Pelosi to Patel: Second Chances and Political Missteps

In this high-energy episode of Pardon the Politics, Jeezy and Manny dive into Biden’s historic mass clemency, unpacking the winners, the losers, and the controversy surrounding his choices. They discuss the fallout from Mitch McConnell’s latest stumble, Nancy Pelosi’s tumble, and the growing call for term limits in Congress. Plus, Tulsi Gabbard finds herself in a pickle as she fights for a top Trump administration spot. And why is everyone talking about Biden tuning into the pod? Don’t miss this hilarious and thought-provoking breakdown of the week’s hottest political topics.

Transcript

Jeezy: Hello, world, and welcome to pardon the politics podcast season one episode 13. I am your co-host, jeezy along with my partner in politics, manny Manny, how you doing today? Brother.
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Manny: We back.
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Jeezy: Hey!
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Manny: Hey, number 13.
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Jeezy: Number 30. Look, hey, man, we just Friday, the 13th just passed. Episode 13. Coincidence, maybe.
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Manny: I don't. I don't know.
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Jeezy: For our tinfoil hat. Community out there. Is there something to it?
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Jeezy: Hey, man, it's great to be back. Welcome listeners! Welcome listeners to this episode. As always, we want to thank you guys for tuning in. We thoroughly enjoy our community, our growing community here, pardon the politics, so continue to share, continue to listen, continue to like, and thank you for tuning in. So we we got a we got a pretty pretty good episode.
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Manny: Yeah, man, we we pretty stacked. 1 1 thing I want to call out what we're not going to be talking about today.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: Is, we're not going to be talking about the drones in New Jersey. One of our listeners hit me up like, Hey, you guys gonna talk about that this week.
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Manny: No, no, not not until we know more. Yeah, you know, as far as we know, there, this is a whole government program.
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Manny: But look! They told us not to worry. So that's going to be the extent that we talk about it. They told us not to worry right now, now we're skeptics.
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Manny: We we trust government, but you know we we always got that side eye. But as right now we that's not topic. This week, we got other things to talk about.
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Jeezy: Yeah, but well, the only thing I will say to that is that President-elect trump did suggest that it was possibly mcdonald drones that were sending meals to Chris.
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Manny: Why, he's why he's still mad at Chris, Christie, man.
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Manny: and it's wild that it's Mcdonald's, because I have 1st hand
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Manny: and seen some of Donald Trump's like teams, orders to Mcdonald's, and they're wild.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Manny: They're wild. So I'm just like, come on, man, if this is not the pie calling the kettle black with Mcdonald's man, let let that man enjoy the mcrib is back. Let that man enjoy his mcrib in peace.
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Jeezy: Man they talking about some of them drones the size of like cars, brother like. If Chris Christie got
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Jeezy: got a got a catered order for 4,000 dropping in on the drone. That's wild, Bro.
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Manny: Trying to keep those fries hot.
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Jeezy: Hey, Bro, one fry one fry will feed them all. Bro, so he's trying. But but yeah, man, we're not gonna hit on that. But we got a plenty more that we.
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Manny: Plenty more to talk about.
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Jeezy: The 1st thing on the docket for today is Manny. I believe that Biden might be tuning into the podcast brother.
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Manny: And if so, you know, we do have listeners in Delaware. So you know, you know, President President Biden welcome, welcome. We appreciate you taking the time out of your week.
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Jeezy: To lose
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Jeezy: to the boys here on the pod, and if at any point you want to join us on the pod, talk to the people. The doors are always open.
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Jeezy: sir.
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Manny: Always open. Come on, by.
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Jeezy: As they say, the doors are part of politics, it swings on welcoming hinges. My brother.
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Manny: But now you might get fried up a little, but you know we we got the jokes.
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Jeezy: Come prepared to have them coals raked up under you now, but I believe he's listening to the pie band because he went to
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Jeezy: work on this list of people that he has pardoned and commuted. It was reported that roughly 1,540 people, whose sentences were commuted or pardoned by President Biden, happened on Thursday, which made the largest single day act in modern history.
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Jeezy: That is a.
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Manny: Look, man, that's a lot of people.
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Jeezy: He went from what we reported last episode like 27 people.
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Manny: 27 pardons to like. Here, you guys go doubled that number easily in pardons and clemency.
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Manny: Good, I mean. Look, it's Christmas holiday. So congrats to all those people who get to go home with their families just in time for Christmas.
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Manny: But this list was not without its commentary and problems.
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Manny: And you know, if you look through the list.
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Manny: there's a lot of names. So you know, Jeez and I spent a lot of time kind of going through all of this
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Manny: and and reading up on some of these. And I'm gonna be honest.
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Manny: there's a lot of names on that list. And I did not get the opportunity to go through all of them. But
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Manny: we're gonna talk about a couple of the of the big ones.
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Manny: first, st let's hop into the one that I actually think is.
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Manny: no, no, we'll do that one second. First, st we'll hop into to one of the minor ones. So.
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Jeezy: Before you do that, brother, let me let me say this for our listeners. I want us to do our due diligence. I want us to 1st tell our listeners what the difference is between
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Jeezy: a pardon and commute, because this list isn't just completely full pardons or full commutes. So with that a pardon just so, our listeners understand, is a complete forgiveness for the crime effectively erasing the legal consequences, and with a pardon.
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Jeezy: It does not erase the conviction itself, but it does restore some civil rights, such as voting or holding office. But a commute is totally different. It just reduces the severity of the sentence without nullifying the conviction.
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Jeezy: So you know your prison term might be shortened, or, if you're, you know, on death row or getting a death sentence, then it could be changed to a life imprisonment. But, unlike a pardon, the commute does not restore your civil rights at all, so I want our listeners to understand that.
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Manny: Well, and we'll go. I'll go a little bit deeper on that. Pardon is a type of clemency.
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Manny: So
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Manny: if you look at the types of Clemncies, there's 4 pardon which which Jesus talked about commutations which is from my understanding. The bulk of this list again reduces the severity of punishment. So let's say you were. You were in there to do 50 years, and right now you had 25. They've commuted your sentence to either. Hey? You can get out right now, or maybe like, Hey, in a couple weeks you can get out. There's a reprieve that temporarily delays the execution of a sentence
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Manny: so kind of like. Just pause, chill out before you guys flow back in, and amnesty is broad forgiveness granted to a group of individuals or specified offenses. So
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Manny: you saw amnesty is really from the standpoint when Biden earlier this year, for the marijuana offenses in Federal marijuana offenses. He did amnesty across the board for that, for from a Federal stance which largely just impacted. DC,
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Manny: yeah.
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Manny: So no, I think it was good. We hit that, you know. Make sure everyone's up to par. But there were a couple on there that were real questionable. The 1st one I'll call out is he gave clemency to Rita Crundwell for those of you unfamiliar with Rita.
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Manny: Man. She she was moving that money man.
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Jeezy: My moving at work.
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Manny: So in 2012 she pled guilty, too, embezzling
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Manny: 54 million dollars, and what is considered to be one of the largest cases of municipal fraud in the United States.
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Manny: All right. So so before we go into like, how I feel about that. 1st of all, Dixon, I don't. I don't roughly know. Oh, no! 15,000. Sorry. Dixon is a town of 15,000 people.
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Manny: How y'all not notice 54 million dollars is missing over the course of the year, like.
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Manny: How are you not?
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Manny: Ugh!
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Manny: That's wild. That's a lot of money like. I
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Manny: would hope that in the city of Raleigh that I live in that they would notice that over the course of the year, like, because I can't envision that she was there long enough to like quietly slide out, and maybe a couple 1,000 at a time over a course of a year.
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Manny: And hide that
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Manny: But that's pretty wild. To to which the city manager, Danny Longo, said, when I heard the news I was completely shocked in disbelief. I was outraged, and felt a complete sense of betrayal from the Federal justice system.
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Jeezy: I bet you were.
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Manny: And I think this is also a key call out, Yeah, as well as president. You have this power. But this does not impact State.
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Manny: These are all all Federal convictions. So I think we've talked about it before. Donald Trump is still under investigation for the situation down in Georgia. Those are state charges, the issues in New York. Those are State charges, so he can't do anything.
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Jeezy: For those States. So all of these actions were done federally. Yeah,
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Manny: So that that was one of the big ones, but the the biggest one. And I'm
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Manny: I'm just kind of in shock about this one is. What's what was his name again? Let me pull it up, Michael Conan. Did I say his name right?
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Manny: I think it's Michael. I pronounce it as Konahan. But I could be wrong. Michael C. Mike, Mc.
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Manny: Mc.
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Manny: And I'm.
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Jeezy: This wasn't this was this one was.
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Manny: Read the room, man.
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Jeezy: Yeah, this one was not received well, at all. A lot of people spoke out, and he was from the northeastern Pennsylvania area, and a lot of people
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Jeezy: spoke out about this, and really in part because well, 1st of all, our listeners understand, he was sentenced to 17 years in prison for helping orchestrate one of the worst judicial scandals in Us. History. Basically, it was a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks, and there was. I can't remember the family and the gentleman's name.
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Jeezy: but because of what he had done. One of the the kids, once they had, I believe it was once they had were released from from jail, actually committed suicide, and it was one of the kids that he sent away. You know that in this, in this scheme that he was running.
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Jeezy: So this this was was really, really, I believe, even the Governor even spoke out about how they did not agree with this decision by President Biden.
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Manny: Well, let's take a step back like 1st off. 17 years like that's real weak.
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Jeezy: That is very weird.
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Manny: He got a real gift of a present in that sentence alone like to to see what they did for 1st time. Offenses like truancy. They were sending people here for writing parody websites and minor fights.
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Jeezy: My.
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Manny: It was ridiculous. And when you see the impact of the criminal justice system on anybody, let alone minors who, at such a young and fragile age to put them into the system, whether they did it or not. So you know, we're not here to talk about like
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Manny: the amount of people that kids who have gone or are part of the criminal justice system. But you're talking about, you're you're taking kids in general, going to jail.
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Manny: Yeah, 1516, 17. That does something profound to.
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Jeezy: Good.
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Manny: That permanently alters a child's life. You know you mentioned the suicide, you know. You also got to look at recidivism rate rates of graduation. You've now permanently impacted these these kids ability to be able to get into college. Yeah? So
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Manny: you should, for the purposes of making sure that we're not doing this again.
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Manny: 17 years is weak, is real, weak, and for what he was charged he initially pleaded guilty.
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Jeezy: To one count of racketeering conspiracy as part of a plea deal. Blair withdrew his plea.
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Manny: And he also did a 4. He forfeited assets because of the scheme.
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Manny: This is trash man.
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Jeezy: Yeah, you know.
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Manny: S.
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Jeezy: And to that point he even, and it really bothered me, because even with his his comment, and he did, you know, plead guilty to a certain extent, but his comment was that the you know the system is not corrupt. I was corrupt.
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Jeezy: which is some level of accountability.
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Manny: But you part of the system like.
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Jeezy: But exactly exactly. And it just it further made me think about just you know
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Jeezy: how there's so much distrust in our system.
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Jeezy: And you know, just to have something like this that has taken place, and the effect that it's had on the on these individuals and their families. And then for Biden to go and pardon the guy
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Jeezy: I just I wrestled with. What?
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Jeezy: What was the reason? Why did you feel it was necessary to pardon this individual. What message did you? Did you even think about what message this was sending about you and your administration? Or is it could have been like how we said last week in the episode is biden and screw everything, and it just is what it is. But I just couldn't understand
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Jeezy: why. What was the purpose that I could think of probably
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Jeezy: a hundred people that you could have put in this position that actually deserved it. But this individual certainly didn't.
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Jeezy: in my opinion.
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Manny: And and again, I think you call out
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Manny: something that's really important here. So.
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Manny: but one of the things that Biden denoted is that
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Manny: he was looking at, who were nonviolent offenders, and like, I think, this walks a very, very fine line of a violent offending. But people who were already, you know, in home confinement or other other conditions, because of they're not being held in facilities.
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Manny: And like I get that. But at the heart of it. What I don't know and I would love more clarity on is, did Biden just make these decisions, or was he? I'm assuming my assumption here is that he was put, that he was provided a list of people that the Federal office of clemency kind of kind of review over and make a call about whether they should be released or not.
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Manny: So I'm wondering if Biden just gave them the criteria, they said, here's the list, and he just rubber stamped it.
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Manny: If if he, if he, if that's how it went down, then that's trash.
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Jeezy: That's very.
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Manny: That's that's real trash, like. But again, I don't have a whole lot of details until how you get on this list. Whether he he just provided the list. But, like.
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Manny: you know, I guess congratulations you you pardoned somebody who was a worse human being, or did worse charges than your son like. But this this was a trash move.
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Jeezy: Yeah. And I'm and I just again, I just
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Jeezy: I don't. I don't know how you get on this list. I don't know what the criteria is exactly like you said.
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Jeezy: but
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Jeezy: this had to be, and I'm almost kind of in the mindset, or at least I'm hopeful that this was the case that he just sent a criteria that gave him the names that he said, okay, cool. Because if you tell me that you looked over this.
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Manny: And said, Yeah, he.
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Jeezy: Yeah, said, yeah, him. Oh, Bro, you trash, you real trash for that.
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Manny: But the the one question around all of this, that.
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Manny: That I have is
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Manny: you? You freed him. But you ain't free, you, ain't they? They ain't free freed Tiger King, my man down here in Butner
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Manny: that all that man wanted to do was raise his cat. Guys. I'm joking. I'm very aware of the the charges against yeah. But
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Manny: there's a lot of questions. I I would have to think that, you know we covered it last time. There was 7, 7 to 9,000 people who have applied for clemency. Yeah, if if you were not in this number, but in that number you got it. This got to be a rough Christmas for you. Yeah.
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Jeezy: I'm wondering, is he done? That was a lot of people. And it's obviously like I said at the beginning, is the largest single day act in modern day history. I'm just wondering. Is he done? I'm wondering, you know, does biden here a little bit of the noise, and you know some of the backlash of the people that he's that he's pardoned or commuted. And he says, Okay, well, there's there's more that I need to do. Or you know. Maybe there's a round 2 to this.
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Jeezy: but I think that it could have been it could have been better man, I think that if he really, truly
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Jeezy: as far as his legacy wanted to, you know. Say, Hey, I did this. I did that. I did this. I think that this could have in this area. He could have been a lot better, because all I see, you know, I'm grateful for some that were able to be commuted or pardoned. But I just feel like when you pair this with Hunter Biden. And then you pair with, you know, Michael, here, I'm just
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Jeezy: yeah. I just feel like this was.
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Manny: It hurt. It doesn't make sense.
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Jeezy: Yeah, it doesn't make sense. It doesn't. It doesn't make sense at all. So I hope there's a round 2 of some that actually makes sense trump even said, Hey, well, why are you at it? Why don't you go ahead and hit the January 6th hostages.
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Manny: Man. Wait, but hold on, we we gonna put in PIN that come right back to it. To give a little bit more detail. So
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Manny: 39, the 39 people were pardoned, were primarily convicted of nonviolent offenses, including drug related crimes. These pardons are part of an effort to address, sentencing sentencing disparities, and offer a second chance to rehabilitate individuals
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Manny: in regards to commutations.
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Manny: These were Federal inmates who had been released to home confinement during COVID-19. Under the Cares Act. This action aims to reduce the prison overcrowding and continue the efforts initiated during the pandemic to mitigate health risks. So again.
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Manny: That's a weak criteria. Yeah, if that's just all the criteria that you were looking at. Yeah, like.
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Manny: Oh, oh, okay, but yeah. But coming back to the the new individuals who are probably under a level of pressure. Right now.
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Manny: it's those January 6th writers who who are currently sitting.
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Jeezy: No brother, brother, a hostages. They.
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Manny: Sorry hostages, hostages as incoming President has no hostages, and according to reports around that there is a lawyer who had reached out to the trump administration. They're like, Yo, you said, this is happening the first, st
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Manny: and he your 1st day in office. So we out day one, we out day 2.
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Manny: Hello, Hello, Mr trump! Mr trump! Can you hear me
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Manny: do? Apparently it's been radio silent, and it's been real murky. So.
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Jeezy: At the words of Drake text, get green when things get a little dark, don't they?
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Manny: Right and green. They are good, Brother Green, they are.
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Jeezy: You know what that would be insane in in our season? One of Fafo.
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Jeezy: He's our
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Jeezy: said that I don't know if them gas prices gonna come down. I don't know them grocery bills gonna come down. And now, you know, he's been at rallies, having. They have, like a moment of silence for the January 6.th Hostages for him to not stand on that promise would be
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Jeezy: the one of the one of the many broke neck brand.
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Jeezy: Come, bring home.
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Manny: On brand own brand and broke Neckish of him, and to that point I think the
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Manny: trump is setting himself up for a very busy
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Manny: January 20th like that wouldn't have been me.
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Manny: That wouldn't be me. I'm I'm going back to the White House.
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Jeezy: This sounds like a day. 2, some of this stuff sounds like day 2 problems.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah.
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Manny: Like you, you trying to seal. You want to seal the border. You want to stop funding. You want to all this on day one like.
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Manny: Do you still remember? Do you still remember where the bathroom is in the White House?
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Jeezy: Trump said, if I work now I could play later I got
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Jeezy: I get it all done now.
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Manny: I can chill. I'm gonna go
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Manny: another 3 and a half years. I could just sit back and not do nothing
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Manny: and let me let me go ahead and do my homework.
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Manny: So I got more time to play the game.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir.
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Manny: So this will. This will be interesting as it evolves. I think I'm in the same boat as you that I would hope to see another wave of clemency for deserving individuals that are truly deserving because the the list is very.
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Manny: Listen.
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Manny: Bruh, it's not listing. And and one thing I want to call out to to the follow to our people who listen to. The last week we had talked about, I talked about someone who was incorrectly convicted, and I didn't remember her name.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah.
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Manny: Like, I denoted. 15 min after we finished recording. I was like, that's the name, but her name is Kembe sweet Kembe Smith parody.
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Manny: and there is a documentary that is out
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Manny: on bet plus that covers her entire story. But yeah, I wanted to provide that name to the, to individuals hopefully. I'll get some time in between now and then, now, and I would say the end of the year. I'm going to give myself some grace and say, the end of the year.
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Manny: But she has a there's a movie coming out, called Kembe, where she is a executive producer on that. So hopefully, I'll get get some time to check that out. But I encourage everyone else to do that. She currently runs a charitable foundation that is really about raising awareness to certain social issues around drug abuse, violence aids, teen pregnancy and abuse. But I wanted to call that out, you know, I like to close the loop for our listeners.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm gonna have to check that out. Man, I'm definitely gonna check that out myself. Man, appreciate that man. Well, we'll see what happens with these biden pardons, and we will obviously, as always, here at the we will keep you guys posted.
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Manny: Be here watching.
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Jeezy: Now, while we talk about pardons, and we talk about some stuff that doesn't make sense, or it could make sense. That leads me over to our next segment, which is the FBI director, has resigned man. Christopher Wray has resigned as FBI director, and it was
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Jeezy: a bit of a shock to me at first, st but then obviously, like always, once I get over the initial shock, you know I think about it. And I'm like.
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Jeezy: you know, sense
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Jeezy: makes sense man. So it was reported that he has indeed said that he will be resigning at the end of the Biden Administration. So once Biden is out he's out, and I think this makes a lot of sense, because let's be honest. Trump was going. Trump has already said that he wants to get rid of him and replace him with his nominee. Kash Patel, and we know how Trump is. Trump is a
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Jeezy: absolute troll, and he was going to do everything possible that I'm sure of to make
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Jeezy: Ray's life or his just duty to doing his his job as FBI director. A complete living hell. So he announced. His decision was a step down shortly before President Trump's inauguration, likely anticipating a forced removal as part of the new Administration's plan to reconstruct the FBI. So what you think about it, Manny.
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Manny: Man. I think
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Manny: I wasn't as shocked that he stepped down. I was more disappointed because internally, in my soul this was going to be a fun. 3 years.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Manny: Of watching them to fight, because you guys remember, in 2017 Trump appointed him. He did. And you.
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Jeezy: It was after James Comey right.
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Manny: Yep, after Comey got the old heave. Ho! You know they brought him in, and I get. And what's nice about the FBI is? It's a 10 year, you know, appointment a. I think it makes sense to have that consistency across your your
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Manny: one of your major departments and not have that impacted by elections, especially because there is congressional approval.
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Manny: But
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Manny: you know, big C, he's 57 man, yeah, like, and that it was going to be, you know, on top of an already stressful job
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Manny: to have to fight Trump day in and day out for the next 3 years until you resign.
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Manny: you know why? Why, you know the flip side in my head. I believe every President deserves the right, by winning election to have an administration that they get to select.
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Manny: But I'm disappointed that you know, we're not gonna watch this, but it makes a lot of sense at 57. Having done this for years. Yeah, yeah.
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Jeezy: But yeah.
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Jeezy: but but the thing that just, I guess, bothers me more about it is the way in which
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Jeezy: you know the chaos will ensue in appointing someone to this position, you know, with Cash. Patel, you know, oftentimes. And and and Ray came in to what was a highly criticized position. Of being considered as weaponizing to a degree.
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Jeezy: And you know that he I really I want to commend him because he really worked hard to try to get things back in the center, because we know that it was a complete chaos with how things went down with with Comey and
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Jeezy: you know, Chris coming in here and trying to really get this cleared up, but even still after him, coming in and doing.
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Jeezy: being criticized about the department in this direction, and I feel like he really did a did his best job to try to get the priorities of the Bureau to align to what it was once known for and what it should be. But it leads me to question that if we're trying to get the FBI
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Jeezy: back down the middle.
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Jeezy: How do we expect that to happen with someone like cash potatoes.
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Manny: A firebomb, thrower.
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Jeezy: Yeah, I mean, really, how do you expect? Because, you know.
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Jeezy: if if the goal is to
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Jeezy: realign the Bureau's priorities to where they should be. How is that going to happen with someone like Cash Patel, who we know is sitting right in Trump's back pocket, you know. How do we know that he's an individual that will do what's best for the Bureau. What's best for the country as far as running that department to the standards of which America should have it at versus doing the bidding of Donald Trump.
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Manny: Man great points, great great points, and and my honest answer to that is, oh, no!
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Manny: Oh, no, you know she used to come on here. You ask real thought, provoking answers. And I'm like, Yeah, oh, yeah, I got. I got an answer for that.
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Manny: I don't know. I here, here's what I will say
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Manny: if you look at the list of people who have been selected by trump
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Manny: to to be appointed to the these positions.
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Manny: Kash Patel is not the most unqualified.
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Manny: you know he does have. He? He's been a public defender. He's worked in the the Department of Justice. He worked. He's worked as a senior counsel for the House Intelligence Committee. He was on the National Security Council. He was the Director of National Intelligence and the Chief. He was also the Chief of Staff to the Acting Secretary of Defense, Christopher Miller. Like there, there have been far worse.
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Manny: you know, people nominated for for positions looking at you, Pete.
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Manny: So from that, I'm like, Oh, okay, you know, maybe it could be worse. But you know now you do have someone in here who now knows
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Manny: how to navigate this system.
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Manny: I don't know. I don't know. Now.
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Manny: I think one thing that does make this very interesting, and how this plays out, and I have to believe that some of this was planned and kind of like thought through was the fact that
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Manny: and this is my understanding is that with Christopher Ray stepping down as soon as Biden leaves
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Manny: with the nomination. Kash Patel can't be made acting director because one of the things that I believe could have happened is, had Ray sat there.
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Manny: Kash Patel could have been appointed as like the the You know deputy director of the FBI, and as that type of employee, as soon as Ray would have been pushed out.
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Manny: he would have gotten appointed to run the organization in an acting capacity.
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Manny: As he stepped through confirmation, effectively making him the director without him going through Congress. This kind of this kind of forces him now to yeah, you're definitely going to have to go through confirmation through the Senate.
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Jeezy: Well, if I'm the deputy I'm about to, I'm about to go. Have a talk with Chris. Because then why you put this in my lap.
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Manny: I think there was a conversation. That person is just like, look, man, I'm just here chilling. I'm just here at the helm until you figure out who's going to really be steering the ship? And that's I think that would be my mindset stepping into that acting role as soon as we get there now. We also all could be completely shocked here, and you know Patel could could skate through confirmation. We don't know there, there's so much we don't know about this confirmation that it's.
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Manny: Yeah, so, and to to give you a name. The individuals Paula Bate will be is the would be is currently the deputy director.
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Jeezy: Chris, you've done a good job, man, and thank you for the service that you've done in that position. I I can't say that I don't blame you, because if I had to deal with a boss coming in has already told me he don't want me. There.
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Jeezy: all right. Well, we will keep our eye on it. That'll be something that will. We will break down at the pod when the time presents itself. So with that being said, we are on to our next topic, and that is Nancy Mitch, and term limits for those of you that don't know. We received this past week some updates.
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Jeezy: Nancy, former House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, who, I would like to mention, is 84 years old.
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Jeezy: But she's old, though. She underwent a successful hip replacement surgery in Germany, after sustaining an injury during a Congressional trip over in the region.
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Jeezy: All I'm gonna say is why and keep it moving. But it was also reported this week that Senate, Republican Leader Mitch Mcconnell, failed during a Senate Republican lunch on Tuesday this past Tuesday, and I would like to mention that he is 82, which means that he is what Manny.
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Jeezy: Brother Brother Mitch had. He. They had to get some medical responders over to his office, look at him, and he received or sustained a minor cut on his face, and he had, has a sprained wrist from the incident. So
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Manny: Bro, y'all go. Y'all go home. Geez! Here's the wild theme. Here's the wild theme man. Nancy
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Jeezy: Why so? So that leads us obviously to what? What the what we were saying before is term limits. And
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Manny: Well, and wait. Quick! Pause. Okay, again, Nancy Pelosi is 8. Number 10 is Mitch. Can you guess
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Jeezy: I'm drawing a blank, brother.
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Manny: It is Maxine waters.
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Jeezy: I was. Gonna say, Maxine, Maxine said. They say the wig still laid, and she still look good.
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Manny: But Chuck Grassley, Republican from Ohio, 91 my day.
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Jeezy: This man, this man, have been through segregation, desegregation.
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Manny: Chuck Grassley has been in the was in the House from 1975 to 1981, and then has been in the Senate.
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Manny: We don't even know him as being a representative. We only know him as a Senator.
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Manny: Served 63 years that go home. Go home. There's no go home.
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Jeezy: Why you should be a career, a career politician like this.
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Manny: And just because I like to be, I like to be fair and balanced. Ed Markey Democrat from Massachusetts he has served 48 again.
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Manny: He made the list Bernie's Sanders. We do know a time where he was not in Congress, though.
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Jeezy: So. So let me ask you a question, then, Manny, why do you think term limits are needed.
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Manny: What what do you have in common with the with the average American at this.
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Manny: every decision. I think everyone knows, and everyone's very well aware that the decisions made of Congress end up impacting 5, 1015 years after the decisions are made. Most of these people on this list will either no longer be here or definitely not in their right minds. To have to live with the ramifications of these decisions.
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Manny: And that's problematic. Like you. You vote you look at situations differently. If you're going to have to deal with the repercussions, my daughter will look at me and say.
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Manny: Again. Don't care. Well, I it's not that I don't care. Let me that that makes you sound a little bit more vicious.
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Manny: I don't have any any stake in that, even though I do, because as soon as she bites into that lemon. I'm gonna hear, Daddy, Daddy, this is sour. My mouth tastes bad like. I'm gonna hear that for a while, but I have no no skin in the game.
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Manny: I'm being there ordering a filet what you know about. Not until you pay some taxes here, so
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Manny: they just they don't have. They don't have that correlation. Yeah, that's issue one issue 2, you. It's 1 of the points where I feel like Donald Trump has a lot. He's right. He's right, you become part of this swamp. You know, these lobbyists. Lobbying is built off of relationships. So the longer you're there.
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Manny: And I think a lot of these people just so badly want that John Mccain treatment.
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Manny: Look, man, you're you're judged with a lead. You're judged as a leader by what you ultimately build. That remains after you're gone.
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Jeezy: Ultimately, what? What will you be recognized for? Because to your point, you know.
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Jeezy: What were you able to be remembered for a lot of our great politicians that we've seen, that we may consider to be some of the Greats. You know they didn't hold on. They did the things they needed to do, and backed up and got out of the way. You don't see a lot of that happening. And when you think about these term limits?
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Jeezy: You know. One thing that you spoke of, that I thought of a lot is the prioritizing of reelection over public service. A lot of these people just care to get reelected
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Jeezy: When you, when you look at what could potentially be the caution for term limits?
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Manny: If you think about it, there's a Federal election every 2 years. You you could have won. You could win in November this past November, and you could be preparing for life.
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Manny: You know Wiley Nickel is a name for North Carolina one term in and out, and
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Manny: The Senate is 6 years, and there's also a hundred senators. So it's fewer people that you have to kind of like get to know. But it's almost as soon as you get elected in the back of your head at least, or in back of somebody's head, has to start being the plan. Okay.
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Manny: That's a lot. Yeah, that that you're asking the public to do in mass.
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Manny: Oh, yeah, and after you get better, please submit your papers on the right.
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Manny: We will. If if me and Jeez need to personally bring you these papers, so you can solve that. Please contact us at part in the politics. I will hand. Deliver these documents not only from you, but to the place they need to go
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Manny: And I would like to say that we would extend this offer out to any member of Congress who's above the age of 80.
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Jeezy: We we love. We don't love you as much as we love the country. We love our country dearly, so we will do this on the behalf of the American people. That's that's who we do this for.
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Jeezy: We can do it, we can get it done for you. But again, as Manny has stated, you know, in all seriousness, you know.
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Manny: But that's that software update ain't running like it needs to man.
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Manny: I'm not popping back. I'm not popping back up and yelling at people. I'm.
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Jeezy: Now I would say for our next segment that it would be fitting to make Mitch and Nancy the pickle. But we're not going to do that, but we are now at that time of our show, where we have the pickle of the week. We got your pickle.
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Jeezy: You got who who's in the brine this week?
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Manny: It's that time of the it's that time of the year you giving Jeez.
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Jeezy: Right. Look, Christmas is almost here, so I gotta be. I don't want a lump a cold for Santa, so I got to be nice. But this pickle of the week goes to
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Manny: Wait, wait, wait! Wait! Wait! You were telling me that Congress is concerned.
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Manny: Yeah. Good luck. Good luck, Tulsi. Yeah, I like to cheer for for women and whatnot. So.
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Jeezy: Now, some people, some people. And I want to just say this for our listeners, some people, even though you may make it as the pickle of the week.
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Jeezy: There's always a chance to redeem yourself. All pickles don't stay pickles, man. Sometimes people make it out. We've seen that Eric Adams is trying to fight his way out of a pickle. You can fight your way out of a pickle. You don't have to stay a pickle.
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Manny: But if you look at the history of our pickles, Eric Adams is the
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Manny: Be alive!
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Jeezy: If you eat a pickle you gotta fight to the end, and if you die a pickle, then, hey? We at least we remembered you as a pickle of the week.
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Manny: You make the wall, you make the wall.
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Jeezy: You make the you make the pickle pile, man.
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Manny: Bye.
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Jeezy: But yeah, she's she's in a bit of a pickle man, and we're we're gonna see how that plays out. I'm I'm excited for when these confirmations start happening, man, I can't wait. But we're gonna have some fun with this at the Pod man.
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Manny: Man, man.
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Jeezy: Bye.
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Manny: Well, we we might have to. We might have to go on live while some of this is happening.
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Jeezy: I'll get off.
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Manny: Like down, live.
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Jeezy: Hey? I'm I'm gonna have to put my time in at work and be like, look, I can't work between these days and these days, my director gonna be like, wow! What's going on nothing. Just confirmation here that I need to.
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Manny: I need to be. I need why, I don't want to. I want to. I don't want to catch the highlights.
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Manny: Yeah, I need to see these live and direct, so
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Manny: I can't live vicariously through the Tweets and the Skeets. I need to see this go on, live.
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Jeezy: Got to see it firsthand for myself.
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Manny: As soon as it starts. I'm gonna I might even get myself a truth social account and have blue sky, truth, social and twitter all up at the same time, was watching the commentary.
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Jeezy: Going crazy. It's gonna be. It's gonna be wild, man. I can't wait. So we we will see if if indeed, Tulsi makes it, even to the confirmation.
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Manny: That's true.
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Jeezy: 2025 gonna be a wild time. Bro, so you know.
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Manny: Bye, love.
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Jeezy: Buckle up.
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Manny: Up and grab a sweater.
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Jeezy: So with that being said, that is our pickle of the week, and we are now at the end of our episode, which we do. Every episode is give you our spotlight
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Jeezy: of the week. So with that being said, my spotlight of the week, I will go ahead and give you is about hakeem. Jeffries.
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Manny: Brother, king, brother, king.
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Jeezy: The King.
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Jeezy: brother King, was asked a question, and we've talked about it here at the partner, politics, podcast. About what the Democratic party needs to do going forward. And he was asked a question in regards to, does there need to be a complete makeover of the Democratic party? And in his question. Basically, his answer was No, but he kind of hinted at something a little bit when I heard his response, and it seemed to be that he was hinting at a potential.
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Jeezy: some potential election interference by chance.
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Manny: Serb, Tweeden.
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Jeezy: He was definitely sub tweeting. He pointed out about
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Jeezy: how, in the key battleground States 5 of the 6 key battleground States Democrats won from either a Senate or a House level, but lost Presidential wise. He went through North Carolina, Wisconsin, Michigan, Nevada, Arizona. He was like, of course, you know, we lost in PA.
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Jeezy: But he said, Well, basically in a nutshell, were there 2 different elections going on? Because why would Democrats need to do a complete Makeover when on a State level, we handled business, but for some reason that didn't translate over to the Presidential side, and
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Jeezy: the way that he said it made it kind of. It's been kind of getting stirred up on social media and on media outlets to whether or not there may have been some smoke where he was hinting at some potential election affairs. Now, this is not the 1st time we've heard of this, because we heard, not too long after the election that Aoc kind of talked as if some things were
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Jeezy: potentially a foot. Well.
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Manny: And you know what North Carolina is always going to be top of everyone's list. But you know what we a strange, we are a strange, strange state. We've said it on this pod. You know we are urban state, that of all the urban states we're the most rural. So we do we do it real weird. But the the other piece that I will call out is, I don't know about other states.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: But here in North Carolina we had a little person by the name of Mark Robinson.
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Manny: Who was trash and sunk the entire Republican ticket from a from a State level, so that, dragging on, if we had a more competent Governor.
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Manny: Governor, candidate from the Republican side. Would Josh Stein have won, and words of Kanye.
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Jeezy: I guess we'll never know, but.
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Manny: We're North Carolina. We're always going to be weird.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And I think so. Let's remember the reality of how people view Congress.
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Manny: Everyone loves their Congress representative
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Manny: and hates everyone else's representative. You know, my guy is great. My guy is not the problem. Y'all's the problem.
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Manny: And I think when you look at especially a national election.
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Manny: you could love the people who are representatives from your State, you think the people from your state are great, but if but if I'm in Ohio well, no, let's call it up Pennsylvania, I think what my people all listed directly around Pennsylvania, I think their job that they're doing is great. But I think the job that Democrats, as a whole.
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Manny: you know.
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Manny: is trash. So I'm going to vote for the other guy. So I think that's also a week
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Manny: a weak argument. But it's also a dangerous argument.
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Manny: If you got the proof. The same thing we said when Trump said it. If you got the proof, put it on the table.
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Jeezy: Hey!
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Manny: Put it on the table, and let's have an honest conversation. But, like.
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Manny: You you the statements like that.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: Are comparable to the statements that Trump was making as well, and we saw the ramifications of what happened with that so.
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Jeezy: That was my feeling about it exactly. If he, hitting at something. Don't hit with me,
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Jeezy: Tell me, tell me what you say, loud and clear. Show me what you got.
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Manny: Show you. Show me 7, and I'll show you 8.
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Jeezy: That's confusing.
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Manny: Shout out to Nelly and the Saint Lunatics.
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Jeezy: With that with. With that, you know, I
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Jeezy: with him saying that this past week, I just wonder, you know, will we hear any more doubling down of that. Will there be more said on that? You know. I think that is one of those things where you don't just throw it out there and just act like, you know, throwing a rock at a glass house, and they want to hide your hands from what I've seen from Brother Keem. He's very intentional on the things that he says that he's very calculate. He's not a misstep type of brother to me.
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Manny: You don't get to the the levels that he is in politics and in Congress, and not by not being intentional about what you're saying
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Manny: so.
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Manny: I don't know. Now, if you, if you follow the interwebs there, there have been questions about this since the election. Yeah,
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Manny: but we we will, we will see what happens. But if you you got something, Brother Keem.
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Jeezy: Call us volunteer. Call us a party.
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Manny: We are inviting you, Brother King, to the pod. Come, talk with the boys because we we got some questions that we we want answers to. So we would love to have you on the pod. We're going to put in that request to your office because we we would like to know more.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir, yes, indeed. So that that is my spotlight of the week. So wh what you got, Manny.
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Manny: Man! So
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Manny: continuation of this person could have also been a pickle. But it's a situation that we are going to be watching.
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Manny: and y'all me and jeez were talking about it. You know, as we start getting more and more subscribers, you know, we're gonna we're gonna start giving y'all some more access to the show, because the reaction that Jesus had when I gave him what my spotlight was going to be was great, and I hate that, you know you listeners right now have missed that, for how great it was. But
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Manny: My spotlight in the of the week goes back to a topic we brought up a few weeks ago, and that's that's our people over in South Korea. So.
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Jeezy: Our South Korean brothers.
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Manny: It's great South Korea.
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Manny: Maria. So if you haven't been following, I'll give you a quick breakdown of what's happening over there.
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Manny: Their current President, President, yoon suk yeol yeol, I hope I said the name right.
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Manny: popped out one night and said, we're going under martial law, because I'm taking this over. You know, we got some people infiltrating. We got to get control. So he did that to which his Congress was like, Wait what
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Manny: you can't do that.
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Manny: and basically held a vote and said, Y'all, we're going to cancel this. So then oh, yoon comes out is like, all right, no more martial law. No, we're going to figure this out.
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Manny: So that was about 2 weeks ago.
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Manny: So immediately afterwards the the opposing party to President Yoon said, no, we're going to impeach this guy. He's got to go
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Manny: so.
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Jeezy: Hmm.
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Manny: He had backers, and they stopped his own party. Yun's party said, we're not going to do this. This is not how it goes. So they stopped the impeachment. Well, apparently what's happened behind the scenes is his party's come to him. It's like you got to step down.
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Jeezy: Oh!
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Manny: You gotta go like it's like, it's not that we disagreed with them over there. Yeah, then.
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Jeezy: You gotta go. But we wanted to give you this opportunity to live face.
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Manny: Yeah, like leave on your own. He was like, I'm going to stay here and fight. They said, All right.
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Manny: impeachment. So on Saturday, they said, Sir, grab your hat.
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Manny: Your coat, and leave.
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Jeezy: Get get him the gene gene, wilder treatment.
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Manny: Good day, and went ahead and guided him to the exit.
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Jeezy: So so just so, I understand at this current moment.
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Jeezy: Brother, yoon is is no more in charge.
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Manny: Yep, they needed 200 of 300 lawmakers for this to pass.
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Jeezy: When did they get Bro.
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Manny: I have no idea. I know they got more than 200.
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Manny: Yeah, I'm ordered.
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Jeezy: Boy, if you about to tell me, brother, he got like 2 like 2 90 like 2, 95.
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Manny: Oh, look! I'll see if I can find that number real quick. But yeah, they're like.
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Jeezy: But I just want to say, you know, brother, yoon, you know.
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Manny: 2, 204, 204.
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Jeezy: Okay, brother. Yoon. I don't know if you felt inspired by Kendrick Lamar.
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Jeezy: and I don't know if you might have played
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Jeezy: not like us a little too many times in the part where where Brother Lamar tells us that we sometimes you got to pop out and show people.
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Jeezy: I hope that you didn't let that resonate in your head a little too much, because it seems like you tried to pop out and show people, and they showed you.
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Manny: Well, if we're just gonna be out here showing people.
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Jeezy: If you hey, Bro, you can't do it, but you can't do it, brother, you so
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Jeezy: best of wishes, you know.
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Manny: Right? So yeah, so right now, it's it's got to go through a constitutional review. But as of right now, as soon as that passes
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Manny: he has, and it's immediately suspended.
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Manny: Wow! And during that time the Prime Minister serves as the acting president. So it's not like over here. Where?
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Manny: Yeah, yeah, I got to.
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Manny: Oh, you get impeached. It's over.
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Manny: It's over. We're gonna hit this review later. And then, so that's the 1st one.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: And here's the second one. So jeez you jeez was not inclined to this one.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah.
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Manny: So.
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Jeezy: Know this one.
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Manny: All right. So there are some very early reports heading into the the future of Vice President Harris.
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Manny: Yes, yes, and there's debate about apparently in her camp about what she's going to do.
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Manny: And at this point the decision, apparently at this point. Now we're super early out, but we'll see how how the cookie crumbles is that she may consider running for President again.
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Manny: or she may join the California governor's race.
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Jeezy: Wow!
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Manny: Yeah.
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Manny: So she she's already said they've already said she's not going quietly into the night.
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Manny: But yeah, she she is considering running for Governor of California.
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Jeezy: Is, would is Newsom's. Would that mean that his time is up? Has he ran all his terms.
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Manny: I believe he's getting close. I believe he's getting close. So yeah, and look.
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Manny: this is just me. Personally, I believe governors make better presidents. Anyways.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: So I I think, having to work as the chief executive within your State
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Manny: to negotiate and whatnot. It prepares you to have to do that at the at the next level that
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Manny: it sets you up good. So.
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Jeezy: Worried that if she goes that route by the time she comes around for a presidential race.
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Manny: She she gonna be back here on the pod with me, yelling at her to go home.
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Manny: Go ahead and grab Doug and go home.
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Jeezy: Because essentially, if you do that, then whoever, let's say whoever runs democratic. And I'm just saying hypotheticals, whoever is a democrat, and they end up getting 2 terms, then, bam, it would be, let's say, potentially your term, I mean, auntie, that's like, what 12 years ain't she already like 60.
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Manny: But in the seventies.
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Jeezy: You ain' auntie no more, you, grandma. Now.
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Manny: And to answer, so Newsom is Newsom is in his last term. His term is going to be up in January of 27.
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Jeezy: Okay. Okay.
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Manny: Sir.
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Jeezy: Now, now she could.
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Manny: Crazier things have happened. Let's not forget that Obama was a 1 term Senator.
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Manny: You know she could. She could hit and go get elected governor, and then immediately go run for President. Now, that would be highly disingenuous. Yeah, to do that. But, hey, you know, we're in America, we're Americans, and we are unserious country.
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Jeezy: I don't know, man, I feel like the best thing
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Jeezy: for her as Governor. It might. It might be time to let that let them ambitions as president go. Bro.
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Jeezy: yeah, I'm with him, you know. We shall see.
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Manny: But that's my spotlight, that's what I'm keeping my eye on. And one last thing, before we head out, ABC. Had to pay trump
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Manny: 10 million dollars in a day defamation suit.
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Jeezy: Bruh that that was, and they have to issue a well, as trump called him Slopadopoulos.
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Jeezy: Has to him and ABC have to issue a public apology which I believe they have to air actually own on the ABC. And I thought I was like, what in the world what happened? But it it really just came down to, which is wild for 15 million. And I think the 15 million. Some of that contribution goes to his library, or something.
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Manny: Yep.
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Jeezy: But it was wild, because what what caught them up is that they said that trump was
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Jeezy: the E. Jean Carroll thing that he was convicted for alleged rape.
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Jeezy: but he was convicted for alleged sexual abuse. So just the trip up between rape and sexual abuse caused ABC. 15 million.
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Jeezy: That's crazy. Bro.
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Jeezy: but you know that, you know, you know. Trump gonna spend this for a win, though, you know.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
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Jeezy: Good attitude.
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Manny: There are no wins and losses in politics like that. No, that's not. There's being in the news and being not being in the news. So yeah.
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Jeezy: You know, the thing that worries me about this is that this is just be used as yet. Again, a. You know the media.
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Manny: Medias.
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Jeezy: Stream media is this, and you know I believe in George's. You know his, his work, that he's done for the vast amount of years that he's been in Media. I've always thought that he was a stand-up guy.
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Jeezy: you know. I don't think this was by purpose, at least I don't think it was. But.
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Manny: We'll see.
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Jeezy: 15 million 15 million, whether.
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Manny: Yeah, right.
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Jeezy: Whether it was a 15 million on purpose or 15 million by mistake. It's still 15.
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Manny: It's still 15 mil. But yeah, that's crazy, man, but those are my spotlights of the week. We'll we'll see how this breaks out over the next
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Manny: couple couple weeks. Yeah, yeah, it'll be interesting.
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Jeezy: Well, that, again, is our spotlights of the week. And we have reached the conclusion of our episode. So, guys, this is season one episode 13. We thank you for listening. Thank you for tuning in again, as always. If you have any topics or questions or any discussion you'd like to hear from the boys here at the pod hit us up on our social media and let us know, and we would be glad to do so so with that being, said Manny. All hearts and minds clear. You got anything.
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Jeezy: all people, all hearts and minds clear. We will see you guys next week.
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Jeezy: all right. We'll see y'all next week, and always remember if don't nobody love? You know that the boys had.
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Manny: Boys had the pod. Love you.
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Jeezy: We love, y'all take care.
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Manny: Bye.