RedState's Stacey Matthews on the NYC commie (06-25-2025--Hour3)

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So I'm doing okay. I hope you are as well. So You've just got a piece that posted up at RedState dot com about this mayor's race outcome, this primary outcome, and we've been kind of going over all the different angles, but you raised an angle that I haven't talked about at all, which is that one of the biggest losers, well just in general, but also of this race, Chuck Schumer in New York. So walk us through where this connection comes from, right. Well, Pete, as you know, Schuber has been under fire from his party for many months now. He's not viewed by the Democrat Party as somebody who is a strong enough resistance leader against Donald Trump, but he's kind of been in their crossfairs. And after he kind of caved on the support of the Continuing Resolution in March, there was open talk among Democrats, even someone on the House side, of Schumer being primary. Now he's not up for reelection until twenty twenty eight, he is going to run again. But that got to people talking about Alexandria Ocostio Cortes possibly throwing her hat into the race. Now, she has not said one way or the other what she'll do, but she hasn't ruled it out. And with this communist and anti Semitic communist who won the race yesterday in New York, City. A lot of people are now thinking, hey, this is a big warning sign for Schumer. This radical who AOZ endorsed can win the primary in New York City. What does that say for Schumer's chances in twenty twenty eight if she decided she wanted to run, so in effect, he was kind of the biggest loser. I mean, there's some variables here, Pete that we need to look at to you know, is all of New York like the Big Apple? No it's not, but New York and previous election cycles has kind of seen a trend of sorts where they are going for anti establishment types. They're throwing out the entrenched politicos and putting in woke to this. On the left, theo are more confrontational about their politics. Well and to that point, and I've mentioned this pulling several times over the last couple of weeks since it came out, where you saw like seventy percent of Democrat voters that were disapproving of their party, and that that's like a historic number, a historic low for Democrats. Support among Democrats and the number one reason why they disapprove of their party is because they don't fight Trump hard enough and that's when we started seeing the you know, the staged arrests of the Democrat you know, members of Congress going and getting themselves arrested and using cuss words all the time. So this way they can and sort of project this image that I'm doing all I can. Look, I even got arrested for you. Like, I believe those things are directly connected. And you know, Schumer out there trying to lead this resistance. And like you said, the guy is old. He's going to be even older if he tries to run again in twenty eight. And I think there's just not a lot of appetite anymore for these you know, octagenarian old leaders in the Democrat Party, particularly in the wake of Joe Biden and you know Hillary Clinton. They want somebody new, and you know, they've they've built their movement on these youth voters, these college educated, affluent, you know, white female liberals, the awfuls, and there's no reason to think that they're not going to think that this is their time, right. And with Schumer, he seems to kind of see, in my view, he kind of sees the writing on the wall here. He didn't make an endorsement in this primary I mean, Schumer is the most powerful Jewish elected official in America, being the Senate minor Senate Minority Leader, and he did not endorse in the race, and it was probably because Andrew Kumo is a terrible candidate. I don't think anybody in New York really liked him anymores of the thirty percent or so who voted for him yesterday. But the person who won the primary last night is anti Semitic. Schumer is Jewish. But Schumer is trying to build a bridge with Zorron Mam Donnie. He tweeted today that he has known him since they worked together on various projects in New York City, New York State, and he said he spoke with him recently and he's looking forward to getting together soon. So how much groveling are we going to see here from the most powerful Jewish leader in America towards this anti Semitic the new version of AOC. This is going to be very interesting to see play out. And I feel like he's going to try to walk that pipe wrote between being a proud Jewish American and coddling the anti Semitic left, which Democrats have had problems with over the last what ten years or so. Yeah, Well, in particularly since October seventh, twenty twenty three, they cannot control this radical element in their base. And I think it's because it's a very large element in their base. But I said this earlier in the program, but this is like what we saw and the voting, the breakdown of the voters in New York City, and where this guy, ma'am Donnie, I always got to read his name because I cannot remember Zorn Mamdanni. Where he pulled his support from were from sort of the overly educated Nepo babies, you know, Trustafarian kids and the you know, the college educated degree and wealthy and like that's and these people obviously they're either voting because it's a virtue signal or they're on board with his messaging. And his messaging is radical and it's anti American, it's anti capitalists. And so that's what you get though, when you raise up generations in a K twelve education system that tells the kids that America is the oppressor, the root of all the evil, institutionally racist and homophobic and Islamophobic and everything else. So yes, they're they're they're susceptible to this messaging because guys like Schumer taught them to be this way. Right, and and even those Democrats who specifically did not come out and show support for the radical anti Semitic people in Congress, like Ilan Omar and Rashida Salave, a lot of them either turn the other cheek or they just kind of downplayed it. You know, I understand your concerns kind of downplaying. So you know, even for people, even the people who are who are not the quote radicals in the Democrat Party that they've done the party no favors either by not speaking out more forcefully against these types of people, and in effect it's condoned the rise of anti Semitism in the Democrat Party, and then with this person's ascension to leadership in New York City, it's only going to get worse. And it's astonishing to me, Pete. I mean, I think it was predictable in some ways. You kind of saw like over the last two or three weeks there seemed to be kind of a momentum shift in his direction. But it's still nevertheless astonishing to me. New York City has the most Jewish people living there in the world, including Israel. There's more people Jewish people living in New York City than Israel and a majority of the Democrats, which are a majority of the voters in New York City. They just picked an anti Semitic guy to leave it just blog off the mind. I can't wrap my brain around it. I cannot wrap my brain around it. Well, and get this too, this communist is now going to be in charge of the largest financial capital in America, like right, Like, Charlotte better be recruiting heavily from Wall Street, you know, get those bankers out of out of New York City and have them come down to Charlotte and make their way here. We're much more you know, we're the second largest right now. Maybe we could be the first. Maybe we could be number one and take this mantle from New York City. I would love for that to happen. That would be fantastic. Although we've got some problems in Charlotte City Council here too, So that's the problems here. We also don't want to bring in more problems with this. Did liberals coming down here from New York City, So don't say that too loud. Well, I did say we have to have a strict screening process, right, we would have to screen them, maybe at the border of Virginia like that. You don't get an entry into the North Carolina unless we asked you a couple of questions, pull your voter card, that sort of thing. So jippy. I have to wonder too about how much exactly did the voters who voted for this person actually know about him. There was another one of my colleagues at Red State, Bob Hog. He wrote last night about the election results in New York City. And there was someone who posted a screen grab on Twitter last night about people in New York who started googling what socialism was after the polls closed, right after the polls closed, not before, but after. So it's a little. Late to be doing that and to be second guessing yourself, isn't. It, Unless let's we can you know, fingers crossed. Those are the people who did not vote in the primary. May like that might be you know, maybe the glasses half full. Maybe people were like, holy crap, who just won that primary? And then they're they're googling who this guy is, like what is a Democrat? Socialist? And then now they're like, holy cow, I'm gonna have to go vote in the general election in November, so maybe like maybe that could be the that could be the explanation. It's going to be interesting to see how that general election goes, Pete, after you've been following it, because not only do we have, you know, the anti Semitic candidate, now we also have Andrew Klumo has not ruled out a rogue general election candidacy, which he can do. New York's election laws are kind of interesting. Eric Adams is also going to be in it. He's the current mayor and he is going to be running as an independent. So this is going to be a very interesting general election, and I think it's going to tell us about the future of New York City for years to come. Are they really going to head over the cliff or they're going to pull back just in time. It's going to be very interesting to see play out. And just you know, to remind your listeners and my and our readers at RedState dot com, the reason we talk so much about things like this, the reason Pete Callander does what he does every day, and the reason I do what I do every day, is because we want to keep people like this from running places we live. Yeah, I love I mean, we have, like you said, we have our share of issues here, but thankfully it's not anything on the level of what you're seeing happen in the deep blue cities like Los Angeles and New York City. Right. But after a certain point, all of these examples become a pattern, and then I see these patterns finally coming to our city as well. That's and that's a huge concern. Is you know when you look at San Francisco like, oh my gosh, that's crazy, and then oh my gosh, now it's Chicago, and now, oh my gosh, it's New York Like, where does that? Does that preference cascade end? Because I don't watch Yeah, not on our watch, Stacy Matthews. I know we had a lot to get to and we only got to one of the stories. But that's okay because it's important. I appreciate your time as always. You can reader work at RedState dot com. Stacy, thank you. Take care you too, all right, take care at Stacy Matthews from red State. You know, stories are powerful. They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life and our stories are told through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video started in nineteen ninety seven and Minhill, North Carolina. 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On October eighth, twenty twenty three, just hours after Hamas invaded Israel and slaughter twelve hundred people while taking almost three hundred more hostage. Mendami posted online to blame Israel. This guy found it was a founder of his campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine. And you heard Stacy Matthews refer to him as anti Semitic. That is not just a oh, I disagree with Israel. Don't call me andy semitic for that. No. No, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum had to condemn and they don't ever really weigh into politics, but they condemned any comparison between World War Two's Warsaw Ghetto uprising and the term globalize the into fada. Why would they have to do that, Well, New York City mayoral candidate Zoran Mendani cited museum materials while drawing such a correlation. It's just the latest controversy over Jewish issues for Mendani, an anti Israel activist who was polling in second place for New York City's Democratic Party mayoral primary. This was from obviously before yesterday at the Times of Israel. Mendani was asked about the phrase globalized the Intofada during an interview on the podcast The Bulwark Intofada literally means uprising or shaking off, but it is mainly associated with the Second Into Fight, which occurred in the early two thousands, when Palestinian terrorists killed hundreds of Israelis in suicide bombings. Globalize the Intefada is a common refrain for protest groups calling for Israel's destruction and the ostracization of Zionists in the US. Mamdani declined to comment or sorry, decline to condemn the phrase, and in its defense evoked the Holocaust's Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, which was a last stand against the Nazis by Jews in the ghetto who were set to be deported and killed. Here's what he said. Ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights. The very word into fada has been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw Ghetto uprising into Arabic because it's a word that means struggle. Well, yeah, so, because the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was Jews against Nazis. When you say globalize the Intifada, which is a reference to the Second Into Fada, which was the slaughter of Jews. You say it's the same thing. See even the Warsaw or even the Holocaust Museum uses the term this is the guy they just elected. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. Whether you're celebrating an anniversary, a honeymoon, maybe you want to plan a memorable proposal, or get family and friends together for a big old reunion, Cabins of Asheville has the ideal spot for you where you can reconnect with your loved ones and the things that truly matter. 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This from Frank McCormick. He says New York City primary winner Zorn Mamdani announces an exclusive election night celebration party for LGBTQ and Jewish supporters. It'll be on the roof of the Empire State Building. It's a joke about that, okay, some emails. James says. My most likely scenarios are Eric Adams, who is running as an independent. He is black, also formerly Democrat now independent, that he gets elected similar to Byron Johnson following Lori Lightfoot in Chicago, or Adams and the Socialists split the Democrat vote and the Republican wins. Who knew that Kurt Russell's classic Escape from New York was actually a historical documentary. It's a prequel. We're in the prequel. John in New Jersey says, you eat the rich. That socialist slogan rich is subjective. Rich is in the eye of the beholder. Those touting the eat the rich mentality should therefore be careful lest they wind up on the menu. Sean says, I believe the reason this kind of talk about communism is tolerated because the effects of communism is not taught in schools to young people. That is correct. I went through the CMS public school system in the world history all my senior year barely touched it. They spent a quarter of the year on early civilizations, half the year on World War one and two mainly two, and the rest on miscellaneous other events. Jordan Peterson has said that he finds it a shame that young people aren't taught this at an early age, and how the rise of communism, a system that killed between eighty to one hundred million people, isn't considered the single most important event of the last two hundred years. When your margin of error on the toll is in the tens of millions, you can bet it's a failed system. And John says, can you take a minute and explain how ranked voting works. I don't know how ranked voting works. I know how ranked voting works. That's I'm sure it's autocorrect. It's not John's fault. Yeah, So it's this is a system that mainly people on the left, but some on the right have been trying to get implemented. So it's not a winner take all, and the winner has to just clear, you know, forty percent of the total vote, so you have to clear a bar that's like fifty percent. But when you go and you as a voter go to the polls, you get to rank all the candidates and so your first pick gets you know, let's say you've got let's say you have five candidates running as I think they were in the mayor's race last night. So you have five candidates in a primary, and you vote for candidate A, then B, C, D, and E. Okay, and you rank them like that. So your candidate A will get five points, Candidate B would get four points, Candidate C whatever, like and so you and they don't use a point system. But I'm just doing this because I'm not going to get into like the percentages and all of that. But the point here is that I picked them my I ranked them in the order that I like them. The people who finish at the bottom. They then take those people out and then they give the the their points to the next ones higher up the list. Right, So if I if my pick is my top guy is candidate E, but E finishes last, well, then they take my vote, they take away the e vot votes for him, and then all right, well, who did Pete pick second? Well, I picked candidate A, so then A would get my vote. So they're constantly culling from the bottom of the list and then taking all of those second choices and putting them into the banks of the other candidates. And that could change the results obviously, because if you know, if all of the bottom three candidates voters as their second choice picked candidate B, candidate B could end up winning because all of the lower three candidates get tossed out because they finished at the bottom, and then by all of our second choices are for the same candidate, and then they would get and they would now get our votes. Does that make sense? So they're constantly having to recount all of these ballots. But this guy has apparently he got enough of the votes where there aren't enough out there, I guess to cover it. So yeah, it's a very convoluted system, and it takes a very long time to finish counting all of the votes. And you know, and once the system starts getting used with regularity, you're going to start having people running campaigns of like coalitions and slates, and you're gonna have single shots going on. You're gonna have, you know, because the campaigns are going to figure out ways to gain the system. And that's what this guy did. He understood what this system meant, so he would say, even if you are not your first choice, let me be your second choice, right, And so he got a lot of those second choice votes because whoever finished lower in the list, like the guy Lander that got himself arrested at the ice facility, right like that guy, he said to his voters, give your second vote to the communist and so people did. And so when Lander got knocked off because he finished like dead last or second to last. When Lander gets knocked off, all of the second votes for him go up to the COMMI yeah, it's very convoluted. Like I understand the concept, it's just very difficult to explain, which is why it's even more difficult to implement. 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I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground news as they make the media landscape more transparent. Margo Cleveland she is a writer over at the Federalists' senior legal correspondent at the Federalist dot com, also a former Seventh Circuit law clerk and a full time university faculty member. She's a professor anyway. She points out what's happening in New York City is the best argument for eliminating the Salt Tax credit it state and local tax right, the sa LT this is part of the big beautiful bill. And there's like the Salt Caucus on Capitol Hill, bipartisan basically representing these you know, blue city dominated states. I think like Lawler is one guy. I think he's from New York Republican and they they want they so when you pay your local taxes, state and local taxes, they want to restore the deductions that you can take on your federal tax returns. So that creates an incentive for high state and local taxes because when you raise your taxes up, then you get to if you're wealthy, right, you deduct those large taxes out of your the taxes you file for your federal income taxes. And this was eliminated under the original tax cuts, the Trump tax cuts. And now they're trying to claw back some of these deductions, the salt the salt tax credits, and they want them to go to I think they're trying to raise them or something. Well, I mean, obviously they're trying to raise them. I don't remember if it went completely to zero or if it went down to just a low number like twenty thousand dollars or something, but this has been a big push. Well, how can you ask, she says, why should sane areas of the country subsidize the expensive stupidity of the insane areas of the country. Right, No, if you want to pay, if you want, Like this guy in New York City is talking about, you know, taking control basically and making all of the transit system free for users. Well, what's that. I mean, it's got to get paid for somehow, So how are you gonna pay for it? Tax the rich, eat the rich, That's what he's going to do. Okay, So then what you increase those deductions the local taxes that now he'll be able, that rich guy will be able to deduct those taxes off of his federal returns, which is in true commie fashion, right, socializing the losses. It's a freaking parasite, this ideology. Communism is a religion. I am more convinced of it than ever and like the same patterns over and over and over again. And that's what this guy in New York City wants to do, among many other things, including the government run breadlines. I'm sorry, grocery stores. Andy says, good afternoon. I feel like I am in the twilight zone. The lack of education among these people is mind boggling. No consideration for history at all. Yes, indeed, it is almost as if there was a purposeful campaign to not teach people history. No, that could never happen, he says. It's terrifying to think about what's coming if this continues. Russ says, you just mentioned the developing pattern to Stacey, the pattern of you know, these big cities going you know, full radical commie lovin and like that being this sort of a preference cascade that's rippling out of the Democrat Party and now it's affecting these big cities, these major economic drivers, these engines of regional growth and such. I've been noticing this moneyball politics trend for a while. That's how Mecklenberg got that awful sheriff. Not Gary, not my fault McFadden. He doesn't name him, but I think he's talking about Nick Mackie as a blast from the past. Nick Macky. He worked the inner party workings of the Democrat Party in order to get enough of these delegates and people inside the party to name him sheriff when Jim Pendograph retired and take the job away from Chip Bailey, who who all of the Democrat leadership wanted and were going to vote for, and thought he had it in the bag and no problem. And then they show up at their Democrat Party meeting and it turns out this guy basically went to nursing homes and got old people to vote for him, and he ended up winning. And it turned into this big lawsuit and they had to do a revote and all this stuff because you know democracy, But yeah, this has been going on for a while. You find the right precincts and districts to have the greatest impact and infiltrate the machine, manipulate the elections, whether by legal means or not, massaging gray areas of the rules, or more nefarious ways. Yeah, this is the Democrat Party machine has take is being taken over, and in some precincts it has been by their radical left, and they cannot apparently defend themselves. They cannot fight back, and we're all gonna suffer for it. 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. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to thepetecallanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.