Hostile Government Takeover - Breaking Down Trump’s First 30 Days

In this packed episode of Pardon the Politics, Jeezy and Manny dive deep into Trump’s whirlwind first 30 days back in office. From executive orders on immigration to border security crackdowns, trade wars, and even Elon Musk’s growing unchecked power in government efficiency—nothing is off-limits. Are we witnessing a hostile government takeover, or just Trump being Trump? Plus, the guys break down the corporate retreat on DEI initiatives, including Target’s massive misstep during Black History Month. And in true Pardon the Politics fashion, they mix in humor, wrestling references, and some wild hypotheticals. Buckle up—this ride is just getting started. 🎙️🔥 #PardonThePolitics #Trump2025 #DEIBacklash #BorderSecurity #ElonMusk #TradeWars #FloodTheZone

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Transcript

Jeezy: Hello, world welcome to pardon the politics. Podcast. Season 2. Episode 8. I am your co-host, jeezy along with my partner and my brother in politics. Manny, my brother, how are you doing on this this fine fine day?
Manny: Bro. I'm still being seen and not viewed. So still a good day.
Manny: Still, we're we're still being seen and not viewed.
Jeezy: Bro, hey? That's a mouthful. Well, man, we're back potting again here with another episode. Man.
Jeezy: How's the climate? How's the temperature in the room. Got you feeling, man? Is it comfortable? Is it too hot
Jeezy: to go.
Manny: Man I look, man, I don't know who's paying the electric bill.
Manny: but this meter is going all over the place. But there, there is a song that I believe perfectly describes what we're dealing with right now, and where I'm feeling. I just want to play this clip for you.
Jeezy: Okay, we're in the middle of a hostile
Jeezy: and take over. I want to talk about it. But I'll be late for
Jeezy: work, and if you say, Wait a minute. Do we have to stop this? We had one, but you didn't want that lady in office.
Jeezy: Y'all did it.
Manny: One that lady in office.
Manny: Y'all ain't want that lady in off.
Jeezy: But.
Manny: Now look at us.
Jeezy: We are in the middle of a hostile government. Take.
Manny: Go for it.
Jeezy: You know, I heard this song kind of floating around on social media, and I am very invested in wanting to know
Jeezy: what numbers this song is going on.
Manny: Oh, it's hit number from my understanding. It's hit. Number one yesterday, really?
Manny: Least, briefly, yeah, yeah.
Jeezy: Oh, Bro, that is, that is hilarious.
Manny: It's also kind of crazy how my, how my daughter really loves this song! She was running around the house earlier, saying, We're in the middle of a hostile. If you knew what a hostile government takeover was, you wouldn't be singing that so happily.
Jeezy: You would not. But but you know what they say out of the mouth of babes.
Manny: Flows the truth flows, man, yeah, man, but shout out to a gift from Todd and Vinnie Marchy, who
Manny: the creators of
Manny: this song, y'all go go search this up on wherever you stream music or listening. Give it.
Manny: It's it's funny! I laughed.
Manny: Hey.
Jeezy: I love a good. I love a good troll, whether it be from words about or by music. I love a good troll.
Manny: It. It is wild that it has now been a month.
Jeezy: Bro.
Manny: 30 days.
Jeezy: It don't feel like it. I feel like we in the quantum realm. And right.
Jeezy: I don't know. Bro, I feel like I'm gonna be like, what's the movie doom? I feel like I'm gonna be in the desert or just wondering. But like.
Manny: No, I see.
Jeezy: You too.
Manny: I feel like it's kind of like inception, you know, as you keep sleeping as you
Manny: keep going to a lovely sleep
Manny: to that one level. They're like, yeah, it's like a week there. But it's like a hour reality. And it.
Jeezy: Bro.
Manny: It has been a very fast paced 30 days.
Jeezy: And we have. And we've been saying this almost every episode, because
Jeezy: it's true. There's a lot going on
Jeezy: really fast. So for our listeners. So you, you have a clear depiction of where we're going in this episode. We're going to be looking at the 1st 30 days of this administration, and where we are at currently at this moment it's been fast. It's been a lot of moving parts, but I think we now have gotten to a point where we can maybe compartmentalize this.
Manny: Kind of happening.
Jeezy: What's yeah, we we can kind of put stuff in a box and figure out what's going on. So welcome to our listeners.
Jeezy: Welcome to the hostile government. Takeover.
Manny: Just make sure you have your your seat trays in the correct and up right position.
Jeezy: It's your.
Manny: Going on a ride.
Jeezy: Sure your bags are underneath your seat. Make sure your feet are not in the aisles.
Manny: I can't tell you all where this plane is going.
Jeezy: But hey! For all we know, we might end up, upside down.
Manny: It worked for Denzel on flight. Flip that plane, and he set that plane so it might be all right. It might be all right.
Jeezy: And it worked for those in Toronto, too. So I say that not in a joking way. I am very happy that they had no.
Jeezy: no deaths. It was just injury.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Jeezy: like they might be in a pickle when it comes to trying to give them people 30,000 to think that was gonna be fine right right?
Manny: No, thank you. I will consider this 30,000 as a down payment.
Manny: One more 5 million that I'm praying for.
Jeezy: They should not have said nothing, because as soon as they were like, Oh, yeah, we'll give you 30,000 people like, oh, well, I kind of banged my arm on the window, and 30,000 just don't sound.
Jeezy: Look! You gave them a floor now where they're like. Oh, that's where they're trying to go. Okay, triple it quadruple. Y'all messed up. But hey.
Manny: Look that happened to me.
Manny: I can just decide. Today. I want to fly somewhere. I'm gonna walk to Rdu.
Jeezy: Bro. In a sec.
Manny: I would like to go to City X and.
Jeezy: I just.
Manny: Like the 1st class C, someone.
Jeezy: That's good.
Manny: Pump, because I am now flying. But yeah.
Jeezy: I need unlimited flights for the rest of my life.
Manny: Me and my parties.
Jeezy: Me and my party. Y'all might as well give me a private jet at this point, because I'm just gonna roll up every day just flying somewhere. I'm doing nonsense stuff. I'm going to Rdu saying I need to go to Greensboro. I'm about to piss y'all off.
Manny: But whatever.
Jeezy: Traffic control is left to work that would be putting them in a pickle boy. They don't know. This is unexpected. Jet just entered into the the traffic areas like, Oh, yeah, I had to go to Greensboro to go to go to the game or something.
Manny: Alright. I'm hungry for dinner. You know what I want a Philly cheesesteak! Let me shoot up there real quick.
Jeezy: She's over there.
Manny: Oh, oh, you want you want lobster for dinner? Cool. Let's let me just head up to Maine. We'll grab some. Bring it back.
Jeezy: And we'll come. We'll come right on.
Manny: Right back. Hey! Keep this running. Keep this running, or you just do the door. Dash couple hours like, Hey, delivery! At 6 o'clock.
Jeezy: I'm not even getting off the plane. Bro. I'm I'm on the tarmac.
Jeezy: Boston, and I didn't. Door dash the food to the termite Bro.
Jeezy: Some some other plane been waiting to get in d. 3 for 2 h, cause I'm waiting on a Doordash to hit the airport so that I could fly back to Rdu the way that I would be so ignorant. Boy Delta probably had to send somebody to off me, but they were like, we gotta get rid of this dude.
Jeezy: He goes, he going crazy.
Manny: Costing us 8 million dollars a week, just.
Jeezy: I'm I'm moving like I'm like, I'm on Air Force One.
Jeezy: I'm beating trump out bro me and trump crossing paths in air traffic.
Manny: Sell my house, I might say.
Jeezy: Oh, Brett!
Manny: I'm just going to sleep on a plane.
Jeezy: Sleep on a plane. Bro.
Manny: Where are we sleeping? Oh, we're going to sleep on the way to La tonight. Why are you going to? La? Because I can, and they.
Jeezy: Hang on. No, Ferguson.
Manny: Meal. I ain't got nothing else to do.
Jeezy: Where we stand that I own the plane like we will keep this jungle rolling. What do you mean? We? This is the Airbnb.
Manny: Boy, we're ignorant, but we but back to what we were talking about.
Jeezy: Yeah, we we are going to look at the 1st 30 days of this administration, and we broke the broke this down. And I believe in 4 categories that we're going to discuss in an episode today. And the 1st category that we're going to look at in the 1st 30 days of this administration is
Jeezy: immigration and border security. So in the 1st 30 days of President Trump's 2025 administration, significant actions were taken to overhaul immigration policies and enhance border security. So
Jeezy: the 1st thing that I wanted to bring up is executive actions and policy changes, and one of the 1st things were, there was a he 1st of all acknowledged that this was a national emergency declaration. He declared an emergency, and he went to going back to building his his wall so.
Manny: Wall, the great wall of America.
Jeezy: Right. He he started back, building this border wall, that.
Jeezy: And and I'm really need to see this like on a map. Because I'm I'm curious as to what the final construction of this wall will really be.
Jeezy: And what what trump's actually trying to achieve with the wall, because because there's areas that a lot of the traffic comes in that wall can't be necessarily built.
Manny: Walls can't be built, it's privately owned.
Manny: Terrain is too wild to try to build it.
Jeezy: -
Manny: Like. Is there a need to have security at the border? Yes.
Jeezy: Yeah, definitely.
Manny: But at the end of it I think we also have to realize who trump is. Trump is a builder.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: Strictly just trump. Let's ignore the fact that he somehow is the President right now. But he is a builder, so I can see why he wants the wall, because he wants something grandeur to go look at it and say, look at the but if you're talking about security at the boulder. It's it's got to be more than just the wall.
Manny: because you can't put it everywhere we have drones. We we have different ways to do this. Yeah. So.
Jeezy: You know, and it makes me think, man, when Trump was a kid, maybe somebody shouldn't have got him that Lego set, because we might not be what we had today.
Manny: Or maybe it's because someone didn't get in that lake.
Jeezy: Or maybe yeah.
Manny: He's just trying to heal his inner inner trial by by building a giant wall at the border.
Jeezy: But you know there's so much, you know. That's 1 thing that you know, certainly, and I want our listeners understand that we strongly believe in in border security where we're not saying that there is not a need at the southern border. I just think that the building of the wall is more of a ego.
Jeezy: Almost on the back. Then, rather something to
Jeezy: solve or or deal with the problem. There's so much, you know. We've even heard about tunnels we've heard about.
Jeezy: You know how much. Actually, you know, there's some areas that maybe need enhancing as far as the wall goes. But there is no, you know, I think, that when people hear Trump say this wall they think of like this serious physical barrier that is a covering. The entire span of the southern border.
Jeezy: Think that's what this is. Not attack on Titan tackle. Titan, brother.
Manny: I think this is what Trump thinks as well like. I think he wants to be able to take a helicopter tour from end to end of that wall and see nothing about wall and a that's not financially possible. Actually, yeah, hold on. It is it is. Now we have to stop paying for other things that you know.
Manny: Oh, yeah, obviously need. But we might be doing that. Anyways, this is dumb.
Manny: This wall was dumb.
Jeezy: Like, it's dumb in in the context of how we're talking about it today.
Jeezy: Yeah, I think that we're too modern. Modern. Excuse me of a nation to be
Jeezy: investing in a wall when there's so much more from a technological perspective that we could be investing in that would solve
Jeezy: the problem or benefit us a lot more efficiently than building a physical barrier.
Manny: Only there was an organization in our government that.
Jeezy: Oh, my God!
Manny: Focused on efficiency, but that we'll save that for later.
Manny: But like, yeah, you mean, you mean to tell me you can't. We can't. We don't have predator drones that we could just throw up there with infrared. And
Manny: I'm just saying I'm I'm not an expert in the military. I can read what's on the Internet. I can check it against facts. And I can watch movies from Hollywood.
Jeezy: But.
Manny: All I'm saying
Manny: is, it seems rational to me that we would have access to enough drones to be able to do that if we were. If it was truly about stopping the flow of immigration from Mexico.
Manny: if that's what we were really talking about.
Jeezy: That's the thing that trips me up about immigration and border security.
Jeezy: Because the one side I can see why people make the argument that the Democrats don't
Jeezy: want to do enough, but I can also see where people can make the argument where
Jeezy: the Republicans may want to do
Jeezy: too much of the wrong thing, too much of the wrong thing. You can. You know. You can say that you're solving a problem.
Jeezy: But if the way that you're going about solving. The problem doesn't necessarily match up with the results of solving the problem. Then are you just being.
Manny: We doing this?
Jeezy: Hindrance. It's almost like a whole lot of noise, but not a lot of things are going on. And I think, as we talk about this topic. We'll see
Jeezy: how some things may not, may kind of be coming down, I think, with some of the the deportation. It's gotten quiet, I think they said over the past couple of weeks. It's been a little lag, and you know things kind of calmed down, and things haven't been moving in the in the pace that they had hoped or expected it to, because I just think that there are certain ways that you know this can be handled. That isn't necessarily being handled. The way that they should.
Manny: Well, yeah, like, because what during the Biden Administration and these numbers were shocking to me when I 1st saw them, is that, according to what I had seen through news news outlets is the Biden administration was deporting about 300 or so people a day.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: Way way more than I thought they were.
Manny: And yeah, that's a lot
Manny: at this point. Yeah, at this point we're at 900 to a thousand. It was fluctuating. I think it. Now it's come back down, heading towards like 7 800 number. But that's just a very, very hard pace to keep like, and I don't know if they thought in their head that they they were gonna be able to constantly sustain that
Manny: because a people are going to get smart to your tactics and start moving differently. And then just the raw population of people who you can possibly capture is also dwindling down.
Jeezy: Yeah, some, because we'll.
Manny: Yeah, okay.
Manny: we don't know is how many people have already left. Saw saw after the election that this was going to go down. And they're like, all right. I'm going to head out.
Jeezy: Yeah, because we definitely saw that covered a lot on news outlets of people kind of self-deporting themselves right? But even in that, I think, Manny, with those numbers of them. You know the amount of people they're deporting a day.
Jeezy: It makes me think of how much error could possibly be going on in these deportations to me like, how do you know that you are efficiently deporting the right people.
Manny: Hold on doing it.
Manny: Are you saying that you believe there might be a chance
Manny: that our Government might make a mistake or.
Jeezy: Oh!
Manny: Or even worse, improperly, incriminate and incriminalize somebody.
Manny: No, not not here in these United States. No.
Jeezy: Well, I just need to know if they're making mistakes, so that if if I can maybe use this deportation portal as a way for a free vacation trip. I need to know if that's something that I can exploit in 2025, because if I can say, you know, hey? I'm Dominican, and I ain't supposed to be here like.
Manny: I want y'all to send me home.
Jeezy: Send me back, and then I pull out those us papers, they say, Hey, he's an American. Oh, yeah. Do you mind sending that plane back to pick me up.
Manny: Oh, no worries. I'll just go to the regular airport.
Jeezy: Don't worry. Yeah, just make sure the paper's clear. So when I touch back down, y'all know that I'm a Us. Citizen. But I just think in that number they're just make. There's a lot of room for error in trying to do. And I think that's what we've seen from this administration as we go through these subcategories. But I just feel like
Jeezy: they're doing a lot of things fast. And we're seeing that in doing things really fast, there's a lot of error.
Jeezy: a lot of.
Manny: Yeah.
Jeezy: Things.
Manny: But you know what if if we have to be honest around the whole immigration thing? You look at everybody who's doing all the things in government.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: I think if you look at Tom.
Manny: I think he is the least likely at this point
Manny: of everybody in that administration to not make a mistake. Why? Because this man has been excited about this.
Jeezy: Oh, yeah, this man.
Jeezy: Not only that. He, he, yeah, he's been planning like is is the other people that we've seen in this administration is like, Oh, yeah.
Jeezy: I want to do this, and I don't know if I'm going to get the job to do it, because I might not get confirmed. Oh, I got in. Oh, well, let's.
Manny: Oh, okay, let's go.
Jeezy: I don't think that you thought this. You know you like, I'm not qualified for this job, so I'm probably not gonna get it. Oh, they call for a 1st interview. Oh, they're calling for a second. Oh, I got the job.
Jeezy: okay. Google, how do I type an excel sheet.
Manny: Man is about to have. All 1st graders in North Carolina, reading about the hardy boys, and no, not the ones. The books that are taught that we read as kids. No.
Manny: Matt and Matt and Jeff Hardy.
Manny: Do you know, when Jeff did that Swanton off the top of the ladder.
Jeezy: But instead of having African American studies, we've got.
Manny: To study the nation.
Jeezy: Federation studies. It's like Bro. Today, we're going to learn about Farouk and Bradshaw.
Jeezy: Bruh, what are we doing?
Jeezy: The moment the the stunner heard round the world, where stone cold, stunned to rocking right.
Jeezy: But what are we doing but.
Manny: How do you? How do you cover in history when stone cold stunned trump?
Manny: But I forgot all about great moments in wrestling history.
Jeezy: We're going to do. How in the world Vince Mcmahon climbed to that Limo and stone cold set it ablaze. But he came out next week.
Jeezy: Hey? Now, look, I'm gonna tell you, if they want. If look, if Linda Mcmahon wants to bring that course, that coursework into the curriculum.
Manny: Bro. I'll go get my master's master's in Wwe studies.
Jeezy: And World Federation Studies.
Manny: The diploma is a giant giant. Title bell. Oh, yeah, oh, most definitely.
Jeezy: Oh, yeah, we could do because you could have the new stuff. But that old school that midway point, like, I ain't too old. I'm around just that little mid area. Oh, I got you there. I got you there, Rob.
Manny: Oh!
Jeezy: I don't know what's going on, but anyway, we we for getting back on immigrant
Jeezy: border security, as you can tell listeners.
Manny: It's been a week for me and me.
Jeezy: Is it a week?
Jeezy: We're still, even though we have this broken down into categories, we're still wrapping our head around what we have, what we have researched and learned is this actually real life.
Manny: I was not
Manny: joking when I told y'all to place your your trays in an upright position and buckle your seatbelts because I don't know where this ride is going, and I was talking about this episode.
Jeezy: So with immigration and border security trump reinstated the the remain in Mexico policy.
Jeezy: it reinstating the migrant protection. Protocols are requiring asylum seekers to await us. Immigration process proceedings in Mexico. So you you have to stay over there and wait wait for you to get that text.
Jeezy: He terminated catch and release. So this allowed for detained migrants to be in the in the Us. Pending court hearings when those court endings were hearings were going to happen, which I'm
Jeezy: I'm not even gonna lie. I'm not mad at catch and release.
Jeezy: Yeah, because from what it sounds like, a lot of the issue with catch and release is that once they release, they never made these court dates in.
Manny: Never, which I don't catch, catch and release. Sounds
Manny: like a fishing expedition that, I added, added onto.
Jeezy: But it sounds like a Tom and Jerry episode. But like I'm going to catch you, release you. And then I'm going to go. Hi, I'm coming to find you again like Bro. The Us. Is massive. There are too many people that come in here that get released and we lose track of them can't find them for you to be catching and releasing anybody
Jeezy: is, why don't we get more judges in the immigration system so that we can process those things faster. So we don't have to worry about necessarily catch and release. That can be, I'm gonna say, 30 days and we'll have a decision, and we'll let you know whether you can be released or we got to send you back.
Manny: Let let me reach for my tinfoil real quick.
Jeezy: -Oh.
Manny: So if you have someone who's just like on a generic jaywalking charge.
Manny: because how I read it. Theoretically, you, an immigrant, could potentially get pulled up on something like that. But let's say it's a super low, level charge.
Jeezy: Okay.
Manny: But you missing a court date is now a much higher charge than that.
Manny: What I think, what I think this will end up being is a situation where, with catch and release, they'll get people on low level charges. They'll release them exactly what will happen. Court dates will be missed. It's a higher charge. Now, now you're you're evading arrest from the Us. Federal Government. Higher charge, easier to send you back.
Manny: because I think at some point with all of this, there's going to be a line drawn with crimes. We're going to send people out of here for yeah versus crimes that we're like, okay. Whatever
Manny: Jimmy and his kids did that.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Jeezy: Well, you know I'm not. I'm not too mad about the catch and release. And also this is another one. I'm not not mad about either.
Jeezy: he designated criminal organizations as terrorist entities.
Jeezy: Not mad about that.
Jeezy: I think that you come over into the country and you're committing acts of violence.
Jeezy: I could see why that would be classified as a terrorist entity. When you think about Ms. 13 and some of the other criminal organizations.
Manny: The flow Fentanyl, and give you the Federal.
Jeezy: Good.
Manny: Federal resources to be able to break up infrastructure. It makes sense.
Manny: Yeah, again, guys, if you're if you're listening to this podcast for the 1st time.
Jeezy: We're not this, not the podcast where we're just going to completely just hit on the administration all the time when they do something. We think is, you know, not as horrible as other things. We'll say that. Yeah, we'll say that I told one of the
Jeezy: listeners that reached out to me that, you know. Don't. Don't be alarmed if, just because you hear that we don't agree with Trump that we're just a pro anti-trump, we just
Jeezy: we call it.
Manny: Oh, likewise see it.
Jeezy: Call balls of strikes like, Hey.
Jeezy: it is. This is what we think we are not. I want. I want our listeners to understand. We are not a democratic podcast or a republican. Podcast we are 2 real individuals that look at the world and look at the country and say.
Jeezy: or that's about it.
Manny: Real, real individuals. That's a good one.
Jeezy: Yeah. You know, I was going with that.
Jeezy: Well, well, on this topic to this. There's a couple of other things from enforcement
Jeezy: measures. He instituted operation safeguard to detain and deport undocumented immigrants, particularly those of violent crime criminal histories focusing on urban areas.
Jeezy: I feel like that one may be hit or miss, because it sounds like in that. And this could have been some of the errors that I was talking about earlier in this initiative. It sounds like there are some that are getting caught up under that umbrella, that within the violent criminal history portion of this.
Manny: And I think everyone knew this was going to happen at 1 point or another that they were going to make mistakes in picking people up, and
Manny: we will, we will see. But we'll see how the pressure changes as those numbers keep dwindling down for that. But the the other thing
Manny: that I think we watch all around. The immigration is the executive order that keeps going back and forth around birthright citizenship.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: And the the battle with the courts on the legality of that. Now that's been held up. So everything trump's done has not been successful from his standpoint. You know the courts are getting to work.
Jeezy: Which was funny to me, and I know this is all topic. But when he got into it with the the Governor of Maine, and he was like, I see you in court, in court and trump was like, I look forward to him like trump you out of all people should want to stay out of a courtroom.
Manny: Last time I wanted to see a judge.
Jeezy: But I'm.
Manny: I like the follow up, though, the main government governor said. He's like, Well, cool. We just won't send any Federal income tax to you guys.
Manny: If you're not sending us no funding, why are we sending money to you?
Manny: We about to turn. We take a little bank.
Jeezy: Yes, sir.
Jeezy: So also in that manny that they've been in that migrant deportation efforts with safeguard and other things. They've been targeting unaccompanied, unaccompanied migrant children. So any kids that are migrants who are either missing court hearings or residing with non-relative supporters. That one I'm a little like you know.
Manny: Yeah.
Jeezy: I don't know how I feel about that in particular, because I don't know necessarily enough about the move, because I think this is where we see maybe some of the stuff that Tom was talking. Tom Holman was talking about about going into schools and getting these kids. I think he was saying. His validation for doing so was that, I guess, for Ms. 13, the youngest individuals that can join Ms. 13 or 11 year olds.
Jeezy: so as if he was using that age to kind of go into school and get these migrant children. That may be unaccompanied. But I'm thinking, like you know.
Jeezy: how many of them really are missing their court dates right, you know, or like, what does it mean when they say that they're residing with a non relative sponsor, because if he's unaccompanied, then he has to be staying with somebody.
Manny: Somebody.
Jeezy: So then, what classifies as a non-relative sponsor, you know? Could it be that I may be his aunt or uncle, and he's residing with me? Does that not make me.
Manny: No, I would think it would have to be someone who's like not within the family tree like oh, this is my my next door neighbor.
Jeezy: Okay. But how verify that? Though.
Manny: Are we validating any of this.
Jeezy: Right? That's real.
Jeezy: That's really.
Manny: Let's just take that line and let's replay that in every single section we're talking about today. How are we validating any of this? No one knows.
Jeezy: Well, you know that also in this he's started the use of Guantanamo Bay. I believe they transferred 178 Venezuelan migrants to Guantanamo Bay, with plans to accommodate up to 30,000 migrants, sparking legal challenges and international criticism. So I believe that Guantanamo Bay was used for
Jeezy: like.
Manny: Paris.
Jeezy: Yeah, okay, I was just, I was okay. I was just trying to. I was thinking, I was like, I'm sure that it's terrorist.
Manny: Yep, most definitely terrorists.
Manny: But don't worry. He's only going to send the worst of the worst there. Trust me.
Manny: no one's going to end up there that doesn't need to end up there. This is the Federal Government. Jeez. We just got to trust them.
Manny: It's.
Jeezy: I'll work out.
Manny: Out!
Jeezy: Now I will say that in all of this, in the Administration's commitment to this immigration enforcement and border security, it's been reported that there's been a 93% decrease in encounters at the southwest border porter of port of entry within the initial 2 weeks. So that's the initial 2 weeks.
Jeezy: We don't know what what it looks like
Jeezy: now. But when they 1st started all of these things, 93%. I'm I'm not.
Manny: Well, if.
Jeezy: Cheers Eddie!
Manny: Well, if you know that, like, you're not going to get a real shot at going, we're not going to do this right now. We're going to sit here. We're gonna watch how y'all react and then make adjustments to the new systems you're playing. You're going to put there.
Jeezy: If I text my homeboy and ask him, can he get me in the club? And he says I'll try
Jeezy: 9 times out of 10. I'm not gonna go
Jeezy: not getting in the club insane
Jeezy: in at the door to try to get in the club, just so I can yell yell.
Manny: Hey? Hey? I'm with him! I'm with him.
Jeezy: Beyond a bouncer, hey? Oh, I think that's why you.
Manny: Say yep.
Jeezy: 93% of people not at the southwest port of entry. If you already know, you already know.
Manny: You already know.
Jeezy: Some people will say that this is due to the strong hand or the strong fist that trump is putting down with his administration on immigration and and border security
Jeezy: can say that.
Manny: Yeah.
Jeezy: It also could mean that there could be a retooling of the process of how these people get over, and we will see if I think, in 6 months, if you see that the flow of Fentanyl hasn't slowed down drastically. If you still see some of the
Jeezy: that you were classifying as being a result of us being lax as a nation at this at the southern border, and those things are still going on.
Jeezy: Then there is still a problem. So I think a lot of this hinges. And I think this is the thing that ultimately will be an issue for trump is that with all of the things that he's doing.
Jeezy: What if
Jeezy: we look 6 months from now? And these issues, these problems, these situations are either the same or worse.
Manny: I mean, I think all that would do
Manny: is be a unsurprising to a lot of people. But B. Add credence to add validity to the reason why you
Manny: gave that 1st executive order to classify these groups as terrorist organizations, because because if they are the terrorist organizations that we are saying they are. You had to have known that they I would imagine
Manny: that like, okay, I know they're getting ready to respond like this. So let me go ahead and start spinning up alternate ways. We can do what we need to do.
Manny: So yeah, that's just my assumption of what
Manny: a response would be from a terrorist organization with plans of doing something
Manny: is that, hey? Oh, we're gonna they're gonna close up these routes cool. We we got set 6 months to figure out new routes.
Manny: cool.
Jeezy: We will see where where this, where this lands. The next category I want to bring up in the next. In the in the 1st initial 30 days is
Jeezy: former Vice President, now current. President Elon Musk.
Manny: Hey!
Jeezy: Indulge, so.
Manny: Yeah.
Jeezy: In the initial 30 days President Trump's administration, significant actions were taken to enhance Government efficiency, which involved Elon Musk and his newly established department of Government efficiency. So there's been a lot going on with Elon and Doge. One thing I'll just say before, as we. As we start into this.
Jeezy: I think the thing for me with Elon and Doge
Jeezy: is that there isn't, and trump says there is, but there just doesn't seem to be
Jeezy: a check on the things that he's doing. I feel like everything that Elon has said that he wants or that he tweets about.
Jeezy: It happens it gets done. There is no real check and balance of the process that he's gone about, even down to some of the firings that we have seen of these jobs, and then them having to kind of resent and wall back some of them because they're not efficient. And they're they're negative for the country.
Jeezy: I just. I'm not saying that, Elon and I want our listeners to understand this. I'm not saying that there is nothing wrong with having somebody else, with new, fresh ideas to look at something and give you a different perspective. But I just don't like
Jeezy: how it goes completely unchecked, or by it affecting the country, that there is not more of a Congressional approach to the things that are taking place.
Manny: I I concur with all that. The.
Manny: I think you. You're watching this. We're watching this relationship kind of evolve with Donald Trump and Elon, because you now, now it almost looks like they're trying to put Elon in a place. We saw that with the comment that came out of the White House trying to clarify what Elon's job is, because technically, Elon doesn't run run the department.
Manny: He is technically a senior advisor to the Trump Administration and Doge is a separate entity. So that was real weird. But the the one thing. And it came out this week, and I found it really interesting John Fairview and John Lovett. You guys might remember their names as the host of the pod. Save America. Podcast came out of the Obama administration.
Manny: They had said earlier this week that Doge is doing some of the things that Democrats should have been done.
Manny: And we're just scared to do.
Manny: And I think I think that is where America is on Doge. I think in concept.
Manny: every American believes that our government wastes money and we don't do it well, and we need to audit ourselves. We need to make sure that our stuff is on the up and up.
Manny: The problem here is that
Manny: Doge right now, is going in to do stuff asking for information and immediately making decisions.
Jeezy: Yeah, without the proper.
Manny: Vision into the the downhill impact of doing that.
Manny: and where I think Elon is struggling.
Manny: because first, st at the end of the day, I still believe Elon is running Doge.
Manny: But
Manny: you can't really. Well, I I won't say that you can't, because we're kind of watching it in real time right now, but, like government, has never been viewed as a organization that you can run as like a private company. So.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: Do like he did at Twitter. Now X to go fire 90% of the staff and then rebuild it back from the 10% cool that works in private industry that doesn't necessarily work in federal government. When you have people whose lives day to day decisions depend on what you're doing?
Manny: Yeah, so I, I, part of me is fine with the investigation.
Manny: But I have concerns about what they're doing with the data. Who's seeing our data. How much of the Us. Data is getting fed to Gork the AI system from X to do some of this analysis because they're doing it really fast. So I have to like. I have to assume.
Jeezy: Some artificial intelligence.
Manny: They're using some type of learning models to try to figure this stuff out.
Manny: But it the the reaction is, too, is too quick.
Manny: and as you're seeing with, like the the nuclear people who got laid off and.
Jeezy: And.
Manny: All these other agencies that are now like what is going on no one really knows. I get that. You want to shrink the size of government.
Manny: I also think shrinking the size of government would be good, but it almost feels like we're heading towards a crash landing.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: That we we're not going to really, really be able to deal with that. Well.
Jeezy: Well, I think the thing for me with Elon and Doge is
Jeezy: what is the realistic approach to what you're trying to do? Because if I'm going to say that, you know. Hey, I now run this company, and I think it's kind of similar to the things that you're saying is that if I've now run this company within the 1st 90 days, this is what I plan to do, and not, and I really am aggressive in reaching that goal that may work from a company perspective, but from a government. There's so many, so many
Jeezy: interchanging and interconnecting parts that you have to have a really deep understanding of before you do things. If you're relying on a bunch of young kids from 18 to 25 in an AI program to tell you what you need to do tomorrow. Then how then, where is the processing of data that you're looking at? Because that raises security
Jeezy: question.
Manny: It's everywhere.
Jeezy: Everywhere, even. And I think from the comparison, what I've seen a lot of people do, or at least what's been stated out there in the media
Jeezy: is, they're kind of drawing comparison to Bill Clinton with his.
Jeezy: Re, I believe it was
Jeezy: government. Yep, Bill did something initiative similar.
Manny: It was like 3,300 K people, something like that.
Jeezy: It was somewhere around there which it was his initiative, and he achieved a significant amount of saving through collaboration and deliberate reforms. So he was successful, and I think that one thing we oftentimes outside of. If you look at Bill, either playing the saxophone or the scandals that he did.
Jeezy: he had a very efficient government and a very well
Jeezy: Iran organized government, and the initiatives that he done. And I think this may be something that trump is looking to possibly do.
Jeezy: But the aggressiveness is the problem. And, like I said before, I don't have a problem. Yes, we need to be more efficient as a government. Yes, there's some things that I'm sure that we need to pull back and cut from. But no, you can't make those decisions
Jeezy: based off of pulling data, putting it in AI saying, Let's do this and not having real conversations and not a real understanding of what the impacts or implications of what you're doing, because one day and I think this is the thing. 1st of all, Elon Elon doesn't have experience in doing this like running a company. Yes, being successful with Spacex fine, taking Twitter and doing whatever he's done to make it what it is now cool.
Jeezy: But this has intangibles to it that are. So
Jeezy: there aren't. They're not something that you could just just play around with. This isn't just a number. This isn't just things that once you one lapse in social security could mean a lot of of.
Manny: Major implications.
Jeezy: There could be somebody that is waiting for something medication, that is, that is, saving their lives or preserving the life that they have, and you making one hiccup and then correcting it. The next week could mean 2 week, 2 months of them not receiving what they need. And now a family suffers because you just put in an AI system. How can we do this more efficiently? And it told you, not realizing the impact they had on the American people.
Manny: There's 3 very quick points I want to make on this. Bill Clinton was able to do all of that largely because he had bipartisan support, and he had it. He had John Kasich that helped him in Congress. Get that through. So that's the 1st point. The second point.
Manny: You remember the movie I robot.
Jeezy: Yes.
Manny: And you remember that whole Genesis with that. So for those of you who've never seen that movie, the whole genesis of Will Smith's character in irobot against AI is because there was a car accident, and
Manny: he, I think he was in the he was in the water like the cars hit. They both went into the water. Mom of this child died. Other sibling died. So it's Will Smith's character, and this little girl and a robot comes through. Robot sees, analyzes these, the situation realizes will Smith has a 43% chance of survival, and this little girl has 13. So the robot saves will Smith.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: That that is going to always be the problem with AI.
Jeezy: Yep.
Manny: Is, it's removing the humanity of the situation. Yep, you know, like, Hey, do I? If I have to worry about a group of people, well-bodied adults eating.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: Or a group of kids eating.
Manny: There are ways that you can make an AI turn out a result of feed. The people
Manny: don't feed the kids. But I think if you put that decision in front of any human.
Manny: yeah, we're gonna we're gonna say, feed the kids. And I think that's the the danger that we have about relying on. AI. Too much, very much a helper, very much a helper. But we're not there yet to really have it truly, making these unfettered decisions for people.
Jeezy: Yeah. And I think even to that point when we talk about the security aspect of it, then what is there to say that those decisions cannot be influenced by entities that could infiltrate the security structure of this system to maybe sway their decision to whatever else they would, they would have it to be. But you know, with Elon, I just think that this thing is
Jeezy: I ultimately feel like it's going to.
Jeezy: It's going to be a problem. I think that once it starts getting a lot murky, we'll see Trump do what he normally does where he'll put the blame on Elon, and then those will be well. Elon will be gone, and then there'll be maybe he'll call back up Vivek and let.
Jeezy: but it's reported that in the 1st
Jeezy: in the 1st month, Doge reported, saving 55 billion dollars within the 1st month. Now that primarily came through
Jeezy: contract cancellations. Now.
Jeezy: what does that look like that. You've canceled these contracts. And then the implications of those cancellations happen. And then you end up running up a hundred 1 billion dollar tab because you've got to go in and clean and correct.
Jeezy: The things that that you've done.
Manny: And and the the and I think those numbers about how much they save are already in dispute, like.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: Already. But the the last point, the the point I'll make on Elon, and I've made it before, but I want to make it again.
Jeezy: Y'all.
Manny: In 2032. There is a asteroid
Manny: that a couple weeks ago had a 2% chance of hitting us. Now it is as of today. I believe it is now a 3% chance.
Manny: Elon, you are looking at the wrong thing.
Manny: We trust you to do the space you take these rockets you deal with that asteroid.
Jeezy: But take them chopsticks to spacing and and.
Manny: And Duke grab it.
Jeezy: Pick up, next.
Manny: Towards Mars like, what are y'all doing y'all focusing on.
Jeezy: Then aggregate.
Jeezy: Take that asteroid sushi in the sky and put it where it needs.
Manny: We could do an entire episode on things
Manny: that Elon could be doing better with his time. Having won capitalism.
Jeezy: Well, he did say this week that he did say that we needed to deorbit the International Space Station.
Manny: That is true.
Manny: That is correct. Yeah.
Jeezy: Yes.
Jeezy: because we can't just let that thing come down wherever it wants to land. But again, that is a problem that I trust Elon with like, Yeah, yes, we need to.
Jeezy: It makes us a contract.
Manny: Yeah.
Jeezy: He has all these, he has all these connections with the with these other nations. This is a concern. It does need to come down. But then there's something that needs to be in place. But that's where you can be. You can take a
Jeezy: and put it in the sky while we bring down the International Space Station. Get on top of that, because that's if you really want to be real. That's cost that maintenance for us to maintain that international Space Station.
Manny: Hi.
Jeezy: Costing a lot of money.
Manny: And.
Jeezy: Do that.
Jeezy: Please go, go! Do that.
Manny: Or one of our favorite comments from the group, chat, go home and be a family man.
Jeezy: Right this man got well. I don't know if you saw early on this week in social media. One of his baby mamas was like, Hey, our kid is in a medical crisis I need. I've been trying to contact you so that we can deal with the medical crisis of our child, but now she was like, I'm sorry. I hate to do this and go public, but I need you to hear me. We I need you to help me deal with this medical crisis that our child is suffering, and
Jeezy: Elon is playing around with a chainsaw on stage like brother. Go home and be a.
Manny: Family, man.
Jeezy: Deal with space. Bro, you and Nick Cannon gotta gotta stop.
Manny: Y'all gotta stop man. Y'all gotta stop.
Jeezy: I'm having all these kids, and y'all doing everything else but being present right.
Manny: Gotta have father gotta have a father's day. Zoom call.
Jeezy: Bruh, wild wild. Bro. So yeah, that that's Elon. I ultimately don't know where the success of those will be. I think there's a lot again, like we said before, a lot of fast moving parts.
Manny: The the one thing I want to hit on this, though, cause it happened this week, and it's good. It's playing out this week. Apparently all the Federal employees got emails saying, Hey.
Manny: we need you to
Manny: reply to this with everything you accomplished this week, and if you don't send it to us. We are going.
Manny: We are going to consider that a a resignation.
Jeezy: Yeah, I'm sorry. But does nobody just think that this is wild? Ow.
Jeezy: 1st of all, who is sending this email? Because I'm gonna tell you right now, if I get an email on my work account that comes from Elon that says I need to tell him everything. I'm gonna automatically think that it's efficient.
Manny: This is spam. I'm gonna report it. I don't have to sit through these trainings every year. This is my moment. Here. Report.
Jeezy: I didn't fall for the trick. I didn't click the link. I'm sending it.
Jeezy: I'm the G.
Jeezy: Getting fished. Bro. I am not. But think about that, your Federal department, and you're sending someone
Jeezy: who is essentially not a Government employee.
Jeezy: He's not he, he! I'm sending him what I'm working on.
Manny: Right.
Jeezy: What is he doing with that information?
Manny: Who knows?
Jeezy: Because he obviously ain't reviewing data because he's doing it way too fast to be reviewing it himself.
Jeezy: Right?
Jeezy: Sounds like a micromanaging situation that it will ultimately turn into a secure, a security risk.
Manny: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely.
Jeezy: But I wouldn't send it to him. You're gonna have to just go ahead and just take it as my resignation.
Manny: And and people are being instructed through agencies to basically, unions have vow already vowed where legal challenges and some agencies have told people not to respond.
Jeezy: Yeah, bro.
Manny: Got that man got that mess, hey? Y'all ignore that email.
Jeezy: Oh, I'm I'm responding, but I ain't responding with what he want me to tell them.
Manny: I didn't have to use my Ak scent today was a good day.
Jeezy: Say to him, I'm saying to him, a Jeff, a king. Curtis, you're not about.
Manny: I am not. I am not listening to your room, your room anymore, not anymore.
Jeezy: Yeah. Go watch. King Curtis.
Manny: He thinks he's the king, and we're the sorry people.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: Curtis.
Jeezy: Shout out to King Curtis, you've got to be grown by now. Bro. Heat up the pod, man. We got to talk to you because we know that you're a prime lover of baking. So.
Manny: But.
Jeezy: But yeah, I'd send him that King Curtis gift, because I'm not.
Jeezy: You ain't the boss of me.
Jeezy: you know. It's been challenged, and we will see. And I think a lot of this again to what you said earlier in the episode, that a lot of this is just going to be met with challenges like a lot of these things, because it's just it's crazy. Even going back to like I was telling you about about the Clinton initiative with the the reinventing government like it's still it was collaborative. It had Congressional support like none of this has any support but just Elon saying what he wants to do, and trump, saying, Okay.
Manny: Yeah, no, that that is pretty much what's happening right now, and I'll know what to tell.
Jeezy: Bro.
Manny: But I do. Wanna I do want to play this clip, because I think this will be relevant, obviously, in what we've already talked about. But what we'll talk about from here. This clip is from Pbs frontline. It's Steve Bannon, March 17, th 2019, talking about. His thoughts about the administration what they should do.
Jeezy: Flood the zone every day we hit them with 3 things. They'll bite on one, and we'll get all of our stuff done. Bang! Bang! Bang! These guys will never be able to recover 4 years later. That's still the strategy.
Manny: Yeah.
Manny: pretty much literally. Just keep keep it coming that you and that's that's what's happening. And everyone's getting fatigued. And you can't fight on every front.
Manny: Yeah. And yeah, and that's that that is very dangerous.
Jeezy: Still believe I said this when this happened, the the trump cycle.
Manny: Of people doing. People follow Trump's orders. They do the things the people get mad at, the things people get mad at trump, trump, get mad at the person for following his orders. Trump fires. So I think we're just at the start of this wheel. We got to give it a little time.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: But there's gonna be a lot of change over this cycle.
Jeezy: Well, you know what's going. You know what's gonna start kicking that off is when them numbers start coming out and trump starts seeing them. One thing that trouble love
Jeezy: numbers
Jeezy: numbers. And I think they've already kind of indicated that some of these move people are like, yeah.
Manny: Yeah.
Jeezy: This, you know, I want him to do something, but I didn't want him to do this like, I think by March, you know, I think we're going to see some numbers that's going to be. That's gonna be be pretty pretty bad for trump. But I think that's when when he starts to get unfavorable. That's when he starts to get out there. And he starts pushing that narrative. And next thing you know, we're going to have some some issues. So.
Manny: Yep.
Jeezy: We'll move on to our next category in the 30 days, and that is trade policy. So
Jeezy: in the 1st 30 days of this administration significant trade policies were implemented focusing on tariffs and trade measures. So we know that we had the the tariff, the brief tariff war with Mexico and Canada.
Manny: Mexico, Canada, China, Colombia, ever.
Jeezy: Trump was like it was like a he was like Pat Sajak. It was just a wheel of tariffs.
Manny: Right.
Manny: Tariffs are rated E for everybody.
Jeezy: Everybody can and will get it. But yeah, he, I believe he's kicked back his tariffs, though, on Mexico and Canada.
Manny: Well, and and that's and the whole thing with Canada, and that the tear 4, and that 24 h. So.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: Those of you who may not have been following as close us threatened 25% tariffs on Canada
Manny: one day, and then within about 24 h, he said. Oh, we're, you know. I just got some concessions from Canada and Mexico for what they're going to do. These are great wins for us. So we're going to stall this for a month. Well, now that it's leaking out, the concessions that the Trump Administration got are things that they already told the Biden Administration that they were going to do.
Jeezy: Broken it.
Manny: Sir, I was. I was already going to get this 10 piece, Mcnugget, and you just gonna give me another one for free.
Manny: Thanks, cool. I'll take it. I'll take it. Nothing for me to worry about here.
Jeezy: These tariffs have. You know we haven't seen the implications of them yet.
Manny: Oh, it's coming now.
Jeezy: But it's coming. Yeah. I want everybody to understand that. You know, tariffs are not an immediate thing that that we see happen. But I think, as you see, the a big thing that you'll definitely see is the change of seasons. Once seasons start to change, and certain things come into perspective in the supply chain field that I'm in, you know. One thing that we always see is when it becomes seasonal, for like oranges or things of that nature. You start seeing certain goods that are
Jeezy: are attached to certain seasons, and you'll see that influx and that will be your indication, like, Okay, yeah, we are now at the threshold of where these things have taken place. So for our listeners, I would definitely.
Jeezy: I would advise you to educate yourself on what tariffs he's placed on, what countries and how that impacts us, because, especially when it comes to Mexico, y'all know, during the summer, y'all love y'all Margaritas, and you love your Tequila, and you love your good.
Manny: Corona.
Jeezy: Yeah, you let your Corona, hey? When that Corona cases go up about $5.
Manny: Well. And I think also, when we when we look at this, we're already seeing the impacts, because the battle with the Feds like and.
Jeezy: And not moving.
Manny: On interest rates they're like, no, these tariffs are getting ready to do something. We can't cut interest rates. And you're doing this.
Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, which is wild to me that, like, you know, the pressure put on the fed to do this when it's like, we haven't even seen the implications of all the moves that you're making and shout out to, I believe is what's his name? Powell.
Jeezy: And over.
Manny: Jerome Powell.
Jeezy: Bro. I have never met a white man named.
Manny: That's a that is a real black name.
Jeezy: Drove, drove my.
Manny: Black name.
Jeezy: We might have to claim Jerome Bro. Because Jerome.
Manny: He ain't moving.
Manny: If I was doing an interview interview, and I seen a resume, and it, said Jerome Powell, I would definitely think that that was a black man. Oh, 100
Manny: percent.
Jeezy: So shout out to Powell, but he ain't budging, and and you know we've seen Trump had talks before, because I think before he even won this election and got back in the White House. He made mention of how he feels that the President should have some level of control or influence of what the fed does. So I love that Powell's holding true, because I think they have, like their tenure works, a little different where they get like what? Like 10 years, or something like that. So
Jeezy: he's already dealt with trump before. So he already knows what the game is, and ultimately, you know, it seems like what he's doing is for the best interest of the country, not the best interest of a particular person. So with those trades he also mentioned. I mean with those tariffs. Excuse me, he announced his fair and reciprocal plan this month.
Jeezy: aiming to correct longstanding imbalances in international trade and ensure fairness, and I can.
Jeezy: That's a tough one for me, because while I see it as a as a necessity, because there does need to be fairness in the international trade market
Jeezy: trump to me, seems like the wrong guy to do it.
Manny: Hey, you! What I can tell you is that
Manny: 50, some odd percent of the country disagrees with you.
Jeezy: I don't.
Manny: I don't.
Jeezy: Apparently.
Manny: 50% of the country disagreed with that statement.
Jeezy: You know you can't, and I think I've said it on this episode before, and we've talked about it. But
Jeezy: the issue with trump when it comes from the international perspective, and why I say that I believe that he is the wrong person to do it is that you can't play. You can't play bully ball all the time.
Jeezy: That's that's that's what he's known for is playing bully ball.
Jeezy: But then, what? When does that work? When all the people you bully decided to get together, and they.
Manny: Together.
Jeezy: Friends.
Manny: Which is what we're seeing now.
Jeezy: Bing.
Manny: What we're seeing now.
Jeezy: You know you're bullying the rest of the country, and you're doing it in the in the interest of the American people, which I'm not saying that you're wrong for doing, but at some point these, and we've seen it where these countries are going to start working together in retaliation.
Manny: Cutting us out.
Jeezy: To what you're doing. So then, ultimately, where does that leave you? Because you might, can bully one or 2. But you can't bully everybody at the same time, and if they certainly gang up on you, then that leaves us on the international trade stage, and.
Manny: All.
Jeezy: Very unfavorable position. So now we don't have a leg to stand on. When, before we had somewhat of a decent leg to stand on.
Manny: As my uncle said, would say, without a leg to stand on, and a pot to piss in.
Manny: So I love all black man, saying.
Jeezy: Go ahead.
Jeezy: man, listen. But you know these things are going to become a very sensitive area for America. And again, I just feel like a lot of things are moving way too fast.
Jeezy: You know, for trump to really do the things that need to be done. I think it's crazy, because I often think that we feel like we went from one administration that we oftentimes thought weren't, weren't doing enough to. Now we are at an administration, where I feel like they're doing too much too fast. It's just too drastic. Takes on both of them. But I just ultimately feel like what trump's trying to do on the international stage as well as home domestically.
Jeezy: may not be in the best interest of the goal he's trying to accomplish.
Manny: Yeah.
Manny: Yep. Exactly.
Jeezy: With that being said weird Alonnell.
Manny: Our last last trip. Y'all.
Jeezy: Our last category.
Jeezy: and that is, if you haven't guessed already, is diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. So in the in the initial 30 days of this administration
Jeezy: several significant societal policy changes have been implemented focusing on diversity initiatives, gender identity and Civil Service regulations. Trump has issued executive orders on Dei programs in various sectors.
Jeezy: These orders have left for major corporations like Pepsi, Disney, Google, Meta, Amazon, Boeing Target Mcdonald's. You know, he was going to get Mcdonald's. That's his spot.
Manny: That's a spot.
Jeezy: Walmart, Harley, Davidson, and Lowe's to scale back or dismantle their Dei efforts and significant actions taken by these companies have included ending Dei, hiring goals, removing di references from policy documents, discontinuing Dei, related performance evaluations and halting programs supporting underrepresented communities
Jeezy: and cheers. Come, can we can we go off topic for a second. Yeah. Bro.
Manny: Target. What are y'all doing.
Jeezy: Target, phone, yeah, okay.
Manny: Target. Y'all can't.
Manny: So
Manny: of of all of this target is the most surprising of me to have fumbled it this bad? Yeah, because a of who your clientele is like, I don't know.
Manny: Target your leadership.
Manny: Just thought that like, Oh, yeah, no. If we do this, we'll you know we'll we'll gain some of this market share that we lost to Walmart because of what we were doing. No, you're losing market share to Walmart, because stuff is getting expensive, and it's cheaper to go to Walmart and target. So that's that's the reality of why you've lost market share.
Jeezy: Yeah.
Manny: But then, on top of that, y'all went so hard for Dei super hard, and then to turn on a dime and to do it instantly. That's just dumb.
Jeezy: And to do it during black History month.
Manny: And buttoned up.
Jeezy: Cause.
Manny: Look. My wife was ready to go.
Jeezy: Friendly.
Manny: They got what shirts they got. Now, now, target
Manny: there, I will thank you a little bit
Manny: because you've helped. Yeah, yeah, you've helped the Kid's wallet. Yep.
Manny: but like y'all didn't have to. Y'all didn't have to go so hard on this like y'all could have just quietly ended things and phased it out over a couple of months. But no, y'all. Y'all cut the switch off yeah, immediately.
Jeezy: Y'all came in the room loud.
Manny: Y'all remove. Y'all came in here moving with home depot energy.
Jeezy: Wild like. And it was crazy because the energy was like, Oh, yeah, ready to see what target gonna roll off of black history month, like people look forward to.
Manny: And I.
Jeezy: Our community.
Jeezy: The representation that you provide at their at your locations. And when you went that hard
Jeezy: the people in our community would like.
Manny: Yeah.
Jeezy: We're going to take our business elsewhere. And to Manny's Point you're not picking up
Jeezy: a a set of demographics that will counter what you're losing.
Jeezy: So I am very interested in seeing the numbers from target going forward, because I would. I would often compare them to. I would like to compare them to the numbers from the past years that you have had these di initiatives, and I would bet a I would bet my last dollar that there is going to be a significant, decrease people shop at target, not because they save money. It's because of the experience.
Manny: The experience.
Jeezy: The inclusion and the experience. You go there, and you feel like that you are included, and that you have an experience that is nice you can get your little Starbucks. Y'all even own your shopping carts have little cup holders that.
Manny: Interesting.
Jeezy: Good enough fit for your Starbucks coffee.
Manny: Get your get your Starbucks and and buy $400 of stuff that you didn't, that you had no plans of buying because you just came in here for toothpaste.
Jeezy: Bro. I'm out. I'm not singling anybody out.
Jeezy: but I know on social media. I have seen that black women can spend some money at target. I've seen it for my own. I've done it my own.
Jeezy: Seen in my own. I've been nice enough
Jeezy: like, Hey, I'm over here. I'm gonna go in. I know that my wife says she needed another pair of this or that man I walk out of there and spend a hundred and some dollars. I just came here just to look.
Manny: I'm just trying to figure out where it went like. Wait, what.
Jeezy: Quality of clothes is pretty good, and my daughter loves the stuff that's in there every time. Matter of fact, that's where we go for for my youngest daughter, because y'all have things that she like, and the quality, as we know with kids, quality matters because they'll tear something up in a heartbeat quality is good. I will even say, as a black family, even down to your hair, care products that you had for.
Manny: Yeah.
Jeezy: Community.
Jeezy: Yeah, target had this outside of going to a beauty beauty store. I knew that target had the resources that I needed
Jeezy: because they had such an extensive amount of black owned products that were in their hair care product section that were phenomenal. You've just taken all that out.
Manny: And I just think about this as a black dad like.
Manny: hey, my wife told you, hey? You need to go get this thing. Okay, I'm gonna go to target. But I know it's going to be in this section. And it's gonna be there. Yeah. So target y'all.
Jeezy: Wow!
Manny: Y'all wild for going so hard on this and then and then being and then hitting the Pikachu face when everyone's like, Oh, y'all mad about this. Oh, we we didn't know y'all were going to be mad about it. What.
Jeezy: I didn't think y'all really cared
Jeezy: you think so. But trump has put pressure on these, not just, you know, these stores, but we've seen a lot in in the universities, our our great university that we attended East Carolina University. They've rolled back programs even down to this past week.
Jeezy: There's a Black Alumni Association has had to dismantle
Jeezy: essentially because of what has taken place in Ecu, not wanting to recognize, you know, because of the fear, or you have the letter that trump has sent out about Federal funding, you know, and it's it's this bullying and fear mongering of these schools to totally wipe out not just Dei, from the perspective of just what it is, but just ultimately, it seems to me.
Jeezy: anything that is that is of.
Jeezy: I want to say, yes, that's that's the best. That's the best way to look at it.
Jeezy: Where's the where am I? Where am I included now?
Manny: Right.
Jeezy: If I'm not of. And I'm just gonna be honest. If I am not a white individual.
Jeezy: where is the inclusion or diversity in these spaces that I go in.
Jeezy: If you're telling me that this doesn't have to be the focus, it's almost. I'll be honest with you. This feels mad. 19 fifties.
Manny: Going in cycles. Look! What do they say? If you, if God puts you in a season to teach you something.
Manny: and you don't learn your lesson in that cycle. Guess what you going through it again.
Manny: man, and we're going to keep. And we we serve a God who is patient
Manny: and will keep giving us opportunities to get it right. So we are going to keep trying to learn this lesson until we decide to learn. We want to actually learn this lesson.
Jeezy: Shout out to the children of Israel.
Manny: How y'all turned? Was it a 3 week journey into a 40 year?
Jeezy: It's remarkable. It's wild.
Manny: Cause, let me tell you, around month 3, I've been like I'd I'd have walked up to Moses and be like, Hey, mo!
Jeezy: A.
Manny: We ain't doing something right. I don't know what exactly it is, but I think we need to have a meeting because we need to, because I'm tired. I would have been.
Jeezy: We need to leave all these people and usually take about a hundred of us, so we can get where we got to go.
Jeezy: It's room to fit.
Manny: And I walked up and be like, Hey, Aaron, we don't pass that tree
Manny: 3 times over the last month. I know it. You know how I know cause I carved my name in it.
Jeezy: Yep. Yep.
Manny: You keep telling us to take a left. You know what I'm gonna take a right.
Jeezy: Bruh.
Jeezy: everybody complained. That's that's sometimes, I think, when I read the Bible, but like out of all the people that was complaining about stuff. Was there one individual who was like, Hey, y'all not know this. We've been in this spot. We done been here like 4 different times.
Jeezy: I don't realize you're going in a circle.
Manny: Right.
Jeezy: I know it's so
Jeezy: hungry. Hey? Y'all y'all realize that we've been here? We've been walking in the same spot for 7 days straight.
Manny: No, we could like no yo.
Jeezy: No same right.
Manny: For same rock formation over here.
Jeezy: Pretty sure that this is the same tree we passed by last week. I know, because I left my piece of manna at the bottom of this tree.
Manny: Right.
Jeezy: It is still there, right.
Manny: Oof.
Jeezy: But with this di man it's just it's wild. But even down to gender identity there was an executive order now, recognizing only 2 sexes which are male and female. Now I will say
Jeezy: I don't get all into the gender identity.
Jeezy: because it's not. It's not me.
Manny: Not me and my my household.
Jeezy: Has nothing to do with me and my household. I respect and love everybody, and I honestly.
Manny: Because that because that is what we're called to do.
Jeezy: What we're called to do. I think they make more of it. More of it make it more of a problem than what it really is. I know there's some things centered around it where you have like, you know, men in sports, women in sports, and you know, I believe there could be some things that done in that area to regulate. But I think to to just completely cut off a whole subset of people is a little nuts. But then, again.
Jeezy: you know, when you look at the demographics and the people that voted for trump, there are a lot of people in the trans community
Jeezy: that supported, and you know you support it with this being this man saying that this is an initiative that he was going to bring about. And now that has been taken care of, I think there was even an actress
Jeezy: that received her passport, and they already, like the government, changed it, for, like.
Manny: Yeah.
Jeezy: Correct. They need. They need to say like, Hey, there!
Manny: There you go!
Jeezy: You are no longer a female.
Jeezy: you are a male. You need to get a change. You got 90 days. They sent home, girl.
Jeezy: a new passport
Jeezy: to it like we sing you 1st of all, who radar are you on that when they sing this.
Manny: Brother.
Jeezy: Or they say, Oh, yo go see her! That passed.
Manny: First, st we can send that first.st
Jeezy: See her when she came here last week. That's a man, brother like no, that's crazy.
Manny: It's we govern, we're seeing it more. So we've, I want to say, largely, have always done it, but even more so. We are governing to the extremes. There was a clip that came across my Tiktok
Manny: about a a woman who was talking about transitioning her one year old.
Jeezy: Whoa!
Manny: Whoa, I was like, Okay, this is, that's wild.
Manny: But when you lump that that situation in
Manny: with the situation of a a full grown adult making a decision for themselves.
Manny: Yeah, about what they want to do. And they life they personally want to lead
Manny: like. And that's buckled into the same one.
Manny: You're always going to have that one extreme that everyone points to about why we need to do that. And that's just not this topic. But that's a lot that's with abortion. That's with every topic we fight over. We we govern to the extremes, and that hurts the normal people.
Jeezy: And I think that's that's that's a very great point, Manny, because, you know, oftentimes, when these conversations come up, that's what they pull the most extreme scenarios. But nobody stops to say, Okay, how often this really happened? Now somebody may say, Well, if it happens one time, then that's another.
Manny: It's happening again. Yeah.
Jeezy: But some things we have to have more insight on.
Manny: Drive.
Jeezy: And I will just say, just for for the perspective, we
Jeezy: we oftentimes, as a people, as a society care a lot more about what about judging what people doing, and a lot less about extending grace and love to just people.
Manny: If we would stop if we were as Christian.
Jeezy: And as whole are.
Manny: We would be looking at all of this way differently.
Jeezy: Way different. That's 1 thing that I talk about, a lot that just irks my gears is because
Jeezy: we we will talk that we are, you know, Christians, and especially for us, being in the South. You hear it a lot, but there is so much judgment, and there is no grace beyond judgment. And it's just weird, man, like
Jeezy: oftentimes I tell people you know, you hear the people that I've heard before. There was a preacher in the South, and he said that you know if you believe in Dei, then you can't be a Christian. If you. If you're a Democrat, then you can't be a Christian. And you know those those things of that nature and the thing that, or even down in Louisiana, they're forcing the 10 Commandments to be in the classroom, you know.
Jeezy: How do we call ourselves Christians? Being a Christian is a follower of Christ, and Christ never forced itself on anybody.
Jeezy: Why do we keep forcing people to fit into this society that we say the reason why the society should look this way is because this is what the Christian values say that it should be, but Christ never forced anything on anybody. Everybody is supposed to have free will, and then based off of that free will. Whatever you decide to do with it is ultimately what
Jeezy: your judgment will be. So we, brother, stop
Jeezy: forcing everything on everybody and just love, have compassion. Don't mean you have to accept. I'm not going. I don't accept any and everything. But I love everybody.
Jeezy: I have compassion for everybody.
Jeezy: and I think if we would lead more with that, instead of worrying about this Dei stuff, this Dei stuff, and we talked about in a previous episode. We wouldn't have to worry about things being diverse if people loved and had compassion more, and would want their spaces to be diverse.
Jeezy: If you had love and compassion for everybody, you will want equality for everybody.
Jeezy: If you. If you had love and compassion for everybody. Then you want everybody to be included, because that's what love and compassion is. So you have these programs, because as a society, we lack love and compassion. So then, if you're saying, these programs don't need to be around, then are you saying that society doesn't have? You're okay with society being this less than loving, less than compassionate, less than grace. But then we say that we're
Jeezy: we're of a Christian belief and all like it's it's just. It's it's hypocritical.
Manny: We? We've largely been saying that for 249 years.
Jeezy: Yeah, it's wild. It's wild to me.
Jeezy: these these initiatives. What is what is the goal? What are you trying to accomplish? Because you say that you do it to save the kids, or you say that we want to protect our kids. Well, if you want to protect your kids, why don't you tell your kids that they need to be more compassionate? Why don't you teach your kids how to be more loving to individuals that don't look like them. They need to be.
Manny: Or just different from them.
Jeezy: Or just different, because this, this also, this diversity, equity inclusion, ain't just about race, ain't just about color. This is largely to deal also with disability. There are individuals that come in these spaces that don't, that aren't allowed in these spaces because they may be intellectually disabled, may have something where they may be on the spectrum, or.
Manny: A otherness to them.
Jeezy: Yes, doesn't mean that they are deserving of the spaces. But you're carving out society to exclude these people. So if you're going to say that you're a Christian.
Jeezy: Then where is the space that you say, or we're a loving nation? Then where is the space to make sure you include these people?
Manny: Yeah, so.
Jeezy: With that, said, That's my soapbox, man.
Manny: Doors of the church are open.
Jeezy: I just want. I just want us to be a loving nation man, and we don't have to tear down everybody to to be whatever we claim, this nation should be so. You know that that is
Manny: That was a word, sir, and to any to anyone listening. If you look, if you do not know your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Manny: And you have
Manny: questions. I'm 100% serious. Please message us at the pod. Jeez or myself would love to to have that conversation.
Manny: Yeah, man, you.
Manny: But yeah, we we're we are in a pickle.
Manny: we are. We are in a situation.
Jeezy: In saying all that the past 30 days have led us to to this point, where, there is a lot of uncertainty
Jeezy: as a nation. There may be people that feel like there is no hope.
Jeezy: you know, but us at the podcast. And this is why we laugh. This is why we bring these. You know we do these episodes, because we we want to bring in the in the midst of what some people may feel is darkness. We want to just bring some joy, some laugh.
Manny: Bit of light.
Jeezy: As as we always have. You heard us say before. If you can't, you gotta laugh to keep from crying so for those of you, even though Dei may be maybe out of society. We here at the pod. We love everybody. We love all our listeners, those that agree with us, those that don't.
Manny: And those who disagree.
Jeezy: We love y'all just as much.
Manny: -
Manny: Here here at the pod. So that is our breakdown of just the 4 1, st
Manny: the 1st 30 months and 30 days.
Manny: God, Jesus! There's a lot.
Jeezy: Yeah. So we we don't have a pickle of the week for you, because I think you can already identify that we all are.
Manny: We're all. We're all in the brine.
Jeezy: Yep, but but with that being said we, we are at the end of our episode, and we will bring you our spotlights of the week. So you what you got, Manny?
Manny: Man, a little bit of a of a
Manny: I'll say a bad spotlight, but something we're watching. It just came out that the the Pope is still in critical condition in a hospital with mild kidney failure.
Manny: So yeah, the Pope is is of advanced age. I believe he's 88 so definitely thoughts and prayers to to him as he's battling that the Catholic Church is one of the biggest organizations in the world.
Manny: and who runs. That is really is important, not only for for people from a spiritual sense, but also from a governmental balance standpoint, and what they provide and their influence across governments. You see the Pope talking about situations in other countries, in ways that other people aren't talking about it. So the Pope is a in our world a important person. So, and the changing of popes does does not happen very often. He's been Pope for 12 years, so.
Jeezy: Wow!
Manny: We? Yeah, we'll, we will.
Jeezy: Feel like it's been that long.
Manny: Right? Well, I think it's weird, because we had. You know, we had Pope John Paul Ii. Who I think he was in there 2530 years.
Manny: and then we had the my favorite Pope, who was just like Benedict, who was like, I'm good. I did this for a couple of years. I'm good. Yeah, y'all take this over.
Manny: So yeah, that is my spotlight something. I believe the entire world will kind of have their eyes on. Going through this week?
Manny: What about you.
Jeezy: Well, that doesn't.
Jeezy: I got just 2 separate ones. But, as you all know, Kash Patel was confirmed as the FBI director, and he shortly after, Trump appointed him as the acting director of alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. But in the FBI capacity he's planning to move about 1,500 FBI workers out of DC. Into other areas of the country, and I believe one of those locations was the facility in Alabama, where they have.
Manny: Huntsville.
Jeezy: Yeah. Huntsville, okay, they had been seeking of some shortages. So apparently like, it's going to be pretty effective. If not immediately, almost immediately, that he's shipping, I think a thousand employees down there. So that that is very interesting. The the
Jeezy: what will happen with that? And then, lastly, Governor Newsom, down in California, over in California, requested 40 billion dollars in fire aid. So yeah, let's get ready to see how trump responds to that.
Manny: Well, alrighty, then.
Jeezy: How much of that covers a smart la.
Manny: Bruh Bruh, about 39.5.
Jeezy: Bruh.
Manny: For for our tinfoil hat. Community.
Jeezy: Yep.
Jeezy: Well, those are my spotlights, and those are our spotlights for the week. So with that being said, we have reached the end of our episode here. Pardon the politics. We want to thank our listeners for tuning in and enjoying the ride with us as much as possible. So with that being said, all hearts and minds clear. You good manny.
Manny: I'm good here. And remember, guys, if if no one else loves you.
Manny: the boys here at the pod.
Jeezy: -
Manny: We love y'all.
Jeezy: We love y'all we thank y'all for tuning in. Take care, and we'll see you in our next episode.
Jeezy: Wanna talk about it! But I've been late for
Jeezy: work, and if you say, Wait a minute, do we have to stop?
Jeezy: We had one, but she didn't want that lady in the office.
Manny: Laid for that. We're a part of a Nigerian prince. I'm surprised.