6-25-25 - 6am - Zohran for New York City Mayor

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Michael, I cannot wait for today's show for the first
Trump F bomb musical meme used as bumper music.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Well there's your challenge, Red Beard.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
Is there one out there already? Because I'm puzzled by this. Yeah,
Trump dropped the F bomb, But okay, there was as
there's a meme out there, I know nothing.

Speaker 2 (00:28):
No, I think he's looking. He's thinking, you will find
a song that somehow relates to the Trump dropping the
F bomb. That's what That's how I interpreted it. Huh Okay. Yeah,
not that there's any pressure on you to do that
because quite frankly, I rarely listen to the bumper music
anyway because I'm busy doing other things. So you know,

(00:50):
whatever you come up with. I do want to talk
in a minute about the definition of obliteration and whether
we have obliteration and we don't have obliteration, whether we
have destroyed their new program or we haven't. But we'll
get to that in a minute. I think there's a

(01:10):
bigger story that could become an even bigger story that
most people are probably just yawning about right now. But
I think it signals an indication that there are a
lot of useful idiots in the country more than we
can imagine. And you may recall yesterday when I played

(01:30):
the sound bite of round Mondami the the barely How
long is he? I think I'll get it my notes somewhere.
How long he's been the citizen? Not very long? And
he's been a State Assembly han for a couple of years.
And that's just about it. Who is the Democrat? Who
is the Democrat nominee to become the next mayor of
the City of New York now Culomo Andrew Clomo, the

(01:53):
former governor, lost the primary last the Democrat primary last night,
which they used rain choice voting, which we'll get into
that too. And Eric Adams, the current mayor, saw the
writing on the wall some time ago decided to run
as an independent. However, there is nothing that I can

(02:13):
find that would prevent Andrew Cuomo from also running as
an independent, which would mean that you would have two
names going up against Zorn Mandani, the current Democrat nominee. Now,
this is no matter how you put it, a significant
political upset, a thirty three year old Democrat socialist, and

(02:40):
that's putting it mildly. I would use much stronger language.
He's a Marxist defeated Andrew Cuomo. Now, Cuomo's got baggage,
He's got more baggage than the Colorado Baggage Company. But
he is a seasoned moderate or centrist, whichever word you
want to use us, and he has really deep establishment

(03:02):
establishment ties, so the Democrat. So anyway, it's just fascinates
me that the Clomo name, which is a huge name
in New York, didn't carry the day. The twenty twenty
five New York mayor primary had eleven Democrat candidates, but

(03:26):
it quickly narrowed down to a two man race between
Mandani and a progressive state assemblyman who a progressive state
assemblyment from Queens and Cuomo, the former three term governor.
Some of the baggage that he had, obviously was the
sexual harassment allegations. So the primary was yesterday using ranked

(03:48):
choice voting. They voted rank up to five candidates. Votes
are redistributed. See there's all you need to know about
ranked choice voting right there. Votes are redistributed until a
candidate achieves a majority. So you go in and you
know there are eleven candidates, you rank all eleven, and

(04:13):
then when they tally, they just you know, Okay, you're
number one. Really didn't get anybody else's vote, so your
number one choice drops off, but they take your number
two choice and throw that into the pile, and they
just keep redistribution until they finally get somebody has a majority. Now,
most of the cabal will argue that the winner of

(04:35):
the Democrat primary is highly likely to become the mayor
in the November four general election. Because of the city's
heavily democratic voter based registered Democrats outnumbered Republicans. I don't
know ten to one or something, and it's just humongous.
Then you throw in Eric Adams. He's unpopular because of

(04:57):
his federal indictment for bribery and campaign finance via Those
charges were dropped in April this year because the Trump
administration intervened for I'll just throw out this reason. I
think the Trump administration intervened for two reasons. One, they
really needed his help on immigration issues. But two, they
saw the indictment, particularly because it was in New York City,

(05:20):
as a really weak indictment and they didn't think they
should be pursuing it. Let's see, you had the city
comptroller Bradlander, City council speaker Adrian Adams, former Comptroller General
Scott Stringer, State Senator Zell Miry. But none of them,

(05:42):
none of them, even after all the redistribution were able
to get a majority. I would frame the election as
an ideological battle with the Democrat within the Democrat Party.
Mandani a Democrat socialist Marxist, back by progressives like oh
the usual suspects Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Coscia. Cortez represented

(06:07):
a staunch far left wing vision. Now Andrew Cuomo, endorsed
by Bill Clinton and Michael Bloomberg, tried to position himself
as the experienced manager the Technocrat. When the polls first
started coming out, Cuomo had a very comfortable lead. There

(06:30):
was a May Emerson College poll gave him a thirty
five to twenty three percent advantage over Mondami. But then
Mondamie started a surge in the final weeks. Now I'll
explain why in a minute, but which proved. I think
the surge proves that the useful idiots, you know, we

(06:51):
all like three free stuff. Do you ever well, for
for example, I'm trying to say, and myself, So the
last speech I gave was what a couple of months
ago in Chicago, Universe Chicago Institute of Politics, and for
all the attendees of that program, they had a swag bag,

(07:14):
and I to this day I couldn't tell you what
was in the swag bag. I don't know what was
in the bag itself. Generally I take those bags because
you can't. You can't be the keynote speaker and be
handed a swag bag and then just you know, no, no,
I don't want that, So you take it. And what
I generally do is I take it back to the
hotel room. I'd look through it. Is there an eight

(07:36):
pen I might use or something, you know, is there
a note pad or something. Sometimes I'll have really nice
folios in them, you know, depending on the company, And
I've got you know, stack offolios that that you know
occasionally I'll use or you know, somebody needs a folio,
or okay, here's one. The only thing I kept out
of that bag that I recall was the bag itself,
because I threw up my bag as I thought, oh,

(07:58):
I'm always needing a stupid bag. When I go to
the grocery store and I just refuse to go buy ones,
I'll just use this proving that we all, all of
us like free stuff, if if, if you walk by,
radio is a great a great place for free stuff.
Dragon can attest what we can both a test that

(08:20):
you put anything out there, anything and it'll disappear within
no time.

Speaker 3 (08:26):
Well that's just here in the building. And when I
used to work promotions, we would have just little trinkets
on the tables underneath the tents out front of concerts
and everything, and people would just what do you got?

Speaker 2 (08:34):
What you got snagged and just gone, just gone. So
somebody on the third floor, you know where, they'll you
know where all the well where all the hippies like
Dragon used to work. I've noticed on Saturday that the
big long table that we have, you know those the
high top long table, Dragon, someone's been emptying out an
officer doing something and there are CDs and their hats

(08:55):
and their t shirts and there's just all sorts of crap.
And during a break, I've just gone over to that
table and I've looked at it and i thought, well,
there's a pile of crap. Yep, and I've just walked
away from it. But over the past three weeks it's
slowly disappeared. Yeah, it's just going down to nothing. And
you know, you've done the same thing. So everybody likes
free stuff. So think about the key issues that Mondani

(09:21):
ran on. Affordable housing. God, I hate that phrase affordable,
affordable to whom? And when I hear you know that
government's going to build affordable housing, then I think, wait
a minute, who's paying for that? Because the government doesn't

(09:41):
just have a pile of cash around somewhere that you know, Hey,
you know, we've been saving up and we got all
this money. And even if they were saving up, where'd
that money come from? When it came from you? Housing
affordability was his number one campaign platform. How was he
going to provide New York affordable housing? Well, he proposed

(10:04):
freezing rents for the city's one million rent stabilized apartments,
arguing that rising rents were pricing out working class residents.
He was critical of the fact that private developers dominate
housing production in New York. Well, okay, if the private

(10:27):
sector is not building houses or apartments or condos, then
who is. If it's not the government, it's the price.
I mean, if it's not the private sector, it has
to be the government. He also pledged to build two
hundred two hundred thousand new affordable housing units. Now, the

(10:48):
details of that probably got ignored by the useful idiots
because he went on to say that, yeah, I'm going
to build two hundred thousand new affordable housing units over
ten years. What is it about government programs, whether it's like, Okay,
the budget deficit you know is projected over the next
ten years to be blah blah blah blah, or you know,

(11:09):
we're gonna implement this new program, but it's gonna take
us ten years to fully do it. And they ignored
the fact that it was going to be funded partly
by well, they probably didn't ignore this taxing corporations and
taxing high earners, wealthy people, all of which he thinks
would address the city's chronic housing shortage, which obviously, you know,

(11:33):
there's a shortage of you know, living space in New
York City, so that drives up the costs. So he's
going to take money out of taxes and money that
they don't have, and over ten years build two hundred
thousand new affordable housing units. Even the New York Times
the editorial board argued that rent freezes could restrict the

(11:56):
housing supply, and then opponents like Cloma claim that his
plant Men, Dammi's plan, Man Mandanny's plan, I'll never say
it right, ignored all of the government's trade offs that
you know, you're you're you're going to tax people. So
people are gonna flee this, flee the city. Uh, you're
going to tax corporations, they will flee the city. Uh.

(12:17):
Costs are going to go up because of that. So
everything that a corporation or a company produces, whether goods
or a service, that's going to increase. So you're free housing.
The trade off is everything else is gonna cost more.

Speaker 3 (12:27):
I do like this paragraph from his page, uh Zorin
for new York dot Com, which I have linked to.
Michael says, go here dot com for the additional excuse
me for the additional housing we need. Zorin will initiate
a comprehensive plan for New York City to create a
holistic vision for affordability, equity, and growth. This planning will

(12:50):
allow New York City to address the legacy of racially
discriminatory zoning, increased density near transit hubs, and end the
requirement to build parking lots, and proactivity chart for the future,
for our future.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Do you know what frightens me? About that paragraph that
you just read. That sounds ever so slightly like things
that Mayor Mike Johnston has said about housing affordability in Denver,
including density around transit hubs, numbers of parking spaces required. All.

(13:28):
It sounds exactly like Mike Johnston. Yep, good grief. Let's see,
oh free, which we know is not but free public transit. Now.
I found this one kind of funny because I don't
know how many people jump the turnstiles in New York,
but on the New York City City Subway you always

(13:49):
see people jump jumping the transit the turnstiles. So he's
going to provide city buses fair free, he says. That's
building on a success full fair free bus pilot program
that he did in the state legislature. He estimates this
would cost Now, remember, don't forget we have housing already

(14:11):
that's going to take money out of the private sector,
and just making the city buses fair free would cost
six hundred and thirty million dollars a year. But in
some sort of drug induced acid trip, he says that
will generate one point five billion dollars in economic benefits

(14:35):
by simply boosting ridership and reducing traffic congestion, so getting
more people out of your cars, getting more people into buses.
And somehow that's going to cost taxpayers six hundred and
thirty million dollars almost a billion dollars, but it will

(14:56):
generate about one and a half billion dollars in economic
benefits of of course, which he cannot you know detail,
And he says that, you know, I can show that
I can do this because I secured one hundred million
dollars in the state budget for increased subway service. And
he said that showcases my ability to deliver transit improvements.

(15:17):
I think it showcases his ability to spend money without
any cost benefit analysis really does anything.

Speaker 3 (15:23):
Oh, this is another good one from the website, which
you can find at Michael says go here dot com
as mail. As mayor, he'll permanently eliminate the fare for
on every city bus and make them faster and rapidly
by rapidly building priority lanes, expanding bus Q jump signals,
and dedicating landing zones to keep double parkers out of

(15:44):
the way. Fast and free buses will not only make
buses reliable and accessible, but will also improve safety for
riders and operators. Creating the world class service New Yorkers deserve.

Speaker 2 (16:00):
The The only way I can think of to make
bus service faster in New York City is to eliminate cars. Huh,
and the delivery trucks. You know, FedEx won't be able
to deliver I guess FedEx. I'll have to use Weimo
or something, uh, you know, or some little teslas or something,
and they'll have to, you know, have even thousands more

(16:23):
of those because the FedEx box trucks that often block
you know, city streets while they're making deliveries. Yeah, or
maybe his landing zones will be places where the trucks
can park. Except you've got FedEx, you got Ups, you
got DHL, you've got all the express services, and you
have the you have the private express companies operating just
within Manhattan.

Speaker 3 (16:42):
So you're missing the point. And he's gonna build rapidly
building priority lanes.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
He's gonna rapidly build priority lanes for the buses.

Speaker 3 (16:50):
Oh, okay, that's easy.

Speaker 2 (16:53):
Yeah, I'm just I'm just thinking of manhatt I can
see building some bus lanes in the outer boroughs. But
when I think about New York City, man I mean,
I think about Manhattan. Uh, you can't widen the streets.

(17:14):
Squeeze one more lane in there. It's fine, You're just
gonna turn the sidewalk into a street. It's just easy, okay, okay,
all right. And then, of course, as we discussed yesterday,
he's going to combat high grocery prices by establishing city
operated grocery stores. That's going to offer affordable food and

(17:36):
drive down prices through competition. Chimedy, Christmas. This is Marxism
on full display. I'm a little surprised you haven't gotten
to this one. Here. There's no cost childcare. That was
the next one, beautiful public childcare and universal three k oh,
this this sounds like bolus. Marxism's on the march in

(17:58):
New York City. You want to see it'll look like eventually.
Go look at London right now. London's had a Marxist
Muslim mayor for years now. Yeah, I'll go look at that. Hey, Mike,
I'm so glad that New York elected that new mayor
because it's going to be fun to watch entertaining as

(18:21):
all get out. So when did he When does he start?
When does this PC show begin? I want to tune in,
all right, let me be clear, he's only won the
Democrat primary. We haven't had the general election yet. This
is just a primary. But when I finished going through

(18:42):
this litany of his political stances, I want to I
want us to analyze and think about why he won
the Democrat primary, because I think you can extrapolate the
reasons why, whether it's to Denver, she Cargo, or what's
happening in other major cities around the country. I think

(19:05):
it's a sign that there is and I'm schizophrenic about
this about whether millennials or gen z or whatever, whatever
those generations are behind me, are of two I think,
very disparate political points of view. There are those young

(19:29):
conservatives and in the old days there used to be
those young liberals. Today there's young conservatives and there's young Marxists.
And I think what we're seeing we're reaping the whirlwind
of public education or the lack thereof either way. So

(19:50):
real quickly he advocated for universal free childcare, So you know,
your single working mom, somebody's you know, taxpayers are going
to provide you free childcare. Can you can you imagine
taking your child to a government run childcare facility. I'm
not sure I would trust that he wants to expand

(20:14):
the city's three K program free pre kindergarten for three
year olds, just like Jared Poulas, all claiming that he's gonna,
you know, that's gonna help working families, and he got
pretty close to my idea about I'm not quite sure, Dragan.
Could you look real quickly you see what the elevation
in New York City is. I'm not quite sure what

(20:35):
the elevation is, but he got pretty close to the
minimum wage. He wants to increase New York's minimum wage
to thirty dollars an hour now over time, by twenty
thirty at thirty three. Oh so thirty three. So he
got pretty close to my idea of your minimum wage
should just be your elevation.

Speaker 3 (20:51):
I will want to jump back here really quickly to
his page so in for New York dot Com, which
is linked that Michael says, go here dot com about
no cost childcare.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Yeah, I'm just gonna.

Speaker 3 (21:04):
Read this exactly as it is, this, this full sentence here,
Zoran will implement free childcare for every New Yorker aged
six weeks to five years, ensuring high quality programming for
all families.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Word for word, I do that's just that's just orwelly
or wellion enough. That just makes me shiver a little bit.
But hey, he won h so elevation of New York
is thirty three feet. He proposes the minimum wage of
thirty dollars. I've always thought that Colorado's the minimum wage

(21:45):
ought to be fifty two lady, you know, representative of
the mile high city. So he's maybe he's long, maybe
he and I think of like him that so, you know,
he just but thirty three sounds better than thirty, right,
maybe thirty three dollars. Now he wants to tax the wealthy,
of course, a ten billion dollar tax height, including higher

(22:07):
corporate tax rates. They'll be paid by individuals, a flat
tax on individuals or earning more than a million dollars annually,
and he frames that as a way to make the
wealthy pay their fair share in a city that has
income inequality. There's income inequality everywhere, and there always has been. Now,
his political position on cops is pretty interesting because while

(22:34):
he did not explicitly call for the defunding the NYPD,
he has in the past supported the reallocating of police
funds over to social services. Well that is indeed, defunding
the cops. So he does indeed want to dismantle the
New York PD, or at least remove cops from high

(22:57):
crime areas and replace them with social workers. Now you
won't find anywhere on the website, but that's all from
the stuff that he's talked about and his supporters or
something weird. I can't find anything on that over here. Yeah,
you won't find that on the page. But that's his
stance on policing. And of course he's antisemitic, he's pro Palestinian.

(23:20):
He wants to withhold funds from organizations tied to the
West Bank settlements. He was criticized for not sponsoring the
New York Assembly's Holocaust Remembrance Day resolution, and of course
that leads to charges of anti Semitism, which is probably
closer to the truth than we want to recognize he is.

(23:43):
He had a well organized grassroots campaign, He had a
well organized social media and viral content campaign. By the way,
he's a former rap music producer, so that certainly qualifies
you to be the mayor of New York. And then
he got endorsements from those high profile people like the
Working Families Party, a Marxist organization and of course from

(24:07):
Bernie and AOC. He won because he really is about
focusing on young people. He had a very disciplined and
almost singular focus on making everything free. Now he would say,

(24:33):
or his campaign sorrow, Gibson argued, know, we're talking about
making everything affordable, but it's really free. He managed to
reframe the election away from crime, which is what Cuoma
was fixated on and which has been a core concern
in New Yorkers in recent years, although it's really been reduced,

(24:55):
I mean statistically, factually, we know that crime is down
because of the efforts of former New York PD cop
and current Mayor Eric Adams. But the results of the
election last night prove the success of his strategy. Despite
what you might have heard on Fox News, when the
pages of the New York Post, crime is indeed historically

(25:18):
low in New York. New York is no longer worried
about crime like they did in say twenty twenty. There
has been a shift in perception that made Man Danny's
messaging about affordability all the more potent across all five
boroughs because people really aren't worried about crime. So this
campaign breaks a rule of New York mayoral politics, and

(25:43):
that is their love for electing abject weirdos. Decades before
he debased himself, Rudy Giuliani, you know, married the second cousin,
and then they elected him a mayor a few years later.
For all the success and popularity, Michael Bloomberg is about
as weird as they come, even for a New York mayor.

(26:05):
Eric Adams is comically corrupt. The distinction of being the
first New York Street mayor to be indicted in an office.
Colombo was accused of being a sex pest with a
fundamentally weird demeanor. And didn't he have the nibble piercing.
It wasn't Dicloma that had the nibble piercing. Regardless of
what you think of Man Danny's far left politics, he

(26:30):
presented himself as kind of effortlessly normal and then offering
all the freebies. And he his freebies free buses, no child,
no cost childcare or rent, freeze, sixty million dollars for
city run grocery stores that all attracted young people. He

(26:54):
had a bid for mayor that thrilled New York young liberals.
They were more excited about this election than any election.
In recent memory, and he inspired that with equal fervor
by creating terror among the city's moderates and the wealthy,
who have, like Hollywood, vowed to flee if he moves

(27:15):
into Gracie Mansion. CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin described the business
community as experiencing a collective panic attack. And many of
you on the text line have pointed out that you
do indeed hope that he wins. There is a sick, dark,

(27:37):
perverted side of me that wants him to win. Also
because while I don't want New York to turn into London,
he will turn New York into London. So I want
to believe that if he wins the mayoral race, if

(27:57):
he's able to beat Eric Adams, and who knows, Cloba
may jump in that race again as an independent. He
may try again, you know, because he's so desperate to
get back in politics that he may may run as
an independent. But here's my concern about our theory. I'm
going to give you a couple of examples of why

(28:18):
I think our theory about a Marxist like this winning
is good. And then I'm going to give you some
examples of why winning as a Marxist is bad because
just to point out, let's see, Mike the guy is

(28:38):
crazed ninety five four, Mike the guy is crazy, run
grocery source, free buses for all, and I can keep
going with the crazy stuff that he's promoting. Sixty seven
ninety one. A city built on capitalism will be destroyed
by Marxist socialism. Maybe it needs to fail to show
how dangerous this way of thinking is. Let's see at

(29:02):
the color is see no, no, no, no. There was one
maybe from yesterday when I was playing the grocery stores.
I can't find it right away, but it was basically
the same thing. I hope he wins because it will
be an example of how Marxism doesn't work. Well, let's
deconstruct that a little bit and think about that, because

(29:23):
I've got examples of where you're right and you're wrong.
New York City democrats, you can't fix stupid. So let's
think for just a moment about the idea. Because I,
you know, I agree. I'd like this. There's a sick,

(29:45):
perverted part of me that would love to see this
guy win because he will utterly destroy New York City,
and New York City will soon look like London, and
you know, Fifth Avenue will be you know, covered with women,
covered with h jabs, and there will be you know,

(30:09):
no go zones, there will be uh, you know, exploitation
of women and children. They'll be just be. It'll be
a hellhole, even more so than it already is. But
will we will we learn the lessons from that? Will we? Really? Now?
I think to some degree you can make an argument

(30:31):
that we won't, because we have watched California go down
the crapper with all of their you know, let's tax
the wealthy, and let's build all of this stuff, and
let's offer these free things, and let's be a sanctuary
state and everything that you can possibly imagine, all of
which he wants to do too. And yet what happens

(30:52):
places like Colorado just copy it, mimic it, follow the
same destructive policies, even though we see them. I know
not everybody pays attention to what goes on in London,
but if if you really study what's happened to London
since uh Zaiz azeka Zi I can't remember his first name,

(31:16):
the mayor of London, if you watch what he's done
to that city during his term, in office, he's utterly
changed the British culture, and he's implemented all the kinds
of things that this guy would want to implement, you know,
the congestion, traffic, you know uh programs that you know
you pay, you pay an ordinate amount just to drive

(31:39):
your car to work, and trying to force you into buses.
So we know that it doesn't work, and so we
keep repeating it over and over and over again. California, Colorado, Massachusetts, Illinois,
New York. I mean, everywhere you look, we know that
it doesn't work, and yet repeating it. Now. I do

(32:02):
think there's an example of where we recognize that it
doesn't work. But I think there's at a particular reason why.
Two particular reasons why, both of which involved individuals. At
the federal level. We saw the third term of Barack Obama,

(32:24):
in the administration of of Joe Biden, the you know,
passage of the Green New Deal, the infrastructure spending bill,
the trillions and trillions and trillions of dollars that we
spent all trying to implement all of their socialist goals,
and we saw that it didn't work. It created inflation.
We saw that it was you know, destroying our our

(32:47):
wonderful way of life, and we reacted viscerally to it.
But I think that was because of the individuals involved.
We saw that Joe Biden was just demented, didn't have
his faculties, had no clue what was going on, and

(33:07):
you had Donald Trump, and so it was a clear,
stark choice. You had the individual over here that was
asleep at the wheel, allowing all these Marxist policies and
the far radical left of his party to take control
and start doing all those things. And then you had
over here a guy that we had known before that

(33:31):
we were looking at and saying, wait a minute, you're
pillaring him. You're doing everything you can to destroy him,
and we don't like that. Plus he's vowed to fix
and reverse all of these things, so we voted for that.
So you have two types of examples. One where we
saw what had happened and we said, no, we don't
want that anymore. But then at the state level, we

(33:53):
see it happening and we keep voting for it. Colorado
keeps going down the same thing. Have we just not
gotten bad enough yet? And once you get bad, it
takes a while to climb out of that. So yeah,
I understand because I feel the same way. I wanted
to go into the crapper. So they'll learn, but the

(34:14):
question is will they