Name: Killer Mike on Receiving Pushback for Political Beliefs
Uploaded: 2023-06-28T17:19:38.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Killer Mike on Receiving Pushback for Political Beliefs' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Killer Mike on Receiving Pushback for Political Beliefs' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-06-28. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- It brings us back to haters.
They can get inspiration from people, you get juice.
- Yo, shouts out to that lady
who's Emmy nominated that hates me.
God bless, God bless your soul, woman.
I had never thought about winning an Emmy in my life,
but because you hated on me when I got,
and she hates me for the most ridiculous reason,
God bless her soul.
She hates me just because I'm not a Democrat,
Nick Dubois, you know what I mean?
I've had Democrats I like and I push for 'em,
especially locally, but I'm sorry, lady,
I can't be a Dubois, and God bless me to fuck around
and get rich, I really, I don't take money
from any politicians or political party,
so if you see me stand next to someone,
it's 'cause I really believe.
And if they don't convince me to believe,
I'm not gonna stand next to them, right?
She wanted me to stand next to somebody,
I'm like, sorry, lady, I've had some conversations with her,
I've tried my best, but I'm not hating,
but it's just that ain't my thing,
but this chick was just like,
I'm gonna use my platform to,
and I'm like, you don't really have a platform?
But in her bio, she's an Emmy-nominated actress,
man, winning that Emmy sure felt good.
I just, I blocked her, but I'm sure someone has told her,
but I'm just like, holding it, I hope she sees the picture,
like, yeah, thank God for your hate, lady,
'cause it made me care.
I went to the ceremonies and walked away with a trophy.
Congratulations.
Yeah, thank you.
And to her, there was a study that was done recently
about left-wing authoritarianism,
and the way certain people behave,
and that it's just, it's like a bunch
of different psychological conditions that are,
they're almost indistinguishable.
Yeah.
Like, you know, like, horrible narcissism,
horrible, like, psychotic behavior.
Like, see if you can find it, what their conclusions were.
But at the fringes, when people, what happens is,
when you have groups that are ideological groups,
whether it's the left or the right,
you're gonna get people that just join that group
that are absolutely insane.
Yeah.
And if you don't call it out,
then you have a giant problem,
because people are gonna associate you
with whatever the worst aspects of your,
like, right-wing Proud Boys.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The experts somehow overlooked authoritarians on the left.
Many psychologists wrongly assume
that coercive attitudes exist only among conservatives.
Of course, it's a human characteristic.
I did a speech for FIRE, for the organization FIRE,
and I miss saying, I'm sorry,
the brown shirts of Italy,
but what I meant was the brown shirts of Germany,
that as the left, as you accomplish more power politically,
don't use it as a bludgeon in the same way
you've perceived it to be used against you.
- Right.
- That you have to rule, quote unquote,
in a more fair and equitable way.
You can't let your fair and equitable thoughts
become totalitarian.
- Yeah, and you also can't give in to this crazy instinct
that we all humans have to be tribal.
- Yes.
- And I am a Democrat.
I am a lifelong blue no matter who.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
- You can't, that's not wise.
- And that's both, yeah, it's both sides, but we too.
- Yes, both sides.
- I grew up, I was fortunate enough to grow up in a household
where my grandmother was SCLC member, had, from Tuskegee,
had been a part, born in 1932, had been a part,
still raised stuff.
My grandfather, so my grandmother grew up on a farm, could go to school.
They weren't wealthy but they had food, they had sustenance, they had education.
My grandfather grew up working in a sawmill at eight years old because his
father abandoned
his family and he had to feed his mothers and sisters.
So his mentality was much more libertarian, I would say.
His mentality was, if God gave you an appetite and a mind to build a fishing
rod, you should
be able to catch fish.
And my grandmother was like, you shouldn't complain about having to buy a
fishing license
because the game warden has to make sure things are legit and somebody has to
clean up the
park.
So I got a chance to see these wonderful political arguments between these two
people
that loved each other.
You know, my grandmother, college educated woman, my grandfather drove a truck
and hauled
moonshine and gaveled, you know what I mean?
He married this God-fearing woman.
He never, I never saw him walk into church, but they had these great debates
that showed
me that there are no absolutes, that they're going to be something from each
side that
makes sense to run a good household.
And they kind of, I watched them just do it right, you know what I'm saying?
And I just, I'm glad I saw that because I don't feel married to any ideology.
That's beautiful.
That's important.
Shouts out to Betty and Willie.
God bless the dead, man.
Yeah.
Getting attached to ideologies is always a bad idea, particularly when human
beings have,
in America, have two choices.
Yeah.
You have two choices.
The left and the right.
And people just like, they adhere.
They adhere to whatever this side's doing because they want them to win.
Yeah.
And then you have some weird problematic figures like Trump who comes along.
Yeah.
And like the, there's a lot of never Trump or Republicans.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They don't know what to do.
Yeah.
But I say in this crazy ass country, pay attention to the people who have no
chance of winning
sometimes because they're going to, they're going to be some truths told.
Like no matter what you feel about Trump, there was a moment in that debate.
Chappelle talks about it.
When Trump said, of course, these loopholes exist, they exist.
He was talking to Hillary.
Yeah.
Like, hell yeah, I'm going to take advantage of the loophole.
Yeah.
Because they also exist for the people who are doing any other campaign.
I was like, finally, a member of the oligarchy class says, yeah, motherfucker,
we're cheating.
Yeah.
And I was just like, I was like, at that point, Americans should have said,
hard reset.
Yeah.
Like, they literally should have said, pre-Eisenhower, hard reset, we're going
to reform all this
shit, the money's going to work different, none of us said a goddamn thing.
And you know why?
Because we're all complacent in some capacity.
We're all a company in this grand scheme that's fucking us over.
And if you don't have an educated constituency of proletariat, it's all just
going to counter
reform.
So, like, doing this election, people were like, who are you supporting?
I was like, I don't give a fuck nationally.
I give a fuck that Cornel West is in the race, because I'm interested to see
what he's going
to say.
Kennedy, I'm interested just to hear, you know, whatever crazy shit people
think he's, whoever
else is running.
I'm just interested because the two parties we know we got, but there are all
these little
voices that pop up, that little grains of truth.
They stand no chance of winning in some cases.
But let me just take a grain of what you're saying, and that way I'll know what
to take
back to the party that wins and say, hey, what about this?
Why do we have money for this, but we don't have money for this, you know?
Like, Sanders, people told me, like, Mike, you're a business guy.
You like money.
Sanders even said, hey, I think you're going to be a billionaire.
I'm going to tax the shit out of you, too.
We were laughing and joking backstage at the Amazon worker strike that we were
both supporting.
But my thing is, I don't want to pay the government more taxes.
But if I got to pay more taxes, let me pay what the guy's playing who's going
to educate
kids in trades and scholarship for free.
Because that way I'm making a 20-year investment so that my 16-year-old
daughter, when she's
36, has a much better country full of educated kids versus I bought a lot, I
bought more missiles.
You know what I'm saying?
Yes.
Yes.
Yeah.
That's possible.
But that's not possible.
But if you don't put them in now, I am a millionaire.
I'm going to do my best to protect my fucking money.
Yeah.
Because I wasn't born a millionaire.
You know what I mean?
I was born just a working-ass black kid named Michael.
Yeah.
You know what I mean?
And Michael never liked working at Six Flags or AutoZone or UPS.
So once Michael fucked around to figure out how to sing and dance and make some
money,
Michael wants to save more of his money than spend, you know?