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Which 10 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:31,000 if you don't know what I'm about to reference, you 11 00:00:31,039 --> 00:00:33,640 got to go back and listen to the end of 12 00:00:33,640 --> 00:00:39,000 the last hour about a local judge that gave a 13 00:00:39,039 --> 00:00:42,280 guy who ran a red light and killed a woman 14 00:00:42,679 --> 00:00:47,560 four years ago, gave him a suspended sentence and that 15 00:00:47,719 --> 00:00:49,039 was a judge. 16 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:54,000 Speaker 1: Hang on, let me get the press release. George C. Bell, 17 00:00:54,159 --> 00:00:55,359 Superior Court judge. 18 00:00:55,759 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 2: Got a text on the WBT text line driven by 19 00:01:00,079 --> 00:01:05,159 Liberty Buick GMC from Brian who says Judge Bell is 20 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,959 a so called Republican. He is also a moron that 21 00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:12,599 doesn't know the law. He is running for North Carolina 22 00:01:12,640 --> 00:01:17,159 Court of Appeals and Brian is correct. According to ballot Pedia, 23 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:22,640 George Bell, Republican is a judge for Judicial District twenty 24 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:27,040 sixth C of the North Carolina Fifth Superior Court Division. 25 00:01:27,239 --> 00:01:30,680 He assumed office January one, twenty nineteen. His current term 26 00:01:30,799 --> 00:01:36,359 ends in twenty twenty six. He ran for election he 27 00:01:36,400 --> 00:01:40,319 won in twenty eighteen. The North Carolina Superior Courts are 28 00:01:40,359 --> 00:01:43,040 split into five divisions forty eight districts. 29 00:01:43,040 --> 00:01:44,400 Speaker 1: And then it just tells you that he's got a 30 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:45,200 biography here. 31 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:49,159 Speaker 2: He got a BS and Business Management from Cornell in 32 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:53,040 two thousand and is jd from Regent University School of 33 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:55,239 Law in two thousand and three. He worked as a 34 00:01:55,319 --> 00:01:59,120 law clerk to David PW and became a managing partner 35 00:01:59,159 --> 00:02:02,159 at Bell and Bell Law Firm in two thousand and six. 36 00:02:02,879 --> 00:02:05,640 He's a volunteer wrestling coach at Mooresville High School and 37 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:10,919 a volunteer soccer coach at Striker Soccer Center. And I 38 00:02:10,919 --> 00:02:13,680 believe his area of law is. 39 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:17,719 Speaker 1: Let me see here. I think I just saw it was. 40 00:02:20,039 --> 00:02:27,120 Speaker 2: Well. According to the AI synopsis, he handled traffic offenses, 41 00:02:27,199 --> 00:02:32,120 DWI misdemeanors, felony, family law issues, and personal injury cases. 42 00:02:33,319 --> 00:02:35,520 So that was the kind of law you practiced before 43 00:02:35,520 --> 00:02:40,199 he became a judge. I don't know if that informs 44 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:46,680 his his rulings, his sentencing to let a guy who 45 00:02:46,840 --> 00:02:50,520 murdered a fifty four year old woman with his vehicle 46 00:02:50,680 --> 00:02:53,159 by running a red light at sixty seven miles an 47 00:02:53,199 --> 00:02:55,759 hour through a thirty five zone and then claimed he 48 00:02:55,919 --> 00:02:59,599 was under the influence of marijuana and LSD, which he 49 00:02:59,639 --> 00:03:02,840 had taken the night before, twenty four hours prior, and like, 50 00:03:02,879 --> 00:03:05,879 that's not how that works, guys. 51 00:03:06,039 --> 00:03:07,439 Speaker 1: Trust me. Okay. 52 00:03:09,159 --> 00:03:13,000 Speaker 2: Moving on a new poll from Harris X. It's a 53 00:03:13,039 --> 00:03:17,680 polling out that finds that New York City mayoral the 54 00:03:18,479 --> 00:03:21,199 New York City mayoral race is shaping up to be 55 00:03:21,280 --> 00:03:28,159 a tight and competitive contest. I'm not so sure about that, okay. 56 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:31,800 And it was interesting because I saw different ways this 57 00:03:31,960 --> 00:03:38,800 poll was framed by. First off, the press release from 58 00:03:38,879 --> 00:03:41,080 the polling firm, which is what I'm reading from. This 59 00:03:41,159 --> 00:03:46,840 is on PRNewswire dot com, which is just press releases. 60 00:03:47,479 --> 00:03:50,879 You know, you posted the PR newswire. But then I 61 00:03:50,919 --> 00:03:56,360 also saw sort of a crafting of a narrative that 62 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:01,400 came from the Republican in the race, Curtis Sliwa, who 63 00:04:01,599 --> 00:04:04,159 is the founder of the Guardian Angels. Right, they are 64 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:09,439 the unarmed group of you know, people that like helped 65 00:04:09,479 --> 00:04:11,520 to keep the streets of New York safe. They have 66 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:14,319 the green or sorry, they have the red berets, you know, 67 00:04:14,639 --> 00:04:16,959 and they hold people until the cops come. They report 68 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:20,079 crimes and all that stuff. He's the founder of the 69 00:04:20,120 --> 00:04:23,759 Guardian Angels. He's running in this mayoral race. He's a Republican, 70 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:34,920 so you'll recall the Jihati adjacent leftist commie zorn Mam Danny. 71 00:04:35,199 --> 00:04:42,000 He cleared the Democrat primary and he beat Andrew Cuomo. 72 00:04:42,279 --> 00:04:45,439 And I think there was like there was an there's 73 00:04:45,480 --> 00:04:49,319 like one or two other Democrat candidates, and they did 74 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,560 ranked choice voting, which I am not in favor of this. 75 00:04:53,879 --> 00:04:57,600 It's a convoluted method and it takes forever to count 76 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,560 up all the votes and you actually end up with 77 00:05:01,079 --> 00:05:03,120 I think people that get in there when they shouldn't 78 00:05:03,199 --> 00:05:07,000 actually have gotten in there. But anyway, that's how the 79 00:05:07,040 --> 00:05:10,839 Democrats have chosen to run their primary. But now you 80 00:05:10,920 --> 00:05:15,319 go to the general and in the general election, you've 81 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:19,600 got no prohibition against anybody who lost in a primary 82 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:24,839 from mounting an independent run. North Carolina prohibits this. If 83 00:05:24,879 --> 00:05:27,720 you lose in a primary, you don't get to then 84 00:05:27,879 --> 00:05:32,040 run in the general under a different party label. Okay, 85 00:05:32,199 --> 00:05:35,319 New York does not have that prohibition, which is why 86 00:05:35,439 --> 00:05:40,279 Andrew Cuomo is now going to run as an independent 87 00:05:40,399 --> 00:05:43,680 because he lost in the Democrat primary, so now he's 88 00:05:43,720 --> 00:05:48,040 going to run in the general as well, and that 89 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:51,759 now is going to split the vote again. 90 00:05:54,199 --> 00:05:59,680 Speaker 1: So here's what the polling shows that where was I here? 91 00:06:00,720 --> 00:06:06,120 Speaker 2: It's a competitive contest with assembly member because Zoran Mamdani 92 00:06:06,120 --> 00:06:10,319 he's actually a member of the North Carolina Legislature. He's 93 00:06:10,319 --> 00:06:15,279 an assemblyman the General Assembly. So he is statistically tied 94 00:06:15,879 --> 00:06:20,360 with Cuomo, the former governor of New York, and Republican 95 00:06:20,439 --> 00:06:25,759 candidate Curtis Sliwa in a four way race. Okay, so 96 00:06:25,800 --> 00:06:28,959 they're all neck and neck, all three of these guys, 97 00:06:29,319 --> 00:06:32,879 which tells me that if one of them were to 98 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,959 drop out, along with Mayor Eric Adams who's also running 99 00:06:36,959 --> 00:06:41,000 as an independent, right, if there is a field clearing 100 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:47,279 effort and a unifying around an anti Mandanami sorry Mam 101 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:53,519 Danny candidate, then that's the way you probably defeat this guy. 102 00:06:55,079 --> 00:06:57,360 But if you got four candidates in the running and 103 00:06:57,399 --> 00:07:01,399 they're going to split the they're gonna split the votes, 104 00:07:01,399 --> 00:07:06,240 and three of them are like the anti Zoron candidate. 105 00:07:07,720 --> 00:07:13,720 You're splitting the anti Zoron vote. So, in a head 106 00:07:13,759 --> 00:07:17,759 to head race between the current mayor, Eric Adams versus 107 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:28,040 Zoron Mamdani ma'm Danny leads. The poll shows Cuomo defeating 108 00:07:28,120 --> 00:07:37,319 Mam Danny in a head to head race by fifteen points. So, like, 109 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,360 I don't know, like that would tell me that Cuomo 110 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:46,360 is the best shot to defeat this communist Jihati adjacent guy, 111 00:07:47,079 --> 00:07:50,680 this silver spoon. He's a communist. I mean he like, 112 00:07:50,720 --> 00:07:53,000 I've already gone over this before I went on vacation. 113 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,360 I you know, when he won the primary, we started, 114 00:07:56,439 --> 00:07:59,399 you know, looking into this guy. And yeah, he says 115 00:07:59,399 --> 00:08:03,879 stuff that me say, like literally, I'm not just saying 116 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,279 that because oh he's a leftist. No, No, he's like communist. 117 00:08:06,680 --> 00:08:10,399 He talked about seizing the means of production. That's the goal. 118 00:08:11,399 --> 00:08:13,879 The survey of five hundred and eighty five registered New 119 00:08:13,959 --> 00:08:14,920 York City voters. 120 00:08:16,000 --> 00:08:18,319 Speaker 1: So okay, well, now. 121 00:08:18,160 --> 00:08:20,439 Speaker 2: Is this really a legit poll then, because it's not 122 00:08:20,680 --> 00:08:23,360 likely voters, it's just voters, not to anybody who showed 123 00:08:23,399 --> 00:08:25,959 up to get a driver's license and they register you 124 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:30,639 to vote. You know, in a four way race, mem 125 00:08:30,759 --> 00:08:35,279 Danny is at twenty six percent, Cuomo twenty three percent, 126 00:08:35,919 --> 00:08:39,639 Sliwa twenty two percent. But that's all within the margin 127 00:08:39,679 --> 00:08:45,159 of error. Adams is at thirteen fifteen percent are undecided. 128 00:08:45,639 --> 00:08:48,519 So Eric Adams is trailing very badly even in a 129 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:52,519 one to one. Adams needs to drop out. He needs 130 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:55,960 to drop out and let those votes go someplace else, 131 00:08:56,039 --> 00:08:58,519 Let that support go somewhere else. See where that goes. 132 00:08:59,720 --> 00:09:04,519 In a three way race without Adams, Cuomo is at 133 00:09:04,600 --> 00:09:07,840 thirty one percent, ma'm danny at twenty nine and Sliwa 134 00:09:07,919 --> 00:09:12,279 at twenty eight, Right, So that seems like if Eric 135 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:16,279 Adams drops out, most of that vote would go to Cuomo. 136 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:22,240 How badly do the leaders of New York City, like 137 00:09:22,279 --> 00:09:27,320 the business leaders, the state leaders, right, how badly do 138 00:09:27,399 --> 00:09:31,320 they want me'm danny out? 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I don't cover this kind of polling 165 00:10:59,240 --> 00:11:03,480 because it's just a napshot, and people vote in different ways, 166 00:11:03,519 --> 00:11:06,039 and what's the sample size and is it likely voters, 167 00:11:06,080 --> 00:11:07,279 and so this one doesn't. 168 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:08,360 Speaker 1: It's not very. 169 00:11:10,200 --> 00:11:13,960 Speaker 2: I would not say this is terribly credible at this point. However, 170 00:11:15,200 --> 00:11:17,360 I look at trends, and so when I'm looking at 171 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,440 the breakdown of the numbers to see where voters that 172 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:24,000 were asked in this poll where they would move their 173 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:28,480 votes to, I think there is value in understanding what 174 00:11:28,480 --> 00:11:31,039 would happen if all four of these candidates stay in 175 00:11:31,080 --> 00:11:34,759 the race. You got ma'm Danny, who is the Democrat nominee. 176 00:11:35,000 --> 00:11:37,919 You got Eric Adams, he's the current mayor, left the 177 00:11:37,919 --> 00:11:40,279 Democrat Party when he knew he wasn't going to win 178 00:11:40,399 --> 00:11:45,440 reelection and so he's running as an independent. You got 179 00:11:45,480 --> 00:11:49,120 Andrew Cuomo who lost to ma'am Danny in the Democrat 180 00:11:49,120 --> 00:11:51,600 primary and now turned around and says I'm going to 181 00:11:51,679 --> 00:11:56,440 run in the general. And you've got Eric Adams or sorry, 182 00:11:57,360 --> 00:12:02,000 Curtis Sliwa the Republican. And so if any of them 183 00:12:02,000 --> 00:12:07,200 were to drop out, they tested these different scenarios and 184 00:12:07,240 --> 00:12:11,879 if it's a four way race, Ma'm Danny wins, but 185 00:12:11,919 --> 00:12:15,519 it's still close twenty six percent over Como's twenty three 186 00:12:16,000 --> 00:12:22,320 Sliwa at twenty two, Adams distant thirteen percent. If Adams 187 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:26,000 isn't there, those votes tend to go to Como, and 188 00:12:26,039 --> 00:12:29,080 now he wins by two points thirty one twenty nine 189 00:12:29,120 --> 00:12:34,200 over Mam Danny. Sliwa is at twenty eight percent in 190 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:38,559 a three way race if Cuomo's not there, so you 191 00:12:39,039 --> 00:12:42,080 just would have the Democrat, the Republican, and Eric Adams. 192 00:12:42,440 --> 00:12:47,559 Mam Danny leads Sliwa by ten points thirty five to 193 00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:50,960 twenty five, and Adams picks up a few points there. 194 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:52,159 Speaker 1: He comes in at nineteen. 195 00:12:53,960 --> 00:12:59,720 Speaker 2: In head to head matchups, Ma'm danny beats Adams, but 196 00:12:59,879 --> 00:13:06,559 he loses to Cuomo. He benefits the most if Cuomo 197 00:13:06,919 --> 00:13:12,480 is not in the race. Cuomo gains the most, benefits 198 00:13:12,519 --> 00:13:16,720 the most. If Adams is not in the race, he 199 00:13:16,759 --> 00:13:20,120 would and he would win. Cuomo would win a straight 200 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:22,360 up head to head match up with Mam Danny, which 201 00:13:22,399 --> 00:13:25,120 means that all those Republican votes in New York City 202 00:13:25,919 --> 00:13:29,320 for Curtis Sliwa, virtually all of them would go to Cuomo. 203 00:13:30,639 --> 00:13:31,240 Speaker 1: All right, So. 204 00:13:32,879 --> 00:13:38,120 Speaker 2: Ma'm danny finally had his first meeting with the business 205 00:13:38,120 --> 00:13:41,879 elites in New York City, and there are still some there, 206 00:13:41,960 --> 00:13:46,120 at least for the time being, which is interesting because 207 00:13:46,320 --> 00:13:48,320 Ma'm Danny has said he doesn't think any of them 208 00:13:48,519 --> 00:13:53,519 should be allowed to be billionaires, but yet he needs 209 00:13:53,519 --> 00:13:55,120 all of their money to pay for all the free 210 00:13:55,159 --> 00:13:58,120 crap that he wants to give away, so people vote 211 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:01,840 for him. It's the thing about communism. You gotta you 212 00:14:01,919 --> 00:14:03,720 vote your way into it, but you got to shoot 213 00:14:03,720 --> 00:14:07,759 your way out. So Zora and Mehmdani, according to the 214 00:14:07,759 --> 00:14:12,639 Wall Street Journal, said he would discourage the use of 215 00:14:12,679 --> 00:14:17,759 the slogan globalize the Intifada. The headline, by the way, 216 00:14:17,759 --> 00:14:22,519 on this Wall Street Journal piece is called Memdani clarifies 217 00:14:23,159 --> 00:14:27,519 globalize the Intifada stance in meeting with business elites. 218 00:14:28,679 --> 00:14:30,720 Speaker 1: Yeah, he he actually does not do that. 219 00:14:31,639 --> 00:14:35,080 Speaker 2: This is one of those instances where the headline is 220 00:14:35,159 --> 00:14:39,320 exactly the opposite of what the story says. Okay, because 221 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:47,519 he doesn't clarify, If anything, he muddies the stance. So 222 00:14:47,559 --> 00:14:51,440 he says he will discourage the use of the slogan. Okay, 223 00:14:51,480 --> 00:14:54,600 so we shouldn't say that, everybody. We shouldn't say that everybody. 224 00:14:56,080 --> 00:14:59,200 He said, he's willing to discourage the specific language, but 225 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:04,559 not the idea behind it. So he's telling the business 226 00:15:04,559 --> 00:15:10,799 elites that he will lie. I'll lie, and I just 227 00:15:10,840 --> 00:15:15,639 won't use the term. I'm willing to discourage it. I'm 228 00:15:15,679 --> 00:15:18,759 willing to tell people not to use it. Wink wink, 229 00:15:19,039 --> 00:15:22,320 But I still believe it. Don't worry kill all the Jews, 230 00:15:23,080 --> 00:15:25,559 because that's what that means. And anybody that tells you 231 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:29,919 different is either stupid or they are lying to you. 232 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,799 That's what globalized. The Indefada meets, because the Endefada was 233 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:37,080 when the Palestinians went around murdering people on buses and 234 00:15:37,120 --> 00:15:40,399 in pizza shops and stuff by blowing themselves up. Okay, 235 00:15:41,120 --> 00:15:48,000 that was the terror campaign called the Intifada. In a 236 00:15:48,159 --> 00:15:52,120 roughly hour long meeting with some of New York City's 237 00:15:52,159 --> 00:15:57,919 most powerful executives yesterday, Ma'm danny sought to diffuse an 238 00:15:58,000 --> 00:16:02,120 issue that has prompted a betacklash from the business community 239 00:16:02,440 --> 00:16:05,600 and beyond. Yeah, well, calling for a mass murder of 240 00:16:05,639 --> 00:16:11,600 an entire religious minority does sometimes do that, especially when 241 00:16:11,679 --> 00:16:16,200 you want to be elected by that minority. Mem Danny 242 00:16:16,480 --> 00:16:18,720 is the Democrat nominee for New York City mayor. He 243 00:16:18,879 --> 00:16:21,639 was questioned by a room of more than one hundred 244 00:16:21,679 --> 00:16:25,840 executives at an event hosted by the Partnership for New 245 00:16:25,919 --> 00:16:30,519 York City that is, an influential business group. The audience 246 00:16:30,600 --> 00:16:36,039 included finance and real estate executives, high powered lawyers, even 247 00:16:36,080 --> 00:16:40,639 a handful of billionaires. Many an attendance said they walked 248 00:16:40,679 --> 00:16:44,360 away impressed by the thirty three year old candidates' ability 249 00:16:44,440 --> 00:16:49,200 to work a crowd, but no more comfortable with his ideas. Yeah, 250 00:16:49,320 --> 00:16:53,879 nor should you be Nor should you be comfortable with communism. 251 00:16:54,200 --> 00:16:57,799 You should not be comfortable with it. Once you get 252 00:16:57,840 --> 00:17:05,000 comfortable with communism, you get very uncomfortable soon thereafter. That's 253 00:17:05,200 --> 00:17:07,599 kind of Communism's jam. 254 00:17:07,640 --> 00:17:08,000 Speaker 1: All right. 255 00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:09,839 Speaker 2: If you're listening to this show, you know I try 256 00:17:09,839 --> 00:17:11,640 to keep up with all sorts of current events, and 257 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:13,720 I know you do too, And you've probably heard me 258 00:17:13,759 --> 00:17:18,000 say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, because 259 00:17:18,000 --> 00:17:20,680 it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've 260 00:17:20,720 --> 00:17:24,039 been so impressed with Ground News. It's an app and 261 00:17:24,279 --> 00:17:27,200 it's a website, and it combines news from around the 262 00:17:27,200 --> 00:17:29,880 world in one place, so you can compare coverage and 263 00:17:30,000 --> 00:17:33,839 verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, 264 00:17:34,119 --> 00:17:37,160 dot news, slash pete. 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Your subscription then not 274 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,400 only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground News 275 00:18:09,440 --> 00:18:13,559 as they make the media landscape more transparent. Message from 276 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:17,680 Floyd who says bring back Rudy Giuliani to New York 277 00:18:17,720 --> 00:18:23,759 City and Barry texts in saying I think Adams dropping 278 00:18:23,799 --> 00:18:27,039 out is a great idea. Eric Adams could endorse one 279 00:18:27,039 --> 00:18:30,119 of the other candidates on the way out. Of course, 280 00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:34,400 Adams presumably would not endorse mem Danny so glad I'm 281 00:18:34,400 --> 00:18:38,279 not a city of New Yorker, well, a resident of Gotham, 282 00:18:38,359 --> 00:18:43,519 A Gothamist, shall we say, Yeah, I would be terrified 283 00:18:44,440 --> 00:18:46,559 if I lived in New York City, I would be 284 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:48,920 terrified that this guy is going to win. And maybe 285 00:18:48,920 --> 00:18:51,480 this is the kind of candidacy that inspires people to 286 00:18:51,519 --> 00:18:56,319 get more involved and vote against him and support other 287 00:18:56,359 --> 00:19:01,880 candidates and whatever. Maybe we'll see. He met yesterday, ma'm danny, 288 00:19:01,960 --> 00:19:07,599 the communist Islamist dude. He met with like a hundred 289 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:10,400 of the top leaders in New York City, this very 290 00:19:10,480 --> 00:19:14,640 influential group called the Partnership for New York City, and 291 00:19:16,759 --> 00:19:20,319 one attendee told The Wall Street Journal afterwards, quote, it 292 00:19:20,319 --> 00:19:24,359 could have been a lot worse, which isn't exactly It's 293 00:19:24,400 --> 00:19:30,000 not exactly a I don't know, a rising stamp of approval, 294 00:19:30,039 --> 00:19:34,240 I guess you'd say. Pfiser chief executive Officer Albert Borla 295 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,720 and Robert Speyer, who is the CEO of the real 296 00:19:37,839 --> 00:19:43,680 estate firm Tishman Speyer. They moderated the event, which also 297 00:19:43,720 --> 00:19:50,160 included questions from the audience. Borla, Albert Borla, the Pfiser CEO, 298 00:19:50,400 --> 00:19:55,359 is the son of Holocaust survivors, and he confronted Mam 299 00:19:55,480 --> 00:20:04,400 Danny about the phrase globalize the Intifada, which Memdani has used. 300 00:20:06,920 --> 00:20:10,200 And as the Wall Street Journal reports it, they say 301 00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:14,039 globalize the Intifada, which some see as a call for 302 00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:22,200 violence against Jews. Yes, that would be Jiehattists, right, Palestinians. 303 00:20:22,960 --> 00:20:27,640 They use the term to call for violence against Jews. 304 00:20:27,680 --> 00:20:30,599 And that's why when you hear people say it, you 305 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:37,079 should assume that they are talking about globalizing violence against Jews. 306 00:20:37,920 --> 00:20:42,079 Like what we saw in Colorado where that Egyptian guy 307 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:48,240 firebomb did a makeshift flamethrower to attack a bunch of 308 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:53,480 pro Israel people. That's globalizing the Intifada. The guy who 309 00:20:53,599 --> 00:20:58,160 murdered the two Israeli embassy employees after they went to 310 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:03,720 some you know, piece of at the museum and he 311 00:21:03,799 --> 00:21:07,319 shoots them dead in the street, saying free Palestine. Yes, 312 00:21:07,359 --> 00:21:13,680 that's globalizing the Intifada. Now, just because you don't want 313 00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:16,319 to think that that's what you're saying when you're saying it, 314 00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:19,559 because I'm not calling for violence, I'm just saying we 315 00:21:19,680 --> 00:21:22,680 need to rise up against the oppressor. Well, what did 316 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:29,079 you think globalized the Intefada meant? To quote some prominent 317 00:21:29,519 --> 00:21:34,359 Twitter users pro Palestine Twitter users after the double murder 318 00:21:34,400 --> 00:21:37,480 of the Israeli embassy workers, this is what they mean. 319 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:40,759 This is what the Palestinians meant. It's what the PLO meant. 320 00:21:40,799 --> 00:21:45,480 It's what Hamas means. Globalizing the Intafada means killing Jews 321 00:21:45,599 --> 00:21:50,200 everywhere you find them all around the world. In a 322 00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:54,400 response that lasted several minutes to this question, mem Dani 323 00:21:54,519 --> 00:21:58,680 said that for him, the phrase means protest against the 324 00:21:58,720 --> 00:22:07,160 Israeli occupation of Gaza by killing Jews. That's that's what 325 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:12,839 it means. It's not simply. This is the same line 326 00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:16,000 of crap that they fed us about the use of 327 00:22:16,039 --> 00:22:19,119 the word jihad, and they try to tell us that 328 00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:22,359 jihad means something other than the way it is used 329 00:22:22,559 --> 00:22:26,599 by jihadists when they say they're on a jihod. What 330 00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:30,119 does that mean? It means to kill the unbelievers? Right, 331 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:35,160 But no, no, no, When Western folks start picking up 332 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:38,119 on this use of the term and we're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, 333 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:41,039 Wait a minute, what do you mean you're going to 334 00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:42,920 engage in jihad against the West? 335 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:44,880 Speaker 1: What are you talking about there? And oh no, no, 336 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:48,960 it just means a personal struggle. It's a personal struggle. 337 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:52,720 Speaker 2: If you bought that line of crap, you might buy 338 00:22:52,759 --> 00:22:56,640 this line of crap. I do not, I do not, 339 00:22:57,079 --> 00:23:00,440 don't whiz on my boots and tell me it's raining. Okay, 340 00:23:01,440 --> 00:23:06,240 you're using that term, and I know what the term means. 341 00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:11,920 So he says in response to this, in response to 342 00:23:11,960 --> 00:23:16,359 this question from the son of Holocaust survivors, that he's 343 00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:22,240 willing to discourage the specific language, but not the idea 344 00:23:22,240 --> 00:23:25,039 behind it. Well, then just come up with a different slogan, buddy. 345 00:23:26,079 --> 00:23:29,400 You can keep saying end the occupation. Just say that. 346 00:23:30,279 --> 00:23:34,079 Why wouldn't you say that? Why wouldn't you say end 347 00:23:34,119 --> 00:23:38,720 the occupation? If you say that, globalize the Intifada means 348 00:23:39,640 --> 00:23:45,279 end the Israeli occupation of Gaza. 349 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:44,799 Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you just say that? 350 00:23:45,680 --> 00:23:48,759 Speaker 2: Why would you say globalize the into fada? 351 00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,319 Speaker 1: Right? Because it means something else. 352 00:23:51,799 --> 00:23:54,319 Speaker 2: See when you want to say and the occupation, that 353 00:23:54,400 --> 00:24:00,960 leaves open the door for peace, right Lbalizing the Intifada 354 00:24:01,039 --> 00:24:05,440 means a call for murder, murder of civilian Jews. That's 355 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:09,319 what that was, Ma'm Danny at one point said that 356 00:24:09,599 --> 00:24:12,680 he's posted a lot on social media over the years 357 00:24:13,000 --> 00:24:16,799 and that viewpoints can change. Not that his half. 358 00:24:17,359 --> 00:24:18,119 Speaker 1: He didn't say that. 359 00:24:18,839 --> 00:24:20,920 Speaker 2: He just said, I posted a lot of stuff, and 360 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:24,920 you know viewpoints can change. I mean, mine haven't but 361 00:24:25,160 --> 00:24:29,519 they can change, he said, they can. They can also 362 00:24:29,559 --> 00:24:34,279 be taken out of context, not that they were right. 363 00:24:34,319 --> 00:24:37,160 He's he's not made any claims that I've seen that 364 00:24:38,039 --> 00:24:41,880 his views have in a Barack Obama style way, that 365 00:24:41,920 --> 00:24:46,400 they've evolved, like okay, fine, you know, I used to 366 00:24:46,400 --> 00:24:49,559 think we should kill all the Jews. Now it's just half. 367 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:49,720 Speaker 1: You know. 368 00:24:49,839 --> 00:24:53,319 Speaker 2: Like he hasn't He hasn't offered any kind of explanation 369 00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,519 as to how those viewpoints may have changed or how 370 00:24:56,559 --> 00:24:59,960 he was taken out of context. He asked the alle 371 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:04,319 audience not to hold every old tweet against him. In 372 00:25:04,359 --> 00:25:07,599 other words, don't hold him accountable for stuff he has said, 373 00:25:07,640 --> 00:25:11,359 particularly the stuff calling for the murder of Jews like that. 374 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:15,640 That's what he told these people. I don't know if 375 00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:18,640 they're going to buy it. These are very powerful, influential 376 00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:21,200 and I would assume some of them might even be smart, 377 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:22,160 smart people. 378 00:25:22,759 --> 00:25:23,200 Speaker 1: I don't know. 379 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:25,319 Speaker 2: They may buy it, they may not. I would not 380 00:25:25,400 --> 00:25:32,519 buy it. Cuomo is not leaving the race with a 381 00:25:32,559 --> 00:25:37,319 field that executives worry is unlikely to narrow. Some of 382 00:25:37,359 --> 00:25:40,799 them in the meaning at the meeting are now more 383 00:25:40,799 --> 00:25:46,200 focused on influencing who Mendani might include in his administration. 384 00:25:47,599 --> 00:25:50,279 Here's a great idea. 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I 413 00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:30,440 try to talk about, like all of my shows and 414 00:27:30,480 --> 00:27:34,440 all of my topics, I'm usually talking about ideas, except 415 00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:37,240 with like the Sheriff, but like mostly it's about ideas, 416 00:27:37,319 --> 00:27:40,920 the stuff that's upstream of like the policy that we 417 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:45,799 see or the behaviors that we see, and so there's 418 00:27:45,799 --> 00:27:50,160 something strange happening, they write in the social justice movements 419 00:27:50,359 --> 00:27:57,000 du jour, they have all been fused with anti Israel activism. Right, 420 00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:01,039 you got the anti ice pro tests, you got the 421 00:28:01,079 --> 00:28:08,559 anti and the rioters in Los Angeles, environmental activists, anti capitalists, feminists, 422 00:28:08,640 --> 00:28:10,359 New York City mayoral candidate. 423 00:28:11,200 --> 00:28:11,359 Speaker 1: Right. 424 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,839 Speaker 2: At this point, the anti Israel movement has become fully 425 00:28:14,839 --> 00:28:19,359 intertwined with every progressive movement in ways that seem not 426 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:24,960 only counterintuitive but fundamentally contradictory. They then start documenting each 427 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,240 of these different categories, like the La riots and among 428 00:28:28,279 --> 00:28:31,039 the sea of Mexican flags, there were just as many, 429 00:28:31,079 --> 00:28:35,240 if not more, Palestinian flags and catheas. Which are the 430 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:37,759 looks like the tablecloth thing that people wrap around their 431 00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:41,880 head and neck, right, like that that garment that's a 432 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:45,599 fashion accessory for people. Now on the left, it's like 433 00:28:45,640 --> 00:28:46,839 a Shagua Vara shirt. 434 00:28:48,599 --> 00:28:51,079 Speaker 1: You got Greta Thuneberg hoh dare you? 435 00:28:51,079 --> 00:28:55,000 Speaker 2: You've got her trying to crush Zionism and you know 436 00:28:55,519 --> 00:28:58,400 Rod on her boat to try to break the blockade 437 00:28:58,440 --> 00:29:03,799 and was promptly picked up by the Israel. Gender activists 438 00:29:03,839 --> 00:29:06,920 and feminists have also taken up the anti Israel mantle. 439 00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,160 This is how you end up with the ridiculous queers 440 00:29:11,160 --> 00:29:17,640 for Palestine thing. Right, feminists who you know, do not 441 00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:22,240 enjoy the rights of Israeli women or women in Israel. 442 00:29:22,279 --> 00:29:24,359 They do not enjoy those rights outside of Israel in 443 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:29,279 that region. Right, it doesn't make any any sense, right, 444 00:29:29,319 --> 00:29:32,119 So what's going on? Why would you have this Like 445 00:29:33,000 --> 00:29:36,960 Mamdani himself, who's a communist, you would think he would 446 00:29:37,839 --> 00:29:41,039 he would like the idea of the kibbutz. These these 447 00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:44,440 collective farms, that's what those that's what Hamas attacked. By 448 00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:48,160 the way, these were like the lefties in Israel that 449 00:29:48,279 --> 00:29:51,880 moved down to the border with Gaza in order to 450 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:55,440 help the Palestinians, right, gave them jobs and stuff, and 451 00:29:55,480 --> 00:30:00,400 they were on these communes, these little farming communes, and 452 00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:07,440 that's who the Pumas jihadists murdered. So back to the piece, 453 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,960 they say, there's a spirit that unites all of these 454 00:30:10,039 --> 00:30:16,720 seemingly incompatible ideas, and here's the idea, a deep hatred 455 00:30:17,119 --> 00:30:22,200 for the West. Right, the issue is never the issue. 456 00:30:22,279 --> 00:30:26,720 The issue is always the revolution. The revolution is to 457 00:30:26,839 --> 00:30:31,200 tear down Western civilization. That's at the heart of all 458 00:30:31,240 --> 00:30:38,079 of this. It's to destabilize, to divide and destroy. They 459 00:30:38,079 --> 00:30:40,720 go on to say, it's not a series of disparate causes, 460 00:30:40,759 --> 00:30:44,400 but an amalgamated movement to destroy the Western quote unquote 461 00:30:44,519 --> 00:30:52,440 establishment in all its manifestations, businesses, capitalism, institutions, nation states, 462 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:57,079 the nuclear family, organized religion, and all the foundations of 463 00:30:57,079 --> 00:31:01,039 Western civilization that have been built up over century. And 464 00:31:01,119 --> 00:31:06,720 believers don't make any secret of it anymore. At rallies 465 00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:11,200 they burn American flags right next to the burning Israeli flags, 466 00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,480 and they chant death to Israel, and they chant death 467 00:31:14,519 --> 00:31:18,480 to the West. Believe them when they tell you this people, 468 00:31:20,279 --> 00:31:26,119 this ideology or religion. I would say this communism. It 469 00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:30,440 is inherently destructive. It is not constructive. The fusion of 470 00:31:30,480 --> 00:31:34,319 the anti Israel movement and progressivism anti westernism has its 471 00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:38,200 roots in the USSR and has benefited from billions in 472 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,960 funding from Muslim countries. America's enemies have fostered those destructive 473 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:47,720 ideas for decades, and since the nineteen sixties, the postmodernist 474 00:31:48,079 --> 00:31:51,720 deconstructionist schools of thought have given it a veneer of 475 00:31:51,759 --> 00:31:56,640 academic legitimacy, describing the world through the simple binary oppressor 476 00:31:56,759 --> 00:32:01,400 versus oppressed Jews and the West. They're the your pressors, obviously, 477 00:32:02,039 --> 00:32:07,599 so they are the targets for deconstruction. That is, anti westernism, 478 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:13,240 anti Israel ideology came from the same laboratory exactly as 479 00:32:13,359 --> 00:32:18,319 the Soviets and their allies intended. The issue is never 480 00:32:18,359 --> 00:32:21,880 the issue. The issue is always the revolution. 481 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:24,359 Speaker 1: All right. 482 00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:26,720 Speaker 2: That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much 483 00:32:26,759 --> 00:32:28,839 for listening. I could not do the show without your 484 00:32:28,880 --> 00:32:31,640 support and the support of the businesses that advertise on 485 00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:34,400 the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too 486 00:32:34,480 --> 00:32:36,160 and tell them you heard it here. You can also 487 00:32:36,200 --> 00:32:38,799 become a patron at my Patreon page or go to 488 00:32:38,920 --> 00:32:42,640 thepetecleanershow dot com. 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