Speaker 1: Cool Media. Hey, what up?
Speaker 2: Though, this is our first ever rerun. We've never done
Speaker 2: a rerun, you know what I'm saying, So this is
Speaker 2: the first one. It's been about two years now with
Speaker 2: joining Cool Zone and iHeart and you know, the hoole politics. Man,
Speaker 2: some of y'all may know. It was a segment of
Speaker 2: the Red Couch podcast, which people still talk to me about.
Speaker 2: You know what I used to do with the Queen
Speaker 2: referred to her by her prefix doctor Alma. And it
Speaker 2: was fun, man. I mean, it just started in seventeen,
Speaker 2: twenty seventeen. We was trying to figure out some way
Speaker 2: to like just process what the hell was going on
Speaker 2: on earth.
Speaker 1: And a segment of it in the beginning.
Speaker 2: Was, you know, a politics because politics was going crazy
Speaker 2: and Mary just kind of giggled about it. It was
Speaker 2: just kind of how we talked among ourselves, you know,
Speaker 2: And then it kind of took on its own life
Speaker 2: and then became what eventually joined to the iHeart Network
Speaker 2: with Really the origins was me just kind of doing
Speaker 2: it on my own because I just got kind of
Speaker 2: got tired of podcasting.
Speaker 1: And then Robert DMed.
Speaker 2: Me when we were talking about the Black Panthers anyway,
Speaker 2: the show, you know, it started off as something like
Speaker 2: I said, that was like thirty minutes or not even
Speaker 2: thirty minutes, like ten minutes, you know, lighthearted, and then
Speaker 2: as the show evolved and we just started seeing like,
Speaker 2: oh man, we're like I really got to take this serious.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: So as it started, it was like much more like
Speaker 2: street kind of gang examples and stuff like that. But
Speaker 2: you know what, like one you start getting pressed by
Speaker 2: actual gangsters and they're like, nigga, you don't know this shit,
Speaker 2: you know, and then it's like, well, that's not really
Speaker 2: what I'm trying to say. What I'm trying to say
Speaker 2: is if you've just grown up in any of these
Speaker 2: environments where you've had to like access the knowledge that
Speaker 2: you came from, that you grew up with and apply
Speaker 2: it to a new sort of arena or a skill set.
Speaker 2: I just wanted to encourage people to know that, like,
Speaker 2: you can do that, you know what I mean. My
Speaker 2: hope is to onboard more people of color who come
Speaker 2: from modest mean to you know, kind of come from
Speaker 2: the margins, you know what I'm saying, and don't really
Speaker 2: feel like they're welcome into the process. I just want
Speaker 2: you to know damn that, yes you are, and you're
Speaker 2: smarter than you think you are. You know. So as
Speaker 2: it's grown, you know what I'm saying, Matt ended up
Speaker 2: making songs every month or every week. He got good at,
Speaker 2: you know, dropping a track a week, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And guess what, like, yo, I started rapping in some
Speaker 1: of those tracks.
Speaker 2: We're you know, coming soon, we're gonna start dropping these
Speaker 2: songs of me just rapping to these beats, you know.
Speaker 2: And the show is like grown to a place that
Speaker 2: I've really never thought it would, you know, where I've
Speaker 2: had to stretch my knowledge base. It wasn't just like,
Speaker 2: oh yeah, I know this, it's this. It's like no,
Speaker 2: like I've even had to learn and do some translation
Speaker 2: for myself to make sure that I can explain it
Speaker 2: to somebody else, you know what I mean. And it's
Speaker 2: super dope, you know, seeing people at like rap shows
Speaker 2: or coming to the club real ones parties on Sundays
Speaker 2: and or ordering the coffee and being like, yo, I
Speaker 2: found out about you via behind the Bastards or hood politics,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. And they're like, man, like
Speaker 2: I really, you're the only way I understand the news.
Speaker 2: So I'm honored by that, and it's quite a weight,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean. So coming into this new season,
Speaker 2: I wanted to revisit one of my favorite ones. It
Speaker 2: was about philipbustering. You know, they bust, we bust philibuster
Speaker 2: with holes, you know, because you get these terms like
Speaker 2: jerry mandering, philibuster, Like it's like, what is mean?
Speaker 1: You know? And the truth is you do know what
Speaker 1: it means.
Speaker 2: And I feel like this is the best example of
Speaker 2: trying to explain to you, explain to us, like, hey man,
Speaker 2: you're more equipped than you think you are. You know,
Speaker 2: you understand city living, you understand politics. So peep three
Speaker 2: run phil a buster will hole. Also, because we take
Speaker 2: at least one week off.
Speaker 3: Fust they they fuster o.
Speaker 1: Listen, listen, listen, just keep talking. We just look.
Speaker 2: Look if they if they're talking, if they talking to you,
Speaker 2: they're not talking to each other.
Speaker 1: Hood politics, your soul good right here? Hood politics, y'all?
Speaker 1: So hood.
Speaker 2: Here was the game my sister and I used to
Speaker 2: play when we knew one of us was finna get
Speaker 2: a whooping.
Speaker 1: Look here, just keep mama talking. I used to look,
Speaker 1: this is what I used to do.
Speaker 2: I used to when I knew one of us was
Speaker 2: in trouble, and it wasn't no way in the world
Speaker 2: that there would not be any shrapnel. Now look, in
Speaker 2: case you don't know, I'm black. And here's the thing.
Speaker 2: When one kid in trouble, everybody in trouble. So to
Speaker 2: protect your own body, You understand what I'm saying. Sometimes
Speaker 2: you gotta work together. And nia his was crazy. Even
Speaker 2: if it's one of them's fault. They may mess around
Speaker 2: and be like mad at you for snitching. They like,
Speaker 2: don't be snitching on your sister. Now turn to your
Speaker 2: sister now she in trouble. But anyway, the point is
Speaker 2: just keep talking. So I would start cleaning the house.
Speaker 2: I would clean up. I would be showing that Mama,
Speaker 2: look at look how good this look. How good I
Speaker 2: clean this house? Because I just don't want her to
Speaker 2: talk to dad, because if she talked to Dad, then
Speaker 2: that means we're gonna have some consequences and repercussions. It's
Speaker 2: gonna be a situation. Just keep talking, show them all
Speaker 2: the good things you've been doing. Now, don't have to
Speaker 2: be about nothing. Just keep talking. I applied this sometimes
Speaker 2: to dealing with some hood niggas is with the shits.
Speaker 2: Keep them laughing. If you can keep them laughing, you
Speaker 2: know what I'm saying, not cann distract you from the
Speaker 2: situation that might go down had they had a chance
Speaker 2: to communicate. Sometimes niggas, you're somebody. I'm sorry, mam, I'm
Speaker 2: tired of this talking.
Speaker 1: Man. Quit talking. And when you gotta throw them, you
Speaker 1: gotta throw them. It is what it is. Sometimes you
Speaker 1: just gotta chuck them.
Speaker 2: But if you keep them talking, you understand what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: and you can stop the stuff from happening. But you
Speaker 2: have to remember every weapon you got they got. There
Speaker 2: was a moment in Los Angeles when when the call
Speaker 2: came from from apparently from prison to stop the drive
Speaker 2: bys because it just they just not g you know,
Speaker 2: according to them. But like that's one reason, but the
Speaker 2: other reason was you have to remember cars go both directions.
Speaker 2: You ride on somebody hood, they gonna ride back. Now,
Speaker 2: a true hood still knows that, like this is what
Speaker 2: I signed up for. They understand, as the saying goes,
Speaker 2: they bus, we bus. So whatever weapon you got, they
Speaker 2: probably got too. So whether it's talking or shooting, careful
Speaker 2: they bus we buss Philip Buster with hoes. Let's talk
Speaker 2: about Philipbuster's hood politics.
Speaker 3: They ll Buster talk. They blustering film Buster.
Speaker 2: So look, you got Texas Democrats peacing out, like, I'm
Speaker 2: just not even gonna stay in the state.
Speaker 1: Y'all can't.
Speaker 2: Y'all can't cast this final vote if we're not there.
Speaker 2: So they didn't went all the way to Washington, at
Speaker 2: least at the point that I'm recording this, you know,
Speaker 2: because if they stayed in state, Texas could have sent
Speaker 2: state troopers, could have sent Walker Texas Ranger to come
Speaker 2: get them niggas.
Speaker 1: That's they lost.
Speaker 2: You also got on the hill Republicans filibustering. You need
Speaker 2: to know what the hell of philibuster is and why
Speaker 2: everybody doing everything they do. Then you got the Progressive
Speaker 2: Democrats being like, why you ain't breaking the filibuster? Joe
Speaker 2: say something, come on, man, put off for the hood.
Speaker 2: You're gonna come on dog like we're all telling you, yo,
Speaker 2: you need to stop this doing this, and Joe just going, yeah, Republicans,
Speaker 2: y'all gotta stop.
Speaker 1: But he he ain't about that action, like the action
Speaker 1: would be bruh.
Speaker 2: Okay, you got the power to end this mug. The
Speaker 2: question is, nigga, what the hell of philibuster? And what
Speaker 2: is everybody in a tip for? So what's the big deal?
Speaker 2: Why are we even talking about a philibuster getting in
Speaker 2: the first place. Well, how today's gonna go is, I'm
Speaker 2: gonna tell you, like what the issue is, what a
Speaker 2: filibuster is, history of philibuster and maybe try to use
Speaker 2: our antennas to understand why this mug exists and why
Speaker 2: Joe ain't doing nothing about it, because it looks right
Speaker 2: now he's just getting punked by the Republicans, Like, I
Speaker 2: don't know why you're just letting these people do what
Speaker 2: the hell you want to do. But actually I have
Speaker 2: a theory as to why, but I don't know. Anyway,
Speaker 2: we're talking about voting. We're talking about voter suppression, voter fraud,
Speaker 2: and voter rights.
Speaker 1: It's all around voting. Okay, you got the John C.
Speaker 2: Lewis Voter Rights Act H one or H four, right,
Speaker 2: that has to do it. The protection around different hindrances
Speaker 2: that seem to have been promoted. Let's be real, they
Speaker 2: were promoted by it by really the Trump bites, mainly
Speaker 2: because of this big old Lae that there was widespread
Speaker 2: voter fraud throughout last election, and the extremes would say that,
Speaker 2: you know, Trump won and there's five thousand people that
Speaker 2: were dead that already voted. None of this stuff is real.
Speaker 2: You should throw at those votes. This really didn't count,
Speaker 2: and you could go back. I feel like the biggest,
Speaker 2: the biggest defense against this is you go back to
Speaker 2: Lindsey Graham, who owned the block. Lindsey Graham was like,
Speaker 2: all right, word, okay, I'm gonna go ride for y'all.
Speaker 1: Give me the receipts.
Speaker 2: Show me you say five thousand, show me them, show me,
Speaker 2: give me, give me ten, give me ten examples. And
Speaker 2: he was like, y'all still ain't got me no examples.
Speaker 2: And it's like, nigga, I'm on your side. I'm trying
Speaker 2: to go. I'm trying to go earn for the block. Man,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to go put on for you. I'm not
Speaker 2: the enemy, fam, I ain't the I'm trying to put
Speaker 2: all for you. You can't give me no receipts. I
Speaker 2: want to go fight for you, Like, damn, you give
Speaker 2: me some seats. Cut you know what I'm saying, mister Graham,
Speaker 2: stand right. So that to me is like tells you
Speaker 2: a little more about you know, what's going on. And
Speaker 2: then what kept happening out of some of the conservative
Speaker 2: voices is they kept saying, we gotta change this vote
Speaker 2: and stuff because if we don't, we gonna keep losing,
Speaker 2: which kind of sound like if we just what you're
Speaker 2: kind of saying is if enough people get access to vote,
Speaker 2: they not gonna vote for us. So we gotta make
Speaker 2: sure y'all don't get access to vote. Right, So you
Speaker 2: have all these things that was happening under the banner
Speaker 2: of protecting the integrity of the quality of our voting.
Speaker 2: So like re looking at the Arizona thing, and I
Speaker 2: don't know if y'all y'all were up on that. Like
Speaker 2: the Arizona election has been recounted multiple times, and it's
Speaker 2: still like nigga, like we find in clerical errors, but
Speaker 2: dog like they ain't know this. Look, we're just not
Speaker 2: seeing this conspiracy. You know that you're trying to tell me.
Speaker 2: So now, out in Texas, this is how these two
Speaker 2: things are connected. Out in Texas, they trying to say, Okay, listen,
Speaker 2: this is what we need to do. We need to
Speaker 2: make sure you don't get a day off work to
Speaker 2: go vote. It has to be in person, it's got
Speaker 2: to be normal business hours. And if you don't make
Speaker 2: it there, you're not allowed to give people water, You're
Speaker 2: not allowed to get people. Just under this idea that
Speaker 2: like by doing all these extra things making it, making
Speaker 2: voting more accessible, having voter IDs and to be like
Speaker 2: we don't know if you is that a dad solid
Speaker 2: security number, Like we don't know who this person is.
Speaker 2: What if you vote twice, if you mail in and
Speaker 2: come to the thing, like, it's not fair, you know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying. We need to make sure that like
Speaker 2: this voter is as fair as possible. And look, were
Speaker 2: trying to help y'all. Now listen, voter fraud happens. Don't
Speaker 2: get it twisted.
Speaker 1: It's just.
Speaker 2: It's just not really at the scale that they're saying,
Speaker 2: like we just don't have no evidence of that, and
Speaker 2: it was just admitting like Homie from Michigan that came
Speaker 2: forward and said there was a whole bunch of mail
Speaker 2: ballots that was he came forward and was like, nah,
Speaker 2: I was cappin, Like it's just not what they said
Speaker 2: it was. So they're like, we're trying to pass this.
Speaker 2: The problem is a lot of these things. Number one,
Speaker 2: they harkened back to a time which were called the
Speaker 2: Black Codes, which was purposefully trying to stop black people
Speaker 2: from voting because when we came out to vote, Nigga,
Speaker 2: we put our people in office. Do you know unerstand
Speaker 2: I'm saying, because voting, believe it or not, newsflash works Nigga.
Speaker 2: Y know, I'm saying, Uh, but there's that, So it
Speaker 2: harkens back to those times. And then secondly, it often
Speaker 2: penalizes lower income people. So it's not necessarily just black folks,
Speaker 2: but it's just lower income people, people that don't have
Speaker 2: access right. You know what I'm saying, It's important to
Speaker 2: acknowledge the distinction between a rite and a privilege is
Speaker 2: by virtue of your citizenship, you have.
Speaker 1: The right to vote.
Speaker 2: I don't have to show you nothing except for the
Speaker 2: fact that I'm a citizen. So when you say, well,
Speaker 2: just having an ID is like, I mean, that's just
Speaker 2: like it's maybe it's an inconvenience, but who ain't got ID?
Speaker 1: There's plain people ain't got ID.
Speaker 2: You just can't deny my constitutional right because I ain't
Speaker 2: got no ID.
Speaker 1: Like I don't know what else to say.
Speaker 2: And now, practically speaking, there's a lot of different ways
Speaker 2: to verify a person's identity, you know, but when you
Speaker 2: add that to these other things like polls close it five,
Speaker 2: you can't mail in. So it's like, well, if I
Speaker 2: can't if I can't miss a day of work, you're
Speaker 2: telling me I can't miss it. You're telling me, you're
Speaker 2: telling me we don't get the day off. I gotta
Speaker 2: miss a day of work. And if I can't miss
Speaker 2: a day of work, I can't send it in early.
Speaker 2: You don't want me to mail it in. It's almost
Speaker 2: like you don't want me to vote, you know what
Speaker 2: I'm saying. There's a great pod on the through Line
Speaker 2: podcast about Frederick Douglass and why he believed voting was
Speaker 2: so important, and it's like he's really even back then,
Speaker 2: capturing like captured the understanding of like there is real
Speaker 2: power in this, especially because if you understand what was
Speaker 2: happening right after, right during reconstruction, how hard they went
Speaker 2: to make sure that black people did not vote was oh, nigga,
Speaker 2: you just showed your cards.
Speaker 1: I mean.
Speaker 2: Then they had this thing called this Grandfather clause, which
Speaker 2: was hilarious, which was like Hey, if your granddaddy voted
Speaker 2: in eighteen sixty, then you can vote, well, nigga. Obviously
Speaker 2: nobody black granddaddy voted in eighteen sixty. So like it's
Speaker 2: just we know what you're doing. You're putting all these
Speaker 2: undue burdens on people that don't have the privileges that
Speaker 2: everybody else do. So what they're trying to say is
Speaker 2: like voting shouldn't be harder. And so the Democrats chose,
Speaker 2: like we've been trying to argue this that like y'all bugging,
Speaker 2: but if you're not feel like listen, then we just
Speaker 2: gonna bounce. Now this has been done before. It was
Speaker 2: just the other way around. They bus we bus. The
Speaker 2: Republicans have walked out of Texas legislature before they bus
Speaker 2: we bus. Now they're using the same tactic. Now move
Speaker 2: that back to the hill on Capitol Hill. It's still
Speaker 2: the same idea of voting right, of passing laws that
Speaker 2: would make sure that there's equal protection under the law
Speaker 2: for people despite their socioeconomic, racial, ethnic access. Voting should
Speaker 2: be more accessible. You're not allowed to put hindrances in
Speaker 2: in front of constitutional rights. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: You can put them in front of privileges like a
Speaker 2: driver's license. Just because you're a citizen don't mean you
Speaker 2: get to drive, Nigga, like, you know what I'm saying. Like,
Speaker 2: but just because you're a citizen, you get to vote.
Speaker 2: You're twenty one, you get to vote. It is what
Speaker 2: it is like, it just comes with its packaged deal. Right,
Speaker 2: So they're trying to pass some laws that have more
Speaker 2: protection about that. Now, the specificity is the law is
Speaker 2: not the point of this this pod. But what the
Speaker 2: Republican legislator is doing is a thing called fill of bustering.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a tool you use.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get into the specifics of this later, but
Speaker 2: I want to set the stage here. When somebody presents
Speaker 2: a bill, we post a debate on it. Right, So
Speaker 2: you you do this point, this point, this point, and
Speaker 2: the law says we can't stop. We can't stop to
Speaker 2: vote on it until everybody gets they piece off, until
Speaker 2: you able to fly in land your plane. You know
Speaker 2: what I'm saying, Everyone gets to land they plane before
Speaker 2: we vote. Right.
Speaker 1: You have to let this nigga finish.
Speaker 2: That's why I said in the beginning, sometimes your best
Speaker 2: defense is to keep talking, nigga. If you could keep talking,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. If you could keep if
Speaker 2: you could keep these niggas occupied, oh some other shit,
Speaker 2: maybe you could you could stop a decision from being made,
Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying. So if right now, if
Speaker 2: you're not the Senate majority, you're the Senate minority, one
Speaker 2: of your ways because you know, because how the numbers work,
Speaker 2: that y'all ain't gonna ever get your way. So one
Speaker 2: line of defense is to just keep talking. Is to
Speaker 2: make sure that y'all never do get to vote on it.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna get into the history of like how this
Speaker 2: has been used in the second but that's one thing
Speaker 2: that's happening right now, is this is Republicans are proverbially speaking,
Speaker 2: still talking. Now. The Democrats are looking at President Biden,
Speaker 2: who's supposed to be like the top of the top
Speaker 2: of the hood, and they like, hey, hey, homie, can
Speaker 2: you tell them niggas to shut the fuck up so
Speaker 2: we can finish this.
Speaker 1: Damn nigga.
Speaker 2: You know the rules, we could we could end this
Speaker 2: shit with a culture We could I mean, we could
Speaker 2: do a fifty one person vote. You could change the rules, right,
Speaker 2: now it take sixty people, we could change it to
Speaker 2: fifty one.
Speaker 1: Nigga, you got the power to do it. Like, why
Speaker 1: you're not putting on damn man? Like you can end
Speaker 1: this shit right now.
Speaker 2: Matter of fact, the whole party asking you, Like, what
Speaker 2: the hell man like in the filibuster?
Speaker 3: But he not.
Speaker 2: But let's step back though the hell is a filibuster.
Speaker 2: A filibuster is talking a bill to death?
Speaker 1: What do I mean by that?
Speaker 2: It's a tactic of delaying action on a legislation because
Speaker 2: you can't pass a law until everyone gets to land
Speaker 2: they plane. Now, I'm a quote from the Senate dot gov.
Speaker 2: What they say, straight from the website. The tactic of
Speaker 2: using long speeches to delay an action on legislation appeared
Speaker 2: in the very first session of Senate on September twenty second,
Speaker 2: seventeen eighty nine. Pennsylvania Senator William McLay wrote in his
Speaker 2: diary that the design of the Virginians was to take
Speaker 2: away the time so that we could not get the
Speaker 2: bill passed. As a number of philibusters grew in the
Speaker 2: nineteenth century, the Senate had no formal process to allow
Speaker 2: a majority to end the debate and force a legislation.
Speaker 2: Why you think Virginia and he won't a law passed.
Speaker 2: The hint is racism, nigga slavery. Right, So basically it's
Speaker 2: me at the house going but look look, look, look
Speaker 2: look mom, but wait wait wait wait wait no wait
Speaker 2: wait listen before you talk. But wait wait, but listen.
Speaker 2: Look look, look, look, look, look look look wait. No,
Speaker 2: you know, and let me tell you about my homework. Oh,
Speaker 2: matter of fact, you know what. Let me tell you something.
Speaker 2: Let me tell you why I learned the church today.
Speaker 2: You just I'm coming up with a million things just
Speaker 2: to keep saying, because I don't want her to go.
Speaker 1: Just keep talking to avoid the whooping.
Speaker 2: The filibuster is whether it's praise for better or for worse,
Speaker 2: We're going to go through like pros and cons about it.
Speaker 2: But what it's saying is I'm going to stop the
Speaker 2: vote on this. Even if I can't give you a
Speaker 2: real reason as to why this is a bad vote
Speaker 2: or why this is a bad idea. Maybe it's just
Speaker 2: as simple as my constituents don't want it, the hood
Speaker 2: don't like it. But I really don't have no other
Speaker 2: real reasons for it. But I'm just it's just bad.
Speaker 2: I like, and if you're a political minority in the
Speaker 2: deadlock that we're in now, Like if you think about
Speaker 2: the way that our Congress has looked, where it's like
Speaker 2: whoever's got the majority in Congress, if there's more Republicans
Speaker 2: than Republican laws past, they're more Democrats. Everybody votes along
Speaker 2: party lines. They're not gonna nobody. Everybody's holding the lines.
Speaker 2: So like, you can't get nothing passed anyway. So and
Speaker 2: if you know it's like you can't just be up
Speaker 2: there and do nothing, they get like, I can't do nothing,
Speaker 2: So what do you do?
Speaker 1: Well, you just talk.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 2: The name philibuster, which is the craziest. I love it
Speaker 2: because it sounds like philibuster. It's derived from a Dutch
Speaker 2: word called freebooter and the Spanish word philibustetos to describe
Speaker 2: the pirates raiding then the Caribbean islands, and the term
Speaker 2: began to appear in the American legislative debates in the
Speaker 2: eighteen fifties, and it was supposed to be like a
Speaker 2: throwback to like yo, you just like a you just
Speaker 2: gonna take over, You just gonna pirate, you just gonna pirate.
Speaker 2: This mug just take over the whole claim it as
Speaker 2: yours by just not talking you philibuster. Now, because of
Speaker 2: these filibusters, there's a thing called cloture that we talked
Speaker 2: about before. It's a method of ending the debate and
Speaker 2: bringing it to the vote. So, if you are the
Speaker 2: majority in Congress and you like nigga, if this nigga,
Speaker 2: don't shut the fuck up, Okay, I'm calling for cloture
Speaker 2: right which is a way of ending the debate saying, nigga,
Speaker 2: we vote now, I'll care, I'll care what it is.
Speaker 2: And only the majority can do that, and that's what
Speaker 2: the Democrats are asking Biden to do now. The way
Speaker 2: to pull that off right now is you need sixty votes.
Speaker 2: The problem is we probably not gonna get sixty votes,
Speaker 2: but he has the right to change it to fifty
Speaker 2: one because sixty votes means you asking nine Republicans to
Speaker 2: flip on their hood. So the move is to change
Speaker 2: that to fifty one votes. Now we got fifty one,
Speaker 2: because that's just Democrats, I'm sure we can get fifty
Speaker 2: one of us to be like, shut the fuck up,
Speaker 2: except for minutchin, which is a whole other thing. Minuta
Speaker 2: don't care that nigga in West Virginia. You think you think.
Speaker 1: You're gonna make them white boys.
Speaker 2: Man, it's harder to get sixty everybody, Like, come on, nigga,
Speaker 2: you got to buy and you got the gun in
Speaker 2: your hand. Nigga, pull pull a damn trigger cut, Like
Speaker 2: why you're not shooting? You can't just point the gun
Speaker 2: and talk? Then this is what he does. And this
Speaker 2: is what's crazy is in the speeches. The speeches he's
Speaker 2: been giving about this is like it's real slick cause
Speaker 2: he's talking big. He's talking like, nah, nigga, watch out
Speaker 2: a nigga, I'm fum fin a ride on. Y'all off
Speaker 2: in the bus man, Why don't don't mess with me?
Speaker 2: And I'm gonna change it?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 2: What's wrong with y'all while y'all doing this? You notice
Speaker 2: ain't no good the hood like democrats, Like, well, nigga, shoot,
Speaker 2: what's all this talking for?
Speaker 1: Either you're gonna do it or you not? Like nigga,
Speaker 1: we telling you what to do? You asking it?
Speaker 2: Like that's what you can't just go out there and
Speaker 2: just drag them, And it almost make it so you
Speaker 2: start thinking, nigga, are you the op or not? Like
Speaker 2: why you not you scared of him? Nigga, Are you
Speaker 2: scared of him? Is that why you're not pulling this trigger?
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm gonna continue on.
Speaker 2: The earliest filibuster also led to the first demands for
Speaker 2: culture a method of ending the debate in eighteen forty one,
Speaker 2: and the Democratic Minority attempted to run the clock on
Speaker 2: the bill to establish a national bank. Philibusters became more
Speaker 2: frequent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, leading
Speaker 2: to the serious debate about changing Senate rules to curtail
Speaker 2: this practice. At that point, the Senate has grown larger
Speaker 2: and busier, and the sheer amount of work to be
Speaker 2: done in each session meant that philibustering senator could disrupt
Speaker 2: the process of a body and gain concessions from senators
Speaker 2: who just wanted to get their bills passed. So what
Speaker 2: he's trying to say is this, like you got an
Speaker 2: agenda of Like, nigga, we got to run through seventy
Speaker 2: two laws, and we at law number three and you
Speaker 2: up there reading cat in the hat.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not making this up.
Speaker 2: Niggas would just get up there and read out their
Speaker 2: diaries because you can't you're not allowed to shut me up.
Speaker 2: Everybody gets to land they plane, so you just run
Speaker 2: the clock out, and at some point fools would be like,
Speaker 2: all right, nigga, if I vote no, will you shut
Speaker 2: the fuck up so we can move on? Like damn,
Speaker 2: because as a senator, you like, well, I got bills,
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get passed. We need to get to
Speaker 2: mine because I'm trying to shine too. So it's actually,
Speaker 2: I mean, what sucks about it is it works. Any
Speaker 2: of y'all ever ran the clock out on your mom's boy,
Speaker 2: if you don't stop talking, listen, Okay, if I let
Speaker 2: you go to this party, will you shut up and
Speaker 2: let me finish what I'm doing? Like got dog, you
Speaker 2: ran the clock out on your mama. I have a
Speaker 2: few times it works unless you're on the other side
Speaker 2: of the gun, because sometime your mama run the clock
Speaker 2: out on you.
Speaker 1: Hey, before you go, make sure you do this, you
Speaker 1: should do this.
Speaker 2: You do this, and then you get the lecture and
Speaker 2: she trying to tell you why you need to stop
Speaker 2: at your grandma house. And then after that, make sure
Speaker 2: you pick up these cigarettes for this, and then after
Speaker 2: that you know what I'm saying, And you just like,
Speaker 2: forget it.
Speaker 1: I ain't going no more.
Speaker 3: Taste blustering buster Buster.
Speaker 2: Now, one of the most major filibusters that has to
Speaker 2: do with me and you has to do with Jim
Speaker 2: Crow and Jim Crow South US trying to get equal
Speaker 2: rights under the law. Part of the hauled up was
Speaker 2: nigga a philibuster. So for US people of color, specifically
Speaker 2: black people, pipally hood folk, oftentimes throughout history this filibuster
Speaker 2: has been about our rights to vote, and it's like nigga.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one, you know, the record for the
Speaker 2: longest individual speech goes to South Carolina storm Men, who
Speaker 2: filibustered for twenty four hours in eighteen minutes against the
Speaker 2: Civil Rights Act of nineteen fifty seven. Now, the old
Speaker 2: school style is like you had to actually stand in
Speaker 2: Senate and talk.
Speaker 1: But you know, the Internet.
Speaker 2: And a pandemic meant that that's just it's just not
Speaker 2: feasible and it's not necessary. Now you don't have to
Speaker 2: actually stand up there and talk. You can just say, hey,
Speaker 2: I want to continue debate, Hey I got some ideas.
Speaker 2: Hey we can't vote yet, I still got thoughts. You
Speaker 2: don't have to actually stand there and give the speech,
Speaker 2: which I'm kind of like, man, that's kind of not
Speaker 2: g you know what I'm saying, Like I thought it
Speaker 2: was kind of g that like, if you really gonna
Speaker 2: do this, if you really gonna do this to us, nigga,
Speaker 2: you need to stand there, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2: But nobody want to stand there and listen, because I mean,
Speaker 2: it's awful.
Speaker 1: Now, who can fill a buster? Any senator?
Speaker 2: They just need to give notice that they intend to
Speaker 2: do this, and usually you give your party a heads
Speaker 2: up that you're finna do this, and then and the most
Speaker 2: frequent and formal step is just to be like, I object,
Speaker 2: and then the other senator say, hey, hey, we can't
Speaker 2: move on because it's full objects. Now that senator can
Speaker 2: ask to speak, but he does not have to speak,
Speaker 2: like I said, because all you're trying to do is
Speaker 2: just start the buster again.
Speaker 1: To end the filibuster, you have to have this super.
Speaker 2: Weapon, which is called cloture, right like we said before,
Speaker 2: which ends it.
Speaker 1: Now. You need it to be a sixty votes right,
Speaker 1: which is basically three fourths vote of the Senate. Right.
Speaker 2: But the Democrats now are asking to move that down
Speaker 2: to fifty one because this is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's been happening.
Speaker 2: Since clearly it's a design flaw, you know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 2: at least that's the perception if it's been in every
Speaker 2: possible Senate since the beginning of the country. Now, if
Speaker 2: the cloture passes, it dictates that there's a maximum thirty
Speaker 2: hours of debate, meaning okay, nigga, it's just one more date.
Speaker 2: Then we have to vote on the measure. But then
Speaker 2: if cloture does not pass, then the filibuster remains in
Speaker 2: limbo and the and it has to move on to
Speaker 2: other stuff. So that means like we pull the culture.
Speaker 2: Culture didn't pass. That means you still don't get to
Speaker 2: come back to your hood and be like, look that's
Speaker 2: what I got for you. You don't get to do
Speaker 2: it right now. There's a thing called the nuclear option.
Speaker 2: That's the fifty one votes I'm talking about from a
Speaker 2: supermajority to just a majority. So in twenty thirteen, the
Speaker 2: Democrats actually deployed the nuclear option after being frustrated by
Speaker 2: the Republicans use of the filibuster against then President Obama's
Speaker 2: administration and federal court nominees. Right they removed the sixty
Speaker 2: vote threshold. But hold up, they bus we bus and
Speaker 2: then the Republicans did it in twenty seventeen, triggering the
Speaker 2: nuclear option as well to get nominees through. This is
Speaker 2: what I mean by they bus we bust. And this
Speaker 2: is a calculation you gotta make when you're on top.
Speaker 2: If I pull this trigger, I ain't gonna be on
Speaker 2: top the whole time. They might pull the trigger back
Speaker 2: on me. Now, if you're a gangster, you've already made
Speaker 2: that calculation when you signed up. Of course they gonna
Speaker 2: pull back. Of course they gonna shoot back. But that
Speaker 2: don't mean I don't shoot. So the question you gotta
Speaker 2: look at Joe Biden at and be.
Speaker 1: Like, are you a killer or not? Nigga, did you
Speaker 1: sign up for this or not? What is you doing?
Speaker 2: But the point is the philibuster has been a part
Speaker 2: of the American Senate process since the beginning. The question
Speaker 2: is do you think we should or should not have one?
Speaker 2: Some say again, it's the only respist that the minority
Speaker 2: party in power has because if not, like Nigga, nothing
Speaker 2: will never be able to do anything. And then it's
Speaker 2: like it's basically a one party. I mean, is it
Speaker 2: so Look, so the arguments for a filibuster, think of
Speaker 2: it like this. It's like yo, it promotes compromise, like
Speaker 2: it makes fools compromise. It provides a constraint. This is
Speaker 2: what I've been trying to argue right now. It's like
Speaker 2: if from Goss constraints over the party in power, and
Speaker 2: it supports confidence in American governance.
Speaker 1: These are the arguments for it.
Speaker 2: And then the arguments against, what we'll get to later
Speaker 2: is like, nigg you know that's not what they're doing,
Speaker 2: and you know you're being racist. But let's go back
Speaker 2: to the four right quote. Let's see Mark Decian from
Speaker 2: the Washington Post. He says the Democrats should take stock
Speaker 2: of everything they delayed and derailed under Trump because of
Speaker 2: the philibuster, and then imagine that all that and more
Speaker 2: enacted by a simple majority vote when the Republicans gained
Speaker 2: control of Congress at the presidency, which they eventually will,
Speaker 2: which is the whole argument.
Speaker 1: Look, they bus we bus.
Speaker 2: The philibuster allowed the Democrats to constrain the Republicans from
Speaker 2: enacting what the Democrats considered to be a radical agenda
Speaker 2: under a populist, right wing president. If they eliminate that too,
Speaker 2: and they act their own radical agenda.
Speaker 1: They would rue that.
Speaker 2: Decision when they become the minority. So they like, look,
Speaker 2: be careful now, because you ain't going to always be
Speaker 2: in power, right. And then here's Daniel Lipps from the
Speaker 2: Federal Society January twentyth, twenty twenty one. Historically, the Senate
Speaker 2: was designed to work its will to reach consensus, rather
Speaker 2: than to react of the passions of the day and
Speaker 2: simply implement the will of the majority. And it forces
Speaker 2: lawmakers of opposing political parties to work together and compromise.
Speaker 2: We can already see the cost of eliminating the need
Speaker 2: for bipartisan support of nominations. It is eroded public confidence
Speaker 2: Approving cabinet officials, judges, and justices along only party lines
Speaker 2: has been followed by lawmakers and public questioning of their legitimacy.
Speaker 1: Extending the check this out.
Speaker 2: Majoritarian power to major legislation would further eroad public's trust
Speaker 2: and increase the focus on political strategies to win a
Speaker 2: majority rather than governing. So he's trying to say what
Speaker 2: we obviously know always happens, which is, look, if you're
Speaker 2: the majority, you're gonna get your will and that's just
Speaker 2: not fair that the public don't trust us. We gotta
Speaker 2: have some tool to stop this just stupid cycle from continue.
Speaker 2: So if the government gonna trust it, you're gonna trust
Speaker 2: the laws we put in place that they ain't just
Speaker 2: political laws. The people we put in position, they ain't
Speaker 2: just political positions. We gotta have something right to make
Speaker 2: you trust us. You wit it now. So the two
Speaker 2: big arguments against it is like, Yo, it's deeply racist,
Speaker 2: and it has no historical merit.
Speaker 1: You I'm saying.
Speaker 2: So I'm gonna start with the historical merit part. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna quote Carolyn Frederickson from The Burning Center of Justice
Speaker 2: in October thirtieth. On twenty twenty, she says this, Now
Speaker 2: watch this. Some Americans mistakenly believe that the filibuster originated
Speaker 2: in seventeen eighty nine and was a part of the
Speaker 2: Frame plan to how the Senate should function. It plainly
Speaker 2: was not. The Constitution leaves it up to the House
Speaker 2: and the Congress to set its own rules. Indeed, the
Speaker 2: Framers considered and rejected the idea of requiring supermajorities for legislation.
Speaker 2: As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalists twenty two to give
Speaker 2: a minority negative upon the majority, which is always the
Speaker 2: case where more than the majority is requisite to a decision,
Speaker 2: is in its tendency to subject the sense of a
Speaker 2: greater number than that of the lesser. They knew such
Speaker 2: built in obstruction could doom a republic, telling Lee the
Speaker 2: filibuster did not become a rule or a practice of
Speaker 2: the Senate until one hundred and twenty nine years later,
Speaker 2: after the Constitution was ratified. Moreover, not only is the
Speaker 2: Constitution silent about the matter, but it prescribes the supermajority
Speaker 2: votes only for very specific subjects such as treaties, and
Speaker 2: making clear that the simple majority is the expectation of
Speaker 2: other circumstances, including legislation that indicates supermajorities are required by
Speaker 2: the filibuster and otherwise disfavored.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of words. Here's what she's trying to say.
Speaker 2: What she's saying is, Look, this was never the plan.
Speaker 2: And you notice wasn't a plan. And if a simple
Speaker 2: majority work for everything, why you gotta do this extra
Speaker 2: supermajority like this.
Speaker 1: Even Alexander Hamilton knew this wasn't a plan.
Speaker 2: So don't act like don't act like it was always
Speaker 2: like this, It wasn't now pete this Rashad Robinson in
Speaker 2: March first of twenty twenty one. The nature of the filibuster,
Speaker 2: its rules and norms, is hardly an ironclad tradition. It
Speaker 2: has changed and adapted greatly over the years since it
Speaker 2: first became popular in the Civil rights era. But what
Speaker 2: hasn't changed is it's enduring connection to racism. The filibuster
Speaker 2: has always stood in the way of racial progress, whether
Speaker 2: employed by the Southern Democrats and the Jim Crow era
Speaker 2: or the Republican Party today as a major shift in
Speaker 2: the party stance on racial equality. When you understand the
Speaker 2: filibusters racist past, it becomes clear that it has a
Speaker 2: racist present as well. We just need to get rid
Speaker 2: of it. It's crazy when you see something that's systematically racist,
Speaker 2: but is there so long. It's almost like when you
Speaker 2: bake a cake. You can't when you bite the cake,
Speaker 2: you don't taste the flour no more, you don't taste
Speaker 2: the eggs.
Speaker 1: You just taste the cake.
Speaker 2: This argument is that's a filibuster, and some would argue
Speaker 2: that's the electoral college. Electoral college was to make sure
Speaker 2: that states with a lot of black people. A lot
Speaker 2: of free black people don't have an advantage over states
Speaker 2: that used to enslaved black people. And this Voting Rights
Speaker 2: Act from nineteen fifty seven was even more in this
Speaker 2: same practice of like, yo, y'all, just you're diverting the point.
Speaker 2: You're doing this because you don't want brown folk to
Speaker 2: have rights. And what's so crazy about it right now
Speaker 2: is it's almost like Niga is happening again, y'all.
Speaker 1: Don't you don't want.
Speaker 2: Us to have to protect our voting rights, so you're
Speaker 2: doing it again. But you could step back and say, well, no,
Speaker 2: it's just a procedure. What are you talking about. It's
Speaker 2: just a procedure. It's because now I can't taste the
Speaker 2: flower no more. It's already it's.
Speaker 1: In the cake. If I keep talking, you can't vote.
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