1 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:08,479 Speaker 1: As media, we saw a little gangbanger was cracking full 2 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:13,960 Speaker 1: he was squabbing or what fucking lambs a square up lamp, dude. 3 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:16,200 Speaker 2: Look, that's the question. 4 00:00:16,960 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: To slap the taste out of somebody's mouth or not 5 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:21,759 Speaker 1: to slap the taste out of somebody's mouth. 6 00:00:23,079 --> 00:00:23,880 Speaker 2: That is the question. 7 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:39,080 Speaker 1: Welcome to hood politics another to live and die in 8 00:00:39,240 --> 00:00:47,919 Speaker 1: la uh. We have the timeless dilemma in whatever context 9 00:00:47,960 --> 00:00:49,120 Speaker 1: you want to give of. 10 00:00:50,159 --> 00:00:53,559 Speaker 2: Remember you remember a few years ago the question of 11 00:00:53,640 --> 00:00:55,400 Speaker 2: do you punch a Nazi or not? 12 00:00:56,520 --> 00:00:56,720 Speaker 3: Right? 13 00:00:57,080 --> 00:01:01,000 Speaker 1: And the two sides of the story was like, you know, well, 14 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:05,119 Speaker 1: if you punch a Nazi, that's what they want. It 15 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 1: makes you no different, Right, so you're supposed to take 16 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:13,479 Speaker 1: the high road. Right, when they go low, we go 17 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:15,240 Speaker 1: hi the Michelle Obama speech. 18 00:01:15,800 --> 00:01:16,039 Speaker 2: Right. 19 00:01:17,640 --> 00:01:19,679 Speaker 1: Then the other side of that is like when they 20 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:23,600 Speaker 1: go low, we squabble up. Nigga, I go lower. When 21 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:27,560 Speaker 1: they go low, I sweep the leg I don't make 22 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:31,840 Speaker 1: the rules. When you are put in an impossible position, 23 00:01:32,200 --> 00:01:38,200 Speaker 1: your code becomes irrelevant. Like sometimes that's the position and 24 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 1: the question is do you stick with it or not? 25 00:01:40,160 --> 00:01:45,040 Speaker 1: You know, these are Martin and Malcolm questions, right, who 26 00:01:45,120 --> 00:01:49,919 Speaker 1: were not as separate on their beliefs as people would 27 00:01:49,960 --> 00:01:53,600 Speaker 1: like them to believe. Although he believed in nonviolence, that 28 00:01:53,640 --> 00:01:55,160 Speaker 1: don't mean he ain't gonna slap the shit out of 29 00:01:55,200 --> 00:01:59,440 Speaker 1: you if he needs to. Right, But that's the question, 30 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:07,120 Speaker 1: the question of when someone is reckless and only understands 31 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: messiness or violence, do you, as our parents used to say, 32 00:02:12,639 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 1: don't stoop to their level? Right when they clap, do 33 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:19,639 Speaker 1: you clap back? Or do you try to be the 34 00:02:19,760 --> 00:02:25,880 Speaker 1: quote unquote bigger person? Now, sometimes the bigger person is 35 00:02:26,919 --> 00:02:33,040 Speaker 1: a complicated concept. One of the again proverbial examples of 36 00:02:33,080 --> 00:02:37,360 Speaker 1: this is like hiding Jewish families from the Nazis? 37 00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:38,680 Speaker 2: Right do you lie? 38 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:40,560 Speaker 1: Do you hide them and lie because it was a 39 00:02:40,639 --> 00:02:43,600 Speaker 1: law and nigga, that's not a question of course you do, right? 40 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 1: But does that put your own family in danger by 41 00:02:46,560 --> 00:02:46,920 Speaker 1: doing that? 42 00:02:47,040 --> 00:02:47,280 Speaker 2: Yeah? 43 00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:50,360 Speaker 1: But that's obviously the right question. You break the law there, 44 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:52,440 Speaker 1: But sometimes it's not so obvious. 45 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:52,880 Speaker 3: Right. 46 00:02:53,639 --> 00:02:54,240 Speaker 2: Sometimes in. 47 00:02:55,960 --> 00:03:00,720 Speaker 1: A situation like I said, where maybe you don't like 48 00:03:00,800 --> 00:03:05,120 Speaker 1: to function, maybe your code is one that says to 49 00:03:05,280 --> 00:03:09,079 Speaker 1: handle this situation means I need to do something against 50 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:09,960 Speaker 1: my own code. 51 00:03:10,760 --> 00:03:12,280 Speaker 2: The question is do you trust the code? 52 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:16,680 Speaker 1: Do you trust the process, Continue to maintain your own integrity. 53 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:19,720 Speaker 1: Be the person of circumspect, Be the person that you 54 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:21,360 Speaker 1: know you want to be so that you can sleep 55 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:24,520 Speaker 1: at night. Or do you say you know what the 56 00:03:24,560 --> 00:03:28,639 Speaker 1: greater good in here is to beat your ass? 57 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:30,760 Speaker 2: Hey? 58 00:03:31,400 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 1: I mean that's the question facing California on November fourth, 59 00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: to squabble or not to squabble, the question of jerry 60 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:43,280 Speaker 1: mandering in California? 61 00:03:43,800 --> 00:03:44,920 Speaker 2: Who politics? 62 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:46,520 Speaker 3: Y'all? 63 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:03,880 Speaker 2: All right? Listen? 64 00:04:05,160 --> 00:04:08,480 Speaker 1: Metaphors not being perfect as they can be, comparison is 65 00:04:08,520 --> 00:04:12,560 Speaker 1: not being perfect as they can be, but they're notwithstanding that, 66 00:04:13,240 --> 00:04:17,240 Speaker 1: there are times where fighting is your only option, right 67 00:04:17,440 --> 00:04:22,720 Speaker 1: if we're using your again understanding of like the dark 68 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:26,440 Speaker 1: Cornerstone premise that if you understand the hood, you understand politics. 69 00:04:26,640 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 1: There are times that fighting is just not is unavoidable. 70 00:04:31,320 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: There are times when you're dealing with a bully. Are 71 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,720 Speaker 1: you dealing with a hood situation where it's like, you know, 72 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:40,600 Speaker 1: you don't I can't call the cops. The cops don't help, 73 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:44,200 Speaker 1: They're just another problem. You not listen in a reason, 74 00:04:44,880 --> 00:04:49,640 Speaker 1: the power dynamic between us two is one that is insurmountable. 75 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:53,280 Speaker 1: Like there are times where the power dynamic is insurmountable. 76 00:04:53,320 --> 00:05:00,000 Speaker 1: I can think of three scenarios in my coming up 77 00:05:00,120 --> 00:05:02,600 Speaker 1: age where the power dynamic was not surmountable. This was 78 00:05:02,760 --> 00:05:04,640 Speaker 1: I mean, I think of him in every area I 79 00:05:04,680 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: lived in the Inland Empire. When I was out there, 80 00:05:07,800 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 1: you know, walking home from school, I'm I'm outnumbered. 81 00:05:11,920 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. 82 00:05:12,680 --> 00:05:15,640 Speaker 1: It was like this was one of some of it 83 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:18,360 Speaker 1: had like a lot of racial tension because like it 84 00:05:18,520 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: wasn't a lot of us out there in area called 85 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:22,679 Speaker 1: the San gabol Valley. 86 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:23,400 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. 87 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:26,080 Speaker 1: Where if you know me, you know where I I 88 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:29,120 Speaker 1: a lot of people I know personally, you know, listen 89 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:32,919 Speaker 1: to the show, know where I grew up in Lapenteve, Linda. 90 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:35,440 Speaker 1: And there were times where again the power dynamic made 91 00:05:35,480 --> 00:05:40,960 Speaker 1: it impossible. There's I can't be the bigger person, and 92 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:44,720 Speaker 1: I also I can't square up with this person. It's 93 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:46,920 Speaker 1: not it's not a this isn't a fair This isn't 94 00:05:46,960 --> 00:05:49,080 Speaker 1: a fair one. Like the New Yorkers say, man, go 95 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:51,320 Speaker 1: catch a fair one. It's not fair. Even if it's 96 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:53,440 Speaker 1: one on one, it's not fair. We can't go head up, 97 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:56,479 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, Like this is your hood. 98 00:05:57,160 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 1: So even if even if I do throw right now 99 00:06:00,839 --> 00:06:04,560 Speaker 1: to this dude, is I have to I'm gonna be 100 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:08,039 Speaker 1: running home for the rest of my days. There's no 101 00:06:08,279 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 1: there is no fair ones. Right if I try to 102 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,200 Speaker 1: take my bike to you're going to steal my bike, Like, 103 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:19,200 Speaker 1: there's no there's no fair ones, even if I could 104 00:06:19,240 --> 00:06:23,760 Speaker 1: think of one. In the Inland Empire where I I 105 00:06:23,800 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 1: didn't fear him. I feared his big brothers. Where I 106 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:31,120 Speaker 1: was like many times I was like, I'm gonna throw 107 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:32,000 Speaker 1: you over this table. 108 00:06:32,839 --> 00:06:34,880 Speaker 2: But I feared his brothers. 109 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: So even if we fought, it's and and and he 110 00:06:38,760 --> 00:06:41,599 Speaker 1: faded me, faded me. But if we fought and I 111 00:06:41,640 --> 00:06:44,320 Speaker 1: slapped the taste out of his mouth and won, he's 112 00:06:44,320 --> 00:06:44,919 Speaker 1: got two. 113 00:06:44,760 --> 00:06:48,560 Speaker 2: Brothers that have to like that's just it's just the reality. 114 00:06:48,720 --> 00:06:50,080 Speaker 2: The two brothers were older than us. 115 00:06:51,160 --> 00:06:54,240 Speaker 1: You have to come help your little brother, even if 116 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:56,880 Speaker 1: you think your little brother is wrong. And most of 117 00:06:56,920 --> 00:06:59,360 Speaker 1: the time it was because this dude had a mouth, 118 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:01,880 Speaker 1: Like most of the time it was like he was 119 00:07:01,920 --> 00:07:02,520 Speaker 1: probably wrong. 120 00:07:02,800 --> 00:07:03,479 Speaker 2: What are you gonna do? 121 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:07,039 Speaker 1: You've put me in a situation, And sometimes I can 122 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:08,080 Speaker 1: joke my way out of it. 123 00:07:08,760 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 2: I hope you can see where I'm going with this. 124 00:07:10,240 --> 00:07:11,680 Speaker 1: There are times that, like, I've been able to joke 125 00:07:11,720 --> 00:07:13,200 Speaker 1: my way out of it, so I didn't have to fight, 126 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:16,560 Speaker 1: right I had to use mockery. I had to use 127 00:07:16,600 --> 00:07:21,520 Speaker 1: the tools that were available to me because I was 128 00:07:21,560 --> 00:07:26,800 Speaker 1: in a situation that required me to move in a 129 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:31,240 Speaker 1: way that I don't necessarily move right now. On the 130 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:37,520 Speaker 1: other hand, there's also the possibility that well, I've actually 131 00:07:38,040 --> 00:07:41,960 Speaker 1: I'm lying to myself about this code, that this mockery 132 00:07:42,120 --> 00:07:45,760 Speaker 1: is fighting this, that's who I really am, and I 133 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:51,160 Speaker 1: do stand to gain a lot, whether it's reputation, whether 134 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,680 Speaker 1: it's the ladies, whatever the case may be. I stand 135 00:07:53,680 --> 00:07:57,040 Speaker 1: to gain a lot because I actually I've been itching 136 00:07:57,040 --> 00:07:58,040 Speaker 1: to beat the shit out of you. 137 00:07:58,240 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 2: I say that, Oh, I'm the bigger person. 138 00:08:00,920 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: I say that like like that again back to the 139 00:08:03,680 --> 00:08:06,240 Speaker 1: Nazi thing, where it's like, oh, you know, you want to, 140 00:08:06,800 --> 00:08:09,240 Speaker 1: you want to, you want to beat the brakes off him, 141 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:17,640 Speaker 1: but you're scared, y'all say it. So the question is 142 00:08:18,440 --> 00:08:25,920 Speaker 1: about the vote that California has to do over whether 143 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:29,920 Speaker 1: we Jerrymander or not. So today a little bit of 144 00:08:29,920 --> 00:08:34,120 Speaker 1: background what we have done in Cali. Way back to 145 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:39,920 Speaker 1: when during the governator time and what's really at stake here? 146 00:08:40,559 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 1: And is it worth it now? Spoiler alert, I don't 147 00:08:43,600 --> 00:08:46,160 Speaker 1: have an answer. I actually don't know what I'm a vote. 148 00:08:46,280 --> 00:08:51,920 Speaker 1: I know I still have time, but this question is 149 00:08:52,480 --> 00:08:56,559 Speaker 1: only a California question. Right now, y'all got next? Wherever 150 00:08:56,559 --> 00:08:59,160 Speaker 1: you are, you got next? Because we're dealing with a 151 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: situation where the person that we're dealing with moves differently 152 00:09:06,000 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 1: than the rest of us. 153 00:09:07,480 --> 00:09:08,560 Speaker 2: You understand what I'm saying. 154 00:09:08,880 --> 00:09:12,600 Speaker 1: When somebody you're dealing with somebody that don't, they play 155 00:09:12,679 --> 00:09:16,880 Speaker 1: by a different set of rules. Sometimes you get into 156 00:09:16,880 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: a position where these are just the cards we were dealt. 157 00:09:21,240 --> 00:09:23,240 Speaker 1: I have to play the cards I was dealt, even 158 00:09:23,240 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: if I don't even want to play this game in 159 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:27,400 Speaker 1: the first place. So I'm gonna try to make a 160 00:09:27,440 --> 00:09:36,120 Speaker 1: case for and against and look, saw you player, I 161 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:38,880 Speaker 1: can't tell you what to do, all right? All ready, 162 00:09:39,200 --> 00:10:13,040 Speaker 1: here we go. So a couple of weeks ago, we 163 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:15,640 Speaker 1: did an episode on jerrymandering what it means in the 164 00:10:15,760 --> 00:10:16,680 Speaker 1: history of it, right. 165 00:10:17,040 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 3: And. 166 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:21,920 Speaker 1: You can refer back to that, But essentially, it's the 167 00:10:22,080 --> 00:10:24,880 Speaker 1: drawing of your districts. If you don't know what your 168 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:29,439 Speaker 1: district is that's the area for which your state representative 169 00:10:29,559 --> 00:10:31,120 Speaker 1: in the legislative branch. 170 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:35,840 Speaker 2: Goes, So you're voting for that, right. 171 00:10:36,240 --> 00:10:39,439 Speaker 1: Every state has two senators, and then in your House 172 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:42,599 Speaker 1: of Representative, it depends on the amount of districts that 173 00:10:42,679 --> 00:10:48,360 Speaker 1: are in your state. Right now, when you are running 174 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:53,280 Speaker 1: for a legislative position, right, you're running to be the 175 00:10:53,360 --> 00:10:54,280 Speaker 1: representative for. 176 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:55,560 Speaker 2: This particular district. 177 00:10:55,679 --> 00:10:58,200 Speaker 1: Now, the most logical way to think of a district 178 00:10:58,440 --> 00:11:01,520 Speaker 1: is people who have shared interests because they live in 179 00:11:01,600 --> 00:11:06,640 Speaker 1: a shared space, right, So they should obviously be regional, right, 180 00:11:06,960 --> 00:11:12,640 Speaker 1: because we regionally right. A lot of times region relates 181 00:11:13,520 --> 00:11:18,360 Speaker 1: pretty close to socioeconomic not always because especially places like Irvine, 182 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:22,160 Speaker 1: if you're down to La like or certain parts of 183 00:11:22,880 --> 00:11:28,559 Speaker 1: Los Angeles where one side of the street are mansions, 184 00:11:28,640 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: the others are mansions that have been converted to apartments, right, 185 00:11:33,280 --> 00:11:36,760 Speaker 1: because the people that live across the street are the 186 00:11:36,920 --> 00:11:40,600 Speaker 1: living servants, the gardeners, the people that serve the houses 187 00:11:40,640 --> 00:11:43,960 Speaker 1: across the street. So there is an extreme wealth gap 188 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:49,000 Speaker 1: literally across the street, right. Or there's people because we 189 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:53,839 Speaker 1: live in a commuting town where you live hours away 190 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:56,200 Speaker 1: from where you work, which is in a different place 191 00:11:56,240 --> 00:11:59,120 Speaker 1: than where your kids go to school, right, So we 192 00:11:59,320 --> 00:12:02,120 Speaker 1: just have a spread out community. So even though it 193 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 1: might logically seem like geographic districting makes the most sense 194 00:12:07,760 --> 00:12:10,280 Speaker 1: because we use the same stop light, these the same stores. 195 00:12:10,720 --> 00:12:16,280 Speaker 1: We you know, were dealing with the same traffic, taxes, schools. 196 00:12:16,960 --> 00:12:21,439 Speaker 1: There's we just this is just our experience, right. Sometimes 197 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:23,240 Speaker 1: it might become a little more complicated to that, So 198 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:29,480 Speaker 1: drawing district lines can get a little complicated. But when 199 00:12:29,520 --> 00:12:35,240 Speaker 1: you draw district lines and you're running for office, obviously 200 00:12:35,880 --> 00:12:42,880 Speaker 1: you want the easiest route to success. Right. Hopefully this 201 00:12:43,040 --> 00:12:45,600 Speaker 1: is a place that you care about, but it's probably 202 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:50,040 Speaker 1: a place you just desire power for. Right now, in 203 00:12:50,120 --> 00:12:56,400 Speaker 1: a perfect world, people who are directly affected by the 204 00:12:56,559 --> 00:13:01,280 Speaker 1: decisions made and the actions with in a particular district 205 00:13:01,320 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 1: are the ones that are running for office. So that 206 00:13:03,160 --> 00:13:06,240 Speaker 1: you represent the needs and the desires of the people 207 00:13:06,280 --> 00:13:09,120 Speaker 1: that live in that district. That's what it's supposed to be, right, 208 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:12,040 Speaker 1: And some of those needs and desires might be in conflict. 209 00:13:12,640 --> 00:13:15,400 Speaker 1: That makes sense, right, So what you do You need 210 00:13:15,480 --> 00:13:19,640 Speaker 1: to run people for office that represent the multiplicity of 211 00:13:19,960 --> 00:13:22,880 Speaker 1: ideas and needs, and then you make the best case 212 00:13:23,200 --> 00:13:25,480 Speaker 1: for how you can represent us the best. Some of 213 00:13:25,559 --> 00:13:28,920 Speaker 1: y'all might have different political positions, may have different solutions 214 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:34,719 Speaker 1: and answers, and may come from different partisan sections. That's great, compete, right, 215 00:13:35,679 --> 00:13:39,520 Speaker 1: make your case, show how you care, show your ideas, 216 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: show us what it is that would help us understand 217 00:13:44,720 --> 00:13:48,880 Speaker 1: right that you are going to represent our best interests. 218 00:13:49,640 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 1: But that sounds hard, right if you run of office. 219 00:13:54,640 --> 00:13:55,520 Speaker 1: I ain't trying to do all that. 220 00:13:55,559 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 2: I just want to win. Well, how could I win? 221 00:13:58,600 --> 00:13:58,760 Speaker 3: Well? 222 00:13:58,880 --> 00:14:04,000 Speaker 2: If I make the districts, the shape and the population 223 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:08,520 Speaker 2: of the districts be just looped around the people that 224 00:14:08,640 --> 00:14:11,360 Speaker 2: I know want me to win, then I don't have 225 00:14:11,440 --> 00:14:17,120 Speaker 2: to compete with nobody. So I'm gonna draw this amorphous. 226 00:14:16,480 --> 00:14:21,440 Speaker 1: Weird circle because I know everybody inside of this already 227 00:14:21,520 --> 00:14:27,920 Speaker 1: agrees with me. It is thatshit bonkers and at the 228 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:33,440 Speaker 1: same time so normal that the politician running for office 229 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:35,800 Speaker 1: gets to draw the district boundaries. 230 00:14:36,400 --> 00:14:41,440 Speaker 2: That makes that is clearly a foul. That's clearly a violation, 231 00:14:41,840 --> 00:14:49,040 Speaker 2: right Like that is guys, disenfranchisement. You have just that. 232 00:14:51,040 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: You don't get to choose your elected official. Your elected 233 00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:59,040 Speaker 1: official chooses you. I'm a find the people that I 234 00:14:59,240 --> 00:15:01,360 Speaker 1: already know we won't me, and I'm gonna make them 235 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,040 Speaker 1: a district and then tell them that you're voting for me, 236 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:05,280 Speaker 1: that I need Joe vote. 237 00:15:05,560 --> 00:15:08,600 Speaker 2: It is absurd, but that's what gerrymandering is. It's a 238 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:13,240 Speaker 2: way to like make sure that out went. 239 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 3: Now. 240 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:16,320 Speaker 1: That's the dark side of it. Now, the good side 241 00:15:16,320 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: of it is, sometimes demographics change. Sometimes the borders do change, 242 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:25,760 Speaker 1: sometimes because of migration in its most international sense, and 243 00:15:25,800 --> 00:15:30,120 Speaker 1: other times just people moving, cities changing, school's changing, the 244 00:15:30,200 --> 00:15:35,000 Speaker 1: desires changes. The demographics change, right, and sometimes with that right, 245 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:39,120 Speaker 1: the district boundary kind of just doesn't It kind of 246 00:15:39,160 --> 00:15:43,440 Speaker 1: doesn't make sense anymore because the people inside of this 247 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 1: space couldn't be more different. Right in the graph for Africa, 248 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:49,720 Speaker 1: I think I used this in the first thing. It's 249 00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,680 Speaker 1: like the colonizer came in and just drew lines on 250 00:15:53,840 --> 00:15:56,200 Speaker 1: the map and called one place one country and the 251 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,320 Speaker 1: other place the other country. The lines are arbitrary and absurd, 252 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:03,359 Speaker 1: driven through like neighborhoods. All of a sudden, my granddaddy, 253 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:05,800 Speaker 1: who lives across the street is living in a different 254 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:07,840 Speaker 1: country now because somebody drew a line right there. That 255 00:16:07,960 --> 00:16:13,160 Speaker 1: is absurd, right, But other times, it might be, you know, 256 00:16:13,440 --> 00:16:15,120 Speaker 1: to use a. 257 00:16:16,600 --> 00:16:16,960 Speaker 2: I don't know. 258 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:20,960 Speaker 1: More of a modern example, a new school was built, right, 259 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:24,680 Speaker 1: a new middle school was built, which brought an influx 260 00:16:24,840 --> 00:16:30,120 Speaker 1: of younger families into this place that maybe was a 261 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:36,640 Speaker 1: multi generational area which was mostly old people. Now the 262 00:16:36,680 --> 00:16:40,040 Speaker 1: demographics have changed, so maybe these district borders kind of 263 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:42,600 Speaker 1: don't make sense, so maybe we should redraw them, right, 264 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:46,320 Speaker 1: but who gets to decide that? Should the politician be 265 00:16:46,360 --> 00:16:49,240 Speaker 1: able to decide that? To me, that seems absurd, but 266 00:16:50,280 --> 00:16:54,640 Speaker 1: it's the world we end now. When the governator came, 267 00:16:54,800 --> 00:16:58,640 Speaker 1: this was Arnold Swarzenegger in two thousand and eight. He 268 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:02,280 Speaker 1: was the one that was like a Republican. He was like, 269 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:06,520 Speaker 1: this seems ridiculous that we should be able to draw 270 00:17:06,560 --> 00:17:08,520 Speaker 1: our own districts. Don't you think there should be some 271 00:17:08,680 --> 00:17:12,919 Speaker 1: sort of bipartisan independent person who not running for office 272 00:17:13,000 --> 00:17:15,879 Speaker 1: that don't get to choose the rules, that don't that 273 00:17:16,000 --> 00:17:17,600 Speaker 1: gets to choose that don't make sense to y'all. 274 00:17:17,640 --> 00:17:20,640 Speaker 2: So that's what he did. He was like, Okay, let's 275 00:17:20,680 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 2: do that. Let's let. 276 00:17:24,359 --> 00:17:28,959 Speaker 1: An independent person who is just paid to look at 277 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 1: this objectively, not by us, right, we don't do it 278 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 1: they do it. They look at what's going on in 279 00:17:36,000 --> 00:17:38,399 Speaker 1: the country or in the state and they say, this 280 00:17:38,720 --> 00:17:41,440 Speaker 1: makes more sense than this. Now, when you do that, 281 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:45,040 Speaker 1: that means that it goes back to that competitive districts 282 00:17:45,040 --> 00:17:47,000 Speaker 1: And that's what we've had in California for the last 283 00:17:47,480 --> 00:17:49,960 Speaker 1: ten to twenty years since two thousand and eight, were 284 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:55,960 Speaker 1: districts set by an independent board who looked at what 285 00:17:56,160 --> 00:17:59,680 Speaker 1: was actually happening here and was like, no, no, no, 286 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:00,800 Speaker 1: y'all don't get choose it. 287 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 2: We get to choose it, right. And when you do that, 288 00:18:03,680 --> 00:18:04,480 Speaker 2: that means you have a. 289 00:18:04,520 --> 00:18:10,119 Speaker 1: Diversity of candidates running because you just don't get to 290 00:18:10,240 --> 00:18:13,359 Speaker 1: choose your own district to where you could just like 291 00:18:13,520 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: moon walk right into it. You don't get to TUTSI, 292 00:18:16,280 --> 00:18:19,000 Speaker 1: you know, TUTSI step all the way into the office 293 00:18:19,080 --> 00:18:23,399 Speaker 1: without no problems. No, like it's competitive, you know what 294 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:24,920 Speaker 1: I'm saying. So that means you got to come with 295 00:18:25,000 --> 00:18:27,280 Speaker 1: your a game. You can't just like you can't just 296 00:18:27,359 --> 00:18:29,560 Speaker 1: phone it in because if you just phone it in, 297 00:18:29,760 --> 00:18:34,080 Speaker 1: that is kind of like it's kind of like disenfranchisement. 298 00:18:34,640 --> 00:18:42,000 Speaker 1: Right now, incomes Trump, who said the quiet part out 299 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:44,520 Speaker 1: loud with Texas. He was like, look, I'm finna lose this, 300 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:49,960 Speaker 1: I'm finna lose the mid term. So it still bonkers 301 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:51,399 Speaker 1: to me that he's trying to say that there's a 302 00:18:51,480 --> 00:18:54,359 Speaker 1: deep state and they a cabal of people working against him. 303 00:18:55,119 --> 00:18:58,400 Speaker 1: When you when he is the institution, you are, you run, 304 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:02,120 Speaker 1: you run all branches, You're you're the majority in every 305 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:03,000 Speaker 1: branch of government. 306 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,400 Speaker 2: Howard, what govern what government? Deep state? 307 00:19:08,119 --> 00:19:08,600 Speaker 3: You are it? 308 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,720 Speaker 2: But anyway, he was like, look, we're finna lose, so 309 00:19:15,440 --> 00:19:18,159 Speaker 2: let's just get more districts. How do I do that? 310 00:19:18,240 --> 00:19:19,960 Speaker 1: He's like, well, it's simple. We just draw the district 311 00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:21,879 Speaker 1: maps again and then we just get four other seats. 312 00:19:22,280 --> 00:19:24,240 Speaker 1: We draw it in a way that we get the seats. 313 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,440 Speaker 1: Like so, he you just gonna say it, right, So 314 00:19:27,560 --> 00:19:29,159 Speaker 1: that's what he did. That's what he did in Texas 315 00:19:29,320 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 1: and Texas bend Over Soldier did exactly what they wanted 316 00:19:32,440 --> 00:19:37,640 Speaker 1: him to do, right, drudis map that is absurd. Despite 317 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:41,440 Speaker 1: all of the pushback from the state, they just made it. 318 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:47,480 Speaker 1: It's absurd, but they're able to do it. California Governor 319 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:51,359 Speaker 1: Newsom says, wait man, Waitman, Wayman, Wayman, Wayman, Wayman, Wayman, Wayman. 320 00:19:51,400 --> 00:19:51,640 Speaker 3: Women. 321 00:19:51,760 --> 00:19:57,280 Speaker 1: We can't just let this slide. So if they gonna redistrict, 322 00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:02,840 Speaker 1: then we should redistrict. If they buss, we bus right, 323 00:20:03,400 --> 00:20:08,720 Speaker 1: that's not fair because they're cheating. But they found a 324 00:20:08,800 --> 00:20:11,360 Speaker 1: way to cheat. That's not cheating. Does that make sense 325 00:20:12,040 --> 00:20:14,320 Speaker 1: because you can because the state can make their own laws. 326 00:20:15,440 --> 00:20:19,240 Speaker 1: But we already decided in California that's against the code. 327 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:23,159 Speaker 1: We know that that's shady. We know that that's the 328 00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:28,240 Speaker 1: wrong thing to do. Also, can we just let him 329 00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,959 Speaker 1: do this? Or when we kind of can't, just let him? 330 00:20:33,720 --> 00:20:37,119 Speaker 1: Somebody cut in front of the line on at an 331 00:20:37,119 --> 00:20:40,280 Speaker 1: amusement park. He just you know, like you've a been 332 00:20:40,320 --> 00:20:41,840 Speaker 1: to a music park and somebody just like excuse me, 333 00:20:41,880 --> 00:20:44,840 Speaker 1: excuse me, excuse me, and they just walk into the front. 334 00:20:45,240 --> 00:20:48,480 Speaker 1: That's because nobody stopped him. Somebody could be like no, no, no, no, 335 00:20:48,840 --> 00:20:50,960 Speaker 1: you need to wait here, and they're like, well, no, 336 00:20:51,000 --> 00:20:52,720 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna go. It's like, no, nigga, you cheating. 337 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,240 Speaker 1: Do you have a fast pass? Nobody asked him, do 338 00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: you got a fast pass? Or you got a disabled 339 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:00,960 Speaker 1: child right there? No, you're just cutting. You go and 340 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:04,400 Speaker 1: tell somebody tells you to stop, right, But don't nobody 341 00:21:04,440 --> 00:21:05,800 Speaker 1: want to be a problem. You don't want to be 342 00:21:05,840 --> 00:21:08,520 Speaker 1: the one that caused the problems, because what if they're like, 343 00:21:08,680 --> 00:21:11,200 Speaker 1: make me, well, now you've got to squabble. Well, I 344 00:21:11,240 --> 00:21:14,880 Speaker 1: don't want to fight in Disneyland, but I mean, y'all 345 00:21:14,960 --> 00:21:16,800 Speaker 1: just gonna let this person cut in front of all 346 00:21:16,880 --> 00:21:18,800 Speaker 1: of us. We all been waiting in this lot. Y'all 347 00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,080 Speaker 1: just gonna let them do it. Somebody has to be like, 348 00:21:21,200 --> 00:21:23,280 Speaker 1: I ain't letting that shit ride. Somebody gotta be like 349 00:21:23,920 --> 00:21:27,120 Speaker 1: like like Kendrick, like I'm not with the Kumbaya shit. 350 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:31,320 Speaker 2: Man eclips record is great. 351 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:35,560 Speaker 1: So the question is do you do that? Like, do 352 00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:40,080 Speaker 1: you say, wait, wait, hold up, you can't just everybody 353 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,400 Speaker 1: y'all just gonna let them do this. But if you've 354 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:43,880 Speaker 1: already said to yourself, listen. 355 00:21:43,760 --> 00:21:44,720 Speaker 2: I'm not a line cutter. 356 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:46,280 Speaker 3: I don't. 357 00:21:47,640 --> 00:21:48,200 Speaker 2: I don't do that. 358 00:21:48,440 --> 00:21:48,680 Speaker 3: I'm not. 359 00:21:49,040 --> 00:21:50,760 Speaker 2: I'm committed to nonviolence. 360 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:52,760 Speaker 1: We already had our system, we have already decided we 361 00:21:52,800 --> 00:21:56,359 Speaker 1: actually like our system, our systems working, and our people 362 00:21:56,560 --> 00:22:01,520 Speaker 1: like it. But we've been put in a position where 363 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:06,199 Speaker 1: if nobody, somebody got to do something, is. 364 00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:11,399 Speaker 2: The argument. So what do you do? 365 00:22:12,720 --> 00:22:18,400 Speaker 1: Well, Governor Newsom says, well, we redraw districts. But because 366 00:22:19,440 --> 00:22:23,280 Speaker 1: California actually likes their system, you have to vote on that. 367 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:27,520 Speaker 1: We not like Texas where the politicians can just decide 368 00:22:27,560 --> 00:22:34,720 Speaker 1: to do it, because that seems crazy, right, so we 369 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:36,640 Speaker 1: know this is crazy. 370 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:37,560 Speaker 2: You can't just. 371 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:44,159 Speaker 1: That is clearly disenfranchisement. That's what I don't understand about Texas. 372 00:22:44,280 --> 00:22:51,119 Speaker 1: Like you're being disenfranchised, right, you roping you into a 373 00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,720 Speaker 1: district that meant that your vote ain't gonna matter. 374 00:22:55,160 --> 00:22:59,640 Speaker 2: It's like on purpose, fam. But that's where we're at. 375 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:07,199 Speaker 1: So California has it's Bill ACA eight and it has 376 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:11,080 Speaker 1: officially made the ballot for November fourth, right, And what 377 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:15,760 Speaker 1: they're saying is this is temporary. We're just gonna do 378 00:23:15,840 --> 00:23:18,880 Speaker 1: this for three years, and it's we don't end. It's 379 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:21,159 Speaker 1: funny here and the Democrats be like, you know, I 380 00:23:21,280 --> 00:23:23,720 Speaker 1: don't want to do this. Normally I wouldn't be okay 381 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:29,919 Speaker 1: with this, but we're just gonna do this for three years, 382 00:23:30,160 --> 00:23:34,920 Speaker 1: and look, I hate to do it. What's our options? 383 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:35,119 Speaker 3: Man? 384 00:23:35,359 --> 00:23:36,800 Speaker 2: Are we gonna let him just take over? 385 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:43,560 Speaker 1: We're gonna let him take over this country while we're 386 00:23:43,640 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: the we're the only state that is big enough to 387 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:49,880 Speaker 1: be able to do what Texas is doing. 388 00:23:50,000 --> 00:23:51,280 Speaker 2: It kind of falls on us. 389 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:54,399 Speaker 1: Just like if you was in a line at the 390 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,280 Speaker 1: amusement park, it kind of if you the only one 391 00:23:56,320 --> 00:23:59,560 Speaker 1: that know you got squabbles, it kind of fall on you, 392 00:23:59,800 --> 00:24:01,480 Speaker 1: like you just gonna let these people cut in line 393 00:24:01,560 --> 00:24:05,159 Speaker 1: or not. They got their dumb ass dad at the 394 00:24:05,240 --> 00:24:06,879 Speaker 1: end of there, just saying hey, just go, just go, 395 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:10,200 Speaker 1: just go, and you, like my nigga, you can't just 396 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:10,720 Speaker 1: tell them that. 397 00:24:11,760 --> 00:24:12,159 Speaker 3: What do you do? 398 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 2: And that's what they did. Now it's on our ballots. 399 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:35,480 Speaker 2: Now let's talk some pros and some cons. Next, hm. 400 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:58,000 Speaker 3: Hm hm. 401 00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:06,200 Speaker 2: All right, here we go. 402 00:25:06,320 --> 00:25:09,760 Speaker 1: Now they say again laying the foundation. They say it's 403 00:25:09,800 --> 00:25:11,160 Speaker 1: only supposed to last three years. 404 00:25:11,800 --> 00:25:16,399 Speaker 2: Do you believe them? I don't know. 405 00:25:18,080 --> 00:25:19,280 Speaker 1: But if you up for a fight, you're up for 406 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 1: a fight. You're down to squabble, You down to squabble. 407 00:25:22,760 --> 00:25:24,199 Speaker 1: I normally I don't do this. 408 00:25:25,119 --> 00:25:26,000 Speaker 2: But this is what we're gonna do. 409 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,280 Speaker 1: Now. To do this, you need a special election, right, 410 00:25:29,480 --> 00:25:32,240 Speaker 1: and special elections do cost money. And that's one of 411 00:25:32,280 --> 00:25:34,880 Speaker 1: the cons. Right, they do cost a lot of money. 412 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:38,280 Speaker 1: Is money we ain't got, well money we have, we 413 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,720 Speaker 1: just don't like to be spending in on shit that matters, right, So, 414 00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:44,680 Speaker 1: according to them, is money we ain't got, but it 415 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,040 Speaker 1: is what it is. We've done it before when we 416 00:25:47,240 --> 00:25:51,880 Speaker 1: almost recalled Gavin right it was a special election. I please, 417 00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:54,280 Speaker 1: I hope the rest of the world understands. While he's 418 00:25:54,320 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 1: being an edge lord with his tweets and stuff, you know, 419 00:25:58,440 --> 00:26:00,960 Speaker 1: he's shit posting, which isn't him. It's actually a really 420 00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 1: double lading our lady, who's hilarious. Please don't get it 421 00:26:06,119 --> 00:26:10,920 Speaker 1: in your mind that we have forgot how cruel that 422 00:26:11,119 --> 00:26:15,639 Speaker 1: man has been to our homeless population, Like nobody trusts 423 00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,080 Speaker 1: a man to slick his hair back like that. 424 00:26:19,359 --> 00:26:31,840 Speaker 2: Who messing with? Who's an Eskimo bro of a Trump child? Bruh, 425 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,680 Speaker 2: it's hard for me to like you hate listen, but look, 426 00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:42,800 Speaker 2: he's not Zorhan, but he's our Zorhan. Anyway. 427 00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 1: A few points about California is California is remarkably Republican, 428 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:54,680 Speaker 1: more than y'all think. That's another misconception about Cali. The 429 00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:59,240 Speaker 1: thing is it's we are literally a bunch of coastal elites. 430 00:26:59,359 --> 00:27:04,920 Speaker 1: But it's only it's only the southern and Bay Area 431 00:27:05,080 --> 00:27:08,280 Speaker 1: coast because once you get hired of that to almost 432 00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:09,600 Speaker 1: Jefferson and. 433 00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 2: Like why Rica like that coast? 434 00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:17,800 Speaker 1: They not wit what we wit that Jefferson County. That's 435 00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,840 Speaker 1: a whole other planet. Matter of fact, let me go 436 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:25,399 Speaker 1: ahead and give you some demographics. Okay, this is the 437 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:31,840 Speaker 1: election's demographics from the state of California, right, and it's 438 00:27:31,840 --> 00:27:34,000 Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty four day result. I'll link the 439 00:27:34,040 --> 00:27:38,120 Speaker 1: page in the show notes. It's historical voter registration statistics 440 00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:43,040 Speaker 1: for statewide primaries and presidential election years. Right. So in 441 00:27:44,240 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: September fourth of two thousand and seven, the population demographic 442 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:54,000 Speaker 1: was forty two point five percent Democratic and thirty three 443 00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:59,800 Speaker 1: percent Republican and nineteen percent no party preference and then 444 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:04,879 Speaker 1: four other. In twenty twenty three, of course, because of 445 00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:08,760 Speaker 1: what was going on, we were forty six percent Republican, 446 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:13,960 Speaker 1: our forty six percent Democrat, twenty three percent Republican I'm 447 00:28:14,000 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: not doing the point nines and stuff, and then twenty 448 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:20,920 Speaker 1: two percent no party reference preference and then seven percent other. 449 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,240 Speaker 1: The point I'm trying to make is, if you look 450 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:27,720 Speaker 1: at a map of California's demographics, there are a lot 451 00:28:27,800 --> 00:28:32,040 Speaker 1: more Republicans than you think there are, like way more. 452 00:28:33,040 --> 00:28:34,280 Speaker 2: You just have to get out of the coast. 453 00:28:35,560 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: And once you're in and even when you are in 454 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 1: our more affluent coastal regions, you get to Orange County, 455 00:28:43,760 --> 00:28:48,360 Speaker 1: it's very red. You know, there's purple areas. There's an 456 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:51,920 Speaker 1: entire swath of California that none of y'all think about 457 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 1: as California. 458 00:28:53,840 --> 00:29:00,480 Speaker 2: That is rule agricultural, and they are very much conservative. 459 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:04,800 Speaker 1: And as much as I understand the fight we in, 460 00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:07,920 Speaker 1: it's they finna get disenfranchised. 461 00:29:09,160 --> 00:29:09,920 Speaker 2: They votes Finla. 462 00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:12,400 Speaker 1: They already feel disan They already feel like they votes 463 00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:15,120 Speaker 1: don't matter, you know what I'm saying, Because it's just 464 00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:17,760 Speaker 1: too many of us on the coast, just number wise, 465 00:29:18,640 --> 00:29:22,520 Speaker 1: So for them, they're like, so our votes are gonna 466 00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:26,840 Speaker 1: matter less, like they already don't matter. We talked about 467 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:33,000 Speaker 1: this before, Like LA has very little natural water. Our 468 00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:36,680 Speaker 1: water come from Sacramento. Do you know how salty I 469 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:45,200 Speaker 1: would be if I was from north central California and 470 00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:48,920 Speaker 1: I'm like, LA exists because you tapped our water. Do 471 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,120 Speaker 1: you know how salty I would be about that? I 472 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 1: would hate lost Yo, desert ass city. You're not even 473 00:29:59,040 --> 00:30:03,880 Speaker 1: supposed to be a city. I would be so salty 474 00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:08,520 Speaker 1: about that. Oh man, But we have like a percentage 475 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:12,719 Speaker 1: of I mean, there's Green Party, there's American Independence now 476 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:16,360 Speaker 1: very much is very small, but the majority, more than 477 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:23,400 Speaker 1: our almost half is Democrat, at least in primaries. 478 00:30:24,320 --> 00:30:24,440 Speaker 3: Right. 479 00:30:25,960 --> 00:30:28,280 Speaker 2: So the arguments against are. 480 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:34,520 Speaker 1: It's further disenfranchisement for a big swath of the country 481 00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:40,239 Speaker 1: of the state, it's going to cost so much, right, 482 00:30:40,880 --> 00:30:44,760 Speaker 1: And then there's the like are you really going to 483 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:46,040 Speaker 1: stick to the three year thing? 484 00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:46,760 Speaker 3: Right? 485 00:30:47,400 --> 00:30:50,120 Speaker 2: And then finally we have a system that works. 486 00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:53,520 Speaker 1: You can't let this mad man get you off your 487 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: square because if you let this mad man get you 488 00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:59,240 Speaker 1: off your square at this point, then it's the slippery 489 00:30:59,280 --> 00:31:02,280 Speaker 1: slope argument. Then we lose our code. What's the point 490 00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:06,160 Speaker 1: of a code that if someone get out of pocket, 491 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:08,719 Speaker 1: do you just willing to walk away from it? Then 492 00:31:08,760 --> 00:31:11,720 Speaker 1: we don't have a plan, Mike Tyson, everybody got a 493 00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,120 Speaker 1: plan until they get punched in the face, you know 494 00:31:13,120 --> 00:31:16,360 Speaker 1: what I'm saying, Like, so do you like I thought 495 00:31:16,400 --> 00:31:18,320 Speaker 1: we had a plan. I thought we went through this. 496 00:31:18,720 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 1: I thought we were better than this. We've already decided 497 00:31:21,200 --> 00:31:24,000 Speaker 1: this is who we are. That cheating, that nigga crity, 498 00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,720 Speaker 1: cheating like I don't need to be like he wild 499 00:31:26,880 --> 00:31:29,560 Speaker 1: that nigga gota pocket. He violates all the time. I 500 00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:32,280 Speaker 1: ain't gonna violate because he violates. I live by a code. 501 00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:37,440 Speaker 1: Where's your code? Or if you're able to like walk 502 00:31:37,480 --> 00:31:41,760 Speaker 1: away from your code, then you ain't got one. Then 503 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 1: you live by a different one than that. What are 504 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:48,040 Speaker 1: your non negotiables? I thought, I thought we already decided 505 00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,040 Speaker 1: that this is who we were, and we can't just 506 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 1: let you know one monkey don't stop, no show. We 507 00:31:54,280 --> 00:31:58,160 Speaker 1: can't let we gotta trust us, trust us, trust that 508 00:31:58,240 --> 00:32:02,280 Speaker 1: we're gonna do the right thing. This is how we 509 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:06,120 Speaker 1: said we was gonna show up despite whoever they are right. 510 00:32:07,760 --> 00:32:13,960 Speaker 1: If we do this, then we're no different. The other 511 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:20,080 Speaker 1: problem is, even if we redistrict, it still may not work. 512 00:32:21,280 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 1: People are unpredictable. You might draw these new districts and 513 00:32:25,240 --> 00:32:27,960 Speaker 1: still not get five seats. That's the risk that even 514 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:29,680 Speaker 1: Texas is running, you may not win. 515 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:31,640 Speaker 2: You know what I'm saying. 516 00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:33,800 Speaker 1: You may be like all right, nigga, square up. You 517 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:35,440 Speaker 1: might be like nigga, no, I'm down the squabble, and 518 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 1: that nigga may lay you out. You may have broken 519 00:32:38,720 --> 00:32:42,040 Speaker 1: your code, said the person cutting in line. You'd have 520 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:43,720 Speaker 1: broke your code and said no, no, no, you're not 521 00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:45,080 Speaker 1: allowed to do it. It's like, well, you make me 522 00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:46,760 Speaker 1: and then you try to make me throw you out 523 00:32:46,800 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 1: of that. You just flip over the stench and you 524 00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:54,000 Speaker 1: might lose. So we may go through all that, break 525 00:32:54,080 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: our own code and still not get what we need. 526 00:32:57,200 --> 00:33:03,600 Speaker 1: So that's a risk, right. And finally, y'all, why is 527 00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:09,040 Speaker 1: it on us? Like, why is it California's job? Besides 528 00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 1: Texas and Us? There are forty eight other states. 529 00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,360 Speaker 2: We why is that? That's not we need to be 530 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:18,600 Speaker 2: worried about us? We know what Trump doing. 531 00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:21,160 Speaker 1: We already know what he do, how he play with us, 532 00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:23,880 Speaker 1: how he been fucking with us all, Like, we ain't 533 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,640 Speaker 1: got time to play none of this, none of these games. 534 00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:29,040 Speaker 1: It's ice in our streets. You know what I'm saying. 535 00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:31,200 Speaker 1: I know you just want to run for president? 536 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:33,760 Speaker 2: Like why are you? 537 00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:37,000 Speaker 1: I thought you was the government in California? You talking 538 00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:41,280 Speaker 1: about national issues like nigga focus on us? Why should 539 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,920 Speaker 1: we break our code to cover a mistake that Texas 540 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,240 Speaker 1: is doing. They ain't got shit to do with us. 541 00:33:49,120 --> 00:33:52,560 Speaker 1: They gonna do what they gonna do if Governor Abbott, 542 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:56,280 Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, wanta. Slabanov like he can. 543 00:33:56,360 --> 00:34:00,920 Speaker 1: Slabanov like what we're doing is what we're doing now. 544 00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:27,960 Speaker 1: Pros next, All right, pros Now, if you believe the 545 00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:34,560 Speaker 1: argument that they're making in this ballot, then you understand 546 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:37,800 Speaker 1: that what they're saying is nobody want to do this. 547 00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:39,600 Speaker 2: This is strategy. I am. 548 00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:41,600 Speaker 1: I have been put in in I have been put 549 00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:43,680 Speaker 1: in im possible position. I have been put in a 550 00:34:43,760 --> 00:34:47,440 Speaker 1: position where there is no good choice. I just have 551 00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:52,080 Speaker 1: to use what's been given to me. If I would 552 00:34:52,120 --> 00:34:54,320 Speaker 1: play by the rules, if I was playing against a 553 00:34:54,440 --> 00:34:57,840 Speaker 1: person who believed in rules. We are dealing with a 554 00:34:57,960 --> 00:35:02,919 Speaker 1: man who is obviously an authoritarian. This is he said 555 00:35:02,960 --> 00:35:05,120 Speaker 1: it out loud with his own mouth. It's a power graph, 556 00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:09,920 Speaker 1: and at some point there's a reality of like I, 557 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:15,480 Speaker 1: I would do more damage, I would allow for more 558 00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:20,520 Speaker 1: suffering by holding onto my principle. If the point of 559 00:35:20,680 --> 00:35:24,400 Speaker 1: my principle is to reduce harm, then this is the 560 00:35:24,480 --> 00:35:28,720 Speaker 1: way to reduce harm. But it's only temporary. It's only 561 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:37,960 Speaker 1: until this threat has been eliminated. I in a personal example, 562 00:35:38,160 --> 00:35:40,080 Speaker 1: I don't like fighting. 563 00:35:40,239 --> 00:35:42,640 Speaker 2: I don't like VII. Some of my homies like it. 564 00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:46,400 Speaker 2: Shit is not fun to me. I prefer not to. 565 00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:49,799 Speaker 1: I don't want to get in the know. Even when 566 00:35:49,800 --> 00:35:51,320 Speaker 1: I was younger, I don't want to get in the know. 567 00:35:52,280 --> 00:35:54,239 Speaker 1: No situations I don't want. I like it, that's not 568 00:35:55,080 --> 00:36:01,359 Speaker 1: I don't want that, but I will because there are 569 00:36:01,400 --> 00:36:05,640 Speaker 1: certain things, like there are certain things that levels of 570 00:36:05,680 --> 00:36:13,759 Speaker 1: importance that's transcend my desire for tranquility. And sometimes the 571 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:16,520 Speaker 1: way to get to tranquility, the way to get to 572 00:36:16,719 --> 00:36:20,640 Speaker 1: peace is through the door of violence. Sometimes that's case. 573 00:36:20,680 --> 00:36:25,120 Speaker 1: Sometimes you just got a scrap, right, And when we 574 00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:28,279 Speaker 1: do this, maybe this was the time, maybe we did 575 00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:30,680 Speaker 1: need to redistrict a little bit. Maybe we were like 576 00:36:30,880 --> 00:36:34,839 Speaker 1: having a situation where our needs weren't actually being met 577 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:36,719 Speaker 1: the way that we wanted them to be because we 578 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:41,320 Speaker 1: were holding onto our principles in a way that was 579 00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:49,440 Speaker 1: becoming detrimental. And then also, should the House flip the 580 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,280 Speaker 1: way that President Trump is trying to make it flip, 581 00:36:54,080 --> 00:36:57,080 Speaker 1: it puts California in a position to where, like you said, 582 00:36:57,120 --> 00:36:59,040 Speaker 1: you want us to worry about us, this is us 583 00:36:59,120 --> 00:37:04,480 Speaker 1: worrying about us because this means that issues that affect 584 00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:08,879 Speaker 1: us that come from the Federals, we would lose even 585 00:37:09,080 --> 00:37:13,400 Speaker 1: more authority and power in ways to push back at 586 00:37:13,600 --> 00:37:17,080 Speaker 1: like did we not have did the Marines not come 587 00:37:17,160 --> 00:37:20,319 Speaker 1: to our streets? That granted they quietly slipped out because 588 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:22,960 Speaker 1: they wasn't doing none here. It was literally National Guard 589 00:37:23,080 --> 00:37:25,479 Speaker 1: just left. Nothing was happening because there was no point 590 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:27,840 Speaker 1: in being here. Right, But I shouldn't have had to 591 00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:28,800 Speaker 1: put y'all through all that. 592 00:37:29,440 --> 00:37:32,120 Speaker 2: That sucked. It sucked that we had to go through 593 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:35,120 Speaker 2: all that, right sucked. 594 00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:40,840 Speaker 1: It put undue unnecessary stress on the whole team. And 595 00:37:40,960 --> 00:37:44,440 Speaker 1: it's only gonna get worse unless we do something. 596 00:37:45,239 --> 00:37:46,360 Speaker 2: And what we got. 597 00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:51,719 Speaker 1: Is a weapon over here that we put away. What 598 00:37:51,880 --> 00:37:55,479 Speaker 1: we got over here is a tool that we said 599 00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,080 Speaker 1: we did not want to use, but we still got 600 00:37:58,120 --> 00:38:00,319 Speaker 1: it and if we can just use it just for now. 601 00:38:00,719 --> 00:38:03,480 Speaker 1: But we already put in safeguards. The safeguards is the 602 00:38:03,560 --> 00:38:05,279 Speaker 1: fact that we have to vote on it. And what 603 00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,120 Speaker 1: we're voting on is the three year thing. Now, if 604 00:38:08,120 --> 00:38:09,440 Speaker 1: we want to extend it for three years, we got 605 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:11,920 Speaker 1: to come and ask you again too. We can't just 606 00:38:12,000 --> 00:38:14,080 Speaker 1: do it again. We have to ask y'all. So what 607 00:38:14,160 --> 00:38:18,200 Speaker 1: we're saying is we're already adding the safeguards and we're 608 00:38:18,239 --> 00:38:20,960 Speaker 1: put in a position that we don't want to be 609 00:38:21,040 --> 00:38:24,720 Speaker 1: in If I don't stop him, if we don't do anything, 610 00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:26,719 Speaker 1: he not only gonna slap the shit out of us, 611 00:38:26,719 --> 00:38:28,440 Speaker 1: he's gonna slap shit out of the rest of the States. 612 00:38:28,520 --> 00:38:30,160 Speaker 1: And to be honest, you know why the other states 613 00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,160 Speaker 1: ain't doing it because they don't have a weapon we got. 614 00:38:32,200 --> 00:38:33,239 Speaker 2: They not as big as us. 615 00:38:33,520 --> 00:38:36,280 Speaker 1: We can't feel like being one of the biggest spots 616 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:38,640 Speaker 1: here is kind of on us to do it. I 617 00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:41,840 Speaker 1: have to scribe, and if I lose, so be it, 618 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:46,600 Speaker 1: so be it. Because you're right, you might lose. We 619 00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:48,879 Speaker 1: might redistrict and still not get the amount of seats 620 00:38:48,920 --> 00:38:49,600 Speaker 1: that you want to get. 621 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:51,120 Speaker 2: But you know what, so be it, so be it. 622 00:38:51,680 --> 00:38:53,040 Speaker 2: Votes might go the opposite way. 623 00:38:53,480 --> 00:38:55,839 Speaker 1: And if the votes actually go the opposite way, it's 624 00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,480 Speaker 1: actually more reflective of what's going on in Cali anyway, 625 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:02,080 Speaker 1: and that's actually a good thing. That's the arguments for now. 626 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:06,080 Speaker 1: The outliers is do you trust Gavin Newsom? Do you 627 00:39:06,160 --> 00:39:09,040 Speaker 1: trust the system? Do you trust his motives? And also 628 00:39:09,840 --> 00:39:11,000 Speaker 1: is Texas gonna go through it? 629 00:39:11,640 --> 00:39:12,279 Speaker 2: Go through with this? 630 00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:16,759 Speaker 1: And what if Trump changes his mind because you know 631 00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:19,839 Speaker 1: he's freestyling up there, so we may go through all 632 00:39:19,920 --> 00:39:22,359 Speaker 1: this reply to all this jump and frogging his nigga, 633 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:27,080 Speaker 1: just get over it, right? Maybe what if this is 634 00:39:27,160 --> 00:39:29,040 Speaker 1: all just because he ain't try to he's still trying 635 00:39:29,040 --> 00:39:34,560 Speaker 1: to avoid the Epstein shit. What if he's just preemptively 636 00:39:34,680 --> 00:39:38,880 Speaker 1: doing this and he's still and Texas pulls through and 637 00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:44,080 Speaker 1: doesn't get the five seats and then he still wins. 638 00:39:45,480 --> 00:39:50,640 Speaker 2: Like there's there's so many variables, there's so many outliers. 639 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:55,520 Speaker 1: Ain't got answered. I'm just saying we're scrapping or what 640 00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:13,920 Speaker 1: we'll decide November fourth politics. All right, now, don't you 641 00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,920 Speaker 1: hit stop on this pod. You better listen to these credits. 642 00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,000 Speaker 1: I need you to finish this thing so I can 643 00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:23,319 Speaker 1: get the download numbers. Okay, so don't stop it yet, 644 00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:28,280 Speaker 1: but listen. 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