Joe Rogan HUMILIATES Bernie Sanders, Democrat Has No Answers To Back Up Leftist & Liberal Claims
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Hi, I'm Mike Peska, host of The Gist, and I'm the kind of person, maybe you are too, who likes to step outside the easy reinforcement of my own ideas and

Maybe you actually like to have your beliefs tested and your perspectives expanded. I find that exciting, not unsettling. There are a lot of shows, ideologically driven shows and networks whose audiences say, thank you for telling me I'm not crazy, but I don't really doubt my own sanity. I don't need affirmation and reassurance that my side or one side of the political or social debate is right. I'm more

worried about being misinformed by lazily going along with the untested assumption or narrative. The gist is for people who know that being interesting starts with being interested. Subscribe now, wherever you get your podcasts. A couple of teens who were up to no good started making trouble in an Atlanta neighborhood when they took pride flags off a building, started doing wheelies around on their scooters and tearing up the flags. They were cutting them up.

They're now facing hate crime charges. And this is more than just a one-off. We've already seen stories where if you drive your truck over the ground and it leaves a mark, they're going to accuse you of a hate crime. And what we're witnessing with this story and many others is the politicization of law, the entrenchment of communist ideology. Now,

It's not necessarily a one for one with communism. We may say it's like that because it's in the in the same parent tree. But obviously, there's a distinction between wokeness and communism. Despite the fact we might argue that wokeness is an umbrella above communism or that they're they're deeply related. My point is this. They're not saying we are putting protection for communism in law. They're using a circuitous method by which they are.

So with this story, what you basically have is a couple of teens who admittedly, look, don't steal other people's stuff. Don't vandalize. But the fact that they're facing such serious charges for what otherwise in almost all circumstances would be brushed off as a teen prank with a slap on the wrist. These kids are facing real prison. Now we take a look at New York City and you've got the election of Zoran Mamdani.

This guy has pledged to create an office of the LGBTQ and increase anti-hate policing 800%. I'll tell you what they're really saying. The Communist Party will be entrenched in government. And if you swear allegiance to the ideology, you will get political power. This is how all communism works.

Example, if you steal an American flag and burn it, you will not get in trouble. You won't. They're going to say, what are you talking about? The flag cost you 20 bucks. So they burned a flag. What's the big deal? You steal a pride flag and burn it. They'll threaten to put you in prison for years. In New York, they're going to create an office in the government. And what does it mean to be LGBTQIA, right? Now, obviously, the first, LGB, means something.

But the rest of it could be literally anything. In fact, we literally had a guy come on Timcast IRL who was like a 35-year-old, six-foot-tall white man who was like, actually, I'm queer too. It's just saying, I pledge myself to this ideology. You assert publicly. It is conversion. They don't care if you believe it. They don't care if it's true. They lay you down. They put you on your knees and say, renounce your God. And I mean that figuratively. And if you do...

You can get political power. Now, New York, with the 800 percent increase in law enforcement against hate, you know exactly what that will mean. Now, this guy Zoran said, oh, because of Jewish people who are attacked. That's not what it's about.

That's an excuse targeting the right because the right has called them out of their hypocrisy. He's plugging that gap saying you are correct. And now he's going to use it as a justification to police people who oppose their ideology. Here's the story from the Post Millennial. Teens face hate crime charges for cutting up LGBTQ pride flags on Pride Crosswalk in Atlanta.

Witnesses claimed to have observed six men stealing pride flags hanging in front of the bar and using knives to cut them. I will be the first to say, and I always do, the issue, in my opinion, is not that... Actually, I'll put it this way. Don't steal stuff. I'll just leave it at that.

These kids deserve some kind of punishment. You stole someone else's stuff, okay? But hold on there a minute. Like I said, the cops would show up and say, how much the flag cost? Pay them $20. That's typically how things go. You destroy someone's stuff, and they're going to be like, depending on the scale of the cost, now these pride flags, $20. Let's be fair. Let's say $100. Maybe they're custom ordered. Whatever. Really? Really?

$100 in damage. What judge is going to be like, they're going to say, why are we wasting our time on this? There's bigger fish to fry. But when you oppose the cult, they will crush you. They'll call you a suppressive person, perhaps. Atlanta police have arrested four teens early Tuesday morning.

Women accused of defacing pride flags outside a popular LGBTQ bar in Midtown. Authorities of the defendants may face hate crime charges, which could result in penalties, including jail time. Two suspects remain at large. According to the Atlanta Police Department, officers responded to reports of vandalism at 140 a.m. after witnesses claimed to have observed six men, despite the fact that several of them are minors, stealing pride flags hanging in front of the bar and using knives to cut into them.

The teens were also seen performing motorized scooter stunts on the notable rainbow-colored crosswalks at the intersection of Piedmont Avenue and 10th Street. So it looks like we got video. Indeed. So he's on his scooter. They're riding on scooters. They're doing wheelies. Not really doing a whole lot more than that. Homeboy's got a pride flag here, and it looks like two of them, and it looks like they're going to start slicing them up. Hate crime charges for vandalism. For vandalism.

That's crazy. That's crazy. They say while conducting while contacting authorities, a 911 caller said they're in the middle of the street popping wheelies, tearing up flags. The 16s fled on scooters when officers arrived on scene shortly after four of them were apprehended, while two teens remain at large. Surveillance video released by APD shows the group on scooters at the rainbow color crosswalk with pride flags in hand. We get it. We watch the footage.

They say that during a press conference, APD Sergeant Brandon Hayes stated the department takes the community very seriously and we want to make sure residents feel safe. Detectives said the teens traveled to Midtown Atlanta with the intent of conducting vandalism.

Georgia enacted a hate crime statute in 2020, allowing judges to apply additional penalties if a crime is proven to be motivated by a bias against a victim's race, religion, national origin, orientation or other traits. A misdemeanor offense carries an additional six to 12 months in prison and a fine up to $5,000, whereas felonies can result in two to 12 years.

Well, here's our good friend Zoran, who's in the press, and he's got on his website LGBTQIA protections. But what is that really? He says, the Mamdani administration will protect LGBTQIA New Yorkers by expanding and protecting gender-affirming care citywide, making NYC a sanctuary for LGBTQIA and creating the Office of LGBTQIA Affairs. Now, what is that office?

That basically states, call it whatever you want. They're using civil rights for protected groups as their means to create an ideological office within the government. And so it begins. Now, the other day I said, good, I'm glad he wins. New Yorkers deserve this. But you know what? You know, Mike Cernovich made a great point. It can always get infinitely worse. And, you know,

After thinking about it, I have reconsidered my opinion on this, despite the fact it's only been a few hours just from some light reading. My concern is and this was pointed out in the show when communists take over, they never because they're psychotic. They will never accept responsibility for their bad decisions.

They will keep making bad decisions, burn everything to the ground. And Venezuela is a really great example. When you go to a socialist and you say Venezuela is a great example of why you should not embrace socialism because they used to be the wealthiest country in South America. Now it's miserably poor and some of the highest murder rates in the world, if not the highest, not per capita, though, but the highest murder rates in Caracas. And, uh,

The response they'll give you is actually that's the fault of the CIA interfering intentionally in their government to make them poor. You know, I've been I've been to Venezuela. I can tell you exactly what's going on. I went to a cell phone store to get a cell phone. And, you know, in the United States, I walk into a T-Mobile store.

And I go, I want that phone. And they go, okay. They walk. They say, I'll be right back. They go in the back. They walk out the phone, put it on the table, and they start filling out paperwork. Yeah, I know. It's kind of annoying to fill out all the forms and sign it. And they hand you the phone, swipe your credit card, good to go. Not in Venezuela. When I was there, admittedly, this was 10 years ago, 11 years ago. You go to the cell phone store, and first you have a person, and you tell them what you want.

and you say, I want to buy a cell phone with this plan. And my guy, of course, was translating for me. He said, okay, you need to go to acquisitions. So I walk upstairs, and there's a guy sitting at a counter with a magazine. And he says, which phone do you want? And you go through it, and then you say, I think that one will do. He goes, okay, he writes you up a ticket. He has me a ticket. He says, okay, now you need to go to warehousing.

And then I go, okay, walk to the next guy. And I say, here's my ticket. And then he says, okay, I'll be right back. And then he comes out with the phone and says, here's the phone. We're going to bring this down so you can buy it on your way out. But do you need a plan? Yes. Okay. You're going to need to go to acquisitions for plans. Walk to the next person. What kind of plan are you looking for?

I want this. OK, now go to the next person. This person gets you a SIM card. Then you go to the next person. This person packages and bags it, hands you the bag and says, now you can go to checkout. No, no joke. There was like seven or eight people I had to talk to. Why? Because the government mandated the creation of jobs. They said we need jobs in this country. So just make jobs. That way we can distribute wealth. So jobs that don't need to exist are made to exist. That's why they're poor, because that of these people.

falling into the system that needs them most. They just take a government-created job, centralized, that doesn't actually solve any market problem. What they are going to do is arrest people who oppose them, and they're going to say, but they're bigots. But it's hate crime.

Those kids who tore up those flags, that's not about being gay. I'm willing to, I guarantee you, these kids probably don't care for the most part if a dude's hooking up with another dude. What they don't like is wokeness as a movement and ideology. Now, I'm speculating, but that's why with the rainbow flags on the ground, they're more addressing the cultural elements, not a single person in particular.

So if the crime was motivated by whatever these things are, it is only because they have given themselves the power to do it that they will claim taking a flag of an ideology, which includes a black and brown stripe. That's the game they're playing. Oh, he tore it up because he hates black people. He tore it up because he hates gay people. He tore it up because he hates asexual people. You make your communist flag protected under the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the government creates a hate crime based on it and you will get communism.

There is no reality where there is a stable, happy medium. There is no position by which we can rest and say we are done. Civilization gets no retirement. And for many people, they long for the day, even at a young age, where they'll have $20 million in the bank and they'll say, I don't have to do anything. I can only do what I want to do. Now, interestingly, the money is not an issue. It's funny. I'm watching Ironheart.

The new show on Disney and Riri Williams is the character. She's a young black girl from Chicago and a black woman. And she builds her own suit. And then basically the premise is she's like, Tony Stark was a billionaire. He wouldn't have been able to do it if he wasn't, which is hilarious considering.

In the first movie, the bad guy says Tony Stark was able to do this in a cave with a box of scraps. That's what made the narrative great. That Tony Stark was a dick, but you put him in a mountain cave with a bunch of scraps and he built this powerful energy source. Where are we now with wokeness? In the show, she's actually saying he was only able to do it because he was a billionaire and he could buy all these things. Indeed. What I'm saying with this is where we go

There are a lot of people, if they had a million dollars, right? I'm going to tell you guys a secret. You ever go to an investor meeting, you might encounter this question. Tomorrow, you wake up and you've won a million dollars. They show up to your house. They say the money is already in your account. Here's a man from the IRS with a badge and everything to prove it. The money is clean. It's yours. There's no trick. What would you do with a clean $1 million? What's your answer? Here's the secret.

The reason they ask this question is because they're trying to avoid someone who says, oh, man, probably pay off my debt, buy a house, take a vacation. They say, oh, yeah, man, me too. You know where I'd go? I'd go to Monaco. And they shake your hand and say, we'll be in touch and they'll never call you back. What they want to hear when they ask you this question is if I woke up and I had a million dollars tomorrow, oh, man.

The first thing I do is hire some developers to start working on this app that I've already laid out. Here's my pitch deck. Everything we want to do and why we want to do it, if only I had that million dollars to hire the team to build it, then they'll say, okay, let's talk. Now, in reality, nobody really wants to give money to somebody who says, if only I had the money.

So actually what they're really looking for, the best case scenario is not just to explain your project, but say, well, to be honest, I've been coding this app. Here's the here's the alpha version of it. I'm not really a good coder, but I had this idea. I had to get it made. I could certainly use some help. Maybe I'd hire somebody. They'll say, well, hi, that person for you. You want to build something. You want to do something. That's what we're going to do for you. There are a lot of people that will get that money and they do literal nothing.

These people, there's an overlap with communists and they want to create a world where you have to work. So they don't. It's in every message they post. It's in all of the writings they make. And it's what's laughable as they say, the worker should be entitled to the fruits of their labor. The worker. Let's say this. When you have Zoran's government run grocery stores, affordable housing,

And a contractor comes in and says, look, I got to pay my guys X amount of dollars. We're not doing this job for less than, you know, $5 million. They're going to say, oh, we're being ripped off. They're already saying it right now. When they say grocery stores are price gouging, they're saying that the workers of that store, it's a small business. Most of the stores in New York are small businesses. The workers are not entitled to the fruits of their labor.

They are told profit means extra money to buy a Ferrari. When in reality, for the overwhelming majority of business, profit means the extra money after cost that I get to use to pay my salary. No, no. When you pay your salary, it's not profit. That's not profit on paper. So when you charge 25 cents on top of your $3 a gallon milk, they say that you're getting 25 cents profit. Eliminate that. No, no, no.

That 25 cents is for the person who owns the small business so they have money to pay their bills and live their lives. But communists don't care. This may be one small story in a long chain of stories, but I'm telling you where we're going with the Zoran guy and what we're seeing right now. The end result is offices of LG of DEI or LGBTQ or whatever, which is just a fancy shield for communist party politics.

I'm going to leave it there. Smash the like button. Share the show with everyone, you know. Stay tuned. We got more coming up for you today, and we'll see you all in the next segment. They say, Tim, you're biased. Why won't you book more leftists and liberals to come on your podcast? We actually have a huge list of all the leftists and all the liberals that we've invited and we routinely invite, and they refuse to do it. And there's one reason, principally, why they do. They'll come up with all sorts of excuses, but it's because they don't know what they are talking about. I had a friend ask me recently,

Why are you spreading hate about trans people? What hate are we spreading? We have tons of friends of the show who are trans. Numerous individuals have come on the show. We just talk about the data. But when you don't know anything, it looks like someone is intentionally lying because you never checked. So the issue then for liberals who are in prominent positions, they know that

They only maintain their political power by misleading those who don't read the news and don't pay attention. And then for the average person who is actually just consuming news through sources, right? I'll put it this way. What is the difference between you and any other liberal viewer?

You watch this show where you're more likely to get something closer to the truth, and I show every news article in every segment that I make. So when I say something like Joe Rogan and Bernie Sanders spar over big money in politics after Sanders complains about Musk's spending, there is a news source behind this. Perhaps they could be wrong, and sometimes they are.

But it's not me asserting something to be the case. It's me referencing something claiming to be the case. Sometimes it's CNN, The New York Times, Politico, or in this instance, Fox News. These liberals don't do that. Or if they do, they take them out of context intentionally. That's the game they play. My favorite, of course, is everybody's favorite liberal, Sam Seder. I'm just kidding, by the way. He's actually one of the smallest personalities. To be fair, he's a big personality, but he's a small fish in a big pond. You know what I'm saying?

He made a video saying my anti-war stance was a grift. Then he went on to show other people's opinions, not mine, and attack my because the reality is I am anti-intervention, was very critical of Trump's strikes on Iran. But he's got to lie to his audience because he's evil. That's what he does. He actually came on the show.

Went on some he asked me a hypothetical about conservatives views on abortion and then started ranting about something I didn't say and finished up by saying that's the clip I was trying to get. Oh, right. Admitting outright admitting this is what they do to all of you, to all the audience watching live. This was a performance so that I can later clip this, share it with my audience and falsely accuse you of something that you never said.

And his followers, they fall for it because they don't read the news. Well, you know what? How about I just play this video for you, which I'm actually going to be somewhat critical of. I will criticize, but I still think is worth watching. Bernie Sanders on Joe Rogan. Roll tape. Have you prepared for this? I am all prepared. What are your thoughts on this? There ain't no easy answers. Let me throw that out to you. I don't have a magical solution. I wish I did. I don't. I don't know the answer to your question. Admittedly, it is complicated. I don't have a magic answer.

Okay. I don't have the answer to that question. That's the problem. What does it mean? What does that mean? What does that mean? So the, and again, please, this is, these are complicated issues. I surely don't have all the answers. What was they saying? You know, right now,

Where was it? I think, don't quote me on this, maybe in Norway. All right, I'm going to plead ignorance. Again, I'm trying to think here, and I wish I had better answers for you. I mean, it's a great question. I don't have the easy answer to it. Hi, I'm Mike Peska, host of The Gist, and I'm the kind of person, maybe you are too, who likes to step outside the easy reinforcement of my own ideas. Maybe I'm not the kind of person who likes to step outside the easy reinforcement of

Maybe you actually like to have your beliefs tested and your perspectives expanded. I find that exciting, not unsettling. There are a lot of shows, ideologically driven shows and networks whose audiences say, thank you for telling me I'm not crazy, but I don't really doubt my own sanity. I don't need affirmation and reassurance that my side or one side of the political or social debate is right. I'm more

worried about being misinformed by lazily going along with the untested assumption or narrative. The gist is for people who know that being interesting starts with being interested. Subscribe now, wherever you get your podcasts. No, I don't know. I don't know. Who knows? I cannot tell you. The answer is yes and no. But would you agree with that? I don't have those details. I don't know that I agree with...

Your analysis of it. I don't know. I can't remember. I honestly don't remember. Hate is based on ignorance. You know, he's right about that. Hate is based on ignorance. Sure. I mean, I'm half kidding, by the way. Now, let me just criticize that simply because someone said, you know, I don't know the answer to that doesn't mean his argument failed. And what people are pointing out with that clip is they're saying, look at all the times he didn't know what he was talking about. Hold on.

You know, some of the responses, because it's all out of context. We don't know exactly what he was responding to. So you got to be careful of these internet videos. Because someone might say something like, Tim, which would you prefer for breakfast? French toast, pancakes, or waffles? And I might go, honestly, I don't have a good answer to that question. I don't know. I don't know. And they're like, aha, we got him. Yeah, but it was an opinion question about waffles. You know what I'm saying? Now, the point is, however...

One example, and I will say that many of the times that I don't know, he was talking about climate change. He was talking about money in politics. He was talking about oligarchy and taxing the rich. And Joe Rogan just asked him, what about X? So he said something like, in this regard with Elon Musk, a great example. Elon Musk spent $270 billion to elect Donald Trump. And without missing a beat, Rogan goes, and Harris spent $1.5 billion. Your point? And he went, yes, she certainly spent a lot of money.

So what's your point? The issue is that they have talking points that don't know what they're talking about. And that's why they don't want to come on these shows because they look real dumb. Now, there are some shows they do go on. Of course, I tend to go on each other's shows where they know they'll be in a safe space. There's a famous moment where Crowder was going to have a discussion with I think it's Ethan Klein. And then he calls in and they just switch the camera to Sam Cedar.

And Crowder's like, OK, I get it. Thanks. Have a nice day. And they use that because they're basically WWE. They're not really interested in what the problems of this country are. They're just grifters. That's what they are. Fox News says Senator Bernie Sanders tried to slam Elon Musk of the 270 million dollars he spent to get Trump elected during an appearance on the Joe Rogan experience. But Rogan quickly shot back with the large sums of money donated to former President Kamala Harris.

Sanders sparred with Rogan over political donations during a discussion of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision. The ruling found that political donations were a form of speech and therefore could not be limited under the First Amendment. Sanders slammed Citizens United as maybe the worst decision the Supreme Court has ever made. I don't completely disagree. The idea that super PACs exist and the only requirement is they not coordinate with the campaign is ridiculous. Everybody knows that, you know, look,

Here's what happens. John says, I'm going to run for office. His best friend, Rick, who helped set up the whole campaign, says, what's that? He just announced? I had no idea. No, of course they did. They planned the whole thing for two years. Then dude's brother, dude's best friend, starts a super PAC where he knows exactly what the plan and targets are for media and doesn't need to coordinate with the politician. So it is...

A silly distinction. You then get corporations that can put $100 million into a single candidate. Good luck beating that at the grassroots level. So that's a fair criticism, in my opinion. Sanders slams Citizens United. What it says is you're a billionaire. You now have the constitutional right because your money is your freedom of expression. The result of that decision, let's take us to where we are today. Elon Musk, he spent $270 million to elect Trump. I think that's absurd.

Rogan then asked what the largest donation of the Harris campaign was and Sanders didn't give a sum but said the campaign spent a lot of money. They spent $1.5 billion just in the course of a couple months. The Harris campaign raised $1.5 billion during our 15-week-long campaign and exited the race $20 million in debt. Stop. This is a trick. This is a trick to do in the news. Do you guys have debt? I have debt.

I have rolling credit card debt. Why? Because we use a credit card for the business. So let's say we're going to buy gasoline for our car that goes to pick up our guests. Soon as we do that, I'm now in debt. However, having $20 million in debt does not mean my net worth is in the negative.

Our liabilities are greater than our debts. I'm sorry. I said that totally wrong. Our liabilities are less than our assets. That's the proper way. What I mean is we've got more money than the debt we have. So the question is, did Kamala Harris have negative 20 million? No, she did not. And let me just say, I can tell you that for sure. The Tesla CEO formally endorsed Trump. We get it. Musk then jumped in the race. We get it.

The SpaceX founder, we get it. Sanders, a longtime outspoken opponent of big money in politics, went on to state that both parties rely on billionaire donors, and he doesn't limit his criticisms to Republicans and Musk, though that's certainly what he went for. Let's talk about your private jet, Bernie Sanders.

You're not going to hear me defending the Democratic Party on the issue. During the election, it wasn't just Musk and the Republicans putting a lot of money into Trump. It was Democratic billionaires putting money into Kamala and other candidates as well. And I can respect that. And that's why Bernie Sanders actually went on Rogan's show. Bernie thinks he's right and has no problem saying, you know, I don't know that. And maybe that's the conversation that makes Bernie Sanders realize maybe I'm wrong. But let me just give you guys a little morsel. You know, old Tim Pool here, I fly in private jets.

So typically, I don't fly private jets. I fly on private planes. We fly turboprop. Usually it's cheaper. So I run a large and successful business. We make lots of money. And then someone will say, we want you to do a show in this place at this time or have a meeting with this person. It's big. It's important. It's high level business. And I'll say, I have to do my show. I work morning shows, night shows. When do I have time to fly? I don't.

And then, you know, it's funny because of these these hippie communists are like just fly on the weekend. Oh, right. I'll work 16 hour days, five days a week and then have no day off at all and then work. So, you know, like it is it is it is brutal to work 16 hour days every single day all the time, 24 seven. So I like to spend some time with my family sometimes. Right. So it's actually quite simple. Round trip from here to New York's probably fifteen thousand dollars. You get seven seats on a turboprop.

Not bad. You want to fly in a jet. It's going to be like $23,000 to $25,000 round trip from D.C. to New York. It saves time. It takes about an hour, hour 10. And you can fly whenever you want and return whenever you want. So when I need to go somewhere, we say, what's the total cost of the trip? Okay, well, here's the best part. There is, it's basically like,

If you want to get a cheap four-seater, it's going to cost you maybe like $10,000. You get a seven-seater and you're bringing your crew up because you have a big event. Actually, it's maybe just double the cost of first class. So it is more expensive for sure, but it's not like – if I got to spend $10,000 flying a team, a production team to New York City, and it's going to be $15,000 to fly whenever we want –

and get there in an hour instead of going to an airport and waiting five, because that's what it is on average, five hours that you'll spend traveling to the airport, getting on the plane, landing and all this stuff, then it's worth it. That being said, Bernie Sanders flew on a, what was it? It was a Hawker or something. It was like a large, very expensive luxury jet.

And then said, oh, but you know, it was the only thing we, get out of here, dude. You could have flown on a, on a, on a turbo prop. You get out of here. And then he's going to make the argument. We got a lot of staff and like, I get it, but I can tell you this. You don't need, cause we do this. You don't need to fly on a luxury jet.

That's a lie. So when I look at Bernie and AOC, these limousine liberal lefty communists, whatever you want to call them, they're full of it when they're like, we got to get money out of politics, except for me when I fly in my private jet and not just a private jet, a luxury jet, which is large and comfortable. Brother.

The planes that, so I flew recently. I can't remember where we were going. It was probably New York. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was on Jesse Waters and a couple other shows. And the turboprop that we got, it's called, what do you get? A beach something? A beach air? I don't know. Whatever it's called. And it had like four seats and it had a toilet. It did. And they shook my, you don't want to use that toilet. That's like an emergency thing. And you really don't. It's like,

You're you're not there's not a room. It's just a seat that you lift up and there's kind of a hole with water in it. So it's available. But, you know, buddy, I get it. You're old. You want the finer things. Stop acting like you're some high and mighty dude getting money out of politics when you had no problem taking a luxury jet. Listen, if you want to be a communist and claim people shouldn't be wasting money by all means, my friend, grab your steaks from Wal-Mart, cook them well done and slop some ketchup on it.

But we all know Bernie Sanders is likely eating filet mignon. He's going to wonderful steakhouses. He is eating well. He's got a summer home. He's got three properties. He is not poor. And you know what? Maybe you could sell a bestselling book and have a million dollars too. Now, I don't think he's ultimately wrong in a lot of his arguments about money and politics, but there is a challenge. If I want to buy a billboard, I can buy a billboard. Thank you and have a nice day. And so therein lies the question of how do we draw boundaries with money and politics?

The big picture, leftists and liberals will not come and sit down on this show because they cannot handle two hours of getting roasted. You guys have seen the clips. You've seen them. We'll see how they handle it in the future. We got these live culture war events coming up. They're going to be epic. But I'll leave it there. Smash the like button. Share the show with everyone you know. Stay tuned. More to come. And we'll see you all in the next segment.

Trump's border czar Tom Homan delivers stark warning to Zoran Mamdani after New York City primary win. Game on. Why? Well, it's because Mamdani's got a policy on his website that says they're not going to let ICE in. And I explained this last night on Timcast. Let me say it again. Perception is reality. PR is everything.

And there's more than one way to look at an object. There's this really great image where it shows two shadows being cast by one object. One shadow is a circle. One shadow is a square. It turns out there's a cylinder hanging and the light in one direction will cast a square and the other will cast a circle. Interesting, huh? Sure. Let me put it this way. When Zoran Mamdani says we will not allow ICE into the city and we will shut down all cooperation and protect our families,

What he's saying is there are people who have illegally invaded our country, our country, and they are going to fortify and entrench themselves to stop the federal government from enforcing our own laws. So let me just zoom out here. They are telling you outright there is a growing faction in this nation. Let's just do this. Let's put it like this. Imagine that if you're an American,

There's a map with little characters and the Americans are green all across the country. There are little green, little green dots. Non-citizens, illegal immigrants, mind you, are purple. The green say, listen, the purple has to legally apply to be Americans and then everyone will be green. I'm intentionally using colors that aren't racist to make a point.

What the purple faction is saying is we reject what all of you in this country want. We reject your laws. We reject your system of governance and we will use force to stop you. Now, if you sit back and take them at their word like Republicans tend to do because they're fairly weak, Trump is turning things around. But don't get me wrong. I think the Republicans are still largely weak.

What you end up with is a person saying, little old me, we're just here for our families. Please don't hurt us. When they're really saying and they're selling it great. Your laws are nothing to us. Your government is nothing to us. We will take from you. We will grow our influence. We will add to our ranks and you will lose. That is what they are saying. I got a video. I can't even play it.

This this this woman on TikTok, only a few hundred followers, mind you. But she is on her TikTok page outright telling people to kill cops. I can't play the full video because she literally tells people go buy weapons and go do this. She says this is not social media. She's saying it's war. You know what? People may or may not listen to her. But this is where we're at. And the left was always going to react this way. Why? Why?

I'll say it again when they come to you and they say, but it's it's just our families. We don't want crying children. That's the demon wearing the mask. And then what happens is you say, I'm sorry, but a crying child will not override our government, our constitution, and the law will be followed. And then the mask comes off and there is a snarling demon who says, you've exposed me and now you die. That's literally what they are saying.

They said, we play nice and we'll tug at your heartstrings. And if you refuse, what does she say? She says people should go murder other people. Well, Tom Homan says game on. I like Tom. I think he's tough. But Zoran Mamdani is saying we will entrench illegal immigration in America's greatest city. It is occupied. It is ours. And you will not have it. President Trump's borders are Tom Homan ripped into Zoran Mamdani's mayoral campaign promise to kick the fascist ice out of New York City.

Telling the Democratic Socialists it's game on. Homan, whom Trump tapped to serve as his top immigration enforcer, called out Mamdani on Wednesday, one day after the 33-year-old Queens assemblyman declared victory in the New York City Democratic primary. Mamdani has vowed to Trump-proof the Big Apple if he's elected mayor, claiming the president has deployed ICE agents to pluck New Yorkers from their families, according to his campaign website. Homan had a short, sweet response to Mamdani's promise. Good luck with that.

Homan told Larry Kudlow during his appearance on Fox Business's Kudlow. Federal law trumps him every day, every hour of every minute. We're going to be in New York City, matter of fact, because it's a sanctuary city. And President Trump made it clear a week and a half ago. We're going to double down and triple down on sanctuary cities. Weakness. Charge the man with sedition if he obstructs federal law enforcement. Go in and stop this truce.

These are tens of millions of illegal immigrants breaking our laws, and they have entrenched themselves in.

And they are they are filming videos of themselves blocking ICE agents that Brad Lander should be charged with sedition for fighting ICE agents. I am sick of spineless Republicans. Democrats tried putting lawyers, Trump's lawyers in prison. They falsely accused of crimes. And what do the Republicans do? Game on. Good luck. We're going to do the bare minimum, literally just basically enforcing law. OK, we lose. Thank you and have a nice day.

The communists are winning in politics. They're creating hate crime laws and offices of DEI and LGBT and all that stuff. And the Republicans are going, ha, we'll show them. We'll do the absolute bare minimum. Best of luck. That's it, I guess. He says, we're going to concentrate in sanctuary cities because we know they're releasing public safety threats and national security threats back to the streets. So we know we've got a problem here. I don't play those games.

You want me to go on TV again? I like that Tom is doing this. Don't get me wrong. You know, don't make the perfect enemy the good. Is that what they say? But I got to tell you, I'd be I'm saying it right now. You put me on TV and I'm going to say outright, we will go in. We will use every resource available and we will remove these illegal invaders who seek to strip our children of their birthright, a nation built by their parents and their ancestors and

to give them a life better than they knew. And when these people come in and demand of us our public resources, and they do it illegally, jumping the line, violating our goodwill, it is an insult, it is a front, and it is a threat, and these people will be moved. And all who would aid and abet shall be charged as well.

There's a law that's not sedition for encouraging, enticing, aiding and abetting illegal immigration. And if they don't want to go that hard, they could go that route. I say encouraging illegal immigration is a crime in this country. We'll charge them with it. But what happens? Brad Lander running for office performs a stunt. He fights ICE agents screaming at them. And what did Trump's DOJ do? Nothing. No charges.

That's not even the bare minimum. They're below the bare minimum. They could have said, you hit a cop, you go to jail. Now, Rhett McIver got charged. She's on video punching a cop. OK, I can respect that. But again, if you're allowing Democrats to do this in some instances like Padilla and Lander and others, not you're still at the below the minimum. You want to go above and beyond. You charge them with serious crimes like sedition. That's above and beyond. Maybe a little too heavy handed. Fine, depending on what they're doing.

But letting people who fought with cops go, that's incredible. Why? They're scared of politics. Well, I tell you this. You got four years to get it done. And in the meantime, millennials are already communists. They're already entrenching these laws. Atlanta, of all places I talked about in the morning, they have hate crime laws where if you desecrate a pride flag, it's prison. But an American flag is not even an issue. It's protected speech. And what are the Republicans doing? Nothing. Don't get me wrong.

It's fair to say they're doing some stuff, but my point is when they are below the minimum of what they could be doing, I'd say that they're in the negative territory. So with all due respect to Tom, Tom's doing what he does, and I respect the work that he's doing. He's going to focus on the deportations and getting rid of illegal immigrants. OK, but when the DOJ does not go after people like Lander or Padilla and they let him go after clearly breaking the law and fighting with cops.

Okay, you've got three Democrats who fought with cops. Only one got charged. So if the bare minimum is anyone who hits cop gets charged, that's the law. And two of these people have not been. We call that net negative. He says, we don't have that problem in Florida.

where the sheriffs work with us. So we're going to double up and triple up on New York. Not only are we going to send more agents to the neighborhood, we're going to increase worksite enforcement tenfold. I'd like to tell you once again, as I often do, the story of I Am Legend. Hi, I'm Mike Peska, host of The Gist, and I'm the kind of person, maybe you are too, who likes to step outside the easy reinforcement of my own ideas and

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99% of the people are like, holy crap, there's vampires. So this guy is like, I'm going to take out these vampires. And so he begins hunting the vampires. He's killing them. He breaks into their dens during the day while they sleep in their coffins and he stakes them in the heart. Evil vampires. But guess what? He's not doing it fast enough. He can't stop the spread of vampirism. Is that how you say it? Vampirism? Vampiracy?

Whatever. So the vampires are biting people and converting them faster and faster and faster until one day he is captured by the vampires. He is brought to a jail and he's in his jail cell and he looks out the window and what does he see? Everyone is a vampire. And then he realizes it. What does I am legend mean when everyone is converted into a vampire? He's the monster.

He is the creature that lurks while you sleep, who kills you while you're unconscious. He is the demon, the boogeyman. He has become the vampire. When the children would tell stories of the monsters at night that would seek to bite you and drink your blood, they were terrified. But once everyone was a vampire, that was just the norm. And he was the strange creature with the ability to walk in the sun and kill you at your most vulnerable moments.

That's crazy, right? The vampires are the monsters. Not if everyone's the vampire. So what ends up happening with this immigration stuff is sooner or later, you will have more non-Americans in a city like New York and enough of them to where they will physically resist you because they will say, you are the monster that seeks to remove us from our home. But the government of the United States will say, it's not your home. It is our home and you came here illegally. And yet the argument is that

All that is yours is only what you can hold. If you do not have the power to defend your land, the land is not yours. If you don't have the power to keep your purse intact, the purse will be taken from you. That is the ancient law of the land. It is the law that defined North America when the colonists came here and fought with and conquered much of the Native American territory. And so these individuals will say very much the same thing. If you are unable to defend your land, then it's not yours anymore.

So the question is, will the Republicans go after the entrenchment in people like Zorhan Mamdani and charge him with sedition or aiding and abetting illegal immigration? Or will they just say, but he's duly elected, duly elected by who? Honest question. Duly elected by who? The question ultimately becomes what happens to this country when there are more people who oppose its values? And the liberal argument is, if you're born here, your values are meaningless. You're an American.

And the American traditional value is there is something that means American. There are values as a constitution, a system of governance, a great experiment, something new, something anti-authoritarian that we must protect. And if more and more people come to this country,

non-citizens, or even legally as citizens, and their worldview is built upon an entirely different ideological structure, eventually the classical liberal experiment of America will be crushed and converted to communism or otherwise. Best of luck. I'll leave it there. Smash the like button, share the show with everyone you know. We got more coming up for you in a little bit, and we'll see you all in the next segment.

The Democratic establishment is melting down after Zoran Mamdani's win in New York City. The man's an overt socialist with insane policies like government-run stores, $30 minimum wage, defunding the police, replacing them with social workers. And that's just the beginning. Free buses, LGBTQIA office in government.

Oh, boy. 800% increase in funding for hate crime law enforcement. Already in New York City, the housing market is starting to break down. Shares in companies that hold real estate are dropping. And the famous story that we've talked about quite a bit is that this billionaire guy who owns a bunch of grocery stores says he's going to leave because there's no way he's going to compete with government-run grocery stores. Oh, boy. I hope you all are ready for bread lines. Look.

Things like this happen all over the world. Socialists take power. And invariably, you end up with the same things. People go hungry. People lose access to wealth and resources. And that's what happens when a bunch of, well, I guess it's a fourth turning. When a generation is improperly prepared. Now, I don't know if there's a solution to the fourth turning, assuming it's correct. Which states, simply, every fourth generation, you get a bunch of lazy entitled crackpots.

The reality may be that without experience of hardship, people tend to vote for things that are destructive. And Zoran Mamdani is another example. Now, he may be either dangerously stupid or dangerously evil. But for all intents and purposes, it's effectively the exact same thing. Now, the funny thing about this is I love watching the establishment Democrats self-immolate in chaos over what is currently going on with Zoran Mamdani. But...

At the same time, the deeper concern is that this will spread. And you know what? I accept that because I was talking about it quite a bit saying, you know what? Fine. Let let baby have his bottle. Let let the socialists get what they want. But it will just entrench itself and it won't stop. Now, in this instance, it's isolated to the cities, but it's expanding.

Chicago voted in a socialist and everyone's pissed off. Maybe in the next election things will change, but I doubt it. New York City's voting leftist every single time and it's only going further and further. It's almost like as they fall off the cliff, they argue that they're actually just not falling fast enough and do everything they can to speed things up. They seem to be being this system of belief that they're just not communist enough. And if they only try, try again, maybe they'll succeed.

So let's talk about all of that and the breakdown of what's currently going on. The state of the Democratic Party and my friends, yes, of course, communism on the rise in these United States. The next generation is going to be oh so insane. And you're going to have a right leaning younger faction with a communist leaning left faction. And, you know, I'll just put it this way. I got a segment coming up later.

There's a viral video of some woman, a leftist, of course, calling for the murder of ICE agents, but telling people to do it, telling them to get guns and go and do it. I imagine she'll get arrested, but the sentiment is growing. So when this generation is the older generation in politics, what do you think they're going to be doing? We've already seen Democrats go after Donald Trump with false criminal charges, false felonies, false accusations of rape.

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Many Democratic leaders and donors are panicking about Zoran Mamdani, the 33-year-old Democratic socialist who won the party's nomination to be the next mayor of New York City. Establishment Democrats looking to recover from 2024's losses fear Mamdani could hurt the party's brand nationally, while young progressives believe his formula could spread beyond New York. I think both are true.

The far left crackpot communist psychotic ideologies will absolutely spread. And it will also dramatically hurt the Democrats national brand. Here's how it works as a funny meme. And I'll be a little crude with it. So I hope you guys earmuffs if you got kids listening. But there's a funny meme where it's like.

In, you know, in 1990, some dude has a I'll keep it family friendly, has a proclivity for toasters, if you know what I'm saying. And his dad whacks him in the back of the head and says, knock it off, you weirdo. And he does. In 2025, a kid teenager with a proclivity for toasters goes online, finds an online community of wackaloons from all over the world where they come together and convene over their love for toasters, if you know what I'm saying.

So basically what happens is you get crackpot AOC with stupid ideas that most people don't support. But she's able to muster up funding by targeting the pocket of disparate socialists across the country. Let's just say this in a nation of 330 million with no Internet, you got to go door to door and knock on doors. What happens? Nine out of 10 doors you knock on are going to be fairly moderate in some way. Yeah, you'll bump into 10 percent of the socialists. But what are they going to do about it?

So you end up pandering to the majority, the moderate base, and you and your election. AOC comes around. She's a crackpot lunatic lefty. She finds only 10% in her district actually supports communism. So what does she do? She goes online. And this is true of the squad. The overwhelming majority, I think the last time was a few years ago, and it was like 95% or more of the donations they receive are from outside of their district, meaning they're

That 10% normally wouldn't be able to give you enough resources to win an election. So if you're asking your district for money, you can't pander the 10%. You got to go for the majority, the lowest common denominator. But for the squad now, they can raise substantially more money online because fervent psychotic communists are willing to throw money at their ideology. They hyper-concentrate it in a district like AOC, Ilhan Omar, et cetera. And what happens? She ends up being able to win through her campaigning.

Of course, generally, she just goes around or like Zoran Mamdani, endorsed by AOC. He can promise things that are impossible.

And with the power of the Internet, got his message out, despite the fact it's not popular nationally among young people because of social media is becoming more popular. So what I see happening for Democrats is their party will eventually just become the minority party. They will struggle to muster up any real chance of victory because they're too extreme. They'll represent about 20 to 25 percent of the country. But moderates are going to be like these people are crazy. So the Democrats will never quite get there.

Let's read more.

They say Democratic leaders largely rallied behind former Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York's mayoral primary. Mamdani's shocking victory Tuesday was the latest example of the party's establishment being disconnected from its own voters. On Wednesday, many Democratic lawmakers and officials either denounced Mamdani or notably declined to rally around him. Republicans, including Trump, crowed about Democrats embracing a Democratic socialist who has called for reduced police funding and sided with Palestinians in the Gaza war.

The top two Democratic leaders in Congress, Schumer and Jeffries, both New Yorkers declined to endorse Mamdani even as they applauded his victory. Okay, let's talk about the ramifications. Shares of firms tied to NYC real estate tank over fears of Mamdani's rent freeze, the Zoran effect. Let's go already. People are losing money. I love it. And I'm sure the communists do too. The New York Post reports that

Shares of firms with exposure to New York City's real estate market were hammered on Wednesday as investors panicked over the growing prospect of rent-freeze advocate Zoran Mamdani winning City Hall. Vornado Realty Trust and SL Green, two of the Big Apple's largest developers, plunged more than 5%. Oh, man. That's brutal. There's also Trinity Church, which is like one of the largest real estate owners in the city or the country. And I wonder how their holdings are doing.

Other real estate investment trusts with heavy ties to the city also suffered. Equity residential and Empire State Realty Trust fell 3% and 4% respectively. LXP Industrial Trust was down 2.5%. Let's go look at that. Look at that smile on Zoran's face as the markets crumble around him. Hey, man, if you guys don't know much about New York in the 70s, wait till you get a load of this guy.

Investors also sold off shares in New York's banks with major real estate portfolios. Flagstar Financial and Dime Community Bank fell 5% and 4% respectively, while Flushing Financial slipped 3%. Flagstar, formerly known as New York Community Bancorp, and Dime Community have major exposure to rent-regulated multifamily homes in New York, according to analysts.

Mamdani, the 33-year-old self-avowed democratic socialist, which let's be real, literally just means he's a socialist, has vowed to freeze rent on all rent-stabilized apartments in the Big Apple. Analysts have warned the move could hurt building owners already grappling with higher costs as constraints on their ability to raise rents might make it more difficult for some to repay their debt.

Politicians continue to march down a perilous path for rent regulated multifamily rent regulated multifamily. Is there a word there? You're describing something with allowable rent increases, lagging expense growth. Brokerage, Stephen said.

New York's real estate sector has already been reeling under pressure as higher interest rates strained borrow borrowers while the post pandemic adoption of remote working left office buildings vacant. Mamdani's policies could lead to more selective corporate spending and hiring in the city and more out migration of individual families, reducing the need for growth or office of office leasing. Mizuho analyst Vikram Malhotra wrote in a note to clients on Wednesday, dubbing it the Zoran effect.

SL Green owns 25.3 million square feet of property, 96.6 of which is in Manhattan, including 95.1% of commercial property and 1.4% of residential property. Vornado holds 75.1 of its square footage in New York. Let's not forget Donald Trump owns a lot of real estate in New York as well. He stands to lose some money here.

They're going to mention an estimated $16 to $18 billion of Flagstar's multifamily loan portfolio would be impacted by a rent freeze, according to Deutsche Bank analyst Bernard von Giziki. They're going to mention that Flagstar stock, blah, blah, blah. We get it. We get it. The prices are collapsing. New York's already reeling. This is going to be fantastic. These people think that it's going to make rents go down and it's going to be better for their state. It's not.

Now, don't get me wrong. There are problems. Zoran's got a viral video where he points out that you can't get permits to sell food in the city. So what happens is these these halal carts, they call them. And I used to eat this stuff all the time. It's amazing. They chop the chicken up. They put it over rice, some tzatziki sauce, 10 bucks. And this is how the dude wins. He goes to the guy and he says, how much does it cost? They go 10 bucks. He asked a bunch of guys, why?

And they say, we've got to pay the permit owner a share of all the money we make every month. So to pay our rent and to pay our bills, we add a premium premium on top to pay the permit holder. It's like, wait, wait, wait, wait. Why does some other guy own the permit?

And then let you run a business off his permit. That's the way the city operates. It's crony BS. Now, by all means, that's wrong, but that's an administrative problem, not an issue to be solved by communism or anything like that. So what happens is if Zorin is willing to address those problems and let's be real, Cuomo is the alternative. He wins at least the primary.

You go to people and say, let's get rid of the entrenched bureaucracy and they're going to cheer for you. Zoran basically said, let's get rid of the waste, fraud and abuse and allow people to run their own food carts.

What's going to happen instead? Well, the dude's policies are plum nuts and it's beyond just pointing out an obvious issue.

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But this is how communists tend to do it, my friends. You present a real problem that needs a solution, focus on what the people are complaining about, and in your back pocket, you advocate for psychotic things. Now look, freeze the rent. Your average worker doesn't understand how real estate markets work. So when you tell them this, they say, good, I don't want to pay more rent. But they don't understand the after effect of this. This is why I think the fourth turning, it's a major concern. And I don't know if there's an actual solution for it.

If you go to a young person and try to explain to them something they can't fathom because they never experienced it, they're going to ignore you. So what happens is unless the problem actually emerges and people experience it, they're going to vote against their own interests. And I don't know that they can be educated as to otherwise because they'll just call you a liar. But I'll put it this way. As I've explained now in several videos, you cannot rent out property at a lower cost than the cost to run the property.

So you've got to factor in wear and tear, taxes, depending on how you're handling your utilities. Water, I think, is often paid by the building owner, not by the tenant, largely due to they don't track water usage, it's just per building. And so there's a lot of fixed costs. If at the end of a rental, normal wear and tear is going to cost more than they paid in rent, plus you've got to hire a superintendent and you've got to pay your permit fees and all of that.

Okay, they're going to say, I got to charge $2,500 in rent to make this work. Why? The super says food costs more. He wants a higher salary. Can't do it. I don't rent it out. What do you get? You get empty buildings that nobody wants to fix and you get slums. That's where we are going with rent freezes.

There's no easy way to handle this. Part of the problem is at the Federal Reserve level, at the federal level, the mass spending, the stripping of U.S. assets and savings through deficit spending and the creation of money upon the issuance of debt results in inflation. Basically, they're flooding the market with excess cash. They're giving money to people who aren't producing so the U.S. government can make them do jobs they want done without actually having cycled economic value into the system. So basically...

If one guy's got to do a job for another guy, you know, guy says, I'll grow the wheat, you make the bread. The U.S. government comes in and says, we're going to give we're going to make money, do literal nothing and buy the bread. So now there's a deficit of labor going into the system.

So it's not all New York's fault this stuff happens. Federal government has a big problem. Now, he also wants to freeze. He wants to I'm sorry. He wants to create grocery stores run by the government, which is going to drive away these gristitis. This guy, John Katsimatidis, says he's going to get rid of his supermarkets there. We talked about this the other day, which, of course, is going to create bread lines. I'll give you the simple version. I

I think the real challenge that we're facing right now is that communism is on the rise. I can break down all of his policies, as I did yesterday, explain why he's nuts and why it's going to burn down New York. But the reality is young people are increasingly communist. And what does that mean?

When communists get power and invariably destroy everything, they just lie again. And if you're stupid enough to believe the first lies of communism, you're going to believe the second lies of communism. Hence, you'll get Venezuela. What happens with Venezuela? They call it the revolution. Even though they've been the entrenched bureaucratic government now for decades, they say they are the revolution.

When problems arise, Maduro or whoever just says it is the enemies of the revolution that are causing the problems. And if only we had more socialism, things would be better off. Communists and socialists in the United States say Venezuela is only doing poorly because of capitalist interference. Or as Zoran Mamdani said, taxation isn't theft. Capitalism is. But what is capitalism defined as?

Communism, socialism, there are two sides of the same coin, basically. Socialism is the economic system and communism is the political economic system. So they largely mean the same thing. Socialism typically refers solely to the workers controlling the means of production and the distribution of assets, whereas communism is the political system by which a socialist system is maintained. So it's basically the same thing, right? Because you can't really have one without the other.

Well, capitalism is the private trade of goods, meaning an individual has the right to trade their labor for whatever they see fit. In socialism, you don't.

Your labor is taken. So let's say you're a genius and you want to work 16 hours a day. I love this. We're in mixed economy in America, and I'm getting fed up with it, to be completely honest. I work 16 hours a day, as most of you know. I do a morning show. We do a skate show. We're planning. We're doing merch. And then we've got administrative legal. And then I do a nightly show. I'm in bed around 11 p.m. I'm awake around 7 a.m. at work about an hour and a half later, 830 to 11. So

You do the math. With a break for lunch in between. So sometimes it's 12, sometimes it's 16, depending on what I got to do. I have to pay extra taxes.

Because of my extra work makes more money. They take more money from me, creating a diminishing return. The more work that I do, the less fruits of my labor I actually get. That's socialism, not capitalism. If we were a laissez-faire capitalists, I would just exponentially increase the amount I was generating with my hard work. Now, I'm not a laissez-faire capitalist. I think some government programs taxation is fine, but socialists want to take it all.

Now, here's where it gets funny. From the New York Post, communist group slams Mamdani for deceiving working class and making false promises. OK, well, hey, look, we knew they were going to fight with themselves at some point. Let's move on to the bigger threat that I see. Why is Gen Z embracing socialism? Trendy campus slogans ignore the oppression, suffering and slaughter by communist regimes. It's time to get real about history. Well, my friends,

It's a rise of communism, socialism, and also conservatism. So actually, I don't know where I have it. Is it over here? Here we go. Democratic pollsters shocked at Gen Z's conservative shift. Well, the Atlantic says it's a myth of a Gen Z wave.

Now, it's not a myth. We actually we actually are seeing a hyper polarization. The left is becoming substantially more extreme. And the right is also I wouldn't say they're becoming more extreme, but they're becoming more entrenched in traditional and conservative values, not fascism, mind you. But, ladies and gentlemen, from YouGov, would Americans choose communism or fascism? Fascinatingly.

The U.S. today is 2% higher than January of 1939, and fascism is down by nine points. So in 1939, the question is if you had to choose between the two. 26% said communism, 48% said don't know or no opinion, and 26% said fascism, a fairly even split. In the U.K.,

74% said communism, and 26% said fascism. How about them apples? As of today, in the United States, 28% say communism and 17% say fascism. And that's pretty shocking if you ask me. Because communism and fascism both had their negatives substantially. But communism went on to mass murder more people than any other political ideology in human history. Right?

With Mao Zedong having killed more people than any single individual. Don't get me wrong, fascists were bad. And fascism typically does get used to refer to the Nazis, although Nazism and fascism were slightly different. We don't really care. They were aligned, right? And Hitler did a lot of really, really bad things. Some of the worst in history as well.

Any genocidal maniac has reached that apex of evil. But communists were substantially more successful in mass murder. That's why it's crazy that anybody would choose either of them. But where are we now? The prediction is that Mamdani is going to win. I'm not so convinced, my friends. I am not completely convinced he will. Right now, Polly Market has him at a 73% chance to win.

So if you bet $100 against them, you win $371 on Polymarket. I actually think it's possible he loses. Andrew Cuomo is poised to drop out of mayoral race altogether following his primary loss. They're calling this the coalition strategy.

It may be that Cuomo drops out and rallies behind Eric Adams, giving him the bump he needs to win. But wait, there's more. Bill Ackman is pledging to bankroll any NYC mayoral candidate capable of defeating Zoran Mamdani. And this guy's got big bucks. He's got lots of money to spend.

In all likelihood, I think Ackman ends up putting money behind Eric Adams as Cuomo drops out. Cuomo likely will endorse Adams and Adams might actually win as an independent. So a lot of people are counting their eggs before they hatched. We don't know exactly what's going to happen in New York just yet, but already housing prices, shares in these firms are going way, way down. So my friends, I can only tell you,

It's going to get very, very interesting, to say the least. Now we've got a lot more to discuss. We'll see what happens in New York. Make sure you smash the like button. Share the show with everyone you know, my friends. Let's see what we've got going on over here. Something, what is this? I don't know.

Whoa, okay. So apparently a C-17 just flew over us. It wasn't thunder. There was a massive rumbling and I'm like, whoa, what's going on? Apparently a C-17 just flew overhead real low. I wonder what's going on. We're very close to the D.C. area, but we're close to a National Guard airbase.

Interesting. All right. Anyway, I digress. Smash the like button. Share the show with everyone. You know, we got an interview with Congressman Marlon Stutzman coming up. We're going to talk about the lies from the corporate press over the Iranian strike and what's going on with this story.

With the Federal Reserve and finance and we'll see. We'll see. Admittedly, I'm not as well versed on the finance portion of what's going on. But it'll be interesting to talk about the Abraham Accords piece and then released and where we're currently at. So that'll be coming up at 4 p.m. at rumble.com slash Tim Pool or youtube.com slash Timcast.

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