Fleeing Dems declare victory in retreat; NYC Marxist cheats the poor (08-13-2025--Hour3)

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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, they're gonna end up with a Marxist for mayor. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. 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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, if you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too, And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app, and it's a website, and it combines news from around the world in one place, so you can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. I put the link in the podcast description too. I started using ground News a few months ago and more recently chose to work with them as an affiliate because it lets me see clearly how stories get covered and by whom. 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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. Right why it was supply chain disruption. 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. 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. You know, stories are powerful. 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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. All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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