November 12, 2025 • 47 mins
After the November 6th elections, the record breaking government shutdown, and the Supreme Court deciding about IEEPA and SNAP, I gotta be honest, I don't see the play here.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Calls media. All right, one of the things. First of all,
welcome to hood politics of prop. You know what it
is your boy been On a personal note, Yeah, I
had a water leak that turned into a gas leak.
(00:22):
May it turned into a gas leak mainly because I
cut the gas line thinking it was the water line.
It was under concrete. But now I know what piped
dope is. Now I know the difference between galvanized and
black steel. I have crawled up under my house multiple times.
I know how to solder. Now I know what a
union is. Just blue collar prop. I thought I was done.
(00:46):
Then I realized the lady that lives in my back house. Yeah,
her sink was clogged. So now I know how to
cut PVC pipe and redo sinks. Not bad for a
rapper from South Central now well born in South Central.
Don't listen, I am from the six to six. You know,
say ay more echelon Anyway, I am completely off topic.
(01:09):
What I like about this show is, if I were
to evaluate the show, evaluate myself. If I do say
you sold myself, is that I feel like it was
my strength as a high school teacher, as a musician,
a poet, and even just like navigating the waters of
(01:29):
sort of gang stuff as a child, and then gang
stuff when I was attempting to do intervention when I
was a teacher working in the city. Is the ability
to at least understand and articulate positions, whether I hold
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to them or not, Like I understand what you're saying
and can argue it for you. I might have to
give a shout out to mister Jeffries, my eleventh grade
English teacher who who probably wanted to like very out
of the box teacher. We had to I remember at
the end of you know, eleventh grade California, you gotta
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read of Mice and Men, And we had to put
Lenny on trial for killing George, you know, or put
George on child for killing Lenny. Yeah, put Lenny on
child for killing George. Yeah. He wanted to let me
tendim rabbits, So yeah, we had to put him on trial.
And I remember I was on his defense. George on
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child for killing Lenny, that's what it was, and that
it was like a mercy killing. And yeah, anyway, I
remember him being like, whether you think it's right or
not is besides the point. And that was I think
in a lot of ways a catalyst to how I
was able to, you know, kind of move on and
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be able to you know, empathize better anyway. So I
don't My point is I don't have to agree with it.
I can understand it. And I tried to bring that
to what hood politics for prop is. It's it's reading
the lick. It's I'm telling you this what they're saying.
There's my education hat in the sense of like, what
the hell is a filibuster? Like we've done that before,
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you know what I'm saying. But then there's the like
all right, especially in a time that's so polarized, to
where you're just like, wait, what the what are you? What?
How does anyone think this? And I'm like, okay, well,
I'm just saying this how they think this? You know,
I can see the play. Whether I agree with the
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play or not, I can see it, or at least
I can see a play. Maybe that's not the play
they doing, but I could see could see the play.
But this time, especially given the results of this last
sets of elections and the moves Big Donnie are making
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the way for which he's care and himself post election
the Hills, he's willing to die on the stances he's taken.
I'm not gonna hold you. I don't see the play
on this one, theod politics, y'all. All right, So this
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is what I mean by I don't see the play.
Let's set up the clipboard here, you know what I'm saying,
little basketball reference. Let's let's do the ex's and o's.
All right. So, walking into the November sixth elections, right,
you had us in Cali voting on whether we was
going Jerry Mander or not. You know, you had Virginia
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Jersey and of course the big one with with with
the you know nine to eleven part two, head ass,
These fools are ridiculous with Zora Mam Donnie and just
absolute w's right, Like, uh, these are things that I'm
gonna talk about on the on the on the tap
end where it's like, yeah, there's that's big, you know
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what I'm saying. Like, I do have some critiques on
how the pundits continue to always fall into the same trap.
This is a referendum on Trump. They always say that,
but I'm talking about that on the sap end. But
the reality is whether it was very progressive, you know,
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democratic socialists with Mandannie or it was very centrist. Uh,
you know, kind of milk toast Republicans up in Jersey. Homegirl,
what's homegirl name? Oh spam Burger. How you gonna forget
that name? That girl names spam Berger. I look, listen,
that's just funny. Anyway, that's the first woman governor. But
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you know she you know what I'm saying, she uh,
you know she she more of a centrist. She more
in a like Obama Obama cut anyway. So whether it
was like moderate Democrat or extreme Democrat, it's just w's
the folks that which continues to happen to people that
Trump endorses, especially in the midterms. They keep taking these ls. Now,
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this is normal, you know what I'm saying, Like usually
the opposition party in the mid turn cleans up. So
you know, you know what I'm saying, don't pop the
champagnes yet, you feel me. But his response is happening
while the Supreme Court has finally taken on some of
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the most serious situations and making rulings around things. That also,
so federal courts are making rulings around things that Trump
put was all in on. He was betting the House
on a couple of the things that the Supreme Court
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was counting on. But this was wild and around the
same time. Now, obviously the timing is not his fault,
but this all happening at the same time, and to
be honest, the way that he's maneuvering in this I
just I don't see the play. Now, let me tell
you the plays that I did understand as to help
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explain what I mean by I'm not sure I see
this play and listen, hit me up. Maybe I'm tripping.
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So let's back up the clock to the USA I
D thing. Let's back up the clock to the beginning
of the year when we did the maybe ninety when
we were talking about like what is uh, what is
Big Beautiful Bill Act? And the plan, the the the
play that he was gonna run that we knew he
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was running. One of which I want to talk about
it here, which is like, okay, I see the play
here was the us AI D Okay. Obviously, as someone
who sits on the board for a humanitarian org that
uses a lot of US A I D. Of which
we have a board meeting next week where we're gonna
discuss how literally mouths are going unfed because of the
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cutting of this money. Now, I could see the play there.
I know. We did a whole episode on soft power,
which means that I disagree with the play. I think
the play is evil, but I see it and I
understand it. Right. So the idea was Congress runs the money.
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Congress gets to choose where the money go. That is
like the quintessential power of Congress is the purse. Now,
as many ways as that could get corrupted. At the
end of the day, if they give up the power
to control the money, they're useless. That's like it. Which
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remember this point becase I'm gonna talk about it later
because of all people, Brent Kavanaugh bring it up. Right, So,
if y'all don't control the money, if you don't, like,
what is what is you doing there? Right? The money
was already allocated. You supposed to do this. Let me
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take you back to Trump one point. Oh, the money
for Ukraine. That was the situation. That was the whole
thing with Ukraine. He was like, I ain't paying them
shit unless they do this for me. And Congress was like,
my nigga, you don't get to decide that. We decide
to budget. You go do the stuff I tell you
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to do and to quote Andrew Jackson, arguably one of
the worst humans on earth. Let the courts send their army.
You understand what that means. See the courts they don't
have an army. Right, So the Congress say, you're supposed
to spend money like this. The presidents say, I ain't
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doing it. The courts say, sir, you gotta do it.
He say, okay, come make me hey right, because you
can't make it, We're gonna find him. Like what So anyway,
we didn't already set aside the money for across the world.
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Trump say, if you make me do it, I ain't
gonna do it. Matter of fact, I'm cutting it. Matter
of fact, I'm shutting down the thing. Now listen, whether
you set aside the money or not, if you close
the office, ain't nothing to do about the money. Now,
if y'all remember this, the money was again. Money was
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already cut. The food, the palettes, they was, the medicines,
they was already allocated. They sitting there warehouses, own palletts.
He was like, let it rot. I ain't sending that shit.
I mean, it is evil, but listen, but I see
the play. The play was not only for America to know.
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When I said America first, I meant it. We're gonna
do this somewhere else. I'm not playing games with y'all.
The play was I told y'all the rest of the
world gonna do their fair share. I'm not finna be
the bread basket for the rest of the world. You nigga,
y'all send y'all palettes. That's what I said I was
gonna do. So it was not only to tell a
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lot of things. To tell Congress, I need you to
know what time it is. Y'all can't make me do nothing.
I need the courts to understand. I put y'all in position.
Y'all can't make me do nothing. I'm gonna do what
I think is right, or I'm gonna do what I
think I want to do, whether it's right or not.
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I don't know if that's the point. He just gonna
do it. I see the play there. And the play
was also to the rest of the un and the
developed countries to be like nah fam new Sheriff, homeboy.
I ain't scared of y'all, and I ain't scared of him,
meaning his own country. I ain't scared of my Congress
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I ain't scared of these courts, and I, for shore,
ain't scared of y'all. This is what we're doing. I
see the play now, starved because of it, because, as
far as I'm concerned, a man as heartless. But uh,
I see the play. He could even decide later, right,
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I can again, I can see the play. I can
see him saying, I might decide later that it's advantageous
for me. You know, mister, I need my peace prize.
I need my Nobel Peace Prize. I still don't understand
how you could refuse to give aid to starving children
and still think you deserve a peace prize. De Cease
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fire in guys that has not ceased. Over two hundred
people have died since. This is not a I digress.
The point is I saw the play. His tariff's thing again, ridiculous,
just by anybody who's ever bought something. But I see
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the play. He can say, listen, I have earned so
many trillion dollars for the country via tariffs. Now, according
to the data, who's been paying that money that's going
in is a good twenty percent of that has been consumers. Now,
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so he could argue it's not y'all paying for this
our strong arm, these companies, our strong arm, these corporations,
our strong arm, these other foreign entities, and now this
is what we getting. I'm making us bread. The problem
is how you making us bread and won't pay for
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snap where that bread going? And the second problem is
the reason why the stuff haven't got to the consumers yet.
I know this for a fact. Let me tell you why.
I know this for a fact because I'm brand ambassadors
for multiple companies, whether it was Mirror. You know what
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I'm saying for y'all listening. I'm holding up my terraform
the City cup. You feel me. It's blurry when I
put okay there it is now it's not blurry. If
you've ordered any prop merch, my hoodies, the cups, it's mere.
You know why the prices haven't gone up, It's because
they knew this was coming and stocked up, so they
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ain't already had this stuff. But the holidays are coming,
You're probably out of inventory by now, which means you're
gonna have to ship some product in which means the
price finna go up. So but again I could see
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the play because for six months you could say this
is what we've been doing. Why you mad at us?
The ice raids? It's evil. I see the play because
you do it in cities that you think your voters
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aren't in. Ain't nobody there, y'all, y'all gonna fly. That's
why we're doing this city. That's why we're doing the
Hellscapes thing. I'm like, you're not gonna fly to Portland.
You're not gonna fly to New York. Y'all not gonna
go over there. You're scared of New York. You feel me,
You're scared of l A. Y'all not gonna come over here.
So I could paint this narrative to you as to
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why I'm doing it. I also think I don't know
what the trade off is between him and Steven Miller.
I don't know what Steven Miller getting this. Man don
make no damn sense. But I see it. If this
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goes wrong, I got I see the play. If it
goes wrong, you could just blame him, just like Steve
Banner and Elon Musk. You just blame them it go wrong.
I'll let y'all do it. It go bad and not
my fault. And he is standing on multiple years of
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data about that you know, how I know is again
by his answer from these last elections. I'm gonna talk
about this what I don't get next? All right, we're back.
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What does man truth? How many people on true social
I mean, I guess I could google this, but I mean,
how many people there that are people that is not just?
I feel like he talking to five people in seven
d e thousand bots. But what do I know? Anyway,
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he was like, the Republicans lost for two reasons. I
ain't on the ballot, and the people is blaming you
for the shutdown. I don't see the play, Donnie. Why
would you say that? You saying this in the midst
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of the fact that the Supreme Court is questioning AEPA.
You know what is I know, it's a funny word,
That's what it is. It's yet another acronym. What the
courts are just is Trump took over the reigins of
the tariffs. Remember I told you to remember about Congress
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and money, because he was claiming we were in a
state of emergency, and the courts are saying, even if
we were in the states of emergency, what the hell
I got to do with tariffs? Is it that Congress's job.
He was like, well, it's kind of a tax, you know,
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and Congress controls the taxes, but we're in an emergency.
I feel like under APA, I'm allowed to take over
the taxes. Now, let me get into the weeds for you.
AIPA stands for International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and it
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was in nineteen seventy seven when we when it signed
into law, and it gives the president the right to
regulate international economic transactions during a national emergency. Right, so
this is the law he used to be able to
start tariffing the hell out of everybody. But there's two
questions that seem to be so obvious. First of all,
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what emergency? What was the emergency? What? What? What? What?
What was the emergency? And then do you get to
declare an emergency in the same way Michael Scott gets
to declare bankruptcy because it seemed like that's what you
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just did. But you have to remember the cornerstone, the
the the the the the I mean, y'all, like this listen,
this is this is Trump's dog on uh uh, his
version of like they not like us, not in a contest,
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but in the sense that like you betting the house
on this one like this is like you like this
to like the tariffs and the making of the money, Like, bro,
this is a cornerstone this show, like this is this
gotta work. And it seemed like you putting the entire
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weight on a rather flimsy law. So I'm like, I
don't see the play, homie, Like, don't you feel like
if you're gonna put your whole your whole second term legacy,
don't you want to be standing on ten feet of
concrete fam like this, I don't get it, bro, Like
this is this is a flimsy law for you to
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stand your whole thing on because look, look, look look,
let me let me again, let me get into some
nerdery with you. Remember his his sting, it's about an emergency,
was that we're under an invasion from foreign ads and
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those aids are venezuela like NIGGI like you are. You
are threading some strings right now. But according to The
New York Times, he which is actually this is good
reporting here section two thirty two of a nineteen sixty
two law. What he said is that I'm imposing tariffs
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in response to a national security threats using section two
thirty two of the nineteen sixty two trade law that
legal provisions differs from IPA because it requires an investigation
and a report that must be issued within two hundred
and seventy days. Now, this provision focus on imports that
threaten or to impair US national security. The issue with
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that is, we're that report. Why would you use that? Sir? So,
he got these two things that he thinking, Okay, since
one of them is flimsy, I'm gonna try this other one.
The problem is the other one flimsy too. I do
not see the play. Now, we don't know as of
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today what the Supreme Court gonna decide. Now, granted this
may come out. The Supreme Court might might decide something differently.
But if he were to do this using the laws
that he's trying to use, then there's no point in
Congress because, like I said, Congress posts to control the money,
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and the conservative judges is kind of going, well, hold on, now,
remember y'all, remember y'all, don't sign my check. Y'all, don't
marri name my chicken. I look, I decide what I decide.
That don't make them curious. That just mean they think
what they think. So there's a chance that they would
be like you, actually, you actually can't do this tariff stuff.
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So he's like, I said, I may have lost my
train of thought a second ear but he said, I'm
using these laws to authorize sanctions in criminal courts and
as a foundation for the fact that I can do
these tariffs for around the world because we're in an emergency.
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What I've noticed so far about the Supreme Court is
they're not willing to broach the question of what constitutes
an emergency, because once you broach that question, you're up
for appeals, you're up for lawsuits. Because should that be
in the president's power to be able to declare what
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an emergency is and what it isn't. Is there some
sort of checking balance around when you decide something is
an emergency or not? Like do you gotta prove it?
But like prove it to who? Prove it to the courts,
prove it to Congress, prove to American people. They like,
I don't know, I mean, it seemed like nerdery, but like,
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I just know we could already say Venezuela ain't attacking us.
What emergency, sir? And even if it was, do that
mean you get to tear off the earth. The court's
gonna decide, and I gotta be honest with you Trump,
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like I be honest with you, Donnie. I don't see
the play, homie, like I just you standing on something
pretty flimsy. Let me tell you another thing. I don't
see the play on you broke he in peace in
the Middle East next. All right, we're back, sir. It's
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too many variables. I don't see the play, Homie. I
see the bet. I saw the bet, but I don't
see the play you. I don't understand. I feel like
I have gained respect in Trump's ability to read a lick,
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an ability to be like, yeah, this is a lick.
Let me just go hit this lick and get out
of here. I also understand and his hubris to believe
that I've done it before, I'll do it again. I
can finess anybody, but I feel like the l's he
keep taking in Russia and Ukraine should have taught him
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something about bb net and Yahoo. You work it with
somebody you can't trust, and he has staked his entire
reputation on fixing a conflict that is a thousand years old.
I don't see the play, hommy. You can't keep saying
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I broke her to cease fire when the fire has
not ceased. But you're the one that said that you
owned it. You gonna blame bb How you finna do that?
When you like again, these are supposed to be your legacy.
You want that. You want that peace prize so bad
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you all over the world right now, which also reminds
me of the third part that I don't see to
play on. But sir, like, why would you own this?
You gotta like, I just don't understand. It's too many variables.
It's too many, like it's too willy nilly. You can't, oh, listen,
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when you're about to commit a crime. Let me not
say it like that. Let me say it like this.
When I know I'm about to travel, I'm about to
go to a place that may or may not have
good coffee. I eliminate variables by bringing the poor igami
copyright mir Tim. It's a setup. I have a hand grinder.
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I packed the beans myself. I bring some beans. I
bring some coffee, because listen, I'm just eliminating variables. Now,
it's great if we get there and it's got great
coffee and we're good. I don't know some of y'all
may have seen some of them. Little travel they selling
now where you could put a little whiskeys inside of
your little things. They look like your toilet trees. You
just eliminating variables. I'm a touring artist. Sometimes you don't
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get out the venue till two in the morning, and
I am not going to know after hours in Toadsuck Arkansas.
No less one, because there isn't any after hours in
toad Suck Arkansas. But two it's toad Suck Arkansas. This
is a shout out to Toadsuck Arkansas because I have
performed there and y'all always crack up. Y'all crack me
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up when you see that. I bring it up anyway.
Sometimes you in you know, an hour outside of Grand Rapids,
and maybe there's an Irish pub, but I am not
walking into that Irish pub. He's Dutch Reformed Calvinists, like
I'm leaving him alone. You have to eliminate variables, okay.
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And when you gonna claim something as your thing, you
gotta know. You gotta read, You gotta read the room,
you gotta know the exit. Sometimes it's too many variables,
so you fall back. I'm gonna let y'all. I mean,
if it work, it worked. But I'm gonna let y'all
like y'all were gonna see. I don't understand why he
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wasn't like look dog, And I do understand why in
this sense because he just don't have it in him.
But to just be like yo, b be a wild card.
I can't like what. Let me tell you why. Because
he's saying that about Putin. It clicked with Putin to
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be like, look, man, we be having great meetings. It'd
be dope, I walk away. He do whatever you want.
He's figured out how to be like look, man, I
thought I could do it, but that man crazy. I
don't know why. I don't see the play, homie. Why
why did you not approach Israel the same way? My
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one thought is maybe this is the play is because
he still wants to own Gayza like I'm still just
trying to build Guys, I worked the deal, you feel
me like I'm trying to trying to get trying to
get Trump Mediterranean. You know what I'm staying. I'm saying Trump
towers Mediterranean, you feel me. I don't know. The point is,
maybe that's the play, but I just don't see the
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owning of the Jared Kushner back during COVID made it
very clear to Trump. He said, hey, listen, don't own
don't own the pandemic, own the solution. That's not your
fault that this happened, but I'm gonna own this operation
warp Speed. The problem was his followers became all anti vacs,
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So now you can't own the solution. That's a weird
play bro. Anyway. The last one I don't understand is
these snap benefits. Okay, out of your own mouth, you
see that it's not working, you as in Donald Trump
sees that it's not working, blaming the Democrats because nigga duh,
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y'all control every part, every lever of government. The Republicans
control every level of government. So how could it possibly
be the Democrat's fault? We don't. They ain't got no power.
The only power they got are the one thing that
they holding out on. Now, it would be different if
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the Democrats was holding out on something petty, something trivial,
or something like Marxists, something like Hella extreme where it's like,
you know what I think, every we are not signing
this until every CEO divests from supporting Israeli companies that
would be different. Then you could be like, I'm putting words.
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I'm just I'm giving you a crazy experience like that
would be dope, but I'm giving you a crazy Like
if they was like, yeah, the Democrats went full anti
Zionist and was like, we are not signing, we are
holding up this until you agree to denounce bbing that
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in Yahoo and Zionist, then he could be like them
niggas is tripping. I could see the play. Then you
stand on Tanto's to be like they're being ridiculous, and
then you could look at the crowd and be like,
y'all them snap benefits is default, Like, I just don't
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understand why they won't sign the shit you want me
to denounce. You won't you gonna hold up these people's
food because I won't denounce a president that ain't gonna
be president forever? What is you talking about? That's not
what's happening. What the Democrats are standing their ground on
is fairly reasonable, matter of fact, it's bare minimum. All
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they say is, Nigga, we don't trust you to come
back to circle back after the holidays for this one.
Y'all not gonna circle back on this one. I need
you to agree right now that you're gonna continue the
subsidies for the Affordable Care Act for the services they
already getting. Like they already getting the services. I'm just saying,
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will you agree that you not gonna let their premiums triple?
That's all I'm saying. They already broke. We just said like,
I don't know if you go, and I feel like
people got sense. So he understands that you could say, oh,
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I mean, I'm ready to go to Democrats won't do
this now. His attitude is when you listen to what
he's talking about, he like in the filibusters, like this
is stupid, Like what are we waiting for now? That's
easy for him to say. If y'all remember the day
bus we bust philibuster with holes man, it's all wrapping
around here. I hope y'all been sticking around with me.
You feel me, you boy, But trying to teach y'all listen,
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you understand what a philibuster you feel me was good
for the goose. You understand I'm saying, what goes around
comes around. They bus, we bus, you break this philibuster,
my nigga at some point you're not gonna be in
power either. You gonna want that philibuster, you feel me Like,
so when you when you do that, you I remember
it might beat you blue black. You can't just be
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breaking the filibusters. Now, the Congress, they the ones that
gotta deal with. President. Gotta deal with it. President, like,
I don't understan what negotiations. President interested in negotiating with nobody, nigga.
He talking to the Republicans like, what is y'all doing?
Grow a pair and break the filibuster and Republican UH
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senators and congress folkus like, it's not that simple, miss President.
We can't just be breaking It's not that simple. He like,
if that's the case, y'all look like herbs. So for him,
it's like I said, I don't see the play, but
for him as very simple. He's like, well, the player
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is get the people clearly need their food, and they
blaming you subtexts us because it's their fault. But they
blaming you in the shit and be a hero. So
for him, he's like, it makes perfect sense. Meanwhile, like
I said, what is happening in the courts is the
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courts is saying, sir, I don't care nothing about your strategies.
You need to feed these people. I don't understand what
we're talking about. There are emergency funds. Feed the people. Now.
I could see him slow walking it the way that
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he slow walked usaid like, I will get to it
until until it don't happen. I could see that, but
I don't see the play in when they said to
do it, he sued them, I ain't feeding them people.
No grocery stores, do y'all know thise grocery stores was like, look, dude,
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we'll just do fifty percent off. Dog. We know you're
not gonna get your money. They only gonna give you
part of your money. Then you only get half your money.
Will only charge you half. You know. The Trump administration
sued to block that. My nigga said, let them people starve. Now,
let me ask you this, what do you think the
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percentage of Trump voters are recipients of SNAP? Take a guess,
I'll wait give up. Yeah, there's no data that shows it. Ah,
there's no like clear data that says this percentage of
SNAP benefits are Trump voters. But I'll tell you what
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we do know y'all ready for this. So it's forty
two million SNAP benefits people, one in five Americans. It's
a lot of people right now, he said, Oh, this
is mainly gonna hurt Democratic voters, all right, here we go.
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Nearly sixty percent of Americans enrolled in SNAP are either
children under eighteen or adults sixty or over. Like one
in five non elderly adults with SNAP benefits have a disability.
Y'all ready for this. Less than ten percent of people
receiving SNAP benefits are able bodied adults without children who
are between ages of nineteen and forty nine. Fifty five
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percent of all families with children that receive SNAP benefits
include at least one employed adult. Now, of the ten
states with the highest percentage of people on SNAP, five
are also in the top ten four percentage of population
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in poverty New Mexico, Louisiana, Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Nevada.
Those are not Democratic states. Air quotes West Virginia. Cuz
who you think you not letting yo? What I'm trying
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to say is not letting your own people eat. Now
watch this. A little over thirty five percent of the
people who get SNAP benefits are white, more than any
other racial ethnic group, around twenty six percent are black
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and sixteen percent are Hispanic, although more white people are
enrolled in SNAP, since its data shows that the greatest
percentage of black people get these benefits twenty four point
four percent of black people and seventeen point two percent
of Hispanic people compared to nine point seven percent of
white people. That's because these groups are disproportionately poorer. See,
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this is why we say racism affects everything. All that
to say this that is apparently a very black thing.
I say all that to say this, mind you. Anyway,
the largest share of Americans with SNAP benefits are white people.
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So you need to tell your boy Steven Miller, My dog,
I don't see the play taking food out of people's mouth?
My g? Are you proving a point? Is this a leverage?
Like and to and to have all this happening, My nigga,
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was you at the White House with Victor Darwin? Did
you just send forty two million dollars to Argentina for
some steaks? My g, My nigga, you have been in
every country, but this one got home and threw a
party at mar Lago. My dog, you threw a party, y'all?
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Remember when we did the Black ag Uh when I
had Homeboy that was talking about how the USDA was
not giving loans in support to black and Indigenous farmers
where you think them loans was going to them white farmers.
Guess what's happening? That money gone them white people? Is like,
my nigga, what are you? What is happening, Donnie? I
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don't see the play, homie, Like, is you doing this
off of principality? My g? Is it the principalities of
the situation? You still feel like this snap thing is
a leverage? You think you hurting us on some quit
hitting yourself? Is you like, I don't get it? Bro?
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Like you exterminating the roaches by burning the house down? Yeah,
you done killed the roaches, you feel me, But you
donet burnt the house down. I'm just saying, Donnie, I don't.
I don't see the play on this one. And even
when the courts was like, even when your crew was like,
my G, I don't understand. This is a bad look, homie.
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You throwing a great Gatsby head ass party. Niggas can't
eat Like, I don't. I don't see the play. Maybe
the play will reveal itself by the time on this
episode come out. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about,
but I gotta tell you, fam you about to take
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two l's in the Supreme Court, and both of those
l's are around your landmark. Like you built the you,
you built the team, this show. You built the team
on this. This, This is the campaign song. This the
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lead single, my ge what you give you? A little
hip hop history here. You know the song the Pharaoumont
song that has the Godzilla sample, burn Burned Purp, Get
the fuck up? Simon says, throw your hands in. So
(43:54):
that song was this is about to be a swirling circle.
First of all, Pharaoh Maatch is probably my favorite rapper ever. Anyway,
that song came out on Internal Affairs, a record that
was a part of Ruckus Records. That's Ruckus Records gave
us most defan quality all the soundbounding albums. All right.
(44:16):
Rucus was an amazing label. Get this was founded by
Rupert Murdoch's son just I Like, I don't know what
to tell you. Anyway, that sample from the movie Godzilla.
It bankrupt the label. They couldn't afford the sample. The
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song was too dope. So looking back, do you try
to replay the sample, or do you say to yourself,
this is hip hop. It was worth it. This is
one of the greatest rap songs of all time. All
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I'm saying is, you bet the house on a sample
you couldn't clear. It was a dope sample, but it
folded label. I don't know, man, Trump is this? Joe
Simon says, this is it. You bet the house on
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a sample you can't clear. You could be like yeah,
but it was. It was really dope, making people not
be able to eat. I really like these tariffs. It
was it was it was worth it. I don't know, man,
I'm just not sure. I see the play. Good politics, y'all.
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Calls media. All right, one of the things. First of all,
welcome to hood politics of prop. You know what it
is your boy been On a personal note, Yeah, I
had a water leak that turned into a gas leak.
(00:22):
May it turned into a gas leak mainly because I
cut the gas line thinking it was the water line.
It was under concrete. But now I know what piped
dope is. Now I know the difference between galvanized and
black steel. I have crawled up under my house multiple times.
I know how to solder. Now I know what a
union is. Just blue collar prop. I thought I was done.
(00:46):
Then I realized the lady that lives in my back house. Yeah,
her sink was clogged. So now I know how to
cut PVC pipe and redo sinks. Not bad for a
rapper from South Central now well born in South Central.
Don't listen, I am from the six to six. You know,
say ay more echelon Anyway, I am completely off topic.
(01:09):
What I like about this show is, if I were
to evaluate the show, evaluate myself. If I do say
you sold myself, is that I feel like it was
my strength as a high school teacher, as a musician,
a poet, and even just like navigating the waters of
(01:29):
sort of gang stuff as a child, and then gang
stuff when I was attempting to do intervention when I
was a teacher working in the city. Is the ability
to at least understand and articulate positions, whether I hold
(01:50):
to them or not, Like I understand what you're saying
and can argue it for you. I might have to
give a shout out to mister Jeffries, my eleventh grade
English teacher who who probably wanted to like very out
of the box teacher. We had to I remember at
the end of you know, eleventh grade California, you gotta
(02:11):
read of Mice and Men, And we had to put
Lenny on trial for killing George, you know, or put
George on child for killing Lenny. Yeah, put Lenny on
child for killing George. Yeah. He wanted to let me
tendim rabbits, So yeah, we had to put him on trial.
And I remember I was on his defense. George on
(02:32):
child for killing Lenny, that's what it was, and that
it was like a mercy killing. And yeah, anyway, I
remember him being like, whether you think it's right or
not is besides the point. And that was I think
in a lot of ways a catalyst to how I
was able to, you know, kind of move on and
(02:53):
be able to you know, empathize better anyway. So I
don't My point is I don't have to agree with it.
I can understand it. And I tried to bring that
to what hood politics for prop is. It's it's reading
the lick. It's I'm telling you this what they're saying.
There's my education hat in the sense of like, what
the hell is a filibuster? Like we've done that before,
(03:14):
you know what I'm saying. But then there's the like
all right, especially in a time that's so polarized, to
where you're just like, wait, what the what are you? What?
How does anyone think this? And I'm like, okay, well,
I'm just saying this how they think this? You know,
I can see the play. Whether I agree with the
(03:36):
play or not, I can see it, or at least
I can see a play. Maybe that's not the play
they doing, but I could see could see the play.
But this time, especially given the results of this last
sets of elections and the moves Big Donnie are making
(03:58):
the way for which he's care and himself post election
the Hills, he's willing to die on the stances he's taken.
I'm not gonna hold you. I don't see the play
on this one, theod politics, y'all. All right, So this
(04:30):
is what I mean by I don't see the play.
Let's set up the clipboard here, you know what I'm saying,
little basketball reference. Let's let's do the ex's and o's.
All right. So, walking into the November sixth elections, right,
you had us in Cali voting on whether we was
going Jerry Mander or not. You know, you had Virginia
(04:54):
Jersey and of course the big one with with with
the you know nine to eleven part two, head ass,
These fools are ridiculous with Zora Mam Donnie and just
absolute w's right, Like, uh, these are things that I'm
gonna talk about on the on the on the tap
end where it's like, yeah, there's that's big, you know
(05:17):
what I'm saying. Like, I do have some critiques on
how the pundits continue to always fall into the same trap.
This is a referendum on Trump. They always say that,
but I'm talking about that on the sap end. But
the reality is whether it was very progressive, you know,
(05:37):
democratic socialists with Mandannie or it was very centrist. Uh,
you know, kind of milk toast Republicans up in Jersey. Homegirl,
what's homegirl name? Oh spam Burger. How you gonna forget
that name? That girl names spam Berger. I look, listen,
that's just funny. Anyway, that's the first woman governor. But
(06:01):
you know she you know what I'm saying, she uh,
you know she she more of a centrist. She more
in a like Obama Obama cut anyway. So whether it
was like moderate Democrat or extreme Democrat, it's just w's
the folks that which continues to happen to people that
Trump endorses, especially in the midterms. They keep taking these ls. Now,
(06:25):
this is normal, you know what I'm saying, Like usually
the opposition party in the mid turn cleans up. So
you know, you know what I'm saying, don't pop the
champagnes yet, you feel me. But his response is happening
while the Supreme Court has finally taken on some of
(06:50):
the most serious situations and making rulings around things. That also,
so federal courts are making rulings around things that Trump
put was all in on. He was betting the House
on a couple of the things that the Supreme Court
(07:11):
was counting on. But this was wild and around the
same time. Now, obviously the timing is not his fault,
but this all happening at the same time, and to
be honest, the way that he's maneuvering in this I
just I don't see the play. Now, let me tell
you the plays that I did understand as to help
(07:34):
explain what I mean by I'm not sure I see
this play and listen, hit me up. Maybe I'm tripping.
(08:07):
So let's back up the clock to the USA I
D thing. Let's back up the clock to the beginning
of the year when we did the maybe ninety when
we were talking about like what is uh, what is
Big Beautiful Bill Act? And the plan, the the the
play that he was gonna run that we knew he
(08:27):
was running. One of which I want to talk about
it here, which is like, okay, I see the play
here was the us AI D Okay. Obviously, as someone
who sits on the board for a humanitarian org that
uses a lot of US A I D. Of which
we have a board meeting next week where we're gonna
discuss how literally mouths are going unfed because of the
(08:50):
cutting of this money. Now, I could see the play there.
I know. We did a whole episode on soft power,
which means that I disagree with the play. I think
the play is evil, but I see it and I
understand it. Right. So the idea was Congress runs the money.
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Congress gets to choose where the money go. That is
like the quintessential power of Congress is the purse. Now,
as many ways as that could get corrupted. At the
end of the day, if they give up the power
to control the money, they're useless. That's like it. Which
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remember this point becase I'm gonna talk about it later
because of all people, Brent Kavanaugh bring it up. Right, So,
if y'all don't control the money, if you don't, like,
what is what is you doing there? Right? The money
was already allocated. You supposed to do this. Let me
(09:55):
take you back to Trump one point. Oh, the money
for Ukraine. That was the situation. That was the whole
thing with Ukraine. He was like, I ain't paying them
shit unless they do this for me. And Congress was like,
my nigga, you don't get to decide that. We decide
to budget. You go do the stuff I tell you
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to do and to quote Andrew Jackson, arguably one of
the worst humans on earth. Let the courts send their army.
You understand what that means. See the courts they don't
have an army. Right, So the Congress say, you're supposed
to spend money like this. The presidents say, I ain't
(10:38):
doing it. The courts say, sir, you gotta do it.
He say, okay, come make me hey right, because you
can't make it, We're gonna find him. Like what So anyway,
we didn't already set aside the money for across the world.
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Trump say, if you make me do it, I ain't
gonna do it. Matter of fact, I'm cutting it. Matter
of fact, I'm shutting down the thing. Now listen, whether
you set aside the money or not, if you close
the office, ain't nothing to do about the money. Now,
if y'all remember this, the money was again. Money was
(11:23):
already cut. The food, the palettes, they was, the medicines,
they was already allocated. They sitting there warehouses, own palletts.
He was like, let it rot. I ain't sending that shit.
I mean, it is evil, but listen, but I see
the play. The play was not only for America to know.
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When I said America first, I meant it. We're gonna
do this somewhere else. I'm not playing games with y'all.
The play was I told y'all the rest of the
world gonna do their fair share. I'm not finna be
the bread basket for the rest of the world. You nigga,
y'all send y'all palettes. That's what I said I was
gonna do. So it was not only to tell a
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lot of things. To tell Congress, I need you to
know what time it is. Y'all can't make me do nothing.
I need the courts to understand. I put y'all in position.
Y'all can't make me do nothing. I'm gonna do what
I think is right, or I'm gonna do what I
think I want to do, whether it's right or not.
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I don't know if that's the point. He just gonna
do it. I see the play there. And the play
was also to the rest of the un and the
developed countries to be like nah fam new Sheriff, homeboy.
I ain't scared of y'all, and I ain't scared of him,
meaning his own country. I ain't scared of my Congress
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I ain't scared of these courts, and I, for shore,
ain't scared of y'all. This is what we're doing. I
see the play now, starved because of it, because, as
far as I'm concerned, a man as heartless. But uh,
I see the play. He could even decide later, right,
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I can again, I can see the play. I can
see him saying, I might decide later that it's advantageous
for me. You know, mister, I need my peace prize.
I need my Nobel Peace Prize. I still don't understand
how you could refuse to give aid to starving children
and still think you deserve a peace prize. De Cease
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fire in guys that has not ceased. Over two hundred
people have died since. This is not a I digress.
The point is I saw the play. His tariff's thing again, ridiculous,
just by anybody who's ever bought something. But I see
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the play. He can say, listen, I have earned so
many trillion dollars for the country via tariffs. Now, according
to the data, who's been paying that money that's going
in is a good twenty percent of that has been consumers. Now,
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so he could argue it's not y'all paying for this
our strong arm, these companies, our strong arm, these corporations,
our strong arm, these other foreign entities, and now this
is what we getting. I'm making us bread. The problem
is how you making us bread and won't pay for
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snap where that bread going? And the second problem is
the reason why the stuff haven't got to the consumers yet.
I know this for a fact. Let me tell you why.
I know this for a fact because I'm brand ambassadors
for multiple companies, whether it was Mirror. You know what
(15:09):
I'm saying for y'all listening. I'm holding up my terraform
the City cup. You feel me. It's blurry when I
put okay there it is now it's not blurry. If
you've ordered any prop merch, my hoodies, the cups, it's mere.
You know why the prices haven't gone up, It's because
they knew this was coming and stocked up, so they
(15:32):
ain't already had this stuff. But the holidays are coming,
You're probably out of inventory by now, which means you're
gonna have to ship some product in which means the
price finna go up. So but again I could see
(15:54):
the play because for six months you could say this
is what we've been doing. Why you mad at us?
The ice raids? It's evil. I see the play because
you do it in cities that you think your voters
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aren't in. Ain't nobody there, y'all, y'all gonna fly. That's
why we're doing this city. That's why we're doing the
Hellscapes thing. I'm like, you're not gonna fly to Portland.
You're not gonna fly to New York. Y'all not gonna
go over there. You're scared of New York. You feel me,
You're scared of l A. Y'all not gonna come over here.
So I could paint this narrative to you as to
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why I'm doing it. I also think I don't know
what the trade off is between him and Steven Miller.
I don't know what Steven Miller getting this. Man don
make no damn sense. But I see it. If this
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goes wrong, I got I see the play. If it
goes wrong, you could just blame him, just like Steve
Banner and Elon Musk. You just blame them it go wrong.
I'll let y'all do it. It go bad and not
my fault. And he is standing on multiple years of
(17:20):
data about that you know, how I know is again
by his answer from these last elections. I'm gonna talk
about this what I don't get next? All right, we're back.
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What does man truth? How many people on true social
I mean, I guess I could google this, but I mean,
how many people there that are people that is not just?
I feel like he talking to five people in seven
d e thousand bots. But what do I know? Anyway,
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he was like, the Republicans lost for two reasons. I
ain't on the ballot, and the people is blaming you
for the shutdown. I don't see the play, Donnie. Why
would you say that? You saying this in the midst
(18:47):
of the fact that the Supreme Court is questioning AEPA.
You know what is I know, it's a funny word,
That's what it is. It's yet another acronym. What the
courts are just is Trump took over the reigins of
the tariffs. Remember I told you to remember about Congress
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and money, because he was claiming we were in a
state of emergency, and the courts are saying, even if
we were in the states of emergency, what the hell
I got to do with tariffs? Is it that Congress's job.
He was like, well, it's kind of a tax, you know,
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and Congress controls the taxes, but we're in an emergency.
I feel like under APA, I'm allowed to take over
the taxes. Now, let me get into the weeds for you.
AIPA stands for International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and it
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was in nineteen seventy seven when we when it signed
into law, and it gives the president the right to
regulate international economic transactions during a national emergency. Right, so
this is the law he used to be able to
start tariffing the hell out of everybody. But there's two
questions that seem to be so obvious. First of all,
(20:16):
what emergency? What was the emergency? What? What? What? What?
What was the emergency? And then do you get to
declare an emergency in the same way Michael Scott gets
to declare bankruptcy because it seemed like that's what you
(20:38):
just did. But you have to remember the cornerstone, the
the the the the the I mean, y'all, like this listen,
this is this is Trump's dog on uh uh, his
version of like they not like us, not in a contest,
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but in the sense that like you betting the house
on this one like this is like you like this
to like the tariffs and the making of the money, Like, bro,
this is a cornerstone this show, like this is this
gotta work. And it seemed like you putting the entire
(21:20):
weight on a rather flimsy law. So I'm like, I
don't see the play, homie, Like, don't you feel like
if you're gonna put your whole your whole second term legacy,
don't you want to be standing on ten feet of
concrete fam like this, I don't get it, bro, Like
this is this is a flimsy law for you to
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stand your whole thing on because look, look, look look,
let me let me again, let me get into some
nerdery with you. Remember his his sting, it's about an emergency,
was that we're under an invasion from foreign ads and
(22:05):
those aids are venezuela like NIGGI like you are. You
are threading some strings right now. But according to The
New York Times, he which is actually this is good
reporting here section two thirty two of a nineteen sixty
two law. What he said is that I'm imposing tariffs
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in response to a national security threats using section two
thirty two of the nineteen sixty two trade law that
legal provisions differs from IPA because it requires an investigation
and a report that must be issued within two hundred
and seventy days. Now, this provision focus on imports that
threaten or to impair US national security. The issue with
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that is, we're that report. Why would you use that? Sir? So,
he got these two things that he thinking, Okay, since
one of them is flimsy, I'm gonna try this other one.
The problem is the other one flimsy too. I do
not see the play. Now, we don't know as of
(23:13):
today what the Supreme Court gonna decide. Now, granted this
may come out. The Supreme Court might might decide something differently.
But if he were to do this using the laws
that he's trying to use, then there's no point in
Congress because, like I said, Congress posts to control the money,
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and the conservative judges is kind of going, well, hold on, now,
remember y'all, remember y'all, don't sign my check. Y'all, don't
marri name my chicken. I look, I decide what I decide.
That don't make them curious. That just mean they think
what they think. So there's a chance that they would
be like you, actually, you actually can't do this tariff stuff.
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So he's like, I said, I may have lost my
train of thought a second ear but he said, I'm
using these laws to authorize sanctions in criminal courts and
as a foundation for the fact that I can do
these tariffs for around the world because we're in an emergency.
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What I've noticed so far about the Supreme Court is
they're not willing to broach the question of what constitutes
an emergency, because once you broach that question, you're up
for appeals, you're up for lawsuits. Because should that be
in the president's power to be able to declare what
(24:52):
an emergency is and what it isn't. Is there some
sort of checking balance around when you decide something is
an emergency or not? Like do you gotta prove it?
But like prove it to who? Prove it to the courts,
prove it to Congress, prove to American people. They like,
I don't know, I mean, it seemed like nerdery, but like,
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I just know we could already say Venezuela ain't attacking us.
What emergency, sir? And even if it was, do that
mean you get to tear off the earth. The court's
gonna decide, and I gotta be honest with you Trump,
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like I be honest with you, Donnie. I don't see
the play, homie, like I just you standing on something
pretty flimsy. Let me tell you another thing. I don't
see the play on you broke he in peace in
the Middle East next. All right, we're back, sir. It's
(26:31):
too many variables. I don't see the play, Homie. I
see the bet. I saw the bet, but I don't
see the play you. I don't understand. I feel like
I have gained respect in Trump's ability to read a lick,
(26:52):
an ability to be like, yeah, this is a lick.
Let me just go hit this lick and get out
of here. I also understand and his hubris to believe
that I've done it before, I'll do it again. I
can finess anybody, but I feel like the l's he
keep taking in Russia and Ukraine should have taught him
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something about bb net and Yahoo. You work it with
somebody you can't trust, and he has staked his entire
reputation on fixing a conflict that is a thousand years old.
I don't see the play, hommy. You can't keep saying
(27:39):
I broke her to cease fire when the fire has
not ceased. But you're the one that said that you
owned it. You gonna blame bb How you finna do that?
When you like again, these are supposed to be your legacy.
You want that. You want that peace prize so bad
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you all over the world right now, which also reminds
me of the third part that I don't see to
play on. But sir, like, why would you own this?
You gotta like, I just don't understand. It's too many variables.
It's too many, like it's too willy nilly. You can't, oh, listen,
(28:23):
when you're about to commit a crime. Let me not
say it like that. Let me say it like this.
When I know I'm about to travel, I'm about to
go to a place that may or may not have
good coffee. I eliminate variables by bringing the poor igami
copyright mir Tim. It's a setup. I have a hand grinder.
(28:47):
I packed the beans myself. I bring some beans. I
bring some coffee, because listen, I'm just eliminating variables. Now,
it's great if we get there and it's got great
coffee and we're good. I don't know some of y'all
may have seen some of them. Little travel they selling
now where you could put a little whiskeys inside of
your little things. They look like your toilet trees. You
just eliminating variables. I'm a touring artist. Sometimes you don't
(29:08):
get out the venue till two in the morning, and
I am not going to know after hours in Toadsuck Arkansas.
No less one, because there isn't any after hours in
toad Suck Arkansas. But two it's toad Suck Arkansas. This
is a shout out to Toadsuck Arkansas because I have
performed there and y'all always crack up. Y'all crack me
(29:30):
up when you see that. I bring it up anyway.
Sometimes you in you know, an hour outside of Grand Rapids,
and maybe there's an Irish pub, but I am not
walking into that Irish pub. He's Dutch Reformed Calvinists, like
I'm leaving him alone. You have to eliminate variables, okay.
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And when you gonna claim something as your thing, you
gotta know. You gotta read, You gotta read the room,
you gotta know the exit. Sometimes it's too many variables,
so you fall back. I'm gonna let y'all. I mean,
if it work, it worked. But I'm gonna let y'all
like y'all were gonna see. I don't understand why he
(30:22):
wasn't like look dog, And I do understand why in
this sense because he just don't have it in him.
But to just be like yo, b be a wild card.
I can't like what. Let me tell you why. Because
he's saying that about Putin. It clicked with Putin to
(30:43):
be like, look, man, we be having great meetings. It'd
be dope, I walk away. He do whatever you want.
He's figured out how to be like look, man, I
thought I could do it, but that man crazy. I
don't know why. I don't see the play, homie. Why
why did you not approach Israel the same way? My
(31:03):
one thought is maybe this is the play is because
he still wants to own Gayza like I'm still just
trying to build Guys, I worked the deal, you feel
me like I'm trying to trying to get trying to
get Trump Mediterranean. You know what I'm staying. I'm saying Trump
towers Mediterranean, you feel me. I don't know. The point is,
maybe that's the play, but I just don't see the
(31:25):
owning of the Jared Kushner back during COVID made it
very clear to Trump. He said, hey, listen, don't own
don't own the pandemic, own the solution. That's not your
fault that this happened, but I'm gonna own this operation
warp Speed. The problem was his followers became all anti vacs,
(31:45):
So now you can't own the solution. That's a weird
play bro. Anyway. The last one I don't understand is
these snap benefits. Okay, out of your own mouth, you
see that it's not working, you as in Donald Trump
sees that it's not working, blaming the Democrats because nigga duh,
(32:10):
y'all control every part, every lever of government. The Republicans
control every level of government. So how could it possibly
be the Democrat's fault? We don't. They ain't got no power.
The only power they got are the one thing that
they holding out on. Now, it would be different if
(32:30):
the Democrats was holding out on something petty, something trivial,
or something like Marxists, something like Hella extreme where it's like,
you know what I think, every we are not signing
this until every CEO divests from supporting Israeli companies that
would be different. Then you could be like, I'm putting words.
(32:52):
I'm just I'm giving you a crazy experience like that
would be dope, but I'm giving you a crazy Like
if they was like, yeah, the Democrats went full anti
Zionist and was like, we are not signing, we are
holding up this until you agree to denounce bbing that
(33:13):
in Yahoo and Zionist, then he could be like them
niggas is tripping. I could see the play. Then you
stand on Tanto's to be like they're being ridiculous, and
then you could look at the crowd and be like,
y'all them snap benefits is default, Like, I just don't
(33:37):
understand why they won't sign the shit you want me
to denounce. You won't you gonna hold up these people's
food because I won't denounce a president that ain't gonna
be president forever? What is you talking about? That's not
what's happening. What the Democrats are standing their ground on
is fairly reasonable, matter of fact, it's bare minimum. All
(33:59):
they say is, Nigga, we don't trust you to come
back to circle back after the holidays for this one.
Y'all not gonna circle back on this one. I need
you to agree right now that you're gonna continue the
subsidies for the Affordable Care Act for the services they
already getting. Like they already getting the services. I'm just saying,
(34:23):
will you agree that you not gonna let their premiums triple?
That's all I'm saying. They already broke. We just said like,
I don't know if you go, and I feel like
people got sense. So he understands that you could say, oh,
(34:48):
I mean, I'm ready to go to Democrats won't do
this now. His attitude is when you listen to what
he's talking about, he like in the filibusters, like this
is stupid, Like what are we waiting for now? That's
easy for him to say. If y'all remember the day
bus we bust philibuster with holes man, it's all wrapping
around here. I hope y'all been sticking around with me.
You feel me, you boy, But trying to teach y'all listen,
(35:10):
you understand what a philibuster you feel me was good
for the goose. You understand I'm saying, what goes around
comes around. They bus, we bus, you break this philibuster,
my nigga at some point you're not gonna be in
power either. You gonna want that philibuster, you feel me Like,
so when you when you do that, you I remember
it might beat you blue black. You can't just be
(35:32):
breaking the filibusters. Now, the Congress, they the ones that
gotta deal with. President. Gotta deal with it. President, like,
I don't understan what negotiations. President interested in negotiating with nobody, nigga.
He talking to the Republicans like, what is y'all doing?
Grow a pair and break the filibuster and Republican UH
(35:53):
senators and congress folkus like, it's not that simple, miss President.
We can't just be breaking It's not that simple. He like,
if that's the case, y'all look like herbs. So for him,
it's like I said, I don't see the play, but
for him as very simple. He's like, well, the player
(36:14):
is get the people clearly need their food, and they
blaming you subtexts us because it's their fault. But they
blaming you in the shit and be a hero. So
for him, he's like, it makes perfect sense. Meanwhile, like
I said, what is happening in the courts is the
(36:37):
courts is saying, sir, I don't care nothing about your strategies.
You need to feed these people. I don't understand what
we're talking about. There are emergency funds. Feed the people. Now.
I could see him slow walking it the way that
(36:58):
he slow walked usaid like, I will get to it
until until it don't happen. I could see that, but
I don't see the play in when they said to
do it, he sued them, I ain't feeding them people.
No grocery stores, do y'all know thise grocery stores was like, look, dude,
(37:22):
we'll just do fifty percent off. Dog. We know you're
not gonna get your money. They only gonna give you
part of your money. Then you only get half your money.
Will only charge you half. You know. The Trump administration
sued to block that. My nigga said, let them people starve. Now,
let me ask you this, what do you think the
(37:43):
percentage of Trump voters are recipients of SNAP? Take a guess,
I'll wait give up. Yeah, there's no data that shows it. Ah,
there's no like clear data that says this percentage of
SNAP benefits are Trump voters. But I'll tell you what
(38:07):
we do know y'all ready for this. So it's forty
two million SNAP benefits people, one in five Americans. It's
a lot of people right now, he said, Oh, this
is mainly gonna hurt Democratic voters, all right, here we go.
(38:28):
Nearly sixty percent of Americans enrolled in SNAP are either
children under eighteen or adults sixty or over. Like one
in five non elderly adults with SNAP benefits have a disability.
Y'all ready for this. Less than ten percent of people
receiving SNAP benefits are able bodied adults without children who
are between ages of nineteen and forty nine. Fifty five
(38:52):
percent of all families with children that receive SNAP benefits
include at least one employed adult. Now, of the ten
states with the highest percentage of people on SNAP, five
are also in the top ten four percentage of population
(39:12):
in poverty New Mexico, Louisiana, Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Nevada.
Those are not Democratic states. Air quotes West Virginia. Cuz
who you think you not letting yo? What I'm trying
(39:32):
to say is not letting your own people eat. Now
watch this. A little over thirty five percent of the
people who get SNAP benefits are white, more than any
other racial ethnic group, around twenty six percent are black
(39:53):
and sixteen percent are Hispanic, although more white people are
enrolled in SNAP, since its data shows that the greatest
percentage of black people get these benefits twenty four point
four percent of black people and seventeen point two percent
of Hispanic people compared to nine point seven percent of
white people. That's because these groups are disproportionately poorer. See,
(40:18):
this is why we say racism affects everything. All that
to say this that is apparently a very black thing.
I say all that to say this, mind you. Anyway,
the largest share of Americans with SNAP benefits are white people.
(40:41):
So you need to tell your boy Steven Miller, My dog,
I don't see the play taking food out of people's mouth?
My g? Are you proving a point? Is this a leverage?
Like and to and to have all this happening, My nigga,
(41:05):
was you at the White House with Victor Darwin? Did
you just send forty two million dollars to Argentina for
some steaks? My g, My nigga, you have been in
every country, but this one got home and threw a
party at mar Lago. My dog, you threw a party, y'all?
(41:29):
Remember when we did the Black ag Uh when I
had Homeboy that was talking about how the USDA was
not giving loans in support to black and Indigenous farmers
where you think them loans was going to them white farmers.
Guess what's happening? That money gone them white people? Is like,
my nigga, what are you? What is happening, Donnie? I
(41:56):
don't see the play, homie, Like, is you doing this
off of principality? My g? Is it the principalities of
the situation? You still feel like this snap thing is
a leverage? You think you hurting us on some quit
hitting yourself? Is you like, I don't get it? Bro?
(42:22):
Like you exterminating the roaches by burning the house down? Yeah,
you done killed the roaches, you feel me, But you
donet burnt the house down. I'm just saying, Donnie, I don't.
I don't see the play on this one. And even
when the courts was like, even when your crew was like,
my G, I don't understand. This is a bad look, homie.
(42:46):
You throwing a great Gatsby head ass party. Niggas can't
eat Like, I don't. I don't see the play. Maybe
the play will reveal itself by the time on this
episode come out. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about,
but I gotta tell you, fam you about to take
(43:07):
two l's in the Supreme Court, and both of those
l's are around your landmark. Like you built the you,
you built the team, this show. You built the team
on this. This, This is the campaign song. This the
(43:28):
lead single, my ge what you give you? A little
hip hop history here. You know the song the Pharaoumont
song that has the Godzilla sample, burn Burned Purp, Get
the fuck up? Simon says, throw your hands in. So
(43:54):
that song was this is about to be a swirling circle.
First of all, Pharaoh Maatch is probably my favorite rapper ever. Anyway,
that song came out on Internal Affairs, a record that
was a part of Ruckus Records. That's Ruckus Records gave
us most defan quality all the soundbounding albums. All right.
(44:16):
Rucus was an amazing label. Get this was founded by
Rupert Murdoch's son just I Like, I don't know what
to tell you. Anyway, that sample from the movie Godzilla.
It bankrupt the label. They couldn't afford the sample. The
(44:37):
song was too dope. So looking back, do you try
to replay the sample, or do you say to yourself,
this is hip hop. It was worth it. This is
one of the greatest rap songs of all time. All
(45:00):
I'm saying is, you bet the house on a sample
you couldn't clear. It was a dope sample, but it
folded label. I don't know, man, Trump is this? Joe
Simon says, this is it. You bet the house on
(45:21):
a sample you can't clear. You could be like yeah,
but it was. It was really dope, making people not
be able to eat. I really like these tariffs. It
was it was it was worth it. I don't know, man,
I'm just not sure. I see the play. Good politics, y'all.
(45:54):
All right, now, don't you hit stop on this pod.
You better listen to these credits. I need you to
finish this thing so well. I can get the download numbers. Okay,
so don't stop it yet, but listen. This was recorded
in East Lost Boyle Heights by your boy Propaganda. Tap
in with me at prop hip hop dot com. If
(46:14):
you're in the Coldbrew coffee we got terraform Coldbrew. You
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and mastered by your boy Matt Alsowski Killing the Beast Softly.
Check out his website Matdowsowski dot com. I'm a speller
for you because I know M A T. T O.
(46:37):
S O W s Ki dot com Matthowsowski dot com.
He got more music and stuff like that on there,
so gonna check out The heat. Politics is a member
of cool Zone Media, executive produced by Sophie Lichterman, part
of the iHeartMedia podcast network. Your theme music and scoring
(46:58):
is also by the one and Ole Matthouse Sawski. Still
killing the beats Softly, So listen. Don't let nobody lie
to you. If you understand urban living, you understand politics.
These people is not smarter than you. We'll see y'all
next week.
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