October 2, 2025 • 28 mins
Rep. Jasmine Crockett serves Byron Donalds a taste of his own medicine. Hear more on this story on today's podcast .
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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.
Is the man you are about to hear from is
a man who can make a beanie and glasses look
better than anyone else. He is the QU in the
QR code.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
He goes by the name of it. You wore their voice,
you just heard I'm not certain who's paying me a
compliment just then, or I don't even know, I don't
know how to receive that. But he is the R
in the QR code and his name is Ramsy's Jaw.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And be sure to stick around. We're still going to
talk about going to be talking about how bad Bunny
is going to be performing at the super Bowl, and
a lot of people have a lot of feelings about that,
and we will share ours. Really excited to share a
segment where Jasmine Crockett is serving Byron Donald's his own medicine.
I promise you will love it. But before we get there,
it is now time for Q words clapback. And it's
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been an interesting week where it feels like the call
is now to adopt their agenda or resign. Qute.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, This is the masterfully named by my brother Rams's
jah clapback. These conversations used to happen off air we
talk about a story, or we wouldn't have space for
a story, and I would vehemently express my position on
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you know, just the state of things. And Ram just
thought that more people should hear that side of our conversation.
So this segment was born of that. And today I
want to call our country what it has become, a
nation of pre compliance. You guys have heard me say
this term before, because it is becoming more of a
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norm than I ever thought it would. We like to
think that authoritarianism kicks in with boots on the ground,
but here it seems that every institution, government, business, law enforcement,
the military, and even big tech companies have already been
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the knee, in most cases, complying before they're even asked
to do something. And now the demand out in the
open adopt our agenda or resign. We can start with government,
our lawmakers, who I think a lot of people thought
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would serve as checks and balances of power instead of
watering down bills, muting oversight, and recucing themselves to avoid confrontation.
Our courts sidestep the hardest questions, and somehow do not
defend the Constitution, but find a way to once again
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pre comply to make room for themselves. They anticipate the
strong Man's anger, so they precomply to not have to
deal with his wrath. Corporate America, it seems, does the same.
They sponsor both sides, self censor, rebrand to match whoever
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holds the White House. I guess the NFL has been
to Trump, black ball Colin Kaepernick and later lined up
to honor Charlie Kirk. ESPN turned kneeling for justice into
a debate while Donald Trump called black athletes sons of
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I'm sure you guys remember that was treated like just
another opinion once again, not resistance, survival instinct, profit over principle.
Ways law enforcement ben inky early to police unions don't
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just tolerate authoritarian rhetoric, they embrace it. In some cases,
they adopt it. Sheriffs and officers posed in maga hats
entire agencies acting as if their loyalty was to one man, again,
not to the Constitution. The result a base convinced law
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enforcement was the president's private army, and it seems in
a lot of cases that they might be that it's
not accountability. This is what ramsen I call allegiance. Now
the military, long seen as a political is being told
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point blank adopt our agenda or resign. Senior officers being
pressured on lethality standards not tied to strategy, but to politics.
That's not guidance, it's coercion. Just take a second to
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think about what that means. If generals have to choose
between compliance and resignation, then there is now no such
thing as neutrality. The military stops being the protectors of
our constitution and starts being an instrument of ideology. That's
not just dangerous, it's the slow out in the open
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death of democracy. This pre compliance has now run in
a sprint straight into Silicon Valley. As we mentioned YouTube,
after suspending Trump post January sixth, did not even fight
for their own principles. They just cut a check twenty
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four and a half million dollars to settle the lawsuit
where they admitted no wrongdoing, no policy changes, just to
payout to Trump so he can claim victory and you
too can quietly get out of the way of his wrath.
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Once again, No accountability, just a hush deal where the
capitalists win again, and it sends a signal to every platform.
If power pushes you, don't resist, settle, bend the knee,
and comply. You see the pattern government pre compliance, business
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pre compliance, law enforcement pre complies, the military precomplies, tech
pre complies. We're watching authoritarianism grow not by force, but
by institutions choosing obedience for resistance. So, as Ramses will
say the clapback, America is being trained to kniil before
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it's even commanded to do so. A president doesn't have
to seize power if every institution hands it to him first,
from courtrooms to boardrooms, from NFL stadiums to Silicon Valley
boardroom tables, from police unions to Pentagon halls. Pre compliance
is the new national anthem. And if we don't demand
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resistance before the ask, there won't be anything left to
resist after. That's my clapback.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Actually got a chance to see part of that speech,
and the only thing that kind of gave me some
hope is that those generals weren't cheering them on. They
were really quiet the whole time, and I know he was.
There was a few points where he was expecting cheers,
so My hope is that they're simply just going along
with the motions, not that they're excited about this chapter.
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So we'll see though. Time to move on, have some
dialogue about Jasmine Crockett. Oh, I've been waiting to share
this with you, so we're just going to get right
into it. In case you missed it, this is from
the Clapback Queen herself.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Thank you, missus speaker. I rise today in strong support
of my bill HR. Forty nine twenty two, the DC
Crimes Act. Rather than prioritizing the safety and the safety
of law abiding and protecting the lives of innocent residents
and visitors, district officials have actively facilitated dysfunction and chaos
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through their progressive, soft on crime policies. Instead of addressing
the clear epidemic of youth crime in the city, the
DC City Council increased the age of youth defenders to
individuals twenty four years old and younger, meaning fully grown
legal adults in the District of Columbia can receive sentences
meant for children. This is simply insane, and that is
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why I introduced the DC Crimes Act, which lowers the
definition of youth from under the age of twenty five
to under the age of eighteen, removes the ability of
judges to sentence you defenders below mandatory minimum guidelines, and
requires the DC Attorney General to establish a public website
containing much needed statistics on juvenile crime in DC. The
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Trump administration's efforts have shown that lawlessness is a choice,
and it is time for Congress to step up, adhere
to our constitutional duty and firmly address crime in the
nation's capital.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Many people know me for being able to do alliterations,
and all I could think about was amnesia allows adolescent accountability,
avoidance agility from across the aisle.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
So work with me for a second.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Imagine being a young man born to Jamaican and Panamanian
parents who.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Messed up not once, but twice.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Imagine standing in front of a judge with your whole
future hanging in the balance, and instead of prison, you
are given a promise of mercy. Your record gets white clean,
you get a second.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Chance at life.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Now imagine taking that promise and turning it into promotion.
You go to college, you get a job, and even
become a member of Congress. That's what redemption looks like.
That's what America is supposed to be about. And that
is exactly the story of the next wanna be governor
from Florida. As a young man, he went through pretrial
diversion for misdemeanor marijuana possession.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
As an adult yet.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Younger than twenty four, he was charged with and ultimately
placed on probation for felony bribery charges, which ultimately were
two expunged. He was given a third chance, and now
he's the face of a bill that would not afford
young people in Washington, d C.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
The same opportunities afforded to him.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Let me be real, if he had grown up under
Donald Trump's America or under the very DC crime bill
he's pushing to day, he wouldn't be standing here as
a member of Congress.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
He'd still be living with the weight of those charges.
So let's call this what it is. Opportunities for me,
but not for thee.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
He climbed the ladder of redemption, and now he's yanking
it right up from the DC youth.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
See, most of us were taught.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
To lift as you climb, but clearly some have forgotten
to lift as they climb, And now they are committed
to telling the next generation to.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I will not sit quiet while a man who was
saved by Grace turns around and tries to snatch Grace
away from others. If we're going to be real about crime,
about mnity out.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Expired, like to yield you an additional minute, please, General
woman is recognized.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
About second chances and even third chances, then it needs
to start with us looking in the mirror and remembering
that even the author of this bill has a story
too before he tries to lecture DC on safety. And
it would be complete hypocrisy to have, hypothetically someone convicted
of thirty four felonies to lecture DC on what to
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do with you full offenders who have been scientifically shown
not to have fully developed brains under the age of
twenty five.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Especially if said multi count convicted felon was in his
seventies when.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
He was convicted, What would be his excuse because his
brain would be fully developed.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
And with that I will yield back.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
All right, So I want to make sure that I
clear a couple of things up. Obviously that was Byron Donalds.
It started that clip, and it was Jasmine Crockett that
followed up the rear of my apologies that I didn't
make that clear. The second thing I want to say
is that I just love how she used him as
the example for why the programs in DC are and
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the people in DC, the youth of DC, are worth redemption.
She used the person authoring the bill against it. It's
just masterful. And then of course at the end she
invoked Donald Trump and pointed out the hypocrisy there. There
are a lot of things that contribute, a lot of
factors that contribute, and personal responsibility and accountability, of course
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is one of those things. But a lot of factors
contribute to people's circumstances. And you know, to just throw
the whole person away is not fair, and people can't
see that because they're so comfortable doing it, especially when
the person whose life they're throwing away is black or brown.
And for people that fight for those black and brown
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people that deserve a shot at redemption, that aren't just
bad actors, that are victims of circumstance, etc. People like
Jasmine Crockett. You know, we salute her all day. I've
shared this before, but you know a lot of people
it will say to me, well, you know, you're one
of the good ones. You know, everybody was like you
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and you know, blah blah blah, and I'm like, no, man,
I'm from Compton, California. I would have stayed in Compton, California.
I would have been a gang banger. I would have
been robbing you, just that simple. I had. Unfortunate things
happened along the way, but that wasn't that that was
what you did that I had given up on life
before I even started living it. I just knew that
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that was going to be my future and I would
have done it, and I would have been really good
at it. And for people that have never been in
those circumstances, people that can't reframe their life, it's hard
for them to see that as realistic. But I can
see it because I was there and now I'm here,
and I can see all the positive things that happened
along the way that prevented the necessity, you know, getting
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out of that environment where that's really the only thing
that people did, you know, because of the necessity of
the desperation inherent in that environment. And so, you know,
shout out to Jasmine Crockett for using him like Figure
four leg locked him into his own language. It was masterful.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
So your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
First thing I want to point out, because I've heard
you said this, say this before, and you said as
an affirmed truth, But I did not leave Detroit. I
spent my entire youth there around the same violence, the
same gangs, the same guns, the same crime, the same poverty.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
That's fair.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
When Detroit was the murdered capital of the world, I
was a child there and I did not grow up
to rob you. I did not join the gang. I
did not go down that path as if it was
the only one. And I do not think that that
was the only path in Common California either. So I've
heard you say that before, and I bristle, but I
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have to interject that every youth that spends their entire
youth and not bringing in compton is not left to
that only one path. Yeah, that's fair. There are redemption stories,
but there are also for the road. And I have
friends who did not survive the year after graduating high
school because of the choices that you just kind of
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have to make where we're from. But I will not
just enter it into a foregone conclusion that the only
choice you had was that that was presented to you
when you were a younger. With regard to Jasmine Crockett,
the first thing that I loved about that video is
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that before she concluded her point, her time ran out. Yeah,
they told her her time ran out, she stopped talking.
Someone thought it would be important to let her finish
making that point, and he granted her an additional minute,
and she finished making that point. This entire party, the
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entire thing is hypocrisy. The entire thing is take the
end entire thing is for me, not for THEE. For everything, money, opportunity,
second chances, education, healthcare, food, Get all of it for me,
not for THEE. And their base hears them say that
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and cheers it on. They're talking to you too, by
the way, you triple trumpers or whatever you call yourself,
they're talking to you too. The man that authored the
bill that would deny second chances to young people, that
would make young people charge as adults at a younger age,
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the man who does not want them to have that
road to redemption is a man who is only where
he is because of the very, very second chances. He's
trying to throw in the trash for everybody else, the
very latter as she said he used to climb to
where he is. He wants to kick down behind him
so that no one else has access to it. I
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love it.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
She flamed him and she's really good at that. So
anytime she's got something to say, we try to get
her in or at least shout her out or share
her content if we can. All Right, entertainment, Bad Bunny,
He's headed to the super Bowl. This is from USA Today.
A week after he concluded his thirty one date Puerto
Rico residency, the reggaetone superstar was revealed as the headliner
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for the Apple Music Super Bowl LX halftime show in
twenty twenty six. The news was announced Sunday, September twenty
eighth during the Sunday Night football game between the Dallas
Cowboys and Green Bay Packers. Hours before the announcement was
officially shared, rumors of Bad Bunny as the headliner were
circulating online. Minutes before the reveal, he alluded to the
halftime show and a tweet saying he'd add a single
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US concert date. Then, finally, Bad Bunny, in a collaboration
post with the NFL, Apple Music and Rock Nation, shared
a post of himself sitting atop a goal post on
a beach as his kayati kaya aita. I think that's it.
It plays in the background and the quote super Bowl,
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Lex Bay Area, February twenty twenty six. The post was
captioned in a nod to his Puerto Rican heritage. Bad
Bunny wore a pava, a traditional hat made from leaves
of the Puerto Rican hat palm. Quote. What I'm feeling
goes beyond myself unquote, Bad Bunny said in a statement
shared by the NFL. Quote this is for my people,
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my culture and our history. Unquote. Ve e di le
atu abuela ge seremos el halftime show del super Bowl,
the musician added, which translates to go on and tell
your grandma that will be at the Super Bowl halftime show.
Bad Bunny may have wrapped his sold out residency at
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the Collisio de Puerto Rico, but he's not necessarily taking
a holiday before hitting the super Bowl stage. In February.
The pregunto artist kicks off his twenty four date DeBie
three di Mas Fotos World tour in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic,
on November twenty first, The twenty twenty sixth Super Bowl
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scheduled for February eighth, Lands, a day after Bad Bunny
raps three nights in Santiago, Chile. February fifty seventh. The
football game will be held at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
Bad Bunny technically made a Super Bowl debut in twenty
twenty when he performed during Shakira and Jennifer Lopez's co
headlining halftime show. Okay, sorry about that. My Spanish is
awful and it needs to get better. You wouldn't believe
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me if I told you the Spanish was actually the
first language I spoke because my grandma spoke Spanish. But
and it wasn't Puerto Rican Spanish, it was Cuban Spanish.
So anyway, I was so excited about this. I love this.
We're gonna get to like, you know, online reactions. But
you know, what did you think when you first heard
about this.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Bad Bunny spent a thirty show residency in Santa One,
Puerto Rico. The first nine dates of that residency were
reserved exclusively for Puerto Rican residents to prove they were
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residents in order to come to the show. He made
the world come to that island. If you want to
see me live, you will come here. And people from
all over the world, from all different backgrounds, all different
types of lives, from Lebron James to the mother of
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my children. People made that so journ to Puerto Rico
to see what almost every one of them called one
of the best shows they've ever seen in their life.
And this is kind of an example of what we
said before, where they they be in Corporate America played
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both sides and I don't understand and the why because
typically capitalism used to win and you and I are not,
you know, huge components proponents I mean of capitalism, but
it used to win out like capitalism beat racism once
upon a time. The reason why these sports leagues are
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integrated and why they start making products targeted specifically at
minority groups. Capitalism one, Hey, y'all know, we can make
more money if we do something with the black people, right, cool? Cool?
It wasn't benevolence. Those black squares on Instagram wasn't because
they loved us. They wanted to show some form of
solidarity so that we would keep spending our money. Right. So,
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for the conservative, especially the twenty twenty five conservative. There
has to be a lot of head scratching going on
the Super Bowl. Last year was Kendrick Lamar Duckworth. All
my life I had to fight Kendrick Lamar Duckworth. And
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this year an artist who has never released a single
song with a single English word uttered from his mouth
on it, however, one of the largest and most successful
artists in the history of Earth. So capitalism kind of wins.
But MAGA has to be scratching their head because the
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same NFL that just paid tribute to Charlie Kirk who
would have never welcomed bad Buney to his home, to
his country, because they forget about Puerto Rico's relationship with
the United States of America. I think they really do
think that's a foreign land who have never welcomed him here.
They're going to have him headline their largest TV show
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of the year, and it'll probably be the most watched
Super Bowl halftime show of all time, and it will
be by a Puerto Rican Spanish speaking artist who might
do an entire set in Spanish. They have to be
scratching their heads. How did we go and be all right?
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Move on to They don't even know what he's saying,
and their racism jumped out of their pores immediately when
this announcement was made.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Can I make that live for you please? So we
shared a post on our social media. I want to
share it. There's a person this might be Twitter or
something like that. Right, he puts up a post of
course the NFL would announce a non US citizen for
the Super Bowl halftime show, and then the emoji with
the eyes like looking straight up, like exasperated, exhausted, whatever,
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and then he goes on to say, right on, Q
and Q is spelled q u e u e like
queuing in a line as opposed to cue. So there's
like a grammatic error in this tweet. You know, I
just make me crage. And then someone responded to this
person's post saying Rihanna not a US citizen, Shakira not
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a US citizen, Coldplay not US citizens, The Who not
US citizens, Rolling Stones not US citizens, Paul McCartney not
a US citizen. You two not US citizens? Bad bunny,
US citizen.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I just love that. And then that's so incredible, that's amazing, right,
it's so incredible.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
They just you know, we we fortunately we get a
chance to highlight when people are loud and wrong at
the same time, and it happens so often and it's
so funny, like the Byron Donald's thing. We just we
just talked about where Jasmine Crockett just took him right now,
super loud. He was like Trump and we need these
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are full grown adults and blah blah, and she just
he was just loud and wrong. And you know, if
you listen to him talk, you would think, Okay, this
guy is just tough on crime and he's trying to
do whatever right.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
But when you when.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
The hypocrisy is laid bare, you're like, oh my god,
and it's what you said. You know. That just there's
a lot of hypocrisy over there. So you know, I,
for one, am happy that bad Bunny is headlining in
Super Bowl. I for when I'm happy that Puerto Rico
is getting its day in the sun. Why not? Why not? Who?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Like?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Do these people not have siblings? I got the most siblings,
So I'm really good at sharing, you know what I mean?
And these people, I just I have no idea whether
it's so furious all the time. Well, I guess we do.
We talked about that when Joy sent over that post
to us, but they just find something else to be angry.
But I'm so happy. You know, one of my best
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friends is Puerto rican I want to go to the island.
I still haven't been. I've been all fifty states, but
I haven't been to the territories, and so Puerto Rico
is on the list. And I won't need a passport
to go because it's the United States of America and
our countryman Bad Bunny speaking his native language because that's
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what they that's what they say in Puerto Rico, they
speak Spanish, is going to be sharing his art with
the world on the largest television stage in the world,
if I'm not mistaken, and you know this is an
island that they used.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
They's the largest tele stage in the United States for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well that we are back. But Puerto Rico, for folks
who don't know the history, has been shunned by the
government repeatedly over the years. Do me fair. I know
we're run out of time, but look up the sterilization
in Puerto Rico. Look that up and you'll see how
this government has mistreated Puerto Rico going all the way back.
And that's not the only example. So shout out to
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bad Bunny. You know it's his time and I love
to see it. And he should speak Spanish if that's
what he wants to do, because his artist in Spanish.
And people need to expand their frame of reference and
their paradigm and their cultural boundaries. So keep going and
with that in mind, that's going to do it for
us here at the QR Code. Today's show, as always,
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Speaker 2 (28:37):
You can find me on social media. I am q word.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
And real Quick. Thank you for saying that. You know
it's very likely that I might not have been a gangbanger.
I know it felt that way, but I think you're right,
And with that mind, join us next time as we
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Still broadcasting from the Civic Cipher Studios. This is the
QR code where we share perspective, seek understanding, and shape outcomes.
Is the man you are about to hear from is
a man who can make a beanie and glasses look
better than anyone else. He is the QU in the
QR code.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
He goes by the name of it. You wore their voice,
you just heard I'm not certain who's paying me a
compliment just then, or I don't even know, I don't
know how to receive that. But he is the R
in the QR code and his name is Ramsy's Jaw.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
And be sure to stick around. We're still going to
talk about going to be talking about how bad Bunny
is going to be performing at the super Bowl, and
a lot of people have a lot of feelings about that,
and we will share ours. Really excited to share a
segment where Jasmine Crockett is serving Byron Donald's his own medicine.
I promise you will love it. But before we get there,
it is now time for Q words clapback. And it's
(00:54):
been an interesting week where it feels like the call
is now to adopt their agenda or resign. Qute.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Yeah, This is the masterfully named by my brother Rams's
jah clapback. These conversations used to happen off air we
talk about a story, or we wouldn't have space for
a story, and I would vehemently express my position on
(01:25):
you know, just the state of things. And Ram just
thought that more people should hear that side of our conversation.
So this segment was born of that. And today I
want to call our country what it has become, a
nation of pre compliance. You guys have heard me say
this term before, because it is becoming more of a
(01:48):
norm than I ever thought it would. We like to
think that authoritarianism kicks in with boots on the ground,
but here it seems that every institution, government, business, law enforcement,
the military, and even big tech companies have already been
(02:09):
the knee, in most cases, complying before they're even asked
to do something. And now the demand out in the
open adopt our agenda or resign. We can start with government,
our lawmakers, who I think a lot of people thought
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would serve as checks and balances of power instead of
watering down bills, muting oversight, and recucing themselves to avoid confrontation.
Our courts sidestep the hardest questions, and somehow do not
defend the Constitution, but find a way to once again
(02:55):
pre comply to make room for themselves. They anticipate the
strong Man's anger, so they precomply to not have to
deal with his wrath. Corporate America, it seems, does the same.
They sponsor both sides, self censor, rebrand to match whoever
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holds the White House. I guess the NFL has been
to Trump, black ball Colin Kaepernick and later lined up
to honor Charlie Kirk. ESPN turned kneeling for justice into
a debate while Donald Trump called black athletes sons of
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I'm sure you guys remember that was treated like just
another opinion once again, not resistance, survival instinct, profit over principle.
Ways law enforcement ben inky early to police unions don't
(04:03):
just tolerate authoritarian rhetoric, they embrace it. In some cases,
they adopt it. Sheriffs and officers posed in maga hats
entire agencies acting as if their loyalty was to one man, again,
not to the Constitution. The result a base convinced law
(04:28):
enforcement was the president's private army, and it seems in
a lot of cases that they might be that it's
not accountability. This is what ramsen I call allegiance. Now
the military, long seen as a political is being told
(04:52):
point blank adopt our agenda or resign. Senior officers being
pressured on lethality standards not tied to strategy, but to politics.
That's not guidance, it's coercion. Just take a second to
(05:16):
think about what that means. If generals have to choose
between compliance and resignation, then there is now no such
thing as neutrality. The military stops being the protectors of
our constitution and starts being an instrument of ideology. That's
not just dangerous, it's the slow out in the open
(05:38):
death of democracy. This pre compliance has now run in
a sprint straight into Silicon Valley. As we mentioned YouTube,
after suspending Trump post January sixth, did not even fight
for their own principles. They just cut a check twenty
(06:01):
four and a half million dollars to settle the lawsuit
where they admitted no wrongdoing, no policy changes, just to
payout to Trump so he can claim victory and you
too can quietly get out of the way of his wrath.
(06:22):
Once again, No accountability, just a hush deal where the
capitalists win again, and it sends a signal to every platform.
If power pushes you, don't resist, settle, bend the knee,
and comply. You see the pattern government pre compliance, business
(06:45):
pre compliance, law enforcement pre complies, the military precomplies, tech
pre complies. We're watching authoritarianism grow not by force, but
by institutions choosing obedience for resistance. So, as Ramses will
say the clapback, America is being trained to kniil before
(07:09):
it's even commanded to do so. A president doesn't have
to seize power if every institution hands it to him first,
from courtrooms to boardrooms, from NFL stadiums to Silicon Valley
boardroom tables, from police unions to Pentagon halls. Pre compliance
is the new national anthem. And if we don't demand
(07:29):
resistance before the ask, there won't be anything left to
resist after. That's my clapback.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
Actually got a chance to see part of that speech,
and the only thing that kind of gave me some
hope is that those generals weren't cheering them on. They
were really quiet the whole time, and I know he was.
There was a few points where he was expecting cheers,
so My hope is that they're simply just going along
with the motions, not that they're excited about this chapter.
(08:01):
So we'll see though. Time to move on, have some
dialogue about Jasmine Crockett. Oh, I've been waiting to share
this with you, so we're just going to get right
into it. In case you missed it, this is from
the Clapback Queen herself.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Thank you, missus speaker. I rise today in strong support
of my bill HR. Forty nine twenty two, the DC
Crimes Act. Rather than prioritizing the safety and the safety
of law abiding and protecting the lives of innocent residents
and visitors, district officials have actively facilitated dysfunction and chaos
(08:36):
through their progressive, soft on crime policies. Instead of addressing
the clear epidemic of youth crime in the city, the
DC City Council increased the age of youth defenders to
individuals twenty four years old and younger, meaning fully grown
legal adults in the District of Columbia can receive sentences
meant for children. This is simply insane, and that is
(08:58):
why I introduced the DC Crimes Act, which lowers the
definition of youth from under the age of twenty five
to under the age of eighteen, removes the ability of
judges to sentence you defenders below mandatory minimum guidelines, and
requires the DC Attorney General to establish a public website
containing much needed statistics on juvenile crime in DC. The
(09:21):
Trump administration's efforts have shown that lawlessness is a choice,
and it is time for Congress to step up, adhere
to our constitutional duty and firmly address crime in the
nation's capital.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
Many people know me for being able to do alliterations,
and all I could think about was amnesia allows adolescent accountability,
avoidance agility from across the aisle.
Speaker 5 (09:48):
So work with me for a second.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Imagine being a young man born to Jamaican and Panamanian
parents who.
Speaker 5 (09:55):
Messed up not once, but twice.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Imagine standing in front of a judge with your whole
future hanging in the balance, and instead of prison, you
are given a promise of mercy. Your record gets white clean,
you get a second.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
Chance at life.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Now imagine taking that promise and turning it into promotion.
You go to college, you get a job, and even
become a member of Congress. That's what redemption looks like.
That's what America is supposed to be about. And that
is exactly the story of the next wanna be governor
from Florida. As a young man, he went through pretrial
diversion for misdemeanor marijuana possession.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
As an adult yet.
Speaker 4 (10:33):
Younger than twenty four, he was charged with and ultimately
placed on probation for felony bribery charges, which ultimately were
two expunged. He was given a third chance, and now
he's the face of a bill that would not afford
young people in Washington, d C.
Speaker 5 (10:50):
The same opportunities afforded to him.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Let me be real, if he had grown up under
Donald Trump's America or under the very DC crime bill
he's pushing to day, he wouldn't be standing here as
a member of Congress.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
He'd still be living with the weight of those charges.
So let's call this what it is. Opportunities for me,
but not for thee.
Speaker 4 (11:10):
He climbed the ladder of redemption, and now he's yanking
it right up from the DC youth.
Speaker 5 (11:16):
See, most of us were taught.
Speaker 4 (11:17):
To lift as you climb, but clearly some have forgotten
to lift as they climb, And now they are committed
to telling the next generation to.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Speaker 4 (11:28):
I will not sit quiet while a man who was
saved by Grace turns around and tries to snatch Grace
away from others. If we're going to be real about crime,
about mnity out.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
Expired, like to yield you an additional minute, please, General
woman is recognized.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
About second chances and even third chances, then it needs
to start with us looking in the mirror and remembering
that even the author of this bill has a story
too before he tries to lecture DC on safety. And
it would be complete hypocrisy to have, hypothetically someone convicted
of thirty four felonies to lecture DC on what to
(12:08):
do with you full offenders who have been scientifically shown
not to have fully developed brains under the age of
twenty five.
Speaker 5 (12:16):
Especially if said multi count convicted felon was in his
seventies when.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
He was convicted, What would be his excuse because his
brain would be fully developed.
Speaker 5 (12:25):
And with that I will yield back.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
All right, So I want to make sure that I
clear a couple of things up. Obviously that was Byron Donalds.
It started that clip, and it was Jasmine Crockett that
followed up the rear of my apologies that I didn't
make that clear. The second thing I want to say
is that I just love how she used him as
the example for why the programs in DC are and
(12:52):
the people in DC, the youth of DC, are worth redemption.
She used the person authoring the bill against it. It's
just masterful. And then of course at the end she
invoked Donald Trump and pointed out the hypocrisy there. There
are a lot of things that contribute, a lot of
factors that contribute, and personal responsibility and accountability, of course
(13:12):
is one of those things. But a lot of factors
contribute to people's circumstances. And you know, to just throw
the whole person away is not fair, and people can't
see that because they're so comfortable doing it, especially when
the person whose life they're throwing away is black or brown.
And for people that fight for those black and brown
(13:33):
people that deserve a shot at redemption, that aren't just
bad actors, that are victims of circumstance, etc. People like
Jasmine Crockett. You know, we salute her all day. I've
shared this before, but you know a lot of people
it will say to me, well, you know, you're one
of the good ones. You know, everybody was like you
(13:55):
and you know, blah blah blah, and I'm like, no, man,
I'm from Compton, California. I would have stayed in Compton, California.
I would have been a gang banger. I would have
been robbing you, just that simple. I had. Unfortunate things
happened along the way, but that wasn't that that was
what you did that I had given up on life
before I even started living it. I just knew that
(14:17):
that was going to be my future and I would
have done it, and I would have been really good
at it. And for people that have never been in
those circumstances, people that can't reframe their life, it's hard
for them to see that as realistic. But I can
see it because I was there and now I'm here,
and I can see all the positive things that happened
along the way that prevented the necessity, you know, getting
(14:41):
out of that environment where that's really the only thing
that people did, you know, because of the necessity of
the desperation inherent in that environment. And so, you know,
shout out to Jasmine Crockett for using him like Figure
four leg locked him into his own language. It was masterful.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
I loved it.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
So your thoughts.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
First thing I want to point out, because I've heard
you said this, say this before, and you said as
an affirmed truth, But I did not leave Detroit. I
spent my entire youth there around the same violence, the
same gangs, the same guns, the same crime, the same poverty.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
That's fair.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
When Detroit was the murdered capital of the world, I
was a child there and I did not grow up
to rob you. I did not join the gang. I
did not go down that path as if it was
the only one. And I do not think that that
was the only path in Common California either. So I've
heard you say that before, and I bristle, but I
(15:46):
have to interject that every youth that spends their entire
youth and not bringing in compton is not left to
that only one path. Yeah, that's fair. There are redemption stories,
but there are also for the road. And I have
friends who did not survive the year after graduating high
school because of the choices that you just kind of
(16:08):
have to make where we're from. But I will not
just enter it into a foregone conclusion that the only
choice you had was that that was presented to you
when you were a younger. With regard to Jasmine Crockett,
the first thing that I loved about that video is
(16:30):
that before she concluded her point, her time ran out. Yeah,
they told her her time ran out, she stopped talking.
Someone thought it would be important to let her finish
making that point, and he granted her an additional minute,
and she finished making that point. This entire party, the
(16:54):
entire thing is hypocrisy. The entire thing is take the
end entire thing is for me, not for THEE. For everything, money, opportunity,
second chances, education, healthcare, food, Get all of it for me,
not for THEE. And their base hears them say that
(17:18):
and cheers it on. They're talking to you too, by
the way, you triple trumpers or whatever you call yourself,
they're talking to you too. The man that authored the
bill that would deny second chances to young people, that
would make young people charge as adults at a younger age,
(17:38):
the man who does not want them to have that
road to redemption is a man who is only where
he is because of the very, very second chances. He's
trying to throw in the trash for everybody else, the
very latter as she said he used to climb to
where he is. He wants to kick down behind him
so that no one else has access to it. I
(18:01):
love it.
Speaker 1 (18:02):
She flamed him and she's really good at that. So
anytime she's got something to say, we try to get
her in or at least shout her out or share
her content if we can. All Right, entertainment, Bad Bunny,
He's headed to the super Bowl. This is from USA Today.
A week after he concluded his thirty one date Puerto
Rico residency, the reggaetone superstar was revealed as the headliner
(18:24):
for the Apple Music Super Bowl LX halftime show in
twenty twenty six. The news was announced Sunday, September twenty
eighth during the Sunday Night football game between the Dallas
Cowboys and Green Bay Packers. Hours before the announcement was
officially shared, rumors of Bad Bunny as the headliner were
circulating online. Minutes before the reveal, he alluded to the
halftime show and a tweet saying he'd add a single
(18:46):
US concert date. Then, finally, Bad Bunny, in a collaboration
post with the NFL, Apple Music and Rock Nation, shared
a post of himself sitting atop a goal post on
a beach as his kayati kaya aita. I think that's it.
It plays in the background and the quote super Bowl,
(19:06):
Lex Bay Area, February twenty twenty six. The post was
captioned in a nod to his Puerto Rican heritage. Bad
Bunny wore a pava, a traditional hat made from leaves
of the Puerto Rican hat palm. Quote. What I'm feeling
goes beyond myself unquote, Bad Bunny said in a statement
shared by the NFL. Quote this is for my people,
(19:26):
my culture and our history. Unquote. Ve e di le
atu abuela ge seremos el halftime show del super Bowl,
the musician added, which translates to go on and tell
your grandma that will be at the Super Bowl halftime show.
Bad Bunny may have wrapped his sold out residency at
(19:47):
the Collisio de Puerto Rico, but he's not necessarily taking
a holiday before hitting the super Bowl stage. In February.
The pregunto artist kicks off his twenty four date DeBie
three di Mas Fotos World tour in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic,
on November twenty first, The twenty twenty sixth Super Bowl
(20:09):
scheduled for February eighth, Lands, a day after Bad Bunny
raps three nights in Santiago, Chile. February fifty seventh. The
football game will be held at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, California.
Bad Bunny technically made a Super Bowl debut in twenty
twenty when he performed during Shakira and Jennifer Lopez's co
headlining halftime show. Okay, sorry about that. My Spanish is
awful and it needs to get better. You wouldn't believe
(20:33):
me if I told you the Spanish was actually the
first language I spoke because my grandma spoke Spanish. But
and it wasn't Puerto Rican Spanish, it was Cuban Spanish.
So anyway, I was so excited about this. I love this.
We're gonna get to like, you know, online reactions. But
you know, what did you think when you first heard
about this.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
Bad Bunny spent a thirty show residency in Santa One,
Puerto Rico. The first nine dates of that residency were
reserved exclusively for Puerto Rican residents to prove they were
(21:14):
residents in order to come to the show. He made
the world come to that island. If you want to
see me live, you will come here. And people from
all over the world, from all different backgrounds, all different
types of lives, from Lebron James to the mother of
(21:37):
my children. People made that so journ to Puerto Rico
to see what almost every one of them called one
of the best shows they've ever seen in their life.
And this is kind of an example of what we
said before, where they they be in Corporate America played
(21:57):
both sides and I don't understand and the why because
typically capitalism used to win and you and I are not,
you know, huge components proponents I mean of capitalism, but
it used to win out like capitalism beat racism once
upon a time. The reason why these sports leagues are
(22:18):
integrated and why they start making products targeted specifically at
minority groups. Capitalism one, Hey, y'all know, we can make
more money if we do something with the black people, right, cool? Cool?
It wasn't benevolence. Those black squares on Instagram wasn't because
they loved us. They wanted to show some form of
solidarity so that we would keep spending our money. Right. So,
(22:39):
for the conservative, especially the twenty twenty five conservative. There
has to be a lot of head scratching going on
the Super Bowl. Last year was Kendrick Lamar Duckworth. All
my life I had to fight Kendrick Lamar Duckworth. And
(23:04):
this year an artist who has never released a single
song with a single English word uttered from his mouth
on it, however, one of the largest and most successful
artists in the history of Earth. So capitalism kind of wins.
But MAGA has to be scratching their head because the
(23:26):
same NFL that just paid tribute to Charlie Kirk who
would have never welcomed bad Buney to his home, to
his country, because they forget about Puerto Rico's relationship with
the United States of America. I think they really do
think that's a foreign land who have never welcomed him here.
They're going to have him headline their largest TV show
(23:48):
of the year, and it'll probably be the most watched
Super Bowl halftime show of all time, and it will
be by a Puerto Rican Spanish speaking artist who might
do an entire set in Spanish. They have to be
scratching their heads. How did we go and be all right?
(24:10):
Move on to They don't even know what he's saying,
and their racism jumped out of their pores immediately when
this announcement was made.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
Can I make that live for you please? So we
shared a post on our social media. I want to
share it. There's a person this might be Twitter or
something like that. Right, he puts up a post of
course the NFL would announce a non US citizen for
the Super Bowl halftime show, and then the emoji with
the eyes like looking straight up, like exasperated, exhausted, whatever,
(24:44):
and then he goes on to say, right on, Q
and Q is spelled q u e u e like
queuing in a line as opposed to cue. So there's
like a grammatic error in this tweet. You know, I
just make me crage. And then someone responded to this
person's post saying Rihanna not a US citizen, Shakira not
(25:07):
a US citizen, Coldplay not US citizens, The Who not
US citizens, Rolling Stones not US citizens, Paul McCartney not
a US citizen. You two not US citizens? Bad bunny,
US citizen.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
I just love that. And then that's so incredible, that's amazing, right,
it's so incredible.
Speaker 1 (25:36):
They just you know, we we fortunately we get a
chance to highlight when people are loud and wrong at
the same time, and it happens so often and it's
so funny, like the Byron Donald's thing. We just we
just talked about where Jasmine Crockett just took him right now,
super loud. He was like Trump and we need these
(25:57):
are full grown adults and blah blah, and she just
he was just loud and wrong. And you know, if
you listen to him talk, you would think, Okay, this
guy is just tough on crime and he's trying to
do whatever right.
Speaker 2 (26:10):
But when you when.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
The hypocrisy is laid bare, you're like, oh my god,
and it's what you said. You know. That just there's
a lot of hypocrisy over there. So you know, I,
for one, am happy that bad Bunny is headlining in
Super Bowl. I for when I'm happy that Puerto Rico
is getting its day in the sun. Why not? Why not? Who?
Speaker 3 (26:37):
Like?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Do these people not have siblings? I got the most siblings,
So I'm really good at sharing, you know what I mean?
And these people, I just I have no idea whether
it's so furious all the time. Well, I guess we do.
We talked about that when Joy sent over that post
to us, but they just find something else to be angry.
But I'm so happy. You know, one of my best
(26:58):
friends is Puerto rican I want to go to the island.
I still haven't been. I've been all fifty states, but
I haven't been to the territories, and so Puerto Rico
is on the list. And I won't need a passport
to go because it's the United States of America and
our countryman Bad Bunny speaking his native language because that's
(27:20):
what they that's what they say in Puerto Rico, they
speak Spanish, is going to be sharing his art with
the world on the largest television stage in the world,
if I'm not mistaken, and you know this is an
island that they used.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
They's the largest tele stage in the United States for sure.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
Well that we are back. But Puerto Rico, for folks
who don't know the history, has been shunned by the
government repeatedly over the years. Do me fair. I know
we're run out of time, but look up the sterilization
in Puerto Rico. Look that up and you'll see how
this government has mistreated Puerto Rico going all the way back.
And that's not the only example. So shout out to
(28:00):
bad Bunny. You know it's his time and I love
to see it. And he should speak Spanish if that's
what he wants to do, because his artist in Spanish.
And people need to expand their frame of reference and
their paradigm and their cultural boundaries. So keep going and
with that in mind, that's going to do it for
us here at the QR Code. Today's show, as always,
was produced by Chris Thompson. If you ask him thought
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Speaker 2 (28:37):
You can find me on social media. I am q word.
Speaker 1 (28:41):
And real Quick. Thank you for saying that. You know
it's very likely that I might not have been a gangbanger.
I know it felt that way, but I think you're right,
And with that mind, join us next time as we
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