Mamdani sounds like the over-educated Marxist he is | Hour 2

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This is what whether it's critical race theory, whether it's critical gender theory, right, it's all this sort of Hegelian approach, which is to deconstruct you're in a constant state of destruction, to tear down the things. And Marx was a student. Of Hegel and mom Donnie is a student of that very same ideology that Marx first articulated in a series of books that have done more global damage than almost any other book and or series of books. So, and I know we had in the last hour, we had, you know, Mike who you know, tried to parse I think what mum Donnie was saying, and no, you're misinterpreting all of this, And no, I'm not misinterpreting what he did. It was very clear what the mayor of New York City did. It was you know, hey, I became an American a minute ago. And you know, America has this really checkered past, got some stuff right, But we're always in flux. We're always changing. And that's what makes us exceptional is that we we can always change. And no, that's that's not the thing that makes us exceptional. The thing that makes us exceptional, as I told Mike, as people have commented on the text line, is that we believe our rights are unalienable. They do not come from government, They come from the creator. They come from God. You are born with them. We all have them. That doesn't mean that everybody throughout all of American history has has been able to meet that standard. But we are exceptional as a nation because of that recognition. That's what unleashed the human potential in this country and then globally. And Mamdanie uses the same rhetorical mechanism that Obama does, even with that affected whisper thing that he did bad. Yeah, you really make it a point. I'm going to really reinforce this with the whisper, you know, it's just insufferable, But more specifically the mechanism he uses, which is to create this, uh, this caricature of the enemy. There are some who would say as Obama was, he would always do this. You know. Now some say blah blah blah blah blah. But I say, this much better thing, which everybody agrees with. But nobody is really. Taking the the position that he first attributed to the some people saying it's a straw man. Nobody's making these arguments to the past. And Mom Donnie does this with the quote powerful, who are the powerful? He doesn't he doesn't explicitly name any names. I assume it's the rich, right, I guess, he says, Oh, they try to divide us, and then he proceeds to divvy up Americans. You're the good ones and here are the bad ones. And I regret to inform you that he has offered his assessment of America, and he is disappointed, just like Obama used to always be disappointed in his fellow Americans. We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world, one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more. Bad guy. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see massed agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt streaked hands, those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone good. And we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead and the soft hands of a precious few. Okay, let's talk about some soft hands, shall we failed mister rapper. Why is it always these failed artists that embrace Marxism like this? You know, there's like there is this through line like Marx thought he was this great poet and author. We all know about Hitler and the painting and such. Right, Mamdanie tried his hand at wrapping unsuccessfully. This guy is this guy is a is a Nepo baby. He is he was born into wealth, right, both of his parents pulling in hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in their salaries as a Columbia University professor and uh and a documentary filmmaker. So who has the soft hands here? Who's actually building stuff? Here's the here's the dirty secret about Marxism. It doesn't actually build anything. Marxism as an ideology is a parasite. The only way that it can survive is to feed off the host of a successful society. It has to engorge itself on the blood of that civilization, on what was already created. It moves in and says, this is unfair the way this is going. So let's just centralize the wealth and then in order to make decisions about where we divvy up that wealth. Then we're going to have to have some people have some experts. I mean, they'll be experts obviously, and they'll make these decisions for us to make it more fair. And that of course carries with it the implicit sometimes explicit use of force. Now I don't know if caller mic is still listening, but I did offer him two things to go look into, because he seemed to be kind of whistling past the graveyard on the rise of the Democratic Socialists inside of the Democrat Party. And there were two points and I went over this in depth, went over the polling and stuff last week. But the. DSA platform is explicitly communistic. It is seize the means of production communistic. Okay. Number one, So if you want to know who you're in the tent with, go look at the dssay's platform and their stated mission. They're not hiding the ball on this, folks. They're saying, we are in the Democratic Party primaries in order to take over the party. James Carville has called them out on this right number one. Number Two, When you ask these DSA members what political philosophy they tend to agree with, the most Democratic Socialism comes in at like ten percent. That's it. Forty percent of them claim to be quote unquote anarchists, if they even know what that means. If you're an anarchist, by the way, you're not a socialist. If you're an actual anarchist where you don't want any government, Okay, then you don't want to empower a government to control the means of production. So I suspect they are what I call temporary anarchists. They just want some anarchy for a little bit of time so they can impose their statism, their Marxism, that's the idea. So yeah, you might want to look into who you're. In the tent with. All right. For over a year now, you've heard me talking about Create a Video. Great local company in mint Hill that has helped more than two million families preserve their memories by turning old photos, VHS, tapes, film and slides into lasting keepsakes. Now creative videos helping families and groups create brand new memories while they're traveling. 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Hello from each according to their means, like we know you can like lift up that shovel, buddy, We know you can get out into the field and plant some row crops. But no, there is a through line. There is a common through line this and I've talked about this many many times, that the revolution is always led by the halves versus the have mores, These nepo babies, these red diaper babies, right, they are always raging against basically their parents who from the quote unquote elite strata of the society. They're mad the babies, the nepo babies. They're mad that they have not gained access to that level of wealth or power, that they weren't welcomed into the halls of power or whatever. Because they don't have what it takes. They believe that they are owed something, and so when they don't just get it handed to them, then they they lash out. And there is probably something to this, to this economic data point, right, that you are coming from an upper middle class or upper class household and so you are raised in a certain level of wealth. There's probably guilt that is associated with that if you don't embrace the you know, the country club lifestyle or whatever, and you are embarrassed or you feel guilty about your privilege. So you have to like invent a struggle. That's the thing, you know, people, people who I mean, I believe it was Hamilton who said that which is achieved to easily is esteemed to lightly. Right. And so if you don't have to work for something, okay, think of it like this, Do you treat your car better then you treat a rental car, right, because that's your car and that's just a rental. So people when they have to struggle for something, it means more to them. And if you come from a life of pampered privilege, like Hassan Piker, another NEPO baby Kami the twitch streamer guy, right, self proclaimed communist and you know, espousing the virtues of Mao. So you come from this, this easy life where you have no you want for nothing, right, and there are probably especially when you're young, right, you you need there to be some bit of struggle, so you have some street cred. It's tough to act tough. It's tough to be a rapper talking about the mean streets of New York City and all of this, right if you're living in a multimillion dollar condo on Central Park, right, like, that's that's mom, Donnie. And so they take these these uh, these philosophies, these Marxist ideas, and they promote them as if I care about the lower uh the lower income classes, I care about the working people. Right, I'm doing all of this for you. I will be your champion. But he's he comes from the haves, not the have nots. And this has been the case in all of Marxist history. All of these people, they were not the poor people that rose up. They were the haves versus the have mores up the main wire, the main as in the state of Maine reporting Graham Platner cancels multiple scheduled town hall events as progressive allies tease another scandal is about to hit his campaign. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Well, it isn't a day that ends in why So, yeah, there has to be another grand platin or scandal. So we'll see, we'll see what that one is about, all right. So the last bit of sound here from zornmmdani's Independence Day speech where he offered his assessment of America. He's very disappointed in us. And there was one comment that he made there in the last sound by they played, where he said, a nation that has allowed such wealth to be held in the soft hands of a precious few, right, because he talked about the calloused hands, dirt street hands that built America and those are Americans and all of that, not the soft hands of a precious few. And you know that dude's got soft hands like you know that, right, dudes never held a job in his life literally, So, but it's the first part really of that sentence that rubbed me the wrong way because he says a nation that has allowed such wealth to be held in the hands of so few. Yeah, that's actually foundational, buddy. That is actually part of the exceptionalism of America is that you are not constrained by any king or a government that takes the fruits of your labor. What you are free to produce. And this is what the Marxist mind never really can rapid itself around, which is this idea that Marxism can only exist if there is production first. And Marxism destroys the desire to produce. That's why it fails every time. It goes against human nature. And so he's espousing this idea that the nation that has allowed people right, that's the pursuit of happiness. In fact, the Founders, and they probably didn't cover this in your naturalization classes, but they actually had this discussion at the time about the pursuit of happiness what that meant. And the original was property, that was the original, but they said the pursuit of happiness, it was more all encompassing. But this is what they were driving at, is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness that is more all encompassing than simply the accumulation of property. That was the point was that you could accumulate property. You could accumulate wealth, and there is no king that comes along and says to you that's too much, because that then unleashes human potential. All right, So here's the last minute and a half here. Yes, we see America in a health insurance industry that exploits the sick. But that is not all we see when we look for America all the bait. We see it too in the nurse who works a double shift and then stops on our way home to check on an ailing neighbor. Yes, we see America in corporate landlords, for whom negligence is a business model. We see it too. And the father who tucks his children into bed beneath a ceiling stained with leeks, who wakes before dawn to go to work and still believes his country can do better by his family. Good. Yes, we see America when we spend our tax dollars on bombs and bailouts, when we sell our elections for the highest bidder. Bad. Yet we see it just as clearly in every American who still believes this country belongs to we, the people. Good. We see America each time neighbors link arms with neighbors without asking how long they have lived here or what papers they have. As ice invades our neighborhoods, we see America each time those young and old stand in the beating rain or the stifling heat to cast their ballots good. We see America each time working people demand more, not just for themselves, but for their fellow Americans. So God, there are some who respond to those who ask for more from America with a simple refrain. Love it or leave it, they say. But patriotism has never been about pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous assent. It is every march let under the heavy sun. It is every protest held a decade before its time. Hmm, every every single march, like every one of them. What about the fiery but mostly peaceful riots, What about those? Are those? Also? Those are that's patriotism as well? Yeah? Somebody? Uh for good? Who do? I got a text here from somebody about whether or not the masked people invading our names Was he talking about Antifah? No, of course not. Those are the patriots now, he or whoever's running his social media account apparently tried to do a little clean up on Aisle COMI but he and they just couldn't. They just couldn't bring themselves to do it. So he's always got to throw in a dig. And so after he does this speech, they then put out a tweet. Today marks two hundred fifty years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation's independence. By the way, these were like the wealthiest people in the colonies, and they and like more than a few of them, lost their entire fortunes, a truth that feels self evident now, but was revolutionary then. What a privilege us Americans have? We Americans have to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What ant honor us new Yorkers have? We new Yorkers have. To look at to look out over our city's waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time. Oh, they weren't Americans when they first entered. Today, in all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent, because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it, which we don't have. That's what he says. All right, So there is a there's an AI model and thropics most expensive and intelligent model. The fable five is what it's called. And somebody on Twitter they put it, They said, hey, fable five, write a response to mom Donnie's speech as if it was George Washington delivering a letter or something. Okay, so Washington's AI response. Intelligence has reached me that you have lately seated yourself at my desk in the City Hall of New York, and that from this station, upon the eve of the two hundred fiftieth anniversary of our independence, you delivered an address to the citizens of that city. I have read it with attention. I confess I did not expect that these memorials would be employed in the service of principles so opposite to those by which I endeavored to govern my public life. And he who makes use of the memo of the memorials of the dead assumes an obligation to the principles for which they are remembered, which I thought was a great line, even if it's AI. It is upon that obligation, Sir, I now address you with a plainness the occasion demands. Let me first render what justice requires. Your account of the retreat from Brooklyn is correct in its facts. I was the last to leave that shore, and the deliverance was as providential as you described. Nor shall I quarrel with your praise of those who have passed through the narrows and hope of beginning anew. I have myself written that the bosom of America is open to receive not the opulent and respectable stranger only, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions. Had you stopped there, I should have had no cause to write. But you did not stop there, for having borrowed my desk, my city, and the memory of my retreat, you proceeded to employ them in the service of the very doctrine against which I spent the labor of my public life. Your address divides the people of America into two nations, the many whom you flatter, and the few, whom you teach. The many to abhor. You speak of soft hands and calloused hands, of men of immense fortune who have taken what the multitude have made. I have seen this rhetoric before it was old, when I was young. Yeah, this is canaanable stuff. Here it is the eternal grammar of the demagogue, under every government and in every age. And I warned my countrymen in the last address I ever gave them that the disorders and miseries of faction gradually incline the minds of men to seek security in the absolute power of an individual, and that cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men would ride that spirit to their own elevation upon the ruins of public liberty. I ask you, plainly, sir, when you teach the laborer that his prosperous neighbor is his enemy, whose elevation. Do you serve? The author of That's just part of the letter. It went on from there. The author of a book called Swift Voting America, Hans Menki, said, there are millions of people around the world whose greatest dream is to become American. They love and cherish this country from Afar. Yet a man who was given the extraordinary privilege of becoming an American citizen and then the extraordinary honor of leading America's largest city, still cannot bring himself to celebrate the nation that made both possible. Batya Ungar Sargun, she had a very good line in here in her piece at the I think this was well. This was at her website Batya dot us dot com, and she was just super offended by the whole speech. And she concluded by saying this, Americans are extremely generous people, but they draw the line when someone has been granted the gift of joining us and the immense privileges of American citizenship and an American education, and then turns around and from the supreme status that netted them, throws that gift back in our faces by insisting that America on its own is trash and it now needs them to reshape us in the image of the place they left to come here in order for us to achieve our destiny. She said, what makes America great? According to mom Donnie, and the only thing that makes it great is that it can be fundamentally changed by people like him. Fundamental transformation. You remember that line, Remember that phrase, I do It was offensive when it was first uttered in the speeches of one Barack Obama that he was there to fundamentally transform America. And the question that I always had, if you love something, why are you fundamentally transforming it? Fundamentally transforming something means it is no longer that thing. Why would you do that to something that you love? Right, He talks about this machine that grinds immigrants down. Did you know that half of the Fortune five hundred companies were started by immigrants or children of immigrants? Two hundred and thirty one companies of the Fortune five hundred started by immigrants for their children. Legal immigration built this country. There's a certain mindset of the people that come here legally. They want to be a part of this project because they understand what it is. The exceptionalism, that's the front door working the way it's supposed to. But that's not what we've been running for a while now, right, four years of an open border kind of blew that all up. The guy mom, Donnie even admitted out loud that America is exceptional in that speech, and then he spent the rest of the time explaining basically that it's not. On the one day the whole country stops to celebrate itself. He reached for the darkest story he could find, and this is what like this, this is how you know them because on the one day, one day, like you trash America every day of the year, but on the one day on its birthday and the two hundred and fiftieth at that you cannot restrain yourself. That tells me all I need to know about you. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. 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