August 29, 2025 • 29 mins
Joy Reid says white people can’t invent. James Comey gushes about Taylor Swift. Elizabeth Warren pushes government grocery stores. This is the first Grievance Games™ of the season, and the hypocrisy is louder than ever.
We kick it off with a story from a Flaming Lips concert — thousands of strangers, confetti raining down, and one giant hamster ball rolling across the crowd. It’s pure joy… until politics creeps in. That moment is the perfect metaphor for what this show is all about: finding the truth in a culture that pretends to love unity but turns to hate when your politics show.
In this episode:
Joy Reid’s anti-white rant and deportation conspiracy
James Comey’s Swiftie obsession meets Trump bashing
Elizabeth Warren’s socialist “grocery experiment”
Ella Emhoff’s climate anxiety TikTok
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Let's start with this subset live stream that she did with
Wajahat Ali. He's the guy who nods along to
anything anti white like it's gospel.
Joy looks right into the camera and says that white people can't
invent anything. They can't originally invent
anything more than they ever were able to invent good music.
We black folk gave y'all countrymusic, hip hop, R&B, jazz,
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rock'n'roll. James comedy.
Yes, that James Comedy, the guy who ran the FBI into the ground
with the Russia collusion hoax, is now posting weird little
selfie videos on the Internet. And Donald Trump is still
president and still humiliating America on a national stage
standing next to Vladimir Putin.It's like a dream, a bad dream
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you can't wake up from. But I don't want to talk about
that bad dream this week. I want to talk about a truly
inspirational public figure named Taylor Swift Here Warren
is at a rally of some sort for Zoran.
Mom donning again, potential communist New York City mayor.
She says he's got real plans to make New York more affordable.
And then she drops the gem of the year.
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Tends to deliver on housing, plans to deliver.
We're going to experiment. We're going to try things on
groceries. Welcome to Stay in the Fray
podcast. I'm your host, Ryan.
This is where headlines get hit hard, hypocracy gets shredded,
and the absurd are laughed at. If you want comfort, this isn't
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your place. If you want blunt and
unfiltered, I'm your guy. Join me in the fray.
All you had to do was just listen up.
Hey everyone, if you already know me, you'll enjoy the way
that this story I'm about to tell ties back into what you
already know about me, and probably why you've stuck around
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with the show. If you're new here, great,
because it explains everything. How I see the world, why I do
this, and what this show is really about.
Stick around, I think you'll be glad that you did.
So picture this. 10,000 people in an arena, confetti cannons
pinned and primed. Wayne Coyne, frontman climbing
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into his giant blow up hamster ball.
And if you've ever been to a Flaming Lips show, you know
exactly what I'm talking about. There's about 3 minutes of pure
happiness when he rolls over thecrowd while the song race for
the Prize blasts and confetti reigns like it's New Year's Eve.
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They always close every show with that song, and I think I
know why because in that moment it's impossible not to smile,
not to feel good. You're shoulder to shoulder with
strangers, everyone singing the same chorus, every ounce of
cynicism washed away in those few moments.
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In the way that Flaming Lips does it.
It's beautiful. Here's the thing, I love it.
I love Wayne. I think he's one of the the
greatest front men that I've seen.
But I know full well that he andmost of that stage and most of
that crowd probably sees the world completely differently
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than I do politically. Yet I can stand there smiling,
clapping, cheering, because the music is what matters.
It's art, it's joy, and that's how it should be.
But here's the catch. Does that go both ways?
If Wayne looked out at the crowdand knew that one of the smiling
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faces was a Trump supporter, would I still be welcome and all
that joy? Or would the love end the second
in my politics were visible? And I've seen this before, not
at the lip show. Wayne actually kept it very
respectful with one small line about being a hard time in
America right now. I respect the hell out of him
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for that and the band for not going overboard.
The reaction I heard some shouting of things blaming
Trump, turning that blanket of love everyone into jeers and
hate for people like me and in other shows, U2, Bruce
Springsteen, Green Day, it's even louder.
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Entire arenas drenched in so-called love flip to Venom the
moment that one man's name is mentioned.
That's the divide. They claim to love America, love
its people and love peace, untilthe very people they supposedly
love dare to vote differently, to think differently, to
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approach life differently. Then the unity shatters, the
tolerance disappears, and the hate comes roaring back, aimed
at us. The lawlessness, the mobs, the
looting. It's not coming from MAGA
rallies. It's coming from the same side
that preaches about love while on stage.
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And I stood there in that crowd,smiling at everybody around me,
not hating on anyone, even though that I knew plenty of
them would hate me. And that right there, is why I
do this. That is why this show exists.
I changed the name for this season.
Starting this season, it's no longer Stay in the Grey podcast.
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It is now Stay in the Fray podcast because that's where we
are now. It's not polite debates over a
few beers anymore. It's a fight, a cultural fray, a
political fray, a media fray, a society fray.
And if you want proof of how ugly that it gets, you don't
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need to look at my concert ticket stub.
You just need to hear me call out what the so-called leaders
and influencers have been saying.
They continue to scream misinformed, vile and dangerous
rhetoric straight faced into microphones and cameras.
So let's open the season and thenew name with a bang and we'll
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do a segment of they really saidthat the Grievance Games.
It's still here, it's growing and it's going strong.
This is Stay in the Fray podcast.
It is August 26th, 2025. Let's roll.
We're going to kick off the Grievance Games with a woman who
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just endlessly intolerable. Joy Reid.
I think she's won like 8 gold medals on my Grievance Games.
She's the gift that keeps on race baiting in this episode.
I've got 2 clips that prove she's still in the running for
this episode's gold medal. And who can say the dumbest
thing on camera? Let's start with this sub stack
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live stream that she did with Wajahat Ali.
I think I pronounced that correctly.
He's the guy who nods along to anything anti white like it's
gospel. Joy looks right into the camera
and says that white people can'tinvent anything.
She zeroes in on music. She drags Elvis and claims
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country music was stolen. And instead of pushing back,
Wajahat eggs are on. Roll it.
They can't fix the history they did.
Their ancestors made this country into a slave.
A slave, hell, but they can clean it up now because they got
the Smithsonian. They can get rid of all the
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slavery stuff, they got Prager U, They can lie about the
history to the children. They can't originally invent
anything more than they ever were able to invent good music.
We black folk gave y'all countrymusic, hip hop, R&B, jazz,
rock'n'roll, they couldn't even invent that.
But they have to call a white man the king because they
couldn't make rock'n'roll. So they have to stamp the king
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on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black
woman. Wow.
See what I mean? So according to Joy, Elvis was a
thief, country music is fake, and white people's biggest
achievement is mediocrity. Let's break this down.
Was Elvis inspired by black artists?
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Sure. No, Nobody's denying that many
musicians are inspired by all other musicians.
But inspiration is not theft. It's called music.
Elvis brought the dance, the flair, the non singing vocal
style, the showmanship, the white suit.
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That's why he became Elvis. And if it was just all stolen,
then white artists more successful with it because they
transformed it, they adapted. That's how art works.
Joy. Acts like music didn't exist
before America 150 years ago. Have you ever heard of Celtic,
Norse, Viking folk traditions? Bagpipes, drums, chants that
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could rattle the battlefield? How about classical music?
Mozart writing symphonies at age5?
Beethoven composing while deaf. You think that came from a
Memphis Juke joint? Joy Country.
It came from European folk traditions, plain and simple.
Don't even try. Joy cannot simply erase history
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just because it doesn't sell hernewsletter.
And then there's invention in general.
Joy. If white people can't invent,
then explain. Edison and the light bulb.
Bell and the telephone. The Wright brothers in flight.
Fleming Penicillin, Jonas Salk curing polio, Steve Jobs with
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the iPhone, Henry Ford mass producing cars are all those
stolen from Wakanda. This isn't bragging.
Not bragging, it's just facts. Joy invents lies to fuel her
racist narrative. That's what she does.
She race baits. It's pure desperation.
The reality is the majority of modern civilization was built
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off of these innovations. It doesn't erase contributions
from all other cultures. But to deny this outright is
desperation, and it's exactly why people are sick of the race
baiting game. But it's all that joy has left.
As dumb as that was, Joy's second clip might top it.
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Joyce says America is deporting black and brown people because
white people don't want to compete with them.
Jobs, military appointments, even university applications.
I'm not kidding. Roll it, boys.
The people who? Now no longer have to worry
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about competition to get into Harvard and Columbia and Yale,
or to get the jobs they want, orthe military appointments that
they want, or the jobs in the Trump administration that they
want. They don't have to worry about
competition from black and brownpeople.
Because Stephen. Miller and Donald Trump and Pete
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Hegseth from Fox and all the other people who are unqualified
for their jobs. Are deleting all the.
Blacks and the brains and makingsure that they all get deported
and locked up so that they don'thave to compete and cannot.
Compete with the people. Who, frankly, aren't qualified.
But have the right? Complexion for the connection
when it comes to mega. Is she for real?
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This is unbelievable. So apparently the guy who
crossed the border illegally last year is supposedly more
qualified for college, the military, and a job than the
citizens who've actually lived here, worked here, and paid
their taxes here and qualified for what?
Joy to cut the line to to break the law better than the next
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guy? This is her logic.
They're all more qualified because you're just scared.
It's unreal. And let's be real, it's not our
fault that the overwhelming majority of people who are here
illegally happened to be brown and black people.
That's not racism, it's just reality.
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It's statistics. I mean, look it up.
Deportation is not about avoiding competition in any way.
It's about the law, plain and simple.
Being here illegally is already a crime.
It is insulting to say that the people getting deported are some
secret wave of geniuses the evilwhite America is deleting from
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the country. It's pure fantasy.
Joy Reid has firmly planted her flag in La La land.
And by the way, just to add thiswhole cultural appropriation
thing that she talks about all the time, I would like for Joy
to maybe explain how dreadlocks and braids weren't invented by
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one culture at all. Vikings wore them, ancient
Greeks wore them, Africans wore them, Hindus wore them.
Everybody's been doing it for thousands of years.
So kindly stop pretending that you own a hairstyle and then
Beyoncé just strut out on stage with straight blonde hair.
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Not too long ago, I'm sure you lectured her about cultural
appropriation. Moving on from Joy.
She gets me so wound up. But it's important to be a
competitor in these games. Let's move on.
Next. James Comedy.
Yes, that James comedy. The guy who ran the FBI into the
ground with the Russia collusionhoax is now posting weird little
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selfie videos on the Internet. And oh boy, has he lost the
plot. In what seems like one giant
breath, comedy manages to insultPresident Trump, of course, and
then launch into a creepy monologue about his admiration
for one Taylor Swift. Roll it.
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And Donald Trump is still president and still humiliating
America on a national stage, standing next to Vladimir Putin.
It's like a dream. A bad dream you can't wake up
from. But I don't want to talk about
that bad dream this week. I want to talk about a truly
inspirational public figure named Taylor Swift.
Of course I watched her podcast interview with the Kelsey
Brothers. Of course I watched the whole
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thing, although on YouTube, Patrice and I got kicked off for
the last 15 minutes and finishedit on her phone.
Nobody cares. But I watched it.
You see, Taylor Swift and I go way back.
I went to my first concert of hers 15 years ago.
I've been to a second and I havehelp financially support the
attendance of a lot of family members and others.
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I'm in a family's Swifty group chat.
I know all her music and I listened to it in my headphones
when I cut the grass. So yes, I have a favorite of
hers. Although honestly, for me, it's
a tie between All Too Well 10 Minute Version and Exile
featuring Bonnie Ver. All right, I'll wait for you to
stop laughing. First off, Donald Trump is
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humiliating America. This is another narrative that
is getting very stale. There's no embarrassment.
Under Trump, the US economy has roared.
Hundreds of billions have of dollars have poured in from
foreign investment. Energy independence is real, and
countries are lining up to negotiate with us instead of
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taking us for a ride. Manufacturing is returning.
There's record low unemployment across the board.
Where is the humiliation? I don't get it, Jim.
If you don't say something that he likes, that doesn't mean that
he's embarrassing the United States.
He's standing by Putin. It's a nightmare to dig.
That's called diplomacy, keepingenemies close so we can try and
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end wars. You know, like the 8:00 or so
conflicts that Trump has alreadyhelped to shut down or calm
during his presidency. It's only been seven or eight
months that, hey, maybe you'd rather keep Zelensky's allowance
checks flowing while millions more die.
That is not diplomacy. That is blood money.
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And then, without missing a beat, he turns into a teenage
fangirl. He gushes about Taylor Swift
like he's in line for some friendship bracelets.
He says he saw her concerts way back.
They go way back. He said he bought tickets for
family members to go see her. I'm sure that would impact her
billions. He's in a Swifty group chat and
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he mows his lawn with her music in his headphones.
Jim, this isn't commentary. It's a midlife crisis and nobody
gives a shit what your favorite Taylor track is.
Do you think you have a shot with her or something?
It's creepy and she just got engaged, I hear.
And where it gets rich is that after his Swifty fangirling, he
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circles back to politics. I saved you the entirety of the
of his babbling on this clip. But he goes on to say that there
are way more of us than there are jerk Trump supporters.
Where do I begin with this? We duly elected Trump by
millions of votes, and Trump's base is now bigger than it was
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in 2016. Meanwhile, your side burns
cities, loots, stores, riots in the streets, and attacks people
for wearing a Red Hat. But we're the jerks.
You got it backwards, Jim. And you know you do.
It's just impossible for you people to admit it.
So that was James Comedy rambling about Trump, drooling
over Tay Tay and lumping well over half the country into one
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big insult. Instead of embarrassing himself
on video, maybe he should focus on something else, like
lawyering up for his role and the Russia collusion hoax.
He's going to need it. All right, we're moving right
along here. I'm going to go to Elizabeth
Warren, AKA. You know what I'm going to say,
Pocahontas. She's the woman who once claimed
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that she was 116th Native American in order to get ahead
in her career. If fraud were an Olympic sport,
she'd already have more medals than Phelps.
But somehow she's still out herelecturing us on what's good for
America. So in this clip, Warren sits on
some panel and says she personally knows AOC, Bernie
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Sanders and the New York City mayor hopeful Zoran Mamdani, and
that they're fighting for a country not controlled by
billionaires who literally dump hundreds of millions into
campaigns. Roll it please.
And I, I, the people I know and know well, like Mamdani, like
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Ocasio Cortez, like Sanders, areall in there fighting.
And they know what they're fighting for.
They're fighting for an America that's not just controlled by a
handful of billionaires who dumpliterally millions and millions,
hundreds of millions of dollars into campaigns.
They want somebody who is actually there to fight for
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them. Does she hear herself when she
speaks? She's wagging her finger at
billionaires as if her own partyisn't the darling of billionaire
donors. As usual, let's check some
receipts. George Soros is the main one,
dumping 10s of millions into left wing PACs.
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Mark Zuckerberg pumping over 400million into election
infrastructure in 2020. He claims to have changed his
ways now Reid Hoffman, Co founder of LinkedIn, dropping
millions to smear Republicans. And of course, the one and only
Kamala Harris, who raised and spent record setting billions,
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plural billions on her campaign for president.
You're going to sit there, Elizabeth, and act like it's the
right wing side that's being backed by billionaires?
That's not just hypocrisy, it's historical revision.
And by the way, those names she listed as her heroes?
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A socialist, A communist, and a woman whose only real
achievement is live streaming herself making margaritas,
that's her Mount Rushmore. If that's who's fighting for
America, God help us all. But it gets better with
Pocahontas. Here.
Warren is at a rally of some sort for Zoran Mamdani again,
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potential communist New York City mayor.
She says he's got real plans to make New York more affordable.
And then she drops the gem of the year.
They're going to experiment withgroceries.
Yes, government run grocery stores.
One per borough. Roll it.
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When someone stands up and says I will lead this city by making
it more affordable and here are my plans, real plans, plans to
deliver on childcare, plans to deliver on housing, plans to
deliver. We're going to experiment.
We're going to try things on groceries.
That is the Democratic message. What she means is government run
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grocery stores. Mom, Donnie's talked about this.
That's not affordability. That's Venezuela.
That's East Berlin, that's standing in line for bread while
soldiers with rifles tell you what you can and cannot buy.
We've seen how experimenting with groceries turns out.
It turns into shelves with nothing but government cheese
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and rotten potatoes. I don't get how people want
this. I don't understand how they can
vote for this. But unfortunately, it looks like
New York City is going to have to be the example.
If you want to make New York City more affordable, try
lowering taxes, cutting regulations and letting small
businesses thrive, not building Soviet supermarkets.
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That'll drive money out and makethe city look like a militarized
Third World country. And then she says with a
straight face at the end there, that is the Democratic message.
Well, good. Spread that far and wide,
please. Because if that's the message,
your party's going to keep fading faster than a Black
Friday sale at one of your government run grocery stores.
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That was Elizabeth Warren lecturing us about billionaires
while cashing checks from billionaires, praising a
socialist and a communist as America's role models, and
pitching Soviet grocery stores as innovation.
This is the same woman who lied,like I mentioned, about being a
Native American to get ahead, and now she wants to tell the
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rest of us how to live. It's pretty pathetic.
All right, to end the the shortened version of the
grievance Games, here's some quick Comic Relief because boy,
do we need it. Our next and last contestant
today is Kamala Harris's stepdaughter Ella Imhoff.
Yes, the fashion world darling who thinks crocheted hats and
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awkward Tik Toks are policy positions.
She posted a video recently where she says the following.
Get this, she has climate anxiety.
Roll it. I think everything with the
environment is really fucking getting to me.
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And it is one I experience a lotof climate anxiety, like a lot
of I just do. It's not funny.
I it's just like, it's one of those things it's not funny, but
you just like nervous laugh about it because it's scary.
It is. It's.
Actually, Ella, I disagree with you.
It is funny. It's funny, hilarious.
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What on earth are you anxious about?
This is the fucking climate. Before you were even born we
were told the world would end 10years, 20 years, ice caps gone,
Miami underwater, mass extinction.
And here you are, alive, healthy, filming Tik toks on a
smartphone powered by fossil fuels.
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The apocalypse seems to be a bitdelayed.
If you want to direct your anxiety about this somewhere,
then how about asking where all the trillions in climate funds
have actually gone? NGOs, bureaucrats, global
conferences with filet mignon buffets and private jets.
There's not so much saving the planet going on there.
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But hey, you got your anxiety content out of it, so maybe that
counts as activism now. And maybe this anxiety, it runs
in your household, your stepmom gets stage fright just trying to
explain what a Venn diagram is. She burst into a cackle every
time she's asked a real policy question.
So I guess climate anxiety fits right in with the Harris
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household. Lots of nervous laughter, no
actual solutions to it. But if it gets really bad, Ella,
don't forget your stepmom can help.
Kamala always sounds like she's a couple cocktails deep at happy
hour somewhere. I'm sure she'll let you tag
along to calm those nerves. Honestly, I'll, if the planet
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doesn't melt, you'll still be left with plenty of other things
to worry about, like how embarrassing it must be to say
this shit out loud. Moving on.
So, as always, let's do a quick medal ceremony for the Grievance
Games competitors. First, we're going to go right
back to Ella. She gets the bronze today for
proving climate anxiety is real,but only if you live in Kamala's
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cocktail closet. The silver goes to Pocahontas,
AKA Elizabeth Warren, for pitching communist grocery
stores as if they were fresh innovation and pretending that
her party doesn't bathe in billionaire cash.
The gold medal? It's probably her 9th or 10th.
Joy Reid for standing on her substack soapbox declaring white
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people can't invent anything andsomehow topping it all off with
a deportation conspiracy againstbrown and black people that
would embarrass even the late night comedy writers.
Congratulations Joy again, you're this week's champion.
In a quick honourable mention. They couldn't give James comedy,
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not for politics, but for possibly the creepiest Swifty
crush in history. Jim, mowing your lawn with
Taylor Swift in your headphones does not make you inspirational.
It makes you a walking restraining order.
No medal for you, just embarrassment.
But look all right, underneath all this, the sarcasm, the
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roasting. There's a reason that we do this
at the on the show. There's a reason that I ramble
like this and call out these people.
It's not just about mocking the Joy Reid's and the James
Comedy's other former contestants, Jasmine, Crockett,
Hillary, all of the above. It's about exposing the
hypocrisy that poisons the culture and our country, our
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society, our politics. The left screams that Trump
supporters are filled with hate when all we did was stand at a
concert, smiling, clapping, cheering, all of the above while
their side booed and jeered, ready to attack.
It's more than my reality at TheFlaming Lips concert.
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It's the perfect metaphor. The truth is, more Americans are
waking up. More are looking in the mirror
and realizing that the lies don't match the reality that
they see every day. We don't hate this country, we
love it. We want it to be strong, honest
and free. The only way to fight back
against the woke nonsense and the endless false accusations is
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to stand together, and that's what I'm trying to do.
So if you're new here, welcome aboard.
Hope you enjoyed the first of many.
Like and follow and subscribe and all that good stuff.
Comment, ask anybody. I enjoy the interaction.
You're just in time for the namechange.
Stay in the fray. Jump on, be one of the first.
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If you've been with me since thebeginning, I thank you all.
You're the reason that I'm stillhere.
Not much has changed, don't worry, Except my passion's
burning even hotter than it always has.
So to all of you, thank you. I look forward to many, many
more episodes. Stay loud, stay fearless, stay
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unapologetic. Stay in the fray.
Love you guys. All you had to do is just listen
up.
Let's start with this subset live stream that she did with
Wajahat Ali. He's the guy who nods along to
anything anti white like it's gospel.
Joy looks right into the camera and says that white people can't
invent anything. They can't originally invent
anything more than they ever were able to invent good music.
We black folk gave y'all countrymusic, hip hop, R&B, jazz,
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rock'n'roll. James comedy.
Yes, that James Comedy, the guy who ran the FBI into the ground
with the Russia collusion hoax, is now posting weird little
selfie videos on the Internet. And Donald Trump is still
president and still humiliating America on a national stage
standing next to Vladimir Putin.It's like a dream, a bad dream
(00:46):
you can't wake up from. But I don't want to talk about
that bad dream this week. I want to talk about a truly
inspirational public figure named Taylor Swift Here Warren
is at a rally of some sort for Zoran.
Mom donning again, potential communist New York City mayor.
She says he's got real plans to make New York more affordable.
And then she drops the gem of the year.
(01:08):
Tends to deliver on housing, plans to deliver.
We're going to experiment. We're going to try things on
groceries. Welcome to Stay in the Fray
podcast. I'm your host, Ryan.
This is where headlines get hit hard, hypocracy gets shredded,
and the absurd are laughed at. If you want comfort, this isn't
(01:31):
your place. If you want blunt and
unfiltered, I'm your guy. Join me in the fray.
All you had to do was just listen up.
Hey everyone, if you already know me, you'll enjoy the way
that this story I'm about to tell ties back into what you
already know about me, and probably why you've stuck around
(01:54):
with the show. If you're new here, great,
because it explains everything. How I see the world, why I do
this, and what this show is really about.
Stick around, I think you'll be glad that you did.
So picture this. 10,000 people in an arena, confetti cannons
pinned and primed. Wayne Coyne, frontman climbing
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into his giant blow up hamster ball.
And if you've ever been to a Flaming Lips show, you know
exactly what I'm talking about. There's about 3 minutes of pure
happiness when he rolls over thecrowd while the song race for
the Prize blasts and confetti reigns like it's New Year's Eve.
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They always close every show with that song, and I think I
know why because in that moment it's impossible not to smile,
not to feel good. You're shoulder to shoulder with
strangers, everyone singing the same chorus, every ounce of
cynicism washed away in those few moments.
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In the way that Flaming Lips does it.
It's beautiful. Here's the thing, I love it.
I love Wayne. I think he's one of the the
greatest front men that I've seen.
But I know full well that he andmost of that stage and most of
that crowd probably sees the world completely differently
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than I do politically. Yet I can stand there smiling,
clapping, cheering, because the music is what matters.
It's art, it's joy, and that's how it should be.
But here's the catch. Does that go both ways?
If Wayne looked out at the crowdand knew that one of the smiling
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faces was a Trump supporter, would I still be welcome and all
that joy? Or would the love end the second
in my politics were visible? And I've seen this before, not
at the lip show. Wayne actually kept it very
respectful with one small line about being a hard time in
America right now. I respect the hell out of him
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for that and the band for not going overboard.
The reaction I heard some shouting of things blaming
Trump, turning that blanket of love everyone into jeers and
hate for people like me and in other shows, U2, Bruce
Springsteen, Green Day, it's even louder.
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Entire arenas drenched in so-called love flip to Venom the
moment that one man's name is mentioned.
That's the divide. They claim to love America, love
its people and love peace, untilthe very people they supposedly
love dare to vote differently, to think differently, to
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approach life differently. Then the unity shatters, the
tolerance disappears, and the hate comes roaring back, aimed
at us. The lawlessness, the mobs, the
looting. It's not coming from MAGA
rallies. It's coming from the same side
that preaches about love while on stage.
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And I stood there in that crowd,smiling at everybody around me,
not hating on anyone, even though that I knew plenty of
them would hate me. And that right there, is why I
do this. That is why this show exists.
I changed the name for this season.
Starting this season, it's no longer Stay in the Grey podcast.
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It is now Stay in the Fray podcast because that's where we
are now. It's not polite debates over a
few beers anymore. It's a fight, a cultural fray, a
political fray, a media fray, a society fray.
And if you want proof of how ugly that it gets, you don't
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need to look at my concert ticket stub.
You just need to hear me call out what the so-called leaders
and influencers have been saying.
They continue to scream misinformed, vile and dangerous
rhetoric straight faced into microphones and cameras.
So let's open the season and thenew name with a bang and we'll
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do a segment of they really saidthat the Grievance Games.
It's still here, it's growing and it's going strong.
This is Stay in the Fray podcast.
It is August 26th, 2025. Let's roll.
We're going to kick off the Grievance Games with a woman who
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just endlessly intolerable. Joy Reid.
I think she's won like 8 gold medals on my Grievance Games.
She's the gift that keeps on race baiting in this episode.
I've got 2 clips that prove she's still in the running for
this episode's gold medal. And who can say the dumbest
thing on camera? Let's start with this sub stack
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live stream that she did with Wajahat Ali.
I think I pronounced that correctly.
He's the guy who nods along to anything anti white like it's
gospel. Joy looks right into the camera
and says that white people can'tinvent anything.
She zeroes in on music. She drags Elvis and claims
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country music was stolen. And instead of pushing back,
Wajahat eggs are on. Roll it.
They can't fix the history they did.
Their ancestors made this country into a slave.
A slave, hell, but they can clean it up now because they got
the Smithsonian. They can get rid of all the
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slavery stuff, they got Prager U, They can lie about the
history to the children. They can't originally invent
anything more than they ever were able to invent good music.
We black folk gave y'all countrymusic, hip hop, R&B, jazz,
rock'n'roll, they couldn't even invent that.
But they have to call a white man the king because they
couldn't make rock'n'roll. So they have to stamp the king
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on a man whose main song was stolen from an overweight black
woman. Wow.
See what I mean? So according to Joy, Elvis was a
thief, country music is fake, and white people's biggest
achievement is mediocrity. Let's break this down.
Was Elvis inspired by black artists?
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Sure. No, Nobody's denying that many
musicians are inspired by all other musicians.
But inspiration is not theft. It's called music.
Elvis brought the dance, the flair, the non singing vocal
style, the showmanship, the white suit.
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That's why he became Elvis. And if it was just all stolen,
then white artists more successful with it because they
transformed it, they adapted. That's how art works.
Joy. Acts like music didn't exist
before America 150 years ago. Have you ever heard of Celtic,
Norse, Viking folk traditions? Bagpipes, drums, chants that
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could rattle the battlefield? How about classical music?
Mozart writing symphonies at age5?
Beethoven composing while deaf. You think that came from a
Memphis Juke joint? Joy Country.
It came from European folk traditions, plain and simple.
Don't even try. Joy cannot simply erase history
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just because it doesn't sell hernewsletter.
And then there's invention in general.
Joy. If white people can't invent,
then explain. Edison and the light bulb.
Bell and the telephone. The Wright brothers in flight.
Fleming Penicillin, Jonas Salk curing polio, Steve Jobs with
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the iPhone, Henry Ford mass producing cars are all those
stolen from Wakanda. This isn't bragging.
Not bragging, it's just facts. Joy invents lies to fuel her
racist narrative. That's what she does.
She race baits. It's pure desperation.
The reality is the majority of modern civilization was built
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off of these innovations. It doesn't erase contributions
from all other cultures. But to deny this outright is
desperation, and it's exactly why people are sick of the race
baiting game. But it's all that joy has left.
As dumb as that was, Joy's second clip might top it.
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Joyce says America is deporting black and brown people because
white people don't want to compete with them.
Jobs, military appointments, even university applications.
I'm not kidding. Roll it, boys.
The people who? Now no longer have to worry
(11:10):
about competition to get into Harvard and Columbia and Yale,
or to get the jobs they want, orthe military appointments that
they want, or the jobs in the Trump administration that they
want. They don't have to worry about
competition from black and brownpeople.
Because Stephen. Miller and Donald Trump and Pete
(11:33):
Hegseth from Fox and all the other people who are unqualified
for their jobs. Are deleting all the.
Blacks and the brains and makingsure that they all get deported
and locked up so that they don'thave to compete and cannot.
Compete with the people. Who, frankly, aren't qualified.
But have the right? Complexion for the connection
when it comes to mega. Is she for real?
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This is unbelievable. So apparently the guy who
crossed the border illegally last year is supposedly more
qualified for college, the military, and a job than the
citizens who've actually lived here, worked here, and paid
their taxes here and qualified for what?
Joy to cut the line to to break the law better than the next
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guy? This is her logic.
They're all more qualified because you're just scared.
It's unreal. And let's be real, it's not our
fault that the overwhelming majority of people who are here
illegally happened to be brown and black people.
That's not racism, it's just reality.
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It's statistics. I mean, look it up.
Deportation is not about avoiding competition in any way.
It's about the law, plain and simple.
Being here illegally is already a crime.
It is insulting to say that the people getting deported are some
secret wave of geniuses the evilwhite America is deleting from
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the country. It's pure fantasy.
Joy Reid has firmly planted her flag in La La land.
And by the way, just to add thiswhole cultural appropriation
thing that she talks about all the time, I would like for Joy
to maybe explain how dreadlocks and braids weren't invented by
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one culture at all. Vikings wore them, ancient
Greeks wore them, Africans wore them, Hindus wore them.
Everybody's been doing it for thousands of years.
So kindly stop pretending that you own a hairstyle and then
Beyoncé just strut out on stage with straight blonde hair.
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Not too long ago, I'm sure you lectured her about cultural
appropriation. Moving on from Joy.
She gets me so wound up. But it's important to be a
competitor in these games. Let's move on.
Next. James Comedy.
Yes, that James comedy. The guy who ran the FBI into the
ground with the Russia collusionhoax is now posting weird little
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selfie videos on the Internet. And oh boy, has he lost the
plot. In what seems like one giant
breath, comedy manages to insultPresident Trump, of course, and
then launch into a creepy monologue about his admiration
for one Taylor Swift. Roll it.
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And Donald Trump is still president and still humiliating
America on a national stage, standing next to Vladimir Putin.
It's like a dream. A bad dream you can't wake up
from. But I don't want to talk about
that bad dream this week. I want to talk about a truly
inspirational public figure named Taylor Swift.
Of course I watched her podcast interview with the Kelsey
Brothers. Of course I watched the whole
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thing, although on YouTube, Patrice and I got kicked off for
the last 15 minutes and finishedit on her phone.
Nobody cares. But I watched it.
You see, Taylor Swift and I go way back.
I went to my first concert of hers 15 years ago.
I've been to a second and I havehelp financially support the
attendance of a lot of family members and others.
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I'm in a family's Swifty group chat.
I know all her music and I listened to it in my headphones
when I cut the grass. So yes, I have a favorite of
hers. Although honestly, for me, it's
a tie between All Too Well 10 Minute Version and Exile
featuring Bonnie Ver. All right, I'll wait for you to
stop laughing. First off, Donald Trump is
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humiliating America. This is another narrative that
is getting very stale. There's no embarrassment.
Under Trump, the US economy has roared.
Hundreds of billions have of dollars have poured in from
foreign investment. Energy independence is real, and
countries are lining up to negotiate with us instead of
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taking us for a ride. Manufacturing is returning.
There's record low unemployment across the board.
Where is the humiliation? I don't get it, Jim.
If you don't say something that he likes, that doesn't mean that
he's embarrassing the United States.
He's standing by Putin. It's a nightmare to dig.
That's called diplomacy, keepingenemies close so we can try and
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end wars. You know, like the 8:00 or so
conflicts that Trump has alreadyhelped to shut down or calm
during his presidency. It's only been seven or eight
months that, hey, maybe you'd rather keep Zelensky's allowance
checks flowing while millions more die.
That is not diplomacy. That is blood money.
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And then, without missing a beat, he turns into a teenage
fangirl. He gushes about Taylor Swift
like he's in line for some friendship bracelets.
He says he saw her concerts way back.
They go way back. He said he bought tickets for
family members to go see her. I'm sure that would impact her
billions. He's in a Swifty group chat and
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he mows his lawn with her music in his headphones.
Jim, this isn't commentary. It's a midlife crisis and nobody
gives a shit what your favorite Taylor track is.
Do you think you have a shot with her or something?
It's creepy and she just got engaged, I hear.
And where it gets rich is that after his Swifty fangirling, he
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circles back to politics. I saved you the entirety of the
of his babbling on this clip. But he goes on to say that there
are way more of us than there are jerk Trump supporters.
Where do I begin with this? We duly elected Trump by
millions of votes, and Trump's base is now bigger than it was
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in 2016. Meanwhile, your side burns
cities, loots, stores, riots in the streets, and attacks people
for wearing a Red Hat. But we're the jerks.
You got it backwards, Jim. And you know you do.
It's just impossible for you people to admit it.
So that was James Comedy rambling about Trump, drooling
over Tay Tay and lumping well over half the country into one
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big insult. Instead of embarrassing himself
on video, maybe he should focus on something else, like
lawyering up for his role and the Russia collusion hoax.
He's going to need it. All right, we're moving right
along here. I'm going to go to Elizabeth
Warren, AKA. You know what I'm going to say,
Pocahontas. She's the woman who once claimed
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that she was 116th Native American in order to get ahead
in her career. If fraud were an Olympic sport,
she'd already have more medals than Phelps.
But somehow she's still out herelecturing us on what's good for
America. So in this clip, Warren sits on
some panel and says she personally knows AOC, Bernie
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Sanders and the New York City mayor hopeful Zoran Mamdani, and
that they're fighting for a country not controlled by
billionaires who literally dump hundreds of millions into
campaigns. Roll it please.
And I, I, the people I know and know well, like Mamdani, like
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Ocasio Cortez, like Sanders, areall in there fighting.
And they know what they're fighting for.
They're fighting for an America that's not just controlled by a
handful of billionaires who dumpliterally millions and millions,
hundreds of millions of dollars into campaigns.
They want somebody who is actually there to fight for
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them. Does she hear herself when she
speaks? She's wagging her finger at
billionaires as if her own partyisn't the darling of billionaire
donors. As usual, let's check some
receipts. George Soros is the main one,
dumping 10s of millions into left wing PACs.
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Mark Zuckerberg pumping over 400million into election
infrastructure in 2020. He claims to have changed his
ways now Reid Hoffman, Co founder of LinkedIn, dropping
millions to smear Republicans. And of course, the one and only
Kamala Harris, who raised and spent record setting billions,
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plural billions on her campaign for president.
You're going to sit there, Elizabeth, and act like it's the
right wing side that's being backed by billionaires?
That's not just hypocrisy, it's historical revision.
And by the way, those names she listed as her heroes?
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A socialist, A communist, and a woman whose only real
achievement is live streaming herself making margaritas,
that's her Mount Rushmore. If that's who's fighting for
America, God help us all. But it gets better with
Pocahontas. Here.
Warren is at a rally of some sort for Zoran Mamdani again,
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potential communist New York City mayor.
She says he's got real plans to make New York more affordable.
And then she drops the gem of the year.
They're going to experiment withgroceries.
Yes, government run grocery stores.
One per borough. Roll it.
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When someone stands up and says I will lead this city by making
it more affordable and here are my plans, real plans, plans to
deliver on childcare, plans to deliver on housing, plans to
deliver. We're going to experiment.
We're going to try things on groceries.
That is the Democratic message. What she means is government run
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grocery stores. Mom, Donnie's talked about this.
That's not affordability. That's Venezuela.
That's East Berlin, that's standing in line for bread while
soldiers with rifles tell you what you can and cannot buy.
We've seen how experimenting with groceries turns out.
It turns into shelves with nothing but government cheese
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and rotten potatoes. I don't get how people want
this. I don't understand how they can
vote for this. But unfortunately, it looks like
New York City is going to have to be the example.
If you want to make New York City more affordable, try
lowering taxes, cutting regulations and letting small
businesses thrive, not building Soviet supermarkets.
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That'll drive money out and makethe city look like a militarized
Third World country. And then she says with a
straight face at the end there, that is the Democratic message.
Well, good. Spread that far and wide,
please. Because if that's the message,
your party's going to keep fading faster than a Black
Friday sale at one of your government run grocery stores.
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That was Elizabeth Warren lecturing us about billionaires
while cashing checks from billionaires, praising a
socialist and a communist as America's role models, and
pitching Soviet grocery stores as innovation.
This is the same woman who lied,like I mentioned, about being a
Native American to get ahead, and now she wants to tell the
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rest of us how to live. It's pretty pathetic.
All right, to end the the shortened version of the
grievance Games, here's some quick Comic Relief because boy,
do we need it. Our next and last contestant
today is Kamala Harris's stepdaughter Ella Imhoff.
Yes, the fashion world darling who thinks crocheted hats and
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awkward Tik Toks are policy positions.
She posted a video recently where she says the following.
Get this, she has climate anxiety.
Roll it. I think everything with the
environment is really fucking getting to me.
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And it is one I experience a lotof climate anxiety, like a lot
of I just do. It's not funny.
I it's just like, it's one of those things it's not funny, but
you just like nervous laugh about it because it's scary.
It is. It's.
Actually, Ella, I disagree with you.
It is funny. It's funny, hilarious.
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What on earth are you anxious about?
This is the fucking climate. Before you were even born we
were told the world would end 10years, 20 years, ice caps gone,
Miami underwater, mass extinction.
And here you are, alive, healthy, filming Tik toks on a
smartphone powered by fossil fuels.
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The apocalypse seems to be a bitdelayed.
If you want to direct your anxiety about this somewhere,
then how about asking where all the trillions in climate funds
have actually gone? NGOs, bureaucrats, global
conferences with filet mignon buffets and private jets.
There's not so much saving the planet going on there.
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But hey, you got your anxiety content out of it, so maybe that
counts as activism now. And maybe this anxiety, it runs
in your household, your stepmom gets stage fright just trying to
explain what a Venn diagram is. She burst into a cackle every
time she's asked a real policy question.
So I guess climate anxiety fits right in with the Harris
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household. Lots of nervous laughter, no
actual solutions to it. But if it gets really bad, Ella,
don't forget your stepmom can help.
Kamala always sounds like she's a couple cocktails deep at happy
hour somewhere. I'm sure she'll let you tag
along to calm those nerves. Honestly, I'll, if the planet
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doesn't melt, you'll still be left with plenty of other things
to worry about, like how embarrassing it must be to say
this shit out loud. Moving on.
So, as always, let's do a quick medal ceremony for the Grievance
Games competitors. First, we're going to go right
back to Ella. She gets the bronze today for
proving climate anxiety is real,but only if you live in Kamala's
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cocktail closet. The silver goes to Pocahontas,
AKA Elizabeth Warren, for pitching communist grocery
stores as if they were fresh innovation and pretending that
her party doesn't bathe in billionaire cash.
The gold medal? It's probably her 9th or 10th.
Joy Reid for standing on her substack soapbox declaring white
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people can't invent anything andsomehow topping it all off with
a deportation conspiracy againstbrown and black people that
would embarrass even the late night comedy writers.
Congratulations Joy again, you're this week's champion.
In a quick honourable mention. They couldn't give James comedy,
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not for politics, but for possibly the creepiest Swifty
crush in history. Jim, mowing your lawn with
Taylor Swift in your headphones does not make you inspirational.
It makes you a walking restraining order.
No medal for you, just embarrassment.
But look all right, underneath all this, the sarcasm, the
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roasting. There's a reason that we do this
at the on the show. There's a reason that I ramble
like this and call out these people.
It's not just about mocking the Joy Reid's and the James
Comedy's other former contestants, Jasmine, Crockett,
Hillary, all of the above. It's about exposing the
hypocrisy that poisons the culture and our country, our
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society, our politics. The left screams that Trump
supporters are filled with hate when all we did was stand at a
concert, smiling, clapping, cheering, all of the above while
their side booed and jeered, ready to attack.
It's more than my reality at TheFlaming Lips concert.
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It's the perfect metaphor. The truth is, more Americans are
waking up. More are looking in the mirror
and realizing that the lies don't match the reality that
they see every day. We don't hate this country, we
love it. We want it to be strong, honest
and free. The only way to fight back
against the woke nonsense and the endless false accusations is
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to stand together, and that's what I'm trying to do.
So if you're new here, welcome aboard.
Hope you enjoyed the first of many.
Like and follow and subscribe and all that good stuff.
Comment, ask anybody. I enjoy the interaction.
You're just in time for the namechange.
Stay in the fray. Jump on, be one of the first.
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If you've been with me since thebeginning, I thank you all.
You're the reason that I'm stillhere.
Not much has changed, don't worry, Except my passion's
burning even hotter than it always has.
So to all of you, thank you. I look forward to many, many
more episodes. Stay loud, stay fearless, stay
(29:15):
unapologetic. Stay in the fray.
Love you guys. All you had to do is just listen
up.
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