October 14, 2025 • 24 mins
From Jane Fonda calling America an “autocracy,” to Gavin Newsom bragging about California’s “#1” education system, to The View crying about military fitness, and Emma Watson calling marriage “violent” — Ryan exposes how modern activists twist language to sell lies.
The Left has officially run out of logic — so now they’re rewriting the dictionary.
🔥 What’s Inside:
Hanoi Jane’s freedom-fighter cosplay
The View’s meltdown over fitness standards
Gavin’s “4th-largest economy” illusion ripped apart
Emma’s dramatic redefinition of “violence”
Why redefining words has become the Left’s favorite weapon
When words stop meaning anything, lies start sounding reasonable.
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(00:00):
Jane Fonda, this is a woman who literally sat on a N Vietnamese
anti aircraft gun that was used to shoot down American planes.
She now wants to lecture us on autocracy.
Here she is talking about how this administration is quickly
turning into an autocracy. This is the end of our launch
(00:21):
day. This is the 1st of October.
I am so inspired because hundreds and hundreds of people
have been calling and emailing us, wanting to be added on to
the committee for the First Amendment, people in the
entertainment industry. It's so Pete Hegseth, in case
you don't know who that is, thatwould be the United States
(00:41):
Secretary of Defense, Secretary of War.
Take a look. Hegseth spoke to U.S. military
leaders from around the world tolay out his very retro vision
for our armed forces. What?
This administration has done a great deal from day one.
Joe Rogan calls him out pretty accurately, by the way.
He says nobody trusts Gavin Newsom.
(01:01):
Check it out. They don't have any faith in
Gavin Newsom. It's just kind of funny because
he wants to be president so. Bad.
That's true. What?
It looks. Like you can't ruin a city and
then go on to ruin a state and say, guys, that was just
practice. Emma Watson, Hermione Granger
herself, The girl many of us hada harmless crush on.
(01:23):
It's such a violence and it's such a cruelty on people and
especially young people I think to and especially women, to make
them feel like they have no worth or like they haven't
succeeded yet in life. Welcome to Stay in the Fray
(01:45):
podcast. I'm your host, Ryan.
This is where headlines get hit hard, hypocrisy gets shredded,
and the absurd are laughed at. If you want comfort, this isn't
your place. If you want blunt and
unfiltered, I'm your guy. Join me in the fray, all you.
Need to do is just listen up. Hey guys, welcome back.
(02:09):
One of my biggest issues in society, as you've already
gathered by the the way that I've spoken over the last
however many months. But it's this political climate
and how the loudest people on the left have stopped debating
ideas and instead they're like changing the definition of words
(02:33):
don't mean what they actually mean to them.
Autocracy, violence, racism, fascism, fat phobic,
misinformation. They throw them all around like
confetti. No context, no logic, just
emotional punctuation to make whatever they say sound
(02:55):
profound. I can't call it a new strategy
per SE, but it's definitely one that keeps growing and it's
worrisome. If reality doesn't fit the
narrative, they just rename reality.
They don't win arguments, they rebrand them.
A few years ago they were banning books and de platforming
(03:15):
anyone who disagreed. Now that same crowd that cheered
censorship suddenly thinks we'reliving under a dictatorship
because a couple of late night hosts got benched.
They say the word autocracy likethey learned it yesterday and
they think it means I didn't getmy way.
Meanwhile, celebrities are calling marriage of violent.
(03:39):
The View is crying because the military wants soldiers who can
actually run a mile, and Gavin Newsom is bragging the
California's a top economy whilepeople are literally running
away from his mess. This is what happens when the
vocabulary of unhinged people becomes mainstream.
(04:00):
When words stop meaning anything, lies start sounding
reasonable to those who let it. So let's translate the delusion
back into English with another episode.
You like that Another episode ofthey really said that this is
stay in the fray podcast. It is October the 13th 2025.
(04:25):
Let's roll Hanoi Jane is back. Jane Fonda.
This is a woman who literally sat on a N Vietnamese anti
aircraft gun that was used to shoot down American planes and
broadcast propaganda against U.S. troops.
(04:46):
She now wants to lecture us on autocracy.
Jane, you supported A communist regime, the very thing that
breeds autocracy. You don't get to play freedom
fighter after posing with their guns.
Here she is talking about how this administration is quickly
turning into an autocracy. Roll it boys.
(05:09):
Hi everybody, This is Jane Fonda.
This is the end of our launch day.
This is the 1st of October. I am so inspired because
hundreds and hundreds of people have been calling and emailing
us, wanting to be added on to the committee for the First
Amendment people in the entertainment industry.
(05:30):
It's what it shows to me is thatour industry is ready to
mobilize and to resist autocracy, to resist attacks on
our fundamental freedoms. We're artists.
We're creatives, freedom of expression is essential to what
we do. Many of our fathers and
grandfathers fought wars to defend this right?
(05:54):
And we can't just sit back and and let this happen.
And it's moving fast. This isn't a creeping
totalitarianism. This is fast moving
consolidation of you. Shut up, Jane.
I, I just stop her. I mean, this is God.
What's been taken away? That right there is what happens
(06:14):
when words leave the dictionary and end up in the echo chamber.
Jane says we're living under an autocratic administration.
Her evidence is that like Colbert got canned and which, by
the way, didn't even go into effect until next year, Kimmel
gets a week off. That's her smoking gun.
That's fascism. Now all the artists rights are
(06:36):
being taken away and what does she do?
You know, artist Jane, people get fired every day.
Networks make business decisions.
When your ratings tank and you're spewing verifiable
misinformation every day, every night, management's going to
notice. That's not dictatorship, that's
(06:59):
consequence. And let's talk about hypocrisy
again. That's all I can do, because
that's all you people have. When Trump and every
conservative voice across socialmedia were systematically
banned, no reason, no due process.
Where were you? You were silent.
(07:21):
Not a single tear should for thepeople who were actually
censored. Now that your side's losing
cultural ground in a massive way, suddenly you've
rediscovered the First Amendment.
You want to cosplay as some kindof free speech warrior, Jane?
If we were in a real autocracy, you wouldn't be giving any
(07:42):
interviews, You wouldn't be doing these stupid videos.
You'd be sitting in a concrete room trying to figure out how to
say I'm sorry in Russian. It's wild how people like Jane
Fonda love throwing around wordslike autocracy and fascism but
never end. They don't understand them.
They don't mean what you think they mean, or you.
(08:03):
You understand them perfectly and you're just using them
incorrectly on purpose because you have an agenda.
Either way, you suck. You're not oppressed because
late night TV changed its line up.
And Jane, while we're talking about real things that are not
real, maybe start with your reflection.
You spent decades reconstructingyour face, trying to outlast
(08:27):
time itself, age gracefully because right now your face is
as fake as your love for this country.
All right, let's go ahead with it.
The view. I can't I I just can't with
these cackling hens. I feel like I could do an
analysis episode of their every episode that they do everyday.
(08:51):
I could just do a, a view wrap up from my point of view and I'd
have I'd have plenty of material.
It is the daily therapy session for menopausal women who think
feelings equal facts. All right.
So Pete Hegseth, in case you don't know who that is, that
would be the United States Secretary of Defence, Secretary
(09:13):
of War. He gave a speech to a room full
of top military leaders with a simple message.
The military should be physically fit, disciplined and
merit based. Sounds good to me.
Well, not for the Coven of Crowsat the View.
Take a look. Pete Hegseth spoke to U.S.
(09:33):
military leaders from around theworld to layout his very retro
vision for our armed forces. What?
This administration has done a great deal from day one to
remove the social justice, politically correct and toxic
ideological garbage that had infected our department.
It's tiring to lookout at combatformations, or really any
formation, and see fat. Troops, the optics Terrible.
(09:54):
Meaning all of our top military brass are all in one place and
we spent $6,000,000 to get them there.
That that didn't make a lot of sense to me.
It also didn't make a lot of sense to me that he was saying
that he was going to toughen physical standards and and
review the anti hazing policy bysort of implementing A hazing
policy. And then also he said he was
(10:14):
going to return to the highest male standard for combat
positions because the troops were fat.
I don't understand how that was supposed to be an uplifting
message for our military. He was referring to Colonel
Sanders. Yeah, it was.
It was just, it was, it was really a bizarre thing.
He started talking about woke DEI policies, but all right.
(10:35):
All right, all right, let's stopthere, $6 million for a
leadership summit. And that's one of the things
that that Sonny's crying about here.
These are the same people who shrugged off trillions in
government waste, but suddenly they're fiscal conservatives
when it's about strengthening the military.
Sunny Hostin says we shouldn't have spent the money bringing
(10:56):
the nation's military leadershiptogether.
Sunny, that 6,000,000 probably came from the loose change we
saved when administration, when this administration stopped
funding things like government funded studies testing how long
shrimp can run on tiny underwater treadmills.
Or how about that taxpayer funded research project
(11:19):
measuring social bonding during jello wrestling events?
Jello wrestling events? And both of those are 100% true.
I looked them up. I didn't believe it, so spare me
on bitching about funding our military leaders coming
together. Then she said she didn't like
Pete saying the troops need to be tough, toughened up on
(11:40):
physical standards. Excuse me?
That's the military. It's literally the one place in
society where fit isn't an insult, it's a requirement.
You don't send soldiers into combat who can't climb a fucking
wall or Sprint 30 yards. That's not inclusive, it's
negligent. Then comes the best part.
(12:03):
She calls higher fitness standards hazing.
That's not hazing, Sonny. It's just called training.
There's a difference between a push up and a personal attack.
She does not understand how Pete's message was supposed to
be uplifting. It's not supposed to be
uplifting, Sonny. It's supposed to be motivating.
(12:24):
The military isn't a daycare foradult toddlers, it's a fighting
force. And of course at the end there I
I saw. But they, you know, they
sprinkle in the DEI buzzword talk spared you the full rant.
Because nothing says strong defense like hiring based on
check boxes instead of competence.
The entire point of a merit based system is survival, not
(12:46):
social validation. And somewhere in there, God, Joy
Behar tried to to land a joke about Colonel Sanders, and that
was a fail. Was that her I did she ad Lib or
did her writers text it to her and say I like this?
Either way, it was terrible. Shut up, Joy.
(13:07):
That's the view in a nutshell. Emotion over reason, identity
over merit and outrage over outcome.
They can twist anything into victimhood, even soldiers being
told to stay in shape. All right, I cannot believe this
(13:29):
next dude is truly in consideration for the Democratic
Party ticket in 2028. Gavin Newsom, the human
embodiment of a smirk and a hairproduct endorsement.
So my colleague, as I call him Joe Rogan, calls him out pretty
accurately, by the way. He says nobody trusts Gavin
(13:53):
Newsom because how could they? You can't run it.
You can't ruin a city and then ruin a state and then expect
people to hand you the keys to the country.
He calls him a bullshit artist and says that he did horrible
things like the vaccine mandatesfor children.
Check it out. They don't have any faith in
Gavin Newsom. Oh yeah, It's just kind of
(14:14):
funny, 'cause he wants to be president so bad.
That's what it that's true. What?
It looks like. You can't ruin a city and then
go on to ruin a state and say, guys, that was just practice.
I know once I get it as a president, I'm gonna fix it.
I fix it all. I mean, it's so crazy, but he's
such a great politician. I mean, oh, he's so smooth.
He's I. Don't think so.
No, no, I think he's terrible. How's he remained in power?
For so long. Low competition.
(14:37):
There's no one who's good is competing against him.
There's no. Sense I should say he's not a
good, I should say smooth. He.
Comes I mean, he's a good bullshit artist.
Yeah, that's what I mean. But it's like what the things
that he says when he gets confronted with the we have the
highest, highest this and the highest like everybody's
leaving. Yeah, You have the highest
unemployment. Yeah, you have the highest
homelessness. Today with Hollywood, you he's.
Missing You killed Hollywood like Hollywood doesn't exist
(15:00):
anymore it's literally gone. That was such a mandated
vaccines for kids that didn't need them.
You guys, he did horrible shit. Everything that Joe says seems
to check out with me. So of course Gavin fires back on
this post, calls Rogan a chickenwith a chicken head emoji no
(15:21):
less. Governor of our, of our state of
California, ladies and gentlemen.
He, he, he calls him a chicken for not having him on his show
and then unloads his favorite talking point list.
This is the same list that he probably rehearses every morning
in front of the mirror while applying all that hair gel.
Gavin, you brag about Californiabeing the 4th largest economy in
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the world. You always say it, but it's just
a population trick. That ranking is based, just so
you know, I'll teach you something.
It's based on gross state product, GSP, the total dollar
value of everything produced in the state.
But it does not account for costof living, The highest in the
US. The poverty rate also amongst
(16:07):
the highest Out migration, over 800,000 people left in just two
years. Homelessness, by far the highest
in America percentage wise. In other words, yes, California
produces a lot of money, but it costs even more to live there.
That's like bragging about having a massive paycheck when
(16:27):
you're drowning in debt. And by the way, roughly half of
that world class economy comes from tech, Silicon Valley,
entertainment, Hollywood, and agriculture.
Central Valley small businesses and the middle class are getting
crushed not doing well under regulation and taxes while
billion dollar corporations keepyour GDP numbers artificially
(16:50):
high. The 4th largest economy headline
hides the truth. Most Californians are not
benefit benefiting from that. A big economy doesn't mean a
healthy 1. Quit using that.
Let's talk about the rest of your list.
Number one in manufacturing. You're also number one in
manufactured homelessness #1 in tech, You're number one in the
(17:14):
people leaving the state to actually build something.
Number one in farming, Sure, if we're counting the political
money you harvest from Silicon Valley donors, you got 40
million people. Of course the numbers are big.
Try it per capita and watch how fast these rankings fall.
This one really gets me. The last one you put on here, I
(17:36):
don't know if that was on purpose.
Number one in public higher education.
People hear that and they believe it, and it's pure
bullshit. In what metric, Gavin?
Prestige research output. Because when your transfer
system is a labyrinth, when students get stuck for years,
(17:58):
when funding keeps shrinking, being number one in a ranking
doesn't mean you're winning in real life.
You're twisting words again, Newsome.
Sure, some UC campuses headline high in rankings, but the system
as a whole is a mess. Students are stuck funding cut,
equity lagging #1 does not mean what you want it to mean in your
(18:21):
argument. The truth is California is
bleeding residents, jobs and credibility.
People are running from your state faster than you're running
from responsibility. I know I'm in Texas, in Dallas
and and they're all coming here.They're pissed.
Joe is one of them. Joe's now in Austin, and he left
(18:44):
California because it sucks and it's sad because California is
gorgeous, it's beautiful, and it's got all this potential.
And it's it's just you cannot fix crime by redefining theft.
You can't fix poverty by taxing the middle class into
extinction, and you can't brag about prosperity when half your
(19:04):
citizens can't afford to live there.
So when Rogan does call you a bullshit artist, he's being
polite. You call him a chicken, but the
only thing you've cooked is California.
You like that one? All right.
And finally, let's end this one's hard because of slight
(19:29):
feelings. Emma Watson.
Hermione Granger herself, the girl many of us had a harmless
crush on. Sassy, sharp, adorable, and
honestly, if she just stayed quiet, my crush would have
assuredly remained. To her credit, she's mostly
stayed out of the spotlight the past few years, probably after
(19:51):
the public spat. It's still ongoing with JK
Rowling, the woman who literallywrote Emma's career into
existence. But here's Emma back now, and
apparently she's here to give the world a vocabulary lesson.
It's such a violence and it's such a cruelty on people and
(20:13):
especially young people, I thinkto especially women, to make
them feel like they have no worth or like they haven't
succeeded yet in life because they haven't forced to.
Its culmination, something that I just don't think can or should
ever be forced. She's still adorable, that's for
(20:35):
sure. I had some feelings stirring
there, not going to lie. In case she didn't know, she was
talking about marriage and beinga mom.
But did you hear violence, Cruelty.
No worth. It's the new standard for
self-expression. Take a personal discomfort and
(20:58):
inflate it until it sounds like trauma.
Emma, baby, nobody's forcing youor any young lady to get
married. Nobody's telling those women
that they're worthless if they don't.
You're describing a you're driving these personal
insecurities and projecting on everybody else.
Supporting marriage, family, commitment.
(21:20):
None of that implies that peoplewho don't want those things are
broken. It's called a choice, and
ironically, that's what feminismused to be about, but now it's
language inflation turning everything into oppression.
Calling marriage violence isn't empowerment, it's emotional
cosplay. It gives people who already want
(21:42):
to feel victimized another script to read from.
There are women out there who want to be wives and mothers who
find purpose in that. Are they wrong?
Are they pressuring you simply by existing?
That's the trap of this new rhetoric.
If someone feels differently than you, they must be part of
(22:03):
the system. This is not progress.
It's narcissism dressed as insight.
Emma, Emma, sweet Emma. If marriage feels violent to
you, I heard you might be getting married.
And anyway, if it's violent to you, then the problem isn't the
institution. Maybe it's the way you see the
(22:25):
world. Because when words like violence
and cruelty lose all real meaning, that suffering stops
mattering. Real suffering stops mattering.
And that's the damage. I'm sorry to have had to scold
you like that, Emma. It was harder on me than it was
on you, all right? I'm tired of watching people
(22:48):
hijack the English language justto weaponize it.
They've turned words into Shields, slogans, and
smokescreens. Anything to avoid
accountability. They call free speech hate.
They call discipline violence. They call disagreement
oppression. They've built an entire culture
(23:11):
on labeling instead of listening, Because once you
label something, you don't have to understand it, you just get
to hate it. And the more they distort
language, the easier it becomes to manipulate people who don't
know any better. You can't think clearly when
every word has been redefined tomake someone else feel safe.
(23:33):
Truth doesn't care about your vocabulary, it doesn't bend to
your narrative, and pretending everything you don't like is
dangerous. It doesn't make you morally
superior to anybody, it makes you delusional.
We've reached a point where feelings are fact and reality is
(23:53):
offensive. But here's the thing, words
still mean something, and they always will.
They can't change that, no matter how hard they try and how
desperate they get. So join me in all of this.
I need all of you guys, everyoneof you who watches and
(24:15):
subscribes and likes and does all the things to help.
You mean the world to me, and I appreciate it.
We have to push past this blip on the radar.
So follow, spread it a little bit, tell one person to come
check it out, subscribe, and I'll keep blasting all of these
people for all of our sakes. So stay real, stay informed,
(24:38):
stay ready, stay in the fray. Love you guys, all you.
Had to do was just listen. Up.
Jane Fonda, this is a woman who literally sat on a N Vietnamese
anti aircraft gun that was used to shoot down American planes.
She now wants to lecture us on autocracy.
Here she is talking about how this administration is quickly
turning into an autocracy. This is the end of our launch
(00:21):
day. This is the 1st of October.
I am so inspired because hundreds and hundreds of people
have been calling and emailing us, wanting to be added on to
the committee for the First Amendment, people in the
entertainment industry. It's so Pete Hegseth, in case
you don't know who that is, thatwould be the United States
(00:41):
Secretary of Defense, Secretary of War.
Take a look. Hegseth spoke to U.S. military
leaders from around the world tolay out his very retro vision
for our armed forces. What?
This administration has done a great deal from day one.
Joe Rogan calls him out pretty accurately, by the way.
He says nobody trusts Gavin Newsom.
(01:01):
Check it out. They don't have any faith in
Gavin Newsom. It's just kind of funny because
he wants to be president so. Bad.
That's true. What?
It looks. Like you can't ruin a city and
then go on to ruin a state and say, guys, that was just
practice. Emma Watson, Hermione Granger
herself, The girl many of us hada harmless crush on.
(01:23):
It's such a violence and it's such a cruelty on people and
especially young people I think to and especially women, to make
them feel like they have no worth or like they haven't
succeeded yet in life. Welcome to Stay in the Fray
(01:45):
podcast. I'm your host, Ryan.
This is where headlines get hit hard, hypocrisy gets shredded,
and the absurd are laughed at. If you want comfort, this isn't
your place. If you want blunt and
unfiltered, I'm your guy. Join me in the fray, all you.
Need to do is just listen up. Hey guys, welcome back.
(02:09):
One of my biggest issues in society, as you've already
gathered by the the way that I've spoken over the last
however many months. But it's this political climate
and how the loudest people on the left have stopped debating
ideas and instead they're like changing the definition of words
(02:33):
don't mean what they actually mean to them.
Autocracy, violence, racism, fascism, fat phobic,
misinformation. They throw them all around like
confetti. No context, no logic, just
emotional punctuation to make whatever they say sound
(02:55):
profound. I can't call it a new strategy
per SE, but it's definitely one that keeps growing and it's
worrisome. If reality doesn't fit the
narrative, they just rename reality.
They don't win arguments, they rebrand them.
A few years ago they were banning books and de platforming
(03:15):
anyone who disagreed. Now that same crowd that cheered
censorship suddenly thinks we'reliving under a dictatorship
because a couple of late night hosts got benched.
They say the word autocracy likethey learned it yesterday and
they think it means I didn't getmy way.
Meanwhile, celebrities are calling marriage of violent.
(03:39):
The View is crying because the military wants soldiers who can
actually run a mile, and Gavin Newsom is bragging the
California's a top economy whilepeople are literally running
away from his mess. This is what happens when the
vocabulary of unhinged people becomes mainstream.
(04:00):
When words stop meaning anything, lies start sounding
reasonable to those who let it. So let's translate the delusion
back into English with another episode.
You like that Another episode ofthey really said that this is
stay in the fray podcast. It is October the 13th 2025.
(04:25):
Let's roll Hanoi Jane is back. Jane Fonda.
This is a woman who literally sat on a N Vietnamese anti
aircraft gun that was used to shoot down American planes and
broadcast propaganda against U.S. troops.
(04:46):
She now wants to lecture us on autocracy.
Jane, you supported A communist regime, the very thing that
breeds autocracy. You don't get to play freedom
fighter after posing with their guns.
Here she is talking about how this administration is quickly
turning into an autocracy. Roll it boys.
(05:09):
Hi everybody, This is Jane Fonda.
This is the end of our launch day.
This is the 1st of October. I am so inspired because
hundreds and hundreds of people have been calling and emailing
us, wanting to be added on to the committee for the First
Amendment people in the entertainment industry.
(05:30):
It's what it shows to me is thatour industry is ready to
mobilize and to resist autocracy, to resist attacks on
our fundamental freedoms. We're artists.
We're creatives, freedom of expression is essential to what
we do. Many of our fathers and
grandfathers fought wars to defend this right?
(05:54):
And we can't just sit back and and let this happen.
And it's moving fast. This isn't a creeping
totalitarianism. This is fast moving
consolidation of you. Shut up, Jane.
I, I just stop her. I mean, this is God.
What's been taken away? That right there is what happens
(06:14):
when words leave the dictionary and end up in the echo chamber.
Jane says we're living under an autocratic administration.
Her evidence is that like Colbert got canned and which, by
the way, didn't even go into effect until next year, Kimmel
gets a week off. That's her smoking gun.
That's fascism. Now all the artists rights are
(06:36):
being taken away and what does she do?
You know, artist Jane, people get fired every day.
Networks make business decisions.
When your ratings tank and you're spewing verifiable
misinformation every day, every night, management's going to
notice. That's not dictatorship, that's
(06:59):
consequence. And let's talk about hypocrisy
again. That's all I can do, because
that's all you people have. When Trump and every
conservative voice across socialmedia were systematically
banned, no reason, no due process.
Where were you? You were silent.
(07:21):
Not a single tear should for thepeople who were actually
censored. Now that your side's losing
cultural ground in a massive way, suddenly you've
rediscovered the First Amendment.
You want to cosplay as some kindof free speech warrior, Jane?
If we were in a real autocracy, you wouldn't be giving any
(07:42):
interviews, You wouldn't be doing these stupid videos.
You'd be sitting in a concrete room trying to figure out how to
say I'm sorry in Russian. It's wild how people like Jane
Fonda love throwing around wordslike autocracy and fascism but
never end. They don't understand them.
They don't mean what you think they mean, or you.
(08:03):
You understand them perfectly and you're just using them
incorrectly on purpose because you have an agenda.
Either way, you suck. You're not oppressed because
late night TV changed its line up.
And Jane, while we're talking about real things that are not
real, maybe start with your reflection.
You spent decades reconstructingyour face, trying to outlast
(08:27):
time itself, age gracefully because right now your face is
as fake as your love for this country.
All right, let's go ahead with it.
The view. I can't I I just can't with
these cackling hens. I feel like I could do an
analysis episode of their every episode that they do everyday.
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I could just do a, a view wrap up from my point of view and I'd
have I'd have plenty of material.
It is the daily therapy session for menopausal women who think
feelings equal facts. All right.
So Pete Hegseth, in case you don't know who that is, that
would be the United States Secretary of Defence, Secretary
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of War. He gave a speech to a room full
of top military leaders with a simple message.
The military should be physically fit, disciplined and
merit based. Sounds good to me.
Well, not for the Coven of Crowsat the View.
Take a look. Pete Hegseth spoke to U.S.
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military leaders from around theworld to layout his very retro
vision for our armed forces. What?
This administration has done a great deal from day one to
remove the social justice, politically correct and toxic
ideological garbage that had infected our department.
It's tiring to lookout at combatformations, or really any
formation, and see fat. Troops, the optics Terrible.
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Meaning all of our top military brass are all in one place and
we spent $6,000,000 to get them there.
That that didn't make a lot of sense to me.
It also didn't make a lot of sense to me that he was saying
that he was going to toughen physical standards and and
review the anti hazing policy bysort of implementing A hazing
policy. And then also he said he was
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going to return to the highest male standard for combat
positions because the troops were fat.
I don't understand how that was supposed to be an uplifting
message for our military. He was referring to Colonel
Sanders. Yeah, it was.
It was just, it was, it was really a bizarre thing.
He started talking about woke DEI policies, but all right.
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All right, all right, let's stopthere, $6 million for a
leadership summit. And that's one of the things
that that Sonny's crying about here.
These are the same people who shrugged off trillions in
government waste, but suddenly they're fiscal conservatives
when it's about strengthening the military.
Sunny Hostin says we shouldn't have spent the money bringing
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the nation's military leadershiptogether.
Sunny, that 6,000,000 probably came from the loose change we
saved when administration, when this administration stopped
funding things like government funded studies testing how long
shrimp can run on tiny underwater treadmills.
Or how about that taxpayer funded research project
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measuring social bonding during jello wrestling events?
Jello wrestling events? And both of those are 100% true.
I looked them up. I didn't believe it, so spare me
on bitching about funding our military leaders coming
together. Then she said she didn't like
Pete saying the troops need to be tough, toughened up on
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physical standards. Excuse me?
That's the military. It's literally the one place in
society where fit isn't an insult, it's a requirement.
You don't send soldiers into combat who can't climb a fucking
wall or Sprint 30 yards. That's not inclusive, it's
negligent. Then comes the best part.
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She calls higher fitness standards hazing.
That's not hazing, Sonny. It's just called training.
There's a difference between a push up and a personal attack.
She does not understand how Pete's message was supposed to
be uplifting. It's not supposed to be
uplifting, Sonny. It's supposed to be motivating.
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The military isn't a daycare foradult toddlers, it's a fighting
force. And of course at the end there I
I saw. But they, you know, they
sprinkle in the DEI buzzword talk spared you the full rant.
Because nothing says strong defense like hiring based on
check boxes instead of competence.
The entire point of a merit based system is survival, not
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social validation. And somewhere in there, God, Joy
Behar tried to to land a joke about Colonel Sanders, and that
was a fail. Was that her I did she ad Lib or
did her writers text it to her and say I like this?
Either way, it was terrible. Shut up, Joy.
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That's the view in a nutshell. Emotion over reason, identity
over merit and outrage over outcome.
They can twist anything into victimhood, even soldiers being
told to stay in shape. All right, I cannot believe this
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next dude is truly in consideration for the Democratic
Party ticket in 2028. Gavin Newsom, the human
embodiment of a smirk and a hairproduct endorsement.
So my colleague, as I call him Joe Rogan, calls him out pretty
accurately, by the way. He says nobody trusts Gavin
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Newsom because how could they? You can't run it.
You can't ruin a city and then ruin a state and then expect
people to hand you the keys to the country.
He calls him a bullshit artist and says that he did horrible
things like the vaccine mandatesfor children.
Check it out. They don't have any faith in
Gavin Newsom. Oh yeah, It's just kind of
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funny, 'cause he wants to be president so bad.
That's what it that's true. What?
It looks like. You can't ruin a city and then
go on to ruin a state and say, guys, that was just practice.
I know once I get it as a president, I'm gonna fix it.
I fix it all. I mean, it's so crazy, but he's
such a great politician. I mean, oh, he's so smooth.
He's I. Don't think so.
No, no, I think he's terrible. How's he remained in power?
For so long. Low competition.
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There's no one who's good is competing against him.
There's no. Sense I should say he's not a
good, I should say smooth. He.
Comes I mean, he's a good bullshit artist.
Yeah, that's what I mean. But it's like what the things
that he says when he gets confronted with the we have the
highest, highest this and the highest like everybody's
leaving. Yeah, You have the highest
unemployment. Yeah, you have the highest
homelessness. Today with Hollywood, you he's.
Missing You killed Hollywood like Hollywood doesn't exist
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anymore it's literally gone. That was such a mandated
vaccines for kids that didn't need them.
You guys, he did horrible shit. Everything that Joe says seems
to check out with me. So of course Gavin fires back on
this post, calls Rogan a chickenwith a chicken head emoji no
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less. Governor of our, of our state of
California, ladies and gentlemen.
He, he, he calls him a chicken for not having him on his show
and then unloads his favorite talking point list.
This is the same list that he probably rehearses every morning
in front of the mirror while applying all that hair gel.
Gavin, you brag about Californiabeing the 4th largest economy in
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the world. You always say it, but it's just
a population trick. That ranking is based, just so
you know, I'll teach you something.
It's based on gross state product, GSP, the total dollar
value of everything produced in the state.
But it does not account for costof living, The highest in the
US. The poverty rate also amongst
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the highest Out migration, over 800,000 people left in just two
years. Homelessness, by far the highest
in America percentage wise. In other words, yes, California
produces a lot of money, but it costs even more to live there.
That's like bragging about having a massive paycheck when
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you're drowning in debt. And by the way, roughly half of
that world class economy comes from tech, Silicon Valley,
entertainment, Hollywood, and agriculture.
Central Valley small businesses and the middle class are getting
crushed not doing well under regulation and taxes while
billion dollar corporations keepyour GDP numbers artificially
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high. The 4th largest economy headline
hides the truth. Most Californians are not
benefit benefiting from that. A big economy doesn't mean a
healthy 1. Quit using that.
Let's talk about the rest of your list.
Number one in manufacturing. You're also number one in
manufactured homelessness #1 in tech, You're number one in the
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people leaving the state to actually build something.
Number one in farming, Sure, if we're counting the political
money you harvest from Silicon Valley donors, you got 40
million people. Of course the numbers are big.
Try it per capita and watch how fast these rankings fall.
This one really gets me. The last one you put on here, I
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don't know if that was on purpose.
Number one in public higher education.
People hear that and they believe it, and it's pure
bullshit. In what metric, Gavin?
Prestige research output. Because when your transfer
system is a labyrinth, when students get stuck for years,
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when funding keeps shrinking, being number one in a ranking
doesn't mean you're winning in real life.
You're twisting words again, Newsome.
Sure, some UC campuses headline high in rankings, but the system
as a whole is a mess. Students are stuck funding cut,
equity lagging #1 does not mean what you want it to mean in your
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argument. The truth is California is
bleeding residents, jobs and credibility.
People are running from your state faster than you're running
from responsibility. I know I'm in Texas, in Dallas
and and they're all coming here.They're pissed.
Joe is one of them. Joe's now in Austin, and he left
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California because it sucks and it's sad because California is
gorgeous, it's beautiful, and it's got all this potential.
And it's it's just you cannot fix crime by redefining theft.
You can't fix poverty by taxing the middle class into
extinction, and you can't brag about prosperity when half your
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citizens can't afford to live there.
So when Rogan does call you a bullshit artist, he's being
polite. You call him a chicken, but the
only thing you've cooked is California.
You like that one? All right.
And finally, let's end this one's hard because of slight
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feelings. Emma Watson.
Hermione Granger herself, the girl many of us had a harmless
crush on. Sassy, sharp, adorable, and
honestly, if she just stayed quiet, my crush would have
assuredly remained. To her credit, she's mostly
stayed out of the spotlight the past few years, probably after
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the public spat. It's still ongoing with JK
Rowling, the woman who literallywrote Emma's career into
existence. But here's Emma back now, and
apparently she's here to give the world a vocabulary lesson.
It's such a violence and it's such a cruelty on people and
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especially young people, I thinkto especially women, to make
them feel like they have no worth or like they haven't
succeeded yet in life because they haven't forced to.
Its culmination, something that I just don't think can or should
ever be forced. She's still adorable, that's for
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sure. I had some feelings stirring
there, not going to lie. In case she didn't know, she was
talking about marriage and beinga mom.
But did you hear violence, Cruelty.
No worth. It's the new standard for
self-expression. Take a personal discomfort and
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inflate it until it sounds like trauma.
Emma, baby, nobody's forcing youor any young lady to get
married. Nobody's telling those women
that they're worthless if they don't.
You're describing a you're driving these personal
insecurities and projecting on everybody else.
Supporting marriage, family, commitment.
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None of that implies that peoplewho don't want those things are
broken. It's called a choice, and
ironically, that's what feminismused to be about, but now it's
language inflation turning everything into oppression.
Calling marriage violence isn't empowerment, it's emotional
cosplay. It gives people who already want
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to feel victimized another script to read from.
There are women out there who want to be wives and mothers who
find purpose in that. Are they wrong?
Are they pressuring you simply by existing?
That's the trap of this new rhetoric.
If someone feels differently than you, they must be part of
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the system. This is not progress.
It's narcissism dressed as insight.
Emma, Emma, sweet Emma. If marriage feels violent to
you, I heard you might be getting married.
And anyway, if it's violent to you, then the problem isn't the
institution. Maybe it's the way you see the
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world. Because when words like violence
and cruelty lose all real meaning, that suffering stops
mattering. Real suffering stops mattering.
And that's the damage. I'm sorry to have had to scold
you like that, Emma. It was harder on me than it was
on you, all right? I'm tired of watching people
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hijack the English language justto weaponize it.
They've turned words into Shields, slogans, and
smokescreens. Anything to avoid
accountability. They call free speech hate.
They call discipline violence. They call disagreement
oppression. They've built an entire culture
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on labeling instead of listening, Because once you
label something, you don't have to understand it, you just get
to hate it. And the more they distort
language, the easier it becomes to manipulate people who don't
know any better. You can't think clearly when
every word has been redefined tomake someone else feel safe.
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Truth doesn't care about your vocabulary, it doesn't bend to
your narrative, and pretending everything you don't like is
dangerous. It doesn't make you morally
superior to anybody, it makes you delusional.
We've reached a point where feelings are fact and reality is
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offensive. But here's the thing, words
still mean something, and they always will.
They can't change that, no matter how hard they try and how
desperate they get. So join me in all of this.
I need all of you guys, everyoneof you who watches and
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subscribes and likes and does all the things to help.
You mean the world to me, and I appreciate it.
We have to push past this blip on the radar.
So follow, spread it a little bit, tell one person to come
check it out, subscribe, and I'll keep blasting all of these
people for all of our sakes. So stay real, stay informed,
(24:38):
stay ready, stay in the fray. Love you guys, all you.
Had to do was just listen. Up.
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