December 8, 2025 • 10 mins
Liz argues that Democratic governance often leads to financial mismanagement, citing unnecessary programs and fraud. They also discuss Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s plan to eliminate NYC’s homeless encampments, suggesting it could worsen homelessness in the city.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now more. Mark Simone on seven too.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Liz Peak the brilliant columnist, and he's got this wonderful website.
You should check it every day. Sign up for the
daily Briefings. It's great news and analysis. Lizpeak dot com.
Lizpeak dot com. Make sure you sign up for the
Daily Briefing every day. Good stuff, Liz Peak. How you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I'm terrific better for speaking with you?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hey here that the big drug lords, the cartel bosses
were had tears in their eyes yesterday watching these Sunday shows,
so grateful to the host for sticking up for them,
defending them in their their narco boats. How much longer
do we have to listen to this from the Democrats?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I mean, Mark, don't you really begin to sort of think?
What what are the Democrats doing? What do they stand for?
As the public looks at the Democratic Party now? They
stand for illegal immigration, They stand for effectively embracing recidivism,
not putting anyone in jail, and all these god awful
stories week after week, just like the light trains stabbing
(01:09):
the second one again as someone who's been convicted of
many times an illegal immigrant, I mean, what are the
they embrace fraud. They're opposed twenty six states won't let
the federal government look at their SNAP programs and their
medicaid programs. Why I mean, fraud is a serious thing.
(01:30):
Hundreds of billions of dollars every year and that is,
by the way, coming a statistic coming from Joe Biden's
administration are lost to waste and fraud by our federal
welfare programs. What is it that the Democrats are offering
people that they can possibly like and as you say,
the final thing standing up for narco traffickers, that is
(01:53):
really a winning argument.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
My god? What is wrong with these people?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So whenever it comes to Democrat's in homeless programs, money
seems to have vanished. You remember we had the Deblasi
administration with that thrive in dollars billion missing. Now in
this Somali, Minnesota, Tim Waltz, whatever this is, they're talking
about maybe up to eight billion missing. Mom, Donnie is
now talking about a homeless program. Does that mean another
(02:21):
billion is going to get lost somewhere?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Sure, because among other things, none of these people has
real world private sector experience. So you know, I think
it was Jamie Dimond yesterday on Maria's Maria Bartiromo show
talking about the city is three hundred thousand people, and basically,
successful mayors are people who can manage. Well, do you
(02:45):
think this guy has any management capabilities at all?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Of course he doesn't. He hasn't read, he hasn't run
a business.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
He hasn't run any Most Democrats, by the way, have
never run a business, which is a very interesting differential
in my between Republicans and Democrats. When Democrats get fired,
they get voted out of a job, what do they do.
They run for another office because they don't know how
to run a restaurant or build a house or anything practical.
Republicans can go back to farming or running a car
(03:14):
dealership or you know name it. I mean, actually, if
you look at seriously, what you know congress people and
mayors and stuff do after retirement. They either go to
work for MSNBC if they're Democrats, or they go to
Harvard to teach like build a Blasio or Lori Lightfoot,
or they run for another office. Look at Andrew Cmo.
(03:35):
He couldn't think of anything else to do, so we
ran for mayor of New York. That didn't turn out well.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
So what's he going to do.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
He's probably going to find, you know, mayor of Buffalo
or something next to run for.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
It's really pitiful. But anyway, Mandani taking on a.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Lot of money to spew at the homeless. You know,
his latest thing on homelessness is he's no longer going
to enforce the eradication or the cleaning out of the
homeless and captinance. Who does that benefit Mark? Who is
really applauding that move? It certainly isn't the residents of
the neighborhoods where these homeless encampments spring up, because their
(04:10):
lives are going to be made a mess by the
fact that you're going to have this sprawl of dirty,
sometimes violent homeless in community that kind of erupts in
their midst. It isn't good for the homeless, some seventy
percent of whom are drug users or alcoholics because they
(04:31):
aren't going to get any treatment. They prefer to live
on the street because they can continue to abuse drugs
and alcohol. It isn't good for them. Who is it
good for? I mean, I really ask that at all sincerity.
Who does he think he's benefiting there?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, you know, here in the radio business, we want
to do something sometimes we see what happened in other
stations did it and they come in with the report
forty seven stations did it and the ratings plunged all
forty seven times, So we know not to do it. Now.
In the case of Mamdani and very smart guy, when
they show him thirteen other cities did it and was disaster,
why can't he take in that information and calculate all this.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, it's the same thing with rent control, right, rent
control has never ever worked anywhere, and so nonetheless, he
is very in favor of capping rent increases on subsidized housing,
even though it has been proven time after time that
what you do is disincentivize landlords from putting any money,
(05:30):
any investment into the housing stock. So basically you end
up with worse off, less affordable, and crumbling housing. So
to your point, why doesn't he learn from that? Why
don't the young people out protesting in favor of socialism
learn from the fact that never error has socialism resulted
(05:52):
in anything but increase poverty and, by the way, increase
wealth disparities. I mean, look at Venezuela, a very good
So the answer to your question is because idiologues like
mom Donnie don't really ever look at facts. They don't
look at common sense answers. They are they are wedded
(06:12):
to an ideological approach, whether it's climate change or just
social justice or whatever that basically is a failure. But
then you know, nobody's around to kind of blame them
for the failure usually, so they just kind of go
on and do what they want. But it's a fact
free zone that Mom Donnie is living in.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Is it just childish? That's like a you know, childish teenager.
Is it something sounds good? They do it. They don't
think of the consequences.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
So yeah, yes, because because just what you said, there's
no consequences. What are the consequences if he blows a
billion dollars over the next four years on homelessness?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Look at Gavin Newsom?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
How much money has Gavin Newsom spent on homeless projects
in California only to see the money disappear, the homeless
population continue to grow, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Does any It's incredible to me?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
How is it The voters don't say, well, wait a minute,
didn't you just ask for five billion dollars for that?
Where did that money go? Show us the money show us.
You know, let's have accountability. There is never accountability. It
is mystifying.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
So is the real problem that we don't have legitimate
news organizations anymore. If we had real news and media,
there would be consequences. Newsom would be attached day and night.
So how do you run a democracy with corrupt news?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I think that's part of it.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I actually think what sort of tragic is we have
people who listen to one side or another kind of
depending on their politics. They listen to Fox News, they
listen to you, or they listen to CNN and MS
now or whatever it's called, and people get very little
cross fertilization.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I think that's fair, very I read.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I'm sure you read publications on the other side. A
lot of people simply don't. They don't want to know,
they don't want to hear, and you know what, that's
not good for our country. I hope at some point
there really are news organizations that will cover, you know,
stories from both sides. I was listening to was it
(08:17):
Margaret Brennan who interviewed elan Omar yesterday?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You know, and you just want to kind of put
your head through the wall.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
It's like, really you're not going to challenge her on
the fact that the Somalis have been perpetuating these frauds.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
But by the way, it's not that big a community.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
If there were hundreds of people, which probably there were
involved in scamming of the three different programs, they acted
like it was just one three different programs that they
took billions of dollars from. Don't you think an awful
lot of Somalis knew what was going on? I do,
And and for her to just sort of accept that, oh, yeah,
(08:53):
Somalis really are the victims here, I don't know, it's
pretty discouraging.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
She was funnyes day. Whatever idiotic explanation Omar gave, she
just nodded like a bubblehead.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, just nodded, right.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I Mean, it's like the best but the best media
breakout yesterday was Leslie Stall deciding that Marjorie Taylor Green
was the person she needed to interview for sixty minutes.
So Marjorie Taylor Green, someone who has been totally widely chastised, debunked,
(09:25):
criticized on the left, loads on the left as being
a conspiracy theorist and all the rest. Now she's acceptable
because she's gonna blast Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I mean, really, isn't that just incredible?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah? Pretty pretty transparent thought. Oh my gosh, well, great stuff. Hey,
everybody should go to lizpeak dot com P E e K.
Lizpeak dot com has great news and analysis and you
can sign up and get the emails every day. Keep
yourself really well informed. Lizpeak dot com and of course
reader columns. You'll see her all over television, Liz Peak.
Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Hello, thanks very much for having me.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Take care, Mark, take care, Hey, no forget coming up
at noon, Buck Sexton and Klay Travis. They do a
great show every day at twelve noon. Then at three
o'clock you got the most listened to radio show in
America Sean Hannity, Jesse Kelly at six and if you
haven't heard it yet, great new show here every night
nine o'clock it's Jimmy Fayla on seven to ten woor
Now more. Mark Simone on seven too.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Well.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Liz Peak the brilliant columnist, and he's got this wonderful website.
You should check it every day. Sign up for the
daily Briefings. It's great news and analysis. Lizpeak dot com.
Lizpeak dot com. Make sure you sign up for the
Daily Briefing every day. Good stuff, Liz Peak. How you doing?
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I'm terrific better for speaking with you?
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hey here that the big drug lords, the cartel bosses
were had tears in their eyes yesterday watching these Sunday shows,
so grateful to the host for sticking up for them,
defending them in their their narco boats. How much longer
do we have to listen to this from the Democrats?
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I mean, Mark, don't you really begin to sort of think?
What what are the Democrats doing? What do they stand for?
As the public looks at the Democratic Party now? They
stand for illegal immigration, They stand for effectively embracing recidivism,
not putting anyone in jail, and all these god awful
stories week after week, just like the light trains stabbing
(01:09):
the second one again as someone who's been convicted of
many times an illegal immigrant, I mean, what are the
they embrace fraud. They're opposed twenty six states won't let
the federal government look at their SNAP programs and their
medicaid programs. Why I mean, fraud is a serious thing.
(01:30):
Hundreds of billions of dollars every year and that is,
by the way, coming a statistic coming from Joe Biden's
administration are lost to waste and fraud by our federal
welfare programs. What is it that the Democrats are offering
people that they can possibly like and as you say,
the final thing standing up for narco traffickers, that is
(01:53):
really a winning argument.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
My god? What is wrong with these people?
Speaker 1 (01:58):
So whenever it comes to Democrat's in homeless programs, money
seems to have vanished. You remember we had the Deblasi
administration with that thrive in dollars billion missing. Now in
this Somali, Minnesota, Tim Waltz, whatever this is, they're talking
about maybe up to eight billion missing. Mom, Donnie is
now talking about a homeless program. Does that mean another
(02:21):
billion is going to get lost somewhere?
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Sure?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Sure, because among other things, none of these people has
real world private sector experience. So you know, I think
it was Jamie Dimond yesterday on Maria's Maria Bartiromo show
talking about the city is three hundred thousand people, and basically,
successful mayors are people who can manage. Well, do you
(02:45):
think this guy has any management capabilities at all?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Of course he doesn't. He hasn't read, he hasn't run
a business.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
He hasn't run any Most Democrats, by the way, have
never run a business, which is a very interesting differential
in my between Republicans and Democrats. When Democrats get fired,
they get voted out of a job, what do they do.
They run for another office because they don't know how
to run a restaurant or build a house or anything practical.
Republicans can go back to farming or running a car
(03:14):
dealership or you know name it. I mean, actually, if
you look at seriously, what you know congress people and
mayors and stuff do after retirement. They either go to
work for MSNBC if they're Democrats, or they go to
Harvard to teach like build a Blasio or Lori Lightfoot,
or they run for another office. Look at Andrew Cmo.
(03:35):
He couldn't think of anything else to do, so we
ran for mayor of New York. That didn't turn out well.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
So what's he going to do.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
He's probably going to find, you know, mayor of Buffalo
or something next to run for.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
It's really pitiful. But anyway, Mandani taking on a.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
Lot of money to spew at the homeless. You know,
his latest thing on homelessness is he's no longer going
to enforce the eradication or the cleaning out of the
homeless and captinance. Who does that benefit Mark? Who is
really applauding that move? It certainly isn't the residents of
the neighborhoods where these homeless encampments spring up, because their
(04:10):
lives are going to be made a mess by the
fact that you're going to have this sprawl of dirty,
sometimes violent homeless in community that kind of erupts in
their midst. It isn't good for the homeless, some seventy
percent of whom are drug users or alcoholics because they
(04:31):
aren't going to get any treatment. They prefer to live
on the street because they can continue to abuse drugs
and alcohol. It isn't good for them. Who is it
good for? I mean, I really ask that at all sincerity.
Who does he think he's benefiting there?
Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah, you know, here in the radio business, we want
to do something sometimes we see what happened in other
stations did it and they come in with the report
forty seven stations did it and the ratings plunged all
forty seven times, So we know not to do it. Now.
In the case of Mamdani and very smart guy, when
they show him thirteen other cities did it and was disaster,
why can't he take in that information and calculate all this.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
Well, it's the same thing with rent control, right, rent
control has never ever worked anywhere, and so nonetheless, he
is very in favor of capping rent increases on subsidized housing,
even though it has been proven time after time that
what you do is disincentivize landlords from putting any money,
(05:30):
any investment into the housing stock. So basically you end
up with worse off, less affordable, and crumbling housing. So
to your point, why doesn't he learn from that? Why
don't the young people out protesting in favor of socialism
learn from the fact that never error has socialism resulted
(05:52):
in anything but increase poverty and, by the way, increase
wealth disparities. I mean, look at Venezuela, a very good
So the answer to your question is because idiologues like
mom Donnie don't really ever look at facts. They don't
look at common sense answers. They are they are wedded
(06:12):
to an ideological approach, whether it's climate change or just
social justice or whatever that basically is a failure. But
then you know, nobody's around to kind of blame them
for the failure usually, so they just kind of go
on and do what they want. But it's a fact
free zone that Mom Donnie is living in.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
It's true.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Is it just childish? That's like a you know, childish teenager.
Is it something sounds good? They do it. They don't
think of the consequences.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
So yeah, yes, because because just what you said, there's
no consequences. What are the consequences if he blows a
billion dollars over the next four years on homelessness?
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Look at Gavin Newsom?
Speaker 3 (06:54):
How much money has Gavin Newsom spent on homeless projects
in California only to see the money disappear, the homeless
population continue to grow, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Does any It's incredible to me?
Speaker 3 (07:09):
How is it The voters don't say, well, wait a minute,
didn't you just ask for five billion dollars for that?
Where did that money go? Show us the money show us.
You know, let's have accountability. There is never accountability. It
is mystifying.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
So is the real problem that we don't have legitimate
news organizations anymore. If we had real news and media,
there would be consequences. Newsom would be attached day and night.
So how do you run a democracy with corrupt news?
Speaker 2 (07:36):
I think that's part of it.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
I actually think what sort of tragic is we have
people who listen to one side or another kind of
depending on their politics. They listen to Fox News, they
listen to you, or they listen to CNN and MS
now or whatever it's called, and people get very little
cross fertilization.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I think that's fair, very I read.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I'm sure you read publications on the other side. A
lot of people simply don't. They don't want to know,
they don't want to hear, and you know what, that's
not good for our country. I hope at some point
there really are news organizations that will cover, you know,
stories from both sides. I was listening to was it
(08:17):
Margaret Brennan who interviewed elan Omar yesterday?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
You know, and you just want to kind of put
your head through the wall.
Speaker 3 (08:23):
It's like, really you're not going to challenge her on
the fact that the Somalis have been perpetuating these frauds.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
But by the way, it's not that big a community.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
If there were hundreds of people, which probably there were
involved in scamming of the three different programs, they acted
like it was just one three different programs that they
took billions of dollars from. Don't you think an awful
lot of Somalis knew what was going on? I do,
And and for her to just sort of accept that, oh, yeah,
(08:53):
Somalis really are the victims here, I don't know, it's
pretty discouraging.
Speaker 1 (08:59):
She was funnyes day. Whatever idiotic explanation Omar gave, she
just nodded like a bubblehead.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Yeah, just nodded, right.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
I Mean, it's like the best but the best media
breakout yesterday was Leslie Stall deciding that Marjorie Taylor Green
was the person she needed to interview for sixty minutes.
So Marjorie Taylor Green, someone who has been totally widely chastised, debunked,
(09:25):
criticized on the left, loads on the left as being
a conspiracy theorist and all the rest. Now she's acceptable
because she's gonna blast Donald Trump.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
I mean, really, isn't that just incredible?
Speaker 1 (09:38):
Yeah? Pretty pretty transparent thought. Oh my gosh, well, great stuff. Hey,
everybody should go to lizpeak dot com P E e K.
Lizpeak dot com has great news and analysis and you
can sign up and get the emails every day. Keep
yourself really well informed. Lizpeak dot com and of course
reader columns. You'll see her all over television, Liz Peak.
Thanks for being with us.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Hello, thanks very much for having me.
Speaker 1 (10:01):
Take care, Mark, take care, Hey, no forget coming up
at noon, Buck Sexton and Klay Travis. They do a
great show every day at twelve noon. Then at three
o'clock you got the most listened to radio show in
America Sean Hannity, Jesse Kelly at six and if you
haven't heard it yet, great new show here every night
nine o'clock it's Jimmy Fayla on seven to ten woor
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