October 27, 2025 • 37 mins
1. Radicalization of the Democratic Party
- The hosts argue that the Democratic Party has moved from moderate liberalism (e.g., Bill Clinton) to embracing far-left ideologies.
- They claim that figures like Mamdani, AOC, and Bernie Sanders represent a dangerous shift toward communism and anti-American sentiment.
2. Criticism of Zohran Mamdani
- Cruz and Ferguson scrutinize Mamdani’s background, including his father’s academic statements and Mamdani’s own comments post-9/11.
- They interpret Mamdani’s remarks as lacking patriotism and empathy for 9/11 victims.
- They highlight Mamdani’s association with controversial figures, including Imam Siraj Wahaj, whom they label as a jihadist.
3. Media and Political Hypocrisy
- The podcast mocks media outrage over President Trump building a ballroom at the White House while allegedly ignoring more serious issues like Mamdani’s political rise.
- They accuse Democrats of failing to police their own party and enabling extremism.
4. Gavin Newsom and Elite Hypocrisy
- Newsom is portrayed as a privileged elitist pretending to be a man of the people.
- His political persona is compared to Mamdani’s, with both accused of promoting Marxist policies under a polished public image.
5. Bill Maher’s Critique
- Bill Maher is cited as a liberal voice warning Democrats about the dangers of embracing far-left candidates like Mamdani.
- His comments are used to support the podcast’s argument that even mainstream liberals are alarmed by the party’s direction.
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Episode Transcript
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is Verdict with Senator Ted Kruz, Ben Ferguson with
you and Senator We've got a couple of big topics
to talk about today, including I think it's fair to
say the Democratic Party now has just decided screw it,
We're just going to totally embrace Marxism, socialism, communism. That's
the future of the party. Those are our biggest names
of the party. And Mandani's probably going to be the
mayor of New York City.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Look, Comrade Mandami is apparently the future of the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party is now explicitly openly, unapologetically communist and
unapologetically Jahattist. This guy is so extreme, and yet the
Democrats in New York don't seem to care. They will
vote for any radical. They're enamored with the extreme left wing.
(00:47):
And listen, you're seeing the Democrat Party elected leadership Kathy
hokeel your Hakim Jeffries rally around him and say this
is the face of the Democrat Party. We're going to
break down just how radical and extreme Comrade Mundani's record
is and how dangerous that is for America. We're also
(01:07):
going to talk about how the Democrats and the corporate
media are losing their mind, irrationally melting down over the
fact that the President Trump is building a brand new
ballroom at the White House, and that is apparently the
greatest crisis facing America is that the President has raised
three hundred million dollars to raise a ballroom for future
(01:30):
presidents to host state dinners and host events at the
White House. And it's clear that democracy is melting down.
That they're not worried about a Communist becoming mayor of
New York City. They're not worried about a Jahatis becoming
mayor of New York City. They're a worried that there's
going to be, bless my heart, a ballroom at the
White House.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
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Speaker 1 (04:14):
So Senator.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
This is a really interesting moment, and I really do
think it's important for us to just kind of take
a step back look at the Democratic Party. I was
doing Shinna Breems show Fox News Sunday, and the first
topic we talked about was Mindanni winning. We talked about
the race in New Jersey and a couple others, but
everyone was focused on Mendannie. And I made the argument
(04:39):
that this is now just the Democratic Party embracing what
they are Marxist socialists, communists, They're fully embracing it. He
is the face of the Democratic Party. I actually think
this is a gift that's going to give to conservatives
and Republican caans the midterms like we've never seen before.
And if this is the type of leader they want,
AOC two point zero, even more extreme than AOC. That's
(05:01):
hard to say, it's shocking, but I mean, we went
from AOC, We went from Bernie Sanders to AOC to
Mandanni and and the Democratic Party has decided not to
police this at all.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
So Ben I got to say, I came up with
a mnemonic today, So pronounce the guy's name who's about
to be mayor of New York, Mandanni nope, So I
got it wrong. I sent around a tweet any of them.
I sent around a tweet and I realized I misspelled
his name, and and look, it's not a name you
(05:34):
and I are terribly used to. But I came up
with the mnemonic to figure it out. It's m A
M as in Mary d A n y and I
actually invert the N and the M. I call him
Mandani and that's not it. And and the way I
figured out the mnemonic was, ma'am, it's Danny because it's
mam Danny, which is really hard, like you keep saying mandani,
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but it's not an.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
It's m am.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And I'm just look if we're But the only way
to say ma'm Danny is if you proceed it with comrade,
because when I'm addressing communists, I call him comrades because
that is who he is.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
And by the way, if.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
You think that, by the way, let's be clear, Ben,
you will think of my mnemonic. You're gonna be mammots Stanny.
You're you're gonna be on the radio, you're gonna be
doing CNN, and you're gonna think mammots Stanni.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
You will repeat it.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
It will, it will be a little voice in the
back of your head and you won't screw it up.
And our listeners want either. But just a show. I'm
not engaged in hyperbole. Maybe you're saying, oh, come on,
he can't.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Be that bad.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
He's not an actual communist. I want to I want
you to listen.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
To what his father said.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
That this is comrade, Ma'm Danny's father talking about his
view of the United States, and just play the clip.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
America is the genesis of what we call settler colonialism,
and the American model was exported all around the world.
Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations. They herded American
Indians into separate territories for the Nazis. For the Nazis,
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this was the inspiration. Hitler realized two things. One that
genocide was doable. It is possible to do genocide. That's
what Hitler realized. Second thing Hitler realized is that you
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don't have to have a common citizenship. You can differentiate
between people. The Nuremberg laws were patterned after American laws. Anyway,
the US put Indians in reservations. The US invented the model.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I mean that's where it it's his teachings from that's
pretty clear.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
So listen, I want you to hear what Mendanni's dad
just said. Abraham Lincoln was the model for Adolph Hitler,
and the Nazis got concentration camps from the United States
of America. Now, let me just ask him just I
want to ask you, Ben, seriously and fairly, someone who
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says that.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Do you think he loves America?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I think he hates America. I think he wants to
trash America. I think he thinks America is literally the
enemy of him.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Now, is there any indication, any whatsoever that Comrade Mondani's
the son his views are one iota different from daddy's.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
In fact, it's almost like one one for one super
clone is the way I would describe it.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well, okay, but but let's let's let's play devil's advocate.
You know, look, sometimes dads are jobs and sons become
more reasonable. And Comrade Mandani, I mean, he did live
in New York. He's presumably got some affection for.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
The people of New York. He's running for governor New York.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Surely something like what happened on September eleventh. Surely that
impacted him. The entire world watched in horror as radical
Islamic terrorists flew not one but two planes into the
World Trade Center, murdering between the World Trade Center and
the Pentagon, murdering roughly three thousand Americans in that horrible
morning in September. Surely, young comrade Mamdami was horrified at
(09:36):
what he saw and horrified at the mass slaughter. Well,
let's give a listen to what in his own words,
This is not daddy, this is the sun. The comrade.
Here's what he said he thought the day after September eleventh.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Give a listen. I want to use this moment to
speak to the Muslims of New York City.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I want to speak to the memory of my aunt
who stopped taking the subway after September eleventh because she
did not feel safe in her hijab.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I mean, let's go back to the quote there sat
my aunt stopped taking the subway after nine to eleven
because she did not feel safe in her job. He's
actually claiming that she is the victim of nine to eleven.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Well, and let's be clear, among all of the sentiments
did he express, I looked at those planes flying into.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
The towers, and I felt horrified.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
But by the way, as a Muslim, he presumably could
say I was horrified by someone who shares my faith
could be so radicalized as to murder three thousand people.
He actually could say something powerful there. He didn't say that.
He didn't say I mourned for the people at the
top of that tower as flames roared around them, who
faced a choice between burning alive and jumping to their death.
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And you and I both watched those mornings in a
horror as people leapt from one hundred stories high and
fell to their death because the alternative was to burn alive.
Like it was a moment America was under attack. And
yet somehow comrade Mondami that that is I can't pronounce
his name either, even with my nae Moonic, I'm getting
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it wrong. But somehow he doesn't express that sentiment. He's
like the horror is the next day my aunt couldn't
wear her job. And by the way, for all of
the leftist rhetoric that the crime of nine to eleven
was islamophobia, I'm not aware of a meaningful uptick in
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violence against Muslims in New York. I actually remember this
country coming together, coming together, strongly, embracing each other, unifying.
I remember President George W. Bush, and I think the
finest moment of his presidency standing on the rubble in
New York City holding a bullhorn, and when someone from
the crowd with firefighters all around, called out weak, can't
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hear you? He said, I can hear you, and soon
the world will hear you. The people that knock down
these towers will hear you. That was a moment where
if you had the tiniest bit of love for America,
you don't have to be the most patriotic soul. You
just have to give a tiny little crap about the
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United States of America. You felt a surge of yes,
we will stand strong against the vicious murderers who attacked us.
And yet comrade Mondami expresses none of that. Apparently nine
to eleven.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Was all about.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
And look, he was clear, I'm talking to the Muslims.
By the way, if you're Jewish, and I got to say,
it is astonishing some significant percentage of Jewish voters in
New York Or voting.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
For comrade Mondami. I don't get that.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
It's like if you go to a farm and go
to the lambs and the sheep and say, hey, we
would like to have an election to select the butcher
like he views them, I believe, as the enemy. And
yet you have voters. And by the way, there there
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are wealthy socialites on the Upper east Side who were
voting for him and and and are perfectly oblivious. You
know when when comrade Danni abolishes the police and a
crackhead kicks in their front door, suddenly there there. Let
(13:34):
me ask you, Ben, seriously, you spent a lot. You
spent more time in New York than I have. I mean,
you were a say at end contributor for like eeteen years.
Help me try to get in the mind. Let's assume
you're a multi millionaire Upper east Side socialite. Try to
explain the thinking of saying I want to vote for
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a communist jihadist.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, it's it's it's very interesting because there's I think
there's two things here, is we as we really break
this down. One, I think that to be a socialite
in New York it is now a mandate that you're
a liberal Democrat. You will not rise in the New
York ranks or the Hamptons if you're a hardcore conservative.
(14:18):
I think that's that's part of it is just.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
And by the way, to be clear, the alternative.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Here where it's going right.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, but but to be clear, the alternative here, we're
talking to Andrew friggin Cuomo. We're not talking the right wing.
We're not talking Donald Trump, We're not talking Ted Cruz.
We're talking to Andrew friggin Cuomo, a left wing Democrat,
corrupt woman grabbing like like like, I'm not a big
Cuomo fan, but it's not like if you're a New
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York voter you have to suddenly pull the lever for
Jesse Hilms. And yet, given the choice between a solidly
left wing Democrat and a full on communists and I
believe America hating jihadist, it sure looks like I hope
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these polls are wrong and maybe a burst of sanity
will pull us back, but it sure looks like a
ton of New Yorkers are gonna say, nope, nope, I
don't want partial lefty, I want full on.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, I want full blown COMI yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Well, And the other thing that's interesting is I was
as I was in New York last it was last week.
I'm up there almost every other week now, and I
talked to a lot of the people there that live there,
and I'm like, I explain this to me. They feel
like they lost so many sane voters because of the
COVID lockdown.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
They're all in Florida.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
This is now just yeah, they all went to Florida.
They all moved out.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
The sane voters just left. The crazy stayed under you know,
tyrants like Cuomo who locked them down and took their
lives away from them for two years. Uh and and
wouldn't allow them to even leave their houses or go
out or do anything. I mean, it was a ghost town.
We all know New York was a ghost town for
a very long time because the lockdown's there. And so
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you lost a large group of voters that were saying
I'm not saying conservative, I'm just saying they weren't socialist,
communist type voters. And this is now what you're left with.
And so I now look at this, I'm like, all right,
Mandatti wins, I think it's pretty clear he's going to
be the mayor of.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Don't concede that. I'm actually not willing to concede that.
I'm going to hold out hope until the last voters counted.
It sure looks like that from the polling, but I'm
not willing to concede that. And by the way, you
might think. Look, one of the things we try to do, Verdict,
is we try to be real, so so we try
not to engage in just partisan rhetoric and hyperbole. Like
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when I call him a communist jihadist, I call him
a communist because he's called for, among other things, seizing
the means of production, which is the very essence of
the economic core of communism. Yeah, I call him a jahadist. Okay,
let me read you from his tweet on October seventeenth.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Today at Masjig Masjid al Taqua, I had the pleasure
of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahaj, one of the nation's
foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bedsti community
for nearly a half century. I was also joined by
CM doctor Yusuf Salam of Harlem, a beautiful jumma. And
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he sends out a tweet. Now, who is the person
that he's taking a picture with? Well, this particular Imam
is in fact an unindicted co conspirator in the nineteen
ninety three World Trade Center bombing that killed six people.
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He also preached that homosexuality is a disease. And by
the way, they're a bunch of left wing gay and
lesbian people in New York who are voting for this guy.
And he also called for an unarmed quote army of
ten thousand men to wage a gun free Jahad through
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New York City. That's what the EMAM called for. That's
who Comrade Mamdani poses for a picture with and tweets
out three weeks before the election. He's not hiding it.
He's saying, yeah, he will stand with the jahadis against you,
the innocent citizens. And I got to tell you look
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to give you a sense also of just how whacked
out the Democratic Socialist of America, which is Comrade Madani's party,
just yesterday they put out a statement calling on the
United States to release Elias Rodriguez. Who is Elias Rodriguez.
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Elias Rodriguez is the deranged terrorist who executed two Jews
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
This spring.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
And you recall this Elias Rodriguez. By the way, he's
not a Palestinian, He's an Hispanic dude from Chicago. But
he's a left winger who was suckled on the teat
of Marxism and America hate and jew hate, that that
is the left, and he murdered this young couple who
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had just been engaged. As you know, I didn't know
this young couple, but a fact I discovered after they
were murdered. The two of them met at an event
where I was speaking, and I knew multiple friends of
mine who knew them well. And it was literally I
was the speaker at the event. They both came to it.
They were both involved in the pro Israel community. They met,
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they fell in love, and this lunatic didn't shoot them
once he unloaded his entire magazine into the two of them,
murdering a young man and a young women simply because
they were Jewish. He didn't know them. All he knew
was these are Jews. I must murder them. He screamed,
Free Palestine. Now let me read what the DSA Liberation
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Caucus put out, which is the Democrats Socialists of America
excellent statement that we are proud to add our name
to free Elias Rodriguez and all political prisoners. So understand,
Comrade Mandami's political party is telling the world that a
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terrorist who murders in cold blood to Jews because they're Jews,
should not be charged, should not be prosecuted, should be
let to go free, presumably because killing Jews in the
interest of their radical leftist ideology is deserving of no punishment.
They're not saying, let him serve a month in jail.
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They're not saying let him serve a week in jail.
They're saying, let him go today with no consequences whatsoever
for the cold blooded murder of two innocent people. That
is the party of comrade Mondami, who, by all appearances
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in the polling, is about to become the next mayor
of New York City. And I will say, listen, Ben,
there are a lot of Republicans who are saying what
you said is, which is, Hey, this is great for Republicans.
It's great for conservatives. This will show the world just
how whacked out the left is. I got to tell you,
my heart grieves. Listen, New York it is a great
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American city. It is still the center of finance in
America in the world. It is the center of media
at America in the world. And much like I agree
for San Francisco, an iconic American city. Look, San Francisco
doesn't embrace your values of mine. But I don't like
to see lunatics like Gavin Newsom and other leftists destroying
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cities that are a central part of who America is.
And I got to say, I think a huge problem
with what's happening in New York is young people, young
young people in their twenties who have college degrees, who
were radicalized in college, who sat in the student lounges
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drinking lattes and smoking clothes, cigarettes and and and or
actually bongs or whatever and close thing.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Don't forget that. I don't know, but the hand I don't.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Know what you and I were kids. People smoke clob cigarettes.
I actually don't even know if college kids do now
that that that, but whatever they were doing.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Age your self center, I think you did.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Look, you know, I'm going to be fifty five in December,
so so it's uh, But the beauty of it is
in the Senate they still think I'm twelve. I mean,
like the median age is one hundred and six truth,
and so you know, they think I'm running around in
short shorts with a beanie. But you know, it's a
bunch of twenty somethings who have never known anything except
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college life, and they've been suckled on the lies of
their Marxist professors, and they think, yes, join the revolution,
globalize the intefada. They don't even necessarily know what it means,
but they feel and and by the way, they're also
unhappy with life and angst and and a lot of
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these twenty four year olds, you are mad that they're
not billionaires and driving Lamborghinis yet, and so they're like, Okay,
let's just attack the actual billionaires who built companies and
that'll make me feel better.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Well, and it's New York City now, I mean it
really is. There are so many people there.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
They're going to vote for him because he has basically
turned public Enemy number one into successful New Yorkers that
are wealthy. And he's saying that they've stolen something from
you that you never had, and we're going to take
some of it back and give it to you. It's
buying votes one oh one. Your life sucks because of
these evil rich people that have all the one percenters.
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It's Occupy Wall Street two point zero or three point
oh whatever version you want to describe this as. And
I think that's the part that scares me the most
is that you can now lose another great American city
the way that you describe San Francisco. Look at places
like Detroit, Atlanta, Baltimore, Memphis. The list goes on and on.
The only good news is there is a cause and effect.
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And I think that's why Donald Trump got elected. I
think that's also why he's being so successful right now.
That's why I say, hey, I need an aoc Amandani
to remind America you don't want any part of this,
and Conservatives are getting it done for you right now.
I think that's the blessing in disguise.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Here.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Look, the unfortunate thing is, and I don't think this
is hyperbole. People are going to die if and when
Comrade Mandani is elected. That that is going to be
the concert listen. I was in New York on Friday,
so I was there campaigning for Mike Lawler. Mike Lawler
is a Republican congressman from New York. He's in one
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of the most competitive districts in America. Mike's a good guy.
He is not as conservative as you and I are,
but given that district he is, he is a Republican
who gets elected and you get He's as conservatives you
can get, and he fights for his district. And I
like Mike, and he asked me, will you come up
and campaign? And so I joined him. I joined him
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number one at the Conservative Party of New York that
they had a big dinner and they had me come
in and speak, and I actually said something. I said,
if comrade Mamdani is elected, I'm going to make a
nomination right now, which is a year from now. I
want to name him the Conservative Party of New York
Man of the Year because comrade Mondani is going to
make more people join the Conservative Party in New York
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than anyone has in history as they realize these people
are nuts. Uh And and I'm gonna make a second
nomination if he is elected. I'm going I'm gonna make
this nomination now, and remember the state. Write this down,
Diaz our producer, write this date down a year from now,
bring it, bring it up, and on this podcast, I
am going to nominate right now comrade Mondannie as the
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Texas Realature of the Year because not only is he
going to drive New Yorkers to join the Republican Party
and the Conservative Party but he is going to result.
He is going to rent more U hauls than the
very best Willie Lowman salesman that has ever been in
U haul of people moving from New York and coming
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to Texas and coming to Florida. And anyone with any
sense is going to get out of this.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Gaveners.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
He is Gavin Newsom. And by the way, okay, did
you hear Gavin Newsom on the podcast discussing his rough,
hard scrabble life eating wonderbread growing up in the hood,
Because you know, Gavin was an oppressed youth.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Did you see.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
That it was almost as oppressed as he was during
the COVID lockdowns when he was the only one allowed
to have dinner with his friends without masks on.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Look, to be clear, Gavin Newsom is California Royalties, fourth
or fifth generation California old money. His daddy was one
of the lead lawyers for the Getty billionaire fortune.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
He grew up.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
He was featured in the San Francisco Paper in an
article entitled growing up Rich And to be clear, he
started a winery with the Getty millions billions actually, but
millions from them. Started a winery at age twenty five. Now, Benjamin,
let me ask you, did you start a winery at
h twenty five?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Why I feel I got worked. It's really hard, but
I promise you it was not a winery at twenty five.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
And look, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I don't fault Gavin for the success of his parents,
or his grandparents or his great great grandparents. And it's
amazing how many leftists were raised with silver spoons and
inserted just about any place you can insert a spoon.
But when he pretends like he's on this NBA podcast
(28:26):
and he's talking about, oh, I just had to support myself.
I had to support myself playing ball, like what a load,
what a croc?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
And it's pathological.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Newsom is running a different scam than Mandani is, but
it's the same scam. It is marketing Marxism, socialism, confiscatory
government power and trying to make it. I will say this,
I'm gonna compliment right now both comrade Mondani and Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
They got great smiles.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I mean, to be honest, every dentist in America must
be like, look at those pearly Whitesnators smile like it.
And you know I gotta say and and I'll say
this as as a Cuban American whose family, you know,
fled Cuba, it really feels better if you're a dissident
being lined up from the firing squad, if you know
(29:23):
that the communist ordering your death or smiling like it
really makes it less painful as you're sent to the gulag,
to know it's a good looking tyrant who is sending
me to the Gulag. But sadly that's where we are.
And and can I ask you one more question on
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this topic?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Is there is there a single sane Democrat who is
calling out Comrade Mom, Donnie or Gavin Newsome on these issues.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
No, because they created these crazies and they allowed them
to fester in their party and they literally didn't police
their party. So this is the Democratic Party now, and
their leaders are not Democrats. They are commies, they are socialists,
they are Marxists. Just look around the country. This is
who they are.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Look the elected members of the Democrat Party, particularly on
the national scene.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
They're scared.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
They're scared of the mob. They're scared of the angry
left wing radicals with torches and pitchforks. We saw this
at the No King's rally where they're terrified. We're in
the middle, we're in day twenty seven of the Schumer
shutdown because they're terrified of the mob, and so elected
Democrats are terrified. But again, listen, we endeavor on this
(30:48):
podcast to try to be real, to try to have facts,
to try not to engage in just empty partisan rhetoric.
So maybe you might say, all right, Cruz Ferguson, that
they're not the most impartial, unbiased observers if you're not
inclined to listen to us, Although I will say, if
you've made it twenty nine minutes into this podcast and
(31:08):
you're not inclined to listen to us, wow, you've got
some endurance. Bravos of you, but indulge and indulge the setup. Nonetheless,
if you're not inclined to listen to us, perhaps you
would be inclined to listen to Bill Maher. Bill Maher
is a liberal, he is a Democrat. He's been a
liberal and his democrat a Democrat his whole life. Listen
(31:29):
to what Bill Maher had to say, the warning to
Democrats he had to say about Comrade Mundani.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
The Democrats, Let's face it, they're kind of split. Now
there's the far left version that did not do too
well in recent elections, and then people like the governors
say we've got to come back to the middle, common sense,
And whenever this discussion comes up, this is what you
hear a lot. We need a sister Soldier moment a
time when the something some issue with the Democrat says, look,
I'm not with the far left, and this is how
(31:57):
you know you can trust me that I'm not. I
think I have the issue, and it's the mayor's race
in New York. I think he seems like a sweet guy,
Mom Tommy, But I would just like to say, because
the election is in a couple of weeks, this is
not just New York that's on the ballot. I think
(32:19):
the whole Democratic Party in the country is on the ballot,
and the whole country will be looking at this race
to see which way are the Democrats going to go. No,
Andrew Cuomo may not be that exciting and that inspirational,
but you know, for a party that said we want
to get back to normal, he's kind of normal.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
I mean, what, well, he's done some things in his
history that I know.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
Well, we did a deep dive on that because we
had him on the show. A lot of it is
kind of bullshit. I mean maybe he was a little
too handsy, a little too Italian. Uh, a little too touchy.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
You know, I did not little too Italian.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
That's what he's said.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
You know, yes, you know you did not get the memo.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I mean, it's when you're having to defend Cuomo to
try to save your party, you're not in a good place.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Well, but Bill Maher, and let's be clear, Bill Maher
did not vote for Donald Trump. Bill Maher would not
vote for me. He is a liberal, he is a Democrat.
But Bill Maher every day makes more and more sense
because his party has gone so batcrap crazy that he
believes in things like free speech. He believes in things
(33:32):
like not supporting a communist government that seizes private property
and the means of production in society. He doesn't want
to support Hamas terrorists and other jihadists. That used to
be mainstream, that used to be all of those propositions
were things that used to be the case that Republicans
(33:55):
and Democrats came together. Look Bill Clinton, when Bill Clinton
was president, neither you nor I supported Bill Clinton.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
We did not vote for Bill Clinton.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
But you know what the Bill Clinton election when he
was elected, it was not the fate of Western civilization.
It was not do we elect a communist jihadist. I
would have rather a Republican be elected. But the world
didn't end when Bill Clinton got elected. Bill Clinton's views.
If you took a candidate with the identical policy views
(34:24):
of Bill Clinton and ran him today, they would tar
and feather him and drive him out of the Democrat Party.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
He would be completely an.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Entirely to president.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
He would not get elected. He probably wouldn't get elected
as a Democrat dogcatcher because they have radicalized and they
instead want someone like Comrade Nami, whose party says release
the terrorists who murders Jews because they're Jews. That's where
their radical base is. And and you know, some of
(34:55):
y'all may not know what a sister Soldier moment is.
And Sister Soul jactually refers to Bill Clinton. When Bill
Clinton was running for president, Sister sol Joe was this
rapper and and and Bill Clinton denounced her in the
middle of the primary, and it was viewed as as
a brave moment of sort of taking on his base.
(35:15):
But it demonstrated to the voters, or it was perceived
to demonstrate to the voters that he was reasonable and
rational and not a crazy nutcase. And it is an
interesting question. Is there even one national Democrat? By the way,
Gavin Newsom wants to be elected president, can he denounce Mundami?
Jamie Pritzker wants to be elected president?
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Can he do it?
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Corey Booker wants to, Chris Murphy wants to. None of
them are going to because look, John Fetterman has been critical.
But John Fetterman, I think the Democrat Party is being
quite explicit that they're going to do everything they can
to drive him out of the Democrat Party, just like
they would Bill Clinton if he were there. But I
(35:57):
don't know a Democrat. And interestingly, one ambitious Democrat is there?
Nobody looking around? Andy Basher, who's pretending he's he's a
moderate in Kentucky. Josh Shapiro, who has got to be
horrified at what Mondami's saying. Has he said a word crickets, crickets, crickets?
(36:20):
There is not one. And maybe that will change. But
but but I fear not just for the state of
the Democrat Party, but I fear uh for for the
future of our republic. I think we do better when
we have two political parties that are reasonable and rational
and have some meaningful disagreements than we do with one
(36:42):
party that is utterly whack job and trying to destroy America. Look,
we've seen through history it is a pendulum, and it
goes from one party to the other. There will come
a time when these lunatics are in charge of the
country again, and they've gotten so extreme that that that
I really should utter in fear for our great nation.
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Welcome.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
It is Verdict with Senator Ted Kruz, Ben Ferguson with
you and Senator We've got a couple of big topics
to talk about today, including I think it's fair to
say the Democratic Party now has just decided screw it,
We're just going to totally embrace Marxism, socialism, communism. That's
the future of the party. Those are our biggest names
of the party. And Mandani's probably going to be the
mayor of New York City.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Look, Comrade Mandami is apparently the future of the Democrat Party.
The Democrat Party is now explicitly openly, unapologetically communist and
unapologetically Jahattist. This guy is so extreme, and yet the
Democrats in New York don't seem to care. They will
vote for any radical. They're enamored with the extreme left wing.
(00:47):
And listen, you're seeing the Democrat Party elected leadership Kathy
hokeel your Hakim Jeffries rally around him and say this
is the face of the Democrat Party. We're going to
break down just how radical and extreme Comrade Mundani's record
is and how dangerous that is for America. We're also
(01:07):
going to talk about how the Democrats and the corporate
media are losing their mind, irrationally melting down over the
fact that the President Trump is building a brand new
ballroom at the White House, and that is apparently the
greatest crisis facing America is that the President has raised
three hundred million dollars to raise a ballroom for future
(01:30):
presidents to host state dinners and host events at the
White House. And it's clear that democracy is melting down.
That they're not worried about a Communist becoming mayor of
New York City. They're not worried about a Jahatis becoming
mayor of New York City. They're a worried that there's
going to be, bless my heart, a ballroom at the
White House.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Yeah, it is really incredible.
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Speaker 1 (04:14):
So Senator.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
This is a really interesting moment, and I really do
think it's important for us to just kind of take
a step back look at the Democratic Party. I was
doing Shinna Breems show Fox News Sunday, and the first
topic we talked about was Mindanni winning. We talked about
the race in New Jersey and a couple others, but
everyone was focused on Mendannie. And I made the argument
(04:39):
that this is now just the Democratic Party embracing what
they are Marxist socialists, communists, They're fully embracing it. He
is the face of the Democratic Party. I actually think
this is a gift that's going to give to conservatives
and Republican caans the midterms like we've never seen before.
And if this is the type of leader they want,
AOC two point zero, even more extreme than AOC. That's
(05:01):
hard to say, it's shocking, but I mean, we went
from AOC, We went from Bernie Sanders to AOC to
Mandanni and and the Democratic Party has decided not to
police this at all.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
So Ben I got to say, I came up with
a mnemonic today, So pronounce the guy's name who's about
to be mayor of New York, Mandanni nope, So I
got it wrong. I sent around a tweet any of them.
I sent around a tweet and I realized I misspelled
his name, and and look, it's not a name you
(05:34):
and I are terribly used to. But I came up
with the mnemonic to figure it out. It's m A
M as in Mary d A n y and I
actually invert the N and the M. I call him
Mandani and that's not it. And and the way I
figured out the mnemonic was, ma'am, it's Danny because it's
mam Danny, which is really hard, like you keep saying mandani,
(05:55):
but it's not an.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
It's m am.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And I'm just look if we're But the only way
to say ma'm Danny is if you proceed it with comrade,
because when I'm addressing communists, I call him comrades because
that is who he is.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
And by the way, if.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
You think that, by the way, let's be clear, Ben,
you will think of my mnemonic. You're gonna be mammots Stanny.
You're you're gonna be on the radio, you're gonna be
doing CNN, and you're gonna think mammots Stanni.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
You will repeat it.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
It will, it will be a little voice in the
back of your head and you won't screw it up.
And our listeners want either. But just a show. I'm
not engaged in hyperbole. Maybe you're saying, oh, come on,
he can't.
Speaker 5 (06:35):
Be that bad.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
He's not an actual communist. I want to I want
you to listen.
Speaker 5 (06:39):
To what his father said.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
That this is comrade, Ma'm Danny's father talking about his
view of the United States, and just play the clip.
Speaker 6 (06:50):
America is the genesis of what we call settler colonialism,
and the American model was exported all around the world.
Abraham Lincoln generalized the solution of reservations. They herded American
Indians into separate territories for the Nazis. For the Nazis,
(07:18):
this was the inspiration. Hitler realized two things. One that
genocide was doable. It is possible to do genocide. That's
what Hitler realized. Second thing Hitler realized is that you
(07:38):
don't have to have a common citizenship. You can differentiate
between people. The Nuremberg laws were patterned after American laws. Anyway,
the US put Indians in reservations. The US invented the model.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
I mean that's where it it's his teachings from that's
pretty clear.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
So listen, I want you to hear what Mendanni's dad
just said. Abraham Lincoln was the model for Adolph Hitler,
and the Nazis got concentration camps from the United States
of America. Now, let me just ask him just I
want to ask you, Ben, seriously and fairly, someone who
(08:25):
says that.
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Do you think he loves America?
Speaker 1 (08:28):
No?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I think he hates America. I think he wants to
trash America. I think he thinks America is literally the
enemy of him.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Now, is there any indication, any whatsoever that Comrade Mondani's
the son his views are one iota different from daddy's.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
No.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
In fact, it's almost like one one for one super
clone is the way I would describe it.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Well, okay, but but let's let's let's play devil's advocate.
You know, look, sometimes dads are jobs and sons become
more reasonable. And Comrade Mandani, I mean, he did live
in New York. He's presumably got some affection for.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
The people of New York. He's running for governor New York.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
Surely something like what happened on September eleventh. Surely that
impacted him. The entire world watched in horror as radical
Islamic terrorists flew not one but two planes into the
World Trade Center, murdering between the World Trade Center and
the Pentagon, murdering roughly three thousand Americans in that horrible
morning in September. Surely, young comrade Mamdami was horrified at
(09:36):
what he saw and horrified at the mass slaughter. Well,
let's give a listen to what in his own words,
This is not daddy, this is the sun. The comrade.
Here's what he said he thought the day after September eleventh.
Speaker 5 (09:52):
Give a listen. I want to use this moment to
speak to the Muslims of New York City.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
I want to speak to the memory of my aunt
who stopped taking the subway after September eleventh because she
did not feel safe in her hijab.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
I mean, let's go back to the quote there sat
my aunt stopped taking the subway after nine to eleven
because she did not feel safe in her job. He's
actually claiming that she is the victim of nine to eleven.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Well, and let's be clear, among all of the sentiments
did he express, I looked at those planes flying into.
Speaker 5 (10:32):
The towers, and I felt horrified.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
But by the way, as a Muslim, he presumably could
say I was horrified by someone who shares my faith
could be so radicalized as to murder three thousand people.
He actually could say something powerful there. He didn't say that.
He didn't say I mourned for the people at the
top of that tower as flames roared around them, who
faced a choice between burning alive and jumping to their death.
(10:56):
And you and I both watched those mornings in a
horror as people leapt from one hundred stories high and
fell to their death because the alternative was to burn alive.
Like it was a moment America was under attack. And
yet somehow comrade Mondami that that is I can't pronounce
his name either, even with my nae Moonic, I'm getting
(11:16):
it wrong. But somehow he doesn't express that sentiment. He's
like the horror is the next day my aunt couldn't
wear her job. And by the way, for all of
the leftist rhetoric that the crime of nine to eleven
was islamophobia, I'm not aware of a meaningful uptick in
(11:38):
violence against Muslims in New York. I actually remember this
country coming together, coming together, strongly, embracing each other, unifying.
I remember President George W. Bush, and I think the
finest moment of his presidency standing on the rubble in
New York City holding a bullhorn, and when someone from
the crowd with firefighters all around, called out weak, can't
(12:00):
hear you? He said, I can hear you, and soon
the world will hear you. The people that knock down
these towers will hear you. That was a moment where
if you had the tiniest bit of love for America,
you don't have to be the most patriotic soul. You
just have to give a tiny little crap about the
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United States of America. You felt a surge of yes,
we will stand strong against the vicious murderers who attacked us.
And yet comrade Mondami expresses none of that. Apparently nine
to eleven.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
Was all about.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
And look, he was clear, I'm talking to the Muslims.
By the way, if you're Jewish, and I got to say,
it is astonishing some significant percentage of Jewish voters in
New York Or voting.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
For comrade Mondami. I don't get that.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
It's like if you go to a farm and go
to the lambs and the sheep and say, hey, we
would like to have an election to select the butcher
like he views them, I believe, as the enemy. And
yet you have voters. And by the way, there there
(13:12):
are wealthy socialites on the Upper east Side who were
voting for him and and and are perfectly oblivious. You
know when when comrade Danni abolishes the police and a
crackhead kicks in their front door, suddenly there there. Let
(13:34):
me ask you, Ben, seriously, you spent a lot. You
spent more time in New York than I have. I mean,
you were a say at end contributor for like eeteen years.
Help me try to get in the mind. Let's assume
you're a multi millionaire Upper east Side socialite. Try to
explain the thinking of saying I want to vote for
(13:55):
a communist jihadist.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Yeah, it's it's it's very interesting because there's I think
there's two things here, is we as we really break
this down. One, I think that to be a socialite
in New York it is now a mandate that you're
a liberal Democrat. You will not rise in the New
York ranks or the Hamptons if you're a hardcore conservative.
(14:18):
I think that's that's part of it is just.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
And by the way, to be clear, the alternative.
Speaker 1 (14:22):
Here where it's going right.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, but but to be clear, the alternative here, we're
talking to Andrew friggin Cuomo. We're not talking the right wing.
We're not talking Donald Trump, We're not talking Ted Cruz.
We're talking to Andrew friggin Cuomo, a left wing Democrat,
corrupt woman grabbing like like like, I'm not a big
Cuomo fan, but it's not like if you're a New
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York voter you have to suddenly pull the lever for
Jesse Hilms. And yet, given the choice between a solidly
left wing Democrat and a full on communists and I
believe America hating jihadist, it sure looks like I hope
(15:08):
these polls are wrong and maybe a burst of sanity
will pull us back, but it sure looks like a
ton of New Yorkers are gonna say, nope, nope, I
don't want partial lefty, I want full on.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Yeah, I want full blown COMI yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Well, And the other thing that's interesting is I was
as I was in New York last it was last week.
I'm up there almost every other week now, and I
talked to a lot of the people there that live there,
and I'm like, I explain this to me. They feel
like they lost so many sane voters because of the
COVID lockdown.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
They're all in Florida.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
This is now just yeah, they all went to Florida.
They all moved out.
Speaker 5 (15:47):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
The sane voters just left. The crazy stayed under you know,
tyrants like Cuomo who locked them down and took their
lives away from them for two years. Uh and and
wouldn't allow them to even leave their houses or go
out or do anything. I mean, it was a ghost town.
We all know New York was a ghost town for
a very long time because the lockdown's there. And so
(16:08):
you lost a large group of voters that were saying
I'm not saying conservative, I'm just saying they weren't socialist,
communist type voters. And this is now what you're left with.
And so I now look at this, I'm like, all right,
Mandatti wins, I think it's pretty clear he's going to
be the mayor of.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Don't concede that. I'm actually not willing to concede that.
I'm going to hold out hope until the last voters counted.
It sure looks like that from the polling, but I'm
not willing to concede that. And by the way, you
might think. Look, one of the things we try to do, Verdict,
is we try to be real, so so we try
not to engage in just partisan rhetoric and hyperbole. Like
(16:48):
when I call him a communist jihadist, I call him
a communist because he's called for, among other things, seizing
the means of production, which is the very essence of
the economic core of communism. Yeah, I call him a jahadist. Okay,
let me read you from his tweet on October seventeenth.
Speaker 5 (17:11):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Today at Masjig Masjid al Taqua, I had the pleasure
of meeting with Imam Siraj Wahaj, one of the nation's
foremost Muslim leaders and a pillar of the Bedsti community
for nearly a half century. I was also joined by
CM doctor Yusuf Salam of Harlem, a beautiful jumma. And
(17:33):
he sends out a tweet. Now, who is the person
that he's taking a picture with? Well, this particular Imam
is in fact an unindicted co conspirator in the nineteen
ninety three World Trade Center bombing that killed six people.
(17:54):
He also preached that homosexuality is a disease. And by
the way, they're a bunch of left wing gay and
lesbian people in New York who are voting for this guy.
And he also called for an unarmed quote army of
ten thousand men to wage a gun free Jahad through
(18:17):
New York City. That's what the EMAM called for. That's
who Comrade Mamdani poses for a picture with and tweets
out three weeks before the election. He's not hiding it.
He's saying, yeah, he will stand with the jahadis against you,
the innocent citizens. And I got to tell you look
(18:38):
to give you a sense also of just how whacked
out the Democratic Socialist of America, which is Comrade Madani's party,
just yesterday they put out a statement calling on the
United States to release Elias Rodriguez. Who is Elias Rodriguez.
(19:05):
Elias Rodriguez is the deranged terrorist who executed two Jews
in Washington, d C.
Speaker 5 (19:13):
This spring.
Speaker 3 (19:14):
And you recall this Elias Rodriguez. By the way, he's
not a Palestinian, He's an Hispanic dude from Chicago. But
he's a left winger who was suckled on the teat
of Marxism and America hate and jew hate, that that
is the left, and he murdered this young couple who
(19:34):
had just been engaged. As you know, I didn't know
this young couple, but a fact I discovered after they
were murdered. The two of them met at an event
where I was speaking, and I knew multiple friends of
mine who knew them well. And it was literally I
was the speaker at the event. They both came to it.
They were both involved in the pro Israel community. They met,
(19:55):
they fell in love, and this lunatic didn't shoot them
once he unloaded his entire magazine into the two of them,
murdering a young man and a young women simply because
they were Jewish. He didn't know them. All he knew
was these are Jews. I must murder them. He screamed,
Free Palestine. Now let me read what the DSA Liberation
(20:16):
Caucus put out, which is the Democrats Socialists of America
excellent statement that we are proud to add our name
to free Elias Rodriguez and all political prisoners. So understand,
Comrade Mandami's political party is telling the world that a
(20:41):
terrorist who murders in cold blood to Jews because they're Jews,
should not be charged, should not be prosecuted, should be
let to go free, presumably because killing Jews in the
interest of their radical leftist ideology is deserving of no punishment.
They're not saying, let him serve a month in jail.
(21:04):
They're not saying let him serve a week in jail.
They're saying, let him go today with no consequences whatsoever
for the cold blooded murder of two innocent people. That
is the party of comrade Mondami, who, by all appearances
(21:26):
in the polling, is about to become the next mayor
of New York City. And I will say, listen, Ben,
there are a lot of Republicans who are saying what
you said is, which is, Hey, this is great for Republicans.
It's great for conservatives. This will show the world just
how whacked out the left is. I got to tell you,
my heart grieves. Listen, New York it is a great
(21:49):
American city. It is still the center of finance in
America in the world. It is the center of media
at America in the world. And much like I agree
for San Francisco, an iconic American city. Look, San Francisco
doesn't embrace your values of mine. But I don't like
to see lunatics like Gavin Newsom and other leftists destroying
(22:11):
cities that are a central part of who America is.
And I got to say, I think a huge problem
with what's happening in New York is young people, young
young people in their twenties who have college degrees, who
were radicalized in college, who sat in the student lounges
(22:31):
drinking lattes and smoking clothes, cigarettes and and and or
actually bongs or whatever and close thing.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
Don't forget that. I don't know, but the hand I don't.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Know what you and I were kids. People smoke clob cigarettes.
I actually don't even know if college kids do now
that that that, but whatever they were doing.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
Age your self center, I think you did.
Speaker 3 (22:55):
Look, you know, I'm going to be fifty five in December,
so so it's uh, But the beauty of it is
in the Senate they still think I'm twelve. I mean,
like the median age is one hundred and six truth,
and so you know, they think I'm running around in
short shorts with a beanie. But you know, it's a
bunch of twenty somethings who have never known anything except
(23:20):
college life, and they've been suckled on the lies of
their Marxist professors, and they think, yes, join the revolution,
globalize the intefada. They don't even necessarily know what it means,
but they feel and and by the way, they're also
unhappy with life and angst and and a lot of
(23:40):
these twenty four year olds, you are mad that they're
not billionaires and driving Lamborghinis yet, and so they're like, Okay,
let's just attack the actual billionaires who built companies and
that'll make me feel better.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
Well, and it's New York City now, I mean it
really is. There are so many people there.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
They're going to vote for him because he has basically
turned public Enemy number one into successful New Yorkers that
are wealthy. And he's saying that they've stolen something from
you that you never had, and we're going to take
some of it back and give it to you. It's
buying votes one oh one. Your life sucks because of
these evil rich people that have all the one percenters.
(24:20):
It's Occupy Wall Street two point zero or three point
oh whatever version you want to describe this as. And
I think that's the part that scares me the most
is that you can now lose another great American city
the way that you describe San Francisco. Look at places
like Detroit, Atlanta, Baltimore, Memphis. The list goes on and on.
The only good news is there is a cause and effect.
(24:43):
And I think that's why Donald Trump got elected. I
think that's also why he's being so successful right now.
That's why I say, hey, I need an aoc Amandani
to remind America you don't want any part of this,
and Conservatives are getting it done for you right now.
I think that's the blessing in disguise.
Speaker 1 (24:59):
Here.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Look, the unfortunate thing is, and I don't think this
is hyperbole. People are going to die if and when
Comrade Mandani is elected. That that is going to be
the concert listen. I was in New York on Friday,
so I was there campaigning for Mike Lawler. Mike Lawler
is a Republican congressman from New York. He's in one
(25:20):
of the most competitive districts in America. Mike's a good guy.
He is not as conservative as you and I are,
but given that district he is, he is a Republican
who gets elected and you get He's as conservatives you
can get, and he fights for his district. And I
like Mike, and he asked me, will you come up
and campaign? And so I joined him. I joined him
(25:41):
number one at the Conservative Party of New York that
they had a big dinner and they had me come
in and speak, and I actually said something. I said,
if comrade Mamdani is elected, I'm going to make a
nomination right now, which is a year from now. I
want to name him the Conservative Party of New York
Man of the Year because comrade Mondani is going to
make more people join the Conservative Party in New York
(26:05):
than anyone has in history as they realize these people
are nuts. Uh And and I'm gonna make a second
nomination if he is elected. I'm going I'm gonna make
this nomination now, and remember the state. Write this down,
Diaz our producer, write this date down a year from now,
bring it, bring it up, and on this podcast, I
am going to nominate right now comrade Mondannie as the
(26:30):
Texas Realature of the Year because not only is he
going to drive New Yorkers to join the Republican Party
and the Conservative Party but he is going to result.
He is going to rent more U hauls than the
very best Willie Lowman salesman that has ever been in
U haul of people moving from New York and coming
(26:52):
to Texas and coming to Florida. And anyone with any
sense is going to get out of this.
Speaker 1 (26:55):
Gaveners.
Speaker 3 (26:57):
He is Gavin Newsom. And by the way, okay, did
you hear Gavin Newsom on the podcast discussing his rough,
hard scrabble life eating wonderbread growing up in the hood,
Because you know, Gavin was an oppressed youth.
Speaker 5 (27:14):
Did you see.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
That it was almost as oppressed as he was during
the COVID lockdowns when he was the only one allowed
to have dinner with his friends without masks on.
Speaker 1 (27:20):
You know.
Speaker 3 (27:21):
Look, to be clear, Gavin Newsom is California Royalties, fourth
or fifth generation California old money. His daddy was one
of the lead lawyers for the Getty billionaire fortune.
Speaker 5 (27:38):
He grew up.
Speaker 3 (27:40):
He was featured in the San Francisco Paper in an
article entitled growing up Rich And to be clear, he
started a winery with the Getty millions billions actually, but
millions from them. Started a winery at age twenty five. Now, Benjamin,
let me ask you, did you start a winery at
h twenty five?
Speaker 1 (27:58):
No?
Speaker 2 (27:59):
Why I feel I got worked. It's really hard, but
I promise you it was not a winery at twenty five.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
And look, it's okay.
Speaker 3 (28:05):
I don't fault Gavin for the success of his parents,
or his grandparents or his great great grandparents. And it's
amazing how many leftists were raised with silver spoons and
inserted just about any place you can insert a spoon.
But when he pretends like he's on this NBA podcast
(28:26):
and he's talking about, oh, I just had to support myself.
I had to support myself playing ball, like what a load,
what a croc?
Speaker 1 (28:38):
And it's pathological.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Newsom is running a different scam than Mandani is, but
it's the same scam. It is marketing Marxism, socialism, confiscatory
government power and trying to make it. I will say this,
I'm gonna compliment right now both comrade Mondani and Gavin Newsom.
Speaker 5 (29:01):
They got great smiles.
Speaker 3 (29:03):
I mean, to be honest, every dentist in America must
be like, look at those pearly Whitesnators smile like it.
And you know I gotta say and and I'll say
this as as a Cuban American whose family, you know,
fled Cuba, it really feels better if you're a dissident
being lined up from the firing squad, if you know
(29:23):
that the communist ordering your death or smiling like it
really makes it less painful as you're sent to the gulag,
to know it's a good looking tyrant who is sending
me to the Gulag. But sadly that's where we are.
And and can I ask you one more question on
(29:45):
this topic?
Speaker 1 (29:47):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Is there is there a single sane Democrat who is
calling out Comrade Mom, Donnie or Gavin Newsome on these issues.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
No, because they created these crazies and they allowed them
to fester in their party and they literally didn't police
their party. So this is the Democratic Party now, and
their leaders are not Democrats. They are commies, they are socialists,
they are Marxists. Just look around the country. This is
who they are.
Speaker 5 (30:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:17):
Look the elected members of the Democrat Party, particularly on
the national scene.
Speaker 5 (30:22):
They're scared.
Speaker 3 (30:23):
They're scared of the mob. They're scared of the angry
left wing radicals with torches and pitchforks. We saw this
at the No King's rally where they're terrified. We're in
the middle, we're in day twenty seven of the Schumer
shutdown because they're terrified of the mob, and so elected
Democrats are terrified. But again, listen, we endeavor on this
(30:48):
podcast to try to be real, to try to have facts,
to try not to engage in just empty partisan rhetoric.
So maybe you might say, all right, Cruz Ferguson, that
they're not the most impartial, unbiased observers if you're not
inclined to listen to us, Although I will say, if
you've made it twenty nine minutes into this podcast and
(31:08):
you're not inclined to listen to us, wow, you've got
some endurance. Bravos of you, but indulge and indulge the setup. Nonetheless,
if you're not inclined to listen to us, perhaps you
would be inclined to listen to Bill Maher. Bill Maher
is a liberal, he is a Democrat. He's been a
liberal and his democrat a Democrat his whole life. Listen
(31:29):
to what Bill Maher had to say, the warning to
Democrats he had to say about Comrade Mundani.
Speaker 7 (31:36):
The Democrats, Let's face it, they're kind of split. Now
there's the far left version that did not do too
well in recent elections, and then people like the governors
say we've got to come back to the middle, common sense,
And whenever this discussion comes up, this is what you
hear a lot. We need a sister Soldier moment a
time when the something some issue with the Democrat says, look,
I'm not with the far left, and this is how
(31:57):
you know you can trust me that I'm not. I
think I have the issue, and it's the mayor's race
in New York. I think he seems like a sweet guy,
Mom Tommy, But I would just like to say, because
the election is in a couple of weeks, this is
not just New York that's on the ballot. I think
(32:19):
the whole Democratic Party in the country is on the ballot,
and the whole country will be looking at this race
to see which way are the Democrats going to go. No,
Andrew Cuomo may not be that exciting and that inspirational,
but you know, for a party that said we want
to get back to normal, he's kind of normal.
Speaker 5 (32:38):
I mean, what, well, he's done some things in his
history that I know.
Speaker 7 (32:44):
Well, we did a deep dive on that because we
had him on the show. A lot of it is
kind of bullshit. I mean maybe he was a little
too handsy, a little too Italian. Uh, a little too touchy.
Speaker 1 (32:56):
You know, I did not little too Italian.
Speaker 6 (33:00):
That's what he's said.
Speaker 7 (33:01):
You know, yes, you know you did not get the memo.
Speaker 2 (33:05):
I mean, it's when you're having to defend Cuomo to
try to save your party, you're not in a good place.
Speaker 3 (33:11):
Well, but Bill Maher, and let's be clear, Bill Maher
did not vote for Donald Trump. Bill Maher would not
vote for me. He is a liberal, he is a Democrat.
But Bill Maher every day makes more and more sense
because his party has gone so batcrap crazy that he
believes in things like free speech. He believes in things
(33:32):
like not supporting a communist government that seizes private property
and the means of production in society. He doesn't want
to support Hamas terrorists and other jihadists. That used to
be mainstream, that used to be all of those propositions
were things that used to be the case that Republicans
(33:55):
and Democrats came together. Look Bill Clinton, when Bill Clinton
was president, neither you nor I supported Bill Clinton.
Speaker 5 (34:02):
We did not vote for Bill Clinton.
Speaker 3 (34:04):
But you know what the Bill Clinton election when he
was elected, it was not the fate of Western civilization.
It was not do we elect a communist jihadist. I
would have rather a Republican be elected. But the world
didn't end when Bill Clinton got elected. Bill Clinton's views.
If you took a candidate with the identical policy views
(34:24):
of Bill Clinton and ran him today, they would tar
and feather him and drive him out of the Democrat Party.
Speaker 5 (34:30):
He would be completely an.
Speaker 1 (34:32):
Entirely to president.
Speaker 3 (34:34):
He would not get elected. He probably wouldn't get elected
as a Democrat dogcatcher because they have radicalized and they
instead want someone like Comrade Nami, whose party says release
the terrorists who murders Jews because they're Jews. That's where
their radical base is. And and you know, some of
(34:55):
y'all may not know what a sister Soldier moment is.
And Sister Soul jactually refers to Bill Clinton. When Bill
Clinton was running for president, Sister sol Joe was this
rapper and and and Bill Clinton denounced her in the
middle of the primary, and it was viewed as as
a brave moment of sort of taking on his base.
(35:15):
But it demonstrated to the voters, or it was perceived
to demonstrate to the voters that he was reasonable and
rational and not a crazy nutcase. And it is an
interesting question. Is there even one national Democrat? By the way,
Gavin Newsom wants to be elected president, can he denounce Mundami?
Jamie Pritzker wants to be elected president?
Speaker 5 (35:36):
Can he do it?
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Corey Booker wants to, Chris Murphy wants to. None of
them are going to because look, John Fetterman has been critical.
But John Fetterman, I think the Democrat Party is being
quite explicit that they're going to do everything they can
to drive him out of the Democrat Party, just like
they would Bill Clinton if he were there. But I
(35:57):
don't know a Democrat. And interestingly, one ambitious Democrat is there?
Nobody looking around? Andy Basher, who's pretending he's he's a
moderate in Kentucky. Josh Shapiro, who has got to be
horrified at what Mondami's saying. Has he said a word crickets, crickets, crickets?
(36:20):
There is not one. And maybe that will change. But
but but I fear not just for the state of
the Democrat Party, but I fear uh for for the
future of our republic. I think we do better when
we have two political parties that are reasonable and rational
and have some meaningful disagreements than we do with one
(36:42):
party that is utterly whack job and trying to destroy America. Look,
we've seen through history it is a pendulum, and it
goes from one party to the other. There will come
a time when these lunatics are in charge of the
country again, and they've gotten so extreme that that that
I really should utter in fear for our great nation.
Speaker 2 (37:03):
Amen, don't forget. We do the show Monday, Wednesday Friday.
We always try to bring you the biggest news we
can and let you know what's going on behind the scenes.
Even at three thirteen am Eastern time, as we're wrapping
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Speaker 1 (37:19):
This may be our latest one we've ever done, Center.
Speaker 5 (37:21):
And you should be committed.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
That should be.
Speaker 2 (37:25):
That's very true, very true. Three fifteen in the morning,
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