Tezlyn talks one on one with callers about how to stop making excuses and organize. Tap in as she points to real examples with a tough love approach.
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I'm here for it.
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I enjoy getting it in.
You know, I have no problem doing no straightening and doing a little bit of clown and I don't want that to go in that direction tonight because I don't want to use a lot of your time. So you can get on the happy hour it is late in the evening. But I did want to do this quick front page news recap just to let you know about a couple of stories that happened this week.
We're gonna do this a little bit different, guys.
Normally, you know, I pick one or two topics and we just really, you know, talk about it and flush it all the way out. I'm not saying that won't happen tonight because one of you may get in the queue and make a comment about it, and maybe it will extend. You guys know, I have done Twitter space for up to twelve or thirteen hours shut out to look in the building, y'all showing some love. I like it or not, I am. I salute him for getting in the game and running for Congress. Many of you, you know, while y'all talk shit and do all that typing and typing and typing and typing, I don't see a lot of people raising their hand to say, hey, I'm ready to get in and while I have you here, Luke just so that you are aware, you know, Push the Line my non partisan training. We do train candidates, we train staff, we train operatives, We teach people how to actually run campaigns. So get at me if that's something you're interested in. Florida will always have my heart. It is my political stomping ground. Is where I really got my chops in Orlando, Florida. Not from Florida, but I'm from Florida. My number is still four oh seven, and so Florida is very very very very very important to me. So I know a little bit about the ground. So if you need help with teaching people how to phone bank, teaching people how to get petitions, training people on how to represent a hip hop client, think I know a little bit of something about that as well. So if there's anything that my organization can do, teslamfigure dot com my entire candidate operative. Pushed the Line training is on my website. And just so you know, Luke, while I have you here, a couple of people who are here in the chat actually attended that training. The highlight video is on my website as well. We had over three hundred people that came to Atlanta that came from all over the Country, La, Ohio, Houston, Dallas, Florida, New York. I mean it was just impressive. Three hundred people came. They started that training at six a m. In the rain and stayed until six o'clock that night, and then we went to a after party as well.
So I'm very proud.
I popped my column it all the time because while people be talking shit hiding behind avatars, let me know, if you're going to train a thousand people every year to actually go and push the line. So that is welcome to you, bro of the You know, I did posts of the other day that you were running, and people got in the comments. Well, somebody said you got a lot of support. By the way, I also did a poll. But you know there's always people who say, well hard pass. So as this guy, well, how could be a hard pass? You don't have to vote for you, you don't have to vote for them. You damn sure. I ain't gonna run. So that's always the answer guys that I have to everybody. Thank you so much, Jay for putting the push the line up in the jumbo tron. That is the highlight reel, because you know, I had to record it because people like to say it didn't happen, So I had to record it and make sure we paying the camera so we can see who's all in the room, because some people on this Twitter can't get twenty five people to come in the room, let alone three hundred to come from all over the country.
Yeah, you damn right.
I popped my collar on that because each and every person that came in that room got a personal text from me, a personal text and a personal email from me at least seven to ten times over three months span. Because at the end of the day, it's about doing the work. It's talking sound good, but it really really is about doing the work. So if you're not interested in put your name on the ballot, you need to get behind somebody and put your name in the ballot. Let me say this while I have you listening my reparations, folks, because I know you're here in the building as well. You know every time I'm gonna challenge you every time before I get into the front page news, I'm gonna challenge you every time. Did you guys put a one hundred up? If you saw the Michigan the people in Michigan do the uncommitted vote one hundred thousand people went in Michigan, went to Michigan and voted uncommitted. Put a one hundred if you saw it. I just want to see, put it one hundred if you saw it. Also, did you notice in New Hampshire they also went and voted for none of the above, put a one hundred if you saw it.
So these are the kind of things guys.
I know y'all say, Oh, the foreigners, they don't have to get no pack, no wrong, wrong.
I'm gonna mission this to y'all.
Every single time the A Rabba Mayor of of American Arabs of America, they funded that project. They funded let me say it again for those of y'all in here, they funded that project. That mean they got their money together. You know how y'all be fundraising all the time and getting money together. They did that same thing, and they said, we're gonna get this on the ballot, and we're gonna get one hundred thousand people to get off the ass and get off the internet and actually go vote for uncommitted.
Many of you keep saying no vote, no vote, no vote.
Let me give you another if for anybody that's ever ran a campaign, I'm gonna tell you again, there's always more people that don't vote that Do you actually make it easier for the Democrats? If this is your way of getting back of the Democrats, can I give you some breaking news? You actually make it easier because when you are running a campaign, you go into a system called the voter action network. And in the voter action network, it tells you who are who are the people that voted in the last two to three elections, and they specifically go after those voters and those voters along and most people who say I'm not going to vote this time are probably not super voters, so they go and identify who the super voters are.
They're not even asking for your vote.
So when you're saying you're staying at home, I'm here to tell you guys, they don't give a damn.
Let me say it again. You're not hurting them.
It sounds good. I think it's good to put that fear out there. I think it's good to let them know you ain't going for the bullshit. But I'm trying to give you a very clear example on if you want to make something move, if you want to make something shake. Look at what they just did in Michigan. Look at what they just did in Michigan. There's only four or five states that are swing states that will determine this election.
So y'all raise.
Money for everybody, yet for everything else millions of dollars you should be taking your money. I'm giving you the play flat out organizing in Michigan. Just like the Arab Americans that y'all be talking, they actually went and got one hundred thousand people to get off Twitter and get off their ass and put their clothes on and drive down to the polls and check uncommitted. So if y'all say no reparations, no vote, guess what do you know that you can add that to the ballot?
Let me say it again. Do you know that you can add that to the ballot? Put a one hundred? So let's see. Let's see who's behind.
What.
I was gonna give y'all the news, but I gotta give you off because I want to make sure y'all get this information because I know you're not getting this information from anybody barre me one second. I wasn't even spent planning on doing this, but I have to do this because you got to get this information. It's too much misinformation in this Twitter space. Now, if anybody want to debate this on me, come on up now so we can get this on after so we can get this on out the way, because here's the receipt. Y'all keep saying the the immigrant they don't have to get no political action committee. What are you guys talking about? What are you guys talking about? What are you guys talking about? What do y'all keep saying? Let me just ask you, when do y'all come on up? Why do y'all keep.
Saying that the that the.
That the immigrants don't have to get no political action committee to get nothing done? Why do y'all keep saying that? Can somebody help me? Because I'm so confused. I'm this right here, this this article right here, arap. Americans leaders urge Michigan to vote uncommitted and send message to Biden about Israel policy. They organize a pack, organize a pack. I wish I was in church so I could tell, so I could tell you turn to your neighbor and say, organize the pack and create it an organization to get this on the ballot. And the reason why the news was talking about it day in and day out was because they had the numbers to show. It didn't need a whole bunch of people, but they had enough numbers to say, Hey, these people really do exist. You hiding in the commons saying what you're not doing that does not count. Guys, it doesn't count in the real world of organizing. And I know you think it do, but I'm telling you it doesn't. It's great conversation, it's great. It definitely you know, makes them have to be concerned. But the reason why Joe Biden and them did that little mini shift that they did do about the war is because Michigan, the arib Americans made sure that one hundred thousand people went to those posts. They got actual receipts to say, one hundred thousand people say we ain't fucking with you. Do y'all know the difference? Put a one hundred if you know a difference few the difference. And I'm not shitting on anybody. I'm not telling y'all what y'all not doing doesn't count. I'm not saying that you don't need to do that, you don't need to continue to do what you're doing. But I'm trying to give you the actual information on how things actually get done. And it's important for you guys to know that you can't just sit around and refuse to organize. You cannot think that just making comments on Twitter is organizing, and it's not organizing, guys, it's simply not. You have an opportunity in your state. It was a twenty two year old I believe it's twenty two or twenty four that got on the ballot as D's Nuts d Z Nuts and.
It made national news. So why y'all not on the ballot nowhere?
I told y'all these two years ago at the rally for reparations, when are you gonna get on the ballot? Y'all raise money for I've seen y'all raised millions of dollars overnight, so it's not hard to do. So this is important, guys. This is how they get shit done. Stop believing that they don't have packs. Stop believing when nobody else got to organized, why should we organize. That's ridiculous. The largest pack in America is an israel pack. It's called a pack. It is the largest well funded pack in America. That's how they get shit done.
Y'all. Quote what's his name? And top of my tongue.
Doctor Claude Anderson all the time he told you to buy the politicians.
This is a way to do it. Why y'all don't want to do it?
Oh that's right, y'all say y'all don't want to get y'all don't want to put nobody name on nothing.
Don't nobody want to be docked. Don't nobody want to be doc? You dosing me?
Well, guess what. In order to get shit done, somebody got to get docs. So who willing to get docs? Y'all love coming to me with that all the time. Why you're trying to dox me? Because I'm doxed and I like docs on docs crime. I only respect those who are willing to put their fucking name on the line. I don't respect you hiding behind no no bacon profile picture and calling yourself bacon and eggs.
I don't respect it. You're not my peer.
My peer are those who like the docks themselves, those who willing to put it all on the line, those who go by first last name the government can look up. If you ain't willing to dox then me, you ain't the same. Go talk to one of your cartoon avatar peers in these comments, because there's plenty. I'm looking at plenty. I'm looking at plenty of cartoons right now. I feel like I'm just talking. I'm in the matrix, like I'm just on a video game, just talking to a gang, no disrespect, but just to it came a car, a gang of cartoon characters. So when it comes to debating me, and it comes to thinking, well, they don't. When they can't debate you, they like to dox you. Yeah, well I only debate those who are willing to get docked. So if don't nobody want to put their name on no paperwork and do nothing, then what are we doing?
What are we doing?
I'm telling you right now why this war conversation is being advanced. It is because of the Pack, the Political Action Committee from the a Rip America of America that went down and got one hundred thousand people to go to the polls. And y'all can do the same thing. Y'all raise money for everything else. So why not raise money to organize in Michigan? Why not go down in Michigan and knock on doors and say, hey, we all about reparations and we want you to go to the HOS on November in November and check reparations no vote. So then you can have one hundred thousand people that say, hey, these a one hundred that people said reparations are no vote. That's how you make the news. Rahim shout out to you. Rahim talking in the comments and keep telling y'all that ain't how work. It's great conversation. Y'all can say, oh man, they see what we're doing. I'm telling you how this shit has done. I got fifty campaigns under my belt. I'm giving y'all a game, and gave y'all a game two years ago. So if you can raise money for everything else, they'll get on the ballot.
Pick a statement.
It's only let's look at the let me tell you what the swing states are this year.
Well we ain't got to do all that. Well you don't have to do all that. Then why you don't want to do all that? Somebody come up and raise your hand and tell me why y'all don't want to do it.
You don't want to organize, You just want to talk and hold Twitter space and yeah with bullhorns. I mean, somebody calling up is blain this to me? So let me give you this before we do front page news. Let me tell you what the swing states are this year. So let me tell you that if you don't live in these states and these states I'm getting ready to name, you are talking to the air. Somebody in church, turn to your neighbor and say, talking to the air Arizona. If you live in Arizona, you should be organizing against your candidate, saying your sitting home means nothing. Once again, Rahen, more people sit home every year. If anybody ever worked a field, I can tell when people ain't ever working on campaign because y'all don't know how to look at the data. Everybody sits home every year. I only need me fifty people. If I got one hundred people and fifty of them say they sit in home, that works for me, because now all I need to do was get twenty five or the fifty that's left. All I need is twenty six people. You just made it easier. You didn't make it harder. You made it easier. That's why they be laughing, y'all, because y'all gotta understand how this works. Many of you are great scholars, read great books. But if you have not worked a feel campaign. You literally don't know what you're talking about. And I'm giving you the game.
You staying at home. Guess what, rahiem?
That helps me because now only need fifty one percent of the vote. I only need twenty six people to show up. But if you, if the fifty got up and did the uncommitted, I'm not telling y'all vote ballot down and vothe of them.
I'm telling you, go get on the ballot. Reparations, don't vote. Let it be heard for real.
Let your voice be heard for real, because then they'll have to by force say, well, fifty other people came to said reparations, no vote. You have to force these people to talk. And you don't have to do it in a bunch of states. This random sitting on the internet talking to random people all over the country.
You don't know who you're talking to.
You're looking at cartoons with fake names, and everybody lying, well, I'm outside for real, I'm on the grass for real. I live in New York. I live in Georgia. If I tell somebody right now, well you don't know because you don't live in Georgia.
I do live in Georgia. Y'all did that when y'all dragged that, can I wish that? And I love y'all.
Y'all know I love y'all. Y'all know this is coming straight from love. I wish I would have been the way y'all dragged. No boy from Chicago. Here a damn food coming on this live talking to y'all. And I told Nahim and all of them that I wish y'all would be a candidate and sit up here and talk to a room full of damn avatar virtual avatars. You deserve to lose. Oh, he gotta come before the black people. But come before who's black people? This is a bunch of avatars. Well, I got cousins in Chicago proof show me their voter registration, y'all running them down and running him up and running to the side and running to the leaven of right.
I wish I would.
I wish I would have my candidate sit here and explained to a bunch of avatars his ass should have been on the ground talking to his voters. That's why he lost. And then just lose. He lost at the bottom, the worst of all, born and raised in Chicago and couldn't get what was it one.
Hundred people to the Pope. You couldn't even get to enough people.
The average class, the average high school class graduation is one hundred people. You couldn't get an average high school class to show up and vote for your ass. I wish you know why. Because he wasn't focused on he wasn't focused on talking to voters. He was sitting up talking to y'all. And it's not that y'all not important, but let's stop this. Uh, you got to come get our blessing bullshit. Y'all distracted him. Shut out to congratulations for distracting him. Because if the role wasn't distracting y'all, damn show did it?
I wish he would. I wish I was his campaign manager.
So the only thing I can say is that it had to be a grift, either your or it's a griff, one of the two, because it didn't make no sense while you're sitting here talking to people all over the country, spending hours and hours and hours and hours, when your ass should have been organized in Chicago with the people that can actually vote for you. Most people that actually get elected don't even be on no damn Twitter trying to give y'all a business on'll if somebody really serious about the business. If you live in Arizona, you should be organizing. If you live in Georgia, you should be organizing. If you live in Michigan you should be organizing. If you live in Nevada, you should be organizing. North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
That's it. Did y'all hear that? That's it?
Those are the only states that are swing states that matter. So if you're in New York, nobody gives a shit. No operative is talking about you or give a damn about you. If you're in LA, nobody gives us shit. Nobody's talking about you or give a damn about you. I'm telling you how operatives move. Guys have got to learn how operatives actually do this. That's why you should have came to the train, and I'll come to the next training whenever I do the next one.
Hopefully were getting ready to a tour.
If you do not live in any of those states, nobody gives a shit what you're talking about. I has some brilliant people on here that I know live in DC, and guess what, they don't give a shit about what you're talking about.
You can write all the thesis, all the books.
All the follow up, all the peace and blessings and love and beloved and landing planes and landing boats and getting back up and landing this and landing that. No operative is looking for you, ma'ams and serves unless you live in those states. So what you should be doing, Rahem is putting. I'm just saying people that I know guys by picking on him, in particular, putting your money together and your resources together, because y'all got plenty, because I see y'all constantly raising money. So put y'all resources together, Go focus on those states. Go get you two three, five hundred one thousand people to go to the polls and vote reparations. Cause I can do it with my eyes closed. So why y'all can't do it, Why y'all can't do it? Jojo, somebody come on up. I'm waiting, come on up.
Why y'all can't do it?
Because I see y'all raising money all the time. Don't get silent. Now raise your hand. Where are the planes that? Ain't no planes in the bild, ain't no pilots in the building. Tonight, y'all show WHI on this lovely Friday, evening. Where's the pilots at and the co pilots who always landing planes and telling me what they said in eighteen fifty two, and well such and such said, and I and I read, and doctor so and so said in eighteen fifty two that we should be this and that I'm talking about organizing though, who organizing in these five states? Raise your hand, Shout out to y'all for doing all that. Y'all do you know you got my support? But I got to give you this real information. I gotta give you this real information. And this is what you need to do to organize. And I don't want to hear shit about but we ain't got to do all of that. The only person that don't want you doing all this is y'all. Say, y'all sit up here. The ops listening. The ops listening will then be like the Arab Americans. Then they don't give it damn what the ops are listening? Or not tell me what the ops are afraid of? Tell me, Rahen what they listening to? Why y'all so quiet? It's a bunch of quiet pilots in here this evening. What are the ops afraid of? Can somebody come tell me what the ops afraid of?
That?
Y'all keep saying that.
These ops are spending millions and mins of dollars to listen to this Twitter space. What are they afraid of? Because you ain't getting nobody to these polls. They damn so afraid of them Arab Americans. Though they got them people to go to their polls, they was definitely afraid of them. So tell me what they're afraid of. Seriously, I want to see y'all organize. Yeah, to them smart, y'all got too much passion, y'all raise, y'all know how to raise too much money to be sitting up here and not organizing.
It's supposed to be back front paced news, but I can't help it.
When I start seeing all my reparations folks, and I start seeing y'all in the building, then I got I got to.
I got to.
Address this because I want to make sure you're getting this information. What's happening, Rahiem? I guess we got pilot Raheem in the building. How you doing, brother?
Yeah? Uh, I don't know about flying the plane, but yeah, you're you're definitely right. You know, we we had a critical moment, especially with this election that's coming up. And I don't know if we've been paying attention, but now you cram as part of NATO, and you know that's a strategic plan. And these politicians are all you gotta watch what they're doing, and you gotta watch the time and that they're doing it.
You know, all of this is political. Everything is political.
And to answer your question, what the opts are doing, the opts are doing what we ain't doing, and that's organizing and unifying and putting their money together in order to push that candidate office. And the main thing is, you know a lot of them have uh political packs that they threw no money to and and it gets certain things passed.
But y'all do it.
But before we do that, though, I'm not even talking, I'm putting it in the I'm putting it in a jumbo trin right now.
I'm gonna make it real easy for you.
I'm not talking about just about having to sit up and get no candidate and get no candidate to win. Listen, guys, go to listen to Michigan dot com. Listen to Michigan dot com. It's nothing to go get on the bat. They just put in that as a as aer. They didn't make it a candidate the same way they did none of the above in New Hampshire. We gotta stop pretending like this is hard. This ain't hard. They're doing it right now. How do y'all keep raising this money for all the other stuff y'all do? I watch y'all raise mens of dollars? So how do y'all do it?
Y'all do y'all do that? This is a y'all keep talking about grass roots? Grass roots. Let's listen. Let's look.
I just put it in a jump I don't know why it's not going into the jumbo tryne, but somebody put it in a jumbo trne. Listen to Michigan dot com. It says right here, Michigan voters sent Biting a strong message during the Democratic primary that he can count us out for genocide more than one hundred thousand multi roach, multi faith, anti war democrats. Blah blah blah blah, it says. The very next day, a co chair for Biden's reelection told MPR that our message has been received. Why y'all think they're hearing y'all message on this Twitter space though, like it does bubble up. I'm not gonna say the message is totally ignored. But seriously, Raheem, why I'm not asking you to find a candidate and vote a candidate in. I'm asking why can't y'all do like the Ara of Americans did. I'm getting they literally laid out the game for y'all to do it. They grass roots for real. I keep graving, y'all say, y'all grassroots?
What does that mean?
Because if you go to listen to michigan dot com, it's say, be a volunteer bone bank for Wisconsin take the place. They're not pushing no candidate, They're pushing we ain't voting. So y'all got that same message.
Why y'all not doing this?
I'm gonna be honest with you. This is the first time I'm in about that, and that is definitely a strategic tactic because in the last few elections, suspect for the presidential candidates, I didn't need to vote, and you know a lot of people was mad enoughset about that.
They were saying, but how can it be the first time? Rahim you don't heard me?
I was like, yeah, well, I ain't voting for none of that.
But Rahiem, you don't heard me several times on this live talk about a pack.
So you sure you sure? It's the last time the first time you don't heard I said that at the reparations rally.
You sure?
No, no, no, no, no. I know about I know, I know about the packs. I didn't know about what Michigan.
But this is pack A pack, okay, but a pack. But a pack did this? Though a pack did this? And I still ain't seen y'all start no pack. So since you know about the pack, why did ain't start no pack? You didn't know about the pack? So why we where's the pack?
At?
Absolutely?
Absolutely?
In fact, I'm working with an organization and Jojo he can speak more to it. I just don't want to say nothing premature, but.
Y'all keep saying y'all working with it. Rohiem.
I'm getting tired of y'all working with it. I know y'all keep having it in the works. The last time I'm I gotta push the line with y'all now because the last time, I'm just brother. You know, I love you, and I met you three years ago and and I've been waiting on y'all. Y'all keep talking about us in the works when did somebody go last time I was on here the other yo, your guy that you don't like, Nahim. It was in the works with him. It's always in the works. When when is it gonna get out the works and on the ground. Because y'all say, y'all grassroots. Now, I'm saying this because I love y'all.
All right, all right, I don't know about nobody else.
We meet regularly.
I know y'all doing plenty of meeting. Now when y'all go. Now, while y'all did all this meeting a rap for America.
It's ready to coach.
You know.
You can't just throw something. Yes you can't, Yes you can't. I got three hundred of y'all in the room. Yes you can't. I got three hundred of y'all in the room in less than thirty days. Yes you can.
You can throw it out there. That's what a rap Americas did. That's exactly what they did. Yes you can, Yeah you can.
I do it all the.
Time, every every every you can throw it out there. I just did a program. I just put it together a program.
Yesterday.
I told Willy d Hey, we don't have to wait to get no kids, no school district getting no kids, do no conco resolution.
Boom boom bam.
Get the room, got the kids, got to whatever press release going out next week. Who can't just throw to put together? I've just put it together, so that ain't no excuse for I.
Ay, yes you can.
I've worked on the Bernie Sanders campaign. Every state we were in, people didn't even know Bernie Sanders was in twenty fifteen.
They dropped us on the ground.
We had five days to flip the state. I was the only black person that flipped the state of Michigan. It was a part of flipping the state of Michigan. The devil is a lie. You can just throw it together, y'all just talking, y'all doing too much meeting and you're not doing enough greeting. That's just the bottom line. I'm just telling you like it is, baby, because I love you and I'm giving it to you like it is. You can't just throw it together. That's how campaigns work. They just all of them are thrown together.
That's how it works.
This war wasn't going on, yeah, because this war ain't been going on. These people, yeah, this listen to Michigan. They just did this together. Just the last couple of months.
They just did this.
This wasn't no year over your thing. They got their money together the same way. Y'all get y'all money together and raise money for everything else. I watch y'all raise money overnight. I ain't never seen nothing like it. Y'all raised money overnight. So why ain't nobody putting this out here.
To get done?
Pilot raheem, are you still there?
Yeah?
I appreciate it, though. I'm glad you at least came up. Yeah, like, let's crash and burn, like we got to get this. We gotta get to it, baby, Because I watch y'all raised men. Y'all raised millions of dollars since I've been rocking with y'all the last couple of years. I watch y'all raise men's of dollars overnight. Why is it that the air of Americans was able to put their little money together and go down and get on a ballot. It doesn't cost anything to get on the ballot. I'm not talking about no damn candidate. I'm talking about it issue ballot. I talked about this and pushed the line, and I talk about this all the time, So y'all can't say well, I ain't never heard of.
So let me say it again. And I said it last time.
I was on a Twitter space listen to Michigan, went and got a hundred thousand people.
You don't need a bunch of people, y'all say, y'all on the.
Ground, So just go to Michigan, go to Detroit, go put some of y'all raised mens of the dollars.
So there shouldn't be no problem with getting three and four.
It was five black people on the ground in Michigan for Bernie Sanders. So this is why it helps her. Talk to people that actually work campaigns. So give you the real game, because one thing to talk from behind just talking on Twitter and nothing actually working in the campaign. Five or six of us was in Michigan, and then I told them to leave if I do it myself, because I didn't want none of them to get no credit. I'm just keeping it all the way, ubuck. So on the national campaign, I was the only black person from the national campaign staff, and anybody who follows me, no, ain'tlying because I didn't have my colleagues on here. Several times, from Senator Turner to Danny to Marcus, all of them confirming I'm not lying. I was the only black person on the national staff on the ground with a seven year old at home with my mama dying from cancer. Every other weekend I was either with my mother who was dying of cancer, who I had to take off the plug while I was in Michigan, or with my daughter who was seven six or seven at the time. And I still push the goddamn line. So I don't want to hear what y'all talking about. I mean, like, straight up, you just either not listening to an organizer. You're listening to people they ain't never organized. Because I'm telling you, it's a lot more you guys could be doing to actually be heard besides saying, tell them when you're gonna talk about it on the Brothers Club, when you're gonna talk about here, damn that talking. Give me something to talk about, give me something to work with. Let me go tell them, man, they ain't playing. I talked about it at the rally, and when I went to the rally, I'm like, man, they say they want to say, but man, two three thousand of them came out, But I need more gas. I need something else, y'all, because that ain't gonna that ain't enough. I said at the rally two years ago, y'all start a pack. Now y'all getting ready to a rally.
Again, where's the pack? At Who started a pack?
And I'm not saying that's on Tariq because he can't do it all, But what about all of y'all in the audience?
Why didn't nobody start no pack? Give me something to work with?
I would love to talk about it on the Breakfast Club Tesz on ten tap in with Tess straight Shot No Chaser, But y'all gotta give me something to work with. It can't just be just they showed up.
Okay, and then what.
Arib Americans ain't rally, no damn where they rally to the polls and check the bar to say we ain't.
Working with you?
Jojo? Jojo trying to come in and save you. What's happening to Jojo? By the way, this is a straight shot No Chasing podcast.
You're listening live, Okay, I'm gonna watch what I say.
Then you ain't gonna watch what you say. This This is straight shot no Chaser. You ain't gonta do a don't nobody know who you are? Jojo' where you ain't gota worry about getting docs. I'm the only one here putting my name in on the.
Line train and right here, yeah, you help right him out.
It's just like I told you when I meant to it that rat right, you know some things, you know what I mean?
Or better let off that?
Oh man, come on, Jojo, and I'm gonna put it like this, Now that's a bunch of bullshit.
Okay, okay, I'm gonna listen. I'm gonna listen.
Right he just put me up in the mix. And I wasn't gonna even this old heaven he told me in the life Joe, Me and right hem were working on something.
And guess what. Guess what, Jojo? I love you? You know I love you, don't you?
I know?
But I'm just saying this. Can I say this though, cause you know I love you? But can I say this? Let me look this up right quick, because that sounds good. Every time I come to y'all, say y'all working on something and you ain't got that all this better luff off the air, cause y'all so you know, c I a level bottom line is working.
Is not done.
And that's the bottom line. And I need y'all to come back when it's done. It's time to stop working on ship and get it done. Y'all always working on something, even y'all, even the people y'all don't like, because you know, I'll rock with everybody. I don't give y'all little beefs. The people y'all don't like. I had to charge them up last time. They they were on it too, So damn you working on it. The people you don't like working on it? So ain't nobody, I mean, who's doing it? Though it's taking y'all too long. I just gave y'all the play. I just gave y'all the five states, so who tomorrow gonna start organizing in those five states? So so that in November fifty thousand people can go to the polls and say reparations, no vote, or are y'all just gonna keep on tag just gonna keep on hashtagging it on Twitter?
Hold on, I got something though, hold on though, I got something for you that I can do for you, right okay, okay, I got something for you right now. So y'all ran into this lady on the app right well, I know in real life, but she matter of fact right here.
You know, she got her old.
Political party with a black agenda.
And I just call.
Guess what I just told you to play? Don't nobody give a shit about that? I know, and I'm just telling you to play. So I'm gonna ask you again, don't nobody give a shit about these delusional parties y'all talking about, and these delusional last candidates.
I just told y'all what it is. I gave y'all the five states. I want to know. Who gonna go organize?
Just like when I met Raheem, when he was scurried down to Clark and met me at Clark and came with the books.
And the movies and all that.
Who's gonna go scurry down in Georgia and get fifty thousand people to go to the polls because the Ara of Americans did it. They got one hundred thousand to go to the polls to say reparations are no vote.
Who gonna do it? Y'all have to start organizing around something.
This spinder do it, gonna do it such and such running for president better than nothing?
That shit is delusional. Go follow what.
The Arab Americans did. Did y'all be talking about every day. The immigrants just showed y'all how to do it. Y'all talk about immigrants every day. They just showed y'all how to do it.
Hold on, hold on now, Ted, hold on Ted now.
See.
I gotta push back on you on that, because once someone starts doing it, then you say that delusion.
No.
I just told you what to do, baby, I said about No, you need to listen. Listen, baby, I said, delusional candidates and parties and all of that. I said, this is a ballot initiative. The listen to Michigan. It's not delusional because I've done it multiple multiple times. I'm telling you the listen to Michigan. Why don't y'all get one called listen to FBA. I just told you a ballot initiative, not a candidate, not a political party. This is very simple. This doesn't require years and years of work. It doesn't require years of research, It doesn't recre Somebody gonna have to docs.
They name.
Y'all not gonna be able to just sign up his chicken and rise. Somebody gonna have to doc stay name, but go down and get on the ballot. Put the put they literally put They literally put uncommitted on the ballot. The candidate's name was uncommitted. Now, if you don't know what I'm talking about, you say, ted is giving more information?
Yes, yes, yes, baby.
When you do that right, doing that in like that, right, you gotta have like by laws of organization in the structure.
Right, well, depending upon the state, but in this particular, Okay, so let me give it to you again. A candidate in California, y'all go google it. He got on the on the ballot is these nuts. So let's say, even if you have to have a pack, if you don't want to struss, right, so let me tell you this. So even let's say I'm gonna give you two options. If you don't want to do like, listen to Michigan. Then who gonna sign up is these nuts in Michigan? And who's gonna organize these f B nuts? Go get a candidate to sign up as these FBA nuts, and then y'all go down and get fifty thousand people to sign to vote for D's FBA nuts. It's many ways to work. This is what I'm trying to tell you. You have to you have to show the count somewhere. Do y'all follow what I'm saying, just saying we ain't doing it. There's always more people not doing it. It's not a threat, That's what I'm That's the more to the story. I'm trying to get you to get saying I'm sitting out. There's always more people that sit out. It's not about sitting out. It's about offering a different solution. It doesn't have to be a real candidate that's really gonna win for real, you know what I'm saying. It doesn't have to be a Marcel Dixon. You literally can go down and sign up as D's nuts. The white boy did it. He was twenty two. It's free to do. Are you mad to pay to.
Get on the Battle of thousand dollars or whatever?
Depending upon the state. I just gave y'all the states. I just gave y'all a play. At least do that so the media can talk about it. That man, they ain't playing. They they organize them for real.
States.
Yes, sir, yes, sir. So it's seven swing states this year, and the seven are if somebody can type it and put it in the marcellas, maybe put it in the well. No, because I don't I want to keep the swing. Oh they just got it up there. Yees, Jay, just put it up there in the jumble.
Trye.
So the swing states, uh huh So the swing states are Arizona for those who don't gonna have time to click on it, Georgia, Michigan, Georgia right where you are, rahem, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin. Those are the only states that you need to be concerned with. Those are the only ones, Jojo. Not California, not Wherever, not New York, not Texas. There are seven states that the media and the president, your candidates are paying attention to. Everybody should be directing their resources to those seven states. And somebody should get on the ballot in one of those seven states, and you guys should be organizing to get people to vote for that candidate.
Hey, did you hear what I said? Jojo?
None of that matters, baby, until it's done. I don't want to hear it. That's what I'm trying to tell you. I don't want to hear a baby though. I don't want to hear, sugar Love. I don't want to hear about what y'all trying to tell me because I've been rocking with y'all for th three years saying the same shit, So I don't want to hear it about trying to tell me an offline and in line and back door meeting. Fuck all that, Jojo. I've been saying this for three four years, messing with y'all. I don't want to hear about what y'all talking about in this anonymous political party. I just told you that one person can go to the ballot right now in Pennsylvania and sign up as these FBA nuts that don't require these secret meetings you talking about. Then all y'all got to do after that is sit on Twitter every day, go knock on doors every day and tell me, hey, make sure y'all go make sure y'all go vote for these nuts, these FBA nuts, and no, Ben Brod just gave you the play. All this other complicated shit you're talking about don't mean nothing to me. I don't want too many campaigns, baby, so that other shit don't mean nothing to me.
This is not hard to do.
Michigan won by two percent. We beat Hillary Clinton by two percent. You know, we beat Hilly Clinton by two percent. I took my black ass to Flint because they were ignoring Flint. They was focusing on Detroit. I went and met Danielle Green, told her to bring two three other black people. I introduced in to Bernie Samders. He ain't never met no black people ever in life. The probably was the first black people he ever met in life.
He hugged Danielle Green.
We took a candid thought off of him looking sympathetic because it was during the.
Flint water crisis. They took that.
They made commercials about that, back to back to back to back. Doctor Cornell West came down. I drove him all the way to Chicago. I kept my ass focused on Flint. The white boys on the campaign focused on the outside of the outskirts, on the unions and things like that, and we won that shit, a historic upset by two percent. You can't tell me nothing, Jojoe.
I do this.
I do this. This is about being in the student posture.
I do this.
I know a lot of y'all read a lot of books and know a lot of shit about history. I'm telling you, I know how this game worked, how this campaign ground game worked, and I'm giving you the play. It don't require all of this. We gotta get a political party. We gotta get a camera guy. Yes, I want you to have all of that, but I'm giving you. I'm showing you what Arab American just did.
They just did it. They did it in a matter of months.
Everything I'm telling you.
I know because I want you to stay in the student posture. I know because I gotta keep shooting it down, baby, because I need you to be listening to what I'm telling you. But what I'm trying to tell you. I asked you a simple question. Who is gonna go on the ballot in one of these states that I just mentioned?
We got we got somebody?
Okay, what in Harry up?
With?
In Harry up? I need to see it?
Can I put it in the dumble true?
No?
Is she on the ballot? Is she on the ballot? Is she on the ballot? She will no yes or no? Baby?
Is she on the ballot? We Hey, baby, you know I deal in love and truth. Okay, But then then if she ain't on the ballot? Were talking about twenty twenty four, who gonna sign up as these nuts in one of these seven states? All about We're about no, damn twenty twenty eight. I'm talking about Now, I'm twenty twenty four. It's a simple question. Is she on the ballot?
The answer is no. Let's get straight to it. The answer is no.
And then if she you're talking about twenty twenty eight, I'm talking about twenty twenty four. Like the ari of Americans that you talk about on a daily basis, they did it in a matter of.
A couple of months.
So who's gonna go get on the ballot in Michigan the same way the Arab Americans? Who's gonna go organize Detroit? Because Detroit ain't none of them. They don't want to be a part of the process at all. So should be real easy for y'all go down Detroit and tell some brothers, Hey, y'all, I know y'all tie to politics, so can you You was gonna stay home anyway, so can you? Can you go to the ballot and vote for reparations. I'm literally telling you you can put reparations on the ballot. Do something that's better than nothing. It's gonna make the media have to cover it. I'm giving y'all a very clear plan. Y'all just don't want to do it, and I'm and every time I come here. I'm gonna ask the same thing. Y'all can hide and listen anonymously and do whatever y'all want to do, because y'all know who I'm talking to. I done told y'all is privately publicly on the stage, off the stage.
I'm saying it in love.
This is the information that this is what y'all need to do this year, not twenty twenty eight, right now, twenty twenty four.
If the white boy can do it and sign up as the's.
Nuts, if the Arab Americans can do it, then why can't y'all do it?
I know y'all can do it.
Jay, pull up the next person, please, sweet, I don't know who else was in line.
I see a couple of them people.
I know y'all could do it. That's only why I'm sitt up talking. I done took all kind of hits the block from people I don't even know, because i'd be sitting over to talking to the reparations people. But y'all know I really fuck with y'all. You ain't got to be careful. Oh, let me be careful because I'm on in the podcast.
Say listen. Ain't nobody listening because it ain't no threat. Who listening. I'm trying to show you how to be a threat for real, how to really have ops for real? Who's next? I'm sure some folks is connecting. We can go with the guys. Thank thank you. Oh, don't leave.
I love you. Are you gonna least listen? Are you gone out and hurt your feelings?
No?
Hell no, I do love you though. I got going on. Okay, Okay, honey, thank you? Okay, Hey, I'm fine. How are you?
I'm doing great.
I appreciate you. I think you're treating it back on the stage and need to talk down with Mike and talk to you.
Uh.
The last time we went back a little bit about about Michigan and about the results of Michigan and whatnot. But I was coming in.
You know what, No, I've got I dow had and the ring? Oh what else? What's up?
What?
That's what's up? That's what I'm talking about. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. Let let's start naming the names. Who really running? Put yourself in a jumble, trying for people that you're in Michigan, Tennessee.
Okay, I'm still getting stuff ready, Well.
Hold on, I think we got muted for some reason. Hold on one second, say that again.
Okay, yeah we were I'll say it's close denominating process yesterday.
So I'm still getting set up like, okay, so you're not on the ballot. So you're not on the ballot.
Okay, you're on the back because I was okay, because I was about to say, here we go again with another what y'all finna do?
Matter of fact, I got myself on about it. I know that's right.
Tell talk that ship, then what they tell them talk about can't and you can't do it overnight and everything. Some stuff better offline in line, middle of the line. Y'all need to stop with all this old play place C I A y'all know everybody want to be c I A F B A fb I and all this old ship. It don't take nothing to get on, no battle, don't take nothing to organize it, just take will.
That's it. So congratulations you brother. I wish you luck.
I appreciate no problem platform launch or anything like that. Come back.
I ain't got no problem.
You ain't got no I mean you just said you was launching. It ain't about using. I mean you just said it. That's what the platforms open up. I'm taking calls from random strangers, so I don't have no problem. And you just said you're running, so not a problem. Congratulations. You see, baby, Them other people do that. This them people that be sitting up to you trying to use a cloud knowledge, they don't. I got four shows, baby, so it's all right. It's just a few people listening to this, so it ain't no problem. I'm sharing the love. What I do tell people is, don't think I'm obligated to do anything. I don't owe nobody nothing. But as far as i'm my whole point being here is to have the conversation with the people. This is on Straight Shot, No Chaser, it will be on my podcast on Black Effect on Our Heart.
So I'm not stingy with with it.
You know, when things are done respectfully and people don't think I'm entitled to do anything. I don't owe anybody anything. But other than that, the whole point I live this work. I do this to use the platform to help people, because I know, like to not have you know, support, or not have anybody lend you a microphone.
Ever. You know what I'm saying, So I get it.
There are other people that move differently because they got to get clicks and likes, and you know they looking for sensations, you know, make things sensational because they live. They make their money off YouTube. That's not how I make my money. All my money is contracts. I don't ask for.
No donations from y'all are nothing else.
So I congratulations, I love appreciate what you're doing, don't. I don't work on people's campaign, but anytime I'm live or anything like that and you want to pop in and let people know you running and what you're trying to do, absolutely, by all means, please do it.
That's why I do what I do. So congratulations to you.
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