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Jon Stewart: “If they really believed it and if it was really true, we'd…”

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Socialism, Politics & NYC | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart

Published | Video Starts at 1:05:16

They have no ability. They, they shoot their own arguments in the dick time after time after time. But If they really believed it and if it was really true, we'd know it because they would have taken it and, and they would have given it credence and credibility by applying actual evidentiary standard to it. And they don't. Fuck them. Fuck them. Fuck them. All right? And I was going to say feed them beans, but no, no, no beans for them. (1:05:16–1:05:32)

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