New York’s socialist hopeful wants to drain over half your paycheck. The media’s losing its mind over a privately funded ballroom. And The View? They’ve turned self-pity into a national sport.
Ryan unpacks the week’s loudest nonsense — exposing how politics has become performance and how outrage keeps the left alive.
🔥 Inside this episode:
• Zohran Mamdani’s 52 % tax fantasy
• The View’s meltdown over a ballroom Trump isn’t even billing to taxpayers
• Hillary’s post about “our house” (and the irony that came with it)
• Sunny Hostin’s latest round of pre-emptive race panic
• Why America’s emotional collapse is helping the other side win
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Let's start with the reaction from the cackling hens on The
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View. They said they demonstrate
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perfectly what I'm trying to say.
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It's Sarah Haynes. Listen to this.
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What you're alluding to is kind of what struck me.
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A ballroom is a symbol of excess and opulence.
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And we're living in a time where those optics just are flying in
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the face of the reality of the majority of this country.
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When you look up, you know, he won on making cost of living
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better. But inflation is up 3%.
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Seventy, 4% of Americans say they've seen household prices
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increase increase by at least $100.
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Let's talk about the mayor hopeful himself, Zoran Mondani,
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the socialist darling who somehow thinks Manhattan's
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problem isn't crime, filth or mass exodus of working people.
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Roll it guys. So a lot of individuals in this
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city pay more than 50% of their income in taxes.
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When you talk about a fair share, how much more than what
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is the fair share? What's the number?
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I've said that we should increase personal income tax by
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two. Percent is is fair.
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And my and my point is this is up.
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More than half of your income, that's.
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If you're making $1 in New York City or more than that,
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you can afford to pay 2% more and the reasons you can afford
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to do so. And then, as if the meltdown
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over a chandelier wasn't enough, Hillary Clinton decided to post
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the following It's not his house, it's your house, and he's
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destroying it. 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, hypocracy gets shredded,
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and the absurd are laughed at. If you want comfort, this isn't
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your place. If you want blunt and
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unfiltered, I'm your guy. Join me in the Fray, all you.
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Had to do is just listen. Up All right.
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Hey, guys. I can feel it in the air.
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It's this desperation from the left.
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They're kicking and screaming and clawing at walls, at at
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everything because the country's doing well and they don't like
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it. The economy has started to crawl
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back. Jobs are stabilizing, private
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money is flowing. And their instinct isn't to say,
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well, that's good. They'd rather destroy whoever
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made it happen. Case in point, Trump's building
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a ballroom, privately funded, not a dime of taxpayer money,
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and is treated like the second coming of Versailles.
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Meanwhile, New York, the city that wants to find American
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drive prosperity, is flirting more than flirting with, but
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they're flirting with electing a self-proclaimed socialist who
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wants to drain over half your paycheck and call it progress.
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We've reached a point where hate for one man and the majority of
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the country who sees the good in his policies outweighs love for
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country. They would rather see America
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fail than admit it's doing better under someone they don't
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like. This isn't politics anymore,
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it's mental and emotional collapse.
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This is Stay in the Fray podcast.
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It is October 27th, 2025. Let's roll with New York City.
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I've been waiting for some what I know many have for a lot
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longer than I have. Waiting for someone to waltz in
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and truly make it the greatest city on earth.
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Not the case. It's going the other direction.
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And what's scary is that the people there in New York seem to
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be supporting it's downfall. Let's talk about the mayor
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hopeful himself, Zoran Mondani, the socialist darling who
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somehow thinks Manhattan's problem isn't crime, filth or
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mass exodus of working people. It's that the rich aren't taxed
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enough. I'll start with this.
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Roll it guys. So a lot of individuals in this
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city pay more than 50% of their income in taxes.
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When you talk about a fair share, how much more than what
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is the fair share? What's the number?
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I've said that we should increase personal.
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Income. Tax by two.
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Percent. Is is fair?
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And my and my point is this is. More than half of your income,
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that's. If you're making $1 in
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New York City or more than that, you can afford to pay 2% more.
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And the reasons you can afford to do so is because that money
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will be used to better your quality of life as well.
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Yeah, because when I speak to the wealthiest New Yorkers, I
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hear concerns about the cleanliness of the city, the
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quality of life in the city, questions of public safety.
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This money is the money that will be used to deliver on those
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things so that we can ensure that we have a return on
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investment for all of the money that we are raising and spending
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right here across the five boroughs.
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Raising. It's not a fundraiser, dude.
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There it is, 52% over half of your paycheck gone before you
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even pay rent, groceries, before the city takes its other cutting
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fees, fines. Nonsense.
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His plan to help the New Yorkers is to bleed the one still
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footing the bill. And his reasoning, Well, the
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wealthy, which I don't believe happened, told me that they care
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about clean streets, infrastructure, all that.
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Yeah. So, Ron, that's called.
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They want you to do your job. That's what city budgets are
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already supposed to cover. Streets, sanitation, policing,
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housing. Every one of those departments
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already has multi billion dollar allocation.
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If they're failing, that's not because billionaires didn't pay
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enough, it's because the government burned through what
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it had and still managed to accomplish nothing.
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You start telling you Zolon, you start taxing people in New York
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at over 50%, they're gone. Florida, Texas, pick your state.
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Anywhere that doesn't treat ambition like a crime.
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There's there's a recent poll, I hate to to say it that way, but
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that's how I read it. A recent poll that more than a
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quarter, 26% to be exact, of New Yorkers would leave if this guy
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wins, who could? I don't blame him.
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I don't blame him one bit. You'd be insane to keep
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building, hiring, and investing in a city that punishes you for
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success. But it doesn't just hit your
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wallet. He's playing the fake sympathy
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card too. And let me tell you how much
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this is going to this got to me and I got to show you this.
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He could win a fucking Daytime Emmy with this performance.
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Check it out. I want to speak to the memory of
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my aunt who stopped taking the subway after September 11th
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because she did not feel safe in her hijab.
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So he actually tried to censor himself and his aunt as the
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victims of 911. He says his aunt stopped riding
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the subway because she didn't feel safe wearing her job.
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First of all, look, nobody's minimizing fear or prejudice
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that's out there. Fair enough.
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But framing that as the take away from one of the darkest
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days in American history? What's the matter with you,
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dude? Now we're finding out, thanks to
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the Times of India, a legit publication, that his aunt
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didn't even live in New York during 9/11 and she doesn't even
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wear a hijab. That's not a slip up.
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He didn't just misspeak, he fucking lied and used 9/11 in
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the murder of 3000 Americans as a prop in a campaign monologue.
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It's all emotional theater using trauma.
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You didn't live to build a brand you didn't earn.
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And that is the danger here, people.
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It's not just a politician lying, it's a politician trying
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to reprogram history to fit this ideology.
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New York, please. This is who's running for mayor,
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a guy who thinks confiscation equals compassion and who invent
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sob stories to sell socialism and who somehow believes the
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city that once represented American grit should become a
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test lab for Marxism. This isn't leadership.
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It's a scam wrapped in buzzwords and fake virtue, the motto of
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the modern left. Enough of Zoron.
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So Trump is building a big beautiful ballroom at the White
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House and all your panties are in a wad.
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The loud and whiny minority. To them, you'd think it was the
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end of democracy as a whole. They're going to add this to the
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list of reasons. The end of times, the media and
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politicians. They melt down over this, and
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they make it sound like Trump bulldoze the Lincoln Bedroom and
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replaced it with a casino. Let's start with the reaction
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from the cackling hens on The View.
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They said they demonstrate perfectly what I'm trying to
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say. And this time it's not Joy and
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Sunny or Whoopi or any of these people.
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It's Sarah Haynes. Listen to this.
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You're alluding to is kind of what struck me.
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A ballroom is a symbol of excess and opulence.
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And we're living in a time where those optics just aren't flying
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in the face of the reality of the majority of this country.
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When you look up, you know, he won on making cost of living
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better. But inflation is up 3%.
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Seventy 4% of Americans say they've seen household prices
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increase increase by at least $100.
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The unemployment rate is at A4 four year high right now.
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People are struggling to eat. And this was like a wealthy
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ballroom paid for by wealthy people for, well, wealthy people
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to come and dance in a ballroom. And like, I know this was
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private funds, but I can't help but imagine how far $250 million
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could go for families who can't put food on the table.
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Right? That's what.
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Struck me at the 200 and. 50. $1 project.
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It's it's and it's going to be tacky and gaudy, you know that.
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Had to let that that last part by Sunny.
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Seriously. So that's the reaction.
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Shrill tone from Sarah pretending A privately funded
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project is the national emergency.
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A ballroom paid for again by private donors, not taxpayer
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dollars. No one's rent just went up
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because the fucking chandelier got stalled.
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But you never know it from the way that they're crying on
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daytime TV. Sarah Haynes actually called it
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a symbol of excess and opulence. Yes, Sarah.
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So are red carpet galas, award shows and every part of your
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network hosts during sweeps week.
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It's funny how luxury is evil only when someone you hate is
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behind it. Then she starts listing facts.
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Allow me to retort. Inflation up 3%, unemployment
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the highest in four years. People struggling to eat.
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As if any of that has the slightest connection to a
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privately funded ballroom. That's the part they can't
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process, didn't use their money, so they can't control it.
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And for the record, let's do this.
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The numbers that Sarah Haynes tossed around there were cherry
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picked nonsense. Inflation hasn't spiked again.
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It's fallen from crisis levels that were near 9% in 2000 and
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2022. It's around 3% now.
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That's called stability. It's not perfect, but it's a
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long way from the economic firestorm we were living through
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under Biden's term and this whole claim that 74% of
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Americans are paying $100 more a month.
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Who exactly is she polling the audience in the studio there?
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Because there's no uniform, measurable way to say everyone's
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cost of living jumped by the same amount.
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It's it sounds ridiculous. Rent in New York isn't groceries
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in Kansas. That's that was designed to
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sound scary, not to reflect reality.
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And if we're talking everyday life, Sarah, gas prices are
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sitting around $3.07 a gallon nationally, the lowest average
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we've seen in years, down about $0.15 from last year.
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At this point. That alone tells you that the
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people can't afford to eat or Dr. Narrative is a little
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outdated. Unemployment.
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Let's talk about that. Sitting at around 4.3%.
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That is still low by historical standards.
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And the spike didn't happen until after COVID was part of a
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recovery. It wasn't some miracle of job
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creation. Many people had to take two or
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more jobs to crawl back from the record inflation.
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That's the same inflation, by the way, caused by the crowd not
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pretending that they fixed it. So even if even if all of these
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dramatic numbers from Sarah Haines were true, none of them
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still have a single thing to do with a privately funded
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ballroom. Not one.
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Maybe the energy should be spent asking why billions in public
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funds for all these concerns that Sarah Haines has disappear
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every year with nothing to show for it.
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Take California $24 billion spent on ending homelessness in
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the last few years, and the tent still aligned the streets from
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LA to Oakland. But a privately funded ballroom?
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That is the true crisis. Sunny Hostin, like I said,
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jumped in there at the end calling out you know it's going
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to be tacky and gaudy and some fucking fake accent.
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Sunny the guy Donald Trump made a fortune designing towers in
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every major city on earth. You're a Co host on a poorly
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rated midday talk show and you hens have been yelling about the
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same shit, same 3 topics since 2000, 2016.
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If anyone's qualified to talk about taste, it's not anyone at
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your table. You wouldn't know class and
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elegance if it slapped you across the face.
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Let's clear something up for the people crying into their soy
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lattes. The president has every legal
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and historical right to make upgrades to the White House,
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especially when they're privately funded.
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You got it. The building is federal
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property, yes, but it's also the executive residence by law.
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Here you go. I know you hate facts.
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Title 3, Section 110 of the US Code.
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The President can approve repairs, improvements, and
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accept private donations to do it.
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It's not some new loophole that only Donald Trump is using.
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It's literally how it's always worked.
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Kennedy brought in private donors for full restoration that
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Jackie LED in the 60's. The Clintons took private gifts
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for furniture and decor. Obama accepted donations for
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garden and tech upgrades. It's routine.
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So when Trump gets private funding for a ballroom, he's not
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breaking tradition, he's following it.
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Many presidents actually left their mark on taxpayer dollars,
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by the way. Teddy Roosevelt built The West
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Wing. Truman built the entire
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interior, rebuild the entire interior.
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Nixon added a bowling alley. You don't have to like Trump to
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accept reality. The president is allowed to
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improve the White House how he sees fit.
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The difference this time is that taxpayers aren't even footing
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the bill. So what are you so upset about?
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Everybody fainting on television?
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Get this, It is legal, it is funded, and it's happening.
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Here's some more reality. A ballroom at the White House
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isn't for dancing, Sarah. It's for diplomacy.
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Also, trade dinners, state visits, charity events.
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It's where deals happen. That's what scares them.
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Because every chandelier, every handshake, every world leader
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smiling in that room is proof that things are stable, that the
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administration isn't the chaos that they've been selling.
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So instead of admitting that something is good, that
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something good is being built with 0 taxpayer burden by the
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way, they cried dictator and monarchy and all this bullshit.
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Because the the moment Trump does something great, they lose
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their favorite storyline. Panic sets in, desperation on
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display. And then, as if the meltdown
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over a chandelier wasn't enough, Hillary Clinton decided to post
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the following It's not his house, it's your house, and he's
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destroying it, right, Hillary, the woman who literally tried to
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take furniture and China from our house when she left, is
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suddenly the guardian of White House integrity?
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You can't make this up. It's if it's our house, then
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maybe stop rooting for whoever's living in it to fail.
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And As for destroying it, Hillary, let's not pretend that
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those cleaners weren't working overtime after your husband's
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extracurricular activities in the Oval Office.
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Sit this one out, Hillary. Actually, you know what?
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Sit them all out. You're done.
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Every time you open your mouth, it just reminds America why we
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refused to put you back in the White House again.
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All right, real quick, let's jump back to the View and Sunny
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Hostin. This, bless her heart, she just
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says one dumb ass thing after another.
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Check out her most recent race baiting nonsense.
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Play it guys. As a mother of black children, I
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know that black boys are not given the presumption of
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innocence and the presumption of youth.
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She's calling the police and saying they're trying to steal
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her car and they're 11 years old.
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They don't know how to drive. And so for me, what was
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interesting was I have had to be in the position where I have
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gone to my local Police Department because I know my son
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is going to be training for the Junior Olympics running around
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the neighborhood in an all white neighborhood.
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And I have brought him to the police and said he belongs to
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me. This is my son.
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Do not harass him. Do not stop him.
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First off, an 11 year old boy can steal a car without knowing
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how to drive. Let's think about criminals.
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They don't care about being properly licensed.
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Let's get this straight Sonny, you live in an all white
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neighborhood, you apparently just don't trust the people in
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it and your first thought isn't to move or I don't know, have
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faith in the community? It's to pre accuse every cop in
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town of being racist before they've even said hello.
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This is the insanity of the modern of of modern liberalism
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really. It's not about equality anymore,
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it's about finding racism under every rock, in every lawn, in
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every jogging route just to feel relevant.
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These people cannot survive without pretending they are
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oppressed. And here's the kicker, if she
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actually believed her own words, she wouldn't live there.
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Tell us, Sunny, why do you live in an all white neighborhood?
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You can't lecture the country about systemic racism from a
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$3 house in an all white neighborhood.
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You're 1. Big walking contradiction.
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Maybe, just maybe, the police aren't out hunting your kid.
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Maybe they're doing their jobs, you know, protecting
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neighborhoods like yours. Cops patrolling isn't
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harassment, it's just how civilization works.
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The truth is, Sonny and her Co hosts have built an entire brand
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on fear. The race narrative is their
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currency. Without it all, they have
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nothing to sell. No audience, no outrage, no
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purpose. And that's why every
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conversation somehow ends in race, class or gender.
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It's a performance, just like Zoran's fake tears and the
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left's meltdown over a fucking ballroom.
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And that's the theme of it all, isn't it?
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The extremes they'll go to, the crying, the lying, the
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rewriting, just to avoid admitting that things things are
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OK. Things are getting better.
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They've been trained to hate one man and all the people like
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minded to his policies. In the process, they've learned
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to hate their own country. They can't accept progress
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because it kills the narrative. They'd rather torch the place
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than admit it still standing. The media, the politicians, the
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activists, they've all gone so far off the deep end that
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reality doesn't even really register anymore.
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New York flirting with a socialist mayor is unheard of.
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The press treating a ballroom like a coup.
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Talk show host turning motherhood into a race war.
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It's all one big act. Desperate, dramatic, and
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dangerously detached from the real world.
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Sadly, people buy into it. But the good news?
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Every time they pull one of these stunts or say one of these
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dumb ass things, more people wake up.
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Every lie exposes itself and every tantrum makes the truth
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louder. It takes another group of people
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and it sends them in this direction towards us.
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So for that, I suppose I should say thank you.
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Like subscribe comment. Let's keep rolling together.
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Join me on this. Stay sharp, stay grounded, stay
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fearless, stay in the fray. I love you guys just.
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Listen up.