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Serena Williams TRIGGERED By Cotton Decor, J.K. Rowling Slams Emma Watson, and NYC in Shamble
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Link Lauren dives into tennis legend Serena Williams being triggered over a cotton decor plant being displayed in an upscale New York City hotel and recaps Kamala Harris’ torturous book tour and her remarks at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual awards dinner where she was a keynote speaker. Then, Link breaks down R.K. Rowling slamming Emma Watson on X, Eric Adams dropping out of the New York City mayoral race and Zohran Mamdani’s promise to fund gender affirming care. Vandy Crisps: Get 25% off your first order | Use code LINK at https://vandycrisps.com/LINK Masa Chips: Get 25% off your first order | Use code LINK at https://MASAChips.com/LINK
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Hey everyone, welcome back to Spot on with Link Lauren. A show where I'm gonna break down the calamities of Hollywood, the circus of Washington D.C. and everything in between. If this is your first time tuning in, welcome to the show. We have a lot to cover today. We're gonna talk about Serena Williams viral cotton picking video. We have to talk about this war brewing between actress Emma Watson and author J.K. rowling. Eric Adams has dropped out of the mayoral race in New York City. We also have to talk about Kamala Harris and her failed to tour that she just won't stop doing. So without further ado, let's dive right in. Well, I am back from Los Angeles. I was in Los Angeles over the weekend doing a speaking engagement. I went to go speak to the Log Cabin Republicans in la and it wasn't just gay men, it was women. It was straight folks. It was all different types of people. Former Democrats, independents who wanted to come together in a blue, blue state like California and just be together with like minded individuals. Folks who have common sense, folks who, folks who want to have fun, have a good time. And I posted a clip of my speech on X, on Instagram, on TikTok, on social media if you want to go check it out. We had so much fun. I will say, Okay, I will say someone was trying to sabotage the gays at this event. They had Italian food, they had pasta and breadsticks. I thought these gays have not eaten carbs in about 10 years. But no, there is some, some sabotage going on. Other than that, I had an amazing time speaking. It was incredible to be invited. I'm so glad I met so many people. We took tons of pictures. They took me out afterward. I Hadn't been to class clubs or bars in so long. So I was out having a good time and just living it up. Now, one other thing that happened on my Los Angeles trip that I wasn't such a fan of. We went to this restaurant, right? We go to this restaurant and they have a magician coming around from table to table. Now, one thing about me, I'm not into magicians. I'm not into magic. Stay away from me with all of that voodoo. This magician keeps coming around and he's like, do you know any magic tricks? And I'm like, sir, that is your job. Isn't that what you're supposed to do? He would not leave us alone until we tipped him. But he eventually left, left us alone. So that was basically my Los Angeles trip. Got to go, speak, got to have dinner, met some of you guys, had an amazing, amazing time. One thing about California, there's always this narrative that California is this deeply democratic state, right? Everybody is blue and liberal because of Karen Bass and Gavin Newsom. There are so many Republicans, conservatives, maga, independents, people from all different walks of life in California coming together. And it's not just this deep blue state. I actually think President Trump, according to the data, when I was doing research, he was able to flip almost a dozen counties from blue to red. He beat Kamala Harris by a very narrow margin, which is interesting because she's from California. She's a Democrat from California, but it shows you how unpopular her policies are. Now, speaking of someone who's a little unpopular right now, we have to talk about tennis superstar Serena Williams. She has gone viral for this ridiculous, bizarre, out of touch video where she says she's offended by a hotel having a cotton plant or cotton sort of art fixture. Let's take a look at the clip, everyone.
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How do we feel about cotton as decoration?
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Personally, for me, it doesn't feel great.
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So actually, it feels like nail polishing over cotton natural. Now, she was in New York City for this event. She was doing with Kim Kardashian for her skim. She was coming out with more of those spandex pants or whatever the hell she sells. I have heard from a lot of girls and women, they say they like skims. Like, we might not like Kim Kardashian, but we do like the skims, I guess the shapewear that she sells. But Serena Williams, she's acting like she's offended by this cotton plant that they have in the hotel. She picks it, she's playing with it. She says it's like the stuff you Use to, you know, remove nail polish. I guess the interesting thing about Serena Williams, when we pulled up her net worth, she is worth $350 million. She's allegedly married to a white billionaire. This is not someone who is oppressed, right? This is not someone who is, like, under the gun here. She's not oppressed in any way, shape or form. She's an international celebrity who's worth hundreds of millions of dollars. I think there's this narrative, right? She wants to continue to play the victim card. When you have a victim mentality, you're always going to look for ways throughout the day to play the victim card. I think that's what we're seeing with Serena Williams. And I got so many messages from black women over the weekend saying, can you talk about this? Can you talk about this? Can you talk about this? And I wrote some of them back. I said, what is it about the video that upset you? The Serena Williams video? Almost every woman said, we want to move on from constantly hearkening back to slavery. We want to teach our kids about slavery, about our nation's history. We want to make sure it never happens again. It's a horrific stain on our country, right? This is what these women were telling me. But we don't want to constantly be inundated and thinking about slavery. We don't need another film like 12 Years a Slave or this or that. We want to move on and build a new future, right? And we want to honor our history, but build and move into the future. And so I think that's why some of them were offended by Serena Williams video, because just the mere thought of, I guess, having cotton was sort of a reference to slavery for her, but everything she's wearing is cotton. She's wearing cotton clothes, right? She's sleeping in cotton. Shelby has cotton underwear on. I'm sure Skims is made out of cotton in some way, shape or form. So it was a little bit ridiculous. And then what was also ridiculous were Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, and Khloe Kardashian's outfits for the event. I don't know how much longer we're going to have to act like these people are fashion icons. They've never been icons to me. I don't know why they're on the COVID of magazines all the time, because they look like utter calamities. Kim Kardashian has this, like, do rag on which I guess one of her rapper boyfriends left behind in her bedroom. I'm not sure what's going on I will say about Kris Jenner, I told you guys months ago, her new face has settled. Kris Jenner's new face has settled. The plastic surgery has come together. It has settled. We need like a, instead of the debt clock in our country, we need a clock that counts down until Kris Jenner's face has settled. But Kim Kardashian, the skims looks ridiculous. She looks ridiculous. Chloe looks ridiculous. And Serena Williams, you also look ridiculous. I'm tired of you acting like you're oppressed and you're this victim and, oh, you're offended. You're probably staying in a five star hotel in a massive sweet. I also feel like she really wants to be the main character. She's like, how can I make this about me? This has absolutely nothing to do with me. I'm walking by, basically an art fixture in this hallway of this hotel. How can I make this about me? Well, here at the Spoton Bureau, we were doing some research. We uncovered that Serena Williams has a cotton art display in her home as well. And we'll put a picture of that up. So if she's so offended by this cotton in the hotel, why does she allegedly have this piece of artwork in her house? Pot calling the kettle black. Okay, you live in a glass house, Serena Williams. I think Serena thought she was going to post the video and it was either going to be funny or people were going to say, yeah, that's offensive. No, you're literally wearing cotton. Okay, are you going to get offended every time you see cotton in this world? Because it's going to be a long and tired life for you with your $350 million. Serena Williams. Now, speaking of another insufferable woman, we're moving on from Serena Williams. We have to talk about Kamala Harris and her comeback tour. Kamala Harris is the gift that keeps on. On giving. Well, she gave a speech over the weekend at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation's annual legislative conference Phoenix Awards dinner. Let me give some advice to the Black Caucus. Maybe shorten the title of the dinner. Maybe shorten the title of this damn dinner, because that title is a little long for me. But Kamala Harris gave a speech. I don't know why they keep booking her. Who books the loser? Right? Who books this loser to come speech. Why to come speak. Why do I want to hear from Kamala Harris on anything? But we have a clip, actually of Kamala Harris saying we have to fight fire with fire. Let's take a look at that.
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At a time such as this, it demands one thing for sure. We must fight fire with fire. So, cbc, let's get to work.
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This is why I don't take these people seriously. They say they want to tone down the rhetoric every chance they get. They call President Trump a tyrant, a dictator, a threat to democracy, a fascist. You can go look up Kamala Harris calling him all of those things ad nauseam. And she's on stage saying, we need to fight fire with fire. Well, someone just opened fire on a church. They just started a fire in a church. There is violence being ramped up from the left toward the right every single day in our country. But she continues to go on stage and say, let's fight fire with fire. Let's fight. Because the Democrats don'. Want to admit this. Like Kamala Harris and her elite friends, they don't want to admit this. They are perfectly fine with the fact that President Trump got shot in Butler on July 13th. They called the guy a threat to democracy. They're perfectly fine with Charlie Kirk's assassination. They don't want to admit it publicly. But they know they can't win on their policies or their principles. And they certainly cannot win at the ballot box. So what do they have to do? They have to kind of co sign this violence. They're not saying, just tone it down, quiet down, everybody. They're going out there saying, keep fighting. Fight fire with fire. You know, was, they're not taking away our shot, right? Everything is coded in. Ramp up the violence, ramp up the violence. Because if they can't beat us at the ballot box, what are they going to do? They're going to try to destroy us and take us out in other ways. So this is very deliberate. When a politician like Kamala Harris gives a speech, it's been worked on by many, many people. She's not just going up there to speak willy nilly. Right? There's probably been 12 people work on this speech. So, Kamala Harris, you knew what you were doing saying, fight fire with fire. She is going to continue calling Trump a dictator and a fascist because she wants more than anything for MAGA and Trumpism to die and go away, because it opens a lane, potentially for her to maybe win in 2028. She would have no chance against JD Ban. She's an abject failure. She also had to address the Jimmy Kimmel situation, blaming it on Trump's ego. Let's look at that.
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But I'll tell you who refuses to capitulate the people. When a president with a fragile ego couldn't take a joke and brought down the weight of the federal government to silence the voice of a citizen. Folks spoke with their pocketbooks this week, and Jimmy Kimmel is now back on the air.
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The fact that they're acting like Jimmy Kimmel is some civil rights icon still cracks me up. Okay, Jimmy Kimmel show is terrible. He's not funny. His ratings aren't great. He was offensive. He was put on pause for 72 hours, and he's back on the air. Okay, if President Trump was some tyrant fascist dictator like they purport him to be, don't you think they would have shut down the whole network? We still have free speech in this country. If we didn't have free speech, guess what? He would have been shut down. Kamala Harris. But Kamala Harris, she's so full of crap. She's so full of crap. She's also not the brightest bulb. She's not the sharpest tool in the shed. Kamala Harris. She can barely form coherent sentences. In fact, her word salads are back. The word salads are back. And apparently the cabernet is back in her dressing room because, you know, Kamala Harris, the only thing she ever finishes and is a box of wine. And she's so lazy. The only times she. The only time she works is when you leave a trail of margaritas into her office like Hansel and Gretel. Okay? Kamala Harris, in my opinion, is a straight up drunk. If she's not drunk, then she's also just an idiot and maybe has early dementia, early Alzheimer's. I saw it with my grandfather. I've seen it with other family members. The way it's like all of her words have been dropped on the ground and she has to sort of pick them up and put together sentences. It's really quite sad. And it's really quite sad. Kamala Harris trying to form sentences. It's like when a dog tries to walk on its hind legs. You know what I'm saying? Or it's like when Forrest Gump started running. Remember in the movie Forrest Gump, when he starts running and sort of the shackles are coming off of his legs? That's what it's like when Kamala Harris tries to form sentences. But let's take a look at this clip.
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Everything should be telling you and reinforcing your brilliance, your entitlement period, your right to be, and our expectation and anticipation of your leadership.
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Now she's speaking at her alma mater, Howard University. It's nice she went back to her alma mater. I'm sure the girls, they were so excited to see Her. Someone who wasn't excited was the man standing next to Kamala Harris. Okay? He looked like he had seen a ghost. He was like, shit, we're gonna have to clean up this word salad. Clean up on aisle Kamala, because she's making no sense again. Anytime she tries to go off the cuff, it's an utter calamity. It's why I call her Ms. Kamalamity. So I don't even know what she was trying to say in that cl. Anytime she tries to be inspirational, it's not inspiring. It's very concerning. And it scares me every single day that she was a heartbeat away from the nuclear codes because she's so uncouth and inarticulate and really just a dumb person. We say low IQ person all the time. She really is low iq. I don't know if she was pushed through on affirmative action or DEI. We know that in 2020 that she was. But, I mean, early on in her career, you know what I'm saying? The one thing about Kamala Harris, she didn't know how to put herself in the right place at the right time or sleep with the right guy at the right time. But when push comes to shove, she doesn't have the chops to actually be an operator in politics and get things done because she got nothing done as vice president. Now, her last lie. Her last lie. Lying, Kamala, is that this was the closest election in American history.
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Closest election for president of the United states in the 21st century.
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I know that's right. The Howard Grant did that here.
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And a Howard Grant.
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Ma', am, please, you need a breathalyzer before you get behind the wheel of a car. She's still standing around. I don't know if she's a bookstore. Wherever she is, she's still standing around slurring her words. This is the closest election. It's like when you run into someone you know from high school who maybe like a big athlete in high school, and they want to relive their glory days. Like, oh, remember, man, when we ran run. Remember when we won the championship, man, back in 1985? That was the shit. That's like Kamala Harris, okay? Kamala Harris wants to relive these glory days of her 107 day campaign. But she lost. I've never seen the loser so happy to go out and talk to people. I've never seen the loser so excited. It's like it hasn't set in yet that she lost the popular vote, the House, the Senate, the electoral college, every single swing State. Right. This was not the closest, closest election in American history at all. In fact, it was really not good for her. She got her ass handed to her and was sent packing back to California. In fact, Joe Biden doesn't seem to want anything to do with her. But I think she thinks she can just go out there and lie because the liberal media is not going to press her. Her elite friends aren't going to press her. And she thinks if she just lies that she can coast coast a little bit into 2028. But no, I wouldn't be taking Kamala Harris seriously at all. She seems like she's trying to just live in the past. Like she's this big civil rights icon leader who opened doors for women and women of color. I'm hard pressed to find many women of color who look up to Kamala Harris. To be honest with you. It's actually embarrassing to me that she has such a stage. She's such a stage. She has cameras on her all day long. She was vice president and she squandered it. She did nothing right. She's done absolutely nothing. Like Oprah. Oprah as soon as she left her show. What has she done successfully since she ended her show in 2011? Has she done anything? Well, no, she has not. But these folks continue to paint themselves as icons. Well, the generations are going to move on. Oprah's not an icon to young kids. Kamala Harris, in a few years, the kids who are turning 18 now aren't going to really know who she is. You know what I'm saying? So she's not an icon in any way, shape or form. But Kamala Harris, continue with your word salads. Continue with your book tour, because they're very entertaining. Well, my friends, I'm back telling you about Vandy Crisps. You guys know me. I'm not going to do any other potato chips because I don't want to feel guilty when I'm snacking. I've also converted so many of my friends over to Vandy. We talk about it all the time. They're like, link, I might not watch every episode of your show, but I have ordered those Vandy Crisps. Let me tell you about them. So Vandy Crisps has just three ingredients. Heirloom potatoes, sea salt, and 100% grass fed beef tallow, no seed oils. That tallow is loaded with nutrients for your skin, brain and hormones. And it makes these chips taste unreal. The tallow means you're satisfied without overeating, which makes it the perfect snack. You need to give Bandy a try. So go to bandicrisps.com link and use code link for 25% off your first order. That's bandicrisps.com link & code link for 25% off your 1st order. And if you don't feel like ordering online, that's fine. Vandy is now available nationwide at your local Sprouts supermarket. So stop by and pick up a bag before they're gone.
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The next thing we have to discuss is that the magic has been lost between actress Emma Watson and Harry Potter author J.K. rowling. Now, for years, Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry Potter, Emma Watson, who played Hermione, they have made comments about J.K. rowling because J.K. rowling believes there are two genders, right? Call her controversial. She thinks there are two genders and that there shouldn't be men in women's sports. These things aren't controversial. In fact, they're widely accepted by 80% of all Americans here in the United States, probably much more. Right? But at least 80% agree with J.K. rowling. Now, for years, Daniel Radcliffe and Emma Watson have taken shots at J.K. rowling. I guess they thought because she wrote this book, Harry Potter with magic and goblins and flying cars, that she would also believe the fantasies that there are 1,000 different genders and pronouns. That was not the case. Okay? We can have flying cars and people on broomsticks and Wingardium liviosa and all these spells and witchcraft, but we're still gonna have two genders. You know what I'm saying? We're still gonna have two genders in J.K. rowling's eyes. But Emma Watson, she couches herself as intellectual. She says she's not religious, she's like some type of spiritual being and all of this stuff. And she thinks she's just really smart. She does not have her finger on the pulse of where the average working class American is here in this country. She doesn't understand it because she's been a millionaire since she was a teenager. She has been a famous actress her entire life. Well, she was on Jay Shetty's podcast and she was asked about J.K. rowling. And you could see her kind of roll back some of her criticisms of J.K. rowling. And this clip has gone totally viral. Let's take a look and then discuss.
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And this is where this like, holding of these. I just don't know what else to do other than hold these two seemingly incompatible things together at the same time and just hope maybe they will one day resolve or co. Join themselves and maybe accept that they never will, but that they can both still be true. And I can love her. I can know she loved me. I can be grateful to her. I can know the things that she said are true. And that can be this whole other thing. And my job feels like to just hold, just to hold all of it. But the bigger thing is just what she's done will never be taken away from me.
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You can tell Emma Watson grew up on movie sets because she doesn't seem to be too bright, she doesn't seem too educated. She's struggling to form coherent sentences. I had no idea what she was saying. I could barely understand what Emma Watson was saying. Well, J.K. rowling, she actually responded. Okay. She did a long post responding to Emma Watson because for years Emma Watson has been shady. Now she wants to walk it back. Okay, so here's what J.K. rowling said. I want to read you a little bit about this. I wasn't a multimillionaire at 14. I lived in poverty while writing the book that made Emma famous. I therefore understand from my own life experience what the trashing of women's rights in which Emma has so enthusiastically participated, means to women and girls without her privileges. She goes on to say the greatest irony here is that Emma. The greatest irony here is that had Emma not decided in her most recent interview to declare that she loves and treasures me. A change of tack, I suppose. Suspect she's adopted because she's noticed full throated condemnation of me is no longer quite as fashionable as it was, I might never have been this honest. Well, you can tell J.K. rowling is a writer because she basically wrote a whole book. Very beautiful language, very beautiful writing. But what she's basically saying is that the tides have turned. Years ago we had all this woke nonsense where you're supposed to believe there are a million different genders and honor people, people's pronouns We've had it, right? We're over the bs, we're over the tomfoolery, we're over the malarkey. I think if your kid comes in and says, I was born in the wrong body, you say, no, weren't. What do you want for dinner? But Emma Watson, I think that's probably why she's changing her tune. She realizes, oh, the tides are shifting. The tides are shifting now. And for survival in my career, I'm going to maybe have to move it more to the middle and move it to common sense. But you can't be nasty for years and then turn it around. Emma Watson and I think what J.K. rowling said is basically true. She was living in poverty. She didn't have money until she wrote these Harry Potter books. She has lived that life. She is not going to let this rich girl, Emma Watson, who grew up on movie sets tell her what to do or come crawling back to be friends with her. You know what I'm saying? Just because she acted in this film doesn't make her God, doesn't mean she knows everything. Emma Watson and I also have to just point out J.K. rowling is allowed to have her opinion, right? We should all be able to respect everyone else's opinion. If J.K. rowling says there are two genders because that's biologically the case, you don't have to crap on her for years. You know what I'm saying? We don't have to try and tear people down and cancel them and cancel entertainment contracts and deals because they believe in biology. J.K. rowling is a grown ass woman and she's allowed to have her perspective. Emma Watson is a rich celebrity actress who knows nothing of what it's like to be an average, normal person. Working at a restaurant, being a school teacher. She has been a famous actress her whole life. She's not so famous anymore. The roles have dried up for her. She's not getting a lot of acting gigs anymore. Maybe that's why she's going on this podcast tour and trying to reinvent herself. But J.K. rowling, I'm on J.K. rowling's side in this, of course, 1,000%, because like J.K. rowling, I also believe in science. There are two genders. Men have biological advantages over women when it comes to almost every single sport. I don't think you should have men and women's sports. We have women in this country fighting to get men out of women's sports. So I'm going to side with J.K. rowling on this, this every single day. The last point I want to make is this. We have to move away from calling people anti transgender because they believe they're two genders, right? If someone doesn't want to affirm your made up new pronouns and your identity doesn't mean they're anti transgender. It means they're a human being with their feet planted firmly on the ground. They don't have to buy into your delusions of grandeur and whatever you want to do. Like someone I went to college with, he was changing his pronouns and his gender and his name probably from week to week. I finally said, uncle, I've had enough. When you land on a name and a gender and how you want to identify, come back and tell me. But I've got a busy life, a very full life, a lot going on. I can't play the game with you every single day, okay? And I'm not going to be told that I'm a bigot because I can't remember what pronoun you want to use. I don't want to do the pronoun situation anymore. So we have to move away from calling people anti trans or anti LGBT because they just believe in science, okay? If you choose to believe in science the way it's been for a million years with every other species, doesn't make you anti transgender, but they do that to try to cancel you. The one thing I'll say about J.K. rowling in closing, you can't cancel someone who's self made and worth a billion dollars and doesn't give a rat's ass what you think about them, right? If J.K. rowling wanted to be hot and cool, she would have taken a different trajectory in life. You know what I'm saying? She wrote children's books about witchcraft and wizardry and fun and imagination, right? And gossip, goblins and ghouls. She wasn't trying to be a supermodel or some cool fancy celebrity who goes to all the Hollywood parties. So you can't cancel someone like that who's always beat the tune of their own drum and marched to the beat of their own drum. You can't cancel someone like that. And it's why I will always ride for J.K. rowling. And it's. Of course people say I look like. People say I look like Draco Malfoy from Harry Potter. I love the Harry Potter books. I will continue to cherish them. And I love the film, even though I don't love Emma Watson so much. Well, last but not least, we have to discuss the New York City mayoral race. Eric Adams. Eric Adams with his little earring. He dropped out over the weekend and everybody was in a tizzy. They're like, eric Adams has dropped out. He's a man of service. He's putting the mission before himself. I do not care about the New York City mayoral race that much. I'm here to tell you, everybody on the Internet, everybody in media, they want to talk about this Zoran Mamdani character. And they want to talk about the New York City mayoral race ad nauseam. I don't live in New York City anymore. I'm happy. I don't live in New York City anymore. And I tell all of my conservative and independent friends, if you choose to continue living in this dying liberal city that's about to elect a socialist, that's on you. That's on you guys. Move to Florida, Texas, Arizona. Get the hell out of there. Move to Atlanta. What are you doing in New York City? But everybody keeps telling me Eric Adams dropped out and sore on mom, Donnie and this and that. I don't care. I don't care if you choose to live in that hellhole of New York City. That is on you. That is on you at this point. But New Yorkers, so many New Yorkers think they're the center of the universe. They think the world revolves around them. There is a lot of America between Los Angeles and New York City. But that's how they look down on the rest of the country. They fly over Michigan, they fly over Oklahoma, they fly over Arizona. They fly over all these states and look down on them. And they have no idea what life is like in there for working class Americans. They're forgotten men and women of this country. I'm here to tell you New Yorkers, listen. The world does not revolve around you. The world does not revolve around your mayoral race. A majority of Americans, 99% of Americans, they don't live in New York. And they don't give a shit about Zoran Mamdani. They don't care. If y' all want to elect a socialist who wants you to stand in line for government issued loaves of bread, that is on you. You've made your bed. Lie in it. And all my friends in New York, they can certainly afford to move. In fact, you'll get more bang for your buck if you move out in New York City. So I'm telling you guys, you might want to get out. But let's talk about Eric Adams leaving the race. We want to play you a clip of him announcing that he's dropping out. Let's look at that first.
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And yet, despite all we've achieved, I cannot continue my re election campaign. The constant media speculation about my future and the campaign finance board's decision to withhold millions of dollars have undermined my ability to raise the funds needed for a serious campaign.
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I have never been a huge Eric Adams person. Right. Eric Adams to me was always much more interested in going to the Met Gala, hanging out with Anna Wintour, hanging out with famous celebrities and wearing fabulous clothes. That he was actually working for the folks of New York City, the folks who pay their taxes and live in the city. He was more interested in lifestyle. He was more interested in being fabulous and cool and living that lifestyle than actually getting work done. Now they've tried to sort of build Eric Adams into this resistance figure because they hate Mamdani so much. They're trying to do revisionist history and paint Eric Adams as this great guy who loves New York City. He didn't do that much for New York City. We all hated him when he was mayor, you know what I'm saying? And now he's a disgraced mayor. But because the bar is so low, it's in the seventh ring of hell, we're giving him the second look. Now, Adams also issued a warning to New York City in his announcement. Let's take a look at that.
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But I must also sound a warning. Extremism is growing in our politics. Our children are being radicalized to hate our city and our country. Political anger is turning into political violence. Too often insidious forces use local government to advance divisive agendas with little regard for how it hurts everyday New Yorkers. Major change is welcome and necessary. But beware of those who claim the answer to destroy the very system we built together over generations. That is not change. That is chaos.
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I do agree with Eric Adams on this. We might not agree on everything, but we have seen extremism, political violence ramped up and ratcheted up from the left, right from Eric Mamdani's party, right from these folks in New York City who call Republicans fascist dictators, tyrants, threats to democracy. Now you leave New York City, there is a ton of red. I have tons of Republican friends from New York City. They're incredible enclaves of Republicans and conservatives and independents, people who just aren't ridiculous liberals in New York City. But they're few and far between and is very hard to find your tribe. So I agree with Eric Adams. I agree with Eric Adams. That we see this extremism on the rise. And it's a warning. It's a warning to say, if you elect Mamdani, it's going to get worse. Right? Mamdani is someone who won't even condemn terrorist groups or terrorist organizations because he has to capitulate to every single facet of his base. And my biggest issue with Mamdani is this. He wants to spend taxpayer dollars on gender affirming care. He wants to spend $65 million. And you know it's going to be more. If he's saying 65 million, it's going to be more on transgender gender affirming care. No taxpayer in the United States of America should have to pay for transgender anything. Okay? Does it make me transphobic? Does it make me sound like a jerk? Maybe to some of you it does. But I don't want my tax dollars paying for someone to go have a transgender operation like Kamala Harris, who wanted us to pay for inmates to have transgender procedures. Bs bs. The world is tough enough out here, okay? If my tax dollars are going to go to anything, I want better roads. I want clean water. I want better food. I want buildings that look good, and I want railroad systems and subways that work in the cities of the United States of America. I don't want my tax dollars going to pay for a man to try and turn into a woman and vice versa. So if that makes me a jerk, that makes me an a hole. Great. Leave the comments. I don't care. But the fact that Zora Momdani thinks this is some great policy, that we're going to spend millions of dollars, people who can barely put food on the table anyway, their tax dollars are going to pay for transgender delusions. No. That is my biggest gripe with Zoran Momdani, and it's the foundation of every issue I have with him. Every issue I have with Zoran Mamdani, including the government issued loaves of bread and the government issued and owned supermarkets, and the fact that he's a radical terrorist sympathizer. That's why I don't like Mom Donnie. But I will circle it back around to my original point. I don't live in New York City anymore. I left. I saw the writing on the wall and my warning to everyone in New York City who hates Mom Donnie. Stop bitching. Stop whining, stop moaning and go. Move. Go do something about it. Go canvas. Go knock on doors. Try to stop him. Try to get someone else elected. Or you can move. But I'm tired of people sitting around New York City going, oh, we're gonna have a terrible mayor. Yeah, you are. You really are. And if you don't want to make a change, that's on you. But the one thing I don't like in life is bitching and moaning about something that you can easily change yourself with some initiative. Well, I've told you guys about my favorite potato chip. Now I need to to tell you about my favorite tortilla chip. And that is masa chips. I don't do tostitos. I don't do anything else when I'm having my salsa, my guacamole, my pico de gallo, my queso. And I've also converted all my friends over to masa as well. And let me tell you about Masa. Masa chips are made with just three ingredients and no seed oils. Organic corn, sea salt, and 100% grass fed beef tallow. You need to give Masa a try. So go to masachips.comlink and use code link link for 25% off your first order. That's masachips.com link code link for 25% off your first Order. And if you don't feel like ordering online, that's fine. Starting in October, Masa will be available nationwide at your local sprouts supermarket. So stop by and pick up a bag before they're gone.
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