NYC's experiment in communism begins (01-02-2026--Hour2)

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Mothballed, which kind of feels symbolic, right just a little, you know, like we're going to go into this, you know, this abandoned, decrepit kind of space under the city Hall to launch the start of the communist takeover of New York City. Sorry, sorry, Democratic Socialist because it's totally different. So here is the Associated Press story on the matter. And I do have a couple of soundbites to play from his speech. So he did the swearing in, but then he did a block party and it was like twenty three degrees outside. It was really cold, which is perfect block party weather, right, Yeah, totally so. Zorin Mamdani became the mayor of New York City Thursday, taking over one of the most unrelenting jobs in American politics. Like, really, it's an unrelenting job. Well maybe for somebody like him who's never had a job before. I guess that could seem unrelenting, But like he asked for the job, he wanted the job, and I don't know if it's unrelenting. Like, I've never seen this word use to describe any elected office before. Does Donald Trump? Have you ever heard the word unrelenting as a as an adjective to describe the job that Donald Trump does. That guy's giving like seventeen press conferences a day. He's like traveling all the time. I think he sleeps like three hours a night. That's it. Nobody ever describes him as you know, in the job, as you know, unrelenting anyway, he began the unrelenting job with a promise to transform government on behalf of the city's striving, struggling working class because zorin mom Danny is anything but working class, and who better but a Nepo baby silver spoon kid to advocate for the working class. He knows what it's like to strive, like when he was a failed rapper and he strove to be a not failed rapper and failed. He knows what it's like to struggle with two parents that are well, really really wealthy and own a whole bunch of land in was it Uganda where he had his three day wedding. Yeah, the struggle is real people. His dad's a Columbia University professor who is a scholar and academic and with a focus in colonialism. As you might imagine, it's all about decolonization and neo Marxist stuff. His mom is like some filmmaker apparently was in the running to be the director. I think of the Harry Potter movies. So they know what it's like to struggle, just like you know, the Cabby, just like the Boodega worker, which, by the way, That's something that Zoron Mam Donnie does. Every single word that is of a non English persuasion gets the over enunciation. By the way, if anybody ever wonders why, you know whatever I'm saying the names of foreign countries, particularly in Central and South America, That's why I always go with the over anunciation, because I am mocking the people who cannot just like in a newscast, they cannot just say Venezuela. They got to say Venezuela or Hondoras, you know, they got to say it in whatever this like affectation is like to show their solidarity with those people or something. It's just and Mendonmie's speech, you're gonna hear it. He was just full of all of this kind of stuff and constant shoutouts to different you know, constituencies and people and professions and foods and stuff. Mamdani a Democrat e democratic socialist. He was sworn in at a decommissioned subway station below City Hall just after midnight, placing his hand on a Quran as he took his oath as the city's first Muslim mayor. I'll tell you what, folks, I can't wait for the two hundred and fiftieth Birthday party for America in New York City. Man, that's going to be lit as is the twenty fifth anniversary of the nine to eleven terrorist attacks. Can't wait to hear his comments at that event. After working part of the night in his new office, Mamdani returned earned a City Hall in a taxicab, A real man of the people, you see taking a taxicab, and then went on to the grander public inauguration where you know, you know who gave him his oath of office. You know, swarm in Bernie Sanders, one of the mayor's political heroes. Later on, the Associated Press reports that throngs turned out not to be confused with the garment of clothing, which would not be helpful in the mid twenty degree temperatures. Throngs turned out in the frigid cold for an inauguration viewing party just south of City Hall, on a stretch of Broadway known as the Canyon of Heroes, famous for its ticker tape parades. Now, the initial reports were that they were expecting tens of thousands of people to show up for you know, for the Glorious Revolution, the beginning of the revolution. And they got about ten thousand. But it was cold, right, it was cold for the throngs, So that could explain why they didn't get a lot of turnout. The first thing he did, one of the first things he did, actually, I think it was the first thing he did. He revoked multiple executive orders that were issued by his predecessor, the previous administration, Eric Adams, everything after September twenty sixth, twenty twenty four. He revoked all of those executive orders. Why that date, Well, coincidentally, it was after the September twenty sixth, twenty twenty four, when Eric Adams put out a bunch of stuff that was like hey Jewish people, you know, we're not going to put up with his rise of anti Semitism. So you got to wipe that stuff away. The report that they had commissioned on antisemitism in New York City, they got to wipe that out. But also, just for you know, cover story purposes, that's the date that federal authorities announced that he had been indicted on corruption charges the former mayor, which then were later dismissed. Remember, okay, later on, oh, actor Mandy Patinkin, you know that guy is from Princess Bride. I've forged something montoyo. Whatever you killed my father that prepared to me to prepare to die. That guy, Mandy Patinkin, he was also in one of the uh was a criminal minds or something like that. Anyway, he recently hosted Mamdani to celebrate Hanukkah, and so that got him billing at the inaugural event where he, along with children from an elementary school chorus, sang over the Rainbow. They sang somewhere over the Rainbow. I don't know if they changed the words to make it, you know sufficient, mamdamion, but uh yeah, I don't know why anyway. That's that was part of the program. In a campaign that helped make affordability a buzzword across the political spectrum, Mamdani ran on a focused platform that included promises of free childcare, free buses, a rent freeze for about a million households, as well as a pilot program of city run grocery stores, which like, you're not going to get the full revolution unless you get the breadlines. It's kind of that's kind of the commis jam, you know, so, and I don't mean jam as something you can eat because it's communism, so you don't get anything to eat. Actually, so if you're going to have communism, you might as well get the bread lines. So in order to get the breadlines, you gotta, you know, have the government run grocery stores. But he has a way, he's got he's got an idea on how to make this stuff affordable at the city run grocery stores. Volume. He's going to buy in volume, which is a brand new concept, never contemplated by anybody. Like the likes of Cosco, it just might work. People. 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It's like, see, I'm one of you, I understand you, and look at me. I'm I'm saying it in the way that you say it because you don't speak English as a first language. So I'm going to say it like you say it in order to convey this idea that I care more than those other people that can't be bothered to say Pukistan. See back to the Associated Press. Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, the son of filmmaker Mira Nair and Mahmoud Mamdani. An academic and author. An academic and. Yeah right, a guy who is an anti Western quote unquote decolonization guy. Like just like Obama, mam Dami is a red diaper baby. Okay, that's what he is. He grew up in this this neo Marxist crap and that's what he's espousing, and that's why the Champagne liberals love them. Okay, that's what Champagne socialists. That's his base. Okay, the data proves this is clear. Like the native born New York population did not vote for Mamdanni. It was the foreign born and it was the really rich affluent virtue signaling Champagne socialists who think that none of this stuff is going to affect them. And by the way, there's a dynamic at play here as well. It's not a fight between the haves and the have nots. It's a fight between the haves and the have mores. That's the fight. That's what the Democrats are finding. That's why they're like, we're going to give you all of this stuff. And who are they going after? Not themselves. They're going after the people that have more than they do, because they themselves are quite wealthy. Mamdanni is a rich kid. He is a NEPO baby in a rent control department to be sure, although now he's living at Gracie Mansion. But like that's his back I've got. Like there's a write up here from Sean Dearns at The Washington Examiner talking about communism's wealthy backers. Right, their whole system doesn't work unless you've got people with wealth that actually built stuff and created wealth. Communism always just sucks all that stuff out. It relies on productive people first in order to pillage what they've got because it doesn't produce anything. Mamdani his family moved to New York City when he was seven, with Mamdani growing up in a post nine to eleven city where Muslims didn't always feel welcome. I man, he should talk to the Jews. He became an American citizen in twenty eighteen. He worked on political campaigns for Democrat candidates in the city before he sought public office himself, winning a state Assembly seat in twenty twenty to represent a section of Queens. Now that he has taken off, Mamdanni and his wife will depart their one bedroom rent stabilized apartment in the Outer Borough to take up residence in the stately mayoral residence in Manhattan. Mamdani also faces skepticism and opposition from some members of the city's Jewish community over his criticisms of Israel's government. Yeah, it's not just his criticism of Israel's government that's got Jews concerned in New York City. By the way, he deleted a bunch of tweets his uh, well, his official Twitter account, so you know, like the official New York City mayor has a Twitter account, and whoever is the mayor gets that account. And so when you go and you take over the account, you swap out the little profile picture because it showed Eric Adams, so he's gone. So you swap out his picture with Zorn Mumdani's, and you swap out the name from Eric Adams to mayors or On Mamdani. But what that does is quite hilariously, if I do say so myself, It then means that all of the previous tweets that have ever been sent out under the mayor, under the mayoral Twitter account, they now all have zor on Mamdani's face and name. And so when Eric Adams administration was tweeting out stuff that were, you know, tweets that were like, we stand with you are Jewish residents and you know fellow you know city dwellers, we love you. We will not stand for this anti semitism and all of this stuff. Well now Mam Donnie's name is on that and his face is on those tweets, and they deleted the tweets. They went through and deleted the tweets that were specifically aimed at standing in support of and standing with the Jewish residence of New York City, but it's just criticism of the Israeli government, you see. Still so Mom, Donny supporters in Thursday's crowd expressed optimism that he would be a unifying force, Yes, globalizing the Intifada. It is a unifying message except for like the Jews and people who might object to the indiscriminate slaughter on the streets of an American city of people based on religious ideology. But other than that, I guess it can. I mean, it's going to unify the radical base on the left. I guess. Like then they have a quote, and. I've talked about this before a lot of times, if you want to know sort of where the passion or the sentiments of the reporter covering a story, where their sentiments lie. But Pete, they lied ring the whole story. No, I kid. But if you want to know sort of like what the message of the story they're attempting to convey is, go look at the last line of a story, because they reporters will oftentimes try to, I say, land a punch. It's sort of like they want to like just hit you with some emotional kind of a hmm. Really makes you think kind of a deal, you know, even though it doesn't actually make you think, because it's appealing to your emotional side. That last line, whatever, that last sentence is, however they're ending their story, that's usually a pretty good indication of where the reporter's own passion and bias is. Okay, So here's how this ap report by Anthony is agier zigwider. I think it's how he pronounces that. Anyway, here's how we ended it. Quote, there are moments. He's quoting a sixty four year old musician with the Metropolitan Opera named Mary Haman, who says, there are moments where everyone in New York comes together, like when the Mets won the World Series in eighty six. This feels like that, just colder. Okay. I was in New York in nineteen eighty six when the Mets won. This is nothing like that. Okay, trust me. That was way different than this. But to these leftists, they think that when they win, that means everybody unifies. It's so unifying. Now, don't we all just feel great? No? We don't. 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. 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So I have some of the soundbites here from his speech. From Mamdanni's speech, This is from the quote unquote block party that he held in freezing temperatures was like twenty five degrees or something like that, very very cold. And here he starts off talking about the grand opportunity to completely transform the city that they all love. Which, by the way, if it's a city that you love, why are you trying to transform it? But I digress. Oh sorry, no, that's not the No, here's Mamdanni. A moment like this comes rarely. Seldom do we hold such an opportunity to transform and reinvent rareer Still, is it the people themselves whose hands are the ones upon the levers of change? Okay, that's a lie. The people themselves do not have their hands on the levers. It's Mamdani and his selected crew of socialists that's who are on the levers of change and reinvention and transformation. They're the ones that are going to be doing this stuff, not you the people. He's not pulling some schlub off the street and saying, hey, make some decisions as mayor today. He's not doing that. He's in control, he's in power. But of course, this is what all populists do, is they claim that the people are doing these things. The people aren't doing these things. You are, you and your band of merry Kami's. You're the ones that are going to be making these changes. And yet we know that too often in our past, moments of great possibility have been promptly surrendered to small imagination and smaller ambition. What was promised was never pursued. What could have changed remained the same. For the New Yorkers most eager to see our city remade, the weight has only grown heavier. The weight has only grown longer. Very obama esque now very Obama esque. This is why people fell in love with the guy. He's got the smile, he's got the third world ism thing going, and he delivers a good speech. He can deliver a good speech. He can he speaks through the applause lines and stuff, getting everybody all whipped up like Obama did. And he has the same sort of cadence that Obama did. You can tell this kid is a product of the Obama era. In writing this address, I have been told that this is the occasion to reset expectations. What that I should use this opportunity to encourage the people of New York to ask for little and expect even less. I will do no such thing. Okay, Wait, who's telling you to do that? What morons do you have advising you on your administration that they would say, Okay, for your big speech, Now, you should use this to encourage people to ask for little and expect even less. That's what you need to do. That's the recipe for success. But what who would advise that? I don't think actually that anybody is advising him to say that sort of stuff. I think he's just saying that some people are telling me to do this. I think, Look, the best thing that could happen to him is failure. It is that like, for him to fail in enacting the policies that he has been talking about, that would be the best thing for him, and it would be the best thing for New York. Okay, because if he fails in enacting his socialism slash communism right, and if he fails, then he gets to parlay that into another run for the office, claiming that he's being thwarted. He needs another term, and then he gets to parlay failure to a run for some higher office beyond that US Senate or something. I don't know, and I will take the fight now to the Congress or to the Senate. He can't run for president because he wasn't born here, well, at least for now, unless we see some efforts to change that constitutional provision. But yeah, I don't see how him succeeding in communism leads to greater success at the ballot box, unless, of course, he does what all communes do, which is to, you know, use coercion and force in order to maintain power. We'll see, but that would be the best thing for him politically, and the best thing for New Yorkers. The only expectation I seek to reset is that of small expectations. Oh my gosh, that's so poetic getting today. We will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed, but never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try. Okay, good, So you're just gonna keep You're gonna keep hammering away. You're going to keep demanding things that you have no authority to actually enact. You know, the the increases on the in the tax rates for wealthy white people. That's what he said. You know, you need state approval for that sort of thing. And maybe he gets it. I don't know. Maybe he'll get it, but maybe he won't. And again that would be good for him, because then he can, you know, cast other people as the villains. They are the reason why you're not getting this perfect, fast and free bus service that somehow or another miraculously won't be turned into just roving homeless shelters. But if we can't get the free and fast buses, that's because of you know, those guys up in Albany, the rich people in Albany, which, by the way, again Mamdani is rich. Okay, he is rich. His family is very very wealthy, very connected, very powerful. He is of the class that he rails against. That's why I said this is a fight between the halves and the have mores. He is part of the halves. Stuff. Let's see Cut two. To those who insist that the era of big government is over, what hear me when I say this, No longer will City Hall hesitate to use its power to improve New yorkers lives? For too long we have turned to the private sector for greatness while accepting mediocrity from those who serve the public. Wait, okay, hang on a second. No, we don't accept mediocrity. We expect it in the public service. We do in like the bureaucracy and such. And there's a reason for that. It's because, generally speaking, that the entrepreneurial spirit, the thing that drives private citizens in the private sector to risk everything and to do it for long periods of time with no guarantee of success. That kind of a mindset, that kind of risk taking, you don't get that in the publics. In the public sector, you generally don't get that. I mean, you'll get it with police and firefighters, you get it like in that part of the public service field. Sure. Rush Limbaugh used to talk about, like that's the because that's where the Republicans are looking at in government jobs, like the law enforcement aspect, that's usually where the Republicans are. And then all the bureaucrats in the administration, that's that's where all the Democrats are. Okay, So it's not that we accept it, it's that we expect it because it's a different mindset. All Right, Holiday football has arrived right. 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Age and eligibility varies by jurisdiction. Void in Ontario. Restrictions apply. Bet must win to receive bonus bets which expire in seven days. Minimum mods required For additional terms and responsible gaming resources see DKNG dot co slash audio limited time off. Donnie gets up in freezing temperatures to a quote unquote block party of about ten thousand people celebrating deliriously so his election as the first Muslim and first demicocratic socialist mayor of New York, and he literally says City Hall will no longer hesitate to use its power to improve New yorkers lives. That should terrify every New Yorker. By the way, New York Post the block party. Scores of Zorn Mamdani fans, who braved freezing temperatures to celebrate the new mayor as he was publicly sworn into office Thursday, were left disappointed by the bash that the socialist politician had promised. There's I feel like there's a lesson here. Around ten thousand supporters stood outside City Hall during the event, which was billed as an inauguration for a New era block party. They crammed into several barricaded pins. Okay, so they had. Them all herded behind barriers, you know, And once you were inside the pen, you had no access to a bathroom. You had no access to food, you had no access to beverages, you had no access to heat or shelter, and you had to show up. They told people the things started at like one o'clock, but they were telling everybody to arrive by eleven am, So you need to show up at eleven am for a one o'clock start time. And the ceremony then went on for like hour and a half two hours or so, So they wanted people out there for five hours in subfreezing temperatures with no food, water, heat, shelter or bathrooms, which I feel like is a perfect illustration of the democrat socialist platform, Like this is what you're going to get. You were promised a block party and you got a bathroom less pen to stand in for five hours in twenty degree weather. Danny Mahabir, thirty years old, said, it's definitely not a block party. He was expecting a mix of food and music. Instead, he had to wear three layers of clothing to stay warm, and he said, and we're just stuck behind the barricades watching all of the ceremony on a TV. Brooklyn resident Shane Turner said, it's not exactly what I was expecting. I was expecting food and music. So you're telling me a socialist sold you a bill of goods that they did not deliver on. Is that what I'm hearing? If gosh, if only there was some sort of a historical record that we could look to to determine whether or not socialist promises actually are ever delivered. Twenty five year old Queen's woman, who declined to give her name, said I could watch this from home. Yeah, uh huh. His team warned on their website that there would not be portable restrooms due to safety concerns, and no food for sale within the block party, which, again, is that really a block party. I don't think it's a block party. I feel like a block party has a certain I don't know, there are certain deliverables that are expected with a block party, you know, music, food, beverages at a minimum. Mamdani officials told the tendees that there are a bunch of nearby stores and eateries and such that you can go to to go eat. If you got to go to the bathroom, just try to go to one of these you know, private businesses to go into the the you know, those evil capitalists go into the private businesses for your you know, sanitary needs and such, to get some food and shelter. Slight problem, in order to do that, you would have to leave the socialist pen. You'd have to leave your little containment area to go outside of the pen to go to the bathroom. And then if you want you to go back into your pen, which let's be fair, like probably people are not going to go back into the pen, right You're not going to leave the pen, get a taste of freedom in this free market outside of the pen, where you have all of these things available to you. You're not going to then go back into the shoot, you know, because you then got to go back through security. So again I feel like there is I don't know, there's there's a symbolic nature to the way this block party unfolded. Anyway, back to the speech. Here's mom Donnie elaborating on how he's not going to hesitate to use power to make your life better. Of course, I cannot blame anyone who has come to question the role of government, whose faith in democracy has been eroded by decades of apathy. We will restore that trust by walking a different path, one where government is no longer solely the final recourse for those struggling one where excellence is no longer the exception. Remember he made these comments similar comments, I should say, a couple of weeks back, where he said that no problem would be too small for the government to address. And again that should terrify you anybody if you think government is the answer to these problems, to whatever these problems are, it's rarely the answer, if ever the answer. There are certain things government is entrusted to do. And the problem is you have layered on so many other things besides basic services. And the more you layer on this stuff, you just create this bloated bureaucracy, this mission creep that's now into all aspects of everybody's lives. And so what is their solution? More government and a more powerful government, a more robust as Obama would say, a robust government. No problem of yours will be too small for big brother. I mean for government to pay attention to. We expect greatness from the cooks wielding a thousand spices, from those who stried out onto our Broadway stages and from our starting point guard at Madison Square Garden. Yeah, baby, let us. Demand the same from those who work in government in a city where the mere names of our streets are associated with the innovation of the industries that call them home. We will make the word city hall synonymous with both resolve and results. Government is the answer, That's what he's pitching. Government is the answer. Now again, the best thing that could happen to him is failure. And then he will blame some other people in some other levels of government for why he can't do all of the things that he would do, because if you just gave him the you know, the pure socialism, which is never you know, real socialism has never been tried. But we're going to try it. We're going to do it, and we're gonna get results in city hall will be synonymous with results, which would be a first time ever. Right. Most people don't have positive views of city hall and government. Why because it's obstructive. It is obstructive to the things that most people want to do in their daily lives. They they want government to out of the way. But there are people that want government to take care of them or to take care of those other people. Because I'm fine. This is the Champagne socialist view. It's like I'm fine, I don't need all of this stuff. But I'm better than you. I am more moral and ethical than you are, and so I'm going to virtue signal out that I am more ethical and virtuous. And so I'm going to say I want GOVC to do for these other people over here, because it's not going to affect you. It's the same thing with the criminal justice system, the turnstile justice, same dynamic at play that they're not affected by these programs and policies. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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