LEMON DROP | 'People Are Getting Screwed In This Economy!'
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Yeah, so the big story we're going to talk about is Olivia Newtsey.
No, please don't make me talk about Olivia Newtsey.
I'm joking.
Everything I've learned about that story is against my will.
I'm totally joking. Cause I, some people are like obsessed with it, but usually, but the people who are obsessed with it are just like people who are in the media business. Right. Everybody else is like, Ooh, yeah. So, but seriously, let's talk about, um, what is going on with, but let's go to the first, the breaking news. There's a lot of stuff, but just moments ago, Donald Trump announced that he is going to pardon. It's a shock announcement. Henry Cuellar, which is a democratic representative, um, Trump has he let's see. What was it? What was it like fraud or something?
Why is Trump’s pardon of Henry Cuellar surprising and what might it signal?
He took he took a three a six hundred thousand dollar bribe from oil and gas in exchange for influencing U.S.
foreign policy in favor of Azerbaijan and a Mexican bank. Why is why is Donald Trump pardoning a Democrat? What's going on?
I, it's hard to say. I mean, I think with Trump, if you spend enough money and get enough people in the room, like he'll pardon you. Um, so my assumption is that it may be that there's some kind of political deal. The speculation this morning was that Cuellar would either announce that he wasn't going to run for reelection to free up that seat for Republicans. Cause it's a very Republican seat or switch parties and become a Republican. But this morning Cuellar filed, filed for reelection as a Democrat. Senator, he's not doing any of that. So I don't know what they got, but they got something. I mean, Trump doesn't do anything for free.
Yeah, I mean, but he is like a Democrat Democrat. You know what I mean? He's not like on the fence. He's not like, you know, one of those people who's somewhere in the middle. Maybe, is he a conservative Democrat?
Yeah, he's a conservative Democrat. I think his district is like R plus 8 or R plus 10 or something like that. Somebody in the comments might know it better than me. I worked for Cuellar a million years ago and just did like a little bit of work on one of his re-election campaigns, but... I mean, this is one of the problems is that for Donald Trump, like, corruption knows no party lines. Like, he doesn't care about that. I mean, he's part of Rob Lagojevich, even though he's a Democrat. Sounds like he might part in Menendez at some point. So it just doesn't seem like he cares. Like, Trump, I think, is probably more than anything sticking it to Biden here because it was the Biden DOJ that took on Cuellar.
Oh, so this is just about getting back at Biden. It might be. What's his beef with Biden? Like, what did Biden ever do to him? He beat him. Well, yes. But what did Biden ever do to him? He's mad because Biden beat him? I mean, I guess.
I just think Biden's an easy punching bag for him. Any chance that he gets to attack Biden or immigrants, he's going to take it because he's got nothing else to talk about. I don't know if you saw the economic data today, but the economy's in the shitter. My guess is that they've got... I think he and Stephen Miller have a binder full of shit that they can use to just sort of throw chum to the media to get clicks and attention to distract from that. But the economic numbers today are horrific, so it's probably a little bit of that, too.
Yeah, what is it? The OECD number says that the global economy is growing, but the U.S. economy is growing slower than it did in 2024. Everybody else is growing faster, and it's because of the tariffs. And then you look at the jobs. I mean, they were off by what – Uh, was it 30,000 or something or more? They were off maybe more.
We lost, we lost like 38,000 jobs total in the market. And then small businesses cut about 140,000 jobs. Um, so small businesses are getting wrecked right now. Six of the last seven months, small businesses have cut jobs. It's not a great situation. It's about half of all American workers.
And that's Main Street. Small business, I keep telling people that that's Main Street.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:13–0:58
2
Why is Trump’s pardon of Henry Cuellar surprising and what might it signal?
0:58–9:58
3
How do the hosts explain the latest jobs and economic data hurting small businesses?
9:58–12:01
4
Why do Don and Mike say the stock market isn’t reflecting Main Street’s struggles?
12:01–15:15
5
How do tariffs and Trump’s economic policies impact everyday Americans?
15:15–20:04
6
What are the legal and ethical questions around the Pete Hegseth Venezuela boat strike?
20:04–25:17