Charlamagne tha Oblivious God is turning The Breakfast Club into FOX News
Jess can't fix the mess of The Breakfast Club
Writer’s note (July 13, 2024): I did not watch The Breakfast Club for four months. On June 4, YouTube sent me a TBC suggestion. I clicked on it to hate-listen. I was pleasantly surprised to learn of new journalist Morgyn Wood! While I do like her, Charlamagne and DJ Envy still sound about as qualified to discuss politics as Beavis and Butthead. I just can’t handle it.
I riddled comment sections for months in support of hiring Jess the Mess. Nowadays, I’m indifferent. Jess the Mess went to Clark Atlanta and smacked food into the microphone, adding absolutely nothing to the conversation on the upcoming presidential election. On another day, she ignored all of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s and Trump’s mudslinging to shame Jasmine Crockett for a trademark. Then, when Michael Eric Dyson showed up on the program, she didn’t appear until the end of the interview when the discussion was about porn.
One host goes for the low-hanging fruit. Another thinks he’s a neurologist and can diagnosis dementia, but can’t seem to use Google to learn of Biden’s contributions. And the third host didn’t have a clue what the Affordable Care Act was and said, “That’s why you’re here, Morgyn.” I turned it off and unsubscribed (again) within a week.
ORIGINAL POST (Date: February 28, 2024)
I blame myself for thinking a comedian, Jessica Moore, could fix everything I loathe about The Breakfast Club. And by “everything,” I mean the antics of Charlamagne tha God.
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I tapped out on listening to The Breakfast Club when Angela Yee, the third and original woman co-host, was still on the show. Between her incorporating a “my friend” story in every possible scenario, random blabbering about vagina smells in yoga class to Janelle Monae and gossiping about the body count of celebrity women (salute to K. Michelle for checking her in person), I would usually mute Angela Yee when she talked.
But I realized that method never works with Charlamagne, primarily because he talks over everybody. He stopped smelling women’s seats when they left the room (ex. Jennifer Lopez), stopped talking about “sucking a fart out of her butt” regarding attractive women celebrities (ex. Kelly Rowland, Patti Labelle), and stopped salivating over “nubian white queens” (ex. Katy Perry interview, which was oddly removed). He switched to becoming world’s least-convincing mental health advocate while making fun of people who actually have mental health conditions (ex. Tyrese).
I didn’t watch or listen to the show for a couple years, choosing to tolerate Peter Rosenberg on “Ebro In the Morning.” (I like Old Man Ebro, Laura Stylez, Kast One and — even though I’m mad he won’t vote — Shani Kulture.) Still, naive me gave The Breakfast Club another shot in 2023 when Angela Yee was gone and the the “gusbands” became oddly charismatic and funny. That didn’t last long.
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While Charlamagne interrupting Envy during the “Rumor Report” was agitating, the final straw for me this year is the nonstop interruptions of consultant Tezlyn Figaro.
Mind you, 99.9% of “Front Page News” is Tezlyn Figaro summarizing or introducing reporters who actually investigated the news stories, but I still think she’s an improved addition to the show. (I disagreed with her celebration of Jeezy’s divorce and not bringing up Jeannie Mai’s apology about the “dark meat” comment, but we don’t have to agree on everything.)
From sniffing seats to becoming a real-life Uncle Ruckus
Still, Charlamagne is ruining this show. He has made appearances on legitimate news shows (while telling people not to watch the news) and literally became Uncle Ruckus from “The Boondocks,” gushing over how Trump has “main character energy” and Biden doesn’t.
(The irony is “The Boondocks” is one of his top-two shows, and he used to constantly mimic this character.) Watch any “Front Page” news report on The Breakfast Club, and Charlamagne tha Oblivious God finds a way for President Joe Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris to be wrong even if they have nothing to do with Tez’s segments.
Although he didn’t even know the basics of a president being impeached or pretty much anything you learn in eighth-grade politics, he’s now moonlighting as a political consultant and an attorney consultant — who doesn’t seem to comprehend that all attorneys in civil rights cases will not hesitate to collect a debt.
For example, he’s somehow made Attorney General Letitia James wrong for pursuing payment from Trump, insinuating that she’s persistent about collecting the $354 million in a civil fraud fine because this is “personal” and solely because “this is an election year.” Never mind that this is a normal part of an attorney’s job and collecting a debt (if the judgment says so) is an obvious part of a civil case.
Then, there’s the other attorney he keeps calling “Fannie Mae.” Although I’m not convinced that Charlamagne watched the entire video of Fani Willis rambling on and on about her father’s advice for keeping cash, men thinking relationships end without sex, and giving 20-minute answers to “yes” or “no” questions, Charlamagne decided to blame VP Harris for not being enough of an “angry black woman” like Fani Willis.
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I was firmly on Fani Willis’ side and didn’t give a damn who she slept with before, during or after the (potential) upcoming The State of Georgia v. Donald J. Trump, et al. trial regarding the Georgia election racketeering prosecution. That is, until I realized she rambles as much as Trump. I don’t think we’ll ever get straight answers from either of them. But instead of talking about the actual election racketeering case, Charlamagne (and Jess the Mess) just cheered Fani Willis on for being upset and “speaking her mind” — regardless of the judge telling her to stop with her long-winded answers and yelling at other attorneys.
Let your Trump cape fly, Charlamagne tha Oblivious God
This past weekend, Trump went on a “the black people like me” ramble, claiming we like him because he has a mugshot (instead of someone like me smugly smiling and hoping the Central Park Five had a Trump Mugshot Party). Trump also claimed he’s been “hurt so badly and discriminated against.”
Charlamagne dismissed every single “the black people” declaration and decided it was Biden’s fault for people still liking Trump. That 180-degree, illogical turn only makes sense if you’re “my African-American” who Trump was talking about.
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And even after doing a terrible job of trying to defend his own pro-Trump views (while claiming he’s an Independent) against political scientist Dr. Christina Greer, he went right back to the same “What About Biden?” antics the next day after the president was on “Late Night With Seth Meyers,” claiming he didn’t like Biden being on the show after saying he had no idea he was even on the show!
Pull up any political video on Charlamagne talking about politics, and it’s the same recycled talking points: 1) “Find somebody to message your policy” (without him actually knowing the policies, including how Republicans voted against a Biden-and-bipartisan-supported border security deal); 2) saying someone else should run instead of Biden/Harris ticket even after the Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett explained nomination deadlines to him and DJ Envy (the latter of which fancies himself to be a dementia expert).
Author Michael Harriot was on the show describing Tim Scott, who sounded like the exact same person that Charlamagne tha Oblivious God has become. And all those (hints?) comments seemed to go over his head.
I was rooting for you, Jess, and you let me down
And Jess the Mess’ take on Biden? “I don’t know him, and he don’t know me.”
Is he supposed to? Is he supposed to be following you on Instagram all these years and popping up at your comedy shows?
Newsflash: If Trump still can’t tell Diamond and Silk apart, it’s fair to say that Trump and Biden know Jessica Moore the same amount: not at all.
“The Breakfast Club” has become an absolute headache. Every segment on politics reminds me of the loud-mouthed woman or man in every beauty salon and barbershop who speaks confidently and knows nothing. I genuinely was ecstatic to have Jess the Mess on “The Breakfast Club” and hoped it would improve the show.
In 2023, I left a zillion comments in support of her being Angela Yee’s permanent replacement, and the comments stayed put (unlike my political responses that get deleted on The Breakfast Club’s YouTube page within seconds of me leaving them).
But now that Jess the Mess is on the show, and almost always silent during political debates (minus complimenting Angela Rye for barking back on Charlamagne tha Oblivious God for encouraging people to buy and flip the price of Trump’s high top sneakers), I’m even more disappointed.
It’s not just her being pregnant and still not realizing it takes more than having an embryo to make a baby. It’s the indifference to politics overall, knowing that they will affect every single U.S. citizen — whether you care or not. She has no problem lecturing artists about reading contracts and being more business savvy. She even gave great advice on “The Pivot” about betting on yourself. I think she’s extremely smart, which makes it worse to see her never challenging Charlamagne’s Uncle Ruckus rants.
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Another Breakfast Club break, probably permanently
I never cared for Angela Yee as a co-host, but I leaped to my television to stream every single segment with Jess the Mess. This year, I’m realizing even she can’t fix the show. So I’m tapping out for the rest of the year. (I’ll still watch her third-party interviews.)
After the election is over, maybe I’ll be able to enjoy The Breakfast Club (read: Jess the Mess) banter more. I (hopefully) won’t be worried about Nazis showing up at CPAC, a prominent conservative conference, or more grown-ups breaking into governmental buildings and threatening to hang a vice president. I’m hoping Biden-Harris are two-time winners and remain firmly planted in the White House and the Blair House (or the Number One Observatory Circle).
What I don’t want is for voters to keep listening to three people (one of which doesn’t want you to hear actual reporting from legitimate journalists on news programs) who know zilch about politics encourage a white supremacist who instigated January 6, 2021 to re-enter the most famous house in the United States. I wish Trump the absolute worst in all 91 criminal charges, and I hope the Supreme Court lets Colorado (and other states) keep him off the ballot.
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