Speaker 1: I've heard some cold things come out of a gangster's mouth.
Speaker 1: Some of those were just because that particular person is
Speaker 1: just soul was seared from the trauma of living in
Speaker 1: the war zone their whole life. But one of the
Speaker 1: coldest sayings you hear out of a gang member, at
Speaker 1: least in my mind, is the phrase, thus die daily.
Speaker 1: Things die every day. It sucks because it's true theis
Speaker 1: do die every day. But that is somebody's baby. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's somebody, that's somebody's like life cut short, somebody playing done.
Speaker 1: But the thing they're trying to communicate is that, like,
Speaker 1: it sucks, but it happens. And at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, the hood come first, the set last bosses
Speaker 1: come and go. Hood comes first, Hood politics, y'all comes first.
Speaker 1: So today we're in one of the this bizarro world
Speaker 1: which were already would have been a bizarre world because
Speaker 1: this is what they called the lame duck season. President
Speaker 1: as new president has been elected depending on who you ask,
Speaker 1: But we're gonna get into that um and the sitting
Speaker 1: president has a job to continue to govern. I mean
Speaker 1: you're supposed to um and try to like tie up
Speaker 1: some loose ends that would be if politics was not
Speaker 1: gang banging, it would be really that simple. Just tie
Speaker 1: up some loose ends, finish up your work. You know,
Speaker 1: you got projects you want to make sure, like are
Speaker 1: setting stone, you know, start cleaning up around the house
Speaker 1: because you gotta move out. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: handing over keys, you know, giving log in information, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, like what's the WiFi code? Just
Speaker 1: like you know, I mean it's you rented there. This
Speaker 1: is a rented spot. You feel me like you do
Speaker 1: your best with the with the with the thing, but
Speaker 1: you know y'all own this house. My make feel me
Speaker 1: like you just a charge for now house belonging to us.
Speaker 1: That would be if this wasn't gang banging. Since it's
Speaker 1: gang banging, you got some scores to settle. You feel
Speaker 1: me like you ain't supposed to just be sitting around.
Speaker 1: You understand what I'm saying, like you gotta make sure
Speaker 1: the people around you so that your legacy don't ever
Speaker 1: get wiped away. Because again, the hood comes first. They
Speaker 1: just died. Daily presidents come and go, elected officials come
Speaker 1: and go. I say all this to try to lay
Speaker 1: out for you the calculus that the GOP is working
Speaker 1: through right now. Some of y'all might be a little
Speaker 1: confused as you're watching what I would say, some in
Speaker 1: house beefing when you got like to crip hohoods fighting
Speaker 1: against each other like sixties and eight trades, Like, uh,
Speaker 1: I know that's that's a deep cut. But you know,
Speaker 1: if if you know your hip hop, follow me like this,
Speaker 1: Uh Nipsey Hustle was a was a ruling sixty crip
Speaker 1: and school Boy Q was an eight tray crip. You
Speaker 1: know they I mean they right around the corner from
Speaker 1: each other, but they never really got along. There's a
Speaker 1: whole video with Monster Cody, who was another like O
Speaker 1: g uh L a gangster, kind of explains where it started.
Speaker 1: It started over a party. It was stupid, but either way,
Speaker 1: they've been beefing for decades. But they're both crips, right,
Speaker 1: so if we were gonna look at look inside were
Speaker 1: blood of kins over there and sort of see really
Speaker 1: what's going on in their house. It's the calculus I
Speaker 1: was trying to tell y'all um last week, where you
Speaker 1: have to decide either you're gonna go down with this
Speaker 1: boss right or you're gonna set yourself up for the
Speaker 1: next guy that's gonna take charge, because the Republican Party
Speaker 1: gonna last. I mean, Trump has moved it in a
Speaker 1: lot of ways. I think he's caused an identity crisis,
Speaker 1: but the party lasts. The Party's gonna outlast any other
Speaker 1: person that's sat on top of it. So you gotta
Speaker 1: make your calculus you're gonna I mean, are we are
Speaker 1: we playing a long game here, We're playing a short
Speaker 1: game here. So we're in a situation where this man
Speaker 1: is convinced um or at least he's publicly convinced. I
Speaker 1: have my doubts about what's happening inside the White House itself,
Speaker 1: because I know gangsters. Now, who knows what's gonna happen
Speaker 1: between the day I'll record this and the day it
Speaker 1: comes out. So this is Friday the thirteenth that I'm recording.
Speaker 1: As of today, Trump is still saying this race ain't over,
Speaker 1: and he's pushing I'm sorry, y'all, but it's just it's
Speaker 1: these are the facts. He's pushing verifiably false statements right
Speaker 1: about the legitimacy of this election. I know because his
Speaker 1: own department at Homeland Security, his his old his own
Speaker 1: administration is like, look, put some respect on our name.
Speaker 1: We did our job. This the most secure election we'd
Speaker 1: never had. We remember two thousand and sixteen. We remember
Speaker 1: when the Russians told us like like we was chumps.
Speaker 1: You feel me, Like, we remember all that, So look
Speaker 1: respect on our name. We we did our part. You know. Now,
Speaker 1: if you won't recount, you got the right to do that.
Speaker 1: But my name get Look we did our role. Don't
Speaker 1: don't you put that on me? Ricky, Bobby, what the
Speaker 1: what the Department is saying? But the question comes if
Speaker 1: you're an elected official, like if you're a senator, you're
Speaker 1: down battle it. You're looking at this election and you're
Speaker 1: seeing what I'm trying to tell y'all, which is the
Speaker 1: hood comes first. Because what these ballots are showing me
Speaker 1: is that the people chose to set over the boss.
Speaker 1: How do I know that? It's because the Congress didn't flip.
Speaker 1: That means that people had mixed ballots. They voted blue
Speaker 1: here and read there. They said to themselves, look, we
Speaker 1: still believe in small government. So I want this senator,
Speaker 1: I want this legislator, I want this governor, I want
Speaker 1: these laws. But I'm cool on this Nick. They chose
Speaker 1: the hood over the boss, and I have no choice
Speaker 1: but to respect that. I respect it. So if you
Speaker 1: down ballot, you gotta do this calculus. You gotta say, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's not like this boss, this Trump guy don't have
Speaker 1: a legion of fans who are willing to go down
Speaker 1: in the in the ship with him. You also gotta
Speaker 1: be bugging because you know, like he actually could pull
Speaker 1: off winning. Are they staging a coup? Well, now you
Speaker 1: can't really call it the coup because the army is
Speaker 1: not involved, because that's kind of like you need you
Speaker 1: need the military for something to be a coup. I
Speaker 1: don't think it's that, but yeah. I also, now let
Speaker 1: me say this, there is a legal way for old
Speaker 1: Trumpet to state president. You just it's pretty convoluted, but
Speaker 1: and quite a long shot. But essentially, you'd have to
Speaker 1: sew enough disbelief into our last election into the election
Speaker 1: enough to get the courts to say and you gotta
Speaker 1: throw out audise like electoral votes because you just can't
Speaker 1: trust it. You can't trust it, and then make the
Speaker 1: states select new electors, right because remember, electoral college is
Speaker 1: like there, dudes, they're just dudes that the state chooses.
Speaker 1: It's you get. You take the amount of senators and
Speaker 1: the amount of just basically the yeah, the amount of
Speaker 1: senators and representatives you have in a state, you add
Speaker 1: them together, and that's how many electors the state gets there.
Speaker 1: So they're just dudes. The president could pressure states to
Speaker 1: select new electors and then those guys can basically pick
Speaker 1: whoever they want, and then it's very possible that that
Speaker 1: one state sends two different choices like went red and blue.
Speaker 1: And then it's up to the Congress to figure out
Speaker 1: which one of those electoral votes that you believe or
Speaker 1: listen to. And the person who get to decide that
Speaker 1: is the person that presides over the Congress, which is
Speaker 1: the Vice president Mike Pence gets to pick which elected
Speaker 1: to listen to. So there's a way, but it's a
Speaker 1: long shot. But there is life after him. So you
Speaker 1: have to do this calculus to say, I'm not necessarily
Speaker 1: scared of Trump, but I'm scared of his followers. I'm
Speaker 1: scared of losing the neighborhood. I can't have a neighborhood
Speaker 1: flip on me if I just start talking reckless about
Speaker 1: their favorite dude. Because again, if you know how Senate works.
Speaker 1: Their terms are six years. President's terms only four. You're
Speaker 1: gonna outlast him anyway. I still gotta work with these people.
Speaker 1: So you gotta figure out the calculus. How do I say,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go down with this fool, because I
Speaker 1: know the hood comes first, the hood gonna lasts forever.
Speaker 1: At the same time, I can't turn the neighborhood against me.
Speaker 1: Now when I say the hood, like, this is what
Speaker 1: I'm trying to understand what I mean hood and neighborhood.
Speaker 1: When I say the neighborhood, I'm talking about the people
Speaker 1: that live in the neighborhood. When I talk about the hood,
Speaker 1: that's just it's a shorthand for the gang. That makes
Speaker 1: sense the name of the gang. But the neighborhood is
Speaker 1: the people that are in it. So when you're saying, look,
Speaker 1: I can't have the neighborhood turn against me. You can't
Speaker 1: have the literal people inside the houses say you're not
Speaker 1: allowed to slang on this corner no more. You can't
Speaker 1: have that happen. If they chose that they like this dude,
Speaker 1: they ain't gonna rock with you, and you can't. You
Speaker 1: can't set up your activities, you feel me. So you
Speaker 1: have to make sure that you don't lose the support
Speaker 1: of the neighborhood. But at the same time, you can't
Speaker 1: torpedo on your future by going down with somebody that
Speaker 1: inevitably is going down. It's calculus, and it's a hard calculus,
Speaker 1: and I think we're watching it play out on screen.
Speaker 1: Now that's the calculus from the Mactro perspective. The hood
Speaker 1: comes first. Now the calculus that if I'm using my
Speaker 1: gangster intentders are happening inside the White House. I think
Speaker 1: there's a couple of things going down. If I understand
Speaker 1: how my bosses work, they don't losing its fine. Quitting
Speaker 1: is not getting your ass beat. That's not that's not acceptable.
Speaker 1: If you go out, you go out in the blaze
Speaker 1: of glory. You feel me. You you you go out,
Speaker 1: you go out like like Escobar. You understand what I'm saying, Like, no,
Speaker 1: you gotta come in here and get me. That's that's
Speaker 1: the way gangsters go down. You know, you have to break,
Speaker 1: if you, and then it's like you earned it, if you,
Speaker 1: if you, I gave I sent you my best, my
Speaker 1: hardest warriors. We shot it up and shot as hard
Speaker 1: as we could, and you got the best of me. Well,
Speaker 1: damn you earned it. I'm not gonna just walk into
Speaker 1: your hands. You're tripping with bosses work right, But they
Speaker 1: also understand again, you gotta set up for the future
Speaker 1: if you if you want to live through this thing again,
Speaker 1: you can't go out like no punk, right, So you
Speaker 1: have to have an exit strategy. Trump's extra strategy is, well,
Speaker 1: they cheated. I would have won if y'all ain't cheat.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know that's a strategy because that's what
Speaker 1: he's still saying about the popular vote. Four years ago,
Speaker 1: y'all brought in illegals and dead people to vote. I
Speaker 1: won the electoral College. I would have been a popular
Speaker 1: vote if y'all ain't have all these illegals vote. Y'all
Speaker 1: don't remember Trump saying that, which is crazy because he
Speaker 1: lost by two million more votes this time, which means
Speaker 1: that his his immigration policy still allowed, according to his logic,
Speaker 1: two million mo illegals to come vote against him. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, you gotta watch your words, big fellas. So
Speaker 1: the strategy is you got to create it out because
Speaker 1: you can't. You can't kill the storyline. I'm gonna set
Speaker 1: up shops somewhere else. If I got my ass beat
Speaker 1: in my last hood, you can't set up shop nowhere.
Speaker 1: What's the shop he's setting up? Well, some of them
Speaker 1: saying he's setting up to run in. Some of them
Speaker 1: saying he's setting up for his kids to run. Some
Speaker 1: of I'm saying, which is the one that I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: is like, Oh, it's business. I'm gonna live down in
Speaker 1: mar Lago. I'm done with New York because I got
Speaker 1: a pending case in New York. Y'all think we forgot this.
Speaker 1: Think you think we ain't forget that. He got a
Speaker 1: pended He got a case in New York, so he
Speaker 1: read it for the law. You understand, I was saying,
Speaker 1: So you got a case of New York. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go down to Florida. I'm gonna golf. I'm gonna set
Speaker 1: up this news station. I'm gonna take down Fox News.
Speaker 1: That's why he started trolling Fox News. I'm gonna take
Speaker 1: down Fox right, and I'm gonna ride off into the
Speaker 1: sunset and continue to make this pretend money. You know
Speaker 1: what I stand up saying, do it? Say you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta, you gotta set it up. I can't, but
Speaker 1: I can't just be like, damn my loss, now, everybody
Speaker 1: come follow me. No, you can't do that. You have
Speaker 1: to be like, nah, they they shot it up. They
Speaker 1: shot the place up, and they stole what they got.
Speaker 1: But you know what, we're gonna continue to continue to
Speaker 1: be keepers of the flame. That's the calculus. If I'm
Speaker 1: using my antennas, that's the calculus. Lastly, I think there's
Speaker 1: a lot to be said about lessons we could see
Speaker 1: about how power works in a system that is so cutthroat,
Speaker 1: so gangster that it's only the you're basically just playing
Speaker 1: king of the hill. Ok. And I think what we
Speaker 1: learned is this is that when you on top, you
Speaker 1: can't really punch down because again, you won't always be
Speaker 1: on top. And your little worker bees, your little cronies,
Speaker 1: they're doing calculus, they're working their own angles, and if
Speaker 1: you just abuse them as tools, at some point they're
Speaker 1: gonna start not taking your ship and be like okay, cool,
Speaker 1: this's okay cool, and they just they just biding their time.
Speaker 1: And I feel like that's the lesson we're seeing with
Speaker 1: Fox News. Fox News was Trump's microphone for a long time,
Speaker 1: but then he started doing all this on the microphone,
Speaker 1: and eventually Fox was like, okay, okay, uh, we see
Speaker 1: what's happening here, And they had their own little inner
Speaker 1: turmoil between the nion shows and the news shows, because
Speaker 1: the opinion shows are still, you know, pushing the same narrative,
Speaker 1: the Tucker Carson's of the world, you know what I'm saying,
Speaker 1: that Sean Hannity's of the world. Like they're still like,
Speaker 1: you know, riding for the boy. But then the the
Speaker 1: news stations themselves, like the newscasters are being like, uh,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna airtive is. You ain't got no proof
Speaker 1: of this stuff. We can't just be coming on the
Speaker 1: show saying some reckless Nah, there's life after you. Fox
Speaker 1: News has existed before you. There's life after you. Foxes,
Speaker 1: like the Hood come first. We there's an end to
Speaker 1: your era and we need to survive after you're done.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go down with you. It was cool,
Speaker 1: we got what we needed, but we're good. I think
Speaker 1: the Senate is kind of doing the same thing, y'all.
Speaker 1: Gotta remember somebody like a Mitch McConnell, which somehow another
Speaker 1: still got his his seat in is proof to me
Speaker 1: that Mitch understanding the hood comes first. I'm playing this
Speaker 1: game with you. I've been playing this game with you
Speaker 1: this whole time. People like Lindsey Graham, they they hood
Speaker 1: comes first. There was like, look, I let you pick
Speaker 1: on me as long as you want. I let you.
Speaker 1: I'll let you. I'll let you do what you want
Speaker 1: to do. Meanwhile, you didn't gave me twenty judges. I
Speaker 1: feel like when they got their Amy Coney Barrett, they decided,
Speaker 1: all right, look we got what we needed from him.
Speaker 1: It's all good, We're done. The whole time Trump thought
Speaker 1: he was using them low and behold. They knew what
Speaker 1: they was doing the whole time. This mug was transactional.
Speaker 1: They hustled me because I was like, man, who is bewitched? Y'all?
Speaker 1: Like why is you doing? Why are you letting this man?
Speaker 1: Why are you letting this man steal your whole narrative? Oh?
Speaker 1: They wasn't letting him doing anything. They they was playing
Speaker 1: the game because at the end of the day, Yo,
Speaker 1: the hood comes first. So that's the g O P.
Speaker 1: There were blood of kints. If you want to understand
Speaker 1: this last election cycle, that's your answer. Who it comes first? Yo?
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