Dragging Rights

my family and the black people I know. Let me let me not jump out jump out of pocket. Here, we are merciless, like we roast our kids. Everyone, No one is safe. The jokes flow right, and they flow hard, and sometimes they are hard because they be true. Like the stuff you're saying about your little brother, the stuff the stuff your cousins is and everybody is saying about your about your the stuff be true right and and

and merciless, and it's hilarious and everybody got jokes. And then maybe you're the guest here and you decided to participate in the jokes, and all of a sudden, a smile stopped. Everybody look over at you, like what and and you might just be like, yo, I just said the same joke this fool said. You should know what just happened right now. If you don't know, every I let me tell you something. Every president of color listening to this story right now knows exactly what happened. And

it's and it's this hold up. You don't get to say these jokes. You not wait, not time out now. Even if it's true you like, you don't, you ain't got the right, you know, homie, you don't know. You don't get to say these jokes. You'd have messed up. Dog. You should have kept your mouth shutting just enjoyed the show because you're not. You don't have the right to

talk about the homie like that. I'm gonna talk about dragon rights on this one so that we can understand the Supreme court hood politics, y'all, man, listen, Okay, I like, I think we need this back up a little bit and let me give y'all some some civics lessons here. But to help you understand, let's think of it like this. Okay, Let's just say you've got the most annoying little brother

in the world. You know what I'm saying, And like you just want to suck a little homie every time you see him, get all your nerves and and and you got jokes every time you're around, just like, oh, I gotta hate this fool. And then you just happened to witness somebody at school talking about your little brother threatening to beat him up and stuff like that, Like what what, What's what's going on right now? You already know the answer. Hey, honey, you don't get to only

I can make fun of my little brother. You ain't got the right to make fun of I beat the breaks off you, you say, And so the merit of what the veracity of what this person is saying doesn't matter. You ain't got the right to talk about my little brother right now, So follow me. It's about who has the right to say what to who, and who gets to enforce that. You. You're the big brother, You're the big sister. You're you, that's your that's your little brother,

that's your little sister. This is the authority that has been delegated to you by being the eldest sibling. That's just how it works. I'm not telling you is right or wrong. That's just you know what I'm saying. And uh, because it's your job at the end of the day to protect your little brother, to protect your little sister, you know what I'm saying. And like, even I don't

care how annoying they A don't care. I'm gonna say Now, granted there's a I would like to say that there is an expiration date on that for some situations because sometimes, you know, maybe your little brother making some decisions that you like, look, man, at the end of the day, letting you on your own bread, Like I didn't try to warn you, you feel me. Um, I'm always had your back, I'm always love you, you you know what I'm saying. But I can't protect you from every fade sometimes, you

know what I'm saying. Sometimes you gotta catch that fade. But something inside you feel like, but wait, man, like this this person don't have a right to give your little brother faith, you know what I'm saying. So the arbitration and delegation of that it falls on your shoulders. Now, let's just say your little brother deserved it. Let's just say he was mouthing off at the wrong person. You know, you know what I'm saying, and that person got looked.

The playground rules states that yellow brother should catch a faith. Maybe maybe those are the rules. Now here's here's your situation as as a sibling. Your situation as a sibling is like, there's a there's a legal precedence that's going on here. Because yes, the rule states that if your little brother says, you know, bla blah whoop the whoop he posted, get the brakes beat off. But there's a law that's takes precedence over that, which is I have to defend my little brother. I have to defend my

little that there's that law supersede yours. And even if he's wrong, we're not even arguing the merriage as to whether he was right or wrong. That ain't got nothing to do with it. In a matter of fact, most of the time, something not even most times. But sometimes you may have watched the whole thing and you was just like, nah, man, like you actually wrong. But we'll did with that when we get home. But that ain't

got nothing to do with what's happening right now. What we are arguing right now is does this other person have a right to throw faith? That's the question, do you have the authority to throw faith right now to this person? Or do I have the authority to say, nah, fam, you don't get to throw I throw a faith. That's my job, not yours. And if you want to, and if you need and if you've got a problem with that, then me and you could throw hands because there's now

another law. There's another law that now is uh coming into play here. So now now we need a system of checks and balances. Two figure out whose law are we supposed to follow right now? Who like who gets to say what? What? How? How this is supposed to run? Let's run it back again. Your little brother mouthed off. You saw the whole thing, and your little brother mouthed

off on things that's grounds for a faith. But you saw that in the law states that you have the authority over who gets to throw fades at your little brother or not right. But the person that's ready to throw the fade to your little brother that you're defending is now like, wait, hold up, why do you get to stop this nigked from catch in this face? Who says you get to do that? And it's like, well, foo, I do So look this we need to figure out who has the authority to say what? And that is

the job of the Supreme Court. I mean the O G s ah, you see what you see what I'm doing here? You guys catch it, you guys catch it. I want to talked about procedural stuff as to like what exactly the Supreme Court does. So right now, I'm pretty sure mad to laying some sort of dope little track right now that I don't here because he does that in post. But again, shout out Matt, that fool dope. Yeah, alright, cool, Now y'all enjoyed that. I hope you got some bars

off you feel me? Um? I can take you all back to like fifth six seventh grade, right you're you you remember the remember the things system of checks and balances? This is if you America elementary school, Like when the indoctrination of how you know our system of government is so much better than everybody else's, that our little nose is so sweeter and cuter than everyone else's little nose. Right, A lot of times I like to think of it

like our democracy is like the first iPhone. We're like an OS one democracy first iPhone, you know, but refuses to upgrade itself, like we still got the little round button on the bottom. Do you know what I'm saying. It's like okay, or we're like the zooon, Like you know, before the MP three players were everywhere. You feel, He's like, well, no, I got an MP three player. It's like, well, dude, like people have made better ones. You know, you gotta

upgrade your system. Sometimes it's just like you can't just keep sitting on this, this this breakthrough of technology that now everybody has caught up on. Essentially, this is the future of tesla. Yeah okay, yeah, you had you had a full electric car. You know, you have to. You have to, Maria, But you're not gonna be the only electric car. People gonna make better cards than yours. You just it's inevitable. You know, we said, well they're building online. Okay, cool,

well then catch yours up. You know, so essentially around that time, you know, we created this system of checks and balances. Now history, why did we do that? Well, you gotta remember where we came from. Just like, uh, you know, in all of your relationships, a lot of the habit you picked up as to how you treat your little boot thing usually is either a because of your last relationship or because of your parents. A lot of the way that your parent is because of your parents,

you feel me. A matter of fact, my wife just walked in. What's up, doctor doing? You know what I'm saying. She's gonna work on her desk right now. You didn't hear that because it was so low, but she said a anyway, she got a book coming out to so shout out that. It's called Chingana Discovering your Inner Badass. I didn't do that on your desk, your daughter didn't. You guys don't see that, but there is sharpie marker

all over her desk. Anyway. Parenting, um, so, speaking of parenting your parents, in a lot the ways based on the way your parents was parented and the way they parented you. Right, you're bringing that in there. So even whether it's for your for the good or for the for better or for worse, oftentimes that's the way that stuff came from. It's the same when you develop in

a country. A lot of the stuff that we came up with, as the United States was be informed, was in reaction to where we came from, you know what I'm saying. So when you think about this big old thing like the separation of church and state. Why, well, that's because nigg has had trauma. The separation of the church and state was because well, just know a little

bit about European history. You know when how a lot of times people would get in power in government, they would use church to sort of like reinforce their power almost to make themselves feel more like a godlike figure, you feel me, So you would have a state church,

right like Anglicans, like you know, Orthodox whatever. They would do these things, and it would be a way as to bolster and to solidify because once you tie hello, God and country together, you feel me, then uh, you can kind of get away with whatever you want to get away with. So we was like, well, I'm not gonna say we I meant the Founding Fathers because you know,

I wouldn't include it in that. But American when we was forming the country was like, you know, we gotta do away with all this stuff because that mug like it only becomes a problem. So we need to make sure that you know, you cannot make a state sponsored church because that stuff only causes problems. Right. That was one of the things that they was doing. Another thing that they did was what we said by having three branches of government. But that's because again you're coming from

a monarchy, you know what I'm saying. They were singing to Kanye saying, no one man should have all that power. Clocks chicken. That just because I missed the old Kanye anyway, but lead to old Kanye. It was a lot like to do Kanye. Barently, if you follow the story, he just had as his mother as a rudder. But that's a whole other situation. Rest in peace of mont Duke's big Danda, you know what I'm saying. Anyway, let me not talk about Kanye. I don't even know that man.

But the idea was this was this is in reaction from what they came from, and they was able to critique where they came from and was like, we don't want to repeat the same sort of structural mistakes that we came from, so they set up these ups. That's why nobody wanted a president for a while. That's why they was like, look, man, like we don't need a centralized power because that always they don't know president, because it's like I don't want you to start thinking like

you're king. You feel me? It was like that stuff is a problem. You know what I'm saying. When you when you solidify power like that, uh and consolidated into one place, it only begets problems. So they set up a system. The way that they set up so the way that we did ours take you back to your seventh grade is your three branches of government, which was supposed to be the idea of this power ish is share. So every O G got an O G. But it's

not linear, it's circular. Follow me right, Well, you get to call the shot, but I get to say whether that shot is callable. And then and then once you call that shot and I say that shot is callable, we all get to say, Okay, I have the right to say, nah, homie, I don't think that that shot should be executed, so I get to veto it. Right. So I'm using all these terms to help you understand. So you know, executive, legislative, judicial, that's your congress. This

should be reviewed. That's your congress, that's yours, that's your courts right, and that's your executive right. The president and what old Trump he didn't understand I'm the president, is that like it's not linear, big homy, like there are checks on your power, right, and of course, if you know the system, system works, if you work the system, there are ways to either get that stuff so gummed up and so confused, or to make sure you're putting weights and levies in each of these things so that

you can bend the rules to your favor. But the way that it was set up was so that one

group isn't able to control the whole situation. There's always everybody to make it look a little violent, you know, in the movies when the bad guys and the good guys all walk into some sort of like warehouse where like things going back, and everybody pulls out guns, and then it's like this like scene where the badass dude has two guns, you know, and he's pointed it at this guy and that that guy, and they're pointing guns back at him, and they're having this just like the standoff,

to where it's like everybody got a gun pointed at everybody's head and you gotta decide which one of y'all gonna put the gun down. And then in a strange twist of faith, one of the guys takes the gun off the other guy and points it at you. Because turns out, oh god, double cross, he's actually working for the other dude. Right, So that's that's our government situation. And how you convince one guy to take the other guy's gun off his head is you gotta put a

person in place. And this is how our system works. How you put a guy in place? Oh, well, will we elect? We elect our judges. You do what we've been doing, what the Republican has been doing this all the time. You making sure you got your homies on that part of the thing, since you don't have the authority to do with the Supreme Court. Do if it's your boy in there, if that's your girl in there, that go, oh you're a favorite because you put him on and you're good. If you're the Congress, you know

what I'm saying. If you you legislative, you know what I'm saying. Then, like you make sure you know my scratch your back, you scratch mind with the president. You feel me like you're getting good with the president because you've got stuff you gotta take care of. So you make sure the president know that, like, hey, homie, like, look, we're gonna shut out everything you try to do unless you hand over this situation for us. So you there

is these these levers, these flexes of power. Hearing this in an attempt to even though this thing is supposed to balance right, sometimes you want to sway things your way. It's the way things are the other way. It's way things the other way. And everybody's pulling in and and and and pushing to try to gain a little leverage on each other to get what you want done. Now, when we use the term balance, I think that's actually like a really good picture for you, a balance of power.

Like what does what does balancing look like? Balancing look like constantly adjusting? Right when you're looking at somebody walking a tight rope, I get For the love of me, I had no idea what that big old pole was for. I was like that looked like that just added so much difficulty to have to walk across the tight rope connected to a dog on uh high rise building. Like why in the hell do you want to hold something that heavy? Well, you know why. It's because it helps

you maintain balance. And I just I I don't get it. But what is maintaining balance? It's constantly adjusting. Man. People ask me, like you know of all the stuff that I do between the rap poetry, the podcasts and you know what I'm saying the coffee, Like, how do how do I keep balanced? It's like, why don't I'm always adjusting, you know what I'm saying. You're always you know, evaluating, looking at things this, you know, just adjusting. And in

a lot of ways, that's what the government does. It's adjusting all the time, you feel me. Now, obviously these are adjusting based on the whims of money, of lobbyists, of agendas, of all kinds of different things that can like be very sinister, be very selfish. But that's but

essentially that's what's happening. But now now that we say that, one of those balances of power, which at least in our modern era has become in a lot of ways way off culter and has been the part of the scale that everybody wants the thumb on, and it's the Supreme Court, because somehow or another, the Supreme Court has become the ultimate ogs. And when they're standoffs between the Supreme Court and the executive branch, what we just learned is that if you play your cards right, the executive

is gonna lose. Let's take a break all right, we're back though. Well you're back though. Um, So we look at these last crop of Supreme Court decisions, the ones, the big ones that everybody knows, and even some of the ones that were a little low key, some of the deep cut ones that like you'd have to be an absolute nerd like myself to be even interested in and to understand their implications. Here's what I need you to understand about that again, going back to the situation

where somebody was going to drag your little brother. If you look at these cases, and this is where us in the in the in the public sphere are kind

of like missing the point here. It's that the court is not even arguing the merits of what they're talking about when they release their decisions or when they release their writings as far as like they're they're you know, when they when they release their descent or like the you know, the paper to Justice Thomas released where he actually talked about his opinion, the opinion and even the rulings. They're not even talking about whether abortion is good or bad.

They're even talking about that that's our discussion, whether a woman should have the right to an abortion. They're not even talking about according to the paperwork they're talking about who gets to decide those rights? Who has the right to say, does the executive branch have the power to make that call? Do you? Or do the states? And do I have a right to tell the states what to do? So it's like, it's not so much whether your little brother is dumb or not, it's you don't

get to call him dumb? Or wait? Do I have the right to defend him even though he did something stupid? Do you have the right to get mad at me for defending my brother if I did something stupid? Now, do you have the right to squad with me and my little brother? And if we have this brawl, which one of us broke the rules? So the Supreme Court's job is to not say, nah, hey, your little brother yo,

he mouthed off. No, he's saying, no, wait, you the the law that has precedents according to the last time were on this park. That's why I used that precedence, because that's what the court does too. What did we say last time? And some judges, oh jeez, would say, what the hell last time you got to do with it? This is what's happening right now. Others are saying, well, that's all we got to stand on, because let's just

say to let's let's carry the metaphor further. You could pull out a playground rule book and say, look, look the rules clearly say but if that rule book was written in nineteen two. Make it even further, This rule book was was written in seventeen seventy six, and you on a basketball court and basketball wasn't even invented yet when you wrote it the basketball park rules, Then what the hell I'm referring to? Then it ain't got nothing to say. It's my job to figure out what it

might have meant. That's the Supreme Court, due it's got to look at stuff that probably wasn't there and figure out what it might think about based on what was there. That's precedence. That's why I like, it's really hard to become a supreme court. And that's why they'd be grilling them.

And that's why you be wanting people that's gonna look at this thing in the way that if you're a politician, if you're trying to wait this uh, this this power, you want people that's gonna look at it the way you look at it, so that like if you are the big brother protecting your little brother, you like, uh, I feel like I shouldn't have to fight this dude

over this. It should be real simple. You should understand that that's my little brother there, and you should respect me enough to not talk about my little brother like that? Ain't that right? Judge Pooky? Right? And the other dude should be like, wait, hold up, you heard what this man said? Oh my, oh my, oh god, hold me like that's a fade, Ain't that right? Judge? Do look right? And a little brother saying hey, man, like I don't even think what I did was that bad? Ain't that right?

Stunna deuce you feel me? Like? So we just you all want a dude, Oh there, let's go look at it the way you hope they look at it. Now, let me give you the actual examples of what happened. So it go like this, so like Congress passes whatever law right, and then the law is essentially this. It's like yo, uh, such and such whatever BLA department over the executive a branch needs to go do this, I mean,

and that's and that's the law. Right. It's not as like oh you can't cross this street, you know, what I'm saying, it's like, it's it's more when you at this level, it's more like who got the right to do what? Again? Do you got the right to drag my brother? Is the question? So osha f d A E p A. You know what I'm saying, Like you know these these y'all know these are I'm asking you

like you can answer me. But yeah, the the f d A right, which is you know it's our Food and Drug Administration e p A, that's the Environmental Protection Agency, that's the one that uh Win uh Rick Perry was running for president, didn't even know what that did, you know what I'm saying, And then he was gonna be

the He's gonna get put in charge of it. The point I'm making is like they're saying, is like when it comes to like environmental laws, like hey, we think we want to keep carbon emissions down to you know what the law saying is like, so e p A, you go make sure that everybody's staying up on it. You got we're giving you the right to do that. And then the Executive Branch Office that f d A, that O p P, whatever that thing is. You know

what I'm saying, goes and does the thing. The Supreme Court looks at that, and this is what happens, and they go wait, wait wait wait wait wait wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold up. I don't think you should be able to do that that you're not hold on, honey, you don't get to tell these people how much oil they can put in their car. I don't think you got the right to do that. And then we're going but like, yo, uh that but that where the planets dying. Don't you think

we should do that? Like, I'm not even talking about whether the planets dying or not. I'm talking about whether you should be able to tell us about it. Look, I'm not talking about my little brother dumb or not. I'm saying, dude, you got the right to say it. So this would already happen. So a couple of months back, was trying to the CDC was trying to do like some red elation on some power plants about how much

like nuclear waste they're doing. Supreme Court was like, nah, I don't think you got the right to tell people that CDC had eviction moratory. Remember that when it was like, yo, you can't evict people because of COVID man, that's kind of crazy. The CDC said that Supreme Court was like, Nah, Homi, you don't get to call that. That ain't your job, niggi, you don't get to say that. Oshan tried to do a vaccine man date, Supreme Court was like, Hey, Nick,

that's not your place. You don't get to say that should you have a vaccine. That ain't even the point. My point is it ain't your place. And finally, Roe v. Wade, they're not even talking about They're not even talking about abortion. They're talking about does the paper from seventeen seventy six say you have a right to it? And do the federal government got the right to tell the states what to do about it? That's that's that's all they're arguing.

Now Here's here's where you get crazy. Obviously, these positions, these decisions as to who got the right to say that, those are that's a matter of opinion. None of that stuff is. It ain't written down nowhere because half of these departments didn't exist when the stuff was written down. So how you even come to that conclusion by putting your homies on the courts, by making sure those yo, big homies decide these things. So the so the levels

of power. So while we're arguing over like, yo, is this right or wrong, how they can wease or out of any of them conversations as being like, that's not even what we're talking about. Your little brother still ain't being checked and we all agreed he actually wrong, but we're not even talking about whether your little brother wrong. And your little brother might need to catch some hands, but ain't nobody talking about that. That's not even the point.

So one of the slickiest ways if you're a politician, how you play everybody is to be like, listen, we're not even talking about what you're talking about. Brother. Hey, listen, man, I'm not even whatever. It's not even about being about pro that's not even about women's rights. Man, it's not even about it's not even about it. Bro, Like we're listen, listen, listen, no big deal. This is just legal jargon. Nobody's taking

your rights, yo. How slick slick right? Oh man, Yo, you gotta keep your head in the game here, homie. Really understand how they're playing this. You gotta know the rules now if you're gonna take the sinister attitude out of it and just actually use like like leave cool jargon. Now. I pulled this from researcher on Axios these phrases because I ain't like, i'net real with you, I ain't never

heard of these things that to do a little googling. Um, but you know your boy always cites his sources, so um, here's how they think about here's how your algy thinks. I remember I told you earlier the LG is like, all right, well, what did we do last time? Or what did the homies say at the other park, or what the hell difference doesn't make last time? None of this was even existed when the papers was written. So there's terms. There's actual terms for these ways of thinking.

One of these ways is it's called seven chevron deference. And that's when basically like the courts are like, well, look, I don't know what to say. I'm gonna defer to you because you're the expert. You feel me like where it's like we don't really know I don't really know his work, so uh, y'all tell me what y'all need, which I think in a lot of ways that's the

way I work about a lot of stuff. I'm like, look at me, I don't know that wory you you know what you're talking about, then you talk about it. Then the other one is called the Major Questions Doctrine, which is like essentially like okay, look, if you're just doing regular, regular law type stuff, it's like, yeah, okay, it's no big deal. But if you're gonna do something super huge, that's like like like tap in with me when you're talking about the big stuff, and that law

better be very clear. Dog. You can't just be like, you can't just be out here really nearly doing big stuff that's gonna like change everybody. You gotta tap in first, Like that's a major thing. That's the Major Questions Doctrine. And then the last one it's called the non Delegation Doctrine. And this is like the most in a lot of ways, it's the most extreme. And I feel like, now I just got this is is my opinion. I feel like it's like one of them laws that like they're good on paper,

but it's just not practical. Now. What it's saying is this is it's like, okay, it goes back to us like originalists way of looking at the Constitution. It's basically like this, if the Constitution say explicitly Congress has the right to do something or the job to do some whatever you want to say, it cannot delegate that action or that job to anybody else like you. You are not allowed because the Congress say that's yes, not It's like you ain't got again, you ain't got the right

to do that. That's not your place. I'm giving you authority, the paperwork gave you authority to do this thing, and you don't get to pass. And what if the Congress is like, okay, well I'm using my authority to say I need them foods to handle this. You mean they're like now, because that's your job. You know what I'm saying. Imagine your mama coming in and being like, uh, at your job to do the dishes, and then you turn your little sister and be like, okay, I'm using my

authority to have my little brother do the dishes. And then the mom say, no, you ain't got the right to that's not your You can't tell your little brother to do the dishes. And like, Mama, you put me in charge. You put me in charge of the dishes, right, you need them done. They're gonna be done. It's like, homie, it's not your place to tell your little brother whether

to do the dishes or not. And if and if it runs that way, then as you know, like the government gonna look well different because like I said, this look good on paper, and we have not been functioning this way for I don't know how long. What it essentially does is like yo, it kind of takes the thumb off the president, the executive branch and kind of like you know, the Supreme Court got some weight, ohn't no, man, I'm just saying again, we are rarely arguing the merits.

That's why I really want you to come away with this. Most times nobody really arguing the marriage as to whether what the law is is fair or not. That's what we're doing on Twitter. What they're doing is saying, uh, who get to actually make that call? And when you and if you notice again, that almost exonerates you from having to have an actual opinion. And I would say even the soul because it's like it's when you're looking at somebody and they talking all this stuff and you're like, yo,

like are you serious? Like look at me? Dog? Like you notice is crazy? And they like I mean, it's whether it is or not. Don't it don't it don't matter. Just like Clarence Thomas is writing where he was like when we was all saying like, yo, we need to do something about these mass shootings. Man like me some sort of laws around these things. He's like, Look, I don't care if we got a hundred mass shootings. What you want me to sound? O care we got a

hundred a day. I can't take away your Second Amendment, right, that's what the papers say. It sounds cold because it is. But look here, all they're saying is I know my little brother might be dumb. You just don't get to call them dumb. That's just how I work out here politics. Yeah, that's here. Thing was recorded by Me Propaganda and East Low Spoil Heights, Los Angeles, California. This smug was mixed, edited, mastered, and scored by at Ososki. I can totally say his name, guys,

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