Excuses Are the Tools: Lessons from the 2024 Campaign Trail

In this episode of Pardon the Politics, Jeezy and Manny serve up a post-Thanksgiving feast of political insight and sharp humor. After swapping hilarious turkey triumphs and near-disasters, they dive into the challenges facing the Democratic Party as it scrambles to rebuild for 2026 and beyond. They break down Kamala Harris’s campaign struggles, reflect on Pod Save America’s episode, and ask: Where are the Democratic dogs ready to win?

The global stage heats up as the duo dissects the Israel-Lebanon ceasefire, the ongoing conflict in Gaza, and the surprising developments in Syria’s Aleppo. They also tackle Ukraine’s changing strategies in the face of Russia’s latest moves and Trump’s bold claims to end the war.

But the drama doesn’t stop there—Pete Hegseth earns the Pickle of the Week after his mother’s scathing email resurfaces, casting a shadow on his nomination for Secretary of Defense.

With wit, depth, and a pinch of spicy political humor, Jeezy and Manny analyze it all. Plus, celebrate the anniversary of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated, with a shoutout to their beloved brotherhood. Don’t miss this dynamic blend of domestic and international updates!

Transcript

Jeezy: Hello, world, and welcome to the part in the politics podcast season one episode 12. I am your co-host, jeezy along with my partner in politics. Manny Manny, what's good.
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Manny: What's going on. Y'all glad to be back.
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Jeezy: Yeah, man, the pie was on a little bit of a vacation due to the Thanksgiving holidays, so you know, we had to take a little break. But we had been going strong for you guys with 11 episodes and a live coverage of the election, so we thought it was appropriate for the boys to just take a little break so hopefully, hopefully, you still love us. You're still tuned in. You're still with us and tuning in for another great episode.
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Manny: Yeah, no. Definitely definitely excited to be back. I mean, a lot happened.
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Manny: Man, man, a lot happened.
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Jeezy: We say it every week. Man.
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Manny: And you know what, and I said it at some point in the the previous episode that I dare not even try to come up with, or plan or think through what the the previous episode was going to be. So we're not out here on the pod making y'all promises for stuff that we know we're not going to do, and I'm glad I did that.
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Manny: because I didn't see most of this coming.
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Jeezy: Man. Listen, as always, as we have said, in countless episodes, that here, with the politics and the content, the gift just keeps on giving man. There's always something. So
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Jeezy: we definitely have quite a bit in store for this episode. But before we begin, just want to again, thank the listeners, I hope your holiday was well. Hope that you enjoyed your family time, and if you didn't just hope that you found some bit of joy or peace during the holiday season.
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Jeezy: And going into the end of 2024. It's crazy. That man. The year just seems to just go by so fast. I was telling somebody that, you know, when we were kids. It seemed like it took forever to get the Christmas break. But now the year.
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Manny: Here and gone.
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Jeezy: Man. It's just everything just moves so fast. So we are grateful and thankful for all of our listeners here, partner, politics. Podcast, so with that being said. Our 1st topic on the docket today is
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Jeezy: Pod save America.
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Jeezy: It was a couple of weeks ago that an episode of Pod save America had on the cat. Well, I say the cats! But the big dogs of the.
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Manny: No, you can go ahead and say, it's all a TV show now. So the cast.
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Jeezy: It's a sitcom at this point, but had some of the major big dogs in the Harris Waltz campaign on it, and you had the campaigning chair, the senior advisor, the deputy campaign management of paid advertising and strategy, and the senior advisor to strategic messaging. And they were on this episode of pod save America, basically talking about
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Jeezy: what went wrong.
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Jeezy: First, st before I say anything else.
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Jeezy: It felt like it was way too soon.
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Manny: I'm sorry.
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Jeezy: It felt way too soon. I was not ready to have this conversation or to hear it. I felt like it was very, very premature. Let us let us, you know. Let us get out of the cycle first, st like, let's let's get past. Maybe the inauguration, and then let's have this conversation. But here they were on the episode, having this conversation, so were you able to catch any of that many.
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Manny: I I was, I was. I'll go the counterpoint. I
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Manny: I I'm glad it came out when it did. I actually think they gave just the right amount of time of.
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Manny: Because if you're the dems you, you ain't got time to figure this out. You got midterms in 2 years that you need to
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Manny: about right now, if you hadn't already starting to think about so that whole retro on what went wrong in that campaign, you have time to waste. So let's go ahead and
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Manny: and have this conversation about how y'all did not do well in in most capacities.
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Jeezy: Yeah. Yeah. And I think that
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Jeezy: to your point, while I can't agree that you know it felt too early for me. I do agree with the the statement that you know the Democratic party is on fire.
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Jeezy: and there isn't a lot of wiggle room nor time to figure out what went wrong
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Jeezy: or how it went wrong. You know, we we need to start putting some action in, because, as we know, 2026 will be here before you know it.
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Manny: We're going to blink, and it's going to be here.
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Jeezy: It's yeah. It's gonna be here, man.
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Jeezy: Now I will say that I felt
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Jeezy: it was too soon, only because, you know, you know I love Big Mala.
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Manny: I love Erunty. I love
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Manny: and like I think you're also going through this whole thing with a whole different lens with me very closely today.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And for for everyone to listen on the pod. Jeez has the the pleasure, or maybe the displeasure, depending on where you sit of getting my takes through the day. As things happen.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah.
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Manny: So, you know that's an adjustment period going from, I will say, casual observer, because, you know you were, you were. You were fairly deep in this, but now it's like a whole nother level where.
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Jeezy: Whole, another level.
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Manny: Where you're like now, seeing how I'm breaking down these things, and how we really dig into it. So.
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Jeezy: Hmm.
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Manny: It's an adjustment man. And I think that's also a reminder for our listen listeners like this is a lot. Politics is a lot in general. So like, there is nothing wrong for stepping away and saying, You know what? I'm not going to pay attention to this for a little bit. And that's okay. Yeah, that's okay. You know, this
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Manny: don't lose your sanity.
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Manny: Don't lose your sanity.
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Manny: They're the bigger things at play.
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Jeezy: Well, and and that's an awesome point. And I was grateful for that that bit of encouragement and detail that you you gave me, because it is a different game jumping from a casual observer of politics to now, hey, you're the co-host of a
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Jeezy: a very well laid out, and I would say, quite polished. Podcast so you have to be. You have to be within the know. But I will say that when I listened to this episode 20 min in that sorrow, quickly turned.
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Manny: Yay!
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Jeezy: That sorrow quickly turned into anger.
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Manny: Tell them why you may, Jeez tell them why you met.
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Jeezy: But I'ma tell you I'ma tell her why I'm mad, brother.
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Jeezy: All I heard, in my opinion, was nothing but excuses, and.
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Manny: Other excuses.
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Jeezy: For for shout out to our dear brothers in Alpha phi alpha fraternity incorporated. But excuses are tools of the incompetence that build monuments for nothingness. Those who excel at them seldomly succeed in anything else, and I see why they seldomly did not succeed in anything else.
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Jeezy: There were so many excuses manny like
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Jeezy: Oh, my God! It was insane!
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Jeezy: Like.
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Manny: And and then on top of that like.
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Manny: because I concur with that 10,000%
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Manny: and all excuses, but no accountability like.
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Jeezy: No accountability.
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Manny: At some point. You just have to look at the situation, no matter what odds were against you. You got to look at a situation and say, you know what? I dropped the egg.
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Jeezy: Yeah, it was me.
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Manny: I had all these, you know. I had all the groceries in my hand. I was slipping. I was trying not to drop the baby.
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Manny: but I dropped the egg like, and I didn't hear that.
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Jeezy: 9 9.
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Jeezy: You know it it when you listen to them talk.
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Jeezy: And I remember saying this before in our in our chat.
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Jeezy: you know I referenced to Colorado. Buff shout out to Coach Prime.
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Jeezy: but if you look at the players on Coach Prime's team on their jersey, some of them have a L, and some of them have a D, the ones that have the L are leaders, you know. They're good guys. They show up. They do the. You know they do the work, but then you have the dogs, and those dogs are the ones that you know are going to get out there. They're going to not just do the job. They're going to attack the job they're going to do. I mean, they are dogs.
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Jeezy: Mala didn't have any dogs on this, on this team?
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Jeezy: None. There were no dogs.
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Manny: At least none of those dogs were on that podcast.
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Manny: talking about where it went wrong.
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Jeezy: You know, I just was. I just was shocked, man, because it's like even down to. I believe it was the senior advisor was talking, he was saying, like, you know, you. And you have detailed this on the podcast. Where you're like, you know, in this time frame, you know it's not. It's not normal, you know. Most candidates, you know, they have X amount of time to, you know. Do this and do that and do this. And I think, the senior advisor was saying, that you know most candidates have about 6 months to work on their bio
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Jeezy: right for really the American people to get to know them. And throughout those 6 months they're adding and building and stacking amongst that bio.
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Jeezy: But he was like. But you know, Kamala Kamala only had 2 months. And in my mind I'm hearing him say this. And I'm like, so what what are you going to do? You gonna cry about it, or you gonna do take those 2 months. And do I mean, go crazy? Do everything you need to do.
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Jeezy: you know.
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Manny: This team was given.
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Manny: while they, while everyone will phrase it as a a challenge and yes, to run a presidential campaign in a hundred 7 days is absolutely 1,000%. A challenge.
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Manny: It was an opportunity like it was really an opportunity to really try to do something different.
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Manny: And they didn't.
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Jeezy: They didn't.
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Manny: They didn't. They tried to slam a conventional campaign into 107 days against an unconventional candidate that they won against by accident
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Manny: like, let's let's be clear. They that Joe biden beat Donald trump by accident, because, had it is my belief.
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Manny: Covid had not happened.
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Manny: It's going to be real hard for Joe to Joe to knock off trump.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: That that is just the raw reality of the situation. And they just they weren't creative. They really just tried to slam a conventional campaign into a box, and
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Manny: it it's rough to see it's rough to see. But the the other question that I had that was floating around all of this is some of the things that they were complaining about
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Manny: from my standpoint are infrastructural issues.
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Jeezy: So now my question turns to.
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Manny: Dnc. Were you not getting ready for Joe to run white?
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Manny: Let's be clear. We've known that Donald Trump was running for President since the day after election day in 2020
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Manny: like. So you knew who the opponent was.
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Manny: y'all had no infrastructure, because the way they made it sound is that the Dnc. Was virtually no help, and all they were the Dnc. Was being used for is help to run and funnel money.
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Manny: to which okay, great. But if you didn't have this infrastructure already in place, let's say Biden hadn't stepped out.
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Manny: Y'all were going to be in the same position.
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Manny: So it's real interesting to hear them kind of say the things that they did.
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Jeezy: I completely agree, and it brings to mind to me the old saying that you know it seemed as though the Dnc. Had all hands and no calluses. Nobody was.
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Manny: T.
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Jeezy: Nobody. Nobody seemed to even have a plan of what
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Jeezy: you know what was going to be the the objective going forward. And I think we've said it before in a previous episode. I really, I mean, it really just confirms that
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Jeezy: the the Democrats thought that all of these indictments and Trump's legal issues were just going to put him away like that. I'm I'm completely convinced at this point, because
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Jeezy: there's no way that you tell me that you absolutely don't have a plan for somebody unless you don't expect that person to be around. So to have said plan for.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: And you know, you know you've heard Aoc and others come out and criticize the direction of the party, and you know what things need to be done.
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Jeezy: They they have a lot of work, and I think that they really need to take a Michael Jackson moment and look at the man in the mirror
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Jeezy: and realize they need to realize really quick what like
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Jeezy: this ain't a game like this. This ain't this? This ain't a walk in the Park, are we? And I think that I've as a Democrat. That's 1 thing that I have been very critical about the Democratic party is that
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Jeezy: we don't have. We don't have dog moments. One thing I love about the Republicans is that when they see blood boy, they going, whether they right, whether they right whether they're wrong when they smell blood. It's over.
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Manny: They locked in.
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Jeezy: And we want to play this man. We want to be a Democratic party of me is like the grinch
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Jeezy: when you, when he looked down off that mountaintop, and he saw it. After all, the children and all the people in Whoville had their roast beast and their gifts, and everything took, and they were still standing around, holding hands.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Like, what do y'all have like? What are y'all happy for? Let's get. Let's get angry. Let's do something. Let's get some dog in us and go out here, and if this is what we want, let's attack it. Not all this, you know. Instead of attacking your enemy, you buying flowers and inviting to dinner type mentality. I can't stand it, man.
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Manny: I think the 1st question that Dems will have to ask themselves is, what are they selling to the American people?
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Manny: Because if you and I, I would hope they're sitting back and having some of these conversations right now.
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Manny: if you, if you really just look at all of their campaigns largely.
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Manny: It's become a well, we're not them. So you should vote for us.
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Jeezy: Like you're.
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Manny: Yeah, you, you know our plan is not their plan. A. That's lazy. That's lazy. That.
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Jeezy: And lazy.
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Manny: You know, and that means you're not doing the mental gymnastics that you have to to really try to creatively think that. Think of ways to solve the problems.
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Manny: And one of my close friends. He told me this when Trump won in 2016 he was like
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Manny: Hillary was a smooth ride in a car in a direction
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Manny: that the country didn't want to go down.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Where Donald was going to be a bumpy ride.
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Manny: We? And again this goes back to 2016. It was going to be a bumpy ride. We didn't know where it was going to go, but we knew it wasn't going to be in that direction, and we needed some. He he's come out there, trump, and the Republicans have come out with a plan of something. Now now we'll we'll take the swings that you know. Well, what are you going to do on health care? Cool damns! What are y'all going to do on health care?
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Jeezy: Cool.
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Manny: Like it. And they they've just struggled with that, with that selling of the message. And as I listened to the pod, the pod, and them speaking for me. What I kept hearing is
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Manny: them saying, it's not our fault that
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Manny: the American electorate wasn't smart enough to vote for us.
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Manny: That's what I felt like. I kept hearing over and over and over again. And it's sad. It's sad like a that you guys are in positions this high, but it also shows a tone of the the Democratic party. When you look at ultimately the the demographics of how how everything is coming out. If we look at the reality of the Democratic party right now. It is a party for African Americans
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Manny: and people that make over a hundred $1,000,
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Manny: you know, and and you kind of see that, and how they speak about the middle middle class, not necessarily middle class, but how they speak about. You know, blue collar workers.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Jeezy: it's like, Oh, well, why don't we get you out of doing this job with your hands and get you into office job? I work at office job. Our times. Our time's great.
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Jeezy: excellent.
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Manny: Times, absolutely when it's a hundred degrees outside. Am I glad I have an office job? Yeah. But
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Manny: there's more than one way for people to find success in this country, and I think we have to remember that. And people need to remember that as politicians is that these there there's many paths to success in America. And that's what that's part of the beauty of America is that if you're focused and you drill on you drill on to do something with your best intentions, and try to do the best you can that you can find success. We need to find that America again.
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Jeezy: Yeah, I completely agree. And, Manny, that's an excellent point that you make, because you know, where is the
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Jeezy: level of belonging within the Democratic party for someone that is not
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Jeezy: $100,000 or African American, you know. Maybe you know you're telling me. Oh, we can make a better America, or a better life for you by transitioning here. But hey, what about the fact that I'm a generational farmer?
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Jeezy: You know my granddaddy did this, and my daddy did this, and now I do it. I mean, there's a guy that you know that I know that I've recently met over the past couple of years.
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Jeezy: You know. He's a young guy just like me, but he's a he's a farmer, and he loves it, doesn't want to do anything else, because to him. That's his sense of belonging, because that's his tradition. That's his heritage, you know. Where does he belong? Within the Democratic party, you know. Where is it in their messaging. That shows them that. Hey? We care about you too.
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Manny: Hello!
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Jeezy: And and that's not there.
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Jeezy: Right? Elections are about building coalitions.
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Manny: So
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Manny: how do I get all of these people from different walks of life to unify behind me? And that's what Trump was able to do in this election he was able to create the coalitions that it's necessary to destroy and obliterate that blue wall that stood for a while.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And it
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Manny: that now I won't say everybody on the the Harris campaign didn't do their job. There is one person who, I do believe
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Manny: very much so, and that's the person who did the fundraising cause. You know what.
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Jeezy: Hey!
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Manny: Raising over a billion dollars in a hundred 7 days. That person has a job on whatever campaign they want for the rest of their lives.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Because that.
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Jeezy: That's the money.
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Manny: That's a feat now how you still ended up, how the campaign still ended up spending that money losing and still being 20. I think the last numbers that I heard was 20 million in debt like that's wild.
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Manny: That's wild.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah. Bro, I mean.
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Manny: My name off the list. Man.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Jeezy: I don't even want to be even associated with it, because how in the world you get one? Because I remember, like Donald trump was pissed. It's like who is giving them all this money. It got to a point, Rudy. Giuliani was like. Look, Harris, I'll give you whatever you need.
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Manny: I just need. I just need a uber cam poor Rudy in a pickle.
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Jeezy: And a pickle boy, but that is a lot of money
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Jeezy: to raise, only to fumble the bag.
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Jeezy: you know. So you know, this was very telling to me.
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Jeezy: Just I mean, I kind of felt like you could sense that there was a there was a little bit of droppage. There was some fumble workouts or drills that need to be done to make sure that they kind of didn't let that happen. But ultimately.
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Jeezy: I think, in my opinion, I felt like it was maybe worse than probably what those outside of the realm of scope within the Democratic party realized just the general registered Republican. I think that. And just like for me.
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Jeezy: I think that we had to come to a realization that
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Jeezy: the party's in a in a pickle, and there's some serious adjusting
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Jeezy: that needs to be done. And I will say, from my perspective, you know, I think sometimes we may have let
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Jeezy: the Democratic party get away with making these excuses, and not doing the things that were necessary to put them in the party in a position to handle these things a little bit more
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Jeezy: effectively. But now that we've seen how things have transpired.
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Jeezy: you know we we need some work done, and you know, hopefully they will take this as a lesson learned because 2026 will be here before you know it, and they better have a plan for 2028.
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Manny: And then, you know a couple other points that I saw on this that I think are worth calling out like. And geez! You and I were talking about it earlier is like someone needed to have a real hard conversation with Kamala, and that conversation was around her closeness with Biden. And let me tell you how I would have started that conversation.
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Manny: I'd have sat her down like, Hey, so roar! How are you doing? You know everything going? Well, you know.
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Jeezy: How's the key?
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Manny: But how the kids, you know.
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Manny: So okay, we got all those pleasant trees out the way and then be like that man ain't want you.
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Jeezy: So.
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Manny: Joe Biden, Joseph Robinette Biden did not want you as Vice president. You forced his hand
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Manny: and you made him pick you as the vice President. That is how you got here today.
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Manny: Cool. We good. Okay. I just wanted to level. Set us here.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: You got to separate yourself from him.
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Manny: People people view this this current administration as a failure.
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Manny: and if you are, continue to be in lockstep with this administration. You're going to lose someone needed to have that conversation.
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Manny: and I don't feel like anyone did.
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Jeezy: I definitely don't think if they did, they had it way too late, because I think that we saw the least amount of separation. She tried to do was what he basically said that all the.
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Manny: A roast trash.
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Jeezy: Were trash. That's the 1st time, I think, but that was like a couple of days before election, and that really.
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Manny: That's.
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Jeezy: Separation, but we.
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Manny: Little too late!
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Jeezy: On the what was the talk? Show the view, was it.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: She went on the view, and they asked her, and I mean you could see it was like a struggling point for her.
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Jeezy: And you know, so obviously that conversation wasn't had. But I'm gonna be honest with you, Manny, I mean, just from a general sense of I'm not a Polish politician. Nor have I been in that arena. I know, just from a common sense perspective.
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Jeezy: where people view somebody and what that association does for me.
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Jeezy: And if I'm trying to go right, and everybody thinks they hate the person that's left, and they associate me with the person that's left, I can't expect to be associated with the left, thinking that I'm going right.
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Jeezy: that it doesn't work that way. You got to separate yourself, and I'm be honest with you.
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Jeezy: Joe's already down.
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Manny: Down bad.
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Manny: They sound bad.
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Jeezy: I mean, how much further can Kamala kick him? He's already on all fours. I would have kicked that man.
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Manny: Down. I want to smushed his.
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Jeezy: I would have smudged his chin in the mud, and I would have been like, Yeah, America. I don't like him, either.
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Jeezy: I ain't fooling with him, either. You know what y'all right. Let me tell you what this man been doing. He don't start working to 4 o'clock.
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Manny: See.
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Jeezy: He'll work.
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Manny: It.
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Jeezy: At the beach every 3rd I'm letting. I'm letting it, boy. They're gonna be by the end of me, finally getting my my rant off.
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Jeezy: It ain't gonna be about me no more. They gonna be like, you know what? Yeah, we're gonna vote for her. We gonna vote for her because you know what she said, the things she said, exactly what needed to be said.
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Manny: But there were, there were like ways where she could have got separation. Like I go back to that point. The question on the view. There I was like, hey! Is there anything that you would have done differently?
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Manny: She could have just not not lied.
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Manny: She like? Because you go back. You look at the face, and you can see her doing the mental gymnastics tell, oh, yeah, to lie. Let's all be honest to lie.
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Manny: And but you could have. There's a way that you could have said that like, hey?
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Manny: With this information we now have.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: We in hindsight and hindsight's 2020, and I still believe we made the best decisions that we could have at the time with the information we have.
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Manny: I think I would have tried to look at it like this instead of like XI looked at it like Y, but she didn't even do that. She was just like Nope, that's my dude. And I'm like.
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Manny: and I just I think that
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Manny: simple example. I think back to this pod every week after we we record, I think, about man. I should have phrased it like this, or I should have said it like this. I look back at my election when I ran like I should have done this different. I should have done that different
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Manny: if I can have these thoughts in comparative size like to what's going on, girl. I know you've looked at, know you've looked at this administration and what you've done and be like, yeah, we should have done this differently, or we should have done that differently. And
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Manny: and again, 107 days whatever. Just go.
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Jeezy: Let it ride, let it ride.
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Manny: Pull up like Steph.
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Manny: Every place you're shooting a 3. If you ain't got a clear lane to the basket, you euro step, and you put it up like.
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Manny: and they did not do it. And I'm like.
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Manny: I think, a couple other things that frustrated me in this was.
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Manny: you could tell. It's conventional wisdom, like, okay. So I'm going to make sure I have time to go on. Meet the press
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Manny: cool. Let me. Let's be honest about the viewership of meet the press.
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Manny: They already know who they're voting for.
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Jeezy: Bigger.
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Manny: But you know who doesn't know who they're voting for.
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Manny: The people who watch Joe Rogan's podcast.
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Manny: The the people who and she did call your daddy so that's another one. Hot ones, you know. Who else? Who who else listeners, you know, have open minds, and they think about what they're going to do. The listeners of the part in the politics podcast.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Came here.
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Manny: Think could have came here.
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Jeezy: We're in a battleground state right?
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Jeezy: Right?
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Manny: But like to to shoot that, to focus on doing a show with 50,000 people instead of kind of changing your methodology to go after someone who has a viewership of 3 million people.
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Manny: That's that's going to get earned media just because you did it
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Manny: like, and again salute for her doing the Fox interview. But you could tell. It's a thinking within
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Manny: I think. And I'll be honest. I think they were also scared, too, like knowing. You know. It's walking in there feeling like, hey? If you don't win this, the the
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Manny: everything in the world is going to go bad like, that's a lot of pressure like, I'm not going to mince like, that's not a lot of pressure.
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Manny: But like you, yeah, they didn't act like they wanted to win.
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Jeezy: I think they have a lot that they have to again look in the mirror and look in the mirror. Quick. The Democratic party does not have time
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Jeezy: Basically just kind of like metal through the roses. With this they need to have some serious, real, hard conversations
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Manny: And they have to want to win.
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Manny: Yeah, me, me and Jaez were talking, you know, in the weeks after, you know, Kamalo would have been on the road with us
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Manny: all day, every day.
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Manny: from the from the moment the convention was over, every day, if your strategy was the big 7 States cool. We were in the big.
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Jeezy: Yep, it we were.
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Jeezy: Tim. Tim got a different schedule. Doug got a different schedule. You lead a big dog with this.
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Manny: All day, Kamala.
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Jeezy: Boys would have boys. Part of the politics would have got across that finish line. No doubt about it.
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Manny: Oh, you know I won't say that we would have got her across the finish line.
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Jeezy: No, Bro, we don't. We would have got over that finish line.
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Manny: Twice, but we would have been on this podcast with the same amount of time, still tired.
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Manny: Still, because over that 107 day span you know how many hours of sleep that we might have gotten, we might have gotten.
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Manny: 100 and 10.
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Jeezy: Maybe.
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Manny: I would be sitting with a sponsorship with prime energy. Drink Starbucks and monster.
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Jeezy: Look, if you give us a budget of 1.2 billion
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Manny: Boy.
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Jeezy: Oh, we gonna? Make stuff shake.
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Manny: We've done some wild stuff.
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Jeezy: We gonna make some shape.
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Manny: And then the excuse like, Oh, well, after the hurricanes, you know, we couldn't do anything for 2 weeks. What are you talking about? Georgia is 8. Georgia and North Carolina are battleground States.
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Manny: They are battleground States now. I guess she is still the Vice President, and it takes a lot of infrastructure to move a vice President any point in time. Cool.
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Manny: Donald Trump is still a former president, with a security detail that still requires almost most common
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Manny: security detail, although there's some questions about how good it is they did.
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Manny: They tried was, but like I'd have been in Georgia.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Oh, you would have got! I'd have been out there handing out hot fish plates.
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Jeezy: Oh, Bro.
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Jeezy: if we got if we gotta get get a hundred black suburbans, whatever we got to do to get.
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Manny: We've made it happen.
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Jeezy: We're going to make it happen.
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Manny: But I think it's just. I think it is sad, and
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Manny: I just feel like they could have tried harder if they really actually wanted to win this, but I think that there was a baked in excuse.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And they said, You know what?
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Manny: We'll just do, what we know how to do
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Manny: and look, and everyone keeps saying that, Hey, trump is is a strange candidate, you know. He's the only one that's gonna gonna do stuff like this, you know. So you know, after this, it's nothing to worry about. Ma'am.
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Manny: man, have you not seen what everyone else is doing
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Manny: like in all these Congressional races, and even down to the general assemblies across like the style of how to do this has changed like this same conventional thing that you've been doing since Gore Bush. It's not going to work anymore.
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Jeezy: Nope, it's changing. The landscape is changing. You either get with it or get lost.
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Manny: It sounds like there might be some people left behind set up like, okay cameras.
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Jeezy: Well, man, you know this podcast was very telling, and we will see, you know, it was the talk of quite a few media outlets of of how they felt. You know, relatively similar to how we do here at the pod. So we will see how that message resonates with the Democratic party and what they do going forward. So with that being said.
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Jeezy: when we talk about the Democratic party and excuses and all these things, there's 1 man who doesn't mind lying and making an excuse.
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Manny: And.
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Jeezy: That is, Grandpa Joe. President Joe Biden.
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Jeezy: President Joe Biden released a statement on December first, st stating that today he signed a pardon for his son Hunter. That's right, folks. Hunter Biden is.
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Manny: Free man.
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Jeezy: Remade.
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Manny: Hey!
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Jeezy: And his daddy was so so nice enough.
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Jeezy: and loved him so much. He gave him a window that if he wanted to commit any illegal acts. He had about 24 to 48 h to do it. Once he signed that pardon.
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Manny: I am disappointed in Hunter Biden.
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Jeezy: Bro.
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Manny: And I'm not going to get into any of the crimes that he did. But I'm disappointed that he had. At least I'm guessing about 6 h.
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Jeezy: None.
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Manny: Man didn't try to steal the Declaration of Independence. He didn't try to ghost. Ride the whip outside the White House. He
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Manny: you got a couple hours. You got to do something a little bit reckless with it, with.
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Jeezy: I mean at least.
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Manny: No pardon, but I think it's wild.
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Jeezy: I would have been like Heath Ledger was in the batman hanging out that taxi.
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Manny: That wind whipping through my hair.
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Jeezy: I would have been Bruh, I would have ran through
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Jeezy: DC. Like Heath. Leisure was running through Gotham. I would have had everybody on alert. But you know this was this was not received well at all
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Jeezy: by, you know a lot of people, because, if you remember correctly.
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Jeezy: Joe Biden said that he blatantly came out and said that he was not going to pardon
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Jeezy: his son, and I don't know why he took the.
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Manny: Why did anyone believe? Well, no, no, even before that, why did anyone believe him?
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Jeezy: That's true. That's very true, Manny. That's very true. And and that's the point that I was going to make, because.
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Jeezy: 1st of all, forget what he said.
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Jeezy: I think as a as a father
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Jeezy: that if they have a chance to do something to help their so their child.
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Jeezy: and they believe in their heart of hearts that what the child has done, or or the crimes that they're asking answering to.
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Jeezy: does not reflect who the child is. Now.
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Jeezy: we would do the same thing.
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Jeezy: I believe that if one of my kids were getting charged with something that they did. I'm gonna say, 5 years ago, and I know that you know they're they're in a position now, where I don't believe in my heart of heart that they're going to do this.
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Jeezy: I probably would do the pardon, too. Bro.
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Manny: I mean, I concur with all of that.
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Manny: The the issue that I have with the partner? Well, first, st
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Manny: I don't know why it's still again. I don't know why anyone was shocked that he did it like cause. That's that's pretty wild.
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Manny: Second off my my issue comes with his statement within the buy within the.
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Manny: That.
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Manny: hey? This was a a political yeah, I don't remember the exact word. But this a political wish. Witch hunt trying to get at him through his family.
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Manny: Time out. 1st of all, 1st of all.
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Manny: shouldn't even be using the word witch hunt at all.
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Manny: Capacity. Second point, this was run by your Department of Justice. They had to sign off on all this
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Manny: 3rd of all, that man did everything that he was convicted of.
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Manny: He didn't pay them taxes.
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Jeezy: Nope, he lied all that good.
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Manny: Lied on that gun application. He did that. It was him. This wasn't a political witch hunt.
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Manny: Your son did something illegal and got caught and got going.
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Manny: And that's where we are like
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Manny: that being said, I agree with you a thousand percent. As a father, I would have just stepped in and did the same thing. But something tells me that Joe, while he was saying that, had his hands in his pocket
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Manny: and crossed his fingers. And he's like, Oh, yeah, I have my fingers crossed like. But also
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Manny: let's also realize where where Uncle Joe is at that man done.
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Jeezy: He is.
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Manny: That man is done like y'all done kicked him out of his campaign. Then y'all said he can't. Then y'all said y'all got him on a show. And then he went on this show and did what any 80 something year old grandpa would do, and just start rambling, and he done said some wild things, and then y'all don't say, Hey, you can't come outside and play with us no more. Joe is done with us. Joe has checked out. And how? How else do we know that Joe's checked out? Because immediately after he's like Ukraine, let it fly. Let the chopper sing.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: Let the truck.
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Jeezy: What you got to do.
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Manny: This man is doing a press conference in the middle of the rainforest. What Joe has done.
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Manny: Joe was done said, I'm gonna look out for me and mine, and I'm gonna
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Manny: as soon as it's over. I'm hop on that Amtrak train down to Delaware, and I'm gonna go chill with my family.
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Jeezy: Bro. Did Joe really say screw America, Bro.
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Manny: Bro. I think he did, man, I think he's done. I think he's done. Man. We.
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Jeezy: You know who you blame the good old Nancy Pelosi.
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Manny: Sure.
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Jeezy: He said she was my dear friend, and look how she did me! You know what y'all talk about what they call them dark branded.
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Manny: You might.
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Jeezy: You gotta get dark branded now, but he ain't about to. He ain't about to let up, hey? Why, he giving them pardons out, though if he really want to get in with the black community he could free see murder right.
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Manny: So no, no, no, no, let's get into that. So one of the things that after this pardon, I was like, wait a second. I gotta. I gotta go dig into some some things. And I was listening to Roland Martin. And
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Manny: oh, man, I can't forget. I forgot her name.
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Manny: But there is a young lady who was on his show
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Manny: and Bet plus just released a movie about her. And I'm gonna think of this name at some point but either at some point in this podcast or later on. But she
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Manny: She was wrongly, not wrongly. Well, I don't know all the details, so I'll be very high level. But she was essentially wrongly convicted. Her boyfriend that she was in a relationship with at the time had been highly abusive, and basically, she got arrested. And they're like, Oh, well, you're here doing all this stuff. So we didn't give you 25 years.
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Manny: There are hundreds of thousands of stories of like that of people across the country.
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Jeezy: So I was like, Hmm.
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Manny: Joseph, how many people have you pardoned in your time?
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Jeezy: And jeez.
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Manny: I would like you to guess.
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Jeezy: Oh, really.
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Manny: How many in their 4 years?
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Manny: How many people have they pardoned? We'll start with a simpler question first.st Do you believe Joe Biden has pardoned more or fewer people than Donald Trump.
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Jeezy: I'm definitely going to say fewer.
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Manny: You are 1,000% right?
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Jeezy: Yeah, I'm definitely gonna say, fewer.
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Manny: Yep.
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Jeezy: If I had to put a number on it.
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Jeezy: I'ma, be honest with you. I feel like it's a single digit number.
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Manny: It's not a it's not a single digit, but it.
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Jeezy: Oh, okay.
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Manny: It's in the range.
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Jeezy: 12!
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Manny: No little bit higher, a little bit higher.
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Jeezy: 23.
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Manny: Oh, you're you're close! You're close.
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Jeezy: Oops!
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Manny: Up a little bit more.
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Jeezy: 26.
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Manny: Right there, right there. One more.
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Jeezy: 27.
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Manny: 27, Joe Biden.
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Jeezy: That's it.
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Manny: Since 2021 has pardoned 27 people
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Manny: in their 4 years. How many people do you think, Donald Trump pardoned.
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Jeezy: Oh, he got a he got a lot of criminal friends. So
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Jeezy: I got to take that into account.
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Jeezy: I'm gonna say, seventies, eighties.
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Manny: Now Donald Trump has pardoned in his 1st 4 years pardoned 143 people.
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Jeezy: Gut!
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Jeezy: Hey! Come on now, Joe.
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Manny: What are you doing like? That's my question like cool. So you you've now pardoned your son, that has clearly did everything that he was charged of.
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Jeezy: But the people that are wrongfully convicted that you have an opportunity to pardon those people
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Jeezy: you don't do it.
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Jeezy: Yep. He could have waited in he could have waited. Hunter ain't even sitting in jail like
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Jeezy: he could have waited and did this on the last day out.
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Manny: Right. And so I then went digging some more. I was like, well, how many? So the process to my understanding is, you're in the situation, and you submit an application to department adjustments to the pardon attorney for for clemency, or to commute the sentence as of September 16, th 2024.
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Manny: There are 9,009 people.
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Jeezy: Waiting.
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Manny: That have submitted applications, and we all know one of those names the the tiger Kang.
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Jeezy: Oh, bruh!
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Jeezy: So I would get comfortable.
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Manny: Right.
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Manny: But I'm just like, Okay, Joe, like, what are you going to do now?
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Manny: You you still got some time
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Manny: you? Are you going to pardon some more people.
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Manny: you know, because if you felt as though
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Manny: that your son was deserving of a pardon.
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Manny: then I can almost guarantee there's probably at least.
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Manny: I'm being conservative. 150 people of these 9,000 that were either wrongly convicted, or the judges and attorneys are just like, hey? They've done their time. Let's commute their sentences.
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Manny: I'm almost certain that there is a a very long list.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah.
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Manny: People that. And let's go. Let's let's keep going on that, Joe. You you are a devout Catholic man.
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Manny: Okay, are there some people with death sentences that deserve, you know, if you're truly going to be this pro-life person, then there are a lot of people on Death row that you should be commuting their sentences to life in prison.
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Manny: so that.
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Jeezy: Make sense.
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Jeezy: George W. Bush, Joe Biden is the lowest of the past 4 Presidents.
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Manny: Yes.
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Jeezy: I mean, I'm looking at these numbers.
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Manny: Hw. Have 77 lightning.
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Manny: Am I expecting him to do Eisenhower or Truman numbers? No, but Barack had.
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Jeezy: That's 2, 1.
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Manny: So it's like, what are what's going on here?
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Manny: But we'll see but again, no one should be surprised that this this happened
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Manny: again. I this that truly to to a point that you made, that would have been something that I would have done what he loses Presidential power on January 20, th
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Manny: at noon, that is, when it officially happens. You would have seen me out there at the inauguration with a piece of paper at 1158.
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Manny: And you know it's like, what did. What did President Wilder just hand to the that was my last thing.
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Jeezy: Got something for you.
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Manny: 3 300.
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Jeezy: And he.
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Manny: And he was set up to go to trial here in a little bit. But yeah, man.
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Manny: I think the outrage is somewhat faked
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Manny: on the Democratic side, because no one should have been surprised. But the flip side of this now is man. You know
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Manny: the most excited people that I would think probably exist right now is probably
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Manny: Oh, the rest of the Trump family.
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Manny: Don, Jr. About to go. Do all the cocaine in the world.
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Jeezy: Oh, Bro, they're gonna be a hinge. Bro.
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Manny: Oh, it's like, Oh, cool the precedent's been. And to be clear, Joe Biden is not the 1st president to
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Manny: pardon a member of their family. Yeah, trump did it with Ivanka's father-in-law.
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Jeezy: Yep clinton's done it. Who.
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Jeezy: I believe he is now the ambassador to France.
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Manny: You're trying. Yep, France!
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Jeezy: So I'm about to change my last name to trump.
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Manny: But hey, hey, Donnie! My name is Manny. Trump.
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Jeezy: Can I? Can I get some of those residuals that.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: The Trump Family, but.
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Manny: No one should be shocked by this.
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Jeezy: Not at all.
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Manny: From a from a father perspective. I'm happy that Joe was able to provide a second chance to his son.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: If if I'm.
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Jeezy: Your nose clean. Hunter.
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Manny: Bruh
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Jeezy: Literally. I figured.
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Manny: Yeah, please take notes, please.
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Manny: If I'm Hunter, I would have fallen on my knees and thank the Lord above.
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Jeezy: Megan.
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Manny: Second chance.
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Jeezy: Let me tell you, cause you was about to be.
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Manny: You about to eat a pickle.
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Jeezy: Well with that being said, since we want to talk about
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Jeezy: Pickles, you know what time it is, Manny.
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Manny: -Oh, we got your pick.
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Jeezy: Y'all.
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Manny: We got your pickle we got your pickle.
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Jeezy: We are at that point.
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Manny: Oh, man!
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Jeezy: That we all so dearly enjoy, which is our pickle of the week
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Jeezy: we got. There's so many options. Jeez.
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Jeezy: there's so many options. It's so hard, man it was that little rascal little clip where he's like I got 2 pickles. I had to get that for social media, brother. There's so many pickles, man, but our pickle of the week is going to be none other than Mr. Pete Hexep.
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Manny: Oh, oh, pistol! P.
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Jeezy: It's the P. Fighting Bro.
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Jeezy: Fighting man, he fighting to try to get through this this nomination. First, st it was reported that a letter, or email rather, from his mother, Miss Penelope.
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Jeezy: Give her some respect, Miss Penelope.
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Manny: Miss Penny.
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Jeezy: Miss Penny had sent an email, basically in a nutshell, talking about how horrible of a person, not how horrible of a son he is, but how horrible of a person
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Jeezy: that Pete was detailing, that he was an abuser. He was very manipulative, he was very degrading and abusive and manipulating to women, and she didn't have any good things to say. She later came out and apologized, but her apology did not entail her, saying that she.
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Manny: Was wrong for what she said.
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Manny: I said what I said.
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Jeezy: I was at that Nene Lee's clip. I said what I said.
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Jeezy: but her apology was that she hated that this was made public.
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Jeezy: and that was her apology. And this
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Jeezy: detail has been along with others, has been going crazy in the media when it regards to Pete and him trying to get this nomination. It's been said that he has an alcoholic problem.
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Jeezy: So how can he lead the the military when you know they may have to talk to him at 4 o'clock in the morning, and he's drunk off his tail.
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Jeezy: so they've thrown that out there, and he's gone up on Capitol Hill to try to rally some support. And of course you know who was there with him? None other than.
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Manny: Jd.
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Jeezy: Jd. Van Seyton, Bro.
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Manny: Got to. We see him. He's here. He's okay.
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Jeezy: We saw Jd. So so far since the election we've seen Jd. 3 times. I think it was with Matt Gaetz.
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Jeezy: with Pete Hedgeff, and then they he was in North Carolina. I want to say this past week, maybe this week. Yep. So you know Mr. Donnie is letting is letting him come out of hiding a little bit more, but not not too much for vice. President Musk, though you can't.
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Manny: Yay!
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Jeezy: Can't be saying too much more than vice. President Musk.
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Manny: You can't overstep. You can't overstep the boundaries of the order of operations here.
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Jeezy: Which which off topic. But if I'm Vic. Jd, I might feel some type of way, because I saw at Thanksgiving Trump, and must they dancing together side by side like Bro. I'm the Vice President.
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Manny: But he, Jd. Didn't even get the Franklin invite.
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Jeezy: He didn't, Bro. He wouldn't even.
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Manny: I'm saying what I said the other side. Right trump, said.
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Jeezy: No, I was like.
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Manny: The club.
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Jeezy: Trump said, no, I remember all that stuff you said before you got here.
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Jeezy: Stand on business. Stand on business. Yep, but but you know Pete has has pulled Jd. In to help him, and I have seen reports that even his own mother has called up to talk to certain Senators. Say, Hey, you know, my son, this and my son that, to try to kind of make it sound good for him. And President-elect Donald Trump has told him that
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Jeezy: keep fighting. We think we were thinking, at least, for now we were thinking he was going to get the Gates treatment. And he was going to basically say, Hey, look, yeah, it's time to. It's time to get your ball and go home. But but Trump is telling him to fight it out. So for now for now.
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Manny: We. We got a long time between now and confirmation hearings.
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Jeezy: A very long time, and there's other allegations and reports that have come out about Pete as well, that are just as damaging. But albeit allegations. But Pete is in a pickle man. He! I thought that I thought Matt Gaetz might have had a
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Jeezy: that's a pretty tough hill to climb, but it's Peace Mountain's getting a little tall, too.
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Manny: Well, let's be clear.
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Manny: you know. Gates's Hill to climb. Wasn't that high? Because no one expected him to be actually be able to climb that hill.
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Manny: something.
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Manny: Someone came up to me and said, Man, and we want you to climb mount, climb Mount Everest.
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Manny: Most of those people would just be shocked if I got to Nepal.
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Manny: But oh.
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Jeezy: Oh, you made it this way.
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Manny: Farm man, but where I think it's even worse, for Pete is is the sharks are starting to circle.
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Jeezy: -
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Manny: Because, you know, I've seen a couple people, especially old Desantis. He's coming. I'll run the Pentagon.
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Jeezy: Oh, boy!
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Manny: Hey, Donnie, hit me up. I'll run the Pentagon for you.
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Manny: Maybe there's when the blood is in the water.
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Manny: Them sharks will circle.
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Jeezy: Man ain't nobody trying to see Donnie up there, man. He he gonna take too long to get through clearance when he got to take them shoes off, and they see that he got them stilts in there.
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Manny: The stilt.
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Jeezy: Yeah, they're gonna see them stilts in there, and it's gonna take him too long to go through security. But.
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Manny: That we ain't got time, man, go ahead and get him some crocs.
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Jeezy: Yeah. So platform crocs is wild. But Bro, he he's in a he's in a bit of a pickle man. They're trying to do everything
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Jeezy: possible to get to get him through
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Jeezy: but there's as we've said here on the pod, I'll never gonna make it.
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Jeezy: It's gonna be all for, not because he gonna be sitting right back. He might lose his job at Fox, because they've been putting some pressure on Fox, too, like, Hey, y'all ain't. Y'all ain't out of this, either. Y'all telling me y'all ain't know all this stuff about him.
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Manny: This, your man's.
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Jeezy: If I was pulling a who? Who me?
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Manny: Cliff.
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Jeezy: Don't worry.
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Jeezy: Oh, no, no, no! We knew all that. Good Bro.
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Jeezy: Brother Pete's in a in a bit of a bind here he's in a pickle. So we are going to see how that pans out. And honestly, we can make almost quite a few of the nominations, pickles, because it's pretty wild, man.
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Manny: But you got some pressure.
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Jeezy: Oh, oh, Cash! Patel! Wild, too, but we gonna leave him alone.
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Manny: Right. We'll we'll see him in 3 years. When when that seat finally becomes open.
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Jeezy: Bruh, and well, if he make it, because you know him and
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Jeezy: him and Don Jr. Allegedly lived around white ponies.
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Manny: But besides, okay, trump.
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Jeezy: Handed out pardons like a like draw. Twos right.
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Manny: And honestly, I do.
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Jeezy: It would.
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Manny: You know what I mean? That's that's what Joe said. He said he.
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Jeezy: If you give me a 10 year unconditional, I'm looking back at all the stuff that I actually didn't do that. I'm like, you know what I should have just went ahead and done it.
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Manny: But.
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Jeezy: I should have went ahead and done it.
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Manny: Covered it all, you know.
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Jeezy: But hey! That that is our pickle
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Jeezy: Willie seemed to make it through the door.
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Jeezy: So
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Jeezy: with that being said, we will move on to our final segment of the show, and that is our spotlight of the week. And we actually got spotlights.
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Manny: Man. We were talking about this before, and
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Manny: These could have all been their own standalone episodes.
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Manny: These could have all been their own pickles. But we're going to try to cover it at a very high level, because the situations are steadily evolving.
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Manny: So I'm not going to go into all of them in detail. But we'll hit a couple of them real quick. 1st off South Korea.
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Manny: And then they Congress came in and said, Hold up what? No, that's that's not how we do things here.
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Manny: And then he came out a couple hours there. It's like, yeah, they right we, we not doing martial law.
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Manny: And then they try to impeach him.
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Manny: And all of the linked party was like, Yeah, okay, we. But we're not about to impeach the man.
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Manny: So some some stuff is in the water. So that's the 1st thing.
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Manny: Then, on top of that, you know, we still got the steady situation over in Ukraine and Russia.
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Manny: That that playing out with the North Korean troops now addicted to porn.
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Manny: Okay, cool.
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Manny: That's all right.
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Jeezy: The boys got away from North Korea, got a taste of freedom, and say, Hey, bro! They pulled like my Homie did at Harlem nights. Call your get your mom on the phone.
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Manny: I ain't ever.
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Jeezy: Coming back home.
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Manny: So they don't hit that. So that's all happening down there.
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Manny: Then you go down to Israel and Gaza and them trying to get
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Manny: everything going on with that you got the deal that with Lebanon that looks like it's still holding, even though they're still yelling back and forth.
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Manny: Then on top of that we, they, Israel, still lighting up Gaza
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Jeezy: Number one.
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Manny: Then you go up to Romania.
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Manny: who's just been like oh, no! Oh! Who just got through their Presidential election, and of which that Supreme Court.
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Jeezy: Be it.
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Manny: They thought they did. So. Now we're gonna run this back. Nope, Nope.
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Manny: so I don't know what y'all what y'all doing. But y'all need to stop.
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Manny: They!
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Jeezy: Which is interesting with the Romania one because they put a halt to it and basically sent it back because they're saying that Russia has been interfering
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Jeezy: in the election, and if I heard a detail correctly, the guy who is like who basically was like a nobody that made it to the second round.
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Jeezy: This dude ain't spend no money. Oh, being away 15!
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Jeezy: He ain't got no, he ain't got no campaign budget. He ain't got no homie, was shopping at Costco.
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Manny: You can go picking the paper towel.
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Jeezy: A happened to stop and got him a hot dog and a pretzel, and now he made it to the second round. They like hold on! Hold on! Hold on!
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Manny: Oh, sorry!
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Jeezy: We ain't stupid. He is very pro Russia and wants, and he wants that whole Ukraine best like done, too. So that's that little bit I saw on that. But go ahead, brother.
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Manny: So you you got that popping off. And then the big one from that that's happening is Syria.
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Manny: Syria. And we'll spend a little bit talking about this, but before we head out Syria has been under the Assad family rule for many years now.
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Manny: People have been not too happy. But the the Assad regime has been largely propped up by Iran and Russia.
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Manny: Well, the
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Manny: the oh, man, the what do you call? I don't even know what to call them, because brain brain is resetting. But basically, they said they fed up the resistance. We'll call it the resistance.
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Jeezy: Yeah. The resistance.
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Manny: Has been storming through Syria.
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Manny: Take catching these new cities like Ass Kesham was catching pokemon.
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Jeezy: Brother like a a mighty roaring wind.
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Manny: But Ukraine, not Ukraine. Russia and Iran tried to help out, and sent some missiles
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Manny: to try to be like, Hey, hey, y'all stop! That ain't stop them.
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Jeezy: Nope.
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Manny: So as of Sunday.
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Manny: These people, the the resistance has taken Damascus and Assad said, Whoops!
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Manny: I'm out! Y'all have fun with this, and has fled the country and said, Y'all can run it now.
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Manny: Yeah. So now, after 13 years of civil war, their government has collapsed.
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Jeezy: It has collapsed.
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Manny: And now they will have to essentially figure out where they go from here.
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Jeezy: I saw that the Prime Minister actually stayed back, because he, along with his team, will work with whatever transition will take will take place. So in Assad's whereabouts, according to President Biden.
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Jeezy: are unknown.
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Jeezy: Homie homie, with.
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Manny: That man isn't. That man is in Russia. That man is in Russia. Look! Come on.
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Jeezy: I was gonna say he was in Bali with Russell Simmons, but.
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Manny: Okay.
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Jeezy: Hmm.
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Manny: That so here, here, I think, was where everyone should be thankful that at least this happened fast
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Manny: is that we, the the casualties for innocent civilians is now way is, is far, far different than had this been a long drawn out battle. Yeah, so I'm thankful from that standpoint.
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Manny: you know, and then
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Manny: Syria is going to need some help. In terms of how they get up their direction, forward and support. And it will be interesting how the larger
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Manny: international international support will kind of play out.
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Manny: Because now you got you have a new leadership, you know, who
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Manny: ultimately, with everything happening in the world right now, whose side of this new leadership gonna go on, you know, is it gonna be more Western focus, or you know more? China, Ukraine, the sorry China Russia focus man. I'm already starting to Count Ukraine back over to Russia. But
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Manny: so.
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Jeezy: My beta in a couple of.
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Manny: Right man, but it
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Manny: it was a very, very fast process, and I won't say fast process, because they've been there for 13 years. But from the 1st the 1st cities they started taking over to the last ones.
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Jeezy: Yeah. It was moving pretty quick.
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Manny: But then also you got you got Iran. Iran's down bad, too, because them were your boys.
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Manny: you know. So you they've lost a lot over these last couple of years. Sorry? Not in the last couple of last couple of months. So how is Iran? Viewed on a standpoint, you know.
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Manny: All questions that we are going to be watching here at the pod.
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Jeezy: Yeah, man, it sounds like the the world's on fire, man. There's a lot going on in the world, man, we have a lot going on domestically here.
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Jeezy: With our transition, and you know the things that are going on respective to our country. And then you look at how that plays out, and how that affects what things are going to look like, you know, overseas. And even, you know, in in with Mexico and Canada. You know, we've seen some some bit of you know, riffraff going on between. You know the Us. Canada and
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Jeezy: Mexico, I believe that's all. Trump, said that he. You know he.
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Manny: Be our 51st State.
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Jeezy: He might make Canada. That's a big state.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Manny: That's the disrespect I'm like. Come on now for the disrespect of multiple. Not only
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Manny: all of Canada. 1st of all, at minimum Canada should be 5 States, and then we also not going to act like we ain't got Puerto Rico. That should have been a State by now.
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Jeezy: Puerto Rico, like Hey.
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Manny: Hey? What about a what.
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Jeezy: But I don't. What about me, too.
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Manny: We want to do this.
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Jeezy: You ain't gotta fight Canada. You can just. We'll be 51.st
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Manny: Right. We'll sign them right. We'll sign today. And then you got DC, hold on. We can't forget about DC, they're like, wait a second.
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Jeezy: Man, listen.
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Manny: We'll be a state, too.
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Jeezy: I want DC. To be a state so bad, so that when I go there they will take down all of these traffic, these stop these stoplight cameras.
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Jeezy: because, since they don't get Federal funding like they like, they need to. As a State, they got cameras on every single.
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Manny: Dream, corner.
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Jeezy: And they making bank by taking taking everybody money. Because if you if you go through and it's yellow and they turn red, that's a
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Jeezy: take it, I'm saying.
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Manny: The. The one thing that I'll remind our use our listeners about is the one thing I'm not worried about is that a war happening with a foreign power here in the United States.
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Manny: There there was once a foreign general that said, there will never be
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Manny: a war in the United States with another country.
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Manny: because there is a gun behind every blade of grass.
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Jeezy: -
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Manny: So you know.
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Jeezy: Hey, babe!
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Manny: And you know, so I think they're just plotting that we take ourselves out. But this is.
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Manny: we got a whole lot going on
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Manny: of the year like, and some of it we just don't have time to talk about. You know. We ain't got time to talk about the political ramifications of what happened in the unfortunate situation with the united healthcare CEO. But that's a whole thing that we'll see how that plays out. But.
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Jeezy: Yeah. Man.
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Manny: Yeah. Them them be our spotlights of the week.
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Jeezy: There they are. There's enough to keep a spotlight on. So we will see how these things play out. And you guys know that here at the pod, however, they play out. We will give you details on what we think and how we see those things
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Jeezy: transpiring and affecting us. So with that being said, that is, episode 12, season one, the partner, politics, podcast thank you for listening and tuning in. We're so thankful for the time that you've spent with us, man, you got anything for the people.
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Manny: And nothing else. Right now we will see you guys next week.
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Jeezy: We'll see you guys next week if nobody loves you. Just know we do. Here.
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Manny: And the politics.
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Jeezy: Cast take care, people.
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Manny: Bye.