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DONKEY: Nick Cannon Sparks Backlash For Citing Incomplete History About Political Parties · The Breakfast Club

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  Speaker 1: Then other day Breakfast Cloud.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Donkey of Today for Monday, March thirtieth goes to
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  Speaker 2: the good brother, Nick Cannon. Now, let the record show
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  Speaker 2: I'm not here to reduce Nick Cannon to this current
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  Speaker 2: viral moment he is having, because the reality is, whether
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  Speaker 2: you want to hear this or not, Nick Cannon has
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  Speaker 2: done for done a lot for black people, okay, especially
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  Speaker 2: black people in entertainment. So I have no reason to
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  Speaker 2: attempt to dunk on Nick Cannon or kick his back
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  Speaker 2: in like I see a lot of people doing. I
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  Speaker 2: have a lot of love for that brother, and that
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  Speaker 2: viral clip does not change that at all for me.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Donkey of the Day is about giving people the
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  Speaker 2: credit they deserve for being stupid.
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  Speaker 1: And in that moment, I.
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  Speaker 2: Thought what Nick said was stupid, okay, because it lacked
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  Speaker 2: a lot of historical context. This is just an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: to teach and add some historical context to something that
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  Speaker 2: Nick Cannon said on his Big Drive talk show while
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  Speaker 2: in conversation with Anne Berrose.
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  Speaker 1: Can we hear the clip? Can we hear what he said?
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  Speaker 1: You up there with the elite?
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  Speaker 3: Now, not even close, not even close. Democrats don't care
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  Speaker 3: about black people and they don't people. They don't care
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  Speaker 3: about people of color, and the Republicans do. And that's
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  Speaker 3: the misconcession.
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  Speaker 4: And you know what, I agree with you, one Dent.
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  Speaker 4: People don't know that the Democrats is the.
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  Speaker 1: Party of the KKK.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: People don't know that the Republicans are the party that
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  Speaker 4: freed the slaves. Yeah. I mean most of you and
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  Speaker 4: I have some conservative views. You're just a little bit
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  Speaker 4: more outspoken.
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  Speaker 1: About it than I am.
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  Speaker 4: And I honestly I don't subscribe to neither party. I'll
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  Speaker 4: rock with w Ev the Voice when he said there's
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  Speaker 4: no such thing as two parties, as just one evil
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  Speaker 4: party with two different names.
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  Speaker 3: I voted for Donald Trump because he's we had two options,
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  Speaker 3: and he was definitely, by far the better option for us.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we got the Gulf of America. Now there is
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  Speaker 5: charging even like the club charging five million dollar bottle
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  Speaker 5: service speed to get into the.
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  Speaker 1: I guess okay, let's discuss so much the unpack here.
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  Speaker 2: First off, Democrats don't care about black people and they
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  Speaker 2: don't care about people of color, and the Republicans do.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the misconception. That's what Nick said. He agreed
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  Speaker 2: with one hundred percent when Amberoll said it, Let's stop
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  Speaker 2: there for a second. Okay, because my question that both
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  Speaker 2: Amber and Nick would be what have Republicans done to
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  Speaker 2: show that they care about people of color? Now, I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure they would reply by saying, Republicans free the slaves.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to that part shortly, because my retort to
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  Speaker 2: that would be, in the words of the immortal Janet Jackson,
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  Speaker 2: what have you done for me lately? Okay, Amber and Nick,
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  Speaker 2: have you heard of disparate impact?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 2: That's the legal standard used to challenge policies that aren't
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  Speaker 2: explicitly racist but still harm certain groups more than others.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: The Trump administration has limited, are stopped altogether in forcing
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  Speaker 2: that standard.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: That's important to know because disparate impact has been used
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  Speaker 2: to fight housing, hiring, lending, and education discrimination.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. When you roll that back, you have fewer tools.
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  Speaker 2: To challenge systemic inequality and that disproportionately hurts black people.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Trump also ordered federal agencies to eliminate DEI rolls and initiatives.
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  Speaker 2: He also expanded that to federal contractors and private sector influence.
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  Speaker 2: He literally reversed policies meant to address racial inequities. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: now listen, I'm on the record that I didn't like
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  Speaker 2: a lot of the corporate DEI, but there were DEI
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  Speaker 2: programs designed by black people that addressed historic disparities in hiring, education.
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  Speaker 1: And funding.
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  Speaker 2: When you get rid of those, it reduces opportunities for
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  Speaker 2: black workers and students. So explain to me how that
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  Speaker 2: shows Republicans care about people of color.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, especially in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: We don't even got to get into the cuts and
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  Speaker 2: changes to social safety net programs. I mean, Medicaid, SNAP,
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  Speaker 2: affordable care and support.
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  Speaker 1: All of that has been reduced.
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  Speaker 2: Man and black people asally more likely to rely on
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  Speaker 2: those programs due to wealth and income gaps. I can
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  Speaker 2: go on and on about why Republicans don't care about
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  Speaker 2: people of color, especially especially this administration. Okay, they literally
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  Speaker 2: limited how race and racism.
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  Speaker 1: Are taught in schools.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, they are removing our altering content related to black history.
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  Speaker 2: So miss me, with the Republicans care about people of color,
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  Speaker 2: that just doesn't even make any sense in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 2: Now let's get into the second part of what Nick said.
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  Speaker 2: Can we play that part right?
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  Speaker 4: People don't know that the Democrats is the party of
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  Speaker 4: the KKK. Yeah, people don't know that the Republicans are
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  Speaker 4: the party that freed the slaves.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, okay, okay, listen, this statement, Nick made. Its correct.
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  Speaker 2: Historically correct. Republicans did free the slaves. But the Republican
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  Speaker 2: and Democratic parties of the eighteen hundreds are not the
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  Speaker 2: same coalitions we have today. I am a Dallas Cowboy fan. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: my Dallas Cowboys one three super in the nineties.
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  Speaker 1: Look at us now.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, same name, but a completely different roster, different coaches,
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  Speaker 2: different play styles.
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  Speaker 1: So we might be the same brand. Okay, but we're not.
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  Speaker 2: The same team except for Jerry Jones. Ironically, he was
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  Speaker 2: alive to see the changes in the Republicans, Democrats, and
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  Speaker 2: Dallas Cowboys.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, same Republicans.
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  Speaker 2: Freed the slaves, is historically true, but using that to
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  Speaker 2: describe modern Republicans without context is misleading.
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  Speaker 1: Nick.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Republicans were largely anti slavery and based in the North.
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  Speaker 2: Democrats included, you know a lot of pro slavery factions,
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  Speaker 2: and they were in the South.
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  Speaker 1: But that was in the eighteen hundreds. Okay, my god.
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  Speaker 2: Over the last century, the parties have shifted ideology, ideologic,
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  Speaker 2: ideologically okay, and geographically. All Right, Republicans of the eighteen sixties,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a little excited.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Republicans of the eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: Sixties did lead the charge the end slavery, but those
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  Speaker 2: Republicans are not politically identical to modern Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: When people say Republicans freed the slaves, they're not wrong historically,
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  Speaker 2: but they're just leaving out the evolution.
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  Speaker 1: Of the parties.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Nick said, Democrats with a Party of the KKK.
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  Speaker 2: Once again, He's historically not wrong. Members of the KKK
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  Speaker 2: were aligned with the Democratic Party.
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  Speaker 1: Of that era. Keywords that era.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but that reflects the political alignment of that specific error,
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  Speaker 2: not today's party. All Right, who is the party of
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  Speaker 2: the KKK right now? That's the question I would ask Nick,
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  Speaker 2: all Right, Snapple. Fact, the KKK endorsed Donald in twenty sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: and a newspaper associated with them called The Crusader. David Duke,
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  Speaker 2: former leader of the KKK, he endorsed Donald Trump as well.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, so many white supremacist groups and neo Nazis
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  Speaker 2: have endorsed Donald Trump. Oh my god, Proud Boys Okay,
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  Speaker 2: neo Nazi blogs like the Daily Stormer. In fact, Mark
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  Speaker 2: Potok of the Sovereign Poverty Law Center, which tracked hate groups,
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  Speaker 2: once said Donald Trump is appealing to the same constituency
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  Speaker 2: that the ku Klux Klan appeals to. Okay, So you
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  Speaker 2: can say Dems with a Party of the KKK in
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  Speaker 2: the eighteen hundreds, but in twenty twenty six, I think
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  Speaker 2: it's safe to say Maggie is the party of the KKK. Okay, Listen, Nick,
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  Speaker 2: you can't can't claim credit from eighteen sixty five, like
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  Speaker 2: nothing has changed in one hundred and fifty years.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, my guy. Nick also contradicted himself. Played that played
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  Speaker 1: the last part Brett.
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  Speaker 4: Honestly, I don't subscribe to neither party. I'll rock with
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  Speaker 4: w EV the Voice when he said that no such
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  Speaker 4: thing as two parties is just one evil party with
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  Speaker 4: two different names.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Nick, you can't say I don't subscribe the eisther
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  Speaker 2: political party and then quote w. E. B The Boy
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  Speaker 2: saying one evil party with two different names, but then
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  Speaker 2: turn around and say I f with Trump.
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  Speaker 1: That makes no sense. Which one is it? Brother? Is
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  Speaker 1: it Uchi? Wally? While there isn't one Mike you can't
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  Speaker 1: stay in one breath.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you know their quote w E B the boy
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  Speaker 2: saying one evil party with two different names. Then in
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  Speaker 2: the very next thing and say you know you you
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  Speaker 2: f with Trump. That makes no logical sense. Listen, man,
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  Speaker 2: Context will always matter, Okay. We truly live in a
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  Speaker 2: world without context and without context, these statements Nick made
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  Speaker 2: are misleading about how US politics evolved.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. And just like a recipe.
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  Speaker 2: Cannot produce a meal without ingredients, a quote without context
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  Speaker 2: cannot provide true understanding. Okay, it actually leaders misunderstanding, misrepresentation,
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  Speaker 2: and me saying please give Nick Cannon the sweet sounds
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  Speaker 2: of the Hamiltons. Oh no, you are the doge of.
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  Speaker 6: The day, the dog ge all the day.
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  Speaker 2: Ye Now, now, I would like to pose a question,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and it's the same question I asked earlier
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  Speaker 2: when we were talking about chili. I see a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of y'all saying you're gonna cancel Nick Cannon, You're gonna
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  Speaker 2: unfollow Nick Cannon, you don't support Nick Cannon anymore. So
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  Speaker 2: I will ask once again, why is it so easy
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  Speaker 2: to let go with Nick Cannon has to offer, but
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  Speaker 2: hard for y'all to let go with someone like Elon
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  Speaker 2: Musk has to offer. Elon must donated two hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty million dollars the Trump's campaign.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, he used his.
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  Speaker 2: Platform X to amplify MAGA content and voices while potentially
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  Speaker 2: suppressing the posing perspectives.
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  Speaker 1: Elon was the head of DOGE. Okay, we don't even
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  Speaker 1: talk about that no more.
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  Speaker 2: Elon was the head of DOGE, which fired so many
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  Speaker 2: federal workers, I mean totally ruins people's lives.
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  Speaker 1: People's lives still.
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  Speaker 2: Haven't gotten back on track because they got fired by
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  Speaker 2: Elon Muskin DOGE.
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  Speaker 1: But I see y'all still driving Tesla's.
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  Speaker 2: I see y'all, you know, still over on X tweeting
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  Speaker 2: your lives away.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just asking a simple question.
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  Speaker 2: Some black people are very quick to cancel other black
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  Speaker 2: people when they're express opinions like this. But boy, y'all
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  Speaker 2: find it very hard to let go of folks like
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  Speaker 2: Elon Musk, who played significant crucial roles in getting Trump elected.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm just asking the question, why is it easy
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  Speaker 2: to cancel one but hard to cancel the other?
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  Speaker 1: Discuss amongst yourselves, all right, that's crazy, But I was
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  Speaker 1: wondering why you didn't give the donkey of today to
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  Speaker 1: Amber Toyo. I ain't gonna to the passage Ena dra
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  Speaker 1: for the same reason.
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  Speaker 2: Social media is not outraided over Amber, but they outready
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  Speaker 2: over Nick Damn.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy with nobody man that she said that, because
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  Speaker 1: it was her that presented.
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  Speaker 6: The whole Well, she's been saying it for a while
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  Speaker 6: for the last couple of years. So I think people I.
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  Speaker 1: Think people were more, people were more shocked by the
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  Speaker 1: more shocked.
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  Speaker 6: All right, well, thank you for that Donkey Today.
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