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your support. Give it up for the education system. Everybody.
Total victory in New York City last night. Oh my gosh,
K twelve and higher ed must be so proud. This
is what you wanted, you got it. Be proud of it.
News Talk eleven, ten ninety nine three WBT Pete Calendar here. Yes, Yes,
the New York City mayor's primary in the Democrat party
which is now obviously captured by the socialists because the
socialist Democrat or Democrat socialist, whatever you want to call it,
just one the primary for the mayor's race in New
York City. And it really is a testament to the
quote education and what happens when you have a government
run system that prioritizes activism and the revolution, you get
revolutionaries and activists and that's what you got, and now
you're gonna get it good and hard, lots of it.
Can't wait to see the breadlines at your government run
grocery stores that your NEPO baby mayor entitled brat Jie
Hottest Adjacent Kami is going to give you. But you're
gonna pay for going to pay for it, and then
you're going to keep paying for it because it's free. Yeah.
Also your transit system, that's going to be fun to
watch collapse, right, not like a lot of people use that,
Like New York has the highest ridership numbers of any
any metropolitan transportation system. So that's going to be fun
when he makes that all free for you, quote free.
This is a man thirty three years old. This is
a guy who believes capitalism is theft. He is now
going to be the mayor of America's financial capital. What
could go wrong? By the way, Charlotte Banks, if you
are an employee right now at a Charlotte area banking institution,
got an idea for you. If you are not the
person to make this call, you need to get it
in front of somebody who may this call you need
to be recruiting heavily from Wall Street. You guys need
to be making all sorts of overtures, all all sorts
of contract offers to people working in New York City
right now. Just bombard them, hire your headhunters, go get them,
bring them here, because we're the second largest financial capital
right well we yeah, we became that after we we
bought Bank of Earth, got them out of San Francisco.
See that Charlotte saved all those bankers from San Francisco
before that collapse. And now New York voting to to
do a San Francisco style suicide for themselves. Now we
can go get a bunch of them and bring them here.
What do you say, so you could totally take that idea.
Just might want to recommend some sort of screening that
might go on there with the candidates that you do
bring to the Queen City, because we do not need
any of the people that voted for this zoron mem Danny.
We don't need his supporters coming here. We want to
get everybody that voted against him or that didn't even
vote in the Democrat primary. We want those people to come.
This guy and I say the word communist. And I'm
not saying that, like, oh, ye're just a dirty comedy.
I'm not saying it. I mean he is a dirty comedy. Well,
I do think he bathes because he's rich. He's a
Nepo baby. Yeah. One of his parents I think it's
his father is a professor. You want to take a
guest where that's right? Columbia University, I know, because of
course it had to be Columbia University. Dude is a
self avowed socialist, which is what communists call themselves because
they know the word communist has such terrible baggage, namely
the one hundred million and dead bodies attached to this
evil ideology, so they call themselves socialists because it sounds better.
And look, they're European socialists. It's Look, it's totally fine.
Home values on Long Island probably going to skyrocket as
people flee New York City Florida as well. The governor Florida,
Ron DeSantis went to Twitter and made a comment about
how they're going to have this, you know and more
a greater influx of more people coming from New York
down to Florida. But also, you know, we're going to
see financial cities like ours here in Charlotte, but other
you know, fast growing regions and cities and states around
the country are probably also going to see more net migration.
It's just sad, but I don't think they learn without
the pain. And these I saw a video just reposted
the video of when it was announced that this guy,
ma'am Danny had won. And it was a video from
the floor among his supporters, and so they're all like
cheering and going crazy. They finally have won, right, we won.
Now we're going to get to implement all of our socialism. Yes.
And what is notable about the video, namely the participants
in the video. The people that you see in the video,
they're all white, which have you been to New York City?
That is not exactly the predominant demographic for the Democrat Party. See,
but this is the socialist wing of the Democrat Party
which is ascendant in the Democrat Party. Why see my
initial comments about the education system. When you Indoctrin eight
kids that communism is cool and capitalism is theft, as
this guy says, you cannot be surprised when the little
activists that you have trained up now want the power
that you thought they were going to help protect for
you see, when you train up your street thugs, right,
your little Red Guard army, when you bring those people
into the party and you offer them the ability to
sniff the throne, they eventually want the throne. And that's
what we just saw. The establishment. And don't get me wrong,
I've I've got some commentary for the establishment Democrats as well.
You reap what you sew. Okay, you guys are just
as much to blame because all of this that we
just saw in New York City, this mayor's race, these
are the fruits of your labor. You built this. One
of the only things socialists build, actually is chaos. That's
what they create, chaos. This from the New York Post.
Socialist Zorn Mehmdani's stunning victory over three term ex Governor
Andrew Cuomo in the mayoral primary is quote a political
earthquake that will pressure the National Democrat Party to move
further left. According to political analysts, there's a guy quoted.
I think it's a guy, Basil Smickel or Smichel. He
says it's an important moment in political history. Ma'm Danny's
victory provides a moment for progressives and younger voters to
shape the future of the Democrat Party. There is no doubt.
Lee Maheringov, director of the Merriston Institute for Public Opinion,
said it's a political earthquake, an unknown Defeating Andrew Cuomo
is a changing of the guard. More Democrat voters are
younger and their views have to be taken into account.
I've been talking about this for years. I've been calling
the Democrats the Elysium Party for years. No better example
of it than what we just saw. The uber wealthy
and the affluent, white female liberals or the awfls, the awfls,
the awfuls. They are what gave this guy his victory.
People with the college degrees and white upper middle class
and above. That was his base, the working crowd. They
voted for Cuomo and they lost. Now there's still a
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that'll last a lifetime. I got a message from Mark
on Twitter who says, I saw an awful. That's an
affluent white female liberal awfl I saw an awful on
Twitter this morning, saying how excited she was because now
they can actually show how well socialism works. I'm looking
forward to it as well. It's finally gonna really be tried. Everybody.
Oh my gosh, it's so amazing. Transport Workers Union president
John Samuelson said, quote, the results of this primary are epic.
The Transport Workers Union was one of the few labor unions,
and he was like one of the only labor leaders
to pay Mamdanie any mind whatsoever. Most of the other
unions and leaders back to Andrew Cuomo. Ma'm denny's economic
populist proposals to make life more affordable by soaking the
rich with higher taxes to pay for freebies resonated with
blue collar voters, including bus and subway workers. He represents.
According to him, now, according to the exit polling, that's
not true. It appealed to people who have guilt. They
have guilt about their wealth. They believe the Western civilization
and America specifically, is inherently systemically institutionally racist and sexist
and depressive, and so they want to give away the
wealth to I mean other people's wealth, to the less
fortunate and the oppressed. Right, this is a massive experiment
in virtue signaling or suicidal empathy, if you will. Now
New York Post reports that Andrew Cuomo is just the
latest scandal scarred candidate to fail in a comeback bid
after resigning as governor. I mean it was a long
time ago. Remember it was way back in twenty twenty one,
so nobody remembers that when he was facing sexual misconduct accusations,
which he denied. This was the guy that the establishment
Democrats put up to run. This was the guy Andrew Cuomo.
Andrew Cuomo had so besmirched his reputation and his legacy.
It wasn't just the sexual harassment or misconduct accusations. He
had angered teachers and their unions for not giving them
everything they wanted every time they demanded it. He had, remember,
locked everybody down as governor and may or may not
have killed a couple thousand elderly people with his policy
locking all of the nursing homes. But he's also old, right,
He's part of this like sort of dynasty thing that
the Democrats have going on in their party, and maybe
in years past he may have he may have been
able to pull this out. Maybe, but I don't think.
I don't think after Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, the coup
against Biden and the the installation of Kamala Harris, right,
the rigging of the primary against Bernie Sanders, I don't think.
Like I think a lot of younger Democrats are really
mad that they don't actually get to practice the democracy
that the establishment people keep harping on. Also, Cuomo ran
a pretty bad campaign. He focused almost entirely on Trump,
and that's I mean, that might get you a job
as like the Manhattan prosecutor or something, but it didn't help.
You're not talking to voters about stuff that actually matters
to them. Right, they may want to appoint a DA
that's going to go after Donald Trump and you know,
charge him with hundreds of crimes, so then you can
run around saying he's a convicted felon, Like that's fine
for a DA, but for the mayor, you want somebody
who understands the challenges you have, and that's somebody you
want in that position. Of course, if you're outnumbered by awfuls,
well you're out of luck. So you might want to
move out of New York City because they just keep
they just keep electing worse and worse candidates. You may
recall there were other defeated candidates that were trying comebacks,
like remember this guy, Elliot Spitzer, Remember that guy Client
number nine, He tried to come back. It did not
go well. Who else? Oh, in this very election last night,
Anthony Wiener, he was trying to come back too. He
was running for a seat on the New York City
City Council. And yeah, he did not fare very very
well either. He lost to his pretty flaccid performance for Wiener.
What else do we have? Oh? One Democrat party source
said that a Mam Danny victory will cause headaches for
other party incumbents. Fellow Democrats socialists may feel emboldened to
challenge Democrat incumbents for Congress, such as Dan Goldman and
Jerry Nadler. And I am here for it. Seriously, Democrats,
congratulations on your victory. You have earned all of this,
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you are saying that Wiener failed to perform last night.
I yes, he did. He absolutely did. It happens to
a lot of guys. It's okay, John, another John up
in Jersey, says, not just anger at the legacy candidates,
the people voted for free everything as well as defunding
the police. I pray the middle and lower class folks
who need to escape are able to do so. No, see,
they never can. The Holy POLOI they're always trapped, you know,
the uber wealthy that live up in you know, Westchester,
like where AOC came from. She's not a Queen's girl.
She came from Westchester, okay, but being a Long Island
or anything north of the Bronx is Canada in my mind,
and that's north of the Bronx. Oh she claims to
be a Bronx. Was it a Queen's girl or a
Bronx girl? I don't even remember. It's a lie though,
it's a lie either way. Zorn kowame Mamdani, that's who
just won the Democrat primary for mayor of New York City,
self avowed socialist, ran as a Democrat socialist in a tweet.
I don't know from when this is. I think it
was probably around the summer of fiery but mostly peaceful
protests of love. He says. We don't need an investigation
to know that the New York Police Department is racist,
anti queer, and a major threat to public safety. What
we need to do is defund the NYPD. That's who
is now in charge. Bill Malugin from Fox News, citing
some of the things that Ma'm Danny has previously called for.
Besides abolishing NYPD, he also would very much like to
abu prisons, abolish medical bills, abolish private health insurance, ban
all guns, legalized prostitution, create safe injection sites so you'll
be able to go to a safe zone to shoot up.
The end of cash bail, decriminalization of all drug possession,
the ending of or abolishing of sentencing enhancements, which is,
you know, when you're a repeat, repeat offender, that kind
of thing like that becomes then an enhancement to your sentence,
whereas if you were a first time offender, it only
would have been this one sentence, like oh, you would
get you know, a year, but you know, you've committed
seventy thousand crimes, and so now they're going to give
you a year and a half. That's an enhancement, right.
And he also of course wants to end all cooperation
with ICE because you, as we are well aware, is
never a target for terrorists who come into the country illegally. Right.
He also wants to raise the minimum wage to thirty
dollars an hour. He wants to pay for all of
this stuff by increasing the taxes on corporations as well
as the really rich like his parents. Probably this is yeah,
this is a logan. Dobson used to work for Senator
Corey Gardner, Republican, the last Republican senator out of Colorado.
He says, a core tenet of socialism is to have
lots of rules so that the socialists can decide who
gets punished for breaking them and who does not. He's
exactly right. Billy Binyon. He is a reporter at a
libertarian magazine. He says, a lot of people say Andrew
Cuomo's career should have ended with his sexual harassment scandal,
and that was bad, but it should have ended before that,
when he altered data and lied to taxpayers after his
policies helped kill a bunch of old people. It's kind
of wild that isn't seen as the final straw. The
problem for guys now like Cuomo, these party establishment folks,
is that they have raised up a generation of leftist
activists that proved very useful when they were trying to
exert pressure on their enemy, Donald Trump, and to a
lesser extent, all Republicans, the whole basket of deplorables and such.
But when you are seen as insufficiently fighting for your side,
and you are then rigging your colonel party processes in
order to maintain your grip and your fellow establishment candidates
grip on the party apparatus, those shock troops that you
deployed against, you know, cops and ice agents and Republicans
in general, they will now take the power from you.
I am reminded the first time I saw this happen,
and it wasn't violent or anything like that. But the
first time I saw this happen was up in Ashville.
I know, it's that's a total shock, right, But we
saw it happen in Ashville, and it was this little race.
It was for the register of deeds, a race that
nobody ever really cares about, you know, like nobody knows
who the register of deeds is. They don't know what
they do whatever. There was a guy who was the
register of deed for a very very very long time.
I'm trying to remember his name. Now I think it
was like auto something, but big time powerbroker DEMOC party
had been you know, his part, his family. I think
they had been, you know, involved in Democrat Party politics
and governance and such for decades, like a generational establishment
Democrat kind of a guy, but more probably of like
a blue dog Democrat. And he retires and he recommends
as his replacement his number two, this woman who had
been in the register of Deed's office for almost as long,
so she knew what she was doing, right, and he
said she's qualified to, you know, to take this over.
She should be the pick. Well, the Democrats have an
internal vote on the whole thing and she loses. She
then challenges the guy that she lost to and loses
again in the race. The guy she lost to Drew Reisinger,
who was one of these leftist activist uh you know,
silver spoon kids, the New Guard, if you will. And
I pointed this out at the time. It's the very
same thing that we're seeing here, which is that Democrats
built their machinery to oppose the Republicans. Right. The problem
is that that machinery for them, once they lose control
of it from the inside, then you're done, You're done.
They because they thought the machine would protect them from Republicans.
But the Republicans, like the Republican voters, they all left
Asheville right. They moved outside of the county. They fled
to the surrounding counties, much like we see here in Charlotte.
A lot of Republicans moved to Union in Gaston County,
Iredale County, Caparis County because they don't want to live
under the Democrat state. And what you are then left
with is this internal battle. We see it on the
Charlotte City Council on Monday night. We'll get into that tomorrow.
We've got some audio that I need to pull from
the occurred at the very end of the meeting, so
I haven't had time to pull it all off. But
it's this. It's another example of this dynamic, is that
you build this machinery. I would submit it's sort of
an anti democratic machinery. It's a political machine. And when
you lose control of the internal apparatus, then you're done.
You don't get to stay in power because you're not
leftist enough, you're not young enough, you're not fill in
the blank enough, whatever it may be. Whatever the activist
wing is elevating as its primary criteria. Right, are you
non binary? Are you a bipock? Right? Are are you
some sort of appressed class? And God help you if
you stray off on any one of the litmus test
issues for the leftist wing. And that's difficult for logical
or rational blue dog conservative Democrats because the left keeps
changing what the litmus test criteria are because the issue
is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution.
And so if you're not down with the revolution, if
you still harbor some affinity for America, for the free markets,
for patriotism, for the military, for whatever, and the leftists say, no, no, no,
that's an institutional racist entity. You can't like that anymore.
And you made comments about it in the past where
you were supportive of it, So that means you're out.
What does Governor Kathy Hulkeel do now? Up in New York?
Does she endorse mem Danny as the Democrat nominee? What
does Chuck Schumer do this? According to Democrats sources talking
to The New York Post in twenty twenty one, Hochel
stayed neutral in the mayor's race in Buffalo when the
incumbent Byron Brown lost to the Democrats socialist India Walton
in that in the party's primary. Brown then one re
election though in a general election Landslide as a write
in candidate. Do we see something like that happen in
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guess who is elated elated over the gie hottest adjacent
commie that just won the Democrat primary up in New
York City. It's it's somebody in North Carolina. It's somebody
who's a Democrat. I'm narrowing it down. See if you
can guess she's Breezy. There's a big, big hint right there.
I mean if you're on Twitter, because she goes by
a Breezy Clayton and is Anderson Clayton, y'all, and she
cusses that's how she wins back the rural vote. Yes, yes,
she is the chair of the North Carolina Democrat Party.
And she tweeted out I DK which I don't know.
I don't know about y'all. See there it is, there's
another rural vote. Every time Breezy Clayton says y'all, an
angel gets his wings. I don't know about y'all, but
I regained a lot of hope last night. And see
municipal elections here we come. So Democrats heads up. Your
chair of your party would very much like to see
socialists knock off establishment moderate if you can call them that,
more palatable democrats. She wants to take your party further
to the left. She wants the socialists to win. She's
very excited about it. That's who you guys have as
your chair. You might want to do something about that, unless,
of course, you think that you can all of these
cities into socialist hellholes. I mean, sorry, Utopias. Sorry, Utopia's
still ma'm danny's leftist vision. Again. This is the New
York Post article ma'm danny's leftist vision on public safety
and strident opposition to Israel may not play as well
in the general election as in the primary. Keep in mind,
by the way, New York City has the largest Jewish
population of any city on the planet outside of Israel.
There are more Jews living in New York City than
anywhere else besides Israel, which kind of blows up that hole.
The Jews control everything, narrative, I think, right, if you
just got some anti Semite that's now the mayor of
the city, I don't know I got a message here.
I'm not sure if he has a Kathia, but I
would if I had to guess, I would say definitely. Oh, yes, Sean.
He wants the government to take over the grocery stores,
so all of the whole foods will now become some foods.
I think that's where that heads. But don't count out
Eric Adams though I'm serious. He's still in the race.
He wasn't because he left the Democrat Party. He's running
as an independent. We'll see how that works out for him.
There's also a Republican in the race, that's Curtis Sliwa,
who could either one of them could benefit from them.
Danny's primary victory over Cuomo. Now Cuomo could also run
there's another ballot that he or or a party's ballot
that he could jump onto run as another member of
another party or something. North Carolina you can't do that.
If you lose in a primary, you cannot run then
in the general under another party name. So New York
does not have that restriction. So Cuomo could then make
another run for it. I think that would be very,
very stupid. Cuomo's people, his voters, his donors, they need
to put their money and their votes behind somebody other
than Mendemi. Other than Cuomo. Because Adams is saddled by
his own corruption scandals. Despite federal charges being dropped, he
can run as the more moderate, law and order and
fiscally responsible candidate. He can cite a drop in crime
and an improved post COVID nineteen pandemic economy. Curtis Sliwick
can make the same argument. He was actually the founder
of the Guardian Angels. There's also another guy named Jim Walden.
I don't believe he owns any woods, but he's also running.
He's an independent. Yeah, Cuomo could also run on an
independent Fight and Deliver ballot line, but many supporters may
now switch to Mandemy as he's the Democrat nominee. So
it's all still a in the air for as far
as predictions go, although if you look at the betting markets,
Mendemmi is the odds on favorite to win in November,
and then New York City will get exactly what it deserves.
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