WEBVTT - Civic Cipher 111420 ft. Ramses Ja & Q. Ward 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.000 Yes, y'all, welcome to another episode of Civic Cipher. I'm 0:00:03.000 --> 0:00:04.240 your host, Rams, this job. 0:00:04.200 --> 0:00:06.080 Called me q Ward and it just so happens to 0:00:06.120 --> 0:00:10.280 be my name, Ramses. What's up, bro, everything in the world. Man, 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:17.040 back in the building to talk more about the state 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:19.560 of the Union. I like how you put that. You 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.240 sounded very presidential, if you will. 0:00:22.280 --> 0:00:25.560 Indeed, that is the vibe that I'm going for here. 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:27.319 You know, we haven't had a lot of examples of 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:30.440 that in recent times, trying to trying to make sure 0:00:30.440 --> 0:00:31.960 I set the tone for things to come. 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:33.519 Appreciate it, appreciate it. 0:00:34.000 --> 0:00:40.320 So yeah, here we are on you know, the other 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:44.839 side of a presidential campaign, or. 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.080 What we hope is the other side of it, well. 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:53.640 The election part of it, yes, indeed, But the first 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:57.240 thing that we have to talk about is where we 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:10.640 stand right now, which is Donald Trump's repeated, uh baseless 0:01:12.360 --> 0:01:17.280 uh claims that this election was somehow stolen from him 0:01:18.680 --> 0:01:22.319 and what that means on all sides. So I know 0:01:22.360 --> 0:01:23.520 you're you've been listening. 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:26.600 Yeah, I can't help it, man, I haven't. I have 0:01:26.760 --> 0:01:33.240 yet to exhale from the announced results because of, you know, 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:40.880 the continuous claims of fraud from the other side. 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:49.480 Right, well, I'm gonna say something that I believe needs 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:59.120 to be said. This appears to me I'm gonna have 0:01:59.160 --> 0:02:05.680 to assume too many people like a bona fide loss 0:02:06.960 --> 0:02:12.160 through the lens of or or on the terms of 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:16.360 rather Donald Trump, where if it's possible for him to 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.560 cast doubt on it so that he can say face, 0:02:19.760 --> 0:02:24.040 he'll do it. His ego is obviously very badly bruised, 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.720 and he's an egomaniac, has been well documented during his 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:31.840 time as president, and anything that he can do. I 0:02:31.880 --> 0:02:34.440 don't know that this is as much another power grab 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:37.520 as it is his feelings are hurt, you know, and 0:02:37.560 --> 0:02:39.600 he doesn't want to have to carry that stain with 0:02:39.720 --> 0:02:44.560 him to the grave. And that's not to say that 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:46.840 he would not like to hang on to power. I'm 0:02:46.880 --> 0:02:50.800 sure he's having a great time telling everybody what to 0:02:50.840 --> 0:02:54.200 do and everyone having a bow before him. But I 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.640 think above all else, you know, his ego seems to 0:02:57.880 --> 0:03:01.919 reign supreme over everything that he does, everything that he is, 0:03:01.960 --> 0:03:04.000 and that's always been the case even before he was president, 0:03:04.760 --> 0:03:07.600 from what I knew of him, and so at this 0:03:07.720 --> 0:03:11.400 point it really just feels like his feelings are hurt, 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:15.840 and if he can confuse his exit, have his exit 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:20.320 from the White House muddled in uncertainty, that he can 0:03:20.360 --> 0:03:21.480 save a little bit of face. 0:03:21.560 --> 0:03:21.760 You know. 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:27.679 It's just like whenever you you know, you know, being 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:31.280 little when playing video games, you know, versus your brothers 0:03:31.280 --> 0:03:36.240 and sisters or cousins or whatever it is, whoever's the 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.320 better player wins, right, we all know that. But if 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:42.400 somebody says, oh, you cheated, well, it's not possible to 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:44.480 cheat on video games, so it's very unlikely, you know. 0:03:44.640 --> 0:03:48.560 But the implication there is that if we were both 0:03:48.600 --> 0:03:51.720 playing the same game, I would win, and then they 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:54.200 can save a little bit of face. Their ego's not 0:03:54.240 --> 0:03:56.960 as bruised, and hopefully they can come back and you know, 0:03:57.320 --> 0:03:59.040 if they win the second time, they could say see 0:03:59.080 --> 0:04:02.200 I told you, and they complete and validates their first laws. Right, 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.960 So you know, I don't mean to call the president 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:07.720 a child, Yes I do. 0:04:07.920 --> 0:04:12.240 Oh okay, why don't you was gonna be my question? 0:04:14.120 --> 0:04:17.520 No, I just the analogy kind of painted the picture there, 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:19.440 and so I kind of saw the shot, had to 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:29.720 take it. But the unfortunate consequence of that behavior is 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:37.520 that and I know it's been said. But it undermines 0:04:38.839 --> 0:04:46.520 our democracy. It undermines people's faith in our democracy. There's 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:49.760 already you know, most people who are eligible to vote 0:04:50.480 --> 0:04:54.200 don't participate in all the elections that they can, not 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:57.159 just presidential elections, but midterm elections as well. It's just 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:01.400 not as big of a deal to them. And you know, 0:05:01.920 --> 0:05:04.279 a lot of folks feel very disconnected from the system, 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:07.360 and therefore they don't feel compelled to cast a vote 0:05:07.720 --> 0:05:15.320 for every election. But something like this further erodes the 0:05:15.360 --> 0:05:20.560 American population's confidence in our. 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:27.120 Election systems, in the entire democratic process exactly. 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:36.680 And to spare this one man's ego, he's going to 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:41.200 take that away from seventy million people. 0:05:41.200 --> 0:05:45.080 They voted for him, And the biggest problem with that, 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:49.279 in my eyes, is that such a large percentage of 0:05:49.320 --> 0:05:53.039 those people didn't just vote for him, but they believe 0:05:53.120 --> 0:05:57.880 in him, yeah, and are going to take very very 0:05:57.920 --> 0:06:02.640 seriously his claims of some sort of injustice here, sure 0:06:03.120 --> 0:06:08.720 of some sort of of him being shorter in some way, 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.280 of the game not being played fair. And that's the 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:16.680 part that's so discouraging. Sure, right, it's very discouraging that 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:21.479 seventy million people want more of President Trump, but even 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:31.400 more so that seventy seemingly intelligent adults wholeheartedly believe in 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:37.960 what he sells them and for lack of better have 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:42.560 to move forward themselves feeling cheated themselves. 0:06:44.200 --> 0:06:49.599 You know, the worst part of this is that instead 0:06:49.640 --> 0:06:55.800 of those seventy million people coming to terms with perhaps 0:06:57.760 --> 0:07:02.560 a flawed ideology that they have that they carry, come 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:07.040 into terms with the fact that, you know, their party, 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:11.400 political party, political affiliation might be on the wrong path, 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:15.280 rather than come to terms with the fact that you 0:07:15.320 --> 0:07:19.000 know they back the wrong horse, whatever whatever it is. 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.880 You know, instead of coming to terms with those things 0:07:22.480 --> 0:07:25.239 like normal folks would do, they'd sit down reassess, Okay, 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:27.800 who am I, where do I live? What is what 0:07:27.960 --> 0:07:30.280 is our nature? You know what I mean? Why did 0:07:30.320 --> 0:07:32.600 we lose this one? How do we move forward? You know, 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:37.480 this is typically how societies evolved. You know, if if 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:40.360 the next ten elections are all democratic, you'll find that 0:07:40.400 --> 0:07:45.600 the Republican party will adopt some democratic philosophies and then 0:07:45.640 --> 0:07:49.040 both parties will have to evolve in that direction. That's 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:54.560 typically what happens because people are able to sit with 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.600 the losses and find out what went wrong, who they 0:07:57.600 --> 0:08:01.960 are who the society is? Where are what are people's values? Now? 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:07.400 Do you understand? And so what's happening by this man 0:08:07.480 --> 0:08:11.480 filing all these lawsuits and all these different states alleging 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:18.760 widespread voter fraud and somehow, you know, millions of people 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.040 have You know, if the illegal ballots were encountered, he 0:08:24.040 --> 0:08:26.120 would win the popular vote as well. I know for 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.080 a fact he said that certainly on his first election, 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:34.080 because the alleged voter fraud then as well. And you know, 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:36.320 out of all the cases of voter fraud going all 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:38.640 the way back, you know, Google is free. You know, 0:08:38.720 --> 0:08:42.880 anything that's been substantiated is it's measured in I believe, 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:48.240 the hundreds out of the billions of ballots that have 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.120 been cast in this country's history. 0:08:51.240 --> 0:08:54.080 So even if it's even if it measures or counts 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:55.320 in the thousands. 0:08:55.360 --> 0:08:59.120 But it's measured in the hundreds. So it's a minuscule issue, 0:08:59.480 --> 0:09:03.600 and it's largely caught. It's very, very difficult to do, 0:09:03.760 --> 0:09:05.240 and this is part of the reason why we have 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:08.160 faith in our democracy. There are systems in place. This 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:09.960 is why we have faith in our currency. There are 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.160 systems in place to ensure that the bottom doesn't fall out, 0:09:13.440 --> 0:09:16.720 because even if Donald Trump was the president for eight years, 0:09:17.160 --> 0:09:19.880 he's not going to be the president forever, even if 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.960 he tried to be, He's going to die. There's only 0:09:23.160 --> 0:09:27.079 you know, the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Well, sorry, 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.560 I take that backs. Obviously Donald Trump doesn't clearly, So 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:33.760 maybe I'm wrong clearly, but I still that went out. 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:37.800 I do believe that the grim reaper comes for all 0:09:37.840 --> 0:09:40.680 of us. You know, everyone has their day, and so 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.800 this democracy, this country has to continue, and so there 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.480 are systems in place to protect the long term interest 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.679 of this company. And for him to just in one 0:09:50.720 --> 0:09:56.520 fill swoop level all these baseless claims that erode the 0:09:56.600 --> 0:10:00.040 trust in those systems, the trust that his grandchildren and 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:03.680 great grandchildren are going to have to need in place 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:08.480 in order to continue to function in the society. Again, 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:14.160 suggest just how inflated this man's ego is. You know. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.280 Interesting. I don't know if it was a Freudian slip 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.319 or not, but you said this company instead of this country, 0:10:20.280 --> 0:10:26.560 and either word works ironically. Sure, sure this corporation that 0:10:26.600 --> 0:10:30.080 we pledge allegiance to, that was a that was a 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:32.840 good slip. I enjoyed it. Even if it wasn't intentional. 0:10:33.040 --> 0:10:34.920 I like that though, Let's roll with that for a second, 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:40.840 because I think that that sort of speaks to why 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:45.040 we had a Donald Trump in the first place. There's there's, 0:10:46.480 --> 0:10:52.800 you know, this celebrity crazed society that we live in. Already, 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.840 people used to accuse about Obama of being a celebrity. 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:57.440 He's like too cool for the office. Right. 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.559 It's really ironic when you start thinking about the things 0:11:01.600 --> 0:11:03.880 that he was accused for and criticized for, and then 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:06.360 you look at the guy that's in there now and 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:10.360 all of those same critics seem to have developed amnesia 0:11:10.520 --> 0:11:15.040 or developed an entirely new set of moral principles. Their 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.920 entire core has been replaced. 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:26.679 Yeah, well, in any case, you know, and it's really 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:35.280 tough to juxtapose the presidencies because they're really apples and oranges. 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.720 It's two different things. But the point I was making 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.679 is that if you're getting someone to run your company, 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:46.960 typically you will try to get someone who has a 0:11:47.000 --> 0:11:52.560 record of success. You know, someone who has actually had 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.400 the experience, oftentimes from the ground up. You know, someone 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:00.200 who had values. You know everyone who's involved in the uh, 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:03.520 you know, all of your stakeholders, in your in your business. 0:12:04.280 --> 0:12:13.079 And Donald Trump's failures almost ring louder than his successes. 0:12:13.200 --> 0:12:15.920 You know, his successes have always, you know, been alleged 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:21.679 to be baseless or otherwise inflated, and as it turns out, 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:26.880 they very much are. But his failures have been you know, 0:12:27.160 --> 0:12:30.360 broadcast to the world. You know, his casino failures, his 0:12:30.440 --> 0:12:33.559 stake failures is university failures, and they like he can't teach. 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:38.440 And none of that mattered, the fact that he was 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:43.200 a celebrity, the fact that I heard it said before 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:49.760 that Donald Trump is a poor man's version of a 0:12:49.840 --> 0:12:55.559 rich man. And for folks who live in the middle 0:12:55.600 --> 0:12:59.280 of this country, as we've seen from the electoral the 0:12:59.280 --> 0:13:04.480 the elect election maps, as those are monitored, you know, 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.560 and I do understand this, there's a lot of folks 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:12.520 who are white, who are middle class to poor, a 0:13:12.720 --> 0:13:15.880 lot of these people, a whole lot of these people, 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:23.520 and they feel like everyone hates them for being white. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:30.200 They feel like they don't you know, whatever it is. 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:34.120 Life feels a little different for them as they age, right, 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:38.199 it feels like they're more and more pushed out of 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:42.880 the conversation. Now you and I Q know the truth, 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.040 and that's that well, more people are taking their rightful 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.920 place at the table of humanity, but from their perspective 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:53.120 in their lives, where it's a very limited view of 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:54.960 the world. If you're in Kansas and you grew up 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:58.960 in farm country, you know, on a farm, farming, than 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:01.040 what you know is farming, you don't know anything about, 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:04.320 you know. And we're very fortunate living in big cities, 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.680 our whole lives where we get you know, the richness 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.760 and the diversity that comes along with being a part 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:15.760 of the human family. Excuse me. So these people who 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.560 you know, you know, they're they're in their limited view 0:14:20.680 --> 0:14:23.520 of what success looks like. That the name Trump, to 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:26.040 his credit, has been marketed in such a way to 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:31.000 where it's synonymous with wealth. Maybe not success, but wealth, 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:33.400 you know, And that's what we all want. Capitalism compels 0:14:33.480 --> 0:14:36.160 us to pursue wealth, not happiness, not time with our family, 0:14:36.200 --> 0:14:39.720 not health, wealth, you know. And I'm not trying to 0:14:39.720 --> 0:14:42.480 make light of wealth, because obviously wealth is good too, 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:45.280 but it seems to be the only thing or the 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:49.000 thing that reigns supreme until your health starts to decline, 0:14:49.000 --> 0:14:52.120 and then you realize that money can't ask Steve Jobs, 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:55.400 wealth can't buy you health, true to push Tea. So 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.760 we end up in it in a situation where these 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:08.760 peopleeople in Middle America have this celebrity businessman as far 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:13.880 as they know, who is wealthy, and they think success 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:16.320 is going to tell them the truth. They think that 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.000 he cares about them. Donald Trump obviously has never cared 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:25.480 about anyone besides Donald Trump. And he suggests to them 0:15:25.480 --> 0:15:27.960 he speaks their language. And you know, obviously, no matter 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:29.960 what their reality is their reality. So I don't want 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:31.640 to take that from them. That's not fair to do. 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:33.720 That'd be the same as if someone came to me 0:15:33.800 --> 0:15:36.680 and says, Will Ramses, why are you worried about the police? 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:41.120 You live in a nice house and you have, you know, 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.200 a lot more than most people have, and you get 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:47.640 to be on the radio and television and everything. What 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:49.320 do you have to worry about? And it's just not 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:51.000 a fair conversation. So I don't want to take that 0:15:51.000 --> 0:15:53.960 away from these people. Obviously I have a different view 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:57.280 of what's happening. Again, but Donald Trump comes along and 0:15:57.320 --> 0:16:02.880 he says, they've forgotten about you. They're all buddy buddy 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.320 with each other in Washington, DC, but I haven't forgotten 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:09.240 about you, and I'm rich and you're gonna be rich too. 0:16:10.160 --> 0:16:12.320 And even if he hasn't said it out right, he has. 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:14.600 But even if he didn't say it in one of 0:16:14.600 --> 0:16:16.720 his rallies at a certain city at a certain time, 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.800 that's the impression that folks got from this guy. 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:27.760 And then if you're not rich, it's not your fault 0:16:28.200 --> 0:16:34.400 that part. That part, there's people coming into the country illegally, 0:16:34.480 --> 0:16:38.680 still in your jobs, and so on and so on. 0:16:38.720 --> 0:16:40.640 I don't even want to dive into that pit hole 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:48.280 of really really divisive and incorrect ideology. Sure, but the 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:53.760 idea that you are only less than because of someone else. 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:57.960 The only way you could possibly not be winning and 0:16:58.000 --> 0:17:01.080 not be successful is it if the game is rigged 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:01.680 against you. 0:17:02.000 --> 0:17:04.160 About that, I e. 0:17:05.200 --> 0:17:07.080 The twenty twenty presidential election. 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:13.560 So oh, and let me say this while I have it, 0:17:14.160 --> 0:17:20.560 while we're here. If you feel this way, or if 0:17:20.600 --> 0:17:23.080 you know anyone that feels this way, do me a 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.840 favor after you google it, of course, after you do 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:29.360 your own research. If you don't believe in Google whatever 0:17:29.480 --> 0:17:32.919 conspiracy theories have trapped you in your corner of your mind, 0:17:34.600 --> 0:17:37.560 But you know, do your own research and learn for 0:17:37.640 --> 0:17:43.879 yourself that people on welfare aren't messing up the system. 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:47.960 You know, and I've said this before, I'll say it 0:17:48.000 --> 0:17:49.600 as many times as I need to. It's the nature 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:53.760 of capitalism to have unemployment when there's one hundred percent employment. 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.040 That's why there's always an unemployment rate. There's never one 0:17:56.080 --> 0:17:59.400 hundred percent because when there's one hundred percent unemployment, wages 0:17:59.480 --> 0:18:01.680 go up again. 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:03.520 Or one hundred percent employment employment. 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:05.640 That's what I mean to say. You can't if there's 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.399 if everyone has a job, then you can go into 0:18:08.440 --> 0:18:11.760 your boss's office and say I want a raise, and 0:18:11.800 --> 0:18:13.480 if you don't give me the raise, I will quit, 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:17.920 and they have to give you that raise because there's 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:20.360 no one else to take that job. Do you understand. 0:18:20.880 --> 0:18:23.400 It strengthens the employees, it strengthens the workers, et cetera, 0:18:23.440 --> 0:18:29.160 et cetera. But capitalism needs every last ounce of labor, money, utility, 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:32.480 et cetera. It demands that. That's the nature of capitalism, 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.720 and so there needs to be some unemployment in order 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:37.880 for capitalism to thrive, in order for wages to stay 0:18:37.880 --> 0:18:43.520 low and prompt companies to stay profitable, and so no 0:18:43.560 --> 0:18:46.360 one on welfare none of these things that you might 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:50.000 think are working against you are actually working against you. 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:52.920 There is nobody from Mexico that's going to take your job, 0:18:53.200 --> 0:18:59.119 because capitalism compels robots to take your job. Might be 0:18:59.160 --> 0:19:02.000 five years, might be ten, but you will not have 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:04.240 a job. And this is part of the reason why 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.240 people who were progressive, people were forward thinking, people who 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:13.679 were enthusiastic about Bernie Sanders were so excited about him 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.600 because he was actually looking toward the future that is 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:20.639 barreling toward us now. Can't spend too much time on 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:27.760 that at lame duck president, can't spend too much time 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:34.120 on capitalism. The show exists to celebrate blackness, to empower 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:38.280 black voices and brown voices and Native voices when I 0:19:38.280 --> 0:19:41.000 can get Native guests on the show, and Asian and 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:46.399 so forth. But this is a black space, admittedly and deliberately, 0:19:47.920 --> 0:19:54.320 and I want to take a moment, regardless of how 0:19:54.359 --> 0:19:58.520 you feel about the politics or the history of this person, 0:19:59.240 --> 0:20:08.359 I want to take moment to acknowledge our vice president elect. Now, Qward, 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:11.159 what are your thoughts on our vice president elect? 0:20:13.040 --> 0:20:18.160 So I owe her an apology, Okay, because I let 0:20:18.280 --> 0:20:30.840 the negativity the divisiveness, the ignorance, the misinformation of this election, 0:20:31.000 --> 0:20:36.960 of this administration to cloud what I should have been 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:41.760 celebrating the whole time. Even if she didn't get there. 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:46.960 She was the first woman on a ticket, and for 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.800 the first woman on a presidential ticket to be a 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:56.160 black woman of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority in corporation from 0:20:56.160 --> 0:20:58.120 a coward university Nellwood. 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:00.280 See right. 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:02.320 So for the first woman in the history of this 0:21:02.400 --> 0:21:04.800 country to be that woman, to be a black woman, 0:21:06.119 --> 0:21:10.760 to be a Southeast Asian woman, that's so incredible. 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:13.240 Why is that incredible? 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:17.120 No one had to blaze the path for her? Tell 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:21.919 them everyone prior to her in her position specifically right, 0:21:21.920 --> 0:21:25.640 because Barack has blazed his own trail, but that trail 0:21:25.760 --> 0:21:29.600 had to be blazed by white men before him, him 0:21:29.640 --> 0:21:31.920 being not the first man, just the first black man. 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:37.600 She's the first woman, period, Meaning she didn't follow a 0:21:37.640 --> 0:21:40.159 white woman, she didn't follow another woman. 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:44.200 So that means the period all women who ever function 0:21:44.320 --> 0:21:46.360 in that capacity at some point in the future will 0:21:46.359 --> 0:21:50.960 follow the pale the trath of the path that she blazed. 0:21:51.119 --> 0:21:58.000 Yes, correct, So I sat holding my mixed daughter, my 0:21:58.160 --> 0:22:04.240 black and Mexican daughter, my black and Mexican and Filipino 0:22:04.400 --> 0:22:10.920 daughter watching this woman who she might look like one 0:22:11.000 --> 0:22:20.320 day celebrate a successful campaign, and it hit me for 0:22:20.359 --> 0:22:22.080 the first time because you and I have been texting, 0:22:22.119 --> 0:22:24.560 we've been on the phone, we've been in sending each 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:29.360 other messages. I have not yet exhaled or celebrated what 0:22:29.520 --> 0:22:32.119 most of the country is calling a victory for the 0:22:32.160 --> 0:22:37.600 president elect and Vice President elect Joe Biden and Kamala 0:22:37.640 --> 0:22:42.359 Harris because of the play that the other side is running, 0:22:44.000 --> 0:22:47.920 and as ineffective as sound logical people might think that 0:22:47.960 --> 0:22:52.240 play is, you have to remind yourself they've never depended 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:55.800 on logic to make their points or to further their cause. 0:22:56.760 --> 0:22:58.440 If they had at any point, he wouldn't have ever 0:22:58.440 --> 0:23:02.760 got elected. And so you're thinking, logically, it doesn't make 0:23:02.760 --> 0:23:05.600 any sense and it's baseless, and you know he's not 0:23:05.640 --> 0:23:09.000 going to bear any fruit. But he's been very, very strategic, 0:23:09.400 --> 0:23:12.520 if nothing else. You know, look at his appointments, look 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:16.639 at his Supreme Court justices. The whole point for a 0:23:16.640 --> 0:23:19.040 lot of these appointments and people that he's put into 0:23:19.040 --> 0:23:23.800 positions of power were to shield him from defeat. Well, 0:23:23.840 --> 0:23:26.920 if it doesn't go my way, you know, I've kind 0:23:26.920 --> 0:23:33.199 of hedged my bet on myself. But again, let's not, 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:35.679 like you said, dedicate too much of the show to. 0:23:38.600 --> 0:23:41.199 I know, I said, let's not dedicate a bunch of 0:23:41.200 --> 0:23:43.760 the show to him. But I like how you said that, 0:23:45.200 --> 0:23:47.520 and I think I learned something. Took me this long, 0:23:47.800 --> 0:23:54.720 but I learned something. Follow me here. When you said 0:23:54.800 --> 0:23:59.879 that he was being strategic, you know, prior to this point, 0:24:00.400 --> 0:24:04.360 I might have said, yeah, strategic in the way that 0:24:04.720 --> 0:24:08.560 you're as strategic as you can be in that capacity. 0:24:08.680 --> 0:24:11.080 Like there's there's literally people whose job it is to 0:24:11.119 --> 0:24:13.920 make sure that you have a strategic advantage over every 0:24:14.280 --> 0:24:16.680 situation that comes your way, or at least you have 0:24:16.760 --> 0:24:19.240 information so that you can be as strategic as possible 0:24:19.240 --> 0:24:23.680 when approaching, you know, an issue or whatever your duties entail. 0:24:25.080 --> 0:24:27.359 But you know, largely, strategy is not a word that 0:24:27.359 --> 0:24:33.200 I would associate with Donald Trump up until I guess 0:24:33.280 --> 0:24:39.399 for the whole time. Now, how about this, to recall 0:24:39.440 --> 0:24:45.240 the example that we talked about earlier. You're sitting down. 0:24:45.280 --> 0:24:48.840 Follow me here, You're sitting down and you're playing a 0:24:48.880 --> 0:24:51.159 video game. Now, what's your game that you grew up 0:24:51.160 --> 0:24:54.040 playing that you're really good at? Doesn't matter. Pick one 0:24:54.119 --> 0:24:57.760 street Fighter, street Fighter, great game. Okay, so you have 0:24:58.000 --> 0:25:00.359 mastered street Fighter. You put in the out, you know 0:25:00.440 --> 0:25:02.439 all the moves, you know your favorite character, you know 0:25:02.480 --> 0:25:05.000 how to win, what their advantage over other characters. You 0:25:05.040 --> 0:25:08.159 got it all down, right, street Fighter. If you're too 0:25:08.200 --> 0:25:10.040 young to know what Street Fighter is, google it if 0:25:10.040 --> 0:25:19.520 you're listening. But now, let's say that you have a cousin, right, 0:25:19.600 --> 0:25:22.040 and your cousin has never played Street Fight. Matter of fact, 0:25:22.080 --> 0:25:24.679 your cousin has never played a video game before. And 0:25:24.720 --> 0:25:31.000 this cousin of yours iss very entitled personality type, right, 0:25:32.040 --> 0:25:37.359 And he comes in and he's just not used to 0:25:37.440 --> 0:25:41.359 dealing with people with any like a modicum of compassion 0:25:41.520 --> 0:25:44.760 or integrity or whatever. So he's not your favorite cousin. 0:25:44.800 --> 0:25:47.320 We'll just you know, he's my least favorite cousin. There 0:25:47.320 --> 0:25:50.520 we go, least favorite cousin. Okay, But somehow you and 0:25:50.600 --> 0:25:53.280 him end up playing the same video game. And while 0:25:53.320 --> 0:26:01.880 you have definitely skill experience, you knowategy, foresight, et cetera, 0:26:02.160 --> 0:26:05.359 he comes in and mashes all the buttons and somehow 0:26:05.400 --> 0:26:08.879 he wins the game. It's hard to go back and 0:26:08.920 --> 0:26:12.920 say that's a strategy, but based on what you just said, 0:26:13.359 --> 0:26:18.280 I do think that that's pretty much what it is. 0:26:18.320 --> 0:26:23.480 He throws everything at the wall, and whatever sticks sticks 0:26:23.800 --> 0:26:27.200 and whatever doesn't stick. He says that it was taken 0:26:27.240 --> 0:26:29.359 out of context or explains it away or whatever. But 0:26:29.440 --> 0:26:32.479 we've seen him was he was I think it might 0:26:32.520 --> 0:26:35.040 have been Dave Chappelle did said this. He got on 0:26:35.160 --> 0:26:39.800 stage and tried to guess the cure for COVID in 0:26:39.920 --> 0:26:43.480 real time by should we shine a beam of light 0:26:43.520 --> 0:26:45.960 inside of our body or should we you know, drink 0:26:46.000 --> 0:26:47.800 bleach or whatever. And then people went and tried to 0:26:47.840 --> 0:26:50.000 do these things, you know, and then when they did it, 0:26:50.000 --> 0:26:54.119 he a joke, right exactly. And it's not just that 0:26:54.160 --> 0:26:57.480 there's you know, tons of example, Yeah, him just rambling 0:26:57.600 --> 0:27:01.040 or rattling off nonsense or whatever. And that's part of 0:27:01.080 --> 0:27:02.480 the reason why they cut the cameras off on this 0:27:02.520 --> 0:27:05.000 guy the last time that he spoke from the White 0:27:05.000 --> 0:27:08.040 House trying to allege voter fraud without any claim, because again, 0:27:08.320 --> 0:27:11.920