The One Big Beautiful Bill: Tax Cuts or Smoke and Mirrors? - Part 1

This week on Pardon the Politics, Jeezy and Manny dive into the buzz around Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” - a sweeping, thousand-page piece of legislation that promises tax cuts, tip exemptions, and economic relief… or so it claims. They dissect the reality behind the flashy headlines: Tax savings, major Medicaid reform, and growing burdens on states. The duo also takes a sharp look at how one-issue voters and voter fatigue continue to shape the political landscape, and why the middle class keeps getting the short end of the stick. From the absurdity of politicians not reading bills to FEMA denying disaster aid in Trump-loving states, no pickle gets spared. And yes, Rand Paul, Harry Potter tests, and some political comedy gold are all included.

🎧 Tune in, laugh hard, and think harder.

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Jeezy: Hello, world and welcome to season 2. Episode 21 of pardon the politics. Podcast I am your co-host, jeezy along with my brother and my partner in politics. Manny, my brother, on this fine day, how are you doing.
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Manny: I'm ready for a nap.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Manny: Ready for Nap.
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Manny: If I could just skip me a quick 8 h nap, I'd be good.
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Jeezy: Bruh. I've never been big on naps, but I'm starting to appreciate.
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Manny: That's a damn lie! That's damn.
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Jeezy: In my former life
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Jeezy: before I was a family man I thoroughly enjoyed that, but as a family man now married with multiple children.
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Jeezy: I feel like I can't really enjoy the nap the way that I want to, because I'm like, while I'm napping, I could be doing something.
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Manny: And you just gotta be aware there's no more carefree napping.
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Jeezy: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's no more. There's no more of that. Bro.
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Jeezy: but that's but then that takes away the genuine essence.
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Manny: Over there.
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Manny: Nap. So is it, is it just? Is it a nap, or is it just.
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Jeezy: A maintenance reset.
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Manny: Maybe.
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Jeezy: If.
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Manny: If that, if that.
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Jeezy: Because while I, if I ever try to nap my youngest, is going to come and say, Daddy, can I do this, Daddy? Can I have that.
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Jeezy: So it's never really a true nap. It's just kind of a remembrance of what used to be and what was.
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Jeezy: But I needed correct.
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Jeezy: brother, I feel you, but unfortunately we have a duty amongst the people to provide them the the content in which they seek from week to week, so shout out to our listeners, Welcome to season 2. Episode 21. We're so honored to have you a part of this episode, and that you're listening as always we ask you to like, share, and follow and spread the
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Jeezy: the the news of the pod to your inner circles as we try to makes sense.
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Manny: Whatever attempt to make sense.
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Jeezy: We try to. I know that we, we, me, and many have come accustomed to learning that to try is a failed attempt, but we try as best as we can, but sometimes society and our political landscape throws us a curveball. That oftentimes is just one of those ones. We just got to take a strike
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Jeezy: absolutely
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Jeezy: so welcome to the episode. Thank you for listening and tuning in, so we'll go ahead and get started with our 1st topic, and our 1st topic of the day will be something that has been announced as being big and being beautiful, and that is going to be the 1st thing that we cover polls. So
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Jeezy: polls. So that is our big.
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Jeezy: beautiful bill that has been provided by
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Jeezy: the House and Donald Trump, as he went on the Capitol Hill to get this thing pushed through. Mr President, can you give us an insight into what your big, beautiful bill aims to achieve? 1st and foremost, it gives tax cuts to the most vulnerable and needy in our society.
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Manny: My billionaire buddies and me, because.
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Jeezy: Like, they say, more money, more problems. And I don't want to put that kind of stress on ordinary Americans. You guys already have enough on your plate, eggs, fuel rent, not knowing how you're going to feed your kids. So I, as your dear leader, will carry the burden of wealth
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Jeezy: for you. It's just what I'm.
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Manny: Willing to do for the.
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Jeezy: People besides, with the.
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Jeezy: Kind of.
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Manny: So so caring, so giving.
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Jeezy: That's the type of leader we need. Brother.
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Manny: You're right. So.
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Jeezy: Today we're going to dig into what lawmakers and President Donald Trump have been calling the one big, Beautiful Bill Act.
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Manny: And you know what.
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Jeezy: Pretty name.
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Manny: If I was Levar ball I'd sue him.
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Jeezy: Oh, bruh! Bbb.
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Jeezy: no, no, I need. I need to recoup that. I need that money off of that Bro.
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Manny: I need you to hop on the phone, they trying to come after the Bbb man.
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Jeezy: Yeah, don't let him do.
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Jeezy: Don't want to be like that. Bro. Mmm.
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Jeezy: but with this big, beautiful Bill act, and while that is a pretty name
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Jeezy: for the American people what's actually behind it. This is one of the most and and all I can remember one of the most sweeping pieces of legislation that has come through Congress in years, impacting your your paycheck health care, your child's future, and even how we fight climate control. So whether you're.
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Manny: It's a thousand pages over.
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Jeezy: Wow!
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Manny: And pages.
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Jeezy: Yeah. No.
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Manny: And I already know, ain't none of y'all.
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Jeezy: No ain't any other.
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Manny: I think I've read this.
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Jeezy: All. Y'all, that said yay, ain't read these a thousand pages ain't no way.
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Manny: You. You mean to tell me, Marjorie Taylor? Greene sat down.
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Jeezy: No.
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Manny: And Brett.
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Jeezy: No.
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Manny: There!
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Jeezy: She be wrong most of the time, so I know she ain't reading.
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Manny: Big. Wrong.
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Jeezy: So whether you're you're clocking in overtime, or raising your children or eyeing retirement while inflation is breathing down all of our necks. This Bill touches all of us. So I think that for the American people
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Jeezy: we all need to have a we, we should be invested
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Jeezy: in this bill, and what's in it, and how it touches all of us. So
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Jeezy: on this episode. And in this segment we're going to break that down as best as we can, plain and simple.
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Jeezy: with the pros and the cons and the questions that actually matter to middle middle aged Americans and just the middle class Americans, as you can tell. I hope that you can tell from listening to our podcast that that is a concern for both me and Manny of what this does to the American people. And we understand the position and the importance of our middle class Americans. So
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Jeezy: this isn't just some partisan spend. This is not something that we're going to do where we're going to take. We're going to try to spend this on one side of the aisle or the other. We're going to be real in this segment, and talk about the pros and the cons of this bill, and how will it affect the largest class of our American society. So as we start into that, we're going to go 1st by breaking down this bill in the segment of tax cuts
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Jeezy: and expansions. So in that tax cuts and expansions. The pros of that is that there will be an 815 average saving for middle income households.
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Jeezy: and I think this was a manny. Correct me if I'm wrong. I believe this was a campaign promise of trump that they
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Jeezy: oh, yeah, be a tax-free, tax-free tips and overtime which would give relief to workers in service and hourly
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Jeezy: roles. So with those 2 pros that we're going to start with, how do you believe they have an impact on the American class. The middle middle aged, the middle class Americans.
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Manny: So let let's take a a step back.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: I do enjoy me some tax cuts, because nothing, nothing I hate more than send Uncle Sam some money.
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Jeezy: And he will get his.
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Manny: And he's gonna get his money.
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Jeezy: shout out to Wesley, Snipes!
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Manny: Ron Isley Bro.
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Jeezy: Oh, brother, in fact, Rob went to prison for it. Yeah. Bro.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: You do not play with Uncle Sam.
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Manny: Don't play. Look! There's 1 person who's going to get paid. That's Uncle Sam.
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Jeezy: And I was saying.
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Manny: Now, contextually, for on average, for every dollar in tax cut.
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Manny: it yields somewhere between 50 cents to 90 cents into the Gdp.
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Manny: So it does. Both tax cuts generally produce economic activity. And the way the way our economy is looking.
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Manny: we could use a boost in economic activity outside of the fed, just printing money out of thin air and pumping it into the economy.
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Manny: All that being said the.
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Manny: But our debt is
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Manny: is is spiraling. Yeah, so there's going to be. And this is just saying, the field. I have a general concern that currently, we sit at 36 trillion dollars. So to cut that 36 trillion to even attempt to cut that, or even to not grow it. We have to be paying on that in excess. It's kind of economics. 101.
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Manny: But
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Manny: I'm concerned. I'm concerned because, you know, people like to get creative. So no tax on tips and overtime. So we know, Federally, everyone's required to pay. It's like $2 and something cents an hour. Everything else is on tips. I'm going to be very intrigued to see what employers do with this
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Manny: because it it's gonna be interesting. And it's it's a definitely a lot of money that's getting ready to get cut out of the Federal budget essentially, and most tax bills in general.
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Manny: they're usually self paying. So when they do this, they're like, Hey, we're going.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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Manny: We're going to cut taxes here. But this is how we're going to regenerate the the input. And what's missing out of this entire bill
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Manny: from my standpoint is a I was expecting something to be in there about tariffs.
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Manny: I thought it was guaranteed that he was going to look to try to codify. Yeah, some or any of these tariffs. I didn't see any of that.
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Jeezy: No.
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Manny: So yeah,
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Manny: it'll be interesting. The the thing that caught me is that you won't. Ha! You won't pay any taxes on that income into 2028. So this does seem like it's gonna be.
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Manny: hey, quick! Let's let's see, let's see what we'll see what happens.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And then something happens in 2028, right?
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: I can't put my finger on it, but something happens. So I think that that'll be interesting.
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Manny: But yeah, man.
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Jeezy: Let me ask you this because one of the pros is that you know there's a $815 average saving for middle income households.
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Jeezy: When you see that in this bill is this truly a
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Jeezy: middle class Bill? Just looking at this particular part of it? Is this, a middle class Bill? Or is this just another boost, as we've heard coined by by Bernie Sanders? Just another boost for the top 1%.
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Manny: I mean, just from a raw Stan standards. If you look at who pays taxes? Yeah.
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Manny: most of the. And we're talking in raw dollars in raw dollars.
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Manny: Upper class and middle class pay the bulk of the taxes.
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Manny: But when you look at percentages, you know that that very top elite class pays nowhere close to the percentage of everybody else. But that's also because their incomes are usually diversified. And it's not just purely off of income.
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Manny: and but I think it. It's dangerous to just look at any type of bill in general, but especially one, this large
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Manny: you can't you? At least you should not take it in the context of a tweet, meaning, you can't just grab a single line and say, Oh, yeah, this is, you know, this thing is really good. Yeah, there are things on here that I actually think are very good, you know, in a time where they're trying to spur more production of life
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Manny: here with more children, you know, taking that tax credit and increasing it to 2,500, also to 2028,
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Manny: really weird. This this 2028 number keeps coming up. I think that that helps, you know, raising the standard, the standard deduction for seniors, allowing them to say.
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Manny: you see that. But if you look on the other side, you see that they're cutting, you know, impacts to Medicaid impacts to the environment like. So it's really dangerous, I think, to
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Manny: only look at it line by line, like I know we love consuming in a in 270 characters, but I think you have to look this. Look at this in complete totality of what's actually going on here.
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Jeezy: Well, I think that when we look at this bill, which is a a lot to digest.
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Jeezy: and when I think of it being
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Jeezy: just overall a lot to digest.
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Jeezy: I wonder.
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Manny: -Oh!
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Manny: We got 10 min into the episode, and we.
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Jeezy: And we had.
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Manny: Done, yet.
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Jeezy: We're here with it.
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Jeezy: But I just wonder how much of this really is able to be digest and be approved so quickly that we understand
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Jeezy: the ramifications of what we're we're signing up for.
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Jeezy: and with it being going into, you know, 2028.
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Jeezy: What is the purpose of that?
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Jeezy: Where are we getting at with it? Going into an election.
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Manny: Well, we already know the campaign. He's setting up the campaign speeches like, Hey, if you want me to extend these, y'all got to vote for me.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: Like. And to to your question earlier about, is this something for the middle class? Let's take another line item from the economy. Let's look at it. You can deduct up to $10,000 in interest on car loans on us made vehicles.
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Manny: And in my head, I'm like, okay.
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Manny: But let's think about it.
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Manny: How big of a loan do you need to fully take advantage of that?
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Manny: You know. Most most car new car loans.
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Manny: you run somewhere between 3 to 6 years. So you're looking to to fully maximize that you are going to need to either take somewhere between 30 to $60,000 in interest.
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Manny: Yeah, for 3. And then when, if you're just looking at the raw cost of the car.
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Manny: you're looking at cars that are likely going to be in excess of $50,000.
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Jeezy: Which to that point I want to to speak to our listeners. There is a very wide variety of Americans that do not purchase cars of that price. There are a lot of Americans that are to to get by purchase from used.
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Jeezy: Lots.
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Jeezy: That don't pay.
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Manny: But with the with those wild, quick story time, you know thing you know, I started from the bottom. Now I'm here. I had.
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Jeezy: I had a.
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Manny: Car loan.
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Manny: It was a 3 year car loan on a $10,000 car.
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Manny: with a a stupidly high interest, not not a not a Tiktok.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah.
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Manny: I'm paying $5 towards the principal every year, but it was high, and
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Manny: I think I'm concerned, like I said concerns about that is now an opportunity for some of these car lots to even be more predator predator, like on some people who are looking for cars like back to the question. If you're looking at a 50,000 plus dollar car, you're looking at a car payment
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Manny: in excess of 6 $700. So.
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Jeezy: Most Americans aren't affording that.
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Manny: No.
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Manny: not at all, not at all. So again, it's like, is this actually going to help people? Who's it going to help? If we're just talking about the economy.
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Jeezy: Afford it. Yeah, trumpet it like you say, Trump and his friends, yeah, who who want to spare us?
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Jeezy: Spare us of of trying to figure out what to do with wealth.
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Jeezy: More money, more pro.
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Jeezy: We don't want that for y'all.
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Manny: The the one piece in the oh, wait, no, I'll hold that. We're coming back to that one. You go.
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Jeezy: Well with the covering, the tax cuts and extension program. Before we move on, I just want to extend the question to our listeners, and I want to hopefully get into the habit of us doing this to invoke a little bit of dialogue and discussion about this. But for the Middle income household. When you think about potentially this
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Jeezy: $815 savings
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Jeezy: would $815 make a dent in your yearly expense.
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Jeezy: and I hope that the the collective answer would be, No. When you look at the price of I'm just going with with children, you look at the price of formula which I know, brother, you know all.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: And soon I will once again. But the price of formula, the price of pampers, the price of gas, the price of food.
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Manny: Daycare, if you're fortunate enough to.
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Jeezy: Jesus Christ. Bro. Don't even get me on that tangent daycare. I'm about to get right back in that arena. But you think about something like this.
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Jeezy: does this really? And that's why I asked the question earlier. Is this bill
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Jeezy: helpful, or this this extent of it? Is it helpful to the middle class household. When you look at what we have to pay, what we face, what we have to try to afford, and should we accept
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Jeezy: the bigger cuts for potentially, if you view it as a bigger cut for the rich, do you benefit that or accept that if we're all getting something? And I think sometimes that people look at well, everybody has to get some slice of the pie, even if my slice of the pie is small, at least the pie is getting sliced, but when you have something categorized as the big, beautiful bill, then who is it? Big and beautiful for.
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Jeezy: Is it big and beautiful for the people who matter the most? And I will go out and on the limb and say.
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Jeezy: That I believe that the middle class Americans are the ones that keep the the the.
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Manny: Oh, yeah.
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Jeezy: The hope alive.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: What America is, and
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Jeezy: from my political view I just believe that if if you don't take care of the American, the middle class American people, then you don't have an America. In my, in my honest opinion.
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Jeezy: when you think about manufacturing, when you think about agriculture, when you think about the things that we do. We are the backbone. And I say we, because I grew up as a middle class American and seen the struggle of my single mother. I believe that when you see certain bills, and we really should dissect and look at this and take the bill for what it says. But in totality as Manny spoke before. Who is this really
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Jeezy: 4? And does that speak to? Who
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Jeezy: truly matters not, saying that everybody doesn't matter. But you have a large pool of people that are the backbone of this nation. Are we doing the things to help them continue or strive to be better than what generationally they've been in
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Jeezy: that. That would be my question to our listeners.
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Manny: That's a long ass question to us. I know, brother.
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Jeezy: It was almost. It was low key, almost a mini rent, but because I truly, as a as a child that was broke, that was that was born in a single family home. The the middle class
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Jeezy: family is a very important
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Jeezy: set of demographics for me, because I understand how much in the struggles that we went through. Oftentimes I look at some of these politicians I'm like they never have experienced, probably a slither of what the middle class Americans have experienced, and if they did, they maybe would understand a little bit more, and care a little bit more when they go into Washington and fight.
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Jeezy: For these people, which let's be honest. The middle class people are the ones that primarily put you there. So
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Jeezy: I think about stuff. When I see bills like this, brother. So.
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Manny: Even even more on that one.
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Manny: Let's let's also just be be honest about it.
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Manny: I don't see enough savings in here.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: That would even remotely begin to have people feel better.
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Manny: Yeah, like, you might feel like, Oh, you know, okay, maybe we went 2 years back, inflation and the impacts of inflation on the average family
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Manny: has been ridiculous.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: You know.
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Jeezy: I agree.
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Manny: And so you're you're looking to have to cut
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Manny: a or get back into the economy into Americans hands
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Manny: a dollar figure that this Bill isn't going to provide, nor do I think any bill will provide at this standpoint, and I think that's the rough part for a lot of people right now who are like we need help. We need someone.
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Manny: I feel like a lot of trump's promises, especially around. The economy was really biting into that. Hey? You remember what it felt like when I was President, you know. Wages were going up. Things were still cheap, you know, during the Biden Administration
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Manny: everything got more expensive and numerically. That is a that is a factual statement. Yeah.
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Manny: But you sold people kind of this dream of going back to your pre covid economy, and that's not coming back.
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Jeezy: That's not. That's not coming back.
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Manny: No, bill is going to fix that. So I think a lot of lot of supporters, even just from. And guys, we're still on the economic piece on this. There, there are a whole lot of other things we're getting ready.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Manny: But if that was the dream that you sold, a lot of people are getting ready to be disappointed.
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Jeezy: They're going to be very disappointed, and, as I've always said, you know, you sold them hopes and dreams, and you gave them Cheerios. That's not how this works. And this is not the realization of what's going forward. And this is to not get on a tangent about this. But this is why I have a issue sometimes with
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Jeezy: the the political realm, because people
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Jeezy: people are biting off of his words. They believe this man. They they treat this man as if he is a Savior, and if he says that this is going to happen, they truly believe this is going to happen.
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Jeezy: It does not seem, I'm not going to say impossible, but it does not seem possible.
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Manny: Impossible.
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Jeezy: It.
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Manny: Sorry. Well, I watched that earlier.
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Jeezy: Not be real with the American people, so that they don't gamble their future, but they invest in their future off the hopes of the reality of what you speak and the realness of what's to come.
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Manny: Because people like power, people like power, people like staying in power.
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Jeezy: Kanye, West said, at 1 point, no one man should have all that power.
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Manny: Well, and and to think about it in the before trump became President.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: When was the last time you think he was in a grocery store buying groceries.
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Jeezy: Oh Bruh!
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Manny: Even better.
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Jeezy: Never touched a cart.
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Manny: Even better look at a lot of the members of Congress.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: One of the when have a lot of them Republican or Democrat.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: You know I I can. I say confidently that Nancy Pelosi Chuck Schumer.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: Oh, man, I'm just going to go with them because they they both old, you know others as well. When is the last time either of them seen the inside of a Harris teeter, or a piggly wiggly, or a safeway, or Albert like. So it's this out of touchness like, oh, yeah, you know, you're going to save $10,000. Great! That's over the course of the year.
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Manny: That's a big number at the end that ultimately, when you take that $10,000 and you roll it out over over the course of the year. That doesn't. That barely covers
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Manny: the the cost of daycare, and if at all.
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Jeezy: This is why I have a problem with the people that go to Washington, not being in touch with the American people.
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Jeezy: because you have not a single clue
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Jeezy: of what it's like down here.
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Jeezy: You have an idea of the people that you encompass, which are the people that are in the same deep pockets that you're in and making the same this stuff. These people don't worry about the cost of bread going up 10 cent. But there are some families in this country that if bread goes up 10 cent they're not getting bread.
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Manny: No, I disagree with that a little. I think there are more people that are more normal when they get to Congress.
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Manny: My issue.
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Jeezy: Put an asterisk on that.
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Manny: Yeah, okay, well, absolutely.
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Jeezy: When they get the contract.
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Manny: When they get to.
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Jeezy: And and I should have prefaced my statement by saying that I believe that some of them, when they get there.
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Jeezy: do understand, but when they become career.
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Jeezy: or have been washed in the Washington water, and to forget.
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Manny: Well, and my point was getting ready to come from the standpoint of these one issue people who go to Congress like, Yeah, I'm here for pro-choice or pro-life. I'm here.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah.
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Manny: Because of the great great that that one issue got you there. But what are you doing? You're you're responsible for more than this.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: You were, you were responsible for the economy. You're responsible for national defense. You're responsible for Medicare. You're responsible for Medicaid. You're responsible for weed legislation. You're responsible for oil regulations. You're responsible for the environment. What are you doing to make sure that you are ready
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Manny: to be able to answer these questions, because you know what? The answer isn't.
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Manny: Listening to a listening to a lobbyist, and exclusively just listening to a lobbyist.
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Jeezy: Yep, and I've had a conversation before, politically with someone I worked with years ago.
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Jeezy: and he he was a he he voted for a person that was just on this one particular issue that he cared about. And I said, so. Then, when this issue comes up, where do you stand?
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Jeezy: And I knew by knowledge that he that his stance was opposite of the person that was he was voting for, and I said, Well, the person you're voting for doesn't agree with that. So then where do you stand with just electing somebody off of one single issue that's to me, that is.
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Jeezy: I'ma call it what I what I believe that it is. I think that's just as unpatriotic as anything else.
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Manny: And if you look historically over time, you you go back to
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Manny: well, I'm going to say the tea party. Yeah. The tea party with the Republican party came up because people felt as though elected officials were not listening to them.
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Manny: And what you ended up having is. And I think it's been one of these fundamental differences between the Republican and Democrats. But it's now seem to like switch over where Republicans in that tea party area era. That's where you got the rhino phrase from is that if you didn't believe the Republican tent had 10 key items. If you didn't believe all 10, you were not a Republican, and people got pushed out
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Manny: where, during that same time Democrats were just like, Oh, if you can, we could all come together on this one issue.
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Manny: Then you know who cares about the other 9 issues. We agree on this one thing, you're on our side. So it was a very large sweeping tent.
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Manny: That's announced Flip. Flop. You're now seeing some of that on the the Democrat side. Where now, hey? If you don't believe in gay rights, if you don't pro pro-choic, just going down the list, you're not a Democrat.
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Manny: whereas you've seen Trump very much wide open the tent.
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Manny: You know, North Carolina is an interesting state, where we're one of the few states where you actually have people
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Jeezy: Yeah, I think that when you have so much going on in your day to day, life.
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Jeezy: it made me realize, like, while I have a lot going on in my day-to-day life, I survey duty
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Jeezy: So then, even for that to be a mindset. And I was in a group, for I was in a room full of men, and I was like the only one that was an adamant voter. So I'm like, Okay, well, I already know that going forward just any issues you are not educated on that is the consensus of a lot of people. So then, to kind of bring this home.
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Jeezy: When you think of this big, beautiful bill?
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Manny: You jumped the horse
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Jeezy: You're right, brother, you're right, you right. You're right.
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Jeezy: Because there's some people that we can say, and that we can handpick in Washington and say, Okay, that person stayed up and read them a thousand pages.
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Manny: I'm going to introduce something new for the pod right here as well. It is the pardon the politics elected official challenge.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir, and it's inspired by the one Curtis. 50 Saint Jackson, sir.
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Jeezy: Many of y'all actually can can comprehend what the bill is saying, because we know some of y'all don't have no backgrounds
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Jeezy: But you don't understand, but because somebody said, or somebody came up there on that Capitol and promoted this big, beautiful bill. Well, I know that if he said, it's good, I think it's good.
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Jeezy: We've seen it before, where they give them a very short window. And if any of you have ever read a Harry Potter book, some people ain't gonna be able to get through it in 5 days.
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Manny: Brother not not to be able to comprehend it. Good! But but there is one person that I know with full confidence.
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Manny: Rand. Paul read it, and he had this to say about the big Beautiful Bill. The House Bill is going to add about 4 trillion to the debt ceiling. The Senate Bill adds 5 trillion. There's nothing fiscally conservative about expanding the debt ceiling more than we've ever done. The House Bill
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Manny: Right he's got he! He just wants to make sure all the ones equal, all the zeros. And that's what I ran. Paul consistently.
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Jeezy: Yep, we would definitely give you the the space and opportunity to share such a, such a a political stunt, that we need.
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Jeezy: Yeah, we might have to do a part 2 on this, so we may get we may not get through all of it, but we definitely might have to bring another part of it up. But the next part I want to bring up is health care and social program reform. So in this part of the bill. The pros of this bill part of the bill aims to reduce long-term Federal welfare calls.
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Jeezy: and it pushes more adults to join the workforce, which I believe that with some of the cuts that have happened with the trump administration, this is something they definitely want to push people back in but the cons of this part of the bill. It could remove millions
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Manny: When you need, when you need just basic aspirin. But you've given people high strength, painkillers.
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Manny: There. There is a there are groups within within the Social Security Administration who are responsible for this.
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Manny: Yeah, that seem right. You know what I'm talking about.
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Manny: So cost of validating all this, we are doing that. But if you're looking at now doing this at scale, how much more does it cost?
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Jeezy: But why is that not the view of this administration? Because I could have sworn, and stepping back, I could have sworn that this Administration said, or at least the talk was from from certain lawmakers that we were not going to touch Medicaid. Am I wrong in that.
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Manny: It's it is!
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Manny: One is on the national debt. The next place is around
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Jeezy: So so they're not cutting Medicaid. They're just cutting the waste, fraud and abuse of Medicaid.
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Jeezy: All because there's a lot of moving parts now in the department.
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Manny: Yo.
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Jeezy: In the grocery store. Hey? Look! You give me $20. I give you $40 a food stamp. We understand there are those people. But there are some legitimate families. There are some legitimate people that are benefiting from this system, and I think, putting these guardrails up and redirecting how these these benefits flow may be more harm than good, and in long term trying to figure out what this program looks like
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Manny: Right? Oh, no! And and then some of you guys might be listening to this. Well, what can they do.
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Manny: John Oliver? In last week tonight. He did an episode last year talking about Hospice care.
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Manny: They they're going to be around for I think it's like a month.
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Jeezy: There's a much better way to skin this cat.
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Jeezy: But this surface level approach
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Manny: Man. One of the one of the things that I that I hear from from a mentor of mine at work is sometimes you gotta go have the hard conversations.
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Jeezy: Mark.
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Manny: And it's a hard conversation that I feel like in Washington that we're not willing to have.
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Jeezy: How many people voted for this this.
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Manny: Because of immigration.
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Jeezy: Bruh, okay, or or gun gun control.
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Manny: Even better egg prices.
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Jeezy: Was it worth you voting for that? $2 and 90 cent increase for you to lose out on your Medicaid? I want our listeners to truly understand that. But as we move forward, and I think many in all honesty, we're going to have to do a part to this.
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Manny: Bye, Roy.
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Jeezy: this week with somebody it was centered around here in North Carolina. I don't know if you're familiar, but I believe in the Goldsboro region. There was a child that a middle school kid that had went to school with a gun in his backpack.
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Manny: Oh!
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Jeezy: That he got from his stepfather and a kid in the class saw it, and I actually am privy to this information because my coworker that sits beside whose office is beside me, their family members and law enforcement and kind of gave me the deets.
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Jeezy: So basically, the Kid saw it, and he was like, I'm a tail. And the kid was like, well, if you tell, I'm gonna shove this gun down your throat.
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Jeezy: but in in that conversation I had with her. I'm saying that to say this
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Jeezy: I wish that people cared more about issues that impacted their neighbor and not just them.
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Jeezy: So I say that in this question of how these cuts affect the community in which you live in it may not impact you directly.
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Jeezy: You may not have. You may not be on Medicaid or Snap, or none of these things. But think about the people in your community.
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Jeezy: Think about the people that this truly impacts.
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Jeezy: And when you vote in the question that I posed to her is that when you vote, do you vote for yourself, or do you vote for your community, because we all should vote, at least, in my opinion, we should vote for our community, even if I may not agree with certain things. I have an understanding and a duty and a privilege to make sure that my brother, my sister that's next to me, feels safe and just as protected as I do as well.
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Jeezy: too. So when I vote, I don't just vote for myself and my family, I vote for my community. So when you think about these issues that are coming up in this big, beautiful bill. It may not have an impact or direct
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Jeezy: effect on you.
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Jeezy: What about the community? The people that you love the lady that you see at the grocery store, the family that your kids play with those people that may not necessarily be in the same position as you are financially, but financially they require, or maybe necessarily need, some of this assistant
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Jeezy: assistance, that they may not be privy to this anymore, because the government is tackling this issue from a very surface level and one dimensional mindset. And where does that leave those people that are your brother and your sister in your neighborhood.
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Manny: That's a that's a real Christian view of this.
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Jeezy: Brother. We all supposed to care about our neighbors. Now.
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Manny: If only in Congress. We had more red letter Christians.
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Jeezy: Bruh, then red hat. Chris, thank you. Preach, preach, brother, preach.
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Manny: And look, okay. So yeah, I'm do my part and play my role in this. Podcast there are studies
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Manny: that show that going out and working.
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Manny: and that encouragement to work and people working gives a sense of pride to that person and that family that you do not get by just sitting at home. There are studies, and we would be. We would be incorrect to, not speak on those as well.
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Manny: But again, there are bigger ways to be tackling the issue.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: Of Medicaid exploitation.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: Than at this level, and I would argue that coming down to the person by person level is inefficient.
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Manny: So, Elon, I know you haven't stepped away from Doge yet.
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Jeezy: You sure.
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Manny: But there, there's time to address this inefficiency
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Manny: with the responsibilities that we are putting on medical providers who exploit the healthcare system.
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Manny: and and we would agree, and and the the only other part on the healthcare piece that I want to mention very, very briefly. Well, I'll mention to Medicaid won't cover gender affirming care for anyone but the other one.
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Manny: and it'll get real interesting to see how this plays out is that States must cover more of the administrative costs and repay funds if errors are high to their to the snap program.
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Manny: So now you're putting more of a responsibility on the States to execute these programs that they already don't have the money for, because you, as a Federal entity, provide that.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: And unfortunately, Federal Government States, like North Carolina, are required to have a balanced budget, also something you also consider.
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Jeezy: But I'm gonna let y'all chill let y'all live.
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Manny: But I'm gonna let y'all live.
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Manny: Let y'all live.
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Manny: But cause there's a whole nother topic around unfunded Federal mandates.
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Jeezy: -
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Manny: But we gonna we gonna let y'all chill.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: We're gonna let y'all chill.
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Jeezy: But I think that's something that we have to to think about. And I think for our listeners.
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Manny: Boy, you need to clear your throat.
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Jeezy: I know right.
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Manny: Had to get in together.
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Jeezy: Right. I don't know what happened.
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Manny: Inhaling Helium.
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Jeezy: I had to get that together. But I think that we were gonna definitely have to do a part 2 on this.
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Manny: Oh, yeah, absolutely.
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Jeezy: There's so much in this bill that that impacts the American people. And I think that we would be doing a disservice by trying to rush through it
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Jeezy: and give y'all the short version of it. I think you guys deserve. So be on the lookout for Part 2 of this episode as we break down the rest of this big, massive.
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Manny: Beautiful.
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Jeezy: Oh, Bill!
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Manny: Shout out to Levar, Ball, Levar! Ball! Go.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Show money, sir.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, you need the Bbb bill. So we're going to move on from this segment. But we'll definitely pick it back up in our part, 2 of this episode that will be coming out later on this week. So as we move forward, we're going to go into our segment that we all enjoy that comes at this time, and that is our pickle of
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Jeezy: the week. We got your pickle.
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Jeezy: We got your pickle.
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Jeezy: We got your pickle
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Jeezy: all right, all right, all right, all right. We are at our pickle of the Week Segment. So this week's pickle of the Week Features. Not one politician, but it is a coalition of casualties. If.
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Manny: Oh, so you got you got a jar of pickles this.
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Jeezy: I got I got a job.
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Manny: Straight.
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Jeezy: From Mount Olive shout out to North Carolina.
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Jeezy: but we have a coalition of casualties, and that is 7 States
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Jeezy: left out in the cold, or the floods or the tornadoes. However, you will, after having their fema disaster, aid, relief, or request, excuse me, denied under President Trump's administration, from coast to coast both red and blue States found themselves asking the same question, where's our Federal help? That list of denied States go as following currently in North Carolina?
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Manny: Broke, neck.
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Jeezy: Washington.
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Manny: Broke, neck.
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Jeezy: Arkansas.
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Manny: Broke, neck.
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Jeezy: West Virginia broke neck. Yeah.
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Jeezy: California.
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Manny: Broke, neck.
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Jeezy: Tennessee.
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Manny: Broke, neck.
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Jeezy: And Wisconsin to pull in the rear.
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Manny: Severely injured. l. 1. Through 5.
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Jeezy: Now I will say, I believe that from a presidential perspective, and I could be wrong because I don't have that information handy. But the most majority of these 7 States voted for trump in the previous election. Correct? Manny.
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Jeezy: Yeah, I believe so.
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Jeezy: So
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Jeezy: why, this is a pickle is this is not just a paperwork problem, but it is a policy problem. Trump's fema under acting Chief David Richardson is pushing for States to fend, basically quote fend for themselves. The Federal Government is stepping back, and these States are left holding the bill for disasters they didn't cause.
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Jeezy: and whether it's a political favoritism or it's just coast cutting cost cutting. Excuse me, the outcome is still the same, and I wanted to bring this up, because in our great State of North Carolina.
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Jeezy: the region that was affected by disaster, and, I believe, for North Carolina. This was the extended aid that was needed for Hurricane Helene. I mean, it's recovery which Josh Stein has warned that the State could be out of hundreds of millions of dollars trying to foot this cost by themselves without the Federal Government. I wonder if Trump doing this because he's ticked off about how the Supreme Court race turned out. But
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Jeezy: there's neither here nor there. But when you think about this primarily in our State that I can speak of, which is North Carolina. Most of the counties that were affected by Hurricane Helene
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Jeezy: were trump counties.
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Jeezy: and we saw that there was a lot of, and we talked about in a previous episode in season, one about the misinformation that was being spread about Fema, and how Fema was trying to help some of those people, and they were denying it because of the instruction of what trump was saying. And now you have
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Jeezy: their king, their ruler, telling them that he's not going to do anything to help them that has to be a shot to the gut. I would imagine, if you were a trump supporter or you voted for trump. And now, ultimately you realize that these Federal funds are not going to be withheld. I'm not going to be given to you, or the State's going to have to figure out how they're going to help you. And obviously, as Josh Stein has pointed out in North Carolina. This could be setting them back
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Jeezy: tremendously. And I think it's just odd, and I'm not saying this as a pun, or to be funny, but for those that voted for trump. Now you have to rely on in North Carolina. Here our Democratic Governor to try to hopefully, maybe pull you out of the water
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Jeezy: to help you repair and rebuild that which you have lost when you casted your ballot for someone who said that he would do any and everything and all things to help you. So for these 7 States, you are definitely in a pickle because you have to.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Indeed, Finn, for yourself, and I will say this. What happens in the next hurricane season, when it hits.
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Manny: Oh, the the one that they've already, said, the Fema, that we we not prepare for that that one that's coming up.
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Jeezy: What are we going to do if Fema says, No, again, should Congress convene intervene?
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Jeezy: Or is this just going to be another executive flex, or who benefits politically from these denials? Is it a power play heading into 2026.
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Manny: The world may never know, but we
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Manny: we may not know in advance, but we're about to find out.
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Jeezy: We're about to find out. So in all of this, as he be in our pickle, it seems that Trump's new fema motto is, if you break it, you buy it, but if the sky breaks it, tough luck buy it, anyway.
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Jeezy: So when disaster strikes and the White House turns its back. The real emergency might not be. The storm is the silence from Washington, and for those 7 States the silence is deafening and as well as expensive. So those are my pickle of the weeks, those 7 States.
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Jeezy: Good luck!
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Jeezy: Peace be the journey!
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Jeezy: And, as somebody said, May you have the day that you voted for
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Jeezy: I.
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Manny: I mean, yeah, you know, it'd be like that.
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Jeezy: It'd be like that sometimes. Bro.
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Manny: But I do. I do generically feel bad for the people who did not vote for this day.
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Jeezy: There's somebody that said I did not ask for this, and and it's punching air right now, because the people around them did. And it's 1 of those things I would drive around the community and just be like.
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Manny: I told you so. I blasted as loud as I could on my radio. I told you so. I told you so.
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Manny: Strap the speakers on the roof.
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Jeezy: Yep, yep, I told you so. This is what you asked for.
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Manny: So, yeah, that's my pickle for the week, brother. So, as always, we are at the end of our episode, where we have our spotlights of the week. So, my brother, what is your spotlight of the week?
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Manny: And well, I got 2. Okay, one looking back and one looking forward. So.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: Well, yeah, I was good. I was doing. I was doing good this afternoon.
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Manny: You're doing good in this episode. Bro, but President Trump
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Manny: was the commencement speaker at several graduations, none, and then none
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Manny: more recent than at West Point, our Military Academy, and he had several things to say, and I was going to just read these to you, but I think some of these might just be better if we hear them from the man himself.
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Jeezy: -
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Jeezy: Hey? A trophy? What?
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Jeezy: It didn't work out too well.
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Jeezy: but that doesn't work out too well, I must tell you a lot of trophy. Wives doesn't work out.
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Jeezy: but it made him happy for a little while at least.
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Jeezy: But he found a new wife.
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Manny: He sold his little boat he got a big yacht. He had one of the biggest yachts anywhere in the world.
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Manny: He moved for a time to Monte Carlo, and he.
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Jeezy: Led, the good life.
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Manny: What?
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Jeezy: And time went.
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Manny: Bye.
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Jeezy: He got bored.
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Manny: And 15 years later the company that he sold to called him.
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Manny: and they said, The housing business is not for us. You have to understand. When Bill Levitt was hot.
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Manny: had momentum
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Manny: he'd go to the job sites every night. He'd pick up every loose name. Right? Okay. So I'm gonna just stop that 1st clip there.
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Manny: Bill Levitt, feel this man's just chilling. It sounds like he's counting his money.
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Manny: And but next thing you know, he's talking about him. What? So what I would think if I was sitting in the crowd is, sir, I'm in the military. We're about to go to war. I ain't got time to think about you. Yeah, it's what. What about what about the the military? What about us? Well, Trump had a quote for you, too.
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Jeezy: Oh, okay, buying you new airplanes, brand new, beautiful planes, redesigned planes, brand new planes, totally stealth planes. I hope this.
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Manny: I don't know.
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Jeezy: That whole self thing. I'm sort of wondering, I mean, if we shape a wing this way. They don't see it, but the other way they see it. I'm not so sure.
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Manny: That's what they.
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Jeezy: Tell me buying you new.
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Manny: What, what.
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Jeezy: What is? What is this man talking about? Bro. What? Why is he? Why is he at a commencement speaking, acting like he's on the campaign trail. Bro.
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Manny: He's never stops. He never saw. You remember what I said earlier about.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Trump just never stopped, can't stop, won't stop.
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Jeezy: He only know what he only know. One method. Bro.
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Manny: Him, and Diddy can't stop, won't stop.
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Jeezy: No party like a trump party. Bro.
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Manny: All right.
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Manny: Take that. Take. That ain't no, and I'm just like, Come on. And then this one
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Manny: of the US. Armed forces is not to host. Drag shows.
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Jeezy: Transform foreign cultures, but to spread democracy to
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Jeezy: everybody around the world at the point of a gun. The military's job is to dominate any foe and annihilate any threat to America, anywhere, anytime and any place. The job of the US.
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Manny: So. So my 1st question with this is.
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Manny: I didn't know the military had drag shows.
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Jeezy: I didn't know they did either.
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Jeezy: So that's news to me. This might be news to the joint chief staffs.
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Manny: But that. And then the the more stressful part about this, at least that particular statement was him saying that the point of the military Us. Military was to spread democracy.
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Manny: No, that's not. It's not. If you are happy with your leader, you keep him
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Manny: the Us. The role of the us military should be to intervene when there are crazy authoritarians.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: In office who are attacking and hurting people and not listening to international law. That should be the point that there's Us. Military involvement. And then one of the other quotes that he said, talking about NATO and our allies, that we will no longer send our military on missions unless there's a specific set goal in mind.
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Manny: and let me be clear. I'm pretty sure that there is a set goal.
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Jeezy: M.
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Manny: Every.
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Jeezy: We ain't never sent nobody to say why we here.
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Manny: Hey? Just just go drop a whole bunch of stuff on Ulan Bator, you know, because it's Tuesday.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Manny: Trump is so wild, so wild all the time.
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Jeezy: This was a terrible Commencement speech, and I'm gonna be honest with you. If I just went through all the hassle and hardship that I had to do to graduate West Point, and I had to hear this man sound like that. He was trying to recite the Kentucky fried chicken recipe. I'm going to be pissed.
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Manny: Paint.
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Jeezy: For this.
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Jeezy: I'll grab my family. We going to Golden Corral.
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Manny: I'm just sitting. But think about this. Entire group is are getting ready to be officers in the military.
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Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, like.
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Manny: How many people in that audience were just like, you know what.
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Jeezy: Yeah, what did? What did the group chat? Say.
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Jeezy: I'm I'm gonna do. My, I'm gonna do my contract. And I'm getting out.
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Jeezy: Yeah, nobody here.
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Manny: Because because no absolute.
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Manny: So that's my 1st spotlight.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: Trump trump a while. Do
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Manny: my second spotlight is looking forward, coming back to the Supreme Court. So we saw the Supreme Court start ruling on their stuff in last session. The big one from this week was regarding that online Charter school that wanted the Catholic Charter School that wanted to take funds. Acb. Amy Cohen Barrett rescued herself.
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Manny: resulting in a deadlock, and in that deadlock they that means they leave the lower courts rule into play. So that does mean that this religious, you know, Catholic school will not be getting state funds, and I agree with that
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Manny: just from the basics. If you gotta do it for one. You gotta do it for all, so you might as well just say no to everybody.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: But then, so that that I think some people will see as win. Some will see as a loss. I did not know there were virtual online charter schools. I may low key. Just get get my kid in a regular school.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Manny: And then, when you get done, go ahead, hop on, go ahead and go to this Charter school randomly.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: But in June, so the end of its term in June there's a couple other cases that they are planning to rule on the free speech coalition versus Paxton. This case challenges a Texas law requiring age verification to access to adult content online raising questions about free speech and how we're regulating the Internet.
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Jeezy: Hmm.
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Manny: That'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
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Jeezy: Very interesting.
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Manny: The second one, the city and county of San Francisco versus the EPA. The court is going to decide whether the EPA can impose certain water quality standards without specifying the exact pollutant limits.
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Manny: So that is, that's going to be a giant hit to to how we federally regulate a lot of things, especially when we talk about the environment pollutants.
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Manny: And then the last one, Tiktok versus Garland. This case is going to be focusing on the constitutionality of the protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act. That's a long ass title for an act.
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Jeezy: Facts.
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Manny: Which affects the operation of foreign owned apps like Tiktok in the United States.
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Manny: So the these are some big cases that are coming up, and we'll kind of see how they they play out over the next month.
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Jeezy: Gotcha.
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Manny: And those are my spotlights of the week. What you got for us.
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Jeezy: Well, I got something. I'm a i'm gonna start out a little bit rough, and then I'm gonna end it light. So pause.
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Jeezy: hey, I didn't catch that. Bro.
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Manny: That was egregious, that was egregious.
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Jeezy: Erroneous on all counts.
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Jeezy: But my 1st spotlight I want to pull up is when global tensions hit home. So in this spotlight there's a heartbreaking and deeply alarming event that took place in our nation's capital. 2 Israeli Embassy staffers were fatally shot outside the Capitol Jewish Museum in what appears to be a politically and religiously motivated attack.
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Jeezy: The suspect was reportedly shouted Free Palestine! Making it clear that this was more than just some random act, but it was hate that was cloaked in ideology. So
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Jeezy: why this matters, and why I want us to look at this is that it exposes the vulnerability of protecting diplomats in Jewish Institutes, even in DC. I think it was just crazy that he was able to just really run up on them like this, but it also signals that foreign conflicts are feeding domestic issues
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Jeezy: absolutely
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Jeezy: here at home, and I think that it forces a question, how do we protect free speech while stopping violent extremism. This is something that I feel like is starting to. I hate to say this phrase, but catching steam, but it seems that this is becoming more prevalent in our society.
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Manny: Absolutely.
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Jeezy: And it's something that we need to address. And it's important, because while before, we felt as though in our society here, domestically, foreign issues. And our stance on those issues necessarily weren't as egregious or as violent of a situation in society that happened here.
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Jeezy: It's starting to become a real life issue. I believe these 2 individuals were very young, were engaged and lost their life, not to anything that they did, but because of. They represented maybe, part of what this person felt was an issue.
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Jeezy: They lost their lives so no one should lose their their life over something. This this senseless. There's more than one way to express yourself in a very nonviolent way. This certainly does not prove the point of this individual, which I believe he's he's in custody. He did not. He didn't lose his life. In the midst of this.
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Manny: At least at least at this point, because they, you know, I believe they came out and said they plan to prosecute to the full extent of the law, so.
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Jeezy: So to this point I want to bring it as a spotlight. How do we address radicalization without infringing?
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Jeezy: And I think that is a very tough.
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Jeezy: tough question that we have to to answer, because I don't believe. And I'm not saying this as if I
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Jeezy: I want this to happen. But I don't believe that this issue is starting to go anywhere with the reach of social media and the Internet. The birth of extremism is more prevalent now than ever before.
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Jeezy: So there has to be a question between Federal protection addressing this radicalization while not infringing on civil liberties, or even just us leaders doing enough to combat hate, driven violence linked to these global issues. We've seen that trump has been trying to tackle some of these things, but they kind of haven't been the right approach.
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Jeezy: Something that needs to be handled, but maybe not the right approach. And I think this is a
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Jeezy: very delicate situation and circumstance that we are going to have to address as the American people, to protect those and make sure that this is not something that starts to become a recurring issue, like we see with school shootings and other things of that nature so.
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Manny: There. There's an entire regulation that I think
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Manny: is going to get brought up and looked at it the moment we decide to actually start having a real conversation around this. And that is
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Manny: Internet companies like social media says sites. There is a there is a regulation, and I can't remember the the name or number of it that essentially says they are not responsible for the content that their users post on their sites.
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Jeezy: That's gonna change.
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Manny: And well, it's been. It's been there. It's been tried. And I think
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Manny: it impacts how these companies operate. Yeah. So it has to be there.
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Manny: But it's like to what what is the line? And I think for years we have just avoided trying to draw a line in the sand. Yeah, but
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Manny: and largely, the lines being drawn in the sand by the user base. You know, users leaving the site and the users leave the site, they lose the data when they lose the data, they they're not able to as efficiently be able to make money off of that data. So I think that's got to be in the discussion of how you solve this. But you are 1,000% correct. This is a horrible, senseless
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Manny: act of violence, and we gotta figure out a way to address this in a more meaningful way.
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Jeezy: And I think that you got to do it expeditiously.
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Manny: Expeditious.
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Jeezy: This needs to be addressed fast, because with as much as we have our hands in internationally, there is a lot for these extremists to pull from that could be very detrimental to the American society and to our livelihood domestically. So.
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Manny: Yep.
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Jeezy: Hopefully that happens. So. Lastly.
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Jeezy: just to close out my spotlight, I just wanted to pull up a clip.
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Jeezy: President Donald Trump, as you know that President Donald Trump is at war with a lot of entities, but one in particular, you know that he's been going at Harvard, and I want to play us a clip, that President Trump said. And I wish you guys to see this clip, because this was to give you kind of content on what this clip is. Trump was having a very bad hair day.
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Manny: Terrible.
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Jeezy: You know what to perfect.
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Manny: Let you.
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Jeezy: Know what type of time he was on in this clip. So this is an update on his war with Harvard. A lot of the people need remedial wrath. Meth. Did you see that
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Jeezy: where these.
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Manny: Students can't add 2 and 2.
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Jeezy: And they go to Harvard. They want.
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Manny: Remedial math, and they're going to teach remedial math at Harvard. Now wait a minute. So why would they get in? How can somebody they can't add, or has.
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Jeezy: Very basic skills. How do they get into Harvard? Why are they there? And then? You see those same people picketing and screaming at the United States and screaming at, you know they're anti-semitic, or they're something we don't want.
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Jeezy: 1st of all, 2, 2 and 2.
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Jeezy: Why did he say 2 or 2 like that for what 2
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Jeezy: I'm starting to question. Did Trump really go to college?
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: Because all of us have sat in orientation.
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Jeezy: If you've gone to college.
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Jeezy: and I want our listeners to understand this is that this is in the same bucket of trump saying that Biden has stage 9.
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Jeezy: Well, there's only 4 stages of cancer. So let's stop. Let's stop talking stupid.
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Manny: But those of us that have been to college know that remedial math does not mean that you can't add 2 plus 2.
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Jeezy: Does not what remedial math is, and and just so we understand. All colleges have remedial math.
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Manny: But also like, let's remember what Harvard is like. Harvard is no different than East Carolina.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Jeezy: It's just a school for.
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Manny: Except there is. They have a huge endowment. They do. Re, guess what Ecu does research, too. We do shout out to Ecu medical.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir, yes, it is.
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Manny: Brody school of science. But it's largely a place where it's a regular school. They obviously have really smart kids there, really smart people went to Ecu. You're on the pod with 2 of them right now. Yes, indeed, but also like
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Manny: rich people. Don't always have the smartest kids. Sorry I was trying to figure out a more easier way to ease into it.
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Jeezy: That's real.
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Manny: But like, and he's like, how did these people get in? Well.
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Manny: put drop, drop 40 million into the endowment for a building.
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Manny: you know. That's how people get in.
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Jeezy: That way. Barry Trump got into his college right. Let's not play stupid, but I just want us to understand the comical nature of trump, too, plus 2, and his continued war with Harvard, and just showing that he will not continue to pull out the stop. So I think this for spotlight. I think this is something to keep our attention on, because Harvard's not.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: Down. And I think this is a this is a fight that we're seeing, that this could square up to be a pretty good one in the arena of fighting because hard.
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Manny: Bet.
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Jeezy: Are no slouches. They they got the long they got the long money to stay in this fight.
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Manny: I think they got several billions of dollars, tens of billions of dollars in their endowment. They have rich lots of rich people who are on their side in this battle.
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Jeezy: And to mention, from a legal perspective, they they have bred some of the the strongest lawyers that our nation has seen, so they have some coins on their side. Man, this is definitely a Thanos versus avengers
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Jeezy: type of matchup. So good luck. But trump is not backing down. So if you're in remedial math at Harvard. I want to apologize that you have been targeted.
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Manny: You gotta you gotta stray for no reason, man, you gotta.
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Jeezy: Stray bullet, for no.
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Manny: We just here trying to figure out what 2 plus 2.
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Jeezy: Prayers to you that you understand what 2 plus 2 is, and you'll be able to make it through. So those are my spotlights for the week. So we have reached the conclusion of our episode. But before we end I actually forgot to do this, many at the beginning. But I want to take a moment
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Jeezy: to honor the brave man and women who gave their lives in service to this country.
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Manny: Absolutely.
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Jeezy: As you're listening to this episode, it is Memorial Day. So shout out to those that are observing this holiday. It's not something that we should view just as a long weekend, or even some may view it as some schools are starting to close. I believe this is the final week for some schools around our country. This should not be looked at as a start to the summer, but it should be
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Jeezy: a reminder of the freedom and the cost of freedom that we are able to have, though we may have some indifferences in the United States, and we
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Jeezy: may have some differences politically. I think that one thing we all can agree on is that the men and women who have served bravely to allow us to have the freedom that most in this world
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Jeezy: do not experience, do not live in.
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Jeezy: do not have. We should be eternally grateful for that. So, as we observe this day, I just want to remember the sacrifice that you've made the honor of your legacy, and that we carry it for those of us that have not served, that we carry it with gratitude for those men and women and the families of those men and women that have allowed us to be able to have the freedom that we have here in the United States so happy Memorial Day.
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Manny: Happy Memorial Day, and thank you to to those who've gone on, and those gold star families that still have to live and process life with those loss of those loved ones. So thank you, guys for the sacrifice that you all you all have made as well to this country for the freedoms we enjoy right here right now.
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Jeezy: Yes, indeed. So that is the conclusion of Episode
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Jeezy: 21 of season 2. Look on. Be on the lookout for episode 21, part 2.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Will be coming out as we continue to pick up where we left off with our big, beautiful bill. But we want to thank you for tuning in to this episode and listening and and hopefully enjoying, and continue to spread the word of partner politics. As we try our best here to continue to cover the chaos that we call politics in this world today. So with that being said, All hearts and minds clear, brother, you good.
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Manny: I got one thing for. So we said last week that we had a big announcement coming, and we're going to go ahead and make that announcement. So from now, starting, when you hear this episode all the way through summer.
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Manny: all the way through summer, we are taking
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Manny: ideas for what to call our user base. You are listeners. So send us your thoughts. Send us your ideas, and the winner will win some 1st edition.
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Manny: First, st run pardon the politics gear that will be coming out over the summer.
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Jeezy: Yes, yes.
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Manny: So we we thank you guys for your continued support talking to other people talking about the pod. We appreciate it. We feel the love we want to give back. So you guys, the person we select will get some 1st run. Pardon the politics gear, and we're not just talking about like your your everyday t-shirt. It wouldn't be us if you just got some T-shirts.
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Manny: We're going.
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Manny: Oh, no.
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Jeezy: Exactly.
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Manny: We we got some stuff cooking. So.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah.
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Manny: You will get 1st completely free. We're going to pay for the shipping to get it to you.
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Jeezy: Yep, you. We just need you to participate.
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Manny: We just need you to participate and and
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Manny: send us your ideas, and we'll we'll take the rest from here.
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Jeezy: Hey? You know Beyonce has the beehive trump, has the Magus, so the partner politics we need. We need our old people. We need our old name for our people, too. You guys have been supporting us tremendously on this journey, and we would not be able to do what we do without you. So we want to coin something, and we want to give our listeners that opportunity to give us that name for our listeners, that tune in so faithfully each and every week, so
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Jeezy: keep reach out to us. Let us know what that is, and be on the lookout for the merch and some other developments that will be coming soon. So with that being said, I'm good, brother.
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Jeezy: I'm I'm good as well.
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Jeezy: all right. Well, as we always say at the end of every episode, that if don't nobody love, you just know that the boys hear your pardon. The politics we love.
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Manny: We love y'all.
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Jeezy: So take care, enjoy this memorial day. Thank you, and shout out to all those honorable men and women who have served in their families, and we will see you at the next episode. Take care, world.