New York City's commie mayor just can't help but hate America | Hour 1

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Picked the the hottest days of the century to go out and do yard work just to make me feel alive. I mean, if I survive, right, but then when I like, when I come to then it's like yes, you know. No, I was just doing some like some irrigation work, some hose work, that kind of stuff, and always needed some other part. Didn't figure that part. Oh, I didn't know I needed this thing. Yeah. Anyway, So for a guy who is speed running the American dream, Zora and Mom Donnie sure doesn't seem to understand what it is. And I don't know if you caught any of this, probably not because you're not a New York City resident. But this is the uh. He's the bright, new shiny object for the Democrats, right, he is the future of the Democrat Party. He's just gotten a bunch of his people. What is he up to now, four or five different socialists that he has been endorsing and helping, you know, get through the Democrat primary is in a hostile takeover of that party. So this guy Zorn delivers a pretty weird just from an optic standpoint, It was a weird speech, you know what. It reminded me of the response speeches to the State of the Union addresses. You know how those things are always sort of like weird, just like the vibe is off right, because you're coming off of a presidential address in the capital right, with way too much applause every other second, right, and like just the pageantry of that thing. And it's just a. Very big speech, right, and then you get you know, like Marco Rubio coming out and drinking water. Now, oh my gosh, it's a scandal, he's drinking water. Right. Anyway, it was weird optics. He's sitting at a desk. He's got five people on either side of him that you know, diversity is our strength, and so they've got all these different types of people. They are all recently naturalized citizens, right, and they all have the little handheld American flags. But they're all looking like they're they're caught in a hostage video or something. They're just like staring straight ahead. They're not moving, they're not reacting. It's very weird, by the way, for people who are curious George Washington's desk that mom Donnie sat behind. People thought that it was turned around so you could see all the drawers, but no, no, as I went and researched, it's a dual desk. There are drawers on the other side of the desk as well. So this way you could work. You could have two people at the desk working basically it's a shared desk, so it looked but again it looked weird because like people don't have those kinds of desks. That's not a normal thing in this day and age. So people looked at this and thought, why is he sitting backwards at the desk? Right? So I've got some soundbites for you, because, as I always say, the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution. And my god, this guy just cannot help himself. He's got to crap on America, even on its birthday, especially on its birthday, I guess. So he started off with what I interpreted as basically a land acknowledgment of sorts. Good morning, my fellow Americans. Season after season, year after year, the tides have come in and out of New York Harbor, long before the name New York had ever been spoken. Lenape Dugouts crossed these currents. It was on these waters the tall masts crested the horizon, captained by explorers like Verrazano and Hudson, after whom we've named our bridges and rivers. And ever since, ships full of travelers weary from long journeys have passed through the narrows the winds of the Atlantic at their backs. When those passengers lifted their heads to glimpse what lies just beyond the waves, what did they see? They saw land lush and teeming with life. They saw men waiting at the docks to take them into bondageh They saw tenements rife with squalor. They saw industry rumbling with activity, steam and smoke rising, a city on the move. All I just want to pause real quick, tenements of squalor and all of that. Yeah, life was very, very hard one hundred years ago. And here's the thing that was a better life. That was a better life than people were leaving. That's why they left, right. This is why last week I mentioned the in comparison to what in comparison to our standards, Yes, squalor, in comparison to what they fled. This was the Golden Land, the promised land. They saw a towering monument to freedom, her torch glowing worldwide welcome. They saw in New York City, they saw America. Tomorrow, our nation marks two hundred and fifty years since we declared our independence, two hundred and fifty years of a grand experiment in self governance, an experiment so audacious that some in seventeen seventy six doubted it would last more than a few years, let alone a quarter of a millennium. From Lexington to Los Angeles, Selma to Seneca Falls, Morrisania to Midwood, Americans will come together for a day, just as we do each year. Families will gather around the grill, Fireworks will fill the night sky. This will be no ordinary day of celebration. Two hundred and fifty years presents a rare opportunity for more than three hundred and forty million people to turn together, both towards one another and towards ourselves, to take measure of who we are as a nation. When we look at America? What do we see here at City Hall? As I sit behind George Washington's desk alongside new Americans who came to this country, I cannot see all of America, But like so many who came before, I can see New York City. The city I see today looks very different than the one that greeted George Washington in July of seventeen seventy six. Our city simmered under the yoke of oppression. The British had imposed a colonial rule, so repressive. The two hundred and fifty years ago, eighty miles south, a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed their names on a document declaring truths that feel self evident now, but we're revolutionary, then establishing the ideals our nation still strives to fulfill. The British did not take it well. War broke out. All right, so far not terrible, right, I mean, so far it's not terrible. I'm not saying it's particularly great. There's a couple of digs in there, you know. But he is a democratic socialist, so like I expect this will turn in the in the obvious direction, which it does. Okay, just spoiler alert, it totally does. He starts to then shift focus from those uniting principles to how terrible America has been, and that's why we need to have a lot more immigrants. They are the ones that are gonna save us. That's that was the focus of his speech, or, as The New York Times headlined it, mom Donnie says, blind patriotism ignores the nation's flaws and inequality. 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The Mayor of New York City gave a speech on America's Birthday day before really started off not terrible, but then he started to shift focus towards immigration in the eighteen hundreds, And of course, how you know terrible America was? The harbor was busy those years. The ships poured in from around the world. Yes, hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants arrived with stomach's aching from a famine manufactured by imperial cruelty. Chinese sailors settled in what is today Chinatown. Millions more traveled under the Statue of Liberty and through Ellis Island, Jewish people escaping pilgrims, Italians feeling fleeing poverty, Syrians seeking economic opportunity, Syrians. Each of these new arrivals peered through portholes onto a city that was changing as fast as the nation. They saw merchants peddling their wares on the docks, streets being laid out on a grid, buildings rising into the clouds. They could not yet see the nativism they would face, the jobs they would be refused, the landlords who would not rent to them, and the abject labor and living conditions they would withstand. But no matter how much smog hung over the harbor, they still saw an opportunity to begin anew. Over the years that followed, despite laws enacted by the federal government to bar their entry, despite sweatshop fires that killed hundreds of women's, despite riots aimed at their very existence, immigrants made homes here in New York City, and they helped to make New York City. That legacy of every generation of Americans, insisting that the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness extends to them too, is no relic of the past. It carried millions of black Americans north during the Great Migration, they were three hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans to New York City. After the Second World War, it invited countless others from the West Indies and South Asia and West Africa and across the world. And that is what brought my family to the city when I was seven years old. Yes, your dad the anti colonialism professor at Columbia University, and your mom a Katari backed filmmaker. Like real rags to riches tales here, so he said, his family could make out the promise of America. He said, the promise of the beautiful patriotic work of rendering America year after year a little more faithful. To its founding ideals. Which means what the promise of the beautiful patriotic work of rendering America more faithful to its founding ideals. So, in other words, he is here to change it. He is here to do stuff to America. That's what immigrants do. We come here and we do stuff to America. There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it, American exceptionalism. American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free. Is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the west. Is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here. And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional. For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshiping the wrong gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from slums and chattles who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants from whom power was something someone else had. We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, right, stronger, more powerful, and everyone else what The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of independence, that work endures and it belongs to us. All. Okay, So we're exceptional because nothing is fixed into place. Nothing is fixed into place. Dude, I don't know, Like, how did you pass your naturalization test? Seriously, we're exceptional because we're rich because we're powerful. No, we are rich and powerful because we are exceptional. See, he's got it exactly backwards. The reason why we became what we became and are what we are is because we are free to pursue our lives and not live our lives for another person, which is completely antithetical to what ideology, what philosophy, anybody, anybody that's right, Socialism, that's right, his ideology. It makes me wonder did he know that he got it completely backwards on that he's attempting to rewrite the creed here and dude, you got here like a minute ago, right, he hasn't even been a citizen for like eight years I think is when he got here. Yeah. No, need to start rewriting the creed based on your postcolonial studies, father's education that he imparted to you. Jump over to the phone line. Sure, why not, Mike, Welcome to the show. Hello Mike, Hello, preed Happy Independence Week. We'll just to clear the whole week Independence Week. Sure, and to you with. Thank you. I wanted to follow up on some of the stuff you were saying about Mondamine speech. I think you are misreading what he is saying. He is not saying. He is not agreeing that, oh, we're America is exceptional because we're all powerful and we're rich. That's literally what he said. That's literally what he said. He said, we have been told that we are exceptional because we are rich and powerful. He literally said that. I played that. I played the sound I did. I heard it. I've heard it several times. But we are told that, he says, we are told. Who's telling you that? You're hearing that a lot from from the White House. You're hearing now he said, So Donald Trump says that we are exceptional because we're rich. Yeah, compare compare his speech with speech with what Trump said. No, I'm talking no, Mike, We're talking about what mom Donnie said and what Mom Donnie was doing. And you know this, you're a lawyer. You know what he did there. That was a straw man. Obama Sama did this. Obama did this all the time too, which is to create this cartoonish straw man argument of. Though some people will say blah blah blah, and. I'm like, nobody's saying that, and then he just dismantles it. Look at me, I'm the good guy. And that's what Mam Donnie did by creating this idea that we are exceptional. We are told we are exceptional because we are rich and powerful, and that's not why we are exceptional. And that's exactly what he's saying. He's saying. He makes that statement, we are told that we are rich and powerful, to then go on and say, no, we are exceptional because because why I have taken we have taken in immigrants, We have allowed change to happen in this country. We have not been a played to look at our problems. We have been allowed to build things up, all right, And that's why we are exceptional. In other words, and you're telling, you're telling your audience that, oh no, no, and Madonnie believes we're acceptable because we're rich and powerful. No, say just the opposipy. I didn't know. I didn't say. I said that this is the argument he is advancing, and that is not true. That's what he said. And he did it in service to this other argument that he wants to now focus. Oh, where we are exceptional because of our immigration, And that's not what makes us exceptional either. The thing that makes us exceptional is we are the first nation born of a creed that recognized our unalienable right to self govern, to pursue life, liberty in the pursuit of happiness. Right, that's the creed, which is part of what he talked about as well. Yeah, he mentioned he mentioned life liberty and pursuit of happiness earlier. He did not mention the thing that makes us exceptional. He created a false dichotomy. He erected a straw man, and then he beat the stuffing out of it. And he's going to do it again in the next SoundBite here where he says, oh, they're trying to divide us and these bad guys here and their soft hands and the rich and powerful in all of this, and then he proceeds to attack that straw man as well. Do I think that the administration makes the argument a lot that we are exceptable. We are America. We can do anything we want. We're rich, we're powerful, we can go and attack countries, we can do anything we want because we are Americans and we are exceptional because might makes right. All right. Yeah, see when you string together all of that, Mike, You're never going to get me to agree to your laundry. List of stupidity. Well yeah, because you throw in some things and then you throw in some other things, and you want to get me to agree to all of it in total, and I'm not going to do that. You're You're running an omnibus argument here. So we are talking about Mam Donnie's speech. You want to, you want to I understand you want to shift the focus onto Donald Trump, But this was about Mam Donnie's speech. This newly minted American speed ran through the American dream. He is now the mayor of New York City, right, and he is a socialist and he's take he and his. Pals are taken over your party. And so I'm curious, like you're going to do anything to stop this. What Mndonale is using is a favorite peak calend ar technique, which is just what you're using him of doing. You often, in your arguments to your audience, will string together all sorts of things and then throw in some things that are not necessarily relevant, or things such as argument technique such as you use a stroll, you use a STRAWMA give me an example. Well, just now you call Mondombe a socialist. He calls him he's a Democratic socialist. It's his freaking party, dude. Which is different? It is different? What is different? Wait, it's different than what? What is a democratic socialist different than a socialist? It is different in the sense that you can go from a scale which you often do in your arguments, that you rail against communism, which is and it should be rolled against, but then made the bridge. Okay, communists are really socialist. They are. It's all. It's all Marxist ideology. Mike, and the socialist democratic socialist it's all. It's all the same philosophy. Okay, Mike, I'm gonna I'm gonna do you a solid here. I'm going to I'm going to direct you to the leadership of the d s A because they they within the last month, I want to say, they put out their their action plan and platform and such, and you might want to also look. At the leaders No, no, no, so you got you gotta look at the leaders the Democratic Party. No, I'm talking about the DSA. Mike, I'm talking about the d s A. I'm doing you a solid im I'm Mike. I am encouraging you to go look at Mike, I am encouraging you to go look at the d s A platform. Also to look at the polling that was just done last week. I covered it of the DSA self identifying, how they self identify and do you know what the minority you know what the minority of DSA members self identify. As p I'm encouraging you need to you. Don't even care Democrats, you don't, dude, you'r I understand your party is being taken over by socialists. That's what you want to argue. But that's not necessarily. Oh no, I'm just looking at the most recent election results in their stated goals of taking over your party. No, you can stick your head in the sand, Mike. That's fine. In three districts and two states. Yeah, that's where that's what that's the takeover. That's the take all Democrats, and. That's what that's where it's starting. That's where that's where it's starting, Mike. It's this has been going on for a while. That's just the recent round of victories that they have had due they knocked out the leader of the Hispanic caucus. I said, you want to you want to chain together a link between tones being socialist democrats. It's all socialism, it's all Marxism, mic all of it. So so basically I'm a Marxist. I don't know if you are not. I mean, if you're gonna yeah, I mean, if you're going to beat the drum for the DSA. I'm not. All I have is you saying that. I don't know if you actually believe that Marxism is there. We've talked together plenty of years in which, you know, we've talked about capitalism. I've made the point that I'm a democrat not because I hate capitalism. I'm a democratic precisely because I think capitalism works best when everybody plays by the same rules. That's what makes me a democrat, and that's what makes me a capitalist democrat. Okay, good luck. I think my I think my position is much closer to the vast majority of Democrats in this country than the isolated elections that you're trying to focus on and paint with a broad butt rush to say, uh huh, see if this proves a takeover, that the Democrats are really socialists and that means they're really common. Now you're making it argument I've never made. I've never said that the DSAY has taken over. I said they are trying to. They are engaged in a project. They have stated it. They have said that this is their intent is to take over your party. That's what they say. Argument. That's an argument when the President was making both Friday night and Saturday Night and is two quote unquote unifying draw Horse speeches. So he's making that argument. He's trying to call that bridge, which you are as well. But you don't see the bridge. You see no connection between the dssay's rise and popularity, particularly among the youth, and the threat that it poses to the Democrat Party. That's fine, Mike, your party. You can stick your head in the sand and just ignore it. You know, that's totally your call. I don't think that's a wise option. Probably should fight back on that, but you do you that's also not an argument that I made. I said the DSA is attempting to take over your party. They have not taken it over yet, So kindly restrict your arguments to things that I have said. I appreciate that. Good to hear from you. Happy Independence day to do From the text line Beth's favorite Russ says Pete stringing together multiple actual examples showing the through line of the Rising Socialist and Red Green Alliance. Yeah, that's exactly like Mom Donnie or Obama setting up straw man arguments and knocking them down. Also, Mike is standing nearly alone in the Monarrend Party trying to point out how his beliefs are more mainstream than the leadership and Rising Socialists. He's defending the lies they tell while denying it's happening. Yeah. I mean, look, we can say all of this stuff. I can identify what I see happening. You are free to disagree. Mike is free to disagree about the threat that Marxism is posing in his party. That's fine. I mean, it's not good for his party, not going to be good for America, not going to be good for all the people that have to live under this ideology. But he is free, at least for now, he is free to ignore that problem. I do wonder what happens after Trump, right, because, like if your response to any criticism of Mom Donnie is but what about Trump like you're I feel like you're going. You're going to have a very difficult adaptation period post Trump. Back to the Mom Donnie speech. Here he told the newly naturalized citizens that he had standing around him, looking like they were in a hostage video. He told them that they hold a special power to determine what America means. The powerful have always known there answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. This is the strong. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal. At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics and the cheapest. But time and again, including two hundred and fifty years ago, those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress. As Thomas Paine once wrote, this new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty. Hither have they fled? And yet today too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum. Ah, there you go. See he did the Obama thing there, erecting the cartoonish straw man of the enemies. Right. He just called them the powerful. They divide us, He claims, they divide us, and then he proceeds to divvy up Americans as good versus bad. This is what Obama did for eight long years. This is why he was such a destructive force to public unity. He had a once in a lifetime opportunity to actually unite the nation and to rise above the community organizing petty Marxist bs. But he couldn't do it. He was a red diaper baby, as is Mom, Donnie. They can't do it. They just can't bring themselves to do it. In fact, Matt tayebe hardly a right wing, you know, Trump loving conservative. He called it a moronic speech that somehow understood the American story in reverse, even though Mom Donnie is living it. The notion that Quakers and Muslims and Jews were told that they were less in coming here when they actually came here precisely because we have religious freedom. That's why they came, unless they were here to colonize. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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