Trump Always Chickens Out? Inside the ‘TACO’ Tariff Talk

In Episode 22 of Pardon the Politics, Jeezy and Manny dive deep into the messiness of American politics with a signature blend of humor and hard facts. From Trump’s new Wall Street nickname—“TACO” (Trump Always Chickens Out)—to the real meaning behind tariffs and emergency powers, they question who’s really in charge… and if they even read what they vote on. The Big, Beautiful Bill (BBB) is under fire, and several Republicans are buckling under the weight of public backlash and town hall takedowns. Add in environmental concerns from Elon Musk’s new AI project in Memphis, Japan losing its economic crown to Germany, and a senator sarcastically citing Jesus after a controversial Medicaid comment, and you’ve got one spicy episode.

Is Congress even doing its job? Or are we all in a pickle? Find out why listeners across the country - especially Nevada -are tuning in.

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Jeezy: Hello world and welcome to pardon the politics podcast season 2. Episode 22, 2, 2.
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Manny: Hey!
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Jeezy: Welcome welcome to another episode. I am your co-host, Jeezy, along with my brother and my partner in politics. Manny, my good brother, how are you doing on this fine day.
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Manny: I'm doing well.
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Manny: The sun is out. It's not raining, it's not overly hot. It's 1 of those those blissful days in the.
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Jeezy: Don't care!
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Manny: Carolina.
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Jeezy: Which are few and far between.
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Manny: Few and far between.
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Manny: Last time
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Manny: we got those those temperatures. It was a layer of pollen in the sky, so there was nothing we could really do with that.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir, yes, sir, it it definitely has been a pretty some pretty nice weather here in in North Carolina. If you if you are by any chance wondering how I'm doing. Brother, I'm doing. I'm doing quite.
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Manny: I was getting ready.
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Jeezy: Doing quite terrible this past weekend I had kindergarten graduation for my youngest daughter and dance recital.
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Jeezy: I had to do the dad duty and.
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Manny: Oh, yeah.
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Jeezy: It through.
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Jeezy: Dance, recital, rehearsal not the.
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Manny: Rehearsal too.
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Jeezy: Yeah. Bro, which it was about about 3 and a half hours of sitting there.
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Manny: I mean, it can't be worse than trying to watch me a step. Practice right?
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Manny: It can't be worse.
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Jeezy: Right. We had a house full because family was here. So I'm tired, man, but you know what at the end of the day, as I've always said as much as the the involved father.
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Manny: Oh.
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Manny: ends up getting the short end of the stick. It's a pleasure to sit back and see your family happy, no matter how much pain and tiredness that you may have had to endure to make sure that everybody was happy. So
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Manny: and it's and it's June. And I just want to remind everyone. Father's day is.
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Jeezy: Hey!
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Manny: In 2 weeks.
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Jeezy: Hey? Listen! I think this weekend I put my I think I put my work in. I put enough on paper. I put enough out on the field, brother, that I believe.
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Manny: He's cruise, cruise.
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Jeezy: Father's day. Unanimous trophy winner.
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Manny: To all of our listeners out there.
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Manny: I just want y'all this father's day
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Manny: put in the same effort. Y'all do y'all want.
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Jeezy: 11, hey, man.
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Manny: All we want.
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Jeezy: For for the fathers. Bro.
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Jeezy: At some point, Dads, we gotta unite.
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Manny: We gotta unite.
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Jeezy: Macaroni cards, handprints that's turned into flowers.
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Jeezy: It ain't gonna cut it.
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Manny: Don't give me socks expecting a vacation.
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Jeezy: Nope, Nope, neckties only wear, only wear ties. Don't give me the necktie.
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Jeezy: I need y'all to start stepping up. Teach our children mother.
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Jeezy: Teach our children how to properly give quality father's day gifts. But that's another topic.
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Manny: That's for another day.
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Jeezy: As you can tell, we are very passionate about this topic. So we're going to leave this alone before we incriminate ourselves and get in trouble.
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Jeezy: but to our listeners, welcome to another episode of partner politics. As always, we are excited to be back doing another episode, giving you the content that you deserve in a crazy and chaotic political landscape and global world. So and thank you.
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Manny: To everyone who listened to last episode.
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Jeezy: Oh, Bruh, yeah.
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Manny: And our Wednesday drop. Man.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Definitely appreciate all the love that we got from the Wednesday drop. We weren't sure how y'all were gonna how y'all were gonna turn out for this Wednesday episode, but y'all y'all showed out. Y'all did what you what you do. So we deeply appreciate that.
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Jeezy: Yes, we we definitely do as well shout out to our listeners, you guys have, and it always many to me. It really
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Jeezy: just kind of takes me back
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Jeezy: to just realizing the amount of support that we have.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: And we haven't even had our one year anniversary yet.
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Jeezy: And just the love and support and the listeners, and all that we get is just we're beyond grateful to.
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Jeezy: Yes.
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Jeezy: please understand, we do this. And though it, though it is something that's us being both family guys and career men, it takes some time and diligence to do this. But you guys really make it worthwhile for us to continue week after week to to do the pod in these episodes, and we appreciate it.
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Manny: Shout out and shout out to our listeners in Nevada.
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Jeezy: Oh, Bro. Yes, yes, yes, whoever you are.
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Manny: Yeah, I got you gotta hit us up, man, we we gotta get you some of this this new merch that we're gonna be dropping through the summer. Like, yeah.
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Jeezy: We got some merch that's coming, and there's 1 listener. That is the very as soon as the episodes drop on Monday. He's bam. He's right there
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Jeezy: right in there, right there. Whoever it is is right there. So please reach out to us
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Jeezy: on the pod, either on our social media or our email
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Jeezy: cause. We, we want to applaud you because you, you are setting the standard. And we like that.
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Manny: Yes.
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Jeezy: Please reach out to us so that we can get to know who you are.
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Manny: And get you some merch man.
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Jeezy: Get you some merch because you deserve it. You deserve it. Who.
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Manny: On on the pod on us. We're gonna get you sub.
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Jeezy: Charge. So let us know who you are. That listener in what is it, Reno? Nevada.
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Manny: Reno or
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Manny: I've I forget the other.
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Jeezy: You know who you are, you you know exactly who you are in Nevada.
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Manny: You know, you know who you talk to. It's like it's like that moment where the pastor be preaching, and you'd be like God. Are you talking directly to me, not comparing us to God? But we are talking.
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Jeezy: Weird.
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Manny: The u.
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Jeezy: Yep, so reach out to us, please.
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Manny: No shade to any of our listeners.
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Jeezy: Oh, no! No! No! No! No!
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Manny: But.
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Jeezy: But that's what it.
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Manny: Nevada been rocking with us that have been rocking with us so.
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Jeezy: Shout out to you, so please reach out to us on our socials or our email, and let us know who you are, so we can get some of that new merch, and to our listeners the merch is coming. You have been put on alert. The merch is coming, so be on the lookout for some details dropping, and we want y'all to rock the merch. We got some stuff for the for the Springs the summer, the fall.
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Jeezy: We got some some office decor. We got some everything. So we're excited about that. So at the appropriate time we'll drop those details, and you guys can get fitted up, dipped in butter with some of the podcast.
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Manny: Oh, yeah. So now, now that we're done with the church announcements
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Manny: right? Right? All hearts and minds.
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Jeezy: We have our 1st segment, and we have some queued up for you to ring us in into our 1st segment. So let us get it, man, drop it on us.
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Jeezy: They say trump always chickens out. They say taco!
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Jeezy: If they say chicken, if they say taco, they say trump always chickens out. No, I'm not the chicken, I'm not the chicken.
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Jeezy: I'm not the chicken. I'm not the chicken. Mr. President, I'm not the chicken every time you set up a terror. I'm not the Chicken Wall Street betting against them, betting against them, betting against them.
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Jeezy: They say chicken, they say Taco.
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Jeezy: they say trump always chickens out. They say taco right.
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Manny: Taco, taco, trump, always chicken, chicken out right.
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Jeezy: So if you're not aware there was a
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Jeezy: There was a question that an interviewer asked Trump this past week, and they revealed to him that how does he feel about this term that he has been coined with by Wall Street as Taco? And they told him, you know it stands for trump always chickens out in regards to his tariffs, and Brother Trump
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Jeezy: was not. I was unaware, 1st of all.
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Manny: News him.
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Jeezy: He was very unaware he was not happy at all.
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Jeezy: And this this really and from what behind the scene reporting, has stated that this really pissed him off, that nobody told him that this was going.
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Manny: I know.
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Jeezy: Because, you know, Trump's the ultimate troller. But the fact that Wall Street is trolling you, and you can tell when they asked him, because he started to get a little defensive like.
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Manny: Seriously.
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Jeezy: Chicken out! Oh, why, chicken out.
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Manny: Oh, I thought it was good negotiating, really! Who's really the chicken?
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Jeezy: But they gave him this because, as we have seen, and as we've covered in previous episodes, that trump will
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Jeezy: but a tariff.
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Manny: So far.
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Jeezy: Then he'll he'll pull it back. Then he'll do 145, then he'll do 30, and then so there's this back and forth. So with this this coin of Trump and his tariff, and the movement of it, and how it's been going.
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Jeezy: Man, what's our latest update on where we are with terrorists.
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Manny: Well, the a little known court in New York said, Don't worry, Trump. You're not going to have to chicken out now. We'll handle it for you. But the Us. Court of international trade ruled that the Liberation Day tariffs
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Manny: were not justified and a legitimate national emergency.
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Manny: and thus violated the separation of powers. So a little bit more information on that is.
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Manny: trump has used largely a couple of
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Manny: very specific rules that have allowed him to impose tariffs, because, as you've heard, other Senators and Congressmen, congresswomen have said, is that the power of of levying tariffs is on Congress? Yeah, so trump has been using very specific rules, and I'll go ahead and let you know. Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962. This allows him to levy tariffs on national security basis.
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Jeezy: -
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Manny: The International Emergency Economic powers app.
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Manny: This is for national emergencies. And then Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. This is used to combat untrade, unfair trade practices.
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Jeezy: No, hold on, Manny. I want to stop you right there.
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Manny: Please.
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Jeezy: Now we know that President Donald Trump is not known for.
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Manny: Reading.
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Jeezy: Okay, yes, he's not known for for reading.
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Jeezy: How does he know about all these.
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Manny: I have a couple. I have a couple guesses first, st Chatgpt.
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Manny: That's my 1st guess. But.
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Jeezy: Can you imagine? Hold on, man, hold on, pause, pause, pause.
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Jeezy: Can you imagine the things that trump puts in his chat?
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Jeezy: I can only imagine the things, but it's gotta be wild.
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Jeezy: Melania won't talk to me.
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Jeezy: I tell her cheers.
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Jeezy: Can you draft me divorce papers? A sample? Just so I can scare him.
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Manny: Man. Yeah. So basically. So the Liberation Day tariffs were used under the the comments of it being a national emergency. And they're like, brother, y'all can't do that.
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Manny: So the
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Manny: so basically, what tariffs it, it invalidated were the 10% 10% tariff on pretty much all foreign goods, so shout out to the island with all the penguins, y'all won.
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Jeezy: I wouldn't.
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Manny: Y'all won. Well, maybe so. Basically it was fell back. The tariffs that were not hit were the tariffs that used the section 232 of the Trade Expansion Acts, and those were the ones on steel and aluminum. Those were not impacted.
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Manny: Well, the Administration completely responded like
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Manny: they knew that, like like we knew they were, they peeled it, and a Federal appeals court has temporarily reinstated the chairs pending fit for the review.
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Manny: So they have set deadlines for the briefs from both sides in early June. So the saga continues, but it looks like it's it's coming to our head right now.
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Jeezy: Well
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Jeezy: from what it seems like, and it and it appears that this is becoming a norm in this administration. When we see these various acts and and whatnot that the President is using at his disposal to try to do certain things.
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Jeezy: The the concern I have is that it seems that he's trying to expand the scope on things that
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Jeezy: may not necessarily be generally used or typically used for the things that he's trying to use them for.
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Manny: Yes, exactly.
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Jeezy: So, but with that is, should the President be allowed to use emergency powers to somehow negotiate trade policies.
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Manny: I mean, probably not. That's why, you know, it's a power that's given directly to Congress and not to the President. That's that's 1st and foremost, yeah, and then like.
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Manny: so here's my thing. If you're going to be in politics, and you're going to feel something very, very strongly, stand on business.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Critique it when it's when it helps you and when it goes against you. So
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Manny: if you to, to your question, and I think it's a little bit broader of just, you know, tariffs. I think it's all emergency powers, and being able to to use them kind of kind of wishy-washy. So the Biden Administration can be argued, did the same thing with student loans.
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Jeezy: Oh, facts!
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Manny: So it's the small leveraging of rules. But I think that's also part of the game.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: I think it's part of the game they want to kind of go through all this. And just to kind of see, I think every President has tried to expand their powers in some capacity.
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Manny: And it's just interesting. But I think if we roll back to tariffs.
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Manny: what is what is his point. Yeah, you know, I know he kind of wants to use tariffs. But even like that, loving the 10%, it doesn't make sense. And a person, I think, at this point, geez! We might as well hit him up and ask him if he will personally come, join us on the pod for episode, our our good brother Rand, Paul.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
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Manny: He. He spoke earlier this week, and I want to play a clip of what he said.
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Manny: Maybe if there was sound, hold on, hold on.
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Manny: It's leading us to believe that we're always being ripped off. We have a trade deficit with Bangladesh. We will always have a trade deficit with Bangladesh. They are poor, and we are rich.
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Jeezy: The richest people in this in this dinner tonight. All have a bigger trade deficit with Amazon than I do.
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Jeezy: The more money you have. The more you spend. Poor people don't have as much. They have less of a trade deficit. Bangladesh will never buy from us as much as we buy from them. We're not getting poorer because we trade with Bangladesh.
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Jeezy: Shout out, shout out, Rp, man!
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Manny: But just just dropping knowledge like
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Manny: if his goal was to to shorten the trade deficit. Obviously, that makes sense with some countries. But it's not going to be. Are we ever really going to have a trade deficit, you know. Is that ever going to switch with China? Probably not. Why? Because they make everything. And we buy all the things. Yep.
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Manny: so are there areas where China is is predatory? Absolutely. And we should be going after them? Are there places that a lot of these countries are predatory and how they charge us and some of those, yes.
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Manny: But when you talk about levering 10% on everybody. Just because there's a trade deficit.
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Manny: You. It's the. It's the critical reading. It goes back to the Ptp challenge.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: Can you read?
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: Age out of a Harry Potter book before you get elected.
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Jeezy: And I will even go a step further. And and I would I would issue a questionnaire. And the 1st question on that questionnaire would be this
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Jeezy: when you were in elementary school in parts of middle school? Did you participate in accelerated reader?
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Jeezy: And if you did, what was your score?
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Jeezy: I didn't know, were you? Were you comprehending on your on your grade level?
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Jeezy: Some of this stuff is just it makes sense.
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Manny: Yeah. And it's well, it's and it's contextual reading. It's.
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Jeezy: It is, it is.
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Manny: It, reading it and then reading behind that like, oh, okay.
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Manny: it's almost as if they're seeing the number and saying, Oh, we have a trade deficit and not doing the necessary research. We see this with what the government's done with Doge. Where? Like, Oh, yeah, we don't need this one study. Well, if you actually take the time, what the
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Manny: the quote unquote transgender mice
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Jeezy: Oh, Bro.
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Manny: If you did some reading right beyond it, you would understand that this was just to make specific genetic copies of mice, so they could have consistent studies when they use them in these studies.
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Jeezy: Transgender and transgenetic are not.
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Manny: Are vastly different things.
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Jeezy: And they got mice twirling in cages.
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Manny: Just going through like. So to your earlier answer, did he read it? No, yeah, no. And you know how I know he didn't read it because it came out. I think yesterday was the 1st day that I heard it, that Tulsi Gabbard is reaching out to Fox news
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Manny: to get a producer or hire a producer for the White House to help create content.
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Manny: video, content that they can show the President for his daily security briefings because he ain't reading them.
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Jeezy: Bro, they gotta get this man a picture book.
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Manny: Bruh yes.
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Jeezy: Yes.
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Manny: Because he is not reading them.
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Jeezy: He's right, and that should be
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Jeezy: when you look at the magnitude of of what he's trying to accomplish with tears.
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Jeezy: That doesn't give me a lot of confidence in knowing that the person who's implementing certain things within this trade or or tariff war
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Jeezy: isn't up to snuff on the things that he needs to know knowledge wise
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Jeezy: to get to the end goal, because if he's not knowledgeable, then who is that saying? Oh, yes, sir, that sounds like a good deal. That sounds very tricky.
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Manny: Trump reads me kind of like one of those people where, if you you say idea, you use the right buzzwords, they're going to say, Yeah, go with that without asking any further questions. So somebody saw this and said, Yeah, this will work.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Now the flip side of tariffs is
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Manny: we have had in this year. So far, we've had a 78% increase in the amount of tariff revenue. So far this year the Us. Government has taken in 68.2 billion dollars in tariff revenue.
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Manny: And if you're tracking from our previous episode. That's enough to to go ahead and boost up immigration and try to do something on this wall that they've been trying to get through.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: But and just a side I'll hold that side note. I'll hold that side note. Let me go ahead, and right now.
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Jeezy: Hold, the mustard.
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Manny: But it's just
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Manny: so. Yeah, so all that being said trump is clearly in a pickle. Yeah, around these. It'll be interesting to see what happens in that court case. Regarding regarding that and for those of you tracking. It's a vos selections versus vos selections inc versus the United States.
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Manny: and because I think he has exceeded his authority because these are not emergencies like, had Covid been going on, I think it's like, Okay, it's a weak connection. But, hey, I can't argue with the national being a national emergency, because if trade deficits were our national emergency, then, but we've been in a national emergency with some of these places for for decades. At this point.
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Jeezy: Yeah, I need the difference to be clear in what a national security is and what national economy is. And I think that there needs to be a line that needs to be drawn. But you said something earlier that stuck out to me about you know what Congress role is in this?
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Jeezy: Why are? If this is something that Congress is supposed to be doing, why are they not doing it? And why are they letting him just
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Jeezy: respond the way he's responding. Is it that they're responding too slow to
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Jeezy: these economic threats? Or or what is it? Because it doesn't seem like that? They're they will
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Jeezy: at least one sided. It seems that there is no concern of what he's doing, and I mean the only Republican. At least I've seen speaking out is Rand, Paul. Why are they? Why are they not stepping up and saying, no, this is our job. The President's in out of line. He's he's overstepping his power and doing what he's doing.
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Manny: Well, others have said it, others have said it. They're not as popular, not as well known, not as you know. I won't say media friendly, but like the media, is not picking up on some of the stuff that they that they, these particular people say, if you're not from their area.
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Manny: But I think why he's doing it is clear, because Congress moves slow, and that's by design. Yeah.
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Jeezy: About. Say, that's the design of yeah.
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Manny: Us is a battleship. We turn very slowly. We have debate with him essentially
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Manny: doing this by executive ruling, by executive orders.
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Manny: And to be clear, I hated. I hate trump using executive orders. I hated Biden using executive orders. I hated Obama using executive orders. I hated Bush. Well.
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Manny: I didn't know as much, but in hindsight I hated the use in in the bush administration.
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Manny: It's not how our we are not made to be governed by executive order.
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Jeezy: No.
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Manny: We're meant for it to go through Congress. We're meant for it to have debate.
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Manny: and for those 400 some odd. Well, sorry. 500, some odd people. 535. Sorry. Let me let me give you all the.
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Jeezy: I love it.
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Manny: Yeah, I know the number 535. It's made for those people to make that ultimate decision on whether we should do this as a country. Yeah, so, but this also shows the fragility and the problem that you get when you try to govern by executive order, you're going. It's going to get challenged.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: And it's going to go to court.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: So here we.
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Jeezy: Love the Courthouse, Bro.
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Manny: Boy.
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Manny: He probably.
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Jeezy: We got it.
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Jeezy: I know I know one.
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Manny: Person who's a couple people, all these lawyers? Oh, yes, we got lawsuits all day.
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Jeezy: Yeah, I'm here. I'm here for a long time.
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Manny: And as these checks hit my account a good time.
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Manny: Yes, sir, yes, sir, if I'm getting, if he paying.
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Manny: But well, it's the Federal Government. So I don't think it's trump specifically paying, but it's the White House they're paying them. Them. Invoices are getting sent and.
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Jeezy: Somebody signing.
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Manny: Off!
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Manny: Hmm!
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Jeezy: You know, with with this man. I just think that
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Jeezy: you know this is going to be very interesting. How this, how this is laid out.
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Jeezy: I don't think they haven't given us given us details about exactly when those arguments need to be due just early early.
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Manny: Early June or so. 1st 2 weeks, so.
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Jeezy: 13 days.
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Manny: Right now. Yeah, it could happen today. Well, as of recording, it's not going to happen today. But it could happen at any moment.
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Jeezy: Yeah. Well, I think that when you look at
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Jeezy: how this tariff thing is playing out, and and the blow you said earlier that this puts Trump in a pickle. I think that we have. You know he's been kind of in a pickle in various ways, because.
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Jeezy: you know, he's having some pushback with the tears and what he's doing. And then, you know, we have what we talked about. Last episode.
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Jeezy: Shout out to Levar, Beau.
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Manny: the Bbb.
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Jeezy: The bbb.
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Manny: The big, the.
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Jeezy: Big Levine shout out to Levar, Bro, shout out to Levar.
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Manny: Talking about good fathers. Let's talk about Levar ball.
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Jeezy: Ball. Bro. A. Good a good day.
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Manny: Good present father, man.
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Jeezy: Present, father getting his kids over the finish line. Brother, we we ain't gonna get on that. But the big, beautiful bill.
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Jeezy: One big, beautiful Bill the big, the bold, and it may be getting a little bit bitter.
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Manny: Bye.
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Jeezy: This bill is sitting now, currently
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Jeezy: in the Senate, and we saw that there was some champion. But you can always tell Mike Johnson.
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Manny: Love when he get him a win brother.
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Jeezy: Man be skinning and grinning. Bro. When Daddy Trump come up to the house and he didn't, came and got all the boys in line and told them what they need to do, and it was celebrated as being, oh, we got the bill passed through. The House is on to the Senate, and it got to the Senate, and it smacked.
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Manny: Boy Magdale.
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Jeezy: Walk.
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Manny: And here's the thing. Why, even though Mike Johnson's cheese in some of his representatives who signed off on the bill.
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Jeezy: Bro they struggling.
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Manny: And y'all I want to play y'all a clip of a town hall. We'll we'll get into the details of it in a second, but I want to play the clip from the Town Hall.
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Manny: Can you please tell us why you voted to approve a Budget bill that includes section 703 0, 2, which effectively prohibits Federal courts from enforcing contempt orders
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Manny: literary, which would then allow current and future administrations to ignore those contempt orders by removing the enforcement capabilities.
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Manny: Don't worry
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Manny: about to get torn up. I do not agree with that section that was added to that bill.
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Manny: This provision was unknown to me when I voted for the bill, wet.
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Jeezy: Where.
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Manny: Okay? Next, question.
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Jeezy: Next question. I am not going to hide the truth.
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Manny: You know what, and I appreciate that.
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Jeezy: Hello!
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Manny: I appreciate I'm not going to hide the truth. So, Mr. Mr. Flood, I got a question for you.
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Jeezy: We got
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Manny: Did. Did did you read the bill?
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Manny: It was. It was unknown to you.
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Manny: How? How would it be unknown unless you, unless you read it.
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Jeezy: Bruh. So so my follow-up question, well, why are you voting for something you ain't read.
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Jeezy: Why are you voting for something that you have not read.
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Manny: You know what, Mike Flood, I'm challenging you to take the pardon.
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Manny: I am personally going to make a trip up to DC. I'm gonna do it after we're done here. I'm gonna I'm gonna get myself on his calendar while I'm up there.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: And I'm going to challenge him to read.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: The 1st page of a Harry Potter book, just to confirm that he can read.
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Jeezy: You can pick it. Do you want the prisoner, Azkaban? You want the half blood prints. You could pick the book, but you got to read one page one
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Jeezy: page I I just gotta know. Can you read?
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Jeezy: Think? We got to check here? You read because, Bro.
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Jeezy: which you we've said it here on the podcast before, and you and you said it. And and this is just confirmation of what you've said. These people ain't reading these.
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Manny: Reading these bills.
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Jeezy: So as the American people, we should be handing out the Ptp challenge to everyone.
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Jeezy: Everybody.
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Jeezy: Elections come up. We need to be going to these town halls, and you need to be asking these people that want to represent you in Washington to complete the Ptp challenge on site
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Jeezy: on site you. This is the problem that I have in all seriousness.
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Jeezy: You're voting for something that affects the lives of American people. Now, while I applaud his honesty.
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Jeezy: you, you just you just disqualified the hell out of yourself.
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Manny: Quickly, and the man's only been in. He's been in Congress.
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Jeezy: Oh, he!
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Manny: Yeah, since 22.
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Jeezy: Yeah. As I said, he looked green.
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Manny: He met.
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Jeezy: That answer was green, because somebody season wouldn't admitted it.
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Manny: Look them people in Nebraska. And if you guys are wondering we did a little bit more research on him. He covers kind of like the central part of Nebraska, just south of Omaha.
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Manny: definitely part of Lincoln and that area west of Omaha. And it's here's the crazy thing, geez like, and the boldness of it. It's only a plus 6,
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Manny: See you?
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Manny: That's probably also why he was having these sessions is so he could. Hey? I'm out there. I'm answering questions from the people. But.
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Manny: sir, you you might. You might be in a pickle next year, when that when that seed.
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Jeezy: Oh, Bro. Oh, I think he definitely in a pickle, because if I'm a Democrat oh, I'm running this clip. Oh.
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Manny: I'm a Democrat. If I'm a Republican.
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Jeezy: Hey? Oh, Bro. Facts, facts.
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Manny: So like.
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Jeezy: If I'm trying to get you up out of here, you just gave me all the ammunition I need, which we which I want to say this
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Jeezy: when election season comes around. If you, if you need any, consulting.
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Manny: Boy? Is it.
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Jeezy: How to get a leg up in the trolling game, and and really and really throw dirt better than any graveyard digger.
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Manny: It's what.
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Jeezy: Shovel.
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Jeezy: More than part of the politics can tell you how to get it done. Because I'm gonna tell you I can think about 10 ways to rake coals up under this fella right here.
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Manny: Brut man.
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Manny: Mike had no career in politics. The way that we got through with him.
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Manny: Mike, Mike, you and a pickle, and we're not even at that that part of the show yet. But.
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Jeezy: We ain't gotten to that segment yet.
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Manny: Chewing a pickle man. But I'll you'll be. You'll be hearing from us very soon.
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Jeezy: Oh, facts! Bro, we must.
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Manny: We got questions.
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Jeezy: But we might have to start dropping our own political campaign Commercial content. Bro.
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Jeezy: just to get on the radar they'd be like, who made this like, Oh, yeah, we. We ain't running for office, we just having fun.
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Jeezy: We're just here. We're just here.
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Jeezy: But but with the fallout in the Senate of of this building.
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Jeezy: What's your what's your over and under? To think that it's if, if if anything of it.
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Manny: Oh, man, all right. So from everything I've read, they're trying to get this enacted by July 4.th
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Manny: Hold on so.
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Jeezy: Too.
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Manny: They got about, they got about a month. They got a little over the month. At the time of recording, but they
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Manny: and it's gonna be a climb. It's gonna be climb. So.
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Jeezy: Just so, I'm clear from a education perspective, if if there's any revisions to be made to it. Oh, yeah.
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Manny: Gotta go back.
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Jeezy: They got to send it back down, and then they got to come back. Come back up right.
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Manny: And Johnson has already said, don't send this back.
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Jeezy: No, no, no.
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Manny: Don't look. I got it. Look, I don't pass the test. Okay. Look, I got.
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Jeezy: A little bit of food. Bro.
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Manny: I
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Manny: I needed I needed a 70 to pass this class. I got a 70.1, sir. Don't send this bill back because I don't know if I can get this path.
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Manny: and they only need to send it back if this, if it under budget reconciliation, if they get 60 votes.
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Manny: And, sir, I would bet my entire life savings on the fact that this won't get 60 votes.
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Jeezy: Enough.
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Manny: But
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Manny: yeah, he's like, please don't send this back. We we he did in a very nice political way. He's like, Yeah, if you want to do minimal changes. Yada Yada Yada, like Bro. Y'all in a pickle, because currently, right now, if we look at the Senate and we look at the makeup.
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Manny: There are 53 Republicans and 47 Democrats. So this needs to patch to just pass.
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Manny: ignoring the whole reconciliation part that has to be done in the house because of this. If we just look at it. Passing
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Manny: Republicans can afford to lose 3 people.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: And look.
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Manny: They got way more than 3 that
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Manny: they got war, so I'll quickly go through the list 1st up.
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Manny: Demand Rp.
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Jeezy: Rp.
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Manny: You.
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Manny: You're not you. You are not going to raise our national debt
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Manny: if you're you're a long time listener of the pod.
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Manny: The episode that we did right after the election, and I covered the Republic, and we had a section where we talked about the Republicans that are going to be responsible
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Manny: for guiding and moderating this Congress. There's a lot of those names on this list. So our next up is Senator Ron Johnson out of Wisconsin. He warned that the Senate Republicans lack sufficient votes to pass this bill how it is right now, and he is also concerned about the national deficit.
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Manny: Susan Collins.
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Jeezy: How about that? I know she.
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Manny: Oh, yeah.
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Jeezy: At least. Oh.
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Manny: Absolutely she's not big on the Medicaid cuts and the other provisions linked to the social programs. Lisa Murtowski.
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Jeezy: I love.
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Jeezy: So that's.
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Manny: Voices, the same concerns around the healthcare and social programs. Jerry Moran race issue with the Medicaid cuts and the elimination of the Green energy tax credits.
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Jeezy: Hmm, okay.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Manny: Josh Hawley, apprehension about the provisions on social welfare programs. So Medicaid, Medicare, snap and everything. Those are 6 6 right off the gates, you can only use 3.
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Manny: So, and then, even beyond that, you have Senator John Curtis out of Utah. He wants changes to on the energy credit cuts in the bill. You have Mike Rounds, who? Who's opposed? Spectrum auction provisions in the bill, and then you got Tom Tillis out of big.
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Jeezy: ONC.
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Manny: So he who's highlighting concerns over the green green energy tax credits.
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Manny: it's almost like these guys are against not investing in the future of our economy and our infrastructure. So for those of you who are doing the math.
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Manny: it looks like at this time that we got 47 does all being Democrats.
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Manny: you have 3. Yeah, they might be yeses. But you got to change these 3 things.
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Manny: And you guys, 6. They're like, so they got a Republicans have 44.
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Manny: They need to find 6, 6 of this 9 to flip back.
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Manny: to even be in the position
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Manny: for Jd. Vance to come in and break the tie.
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Manny: and y'all got a month to do this.
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Jeezy: Bro, that's a that's a.
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Manny: I saw.
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Jeezy: Deep hill.
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Manny: But it is of the, and it doesn't help
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Manny: overarchingly when you have people like our the good Senator Bro. From Iowa.
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Jeezy: Bro.
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Manny: Who was talking about the bill and talking about the Medicaid cuts, and I want to pay. Play you all a clip from some comments that she had today. Well, not today. Earlier this week.
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Manny: when you were arguing about illegals that are receiving Medicaid benefits, 1.4,000,001.4. They're not. They are not eligible, so they will be coming off. So people are not well, we all are going to die.
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Manny: That is such a.
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Manny: We are all going to die, which is factually correct.
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Jeezy: Bro. Hold on! Hold on!
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Manny: Oh, no! Well, but before you go you.
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Jeezy: Brett.
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Manny: See. So on Sunday, she said. Oh, I'm getting back last. Well, let me get out here and let me let me clear it up.
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Jeezy: Brad.
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Jeezy: Hello, everyone! I would like to take this opportunity to sincerely apologize for a statement that I made yesterday at my Town Hall.
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Jeezy: See, I was in the process of answering a question that had been asked by an audience member, when a woman, who was extremely distraught, screamed out from the back corner of the auditorium. People are going to die.
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Jeezy: and I made an incorrect assumption
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Jeezy: that everyone in the auditorium understood that. Yes.
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Jeezy: we are all going to perish from this earth, so.
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Manny: I apologize, and I'm really really glad that I did not have to bring up the subject
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Manny: of the Tooth fairy as well.
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Manny: But for those that would like to see eternal and everlasting life.
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Jeezy: I encourage you to embrace my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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Manny: Now, now, before we go further, I agree with her last last statement.
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Jeezy: No man.
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Manny: Please find Jesus. You know.
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Jeezy: Over here.
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Manny: If you want eternal life, please find Jesus, he is the
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Manny: but on to but on to the video.
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Jeezy: She spin the apology as sarcasm, and then and then try to lead souls to Christ.
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Manny: Yeah, I don't know.
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Jeezy: Think that's how that works. I don't think I don't think that's how evangelism works.
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Manny: I'm I'm not an expert in it, but I don't think so either.
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Manny: Go.
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Jeezy: Yo, hey, man, I didn't see. I didn't see the the double down that that got me. Bro
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Jeezy: got me wheat bro, but.
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Manny: Yeah, the they and the.
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Jeezy: I'm having town halls.
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Manny: Tooth, fairy.
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Jeezy: Don't have a Town Hall.
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Manny: keep having the town halls, because I need these people to go up under these coals.
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Jeezy: Hey, Bro, you right. But this is the crazy thing. Bro, with with election season
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Jeezy: coming down, coming coming down, coming down the hall before we know it.
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Manny: They are, boy, they are putting themselves in a pickle.
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Jeezy: I mean she which she is right.
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Manny: We all. We all are going, but I'm not trying to get.
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Jeezy: Favorable.
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Jeezy: For the rest, we all going to perish at some point in time. Bro. The parish is what got
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Jeezy: oh, my God!
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Jeezy: But in, and and what the the lady in the audience was speaking of.
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Jeezy: you know, to me it shows, and and going to the clip that you played earlier with the guy.
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Jeezy: There's a frustration within these individuals. Because you're having to do your job.
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Jeezy: You're going to Washington, and you're signing for stuff. And I want to know why you're signing for if it has these consequences, and then you're getting frustrated, or look like you don't know exactly what you're doing.
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Manny: You're you're getting angry because how dare they question you?
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Jeezy: Wait a minute.
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Jeezy: It's kind of like.
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Manny: Authoritarianism.
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Manny: Thank you.
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Manny: You know, maybe just a little like, come, you know, comes here, comes out. Yeah.
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Jeezy: Bro, but we got we're sending these people to Washington. And maybe this speaks to a bigger problem.
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Jeezy: Maybe people
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Jeezy: need to really pay attention to who they're sending to Washington and stop just going down the ballot and saying, I'm voting for every Democrat, or I'm voting for every Republican, because just who you may be sending
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Jeezy: may not have ever cracked open a Harry Potter book.
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Manny: Definitely not cracked open.
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Jeezy: It's obvious.
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Manny: It's clear.
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Jeezy: Bro. We had to go to go down to go to Congress and just roam the halls.
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Jeezy: They gonna start seeing us coming with the Harry Potter bullet run the other way.
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Manny: Oh, no! The Pcp challenge. They're here. They're here.
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Manny: We we might have to open a whole fund. Bail out the boys, but it's it's
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Manny: so not to completely go down this side road, because we'll be down here for hours.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: But there has been a fundamental shift in politics, especially especially on the Republican side, where
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Manny: Republicans are no longer fiscally conservative. I would say largely.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Democrats for a while up Pre. 2,016 were socially Liberal, but also fiscally liberal
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Manny: or perceived fiscally liberal. Yeah, perceived fiscally Liberal, where Republicans were socially Conservative
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Manny: and fiscally Conservative. Well, now, on the Republican side, we are seeing
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Manny: if and if we're looking at this bill, we're seeing
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Manny: Republicans who are socially Conservative, but fiscally Liberal. Yep, and I'm like Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Who the if if y'all are not going to be the fiscally Conservative Party, who is now the fiscally Conservative party
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Manny: who is going to lead that movement, and
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Manny: I think Trump is aware, I think, if you look back in the history of Republican nominees and candidates
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Manny: have always had this strong grounding in fiscal conservatism.
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Manny: and we're not seeing that anymore. It is now the grounding in the Republican party is one of social conservatism over fiscal conservatism. And that's new for this for us in in this this phase that we're in. So it'll be interesting to see what they do and how they kind of move through this.
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Manny: Because this bill has some issues. One of the issues that we didn't bring up last week was the changes to the snap with Snap and the work requirements previously. If you were taking care of a non adult, and I say that very specifically a non adult.
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Manny: basically, someone under the age of 18, you were exempted from work requirements. Well, also, in this big, beautiful bill, they lower that age from 18 to 7.
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Jeezy: Wow!
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Manny: So if you're taking care of an 8 year old
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Manny: well, you're if this passes, you would now be required to work to receive benefits.
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Manny: Now I don't know about you all, but I know about me, and as
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Manny: as Biggie said, I grew up.
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Manny: Oh, screw it!
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Manny: I've blown off almost half of my face with fire.
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Manny: and I was 13 at that time, so
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Manny: you know we got it. We don't have the infrastructure to try to do all these things that they want to do in a responsible way.
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Jeezy: Yeah, I agree.
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Manny: And if we don't
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Manny: take a time to really think about it, we're going to be in a situation. But I think now what you're going to see over the last month is a lot of a lot of people starting to rally against it. You heard Elon Elon's come out again.
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Manny: Bill.
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Manny: because I think we all realize the math isn't Mathing. We can't keep charging more than we bring in just the basics, basics of economics.
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Jeezy: Yep. Yep.
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Manny: And it
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Manny: at this rate, I think somebody said we over the next 10 years. Well, we could be approaching almost 56 trillion in national debt. We are currently right now.
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Jeezy: If we take our entire Gdp and dedicate it to our national debt.
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Manny: We still have 22% of that original debt that we still have to take care of.
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Manny: Our national debt is 122% of our Gdp, right now, that's super dangerous.
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Jeezy: That's also why you saw us lose our credit standing.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: Is because of that balance, and it could only be.
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Jeezy: Trying to add to that.
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Manny: 5. Trillion. For what?
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Manny: For? What?
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Jeezy: No.
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Manny: So
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Manny: this it'll it'll be interesting how everyone ramps up because you got the National Association of Social Workers. The American Public Health Association
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Manny: feeding. America has come out. Wall Street analysts have come out. It's almost like how much more civil rights organizations, the electronic frontier foundation, the center for humane technology, the Aclu Lambda legal, the American Constitution Society.
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Jeezy: Yeah, like, avengers, endgame.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: Getting everybody.
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Manny: The Committee for responsible Federal budgeting the Concord Coalition. We have so many people coming out against this.
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Manny: And if you look at most of this. It's a good portion of this is like, Hey, we're spending too much. We ain't got it.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: This
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Manny: one of the things that my dad told me. He's like, son, if you're going to to travel, and I've heard other people say it. But my dad also said this as well.
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Manny: He's like, if you're going to travel and you can't afford Airfare Hotel and feed yourself
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Manny: and come back and not know where your next month of bills so is. How's it going to be taken? You can't afford to take that trip.
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Jeezy: Bingo!
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Jeezy: Wise words from a wise man.
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Manny: Right.
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Manny: When are we finally just going to say, Hey, y'all.
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Jeezy: We ain't got it.
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Manny: We can't afford to take that trip.
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Jeezy: Well, Martin, say I ain't got the.
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Manny: I ain't. I ain't got the file. I ain't got it.
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Jeezy: We ain't got it.
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Manny: Okay, can I put something on it?
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Jeezy: You know, but but from every all these people, signaling that this is not in the betterment of America.
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Jeezy: Why is it that the what is it that the President is, seeing that all these people are not seeing that suggests to him that this is the way to go.
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Manny: His bank account.
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Jeezy: Right, I mean because it just if if everything
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Jeezy: and everyone for the most part, is saying, Bro, this ain't this ain't happening.
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Jeezy: What then, is your driving motive to say, No, I gotta keep. I gotta keep. This is the direction we need to go in.
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Manny: I mean the only the only things that I feel like I've heard in regards to this bill, and why people support. It's like, oh, you know he's making our. He's making things safer. He's, you know. He's keeping people safe. We gotta do what we got to do to protect our finances and protect ourselves from the illegal immigrants, because we don't want criminals on the street, and on that whole, criminals on the street thing.
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Manny: I believe trump just pardoned a lot of people.
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Jeezy: It may be pardoning criminals.
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Manny: Trump. I don't want criminal. They're sending the worst of the worst. They're sending their. They're releasing their criminals on our street. 10 min later trump releases criminals onto our streets.
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Jeezy: Like, and then, his reason being they were, they were mistreated. Bro. What they're supposed to be.
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Manny: I'm the the Chrisleys.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Manny: How y'all get out.
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Jeezy: Shout out to the Christmas because Todd is hilarious to me.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: He should be in jail.
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Manny: He should be in jail.
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Jeezy: Pleasure meeting you.
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Manny: You stole that money.
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Jeezy: And please don't act like you did.
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Jeezy: You're bright.
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Jeezy: Yeah, you know. You already said, Hey, I'm the deadline. I had to look into that, too.
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Jeezy: But I thought.
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Jeezy: start getting to this because of the notoriety that he's getting the publicity that he gets from partnering people. I feel like he's about to start treating that now like it's it's airtime fair for him just to be able to get out. And they wanted. They're gonna talk about it, and it gets everybody off of talking about this, and then.
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Manny: And look I will! I will give it to trump the dang it! I can't remember the name of the bill, the Criminal Justice Bill that he signed in his 1st administration was some of the largest sweeping criminal justice Reform Bill that we've seen come through federally in decades and definitely salute to him and his team and getting that done. But to just sweeping you sweepingly, user using the pardon power
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Manny: like is Brad. What are we doing.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Manny: What are we doing?
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Jeezy: Trump, the he, Yugiyu.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: He's just.
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Manny: He's like.
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Jeezy: Throwing them out. There. Bro.
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Manny: At at some point. We gotta stop throwing
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Manny: mud against the wall to see if it'll stick and not calling pardons mud, because, like, there are lots of people out there who we know are are jailed unfairly, and I think what his, what this administration has done in appointing a pardons are someone strictly responsible
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Manny: for looking into people that need and deserve to be pardoned. I think it's a fantastic idea. You know. We know there are holes in our criminal justice system. So the idea that we would have someone whose sole job to direct contact with the administration on people who need to be pardoned.
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Manny: even though there's another organization. But we're having someone directly. Be there still. Fine. I think anything we can highlight towards the issue of unfair imprisonment is something we should do.
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Manny: But who are we? Who are we pardoning.
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Jeezy: Bad.
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Manny: I mean, it's my next question, what about what about Tiger King?
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Jeezy: Well, you know he got a little mad about his, and then it was rumored that trump hasn't ruled out
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Jeezy: the the tiger King, but.
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Manny: What what about R. Kelly? Is he gonna get? Get back on these streets if you've.
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Jeezy: Bruh, if he free, if he free.
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Manny: Free if you free, Diddy.
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Jeezy: Right. You got a free rob.
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Manny: Like not saying either of them should be free because I both. Well.
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Manny: R. Kelly has been convicted of doing all the things that he did.
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Jeezy: It is, is pending.
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Manny: Did. He is pending.
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Manny: I look. I listened to one documentary, and it sounded like he definitely shot that person, that that and that Sean went to prison for.
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Jeezy: Bro.
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Manny: But we that's that's another podcast. For another day.
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Jeezy: On the wheel.
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Manny: We don't want no smoke, no smoke, no smoke, no smoke.
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Jeezy: But but but to end the segment, though
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Jeezy: I think that I agree with you
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Jeezy: with the time frame of how long it takes is going to take to actually get this bill done, and they only have a month, and and the the uphill battle they have with needing the votes that they need
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Jeezy: add, add.
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Manny: I don't think they're gonna do it.
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Jeezy: I just don't see it.
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Manny: Not in this form.
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Jeezy: Bye.
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Manny: Not in this form, and not in a form.
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Jeezy: No.
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Manny: Because let's say they do it. Let's say they actually get it done. It's got to go back to the house because you're going to have to make mass revisions of this for this to work. It's got to go back to the house, and I don't know if it'll pass there.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: I mean, because also, at the rate that you know, senators are oh, sorry representatives are are passing, and just people not being available to vote and summertime, because we know Congresspeople love take their summers.
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Manny: I think they're in a situation that there's no way this happens before the 4.th Now I could be wrong. We've been wrong on this podcast. Before.
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Jeezy: Not often, but we've been.
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Manny: But I I just don't see how it passes in this form.
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Jeezy: I agree. I agree with you. 100%, brother. We will keep our eye on it and see what happens, because the clock is ticking.
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Manny: Tiktok.
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Jeezy: And they better do something and something quick, and I think that somebody better get to work.
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Jeezy: Somebody better get to work and get to work quick, so
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Jeezy: we'll see what happened more on the Bbb, the big, beautiful bill.
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Jeezy: As we move on through the episode, and you've already been signaled that we've we've talked about pickles so much. Pause.
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Jeezy: that we've already had a number of of pickles already.
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Jeezy: For for the episode. But we are now at the segment in our episode, where we have our pickle of the week.
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Jeezy: We got your pickup.
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Jeezy: We got your pickle.
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Jeezy: We got your pickle.
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Jeezy: hey?
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Manny: The official pickle of the week.
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Jeezy: The official pause.
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Jeezy: All right. So the official pickle of the week.
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Jeezy: the pickles of the week isn't a person.
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Jeezy: Or necessarily a group of people.
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Jeezy: The pickle of the week is none other than Japan.
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Jeezy: Shout out to Japan.
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Manny: We got to go there.
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Jeezy: We we gotta go to Japan. Bro.
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Manny: Look, we we gotta go look. It's gonna be a rough trip for you, because at some point I'm gonna go search for pokemon cards.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: So.
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Jeezy: I'll come along, man.
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Manny: Okay, there, we go. There we go.
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Jeezy: Below. Yeah, that's a poor man, brother than devil.
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Jeezy: But for the 1st time in 34 years Japan has lost its status as the world's top. Creditor, nation.
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Manny: Hmm.
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Jeezy: I don't.
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Jeezy: That
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Jeezy: held. They've held this title since 1991 and the Crown. There's a new champion now. The crown now goes to Germany
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Jeezy: marking.
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Manny: Wow!
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Jeezy: I got no, all right, like Wow
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Jeezy: marking a historical financial shift that has economists raising their eyebrows and policymakers breaking into cold sweats. So Japan's net external assets, essentially the value of what it owns abroad, minus what it owes dropped to 3.1 trillion in 2023 down 380 billion from the year prior.
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Jeezy: Meanwhile Germany's has written, has risen from risen to 3.8 trillion, which has allowed them
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Jeezy: to take the lead.
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Manny: Come for that number one spot.
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Jeezy: So while this isn't just bragging rights, does this signal something deeper from an economic standpoint, a weaker yen has inflated Japan's overseas liabilities. Investment returns abroad have taken a hit. And also you got to realize that Japan's aging population and slow growth are creating long term pressure on its global economic standing. So with all that being said.
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Jeezy: is this a sign of Japan's slow slide from becoming an economic superpower? And what does this mean for the Us. And Japan relations, especially with the Us. Looking for Allies to counterbalance China.
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Jeezy: And, lastly, are we seeing a reshuffling of the Global Financial Leadership Board.
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Manny: Oh, man, you that look! There's there's episodes in in that.
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Manny: Here's my biggest question is, how much of this is tied to the Us.
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Manny: Because currently, I believe Japan holds probably like 1.1 trillion in us treasuries.
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Manny: So is is this a case where us, starting to get Shaky is starting to
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Manny: bring down. Bring down everyone else who who's tied very closely to us, and if that ends up being the case.
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Manny: it's a lot of pressure on a lot of people to figure this out.
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Jeezy: Bruh, a whole lot of people. So this is telling Bruh of Japan having this shift. But whenever the world saving account changes hands, someone's in a financial pickle, and for this week Japan is in that financial.
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Jeezy: That's you, brother.
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Jeezy: So Japan shout out to y'all sorry for losing the number one spot
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Jeezy: shout out, Hey! What's up? Germany?
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Jeezy: Y'all number one. We at least gotta say, Hey.
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Manny: Hey? Y'all.
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Jeezy: Just in case y'all ain't ready for the hey, hey? Big head yet.
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Manny: What's good? Just hey? What's up? What y'all doing over there?
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Jeezy: Checking in seeing what's good. But Japan shout out to y'all, and our listeners over there. We got some international listeners as well, too, so shout out Japan. And whenever the boys decided, Lord willing, we make it international. And we get get global.
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Jeezy: we need y'all to to roll out the red carpet for us to have a little, a little tour stop.
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Manny: Come, come, show the boys. Some love.
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Jeezy: So the boys some love. So that is my pickle of the week. So, as we have reached the conclusion of our episode, as always we like to give you the listeners our spotlights of the week. So, my brother, what are your spotlights for the week?
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Manny: All right. So let's
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Manny: you know. Elon stepped down from from Doge, but we're not here to talk about that particular part, but we are. I am going to talk about one of his entities. X, AI.
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Manny: And Xai has built a facility outside of Memphis, and you know I can't really do it justice. So I'm I'm going to have
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Manny: Elizabeth Booker. Kind of speak to.
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Jeezy: Booker.
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Manny: I don't know. I don't know. I might have to find that out. Okay, but let's let's go to her.
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Manny: I'm currently outside of Xai, which is the new supercomputer that the South African scammer has put in my hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, specifically in South Memphis, which is the blackest poorest area of Memphis, Tennessee.
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Jeezy: So it smells terrible out here. The stench is horrible, and that's because of the air pollution.
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Manny: Is going on. We know that there's about 35 gas turbines being used by this facility right now, and the Southern Poverty Law center believes that that is a violation of the Clean Air Act. But on top of that this facility requires about a million gallons of water per day to cool down the supercomputer. The problem is, Memphis sits on top of a natural aquifer, deep groundwater, pure good water that comes out of our tap, and for decades. Activists have tried to protect the water because they're caught.
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Manny: There's constant threats to it, including this right here. Okay. Now, they say they're going to build a gray water recycle facility in partnership with the Tva down the street. But the problem is that's only going to reduce the strain on the aquifer by about 9%. And they're still going to dump about 80% of that water into the Mississippi River, which who knows what that will do to the environment as they're dumping that in there. Okay.
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Manny: they have purposely put this facility here
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Manny: in a black city in America again, in one of the poorest, blackest neighborhoods in the city, because they want to get away with
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Manny: all of these clean air and clean water violations. And this isn't just going to impact the people around here. Okay, if you live out in East Memphis, if you live out in Bartlett or Collierville, or whatever, and you're not smelling the air because you're not right on top of it, baby, we drink the same water.
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Manny: The air moves around.
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Jeezy: This is going to make so many people sick. There's no need for this supercomputer. All it's doing is it's harming our environment. It's harming our water. It's going to make our children sick. It's going to make elderly people in the area sicker. This is not a solution. This is not anything that's going to be abuse to anybody in this city.
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Manny: So yeah, so xai.
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Jeezy: I don't know her. Bro. Speak, speak your speak your truth, Queen.
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Manny: so yeah, Xai has built this very huge facility.
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Manny: an operation of colossus a massive supercomputer facility, which they Xai promises will be cause the economic revitalization.
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Manny: But yeah, there's a lot of issues about 12 billion dollar investment to build colossus in a former factory.
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Manny: So the facility aims to power Xai's Gork model as well as musk. Other ventures like Spacex Twitter, and has been touted as being transformative, and they got a tax-free incentive deal by the mayor in the city.
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Manny: largely because the project was expected to create hundreds of jobs and generate a lot of property tax revenue.
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Manny: But yeah, issues with the water in in clean air. So right now, there's back and forth that is happening right now.
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Manny: They. So Shelby County Health department is reviewing Xai's application for 15 air pollution permits.
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Manny: so they expect those to come back in midsummer. That review
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Manny: either they'll get approved with conditions or emissions, or they'll be denied forcing them to shut down the air turbines or dramatically alter them. So the EPA is involved. The Naacp has getting are exploring legislation. Sorry, not legislation, litigation.
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Manny: under environmental racism, racism and violations of the Clean air Act. So if that's successful, it could temporarily halt the project. So that is
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Manny: that's what's going on with Xai. And you know, I realize here at the pod, we we've gone very, very far in this episode, and we haven't hit our other theme music. So.
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Jeezy: Complete episode.
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Manny: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. So
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Manny: if you've been following Plentyar, technology is a data analytics firm co-founded by Peter Thiel.
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Manny: They've just entered a partnership with the Us. Federal government to develop a centralized data platform.
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Manny: Basically, the initiative is backed by the trump administration and aims to consolidate extensive personal data from various agencies, including the Irs. This social security immigration services into a unified system powered by Plantyar's Gotham system? Software?
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Manny: But why a why is all of this data being housed outside of the Federal government?
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Manny: We we can barely keep our own. And you're gonna tie that all together
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Manny: into a giant external database that is in a non-governmental, controlled facility.
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Manny: Look!
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Manny: Our our tinfoil hat community is gonna go wild with this one right rightfully so, right.
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Jeezy: They should.
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Manny: It is. It is a 795 million dollar contract that, to my understanding, was not bidded on
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Manny: no one else. Either no one else bid it bid on it, or no one else was given the opportunity to build. Bid. Both seem strange, because Amazon is a place. Microsoft is a place. Ibm is a place that could also house this data. So it just it just went to them
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Manny: that that sounds mighty suspicious.
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Jeezy: A 10 for a hat community.
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Manny: Let us know what you think.
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Jeezy: You have, you have your homework.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Have your homework, get, get to work, get to work. We need to know.
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Manny: We need to know.
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Jeezy: But I'm.
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Manny: I'm just saying this is
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Manny: This is probably not a good idea.
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Jeezy: Correct.
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Jeezy: And by probably I mean definitely, not a good idea definitely, not a good idea.
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Manny: Those are my spotlights of the week.
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Manny: What you got for us, Jeez.
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Jeezy: Well, you know, in here, in our great State of North Carolina, you know, can't help to have some attention drawn to us, and I know. We talked previously in an episode about
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Jeezy: North Carolina, the western side of the State that was affected by the hurricane
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Jeezy: were denied relief from their president, Donald Trump. But now Trump is attacking North Carolina again, and the trump administration or the trump doj is suing North Carolina over voter registration.
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Jeezy: The Doj filed a Federal lawsuit against North Carolina State Board of Elections, alleging violations of the Help America Vote Act.
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Jeezy: They stated that roughly 225,000 voter registration forms may be missing, maybe missing.
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Jeezy: Required id numbers, either a driver, license number or the last 4 of a social security number
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Jeezy: and the Doj. The Doj claims
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Jeezy: that this violates Federal law. So what the Doj has demanded is that the State must contact all effective voters within 30 days and bring their registrations into compliance. So why this matters is that with local elections this fall, I mean, excuse me coming up. Excuse me. This case could reshape how States handle incomplete voter records and fuel the national debate over voting rights versus election security.
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Jeezy: So you know, with this happening and this having to be handled in this lawsuit that has taken place. How will this shape that next election cycle will there be? We've seen the battle that happened with the Supreme Court, and how that shaped and took place, and how nasty that that became.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: And drawn out, that became, could we see errors being handled, you know, in a in a manner that is, that could really lose a certain quality amount of votes. I don't know the number, I mean minus the 225,000. I don't know the consistency or the regularity of which this happens.
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Jeezy: Nor do I know you know how severe this is, if it's just missing a number or driver's license. Are they insinuating as if these may be placed in ballots to sway the votes.
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Jeezy: I don't know if that's the case, because North Carolina seemed to have voted in in relation to how it always votes.
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Manny: Right? Weird, weird. We are a weird state.
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Jeezy: Where we.
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Manny: Do what we want.
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Jeezy: You know, I don't think that the election turned out any different than how we all thought it was going to turn out. Nobody thought that Mark Johnson was going to win.
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Manny: Mark. Oh, Mark Robinson, I was. I won't gonna call this. I was trying to be nice.
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Manny: Mark Robinson. We knew Mark Robinson wasn't going to win.
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Jeezy: We knew he was going.
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Manny: Quit.
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Jeezy: We've seen videos on social media where people would like, say, you're voting for Mark Robinson. They're like,
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Like Bro, we knew that. So what are we really arguing about? These 225,000? Where in the votes did this get swayed like. Come on. But needless to say, North Carolina is, is the spotlight of how this lawsuit will be handled, and it just seems like there's a lot of complexities that are happening in North Carolina. We we finally settled one with the Supreme Court, and now here we are with.
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Manny: Here we are!
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Jeezy: Another. So yeah, that's that's my spotlight of the week of how how this will be handled. And and, Josh Stein, man, you got your plate full, man.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: You have to play full, brother.
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Jeezy: her and hurricane season is upon us.
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Jeezy: Yes, indeed, and and with the things that we talked about in the previous episode and not being able to have what we need, maybe federally, that could definitely certainly impact a lot of North Carolinians. So
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Jeezy: with that being said, that is my spotlight.
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Manny: There!
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Jeezy: This is our episode. Episode 22. We thank you guys for tuning in. Shout out to all of our listeners, be on the lookout, as we stated earlier in the episode
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Jeezy: of the merch. That will be coming soon. We're working out the details of everything. We hope that you'll like what we have, and you will most importantly support what we have as you've done so far in your listenership, and continue to spread the love and the content of which we have here pardon the politics. So with that being said, my heart and mind is clear, brother, anything else anything from you.
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Manny: You think Mark Robinson got invited to a Diddy party.
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Jeezy: He should.
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Manny: I'm just wondering.
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Jeezy: He's of the he's of the same fan variety.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: If you know what Fan means, then he's of the fan variety.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: And so I would not be if he wasn't. He definitely could.
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Manny: He might be.
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Jeezy: He he may. He may be the East, the Eastern North Carolina.
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Manny: Stop!
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Jeezy: Might be the eastern North Carolina diddly right.
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Manny: He'd be like a copycat
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Manny: Yes, all right, but my my heart and mind are clear.
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Jeezy: Now it's clear.
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Manny: It popped in my head. We hadn't said his name in a while, and I was like Hmm! I wonder.
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Jeezy: Bro.
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Jeezy: Well, that being said, that is the conclusion of our episode to our listeners, as we always tell you. Don't nobody love? You? Just know the boys here at partner politics. We indeed love you. We hope this episode finds you in good spirit, in good health, and that we will see you at the next episode. So take care, world.