Speaker 1: Listen, listen, listen, just keep talking. Just look look at
Speaker 1: they if they're talking, if they're talking to you, they're
Speaker 1: not talking to each other. Hood politics right now, little politics, y'all.
Speaker 1: So here was the game my sister and I used
Speaker 1: to play when we knew one of us was gonna
Speaker 1: get a whooping. Look here, just keep mama talking. I
Speaker 1: used to Look, this is what I used to do.
Speaker 1: I used to when I knew one of us was
Speaker 1: in trouble, and it was nowhere in the world that
Speaker 1: there would not be any shrapnel. Now look, in case
Speaker 1: you don't know, I'm black and his thing. When one
Speaker 1: kid in trouble, everybody in trouble. So to protect your
Speaker 1: own booty, You understand what I'm saying. Sometimes you gotta
Speaker 1: work together. And then his was crazy. Even if it's
Speaker 1: one of them's fault. They may mess around and be
Speaker 1: like mad at you for snitching. They're like, don't be
Speaker 1: snitching on your sister. Now turn your assist and now
Speaker 1: she in trouble. But anyway, the point is just keep talking.
Speaker 1: So I would start cleaning the house. I would clean up.
Speaker 1: I would be showing their mom and look at look
Speaker 1: how good this look? How good? I'll clean this house
Speaker 1: because I just don't want her to talk to Dad,
Speaker 1: because if she talked to Dad, didn't that me. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have some consequences and repercussions. It's gonna be a situation.
Speaker 1: Just keep talking, show them all the good things you've
Speaker 1: been doing. I don't have to be about nothing. Just
Speaker 1: keep talking. I applied this sometimes too, dealing with some
Speaker 1: hood nikeds is with the hits something. Keep them laughing.
Speaker 1: If you can keep them laughing, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and not gonna distract you from the situation that might
Speaker 1: go down had they had a chance to communicate. Sometimes
Speaker 1: you sy man, I'm tired of this talking. Man, quit talking.
Speaker 1: And when you gotta throw them, you gotta throw them.
Speaker 1: It is what it is. Sometimes you just gotta chuck them.
Speaker 1: But if you keep them talking, you understand what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: and you can stop the stuff from happening. But you
Speaker 1: have to remember every weapon you got they got. There
Speaker 1: was a moment in Los Angeles when when the call
Speaker 1: came from from apparently from prison, to stop the drive
Speaker 1: bys because it just they're just not g you know,
Speaker 1: according to them. But like that's one reason. But the
Speaker 1: other reason was you have to remember cars go both directions.
Speaker 1: You ride on somebodyhood, they're gonna ride back. Now, a
Speaker 1: truehoods to knows that, like this is what I signed
Speaker 1: up for. They understand as the saying goes, they bust
Speaker 1: we bus. So whatever weapon you got, they probably got to.
Speaker 1: So whether it's talking and shooting, careful day, bust we
Speaker 1: bust Philip buster will holes. Let's talk about philipbusters hood politics.
Speaker 1: So look, you got Texas Democrats piecing out like I'm
Speaker 1: just not even gonna stay in the state. Y'all can't.
Speaker 1: Y'all can't cast this final vote if if we're not there.
Speaker 1: So they didn't win all the way to Washington, at
Speaker 1: least at the point that I'm recording this, you know,
Speaker 1: because if they stayed in state, Texas could have sent
Speaker 1: state troopers, could have sent Walker Texas Ranger to get them.
Speaker 1: That's they lass. You also got on the hill Republicans filibustering.
Speaker 1: You need to know what the hell of filibuster is
Speaker 1: and why everybody doing everything they do. Then you got
Speaker 1: the progressive Democrats being like, why you ain't breaking the filibuster?
Speaker 1: Joe say something? Come on, man, put off for the hood.
Speaker 1: You're gonna come on dog, like we're all telling you, yo,
Speaker 1: you need to stop this doing this, and Joe just
Speaker 1: going yeah, Republicans, y'all gotta stop. But he ain't. He
Speaker 1: ain't about that action, like the action would be bro. Okay,
Speaker 1: you got the power to to end this mug. The
Speaker 1: question is, nigger, what the hell of filipbuster? And what
Speaker 1: is everybody in a tip for? So what's the big deal?
Speaker 1: Why are we even talking about a filibuster getting in
Speaker 1: the first place? Well, how today is gonna go is
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you, like what the issue is, what
Speaker 1: a filibuster is, history of filipbuster, and maybe try to
Speaker 1: use our antennas to understand why this mug exists and
Speaker 1: why Joe ain't doing nothing about it because it looked
Speaker 1: right now he's just getting pumped by the Republicans, Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know why you're just letting these people do
Speaker 1: what the hell you want to do. But actually I
Speaker 1: have a theory as to why, but I don't know. Anyway,
Speaker 1: we're talking about voting. We're talking about voters suppression, voter fraud,
Speaker 1: and voter rights. It's all around voting. Okay, you got
Speaker 1: the John C. Lewis Voter Rights Act H one or
Speaker 1: H four right. That has to do with the protection
Speaker 1: around different hindrances that seem to have been promoted. Let's
Speaker 1: be real. They were promoted by it by really the
Speaker 1: Trump bites, mainly because of this big old lie that
Speaker 1: there was widespread voter fraud throughout last election, and the
Speaker 1: extremes would say that you know, Trump won and there's
Speaker 1: five thousand people that we're dead that already voted. None
Speaker 1: of this stuff is really you should thought of those votes,
Speaker 1: this really didn't count, and you could go back. I
Speaker 1: feel like the biggest, the biggest defense against this is
Speaker 1: you go back to Lindsey Graham, who owned the block.
Speaker 1: Lindsey Graham was like, all right, word, okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go ride for y'all. Give me the receipts. Show me
Speaker 1: you say, five thousand, show me them, show me, give
Speaker 1: me give me ten, give me ten examples. And he
Speaker 1: was like, y'all still ain't got me no examples. And
Speaker 1: it's like, nigga, I'm on your side. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: go I'm trying to go earn for the block. Man,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to go put off for y'all, I'm not
Speaker 1: the end of me. Fam, I ain't the I'm trying
Speaker 1: to put all for you. You You can't give me no receipts.
Speaker 1: I want to go fight for you, Like, damn, you
Speaker 1: give me some receipts. Cut. You know what I'm saying
Speaker 1: was was Mr Graham stand right? So that to me
Speaker 1: is like tells you a little more about you know,
Speaker 1: what's going on. And then what kept happening out of
Speaker 1: some of the conservative voices is they kept saying, we
Speaker 1: gotta change this vote and stuff because if we don't,
Speaker 1: we're gonna keep losing, which kind of sound like if
Speaker 1: we just what you kind of saying is if enough
Speaker 1: people get access to vote, they're not gonna vote for us.
Speaker 1: So we gotta make sure y'all don't get access to vote. Right,
Speaker 1: So you have all these things that was happening under
Speaker 1: under the banner of protecting the integrity of the quality
Speaker 1: of our voting. So like re looking at the Arizona thing,
Speaker 1: and and I don't know if y'all y'all are up
Speaker 1: on that, Like the Arizona election has been recounted multiple times,
Speaker 1: and it's still like nigked, Like we find in clerical errors.
Speaker 1: But dog like you, they ain't know this. Look, we're
Speaker 1: just not seeing this conspiracy. You know that you're trying
Speaker 1: to tell me. So now, out in Texas, this is
Speaker 1: how these two things are are connected. Out in Texas,
Speaker 1: they're trying to say, Okay, listen, that's what we need
Speaker 1: to do. We need to make sure you don't get
Speaker 1: a day off work to go vote. It has to
Speaker 1: be in person. It's got to be normal business hours.
Speaker 1: And if you don't make it there, you're not allowed
Speaker 1: to give people water, You're not allowed to give people.
Speaker 1: Just under this idea that like, by doing all these
Speaker 1: extra things make it it making voting more accessible, having
Speaker 1: voter I d s and to be like we don't
Speaker 1: know if he is at a dead sold security number,
Speaker 1: Like we don't know who this person is. What if
Speaker 1: you vote twice, if you mail in and come to
Speaker 1: the thing, like, it's not fair. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: We need to make sure that like this vote is
Speaker 1: as fair as possible. And look we're trying to help y'all.
Speaker 1: Now listen, Voter fraud happens. Don't get it twisted. Uh,
Speaker 1: it's just it's just not really the at the scale
Speaker 1: that they're saying like, we just don't have no evidence
Speaker 1: of that, and dudes is admitting, like Homie from Michigan
Speaker 1: that came forward and said there was a whole bunch
Speaker 1: of mail ballots that was for He came forward and
Speaker 1: was like, nah, I was Captain, Like, it's just not
Speaker 1: what they said it was. So they're like, we're trying
Speaker 1: to pass this. The problem is a lot of these things.
Speaker 1: Number One, they harkened back to a time which were
Speaker 1: called the Black Codes, which was purposefully trying to stop
Speaker 1: black people from vote because when we came out to vote,
Speaker 1: we put our people in office. Do you know understead
Speaker 1: I'm saying it's because voting. Believe it or not, newsflash
Speaker 1: works get you saying, uh, but there's that. So it
Speaker 1: harkens back to those times. And then secondly, it often
Speaker 1: penalizes lower income people. So it's not necessarily just black folks,
Speaker 1: but it's just lower income people, people that don't have
Speaker 1: access right. You know what I'm saying, It's important to
Speaker 1: acknowledge the distinction between a right and a privilege is
Speaker 1: by virtue of your citizenship, you have the right to vote.
Speaker 1: I don't have to show you nothing except for the
Speaker 1: fact that I'm a citizen. So when you say, well,
Speaker 1: just having an idea is like, I mean, that's just
Speaker 1: like it's maybe it's an inconvenience, But who ain't got
Speaker 1: I D. The plain people ain't got I D. You
Speaker 1: just can't deny my constitutional right because I ain't got
Speaker 1: no I D. Like I don't. I don't know what
Speaker 1: else to say. And now, practically speaking, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of different ways to verify a person's identity, you know. Oh,
Speaker 1: but when you add that to these other things like
Speaker 1: poles close at five, you can't mail in. So it's like, well,
Speaker 1: if I can't if I can't miss a day of work,
Speaker 1: you're telling me I can't miss it. You're telling me,
Speaker 1: you're telling me we don't get the day off. I
Speaker 1: gotta miss a day of work. And if I can't
Speaker 1: miss a day of work, I can't send it in early.
Speaker 1: You don't want me to mail it in. It's almost
Speaker 1: like you don't want me to vote, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. There's a great pod on the through Line
Speaker 1: podcast about Frederick Douglas and why he believed voting was
Speaker 1: so important, and it's it's like he's really even back then,
Speaker 1: capturing like captured the un you're standing of, Like, there
Speaker 1: is real power in this, especially because if you understand
Speaker 1: what was happening right after, right during reconstruction, how hard
Speaker 1: they went to make sure that black people did not
Speaker 1: vote was oh, niggy, you just showed your cards. I mean.
Speaker 1: Then they had this thing called this grandfather clause, which
Speaker 1: was hilarious, which was like, if your granddaddy voted in
Speaker 1: eighteen sixty, then you can vote. Well, Nick, Obviously nobody
Speaker 1: black granddaddy voted in eighteen sixty, So like it's just
Speaker 1: we know what you're doing. You're putting all these undue
Speaker 1: burdens on people that don't have the privileges that everybody
Speaker 1: else do. So what they're trying to say is like
Speaker 1: voting shouldn't be harder. And so the Democrats chose, like
Speaker 1: we've been trying to argue this that like y'all bugging,
Speaker 1: but if you're not finna like listen, then we're just
Speaker 1: gonna bounce. Now this has been done before. It was
Speaker 1: just the other way around. Day Bust we Bust. The
Speaker 1: Republicans have walked out of Texas legist later before Day
Speaker 1: Bust we Bust, now they're using the same tactic. Now
Speaker 1: move that back to the hill on Capitol Hill. It's
Speaker 1: still the same idea of of voting right, of passing
Speaker 1: laws that would make sure that there's equal protection under
Speaker 1: the law for people despite their socioeconomic, racial, ethnic access
Speaker 1: with voting should be more accessible. You're not allowed to
Speaker 1: put hindrances and obstacles in front of constitutional rights, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You can put them in front
Speaker 1: of privileges like a driver's license. Just because you're a citizen,
Speaker 1: don't mean you get to drive, like you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. Like, but just because you're a citizen, you
Speaker 1: get to vote. Over twenty one, you get to vote.
Speaker 1: It is what it is like. It just comes with
Speaker 1: its package deal, right, So they're trying to uh pass
Speaker 1: some laws that have more protection about that. Now that
Speaker 1: now the specificity is the law is not the point
Speaker 1: of this this pod. But what the Republican legislator is
Speaker 1: doing is a thing called filibustering. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: tool you use. I'm gonna get into the specifics of
Speaker 1: this later, but I want to set the stage here.
Speaker 1: When somebody presents a bill, we post a debate on it. Right,
Speaker 1: So you you you do this point, this point, this point,
Speaker 1: and the loss says we can't stop, we can't stop
Speaker 1: to vote on it until everybody gets the piece off,
Speaker 1: until you're able to fly and land your plane. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Everyone gets to land their plane
Speaker 1: before we vote. Right, you have to let this nigga finish.
Speaker 1: That's why I said in the beginning, sometimes your best
Speaker 1: defense is to keep talking, Nikki. If you could keep talking,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. If you could keep if
Speaker 1: you could keep these niggas occupied, oh some mothers shit,
Speaker 1: maybe you could, you can stop a decision from being made,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So if right now, if
Speaker 1: you're not the Senate majority, you're the Senate minority, one
Speaker 1: of your ways because you know, because how the numbers work,
Speaker 1: that y'all ain't gonna ever get your way. So one
Speaker 1: line of defense is to just keep talking, is to
Speaker 1: make sure that y'all never do get to vote on it. Right.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get into the history of like how this
Speaker 1: has been used in a second, but that's one thing
Speaker 1: that's happening right now, is this is Republicans are proverbially speaking,
Speaker 1: still talking now, the Democrats are looking at President Biden,
Speaker 1: who's supposed to be like the top of the top
Speaker 1: of the hood, and they're like, hey, hey, homie, can
Speaker 1: you tell them niggas to shut the funk up so
Speaker 1: we can finish this damn nigga. You know the rules,
Speaker 1: we could we could end this ship with a culture
Speaker 1: you We could, I mean, we could do a person vote.
Speaker 1: You could change the rules right now. It takes sixty people.
Speaker 1: We could change it to nick and you got the
Speaker 1: power to do it. Like, why you're not putting on
Speaker 1: damn man like you? We can you can initiate right now.
Speaker 1: A matter of fact, the whole party asking you, like,
Speaker 1: what the hell man like in the filibuster? But he not.
Speaker 1: But let's step back, though the hell is a filipbuster.
Speaker 1: A filipbuster is talking a bill to death. What do
Speaker 1: I mean by that? It's a tactic of delaying action
Speaker 1: on a legislation because you can't pass a law until
Speaker 1: everyone gets to land their playing. Now. I'm a quote
Speaker 1: from the Senate dot gov. What they say straight from
Speaker 1: the website. The tactic of using long speeches to delay
Speaker 1: an action on legislation appeared in the very first session
Speaker 1: of Senate on September twenty second nine. Pennsylvania Senator William
Speaker 1: McClay wrote in his diary that the design of the
Speaker 1: Virginians was to take away the time so that we
Speaker 1: could not get the bill passed. As a number of
Speaker 1: filipbusters grew in the nineteenth century, the Senate had no
Speaker 1: formal process to allow a majority to end the debate
Speaker 1: in force of legislation. Why you think Virginia ain't wont
Speaker 1: to law passed? The hint is racism nd slavery. Right,
Speaker 1: So basically, it's me at the house going but look, look, look,
Speaker 1: look look mom, but wait wait wait, wait now wait
Speaker 1: wait listen before you talk. But wait, wait, but listen,
Speaker 1: look look, look, look, look, look, look look wait. No,
Speaker 1: you know, and let me tell you about my homework.
Speaker 1: Oh a matter of fact, you know what. Let me
Speaker 1: tell you something. Let me tell you what I learned
Speaker 1: the church today. You just I'm coming up with a
Speaker 1: million things just to keep saying no one, because I
Speaker 1: don't want her to go. Just keep talking to avoid
Speaker 1: the whooping. The filipbuster is is whether it's praise for
Speaker 1: better for worse. We're gonna go through like pros and
Speaker 1: cons about it. But what it's saying is, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stop the vote on this. Even if I can't give
Speaker 1: you a real reason as to why this is a
Speaker 1: bad vote or why this is a bad idea, Maybe
Speaker 1: it's just as simple as my constituents don't want it,
Speaker 1: the hood don't like it. But I really don't have
Speaker 1: no other real reasons for it. But I'm just it's
Speaker 1: just bad. I like. And if you're a political minority
Speaker 1: in the deadlock that we're in now, Like, if you
Speaker 1: think about the way that our Congress has looked, where
Speaker 1: it's like whoever's got the majority in Congress, If there's
Speaker 1: more Republicans than Republican laws passed, there more Democrats. Everybody
Speaker 1: votes a long party lines, they're not gonna nobody. Everybody's
Speaker 1: holding the line. So like, you can't get nothing passed anyway.
Speaker 1: So and if you know it's like you can't just
Speaker 1: be out there and do nothing, they get like, I
Speaker 1: can't do nothing, So what do you do? Well? You
Speaker 1: just talk? Now, the name filibuster, which is the craziest thing.
Speaker 1: I love it because it sounds like filibuster. Uh, it's
Speaker 1: derived from a Dutch word called freebooter and the Spanish
Speaker 1: word philbustatles to describe the pirates rating then the Caribbean Islands,
Speaker 1: and the term began to appear in the American legislative
Speaker 1: debates in the eighteen fifties, and it was supposed to
Speaker 1: be like a throwback to like, yo, you're just like
Speaker 1: you're just gonna take over. You're just gonna pirate. You're
Speaker 1: just gonna pirate this mug just take over the whole thing,
Speaker 1: claiming as yours by just not talking. You filibuster now,
Speaker 1: because of these filibusters, there's a thing called culture that
Speaker 1: we talked about before. It's a method of ending the
Speaker 1: debate and bringing it to the vote. So if you
Speaker 1: are the majority in Congress and you like nigga, if
Speaker 1: this nigga, don't shut the funk up, Okay, I'm calling
Speaker 1: for culture, right, which is a way of ending the
Speaker 1: debate saying, nigga, we vote now, I don't care, I
Speaker 1: don't care what it is. And only the majority can
Speaker 1: do that, and that's what the Democrats are asking Biden
Speaker 1: to do now. The way to pull that off right
Speaker 1: now is you need sixty votes. The problem is we're
Speaker 1: probably not gonna get sixty votes, but he has the
Speaker 1: right to change it to fifty one, because sixty votes
Speaker 1: means you're asking nine Republicans to flip on their hood.
Speaker 1: So the move is to change that to votes. Now
Speaker 1: we got fifty one, because that's just Democrats. I'm sure
Speaker 1: we can get fifty one of us to be like,
Speaker 1: shut the funk up, except for minuting, which is a
Speaker 1: whole other thing. Manton don't care. Then they gain in
Speaker 1: West Virginia. You think you think you're gonna make them
Speaker 1: white boys mad. It's harder to get sixty. Everybody like,
Speaker 1: come on, you got Biden, you got the gun in
Speaker 1: your hand. They can put a put a damn trigger,
Speaker 1: cause like, why are you not shooting? You can't just
Speaker 1: point the gun and talk. And this is what he
Speaker 1: does and and and this is what's crazy is in
Speaker 1: the speeches, the speeches he's been given about this. It's
Speaker 1: like it's real slick because he's talking big. He's talking
Speaker 1: like no, you can watch out. And they got a
Speaker 1: ride on y'all off in a bus man. Why don't
Speaker 1: don't mess with me. I don't gonna change it. What's
Speaker 1: wrong with y'all? Whyle y'all doing this. You notice ain't
Speaker 1: no good the hood like Democrats Like, well, nigga, shoot,
Speaker 1: what's what's all this talking for? Either you're gonna do
Speaker 1: it or you're not, Like nig were telling you what
Speaker 1: to do, you're asking it, Like that's what you can't
Speaker 1: just go out there and just dragged them. And it
Speaker 1: almost make it so you start thinking, nigga, are you
Speaker 1: the op or not? Like, why are you not you
Speaker 1: scared of them? Nigga, are you scared of them? Is
Speaker 1: that why you're not pulling this trigger? I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna continue on. Uh. The earliest filibuster also led
Speaker 1: to the first demands for culture a method of ending
Speaker 1: the debate. In eighteen forty one, the Democratic Minority attempted
Speaker 1: to run the clock on the bill to establish a
Speaker 1: national bank. Filibusters became more frequent in the late nineteenth
Speaker 1: and early twentieth century, leading to the serious debate about
Speaker 1: changing Senate rules to curtail this practice. At that point,
Speaker 1: the Senate has grown larger and busier, and the sheer
Speaker 1: amount of work to be done in each session meant
Speaker 1: that filibustering senator could disrupt the process of a body
Speaker 1: and gain concessions from senators who just wanted to get
Speaker 1: their bills passed. So what he's trying to say is this,
Speaker 1: like you got an agenda, Like nigga, we gotta run
Speaker 1: through seventy two laws and were at law number three
Speaker 1: and you up there reading cat in the hat. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not making this up. Niggas would just get up
Speaker 1: there and read out their diaries because you can't. You're
Speaker 1: not allowed to shut me up. Everybody gets to land
Speaker 1: their playing, So you just run the clock out, and
Speaker 1: at some point fools would be like, all right, nigga,
Speaker 1: if I vote know, will you shut the funk up
Speaker 1: so we can move on? Like damn, because as a senator,
Speaker 1: you like, well, I got bills I'm trying to get past.
Speaker 1: We need to get to mind because I'm trying to
Speaker 1: shine too. So it's actually what I mean what sucks
Speaker 1: about it is it works. Any of y'all ever ran
Speaker 1: the clock out on your mom's boy, if you don't
Speaker 1: stop talking, listen, Okay, if I let you go to
Speaker 1: this party, will you shut up and let me finish
Speaker 1: what I'm doing? Like got dog, You're ran the clock
Speaker 1: out all your mama. I have a few times. It
Speaker 1: works unless you're on the other side of the gun,
Speaker 1: because sometime your mama run the clock out on you. Hey,
Speaker 1: before you go, make sure you do this, you should
Speaker 1: do this, You do this, and then you get the
Speaker 1: lecture and she trying to tell you why you need
Speaker 1: to stop at your grandma house. And then after that,
Speaker 1: make sure you pick up these cigarettes for this, and
Speaker 1: then after that you know what I'm saying, and you
Speaker 1: just like, forget it. I ain't going no more. But now,
Speaker 1: one of the most major filipbusters that has to do
Speaker 1: with me and you has to do with Jim Crow.
Speaker 1: Jim Crow sour us trying to get cool writes under
Speaker 1: the law. Part of the hold up was nigga a filibuster.
Speaker 1: So for US people of color, specifically black people, civilally
Speaker 1: her folks, oftentimes throughout history this filibuster has been about
Speaker 1: our rights to vote, and it's like nigga. You know,
Speaker 1: the record for the longest individual speech goes to South
Speaker 1: Carolina Storm Thermind, who filibustered for twenty four hours in
Speaker 1: eighteen minutes against the Civil Rights Act of nineteen fifty seven. Now,
Speaker 1: the old school style is like you had to actually
Speaker 1: stand and send it and talk. But you know, the
Speaker 1: internet and a pandemic meant that that's just it's just
Speaker 1: not feasible, like and it's not necessary. Now you don't
Speaker 1: have to actually stand up there and talk. You can
Speaker 1: just say, hey, I want to continue debate. Hey, I'm
Speaker 1: I have some ideas. Hey we can't vote yet, I
Speaker 1: still got thoughts. You don't have to actually stand there
Speaker 1: and give the speech, which I'm kind of like, man,
Speaker 1: that's kind of not g you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like I thought it was kind of g that, like,
Speaker 1: if you're really gonna do this, if you're really gonna
Speaker 1: do this to us, Nick, you need to stand there,
Speaker 1: you know, you know what I'm saying. But nobody wants
Speaker 1: stand there and listen because I mean it's awful. Now,
Speaker 1: who can filibuster any senator? They just need to give
Speaker 1: notice that they intend to do this, and usually you
Speaker 1: give your party a hand heads up that you're going
Speaker 1: to do this, and then the most frequent and formal
Speaker 1: step is just to be like, I object, and then
Speaker 1: the other senators say, hey, hey, we can't move on
Speaker 1: because it's full objects. Now that senator can ask to speak,
Speaker 1: but he does not have to speak like I said,
Speaker 1: because all you're trying to do is just start the
Speaker 1: buster again. To end the filibuster, you have to have
Speaker 1: this super weapon, which is called culture, right like we
Speaker 1: said before, which ends it. Now you need it to
Speaker 1: be a sixty votes right, which is basically three fourths
Speaker 1: of the Senate. Right, But the Democrats now are asking
Speaker 1: to move that down to fifty one because this is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's been happening since clearly it's a design flaw, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like, at least that's that's the
Speaker 1: perception if it's been in every possible Senate since the
Speaker 1: beginning of the country. Now, if the Culture passes, it
Speaker 1: dictates that there's a maximum thirty hours of debate, meaning okay,
Speaker 1: it's just one more date. Then we have to vote
Speaker 1: on the measure. But then if Culture does not pass,
Speaker 1: then the filibuster remains in limbo and the Senate has
Speaker 1: to move on to other other stuff. So that means
Speaker 1: like we pulled the culture, culture didn't pass. That means
Speaker 1: you still don't get to come back to your hood
Speaker 1: and be like, look that's what I got for you.
Speaker 1: You don't get to do it right now, there's a
Speaker 1: thing called the nuclear option. That's the fifty votes I'm
Speaker 1: talking about from a supermajority to just a majority. So
Speaker 1: in two thousand thirteen, the Democrats actually deployed the nuclear
Speaker 1: option after being frustrated by the Republicans use of the
Speaker 1: filibuster against then President Obama's administration and federal court nominees. Right,
Speaker 1: they removed the sixty vote threshold. But hold up, they bust,
Speaker 1: we bust. And then the Republicans did it in two
Speaker 1: thousand and seventeen, triggering the nuclear option as well to
Speaker 1: get nominees through. This is what I mean by they bust,
Speaker 1: we bust. And this is a calculation you gotta make
Speaker 1: when you on top. If I pull this trigger, I
Speaker 1: ain't gonna be on top the whole time. They might
Speaker 1: pull the trigger back on me. Now, if you're a gangster,
Speaker 1: you've already made that calculation when you signed up. Of
Speaker 1: course they're gonna pull back. Of course they're gonna shoot back.
Speaker 1: But that don't mean I don't shoot. So the question
Speaker 1: you gotta look at jo Biden that and be like,
Speaker 1: are you a killer or not? Did you sign up
Speaker 1: for this or not? What did you? What is you doing.
Speaker 1: But the point is the filibuster has been a part
Speaker 1: of the American Senate process since the beginning. The question
Speaker 1: is do you think we should or should not have one?
Speaker 1: Some say again, it's the only respite that the minority
Speaker 1: party in power has because if not, like nig and nothing,
Speaker 1: will never be able to do anything. And then it's
Speaker 1: like it's basically a one party. I mean, is it so?
Speaker 1: Look so the arguments for a filibuster, Uh, I think
Speaker 1: of it like this. It's like, yo, it promotes compromise,
Speaker 1: like it makes foods compromise. It provides a constraint. This
Speaker 1: is what I've been trying to argue right now. It's
Speaker 1: like it provides constraints over the party in power, and
Speaker 1: it supports confidence in American governance. These are the arguments
Speaker 1: for it. And then arguments against. What we'll get too
Speaker 1: later is like, you know that's not what they're doing,
Speaker 1: and you know you're being a racist. But let's go
Speaker 1: back to the four right quote. Let's see Mark these
Speaker 1: and from the Washington Post. He says the Democrats should
Speaker 1: take stock of everything they delayed and derailed under Trump
Speaker 1: because of the filibuster, and then and imagine that all
Speaker 1: that and more enacted by a simple majority vote when
Speaker 1: the Republicans gained control of Congress and the presidency, which
Speaker 1: they eventually will, which is the whole argument. Look, they bust,
Speaker 1: we bust. The filibuster allowed the Democrats to constrain the
Speaker 1: Republicans from enacting what the Democrats considered to be a
Speaker 1: radical agenda under a populous right wing president. If they
Speaker 1: eliminate that too, and they act their own radical agenda,
Speaker 1: they would rule that decision when they become the minority.
Speaker 1: So they like, look to be careful now, because you
Speaker 1: ain't gonna always be in power, right. And then here's
Speaker 1: Daniel Lips from the Federal Society January. Historically, the Senate
Speaker 1: was designed to work its will to reach consensus, rather
Speaker 1: than to react of the passions of the day and
Speaker 1: simply implement the will of the majority. And it forces
Speaker 1: lawmakers of opposing political parties to work together and compromise.
Speaker 1: We can already see the cost of eliminating the need
Speaker 1: for bipartisan support of nominations. It is eroded public confidence.
Speaker 1: Approving cabinet officials, judges, and justices along only party lines
Speaker 1: has been followed by lawmakers and public questioning of their legitimacy.
Speaker 1: Extending the check this out major terry in power to
Speaker 1: major legislation would further erode public trust and increase the
Speaker 1: focus on political strategies to win a majority rather than government.
Speaker 1: So he's trying to say what we obviously know always happens,
Speaker 1: which is, look, if you're the majority, you're gonna get
Speaker 1: your will. And that's just not fair that the public
Speaker 1: don't trust us. We gotta have some tool to stop
Speaker 1: this just stupid cycle from continue. So if the government
Speaker 1: gonna trust, you're gonna trust the laws we put in
Speaker 1: place that they ain't just political laws. The people we
Speaker 1: put in position ain't just political pos asians. We gotta
Speaker 1: have something right to make you trust us. You with
Speaker 1: it now, So the two big arguments against it is like, yo,
Speaker 1: it's deeply racist, and it has no historical merit. Jo said.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna start with the historical merit part. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna quote um Caroline Frederickson from the Burning Center of
Speaker 1: Justice in October. She says this, Now watch this. Some
Speaker 1: Americans mistakenly believed that the filibuster originated in seventy nine
Speaker 1: and was a part of the Framer's plan to how
Speaker 1: the Senate should function, it plainly was not. The Constitution
Speaker 1: leaves it up to the House and the Congress to
Speaker 1: set its own rules. Indeed, the Framers considered and rejected
Speaker 1: the idea of requiring supermajorities for legislation. As Alexander Hamilton
Speaker 1: wrote in Federalists twenty two, to give a minority negative
Speaker 1: upon the majority, which is always the case where more
Speaker 1: than the majority is requisite to a decision, is in
Speaker 1: its tendency to subject the sense of a greater number
Speaker 1: than that of the lesser. They knew such built in
Speaker 1: obstruction could doom a republic, telling Lee, the filibuster did
Speaker 1: not become a rule or a practice of the Senate
Speaker 1: until a hundred and twenty nine years later, after the
Speaker 1: Constitution was ratified. Moreover, not only is the Constitution citling
Speaker 1: about the matter, but it prescribes the supermajority votes only
Speaker 1: for very specific subjects such as treaties, and making clear
Speaker 1: that the simple majority is the expectation of other circumstances,
Speaker 1: including legislation that indicates supermajorities are required by the filibuster
Speaker 1: and otherwise disfavored. That's a lot of words. Here's what
Speaker 1: she's trying to say. What she's saying is, look, this
Speaker 1: was never the plan. And you notice wasn't a plan.
Speaker 1: And if a simple majority work for everything, why you
Speaker 1: gotta do this extra majority like this? Even Alexander Hamilton
Speaker 1: new this wasn't a plan. So don't act like. Don't
Speaker 1: act like it was always like this. It wasn't now,
Speaker 1: Pete this Rashad Robinson um in March one. The nature
Speaker 1: of the filipbuster, it's rules and norms, is hardly an
Speaker 1: ironclad tradition. It has changed and adapted greatly over the
Speaker 1: years since it first became popular in the Civil rights era.
Speaker 1: But what hasn't changed is it's enduring connection to racism.
Speaker 1: The filipbuster has always stood in the way of racial progress,
Speaker 1: whether employed by the Southern Democrats and the Gym Crow
Speaker 1: era or the Republican Party today as a major shift
Speaker 1: in the party stance on racial equality. When you understand
Speaker 1: the filipbusters racist past, it becomes clear that it has
Speaker 1: a racist present as well. We just need to get
Speaker 1: rid of it. It's crazy when you see something that's
Speaker 1: systematically racist, but is there so long. It's almost like
Speaker 1: when you bake a cake. You can't. When you bite
Speaker 1: the cake, you don't taste the flour no more. You
Speaker 1: don't taste the eggs. You just taste the cake. This
Speaker 1: argument is that's a filibuster, and some would argue that's
Speaker 1: the electoral college. Electoral college was to make sure that
Speaker 1: states with a lot of black people, a lot of
Speaker 1: free black people, don't have an advantage over states that
Speaker 1: used to enslave black people. And this Voting Rights Act
Speaker 1: from seven was even more in this same practice of like, yo, y'all,
Speaker 1: just you're you're you're, you're diverting the point. You're doing
Speaker 1: this because you don't want brown folk to have rights.
Speaker 1: And what's so crazy about it right now is it's
Speaker 1: almost like niked, it's it's happening again, y'all. Don't you
Speaker 1: don't want us to have to protect our our voting right,
Speaker 1: so you you're doing it again. But you can step
Speaker 1: back and say, well, no, it's just the procedure. What
Speaker 1: are you talking about, it's just the procedure. It's because
Speaker 1: now I can't taste the flower no more. It's already
Speaker 1: it's it's it's in the cake. If I keep talking,
Speaker 1: you can't vote. But you gotta remember whatever weapon I got,
Speaker 1: they got, but nigging you on top. Now you're gonna
Speaker 1: shoot or not you're gonna put on for us or
Speaker 1: what we put you on? You posed to ride for
Speaker 1: us and it's a good cause. Are you afraid to shoot?
Speaker 1: I thought you knew what you signed up for. Oh
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