Rob Reiner’s death sparked immediate outrage—not over the tragedy itself, but over Donald Trump’s response. The media says it crossed a line. Hollywood says it was vile. Social media is melting down on cue.
In this episode of Stay in the Fray, we slow everything down and look at the full picture. Not headlines. Not selective outrage. The actual words. The actual history.
Rob Reiner spent years calling Trump a Nazi, a fascist, a traitor, and a threat to democracy—claims repeated nonstop with zero proof. When Trump finally responded after Reiner’s death, suddenly decorum mattered again. Civility mattered again. Standards mattered again.
This episode breaks down:
Rob Reiner’s documented obsession and rhetoric
What Trump actually said—line by line
Why the media reaction doesn’t match reality
How the rules keep changing depending on who’s speaking
Why hypocrisy, not “decency,” is what people are really defending
This is not a celebration of tragedy. It’s a reality check.
If you’re tired of one-sided outrage and selective morality, this one’s for you.
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Rob Reiner is dead. He was murdered along with his
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wife, Michelle. They were stabbed to death in
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their Los Angeles home. People have to understand our
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democracy is being taken away from us.
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Made no mistake, we have a year before this country becomes a
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full on autocracy. This is not a political party
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anymore. People on the left were dancing,
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mocking the neck wound, saying they're glad he's dead, posting
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memes celebrating often based also on total lies about who
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Charlie really was. That is the difference.
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We condemn violence and tragedy. They throw parties over it when
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it's someone they think they hate.
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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, hypocrisy 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 had to do is just listen
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up. Hey, guys, Merry Christmas.
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I think this will probably be out somewhere around maybe
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Christmas Eve. We'll see, but I hope everybody
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has a really safe and blessed holiday and we'll go from there.
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I wanted to do a Christmas special about something, but in
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this case, after what happened with Rob Reiner, I've had a few
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people come and ask my thoughts and for some sort of response to
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his death. And then Trump's post, that guy
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hasn't ready all riled up. So before you click away, those
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of you who saw the title and your programming kicked in, take
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a quick pause. If you're one of those people
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that are currently melting down about Trump's post over Rob
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Reiner's death, I am talking to you.
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I'm also talking to my followers, but I'm mainly
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talking to you. Take a breath, put the outrage
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on mute for just like 20 minutes or so, and just listen.
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Just try it. You won't like it, you won't
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like all of it, but really listen to it from this side of
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things. This is not about celebrating a
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tragedy, which it was. Nobody sane is doing that.
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This is about years of poisonous fact free hate from one side, a
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double standard that's absolutely rotten, and the sheer
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hypocrisy of acting shocked when the target finally fires back.
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If you care more about dignity than programmed hysteria, stick
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around for a few minutes. If not, go ahead and keep
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crying. You're probably too far gone.
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This is Stay in the Fray podcast.
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It is December the 19th, 2025. Let's roll.
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First things first, Rob Reiner is dead.
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He was murdered along with his wife Michelle.
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They were stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home on
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December the 14th. Their son Nick has been arrested
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and short from everything coming out.
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Nick has a long history of addiction, mental health
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struggles. It is a horrific family tragedy,
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full stop. I loved Princess Bride, I I
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still love The Princess Bride it's one of my favorite movies
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of all time. It it has to be considered one
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of the best movies ever made. Reiner was legitimately talented
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director and comedian Once Upon a time in his bubble in
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Hollywood. He was respected, I get it.
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But let's be real, in the last 8-9 years the man lost his damn
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mind with Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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He just did. That's not hyperbola.
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His entire online existence became this obsessive daily
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firehose of the most vile, inaccurate, hypocritical garbage
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you could imagine. He pushed the Russia collusion
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hoax harder than almost anyone called it treason over and over
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for years. It was a hoax.
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It was debunked. 0 evidence these were dangerous lies that
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tore the country apart. He called Trump, Hitler,
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fascist, Nazi, all the buzzwords that they like to to toss his
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way. He did it a lot. 0 facts to back
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it. Just venom.
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And that kind of rhetoric isn't harmless.
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When you scream it enough people start believing it.
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Some of those people pick up guns.
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He wasn't just disagreeing with policy, which is what we should
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be doing. He was slandering, lying,
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whipping up hate. And yeah that makes you an
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asshole when you do it non-stop. Let's look at this wall of
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obsession. I'll read a few when Fox says
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that Donald Trump colluding with the enemy is not a crime.
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The fight to save democracy is now an all out war.
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Say strong fact Trump colluded with Russia.
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It's not a fact at all. He did it in plain sight.
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Mueller was charged with looking for crime conspiracy and said it
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didn't find enough evidence for that counterintelligence that
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investigations can take years to unravel.
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Da da, da da da. In 2016, we discovered that
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Putin helped Trump steal the election.
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Now it's in plain sight. Unlimited lies and
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disinformation on Facebook backing a vote siphoning
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candidate. GOP, if you care about the
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survival of democracy, you know what to do.
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He colluded with Russia to steal an election.
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Now he's letting Putin kill the US.
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The White House released altered transcript of Putin trust
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presser. Presser is further proof of
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treason. I mean, it's on and on about
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this. And that was just a few zero
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receipts. Just treason screamed for years.
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Dangerous misinformation from a guy with a massive platform.
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Let's look at another. Here we go, this is another
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psycho in a cave style collage on the wall.
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Time for Donald Trump to exit the White House and enter
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prison. Trump needs to be arrested for
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sedition, treason and inciting violence.
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The President United States is mentally ill.
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There's no other way to say this.
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Donald Trump is murdering Americans.
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Donald Trump is not just a failure, he's a failure as a
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human being. It's very simple.
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Trump is a racist. If you support him, you are a
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racist too. Trump is murdering Americans.
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Trump is mentally ill. If you support racists, you're
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racist. But sure, tell me how Trump's
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post is the inappropriate one. Out of all these, here's another
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solo one that we need to look at.
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It says until Trump goes to prison I will no longer be
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posting on Twitter. That probably lasted about 5
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minutes. I've had it with the insults and
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put downs. Fuck all of you MAGA assholes.
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The man announces he's leaving Twitter because of insults and
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then immediately insults half over half of the country. 0
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self-awareness from Rob. I'll do one more.
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Why not? This was after Trump lost the
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the 2020 election. Finally the cancer on our
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democracy is gone. Donald Trump, the lying,
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cheating fascist con man has left this world.
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He didn't leave the world. America, let's heal and never
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let another like him rise. Good riddance.
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So finally, you know, the cancer on democracy gone.
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Good riddance. Imagine if Trump had posted that
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kind of stuff when Rob Reiner died.
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But no, it's totally fine when somebody like Rob does.
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This is a good compilation that this gentleman put together.
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And I'm going to play it for you real fast.
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And all you need to do is just let it play.
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So take a look. We have a racist in the White
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House. We have a sexist in the White
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House. And he is tearing away at the
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fabric of our democracy, the single most unqualified human
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being to ever assume the presidency of the United States.
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He's mentally unfit. People always say, you know, he
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could redo all the family. I said, I said, what do you
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mean? We're we're living it.
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We've got Archie in the White House.
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He always when he quotes something that isn't him and
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they're talking about Donald Trump because will Donald Trump
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every every character is exactly the same will Donald Trump every
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time and he always does that walk where he does like this
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you. Know.
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Always the problem he has, as far as I can see, is that he's a
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pathological liar. People have to understand our
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democracy is being taken away from us.
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Made no mistake, we have a year before this country becomes a
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full on autocracy. This is not a political party
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anymore. I don't know what this is.
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I believe it's there's a Christian nationalist movement.
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That's very frightening. Do we want to continue
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democracy? The part in the middle where
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he's kind of making fun of his walk, fine, all good.
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It's, it's the other nonsense. And, and honestly, a lot, most
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of that was actually pretty calm compared to what I showed you in
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the post and what I've heard him say before.
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But yet you still hear the obsession, the venom, the
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complete detachment from reality.
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I am not here laughing about a man's murder.
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I've never wished death on Rob Reiner or any other person I
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believe to just be an asshole. Not once, and I haven't seen a
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single person on the right celebrating his death,
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criticizing the garbage he spewed for years.
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That's not celebrating death. That is pointing out facts.
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Now contrast that with what the left did when Charlie Kirk was
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assassinated. People on the left were dancing,
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mocking the neck wound, saying they're glad he's dead, posting
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memes celebrating, often based also on total lies about who
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Charlie really was. That is the difference.
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We condemn violence and tragedy. They throw parties over it when
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it's someone they think they hate.
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So here we are. This brings us to the Trump post
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everyone's losing their minds over.
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I'm going to leave this up and I'm going to pick it apart piece
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by piece. This is my response that people
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have asked me for. A very sad thing happened last
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night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, tortured and
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struggling but once a very talented director and comedy
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star, has passed away with his wife Michelle, reportedly
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through the anger he caused others through his massive,
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unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling
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disease known as Trump Derangement Syndrome.
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Pause. Overall, that sounds pretty
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sympathetic to me. Calls it sad.
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He gives him credit for his talent.
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He acknowledges he was struggling when your own son
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ends up charged with stabbing you to death.
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Yeah, there were probably some struggles.
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The next part. He was known to have driven
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people crazy by his raging obsession of President Donald J
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Trump, with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the
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Trump administration surpassed all goals and expectations,
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bringing our country to new levels of greatness, often
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referred to as the golden age of America.
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All right, OK, here's where I'll be straight and I'll call out
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the president. I would have cut this out.
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Linking Reiner's TDs directly to the reason his son allegedly
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killed him is very extreme. It's unnecessary.
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Trump's either venting hard or repeating something he heard
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through the Grapevine, but it's over the line.
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Same with the victory lap about the golden age.
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Skip it, There's no need. Just let your results do the
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talking. Then he closes with May, Rob and
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Michelle. Rest in peace.
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That's a respectful ending, twisted however you want.
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Media, it's there in black and white.
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Nowhere in this post is Trump celebrating his death.
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Nowhere is there a mocking tone about murder itself.
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He's ripping Reiner for the tedious obsession, and after
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what you just saw in those colleges and that video, he's
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not wrong about that. Look, I would have preferred
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Trump just stayed quiet. I'll admit that there's no need
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to drive a nail in on a dead guy.
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But let's not pretend this came out of nowhere.
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This man Reiner spent years slandering Trump, calling for
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his arrest, accusing him of treason which is literally a
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death penalty crime, whipping up hate that put Trump and his
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entire family in real danger. You know, like multiple
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assassination attempts. So forgive me if I'm not
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clutching pearls when the target finally snaps back.
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I'm sick to death of the one sided rules.
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The left gets to mock, insult, slander, push complete lies,
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destroy property and it's resistance or speaking truth to
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power. Everyone shrugs or cheers, Trump
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makes 1 post pointing out a dead guy's raging obsession that did
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real damage to the country and suddenly he's the vile monster.
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No, you are the hypocrites. Spare me the bullshit high horse
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routine and let's talk Hollywood for a second.
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They circle the wagons and protect their own no matter
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what. Self 0.
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Self-awareness. Politicians, celebrities, the
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whole machine on the left condemns Trump's post like it's
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the end of civility. But their side, including big
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names, has done way worse for years.
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Celebrating deaths, mocking tragedies, pushing hoaxes that
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divide us. Trump's post?
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That is weak sauce in the inappropriate department
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compared to the non-stop venom from that crowd.
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We're all fatigued from this modern liberal rulebook.
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One set of rules for them, another for everyone else.
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It's got 0 validity in the real world and it's exhausting.
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You know, if the roles were reversed, if Trump had died and
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some Hollywood liberal, probably many of them, posted something
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half as spicy, you know your side would have been 10 times
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worse. We've seen it over and over.
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So to everyone melting down right now, drop the programmed
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emotion for five seconds and think rationally.
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You don't have to like Trump. Of course.
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You don't have to agree with his post.
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But acting like this is some unprecedented evil while your
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side has done way worse for years?
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That is the hypocrisy. And I despise hypocrisy.
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And if you're cool with being a hypocrite, fine, keep crying.
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But some of us are tired of the double standard, quick reminder.
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Some of us are tired of the double standard, quick reminder.
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Like and subscribe, hit the bell, share this with someone
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who needs to hear it. Keep us growing as a team.
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I appreciate every one of you. I just needed to make sure that
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people understand that a context of a post like the one that
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Donald Trump did might not be necessary in in people's eyes.
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OK, he didn't need to say it then.
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But my God, this Rob Reiner, all he did was attack Trump on every
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platform he had for years. Forgive Donald Trump for not
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being a little more empathetic. And yet he still said rest in
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peace. And he still said it was a sad
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tragedy. You got to get off this.
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I don't believe that they that there is much that the left has
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going right now for them. And I feel like every time
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something like this happens, they jump on it like it's some
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opportunity to change the way that people who voted for Donald
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Trump think. We're not going to change the
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way we think. Overall.
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It's about policy. It's not about a Trump post.
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So that being said, there's my thought.
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People asked for it and I gave it.
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I do not condone hitting a family and hitting somebody when
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when they've died. I I don't I wouldn't do it and I
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know a lot of people wouldn't. But I also understand and I know
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why he did it and it's Donald Trump.
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So I'll see you guys next time. Have a very, very Merry
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Christmas. Stay clear eyed, stay
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unfiltered, stay principled, stay in the fray.
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Love you guys. All you need to do is just
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listen up.