The rise of Marxism in America is real | Hour 2

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And you know, part of me feels a little bad for Jeffries, not because he lost here, but because he is unable and or unwilling to mobilize his party against the infiltration of Marxists like this the DSA into his party. You know, it was a novelty a decade ago. It was like a one off. It was, oh, isn't that wacky? Those crazies, and you know that one place they put some Democrats Socialist of America candidate on the ballot, and then it was, oh, they actually won a race. And then remember Alexandria A. Cazquateez and she won. This is no longer something that's like, ha ha ha, how weird. Oh those those little silly people up there or over there in this other place. Like, I have been highlighting this rise of Marxism on the left for several years now, and it's just like with polling, you know, don't I don't dwell a lot on an individual poll. I focus on trends. Where are things moving. I'm not good at predictions, but I can see where things are moving. And what I have noticed is that things are moving towards a more red green alliance inside of the Democrat Party. Red being Marxist, grain being Islamist. And like, you could also make the argument that the DSA is simply a vehicle for Islamists. That's what's they have a lot of their candidates because for some reason, these people are running for you know, state Assembly seats and New York. But all they're talking about is Israel and Palestine. Right. Why you're you're running for a state legislative seat. Why are you focused on something six thousand miles away? Right? Because that's what their base demands. And in the case of one of these races where Dan Goldman lost yesterday, we now have evidence that being one of the worst anti trumpers in DC, that is not enough to protect you if you are Jewish and a Democrat and you don't want to see Israel annihilated. Because Goldman lost. Goldman lost. Goldman, you'll recall this is the guy that when he was a congressional staffer, a lawyer working, you know, to impeach Donald Trump. He parlays that into a run for Congress and everybody's loving them some Dan Goldman because he's so anti Trump, and he got obliterated yesterday. Hakeem Jeffries came out on the losing side of multiple primaries. This from punch Bowl News. First off, most notably, far left organizer dari Eliza Avila Chevalier unseated the Congressional Hispanic Caucus chairman Adriano Espayat in the thirteenth district that encompasses Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. Claire Valdez, a Mom Donnie back DSA candidate easily defeated Antonio Renosa. Reynosa was the favorite pick, and it was endorsed by Nidia Valesquez, who was retiring from the seat, and she endorsed Antonio Renosa. Velasquez was one of Mamdanni's earliest endorsers. Okay, So here you have this congresswoman from New York, Velasquez. She was one of the first people to endorse Mamdani, and Mam Donnie shunned her pick because, as I said last hour, I've said it many times over the last year, the DSA hates you Democrats. Okay, they're simply using your party for power. That's it. Okay. Mam Donnie did this very same thing to Hukeel, the governor of New York. Right, she came out supported him and he refused to endorse her. So this is par for the course. Velasquez endorses Mamdani. Mamdanni refuses to back her preferred candidate, instead backing a SA candidate, which, by the way, there was a hilarious clip here. I cannot play it because he's a vulgar Cretan Hassan Piker, the twitch streamer COMMI, the cartier communist right, the NEPO baby. His uncle is Chenk wuger ugur Weiger, however he pronounces it the founder of the Young Turks YouTube channel, along with the virulent anti semitic moonbat An, a Kasparian who went after me over the weekend. That's hilarious because yeah she was. She's like, you're darn right, I take the side of Iran. Okay. She deleted the tweet, of course, not before her bought army from Asia and Russia swarmed my Twitter feed. Surprised I didn't get banned. But this guy Piker has been doing all of these campaign events for DSA candidate and also a couple of Democrats. And here's what he said last night at the victory party. He says, after tonight, my price went up. You have to be a democratic socialist if you want some of this bleepin' shine. In other words, I'm not gonna help anybody who's not a DSA member. My price went up, which is why I call him a cardier commie. He's using free market principles here, Like, you're literally saying that you're increasing the price of your endorsement. So you're rationing it. Is that what you're saying, you're rationing endorsements. Yeah, so now the value of your endorsement has gone up, so you're rising, You're raising the price of your endorsement. This guy is such a moron, such an absolute moron, using free market principles in order to in order to sell his communism. Meanwhile, he lives in a multimillion dollar mansion because his parents are loaded. He got the job at Young Turks because his uncle is Chunk or Chink whatever, and parlay that into a Twitch gaming stream that he did. He was sitting play Fortnite for like twelve hours straight while shot collaring his dog. And now he's some political dynamo because the Left has been in search of their Joe Rogan. They need a Joe Rogan. Type to talk to the men, and so they think that Hassan Piker is the guy to do it. This is why I say the Democrats have no natural immunity to fight off this Marxist incursion. They can't do it. So anybody thinking that the Democrats are going to be able to stop this from occurring. You're kidding yourself. It's not going to happen. They cannot do it, and so they're going to be taken over. It's just a matter of time. They're going to be taken over. We will have what I'm looking at now. We're going to have a party that is pro capitalism, that is pro America, and you're going to have a party that is the West sucks, America sucks, and socialist. That's what we're going to end up with. It seems like I hope I'm wrong. Oh, and then whatever Tucker Carlson is doing with his guitar Paymasters 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 reels, and slides into lasting keepsakes. Now Creative Video is helping families and groups create brand new memories while they're traveling, introducing group travel videos perfect for family reunions, church mission trips, group vacations, destination weddings, student trips, senior adult groups, sports teams, I mean, really any gathering of people that you care about. That's traveling together. 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You can email Katie Katie at group travel videos dot com. Group travel videos from old memories to new adventures, preserving life's moments for a lifetime. Let me go over to the text line Kevin says Pete. Over the weekend, I had a long, mostly non emotional conversation with a political science major college educated individual who is a strong believer in socialist ideology. One thing I found very interesting is that they could not explain why communism and socialism had failed in the past yet say this time it'll be different. Well, because real communism has never been tried. That's Any failure of Marxism is never because of Marxism, It's because of something else. What that something else is very, very specific and nuanced. You really got to get into the details of the particular era and the society. And the blah blah blah blah blah. It fails because it is a rejection of human nature. That's why it fails. It is not based in reality and at a deeper spiritual level. It is rooted in envy. And coveted uh, covetousness, covetry, copticity, people who want to covet other people's stuff, people who seek power. This and I've said this before. All these revolutions, all these Marxist revolutions, right, they always are led by the halves paying lip service to the have nots, saying that they are the defenders and the champions of the have nots. But in actuality, all the revolutions are always the haves versus the have mores, because the haves feel like they have been deprived of their elite status. We're supposed to be the ones in charge. We're the smart ones. I'm smart, I'm smart, you know, like they're Fredo, And so they think that they should automatically have access to these elite positions. And for whatever reasons, they don't. Either they're not smart enough, they don't have the talent, right they wasted years of their lives getting basket weaving degrees. I don't know, but whatever the case is, they don't gain access to those halls of elite status, and they then want to overthrow it. Maybe they have daddy issues or mommy issues or whatever, but they come from that world and they rage against it, the haves. Versus the have mores. Kevin says, how can you say socialism can work this time when you have no clue as to why it failed in the past, causing untold suffering and death to millions. It blows my mind. And here's the thing too. Somebody who is college educated with a political science major. They should know how to defend socialism. Otherwise, what the hell did you pay for? Why did you get a degree in political science if you can't even articulate why socialism hasn't worked whenever it's been tried, why Marxism fails, or why it has failed. Because I took political science, I know why Marxism failed, why it will always fail. Beth's favorite russ. Um the caller Marvin's examples are all non section I've been noticing a pattern in some callers and even normal conversations that most of the left's arguments and policies can't survive just a few questions. Correct. That's why I asked them. If you can get two or three questions deep in the conversation, their ideas tend to crumble. Right. What have I been saying for years? They've grown intellectually flabby. They are not able to actually argue their positions because they don't have to. Because when you control the institutions, you can just parrot the slogans and everybody in those institutions who take their cues on what to believe and what is the right position, and all of that. All you have to do is utter the incantation, and you're a good person. Oh, you're of the right political persuasion. Oh, you hold the right ideas, and so we're not going to do any follow up questions. But if you're on the bad side, well then we're going to pepper you with questions and follow up question and follow up question. And what that has. Done on the conservative side for the last thirty years, forty years, It makes conservatives better at arguing their positions, and we have the benefit also of you know, being right. That is definitely helpful. You know, like I've said this many times, I would be at a loss to try to argue in defense of Marxism as well. I understand why that's difficult. It's an indefensible thing to argue for, so that's why it's very difficult for them to do so. Russell also says I had a recent conversation with a very politically aware quote unquote lefty relative and was describing Graham Platner's scandals up in Maine, and she said, see how far Republicans have gone, And she did not believe me when I told her he's actually the Democrat candidate. This is a post from Eis Gabe. He's the editor of r RH Elections, a conservative conservative election blog, and says, if you want to know whether the socialists are winning New York, it's because New York is already a failed socialist welfare state. Forty two percent of New York City residents are on Medicaid, one out of five are on food stamps, a third live in rent stabilized apartments, one out of twenty live in public housing. One out of four work for either the government or a government funded nonprofit. New York City has a government budget larger than Florida. New York State has a budget larger than Texas and Florida combined. He says, the city has fallen. The lunatics are in charge. The only question is when do they run out of other people's money? Can who won yesterday hold a slew of far left views? These views were once considered to be fringe within the Democrat Party, but no longer. For example, Valdez and Avila Chevalier both championed and campaigned on their staunch opposition to Israel, calling the Jewish States actions in Gaza genocide. Both pushed their pro Palestinian values, just like Mamdani, the pair called for a full divestment of Israel and cutting off any sales of US arms to its ally in the Middle East. Valdez also echoed the Mamdani administration's radical housing platform, pushing for the seizure of property from quote unquote bad landlords. All three want to abolish ice A Villa Chevalier, a community organizer and doctoral candidate, because of course, has even said she does not believe foreign criminals should be deported. The guy who beat Dan Goldman Lander. He is not technically a DSA member, but he scored Mamdannie's endorsement by hitching his political wagon to the socialist mayor after their chummy contest in last year's mayoral primary. Lander is the former comptroller for the city. He has also been critical of Israel, and this issue, for some reason, became central in a Yet in a New York congressional race, this was the issue against two term representative Dan Goldman to represent Lower Manhattan and Western Brooklyn. While the trio of endorsements and victories drew cheers from Mamdanni's DSA pals, he ruffled feathers among establishment Democrats and even his allies in the Progressive Working Families Party. Mamdanie's endorsement of a one term Queen's State assembly woman managed to tick off the retiring representative, Nidia Nidia Nidia Valasquez. Valasquez was backing Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reinosa to succeed her in the district covering parts of Brooklyn and Queens. Reinoso, a progressive, also had backed Mamdannie's mayoral run, but he wasn't a member of the DSA like Mam Donnie is. So Mamdani backed the DSA candidate because the DSA hates the Democrats. They're simply using the party to get power. That's it. This woman a Villa Chevalier. She is going to be the GOP's comm's dream. This woman has thousands of social media posts that she has since deleted that confirm every worst stereotype of a Marxist. Now she apologized for the post and says, these people are just relitigating these old political positions that she has moved past, although she never actually tells you which positions she has since reversed herself on. She just wants everybody to move on. Oh, those are just from you know, half a decade ago. Oh, so you mean five years, like just five years ago. She actually stormed off of a radio show yesterday when she was confronted over these posts. This according to a piece at The New York Post. Her name is. Darya Eliza Avila Chevalier, a Democratic Socialist congressional candidate. She has deleted her entire Twitter account that included thousands of posts and reposts expressing support for abolishing police, abolishing prisons, abolishing borders, seizing private property, nationalizing major industries, and saying Israel doesn't even have a right to exist. That's who just won. And this is in a piece by CNN from earlier this month. A review of hundreds of deleted posts and reposts found ones that called for all of the things that I just mentioned, as well as tweets supporting communism and then attacks on Democrats. She said the posts do not reflect who she is today and accused her opponent of trying to distract from issues facing the district. She unseated. By the way, the Hispanic caucus leader in the Democrat congressional Caucus, my opponent wants to live in the past. He's relitigating social media posts from half a decade ago and continuing to champion in outdated politics that fails to serve our people. I have grown considerably since those years, since the tweets, and I am focused on our community and our community's future. Okay, So why would you then make Israel the focal point of your campaign? Why would you do that? And how did you change? This was my beef against Barack Obama when you know, he had this book about you know, dreams of my Father and whatever he talks about, you know, his youth as he was a radical socialist and all of this, but he never once described ever in the book about any kind of epiphany, any kind of a road to Damascus moment where he was like, oh, you know what, that wasn't right. Oh, I I've been you know, community organizing, and I've been espousing Sololensky, and I've been doing all of these commy things, and then I realized, oh no, that's not really the way to do it. Like at least Bono from You Too recognized that the best way to actually solve world hunger is capitalism, and he acknowledged that finally. But there was never that moment for Obama. And there is never this moment either articulated by this candidate Chevalier. If you go through her search, well you got to go through the Internet's archive, the Internet Archives wayback machine. It had almost four thousand tweets from her over a four year period. It's unclear when the account was deleted, but it was last archived in May of twenty twenty two. On Twitter, Kevin Bass says the Bolsheviks were a tiny extremist group that nobody took seriously. They could have been crushed at any time until one day they couldn't. Soon they had control of all of Russia. They were insane, but that did not matter. They were organized and committed, and they ruled for seventy four years. Recognize where we are a villa. Chevalier back in August of twenty twenty posted a tweet that said, in response to a social media prompt that said Israel suddenly disappears, your third e moji is your reaction, and then she responded trick question, Israel doesn't exist. She deleted a repost from September twenty twenty one that said a world without borders, just like a world without prisons or police, is possible, necessary, and the only moral way forward. During a three day period. In that same month twenty twenty one, she reposted now deleted messages declaring yes, literally, abolish the border and all deportation is wrong. During the early months of the COVID nineteen pandemic, she reposted a message calling for a sweeping government takeover of large parts of the economy. She advocated nationalizing utilities, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, suspending rent and mortgage payments, dissolving private health insurance companies, and quote seizing all properties from landlords. Other posts and reposts included references to communism and anti capitalist politics. In twenty twenty, she wrote that while most of the political theory she had read was communist quote, the pyromania associated with anarchism is very intriguing to me lol. She wrote, seize the means of production in twenty nineteen, since deleted. She also has deleted multiple posts repeated calls for abolishing police. During the twenty twenty Summer of fiery but mostly peaceful protest, she responded to a user that asked what a better slogan would be than defund the police, and she responded by saying, bleep you, We're going to defund and abolish, you don't get to water down our movements. Two days later, she rejected an argument that abolishing police meant ending policing only as we know it. She said, no, it means ending policing, full stop, period, no more police at all. Ever. She also did a repost four years ago where she shared a message declaring quote, all pigs everywhere are haram, which is an Arabic term used in Islam to describe something that is forbidden. Not sure if she meant the actual animals or if she meant police, but she is a Muslim convert. The deleted posts also reflected hostility towards Democrats. When Bernie Sanders ended his twenty twenty presidential campaign called the DNC big fraudulent, white, nasty status quo bleep, Why you took Bernie off the bleep and race with your trifling, dirty voters, suppressing butts you hold in elections during a pandemic bleep, bleep. Then another post, I have no nuance to add bleep Kamala Harris, after Harris had told Guatemalan migrants don't come. Remember that. Let's go over to the text line. I know I have been I've been ignoring the text line seven four number says Trump essentially called our country a crap whole country and got elected by a lot of people. How can you who appears to sign off on everything he does. Yeah, that's me. Now talk about the left not liking our country. See here. Okay, so I'll explain this for you. See, Donald Trump when he ran the first time under the make America Great Again slogan, he was recognizing that America is great, America was great, and things are now bad because of the decisions that Democrats and Republicans, but mainly Democrats, because he was running mainly against Democrats. Right, that these decisions that are being made are hurting the country. We need to abandon these ideas, go back to the things that made America great in the first place. The difference here is that the left, being Marxists, does not believe America ever was great. That's the difference. This is your critical race theory, your critical theory, right, this is your intersectionality. It's all rooted in the idea that from its very founding, America has been institutionally inherently bad, a force for evil in the world. That's the difference. Trump Ism does not agree with what leftism, asserts the inherent badness of America. Note he says, make America great again, wanting to restore the things that got us to where we are right now. So it's a different message, maybe a little too nuanced, maybe, but Trump has done nothing to make our country better and he is nothing like Reagan. Well he's not real and I think most Trump supporters would agree with that. Joey from Ashville says, radicals in New York can win when only twenty five percent of registered voters actually vote. What are the non voting voters seeking to tell us that they don't care? I don't know. Yeah, I mean that's that is part of the problem here is you have a whole bunch of those voters up there that did not vote. Now, there is an interesting contrast in Athens, Georgia. There was a DSA candidate on the ballot who lost to a moderate black Democrat and what David Lowry describes, he's liberal but not progressive anyway. He says, this could best be described as a Black Democrat conservative alliance. Now that would be an interesting coalition. 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