As a safety precaution against gentrification and protection of black people in our vernacular everywhere this particular episode. I'm not going to teach you what the actual slang term means. I'm just going to assume that if you know, you know, and trust me, it absolutely applies. But I can tell you the purpose of the slang. The purpose of the
slang is to guarantee effectiveness. You need to guarantee that whatever you're doing, in the task that you're doing, it's multiple streams, multiple ways, double checking to make sure that the task set in front of you is completed at its fullness of capability. Because if the first way didn't work, the second day it may work. We going to throw throw everything in the kitchen sink at this mug to
make sure that it works. Lawyers have a term called Belton suspenders, which, as you would know if you're picturing, it's pretty redundant. Your belt is supposed to keep your pants up. But just in case, we're gonna actually add suspenders. They finish spend a block on Trump, y'all, who are politics? Welcome to another episode. This is episode one hundred and something, and pat me on the back, patting myself on the back for continuing to do this thing. Man, this is
so fun. It's also can be very mentally and emotionally draining. Had no idea what I was signed up for by doing a weekly show like food. You're tripping. But luckily there's no shortage of crazy happening out in the news. So here's a meta narrative here before I get into the actual topic. I will not be the person responsible for allowing yet another one.
Of our phrases to be taken from us, you know.
And then weaponized and used against us in a matter for which we don't even was never the definition of in the first place. The best example of this you may or may not know, is the term woke, Like woke first hit the black vernacular like in the thirties. My daddy used to say it, you know, because he heard it apparently from the ogs from when he was
like But my daddy was like a seventy dude. You gotta stay whoa brother, And the definition is to remain where of the tactics of oppression, to remain informed about the ways for which this racist, white supremacist world continues to hold us down.
You gotta stay aware, stay woke.
You gotta stay awake, don't don't, don't get too comfortable, don't fall asleep. Remain informed about the ways for which you are being oppressed. This word is about shit white people do, and white people took a word about what they do and did what they do to the word about what they do. Anyway, I'm not going to be responsible for any of this getting out. So now if you find out on your own, if you use context clue,
I mean, that's something I can't control. But I am not gonna be responsible for teaching you this because.
We just can't.
Y'all know, the chairs got gentrified, you know, you know the joy we experienced for at least ten days about them folding chairs.
This is the day I'm recording this.
Today that the episode on It could Happen here came out where we talked about the Montgomery, Alabama brawl. Right, These were the most glorious sets of memes because that that og that was beating fools up with a chair that we all know, Okay.
He was probably gonna have to go to jail after.
That, you know, and the GoFundMe for his veil happened immediately as soon as we saw what happened, you know what I'm saying.
The point is the chair was such a.
Simple of our resistence, and the jokes were glorious, absolutely glorious. Until one faithful day we saw my man cav on stage posted and it was like, well, guys, the party's over. There was a photo of these two cops and they was holding chairs. It's like, well, parties over, guys. We just we can't now it's not funny. That's not funny in any way like this. You just this was our This was our tool of correction. You just took It's just here we go. It's like this always happens. We
can't have nothing. I remember remember them Snuggie commercials where the family was raising the roof where it was like it's dead. Y'all said, it's just it's dead. You just y'all just be murdering. We can't have anything. That's just is what it feels like. So that being said, I am not going to teach you what spend the block means.
I'm not gonna teach you. I'm just gonna tell you.
That's what they do in the Trump Okay, And the purpose of spinning the block is effectiveness. That's the purpose. You just need to make sure what you were trying to accomplish is accomplished in multiple ways, because if one way don't work, you got a barrage of other ways to make sure that that, and you got a way of double checking. We just need to double check our work, make sure that the experience was as bad as it possibly could have been towards the persons for which we
are spinning blocks on. So what I want to talk about is the pending federal case for former President Donald Trump. Because the case is it's unique in so many ways. I should probably close the window. I don't know if you guys can hear this hiss. Matt will probably fix it, but I'm gonna close the window. Leave this in because this is I like this this rawness.
All right?
Does that sound better? Well you probably can't tell, because Matt knows how to mix anyway. Uh where was I I'm so died, y'all. Oh No, So this case is like there's no road maps because no one's ever tried to like, at least in our you know, history of a country. I don't think a president's ever tried to overthrow the election. Like there's never been at least in the way for which we've seen. You know what I'm saying.
So when I don't know if you've okay, listen, here's here's here's another example.
You got kids, you have a babysit, you.
Got or know someone with kids, and you ever found yourself explaining something you never thought you'd have to articulate, or a level of mess that you just never felt like. I just never thought, like, I know messes, but I never I've never seen a mess the way that this mess is. Maybe you you got kids, you clean up, they toys and then blink and they're all back out again, and you're just like, I don't even know how you
did this that fast, right you? You you have your child and reaching in the middle of their diaper and maybe smelling whatever came out of a button. You just like, I never thought i'd have to tell you that that you probably shouldn't. Hey, don't do that, Like, I don't know if there's a law around about this, but I just ain't no rule. I just thought I didn't have to tell you that because this, I mean, I don't understand why I need to explain this. That there's a
number of those moments as a parent. Now, there was this moment where my uh my seven year old I think she was maybe five or six at the time, where I was making her dinner. I have a lot of stories where I learned, like less, it's about making somebody dinner, right, and she I made her some like I don't know, it's like my daughter like me, is like me. And she likes seafood, which is super dope, you know. I mean, so I mayn made her some salmon, she loves salmon.
Whatever.
She likes broccoli, which is crazy, but either way, she likes it anyway. So I was making her a meal and she decided she likes to ask to like, you know, it's figure out what if I don't like it? Now if you can, if you don't know yet, I'm black, and I'm like like my man consciously says, I'm a first generation gentle parent, Like I'm this is new, Like I don't I'm not.
I don't have many.
Examples as to like of gentle parenting. Now, giving my parents the benefit of the doubt, they were probably considerably kinder than their parents were, but this whole gentle parenting thing is new. So when she says something like what if I don't like it? I mean, just can y'all imagine the amount of things that was coming out of my brain.
You like what I say? You like?
You eat what I cook? And when you've grown, you can eat what you want.
You know what I'm saying? What you mean? What if you don't like it?
Then I guess you ain't having no dinner, nor does I guess you're going to bed hung gree talking.
About you don't what if you don't like it, You're.
Gonna put it in your mouth and you're gonna figure you're gonna learn how to like it. Like I'm sorry, I'm black as hell. That's that's what's coming out in me. And she was like, but you made something I don't like? Why would you give someone something that they don't like? And I kind of froze because I was like, damn,
that's actually a good ask question. I kind of stop making sense, little girl, Like I kind of didn't know what to say at that moment, because I was like, I don't I've never had that.
That's a question I've never had to answer.
That was that was that was a good question, Like just like this little girl, she's forty years old, that's a great question. Why would I give someone something that they don't like? Goddamn, I don't know if I had. I never thought about creating some sort of rule around that sort of I just never thought about it. You know what I'm saying, you don't know how to cook. Therefore I'm making you dinner. You supposed to eat what I give you. I'm not feeding you no pill, bugs
and nothing. I just don't understand.
Anyway.
The point I'm trying to make is, sometimes ain't no map for something because you just never thought it was going to be a question you're gonna have to answer.
So this is the situation with Trump.
He's broken laws that it was like, we kind of don't even know what's the best way to explain what you just did. Right now, if you understand the criminal you know the law code, the criminal justice system, the easy ones then and it's until proven guilty, and you have to be guilty of.
A crime that I can prove.
Right, But if you guilty of multiple crimes, usually what you do is you list out the crimes and the action that coincides with the crime. Right, So it's generally like a like a one to one, right, But that's hoping since again, think of it like this, that's hoping that if I shoot this one bullet at this one person, it's gonna hit that one thing.
And if it.
Doesn't, if this one bullet that I know I can prove does not prove what I say it's gonna prove, doesn't hit the target that I say it's gonna hit, I can't just arbitrarily pick another bullet like that's not at works, Like for example, when you have somebody.
That's how people who actually like killed.
Someone can get away with it if you charge them with the wrong kind of murder does that make sense? Like first degree, second degree or manslaughter, like you have to get you have to pick the type of killing that they did. So there's no question that they killed the person. Question is am I guilty of the crime that you're saying I'm guilty of? So normally it's you did this this action was wrong based on this law. Right.
The problem with Trump's situation.
Is it was a gang of things he did, just just a clusterfuck of shit that it's like where do I even start. You know that just because I can't bring a case unless the case is coherent except for like, bro, what do you you did? The things like you just you just tried to what the and he and he could always be like I tried to do what And if you can't say what the actual thing is succinctly
and say what is it? Another example, if you're in a relationship and it's just like and you like, damn, my partner tripping.
Like about what about what?
Specifically it's just like, nah, you've just been like all weird about Like, give me example, what do you mean what do you mean I was weird?
Like in what way? I don't?
I can't How do I apologize? How do I correct? Some you can't te I mean what it was?
Ah? Just the way you walked in was it?
I mean? Was I walking fast? Like you didn't like the volume of what I said? Like, what do you say? What's the problem? I just you know, it was just all wrong? What was wrong? How do I change the behavior? You don't tell me that. So that's basically that's what happens with law cases. So with this one, there's three central indictments and they're all types of conspiracies. There's the conspiracy to defraud the government. They're the conspiracy to obstruct
an official proceeding. And then there's this one that's conspiracy to disenfranchise voter voters. Now, the thing is these what's so interesting about this case again is like, these are not three separate crimes. This is three ways to explain the same thing. And that's what we mean by Belton Suspenders. I'm charging you. There's three different ways you can look at how I'm charging you, because it was a collection of actions that have to do with his intention, his mindset,
and the steps he took. And we're not even talking about the Georgia one.
That's a whole that.
Would just drop today, the Georgia indictment where he just was like, Yo, find me votes because I won, So find the votes that prove that I won.
That's a whole other crime. That's all tape, my nigga. You know what I'm saying. That's a whole other crime.
So here's here's here's the specifics each of these things have. Again, are the way to explain the entirety of the moves. Now, what are the entirety of the moves? Well, it's first the claiming of fraud, right, the steps he took to pressure Mike Pence into not confirming the votes, the ordering of the fake electors, and then finally the speech that sort of encourages people to go storm the capitol. And
then also you know the the Georgia situation. Right, So when you look at all of it, He's like, all of it could be seen in one of these three ways, right, Belton suspenders spin the block on that boy. Right, So the conspiracy to defraud the government is essentially being like, Nigga, you lost, You're trying to make it to where you didn't. You're just just telling Michigan to just pick new dudes.
Right.
That's a complete disenfranchising of voters. You see how they're all connected, right, Because that's disenfranchising voters because Nigga, they voted for Biden. You're just saying, I'm just going to get somebody that say they that said that. That's false. You're defrauding, you're defrauding the voters. You're you're you're you're disenfranchising us. And then to obstruct office or an official procedure was the Mike Pence thing, right, to try to
convince Mike Pence to not do his part. Even though Mike Pence was saying nigga, like this, this is a formality.
It's nothing. There's nothing I can do now.
Of course, Mike Pence on his campaign trailer is like I chose the constitution, nigga, there was nothing you could do, but it do play well. It's you know, like you some brave man. He did have a dope line though, when people asked him about like is he gonna debate Donald Trump? His dope line was like I debated him all the time. It just there wasn't any cameras. That's a that's a bar. That's a bar, Old Pence. You
know what I'm saying. Every once in a while, you might bite some mayonnaise and it got a little bit of flavor to it, you know what I'm saying, Like a little mayonnaise saying.
Which had a little bit of flavor.
Or now when you feel me so like good for you, you know, that's a bar.
I debated them time. It just wasn't no cameras there. Good.
Now, let's get into the specifics of like what can and can't work after this bris ache. All right, I'm back. My wife and daughter just walked in from Koreatown and they just brought in some fried chicken, because let me tell you something. Koreans can fry a chicken. Look, y'all can fry a bird, boy, y'all, y'all, Cambodians, Filipinos. I'm
gonna go in that order. If you're not getting fried chicken for black people, if you're getting it from them Korean, them Cambodians, or them Filipinos, they can fry chicken, y'all.
Look respect.
Anyway, I'm sorry, I just finished the flat and at ginger l you know what I'm saying. Anyway, Here's here's the brass tacks. Here's where it gets to. Like Trump could always say, or his lawyers could say, dog, I can say whatever I want about the election.
That's not illegal. I'm protecting under the First Amendment.
If people believe what I say, that's on them. So the next question becomes, well, were you lying? Did you know this was false? And if you knew this was false and you continue to proceed to try to make it true, like you knew you knew you was lying, you knew this wasn't true, you knew you lost, but you still went through this process.
Oh word, your intent matters, right.
A lot of people would argue, like if Trump didn't know what he was doing is illegal, then because of the counsel he was given, Like he's saying that, like, look, dude, I just deal with my lawyers told me.
My lawyer told me.
You know that this is what we can do, right, which is crazy to think that, Like, there are crimes that if you didn't know as a crime, it's okay, you did it. There's obviously there's other there's other ones that aren't like that. Like listen, listen, it's real simple. If you run a red light and you say, oh, I ain't know that red light, men stop, nigga, you still ran a red light. I don't nobody care what
you know or don't know. Nigga, you committed the crime because like I don't understand what you're talking about, right, But there are some like crimes and scenarios to where like, yeah, your mindset actually matters, you feel me.
But you in a rock and a hard place here.
This is why you spend a block on homie because it's like, okay, listen, let's just say you actually knew this was false and you still went through anywhere that's a conspiracy and and you had malicious intent. You were actually trying to that's shape three. You were trying to defraud the American voters.
You're not fit for president.
On the other hand, if you actually believed, and this would be his defense, what if he actually believed it was true, He actually believed in his heart of hearts that he won this election and that the Democrats cheated. If you actually believed that, then it would make sense that you would do everything in your power to fight for your just dues. You were like, no, they cheated.
We need to make this right. I'm gonna step in and I'm gonna do what I gotta do, so all my actions are justified because the initial crime was I got defrauded first, I'm just making what I'm making a wrong right. Would be an argument, but that argument would also be like, well, then you're a dumbass, and you're also not fit for president because whether you thought you
was right or not, nigga, you weren't. And because you weren't when you tried to get Pence to not do the thing you now did obstruction of an official thing. You've done the thing. That's still a crime. Even though you thought it was right, that's still a crime. You still you still obstructed an official procedure of government.
That's the argument.
Then you go into the like, well, when you go pick the fake electors, nigga, you on your own there you that's that's again that's a complete differ.
You.
You are disenfranchising voters. That is illegal. Now, where did that law come from? Damn nigga that it came from the Civil warst of reconstruction law. It was trying to stop the Klan. Can you imagine somebody having to pull a law all the way from the klan to explain what the hell you're doing. So another person that's in charge of this or that's that's also you know, getting the block spun on them, will be John Eastman, because John Eastman the only one that suggested, Yo, here's what
Mike Pins can do. You should get that food to do this. Now let's look into the evidence. It would be so this would be such a hard case if did if he was, if he wouldn't always running his mouth like this. This This is so funny to me, Trump be running his mouth because you run your mouth, you go say some shit.
That's go.
So I can't even get it out because it's so funny to me. The nigga's on record saying yeah, you're right, it's probably for the next guy, like admitting that he knew he lost nigga. Every lawyer he had except for one, was like, mister Trump, mister President, it's over. Okay, there is no there is no fraud like that. It didn't happen, bro, And he just went through lawyer after lawyer to find
somebody that say yes. And the nigga that said yes it was America's favorite mayor, Rudy Judyanni was like, nah, man, nah, push forward, push through.
See my lawyer said that.
He's like, oh, you say you're gonna ignore seventy lawyers and listen to the one and be like, look, but my lawyer said, so you you bro, you did it all. So however you want to slice this cake, you that there's mud in your eye.
You understand what I'm saying.
Gone mixed in metaphors because I'm gonna use because one of them gonna stick.
You feel me. This is the situation.
So this is what the lawyers what lawyers call Belton suspenders. It's like, it's not just one way to it, It's not just one thing. Did Josh watch succession? You know how the roy family kept saying stuff like, well, the deal can take a lot of different shapes. Slud different shapes. That's my kendle, you know, sluded different shapes. Fucking you know, it could take it could take a new shape. It could take a new shape. So that's what they're saying.
There are a lot of shapes. Line go up, you know you just want the shapes, like, there's so many shapes you could how how do you want it?
How do you feel? Tell me how you want it? Nigga? You know what I'm saying.
Six maliatt in where today chose one. So this is the case. It's like, I'm not talking about your free speech because you're right, that's too ambiguous.
I can't come at you with that.
I'm not even talking about which if you notice in this there is no inciting insurrection. That's not in there, because again, I don't know if I can make that look he could, because you could always be like listen, man, you didn't hear me say go storm the capitol. You heard me say stuff like that. I could mean what I say. It could mean a lot of things. That's not a good case. But you absolutely sent fake electors you absolutely told Pence to stop, to not do the
thing you absolutely did. That you continue to seed a false narrative and then try to make that false narrative true. That's it is completely legal to be a dumb ass. It's completely legal to be it's informed. It's even perfectly legal to take steps towards correcting a perceived injustice. But listen, like my mama say, just because you think you right, don't mean you ain't wrong. I'm gonna say it again for you. Just because you think you right don't mean you ain't wrong. Get right to get left.
Baby, So he sure.
Now, lastly, I like the way he handling this, and by like it, I mean this this food. So they spending the block on Trump? Trump turned into the block and being like, Yo, they spending the block on us. So you need to give me money to protect us, because if they shooting at me, they shooting at you too. What you should say is, hold up, homie, that us, That word us is doing a lot of lifting in
that sentence. What the hell you mean us? He listen, y'all, the man's g card, the man's boss status there is, if there is, if he wasn't so atrocious there would be some gold medals. You'd have to give this man one of them gold medals. Is he's hilarious. The man is just funny. Like there's just another around it that
he funny. The other one is he he can move a hood, y'all, because you're talking about this man that continually uses you and continually gets in trouble, convinces you that his trouble is your trouble, and now you're paying his court fees. Y're paying his labor, your your donation. If you're donating to the brother, you paying his legal fees. This millionaire who supposed to be like, oh, campaign run, I run my own. I'm a millionaire. I don't need
nobody money. That's crazy because it seemed like you got everybody else paying for your court feed.
So maybe won't you use your own? Nigga? What you mean us?
You look you from the city, you're walking home. Your homeboys say, dang, we finna get jumped. It's like wait, wait, wait, wait, wait we we. I was not the one talking shit. You was talking shit talk about we. I told yo asked to shut up. I told you lead him niggas alone over there. That's what I said. You ain't listening to me. That's what them lawyers should be like. Nigga, we told you, we tried to tell you, We told Joe asked to stop. Now you're talking about he coming
for us. No, nigga, he coming for you, Okay, he coming for you. Nigga, you is on your own. I'm finished slide Cuz look the niggas you wrote them this songs about a in the club. Right now, I'm finish slide Homeboy, that beefing mind, nigga. I tried to tell you. There's an interview with ot Genesis. He was on Big Use podcast and he was talking about back when all.
Homeboy got his chain snatched Y and B.
I think I think that's Homei's name when got changed to snatch. At the roscos, they asked him about tapping in and Genesis was like, look, man, I lock in with who I lock in with. And I tell my niggas like, hey, listen, just hit me up like it's all love. Just when you get here, just let me know. But niggas try to feel like you know what I'm saying. They think they they think they already you know, they think they already hot, that they're good out here and then they get into a situation.
You know what I'm saying.
And he was like, listen, it's a lot of it's a lot of hungry brothers out there. It's a lot of hungry niggas in these streets. He was like, y'all get in a situation. Don't drop my name, nigga, don't bring me up. You know what I'm saying, because I tried to tell you. You didn't call when you got here. I'm not coming to save you. I told you to call when you got here. Don't don't don't, no, no, no, no no, don't bring my name up. Don't don't you don't say don't say my name at all. You on
your own. No, I told you when you got here. This is what you're supposed to do. So if you trump folk, that's that look. That should be your attitude. Like, nigga, we tried to tell you the only times we try to stop you, but no, you don't listen. You don't listen. You know better, you know better than all of us. Right, all right, don't hold that l fight your case, nigga. If you make it, you make it. Now checked this out. If you the lawyer remember the episode you shoot at
the king, you better not miss. I think these people who are bringing these cases to him know that you can't. This will end their careers. If they miss, you will never work. You might as well go and learn how to become a barista. You will never work in log again if you take this shot and you not for
damn sure. If you gonna shoot up a kickback, you better make forgot dog on shore that the person you're shooting at is in that building, because if you shooting me not there, you done kill that man family, that man lady, that man child, man best friend, his cousin is auntie, his grandma caught astray because you had some bad intel and he wasn't there. You done kill this
family like that. Hey, you should move to Honduras. Just get out the state, Just get out the country, because you if you're gonna shoot at a king, you better make for show you know what you're talking you ain't in at. You better make for sure it's gonna hit him.
But just the case, just spray the whole block anyway. Hood politics, y'all.
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