WEBVTT - Keep Your Pardon -- Run Us Our Checks! 0:00:07.560 --> 0:00:11.320 You're listening to Waiting on Reparations production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.239 Welcome to another episode coming to you. A lot to 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:20.239 take from the land of the episode set, some of 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:22.720 my best lines taking into the headlines. Keep them with 0:00:22.760 --> 0:00:24.640 the best. Try straights in the record farm because I 0:00:24.720 --> 0:00:26.760 came to play some chest. It's nigga sticking to check 0:00:26.800 --> 0:00:29.560 the foar sticking time or Topple went into a megaphone. 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.360 But maybe I can check my reper president little heads 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.320 of dest But I'm watching to see the set of 0:00:34.760 --> 0:00:37.320 the rest of them. Told rappers get their chest exposed. 0:00:37.400 --> 0:00:39.400 I don't fold. I just break the mold. Homie. You 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:41.120 can do what you were told how to funk? They 0:00:41.200 --> 0:00:43.879 let Tom Brady we're super Bowl? What the hell according 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.280 people be on some new ship? Bernie the book alook, 0:00:46.360 --> 0:00:48.440 But the funk? Are they stupid to make a few 0:00:48.520 --> 0:00:50.760 cents to people with true grift and get you upon 0:00:50.840 --> 0:00:58.760 their Patreon Give him a few cents for that dope 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:02.920 knife I'm leaving for and we are waiting on reparations. 0:01:03.840 --> 0:01:08.039 So Mac, how you've been feeling in the aftermath of 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:14.479 the transition presidentially this past week? To be honest, I've 0:01:14.480 --> 0:01:18.120 been trying my hardest not to like pay attention to 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.600 politics for a good amount of time, but I mean, 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.800 I can it's unsuccessful obviously. I just I can't help. 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:26.360 I can't imagine how you would do that. I don't 0:01:26.360 --> 0:01:28.120 I don't even not even like as a person in 0:01:28.120 --> 0:01:30.199 the twenty one century, but like you as a person. 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:32.920 I don't want to describe it as like it's it's 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:35.760 like a train wreck that you can't look away from, 0:01:35.800 --> 0:01:38.560 because that's not necessarily the case, but there is just 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:43.160 it's like the fucking most interesting show on television at 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.600 this point. You know, I just keep finding myself going 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:48.840 back and wanting to see what's going on this season 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.760 and feeling like a missing stuff each day that I 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.160 I whatever, a day goes by that I don't watch 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:58.000 the news, but I mean, I don't know. It's it's 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.880 it's a weird, funky feeling. It's like a mixture of 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:05.960 being relieved and that kind of you know, gives a 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:10.520 dash of optimism, and then it's a bit of an 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:12.839 up and down thing. You know. One day I hear 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:15.400 something that Biden's doing that I dig, and then another 0:02:15.520 --> 0:02:17.520 day I hear something that Democrats are doing that I 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:19.880 don't dig, And the next day I hear something Biden's doing. 0:02:19.919 --> 0:02:22.320 Then I don't dig, and then the next day, Oh, 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.160 it seems like your Chuck Shooter has got a spine, 0:02:25.200 --> 0:02:27.000 you know what I mean. It's it's it's going off 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:30.080 and on. I think that's really getting to me, is 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:32.680 that you're not hearing really about what Trump's up to, 0:02:32.800 --> 0:02:37.160 and it's making me really nervous, Like I'm scared, like 0:02:37.360 --> 0:02:41.120 that he's like secretly meeting with the Proud Boys or 0:02:41.360 --> 0:02:45.120 like I don't know, like there's something like, you know, 0:02:45.200 --> 0:02:47.000 I would prefer to know what my enemies are up 0:02:47.000 --> 0:02:50.000 to at all times. Maybe that's just me to like 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:51.760 keep an eye on them, Like, Okay, I can see, 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.640 like you know, if you if you're in the woods, 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:56.640 you like hear footsteps behind you, You're like, well, what's that? 0:02:56.720 --> 0:02:58.560 But like if you really see the bear, you're like, 0:02:58.600 --> 0:03:00.920 all right, I know where the bear is. If I 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:02.600 want to run from the bear, I know what direction 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:05.680 to run away from. But if you're just like don't 0:03:05.760 --> 0:03:09.560 there's there's just no sign of life. You don't know 0:03:09.639 --> 0:03:12.400 what direction the enemy could be coming from. That's how 0:03:12.440 --> 0:03:15.760 I feel with like Trump somewhat out of the news, 0:03:15.840 --> 0:03:19.079 not like tweeting every day or like doing some function 0:03:20.520 --> 0:03:23.440 power to like destroy all of our lives with I 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.240 think that with what we're talking about today is actually 0:03:26.800 --> 0:03:30.400 gonna be a little bit of a uh justification or 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:33.639 your fears a little bit, because we're gonna be talking 0:03:33.800 --> 0:03:37.360 about these pardons that Trump did on his way out, 0:03:37.960 --> 0:03:40.920 and just you know, when listeners, when you'll hear us 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:42.640 talking about it. I mean a lot of this stuff, 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.040 you guys have have been heard about this, but I 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:48.840 mean when you hear about the nature of it and 0:03:48.960 --> 0:03:51.280 just get like the full rundown of it. Some of 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:56.680 it is so like on its face corrupt that you 0:03:56.720 --> 0:03:59.640 can only imagine what type of ship Trump is up 0:03:59.640 --> 0:04:02.680 to with out cameras all in his business right now. No, man, 0:04:02.800 --> 0:04:05.280 it freaks me out. I don't feel relieved. I do 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.920 feel a sense of like like I am surprised by 0:04:09.120 --> 0:04:12.720 like how little disappointment I feel so far about the 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:16.480 Biden administration. Like it's I don't know, I feel like 0:04:17.160 --> 0:04:22.240 it's kind of hard to be worse than the Trump administration. 0:04:22.560 --> 0:04:24.560 And it's like, you know, I kind of like shipped 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:27.680 on lips being like, oh, you know, it's gonna be 0:04:27.760 --> 0:04:29.880 back to normal podcast. I feel like getting punched in 0:04:29.880 --> 0:04:35.800 the face every day for like years, and then so 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:37.800 you get stopped getting punched in the face. You still 0:04:37.800 --> 0:04:40.920 need to see a doctor, like your jaw is broken 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.640 and you can't you're blinded, and like your nose needs reconstruction. 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:47.440 But like it feels good to just to not be 0:04:47.720 --> 0:04:50.719 punched in the face anymore. Well, I mean, as a 0:04:50.800 --> 0:04:56.320 result of that sort of relief, Biden is experiencing one 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:00.039 hell of a honeymoon period. I think he has a 0:05:00.200 --> 0:05:03.880 sixty two approval rating or something like that. Yeah, and 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:07.839 then like across the board, every single aspect of his 0:05:08.000 --> 0:05:12.559 COVID planning has a sixty plus you know, approval rating. 0:05:13.080 --> 0:05:18.039 So because the Trump administration was so horrible, you know, 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:21.560 Biden has got a little bit of extra political capital 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:25.719 that I think anybody really expected. So, you know, so far, 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:27.720 it seems like, you know, they're grabbing the bull by 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:30.599 the horns. They're taking it. They've got Bernie in there. 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:35.799 He's he's he's whispering ship and motherfucker's ear, you know, hopefully, 0:05:36.040 --> 0:05:37.880 I mean obviously, you know, no one wants to do, 0:05:38.040 --> 0:05:44.000 you know, fucking kid themselves and act like the Democrats 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.040 are about to get this ship right or whatever, but 0:05:46.279 --> 0:05:50.120 people are all are seperate, all about kidding themselves. Well, 0:05:50.160 --> 0:05:52.800 I mean, you know, I don't themselves right now. I 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:55.680 don't hate on anybody for being happy, especially if you live. 0:05:56.000 --> 0:05:58.120 If you're a lib y'all won you know what I'm 0:05:58.120 --> 0:06:01.440 saying across the board. So it's like I get it. 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:03.280 I'm not saying I agree with it, It's just I 0:06:03.320 --> 0:06:06.360 get it. You know. It's just important that people I 0:06:06.400 --> 0:06:09.839 think I think it's gonna come out in the years 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.279 that that past is, like, the more that they really 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:17.839 start looking into the things that went down in the 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:21.720 Trump administration, not just this tumultuous ship that's been going on, 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:25.120 you know, in the post election, but just throughout it, 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:27.880 I think we're gonna like get a clear picture of 0:06:28.080 --> 0:06:34.359 just how close we worked to the abyss, you know 0:06:34.360 --> 0:06:37.120 what I'm saying, on like every front. And I think 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:41.279 that will in turn extend, you know, the more that 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:45.520 the mainstream media you know, plays it up and keeps 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:47.919 that ship in the face of the American public, I 0:06:47.960 --> 0:06:51.520 think that will extend Joe Biden's honeymoon period. You know 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:54.120 what I'm saying. If every day you're hearing some horrible 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.880 ship about Like yo, y'all have no idea how close 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.360 we were to World War three, you know what I'm saying, 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.720 Like for real, real or like yo, the economy like 0:07:02.800 --> 0:07:06.039 almost crashed like twelve times and none of us knew 0:07:06.040 --> 0:07:08.440 because they were hiding the you know. You know. Well, 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.440 Today we're gonna talk about the last days of the 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:15.360 Trump presidency, notably the presidential pardons of a hundred forty 0:07:15.360 --> 0:07:18.520 three people, but chiefly among those since we are hip 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.720 hop show, those of Kodak Black and Little Wayne, talk 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:23.400 a little bit about what they've been up to since then. 0:07:23.760 --> 0:07:27.080 We're also going to get into some new music, some 0:07:27.320 --> 0:07:29.960 new songs from Kodak Black and Little Wayne on their 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:34.440 you know postparton High Yeah, as well as new new 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:38.000 joint by Afro and Taller Quality. And we're gonna just 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:39.440 talk a little bit about the first days of the 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.760 Biden administration. Have we're feeling about how it's going in 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:44.240 a little more detail, looking at some of his executive 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:51.200 orders in this plus six hundred that's been going on. 0:07:51.240 --> 0:07:53.400 As Georgians, I well as a George and I have 0:07:53.440 --> 0:07:56.160 a lot to say. We'll be with that right after 0:07:56.160 --> 0:08:07.560 the job. All right, So before we get into all 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.000 of this yammering that we're about to do, why don't we, 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:13.680 you know, started off with some additional yamer and what 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:17.680 don't you tell them what exactly is a presidential party. 0:08:17.800 --> 0:08:21.640 Let's end them a little bit of public policy, you know. So, um, 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.720 federal pardon is an action that can be taken by 0:08:24.720 --> 0:08:28.400 the President of United States that completely sets aside punishment 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:32.280 for federal crime. It's grammed by Article two, section to 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:36.199 Clause one of the U. S. Constitution, and it's one 0:08:36.360 --> 0:08:39.600 form of clemency power of the president has. So you know, 0:08:39.679 --> 0:08:44.520 you can also commuter sentence, you can remiss a fine 0:08:44.640 --> 0:08:49.199 or you know, restitution for a crime, or grant reprieve. 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:52.560 And actually it's interesting a person may also decide not 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:56.080 to accept a pardon, in which case it doesn't take effectum. 0:08:56.160 --> 0:09:01.040 According to Supreme Courtmatory opinion and verdict versus United States Um, 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:05.760 a pardon carries an imputation of guilt and acceptance acceptance 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:07.880 of a confession of it. So, I mean, if you 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:11.360 are pardoned, you are innocent of the crime. It's not 0:09:11.440 --> 0:09:14.120 simply that your punishment for the crime is no longer 0:09:14.760 --> 0:09:19.000 um carried out. Under the Constitution, the president's clemency power 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:23.120 extends to all federal criminal offenses and except cases of impeachment. 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:26.840 Interesting good to know. You know, you might have heard 0:09:26.880 --> 0:09:30.360 this before. With the whole thing with Trump is so 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:33.559 he can't do anything when it comes to state crimes. 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:37.079 So if you're somebody who's been pardoned and you've done 0:09:37.080 --> 0:09:39.800 a bunch of stuff that's illegal in the state of Nebraska, 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:42.880 and Nebraska can still come after your ass even though federally. 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:47.640 Is that also why like never mind, I don't know 0:09:47.760 --> 0:09:50.120 what I was gonna talk about the fact that like, oh, 0:09:50.160 --> 0:09:53.120 they wouldn't prosecute him for anything while he was president, 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:57.839 but like meanwhile, like ye know, it was like you know, 0:09:58.880 --> 0:10:02.040 we're piling up cases. Oh yeah, New York is going 0:10:02.080 --> 0:10:04.080 after that. Aside, like you were saying that you were 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.240 worried about what he's up to, don't worry. Part of 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:08.959 it is that he's off doing some evil planning. But 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:11.600 there's another good chunk of the reason you haven't heard 0:10:11.600 --> 0:10:13.640 from him is because his lawyers are telling them to 0:10:13.679 --> 0:10:18.079 keep his mouth shut because there are cases, there's civil 0:10:18.360 --> 0:10:21.440 and state cases that are being built up right now 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:25.160 out the ass. So when Trump is not going to 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:26.960 be out of the news, Like I was thinking this 0:10:27.000 --> 0:10:29.200 the other day because I was like, you know, seeing 0:10:29.240 --> 0:10:31.720 a bunch of thumbnails on YouTube that had him, and 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:33.920 I was like, man, why the funk are people still 0:10:33.960 --> 0:10:36.480 talking about Trump every day and he's not the president? 0:10:36.559 --> 0:10:39.280 And then it was like, oh, wait, I've never in 0:10:39.360 --> 0:10:43.800 my lifetime seeing a former president that committed this many 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:49.040 crimes leave office. You know what I'm saying, He's gonna 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.120 be in the news for the next four years. People 0:10:51.120 --> 0:10:53.080 just need to get used to that. And that's not 0:10:53.240 --> 0:10:57.040 necessarily the media trying to keep him in your face. 0:10:57.160 --> 0:11:01.200 Like I mean, a president how been like fifty cases 0:11:01.280 --> 0:11:03.120 is a big deal you you would want them to 0:11:03.160 --> 0:11:06.200 report on that ship. Yeah, So the full extent of 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:09.200 the president's power to pardon, it's something that's actually not 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:13.760 been fully resolved. Pardons have been used for presumptive cases 0:11:13.800 --> 0:11:16.839 of crime. So like, for example, when President Gerald Ford 0:11:17.000 --> 0:11:20.080 pardon Richard Nixon, who hadn't been charged with anything but 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:25.000 just in case he did some crimes connected with Watergate, um. 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:28.880 But the Supreme Court is never um considered legal effectiveness 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:33.640 of such pardons, and it's send disagreement about how um 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.839 pardon power applies in cases involving obstruction of an impeachment. 0:11:38.400 --> 0:11:41.520 So again, the peature is sort of like sort of 0:11:41.520 --> 0:11:44.680 off limits territory, and we're not really sure in the theory, 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.920 like all of this ship is in theory um. And 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:51.719 then the ability for a president to pardon themselves has 0:11:51.760 --> 0:11:55.000 never been tested in the courts because the president has 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:59.000 ever tried. I'm frankly surprised that part Trump didn't just 0:11:59.120 --> 0:12:03.000 like I pardoned myself for anything, even though like we 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:05.720 start talking about with like the state of New York, 0:12:06.000 --> 0:12:08.520 like they're the states are coming from. Even if he 0:12:08.559 --> 0:12:12.240 were to federally to part himself of any federal crimes, 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:14.959 but I have a sense that it wouldn't work. I 0:12:15.200 --> 0:12:18.040 have a sense that if if the people who are 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.439 advising him legally really thought that it could help hold up, 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:23.520 given that it's never been tested, I think he would 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:27.160 have done it. Yeah. There's also a speculation of whether 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:34.480 secret pardons are possible, and Trump's former concierly Michael Cohen 0:12:34.600 --> 0:12:38.120 his his raised this specter as well. He says he 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:41.600 thinks that Trump probably has attempted to do a bunch 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:45.200 of secret pardons. Now, Um, that man don't know how 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.280 to keep a secret for his life, So I doubt 0:12:47.320 --> 0:12:52.240 that I'm gonna do shady, unethical things and everybody to know. 0:12:52.840 --> 0:12:54.640 Like we've been saying. One of the features of the 0:12:54.760 --> 0:12:57.840 four unfortunate years of Trump's presidency has been the series 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:02.440 of unethical pardons out the gate of the game, starting 0:13:02.480 --> 0:13:06.040 with the corrupt racist Arizona Sheriff Joe R. Pio in 0:13:06.200 --> 0:13:09.600 year one. Now. Poio had been accused of numerous types 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:13.920 of police misconduct, including abuse of power, misuse of funds, 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:19.120 failure to investigate sex crimes, criminal negligence, abuse of suspects 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:24.480 and custody, improper clearances of cases, unlawful enforcement of immigration laws, 0:13:24.480 --> 0:13:27.760 and election law violations, all on a sesame seed. But 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.440 it's like a caricature of a police of like what 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.640 you think like a sheriff is he's like literally causing 0:13:33.720 --> 0:13:38.720 all the crimes, the number one crime doer of like 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:41.520 the thing I got Batman after him and shipped with 0:13:41.559 --> 0:13:46.439 this fucking rapture for real. Um yeah, so that was 0:13:46.520 --> 0:13:49.160 week one, Yeah, But on the way out a week ago, 0:13:49.320 --> 0:13:52.160 Trump put up a dizzying list of last second part 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:56.160 in hundred forty three if I'm not mistaken, which had 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.400 added which added to the dozens he had handed out 0:13:58.440 --> 0:14:02.840 weeks before. Now, to be fair, there are a number 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:06.600 of names, um, people within this list that legitimately should 0:14:06.679 --> 0:14:08.679 no longer be in prison or shouldn't have been there 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:13.040 to begin with. Um. And you know, pulled a couple 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.720 of cases here, like Lynn Barney, who was sending thirty 0:14:16.800 --> 0:14:19.880 five months in prison for possessing a firearm as a 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.920 previously convicted fat fell in after having been convicted for 0:14:22.960 --> 0:14:26.240 distributing a small amount of marijuana. According to the White House, 0:14:26.520 --> 0:14:29.800 so like out of gun had committed a crime. Beflore 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:34.320 toldom Lane doesn't sound that bad to me personally. There's 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:38.080 also David Baron. Trump commuted the sentence of David Baron, 0:14:38.160 --> 0:14:40.960 who was sentenced to life in prison in addition to 0:14:41.080 --> 0:14:45.840 twenty years for drug conspiracy charges. In two thousand seventeen, 0:14:45.880 --> 0:14:49.040 President Barack Obama commuted his life term to a thirty 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.520 year sentence. Was in that bipartisanship. The White House said 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:56.160 Baron is a father of six children and has maintained 0:14:56.160 --> 0:15:00.120 an exemplary prison record. Petition advocating for further clemency for 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:04.360 Baron's release has garnered nearly twenty thousand signatures. And then 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:10.200 there's Christina Boneen Camp, whose sentenced Trump commuted um after 0:15:10.240 --> 0:15:12.200 she served more than ten years of a twenty four 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:15.680 year sentence for a non violent drug offense. I mean, 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:22.160 I mean okay. And so it's stuff like this that 0:15:22.280 --> 0:15:26.000 to me makes sense of things like the pro Trump 0:15:26.000 --> 0:15:29.480 politics of Angelistan King. Like I don't know if you'll 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.880 know about her, but stan King was convicted on a 0:15:31.920 --> 0:15:35.200 federal conspiracy charge for her participation in a car theft 0:15:35.320 --> 0:15:38.480 ring served two the years in prison, during which time 0:15:38.520 --> 0:15:42.840 she gave birth to her daughter. February last year, Trump 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:46.720 granted Stanton Clinging clemency, and she appeared at the White 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:49.920 House afterward as part of a roundtable discussion in African 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.880 American history for you know, African American History month. Who 0:15:53.960 --> 0:15:59.360 calls it? Then? Oh god, okay around dad was discussion 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.480 about history a month um. And then she went on 0:16:02.560 --> 0:16:07.800 to make appearances the Drum campaign and numerous black voices 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.920 for Trump events and and this is the this is 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:13.720 the real kicker. She also went on to run as 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:18.480 a Republican against then incumbent John Lewis for Georgia's fifth 0:16:18.480 --> 0:16:21.360 congressional district seat, and later that year went up against 0:16:21.640 --> 0:16:25.480 Lewis's appointed successor candidate Nikima Williams after his passing. Now 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.400 she got fourteen percent of the vote. She supports Q 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:32.080 and on and she's anti LGBTQ. She generally sucks. But 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.480 she supported the right to vote for anyone released at 0:16:35.880 --> 0:16:39.160 who had a felony conviction that after they get released 0:16:39.160 --> 0:16:42.840 for JAM restored restoration of the voting rights, and as well, 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.240 she supported the First Step Act, which outlawed the handcuffing 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.200 of whim and during childbirth, which you know, she herself 0:16:50.000 --> 0:16:52.080 claims to have experienced when she was in prison two 0:16:52.080 --> 0:16:55.680 thousand four. She was shackled while giving birth and described 0:16:55.720 --> 0:16:58.760 her daughter being snatched from her arms twenty four hours later. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:01.760 So like, Okay, I'm not trying to give Trump any 0:17:01.800 --> 0:17:06.679 credit here whatsoever because obviously, but I think this is 0:17:06.720 --> 0:17:09.959 just like an interesting pattern and trajectory and wonder if 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:13.680 we're on the left or like overlooking ship that could 0:17:13.680 --> 0:17:18.760 be argued as like materially good that people that draw 0:17:18.840 --> 0:17:22.320 people to the far right, like you know, fucking letting 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:26.520 you know, this lady had a baby in jail and he, 0:17:26.920 --> 0:17:30.280 you know, offered her clemency and she was like, Yo, 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:33.640 that's dope. Hell yeah, I'm a Trump Republican now black 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:37.040 voices for Trump. What's up? And like, you know, I mean, 0:17:37.080 --> 0:17:38.600 I get and I hear what you're saying, and I 0:17:38.640 --> 0:17:41.280 get it. You know, when when you're somebody, when somebody 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:43.320 gives you a chance in a world where nobody gives 0:17:43.320 --> 0:17:46.000 you a chance, you're gonna funk with them. And so 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.159 I just like worry, I guess more so, I'm just 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:53.320 like worry about things like this. Well no, I mean, 0:17:53.400 --> 0:17:55.720 and that's at the end of the day, that's why 0:17:55.720 --> 0:18:00.560 they do it. And that's why it's like usually always 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:04.560 disingenuous coming from conservatives in my opinion, just because it's 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.760 like I mean, they're definitely are quick to do things 0:18:07.920 --> 0:18:11.960 for like an individual somebody that they know or somebody 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:15.920 that they have a relationship with, but they they don't 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:19.359 think too much in terms of like people in doing 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:21.960 things for the benefit of people, you know what I'm saying. 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:26.120 I always hate going here, but like I personally know 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:31.840 women in from Liberia who escaped the Liberian Civil War 0:18:32.000 --> 0:18:34.720 who have had a lot worse done to them. That 0:18:34.840 --> 0:18:39.800 don't believe in Q and on. So I'm just saying, 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:43.480 it's not if everybody who was in a difficult situation. 0:18:44.280 --> 0:18:47.560 And again, just to add to what you're the point 0:18:47.560 --> 0:18:50.520 that you're making is like you gotta give credit where 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:52.280 credit to do. You know what I'm saying. You can't 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:56.840 just boo who every single thing just because you don't 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:01.439 like Trump. So you know, there was some good that 0:19:01.520 --> 0:19:03.399 came out of these partners. There was a lot of 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:05.439 good depending on you know, how you want to look 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:09.520 at it. But despite these corrections to justice, so to speak, 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:14.359 there was a smorgess board of ghouls and goblins and 0:19:14.520 --> 0:19:17.639 fiends on this parting list. You ever, you've seen the 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.920 Michael Jackson thriller video, you remember the part when him 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:23.480 and the girl are walking to Vincent Prices talking and 0:19:23.520 --> 0:19:25.520 all the zombies are coming out of like the sewers 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:28.080 and the alleys and and and shipped and from under 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:30.960 the ground. That's how Washington was looking right now with 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.000 the fucking partons that Trump leaned out. I mean, you 0:19:34.119 --> 0:19:42.800 have literal war criminals, mass murderers, seven corrupt Republican congressmen 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:46.080 who were convicted of crimes, including Chris Collins, who was 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:49.760 videotaped doing insider trading at the White House, and then 0:19:49.880 --> 0:19:54.879 Duncan Hunter, Duncan Hunter who spent campaign funds on his 0:19:55.240 --> 0:20:00.960 multiple side chicks and more and more, and with everything 0:20:01.040 --> 0:20:05.160 in trump Land. Uh, you know, Mariah kind of alluded 0:20:05.200 --> 0:20:11.040 to it earlier. You've got to treat these pardons like 0:20:11.119 --> 0:20:15.360 they're a serious like they're serious legal documents. And Trump 0:20:15.440 --> 0:20:19.359 Land is known for its incompetencies. So some of the 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:22.600 wording on some of these pardons has apparently been so 0:20:22.640 --> 0:20:27.160 sloppy that it doesn't necessarily leave everybody off of the hook, 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:30.560 and some people might be open to, uh, further prosecution 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:35.280 down the line. Kimberly Well, who's a University of Baltimore 0:20:35.359 --> 0:20:41.200 law professors, told Business Insider, it says speaking about the pardons, 0:20:41.560 --> 0:20:47.480 it says for his convictions, and that's it when referencing, uh, 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:51.000 someone like Paul Manafort. And that's different from what Richard 0:20:51.080 --> 0:20:55.960 Nixon wrote in his which actually had in quotes all 0:20:56.080 --> 0:21:01.560 conceivable crimes instead of just for his convictions. So yeah, wait, 0:21:03.280 --> 0:21:06.399 you're fucked up. Yeah, I mean, like if you're gonna 0:21:06.440 --> 0:21:09.440 if you're gonna sucking try to you know, strong arm 0:21:09.520 --> 0:21:11.399 the office, then you might as well go all the 0:21:11.440 --> 0:21:14.600 way with it. What the hell is this for his convictions? Bullshit? 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:17.360 If you're gonna be like a fucking criminal, master criminal, 0:21:17.440 --> 0:21:20.200 you want to have a little bit more imagination than that. 0:21:20.280 --> 0:21:23.520 But hopefully that is the case when some of these 0:21:23.840 --> 0:21:26.879 you know guys getting nailed, that would be so sweet, 0:21:28.040 --> 0:21:31.640 so sweet. Now what our eyes? You know? This being 0:21:31.640 --> 0:21:35.640 a hip hop show obviously is the pardons of Kodak 0:21:35.720 --> 0:21:38.959 Black and Lil Wayne. Yeah, the Krodak was in federal 0:21:39.000 --> 0:21:43.119 prison after pleading guilty to fire on its possession after 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:47.600 being detained at the Canadian American border. UM right around 0:21:47.600 --> 0:21:51.400 with the pandemic hit last year. UM. He still faced 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:54.320 his potential prison time after being indicted in a FELLO 0:21:54.640 --> 0:21:59.720 charge for first degree criminal sexual conduct or alleged lame 0:22:00.160 --> 0:22:03.520 forcing himself onto a woman in two thousand sixt So 0:22:04.080 --> 0:22:10.760 like like president, like pardoned. In a statement slash tweet, 0:22:10.880 --> 0:22:14.280 Kodak said, I want to thank for the President Donald 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:18.720 Trump for his commitment to justice reform and shortening my sentence. 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:21.920 I also want to thank everyone for their support and love. 0:22:22.280 --> 0:22:24.560 It means more than you will ever know. I want 0:22:24.600 --> 0:22:27.879 to continue giving back, learning, and growing, and could I 0:22:27.920 --> 0:22:31.480 just say that every word in this tweet is capitalized 0:22:31.640 --> 0:22:35.120 and ask like the listeners as well as Mac what 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:38.440 it is with like hip hop cats and like do 0:22:39.080 --> 0:22:41.440 you know what I'm talking about? It? Like you see 0:22:41.480 --> 0:22:45.560 mad people on the t L like I want to 0:22:45.880 --> 0:22:50.680 thank the president. I think it's because it looks. It 0:22:50.720 --> 0:22:53.439 looks good when you like look at it, when you 0:22:53.520 --> 0:22:57.600 like look at a paragraph like that where every word 0:22:57.800 --> 0:23:01.360 has a capitalization. I don't know. Maybe I'm just being 0:23:02.960 --> 0:23:05.800 they understands where this trend came from. It looks beautiful. 0:23:06.240 --> 0:23:12.440 Let us know. Enquiring minds are desperate for answers. It's 0:23:12.480 --> 0:23:14.520 a tweet, so who knows. Maybe it's some Twitter thing. 0:23:14.520 --> 0:23:16.600 I don't know about it. Your phone out of correct? 0:23:16.880 --> 0:23:19.359 I just I just got I just for years have 0:23:19.440 --> 0:23:22.240 been curious about something like new What's do you know? 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:27.240 How to? Anyway? Is it? Is it? Like? Is it 0:23:27.280 --> 0:23:29.399 out of bounds for me to say that that doesn't 0:23:29.440 --> 0:23:34.560 seem like Kodak wrote it? I mean I don't know that, man. No, 0:23:34.640 --> 0:23:36.760 I'm just saying, doesn't that seem like a PR thing? 0:23:36.920 --> 0:23:39.200 That's probably a publicist was like, yeah, I should probably 0:23:39.200 --> 0:23:42.199