Massives Cliques Caucuses

Hey, yo, pop quiz. So how many members are there of the Wu Tang Clan? And now, if you're under thirty, you like who you know? Is a just a methad band, specta deck master, Killa, ghost face killer, old dirty beast that you still probably like who?

Now if you're over thirty, you like nine.

No wrong, one hundred and thirty six and probably much more because Wu Tang Clan is actually a gang. But are the nine that wrapped the original nine? I mean, what's the original? You know saying like who knows?

Right?

It's a lot of them, though, I mean you gotta think about King Justin and the Grave Diggers, like listen, cap of Donna, y'all. It's a lot of members, and they all got subcommittees. It's a whole thing. What about the ASP Mob? How many of them are there?

Now?

Some of you might be like ASoP rocky, Well, what about Yams and ferg Asop's a crew like that. They're a mob ASoP Mob, It's a lot of them. Their names all start with ASoP something right or asap whatever you want to do it. I'm so used to like ASoP rock, but like as in like Asop's fables, anyway, whole other genre of hip hop. The point is it's a lot of them. You know what I'm saying, what's a gang? I mean, are there crips and bloods? Well, no, there's a lot of different types of crypts, bloods.

Y're said, this.

Roller sixty crypts, then this West Side roller six their neighborhood crips then and then their neighborhood sixty crioks. In Oklahoma, in Kansas City, it's a lot of them. Gangs, clicks, sets, hoods, it's a whole lot of them.

But somehow they all make sense.

And the way that those delegations work is quite confusing.

It's quite a network, but somehow, somehow it works. Somehow.

You ask anybody from grew up around this stuff, it's not really hard stry to explain, but you get it. Like if I were to say, Young Money is a division of cash money millionaires, which was really a label, but really actually it was all of this stuff that bird Man put together and built the foundation upon Lil Wayne and let Lil Wayne spouted out and did the

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What up?

Everybody is about that time? Election season? You about to hear all kind of names running up to this thing. Besides just the players that are in the thing. You're gonna hear stuff like the candidates and just announced candidates are all gathering in Iowa for the caucuses to try to get enough delegates to go into the primaries to be selected as the primary elected official for the president

Let go? So I'm gonna immediately mix my metaphors here.

The season we're in now, like I'm gonna use the sports analogy here. This is more like walk on tryouts. Right, You're just trying to make the red shirt team, and you know red shirts are usually just they're the practice team. They're the team that scrimmages, the team that actually made the team. Like, I know, if you're not in the sports, that don't make no sense either, But essentially that's what we're looking at right now.

These are walk on Like.

Some of these people have been recruited, some of them just trying to get they shot. Some of y'all probably not gonna make it out of summer league. You know, some of you're gonna go down to the D League, the G League, some of y'all gonna go play some of the Bush league, minor stuff. But if you lucky, you're gonna bet the main recruit, you're gonna make it

I tell y'all, quick little story.

I remember I had this gig at this uh small It was probably like a D two college. That's Division two if you don't know college out in I want to say it was in Alabama. And the guy that booked me knew I like playing balls, so he was like, Yo, you want to come run with the team, Like I'm down. Yeah, yeah, well you know you can come scrimmage with us before we start practice. I was like, hell, yeah, let me

So generally you don't do that.

Now in this scenario, it's not that don't nobody hate Joe Biden.

It's that nobody loves Joe Biden. That's the difference. Right, So.

Your kind of hands are in a pretzel here, like, I mean, what do we do?

This is our guy.

It's like the Lakers stuck with D'Angelo Russell right now. I'm sorry, I'm a little I'm a little in pain right now. I really wanted him to be the dude. I mean, we can't trade him either. Good, you gotta match your salary. Anyway, I'm all over the place. The point is right now, people trying to make the squad. So these are the open tryouts. Now, what is a caucus? So you have your big umbrella political party, right, so you have Republican like it would almost be being.

Like crip, you got this big thing, right.

And as you know how the parties work, each of these parties have offices in different states, right, And inside of those parties are committees, clicks sets you feel me, and each of those clicks and sets kind of hold a different interest, a preference group, if you will.

They have a desire that they kind of lean towards.

Now for a caucuslet's see if I explain it like this, try to say it as simple as possible. When we're nominating a preferred candidate for the general election, the caucus is the meeting of registered members of the political party, and they're going to.

Select a delegate.

For their party's convention and hopes that these delegates will then nominate the preferred candidate for representative for their party in a general election.

I know you just said, what.

Ed. Let me pull back and say why we use the term caucus. The caucus actually just comes from a club in Boston called the Caucus Club. It was an informal eighteenth century political organization, right. But then it gets real confusing because caucus is also used interchangeably as like a subgroup or of members of Congress or state legislator or a legislative body belonging to a particular faction. Right, So like the freedom caucus. You know what I'm saying,

Okay.

So the delegate is the person or persons that represent the state they come from. How you get them delegates comes from state caucuses?

You following me?

So when you know when you see on TV the Democratic National Convention or Republican National convisuating all them speeches and stuff like that. A lot of times them speeches, them shows whoever they put like on like almost like the direct support to the headliner. You feel me the main opener, that dude who gives that speech. Usually you could tell that that food's finna be next. That the party is trying to like groom, like get this food together because you fin to be you Finita be next.

People, you do it in music all the time.

You feature the person who you think finna be next to try to give them that shine to shoot him into the stratosphere. Right now, the Democratic Party and the Republican parties select their delegates differently, and each delegate has a certain amount of power differently, But whoever wins the party's nomination to go into the open election, which means you running against the other party, you're not running against your own folk, who have to get a certain amount of delegate votes.

You're following me.

But the delegate votes depending on the side of the state, and how many delegate votes each state gets, goes to the candidate. Now, the big difference with this part is like how the delegate power is like distributed. Generally speaking, in a Democratic caucus, the delegates are proportionally based on

Right now.

With all that being sick, keep in mind Trump lost the Iowa caucus and it went on to be the president. So it ain't the end of the world if you lose, you feel me. But we don't get to what the Iowa caucus actually predicts later. But just remember that that boy lost to Iowa caucus.

So the caucus.

Is choosing delegates that's gonna vote for their preferred person in the general election.

Right.

But again, this just Iowa is not the whole country. It's just Iowa. And I don't say just Iowa pejoratively. I just mean like, it's only Iowa that we talking about. Now, how does one caucus? What's so interesting about this is it's like it's physical, like it's in person, Like you really go into a building and you stand in groups. Right, So it's like I mean, it's you create little clicks, you create sets. It's like, yo, who's rocking with Nikki Haley?

It's like, it's like it's a very.

Physical sort of type of situation, like you. And then sometimes they have a quiet ballot, right, and then so they do three rounds of that quiet ballot just mean like a secret ballot, meaning you don't actually raise your hands, but they tally right, which.

One of these fools we like?

And that's just the Iowa cock That's how the Iowa cocus works.

So that's really it.

You register for your party and then like on a Tuesday, you go to a gym and you sit around at tables that represent the candidate that you kind of like, right, you have the opportunity, and then you get to speak on that person right on behalf of the presidential candidate, because remember the presidents of candidate ain't.

Really they ain't in a room, you feel me.

And then the voting occurs again by show of hands or through a secret ballot, and whichever candidate receives the highest amount of support gets the highest number of delegate votes. And again, like I said, the Democratic Party a little different, you know, they do, like, yo, if you below fifteen percent, then that mean you got to move around and move around them people because that man ain't gonna win or that lady ain't gonna win. Now, is different types of caucasus.

Right, does that make sense? You ain't got to go in the no room and raise your hand.

It seems it's so crazy that that's the way they do it, But look, it just it's a way to have a visual representation, right. And I think one reason why they's so important is because it's people. It's not like people that work for the candidate's office. Well it's not only them. Obviously there's a lobbyists involved, but it's not only workers for the candidate. It's the actual people talking about why they actually rock with homeboy, a rock with home girl.

You know what I'm saying.

And you look in people in the eyes and you actually sitting in a physical place is something that in some ways I think it's kind of dolt that we haven't let that go in our modern era. Now, the next question is why Iowa, because there's other states that do caucusing such a fun word, but why Iowa. Well here's why, Because Iowa, just because of election cycle schedule, they just happen to be first. It's really no magic to it. It's the beginning of the cycle and it

Now, does Iowa predict presidents?

Like I said, Trump lost to Iowa cockic meaning can if you win Iowa, that's probably means you gonna win the primary and probably become president because generally foods who don't do well in the Iowa coccus pretty much drop out of the race. It's like, okay, what's the track record, right, Well, the track record since nineteen seventy six was, you know,

However, do it work though?

I mean, listen, since then, it's really only chosen fifty five percent of the Democratic winners and forty three percent of the Republican winners. One of the few exceptions is a result in two thousand and eight when President Obama, right, the underdog at the time, won the Iowa caucus and then the Democratic nomination and then the presidency. But generally it don't it's kind of random, like, I mean fifty five and forty nine mean you got a fifty to

God is good. Find your nearest black friend and ask him.

The next question would be but still, though, you haven't really made it clear as to why Iowa, because before that Yoda Convention was in Chicago. The problem was that was in nineteen sixty eight, after Lendon B. Johnson decided he wasn't gonna run and guess what, there was a dog on riot.

Homie.

You have to remember this was the summer of riots, right. This was after doctor King was assassinated. This was actor President Kennedy was assassinated. Robert Kennedy was assassinated. The country was on fire. And listen, if you could take a second to look at the nineteen sixty eight Democratic National Convention. I'm just gonna let you I'm gonna take a break here and let y'all google this. Matt, go ahead and

To try to like.

To try to sabotage these politicians. It was a riot out that mug. Just just listen, go look this up. I mean, this was this, This bug was legendary. The reason why I got moved to Iowa just because they didn't want to smoke. And the reason why Iowa First

Why they rock with this person.

So that's a So when you're caucusing, that means you sitting at that table.

I'm part of this. I'm at the Iowa Caucus, in this caucus for this fool. Right. And then if this.

Fool if my food, if I'm a Democrat and my full only get fifteen percent, then guess what, he ain't make the team.

I ain't gonna so I gotta figure out.

Okay, who else am I gonna I'm gonna bet, like so you off the squad, you have to set you know what I'm saying. But then but if I'm a Republican, it's like, well, look, my man got fifteen points, you got twenty points, this fool got thirty points, and whatever how many delegate points total that my state has. Whoever wins this mug gets to go into the primary and not yeah, it gets to go into the to the convention to be chosen by the whole party, and then that is the primary election.

You make sense.

And then once once the party chooses, then you get that big speech, I am honored to accept my party's selection to for be the president of the United States.

That's the whole thing.

So listen, inside the party, you got states, states, got districts, and inside of these districts you got caucauses, you got sets, you got hoods, you got gangs, massives, clicks, crews, Caucasus.

They're just words. The point is.

Supposed to be using hood, gang, set, click, using them all interchangeably.

But we kind of know what we mean. Iowa really ain't that special.

It's just first Iowa doesn't always predict. Matter of fact, you got a fifty to fifty chance. But it's a good way for us to know who's gonna stick around and who ain't gonna stick around. So there you have it. That's a caucus. Go caucass everyone. You know, I don't know why I ain't thought of this before, but you know you could use promo code hood for fifteen percent off on terraform colbrew dot com. Like I forgot I own that company and this is my pod.

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