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nt to stay in my life and I want to stay in their life. So we have a separate, very good relationship, but they don't live with me but they're also a certain age. And the second thing is that I always saw it as a package deal. So even though the relationships are separate it's still a package deal. So when you agree to be part of the parent's life, you're agreeing to be part of the children's life…

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What do you think of the theory that letting Mamdani win and essentially sacrificing our crown jewel city for however many years might be useful for Republicans and maybe useful for the city because it would prove that he's not the right solution and we maybe we get another 20-year reprieve from that kind of thinking. What do you think? Do you think we'd be better off, New York specifically? Do you think they'd be better off just eating this sandwich and then learning from it? I don't know. You know, I was surprised to learn that New York real estate is coming back. That's the last thing I would have expected. If there's one thing I can tell you about economics, nobody can predict it. So the entire argument against Mamdani is that we can all predict economics here. Here I'm going to make you a little bit uncertain. Are you ready? When you came in here you were completely certain that Mamdani's approach was a bad one. Communist, socialist, and that the normies had the right one, you know, social capitalism, free markets. You were completely right about that, right? Well, here's the thing. How many of you predicted that in the middle of the race to elect a socialist, maybe communist, in the middle of the race that New York City real estate prices would go up and people would be coming back in and buying office space and is recovering? How many of you would have predicted that? To me, it was the most easy thing to predict wouldn't happen, right? Because the situation in theory is getting worse and worse for a traditional business that doesn't

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want to overpay taxes and doesn't want to be in a crime area. So in theory, it would be the easiest prediction in the world that the real estate situation in New York would continue getting worse, at least during the election when there's a chance of the communists getting in power. But it's the opposite. So this is where I'm making you feel uncertain. And one of the reasons that I have no respect…

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