Speaker 1: So I don't know if I'll ever forget the feeling
Speaker 1: of that pit in my stomach, that absolute terror and
Speaker 1: adrenaline when some kid is like I saw good, I'll
Speaker 1: see you after school. Some sort of altercation happening, maybe
Speaker 1: even it was an accident. Point is it's going down.
Speaker 1: The only question is am I gonna have to face
Speaker 1: this food by myself? Politics? How you so little right now?
Speaker 1: Little politics? Y'all, yo yo, everybody, welcome to another episode
Speaker 1: of Hook Politics is called clicked Up. I want to
Speaker 1: help you understand what an ally is as far as
Speaker 1: nation states go. Foreign policy. It's a big turn people
Speaker 1: running for what you with your stance on foreign policy.
Speaker 1: It's like the most complicated question you could be asked.
Speaker 1: We want to lay it all out, but first you're
Speaker 1: sweating because it's fifth period, and maybe everybody saw at school,
Speaker 1: all the homies, everybody even not the homies all saw
Speaker 1: you kind of like get into this situation with big
Speaker 1: homie over there. That The point is you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to throw hands very soon. The onliest question you should
Speaker 1: be asking yourself is which one of you niggas are
Speaker 1: right with me every day? Is gonna jump in and
Speaker 1: can y'all throw hands, Like, if you you ain't got
Speaker 1: no hands, I really don't need your help throw hands?
Speaker 1: Is in? Can you fight right? I'm also concerned as
Speaker 1: to which how many of his friends is gonna jump in?
Speaker 1: Are we gonna just be able to square up? Is
Speaker 1: it just gonna be and him? Or are you gonna
Speaker 1: bring all your squad? If you're gonna bring your squad
Speaker 1: and you know I'm gonna bring my squad, and we're
Speaker 1: gonna rumble, clicked up rumble, We're gonna have a rumball?
Speaker 1: Who says rumbull? You need to know who's gonna help
Speaker 1: out if things go down at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: Foreign policy since post World War two, actually World War One?
Speaker 1: Who's gonna jump in if we're fighting now? As for
Speaker 1: me and my house, I'm personally I'm a buck fifty
Speaker 1: soaking wet, and I have been for many years. I've
Speaker 1: been blessed with them East African jeans. I'm literally the
Speaker 1: same way I was when I was in high school.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've tried the gate weight just just don't work.
Speaker 1: So I'm the type that no look at, I got
Speaker 1: no delusions of grandeur. I'm not finished everything for me
Speaker 1: is a metrical warfare because I can't square up with
Speaker 1: none of these fools. I don't know how many punches
Speaker 1: I could take. I take no pride in that. So
Speaker 1: for me, I'm not waiting until after school. I'm sliding in.
Speaker 1: I'm figuring out who you got for fifth period. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna run over there and be like, talk to the teacher.
Speaker 1: Oh hey, Mr Terry says she needed to borrow one
Speaker 1: of your dictionaries. And I'm a good student. I'm an
Speaker 1: honor roll student. I'm just a little art nerd. I'll
Speaker 1: just be here. I'm not I'm not involved in the
Speaker 1: gang life. Didn't look I'm a nice kid. So all
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do is go head over there and grab
Speaker 1: that dictionary and just happen to walk by this fool's
Speaker 1: desk and then well, pole and just break this fool's
Speaker 1: jaw in front of everybody with the dictionary. Because I'm
Speaker 1: not waiting till after school. I'm not giving you a
Speaker 1: chance to jump me, and I'm not giving you a
Speaker 1: chance to let me get my behind kicked in front
Speaker 1: of everybody. I'm not like that. I'm waiting at at lunch.
Speaker 1: I'm finding your lunch table, and I'm breaking your face
Speaker 1: with one of the trades because you see how little
Speaker 1: I am. It ain't gonna be fair anyway. I'm not
Speaker 1: wasting time. And then what happens is maybe I gets
Speaker 1: suspended for a couple of days, maybe even a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks. All I know is the whole school. No,
Speaker 1: that little skinny boy right there, Look, look he ain't
Speaker 1: really he's a civilian, ain't really part of all this stuff.
Speaker 1: But I tell you what, he ain't no easy come up,
Speaker 1: that boy fight back. He got hort like the old
Speaker 1: foods sound from l A. So hort, we say hard,
Speaker 1: like you parked the cord. You know what I'm saying, Yeah,
Speaker 1: parked the car around the corner. Homie, Hey, little nigga
Speaker 1: got hurt. That is so l A. Please No, I'm
Speaker 1: not condoning any of these actions, So don't do this.
Speaker 1: One thing we all know is that just because y'all
Speaker 1: both crips don't mean you get along. Just because y'all
Speaker 1: all bloods don't mean y'all get along. There could be
Speaker 1: some sort of thing that happened, maybe even to your
Speaker 1: older brothers and your older sisters that now that y'all
Speaker 1: old enough. Now that y'all in high school, you learned
Speaker 1: that you and your two neighborhoods actually don't get along.
Speaker 1: You may not even know. The thing was so interesting
Speaker 1: about inner city life is almost all of us went
Speaker 1: to the same head start program. We was in the
Speaker 1: same we had the same babysitters, We was in the
Speaker 1: same free and reducing lunch program. We went to the
Speaker 1: same elementary school, hell, the same church, the same youth group.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. It was in the same
Speaker 1: children's choir. Because that's how complicated in the city life is.
Speaker 1: Same vacation Bible school, the church I went to. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna name no names, but like i mean,
Speaker 1: our Sunday school teachers, their kids was active. Just didn't
Speaker 1: nobody know it, you know. And then maybe went off
Speaker 1: to different middle schools. And now we're in high school.
Speaker 1: And your recruitment happened when you was in middle school.
Speaker 1: So now all of a sudden, you're banging that set.
Speaker 1: I'm banging this set, or I'm not banging that set.
Speaker 1: I'm just affiliated over here because it's where we're from,
Speaker 1: because that's what my brother did. Now we got beef,
Speaker 1: or sometimes the other way around happened. Maybe some of
Speaker 1: the ogs went off to jail, we're happened to share
Speaker 1: a cell block, ended up becoming friends in prison, and
Speaker 1: then the word comes back down to the city that like, hey,
Speaker 1: we squashed the beef at the ol G level, So
Speaker 1: y'all cool, y'all stop shooting at each other. Maybe somebody
Speaker 1: missed that memo and then acts upon some sort of
Speaker 1: old beef that you ain't know about, and then now
Speaker 1: these two sets got problems, or maybe there was some
Speaker 1: sort of other situation to happen. Maybe the Russians moved in,
Speaker 1: and the Russians are now controlling the flow of the
Speaker 1: narcotics or the pills into the city. So now all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, this historical beef that happened over some
Speaker 1: sort of party who hit on the wrong old lady
Speaker 1: now is seeing trivial because all of y'all are out
Speaker 1: of business by these Russians. Or you didn't messed up.
Speaker 1: This is one of my favorite ones. Or you didn't
Speaker 1: messed up thinking that the Mexican dudes the Colos were
Speaker 1: to connect because the Ciolos had the plug with Mexico
Speaker 1: in the cartels and mafia and stuff because they was
Speaker 1: getting they was carrying the weight from across the border.
Speaker 1: You run up to homeboy. It turned out homeboy you
Speaker 1: run up to ain't a part of Mexican mafia. He
Speaker 1: actually mouled through to fool El Salvadorian. You don't know
Speaker 1: no difference. You just nigket from the hood. They both
Speaker 1: speak Spanish. I don't know. You didn't stepped into a
Speaker 1: situation you ain't know nothing about. Now all of the sudden,
Speaker 1: now you've got problems with the Vatos. These networks of
Speaker 1: connections among hoods are very hard to navigate, and they
Speaker 1: change every five to ten years. You don't know. You
Speaker 1: just gotta know how to navigate it. Now, what I
Speaker 1: got to do with politics, This is trying to understand
Speaker 1: how the modern nation states, how they relate to other nations,
Speaker 1: and how does an administration sort this out? Cabinet members
Speaker 1: This is why cabinet membership is so important in the
Speaker 1: way that you select them. You gotta have some shrewd
Speaker 1: cats about this mug who understand the lay of the land,
Speaker 1: understand what's been happening all over the world. What's so
Speaker 1: unique about America is we're changing our entire government every
Speaker 1: four to six years. It's like brand new president, maybe
Speaker 1: brand new chiefs of staff. It's enough to keep another
Speaker 1: nation really unbalanced. You gotta like, there's no guarantee that
Speaker 1: America is gonna jump in just because we said we
Speaker 1: would jump in four years ago. So if you're making
Speaker 1: your plans, you're another country trying to make your plans,
Speaker 1: and you're counting on America's guns, America's money, America's trade. Yo,
Speaker 1: you ought to be careful. You don't know who the
Speaker 1: new president gonna be. So of course a country that
Speaker 1: got like consider us competition, you know you kind of
Speaker 1: like I kind of got a stake into who who
Speaker 1: actually win this thing because you probably messing up my bag,
Speaker 1: or if I get a new guy that decides the
Speaker 1: old dude was too soft on you or on me.
Speaker 1: I mean this this guy is a lot of applications.
Speaker 1: You made me clear war. It's kind of like it's
Speaker 1: a little you know, like you can't really make no
Speaker 1: plans about your own future if you don't know this
Speaker 1: trigger happy country where there's more guns than humans, you
Speaker 1: feel might decide they don't like you no more Like
Speaker 1: that's kind of a hard situation to be in, or
Speaker 1: they may decide they love you now. So you start
Speaker 1: like we're good, and then you just kind of like, man,
Speaker 1: I hope this dude get reelected because I want to
Speaker 1: stay good with y'all. Like are we making money? And
Speaker 1: we you know what I'm saying, And we're doing this
Speaker 1: from the American side. You know, you have to be
Speaker 1: fully aware that the other country don't know about the
Speaker 1: jockey and and and the inner attitude. We speak of
Speaker 1: nations as if they're monolists. You know, China, everybody in
Speaker 1: China think like this. Everybody in Russia think like this.
Speaker 1: Everybody wrong think like this. Do everybody in America think
Speaker 1: like quote unquote this, No, like we we don't all agree.
Speaker 1: A matter of fact, that's the one thing we agree
Speaker 1: on is the fact that don't none of us like
Speaker 1: our government, and don't none of us agree as to
Speaker 1: how to handle stuff outside of our borders as it
Speaker 1: relates to like are we gonna protect them? What are
Speaker 1: we gonna let them? Are we gonna let them sell
Speaker 1: on our blocks? You're gonna charge y'all? Which is a
Speaker 1: whole other conversation, a whole other episode. We're gonna do
Speaker 1: on tariffs, which is really fun because ultimately that's like
Speaker 1: you gotta pay me to sell on my block. It's
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it's kind of extortion. Extortion that's legal
Speaker 1: all my Libertarians in the house, Texas taxes are extortion. Anyway.
Speaker 1: It's a scary thing. So you really need people that
Speaker 1: are not gonna be in there into these meetings being
Speaker 1: a hothead. You can't have somebody just walk in here.
Speaker 1: It's already tense, especially when you're like a new administration.
Speaker 1: You gotta prove who you are. You a uh, don't
Speaker 1: get a twisted dog. I can throw hands, but let's
Speaker 1: make this money. You feel me, Let's let's let's get
Speaker 1: this bread going. You know, maybe don't like the situation
Speaker 1: we had before, y'all making too much money off us
Speaker 1: or the other way around, where you like, hey, look here,
Speaker 1: I don't feel like we're making enough on this situation.
Speaker 1: I don't like. I don't like how this is going down.
Speaker 1: You need somebody in your cabinet that's not gonna be
Speaker 1: kind of angling for himself for herself, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Like this is a difficult thing to really
Speaker 1: figure out, and you gotta have access to all these
Speaker 1: other behind closed doors things, because again, you don't know
Speaker 1: what's been discussed before you was there. You don't know
Speaker 1: what the ogs was talking about. You don't know what
Speaker 1: side deals have been being set up. You don't know.
Speaker 1: But if none of this stuff makes sense, let me
Speaker 1: make it as simple as this. The lunch tables dead
Speaker 1: serious middle school. In high school, one of the most
Speaker 1: you understand that first week of school, one of the
Speaker 1: most important things to do is figure out where you're
Speaker 1: gonna sit at the lunch tables, because it's a out
Speaker 1: about you and I I honestly remember, and I think
Speaker 1: every school had this. You could survey the whole subcontinent
Speaker 1: of your high school based on where people were sitting
Speaker 1: for lunch. For us, where the thing called prep hill
Speaker 1: on the hill. It was like we had this like
Speaker 1: sloping staircase that were kind of like extended on the hill.
Speaker 1: That was like the a SB kids the quote unquote
Speaker 1: popular for us. It was like those are the white kids. Um,
Speaker 1: of course they weren't just white kids, but it was
Speaker 1: like whiteness. There was just preppy, you know what saying
Speaker 1: rest we used to call it back then. They just
Speaker 1: they fancy they got a little mold than us. Right,
Speaker 1: there was the Asian tables, that's where all the Penois
Speaker 1: and Filipinos where they all hung out. Most of my
Speaker 1: school with Asian squad was Filipinos, so you sprinkle in
Speaker 1: a few other type of agents, but anyway, they all
Speaker 1: kind of blended into the Filipino population. We had a
Speaker 1: section under the awning by the multi purpose room where
Speaker 1: the Tongans and the Samoans kind of hung out, but
Speaker 1: mostly Tongans. You have one side of the table with
Speaker 1: like all the Latino like the Mexican dudes, and there
Speaker 1: was other lunch sabs where the black people were right,
Speaker 1: so we just you know, and then there was like
Speaker 1: the sports fools. There was this hip hop section where
Speaker 1: we were just kind of freestyle where remember we used
Speaker 1: to go to like our teacher used to let the
Speaker 1: wrestling room with all the wrestling masks. We're going there
Speaker 1: and teach ourself how to flare and windmill and who
Speaker 1: have battles and such. But like you navigated the school
Speaker 1: based on the lunch tables and where you sat told
Speaker 1: us everything we needed to know about who you went
Speaker 1: and who's gonna jump in ifever there's a problem. I
Speaker 1: went to a rather tumulture with school, all those multi
Speaker 1: ethnic we have some serious assok like serious like race riots.
Speaker 1: We had to figure out who's on whose side. And
Speaker 1: it started among like them Tonging hoods and the Latino hoods,
Speaker 1: so us a little us black folks. We had to
Speaker 1: make a calculation like, O, don't no man in Pacific
Speaker 1: Islanders and nigs don't feel pain. I don't think you
Speaker 1: ever want to be on the side of the wrong
Speaker 1: side of the targetics. Obviously I don't think like this anymore,
Speaker 1: but at the time, we had to make a calculation
Speaker 1: who who we're gonna throw our lot in because let
Speaker 1: me tell you what I don't want to do. I
Speaker 1: am not trying to catch no Pacific islander fist to
Speaker 1: my jaw. I just I don't understand why y'all are
Speaker 1: as strong as you are. I'm not trying to get
Speaker 1: into no like forchnology or genetics. I don't know. All
Speaker 1: I know is you know what I can talk about
Speaker 1: my brother in law. My brother in law's half Polly,
Speaker 1: half black. This don't make no dog on sense. Why
Speaker 1: strong you are? My homeboy? To Dashi, I can name
Speaker 1: Tadashi to Dashi do music with me one of my
Speaker 1: home boys, Flow and Samoan. I don't get why you're
Speaker 1: so strong. I'm way off the rails here. The point
Speaker 1: is we had to decide where you're gonna sit for lunch,
Speaker 1: because that's gonna tell us you're gonna communicate to the
Speaker 1: whole school what your situation is and how all of
Speaker 1: it's gonna work out in the same way in the hood,
Speaker 1: how navigating this stuff costs actual lives. These aren't abstract
Speaker 1: ideas what an ally is like. The cost of these
Speaker 1: things going wrong are in actual deaths. A good sort
Speaker 1: of case study with be World War One. Now for
Speaker 1: all you nonhistory nerds, let me let me, let me
Speaker 1: put you on game. So Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand not
Speaker 1: the band, I say, don't you know? You say you
Speaker 1: don't know that song was a bob. I don't care
Speaker 1: what y'all say. But Arch Duke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated
Speaker 1: by this kid right named Gabriello Priss up Right. He
Speaker 1: was a member of this like Bosnian, like Serbian nationalist
Speaker 1: group who was trying to unite the territories around like
Speaker 1: ethnic Serbs under like Serbian control. It's just think of
Speaker 1: it as like, you know, we have like serious race
Speaker 1: problems here. They had them then too. They were just
Speaker 1: much more ethnic than white supremacists. Is always weird for
Speaker 1: me to as a black man, watching like white ethnic
Speaker 1: groups beef with each other and call each other less
Speaker 1: white than any other. Like I like, there's like Russian
Speaker 1: white supremacists because other Russians ain't white enough. It's the
Speaker 1: strangest thing I ever seen anyway, because white is a
Speaker 1: social construct. So he was the Archbishop of Austria Hungary.
Speaker 1: So they was furious right now, Austrio hungry. This is
Speaker 1: World War One. They clicked up with Germany. Germany right
Speaker 1: now feeling froggy because you remember Germany been trying to
Speaker 1: take over Austria hungry for a while, you know, Kaiser
Speaker 1: Wilhelm and them, like nig was hungry. You feel me
Speaker 1: like he was like, yo, man, y'all looking like an
Speaker 1: easy come up. The problem is Russia got Serbia's back,
Speaker 1: and Russia, I don't think people will understand. First of all,
Speaker 1: the land mask that Russia is like it's Russia is
Speaker 1: freakishly big and at the time they military cause them
Speaker 1: fools be Mark, but Germany ain't no slouds to Germany
Speaker 1: was throwing hands back then, dog like, throwing real hands
Speaker 1: like we had never seen no military like Germany. Y'all
Speaker 1: gotta remember them. Nick is almost one, Joe said, But
Speaker 1: Austria hungry, got this stuff. Germany jump in. But if
Speaker 1: Germany jump in, that means Russia jumping in. And if
Speaker 1: Russia jump in, that me needs people jump and if
Speaker 1: these people, that mean next people jump in. Eventually whole
Speaker 1: earth jumped in except for Africa. Were chilling. I don't
Speaker 1: know what they probably whoa. We was like, look, it's good,
Speaker 1: let's give us a second. Leave us alone. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Dang, y'all fight amongst each other, that speculation.
Speaker 1: The point is all these countries jump in, and it's
Speaker 1: it's it's because of how the Allied networks work out right,
Speaker 1: Like you can't just be hitting on my homeboy like that.
Speaker 1: We got this understanding here. In the past episode we
Speaker 1: talked about like all the all the fun we did
Speaker 1: back in the Middle East, and at some point we
Speaker 1: got to revisit that. We got to talk about how
Speaker 1: the Iran Contra scandal and how that dead ass leads
Speaker 1: right into the crack attack. I know Snowfall to show
Speaker 1: how f X is about that, but like they're not.
Speaker 1: Really the story is more about sat Who's it's freeway.
Speaker 1: Rick is is who's saying is based on it, But
Speaker 1: like the story is more about him, not necessary to
Speaker 1: politics around it. Like we really got to get into
Speaker 1: how crap got on our streets because of the CIA,
Speaker 1: But all of that again is about being clicked up. Ultimately,
Speaker 1: Reagan and him was worried about quote unquote communism spreading
Speaker 1: in the America's because you're gonna sunk up the money,
Speaker 1: so we need to make sure the money don't get anyway.
Speaker 1: The whole other thing, y'all remember but shar Allah aside
Speaker 1: when he was gassing his own folks in Syria. I
Speaker 1: think I gave this example in the introductory episode. That's
Speaker 1: exactly what I'm talking about. Trump out here running with shooters.
Speaker 1: You can't say ship, you gotta jump in. You can't
Speaker 1: jump in because you clicked up with his click. You
Speaker 1: can't say nothing. All this stuff is like it's all confusing. Now,
Speaker 1: before before Trump was around, before Trump was trying to like,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying to click up with Russia
Speaker 1: when we was more like, look, kick rocks Russia, Like,
Speaker 1: y'all need to get this ship together, because like I
Speaker 1: don't trust y'all, you don't trust us. We got some
Speaker 1: long running beef, and this beef and running for even
Speaker 1: if it was a misunderstanding, they like it got too hot.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't play with y'all. You stay at
Speaker 1: our way, we stay out of yours. Trump kind of
Speaker 1: gummed all that up and in the middle of that,
Speaker 1: but Charla side was like file gas my own people.
Speaker 1: But but the network too is too complicated. You feel
Speaker 1: me now. Lastly, I want to talk about how this
Speaker 1: stuff plays out, even not in just like big old wars,
Speaker 1: but in real cultural moments, and why it's important to
Speaker 1: understand how does foreign policy work. The assassination of Jamal Kashogi,
Speaker 1: so Jamal ka Shogi has happened last year, and that
Speaker 1: event like started a string of other events that really
Speaker 1: capture not only what happens in the streets but also
Speaker 1: what happens in the government. So Jamaal ka Shogi was
Speaker 1: popped in Turkey at at the embassy out there in Istanbul.
Speaker 1: And the thing is like we're good with Turkey and
Speaker 1: he was and what we think happened and it's we
Speaker 1: have good reason to think this is that the Crown
Speaker 1: Prince Mohammed al Saman like green lit this nigger. It's
Speaker 1: like the worst kept secret in the world that like
Speaker 1: the crown Prince and the family out in Saudi they
Speaker 1: shoot and have no problem taking out dissonance. But to
Speaker 1: get real sticky, because we supposed to be good with saudeast,
Speaker 1: what're you supposed to do? But it's a big deal
Speaker 1: once you start shooting journalists because it says a lot
Speaker 1: more about like how you feel about the press and
Speaker 1: being able to move and do things that are like
Speaker 1: getting on with your if you could just kill the journalists,
Speaker 1: and how dictatorships work without getting into the details of
Speaker 1: like the Arab spring and like the Shiite and Sunni history,
Speaker 1: which is also its own thing, like Saudi Arabia is
Speaker 1: like super unpredictable when it comes to America, and I
Speaker 1: think we really don't appreciate the long history and cultural
Speaker 1: and tribal effect and how all that intersects with religion,
Speaker 1: like how that works over there, Like I don't think
Speaker 1: we get it. We see these buckets of like tribal, cultural,
Speaker 1: religious as like their own buckets, rather than the way
Speaker 1: that all this stuff overlaps. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: to form not only a national but an individual idea,
Speaker 1: like I don't think we get out that works in
Speaker 1: the same way how I freely say, because but I
Speaker 1: just already told you I never gang banged the day
Speaker 1: of my life. And I already told you all we
Speaker 1: went to church, and I already told you I rapp
Speaker 1: And I already told you I don't think you understand
Speaker 1: really how our identities overlapping against critical race theory, intersectionality.
Speaker 1: I'm becoming a teacher right now. This ain't the point.
Speaker 1: All we knew about Saudi Arabia was Niggadey got oil
Speaker 1: and it's for sale. We gotta make the calculus as
Speaker 1: to like how to jump in over there, because you're
Speaker 1: jumping in some ship that's been going on for a
Speaker 1: long time so recently. Actually this was under the Biden administration.
Speaker 1: They did there like full investigation as to like, okay,
Speaker 1: did did the Crown Prince really call this hit? Was
Speaker 1: this really a hit? Or was it not? We all
Speaker 1: have our intent is up again, worst kept secret they'd
Speaker 1: be popping foods. We can't prove it either way. It's
Speaker 1: set up a situation. We're supposed to be good with
Speaker 1: Turkey and we GOLs to speak, going with Saudi Arabia.
Speaker 1: I don't know what we Hey, you just put me
Speaker 1: in a predicament because like you gotta make a statement.
Speaker 1: You don't make no statement. You're punk. It's okay you
Speaker 1: would like this, It's complicated. You either a telling America
Speaker 1: you got we could pop journalists. Be you telling Turkey
Speaker 1: my support don't mean nothing, or see Saudi Arabia just
Speaker 1: pumped you like I dare you to say something. Wait,
Speaker 1: we go with both of y'all, but that's bullshit. You
Speaker 1: just pop this food? What do we do? Related situation
Speaker 1: is the drone strike that hit Kasam Sulimani. Kasum Sulamani
Speaker 1: was an o G from Iran that was on his
Speaker 1: way to meet with the Iraqi Prime minister. Right here's
Speaker 1: the thing, though. They hit him in Baghdad, right at
Speaker 1: the Baghdad in the International Airport while he was on
Speaker 1: his way supposedly to meet with the prime minister in Baghdad.
Speaker 1: We popped him, shot up a neighborhood that we supposed
Speaker 1: to be cool with. We just shot the enemy in
Speaker 1: a neutral hood. You just popped his niggad Oh my porch, Brad, Like,
Speaker 1: do we understand the position? We just put a rock in?
Speaker 1: Be because like, uh, you just like what am I
Speaker 1: supposed to do? Dude? Like who am I posted to back?
Speaker 1: You didn't messed up the whole click situation we was
Speaker 1: already talking about, like trying to figure out making nukes
Speaker 1: and all this stuff, and you was getting all America
Speaker 1: was getting all weird, Like we had this situation with Obama.
Speaker 1: Now you don't like it, and then so you want
Speaker 1: to change it. And if you were rocked, you like, look,
Speaker 1: maybe I'll just wait this out or iron, maybe I'll
Speaker 1: just wait this out because you're gonna get a new
Speaker 1: president soon. I don't know why am I gonna read
Speaker 1: and make this whole deal that took us so long
Speaker 1: to make just for you to leave later? Like, and
Speaker 1: then you got the nerve to drop a drone strike
Speaker 1: in my hood. Bro Ya gotta go, man, if you're
Speaker 1: running the city, if you're running back dad, you're like, Yo,
Speaker 1: this America gotta go, y'all bugging dude, you wow? Because
Speaker 1: if you had a problem with Cosum, pop him in
Speaker 1: his hood. I don't want nothing to do with this.
Speaker 1: You don't thrown me in a mix. It's complicated trying
Speaker 1: to figure out like this stuff spill over to actual life.
Speaker 1: So listen, foreign policy hard. It's hard to figure out
Speaker 1: how this stuff gets set up. So I say all
Speaker 1: that to say this. When you seeing stories about ambassadors
Speaker 1: meeting with this people and trying to come up with
Speaker 1: sanctions which we're gonna talk about later, trying to figure
Speaker 1: out treaties and trade deals and stuff like that, this
Speaker 1: is what they're doing. These are O g s and
Speaker 1: oh heads trying to figure out Okay, look, we gotta
Speaker 1: rethink how this every photo six years. We gotta rethink
Speaker 1: how this stuff works. We gotta reevaluate how the money
Speaker 1: flowing right, And I need to know if ship go down,
Speaker 1: you're gonna jump in. Have you changed your mind you're
Speaker 1: gonna jump in or not. It's like it's hardful. I know.
Speaker 1: I say all the time that politics really ain't that
Speaker 1: hard because it's gang shit, But this part of gangshit
Speaker 1: is actually hard. You understand what I'm saying, but to
Speaker 1: actually do it. And this is difficult because it's complicated,
Speaker 1: and if something go wrong, entire neighborhoods get bombed. You
Speaker 1: say the wrong word nigga, Ray Theon on their way
Speaker 1: Like Robert said, what the knife missiles, which I don't
Speaker 1: even think they make them. I don't even think right that.
Speaker 1: I think it's just like ray Theon is just sounds
Speaker 1: like ex corpse. You know what I'm saying, the Bad
Speaker 1: Corporation and any sort of comic book. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. But it is difficult. Next time you hear
Speaker 1: trade deals in foreign policy, just think, do I gotta
Speaker 1: hood pass? Y'all gonna jump in, Get clicked up, y'all.
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