FORTH OF JULY SPEECHES 7-6-26

Scrolling with Haley, join Haley Caronea as she scrolls through the biggest headlines. If you haven't watched this show before, we do blind reactions. I have not seen these videos, so I am seeing them for the first time with all of you. We're going to implement the tinfoil hat time segments and all the stuff you know and love. And I'm going to finish the show and answer some of your questions. Someone asked me, what made you get into podcasting, and I was producing podcasts for other people. And I was like, I could do this for myself. And here I am. Scrolling with Haley, follow and listen on your favorite platform. Everyone had a great Independence Day. I was kind of like you, Max, pretty much stayed home because I have two young kids. My twin sister came into town, though, so we had some fun. And there was basically a giant fireworks show around my neighborhood. You like your sister. What? You like your sister. I didn't say that, but she was in town. I'm just kidding. Actually, Evie had a great time. That's good. Yeah. With Aunt Jenny? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Had a great time. That's good. You know, my neighbor's shot fireworks to 2 o'clock in the morning. Your poor puppy. How did he do? My dog was about to have a heart attack. I bet. He was huffing and puffing and breathing hard and shaking. He lost several pounds, I'm thinking. Oh, that's so sad. Yeah, it's really sad. I got to find something to give him to calm him down. Yeah, they do have that. Yeah. Yeah, you talk about how late the fireworks went. It was past midnight, and they were shooting them off, like, in the street right behind our house. Yeah, yeah. And we were really worried that it was going to wake up the kids. You know, but they slept through it. And then yesterday, during the Thunder Boomer, we had one clap of thunder and lightning. I'm telling you, the whole house moved. And it scared that dog to death. You're poor Bobby. Did you hold him in a least? Yeah, I wrapped him in a blanket and held him, everything's okay. I don't think he believed me. What? I don't think he. He kept shaking. Poor dog. Oh. Okay, by the way, on Fourth of July celebrations, here's a little bit of Trump speech, a little bit of a montage of what he said. And this is... Honestly, what you would expect from a president talking about why America is great and everything else. So here it is. We are the strongest and most powerful country on earth. And by the grace of God, the United States of America is the most successful, most accomplished, most exceptional nation ever to exist in human history. And it is great to be your president. We mark. 250 years of glorious independence, and 250 years of majestic American freedom. Nothing like it. Communism is the exact opposite of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It's death, tyranny, and the pursuit of evil.

Show us a mountain and we'll just climb it. Show us an ocean and we'll just cross it. Show us a problem and we will just solve it. Show us a task the world calls impossible, and Americans will get it done. For a quarter of a millennium, liberty, justice, equality, self-government, and unmatched prosperity have flourished here as they have never flourished anywhere before. There is nothing like what we are doing. Okay, so good stuff. Very positive. I know sometimes people think Trump is too dark and depressing or something, but for that speech, it was good. Just talked about the greatness of the country, exactly what I want. You can tell me what you think, whether you like him or not. I mean, the speech seemed to be fine. Like I said, it got delayed, and then he posted on Truth Social that he was going to do this speech no matter what, even if he had to wait until 2 o'clock in the morning. He said, I'm going to do that speech. We're going to have this celebration. And I had some friends who were actually in D.C. and they said the fireworks show was, like, nothing like they'd ever seen. It was, it was crazy. Then we had Zohran Mamdani. He does about a 15-minute speech. He does it from his office at City Hall in New York. He's doing it from George Washington's desk. Nobody invited him to the festivity, apparently. I guess not, but I'm sure it was pre-recorded. But I will say not all of it was bad. But I'm going to explain why I mean. When someone tells you they're a socialist, believe them. We try to downplay it because it's democratic socialism. He is not just a so-called democratic socialist. He's a Marxist. He's a true believer. He looks at everything in the world, including the United States, through that lens. He just does. So let me give you the example of why I say that. So here it is. This is what Zohran Mamdani said in his speech. We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else. The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed. We may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence, that work endures, and it belongs to us all. It belongs, too, to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel, the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American, too. So I just want to stop right there real quick. Nothing bad there so far. Most people don't have a problem with people who come in the right way. He had people there that were just recently naturalized. We had a ceremony like that at Erlinger Park recently. All for it. Yeah, nobody has a problem with that. They came in the right way. There's a process. But when we talk about illegal immigration, that's different. And the left always does this. They try to blur the lines between illegal and illegal immigrants. But beyond that, and he'll get to that in a moment, so far this is fine. It is true that we're not just exceptional because we're strong and powerful and rich.

But then you start to hear the Marxist come out. Now, I could play a lot more from this speech to kind of go through that theme, but as I said, it was like 15 minutes long. We're not going to do it with the whole shell. But he starts to talk about what he believes are power dynamics. He can't escape this mindset that everything is about power dynamics. So here it is. You each hold a special power, the power to determine what America means. The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy where only a select view are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less, the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. So all of a sudden, now he starts talking about, well, the powerful... Believe this about America. The powerful say this. Them. And I wanted to be like, who do you mean? You say the powerful. Define it. Define the them that you're pointing out. You're talking just about the rich. Well, Elon Musk is very rich. He also started as an immigrant and didn't start out that way. He immigrated, used the opportunity, and gained wealth by providing a good and a service that a lot of people wanted. Is he a part of that powerful that just wants, believes in supremacy and wants to put others down? This is what I mean. Like why all of a sudden you're talking about American greatness, you're talking about the land of opportunity, and then all of a sudden you start shifting to this speech about how the powerful, the oppressed versus the oppressors. You know, life's kind of what you make of it. It is. If you're a slug, you're always going to have problems. But if you want to work a little bit and make something of yourself, the opportunity is there. And that really is what makes America exceptional. That it makes it great. That we have the opportunities. There are places in the world where you don't have opportunity. It doesn't exist. But to come here and make it everything that, well, there's just this big group of oppressed people. And we have to talk about how the powerful are taking it from them. What does this have to do with America? But to him, it does. Here's more. How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal. At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics and the cheapest. But time and again... including 250 years ago, those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress. Now, I just have to point out something as well. Well, he's doing a good job of dividing us, isn't he? Exactly. Thank you. I mean, does it? What is it? I'm not a genius, but my God. He is so divisive. Who's dividing this country? Exactly. That's what amazes me. And Obama used to be really good at this when he was president. Yeah. He would say something or do something that was incredibly divisive. And then people like us would point it out and we'd say, you know, that's pretty divisive. What are you doing? And he would say, what? You're criticizing me. You're divisive. You're being divisive. We must unify. Biden would do that. We must unify. Both these people who are being mistreated so badly.

In both these cases, they're both millionaires. They made it because they wanted to make it. They got up off their butt, you know? Well, that's true. I mean, you talk about Obama. Yeah, he's doing pretty well for himself. Zohran Mamdani. Zohran Mamdani had rich parents. I mean, he was very rich from a young age and all that. I feel so sorry for him. But it's just amazing. You want to do a speech about the greatness of America. You want to do a speech about American exceptionalism. What makes America exceptional? Not that it's rich versus poor, not that it's the oppressed versus the oppressors, but that we're a country of individuals and individual opportunity. Think about it if we all pulled in the same direction what it would be. Yeah. I agree. I agree. I mean, he, but to him, he has to make it about, well, immigrants are oppressed, the powerful taking over. That's not what America's all about. There's a racist group after you. And then you're like, that's not what America is. America still is mostly the land of opportunity. And even those that are very rich and powerful today didn't start out that way. But because we're a land of opportunity, they were able to grow and build themselves and make a better lives, a life for themselves. And so it was just very interesting to listen to that, just the difference. You hear Trump to say America's great. Our best days are coming. Isn't this awesome? We're powerful. We have all this opportunity. The economy's growing. And Dom Donnie comes and basically says, America is great, but these evil oppressors are out there. And they believe they're going to take it away from you. And they don't believe you're going to belong. And you're like. So what is saying that the people who are great that have made this country great, they don't want them? Yeah. They don't like those people. They're not treating us. Fairly. They're not giving us their money. They're making us work. I mean, you wouldn't admit that, but this is so fired up over this. Well, yeah, because I'm sure you've seen it. You've seen a lot of people in your career and in your life. And some people, I mean, I've seen kids at 10 years old. You just know they were prison bound. Yeah. It's sad. And you want to teach them that there's a better way, that they have better opportunities, that things are not set in stone. But they have been basically brainwashed since they were young. They were not raised at all. But a lot of people have basically been brainwashed to believe their victims. Yeah. And believe they can't help themselves. Can't do it. And that's all Zohran Mamdani's doing here. He's pushing a victim mentality. Yep. He wants people to believe their victims and that he has now come to save them and that we need someone like him to take over and save him. and save them. And that's just, that's really now what America's all about. It really isn't. So I thought it was very telling because this is a growing. It's not just him. I mean, we could talk about him. People say, who cares? It's New York. I can think of another guy who flew in on his jet and his big car and he's got three houses. And he's talking about how mistreated people are. And we need to help him out. What are you talking about? I'm trying to remember here. The congressman from, what, Rhode Island or Connecticut, wherever he's from, I can't remember. Akeem, you guy, I don't know, I'm trying to remember here. There's someone specific you're talking about. I'm not sure who you're. Yeah, and I can't. He ran for president one time. Oh, okay. Interesting.

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