July 25, 2025 • 11 mins
One of the most frustrating things when playing a game that requires coordination and teamwork, is playing with someone who doesn't 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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Speaker 1 (00:02):
All media. Do you guys mind if I use dominoes
again as a metaphor here, I'm gonna do it anyway.
So in dominoes, there's a few things you learn as
you get better at the game, and just kind of
knowing strategy and just sort of like court rules, you know,
(00:23):
like like the rules been Uno, you know what I'm saying,
like where it depended on your circle, Like each each
Uno circle got different rules, you feel me, and they
aren't vastly different. But you know, there's certain norms right
now concerning dominoes. There's tend to get in. That's one
of them, you know, which Hugh has ears to hear.
I don't feel like explaining it this is a short episode.
(00:45):
But another one is once you put a domino down,
that's it. You cannot take that domino back. You can
be like, oh I meant to do this one. Nope,
that's the one. It is what it is. You put
it down, it is what it is. In addition to that,
let's just say you put that down and you scored
and you didn't call your points. But if the next
person plays their hand before you called your points, you
(01:08):
don't get those points. It is what it is you
cannot undo that. There is no undoing. But there's one
move that causes something that I want to teach y'all,
which is called irreputable injury. And what that means is
it's the metaphor of like, you can't unscramble this a
(01:28):
you cannot undo this mistake. If you do this and
we move on, there's no way to fix it. And
that's what I want to talk about today, irreputable injury.
TAP being with me all right, when I was a child,
(02:00):
I believe some one adult in my life did this
to me. They made me take a toothpaste out, put
it on a napkin, and squeeze everything I could out
of that toothpaste tube, just have at it and said
that was fun. Right. I was like yeah. They say okay,
and now put it back in, and I was like
what They're like, Yeah, once it's out the tube, you
(02:20):
can't put it back. And what they were trying to
tell me about was my words that you really need
to choose your words wisely, because once you say them,
you could say sorry, you could say all the things
you want to say, but it's already out. There is
no you can't take your words back. This is something
anybody in some sort of loving romantic relationship. I hope
(02:43):
you taken this metaphor. Once you say it, you can't
be like, oh I was mad. They okay, I can
forgive you, but you still said it. The there's a
wonderful book called The Body Keep Score. That's about the
psychological damage that stays within our bodies from us going
through through trauma. The body keeps scoring. Hey listen, no morewalking. No,
(03:03):
it is what it is. This is what happened now
in dominoes. What I'm referring to is if you played
the wrong bone and we keep playing like we may
look back and see that I might have scored fifteen,
you might have scored ten, you might have scored you
know five, All of us have scored points on this
(03:24):
and then we looked back and said, wait a minute,
one of these dominoes don't match where you played a
three on a two and it doesn't work. That means
all of our points are null and void. The game's destroyed.
You can't the hands done nobody dominoes. The game's destroyed.
Do you lose those points you scored since that moment?
(03:46):
It'd be trying to figure out where that moment was.
It depends on your room. For us, we just stopped
the hand to start over. My father would be like
the whole game's over. You have to start over because
there's no way to figure out unless you can remember, Yeah,
score ten here, I scordion. If you remember what you've
scored in this in this hand, then yeah, But like
(04:09):
that is irre irreputable damage. You've destroyed the game by
playing that wrong thing. We can't undo this. Now, what
does this have to do with politics? I'm talking about
the Supreme Court. You should have known now, you could
have known this. How the hell would you know? Now?
In recent rulings in what's called the shadow docket, which
(04:29):
I'm pretty sure I've gone over in some of the
full episodes, which are cases that the Supreme Court have
ruled on. But everybody wasn't there. It wasn't a public hearing.
They just huddled up and decided. And when you just
huddle up and decide something, you really don't have to
defend yourself. You could just say this what we think.
They don't have to sign their rulings or explain their rulings,
(04:52):
like things that are in the open court that's what's
called a shadow docket now, and one of those shadow
dockets that we are dealing with is the dism antling
of the Department of Education. Right according to the Trump administration,
it's not that we're stopping the Department of Education. They're
saying we're kicking it down to the states. Now here's
the issue. The Department of Education was set up by
(05:15):
the Congress. The President don't have the right to end it.
But what he does have the right to do, according
to the Congress is fire people USAID. Again, set up
by the Congress. He ain't got the right to end it.
What he has the right to do is defund it
public radio. It's already passed, right, So you can't end
these things now if gravity still worked. Y'all, remember when
(05:41):
I talked about what it means to report something on
the merit. It was in the birthright citizenship episode where
the President got the Supreme Court to agree that universal
injunctions are unconstitutional, which was an end around way of
getting birth right citizenship revoked. Right, So it wasn't getting
(06:03):
birthright citizenship revoked because on the merit of that this
is illegal. You can't undo that. But he was able
to get around it by ending these universal injunctions, which
you can go listen to the vision from the Land
episode and the ooh baby, what is you doing? Episode? Now.
The part that is so bizarre to me is what's
(06:26):
happening with the Department of Education, Because normally, if gravity
still worked, why would I rule on something that's an
end around for you to be able to take apart
things knowing that if this case was on the merit
it would be illegal. Does that make sense? Why would
(06:48):
I let you deport people who are citizens based on
this universal injunction situation, knowing full well that deporting citizens
is illegal. So if you brought me so all of
the things that you've done, once the case comes in
front of me on the merit, it's gonna undo it. All.
The problem is you don't already scramble the egg, you
(07:11):
didn't already sent them off. You've done irreputable damage to
these people's families, to these communities, and to the law.
I can't undo this. You can't put the toothpaste back
in the tube. So I shouldn't let you, on a technicality,
do something that's adjacent to the thing that if I
let you do it it's already illegal, and I can't
(07:31):
undo that. This is what's baffling to me about this
Department of Education deal. I am of the belief that, yes,
the president needs space to cook, but I also believe
in because this is what we signed up for the
system of checks and balances. The president doesn't get to
cook in somebody else's kitchen. The president is playing dominoes
(07:53):
that come down the line. I don't care how many
points he scores. Once we look back and say that
move was illegal, once a court gets in there and says,
wait a minute, my nigga, you was not allowed to
do this. The damage is done. Families done been separated,
schools done fell apart, people done lost their jobs. And
since you end in the social safety net, people falling
(08:16):
into poverty, they losing their insurance. You've done undone Medicaid.
So there is an irreputable damage that is happening to this.
And if gravity worked, that would have been a defense
against allowing these things to happen. The executive branch would
not be allowed, even if on the strength of the
(08:37):
case they're actually bringing, they have a point. I get
to say word because, like we talked about before, I'm
gonna look you in the face. Justice Soda Mayor said, listen,
the second, the second you ask me about birthright citizenship,
I'm gonna tell you what you're doing is illegal, to
(08:58):
which the Trump administration said, I'm just not going to
ask you. Then it seemed that simple, But I'll ask
you this question that allows me to effectively do the
thing that I want to do. Of course, you can't
take a part Department of Education. That's not within your power.
But I do have the power to fire people, and
this state doesn't have the right to tell me I
(09:20):
can't fire people. But if you do that, you have
ostensively ended flex the power that you don't actually have.
So if you would have just came in here and
asked me, can I end the Department of Education, I'd
be like, no, case would have been over. But now
you just did it. So when you do come back,
(09:40):
if that case ever does come back, let's say, oh,
the next administration and we like, the executive can't end this.
The Supreme Court goes, yeah, you're right, the executive can't
end this. They're like, my nigga, but it's been four years,
it's already ended. I mean, you got a time machine somewhere.
So it's not that I have have some sort of
(10:01):
lesson or solution here. I'm just more like you have
added to our chart of find out. I personally don't
believe the fuck around to find out is a ratio.
I think it's a cliff. I think you build up
pressure and then eventually you find out. I'm just saying
(10:21):
you pushing harder and this is gonna make the find
out cliff be that much steeper. There's gonna be more
craggy rocks. Or you just added to the craggy rocks
that we for to find out, and by definition of
this law principle, this can't be undone. But maybe there's
(10:46):
a way to put toothpaste back into the tube. The
only way I can think of it's slicing open the
bottom of the tube and shoving it up its butt.
But I think if you did that it would never
be the same. The damage is done. Well, tap in
(11:10):
with
All media. Do you guys mind if I use dominoes
again as a metaphor here, I'm gonna do it anyway.
So in dominoes, there's a few things you learn as
you get better at the game, and just kind of
knowing strategy and just sort of like court rules, you know,
(00:23):
like like the rules been Uno, you know what I'm saying,
like where it depended on your circle, Like each each
Uno circle got different rules, you feel me, and they
aren't vastly different. But you know, there's certain norms right
now concerning dominoes. There's tend to get in. That's one
of them, you know, which Hugh has ears to hear.
I don't feel like explaining it this is a short episode.
(00:45):
But another one is once you put a domino down,
that's it. You cannot take that domino back. You can
be like, oh I meant to do this one. Nope,
that's the one. It is what it is. You put
it down, it is what it is. In addition to that,
let's just say you put that down and you scored
and you didn't call your points. But if the next
person plays their hand before you called your points, you
(01:08):
don't get those points. It is what it is you
cannot undo that. There is no undoing. But there's one
move that causes something that I want to teach y'all,
which is called irreputable injury. And what that means is
it's the metaphor of like, you can't unscramble this a
(01:28):
you cannot undo this mistake. If you do this and
we move on, there's no way to fix it. And
that's what I want to talk about today, irreputable injury.
TAP being with me all right, when I was a child,
(02:00):
I believe some one adult in my life did this
to me. They made me take a toothpaste out, put
it on a napkin, and squeeze everything I could out
of that toothpaste tube, just have at it and said
that was fun. Right. I was like yeah. They say okay,
and now put it back in, and I was like
what They're like, Yeah, once it's out the tube, you
(02:20):
can't put it back. And what they were trying to
tell me about was my words that you really need
to choose your words wisely, because once you say them,
you could say sorry, you could say all the things
you want to say, but it's already out. There is
no you can't take your words back. This is something
anybody in some sort of loving romantic relationship. I hope
(02:43):
you taken this metaphor. Once you say it, you can't
be like, oh I was mad. They okay, I can
forgive you, but you still said it. The there's a
wonderful book called The Body Keep Score. That's about the
psychological damage that stays within our bodies from us going
through through trauma. The body keeps scoring. Hey listen, no morewalking. No,
(03:03):
it is what it is. This is what happened now
in dominoes. What I'm referring to is if you played
the wrong bone and we keep playing like we may
look back and see that I might have scored fifteen,
you might have scored ten, you might have scored you
know five, All of us have scored points on this
(03:24):
and then we looked back and said, wait a minute,
one of these dominoes don't match where you played a
three on a two and it doesn't work. That means
all of our points are null and void. The game's destroyed.
You can't the hands done nobody dominoes. The game's destroyed.
Do you lose those points you scored since that moment?
(03:46):
It'd be trying to figure out where that moment was.
It depends on your room. For us, we just stopped
the hand to start over. My father would be like
the whole game's over. You have to start over because
there's no way to figure out unless you can remember, Yeah,
score ten here, I scordion. If you remember what you've
scored in this in this hand, then yeah, But like
(04:09):
that is irre irreputable damage. You've destroyed the game by
playing that wrong thing. We can't undo this. Now, what
does this have to do with politics? I'm talking about
the Supreme Court. You should have known now, you could
have known this. How the hell would you know? Now?
In recent rulings in what's called the shadow docket, which
(04:29):
I'm pretty sure I've gone over in some of the
full episodes, which are cases that the Supreme Court have
ruled on. But everybody wasn't there. It wasn't a public hearing.
They just huddled up and decided. And when you just
huddle up and decide something, you really don't have to
defend yourself. You could just say this what we think.
They don't have to sign their rulings or explain their rulings,
(04:52):
like things that are in the open court that's what's
called a shadow docket now, and one of those shadow
dockets that we are dealing with is the dism antling
of the Department of Education. Right according to the Trump administration,
it's not that we're stopping the Department of Education. They're
saying we're kicking it down to the states. Now here's
the issue. The Department of Education was set up by
(05:15):
the Congress. The President don't have the right to end it.
But what he does have the right to do, according
to the Congress is fire people USAID. Again, set up
by the Congress. He ain't got the right to end it.
What he has the right to do is defund it
public radio. It's already passed, right, So you can't end
these things now if gravity still worked. Y'all, remember when
(05:41):
I talked about what it means to report something on
the merit. It was in the birthright citizenship episode where
the President got the Supreme Court to agree that universal
injunctions are unconstitutional, which was an end around way of
getting birth right citizenship revoked. Right, So it wasn't getting
(06:03):
birthright citizenship revoked because on the merit of that this
is illegal. You can't undo that. But he was able
to get around it by ending these universal injunctions, which
you can go listen to the vision from the Land
episode and the ooh baby, what is you doing? Episode? Now.
The part that is so bizarre to me is what's
(06:26):
happening with the Department of Education, Because normally, if gravity
still worked, why would I rule on something that's an
end around for you to be able to take apart
things knowing that if this case was on the merit
it would be illegal. Does that make sense? Why would
(06:48):
I let you deport people who are citizens based on
this universal injunction situation, knowing full well that deporting citizens
is illegal. So if you brought me so all of
the things that you've done, once the case comes in
front of me on the merit, it's gonna undo it. All.
The problem is you don't already scramble the egg, you
(07:11):
didn't already sent them off. You've done irreputable damage to
these people's families, to these communities, and to the law.
I can't undo this. You can't put the toothpaste back
in the tube. So I shouldn't let you, on a technicality,
do something that's adjacent to the thing that if I
let you do it it's already illegal, and I can't
(07:31):
undo that. This is what's baffling to me about this
Department of Education deal. I am of the belief that, yes,
the president needs space to cook, but I also believe
in because this is what we signed up for the
system of checks and balances. The president doesn't get to
cook in somebody else's kitchen. The president is playing dominoes
(07:53):
that come down the line. I don't care how many
points he scores. Once we look back and say that
move was illegal, once a court gets in there and says,
wait a minute, my nigga, you was not allowed to
do this. The damage is done. Families done been separated,
schools done fell apart, people done lost their jobs. And
since you end in the social safety net, people falling
(08:16):
into poverty, they losing their insurance. You've done undone Medicaid.
So there is an irreputable damage that is happening to this.
And if gravity worked, that would have been a defense
against allowing these things to happen. The executive branch would
not be allowed, even if on the strength of the
(08:37):
case they're actually bringing, they have a point. I get
to say word because, like we talked about before, I'm
gonna look you in the face. Justice Soda Mayor said, listen,
the second, the second you ask me about birthright citizenship,
I'm gonna tell you what you're doing is illegal, to
(08:58):
which the Trump administration said, I'm just not going to
ask you. Then it seemed that simple, But I'll ask
you this question that allows me to effectively do the
thing that I want to do. Of course, you can't
take a part Department of Education. That's not within your power.
But I do have the power to fire people, and
this state doesn't have the right to tell me I
(09:20):
can't fire people. But if you do that, you have
ostensively ended flex the power that you don't actually have.
So if you would have just came in here and
asked me, can I end the Department of Education, I'd
be like, no, case would have been over. But now
you just did it. So when you do come back,
(09:40):
if that case ever does come back, let's say, oh,
the next administration and we like, the executive can't end this.
The Supreme Court goes, yeah, you're right, the executive can't
end this. They're like, my nigga, but it's been four years,
it's already ended. I mean, you got a time machine somewhere.
So it's not that I have have some sort of
(10:01):
lesson or solution here. I'm just more like you have
added to our chart of find out. I personally don't
believe the fuck around to find out is a ratio.
I think it's a cliff. I think you build up
pressure and then eventually you find out. I'm just saying
(10:21):
you pushing harder and this is gonna make the find
out cliff be that much steeper. There's gonna be more
craggy rocks. Or you just added to the craggy rocks
that we for to find out, and by definition of
this law principle, this can't be undone. But maybe there's
(10:46):
a way to put toothpaste back into the tube. The
only way I can think of it's slicing open the
bottom of the tube and shoving it up its butt.
But I think if you did that it would never
be the same. The damage is done. Well, tap in
(11:10):
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