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October 2, 2025 16 mins
The next vote to end the government shutdown is tomorrow, and it's not going well for Democrats. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yeah, this is the Mark Simon shall On seventoor. Okay,
well it's Thursday. Lots to get to today. We'll get
to the mayoral race, a lot going on there. We'll
get to President Trump and the shutdown. We'll get to
the Yankees in the news. You got a horrific anti

(00:22):
Semitic terrorist attack in Manchester, England on a synagogue. Got
a crash last night, a fender bender on a runway
at La Guardia Airport. Two planes that one of the
tail hits the nose of the other. Lots of damage.
Not good, not good at all. It's jong Kapoor today,

(00:43):
although a little less traffic today. Restaurants packed last night.
I don't understand that they're supposed to be empty last night,
but I was on a lot of restaurants in the
world jammed last night. So the shutdown nothing will happen today.
I don't know if it's part well, in part the holiday,

(01:04):
but also just nothing is today. The next vote on
the shutdown on fixing this is tomorrow, Friday, eleven am.
It's not going well for the Democrats. There's a lot
of pressure on Schumer to just turn around and get
out of this ridiculous position he's put himself in. The
problem is, well, you got two problems. One, we've had

(01:27):
a lot of shutdowns, they happen all the time, but
this is the first time we've had when we got
two real ridiculous figures running the Democratic side. You got
Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies. Now, the problem is they're both
from New York, they're both from Brooklyn. They both come
from a liberal, far left echo chamber, and that's all

(01:47):
they know. These two have no contact with actual America, normal, regular,
normal Americans. They just know left wing Brooklyn, that's all
they know. Left wing Manhattan, that's all they know. So
that they exist in that bubble, and they look at
it with that perspective, which is not helping them. Schumer's
problem is he's old, tired, desperate, frightened. He's at the

(02:10):
end of the line. His political career is over. He
realizes it.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
He's going to get wiped out if he ever tries
to run again. So he's catering to the left right now,
or he thinks he is, in an awkward, klutzy sort
of way the way he does everything. And the other
problem is he got Hakeem Jeffries who's a total humorless stiff,
just a ridiculous guy who's not an effective leader, just
speaks in these stiff proclamations. He doesn't look good on camera,

(02:39):
he doesn't seem real. He just looks like a mannequin.
Trump has gone after him and Schumer with the sombrero memes,
which are hysterical. If you haven't been watching he's check
my Twitter. I remember most of them are up on
my Twitter. It's Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries with the sombrero and
the mustache and the Mexican music. They're his stare recle

(03:01):
and very funny. Everybody's laughing at them. And Hakeem Jeffries
made a huge mistake the first day or two. He
just got pompous and so serious and uh.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
It's a disgusting video, and we're going to continue to
make clai biggotry will get you nowhere.

Speaker 2 (03:17):
It's a meme, it's funny, they're hysterically. Nobody can watch
them and not laugh.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
And then the fake news tried to play it up,
you know with Civan. I'm not siv jd Vans, jd
Vans and so what about these you're biggot memes.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
Well, I think it's funny. The president's joking and we're
having a good time. You can negotiate in good faith
while also poking a little bit of fun at some
of the absurdities of the Democrats' positions, and even you know,
poking some fun at the absurdity of the Democrats themselves.
I mean, I'll tell Hakeem Jeffries right now, I make
this solemn promise to you that if you help us
reopen the government, the sombrero memes will stop.

Speaker 2 (03:55):
But they're very funny. Take a look at it. They're
up on my Twitter. You can see them. Somebody must
have gotten a Hikeem Jeffries or a bunch of somebodies
and said, will you lighten up? Will you stop with
this pompous act you're doing? You look ridiculous. So now
he's trying to fight back with his own memes against Trump.
Maybe it was Gavin Newsom. Newsom has become very good

(04:16):
at that. He's become the king of fighting Trump fire
with Trump fire. Whatever tactics Trump uses, he'll use him
right back. Now. I guess you know, you could say,
you know you're not supposed to be if you're the
president of the United States. You're not supposed to be
like a kid putting funny memes up on TikTok. Well, yeah,
maybe that's the nineteen ninety nine rule or even the

(04:38):
two thousand and six rule, but it's twenty twenty five.
The game is being reinvented. And Trump, for all his
great stuff he can do as president, he is and
you can argue whether it's right or wrong, but he
is like a big kid. He's like a kid having fun.
He's still a private sector guy. He's not a you know,

(05:00):
formal you know, government politician, Washington formal, none of that
false formality. It's just himself. And this is what business
guys do. You know, This is what Wall Street guys
are famous for. It passing jokes around, memes around, laughing,
you know. So Trump has brought that sensibility to the
White House, and that's that might be the problem. He

(05:21):
you know, Trump is a cutting edge guy, leading the
way ahead of the curve. The problem with Schumer is
he still looks like it's nineteen ninety three. Even when
he makes those videos it's him on the Capitol steps
with the Capitol behind. It looks so old and how
dated and stiff. The whole fight now is Republicans have
reduced it to Democrats want health care for illegals, And

(05:45):
they'll argue and argue and argue, it's not true.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
Donald Trump and Republicans have shut the government down because
they don't want to provide healthcare to working class Americans.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Now, of course that's not true. So you got lives,
you know, going all over the place. There's two lies
they'll tell. Trump wants to get it to working Americans,
and the way one way you do that is get
the illegals off off the rolls there because they're draining money.
And then the other big Democrat lie they always do
is he wants to throw them off and use the

(06:18):
money to hand the money to his billionaire. If nobody's
handing any money to any billionaires, the last thing the
billionaires need is government handing them any money. But does
it provide health care for illegals? Yes, absolutely, absolutely, Even
Jake Tapper, you can't get more fake news, biased left
wing than Jake Tapper. Even he last night had to

(06:40):
admit on the air that he's carefully read it all.
It does give health care to illegals. Now it doesn't.
Trump is exaggerating when he says it hands them a
Cadillac plan. That doesn't do that. It doesn't do that
at all. But if they do get health care, if
they do go to the hospital, they will the hospitals
everybody does get reimbursed, and that would be paying for

(07:02):
illegals health care. So the fight will I don't know.
Friday eleven am is the next vote. It might be
over then there. I don't know who's going to be
bugging Schumer all day and night to get off this position.
He's in a weird, weird position. Everybody thinks he's totally frightened,
scared that AOC is going to wipe him out in
the next election, and he's terrified of AOC, and that's

(07:25):
why he's catering to them. Here's what she had to say.

Speaker 5 (07:28):
There is one reason and one reason.

Speaker 2 (07:30):
Well, here's Mike Johnson.

Speaker 5 (07:32):
There is one reason and one reason alone that Chuck
Schumer is leading the Democrats off this cliff. He is
trying to get political cover from the far left corner
of his base. He's afraid of a challenge for his
Senate seat by AOC.

Speaker 4 (07:45):
He's worried he's going to get a primary challenge from AOC.

Speaker 5 (07:47):
He is afraid of AOC over a clean sard.

Speaker 3 (07:52):
Chuck Schumer is afraid of his own shadow.

Speaker 6 (07:54):
And I actually think that shadow's name is AOC.

Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, now one at AOC. What did she say about it?

Speaker 6 (08:01):
This is so not about me in this moment. If
those senators think that we're having a shutdown because of me,
they're free to enter my office and negotiate, because what
we're not going to do is allow all of millions
of people in this country to not be able to
afford their insulin and their chemotherapy. So come strike a
deal with me, if that's what they really think is

(08:22):
going on.

Speaker 2 (08:24):
The real answer, yes, he's afraid of AOC. The problem
is he's at the end of his ropes, end of
the line. He can't get reelected. He's finished. He's another
Jerry Nadler. He's done. The Democrats hate him, they don't
want him. He's out. If AOC decides to run for Senate,
be easy as can be. She'll be able to fund.
The one secret of Schumer is his fundraising. Nobody is

(08:46):
bigger with taking care of billionaires and donors than Schumer.
That's all he does. Donors service, and that means billionaires,
special interests, unions. He takes care of them, as they'll
all the billionaires will tell you, Even the Republicans one
back Schumer. They'll say, I could wake this guy up
at two in the morning. He'll do anything I want.
They all have his cell number to get anything. Now
they have to give massive donations in exchange. So he's

(09:09):
always been the king of fundraising. That's why he was
never scared of an opponent. But AOC could be a
fundraising machine. She could raise a ton of money very
very fast. So he's terrified to her. If now it's
a way off, it's a year and a month from now.
By early next year, Schumer may realize there's nothing he

(09:31):
can do. It's over. He would announce. Then he's not
gonna seek reelection, and then he'd be free to go
back to the old Chuck Schumer from forty years ago.
Just act on principle, but don't count on it. Don't
count on it. Hey, the mayoral race, here's the problem.
The election is thirty three days away. Only thirty three

(09:52):
days till the election. Here's a bigger problem. It's only
twenty three days till early voting begins three days. The
debate is two weeks from tonight. Two weeks till the debate.
That could change things. Mom Donnie's very good in debates.
He ducks questions. It's not like he gives you solid answers,

(10:15):
but his manner. You know, he talks very quickly anytimes,
like he really knows what he's talking about. And if
you talk a little quicker, you can sound very smart.
And he's got a wonderful tone that makes him sound
like he's trying to help you. And Curtis is an
excellent debater. He's the only professional debater in the race.
He's been doing it for thirty five years. Cuomo talks

(10:35):
so slow. He's a bad debater, and he's a horrible debater.
That's why we have Mon Donni. If it hadn't been
for Cuomo, you would not have Mom Donnie. Cuomo gave
you Mom Donnie democratic debate, both of them, two of them.
Cuomo was so weak and old and tired and talks

(10:55):
so slow, and Mom Donnie was able to easily wipe
him out, and that's how he got the nomination. So
this could be in two weeks a bad, bad night
for Cuomo. Mam Donnie's great in debates, Curtis's great in debates.
Cuomo will talk so slow that he'll look so Cuomo
could wipe himself out in two weeks. Now you're gonna say, well,

(11:17):
he's gonna prepare and prepare and train, and they'll give
him write all kinds of lines for him. The youth. Well,
when he got wiped out in the first debate, they
did that for him in the second debate. And no
matter what he hit when Mom Donnie with Mom Donnie
just pounded him into the ground. So uh now, hey,
the commercials are running. Mom Donnie's got very sharp looking commercials,

(11:38):
very sharp, very well done. Mom Donnie is heavily financed.
You know, he keeps talking about these billionaires. Meantime he's
got billionaires all over the place back in him, big
money commercials. Cuomo has a new commercial which looks a
little silly. It looks like a very expensive commercial. It's

(11:58):
about the commercial says I don't know how to do
a lot. There's a lot of jobs I go. And
then it shows him working at a car wash. Then
it shows him hanging off a skyscraper as a window washer,
and then it shows him driving the subway train, all
these different looks very expensive, all these things. Well, it
turns out it was AI and it's very well done

(12:21):
with AI. Looks very real, but it shows him in
all these different sort of jobs. And then it comes
to but there's only one thing I know how to do,
and that's run government. But it's kind of a silly commercial.
I don't know. Now there's one that Curtis has a
lot of good commercials. They're not attacking Mamdannie so much.

(12:43):
They're more pro Curtis and the latest one. Half the
commercially he's got the Bereton. Half the commercially he doesn't
have the Bereton. But they're very good commercials. Mamdannie and
Curtis definitely the best commercials. Cuomo's look a little silly. Hey,
by the way, You know how they always say, ohoh,
never apologize. You know, he killed ten thousand seniors, He

(13:04):
killed people's grandparents and nursing homes, and a lot of
the critics say that's his main problem. He's never been
able to apologize. He can't admit to it, he can't apologize,
and that's been the case. But he made a video
apologizing to the Jewish community, the Orthodox Jewish community. He

(13:25):
made this video and distributed it just within the private
Orthodox community. You can find it online if you're looking
for it. But he apologizes to them. He said, I
sincerely apologize. He apologizes for the lockdown and what he
did and how he locked everything down, and he said,
I didn't realize how he was interfering with some religious

(13:46):
practices of yours and some important cultural traditions of yours.
And I sincerely apology was very, very sincere apology, but
just for this one group. And the problem is is
that starts to leak out the seniors that were killed,
all the people that had people killed, robbed, raped, or

(14:06):
became crime victims as a result of Cuomo's no bail,
no jail. They're all gonna say, where's our apology, where's
our apology video? How come we didn't get it? Hey?
Speaking of which, great speech by Ray Kelly yesterday for
our Police Athletical League lunch and Ray Kelly the greatest
police commissioner ever. But you know, Mamdani, everything he proposes

(14:26):
is a complete hoax. I'm gonna make free, the buses
will be free. He has no power to make the
buses free. It's the MTA or whatever he's proposing, he
has no power to do it. Now, one of the
big proposals, I'm gonna have social workers answer domestic violence calls. Now,
you know, any cop will tell you the most dangerous

(14:47):
thing you can respond to is these domestic violence calls.
That's where there's a gun and knife, a bat. It's
really dangerous. So he keeps talking about that we don't
need to send the cops and will send in social workers.
So Ray Kelly points out, now, nobody knows policing and
law enforcement better than Ray Kelly, and he's been doing
it for years and years and years, points out, and

(15:09):
I didn't realize this. The police department, the NYPD has
tried that dozens of times over thirty years. They've tried
it a number of times. They've tried it over and
over and over again. A doesn't work and b ends
up in a total disaster for these healthcare workers. Also,
one of the reasons they have a problem with it,
the social workers won't do it. They don't want to

(15:31):
go into one of these the most dangerous police call
there is without police with them. They don't want to
do it. So he also pointed out Memphis just tried
it and it ended in total disaster. It never ever
ever works. But that's a Mamdani theme. Socialism, whatever doesn't
work everywhere it's tried. That's what I'm proposing. Hey, we'll

(15:52):
take some calls. Next. Eight hundred three to two, one
zero seven ten is the number. Eight hundred three to two,
one zero seven Done,
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