Barack Obama, Jolanda Jones, Sydney Sweeney, and Stephen King step into the spotlight today for a fresh breakdown of hypocrisy, false narratives, and fear-based messaging. In this episode, Ryan tears apart the identity-politics routine, the throat-slitting rhetoric, the outrage over a jeans ad, and the viral misinformation posted without a second thought.
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He turned it into a lifestyle brand and I believe he is where
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the true divide in this country began.
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So here he is endorsing Abigail Spam Burger for governor of
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Virginia. A white woman, nothing unusual
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except the Republican that she was running against is a black
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woman, Winsome Earl Sears. Play the clip, guys.
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I am here to ask you to vote. From the next.
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Governor of Virginia Abigail Steinberger.
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All right, Barry, so when it comes to choosing between a
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black woman and a Democrat, guess which one wins in Barack's
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eyes? And Jolanda Jones, this is her,
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a Texas representative. And listen to what comes out of
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her mouth. Go ahead, guys.
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Work. I'm from the hood.
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OK, so when a bully comes, like if there are no rules, you
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literally have to figure it out. So Donald Trump has changed
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things. Nothing like coming together
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bipartisan in government and talking things out.
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So in this interview with GQS Catherine Stoffel, this reporter
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treats it like Sydney just delivered a manifesto.
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Play this, the criticism of the content, which was basically
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that maybe specifically in this political climate, like white
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people shouldn't joke about genetic superiority.
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Like, that was kind of like the criticism, broadly speaking,
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and. 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.
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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 all you need to.
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Do is just? Listen up, all right?
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Hey, guys, Welcome back. I I'm going to do another.
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They really said that because it's just too easy.
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I suppose the hypocrisy from the left is not slowing down.
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It's getting louder, sloppier. Honestly, it's kind of sad to a
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point. When people feel power slipping
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away, the behavior gets primitive.
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That's what you're watching now, Desperation dressed up as
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activism. Every week.
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I think this segment might get a little calmer, maybe a lighter
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week, maybe less crying, maybe fewer panic attacks disguised as
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moral authority. Then these people open their
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mouths and they give me material for like 10 shows all in one
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breath. Today is simple hypocrisy.
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Misinformation again. It's the theme.
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I despise hypocrisy. I despise virtue signalling.
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These people are champions of both people who preach one
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thing, do the opposite, and then swear you're insane for
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noticing. This isn't politics anymore.
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It's survival panic from a side that knows it's fading.
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Join me. This is Stay in the Fray
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podcast. It is November the 10th, 2025.
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Let's roll. I'm going to start with our
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headliner for today, Barack Obama.
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The unofficial, unelected world tour president.
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The man who left office and then spent the next decade pretending
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that his term just never ended. You know how actors get stuck on
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a roll? Obama is still method acting as
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commander in chief. He goes across overseas and acts
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like he's has some sort of authority.
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I know he had practice though holding the puppet strings of
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Joe Biden for four years, but there is literally an amendment
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about pretending to hold office when you don't and he's been tap
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dancing on that line for years. This guy has built in his entire
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personality around playing victim while teaching the rest
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of the country to do the same. Nobody has pushed identity
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politics harder, louder, or with more self righteousness.
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He turned it into a lifestyle brand and I believe he is where
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the true divide in this country began.
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So here he is endorsing Abigail Spamburger for governor of
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Virginia. A white woman, nothing unusual,
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except the Republican that she was running against is a black
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woman, Winsome Earl Sears. This is the same Obama who has
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spent years lecturing the country about how people are
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scared to vote for a black woman.
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Except apparently he was too. Play the clip, guys.
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I'm here to ask you to vote for the next governor of Virginia,
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Abigail Spenberger. And, and, and, and Lord knows,
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we need that light, we need that inspiration because let's face
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it, our country and our politics are in a pretty dark place right
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now. It's hard to know where to
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start, because every day this White House offers up a fresh
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batch of lawlessness and recklessness and mean
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spiritedness and just plain craziness.
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All right, Barry, so when it comes to choosing between a
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black woman and a Democrat, guess which one wins in Barack's
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eyes every time? More on the rest of the nonsense
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he just spewed in a second. But it turns out that the
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identity politics hero doesn't actually care about identity
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when it's inconvenient. He cares about the letter next
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to the name. And then take a look at this
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clip really quick. Obama is lecturing a room of
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young black men before the 2024 election.
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Talk to them like their children, like he wants to
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control them, like they're incapable of forming their own
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opinion. Roll it, boys.
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I also want to say that that seems to be more pronounced with
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the brothers. So if you don't mind, just for a
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second, I'm going to speak to y'all directly and say that when
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you have a choice that is this clean, when on the one hand you
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have somebody who grew up like you, knows you, went to college
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with you, understands the struggles and pain and joy that
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comes from those experiences. That's all you need to see.
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He continues on. To tell these young black men
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that they need to. How dare they think about voting
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for anybody else but a black woman.
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What was that accent too? I haven't heard that one before.
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You don't hear that when he delivers speeches.
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So he's acting like they're afraid to vote for a woman.
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A black woman basically guilt tripping them into voting for
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Kamala Harris. It's one of the most
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manipulative little speeches that I've ever heard.
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It's straight out of the DEI starter pack.
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If you don't vote for her, you're betraying your identity.
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That's the message. It wasn't.
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Check out all these amazing policies that she has.
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Meanwhile, Republicans are the ones saying, I don't care what
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race you are, I don't care what gender you are.
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Can you do the job? That seems so simple.
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So who's actually the ones obsessed with race?
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Who's actually obsessed with sex?
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Use your head. It's right there.
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Now let's go back to the what he was saying at the Spanberger
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rally. He claimed our country and our
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politics are in a dark time right now.
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No, Barack, your politics might be in a dark time right now
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because nothing you listed in that little whatever you did is
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real. Let's check the scoreboard.
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Costs are fine. Jobs are coming back.
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Jobs come back to this country and back as a whole. 4 Investors
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are dumping hundreds of billions into the US.
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The trade deficit has been cut in half in nine months.
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Conflicts around the world are being shut down before the they
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explode any further. The border is finally being
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enforced. Violent cities are finally being
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held to account. What exactly is dark, Barack?
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It's that your fear narratives aren't landing anymore.
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That's what's dark to you. People are fleeing your act.
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And then he says the White House is serving up lawlessness every
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day. Lawlessness from an
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administration that's enforcing immigration law and one that
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wants law to be enforced for criminals in the cities.
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Here's the kicker. Obama deported more people than
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any president in U.S. history, but suddenly he's the guardian
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Angel of compassion. He knows he's lying.
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He knows he's an asshole, but he's not dumb.
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And that makes it worse. The next line this
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administration is giving off mean spiritedness.
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Really. Which side is calling for
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violence? Carrying out violence?
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Labeling anyone who disagrees? A Nazi?
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Who's destroying cities? Who's been blocking the
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highways? Screaming fascists at people who
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are just trying to go to work, Obama acts like the moral
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referee while his team is literally throwing bricks from
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the sidelines. And while we're here, let's not
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forget this guy. Obama is still under fire for
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the fake Russian collusion that his the the mess that his
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administration has helped to feed.
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He's not in the clear, but sure, let's pretend that he is the
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trusted truth teller in the room.
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Obama has one consistent skill. Accuse others of doing the exact
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thing he's been doing for years. He didn't bring unity, he
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fractured it. He made identity of the center
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of politics and people followed him down that path.
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Everyone became a victim and accountability evaporated.
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And now he's using his platform to lie, to guilt trip and to
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manipulate for political gain. Same old playbook, same old act.
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And judging by the massive shift of black voters toward Donald
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Trump, it looks like the old Obama routine isn't fooling
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anyone anymore. All right, Barack, done with you
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on the same level. Almost.
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Is somebody named Jolanda Jones. I should know her.
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She's a Texas representative. But since Obama wants to lecture
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everyone about mean spiritedness, let's take a look
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at what his own bench is serving up.
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And Yolanda Jones, this is her, a Texas representative.
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And listen to what comes out of her mouth.
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Go ahead, guys. Work out from the hood.
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OK, so when a bully comes, like if there are no rules, you
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literally have to figure it out. So Donald Trump has changed
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things and people trying to do what's always been done is not
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going to work. And I think that's why Democrats
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are losing black people. That's why they're losing poor
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people. Because poor people, all they
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want is for us to fight. So if you hit me in my face, I'm
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not going to punch you back in your face.
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I'm going to go across your neck.
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Because we can go back and forth fighting each other's faces.
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You've got to hit hard enough where they won't come back.
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Nothing like coming together bipartisan in government and
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talking things out. Nope, that's not what Jolanda
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wants to do. See the the throat slitting
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gesture that she just gave? So classy.
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I'm I'm embarrassed to be in Texas.
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And that that is one of our representatives.
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This is the same group telling everyone else to lower the
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temperature and restore decency. Meanwhile, she's up there giving
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survival tips from a scene she thinks she's starring in.
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And the reasoning? She says Democrats are losing
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black voters and poor voters. Well, yeah.
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These people like you are out here talking like you're
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auditioning for a revenge thriller.
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You sound like a maniac. And then she tries to blame
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Trump for the shift. Trump has changed things.
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How? By asking for accountability?
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By calling people out when they lie.
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If that's what she thinks qualifies as changing things, it
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explains a lot. They're losing voters because
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people are tired of nonsense like this from their supposed
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leaders. Public servants who talk like
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they're announcing A vendetta instead instead of representing
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communities. Republicans do not speak like
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this. They don't encourage violence.
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I challenge any of you to provide me a clip of someone on
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the right with this type of violent claims towards the left.
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This right here. This is the behavior Obama and
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company should be condemning. But he won't.
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They won't because calling out that side, their own side, ruins
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the narrative, the punchline. The same voters that she claims
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to represent are leaving her party in massive numbers.
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So keep digging. It's working out well for us.
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All right, let's shift gears to something a little bit lighter,
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but somehow an issue that's still lingering.
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The lovely Sydney Sweeney and my girl crushed this one.
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So for those of you who somehow don't know what happened with
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her, here's the setup. Sydney does a jeans ad Denim
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People goes on your on your lower body and the campaign uses
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a simple word play about genes, like human genes.
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It's cute, harmless marketing One O 1 The reaction the woke
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left screamed and melted down like someone had declared a
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national emergency over denim. You'd think Sidney Sweeney
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insulted anyone not white instead of making a word play in
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a genes ad. These professional victims
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cannot handle even the slightest hint of a white woman being
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confident, joking, or proud of anything, even her own jeans,
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denim or other. The idea that she might appear
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comfortable in her own skin made them short circuit.
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It always does. So in this interview with GQS,
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Catherine Stoffel Think I said that correctly.
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This reporter treats it like Sydney just delivered a
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manifesto. Play this.
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The criticism of the content, which was basically that maybe
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specifically in this political climate, like white people
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shouldn't joke about genetic superiority, like that was kind
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of like the criticism broadly speaking.
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And since you are talking about this, I just wanted to give you
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an opportunity to talk about that specifically.
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I think that when I I have an issue that I want to speak
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about, people will hear. That a girl she is.
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Sydney is so hot. I'm sorry.
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Allow me to translate for the reporter.
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I'm trying really hard to make this a controversy.
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Again, please apologize so I can write my article.
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Sydney doesn't flinch, She doesn't growl.
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She doesn't fall for the little trap, she just says when there's
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an issue I want to speak about, people will hear perfect, calm,
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solid, confident. No panic, no guilt, no bending.
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Just I'll speak when I damn well choose to.
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And let's be honest, everyone is allowed to be proud of their
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genes. All groups, all backgrounds, all
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identities. Be proud, and that includes
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white people by the way. I'm tired of this bullshit.
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It's not our fault you all feel badly about yourselves.
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Some people want the whole world walking on egg shells because of
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it and because it keeps them in control.
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Sydney wasn't having it and I'm proud of her.
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Sydney, I have officially moved you to the number one spot on my
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celebrity crush list, and my wife actually approves.
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Keep being you, Sydney. It's very refreshing.
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All right, let's jump last but not least, to Stephen King.
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This is a man who's written some of the most popular horror
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stories ever made, which I suppose may be why he sometimes
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struggles differentiating between fiction and real life.
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So King jumps on X and posts this righteous little take.
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It says Trump says he won't invite either team playing in
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the World Series to the White House.
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He can't rise above his petty political concerns, even for the
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Great American Game. If anything shows what a louse
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he is, That's it. It took about 12 seconds for
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people to point out the truth. Trump never said that.
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Nothing even close. The only places that existed
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were parody accounts, satire, and Stephen King.
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This Pulitzer level writer, this decorated storyteller, this guy
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with quite a platform, didn't bother to do a 2 second check
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before firing off his lecture. That is a perfect demonstration
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of TDs and obsession. Meanwhile, he's part of the same
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crowd that applauded athletes for refusing to go to the White
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House under previous administrations when Trump was
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there. Back then, skipping the White
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House was heroic. Now, suddenly, the idea of Trump
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not inviting them is an act of political treason.
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So which one is it, Steven? Which one is it?
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Everybody on the left? Is it petty to avoid the White
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House as an athlete, or is it patriotic?
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Is it petty for Donald Trump to not invite athletes?
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Which he didn't. He he didn't not invite anybody.
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This is all bullshit. But what if he had?
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What if he said Nope? You can't have it both ways.
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This is what happens when hatred becomes a hobby.
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You start believing fake headlines because they tell you
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what you want to hear. You wake up every day looking
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for them, just like Stephen King, and then you post them
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before the ink on your outrage is even dry.
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What an absolute fool. And that's the part that gets me
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every time. The hypocrisy, the false
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rhetoric, the victory routine dressed up as moral authority.
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And somehow some people are still buying it.
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Why would anyone want to align themselves with this nonsense?
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The contradictions, the performative outrage, the weak
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minded buzzwords at everybody, the tough guy threats from
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people who couldn't win a pillow fight.
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It's a mystery to me. I don't get it.
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But here's the upside. People are waking up overall.
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You can feel it. You can see it in the polling,
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in the conversations, in the energy.
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The old tricks don't land the way they used to.
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The guilt trips don't work. The fear campaigns don't work.
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The you're not allowed to question this attitude doesn't
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work. Reality is breaking through.
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Reason is starting to win again. And if you want to help push
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that forward, share the show. Listen to shows like it.
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matters. Help me spread the sanity.
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Send me some of these clips by the way, to call out if you see
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He would annihilate them. Send it my way.
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We are a team. So you and me against the noise.
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