Speaker 1: All right, mid term season, it's coming. This is the year,
Speaker 1: and hopefully you understand that the absolute farce that you're elected.
Speaker 1: Officials in their campaigning are attempting to argue the merits
Speaker 1: of a particular topic or idea or principle, um or
Speaker 1: this idea that they're gonna make these sweeping promises, and
Speaker 1: you actually expect these promises to come true. Oh or
Speaker 1: even if various promises are a good idea or not.
Speaker 1: You know, if you run on something as a as
Speaker 1: a voter, you could be like, look, do what you
Speaker 1: said you was gonna do, and I'm an apply to press.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't open your mouth and said it if you
Speaker 1: didn't either way, I hope that that you know theater,
Speaker 1: you understand that that's theater, that that's not what the
Speaker 1: hell going on. But I do think there is a
Speaker 1: way to understand the season we're about to enter, and
Speaker 1: it's um maybe even to two phrases. Is why this
Speaker 1: episode it's got two names. You wake up and choose
Speaker 1: violence and make sure you stay dangerous hood politics, y'all.
Speaker 1: I don't remember when this phrase kind of started hitting
Speaker 1: uh social media, you know, man, as we woke up
Speaker 1: and chose violence. Usually it has to do it like
Speaker 1: somebody just like you know, it starts like they got
Speaker 1: time today. They start saying what they really think, no,
Speaker 1: and um, maybe maybe this person been holding their tongue
Speaker 1: this whole time, but that they've hit a hit a
Speaker 1: hit a place where they're like, look, I'm done being
Speaker 1: patient with y'all. This is what I think. This what's
Speaker 1: going down, Like some a line has been crossed, right, um,
Speaker 1: And when that line is crossed, the it's like the
Speaker 1: only choice is to just start popping off. You just
Speaker 1: started letting off, you know what I'm saying. And when
Speaker 1: you do, like, look, it kind of is what it is.
Speaker 1: One thing, I used a phrase stay dangerous for a
Speaker 1: reason because you know a lot of times people say, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, be be safe out there. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, Uh, be safe outside stay safe. I know
Speaker 1: among at least the answers, I knew, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, and you know, people around the hood. And
Speaker 1: he was like, no, no no, I'm gonna stay dangerous. Like
Speaker 1: and what they're trying to say is that like listen,
Speaker 1: it's like I'm not safe. Like it's not like you know,
Speaker 1: you saw some people that's like, look, man, they ain't
Speaker 1: gonna you ever heard the phrase, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: ain't gonna bust a grape and a food fight. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like it's like, you're not you
Speaker 1: know this person is like they may be loud David is,
Speaker 1: but you're not really you're not dangerous. You don't pull
Speaker 1: triggers like it's not it's not it's not gonna pop off.
Speaker 1: You feel me like you ain't gonna do nothing, Like
Speaker 1: you ain't gonna do you know what I'm saying, Like
Speaker 1: you're not gonna do nothing. Staying dangerous is this idea
Speaker 1: of like just what it says, Like, hey, man, like,
Speaker 1: don't get it twisted. I might be smiling right now,
Speaker 1: we might be chilling with the homies. You need to
Speaker 1: know that at any moment, I might decide you've disrespected me.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, Like it's people in here,
Speaker 1: it's shooters in here. I might be one of them.
Speaker 1: You keep you keep your mind, keep your head. You
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. You you better know that, like listen,
Speaker 1: I'm dangerous, Like don't just you can't just be any
Speaker 1: way around me. I might choose war. You feel me
Speaker 1: when you choose violence is like listen, when you're dangerous.
Speaker 1: It is like the violence is always on the table.
Speaker 1: You know. It's it's it's people I know that I'm
Speaker 1: I'm very close to. It's it's friends I have, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, it's family members. I have this
Speaker 1: particular family members that I'm like, I just you don't,
Speaker 1: you don't really I'm family, but you know what I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm not set. I'm not hood since I'm not there,
Speaker 1: I don't. We got but we got blood in us.
Speaker 1: We share blood. But you know what though, like when
Speaker 1: somebody like listen, man, when somebody join a gang, man
Speaker 1: like these people like a lot of times these brothers
Speaker 1: since as they joined when they're like twelve, thirteen years old,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, like their kids, and so
Speaker 1: there's a camaraderie that's built. You know, at least I'm
Speaker 1: talking specifically about l A like I can't. I don't.
Speaker 1: I can't speak in any sort of authority on anyone else,
Speaker 1: but I know, yo, it was middle school. It was
Speaker 1: middle school was when you know, the like kind of started,
Speaker 1: the dust started settling. As to like where you was
Speaker 1: gonna go? You feel me? And so for me, like
Speaker 1: middle school was when somebody put a break can in
Speaker 1: my hands, you know what I'm saying, Like I've I've
Speaker 1: told this story so many times. Was like that was
Speaker 1: for me. Graffiti hip hop was gang intervention for me,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like that and the fact
Speaker 1: that we moved and you know, just whatever the case,
Speaker 1: maybe I was with the Vatos, whatever the case, maybe
Speaker 1: middle school was when it was like oh me and
Speaker 1: like Philibert though, like we can't really kick it like
Speaker 1: we used to, you know what I'm saying. Me and
Speaker 1: you know, um, the twins across the street from my
Speaker 1: grandma's house, you know, Dwayne and Dwight, it's like little kay,
Speaker 1: We're it's not the same, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And it's like niggas loved me, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: Like we you know, grew up together, like we've been
Speaker 1: around each other the whole time. Like I moved a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, so like they didn't see me every day
Speaker 1: but since but once that started happening, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying, it was like, Okay, listen, this ain't your streets,
Speaker 1: your granny street. You know what I'm saying, Like we
Speaker 1: love your granny, respect your granny, respects, your family. We
Speaker 1: know you out here. But like listen, I'm dangerous. Like
Speaker 1: you can just we're dangerous, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: And like you understand that, you know, and that and
Speaker 1: and and part of the thing is like you have
Speaker 1: to like remain dangerous, like stay that way. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: building this case because I'm gonna talk about the mid
Speaker 1: arts very sud Okay, so keep that in mind. It's
Speaker 1: like you gotta I'm gonna stay dangerous. You know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. There's this code of ethics, this like honor
Speaker 1: code that I have found. Um, now keep in mind,
Speaker 1: you know my perspective I have found that is sometimes
Speaker 1: use that at a at a Nick's convenience. You know, Uh,
Speaker 1: there's a generation before me that almost like the like
Speaker 1: if you go back to the generation of mafia that
Speaker 1: was like born and raised in Sicily and then came
Speaker 1: to America before like the John Gotti's and the you know,
Speaker 1: the flashy dudes that like they live by a code
Speaker 1: that is a blood death honor you never ever break.
Speaker 1: So like there's a generation of like hoofles before me
Speaker 1: that this code is solid, concrete, and it's in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways, it's like an honor culture, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like an honor code that like is
Speaker 1: like in Eastern traditions to where it's like my honor
Speaker 1: or even like how America at some point how to
Speaker 1: honor code? Like why would you duel if somebody insults you?
Speaker 1: Like you know, I'm challenging you to a duel. You've
Speaker 1: you've insulted my honor, So we need to step ten
Speaker 1: paces away from each other, turn around and shoot, that's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: It's an honor code. Like once you've crossed that, the
Speaker 1: only choice is violence. We're not reasoning, there's no all
Speaker 1: you misunderstood all. Let's talk this out. It's like, no nigga,
Speaker 1: you've like I have been disrespected. And there's a lot
Speaker 1: of gangs is out there that like you know, people
Speaker 1: from the hood or whatever that like really carry that code.
Speaker 1: But I would say the generation before me, like there
Speaker 1: was it was like there was no exceptions, you know,
Speaker 1: saying them early nineties gangsters, like there was no late
Speaker 1: eighties early nineties, there was no exceptions none. Then you
Speaker 1: get more into a generation that I'm sort of like
Speaker 1: kind of came from that was like sort of in
Speaker 1: my mind, kind of like hybrids, Like you could have
Speaker 1: a career, you know what I'm saying, and still be
Speaker 1: you know, kind of in the hood, you know what
Speaker 1: I'm saying. So if you had a career and you
Speaker 1: were still in the hood, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like like a like a like a like a similar
Speaker 1: like a y G or like a like a nip,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. Like they were still very serf,
Speaker 1: but they had careers, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: there were certain ways that this this code had to
Speaker 1: sort of evolve, uh, not broken, not like all these
Speaker 1: niggas ain't real gangsters, because like listen, come come to Content,
Speaker 1: come to South Central, asking them niggas really gangs, I'm saying,
Speaker 1: but there was it had to evolved because it was
Speaker 1: money to be made, you know what I'm saying. And
Speaker 1: then when you add like the drug game and the hustling,
Speaker 1: like a lot of times that you know, the gang
Speaker 1: banger kind of like slows down because you know, you
Speaker 1: you're putting the bag in danger. I trust me, I'm
Speaker 1: not rambling like I'm talking about this code to where
Speaker 1: you know, when somebody feels disrespected in whatever way, shape
Speaker 1: or form they feel it, it's like action. We're done,
Speaker 1: we're done talking. We've chosen war. And when you've chosen that,
Speaker 1: no matter what the other person says, no matter what happens,
Speaker 1: it's all you're piling on the disrespect. You feel me like,
Speaker 1: it's just like I mean, I was just funny because
Speaker 1: I knew a dude like like like that. That was
Speaker 1: just like sometimes I felt like, man, you're putting extras
Speaker 1: like you put extras on it, like everything distries, everything's
Speaker 1: a this, all of this is a war, and no
Speaker 1: matter what, it's a war. Like, oh man, I don't
Speaker 1: like the way you're sitting. Man, that's disrespectful. At home,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have that you feel aware that rams Jersey,
Speaker 1: that's distre respectful. Hey, home, you're gonna come over here
Speaker 1: with that that penalting on with the small blue stripe
Speaker 1: on it nigked as disrespectful. Hey, hommy, I don't like
Speaker 1: how you looking at my sister. That's disrespectful. Like okay, bro,
Speaker 1: Like you've just chosen violence, like Okay, is it all?
Speaker 1: Like really it's all like that, Like really it's all.
Speaker 1: It's all war. Everything is everything is a declaration of war.
Speaker 1: It couldn't be no misunderstanding. It couldn't be like, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, like you have to stop side,
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. You had a red light.
Speaker 1: You know you drive, you had a red light. You're
Speaker 1: just having to look over to the car next to you,
Speaker 1: just glance at it. It's like, nigga, what's white white?
Speaker 1: Why are you looking at me like that? Nigga? Like
Speaker 1: what's you want? Something's like, no, fam, I'm just are
Speaker 1: you serious? That's disrespectful, like cause come oh man, it's
Speaker 1: a red light. Like I'm not you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And if you if you are the person that's like
Speaker 1: looking over there and you're like, man, I live by
Speaker 1: the same code, then it's like, oh, we gotta get
Speaker 1: down now because now you've disrespected me, like you've made
Speaker 1: all of this award. Or you could laugh at off,
Speaker 1: strug get off and keep you know, keep it pushing.
Speaker 1: But the point is it's like if you stay in
Speaker 1: dangerous and somebody put you in a position where you
Speaker 1: gotta clap back or you're not dangerous like you but
Speaker 1: if you're like, look, I'm gonna stay dangerous, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like I'm here chilling some stuff not
Speaker 1: worth my time. But at the same time, there's this
Speaker 1: part of that life that's like, no, everything is worth
Speaker 1: my time. All of this is a challenge. I don't
Speaker 1: you need to understand that I am not the one
Speaker 1: the what you and I would think is so petty.
Speaker 1: It's like that's because we're not them, you understand I'm saying.
Speaker 1: I was listening to this interview about it's the it's
Speaker 1: the clubhouse stuff with with you know. Now, if you're
Speaker 1: not in this, don't even worry about it. But like
Speaker 1: I picked my head in every once in a while
Speaker 1: to hear some of the like clubhouse conversations with like
Speaker 1: Whack One Hunted and you know, Jim Jones and just
Speaker 1: some real like now if you want to know, like
Speaker 1: real like hood politics in its literal sense, like these
Speaker 1: are the politics among gangsters, which is not what this
Speaker 1: show is obviously, you know what I'm saying, But like
Speaker 1: you want like that's that that's a lot of like
Speaker 1: hood business that like I just gave you a vocabulary
Speaker 1: term hood business is is stuff that you just have
Speaker 1: to understand, which might apply today. It's stuff you just
Speaker 1: may have to understand. You'll just never know. There are
Speaker 1: things that are happening among these said sees, you know,
Speaker 1: obvious rival gangs, just reasons that we'll just never know
Speaker 1: because this hood business. You know, here's an example. I
Speaker 1: live in the neighborhood. Remember I live with the Vatos.
Speaker 1: I live in the neighborhood where the set of my
Speaker 1: neighborhood doesn't pay taxes. I don't know why. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: some jail stuff. No one's gonna tell me. It's just
Speaker 1: they look about those they had a rules, and I
Speaker 1: just happen to live in the neighborhood that I don't know.
Speaker 1: They just don't That's what I'm saying. You're gonna have
Speaker 1: to use your antennas and kind of figure out what's happening,
Speaker 1: or just be like it is what it is, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna act accordingly, which in a lot of ways really
Speaker 1: applies to the politics that we have. Like there are
Speaker 1: things we're just never really going to know what some
Speaker 1: of these politicians decide behind closed doors unless you're in there.
Speaker 1: You're just not gonna know. The point is you just
Speaker 1: have to act accordingly. I think there are positions and
Speaker 1: ideas which I'm gonna get too later. There are positions
Speaker 1: and stances and feelings that Republicans and Democrats might actually feel. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're gonna ever say it out loud. You're not gonna
Speaker 1: have to know, because that's whole business why certain things
Speaker 1: get through and don't get those happens. You ain't gonna
Speaker 1: know unless you're there. You know, that's just that's just reality.
Speaker 1: But the point is, like, which is the concept of
Speaker 1: my show is like, even though we don't know, we
Speaker 1: have to use what we do know to figure out
Speaker 1: what we don't know and make our moves accordingly. If
Speaker 1: me and you're gonna survive anyway. So Charleston White, he's um,
Speaker 1: you know, a hoods to from from Dallas was in
Speaker 1: the room with Whack one Hunted and they were talking
Speaker 1: about the death of this guy's slim for Hunted. Now,
Speaker 1: y'all may not know who any of these people are.
Speaker 1: Knowing who they are is not the point. Okay, that's
Speaker 1: not the point I'm bringing up right now. The point
Speaker 1: I'm bringing up right now is the code that these
Speaker 1: people live by. When you just chose violence, this is
Speaker 1: who we are. Everything is a disc it's all a war, right,
Speaker 1: Johnston was talking about when Slim passed away. Now why
Speaker 1: Slim died is the hood business. So we're back to
Speaker 1: that like again, but that's not the point. Slim he
Speaker 1: was rapper, he was an artist, but he was absolutely duman.
Speaker 1: He was a blood like it is what it is.
Speaker 1: So he was like, look, Charleston was like, look, Slim died,
Speaker 1: fucking whatever, nigger, that's a gangster, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's the answer. As a gangster, we know we signed
Speaker 1: up for. And Whack was like, wait, hold up, like
Speaker 1: you're just gonna talk about like you know, alreally like that,
Speaker 1: Like do you understand how l a gangs work? Like
Speaker 1: you can't just be he was, and he was basically
Speaker 1: going like, he's a man first, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: And Charleston was like, no, he's a gangster first. He
Speaker 1: put himself out there like this and he died in
Speaker 1: the streets because he knows what he signed up for.
Speaker 1: And if I'm a gangster, and if you're a gangster,
Speaker 1: you need to just be like he's another gangster. Fuck him.
Speaker 1: It don't matter. Niggas die every day. Told you about that.
Speaker 1: Niggas die every day. It don't make no sense to me.
Speaker 1: Now they're both of these men are adults now, so
Speaker 1: they were like, well listen, um, I found out his
Speaker 1: name is Vincent, and you know, we're growing up. So
Speaker 1: now we survived a lot of stuff we went through.
Speaker 1: So you know what I'm saying, Well, he's man, and
Speaker 1: it's a tragedy that Vincent passed. You know, he's got
Speaker 1: a family. You know what I'm saying, that's that's that's
Speaker 1: a tragedy. But Slim fol hunted nigga, I don't care,
Speaker 1: you know. And Whack was like, uh, you're not gonna talk.
Speaker 1: You're not gonna come to l A and talk like that,
Speaker 1: and then it devolved into something else. But the point
Speaker 1: I'm trying to make is it does not matter the humanity,
Speaker 1: the logic, it doesn't matter. We tell is violence. It
Speaker 1: is what it is. This is the life we stepped into.
Speaker 1: Everything's a war. Now. Of course, there are exceptions to
Speaker 1: this rule. There's nowhere in the world. I mean, come on, guys,
Speaker 1: like you know I know this firsthand. Second and third hand,
Speaker 1: when you're in the back seat of that car about
Speaker 1: to bust this mission, when somebody turned the corner and
Speaker 1: they say, hey day, they go right there, you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, And the kids sitting next to you
Speaker 1: pull pull a heater out of his backpack. You know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. There's a part of you that's like,
Speaker 1: there's nowhere in the world. Five out of five of
Speaker 1: y'all are like nigg and less go. Somebody in that
Speaker 1: car is like, man, I wish I could be anywhere
Speaker 1: but here. Somebody scared. Come on, man, y'r whole set
Speaker 1: and not scared. Somebody is thinking now listen. They will
Speaker 1: never ever ever say this out loud ever. Ain't gonna
Speaker 1: tell nobody. No one would ever notice. But when nobody
Speaker 1: around you know what I'm saying in the back of
Speaker 1: their minds, sometimes in the front of their minds, but
Speaker 1: it's gonna never come out of their mouth that it's like, man,
Speaker 1: I wish I was not here. I've made some choices.
Speaker 1: Uh that has left. I'm gonna live with my choices.
Speaker 1: It is what it is. But it is way more
Speaker 1: hurtful to myself to admit this then to rather just
Speaker 1: toe a line. I know what I signed up for.
Speaker 1: These are my brothers. Like I said, we signed up
Speaker 1: and we were twelve thirteen years old. Now it is
Speaker 1: what it is. Here's where we are. I wish it wasn't.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, like I do have anywhere, but here,
Speaker 1: you know, it's where we are. You know, I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like ever time I've been like man, listen of all
Speaker 1: the rides home I could have got in, of all
Speaker 1: the times I cannot believe I chose to jump into
Speaker 1: this car. Got You know what I'm saying, Here we are.
Speaker 1: But what are you gonna do? You know what I'm saying, like,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna admit it. You know, look, because if
Speaker 1: we survived this thing and then I tell this fool,
Speaker 1: like the fool's heard me say I was scared and
Speaker 1: I want to be here. Oh man, I'm done, you know,
Speaker 1: like you you can't you done? And then it's gonna
Speaker 1: get out if it gets out to everybody else the
Speaker 1: whole city here that you were scared when it was
Speaker 1: trying to throw hands like oh no, that's a you're done.
Speaker 1: What does this have to do with the mid term elections?
Speaker 1: I am trying to teach you all about the Republican Party. Listen,
Speaker 1: they haven't chose violence. They have chosen to stay dangerous.
Speaker 1: I know this because everything they whole platform y'all, and
Speaker 1: I don't know why it's not obvious to everybody. They
Speaker 1: platforms a culture war. Everything is a culture war. One
Speaker 1: would think that, you know, a global pandemic would end that. No,
Speaker 1: it's disrespectful. It's a culture war. You you you turn
Speaker 1: a vaccine into the fauci vaccine. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: A mask is in a on your on your freedoms,
Speaker 1: like it's a culture All things are disrespectful. It's a
Speaker 1: I don't chose violence. Let me tell you how I
Speaker 1: know that. I noticed, y'all know a few weeks ago
Speaker 1: Margie Taylor Green finally got kicked off of Twitter and
Speaker 1: that this was her fifth offense. Right where you get
Speaker 1: the warning, you get the shadow band, you get the like,
Speaker 1: you know, suspension for a few days. Finally they're like,
Speaker 1: all right, nigga, you gotta go. She has chosen her path.
Speaker 1: The path is violence, my nigga. You I'm gonna keep
Speaker 1: telling you some ship that we know is verifiably false
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep putting this up here because nigga, I'm dangerous.
Speaker 1: I don't chose it's a war, homie. This is what
Speaker 1: we're doing. You know, I'm not here for no logic.
Speaker 1: Now we I chose violence. I'm dangerous. Don't come at me.
Speaker 1: This is what we're doing. You're coming at you. If
Speaker 1: you listen, listen, you're gonna try to primary me big
Speaker 1: home he listen, I'm burning the ground. I chose by
Speaker 1: all things or everything's a war. There were some statistics about, uh,
Speaker 1: how Trump was like gaining ground with some like inner
Speaker 1: City black Man. It is because they get it, they understand,
Speaker 1: they know what they're looking at. They're like, oh, that
Speaker 1: nig is a gangster. You know what I'm saying, Like,
Speaker 1: it's it's that because it's like everything is disrespectful. It's
Speaker 1: all the war. I take on all challenges. I accept
Speaker 1: all fades, even if even if it don't make sense,
Speaker 1: it don't matter. I accept all fades. And that's kind
Speaker 1: of like look a look y'all. See Trump get booed
Speaker 1: when he talked about the fact that he has been
Speaker 1: vaccinated and got his booster a bull that nigg but
Speaker 1: he looked like, I mean, y'all, look, I don't care.
Speaker 1: I do what I do. Hey, hey, look y'all store
Speaker 1: in the capitol for me. At least that's the way
Speaker 1: his his in his brain. I mean, like, I think
Speaker 1: they feel like it's bigger than him. They booed him
Speaker 1: over that up, but he like, listen, if I run,
Speaker 1: y'all gonna vote for me, because you know what the
Speaker 1: alternative is. He got Republicans, all these Republicans under him
Speaker 1: lining up behind whatever he said he's gonna do. Because
Speaker 1: I think it's a gangster like. He's still run, yo,
Speaker 1: And that's why they get there. Like, I get that.
Speaker 1: I understand that. Whether whether they agree with his politics
Speaker 1: or not, they like but that I recognize I'll do
Speaker 1: what I say I'm gonna do. You're gonna follow me
Speaker 1: because I'm dangerous. I'm I'm I'm ready for the war
Speaker 1: at all times. I take all fades. Right. Somebody worried
Speaker 1: about y'all bulling him, ain't worried about that at all.
Speaker 1: Everything's a war. Everything is a cultural war. You know
Speaker 1: how I know because as I'm recording this, there was
Speaker 1: count them two Republicans that showed up at the January six,
Speaker 1: memorial thing the capital. Two of them. Let me tell
Speaker 1: you why is because this wasn't an attack on democracy.
Speaker 1: In their minds, this has become an issue of respect.
Speaker 1: What they look like showing up of funeral of like
Speaker 1: a rivalhood. What I look like showing up today memorial?
Speaker 1: Why would I? Why would I go to that when
Speaker 1: you were like, well, because it was a place that
Speaker 1: all we was all at and everybody got shot up at.
Speaker 1: Like well, nah, now we're tond online and I am
Speaker 1: positive you're telling me. Out of two hundred or so Republicans,
Speaker 1: all of them are about it like that. Now there's
Speaker 1: some hood business going on. There's people behind the scenes
Speaker 1: that are like, look, this is madness. They tried to
Speaker 1: kill us all this man Trump is crazy. He got
Speaker 1: a death grip, but he got a death grip on earth.
Speaker 1: I mean what I'm gonna say. They're going with they
Speaker 1: they remember you go with the Boss going to set.
Speaker 1: They was like, well, look the boss still hold the set.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to say. I don't know how
Speaker 1: you doing it, but he's doing it. And they're like nah.
Speaker 1: They they they're scared. They're scared that if they actually
Speaker 1: say something it's even worse for him. That's why they're
Speaker 1: not saying nothing. That's why you're not showing he can't
Speaker 1: show up even though you think that like this is stupid.
Speaker 1: Look of course, I mean like dog like we almost
Speaker 1: like you're kidding me, But they're like, nah, man, like
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna aren't gonna go to that, You're crazy.
Speaker 1: M hm. Why that seems absurd to us is because well,
Speaker 1: you know, we're civilians. We and we're not signed. We
Speaker 1: don't live by that code. That's the code, and you
Speaker 1: and it's and it's clear they chose violence. Everything is
Speaker 1: a culture ward h M. Now is that violence all theater?
Speaker 1: I don't know, because there is. According to an IPSOS poll,
Speaker 1: fewer than one half of Republicans actually accept the elections
Speaker 1: that think that the Joe Biden's election was legitimate. And
Speaker 1: so they still don't believe that. They actually believe, despite
Speaker 1: any evidence otherwise, that yeah, that this election was stolen.
Speaker 1: It's not he's not a legitimate president. So if you
Speaker 1: really actually truly believe that your only choices violence, then
Speaker 1: everything after this, everything after that point is fair game
Speaker 1: is continual disrespect. I mean, that's why you now of course,
Speaker 1: there are those that know that this is theater and
Speaker 1: are like, I'm just gonna play the game. There are
Speaker 1: those that actually buy in, But the point is anything
Speaker 1: after that is like, oh, we'd I mean, either way
Speaker 1: at war? You know. According to the same if so
Speaker 1: is pulled, two thirds of America agree that democracy is
Speaker 1: at risk, just for opposite reasons. One of us. One
Speaker 1: side believes that, uh, I mean somebody storming the Capitol
Speaker 1: to try to overturn a duly elected president and this
Speaker 1: is crazy, right. Others believe that, like this election was
Speaker 1: legitimately stolen. I mean, if this is what you think, y'all,
Speaker 1: I mean, how else you're gonna solve it? They feel like, well,
Speaker 1: we tried to go the civil route. We tried it,
Speaker 1: and y'all cheated. I'm choosing violence now. That's that's That's
Speaker 1: what I mean, that's their choice. I everything is a
Speaker 1: culture war, all of it. Everything. That's why they talk
Speaker 1: about cancel culture all the time, and just you know,
Speaker 1: everything is a war no matter how reasonable or unreasonable
Speaker 1: it is. They've chosen to stay dangerous, don't come in
Speaker 1: our or Now, what do you expect in these mid
Speaker 1: term elections? I expect the Democrats gonna get their ass beat.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna get the shell lacking of their life.
Speaker 1: I think because one, they still haven't been able to
Speaker 1: tow the line the way that the Republicans have that
Speaker 1: they got everybody and check. I think that they still
Speaker 1: can't agree on what they want to do. The Democrats,
Speaker 1: I think that they're not shooters. At the end of
Speaker 1: the day, that has to answer. They're not shooters. Republicans
Speaker 1: are shooters. They may shoot all willy nilly, but their shooters.
Speaker 1: How do you deal with somebody that's a shooter? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I'm look, that's hood business.
Speaker 1: You have said, there's something that they want that this violence,
Speaker 1: this this disrespect. There is a way to satiate that disrespect.
Speaker 1: I think I talked about this before, Like there's times
Speaker 1: that when you're dealing with somebody super volatile and very dangerous,
Speaker 1: one thing you gotta do is just cut to like, Okay,
Speaker 1: what can we do what you need from me? O G? Yeah?
Speaker 1: And sometimes that work. Sometimes sometimes that other O G
Speaker 1: on the other side reads that as weakness, that like, oh,
Speaker 1: you're trying to reason, you don't want a war, you
Speaker 1: ain't prepare for a war. Okay, Oh we find offen
Speaker 1: a slay, y'all. There's something that read it like that,
Speaker 1: Others that be like, huh, this is what I need.
Speaker 1: You know I've said. And if there's a way you
Speaker 1: can go behind closed doors and get them what they need,
Speaker 1: that's a different story. You gotta suss that out. I
Speaker 1: don't know what do we as the constituents need to do.
Speaker 1: Remember that there are things that we just don't know
Speaker 1: that happened behind closed doors. On the other hand, there's
Speaker 1: who we choose to send the primaries. There's who are
Speaker 1: elected officials that we actually are behind, Like who who
Speaker 1: you know, Like, let's let's start calling their offices and saying, Yo,
Speaker 1: if this this and this goes down, I'll vote for you.
Speaker 1: I want you to be the guy. I want you
Speaker 1: to be the girl, but you're not, like you're not
Speaker 1: giving me something, yo. And sometimes look, sometimes even running
Speaker 1: for a position ain't really about winning. It's about being
Speaker 1: able to shift the conversation. It's about being able to
Speaker 1: put things in the air that says like you're you're
Speaker 1: creating demand for something. You know what I'm saying. It's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you may not ever win. That's like, ain't know when
Speaker 1: the world's gonna win. Like there was somebody I forget
Speaker 1: homeboy's name, who was the who's who is the millionaire?
Speaker 1: The billionaire I forget homey named that the billionaire that
Speaker 1: just signed up and started running commercials talking about Trump
Speaker 1: getting getting uh impeached and then ended up running like I.
Speaker 1: He was just there to change the narrative. There was
Speaker 1: another guy that was like, I literally got on the
Speaker 1: stage just to make sure that climate change was important
Speaker 1: in this ain't in the world you're gonna win. This's like,
Speaker 1: you know you're not gonna win. It's about shifting the narrative. Right,
Speaker 1: So there's there's a part of like running for for
Speaker 1: midterms and elections that's really just about that. But if
Speaker 1: you're waiting for some sort of like levelheaded logical, you know,
Speaker 1: merit based discussion on what we want to do and
Speaker 1: to be as a nation, I don't know where you've
Speaker 1: been for the past ten years. We've we chose violence, y'all.
Speaker 1: The Republicans have decided they're gonna stay dangerous. Hord politics,
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