The “No Kings” crowd hit the streets chanting against a monarchy that doesn’t exist.
Ryan breaks down the absurdity — fake outrage, paid protests, violent signs, and a media fog so thick even AI got lost in it.
From viral clips to meme wars, this episode exposes how the outrage industry feeds itself.
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This is the country that literally kicked the crap out of
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the British Empire in 1776 and now they're out here pretending
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they're suddenly ruled by a monarch again.
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News flash, that was the original No Kings protest.
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Muskets, cannons, powdered wigs, not Tik toks, virtue signalling
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screens and pink cardboard signs.
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Their political compass is powered by social media trends
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and trauma therapy, so let's just call this what it is.
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It's rhetoric without reality. Here's the difference.
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We laugh and they cry. They can't handle losing the
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joke war, so they try and criminalize laughter.
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Welcome to Stay in the Fray podcast.
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I'm your host, Ryan. This is where headlines get hit
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hard, hypocracy gets shredded, and the absurd are laughed at.
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If you want comfort, this isn't your place.
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If you want blunt and unfiltered, I'm your guy.
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Join me in the Fray. What?
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You need to do is just listen up.
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All right, hey guys, I'm kind of in a pissed off mood, so I think
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this is going to work great. So you don't want to miss this
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one. These trolls, these people that
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are just the scum of the earth, I feel like they need to take
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time out of their day to make threats to basically troll and
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take way too much of my attention.
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So just to let you know, that's kind of in the background, but I
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guess it all kind of applies to what I'm going to talk about
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tonight. I do have a cocktail with me to
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help and don't make fun of the colour.
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I have children. When there's fucking juice all
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over the house, you take advantage and you pour some into
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some vodka. So let's, let's get going.
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The no kings bullshit. No kings really, really.
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That's the chant. The narrative that modern
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liberals are now going with is, is this idea that Trump wants to
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be a king or that he's on his way to being a king?
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Are you sure you want to die on this hill?
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Are you sure you want to double down on this because it makes
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you look idiotic and we're laughing?
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This is the country that literally kicked the crap out of
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the British Empire in 1776 and now they're out here pretending
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they're suddenly ruled by a monarch again.
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News flash, that was the original no Kings protest.
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Muskets, cannons, powdered wigs, not Tik Toks, virtue signalling
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screams and pink cardboard signs.
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These people now couldn't define monarchy if you bribe them with
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a pumpkin spice latte and a participation trophy.
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They're crying about tyranny on an iPhone made in China while
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live streaming their tantrum under protection of the 1st
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Amendment. If we actually had a king, you
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would not be dancing in the streets in your Che Guevara
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T-shirts. You'd be in jail cell for LA's
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Majesty wondering why you're vegan Commission.
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I'm so mad we don't do crowns here in this country.
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Get real. We do ballots and our president
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was duly elected. Then of course, the geniuses
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apply to me when I talk about kings.
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Protest. Well, Britain has a king and
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they can protest. Yeah, no shit, scholar.
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The King over there cuts ribbons and waves at parades.
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Parliament actually runs the show.
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The King is a mascot, not a monarch.
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Stop acting like you discovered political science because you
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saw The Crown on Netflix. The only coronation you people
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have is when your group chat finally agrees on a pronoun.
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Let's break this down. This is Stay in the Fray
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podcast. It is October 22nd, 2025.
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Let's roll. You know, I actually tried to
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figure out what this so-called No Kings protest was really
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about. Big mistake.
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I thought maybe I'd miss some secret coronation where Trump
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popped out of a golden carriage shouting Long live me, not so
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much. Turns out that the protest is
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actually about authoritarianism, the death of democracy, America
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turning into a monarchy. All these buzzwords and phrases
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that they get in their memos each morning, that's their
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slogan. That's what those are, their
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slogans. No kings.
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You can almost hear the drum circle forming.
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But here's the thing, If you have to shout no kings, that's a
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sign that you don't understand how any of this works.
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We've got elections. We've got term limits.
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We've got a press that foams at the mouth, mouth of Trump,
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sneezes near a microphone. That's not tyranny.
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That's a Tuesday in the US. And just listen to what our
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president had to say in response to this.
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No King's Gathering. Cisco, I'm not a king.
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I'm not a king. I work my ass off to make our
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country great. That's all it is.
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I'm not a king at all. Simple to the point.
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There's no name calling, no defensiveness.
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He just literally said I'm not a king.
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I work my ass off for this country.
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If there weren't so many people that that supported him and he
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knew that, you almost kind of hear the man just I can't get.
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I just nobody wants to. It's sad, but whatever.
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Somehow it's what set him off. The guy flat out denies being a
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monarch. And they say, see, that's what a
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dictator would say. He can't win with these people.
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Their political compass is powered by social media trends
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and trauma therapy. So let's just call this what it
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is. It's rhetoric without reality.
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They chant about saving democracy while ignoring the
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results of one. They warn us about crowns and
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Thrones, but the only royal ceremony happening is the one in
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their heads. If you're shouting king, show me
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the royal decree. Show me the palace guards.
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Show me literally anything besides a crowd of unemployed
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art majors holding cardboard and crying about fake fascism.
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Here's the truth. This isn't a protest against
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power, it's a process. A protest against losing power.
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No Kings is just the latest rebrand for we didn't get our
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way in 2024. And if that's the hill that they
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want to die on then fine, but at least admit it.
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Stop pretending you're Paul fucking Revere riding around and
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just admit it. You know what's funny?
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Every time they pull one of these democracy and danger
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parades, the numbers magically grow by the hour.
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The 2, two, couple, 1000 people in the morning somehow becomes
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hundreds of thousands by noon, and then by sunset it's half of
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them. It's the same 12 people filmed
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from different angles. Suddenly the revolutions
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sponsored by whoever rented the drone.
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So let's talk about that math problem, the headcount hype, the
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astroturf armies and the miracle of protesters who multiply
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faster than government debt. The numbers, or at least the
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fantasy version of them, depending on which outlet you
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read, there were hundreds of thousands, millions, or
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basically everyone in America except for you out there yelling
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no kings. Here's the reality check.
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We've got 335 million people in this country.
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And sure, how about this? We'll take the best number, the
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highest, which I saw at about 7 million.
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That sounds massive until you remember that that's about 2% of
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the population. 2% Statistically, that's a rounding
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error. More people watch the Friends
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reunion, so spare me the nationwide uprising narrative.
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This was a noisy fraction trying to cosplay as a revolution. 98%
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stayed home and either laughed at you or hung their heads in
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shame for aligning with you politically.
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Now the part that no one in corporate media touches because
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it ruins the narrative. The crowd for hire game.
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You can literally go online and find agencies that specialize in
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supplying protesters. These people brag about it in
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interviews. They're paid to amplify social
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causes which is PR speak for make it look organic when it's
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really not. Go look.
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There's a lot of video evidence of this and people admitting
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that they're paid to be out there.
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It's not a conspiracy, it's a business model.
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NGOs funnel money through activist grants and the out the
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other incomes professionally angry people holding whatever
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sign the sponsor of the week wants.
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If you want to argue, how about how much they're paid, or how
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many of them are out there, or which organizations cutting the
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check, fine. But pretending like it it's not
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happening is like pretending Hollywood doesn't use extras in
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their movies. And that's exactly what these
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crowds are, extras in a political commercial.
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Real movements don't need casting calls for DMS for free
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box lunches. So when I hear these pundits say
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the people have spoken, I have to ask which people?
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The ones cashing the checks though, or the ones cashing in
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on the coverage? So why don't we talk about these
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people out there giving this circus a soundtrack?
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I get that some of these poor people really think they're
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being genuine out there. I understand that they have been
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indoctrinated so, so badly that they likely think Trump's
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already wearing the crown. But there are a lot of trash
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humans, and it's funny how these protests tend to shine a light
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on them. You've probably seen this this
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clip, the Chicago teacher Lucy Martinez from Nathan Hale
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Elementary. She's on camera grinning, making
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a gun to the neck gesture, mocking the assassination of
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Charlie Kirk. In case you missed it, here it
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is quickly, simple as that. I mean it.
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It went on for a few more seconds as people are driving
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by. That's a teacher someone trusted
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to guide kids. The school's sight went dark
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after the video blew up, and there's no public word on
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whether she's been terminated. Sure, if the school makes the
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right decision. Either way, that's who's in the
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middle of this movement. That's the moral compass on
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display. And it wasn't just her, either.
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About this sign. Classy as ever.
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Which heals faster, Trump's ear or Erica's heart?
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In reference to Charlie's wife? Another said.
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I wish he hadn't turned his head.
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You read that right, people standing in the street joking
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about a presidential candidate's assassination.
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Except it's not really a joke. They genuinely mean they wish
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that he was dead. Here's the difference between
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them and me, them and us. I despise, despise.
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When he was in office of Obama and his policies, I think he
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divided the country. He was the first one to do it
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with identity politics. We can argue that all you want
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at another time. That's not what this is about.
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The bottom line is I didn't like the man had nothing to do with
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race either. So put that shit back in your
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pocket. I despised bite.
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How about that? He was a disaster and half the
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Democratic bench couldn't manage a lemonade stand.
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I would never wish them dead. That is the difference between
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opposition and obsession. One side argues, the other
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fantasizes about funerals. It's all absurd trash humans and
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it doesn't stock with cardboard. Here's a video of a man in
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Chicago yelling into a mic telling people to get a gun and
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shoot ICE agents. Roll this, boys.
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You got to grab a gun. We got to turn around the guns
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on this fascist system. These ICE agents got to get shot
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and wiped out. Turn the guns on the fascist
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system. I'm well waiting all of for all
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of you to catch up with that, with the irony of of this
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fucking idiot. That is not free speech, by the
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way. That is incitement.
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One O 1. And somehow then the same
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politicians, Crockett and AOC, they keep insisting that we're
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the ones driving the violence. It's unreal.
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Show me something like this anywhere.
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I'll show you 50 of them today. From the left, show me.
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From the right, show me anything where people are sitting there
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in a park yelling through a megaphone to kill somebody.
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It's no longer funny. It's no longer just, oh, the
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left's being crazy again. I don't want to live with it.
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No one no, no really wants to live with it.
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You're fading. By the way.
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There was another separate arrest in New York.
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A guy charged after threatening to to firebomb federal agents
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during the same protests. Spare me the mostly peaceful and
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it had both sides routine. When the soundtrack of your
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rally includes threats, you're not marching for democracy,
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you're auditioning for a mug shot.
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And good, I need to chuckle a little bit.
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So just to make sure we all understand how serious this
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revolution is to them, here come the dance numbers.
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Watch this. Who's this dude on the right?
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It goes on for a while. Believe it or not, they're
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having a good time. But I just.
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That's all you need to see. Look, I love a good laugh, but
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watching lefties twerk for democracy doesn't exactly scream
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power to the people. You may be having fun dancing
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like dorks, but it doesn't change a single law, fix a
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single problem, or win a single vote.
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It just proves the point. This whole movement is more
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performance art than it is a protest.
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It's a waste of fucking time. I want to talk about the
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meltdown on the left over some brilliant video clips because
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apparently humor is now a threat to national security.
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If one side is going to invent a fictional issue to protest, then
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our president and Vice president can 100% make up some videos to
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counter it while we all laugh at you.
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First up, we've all seen it. I'm going to play it again.
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Trump's AI fighter jet clip. In case you haven't seen it,
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Roll this guys. It's fantastic.
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I mean, I think there's a little bit more to it, but you get the
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point. And you know, Kenny Loggins has
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all bent out of shape because we used his song and shut up,
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Kenny, You're lucky that Top Gun chose your song or you'd be
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nothing. So deal with it.
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It's funny, the man President Trump, posts a joke video of
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himself piloting an F16 dropping digital sludge something.
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It's feces, some say dirt, you decide.
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But dropping it on pundits like Harry Scisson, that guy and the
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rest of the professional cry babies and the left reacts like
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he actually launched and he's dropping bombs.
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Never seen it. This is satire.
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It's pixels. The only thing it bombed was
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their sense of humor. Then JD Vance drops his Hail to
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the King video. It is awesome.
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Let's watch this one. Brilliant, so brilliant Avenged
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Sevenfold blaring, by the way, I I love that band.
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I always have. So please don't come out and get
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all man mad that JD used you. But I love that song.
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A7 DAC says they're known was blaring, Trump and Slow MO,
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Pelosi and Schumer needling at the end.
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Art. Pure Internet poetry.
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The right laughs, the memes fly, and then the comments sections
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light up. Meanwhile, the usual suspects
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start demanding congressional investigations into Photoshop.
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Here's the difference. We laugh and they cry.
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They can't handle losing the joke war, so they try and
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criminalize laughter. AI memes aren't coups, they're
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jokes with a render queue. These are the same moral
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referees who faint over as CGI fighter jet and had zero problem
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when Kathy Griffin proudly posed with a fake severed Trump head
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that was called performance art. Just the other day I saw a
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despicable statue mock up of Charlie Kirk water spurting from
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a hole in the neck. Satire to them I suppose, but an
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AI video of Trump dropping digital mud?
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Oh Oh no, spare me the Pearl clutching about tone from the
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same crowd that cheered that Griffin photo.
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Can you people really not see the difference?
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We call for accountability of people murdering people and
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you're demanding accountability about a fucking AI video?
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What's the matter with you? What actually deserves outrage?
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Real images of violence, Real violence, real calls for it.
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The same people pretending to defend civility or the one still
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refusing to condemn threats against Trump, his family, or
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anyone on the right. The right essays about
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accountability from meme but stay silent when an activist
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screams into a mic about shooting federal agents.
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The hypocrisy is not subtle. It's the whole show for these
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people. So no, I do not want to lecture
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on decency from people who turn blood imagery into fashion and
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now meltdown over a looping AI clip.
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Fuck you when your outrage depends on who's in the picture.
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It's not morality, it's marketing.
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Let's look real quickly at what happened last week.
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Grok and AI chatbot claimed we don't know whether it's a
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Twitter X Excuse Me Claimed that MSNBC used old 2017 footage to
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show the Boston protests. Then a wave of fact checks hit
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saying the footage was actually current.
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So who's right? It depends on which headline you
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clicked first. Which AI do you believe?
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Which Fact Check do you believe? Can one of those have an agenda?
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This is media fog. Every outlet wants a hero and a
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villain before the facts are even cold.
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So when these protests break out, the coverage is less about
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what happened and more about how dramatic they can make it look.
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They inflate crowd shots, pick the loudest sound bites, crop
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the empty streets. It's emotional framing sold as
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journalism, and that distortion feeds the same mob mindset we've
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seen on the ground. People act on feelings, not
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fact. The tragedy is the fog itself
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becomes a story. The left screams disinformation
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while their own side pumps out half truths to keep the outrage
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rolling. Nobody walks away informed, just
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angrier and angrier. In their world is the product.
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After watching this whole thing play out last weekend, No kings.
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All the bullshit, all the aftermath, the horribly behaved
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crowds. I should add the fake numbers,
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the media recycling of bullshit. You start to realize it's not
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just about one weekend of no kings.
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It's been the same pattern. Every time the left loses, these
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absurd protests just shine a spotlight on it.
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They've turned politics into a football game where one team
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loses badly and then they demand the league change the outcome.
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Every play the other team runs the rest of the way through,
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they cry for a flag. Every roster move the team
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makes, they scream corruption. Every touchdown conspiracy.
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But now it's past whining. It's dangerous.
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They're so angry about losing that they'll burn down the
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stadium just to keep the scoreboard from lighting up
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again. They'll twist the rules, the
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refs, even reality itself if it means pretending that they
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didn't lose. Here is the truth.
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The whistle already blew, the scores on the board, the country
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solid. The rest is just tantrum time.
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You don't fix a loss by torching the field, you fix it by playing
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better next season. Until then, spare the rest of us
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the outrage theater. We've got real problems to
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solve. And your team, their team's
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still screaming at the replay booth.
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I am fatigued by it all, the noise, the lies and the endless
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tantrums. And I know so many of you guys
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are too. So stick with me here.
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Let's do this thing. It's a great spot to vent, to
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listen to somebody who's like minded and to be reminded that
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reality still exists. So share this, share this with
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with one person, somebody that you think wants or needs to hear
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it. So stay smart, stay humble, stay
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brave, stay in the fray. Love you guys, all you.
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Had to do was just listen up.