October 14, 2025 • 33 mins
Saturday's "No Kings" protests. Mark takes your calls. National Review Columnist John Fund.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, So a lot going on. You know, the crazy Democrats,
the protesters, the screaming Mom Donnie crowd, all the Democrats,
the MSNBC, CNN crowd yelling and screaming demanding a ceasefire
in Israel, Gaza demanding a ceasefire that's been going on
for a year and a half, demanding a ceasefire. Well
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now they've got a ceasefire. They're totally silent. Know what
the hell to do this? The last thing they wanted
was a ceasefire. They were just pretending they wanted it.
They they're really upset about this ceasefire and this peace deal.
It hurts their campaign to go after Israel. Mom Donnie
uses an election issue a lot of these Democratic candidates.
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It was a big election issue. It kind of lost it.
There was probably a lot of the debate prep for
Thursday night. Mom Donnie was going to go after Israel,
but harder to do it now with the ceasefire and
the peace plan in praise place. So it's going to
be a problem now. Speaking of protests, just beware this Saturday.
They call it the No Kings protest, silliest name No Kings,
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and it's going to be massive. It's going to be
all over the country. It's not in any one place.
You know, when they have a big protest and it's
downtown around city, all who cares. But this is going
to be everywhere in the suburbs and wherever you live.
It's going to be near you. If you're in Long Island,
if you're in Connecticut, if you're in New Jersey, wherever
you are in the country. These protests, there's estimated to
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be twenty five hundred of them, are going to take place,
These no kings protests. Now what are they protesting exactly?
What are they calling a king? I guess I don't know.
A guy wants to close the border. What else is
the I don't know why they call him a king?
What is that all about? The crime? Wanting to send
troops in to go after it's been done all the time,
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by the way, a president sending troops National Guard into
local areas to do something. The most famous was John F.
Kennedy when he had to integrate the South. He had
a terrible problem there. The Southern governors from George Wallace
to Lester Maddox to Mississippi, Georgia, these kind of places
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would not allow black students to go to college, and
some of these there was the famous governor Lester Matti
stood in the doorway with an axe in his hand
to stop them. George Wallace, same kind of behavior. So
Kennedy sent troops something like seventeen thousand troops into the
South to help those kids get into school and to
stop those governors. Seventeen thousand military sent in by Kennedy.
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Now what were the Democrats reaction? Well, he was a hero,
he was a Nobel prize, he was a genius for it.
He was the most wonderful thing anybody ever did. But
it's one of those deals where it's only bad if
Trump does it. If anybody else does it, it's great.
So now Trump wants to clean up the crime in Chicago,
in Portland. This prime has been going on for so
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long in Chicago. How many years have we been talking
about this? It's a killing field. Every week every weekend,
forty five people are shot in Chicago. It's out of control.
If we have listeners in Chicago, they can tell us
you got a couple of nice areas with all sorts
of fancy stores and great restaurants and it's beautiful. Then
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you go a few blocks the other way and you're
in a war zone. It's been like that in Washington,
d C, Chicago and many of our major cities. So
Trump wants to clean up Chicago, do something about the crime.
Democrats are furious, furious, and this is the no Kings,
no Kings. They're going to stand up to him. Pritzker
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is going to court. He's going to assume him. Pritzker
is going to do it. That's that big fat slab.
Ralph Cramton looking governor, and Trump was asked about Pritzker.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I think he should beg for help because he's running
a bad operation. I mean he's letting people be killed
and his city because he doesn't want in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, he's letting people be killed every forty five people.
If you were running the place and forty five people
were shot last weekend, wouldn't you go crazy trying to
stop this from happening. Well it's happened every weekend for years,
for decades. They couldn't care less in Chicago. They let
it happen. But these Democrats are just going nuts. You know,
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Bill Maher was a pretty left wing Democrat, but now
they're so nuts, they're way to the left of Bill Maher.
Bill Maher even defending Trump. You know, Trump has done
some great things as president, and just he's only been
president like twenty minutes. This is only like six months.
Look how much he's gotten done in six months.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You cannot ever deny success. You just have to give
your respect, even if it's not your thing, have the
humility to give it up for enormous success on any level.
Trump not my choice, didn't vote for him, but a
lot of people did.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
And he's.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I can't deny the success.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I can't either.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, and that's the president.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Now. It looks pretty amazing, this peace agreement in Israel,
and it may turn out to be the greatest piece
of deal ever and may transform the Middle East. I know,
if you're watching Morning Joe, they'll tell you everything that's
going to go wrong. If you're watching CNN Morning Joe,
New York to the rebuilding, rebuilding is very difficult, and
they show you the pictures of Gaza all burned out,
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all the blown up, bombed out neighbors on the rebuilding
is very difficult. Yeah, not forgot like Donald Trump. He
does this in his sleep. The guy builds hundred story
skyscrapers all over the world. If you've seen these things,
he builds these hundred story skyscrapers, the magnificent, gleaming glass,
beautiful state of the Earth. Well, I think you can
rebuild Gaza. It's not that complicated. And when you got
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zillions of dollars and you've got a number of nations
helping you, so this could be pretty amazing. But these
left wing cooks go nuts. Now look at this. Look
at this Neil Young. Anybody remember Neil Young? Remember Neil Young?
That was like nineteen seventy two Heart of Gold picture
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Neil Young. He's like that. It looks like a scarecrow.
It looks like he did those clothes. It looks like
he robbed the scarecrow. He looks like a dusty, musty
old Neil Young. Well, he just pulled all of his
music off Amazon. He has pulled his music. He is
taking it off Amazon now to pull all his music.
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What's that two songs? Heart of Gold? What else? Harvest Moon?
That was pretty good. That's a pretty good song, that
Harvest Moon. That's two Cinnamon Girl? What the hell are
you talking about? Cinnamon Girl? It was not a big hit.
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It was a minor, minor miner. Okay, but there's nobody
on Amazon looking for Cinnamon Girl by Neil Young. I'd
like to get the actual Amazon data. How many people
searched for a Cinnamon Girl? Okay, let's say it's three.
Let's say it's three. And they're also they're all from
like nineteen seventy three. It's a million. When was harvest
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Moon seventy four or something like that. So he's pulled
his music off Amazon. I guarantee you we do not
have a nation of twenty six year olds going.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Of course, what.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Happened to Neil Young. I can't find Neil Young. I
don't think they're that worried about it. But this guy
is on the warpath. He's seventy nine years old now,
and he goes on social media and announces that he's
pulled all his music from Amazon. He said because he
believes founder Jeff Bezos back's President Trump. You know these
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guys like Jeff Bezos, he's a good guy, but they're
like James Bond Villain's. They don't back anybody. They're their
own country. They they they back everybody and anybody. It's
whatever's good for that moment. But Neil Young writes, forget Amazon,
forget Whole Foods, forget Facebook. He writes in this post.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Buy local, buy direct, Well, how are you going to
buy direct? Don't you have to go to Amazon to
do that? Wait a minute. When you buy on Amazon,
you know, most of the time, ninety eight percent of
the time, you're not buying anything from Amazon. You're buying
from local places. Amazon's just a delivery service. But he's
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yelling and screaming on social media. Amazon needs you to
buy from them. Don't they shut down our government, your income,
your safety, your family's health security. Now you might be saying,
the hell is he talking about?
Speaker 6 (08:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
It's Neil Young. I mean, who knows what the hell
this guy's smoking. Take America back together, stop buying from
the big corporations, support local business, do the right thing.
Show who you are now. Eight months ago, eleven months ago,
it was Joe Biden. Amazon was just fine with him.
Then Facebook was great. You know, whatever Bezos is doing
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with Trump, he was doing it with Biden. They do
it with whatever president is in there. So what happened
on social media when he did this, Well, there was
huge backlash against Neil Young. All these younger generation people
right here's like, I'll look at all these comments. Dude
is a kook sad What happened to him? Who's buying
his music? Anyway? He's a has been who is doing
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this just to get attention. Now, that could be some
truth to that, could be something like that. He might
be pulling his music. Oh he pulled it off Spotify
too and now from Amazon. Nobody cares if her mused
removes his music. So but anyway, you got to remember
Neil Young is like a They're like a burned out
old hippie from the late sixties. You know, they hated Nixon,
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but Nixon was like a humble, quiet guy compared to Trump.
So Trump it really drives them crazy. So hey, did
you know there's still such a thing as it's called
Time Magazine? As anybody, if you're under forty, you don't
know what I'm talking about. Time magazine used to be
a big deal many many years ago. In fact, in
its day, it was probably the biggest magazine in the country.
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That it's nothing more important than Time Magazine. To be
on the cover, that was a major, major thing. I
was on the cover of Time magazine. There was nothing
bigger in the media.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
If you're under forty, you't know what the hell I'm
talking about. A magazine. It's like it's like printed, It's
like a thing you could hold in your hand. And
they had magazines. You'd buy People magazine, you'd buy Time magazine.
There was Newsweek magazine. Believe it or not, they still exist.
There is actually still something called Newsweek magazine. There's a
Time magazine. I don't know what where would you get
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this Time magazine. I guess it's a website. I guess
you could go look at their website. But anyway, they
put Donald Trump on the cover because of the Israel
peace Agreement, the piece in the Middle East. It was
a major historic accomplishment, so he had to put him
on the cover. But they went and found the single
ugliest picture ever of Donald Trump. It was taken from below.
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Somebody got the camera under him and shot up, so
you see his neck looks wrinkled, his face looks old,
and it looks so weird. When you first look at
the cover, I'm not just a joke. You'd think it's
Joe Biden. It's from an angle below where it looks
like he's Joe Biden for a second. I think that
was the thinking here. But Trump when after Time Magazine
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saying that, I mean, and it's obvious they did it deliberately.
Obviously did it deliberately. You can see a million pictures
of what happened to Middle East. They all look fine.
This is the weirdest looking picture, Trump writes on truth
Social Time magazine wrote a relatively good story about me,
but the picture maybe the worst of all time. Really
weird taking pictures from underneath, But this is a super
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bad picture. Deserves to be called out. Now, this could
be a Neil Young move. Maybe there's nobody on earth
that knows about this Time magazine anymore. Maybe they did
it just maybe just to get some attention, just to
get somebody to know that Time magazine actually still exists. Hey,
sixty minutes working overtime, trying to convince you that everything
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with Trump is a disaster. So now sixty minutes trying
to convince you there's going to be a stock market crash.
Stock market doing great at all time highs. Right now,
it's up. Everything's up, the economy is doing great. But
they're always trying to convince you it's Trump. There's going
to be a crash or recession. So they go to
they do a piece on Andrew Ross Sorkin. He's on
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sixty minutes. You know, he's on CNBC, so you know,
if he's on CNBC, this is a far left Trump
hating guy. He's written a new book, Reliving nineteen twenty nine.
It's about a stock market crash. He's predicting a crash,
so naturally sixty minutes can't get him on the fast enough.
They do a whole ten to fifteen minute piece on them.
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But he does make one point though, he said this
AI stuff AI is causing a some some think that's
the rise in a lot of the stocks. These companies
now can use AI and get things done cheaper. It
cuts down on how many employees. But he thinks there
could be an AI crash coming. But now he argues,
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you know, they try to tell you the economy so
bad under Trump, but he's arguing, it's so great. We
could be facing a disaster here. So but the problem
with AI, the big problem. Experts are predicting it'll replace
a lot of jobs, not just accounting that sort of stuff,
but all sorts of jobs, even the lawyers, you know,
there's there's websites now where instead of hiring a lawyer,
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you can just use AI. It'll figure out legally what
you should do. I mean, there's amazing uses of AI.
So some experts think, you know, whatever you have Industrial revolution,
machines come in at whatever things are invented. It puts
a lot of people out of work. But they think
with AI, this could be the biggest revolution of all
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and it could I heat to say this. Some think
it could put almost one hundred million people out of work.
It could be devastating. Now, whenever you have one of
these situations like the Industrial Revolution, everybody eventually goes back
to work finding something else to do. But that transition
can take years, can take five years, ten years. But anyway,
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we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one
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one zero seven ten. Hey, we'll take some calls. Eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number
eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. Let's go
to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Doing, Good morning, Mark, Mark, I'm okay. Perhaps you'll remember
the first president in modern times, even before Kennedy to
use the National Guard with Dwight eyesa and how were
to integrate public schools in Little Rock, Kansas because the
black kids wanted to attend elementary school there. And Bill
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Clinton's mentor was the governor of Arkansas at the time,
and he was dead set against it. And Eisenhower federalized
the state National Guard and said, I said the men,
I remember having vivid memories of the National God lining
the entrance of the school and God members escorting this
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young black woman, young black kid into the school. Mark
You're so right on the money when you talk about
these people like Bondami and his ilk and the Israel
hate is. Yesterday in Italy in the City Hall of Milan,
outside all of the Palestinians were protesting against the Nan
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Yahoo President Trump peace plan, And somehow in the gallery
inside the city Hall there was planted there a bunch
of Palestinian thugs and when the mayors started to address
the legislative session, they stood up, they raised Palestinian flags.
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They ran down the hall from the gallery where the
diaces unfurled Palestinian flags, and outside the police had to
stop breaking heads and stuff. There there's people who like
Bondami you're taking away their game when you do that.
And last night I thought I was watching a political
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comedic version of The Three Tenants with Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras,
and Placido Domingo. Instead we had Bernie Sanders. We had
Bernie Sanders Mandami and Leticia James was playing the part
of Luca Pavaratti. Because she's as fat as who Charlo
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Pavarotti was.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I think she's actually a little bigger Pavarotti was not quite.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Yeah, at least Pavaratti I talent. At least he was
a phenomenal singer. The only talent she has is she's
not even good at it is far for grifting the
mortgage companies and everything.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, all right, great call, thanks for calling. Excellent. Yeah,
Letsia James screaming, I will not bend good. I don't
think anybody wants to see that. Let's go to uh,
Maureen Jackson Heights. Maureen, how you doing okay?
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Mark?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
What's the matter Maureene? You're so quiet, so gentle, so quiet.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
Discupt it about it?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
But you're so quiet. Do you work in the library.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
You sound like no, I'm retired. Did I have a
sick husband that I'm taking. And yesterday when I was
watching the president over in Egypt, and and he had
some of those world lead is standing behind him, and
how proud I was, how very proud to see such
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a strong, confident, caring president. And I just hope that
a lot of other people felt the same way. And
he made my day a little bit easier.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
All right, Well, so you're not marching in the no
King's parade. Sorry, No, you sound like a very nice woman, Maureen.
Thanks for calling. Take care. Let's go to Bruce and
Long Island. Bruce. How you doing?
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (18:33):
Mark?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Hey, hey, hey, so people are sleeping here.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
I'm an optimistic guy. So Mark, I have a question
for you.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yes, what's the question.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
I read the book Confronting the Presidents, which I thought
was a very good absolutely, But at the very end
of the book, the gentleman that he co wrote the
book with wrote he's praying for Biden's election. Obviously he
wrote that before Biden bowed out. So I was just wondering, Mark,
this guy's in a telligent guy, explain to me how
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intelligent people could actually think that? Right?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well, I would if I knew what you're talking. What
are you talking about? Why people would vote for Biden?
Speaker 9 (19:09):
They're confronting the presidents. The gentleman that co wrote the
book with.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Martin de Gard.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
At the very end, he wrote he was writing about
his thoughts about the presidency, and he wrote, I pray
that Biden is reelected.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Well, I can't. I can't really say the guy. I
haven't seen it. I don't know what you're talking about.
I never got to that part of the book. I
read the book, but not that.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
Oh okay, you read the list, and I always wonder
how intelligent people could actually be thinking that they would
want Biden in the White House.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Well, it goes on all the time. It's Trump derangement syndrome.
You know, you watch these guys on TV. They're not stupid.
I mean, some of these guys are. Jake Tapper is
a bright guy. He's just insane. They're just nuts. Laurence o'donald,
it's a bright guy, he's just insane when it comes
to Trump. They're just when it comes to politics. They
fabricated these whole fake narratives and they start to believe them.
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And you know who we'll ask, We'll ask John Fund.
They'll be with us next the great political analyst, commentator, columnist. Hey,
I'm the expert on elections. Now, what's going to happen
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Speaker 6 (20:12):
Now?
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Speaker 6 (21:10):
Jesse Kelly.
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Speaker 1 (21:16):
It'll make the current a brilliant column this National Review.
And uh, he's also the author of a great book.
You should get this book are broken Elections? John Fund
follow him on Twitter as well, and he's with us now,
John Fund, how you doing.
Speaker 9 (21:33):
Well?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Survived the storm, didn't we?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, it's much better today. So hey, let me just
get to elections. We got a mayoral election that's crucial
coming up. How secure are these elections you think in
New York? The machines, the ballots, how much funny business
is still going on?
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Well? New York, as you know, is a blue city
and the rules are blue. And that's why the voters
should be blue. About ballid integrity. You know, it was
just a few years ago that the Democrat who ran
the Board of Elections for Manhattan admitted that there were
lots of people who were voting in New York who
shouldn't have. There were buses in Chinatown that would come
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and bring lots of people, and they would vote in
one place and then they would go on to the
next place. He was fired by Bill de Blasio, who
was the mayor at the time. So I don't think
the election is secure. However, as it stands right now,
doesn't look like it's going to be super close. I
think that the real question will be what's the voter
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integrity situation in New Jersey where I think the election
for governor, which is very important, is going to be
super tight.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, and who would trust anything in New Jersey if
you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Well, you're right because New Jersey, during the pandemic for COVID,
completely loosened its laws. Everybody in the state now gets
an absentee ballot in the mail, the voter registration roles
having been cleaned in decades. Patterson has a consistent pattern
of having, you know, people going to jail for voter fraud.
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It's not theoretical, it's real. And I worry a lot
about New Jersey because I think the Republican candidate is
surging and the Democratic candidate is wrapped up in the
scandal from her days at the Naval Academy where her
espilation you know, she's changing it every day because she
originally said I wasn't allowed to graduate with my class
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because I refuse to rap on fellow cadets, except the
Naval Academy's policy is it never punished people who who
wouldn't grat So none of it holds up. New Jersey
is an economic basket case. Unemployment is high, taxes are
through the roof, people are leaving the state. I think
if the future of New Jersey is going to be
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on the line in November.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, So why is it close? Citarelli is a pretty
good candidate, She's horrible. Why is it close?
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Because New Jersey has seen a whole bunch of people
moved to Florida and North Carolina and other states. You know,
it's the same thing. And why it's is it's so
hard to elect a guy like Rudy Giuliani or Michael
Bloomberg in New York because the population is not the same.
Lots of people have died off or moved and the
people coming in are different voters. So I think that's
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the major reason. And secondly, you know, let's face it,
Trump's you know, in the low forties in New Jersey
in terms of approval, and the whole political structure, in
the media structure in New Jersey. You know how hard
it is to break through New Jersey people listen to
New York radio. They only have one radio station that
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you know, broadcasts to the state, so it's hard to
get a message out.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, hey, John Fund. Even with New York these like
Mom Donnie will talk about the crisis. It's an affordability crisis.
We've got this crisis that Chris Well Democrats have run
every inch of New York government, city and state for
the last fifteen years. So why wouldn't a voter say, well,
maybe I should change parties, maybe we should vote for
the other side.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Well, look, the Republican Party is a horrible brand name.
It just does in New York City. And let's face it,
Andrew Cuomo is not exactly the apostle of change and reform.
We remember, we remember his time as governor of New York.
I mean, you know, the joke, the joke is that
he killed more people of the nursing homes than he
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ever than anyone and the other governor in New York.
So I have to tell you, I think that the
election in New York City is going to be close
than people think. But remember, you know, there's no runoff, Mandamie.
If he gets you know, one more vote, than Cuomo
or Sliwa. He wins.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
So the debate is Thursday night. Clomo's a pretty weak debater,
Mam Donnie's a good debater. Curtis is a great debater. Uh,
Cuomo will look weak probably compared to them. And if
Curtis lands some real knockout punches, could that turn things around?
Speaker 6 (26:00):
You know? The question always is who watches debates from
start to finish? Very few people. The question is what
are going to be the clips from the debate that
get played on TV and radio? And unless there is
a seminal moment where, you know, Mondami looks like a
deer in the headlights of a car, I just don't
think that's good. I just don't think the debate is
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going to be the deciding factor. Yeah, you know, but
that doesn't mean people shouldn't vote because there have been upsets.
There have been upsets in many races in New York City,
and there's always the case where people go into the
voting booth and say, do I really want to take
a chance on a socialist?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Now? The way to defeat mom Donnie is normally you
drive his unfavorables way up into the near fifty five
sixty and you need the super packs running tons of
ads against him. Where were they that we saw none
of that in this election.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Well, the business community basically decided that they had a
choice to make. It could either go all out to
defeat him and be on his blacklist should he win,
or they could sit down privately behind the scenes, as
they've been doing with him the last few weeks, you know,
trying to get table crumbs from him and see if
they can survive him if he gets elected. The business
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community in New York City has never been accused of
political courage.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Well, hey, if he is elected, we did survive eight
years of the Blasio, so we'd be pretty pretty good
chance of getting through this, right.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Well, yes, and no. Look, the good news about Mondammie
if he wins, is his powers. They're not nearly here.
The state legislature controls the income tax, the MTA is
not in his hands. He does have the police department.
That's going to be a problem. Crime will go up.
He's not going to keep Tish as the commissioner, so
they're going to be real problems. But his powers are circumscribed.
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The real danger mark is this the perception that the
city will go downhill, be there, and perceptions can become reality.
I think people will start thinking about leaving New York
City simply I've been worried about time. Time to think
leaving time not to invest a lot of money in
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a new building project or a new factory, or remember
the Amazon thing. That was the real break point. Amazon
was basically forced out of Queens by AOC and her allies,
including Zoran. He was part of all that and nine
thousand jobs. The question is will the perception of New
York is an anti business city be heightened? And it will,
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even though Mondamie can't really do as much as we fear.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Hey, John Fund talk about John Fetterman for a moment.
The guy looked crazy at first, but he's been the
most common since Democrat trying to talk sense in these
other Democrats. Will there ever come a point where the
Democrat party listens to him, maybe tries to get back
towards the center.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
You've just explained how we can convince Democrats to have
common sense. All they have to have is a stroke
and some brain you know, problems, and when they wake up,
you know, suddenly it all becomes clear to them. The
problem is you can't replicate that so easily in other Democrats.
I believe Bestman is a one off. He is just
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a complete individualist. He doesn't follow the party line. He
doesn't like people telling him what to do. He's not
a Republican. He's not going to switch parties. But he
is a reminder to Democrats that they pay a price
for marching and lockstep behind the Looke community. And look,
Fetterman is popular in Pennsylvania. He just has He just
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has the ability. Whether you call it courage or stubbornness,
he just will not follow the Wow ideology. And I
think that's a political winner. It's just that other Democrats
are too scared to try that same path.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Well, John fun brilliant is always great talking. You make
sure you're read his columns. Go to National Review you
can read them there. Make sure you followhim on Twitter.
John Fund at Twitter, and get his book Are Broken Elections.
It's still the best book on the subject, John Fund,
great stuff, Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Thank you, Mark.
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Hey, this just in Alec Baldwin. You know this accident.
It's Alec Baldwin and step Baldwin. These two geniuses are
driving a white Range Rover belongs to Alex's wife and
they get in an accident. They smash into a tree,
smash up the front of the car. First thing, everything's
you know, drunk right, Well, he says he's been sober
(31:03):
for forty years now, and he said it was a
big garbage truck coming at him and that's why he
had a quickly turn and he ended up hitting the tree.
He puent on line yesterday and explained himself it must have.
Speaker 12 (31:17):
Been something commercial for like taking away material from construction
or something. It was the biggest garbage truck I've ever
seen any Anyway, I won't come into the details now I'm.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
For you, but I had to avoid hitting him.
Speaker 12 (31:30):
I hit a tree. I had a big fat tree
and crushed my car, my wife's car.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Now he's over acting with that voice. It was a
commercial garbage truck. It was some sort of the biggest
height ever since. It's a little too melodramatic there, but
here's the latest. Now East Hampton Police are backing up
his story. His sob story has been backed up by
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cops in the Hampton. According to a new report. They
say it was a National Waste Services truck that was
turning right in front of him. East Hampton Police Department
Chief Michael Sarlow said in a statement reported by TMZ
that he had to turn suddenly and the road conditions
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were very slippery and wet. As you know obviously yesterday
we were in the middle that nor Easter, the storm,
and these were the contributing factors to the accident. The
police chief says there was no injuries, no summons issued.
Contributing factors to the accident were found to be a
reaction to an uninvolved vehicle and the slippery roadway conditions,
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which means they say no drinking, no anything else. The
East Hampton Police. Who knows, maybe Alec Baldwin's are very
close to the East Hampton Police he's a resident. But
we believe the East Hampton Police. If they say that's
what it was, we'll take their word for it. So anyway,
we're out of time, don't go away. Buck and Clay
(33:05):
are coming up next right after the news. Then at
three o'clock it's the Sean Hannity Show. I'll be filling
in for Sean Today from three to six if you
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Hey, So a lot going on. You know, the crazy Democrats,
the protesters, the screaming Mom Donnie crowd, all the Democrats,
the MSNBC, CNN crowd yelling and screaming demanding a ceasefire
in Israel, Gaza demanding a ceasefire that's been going on
for a year and a half, demanding a ceasefire. Well
(00:21):
now they've got a ceasefire. They're totally silent. Know what
the hell to do this? The last thing they wanted
was a ceasefire. They were just pretending they wanted it.
They they're really upset about this ceasefire and this peace deal.
It hurts their campaign to go after Israel. Mom Donnie
uses an election issue a lot of these Democratic candidates.
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It was a big election issue. It kind of lost it.
There was probably a lot of the debate prep for
Thursday night. Mom Donnie was going to go after Israel,
but harder to do it now with the ceasefire and
the peace plan in praise place. So it's going to
be a problem now. Speaking of protests, just beware this Saturday.
They call it the No Kings protest, silliest name No Kings,
(01:10):
and it's going to be massive. It's going to be
all over the country. It's not in any one place.
You know, when they have a big protest and it's
downtown around city, all who cares. But this is going
to be everywhere in the suburbs and wherever you live.
It's going to be near you. If you're in Long Island,
if you're in Connecticut, if you're in New Jersey, wherever
you are in the country. These protests, there's estimated to
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be twenty five hundred of them, are going to take place,
These no kings protests. Now what are they protesting exactly?
What are they calling a king? I guess I don't know.
A guy wants to close the border. What else is
the I don't know why they call him a king?
What is that all about? The crime? Wanting to send
troops in to go after it's been done all the time,
(01:55):
by the way, a president sending troops National Guard into
local areas to do something. The most famous was John F.
Kennedy when he had to integrate the South. He had
a terrible problem there. The Southern governors from George Wallace
to Lester Maddox to Mississippi, Georgia, these kind of places
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would not allow black students to go to college, and
some of these there was the famous governor Lester Matti
stood in the doorway with an axe in his hand
to stop them. George Wallace, same kind of behavior. So
Kennedy sent troops something like seventeen thousand troops into the
South to help those kids get into school and to
stop those governors. Seventeen thousand military sent in by Kennedy.
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Now what were the Democrats reaction? Well, he was a hero,
he was a Nobel prize, he was a genius for it.
He was the most wonderful thing anybody ever did. But
it's one of those deals where it's only bad if
Trump does it. If anybody else does it, it's great.
So now Trump wants to clean up the crime in Chicago,
in Portland. This prime has been going on for so
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long in Chicago. How many years have we been talking
about this? It's a killing field. Every week every weekend,
forty five people are shot in Chicago. It's out of control.
If we have listeners in Chicago, they can tell us
you got a couple of nice areas with all sorts
of fancy stores and great restaurants and it's beautiful. Then
(03:22):
you go a few blocks the other way and you're
in a war zone. It's been like that in Washington,
d C, Chicago and many of our major cities. So
Trump wants to clean up Chicago, do something about the crime.
Democrats are furious, furious, and this is the no Kings,
no Kings. They're going to stand up to him. Pritzker
(03:43):
is going to court. He's going to assume him. Pritzker
is going to do it. That's that big fat slab.
Ralph Cramton looking governor, and Trump was asked about Pritzker.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I think he should beg for help because he's running
a bad operation. I mean he's letting people be killed
and his city because he doesn't want in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
Yeah, he's letting people be killed every forty five people.
If you were running the place and forty five people
were shot last weekend, wouldn't you go crazy trying to
stop this from happening. Well it's happened every weekend for years,
for decades. They couldn't care less in Chicago. They let
it happen. But these Democrats are just going nuts. You know,
(04:23):
Bill Maher was a pretty left wing Democrat, but now
they're so nuts, they're way to the left of Bill Maher.
Bill Maher even defending Trump. You know, Trump has done
some great things as president, and just he's only been
president like twenty minutes. This is only like six months.
Look how much he's gotten done in six months.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You cannot ever deny success. You just have to give
your respect, even if it's not your thing, have the
humility to give it up for enormous success on any level.
Trump not my choice, didn't vote for him, but a
lot of people did.
Speaker 4 (05:01):
And he's.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
I can't deny the success.
Speaker 5 (05:06):
I can't either.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Yeah, and that's the president.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
Now. It looks pretty amazing, this peace agreement in Israel,
and it may turn out to be the greatest piece
of deal ever and may transform the Middle East. I know,
if you're watching Morning Joe, they'll tell you everything that's
going to go wrong. If you're watching CNN Morning Joe,
New York to the rebuilding, rebuilding is very difficult, and
they show you the pictures of Gaza all burned out,
(05:31):
all the blown up, bombed out neighbors on the rebuilding
is very difficult. Yeah, not forgot like Donald Trump. He
does this in his sleep. The guy builds hundred story
skyscrapers all over the world. If you've seen these things,
he builds these hundred story skyscrapers, the magnificent, gleaming glass,
beautiful state of the Earth. Well, I think you can
rebuild Gaza. It's not that complicated. And when you got
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zillions of dollars and you've got a number of nations
helping you, so this could be pretty amazing. But these
left wing cooks go nuts. Now look at this. Look
at this Neil Young. Anybody remember Neil Young? Remember Neil Young?
That was like nineteen seventy two Heart of Gold picture
(06:17):
Neil Young. He's like that. It looks like a scarecrow.
It looks like he did those clothes. It looks like
he robbed the scarecrow. He looks like a dusty, musty
old Neil Young. Well, he just pulled all of his
music off Amazon. He has pulled his music. He is
taking it off Amazon now to pull all his music.
(06:39):
What's that two songs? Heart of Gold? What else? Harvest Moon?
That was pretty good. That's a pretty good song, that
Harvest Moon. That's two Cinnamon Girl? What the hell are
you talking about? Cinnamon Girl? It was not a big hit.
(07:00):
It was a minor, minor miner. Okay, but there's nobody
on Amazon looking for Cinnamon Girl by Neil Young. I'd
like to get the actual Amazon data. How many people
searched for a Cinnamon Girl? Okay, let's say it's three.
Let's say it's three. And they're also they're all from
like nineteen seventy three. It's a million. When was harvest
(07:20):
Moon seventy four or something like that. So he's pulled
his music off Amazon. I guarantee you we do not
have a nation of twenty six year olds going.
Speaker 6 (07:28):
Of course, what.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Happened to Neil Young. I can't find Neil Young. I
don't think they're that worried about it. But this guy
is on the warpath. He's seventy nine years old now,
and he goes on social media and announces that he's
pulled all his music from Amazon. He said because he
believes founder Jeff Bezos back's President Trump. You know these
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guys like Jeff Bezos, he's a good guy, but they're
like James Bond Villain's. They don't back anybody. They're their
own country. They they they back everybody and anybody. It's
whatever's good for that moment. But Neil Young writes, forget Amazon,
forget Whole Foods, forget Facebook. He writes in this post.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Buy local, buy direct, Well, how are you going to
buy direct? Don't you have to go to Amazon to
do that? Wait a minute. When you buy on Amazon,
you know, most of the time, ninety eight percent of
the time, you're not buying anything from Amazon. You're buying
from local places. Amazon's just a delivery service. But he's
(08:33):
yelling and screaming on social media. Amazon needs you to
buy from them. Don't they shut down our government, your income,
your safety, your family's health security. Now you might be saying,
the hell is he talking about?
Speaker 6 (08:48):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (08:48):
It's Neil Young. I mean, who knows what the hell
this guy's smoking. Take America back together, stop buying from
the big corporations, support local business, do the right thing.
Show who you are now. Eight months ago, eleven months ago,
it was Joe Biden. Amazon was just fine with him.
Then Facebook was great. You know, whatever Bezos is doing
(09:12):
with Trump, he was doing it with Biden. They do
it with whatever president is in there. So what happened
on social media when he did this, Well, there was
huge backlash against Neil Young. All these younger generation people
right here's like, I'll look at all these comments. Dude
is a kook sad What happened to him? Who's buying
his music? Anyway? He's a has been who is doing
(09:34):
this just to get attention. Now, that could be some
truth to that, could be something like that. He might
be pulling his music. Oh he pulled it off Spotify
too and now from Amazon. Nobody cares if her mused
removes his music. So but anyway, you got to remember
Neil Young is like a They're like a burned out
old hippie from the late sixties. You know, they hated Nixon,
(09:57):
but Nixon was like a humble, quiet guy compared to Trump.
So Trump it really drives them crazy. So hey, did
you know there's still such a thing as it's called
Time Magazine? As anybody, if you're under forty, you don't
know what I'm talking about. Time magazine used to be
a big deal many many years ago. In fact, in
its day, it was probably the biggest magazine in the country.
(10:17):
That it's nothing more important than Time Magazine. To be
on the cover, that was a major, major thing. I
was on the cover of Time magazine. There was nothing
bigger in the media.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Now.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
If you're under forty, you't know what the hell I'm
talking about. A magazine. It's like it's like printed, It's
like a thing you could hold in your hand. And
they had magazines. You'd buy People magazine, you'd buy Time magazine.
There was Newsweek magazine. Believe it or not, they still exist.
There is actually still something called Newsweek magazine. There's a
Time magazine. I don't know what where would you get
(10:50):
this Time magazine. I guess it's a website. I guess
you could go look at their website. But anyway, they
put Donald Trump on the cover because of the Israel
peace Agreement, the piece in the Middle East. It was
a major historic accomplishment, so he had to put him
on the cover. But they went and found the single
ugliest picture ever of Donald Trump. It was taken from below.
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Somebody got the camera under him and shot up, so
you see his neck looks wrinkled, his face looks old,
and it looks so weird. When you first look at
the cover, I'm not just a joke. You'd think it's
Joe Biden. It's from an angle below where it looks
like he's Joe Biden for a second. I think that
was the thinking here. But Trump when after Time Magazine
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saying that, I mean, and it's obvious they did it deliberately.
Obviously did it deliberately. You can see a million pictures
of what happened to Middle East. They all look fine.
This is the weirdest looking picture, Trump writes on truth
Social Time magazine wrote a relatively good story about me,
but the picture maybe the worst of all time. Really
weird taking pictures from underneath, But this is a super
(11:58):
bad picture. Deserves to be called out. Now, this could
be a Neil Young move. Maybe there's nobody on earth
that knows about this Time magazine anymore. Maybe they did
it just maybe just to get some attention, just to
get somebody to know that Time magazine actually still exists. Hey,
sixty minutes working overtime, trying to convince you that everything
(12:22):
with Trump is a disaster. So now sixty minutes trying
to convince you there's going to be a stock market crash.
Stock market doing great at all time highs. Right now,
it's up. Everything's up, the economy is doing great. But
they're always trying to convince you it's Trump. There's going
to be a crash or recession. So they go to
they do a piece on Andrew Ross Sorkin. He's on
(12:43):
sixty minutes. You know, he's on CNBC, so you know,
if he's on CNBC, this is a far left Trump
hating guy. He's written a new book, Reliving nineteen twenty nine.
It's about a stock market crash. He's predicting a crash,
so naturally sixty minutes can't get him on the fast enough.
They do a whole ten to fifteen minute piece on them.
(13:04):
But he does make one point though, he said this
AI stuff AI is causing a some some think that's
the rise in a lot of the stocks. These companies
now can use AI and get things done cheaper. It
cuts down on how many employees. But he thinks there
could be an AI crash coming. But now he argues,
(13:26):
you know, they try to tell you the economy so
bad under Trump, but he's arguing, it's so great. We
could be facing a disaster here. So but the problem
with AI, the big problem. Experts are predicting it'll replace
a lot of jobs, not just accounting that sort of stuff,
but all sorts of jobs, even the lawyers, you know,
there's there's websites now where instead of hiring a lawyer,
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you can just use AI. It'll figure out legally what
you should do. I mean, there's amazing uses of AI.
So some experts think, you know, whatever you have Industrial revolution,
machines come in at whatever things are invented. It puts
a lot of people out of work. But they think
with AI, this could be the biggest revolution of all
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and it could I heat to say this. Some think
it could put almost one hundred million people out of work.
It could be devastating. Now, whenever you have one of
these situations like the Industrial Revolution, everybody eventually goes back
to work finding something else to do. But that transition
can take years, can take five years, ten years. But anyway,
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we'll take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three two one
zero seven ten is the number eight hundred three two
one zero seven ten. Hey, we'll take some calls. Eight
hundred three two one zero seven ten is the number
eight hundred three two one zero seven ten. Let's go
to Vincent and Brooklyn. Vincent, how you.
Speaker 7 (14:49):
Doing, Good morning, Mark, Mark, I'm okay. Perhaps you'll remember
the first president in modern times, even before Kennedy to
use the National Guard with Dwight eyesa and how were
to integrate public schools in Little Rock, Kansas because the
black kids wanted to attend elementary school there. And Bill
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Clinton's mentor was the governor of Arkansas at the time,
and he was dead set against it. And Eisenhower federalized
the state National Guard and said, I said the men,
I remember having vivid memories of the National God lining
the entrance of the school and God members escorting this
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young black woman, young black kid into the school. Mark
You're so right on the money when you talk about
these people like Bondami and his ilk and the Israel
hate is. Yesterday in Italy in the City Hall of Milan,
outside all of the Palestinians were protesting against the Nan
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Yahoo President Trump peace plan, And somehow in the gallery
inside the city Hall there was planted there a bunch
of Palestinian thugs and when the mayors started to address
the legislative session, they stood up, they raised Palestinian flags.
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They ran down the hall from the gallery where the
diaces unfurled Palestinian flags, and outside the police had to
stop breaking heads and stuff. There there's people who like
Bondami you're taking away their game when you do that.
And last night I thought I was watching a political
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comedic version of The Three Tenants with Luciano Pavarotti, Jose Carreras,
and Placido Domingo. Instead we had Bernie Sanders. We had
Bernie Sanders Mandami and Leticia James was playing the part
of Luca Pavaratti. Because she's as fat as who Charlo
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Pavarotti was.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I think she's actually a little bigger Pavarotti was not quite.
Speaker 7 (17:09):
Yeah, at least Pavaratti I talent. At least he was
a phenomenal singer. The only talent she has is she's
not even good at it is far for grifting the
mortgage companies and everything.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah, all right, great call, thanks for calling. Excellent. Yeah,
Letsia James screaming, I will not bend good. I don't
think anybody wants to see that. Let's go to uh,
Maureen Jackson Heights. Maureen, how you doing okay?
Speaker 8 (17:36):
Mark?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
What's the matter Maureene? You're so quiet, so gentle, so quiet.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
Discupt it about it?
Speaker 1 (17:43):
But you're so quiet. Do you work in the library.
Speaker 8 (17:46):
You sound like no, I'm retired. Did I have a
sick husband that I'm taking. And yesterday when I was
watching the president over in Egypt, and and he had
some of those world lead is standing behind him, and
how proud I was, how very proud to see such
(18:07):
a strong, confident, caring president. And I just hope that
a lot of other people felt the same way. And
he made my day a little bit easier.
Speaker 1 (18:20):
All right, Well, so you're not marching in the no
King's parade. Sorry, No, you sound like a very nice woman, Maureen.
Thanks for calling. Take care. Let's go to Bruce and
Long Island. Bruce. How you doing?
Speaker 7 (18:32):
Yes?
Speaker 6 (18:32):
Hi?
Speaker 9 (18:33):
Mark?
Speaker 1 (18:33):
Hey, hey, hey, so people are sleeping here.
Speaker 9 (18:37):
I'm an optimistic guy. So Mark, I have a question
for you.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Yes, what's the question.
Speaker 9 (18:42):
I read the book Confronting the Presidents, which I thought
was a very good absolutely, But at the very end
of the book, the gentleman that he co wrote the
book with wrote he's praying for Biden's election. Obviously he
wrote that before Biden bowed out. So I was just wondering, Mark,
this guy's in a telligent guy, explain to me how
(19:02):
intelligent people could actually think that? Right?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
Well, I would if I knew what you're talking. What
are you talking about? Why people would vote for Biden?
Speaker 9 (19:09):
They're confronting the presidents. The gentleman that co wrote the
book with.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
Martin de Gard.
Speaker 9 (19:15):
At the very end, he wrote he was writing about
his thoughts about the presidency, and he wrote, I pray
that Biden is reelected.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Well, I can't. I can't really say the guy. I
haven't seen it. I don't know what you're talking about.
I never got to that part of the book. I
read the book, but not that.
Speaker 9 (19:30):
Oh okay, you read the list, and I always wonder
how intelligent people could actually be thinking that they would
want Biden in the White House.
Speaker 1 (19:38):
Well, it goes on all the time. It's Trump derangement syndrome.
You know, you watch these guys on TV. They're not stupid.
I mean, some of these guys are. Jake Tapper is
a bright guy. He's just insane. They're just nuts. Laurence o'donald,
it's a bright guy, he's just insane when it comes
to Trump. They're just when it comes to politics. They
fabricated these whole fake narratives and they start to believe them.
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And you know who we'll ask, We'll ask John Fund.
They'll be with us next the great political analyst, commentator, columnist. Hey,
I'm the expert on elections. Now, what's going to happen
in our New York election?
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Now?
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Jesse Kelly.
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will attract more animals.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
It'll make the current a brilliant column this National Review.
And uh, he's also the author of a great book.
You should get this book are broken Elections? John Fund
follow him on Twitter as well, and he's with us now,
John Fund, how you doing.
Speaker 9 (21:33):
Well?
Speaker 6 (21:34):
Survived the storm, didn't we?
Speaker 1 (21:36):
Yeah, it's much better today. So hey, let me just
get to elections. We got a mayoral election that's crucial
coming up. How secure are these elections you think in
New York? The machines, the ballots, how much funny business
is still going on?
Speaker 6 (21:50):
Well? New York, as you know, is a blue city
and the rules are blue. And that's why the voters
should be blue. About ballid integrity. You know, it was
just a few years ago that the Democrat who ran
the Board of Elections for Manhattan admitted that there were
lots of people who were voting in New York who
shouldn't have. There were buses in Chinatown that would come
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and bring lots of people, and they would vote in
one place and then they would go on to the
next place. He was fired by Bill de Blasio, who
was the mayor at the time. So I don't think
the election is secure. However, as it stands right now,
doesn't look like it's going to be super close. I
think that the real question will be what's the voter
(22:34):
integrity situation in New Jersey where I think the election
for governor, which is very important, is going to be
super tight.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, and who would trust anything in New Jersey if
you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (22:45):
Well, you're right because New Jersey, during the pandemic for COVID,
completely loosened its laws. Everybody in the state now gets
an absentee ballot in the mail, the voter registration roles
having been cleaned in decades. Patterson has a consistent pattern
of having, you know, people going to jail for voter fraud.
(23:06):
It's not theoretical, it's real. And I worry a lot
about New Jersey because I think the Republican candidate is
surging and the Democratic candidate is wrapped up in the
scandal from her days at the Naval Academy where her
espilation you know, she's changing it every day because she
originally said I wasn't allowed to graduate with my class
(23:27):
because I refuse to rap on fellow cadets, except the
Naval Academy's policy is it never punished people who who
wouldn't grat So none of it holds up. New Jersey
is an economic basket case. Unemployment is high, taxes are
through the roof, people are leaving the state. I think
if the future of New Jersey is going to be
(23:48):
on the line in November.
Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah, So why is it close? Citarelli is a pretty
good candidate, She's horrible. Why is it close?
Speaker 6 (23:56):
Because New Jersey has seen a whole bunch of people
moved to Florida and North Carolina and other states. You know,
it's the same thing. And why it's is it's so
hard to elect a guy like Rudy Giuliani or Michael
Bloomberg in New York because the population is not the same.
Lots of people have died off or moved and the
people coming in are different voters. So I think that's
(24:19):
the major reason. And secondly, you know, let's face it,
Trump's you know, in the low forties in New Jersey
in terms of approval, and the whole political structure, in
the media structure in New Jersey. You know how hard
it is to break through New Jersey people listen to
New York radio. They only have one radio station that
(24:39):
you know, broadcasts to the state, so it's hard to
get a message out.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
Yeah, hey, John Fund. Even with New York these like
Mom Donnie will talk about the crisis. It's an affordability crisis.
We've got this crisis that Chris Well Democrats have run
every inch of New York government, city and state for
the last fifteen years. So why wouldn't a voter say, well,
maybe I should change parties, maybe we should vote for
the other side.
Speaker 6 (25:04):
Well, look, the Republican Party is a horrible brand name.
It just does in New York City. And let's face it,
Andrew Cuomo is not exactly the apostle of change and reform.
We remember, we remember his time as governor of New York.
I mean, you know, the joke, the joke is that
he killed more people of the nursing homes than he
(25:25):
ever than anyone and the other governor in New York.
So I have to tell you, I think that the
election in New York City is going to be close
than people think. But remember, you know, there's no runoff, Mandamie.
If he gets you know, one more vote, than Cuomo
or Sliwa. He wins.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
So the debate is Thursday night. Clomo's a pretty weak debater,
Mam Donnie's a good debater. Curtis is a great debater. Uh,
Cuomo will look weak probably compared to them. And if
Curtis lands some real knockout punches, could that turn things around?
Speaker 6 (26:00):
You know? The question always is who watches debates from
start to finish? Very few people. The question is what
are going to be the clips from the debate that
get played on TV and radio? And unless there is
a seminal moment where, you know, Mondami looks like a
deer in the headlights of a car, I just don't
think that's good. I just don't think the debate is
(26:21):
going to be the deciding factor. Yeah, you know, but
that doesn't mean people shouldn't vote because there have been upsets.
There have been upsets in many races in New York City,
and there's always the case where people go into the
voting booth and say, do I really want to take
a chance on a socialist?
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Now? The way to defeat mom Donnie is normally you
drive his unfavorables way up into the near fifty five
sixty and you need the super packs running tons of
ads against him. Where were they that we saw none
of that in this election.
Speaker 6 (26:55):
Well, the business community basically decided that they had a
choice to make. It could either go all out to
defeat him and be on his blacklist should he win,
or they could sit down privately behind the scenes, as
they've been doing with him the last few weeks, you know,
trying to get table crumbs from him and see if
they can survive him if he gets elected. The business
(27:18):
community in New York City has never been accused of
political courage.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Well, hey, if he is elected, we did survive eight
years of the Blasio, so we'd be pretty pretty good
chance of getting through this, right.
Speaker 6 (27:32):
Well, yes, and no. Look, the good news about Mondammie
if he wins, is his powers. They're not nearly here.
The state legislature controls the income tax, the MTA is
not in his hands. He does have the police department.
That's going to be a problem. Crime will go up.
He's not going to keep Tish as the commissioner, so
they're going to be real problems. But his powers are circumscribed.
(27:54):
The real danger mark is this the perception that the
city will go downhill, be there, and perceptions can become reality.
I think people will start thinking about leaving New York
City simply I've been worried about time. Time to think
leaving time not to invest a lot of money in
(28:15):
a new building project or a new factory, or remember
the Amazon thing. That was the real break point. Amazon
was basically forced out of Queens by AOC and her allies,
including Zoran. He was part of all that and nine
thousand jobs. The question is will the perception of New
York is an anti business city be heightened? And it will,
(28:39):
even though Mondamie can't really do as much as we fear.
Speaker 1 (28:43):
Hey, John Fund talk about John Fetterman for a moment.
The guy looked crazy at first, but he's been the
most common since Democrat trying to talk sense in these
other Democrats. Will there ever come a point where the
Democrat party listens to him, maybe tries to get back
towards the center.
Speaker 6 (29:00):
You've just explained how we can convince Democrats to have
common sense. All they have to have is a stroke
and some brain you know, problems, and when they wake up,
you know, suddenly it all becomes clear to them. The
problem is you can't replicate that so easily in other Democrats.
I believe Bestman is a one off. He is just
(29:22):
a complete individualist. He doesn't follow the party line. He
doesn't like people telling him what to do. He's not
a Republican. He's not going to switch parties. But he
is a reminder to Democrats that they pay a price
for marching and lockstep behind the Looke community. And look,
Fetterman is popular in Pennsylvania. He just has He just
(29:44):
has the ability. Whether you call it courage or stubbornness,
he just will not follow the Wow ideology. And I
think that's a political winner. It's just that other Democrats
are too scared to try that same path.
Speaker 1 (29:57):
Well, John fun brilliant is always great talking. You make
sure you're read his columns. Go to National Review you
can read them there. Make sure you followhim on Twitter.
John Fund at Twitter, and get his book Are Broken Elections.
It's still the best book on the subject, John Fund,
great stuff, Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Thank you, Mark.
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Well.
Speaker 1 (30:43):
Hey, this just in Alec Baldwin. You know this accident.
It's Alec Baldwin and step Baldwin. These two geniuses are
driving a white Range Rover belongs to Alex's wife and
they get in an accident. They smash into a tree,
smash up the front of the car. First thing, everything's
you know, drunk right, Well, he says he's been sober
(31:03):
for forty years now, and he said it was a
big garbage truck coming at him and that's why he
had a quickly turn and he ended up hitting the tree.
He puent on line yesterday and explained himself it must have.
Speaker 12 (31:17):
Been something commercial for like taking away material from construction
or something. It was the biggest garbage truck I've ever
seen any Anyway, I won't come into the details now I'm.
Speaker 6 (31:28):
For you, but I had to avoid hitting him.
Speaker 12 (31:30):
I hit a tree. I had a big fat tree
and crushed my car, my wife's car.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Now he's over acting with that voice. It was a
commercial garbage truck. It was some sort of the biggest
height ever since. It's a little too melodramatic there, but
here's the latest. Now East Hampton Police are backing up
his story. His sob story has been backed up by
(31:58):
cops in the Hampton. According to a new report. They
say it was a National Waste Services truck that was
turning right in front of him. East Hampton Police Department
Chief Michael Sarlow said in a statement reported by TMZ
that he had to turn suddenly and the road conditions
(32:20):
were very slippery and wet. As you know obviously yesterday
we were in the middle that nor Easter, the storm,
and these were the contributing factors to the accident. The
police chief says there was no injuries, no summons issued.
Contributing factors to the accident were found to be a
reaction to an uninvolved vehicle and the slippery roadway conditions,
(32:43):
which means they say no drinking, no anything else. The
East Hampton Police. Who knows, maybe Alec Baldwin's are very
close to the East Hampton Police he's a resident. But
we believe the East Hampton Police. If they say that's
what it was, we'll take their word for it. So anyway,
we're out of time, don't go away. Buck and Clay
(33:05):
are coming up next right after the news. Then at
three o'clock it's the Sean Hannity Show. I'll be filling
in for Sean Today from three to six if you
want to listen, and then hey, don't forget Jimmy Fayala
tonight nine to midnight. Excellent show. Otherwise I'm here every
day ten to noon, or you can listen to the
show anytime you want, day or night. Just get the
(33:25):
podcast any place you get podcasts. So I'll see you
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