Trump Caught an L in Every Room

Trump Caught an L in Every Room: The Heritage Foundation says 1,055 out of 1,913 Project 2025 recommendations have been put in place, and they’re giving Donald Trump the credit. That means 55% of the plan has been carried out in just 16 months. Jeezy, Manny, and Chuck start the show with that news and break it down. 

Next, they cover Trump’s tough week on four different issues. In Alabama, federal judges stopped efforts to redraw court-ordered maps, and in South Carolina, 12 Republicans joined Democrats to block a redistricting proposal. The $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund is now under review by judges in two states, and 35 retired federal judges from both parties are calling it collusion. A federal judge also blocked adding Trump’s name to the Kennedy Center, saying Congress would have to approve it. Freedom250 is turning into a PR mess, with more than half of its announced performers dropping out. 

Manny’s Spotlight looks at Section 224 of the 2027 NDAA, a little-known part of a 500-page bill that would link U.S. and Israeli military systems, including sharing battlefield data and joint AI infrastructure. Hardly anyone is talking about it. 

Jeezy’s Spotlight focuses on Gaza, where Netanyahu says Israel plans to expand its control from 60% to 70%, squeezing 2 million Palestinians into an even smaller area, while most of the media has moved on. 

Chuck’s Spotlight shares five important phone numbers everyone should know, including 741741, the text-based emergency line. 

Pickle of the Week: Maine Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner, who Democrats hope can beat Susan Collins, is still dealing with a Nazi tattoo, offensive online posts, and now a sexting scandal that his own campaign staff already knew about.

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Jeezy: Hello, world, and welcome back to another episode of Pardon the Politics Podcast, Season 3.
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Jeezy: Episode 22, I am your co-host, Jeezy. Along with me, I have my brothers. In one corner, I have Brother Manny. Manny, how you doing on this day?
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Manny: Man, I'm here. I'm here.
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Jeezy: Ayyy, on the other hand, we have none other.
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Jeezy: than the chairman of Chaos himself.
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Jeezy: Brother Chuck, welcome back, brother. How you doing on this fine day?
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Chairman of Chaos: Let's go! Feeling good, brother.
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Jeezy: Yes, sir, yes, sir. Glad to be back with my brothers on another episode of Partner Politics. To our listeners, thank you for returning and listening to us again. If you are a first-time visitor, we welcome you once. We welcome you twice. Welcome you three times in a.
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Manny: Three times.
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Jeezy: Christ. Three times, three times, three times.
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Jeezy: the episode. Before we begin and get into our topics, I want to recall something, brothers, that I, brought back, brought up in a previous episode, and, there was a clip where I asked, where exactly are we, with Project
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Jeezy: 2025. Where in the playbook are we at? Are we in the beginning? Are we halfway through? Are we almost done? Well…
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Manny: I believe we have an answer.
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Jeezy: Thank you.
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Jeezy: Yeah, it is?
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Chairman of Chaos: I thought, I thought they said it wasn't real.
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Jeezy: Apparently it is.
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Chairman of Chaos: I'll allow one day.
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Jeezy: Somebody told a lie, but we have, a clip.
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Jeezy: from, one of the gentlemen that is a part of the Heritage Foundation, who gave us our answer, so maybe, maybe we got a listener to the pod?
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Jeezy: Alright, we asked?
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Manny: He said they… the boys at the pod want to know how.
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Jeezy: They want to know.
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Manny: Where's our progress bar?
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Jeezy: And we haven't.
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Chairman of Chaos: No pizza.
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Jeezy: Well, here we go.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: Did the president implement Project 2025 in these first… this first year plus of his second term? Well, thanks for that question, because since 1980, Heritage has been offering presidential transition projects, which we generally call a mandate for Leadership. What's known as Project 2025 was done on such a scale
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Audio shared by Jeezy: that we proposed 1,913 recommendations. 1,055, as we sit here, have been implemented.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: The person who deserves credit for that is one Donald J. Trump.
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Jeezy: Brother.
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Manny: These boys movin'.
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Jeezy: We moving through this.
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Manny: moving.
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Jeezy: I'm moving through this a lot faster than I thought.
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Manny: They said, y'all got 2 years to get all this done.
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Jeezy: Because this is, what, the administration is, what, give or take 16, 18 months in, somewhere around there?
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Manny: 16 months in? Yep.
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Jeezy: That's a lot of proposals. One thing that stood out to me is that I didn't know they had been doing this from since 1980.
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Jeezy: So, I'm curious now, Liz, to what, from 1980 up until now, what playbooks or projects have been implemented that we had no clue was out there in the first place?
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Chairman of Chaos: Diabolical.
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Chairman of Chaos: Diabola.
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Manny: And every think tank does it, but to know that they have largely relied on a single think tank.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Chairman of Chaos: That brings me into wondering,
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Chairman of Chaos: Was some of these failed assassination attempts a part of this?
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Jeezy: -Oh.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: Starting off early.
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Chairman of Chaos: He tried to pull the hair off the shelf.
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Jeezy: Look, I was like, hold on, wait a minute, that sounds worthy of wood.
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Manny: Oh, just…
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Chairman of Chaos: Give the head.
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Manny: There we go. Michelle. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.
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Chairman of Chaos: I'm just saying, 1980, one singular think tank, operating.
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Chairman of Chaos: Under… under this guise, and… and the amount of…
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Chairman of Chaos: processes, the amount of ideas thrown back and forth, for you to have almost 2,000 policy ideas to be implemented.
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Chairman of Chaos: For an administrative term.
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Chairman of Chaos: Conjuring, is what I want to call it, because it's witchcraft.
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Jeezy: Gotta be.
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Manny: It's almost 2,000.
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Manny: And then you need Congress to go in, so you need a… You're… Sorry.
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Manny: You, you're supposed to have this body of in excess of 500 people.
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Manny: to agree on legislation in some capacity. To get this much done, not only legislatively, but via executive order.
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Manny: And I think this will come back up later, later in the episode.
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Manny: That is… that is focus.
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Manny: That is people who are planning.
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Manny: And I don't think Trump is part of any of it.
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Chairman of Chaos: And that's people who just… I just don't give a…
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Jeezy: Because I gotta imagine that a bulk of this was recycled from his first administration. The problem was, is that when you pass this along in the first administration, to something Manny had said that is different from Trump's first term to this term is that they were guardrails.
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Jeezy: You had people that were like, oh yeah, that's not happening. Now, you got the Stephen Millers that are like, oh yeah, we're getting this done.
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Manny: I'm coming to execute.
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Chairman of Chaos: Yeah.
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Manny: You also, in between the two terms, you don't have a Biden administration that was really focused on rolling back things.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Manny: So…
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Chairman of Chaos: You know, the, vote.
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Chairman of Chaos: I think I brought it up on the pod before.
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Manny: Omb.
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Chairman of Chaos: Ever since… ever since they lost.
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Chairman of Chaos: he kind of went into… I don't wanna say… not necessarily hiding, but he went into the cave.
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Chairman of Chaos: And start formulating, and started, you know, game planning. So, of course, I'm sure a lot of this was a part of the first administration, and then they started curating and building, okay, this is what went wrong the first time. And these type of individuals that we had in place
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Chairman of Chaos: kind of did a blockade on us being able to do this, that, and the third. Alright, now let's get so-and-so, and let's get this loyalist, and this…
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Chairman of Chaos: Individual who's gonna follow the direction.
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Chairman of Chaos: And, you know…
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Manny: Yeah. Well, because think about… think about most presidential cycles, you usually have the office for 8 years.
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Manny: this administration essentially had 12 years of planning this out with a 4-year pause for them to position and move people into place. It's like that first administration allowed them to get inside and say, hmm, how does all this work?
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Chairman of Chaos: All the information.
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Manny: So I gotta have someone here, I gotta have someone here, I gotta do this. And you get to map it out, you get to come up with a plan. I would be shocked if any of the policy statements in there are anything new or anything that they haven't recommended before.
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Chairman of Chaos: Oh, yeah.
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Manny: implementation strategy.
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Manny: That was new. That was thought through.
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Chairman of Chaos: This takes me back to a period in time in our lives to our college years. And…
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Chairman of Chaos: some of the things that we did in undergrad, and the way that we took the campus of East Carolina University by storm.
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Chairman of Chaos: when I became a member of our illustrious fraternity.
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Chairman of Chaos: Part of the game planning was implementing and putting people in positions in different organizations and parts of the campus, so that we could have an impact, and…
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Chairman of Chaos: honestly, an influence, as we went to try to do different things and stir and hear things in a more positive direction, not just for us, but for those who look like us and those who are marginalized throughout campus. And then, as…
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Chairman of Chaos: Jeezy and Manny came along, not only were they able to reap the benefits of that planning the years prior, but they also took up that mantle and carried it further.
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Chairman of Chaos: To the tune of just having the first ever SGA… Black SGA vice president, I mean, excuse me, student body president, having a vice president, having 3 consecutive Homecoming Kings, first…
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Chairman of Chaos: the first Black and the first three Black homecoming teams, and… and then we threw another one in the mix a few years later that came from G. So, I see the parallels, I understand the play. It's…
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Chairman of Chaos: I… I… here we go again, I'm having to give these folks… we're gonna give you your flowers when we deserve them.
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Manny: It's in Fuji?
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Manny: Jay-Z, you remember when I came over from Western Carolina, and I dropped that booklet of programs and things ready to go? Yes. Yes.
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Jeezy: And it came with a whole book of, like, okay, yeah, this is what we can do. So, essentially…
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Chairman of Chaos: Are the copper.
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Jeezy: No, we were the Heritage Foundation with Project Alpha before.
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Manny: Oh, why?
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Jeezy: Yeah, the Heritage Foundation became Project 2025, so…
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Manny: Right.
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Jeezy: We can speak first-hand knowledge of how this operates, except for ours was for the good.
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Chairman of Chaos: Those are good.
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Jeezy: Game.
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Manny: Game recognizes game. Yep.
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Jeezy: There you go.
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Jeezy: There you go. So yeah, man,
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Jeezy: we got our answer, and more than half of Project 2025 has been
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Jeezy: Has gone into… to play, which…
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Jeezy: For a campaign ad, if I'm a Democrat, when you have the end of that clip, him saying, and the only one.
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Chairman of Chaos: Mmm…
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Jeezy: credited for that.
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Chairman of Chaos: Stop, Jesus, stop.
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Jeezy: That's why, that's why y'all need to be calling us.
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Chairman of Chaos: You giving out free game, bruh.
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Jeezy: It's why y'all need to be calling this.
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Jeezy: Wait, I'm telling you, bruh. But Chuck, you're exactly right, but if it is not done, it is not played, then we definitely know the right people are getting…
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Jeezy: The right bucks are going to the wrong people. That's all I'm gonna say.
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Chairman of Chaos: That's a fact.
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Jeezy: With that being said, we will jump into our first topic of, of the segment. Actually, I think our topic of the segment, it's been a rough week for one Donald
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Jeezy: J. Trump. And it's not because of any setback of.
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Jeezy: I don't know if you guys have seen the clip, but they had the clip of talking about Trump going behind that column at the White House, and .
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Chairman of Chaos: Heaven.
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Manny: Lynn himself.
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Jeezy: He's got the back of his coat jacket that he's been puffin' out a little more than he usually is, so he might be doubling up.
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Chairman of Chaos: Did y'all see that video edit when it was, like, BM1?
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Jeezy: Counting them? Bruh, oh my goodness.
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Jeezy: And the people started moving away.
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Chairman of Chaos: Move it around, like…
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Jeezy: Right. So…
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Chairman of Chaos: Oh, man.
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Jeezy: The meals that he has taken this week is not pertaining to that, nor the fact that he has had, what, his third or fourth doctor visit in 13 months for a perfectly healthy human being, and I believe this last one they are saying they are not releasing why he went.
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Jeezy: So… We're not gonna take that as an L, either. But there are a couple of things.
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Manny: He's 6'3".
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Manny: 238. Completely healthy.
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Jeezy: I… I've never seen such a healthy man need so many visits.
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Chairman of Chaos: Yeah.
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Manny: While eating McDonald's.
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Jeezy: I just want to say that, too, for… at that age, you eat McDonald's 3 times a day.
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Jeezy: Wow.
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Manny: It can't be good. It can't be good for you.
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Chairman of Chaos: Well, it's…
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Jeezy: It ain't good for you, it can't be good for your clothes.
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Manny: That's all of a mistake.
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Chairman of Chaos: Well, I mean, he got a seamstress in the house, he ain't gotta worry about that. But I kind of think of it kind of like Little Shop of Horror.
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Chairman of Chaos: Whatever is inside him… Feed me, Seymour!
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Chairman of Chaos: If you don't feed it to McDonald's, it's gonna do the reverse effect.
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Jeezy: That's the only way he could keep that paranoid.
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Chairman of Chaos: Indeed.
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Jeezy: You gotta give it that Big Mac, it need that Big Mac sauce.
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Chairman of Chaos: To all beef patties, special sauce, special patties.
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Jeezy: Lettuce, pickle, he need it. He gotta have the same.
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Chairman of Chaos: That is on the Sesame seed, but…
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Manny: At this point, does he have a button on his desk where he's like, Big Mac?
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Manny: Bruh. No, it's not like a taste.
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Jeezy: McDonald's be talking to him like he be talking to Osbourne and the Green Goblin, bruh.
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Jeezy: It gotta happen. He be in that white… he don't want it, but he knew he…
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Manny: I gotta have it.
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Jeezy: I'm witty.
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Jeezy: Well, we see him start going on them rants, and he… I don't know if y'all know this, bro, but, like, I can't remember which…
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Jeezy: social media platforming was done. It might be X, but…
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Jeezy: he was tweeting so much at one time, the notifications were like… I thought my phone was, like, crashing. I just kept seeing it just pop up, I'm like.
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Manny: Blue.
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Jeezy: It is legit, and I clicked on it, and he was, like, within a matter of, like, 10 to 15 seconds, just, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet, tweet. I'm like, okay.
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Chairman of Chaos: I thought there was an API restriction.
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Jeezy: Right. Like, bro.
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Chairman of Chaos: How'd you get to bypass this?
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Jeezy: He got them all sitting in his draft, and he just hittin' it.
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Manny: Gotta drop this fire.
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Jeezy: Now that got me thinking, the amount of just nastiness that's gotta probably be sitting in his drafts that he don't post.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Chairman of Chaos: Man…
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Chairman of Chaos: Diabolical.
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Jeezy: Well, I know he got a couple sitting in there, because, again, he's took some setbacks this week.
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Jeezy: But things didn't quite go his way. So, you know, one thing, you know, we've talked about on this show is that, you know, political power doesn't just get tested at the ballot box. Sometimes it gets tested, in the courtrooms, which Trump has become very fond of, sometimes at state legislators, sometimes it's cultural wars, and sometimes it's the court of public opinion.
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Jeezy: But this week for President Trump, he took a hit in just about all four categories.
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Manny: Dip.
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Chairman of Chaos: Hey, he got hit like Ray JD.
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Manny: Stop!
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Jeezy: Bruh, Red J got hit and hit that blue screen.
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Manny: Goodbye.
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Chairman of Chaos: I've never seen somebody fall in slow motion in real.
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Manny: It was, like, confused, like…
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Jeezy: Got that old processing chip.
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Manny: Poor Celeron processor.
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Chairman of Chaos: Operating on 16-bit graphics.
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Jeezy: Man, listen, he was on dial-up internet, that thing had to take a while to get…
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Manny: You know, that slow shutdown, BEEM!
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Jeezy: Bruh, that was wild, man, but Trump definitely has taken a hit, and the first, you know, area I want to talk about is the redistricting war. He took a hit in two states, two key states, in my opinion. So we'll start there. So, Republicans have spent months looking for
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Jeezy: opportunities to redraw congressional maps and to squeeze out, additional seats before the 2026 midterm. We've talked about it on this podcast, how that has played out from the Supreme Court to seeing other states, respond to the decision that was made. But this week.
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Jeezy: they ran into trouble in the two states, which most would probably think would be very unlikely to see those challenges or run those problems, but it was in Alabama.
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Jeezy: and, South Carolina. So, in Alabama, courts have continued to reject the efforts that will reduce black voting power after years of legal battles surrounding, state congressional maps. Republicans were hoping that the Supreme Court's more conservative makeup
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Jeezy: might eventually give them the favorable ruling, but so far, that breakthrough hasn't happened. So, even in that justice, and I can't believe I'm saying this.
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Jeezy: But Justice Clarence Thomas, Twice. Twice.
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Manny: today.
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Jeezy: Twice a day, bruh.
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Jeezy: and very critical of portions of the Voting Rights Act, hasn't been,
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Jeezy: hasn't had enough to deliver the victory that many conservatives wanted. He has made a decision that
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Jeezy: Look, ain't enough for you to bring this up this way. So…
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Jeezy: Then you go down to South Carolina.
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Jeezy: Republicans hit another political obstacle.
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Jeezy: The state, sentenced Republican caucus failed to advance a new congressional map because several GOP lawmakers, they opposed it.
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Jeezy: This wasn't Democrats stopping the Republicans, this was Republicans stopping Republicans.
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Jeezy: The proposal couldn't get enough support inside its own party itself within South Carolina. So, Manny, I will ask you this.
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Jeezy: When you look at this in both of these states in Alabama and in South Carolina, what's more damaging for, Republicans? Losing in court like they did in Alabama, or seeing members of your own party refuse to get on board, like what we saw happen in South Carolina?
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Manny: Man, I think it's about perspective, short-term, long-term. Yeah. For the short term, I think South Carolina is a lot, lot worse for them, because when your own people are saying, this ain't it.
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Manny: That's… that's a problem. That's a problem you have to deal with now. We just finished talking about the Heritage Foundation.
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Manny: When… in incorporating and implementing all of these plans that you have.
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Manny: you can't do this solo. You need… you need a team with you, you need people who are on one accord to try to get these things done. So to look at South Carolina, and essentially them all say, this is not right.
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Manny: From a moral basis. They're like, this is not what South Carolina is about. We're not going to do this.
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Manny: is definitely a shot back to them. It's something that we have said here on this pod was going to start happening more and more.
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Manny: It was funny, early… well, I won't say it's funny, but it… Sunday morning, oh, God.
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Manny: In, Texas, just lost.
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Manny: His name is slipping, John… the Senator.
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Chairman of Chaos: What was it, corn, corn?
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Manny: Corin, Corin. He posted, a fable.
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Manny: this morning, it was about the frog and the scorpion, and the scorpion comes to the frog and says, hey, can you take me across the river? And the frog looks at the scorpion and says, how do I know that you won't… you won't sting me? He's like, well, if I'm in the middle of the water and I sting you, we're both gonna die.
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Manny: The frog looks at him and says, oh, okay, yeah, that makes sense. Scorpion hops on the back, frog takes him over, about halfway through, scorpion stings him, and then the scorpion… the frog asks the scorpion, why'd you do that? He's like, sorry, couldn't help it.
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Manny: So when the people who are supposed to be helping you.
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Manny: are still being attacked. Corn did everything that Trump asked, and still got attacked, and still…
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Manny: Joe got knocked off.
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Manny: what is the motivation for me as a Republican right now? If I know that you as a leader don't have my back.
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Manny: at taking away the whole moral piece of it, from a pure strategy standpoint, if I know that you as a leader do not have my back.
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Manny: What is my grounds to support you in doing something that is morally wrong?
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Manny: Take that out of the way, it's just morally wrong.
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Manny: You know, and the… the final, the final kill vote
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Manny: was, I believe, 26 to 18. So, 12 Republicans joined Democrats to block it. It's not like we got one or two defections. We got a strong block of people. So South Carolina and that issue is going to be a problem for them.
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Manny: this… this go-round, not only for midterms, but it's gonna be a problem for Trump from now until the end. We said it last week, with Corn losing. What's his motivation to help Trump?
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Manny: Tillis, what's his motivation to help Trump? They don't really have any.
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Manny: Alabama. Alabama's kind of a little different situation, because you thought you… you dotted your I's, you crossed your T's with this gutting legisl… with the Voting Rights Act, thinking that, hey, we're good here. You're not.
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Manny: They… I think in this, it is a unexpected situation.
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Manny: that they just hadn't prepared for. Or they knew what was coming, and was just like, okay, we'll test this in Alabama, because if we lose Alabama, we're talking a couple of seats. It's not like, hey, we're gonna try this in a major state where we really need to pick up seats. So I think this was a, like, they've called it a test.
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Manny: But this shows long-term to both sides. I think this is what… where it becomes dangerous for Republicans, is this not working
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Manny: Because they've been fighting this since, what, 2023? So, your plans are not working, so you lose some motivation there. But also now, when seeing the loss, you now embolden your competition. So, if I'm a Democrat watching this happen, and to see that Clarence Thomas
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Manny: Was the one who was like, this does not meet the legal challenge.
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Manny: This does not meet that threshold.
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Manny: I think is good news for Democrats. I think you'll see them start trying to phrase a lot of their redistricting arguments to this, but I think you'll also see Republicans try to do the same here. But I think Alabama shows that things aren't completely dead when we talk about voting rights. Are they crippled? Yeah.
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Manny: But there's still hope, there's still an opportunity for things to be resolved and things to change. So that's kind of my view of these two at this standpoint. Chuck, what you got?
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Chairman of Chaos: Well, first, I'll start with Alabama. I think their issue there was more so because the federal courts just established maps in 2024.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Chairman of Chaos: these were federal… these were mandated maps. These were not… and they had to mandate these maps, because what you were doing…
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Chairman of Chaos: So now, you think, and I…
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Chairman of Chaos: I will not necessarily rebut, but kind of give a counter to what you were saying, as far as planning.
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Chairman of Chaos: I truly believe that the Republicans felt, oh, well, since the Supreme Court said XYZ, then we can say, screw this federal-mandated map and redraw it how we want to.
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Manny: Bam.
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Chairman of Chaos: And that panel was like, whoa, whoa, oh no.
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Manny: Okay?
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Chairman of Chaos: Travelers.
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Manny: That's a fantastic point, Chuck. I forgot that it was actually the feds who drew this map in Alabama.
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Chairman of Chaos: Yes, and so they were like, whoa.
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Chairman of Chaos: This was done because y'all were already…
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Chairman of Chaos: Was moving in a fashion to silence and minimize and marginalize the voices of this
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Chairman of Chaos: population. So, we're gonna go back to our maps that we mandated in 2024,
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Chairman of Chaos: And then y'all can figure it out from there.
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Chairman of Chaos: And yes, they… I think they took a hit saying they were gonna run back to the Supreme Court, and Clarence Thomas was like,
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Chairman of Chaos: Hey, we already had that.
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Chairman of Chaos: That tomahawk dinner we had the night before.
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Manny: It's long gone now. Yep. That's alright, I'm processing.
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Jeezy: This thing has been digested, and it has no.
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Chairman of Chaos: Yeah, it's gone, it's gone, so…
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Chairman of Chaos: Good luck, and good riddance. Now, for South Carolina, I do… not necessarily disagree.
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Manny: I can disagree.
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Chairman of Chaos: You know, if I'm the one to disagree, I'm gonna disagree.
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Jeezy: ain't the Chairman of Chaos definitely gonna do now.
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Chairman of Chaos: It ain't never been a problem for me. It ain't never been a problem for me. But it's not so much of the disagreement as in…
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Chairman of Chaos: I don't think… I'm not giving them as much credit as you did. I'll put it there.
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Chairman of Chaos: Because you said that some of them may have, went on a moral ground saying this is not right. But there was also some of them saying, oh, the timing of this is just not right.
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Chairman of Chaos: It wasn't even about a matter of, we don't want to do this. This was a.
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Manny: We don't want to do it today.
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Chairman of Chaos: We don't want to do it today, because guess what? Early voting's about to start.
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Manny: Dude.
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Chairman of Chaos: The cost that it would… Hit us with…
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Chairman of Chaos: Well, if I'm not mistaken, I saw somewhere in the tunes of almost $6 million. Or, excuse me, yeah, $6 million to implement these changes at the last minute.
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Chairman of Chaos: We see what's going on out there. And we see how tight pockets are.
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Chairman of Chaos: Do you really want to be wasting $6 million in the heat of primaries and in a midterm period?
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Chairman of Chaos: Then you have some… and this is where…
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Chairman of Chaos: I say it could be more…
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Chairman of Chaos: You know, they're saying that it can violate common sense and confuse voters.
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Chairman of Chaos: To stop an active… You know, election and swap maps.
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Chairman of Chaos: That… that's borderline.
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Manny: It's never stopped anyone before.
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Chairman of Chaos: Exactly, exactly. But there's something that was very interesting to me that also happened, that I think played a factor in this, that is not talked about as widely
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Chairman of Chaos: By the political pundits.
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Chairman of Chaos: There were two individuals who came forward and said, If y'all change these maps.
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Chairman of Chaos: and map… and draw out this black voting district.
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Chairman of Chaos: We're gone.
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Chairman of Chaos: There was Dawn Staley, And the starting quarterback for the South Carolina Gamecocks football team.
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Manny: And if it's true.
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Chairman of Chaos: One thing that them folks down there love.
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Manny: There's some football, some basketball.
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Chairman of Chaos: They love that women's team, because they winning championships, and they love that South Carolina football.
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Jeezy: Yep.
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Chairman of Chaos: And the money-making machine… That the football team is, number one.
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Chairman of Chaos: Number two, the women probably is number two on the list with the amount of winning that they've done over the past X amount of years.
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Chairman of Chaos: That put a pause to some people.
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Manny: Oh, yeah.
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Chairman of Chaos: And so…
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Manny: And the way we see money flowing around with nil deals, and whatnot, and how these schools are fundraising…
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Chairman of Chaos: Two things, man, don't ever call it Neil Deal again.
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Jeezy: I was just about to say.
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Chairman of Chaos: Hockey, maybe.
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Jeezy: Think about it.
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Manny: I'm sorry.
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Jeezy: life.
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Manny: Name, image.
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Jeezy: Bruh, nobody says Neil. Really?
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Chairman of Chaos: The hockey, man, no, the NIL.
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Jeezy: I know, man.
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Manny: image of Neil.
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Chairman of Chaos: Neil is zero. Neil is zero.
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Jeezy: I'mma tell you about, taking shortcuts.
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Manny: I mean.
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Chairman of Chaos: He did start at Wisdom. I did.
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Manny: Hey, hey.
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Manny: Whoa, whoa, whoa, okay.
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Chairman of Chaos: But… but… To me, that also gives me pause on giving them credit from a morality standpoint.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Chairman of Chaos: And as we all know, follow the money.
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Chairman of Chaos: In everything in politics.
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Chairman of Chaos: Follow the money. So, in this regard, as we take it back toward Trump, these are… these are…
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Chairman of Chaos: I'm not gonna say big hits. They're not big hits, but from the standpoint of… South Carolina and Alabama.
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Chairman of Chaos: weren't necessarily in play to flip anything. That's not what the thought process is. Nobody truly believes that
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Chairman of Chaos: Alabama or South Carolina's gonna flip to the Dems and cause a disruption. However, it does put a pause, or a slight… a slight little bump, I won't even call it a speed bump, but a slight little bump in the…
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Chairman of Chaos: Locomotive train of redistricting and trying to…
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Manny: Well, Chuck, to continue on that.
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Manny: I think it… I think these were targeted because of their size, and because no one expected it. Because I think one of the biggest things that they want to do around the callus interpretation is get some type of precedent on the books.
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Chairman of Chaos: Yeah.
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Manny: And that way, when I go to an Ohio and try to do this, if I try to do this in a Pennsylvania, like, where I pick up 5, 6, 7, 8 seats, like, there is a precedent on the board, because you try to do this in one of those states right now, it's not gonna fly.
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Chairman of Chaos: The only pushback I give in regards to the precedent being set is the mindsets are vastly different in the Pennsylvania and the Ohio.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Chairman of Chaos: And even from, from a judicial standpoint in the courts,
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Chairman of Chaos: I used… many years ago, I worked in the telecommunications space, and from a legislative standpoint, Pennsylvania and Ohio have some of the most restrictive,
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Chairman of Chaos: telecommunication laws and guidelines in the country, to the point there had to be a completely separate division who handle Ohio and Pennsylvania because of the guidelines and laws that they have set forth. So, yeah, yes, I won't say precedent, I say framework.
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Chairman of Chaos: Okay.
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Chairman of Chaos: I'll say framework, but… and it definitely… I agree with you, though, that they definitely use this as
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Chairman of Chaos: Let's take it to sports. This was their 707, camp.
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Manny: Yep.
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Chairman of Chaos: It wasn't… it wasn't the full minicamp it was in. It wasn't full-on practice. This was 7-on-7.
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Manny: reps.
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Chairman of Chaos: Yep, yep.
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Chairman of Chaos: That's exactly what this is.
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Manny: some reps.
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Chairman of Chaos: Reckless.
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Jeezy: Well, when you talk about morale, I think when you talk about South Carolina and what Brother Chuck has stated, to some, morale just stands for money over rights and liberty, so…
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Manny: Hmm.
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Chairman of Chaos: It's hard, I would get.
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Jeezy: So, speaking of legal fights…
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Jeezy: that aren't going according to plan. Let's move from redistricting to one of the more, most controversial settlements that we've seen this year.
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Jeezy: Just a couple of weeks ago, the administration was celebrating what looked like a major win. Trump agreed, to drop his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the release of his tax information, and in exchange.
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Jeezy: The Justice Department created what is called the Anti-Weaponization Fund, worth roughly $1.8 billion. The administration said that the fund would compensate people
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Jeezy: who believed that they had been unfairly targeted by the government, and I just want to pause right here at this moment and let everyone know, for the record, once again.
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Jeezy: that I… Myself.
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Jeezy: My brother Manny, And the chairman of Chaos himself. We have all been unfairly targeted.
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Manny: All of us.
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Chairman of Chaos: I feel like every day, my life is in the bullseye. Sometimes I feel like… Everybody's budging me.
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Jeezy: And whoever's listening to this podcast, I have… I feel that I have been targeted ever since Barack Hussein…
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Jeezy: Obama.
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Chairman of Chaos: Hussein.
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Manny: Sing… bro.
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Jeezy: For the record.
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Jeezy: Just in case you're listening.
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Manny: Let it be known.
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Manny: Let it be known that we've been talking about our oppression by the federal government. Yep.
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Chairman of Chaos: We have time-stamped presentations.
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Jeezy: And if I gotta throw Sleepy Joe in there, too, to get the number that I want, Sleepy Joe.
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Manny: Him too. Him too.
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Chairman of Chaos: And the way his wife would be looking at people kind of made me feel depressed, too, so, you know…
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Jeezy: Yup.
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Jeezy: And somehow James Comey and Robert Mueller is a part of this, too.
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Jeezy: But I'll have that figured out by the next episode.
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Manny: And I… we can't forget how the schemes of the Clinton administration have also…
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Chairman of Chaos: It started, it started back in the 90s.
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Manny: Mmm.
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Chairman of Chaos: Started back in the 90s, if you want to be honest. Michael Dukakis.
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Chairman of Chaos: Right. Was an individual in my early years that struck fear in my heart.
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Manny: We have a long history of governmental oppression.
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Chairman of Chaos: Yes. Yes.
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Jeezy: The pain.
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Jeezy: Same deal with to this day.
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Chairman of Chaos: Agony.
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Manny: All my life.
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Chairman of Chaos: I have nighttime.
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Jeezy: Fight.
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Manny: Yo, you ever seen.
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Jeezy: the movie Ray, when he wake up, when he in that facility, trying to clean himself up, and he gotta rush to the bathroom. That's me on a nightly basis from the oppression that I've experienced by the government. So I have… I am entitled to compensation.
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Manny: And who, and who was it that, that started your oppression again, for the record?
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Jeezy: Oh, Barack Hussein… well, he just put the cherry on top for it, but it started way before then, brother. Way before then.
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Chairman of Chaos: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Somehow, brother. But, needless to say.
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Jeezy: The entire arrangement of this anti-weaponization fund is facing some serious legal scrutiny, so we may not be entitled to compensation, so… but for the record, if we are, we are.
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Manny: We definitely are.
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Chairman of Chaos: And if not, I'm coming for you, mesothelioma.
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Jeezy: Yep, yep.
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Jeezy: So, this past week, a federal judge temporarily blocked payouts from the fund
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Jeezy: while lawsuits are moving forward. At the same time, another judge reopened questions surrounding, the settlement itself after dozens of formal, judges alleged that the agreement may have improperly manipulated the court system. Hmm, you don't say.
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Jeezy: The criticism is coming from multiple directions.
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Manny: This is complete news to me, like, what? What?
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Jeezy: Manipulation?
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Manny: No.
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Jeezy: proper.
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Manny: No, not me. Not this administration.
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Chairman of Chaos: Yes.
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Jeezy: So, some Democrats have called it a taxpayer-funded, slush fund, as we stated in our previous episode, but even some Republicans have raised concerns about the oversight, the ineligibility requirements, and who could ultimately receive money from the program.
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Jeezy: And the administration insisted that the fund, is legal.
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Jeezy: Unnecessary.
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Jeezy: The courts are saying, wait a minute, not so fast. So, my question to you, Chuck, is this. Politically speaking.
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Jeezy: Is the bigger problem here the legal uncertainty?
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Jeezy: or the… the optics. Because when voters hear, government creates a $1.8 billion fund tied to lawsuits involving the president, that… that headline itself…
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Jeezy: It doesn't particularly write itself as it should, so what is the bigger problem that you see here in this?
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Chairman of Chaos: the bigger… The bigger problem in this is… the whole situation.
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Jeezy: Right. It's a mess.
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Chairman of Chaos: And I say that.
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Manny: All men.
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Chairman of Chaos: But I say that because… how are you suing for $10 billion and you're not worth $10 billion at the time of your lawsuit?
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Chairman of Chaos: Now, you may be worth $10 billion now with all the janky stuff you've been doing.
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Jeezy: Can be.
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Manny: That's just semantics, you know, Chuck, that's just semantics.
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Chairman of Chaos: True, true.
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Jeezy: If you shoot for the moon and land on the stars.
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Chairman of Chaos: You're still in the sky?
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Jeezy: Huh? What is that?
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Chairman of Chaos: But I say that because overall.
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Chairman of Chaos: it's… I think it… the headline of this fund is created to be used at the discretion of the AG and essentially the president, because he can dictate who's on this panel to decide how funds are distributed and who gets them.
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Chairman of Chaos: Obviously, you have first right of refusal.
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Chairman of Chaos: And you can… you influence the decision-making process of this. So…
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Chairman of Chaos: Where is the impartiality in this?
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Chairman of Chaos: And that's just on the fun end. What I love about this is… well, what I love about the courts stepping in
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Chairman of Chaos: As we just stated last episode.
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Chairman of Chaos: There's 3… 3 bodies of the government.
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Chairman of Chaos: Executive?
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Chairman of Chaos: Legislative, and judicial. And the legislative end of it is sitting… they're sitting on their hands.
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Chairman of Chaos: So, thankfully, the judicial end stepped up and gave pushback. I gotta give credit to Kathleen Williams, who reopened the lawsuit, the $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS, basically stating.
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Chairman of Chaos: That, them settling… creating a settlement agreement between his own administration and his private lawyers
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Chairman of Chaos: Constituted a fraud on the courts.
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Chairman of Chaos: Meaning, you playing in our face.
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Manny: Well, literally, the deal… is with the… with the Attorney General, who was your personal lawyer.
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Chairman of Chaos: Yes, yes. But furthermore, what I really love about this was there was a bipartisan group of 35 retired federal judges who accused the parties of collusion and manipulation.
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Chairman of Chaos: Not?
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Chairman of Chaos: the… the… Woke left. This was… 35 bipartisan Retired federal judges.
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Manny: People who've done the job.
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Chairman of Chaos: Who've done the job and know what the heck they're talking about.
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Chairman of Chaos: So, and then you have… and that was in Florida. Then you have another federal judge in Virginia who was like, nope, you're not giving out none of this money until we get this stuff straightened out.
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Chairman of Chaos: So…
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Chairman of Chaos: while the legislative end is the cowards of Congress, at least we have some federal judges who are, like.
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Chairman of Chaos: Y'all not about to play these reindeer games in our face, and as we said last week.
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Chairman of Chaos: tell the American people to pull your pants down so you can pee on them.
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Chairman of Chaos: tell them it's raining. No, we're gonna have… we're gonna come back, and you have to come back by June 12th.
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Chairman of Chaos: And you have to provide responses into this, because…
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Chairman of Chaos: You can't go and make a deal on your own
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Chairman of Chaos: And just drop a… the number one thing that I really enjoyed is them asking, so was this a frivolous lawsuit?
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Chairman of Chaos: If you were just to… to drop it so willy-nilly, and you were so concerned about your privacy being…
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Chairman of Chaos: violated.
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Manny: for administration.
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Chairman of Chaos: By your administration, that was an excellent point that you brought up last week, brother, but if you feel such a way that you filed a $10 billion lawsuit, and then all of a sudden, we're gonna drop it.
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Chairman of Chaos: And you… as I told y'all last week, the most damning aspect of this deal… is…
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Chairman of Chaos: Him and his family, Being able to avoid being audited in perpetuity, essentially.
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Chairman of Chaos: That is the most damning aspect of this, and for them to be able to… Get away with that?
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Chairman of Chaos: I'm glad somebody has stepped up, and we don't know the end result, but I'm glad there's pushback.
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Manny: Well…
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Jeezy: I want to say this before you go, Mandy, because I want to throw a follow-up in there that you can couple with your response.
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Jeezy: If this ultimately gets struck down.
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Jeezy: Does it become another example of the administration announcing something before the legal Groundwork was fully secured, because
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Jeezy: you know, to Chuck's response, you know, they rolled this out as if the legal framework was secure, and that it was…
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Jeezy: sound. And clearly, we're seeing that there are federal judges, a number of federal judges, saying.
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Jeezy: Bruh, that ain't… that ain't it. That ain't how that works. So, in your response, can you also, with that.
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Jeezy: follow up with, you know, is that something of another example of them announcing something, which we've seen this administration do. They roll something out, and then legally, it's challenged, and it's not secure, it's not sound at all from a law perspective, and then…
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Jeezy: You know, they're having another example, yet again, of a fail.
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Manny: Well, geez, first thing I'm gonna need you to do is.
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Jeezy: -Oh.
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Manny: Hit my theme music.
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Jeezy: Doomy-doo!
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Manny: You know, I don't… I don't think they care.
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Manny: I don't think they care about this fund, because…
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Manny: It's… this fund right now, I believe, is serving its purpose.
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Manny: Because right now, while we are all focusing on this 1.776
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Manny: billion dollar fund, we're not paying as deep attention to the IRS, the IRS deal, and the scrutiny around that.
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Manny: Because if I understand it correctly, because the memo that gave them immunity is a completely separate document, it's gonna require its own legal challenges. But while we're over here talking about this fund…
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Manny: That… that's just proceeding… proceeding like it needs to.
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Manny: And that's the problem. I think that is why Trump dropped the lawsuit, because you got what you wanted.
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Manny: Trump don't care about nobody.
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Chairman of Chaos: That's fair.
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Manny: Trump don't care enough about, yeah. You don't care, but it's something to rally support around him, it's something to rally up his base, you know you're going to need these people to come out. How great is it going to look for a bunch of these people who are going into areas
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Manny: that are going to be really, really tough primaries to be like, we tried to get you guys reimbursed, we tried to take care of our people, and the courts shut us down, and that's why y'all need to come out. There's gonna be PACs that are sending mailers on top of mailers, on top of mailers with that message.
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Manny: when this fails, because I think it is very unlikely at this point that the fund is going to survive.
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Manny: But what will survive is the fact that Trump and his family are going to be able to…
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Manny: ignore the IRS and do as they please. Like that. So I think it's a red herring at this point.
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Chairman of Chaos: I don't… I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if that aspect survives either.
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Chairman of Chaos: Because… I know what you… I know what you're saying. I just… the…
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Chairman of Chaos: the legal, like I said, and I think…
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Chairman of Chaos: I agree with you a thousand percent, he doesn't care about anybody, and the… the fund was the shield to…
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Chairman of Chaos: the aspect of the audit at end of it. Like you said.
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Chairman of Chaos: They can have that money, I don't care nothing about that. But he knows all of the bogus…
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Chairman of Chaos: deals… I think the report came out today that there is a company in North Carolina that's a 2-year-old company that, the White House stepped in to help them get a $620 million loan.
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Chairman of Chaos: From the Pentagon.
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Chairman of Chaos: And his son is on the board.
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Chairman of Chaos: You know, there's multiple stories of him buying stock
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Chairman of Chaos: a week, two weeks before saying something about the company, then the price runs up, and he has a ton of money. So, I agree that that's the red herring.
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Chairman of Chaos: I don't… I don't know how it survives.
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Manny: I think it is a 50-50 shot, because I think what we'll need to understand about this fund and how it fails, how it ends up failing. Does it fail under a congressional authorization standpoint?
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Manny: Because if it fails under that, I think it is more likely that the IRS deal fails.
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Manny: But, if it fails under the whole collusion.
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Manny: that, hey, Trump, you are making a deal with your own organization, of which the person leading that was your own personal lawyer. If the fund fails based on the collusion in that standpoint, then I think the IRS piece of this also falls down.
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Chairman of Chaos: But in that, you can… you can still tie it… tie…
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Chairman of Chaos: collusion into that, because you wrote that end of the deal into your negotiations.
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Chairman of Chaos: with the AG and the DOJ,
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Chairman of Chaos: Like, you brought that in. So, I agree, it's 50-50.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Chairman of Chaos: And for me, that end of the deal is not talked about enough. The one point…
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Chairman of Chaos: I'm rounding up, forget this.
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Chairman of Chaos: It's a 1.8.
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Jeezy: No pointing.
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Chairman of Chaos: 4.8 is nasty work, but as I stated before, that's not the nastiest of the work to me. Now, the one thing that they have to be careful about, and I'm not gonna say it too much, because we gave out enough free game on here.
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Chairman of Chaos: They have to be careful in regards to
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Chairman of Chaos: the mailers, if this does get shot down, and saying, we tried to support our people, because there is a segment of that group that's divided about this situation. And it's not even so much the funds, it's those individuals, because there are some that are true blue, and truly back to blue.
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Chairman of Chaos: And… they still hold on to…
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Chairman of Chaos: What happened to the Capitol Police?
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Chairman of Chaos: And so, you're gonna walk a fine line, and in that fine line, you're gonna… you may alienate a section of your group that you need.
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Chairman of Chaos: by trying to push this… this effort. They can…
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Chairman of Chaos: Trump can walk on water for them.
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Chairman of Chaos: But what you can't do is try to rope somebody else in to put them on a pedestal along with Trump. Trump is on that pedestal all his… all on his own to some of those people. You can't couple anybody else with them.
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Manny: I agree.
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Jeezy: To me, it seems like… doing this.
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Jeezy: to the point you just made, Chuck.
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Jeezy: Creates a whole nother problem for you that you didn't have to create.
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Chairman of Chaos: X.
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Jeezy: Because whether… you didn't give them any money or not.
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Jeezy: You still is gonna have the support, regardless.
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Manny: Yes.
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Jeezy: You don't need to buy your supporters. They're there. The ones that went to jail and did all this stuff, they did it just off the strength of your words and filling in some weird…
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Jeezy: way that you saw them and acknowledged them and cared. Bruh, you just keep doing that same recipe, and you go… you haven't divided, but if you go out with that messaging.
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Jeezy: You've basically shot yourself in the pinky toe.
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Chairman of Chaos: Now, I don't think…
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Manny: My pinkato. Not my pinkato.
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Chairman of Chaos: But I don't even think it's so much Trump, because Trump ain't thinking about them in that fashion. But, to Manny's point, those who… those PACs and those different…
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Chairman of Chaos: who go around campaigning, and sometimes, as I said, this message was approved by Donald J. Trump. This message was approved by this quack quack pack.
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Jeezy: Okay, Donald.
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Chairman of Chaos: Trump ain't got nothing to do with it, you think you're trying to do him a, you know, a solid, and you… you…
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Manny: or they done found somebody, change their name to Donald Jason Trump.
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Manny: And that's who signed off on it.
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Jeezy: I mean, well, he talked about Biden with those auto pins, does Trump have an auto endorsement?
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Manny: Oh yeah, most definitely.
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Chairman of Chaos: We already… we already know… he doesn't have the auto pen, he has the GPT… GP Trunk. That's what I'm gonna call.
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Chairman of Chaos: We see how he be dropping them truths.
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Manny: And here's the…
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Manny: And here's the other situation, I think, when I look at this, that could… is getting ready to be problematic.
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Manny: Todd Blanch is about to find himself in a hell of a situation.
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Chairman of Chaos: We got you up here, girl!
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Chairman of Chaos: Yeah.
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Manny: Because the way his situation is starting to play out, with Pam Bondi coming out and speaking to Congress, talking about the Epstein files, saying that, oh.
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Manny: I deferred most of that to my assistant agent, my deputy, Todd Blanch, to deal with that. So if they get you for collusion here.
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Manny: Oh, they definitely about to get you for collusion over here. So you about to find yourself.
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Chairman of Chaos: You're hitting D.
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Chairman of Chaos: Break that pit, light that fire, and go. Rotate.
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Manny: Go ahead and put in that call to Rudy Giuliani.
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Chairman of Chaos: No.
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Manny: the former… well, no, I'm saying as how do I deal as a former personal attorney from Donald Trump, and how do I survive after this? Because he's gonna find himself in the same situation.
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Chairman of Chaos: And my note still stands, because why you calling him? He can't tell you how to survive? He ain't surviving.
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Manny: Yeah, that's true. It's true.
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Jeezy: And I think that the records show that.
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Manny: Well.
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Jeezy: vibes.
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Manny: Well, look, they can start a little support group, Meet every Thursday.
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Jeezy: That support group is nuts.
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Jeezy: There's a whole lot of hurt, there's a whole lot of hurt in that support group.
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Manny: Listen.
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Chairman of Chaos: I let that hair go.
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Manny: Bruh.
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Jeezy: Well, we'll leave the courtroom for now, head over to something that, you know, I believe is becoming one of the biggest, cultural battlegrounds in Washington, and that is…
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Jeezy: depending on who you ask, the Kennedy Center, or the Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Center, which, if you've seen the sign outside that building.
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Manny: Well, we got space at the top, just add it up at the top.
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Jeezy: Equivalent to that, to that work where, when you're doing this in elementary school, you're talking, like, you forgot a word, and you draw, and you just write it in a little bit above.
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Chairman of Chaos: Bruh, you gotta… you gotta scrunch it up and get it up.
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Manny: Garrett.
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Jeezy: It ain't… the spacing ain't even, it's just…
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Chairman of Chaos: Fairly.
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Jeezy: They made a little carrot.
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Chairman of Chaos: Oh, man.
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Jeezy: That's exactly what that sound looks like, but the Kennedy Center has become one of Trump's most visible attempts to reshape a major
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Jeezy: American Cultural Institution.
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Jeezy: So after installing allies on the board and pursuing significant changes, Trump supporters viewed it as an opportunity to put a conservative imprint on one of the nation's most prominent art venues. So instead of that happening, a federal judge
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Jeezy: Here we go again.
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Jeezy: Delivered a major setback.
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Jeezy: The court ruled that Trump's name could not legally be added to the Kennedy Center and blocked plans for a lengthy closure and renovation effort. The judge's reasonings were very straightforward.
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Jeezy: Congress created the Kennedy Center, and Congress would have to authorize a name change.
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Manny: Let me summarize that.
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Manny: His mama called it the Kennedy Center, so we gonna keep calling it the Kennedy Center.
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Jeezy: Right, so… which…
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Jeezy: makes… the judge is… I mean, that's straightforward, right? You know, they created it, they need to be…
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Chairman of Chaos: For example…
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Jeezy: How's a change.
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Chairman of Chaos: Very simple.
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Jeezy: Very simple. You know, but Trump all, as you know.
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Jeezy: Them Twitter fingers got to go in, and he responded angrily, criticizing the judge and signaling frustration over the ruling. I think he pulled back by saying this was a Clinton judge, if I'm not mistaken. He always got it tied to somebody, you know.
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Chairman of Chaos: It's always somebody else's…
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Manny: Well, you know the Clinton administration, like we said before.
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Manny: Has been oppressive.
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Jeezy: They have, they have.
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Jeezy: I felt the same frustration as well, brother.
611
Jeezy: You know what's funny to me? How Trump get frustrated and drop names of people that he admire?
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Jeezy: Because regardless of if you hate… if you claim he hate Obama.
613
Jeezy: He hates him because he wants to be like Obama so bad, because every time that he get an Obama presence, he tells him.
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Manny: Get a ha-ha king.
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Jeezy: They get the… start showing teeth.
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Manny: Sewing all the teeth in the…
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Chairman of Chaos: Listen…
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Jeezy: around Bill, he get, look, he getting a little happy. He don't fool with Hillary, though, because Hillary be.
619
Chairman of Chaos: He don't like Hillary. He don't like Hillary.
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Jeezy: call him out too much. Hey, you know what?
621
Chairman of Chaos: You know what it's like?
622
Chairman of Chaos: His relationship with Hillary and Bill is the homie who you can't stand, his wife or his girlfriend.
623
Chairman of Chaos: You don't like you.
624
Chairman of Chaos: And… every time y'all see each other, it's smoke. So you try to avoid her as much as possible, but that's still my boy.
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Jeezy: Yeah. Which I want to say to Chuck's example, though.
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Jeezy: for us at Pardon the Politics, that is not the case for none of us in our.
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Chairman of Chaos: Oh, thankfully.
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Manny: There was an X in the situation.
629
Chairman of Chaos: Although, no, no, although… Although… myself and Manny's wife, Used to have
630
Chairman of Chaos: We used… Oh, yeah. We can say, I ain't gonna say beef.
631
Chairman of Chaos: But we had a little bit of points of contention back in the day.
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Manny: But…
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Chairman of Chaos: Well, those.
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Manny: You and my wife… my ex and Jeezy…
635
Manny: Oh, man. They had beef.
636
Jeezy: Yeah, no, we definitely…
637
Jeezy: New York definitely had beef, and I didn't even… I didn't even bring the charcoal.
638
Manny: You can't even do nothing!
639
Jeezy: No, I didn't even start the grill. I don't know how we got beef, but apparently we had beef, but…
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Jeezy: You know, to that, the ones that need to make the cut made the cut, so that's all that matters.
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Chairman of Chaos: Indeed, indeed.
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Jeezy: So, you know, when you look at this, that kind of was low-key throwing shade on the beaver.
643
Manny: I pulled it again.
644
Jeezy: Easy.
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Chairman of Chaos: True.
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Jeezy: I'm for the Jay-Z afro style. But, the larger issue here is that the Kennedy Center has already become a magnet for controversy. There has been numerous artists and performers that have distanced themselves from the institution since the changes have begun, creating a constant stream of headlines.
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Jeezy: So, which is crazy, because at one point.
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Jeezy: My 5-year-old was showing me some video she found on YouTube of some kid book that she loves, and this event was at the Kennedy Center. And I remember watching it, and I'm just like, wow, it's crazy to see, you know, this… it was a beautiful show that they were doing.
649
Jeezy: But it also reminded me of, since Trump has decided to go after the Kennedy Center, how events like this and major artists and things that were done at this institution have backed away and no longer want anything to do with it because of what Trump is trying to do.
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Chairman of Chaos: Well, a good portion of that, though, is because he named himself chairman.
651
Chairman of Chaos: Yep, yep. And they were like, bruh.
652
Manny: He walked in… he walked in and said, I the captain now.
653
Jeezy: Yeah. And they said, cool, well, we'll get the life wrapped, and we'll get off and head to shore.
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Manny: Yeah, I haven't.
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Chairman of Chaos: This ain't Titanic, we know how to use these, emergency boats.
656
Jeezy: Before you hit that iceberg, we're gone. We're gone. So, you know, Manny, I'll ask you this, with the Kennedy Center, is this a fight worth having politically? Because Trump's base loves these culture war battles, right? This ain't the first time we've seen, maybe against an institution, but this culture war battle is not the first time we've seen this.
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Jeezy: But do independent voters really care about who controls the Kennedy Center?
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Manny: No.
659
Manny: No, like, and I hate to say it, but no. Like…
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Manny: This is… this is all symbolic.
661
Manny: I… you know what I do care about? Why my gas is expensive.
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Jeezy: Mmm.
663
Manny: You know what I care about? Not… people not being able to access adequate healthcare.
664
Manny: You know what I care about? Why a pound of bacon is approaching in excess of $10.
665
Jeezy: Might as well buy a hog at this point.
666
Manny: Why is a single hash brown from McDonald's Almost $4.50 on DoorDash.
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Jeezy: Hold on, hold on.
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Chairman of Chaos: Hold on, hold on, hold on.
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Jeezy: Hold on, hold on, hold on.
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Chairman of Chaos: Get them, get them, G's, get them, G.
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Jeezy: First of all, you messed up with that DoorDash part.
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Manny: That's one.
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Jeezy: Why are you doing that ashin' McDonald's hash browns is wild, because I gotta imagine. First of all, McDonald's hash browns, you gotta eat those before you get out of the parking lot.
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Manny: Fresh.
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Chairman of Chaos: That'd be hot.
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Jeezy: You eat, you eating them, you eating them cold patty brains.
677
Chairman of Chaos: Oh, my God.
678
Jeezy: I brought to your doorstep.
679
Jeezy: On a 35 to 40 minute wait. It's wild.
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Jeezy: But I do want… but I will join you in my rant, because after my daughter's recital this past weekend.
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Jeezy: She wanted ice cream.
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Jeezy: And… we had some things we had to do, so I'm like, look, we can't go to the ice cream shop right now.
683
Jeezy: But, if you know my 5-year-old, she has the negotiating power of a top-tier lawyer. So…
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Manny: Yes. In Iran.
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Jeezy: I need, yeah.
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Jeezy: She'll get the job done for you now. So, of course, the walk from the recital hall all the way to the car, she would not let up. So, next thing I know, I'm like, look.
687
Jeezy: Where we gotta go, we're passing a McDonald's, I can get you a sundae. Can we just do that?
688
Jeezy: She said no.
689
Jeezy: That ain't what I want.
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Chairman of Chaos: Yeah, I know that's right. Go for what you want, baby.
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Jeezy: So, she said, because they're not gonna have different color ice cream. It's gonna be white.
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Manny: I was bouncing.
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Jeezy: Not what I want.
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Manny: I was about to say, did it have sprinkles?
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Jeezy: That ain't what I want.
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Chairman of Chaos: They ain't got a different color ice cream, I love that.
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Jeezy: But lucky for me, she got that, she got that negotiating power from somewhere.
698
Jeezy: So I seen the challenge, and I said, look, I guess there's no ice cream then.
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Jeezy: She thought about it, she said…
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Chairman of Chaos: Okay.
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Jeezy: Do they have anything I can put on the white ice cream? I said, yeah.
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Manny: G said… G said, we are.
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Jeezy: high foot.
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Manny: Jesus said, we are closing the Strait of Hormuzma.
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Manny: We ain't having it.
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Jeezy: So she finally, after… now, I want you to know, this was a span of about 25, 30 minutes.
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Jeezy: She finally said, okay, which is wild to then be negotiated with a 5-year-old for that.
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Jeezy: But that's how no time to change, because when we was a proper people.
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Chairman of Chaos: Well, because I said so…
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Jeezy: When I said we had… first of all, when I said no, I meant no.
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Jeezy: Listen. And if I gotta repeat myself, we got a problem.
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Chairman of Chaos: Listen.
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Jeezy: And when I say we got ice cream at the house, we got ice cream at the house. Might not be the ice cream you want, but it's the ice cream you gon' get.
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Manny: Maybe…
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Chairman of Chaos: Hello!
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Manny: And it may not actually be an ice cream. It may be cubes of ice and cream.
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Chairman of Chaos: Yeah.
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Manny: buffalo.
719
Chairman of Chaos: Come on now, brother. Come on, brother.
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Jeezy: I'mma show you how to make ice cream.
721
Manny: Right.
722
Jeezy: What's up, bro?
723
Chairman of Chaos: No, I'm just the same!
724
Jeezy: But I bet it tastes the same.
725
Manny: meditate.
726
Chairman of Chaos: It tastes better.
727
Manny: Yeah, we…
728
Jeezy: We get in the line, and I go and I say, hey, look.
729
Jeezy: I just want a hot fudge sundae.
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Jeezy: The man said, okay, sir, that'll be $3.49. I said, bro, wait a minute.
731
Chairman of Chaos: Bro, what?
732
Manny: Yes.
733
Jeezy: a hot fudge sundae.
734
Jeezy: Bruh, I remember when this was, like, under a dollar.
735
Manny: That's big.
736
Jeezy: $1.19.
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Chairman of Chaos: Dude!
738
Jeezy: At this point.
739
Chairman of Chaos: Yes!
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Jeezy: $3.49?
741
Manny: -
742
Chairman of Chaos: Sound like my candy friend.
743
Jeezy: Right. I was hot. And I looked at it, and it…
744
Chairman of Chaos: It was smart, dude.
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Manny: It's smaller than you remember when it was a dollar.
746
Jeezy: It ain't even the right consistency of a hot fudge sundae.
747
Jeezy: No fudge at the bottom.
748
Chairman of Chaos: Damn.
749
Jeezy: on the top. I said, yeah.
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Jeezy: So, when you make that point, Manny, it made me think about a follow-up to that question.
751
Jeezy: When you think about this situation, every day spent talking about this art institution, If people don't care.
752
Jeezy: Is this a day not spent talking about the things that matter, like inflation?
753
Jeezy: Like the economy. Like the things that actually matter.
754
Manny: Like the Epstein files?
755
Jeezy: Didn't know who you asked.
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Chairman of Chaos: Don't get me started.
757
Chairman of Chaos: I'll jump in and answer that real quick here. Yes, sir. In the notion that…
758
Chairman of Chaos: For me, it's a two-fold situation. Number one.
759
Chairman of Chaos: I am glad that somebody gave pushback. Again, just like with this lawsuit. I am glad there was an arm of government that provided a check to give some balance.
760
Chairman of Chaos: But to your point, Do I need this to dominate the news cycle?
761
Chairman of Chaos: No.
762
Chairman of Chaos: Do I need this to be… Talked about…
763
Chairman of Chaos: on the press floor, or in Air Force One, when the press has a moment to question him?
764
Chairman of Chaos: No. Well, actually, don't.
765
Chairman of Chaos: It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. On second thought, it doesn't matter, because…
766
Chairman of Chaos: He's gonna… he's gonna answer any kind of which way he…
767
Manny: Anyway…
768
Chairman of Chaos: But, but… Again, for me, I just need the cowards of Congress.
769
Chairman of Chaos: to step up, because when this happened in the first place, y'all could've been put this… to bed.
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Audio shared by Jeezy: Message!
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Chairman of Chaos: He didn't put this to bed.
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Jeezy: Along with a number of things, brother.
773
Chairman of Chaos: a numb… a slew. Because a lot of what…
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Jeezy: Trump is doing needs congressional approval, but y'all keep sitting on your hands.
775
Jeezy: And keeping your lips tight and shut, instead of doing something.
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Chairman of Chaos: Yep.
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Chairman of Chaos: Message…
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Manny: And…
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Manny: So, in that ruling, there were two other findings. They… they blocked the closure, and for clarity for our listeners, there's already been, I want to say it's $250 million, $260 million, that Congress had already approved.
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Manny: The… for a renovation. What the findings said is that doesn't stop it. It's still being renovated. You're just not gonna completely close it. Like, that's wild.
781
Manny: And then the other one is they restored the rights, the voting rights of Representative Joyce Beattie from Ohio.
782
Manny: ex-officio trustee that they stripped away her rights with the new board. And she sued in federal court. Where I also find interesting about this is this all came out on May 29th.
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Manny: And do y'all know what May 29th is?
784
Manny: It is JFK's birthday.
785
Jeezy: Ayy.
786
Manny: Or it's also saying, hey, Trump, you want to be symbolic with your stuff? We can be symbolic with our stuff, too.
787
Jeezy: I love when people are petty and symbolic at the same time.
788
Manny: Yep.
789
Jeezy: It's a well-balanced sandwich.
790
Chairman of Chaos: I'm pretty and petty as… no.
791
Manny: But I think largely with this, I think this'll fade away. I would be shocked if there's a large fight over this, because Trump's moved on to… he's got two other beautification projects that he's gotta work. He's gotta get that reflecting pool finished painted blue, and he's got the arch.
792
Manny: The arch that he has to take care of.
793
Jeezy: All that looks terrible, bruh, like, that's the thing I think bothers me so much about Trump and all this stuff. This stuff looks terrible. It's just like when he, in the White House, all the things that he did, he said, yeah, all this gold, and they pulled up that it all came from Home Depot. They just spray-painted it gold. Like, bruh, it don't look…
794
Jeezy: It looks like your rich grandfather's attic, that once he died, we went to go clean it out, and we found all these, like, heirlooms and stuff.
795
Manny: I had somebody describe it perfectly. So, we were…
796
Manny: at a bar, longer story about how I ended up at this bar, we'll save that for post-pod. But, we were at the Trump Hotel in DC.
797
Manny: And somebody said, if this doesn't look like someone took French architecture.
798
Manny: Chewed it up, swallowed it and threw it up. I don't know what this is.
799
Manny: And that perfectly defines everything that Trump is doing.
800
Manny: Bad French architecture.
801
Chairman of Chaos: Yeah, I just… To me, a lot of what he does is…
802
Chairman of Chaos: Feels like that rich person that's not as rich as everybody else, but makes them… want to make themselves look…
803
Chairman of Chaos: As rich as everybody else.
804
Manny: Are you saying this is his Gucci belt?
805
Chairman of Chaos: Touche! Yeah?
806
Jeezy: All of it to me just look like if you're around it long enough, you start sneezing. That's how…
807
Jeezy: Sorry.
808
Chairman of Chaos: Itching, feel like stuff crawling over you.
809
Jeezy: Yeah, I gotta get out of this room. But, you know, you look at all this stuff that he's doing, and I think that…
810
Jeezy: he loves to gloat about how he just does real estate, he designs beautiful things, yadda yadda. Well, I think one thing that he can't necessarily design is a nice concert series, and that's the next part of his weekly thing that has gone terrible. He can't put in
811
Jeezy: He is.
812
Chairman of Chaos: And another one.
813
Jeezy: You can't be the hostess with the mostest. I don't understand, that's easy. You're the president of the United States, and you can't host at the most.
814
Chairman of Chaos: That's cause he wasn't… he wasn't throwing the parties back in the day, he was just attending.
815
Jeezy: D.
816
Manny: Well, we knew who… we know who was throwing those parties on the island.
817
Jeezy: Hey, bruh.
818
Chairman of Chaos: Hmm…
819
Jeezy: Glad he ain't the host, we don't know.
820
Jeezy: We don't know what DC would look like on 250. Absolutely.
821
Jeezy: Freedom250 has been turned into a headache for Donnie T. He's trying to get America's birthday together, but he just seemed to be having trouble planning this birthday party.
822
Chairman of Chaos: You're not the birthday.
823
Jeezy: Look, it ain't about you, man. I think that's the problem.
824
Chairman of Chaos: That is the problem.
825
Jeezy: See you.
826
Chairman of Chaos: That is the problem. He think this is supposed to be his party.
827
Jeezy: Yo.
828
Chairman of Chaos: He wanna have it high.
829
Jeezy: Oh, bruh, I just had a revelation of what this resembles, and I'm sorry if this offends anybody, but it's the truth.
830
Jeezy: This is the equivalent.
831
Jeezy: Of the single moms.
832
Jeezy: That go over and beyond for their kids' prom.
833
Jeezy: With all the, all the glitz and glamour.
834
Jeezy: Really, because vicariously. You live it. The only time they'll get the experience.
835
Jeezy: A wedding day.
836
Chairman of Chaos: Brother, I thought she was going in another direction.
837
Jeezy: No.
838
Chairman of Chaos: Not the winded me, Bob.
839
Jeezy: All of them look like weddings!
840
Chairman of Chaos: I… I mean… yeah.
841
Manny: Yeah.
842
Jeezy: So… Trump just trying to make…
843
Jeezy: Something that he feels should be about him?
844
Jeezy: About him, when it ain't got nothing to do with him at all.
845
Jeezy: And that's why it's fallen flat.
846
Jeezy: It's been a public relations disaster.
847
Jeezy: Over half of the announced performers have dropped out.
848
Jeezy: So you got Martina McBride, Bret Michaels… the Commodores…
849
Jeezy: Young MC, I believe Millie Vanilli.
850
Chairman of Chaos: That, that was the most That was the most…
851
Chairman of Chaos: Huh? For me?
852
Manny: And then it was like…
853
Chairman of Chaos: The real… the real voices of the… Ain't nobody… if it ain't the light skin… and if I'm not mistaken, one of the actors… I'm about to call that man an actor…
854
Jeezy: No, you're right, you're right.
855
Chairman of Chaos: When the… One of the guys passed away, if I'm not mistaken, who…
856
Jeezy: There was only one, so you're only getting… are we getting Millie, or are we getting vanilla? Because we ain't getting both.
857
Manny: What?
858
Chairman of Chaos: It depends on which one passed, because one was brown-skinned, one was light-skinned, so I would think the Millie is the dark, vanilli is the light.
859
Manny: Well, Chuck, you… when you…
860
Jeezy: We could let that man at whatever Walmart green station y'all found him at, and let him live in peace. Don't drag him out, because now you drag him out, we gotta rehash his embarrassment.
861
Chairman of Chaos: You, you…
862
Manny: Excuse me, when you… when you think about America, Chuck, you don't think about Millie Vanilli?
863
Chairman of Chaos: No.
864
Manny: Okay, I didn't either.
865
Chairman of Chaos: I hadn't thought about Lily Vanilla since the, documentary came out.
866
Jeezy: None of these people make me think America at all, period. I don't even… like, they withdrew and distanced themselves after learning more about the event's connection to Trump and the Freedom 2250 organization. Y'all didn't know that when they sent… sent over asking y'all?
867
Jeezy: Did y'all want to participate?
868
Chairman of Chaos: Well, I did see that the promoters or the organizers didn't present it as if
869
Chairman of Chaos: this was connected to Trump, it was more so a U.S. celebration, so I could see them jumping on board, okay.
870
Chairman of Chaos: 4th of July, Independence Celebration, 250th, you know, anniversary of the country.
871
Chairman of Chaos: But now, all of a sudden.
872
Chairman of Chaos: Like anything else, like that report that this fool wants to make a $250 bill.
873
Chairman of Chaos: With his face on it, yo. His signature on it. Which, if I'm not mistaken, Congress has to approve that?
874
Jeezy: Well, according to, the Secretary, that there is legislation being brought forth to the… to Congress, because you can't be on a bill and be alive. That's one thing.
875
Chairman of Chaos: Well, not just that, they have to… they have to approve that, because that was the…
876
Chairman of Chaos: whole humbug when we tried to get Harriet… when Joe Biden tried to get Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, and the Republicans… it was moving forward, and then the Republicans took over and killed it.
877
Chairman of Chaos: So, how you just gonna come out and say, oh, we're working with the Treasury Department to create a $250 bill? Well, first off, didn't we just tell y'all that too much money is in circulation as it is?
878
Jeezy: As is.
879
Manny: I don't care about that.
880
Jeezy: Man, somebody… you give me… bro, first of all…
881
Chairman of Chaos: If you give me… hey, I can tell I love this because I…
882
Chairman of Chaos: As I've stated before, I worked in the banking industry, and I used to go around buying, purchasing things with $2 bills. And so, you know, being in that space, I had access to plenty of them. So I would get some, and I remember one time going into the gas station, and then young, young lady,
883
Chairman of Chaos: told me the total, and I whipped out my $2 bills.
884
Chairman of Chaos: Peter.
885
Chairman of Chaos: And she looked at it.
886
Chairman of Chaos: And she's wiped it with the pen, and looked at it again.
887
Chairman of Chaos: Then she turned around to call her manager over, who was an older gentleman, who was like, yeah, they're fine. They're real. And she was like, I've never seen them before! And I just laughed, and I looked at the manager, I was like, I work in the bank. He was like, okay, that makes sense.
888
Jeezy: Man, look…
889
Chairman of Chaos: My most interesting, and I'm gonna stop talking about this, my most interesting situation with $2 bills was at my favorite location to take money, and y'all know where that is.
890
Chairman of Chaos: And I am, passing the buck.
891
Chairman of Chaos: And the DJ goes, hold up, are those $2 bills?
892
Chairman of Chaos: All the girls came… nevermind. Alright.
893
Chairman of Chaos: Pass it to my brother, Jeezy, or Manny, or somebody.
894
Jeezy: Brad, so when you look at… first of all, if you hand me a…
895
Jeezy: I don't want a $250 bill, because I'm not gonna explain why I got a $250 bill. That's just gonna piss me off.
896
Chairman of Chaos: Hey, imagine back in the day when the folks used to get their check and go to the bank and cash it to get their… Oh, right. I wish I would see somebody give my grandfather an old $250 bill. I don't want this, break this down.
897
Jeezy: And, news flash, Donald Trump and, Mr. Secretary.
898
Jeezy: The way the economy's going, ain't a lot of people gonna have them bills anyway.
899
Chairman of Chaos: People don't carry cash much.
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Manny: -
901
Jeezy: Bingo.
902
Chairman of Chaos: And most places don't take more than $50 bills.
903
Jeezy: I guess it.
904
Manny: Look, you, you struggle.
905
Jeezy: Lives would say, color money.
906
Chairman of Chaos: I wonder what color it would be.
907
Chairman of Chaos: You gotta…
908
Manny: just…
909
Jeezy: Little hint, a little hint of orange.
910
Manny: Oh, you… first of all, you know this is gonna be the most colorized bill.
911
Manny: Showing the pro… I just want to know if they're gonna have the tone change from around Trump's eyes to the rest of his face. Like, that…
912
Chairman of Chaos: That, that, see, okay, we're on.
913
Jeezy: Yep, yup. This is the conversation.
914
Chairman of Chaos: that we need to have. It's not about the 250.
915
Chairman of Chaos: what is this money gonna look like? Because part of the Treasury and their whole thing is the color sequencing
916
Chairman of Chaos: Texture of the money for security purposes. We have the blue for…
917
Chairman of Chaos: 100. We have kind of reddish, 450s.
918
Chairman of Chaos: The green is, for 20s.
919
Chairman of Chaos: You have yellow, 4 tens. 5s are kind of reddish, whitish, bluish.
920
Chairman of Chaos: Kinda. And then they just discard the ones. Poor George. But, so… Thinking about the rainbow…
921
Chairman of Chaos: It's gonna be either purple, -oh!
922
Jeezy: Yee!
923
Manny: No, he'll…
924
Chairman of Chaos: I mean, if I rode to the song…
925
Manny: Those are the… those are the options.
926
Jeezy: Or he might just try to say, make it gold.
927
Manny: Hmm.
928
Jeezy: We get the Willy Wonka Golden Ticket.
929
Chairman of Chaos: You know what, you right about that.
930
Manny: But, think about it, when's the last time that you…
931
Manny: You paid for something in cash that was in excess of $100.
932
Manny: Like, I just don't… if I'm spending more than $100, I'm using my card, like…
933
Jeezy: Brad.
934
Chairman of Chaos: Generally, but I'm a… I'm a bit. Still got some of that old school with me. I love having cash on me.
935
Chairman of Chaos: I love it. Like, most people are like, I want to have that cash on me. And I'm not talking…
936
Chairman of Chaos: 5, 10, 20, 30…
937
Jeezy: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
938
Chairman of Chaos: I wanna have some cash on me.
939
Manny: I'll see.
940
Chairman of Chaos: One is twofold. Run up on me if you want to. Anyway, I'm sorry.
941
Chairman of Chaos: I… I… Working in that space and working.
942
Manny: Yeah.
943
Chairman of Chaos: for so long.
944
Chairman of Chaos: the nature of… which I track my funds when using my cards. I know what's in my account essentially at… just about at all times. But just the hand-to-hand transaction.
945
Chairman of Chaos: it just does something for me, and like I said, I've… 10 plus years… actually, I probably got 20-plus years in cash handling, but 10 plus years in the banking industry specifically. So…
946
Chairman of Chaos: And then growing up, my grandparents had a store, and I would go on bank runs with my grandfather, or help him count, because one of his things that he always told me was.
947
Chairman of Chaos: You can't tell me you love money and hate math.
948
Chairman of Chaos: It don't make sense.
949
Audio shared by Jeezy: Message!
950
Manny: Hmm.
951
Chairman of Chaos: And so, you know, me, my siblings, and my cousins would sit up and help him roll coins, and I…
952
Jeezy: A lost art, bruh.
953
Chairman of Chaos: We were a proper people win.
954
Chairman of Chaos: I had my kids rolling… taught them years ago how to roll coins.
955
Chairman of Chaos: So, for me, money has always… the handling of money has always been an integral part of my life, and so I… there are times where I miss it, and to your point, yeah, man.
956
Manny: Yeah.
957
Chairman of Chaos: A lot of times when I'm doing big purchases, I'll say 95% of my big purchases are done with my card.
958
Chairman of Chaos: But there are times I'm like, dang, I wish I just had some cash just to, you know…
959
Manny: But it's the… for me, it's the utility of a $250 bill.
960
Jeezy: ain't.
961
Chairman of Chaos: What?
962
Jeezy: Look, you got some places you go where they say, look, we don't break anything, you know, over 100. You hand a 250, they gonna be like, yo, I'll be right back. Next thing you know, the law coming up in there.
963
Manny: Have a seat, have a seat.
964
Jeezy: I personally don't carry cash, and we'll move on, but I personally don't carry cash, because I like the feeling of when I am coming out of the gas station, somebody say, hey, brother, can I get a dollar? I can say no, and I can live comfortably knowing I didn't like it.
965
Manny: the truth.
966
Jeezy: I ain't lying to you, I really don't have a dollar in my pocket.
967
Jeezy: I say it with so much confidence, bruh, I be purposely… oh, I know he gonna ask. Let me make sure there ain't nobody coming out of the gas station right now, so I'm the only one between me and that door that he gonna ask. Hey, brother, you got a… man, I don't care, no cash, bruh. And I ain't lying to you.
968
Chairman of Chaos: They might hit silver and gold, I have none.
969
Jeezy: Bye.
970
Chairman of Chaos: But with these jokers around here in Atlanta hit you with the okey… hold on, I'm trippin'. I'm in North Carolina. I sat around here, but anyway. Right.
971
Chairman of Chaos: I had a guy tell me, well, let me hold that debit card, big bruh.
972
Manny: Bro, that's wild.
973
Jeezy: Now you, now you tweaked.
974
Manny: Wild.
975
Chairman of Chaos: Came out of the gas station.
976
Jeezy: I'd rather you say to give me the cash app.
977
Manny: Bruh.
978
Chairman of Chaos: They've done that too, but he was like, hey, man, you got a couple dollars? I was like, I ain't got no cash on me, bruh. He was like, man, well, let me hold that debit card.
979
Chairman of Chaos: What!
980
Manny: Hey, look.
981
Chairman of Chaos: Oh, my gas.
982
Manny: The answer or the unasked question is no.
983
Manny: But, in the words of,
984
Manny: Oh, God, the best one. Have you practiced that shot before? Has that worked for you? Patrick Ewing. Patrick Ewing. Have you practiced that shot?
985
Jeezy: Y'all be having some wild requests, bruh. Wild requests. But that's the only reason I don't care, for one, because I'm from Rocky Mountain. So, you got cash in Rocky Mountain. Nine times out of 10, you done had it taken at least once.
986
Chairman of Chaos: Hey, bro, I'm from Fayetteville, you ain't…
987
Jeezy: You are in, though.
988
Chairman of Chaos: Yay! Right.
989
Jeezy: So, I learned that very early.
990
Chairman of Chaos: That's what I said. Run up on me.
991
Chairman of Chaos: Renner. Look.
992
Manny: That little F-A-L photo.
993
Jeezy: Look, I own the problems, I ain't even got to lie. At 2, if you ask me.
994
Jeezy: I hadn't committed a sin by lying today, at least not in this scenario. I told the truth. I look up every time when I get in the car, Father, I didn't lie.
995
Manny: The… but circling back to the concert, I already knew something… like, when people started canceling, I looked at that list, and I'm like, oh, so this is about to be Brent Michaels…
996
Manny: And somebody else.
997
Manny: So when Brent Michaels came out and said, yo, this is not what I thought it was, I was like, oh, they…
998
Manny: They got y'all.
999
Manny: They got y'all, because I would have bet money that he was gonna be still doing that.
1000
Chairman of Chaos: Yeah, I agree. When I saw he backed out of the program, I was like, hmm, somebody told a lie one day.
1001
Manny: Yep. Bruh.
1002
Jeezy: And look, and you know, Trump responded quick by blasting these performers for cutting out. He called them third-rate artists, which…
1003
Manny: Did she do it?
1004
Jeezy: I ain't lying. I mean, I won't lie. But you know who.
1005
Chairman of Chaos: I'm still in there, right?
1006
Chairman of Chaos: Who cares? Shitty bottom apple bottom jeans.
1007
Jeezy: Oh, bruh.
1008
Manny: Mmm…
1009
Chairman of Chaos: Flow riding.
1010
Jeezy: Gonna miss a check now.
1011
Manny: -
1012
Jeezy: He ain't gonna miss a check. So he… but this is the funny thing in Trump fashion. Which a lot of them, to Chuck's point, they said that they thought they were signing up for a nonpartisan celebration.
1013
Jeezy: So when Trump heard this, of course.
1014
Jeezy: In good fashion, he has insult.
1015
Jeezy: And then he said… That he has floated the idea of replacing much of the concert
1016
Jeezy: With a large rally, where he would effectively become the headline
1017
Jeezy: attraction himself. I don't know if you think this is Coachella…
1018
Manny: He said.
1019
Jeezy: Rolling loud.
1020
Manny: He looked at that list of.
1021
Chairman of Chaos: Lollapaloo.
1022
Jeezy: See, ain't.
1023
Manny: Ain't no one coming to D.C. to see you, Otis.
1024
Chairman of Chaos: This fool.
1025
Jeezy: Bigger of an artist to have than me.
1026
Chairman of Chaos: You said this is the DJT Fest.
1027
Jeezy: That's what this is.
1028
Jeezy: He was pulling a DJ Shack.
1029
Manny: But I can also understand how… not DJ Shaq. Shout out to Sup Dogs.
1030
Jeezy: Shout out to some dolls, for sure.
1031
Manny: But I can see how some of these… these artists and their management were thrown for a loop, because not only do you have the Freedom 250, you have America 250, which is the congressional group and organization that is… started, I believe, 10 years ago.
1032
Manny: To put on things and events
1033
Manny: across the nation for America's 250th birthday. Yeah. So I can see how they got very easily misled, but this is where I think Trump could find himself in a situation again with the courts.
1034
Manny: is because there's some rumors going around. Congress appropriated $150 million, via the Office of Budget, to be routed through the Interior Department for this.
1035
Manny: And now, there's some questions about how much money has been diverted over, because I believe about…
1036
Manny: 10 million, maybe, give or take? And what's private money, where private and public money is going to fund these various things? So Trump could find himself in a whole nother situation.
1037
Jeezy: Or if he's the headliner.
1038
Jeezy: Does it get a portion of money?
1039
Manny: What's his honorarium? I brought… I filled the seats. Yep.
1040
Chairman of Chaos: You're always gonna try to find a way to the bag, legally, or…
1041
Manny: Or illegal.
1042
Jeezy: illegally. But I want to ask a question that closes out on this, and I'll go to you, Chuck, on this. You know.
1043
Jeezy: Because if your goal is to…
1044
Jeezy: You know, have a broad national celebration.
1045
Jeezy: Is it really possible, in the position that we are in now, is it even possible at this point, you know, that the political branding itself is driving away the exact audience that you're trying to attract, right? This is supposed to be a moment we all should be able to come together. You know, it makes me think about, like, when we watched the World Cup.
1046
Jeezy: You know, which… that's about to go down the drain.
1047
Jeezy: But, you know, it's like the World Cup. It doesn't matter what you agree with, what side of the aisle you're on.
1048
Jeezy: when America, especially, I think about the women's team, they've had clearly much more success than the men have.
1049
Jeezy: But even if you don't care for what's going on in the U.S, when them girls are on that big stage, it don't matter where you are at, you're excited because it's America.
1050
Chairman of Chaos: We rally around that. USA!
1051
Jeezy: What was the chat they had one year? Was it them or the men that I believe that we can't…
1052
Chairman of Chaos: I believe that we can win.
1053
Jeezy: Everywhere you go. But it was the U.S. But at this point in the landscape that we're in, is it even possible to even do that, or to have that anymore?
1054
Chairman of Chaos: What was the first part of your question?
1055
Chairman of Chaos: That's the answer.
1056
Jeezy: Is it…
1057
Jeezy: Is it possible at this point that the political brand itself is driving away the exact audience it's trying to attract?
1058
Chairman of Chaos: That's the answer. The political brain…
1059
Jeezy: Dude.
1060
Chairman of Chaos: Is… is known for alienation, Is known for separation.
1061
Chairman of Chaos: It's known for isolation.
1062
Jeezy: Yep.
1063
Chairman of Chaos: So, to try to present a… An event, a celebration, And bring everyone together, Is… contradictory?
1064
Jeezy: Yeah.
1065
Chairman of Chaos: Essentially?
1066
Jeezy: You can't… you can't be… the Director of Division.
1067
Jeezy: And getting mad when you can't bring nobody together.
1068
Chairman of Chaos: You can't… you can't tell the ushers what to do.
1069
Manny: Whoa, whoa, okay.
1070
Chairman of Chaos: Yeah.
1071
Manny: I won't say you can.
1072
Manny: More like you shouldn't.
1073
Manny: You shouldn't be upset.
1074
Manny: Because clearly he is upset.
1075
Jeezy: Clearly he is, clearly he's upset.
1076
Chairman of Chaos: Is he upset, or is he throwing a tantrum?
1077
Jeezy: It's more like a tantrum.
1078
Manny: Tantrum.
1079
Chairman of Chaos: It's a tape.
1080
Manny: hesitation.
1081
Jeezy: Because babies don't really get upset about much, they just get… they just, yeah, they don't get…
1082
Chairman of Chaos: I ain't get my way, I'm gonna make a fuss.
1083
Jeezy: But the decision was right. You don't need what you need right now. You could throw a tantrum, but I'm still right. The adult in the room is still right.
1084
Chairman of Chaos: So that's the problem. Where are the adults from?
1085
Manny: I know you're tired, but you're gonna take this nap.
1086
Jeezy: And you gonna take that nap, and you gonna feel later on to… Yeah, you're right, I should've took that nap. Even if you don't say it, you know I was right.
1087
Manny: You're right.
1088
Jeezy: But yeah, man, you know, when you look at this week, as we take a step back, Trump took some hits.
1089
Jeezy: in four completely different arenas. The redistricting stalled, the IRS settlement is facing legal scrutiny, the Kennedy Center plans got blocked for now, and Freedom250 is struggling to keep performers. So none of these individually are,
1090
Jeezy: presidency-ending problems, but together they tell a story. That even when you control the White House, you're still fighting courts, legislators, public opinions, and sometimes your own allies. And, as we said.
1091
Jeezy: This past week, All four pushed back.
1092
Jeezy: To Trump, he had a tough week, bruh.
1093
Jeezy: Maybe the week will get better for you?
1094
Jeezy: Could get worse.
1095
Jeezy: Only time…
1096
Jeezy: We'll tell. Brothers, anything else, on this segment of this past week for Mr. Donald Trump? And I think we… hold on, Mandy, don't we have.
1097
Manny: No, we don't, we don't.
1098
Manny: Not confirmed, yeah.
1099
Jeezy: Alright, well, I think we're at this point. Anything else on this segment before we move on, brothers?
1100
Chairman of Chaos: Man.
1101
Jeezy: My eyes clear?
1102
Chairman of Chaos: Yeah, man, yeah.
1103
Jeezy: Alright, well…
1104
Chairman of Chaos: I'm down on his L's.
1105
Jeezy: Hey, man.
1106
Manny: Bad luck. Bad luck, Trump. Bad luck.
1107
Manny: I'm sorry, I'm not gonna wish him good luck.
1108
Jeezy: Bad luck. If you take this amount of L's in a week.
1109
Jeezy: Yeah, next week gotta be better, right?
1110
Chairman of Chaos: You would hope so.
1111
Manny: I mean?
1112
Jeezy: I… Say your prayers tonight, Trump, but .
1113
Chairman of Chaos: Unless that deal falls apart.
1114
Manny: I mean, they…
1115
Chairman of Chaos: It's a lot worse.
1116
Manny: They sent back a response to… to this deal, so we'll…
1117
Manny: That's the only reason it's not been brought up up to this point, is we'll see what this Iran deal looks like this week, maybe. But gas prices are going down, kinda, sorta, so…
1118
Chairman of Chaos: I don't… miss me with that. Miss me.
1119
Jeezy: Somebody on Facebook recently, they just said, hey, I see the price going down, is the war over?
1120
Jeezy: Miss it, okay.
1121
Jeezy: I see what type of person you eat.
1122
Manny: Cut it, boy.
1123
Chairman of Chaos: That we like to call aloof.
1124
Manny: Yeah.
1125
Chairman of Chaos: Miss me with that gas prices going down, I don't know. Nope.
1126
Jeezy: Yeah, what George Rush say Fuman wants? Shame on you, Fumi twice. Can't get food again.
1127
Manny: Can't fooled again.
1128
Chairman of Chaos: I know they gotta say it in Texas, it's probably in Tennessee too, right?
1129
Manny: That is going to go down.
1130
Jeezy: Dude.
1131
Manny: As a top 10.
1132
Manny: 5. Political quote. Okay, top 5. Political quote. Top 3.
1133
Chairman of Chaos: Might be top 2, not number 2.
1134
Jeezy: Hey, George Bush got quite a few, because there was one where he was… he was on a golf course, and he was saying something about some of these countries, he was like, they can't… they cannot.
1135
Jeezy: possess a nuclear weapon.
1136
Manny: It was, I think it was, it was, was, it was either,
1137
Jeezy: Dude, alright?
1138
Manny: on. Yeah. It was…
1139
Jeezy: And he paused what he said and looked at the report, he said, now watch me here.
1140
Manny: Yeah, watch that.
1141
Jeezy: around.
1142
Jeezy: peeing the heck out that golf ball. I said, bruh, George Bush different, bruh. George Bush walks so Trump can run, bruh. And Trump messin' it up.
1143
Jeezy: fumbling, because Trump on his first turn, he was hitting with the quotables and the funny stuff, but…
1144
Chairman of Chaos: Well, I mean, when your brain is turning into mush and deteriorating, it's kind of…
1145
Jeezy: You just can't.
1146
Manny: Thank you.
1147
Jeezy: together no more, right?
1148
Chairman of Chaos: Running back-to-back.
1149
Manny: Yeah.
1150
Jeezy: Well, with that being said, we have moved on to our segment that we come to you constantly every week with someone being in the Pardon the Politics pickle jar, and that is where we give you our pickle of…
1151
Audio shared by Jeezy: I'd get us all into the biggest pickle any of us had ever seen.
1152
Jeezy: Now, there's an individual… that is in the brine, that…
1153
Jeezy: I believe he's been in there before Paul's. That feels like a Paul's worthy thing to say.
1154
Jeezy: But this individual is Graham Platner.
1155
Jeezy: So… Graham… It's a pickle for the week, because…
1156
Jeezy: First of all, I want to let you know, those in Maine, and surrounding, that the primary's coming up, I believe, June 9th.
1157
Jeezy: And he is the Democratic Senate candidate.
1158
Jeezy: In Maine.
1159
Jeezy: Here's why he's a pickle of the week.
1160
Jeezy: Democrats have been, for years, eyeing
1161
Jeezy: Maine as one of the best opportunities to, defeat the incumbent senator, Susan Collins, and potentially pick up a critical Senate seat. But instead of talking about healthcare, inflation.
1162
Jeezy: or campaign strategy, Platner is once again answering questions about his political, conduct. So this week.
1163
Jeezy: news reports revealed that Platner's wife had informed a campaign official last year that she discovered a sexually explicit text message he had sent to other women during their marriage. Now, first of all, ma'am.
1164
Jeezy: Why are you talking to a complete stranger? That's your problem. She will hurt, and you pick… you ain't got no friends?
1165
Manny: None. You got nobody?
1166
Jeezy: you can trust with that? You into a.
1167
Chairman of Chaos: You poured it all into Him.
1168
Jeezy: So the campaign staff, apparently, they… and this is how you know you're moving nasty. She came to the campaign official, and the campaign staff apparently already knew about this issue during the internal vetting process, and officially decided that it was a private matter. Democrats fumbling again. As soon as you got that, you should have said.
1169
Manny: Send them any of them. -
1170
Jeezy: So…
1171
Manny: Nope.
1172
Jeezy: So now, let's be clear.
1173
Jeezy: his wife has publicly defended him. She's saying, she's stick… I'm sticking by my man.
1174
Chairman of Chaos: me, my, me, my me.
1175
Manny: Right, excuse me.
1176
Jeezy: She, she went, she said they went through counseling.
1177
Jeezy: They work through their problems and remain committed to their marriage, which, kudos to them. Y'all keeping the house together.
1178
Manny: Marriage is hard work.
1179
Jeezy: I'm excited for that. It's hard work. It's a job that don't end until you end.
1180
Manny: So…
1181
Jeezy: But politically, that's not besides the point.
1182
Jeezy: Because it isn't happening in isolation. Clayton has already spent months dealing with controversy surrounding, offensive old online posts and scrutiny over a tattoo linked to some Nazi imagery that he said he didn't understand when he got it.
1183
Jeezy: Which, okay, but last I checked, if you get tattoos, my mama was opposed to tattoos, but she said, hey, if you're getting something, you better know what you're getting and understand it before you get it.
1184
Chairman of Chaos: Now, in his defense, We got a bunch of people running around here with Chinese lettering and symbols.
1185
Jeezy: Oh, for sure.
1186
Chairman of Chaos: I don't know what?
1187
Jeezy: I never understood why people do that. You don't know what…
1188
Chairman of Chaos: Don't know what you don't put on yourself.
1189
Jeezy: I want you to put on yourself. Hence why you need to know. Be informed, but the Bible also tells us that people perish from what? The lack of what?
1190
Manny: Lack of knowledge.
1191
Chairman of Chaos: What's up?
1192
Jeezy: So, now, Democrats find themselves in a very brutal position here. This race was supposed to be about defeating
1193
Jeezy: Susan Collins, but instead, every week, it seems that they're bringing about another story trying to explain who Graham Platner is. And to me, that's why he's in a pickle. Not because of one controversy, can necessarily end a campaign, but because campaigns only survive one scandal.
1194
Jeezy: They struggle when voters start seeing a pattern.
1195
Jeezy: And the challenge for Platner isn't convincing voters that he's perfect. Nobody's perfect. We all have a past, there is no one that is squeaky clean, but the challenge is convincing voters that the conversation should be about Maine's future instead of his past. So, with the Democratic primary just a few days away, again, it's June 9th.
1196
Jeezy: This is becoming harder and harder to do. So… For Graham, congratulations, man.
1197
Jeezy: When your own campaign strategy meeting starts sounding like a marital counseling session, you've officially earned a spot.
1198
Jeezy: In the pardon the policy.
1199
Manny: It's pickled.
1200
Jeezy: You into Brian, bro.
1201
Jeezy: I'm gonna be watching this race because I want to… I truly want to see how this impacts…
1202
Jeezy: the decision on June 9th, and I think if history repeats itself, He's gonna have a problem.
1203
Chairman of Chaos: See? He should have been in Texas.
1204
Jeezy: Hey, had you been in Texas? Oh, man.
1205
Manny: everything's legal in Texas.
1206
Chairman of Chaos: Well, it might not be legal, but it can be ignored.
1207
Jeezy: You did what? To who?
1208
Manny: To who?
1209
Jeezy: None of my business.
1210
Manny: We're…
1211
Chairman of Chaos: Voting for you.
1212
Jeezy: So that is my Pickle of the Week. So, to our listeners, we have reached the conclusion of our episode, and at the conclusion of our episode, we always, before we leave you, love to bring you our Spotlights of the week. So, my brother Manny, I'm gonna go to you first, and what is your spotlight, that you have for this week?
1213
Manny: Well, they say some of the best news… best time to drop news that you don't want anyone to focus on is… is Friday afternoon, and that's what we have here.
1214
Manny: But before we begin there, I'd like everyone to… we're gonna take a quick journey, we're gonna go back. Way back. Back into time.
1215
Chairman of Chaos: of the time.
1216
Jeezy: Yes, sir.
1217
Manny: Back to, episode 9 of the season, where we talked about Operation Epic Fury.
1218
Manny: And in that episode.
1219
Manny: we asked the question is, how deep is the U.S. entanglement with Israel, and how deep is it actually gonna go?
1220
Manny: Well, we got that answer this week, and it's called Section 224, of the 2027 NDAA.
1221
Manny: And…
1222
Manny: no one's talking about it at this point. It's also very early. So, the NDAA is the National Defense Authorization Act. It's an annual bill that Congress passes to set up military policy and authorize what we're going to be spending money on.
1223
Manny: I think it's a key point here to know that it has passed every year since 1961 without interruption.
1224
Manny: It's never stopped. We've hit it every single time.
1225
Manny: Because it has to pass.
1226
Manny: And it is legislation that could not survive on its own, so it kind of gets buried.
1227
Manny: But Section 24 is an example of them essentially burying it. So, what Section 224 of this year's edition of it is the United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative.
1228
Manny: And it structurally starts linking the United States and Israel together. There are four core provisions of it.
1229
Manny: The first one, it designates a single Pentagon executive agent. I don't know what that means, I don't know if they know what that means right now. But it's this one person whose job… sole job is to coordinate military cooperation between the U.S. and Israel across all defense domains.
1230
Manny: The second core… the second provision authorizes bilateral research and development, co-production of weapons.
1231
Manny: various joint ventures and licensing agreements across AI, quantum computing, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber, and biotech weapons.
1232
Manny: The third one is it enables network integration.
1233
Manny: and Data Fusion.
1234
Manny: And how this is phrased and how analysts are talking about it is it could give Israel access to virtually all of the U.S.'s military operational data.
1235
Manny: And the fourth provision expands Israel co-production facilities in the United States. So currently, there are two of these facilities in Mississippi and Arkansas, basically creating American jobs.
1236
Manny: that are tied to Israeli defense production.
1237
Manny: And this gets really interesting about the sharing, especially that third one, the third piece about the data fusion problem. So basically, if the U.S. and Israel militaries are integrated, they get…
1238
Manny: all of our data, so our battlefield data for U.S. operations could flow into Israeli systems and back and forth.
1239
Manny: So we're talking data that the U.S. has from Gaza that we haven't released to them, from Lebanon, from Iran, all of our allies in the region.
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Manny: they could potentially have all that information just inherently linked with their AIs. What does U.S. get out of it? U.S. gets access to a lot of Israeli tech.
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Manny: I think what we've seen with the operation in Iran, what we've seen in Gaza, what we've seen in Lebanon, the U.S. now gets access to that, that we know has been tested in the field.
1242
Manny: But it's really that AI data infrastructure that becomes really, really interesting. And one of the biggest arguments right now is the lack of transparency.
1243
Manny: and oversight over what America would be sharing, and vice versa.
1244
Manny: And basically, this is all being done with very little public debate that we wouldn't really get… that we would get in Congress if this came through naturally. No hearing, no amendments, and they buried it in a 500-page bill that passes like clockwork.
1245
Manny: So, some people are starting to have problems with this.
1246
Manny: A couple key people to keep in mind is Mike Rogers, who, I'm just going to state a very quick fact here, has received $122,000 from APAC in his… over his career, per Open Secrets.
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Manny: I'm just listing that as a fact you do with that information what you will. But he was the one that put this in there.
1248
Manny: Several people, including Richard Hudson and Ted Budd, have all come and said, like, yes, we need to do this, we need to, you know, be backing Israel, we need to be protecting them.
1249
Manny: Obviously, there are some people, who are vastly against this. Representative Massey, who has already come out and said that he plans to put in an amendment to strip this out of this.
1250
Manny: What this means is that if this passes, U.S. would be very deeply tied to Israel in ways that we aren't tied with anybody.
1251
Manny: You know, if we decide… if the United States decided to integrate our military with Canada.
1252
Manny: People would be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, what are we doing here?
1253
Manny: And I think this is a concern for NATO, because NATO, being one of our closest allies, look, we don't have any type of relationship with Germany, with Korea, with Japan.
1254
Manny: the UK, we don't have this type of relationship with them as well. And then now we also look at a situation where…
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Manny: what does Iran… Iran think about this? What does China think about this? How do they start feeling about it?
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Manny: And I think it could become a really touchy situation. Especially for us to be so deeply entrenched.
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Manny: in protecting somebody and giving them access to our data and information, as everything with AI and data continues to heat up, what are we sharing with them?
1258
Manny: what will they have access to? And I think the better question also might be, what won't they have access to?
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Manny: Yeah.
1260
Manny: So I think this is getting… this is a very, very, really touchy situation. And the question I have for our listeners is, does this concern you?
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Manny: You know? This is not the UK, this is not Germany, this is not France, but this is a structural military access that we would be giving Israel to America, and do we want that? Especially in a time when there seems to be conflicting
1262
Manny: feelings about Israel, and you take away those feelings for Israel about what we should be dedicating our military efforts and our financial efforts towards should be here in America. Is this really America first? We don't know.
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Manny: Big key here is that, again, this has passed like clockwork every single year.
1264
Manny: This has to be voted on, I believe, before October 1st, so we will be…
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Manny: Likely hearing a lot about this.
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Manny: And we'll see what happens, and this… that is my spotlight of the week, and we'll kinda… we'll kinda see how this plays out over the next… next couple weeks, especially…
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Manny: I know one of the provisions that Iran… Iran had with the U.S. is that, hey, if we sign this deal, we open the strait, you guys have to get out of the Middle East.
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Manny: okay, we could do that now. This situation, we could do that now. We could get completely out of the U… the Middle East, but if we have this agreement with Israel, we are forever in the Middle East as well.
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Manny: And that's my Spotlight of the Week.
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Chairman of Chaos: That's a… That's major.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
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Jeezy: Well, I'll, go next with my spotlight of…
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Jeezy: The week, so I want to use my, spotlight of the week to focus on something
1275
Jeezy: That has largely, disappeared from the headlines here in the United States, and…
1276
Jeezy: basically, it has not disappeared at all from reality, and I want to use my spotlight on that.
1277
Jeezy: While much of the world's attention has shifted to elections, domestic policies, China, Russia, and even Iran.
1278
Jeezy: The people of Gaza… Are still living through… A humanitarian catastrophe.
1279
Jeezy: And this week, there was a development that should have received far more attention than it did. So that's what I'mma use my spotlight for.
1280
Jeezy: Big Benny, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, announced that he has directed the Israeli military, excuse me, to expand its control of Gaza to 70% of the territory.
1281
Jeezy: Israeli officials say that it currently controls roughly 60% and intend to increase the footprint, despite the ceasefire framework that had previously established a lower level of territorial control.
1282
Jeezy: Now, let's put this in perspective.
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Jeezy: Gaza is already… One of the most densely populated places on Earth.
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Jeezy: more than.
1285
Manny: Yeah.
1286
Jeezy: 2 million Palestinians have been squeezed into an increasingly smaller area after years of war, displacement, destruction to infrastructure, and repeated military operations.
1287
Jeezy: If Israel expands its control to 70% of the territory, that means that millions of civilians would have effectively be concentrated into an even smaller portion of land.
1288
Jeezy: So, critics have argued that that would worsen an already dire humanitarian situation and make daily life even more difficult for ordinary Palestinians trying to survive.
1289
Jeezy: And in this, regardless of where you stand politically, the images coming out of Gaza over the last several years have been devastating, from destroyed neighborhoods, to displaced families, to hospitals being overwhelmed, and children growing up knowing little
1290
Jeezy: Other than conflict. So, the bigger question in this is the reason this is my spotlight is not because it's new.
1291
Jeezy: It's because it isn't.
1292
Jeezy: Right? It's becoming an uncomfortable reality right now.
1293
Jeezy: And we've become accustomed to it.
1294
Jeezy: A story that once dominated every newscast now barely breaks through the noise.
1295
Jeezy: The death tolls are still climbing.
1296
Jeezy: The humanitarian concerns are still continuing, entire communities remain displaced, yet many people have simply moved on because another crisis…
1297
Jeezy: Somehow has taken center stage.
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Jeezy: And when we think about that, history shows us something very dangerous in all of this.
1299
Jeezy: When suffering becomes routine, It becomes easier for the world to ignore it.
1300
Jeezy: So, the key thing to watch in the coming weeks is whether international communities respond.
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Jeezy: And respond in any actual, meaningful way.
1302
Jeezy: Will there be pressure from the United States with him going up another 10% to 70% when there were framework of a ceasefire to reduce that territorial pressure? Will European allies push back?
1303
Jeezy: Will regional Arab powers increase, you know, their diplomatic efforts? Or will the expansion just simply become another fact?
1304
Jeezy: on the ground that eventually fades from public attention. Because once territory changes, hands and populations are displaced long enough, temporary measures
1305
Jeezy: have a way of becoming permanent realities for those people. So whether you view this war as a war against Hamas, a humanitarian disaster, an occupation, or a genocide, one fact in all of this, is undeniable. And that is millions of Palestinians are still trapped
1306
Jeezy: In the middle of it.
1307
Jeezy: And as, you know, political observers, we can debate policies, we can debate governments, we can debate military strategies, but we should never become so accustomed by the politics of everything that we stop seeing
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Jeezy: the people.
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Jeezy: So that's why Gaza is my spotlight. Not because it's the newest news, it's because it's a story that the world has seen, in my opinion, to forget.
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Jeezy: So… That's my Spotlight, brothers.
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Manny: And…
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Chairman of Chaos: Go ahead, man.
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Manny: I, I, the one thing that I'll just add for context for our listeners.
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Manny: Israel's not that big of a country. I believe Israel is the same size as New Jersey.
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Jeezy: Yeah.
1316
Manny: They're skewing when you look at a globe, but Israel is the size of a New Jersey.
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Manny: So, take that into account when you realize that you have this area that's even being compressed down further.
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Manny: Yeah.
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Chairman of Chaos: Agreed, and I… you know, both of you, gave some amazing spotlights, and before I go into my spotlight, I saw a video, and your spotlights brought it back to my remembrance.
1320
Chairman of Chaos: There's a Michigan U.S. Senate candidate named Abdul El Said, and he said something that resonated with me
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Chairman of Chaos: amazingly, and I want to bring that up right now, following up both of your points, and your spotlights, but particularly with Jeezy, because what I don't want people to do is have a skewed and distorted view of what we're saying.
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Chairman of Chaos: And what El-Sayed said is that…
1323
Chairman of Chaos: And I wanna get his exact quote.
1324
Chairman of Chaos: From him.
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Chairman of Chaos: He's… he said that… going against the Israeli state, and APAC and the Israeli government.
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Chairman of Chaos: is not synonymous with going against Judaism and the Jewish people.
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Jeezy: Facts.
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Chairman of Chaos: He said, calling out anti-Semitism, as Zionism is not anti-Semitic.
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Chairman of Chaos: And that's a dangerous tactic that people have done and used to try to shield the Israeli government and its policies and scrutinize how they are treating people. So I want y'all to understand this. What my brothers have said has nothing to do with Jewish people
1330
Chairman of Chaos: As an entity, or as a person.
1331
Chairman of Chaos: This is a critique.
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Chairman of Chaos: of the Israeli state. Government. Yep. And the government… Which, here in America.
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Chairman of Chaos: We have every right to do.
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Jeezy: For now.
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Chairman of Chaos: Truly.
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Jeezy: And to add to that, Chuck, and I'll let you go, and I can't stand that this happens, but I feel like I have to say it.
1337
Jeezy: the pushback… on Israel.
1338
Jeezy: There's no way, shape, form, or fashion speaking ill.
1339
Jeezy: of the Israel that we read in the Bible.
1340
Jeezy: I wish y'all would stop putting.
1341
Chairman of Chaos: Hey na. Hey na.
1342
Jeezy: I wish I would stop putting that together as Christians. But… go ahead, brother.
1343
Chairman of Chaos: So, my spotlight this week…
1344
Chairman of Chaos: I don't know if I could follow y'all.
1345
Chairman of Chaos: I had something, and my past two spotlights have been pretty heavy, so I wanted to come with a spotlight that was a little lighter.
1346
Chairman of Chaos: And so, I saw a video on Instagram, where these guys, their Instagram page, and I gotta give them their prop, it's called The Makeshift Project, and they have some quirky, different things on there, so I felt that there was something very important.
1347
Chairman of Chaos: To share with people. They came and dropped a video of 5 phone numbers everybody should know.
1348
Chairman of Chaos: Now… The interesting thing about this is, nowadays, nobody knows anybody's phone number.
1349
Jeezy: When's the last time you opened the white pages or the Yellow Pages?
1350
Chairman of Chaos: Bruh, we're proper people.
1351
Chairman of Chaos: When's the last time I got a delivery of the white pages of the yellow pages?
1352
Chairman of Chaos: We were proper people when they plopped that book on your porch.
1353
Jeezy: Yep, I remember my grandma saying, you want pizza? Find the number in that book.
1354
Chairman of Chaos: Call it in. Yes, sir.
1355
Chairman of Chaos: Yes, sir. Oh, man, that just took me back down memory lane. But, these 5 phone numbers, the first one, 707-998-840, is a pep talk number.
1356
Chairman of Chaos: And this is… what's interesting about this phone number is you can call, and if you're down, you can have kindergartners give you a pep talk and uplift your spirits.
1357
Chairman of Chaos: The next number, 719-266-2837. Parents of young kids?
1358
Chairman of Chaos: You might want to hold onto this number.
1359
Chairman of Chaos: This is the Santa Claus hotline.
1360
Chairman of Chaos: So you can call this line, and Santa Claus can talk with your child.
1361
Chairman of Chaos: This next number's a very interesting number, because I really don't think they check the messages, nor do they care. It's 202-456-1111, and that's the White House comment line.
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Jeezy: you go get.
1363
Manny: The inbox.
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Jeezy: It's full.
1365
Chairman of Chaos: The next number, ladies, you might want to hold on to this one.
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Chairman of Chaos: 605-475-6964.
1367
Chairman of Chaos: This is from a company called Humor.com, and this is the rejection hotline.
1368
Chairman of Chaos: If a guy asks you for your phone number, and you don't want to give him your real number.
1369
Chairman of Chaos: You can give him this number, and if he calls it later, He's gonna find out.
1370
Chairman of Chaos: It was him, not you.
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Jeezy: Mmm.
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Chairman of Chaos: The last number that they gave, is a very vital number, and I think it's important that everyone holds onto.
1373
Chairman of Chaos: And this number is more for texting than calling.
1374
Chairman of Chaos: is 741741.
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Chairman of Chaos: And this is the texting version of 911. So if you're in a precarious situation where you cannot talk, or you're in fear and not wanting to speak, or hiding, you can use this to text 911 and communicate via that way. They provided 5
1376
Chairman of Chaos: But who am I to stop there, although 5 is the most amazing number.
1377
Jeezy: Here y'all go. Yes, sir, yes sir.
1378
Manny: I'll go.
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Chairman of Chaos: This is 5 and another, because I'm not gonna say another number after this. It's 5 and another.
1380
Chairman of Chaos: And this number… It's probably the most iconic number.
1381
Chairman of Chaos: in all of the history of numbers.
1382
Jeezy: Yay!
1383
Chairman of Chaos: 281-330-8004.
1384
Jeezy: Yay!
1385
Manny: Mike Jones upon the lows, Mike Jones spouts for blow.
1386
Jeezy: There's a whole generation that don't know nothing about.
1387
Chairman of Chaos: I don't know that.
1388
Manny: No idea. No idea.
1389
Jeezy: What a time, what a time.
1390
Chairman of Chaos: The time to be alive.
1391
Chairman of Chaos: That is my spotlight for the week, my good brothers.
1392
Jeezy: Well, before we go home, we will, first of all, say two things. Like, share, follow.
1393
Jeezy: The podcast on all social media platforms.
1394
Jeezy: We greatly appreciate it. Reach one, teach one.
1395
Jeezy: And we all can laugh and either cry together.
1396
Jeezy: So, join the podcast, join the community. We got some really great things that'll be coming out, pretty soon over the course of the next couple of months, so, get your seat in the building, early before it fills up, and .
1397
Manny: Don't be mad when it's sold out.
1398
Jeezy: get to the club. It ain't nothing like getting to the club, bruh, and you can't get in.
1399
Jeezy: So join us, like, share, follow, spread, PTP to all those, that you know in your inner and outer circle.
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Jeezy: Also, too, want to say a huge thanks to all the listeners who tuned in to our special edition episode that we had with the president of the NCAA.
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Jeezy: We had a tremendous time having that opportunity with her, Ms. Tamika Walker-Kelly, that came and blessed us with her knowledge and expertise and the job that she is doing as president. So for those listeners, we thank you for tuning in to that special edition. We hope there will be many, many more in the future of PTP, so if you are
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Jeezy: Someone who's listening that, is in the political landscape in some shape, form, or fashion, both directly or indirectly, and would like to be a guest, hit us up!
1403
Jeezy: Hit us up on our, on our social, email.
1404
Jeezy: And yeah, we'll go from there, but certainly, thank those that listened and tuned in, and I hope that it, it was a tremendous, blessing to you as it was to us to have someone of her, expertise join us on the podcast.
1405
Jeezy: With that being said, brothers, hearts and minds clear, anything else? Any announcements, anything need to be said?
1406
Chairman of Chaos: Just want to re-emphasize the point, if you have not listened to that special edition episode, please do yourself a favor, go back and listen to it. It may even, if not, motivate you to get out there and make a difference in the child's life.
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Chairman of Chaos: It'll actually… it'll get you pointed in the right direction, but yeah, it was a very special episode.
1408
Chairman of Chaos: Looking forward to, anything we do in the future of that same ilk. But, yeah, it was a good time.
1409
Manny: Yeah.
1410
Jeezy: And if you already listened to it.
1411
Jeezy: Listen to it again, and share it with somebody else.
1412
Chairman of Chaos: Yeah, run it back. Yeah. Again. Run it back.
1413
Jeezy: Maybe you missed something that you got a question on, or something that might spark a desire or interest in you. Let's do it again. But yeah, certainly thank you for that. Brother Manny, all hearts and minds clear, brother. You good?
1414
Manny: All good over here.
1415
Jeezy: Alright, well, as always here, we thank you for, lending us your ear for the duration of this episode, and as we always tell you, if don't nobody love you, just know the boys here at the pod, we love you, we love you.
1416
Manny: y'all.
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Jeezy: We thank you for tuning in, and we hope to see you at the next episode. So take care, world.
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Chairman of Chaos: Yay!
1419
Manny: Jeez.