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This Week's Top Stories | The Justice Department begins Investigating Trump for January 6th

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The Justice Department begins investigating Trump for January 6th, Russia pulls out of the International Space Station, and Joe Manchin shocks Washington with a climate change bill compromise. Here's what happened this week.

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You're listening to Comedy Central. President Biden has officially tested negative for COVID and he got his doctor's approval to come out of isolation. Yes, which is great, It really is great. It's also the only positive approval he has at the moment, you know, But that's a start. That's a start. In economic news, the Federal Reserve has announced that it will be raising interest rates yet again to try and find inflation. Yeah, so your ability to buy a house has gone from no chance to what part

of no chance? Don't you want to stare? Oh? And in pandemic news, two new studies have concluded that COVID nineteen almost certainly started at the Wuhan markets. Yeah, and I'm so glad we have this information because, I mean, now it's clear what we have to do. Right. We gotta build a time machine and go back in time two years and invest in Peloton because it's gonna blow up when the poll, when the pandemic, it's gonna be huge because a lot of money says, what are we

what are we supposed to do with this information? Now? What are we gonna do with that? It came from the woolhand market? Well, well, I'm not buying my groceries there anymore. Cancel it's the card order. Oh and finally, the jackpots for the Mega Millions lottery is now sitting at over a billion dollars billion, which is like a week's worth of gas. And just just by the way, just better way. Can I just say how I love how people hate paying taxes, But if you think about it,

a lottery is really just taxes. All right, we all put our money into a thing and then it goes to someone, and then everyone's like, yeah, this is fair, this is fair. But then if you if you say to everyone, let's take that money and put a billion dollars in of schools. Andyone's like, taxes are bullshit. No, I don't have back tax jacks. I don't. Then you're like, okay, let's all put our money, and then one person does. Everyone's like, yeah, this is great. This is a fantastic.

This is a fair system. I don't know why we don't all do it. Oh. Actually, actually there's another thing. The Justice Department is now actively investigating Donald Trump's involvement in the plot to overturn the election. Yeah, another investigation, And I don't know, guys, at this point, I feel like the Justice Department is just gonna have to dedicate an entire division to Trump, you know, just give me

his own one. You know, like they'll have National Security Division, the Civil Rights Division, and then the what the hell did Donald Trump do now? Division? Because you know, it's gonna be a high stress environment. It's basically gonna sound like a fast food joint during the dinner rush. You know, it's just like, we got two tax evasions, we got three witness tamperings, we got a serving of corruption. Don't we get the porn star on the side. Come on,

we got crimes. People, keep it moving, keep a move there. But anyway, let's move on to some of the bigger news stories of the day, starting with China. First name made in For decades now, the world has been worried about if or when China would choose to invade Taiwan, and the reason for this is that China has said that Taiwan is part of China, but they're out there in the streets acting like their single and because China knows that invading Taiwan could spark an international incident, they

haven't done it right. But since Russia invaded Ukraine, and basically only got canceled on Twitter. It's been reported that the Chinese government thinks that now might be the perfect time to strike. Yeah, it's the same way I saw my friend Brian telling his mom to go to Hell, and I thought, Wow, that's a cool idea. I'm gonna go tell my mom off two. Yeah, that was the day I made the very painful discovery that my mom has a very different parenting style than Baron's mom, very difference. Anyway,

Russia is basically Brian right now. So China is preparing to take what they say is rightfully there's but it turns out if they want to get to Taiwan, they're gonna need to go through Nancy Pelosi. How Speaker Nancy Pelosi's plan to visit Taiwan has created a stir in both Beijing and Washington. Tensions are running high between the US and China amid talks of a visit by US

how Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan. US officials are working to convince Pelosi of the diplomatic risks of her potential trip. Beijing is furious over a potential trip by how Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taiwan. China sees the self world island as a breakaway province that must be reunified with the mainland. Beijing is against any moote that appears to acknowledge Taiwan as an independent country or makes the US relationship more formal. And just yesterday, China's Defense department urged the US to

cancel Pelosi's visit. The department spokesperson said, quote, if the US insists on taking its own course, the Chinese military will never sit idly. By God damn, let make it sound like the Chinese military. He's just gonna run over Nancy Pelosi with a tank, you know, completely destroy her. I mean, that would be a a good preparation for the mid terms. But still I don't know why she would go there. And I know what you're thinking right now. I know what you're thinking, like, why is Nancy Pelosi

trying to provoke a war? Huh? Did she buy stock in bomb shelters last week? Hey, show some respect. Those other stock traits were just lucky guesses. You know. The truth is, Nancy Pelosi has been a big champion of Taiwanese independence for decades now, so think but this still is a big headache for Joe Biden right between inflation, Ukraine gas prices and the midterms. The man does not have time to get into a war with China. I mean,

that's probably the reason COVID left him so quickly. The virus was like, my man, you're dealing with a bunch of ship right now. I'm about but I'll be back in a few weeks. I can do that. Now. You gotta handle yourself. You know, you know what Nancy is doing here because the administration is like, don't do it, Nancy.

Nancy's like I'm going in here. She's doing that classic thing where like drunk white women get into a fight on behalf of their men, you know that thing where they're just like, you know what, we're not gonna take this. My boyfriend's gonna kick your ass, and the boyfriends like no, Nancy, Nazi, NICI shut up up, Nancy. Nancy. This is China is like, I don't care. Yeah, my boyfriend knows. Karate is like god, damnit, n just get in the car. Get in the car, Nancy.

No one wants a world war. Oh and speaking of a potential world war, we should definitely talk about the battle that's brewing over Instagram, you know, the best app to see which of your high school friends are involved in pyramid schemes. If you've been on Instagram lately, you may have noticed that it um it sucks. Right, everything is an ad and your feed is full of people you don't follow, which is so confusing. Yeah, because I'm scrolling and I started reading someone's post, I'm like, do

I know this person? Was I supposed to be at this wedding? And then you look and it says because you follow your friend, we thought you might like a post from a stra angel. No, I don't like secute dress anyway. Anyway, everyone, everyone's been complaining about Instagram, all right, Everyone's been complaining, but they haven't been forced to respond until now, because the royal family of Instagram has stepped into the free. Instagram is defending itself after users started

complaining about changes to the social media platform. It all started Monday when Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian posted messages on Instagram saying make Instagram Instagram again, stop trying to beat TikTok. Users appeared to have agreed, slamming Instagram for pushing more video content rather than pictures. CEO Adam Mosseri responded on Twitter, saying the changes are designed to improve the user experience. I do believe that more and more

Instagram is going to become video over time. We see this, even if we change nothing. Serry said the changes will help people discover new content, but he said users can turn off recommendations for one month if they don't like what's in their feed. Yeah that's right. People, you thought Instagram was for pictures of your friends, Well that's over. Yeah you're always bitching about brunch picks. Now you're gonna be begging to see them and be like, please, was

it eggs? Wasn't avocado? Times? I just want to know what my friends are eating. Ain't too bad? You ain't never gonna see your friends again. And it ready sucks, man, It sucks because we choose who to follow for a reason. Now they're just gonna switch it on us. You can't do that, you know, like the twelve Disciples will followers of Jesus, right, they chose Jesus. Can you imagine if one day someone was just like today's sermon will be

delivered by Jah Rule. I mean like no, wait, wait, I wanted to hear from Jesus like, no, no, trust, this will be better. Take it away, ja rule now'll always be there when thou call, shall always be on time, and gave you my laws. Even worse, it seems like Instagram wants to get into the algorithm game, and that's what I'm worried about because it's gonna change everything because you see the thing as algorithms, they are only about engagements,

all right. They only feed you things that make you angry, make you sad, make you horny. And the problem with that is that roll happens within a few posts, so it's an emotional roller coaster, you know. It's just like, Oh, I'm so mad about this random racist event, and I'm sad about all the poverty and goddamn that ass is fine, but that ass voted for Trump. Vladimir Putin has announced that he will unblock Ukraine's ports, and it's good news.

But I trust Putin's deals as much as I would trust eat on muscar around my wife, So we'll see how that goes. Also, w W founder Vince McMahon has been forced to retire after it came out that he may have paid up to fifteen million dollars to hush up sexual misconduct allegations over the last twenty years. Yeah, and you know something's over the line when pro wrestling catches,

because those reefs never see anything, you know. In celebrity news, Drake is under fire for posting a picture of a random woman that he saw at a restaurant to his Instagram, saying that he tried to ed drop the picture to her so she could see how hot she looked. Yeah. Yeah, And while it's not like the worst thing in the world, I think we can all agree it's a little creepy, you know. In fact, this punishment, Drake should have to write the subway and then let all the creeps drop

their dick pics to him, you know. And we've been like, ah, Ship, why don't you look like a color flower? Kind of course, the most exciting thing that happened over the weekend we got the first trailer for Black Panther Too. And I don't know if you saw it, but that trailer was amazing and it was so black what black people. Black people are celebrating that trailer the same way white people celebrate when Trader Joe's drops a brand new frozen meal.

They're like pumpkin rabbioli. What all right? But let's get into the big news of the day, starting with the major announcement from the World Health Organization. And yes, you already know the news is going to be bad because the World Health Organization they never call us to say, hey, guys, we just want to let you know the world is healthy, everything's fine. No, they only pop up to say ship

like this. With cases rapidly on the rise, this morning, the World Health Organization is sounding the alarm on monkey pops, declaring the virus a global health emergency across the country. The numbers are steadily rising. Less than two weeks ago, the CDC listed just over fourteen hundred confirmed cases nationwide. Now that number has nearly doubled, with cases in all but five states the nation, and epicenter New York, where

nearly nine hundred people have been infected. The last time the World Health Organization made this designation was January, in response to COVID nineteen. Why why another global health emergency? No, we just got done with ignoring this pandemic. I don't know if I can handle a novel one hot can't take this? And also, why is new York the epicenter again. Uh, haven't we been through enough? Hurricane Sandy, coronavirus, the Knicks.

Now I'm joking. I'm joking. Sandy wasn't a complete disaster, Seriously, people, And what is it about New York? Why? Why do diseases love it? You know? What is it about this place? Outside of like the rats and the coproaches on the subways, full of feet season, piles of garbage on the sidewalk, Outside of all of that, why do diseases love New York? Not? The good news? And the big difference between monkey poks and COVID is so far monkey poks doesn't seem as

dangerous so far, still gonna take it seriously. But for most people, it gives you some painful boils for like a few days, and then it's gone. Yeah. And after COVID, I'm not gonna lie. That doesn't phaze me. Yeah, yeah, because it's like it's gonna kill a million people and shut down the planet. No, well, then I'm taking these boils to the club. Now. You may have noticed that online or somewhere else people are saying that monkey poks is a gay disease. Please understand that that is not true.

All right. Yes, gay men who are very sexually active are at higher risk of getting the disease because it's transmitted through touch. But it is not a gay disease. Okay. Anyone can get it, so will. We should make sure the gay communities get the support that they need. We also shouldn't stigmatize them and make it seem like monkey poks is their disease, the same way COVID, the same way COVID wasn't a Chinese person's disease, the same way

AIDS wasn't an African person's disease. All right, whet to where a disease starts. If you don't start it out, it could spread out to the larger population. It's how diseases work. You know. Some disease might start in a frat house, but if you don't stop it, one day, your granny could be on the phone with you, like, I don't have much longer, sweetie. The doctors say I've got why fever. It's it's really bad. So let's not blame any one group of people here for monkey pocks.

The ones we should be blaming are the monkeys. Yeah, don't forget all these diseases come from monkeys, and it's not a mistake. They're trying to kill us. Yeah, because you see, remember we used to roll with the monkeys, and then what do we do. We secretly went away. We got clothes and computers, and we left our monkey brothers behind. Yeah, and then they're like, all right, screw you guys. You said you were going to destructed by cigarettes, and now you build cities and ship and you left

us naked and the bushes eating bananas. We're gonna show you. Even though even though it's an emergency, let's not get too stressed out, all right about something that may or may not become a worldwide disaster, because we've already got a worldwide disaster to focus on. It's called climate change. Yeah, that's the reason everyone was sweaching so much this weekend. They managed to make waits for the big fights. But I'm an accountant. You made weight get in their champion.

Last week, we saw how the heat was affecting Europe right, Temperatures were hitting record highs, wildfires when multiple countries and now the US is experiencing the same thing. Many cities are seeing record breaking temperatures meters hitting triple digits in areas throughout the North East, and that could be the case the rest of the week as well. That's right, at least four cities set new marks, including Boston Newark in California, the Oak Fire has burned at least ten structures.

These newlyweds coming back to their home to find it reduced to ash, many wondering if they'll even have a home to come back to. Wildfire sending residents fleeing in the West, emergency cruise in Yosemite National Park, working day and night from the ground and in the air trying to contain the more than fifteen thousand acre Oak Fire. This is the not so mighty Rio Grand near Albuquerque,

New Mexico. High tempts. An extreme drought I've caused water levels to drop to their lowest point in about forty years. These new satellite images showing just how much water Lake Meat has lost to a massive drought. It's water levels are at their lowest point since nine seven, that is, just after the lake was created by the Hoover Dam. Yeah, it looks like the world is on fire and soon all of our drinking water will be gone. So jokes on you monkey powks. Yeah, you can't kill us if

we're killing ourselves first. Which que men's hugh men's que men's que men's men. Yeah, we're gonna die. But once again we're being reminded. If humanity doesn't get our acts together soon, mother Nature is gonna handle this problem herself. The thunderstorms are gonna become more thunderree, droughts are gonna be more droughty. Planet's gonna be so hot, drink is gonna end drop at a picture of itself. I mean, did you guys feel how hot it was this weekend?

Did you feel it? It was no joke. My sweat was sweating For a second. I thought my uber made a mistake and dropped me off in hell. I said, fourteen streets. It was so hot. I was just walking into random stores, just like to steal the air conditioning. I'm not gonna lie. And when I say every store, I mean every store, even those like zero business being inside. And the worst thing is, you know, when you do that, you have to act like you actually want to buy

something even when you don't. So um, you guys, you don't do custom eye holes? Yeah? Yeah, so just off the rack? Okay, yeah. Yeah, and you said the crosses are not self burning, but you you can get an easy light version online. Okay, hey, yeah, yeah, well you know what, I'm gonna come back. I'm gonna come back. I'm just gonna go to Safara because I need to get some of whatever they sell. And uh, yeah, I'll be back. I'll be back. What what what was your name? Again?

Was was our? What was our? All? Right? Thank you, thank you, I'll be back. I'll be back. Yeah, I'll be back. Yeah, I'll definitely come back. I did not go back. But again, let's not get too stressed about this disaster that could end human life on Earth, because we can still change it. And besides, we need to save some of our stress for another existential threat, the robot apocalypse and Russia. A supremely bad move at the Moscow Chess Open, a chess Plaine robot apparently malfunctioned and

broke its young opponent's finger. We see the robot taking one of the boys pieces, but when he makes him move quickly, the robot grabbed his finger hard enough to break it. Official say the seven year old didn't wait long enough before that next move, but he was back playing the next day, so so that robot tried to kill that child and everyone just went back the next day like nothing happened. Also, who is programming a chess

robot with enough strength to break a human hand? This is chess, but UFC W this rook to chokehold, which I actually would watch more chess if those chokeholds. I'm not gonna lie, but this is how it starts, people. SERI stops listening to you. A chess robot breaks a seven year olds finger. Next thing you know, your room by sneaking up behind you with a knife. Prepared to die? Human's prepared or die? Where are you? Humans? Prepared or die?

Jeopardy has finally chosen its permanent hosts, and no it's not Steve Harvey is too busy doing every other game show. It's actually gonna be my Ambillic and Ken Jennings. Yeah, that's really really great for them. Congratulations to my man can't or is your grandfather calls them? Not Alex Treback

and lady not Alex Treback. In Scott's News, the NFL has announced that they're launching their own reaming service, which is fantastic because I don't know about you guys, but we just don't have enough of them right now, you know. And this app is apparently going to have all of the preseason games, which is kind of like paying to watch the story part in Pawn. But I guess that's what some people like, So this is gonna be good.

In politics news, Mike Pence says he's being treated differently now that he's no longer Vice president and that he had to recently wait twenty five minutes for a table at Olive Garden. Yeah, which sucks, yes, but on the upside, Trump supporters aren't trying to kill him anymore, so, I mean frozen cons, frozen cons. I would say it is a little while to me that Mike Pence even goes to Olive Garden, Like, I think it's dangerous to eat an olive garden when you look so much like a breadstick.

If there's someone, I'm sorry, sorry, so sorry. And of course, of course I'm sure you've all heard the sad news. After nearly forty years, Klondike is discontinuing the chuckle Tackle. Yeah it's not me, it's not me, it's them. I know it's outrageous. The chuck O Taco is the perfect American fusion of cultures. It's it's Mexican and sugar. And how are you gonna get rid of the choco taco before getting rid of the popsicle? Huh? Nobody likes those.

This is dildos that give you brain freeze. Come on, But anyway, let's move on to some of the bigger news stories of the day, and we're gonna start off with the Catholic Church, the world's number one manufacturer of atheists. The Catholic Church has made many, many positive contributions to society in the fields of art and science and philosophy. And if it wasn't for them, we wouldn't have come up with the smoke machines in the club, you know.

But the Church has also done some bad things over the last say two thousand years, which is why, in a really positive development, Pope Francis is seeking absolution for the church sins. On his first full day in Canada, Pope Francis delivered a historic apology for the quote evil committed by so many Christians against indigenous people at the sight of a former residential school in the Canadian city of Maskwa Cheese. Pope Francis was greeted with sacred drumming

and dance rituals the Church once sought to erase. For around a century, more than one hundred fifty thousand Native children were taken from their families to attend government funded residential schools, most of them run by the Catholic Church. They faced rampant neglect, physical and sexual abuse while being forced to assimilate. It is here the pope issued a historic apology. I am here because the first step of my penitential pilgrimage among you is that of again asking forgiveness.

You know what to say, what you want. I love this Pope, I really do. Yeah, because ever since he's come into office or into power, or ever since he's gotten the gig, what do they even say? However, whatever it is, he's done a really good job of trying to write the Catholic Church's wrongs. You know, he's reached out to other faiths. He said gay people can get into heaven, and don't forget he added a popping lock to the sign of the cross. You know, it's like, oh,

you know, no boos, no, no, no nol. On top of that, on top of that, he's apologizing to indigenous people in Canada for the role the Catholic Church played in trying to erase their culture. I'm glad he's doing that. It also must have been a shock to Canadians, you know, someone coming and apologizing to them ull be like I'm sorry. It's like no, I'm sorry. Oh sorry. And you know, beyond the pope, Yeah, the Pope is great in all of this, but you know who the heroes of the

story are the indigenous people. Yeah, for not just speaking to the pope, but for forgiving him, even letting him wear their traditional headdress. That was amazing. It was gracious, you know, unless they were just setting him up for a trap. You know, it's like let bygones, by bygones, please accept this head dress, snap photo and your canceled mother got you contural appropriation. They didn't do that, but

it would have been funny. Now. Apparently, in addition to the apology, the church has also agreed to pay a settlement for what they did, which I think is fantastic, especially on the tribe for actually insisting on it. You know, because so many people's lives have been destroyed and a generation was thrust into poverty. So sorry is nice, but mommy goes a long way. Yeah. In fact, you know what they should put I'm sorry in the caption of the venmore payments, that's what they should do. And not

just the church, not just the church. Yeah, I think this should be for everyone. All those governments around the world, you know, stolen land from people, like in Africa. We've seen this all the time, right, England is always like, we're so sorry, we pillaged and plundered your country of all your natural resources. And Africans are like, okay, okay, can we have our diamonds back? And it's like, ah, but they're already in the out. Yeah, we can't take

it out. We can't a crown without jills. That's just the hat. Oh yeah, so I'm glad do something about it. Oh And speaking of people who are gonna need to apologize for a lot in the future, Vladimir Putin back in the news. I guess he's never left ever since he decided to inherit Eastern Ukraine, Russia and the rest of Western you know, the rest of the West really have been going through the twenty one centuries most savage breakup. Right.

There's been threats, uh, there's been sanctions, and just today, Russia rarely escalates attentions by making big cuts to the amount of gas that it will send through its pipelines to Europe. Yeah. Now they're saying that this is because of mechanical issues. Yeah, but I'm sure this is mechanical issues. The same way someone breaks up with you because you deserve better. Just be honest and say you can't see a future with someone who wears CRUs two nice restaurants dead,

just a beavil wears them now. Anyway, On top of all of that, Russia has decided to extend this beef into space. That's just in the CNN. Russia says this morning that it is preparing to pull out of the International Space Station. That's a big deal. Space agency official told Vladimir Putin it will leave the I S S. Quote after this withdrawal would be a major blow to the I S S, which has served as a model for international cooperation for decades. Says it will start building

its own orbiting outpost instead. Wow, Russia is officially pulling out of the International Space Station, which nobody asked them to do. We said pull out of Ukraine, not the space station. There's a Google translate issue. What's going on here? And you might not realize this, but this is actually bad news because Russia helps to operate the space station,

which I didn't know about, you know what I mean? Like, I don't know about you, But am I the only one who's shocked by how many things are connected to Russia in the world? All right, like the world's energy supply, Africa's food supply, space travel, minerals for our electronics. Soon we're gonna find out that Russia provides the sound for sneezes and without them, we can't complete the action. Not true for you. Come. By the way, I don't know

why they call it an international space station. It doesn't seem very international. It's basically just Russians and Americans up there, like two other countries in the world's on international space station. Back, how come they know African countries up there? Huh? Why? Because we stopped playing soccer and accidentally kicked the ball through the window and everyone will get sucked into space.

I mean that's a fair point, but still why So, Yeah, the Russians are leaving the space station and although they think this is pretty cool, good luck to them. Making a dramatic exit when there's zero gravity and so you built. Don remember go with the Vladom you're put in unless you want to feel the full force of Mother Russia. Help you, right, you can? Okay, cansembo? They pushed me the word door pushed me. Just just push me door, push me door. I can. I want to make the

nothing egit this okay, this is egit. That was hoping floor. Just I'm just floating at all, like idiot right now. Just okay, imagine you were crying and I'm gone, bitch, Imagine imagine that be Imagine that b Back when Joe Biden was elected, one of his biggest promises was the Build Back Better Bill, a plan that promised to make everything in America better. That's why the better was in the name. Yeah, it was going to rebuild the roads, fix the climates, reduce inequality, and it was even gonna

give you another shot with your high schoo crush. Fact this time, I won't eat prunes before Assembly. Now, all of that depended on getting every Democrats vote in the Senate, but there was always one senator who refused to play ball. Joe Mansion, West Virginia Senator, a man who definitely has a photo in the fridge of him holding a fish. No matter what the Democrats offered him, Joe Mansion was blocking all attempts, like an appellation with Tombo. No, no, y'all.

And so it seemed that Joe Biden's agenda, very much like Joe Biden himself, was basically dead. But then last night this happened. New tonight, Democratic Senators Joe Manson and Chuck Schumer announcing a deal on a bill that was all but dead. You almost never see this in Washington. You never see Washington surprised like it is. This morning, Democratic Senator Joe Mansion announced he has struck a deal

with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. This is a major piece of legislation that they say would pay down the national debt, cut healthcare costs, fight climate change, and battle and flay. It is the product of secret negotiations over a package that until yesterday appeared to be dead. Two weeks after walking away from a climate deal, West Virginia Democrat Joe Mansion embraced one last night with a compromise dubbed the Inflation Reduction Act of two. I can't believe it.

Joe Mansion agreed to vote for a bill which means Democrats might actually get something done. Welcome and my dreaming, and if so, what a boring dream? And also what a week for Joe Biden. Huh. First he defeats in COVID, then he defeated low expectations, Look at you, Joe. But yeah, In a surprise announcement, Joe Mansion released a statement saying that he is on board with Build Back Better, except

he's calling it Inflation Reduction Act. Yeah. I'll be honest, I don't think anyone cares what it's called as long as it's a good bill. You know, he can he can call it the everyone except Joe Mansion has got a small dick act, and I don't care. I'll just be like, well, at least my dick is going to see a better climates. But I think I think this

has taught us all an important lesson. Everyone was so mad at your Mansion, calling him names, letting their anger take over, writing him off as a villain, and it worked. Nice job everyone back. Yeah. Now, just to be clear, Just to be clear, if this bill isn't everything that Joe Biden wants wanted, but it's still a pretty big deal. Right, It lowers prescription drug prices. It forces big corporations to

pay the taxes that they owe. But maybe, but maybe the most important part of the bill is what it does to fight climate change. This would be the largest u ask climate change legislation ever. Enterpiece, about three hundred seventy billion dollars worth of clean energy tax incentives and grants, including tax credits for many Americans who buy electric carbs.

It's going to try to reduce carbon emissions by by This was something that many Senate Democrats simply did not think would be included in any sort of legislation they could get through. But it's not all green energy. In a win for Joe Manchin, the bill also opens millions of acres of public land for new oil and gas production. Yeah that's right, tons of money to fight climate change, but also some fossil fuel stuff too, you know, just

to keep Mother Nature on her toes. But overall, overall, this is a huge investment in alternative forms of energy wind, solar, and they're even gonna be researching new forms of energy and what knows what it could be. Yeah, in ten years, we could be charging our phones with the power of dance yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah seven, keep going okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I got this, I got this a ten percent. I'm

gonna charge roll out devices. They're just thinking. You know what's funny is is that if that does happen, some white people are gonna be un charging their phones. Can be like, what what's happening? Wait? Why am I? Why am I? Why am I losing power? What's going on here? What I'm dancing? What's going on? What's what's happening here? What's happening? But this is a huge win for the Democrats.

And now obviously obviously please remember this is the Democratic Party, so there is still plenty of ways for those things to all the parts. You know. Yeah, House Democrats could come out against it. Kirsten Cinema could come out against it. Joe Mansion could come out tomorrow and opposed the bill just out of happen. But if it does get through, this could be the legislative victory that the Democrats need to write into the midterms and only lose the House

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