July 9, 2025 • 56 mins
Okay, Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act has passed. What is it, why should I or you care, and why would a lawmaker vote against their own interest? Let's break it down.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Al Zone Media.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Bb L Dunnis bb E Donnie bb Donnie.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Okay, So in the anniversary time of the destruction of
Kendrick or Wow, the destruction of drake Man, I feel
like we're missing the recognition of and the contribution of
(00:52):
Metro Bluemen with BBL Drizzy that played a huge role
in the fall of the Drakester now fall is obviously
a relative term. He still has an enormous amount of fans.
Nokia still is going up Baby Girl in another piece
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of incredibly toned deaf, proving he is not like us.
More evidence. His new record is called the Iceman, as
in your truly not watching what's going on with the culture,
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or you wouldn't use the term never mind. Also, he
posted a picture of himself with his new abs, which
look like a comic book like it was so obviously
that's plastic surgery. It's it was like, sir, you have
(02:01):
square abs. That I am positive is what we say it.
That's a just proudly posting my nigga your abs. You
(02:22):
that's plastic surgery time, oh man, to be that light
skin and oblivious to really not care, it's amazing anyway.
BBL Drizzy I need some respect needs to be put on.
And let the record show that BBL Drizzy played a
(02:44):
very big role in addition to not Like Us and
the subsequent GNX record. Anyway, we're talking about BBL, Donnie though, okay,
and by BBL I mean Big beautiful Bill act. I.
(03:12):
It frustrates me so much that act is at the
end of it. It's like ATM machine like and just
he don't care. You're gonna sell merch. You're gonna sell
merch for Alligrator Alcatraz, you don't care. So we got
to talk about what's in it? Why should you care?
What was the play and what we have to look
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forward to? Y'all ready? Hood politics Prime watch the lighting
drastically change, you know what I'm saying. That's good video
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production because you know I don't color correct this for
you guys that watch it. Anyway. Currently on my signal
chats is the ice and military at MacArthur Park, just
at the park, just black bagging people. A little distracted.
(04:24):
I really want to finish this and get out there. Yeah.
Fourth of July was very strange performed fourth of July.
This is all preamble. I'm gonna get to the bill.
I just really I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Do I have to?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
And it's just Calie going up right now.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We're in this place called place Tavera Street now Alvara
Street is. This was the center of when California became
a state. Well before that, the center of it was
basically like where the city was established. It's right by
the river because that's where the natives lived, because that's
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where the fresh water was. Natives is in the Tungla tribe. Anyway,
Alberta Street was where we would go for field trips
as a kid. Go buy aguayaveda, some incense and get
the best tiquitos at Salito Lindo at the end of
the street. Anyway, performing there with the liber crews Beautiful
(05:32):
Me scare Of from Living Legends you may or may
not know what I'm talking about, and a bunch of
the crew from Beat Rock Music, the Hommie Bam Bamboo,
the person who I've interviewed many times on this show
or twice on this show. That's his label, so you
already know they about they about they about that action.
(05:52):
But towards the end was helicopters. I feel like flying solo.
We could touch them, just least everywhere, because it's right
by the Federal building, the whole the detention center, everybody
being held, and it just it's the worst, the tear
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gas and smoke bombs. I just we don't we can't
catch a break here, man. Still supporting families. I'm gonna
send you all some more links for some families that
can support in the meantime. But yeah, let's get to it.
Bb L, Donnie Big Beautiful Bill Act. Now, first of all,
(07:01):
here was the play. You have a agenda for your administration, right,
These are the what you keep saying, These are the
things that you were promising you were going to pull
off as you become the executive, right, And when you
(07:23):
do that, they're obviously things having to do with the
broad structure of the running of the country. Right. So
it's economics, foreign policy, you know, immigration, all of it,
domestic stuff, infrastructure all of it. It's all those things, right,
(07:48):
and all those things because again, you have to convince
the entire country over a lot of stuff. Right now,
once you start trying to pass laws, pass bills to
enact those things that you said you promised to do,
there should be an understanding that everybody ain't gonna like everything. Right,
(08:10):
since everybody ain't gonna like everything, and because it's fifty
different states, each of those states have their own invested
interests on things that help them or don't help them. Now,
if the system is working correctly, then what happens is
President has this idea, you bring it to the legislative branch.
The legislative branch gets to say, now, wait a minute. Now,
(08:32):
I don't know if I feel this one, because you
know us over here in you know, the Southern States,
like I don't know, say, for example, it's like because
of Doug climate change, It's like, seriously, what we experience
in right now in them po folks in Texas, Look,
the floods are getting more intense.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Doc.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
And I know you don't want to admit that this
is a side effect or this is the effects of
climate change, but it is right like that whatever weather
you got, it's about to the game gets turned up.
That's what our changing climate means. It's not like why
you understand what I mean by that, Like they just
crank the game. So if you're in a flood zone
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a place that normally floods, it ain't gonna flood the
way it used to flood. This flood built different, which
is what's happening in Texas right now. So you like, listen.
I know you got all these rules about like budget
cuts for this, budget cuts this. I know you promised
the American people blah blah blah blah. However, I live
in this state that like we really need, we really
need the bread for our weather services. I know everybody
(09:34):
got jokes about FEMA, but my nigga, I need FEMA
to get out here as quick as possible. So I'm
with all the shit you're doing, all the racist shit
you're doing for immigration, but I'm gonna need you to
keep this FEMA money coming. So you break up the ideas. Right,
you go to a restaurant. This is as metaphorically speaking.
(09:56):
You go to a restaurant and it's like, I don't
like everything on the menu, right, I should be able
to order a bunch of different things. And when I
get the order, like for somebody like me, you know,
when you when you get to my pedigree of age,
you know, yo, your digestice system decides it wants to
quit doing certain things. You feel me, So like for me,
(10:17):
it was like most black people too, is dairy Like
you hit a certain age and that that that dairy,
that that that that milk. Baby, like, you can't just
be you got just be. You can just be eating
that cheese like you used to. Baby, you understand I'm saying. So,
like you want to be able to order something and
be like yo, can you hold the cheese or you
(10:40):
know again like that glue. You can't just be eating
bread like you said, you can't be just can't listen.
You know the way my stomach is set up. You
feel me like I can't just be digesting the stuff
I used to be digesting. And I like that. So
I want to be able to substitute some stuff. Do
you got glue? Do you guys sour dough? Is there
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a gluten free buns? Can I get this without the bread?
Can our substitute the fries for a salad? Right? Make
my experience better? Do you got other alternatives? I don't
want the entire menu, my nigga, right, I like some
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of the stuff, but I don't like the other stuff. Well,
it's the same with laws. A president brings an agenda
and they say this we want to do for energy,
This we want to do for infrastructure? Does we want
to do for military? This is what we want to
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do for again? Immigration, whatever? Right, A bunch of different stuff.
But the play for Trump was like, why are we
complicating things? Just put it in one big bill. Just
make it one bill, so you just vote yes or no.
Like it's I like, I need, I want. I want
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to do all of this. I don't want to break
it up. I don't want to do all of it.
Either yes or no? Can I cook or not? So,
no matter what you think, Republican or Democrat, No matter
what you think, it's either yes or no. So when
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you go to a restaurant, you either like everything on
this menu or you don't eat here. You see how
crazy that sounds. You go to a place and they say, hey, listen, uh,
there's only one item on the menu, and you look
at it, and the one item got seventeen dishes. It's
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a seventeen course meals. Jesus, I have to eat all
seven after order all seventeen of these? Yes or no?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
The hell you mean?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yes or no? You like? I really listen. I heard
your burgers were amazing. I do want the fries. I
do like the salad. I would like a salad maybe,
but I don't want your chicken sandwich, your fish and chips.
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And then why does your green tea got rat poisoning
in it? I'm supposed to just drink the green tea
with rat poisoning? Yes or no? You either like us
or like well, nigga, I like the I wanted a burger.
I like the burger, and then the rest and then
the chef walk out there and say, hey, listen, yes
or no? You either with me or against me. And
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I'm gonna tell you this. If you say no, I'm
a godeo job and get you fired. Do you understand
that that's what's going on? That's what the big beautiful
that was to play with the big beautiful bill. You
take everything you're gonna do, you put it in one bill,
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and you force the people to say yes or no,
and you can't get on the camera and say which.
I would have had so much respect for the bare
minimum of at least a Republican senator, a Republican congress
person just getting up there and saying the truth. They're saying, hey, listen.
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I was with this part. I was with this part.
You had a chance the lady up in Alaska said,
I know that this is going to be not beneficial
for some Americans. Ma'am. I feel like that paragraph isn't
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finished to what you were supposed to say. Therefore, I
don't think the juice is worth the squeeze you're supposed
to say. Therefore, I'm gonna need the executive branch to
take all these things and break them up into separate
bills so that I can vote on them individually, because
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I don't want to order the entire menu. Damn, I
just I want to vote on each individual thing. It's
just it just it's it's logical unless you're consolidating power
and trying to become an autocrat, unless you're extracting authority
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and power from the other two branches of government. This
is the way you consolidate power at the executive branch,
Donnie putting up numbers. So I would have so much
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respect if a lawmaker would have been like listen, even
a Republican was like listen, dude, I'm a conservative, like
I'm not. But if they'd have been like listen, I'm
a conservative Republican. But the thing is, I work for
my state, and the reality is if I vote no
on this, I'm gonna lose my job. This man gonna
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go over there and he gonna figure out how to
primary me. Not only that, follow this, these people be
getting death threats, And I feel like if you would
just say that, like if you was like, listen, dude,
I don't far be it from me to talk trash
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about the American people. I'm just saying, like, even if you,
if you are a conservative, I was just like, yo,
they they be shooting congress people. Homegirl in Minnesota liked you.
I feel like I feel like y'all not act. I
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feel like we're not talking about this enough. Somebody went
to kill a lawmaker. Foe they political views? Nigga, of
course I'm gonna vote yes on the bill, like I
might die right like so, like, I feel like I
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don't understand why y'all not freaking out about that. So
if I was a Republican lawmaker, if I got on
the camera and said, listen, dog, y'all be shooting people
that don't side with Trump. I don't agree with everything
this man said. I mean, I'm like, listen, Like, let
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me put the words in your mouth, Like if you
just say, hey, listen, I love this restaurant, but I
don't love everything on the menu all at the same time,
I got dairy problems. So when I looked at this
one big, beautiful bill act, I was like, well, I
like some of it, but don't I don't like it
at all. But this man has made it impossible for
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me to pick the parts I like. I have to
take all of it or nothing. You ever dated somebody
like that and then just say I wanted to vote
no if they'd have been like I wanted to vote no.
But if I vote no, I could die. At worst,
I could lose my job. At least, what do y'all
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want me to do? Of course I understand I'm working
against you. I who do you want me to do?
You can't do that. You can't do that. You can't
keep it real. You're not allowed to keep it real.
I mean again as the rules of the hood too.
You're not allowed to keep it real. You're supposed to.
You can only say that among the hummies. At least
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give me like a wink wink, you know, blink twice
my nigga, like like, show us some signs. And then
you got the people that like, look, I ain't running again.
So I'm not with none of this. Some of them
dudes is just like riding off into the sunset. Now.
Granted again, can't stress this enough. I really enjoy the
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political gaffest. One of the things that one of the
hosts was talking about is like, it's really not that
easy to let yourself be excommunicated to be a part
of a set. You know, you part of the gang
in them, and then for you to be the one
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person to stand up and be like, have you niggas
lost y'all's mind? It seems like in a movie that's
the most powerful position. But you got to remember, these
people just don't work together, and it's not just like
as simple as like, oh, they don't want to lose
their money, No, nigga. We go to y'all in the
same after school, your kids take the jiu jitsu together.
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Y'all in the same soccer and tennis thing. Y'all go
to church together. Y'all be having dinners together, your little
wine tasted things. Y'all go on vacation. This is your circle.
Let me tell you something. You look a little honey
in the face. Listen, this is me talking to the
people that I actually wrote this show for This is
(20:45):
me talking to y'all who what's outside? You understand what
I'm saying, which means you understand what these politicians is
going through. Which is this. You know when you hit
junior high and niggas start getting put on the hood,
getting put on a set. It's as simple as this,
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and people looking at you like, well, why would you
make that choice for yourself? Like how could you? Gangbang?
It's like, well, these are not only are these my friends,
these these are the only kids I know right. We
live in these apartment complexes. You live in these like duplexus,
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these four block RADII. I don't know you live in
You just live in this on this one street. These
are the kids on the street. I've been playing with
them since head start. We go to school together, We've
had the same babysitter, we was in the same summer.
Because these are the only kids I know, they are
my friends. I have to see them every day. This
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nigga literally live next door. His brother, dated my sister,
my oldest cousin, and his uncle. They play Domino's Like,
this is literally my community. These are literally the only
people I know. From eleven year, You're eleven years old.
Every person you know is involved in this. I mean,
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what do you what do you want me to do?
I can't move, and if I move, I'm moving into
another neighborhood where those kids are the only kids they knew.
It's just just it's not that simple as just being like,
say no to drugs or I'm not going to get
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involved in criminal like nigga, these are the only They're
the only people. Or do you have the fortitude to
all summer, stay inside, never hang out even if I'm
gonna even move this to now, Like these people you
play video games with, they gonna have to be in
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other states. There's no one else. So I say that
to say I understand that you can't just be like
fuck Trump, he crazy. It's your entire this is your
entire network. Having said that, I did it. I enjoyed
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my self. Yeah it was lonely. But what you find
is there's plenty of other kids in your neighborhood that
really don't want to do this that are as Kendrick,
good kid, Mad City. I love you, my nigga. You
will always be my nigga. We always grow up together.
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But I'm just not going I'm not going in the
alleyway with you. The up just is what it is.
A lot of times, Oh Jez, respect that it's gonna
be weird for a little bit. You're gonna get chased
home for a while, right, I feel that. But I
tell you what, they hate their enemies more than they
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mad at you for not getting put on. Let me
tell you why, because I know still when push came
to shove and it was time to get down, the
helmy showed up, you know, and then you learn that
the world is so much bigger than your own neighborhood,
and there are people all over the world. I feel
like one of the greatest gifts that I've received through
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the Lord God Almighty was the fact that I grew
up in a Mexican neighborhood, because that meant that in
a lot of ways I was just overlooked. I would
have had to have forced myself into Belinda Flats, which
was the neighborhood that I hood. That was a you know,
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part of Flodensia. Like I'd had to push myself into that,
you know what I'm saying. They were my homies, but
I would have had to like force myself, Like Mike,
I had a cousin that was from Inglewood. You know,
he was when he came to the Inland Empire when
I was living there for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
He whatever Inglewood said that you know, was a part
of that. He was considering getting down with them. You
know what I'm saying. I could have got down with them,
because that's you know, that's my family. We fell in
lower hip hop. We found other things. I started doing graffiti,
I started skateboarding, and a lot of that was because
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for me personally, I just didn't I just found other things.
But you got to get that first original fortitude to
be like, I'm not just going to fall in line.
That's a rambling preamble as to science behind the big
beautiful bill. But do you follow me? You make it
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a yes or no question. You either take it off
or you don't. And why it passed is because of
what I just explained. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Dude?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
You could die if you're a Republican. Now what's in
the bill next? All right? Since the bill is literally everything,
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you gotta stop and talk about a few things. These
are the highlights. I'm gonna try to get, not fully
into the mangroves of it, but at least a little
more detail than like the opinion shows that just like it,
it's only gonna help the rich. You're gonna lose your medicaid,
Like what the fuck do you mean by that?
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Right?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
So, the first big thing everybody talking about, which they
should talk about, is the twenty seventeen tax cuts that
they are getting extended. And I think if Donnie have
his way cemented forever, your next question should be a
prop what were the twenty seventeen tax cuts? And I'm
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about to tell you now, if you're watching this, I'm
gonna turn to the other screen and read my notes
because it's not like I gotta memorize. So twenty seventeen
tax cuts. The tax breaks were numerous, so there was
a lot of different things that changed. One was like
the amount of individual tax brackets. Right, this is gonna
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get a little like thorny because our tax laws are absurd.
But what we considered low income, middle and high income,
all that good stuff that mark moves depending on what
brackets you in is the percentage of how you taxed,
Which was why Bernie was just like, I don't understand
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why kn'g just be a flat tax. Everybody gets taxed
ten percent whatever number. He's just like, it just seemed
so simple. It don't have to be. I don't understand
all this different stuff anyway. So there was a lowering
of tax rates, more tax brackets, and increasing the standard deductions.
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I'm going to get into what all this stuff means.
A family tax credit, itemized deductions, and personal exemptions were eliminated.
Now here's the thing I am. Since I'm self employed,
I'm an artist, and anybody that does, like you know, gigwork,
you know, if you have to turn in W nine's
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all the time, you understand that, like when you get
a check, they have not taken taxes out right, so
it is on you to show a P and L
or profit and loss or like what you what you've
been spending. And those things are things you can claim
on your taxes. Now, me as an artist or what
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forever I could, I could say public figures, So that
meant like my outfit, my travel my food artists as
I was a touring artist, every flight, every hotel, every everything,
I will report it to my taxes as expenses, right,
And the hope was if you do it right, your
expenses in relation to your income. Will weigh the thing
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out so you don't end up owing the irs money.
Right Now, on top of that, I was a parent,
so as a parent there I have deductibles, the you know, childcare,
just the car lost of what it takes to have
a kid was there was a dollar amount around that.
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When it comes to the taxes. Now, what the tax
thing did is say that, okay, listen, let's just make
a standard deduction. And the standard deduction went from twelve thousand,
seven hundred to twenty four thousand for married couples, right,
or or it doubled, yeah, twelve thousand, yeah for married couples.
For single filers, the standard deduction will increase from six thousand,
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three hundred and fifty to twelve thousand, which is about
seventy percent of the families would choose a standard deduction
rather than itemized deductions, right, and this could rise over
eighty percent if doubled. Right, the personal exemption is eliminated.
This was a deduction of four thousand, fifty dollars per
taxpayer unless it's earned in an estate or trust. I
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know you all already glazing over they saying, is this
it hurt me? Really is, rather than you trying to
hope that your deductions things that you know tax exempt
gifts and you know, donating this stuff hoping that the
things that you present right as, oh man, I donated
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this charity, I donated to this is equal to or
more than twenty four thousand dollars, right because if the
deduction is less than that, it don't make no difference, right,
you don't. You are only getting You are only able
to claim this amount as a deduction. So no matter
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what you made, this amount is it for some people
that's great. What that means is that like if you
just claim that, if you just claim that, then if
you didn't give enough or you don't have enough write
offs to reach that threshold, then it ain't no point
because you ain't gonna get the deduction if you got
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more in that kind of hurts you because I don't
get to claim anything above that. It's a standard, right,
It's twenty four thousand, That's what it is. So if
I was like, like, I make this much, but I
gave that much, it don't matter. You can only claim
twenty four thousand dollars, you know what I'm saying. So
for me personally, it hurt, right, But for some households
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it helped. The child credit tax, right, it doubled from
one thousand dollars to two thousand dollars, fourteen hundred of
which which is refundable. So like whatever you paid on childcare,
you could get fourteen hundred dollars back if you got kids.
That sounds great, right. So there were a handful of
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things that really helped people.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
So the argument that Trump could make is that I
don't understand me some about like this was great, Like,
you guys got to cut in your taxes. However, the
cut in our taxes paled in comparison to the cut
in the taxes for the super wealthy. Right, So when
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you do it, when you do the math, it was
households whose income was in the top percent. Right, we'll
see we'll receive an average tax cut, tax cut of
more than sixty thousand dollars. Right, So in relation to us,
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when everything gets said and done, we're getting more like
a five hundred dollars tax cut when you do all
the math together. I don't want to get into it's
just it's too hard to explain, right, But basically, these
are households that make four hundred thousand dollars or more. Right,
So essentially what you're saying is the wealthy's tax cut
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was triple ours. You following that nobody got a cut,
but their cut was a bigger cut. So they already
don't pay their fair share amount. No, they ain't got
to pay even less. So when the Democrats got on
the stage and was like, this tax cut really ain't
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helping you, it's really helping them. What they need to
do at this moment is to hammer home how that worked.
It's like your big brother who got a job, your
big sister who got a job, walks in with a
big old bag of fries and some in and out
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Chick fil A. I don't know what a burger for
all you Texans. You walk in there with the spicy
siracha ketch up whatever, right, and then he give you
two fries and you're like, oh dope. But then he
give the middle brother a whole burger and fries, and
(34:59):
you like why he get why he get a whole meal?
And your oldest brothers say, I don't understand why you're
not happy about the fries you got. When I walked
in here, you ain't had no fried. Now you got fries?
What you're worried about his fries for you? Like Nigga,
he just ate he just because he's already had a
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meal and you're just gonna give him more. I'm still hungry.
And he like, oh, I always got your hand out, huh,
Like Nigga, what the I'm just saying he don't he
don't need the burgers. I'm the one that need. Like
I thought, I thought you was taking care of us.
(35:45):
It's not taking care of you. Okay, So the twenty
(36:14):
seventeen tax cuts are staying, right, then you also added
the no tax on tips and the senior or overtime
and the senior there are some like senior citizen tax breaks.
Now this is another one of those situations where they like,
I don't understand why you're not happy about this. How
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could you possibly find a complaint for this? Well, the
complaint is if businesses are allowing you to keep your
tips without taxing it, what they will probably do is
pay you less or remove your benefits because you already
(36:57):
you're getting extra, you're getting free money, so why should
I have to you get to keep that. So then
I guess that means I don't have to pay you
as much, right, like, wait, what, well, yeah, why would
I get Why would I give you this amazing benefits
package because the business is like, well, we have to
(37:25):
cover our business taxes. You just get to have free money. Well,
then I'm just gonna pay you less. And it seemed
like you should be it should even out for you,
to which you should say evening out is not what
I needed this for, sir. I don't make enough, so
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this was supposed to help me. This is you having
your two fries again. I don't understand what you're complaining about.
You about to get tax free money. It's one of
the things. So it sounds great, right. It defunds a
lot of the clean energy bills that we were working
out with. Now here's where again I wish Red state
(38:17):
lawmakers would articulate the issue here. Right. I understand that
for some reason, your team just wants to believe that
coal and oil are somehow holier than wind and solar.
But set aside the fact that you're putting rat poison
(38:42):
inside of your iced tea. Set that aside, right, most
like wind farms and solar panel, like big old land farms,
things are things that the government were buying. It was land.
The government was buying from Red States, So like y'all was,
(39:06):
y'all stood to make a lot of money from this.
It's also very complicated because you're buying that land from who.
A lot of that land was like Christine, you know,
state parks. A lot of that land was like farmland,
from families who've had it forever. I understand that it's complicated.
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I'm just saying, if you was a lawmaker, you just
took money out of your own pocket. You just voted
against your own bread. The government was going to pay
you for the use of your land. You can't do
that in California. We ain't got no space, y'all. The
ones with the space, I don't understand you hurting yourself
(39:49):
is what I'm trying to stay here right. Also, the
next one is the medicaid situation. Now what now? The
medicaid situation is a little difficult because they keep saying
that it's going to kick some people off, and it is.
Some people are just gonna genuinely lose their Medicaid. But
what it's essentially saying is this, It's saying, you need
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to prove that you're doing something right, food Stamps, Medicaid,
you need to prove that you're doing something. One of
those ways you prove you doing something is you have
to prove employment right now. If you allwn disability, they
totally understand that you need to prove that you're doing
some sort of community service. If we're just going to
(40:33):
be giving you this money, we need to know that
you're doing this right now. The way that they did that,
it went from like for some of the things, it
went from like quarterly to monthly. You have to monthly
prove that you've been doing community service or that you're employed.
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And you have to somehow do that on I don't
know an app. Is there a website you have to
haul in? How do you show? How do I prove
this now? Listen, most people don't read nor understand websites.
Right now, we talking medicaid. So have you seen the
last time YO Mama tried to post something on Instagram?
(41:18):
Have you ever tried to turn in an invoice or
a receipt to your employer? How difficult that is? Listen,
I'm struggling with iHeart right now. I'm still waiting on
a check from them because the account processing thing they
(41:40):
ain't like the first way I sent the invoice, and
then they looked at the W nine and they told
me the W nine was out of date. And I
looked at it and I was like, it's not out
of date. And I just sent them the same one
and there was like received, thank you will process it,
and I'm like, I did. You were supposed to pay
me this in April, right, I don't know if it's
(42:02):
a bot on the other side of the thing, and
these it's just emails. I don't like it's it is
so difficult. Do you understand the difference between the copay
and a deductible No? Have you ever tried to, like
file a form on the DMV realize the form was wrong?
Now try doing that while you starving. I just it's
(42:23):
like the navigation the sheer paperwork alone, and if you
click D when you were supposed to click C, it
cancels out the whole thing. You ever had that you
put a comment instead of a period. People trying to
you know, when you try to like like say, like
Lord forbid you go by your middle name, but your
(42:45):
driver's license has your first name, and then buy an
airplane ticket, they gonna mess around and tell you this,
ain't you You're like, I know you see on my
driver's license that that's my middle name. I'm just saying
it was like, that's not what the tickets say. You
can't get on this flight. I'm telling you it's gonna
be crazy. Now here's where these people there told on
(43:05):
themselves because out their mouth they saying, no one's losing
their medicaid, We're just getting rid of fraudsters. All you
gotta do is just someone's losing their medicaid. All you
gotta do is just prove it, like just or we're
just saying we're not taking medicaid from anybody. Just show
(43:26):
us proof that you're doing the thing you need to
be doing. But they also have a calculated dollar amount
of how much they saving on medicaid, So which one
is it? So you're counting on people not doing the
task that you just know you made so difficult, so
much so that you've already put that number of savings
(43:54):
in a line item, which means to me, you know
you're taking medicaid, And what you're trying to say is
or I'm not taking it. I just know you're not
gonna do the paperwork. You losing it yourself. And on
(44:14):
the Medicaid thing, here's where it get even most psychoed.
A lot of y'all gonna lose your Medicaid. And I
know you're gonna lose your Medicaid because your medical your
health insurance is a state one that got a cute
little name. It's not called Medicaid, so you don't know
that that the funding for that is actually Medicaid. California
(44:37):
got California Cover. That might be a little different because
it's a whole different funding process, but most states have
their own cute little name for the state ran health
insurance that's Medicaid. Just like last year, people being like,
I don't like a I don't like Obamacare, but I
love the Affordable Care Act. My nigga, they are the
(45:02):
same thing. The Affordable Care Act is where you are
getting your state funded health insurance. Niggas, don't read not
only that you say it don't affect you because you
got private health insurance. Do you know how hospitals work?
(45:25):
Do you know how private insurance works? You know your
premium inside of the costs of that. Why they need
to know where you live. It's relative to how many
people ain't got insurance in your area? What do I
mean by that? Somebody cut their finger off who ain't
got no insurance and they come into the emergency room.
(45:48):
Somebody gotta pay for that. It's seven hundred dollars. They
ain't got the money for it. So whatever shortfall that's there,
so that the hospital can at least recoupmin costs, they
roll that cost into premiums medicaid. Why that's there, it's
(46:10):
for those particular situations, so that offsets some of the costs,
but not all of the costs. Again, the rest of
it gets rolled into your premiums, which means that the
more people that are insured stay with me now, the
lower your private insurance could cost. Therefore, the less people
(46:39):
that are ensured, the more your premium is. Because who
not gonna lose their money? Oh, you know, who ain't
gonna lose their money? And lastly, the EV mandates as
(47:18):
a complete shade to your boy, your boy old musk
who got so frustrated with it, who tried to tell
the politicians this was so funny. Whoever votes for the
big beautiful bill act. I am going to primary primary.
The thing is, nigga, you can't primary one hundred people.
(47:38):
What is you talking about? So he's like, I'll start
a political party. Okay, my nigga, good luck. I just
want you to remind everybody that Autumn companies that we
got from Elon this nigga ain't start but one of them. Man,
(48:05):
But it's law now, So what are you gonna do now?
Budgetary stuff? So Trump do all these tax cuts. He
do all these things, but the tax cuts ain't enough
right to cover the financial shortfall for what he want
to spend, because demand just put forty five billion dollars
(48:28):
into ice, like turn it up the notch on ice,
which is part of why you get to see the
alligator Alcatraz. Right, he turned up the money there, and
in the hopest to do all the shit he want
to do, he increased our credit limit by five trillion dollars. Now,
(48:53):
let me ask you this, what the hell credit card
is gonna look at you and say, sir, your past
your credit line and you haven't paid any of the
interest in the last ten years. So here's what we're
gonna do. We're gonna increase your own credit limit. My nigga,
(49:16):
what this ends all of the fiscal this diffraction, I
thought we was fiscally conservative. I thought we understood that
you don't reward bad behavior. Don't matter because we need
(49:37):
to get them darkies out this country, and we're gonna
spend this money. Now. The find out phase is gonna
happen on the whole other president when somebody got to
pay this bill. But everybody liked the one that spends.
Everybody liked the one that's like bringing the new bags
of clothes in there. Nobody liked the one that says,
my nigga, we don't have this money. Swipe the card.
(50:04):
He's just wiping the card. There it is now lastly,
next and right here, Matt is where I'm asking you
to put that section about to find about We're not
(50:25):
going to see the effects of this until years from now.
The last thing I'd like to add to this is
an encouragement to try to remember today. In this sense,
the hard part about communicating why this was so bad
(50:50):
is that the effects won't be seen until many years
from now, probably a whole other president, unless Trump has
his way and dies in office, which I think he's
going to try to do. But what I mean by
that is, most of the time people don't have foresight
past their nose, which is why it's so hard to
(51:12):
argue with people about climate change, because you can't see
far enough into the future to understand that you ruining
your hope. Why you would build a home inside of
a Florida marsh in the Everglades is apparently you don't
think that a hurricane is coming to knock over your house.
(51:34):
Why you would build in a floodplane, Nigga, It's called
a floodplane because you can't see far enough into the
future or you think you strong enough to withstand it.
The point I'm trying to make is when the effects
of these things happen, when it actually gets implemented and
we are in the find out stage, most people gonna
(51:56):
blame the current president. And the problem is you're gonna
have to go back and the current president is going
to be like, dude, y'all asked for this in twenty
twenty five, I got handed that. When people are saying,
y'all that president's economy was horrible, nigga, that president got
handed this economy. It had to work with what he had. Right. So,
(52:23):
as a conscientious voter, I'm asking you to have a
little foresight and a little patience now when we get
to the find out stage. Another request I'm having, which
where some of the Maga Republicans are in the find
out stage when they realized they favorite taco staying ain't
open no more. Right, these people that own farms is
(52:48):
like a harvest has come in and I ain't got
nobody to pick them. All these almonds, all these radishes,
they're going to die because there's not enough people to
pick them. There's nobody there to clean your hotels. Like
it's not what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (53:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (53:07):
They saying I didn't vote for this. I thought you
was gonna get rid of the criminals. I ain't think
he was getting rid of miss Martinez, just the nice
lady that cleans our house, Like, what is you doing? Well?
I don't know how you didn't know that was coming,
But now that you're there, what we need to be
(53:28):
as those that were like, listen, this man is a
con artist and he's using you, is that when they
hit the find Out stage, be welcoming to be like,
hey bro, I know we'll come on. I know listen,
you go. You got hoodwinked, bamboozled, but you know what here,
come over here Here's what he was promising you. Here's
how what we trying to do is actually that like
(53:50):
we actually are trying to lower yo tech, we actually
are trying to bring ease of life to our experience
as Americans. Right, we need to be welcoming. It's the
point I'm trying to make BBL Donnie the politics, y'all.
(54:53):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
Bb L Dunnis bb E Donnie bb Donnie.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Okay, So in the anniversary time of the destruction of
Kendrick or Wow, the destruction of drake Man, I feel
like we're missing the recognition of and the contribution of
(00:52):
Metro Bluemen with BBL Drizzy that played a huge role
in the fall of the Drakester now fall is obviously
a relative term. He still has an enormous amount of fans.
Nokia still is going up Baby Girl in another piece
(01:17):
of incredibly toned deaf, proving he is not like us.
More evidence. His new record is called the Iceman, as
in your truly not watching what's going on with the culture,
(01:38):
or you wouldn't use the term never mind. Also, he
posted a picture of himself with his new abs, which
look like a comic book like it was so obviously
that's plastic surgery. It's it was like, sir, you have
(02:01):
square abs. That I am positive is what we say it.
That's a just proudly posting my nigga your abs. You
(02:22):
that's plastic surgery time, oh man, to be that light
skin and oblivious to really not care, it's amazing anyway.
BBL Drizzy I need some respect needs to be put on.
And let the record show that BBL Drizzy played a
(02:44):
very big role in addition to not Like Us and
the subsequent GNX record. Anyway, we're talking about BBL, Donnie though, okay,
and by BBL I mean Big beautiful Bill act. I.
(03:12):
It frustrates me so much that act is at the
end of it. It's like ATM machine like and just
he don't care. You're gonna sell merch. You're gonna sell
merch for Alligrator Alcatraz, you don't care. So we got
to talk about what's in it? Why should you care?
What was the play and what we have to look
(03:35):
forward to? Y'all ready? Hood politics Prime watch the lighting
drastically change, you know what I'm saying. That's good video
(03:58):
production because you know I don't color correct this for
you guys that watch it. Anyway. Currently on my signal
chats is the ice and military at MacArthur Park, just
at the park, just black bagging people. A little distracted.
(04:24):
I really want to finish this and get out there. Yeah.
Fourth of July was very strange performed fourth of July.
This is all preamble. I'm gonna get to the bill.
I just really I don't want to talk about it.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Do I have to?
Speaker 1 (04:41):
And it's just Calie going up right now.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Man.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
We're in this place called place Tavera Street now Alvara
Street is. This was the center of when California became
a state. Well before that, the center of it was
basically like where the city was established. It's right by
the river because that's where the natives lived, because that's
(05:07):
where the fresh water was. Natives is in the Tungla tribe. Anyway,
Alberta Street was where we would go for field trips
as a kid. Go buy aguayaveda, some incense and get
the best tiquitos at Salito Lindo at the end of
the street. Anyway, performing there with the liber crews Beautiful
(05:32):
Me scare Of from Living Legends you may or may
not know what I'm talking about, and a bunch of
the crew from Beat Rock Music, the Hommie Bam Bamboo,
the person who I've interviewed many times on this show
or twice on this show. That's his label, so you
already know they about they about they about that action.
(05:52):
But towards the end was helicopters. I feel like flying solo.
We could touch them, just least everywhere, because it's right
by the Federal building, the whole the detention center, everybody
being held, and it just it's the worst, the tear
(06:14):
gas and smoke bombs. I just we don't we can't
catch a break here, man. Still supporting families. I'm gonna
send you all some more links for some families that
can support in the meantime. But yeah, let's get to it.
Bb L, Donnie Big Beautiful Bill Act. Now, first of all,
(07:01):
here was the play. You have a agenda for your administration, right,
These are the what you keep saying, These are the
things that you were promising you were going to pull
off as you become the executive, right, And when you
(07:23):
do that, they're obviously things having to do with the
broad structure of the running of the country. Right. So
it's economics, foreign policy, you know, immigration, all of it,
domestic stuff, infrastructure all of it. It's all those things, right,
(07:48):
and all those things because again, you have to convince
the entire country over a lot of stuff. Right now,
once you start trying to pass laws, pass bills to
enact those things that you said you promised to do,
there should be an understanding that everybody ain't gonna like everything. Right,
(08:10):
since everybody ain't gonna like everything, and because it's fifty
different states, each of those states have their own invested
interests on things that help them or don't help them. Now,
if the system is working correctly, then what happens is
President has this idea, you bring it to the legislative branch.
The legislative branch gets to say, now, wait a minute. Now,
(08:32):
I don't know if I feel this one, because you
know us over here in you know, the Southern States,
like I don't know, say, for example, it's like because
of Doug climate change, It's like, seriously, what we experience
in right now in them po folks in Texas, Look,
the floods are getting more intense.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Doc.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
And I know you don't want to admit that this
is a side effect or this is the effects of
climate change, but it is right like that whatever weather
you got, it's about to the game gets turned up.
That's what our changing climate means. It's not like why
you understand what I mean by that, Like they just
crank the game. So if you're in a flood zone
(09:12):
a place that normally floods, it ain't gonna flood the
way it used to flood. This flood built different, which
is what's happening in Texas right now. So you like, listen.
I know you got all these rules about like budget
cuts for this, budget cuts this. I know you promised
the American people blah blah blah blah. However, I live
in this state that like we really need, we really
need the bread for our weather services. I know everybody
(09:34):
got jokes about FEMA, but my nigga, I need FEMA
to get out here as quick as possible. So I'm
with all the shit you're doing, all the racist shit
you're doing for immigration, but I'm gonna need you to
keep this FEMA money coming. So you break up the ideas. Right,
you go to a restaurant. This is as metaphorically speaking.
(09:56):
You go to a restaurant and it's like, I don't
like everything on the menu, right, I should be able
to order a bunch of different things. And when I
get the order, like for somebody like me, you know,
when you when you get to my pedigree of age,
you know, yo, your digestice system decides it wants to
quit doing certain things. You feel me, So like for me,
(10:17):
it was like most black people too, is dairy Like
you hit a certain age and that that that dairy,
that that that that milk. Baby, like, you can't just
be you got just be. You can just be eating
that cheese like you used to. Baby, you understand I'm saying. So,
like you want to be able to order something and
be like yo, can you hold the cheese or you
(10:40):
know again like that glue. You can't just be eating
bread like you said, you can't be just can't listen.
You know the way my stomach is set up. You
feel me like I can't just be digesting the stuff
I used to be digesting. And I like that. So
I want to be able to substitute some stuff. Do
you got glue? Do you guys sour dough? Is there
(11:01):
a gluten free buns? Can I get this without the bread?
Can our substitute the fries for a salad? Right? Make
my experience better? Do you got other alternatives? I don't
want the entire menu, my nigga, right, I like some
(11:21):
of the stuff, but I don't like the other stuff. Well,
it's the same with laws. A president brings an agenda
and they say this we want to do for energy,
This we want to do for infrastructure? Does we want
to do for military? This is what we want to
(11:42):
do for again? Immigration, whatever? Right, A bunch of different stuff.
But the play for Trump was like, why are we
complicating things? Just put it in one big bill. Just
make it one bill, so you just vote yes or no.
Like it's I like, I need, I want. I want
(12:02):
to do all of this. I don't want to break
it up. I don't want to do all of it.
Either yes or no? Can I cook or not? So,
no matter what you think, Republican or Democrat, No matter
what you think, it's either yes or no. So when
(12:24):
you go to a restaurant, you either like everything on
this menu or you don't eat here. You see how
crazy that sounds. You go to a place and they say, hey, listen, uh,
there's only one item on the menu, and you look
at it, and the one item got seventeen dishes. It's
(12:45):
a seventeen course meals. Jesus, I have to eat all
seven after order all seventeen of these? Yes or no?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
The hell you mean?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Yes or no? You like? I really listen. I heard
your burgers were amazing. I do want the fries. I
do like the salad. I would like a salad maybe,
but I don't want your chicken sandwich, your fish and chips.
(13:17):
And then why does your green tea got rat poisoning
in it? I'm supposed to just drink the green tea
with rat poisoning? Yes or no? You either like us
or like well, nigga, I like the I wanted a burger.
I like the burger, and then the rest and then
the chef walk out there and say, hey, listen, yes
or no? You either with me or against me. And
(13:41):
I'm gonna tell you this. If you say no, I'm
a godeo job and get you fired. Do you understand
that that's what's going on? That's what the big beautiful
that was to play with the big beautiful bill. You
take everything you're gonna do, you put it in one bill,
(14:02):
and you force the people to say yes or no,
and you can't get on the camera and say which.
I would have had so much respect for the bare
minimum of at least a Republican senator, a Republican congress
person just getting up there and saying the truth. They're saying, hey, listen.
(14:23):
I was with this part. I was with this part.
You had a chance the lady up in Alaska said,
I know that this is going to be not beneficial
for some Americans. Ma'am. I feel like that paragraph isn't
(14:45):
finished to what you were supposed to say. Therefore, I
don't think the juice is worth the squeeze you're supposed
to say. Therefore, I'm gonna need the executive branch to
take all these things and break them up into separate
bills so that I can vote on them individually, because
(15:08):
I don't want to order the entire menu. Damn, I
just I want to vote on each individual thing. It's
just it just it's it's logical unless you're consolidating power
and trying to become an autocrat, unless you're extracting authority
(15:33):
and power from the other two branches of government. This
is the way you consolidate power at the executive branch,
Donnie putting up numbers. So I would have so much
(16:21):
respect if a lawmaker would have been like listen, even
a Republican was like listen, dude, I'm a conservative, like
I'm not. But if they'd have been like listen, I'm
a conservative Republican. But the thing is, I work for
my state, and the reality is if I vote no
on this, I'm gonna lose my job. This man gonna
(16:44):
go over there and he gonna figure out how to
primary me. Not only that, follow this, these people be
getting death threats, And I feel like if you would
just say that, like if you was like, listen, dude,
I don't far be it from me to talk trash
(17:04):
about the American people. I'm just saying, like, even if you,
if you are a conservative, I was just like, yo,
they they be shooting congress people. Homegirl in Minnesota liked you.
I feel like I feel like y'all not act. I
(17:27):
feel like we're not talking about this enough. Somebody went
to kill a lawmaker. Foe they political views? Nigga, of
course I'm gonna vote yes on the bill, like I
might die right like so, like, I feel like I
(17:47):
don't understand why y'all not freaking out about that. So
if I was a Republican lawmaker, if I got on
the camera and said, listen, dog, y'all be shooting people
that don't side with Trump. I don't agree with everything
this man said. I mean, I'm like, listen, Like, let
(18:08):
me put the words in your mouth, Like if you
just say, hey, listen, I love this restaurant, but I
don't love everything on the menu all at the same time,
I got dairy problems. So when I looked at this
one big, beautiful bill act, I was like, well, I
like some of it, but don't I don't like it
at all. But this man has made it impossible for
(18:29):
me to pick the parts I like. I have to
take all of it or nothing. You ever dated somebody
like that and then just say I wanted to vote
no if they'd have been like I wanted to vote no.
But if I vote no, I could die. At worst,
I could lose my job. At least, what do y'all
(18:52):
want me to do? Of course I understand I'm working
against you. I who do you want me to do?
You can't do that. You can't do that. You can't
keep it real. You're not allowed to keep it real.
I mean again as the rules of the hood too.
You're not allowed to keep it real. You're supposed to.
You can only say that among the hummies. At least
(19:16):
give me like a wink wink, you know, blink twice
my nigga, like like, show us some signs. And then
you got the people that like, look, I ain't running again.
So I'm not with none of this. Some of them
dudes is just like riding off into the sunset. Now.
Granted again, can't stress this enough. I really enjoy the
(19:37):
political gaffest. One of the things that one of the
hosts was talking about is like, it's really not that
easy to let yourself be excommunicated to be a part
of a set. You know, you part of the gang
in them, and then for you to be the one
(19:58):
person to stand up and be like, have you niggas
lost y'all's mind? It seems like in a movie that's
the most powerful position. But you got to remember, these
people just don't work together, and it's not just like
as simple as like, oh, they don't want to lose
their money, No, nigga. We go to y'all in the
same after school, your kids take the jiu jitsu together.
(20:22):
Y'all in the same soccer and tennis thing. Y'all go
to church together. Y'all be having dinners together, your little
wine tasted things. Y'all go on vacation. This is your circle.
Let me tell you something. You look a little honey
in the face. Listen, this is me talking to the
people that I actually wrote this show for This is
(20:45):
me talking to y'all who what's outside? You understand what
I'm saying, which means you understand what these politicians is
going through. Which is this. You know when you hit
junior high and niggas start getting put on the hood,
getting put on a set. It's as simple as this,
(21:09):
and people looking at you like, well, why would you
make that choice for yourself? Like how could you? Gangbang?
It's like, well, these are not only are these my friends,
these these are the only kids I know right. We
live in these apartment complexes. You live in these like duplexus,
(21:29):
these four block RADII. I don't know you live in
You just live in this on this one street. These
are the kids on the street. I've been playing with
them since head start. We go to school together, We've
had the same babysitter, we was in the same summer.
Because these are the only kids I know, they are
my friends. I have to see them every day. This
(21:55):
nigga literally live next door. His brother, dated my sister,
my oldest cousin, and his uncle. They play Domino's Like,
this is literally my community. These are literally the only
people I know. From eleven year, You're eleven years old.
Every person you know is involved in this. I mean,
(22:20):
what do you what do you want me to do?
I can't move, and if I move, I'm moving into
another neighborhood where those kids are the only kids they knew.
It's just just it's not that simple as just being like,
say no to drugs or I'm not going to get
(22:41):
involved in criminal like nigga, these are the only They're
the only people. Or do you have the fortitude to
all summer, stay inside, never hang out even if I'm
gonna even move this to now, Like these people you
play video games with, they gonna have to be in
(23:01):
other states. There's no one else. So I say that
to say I understand that you can't just be like
fuck Trump, he crazy. It's your entire this is your
entire network. Having said that, I did it. I enjoyed
(23:32):
my self. Yeah it was lonely. But what you find
is there's plenty of other kids in your neighborhood that
really don't want to do this that are as Kendrick,
good kid, Mad City. I love you, my nigga. You
will always be my nigga. We always grow up together.
(23:53):
But I'm just not going I'm not going in the
alleyway with you. The up just is what it is.
A lot of times, Oh Jez, respect that it's gonna
be weird for a little bit. You're gonna get chased
home for a while, right, I feel that. But I
tell you what, they hate their enemies more than they
(24:14):
mad at you for not getting put on. Let me
tell you why, because I know still when push came
to shove and it was time to get down, the
helmy showed up, you know, and then you learn that
the world is so much bigger than your own neighborhood,
and there are people all over the world. I feel
like one of the greatest gifts that I've received through
(24:41):
the Lord God Almighty was the fact that I grew
up in a Mexican neighborhood, because that meant that in
a lot of ways I was just overlooked. I would
have had to have forced myself into Belinda Flats, which
was the neighborhood that I hood. That was a you know,
(25:02):
part of Flodensia. Like I'd had to push myself into that,
you know what I'm saying. They were my homies, but
I would have had to like force myself, Like Mike,
I had a cousin that was from Inglewood. You know,
he was when he came to the Inland Empire when
I was living there for a little bit.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
You know.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
He whatever Inglewood said that you know, was a part
of that. He was considering getting down with them. You
know what I'm saying. I could have got down with them,
because that's you know, that's my family. We fell in
lower hip hop. We found other things. I started doing graffiti,
I started skateboarding, and a lot of that was because
(25:42):
for me personally, I just didn't I just found other things.
But you got to get that first original fortitude to
be like, I'm not just going to fall in line.
That's a rambling preamble as to science behind the big
beautiful bill. But do you follow me? You make it
(26:04):
a yes or no question. You either take it off
or you don't. And why it passed is because of
what I just explained. What are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (26:12):
Dude?
Speaker 1 (26:13):
You could die if you're a Republican. Now what's in
the bill next? All right? Since the bill is literally everything,
(26:43):
you gotta stop and talk about a few things. These
are the highlights. I'm gonna try to get, not fully
into the mangroves of it, but at least a little
more detail than like the opinion shows that just like it,
it's only gonna help the rich. You're gonna lose your medicaid,
Like what the fuck do you mean by that?
Speaker 2 (27:05):
Right?
Speaker 1 (27:05):
So, the first big thing everybody talking about, which they
should talk about, is the twenty seventeen tax cuts that
they are getting extended. And I think if Donnie have
his way cemented forever, your next question should be a
prop what were the twenty seventeen tax cuts? And I'm
(27:27):
about to tell you now, if you're watching this, I'm
gonna turn to the other screen and read my notes
because it's not like I gotta memorize. So twenty seventeen
tax cuts. The tax breaks were numerous, so there was
a lot of different things that changed. One was like
the amount of individual tax brackets. Right, this is gonna
(27:48):
get a little like thorny because our tax laws are absurd.
But what we considered low income, middle and high income,
all that good stuff that mark moves depending on what
brackets you in is the percentage of how you taxed,
Which was why Bernie was just like, I don't understand
(28:12):
why kn'g just be a flat tax. Everybody gets taxed
ten percent whatever number. He's just like, it just seemed
so simple. It don't have to be. I don't understand
all this different stuff anyway. So there was a lowering
of tax rates, more tax brackets, and increasing the standard deductions.
(28:37):
I'm going to get into what all this stuff means.
A family tax credit, itemized deductions, and personal exemptions were eliminated.
Now here's the thing I am. Since I'm self employed,
I'm an artist, and anybody that does, like you know, gigwork,
you know, if you have to turn in W nine's
(28:58):
all the time, you understand that, like when you get
a check, they have not taken taxes out right, so
it is on you to show a P and L
or profit and loss or like what you what you've
been spending. And those things are things you can claim
on your taxes. Now, me as an artist or what
(29:19):
forever I could, I could say public figures, So that
meant like my outfit, my travel my food artists as
I was a touring artist, every flight, every hotel, every everything,
I will report it to my taxes as expenses, right,
And the hope was if you do it right, your
expenses in relation to your income. Will weigh the thing
(29:42):
out so you don't end up owing the irs money.
Right Now, on top of that, I was a parent,
so as a parent there I have deductibles, the you know, childcare,
just the car lost of what it takes to have
a kid was there was a dollar amount around that.
(30:06):
When it comes to the taxes. Now, what the tax
thing did is say that, okay, listen, let's just make
a standard deduction. And the standard deduction went from twelve thousand,
seven hundred to twenty four thousand for married couples, right,
or or it doubled, yeah, twelve thousand, yeah for married couples.
For single filers, the standard deduction will increase from six thousand,
(30:30):
three hundred and fifty to twelve thousand, which is about
seventy percent of the families would choose a standard deduction
rather than itemized deductions, right, and this could rise over
eighty percent if doubled. Right, the personal exemption is eliminated.
This was a deduction of four thousand, fifty dollars per
taxpayer unless it's earned in an estate or trust. I
(30:55):
know you all already glazing over they saying, is this
it hurt me? Really is, rather than you trying to
hope that your deductions things that you know tax exempt
gifts and you know, donating this stuff hoping that the
things that you present right as, oh man, I donated
(31:18):
this charity, I donated to this is equal to or
more than twenty four thousand dollars, right because if the
deduction is less than that, it don't make no difference, right,
you don't. You are only getting You are only able
to claim this amount as a deduction. So no matter
(31:38):
what you made, this amount is it for some people
that's great. What that means is that like if you
just claim that, if you just claim that, then if
you didn't give enough or you don't have enough write
offs to reach that threshold, then it ain't no point
because you ain't gonna get the deduction if you got
(31:59):
more in that kind of hurts you because I don't
get to claim anything above that. It's a standard, right,
It's twenty four thousand, That's what it is. So if
I was like, like, I make this much, but I
gave that much, it don't matter. You can only claim
twenty four thousand dollars, you know what I'm saying. So
for me personally, it hurt, right, But for some households
(32:20):
it helped. The child credit tax, right, it doubled from
one thousand dollars to two thousand dollars, fourteen hundred of
which which is refundable. So like whatever you paid on childcare,
you could get fourteen hundred dollars back if you got kids.
That sounds great, right. So there were a handful of
(32:43):
things that really helped people.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Right.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
So the argument that Trump could make is that I
don't understand me some about like this was great, Like,
you guys got to cut in your taxes. However, the
cut in our taxes paled in comparison to the cut
in the taxes for the super wealthy. Right, So when
(33:12):
you do it, when you do the math, it was
households whose income was in the top percent. Right, we'll
see we'll receive an average tax cut, tax cut of
more than sixty thousand dollars. Right, So in relation to us,
(33:32):
when everything gets said and done, we're getting more like
a five hundred dollars tax cut when you do all
the math together. I don't want to get into it's
just it's too hard to explain, right, But basically, these
are households that make four hundred thousand dollars or more. Right,
So essentially what you're saying is the wealthy's tax cut
(33:55):
was triple ours. You following that nobody got a cut,
but their cut was a bigger cut. So they already
don't pay their fair share amount. No, they ain't got
to pay even less. So when the Democrats got on
the stage and was like, this tax cut really ain't
(34:16):
helping you, it's really helping them. What they need to
do at this moment is to hammer home how that worked.
It's like your big brother who got a job, your
big sister who got a job, walks in with a
big old bag of fries and some in and out
(34:38):
Chick fil A. I don't know what a burger for
all you Texans. You walk in there with the spicy
siracha ketch up whatever, right, and then he give you
two fries and you're like, oh dope. But then he
give the middle brother a whole burger and fries, and
(34:59):
you like why he get why he get a whole meal?
And your oldest brothers say, I don't understand why you're
not happy about the fries you got. When I walked
in here, you ain't had no fried. Now you got fries?
What you're worried about his fries for you? Like Nigga,
he just ate he just because he's already had a
(35:21):
meal and you're just gonna give him more. I'm still hungry.
And he like, oh, I always got your hand out, huh,
Like Nigga, what the I'm just saying he don't he
don't need the burgers. I'm the one that need. Like
I thought, I thought you was taking care of us.
(35:45):
It's not taking care of you. Okay, So the twenty
(36:14):
seventeen tax cuts are staying, right, then you also added
the no tax on tips and the senior or overtime
and the senior there are some like senior citizen tax breaks.
Now this is another one of those situations where they like,
I don't understand why you're not happy about this. How
(36:35):
could you possibly find a complaint for this? Well, the
complaint is if businesses are allowing you to keep your
tips without taxing it, what they will probably do is
pay you less or remove your benefits because you already
(36:57):
you're getting extra, you're getting free money, so why should
I have to you get to keep that. So then
I guess that means I don't have to pay you
as much, right, like, wait, what, well, yeah, why would
I get Why would I give you this amazing benefits
package because the business is like, well, we have to
(37:25):
cover our business taxes. You just get to have free money. Well,
then I'm just gonna pay you less. And it seemed
like you should be it should even out for you,
to which you should say evening out is not what
I needed this for, sir. I don't make enough, so
(37:50):
this was supposed to help me. This is you having
your two fries again. I don't understand what you're complaining about.
You about to get tax free money. It's one of
the things. So it sounds great, right. It defunds a
lot of the clean energy bills that we were working
out with. Now here's where again I wish Red state
(38:17):
lawmakers would articulate the issue here. Right. I understand that
for some reason, your team just wants to believe that
coal and oil are somehow holier than wind and solar.
But set aside the fact that you're putting rat poison
(38:42):
inside of your iced tea. Set that aside, right, most
like wind farms and solar panel, like big old land farms,
things are things that the government were buying. It was land.
The government was buying from Red States, So like y'all was,
(39:06):
y'all stood to make a lot of money from this.
It's also very complicated because you're buying that land from who.
A lot of that land was like Christine, you know,
state parks. A lot of that land was like farmland,
from families who've had it forever. I understand that it's complicated.
(39:27):
I'm just saying, if you was a lawmaker, you just
took money out of your own pocket. You just voted
against your own bread. The government was going to pay
you for the use of your land. You can't do
that in California. We ain't got no space, y'all. The
ones with the space, I don't understand you hurting yourself
(39:49):
is what I'm trying to stay here right. Also, the
next one is the medicaid situation. Now what now? The
medicaid situation is a little difficult because they keep saying
that it's going to kick some people off, and it is.
Some people are just gonna genuinely lose their Medicaid. But
what it's essentially saying is this, It's saying, you need
(40:13):
to prove that you're doing something right, food Stamps, Medicaid,
you need to prove that you're doing something. One of
those ways you prove you doing something is you have
to prove employment right now. If you allwn disability, they
totally understand that you need to prove that you're doing
some sort of community service. If we're just going to
(40:33):
be giving you this money, we need to know that
you're doing this right now. The way that they did that,
it went from like for some of the things, it
went from like quarterly to monthly. You have to monthly
prove that you've been doing community service or that you're employed.
(40:54):
And you have to somehow do that on I don't
know an app. Is there a website you have to
haul in? How do you show? How do I prove
this now? Listen, most people don't read nor understand websites.
Right now, we talking medicaid. So have you seen the
last time YO Mama tried to post something on Instagram?
(41:18):
Have you ever tried to turn in an invoice or
a receipt to your employer? How difficult that is? Listen,
I'm struggling with iHeart right now. I'm still waiting on
a check from them because the account processing thing they
(41:40):
ain't like the first way I sent the invoice, and
then they looked at the W nine and they told
me the W nine was out of date. And I
looked at it and I was like, it's not out
of date. And I just sent them the same one
and there was like received, thank you will process it,
and I'm like, I did. You were supposed to pay
me this in April, right, I don't know if it's
(42:02):
a bot on the other side of the thing, and
these it's just emails. I don't like it's it is
so difficult. Do you understand the difference between the copay
and a deductible No? Have you ever tried to, like
file a form on the DMV realize the form was wrong?
Now try doing that while you starving. I just it's
(42:23):
like the navigation the sheer paperwork alone, and if you
click D when you were supposed to click C, it
cancels out the whole thing. You ever had that you
put a comment instead of a period. People trying to
you know, when you try to like like say, like
Lord forbid you go by your middle name, but your
(42:45):
driver's license has your first name, and then buy an
airplane ticket, they gonna mess around and tell you this,
ain't you You're like, I know you see on my
driver's license that that's my middle name. I'm just saying
it was like, that's not what the tickets say. You
can't get on this flight. I'm telling you it's gonna
be crazy. Now here's where these people there told on
(43:05):
themselves because out their mouth they saying, no one's losing
their medicaid, We're just getting rid of fraudsters. All you
gotta do is just someone's losing their medicaid. All you
gotta do is just prove it, like just or we're
just saying we're not taking medicaid from anybody. Just show
(43:26):
us proof that you're doing the thing you need to
be doing. But they also have a calculated dollar amount
of how much they saving on medicaid, So which one
is it? So you're counting on people not doing the
task that you just know you made so difficult, so
much so that you've already put that number of savings
(43:54):
in a line item, which means to me, you know
you're taking medicaid, And what you're trying to say is
or I'm not taking it. I just know you're not
gonna do the paperwork. You losing it yourself. And on
(44:14):
the Medicaid thing, here's where it get even most psychoed.
A lot of y'all gonna lose your Medicaid. And I
know you're gonna lose your Medicaid because your medical your
health insurance is a state one that got a cute
little name. It's not called Medicaid, so you don't know
that that the funding for that is actually Medicaid. California
(44:37):
got California Cover. That might be a little different because
it's a whole different funding process, but most states have
their own cute little name for the state ran health
insurance that's Medicaid. Just like last year, people being like,
I don't like a I don't like Obamacare, but I
love the Affordable Care Act. My nigga, they are the
(45:02):
same thing. The Affordable Care Act is where you are
getting your state funded health insurance. Niggas, don't read not
only that you say it don't affect you because you
got private health insurance. Do you know how hospitals work?
(45:25):
Do you know how private insurance works? You know your
premium inside of the costs of that. Why they need
to know where you live. It's relative to how many
people ain't got insurance in your area? What do I
mean by that? Somebody cut their finger off who ain't
got no insurance and they come into the emergency room.
(45:48):
Somebody gotta pay for that. It's seven hundred dollars. They
ain't got the money for it. So whatever shortfall that's there,
so that the hospital can at least recoupmin costs, they
roll that cost into premiums medicaid. Why that's there, it's
(46:10):
for those particular situations, so that offsets some of the costs,
but not all of the costs. Again, the rest of
it gets rolled into your premiums, which means that the
more people that are insured stay with me now, the
lower your private insurance could cost. Therefore, the less people
(46:39):
that are ensured, the more your premium is. Because who
not gonna lose their money? Oh, you know, who ain't
gonna lose their money? And lastly, the EV mandates as
(47:18):
a complete shade to your boy, your boy old musk
who got so frustrated with it, who tried to tell
the politicians this was so funny. Whoever votes for the
big beautiful bill act. I am going to primary primary.
The thing is, nigga, you can't primary one hundred people.
(47:38):
What is you talking about? So he's like, I'll start
a political party. Okay, my nigga, good luck. I just
want you to remind everybody that Autumn companies that we
got from Elon this nigga ain't start but one of them. Man,
(48:05):
But it's law now, So what are you gonna do now?
Budgetary stuff? So Trump do all these tax cuts. He
do all these things, but the tax cuts ain't enough
right to cover the financial shortfall for what he want
to spend, because demand just put forty five billion dollars
(48:28):
into ice, like turn it up the notch on ice,
which is part of why you get to see the
alligator Alcatraz. Right, he turned up the money there, and
in the hopest to do all the shit he want
to do, he increased our credit limit by five trillion dollars. Now,
(48:53):
let me ask you this, what the hell credit card
is gonna look at you and say, sir, your past
your credit line and you haven't paid any of the
interest in the last ten years. So here's what we're
gonna do. We're gonna increase your own credit limit. My nigga,
(49:16):
what this ends all of the fiscal this diffraction, I
thought we was fiscally conservative. I thought we understood that
you don't reward bad behavior. Don't matter because we need
(49:37):
to get them darkies out this country, and we're gonna
spend this money. Now. The find out phase is gonna
happen on the whole other president when somebody got to
pay this bill. But everybody liked the one that spends.
Everybody liked the one that's like bringing the new bags
of clothes in there. Nobody liked the one that says,
my nigga, we don't have this money. Swipe the card.
(50:04):
He's just wiping the card. There it is now lastly,
next and right here, Matt is where I'm asking you
to put that section about to find about We're not
(50:25):
going to see the effects of this until years from now.
The last thing I'd like to add to this is
an encouragement to try to remember today. In this sense,
the hard part about communicating why this was so bad
(50:50):
is that the effects won't be seen until many years
from now, probably a whole other president, unless Trump has
his way and dies in office, which I think he's
going to try to do. But what I mean by
that is, most of the time people don't have foresight
past their nose, which is why it's so hard to
(51:12):
argue with people about climate change, because you can't see
far enough into the future to understand that you ruining
your hope. Why you would build a home inside of
a Florida marsh in the Everglades is apparently you don't
think that a hurricane is coming to knock over your house.
(51:34):
Why you would build in a floodplane, Nigga, It's called
a floodplane because you can't see far enough into the
future or you think you strong enough to withstand it.
The point I'm trying to make is when the effects
of these things happen, when it actually gets implemented and
we are in the find out stage, most people gonna
(51:56):
blame the current president. And the problem is you're gonna
have to go back and the current president is going
to be like, dude, y'all asked for this in twenty
twenty five, I got handed that. When people are saying,
y'all that president's economy was horrible, nigga, that president got
handed this economy. It had to work with what he had. Right. So,
(52:23):
as a conscientious voter, I'm asking you to have a
little foresight and a little patience now when we get
to the find out stage. Another request I'm having, which
where some of the Maga Republicans are in the find
out stage when they realized they favorite taco staying ain't
open no more. Right, these people that own farms is
(52:48):
like a harvest has come in and I ain't got
nobody to pick them. All these almonds, all these radishes,
they're going to die because there's not enough people to
pick them. There's nobody there to clean your hotels. Like
it's not what are you gonna do?
Speaker 2 (53:07):
Right?
Speaker 1 (53:07):
They saying I didn't vote for this. I thought you
was gonna get rid of the criminals. I ain't think
he was getting rid of miss Martinez, just the nice
lady that cleans our house, Like, what is you doing? Well?
I don't know how you didn't know that was coming,
But now that you're there, what we need to be
(53:28):
as those that were like, listen, this man is a
con artist and he's using you, is that when they
hit the find Out stage, be welcoming to be like,
hey bro, I know we'll come on. I know listen,
you go. You got hoodwinked, bamboozled, but you know what here,
come over here Here's what he was promising you. Here's
how what we trying to do is actually that like
(53:50):
we actually are trying to lower yo tech, we actually
are trying to bring ease of life to our experience
as Americans. Right, we need to be welcoming. It's the
point I'm trying to make BBL Donnie the politics, y'all.
(54:53):
All right now, don't you hit stop on this pod.
You better listen to these credits. I need you to
finish this thing so I can get the download numbers. Okay,
so don't stop it yet, but listen. This was recorded
in East Lost Boyle Heights by your boy Propaganda. Tap
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(55:14):
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(55:56):
music and scoring is also by the one and overly Mattowsowski.
Still killing the beats softly, so listen. Don't let nobody
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These people is not smarter than you. We'll see y'all
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