Keep on riding with us as we continue to broadcast the balance and defend the discourse from the Hip Hop Weekly Studios. Welcome back to Civic Cipher. I am your host, Ramsy's job.
He is Rams's job. I am q Ward. You are tuned into Civic Cipher, Yes.
You are, and we'd appreciate you sticking around. We are going to point out some Republican hypocrisies.
This half of the show. Just a few, just a few.
There's there's a lot to choose from, and I know that there are there is a such thing as hypocrisy with Democrats too, but the Republican hypocrisies at present are glaringly conspicuous and extremely harmful, and they are shaping outcomes for people in ways that we feel you need to know about. And so while it's you know, fair to pick on both parties, we feel like we got to point out some stuff that's that you need to know about again, so stick around for that and a whole
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Ironic city name, Isn't that crazy?
Shoutout Kendrick One time Compton Kendrick. Tensions rose during a bipartisan forum after an audience question about discrimination reportedly led to an Ohio state senator angrily telling a Native American candidate to go back where you came from. Republican Senator Dan Foreman left the event early after the outburst and later denied making any racist comments in a Facebook post. He did not respond to a voice message the Associated
Press seeking a comment. Trish Carter Goodhart, a Democratic candidate for the House District sixth seat and member of the Nez Person tribe, said the blow up left her shaken and thinking about security needs for future public events and also for some tough conversations with her two young children, Avery and Lavender, who were in attendance. She said the state hate crime laws are weak and noted that the neo Nazi group Aryan Nations made northern Idaho its home
base for many years. She also talked about being the only candidate there who was a person of color. In his Facebook post, Foreman called the incident a quote quintessential display of race baiting unquote, and said the Democratic attendees made personal attacks and proclaimed Idaho to be a racist state. Quote where here's a news flash for the lefties out there. There is no systemic racism in America or Idaho. Foreman said, Idaho is a great state, the best in the Union unquote.
So um, obviously this is problematic. Now there are people who are on the right, people who have insulated themselves from the issues that we're dealing with, people that feel like this is not commonplace, that will look at this and say, well, this is an isolated incident. You're picking the story that suits your narrative. And one of the things that we've been discussing on this show in recent weeks is the Trump effect, right, and we have I promise you, I promise you. There's so many so it
takes so long to produce this show. It's quicker to make the show than it is to produce it because we have to cut through so much news. But I think that this story is very telling of the type of people who now feel empowered, who now feel emboldened. Okay, first off, go back to where you came from is a racist statement on its face.
No matter who you're talking to. Thank you, Q.
That is the flat racist. Okay, here's the hypocrisy. He didn't say it to a Mexican immigrant like he probably thought. He said it to a person whose people lived here before him.
Whose people lived here before his ancestry before everybody say it the right way to him, most not even most likely him. Absolutely the child of an immigrant, like absolutely, keep telling a person that's aboriginal to this land to go back to where we are. It's laughable. That's why I'm laughing. It's laughable. Now when you first read this, almost flipped the table over here out of anger. Yeah, I know, I know America has no systemic racism, and neither does the Home of the Arian Nation.
Got it?
Yeah, Okay, it's all of our imagination. We're always race bating and we're always playing the victim. I just figured that out right now, you can.
Go ahead, so watch this. So watch this.
If a person like him can dish that out, you would think they would be able to take it right. Well, maybe I should go back to where I came from. Okay, but let me show you the mental gap here. There's a person like that, even if he was confronted with something like that, would simply say, well, I'm from Idaho, the great state of Idaho.
Okay.
Now, well where are your people from? Well, my people are from Idol, four generations deep. Okay, go back to where your people's people came from. Well, you know, we came over here from Scotland. Yeah, go back to Scotland if you don't like it. But he's saying it to somebody who's like, Yo, my people was the first people in all in Idaho. We didn't even call it Idaho. There's our land still, fam I don't care about no documents and treaties and pieces of paper. Y'all stole what
belongs to me. That mean it's still mine. I just haven't retaken possession. But if you want to get into the nitty gritty of who needs to go back where, I'm already there. And the fact that you thought that I was somebody else just shows how racist you are. And if you're claiming Idaho, then I would argue that if Idaho elected you, you're giving people, You're giving the country insight into just exactly how much of this exists in Idaho. Now I've been to Idaho. I'm not trying
to pick on Idaho. I know that there's good people in Idaho, but there's also foul people in Idaho.
People everywhere, but there's clearly, as we just saw, foul people talk to them everywhere, including Idaho.
Man, listen, and I was you know, I used to wonder what was up in the northern part of Idaho because I only been the like boise right, and now I know to this Ariyan nation, I'm like, bam, that makes that makes a lot of sense. But that's just one thing. Okay, that's you know, people listening might be like, okay, well one thing. You know, it's a state senator or a state you know, a representative or whatever that small potatoes man talk to me, rams is what what is this Republican hypocrisy?
Okay?
Oh so you mean the person of European descent telling the Aboriginal person whose ancestors for no matter how.
Far you go back trace before there was humans to hear, once there was humans, they came here.
The first thing that's not enough hypocrisy is what you're saying. Oh no, there's there's plenty plenty.
Yeah, because you know people don't they like to pick us apart, especially on YouTube, and they love to pick us apart.
That's not enough hypocrisy. What I'm saying, all your show is.
About allyship and bringing people absolutely and part of that is calling out people's hypocrisy, calling out people's shortcomings. You need to be a full fledged human being, and you're not acting like it, and we got to hold you accountable. Trust me, just because I'm about allyship does not make me a soft man.
I am not that by ally. That didn't translate to sucker.
But you know, I do like to have conversations based in peace and based in growth and opportunity.
But we also need to be.
Prepared to have challenging conversations, and that we do quite well, both me and Q.
I'll speak for you. Next up, Hunter Biden, Let's talk about that, okay, shall we we shall?
Hunter Biden is a scandal. This man pardoned his son, right, And that's really not the point that I want to make here, because however you feel about Joe Biden pardoning his son, is that's how you feel.
And if it's right, it's right, and if it's wrong, it's wrong.
I will go on record saying, if my son did the worst stuff ever and I could pardon my son and deal with my child on my own rather than less some system deal with my own child, I would do it ten times out of ten. And if you don't, that means one of two things that you are lying or you don't love your son.
That's it. You can't convince me.
Wait, go ahead, because I'm your brother and I can't let you get that off ahead, or you're white and you know the system will handle your child, oh, with some grace and some tenderness in ways that we know
they won't. And in this case, I've seen Stephen A. Smith and our brother charlamagnea God call out President Biden because he lied and said that he wouldn't do this, and by doing that, he gave them And why them, I don't mean Stephen and Charlotte, and I mean those who opposed the decision some justifiable fodder, some justifiable grounds to stand on. Even if it's not a scandal, you're a liar. I hate that he did that, because that
was moral grand standing to me. He was trying to point out that if I were a Republican, I would absolutely pardon my son, and since I'm not, I won't. But once he realized the people who would be in charge of bringing forth justice and the consequences of his son's actions would be Republicans, he.
Moonwalked back.
On that I won't pardon him because he realized unfairly the type of punishment that was going to be brought on to his son, just because his last name is Biden, just to give people some nuance.
Into that, into that. I appreciate that, because now here's the thing. I'm a father. I deal with my own sons. That's my legacy more than it's anything. More than it's anything else. My son's is my legacy. I only have son. So, as far as I.
Know, Joe Biden did lie, yeah and say that he wouldn't. So why are you calling this hipoptosis. I'll make the point. I'll make the point, but while we're here, While we're here, it is a lie, and you're not wrong saying that. People that say that are not wrong because it's a lie. When you say something, you do something else, that's that's a lie. I don't want to change that. That's that
can be chronicle in the narrative. But I think there's probably a better way to say that, maybe a reversal of a decision, because a lie, to me feels like I'm misleading you. I think in the moment when he made his initial decision, he perhaps intended for that to work. So I have to pause button again. I don't know,
but I'm just I don't know. Either of the reason I'm pressed pause is because what you know about people that listen to this show that are opposed to us, and ladies and gentlemen, Yes, there are people that listen to this show just to hate us.
A bunch of the real things shout out to you.
They will try to circle this rhetoric you're about to use and tell you that that's why this isn't hypocrisy. That's why I tried to stop you before you even went there and point you back to why this is hypocrisy because someone else lied, and I believe they were intentionally lying when they say, and I'm not about that, you didn't use what you're saying. I see what you're doing to try to say that maybe, yeah, the same
thing happen with him. Nonsense. So watch this. So what what Q was getting at is Donald Trump ran a whole campaign.
Saying that he had no idea what Project twenty twenty five was, that was not his plan for the government, that he had something called Agenda forty seven, and that that was going to to be it, and he doesn't know these people, and he's or know some of these people or what however, he liked tiptoed and danced around it, right, But he gave every time it came up as strong an assurance as he could.
We knew he was lying the whole time. Wow. I don't know how this has worked.
On anybody, but we knew that it was going to be Project twenty twenty five. He can just change the name of it, or just do ninety percent of it or whatever, and it's still Project twenty twenty five in terms of how it affects us. And when you look at his matter of fact, I'll just read, please, this is from AFGE dot org. Okay, that's the American Federation
of Government Employees. In an attempt to distance himself from the unpopular plan, Trump said, Trump had said, quote, They've been told, officially, legally, in every way that we have nothing to do with Project twenty twenty five. They know it, but they bring it up anyway. They bring it up every single they bring up every single thing that you can bring up. Every one of them was false. In fact, his campaign said that they would ban people involved in
Project twenty twenty five from his administration. But now that the election is over, the mask is off, and Trump nominated several architects of Project twenty twenty five to have a key role in his administration. All right, if you want to read the rest of that again, go to AFGE dot org. That's the American Federation of Government Employees, and you can see dot org by the way, and you can see the whole write up. Now, we knew
the whole time that he was lying. Now, if it's about having some fidelity to your word, the outrage over Joe Biden seems, at least in my estimation, less manipulative and less intentional to me than this what Donald Trump is doing with Project twenty five. And if the fidelity to the truth is what you're standing on, I need to see some outrage here. However, because I don't that to me is hypocrisy.
I would hit me.
I would prefer that you assume that they were both lying to sort.
Let's get it.
Let's don't want to talk about the fidelity to the truth or intentions. We don't know either. I don't know Joe Biden, so I am about to ride for him like that. That's why i'd be weird about when y'all ride for Donald Trump. You don't know that, man, I do not know Joe Biden. He could have been full of it when he said it. So if that's what you're mad at, let's say he was lying from the jump. Just keep that energy right now, that energy right now, because this dude was for sure lying from the jump.
Yeah, okay.
Now, let's say, for instance, you're like, ma'am, this you're making leaps two?
What do you were you so mad at? This is just a couple of little things.
You know.
Politicians, they politic that's what they do. Politicians do be politicing.
But listen, let's say that's how you feel, and you think me and Cure is in here tripping right? How about this? I'm gonna share something. This is from The New Republic via Yahoo News. You probably missed it because it created barely a ripple in the media. But last Friday, a federal judge appointed by Donald Trump struck down one of President Biden's most pro worker policies, his effort to
ensure that far more Americans benefit from overtime pay. Around four million salaried workers with lower incomes are the losers in this decision. Yet it generally sorry. Yet it generated startling lee, few news stories and no outrage. Missives from leading columnists. Watching all this unfold brings to mind a
now forgotten controversy. Remember when Oliver Anthony, the little known folk singer, went viral in twenty twenty three with his song lamenting the plight of working people imposed by the rich men of North of Richmond, sorry, Richmond, north of Richmond.
That's the name of the song. I'm assuming Donald Trump and Republicans claimed the bearded, red haired Southerner as one of their own, a veritable bard of Maga County Country who'd crafted the ultimate right wing populist ballad of protest aimed directly at.
Elites. Quote this is the.
Anthem of the forgotten Americans, gushed Representative Marjorie Taylor.
Green.
Media commentary endlessly analyzed the song as a cry of anguish straight from the blue collar heartland, one that elite liberals should take to heart as a sign of how badly they'd failed regular Americans. Here's another forgotten detail about Anthony's song for you to contemplate. It was about overtime pay. To oversimplify, bosses have reclassified many of these workers as managers,
exeenting them from federal overtime protections. The Biden Rule would make them eligible guests who managed to block the rule that would have provided those people with relief. Maga Republicans allied with business interests.
That's who so I know.
On this show and a lot of other stages that we've been on around the country, we've effectively said, they're lying to you. They lie to you almost every time, and they somehow make you think that they're doing this for you, that they know what it's like for you, that they understand your plight, and you can't see it. That man is literally a billionaire. He was born wealthy.
He has never ever, ever, ever ever struggled. In fact, he's only gotten wealthier because you've struggled, or people like you have struggled more for him.
His whole story is a story.
Of personal enrichment, exploitation, oppression, racism, bigotry, sexual scandal, sexual assault.
I can go on, you know what.
One of the stories that we cut because we only had time for three. One of the stories we cut was about Donald Trump making some promises to some steel people and like Pennsylvania or something like that, and we cut that story. So I'm not prepared to like articulate it, but look it up. It's there, and these people are up in arms because he reversed on that he's not even the president yet, and it's the bait and switch.
For me and effective.
He knows that it works, and he knows that he won't be held accountable by those same people. You guys won't even be mad enough. You won't even be mad at him when he proves to not be true. You'll figure out a way to make it not his fault. And somehow whatever he does is going to eventually work out for your best interest. Like this, this gotcha moment that everybody thinks is going to happen, this find out
moment that everybody thinks is gonna happen, it's not. They will make excuses for and apologize for that man into perpetuity.
In the meantime, we suffer under the Trump effect, and so we call out the hypocrisy when we see it, and we'll leave it there. It's always had to thank you for tuning into civic cipher. You know, we got a we got a long road ahead of us, but we'll be here with you.
I go by the name Ramses.
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