The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Between the Scenes - What Black People Can Do to Combat Voter Suppression

Episode Date: October 27, 2018

According to Trevor, the best way for African Americans to fight voter suppression is to register as Republicans. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And I'm Peter. Our podcast, 5 to 4 is about all of this. Every week, we dissect and analyze a different ruling that has made our country a little worse, a little more cruel. And you would not believe how many of them there are. Check out 5-4. That's the number 5- registration and voter ID laws in America, etc. That's one of the few moments when I miss South Africa's racism. Because no, what I liked about South Africa's racism is that it was just straight up. You know, they're just like, no blacks. No blacks, okay? Simple as that. No blacks.

And you knew where you stood. I'm like in America, they're like, they make you work for your racism, you know? You gotta figure out, they'll be like, we don't need certain people, you're prone to hip hip hop and swag, and you people, you know, you people, you like, which people, told people, no, you people. Like, I'm like, no, man, I just want to be offended and enjoy it, you know, I don't want to figure out my race, like racism, Sudoku or something. I don't want to figure it out. It's the way they beat around the, it's so slick, but I promise you, I genuinely

think that would switch things up. If black people just came out and said, hey, we are all going to vote Republican Republican. You would be surprised. th. thired thired thired thired thired th. thii, th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, to to to th. Like, th. Like, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th th th th th th th black people's decisions affect the general like Republican ideology in America. Look at the NRA is a great example, right? You look at guns in America. People always like, oh no there needs to be, you know, guns are free, guns are free, guns are free, guns are free, guns are free, guns are free, second amendment, then the black panthers came along and they were like this country is dangerous for black people. So they said we say all our brothers and sisters you go out there and you get guns, you get as many guns as you can and you prepare for a war and then the white people were like we need to restrict the guns.

They were like we need to, no no no no no, no, too many guns, bring it in, bring it in, like, you see immediately there's like bring it, bring it, bring it, bring it, bring it, there, there, there just like the same thing with voting if they just thought the vote was going to go the other way they would take a chance just be like yeah man I'm voting for you be like really you're voting a Republican yeah man I'm voting Republican it's like oh yeah what's who you voting for the dude You know, Twitter, and Instagram, and subscribe to the Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive content and more. This has been a Comedy Central Podcast. Have you ever been watching the news and thought to yourself, wow, the Supreme Court sure

does suck. We made a podcast about that. We sure did. There is a supermajority of conservative maniacs on the Supreme Court right now, really doing some damage. I'm Michael. I'm Riannan. And I'm Peter. Our podcast, 5 to 4 is about all of this.

Every week, we dissect and analyze a different ruling that's a little worse, a little more cruel. And you would not believe how many of them there are. Check out 5 to 4. That's the number 5, dash the number 4, wherever you listen to podcast.