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smartphone or tablet, and again, thank you so much for

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your support. A quote here from Peter Teel, one of

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the Tech Innovator Guys Republican donor, and his explanation for

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why seventy percent of millennials, when polled, say they are

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pro socialist. He says, quote, when one has too much

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student debt, or if housing is too unaffordable, then one

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will have negative capital for a long time. And if

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one has no stake in the capitalist system, then one

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may well turn against it. Right, that is true. And

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when you layer into that an education system from K

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through twelve and then the collegiate level that teaches about

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all of the promises of socialism and communism and all

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of the ills of the dirty capitalists, or as I

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call it, the free market. And remember you are the

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free market. So when when kamis disparage capitalism and free markets,

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they are disparaging you and your choices. When you choose

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a certain you know, food product at the grocery store

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over another, that is a market signal. You have the

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freedom to choose, and you chose, you know, maybe the

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organic eggs over the non organic eggs, and that sent

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a signal to egg producers. And if enough people say

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they want the organic over the non organic, or vice versa,

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then producers will produce more of the thing that you

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said you wanted. And when more of those things are produced,

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the price drops. And when you have competitors that come

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in and saw those market signals and say, oh, we

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should offer some of our own organic eggs and will

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get a good chunk of that market share, that then

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drives prices even lower. In the person who benefits is you,

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the consumer, Because the producers read your market signal, your choice,

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You are the free market. We should try to stay free. Now.

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Some may say paid this mayor guy up or he's

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not the mayor yet, but the g hottest adjacent communist

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up in New York City who won the Democrat primary

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last night, Zoororn Memdani. Oh, you're just saying communist as

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a slur, And yes, that is true. I absolutely use

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communist as a slur because it is a slur. It

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is such a bankrupt and evil ideology. But he's not

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really a communist. I mean, he's just a socialist. He's

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a Democratic Socialist of America. That's who he ran under.

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That that was what he is, a DSA member, just

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like AOC. Yes, but see you cross a line, like

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you can pretend that you're just a socialist when you're

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really a commie, and you could pretend that you're I

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just like some socialism. Look, I'm a democratic socialist. That's

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the touchy feely, lovey dove kind of socialist. We're the

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non threatening socialist. Right. I don't make any distinction really

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between these people because I don't believe they actually are

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simply socialist. But in this guy's case, it's very clear

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when you say you're going to run the grocery stores,

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that GOVC is going to run the grocery stores. That's communism.

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That is what that is. Okay, government run food supplies.

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And luckily we have enough history where we know what

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happens when GOVC takes over the food supply. People starve

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to death, either intentionally mostly not usually because gov Co

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doesn't know a thing about running a grocery store, right,

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people who work for the government, they don't know how

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to run a grocery store. You know who knows how

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to run grocery stores? People who run grocery stores. Yeah,

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so unless you're going to what now You're going to

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force all of them to go to to be government employees.

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So the government is now controlling the means of production

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for the supply of food to the people. What could

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go wrong, except, of course everything as it historically does.

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Michael Hought writing at Liberty Affair dot com, he says,

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this is more than a local election. I completely agree,

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and that's why I'm That's why I'm covering this today.

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I was aware of the New York City primary going

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on up there. I was like, oh my gosh, I

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got Cuomo again. Whatever, But there wasn't any real impact

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on us in Charlotte, So it didn't it didn't rise

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to the level of, you know, show prep worthy material.

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But after what happened last night, when this Kami won,

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now it is now it is important for us because

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it's not just a local election, and Michael hought I

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think puts his finger on it. He says it is

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a cultural and ideological bell weather for where the urban

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left is heading. And we are controlled here in Charlotte

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by the urban left right democrats who are running our city.

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This is where they are tacking to. So we need

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to look at these other cities to see what they're

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doing and how it's working out to know what's coming

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down the pike for us. The urban left is heading

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deeper into redistributionist dogma, hostility towards markets, and a worldview

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that romanticizes struggle while ignoring the wreckage that follows it.

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Ma'm Danny is not hiding what he believes. His campaign

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has openly championed housing as a quote human right, the

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dismantling of capitalism again in America's number one financial city,

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as well as the public takeover of essential services. The

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public takeover which just means essentially nationalizing it or municipal

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it no different. Right, you're going to take over control

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of these things, and it's no different than say Venezuela

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taking control of the oil industry. And by the way,

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you know what happened down there when they did that

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they didn't know how to run an oil industry. Stuff broke,

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supply chains got all screwed up, and people started starving

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because there's no cash flow coming in any longer. So

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these are not pragmatic tweaks to an imperfect system, he writes,

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They are revolutionary goals rooted in a utopian ideal that

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has never worked in practice anywhere. But that's because it

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hasn't been tried real socialism, he says. The trouble with

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utopia is that it always sounds better than reality. By

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the way, he points out, you know where the word

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utopia comes from. You know what it means. Where the

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word comes from. It's entomological roots comes from the Greek

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ou topos. You know what that means. No place. Utopia

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is no place. It does not exist. It's never one

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of the options on the table. Beware of anybody promising

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you it. Shakespeare understood this long before Karl Marx ever

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penned a word. He said later on in the piece, Again,

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this is from Liberty Affair dot com. Mendan's rise is

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a warning New York is falling for the oldest political

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mirage of all, the idea that equality can be engineered

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by decree, that wealth can be redistributed without cost, and

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that freedom can coexist with centralized economic control. But these

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dreams always collapse under their own contradictions. Look at cities

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make memories that'll last a lifetime. Yeah, socialism, that's what

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New York City voted for, or communism. I think it's

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probably a little bit closer to what this new mayor

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candidate who cleared the Democrat primary, would prefer. What with

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taking over grocery stores for example. Reading from this piece

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by Michael Hout Michael J. Hout h Out at Liberty

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Affair dot com, He's going to say something here in

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a minute that I think is profound. So he says

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that these utopian dreams always collapse under their own contradictions.

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Look at the cities already walking this path. San Francisco right,

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where progressive policies have driven out businesses and created dystopian

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public spaces. Chicago, where crime soars while the mayor insists

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that it's simply a perception problem. Or about London in

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the nineteen seventies before Margaret Thatcher reversed its economic death spiral.

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Here's the key. Socialism survives not because it works, but

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because it flatters the resentful and it absolves the irresponsible.

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It flatters the resentful and it absolves the irresponsible. That's

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the Democrat Party, as reflected in that mayor. In the

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mayor's race, the people that were celebrating the most were

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your offles, the awfls, affluent white female liberals. In fact,

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you've got anywhere from seventy to eighty percent of college

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quote unquote ed educated whites voting for socialism. That tells

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me the problem is the colleges. It is the education system.

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And I've been saying this for years. If you don't

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think American culture is worth defending, this is the road

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you are on. And if you are ignorant of this fact,

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that's one thing. But there are a lot of people

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in K twelve education and in the college setting that

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are not ignorant of this. This is in fact the goal.

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They're activists. First, they are following Vladimir Lenin's axiom that

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if you give me just one generation of youth, I'll

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transform the whole world. What was he talking about. He's

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talking about the revolution requires the youth. And how do

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you use the youth? You pump their young skulls full

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of mush, as Rush would say, with all of this

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collectivist crap. You raise up an army of activists and

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radicals and street thugs that go out and you bust

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out windows of police stations, take over areas of the

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town for any given reason, on any given night, you

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chaz chops and all of that. Why because you are

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dismantling the infrastructure of oppression Western civilization. That is what

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is required. And there's a reason why you target the youth.

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It's because they are ignorant, they are impressionable. That's why

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you're supposed to be teaching them. What are you teaching them?

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Are you teaching them that America is a force for

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good or America is inherently evil? What are you teaching them?

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Because when you teach somebody one of those messages throughout

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their entire academic life, during all their formative years, and

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you teach them that these things are true when they

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may not be then that is indoctrination. And I know

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people on the left and people in the middle, and

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even some Republicans cringe at the use of that term,

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but that is in fact what it is. So socialism

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survives not because it works, but because it flatters the resentful.

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How come he has money and I don't, right? Why

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do they think that every rich person inherited their wealth.

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They don't deserve their wealth. You've got people who made

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their own money, people who built up you know, corporate

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empires and did it from poverty. And you don't get

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to do that in a socialist nation or communist country.

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You don't get to do that. Right, But that's the

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promise of the free market, is that if you work

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hard and you play by the rules, you will have

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a comfortable life, you will stay out of poverty, you'll

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be able to provide. Right. But then along the way,

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we we say you have to go to college, and

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now we're going to saddle you. Dare I say, enslave

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you with one hundred two hundred thousand dollars in debt

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that you'll never be able to get out from under.

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And so that now hampers your ability to provide for

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the rest of your life. That breeds resentment, and whose

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idea was that it did not come from the right,

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that came from the left, resentful, and so they are

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flattered by socialism. It flatters the resentful, makes them feel

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better about Oh yeah, look at you. This is virtue signaling.

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This is moral preening, right, this is I'm not ahead.

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I didn't get ahead, not because of me, not because

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of any of my decisions, not because i'm you know,

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ordering door dash for every single month and spending an

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extra ten bucks a pop. It's not me, it's the system.

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The system is to blame. Well, why don't we tear

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it down? The system. Oh, that's a great idea. Then

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I'll get ahead. That's the only thing. This other person

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has all the money and they're keeping me from being successful.

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And then it also absolves the irresponsible. It's not your fault.

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It's not your fault that you chose to buy a

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seventy thousand dollars car rather than pay off your student loans.

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That's not your fault. It's not your fault that you're

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paying for the door dish rather than you know, cooking

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not living beyond them, not spending more than you take in.

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That's not your fault, that's the system. Let's overthrow the system. Huh.

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wealthiest nation that has ever existed on the face of

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the planet ever. Ever, kids grow up younger, kids are

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growing up with more material goods then I had as

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quo understanding of what a normal life is. I covered

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this a couple of weeks ago. With the average size

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of a home, it's like twice as big as the

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average home sizes of thirty years ago. Well, if you

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grew up in a house that's twenty five hundred square

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feet for bed, two and a half bath, double car, garage,

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and a quarter acre lot, you're going to think that's normal,

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and then you're going to expect that you should be

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able to buy that when you buy your home. Jen

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lot of money. They look around, they see people that

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just say tear the system down and can't someone else

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do it? The famous election slogan of Homer Simpson when

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someone else do it? And that's what Govko does. That's

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what it promises. Oh, we'll do it for you, and

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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,

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written by Michael J. Hout or hoot Hout. He says

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socialism survives not because it works, but because it flatters

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they'll never win another election again is that the moonbats

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From good Wahoo, Pete. Regarding Mamdani Democrat primary victory in

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New York City. People keep saying he can't get elected

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in the general election because of the very large Jewish

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population in New York City, But they fail to understand

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that most Jews are secular or reform slash liberal, and

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many are very leftist and even supporting the pro Palestine agenda.

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So I would say that many will vote their politics

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over their lineage, and New York City may be about

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to go the way of London with its disastrous first

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Muslim mayor, Sadik Khan. Okay, And then that's a message

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about TikTok So all right, here's another tweet from mich Dellinger.

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It's a Pete tweet. Hey, Pete. Parents may not teach

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this to their children, but the schools do through the

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sixteen nineteen project and critical race theory, et cetera. So

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parents really need to be aware of what their children

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are being taught and ask their children questions. Oh, completely

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agree this from Bakeman Glenlow. This new mayoral candidate is

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more likely working to end future tourism to New York City. Yeah,

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I mean it's a bold strategy, Cotton. We'll see how

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it pay us off. Nate Silver, the guy who created

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five thirty eight dot com numbers guru dude right. He

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now writes over at natesilver dot net. He had some

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analysis on this race. Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who left

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the Democrats to run as an independent. He's still in

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the general election. Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, the founder of

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the Guardian Angels. He won the GOP nomination. He was unopposed,

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but it's New York City, so a Republican is probably

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never going to win there. And unlike the primaries, the

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general election does not use ranked choice voting, which is why,

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by the way, we still don't know the official vote

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counts from last night, and we may not know the

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official vote counts for days or maybe weeks because of

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this stupid ranked choice voting thing that New York City

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did New York City standards. On voter turnout. By New

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York City standards, the turnout yesterday was relatively high. Okay,

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so they got around one point zero seven million votes

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in the primary. That's still a minority of New York

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City's three point three million registered Democrat voters, but it's

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higher than the turnout in the past six mayoral primaries,

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where initial vote totals ranged from three hundred and thirty

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thousand back in two thousand and nine to nine hundred

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and forty two thousand in twenty twenty one. Again, this

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is another problem when you have a city that is

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completely controlled by one political party, is that voters don't

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really care. Primary elections end up deciding the general election races,

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and the primary voter turnout is much lower. This from

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the Party of Democracy, right. They're all about the democracy, unless,

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of course, it hampers their ability to organize enough people

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to overtake an establishment candidate and take control of the

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gears of the Democrat Party machinery. And that's what the

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radicals have done. They are taking over the machinery of

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the Democrat Party. And if you're expecting liberals to fight

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back against that, you're insane, because they don't. This gets

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to the old Dennis Prager axiom. Dennis Prager says that

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leftists vote their principles and Republicans conservatives vote their principles,

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but liberals do not. Liberals don't. They will vote for

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the leftists, and the reason why is because they never

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want to acknowledge that they might be closer to the

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conservative position than they actually are. They don't want to

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acknowledge it. They don't want to say that I'm closer

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to the Republicans or Conservatives on an issue, so they

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vote for the leftists. And that's what we're seeing happening.

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So to explain Andrew Cuomo's defeat, Nate Silver breaks this

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down into four categories. Number one, that he ran a

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terrible campaign. Number two that Mamdani is a uniquely talented

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candidate with lots of voter engagement slick commercials. He cranked

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out a lot of short form videos and for the

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kids that have tiny attention spans and not a lot

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of historical knowledge, this works very well. Also, he had

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an understanding of the rank choice voting system and use

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that against Como, that this shows there's an appetite. Another

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explanation is that this shows an appetite for leftist candidates.

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Mamdani is a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America,

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but he sort of cracked the code is that you

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have to emphasize cost of living issues rather than the

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culture wars. So he took a page from Donald Trump, right,

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say focus on the economic stuff, cost of living issues,

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which are always going to be issues in cities controlled

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by Democrats because the cost of living is sky high

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because Democrats. So you focus on those things and say

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I can do it better. I can run these levers,

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I can pull these levers and press these buttons and

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in those knobs better than the Democrats. And finally, the

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other explanation for Cuomo's loss is that it demonstrates how

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the democratic establishment is out to lunch with much of it.

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Back in Cuomo, who was an obviously flawed candidate who

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came to prominence because of his family name. He hasn't

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lived in New York City in decades, and his preferred

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bagel order consisted of an English muffin. Yeah, that was

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a that was a thing. I was like, who was

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the guy that ate a slice of pizza with a

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knife and fork. Remember trying to remember that candidate. There

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was some candidate, and it may have been builde Blasio.

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Considering the margin and the breadth of Mendani's victory, all

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of these four explanations are probably true to some extent,

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maybe a large extent. But Clomo's campaign produced a laundry

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list of endorsements like Bloomberg Michael Bloomberg, former mayor, former

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President Clinton, former Majority whip Jim Clyburn, lots and lots

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of unions. The New York Times, which can be incredibly

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influential in the city, issued a half hearted anti zoron

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Mamdani endorsement, half hearted after initially swearing off involvement in

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local races, encouraging voters to rank Cuomo toward the lower

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end of their ballot. But Ma'm donnie not at all. Okay, So,

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like they said, don't put this guy on your rank

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choice voting thing. But we don't even really get into

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these issues, you know, which is weird because you're the

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New York Times, you know, so with all this backing,

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dot com. So back to Nate Silver's piece natesilver dot

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net headline Zorn delivered the democratic establ plishment the thrashing

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it deserved. Zorn. I'm trying. I can't remember this guy's

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name for anything. Mem Danny, I always have to have

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it in front of me because we'll just mangle it otherwise.

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So Cuomo's campaign had this laundry list of endorsements. New

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York Times did a half hearted anti Zorn op ed

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or endorsement. It was like, they don't vote for him,

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vote for these other people. Put Cuomo lower on your list. Whatever,

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But we don't, you know, we don't like getting involved

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in local races again. The New York Times, which is bizarre,

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the Clinton's clyburn, The New York Times, the unions, Cuomo had,

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Black groups, Jewish groups, Italian groups, every other stripe of

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the rainbow that was supposed to be a winning formula

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in New York. But the old formula does not compute anymore.

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It's hard not to be reminded of the past three

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presidents races, and particularly the Democrat establishment forcing and eat

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your spinach choice down the throats of the primary electorate.

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It was Hillary Clinton's turn to win the nomination in

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twenty sixteen, after she'd lost to Obama in eight and

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she heavily emphasized this in her campaign. Democrat party leaders

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right then boosted Joe Biden in twenty twenty Cliburne's endorsement

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did that. Then Democrats made a catastrophic error by failing

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to seriously challenge Biden in twenty twenty four until it

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was of course too late. Right, you had mary An

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Williamson and Dean Phillips, but they were like, like, we're

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going to run in a primary, Like I know what primaries. Remember,

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they shut all that down, and to us it's comical

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because democracy. But to a Democrat voter, that would hack

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me off, right, Like, I can see the problems with

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this guy, with Joe Biden. We need to have a primary,

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and the party says no. Then of course the party

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forces Joe Biden out after the debate and instead of

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doing this you know, mini primary or accelerated primary. Remember

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they were talking about doing that for about a second

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and then they were like, Nope, not going to do

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that either. We got it. We already got Michael Jordan

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sitting on the bench. Let's go ahead and bring her in.

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It's Kamala Harris. Look at all the joy they gas

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let us over that Cuomo, like Clinton, was from a

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political dynasty that most people under the age of forty

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have little or no affection for. And although Bernie is

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an exception, maybe it's not that complicated. Right. If you

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want to inspire young voters, then you nominate younger candidates,

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and Mendani, at age thirty three, is literally half Cuomo's age.

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In the mayor's race, Cuomo trotted out the same boilerplate

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tired themes, including a heavy emphasis on Donald Trump, but

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that had also failed Hillary Clinton, It failed Joe Biden

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in twenty four, it failed Harris rather than the local

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issues that mayoral races often turn on, right, races are

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determined at this local level. Could you imagine a Charlotte

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mayor's race, or pick any city, any town you live

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in that the mayor's race is about Trump. That would

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be asinine. But that's the campaign that Cuomo ran. So

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Nate Silver says that Zoran thoroughly earned the win, and

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Cuomo and the Democratic establishment thoroughly earned the loss. And

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even if they finally take the hint, generational turnover in

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the Democrat Party is coming, whether they like it or not.

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And along those lines, I would add, y'all raised a

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generation of Jihati adjacent socialists, So good luck with that Democrats,

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and godspeed to the rest of the country that's now

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going to have to clean up your garbage. You thought

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these people would just work the streets, work the polls

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for you. They would turn out voters for you. Right.

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They would protest Donald Trump if he came to town.

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You could organize a flash mob to stop ice deportations. Right.

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They were very helpful for your operations. And that's the

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thing about feeding the alligator in the hopes that it

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eats you last. It does eventually eat you. All Right,

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that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much

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for listening. I could not do the show without your

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