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One Leg Up 7-10-24 - Breaking Down President Biden's Letter to Democrats - NYC Funneling Migrants Into NYC Poorest Neighborhoods 7-10-24 · OneLegUpAlex Media

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  Here's your host, Alex Garrett. So if you're listening to this on Spotify,
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  comment your thoughts on the different podcast that I've been put on Spotify. And
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  thanks to speaker for allowing me to syndicate on Spotify. By the way,
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  now I want to pick apart the letter from President Biden to this fellow Democrats
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  that are calling for him to be stepping out of the race. Fellow Democrats,
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  now that you have return from the July the fourth recess, I want
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  you to know that despite all the speculation, the pres and elsewhere. I'm
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  firmly committed to saying this race, to run this race to the end,
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  and to beating Donald Trump. This is Biden's letter to the Democrats. Here's
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  where I think the best part of this letter is. I know better than
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  anyone the responsibility and the burden the nominee of our party carries. I carry
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  it in twenty twenty one, when the fate of our nature was our state.
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  I also know these concerns come from a place of real respect for my
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  lifetime of public service and your record as present. Let me pick apart that
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  your record as present. You mean the fact that Russia took advantage of your
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  weakness to go into Ukraine and we don't know where the billions that we've said
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  Ukraine is. Is that what you're proud of on your record? You mean
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  the fact that you told Israel behind closed doors, knock it off, and
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  you did not send weaponry to support Israel at the time when they need it
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  most against the US. That record, the record of weakness that everybody got
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  a wind of when you watched the Afghanistan withdrawal and kiss the lives of thirteen
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  US holders. Is that the record, and I've said this on radio and
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  elsewhere. I've said this that we can be proud that he has overcome two
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  aneurysms and still been in public office for fifty years. But the obliviousness of
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  this letter to his fellow Democrats, and then the fact that they are now
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  saying he's been visited by, you know, a neurological doctor three times,
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  three times, is alarming. I want to know, if he has to
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  be seen by doctors, why he keeps being cleared. That's what I really
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  want to know. Why he keeps being cleared to be present? I should
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  say, so, I'll post the letter. I guess I mean it's I've
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  been moved by the expressions of affection for me from so many many who have
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  known me well and supported me over the course of my public life, grave
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  over the rock, solid, stead fast forward from so many elected Democrats in
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  Congress and all across the country, and taking great strength from the results I've
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  seen from so many voters, resolving determination, and grassroots supporters. I respond
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  to all this by saying, clearly, nonequivocally, I wouldn't be running again
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  if I did not absolutely be I would be the best person to beat Donald
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  Trump. I mean, here's the fact of life. In a way,
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  him not caving is incredible, but at the same time, because he's not
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  letting outsiders, you know, letting outside voices dictate what he wants to do.
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  But at the same time, it's very dangerous that he wants to keep
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  going. And I can a plug for surviving two aneurysms, but he has
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  to know, and the White asses to know, and Joe Biden has to
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  know. This isn't right if he has a neurological conditions, which he does,
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  which he does, it's not right to keep him in the office with
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  all these neurological situations continuing. I mean, they've even thrown the word in
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  Parkinson's how freaking messed up is that? And you might say, George Stefanopolis
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  calling for the president to step down his big news, But he is now
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  a course of voices and it seems like no matter that that, like the
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  Times or Morning Joe or anything like that, the President's not gonna listen.
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  So good luck America as this guy wants to keep on, keep it on.
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  And while we can applaud him for his fortitude, we can also really
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  really look at this as it's dangerous for the President United States to be visited
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  by neurophysicists or whatever you want to say, in the neurologic department and still
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  serve for the country. That's a little alarming to me. And I don't
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  know if that is for you or not, but it is for me.
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  That being said, there is a big issue that he has not conquered at
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  all, which is the immigration And I learned tonight and over my constant reading
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  of emails. But the New York Post has an interesting reporting. According to
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  Rich Calder and Georgia Warel, new York City's poorest zip codes forced to bear
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  brunt of the immigration crisis. Now, I had figured when I saw that
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  the Black Lives Matter moment was moving into the suburbs, away from the city
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  and expanding, and and that was the riotous version of the Black Lives Matter
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  movement, not the calm protesters that were there in the afternoons. And and
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  then at night the writer took over. Anyway, I figured, of course,
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  the immigration crisis was in our neighborhoods, our suburbs, our kids' lives.
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  And now we realize that, according to this article, the poor zip
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  codes adversity are being forced to bear the greatest brunt. Long Island City is
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  home to a stagger twenty three government runs shelters, twelve percent of the one
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  hundred and ninety three operating in New York City. This was according to the
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  data of a confidential list of shelter sites used by city agencies. So while
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  Staten Island got a lot of coverage for their fighting back, Queen's quietly became
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  the epicenter. We thought the Roosevelt Hotel, we thought all the conversion of
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  hotels to migrant shelters. But no, no, no, that was just
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  a piece of it. They actually made twenty three government run migrant shelters in
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  Long Island City. So good on Queen's District Attorney Melinda Cats were holding the
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  man who raped a thirteen year old girl and abused the boy that was with
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  her, too. Good for holding him accountable and for there being you know,
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  no bail set I mean nothing, you can get him out. Good
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  for the da Cats to make sure that happened, because hell if the city's
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  not gonna help. And I've loved the fact that Eric Adams has called out
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  President Biden on this. I've loved that he's called for federal support for the
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  city, but even he can't contain this crisis. And if the city can't,
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  then yes, it's up to the district attorneys of each of these boroughs
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  to take control. And I'm reporting this because we gotta hold not only the
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  Biden administration accountable for this. I think we hold Great Gabbitt accountable for forcing
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  our hand with all of this. And then we got to call out the
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  city for not properly managing the migrant crisis and just dumping them in the poor
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  zip codes of our city. Three of the top five most shelter century zip
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  codes are among the poorest areas, which means the incomes are below thirty seven
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  thousand, three hundred dollars, and that's according to data comments as of June
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  twenty sixth. The Post went into this deep dive, and I'm glad they
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  did because we've got to hold hold the city accountable for this mess too.
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  We've got a hold of the accountable, yes, Biden and then Abbot,
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  but we could have easily done Martha's vineyarded and said bye bye onto the next
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  city, move them up to Canada forgot six. But no, we feel
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  like we have a responsibility to be the open arms for everybody, even if
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  they are single, military aged men that don't look like they need a handout.
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  They look like they're just ready to freaking cause havoc. Not every one
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  of them, but there are I'm sure a lot like that rapist in Queens.
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  So I'm I I I feel like this is a watergate kind of moment
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  with this reporting because as a New York Post exclusive, Rich Calder and Georgia
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  Orrell reporting on this thirty seven thousand dollars income neighborhoods bearing the brunt of this
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  crisis, we could have easily easily put them back on the buses and said
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  you're not we're not able to help you right now. And that would have
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  been a really smart decision, wouldn't it. Let's see what else the sleuth
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  r of these two and many others come up with. As the city while
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  it has not seen an incredible jump, oh and amazingly, you know,
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  might as it God is one one four three two. That's where my households
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  home is. And they have literally put migrants in the one one four three
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  five and the one one three four four three four thirteen shelters in the one
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  one four, three five seven. In the one one four three four,
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  I pray for that beautiful suburb of Queens in Jamaica, Briarwood. I pray
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  for the safety of all of us there. This isn't normal. And instead
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  of trying to pack all these migrants in two different areas, we must look
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  for an exit strategy, a humane but much needed exit strategy, only out
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  the poorest neighborhoods, out of our city, entirely for the good of even
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  them and the good of our city. See by giving freebies to illeal immigrants
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  while someone who's abled on Social Security can't make extra money. That doesn't feel
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  empowering to either party, does it not? In my eyes? When we're
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  talking about non empowered American disability, those are those Americans disabilities in the eighty
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  eight months. I know, I keep going back to that, but it's
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  so striking to me how this month alone, politicians will roll out the red
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  carpet for those disabilities and then reminder, you can't make more than a certain
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  amounts if you're on Social Security and an impersonal disabilities. That's not the American
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  dream. So why are we giving it to those who didn't even look like
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  they knew where they were when they were dropped off here from across the border.
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  Sounds harsh, I know, but it feels like a real sentiment here.
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  There's gotta be a human way than dumping these immigrants into these neighborhoods and
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  saying I and basically washing their hands saying alright, you guys, say care
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  of'em. It's gotta be a better way for both parties involved and the
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  eight million New Yorkers involved. What say you? On the Alex Garrett Podcast Network