. Cohen, seventy six, has held the Memphis
(02:58):
based seat since two thousand. A longtime congressman, maintained that
he remains the preferred candidate of his district. Quote, nobody
who's run against me in the nine terms has won
a precinct against me unquote. Colin toad Axios goes on
to say, it's a black district. It's the second blackest
district in America. I'm the only white person with a
majority minority district. I've always had someone coming up and
(03:20):
thinking they could take advantage of people's racial interests. The
people of Memphis had not had that. They have supported
me unquote. Pierson, along with Representative Justin Jones, was expelled
from the Tennessee House for protesting gun violence on the
chamber floor in the wake of a March shooting at
Nashville's the Covenant School. A third Democrat, Representative, Gloria Johnson,
also joined the protest, but wasn't expelled. Pearson was later
(03:42):
reinstated and met with former President Joe Biden, cementing his
spot as a rising figure in the Democratic Party. With
Memphis ninth Congressional District safely Democratic, the real contest will
be the twenty twenty sixth primary, not the general election.
The race is expected to draw national attention as Pearson
tries to become the next insurgent agressive to unseat a
long term incumbent. Okay, a couple of things I want
(04:03):
to say here and then of course gets your thoughts here.
As I mentioned, pretty much everybody here with the exception
of Cohen, are friends of ours. Representative Gloria Johnson, she's
a supporter of ours. She follows our social media as
very vocal supporter of the show. Justin Jones. We've done
in person events with both Justin Justin Jones and Justin Pearson. Again,
(04:24):
dear friends of ours. We're really supportive of these two
guys and really like what they stand for. One of
the things that I think is worth mentioning is that
both Justin's after they were expelled from the Tennessee House,
were reinstated with I think over ninety percent of the
vote in the Tennessee House. So the fact that you know,
(04:48):
this primary is between Justin Jones or sorry, Justin Pearson
and represent I think Justin has a pretty good shot
here of actually securing the nomination, and I think that
(05:13):
we might actually see him in Congress, which would be fantastic.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
What say, Q, I've kind of lost faith in elections.
We've heard a man say multiple times he rigged an
election in one and literally nobody cares. No one reacted,
no one did anything, No recounts happened, nothing changed, nobody
(05:36):
marched in the streets, nobody got mad, nobody got angry.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
So I don't know. I don't even know how to.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Like, everybody keeps talking about midterms, and everybody keeps talking
about elections moving forward with the guy who has not
only said that he's rigged the elections that he wouldn't
have won without rigging them, has made it clear he
has no intention on going anywhere, has has already floated
the idea of starting global conflict just to make sure
that an election doesn't happen. Like, I don't know how
(06:05):
to feel about elections at all. When someone can rig
one say they rigged it, still win, Like, how do
you feel like you can win after that when you
know the other side has the capacity to know how
and the willingness to do that, and that the people
won't get angry about it won't and if they do
(06:28):
get angry, nothing they can do about it.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Like got it.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
So if anybody can win, he can. But because I
don't know about the advocacy of fair elections anymore, like
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Yeah that's fair. Well, I think that from what I
took first off, Representative Cohen is seventy six years old,
so that's one thing. Justin's thirty. Justin has been an
amazing orator, and just he's shown the type of leadership
(07:00):
that I think really matters at this point in time,
the type of things that we were expecting to see.
He's the type of person to be able to show it.
And because of the fact that this is really the
primary is really the election, because there's so many Democrats
in the district that this doesn't really seem likely that
there would be any interference. If indeed that like this
(07:23):
probably wouldn't be where they would focus that that interference.
So in terms of this, I wanted to say a
contest at first candidates go. He's the candidate I'm most
excited about, regardless of what he's hearing for. Like, I'd
vote for him for whatever he decided he wanted to
do good. I would work on his campaign team for
(07:44):
free and canvas and call and march and volunteer, hang signs,
take pictures, do black flips.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
If he started a gymnastics team.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Obvious that if he needed a picture for his underhand
softball hardball, little league, Major League baseball softball team, I
would do that. He's a flag football artificial quarterback to
both teams.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
I'll do that.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
Like he's the person that I have the most hope
for and I get the most excited about. He's the
person that when he finishes speaking, is like, okay, so
why would we do anything else? Everybody doesn't think that
he's the one that should be talking all the time.
That message in that voice, in that tone from that
(08:31):
man needs to be what everybody's hearing every day. And
you and I spoke in a recent past where I
was like, hey, man, Justin is conspicuously quiet, and I
didn't mean that he was quiet. I meant it's weird
that this party is not platform recognized the superstar that
they have and don't realize that this is the moment
(08:53):
when he should be amplified and elevated and popped up
more than anybody else in the country.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:02):
So, as far as him as a candidate brought up,
he's the home run candidate for me for everything. But
I just I don't know how I feel about the
infrastructure or the voting for.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
The election systems.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Yeah, no elections in general after what just happened recently.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, Oh, we're going to get to that. So well anyway,
excited to see what comes. And I know we're going
to get him back on the show here pretty soon.
I should probably text him again you see how he's doing,
because I know he's been busy with this. But yeah,
shout out to Justin Pearson for leveling up. All right,
let's talk about what's going on in the culture with
(09:39):
this Israeli Hamas situation. So the remaining Israeli hostages have
been released by Hamas. This fromiheart dot com. All twenty
of the remaining living Israeli hostages were released by Hamas
on October thirteenth, in adherence with the first part of
a ceasefire agreement between the two sides. NBC News reports
the hostages who were taking cap on October seven to
(10:00):
twenty twenty three were met by members of the Israeli
military as they crossed over the border back into their
home country. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a group
representing the hostage families, confirmed that only four of the
twenty eight bodies of the deceased hostages held by Hamas
would be returned on Monday, which it claimed was a
blatant breach of the agreement by Hamas. The remaining forty
(10:21):
eight Israeli hostages being released was reported to be part
of the first phase of the announced peace deal between
Israel and Hamas, shortly after President Donald Trump's original announcement
last Thursday, October ninth. The Hostages and Missing Families Forum
previously said its members felt quote a mix of excitement, anticipation,
and concern un quote following the agreement, which came two
(10:43):
years and one day after the Israeli hostages were taken
captive by Hamas. AMAS has confirmed it will participate in
the hostage and prisoner exchange however, hasn't said it would
disarm and disband, which it was a key stipulation in
Trump's proposal. The first phase also hasn't given a medium
or long term plan on Gaza's future, as the Israeli
(11:03):
Defense Forces said it would adjust deployment lines soon, but
reiterated that parts of Gaza were still considered a dangerous
combat zone and confirmed that troops were deployed and operating
anywhere in the strip. A previous ceasefire lasted from January
nineteenth to March eighteenth, which was followed by a barrett
A barrage sorry of deadly airstrikes launched by Israel across
(11:24):
the Gaza Strip. Israel blamed Hamas for the hostilities, claiming
the militant group refused to meet its demand to release
more hostages. At the time, the United Nations Commission, comprised
of a team of independent experts, formally accused Israel of
committing genocide against Palestinians and Gaza and called on the
international community to end the campaign earlier this month. We
(11:45):
don't have too much time here, but I want to
make sure that if you have any reflections here Q,
that you're able to share them.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
First, I wish all of us could get back to
being compassionate, empathetic human beings instead of members of all
these different separate tribes, all these different separate religions, all
these different separate races, all these different separate things that
were all created to keep us separate. You've heard at
(12:13):
protests before that the People United can never be defeated.
It's been said so much that it kind of became corny,
but it's really the most true thing ever stated. People
United could really do anything and everything, and those in
power have kept us divided intentionally so that we could
(12:33):
not rise up together as a people. Anything about peace,
anything that will stop people from being just violently slaughtered,
anything that brings an end to unimaginable, horrific violence that's
been going on in that part of the world for
way too long, is something that makes me feel better.
(12:58):
Talking about it as a political story bugs me because
I think something that everyone should have wanted from the
very beginning. Everyone was for this thing to stop. Something
happened that was wrong. So the answer to that was
to do something one hundred thousand times more violent, more horrific,
(13:19):
and justify it every day and then for us to
fight back and forth about whether or not one of
us is right versus wrong, when both of us should
be saying, Hey, the babies over there being burned up
and having bombs dropped on them and being starved to
death shouldn't like that. Shouldn't have been a controversial position.
(13:41):
That shouldn't have been a controversial take. So I'm hoping
that something like this could have people on both sides,
as I do my air quotes, saying, yeah, some peace
and an end to this violence should be the case.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Now, we're going to offer our opinions on the cell
of Dominion Voting Systems to a Republican elections director. This
is what Q was referring to earlier election integrity. Let's
get right into it. I'll share this from CBS News.
(14:24):
Dominion Voting Systems, one of the nation's largest election technology companies,
has been acquired by Saint Louis based Liberty Vote. The
acquisition caps a half decade that saw Dominion thrust into
the public eye amid false accusations of election rigging. Liberty
Vote announced the purchase of Dominion Thursday afternoon. The terms
of the deal were not immediately disclosed. Liberty Vote was
(14:46):
founded by Scott lean Decker. I think that's how I
say this, A former Republican elections director for Saint Louis.
He also founded Knowing, which describes itself as the largest
provider of electronic poll book technology in the United States,
used in dozens of states. Knowing says it was built
exclusively in America and has a bipartisan team of former
(15:10):
election administrators, directors, and poll workers. According to a company's
spots person. In a statement Thursday, Liberty Votes said it
would be one hundred percent American owned and that as
of today, Dominion is gone. Dominion was incorporated in Toronto,
but in two thousand and nine it moved its headquarters
to Denver. Quote, Liberty Vote signals a new chapter for
(15:31):
American elections, one where trust is rebuilt from the ground up,
leon Decker said. He goes on to say Liberty Vote
is committed to delivering election technology that prioritizes paper based transparency, security,
and simplicity so that voters can be assured that every
ballot is filled in accurately and fairly counted. All Right,
I'm going to say something, and I think that Q
(15:54):
is going to I think I know what you're going
to say, and what I'm going to say might be
a little disturbed to UQ because there's some optimism where
there's no real reason to have any optimism, because I
know with the article saying a Republican a former Republican
(16:21):
election what is this guy's title elections director now owning dominion.
Republicans as a whole, especially Republicans that are high up
like an elections director, are kind of on the hook
for Project twenty twenty five. They're kind of on the
(16:45):
hook for the Big Lie, kind of on the hook
for the insurrection. And we've seen Republicans as a whole
do things that are morally bankrupt time and again. So Republicans,
when if I'm painting with broad strokes, and especially like
(17:07):
up this this high up the ladder, are kind of
on the hook for a lot of stuff. So there's
no reason to presume that this individual Scott Leanedecker has
acquired dominion voting systems, paired it with Liberty Vote, and
will you know, call it fair in a manner of speaking,
(17:34):
because we've seen them lie time and again, like the
Republican side of the aisle lied about the twenty twenty elections.
That's why Dominion won the lawsuit against Fox News and
Judy Ruley Giuliani and they won a lawsuit against I
think like Newsmax or News Nation or something like whatever
(17:55):
one of those other like rinking dank places was because
all these Republicans were lying, and then Fox News was
All their texts were laid bare, right, so they knew
that they were lying to the American people. As they
were lying, they never went on and admitted that with
all their chests, so their viewers never dropped. The listeners
(18:17):
viewers all that sort of stuff. People that read their
articles had never turned over because they didn't fall on
the sword like they should have. Right, And that is
very dishonest, and it comes from that side.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
Right.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
I never want to say Democrats are blameless, because people
aren't blameless. But I see the hypocrisy.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I see the.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Misdirection and the manipulation from Republicans. So this is why
I'm saying this high up the ladder with broad strokes.
This is how this looks. I don't have any reason
to think that this person has a modicum of authority
because Republicans, in my view, have lost their integrity. As
(19:01):
sad as it is to say that they very much
earned that assessment from me. But the thing I will
say is that I hope that with this person's background
already having owned a voting system thing this person in
(19:22):
the article, at least it says there's bipartisan teams. I
can't verify that, of course, but if that's true, there's
at least a little gap for a little bit of
hope that maybe this person is not one of those
Triple Trumper drank the kool aid far right maga folks.
This person is actually running a viable business and recognizes
(19:43):
that this business needs to exist in perpetuity. And if
half of the country lays bare the inconsistencies in their reporting,
maybe this might not be a viable business long term.
You know, I see your faceque and I've talked a lot,
but that's what I hope, and your the floor is
(20:05):
yours to pick it apart. But I hope. I hope
that I hope. That's all I can do is hope.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
So I'm glad you packed your hope because I ain't packed.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
No, I ain't packed none.
Speaker 1 (20:21):
I know.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Uh, there's kind of nothing left for me to say.
Like you said everything I would say and then said
but I have hope at the end of it.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
I did the eight mile eminem thing, right.
Speaker 3 (20:36):
Yeah, you said all the things I would say, and
then instead of like putting a period, you put hope
at the.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
End of it.
Speaker 1 (20:45):
I know, I don't.
Speaker 2 (20:46):
I mean, yeah, the.
Speaker 3 (20:50):
A Republican election official bought Dominion voting systems.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
That's crazy.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
The same company that sued Fox News and others for
close to a billion dollars, which proves capitalism mixed with
some racism. It's kind of undefeated. These people who fought
for the integrity of their company, who fought for the
(21:24):
reputation of their company, after they got very very rich
from a lawsuit, sold that company to someone who can
now do what they want with it. And there's a
thing that happened, right, Like Kamala Harris should be our president,
(21:45):
but she's not. And I think in some people's minds, well,
a return to quote unquote normalcy would be electing a
Democratic candidate. And I don't feel that way. Like everything
about the current system is broken, all of it. I
(22:06):
don't have any hope that it can be repaired. And
I definitely didn't gain hope by a Republican purchasing the
company that counts the places, counts the votes. You're talking
about the same Republicans that think the only way an
election as fair as if they win and if they
(22:27):
don't it's rigged. Those people you think might shoot us
a fair one on votes, like on this thing, specifically
like this, they've campaigned for like a decade now on
either we win or it's rigged.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I can I offer this please?
Speaker 2 (22:47):
So here's what I add, whatever else because I ain't
got it.
Speaker 1 (22:50):
Okay, So do you remember we went to a campaign event.
It was at a church. It would have been in
like Mesa, right, and there was a Republican gentleman who
was an elected official. He got a mayor mayor, right,
So it was a Republican mayor got up and he said,
you know what, I'm a lifelong Republican. I'll die a Republican.
(23:13):
My family's all my friends a Republican. But what Donald
Trump is doing is wrong. And that's why I'm here
campaigning against him because I don't want to see this
my party going that direction. I don't want to see
the country go in that direction. Right. No, Obviously history
has told us that that was unsuccessful. All the Republicans
(23:34):
that had tried to stand up for the party that
they once knew. Lost that fight along with the rest
of us. Right, But I can see a couple of
things in this that make me that allow for that
little crap crack of hope. Now, I'm not putting money
on this or anything, but I'm like, I hope that
(23:56):
this guy does shoot the fair one. That's all I
could say.
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