1 00:00:03,480 --> 00:00:08,000 Speaker 1: Cool Media. Hey, what up? 2 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:13,720 Speaker 2: Though, this is our first ever rerun. We've never done 3 00:00:13,720 --> 00:00:16,400 Speaker 2: a rerun, you know what I'm saying, So this is 4 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:20,400 Speaker 2: the first one. It's been about two years now with 5 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:26,000 Speaker 2: joining Cool Zone and iHeart and you know, the hoole politics. Man, 6 00:00:26,360 --> 00:00:29,360 Speaker 2: some of y'all may know. It was a segment of 7 00:00:29,480 --> 00:00:32,040 Speaker 2: the Red Couch podcast, which people still talk to me about. 8 00:00:32,159 --> 00:00:34,880 Speaker 2: You know what I used to do with the Queen 9 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 2: referred to her by her prefix doctor Alma. And it 10 00:00:38,400 --> 00:00:41,840 Speaker 2: was fun, man. I mean, it just started in seventeen, 11 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 2: twenty seventeen. We was trying to figure out some way 12 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:47,320 Speaker 2: to like just process what the hell was going on 13 00:00:47,320 --> 00:00:47,800 Speaker 2: on earth. 14 00:00:48,360 --> 00:00:51,520 Speaker 1: And a segment of it in the beginning. 15 00:00:51,280 --> 00:00:54,080 Speaker 2: Was, you know, a politics because politics was going crazy 16 00:00:54,120 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 2: and Mary just kind of giggled about it. It was 17 00:00:56,760 --> 00:00:58,840 Speaker 2: just kind of how we talked among ourselves, you know, 18 00:00:58,880 --> 00:01:01,760 Speaker 2: And then it kind of took on its own life 19 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 2: and then became what eventually joined to the iHeart Network 20 00:01:08,280 --> 00:01:11,640 Speaker 2: with Really the origins was me just kind of doing 21 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:13,480 Speaker 2: it on my own because I just got kind of 22 00:01:13,480 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 2: got tired of podcasting. 23 00:01:15,760 --> 00:01:18,480 Speaker 1: And then Robert DMed. 24 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:21,360 Speaker 2: Me when we were talking about the Black Panthers anyway, 25 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:23,880 Speaker 2: the show, you know, it started off as something like 26 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 2: I said, that was like thirty minutes or not even 27 00:01:25,920 --> 00:01:29,600 Speaker 2: thirty minutes, like ten minutes, you know, lighthearted, and then 28 00:01:29,640 --> 00:01:33,319 Speaker 2: as the show evolved and we just started seeing like, 29 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:36,040 Speaker 2: oh man, we're like I really got to take this serious. 30 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:36,319 Speaker 3: You know. 31 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:38,640 Speaker 2: So as it started, it was like much more like 32 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:42,640 Speaker 2: street kind of gang examples and stuff like that. But 33 00:01:42,680 --> 00:01:44,600 Speaker 2: you know what, like one you start getting pressed by 34 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,880 Speaker 2: actual gangsters and they're like, nigga, you don't know this shit, 35 00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:48,880 Speaker 2: you know, and then it's like, well, that's not really 36 00:01:48,880 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 2: what I'm trying to say. What I'm trying to say 37 00:01:50,600 --> 00:01:52,520 Speaker 2: is if you've just grown up in any of these 38 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:55,800 Speaker 2: environments where you've had to like access the knowledge that 39 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:58,800 Speaker 2: you came from, that you grew up with and apply 40 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:02,840 Speaker 2: it to a new sort of arena or a skill set. 41 00:02:03,400 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 2: I just wanted to encourage people to know that, like, 42 00:02:05,920 --> 00:02:08,200 Speaker 2: you can do that, you know what I mean. My 43 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:13,639 Speaker 2: hope is to onboard more people of color who come 44 00:02:13,680 --> 00:02:17,240 Speaker 2: from modest mean to you know, kind of come from 45 00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,800 Speaker 2: the margins, you know what I'm saying, and don't really 46 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:23,679 Speaker 2: feel like they're welcome into the process. I just want 47 00:02:23,720 --> 00:02:26,600 Speaker 2: you to know damn that, yes you are, and you're 48 00:02:26,639 --> 00:02:30,040 Speaker 2: smarter than you think you are. You know. So as 49 00:02:30,040 --> 00:02:31,880 Speaker 2: it's grown, you know what I'm saying, Matt ended up 50 00:02:31,919 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 2: making songs every month or every week. He got good at, 51 00:02:35,560 --> 00:02:37,679 Speaker 2: you know, dropping a track a week, you know what 52 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:38,160 Speaker 2: I'm saying. 53 00:02:38,400 --> 00:02:41,000 Speaker 1: And guess what, like, yo, I started rapping in some 54 00:02:41,040 --> 00:02:41,600 Speaker 1: of those tracks. 55 00:02:41,600 --> 00:02:44,280 Speaker 2: We're you know, coming soon, we're gonna start dropping these 56 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,600 Speaker 2: songs of me just rapping to these beats, you know. 57 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,440 Speaker 2: And the show is like grown to a place that 58 00:02:50,520 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 2: I've really never thought it would, you know, where I've 59 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 2: had to stretch my knowledge base. It wasn't just like, 60 00:02:55,840 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 2: oh yeah, I know this, it's this. It's like no, 61 00:02:57,680 --> 00:02:59,919 Speaker 2: like I've even had to learn and do some translation 62 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,400 Speaker 2: for myself to make sure that I can explain it 63 00:03:02,400 --> 00:03:04,200 Speaker 2: to somebody else, you know what I mean. And it's 64 00:03:04,240 --> 00:03:06,680 Speaker 2: super dope, you know, seeing people at like rap shows 65 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:10,119 Speaker 2: or coming to the club real ones parties on Sundays 66 00:03:10,160 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 2: and or ordering the coffee and being like, yo, I 67 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:17,519 Speaker 2: found out about you via behind the Bastards or hood politics, 68 00:03:17,560 --> 00:03:20,120 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. And they're like, man, like 69 00:03:20,400 --> 00:03:25,080 Speaker 2: I really, you're the only way I understand the news. 70 00:03:25,760 --> 00:03:27,600 Speaker 2: So I'm honored by that, and it's quite a weight, 71 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:32,840 Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So coming into this new season, 72 00:03:32,840 --> 00:03:35,160 Speaker 2: I wanted to revisit one of my favorite ones. It 73 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:39,240 Speaker 2: was about philipbustering. You know, they bust, we bust philibuster 74 00:03:39,320 --> 00:03:42,440 Speaker 2: with holes, you know, because you get these terms like 75 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:45,920 Speaker 2: jerry mandering, philibuster, Like it's like, what is mean? 76 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:48,400 Speaker 1: You know? And the truth is you do know what 77 00:03:48,440 --> 00:03:48,840 Speaker 1: it means. 78 00:03:50,040 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 2: And I feel like this is the best example of 79 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:56,040 Speaker 2: trying to explain to you, explain to us, like, hey man, 80 00:03:56,400 --> 00:03:59,080 Speaker 2: you're more equipped than you think you are. You know, 81 00:03:59,320 --> 00:04:05,520 Speaker 2: you understand city living, you understand politics. So peep three 82 00:04:05,600 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 2: run phil a buster will hole. Also, because we take 83 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 2: at least one week off. 84 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:22,760 Speaker 3: Fust they they fuster o. 85 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: Listen, listen, listen, just keep talking. We just look. 86 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:35,720 Speaker 2: Look if they if they're talking, if they talking to you, 87 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:37,520 Speaker 2: they're not talking to each other. 88 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:45,359 Speaker 1: Hood politics, your soul good right here? Hood politics, y'all? 89 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:50,000 Speaker 1: So hood. 90 00:04:51,680 --> 00:04:53,880 Speaker 2: Here was the game my sister and I used to 91 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:55,880 Speaker 2: play when we knew one of us was finna get 92 00:04:56,200 --> 00:04:56,680 Speaker 2: a whooping. 93 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:02,560 Speaker 1: Look here, just keep mama talking. I used to look, 94 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:03,440 Speaker 1: this is what I used to do. 95 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:05,200 Speaker 2: I used to when I knew one of us was 96 00:05:05,240 --> 00:05:08,320 Speaker 2: in trouble, and it wasn't no way in the world 97 00:05:08,640 --> 00:05:11,960 Speaker 2: that there would not be any shrapnel. Now look, in 98 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 2: case you don't know, I'm black. And here's the thing. 99 00:05:14,320 --> 00:05:17,720 Speaker 2: When one kid in trouble, everybody in trouble. So to 100 00:05:17,800 --> 00:05:21,560 Speaker 2: protect your own body, You understand what I'm saying. Sometimes 101 00:05:21,600 --> 00:05:24,680 Speaker 2: you gotta work together. And nia his was crazy. Even 102 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:26,960 Speaker 2: if it's one of them's fault. They may mess around 103 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,520 Speaker 2: and be like mad at you for snitching. They like, 104 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:31,960 Speaker 2: don't be snitching on your sister. Now turn to your 105 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:34,360 Speaker 2: sister now she in trouble. But anyway, the point is 106 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:36,640 Speaker 2: just keep talking. So I would start cleaning the house. 107 00:05:36,680 --> 00:05:38,880 Speaker 2: I would clean up. I would be showing that Mama, 108 00:05:38,920 --> 00:05:40,920 Speaker 2: look at look how good this look. How good I 109 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,560 Speaker 2: clean this house? Because I just don't want her to 110 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:47,240 Speaker 2: talk to dad, because if she talked to Dad, then 111 00:05:47,360 --> 00:05:51,880 Speaker 2: that means we're gonna have some consequences and repercussions. It's 112 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:57,360 Speaker 2: gonna be a situation. Just keep talking, show them all 113 00:05:57,400 --> 00:05:59,359 Speaker 2: the good things you've been doing. Now, don't have to 114 00:05:59,400 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 2: be about nothing. Just keep talking. I applied this sometimes 115 00:06:04,400 --> 00:06:09,040 Speaker 2: to dealing with some hood niggas is with the shits. 116 00:06:10,160 --> 00:06:12,919 Speaker 2: Keep them laughing. If you can keep them laughing, you 117 00:06:12,960 --> 00:06:16,680 Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, not cann distract you from the 118 00:06:16,760 --> 00:06:22,159 Speaker 2: situation that might go down had they had a chance 119 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:25,360 Speaker 2: to communicate. Sometimes niggas, you're somebody. I'm sorry, mam, I'm 120 00:06:25,400 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 2: tired of this talking. 121 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:27,760 Speaker 1: Man. Quit talking. And when you gotta throw them, you 122 00:06:27,760 --> 00:06:29,560 Speaker 1: gotta throw them. It is what it is. Sometimes you 123 00:06:29,640 --> 00:06:30,440 Speaker 1: just gotta chuck them. 124 00:06:30,800 --> 00:06:33,839 Speaker 2: But if you keep them talking, you understand what I'm saying, 125 00:06:35,160 --> 00:06:37,120 Speaker 2: and you can stop the stuff from happening. But you 126 00:06:37,200 --> 00:06:43,040 Speaker 2: have to remember every weapon you got they got. There 127 00:06:43,080 --> 00:06:45,200 Speaker 2: was a moment in Los Angeles when when the call 128 00:06:45,320 --> 00:06:49,600 Speaker 2: came from from apparently from prison to stop the drive 129 00:06:49,640 --> 00:06:52,480 Speaker 2: bys because it just they just not g you know, 130 00:06:52,520 --> 00:06:55,760 Speaker 2: according to them. But like that's one reason, but the 131 00:06:55,839 --> 00:06:59,960 Speaker 2: other reason was you have to remember cars go both directions. 132 00:07:00,320 --> 00:07:02,600 Speaker 2: You ride on somebody hood, they gonna ride back. Now, 133 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 2: a true hood still knows that, like this is what 134 00:07:04,839 --> 00:07:09,520 Speaker 2: I signed up for. They understand, as the saying goes, 135 00:07:09,920 --> 00:07:13,040 Speaker 2: they bus, we bus. So whatever weapon you got, they 136 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:19,320 Speaker 2: probably got too. So whether it's talking or shooting, careful 137 00:07:20,800 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 2: they bus we buss Philip Buster with hoes. Let's talk 138 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,200 Speaker 2: about Philipbuster's hood politics. 139 00:07:32,080 --> 00:07:42,760 Speaker 3: They ll Buster talk. They blustering film Buster. 140 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:48,120 Speaker 2: So look, you got Texas Democrats peacing out, like, I'm 141 00:07:48,160 --> 00:07:49,680 Speaker 2: just not even gonna stay in the state. 142 00:07:49,800 --> 00:07:50,320 Speaker 1: Y'all can't. 143 00:07:50,640 --> 00:07:53,080 Speaker 2: Y'all can't cast this final vote if we're not there. 144 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,640 Speaker 2: So they didn't went all the way to Washington, at 145 00:07:56,760 --> 00:08:00,600 Speaker 2: least at the point that I'm recording this, you know, 146 00:08:00,640 --> 00:08:02,840 Speaker 2: because if they stayed in state, Texas could have sent 147 00:08:03,040 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 2: state troopers, could have sent Walker Texas Ranger to come 148 00:08:05,800 --> 00:08:06,600 Speaker 2: get them niggas. 149 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:08,560 Speaker 1: That's they lost. 150 00:08:09,280 --> 00:08:14,160 Speaker 2: You also got on the hill Republicans filibustering. You need 151 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:16,080 Speaker 2: to know what the hell of philibuster is and why 152 00:08:16,240 --> 00:08:19,880 Speaker 2: everybody doing everything they do. Then you got the Progressive 153 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:23,080 Speaker 2: Democrats being like, why you ain't breaking the filibuster? Joe 154 00:08:23,640 --> 00:08:25,760 Speaker 2: say something, come on, man, put off for the hood. 155 00:08:25,840 --> 00:08:28,040 Speaker 2: You're gonna come on dog like we're all telling you, yo, 156 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:32,200 Speaker 2: you need to stop this doing this, and Joe just going, yeah, Republicans, 157 00:08:32,240 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 2: y'all gotta stop. 158 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:37,160 Speaker 1: But he he ain't about that action, like the action 159 00:08:37,280 --> 00:08:39,559 Speaker 1: would be bruh. 160 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:44,080 Speaker 2: Okay, you got the power to end this mug. The 161 00:08:44,200 --> 00:08:48,120 Speaker 2: question is, nigga, what the hell of philibuster? And what 162 00:08:48,240 --> 00:09:12,200 Speaker 2: is everybody in a tip for? So what's the big deal? 163 00:09:13,000 --> 00:09:15,079 Speaker 2: Why are we even talking about a philibuster getting in 164 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:17,800 Speaker 2: the first place. Well, how today's gonna go is, I'm 165 00:09:17,800 --> 00:09:20,840 Speaker 2: gonna tell you, like what the issue is, what a 166 00:09:20,840 --> 00:09:25,480 Speaker 2: filibuster is, history of philibuster and maybe try to use 167 00:09:25,520 --> 00:09:30,319 Speaker 2: our antennas to understand why this mug exists and why 168 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,800 Speaker 2: Joe ain't doing nothing about it, because it looks right 169 00:09:33,840 --> 00:09:36,000 Speaker 2: now he's just getting punked by the Republicans, Like, I 170 00:09:36,000 --> 00:09:38,080 Speaker 2: don't know why you're just letting these people do what 171 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:39,800 Speaker 2: the hell you want to do. But actually I have 172 00:09:39,840 --> 00:09:42,240 Speaker 2: a theory as to why, but I don't know. Anyway, 173 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:48,200 Speaker 2: we're talking about voting. We're talking about voter suppression, voter fraud, 174 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:50,720 Speaker 2: and voter rights. 175 00:09:50,920 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: It's all around voting. Okay, you got the John C. 176 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:59,400 Speaker 2: Lewis Voter Rights Act H one or H four, right, 177 00:09:59,480 --> 00:10:03,920 Speaker 2: that has to do it. The protection around different hindrances 178 00:10:04,480 --> 00:10:09,280 Speaker 2: that seem to have been promoted. Let's be real, they 179 00:10:09,280 --> 00:10:13,000 Speaker 2: were promoted by it by really the Trump bites, mainly 180 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:19,000 Speaker 2: because of this big old Lae that there was widespread 181 00:10:19,720 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 2: voter fraud throughout last election, and the extremes would say that, 182 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:28,480 Speaker 2: you know, Trump won and there's five thousand people that 183 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:31,800 Speaker 2: were dead that already voted. None of this stuff is real. 184 00:10:31,840 --> 00:10:34,040 Speaker 2: You should throw at those votes. This really didn't count, 185 00:10:34,200 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 2: and you could go back. I feel like the biggest, 186 00:10:36,559 --> 00:10:38,800 Speaker 2: the biggest defense against this is you go back to 187 00:10:38,880 --> 00:10:41,320 Speaker 2: Lindsey Graham, who owned the block. Lindsey Graham was like, 188 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:44,400 Speaker 2: all right, word, okay, I'm gonna go ride for y'all. 189 00:10:44,480 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: Give me the receipts. 190 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 2: Show me you say five thousand, show me them, show me, 191 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:51,160 Speaker 2: give me, give me ten, give me ten examples. And 192 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:53,480 Speaker 2: he was like, y'all still ain't got me no examples. 193 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:56,280 Speaker 2: And it's like, nigga, I'm on your side. I'm trying 194 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:58,800 Speaker 2: to go. I'm trying to go earn for the block. Man, 195 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:00,840 Speaker 2: I'm trying to go put on for you. I'm not 196 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,200 Speaker 2: the enemy, fam, I ain't the I'm trying to put 197 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,960 Speaker 2: all for you. You can't give me no receipts. I 198 00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:08,000 Speaker 2: want to go fight for you, Like, damn, you give 199 00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 2: me some seats. Cut you know what I'm saying, mister Graham, 200 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:15,640 Speaker 2: stand right. So that to me is like tells you 201 00:11:15,679 --> 00:11:17,760 Speaker 2: a little more about you know, what's going on. And 202 00:11:17,800 --> 00:11:20,280 Speaker 2: then what kept happening out of some of the conservative 203 00:11:20,360 --> 00:11:23,200 Speaker 2: voices is they kept saying, we gotta change this vote 204 00:11:23,200 --> 00:11:25,440 Speaker 2: and stuff because if we don't, we gonna keep losing, 205 00:11:25,760 --> 00:11:28,079 Speaker 2: which kind of sound like if we just what you're 206 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,439 Speaker 2: kind of saying is if enough people get access to vote, 207 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:33,880 Speaker 2: they not gonna vote for us. So we gotta make 208 00:11:33,920 --> 00:11:37,560 Speaker 2: sure y'all don't get access to vote. Right, So you 209 00:11:37,679 --> 00:11:40,559 Speaker 2: have all these things that was happening under the banner 210 00:11:40,679 --> 00:11:45,280 Speaker 2: of protecting the integrity of the quality of our voting. 211 00:11:45,360 --> 00:11:49,719 Speaker 2: So like re looking at the Arizona thing, and I 212 00:11:49,720 --> 00:11:51,480 Speaker 2: don't know if y'all y'all were up on that. Like 213 00:11:51,800 --> 00:11:55,240 Speaker 2: the Arizona election has been recounted multiple times, and it's 214 00:11:55,240 --> 00:11:58,920 Speaker 2: still like nigga, like we find in clerical errors, but 215 00:11:59,080 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 2: dog like they ain't know this. Look, we're just not 216 00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:05,080 Speaker 2: seeing this conspiracy. You know that you're trying to tell me. 217 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:08,439 Speaker 2: So now, out in Texas, this is how these two 218 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:11,880 Speaker 2: things are connected. Out in Texas, they trying to say, Okay, listen, 219 00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:13,560 Speaker 2: this is what we need to do. We need to 220 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:15,840 Speaker 2: make sure you don't get a day off work to 221 00:12:15,920 --> 00:12:18,120 Speaker 2: go vote. It has to be in person, it's got 222 00:12:18,160 --> 00:12:20,360 Speaker 2: to be normal business hours. And if you don't make 223 00:12:20,400 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 2: it there, you're not allowed to give people water, You're 224 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:24,760 Speaker 2: not allowed to get people. Just under this idea that 225 00:12:24,960 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 2: like by doing all these extra things making it, making 226 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:33,000 Speaker 2: voting more accessible, having voter IDs and to be like 227 00:12:33,080 --> 00:12:34,840 Speaker 2: we don't know if you is that a dad solid 228 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:37,720 Speaker 2: security number, Like we don't know who this person is. 229 00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:39,800 Speaker 2: What if you vote twice, if you mail in and 230 00:12:39,880 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 2: come to the thing, like, it's not fair, you know 231 00:12:42,160 --> 00:12:43,640 Speaker 2: what I'm saying. We need to make sure that like 232 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:45,840 Speaker 2: this voter is as fair as possible. And look, were 233 00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 2: trying to help y'all. Now listen, voter fraud happens. Don't 234 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:49,600 Speaker 2: get it twisted. 235 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:51,120 Speaker 1: It's just. 236 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:56,680 Speaker 2: It's just not really at the scale that they're saying, 237 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 2: like we just don't have no evidence of that, and 238 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:03,080 Speaker 2: it was just admitting like Homie from Michigan that came 239 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:04,720 Speaker 2: forward and said there was a whole bunch of mail 240 00:13:04,760 --> 00:13:08,160 Speaker 2: ballots that was he came forward and was like, nah, 241 00:13:08,400 --> 00:13:12,240 Speaker 2: I was cappin, Like it's just not what they said 242 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:14,480 Speaker 2: it was. So they're like, we're trying to pass this. 243 00:13:15,080 --> 00:13:20,719 Speaker 2: The problem is a lot of these things. Number one, 244 00:13:20,760 --> 00:13:23,120 Speaker 2: they harkened back to a time which were called the 245 00:13:23,120 --> 00:13:27,959 Speaker 2: Black Codes, which was purposefully trying to stop black people 246 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,800 Speaker 2: from voting because when we came out to vote, Nigga, 247 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 2: we put our people in office. Do you know unerstand 248 00:13:33,960 --> 00:13:38,840 Speaker 2: I'm saying, because voting, believe it or not, newsflash works Nigga. 249 00:13:39,040 --> 00:13:42,240 Speaker 2: Y know, I'm saying, Uh, but there's that, So it 250 00:13:42,280 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 2: harkens back to those times. And then secondly, it often 251 00:13:46,400 --> 00:13:51,480 Speaker 2: penalizes lower income people. So it's not necessarily just black folks, 252 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 2: but it's just lower income people, people that don't have 253 00:13:54,160 --> 00:13:56,760 Speaker 2: access right. You know what I'm saying, It's important to 254 00:13:56,800 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 2: acknowledge the distinction between a rite and a privilege is 255 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,040 Speaker 2: by virtue of your citizenship, you have. 256 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:05,440 Speaker 1: The right to vote. 257 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,480 Speaker 2: I don't have to show you nothing except for the 258 00:14:07,520 --> 00:14:10,920 Speaker 2: fact that I'm a citizen. So when you say, well, 259 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:13,120 Speaker 2: just having an ID is like, I mean, that's just 260 00:14:13,679 --> 00:14:15,880 Speaker 2: like it's maybe it's an inconvenience, but who ain't got ID? 261 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:17,199 Speaker 1: There's plain people ain't got ID. 262 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:19,960 Speaker 2: You just can't deny my constitutional right because I ain't 263 00:14:19,960 --> 00:14:20,440 Speaker 2: got no ID. 264 00:14:20,760 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: Like I don't know what else to say. 265 00:14:22,440 --> 00:14:25,520 Speaker 2: And now, practically speaking, there's a lot of different ways 266 00:14:25,520 --> 00:14:29,400 Speaker 2: to verify a person's identity, you know, but when you 267 00:14:29,440 --> 00:14:32,840 Speaker 2: add that to these other things like polls close it five, 268 00:14:32,920 --> 00:14:34,800 Speaker 2: you can't mail in. So it's like, well, if I 269 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 2: can't if I can't miss a day of work, you're 270 00:14:36,840 --> 00:14:38,960 Speaker 2: telling me I can't miss it. You're telling me, you're 271 00:14:39,000 --> 00:14:41,240 Speaker 2: telling me we don't get the day off. I gotta 272 00:14:41,280 --> 00:14:43,240 Speaker 2: miss a day of work. And if I can't miss 273 00:14:43,240 --> 00:14:45,360 Speaker 2: a day of work, I can't send it in early. 274 00:14:45,440 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 2: You don't want me to mail it in. It's almost 275 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:49,400 Speaker 2: like you don't want me to vote, you know what 276 00:14:49,480 --> 00:15:18,200 Speaker 2: I'm saying. There's a great pod on the through Line 277 00:15:18,240 --> 00:15:22,760 Speaker 2: podcast about Frederick Douglass and why he believed voting was 278 00:15:22,800 --> 00:15:26,520 Speaker 2: so important, and it's like he's really even back then, 279 00:15:26,640 --> 00:15:30,960 Speaker 2: capturing like captured the understanding of like there is real 280 00:15:31,120 --> 00:15:35,760 Speaker 2: power in this, especially because if you understand what was 281 00:15:35,800 --> 00:15:41,160 Speaker 2: happening right after, right during reconstruction, how hard they went 282 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:46,000 Speaker 2: to make sure that black people did not vote was oh, nigga, 283 00:15:46,040 --> 00:15:47,320 Speaker 2: you just showed your cards. 284 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:47,840 Speaker 1: I mean. 285 00:15:47,880 --> 00:15:50,000 Speaker 2: Then they had this thing called this Grandfather clause, which 286 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:52,280 Speaker 2: was hilarious, which was like Hey, if your granddaddy voted 287 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:55,119 Speaker 2: in eighteen sixty, then you can vote, well, nigga. Obviously 288 00:15:55,640 --> 00:15:59,280 Speaker 2: nobody black granddaddy voted in eighteen sixty. So like it's 289 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,440 Speaker 2: just we know what you're doing. You're putting all these 290 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,480 Speaker 2: undue burdens on people that don't have the privileges that 291 00:16:05,520 --> 00:16:07,880 Speaker 2: everybody else do. So what they're trying to say is 292 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:12,120 Speaker 2: like voting shouldn't be harder. And so the Democrats chose, 293 00:16:12,200 --> 00:16:15,400 Speaker 2: like we've been trying to argue this that like y'all bugging, 294 00:16:15,960 --> 00:16:18,600 Speaker 2: but if you're not feel like listen, then we just 295 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 2: gonna bounce. Now this has been done before. It was 296 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:24,440 Speaker 2: just the other way around. They bus we bus. The 297 00:16:24,480 --> 00:16:29,840 Speaker 2: Republicans have walked out of Texas legislature before they bus 298 00:16:29,880 --> 00:16:34,840 Speaker 2: we bus. Now they're using the same tactic. Now move 299 00:16:34,920 --> 00:16:39,720 Speaker 2: that back to the hill on Capitol Hill. It's still 300 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:45,400 Speaker 2: the same idea of voting right, of passing laws that 301 00:16:45,440 --> 00:16:48,440 Speaker 2: would make sure that there's equal protection under the law 302 00:16:49,000 --> 00:16:55,440 Speaker 2: for people despite their socioeconomic, racial, ethnic access. Voting should 303 00:16:55,520 --> 00:16:59,560 Speaker 2: be more accessible. You're not allowed to put hindrances in 304 00:17:00,400 --> 00:17:03,200 Speaker 2: in front of constitutional rights. You know what I'm saying. 305 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,119 Speaker 2: You can put them in front of privileges like a 306 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:08,119 Speaker 2: driver's license. Just because you're a citizen don't mean you 307 00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,320 Speaker 2: get to drive, Nigga, like, you know what I'm saying. Like, 308 00:17:10,359 --> 00:17:13,000 Speaker 2: but just because you're a citizen, you get to vote. 309 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 2: You're twenty one, you get to vote. It is what 310 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:17,840 Speaker 2: it is like, it just comes with its packaged deal. Right, 311 00:17:18,240 --> 00:17:22,640 Speaker 2: So they're trying to pass some laws that have more 312 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:25,320 Speaker 2: protection about that. Now, the specificity is the law is 313 00:17:25,400 --> 00:17:29,720 Speaker 2: not the point of this this pod. But what the 314 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:33,720 Speaker 2: Republican legislator is doing is a thing called fill of bustering. 315 00:17:36,359 --> 00:17:38,119 Speaker 1: It's a it's a tool you use. 316 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:40,719 Speaker 2: I'm gonna get into the specifics of this later, but 317 00:17:41,359 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 2: I want to set the stage here. When somebody presents 318 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:50,959 Speaker 2: a bill, we post a debate on it. Right, So 319 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:53,399 Speaker 2: you you do this point, this point, this point, and 320 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:56,240 Speaker 2: the law says we can't stop. We can't stop to 321 00:17:56,320 --> 00:17:59,160 Speaker 2: vote on it until everybody gets they piece off, until 322 00:17:59,200 --> 00:18:01,440 Speaker 2: you able to fly in land your plane. You know 323 00:18:01,480 --> 00:18:04,200 Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Everyone gets to land they plane before 324 00:18:04,200 --> 00:18:05,360 Speaker 2: we vote. Right. 325 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:07,639 Speaker 1: You have to let this nigga finish. 326 00:18:07,840 --> 00:18:13,960 Speaker 2: That's why I said in the beginning, sometimes your best 327 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:17,719 Speaker 2: defense is to keep talking, nigga. If you could keep talking, 328 00:18:17,880 --> 00:18:20,359 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. If you could keep if 329 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:23,119 Speaker 2: you could keep these niggas occupied, oh some other shit, 330 00:18:23,840 --> 00:18:29,399 Speaker 2: maybe you could you could stop a decision from being made, 331 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:33,880 Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So if right now, if 332 00:18:33,880 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 2: you're not the Senate majority, you're the Senate minority, one 333 00:18:37,280 --> 00:18:40,119 Speaker 2: of your ways because you know, because how the numbers work, 334 00:18:40,520 --> 00:18:46,560 Speaker 2: that y'all ain't gonna ever get your way. So one 335 00:18:46,600 --> 00:18:50,080 Speaker 2: line of defense is to just keep talking. Is to 336 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,199 Speaker 2: make sure that y'all never do get to vote on it. 337 00:18:53,680 --> 00:18:53,880 Speaker 1: Right. 338 00:18:56,000 --> 00:18:57,639 Speaker 2: I'm gonna get into the history of like how this 339 00:18:57,720 --> 00:19:00,320 Speaker 2: has been used in the second but that's one thing 340 00:19:00,320 --> 00:19:07,240 Speaker 2: that's happening right now, is this is Republicans are proverbially speaking, 341 00:19:07,560 --> 00:19:12,719 Speaker 2: still talking. Now. The Democrats are looking at President Biden, 342 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 2: who's supposed to be like the top of the top 343 00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:19,159 Speaker 2: of the hood, and they like, hey, hey, homie, can 344 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:21,000 Speaker 2: you tell them niggas to shut the fuck up so 345 00:19:21,040 --> 00:19:21,920 Speaker 2: we can finish this. 346 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:24,160 Speaker 1: Damn nigga. 347 00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:26,560 Speaker 2: You know the rules, we could we could end this 348 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:30,720 Speaker 2: shit with a culture We could I mean, we could 349 00:19:30,720 --> 00:19:34,359 Speaker 2: do a fifty one person vote. You could change the rules, right, 350 00:19:34,400 --> 00:19:36,960 Speaker 2: now it take sixty people, we could change it to 351 00:19:37,000 --> 00:19:37,520 Speaker 2: fifty one. 352 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:39,600 Speaker 1: Nigga, you got the power to do it. Like, why 353 00:19:39,640 --> 00:19:44,080 Speaker 1: you're not putting on damn man? Like you can end 354 00:19:44,080 --> 00:19:44,760 Speaker 1: this shit right now. 355 00:19:44,760 --> 00:19:46,720 Speaker 2: Matter of fact, the whole party asking you, Like, what 356 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 2: the hell man like in the filibuster? 357 00:19:49,960 --> 00:19:50,399 Speaker 3: But he not. 358 00:19:52,080 --> 00:19:55,680 Speaker 2: But let's step back though the hell is a filibuster. 359 00:20:01,880 --> 00:20:04,800 Speaker 2: A filibuster is talking a bill to death? 360 00:20:05,840 --> 00:20:06,920 Speaker 1: What do I mean by that? 361 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:13,080 Speaker 2: It's a tactic of delaying action on a legislation because 362 00:20:13,359 --> 00:20:16,840 Speaker 2: you can't pass a law until everyone gets to land 363 00:20:16,920 --> 00:20:20,439 Speaker 2: they plane. Now, I'm a quote from the Senate dot gov. 364 00:20:20,640 --> 00:20:22,879 Speaker 2: What they say, straight from the website. The tactic of 365 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 2: using long speeches to delay an action on legislation appeared 366 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:31,399 Speaker 2: in the very first session of Senate on September twenty second, 367 00:20:31,520 --> 00:20:36,800 Speaker 2: seventeen eighty nine. Pennsylvania Senator William McLay wrote in his 368 00:20:36,960 --> 00:20:41,760 Speaker 2: diary that the design of the Virginians was to take 369 00:20:41,800 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 2: away the time so that we could not get the 370 00:20:44,880 --> 00:20:47,600 Speaker 2: bill passed. As a number of philibusters grew in the 371 00:20:47,640 --> 00:20:50,719 Speaker 2: nineteenth century, the Senate had no formal process to allow 372 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:54,320 Speaker 2: a majority to end the debate and force a legislation. 373 00:20:54,520 --> 00:20:57,879 Speaker 2: Why you think Virginia and he won't a law passed. 374 00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,840 Speaker 2: The hint is racism, nigga slavery. Right, So basically it's 375 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,400 Speaker 2: me at the house going but look look, look, look 376 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:06,280 Speaker 2: look mom, but wait wait wait wait wait no wait 377 00:21:06,280 --> 00:21:08,840 Speaker 2: wait listen before you talk. But wait wait, but listen. 378 00:21:09,040 --> 00:21:10,960 Speaker 2: Look look, look, look, look, look look look wait. No, 379 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,040 Speaker 2: you know, and let me tell you about my homework. Oh, 380 00:21:14,160 --> 00:21:15,760 Speaker 2: matter of fact, you know what. Let me tell you something. 381 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:17,399 Speaker 2: Let me tell you why I learned the church today. 382 00:21:17,800 --> 00:21:20,280 Speaker 2: You just I'm coming up with a million things just 383 00:21:20,320 --> 00:21:22,240 Speaker 2: to keep saying, because I don't want her to go. 384 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:25,680 Speaker 1: Just keep talking to avoid the whooping. 385 00:21:26,320 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 2: The filibuster is whether it's praise for better or for worse, 386 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,639 Speaker 2: We're going to go through like pros and cons about it. 387 00:21:33,680 --> 00:21:37,639 Speaker 2: But what it's saying is I'm going to stop the 388 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,800 Speaker 2: vote on this. Even if I can't give you a 389 00:21:41,000 --> 00:21:44,320 Speaker 2: real reason as to why this is a bad vote 390 00:21:44,960 --> 00:21:48,480 Speaker 2: or why this is a bad idea. Maybe it's just 391 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:52,120 Speaker 2: as simple as my constituents don't want it, the hood 392 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,240 Speaker 2: don't like it. But I really don't have no other 393 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:57,600 Speaker 2: real reasons for it. But I'm just it's just bad. 394 00:21:57,840 --> 00:22:03,320 Speaker 2: I like, and if you're a political minority in the 395 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:05,800 Speaker 2: deadlock that we're in now, Like if you think about 396 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,879 Speaker 2: the way that our Congress has looked, where it's like 397 00:22:09,920 --> 00:22:13,080 Speaker 2: whoever's got the majority in Congress, if there's more Republicans 398 00:22:13,080 --> 00:22:16,320 Speaker 2: than Republican laws past, they're more Democrats. Everybody votes along 399 00:22:16,359 --> 00:22:19,000 Speaker 2: party lines. They're not gonna nobody. Everybody's holding the lines. 400 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,359 Speaker 2: So like, you can't get nothing passed anyway. So and 401 00:22:21,400 --> 00:22:22,760 Speaker 2: if you know it's like you can't just be up 402 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:25,439 Speaker 2: there and do nothing, they get like, I can't do nothing, 403 00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:27,320 Speaker 2: So what do you do? 404 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:29,800 Speaker 1: Well, you just talk. 405 00:22:30,720 --> 00:22:30,880 Speaker 3: Now. 406 00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,960 Speaker 2: The name philibuster, which is the craziest. I love it 407 00:22:33,960 --> 00:22:37,280 Speaker 2: because it sounds like philibuster. It's derived from a Dutch 408 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:42,320 Speaker 2: word called freebooter and the Spanish word philibustetos to describe 409 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:47,200 Speaker 2: the pirates raiding then the Caribbean islands, and the term 410 00:22:47,240 --> 00:22:51,600 Speaker 2: began to appear in the American legislative debates in the 411 00:22:51,640 --> 00:22:53,919 Speaker 2: eighteen fifties, and it was supposed to be like a 412 00:22:53,920 --> 00:22:56,320 Speaker 2: throwback to like yo, you just like a you just 413 00:22:56,320 --> 00:22:58,720 Speaker 2: gonna take over, You just gonna pirate, you just gonna pirate. 414 00:22:58,760 --> 00:23:00,639 Speaker 2: This mug just take over the whole claim it as 415 00:23:00,680 --> 00:23:03,840 Speaker 2: yours by just not talking you philibuster. Now, because of 416 00:23:03,880 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 2: these filibusters, there's a thing called cloture that we talked 417 00:23:07,520 --> 00:23:09,639 Speaker 2: about before. It's a method of ending the debate and 418 00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:11,720 Speaker 2: bringing it to the vote. So, if you are the 419 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:15,680 Speaker 2: majority in Congress and you like nigga, if this nigga, 420 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:17,880 Speaker 2: don't shut the fuck up, Okay, I'm calling for cloture 421 00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:22,280 Speaker 2: right which is a way of ending the debate saying, nigga, 422 00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:25,000 Speaker 2: we vote now, I'll care, I'll care what it is. 423 00:23:25,359 --> 00:23:28,239 Speaker 2: And only the majority can do that, and that's what 424 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:31,280 Speaker 2: the Democrats are asking Biden to do now. The way 425 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:33,760 Speaker 2: to pull that off right now is you need sixty votes. 426 00:23:33,840 --> 00:23:35,720 Speaker 2: The problem is we probably not gonna get sixty votes, 427 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:37,320 Speaker 2: but he has the right to change it to fifty 428 00:23:37,359 --> 00:23:41,399 Speaker 2: one because sixty votes means you asking nine Republicans to 429 00:23:41,480 --> 00:23:43,760 Speaker 2: flip on their hood. So the move is to change 430 00:23:43,800 --> 00:23:45,920 Speaker 2: that to fifty one votes. Now we got fifty one, 431 00:23:47,280 --> 00:23:50,040 Speaker 2: because that's just Democrats, I'm sure we can get fifty 432 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 2: one of us to be like, shut the fuck up, 433 00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:55,920 Speaker 2: except for minutchin, which is a whole other thing. Minuta 434 00:23:55,960 --> 00:24:01,359 Speaker 2: don't care that nigga in West Virginia. You think you think. 435 00:24:01,200 --> 00:24:02,359 Speaker 1: You're gonna make them white boys. 436 00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:07,960 Speaker 2: Man, it's harder to get sixty everybody, Like, come on, nigga, 437 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:09,280 Speaker 2: you got to buy and you got the gun in 438 00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:11,800 Speaker 2: your hand. Nigga, pull pull a damn trigger cut, Like 439 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,000 Speaker 2: why you're not shooting? You can't just point the gun 440 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:15,840 Speaker 2: and talk? Then this is what he does. And this 441 00:24:15,920 --> 00:24:18,680 Speaker 2: is what's crazy is in the speeches. The speeches he's 442 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,320 Speaker 2: been giving about this is like it's real slick cause 443 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 2: he's talking big. He's talking like, nah, nigga, watch out 444 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:25,800 Speaker 2: a nigga, I'm fum fin a ride on. Y'all off 445 00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:27,440 Speaker 2: in the bus man, Why don't don't mess with me? 446 00:24:27,520 --> 00:24:28,240 Speaker 2: And I'm gonna change it? 447 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 3: Man? 448 00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:30,040 Speaker 2: What's wrong with y'all while y'all doing this? You notice 449 00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:33,919 Speaker 2: ain't no good the hood like democrats, Like, well, nigga, shoot, 450 00:24:34,040 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 2: what's all this talking for? 451 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:37,800 Speaker 1: Either you're gonna do it or you not? Like nigga, 452 00:24:37,840 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 1: we telling you what to do? You asking it? 453 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 2: Like that's what you can't just go out there and 454 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:43,560 Speaker 2: just drag them, And it almost make it so you 455 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:45,600 Speaker 2: start thinking, nigga, are you the op or not? Like 456 00:24:45,640 --> 00:24:48,439 Speaker 2: why you not you scared of him? Nigga, Are you 457 00:24:48,480 --> 00:24:51,399 Speaker 2: scared of him? Is that why you're not pulling this trigger? 458 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:53,639 Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm gonna continue on. 459 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:57,280 Speaker 2: The earliest filibuster also led to the first demands for 460 00:24:57,320 --> 00:25:00,000 Speaker 2: culture a method of ending the debate in eighteen forty one, 461 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:02,760 Speaker 2: and the Democratic Minority attempted to run the clock on 462 00:25:02,840 --> 00:25:07,040 Speaker 2: the bill to establish a national bank. Philibusters became more 463 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:10,280 Speaker 2: frequent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, leading 464 00:25:10,280 --> 00:25:13,720 Speaker 2: to the serious debate about changing Senate rules to curtail 465 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,640 Speaker 2: this practice. At that point, the Senate has grown larger 466 00:25:17,720 --> 00:25:20,359 Speaker 2: and busier, and the sheer amount of work to be 467 00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:24,280 Speaker 2: done in each session meant that philibustering senator could disrupt 468 00:25:24,359 --> 00:25:28,240 Speaker 2: the process of a body and gain concessions from senators 469 00:25:28,400 --> 00:25:30,600 Speaker 2: who just wanted to get their bills passed. So what 470 00:25:30,600 --> 00:25:32,719 Speaker 2: he's trying to say is this, like you got an 471 00:25:32,720 --> 00:25:35,720 Speaker 2: agenda of Like, nigga, we got to run through seventy 472 00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,520 Speaker 2: two laws, and we at law number three and you 473 00:25:38,680 --> 00:25:41,240 Speaker 2: up there reading cat in the hat. 474 00:25:41,800 --> 00:25:43,040 Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not making this up. 475 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:44,880 Speaker 2: Niggas would just get up there and read out their 476 00:25:44,880 --> 00:25:47,159 Speaker 2: diaries because you can't you're not allowed to shut me up. 477 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:48,960 Speaker 2: Everybody gets to land they plane, so you just run 478 00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 2: the clock out, and at some point fools would be like, 479 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:53,200 Speaker 2: all right, nigga, if I vote no, will you shut 480 00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:55,760 Speaker 2: the fuck up so we can move on? Like damn, 481 00:25:55,880 --> 00:25:58,600 Speaker 2: because as a senator, you like, well, I got bills, 482 00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,199 Speaker 2: I'm trying to get passed. We need to get to 483 00:26:00,240 --> 00:26:02,679 Speaker 2: mine because I'm trying to shine too. So it's actually, 484 00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,040 Speaker 2: I mean, what sucks about it is it works. Any 485 00:26:05,040 --> 00:26:08,840 Speaker 2: of y'all ever ran the clock out on your mom's boy, 486 00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:12,520 Speaker 2: if you don't stop talking, listen, Okay, if I let 487 00:26:12,640 --> 00:26:15,159 Speaker 2: you go to this party, will you shut up and 488 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 2: let me finish what I'm doing? Like got dog, you 489 00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:21,879 Speaker 2: ran the clock out on your mama. I have a 490 00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:24,680 Speaker 2: few times it works unless you're on the other side 491 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:26,760 Speaker 2: of the gun, because sometime your mama run the clock 492 00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:27,280 Speaker 2: out on you. 493 00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:30,119 Speaker 1: Hey, before you go, make sure you do this, you 494 00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:30,639 Speaker 1: should do this. 495 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:32,240 Speaker 2: You do this, and then you get the lecture and 496 00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:33,720 Speaker 2: she trying to tell you why you need to stop 497 00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:35,840 Speaker 2: at your grandma house. And then after that, make sure 498 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:37,720 Speaker 2: you pick up these cigarettes for this, and then after 499 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:38,840 Speaker 2: that you know what I'm saying, And you just like, 500 00:26:38,880 --> 00:26:39,200 Speaker 2: forget it. 501 00:26:39,240 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: I ain't going no more. 502 00:26:45,000 --> 00:26:54,280 Speaker 3: Taste blustering buster Buster. 503 00:27:19,080 --> 00:27:22,280 Speaker 2: Now, one of the most major filibusters that has to 504 00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:23,960 Speaker 2: do with me and you has to do with Jim 505 00:27:24,040 --> 00:27:28,440 Speaker 2: Crow and Jim Crow South US trying to get equal 506 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 2: rights under the law. Part of the hauled up was 507 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:39,400 Speaker 2: nigga a philibuster. So for US people of color, specifically 508 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:45,600 Speaker 2: black people, pipally hood folk, oftentimes throughout history this filibuster 509 00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:51,080 Speaker 2: has been about our rights to vote, and it's like nigga. 510 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:55,000 Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one, you know, the record for the 511 00:27:55,080 --> 00:28:00,680 Speaker 2: longest individual speech goes to South Carolina storm Men, who 512 00:28:00,720 --> 00:28:07,000 Speaker 2: filibustered for twenty four hours in eighteen minutes against the 513 00:28:07,040 --> 00:28:11,200 Speaker 2: Civil Rights Act of nineteen fifty seven. Now, the old 514 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:13,200 Speaker 2: school style is like you had to actually stand in 515 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:14,080 Speaker 2: Senate and talk. 516 00:28:14,119 --> 00:28:15,960 Speaker 1: But you know, the Internet. 517 00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:20,480 Speaker 2: And a pandemic meant that that's just it's just not 518 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:23,840 Speaker 2: feasible and it's not necessary. Now you don't have to 519 00:28:23,840 --> 00:28:26,440 Speaker 2: actually stand up there and talk. You can just say, hey, 520 00:28:26,440 --> 00:28:28,919 Speaker 2: I want to continue debate, Hey I got some ideas. 521 00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,080 Speaker 2: Hey we can't vote yet, I still got thoughts. You 522 00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,199 Speaker 2: don't have to actually stand there and give the speech, 523 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:35,480 Speaker 2: which I'm kind of like, man, that's kind of not 524 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:37,439 Speaker 2: g you know what I'm saying, Like I thought it 525 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:39,680 Speaker 2: was kind of g that like, if you really gonna 526 00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:42,240 Speaker 2: do this, if you really gonna do this to us, nigga, 527 00:28:42,320 --> 00:28:44,600 Speaker 2: you need to stand there, you know what I'm saying. 528 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:48,640 Speaker 2: But nobody want to stand there and listen, because I mean, 529 00:28:48,680 --> 00:28:49,280 Speaker 2: it's awful. 530 00:28:49,360 --> 00:28:51,800 Speaker 1: Now, who can fill a buster? Any senator? 531 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:53,960 Speaker 2: They just need to give notice that they intend to 532 00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:58,120 Speaker 2: do this, and usually you give your party a heads 533 00:28:58,160 --> 00:29:01,160 Speaker 2: up that you're finna do this, and then and the most 534 00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:04,400 Speaker 2: frequent and formal step is just to be like, I object, 535 00:29:04,480 --> 00:29:06,840 Speaker 2: and then the other senator say, hey, hey, we can't 536 00:29:06,880 --> 00:29:09,760 Speaker 2: move on because it's full objects. Now that senator can 537 00:29:09,840 --> 00:29:11,959 Speaker 2: ask to speak, but he does not have to speak, 538 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:13,920 Speaker 2: like I said, because all you're trying to do is 539 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,360 Speaker 2: just start the buster again. 540 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,760 Speaker 1: To end the filibuster, you have to have this super. 541 00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:21,720 Speaker 2: Weapon, which is called cloture, right like we said before, 542 00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:22,440 Speaker 2: which ends it. 543 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,960 Speaker 1: Now. You need it to be a sixty votes right, 544 00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,360 Speaker 1: which is basically three fourths vote of the Senate. Right. 545 00:29:29,680 --> 00:29:32,000 Speaker 2: But the Democrats now are asking to move that down 546 00:29:32,040 --> 00:29:33,840 Speaker 2: to fifty one because this is ridiculous. 547 00:29:33,840 --> 00:29:34,880 Speaker 1: It's been happening. 548 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:37,640 Speaker 2: Since clearly it's a design flaw, you know what I'm saying, Like, 549 00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,479 Speaker 2: at least that's the perception if it's been in every 550 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:46,080 Speaker 2: possible Senate since the beginning of the country. Now, if 551 00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:50,640 Speaker 2: the cloture passes, it dictates that there's a maximum thirty 552 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,480 Speaker 2: hours of debate, meaning okay, nigga, it's just one more date. 553 00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,640 Speaker 2: Then we have to vote on the measure. But then 554 00:29:55,640 --> 00:29:59,240 Speaker 2: if cloture does not pass, then the filibuster remains in 555 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:00,920 Speaker 2: limbo and the and it has to move on to 556 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 2: other stuff. So that means like we pull the culture. 557 00:30:03,480 --> 00:30:06,040 Speaker 2: Culture didn't pass. That means you still don't get to 558 00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:07,560 Speaker 2: come back to your hood and be like, look that's 559 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,040 Speaker 2: what I got for you. You don't get to do 560 00:30:09,120 --> 00:30:11,680 Speaker 2: it right now. There's a thing called the nuclear option. 561 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,840 Speaker 2: That's the fifty one votes I'm talking about from a 562 00:30:14,880 --> 00:30:20,160 Speaker 2: supermajority to just a majority. So in twenty thirteen, the 563 00:30:20,200 --> 00:30:25,000 Speaker 2: Democrats actually deployed the nuclear option after being frustrated by 564 00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:28,800 Speaker 2: the Republicans use of the filibuster against then President Obama's 565 00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,760 Speaker 2: administration and federal court nominees. Right they removed the sixty 566 00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:37,120 Speaker 2: vote threshold. But hold up, they bus we bus and 567 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:41,760 Speaker 2: then the Republicans did it in twenty seventeen, triggering the 568 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:46,160 Speaker 2: nuclear option as well to get nominees through. This is 569 00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:50,320 Speaker 2: what I mean by they bus we bust. And this 570 00:30:50,400 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 2: is a calculation you gotta make when you're on top. 571 00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,400 Speaker 2: If I pull this trigger, I ain't gonna be on 572 00:30:56,440 --> 00:30:59,720 Speaker 2: top the whole time. They might pull the trigger back 573 00:30:59,800 --> 00:31:03,560 Speaker 2: on me. Now, if you're a gangster, you've already made 574 00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:07,040 Speaker 2: that calculation when you signed up. Of course they gonna 575 00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,959 Speaker 2: pull back. Of course they gonna shoot back. But that 576 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 2: don't mean I don't shoot. So the question you gotta 577 00:31:13,760 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 2: look at Joe Biden at and be. 578 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,640 Speaker 1: Like, are you a killer or not? Nigga, did you 579 00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,440 Speaker 1: sign up for this or not? What is you doing? 580 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:26,640 Speaker 2: But the point is the philibuster has been a part 581 00:31:26,640 --> 00:31:30,360 Speaker 2: of the American Senate process since the beginning. The question 582 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:34,040 Speaker 2: is do you think we should or should not have one? 583 00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:38,440 Speaker 2: Some say again, it's the only respist that the minority 584 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:41,840 Speaker 2: party in power has because if not, like Nigga, nothing 585 00:31:41,880 --> 00:31:43,920 Speaker 2: will never be able to do anything. And then it's 586 00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:46,920 Speaker 2: like it's basically a one party. I mean, is it 587 00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:51,640 Speaker 2: so Look, so the arguments for a filibuster, think of 588 00:31:51,640 --> 00:31:55,320 Speaker 2: it like this. It's like yo, it promotes compromise, like 589 00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:58,240 Speaker 2: it makes fools compromise. It provides a constraint. This is 590 00:31:58,280 --> 00:31:59,720 Speaker 2: what I've been trying to argue right now. It's like 591 00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,760 Speaker 2: if from Goss constraints over the party in power, and 592 00:32:04,440 --> 00:32:07,800 Speaker 2: it supports confidence in American governance. 593 00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:09,120 Speaker 1: These are the arguments for it. 594 00:32:09,160 --> 00:32:11,040 Speaker 2: And then the arguments against, what we'll get to later 595 00:32:11,200 --> 00:32:13,480 Speaker 2: is like, nigg you know that's not what they're doing, 596 00:32:13,640 --> 00:32:16,120 Speaker 2: and you know you're being racist. But let's go back 597 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:19,840 Speaker 2: to the four right quote. Let's see Mark Decian from 598 00:32:19,840 --> 00:32:23,040 Speaker 2: the Washington Post. He says the Democrats should take stock 599 00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:27,120 Speaker 2: of everything they delayed and derailed under Trump because of 600 00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:31,400 Speaker 2: the philibuster, and then imagine that all that and more 601 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,200 Speaker 2: enacted by a simple majority vote when the Republicans gained 602 00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:40,040 Speaker 2: control of Congress at the presidency, which they eventually will, 603 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:41,440 Speaker 2: which is the whole argument. 604 00:32:41,520 --> 00:32:43,160 Speaker 1: Look, they bus we bus. 605 00:32:43,360 --> 00:32:46,600 Speaker 2: The philibuster allowed the Democrats to constrain the Republicans from 606 00:32:46,680 --> 00:32:49,680 Speaker 2: enacting what the Democrats considered to be a radical agenda 607 00:32:49,920 --> 00:32:53,400 Speaker 2: under a populist, right wing president. If they eliminate that too, 608 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:56,840 Speaker 2: and they act their own radical agenda. 609 00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:58,480 Speaker 1: They would rue that. 610 00:32:58,480 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 2: Decision when they become the minority. So they like, look, 611 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,360 Speaker 2: be careful now, because you ain't going to always be 612 00:33:05,440 --> 00:33:10,239 Speaker 2: in power, right. And then here's Daniel Lipps from the 613 00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:14,840 Speaker 2: Federal Society January twentyth, twenty twenty one. Historically, the Senate 614 00:33:14,960 --> 00:33:18,840 Speaker 2: was designed to work its will to reach consensus, rather 615 00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:21,800 Speaker 2: than to react of the passions of the day and 616 00:33:21,960 --> 00:33:25,440 Speaker 2: simply implement the will of the majority. And it forces 617 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:30,800 Speaker 2: lawmakers of opposing political parties to work together and compromise. 618 00:33:31,520 --> 00:33:33,960 Speaker 2: We can already see the cost of eliminating the need 619 00:33:34,000 --> 00:33:38,280 Speaker 2: for bipartisan support of nominations. It is eroded public confidence 620 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:45,160 Speaker 2: Approving cabinet officials, judges, and justices along only party lines 621 00:33:45,560 --> 00:33:50,320 Speaker 2: has been followed by lawmakers and public questioning of their legitimacy. 622 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,880 Speaker 1: Extending the check this out. 623 00:33:53,840 --> 00:34:01,440 Speaker 2: Majoritarian power to major legislation would further eroad public's trust 624 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:05,520 Speaker 2: and increase the focus on political strategies to win a 625 00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,160 Speaker 2: majority rather than governing. So he's trying to say what 626 00:34:08,200 --> 00:34:11,960 Speaker 2: we obviously know always happens, which is, look, if you're 627 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:13,920 Speaker 2: the majority, you're gonna get your will and that's just 628 00:34:13,920 --> 00:34:16,480 Speaker 2: not fair that the public don't trust us. We gotta 629 00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:21,080 Speaker 2: have some tool to stop this just stupid cycle from continue. 630 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:22,680 Speaker 2: So if the government gonna trust it, you're gonna trust 631 00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:24,799 Speaker 2: the laws we put in place that they ain't just 632 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:27,560 Speaker 2: political laws. The people we put in position, they ain't 633 00:34:27,600 --> 00:34:31,040 Speaker 2: just political positions. We gotta have something right to make 634 00:34:31,080 --> 00:34:35,200 Speaker 2: you trust us. You wit it now. So the two 635 00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:38,440 Speaker 2: big arguments against it is like, Yo, it's deeply racist, 636 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:40,160 Speaker 2: and it has no historical merit. 637 00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:41,239 Speaker 1: You I'm saying. 638 00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:43,759 Speaker 2: So I'm gonna start with the historical merit part. I'm 639 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:49,600 Speaker 2: gonna quote Carolyn Frederickson from The Burning Center of Justice 640 00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,160 Speaker 2: in October thirtieth. On twenty twenty, she says this, Now 641 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:57,120 Speaker 2: watch this. Some Americans mistakenly believe that the filibuster originated 642 00:34:57,120 --> 00:34:59,719 Speaker 2: in seventeen eighty nine and was a part of the 643 00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:02,600 Speaker 2: Frame plan to how the Senate should function. It plainly 644 00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:05,399 Speaker 2: was not. The Constitution leaves it up to the House 645 00:35:05,440 --> 00:35:08,200 Speaker 2: and the Congress to set its own rules. Indeed, the 646 00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:13,160 Speaker 2: Framers considered and rejected the idea of requiring supermajorities for legislation. 647 00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,200 Speaker 2: As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalists twenty two to give 648 00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:21,000 Speaker 2: a minority negative upon the majority, which is always the 649 00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:26,200 Speaker 2: case where more than the majority is requisite to a decision, 650 00:35:26,920 --> 00:35:30,880 Speaker 2: is in its tendency to subject the sense of a 651 00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:34,680 Speaker 2: greater number than that of the lesser. They knew such 652 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,520 Speaker 2: built in obstruction could doom a republic, telling Lee the 653 00:35:38,560 --> 00:35:41,560 Speaker 2: filibuster did not become a rule or a practice of 654 00:35:41,600 --> 00:35:44,080 Speaker 2: the Senate until one hundred and twenty nine years later, 655 00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:48,120 Speaker 2: after the Constitution was ratified. Moreover, not only is the 656 00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:53,400 Speaker 2: Constitution silent about the matter, but it prescribes the supermajority 657 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:59,520 Speaker 2: votes only for very specific subjects such as treaties, and 658 00:35:59,640 --> 00:36:04,680 Speaker 2: making clear that the simple majority is the expectation of 659 00:36:04,840 --> 00:36:11,560 Speaker 2: other circumstances, including legislation that indicates supermajorities are required by 660 00:36:11,719 --> 00:36:15,840 Speaker 2: the filibuster and otherwise disfavored. 661 00:36:16,360 --> 00:36:18,640 Speaker 1: That's a lot of words. Here's what she's trying to say. 662 00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,440 Speaker 2: What she's saying is, Look, this was never the plan. 663 00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:24,800 Speaker 2: And you notice wasn't a plan. And if a simple 664 00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,880 Speaker 2: majority work for everything, why you gotta do this extra 665 00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:29,960 Speaker 2: supermajority like this. 666 00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:33,279 Speaker 1: Even Alexander Hamilton knew this wasn't a plan. 667 00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:37,000 Speaker 2: So don't act like don't act like it was always 668 00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:41,600 Speaker 2: like this, It wasn't now pete this Rashad Robinson in 669 00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:45,319 Speaker 2: March first of twenty twenty one. The nature of the filibuster, 670 00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:50,120 Speaker 2: its rules and norms, is hardly an ironclad tradition. It 671 00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:53,400 Speaker 2: has changed and adapted greatly over the years since it 672 00:36:53,440 --> 00:36:56,440 Speaker 2: first became popular in the Civil rights era. But what 673 00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:01,839 Speaker 2: hasn't changed is it's enduring connection to racism. The filibuster 674 00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,680 Speaker 2: has always stood in the way of racial progress, whether 675 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,479 Speaker 2: employed by the Southern Democrats and the Jim Crow era 676 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:10,680 Speaker 2: or the Republican Party today as a major shift in 677 00:37:10,719 --> 00:37:14,719 Speaker 2: the party stance on racial equality. When you understand the 678 00:37:14,719 --> 00:37:18,520 Speaker 2: filibusters racist past, it becomes clear that it has a 679 00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:21,600 Speaker 2: racist present as well. We just need to get rid 680 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:26,560 Speaker 2: of it. It's crazy when you see something that's systematically racist, 681 00:37:28,520 --> 00:37:33,120 Speaker 2: but is there so long. It's almost like when you 682 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:37,279 Speaker 2: bake a cake. You can't when you bite the cake, 683 00:37:37,320 --> 00:37:40,200 Speaker 2: you don't taste the flour no more, you don't taste 684 00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:40,840 Speaker 2: the eggs. 685 00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:42,560 Speaker 1: You just taste the cake. 686 00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:46,040 Speaker 2: This argument is that's a filibuster, and some would argue 687 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:50,840 Speaker 2: that's the electoral college. Electoral college was to make sure 688 00:37:51,160 --> 00:37:54,399 Speaker 2: that states with a lot of black people. A lot 689 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,920 Speaker 2: of free black people don't have an advantage over states 690 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:03,560 Speaker 2: that used to enslaved black people. And this Voting Rights 691 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:07,319 Speaker 2: Act from nineteen fifty seven was even more in this 692 00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:14,320 Speaker 2: same practice of like, yo, y'all, just you're diverting the point. 693 00:38:14,400 --> 00:38:20,319 Speaker 2: You're doing this because you don't want brown folk to 694 00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:24,400 Speaker 2: have rights. And what's so crazy about it right now 695 00:38:25,040 --> 00:38:30,200 Speaker 2: is it's almost like Niga is happening again, y'all. 696 00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:31,760 Speaker 1: Don't you don't want. 697 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,920 Speaker 2: Us to have to protect our voting rights, so you're 698 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:37,799 Speaker 2: doing it again. But you could step back and say, well, no, 699 00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:41,719 Speaker 2: it's just a procedure. What are you talking about. It's 700 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,040 Speaker 2: just a procedure. It's because now I can't taste the 701 00:38:44,040 --> 00:38:48,600 Speaker 2: flower no more. It's already it's. 702 00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:54,280 Speaker 1: In the cake. If I keep talking, you can't vote. 703 00:38:54,680 --> 00:39:00,279 Speaker 2: But you gotta remember whatever weapon I got, they got. 704 00:39:01,080 --> 00:39:04,000 Speaker 2: But nigga, you on top. Now you're gonna shoot or 705 00:39:04,040 --> 00:39:08,080 Speaker 2: not you're gonna put on for us or what we 706 00:39:08,160 --> 00:39:12,239 Speaker 2: put you on? You supost to ride for us? And 707 00:39:12,400 --> 00:39:15,600 Speaker 2: it's a good cause you afraid to shoot. 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