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the the Tesla facilities. But this episode ain't about him. You know, look, man, billionaire's gonna billionaire. I just turned billionaire into a verb. They're gonna do what they do, yeah, I'm saying, And in some ways I find him sucking. Joke is interchangeable. Now I understand that there's way more nuanced than that. That's not even what I'm worried about. This episode right here is about the actual bully, the real gangsterism that happened that all y'all missed, because like

we know, real gez moving silence like Lasagna. The real gangs in this situation was the Republican party hood politics, y'all. So I'm sure you know by now that Twitter has been purchased. No more Jack, it's Jack Din cashed out, got a condo on my need girl. I don't cash in that. Hell, I don't cash in that. Hell. Listen,

I am at a Jack cash out. Homie Yo said, of all the social media to your people, besides old Tom from my space who cashed out a long time ago and just disappeared off the internet, he don't care at all. Like Tom figured it out, that's the way to move. And again, like I said, this episode ain't about that. This episode about getting devoted. But but Tom, Tom built my space, sold that mug and disappeared. He saw the writing on the wall with Facebook and was like,

all right, cash out and disappeared. Tom brought the island somewhere I don't know where he had. Tom ain't never changed his profile picture. He never never seen again. Tom went out. He ain't in it, He ain't he the least problematic person. He ain't trying to build no metaverse. He had his money, he rolled out. I respect Tom so much. You know what I'm saying. This ain't look, this ain't no, This ain't no uh, what's boy Facebook? And well, I mean, my bad meta, what's what's that

boy name Zuckerberg? Do you're like he ain't no Zuckerberg and Jack ain't Zuckerberg like Jack different. As a side note, I gotta do a gig with Jack wants. It was an event called Catalyst, and he was gonna talk this right when he started when he invented Square and what he was talking about with Twitter, which actually made a lot of sense. Uh Now, granted is a long time ago, but he was like, Twitter supposed to be a utility. It's like I am not. I'm not your lamp um

the plug you plug your lamp into. So whatever you put on it is what you get into it. So he's like, I thought of social media as a utility service, not as an appliance, which kind of makes sense because in a lot of ways, which is why I like the discussion around what social media should be actually makes sense because it's like, I mean, you get into it, what you get from it, what you put into it. In some ways, it's like well, you know, uh, well

don't follow trash accounts. You follow trash accounts, like then the algorithm just gonna believe what the hell are you following? But at least in its pure scent, that's what it seems like, you know. But then you have the ability to throttle certain things and silent different things, you know what I'm saying. And it's like it's almost like a micro you know, casing example of what we think the role of government is. Period. You know what is governance?

Is it super les a fair? Is it like you know, free market, you know of ideas? Whatever? Yeah, I'm saying like, are you supposed to have a say as to what people see or not see? Or is it like you should have sense enough two you know, know what's stupid and what's not stupid? You feel me? And there's an old Southern phrase to say, a hit dog on holiday. You know when you when you get mad about something that when nobody even talking to you about, Well, if

you got hit, that's why you yelled. That's so when you talk about social media's and social media is being like hey, well wait now, like you know, we're just a space for free speech. You know what I'm saying, It's like, oh, you know, I hit dog on halla. I think you know what's going on here. So that's that's one thing. So I'm rambling about Jack again. This say what this episode about. But another thing that this episode ain't about is how y'all sound like Ron Burgundy

when you're talking about free speech. That's one thing I can say. What's funny about Ellen? Right now he's like, looks and I'm gonna make this place about free speech. You know what I mean when I say you sound like Ron Burgundy? This is anchor man reference. This is him explaining the history of San Diego. I think it's an old Germans word for a Wales vagina. Like, no, no, it means St. Diego. They say, the actual definition has been lost in history. No, no, it's it's St. Diego. Listen,

the First Amendment and free speech. You have the right to talk about the government, and the government can't kill you for talking about him. That's what the First That's what free speech is about. You ain't got the right to say what the hell you want to anybody about anything that's not what that is not protected by the First Amendment, because when you say dumb shit, you get the dumb slapped out of you. That's like, that's I mean the law has to do with you have the

right to dissent against the government. That's free speech. We can write articles, we can write press critiquing because again remember this mug was written in the seventeen hundreds. Like y'all, y'all keep forgetting these people. I mean, can you right now picture the year two. Do you think right now you can write a law that would apply for the year two. Yeah, I can't either. That's what we're trying

to do with the constitution. Like so, when so when they was talking about free speech, you remember they was imagining day world, and in day world, you couldn't talk about the king, you couldn't talk about the Prime minister. You weren't allowed to talk about your government. They're saying, look, we're gonna put that in law. You're allowed to talk about your government. You know what I'm saying, Like if somebody, if they trash, were allowed to talk about it. This

government ran by the people, photo people. You can't shut us down if we're talking trash about you. That's that's that's what that's about. Talking about it's free speech. No, that's not what that means. You can't just you can't just mouth off. And if you do, if you do just mouth off, you have to accept the consequences. We're talking about a privately owned space. If you walk in my house and you talk shit, guess what I'm gonna put you out. It's free speech. Will free speech outside

my door? Like you you can't just can't just say what you want, fam Well, I mean you could, but you got a suffer the consequences. So but again, that's not what this is about. This about the gs that moved in silence. You let me tell you about that g move about that silence, move about that debo. I'll tell you right now. I did this break right now

and we're back, dug because you hear me talking. Unless I was my voice on that ad, which sometimes it is, and sometimes there ain't be no ad there, which is like, that's even what interested too? I don't I don't know how the ads work. Come on, man, it's corporate over here. Uh. Anyway. The documentary Friday and the sequel next Friday and Friday after next, the documentary series. Yeah, I know, I'm kidding.

That's not a documentary, although it's pretty accurate. Has a moment with the character tiny Zeus, who you know, rest his soul rest in peace. Um as a character Debo and Deebo has officially become a verb. It's when you get Debo. Deebo at the end of the movie gets his come uppings. But if then again, what's the statute of limitations on spoilers? At this point, if you listen to this pot and you ain't seeing Friday, I kind

of don't know what to tell you anyway. So Debo has this scene where he walks up or he rides up on a beach cruiser bike that actually belongs to somebody else, right because he borrowed it at some point earlier in the movie. And then the scene with brother tries to tell him he pops his tripping. He told me you asked for my bike back right. He's like, yeah, man, I got it right here, and then he punches him in the face. He goes my bike pump. This is when he walks up and he says, hey, what you

got on my forty? What you got on my forty? So basically he's saying, come over here, give me money so I can buy this drink, and if not, I'm just gonna take it from you. There's a rule around the neighborhood, and here's where the hood and it is coming. It's a rule around the neighborhood that if somebody say they want to borrow something from they're not borrowing it, especially if it's a goon like that, they're not borrowing it. And let me borrow your bike right quick. That's the

end of your bike. That's not your bike no more. When you ask for it back, they're probably gonna be like, what bike, because we needs your bike is gone? There you it's gone. It's it's you're never gonna get it again. Hey, my homeboy need to use your phone. Can we use your phone right quick? Okay, I'm asking you you can get your hand it over. I'm gonna take it from you. You know what I'm saying. And when I take it from you, like, I'm probably gonna take your shoes too,

I'm gonna run your chain. I'm gona round all of that. Let me borrow your phone right quick. My homeboy needs to use it. Give my homeboys. Give my homeboy your phone. You're never seeing it again. It's not a it's not a threat. You need something easier, you need to it's not a request. You need something easier. Get out the car for I snatch you out the car. That's not a quest. I get out the car. HOLDI get out the car for I snatch you out the car. You I mean you you're gonna lose your car, and you

feel you're about to fight. So at that point you don't. It's not an option. You have to figure out what's what is the best case scenario for you? Because I mean you could fight on my guests, you could try. Maybe you could turn out like Listen. Maybe you could turn out like Cray get the end of Friday. Maybe did you have some squabbles on your hands? But it's not an option. It's being taken from you. You being robbed. Annie up, you see that man shotting get a fuing

goddamn diamonds. So the question you would think right now is like, dang, did elon the elon just kind of like you just check you just check Twitter? You just run up on what you got on my social media? Homi? Is that? What is that? What happened? It would seem like it, especially when he joined the board. Then he was like, yo, I'm gonna take you know what I'm saying, like, if I take this fifteen percent of shares, then I get to do what I want I'm a majority owner.

So the next question you should be asking is like, Yo, what the hell is a poison pill? So check this out. I'm gonna read this to you. This is um quartz dot com. Is that you know, independent journalism? So what is the poison peel? The poison pill is a common nickname for a shareholders rights plans, which allows shareholders to buy additional shares of a company stock at a discount,

deluding the value of each individual share. A company concerned about an unwanted corporate takeover will put the plan in place, and after a triggering event in Twitter's case, if a person buys, like I said, percent of the stock without the board's approval, all other shareholders will be afforded the opportunity to buy more shares. And at the time, Musk owned nine point two right, So that's basically what you do.

It is like, all right, if this fool gets the fift, then I'm gonna drop the price of the thing, and everybody that's a shareholder gets to uh buy more of the company to try to protect themselves from this fool basically taken over. Now, the next question would be, well, what do you mean by percentage of ownership. Ain't this going from Jack to Ellen? Well, no, Jack wasn't the same type of CEO that Ellen Finnaby. Jack only owned two percent of the company. Of course he was the founder,

but he only the rest was owned by US shareholders. Right, this different elien on it all. Now, how is he gonna run the space? I don't know. Maybe you're gonna run it like Tesla. But again, this ain't the point of the story. This ain't Debo. This just who Debo handed the bike too. So when he say, let my homeboy borrow your phone right quick? This the homeboy who got squabbles himself. But there was a possibility that that homeboy that got squabbles himself, you could possibly take him.

You you can run your risks. If the little I say, hey, get out the car for us, snatch you out the car. You can look at him and be like, I might be able to handle him. Just the person I remember I used to tell you, like when fools be like, YO, give me that backpack, I'll be like, I died for this backpack. I'm terrified, but I could probably take this food.

But there's somebody in the room I can I may not be able to take on who's been sniffing around for a while, who actually had issues with me for a long time, and that is the Republican Party of Congress. Now let's see how to silent Geez moved. Okay, So look the Republican Party. I know I said, I'm about to talk about them, but sit them down for a second. Okay, Ellen and brothers like him, when they reached that particular stratosphere, they become more Bill gatesy, where making money is not

even funny anymore. That's easy. Things become about your legacy. And there is something about being that wealthy, that and your ability to accumulate those type of funds that it seemed Look, I'm not an expert, but it seemed like you start feeling like people stop self telling. You know, a long time ago, you know, you could tell somebody, hey eat that pilot like dog do do right now? Like are you crazy? Here's a million dollars right, you

know what I'm saying. So like there's it just does something to your brain to where, you know, Bill Gates decided it was on him to end malaria, you know.

And what's crazy is like in some places it's kind of worked, you know, what I'm saying, like, you have the type of resources to really like terraform Nerve saw me plug my own stuff here, But you have a resource like you could do it, Like you could decide, you know, in this scenario, I don't like how this platform is going, and I have a fiduciary, you know what I'm saying, duty to make this right, and the resources to actually pull it off. You know, you had

Mark Cuban who was like, mess is not affordable. I'm just gonna make some medicine and just give it. I'm gonna buy it out and put it in Walgreens, and it's gonna be like you can do it, you know. Uh,

And when you got that type of resources. Again, sometimes they're fumbles, but that's because again, if you've been making money like that, you could ask any of them the amount of losses, the amount of els they've taken in businesses of stuff that just didn't work, ideas that didn't land, things that didn't take off, you know, opportunities you miss. It's just part for the course, it's part of it.

So if you just take a l, just take a L. You know what I'm saying, Like, you don't think twice about yourselves because one of these things are gonna hit. So so with that you kind of you swinging. So if you really think that like buying Twitter about money or just a good business move, like I think you might be. I think you might misunderstand somebody like him and position that man building spaceships to Mars. Dead Man has based on his auto you know, self driving cars.

He has a software that has mapped the country. So the reality is every car from now on that's gonna be self driving will probably need his software. So even if Tesla's don't sell in the mode, y'all need a software because he didn't already mapped. He ten years ahead everybody map in the country. So it can't like money. It's just like yeah, like look, look, it's just like street stuff. It's like getting you could get money, like

nobody's questioning that. And when you take ld you bounce back some you know, like if you if you listen to like dudes that were like really pushing a lot of weight like street dudes, they're like, no, you you only buy stuff you can sell later just in case you get down, Like Benny Benny to put you got a song about that where He's like, look, dude, I bought this car because I know it's resale value. It because if I get rated, if I lose this thing, I could sell that off and start over again. You

got money sitting somewhere else. You only buy stuff you can sell later just in case, like because so you can get back up and start doing a thing again, like going to jail, doing bids. It's just it's the cost of business. They know this. Sometimes you lose yo. So it's not a camp. It's not just the money. But put him aside now, and let's talk about the Republican Party. So check this out. April the House Republicans, uh, or the the Yeah, the Congress, the House of Representatives,

the Republics, the Committee on the Judiciary. On April sent a letter to the board of Twitter. So they just to the to the Brent Taylor, who's like a board memory says dear Mr Taylor. Free speech online is under attacked by big tech. In particular, Twitter has been increasingly engaged in heavy handed censorship to silence prominent voices and stifle views that disagree with the prevailing progressive consensus. Big text eroding commitment to free speech prevents informed public disclosure

and undermines First Amendment principles. These harms follow from how Twitter and other social media companies increasingly function as the de facto public town square for the American people. Decisions regarding Twitter's future governed nets will undoubtedly be consequential for the public disclosure in the United States and could get rise to our renewed efforts to legislate further rents of

preserving free expression online. Among these things, the board's reactions to Elon Muks to offer to purchase Twitter and outsider opposition to must roll at Twitter's future is concerning. Twitter's board members have a fiduciary duties to the company's shareholders. These duties applied despite how many corporations leaders increasingly pursue progressive policy goals divorced from their shareholders entrants. Here's another page too. As Congress continues to examine big tech in

how it's best to protect americans free speech rights. This letter serves as a formal request to preserve all records and materials relating to must offer to purchase Twitter in rooting Twitter's consideration and response to this offer and Twitter's evaluation of its shareholder's interests in respects to musk offered, you should construe this perservation notice as an introduction to take all reasonable steps to prevent the destruction or alteration,

whether intentionally or neglig I don't even know, not say negligently. There it is of all documents and communications and other information, including electronic information and metadata, that is potentially responsive to this Congressional inquiry. This instruction includes all electronic messages using official and personal accounts devices, including records created using text messages, phone based message applications for encryption software. Thank you for

your prompt attention to this matter. Right, So let me help you out here. This is what they're saying. Listen, Twitter board, if we take over Congress, we're gonna be all in your ass and we're gonna find everything we need to find because we have believed for a very long time, y'all been squashing right wing voices. You've been you've been stifling and happy. I don't know if you've noticed this, but that's been a talking point for uh

conservat to voices. A lot of liberal voices say to like, you're silencing us, Like everybody swear they be in silence, right but for the Republican Party. That's been a big, big case for them, notwithstanding you know the amount of false information and whatever that's been passing around the internet, you know, re Kings of Cap or the Art of Cap episode that y'all just heard, uh maybe two episodes

ago with the Homy bridget Todd. Point being they have believed that tech companies, including Twitter, have a progressive lean and are desiring to shut down Republican or conservative voices. So they was basically like, listen, we like, how must talking and if we get on top, we've been to give y'all a colonostomy out this mug. And I'm telling you right now hold on to everything. I need to know what y'all saying about this man, because if we

find like you know, you gotta listen. If we find something we ain't like, we're coming for, you can get out the car for I snatch you out the car. I mean, it's wow. Right, So if you Twitter, what do you do? Lose it all? You cash out? Forty three billion, forty four billion cash out. It's not gonna happen to Twitter. Let me let my homeboy borrow your phone right quick? All right, let me get it back what phone, get out the car for I snatch you.

That's my bike punk because who knows what's gonna happen, Like if they take over Congress, they take over the House and they decide that you what they want. Don't have you been following on how politics like works. Whoever's up gets what they want unless they have Democrats because apparently they don't know how to decide on nothing. But when when the Republicans get up, they get ship done, Like you're not are you're not paying attention? They get

what they want. And I don't think Twitter trying to want to smoke their Facebook got because Facebook they got the smoke. Twitter don't want to smoke. So what do you do? Do you decide like okay, like we saw they said, okay, well we might be able to take on Elin if we do this, like if we do this thing, but I don't know, only three billion dollars? Really is this worth the head? Is the juice worth the squeeze? That's the question. Is the juice worth to squeeze?

And I think they decided, uh, that's a whole lot of juice three billion dollars because they cashed out. And I don't blame him for doing that. I don't blame me Elon must for his moves. Hell, I don't blame the Republican Party for their moves. That's real G stuff And Yo, it's crazy. But why so G to me is because nobody knew this happened. They just slid them.

A document was like, Yo, the streets is watching. You got some decisions to make, and we just want to make sure you make the right decision for your shareholders who get out the car for while snat you out now is the next question? This question has to do with us. Are we leaving Twitter? I'm probably not there again, There's a part of me that says, look, dude, big tech is big tech, and they have they have their arc. I feel like every platform has got its art. Who

knows where Twitter is going in the future. If it tanks, it tanks. If it don't, it don't. Part of me feels completely unbothered by what any of these people do. The question would be okay, so, okay, flesh this out. Prop you still buy stuff on Amazon? Yeah? Sometimes, you know, I mean, do I know how bad he? Yeah? And my am I spinning in their face. I mean, I'll

be avoiding it. As much as I can. I'm aware also know half the websites I go to are built on their platform, So I mean what you wish, it's it's at this point, it's a part of life. You can in my all Facebook, well, I don't open Facebook, but Instagram on Facebook, I gotta Instagram. Did I read

their privacy? I know? I mean, I know right now, like I'm gonna talking to this phone and be like, you know, I don't know if y'all saw that TikTok and the ladies say that she grabbed her phone, grabbed her man's phone, and she was dating it, and she's all men self care, men therapy, therapy for men, men ending toxic masculinity. She's speaking into his phone as off so that the ads will pop up for Yeah, I

know that's real. I know, you know. Sometimes I'll be thinking about like seeds from a grass, just thinking about it. I ain't even say that out loud. All of a sudden, I gotta add for I I don't know the voodoo. Am I leaving instant I ain't left Instagram? Am I leaving Twitter? I ain't leave I leave Twitter. Everybody lead to here. I leave Twitter with nobody there. I don't follow Elon Musk. I didn't follow Donald Trump. Another parts of like, yeah, I don't open Facebook because I was like,

I don't enjoy it. I just I just don't enjoy the app. So are we leaving in droves? You can leave in protests. I would never I'm I would never, like I don't. That's on you. That's your business. You do whatever you want with it. You know what I'm saying, Am I on TikTok? Yeah? I mean kind of what I'm saying is as for me in my house, the billionaires going billionaire and the Congress is going Congress. Nonetheless, I remain I'm gonna keep putting out the content I

put out until I realized it's not reaching people. I'm gonna go where the people are. You go, where you you go, where you appreciate it. Now, listen, you got options. There's other Tumbler. You know what I'm saying. You can there's so many other social platforms. Signals, Signals got a social black where you can just stay on Reddit. You know what I'm saying, Like you, it's not the only game in the world. Like you, there's no law, like you don't have to be here. So if you choose

to leave, that's dope. You know what I'm saying. If you choose to say that's dope, there's no law. It's it is what it is. It's fine. I don't do what you want. Like again, my whole life, gangster and criminality has been going on around me, my whole life. Some of it's some of it's unavoidable, some of it is, some of it is just a part of life. I mean, even if you like, look, look, I came from y'all know me. I came from the church. You know what I'm saying. Came from the came from him. Hip hop

came from We went to church. And what's going to church? You know, if you was trying to do some sort of like you know, back to school celebration, pancake breakfast, backpack giveaway, you have to you have to pay the set, the neighborhood set. Like if you're gonna do good over there, you I don't care if it's a church, you gotta pay the set. How you pay the set is different. So listen, listen, listen. I'm on the board of an international like humanitarian organization. There are times fam you and

and it's on the website. If you're dealing with terrorists controlled regions, you're trying to give aid to these people and these looks, you gotta sit down with some ojis, just just so I don't like, what do you want me to say? I could just walk into Nickerson Garden Projects and be like, hey, free backpacks. No, you gotta tap in. And if that man, if that Craig, if that's set, that's why I say Now, I don't know.

If I don't know, if we want you all around here, didn't you you're then I'm sorry that neighborhood ain't getting backpacks. I don't care what good you think you're doing. Yeah, I mean it just it's just it is this Some stuff is just unavoidable. You know. Let me tell you something. You didn't, whether you know it or not, you didn't pay some gangsters already with Jeff Bezo said, I want to thank everybody who's bought something at Amazon because you

built this rocket. He he ain't lying. That's your money. I told my getting off Twitter. Probably not. I don't lose sleep over Elon Musk. I don't also don't want to drink his bathwater because it's just the Internet. I'm just here to get to y'all. So I'm just gonna go. I'm gonna go where the party at. That's just what it's like, y'all, and that's what it is. Politics. Yeah, this is here thing was recorded by Me Propaganda and

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