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Time for our talk this week.

Can we start here because I know you wrote about it.

By the way, how are you?

Good to see you.

I'm doing good, man, just trying to keep up with this insanity. But how are you doing? Yeah, I'm doing well. And yes, that I've been reading. You wrote about this takeover of Washington, D.C. This isn't, yes, it is about Washington, D.C. It's about a city with a black mayor. It is about having control of a blue city or a blue place to send a message.

It's also Epstein derangement syndrome on his part.

But this is not just confined and will not be confined to Washington, D.C.

He wants to do this around the country.

So it is coming to a city, a state, town, a municipality near you.

Yeah, exactly. And obviously with D.C., the law is different, so he has more legal parameters there

with the Home Rule Act. But he is targeting other cities across the country, and it's not a coincidence

that every single one of the ones he's mentioned at Black Mayors. Like you said, you know,

there's race tied into this.

These are democratic-leaning cities, but he talked about Oakland. He's talking about New York City,

currently has a black mayor, Eric Adams, even though we don't really claim in, but he is still

black. But he's talking about these. He wants to take this fight. And he's focusing on cities

that have lowering

and declining crime rates. D.C., 30-year low and violent crime, 26% decrease from this time

last year to 2024. We have all these other cities he's talking about have declining crime

rate. So this is not about crime. This is about control.

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