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Speaker 1: You are, and we'd appreciate you sticking around. We are
Speaker 1: going to point out some Republican hypocrisies.
Speaker 3: This half of the show. Just a few, just a few.
Speaker 1: There's there's a lot to choose from, and I know
Speaker 1: that there are there is a such thing as hypocrisy
Speaker 1: with Democrats too, but the Republican hypocrisies at present are
Speaker 1: glaringly conspicuous and extremely harmful, and they are shaping outcomes
Speaker 1: for people in ways that we feel you need to
Speaker 1: know about. And so while it's you know, fair to
Speaker 1: pick on both parties, we feel like we got to
Speaker 1: point out some stuff that's that you need to know
Speaker 1: about again, so stick around for that and a whole
Speaker 1: lot more. But before we get there, let's discuss ba
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Speaker 1: So we got a few stories here. We'll try to
Speaker 1: burn through them just because we got a few boxes
Speaker 1: to check. First up, this is from Kendrick, Idaho. This
Speaker 1: comes from the Associated Press.
Speaker 2: Ironic city name, Isn't that crazy?
Speaker 1: Shoutout Kendrick One time Compton Kendrick. Tensions rose during a
Speaker 1: bipartisan forum after an audience question about discrimination reportedly led
Speaker 1: to an Ohio state senator angrily telling a Native American
Speaker 1: candidate to go back where you came from. Republican Senator
Speaker 1: Dan Foreman left the event early after the outburst and
Speaker 1: later denied making any racist comments in a Facebook post.
Speaker 1: He did not respond to a voice message the Associated
Speaker 1: Press seeking a comment. Trish Carter Goodhart, a Democratic candidate
Speaker 1: for the House District sixth seat and member of the
Speaker 1: Nez Person tribe, said the blow up left her shaken
Speaker 1: and thinking about security needs for future public events and
Speaker 1: also for some tough conversations with her two young children,
Speaker 1: Avery and Lavender, who were in attendance. She said the
Speaker 1: state hate crime laws are weak and noted that the
Speaker 1: neo Nazi group Aryan Nations made northern Idaho its home
Speaker 1: base for many years. She also talked about being the
Speaker 1: only candidate there who was a person of color. In
Speaker 1: his Facebook post, Foreman called the incident a quote quintessential
Speaker 1: display of race baiting unquote, and said the Democratic attendees
Speaker 1: made personal attacks and proclaimed Idaho to be a racist state.
Speaker 1: Quote where here's a news flash for the lefties out there.
Speaker 1: There is no systemic racism in America or Idaho. Foreman said,
Speaker 1: Idaho is a great state, the best in the Union unquote.
Speaker 1: So um, obviously this is problematic. Now there are people
Speaker 1: who are on the right, people who have insulated themselves
Speaker 1: from the issues that we're dealing with, people that feel
Speaker 1: like this is not commonplace, that will look at this
Speaker 1: and say, well, this is an isolated incident. You're picking
Speaker 1: the story that suits your narrative. And one of the
Speaker 1: things that we've been discussing on this show in recent
Speaker 1: weeks is the Trump effect, right, and we have I
Speaker 1: promise you, I promise you. There's so many so it
Speaker 1: takes so long to produce this show. It's quicker to
Speaker 1: make the show than it is to produce it because
Speaker 1: we have to cut through so much news. But I
Speaker 1: think that this story is very telling of the type
Speaker 1: of people who now feel empowered, who now feel emboldened. Okay,
Speaker 1: first off, go back to where you came from is
Speaker 1: a racist statement on its face.
Speaker 3: No matter who you're talking to. Thank you, Q.
Speaker 1: That is the flat racist. Okay, here's the hypocrisy. He
Speaker 1: didn't say it to a Mexican immigrant like he probably thought.
Speaker 1: He said it to a person whose people lived here
Speaker 1: before him.
Speaker 2: Whose people lived here before his ancestry before everybody say
Speaker 2: it the right way to him, most not even most
Speaker 2: likely him. Absolutely the child of an immigrant, like absolutely,
Speaker 2: keep telling a person that's aboriginal to this land to
Speaker 2: go back to where we are. It's laughable. That's why
Speaker 2: I'm laughing. It's laughable. Now when you first read this,
Speaker 2: almost flipped the table over here out of anger. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know, I know America has no systemic racism, and
Speaker 2: neither does the Home of the Arian Nation.
Speaker 3: Got it?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Okay, it's all of our imagination. We're always race
Speaker 2: bating and we're always playing the victim. I just figured
Speaker 2: that out right now, you can.
Speaker 3: Go ahead, so watch this. So watch this.
Speaker 1: If a person like him can dish that out, you
Speaker 1: would think they would be able to take it right. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe I should go back to where I came from. Okay,
Speaker 1: but let me show you the mental gap here. There's
Speaker 1: a person like that, even if he was confronted with
Speaker 1: something like that, would simply say, well, I'm from Idaho,
Speaker 1: the great state of Idaho.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Now, well where are your people from? Well, my people
Speaker 1: are from Idol, four generations deep. Okay, go back to
Speaker 1: where your people's people came from. Well, you know, we
Speaker 1: came over here from Scotland. Yeah, go back to Scotland
Speaker 1: if you don't like it. But he's saying it to
Speaker 1: somebody who's like, Yo, my people was the first people
Speaker 1: in all in Idaho. We didn't even call it Idaho.
Speaker 1: There's our land still, fam I don't care about no
Speaker 1: documents and treaties and pieces of paper. Y'all stole what
Speaker 1: belongs to me. That mean it's still mine. I just
Speaker 1: haven't retaken possession. But if you want to get into
Speaker 1: the nitty gritty of who needs to go back where,
Speaker 1: I'm already there. And the fact that you thought that
Speaker 1: I was somebody else just shows how racist you are.
Speaker 1: And if you're claiming Idaho, then I would argue that
Speaker 1: if Idaho elected you, you're giving people, You're giving the
Speaker 1: country insight into just exactly how much of this exists
Speaker 1: in Idaho. Now I've been to Idaho. I'm not trying
Speaker 1: to pick on Idaho. I know that there's good people
Speaker 1: in Idaho, but there's also foul people in Idaho.
Speaker 2: People everywhere, but there's clearly, as we just saw, foul
Speaker 2: people talk to them everywhere, including Idaho.
Speaker 1: Man, listen, and I was you know, I used to
Speaker 1: wonder what was up in the northern part of Idaho
Speaker 1: because I only been the like boise right, and now
Speaker 1: I know to this Ariyan nation, I'm like, bam, that
Speaker 1: makes that makes a lot of sense. But that's just
Speaker 1: one thing. Okay, that's you know, people listening might be like, okay,
Speaker 1: well one thing. You know, it's a state senator or
Speaker 1: a state you know, a representative or whatever that small
Speaker 1: potatoes man talk to me, rams is what what is
Speaker 1: this Republican hypocrisy?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 2: Oh so you mean the person of European descent telling
Speaker 2: the Aboriginal person whose ancestors for no matter how.
Speaker 1: Far you go back trace before there was humans to hear,
Speaker 1: once there was humans, they came here.
Speaker 3: The first thing that's not enough hypocrisy is what you're saying.
Speaker 3: Oh no, there's there's plenty plenty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because you know people don't they like to pick
Speaker 1: us apart, especially on YouTube, and they love to pick
Speaker 1: us apart.
Speaker 3: That's not enough hypocrisy. What I'm saying, all your show is.
Speaker 1: About allyship and bringing people absolutely and part of that
Speaker 1: is calling out people's hypocrisy, calling out people's shortcomings. You
Speaker 1: need to be a full fledged human being, and you're
Speaker 1: not acting like it, and we got to hold you accountable.
Speaker 1: Trust me, just because I'm about allyship does not make
Speaker 1: me a soft man.
Speaker 3: I am not that by ally. That didn't translate to sucker.
Speaker 1: But you know, I do like to have conversations based
Speaker 1: in peace and based in growth and opportunity.
Speaker 3: But we also need to be.
Speaker 1: Prepared to have challenging conversations, and that we do quite well,
Speaker 1: both me and Q.
Speaker 3: I'll speak for you. Next up, Hunter Biden, Let's talk
Speaker 3: about that, okay, shall we we shall?
Speaker 1: Hunter Biden is a scandal. This man pardoned his son, right,
Speaker 1: And that's really not the point that I want to
Speaker 1: make here, because however you feel about Joe Biden pardoning
Speaker 1: his son, is that's how you feel.
Speaker 3: And if it's right, it's right, and if it's wrong,
Speaker 3: it's wrong.
Speaker 1: I will go on record saying, if my son did
Speaker 1: the worst stuff ever and I could pardon my son
Speaker 1: and deal with my child on my own rather than
Speaker 1: less some system deal with my own child, I would
Speaker 1: do it ten times out of ten. And if you don't,
Speaker 1: that means one of two things that you are lying
Speaker 1: or you don't love your son.
Speaker 3: That's it. You can't convince me.
Speaker 2: Wait, go ahead, because I'm your brother and I can't
Speaker 2: let you get that off ahead, or you're white and
Speaker 2: you know the system will handle your child, oh, with
Speaker 2: some grace and some tenderness in ways that we know
Speaker 2: they won't. And in this case, I've seen Stephen A.
Speaker 2: Smith and our brother charlamagnea God call out President Biden
Speaker 2: because he lied and said that he wouldn't do this,
Speaker 2: and by doing that, he gave them And why them,
Speaker 2: I don't mean Stephen and Charlotte, and I mean those
Speaker 2: who opposed the decision some justifiable fodder, some justifiable grounds
Speaker 2: to stand on. Even if it's not a scandal, you're
Speaker 2: a liar. I hate that he did that, because that
Speaker 2: was moral grand standing to me. He was trying to
Speaker 2: point out that if I were a Republican, I would
Speaker 2: absolutely pardon my son, and since I'm not, I won't.
Speaker 2: But once he realized the people who would be in
Speaker 2: charge of bringing forth justice and the consequences of his
Speaker 2: son's actions would be Republicans, he.
Speaker 3: Moonwalked back.
Speaker 2: On that I won't pardon him because he realized unfairly
Speaker 2: the type of punishment that was going to be brought
Speaker 2: on to his son, just because his last name is Biden,
Speaker 2: just to give people some nuance.
Speaker 1: Into that, into that. I appreciate that, because now here's
Speaker 1: the thing. I'm a father. I deal with my own sons.
Speaker 1: That's my legacy more than it's anything. More than it's
Speaker 1: anything else. My son's is my legacy. I only have son. So,
Speaker 1: as far as I.
Speaker 2: Know, Joe Biden did lie, yeah and say that he wouldn't.
Speaker 2: So why are you calling this hipoptosis. I'll make the point.
Speaker 2: I'll make the point, but while we're here, While we're here,
Speaker 2: it is a lie, and you're not wrong saying that.
Speaker 2: People that say that are not wrong because it's a lie.
Speaker 2: When you say something, you do something else, that's that's
Speaker 2: a lie. I don't want to change that. That's that
Speaker 2: can be chronicle in the narrative. But I think there's
Speaker 2: probably a better way to say that, maybe a reversal
Speaker 2: of a decision, because a lie, to me feels like
Speaker 2: I'm misleading you. I think in the moment when he
Speaker 2: made his initial decision, he perhaps intended for that to work.
Speaker 2: So I have to pause button again. I don't know,
Speaker 2: but I'm just I don't know. Either of the reason
Speaker 2: I'm pressed pause is because what you know about people
Speaker 2: that listen to this show that are opposed to us,
Speaker 2: and ladies and gentlemen, Yes, there are people that listen
Speaker 2: to this show just to hate us.
Speaker 3: A bunch of the real things shout out to you.
Speaker 2: They will try to circle this rhetoric you're about to
Speaker 2: use and tell you that that's why this isn't hypocrisy.
Speaker 2: That's why I tried to stop you before you even
Speaker 2: went there and point you back to why this is
Speaker 2: hypocrisy because someone else lied, and I believe they were
Speaker 2: intentionally lying when they say, and I'm not about that,
Speaker 2: you didn't use what you're saying. I see what you're
Speaker 2: doing to try to say that maybe, yeah, the same
Speaker 2: thing happen with him. Nonsense. So watch this. So what
Speaker 2: what Q was getting at is Donald Trump ran a
Speaker 2: whole campaign.
Speaker 1: Saying that he had no idea what Project twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five was, that was not his plan for the government,
Speaker 1: that he had something called Agenda forty seven, and that
Speaker 1: that was going to to be it, and he doesn't
Speaker 1: know these people, and he's or know some of these
Speaker 1: people or what however, he liked tiptoed and danced around it, right,
Speaker 1: But he gave every time it came up as strong
Speaker 1: an assurance as he could.
Speaker 3: We knew he was lying the whole time. Wow. I
Speaker 3: don't know how this has worked.
Speaker 1: On anybody, but we knew that it was going to
Speaker 1: be Project twenty twenty five. He can just change the
Speaker 1: name of it, or just do ninety percent of it
Speaker 1: or whatever, and it's still Project twenty twenty five in
Speaker 1: terms of how it affects us. And when you look
Speaker 1: at his matter of fact, I'll just read, please, this
Speaker 1: is from AFGE dot org. Okay, that's the American Federation
Speaker 1: of Government Employees. In an attempt to distance himself from
Speaker 1: the unpopular plan, Trump said, Trump had said, quote, They've
Speaker 1: been told, officially, legally, in every way that we have
Speaker 1: nothing to do with Project twenty twenty five. They know it,
Speaker 1: but they bring it up anyway. They bring it up
Speaker 1: every single they bring up every single thing that you
Speaker 1: can bring up. Every one of them was false. In fact,
Speaker 1: his campaign said that they would ban people involved in
Speaker 1: Project twenty twenty five from his administration. But now that
Speaker 1: the election is over, the mask is off, and Trump
Speaker 1: nominated several architects of Project twenty twenty five to have
Speaker 1: a key role in his administration. All right, if you
Speaker 1: want to read the rest of that again, go to
Speaker 1: AFGE dot org. That's the American Federation of Government Employees,
Speaker 1: and you can see dot org by the way, and
Speaker 1: you can see the whole write up. Now, we knew
Speaker 1: the whole time that he was lying. Now, if it's
Speaker 1: about having some fidelity to your word, the outrage over
Speaker 1: Joe Biden seems, at least in my estimation, less manipulative
Speaker 1: and less intentional to me than this what Donald Trump
Speaker 1: is doing with Project twenty five. And if the fidelity
Speaker 1: to the truth is what you're standing on, I need
Speaker 1: to see some outrage here. However, because I don't that
Speaker 1: to me is hypocrisy.
Speaker 3: I would hit me.
Speaker 2: I would prefer that you assume that they were both
Speaker 2: lying to sort.
Speaker 3: Let's get it.
Speaker 2: Let's don't want to talk about the fidelity to the
Speaker 2: truth or intentions. We don't know either. I don't know
Speaker 2: Joe Biden, so I am about to ride for him
Speaker 2: like that. That's why i'd be weird about when y'all
Speaker 2: ride for Donald Trump. You don't know that, man, I
Speaker 2: do not know Joe Biden. He could have been full
Speaker 2: of it when he said it. So if that's what
Speaker 2: you're mad at, let's say he was lying from the jump.
Speaker 2: Just keep that energy right now, that energy right now,
Speaker 2: because this dude was for sure lying from the jump.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1: Now, let's say, for instance, you're like, ma'am, this you're
Speaker 1: making leaps two?
Speaker 3: What do you were you so mad at? This is
Speaker 3: just a couple of little things.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 3: Politicians, they politic that's what they do. Politicians do be politicing.
Speaker 1: But listen, let's say that's how you feel, and you
Speaker 1: think me and Cure is in here tripping right? How
Speaker 1: about this? I'm gonna share something. This is from The
Speaker 1: New Republic via Yahoo News. You probably missed it because
Speaker 1: it created barely a ripple in the media. But last Friday,
Speaker 1: a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump struck down one
Speaker 1: of President Biden's most pro worker policies, his effort to
Speaker 1: ensure that far more Americans benefit from overtime pay. Around
Speaker 1: four million salaried workers with lower incomes are the losers
Speaker 1: in this decision. Yet it generally sorry. Yet it generated
Speaker 1: startling lee, few news stories and no outrage. Missives from
Speaker 1: leading columnists. Watching all this unfold brings to mind a
Speaker 1: now forgotten controversy. Remember when Oliver Anthony, the little known
Speaker 1: folk singer, went viral in twenty twenty three with his
Speaker 1: song lamenting the plight of working people imposed by the
Speaker 1: rich men of North of Richmond, sorry, Richmond, north of Richmond.
Speaker 1: That's the name of the song. I'm assuming Donald Trump
Speaker 1: and Republicans claimed the bearded, red haired Southerner as one
Speaker 1: of their own, a veritable bard of Maga County Country
Speaker 1: who'd crafted the ultimate right wing populist ballad of protest
Speaker 1: aimed directly at.
Speaker 3: Elites. Quote this is the.
Speaker 1: Anthem of the forgotten Americans, gushed Representative Marjorie Taylor.
Speaker 3: Green.
Speaker 1: Media commentary endlessly analyzed the song as a cry of
Speaker 1: anguish straight from the blue collar heartland, one that elite
Speaker 1: liberals should take to heart as a sign of how
Speaker 1: badly they'd failed regular Americans. Here's another forgotten detail about
Speaker 1: Anthony's song for you to contemplate. It was about overtime pay.
Speaker 1: To oversimplify, bosses have reclassified many of these workers as managers,
Speaker 1: exeenting them from federal overtime protections. The Biden Rule would
Speaker 1: make them eligible guests who managed to block the rule
Speaker 1: that would have provided those people with relief. Maga Republicans
Speaker 1: allied with business interests.
Speaker 3: That's who so I know.
Speaker 1: On this show and a lot of other stages that
Speaker 1: we've been on around the country, we've effectively said, they're
Speaker 1: lying to you. They lie to you almost every time,
Speaker 1: and they somehow make you think that they're doing this
Speaker 1: for you, that they know what it's like for you,
Speaker 1: that they understand your plight, and you can't see it.
Speaker 1: That man is literally a billionaire. He was born wealthy.
Speaker 1: He has never ever, ever, ever ever struggled. In fact,
Speaker 1: he's only gotten wealthier because you've struggled, or people like
Speaker 1: you have struggled more for him.
Speaker 3: His whole story is a story.
Speaker 2: Of personal enrichment, exploitation, oppression, racism, bigotry, sexual scandal, sexual assault.
Speaker 3: I can go on, you know what.
Speaker 1: One of the stories that we cut because we only
Speaker 1: had time for three. One of the stories we cut
Speaker 1: was about Donald Trump making some promises to some steel
Speaker 1: people and like Pennsylvania or something like that, and we
Speaker 1: cut that story. So I'm not prepared to like articulate it,
Speaker 1: but look it up. It's there, and these people are
Speaker 1: up in arms because he reversed on that he's not
Speaker 1: even the president yet, and it's the bait and switch.
Speaker 3: For me and effective.
Speaker 2: He knows that it works, and he knows that he
Speaker 2: won't be held accountable by those same people. You guys
Speaker 2: won't even be mad enough. You won't even be mad
Speaker 2: at him when he proves to not be true. You'll
Speaker 2: figure out a way to make it not his fault.
Speaker 2: And somehow whatever he does is going to eventually work
Speaker 2: out for your best interest. Like this, this gotcha moment
Speaker 2: that everybody thinks is going to happen, this find out
Speaker 2: moment that everybody thinks is gonna happen, it's not. They
Speaker 2: will make excuses for and apologize for that man into perpetuity.
Speaker 1: In the meantime, we suffer under the Trump effect, and
Speaker 1: so we call out the hypocrisy when we see it,
Speaker 1: and we'll leave it there. It's always had to thank
Speaker 1: you for tuning into civic cipher. You know, we got
Speaker 1: a we got a long road ahead of us, but
Speaker 1: we'll be here with you.
Speaker 3: I go by the name Ramses.
Speaker 2: Joh, I go by the name q Ward, and we
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Speaker 2: you know, try to pick us apart in the comments.
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Speaker 3: Peace. Peace,