The Big Beautiful Breakup: It's Over Now

This week on Pardon the Politics, Jeezy and Manny dive into the wildest breakup of the year — and no, it’s not another celebrity couple. It’s the fall of the Trump-Elon bromance. From glowing praise to tweet-fueled tantrums, the tech-political love affair took a sharp left turn after Elon clapped back at Trump’s beloved “Big, Beautiful Bill.” We break down the chaotic Twitter thread wars, the Epstein file accusations, and the “third party” bomb Elon dropped.

But that’s just the start — ICE raids in L.A. have escalated into what many are calling the most intense immigration crackdown since the 90s. The boys also explore how the wrongful deportation of Kilmar Garcia turned into a shady arrest saga, raising big questions about due process and political theater.

From Father’s Day commentary to authoritarian red flags, Manny and Jeezy keep it funny, fiery, and deeply real. This episode unpacks everything from policy hypocrisy to meme-worthy political chaos — and throws in a Magneto vs. Xavier analogy just for good measure.

🎧 Tune in now and stay informed, entertained, and politically woke.

Chapters

• 0:00 Father's Day and Public Breakups
• 8:26 Elon Musk and Donald Trump Feud
• 14:27 Musk-Trump Political Drama Analysis
• 22:11 North Carolina Voting Patterns Analysis
• 30:39 Elon Musk Drama: Distractions and Implications
• 40:30 Wrongful Deportation and Political Charges
• 49:23 Immigration Enforcement and Due Process
• 1:09:38 Pickle of the Week - Linda McMahon's Testimony
• 1:17:10 Ukraine's Strategic Drone Success
• 1:26:08 California-Trump Funding Dispute

Transcript

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Jeezy: Hello world and welcome back to pardon the politics. Podcast this is season 2, episode 23. I am your co-host, jeezy, along with my brother and my partner in politics. Manny, my brother, how are you doing on this fine day?
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Manny: Bro. I'm doing well. I'm doing.
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Manny: You know the sun is out. Father's day is quickly approaching.
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Jeezy: Quickly approaching.
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Manny: So this, this, what? This is, the actual last episode before father's day, so.
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Jeezy: I think it's.
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Manny: And a key on us to remind all of our female listeners. Go out and take care
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Manny: of the male or the father. Figure in your life.
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Jeezy: Hey? Whether it's.
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Manny: To you or your children.
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Jeezy: I want to. I'm about to say I want to say something really.
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Jeezy: And do I want to be on this type of time today?
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Manny: Look! I'm going.
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Jeezy: Say it. I'ma say it screw it.
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Manny: We go.
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Jeezy: If you, if for the ladies, for the mothers.
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Jeezy: if you aren't going to applaud.
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Jeezy: The father of your your child or children.
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Jeezy: and you may consider him to be a sperm donor.
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Jeezy: which is fine. There are some situations where that is, that is very.
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Manny: To the scenario.
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Jeezy: But on father's day, if you have raised your beautiful children on your own, or with your village.
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Jeezy: that does not give you the right to claim father's day, either.
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Jeezy: And I want to say I want to make that. And I understand. And I want our listeners understand. I see. I want to try to be on this type of time. Today
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Jeezy: we
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Jeezy: I grew up in a single family home, where my mother and my grandmother were the predominant supporters of my childhood, and never once
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Jeezy: did my mom
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Jeezy: try to make or claim. Father's day is a day that she needs to be recognized because she done some of the things that my father didn't. That is not how that works.
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Jeezy: You've done your work, ladies, and and I will never take that away from you just like I would never take it away from my mom.
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Manny: And and you have your day.
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Jeezy: And you have your day.
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Jeezy: and we go extra. We go extra hard in the paint on mother's day for those mothers that have played both roles.
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Jeezy: But if you are not a father.
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Jeezy: though you may have been supportive of in the absence of a father, it is not a day for you to receive any recognition. Sorry, ladies.
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Manny: I mean them. The facts.
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Jeezy: That would be real.
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Manny: We didn't affects. We did.
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Jeezy: You, and from the bottom of my heart, as a supportive man, a supportive black man and a family. Dad.
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Jeezy: I am sorry that you are in the situation that you are in, that you do not have that male present to support those children or that child. But please just allow take that day as a moment of silence.
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Manny: Yes.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Jeezy: that's all. That's all right. I ain't gonna say nothing else. I ain't gonna say nothing else. Welcome listeners.
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Manny: Welcome!
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Jeezy: Welcome to another episode. We are so excited to be back potting with you guys
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Jeezy: in in this crazy, crazy political world that we.
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Manny: Chamber.
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Jeezy: That we seem to find home. We've pinched our tent in this in this massive chaos.
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Jeezy: That's what
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Jeezy: that has us constantly, with enough content to talk about on a week to week basis. So we hope this episode finds you in great spirit. We're excited. So thank you for tuning in once again here at partner politics. So, man, I guess we'll jump right into it. Man.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: I think we. I think we got a good amount of things that we need to cover. And, man, there was some. There was some heartbreak this this past week, man, there was a there was some some sadness. So for our 1st segment, we want to talk about a breakup that we all had to witness. And I want to say this before we get into it.
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Jeezy: I hate when I see relationships
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Jeezy: go, go go south, go sour over the Internet.
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Manny: You know.
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Jeezy: We shouldn't have to witness that.
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Manny: We're we're we're not talking about the birdman.
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Jeezy: The way, Brexit, and break up.
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Jeezy: Oh, Bruh! It was like you talking about him and Lil Wayne.
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Manny: Brother!
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Jeezy: I mean, we had to witness that, too.
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Jeezy: We got Hallie and Ddg, we got everybody. But I hate when relationships have to be put on the Internet. Some things are just private and just should be behind closed doors. And unfortunately, this week we've seen a breakup that we all just had to witness, and that was the bromance between Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
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Jeezy: They once shook hands in the neon Globe
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Jeezy: Building empires with the money flow, but the bill came due and the numbers lined.
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Jeezy: Elon.
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Manny: Turn set a can to buy. All the rockets crashed and the tweets didn't burn
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Manny: from golden towers to bridges.
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Jeezy: Hey!
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Manny: No electric dreams, no deals to make.
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Manny: They'll never be great again, my friend.
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Jeezy: So saying, Bro.
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Manny: Jumpstance.
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Jeezy: So same, right.
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Manny: Hmm.
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Jeezy: We we had one time for the for the.
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Manny: Bro. 1st off, let me just tell you, social media has given us so much quality, content.
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Jeezy: Oh, oh, Bruh! Bruh! And that was that was pulled from social media. I forgot the the person who who actually created that song, but shout out to them, but yes.
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Jeezy: that was beautiful, right
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Jeezy: a very beautiful ballad man that really just really just captured the full scope of just how terrible! How heartbreaking this breakup was that we had to witness! Oh, my.
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Manny: And so quickly and so quickly like last week, when we were prepping for the pod, you know, me and G's were sitting talking about it, and we're just like, Oh, man, Elon's leaving, though, should we cover it this week? And we said, No, no, this.
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Jeezy: There!
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Manny: There'll be more to this. We'll we got time to cover it.
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Manny: Whoa! I know I didn't think that I didn't take this turn.
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Jeezy: I didn't either man it, and it was fast like.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Jeezy: Which makes me think.
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Manny: How genuine was the relationship that the breakup had to just be so toxic.
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Manny: She's a.
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Jeezy: I mean, did you guys really love each other from the beginning?
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Manny: A.
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Jeezy: For you just to treat each other so bad? 2 people that just love each other. How can they just be so so mean and toxic to one another.
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Manny: And it's I don't know exactly what kicked it off, because for for those of you who who are watching last week we had the Farewell Press Conference.
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Manny: So we went from that.
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Manny: To to this.
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Jeezy: Bro.
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Manny: Bruh in a week. It's been a week time from
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Manny: Elon is great. I love Elon.
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Manny: He gave him a key to the United States.
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Manny: Elon.
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Jeezy: Brogue! What.
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Manny: The yeah. Yeah. At the end.
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Jeezy: Door. What door did that key open?
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Manny: But no, no door. I want to.
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Jeezy: For the whole country.
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Manny: Yeah, every door is the master key, Master Key. Every door in government.
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Jeezy: Key with every 50 States.
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Manny: But we went from that to Donald Trump, now allegedly trying to sell the the Tesla he he bought on the White House lawn.
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Jeezy: No Bro. You sell you selling the Tesla.
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Manny: The Tesla is is about to hit the market, gonna go for stupid money.
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Jeezy: Which which is funny to me, because
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Jeezy: we will, for you know trump came out, and he said that you know, for whatever reason, whenever people leave
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Jeezy: such a beautiful, you know group of people, and you know, working with him, they get this trump Durange syndrome where they just act like they don't. They just get mean. And he said they get hostile and they wake up angry, and I don't get it.
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Manny: And so, going back to the speed I'm I'll quickly go through the timeline. Okay. Monday.
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Manny: Monday, Elon, he kind of sub tweeted.
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Jeezy: Well, hold on, hold on! Before you do that. I want our listeners to understand this.
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Jeezy: What sparked this was what you have been hearing us talk about in a previous episode, and what's been circulating all over the news circuit as our one big, beautiful build. That is what the Bbb shout out to Levar Ball, this is what had sparked this this mass breakup that's gone over the interweb. So go ahead, brother.
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Manny: Yeah. So Monday, you know, Elon, just kind of sub tweeted. He's like, Hey, we got a debt problem. This is.
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Manny: This is fiscally irresponsible. That was Monday. Trump ain't say enough, he said. All right, whatever Tuesday
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Manny: he was more direct, he said, oh, no, I'm I'm not saying. In general, we're being fiscally irresponsible. I'm saying this bill is irresponsible
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Manny: and trump, you know, was not.
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Manny: was not happy about it. Yeah, but Elon said the bill was a bloated monstrosity that does nothing for Middle America, and you know what
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Manny: the man's spot on.
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Jeezy: Hey? Bro. No, not.
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Manny: Spot.
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Jeezy: Now they talk about Elon, do a whole lot of drinking a whole lot of drug use. But I got a feeling that when he seen these details? Oh, he was sober. Oh, yeah, he was in his right mind.
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Manny: Either either he was sober or got to got to the part where they were talking about cutting all the Ev mandates, and sobered up real quick.
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Jeezy: What is that clip with Leonardo? He snaps at the TV and points he's like, Oh, yeah, no, no, no. I see that.
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Manny: Nope. So that was on Tuesday, and on Wednesday it's like Elon got real mad and said, You know what hashtag America party. That's right. He said he was open to a 3rd party.
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Jeezy: That's right.
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Manny: That's between Democrats and Republicans. And again, Elon, I'm not.
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Manny: You're not completely off base with this.
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Jeezy: Nope! Nope, you you sure not.
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Manny: Then on Thursday. Oh, man! Thursday was a fun day.
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Jeezy: Bro.
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Manny: If if you didn't, didn't have a side on this.
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Manny: because that's when Musk comes out and says, Well, the real reason y'all ain't seen the Epstein Epstein files is because trump was in it.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: Right if you.
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Jeezy: 1st of all, I want you to know that he was doing these things in such real time that you had Cash Patel, who, I think, was on Joe Rogan's Podcast.
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Manny: Getting it as breaking news.
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Jeezy: Getting it as breaking news. Which 1st of all, cash ain't gave Congress that budget yet, but he on Joe Roe
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Jeezy: no budget.
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Jeezy: and that is a law that he needs to get that budget over to Congress. He ain't did it, but he got time to go talk to Joe Rogan, and then you had Theo on his podcast. Jd. Vance was on there, and he was getting it breaking news. Then, too, it was like, Oh, Bro, this is crazy.
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Manny: I I ain't seen a twitter fight like this since since juicy campus.
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Jeezy: Shout out to use the campus. Bro.
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Manny: That cause. The tweets were flying no more.
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Manny: Been like 3 h apart, I think.
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Jeezy: I'm not even going to lie, though I'm not even going to lie to you.
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Jeezy: I was invested to the point where
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Jeezy: I had unfollowed Eline and Donald trump because Elon just was he was tearing my nerves up, so I had to. But when he started going off like this I followed him back, and I turned my notification.
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Manny: I need to see that.
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Jeezy: I need to know. And I realized, I said, Oh, this is a this is a good twitter match, because we we know trump got them Twitter fingers, too, and I woke up a couple of times in the middle of the night, you know, and I'm like, Oh, Elon is still. He's still going in like.
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Manny: Keep going.
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Jeezy: Oh, brother, this is this is like a war between 2. This was between Ketamine and sudafed.
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Jeezy: This
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Jeezy: like you got 2. You got 2, though they both are drugs. It's like, okay, they 2 different drugs. But they both are powerful.
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Manny: But and they were going back and forth, and then it carries into Friday.
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Manny: Where, on a newsmax interview again trump says, Hey, people, people leave my administration.
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Jeezy: And then.
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Manny: Have the trump derangement syndrome, and to be specific. Trump, said Elon Musk was a bitter billionaire, with delusions of grandeur.
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Jeezy: Bro.
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Manny: And that's a wild statement.
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Jeezy: There is.
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Manny: Who say to the richest person in the world
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Manny: like, who who has made money as a businessman by sending rockets into space.
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Jeezy: You ain't got to worry about him sending no more for Donald trump.
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Manny: Right so, and then to watch the Republican twitter, all just encompass it all together.
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Manny: having to pick sides and largely.
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Manny: was like Mommy. Daddy, please stop fighting.
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Jeezy: Please.
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Manny: Clean.
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Jeezy: Stop fighting.
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Manny: And then there were calls 1.st 1st of all, you know, it was. It was getting wild when Steve Bannon was coming in and be like, hey? Y'all chill y'all getting a little while y'all time down.
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Jeezy: Steve Bannon. He wears the same outfit that troubles me.
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Manny: Right it.
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Jeezy: It's the same outfit he got released from jail.
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Manny: Like, either. He's got like 57 of that same outfit.
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Jeezy: Yeah, or Hobie Jay.
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Manny: Oh, wow!
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Manny: But there were calls, for I saw coming up
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Manny: for those on the Donald trump side that were just like, Hey, the us should just take over Spacex from Elon, and I was like, that's wild. I kind of wanted to happen because, boy, that if that would have happened y'all.
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Manny: we would have done an emergency pot if that and it still could happen.
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Jeezy: If you hey, brother.
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Manny: If we come in on immediately.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Manny: And we're just going to report on the the tweets in the stuff on truth in real time.
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Jeezy: Bruh. I want this fight to continue.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Jeezy: I feel like that. This is this is some next level, like, 1st of all, I want everybody to realize we we're just now kind of getting to the point where we're about 6 months into this administration. What is going on this is supposed to be.
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Jeezy: This is year 3. This is like in
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Jeezy: avengers. Infinity war like we. We. This shouldn't be the 1st Avengers movie we.
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: In the 1st Avengers, and we getting like Thanos level content right now. Bro.
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Manny: Immediately.
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Jeezy: Immediately, like what what can possibly can can top like Bruh? This is crazy. But but even down to.
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Jeezy: you know, Elon, even tweeting out like
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Jeezy: impeaching trump, like he's like, Oh.
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Manny: He was ready to go. He's like.
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Jeezy: Impeach him and and put Jd. There. So then I'm feeling like, all right. Jd, probably like.
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Manny: But, Jay, why is my name in either of y'all mouths like I'm.
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Jeezy: Why?
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Manny: I'm talking about.
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Jeezy: Be.
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Manny: Why?
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Jeezy: To do with it.
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Jeezy: but I got a feeling that might have been the one tweet that Jd. Was like. I mean.
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Jeezy: I mean, I'd be floored if y'all.
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Manny: If that's what the people want. But I mean.
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Jeezy: Like going back to what you said before the whole mommy and daddy fighting thing. I mean, this really tore.
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Jeezy: I'm gonna call it a combined group. I'm gonna call them Tech Mega.
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Jeezy: It's or tech, it's or tech Maga all 2 pieces, because
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Jeezy: no one knew who to side with, and Elon was making some very valuable points, and I think what really supports what he was saying is, you've already had Republicans coming out saying that there was. There were things in this. They.
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Manny: They don't like this, Bill. Yep.
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Jeezy: So you already have trump
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Jeezy: who is shouting the praises of this one big, beautiful Bill, and poor Mike Johnson
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Jeezy: being the puppet to to to Geppetto, trump
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Jeezy: to just whatever trump says is good, it's good. But then you have this fighting going on for it. Even I was shocked at just Marjorie Taylor Greene coming out and kind of having her own, even though I kind of was like Marjorie out of all the things that you cared about it was the AI regulation for the States. It's like, ma'am, there's so much more
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Jeezy: right they do for your I.
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Jeezy: They do not care about AI. They.
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Manny: I would they medicaid.
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Manny: I was shocked to see a bit that she didn't read it.
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Jeezy: Bruh brother. Facts.
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Jeezy: Thanks. When she said it.
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Jeezy: I was like, Okay, she jumping on the bandwagon of admitting it. But even with all of that hype going on.
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Jeezy: and trump even came out with like Elon's lying. I'm so disappointed in him he knew about the bill. Elon was like I didn't know nothing about this bill.
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Jeezy: No, to Eli's defense he could be right.
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Manny: He could be. I don't know who to believe.
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Jeezy: Depending on how drunk or how high he was when Trump talked about the bill, he might not have remembered that they said.
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Jeezy: right, very. That's very possible. But you.
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Manny: Said, like the ending the Ev subsidies had been something that was on on the table for a while, and
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Manny: I can I can believe that
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Manny: Trump had said it before. Yeah, because this is not the the most electric friendly administration.
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Jeezy: Yeah. And I'm I'm curious about that. Why does Trump hate electric vehicles so bad?
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Jeezy: Because you don't need you don't even drive.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Jeezy: he has a serious distaste for electric vehicles, and he always has to say, it's something that nobody wants. I'm like, well, there's a lot of people that actually that are driving and like them.
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Manny: But I think this is where we got to remember. Trump is a 78 year old man.
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Jeezy: Vtures.
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Manny: So probably the last time that trump has truly had to operate a vehicle.
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Manny: No one wanted electric vehicles.
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Jeezy: Bruh.
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Manny: Like it wasn't really until Tesla, until we got a electric vehicle that was that looked like a car. Yeah, not a clown car actually looked like a car. And people said, I want to drive that.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And it so I'm not shocked like I don't know why he would be shocked by that now. He could also be shocked just from the standpoint of you brought me here with Doge to cut spending, and here you go, just cranking it back up like.
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Manny: What are we doing here?
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Manny: And it? I think so. I think, somewhere around Friday evening and Saturday.
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Manny: Elon said. You know what? Let me chill out.
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Manny: because if he does really try to come for my companies, he can
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Manny: and he's like, you know, I'd be down to talk, you know he was like. Look, I said some things you said, some things.
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Jeezy: No man, they don't. Business business.
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Manny: But see, that's what that's at least what Trump has said. Trump was at a rally on Saturday, and said, I will not be speaking with Elon Musk again. He's shown profound disrespect not to just me.
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Manny: but the Presidency.
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Manny: And then the crowd at the Rallies started chanting, Kick out, Elon, because people were calling for Elon to be deported. I said.
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Jeezy: Bro. When i.
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Manny: But what.
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Jeezy: I mean.
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Manny: After, the.
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Jeezy: I mean, hey? The way that they just rounding people up, I mean, yeah.
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Jeezy: if you if you that bad trump, yeah, kick him out.
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Manny: Yeah. So, and then with Elon saying, Hey, I'll fund Democrats if I have to.
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Jeezy: Oh, Bro.
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Manny: Oh, yeah, I think that's the one that really started to get up under his skin and started really making the reps be like, oh, hey! Hey! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!
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Manny: Oh, you're chilly!
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Manny: Maybe this escalated a little too much too fast.
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Jeezy: And I think Trump responded to that like fund him. If you want to see what happens.
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Manny: Great mistake. I'll tell you what will happen. A bunch of Democrats will win.
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Jeezy: Bro.
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Jeezy: Cause, and I think Elon is speaking. And now I have heard
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Jeezy: that, you know, when Elon made the tweet.
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Jeezy: and he stated he was like. The only reason that trump is President is because of me. It made me think.
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Manny: -Oh.
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Jeezy: Yeah, it was mentioned.
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Jeezy: It was mentioned as a conspiracy theory that the only reason that trump won
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Jeezy: Elon hacked some of them systems
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Jeezy: make sure them votes look the way they need to look to get them over that threshold.
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Manny: Well, look, and I was gonna talk about this in my spotlight, but I think it fits perfectly right now.
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Jeezy: -Oh.
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Manny: That so apparently in a county in New York, Rockingham. I don't know the county. I don't.
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Manny: But they're talking about the vote totals to which they were just like, how did Trump win the Presidency? But every every other office went blue. How does this happen.
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Manny: You know what?
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Manny: I don't know New York, so that might look weird.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: But then I saw a stream of Tiktokers and tweeters from our good old State of North Carolina, who were just like, yeah. And the same thing happened in North Carolina, too. Trump won the State, but then we voted blue on everything else. What's going on here
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Manny: into do everything
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Manny: to you people in North Carolina thank you for now paying attention to politics, let me be the 1st to let you know this is North. Welcome to North Carolina. We just do this. Everyone's like, Oh, how do we vote for Trump and Governor Stein? Because the Republican nominee
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Manny: was one mark. I'd like to go sit in these back rooms of adult
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Manny: of adult material vendoring locations. I think that was probably the cleanest way I could say that.
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Jeezy: I've been making pizzas all night.
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Manny: And enjoy me some content.
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Jeezy: While while tweeting about it and writing graphic novels.
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Jeezy: If somebody, if somebody been rolling dough and pizzas all night because I've seen a lot of those people. Bro, if you go to a pizza restaurant, you guys have been making pizza. Bro, they're a little dirty when they get off.
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Jeezy: They got flour all over, but the fact that Mark didn't think to go home and shower 1st
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Jeezy: he went. He went and sat his lap that dope vendor comb through catalogs of material.
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Jeezy: He's a wild man, but but I.
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Manny: Go ahead, brother, but I'm like y'all. North Carolina is a weird state.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Manny: We do what we want. And usually that means people are splitting the ballot. And if you're wondering why that's happening more frequently, it's because we got rid of straight ticket voting. So you actually have to vote for every race so the could.
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Manny: Again, we've said this so many times on this pod.
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Manny: Does voter fraud happen?
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Manny: Yes.
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Jeezy: Yes.
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Manny: Has it? Has it happened, or has it been proved to have happened at a scale large enough
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Manny: to impact a race? It has not.
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Manny: although Jefferson Griffin might disagree with that statement.
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Jeezy: It hasn't happened until now.
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Jeezy: That's what I thought the big secret that Elon was going to drop when he said I was like, oh, God, Bro. 14. Hat community is our time.
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Jeezy: We up, we have me.
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Manny: Well, what do you go?
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Manny: It's like we knew that we knew that we we
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Manny: we knew that we knew. That's that was the reason why why we haven't.
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Jeezy: Partying together. I don't party with no strangers like that.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Now the question is.
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Manny: is, if we, if we look back through all this and all all the other things that that come out, I got a I got a question.
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Manny: So my question is, has trump been to a Diddy party.
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Manny: They're both from New York.
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Jeezy: Said some of those activities. Them freak offs took place in Trump Tower.
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Manny: These these happened in this hotel.
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Jeezy: Oh!
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Manny: I don't know. I'm just. I'm just telling what the information in front of me says.
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Manny: Was he the one with the veil on, with the Nike hat?
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Jeezy: Ew.
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Manny: Y'all, the boys don't make it past this. Probably just know we we.
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Jeezy: We appreciate y'all rocking with us.
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Manny: At this point.
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Jeezy: When Alvin Breeze come in and subpoena the boys to show up
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Jeezy: the Diddy trial. Bro. In case you think we know something like Bro. We don't know nothing. We just get. We just get the jokes on Bro.
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Jeezy: Well, well, no problem.
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Manny: Boy, the way I would just be on that stand just laughing.
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Jeezy: Bro. How did we? How did we get here?
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Jeezy: Have y'all make sure you listen to the pod.
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Manny: Boy, the way I'm I'm going up there with a with a Ptp.
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Jeezy: Right.
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Manny: Embroidery.
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Jeezy: Oh, Bro, I'm about to market myself. Bro, like I just crossed grad champion. I got so many pieces of nail, you
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Jeezy: Btp angle socks.
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Manny: Walking in there, throwing hats like like True.
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Manny: throwing that paper towel in Puerto Rico.
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Jeezy: Bruh. I'm about to market myself. How Levar Ball did with Pete with ball, big ball of brand. I'ma had a tie on the suit on the hat, on the chain. Everything. Bro.
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Manny: But but we but but yeah.
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Jeezy: Give him back the money. Bro.
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Jeezy: Getting back to Musk, you know.
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Manny: Not wrong, like.
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Jeezy: He's not man, and that's what I hate, man I hate. When I got a you know what
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Jeezy: it makes me think about magneto.
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Jeezy: and when X-man 96 came out and I watched it for the longest time, I felt like
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Jeezy: always was on Xavier's side.
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Jeezy: But then, when I watched X-men, 96. When it came back on Disney. I was like, you know what.
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Manny: Need a little song or something.
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Jeezy: Magneto was right the whole time.
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Jeezy: and I and I hate this. And they made me realize, Mandy, that sometimes the villain actually got a good point. Man.
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Manny: Breath.
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Jeezy: Those weren't wrong either, like.
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Manny: Killmonger.
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Jeezy: So Mongo over.
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Manny: Made some good point, ultron.
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Jeezy: Bruh, what's not wrong? Bro, and so I'm sitting there looking at Elon is like
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Jeezy: Elon being the the evil, the evil genius, but mixed with a little Tony Stark.
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Jeezy: I'm like he's kind of on to something. Man.
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Manny: There!
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Jeezy: With this especially. I'm not even going to lie, and we talked about it before that whole.
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Jeezy: A 3rd party thing. Another party I was like
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Jeezy: Elon got a elon, got a point.
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Manny: You got a point there, you got a point.
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Manny: And like, I think everyone forgets coming into this administration the idea and thought around Doge, even though the name you know the jokes around it, the theory behind it everyone was behind. We know as a country that we are extremely wasteful. Oh.
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Jeezy: Effect.
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Manny: And the fact that somebody was going to come in and start looking at things and tearing it apart was something the American people really supported.
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Manny: So it's a it's a predict. It's quite a predicament.
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Jeezy: Well, I think also, too, because you know.
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Jeezy: when Trump talked about some of the subsidies that he was going to cut from musk, I think Musk even came out, said, What if you do that? Then? I believe the I can't remember, like the dragon one, or whatever they use basically to.
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Manny: The dragon capsule. Yeah.
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Jeezy: To transport people back in space. He's like, Okay, we're going to start like that's done. That's over, you know. So I'm like, Okay, this, this is
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Jeezy: trump. This isn't 1 of those games that you've played before, where you think you got the upper hand.
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Jeezy: Maybe in some case you don't, you do, but you're talking about somebody. That is that we've been able to rely on heavily.
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Jeezy: We had those poor 2 astronauts stuck in space for what? 9 10 months. Bro.
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Jeezy: Yes.
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Manny: Because because the other option Boeing ain't paying out.
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Jeezy: Who got.
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Manny: We got him.
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Manny: and I think the the funny part about watching all this is watching what some of these other countries are doing where Russia came out and said, Hey, Elon.
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Manny: we'll grant you asylum, I say. Oh, no.
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Jeezy: Saw that I was like, -oh, natural
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Jeezy: trump can't get on the phone.
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Jeezy: He can't rally putin in.
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Manny: I think.
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Jeezy: This water in between Ukraine, but Russia can speak up in the midst of all they got going on. Say, Hey, hey! Hey!
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Manny: Y'all come through. Come through.
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Manny: I know. I know she ain't love you like like she should.
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Jeezy: But we'll take care of you.
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Jeezy: but I'll take care of you. Real nice over here like brother. That to me was like Bro.
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Manny: Mr. Take your girl right.
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Jeezy: We do not like. But even
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Jeezy: man, when I think about this move by Elon, and and where it could possibly go, because this can get really out of hand right now. I think it's it's kind of calmed down right now.
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Manny: Everyone's chilled out. It's the weekend.
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Manny: It's a weekend.
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Manny: you know. Everyone logged out for the week, and it's like, you know. Let me let me go chill for a bit.
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Jeezy: But but what does this speak to? As far as the
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Jeezy: power in the range? Possibly that musk may have politically, where there's a lot of Republicans that really look up to Elon. They're like, Hey, we love Elon.
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Jeezy: the technocrats. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Manny: And.
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Jeezy: Crazy.
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Manny: The technocrats that but 2 things I'll say real quick on this one, the 1st being
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Manny: Somebody likened this into the Kendrick Kendrick Lamar versus Drake beef.
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Jeezy: Okay.
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Manny: Except both sides are Drake, and we both want them to crash out.
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Jeezy: Right. Yep.
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Manny: And then my my next one is.
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Jeezy: With any road. It ain't.
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Manny: So what y'all distracting us from.
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Jeezy: Bruh, thank Bro.
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Manny: Y'all distracting us from, because fundamentally this meant nothing. Are y'all trying to draw attention away? That this the bbb is about to fail catastrophically, are y'all trying to distract us from the fact of that major meteorologist who came out and said that
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Manny: I don't know if I'm be able to accurately be able to predict what's going to be happening during hurricane season this year like.
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Manny: are are we we talking about that big orange, red orb in the sky like? That's not the sun like what? What are you? What are y'all distracting us from.
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Jeezy: Bruh, some something.
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Manny: Something about something. Doesn't something don't pan out about this. Bro.
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Manny: because part of it also seems like it was way, way, yeah, a lot, performative and just way too fast like this escalated very quickly.
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Manny: very quickly, without even any like extra prodding like. I would have expected one or 2 things to really trigger this prodding.
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Manny: and because it all just can't be about the the Bbb.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Now, what I do think escalated it very quickly is when Musk said that he was on the Epstein list, and I think that's what was the accelerant in all this.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: To which I'm this. Then, like Elon, if if that was your best best punch, why do you throw that too early?
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Manny: Too early? That's a next week drop.
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Manny: So, yeah, but what do we miss? What are we not talking about?
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Jeezy: Yeah. And and I also thought, too, maybe before
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Jeezy: people get a chance to really comb through this bill.
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Jeezy: let's try to dead this now before, before some more things started to get uncovered in this bill, that because because we've seen that a lot of people have not read this, a lot of people are really kind of just learning what's in the bill
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Jeezy: as kind of as it's going along. And now that it's getting criticized and scrutinized in the public people are now like, Okay, well, maybe this part's in here. And this part I don't agree with, and that part's in here. Maybe they're like, hey? Before they get to page 749.
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Manny: Let's go ahead and cut it.
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Jeezy: Let's just cut it and throw some drama on it and send it back, and then we'll we'll go from there because we didn't think that people we didn't think it was going to be this hard. I felt like they thought that it was going to be smooth and shout out to whoever the person was that 1st was like, wait a minute. There's some stuff in here. The one person that actually read some of this stuff.
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Manny: It was probably the person. This is what I think happened. It was either the person that that wrote it themselves, and was joking with their friends in the group. Chat.
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Jeezy: Oh! But.
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Manny: Somebody was like, Nope, Nope, you hear this.
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Jeezy: That work.
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Manny: Hey. New York. Post. Check. Out. Page 2, 53, section 4.
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Manny: Bro.
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Jeezy: That they didn't get to section 9 on page 700, somebody. What you mean? Page 9. On 700 they went and looked, and was like, Oh, my God!
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Jeezy: Oh, my God!
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Manny: So.
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Jeezy: But yeah, I don't think that man we don't know.
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Jeezy: I don't know what's next, because it seems like it's there's gonna be so many revisions, and I think that there's so much that isn't even known about it.
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Jeezy: That the man this thing is going to be around just just floating around in the Senate.
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Manny: Well, and here's the rough part like. So we have a Congressional Budget office. I did some additional reading, and not only on this, but just some of the past stuff
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Manny: and trying to figure out how the Congressional Budget Office gets to their score.
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Manny: And what I realize is that if you look back. In the 2016 tax cuts.
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Manny: some of the tax cuts were planned to be offset by some tax raises.
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Manny: But they delayed those happening until probably right about now on, on corporate taxes, and how R. And D is is executed, and how you're able to write R. And D off. Well, those provisions were written back so they wouldn't come into effect until like now. So in the score they still got credit for it. But we've not got any of that credit.
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Manny: So the question is, now, it's like, okay. So they've punted it already. So far back, we could just offset it, and just say, Hey, this is not going to happen in a single bill.
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Manny: and just let it pass through and let no one talk about it, and then we would have just raised the debt without anything offsetting. So is that level. I know I've not done that level of reading, of how many of the the tax cuts and what the the tax raises that are in this that could offset it have been pushed down to the future, and could just essentially be wiped away out of nowhere.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Jeezy: yeah, it's gonna be interesting. Man. I think the feeling I get from all of this because I know that with the work that, they said with Doge, and they were saying that Doge was, gonna Save us a trillion dollars. I know the numbers came out, and they're nowhere near close to that.
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Jeezy: It seems it seems like a lot of this is just trying to figure out.
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Jeezy: Okay, we said we were gonna do something. And right now. It don't look like we're gonna be able to do it. So.
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Manny: And.
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Jeezy: What? What do we.
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Manny: What are we gonna do?
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Jeezy: Do? Can we cut this? Can we cut that? Can we? We're just we're just trying to find it. And I feel like this method that we're using is just poor and terrible in structure. And before we know it, it's gonna be year 3 and a half, and it'll be election season, and nothing's gonna have been done, or
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Jeezy: right in a worse position than we already are. So
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Jeezy: good luck, Mr. Trump, finding it out, maybe you and your boyfriend can.
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Manny: Y'all go. Y'all go out.
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Jeezy: Work things out. Bro, yeah, go go go go get a sudafed, and he get get on his ketamine, and y'all just hash it out. Bro.
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Manny: Y'all just y'all sit down. Y'all y'all chat it off. Chat it over, you know, over a beer and a Mcdonald's
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Manny: double fish fillet, get some hot fries.
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Jeezy: Right as as the old song goes, break up the makeup. That's all that we do. Maybe maybe they'll maybe they'll get it together, man, and they'll be back on good terms. But as of right now, things aren't looking good in the in the tech mega world. So.
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Manny: And and you know what we here at pardon politics. We we love to have some unity.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
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Manny: So, President Trump Elon, if y'all would like to come on the show.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And talk this out with the boys.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: We? We are happy to facilitate that discussion.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah, yeah, we'll. We'll we'll we'll mediate.
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Manny: I just know these jokes are gonna be flying. So.
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Jeezy: All right.
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Manny: So if you're thin skinned, this is nothing.
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Jeezy: Play for you.
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Manny: Not the right environment for y'all.
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Jeezy: Yeah, it ain't. It ain't gonna be the right place, but we can get you all we can get you all the the unify get you all together. We can get you all on the same page.
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Manny: Connect y'all with with Ricky Lake.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: So this, this had made a great segment for Jerry Springer.
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Jeezy: Rest in peace, rest in peace, to the great.
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Manny: Oh, yeah.
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Jeezy: We'll see what happens and where the future lies in this bromance and.
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Manny: But let it not be lost. Elon is Elon is completely completely correct in his criticisms.
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Jeezy: Oh, of the Bbb, 100%,
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Jeezy: we yeah, we elon we, you have our support on your.
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Manny: You are, you are correct.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir, so
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Jeezy: we will see what happens with this bill in this bromance, and maybe there'll be some salvaging of one of the 2. So with that being said, we'll move on to
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Jeezy: our next segment.
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Jeezy: And in our next segment we have some news that broke this week. That
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Jeezy: was a bit strange. If you guys remember, there was an individual we talked about when it came to immigration. There was a Maryland man that was by the name of Kilmar Abrigo Garcia. That was from the great State of Maryland that was
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Jeezy: wrongfully deported.
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Jeezy: Back in. Oh, God! Was it March? Maybe.
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Manny: Yeah. Yeah. March, 20 march this year.
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Jeezy: So he was wrongfully deported, even though the Court told him, told him not to. But he was to El Salvador, and the Supreme Court had ruled that the United States needed to facilitate his return back to the United States. But we had the El Salvadorian President come and sit down with trump. And
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Jeezy: basically it sounded like he was not coming back home. They were not going to adhere to what the Court Supreme Court told them that they needed to facilitate his return. Well, we found out this week.
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Jeezy: Garcia is back home.
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Manny: He's home.
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Jeezy: But he ain't. He ain't back in his home.
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Manny: Not at all.
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Jeezy: Brother Garcia has been brought back to the Us. On June 6, th and he is now in custody in Tennessee, facing charges for an alleged involvement into a multi-year human smuggling operation. Now these charges that he that seem to have come out of nowhere, in my opinion.
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Jeezy: Bro.
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Jeezy: We'll talk about that a little more he was accused of helping smuggle, undocumented, immigrant, undocumented immigrants from Texas to Maryland, with over a hundred plus trips.
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Jeezy: He was allegedly also involved, which also included him doing known Ms. 13 members, though no evidence of his direct gang ties have surfaced, and the 2 charges that he has is conspiracy to transport undocumented immigrants for profit and unlawful transportation of undocumented persons. So
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Jeezy: what's your thoughts on it, brother?
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Manny: I mean.
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Manny: Alright. So here, 1st off.
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Manny: When this came out
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Manny: I was initially happy, because the 1st reading that I got from that is that Kilmar Rigo Garcia is back in the United States.
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Manny: and at 1st I was like Yo, this is great, and I'm just like, Oh, this is this is trump trying to cover up for the fact that Elon said that he was in the Epstein files, he said, let me go ahead and cover. Let's get him redirected.
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Manny: So I was initially happy. And then I came out and began reading, and the charges are
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Manny: I wanted to note for any members of the Us. Government that might be listening.
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Manny: This is just what I've read. I am not an expert in the legal field. My degree is in computer science. It is not a law.
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Manny: but these charges seem to be mighty convenient.
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Jeezy: Hmm.
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Manny: And.
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Jeezy: I believe, Brother somebody that we know by the name of Takeoff said it. Cap
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Jeezy: chargers got a little bit of capital.
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Manny: But it was like it. So when they initially deported him, they said it was under administrative error.
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Manny: Wouldn't it have made sense to just say that, hey? He has these? And this is why he was deported.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Like that. And then, El Salvador, why did y'all just like release him back.
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Manny: Like you said he came with big, big energy to the Us. That this was like, he's a he's 1 of our nationals. We want him back, and y'all just y'all just gave him back over to the Us.
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Jeezy: Yeah, that's a mad, weird.
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Manny: So it's it's going to be interesting. To see how this plays out. I I
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Manny: I don't know but his lawyer, Simon Sandoval Mogisberg. I completely butchered that last name, stated that.
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Jeezy: That sound like a public defender. He might be in trouble.
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Manny: Well, I think this is. I think there's a little bit too high profile now at this point for him to just have a generic. Where? Where's where's Benjamin Crum?
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Jeezy: Right, yeah, look.
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Manny: Man.
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Jeezy: Did say, My hands are tied.
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Manny: He's like we got enough going on.
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Jeezy: Outside my pay grade.
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Manny: But, he said, this case is not just about immigration. It's about government accountability and due process. And I think that's going to be the the real question here, because at this point it seems like this was really fast tracked.
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Jeezy: And.
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Manny: And I, I question, what's the level of judicial review that's been done with this.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: You know what is the evidence, and I think we'll probably see this information over the next couple days.
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Manny: but it's real real weird.
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Jeezy: Well, I'm I'ma tell you my problem with it, like I said already. I think it's Cap.
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Jeezy: you know, and I'm not, and I want to listen to them, saying, I'm not
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Jeezy: saying that this man is hasn't done anything ever we. We know that he's had some history of of having some trouble with the law, but I just think the timing of this seems weird.
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Jeezy: I think it's more of a a way of just kind of doing what the court has already told them they need to do without looking like
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Jeezy: Looking weak.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: But also I have a serious problem with.
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Jeezy: I got a problem with Pam Bundy.
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Jeezy: and I want and and I like, I really have a problem with her.
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Jeezy: because in the in the position in which you hold.
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Jeezy: I would expect for you, as the Attorney General, to have some accountability when you stand in front of the American people, and you address something of this magnitude.
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Jeezy: She got up on stage at a press conference and talked about the charges for this man.
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Jeezy: if she put so many false
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Jeezy: allegations up on this man that it made no sense. It was. It was egregious. The amount of things, she said to this man. They had no reflection. He's only got 2 charges that he he is.
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Jeezy: that he is, he is. He has over arrest that happened over a traffic stop in Tennessee in 2022.
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Jeezy: She got up there, and she these are the allegations that she made that aren't in this indictment, she alleged. She accused him of weapon trafficking. He is not charged.
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Manny: No charge.
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Jeezy: Related to guns. Now I want our listeners to understand. This is the Attorney General of the United States.
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Manny: Person in charge of persecuting.
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Jeezy: Bingo, and she lying, I'm gonna call it what it is you lying, Pam.
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Manny: Cap.
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Jeezy: She? She accused him of drug trafficking.
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Manny: Cap.
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Jeezy: Not an indictment. She alleged his involvement in a murder.
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Manny: Cap.
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Jeezy: She suggested that he groomed children and solicited sexual images.
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Manny: Cap.
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Jeezy: She said that he ran a border human trafficking ring, involving women and children.
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Manny: Cap.
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Jeezy: Why are you on stage? I mean.
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Jeezy: I mean just fattening up these charges
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Jeezy: with all these allegations, and none of these are in that indictment that that has been put on Abrigo Garcia, and I think that is very telling
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Jeezy: to go even further.
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Jeezy: There was an individual
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Jeezy: the chief of Criminal division for the Us. Attorney's office in the middle District of Tennessee. This man is is the chief in this division.
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Jeezy: When these charges were sent to his office, this man resigned.
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Manny: Yeah, because he knew it was Crap. He knew it was crap.
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Jeezy: And this ain't just an individual that's just new in the role. This man was a 15 year veteran in the office. He stepped down the same day that these seal indictments were filed, his departure reportedly reflects his concern that the prosecution was being pursued for political reasons.
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Manny: Somebody came out and said that Bondi's framing of this case as a public safety threat is convenient.
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Jeezy: Hmm.
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Manny: But ignores the fact that no violent offenses have been substantiated.
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Jeezy: Brad, this is insane, and this is this is very.
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Jeezy: This is scary.
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Manny: Well, and here's the other piece that I'm now wondering about this. Okay, because we're we're coming on June.
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Manny: And we all know what's well. A couple of things that are getting ready to happen in June is that the Supreme Court is going to be ruling on a whole bunch of cases that are direct impacts to Trump's power.
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Manny: My thought is that
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Manny: one of the things still hanging over this administration in the in the power struggle between the Executive branch and the Supreme Court is that trump has very blatantly defined, defied the order to get him back.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And I'm wondering if they finally just did all this to make sure that he was back in the Us. Before they started ruling on those cases
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Manny: in in hope to make sure, or at least not put themselves in such a negative light as the Supreme Court starts deciding on these cases.
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Jeezy: You got a point. That's a good point, man.
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Jeezy: because it's it's like, I say, it's mighty convenient.
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Jeezy: Yeah, it it is. And it's it's even in that, though you know that
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Jeezy: this is a man's life that we're gam, that we're playing with over accusations and political stunts, that
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Jeezy: it just shouldn't be going on, man.
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Manny: And it's showing the it's showing the willingness of this administration to be able to bend legal.
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Jeezy: Yes.
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Manny: Constructs.
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Jeezy: Yes.
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Manny: To force immigration, control.
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Jeezy: Yes.
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Manny: Immigration control that is largely viewed negatively, not only just people, individual views, but also economically. This is viewed as not a good idea. Yeah. And
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Manny: the I think everyone should be concerned from a due process standpoint.
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Jeezy: Bingo!
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Manny: Because once you have these norms established.
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Manny: What else are they coming for.
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Jeezy: And that that's an excellent point, Manny, if they're willing to bend. And then let's say that the ruling that comes in June from the court
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Jeezy: gives them what they may sense, as the green light to do whatever they want to do. We should all, no matter who the person is, we should all think that every human should have the right to due process, and if that is being stripped and ripped away.
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Jeezy: what.
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Manny: What else we got.
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Jeezy: What are we living in now.
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Manny: Well, we're we're living in an authoritarian government, or, as we titled and worked on a previous episode, a hostile government takeover.
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Jeezy: Which is crazy man and and man even down to like this past week.
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Jeezy: Separate from Garcia! There was this, the guy from Youtube, the famous guy on Youtube.
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Jeezy: Oh, Kirby Lane is that? Was that his name? The guy that got deported.
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Manny: Oh, not not of the guy who got deported. So there's so much news. We we mixing up the name.
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Jeezy: It was a. It was a famous guy on Tiktok. He's he's very viral, but he's from Senegal.
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Jeezy: Oh, yeah, no. Kirby Lane.
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Jeezy: Okay. He was in Nevada, and then he got deported like.
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Manny: I've I've heard he he didn't get deported. He got detained and then released.
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Jeezy: Okay, what did what did he like? Did he self deport like, did he just after that happened? Did he go back or.
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Manny: No, I think he's. I think he's here illegally.
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Manny: Okay.
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Manny: He's here legally. So I but even in that, please. Yes.
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Jeezy: Just. It's just. It's so much going on, man, where it's just like
632
Jeezy: it's it's scary man. And if if and if the due process in these, in in this whole immigration thing
633
Jeezy: can be just stripped away. Then I just, I just worry where that leaves us in this process.
634
Manny: Well, and here's the here's the crazy thing. If that was the only thing that happened in immigration this week in the United States that would be enough for us to talk about. But there was more that happened.
635
Manny: So it for those of you, and it really kind of came to a head Friday into Saturday, where ice got itself into a predicament.
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Jeezy: Oh, Bro.
637
Manny: So the good people at ice. Well, I won't say good. The the people at ice.
638
Jeezy: The good people at ice is wild.
639
Manny: Let's see. Sorry the people at ice
640
Manny: the people employed by ice. Yes, I I'm I'm certain that there's some people who work at ice that just like, man, I'm just following orders.
641
Jeezy: Breath.
642
Manny: But they apparently went into la.
643
Jeezy: Bro.
644
Manny: To start doing some some ice raids.
645
Jeezy: Hmm.
646
Manny: And apparently pulled up some places and realized that they they weren't really welcome. There.
647
Jeezy: Oh, oh, Ruth!
648
Manny: And you know they had already said in LA. And largely in California, that oh, no ice. We're not helping y'all.
649
Manny: And La is a wild place for it to be.
650
Jeezy: Ready. Yup.
651
Manny: Because La is one of those cities where, if you just look at the demographic breakdown.
652
Manny: It is. It is a 50 50 brown to Caucasian
653
Manny: city at this standpoint. But it does have allegedly a million illegal immigrants.
654
Jeezy: Oh Jesus!
655
Manny: Well, the people there said, we're not gonna take it.
656
Manny: and started blocking streets and stopping ice from moving, and that escalated to the point where ice got buckled down into a corner and started to call for help.
657
Manny: Oh, no, really.
658
Manny: they say, Hey, we down bad. And then at that point. You're like, you're you're calling the police.
659
Manny: La has no choice but to go in and try to help help them out.
660
Manny: Well, that has continued to escalate, and what we saw Saturday night is large scale protests, and it ultimately culminated 1st off, shocking shockingly that
661
Manny: No one has died.
662
Jeezy: Yeah.
663
Manny: So
664
Jeezy: The footage. I've seen it like all at war.
665
Manny: They said, they have not seen this these items since. Since Rodney King.
666
Jeezy: Oh, Bro.
667
Manny: So to for more details. There was a warehouse in the Fashion district, and 2 home depots that resulted in 44 administrative arrests and 118 total requests.
668
Manny: So the raids included military. They went in military style, flash, bangs, pepper, spray, tear, gas, stun guns.
669
Manny: and it got bad lapd, because they got called in, said, Hey, this is unlawful, you know, but they use non lethal munitions to try to clear it out.
670
Manny: and they had standoffs. The next day people were blocking the streets. But in as a result of all this.
671
Manny: President Trump federalized the California National Guard, calling for 2,000 troops to be deployed to La to control the riots.
672
Manny: One thing I do want to make clear on this, and how they were deployed is that
673
Manny: trump did not use the Insurrection Act.
674
Jeezy: Okay.
675
Manny: He? He did it under title 10, basically a provision that allows them to support Federal agents.
676
Jeezy: Okay.
677
Manny: But I have a question here just just before we get to the legality of all that. Why ain't you in call for help on January 6, th 2021.
678
Manny: Well, we had people die
679
Manny: anyways, anyways. Pause, we'll we'll we'll PIN that. We'll save that one for later. But then you had Pete Hegseth
680
Manny: saying that he was willing to active, call in active duty marines from Camp Pendleton
681
Manny: to come in and help. Then you had trump, saying he was going to lift the ban, lift or implement a ban on people wearing masks at protests
682
Manny: and.
683
Jeezy: From wearing masks.
684
Manny: But
685
Manny: so as of right now, I believe 300 people from the National Guard have arrived in La. But like
686
Manny: this is, this is not going to get better.
687
Jeezy: No.
688
Manny: The cause in la you. You picked a hell of a city to be your 1st city, to try to do this.
689
Jeezy: And then you might want to start a little smaller, but.
690
Manny: It's almost like you're is this. Now the game plan?
691
Manny: You know, in all these places that are sanctuary, that have sanctuary cities and things like that is ice plan to use these protests because you have the authorities who said, we're not helping you with this. I said, You're gonna do this. You're gonna do this alone. So it's now their plan to go into these places under man for the situation, get themselves back into a corner and then call for help. So that way. Local agencies now just have to have to help them.
692
Manny: But yeah. And then you have the the nonstop war between between Governor Newsom and and trump.
693
Manny: So this is this is problematic. And we, we hinted on before. This is what authoritarian rule looks like.
694
Jeezy: Yep.
695
Manny: Using, using the government to quelch the speech of people.
696
Manny: And I get it again before anyone comes at us.
697
Manny: Are people here? Illegally? Yes, yes, absolutely.
698
Manny: But like there's there's gotta be a better way.
699
Jeezy: Well, I was telling someone today, you know, while I I understand there are people here that are are here legally.
700
Jeezy: I've not heard one thing done to make the system better, so that those that are
701
Jeezy: can go through the right way.
702
Jeezy: It sounds like it's just kick everybody out, and then we'll fix it. But we know that that fix is going to take forever. There's not enough judges. There's not enough. There's nearly not enough to even for people to even say, Hey, if I want to legally come to the country, we're talking about something that may take
703
Jeezy: months, years.
704
Manny: Years.
705
Jeezy: So all this mass deportation, when we don't have a true
706
Jeezy: foundation of a system for people to get in here legally.
707
Jeezy: then what does that look like
708
Jeezy: from just a societal standpoint from an economical standpoint? Once all these people are gone, this is this is going to have an impact on our economy.
709
Manny: Geez! Do you know one of the largest way people are here illegally?
710
Manny: They come into the Us. On on visas, and then overstay those visas.
711
Jeezy: Oh, yeah.
712
Manny: That is one of the largest segments of how people are here in the country illegally.
713
Manny: and there's just gotta be a healthy pathway to citizenship.
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Jeezy: Got it.
715
Manny: At this point.
716
Jeezy: To be, because I because I'd be, I will be very interested to know.
717
Jeezy: Now I don't. I don't have, an I'm not knowledgeable in this area. But how many of those people where the visas expire? Are they awaiting.
718
Manny: Right.
719
Jeezy: Step right, and I'm kicked out. And let's say that person's here still working, still doing all the things you know or or haven't you know, God forbid! Haven't had any type of any criminal background, or let's say they just had maybe a speeding ticket or or something minor. I don't know. You know
720
Jeezy: those people are getting kicked out, but they're in the system waiting on that process, and we don't have anything in place to help those people to get here, because everyone that's getting deported. And and I think this is the mindset that the Administration is trying to spin. Everybody that's getting deported ain't criminals aren't rapists, aren't.
721
Jeezy: People that are here smuggling Fentanyl. Now, I'm not saying that those things don't happen, but that isn't the case, for every single person that's getting kicked out of this country.
722
Jeezy: There got to be a better way to do this.
723
Manny: And y'all, I'm getting ready to just say some things you we already all know the answer to. But I'm just going to ask the questions.
724
Manny: what are we scared of like? Because my understanding, good portion of these people still pay taxes?
725
Manny: Good portion of these people still help buy local stimulating the economy.
726
Jeezy: Yep.
727
Manny: There, there's a cost to living here. So they're still supporting the economy.
728
Manny: So what are we actually scared of
729
Manny: the criminal question? If if we were to just say, Hey, cool! You are here legally.
730
Manny: I want you to pay a fine of X percentage over the next 5 years.
731
Manny: and we're going to do a background check. And if everything on that comes back clean.
732
Manny: you pay this fine, and then you're good. Keep supporting the economy
733
Manny: like, where where's the harm in doing that?
734
Jeezy: Yep.
735
Manny: What, what are we? What are we so scared of?
736
Jeezy: Because I have a hard time understanding that as much as the Government can keep up with every single thing that we're doing, I have a hard time understanding that if you come across someone that is here illegally, that within a matter of a reasonable time you cannot do a background to find out. Okay, this person a threat? Or is this a person that is a taxpaying individual that is stimulating the economy and actually doing something good.
737
Manny: Look, and here's the great compromise.
738
Manny: and I've said it before, and I will continue to say it.
739
Manny: The same background checks that we allow people to go through to be able to purchase guns
740
Manny: are the same background checks that people need to do to enter the country
741
Manny: we now have. You can start and look. I'm not one for big government. But if we're going to do this, we we have an agency that is just required to run background checks on people all day every day, whether you're coming into this country or you're buying a gun, and it's the same process for both, and Republicans will be pissed off, and Democrats will be pissed off and, damn! It
742
Manny: might have just found us a solution that we can work with.
743
Jeezy: Yep.
744
Jeezy: I agree. I don't understand that I would say something real ignorant, and I ain't never understood. I don't understand why people get so scared of these immigrants. But don't mind going to Taco Tuesday.
745
Manny: Don't. But Cinco de Mayo dang! The the entire country dang near, shuts down.
746
Jeezy: I can't. Bro. I can't tell you how many times I get so mad when I go to a Mexican restaurant, and I got to hear a white man say gracias.
747
Jeezy: but then they get mad and don't want the. They don't want the people here. It's like what like every look man
748
Jeezy: as a person of color.
749
Jeezy: I would advise all people
750
Jeezy: to get you a good group of Mexican people. Bro. They are some of the most loving, a resourceful type of people that you will ever meet. They I mean I don't understand what what is the scare
751
Jeezy: like, you know I don't. I don't understand it, man.
752
Manny: Well, they're taking the jobs.
753
Jeezy: I'm sorry that'll work.
754
Manny: He's got a doom like.
755
Manny: Want that job.
756
Jeezy: And I know I can speak, for our black people. Sharecropping is past our time for us. Bro.
757
Jeezy: I ain't going. I'm not going back to the field. Never was in there, and ain't ain't back.
758
Manny: And because I'm I'm not the one I'm not the one.
759
Jeezy: What is the fear now? There's crime everywhere. But you can't tell me that some of the crime that these these immigrants are committing. There ain't black people committing them. There ain't white people committing them. It's a problem just period.
760
Manny: Yep.
761
Jeezy: But you can't target and make it seem like the problem just comes from these people, these immigrants. No, it's a problem period. But I think, with any type of crime that we've ever seen. If you enhance the quality of living.
762
Jeezy: then you may offset some of these things, give them a legal pathway here that is reasonable
763
Jeezy: and hold them accountable, just like you hold any American accountable.
764
Jeezy: and I truly believe that you can solve this problem a little bit easier than going, because I'm telling you now you ain't doing nothing but breeding terrorists.
765
Manny: You're you're you're breeding terrorism, and you're doing it in the most expensive fashion.
766
Jeezy: It was.
767
Manny: Possible.
768
Jeezy: Yes, yes.
769
Manny: Like so expensive, like so expensive
770
Manny: the amount of equipment it takes to do what ice is doing.
771
Jeezy: Enemy Drones.
772
Manny: Ridiculously expensive. Yeah, like.
773
Jeezy: Was an individual. I know, that knew a family member that was going to home depot in California when all that mess happened.
774
Jeezy: and he was like. It was something out of a movie like seeing them drones and vehicles like it was like wild
775
Jeezy: that has a cost. And then you have people that'll say, Well, what do you? What is the cost of what do you? What price tag do you put on sleeping peaceful, peacefully at night? I ain't sleeping any more peaceful than I was before you started. All this.
776
Manny: Right.
777
Jeezy: So I don't know, but I don't think that this is the right way to do it, because when these people get deported and they go back to their home.
778
Jeezy: What happens then?
779
Manny: Right.
780
Jeezy: What are you creating, then
781
Jeezy: what extremist groups are you birthing out of going out and conducting these things in this manner? Like I said in a previous episode, I think it's a lot cheaper for us to not be making enemies out of people.
782
Manny: A whole lot cheaper. It is a whole lot cheaper to stop a war before it becomes one.
783
Jeezy: And you're and you're bringing those. And to me it feels like you're bringing those wars a lot closer to home than what they need to be.
784
Manny: Right.
785
Manny: The there's only been a handful of wars fought in North America.
786
Manny: and you keep just bringing it a little bit closer and closer.
787
Manny: I don't understand man, but but at any rate I believe that these charges are kept.
788
Jeezy: I'm glad that his attorney at least gets to lay eyes on him. I believe.
789
Manny: Yeah.
790
Jeezy: Going this past weekend because they had. They had been down 3 times El Salvador, and have been able to.
791
Manny: I mean, I would say, at a at a general sense, his conditions, whatever place he is here in the Us. Has to be far better than being in the terrorist supermax prison down in El Salvador.
792
Jeezy: Bro. Facts. So I mean, I believe they said, like his wife, will be able to come down.
793
Manny: Yeah, so.
794
Jeezy: In and see him, which remember, we talked about at the time that he got deported. She was in there.
795
Jeezy: She was pregnant. Yeah.
796
Jeezy: was about to have the baby, so this will be the 1st time that he'll even get to lay eyes on his newborn baby hopefully, and a lot of it. So I'm sure that, like you said that his conditions here are a lot better off than where he was.
797
Jeezy: I just hope that, regardless of what has transpired, that he just gets the due diligence, that he deserves the due process that they, you know this isn't politicized to make an example, or things are done right in accordance to the law, and not the bending and stretching of the law, to make a point, or to make him an example. So.
798
Manny: Yep.
799
Jeezy: We will see. We'll keep keep updated on Mr. Garcia and his situation, because I think that the outcome of his situation will definitely set a precedence to how things go are going to be going forward and people in this similar situation. So
800
Jeezy: with that being said, we have reached that point of our episode.
801
Jeezy: where we will have our pickle of the week.
802
Jeezy: We got your pickle.
803
Jeezy: We got your pickup.
804
Jeezy: We got your pickle
805
Jeezy: all right, all right, all right.
806
Manny: Who's in the brine man who is in the brine.
807
Jeezy: Our pickle of the week. I'm a little bit ashamed by brother.
808
Jeezy: I ain't even gonna lie to you. I'm a little ashamed.
809
Manny: Oh, man, it's not you, is it?
810
Jeezy: No.
811
Manny: No, so I'm not.
812
Jeezy: I'm not the pickle of the week, but I'm worried. Man.
813
Jeezy: Our pickle of the week is gonna be have to be Linda Mcmahon Bro.
814
Manny: No, not our fellow ecu alum.
815
Jeezy: She she embarrasses Bro. She she making our she making our Eastern North Carolina education look like we. We need to. We need to be right back in them tobacco fields.
816
Jeezy: Miss Mcmahon. And just when I thought that Vince was crazy, she just as crazy as he is.
817
Jeezy: But she appeared before the Senate Subcommittee, hearing on the 3rd
818
Jeezy: to defend the trump 2026 education budget which proposed slashing 15% of the department's funding, which includes cuts to pell grants and trio college access programs. But the real shocker in this
819
Jeezy: man that lady don't know nothing. Bro.
820
Jeezy: I ain't gonna call it doom.
821
Jeezy: But Bro. She she don't know what she talking about. Bro.
822
Jeezy: Well, she she said, 4 plus 4 is 44.
823
Jeezy: They got up there, man, and my boy, John Kennedy, shout out to John Kennedy, he's the Senator that had the classic line that the next time you get in trouble don't call the police call a crackhead.
824
Jeezy: No, I like I like Kennedy.
825
Jeezy: he said. He come to work every day, just praying the God that he make the right decision. But by 12 o'clock he wanted to slap.
826
Manny: And I feel that I feel that.
827
Jeezy: I feel so shout out to the Republican from from Louisiana, but he made an error calling and claiming that 1.5 billion over the span of 10 years would equal one trillion dollars, and.
828
Manny: I'm sorry. Wait! Wait! Run that math back.
829
Jeezy: 1.5 billion.
830
Manny: Okay.
831
Jeezy: Times 10.
832
Manny: Okay.
833
Jeezy: Would equal one trillion. That's what Kennedy said.
834
Jeezy: Well, when he said this to Miss Mcmahon, she didn't correct him.
835
Jeezy: She didn't say anything until Jack Reed, the Democrat from Rhode Island, had to step in and say, That's not a trillion dollars.
836
Jeezy: So he they pointed out that she that I mean, and and I know that she's old.
837
Jeezy: But for you to be in charge of the Department of Education.
838
Manny: Education.
839
Jeezy: If somebody came to me and said, Hey, you know 2 plus 2 is 6, and I just say,
840
Jeezy: something got a spark in my head saying.
841
Manny: But saying.
842
Jeezy: Sound, right.
843
Manny: Saying, saying that about something that I'm accountable for.
844
Manny: Bingo.
845
Jeezy: So, even even down to. She had an exchange with the Republican from Oklahoma. Senator Mullen? He asked her in 2,000, excuse me, in 1979, he asked her what was the Us. Standing on reading and math, which again.
846
Jeezy: she should have some level of understanding of where we stand as a as a nation in our mathematics. She said that we were during that time. We were very, very low on the totem pole.
847
Jeezy: Mullen said the Us. Actually was number one back then, and we're now sinking to 36 in.
848
Manny: Well, see, that's that's cause like she thought it was like reverse scoring, so she thought 50 was the highest score, and one was, that's that had to be what it was.
849
Jeezy: So, okay.
850
Jeezy: so what this was viewed is, it was what Mullins was trying to do as a Republican to help Miss Mcmahon out. He was kind of trying to throw her a softball question to kind of just proved like she had some basic historical knowledge of the department, and where it was at, and of course she failed.
851
Manny: She failed.
852
Jeezy: So then she dodged a whole bunch of yes and no questions on critical issues like whether funding passed by Congress would actually be spent, or if cutting staff and mental health and grant programs harm students. She couldn't say yes or no on nothing.
853
Jeezy: And then they just reminded her, on her dismantling of appropriated funds, and she just replied by saying, I'm answering the question. I'm just not giving you the answer that you want. No, ma'am, you're not answering the question, but it even went as far as her arriving with flashcards.
854
Manny: I mean. Look, man, I I've taken some tests, and I've had flashcards for them. But Linda.
855
Jeezy: She went in there with flashcards, and it was reported that at the top of one of the flashcards that she had written, Stay calm.
856
Jeezy: and there was a couple of times when they would ask her questions, and like they would tell her like, it's not on none of your flashcards like. Don't.
857
Manny: Look at your plan.
858
Jeezy: Cars. Just answer the question like, you're not going to have this like, I think.
859
Jeezy: God! One of the the women asked her about a black
860
Jeezy: inventor, and they were like, Hey, do you think that you know children learning about this black inventor is important? And they were like she, I guess she went to go grab for the
861
Jeezy: oh, yeah, no, no.
862
Jeezy: no, no, no, that's not on one of the cars like, just tell me, do you think that is.
863
Manny: Yes, Gordon, what is your opinion on said subject.
864
Jeezy: But Bro. She was like she just was. She struggled horribly. She had a horrible
865
Jeezy: performance in front of the subcommittee, and that just made me think that if this person is in charge of the Department of Education.
866
Jeezy: Bro. We screwed.
867
Manny: We bro, we, we.
868
Jeezy: She has no clue, and I'm sorry to our alumni. I'm sorry to a fellow pirate.
869
Jeezy: but, Miss Mcmahon, you have no clue.
870
Jeezy: What, in God's name you are doing.
871
Jeezy: You have no right to be in this position.
872
Jeezy: You are just taking orders and doing things and have no clue. What you're doing at all, and that is dangerous. There are a lot of people that rely on these programs, and she don't even know what the programs are for.
873
Manny: So she she ain't probably seen the inside of a school or Pta meeting in Eons.
874
Manny: Bruh. You would think that the Secretary of Education.
875
Jeezy: Would at least pass a basic oral exam.
876
Jeezy: But between the flashcard she can't. She can't do math
877
Jeezy: and just fumbling factual, just information.
878
Jeezy: She flunked her 1st test.
879
Manny: I mean, Linda, you might have just been better off. Say, hey, I'm I'm just following orders.
880
Jeezy: Yep.
881
Manny: I'm just following over.
882
Jeezy: Or you could just do like Marshawn, Lynch said. I'm just here, so I don't get fine.
883
Jeezy: just saying that I'm just here, so I don't get fined.
884
Manny: And you know what. And this would have been a fire instead of a pickle. This has been a spotlight, and we kept it moving.
885
Jeezy: You would have kept it moving.
886
Jeezy: But because you are the Secretary of Education and education you have not.
887
Jeezy: You are this week's pickle of the week.
888
Manny: I mean. But before we leave that, Linda.
889
Manny: if you'd like to get the boys.
890
Jeezy: Okay.
891
Manny: Some tickets to wrestlemania in Vegas. We would love to be there.
892
Jeezy: Hey!
893
Manny: Love to be there.
894
Jeezy: If you want to come, defend yourself if you want to, if you want to, because, hey, look! They may not give you a retake on your test, but we'll allow you. We'll allow you to come up on the pod and do some extra credit.
895
Jeezy: Get your grade up correct.
896
Manny: We.
897
Jeezy: Lucky.
898
Manny: We will ask the same exact questions to start.
899
Jeezy: Yup, Yup, just so. You already know it's gonna be the same question in a different order.
900
Manny: Same quick.
901
Jeezy: That way. You know what you need to study, for. You have your study guide, and just come up here and just show the American people
902
Jeezy: that you're not as bad as we really think you are right now. You you.
903
Manny: You live, the whole pickle, rough.
904
Jeezy: So that's our pickle for the week. So
905
Jeezy: with that being said, we've reached the conclusion of our episode. And, as always, at the end of the episode. We like to give you our spotlight of the week. So, my brother, what is your spotlight or spotlight?
906
Jeezy: Well, of the week?
907
Manny: My spotlight.
908
Manny: A
909
Manny: could also be seen as a pickle. Okay, but the the block is is starting to get a little bit hot. So last week
910
Manny: Ukraine gave Russia that work, and they ain't see Bro.
911
Jeezy: Bro.
912
Manny: What didn't see it come in. Yo.
913
Manny: So for those of you who are unaware.
914
Jeezy: A year and a half of planning went into planning this attack on Russia.
915
Jeezy: Oh, Bro, I didn't know it went to that level.
916
Manny: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
917
Jeezy: Russian. Hold on! You're talking about Ukraine right.
918
Manny: Ukraine. Yeah.
919
Jeezy: Shut out Ukraine.
920
Manny: So Ukraine got a whole bunch of drones about 4 or $500. Drones
921
Manny: had them put on semi trucks
922
Manny: in like the the big rigs and semi.
923
Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
924
Manny: Had them driven to the outside of military installations deep within Russia, and then all at once, the
925
Manny: in my head. This is how it worked out, you remember, in
926
Manny: Oh, gosh! I forget which Avengers movie the the gold people
927
Manny: where they were all operating, those androids in the in that battle.
928
Jeezy: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
929
Manny: Guardians of the galaxy. Yep, there we go!
930
Manny: So all at once
931
Manny: they released the tops, came off of these Semis. They flew these drones up into the air and started going after. And like they went on self-destruct mode flew these drones into a whole bunch of.
932
Jeezy: Yeah. Russia.
933
Manny: Planes. Now the number is disputed, but it's somewhere between 10 and 30% of Russia's strategic bombing fleet.
934
Jeezy: That's a lot.
935
Manny: And blew them all to hell.
936
Manny: Bruh! So see, this is what happened. Bro, this is like the movie, Rudy.
937
Manny: But that was me, wasn't it? Later on, like 2, 3, and then hold on, now.
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Jeezy: Me ask you a question real quick. This happened while while they were having negotiations.
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Manny: Talks yep.
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Jeezy: Oh, Bro, when somebody got that text they was like Bro. I dug.
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Manny: But they weren't done.
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Manny: The the bridge that led to Russia to Crimea. These boys had stuff set up underground underwater.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: A bunch of the supports of the bridge the main bridge is.
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Manny: Do you want
946
Manny: way in there from Russia? Is this bridge? They went there and blew out a whole bunch of these supports. So you can't drive over this thing anymore.
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Jeezy: Oh Bruh!
948
Jeezy: Oh, bruh! Brush up!
949
Manny: A year.
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Jeezy: I mean Ukraine up Bro.
951
Manny: And then Russia was just kind of sitting there like
952
Manny: cause I didn't know what to do.
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Jeezy: That's a push to the lever.
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Manny: Bro. How do you not see this? Huh? Oh! And these semi trucks that were sitting outside all these military installations, after all these drones went off, they self-destructed.
955
Jeezy: Yeah, they were.
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Manny: Inspector Gadget on them.
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Jeezy: Yo.
958
Manny: And Russia. So Russia responded like we knew they were going to respond first.st They're like, Well, we're going to send a nuke.
959
Manny: and everyone's like, Hey, man! Chill, you know.
960
Jeezy: That's how you know you really gave them that uppercut, because when they had to go that big like Bro, don't be mad at how we just played y'all like. Come on.
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Manny: Brown played like a fiddle.
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Manny: So Russia has now up up there electronic warfare protection. So they got GPS jamming signals and all that stuff to try to crash the drones if they try to do it again.
963
Jeezy: Boo, boo.
964
Manny: But how do you, as as a as a major superpower in your head.
965
Manny: allow Giant Semis that you hadn't checked to be set up outside of your military installations with some of your most powerful
966
Manny: weapons of air for your Air Force, and they just took them out. And then here's the beautiful thing about these drones. They were cheap.
967
Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: And because they move so fast you don't really have air support. You have people trying to shoot these shoot them out of the sky.
969
Manny: and it's probably not working that. Well. I played plenty of call of duty. Try to shoot out surveillance airplanes and be missing.
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Jeezy: Gonna be missing like crazy.
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Manny: Be missing so.
972
Jeezy: You. 1st of all, I wanted everybody to know that when this war 1st started we were in a group chat, and the boys was like they got a weekend.
973
Manny: All right.
974
Jeezy: We knew that we knew that Russia was going to blow Ukraine off the face of the earth.
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Manny: I didn't know what was going to happen faster the time it took Jesus to rise from the dead, or Russia taking out Ukraine. That's how fast I thought this was going.
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Jeezy: Surely before. Surely, before they got him in the tomb
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Jeezy: and closed it, Russia was going to be done with Ukraine. We are now at what almost a year and a half, 2 years.
978
Manny: Oh, no, we're we're starting to be moving up on Year 3 here in a little bit.
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Jeezy: See, this is wild. Bro, it's taking them so long. So that goes to show you.
980
Jeezy: 1st of all, Russia ain't no superpower like they thought they were.
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Manny: They not they getting exposed.
982
Jeezy: You're getting exposed. You're getting exposed because it should not take you this much to be to be fighting with somebody like Ukraine.
983
Jeezy: You didn't have to bring in a whole nother. You didn't have to bring in a whole another nation of soldiers.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Jeezy: They brought in North Korean soldiers right.
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Manny: And apparently these people don't, they don't know, discovered the Internet.
987
Jeezy: This is so crazy.
988
Manny: Then became fans of mark.
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Jeezy: Robinson's dramatic writing.
990
Jeezy: how you come, how you come to war and discover the Internet Bro, like you're supposed to be fighting?
991
Jeezy: Why are you on the Internet.
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Manny: Who gave you the who gave you so they.
993
Jeezy: All done. So you don't have to bring in reinforcement. Russia, I mean Ukraine, just fighting with
994
Jeezy: people that there's the Butcher, the farmers
995
Jeezy: the brick maker, and they going to town. Bro.
996
Manny: And us weapons. It helps that. It helps that. Ukraine's gotten some backup.
997
Jeezy: But that. But see, that goes to show you
998
Jeezy: all you when given the resources, when the when the when the playing field is leveled.
999
Jeezy: Look what we got.
1000
Manny: Right. What? What Cat William? Say? We'll line up. Get me on that line.
1001
Jeezy: Shout out to Ukraine, Bro. For putting up a fight, I wonder? I just can only imagine hearing having getting that text and sitting there in those peace negotiations. Bro. I know somebody had to be
1002
Jeezy: whammy.
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Manny: Right, and just smiling.
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Jeezy: Valid.
1005
Manny: I imagine some of them were sitting in there with the same bravado that Obama had at the White House correspondents, dinners, knowing that they were about to go take out bin laden. Yep.
1006
Jeezy: Compared to that's the.
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Manny: Just sitting there just like man. I don't know if this is gonna work.
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Jeezy: Bro, that is crazy.
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Manny: They saw them. People walk into their chat with the Russian counterparts the way that the the person from the bush Administration had to lean over and tell them the 9 11.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: Just like, let me let me not change my face real quick. Hey? Can we take a bathroom? Break real quick? I gotta go crazy.
1012
Jeezy: People came in here real chipper this morning. What they got going on, what kind of coffee they have? Oh, you.
1013
Manny: Oh, oh, don't worry! It's a great name.
1014
Jeezy: Sugar, straight black.
1015
Manny: But that's my spotlight of the week.
1016
Jeezy: Okay. Well, maybe mine is not as nearly entertaining, at least not yet. It hasn't. It hasn't fully developed. Yeah, the the oven still preheating. But
1017
Jeezy: as you kind of mentioned earlier we got we got another trump, always in a fight with somebody, but we got a Federal funding face off between Newsome and Donald Trump.
1018
Manny: So trump the trump Administration has threatened to withhold millions of Federal funds from California, primarily targeting their homeland security and public safety grants. And of course Newsom has fired back. Newsom has accused Trump of using Federal funds as a weapon to punish political opponents, and said, California won't be bullied into violating civil rights. That was a quote.
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Manny: not not our Donald trump, not him doing that. No.
1020
Jeezy: Come on so trump obviously responded and said that California is out of control and shouldn't expect Federal dollars while protecting criminals from deportation. So the real problem here is that with these funds a lot of this goes to a lot of the 1st responders, the local
1021
Jeezy: law enforcement emergency services. So.
1022
Manny: You mean you mean services for citizens.
1023
Jeezy: Exactly so.
1024
Jeezy: Okay, Newsom's arguing that the funds don't go to politicians, that you're hurting
1025
Jeezy: the real people, and you're cutting them and cutting those funds is not making them tough on crime or helping them to be tough on crime, is actually quite reckless. So this battle that trump's having with these Federal funds, which it seems like a card that he likes to play a lot. He's done it before. In 2019 Trump Paul's Wildfire Aid
1026
Jeezy: after criticizing California's forest management, and then in 2020 did the same thing with sanctuary cities when it came to Covid relief reimbursements.
1027
Jeezy: So this is a thing that he seemed that he seems to do when he doesn't get his way, that he likes to try to use or withhold Federal funds from States, and and use them kind of as a as a carrot that he likes to dangle. But I think he may be biting off more than he can chew. Because Newsom said, have you forgot how much money we pay? Have you forgot how much we add to the Federal funding like I don't. I don't think nearly what you give us is not nearly as much as we we send back.
1028
Jeezy: So.
1029
Jeezy: He said, it doesn't have to be something, but it can be
1030
Jeezy: so. This war between Newsome and, as Manny has pointed out before, when we covered about the immigration, the war that they're having in La with
1031
Jeezy: ice and all the protests and sending in the National Guard. I think that we may have a little bit of a fight brewing, and this may be something that Newsom may be
1032
Jeezy: looking to welcome, as we know that he may potentially have aspirations of being a Presidential candidate. Is this something that he's looking at as a big stage for him to show how he's going to be tough on trump or just show and flex how he may look as a potential presidential candidate we may never know, but I think we got a little bit of a fight going on, and we shall see.
1033
Manny: Yeah.
1034
Jeezy: That is my spotlight man of the week. So.
1035
Manny: It'll it'll be interesting to see how that plays out with everything that's happening in La right now.
1036
Jeezy: Exactly. Yeah, that's gonna be very interesting, man. So Trump seems to Trump's like that kid man. He he's like Bobby Hill, off a King of the Hill, just walking around yelling, that's.
1037
Manny: That's my purse.
1038
Manny: Don't know you.
1039
Jeezy: You just picking a fight with everybody. Right? So we'll see how that plays out. But that is the conclusion of our episode. Season 2 episode 23. As always, we are so appreciative for you tuning in. We thank you for listening. If you have any questions, comments, concerns any topics that you want us to touch.
1040
Jeezy: Let us know we. We may be serious, or we may be just as comical as we possibly can be, because sometimes, as the saying goes, to keep from crying, you got to laugh a little bit, so
1041
Jeezy: so we will try our best to do those things. So that's it for us, man, anything, all hearts and minds clear, brother.
1042
Manny: All hearts and minds clear, and we we got a treat for y'all next week.
1043
Jeezy: Okay, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. We got something coming up next week. So be on the lookout for those things. So if all hearts and mind clear. We here at the pod always tell you that if don't nobody love, you just know the boys here at the pod. We love you.
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Manny: We love y'all.
1045
Jeezy: Take care. Hope. This episode finds you well, and we'll see you on the next one. Take care, world.
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Manny: Take care!