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your support. A quote here from Peter Teel, one of
the Tech Innovator Guys Republican donor, and his explanation for
why seventy percent of millennials, when polled, say they are
pro socialist. He says, quote, when one has too much
student debt, or if housing is too unaffordable, then one
will have negative capital for a long time. And if
one has no stake in the capitalist system, then one
may well turn against it. Right, that is true. And
when you layer into that an education system from K
through twelve and then the collegiate level that teaches about
all of the promises of socialism and communism and all
of the ills of the dirty capitalists, or as I
call it, the free market. And remember you are the
free market. So when when kamis disparage capitalism and free markets,
they are disparaging you and your choices. When you choose
a certain you know, food product at the grocery store
over another, that is a market signal. You have the
freedom to choose, and you chose, you know, maybe the
organic eggs over the non organic eggs, and that sent
a signal to egg producers. And if enough people say
they want the organic over the non organic, or vice versa,
then producers will produce more of the thing that you
said you wanted. And when more of those things are produced,
the price drops. And when you have competitors that come
in and saw those market signals and say, oh, we
should offer some of our own organic eggs and will
get a good chunk of that market share, that then
drives prices even lower. In the person who benefits is you,
the consumer, Because the producers read your market signal, your choice,
You are the free market. We should try to stay free. Now.
Some may say paid this mayor guy up or he's
not the mayor yet, but the g hottest adjacent communist
up in New York City who won the Democrat primary
last night, Zoororn Memdani. Oh, you're just saying communist as
a slur, And yes, that is true. I absolutely use
communist as a slur because it is a slur. It
is such a bankrupt and evil ideology. But he's not
really a communist. I mean, he's just a socialist. He's
a Democratic Socialist of America. That's who he ran under.
That that was what he is, a DSA member, just
like AOC. Yes, but see you cross a line, like
you can pretend that you're just a socialist when you're
really a commie, and you could pretend that you're I
just like some socialism. Look, I'm a democratic socialist. That's
the touchy feely, lovey dove kind of socialist. We're the
non threatening socialist. Right. I don't make any distinction really
between these people because I don't believe they actually are
simply socialist. But in this guy's case, it's very clear
when you say you're going to run the grocery stores,
that GOVC is going to run the grocery stores. That's communism.
That is what that is. Okay, government run food supplies.
And luckily we have enough history where we know what
happens when GOVC takes over the food supply. People starve
to death, either intentionally mostly not usually because gov Co
doesn't know a thing about running a grocery store, right,
people who work for the government, they don't know how
to run a grocery store. You know who knows how
to run grocery stores? People who run grocery stores. Yeah,
so unless you're going to what now You're going to
force all of them to go to to be government employees.
So the government is now controlling the means of production
for the supply of food to the people. What could
go wrong, except, of course everything as it historically does.
Michael Hought writing at Liberty Affair dot com, he says,
this is more than a local election. I completely agree,
and that's why I'm That's why I'm covering this today.
I was aware of the New York City primary going
on up there. I was like, oh my gosh, I
got Cuomo again. Whatever, But there wasn't any real impact
on us in Charlotte, So it didn't it didn't rise
to the level of, you know, show prep worthy material.
But after what happened last night, when this Kami won,
now it is now it is important for us because
it's not just a local election, and Michael hought I
think puts his finger on it. He says it is
a cultural and ideological bell weather for where the urban
left is heading. And we are controlled here in Charlotte
by the urban left right democrats who are running our city.
This is where they are tacking to. So we need
to look at these other cities to see what they're
doing and how it's working out to know what's coming
down the pike for us. The urban left is heading
deeper into redistributionist dogma, hostility towards markets, and a worldview
that romanticizes struggle while ignoring the wreckage that follows it.
Ma'm Danny is not hiding what he believes. His campaign
has openly championed housing as a quote human right, the
dismantling of capitalism again in America's number one financial city,
as well as the public takeover of essential services. The
public takeover which just means essentially nationalizing it or municipal
it no different. Right, you're going to take over control
of these things, and it's no different than say Venezuela
taking control of the oil industry. And by the way,
you know what happened down there when they did that
they didn't know how to run an oil industry. Stuff broke,
supply chains got all screwed up, and people started starving
because there's no cash flow coming in any longer. So
these are not pragmatic tweaks to an imperfect system, he writes,
They are revolutionary goals rooted in a utopian ideal that
has never worked in practice anywhere. But that's because it
hasn't been tried real socialism, he says. The trouble with
utopia is that it always sounds better than reality. By
the way, he points out, you know where the word
utopia comes from. You know what it means. Where the
word comes from. It's entomological roots comes from the Greek
ou topos. You know what that means. No place. Utopia
is no place. It does not exist. It's never one
of the options on the table. Beware of anybody promising
you it. Shakespeare understood this long before Karl Marx ever
penned a word. He said later on in the piece, Again,
this is from Liberty Affair dot com. Mendan's rise is
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New York City voted for, or communism. I think it's
probably a little bit closer to what this new mayor
candidate who cleared the Democrat primary, would prefer. What with
taking over grocery stores for example. Reading from this piece
by Michael Hout Michael J. Hout h Out at Liberty
Affair dot com, He's going to say something here in
a minute that I think is profound. So he says
that these utopian dreams always collapse under their own contradictions.
Look at the cities already walking this path. San Francisco right,
where progressive policies have driven out businesses and created dystopian
public spaces. Chicago, where crime soars while the mayor insists
that it's simply a perception problem. Or about London in
the nineteen seventies before Margaret Thatcher reversed its economic death spiral.
Here's the key. Socialism survives not because it works, but
because it flatters the resentful and it absolves the irresponsible.
It flatters the resentful and it absolves the irresponsible. That's
the Democrat Party, as reflected in that mayor. In the
mayor's race, the people that were celebrating the most were
your offles, the awfls, affluent white female liberals. In fact,
you've got anywhere from seventy to eighty percent of college
quote unquote ed educated whites voting for socialism. That tells
me the problem is the colleges. It is the education system.
And I've been saying this for years. If you don't
think American culture is worth defending, this is the road
you are on. And if you are ignorant of this fact,
that's one thing. But there are a lot of people
in K twelve education and in the college setting that
are not ignorant of this. This is in fact the goal.
They're activists. First, they are following Vladimir Lenin's axiom that
if you give me just one generation of youth, I'll
transform the whole world. What was he talking about. He's
talking about the revolution requires the youth. And how do
you use the youth? You pump their young skulls full
of mush, as Rush would say, with all of this
collectivist crap. You raise up an army of activists and
radicals and street thugs that go out and you bust
out windows of police stations, take over areas of the
town for any given reason, on any given night, you
chaz chops and all of that. Why because you are
dismantling the infrastructure of oppression Western civilization. That is what
is required. And there's a reason why you target the youth.
It's because they are ignorant, they are impressionable. That's why
you're supposed to be teaching them. What are you teaching them?
Are you teaching them that America is a force for
good or America is inherently evil? What are you teaching them?
Because when you teach somebody one of those messages throughout
their entire academic life, during all their formative years, and
you teach them that these things are true when they
may not be then that is indoctrination. And I know
people on the left and people in the middle, and
even some Republicans cringe at the use of that term,
but that is in fact what it is. So socialism
survives not because it works, but because it flatters the resentful.
How come he has money and I don't, right? Why
do they think that every rich person inherited their wealth.
They don't deserve their wealth. You've got people who made
their own money, people who built up you know, corporate
empires and did it from poverty. And you don't get
to do that in a socialist nation or communist country.
You don't get to do that. Right, But that's the
promise of the free market, is that if you work
hard and you play by the rules, you will have
a comfortable life, you will stay out of poverty, you'll
be able to provide. Right. But then along the way,
we we say you have to go to college, and
now we're going to saddle you. Dare I say, enslave
you with one hundred two hundred thousand dollars in debt
that you'll never be able to get out from under.
And so that now hampers your ability to provide for
the rest of your life. That breeds resentment, and whose
idea was that it did not come from the right,
that came from the left, resentful, and so they are
flattered by socialism. It flatters the resentful, makes them feel
better about Oh yeah, look at you. This is virtue signaling.
This is moral preening, right, this is I'm not ahead.
I didn't get ahead, not because of me, not because
of any of my decisions, not because i'm you know,
ordering door dash for every single month and spending an
extra ten bucks a pop. It's not me, it's the system.
The system is to blame. Well, why don't we tear
it down? The system. Oh, that's a great idea. Then
I'll get ahead. That's the only thing. This other person
has all the money and they're keeping me from being successful.
And then it also absolves the irresponsible. It's not your fault.
It's not your fault that you chose to buy a
seventy thousand dollars car rather than pay off your student loans.
That's not your fault. It's not your fault that you're
paying for the door dish rather than you know, cooking
it home and living below your means. In other words,
not living beyond them, not spending more than you take in.
That's not your fault, that's the system. Let's overthrow the system. Huh.
Becomes a very attractive message, particularly if you're young and
you've grown up in a society that has a lot
of wealth like we do. We are. We are the
wealthiest nation that has ever existed on the face of
the planet ever. Ever, kids grow up younger, kids are
growing up with more material goods then I had as
a Gen Xer, but I was probably the last generation, right.
My parents grew up with even less than I had,
And so now there is this sort of baseline status
quo understanding of what a normal life is. I covered
this a couple of weeks ago. With the average size
of a home, it's like twice as big as the
average home sizes of thirty years ago. Well, if you
grew up in a house that's twenty five hundred square
feet for bed, two and a half bath, double car, garage,
and a quarter acre lot, you're going to think that's normal,
and then you're going to expect that you should be
able to buy that when you buy your home. Jen
x Aer, here my first home, nine hundred square feet
free bed, one bath, very no garage. It's perspective, right,
and a lot of kids growing up they don't have
this kind of perspective. They feel guilty that they come
from wealth, that mom and dad are giving them a
lot of money. They look around, they see people that
are struggling and they feel like, oh, I should do something,
I should help them. I feel bad for them, but
I don't want to do anything actually myself. So I'll
just say tear the system down and can't someone else
do it? The famous election slogan of Homer Simpson when
he was running for superintendent of Sanitation in Springfield. Can't
someone else do it? And that's what Govko does. That's
what it promises. Oh, we'll do it for you, and
then you can feel good about yourself because you put
me in charge. Yeah, that's the false siren song right
there of all authoritarianism. All right, if you're listening to
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more transparent. Again. This is from Liberty Affair dot com,
written by Michael J. Hout or hoot Hout. He says
socialism survives not because it works, but because it flatters
the resentful and absolves the irresponsible. It tells the struggling
that somebody else is to blame. It turns envy into
a platform, and in an age of rising urban discontent.
It sells beautifully, but what it never does is build.
Socialism does not build. Russ writes in at on Twitter.
The problem with let them go full socialist mode and
they'll never win another election again is that the moonbats
do keep when elections in enough little pockets that it's
starting to spill out to affect state wide and nationwide.
From good Wahoo, Pete. Regarding Mamdani Democrat primary victory in
New York City. People keep saying he can't get elected
in the general election because of the very large Jewish
population in New York City, But they fail to understand
that most Jews are secular or reform slash liberal, and
many are very leftist and even supporting the pro Palestine agenda.
So I would say that many will vote their politics
over their lineage, and New York City may be about
to go the way of London with its disastrous first
Muslim mayor, Sadik Khan. Okay, And then that's a message
about TikTok So all right, here's another tweet from mich Dellinger.
It's a Pete tweet. Hey, Pete. Parents may not teach
this to their children, but the schools do through the
sixteen nineteen project and critical race theory, et cetera. So
parents really need to be aware of what their children
are being taught and ask their children questions. Oh, completely
agree this from Bakeman Glenlow. This new mayoral candidate is
more likely working to end future tourism to New York City. Yeah,
I mean it's a bold strategy, Cotton. We'll see how
it pay us off. Nate Silver, the guy who created
five thirty eight dot com numbers guru dude right. He
now writes over at natesilver dot net. He had some
analysis on this race. Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who left
the Democrats to run as an independent. He's still in
the general election. Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, the founder of
the Guardian Angels. He won the GOP nomination. He was unopposed,
but it's New York City, so a Republican is probably
never going to win there. And unlike the primaries, the
general election does not use ranked choice voting, which is why,
by the way, we still don't know the official vote
counts from last night, and we may not know the
official vote counts for days or maybe weeks because of
this stupid ranked choice voting thing that New York City
did New York City standards. On voter turnout. By New
York City standards, the turnout yesterday was relatively high. Okay,
so they got around one point zero seven million votes
in the primary. That's still a minority of New York
City's three point three million registered Democrat voters, but it's
higher than the turnout in the past six mayoral primaries,
where initial vote totals ranged from three hundred and thirty
thousand back in two thousand and nine to nine hundred
and forty two thousand in twenty twenty one. Again, this
is another problem when you have a city that is
completely controlled by one political party, is that voters don't
really care. Primary elections end up deciding the general election races,
and the primary voter turnout is much lower. This from
the Party of Democracy, right. They're all about the democracy, unless,
of course, it hampers their ability to organize enough people
to overtake an establishment candidate and take control of the
gears of the Democrat Party machinery. And that's what the
radicals have done. They are taking over the machinery of
the Democrat Party. And if you're expecting liberals to fight
back against that, you're insane, because they don't. This gets
to the old Dennis Prager axiom. Dennis Prager says that
leftists vote their principles and Republicans conservatives vote their principles,
but liberals do not. Liberals don't. They will vote for
the leftists, and the reason why is because they never
want to acknowledge that they might be closer to the
conservative position than they actually are. They don't want to
acknowledge it. They don't want to say that I'm closer
to the Republicans or Conservatives on an issue, so they
vote for the leftists. And that's what we're seeing happening.
So to explain Andrew Cuomo's defeat, Nate Silver breaks this
down into four categories. Number one, that he ran a
terrible campaign. Number two that Mamdani is a uniquely talented
candidate with lots of voter engagement slick commercials. He cranked
out a lot of short form videos and for the
kids that have tiny attention spans and not a lot
of historical knowledge, this works very well. Also, he had
an understanding of the rank choice voting system and use
that against Como, that this shows there's an appetite. Another
explanation is that this shows an appetite for leftist candidates.
Mamdani is a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America,
but he sort of cracked the code is that you
have to emphasize cost of living issues rather than the
culture wars. So he took a page from Donald Trump, right,
say focus on the economic stuff, cost of living issues,
which are always going to be issues in cities controlled
by Democrats because the cost of living is sky high
because Democrats. So you focus on those things and say
I can do it better. I can run these levers,
I can pull these levers and press these buttons and
in those knobs better than the Democrats. And finally, the
other explanation for Cuomo's loss is that it demonstrates how
the democratic establishment is out to lunch with much of it.
Back in Cuomo, who was an obviously flawed candidate who
came to prominence because of his family name. He hasn't
lived in New York City in decades, and his preferred
bagel order consisted of an English muffin. Yeah, that was
a that was a thing. I was like, who was
the guy that ate a slice of pizza with a
knife and fork. Remember trying to remember that candidate. There
was some candidate, and it may have been builde Blasio.
Considering the margin and the breadth of Mendani's victory, all
of these four explanations are probably true to some extent,
maybe a large extent. But Clomo's campaign produced a laundry
list of endorsements like Bloomberg Michael Bloomberg, former mayor, former
President Clinton, former Majority whip Jim Clyburn, lots and lots
of unions. The New York Times, which can be incredibly
influential in the city, issued a half hearted anti zoron
Mamdani endorsement, half hearted after initially swearing off involvement in
local races, encouraging voters to rank Cuomo toward the lower
end of their ballot. But Ma'm donnie not at all. Okay, So,
like they said, don't put this guy on your rank
choice voting thing. But we don't even really get into
these issues, you know, which is weird because you're the
New York Times, you know, so with all this backing,
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net headline Zorn delivered the democratic establ plishment the thrashing
it deserved. Zorn. I'm trying. I can't remember this guy's
name for anything. Mem Danny, I always have to have
it in front of me because we'll just mangle it otherwise.
So Cuomo's campaign had this laundry list of endorsements. New
York Times did a half hearted anti Zorn op ed
or endorsement. It was like, they don't vote for him,
vote for these other people. Put Cuomo lower on your list. Whatever,
But we don't, you know, we don't like getting involved
in local races again. The New York Times, which is bizarre,
the Clinton's clyburn, The New York Times, the unions, Cuomo had,
Black groups, Jewish groups, Italian groups, every other stripe of
the rainbow that was supposed to be a winning formula
in New York. But the old formula does not compute anymore.
It's hard not to be reminded of the past three
presidents races, and particularly the Democrat establishment forcing and eat
your spinach choice down the throats of the primary electorate.
It was Hillary Clinton's turn to win the nomination in
twenty sixteen, after she'd lost to Obama in eight and
she heavily emphasized this in her campaign. Democrat party leaders
right then boosted Joe Biden in twenty twenty Cliburne's endorsement
did that. Then Democrats made a catastrophic error by failing
to seriously challenge Biden in twenty twenty four until it
was of course too late. Right, you had mary An
Williamson and Dean Phillips, but they were like, like, we're
going to run in a primary, Like I know what primaries. Remember,
they shut all that down, and to us it's comical
because democracy. But to a Democrat voter, that would hack
me off, right, Like, I can see the problems with
this guy, with Joe Biden. We need to have a primary,
and the party says no. Then of course the party
forces Joe Biden out after the debate and instead of
doing this you know, mini primary or accelerated primary. Remember
they were talking about doing that for about a second
and then they were like, Nope, not going to do
that either. We got it. We already got Michael Jordan
sitting on the bench. Let's go ahead and bring her in.
It's Kamala Harris. Look at all the joy they gas
let us over that Cuomo, like Clinton, was from a
political dynasty that most people under the age of forty
have little or no affection for. And although Bernie is
an exception, maybe it's not that complicated. Right. If you
want to inspire young voters, then you nominate younger candidates,
and Mendani, at age thirty three, is literally half Cuomo's age.
In the mayor's race, Cuomo trotted out the same boilerplate
tired themes, including a heavy emphasis on Donald Trump, but
that had also failed Hillary Clinton, It failed Joe Biden
in twenty four, it failed Harris rather than the local
issues that mayoral races often turn on, right, races are
determined at this local level. Could you imagine a Charlotte
mayor's race, or pick any city, any town you live
in that the mayor's race is about Trump. That would
be asinine. But that's the campaign that Cuomo ran. So
Nate Silver says that Zoran thoroughly earned the win, and
Cuomo and the Democratic establishment thoroughly earned the loss. And
even if they finally take the hint, generational turnover in
the Democrat Party is coming, whether they like it or not.
And along those lines, I would add, y'all raised a
generation of Jihati adjacent socialists, So good luck with that Democrats,
and godspeed to the rest of the country that's now
going to have to clean up your garbage. You thought
these people would just work the streets, work the polls
for you. They would turn out voters for you. Right.
They would protest Donald Trump if he came to town.
You could organize a flash mob to stop ice deportations. Right.
They were very helpful for your operations. And that's the
thing about feeding the alligator in the hopes that it
eats you last. It does eventually eat you. All Right,
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