1 00:00:01,639 --> 00:00:05,320 Speaker 1: Listen, listen, listen, just keep talking. Just look look at 2 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,319 Speaker 1: they if they're talking, if they're talking to you, they're 3 00:00:08,320 --> 00:00:17,240 Speaker 1: not talking to each other. Hood politics right now, little politics, y'all. 4 00:00:20,840 --> 00:00:25,520 Speaker 1: So here was the game my sister and I used 5 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:27,319 Speaker 1: to play when we knew one of us was gonna 6 00:00:27,400 --> 00:00:33,519 Speaker 1: get a whooping. Look here, just keep mama talking. I 7 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: used to Look, this is what I used to do. 8 00:00:35,159 --> 00:00:36,880 Speaker 1: I used to when I knew one of us was 9 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:40,600 Speaker 1: in trouble, and it was nowhere in the world that 10 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:43,880 Speaker 1: there would not be any shrapnel. Now look, in case 11 00:00:43,920 --> 00:00:46,360 Speaker 1: you don't know, I'm black and his thing. When one 12 00:00:46,400 --> 00:00:50,160 Speaker 1: kid in trouble, everybody in trouble. So to protect your 13 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:53,640 Speaker 1: own booty, You understand what I'm saying. Sometimes you gotta 14 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 1: work together. And then his was crazy. Even if it's 15 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:58,960 Speaker 1: one of them's fault. They may mess around and be 16 00:00:59,080 --> 00:01:01,560 Speaker 1: like mad at you for snitching. They're like, don't be 17 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:04,120 Speaker 1: snitching on your sister. Now turn your assist and now 18 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:07,080 Speaker 1: she in trouble. But anyway, the point is just keep talking. 19 00:01:07,080 --> 00:01:09,200 Speaker 1: So I would start cleaning the house. I would clean up. 20 00:01:09,440 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 1: I would be showing their mom and look at look 21 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,320 Speaker 1: how good this look? How good? I'll clean this house 22 00:01:13,360 --> 00:01:16,319 Speaker 1: because I just don't want her to talk to Dad, 23 00:01:16,600 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 1: because if she talked to Dad, didn't that me. We're 24 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:24,840 Speaker 1: gonna have some consequences and repercussions. It's gonna be a situation. 25 00:01:25,280 --> 00:01:29,800 Speaker 1: Just keep talking, show them all the good things you've 26 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:31,959 Speaker 1: been doing. I don't have to be about nothing. Just 27 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:39,200 Speaker 1: keep talking. I applied this sometimes too, dealing with some 28 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,600 Speaker 1: hood nikeds is with the hits something. Keep them laughing. 29 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:45,280 Speaker 1: If you can keep them laughing, you know what I'm saying, 30 00:01:45,800 --> 00:01:50,600 Speaker 1: and not gonna distract you from the situation that might 31 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:55,880 Speaker 1: go down had they had a chance to communicate. Sometimes 32 00:01:55,880 --> 00:01:58,560 Speaker 1: you sy man, I'm tired of this talking. Man, quit talking. 33 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:00,000 Speaker 1: And when you gotta throw them, you gotta throw them. 34 00:02:00,040 --> 00:02:02,480 Speaker 1: It is what it is. Sometimes you just gotta chuck them. 35 00:02:02,520 --> 00:02:05,560 Speaker 1: But if you keep them talking, you understand what I'm saying, 36 00:02:06,840 --> 00:02:08,800 Speaker 1: and you can stop the stuff from happening. But you 37 00:02:08,880 --> 00:02:14,760 Speaker 1: have to remember every weapon you got they got. There 38 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:16,880 Speaker 1: was a moment in Los Angeles when when the call 39 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:21,320 Speaker 1: came from from apparently from prison, to stop the drive 40 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:24,160 Speaker 1: bys because it just they're just not g you know, 41 00:02:24,200 --> 00:02:27,480 Speaker 1: according to them. But like that's one reason. But the 42 00:02:27,520 --> 00:02:31,680 Speaker 1: other reason was you have to remember cars go both directions. 43 00:02:32,040 --> 00:02:34,359 Speaker 1: You ride on somebodyhood, they're gonna ride back. Now, a 44 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: truehoods to knows that, like this is what I signed 45 00:02:37,080 --> 00:02:42,200 Speaker 1: up for. They understand as the saying goes, they bust 46 00:02:42,240 --> 00:02:45,440 Speaker 1: we bus. So whatever weapon you got, they probably got to. 47 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:53,120 Speaker 1: So whether it's talking and shooting, careful day, bust we 48 00:02:53,320 --> 00:03:04,320 Speaker 1: bust Philip buster will holes. Let's talk about philipbusters hood politics. 49 00:03:15,440 --> 00:03:19,799 Speaker 1: So look, you got Texas Democrats piecing out like I'm 50 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:22,240 Speaker 1: just not even gonna stay in the state. Y'all can't. 51 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:24,799 Speaker 1: Y'all can't cast this final vote if if we're not there. 52 00:03:24,840 --> 00:03:28,360 Speaker 1: So they didn't win all the way to Washington, at 53 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:32,280 Speaker 1: least at the point that I'm recording this, you know, 54 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:34,519 Speaker 1: because if they stayed in state, Texas could have sent 55 00:03:34,760 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: state troopers, could have sent Walker Texas Ranger to get them. 56 00:03:39,440 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 1: That's they lass. You also got on the hill Republicans filibustering. 57 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:47,280 Speaker 1: You need to know what the hell of filibuster is 58 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,040 Speaker 1: and why everybody doing everything they do. Then you got 59 00:03:51,040 --> 00:03:54,400 Speaker 1: the progressive Democrats being like, why you ain't breaking the filibuster? 60 00:03:54,520 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: Joe say something? Come on, man, put off for the hood. 61 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:59,720 Speaker 1: You're gonna come on dog, like we're all telling you, yo, 62 00:03:59,760 --> 00:04:02,160 Speaker 1: you need to stop this doing this, and Joe just 63 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:06,360 Speaker 1: going yeah, Republicans, y'all gotta stop. But he ain't. He 64 00:04:06,400 --> 00:04:11,840 Speaker 1: ain't about that action, like the action would be bro. Okay, 65 00:04:11,880 --> 00:04:15,800 Speaker 1: you got the power to to end this mug. The 66 00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: question is, nigger, what the hell of filipbuster? And what 67 00:04:19,960 --> 00:04:43,880 Speaker 1: is everybody in a tip for? So what's the big deal? 68 00:04:44,680 --> 00:04:46,800 Speaker 1: Why are we even talking about a filibuster getting in 69 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: the first place? Well, how today is gonna go is 70 00:04:49,400 --> 00:04:52,359 Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, like what the issue is, what 71 00:04:52,440 --> 00:04:56,960 Speaker 1: a filibuster is, history of filipbuster, and maybe try to 72 00:04:57,040 --> 00:05:01,599 Speaker 1: use our antennas to understand why this mug exists and 73 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:05,360 Speaker 1: why Joe ain't doing nothing about it because it looked 74 00:05:05,440 --> 00:05:07,600 Speaker 1: right now he's just getting pumped by the Republicans, Like, 75 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:09,640 Speaker 1: I don't know why you're just letting these people do 76 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:11,320 Speaker 1: what the hell you want to do. But actually I 77 00:05:11,400 --> 00:05:13,960 Speaker 1: have a theory as to why, but I don't know. Anyway, 78 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:19,880 Speaker 1: we're talking about voting. We're talking about voters suppression, voter fraud, 79 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:26,360 Speaker 1: and voter rights. It's all around voting. Okay, you got 80 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,960 Speaker 1: the John C. Lewis Voter Rights Act H one or 81 00:05:30,200 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: H four right. That has to do with the protection 82 00:05:33,640 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: around different hindrances that seem to have been promoted. Let's 83 00:05:39,920 --> 00:05:43,159 Speaker 1: be real. They were promoted by it by really the 84 00:05:43,200 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: Trump bites, mainly because of this big old lie that 85 00:05:49,279 --> 00:05:54,240 Speaker 1: there was widespread voter fraud throughout last election, and the 86 00:05:54,320 --> 00:05:58,880 Speaker 1: extremes would say that you know, Trump won and there's 87 00:05:58,920 --> 00:06:02,880 Speaker 1: five thousand people that we're dead that already voted. None 88 00:06:02,920 --> 00:06:04,599 Speaker 1: of this stuff is really you should thought of those votes, 89 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,960 Speaker 1: this really didn't count, and you could go back. I 90 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:09,919 Speaker 1: feel like the biggest, the biggest defense against this is 91 00:06:09,960 --> 00:06:12,040 Speaker 1: you go back to Lindsey Graham, who owned the block. 92 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:15,000 Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham was like, all right, word, okay, I'm gonna 93 00:06:15,040 --> 00:06:18,279 Speaker 1: go ride for y'all. Give me the receipts. Show me 94 00:06:18,320 --> 00:06:20,480 Speaker 1: you say, five thousand, show me them, show me, give 95 00:06:20,480 --> 00:06:22,960 Speaker 1: me give me ten, give me ten examples. And he 96 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,560 Speaker 1: was like, y'all still ain't got me no examples. And 97 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:28,039 Speaker 1: it's like, nigga, I'm on your side. I'm trying to 98 00:06:28,080 --> 00:06:30,480 Speaker 1: go I'm trying to go earn for the block. Man, 99 00:06:30,520 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: I'm trying to go put off for y'all, I'm not 100 00:06:32,680 --> 00:06:34,599 Speaker 1: the end of me. Fam, I ain't the I'm trying 101 00:06:34,640 --> 00:06:36,919 Speaker 1: to put all for you. You You can't give me no receipts. 102 00:06:37,560 --> 00:06:39,440 Speaker 1: I want to go fight for you, Like, damn, you 103 00:06:39,520 --> 00:06:41,520 Speaker 1: give me some receipts. Cut. You know what I'm saying 104 00:06:41,680 --> 00:06:45,600 Speaker 1: was was Mr Graham stand right? So that to me 105 00:06:45,720 --> 00:06:48,760 Speaker 1: is like tells you a little more about you know, 106 00:06:48,839 --> 00:06:51,000 Speaker 1: what's going on. And then what kept happening out of 107 00:06:51,080 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 1: some of the conservative voices is they kept saying, we 108 00:06:53,839 --> 00:06:56,160 Speaker 1: gotta change this vote and stuff because if we don't, 109 00:06:56,160 --> 00:06:58,800 Speaker 1: we're gonna keep losing, which kind of sound like if 110 00:06:58,800 --> 00:07:01,440 Speaker 1: we just what you kind of saying is if enough 111 00:07:01,480 --> 00:07:04,560 Speaker 1: people get access to vote, they're not gonna vote for us. 112 00:07:04,760 --> 00:07:08,240 Speaker 1: So we gotta make sure y'all don't get access to vote. Right, 113 00:07:08,600 --> 00:07:11,280 Speaker 1: So you have all these things that was happening under 114 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:16,400 Speaker 1: under the banner of protecting the integrity of the quality 115 00:07:16,440 --> 00:07:20,520 Speaker 1: of our voting. So like re looking at the Arizona thing, 116 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:22,640 Speaker 1: and and I don't know if y'all y'all are up 117 00:07:22,640 --> 00:07:26,640 Speaker 1: on that, Like the Arizona election has been recounted multiple times, 118 00:07:26,640 --> 00:07:30,560 Speaker 1: and it's still like nigked, Like we find in clerical errors. 119 00:07:30,560 --> 00:07:33,560 Speaker 1: But dog like you, they ain't know this. Look, we're 120 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,320 Speaker 1: just not seeing this conspiracy. You know that you're trying 121 00:07:36,320 --> 00:07:39,640 Speaker 1: to tell me. So now, out in Texas, this is 122 00:07:39,640 --> 00:07:42,080 Speaker 1: how these two things are are connected. Out in Texas, 123 00:07:42,280 --> 00:07:44,280 Speaker 1: they're trying to say, Okay, listen, that's what we need 124 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:46,320 Speaker 1: to do. We need to make sure you don't get 125 00:07:46,320 --> 00:07:48,600 Speaker 1: a day off work to go vote. It has to 126 00:07:48,640 --> 00:07:51,240 Speaker 1: be in person. It's got to be normal business hours. 127 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: And if you don't make it there, you're not allowed 128 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:54,920 Speaker 1: to give people water, You're not allowed to give people. 129 00:07:54,920 --> 00:07:59,080 Speaker 1: Just under this idea that like, by doing all these 130 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:02,800 Speaker 1: extra things make it it making voting more accessible, having 131 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: voter I d s and to be like we don't 132 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:07,320 Speaker 1: know if he is at a dead sold security number, 133 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:09,720 Speaker 1: Like we don't know who this person is. What if 134 00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:11,920 Speaker 1: you vote twice, if you mail in and come to 135 00:08:11,960 --> 00:08:14,280 Speaker 1: the thing, like, it's not fair. You know what I'm saying. 136 00:08:14,280 --> 00:08:15,880 Speaker 1: We need to make sure that like this vote is 137 00:08:15,880 --> 00:08:18,400 Speaker 1: as fair as possible. And look we're trying to help y'all. 138 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:22,160 Speaker 1: Now listen, Voter fraud happens. Don't get it twisted. Uh, 139 00:08:22,240 --> 00:08:27,600 Speaker 1: it's just it's just not really the at the scale 140 00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:29,600 Speaker 1: that they're saying like, we just don't have no evidence 141 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:33,520 Speaker 1: of that, and dudes is admitting, like Homie from Michigan 142 00:08:33,600 --> 00:08:36,079 Speaker 1: that came forward and said there was a whole bunch 143 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,080 Speaker 1: of mail ballots that was for He came forward and 144 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:43,040 Speaker 1: was like, nah, I was Captain, Like, it's just not 145 00:08:43,280 --> 00:08:45,640 Speaker 1: what they said it was. So they're like, we're trying 146 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:50,359 Speaker 1: to pass this. The problem is a lot of these things. 147 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:54,520 Speaker 1: Number One, they harkened back to a time which were 148 00:08:54,520 --> 00:08:59,079 Speaker 1: called the Black Codes, which was purposefully trying to stop 149 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: black people from vote because when we came out to vote, 150 00:09:03,520 --> 00:09:05,680 Speaker 1: we put our people in office. Do you know understead 151 00:09:05,679 --> 00:09:09,040 Speaker 1: I'm saying it's because voting. Believe it or not, newsflash 152 00:09:09,480 --> 00:09:13,960 Speaker 1: works get you saying, uh, but there's that. So it 153 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,040 Speaker 1: harkens back to those times. And then secondly, it often 154 00:09:18,120 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: penalizes lower income people. So it's not necessarily just black folks, 155 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:25,840 Speaker 1: but it's just lower income people, people that don't have 156 00:09:25,880 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: access right. You know what I'm saying, It's important to 157 00:09:28,480 --> 00:09:32,200 Speaker 1: acknowledge the distinction between a right and a privilege is 158 00:09:32,360 --> 00:09:37,120 Speaker 1: by virtue of your citizenship, you have the right to vote. 159 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:39,160 Speaker 1: I don't have to show you nothing except for the 160 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:42,600 Speaker 1: fact that I'm a citizen. So when you say, well, 161 00:09:42,720 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 1: just having an idea is like, I mean, that's just 162 00:09:45,360 --> 00:09:47,360 Speaker 1: like it's maybe it's an inconvenience, But who ain't got 163 00:09:47,400 --> 00:09:49,360 Speaker 1: I D. The plain people ain't got I D. You 164 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:51,760 Speaker 1: just can't deny my constitutional right because I ain't got 165 00:09:51,800 --> 00:09:53,400 Speaker 1: no I D. Like I don't. I don't know what 166 00:09:53,400 --> 00:09:56,640 Speaker 1: else to say. And now, practically speaking, there's a lot 167 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:00,120 Speaker 1: of different ways to verify a person's identity, you know. Oh, 168 00:10:00,400 --> 00:10:03,200 Speaker 1: but when you add that to these other things like 169 00:10:03,559 --> 00:10:06,240 Speaker 1: poles close at five, you can't mail in. So it's like, well, 170 00:10:06,280 --> 00:10:08,320 Speaker 1: if I can't if I can't miss a day of work, 171 00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: you're telling me I can't miss it. You're telling me, 172 00:10:10,520 --> 00:10:12,680 Speaker 1: you're telling me we don't get the day off. I 173 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:14,720 Speaker 1: gotta miss a day of work. And if I can't 174 00:10:14,720 --> 00:10:17,040 Speaker 1: miss a day of work, I can't send it in early. 175 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,280 Speaker 1: You don't want me to mail it in. It's almost 176 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:21,120 Speaker 1: like you don't want me to vote, you know what 177 00:10:21,160 --> 00:10:49,880 Speaker 1: I'm saying. There's a great pod on the through Line 178 00:10:49,920 --> 00:10:54,440 Speaker 1: podcast about Frederick Douglas and why he believed voting was 179 00:10:54,480 --> 00:10:58,199 Speaker 1: so important, and it's it's like he's really even back then, 180 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:02,000 Speaker 1: capturing like captured the un you're standing of, Like, there 181 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: is real power in this, especially because if you understand 182 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: what was happening right after, right during reconstruction, how hard 183 00:11:12,400 --> 00:11:15,439 Speaker 1: they went to make sure that black people did not 184 00:11:15,640 --> 00:11:19,520 Speaker 1: vote was oh, niggy, you just showed your cards. I mean. 185 00:11:19,559 --> 00:11:21,679 Speaker 1: Then they had this thing called this grandfather clause, which 186 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:24,000 Speaker 1: was hilarious, which was like, if your granddaddy voted in 187 00:11:24,360 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 1: eighteen sixty, then you can vote. Well, Nick, Obviously nobody 188 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:31,120 Speaker 1: black granddaddy voted in eighteen sixty, So like it's just 189 00:11:31,679 --> 00:11:34,640 Speaker 1: we know what you're doing. You're putting all these undue 190 00:11:34,640 --> 00:11:37,760 Speaker 1: burdens on people that don't have the privileges that everybody 191 00:11:37,760 --> 00:11:39,720 Speaker 1: else do. So what they're trying to say is like 192 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:44,079 Speaker 1: voting shouldn't be harder. And so the Democrats chose, like 193 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:47,080 Speaker 1: we've been trying to argue this that like y'all bugging, 194 00:11:47,679 --> 00:11:50,240 Speaker 1: but if you're not finna like listen, then we're just 195 00:11:50,280 --> 00:11:53,439 Speaker 1: gonna bounce. Now this has been done before. It was 196 00:11:53,480 --> 00:11:56,160 Speaker 1: just the other way around. Day Bust we Bust. The 197 00:11:56,160 --> 00:12:01,199 Speaker 1: Republicans have walked out of Texas legist later before Day 198 00:12:01,280 --> 00:12:05,920 Speaker 1: Bust we Bust, now they're using the same tactic. Now 199 00:12:06,280 --> 00:12:11,079 Speaker 1: move that back to the hill on Capitol Hill. It's 200 00:12:11,120 --> 00:12:16,120 Speaker 1: still the same idea of of voting right, of passing 201 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:19,640 Speaker 1: laws that would make sure that there's equal protection under 202 00:12:19,679 --> 00:12:25,920 Speaker 1: the law for people despite their socioeconomic, racial, ethnic access 203 00:12:26,200 --> 00:12:29,640 Speaker 1: with voting should be more accessible. You're not allowed to 204 00:12:29,640 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: put hindrances and obstacles in front of constitutional rights, you 205 00:12:34,400 --> 00:12:35,719 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You can put them in front 206 00:12:35,760 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: of privileges like a driver's license. Just because you're a citizen, 207 00:12:39,400 --> 00:12:41,280 Speaker 1: don't mean you get to drive, like you know what 208 00:12:41,280 --> 00:12:43,800 Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like, but just because you're a citizen, you 209 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:46,200 Speaker 1: get to vote. Over twenty one, you get to vote. 210 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:47,840 Speaker 1: It is what it is like. It just comes with 211 00:12:47,920 --> 00:12:52,280 Speaker 1: its package deal, right, So they're trying to uh pass 212 00:12:52,320 --> 00:12:55,520 Speaker 1: some laws that have more protection about that. Now that 213 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:57,520 Speaker 1: now the specificity is the law is not the point 214 00:12:57,520 --> 00:13:02,880 Speaker 1: of this this pod. But what the Republican legislator is 215 00:13:02,920 --> 00:13:08,840 Speaker 1: doing is a thing called filibustering. It's a it's a 216 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 1: tool you use. I'm gonna get into the specifics of 217 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:14,800 Speaker 1: this later, but I want to set the stage here. 218 00:13:16,880 --> 00:13:22,040 Speaker 1: When somebody presents a bill, we post a debate on it. Right, 219 00:13:22,520 --> 00:13:24,959 Speaker 1: So you you you do this point, this point, this point, 220 00:13:25,000 --> 00:13:27,880 Speaker 1: and the loss says we can't stop, we can't stop 221 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:30,480 Speaker 1: to vote on it until everybody gets the piece off, 222 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:33,120 Speaker 1: until you're able to fly and land your plane. You 223 00:13:33,120 --> 00:13:35,559 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Everyone gets to land their plane 224 00:13:35,600 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: before we vote. Right, you have to let this nigga finish. 225 00:13:39,559 --> 00:13:45,640 Speaker 1: That's why I said in the beginning, sometimes your best 226 00:13:45,679 --> 00:13:49,400 Speaker 1: defense is to keep talking, Nikki. If you could keep talking, 227 00:13:49,559 --> 00:13:52,040 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. If you could keep if 228 00:13:52,080 --> 00:13:54,760 Speaker 1: you could keep these niggas occupied, oh some mothers shit, 229 00:13:55,520 --> 00:14:00,280 Speaker 1: maybe you could, you can stop a decision from being made, 230 00:14:01,240 --> 00:14:05,560 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So if right now, if 231 00:14:05,600 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 1: you're not the Senate majority, you're the Senate minority, one 232 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:11,800 Speaker 1: of your ways because you know, because how the numbers work, 233 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:18,280 Speaker 1: that y'all ain't gonna ever get your way. So one 234 00:14:18,320 --> 00:14:21,760 Speaker 1: line of defense is to just keep talking, is to 235 00:14:21,880 --> 00:14:25,600 Speaker 1: make sure that y'all never do get to vote on it. Right. 236 00:14:27,680 --> 00:14:29,360 Speaker 1: I'm gonna get into the history of like how this 237 00:14:29,400 --> 00:14:32,000 Speaker 1: has been used in a second, but that's one thing 238 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:38,920 Speaker 1: that's happening right now, is this is Republicans are proverbially speaking, 239 00:14:39,240 --> 00:14:44,480 Speaker 1: still talking now, the Democrats are looking at President Biden, 240 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:46,400 Speaker 1: who's supposed to be like the top of the top 241 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:50,840 Speaker 1: of the hood, and they're like, hey, hey, homie, can 242 00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:52,680 Speaker 1: you tell them niggas to shut the funk up so 243 00:14:52,720 --> 00:14:56,680 Speaker 1: we can finish this damn nigga. You know the rules, 244 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,280 Speaker 1: we could we could end this ship with a culture 245 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 1: you We could, I mean, we could do a person vote. 246 00:15:04,840 --> 00:15:07,320 Speaker 1: You could change the rules right now. It takes sixty people. 247 00:15:07,880 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: We could change it to nick and you got the 248 00:15:10,280 --> 00:15:12,120 Speaker 1: power to do it. Like, why you're not putting on 249 00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:16,360 Speaker 1: damn man like you? We can you can initiate right now. 250 00:15:16,400 --> 00:15:18,280 Speaker 1: A matter of fact, the whole party asking you, like, 251 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:22,040 Speaker 1: what the hell man like in the filibuster? But he not. 252 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,400 Speaker 1: But let's step back, though the hell is a filipbuster. 253 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:37,840 Speaker 1: A filipbuster is talking a bill to death. What do 254 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:42,080 Speaker 1: I mean by that? It's a tactic of delaying action 255 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:46,920 Speaker 1: on a legislation because you can't pass a law until 256 00:15:47,400 --> 00:15:50,240 Speaker 1: everyone gets to land their playing. Now. I'm a quote 257 00:15:50,280 --> 00:15:53,320 Speaker 1: from the Senate dot gov. What they say straight from 258 00:15:53,360 --> 00:15:56,160 Speaker 1: the website. The tactic of using long speeches to delay 259 00:15:56,200 --> 00:16:00,720 Speaker 1: an action on legislation appeared in the very first session 260 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:06,520 Speaker 1: of Senate on September twenty second nine. Pennsylvania Senator William 261 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:11,320 Speaker 1: McClay wrote in his diary that the design of the 262 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 1: Virginians was to take away the time so that we 263 00:16:15,200 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: could not get the bill passed. As a number of 264 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:21,000 Speaker 1: filipbusters grew in the nineteenth century, the Senate had no 265 00:16:21,040 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: formal process to allow a majority to end the debate 266 00:16:24,760 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: in force of legislation. Why you think Virginia ain't wont 267 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:32,040 Speaker 1: to law passed? The hint is racism nd slavery. Right, 268 00:16:32,120 --> 00:16:35,880 Speaker 1: So basically, it's me at the house going but look, look, look, 269 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:37,960 Speaker 1: look look mom, but wait wait wait, wait now wait 270 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:40,600 Speaker 1: wait listen before you talk. But wait, wait, but listen, 271 00:16:40,720 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 1: look look, look, look, look, look, look look wait. No, 272 00:16:42,920 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 1: you know, and let me tell you about my homework. 273 00:16:45,560 --> 00:16:47,040 Speaker 1: Oh a matter of fact, you know what. Let me 274 00:16:47,040 --> 00:16:48,360 Speaker 1: tell you something. Let me tell you what I learned 275 00:16:48,360 --> 00:16:51,000 Speaker 1: the church today. You just I'm coming up with a 276 00:16:51,120 --> 00:16:53,040 Speaker 1: million things just to keep saying no one, because I 277 00:16:53,040 --> 00:16:56,600 Speaker 1: don't want her to go. Just keep talking to avoid 278 00:16:56,840 --> 00:17:02,440 Speaker 1: the whooping. The filipbuster is is whether it's praise for 279 00:17:02,520 --> 00:17:04,560 Speaker 1: better for worse. We're gonna go through like pros and 280 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:08,920 Speaker 1: cons about it. But what it's saying is, I'm gonna 281 00:17:08,920 --> 00:17:12,200 Speaker 1: stop the vote on this. Even if I can't give 282 00:17:12,240 --> 00:17:15,320 Speaker 1: you a real reason as to why this is a 283 00:17:15,359 --> 00:17:19,760 Speaker 1: bad vote or why this is a bad idea, Maybe 284 00:17:19,840 --> 00:17:23,439 Speaker 1: it's just as simple as my constituents don't want it, 285 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:25,480 Speaker 1: the hood don't like it. But I really don't have 286 00:17:25,520 --> 00:17:28,680 Speaker 1: no other real reasons for it. But I'm just it's 287 00:17:28,720 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 1: just bad. I like. And if you're a political minority 288 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:36,879 Speaker 1: in the deadlock that we're in now, Like, if you 289 00:17:36,920 --> 00:17:41,359 Speaker 1: think about the way that our Congress has looked, where 290 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:43,960 Speaker 1: it's like whoever's got the majority in Congress, If there's 291 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:47,479 Speaker 1: more Republicans than Republican laws passed, there more Democrats. Everybody 292 00:17:47,560 --> 00:17:50,120 Speaker 1: votes a long party lines, they're not gonna nobody. Everybody's 293 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:52,439 Speaker 1: holding the line. So like, you can't get nothing passed anyway. 294 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:54,200 Speaker 1: So and if you know it's like you can't just 295 00:17:54,240 --> 00:17:56,359 Speaker 1: be out there and do nothing, they get like, I 296 00:17:56,359 --> 00:18:00,159 Speaker 1: can't do nothing, So what do you do? Well? You 297 00:18:00,400 --> 00:18:05,399 Speaker 1: just talk? Now, the name filibuster, which is the craziest thing. 298 00:18:05,400 --> 00:18:07,760 Speaker 1: I love it because it sounds like filibuster. Uh, it's 299 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:11,120 Speaker 1: derived from a Dutch word called freebooter and the Spanish 300 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:18,400 Speaker 1: word philbustatles to describe the pirates rating then the Caribbean Islands, 301 00:18:18,440 --> 00:18:22,360 Speaker 1: and the term began to appear in the American legislative 302 00:18:22,680 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 1: debates in the eighteen fifties, and it was supposed to 303 00:18:25,240 --> 00:18:27,199 Speaker 1: be like a throwback to like, yo, you're just like 304 00:18:27,760 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: you're just gonna take over. You're just gonna pirate. You're 305 00:18:29,800 --> 00:18:31,840 Speaker 1: just gonna pirate this mug just take over the whole thing, 306 00:18:31,880 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 1: claiming as yours by just not talking. You filibuster now, 307 00:18:35,119 --> 00:18:38,879 Speaker 1: because of these filibusters, there's a thing called culture that 308 00:18:38,920 --> 00:18:40,800 Speaker 1: we talked about before. It's a method of ending the 309 00:18:40,840 --> 00:18:42,760 Speaker 1: debate and bringing it to the vote. So if you 310 00:18:42,840 --> 00:18:46,960 Speaker 1: are the majority in Congress and you like nigga, if 311 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:48,960 Speaker 1: this nigga, don't shut the funk up, Okay, I'm calling 312 00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:52,600 Speaker 1: for culture, right, which is a way of ending the 313 00:18:52,680 --> 00:18:55,760 Speaker 1: debate saying, nigga, we vote now, I don't care, I 314 00:18:55,760 --> 00:18:59,200 Speaker 1: don't care what it is. And only the majority can 315 00:18:59,200 --> 00:19:02,159 Speaker 1: do that, and that's what the Democrats are asking Biden 316 00:19:02,200 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 1: to do now. The way to pull that off right 317 00:19:04,119 --> 00:19:06,199 Speaker 1: now is you need sixty votes. The problem is we're 318 00:19:06,200 --> 00:19:07,840 Speaker 1: probably not gonna get sixty votes, but he has the 319 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,480 Speaker 1: right to change it to fifty one, because sixty votes 320 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:14,160 Speaker 1: means you're asking nine Republicans to flip on their hood. 321 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:16,760 Speaker 1: So the move is to change that to votes. Now 322 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:20,960 Speaker 1: we got fifty one, because that's just Democrats. I'm sure 323 00:19:21,000 --> 00:19:22,520 Speaker 1: we can get fifty one of us to be like, 324 00:19:22,560 --> 00:19:26,080 Speaker 1: shut the funk up, except for minuting, which is a 325 00:19:26,119 --> 00:19:30,280 Speaker 1: whole other thing. Manton don't care. Then they gain in 326 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:33,520 Speaker 1: West Virginia. You think you think you're gonna make them 327 00:19:33,560 --> 00:19:38,560 Speaker 1: white boys mad. It's harder to get sixty. Everybody like, 328 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:40,960 Speaker 1: come on, you got Biden, you got the gun in 329 00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:43,080 Speaker 1: your hand. They can put a put a damn trigger, 330 00:19:43,119 --> 00:19:45,119 Speaker 1: cause like, why are you not shooting? You can't just 331 00:19:45,160 --> 00:19:46,639 Speaker 1: point the gun and talk. And this is what he 332 00:19:46,680 --> 00:19:48,639 Speaker 1: does and and and this is what's crazy is in 333 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:51,400 Speaker 1: the speeches, the speeches he's been given about this. It's 334 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:54,520 Speaker 1: like it's real slick because he's talking big. He's talking 335 00:19:54,560 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: like no, you can watch out. And they got a 336 00:19:56,720 --> 00:19:58,560 Speaker 1: ride on y'all off in a bus man. Why don't 337 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:00,240 Speaker 1: don't mess with me. I don't gonna change it. What's 338 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:01,960 Speaker 1: wrong with y'all? Whyle y'all doing this. You notice ain't 339 00:20:02,000 --> 00:20:05,600 Speaker 1: no good the hood like Democrats Like, well, nigga, shoot, 340 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,200 Speaker 1: what's what's all this talking for? Either you're gonna do 341 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:10,119 Speaker 1: it or you're not, Like nig were telling you what 342 00:20:10,200 --> 00:20:12,520 Speaker 1: to do, you're asking it, Like that's what you can't 343 00:20:12,560 --> 00:20:14,040 Speaker 1: just go out there and just dragged them. And it 344 00:20:14,119 --> 00:20:16,240 Speaker 1: almost make it so you start thinking, nigga, are you 345 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:18,520 Speaker 1: the op or not? Like, why are you not you 346 00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:21,720 Speaker 1: scared of them? Nigga, are you scared of them? Is 347 00:20:21,760 --> 00:20:23,960 Speaker 1: that why you're not pulling this trigger? I don't know. 348 00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:28,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna continue on. Uh. The earliest filibuster also led 349 00:20:28,080 --> 00:20:30,280 Speaker 1: to the first demands for culture a method of ending 350 00:20:30,320 --> 00:20:33,320 Speaker 1: the debate. In eighteen forty one, the Democratic Minority attempted 351 00:20:33,359 --> 00:20:35,520 Speaker 1: to run the clock on the bill to establish a 352 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:40,360 Speaker 1: national bank. Filibusters became more frequent in the late nineteenth 353 00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,200 Speaker 1: and early twentieth century, leading to the serious debate about 354 00:20:43,280 --> 00:20:47,160 Speaker 1: changing Senate rules to curtail this practice. At that point, 355 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:51,000 Speaker 1: the Senate has grown larger and busier, and the sheer 356 00:20:51,119 --> 00:20:53,320 Speaker 1: amount of work to be done in each session meant 357 00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:57,359 Speaker 1: that filibustering senator could disrupt the process of a body 358 00:20:57,480 --> 00:21:00,959 Speaker 1: and gain concessions from senators who just wanted to get 359 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,240 Speaker 1: their bills passed. So what he's trying to say is this, 360 00:21:03,480 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 1: like you got an agenda, Like nigga, we gotta run 361 00:21:06,520 --> 00:21:09,760 Speaker 1: through seventy two laws and were at law number three 362 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:13,720 Speaker 1: and you up there reading cat in the hat. I mean, 363 00:21:13,760 --> 00:21:15,840 Speaker 1: I'm not making this up. Niggas would just get up 364 00:21:15,840 --> 00:21:18,040 Speaker 1: there and read out their diaries because you can't. You're 365 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:19,640 Speaker 1: not allowed to shut me up. Everybody gets to land 366 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:21,159 Speaker 1: their playing, So you just run the clock out, and 367 00:21:21,160 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 1: at some point fools would be like, all right, nigga, 368 00:21:23,359 --> 00:21:25,639 Speaker 1: if I vote know, will you shut the funk up 369 00:21:25,720 --> 00:21:29,000 Speaker 1: so we can move on? Like damn, because as a senator, 370 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:31,200 Speaker 1: you like, well, I got bills I'm trying to get past. 371 00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 1: We need to get to mind because I'm trying to 372 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,320 Speaker 1: shine too. So it's actually what I mean what sucks 373 00:21:35,320 --> 00:21:37,479 Speaker 1: about it is it works. Any of y'all ever ran 374 00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 1: the clock out on your mom's boy, if you don't 375 00:21:41,080 --> 00:21:44,720 Speaker 1: stop talking, listen, Okay, if I let you go to 376 00:21:44,800 --> 00:21:47,600 Speaker 1: this party, will you shut up and let me finish 377 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:50,400 Speaker 1: what I'm doing? Like got dog, You're ran the clock 378 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:54,840 Speaker 1: out all your mama. I have a few times. It 379 00:21:54,960 --> 00:21:56,720 Speaker 1: works unless you're on the other side of the gun, 380 00:21:56,840 --> 00:22:00,200 Speaker 1: because sometime your mama run the clock out on you. Hey, 381 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:02,119 Speaker 1: before you go, make sure you do this, you should 382 00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:03,480 Speaker 1: do this, You do this, and then you get the 383 00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:05,119 Speaker 1: lecture and she trying to tell you why you need 384 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:07,119 Speaker 1: to stop at your grandma house. And then after that, 385 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:08,960 Speaker 1: make sure you pick up these cigarettes for this, and 386 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:10,280 Speaker 1: then after that you know what I'm saying, and you 387 00:22:10,359 --> 00:22:50,879 Speaker 1: just like, forget it. I ain't going no more. But now, 388 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 1: one of the most major filipbusters that has to do 389 00:22:54,119 --> 00:22:55,960 Speaker 1: with me and you has to do with Jim Crow. 390 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:00,640 Speaker 1: Jim Crow sour us trying to get cool writes under 391 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:05,520 Speaker 1: the law. Part of the hold up was nigga a filibuster. 392 00:23:06,720 --> 00:23:12,000 Speaker 1: So for US people of color, specifically black people, civilally 393 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:18,080 Speaker 1: her folks, oftentimes throughout history this filibuster has been about 394 00:23:19,400 --> 00:23:25,840 Speaker 1: our rights to vote, and it's like nigga. You know, 395 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:29,320 Speaker 1: the record for the longest individual speech goes to South 396 00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:35,159 Speaker 1: Carolina Storm Thermind, who filibustered for twenty four hours in 397 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:42,600 Speaker 1: eighteen minutes against the Civil Rights Act of nineteen fifty seven. Now, 398 00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:44,439 Speaker 1: the old school style is like you had to actually 399 00:23:44,520 --> 00:23:46,600 Speaker 1: stand and send it and talk. But you know, the 400 00:23:46,720 --> 00:23:51,960 Speaker 1: internet and a pandemic meant that that's just it's just 401 00:23:52,080 --> 00:23:55,280 Speaker 1: not feasible, like and it's not necessary. Now you don't 402 00:23:55,320 --> 00:23:57,320 Speaker 1: have to actually stand up there and talk. You can 403 00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,479 Speaker 1: just say, hey, I want to continue debate. Hey, I'm 404 00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,720 Speaker 1: I have some ideas. Hey we can't vote yet, I 405 00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,000 Speaker 1: still got thoughts. You don't have to actually stand there 406 00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,600 Speaker 1: and give the speech, which I'm kind of like, man, 407 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:08,280 Speaker 1: that's kind of not g you know what I'm saying, 408 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:10,040 Speaker 1: Like I thought it was kind of g that, like, 409 00:24:10,480 --> 00:24:13,000 Speaker 1: if you're really gonna do this, if you're really gonna 410 00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 1: do this to us, Nick, you need to stand there, 411 00:24:15,280 --> 00:24:17,800 Speaker 1: you know, you know what I'm saying. But nobody wants 412 00:24:17,840 --> 00:24:21,159 Speaker 1: stand there and listen because I mean it's awful. Now, 413 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,360 Speaker 1: who can filibuster any senator? They just need to give 414 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:28,080 Speaker 1: notice that they intend to do this, and usually you 415 00:24:28,280 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 1: give your party a hand heads up that you're going 416 00:24:30,480 --> 00:24:34,280 Speaker 1: to do this, and then the most frequent and formal 417 00:24:34,359 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 1: step is just to be like, I object, and then 418 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:38,800 Speaker 1: the other senators say, hey, hey, we can't move on 419 00:24:38,840 --> 00:24:42,160 Speaker 1: because it's full objects. Now that senator can ask to speak, 420 00:24:42,320 --> 00:24:44,160 Speaker 1: but he does not have to speak like I said, 421 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:46,840 Speaker 1: because all you're trying to do is just start the 422 00:24:46,920 --> 00:24:50,440 Speaker 1: buster again. To end the filibuster, you have to have 423 00:24:50,640 --> 00:24:52,840 Speaker 1: this super weapon, which is called culture, right like we 424 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:55,440 Speaker 1: said before, which ends it. Now you need it to 425 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:59,720 Speaker 1: be a sixty votes right, which is basically three fourths 426 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,120 Speaker 1: of the Senate. Right, But the Democrats now are asking 427 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:05,520 Speaker 1: to move that down to fifty one because this is ridiculous. 428 00:25:05,560 --> 00:25:08,520 Speaker 1: It's been happening since clearly it's a design flaw, you 429 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,480 Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like, at least that's that's the 430 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:14,879 Speaker 1: perception if it's been in every possible Senate since the 431 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:19,000 Speaker 1: beginning of the country. Now, if the Culture passes, it 432 00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:23,760 Speaker 1: dictates that there's a maximum thirty hours of debate, meaning okay, 433 00:25:24,119 --> 00:25:26,200 Speaker 1: it's just one more date. Then we have to vote 434 00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:28,679 Speaker 1: on the measure. But then if Culture does not pass, 435 00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:32,040 Speaker 1: then the filibuster remains in limbo and the Senate has 436 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,000 Speaker 1: to move on to other other stuff. So that means 437 00:25:34,080 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 1: like we pulled the culture, culture didn't pass. That means 438 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 1: you still don't get to come back to your hood 439 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:39,920 Speaker 1: and be like, look that's what I got for you. 440 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:41,879 Speaker 1: You don't get to do it right now, there's a 441 00:25:41,960 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 1: thing called the nuclear option. That's the fifty votes I'm 442 00:25:45,240 --> 00:25:49,960 Speaker 1: talking about from a supermajority to just a majority. So 443 00:25:50,080 --> 00:25:53,719 Speaker 1: in two thousand thirteen, the Democrats actually deployed the nuclear 444 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,760 Speaker 1: option after being frustrated by the Republicans use of the 445 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:03,280 Speaker 1: filibuster against then President Obama's administration and federal court nominees. Right, 446 00:26:03,359 --> 00:26:07,560 Speaker 1: they removed the sixty vote threshold. But hold up, they bust, 447 00:26:07,600 --> 00:26:11,200 Speaker 1: we bust. And then the Republicans did it in two 448 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:15,159 Speaker 1: thousand and seventeen, triggering the nuclear option as well to 449 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:20,399 Speaker 1: get nominees through. This is what I mean by they bust, 450 00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:24,280 Speaker 1: we bust. And this is a calculation you gotta make 451 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:27,359 Speaker 1: when you on top. If I pull this trigger, I 452 00:26:27,359 --> 00:26:30,320 Speaker 1: ain't gonna be on top the whole time. They might 453 00:26:30,440 --> 00:26:33,960 Speaker 1: pull the trigger back on me. Now, if you're a gangster, 454 00:26:34,480 --> 00:26:37,760 Speaker 1: you've already made that calculation when you signed up. Of 455 00:26:37,960 --> 00:26:40,680 Speaker 1: course they're gonna pull back. Of course they're gonna shoot back. 456 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:44,560 Speaker 1: But that don't mean I don't shoot. So the question 457 00:26:45,040 --> 00:26:47,879 Speaker 1: you gotta look at jo Biden that and be like, 458 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,760 Speaker 1: are you a killer or not? Did you sign up 459 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:54,080 Speaker 1: for this or not? What did you? What is you doing. 460 00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:58,320 Speaker 1: But the point is the filibuster has been a part 461 00:26:58,359 --> 00:27:02,080 Speaker 1: of the American Senate process since the beginning. The question 462 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,720 Speaker 1: is do you think we should or should not have one? 463 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,960 Speaker 1: Some say again, it's the only respite that the minority 464 00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:13,480 Speaker 1: party in power has because if not, like nig and nothing, 465 00:27:13,560 --> 00:27:15,480 Speaker 1: will never be able to do anything. And then it's 466 00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:18,840 Speaker 1: like it's basically a one party. I mean, is it so? 467 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:23,199 Speaker 1: Look so the arguments for a filibuster, Uh, I think 468 00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:26,800 Speaker 1: of it like this. It's like, yo, it promotes compromise, 469 00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,879 Speaker 1: like it makes foods compromise. It provides a constraint. This 470 00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 1: is what I've been trying to argue right now. It's 471 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:35,399 Speaker 1: like it provides constraints over the party in power, and 472 00:27:36,119 --> 00:27:40,480 Speaker 1: it supports confidence in American governance. These are the arguments 473 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:42,479 Speaker 1: for it. And then arguments against. What we'll get too 474 00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:45,120 Speaker 1: later is like, you know that's not what they're doing, 475 00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:47,520 Speaker 1: and you know you're being a racist. But let's go 476 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:51,160 Speaker 1: back to the four right quote. Let's see Mark these 477 00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:54,200 Speaker 1: and from the Washington Post. He says the Democrats should 478 00:27:54,240 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 1: take stock of everything they delayed and derailed under Trump 479 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,200 Speaker 1: because of the filibuster, and then and imagine that all 480 00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,480 Speaker 1: that and more enacted by a simple majority vote when 481 00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:10,280 Speaker 1: the Republicans gained control of Congress and the presidency, which 482 00:28:10,680 --> 00:28:14,280 Speaker 1: they eventually will, which is the whole argument. Look, they bust, 483 00:28:14,359 --> 00:28:17,480 Speaker 1: we bust. The filibuster allowed the Democrats to constrain the 484 00:28:17,520 --> 00:28:20,440 Speaker 1: Republicans from enacting what the Democrats considered to be a 485 00:28:20,560 --> 00:28:24,000 Speaker 1: radical agenda under a populous right wing president. If they 486 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 1: eliminate that too, and they act their own radical agenda, 487 00:28:29,280 --> 00:28:33,600 Speaker 1: they would rule that decision when they become the minority. 488 00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:36,119 Speaker 1: So they like, look to be careful now, because you 489 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:40,320 Speaker 1: ain't gonna always be in power, right. And then here's 490 00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:46,480 Speaker 1: Daniel Lips from the Federal Society January. Historically, the Senate 491 00:28:46,640 --> 00:28:50,479 Speaker 1: was designed to work its will to reach consensus, rather 492 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:53,400 Speaker 1: than to react of the passions of the day and 493 00:28:53,680 --> 00:28:57,160 Speaker 1: simply implement the will of the majority. And it forces 494 00:28:57,240 --> 00:29:02,480 Speaker 1: lawmakers of opposing political parties to work together and compromise. 495 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:05,600 Speaker 1: We can already see the cost of eliminating the need 496 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:10,000 Speaker 1: for bipartisan support of nominations. It is eroded public confidence. 497 00:29:10,600 --> 00:29:16,760 Speaker 1: Approving cabinet officials, judges, and justices along only party lines 498 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:21,960 Speaker 1: has been followed by lawmakers and public questioning of their legitimacy. 499 00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:28,240 Speaker 1: Extending the check this out major terry in power to 500 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:35,000 Speaker 1: major legislation would further erode public trust and increase the 501 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,600 Speaker 1: focus on political strategies to win a majority rather than government. 502 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:42,000 Speaker 1: So he's trying to say what we obviously know always happens, 503 00:29:42,120 --> 00:29:44,680 Speaker 1: which is, look, if you're the majority, you're gonna get 504 00:29:44,680 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 1: your will. And that's just not fair that the public 505 00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:50,560 Speaker 1: don't trust us. We gotta have some tool to stop 506 00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,320 Speaker 1: this just stupid cycle from continue. So if the government 507 00:29:53,360 --> 00:29:55,200 Speaker 1: gonna trust, you're gonna trust the laws we put in 508 00:29:55,280 --> 00:29:58,280 Speaker 1: place that they ain't just political laws. The people we 509 00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,160 Speaker 1: put in position ain't just political pos asians. We gotta 510 00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:04,360 Speaker 1: have something right to make you trust us. You with 511 00:30:04,560 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 1: it now, So the two big arguments against it is like, yo, 512 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 1: it's deeply racist, and it has no historical merit. Jo said. 513 00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:15,400 Speaker 1: So I'm gonna start with the historical merit part. I'm 514 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:20,760 Speaker 1: gonna quote um Caroline Frederickson from the Burning Center of 515 00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:25,560 Speaker 1: Justice in October. She says this, Now watch this. Some 516 00:30:25,720 --> 00:30:30,040 Speaker 1: Americans mistakenly believed that the filibuster originated in seventy nine 517 00:30:30,520 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 1: and was a part of the Framer's plan to how 518 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:35,840 Speaker 1: the Senate should function, it plainly was not. The Constitution 519 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:37,920 Speaker 1: leaves it up to the House and the Congress to 520 00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:41,720 Speaker 1: set its own rules. Indeed, the Framers considered and rejected 521 00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:46,200 Speaker 1: the idea of requiring supermajorities for legislation. As Alexander Hamilton 522 00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:49,480 Speaker 1: wrote in Federalists twenty two, to give a minority negative 523 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:54,360 Speaker 1: upon the majority, which is always the case where more 524 00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:58,960 Speaker 1: than the majority is requisite to a decision, is in 525 00:30:59,080 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: its tendency to subject the sense of a greater number 526 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:06,920 Speaker 1: than that of the lesser. They knew such built in 527 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:11,080 Speaker 1: obstruction could doom a republic, telling Lee, the filibuster did 528 00:31:11,120 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 1: not become a rule or a practice of the Senate 529 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 1: until a hundred and twenty nine years later, after the 530 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:21,080 Speaker 1: Constitution was ratified. Moreover, not only is the Constitution citling 531 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:27,000 Speaker 1: about the matter, but it prescribes the supermajority votes only 532 00:31:27,160 --> 00:31:32,080 Speaker 1: for very specific subjects such as treaties, and making clear 533 00:31:32,320 --> 00:31:37,600 Speaker 1: that the simple majority is the expectation of other circumstances, 534 00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:44,200 Speaker 1: including legislation that indicates supermajorities are required by the filibuster 535 00:31:44,920 --> 00:31:49,480 Speaker 1: and otherwise disfavored. That's a lot of words. Here's what 536 00:31:49,600 --> 00:31:53,000 Speaker 1: she's trying to say. What she's saying is, look, this 537 00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,440 Speaker 1: was never the plan. And you notice wasn't a plan. 538 00:31:55,800 --> 00:31:58,480 Speaker 1: And if a simple majority work for everything, why you 539 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:03,959 Speaker 1: gotta do this extra majority like this? Even Alexander Hamilton 540 00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:07,680 Speaker 1: new this wasn't a plan. So don't act like. Don't 541 00:32:07,680 --> 00:32:10,240 Speaker 1: act like it was always like this. It wasn't now, 542 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:16,160 Speaker 1: Pete this Rashad Robinson um in March one. The nature 543 00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:19,960 Speaker 1: of the filipbuster, it's rules and norms, is hardly an 544 00:32:20,000 --> 00:32:24,360 Speaker 1: ironclad tradition. It has changed and adapted greatly over the 545 00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,520 Speaker 1: years since it first became popular in the Civil rights era. 546 00:32:27,840 --> 00:32:32,240 Speaker 1: But what hasn't changed is it's enduring connection to racism. 547 00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,920 Speaker 1: The filipbuster has always stood in the way of racial progress, 548 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:38,840 Speaker 1: whether employed by the Southern Democrats and the Gym Crow 549 00:32:38,960 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 1: era or the Republican Party today as a major shift 550 00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:46,280 Speaker 1: in the party stance on racial equality. When you understand 551 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:50,120 Speaker 1: the filipbusters racist past, it becomes clear that it has 552 00:32:50,160 --> 00:32:53,040 Speaker 1: a racist present as well. We just need to get 553 00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:55,680 Speaker 1: rid of it. It's crazy when you see something that's 554 00:32:56,720 --> 00:33:04,280 Speaker 1: systematically racist, but is there so long. It's almost like 555 00:33:04,520 --> 00:33:08,600 Speaker 1: when you bake a cake. You can't. When you bite 556 00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,360 Speaker 1: the cake, you don't taste the flour no more. You 557 00:33:11,400 --> 00:33:15,240 Speaker 1: don't taste the eggs. You just taste the cake. This 558 00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,200 Speaker 1: argument is that's a filibuster, and some would argue that's 559 00:33:18,800 --> 00:33:22,880 Speaker 1: the electoral college. Electoral college was to make sure that 560 00:33:23,520 --> 00:33:26,160 Speaker 1: states with a lot of black people, a lot of 561 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:31,160 Speaker 1: free black people, don't have an advantage over states that 562 00:33:31,440 --> 00:33:35,440 Speaker 1: used to enslave black people. And this Voting Rights Act 563 00:33:35,480 --> 00:33:42,440 Speaker 1: from seven was even more in this same practice of like, yo, y'all, 564 00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:46,680 Speaker 1: just you're you're you're, you're diverting the point. You're doing 565 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:52,880 Speaker 1: this because you don't want brown folk to have rights. 566 00:33:53,480 --> 00:33:58,400 Speaker 1: And what's so crazy about it right now is it's 567 00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:02,760 Speaker 1: almost like niked, it's it's happening again, y'all. Don't you 568 00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:06,080 Speaker 1: don't want us to have to protect our our voting right, 569 00:34:06,160 --> 00:34:08,640 Speaker 1: so you you're doing it again. But you can step 570 00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:10,920 Speaker 1: back and say, well, no, it's just the procedure. What 571 00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,720 Speaker 1: are you talking about, it's just the procedure. It's because 572 00:34:14,800 --> 00:34:17,240 Speaker 1: now I can't taste the flower no more. It's already 573 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:21,880 Speaker 1: it's it's it's in the cake. If I keep talking, 574 00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:30,000 Speaker 1: you can't vote. But you gotta remember whatever weapon I got, 575 00:34:31,400 --> 00:34:35,239 Speaker 1: they got, but nigging you on top. Now you're gonna 576 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,920 Speaker 1: shoot or not you're gonna put on for us or 577 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:42,680 Speaker 1: what we put you on? You posed to ride for 578 00:34:42,800 --> 00:34:46,760 Speaker 1: us and it's a good cause. Are you afraid to shoot? 579 00:34:46,960 --> 00:34:50,480 Speaker 1: I thought you knew what you signed up for. Oh 580 00:34:51,640 --> 00:35:09,200 Speaker 1: all right, well maybe you're not against y'all. 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