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there would not be any shrapnel. Now look, in case you don't know, I'm black and his thing. When one kid in trouble, everybody in trouble. So to protect your own booty, You understand what I'm saying. Sometimes you gotta work together. And then his was crazy. Even if it's one of them's fault. They may mess around and be like mad at you for snitching. They're like, don't be snitching on your sister. Now turn your assist and now she in trouble. But anyway, the point is just keep talking.

So I would start cleaning the house. I would clean up. I would be showing their mom and look at look how good this look? How good? I'll clean this house because I just don't want her to talk to Dad, because if she talked to Dad, didn't that me. We're gonna have some consequences and repercussions. It's gonna be a situation. Just keep talking, show them all the good things you've been doing. I don't have to be about nothing. Just keep talking. I applied this sometimes too, dealing with some

hood nikeds is with the hits something. Keep them laughing. If you can keep them laughing, you know what I'm saying, and not gonna distract you from the situation that might go down had they had a chance to communicate. Sometimes you sy man, I'm tired of this talking. Man, quit talking. And when you gotta throw them, you gotta throw them. It is what it is. Sometimes you just gotta chuck them. But if you keep them talking, you understand what I'm saying,

and you can stop the stuff from happening. But you have to remember every weapon you got they got. There was a moment in Los Angeles when when the call came from from apparently from prison, to stop the drive bys because it just they're just not g you know, according to them. But like that's one reason. But the other reason was you have to remember cars go both directions. You ride on somebodyhood, they're gonna ride back. Now, a truehoods to knows that, like this is what I signed

up for. They understand as the saying goes, they bust we bus. So whatever weapon you got, they probably got to. So whether it's talking and shooting, careful day, bust we bust Philip buster will holes. Let's talk about philipbusters hood politics. So look, you got Texas Democrats piecing out like I'm just not even gonna stay in the state. Y'all can't. Y'all can't cast this final vote if if we're not there.

So they didn't win all the way to Washington, at least at the point that I'm recording this, you know, because if they stayed in state, Texas could have sent state troopers, could have sent Walker Texas Ranger to get them. That's they lass. You also got on the hill Republicans filibustering. You need to know what the hell of filibuster is and why everybody doing everything they do. Then you got the progressive Democrats being like, why you ain't breaking the filibuster?

Joe say something? Come on, man, put off for the hood. You're gonna come on dog, like we're all telling you, yo, you need to stop this doing this, and Joe just going yeah, Republicans, y'all gotta stop. But he ain't. He ain't about that action, like the action would be bro. Okay, you got the power to to end this mug. The question is, nigger, what the hell of filipbuster? And what is everybody in a tip for? So what's the big deal? Why are we even talking about a filibuster getting in

the first place? Well, how today is gonna go is I'm gonna tell you, like what the issue is, what a filibuster is, history of filipbuster, and maybe try to use our antennas to understand why this mug exists and why Joe ain't doing nothing about it because it looked right now he's just getting pumped by the Republicans, Like, I don't know why you're just letting these people do what the hell you want to do. But actually I have a theory as to why, but I don't know. Anyway,

we're talking about voting. We're talking about voters suppression, voter fraud, and voter rights. It's all around voting. Okay, you got the John C. Lewis Voter Rights Act H one or H four right. That has to do with the protection around different hindrances that seem to have been promoted. Let's

be real. They were promoted by it by really the Trump bites, mainly because of this big old lie that there was widespread voter fraud throughout last election, and the extremes would say that you know, Trump won and there's five thousand people that we're dead that already voted. None of this stuff is really you should thought of those votes,

this really didn't count, and you could go back. I feel like the biggest, the biggest defense against this is you go back to Lindsey Graham, who owned the block. Lindsey Graham was like, all right, word, okay, I'm gonna go ride for y'all. Give me the receipts. Show me you say, five thousand, show me them, show me, give me give me ten, give me ten examples. And he was like, y'all still ain't got me no examples. And it's like, nigga, I'm on your side. I'm trying to

go I'm trying to go earn for the block. Man, I'm trying to go put off for y'all, I'm not the end of me. Fam, I ain't the I'm trying to put all for you. You You can't give me no receipts. I want to go fight for you, Like, damn, you give me some receipts. Cut. You know what I'm saying was was Mr Graham stand right? So that to me is like tells you a little more about you know,

what's going on. And then what kept happening out of some of the conservative voices is they kept saying, we gotta change this vote and stuff because if we don't, we're gonna keep losing, which kind of sound like if we just what you kind of saying is if enough people get access to vote, they're not gonna vote for us. So we gotta make sure y'all don't get access to vote. Right, So you have all these things that was happening under under the banner of protecting the integrity of the quality

of our voting. So like re looking at the Arizona thing, and and I don't know if y'all y'all are up on that, Like the Arizona election has been recounted multiple times, and it's still like nigked, Like we find in clerical errors. But dog like you, they ain't know this. Look, we're just not seeing this conspiracy. You know that you're trying to tell me. So now, out in Texas, this is how these two things are are connected. Out in Texas, they're trying to say, Okay, listen, that's what we need

to do. We need to make sure you don't get a day off work to go vote. It has to be in person. It's got to be normal business hours. And if you don't make it there, you're not allowed to give people water, You're not allowed to give people. Just under this idea that like, by doing all these extra things make it it making voting more accessible, having voter I d s and to be like we don't know if he is at a dead sold security number,

Like we don't know who this person is. What if you vote twice, if you mail in and come to the thing, like, it's not fair. You know what I'm saying. We need to make sure that like this vote is as fair as possible. And look we're trying to help y'all.

Now listen, Voter fraud happens. Don't get it twisted. Uh, it's just it's just not really the at the scale that they're saying like, we just don't have no evidence of that, and dudes is admitting, like Homie from Michigan that came forward and said there was a whole bunch of mail ballots that was for He came forward and was like, nah, I was Captain, Like, it's just not what they said it was. So they're like, we're trying to pass this. The problem is a lot of these things.

Number One, they harkened back to a time which were called the Black Codes, which was purposefully trying to stop black people from vote because when we came out to vote, we put our people in office. Do you know understead I'm saying it's because voting. Believe it or not, newsflash works get you saying, uh, but there's that. So it harkens back to those times. And then secondly, it often

penalizes lower income people. So it's not necessarily just black folks, but it's just lower income people, people that don't have access right. You know what I'm saying, It's important to acknowledge the distinction between a right and a privilege is by virtue of your citizenship, you have the right to vote. I don't have to show you nothing except for the

fact that I'm a citizen. So when you say, well, just having an idea is like, I mean, that's just like it's maybe it's an inconvenience, But who ain't got I D. The plain people ain't got I D. You just can't deny my constitutional right because I ain't got no I D. Like I don't. I don't know what else to say. And now, practically speaking, there's a lot of different ways to verify a person's identity, you know. Oh, but when you add that to these other things like

poles close at five, you can't mail in. So it's like, well, if I can't if I can't miss a day of work, you're telling me I can't miss it. You're telling me, you're telling me we don't get the day off. I gotta miss a day of work. And if I can't miss a day of work, I can't send it in early. You don't want me to mail it in. It's almost like you don't want me to vote, you know what

I'm saying. There's a great pod on the through Line podcast about Frederick Douglas and why he believed voting was so important, and it's it's like he's really even back then, capturing like captured the un you're standing of, Like, there is real power in this, especially because if you understand what was happening right after, right during reconstruction, how hard they went to make sure that black people did not vote was oh, niggy, you just showed your cards. I mean.

Then they had this thing called this grandfather clause, which was hilarious, which was like, if your granddaddy voted in eighteen sixty, then you can vote. Well, Nick, Obviously nobody black granddaddy voted in eighteen sixty, So like it's just we know what you're doing. You're putting all these undue burdens on people that don't have the privileges that everybody else do. So what they're trying to say is like

voting shouldn't be harder. And so the Democrats chose, like we've been trying to argue this that like y'all bugging, but if you're not finna like listen, then we're just gonna bounce. Now this has been done before. It was just the other way around. Day Bust we Bust. The Republicans have walked out of Texas legist later before Day Bust we Bust, now they're using the same tactic. Now

move that back to the hill on Capitol Hill. It's still the same idea of of voting right, of passing laws that would make sure that there's equal protection under the law for people despite their socioeconomic, racial, ethnic access with voting should be more accessible. You're not allowed to put hindrances and obstacles in front of constitutional rights, you know what I'm saying. You can put them in front

of privileges like a driver's license. Just because you're a citizen, don't mean you get to drive, like you know what I'm saying. Like, but just because you're a citizen, you get to vote. Over twenty one, you get to vote. It is what it is like. It just comes with its package deal, right, So they're trying to uh pass some laws that have more protection about that. Now that now the specificity is the law is not the point of this this pod. But what the Republican legislator is

doing is a thing called filibustering. It's a it's a tool you use. I'm gonna get into the specifics of this later, but I want to set the stage here. When somebody presents a bill, we post a debate on it. Right, So you you you do this point, this point, this point, and the loss says we can't stop, we can't stop to vote on it until everybody gets the piece off, until you're able to fly and land your plane. You know what I'm saying, Everyone gets to land their plane

before we vote. Right, you have to let this nigga finish. That's why I said in the beginning, sometimes your best defense is to keep talking, Nikki. If you could keep talking, you know what I'm saying. If you could keep if you could keep these niggas occupied, oh some mothers shit, maybe you could, you can stop a decision from being made,

you know what I'm saying. So if right now, if you're not the Senate majority, you're the Senate minority, one of your ways because you know, because how the numbers work, that y'all ain't gonna ever get your way. So one line of defense is to just keep talking, is to make sure that y'all never do get to vote on it. Right.

I'm gonna get into the history of like how this has been used in a second, but that's one thing that's happening right now, is this is Republicans are proverbially speaking, still talking now, the Democrats are looking at President Biden, who's supposed to be like the top of the top of the hood, and they're like, hey, hey, homie, can you tell them niggas to shut the funk up so

we can finish this damn nigga. You know the rules, we could we could end this ship with a culture you We could, I mean, we could do a person vote. You could change the rules right now. It takes sixty people. We could change it to nick and you got the power to do it. Like, why you're not putting on damn man like you? We can you can initiate right now. A matter of fact, the whole party asking you, like, what the hell man like in the filibuster? But he not.

But let's step back, though the hell is a filipbuster. A filipbuster is talking a bill to death. What do I mean by that? It's a tactic of delaying action on a legislation because you can't pass a law until everyone gets to land their playing. Now. I'm a quote from the Senate dot gov. What they say straight from the website. The tactic of using long speeches to delay an action on legislation appeared in the very first session

of Senate on September twenty second nine. Pennsylvania Senator William McClay wrote in his diary that the design of the Virginians was to take away the time so that we could not get the bill passed. As a number of filipbusters grew in the nineteenth century, the Senate had no formal process to allow a majority to end the debate in force of legislation. Why you think Virginia ain't wont

to law passed? The hint is racism nd slavery. Right, So basically, it's me at the house going but look, look, look, look look mom, but wait wait wait, wait now wait wait listen before you talk. But wait, wait, but listen, look look, look, look, look, look, look look wait. No, you know, and let me tell you about my homework. Oh a matter of fact, you know what. Let me tell you something. Let me tell you what I learned

the church today. You just I'm coming up with a million things just to keep saying no one, because I don't want her to go. Just keep talking to avoid the whooping. The filipbuster is is whether it's praise for better for worse. We're gonna go through like pros and cons about it. But what it's saying is, I'm gonna stop the vote on this. Even if I can't give you a real reason as to why this is a bad vote or why this is a bad idea, Maybe it's just as simple as my constituents don't want it,

the hood don't like it. But I really don't have no other real reasons for it. But I'm just it's just bad. I like. And if you're a political minority in the deadlock that we're in now, Like, if you think about the way that our Congress has looked, where it's like whoever's got the majority in Congress, If there's more Republicans than Republican laws passed, there more Democrats. Everybody votes a long party lines, they're not gonna nobody. Everybody's

holding the line. So like, you can't get nothing passed anyway. So and if you know it's like you can't just be out there and do nothing, they get like, I can't do nothing, So what do you do? Well? You just talk? Now, the name filibuster, which is the craziest thing.

I love it because it sounds like filibuster. Uh, it's derived from a Dutch word called freebooter and the Spanish word philbustatles to describe the pirates rating then the Caribbean Islands, and the term began to appear in the American legislative debates in the eighteen fifties, and it was supposed to be like a throwback to like, yo, you're just like you're just gonna take over. You're just gonna pirate. You're just gonna pirate this mug just take over the whole thing,

claiming as yours by just not talking. You filibuster now, because of these filibusters, there's a thing called culture that we talked about before. It's a method of ending the debate and bringing it to the vote. So if you are the majority in Congress and you like nigga, if this nigga, don't shut the funk up, Okay, I'm calling for culture, right, which is a way of ending the debate saying, nigga, we vote now, I don't care, I

don't care what it is. And only the majority can do that, and that's what the Democrats are asking Biden to do now. The way to pull that off right now is you need sixty votes. The problem is we're probably not gonna get sixty votes, but he has the right to change it to fifty one, because sixty votes means you're asking nine Republicans to flip on their hood. So the move is to change that to votes. Now

we got fifty one, because that's just Democrats. I'm sure we can get fifty one of us to be like, shut the funk up, except for minuting, which is a whole other thing. Manton don't care. Then they gain in West Virginia. You think you think you're gonna make them white boys mad. It's harder to get sixty. Everybody like, come on, you got Biden, you got the gun in your hand. They can put a put a damn trigger, cause like, why are you not shooting? You can't just

point the gun and talk. And this is what he does and and and this is what's crazy is in the speeches, the speeches he's been given about this. It's like it's real slick because he's talking big. He's talking like no, you can watch out. And they got a ride on y'all off in a bus man. Why don't don't mess with me. I don't gonna change it. What's wrong with y'all? Whyle y'all doing this. You notice ain't no good the hood like Democrats Like, well, nigga, shoot,

what's what's all this talking for? Either you're gonna do it or you're not, Like nig were telling you what to do, you're asking it, Like that's what you can't just go out there and just dragged them. And it almost make it so you start thinking, nigga, are you the op or not? Like, why are you not you scared of them? Nigga, are you scared of them? Is that why you're not pulling this trigger? I don't know.

I'm gonna continue on. Uh. The earliest filibuster also led to the first demands for culture a method of ending the debate. In eighteen forty one, the Democratic Minority attempted to run the clock on the bill to establish a national bank. Filibusters became more frequent in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, leading to the serious debate about

changing Senate rules to curtail this practice. At that point, the Senate has grown larger and busier, and the sheer amount of work to be done in each session meant that filibustering senator could disrupt the process of a body and gain concessions from senators who just wanted to get their bills passed. So what he's trying to say is this, like you got an agenda, Like nigga, we gotta run through seventy two laws and were at law number three and you up there reading cat in the hat. I mean,

I'm not making this up. Niggas would just get up there and read out their diaries because you can't. You're not allowed to shut me up. Everybody gets to land their playing, So you just run the clock out, and at some point fools would be like, all right, nigga, if I vote know, will you shut the funk up so we can move on? Like damn, because as a senator, you like, well, I got bills I'm trying to get past. We need to get to mind because I'm trying to

shine too. So it's actually what I mean what sucks about it is it works. Any of y'all ever ran the clock out on your mom's boy, if you don't stop talking, listen, Okay, if I let you go to this party, will you shut up and let me finish what I'm doing? Like got dog, You're ran the clock out all your mama. I have a few times. It works unless you're on the other side of the gun,

because sometime your mama run the clock out on you. Hey, before you go, make sure you do this, you should do this, You do this, and then you get the lecture and she trying to tell you why you need to stop at your grandma house. And then after that, make sure you pick up these cigarettes for this, and then after that you know what I'm saying, and you just like, forget it. I ain't going no more. But now, one of the most major filipbusters that has to do with me and you has to do with Jim Crow.

Jim Crow sour us trying to get cool writes under the law. Part of the hold up was nigga a filibuster. So for US people of color, specifically black people, civilally her folks, oftentimes throughout history this filibuster has been about our rights to vote, and it's like nigga. You know, the record for the longest individual speech goes to South Carolina Storm Thermind, who filibustered for twenty four hours in

eighteen minutes against the Civil Rights Act of nineteen fifty seven. Now, the old school style is like you had to actually stand and send it and talk. But you know, the internet and a pandemic meant that that's just it's just not feasible, like and it's not necessary. Now you don't have to actually stand up there and talk. You can just say, hey, I want to continue debate. Hey, I'm I have some ideas. Hey we can't vote yet, I

still got thoughts. You don't have to actually stand there and give the speech, which I'm kind of like, man, that's kind of not g you know what I'm saying, Like I thought it was kind of g that, like, if you're really gonna do this, if you're really gonna do this to us, Nick, you need to stand there, you know, you know what I'm saying. But nobody wants stand there and listen because I mean it's awful. Now,

who can filibuster any senator? They just need to give notice that they intend to do this, and usually you give your party a hand heads up that you're going to do this, and then the most frequent and formal step is just to be like, I object, and then the other senators say, hey, hey, we can't move on because it's full objects. Now that senator can ask to speak, but he does not have to speak like I said, because all you're trying to do is just start the

buster again. To end the filibuster, you have to have this super weapon, which is called culture, right like we said before, which ends it. Now you need it to be a sixty votes right, which is basically three fourths of the Senate. Right, But the Democrats now are asking to move that down to fifty one because this is ridiculous.

It's been happening since clearly it's a design flaw, you know what I'm saying, Like, at least that's that's the perception if it's been in every possible Senate since the beginning of the country. Now, if the Culture passes, it dictates that there's a maximum thirty hours of debate, meaning okay, it's just one more date. Then we have to vote on the measure. But then if Culture does not pass, then the filibuster remains in limbo and the Senate has to move on to other other stuff. So that means

like we pulled the culture, culture didn't pass. That means you still don't get to come back to your hood and be like, look that's what I got for you. You don't get to do it right now, there's a thing called the nuclear option. That's the fifty votes I'm talking about from a supermajority to just a majority. So in two thousand thirteen, the Democrats actually deployed the nuclear option after being frustrated by the Republicans use of the

filibuster against then President Obama's administration and federal court nominees. Right, they removed the sixty vote threshold. But hold up, they bust, we bust. And then the Republicans did it in two thousand and seventeen, triggering the nuclear option as well to get nominees through. This is what I mean by they bust, we bust. And this is a calculation you gotta make when you on top. If I pull this trigger, I ain't gonna be on top the whole time. They might

pull the trigger back on me. Now, if you're a gangster, you've already made that calculation when you signed up. Of course they're gonna pull back. Of course they're gonna shoot back. But that don't mean I don't shoot. So the question you gotta look at jo Biden that and be like, are you a killer or not? Did you sign up for this or not? What did you? What is you doing. But the point is the filibuster has been a part

of the American Senate process since the beginning. The question is do you think we should or should not have one? Some say again, it's the only respite that the minority party in power has because if not, like nig and nothing, will never be able to do anything. And then it's like it's basically a one party. I mean, is it so? Look so the arguments for a filibuster, Uh, I think of it like this. It's like, yo, it promotes compromise, like it makes foods compromise. It provides a constraint. This

is what I've been trying to argue right now. It's like it provides constraints over the party in power, and it supports confidence in American governance. These are the arguments for it. And then arguments against. What we'll get too later is like, you know that's not what they're doing, and you know you're being a racist. But let's go back to the four right quote. Let's see Mark these

and from the Washington Post. He says the Democrats should take stock of everything they delayed and derailed under Trump because of the filibuster, and then and imagine that all that and more enacted by a simple majority vote when the Republicans gained control of Congress and the presidency, which they eventually will, which is the whole argument. Look, they bust, we bust. The filibuster allowed the Democrats to constrain the Republicans from enacting what the Democrats considered to be a

radical agenda under a populous right wing president. If they eliminate that too, and they act their own radical agenda, they would rule that decision when they become the minority. So they like, look to be careful now, because you ain't gonna always be in power, right. And then here's Daniel Lips from the Federal Society January. Historically, the Senate was designed to work its will to reach consensus, rather than to react of the passions of the day and

simply implement the will of the majority. And it forces lawmakers of opposing political parties to work together and compromise. We can already see the cost of eliminating the need for bipartisan support of nominations. It is eroded public confidence. Approving cabinet officials, judges, and justices along only party lines has been followed by lawmakers and public questioning of their legitimacy.

Extending the check this out major terry in power to major legislation would further erode public trust and increase the focus on political strategies to win a majority rather than government. So he's trying to say what we obviously know always happens, which is, look, if you're the majority, you're gonna get your will. And that's just not fair that the public don't trust us. We gotta have some tool to stop

this just stupid cycle from continue. So if the government gonna trust, you're gonna trust the laws we put in place that they ain't just political laws. The people we put in position ain't just political pos asians. We gotta have something right to make you trust us. You with it now, So the two big arguments against it is like, yo, it's deeply racist, and it has no historical merit. Jo said.

So I'm gonna start with the historical merit part. I'm gonna quote um Caroline Frederickson from the Burning Center of Justice in October. She says this, Now watch this. Some Americans mistakenly believed that the filibuster originated in seventy nine and was a part of the Framer's plan to how the Senate should function, it plainly was not. The Constitution leaves it up to the House and the Congress to set its own rules. Indeed, the Framers considered and rejected

the idea of requiring supermajorities for legislation. As Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalists twenty two, to give a minority negative upon the majority, which is always the case where more than the majority is requisite to a decision, is in its tendency to subject the sense of a greater number

than that of the lesser. They knew such built in obstruction could doom a republic, telling Lee, the filibuster did not become a rule or a practice of the Senate until a hundred and twenty nine years later, after the

Constitution was ratified. Moreover, not only is the Constitution citling about the matter, but it prescribes the supermajority votes only for very specific subjects such as treaties, and making clear that the simple majority is the expectation of other circumstances, including legislation that indicates supermajorities are required by the filibuster and otherwise disfavored. That's a lot of words. Here's what she's trying to say. What she's saying is, look, this

was never the plan. And you notice wasn't a plan. And if a simple majority work for everything, why you gotta do this extra majority like this? Even Alexander Hamilton new this wasn't a plan. So don't act like. Don't act like it was always like this. It wasn't now, Pete this Rashad Robinson um in March one. The nature of the filipbuster, it's rules and norms, is hardly an ironclad tradition. It has changed and adapted greatly over the years since it first became popular in the Civil rights era.

But what hasn't changed is it's enduring connection to racism. The filipbuster has always stood in the way of racial progress, whether employed by the Southern Democrats and the Gym Crow era or the Republican Party today as a major shift in the party stance on racial equality. When you understand the filipbusters racist past, it becomes clear that it has a racist present as well. We just need to get rid of it. It's crazy when you see something that's

systematically racist, but is there so long. It's almost like when you bake a cake. You can't. When you bite the cake, you don't taste the flour no more. You don't taste the eggs. You just taste the cake. This argument is that's a filibuster, and some would argue that's the electoral college. Electoral college was to make sure that states with a lot of black people, a lot of free black people, don't have an advantage over states that

used to enslave black people. And this Voting Rights Act from seven was even more in this same practice of like, yo, y'all, just you're you're you're, you're diverting the point. You're doing this because you don't want brown folk to have rights. And what's so crazy about it right now is it's almost like niked, it's it's happening again, y'all. Don't you don't want us to have to protect our our voting right, so you you're doing it again. But you can step

back and say, well, no, it's just the procedure. What are you talking about, it's just the procedure. It's because now I can't taste the flower no more. It's already it's it's it's in the cake. If I keep talking, you can't vote. But you gotta remember whatever weapon I got, they got, but nigging you on top. Now you're gonna shoot or not you're gonna put on for us or what we put you on? You posed to ride for us and it's a good cause. Are you afraid to shoot?

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