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up for the democracy by running away, they are now
apparently returning to surrender. But I'd rarely be there declaring
victory in their surrendering. There's so much brave, so much brave.
Texas House Democrats have reportedly confirmed that they do intend
to return to the state after fleeing in an attempt
to halt legislative proceedings, which include did GOP attempts to
redraw congressional districts in the state. Multiple sources confirmed to
ABC thirteen Houston that the absent House Democrats will return
after feeling like they accomplished their mission of killing the
special legislative session called by Republicans to pass redistricting legislation
because that special session expires next Tuesday, So I'm not
really sure why why you're returning before next Tuesday. That's
when the special session ends. Oh and by the way,
they weren't able to I think, do some of the stuff,
like because they fled, they weren't able to have a quorum,
so they couldn't take any votes, which means that some
of the disaster relief and recovery funding for the Texas
floods from a couple of weeks ago that killed all
those girls at the camp. Yeah, they didn't get that
done either, So good job on that, Democrats. But no, no, no,
I get it, I get it. Your your party power
is more important than the than the disaster relief. But
Governor Abbott has already said that he's going to be
calling for another special session, so when one ends, he's
going to call another one into sessions. So he's going
to keep doing this and he like he'll do a third,
he'll do a fourth, He'll keep calling them back in.
So you're going to have to stay away, I guess
for the rest of your lives. I guess that. Yeah.
Also I saw that. I think it's the Attorney General
Ken Paxton that uh, he's looking to open an in
criminal a criminal investigation into Beto aka Francis Robert O'Rourke.
Remember the clip Let's do It hang on, I might
still have it. Well. O'Rourke is running around fundraising for
these fleeing Democrats. And what Paxton has said is that
this could violate bribery law because you are paying the
lawmakers to take an action or not take an action
in order to affect a legislative outcome. And so if
you're paying them to leave, that could be considered under
the law to be a bribe. And so he said
he's going to open a criminal investigation into them for that.
I mean, I don't know if it'll go anywhere. It's
a novel interpretation that Heretofore only Democrats seemed skilled enough
to do. But now apparently some Republicans are learning the game.
I told you guys on the left that you're not
going to like it when everybody starts playing by your rules.
So we shall see, we shall see if the Democrats return.
Socialists hypocrites they all are. That's that's the deal with
with Marxism is that it is a it's a religion,
it's an ideology, and it's based in envy, and that
makes you very very very prone. If not it automatically
makes you a hypocrite on any number of things. And
Zoron Mamdani, the mayoral candidate up in New York, is
a really really good example of this. You know, he
talks about Second Amendment repeal, he talks about getting all
the guns and all of that. Yet when he went
to his wedding celebration in Uganda, where one of his
parents is from, the place was protected by armed guards
with with machine guns and such. So there's that. There
was also the fact that he was there for that
wedding celebration and it was like at some compound, and
like a very swanky compound at that very very ritzy,
very wealthy family. So I mean that's the Yes, that's
the Marxist class. And then there's this. The New York
City mayoral candidate is a silver spoon socialist shamelessly living
in a dirt cheap rent stabilized apartment and his neighbors
are saying, dude, you need to move out. This is
the story in the New York Post. Mamdanie is thirty
three years old. He rakes in one hundred and forty
two thousand dollars a year because he is a state assemblyman,
which always makes me wonder, well, then why didn't you
get all the stuff that you want to see done?
You would add a better shot at doing this up
in the state capital rather than being the mayor of
New York City. But whatever, So he makes one hundred
and forty two k. His wealthy family includes his filmmaker
mom and his professor dad. And he's been living in
a one bedroom apartment in Astoria and that apartment costs
twenty three hundred dollars a month. One bedroom apartment twenty
three hundred a month. And the reason that that is
so cheap, which I know here, like twenty three hundred
dollars a month, I can tell you it gets you
more than one bedroom in Charlotte usually okay, because it's
rent controlled and he makes too much money for him
to be But this is the pole, This is the
whole problem with the with the rent control system, is
that you get into these places and then you like
basically just have this string of essentially subleasing, and so
it ties back to somebody, some prior resident who then
just like transfers the lease to somebody else, and they
just keep doing that. Mayor Eric Adams accused Mam Donnie
of exploiting a system. Here's the key designed to serve
the most vulnerable. See that's the problem. Mamdanni making one
hundred and forty two k living in a twenty three
hundred dollars rent control like apartment. Okay, that doesn't look good.
But the fact that he's taking that apartment from somebody
who actually could use it because they're poor, they need
an apartment. They can't get into this rent control department
because he's taking one of the slots that he shouldn't
be in. I know, it's as shocking to me as
it is to you that a Marxist would think that
the rules of Marxism don't apply to him. But here
we are. I'm again just as shocked as you are.
Eric Adams said, this is not public service, this is
self service. It is outrageous that a man who presents
himself as the as a champion of the poor would
occupy an apartment intended for public housing while thousands of
New Yorkers sleep in shelters or on the streets, Which
isn't really a, that's okay, you're the mayor, dude, Like
that seems like a problem that you could have addressed.
So I don't know if Eric Adams is the best
person to be making this argument. The Uganda born Mamdani
comes from a wealthy family, and his six figure salary
is on top of the additional income that his illustrator wife,
Rama Duwaji, brings h to the home that he has
lived in for at least four years. Andrew Cuomo has
weighed in on all of this as well. No Silverspoon
baby is Quomo? Oh wait, never mind? He may not
be the best person to make this argument either. Oh goodness,
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Former governor and mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo unleashed a tirade
on Twitter alongside a video of Zoron Mamdani admitting that
he pays cheap rent. He lives in a rent control department,
even though he makes over one hundred and forty thousand
a year as a state assemblyman, and his wife earns
income as well. So they're probably clearing somewhere in the
neighborhood of what two hundred k I'm going to guess
Como said somewhere somewhere last night in New York City,
a single mother and her children slept at a homeless
shelter because of you, Assemblyman Zoron Mamdani. You are occupying
her rent control department. That tweet went viral twenty eight
million views. You grew up rich and married an even
wealthier woman. You've had weddings on three continents. You own
property in lgtb Qia plus murderous Uganda. Well that's interesting.
He still owns property in Uganda and they are not
down with the LGBTQ plus two IA stuff. Yeah. Mamdani,
thirty three and his wife twenty seven, eloped in February
at the city Clerk's office. As all good Marxists do
you know, they just we don't need all of the
trappings of religion and the pageantry. I mean, at least
here in America. I'm gonna go home and do all
of that. Yeah, But then they went off for a
small but lavish engagement and wedding celebration in Dubai. And
then they capped off their nuptials in a blockbuster three
day affair at his family's ritzy seclude Ugandan compound, complete
with masked security guards and a cell phone jamming system,
which Como pointed out as well. He said, today, I
am calling on you to move out immediately and give
your affordable housing back to an unhoused family who needs it.
Leaders must show moral clarity, time to move out. I
got to tell you, I've been covering politics a long time.
I've never heard somebody say to their opponent that they
need to move out of their house. I've heard people
say you need to live in the district, but I've
never heard somebody say that house you're in now, you
need to move out of it. Republican mayoral candidate Curtis
Sliwa told The Post quote, only in New York do
we have two nepo babies. Do you know what a
nepo baby is? Nepotism nepotism baby, right, so a child
of privilege and like get you got where you are
because of who your parents were. You're a Nepo baby.
Hollywood is full of them. Politics as well, which Russia
used to say, politics is Hollywood for ugly people. So
it does track. So the Republican candidate Curtis Slewa, who
was the founder of the Guardian Angels, this was the
you know, unarmed citizen militia kind of group that walked
around with the Red Berets and they would, you know,
try to prevent crime, report crime, that sort of thing.
They were a crime fighting force that developed back I
want to say maybe in the seventies and eighties. I remember,
like that's when you know New York was a slum
hoole and it was before Giuliani got in. So that's
Curtis Slewa. He says, only in New York do we
have two Nepo babies, Andrew Cuomo and Zoron Mamdani arguing
over an apartment while the city falls apart because of
both of them, Which is a fantastic message and it's true.
But he's still not going to win. That's the unfortunate thing.
People are in the general election. People are probably going
to vote for the Marxist Mamdanie had previously claimed he
intended to leave his cheap digs. He said he was
going to leive. He told the New York Editorial Board
in February that he found the listing on Street Easy
years ago when he was only making forty seven thousand
dollars a year as a foreclosure prevention housing counselor. He
claimed that at that time he had no idea that
it was a rent stabilized unit, which I think is
a little far fetched, because I believe you have to
sign some sort of paperwork that tells you that the
average price of rent for a one bedroom in Astoria,
Queens is closer to three thousand dollars according to apartment adviser,
meaning he's saving somewhere north of eight grand a year
more than his constituents. Due owns four acres of land
in Uganda that's worth between one hundred and fifty and
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. His campaign brushed off
any criticism, claiming Cuomo is merely trying to distract voters.
This is always what people say when they cannot address
the merits of a particular scandal, or they can't respond
to it. Right, it's Oh, you're just trying to distract
with this. I'm not going to give into this distraction. This,
to me, is the dumbest way to handle this stuff.
You're better off like, just address it straightforward, straight up,
Just address it, and then anytime after that you do
a news conference, you address it, answer every question, and
then you never have to talk about it again, because
then anytime anybody else brings it up, you say, I've
already addressed this. So here's what the campaign said. Andrew
Cuomo isn't just working with Donald Trump, He's becoming him,
ranting two reporters, firing off unhinged social media posts, lodging
personal attacks, all to avoid talking about the corruption, sexual harassment,
and abuse of power that drove him from office. The
only thing missing is a red hat. Really, like, so
Cuomo's maga, Really it's Cuomo's spokesperson responded, The truth hurts,
and the truth is Mamdani is gaming a system meant
to help those with way less privilege. I understand his
diehard supporters don't know how to deal with his mask slipping,
and that is true. That is always the truth in
any of these Marxist, communist, socialist regimes like the true Believers,
like they drink the kool aid for a reason. All right,
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All right, I'll get mac on real quick. Hello, mac
Welcome to the show.
Speaker 2: Hey Pete, I just kind of want to chime in.
We were talking about this today and you know, I
was around, Well, I've been at the same job to
build this cloud business for thirty years. And you know,
up until COVID, you could buy a house, a starter
home house for ninety t one hundred dollars a square
foot all day long. And after COVID that costs went
to about two hundred dollars a square foot. Now they
basically in five years the housing costs have doubled.
Speaker 1: Oh, I have no doubt about that. Yeah, I have
no doubt that. Yeah. I mean, and why did COVID
do that?
Speaker 2: Well, because, like I said, commodity, if you look at
what goes into a house, which you know, a half
inch OSD, which is a huge part of the house,
it went from a selling at nine ten dollars a
sheet to sixty dollars a sheet, right, but.
Speaker 1: Right why it was supply chain disruption.
Speaker 2: It was a supply chain disruption. But however, everything else
OSD is still down back down to normal levels eleven
dollars a sheet. Douds are back down, the spruces back down,
pines back down. You know, granted, windows and doors they've
kind of maintained, engineered with products have gon back down,
but the selling cults of the house has not gone down,
and it will not go down until people put bind right.
Speaker 1: Which has happened. I mean that is happening. People are
they're waiting longer to buy and they can't afford them,
so I mean that part of that is starting to happen. Mac.
I do appreciate the call, buddy, Thanks for the insight.
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I'm sorry, ak Aaron here aka window Killer. You kill windows,
you break them, he says, I install windows. Well, why
all right, dude, I'm not telling you you know how
to live your life or anything. Erin, but I don't
know if that's a good nickname for a window installer.
I don't know. Maybe yes, I'd like Erin the window
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I get what you mean about being better built, but
they throw them up the houses. They throw up houses
so fast that there's a lot of issues. I work
around York Tiga Kay and Charlotte, so on and so forth.
It just depends if you have the right people that
really care. And then being a homeowner getting a house
built or buying a home that is true. That is apps.
I'll tell you a story in a second about that. That
is absolutely true. You have to be there on site,
you have to do your due diligence research, know everything
the ins and out, so that you're not getting somebody
throwing you up a cardboard house. So I have had
two homes built for me in my life. They weren't
custom jobs. They were part of, you know, a neighborhood.
And they call it in the industry build to suit, right,
So you get to pick out the carpets, like here's
the baseline, you know, and this is the standard, and
it's you know, it's always the low grade possible because
they want to upsell you on like everything. And so
then you pick out the you know, an up sell
on the cabinet tree and the door handles and the
pulls for the drawers and you know, the tiles and backsplash,
all of it right. Like one of them was, hey,
it comes with a sink. And the sink is like
you know, some nineteen forties era stainless steel three inch
deep sink, and I'm like well I don't want that sink,
but I can replace a sink. So're like, yeah, but
this sink only has like two holes drilled or whatever
or and I'm like, well I don't want that, Like,
well you can get those other sink. And they wanted
to charge me like one thousand dollars for the sink.
I'm like, well, that's ridiculous. I don't need to spend
that much money on a sink. And like yeah, but
then you won't get the extra hole that you're gonna need.
And so they basically forced my hand. You know. Anyway,
we had that house. This was up in Ashville and
they were building it, and Christy and I would drive
down to that house because we lived in Ashville. Every
weekend we drove to the house and we took pictures
from the very beginning. And so every weekend I had
photos of h VAC going in, plumbing going in, electrical
going in. I took pictures of everything. And the first
night we moved in, sorry the first morning because like
all the electrical kept tripping and that was a whole
separate thing. That was just bad circuit breakers. But we
got those replaced. But the next morning Christy tries to
take a shower and the shower isn't getting hot, but
we had hot water in our kitchen sink. That's odd.
So call the company that you call the builder. They
send out their sub and they're like, yeah, Well, the
builder fired us as the plumbing subcontractor for all of
these homes, gave the job to a buddy of his
from his church. Well, that guy could not keep up
with the schedule, so he was falling behind, so he
brought in some people to try to make it up.
Couldn't make it up, and so the builder fired his
friend and brought back in the original sub to finish
it out. And he's like, but we didn't do this house,
so I don't know what the plumbing looks like inside
the wall. And I said, I do, and I can
show you. And I pulled up my photos. I showed
him all of the plumbing and he was like, they
did a straight connection from the street to half of
the house, so it wasn't running through the water heater system.
It was just running right from the right from the
street right to the shower and the bathroom sinks and toilet,
So yes, you have to do so well, we moved
back to Charlotte, same thing. We had a house that was,
you know, part of a neighborhood. We didn't get to
pick the finishes because COVID blew up all the supply
chains and stuff, so we just got whatever they had
in their warehouse. Apparently there's local arms were like seven
years old or something because they started beeping the first
week we moved in. But that's a different story point
is if you're getting something built like that, yeah you
gotta take all the pictures as it's getting built. You
gotta be on site, and yeah you got to inspect everything.
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