December 3, 2025 • 10 mins
The Left tried to push Democratic candidate Aftyn Behn to flip Tennessee to blue, but she lost the election. Ann discusses whether aggressive tactics by the Dems will help them win the midterms. The liberal media is pressuring Secretary of War Pete Hegseth over his alleged mishandling of war crimes involving drugs and weapons.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Here's more of the Mark Simone show on wor Well
and Culture. The best selling author and the great columnists
also does a lot of speeches all over the country.
In fact, if you're in Massachusetts tomorrow night, she'll be
speaking at MIT of all places, six o'clock MIT, and
(00:21):
she's with us right now. And Culter, how you doing fantastic?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
How are you? Marximon?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Good? You know, I do a lot of speeches, but
it's always in some normal place. Mit. You got to
sound pretty smart there, I know.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I hope they don't ask me any math questions.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
So that's pretty good. Now, all over America they got
and we heard this was going to happen. The Democrats
have like twenty five other Mam Donnis. They're gonna run.
They run this woman in Tennessee, who's another Mam Donnie.
No resume, history of saying crazy things, but charming, great
on social media, an influencer. What is this? Who are
(01:03):
these Democrats voting for these people?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well, luckily not enough to elect her. Your listeners, being
normal people, probably don't know this, but I bet you do.
All week on MSNBC, they've been pushing this progressive woman
and you know this was going to be a test
for Trump, And here it was. It's in Tennessee represented
by a Republican. Now this is going to be big tests,
(01:29):
big test. You know, they don't set something up as
a big test unless they're expecting to win. So they
were pushing this woman like mad. And she lost last
night by ten points. So I was listening to the
coverage today and I don't know CNN or MSNBC. I
have a new definition of a close election. It's where
a Republican wins by ten points. But apparently that was
(01:55):
that was a nail bier.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
But what is this all about? Voting for people that
have no resume on paper? They think, But they keep
yelling this word affordability and it sounds good. But if
you know, like in New York, Democrats have run every
inch of New York for fifteen years. If there's an
affordability crisis, why would you vote for them?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yes, and unless it is Democrats with their idiotic laws
and regulations making things more expensive, as with run control,
as with Obamacare. Mostly what people are talking about, I mean,
I mean Trump is right. This is just a word
they use. It's like for years, I don't know, I
had doubt politicians run on this anymore. But years, for decades,
(02:40):
every every single presidential candidate would run on bringing people together. Okay,
those are words, and affordability is a word. What you're
talking about is inflation or democratic policies. That's what makes
things expensive. I mean, as we've discussed, there's been no
matter how liberal the economist is, just economy after economists
(03:00):
after economists has pointed out, rent control goes into effect,
housing prices go through the roof. And every place there
is rent control, in New York City and San Francisco,
in you know, small burghs, throughout the nation. Every place
rank control is in effect, the housing is out of
reach for normal people. Thomas All writes a lot about this.
(03:22):
It's it's it's the most basic economic principle. Restrict the
supply prices go up.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, you know, they're the ones.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I mean. The healthcare thing just drives me absolutely nuts.
Yet everybody knew this. That's why every single Republican voted
against Obamacare. As I think I've said before, when Republicans
say we're going to fix something, we fix it, and
then we lose it as an issue to run on.
When Democrats say they're going to fix something they got
an issue until the end of time is they just
(03:55):
make things worse.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, you know, like they go crazy about tariffs. Tariffs
are the worst thing. They hate tariffs, but then they
put on more tariffs than anybody. They call it the
corporate tax increase, but that's the same thing. It's a
teriff on of business.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So, oh, that's a great point.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
How did they get away with this? But well, I
know how there's no media to expose it. But it's
never going to change. So what does this mean for
the midterms?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well, as I keep warning you, my friends, your listeners,
midterms generally go against the party in power, which is
why I don't know why the Trump administration hasn't done
this yet. I've surely talked about it on your program before.
So the census is taken in twenty twenty under Donald
Trump in twenty twenty one. The year after a census,
(04:45):
they always go back and check, do we make any mistakes?
Do we get this right? They do spot checks that
sort of thing. Under the Biden administration they realized, oh
my gosh, we made a lot of mistakes, and they
ended up taking away net about ten congressional seats from
Republicans and giving them to the Blue States. They counted
(05:06):
the Blue states as being much bigger and about ten
on each side, and Red states as being much smaller.
So I don't know Ron DeSantis should sue. This is
the administration finding its own mistake. Why can't the Trump
administration say fix the mistake? I mean that gives us
ten seats right there, and other than that, it's probably
(05:28):
going to be a blowout against us, especially looking at
what I didn't think. I didn't think there was any
way California could squeeze any more Democrats seats out of
that state, but apparently they have. So Democrats are they
have an auto pickup of five states in California. And
this isn't like some tricky, you know, jerrymandering trick. It's
(05:48):
just it's just following the Constitution and creating congressional districts
the way they are supposed to be created. So I
really think Trump has got to get on that.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah, but again you got this new breed a Democrats
no resume saying crazy things, but they just look good
on social media and they're great influencers. And are there
any Republicans who can counter that? Who can do the
same trick.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I hate to sound snobbish, but I think most Republican
voters are smarter. They really are Democrats. We deserve stupid
voters too. I mean, I don't know we're getting some now,
but but Democrats really have a lock on the stupid voters.
And I am not referring to, you know, young people.
I don't think it's just young people. A lot of
young people are are very thoughtful. But well, I guess
(06:38):
I am referring to my gender. A lot of especially women,
especially you know, identity politics types. They they they know nothing,
they think nothing, They go along with the crowd. Group
think is very powerful.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah. So, hey, the other this war crimes hoax. You know,
this is some terrible war crimes taking place, is this? Well,
Democrats get away with this defending these coke boats, these
narco boats.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Oh, I'm so glad you brought that up. I wanted
to make two points about that. One is it's funny
listening to the liberal media. They're trying to get hag
Seth to you know, quote take responsibility as if as
if that's that's okay, and then we'll all go away.
You say you're responsible, the media plays this trick a
(07:31):
million times. I was just thinking of tweeting out hegg sess,
do not quote take responsibility. This is what they did
to rum Fells over Abu Grab. They run this campaign,
you just got to take response. Be a man here.
They did it with the first George bush On on
you gotta raise taxes and he broke his read my
lips pledge. And the final thing, second thing, and only
(07:52):
thinks is probably running out of time, is I don't
care what they do to these Venezuelan boats. I mean,
since the end of Reagan. This is the first time
in my life the American military has been used to
protect American lives, not alives in the Middle East, not
lives in Afghanistan, not lives in the Balkans. For the
(08:13):
first time, the military is being used to protect America.
So I don't care what you do.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
That's a very good point, excellent point. Hey, So, if
you're in Massachusetts, we got a lot of listeners there
and Culture is speaking tomorrow night at MIT. Aren't they
kind of left wing kooks there? How are you going
to speak to them?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Well, I'm hoping some of your listeners will come. You
sign up on Google it's linked on my Twitter feed,
and I happen to notice on the Google page they're
apparently not releasing the undisclosed location until I don't know
a few hours before the speech, but it obviously will
be near MIT, and I think all marksima own listeners
(08:55):
should come so I could at least get some smart
questions that don't involve.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Well, it's a bunch of left wing cooks there at MIT,
but it's quite a beautiful campus.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
And probably fewer left wing cooks because remember they were
the first college to well first get rid of the
SAT and then immediately bring it back.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, it's a beautiful campus and it's right on the
Charles River. You get a beautiful view and you'll have
a good time there talking to those eggheads. But it's
a great unit. It's on one of our great universities.
So tomorrow, yeah and Culter at MIT six o'clock. Just
go to her Twitter. You can get the place to
sign up for it, and of course follow on Twitter.
Make sure you follow on substack. It's Andculter dot substack
(09:41):
dot com and Culter thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Good to talk to you, Mark Slone, Bye.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Bye all take care, Hey, don't forget tonight. You got
Buck and Clay coming up at noon today, but don't
forget tonight. Every night excellent news show Jimmy Fla. It's fascinating,
it's funny, it's a very entertaining show. Nine to midnight
every night on seven ten Woo
Here's more of the Mark Simone show on wor Well
and Culture. The best selling author and the great columnists
also does a lot of speeches all over the country.
In fact, if you're in Massachusetts tomorrow night, she'll be
speaking at MIT of all places, six o'clock MIT, and
(00:21):
she's with us right now. And Culter, how you doing fantastic?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
How are you? Marximon?
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Good? You know, I do a lot of speeches, but
it's always in some normal place. Mit. You got to
sound pretty smart there, I know.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
I hope they don't ask me any math questions.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
So that's pretty good. Now, all over America they got
and we heard this was going to happen. The Democrats
have like twenty five other Mam Donnis. They're gonna run.
They run this woman in Tennessee, who's another Mam Donnie.
No resume, history of saying crazy things, but charming, great
on social media, an influencer. What is this? Who are
(01:03):
these Democrats voting for these people?
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Well, luckily not enough to elect her. Your listeners, being
normal people, probably don't know this, but I bet you do.
All week on MSNBC, they've been pushing this progressive woman
and you know this was going to be a test
for Trump, And here it was. It's in Tennessee represented
by a Republican. Now this is going to be big tests,
(01:29):
big test. You know, they don't set something up as
a big test unless they're expecting to win. So they
were pushing this woman like mad. And she lost last
night by ten points. So I was listening to the
coverage today and I don't know CNN or MSNBC. I
have a new definition of a close election. It's where
a Republican wins by ten points. But apparently that was
(01:55):
that was a nail bier.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
But what is this all about? Voting for people that
have no resume on paper? They think, But they keep
yelling this word affordability and it sounds good. But if
you know, like in New York, Democrats have run every
inch of New York for fifteen years. If there's an
affordability crisis, why would you vote for them?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yes, and unless it is Democrats with their idiotic laws
and regulations making things more expensive, as with run control,
as with Obamacare. Mostly what people are talking about, I mean,
I mean Trump is right. This is just a word
they use. It's like for years, I don't know, I
had doubt politicians run on this anymore. But years, for decades,
(02:40):
every every single presidential candidate would run on bringing people together. Okay,
those are words, and affordability is a word. What you're
talking about is inflation or democratic policies. That's what makes
things expensive. I mean, as we've discussed, there's been no
matter how liberal the economist is, just economy after economists
(03:00):
after economists has pointed out, rent control goes into effect,
housing prices go through the roof. And every place there
is rent control, in New York City and San Francisco,
in you know, small burghs, throughout the nation. Every place
rank control is in effect, the housing is out of
reach for normal people. Thomas All writes a lot about this.
(03:22):
It's it's it's the most basic economic principle. Restrict the
supply prices go up.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Yeah, you know, they're the ones.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I mean. The healthcare thing just drives me absolutely nuts.
Yet everybody knew this. That's why every single Republican voted
against Obamacare. As I think I've said before, when Republicans
say we're going to fix something, we fix it, and
then we lose it as an issue to run on.
When Democrats say they're going to fix something they got
an issue until the end of time is they just
(03:55):
make things worse.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
Yeah, you know, like they go crazy about tariffs. Tariffs
are the worst thing. They hate tariffs, but then they
put on more tariffs than anybody. They call it the
corporate tax increase, but that's the same thing. It's a
teriff on of business.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
So, oh, that's a great point.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
How did they get away with this? But well, I
know how there's no media to expose it. But it's
never going to change. So what does this mean for
the midterms?
Speaker 2 (04:22):
Well, as I keep warning you, my friends, your listeners,
midterms generally go against the party in power, which is
why I don't know why the Trump administration hasn't done
this yet. I've surely talked about it on your program before.
So the census is taken in twenty twenty under Donald
Trump in twenty twenty one. The year after a census,
(04:45):
they always go back and check, do we make any mistakes?
Do we get this right? They do spot checks that
sort of thing. Under the Biden administration they realized, oh
my gosh, we made a lot of mistakes, and they
ended up taking away net about ten congressional seats from
Republicans and giving them to the Blue States. They counted
(05:06):
the Blue states as being much bigger and about ten
on each side, and Red states as being much smaller.
So I don't know Ron DeSantis should sue. This is
the administration finding its own mistake. Why can't the Trump
administration say fix the mistake? I mean that gives us
ten seats right there, and other than that, it's probably
(05:28):
going to be a blowout against us, especially looking at
what I didn't think. I didn't think there was any
way California could squeeze any more Democrats seats out of
that state, but apparently they have. So Democrats are they
have an auto pickup of five states in California. And
this isn't like some tricky, you know, jerrymandering trick. It's
(05:48):
just it's just following the Constitution and creating congressional districts
the way they are supposed to be created. So I
really think Trump has got to get on that.
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah, but again you got this new breed a Democrats
no resume saying crazy things, but they just look good
on social media and they're great influencers. And are there
any Republicans who can counter that? Who can do the
same trick.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
I hate to sound snobbish, but I think most Republican
voters are smarter. They really are Democrats. We deserve stupid
voters too. I mean, I don't know we're getting some now,
but but Democrats really have a lock on the stupid voters.
And I am not referring to, you know, young people.
I don't think it's just young people. A lot of
young people are are very thoughtful. But well, I guess
(06:38):
I am referring to my gender. A lot of especially women,
especially you know, identity politics types. They they they know nothing,
they think nothing, They go along with the crowd. Group
think is very powerful.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Yeah. So, hey, the other this war crimes hoax. You know,
this is some terrible war crimes taking place, is this? Well,
Democrats get away with this defending these coke boats, these
narco boats.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Oh, I'm so glad you brought that up. I wanted
to make two points about that. One is it's funny
listening to the liberal media. They're trying to get hag
Seth to you know, quote take responsibility as if as
if that's that's okay, and then we'll all go away.
You say you're responsible, the media plays this trick a
(07:31):
million times. I was just thinking of tweeting out hegg sess,
do not quote take responsibility. This is what they did
to rum Fells over Abu Grab. They run this campaign,
you just got to take response. Be a man here.
They did it with the first George bush On on
you gotta raise taxes and he broke his read my
lips pledge. And the final thing, second thing, and only
(07:52):
thinks is probably running out of time, is I don't
care what they do to these Venezuelan boats. I mean,
since the end of Reagan. This is the first time
in my life the American military has been used to
protect American lives, not alives in the Middle East, not
lives in Afghanistan, not lives in the Balkans. For the
(08:13):
first time, the military is being used to protect America.
So I don't care what you do.
Speaker 1 (08:21):
That's a very good point, excellent point. Hey, So, if
you're in Massachusetts, we got a lot of listeners there
and Culture is speaking tomorrow night at MIT. Aren't they
kind of left wing kooks there? How are you going
to speak to them?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Well, I'm hoping some of your listeners will come. You
sign up on Google it's linked on my Twitter feed,
and I happen to notice on the Google page they're
apparently not releasing the undisclosed location until I don't know
a few hours before the speech, but it obviously will
be near MIT, and I think all marksima own listeners
(08:55):
should come so I could at least get some smart
questions that don't involve.
Speaker 1 (09:01):
Well, it's a bunch of left wing cooks there at MIT,
but it's quite a beautiful campus.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
And probably fewer left wing cooks because remember they were
the first college to well first get rid of the
SAT and then immediately bring it back.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Yeah, it's a beautiful campus and it's right on the
Charles River. You get a beautiful view and you'll have
a good time there talking to those eggheads. But it's
a great unit. It's on one of our great universities.
So tomorrow, yeah and Culter at MIT six o'clock. Just
go to her Twitter. You can get the place to
sign up for it, and of course follow on Twitter.
Make sure you follow on substack. It's Andculter dot substack
(09:41):
dot com and Culter thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Good to talk to you, Mark Slone, Bye.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
Bye all take care, Hey, don't forget tonight. You got
Buck and Clay coming up at noon today, but don't
forget tonight. Every night excellent news show Jimmy Fla. It's fascinating,
it's funny, it's a very entertaining show. Nine to midnight
every night on seven ten Woo
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