From Jane Fonda calling America an “autocracy,” to Gavin Newsom bragging about California’s “#1” education system, to The View crying about military fitness, and Emma Watson calling marriage “violent” — Ryan exposes how modern activists twist language to sell lies.
The Left has officially run out of logic — so now they’re rewriting the dictionary.
🔥 What’s Inside:
Hanoi Jane’s freedom-fighter cosplay
The View’s meltdown over fitness standards
Gavin’s “4th-largest economy” illusion ripped apart
Emma’s dramatic redefinition of “violence”
Why redefining words has become the Left’s favorite weapon
When words stop meaning anything, lies start sounding reasonable.
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Jane Fonda, this is a woman who literally sat on a N Vietnamese
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anti aircraft gun that was used to shoot down American planes.
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She now wants to lecture us on autocracy.
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Here she is talking about how this administration is quickly
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turning into an autocracy. This is the end of our launch
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day. This is the 1st of October.
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I am so inspired because hundreds and hundreds of people
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have been calling and emailing us, wanting to be added on to
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the committee for the First Amendment, people in the
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entertainment industry. It's so Pete Hegseth, in case
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you don't know who that is, that would be the United States
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Secretary of Defense, Secretary of War.
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Take a look. Hegseth spoke to U.S. military
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leaders from around the world to lay out his very retro vision
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for our armed forces. What?
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This administration has done a great deal from day one.
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Joe Rogan calls him out pretty accurately, by the way.
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He says nobody trusts Gavin Newsom.
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Check it out. They don't have any faith in
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Gavin Newsom. It's just kind of funny because
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he wants to be president so. Bad.
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That's true. What?
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It looks. Like you can't ruin a city and
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then go on to ruin a state and say, guys, that was just
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practice. Emma Watson, Hermione Granger
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herself, The girl many of us had a harmless crush on.
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It's such a violence and it's such a cruelty on people and
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especially young people I think to and especially women, to make
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them feel like they have no worth or like they haven't
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succeeded yet in life. Welcome to Stay in the Fray
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podcast. I'm your host, Ryan.
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This is where headlines get hit hard, hypocrisy gets shredded,
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and the absurd are laughed at. If you want comfort, this isn't
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your place. If you want blunt and
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unfiltered, I'm your guy. Join me in the fray, all you.
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Need to do is just listen up. Hey guys, welcome back.
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One of my biggest issues in society, as you've already
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gathered by the the way that I've spoken over the last
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however many months. But it's this political climate
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and how the loudest people on the left have stopped debating
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ideas and instead they're like changing the definition of words
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don't mean what they actually mean to them.
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Autocracy, violence, racism, fascism, fat phobic,
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misinformation. They throw them all around like
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confetti. No context, no logic, just
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emotional punctuation to make whatever they say sound
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profound. I can't call it a new strategy
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per SE, but it's definitely one that keeps growing and it's
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worrisome. If reality doesn't fit the
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narrative, they just rename reality.
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They don't win arguments, they rebrand them.
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A few years ago they were banning books and de platforming
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anyone who disagreed. Now that same crowd that cheered
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censorship suddenly thinks we're living under a dictatorship
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because a couple of late night hosts got benched.
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They say the word autocracy like they learned it yesterday and
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they think it means I didn't get my way.
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Meanwhile, celebrities are calling marriage of violent.
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The View is crying because the military wants soldiers who can
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actually run a mile, and Gavin Newsom is bragging the
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California's a top economy while people are literally running
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away from his mess. This is what happens when the
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vocabulary of unhinged people becomes mainstream.
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When words stop meaning anything, lies start sounding
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reasonable to those who let it. So let's translate the delusion
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back into English with another episode.
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You like that Another episode of they really said that this is
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stay in the fray podcast. It is October the 13th 2025.
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Let's roll Hanoi Jane is back. Jane Fonda.
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This is a woman who literally sat on a N Vietnamese anti
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aircraft gun that was used to shoot down American planes and
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broadcast propaganda against U.S. troops.
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She now wants to lecture us on autocracy.
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Jane, you supported A communist regime, the very thing that
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breeds autocracy. You don't get to play freedom
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fighter after posing with their guns.
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Here she is talking about how this administration is quickly
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turning into an autocracy. Roll it boys.
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Hi everybody, This is Jane Fonda.
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This is the end of our launch day.
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This is the 1st of October. I am so inspired because
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hundreds and hundreds of people have been calling and emailing
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us, wanting to be added on to the committee for the First
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Amendment people in the entertainment industry.
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It's what it shows to me is that our industry is ready to
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mobilize and to resist autocracy, to resist attacks on
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our fundamental freedoms. We're artists.
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We're creatives, freedom of expression is essential to what
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we do. Many of our fathers and
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grandfathers fought wars to defend this right?
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And we can't just sit back and and let this happen.
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And it's moving fast. This isn't a creeping
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totalitarianism. This is fast moving
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consolidation of you. Shut up, Jane.
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I, I just stop her. I mean, this is God.
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What's been taken away? That right there is what happens
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when words leave the dictionary and end up in the echo chamber.
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Jane says we're living under an autocratic administration.
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Her evidence is that like Colbert got canned and which, by
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the way, didn't even go into effect until next year, Kimmel
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gets a week off. That's her smoking gun.
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That's fascism. Now all the artists rights are
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being taken away and what does she do?
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You know, artist Jane, people get fired every day.
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Networks make business decisions.
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When your ratings tank and you're spewing verifiable
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misinformation every day, every night, management's going to
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notice. That's not dictatorship, that's
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consequence. And let's talk about hypocrisy
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again. That's all I can do, because
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that's all you people have. When Trump and every
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conservative voice across social media were systematically
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banned, no reason, no due process.
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Where were you? You were silent.
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Not a single tear should for the people who were actually
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censored. Now that your side's losing
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cultural ground in a massive way, suddenly you've
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rediscovered the First Amendment.
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You want to cosplay as some kind of free speech warrior, Jane?
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If we were in a real autocracy, you wouldn't be giving any
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interviews, You wouldn't be doing these stupid videos.
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You'd be sitting in a concrete room trying to figure out how to
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say I'm sorry in Russian. It's wild how people like Jane
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Fonda love throwing around words like autocracy and fascism but
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never end. They don't understand them.
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They don't mean what you think they mean, or you.
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You understand them perfectly and you're just using them
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incorrectly on purpose because you have an agenda.
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Either way, you suck. You're not oppressed because
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late night TV changed its line up.
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And Jane, while we're talking about real things that are not
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real, maybe start with your reflection.
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You spent decades reconstructing your face, trying to outlast
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time itself, age gracefully because right now your face is
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as fake as your love for this country.
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All right, let's go ahead with it.
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The view. I can't I I just can't with
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these cackling hens. I feel like I could do an
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analysis episode of their every episode that they do everyday.
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I could just do a, a view wrap up from my point of view and I'd
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have I'd have plenty of material.
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It is the daily therapy session for menopausal women who think
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feelings equal facts. All right.
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So Pete Hegseth, in case you don't know who that is, that
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would be the United States Secretary of Defence, Secretary
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of War. He gave a speech to a room full
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of top military leaders with a simple message.
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The military should be physically fit, disciplined and
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merit based. Sounds good to me.
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Well, not for the Coven of Crows at the View.
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Take a look. Pete Hegseth spoke to U.S.
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military leaders from around the world to layout his very retro
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vision for our armed forces. What?
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This administration has done a great deal from day one to
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remove the social justice, politically correct and toxic
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ideological garbage that had infected our department.
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It's tiring to lookout at combat formations, or really any
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formation, and see fat. Troops, the optics Terrible.
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Meaning all of our top military brass are all in one place and
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we spent $6 to get them there.
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That that didn't make a lot of sense to me.
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It also didn't make a lot of sense to me that he was saying
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that he was going to toughen physical standards and and
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review the anti hazing policy by sort of implementing A hazing
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policy. And then also he said he was
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going to return to the highest male standard for combat
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positions because the troops were fat.
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I don't understand how that was supposed to be an uplifting
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message for our military. He was referring to Colonel
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Sanders. Yeah, it was.
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It was just, it was, it was really a bizarre thing.
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He started talking about woke DEI policies, but all right.
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All right, all right, let's stop there, $6 million for a
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leadership summit. And that's one of the things
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that that Sonny's crying about here.
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These are the same people who shrugged off trillions in
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government waste, but suddenly they're fiscal conservatives
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when it's about strengthening the military.
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Sunny Hostin says we shouldn't have spent the money bringing
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the nation's military leadership together.
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Sunny, that 6 probably came from the loose change we
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saved when administration, when this administration stopped
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funding things like government funded studies testing how long
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shrimp can run on tiny underwater treadmills.
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Or how about that taxpayer funded research project
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measuring social bonding during jello wrestling events?
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Jello wrestling events? And both of those are 100% true.
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I looked them up. I didn't believe it, so spare me
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on bitching about funding our military leaders coming
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together. Then she said she didn't like
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Pete saying the troops need to be tough, toughened up on
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physical standards. Excuse me?
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That's the military. It's literally the one place in
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society where fit isn't an insult, it's a requirement.
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You don't send soldiers into combat who can't climb a fucking
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wall or Sprint 30 yards. That's not inclusive, it's
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negligent. Then comes the best part.
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She calls higher fitness standards hazing.
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That's not hazing, Sonny. It's just called training.
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There's a difference between a push up and a personal attack.
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She does not understand how Pete's message was supposed to
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be uplifting. It's not supposed to be
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uplifting, Sonny. It's supposed to be motivating.
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The military isn't a daycare for adult toddlers, it's a fighting
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force. And of course at the end there I
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I saw. But they, you know, they
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sprinkle in the DEI buzzword talk spared you the full rant.
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Because nothing says strong defense like hiring based on
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check boxes instead of competence.
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The entire point of a merit based system is survival, not
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social validation. And somewhere in there, God, Joy
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Behar tried to to land a joke about Colonel Sanders, and that
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was a fail. Was that her I did she ad Lib or
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did her writers text it to her and say I like this?
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Either way, it was terrible. Shut up, Joy.
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That's the view in a nutshell. Emotion over reason, identity
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over merit and outrage over outcome.
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They can twist anything into victimhood, even soldiers being
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told to stay in shape. All right, I cannot believe this
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next dude is truly in consideration for the Democratic
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Party ticket in 2028. Gavin Newsom, the human
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embodiment of a smirk and a hair product endorsement.
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So my colleague, as I call him Joe Rogan, calls him out pretty
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accurately, by the way. He says nobody trusts Gavin
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Newsom because how could they? You can't run it.
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You can't ruin a city and then ruin a state and then expect
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people to hand you the keys to the country.
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He calls him a bullshit artist and says that he did horrible
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things like the vaccine mandates for children.
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Check it out. They don't have any faith in
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Gavin Newsom. Oh yeah, It's just kind of
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funny, 'cause he wants to be president so bad.
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That's what it that's true. What?
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It looks like. You can't ruin a city and then
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go on to ruin a state and say, guys, that was just practice.
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I know once I get it as a president, I'm gonna fix it.
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I fix it all. I mean, it's so crazy, but he's
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such a great politician. I mean, oh, he's so smooth.
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He's I. Don't think so.
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No, no, I think he's terrible. How's he remained in power?
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For so long. Low competition.
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There's no one who's good is competing against him.
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There's no. Sense I should say he's not a
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good, I should say smooth. He.
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Comes I mean, he's a good bullshit artist.
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Yeah, that's what I mean. But it's like what the things
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that he says when he gets confronted with the we have the
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highest, highest this and the highest like everybody's
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leaving. Yeah, You have the highest
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unemployment. Yeah, you have the highest
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homelessness. Today with Hollywood, you he's.
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Missing You killed Hollywood like Hollywood doesn't exist
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anymore it's literally gone. That was such a mandated
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vaccines for kids that didn't need them.
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You guys, he did horrible shit. Everything that Joe says seems
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to check out with me. So of course Gavin fires back on
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this post, calls Rogan a chicken with a chicken head emoji no
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less. Governor of our, of our state of
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California, ladies and gentlemen.
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He, he, he calls him a chicken for not having him on his show
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and then unloads his favorite talking point list.
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This is the same list that he probably rehearses every morning
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in front of the mirror while applying all that hair gel.
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Gavin, you brag about California being the 4th largest economy in
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the world. You always say it, but it's just
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a population trick. That ranking is based, just so
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you know, I'll teach you something.
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It's based on gross state product, GSP, the total dollar
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value of everything produced in the state.
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But it does not account for cost of living, The highest in the
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US. The poverty rate also amongst
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the highest Out migration, over 800 people left in just two
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years. Homelessness, by far the highest
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in America percentage wise. In other words, yes, California
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produces a lot of money, but it costs even more to live there.
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That's like bragging about having a massive paycheck when
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you're drowning in debt. And by the way, roughly half of
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that world class economy comes from tech, Silicon Valley,
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entertainment, Hollywood, and agriculture.
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Central Valley small businesses and the middle class are getting
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crushed not doing well under regulation and taxes while
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billion dollar corporations keep your GDP numbers artificially
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high. The 4th largest economy headline
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hides the truth. Most Californians are not
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benefit benefiting from that. A big economy doesn't mean a
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healthy 1. Quit using that.
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Let's talk about the rest of your list.
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Number one in manufacturing. You're also number one in
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manufactured homelessness #1 in tech, You're number one in the
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people leaving the state to actually build something.
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Number one in farming, Sure, if we're counting the political
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money you harvest from Silicon Valley donors, you got 40
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million people. Of course the numbers are big.
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Try it per capita and watch how fast these rankings fall.
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This one really gets me. The last one you put on here, I
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don't know if that was on purpose.
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Number one in public higher education.
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People hear that and they believe it, and it's pure
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bullshit. In what metric, Gavin?
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Prestige research output. Because when your transfer
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system is a labyrinth, when students get stuck for years,
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when funding keeps shrinking, being number one in a ranking
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doesn't mean you're winning in real life.
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You're twisting words again, Newsome.
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Sure, some UC campuses headline high in rankings, but the system
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as a whole is a mess. Students are stuck funding cut,
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equity lagging #1 does not mean what you want it to mean in your
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argument. The truth is California is
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bleeding residents, jobs and credibility.
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People are running from your state faster than you're running
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from responsibility. I know I'm in Texas, in Dallas
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and and they're all coming here. They're pissed.
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Joe is one of them. Joe's now in Austin, and he left
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California because it sucks and it's sad because California is
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gorgeous, it's beautiful, and it's got all this potential.
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And it's it's just you cannot fix crime by redefining theft.
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You can't fix poverty by taxing the middle class into
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extinction, and you can't brag about prosperity when half your
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citizens can't afford to live there.
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So when Rogan does call you a bullshit artist, he's being
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polite. You call him a chicken, but the
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only thing you've cooked is California.
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You like that one? All right.
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And finally, let's end this one's hard because of slight
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feelings. Emma Watson.
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Hermione Granger herself, the girl many of us had a harmless
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crush on. Sassy, sharp, adorable, and
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honestly, if she just stayed quiet, my crush would have
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assuredly remained. To her credit, she's mostly
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stayed out of the spotlight the past few years, probably after
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the public spat. It's still ongoing with JK
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Rowling, the woman who literally wrote Emma's career into
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existence. But here's Emma back now, and
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apparently she's here to give the world a vocabulary lesson.
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It's such a violence and it's such a cruelty on people and
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especially young people, I think to especially women, to make
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them feel like they have no worth or like they haven't
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succeeded yet in life because they haven't forced to.
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Its culmination, something that I just don't think can or should
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ever be forced. She's still adorable, that's for
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sure. I had some feelings stirring
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there, not going to lie. In case she didn't know, she was
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talking about marriage and being a mom.
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But did you hear violence, Cruelty.
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No worth. It's the new standard for
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self-expression. Take a personal discomfort and
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inflate it until it sounds like trauma.
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Emma, baby, nobody's forcing you or any young lady to get
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married. Nobody's telling those women
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that they're worthless if they don't.
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You're describing a you're driving these personal
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insecurities and projecting on everybody else.
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Supporting marriage, family, commitment.
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None of that implies that people who don't want those things are
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broken. It's called a choice, and
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ironically, that's what feminism used to be about, but now it's
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language inflation turning everything into oppression.
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Calling marriage violence isn't empowerment, it's emotional
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cosplay. It gives people who already want
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to feel victimized another script to read from.
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There are women out there who want to be wives and mothers who
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find purpose in that. Are they wrong?
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Are they pressuring you simply by existing?
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That's the trap of this new rhetoric.
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If someone feels differently than you, they must be part of
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the system. This is not progress.
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It's narcissism dressed as insight.
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Emma, Emma, sweet Emma. If marriage feels violent to
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you, I heard you might be getting married.
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And anyway, if it's violent to you, then the problem isn't the
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institution. Maybe it's the way you see the
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world. Because when words like violence
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and cruelty lose all real meaning, that suffering stops
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mattering. Real suffering stops mattering.
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And that's the damage. I'm sorry to have had to scold
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you like that, Emma. It was harder on me than it was
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on you, all right? I'm tired of watching people
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hijack the English language just to weaponize it.
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They've turned words into Shields, slogans, and
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smokescreens. Anything to avoid
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accountability. They call free speech hate.
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They call discipline violence. They call disagreement
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oppression. They've built an entire culture
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on labeling instead of listening, Because once you
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label something, you don't have to understand it, you just get
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to hate it. And the more they distort
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language, the easier it becomes to manipulate people who don't
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know any better. You can't think clearly when
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every word has been redefined to make someone else feel safe.
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Truth doesn't care about your vocabulary, it doesn't bend to
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your narrative, and pretending everything you don't like is
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dangerous. It doesn't make you morally
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superior to anybody, it makes you delusional.
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We've reached a point where feelings are fact and reality is
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offensive. But here's the thing, words
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still mean something, and they always will.
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They can't change that, no matter how hard they try and how
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desperate they get. So join me in all of this.
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I need all of you guys, everyone of you who watches and
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subscribes and likes and does all the things to help.
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You mean the world to me, and I appreciate it.
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We have to push past this blip on the radar.
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So follow, spread it a little bit, tell one person to come
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check it out, subscribe, and I'll keep blasting all of these
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people for all of our sakes. So stay real, stay informed,
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stay ready, stay in the fray. Love you guys, all you.
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Had to do was just listen. Up.