WEBVTT - Pointing Out Republican Hypocrisies (Part 2) 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:02.320 Keep on riding with us as we continue to broadcast 0:00:02.320 --> 0:00:04.360 the balance and defend the discourse from the Hip Hop 0:00:04.360 --> 0:00:06.800 Weekly Studios. Welcome back to Civic Cipher. I am your host, 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:07.520 Ramsy's job. 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:10.560 He is Rams's job. I am q Ward. You are 0:00:10.600 --> 0:00:12.120 tuned into Civic Cipher, Yes. 0:00:12.039 --> 0:00:14.360 You are, and we'd appreciate you sticking around. We are 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:18.880 going to point out some Republican hypocrisies. 0:00:19.320 --> 0:00:22.040 This half of the show. Just a few, just a few. 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:25.279 There's there's a lot to choose from, and I know 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:29.000 that there are there is a such thing as hypocrisy 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:35.600 with Democrats too, but the Republican hypocrisies at present are 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:43.720 glaringly conspicuous and extremely harmful, and they are shaping outcomes 0:00:44.159 --> 0:00:46.720 for people in ways that we feel you need to 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.880 know about. And so while it's you know, fair to 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:51.880 pick on both parties, we feel like we got to 0:00:51.880 --> 0:00:55.080 point out some stuff that's that you need to know 0:00:55.120 --> 0:00:57.600 about again, so stick around for that and a whole 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:01.120 lot more. But before we get there, let's discuss ba 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:03.320 Ba becoming a better ally Boba and Today's bob A 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:05.000 sponsored by Friends of the Movement. 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All right, 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.600 So we got a few stories here. We'll try to 0:03:03.600 --> 0:03:09.320 burn through them just because we got a few boxes 0:03:09.360 --> 0:03:13.640 to check. First up, this is from Kendrick, Idaho. This 0:03:13.800 --> 0:03:15.320 comes from the Associated Press. 0:03:15.520 --> 0:03:17.359 Ironic city name, Isn't that crazy? 0:03:17.800 --> 0:03:22.200 Shoutout Kendrick One time Compton Kendrick. Tensions rose during a 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:27.440 bipartisan forum after an audience question about discrimination reportedly led 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:32.520 to an Ohio state senator angrily telling a Native American 0:03:32.600 --> 0:03:39.720 candidate to go back where you came from. Republican Senator 0:03:39.840 --> 0:03:43.280 Dan Foreman left the event early after the outburst and 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.560 later denied making any racist comments in a Facebook post. 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.520 He did not respond to a voice message the Associated 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:56.640 Press seeking a comment. Trish Carter Goodhart, a Democratic candidate 0:03:56.680 --> 0:03:59.080 for the House District sixth seat and member of the 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.960 Nez Person tribe, said the blow up left her shaken 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:06.840 and thinking about security needs for future public events and 0:04:06.880 --> 0:04:10.000 also for some tough conversations with her two young children, 0:04:10.240 --> 0:04:14.200 Avery and Lavender, who were in attendance. She said the 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.600 state hate crime laws are weak and noted that the 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:21.960 neo Nazi group Aryan Nations made northern Idaho its home 0:04:22.000 --> 0:04:25.200 base for many years. She also talked about being the 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:28.320 only candidate there who was a person of color. In 0:04:28.400 --> 0:04:32.920 his Facebook post, Foreman called the incident a quote quintessential 0:04:32.920 --> 0:04:37.640 display of race baiting unquote, and said the Democratic attendees 0:04:37.680 --> 0:04:42.839 made personal attacks and proclaimed Idaho to be a racist state. 0:04:43.720 --> 0:04:47.159 Quote where here's a news flash for the lefties out there. 0:04:47.320 --> 0:04:51.400 There is no systemic racism in America or Idaho. Foreman said, 0:04:52.360 --> 0:04:55.960 Idaho is a great state, the best in the Union unquote. 0:04:57.360 --> 0:05:06.720 So um, obviously this is problematic. Now there are people 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:10.600 who are on the right, people who have insulated themselves 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.360 from the issues that we're dealing with, people that feel 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:16.520 like this is not commonplace, that will look at this 0:05:16.600 --> 0:05:21.640 and say, well, this is an isolated incident. You're picking 0:05:21.760 --> 0:05:27.600 the story that suits your narrative. And one of the 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:31.440 things that we've been discussing on this show in recent 0:05:32.000 --> 0:05:36.760 weeks is the Trump effect, right, and we have I 0:05:36.839 --> 0:05:38.760 promise you, I promise you. There's so many so it 0:05:38.800 --> 0:05:41.680 takes so long to produce this show. It's quicker to 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:43.720 make the show than it is to produce it because 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.719 we have to cut through so much news. But I 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:49.559 think that this story is very telling of the type 0:05:49.560 --> 0:05:54.080 of people who now feel empowered, who now feel emboldened. Okay, 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:58.520 first off, go back to where you came from is 0:05:58.560 --> 0:06:01.200 a racist statement on its face. 0:06:01.279 --> 0:06:03.320 No matter who you're talking to. Thank you, Q. 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:11.880 That is the flat racist. Okay, here's the hypocrisy. He 0:06:11.920 --> 0:06:16.159 didn't say it to a Mexican immigrant like he probably thought. 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.200 He said it to a person whose people lived here 0:06:20.240 --> 0:06:26.000 before him. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:29.200 Whose people lived here before his ancestry before everybody say 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:32.559 it the right way to him, most not even most 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:36.760 likely him. Absolutely the child of an immigrant, like absolutely, 0:06:36.839 --> 0:06:40.520 keep telling a person that's aboriginal to this land to 0:06:40.600 --> 0:06:47.040 go back to where we are. It's laughable. That's why 0:06:47.040 --> 0:06:50.719 I'm laughing. It's laughable. Now when you first read this, 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:53.120 almost flipped the table over here out of anger. Yeah, 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.800 I know, I know America has no systemic racism, and 0:06:57.160 --> 0:06:59.000 neither does the Home of the Arian Nation. 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:00.840 Got it? 0:07:01.240 --> 0:07:04.000 Yeah, Okay, it's all of our imagination. We're always race 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.200 bating and we're always playing the victim. I just figured 0:07:06.200 --> 0:07:07.200 that out right now, you can. 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.400 Go ahead, so watch this. So watch this. 0:07:12.800 --> 0:07:18.680 If a person like him can dish that out, you 0:07:18.720 --> 0:07:22.120 would think they would be able to take it right. Well, 0:07:22.120 --> 0:07:26.320 maybe I should go back to where I came from. Okay, 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.120 but let me show you the mental gap here. There's 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:32.200 a person like that, even if he was confronted with 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.680 something like that, would simply say, well, I'm from Idaho, 0:07:34.960 --> 0:07:36.200 the great state of Idaho. 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:38.520 Okay. 0:07:39.120 --> 0:07:41.280 Now, well where are your people from? Well, my people 0:07:41.320 --> 0:07:45.960 are from Idol, four generations deep. Okay, go back to 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:50.800 where your people's people came from. Well, you know, we 0:07:50.840 --> 0:07:53.880 came over here from Scotland. Yeah, go back to Scotland 0:07:54.040 --> 0:07:57.160 if you don't like it. But he's saying it to 0:07:57.200 --> 0:07:59.640 somebody who's like, Yo, my people was the first people 0:07:59.680 --> 0:08:02.040 in all in Idaho. We didn't even call it Idaho. 0:08:04.040 --> 0:08:07.320 There's our land still, fam I don't care about no 0:08:07.360 --> 0:08:10.240 documents and treaties and pieces of paper. Y'all stole what 0:08:10.320 --> 0:08:13.360 belongs to me. That mean it's still mine. I just 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:16.440 haven't retaken possession. But if you want to get into 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.360 the nitty gritty of who needs to go back where, 0:08:19.960 --> 0:08:23.720 I'm already there. And the fact that you thought that 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:27.320 I was somebody else just shows how racist you are. 0:08:27.480 --> 0:08:30.440 And if you're claiming Idaho, then I would argue that 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:34.400 if Idaho elected you, you're giving people, You're giving the 0:08:34.440 --> 0:08:37.720 country insight into just exactly how much of this exists 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.640 in Idaho. Now I've been to Idaho. I'm not trying 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:41.199 to pick on Idaho. I know that there's good people 0:08:41.200 --> 0:08:44.360 in Idaho, but there's also foul people in Idaho. 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:48.880 People everywhere, but there's clearly, as we just saw, foul 0:08:48.960 --> 0:08:51.840 people talk to them everywhere, including Idaho. 0:08:51.960 --> 0:08:54.480 Man, listen, and I was you know, I used to 0:08:54.480 --> 0:08:56.160 wonder what was up in the northern part of Idaho 0:08:56.200 --> 0:08:59.839 because I only been the like boise right, and now 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.720 I know to this Ariyan nation, I'm like, bam, that 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:08.040 makes that makes a lot of sense. But that's just 0:09:08.200 --> 0:09:12.520 one thing. Okay, that's you know, people listening might be like, okay, 0:09:12.600 --> 0:09:15.559 well one thing. You know, it's a state senator or 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.240 a state you know, a representative or whatever that small 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:23.400 potatoes man talk to me, rams is what what is 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:24.640 this Republican hypocrisy? 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:24.959 Okay? 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:29.120 Oh so you mean the person of European descent telling 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:33.840 the Aboriginal person whose ancestors for no matter how. 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.440 Far you go back trace before there was humans to hear, 0:09:36.720 --> 0:09:38.280 once there was humans, they came here. 0:09:39.640 --> 0:09:42.000 The first thing that's not enough hypocrisy is what you're saying. 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:43.640 Oh no, there's there's plenty plenty. 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.719 Yeah, because you know people don't they like to pick 0:09:45.800 --> 0:09:48.400 us apart, especially on YouTube, and they love to pick 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:48.840 us apart. 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.680 That's not enough hypocrisy. What I'm saying, all your show is. 0:09:51.640 --> 0:09:54.320 About allyship and bringing people absolutely and part of that 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:57.560 is calling out people's hypocrisy, calling out people's shortcomings. You 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:02.360 need to be a full fledged human being, and you're 0:10:02.360 --> 0:10:04.599 not acting like it, and we got to hold you accountable. 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:07.319 Trust me, just because I'm about allyship does not make 0:10:07.320 --> 0:10:08.080 me a soft man. 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:13.880 I am not that by ally. That didn't translate to sucker. 0:10:16.480 --> 0:10:19.800 But you know, I do like to have conversations based 0:10:19.840 --> 0:10:22.079 in peace and based in growth and opportunity. 0:10:22.480 --> 0:10:23.920 But we also need to be. 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:27.040 Prepared to have challenging conversations, and that we do quite well, 0:10:27.280 --> 0:10:28.120 both me and Q. 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:33.960 I'll speak for you. Next up, Hunter Biden, Let's talk 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.240 about that, okay, shall we we shall? 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:43.720 Hunter Biden is a scandal. This man pardoned his son, right, 0:10:44.800 --> 0:10:50.160 And that's really not the point that I want to 0:10:50.160 --> 0:10:56.280 make here, because however you feel about Joe Biden pardoning 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:59.319 his son, is that's how you feel. 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:00.800 And if it's right, it's right, and if it's wrong, 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:01.200 it's wrong. 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:05.960 I will go on record saying, if my son did 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.840 the worst stuff ever and I could pardon my son 0:11:08.880 --> 0:11:11.080 and deal with my child on my own rather than 0:11:11.160 --> 0:11:13.880 less some system deal with my own child, I would 0:11:13.880 --> 0:11:16.960 do it ten times out of ten. And if you don't, 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:21.640 that means one of two things that you are lying 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:24.400 or you don't love your son. 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.000 That's it. You can't convince me. 0:11:26.240 --> 0:11:28.760 Wait, go ahead, because I'm your brother and I can't 0:11:28.800 --> 0:11:33.920 let you get that off ahead, or you're white and 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:37.040 you know the system will handle your child, oh, with 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:41.600 some grace and some tenderness in ways that we know 0:11:42.120 --> 0:11:44.920 they won't. And in this case, I've seen Stephen A. 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:49.840 Smith and our brother charlamagnea God call out President Biden 0:11:50.200 --> 0:11:53.400 because he lied and said that he wouldn't do this, 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:58.920 and by doing that, he gave them And why them, 0:11:58.920 --> 0:12:01.200 I don't mean Stephen and Charlotte, and I mean those 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:07.880 who opposed the decision some justifiable fodder, some justifiable grounds 0:12:07.920 --> 0:12:11.320 to stand on. Even if it's not a scandal, you're 0:12:11.400 --> 0:12:15.600 a liar. I hate that he did that, because that 0:12:15.760 --> 0:12:20.280 was moral grand standing to me. He was trying to 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:24.559 point out that if I were a Republican, I would 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:28.760 absolutely pardon my son, and since I'm not, I won't. 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.400 But once he realized the people who would be in 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:36.280 charge of bringing forth justice and the consequences of his 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.240 son's actions would be Republicans, he. 0:12:39.559 --> 0:12:41.480 Moonwalked back. 0:12:42.880 --> 0:12:47.400 On that I won't pardon him because he realized unfairly 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:50.560 the type of punishment that was going to be brought 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.720 on to his son, just because his last name is Biden, 0:12:54.360 --> 0:12:56.079 just to give people some nuance. 0:12:55.720 --> 0:12:58.640 Into that, into that. I appreciate that, because now here's 0:12:58.640 --> 0:13:02.839 the thing. I'm a father. I deal with my own sons. 0:13:02.880 --> 0:13:05.360 That's my legacy more than it's anything. More than it's 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.520 anything else. My son's is my legacy. I only have son. So, 0:13:09.480 --> 0:13:10.120 as far as I. 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:14.000 Know, Joe Biden did lie, yeah and say that he wouldn't. 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.839 So why are you calling this hipoptosis. I'll make the point. 0:13:17.880 --> 0:13:19.679 I'll make the point, but while we're here, While we're here, 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:27.560 it is a lie, and you're not wrong saying that. 0:13:27.600 --> 0:13:30.040 People that say that are not wrong because it's a lie. 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:32.360 When you say something, you do something else, that's that's 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:34.720 a lie. I don't want to change that. That's that 0:13:34.760 --> 0:13:37.440 can be chronicle in the narrative. But I think there's 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:41.800 probably a better way to say that, maybe a reversal 0:13:42.120 --> 0:13:45.720 of a decision, because a lie, to me feels like 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:49.600 I'm misleading you. I think in the moment when he 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:54.400 made his initial decision, he perhaps intended for that to work. 0:13:54.520 --> 0:13:57.079 So I have to pause button again. I don't know, 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.560 but I'm just I don't know. Either of the reason 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:03.040 I'm pressed pause is because what you know about people 0:14:03.040 --> 0:14:05.040 that listen to this show that are opposed to us, 0:14:05.040 --> 0:14:07.640 and ladies and gentlemen, Yes, there are people that listen 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:09.400 to this show just to hate us. 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:11.640 A bunch of the real things shout out to you. 0:14:11.880 --> 0:14:14.320 They will try to circle this rhetoric you're about to 0:14:14.400 --> 0:14:17.880 use and tell you that that's why this isn't hypocrisy. 0:14:17.880 --> 0:14:19.840 That's why I tried to stop you before you even 0:14:19.880 --> 0:14:22.520 went there and point you back to why this is 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:26.360 hypocrisy because someone else lied, and I believe they were 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.680 intentionally lying when they say, and I'm not about that, 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:31.920 you didn't use what you're saying. I see what you're 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:33.880 doing to try to say that maybe, yeah, the same 0:14:33.920 --> 0:14:36.880 thing happen with him. Nonsense. So watch this. So what 0:14:37.680 --> 0:14:46.280 what Q was getting at is Donald Trump ran a 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:47.760 whole campaign. 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:51.880 Saying that he had no idea what Project twenty twenty 0:14:51.960 --> 0:14:54.880 five was, that was not his plan for the government, 0:14:55.520 --> 0:14:59.560 that he had something called Agenda forty seven, and that 0:14:59.560 --> 0:15:02.400 that was going to to be it, and he doesn't 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:04.960 know these people, and he's or know some of these 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:09.320 people or what however, he liked tiptoed and danced around it, right, 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:14.640 But he gave every time it came up as strong 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:16.000 an assurance as he could. 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:19.600 We knew he was lying the whole time. Wow. I 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:20.920 don't know how this has worked. 0:15:20.720 --> 0:15:23.400 On anybody, but we knew that it was going to 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:26.080 be Project twenty twenty five. He can just change the 0:15:26.160 --> 0:15:28.320 name of it, or just do ninety percent of it 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:31.200 or whatever, and it's still Project twenty twenty five in 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.280 terms of how it affects us. And when you look 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:37.160 at his matter of fact, I'll just read, please, this 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:42.080 is from AFGE dot org. Okay, that's the American Federation 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:47.280 of Government Employees. In an attempt to distance himself from 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:51.880 the unpopular plan, Trump said, Trump had said, quote, They've 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:54.520 been told, officially, legally, in every way that we have 0:15:54.640 --> 0:15:57.280 nothing to do with Project twenty twenty five. They know it, 0:15:57.440 --> 0:15:59.520 but they bring it up anyway. They bring it up 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.040 every single they bring up every single thing that you 0:16:02.080 --> 0:16:06.480 can bring up. Every one of them was false. In fact, 0:16:06.520 --> 0:16:09.920 his campaign said that they would ban people involved in 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:13.040 Project twenty twenty five from his administration. But now that 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:15.400 the election is over, the mask is off, and Trump 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:18.440 nominated several architects of Project twenty twenty five to have 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.000 a key role in his administration. All right, if you 0:16:21.040 --> 0:16:22.640 want to read the rest of that again, go to 0:16:22.840 --> 0:16:27.280 AFGE dot org. That's the American Federation of Government Employees, 0:16:27.720 --> 0:16:30.040 and you can see dot org by the way, and 0:16:30.080 --> 0:16:34.000 you can see the whole write up. Now, we knew 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:37.800 the whole time that he was lying. Now, if it's 0:16:37.800 --> 0:16:44.200 about having some fidelity to your word, the outrage over 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:51.480 Joe Biden seems, at least in my estimation, less manipulative 0:16:51.520 --> 0:16:56.840 and less intentional to me than this what Donald Trump 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.359 is doing with Project twenty five. And if the fidelity 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:03.240 to the truth is what you're standing on, I need 0:17:03.240 --> 0:17:06.600 to see some outrage here. However, because I don't that 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:08.040 to me is hypocrisy. 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:08.960 I would hit me. 0:17:09.160 --> 0:17:12.720 I would prefer that you assume that they were both 0:17:12.800 --> 0:17:13.520 lying to sort. 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:14.159 Let's get it. 0:17:14.200 --> 0:17:16.240 Let's don't want to talk about the fidelity to the 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.840 truth or intentions. We don't know either. I don't know 0:17:18.920 --> 0:17:20.840 Joe Biden, so I am about to ride for him 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:22.960 like that. That's why i'd be weird about when y'all 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:24.959 ride for Donald Trump. You don't know that, man, I 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:27.200 do not know Joe Biden. He could have been full 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.280 of it when he said it. So if that's what 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:31.600 you're mad at, let's say he was lying from the jump. 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:34.320 Just keep that energy right now, that energy right now, 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:37.600 because this dude was for sure lying from the jump. 0:17:37.680 --> 0:17:38.920 Yeah, okay. 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:42.359 Now, let's say, for instance, you're like, ma'am, this you're 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:44.160 making leaps two? 0:17:44.640 --> 0:17:46.080 What do you were you so mad at? This is 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:47.040 just a couple of little things. 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:47.240 You know. 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:51.360 Politicians, they politic that's what they do. Politicians do be politicing. 0:17:51.440 --> 0:17:53.119 But listen, let's say that's how you feel, and you 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.919 think me and Cure is in here tripping right? How 0:17:55.920 --> 0:17:59.199 about this? I'm gonna share something. This is from The 0:17:59.240 --> 0:18:03.320 New Republic via Yahoo News. You probably missed it because 0:18:03.320 --> 0:18:05.879 it created barely a ripple in the media. But last Friday, 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:09.320 a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump struck down one 0:18:09.359 --> 0:18:13.520 of President Biden's most pro worker policies, his effort to 0:18:13.720 --> 0:18:17.959 ensure that far more Americans benefit from overtime pay. Around 0:18:18.000 --> 0:18:21.640 four million salaried workers with lower incomes are the losers 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.400 in this decision. Yet it generally sorry. Yet it generated 0:18:26.080 --> 0:18:30.679 startling lee, few news stories and no outrage. Missives from 0:18:30.760 --> 0:18:35.239 leading columnists. Watching all this unfold brings to mind a 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:39.560 now forgotten controversy. Remember when Oliver Anthony, the little known 0:18:39.600 --> 0:18:42.199 folk singer, went viral in twenty twenty three with his 0:18:42.320 --> 0:18:46.360 song lamenting the plight of working people imposed by the 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:51.560 rich men of North of Richmond, sorry, Richmond, north of Richmond. 0:18:51.560 --> 0:18:54.359 That's the name of the song. I'm assuming Donald Trump 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:57.840 and Republicans claimed the bearded, red haired Southerner as one 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:01.720 of their own, a veritable bard of Maga County Country 0:19:01.760 --> 0:19:05.520 who'd crafted the ultimate right wing populist ballad of protest 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.400 aimed directly at. 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:11.919 Elites. Quote this is the. 0:19:11.800 --> 0:19:16.639 Anthem of the forgotten Americans, gushed Representative Marjorie Taylor. 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:16.920 Green. 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.679 Media commentary endlessly analyzed the song as a cry of 0:19:20.760 --> 0:19:24.640 anguish straight from the blue collar heartland, one that elite 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:26.720 liberals should take to heart as a sign of how 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:31.840 badly they'd failed regular Americans. Here's another forgotten detail about 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:38.040 Anthony's song for you to contemplate. It was about overtime pay. 0:19:38.200 --> 0:19:43.440 To oversimplify, bosses have reclassified many of these workers as managers, 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:47.520 exeenting them from federal overtime protections. The Biden Rule would 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:50.640 make them eligible guests who managed to block the rule 0:19:50.920 --> 0:19:55.000 that would have provided those people with relief. Maga Republicans 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:56.840 allied with business interests. 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:01.520 That's who so I know. 0:20:01.600 --> 0:20:03.600 On this show and a lot of other stages that 0:20:03.640 --> 0:20:08.040 we've been on around the country, we've effectively said, they're 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:12.119 lying to you. They lie to you almost every time, 0:20:13.359 --> 0:20:17.919 and they somehow make you think that they're doing this 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.399 for you, that they know what it's like for you, 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:24.639 that they understand your plight, and you can't see it. 0:20:25.880 --> 0:20:29.040 That man is literally a billionaire. He was born wealthy. 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:33.120 He has never ever, ever, ever ever struggled. In fact, 0:20:33.240 --> 0:20:36.439 he's only gotten wealthier because you've struggled, or people like 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:42.200 you have struggled more for him. 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:43.879 His whole story is a story. 0:20:43.600 --> 0:20:53.680 Of personal enrichment, exploitation, oppression, racism, bigotry, sexual scandal, sexual assault. 0:20:56.560 --> 0:20:57.719 I can go on, you know what. 0:20:57.720 --> 0:20:59.400 One of the stories that we cut because we only 0:20:59.600 --> 0:21:01.400 had time for three. One of the stories we cut 0:21:01.480 --> 0:21:04.879 was about Donald Trump making some promises to some steel 0:21:05.240 --> 0:21:09.199 people and like Pennsylvania or something like that, and we 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:12.080 cut that story. So I'm not prepared to like articulate it, 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:14.280 but look it up. It's there, and these people are 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:16.399 up in arms because he reversed on that he's not 0:21:16.440 --> 0:21:20.160 even the president yet, and it's the bait and switch. 0:21:20.200 --> 0:21:22.840 For me and effective. 0:21:22.880 --> 0:21:24.359 He knows that it works, and he knows that he 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:26.680 won't be held accountable by those same people. You guys 0:21:26.680 --> 0:21:29.760 won't even be mad enough. You won't even be mad 0:21:29.800 --> 0:21:31.480 at him when he proves to not be true. You'll 0:21:31.480 --> 0:21:33.240 figure out a way to make it not his fault. 0:21:33.320 --> 0:21:36.960 And somehow whatever he does is going to eventually work 0:21:37.000 --> 0:21:39.920 out for your best interest. Like this, this gotcha moment 0:21:39.960 --> 0:21:42.360 that everybody thinks is going to happen, this find out 0:21:42.400 --> 0:21:44.639 moment that everybody thinks is gonna happen, it's not. They 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:48.160 will make excuses for and apologize for that man into perpetuity. 0:21:48.200 --> 0:21:53.680 In the meantime, we suffer under the Trump effect, and 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:57.520 so we call out the hypocrisy when we see it, 0:21:58.359 --> 0:22:00.399 and we'll leave it there. It's always had to thank 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:03.080 you for tuning into civic cipher. You know, we got 0:22:03.080 --> 0:22:05.240 a we got a long road ahead of us, but 0:22:05.840 --> 0:22:06.760 we'll be here with you. 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:08.200 I go by the name Ramses. 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:10.720 Joh, I go by the name q Ward, and we 0:22:10.800 --> 0:22:15.399 definitely do appreciate you listening. Even the folks that disagree, 0:22:15.480 --> 0:22:17.760 you know, try to pick us apart in the comments. 0:22:17.800 --> 0:22:20.639 But we're resilient folks, and eventually you're gonna hear something 0:22:20.640 --> 0:22:24.560 that jogs you out of that mental fog. Work help 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:26.480 me alone in the comments. We're hoping I'm not here 0:22:26.520 --> 0:22:28.040 for it. 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