October 3, 2025 • 8 mins
Liz believes that Andrew Cuomo is nothing compared to Zohran Mamdani. Cuomo's reputation as governor of New York put a damper on his mayoral campaign.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
One an instant dose of honesty anytime, the Mark Simone podcasts.
He's on the iHeartRadio app and at seven ten w
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Mark Simon. Well, the great columnist Liz Peak, and of
course you see her all over television. You can see
her columns foxnews dot com. Also make sure you go
to her website, a great news site, lizpeak dot com.
Lizpeak dot com. Great stuff every day. Up there, Liz Peak.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
How you doing, I'm terrific. Thanks for having me on, Mark.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well, you know I'm watching Schumer and the keem Jeffries
all over television. S every Hey's gonna die, We're gonna die,
this is gonna die. And then they all left for
the weekend. They're on vacation. Now, how does this work?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I guess we're not gonna die right away?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah. So are these two just tone deaf Jeffries and Schumer?
Are they just out of touch?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
They're scared to death? Mark, I think the progressive left
has a stranglehold on the Democratic Party right now, And honestly,
I think you can fairly say that if AOC Alexandrio
Cacio Cortez, the progressive darling from New York State, was
not threatening to primary Chuck Schumer when he's up for
(01:18):
reelection in twenty eight we would not be having a
government shutdown. When he signed on and agreed to go
along with the Republican funding bill in March, he got
absolutely sporched by the progressive left. They hated him for
going along. They think the only thing the Democrats should
be doing is resisting everything Republicans and Donald Trump are
(01:39):
trying to do. And so he learned his lesson. I mean,
when you look at poland guess what Schumer might be
beaten by AOC. It's completely possible. So you know, it's
like Andrew Cuomo running against Mom Donnie in New York
City for the mayor's race. I mean, basically, Cuomo a
sort of long time I guess moderate Democrat, although I
(02:02):
think he's a pretty far left Democrat. He is nothing
compared to Mamdani. That's where the energy is, that's where
the excitement is in the Democratic Party. So I mean, honestly,
you have this ridiculous situation where the entire country is
in the grip of AOC, who, in my view, is
an incredibly know nothing Democrat representative who has tremendous social
(02:25):
media presence, and that's about it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
And how did we get to this point? Is it
because the universities became in doctrination centers over the last
few decades and we've raised generations of far left kookie
socialist young Is that how this is happening.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Without a doubt, without a doubt, that is part of it.
I mean, I think in terms of what ails the
Democratic Party, well, first of all, let's look at their record.
Show me a Democrat run state in the United States
that is prospering. The answer is, you can't because their
policies don't work. Mandani has risen to fame by talking
(03:04):
about affordability. He's completely right that the two most expensive
states to live in are New York and California. Why
would that be, I wonder Well, let's talk about high
taxes and tons of regulation that make it almost impossible
to operate a small business, and all the kinds of
labor laws that they put in effect that jack up
(03:26):
the price of everything from uber drivers to delivery drivers,
delivery people for food and stuff. All that may seem
like a good thing, but the reality is it means
it's incredibly expensive to live in these states. So weirdly,
it's Democrat policies that have pushed the emergence of Democratic
(03:47):
socialists who pretend they're going to solve those affordability issues
by being even farther to the left, having even more
regulation and more taxes, and doing everything that Democrats have
been doing for decades, but on steroids. I mean, you
cannot come up with a worse argument for election than that,
and yet it is resonating.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, if you think about it, the Democrats have run
every inch in New York legislature, all Beanys, governor, mayor
city council for about twelve years. So why would if
it's such a crisis, why wouldn't you just switch parties?
That's the obvious thing to do.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, Mark, you know you're thinking straight. The problem is
all these young people are not and part of it
is what you call indoctrination. And that's exactly the right
word for it. You know, during the Vietnam era, if
you think back that long, what how did you escape
the draft? All the lefty hippies who didn't approve of
(04:43):
the war in Vietnam could avoid the draft by becoming teachers,
and professors. So they did, and guess what here we
are all these years later. These guys have organized and
run the departments of America's colleges now for forty plus years.
They hire people who think the way they do. Polling
(05:04):
shows literally the faculty at Harvard, for example, doesn't even
want to have any kind of diversity of opinion in
Harvard's faculty. They don't approve of that. So you have
a very solid generation now that is incredibly left wing
and by the way, incredibly ignorant because they don't know
the history of the Soviet Union. They don't know the
(05:27):
history of Venezuela and how or Cuba or any of
these countries that are so poor and so destitute in
the case of Soviet Union, that actually collapsed under the
weight of the kinds of policies that they are now embracing.
Had they been ever taught that, or taught about the
virtues of capitalism and how capitalists free countries do well
(05:49):
and create wealth for their people, maybe they wouldn't be
so eager to flock to a guy that is touting
the same failed policies that really have caused millions to
live been poverty.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, it's a strange election here in New York. You
got one candidate is the absolute worst of the new
generation Democrat and the other candidate's the worst of the
old generation demosra.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, isn't that the truth? That's a really good point.
It's oh, it's like and that's you know, that's obviously anyway,
that's a local issue. We have two terrible candidates running,
and so it's it's like, you know, the worst of
the choice you can make. But but I think generally nationally,
when you look at Schumern, Schumer in particular should be embarrassed.
(06:32):
I mean, how many times has he paraded before the
cameras well every Sunday night he used to if you recall,
because nobody else bothered, uh, and he would talk about
how terrible government shutdowns are, how they really hurt the country.
And here they are insisting on one for what end?
To what end they want to I mean, they don't
(06:54):
want to give the Senate and it's just a few
weeks to get their spending bill in order they'd want
to do that. So again, this is this is play acting.
It's performative politics, which is what Democrats have really kind
of you know, become very good at or at least
sort of. That's all they do.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Uh, it's performative politics with no particular purpose, and it's
I think it's a tragedy honestly.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well, great stuff, Liz Peak. Hey, everybody check out her
website lizpeak dot com. You got great stories there every day.
It's a great news site, lizpeak dot com. Be a
subscriber to it, and of course reader columns. Watch her
all over television and great stuff, Liz Peak. Thanks for
being with.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Us, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
All right, take care. Let me just see here. The
did He trial, Well, no, no word, it's going to
be a little while. The hearing is underway. Did He
will be sentenced at some point. We'll bring it to
you when it happens. The judge says, trial evidence did
establish that they were transported for the purpose of engaging
(08:01):
in a commercial sex act. That doesn't sound good. Prosecution
wants eleven years. Did he wants time served. That's fourteen months.
Some criminal lawyers say it'll be somewhere in the middle
of five six years. Well, we'll see. It'll happen later
this morning and we'll get to that. Coming up on
seven to ten WR
One an instant dose of honesty anytime, the Mark Simone podcasts.
He's on the iHeartRadio app and at seven ten w
o R dot com Slash podcasts seven ten double o rs.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Mark Simon. Well, the great columnist Liz Peak, and of
course you see her all over television. You can see
her columns foxnews dot com. Also make sure you go
to her website, a great news site, lizpeak dot com.
Lizpeak dot com. Great stuff every day. Up there, Liz Peak.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
How you doing, I'm terrific. Thanks for having me on, Mark.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Well, you know I'm watching Schumer and the keem Jeffries
all over television. S every Hey's gonna die, We're gonna die,
this is gonna die. And then they all left for
the weekend. They're on vacation. Now, how does this work?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I guess we're not gonna die right away?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
Yeah. So are these two just tone deaf Jeffries and Schumer?
Are they just out of touch?
Speaker 3 (00:58):
They're scared to death? Mark, I think the progressive left
has a stranglehold on the Democratic Party right now, And honestly,
I think you can fairly say that if AOC Alexandrio
Cacio Cortez, the progressive darling from New York State, was
not threatening to primary Chuck Schumer when he's up for
(01:18):
reelection in twenty eight we would not be having a
government shutdown. When he signed on and agreed to go
along with the Republican funding bill in March, he got
absolutely sporched by the progressive left. They hated him for
going along. They think the only thing the Democrats should
be doing is resisting everything Republicans and Donald Trump are
(01:39):
trying to do. And so he learned his lesson. I mean,
when you look at poland guess what Schumer might be
beaten by AOC. It's completely possible. So you know, it's
like Andrew Cuomo running against Mom Donnie in New York
City for the mayor's race. I mean, basically, Cuomo a
sort of long time I guess moderate Democrat, although I
(02:02):
think he's a pretty far left Democrat. He is nothing
compared to Mamdani. That's where the energy is, that's where
the excitement is in the Democratic Party. So I mean, honestly,
you have this ridiculous situation where the entire country is
in the grip of AOC, who, in my view, is
an incredibly know nothing Democrat representative who has tremendous social
(02:25):
media presence, and that's about it.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
And how did we get to this point? Is it
because the universities became in doctrination centers over the last
few decades and we've raised generations of far left kookie
socialist young Is that how this is happening.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
Without a doubt, without a doubt, that is part of it.
I mean, I think in terms of what ails the
Democratic Party, well, first of all, let's look at their record.
Show me a Democrat run state in the United States
that is prospering. The answer is, you can't because their
policies don't work. Mandani has risen to fame by talking
(03:04):
about affordability. He's completely right that the two most expensive
states to live in are New York and California. Why
would that be, I wonder Well, let's talk about high
taxes and tons of regulation that make it almost impossible
to operate a small business, and all the kinds of
labor laws that they put in effect that jack up
(03:26):
the price of everything from uber drivers to delivery drivers,
delivery people for food and stuff. All that may seem
like a good thing, but the reality is it means
it's incredibly expensive to live in these states. So weirdly,
it's Democrat policies that have pushed the emergence of Democratic
(03:47):
socialists who pretend they're going to solve those affordability issues
by being even farther to the left, having even more
regulation and more taxes, and doing everything that Democrats have
been doing for decades, but on steroids. I mean, you
cannot come up with a worse argument for election than that,
and yet it is resonating.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, if you think about it, the Democrats have run
every inch in New York legislature, all Beanys, governor, mayor
city council for about twelve years. So why would if
it's such a crisis, why wouldn't you just switch parties?
That's the obvious thing to do.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Yeah, Mark, you know you're thinking straight. The problem is
all these young people are not and part of it
is what you call indoctrination. And that's exactly the right
word for it. You know, during the Vietnam era, if
you think back that long, what how did you escape
the draft? All the lefty hippies who didn't approve of
(04:43):
the war in Vietnam could avoid the draft by becoming teachers,
and professors. So they did, and guess what here we
are all these years later. These guys have organized and
run the departments of America's colleges now for forty plus years.
They hire people who think the way they do. Polling
(05:04):
shows literally the faculty at Harvard, for example, doesn't even
want to have any kind of diversity of opinion in
Harvard's faculty. They don't approve of that. So you have
a very solid generation now that is incredibly left wing
and by the way, incredibly ignorant because they don't know
the history of the Soviet Union. They don't know the
(05:27):
history of Venezuela and how or Cuba or any of
these countries that are so poor and so destitute in
the case of Soviet Union, that actually collapsed under the
weight of the kinds of policies that they are now embracing.
Had they been ever taught that, or taught about the
virtues of capitalism and how capitalists free countries do well
(05:49):
and create wealth for their people, maybe they wouldn't be
so eager to flock to a guy that is touting
the same failed policies that really have caused millions to
live been poverty.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Yeah, it's a strange election here in New York. You
got one candidate is the absolute worst of the new
generation Democrat and the other candidate's the worst of the
old generation demosra.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, isn't that the truth? That's a really good point.
It's oh, it's like and that's you know, that's obviously anyway,
that's a local issue. We have two terrible candidates running,
and so it's it's like, you know, the worst of
the choice you can make. But but I think generally nationally,
when you look at Schumern, Schumer in particular should be embarrassed.
(06:32):
I mean, how many times has he paraded before the
cameras well every Sunday night he used to if you recall,
because nobody else bothered, uh, and he would talk about
how terrible government shutdowns are, how they really hurt the country.
And here they are insisting on one for what end?
To what end they want to I mean, they don't
(06:54):
want to give the Senate and it's just a few
weeks to get their spending bill in order they'd want
to do that. So again, this is this is play acting.
It's performative politics, which is what Democrats have really kind
of you know, become very good at or at least
sort of. That's all they do.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
Now.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Uh, it's performative politics with no particular purpose, and it's
I think it's a tragedy honestly.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Well, great stuff, Liz Peak. Hey, everybody check out her
website lizpeak dot com. You got great stories there every day.
It's a great news site, lizpeak dot com. Be a
subscriber to it, and of course reader columns. Watch her
all over television and great stuff, Liz Peak. Thanks for
being with.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Us, Thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
All right, take care. Let me just see here. The
did He trial, Well, no, no word, it's going to
be a little while. The hearing is underway. Did He
will be sentenced at some point. We'll bring it to
you when it happens. The judge says, trial evidence did
establish that they were transported for the purpose of engaging
(08:01):
in a commercial sex act. That doesn't sound good. Prosecution
wants eleven years. Did he wants time served. That's fourteen months.
Some criminal lawyers say it'll be somewhere in the middle
of five six years. Well, we'll see. It'll happen later
this morning and we'll get to that. Coming up on
seven to ten WR
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