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if you don't know what I'm about to reference, you
got to go back and listen to the end of
the last hour about a local judge that gave a
guy who ran a red light and killed a woman
four years ago, gave him a suspended sentence and that
was a judge.
Speaker 1: Hang on, let me get the press release. George C. Bell,
Superior Court judge.
Speaker 2: Got a text on the WBT text line driven by
Liberty Buick GMC from Brian who says Judge Bell is
a so called Republican. He is also a moron that
doesn't know the law. He is running for North Carolina
Court of Appeals and Brian is correct. According to ballot Pedia,
George Bell, Republican is a judge for Judicial District twenty
sixth C of the North Carolina Fifth Superior Court Division.
He assumed office January one, twenty nineteen. His current term
ends in twenty twenty six. He ran for election he
won in twenty eighteen. The North Carolina Superior Courts are
split into five divisions forty eight districts.
Speaker 1: And then it just tells you that he's got a
biography here.
Speaker 2: He got a BS and Business Management from Cornell in
two thousand and is jd from Regent University School of
Law in two thousand and three. He worked as a
law clerk to David PW and became a managing partner
at Bell and Bell Law Firm in two thousand and six.
He's a volunteer wrestling coach at Mooresville High School and
a volunteer soccer coach at Striker Soccer Center. And I
believe his area of law is.
Speaker 1: Let me see here. I think I just saw it was.
Speaker 2: Well. According to the AI synopsis, he handled traffic offenses,
DWI misdemeanors, felony, family law issues, and personal injury cases.
So that was the kind of law you practiced before
he became a judge. I don't know if that informs
his his rulings, his sentencing to let a guy who
murdered a fifty four year old woman with his vehicle
by running a red light at sixty seven miles an
hour through a thirty five zone and then claimed he
was under the influence of marijuana and LSD, which he
had taken the night before, twenty four hours prior, and like,
that's not how that works, guys.
Speaker 1: Trust me. Okay.
Speaker 2: Moving on a new poll from Harris X. It's a
polling out that finds that New York City mayoral the
New York City mayoral race is shaping up to be
a tight and competitive contest. I'm not so sure about that, okay.
And it was interesting because I saw different ways this
poll was framed by. First off, the press release from
the polling firm, which is what I'm reading from. This
is on PRNewswire dot com, which is just press releases.
You know, you posted the PR newswire. But then I
also saw sort of a crafting of a narrative that
came from the Republican in the race, Curtis Sliwa, who
is the founder of the Guardian Angels. Right, they are
the unarmed group of you know, people that like helped
to keep the streets of New York safe. They have
the green or sorry, they have the red berets, you know,
and they hold people until the cops come. They report
crimes and all that stuff. He's the founder of the
Guardian Angels. He's running in this mayoral race. He's a Republican,
so you'll recall the Jihati adjacent leftist commie zorn Mam Danny.
He cleared the Democrat primary and he beat Andrew Cuomo.
And I think there was like there was an there's
like one or two other Democrat candidates, and they did
ranked choice voting, which I am not in favor of this.
It's a convoluted method and it takes forever to count
up all the votes and you actually end up with
I think people that get in there when they shouldn't
actually have gotten in there. But anyway, that's how the
Democrats have chosen to run their primary. But now you
go to the general and in the general election, you've
got no prohibition against anybody who lost in a primary
from mounting an independent run. North Carolina prohibits this. If
you lose in a primary, you don't get to then
run in the general under a different party label. Okay,
New York does not have that prohibition, which is why
Andrew Cuomo is now going to run as an independent
because he lost in the Democrat primary, so now he's
going to run in the general as well, and that
now is going to split the vote again.
Speaker 1: So here's what the polling shows that where was I here?
Speaker 2: It's a competitive contest with assembly member because Zoran Mamdani
he's actually a member of the North Carolina Legislature. He's
an assemblyman the General Assembly. So he is statistically tied
with Cuomo, the former governor of New York, and Republican
candidate Curtis Sliwa in a four way race. Okay, so
they're all neck and neck, all three of these guys,
which tells me that if one of them were to
drop out, along with Mayor Eric Adams who's also running
as an independent, right, if there is a field clearing
effort and a unifying around an anti Mandanami sorry Mam
Danny candidate, then that's the way you probably defeat this guy.
But if you got four candidates in the running and
they're going to split the they're gonna split the votes,
and three of them are like the anti Zoron candidate.
You're splitting the anti Zoron vote. So, in a head
to head race between the current mayor, Eric Adams versus
Zoron Mamdani ma'm Danny leads. The poll shows Cuomo defeating
Mam Danny in a head to head race by fifteen points. So, like,
I don't know, like that would tell me that Cuomo
is the best shot to defeat this communist Jihati adjacent guy,
this silver spoon. He's a communist. I mean he like,
I've already gone over this before I went on vacation.
I you know, when he won the primary, we started,
you know, looking into this guy. And yeah, he says
stuff that me say, like literally, I'm not just saying
that because oh he's a leftist. No, No, he's like communist.
He talked about seizing the means of production. That's the goal.
The survey of five hundred and eighty five registered New
York City voters.
Speaker 1: So okay, well, now.
Speaker 2: Is this really a legit poll then, because it's not
likely voters, it's just voters, not to anybody who showed
up to get a driver's license and they register you
to vote. You know, in a four way race, mem
Danny is at twenty six percent, Cuomo twenty three percent,
Sliwa twenty two percent. But that's all within the margin
of error. Adams is at thirteen fifteen percent are undecided.
So Eric Adams is trailing very badly even in a
one to one. Adams needs to drop out. He needs
to drop out and let those votes go someplace else,
Let that support go somewhere else. See where that goes.
In a three way race without Adams, Cuomo is at
thirty one percent, ma'm danny at twenty nine and Sliwa
at twenty eight, Right, So that seems like if Eric
Adams drops out, most of that vote would go to Cuomo.
How badly do the leaders of New York City, like
the business leaders, the state leaders, right, how badly do
they want me'm danny out? Because if you want them
out bad enough, I think you might want to offer
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match up here in the New York City Mayor's race.
It's granted, it's I'm not going to put a lot
of faith in this thing, and I usually don't do
polling like this. I don't cover this kind of polling
because it's just a napshot, and people vote in different ways,
and what's the sample size and is it likely voters,
and so this one doesn't.
Speaker 1: It's not very.
Speaker 2: I would not say this is terribly credible at this point. However,
I look at trends, and so when I'm looking at
the breakdown of the numbers to see where voters that
were asked in this poll where they would move their
votes to, I think there is value in understanding what
would happen if all four of these candidates stay in
the race. You got ma'm Danny, who is the Democrat nominee.
You got Eric Adams, he's the current mayor, left the
Democrat Party when he knew he wasn't going to win
reelection and so he's running as an independent. You got
Andrew Cuomo who lost to ma'am Danny in the Democrat
primary and now turned around and says I'm going to
run in the general. And you've got Eric Adams or sorry,
Curtis Sliwa the Republican. And so if any of them
were to drop out, they tested these different scenarios and
if it's a four way race, Ma'm Danny wins, but
it's still close twenty six percent over Como's twenty three
Sliwa at twenty two, Adams distant thirteen percent. If Adams
isn't there, those votes tend to go to Como, and
now he wins by two points thirty one twenty nine
over Mam Danny. Sliwa is at twenty eight percent in
a three way race if Cuomo's not there, so you
just would have the Democrat, the Republican, and Eric Adams.
Mam Danny leads Sliwa by ten points thirty five to
twenty five, and Adams picks up a few points there.
Speaker 1: He comes in at nineteen.
Speaker 2: In head to head matchups, Ma'm danny beats Adams, but
he loses to Cuomo. He benefits the most if Cuomo
is not in the race. Cuomo gains the most, benefits
the most. If Adams is not in the race, he
would and he would win. Cuomo would win a straight
up head to head match up with Mam Danny, which
means that all those Republican votes in New York City
for Curtis Sliwa, virtually all of them would go to Cuomo.
Speaker 1: All right, So.
Speaker 2: Ma'm danny finally had his first meeting with the business
elites in New York City, and there are still some there,
at least for the time being, which is interesting because
Ma'm Danny has said he doesn't think any of them
should be allowed to be billionaires, but yet he needs
all of their money to pay for all the free
crap that he wants to give away, so people vote
for him. It's the thing about communism. You gotta you
vote your way into it, but you got to shoot
your way out. So Zora and Mehmdani, according to the
Wall Street Journal, said he would discourage the use of
the slogan globalize the Intifada. The headline, by the way,
on this Wall Street Journal piece is called Memdani clarifies
globalize the Intifada stance in meeting with business elites.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he he actually does not do that.
Speaker 2: This is one of those instances where the headline is
exactly the opposite of what the story says. Okay, because
he doesn't clarify, If anything, he muddies the stance. So
he says he will discourage the use of the slogan. Okay,
so we shouldn't say that, everybody. We shouldn't say that everybody.
He said, he's willing to discourage the specific language, but
not the idea behind it. So he's telling the business
elites that he will lie. I'll lie, and I just
won't use the term. I'm willing to discourage it. I'm
willing to tell people not to use it. Wink wink,
But I still believe it. Don't worry kill all the Jews,
because that's what that means. And anybody that tells you
different is either stupid or they are lying to you.
That's what globalized. The Indefada meets, because the Endefada was
when the Palestinians went around murdering people on buses and
in pizza shops and stuff by blowing themselves up. Okay,
that was the terror campaign called the Intifada. In a
roughly hour long meeting with some of New York City's
most powerful executives yesterday, Ma'm danny sought to diffuse an
issue that has prompted a betacklash from the business community
and beyond. Yeah, well, calling for a mass murder of
an entire religious minority does sometimes do that, especially when
you want to be elected by that minority. Mem Danny
is the Democrat nominee for New York City mayor. He
was questioned by a room of more than one hundred
executives at an event hosted by the Partnership for New
York City that is, an influential business group. The audience
included finance and real estate executives, high powered lawyers, even
a handful of billionaires. Many an attendance said they walked
away impressed by the thirty three year old candidates' ability
to work a crowd, but no more comfortable with his ideas. Yeah,
nor should you be Nor should you be comfortable with communism.
You should not be comfortable with it. Once you get
comfortable with communism, you get very uncomfortable soon thereafter. That's
kind of Communism's jam.
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Floyd who says bring back Rudy Giuliani to New York
City and Barry texts in saying I think Adams dropping
out is a great idea. Eric Adams could endorse one
of the other candidates on the way out. Of course,
Adams presumably would not endorse mem Danny so glad I'm
not a city of New Yorker, well, a resident of Gotham,
A Gothamist, shall we say, Yeah, I would be terrified
if I lived in New York City, I would be
terrified that this guy is going to win. And maybe
this is the kind of candidacy that inspires people to
get more involved and vote against him and support other
candidates and whatever. Maybe we'll see. He met yesterday, ma'm danny,
the communist Islamist dude. He met with like a hundred
of the top leaders in New York City, this very
influential group called the Partnership for New York City, and
one attendee told The Wall Street Journal afterwards, quote, it
could have been a lot worse, which isn't exactly It's
not exactly a I don't know, a rising stamp of approval,
I guess you'd say. Pfiser chief executive Officer Albert Borla
and Robert Speyer, who is the CEO of the real
estate firm Tishman Speyer. They moderated the event, which also
included questions from the audience. Borla, Albert Borla, the Pfiser CEO,
is the son of Holocaust survivors, and he confronted Mam
Danny about the phrase globalize the Intifada, which Memdani has used.
And as the Wall Street Journal reports it, they say
globalize the Intifada, which some see as a call for
violence against Jews. Yes, that would be Jiehattists, right, Palestinians.
They use the term to call for violence against Jews.
And that's why when you hear people say it, you
should assume that they are talking about globalizing violence against Jews.
Like what we saw in Colorado where that Egyptian guy
firebomb did a makeshift flamethrower to attack a bunch of
pro Israel people. That's globalizing the Intifada. The guy who
murdered the two Israeli embassy employees after they went to
some you know, piece of at the museum and he
shoots them dead in the street, saying free Palestine. Yes,
that's globalizing the Intifada. Now, just because you don't want
to think that that's what you're saying when you're saying it,
because I'm not calling for violence, I'm just saying we
need to rise up against the oppressor. Well, what did
you think globalized the Intefada meant? To quote some prominent
Twitter users pro Palestine Twitter users after the double murder
of the Israeli embassy workers, this is what they mean.
This is what the Palestinians meant. It's what the PLO meant.
It's what Hamas means. Globalizing the Intafada means killing Jews
everywhere you find them all around the world. In a
response that lasted several minutes to this question, mem Dani
said that for him, the phrase means protest against the
Israeli occupation of Gaza by killing Jews. That's that's what
it means. It's not simply. This is the same line
of crap that they fed us about the use of
the word jihad, and they try to tell us that
jihad means something other than the way it is used
by jihadists when they say they're on a jihod. What
does that mean? It means to kill the unbelievers? Right,
But no, no, no, When Western folks start picking up
on this use of the term and we're like, whoa, whoa, whoa,
Wait a minute, what do you mean you're going to
engage in jihad against the West?
Speaker 1: What are you talking about there? And oh no, no,
it just means a personal struggle. It's a personal struggle.
Speaker 2: If you bought that line of crap, you might buy
this line of crap. I do not, I do not,
don't whiz on my boots and tell me it's raining. Okay,
you're using that term, and I know what the term means.
So he says in response to this, in response to
this question from the son of Holocaust survivors, that he's
willing to discourage the specific language, but not the idea
behind it. Well, then just come up with a different slogan, buddy.
You can keep saying end the occupation. Just say that.
Why wouldn't you say that? Why wouldn't you say end
the occupation? If you say that, globalize the Intifada means
end the Israeli occupation of Gaza.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you just say that?
Speaker 2: Why would you say globalize the into fada?
Speaker 1: Right? Because it means something else.
Speaker 2: See when you want to say and the occupation, that
leaves open the door for peace, right Lbalizing the Intifada
means a call for murder, murder of civilian Jews. That's
what that was, Ma'm Danny at one point said that
he's posted a lot on social media over the years
and that viewpoints can change. Not that his half.
Speaker 1: He didn't say that.
Speaker 2: He just said, I posted a lot of stuff, and
you know viewpoints can change. I mean, mine haven't but
they can change, he said, they can. They can also
be taken out of context, not that they were right.
He's he's not made any claims that I've seen that
his views have in a Barack Obama style way, that
they've evolved, like okay, fine, you know, I used to
think we should kill all the Jews. Now it's just half.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: Like he hasn't He hasn't offered any kind of explanation
as to how those viewpoints may have changed or how
he was taken out of context. He asked the alle
audience not to hold every old tweet against him. In
other words, don't hold him accountable for stuff he has said,
particularly the stuff calling for the murder of Jews like that.
That's what he told these people. I don't know if
they're going to buy it. These are very powerful, influential
and I would assume some of them might even be smart,
smart people.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 2: They may buy it, they may not. I would not
buy it. Cuomo is not leaving the race with a
field that executives worry is unlikely to narrow. Some of
them in the meaning at the meeting are now more
focused on influencing who Mendani might include in his administration.
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There was a piece at National Review by Mark Pinkert
and Susan Green. Pinkert and Green are litigation and appellate
partners at the law firm Holtzmann Vogel. Pinkert works in
Miami and Green works in New York, and they wrote.
Speaker 1: A piece.
Speaker 2: Which should sound the highlights here should sound familiar. I'm
just going to give you the highlights of it. I
try to talk about, like all of my shows and
all of my topics, I'm usually talking about ideas, except
with like the Sheriff, but like mostly it's about ideas,
the stuff that's upstream of like the policy that we
see or the behaviors that we see, and so there's
something strange happening, they write in the social justice movements
du jour, they have all been fused with anti Israel activism. Right,
you got the anti ice pro tests, you got the
anti and the rioters in Los Angeles, environmental activists, anti capitalists, feminists,
New York City mayoral candidate.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 2: At this point, the anti Israel movement has become fully
intertwined with every progressive movement in ways that seem not
only counterintuitive but fundamentally contradictory. They then start documenting each
of these different categories, like the La riots and among
the sea of Mexican flags, there were just as many,
if not more, Palestinian flags and catheas. Which are the
looks like the tablecloth thing that people wrap around their
head and neck, right, like that that garment that's a
fashion accessory for people. Now on the left, it's like
a Shagua Vara shirt.
Speaker 1: You got Greta Thuneberg hoh dare you?
Speaker 2: You've got her trying to crush Zionism and you know
Rod on her boat to try to break the blockade
and was promptly picked up by the Israel. Gender activists
and feminists have also taken up the anti Israel mantle.
This is how you end up with the ridiculous queers
for Palestine thing. Right, feminists who you know, do not
enjoy the rights of Israeli women or women in Israel.
They do not enjoy those rights outside of Israel in
that region. Right, it doesn't make any any sense, right,
So what's going on? Why would you have this Like
Mamdani himself, who's a communist, you would think he would
he would like the idea of the kibbutz. These these
collective farms, that's what those that's what Hamas attacked. By
the way, these were like the lefties in Israel that
moved down to the border with Gaza in order to
help the Palestinians, right, gave them jobs and stuff, and
they were on these communes, these little farming communes, and
that's who the Pumas jihadists murdered. So back to the piece,
they say, there's a spirit that unites all of these
seemingly incompatible ideas, and here's the idea, a deep hatred
for the West. Right, the issue is never the issue.
The issue is always the revolution. The revolution is to
tear down Western civilization. That's at the heart of all
of this. It's to destabilize, to divide and destroy. They
go on to say, it's not a series of disparate causes,
but an amalgamated movement to destroy the Western quote unquote
establishment in all its manifestations, businesses, capitalism, institutions, nation states,
the nuclear family, organized religion, and all the foundations of
Western civilization that have been built up over century. And
believers don't make any secret of it anymore. At rallies
they burn American flags right next to the burning Israeli flags,
and they chant death to Israel, and they chant death
to the West. Believe them when they tell you this people,
this ideology or religion. I would say this communism. It
is inherently destructive. It is not constructive. The fusion of
the anti Israel movement and progressivism anti westernism has its
roots in the USSR and has benefited from billions in
funding from Muslim countries. America's enemies have fostered those destructive
ideas for decades, and since the nineteen sixties, the postmodernist
deconstructionist schools of thought have given it a veneer of
academic legitimacy, describing the world through the simple binary oppressor
versus oppressed Jews and the West. They're the your pressors, obviously,
so they are the targets for deconstruction. That is, anti westernism,
anti Israel ideology came from the same laboratory exactly as
the Soviets and their allies intended. The issue is never
the issue. The issue is always the revolution.
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