Tap In: President Trump, the Worst Spades Partner Ever

One of the most frustrating things when playing a game that requires strategy, is playing with someone who doesn't actually understand the strategy of the game. I think we would really find peace for ourselves If we would accept that Trump doesn't have a strategy.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Calls media.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Okay, I have a confession to make a blackfashion. I
actually like sugar and grits. I think that sweet or
savory grits, they go either way. I have no problem
with that. My other blackfession I'd like to make is

(00:28):
that I'm really not that good at spades. I need
a reminder every time we start playing. Like I know
how to play, but I can just look at my
hand and already know how many books I got in
which order to play them. I need a reminder every time,
sometimes very once in a while, Like I could get

(00:48):
the cooking and I'd be all right, But do not
choose me as your partner. I'm sorry, this is my truth.
On the other hand, in my defense, I will beat
the brakes off you in dominoes. Your boy is a dominologist.
I want all the smoke pull up so much so

(01:10):
that I taught my friends how to play so that
I can have people to play with, and some of
them have gotten very good now. First of all, shout
out my tour manager who we haven't hung out in
a while because I ain't been on tour. Matt Shaw,
who is my white whale. That boy can slap some

(01:35):
bones and he's just good. But as anyone who knows
how to play understands strategy, My father is one of
those people where you know, when you play head to
head with dominoes, he I'm thinking, I'm locking the game up,
and he pulling from the boneyard.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
I'm looking at him. I'm looking at his hand.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Man, he got like fifteen, you know, seventeen bones in
his hand. I'm giggling. I remember calmly that man didn't
even look up at me. He was like, now you're
in trouble. I was like, what, bro, I'm about to
dim like four bones away from dominoing. He was like,
now I know what you have in your hand. That
pause was like the old crap, Like, when you playing

(02:22):
with somebody that really know how to play, you just
never damn you never know your systems start to fail you.
But I tell you what, one of the most frustrating
things when you playing dominoes or spades is playing with
somebody that don't know how to play, because they be

(02:42):
all over the place, and every once in a while
they look at you and go twenty five and it
really be twenty five, and you got there super willy nilly,
you worried.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
About all your strategies.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Now, at the end of the day, they not gonna
really win many hands, because eventually they gonna figure out
how to play and realize that, like you know, this
jungle ball they playing is not sustainable. But it may
have got them through a few rounds, didn't they start
feeling themselves. But as you trying to figure out their strategy,
you might learn eventually they don't have a strategy. They

(03:21):
just playing what's in their hand, and hopefully they got
sense enough to understand that this is not sustainable.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Tap in with me, y'all all right, I.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Am, of course talking about the policies of Donald Trump.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Here's the thing.

Speaker 2 (03:51):
I think us nerds who are terminally online, who try
to understand policy politics and then teach it to other
people and try to get an understanding as to what
these moves are it, I think it's driving us bonkers
and even turning his team into pretzels. I cite the

(04:15):
frustrations that his whole base is having about him being
an isolationist him, you know, doing the tariffs thing, the
taco all of the things. The frustration with Eli all
of it is because y'all think he's you're trying to
decipher a strategy. And what I think this man has

(04:36):
made very clear, whether it's people who have written books later,
whether it's people who know him personally, whether it's people
who have been in the ORB fallen out, or it's
people like Pat Bondi's head ass trying to stand in
front of the people and make a case for the

(04:58):
decisions that she has overseen. You're trying to decipher a strategy.
This man has made it very clear he don't got
a strategy. The man plays off vibes and instincts. He
even told you that.

Speaker 1 (05:14):
Now.

Speaker 2 (05:14):
The thing about playing off vibes and instincts is the
broken clock thing. Every once in a while you're gonna
land on a win. But the strength of what he
does is he becomes like my homeboy, Dereck Minor. Now,
Derek Miner and Donald Trump are not the same person.
That's not what I'm saying. But what I'm saying is
Derek Minor is a trash talkologist. Please, if you know

(05:35):
Derek Minor, send him this episode. Because when boy Boy,
I taught boy Boy how to play Domino's, and when
I tell you the first time he got out, the
first house and was winning. He was talking trash like
he was Michael Jordan. This man his shut up way.

(05:55):
He lose it, but he has a way of morphing
reality into believing that he the expert.

Speaker 1 (06:04):
Right, this is Trump's gift.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
He's slipping fall and say I meant to do that.
That's what I was doing the whole time. I truly
and deeply based on my understanding of bullies. The very
foundation as to why I think I should have a
podcast in the vein that we have this podcast is that.

Speaker 1 (06:33):
I know dudes like this.

Speaker 2 (06:36):
They have no ethos other than I got to get minds.
How I gets minds. I'm gonna make up as I
go along. We A is not playing no long games.
This is not an evil genius. This shit is transactional. Okay,
either you for me or against me. I find nerds

(06:58):
and put nerds around me to figure out how to
do the shit. And I might call him in the
middle of the night and say, this is what I
want to do. That's not my job to figure out
how to do it. That's what you hired for. The
tariffs thing is because of Peter Navarro. He got a ethos.
He thinks that this will work. You just convinced boy boy,

(07:21):
and it sounded good to him. Why he being taco
about it is because it's vibes. He liked the adrenaline
of winning. I like getting into the room. I'm talking
about Trump. Trump like getting into the room and willing
and Dylan. He liked to feel himself. He want to
feel like he wants something. This why the Putin shit
is frustrating him.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
The whole earth.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
Been telling you that Vladimir is playing you. Okay, yo,
willy nilly, I'm just gonna play the five. I'm just
gonna play five three right here and go oop fifteen.
That has worked for a while for you. But you
playing against the dominologists, You playing against somebody who can
had a worst hand in their life in spades and

(08:03):
end up scoring more points than you thought was possible.
Because you can't just be willy nilly all the time.
Eventually you gonna play with somebody that know what they doing.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
This is Trump and to find out phase.

Speaker 2 (08:17):
But what he liked to do again is more reality,
is to look back and say, hey, look, Ron ain't
got no nuke. Hey listen, listen, I got the EU
to start spending money by just following with my instincts
Now they doing the they doing the defense spending thing,
to which I would be like, sir, the EU is
spending that money because they know Vladimir Putin crazy. You

(08:42):
just happen to play before me. If we was playing
teams and Domino's. You understand what I'm saying, and you
just happen to put out a Big six. Now I
was finna get thirty points here. So the onliest reason
I'm locked out this game and I can't get the
thirty's not because you played Big six, is because the

(09:04):
person before you locked up all the threes.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
That person know how to play.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
So I'm looking at my hand like crap, this fool
got threes on every god him.

Speaker 1 (09:13):
Oh look I just locked out. Prop you did not.

Speaker 2 (09:17):
You just put a lot of money on the board
because the person after me is about to get thirty five.
Well maybe not thirty five, it's about to get twenty
six Big six. You get Big six. How can you
get twenty from Big six? Okay, you can do it, yeah,
eighteen six, twelve eighteen and then the two.

Speaker 1 (09:33):
Yeah. Anyway, this is me being a dominologist. The point
I'm trying to make is.

Speaker 2 (09:39):
I think we would be much less pulling our hair
out if we just accepted the fact that he thinks
thirty seconds into the future. And this is, my friends,
the picture of privilege, because it's worked for him so far.
His system is play the cards I got and if

(10:04):
not cheap, and then take credit for shit I did
and didn't do.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
It's willy nilly.

Speaker 2 (10:11):
So I give you this really to give to myself,
which is rather than being like, poor.

Speaker 1 (10:19):
God, what is he doing?

Speaker 2 (10:22):
Man?

Speaker 1 (10:22):
You don't know. He doing what he feels like doing.
He may change his mind tomorrow.

Speaker 2 (10:29):
The problem with this is, and which is what I
feel like anybody that know what they talking about is
trying to tell y'all is eventually everybody else is just
gonna stop playing with you.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
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