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That's what he promised. 13 00:00:39,280 --> 00:00:42,119 That's what he promised in his speech that well, the 14 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:45,600 like the second speech that he gave because like he 15 00:00:45,679 --> 00:00:48,079 got sworn in at midnight because you know, I gotta 16 00:00:48,079 --> 00:00:51,679 get to work so fast, you know, And he did 17 00:00:51,719 --> 00:00:57,399 the swearing in officially like in a in an old 18 00:00:58,119 --> 00:01:01,200 subway station located underneath city Hall. 19 00:01:01,280 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: But it's like long been. 20 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:12,400 Speaker 2: Mothballed, which kind of feels symbolic, right just a little, 21 00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:16,400 you know, like we're going to go into this, you know, 22 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:21,840 this abandoned, decrepit kind of space under the city Hall 23 00:01:21,959 --> 00:01:26,680 to launch the start of the communist takeover of New 24 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:33,280 York City. Sorry, sorry, Democratic Socialist because it's totally different. 25 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,239 So here is the Associated Press story on the matter. 26 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:40,280 And I do have a couple of soundbites to play 27 00:01:40,319 --> 00:01:45,359 from his speech. So he did the swearing in, but 28 00:01:45,359 --> 00:01:47,280 then he did a block party and it was like 29 00:01:47,879 --> 00:01:51,680 twenty three degrees outside. It was really cold, which is 30 00:01:51,840 --> 00:01:57,840 perfect block party weather, right, Yeah, totally so. Zorin Mamdani 31 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:02,000 became the mayor of New York City Thursday, taking over 32 00:02:02,120 --> 00:02:07,120 one of the most unrelenting jobs in American politics. Like, really, 33 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:11,319 it's an unrelenting job. Well maybe for somebody like him 34 00:02:11,319 --> 00:02:13,280 who's never had a job before. I guess that could 35 00:02:13,319 --> 00:02:17,560 seem unrelenting, But like he asked for the job, he 36 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:23,639 wanted the job, and I don't know if it's unrelenting. Like, 37 00:02:23,719 --> 00:02:26,560 I've never seen this word use to describe any elected 38 00:02:26,599 --> 00:02:27,319 office before. 39 00:02:27,759 --> 00:02:28,599 Speaker 1: Does Donald Trump? 40 00:02:29,759 --> 00:02:34,280 Speaker 2: Have you ever heard the word unrelenting as a as 41 00:02:34,319 --> 00:02:37,639 an adjective to describe the job that Donald Trump does. 42 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:42,759 That guy's giving like seventeen press conferences a day. He's 43 00:02:42,800 --> 00:02:44,759 like traveling all the time. I think he sleeps like 44 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:45,919 three hours a night. 45 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 1: That's it. 46 00:02:47,400 --> 00:02:50,240 Speaker 2: Nobody ever describes him as you know, in the job, 47 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:56,199 as you know, unrelenting anyway, he began the unrelenting job 48 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:00,199 with a promise to transform government on behalf of the 49 00:03:00,240 --> 00:03:08,280 city's striving, struggling working class because zorin mom Danny is 50 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:12,280 anything but working class, and who better but a Nepo 51 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:18,439 baby silver spoon kid to advocate for the working class. 52 00:03:18,719 --> 00:03:22,240 He knows what it's like to strive, like when he 53 00:03:22,360 --> 00:03:25,360 was a failed rapper and he strove to be a 54 00:03:25,439 --> 00:03:31,479 not failed rapper and failed. He knows what it's like 55 00:03:31,879 --> 00:03:37,800 to struggle with two parents that are well, really really 56 00:03:37,840 --> 00:03:41,879 wealthy and own a whole bunch of land in was 57 00:03:41,879 --> 00:03:47,719 it Uganda where he had his three day wedding. Yeah, 58 00:03:48,039 --> 00:03:52,280 the struggle is real people. His dad's a Columbia University 59 00:03:52,319 --> 00:03:57,360 professor who is a scholar and academic and with a 60 00:03:57,400 --> 00:04:02,280 focus in colonialism. As you might imagine, it's all about 61 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:07,319 decolonization and neo Marxist stuff. His mom is like some 62 00:04:07,520 --> 00:04:14,240 filmmaker apparently was in the running to be the director. 63 00:04:14,319 --> 00:04:18,680 I think of the Harry Potter movies. So they know 64 00:04:18,800 --> 00:04:23,279 what it's like to struggle, just like you know, the Cabby, 65 00:04:24,439 --> 00:04:27,680 just like the Boodega worker, which, by the way, That's 66 00:04:27,680 --> 00:04:31,279 something that Zoron Mam Donnie does. Every single word that 67 00:04:31,439 --> 00:04:35,759 is of a non English persuasion gets the over enunciation. 68 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:38,680 By the way, if anybody ever wonders why, you know 69 00:04:38,720 --> 00:04:42,279 whatever I'm saying the names of foreign countries, particularly in 70 00:04:42,759 --> 00:04:44,920 Central and South America, That's why I always go with 71 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:49,360 the over anunciation, because I am mocking the people who 72 00:04:49,360 --> 00:04:52,959 cannot just like in a newscast, they cannot just say Venezuela. 73 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:56,360 They got to say Venezuela or Hondoras, you know, they 74 00:04:56,360 --> 00:04:59,680 got to say it in whatever this like affectation is 75 00:05:00,560 --> 00:05:04,240 like to show their solidarity with those people or something. 76 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,519 It's just and Mendonmie's speech, you're gonna hear it. He 77 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:09,759 was just full of all of this kind of stuff 78 00:05:09,759 --> 00:05:15,000 and constant shoutouts to different you know, constituencies and people 79 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:20,959 and professions and foods and stuff. Mamdani a Democrat e 80 00:05:21,800 --> 00:05:28,040 democratic socialist. He was sworn in at a decommissioned subway 81 00:05:28,079 --> 00:05:32,079 station below City Hall just after midnight, placing his hand 82 00:05:32,199 --> 00:05:35,279 on a Quran as he took his oath as the 83 00:05:35,319 --> 00:05:38,480 city's first Muslim mayor. I'll tell you what, folks, I 84 00:05:38,639 --> 00:05:43,759 can't wait for the two hundred and fiftieth Birthday party 85 00:05:43,800 --> 00:05:46,560 for America in New York City. Man, that's going to 86 00:05:46,639 --> 00:05:50,720 be lit as is the twenty fifth anniversary of the 87 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:53,639 nine to eleven terrorist attacks. Can't wait to hear his 88 00:05:53,720 --> 00:05:58,240 comments at that event. After working part of the night 89 00:05:58,319 --> 00:06:00,920 in his new office, Mamdani returned earned a City Hall 90 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:03,480 in a taxicab, A real man of the people, you 91 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:09,040 see taking a taxicab, and then went on to the 92 00:06:09,160 --> 00:06:13,680 grander public inauguration where you know, you know who gave 93 00:06:13,759 --> 00:06:18,680 him his oath of office. You know, swarm in Bernie Sanders, 94 00:06:20,959 --> 00:06:26,759 one of the mayor's political heroes. Later on, the Associated 95 00:06:26,759 --> 00:06:31,040 Press reports that throngs turned out not to be confused 96 00:06:31,079 --> 00:06:33,399 with the garment of clothing, which would not be helpful 97 00:06:33,519 --> 00:06:37,879 in the mid twenty degree temperatures. Throngs turned out in 98 00:06:37,920 --> 00:06:41,920 the frigid cold for an inauguration viewing party just south 99 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,399 of City Hall, on a stretch of Broadway known as 100 00:06:44,439 --> 00:06:49,839 the Canyon of Heroes, famous for its ticker tape parades. Now, 101 00:06:49,839 --> 00:06:52,800 the initial reports were that they were expecting tens of 102 00:06:52,879 --> 00:06:56,240 thousands of people to show up for you know, for 103 00:06:56,360 --> 00:07:02,079 the Glorious Revolution, the beginning of the revolution. And they 104 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:07,399 got about ten thousand. But it was cold, right, it 105 00:07:07,439 --> 00:07:10,639 was cold for the throngs, So that could explain why 106 00:07:10,800 --> 00:07:14,839 they didn't get a lot of turnout. The first thing 107 00:07:14,920 --> 00:07:18,000 he did, one of the first things he did, actually, 108 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:20,079 I think it was the first thing he did. He 109 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:25,040 revoked multiple executive orders that were issued by his predecessor, 110 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:30,480 the previous administration, Eric Adams, everything after September twenty sixth, 111 00:07:30,639 --> 00:07:35,399 twenty twenty four. He revoked all of those executive orders. 112 00:07:35,800 --> 00:07:40,439 Why that date, Well, coincidentally, it was after the September 113 00:07:40,480 --> 00:07:43,680 twenty sixth, twenty twenty four, when Eric Adams put out 114 00:07:43,680 --> 00:07:45,959 a bunch of stuff that was like hey Jewish people, 115 00:07:46,079 --> 00:07:47,399 you know, we're not going to put up with his 116 00:07:47,480 --> 00:07:48,560 rise of anti Semitism. 117 00:07:48,759 --> 00:07:50,279 Speaker 1: So you got to wipe that stuff away. 118 00:07:51,759 --> 00:07:54,759 Speaker 2: The report that they had commissioned on antisemitism in New 119 00:07:54,879 --> 00:07:58,360 York City, they got to wipe that out. But also, 120 00:07:58,720 --> 00:08:01,759 just for you know, cover story purposes, that's the date 121 00:08:01,800 --> 00:08:05,040 that federal authorities announced that he had been indicted on 122 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:10,839 corruption charges the former mayor, which then were later dismissed. Remember, okay, 123 00:08:11,079 --> 00:08:17,040 later on, oh, actor Mandy Patinkin, you know that guy 124 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:23,399 is from Princess Bride. I've forged something montoyo. Whatever you 125 00:08:23,519 --> 00:08:27,279 killed my father that prepared to me to prepare to die. 126 00:08:27,360 --> 00:08:29,519 That guy, Mandy Patinkin, he was also in one of 127 00:08:29,519 --> 00:08:33,080 the uh was a criminal minds or something like that. Anyway, 128 00:08:34,039 --> 00:08:38,679 he recently hosted Mamdani to celebrate Hanukkah, and so that 129 00:08:38,840 --> 00:08:44,559 got him billing at the inaugural event where he, along 130 00:08:44,600 --> 00:08:49,799 with children from an elementary school chorus, sang over the Rainbow. 131 00:08:51,279 --> 00:08:55,080 They sang somewhere over the Rainbow. I don't know if 132 00:08:55,120 --> 00:09:01,600 they changed the words to make it, you know sufficient, mamdamion, 133 00:09:02,000 --> 00:09:05,240 but uh yeah, I don't know why anyway. 134 00:09:05,279 --> 00:09:06,519 Speaker 1: That's that was part of the program. 135 00:09:06,559 --> 00:09:09,720 Speaker 2: In a campaign that helped make affordability a buzzword across 136 00:09:09,720 --> 00:09:13,240 the political spectrum, Mamdani ran on a focused platform that 137 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:17,840 included promises of free childcare, free buses, a rent freeze 138 00:09:17,840 --> 00:09:20,679 for about a million households, as well as a pilot 139 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:25,960 program of city run grocery stores, which like, you're not 140 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:29,679 going to get the full revolution unless you get the breadlines. 141 00:09:30,080 --> 00:09:33,559 It's kind of that's kind of the commis jam, you know, so, 142 00:09:33,879 --> 00:09:35,519 and I don't mean jam as something you can eat 143 00:09:35,559 --> 00:09:38,159 because it's communism, so you don't get anything to eat. Actually, 144 00:09:38,200 --> 00:09:40,279 so if you're going to have communism, you might as 145 00:09:40,279 --> 00:09:42,120 well get the bread lines. So in order to get 146 00:09:42,120 --> 00:09:45,039 the breadlines, you gotta, you know, have the government run 147 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,399 grocery stores. But he has a way, he's got he's 148 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:52,360 got an idea on how to make this stuff affordable 149 00:09:52,440 --> 00:09:54,080 at the city run grocery stores. 150 00:09:55,399 --> 00:09:55,840 Speaker 1: Volume. 151 00:09:55,919 --> 00:09:58,919 Speaker 2: He's going to buy in volume, which is a brand 152 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:03,559 new concept, never contemplated by anybody. Like the likes of Cosco, 153 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:06,159 it just might work. 154 00:10:06,200 --> 00:10:06,480 Speaker 1: People. 155 00:10:06,519 --> 00:10:08,879 Speaker 2: You know, stories are powerful. 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Maybe it would 176 00:11:15,159 --> 00:11:21,360 be fun to preview the movie Soylent Green, which rumor. 177 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:27,399 Speaker 1: Has it is people. That's what I've heard at. 178 00:11:27,279 --> 00:11:30,480 Speaker 2: Oh three number, says Pete enjoy the show. Mom dummy 179 00:11:30,679 --> 00:11:33,440 doesn't bother me. Bernie Sanders doesn't bother me. A Cajua 180 00:11:33,480 --> 00:11:35,840 Cortez does not bother me. The thing that bothers me 181 00:11:35,919 --> 00:11:37,960 is the millions of people that vote for idiots like this. 182 00:11:41,639 --> 00:11:46,080 Ian says, you're spot on about people virtue signaling by pronunciation. 183 00:11:47,240 --> 00:11:49,960 Obama did it daily. Yeah, that's why. If you ever 184 00:11:50,000 --> 00:11:52,879 hear me when I say Pakistan and then I correct 185 00:11:52,919 --> 00:11:57,440 myself to say Pakistan, that's what Obama would do, except 186 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,840 minus the correction. Obama would always say buck it. You 187 00:12:00,960 --> 00:12:03,399 always make sure to say like that. It's code switching. 188 00:12:03,559 --> 00:12:06,799 It's like, see, I'm one of you, I understand you, 189 00:12:06,960 --> 00:12:09,840 and look at me. I'm I'm saying it in the 190 00:12:09,879 --> 00:12:12,759 way that you say it because you don't speak English 191 00:12:12,840 --> 00:12:15,200 as a first language. So I'm going to say it 192 00:12:15,279 --> 00:12:17,759 like you say it in order to convey this idea 193 00:12:17,799 --> 00:12:21,519 that I care more than those other people that can't 194 00:12:21,519 --> 00:12:22,879 be bothered to say Pukistan. 195 00:12:23,480 --> 00:12:30,279 Speaker 1: See back to the Associated Press. 196 00:12:31,279 --> 00:12:35,679 Speaker 2: Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, the son of filmmaker 197 00:12:36,039 --> 00:12:39,960 Mira Nair and Mahmoud Mamdani. 198 00:12:39,799 --> 00:12:42,840 Speaker 1: An academic and author. An academic and. 199 00:12:43,080 --> 00:12:47,480 Speaker 2: Yeah right, a guy who is an anti Western quote 200 00:12:47,519 --> 00:12:53,960 unquote decolonization guy. Like just like Obama, mam Dami is 201 00:12:54,679 --> 00:12:58,200 a red diaper baby. Okay, that's what he is. He 202 00:12:58,639 --> 00:13:02,519 grew up in this this neo Marxist crap and that's 203 00:13:02,519 --> 00:13:07,039 what he's espousing, and that's why the Champagne liberals love them. Okay, 204 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:12,440 that's what Champagne socialists. That's his base. Okay, the data 205 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:16,000 proves this is clear. Like the native born New York 206 00:13:16,039 --> 00:13:19,600 population did not vote for Mamdanni. It was the foreign 207 00:13:19,600 --> 00:13:22,279 born and it was the really rich affluent virtue signaling 208 00:13:22,360 --> 00:13:25,759 Champagne socialists who think that none of this stuff is 209 00:13:25,759 --> 00:13:28,000 going to affect them. And by the way, there's a 210 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,080 dynamic at play here as well. It's not a fight 211 00:13:31,159 --> 00:13:34,200 between the haves and the have nots. It's a fight 212 00:13:34,279 --> 00:13:38,080 between the haves and the have mores. That's the fight. 213 00:13:39,080 --> 00:13:40,919 That's what the Democrats are finding. That's why they're like, 214 00:13:40,919 --> 00:13:42,519 we're going to give you all of this stuff. And 215 00:13:42,519 --> 00:13:45,399 who are they going after? Not themselves. They're going after 216 00:13:45,440 --> 00:13:47,480 the people that have more than they do, because they 217 00:13:47,519 --> 00:13:51,200 themselves are quite wealthy. Mamdanni is a rich kid. He 218 00:13:51,320 --> 00:13:53,840 is a NEPO baby in a rent control department to 219 00:13:53,919 --> 00:13:57,240 be sure, although now he's living at Gracie Mansion. But 220 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:01,840 like that's his back I've got. Like there's a write 221 00:14:01,879 --> 00:14:05,720 up here from Sean Dearns at The Washington Examiner talking 222 00:14:05,759 --> 00:14:10,080 about communism's wealthy backers. Right, their whole system doesn't work 223 00:14:10,159 --> 00:14:13,840 unless you've got people with wealth that actually built stuff 224 00:14:14,279 --> 00:14:19,879 and created wealth. Communism always just sucks all that stuff out. 225 00:14:19,919 --> 00:14:24,879 It relies on productive people first in order to pillage 226 00:14:24,879 --> 00:14:33,519 what they've got because it doesn't produce anything. Mamdani his 227 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:35,840 family moved to New York City when he was seven, 228 00:14:35,919 --> 00:14:38,200 with Mamdani growing up in a post nine to eleven 229 00:14:38,240 --> 00:14:40,919 city where Muslims didn't always feel welcome. 230 00:14:41,799 --> 00:14:43,320 Speaker 1: I man, he should talk to the Jews. 231 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 2: He became an American citizen in twenty eighteen. He worked 232 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:51,000 on political campaigns for Democrat candidates in the city before 233 00:14:51,039 --> 00:14:54,519 he sought public office himself, winning a state Assembly seat 234 00:14:54,559 --> 00:14:59,200 in twenty twenty to represent a section of Queens. Now 235 00:14:59,200 --> 00:15:01,600 that he has taken off, Mamdanni and his wife will 236 00:15:01,600 --> 00:15:05,960 depart their one bedroom rent stabilized apartment in the Outer 237 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:09,320 Borough to take up residence in the stately mayoral residence 238 00:15:09,360 --> 00:15:15,000 in Manhattan. Mamdani also faces skepticism and opposition from some 239 00:15:15,200 --> 00:15:18,600 members of the city's Jewish community over his criticisms of 240 00:15:19,120 --> 00:15:26,279 Israel's government. Yeah, it's not just his criticism of Israel's 241 00:15:26,320 --> 00:15:31,159 government that's got Jews concerned in New York City. By 242 00:15:31,200 --> 00:15:36,000 the way, he deleted a bunch of tweets his uh, well, 243 00:15:36,080 --> 00:15:39,360 his official Twitter account, so you know, like the official 244 00:15:39,399 --> 00:15:42,320 New York City mayor has a Twitter account, and whoever 245 00:15:42,399 --> 00:15:45,240 is the mayor gets that account. And so when you 246 00:15:45,279 --> 00:15:48,879 go and you take over the account, you swap out 247 00:15:48,879 --> 00:15:52,399 the little profile picture because it showed Eric Adams, so 248 00:15:52,519 --> 00:15:56,320 he's gone. So you swap out his picture with Zorn Mumdani's, 249 00:15:56,720 --> 00:16:01,120 and you swap out the name from Eric Adams to 250 00:16:01,559 --> 00:16:05,559 mayors or On Mamdani. But what that does is quite hilariously, 251 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,240 if I do say so myself, It then means that 252 00:16:08,559 --> 00:16:11,360 all of the previous tweets that have ever been sent 253 00:16:11,399 --> 00:16:15,399 out under the mayor, under the mayoral Twitter account, they 254 00:16:15,440 --> 00:16:20,200 now all have zor on Mamdani's face and name. And 255 00:16:20,320 --> 00:16:25,440 so when Eric Adams administration was tweeting out stuff that were, 256 00:16:26,279 --> 00:16:28,559 you know, tweets that were like, we stand with you 257 00:16:28,720 --> 00:16:33,360 are Jewish residents and you know fellow you know city dwellers, 258 00:16:33,360 --> 00:16:35,360 we love you. We will not stand for this anti 259 00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:38,879 semitism and all of this stuff. Well now Mam Donnie's 260 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:41,200 name is on that and his face is on those tweets, 261 00:16:41,960 --> 00:16:45,679 and they deleted the tweets. They went through and deleted 262 00:16:45,720 --> 00:16:49,759 the tweets that were specifically aimed at standing in support 263 00:16:49,879 --> 00:16:52,720 of and standing with the Jewish residence of New York City, 264 00:16:54,720 --> 00:16:58,879 but it's just criticism of the Israeli government, you see. 265 00:16:59,679 --> 00:17:03,759 Still so Mom, Donny supporters in Thursday's crowd expressed optimism 266 00:17:03,799 --> 00:17:10,279 that he would be a unifying force, Yes, globalizing the Intifada. 267 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:15,000 It is a unifying message except for like the Jews 268 00:17:15,039 --> 00:17:19,720 and people who might object to the indiscriminate slaughter on 269 00:17:19,759 --> 00:17:22,960 the streets of an American city of people based on 270 00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,400 religious ideology. But other than that, I guess it can. 271 00:17:25,519 --> 00:17:28,160 I mean, it's going to unify the radical base on 272 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:28,720 the left. 273 00:17:29,519 --> 00:17:34,759 Speaker 1: I guess. Like then they have a quote, and. 274 00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 2: I've talked about this before a lot of times, if 275 00:17:36,480 --> 00:17:39,960 you want to know sort of where the passion or 276 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:44,480 the sentiments of the reporter covering a story, where their 277 00:17:44,599 --> 00:17:45,480 sentiments lie. 278 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:49,440 Speaker 1: But Pete, they lied ring the whole story. No, I kid. 279 00:17:49,640 --> 00:17:52,480 Speaker 2: But if you want to know sort of like what 280 00:17:52,599 --> 00:17:55,680 the message of the story they're attempting to convey is, 281 00:17:56,759 --> 00:18:00,480 go look at the last line of a story, because 282 00:18:00,480 --> 00:18:06,240 they reporters will oftentimes try to, I say, land a punch. 283 00:18:06,559 --> 00:18:09,119 It's sort of like they want to like just hit 284 00:18:09,200 --> 00:18:12,720 you with some emotional kind of a hmm. Really makes 285 00:18:12,759 --> 00:18:14,720 you think kind of a deal, you know, even though 286 00:18:14,759 --> 00:18:16,720 it doesn't actually make you think, because it's appealing to 287 00:18:16,759 --> 00:18:20,799 your emotional side. That last line, whatever, that last sentence is, 288 00:18:20,839 --> 00:18:23,960 however they're ending their story, that's usually a pretty good 289 00:18:23,960 --> 00:18:29,319 indication of where the reporter's own passion and bias is. Okay, 290 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:37,359 So here's how this ap report by Anthony is agier zigwider. 291 00:18:38,160 --> 00:18:41,079 I think it's how he pronounces that. Anyway, here's how 292 00:18:41,079 --> 00:18:43,680 we ended it. Quote, there are moments. He's quoting a 293 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:48,359 sixty four year old musician with the Metropolitan Opera named 294 00:18:48,440 --> 00:18:52,480 Mary Haman, who says, there are moments where everyone in 295 00:18:52,519 --> 00:18:55,039 New York comes together, like when the Mets won the 296 00:18:55,039 --> 00:18:59,279 World Series in eighty six. This feels like that, just colder. 297 00:19:01,519 --> 00:19:01,880 Speaker 1: Okay. 298 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:04,240 Speaker 2: I was in New York in nineteen eighty six when 299 00:19:04,240 --> 00:19:08,079 the Mets won. This is nothing like that. Okay, trust me. 300 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:14,359 That was way different than this. But to these leftists, 301 00:19:14,440 --> 00:19:17,960 they think that when they win, that means everybody unifies. 302 00:19:18,079 --> 00:19:20,440 It's so unifying. Now, don't we all just feel great? 303 00:19:21,519 --> 00:19:22,200 Speaker 1: No? We don't. 304 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:23,960 Speaker 2: All right, if you're listening to this show, you know 305 00:19:24,039 --> 00:19:26,039 I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, 306 00:19:26,039 --> 00:19:28,119 and I know you do too, and you've probably heard 307 00:19:28,119 --> 00:19:32,200 me say get your news from multiple sources. 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I have a message on Twitter from Russ 327 00:20:29,759 --> 00:20:35,319 who says, somebody at New Year's Eve gathering that we attended. 328 00:20:35,359 --> 00:20:37,599 I don't know who the person was, but they made 329 00:20:37,640 --> 00:20:42,559 the comment Mamdanni launching his administration from a tunnel does 330 00:20:42,599 --> 00:20:52,920 seem appropriate A good one, all right? So I have 331 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:56,920 some of the soundbites here from his speech. From Mamdanni's speech, 332 00:20:57,319 --> 00:21:00,440 This is from the quote unquote block party that he 333 00:21:00,440 --> 00:21:04,279 held in freezing temperatures was like twenty five degrees or 334 00:21:04,279 --> 00:21:08,519 something like that, very very cold. And here he starts 335 00:21:08,519 --> 00:21:14,079 off talking about the grand opportunity to completely transform the 336 00:21:14,119 --> 00:21:16,400 city that they all love. Which, by the way, if 337 00:21:16,519 --> 00:21:19,119 it's a city that you love, why are you trying 338 00:21:19,119 --> 00:21:22,400 to transform it? But I digress. Oh sorry, no, that's 339 00:21:22,440 --> 00:21:25,119 not the No, here's Mamdanni. 340 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:30,839 Speaker 3: A moment like this comes rarely. Seldom do we hold 341 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:36,599 such an opportunity to transform and reinvent rareer Still, is 342 00:21:36,640 --> 00:21:40,079 it the people themselves whose hands are the ones upon 343 00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:41,200 the levers of change? 344 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:44,200 Speaker 2: Okay, that's a lie. The people themselves do not have 345 00:21:44,279 --> 00:21:47,680 their hands on the levers. It's Mamdani and his selected 346 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:52,400 crew of socialists that's who are on the levers of 347 00:21:52,680 --> 00:21:55,720 change and reinvention and transformation. They're the ones that are 348 00:21:55,759 --> 00:21:58,359 going to be doing this stuff, not you the people. 349 00:21:59,519 --> 00:22:04,200 He's not pulling some schlub off the street and saying, hey, 350 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,119 make some decisions as mayor today. 351 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:09,799 Speaker 1: He's not doing that. He's in control, he's in power. 352 00:22:09,839 --> 00:22:11,799 Speaker 2: But of course, this is what all populists do, is 353 00:22:11,839 --> 00:22:14,720 they claim that the people are doing these things. The 354 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:19,559 people aren't doing these things. You are, you and your 355 00:22:19,640 --> 00:22:23,599 band of merry Kami's. You're the ones that are going 356 00:22:23,640 --> 00:22:25,160 to be making these changes. 357 00:22:27,000 --> 00:22:29,920 Speaker 3: And yet we know that too often in our past, 358 00:22:30,079 --> 00:22:34,720 moments of great possibility have been promptly surrendered to small 359 00:22:34,839 --> 00:22:39,920 imagination and smaller ambition. What was promised was never pursued. 360 00:22:40,720 --> 00:22:45,079 What could have changed remained the same. For the New 361 00:22:45,160 --> 00:22:48,680 Yorkers most eager to see our city remade, the weight 362 00:22:48,839 --> 00:22:54,079 has only grown heavier. The weight has only grown longer. 363 00:22:54,839 --> 00:23:00,240 Speaker 2: Very obama esque now very Obama esque. This is why 364 00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:02,319 people fell in love with the guy. He's got the smile, 365 00:23:02,799 --> 00:23:06,599 he's got the third world ism thing going, and he 366 00:23:06,680 --> 00:23:09,240 delivers a good speech. He can deliver a good speech. 367 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:13,960 He can he speaks through the applause lines and stuff, 368 00:23:13,960 --> 00:23:16,680 getting everybody all whipped up like Obama did. And he 369 00:23:16,720 --> 00:23:18,960 has the same sort of cadence that Obama did. You 370 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,200 can tell this kid is a product of the Obama era. 371 00:23:23,079 --> 00:23:25,640 Speaker 3: In writing this address, I have been told that this 372 00:23:25,799 --> 00:23:30,039 is the occasion to reset expectations. What that I should 373 00:23:30,119 --> 00:23:33,400 use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York 374 00:23:33,640 --> 00:23:38,039 to ask for little and expect even less. I will 375 00:23:38,079 --> 00:23:39,000 do no such thing. 376 00:23:40,759 --> 00:23:44,039 Speaker 2: Okay, Wait, who's telling you to do that? What morons 377 00:23:44,079 --> 00:23:48,119 do you have advising you on your administration that they 378 00:23:48,119 --> 00:23:51,680 would say, Okay, for your big speech, Now, you should 379 00:23:51,759 --> 00:23:56,599 use this to encourage people to ask for little and 380 00:23:56,759 --> 00:23:59,759 expect even less. That's what you need to do. That's 381 00:23:59,799 --> 00:24:04,119 the recipe for success. But what who would advise that? 382 00:24:05,880 --> 00:24:09,119 I don't think actually that anybody is advising him to 383 00:24:09,160 --> 00:24:12,039 say that sort of stuff. I think he's just saying 384 00:24:12,400 --> 00:24:15,359 that some people are telling me to do this. I think, Look, 385 00:24:15,519 --> 00:24:18,680 the best thing that could happen to him is failure. 386 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:23,960 It is that like, for him to fail in enacting 387 00:24:24,160 --> 00:24:27,359 the policies that he has been talking about, that would 388 00:24:27,359 --> 00:24:29,799 be the best thing for him, and it would be 389 00:24:29,799 --> 00:24:32,400 the best thing for New York. Okay, because if he 390 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:36,960 fails in enacting his socialism slash communism right, and if 391 00:24:36,960 --> 00:24:40,960 he fails, then he gets to parlay that into another 392 00:24:41,079 --> 00:24:43,960 run for the office, claiming that he's being thwarted. He 393 00:24:44,039 --> 00:24:47,279 needs another term, and then he gets to parlay failure 394 00:24:47,880 --> 00:24:50,880 to a run for some higher office beyond that US 395 00:24:50,960 --> 00:24:53,759 Senate or something. I don't know, and I will take 396 00:24:53,799 --> 00:24:56,599 the fight now to the Congress or to the Senate. 397 00:24:56,599 --> 00:25:00,160 He can't run for president because he wasn't born here, well, 398 00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:03,000 at least for now, unless we see some efforts to 399 00:25:03,079 --> 00:25:08,119 change that constitutional provision. But yeah, I don't see how 400 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:13,319 him succeeding in communism leads to greater success at the 401 00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:15,759 ballot box, unless, of course, he does what all communes do, 402 00:25:15,759 --> 00:25:18,359 which is to, you know, use coercion and force in 403 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:22,240 order to maintain power. We'll see, but that would be 404 00:25:22,319 --> 00:25:24,319 the best thing for him politically, and the best thing 405 00:25:24,319 --> 00:25:25,160 for New Yorkers. 406 00:25:27,960 --> 00:25:31,880 Speaker 3: The only expectation I seek to reset is that of 407 00:25:31,960 --> 00:25:33,400 small expectations. 408 00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:37,039 Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, that's so poetic getting today. 409 00:25:37,559 --> 00:25:42,960 Speaker 3: We will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed, 410 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,240 but never will we be accused of lacking the courage 411 00:25:46,240 --> 00:25:46,880 to try. 412 00:25:47,119 --> 00:25:49,839 Speaker 2: Okay, good, So you're just gonna keep You're gonna keep 413 00:25:49,839 --> 00:25:52,079 hammering away. You're going to keep demanding things that you 414 00:25:52,119 --> 00:25:56,240 have no authority to actually enact. You know, the the 415 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:01,200 increases on the in the tax rates for wealthy white people. 416 00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:05,680 That's what he said. You know, you need state approval 417 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:07,480 for that sort of thing. And maybe he gets it. 418 00:26:07,519 --> 00:26:07,960 Speaker 1: I don't know. 419 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:12,799 Speaker 2: Maybe he'll get it, but maybe he won't. And again 420 00:26:12,839 --> 00:26:14,799 that would be good for him, because then he can, 421 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,799 you know, cast other people as the villains. They are 422 00:26:17,839 --> 00:26:21,599 the reason why you're not getting this perfect, fast and 423 00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,880 free bus service that somehow or another miraculously won't be 424 00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:29,960 turned into just roving homeless shelters. But if we can't 425 00:26:29,960 --> 00:26:34,200 get the free and fast buses, that's because of you know, 426 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:38,599 those guys up in Albany, the rich people in Albany, which, 427 00:26:38,599 --> 00:26:40,240 by the way, again Mamdani is rich. 428 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:41,640 Speaker 1: Okay, he is rich. 429 00:26:42,119 --> 00:26:45,440 Speaker 2: His family is very very wealthy, very connected, very powerful. 430 00:26:46,519 --> 00:26:51,000 He is of the class that he rails against. That's 431 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,319 why I said this is a fight between the halves 432 00:26:53,839 --> 00:26:57,400 and the have mores. He is part of the halves. 433 00:27:00,039 --> 00:27:01,519 Speaker 1: Stuff. Let's see Cut two. 434 00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:05,359 Speaker 3: To those who insist that the era of big government 435 00:27:05,400 --> 00:27:09,119 is over, what hear me when I say this, No 436 00:27:09,200 --> 00:27:12,680 longer will City Hall hesitate to use its power to 437 00:27:12,759 --> 00:27:19,119 improve New yorkers lives? For too long we have turned 438 00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:22,839 to the private sector for greatness while accepting mediocrity from 439 00:27:22,880 --> 00:27:24,119 those who serve the public. 440 00:27:25,079 --> 00:27:28,039 Speaker 2: Wait, okay, hang on a second. No, we don't accept mediocrity. 441 00:27:28,319 --> 00:27:32,160 We expect it in the public service. We do in 442 00:27:32,519 --> 00:27:35,720 like the bureaucracy and such. And there's a reason for that. 443 00:27:35,799 --> 00:27:39,839 It's because, generally speaking, that the entrepreneurial spirit, the thing 444 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:45,000 that drives private citizens in the private sector to risk 445 00:27:45,160 --> 00:27:48,839 everything and to do it for long periods of time 446 00:27:48,920 --> 00:27:53,079 with no guarantee of success. That kind of a mindset, 447 00:27:53,160 --> 00:27:58,119 that kind of risk taking, you don't get that in 448 00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:01,519 the publics. In the public sector, you generally don't get that. 449 00:28:02,359 --> 00:28:04,359 I mean, you'll get it with police and firefighters, you 450 00:28:04,400 --> 00:28:07,480 get it like in that part of the public service field. 451 00:28:07,480 --> 00:28:07,759 Speaker 1: Sure. 452 00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,240 Speaker 2: Rush Limbaugh used to talk about, like that's the because 453 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:16,759 that's where the Republicans are looking at in government jobs, 454 00:28:16,799 --> 00:28:19,559 like the law enforcement aspect, that's usually where the Republicans are. 455 00:28:19,559 --> 00:28:22,880 And then all the bureaucrats in the administration, that's that's 456 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:26,559 where all the Democrats are. Okay, So it's not that 457 00:28:26,680 --> 00:28:30,200 we accept it, it's that we expect it because it's 458 00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:33,279 a different mindset. 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Minimum mods required For additional terms and responsible 479 00:29:41,000 --> 00:29:46,160 gaming resources see DKNG dot co slash audio limited time off. 480 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,759 Donnie gets up in freezing temperatures to a quote unquote 481 00:29:49,799 --> 00:29:55,000 block party of about ten thousand people celebrating deliriously so 482 00:29:55,559 --> 00:30:00,920 his election as the first Muslim and first demicocratic socialist 483 00:30:01,039 --> 00:30:04,440 mayor of New York, and he literally says City Hall 484 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,519 will no longer hesitate to use its power to improve 485 00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:18,319 New yorkers lives. That should terrify every New Yorker. By 486 00:30:18,359 --> 00:30:29,640 the way, New York Post the block party. Scores of 487 00:30:29,720 --> 00:30:34,160 Zorn Mamdani fans, who braved freezing temperatures to celebrate the 488 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:36,960 new mayor as he was publicly sworn into office Thursday, 489 00:30:37,319 --> 00:30:41,480 were left disappointed by the bash that the socialist politician 490 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:48,680 had promised. There's I feel like there's a lesson here. 491 00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:53,319 Around ten thousand supporters stood outside City Hall during the event, 492 00:30:53,839 --> 00:30:56,720 which was billed as an inauguration for a New era 493 00:30:57,079 --> 00:31:02,000 block party. They crammed into several barricaded pins. 494 00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:03,400 Speaker 1: Okay, so they had. 495 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:08,200 Speaker 2: Them all herded behind barriers, you know, And once you 496 00:31:08,279 --> 00:31:13,160 were inside the pen, you had no access to a bathroom. 497 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,880 You had no access to food, you had no access 498 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:22,279 to beverages, you had no access to heat or shelter, 499 00:31:24,720 --> 00:31:28,079 and you had to show up. They told people the 500 00:31:28,119 --> 00:31:31,240 things started at like one o'clock, but they were telling 501 00:31:31,279 --> 00:31:35,640 everybody to arrive by eleven am, So you need to 502 00:31:35,720 --> 00:31:39,880 show up at eleven am for a one o'clock start time. 503 00:31:40,279 --> 00:31:42,759 And the ceremony then went on for like hour and 504 00:31:42,799 --> 00:31:45,400 a half two hours or so, So they wanted people 505 00:31:45,440 --> 00:31:52,839 out there for five hours in subfreezing temperatures with no food, water, heat, 506 00:31:53,319 --> 00:31:57,720 shelter or bathrooms, which I feel like is a perfect 507 00:31:57,759 --> 00:32:04,279 illustration of the democrat socialist platform, Like this is what 508 00:32:04,319 --> 00:32:07,119 you're going to get. You were promised a block party 509 00:32:07,440 --> 00:32:12,519 and you got a bathroom less pen to stand in 510 00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:19,200 for five hours in twenty degree weather. Danny Mahabir, thirty 511 00:32:19,279 --> 00:32:22,920 years old, said, it's definitely not a block party. He 512 00:32:23,039 --> 00:32:29,279 was expecting a mix of food and music. Instead, he 513 00:32:29,319 --> 00:32:31,960 had to wear three layers of clothing to stay warm, 514 00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:34,640 and he said, and we're just stuck behind the barricades 515 00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:40,200 watching all of the ceremony on a TV. Brooklyn resident 516 00:32:40,279 --> 00:32:43,480 Shane Turner said, it's not exactly what I was expecting. 517 00:32:43,599 --> 00:32:48,480 I was expecting food and music. So you're telling me 518 00:32:48,559 --> 00:32:51,960 a socialist sold you a bill of goods that they 519 00:32:51,960 --> 00:32:52,839 did not deliver on. 520 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:53,839 Speaker 1: Is that what I'm hearing? 521 00:32:54,279 --> 00:32:56,599 Speaker 2: If gosh, if only there was some sort of a 522 00:32:56,799 --> 00:32:59,680 historical record that we could look to to determine whether 523 00:32:59,759 --> 00:33:06,119 or not socialist promises actually are ever delivered. Twenty five 524 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:08,359 year old Queen's woman, who declined to give her name, 525 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:09,880 said I could watch this from home. 526 00:33:10,640 --> 00:33:13,119 Speaker 1: Yeah, uh huh. 527 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,279 Speaker 2: His team warned on their website that there would not 528 00:33:16,400 --> 00:33:19,839 be portable restrooms due to safety concerns, and no food 529 00:33:19,880 --> 00:33:22,440 for sale within the block party, which, again, is that 530 00:33:22,480 --> 00:33:25,160 really a block party. I don't think it's a block party. 531 00:33:25,279 --> 00:33:29,799 I feel like a block party has a certain I 532 00:33:29,799 --> 00:33:32,519 don't know, there are certain deliverables that are expected with 533 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:39,079 a block party, you know, music, food, beverages at a minimum. 534 00:33:39,920 --> 00:33:43,839 Mamdani officials told the tendees that there are a bunch 535 00:33:43,920 --> 00:33:47,440 of nearby stores and eateries and such that you can 536 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:49,880 go to to go eat. If you got to go 537 00:33:49,920 --> 00:33:51,960 to the bathroom, just try to go to one of 538 00:33:52,039 --> 00:33:56,599 these you know, private businesses to go into the the 539 00:33:57,000 --> 00:34:00,920 you know, those evil capitalists go into the private businesses 540 00:34:01,000 --> 00:34:05,319 for your you know, sanitary needs and such, to get 541 00:34:05,319 --> 00:34:10,480 some food and shelter. Slight problem, in order to do that, 542 00:34:10,599 --> 00:34:14,679 you would have to leave the socialist pen. You'd have 543 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:19,559 to leave your little containment area to go outside of 544 00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:22,599 the pen to go to the bathroom. And then if 545 00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:25,599 you want you to go back into your pen, which 546 00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:29,000 let's be fair, like probably people are not going to 547 00:34:29,039 --> 00:34:31,760 go back into the pen, right You're not going to 548 00:34:31,880 --> 00:34:34,559 leave the pen, get a taste of freedom in this 549 00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,519 free market outside of the pen, where you have all 550 00:34:37,519 --> 00:34:40,239 of these things available to you. You're not going to 551 00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:44,199 then go back into the shoot, you know, because you 552 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:48,159 then got to go back through security. So again I 553 00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:54,239 feel like there is I don't know, there's there's a 554 00:34:54,519 --> 00:34:58,159 symbolic nature to the way this block party unfolded. 555 00:34:58,199 --> 00:34:59,840 Speaker 1: Anyway, back to the speech. 556 00:35:00,039 --> 00:35:02,599 Speaker 2: Here's mom Donnie elaborating on how he's not going to 557 00:35:02,639 --> 00:35:05,159 hesitate to use power to make your life better. 558 00:35:05,199 --> 00:35:07,559 Speaker 3: Of course, I cannot blame anyone who has come to 559 00:35:07,639 --> 00:35:11,719 question the role of government, whose faith in democracy has 560 00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:15,559 been eroded by decades of apathy. We will restore that 561 00:35:15,679 --> 00:35:20,000 trust by walking a different path, one where government is 562 00:35:20,039 --> 00:35:23,960 no longer solely the final recourse for those struggling one 563 00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:26,960 where excellence is no longer the exception. 564 00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:31,079 Speaker 2: Remember he made these comments similar comments, I should say, 565 00:35:31,199 --> 00:35:34,519 a couple of weeks back, where he said that no 566 00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:38,079 problem would be too small for the government to address. 567 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:42,840 And again that should terrify you anybody if you think 568 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:47,400 government is the answer to these problems, to whatever these 569 00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:51,920 problems are, it's rarely the answer, if ever the answer. 570 00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:57,280 There are certain things government is entrusted to do. And 571 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,960 the problem is you have layered on so many other 572 00:36:01,199 --> 00:36:07,840 things besides basic services. And the more you layer on 573 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:13,480 this stuff, you just create this bloated bureaucracy, this mission 574 00:36:13,519 --> 00:36:18,440 creep that's now into all aspects of everybody's lives. And 575 00:36:18,519 --> 00:36:23,239 so what is their solution? More government and a more 576 00:36:23,559 --> 00:36:27,320 powerful government, a more robust as Obama would say, a 577 00:36:27,440 --> 00:36:32,000 robust government. No problem of yours will be too small 578 00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,679 for big brother. I mean for government to pay attention to. 579 00:36:36,519 --> 00:36:40,159 Speaker 3: We expect greatness from the cooks wielding a thousand spices, 580 00:36:40,679 --> 00:36:43,920 from those who stried out onto our Broadway stages and 581 00:36:43,960 --> 00:36:46,840 from our starting point guard at Madison Square Garden. 582 00:36:48,199 --> 00:36:50,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, baby, let us. 583 00:36:50,800 --> 00:36:54,239 Speaker 3: Demand the same from those who work in government in 584 00:36:54,280 --> 00:36:57,039 a city where the mere names of our streets are 585 00:36:57,039 --> 00:37:00,599 associated with the innovation of the industries that call them home. 586 00:37:01,159 --> 00:37:04,360 We will make the word city hall synonymous with both 587 00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,199 resolve and results. 588 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:14,360 Speaker 2: Government is the answer, That's what he's pitching. Government is 589 00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:19,360 the answer. Now again, the best thing that could happen 590 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:22,519 to him is failure. And then he will blame some 591 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:25,800 other people in some other levels of government for why 592 00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:27,440 he can't do all of the things that he would do, 593 00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:29,519 because if you just gave him the you know, the 594 00:37:29,519 --> 00:37:32,440 pure socialism, which is never you know, real socialism has 595 00:37:32,519 --> 00:37:35,559 never been tried. But we're going to try it. We're 596 00:37:35,559 --> 00:37:37,920 going to do it, and we're gonna get results in 597 00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:44,280 city hall will be synonymous with results, which would be 598 00:37:44,360 --> 00:37:45,119 a first time ever. 599 00:37:45,880 --> 00:37:46,039 Speaker 1: Right. 600 00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:51,760 Speaker 2: Most people don't have positive views of city hall and government. 601 00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:56,360 Why because it's obstructive. It is obstructive to the things 602 00:37:56,400 --> 00:37:58,440 that most people want to do in their daily lives. 603 00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:02,199 They they want government to out of the way. But 604 00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:04,679 there are people that want government to take care of 605 00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:06,840 them or to take care of those other people. Because 606 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:10,039 I'm fine. This is the Champagne socialist view. It's like 607 00:38:10,239 --> 00:38:13,159 I'm fine, I don't need all of this stuff. But 608 00:38:13,360 --> 00:38:17,360 I'm better than you. I am more moral and ethical 609 00:38:17,400 --> 00:38:21,440 than you are, and so I'm going to virtue signal 610 00:38:21,519 --> 00:38:24,000 out that I am more ethical and virtuous. And so 611 00:38:24,079 --> 00:38:27,719 I'm going to say I want GOVC to do for 612 00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:31,559 these other people over here, because it's not going to 613 00:38:31,639 --> 00:38:35,000 affect you. It's the same thing with the criminal justice system, 614 00:38:35,000 --> 00:38:39,079 the turnstile justice, same dynamic at play that they're not 615 00:38:39,159 --> 00:38:43,360 affected by these programs and policies. 616 00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,440 Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. 617 00:38:47,440 --> 00:38:49,519 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening. 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