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Operation cz Pounds has been activated. Everybody, Operation cz pounce

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in effect. Okay, we are we are to be pouncing

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and we are to be seizing. But Pete, upon which

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item are we to pounds and seize? Well, there are

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a lot, I know, but in this case it is

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over the Democrat Representative Delia Ramirez from Illinois. Believe she's

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out of Chicago. Here's the headline from newsweek dot com,

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which activated the alert Mega calls for Democratic rep to

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be deported over Guatemala comments. Right, So this is the

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journalism in rule number two, which is when the scandal

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concerns a Republican, then the story is the scandal. When

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the scandal involves a Democrat, then the story is the

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Republican reaction to the scandal. Hence the pouncing. Republicans are

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pouncing on comments made by a Democrat. Say, it's not

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the comments that are the scandal, it's the Republican reaction

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to the comments. That's the framing of the story. That

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is always the framing of these stories. They're not running

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around sticking microphone in the face of Democrats asking them

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to defend and disavow d or d defender, disavow. They

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do that with Republicans. If some you know, backbencher in

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Idaho says something stupid, then they run around. Media runs

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around and asks every single Republican at every level, municipal, county, state, national,

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all of them, what do you think about this comment

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that was made by this backbencher in Idaho? Do you agree?

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Do you defend his comments? Do you disavow his comments?

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They don't do that with Democrats. The story is always

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the reaction. So what did Democratic Congresswoman Delia Ramirez say

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that activated journalism in rule number two and then by

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default operation cz pounds? What happened? What did she do?

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What did she say? Well, she said in another country,

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she went to Mexico for a summit of a bunch

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of progressive Central and South American and Caribbean leaders, and

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she went. She went overseas. Basically, she went to a

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foreign nation. And she told these people, as a representative

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in the House, she told them, quote, I am a

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proud Guatemalan before I am an American. That's problematic, though.

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I don't want to go to pouncy here. I don't

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want to seize two hard. But that's kind of problematic

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considering that you were elected to represent Americans and as

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part of that job, you actually took an oath to

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do that. So this is problematic. Again not trying to

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go too hard on the season and the pouncing. The

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controversy surrounding Ramirez's comments cuts to the heart of ongoing

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tensions in the US over immigration and questions of national identity,

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which have been intensified by the Trump administration's America First agenda. So,

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according to this piece by Aliyah Shoaib at Newsweek, it's

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Trump's fault. See, it's all Trump's fault when running for president.

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If he had just advocated that he not put American

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interests first, then she never would have said this. It's

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just this war and now this will be Johnson. That's

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why I whipped up on you, Jennay. This is absolutely ridiculous. Okay,

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this is This is not Donald Trump's fault. This is

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not America First's fault. This is not Maga's fault. You

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said this thing because either your Spanish is terrible, or

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you said this thing because you think this is true.

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Or you said this thing because you wanted them to

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think you believed it and you wanted the applause. You

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did it for the clicks, right. Maybe you thought this

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this comment would not get picked up by any media

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outlets because you are some backbencher in the House. It's possible.

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Ramirez made the comment about being a proud Guatemalan while

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speaking in Spanish at a summit in Mexico City over

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the weekend. A clip of her speaking went viral on

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social media, sparking backlash from Republicans and conservative commentators, some

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of whom called for her to be deported or removed

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from Congress. Here's Representative Andy Ogles, who has very good eyesight.

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From what I understand, he is out a Tennessee and

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he wrote on Twitter, quote natural deport and kick her

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off of Homeland Security Committee. We know where her allegiances lie, right, Yeah,

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you're a member of the Homeland Security Committee, so you

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should probably, I don't know, place the interests of the

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American homeland above the interests of the country, which, by

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the way, she was not even born in. Her parents were,

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but she was not. Okay, she's an American citizen. She

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was born here to immigrants from Guatemala. I don't know

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if they were legal or illegal. Newsweek doesn't tell us this.

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So I don't think you can denaturalize and deport, but

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kick her off a Homeland Security committee, Yeah, I think

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I think you could do that for her comments, unless,

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of course, she says, I'm sorry, you know, Spanish isn't

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my first language, and I messed up on my on

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my translation, on my Spanish or something. She could say that.

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I mean, she didn't say that, but she could have

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said that. The Department of Homeland Security weighed in on

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Twitter responding to the video, quoting former President Teddy Roosevelt

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about Americans needing allegiance to the United States and calling

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for the condemnation of any other loyalties. Ramirez has represented

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Illinois and Congress since twenty twenty three. She's the daughter

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of Guatemalan immigrants, and she has responded to the criticism,

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writing on Twitter, quote, honoring my Guatemalan ancestry only strengthens

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my commitment to America. Honoring my Guatemalan ancestry only strengthens

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my commitment to America. I don't even know what that means.

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I don't like, I try to understand the arguments, you know,

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from both sides, all sides and these types of dispute,

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but I don't know what that means. Honoring your ancestry

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strengthens your commitment to America, your ancestry from a different country.

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But that's the thing. You didn't simply say, I honor

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my ancestry. You said I'm proud I am a proud

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Guatemalan before I'm an American, which has built into the

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sentence structure. They're a prioritization. No, yes, it does. I

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have our entire statement, and I actually have an analysis

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from gen Garlos Sopo from National Review, which is very

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helpful because he recognizes, as he says that a lot

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of my no oblo pals he calls us, they know

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oblo Espanol, and so he calls them by no oblo

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pals because they don't speak Spanish, and so whenever something

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like this happens because she was speaking in Spanish, the

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people who don't speak Spanish that are as friends or

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as colleagues, they go to him and they're like, what

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does this say? What is she actually saying? Because this

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was the first line of defense was that no, no, no,

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you don't understand what she's saying. That's a mistranslation. She's

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just saying this other thing. And he's like, no, she's not,

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that's not accurate. All right. If you're listening to this show,

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of current events, and I know you do too, and

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you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources.

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Why well, because it's how you detect media bias, which

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the show. According to Rachel compost Duffy on Jesse last

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night on Fox, Congresswoman Ramirez's parents were illegals, they were dreamers. Interesting.

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I think that's from Todd. Lance says, if she's just

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saying she's proud of being Guatemalan, that's not an issue.

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I completely agree. But saying you are loyal to Guatemala

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before the United States, that is an issue. That is

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an fixed violation at the very least. And Scott says,

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just like Agador Spartacus in the documentary The Bird Cage,

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we are just afraid of her guatemalaness wata aleness. Okay,

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I haven't seen the bird cage in Forever. What she

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said is translated as I'm a proud Guatemalan before I'm

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an American. That's what's got her in hot water. And

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she could have come out and just said, sorry, my

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Spanish isn't so great. I was raised in America. I'm

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an American, but I have Guatemalan roots. My parents are Guatemalans,

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and so we spoke Spanish around the house and all

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of that, and so maybe I just missed. I messed

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up on the translation, and all of this would have

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been done. It wouldn't even have made a news cycle.

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But here's what she put out. Quote. Let's call it

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what it is, today's attacks. Sorry, weak attempt to silence

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my dissent and invalidate my patriotic criticism of the nativist,

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white supremacist authoritarians in government. It is the definition of

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hypocrisy that members of Congress, who betray their oath each

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day they enabled Trump are attacking me for celebrating my

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gwad Amalan American roots. No one questions when my white

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colleagues identify as Irish American, Italian American, or Ukrainian American

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to honor their ancestry. See, but that's not what you did.

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And if what's her name, Sparts, who's the Ukrainian woman,

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she's a Republican, Victoria I think is her first name,

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Victoria Sparts. And if she came out and said that

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I'm a proud Ukrainian before I'm an American. If she

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had said that, yeah, then we would have full blown coverage.

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Well maybe not because it's Ukraine and the media likes Ukraine.

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But I don't know, like we may get people would

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we probably would have media running around asking people, Hey,

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do you defend or disavow this comment from Sparts. She

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hasn't said that. She says she's an American, she's a

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proud American. But again, you know, she's playing the victim

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tendency for interpersonal victimhood. This is the disorder, the psychological disorder.

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You vie yourself as the oppressed, as the victim intal circumstances,

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and then you see everything through this prism. So of

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course it's not your fault that you said something like this. No, no,

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it's those racists that are saying it about you because

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they're racists. Also, I'm not aware of anybody in the

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Congress that identifies themselves as an Irish American, an Italian American,

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a Ukrainian American. Republicans don't do the hyphenated thing, Okay,

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they don't. She goes on to say, I've consistently expressed

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pride in my heritage and history, a pride also often

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reflected in the origin stories of my colleagues. Only those

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who believe America should not include the children of immigrants

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or be diverse would attack me and Americans like me

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for honoring my roots. Again, that's not why people are

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attacking you. It's not because you have these ancestral roots.

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It's not for your heritage. It's for the comments that

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you said, specifically that you said you're a proud Guatemalan

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before you're an American. Honoring my Guatemalan ancestry only strengthens

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my commitment to America, which I don't understand what that means.

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That is the truth I carry with me always, and

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it is a truth that many Americans carry with them.

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We are the living and breathing realization of the idea

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of America a place where a multicultural, multi racial democracy

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can prosper. I am the daughter of immigrants and the

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daughter of America. I am both Chippina and American. I

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am from both Guatemala and Chicago, Illinois. Anyone who denies

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our claim on this country simply because we dare to

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honor our diverse heritage and immigrant roots only exposes how

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fragile and small minded their own idea of America really is.

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Signed Congressman Delia Ramirez. Note what's not in there a

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denial that there's some sort of a mistranslation going on,

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because it's not. There's not a mistranslation Gincarlo Sopo, he

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says at the National Review. As tends to happen anytime

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a Latino issue breaks the internet. My phone's been lighting

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up like a Sabado jigante prize wheel with translation requests

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since last night. This time the drama comes courtesy of

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Illinois Congresswoman Delia Ramirez, who took the stage at a

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far left conference in Mexico City last weekend and proudly

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declared yosoi Guatemalteca comucho orgurio primero quesoy Americana. He says,

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I get the confusion from my Noablo pals. Her Spanish

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was mangled. The proper phrasing for such verbal excrement would

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have been antees de sera Americana, but the meaning was

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crystal clear. I'm proudly Guatemalan before being American. The problem

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here is that Ramirez is not actually Guatemalan. She was

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born in Chicago. That's what I mean. Like you and

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you swore an oath to this country, not Guatemala. But

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it is kind of on brand for a progressive, you know,

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left wing kind of summit that she attended down in

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Mexico City. It does track, you know. Stories are powerful.

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dot Com. One last point on this uh. The latest

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outrage this from Delia Ramirez. She's a congresswoman from Chicago

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who said she's proudly Guatemalan before being American at a

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summit down in Mexico among Central and South American nations.

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From Giancarlo Sopo at National Review, he said, some of

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her defenders now claim the reverse of what she said,

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that she's American first, but she's just proud of her roots.

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The problem is that that's not what she said. A

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sentence like that would have been structured differently. Still, if

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it's what she meant, then she could just say Spanish

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is my second language. I actually my first language is LATINX.

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But instead she claimed no one would have cared if

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she had said what she that she was a proud European, right,

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which is obviously absurd. Now, Sopo goes on to say

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that she should not be stripped of her American citizenship,

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but she has forfeited her Guatemalan ness, not because her

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Spanish is lousy. She lost it because Guatemalans are cool people,

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and this congresswoman might be a lot of things, but

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cool is most certainly not one of them. That's oh,

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so there you go. That's Gane Carlos Sopo at National Review.

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I don't know if she's a member of the squad.

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I don't know. But members of the squad also attended.

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I think I have a list here now, that's fine,

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but I know I saw Ilan Omar was there, as

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was Rashida Talib, noted members of the Central and South

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American heritage. But yeah, so, I don't know if there

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were any other members of the squad there, And I

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don't know if this woman Ramirez is a member of

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the squad, but I did see this story about another

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member of the squad who is now and I think

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people should not I was going to say sleep on her,

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but I know how that sounds as I was about

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to say it, so I don't mean it like that.

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IM just like you, people need to be aware. Alexandria

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gazu Quartz AOC. I think people, particularly on the right,

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they look at her as like quote, just a bartender,

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and they just dismiss her as silly, as not very smart,

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go back to bartending and all of that. And I

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think that's a mistake. I do. I think like young

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attractive female socialist, you know, buddies up to Bernie Bros.

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Buddies up to the Islamo fascist adjacent demographic that Democrats

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are obviously hoarding. I think that that she could be

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a formidable opponent to whoever she runs against, whether Democrat

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like Chuck Schumer in the in the US Senate seat

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in New York, or if she runs for president. And

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there's more and more talk of her becoming more interested

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in becoming president. So that's I mean, you know, don't

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sleep on her. Oh, I know how that sounds like,

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just don't ignore the possibility that she could actually be

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a good candidate for president for the Democrats and could win.

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I don't. I don't know if she would. I'm not

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making a prediction. I'm just saying be on the lookout.

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Zabolo for AOC, A b O l O for EOC, okay,

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but there's something a little weird that the Washington Free

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Beacon picked up on the Washington Free Beacon and a

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National Treasure story written by Andrew Kerr, something has been

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missing from her. If you guessed the ring, you are correct.

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It's a ring. A ring has been missing. Hasn't been

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pictured with her wedding engagement ring since November of twenty

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twenty three, according to an extensive Washington Freebeacon review of

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pictures from Getty, which is a you know, photo clearing

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house kind of operation, as well as associated press images,

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also her social media posts, also her public appearances. It's

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been absent for seventeen months. It's gone unnoticed in the press.

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I mean, well, to be fair, they could not. They

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did not notice Joe Biden's cognitive decline, So can they

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really be counted on to notice a missing ring from

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her finger? But it raises a bunch of questions, and

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it's not just like the page six gossipy kinds of

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questions all right, now, So she's been engaged to her

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low profile fee s, a web developer named Riley Roberts,

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who proposed to her during a vacation to Puerto Rico

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in April of twenty twenty two. No news of their

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nuptials has emerged in the three years since, so they've

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been engaged for quite a long time. A Kasio Cortes

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confirmed that Roberts proposed to her with a zero emission ring,

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which is good because you do not want rings to

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be constantly, you know, emitting things, especially odors, because that

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could be kind of awkward. She said it was made

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from recycled gold. She later reported this gift because she's

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a member of Congress you have to report gifts, and

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so she reported it to be worth a little over

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three thousand dollars and it was a constant presence on

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her ring finger on her left hand during the first

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year and several months of the engagement. She flaunted it

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to her followers on Instagram Live. She sported it on

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her overseas junket to Latin America. She wore to televised

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committee hearings. The ring can be seen in almost every

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photo taken of the lawmaker in public with a clear

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shot of her left hand between May of twenty twenty

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two through November of twenty twenty three, and then starting

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around December twenty three, it just disappeared. And here's why

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it's important. The legal status of her relationship with Roberts

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carries significant financial end ethical ramifications for the potential twenty

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twenty eight presidential candidate. By virtue of remaining unmarried to AOC,

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Roberts gets to keep privacy privileges that are not afforded

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to the legally married spouses of other lawmakers. He's been

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exempt from publicly disclosing his assets, stock trades, places of employment.

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He doesn't have to say any of this on his

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annual financial disclosure forms. It's a level of secrecy that

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her married colleagues do not enjoy. Think Nancy Pelosi's husband,

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Kendra Arnold, the executive director of the Foundation for Accountability

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and Civic Trust it's a watchdog group, said that AOC

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and Riley Roberts, I guess he would go by r

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R AOC and RR. What do we call it? Like

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a ROB? Like don't you put the two names together?

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Is not how you do this like with the two names,

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so al Rob, Alex Rob a rob. Anyway, they are

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benefiting from a loophole in congressional financial disclosure rules that

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provide different treatment from members long term partners versus spouses.

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So the fact that the ring is no longer on

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her finger for this amount of time may indicate that

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her relationship has turned sour, but it doesn't appear that

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way from their actions. They were filmed walking out of

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a Brooklyn movie theater together back in March of twenty four,

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looked like a date. She wasn't wearing her ring, Though

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public records also indicate the couple still live together. They're

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both registered to vote out of the same apartment in Queens,

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New York. Adding to the mystery is that AOC referred

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to Roberts as her spouse, and she did so in

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four different House Ethics Committee filings related to her overseas

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travel in twenty twenty three. The committee defines a lawmaker's

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spouse as quote someone to whom you're legally married. But

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AOC's office insisted to the Washington Free Beacon in response

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to those documents that she was quote not legally married.

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So why are you claiming him as your spouse? Or

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is this one of those democrats socialists of America. Things?

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Remember from yesterday where we played the clips and they

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were like, we have to destroy the family unit, tear

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down the family unit. It's part of the caarcerl state

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and all of that. Maybe that's the deal. Maybe so

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like she doesn't want to get married because she does

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want to be part of the carceral state, because that's

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a plank in the DSA platform. Maybe I don't know,

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you're engaged for more than two years and your man

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isn't deployed, you're not getting married. You know. Well, Christy

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and I were engaged for a while, mainly because neither

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one of us wanted to plan the wedding, which I

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was kind of surprised by. I thought she would really

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want to plan the wedding, but we realized, yeah, we

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really don't. We don't really want to do this. It

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seems like a lot of work. We eventually came around

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and we did it, but obviously don't remember how long

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our engagement was, though I want to say it was

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like three years. But she never took the ring off.

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So I don't know if that's a hard and fast rule,

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but it's probably a good rule of thumb or finger

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in this case, although the thumb is not a finger,

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it's a digit as I understand it. Anyway, Beyonce is

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now in a new ad campaign for Leviy's, which is

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kind of smart. If you're any other Genes company and

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you just saw what happened, you probably would benefit from putting,

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you know, an attractive woman in some denim and try

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to ride this wave, you know, try to get some

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residual effect off of the ed campaign. The singer appears

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with really blonde, curly hair. Her hair is more blonde

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than Sidney Sweeney's, which makes her a Nazi as I

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understand it. She's in new photos, new new there's a

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w on there. New photos released by the Jeans brand

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comes amid the Sweeney Gate, an American Eagles ad campaign

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criticized by leftists claiming it was racist. Now Meghan Kelly

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looked at the ED and said, this is the opposite

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of the Sydney Sweeney ad. Quite clearly. There is nothing

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natural about Beyonce. Everything from her image, to her fame,

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to her success to her look below is bought and

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paid for. It screams artificial, fake, enhanced and trying too hard. Now,

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she did have a lot of rhinestones on her denim,

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but I don't know. I just see it as again,

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it's just a marketing deal. So Megan Kelly, that's her

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commentary about it. Jon Favreau, fashionista, a former Obama guy,

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now one of the Pods Save America Bros. Podbros as

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they're called. I'd bet most normal people think both ads

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are just companies trying to sell products by featuring a famous,

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beautiful women. But there are also people like Megan Kelly.

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Megan Kelly says, typical leftist dishonesty, acting like conservatives started

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this fight, and how petty we are to be commenting

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on a woman in a Jean's ed. Now, what God

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is here? Again? You know what God is here? Favro says, well,

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what got us here was a few random posters claim

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the sweeneyad is Nazi propaganda, and then the White House

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and then the President weighed in. Name a Democratic politician

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who complained about the ad by the way, Charles C. W.

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Cook I actually covered this the other day where he

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said there's a pattern here. The ad is released, a

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handful of people on the internet complain, and then the

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media swoops into action. Some people talk about it online,

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the press writes about it as if it's a real story.

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That means the opinion outlets are able to get involved,

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which meant that the press was able to write about

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it some more, which meant that other people were guaranteed

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to talk about it online, and before too long we

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had one of those perplexing news cycles that starts with

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a single mind numbing complaint from the most ridiculous people

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in the country and end with daily updates on whether

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any of these figures who are passively involved in the

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circus have yet responded to the allegations. And that's what

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we have here. The bad guy in all of this

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is the media. Oh and by the way, American Eaglestock

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up twenty percent. All right, that'll do it for this episode.

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Thank you so much for listening. I could not do

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the show without your support and the support of the

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You can also become a patron at my Patreon page

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or go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so

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much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.