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All Right, y'all, humor me.
I would like to pull up a few receipts right now. I'm gonna refer y'all back to season one, episode eighty eight when I talked about a young king, a young mogul, a young boss named ray J. And it was one of those rare moments where I was using something a little more pop cultury, a little more TMZ ish to help us predict.
The moment we're in now.
And I would really love for y'all to just go back and listen to that episode for a little bit and.
Just humor me.
And enjoy the fact that you, as a hood politics with prop subscriber nudics was coming. And then I'd like to move you forward to season two, episode one thirty four about Rico Charts, and in that episode it talked about something that I've talked about multiple times.
That Rico is the gangster breaker.
It's the It's it is the thanos, it is the exterminator, it is the.
Just the revealer of character when it comes to your code.
And what I told y'all back in season one, episode eighty eight is that in Trump's orb, it's a rag in there now I want y'all to go back and remember what I mean by that. Now, if you don't remember what I mean by that, I'm gonna explain it a little bit. Ray J had kept his mouth shut this whole the entire time Kim Kardashian was a star,
the entire time Kim and Kanye was married. He kept his mouth shut, collected his checks, went about his business, and never said a foul word about anything that Kardashians was doing. And then finally, at some point, he got tired of being portrayed as the villain in this story and the saga of their sex tape, their married Kanye
returning and getting the last piece of it. He got tired of being the fall guy and going along with this narrative that, as he said, you know, played a role in a lot of them becoming stars, and the role that Kim's mama played in the sex tape move. And he was like, listen, look, man, y'all gonna stop. Y'all gonna put some respect on my name. Man, I've went on and have done amazing things, and I have
never said nothing about what y'all doing. But y'all gonna, y'all not gonna keep throwing this, throwing this dirt on my name and making me be the bad guy.
Like, I'm tired of this.
It's been almost twenty years now, you know, like we this, I'm done.
I done, accomplished so much.
The headphones I use is Raycon's let me like I love him.
Thanks.
Look y'all listen, Man's got R and B hits. The man is started multiple things. We is responsible for love and hip hop, and his legacy is just gonna be this dumb ass sex stape. Now, y'all not gonna ruin my legacy. I told y'all it's a ray.
J in there somewhere. When it comes to Trump.
Or somebody gonna get tired of this, somebody gonna finally be like, you're not finna ruin my life. I'm riding for you, but at this point, nigga, you're not finna ruin my life. And I told you multiple times. You throw enough time at somebody. If the crime is that serious, you throw, you throw Rico and somebody. Guys listen, Oh you know what a Rico is. A Rico ain't nothing
but a karaoke night. A Rico turned the mic on because oh, nigga, I'm gonna sign up you not finla Like uh uh, homie, we look where the paper's at.
I will cop a plea.
But it turns out I might have been a little off because I said it's a.
Ray day in there somewhere so far there's five hood politics, y'all.
Oh man, What I think is so dope about this situation is I almost had brain space, like I had cleared hard drive space in my brain where Trump used to take up so much.
It was like that.
First few weeks when he was not on Twitter, it was like, oh, whoa, hey, I remember having space in my brain that wasn't occupied by this dude. Ah. You guys remember when the news wasn't just his life, it was kind of great. He just sucks up so much air and space in the room. It's on purpose. But obviously our me is like, well, they're not stupid. I mean it's such a sideshow that I mean, why would you not cover it?
Like, I know a lot of us are like.
Really, you know, contemptuous, contemptuous, be salty at mainstream media and.
Rightfully so because they be goofy, but they.
Ain't gonna show what we won't watch, you know, And it's it's part of like the problem with with the Veke that Ryan's with Cake is he's doing the Trump thing, but it's like we laughing at Vivake. You know. Trump is verifiably funny, and even when he's not trying, it's funny.
I mean, the.
Brother's choice for the light bulbs was because he felt like he don't look good under haligens, Like he wanted the energy efficient bulbs, not because they better, you know what I'm saying, or didn't want them, not because they worse or because they it's like I just look better in these other ones, like.
This can't keep it real cast. He's just funny to me.
So he's got that thing, whereas Vivek just comes off while he trying to do that, just comes off like a dick, like you're just like, oh my god, this a little prick, Like shut up because you could already tell like you wet behind the ears, like you ain't gone through nothing.
At least Trump what he got going for.
He a grumpy old man, So like him being old and that funny, you know, and have having a record in public long enough, it's almost like it just makes it funnier, Like he is funny, Like why the man was able to be on TV the way he was able to be on tcause he's a personality.
Like, let's not take that from him.
He's verifiably That's problem with old dessentis it's like Niggy, you you're weird. Like it's just I like, I just I don't know, man. Like what I'm trying to say is I understand why people like Trump. I can see how people will fall for that. Like, I mean, anyway, I found that man, there's so much else going on in the world. And it's not like it wasn't other stuff going on in the world the whole time, the whole time he suck.
Up all the air in the room. It was always stuff going on the whole time.
But this, however, somehow compartmentalized his news over in the corner.
And it's kind of great.
It sucks what took him out of the news wasn't apartheid genocide? He out the news though, So I almost forgot the foods have snitched on't you?
Now?
Let me unpack snitching before I go into who the ray J's are. Snitching is a very specific thing, and I cannot confirm or deny whether these people actually snitched. As as we know it, snitching has to do with at least how the OG's around my block, how I was taught. If you've got put on the set, if you put on the hood, you that that membership in this gang, by definition, by inference and by fiduciary responsibility, means you don't talk.
Just you.
Your membership of it means you don't talk even if you weren't at something like if a particular crime happened and you honestly wasn't there, you have a fiduciary duty to still not talk because when they say, okay, well you wasn't there, what do you know who was? Nope, Officer, I was at thirteen twenty five, you know signal Hill Lane. You know what I'm saying, Like I was over there. I can't tell you, sir, I had a gun. I could cop to my own crimes. But the night in question, no, sir,
I don't know. I don't know where they were. I don't even know who you're talking about. You have a fiduciary duty. You cannot if you was in the car and you was an accessory and they ask you, well, what was everybody else doing like I don't, I don't know what everybody else was doing. You was in the back seat with him, What did y'all talk about? I wasn't paying attention. I have my headphones on yet, sir. That's my gun. I don't know what happened with the other stuff.
That's my gun.
Like you could cop to that. But snitching is when you tell on somebody from your block or even from somebody else's like you don't talk because you have signed up for this, which means that a civilian, your neighbor. Right, the nice old lady that you know lives on the corner, is she witnesses Charles rob somebody and she stand on the stand and they say, is the person who committed this robbery sitting in the courtroom right now? She'd be like, yeah,
that nigga, that don't count a snitching. She's a law buying citizen trying to live. She's that's not a part of her code. That's different for her.
Now.
Having said that, it's not like everybody you know adheres
perfectly to these codes. You know, me as somebody who lived over there, and you know in another kid who like say, for example, you know they brothers involved or your uncle involved, you know, and of course the hood gonna use intimidation factors to make sure that like you don't talk too But and that's sometimes just like what most people do, which is self preservation, which is like, well I ain't gonna talk, you know what I'm saying, because I know these people could really make my life
an untenable situation if I get involved in whatever you do. So, you know, and especially if you're that kid that like you want to be around, like you just want to be affiliated, like you just think it's cool or exciting. You know, you want to run around here and pretend like you gang bang and you're putting that little mixtape something about how you out in the streets. You know, when this situation happened, we gonna see you know, you about to face ten to fifteen.
All you gotta do is tell on somebody.
You know, you look sometimes you just you shutting up, not for no particular code, but because you understand their code and you just understand what your life gonna be like. Cause these police can't protect you. Like that's a joke, y'all, Like they can't protect you. But if you part of this leg and you talk, that's a violation. So by that standard, if you in a rico and you say something at the base, you're snitching. Now there are gray areas here now according to the set, it's like, oh, nigga,
you copped a plea. You had to give them something, right, but we don't know what was given now in their situation, And sometimes a plea might be you're personally caught dead.
To rights to where you like.
Okay, like I said in that example, yes, in the racketeering process of this particular collection of felonies happening, that car was registered to me.
That is absolutely my car.
So I will cop to accessory to this right, which might be a misdemeanor, which means that you don't have to go through this whole thing now for you to cop to that, for the prosecution to say, I'm willing to accept you copping this plea for this, but in return I need something because the truth is you could cop to that, and all that's gonna do is build my case for the whole rico. So I don't have
to accept you copp into this right. If I'm gonna give you leniency a lesser sentence, you know you you are obviously.
Dead to rights guilty.
I need something in return, right and a good DA a district attorney, Like, obviously you're trying to cut the head off, so you got to give me something that matters. I don't know what that something is and I don't know how you can do that without snitching. Then again, as I'm defining snitching means like you have signed up
for this. It's different if we were talking about like a clerk, right who And some could argue if you a clerk like fam you like you you worked in the Trump orb, like you knew what it was by definition of you sign it up to work for Trump, you knew what it was, or maybe you didn't know what it was, and you were just like, bro, I just all I added the Google calendar, like I'm just an intern. I ain't got none to do it, none
of this shit right now. If that's the case, you better hope you have some good information on some of the higher ups because you just being like.
Dude, I was just I'm just the intern.
It's like, yeah, you don't mean nothing to the prosecution except for what you can give them, so it don't make them no difference at all. Whether you go to prison or not, you better hope you have some. But if that's the case, niggas sing because you ain't signed, Like, that's not what you getting from this? Like you you're not even on the hood, Like what are you getting from it?
You feel me?
Now let's get into who and why? All right, we're back now now that we're getting into who and why, some of this stuff again so obvious, so clear once you start actually talking about it.
A bunch of the people that.
Copped the please were lawyers, because I mean, duh, come on, y'all. If you're a lawyer, you get nicked for a felony, a rico felony, you're probably gonna be disbarred.
At least in a few states. And if you're not.
Disbarred, who won't choose you as a lawyer? I mean, your career is done, Like your law career is done. You better learn how to roast coffee, Like come on over here to the coffee, or maybe you know what, start a podcast, come here and do my career, because you ain't gonna be practicing law nowhere. I mean, come on, so for them, obviously, why would you not? You're gonna stick with Trump for real. You know what that man's defense is in these very cases is I was just
listening to my lawyers. I just I did what they said to do. They were the experts. I trusted the experts.
That he's literally blaming you.
Are y'all, Liker, is you sitting across the table, you that man is blaming you?
Oh, Nigga kap Yo, please gonna be a ray j he's blaming you, Gus. It's a fifty to fifty chance he's gonna be in jail. Listen, y'all.
Just ninety one criminal charges, four separate cases in four separate districts, and two civil trials. You really gonna put your money on that man if that meant now? Listen Having said that, if that man beat ninety one criminal charges, at that point, you got to recognize real you beat ninety one charges, I'd like watch. I think, Yeah, you went because I bow out. I forgive me for everything I've said to you, because you are untouchable.
Ninety one too civil. The man be on the stand self incriminating.
The trial that's going on right now is about him inflating the value of his real estate. His son's was like, oh yeah, Nah, you know, I'm just a rubber stamper dog, Like I don't really make those decisions. I just look at this thing. It's just a formality dog. I don't even know which is not true. His daughter was like, yeah no, I mean I'll be doing my thing with Jared. Like, look, we're not over here. Trump gonna understand. They was like, hey,
this thing, it says it's worth eleven million. How much is it worth? He was like eleven, twelve, maybe thirteen. Nah, it's worth like fourteen million. I think it's worth more. I just I look at the thing, and I think it's worth more. So I say what it's worth, nigga, that's what you're on trial for. Like, that's this, This is the actual crime you on trial for.
Yeah. No, I think it's not worth it. They send me the paper. I look at it.
I don't think it's right. So I add stuff to it. What's wrong with that? Who gets hurt by it? Another millionaire? Another millionaire?
Who am I hurting? Hurting another millionaire? Difference is to make that If.
That defense works, then I feel like, I mean we're gonna be cools on media, go oh that nigga hit a Pope. If that shit work, we're gonna be like, well, you figured it out, you look hats off. It's gonna be we're gonna be looking at President Trump's fourth term in office.
This nigga can pull this shit off. Let me not say that. Don't you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby, Yeah, greatest movie of all time anyway, So let's get to it first.
I'm gonna talk about Jenna Ellis. Okay, that fool was like, Yo, if I knew then what I knew now, I would not have done what I did now. She was one of the attorneys, like I said, that was like listen, let me, let me, let me, let me back out right. So she was charging involvements in setting up the meetings with the state legislators where she could convince the states that like, hey, if this thing is fraudulent, right, then you can change the state.
Law right and.
Give the electoral votes to Trump because you know the votes were fraudulent, right. So she played guilty to a single count of aiding and a betting false statements and writings. So she got five years probation, five thousand dollars fine, and one hundred hours of community service now she has to agree.
Here's where you get crazy. She got to.
Agree to testify for prosecutors in future proceedings. Right, and then she also read an apology in court which was, if if I let the lower parts of me speak, hilarious and I'm sorry because again I'm letting the lowest parts of me speak because you remember, like like Jenna Ellis, is this like traditionally like you know, pretty young, talented, blonde, little white girl, right like dead on you know American
standards of beauty. Right, she set up on there, you know, holding back tears on some like you know, I'm a Christian to open up with that number one, and that she take her job very serious and she wanted to take full responsibility because she believed that it was the right thing to do to challenge the election results based on the information that the people that were more seasoned
than her gave her. I thought I was doing the right thing, and what I should have done was double check the facts that the other lawyers gave me.
That's quite an apology. Yeah, just like, look, I only did what they said to do. Now, his what's crazy?
That might be true, it's just in between them tears and at this point, like she said, look, if.
I knew then what I knew now, Listen, I was the rookie and.
I'm hearing her cause again it's like, look, nigga, like that's my job to just go talk to the media.
I like, I I just did what my old g said. This is her art.
I'm sorry I do, but listen, I'll pay the fines. They made that girl stand up and admit my bad. Next is your boy, uh ken chesbro right Chessboro. Right. He played guilty because what he was doing was that was his plan to go down to Georgia and just to make up electors, right, So because you know, the electoral college as it works, didn't pick him. So he was like, well, look how about we just get other electors.
That was the fake the electors things. So he played guilty to a single count of conspiracy right and filing false documents, and he got five years probation, and he gonna pay five thousand dollars and also do one hundred hours of community service and also had to craft a letter of an apology to the people of Georgia. Okay, so they gotta say sorry, you know, then they gotta do this other stuff. Now, next you got Sidney Powell, who's probably my favorite. She was the I'm gonna release
the cracking lady. She was the one that was like Nigga, I got receipts. She was the one that was out here talking about the Hugo Chavez dominion that that the Beninion machines come from Venezuela, Nigga, and they work for Hugo Chavez and they magically be switching the ship to make it go for Biden.
Like that was that lady oh Man.
And with all that, she got six years probation, six thousand dollars fine, twenty seven hundred dollars in restitution to the State of Georgia, and an apology letter. But she got to testify for the prosecutors in future proceedings in the election reco cases. I think that's because she was loud enough and because she got something for you.
Next we got Scott Hall, right.
He was the Atlanta area bail bondsman who was charged for his involvements right in the breach of the electric system or electric the election system equipment in Coffee County. So he played guilty to five misdemeana accounts to this conspiracy and commit intentional interference with the performance of election duties. Right now, his deal five years probation, five thousand dollars, two hundred hours of community service in an apology letter to the citizens of Georgia.
So as you could see, that's how it worked.
Now, the last one I'm gonna talk about is Mark Meadows. Right, So he wants to use his immunity, and how that works is like the type of immunity that he's gonna use is like, if prosecutors want to indict him, they can't use these words that he's about to give them against them, which is different than not being prosecuted at all. Right, So he's saying, okay, listen, I'm a talk but I want the type of immunity that say I can't incriminate myself.
And they was like, okay, cool, now, if you're not paying attention, that don't mean you not gonna get indicted. That just means what you finna tell me, I'm not gonna use against you. What he finish say is this, I told this nigga a million times. He lost Nigga. I tried to tell him he are here talking about he listening to the lawyers and in this little girl up here apologizing to y'all saying she was just listening to us.
Nigga, I tried to tell him. I tried to tell this boy. I tried.
I told him a million times. Trump, Nigga, you lost. I tried to tell.
Him, Oh, okay, that's your case now.
So for him to go with this immunity means and for them to agree with it means the boy got received these other things. These you know, five years probation, five thousand dollars. They sound like slaps on the wrist. That's because listen, they finished sing. But the things that they have may or may not be that serious, or they just didn't play big enough roles in the conspiracy. Like you just like for the person that say, look, I just set up the meeting, you know what I'm saying.
This person was like, look, man, I was just a clerk.
This person was like, bro, I just all I did was mess with the machine, like I ain't cooked the whole thing up with.
That's how ricos work.
Even though you had those little things, you thought Rico and somebody like, nah, you're guilty of all this shit.
You're like, nigga, No, I'm guilty of this.
So since they didn't play a big enough role, we're not really worried about We're not really worried about you anyway. You're not the fish we looking for Mark Medos. However, Now what Mark Medos got for him to be? Like nigga, I need immunity because I'm finna tell you some shit that my hands are remarkably dirty. So whatever I tell you right, whatever you find on me on your own, that's different. But the stuff I'm telling you right now, like y'all, don't use that against me, y'all. Y'all, y'all,
following that, these are your ray j A's. And this is a very important distinction that a lot of times the movies don't let you understand, right because obviously they just movies. And like I said, most like street dudes I know like that who've been through the system are very well versed in the criminal justice system. They would understand the type of immunities talking about. You think immunity is means like, oh, I'm good, that's like absolute immunity,
Like they'll never prosecute me. I'm fine if I tell I'm good. No, what they're saying is what you tell me in this statement. I'm not going to use your words against me against you. But if I find those things in our own investigation, oh I could still prosecute you for this. That's you think you and the clue not in the clear. Does that make sense? There's a difference. So that's quite a calculation. But again, you would hope that if you get a jury case that they would
be like, well, I mean he did admit it. Only problem this ain't no Jerry case. Who these Ray J's was like, listen, y'all go, you gonna stop putting this on me. You are gonna stop putting this on me, and listen, I don't blame him.
Who's left? You got Rudy Juniorti.
You got John Eastman, you got Jeffrey Clark, you got Ray Smith, you got Robert Keasley, you got Michael Rohman. You got David Shaffer, you got Sean Hill, you got Stephanie Lee, you got Harrison Floyd the Black Dude. You got Trevion Cootie right and Kathy Lathan, and you got Misty Hampton. I don't know somebody else, don't sing, But here here's what I'm trying to tell you rico works at some point, because you know, what's what's better than jail time not jail time. Now, I don't know what
else to tell you. What's better than jail time is not jail time. These people are finna lose they law license, they like even even if they beat the case, that's the point drop. Even if you beat the case, your career done nothing to put dirt on my name. I'm like, and especially if you like, listen, I tried to tell you and if what these people who copy these please
are saying are truth are truthful. Trump got a defense because this defense was I was just listening to them and they saying we tried to And one of the lawyers was like, well, yeah, me too. I was just doing what my superior said. And the superiors was like, damn that. We tried to tell him. You ain't no letting you know, you was listening to Rudy nigga. You wasn't listening to us cuz you was listening to that nigga.
So you're not finna. Look, don't you put that on me, Ricky Bobby tell I'm tell you greatest movie a lot.
You're not gonna put that alive. You're not gonna put that on me because this beef you got ain't mine.
Nigga. I'm right there.
Look you five thousand dollars you need to check? You want to check? Y'all take y'all.
Want a money order?
You?
I mean you got Venmo. You got zel.
I'll zel to say to Georgia right now. Five, that's cool. I got you community service. I can't pick a church, can what like? I picked the spot? Let me know what's up?
One hundred hours nothing, let's go. That's a couple of months.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a ray j in there somewhere. You're not finna take me down. So congratulations on your songs. I can't wait to hear uh the choruses y'all sing when you actually have to testify in this.
Case, and we'll see how go. I'll tell you what Rico come for everybody? Politics, y'all yo yo.
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