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Speaker 1: they're like, well, technically we do have this population. So

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Speaker 1: the bigger the states population, the more money you'd receive

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Speaker 1: for your federal budget, and the more representation in Congress.

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Speaker 1: So like they want to be able to send more

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Speaker 1: representatives to Congress so we can have more political power, right,

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Speaker 1: And the Northern States was like, now, wait a damn minute.

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Speaker 1: You just told me they're not humans. You want to

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Speaker 1: treat them like cattle, and now you want to count

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Speaker 1: them towards your population. Nah, fam, bring that same energy.

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Speaker 1: This ain't gonna work for us. The Southern States was like,

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Speaker 1: I don't care, it will work for you. You want

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Speaker 1: us to stay in this union, this is what we'

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Speaker 1: finna do. We need our enslaved people to be counted.

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Speaker 1: North was like, this is absolutely ridiculous, man. You can't

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Speaker 1: have it both ways. And they was like, you want

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Speaker 1: us to state this what we demand. So they said, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay,

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Speaker 1: this is what we're gonna do. Here's the deal, y'all

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Speaker 1: stick around. We still need to make a country. But

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Speaker 1: the enslaved people need to count as three fifths towards

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Speaker 1: your population. So three fifths of a human does that?

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Speaker 1: I so each person is three fifths of a person.

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Speaker 1: So you got to understand fractions. Each black person is

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Speaker 1: counts as three fists of person. So you need for

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Speaker 1: it to get to five fifths to be one person,

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Speaker 1: you need two black people and then you get kind

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Speaker 1: of half a person because they three out of five, right,

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Speaker 1: it was two point five out of five. Then you

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Speaker 1: need two black people with equal one white dude, So

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Speaker 1: now you need are you following me? This? How absurd?

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Speaker 1: This is this is racism, do to your braining. State

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Speaker 1: of Massachusetts was like, so, so let's make the math. Math.

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Speaker 1: What you're saying is for the three fits compromise, then

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Speaker 1: two black people is six fifths, So that's one in

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Speaker 1: one fish. You're telling me two black people equals one

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Speaker 1: in one fifth white dude. So then you add a

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Speaker 1: third black dude, right, and that's one in four fifths.

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Speaker 1: So then you add a third black dude. Right now,

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Speaker 1: that's two and two fifths. Okay, got it? What are

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Speaker 1: y'all serious? What is even? What are we talking about?

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Speaker 1: Hell no, now, remember it's hot as hell. Fools is

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Speaker 1: getting tied. I'm tired of talking about this. You stink

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Speaker 1: your breath steak and this is ridiculous. And so what

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Speaker 1: do you do when you at work and y'all can't

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Speaker 1: come up with something? You know what y'all do? Y'all

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Speaker 1: take a break, everybody. Okay, everybody, take a break. Y'all

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Speaker 1: go home. We're gonna leave this for the night staff. Now,

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Speaker 1: you folks in relationships, I'm gonna say you married folks

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Speaker 1: straight or have sid generally, there's one of y'all in

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Speaker 1: this relationship that can't make no decisions when ain't hungry

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Speaker 1: or when they hot, you have a mess? Might just

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Speaker 1: they just pissy when they hot. I'm up my wife

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Speaker 1: to refer to her by her prefix. Listen, we got

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Speaker 1: a scale of one to my homeboy Holding's wedding. How

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Speaker 1: hungry are you? Obviously there's a story behind Holden's wedding.

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Speaker 1: I now know when she gets to about a seven,

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Speaker 1: I just need to make the call. She can't decide

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Speaker 1: what she want to eat. She's past she's past it,

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Speaker 1: So I just need to make sure food gets in

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Speaker 1: her body because she Nothing she gonna say is logical.

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Speaker 1: I'm like that when I'm tired. Some people, when they hot,

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Speaker 1: they're just mad at the world. When they hot, you

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Speaker 1: can't make no. We can't make no decision when I'm hot.

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Speaker 1: Like my mom was like that, leave me alone boys hot.

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Speaker 1: She used to listen. You know how many times I

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Speaker 1: got in trouble just because it was hot, Like, you

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Speaker 1: don't ask for no, Mama, let me long son is hot. Oh,

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Speaker 1: just can't make those decisions when you hot. I'm like

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Speaker 1: that when I'm tired. When I'm tired, or when I'm

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Speaker 1: worried about money, don't ask me no. Questions. I'll be

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Speaker 1: snapping at my children, just saying the most absurd I

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Speaker 1: hear them. Stop all that giggle it why because I'm tired. Okay,

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Speaker 1: so you gotta put yourself in these men shoes. They liket.

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Speaker 1: It's hot, y'all being dumb as a bag of rocks.

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Speaker 1: Just look, I'm okay, I'm just gonna go home. They

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Speaker 1: left it for the night staff, and that entered the

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Speaker 1: Committee of the Unresolved People, and they was like, okay, word,

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Speaker 1: here we go. That's what we're gonna do. Y'all don't

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Speaker 1: want the Congress to do it. Y'all feel like the

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Speaker 1: director ain't gonna work because your population don't work. And

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Speaker 1: so we're gonna take this three fists compromise. That means

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Speaker 1: you're gonna have more state representatives inside the House. So

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Speaker 1: we're gonna add up your state representatives with your little

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Speaker 1: three fists weird old stuff. Okay, connect it to do

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Speaker 1: your senators because every state only gets two senators, and

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Speaker 1: then that's the amount of electors you get, and then

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Speaker 1: how you choose your electors is up to you. But

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, listen to the point

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you. This was created to make the slave

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Speaker 1: states feel better. So who ends up winning are states

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Speaker 1: with lower populations and states that have slaves. That's who

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Speaker 1: ends up winning in this situation, in the state that

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Speaker 1: it's in. Now, now that's one point oh. Remember so

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Speaker 1: a version one point Oh, you voted and number one

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Speaker 1: got the president, a number two got the vice president.

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Speaker 1: That's how it worked at first. But then check this out.

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Speaker 1: In eighteen hundreds the run between Jefferson and Burr, they

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Speaker 1: both got majorities. It was a tie seventy three electoral votes. Well,

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Speaker 1: who's the president? Like a tie? So now what do

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Speaker 1: you have to do? Well, now you've got to go

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Speaker 1: to the the House of Representatives. The problem is the

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Speaker 1: House of Representatives was full of Federalists, which is what

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Speaker 1: John Adams was who lost. Enter the third body problem.

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Speaker 1: It's like the three body problem is space. Fam. This

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Speaker 1: is why it's hard for us to get our brain

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Speaker 1: around because we are stuck in this two party system.

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Speaker 1: It used to not be like that. You know, you

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Speaker 1: had the Whigs, the Federalists, the Democratic republic Then you

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Speaker 1: had the Democrats themselves and the Republicans themselves. These fools

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Speaker 1: didn't know what to do because you remember The Framers

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Speaker 1: hated the idea of political parties. It sounded too much

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Speaker 1: like just sounds too britishy, you feel me, But so

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Speaker 1: they didn't put anything in the Constitution about it. Nobody

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Speaker 1: thought it would ever turn into this. The Federalists, who

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Speaker 1: they just thought the other fools was traders. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: have to choose one of your all, and we all

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Speaker 1: like neither one of you. So in that position, right,

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Speaker 1: Alexander Hamilton, you know, the famed Alexander Hampton, a Federalist,

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Speaker 1: like lobby this party to choose Thomas Jefferson. Like. So

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Speaker 1: that's eventually what happened. And they was like, okay, listen,

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Speaker 1: we can't let this happen again. We thought we had,

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Speaker 1: We thought we had something going here with this electoral college.

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Speaker 1: Everybody think you think it was ever going to I

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Speaker 1: don't think it was ever gonna have no tie, right,

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Speaker 1: So out of that came the Twelfth Amendment, Right, So,

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Speaker 1: electoral college two point zero, which is the type that

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Speaker 1: we have today, which basically says, now you have to

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Speaker 1: put in one vote for the president and one vote

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Speaker 1: for the vice Now, obviously, the way we lobby, we

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Speaker 1: lobbied president and vice president as a ticketed pair. But

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Speaker 1: in theory, it's not written on our on our ballots anymore.

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Speaker 1: But in theory, you could vote for one president on

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Speaker 1: one party and the vice president all the electors could

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Speaker 1: if they so choose to. Now, let me bring in

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Speaker 1: the three fists compromise back in. If it wasn't for

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Speaker 1: the three fists compromise, Thomas Jefferson would have never had

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Speaker 1: enough electoral votes anyway. Remember, because they're adding them. Adding

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00:35:24,200 --> 00:35:29,480
Speaker 1: us black people made the district bigger, even though we

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Speaker 1: didn't we didn't vote for the man, like, we didn't

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Speaker 1: vote at all, but just our presence added to the

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Speaker 1: size of the Southern States. It gave them more electoral

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Speaker 1: votes because they counted us as slaves into their population

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Speaker 1: to grow their districts. Which means that Thomas Jefferson got

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Speaker 1: electoral votes based on people that ain't vote for him,

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Speaker 1: not only people didn't vote, and people didn't vote at

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Speaker 1: all because remember we couldn't vote. So I mean, is

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Speaker 1: that a democracy? Like what are we doing here? This

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Speaker 1: is what I mean by it works for the Southern

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Speaker 1: States like it worked for the slave It worked for

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Speaker 1: pro slavery people worked they were you had this cover

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Speaker 1: of small states. But y'all, y'all was cheating. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how it was to explain it. So then finally

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Speaker 1: you just just just like, since slavery not only is evil,

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Speaker 1: three fish compromise is absurd, teared about the country, you

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Speaker 1: got the Civil War, and then the thirteenth Amendment essentially

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Speaker 1: ended the three fix compromise because we're citizens. But then

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Speaker 1: you know, we could vote for a little bit. And

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Speaker 1: what we do after we started voting, we started electing

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Speaker 1: black people that ain't like that started the black codes

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Speaker 1: and all of the ways to disenfranchise it as voters,

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Speaker 1: and you know, all the voting registration and all these

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Speaker 1: different things that were made to make sure that black

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Speaker 1: people could have vote. Because once we started voting food,

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Speaker 1: we started winning all the way into the codifying of

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Speaker 1: the Jim Crow laws. This happened obviously from we talk

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Speaker 1: eighteen sixty five to the nineteen sixties, so for one

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Speaker 1: hundred years. This was going on until the Civil Rights

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Speaker 1: movement and us given getting our rights to vote without

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Speaker 1: all of the other Jim Crow stuff, which as a conclusion,

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Speaker 1: going back to the beginning part should tell you this

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Speaker 1: this how important voting is. You'd like, think about all

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Speaker 1: the rigamarole these people has went through to make sure

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Speaker 1: we vote, don't do it. So I'm just saying now

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Speaker 1: I'm with I stand with the rest of cools on

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Speaker 1: media to be like, you need to vote, and you

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Speaker 1: need to vote, and voting's not enough. So don't get

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Speaker 1: me wrong, I'm just saying, Yo, bananas moothie needs to

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Speaker 1: have bananas in it. What a metaphor. Now, it's the

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Speaker 1: system we have. Of course, it's got flaws, and I

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Speaker 1: personally think it was made for the seventeen hundreds, and

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Speaker 1: I think that there's some changes that need to be made.

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Speaker 1: Having said that, like I say before, even about capitalism,

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Speaker 1: you in the ocean, you might as well swim. I'm

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Speaker 1: obviously selling y'all a podcast, and I need y'all to

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Speaker 1: listen to these ads because I have yet to recoup.

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Speaker 1: I have yet to make a royalty from this show,

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Speaker 1: so I need most streams and I need y'all to

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Speaker 1: listen to the ads. So that I mean, at some

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Speaker 1: point I got to I still this third fourth season,

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Speaker 1: whatever I fourth year doing this, I still ain't made

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Speaker 1: no money from it except for the original contract, which

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Speaker 1: is great. But I love it make some extra money

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Speaker 1: for that. Anyway, I'm in the ocean, I need to swim.

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Speaker 1: But since you in the ocean, since you in this system,

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Speaker 1: you might as well swim. So now you fast forward

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Speaker 1: to now with all the ups and downs of how

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Speaker 1: to twist and turn and the wheeling and the dealing,

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Speaker 1: and then the fake electors that happened, you know, with

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Speaker 1: the twenty twenty election when Trump ain't liked the thing,

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Speaker 1: so we hired a whole new set of electors. Because

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Speaker 1: remember again, it's up to the state to choose electors

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Speaker 1: and how they choose it. The government or the constitution

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Speaker 1: don't really mention. It's up to the state. That's what

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Speaker 1: the state says, that's what the concert say. It's up

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Speaker 1: to stay how you choose your electors. These are just

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Speaker 1: the amount that you get. Now in our country, the

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Speaker 1: system is it's a winner take all. Let's just say

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Speaker 1: your electors vote three to two for Kamala in this

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Speaker 1: upcoming So your state had five electors, you voted three

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Speaker 1: to two for Kamala. So that means that a big

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Speaker 1: portion of y'all's population actually voted for Trump. But it

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Speaker 1: don't matter because since three out of the two voted

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Speaker 1: for Kamala, all of the electoral points go to her.

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Speaker 1: It don't matter what percentage of the population actually chose

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Speaker 1: the other person. You get the whole pot, even though

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Speaker 1: you may have barely won a little over half the pot.

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Speaker 1: You get the whole pot. Which again is how a

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Speaker 1: person could win a popular vote and lose the electoral

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Speaker 1: college is because you get the whole pot despite you

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Speaker 1: know whatever amount of the population actually chose that person,

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Speaker 1: because it's still it might have been more actual humans

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Speaker 1: in that particular state than the other state, but since

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Speaker 1: that state's electoral votes doesn't weigh as much as the

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Speaker 1: or weighs more than the other, and they got all

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Speaker 1: the points, that's how they win. You could scroll back

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Speaker 1: to what I mean by weight of their vote if

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Speaker 1: you need a quick refresher. Again, the volume of humans

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Speaker 1: inside of your district that that representative represents doesn't matter.

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Speaker 1: You still have one that still goes towards one electoral

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Speaker 1: college vote. So if I am a district of one

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Speaker 1: and you're a district of a thousand, right, if a

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Speaker 1: thousand of y'all voted for Kamala and I voted for Trump,

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Speaker 1: my vote weighs just as much as a thousand of

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Speaker 1: y'all y'all vote is one one thousandth the weight of mind.

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Speaker 1: That's what I mean by that. And it's again, so

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Speaker 1: that my one vote doesn't get drowned out. Is at

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Speaker 1: least what is sold to us, which is where you

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Speaker 1: get stuff like jerrymandering and all that stuff that we've

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Speaker 1: talked about before. It's and this was in the spirit

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Speaker 1: of being fair. Now, what that tells a candidate is,

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Speaker 1: you're not so concerned about what the people think per se.

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Speaker 1: You're concerned about the electoral college map, which one of

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Speaker 1: these states have the most points. That's when you hear

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Speaker 1: these things called swing states, purple states, the big Blue Wall,

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Speaker 1: like these are things that have not necessarily anything to

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Speaker 1: do with the amount of humans in the state. It's

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Speaker 1: the amount of electoral college points you get from it.

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Speaker 1: So what that tells the candidate is, since it's a

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Speaker 1: winner take all, I don't even need to try in

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Speaker 1: states that I know I'm not even gonna win. You

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Speaker 1: win by being the first one to get to two

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00:42:51,320 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy electoral college votes. So you look at

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Speaker 1: the map and you try to figure out looking at

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Speaker 1: that map, all fifty states where the delegates are broken

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Speaker 1: up from, and you just go, how can I That's

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Speaker 1: how you make the math work. How do I get

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Speaker 1: to two hundred and seventy? Which states do I need

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Speaker 1: to win? Right to get to that? Which states do

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00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,600
Speaker 1: I already know? Like forget it throughout the map. I'm

680
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:15,719
Speaker 1: never gonna win that, So I don't even calculate that.

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00:43:15,800 --> 00:43:20,120
Speaker 1: I'll fight for the ones that could help my math math.

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Speaker 1: That's the strategy. This is where the term battleground state

683
00:43:25,200 --> 00:43:28,480
Speaker 1: comes from, because it's like, Yo, this is a toss up.

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Speaker 1: I might possibly, I could possibly grab up all these points.

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Speaker 1: So if you are being smart about your energy, you

686
00:43:36,719 --> 00:43:40,520
Speaker 1: being smart about your budget, you being smart about your ads,

687
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Speaker 1: where your voters are, and which one do you have

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Speaker 1: a better chance of snatching up all the points? That's

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00:43:48,080 --> 00:43:50,240
Speaker 1: where you put your money in. You put your money,

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00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 1: your interest in where you think you could find people

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00:43:54,480 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: that's gonna get you the whole pot. So you take

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Speaker 1: California for example. I think this is the best example.

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Speaker 1: California is a blue state, Are you sure? Because it's

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Speaker 1: blue because of the Bay Area in LA there's just

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00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: a lot of people there. Bru You Kaipa, Orange County,

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Speaker 1: Kerrent County. The middle is I mean, it's the middle's rule.

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Speaker 1: Like they're farmers in there. You go up north to

698
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Speaker 1: Wayrika up in the mountains, they trump folk. It's very conservative.

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Speaker 1: Remember they they even thought about seceding. There was gonna

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Speaker 1: be Jefferson, the little spot in between and that little

701
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Speaker 1: land that might as well be Oregon at the top

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Speaker 1: of California and in the bottom of Oregon. In the

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00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:39,879
Speaker 1: top of California, they was gonna be their own state.

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Speaker 1: And then Pearl Harbor happens. So that's why they do it.

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Speaker 1: But like that's it's It may seem like California is

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Speaker 1: this bastion of progressivism, but when you think about the

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Speaker 1: fact that like dog somebody in Visalia or you know

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Speaker 1: why Rika got to pay the same gas prices as

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00:44:59,000 --> 00:45:02,960
Speaker 1: us in San Francisco, that's diabolical. They should not have

710
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:04,719
Speaker 1: to pay the same people. They should not have to

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00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 1: pay the same price. Like that's crazy, you know, But

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00:45:07,280 --> 00:45:09,319
Speaker 1: that's just how it is. Because it's one state and

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Speaker 1: California is worth fifty five points, California worth fifty five

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Speaker 1: points towards your electoral map. You have to ask yourself

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00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:20,640
Speaker 1: is the juice worth to squeeze? And if you like,

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00:45:20,719 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: ain't no way in the world I'm gonna win California.

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Speaker 1: Why would you even try? Like, I'm not even gonna

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Speaker 1: try to convince them, because even if because let's just

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Speaker 1: say I win half of the half of the points,

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Speaker 1: if I get half of the votes at California or

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00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,240
Speaker 1: right under half, it don't matter because all the points

722
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Speaker 1: gonna go to the other. So I just wasted my time.

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Speaker 1: If I'm running and I know I'm not gonna win,

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Speaker 1: why would I waste my time trying to convince these

725
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Speaker 1: people that there's not enough there's not enough people in

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Speaker 1: that state that would choose me in relation to those

727
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: that wouldn't. And you already got them, Like if you

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Speaker 1: like so obviously using this one, if you Donald Trump,

729
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:58,680
Speaker 1: like the Republication here is, you already got them. You

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Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like what, oh, I'll do a

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Speaker 1: rally here just because I can feel good, you know

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00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:07,640
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. But like you're way in California. I

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Speaker 1: mean you might be able to pluck off some people,

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00:46:09,560 --> 00:46:13,960
Speaker 1: but like you wasting your money here. No, you need

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Speaker 1: to right now, you need to focus on Arizona. You

736
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Speaker 1: need to focus on, you know, Wisconsin, fam like you

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00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,719
Speaker 1: got a chance there if you him, so, why would

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Speaker 1: I even try? So? What it does is that incentivizes

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00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:32,800
Speaker 1: the candidate to just drill down into their partisans because

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00:46:33,320 --> 00:46:35,479
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna win that state anyway. I'm not gonna

741
00:46:35,480 --> 00:46:37,919
Speaker 1: get none of those points. So why should I try

742
00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,240
Speaker 1: to get a piece of a pie that if I lose,

743
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:43,480
Speaker 1: I don't even get to keep the peace. That don't

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00:46:43,480 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 1: make no sense, do it. You're teaching me to just

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00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: govern the people that will vote for me, that's what

746
00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:51,160
Speaker 1: you're teaching them. Why would you? Are you following what

747
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:55,240
Speaker 1: I'm trying to say here? Our system as it stands today,

748
00:46:55,800 --> 00:46:59,840
Speaker 1: which was made to placate the slave States, is in

749
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:05,680
Speaker 1: forcing the type of partisanship that we all hate. Now,

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00:47:05,719 --> 00:47:08,480
Speaker 1: I don't have a solution. One of the solutions is

751
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:14,720
Speaker 1: dividing the electoral college based on counties rather than full states.

752
00:47:15,239 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 1: That way more it's a little bit closer to a

753
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: direct democracy. Because now, since this isn't the seventeen hundreds,

754
00:47:24,480 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: women can vote, black and brown people can vote, So

755
00:47:28,640 --> 00:47:31,920
Speaker 1: we're talking about a whole different set of people that

756
00:47:32,120 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: can possibly vote and you know what we all went.

757
00:47:35,719 --> 00:47:38,520
Speaker 1: We can read. People can read. Now there's such thing

758
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:41,600
Speaker 1: as the internet. It ain't like the seventeen hundreds where

759
00:47:42,040 --> 00:47:44,360
Speaker 1: you know, you had to vote in public and out loud.

760
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:47,680
Speaker 1: Foods will run into your house, drag you out the house,

761
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 1: drag you to the polls and be like, I'm a

762
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:52,879
Speaker 1: beach your ass unless you vote for this person, that's

763
00:47:53,040 --> 00:47:56,160
Speaker 1: like a don't of you notice that's how our elections

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00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:59,040
Speaker 1: used to be, like just rough like gangs in New

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00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:02,879
Speaker 1: York styles, like like they it was violent, homie. Now

766
00:48:02,920 --> 00:48:05,880
Speaker 1: it's all private and your business wasn't like that. So

767
00:48:06,600 --> 00:48:09,520
Speaker 1: we can just like our constitution, just like our democracy,

768
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: like we feel like we nailed it into seventeen hundreds

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Speaker 1: and it ain't you need no upgrades, Like we all

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Speaker 1: here out here on an os one iPhone which still

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00:48:17,600 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 1: got the button on it, just swearing we invented something,

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00:48:21,040 --> 00:48:22,880
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. So at the end of

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00:48:22,920 --> 00:48:24,839
Speaker 1: the day, this is what it is. Does that mean

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00:48:24,880 --> 00:48:27,279
Speaker 1: that your vote don't count? And oh that sucks. Don't

775
00:48:27,320 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: do that. You're in the ocean. You gotta swim. But

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00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:32,359
Speaker 1: this is what the electoral college is. It is a

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Speaker 1: basically we create a brand new Congress, and if the

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Speaker 1: electors do what we told them to do, then our

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00:48:39,360 --> 00:48:44,799
Speaker 1: voices is represented. But sometimes they don't. Sometimes they vote

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00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:49,480
Speaker 1: their own conscience. Sometimes president pretends like their votes didn't

781
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: matter and they just pick whole new people to vote.

782
00:48:52,239 --> 00:48:55,840
Speaker 1: And apparently you can't prosecute said president because he's immute.

783
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: But to reiterate again, there has to be a way

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00:48:59,800 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: to make sure that what would seem so simple as

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00:49:03,800 --> 00:49:07,439
Speaker 1: one person, one vote, how do you make sure that

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00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:14,200
Speaker 1: everybody's voices are heard? And you're right populations like Alaska,

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00:49:14,560 --> 00:49:16,640
Speaker 1: you know, in relays, like I said, given the example

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00:49:16,680 --> 00:49:19,239
Speaker 1: to California, it's like you're right, Like there's just more

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00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:21,759
Speaker 1: of us in LA, you know, But that don't mean

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00:49:21,800 --> 00:49:26,839
Speaker 1: that your voices, you know, which the rest of California,

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00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:31,120
Speaker 1: which produces a fifth of the country's produce, like, yeah,

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00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:34,080
Speaker 1: like we should y'all should be heard. You know. We

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00:49:34,320 --> 00:49:37,319
Speaker 1: arguing over water here in La. It's like we want

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00:49:37,400 --> 00:49:39,880
Speaker 1: water because you know, we're off the edge of a desert,

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Speaker 1: and they like, yeah, well we grow your food. Don't

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Speaker 1: you think we should give some water too? I feel

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Speaker 1: you you don't of an answer. I just think the

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Speaker 1: world we got now, I don't think that's the answer.

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