Weekly Skews - Weekly Skews – We’re Hearing It’s a Caliphate or Something

Episode Date: July 2, 2025

 Peter Thiel comes out as a centrist on the issue of “whether or not all humans should die.” Ron DeSantis has a plan to feed immigrants to alligators. Then we discuss the New York mayoral primary and whether American can survive a Woke Islamist Communist doing Sharia Law, which seems to mainly consist of faster city buses.Support the show

what's up everybody welcome back happy skews day to you it's uh july first right there's 30 days in june right mark we have that yeah so tomorrow's july first uh yeah we're recording this on june 30th so i got a little confused for a minute but as you're watching this it's tuesday july 1st uh 2025 halfway through 2025 already it's It's been a horrid wind, but also going by pretty damn fast at the same time. You know, this means we're closer to 2050 than 2000, right? Yeah, I know. Yes, it's insane.

Yeah, we're the first quarter of the 21st century is drawing to a close now already, so pretty wild. Mm-hmm. We have a fun show today. I want to talk about the insane reaction to Zora Mamdami, when in the New York Senate, New York mayoral Democratic primary because it's a lot of funny shit happening from the world's most vindictive,

petty and stupid people. Before that, we're going to talk about alligator Alcatraz and Peter Thiel openly saying he wants to murder all of humanity which, or to be fair, he sort of wiffly waffles on it, but we'll talk about that. Before we get the show, did you keep track of what happened at Glastonbury

at the music festival over the weekend? Now, my music festival days are long, long behind. may. I used to be into that whole thing, but no longer. As Nick, in the solid Scottish accent, so, uh, as a,

as this example of people in power going to fucking insane and through, and just like shitting their pants over anything related to Israel, I want to like recap the sequence of events here. I, a couple months ago, kneecap, the Irish rap group, uh,

named after the IRA's penchant for, uh, shooting collaborators with the British Empire in the East. Um, so you can take a wild stab with their politics, rap about killing the queen and shit. They were at Coachella, and they led the crowd in a free Palestine chant

while on the screen was fuck Israel free Palestine. On the YouTube stream, Coachella people decided to bleep fuck, which sort of makes sense except they don't censor anybody else's language over anything. But they also bleep free.

So if you watch it back, Sounds like they're going bleep Israel, bleep Palestine. Right, yeah. Yeah, yeah. We don't like any of them. No, even handed. Respley even handed. Yeah.

So, in response to that, the UK government decided to charge NECAT with, like, material support of terrorism. Okay, because you said, you said Irish rap group, so they're from Northern Ireland, specifically. You said they're never known to IRA, so they're. I believe so, but yeah. That would make them, because the UK, you know, if they're Northern Irish, then the UK has jurisdiction over them or whatever and can actually do something to them

if they wanted to, I guess, or... Yeah, so they had their arraignment last week and they kind of, they were, they were few, they basically demanded to have an Irish interpreter because they didn't want to speak English.

I fucking love the Irish, right? So, uh, fast forward to this weekend, all right? Glass and Barry is being broadcast in the BBC. BBC does not want to show kneecap because they're afraid they're going to say,

say free Palestine. So they cut to another stage where bands performing called Bob Villain, okay? Bob Villain, besides having the word villain in their name, is made up of two guys whose names are Bobby Villain and Bobby Villain.

They don't tell anybody the real names because they're worried about government surveillance. Sure. And they have, one of the most popular songs, the chorus of it is landlord just raise your rent, better get yourself a gun. So obviously, the smart choice was to come to them

because they immediately led the, they immediately led the crowd and chant of death, death to the IDF. Okay. So, what have we learned here? Nothing. Yeah. The BBC famously refused to play the Beatles song, Come Together, tried to censor it,

and we famously never heard it. All of us never heard come together. Right. Can everybody just stop being fucking babies? Yeah, where did the, it's like, I don't know. Which you know how like this, the spirit of rock and roll and punk. punk and hip hop and all those things is a kind of you know uh fuck authority damn the man mentality

since day one of the saga it's like just don't show fucking rock and roll festivals on primetime network television or whatever you're not into a little little bit of uh you know anarchy but where where did there where didn't kneecaps fans at some festival or something also like boo rod steward off the stage or something and chant older than israel or something like that to right like where did that happen? Because that's also very funny because he literally is older than Israel by three years. Rod Stewart came out of a supporter, Maddo Farage, who's like

so the crowd, like, the kneecap got on, Sneezer. Kneeat was asked about it because Bob Villan is another song it's like, we heard you want your country back. Fuck you. All right, which is basically just addressed it. Not natural fraud. Anyway, so like, yeah, so the kneecap was asked about it.

They were like, Rod Stewart's older than Israel, which is like you said is literally true. But like, so, like, the whole thing I'm trying to stop this shit, a little old lady by Helen from Wales broadcast kneecap set on her phone and was getting so many views

that it burnt her hand and she kept broadcasting. She had more views in the BBC feed. What do you guys even do it? They have stricent and affect kneecap into being a global fucking icons. Right.

I feel like these people have single-handly brought back rock and roll. I thought it was dead. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Well, there's been a ton of dry sand effects stuff in recent times.

The JD-Bance meme? Yeah, the JD-Vance meme is a great example. But, yeah, so many times they just don't, I don't know. They just don't understand fundamentally how any of that shit works, apparently. It's like somebody telling, it's like telling people that you don't like a nickname that came up with and don't call you that. It's like, well, now you're that for sure. Like there's no surer way to lock in a nickname than by telling everybody, but I don't like that.

Don't call me that. Like, it's, you know, it's school. You learn this shit in middle school how this shit works, or you should. Yeah, yeah. Just a bunch of people who didn't get enough wedgies in fucking middle school and not run the world and think they could reassert their authority over the playground.

And it's like, like, the whole point of the stuff is to control public opinion. Does it feel like they're doing it? Right. I mean, in a way, just not the way that they want to. Right, right. Uh, anyway. All right. Well, producer bats with us. Do this thing. We are going to continue. This is weekly skews. But, uh, before we continue, I've, of course, I got some orders of business for you. First, you want to see me do stand-up comedy live and in person. And you should. Go to traycrouter.com. Check out all my upcoming tour dates. Um, I just got back from Wine Country. A lovely show at the Uptown Theater in Napa on Saturday. It was a lot of fun. Thanks to everybody came out to that. And then up next, uh, the world famous. Um, the world famous. Largo Theater in Los Angeles,

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and stuff like that. Yeah, so, you know, like, because that's how that always works. But anyway, we'll be breaking all that down a little later, but first we begin with the Daily Dumbass. Matt, graphic, please. Tonight's D.D. The people taking me out of context

when I said, kill all humans when I clearly just meant kill most humans. This is Peter Thiel. You would prefer the human race to endure, right? You're hesitating. Well, I don't know. I would, I would, um, this is a long hesitation.

There's so many questions. Should the human race survives? Uh, yes. Okay. But, uh, I also, man, that's almost like on the level of when, uh, Sandusky got ass. asked on live TV if he was sexually attracted to young boys. And he was like, what do you say?

He was like, what do you mean by a young? Or what he said? He said something crazy like that. He was like, you know, I don't know about, it depends on what you, you know, depends on how you define that. It's like, you just say no to that, man. Or in this case, you just say, yes, of course I think the human race should, should survive. It's like, well.

But to it, to his credit, he's not lying. Yeah. But, like, I mean, that's the meat to be traced. You know the old thing? Like, everything said before the word but is a lie. Right. Right. So he's being, so that part's a lie.

But the butt is true. So if you guys, like, this Silicon Valley fucking, when I, I'm not talking about like the regular coders, all right? Like, the Silicon Valley is basically, they've got this phenomenon where like, if you go in and pitch like a regular business, we're just like, I got a good idea for a thing that would help people at a reasonable price and a return you reasonable margins. The money people. People are like, fuck you, die, right? Yeah. But if you're like, I've got an idea for an app that reverse desalinate ocean water through creating cryptocurrency that's mined while through a helmet that people wear while they dreamed, they're like, brilliant. Even though it's stupid, it doesn't work, right?

So like, so the guy that Peter Thiel was talking to there is New York, New York Times is resident conservative columnist Ross Delford, who's like a hardcore Catholic. So this is like a summit, conservative summit between the two power vectors in the Republican Party. You've got the people who believe in God versus the people who believe they are God. Yeah. Peter Theonist, right? I think, I wish everybody understood politicians especially, especially the Democratic Party, we want to kind of work with these people. There were in the grips of two doomsday cults, okay?

You've got the end times like evangelicals who want to help Israel, Bob, go to war with Iran so Jesus comes back. Right. The rapture, the book of revelation or whatever. Yeah.

The return of Christ. And then you got the people like Peter Theo who want to help Israel bomb Iran to train your artificial intelligence so that computer Jesus can come back. Okay. So like these people really do believe in transhumanism, upload your consciousness to the cloud.

Like what does that? They're basically imagining a future where their consciousness can live on forever without causing any environmental damage because they will not exist to physical plan. Yeah, okay, look. I think maybe we've talked to this on here before, but maybe I'm thinking about one of my other podcasts. I've,

I mean, I know I've mentioned the fact that it's been hard for me to, I just feel so naive in everything at this point in my life because my whole life growing up, I've been very into futurology and that type of thing, the potential of the future in technology and where we could be going,

and it's just somehow it never occurred. me that it would be, uh, you know, the bad version of it all or whatever. Have you never seen a science fiction movie? It's always the bad version. I've read all the books and seen all of them. Uh, and I, and yes, they are always bad. But usually also those are making some, without this doesn't help my case. I was going to say, you know, there's like social commentary about our present culture, but that, that, that implies that the problems we have today would fuck us in the future, which is exactly what's, is happening. But anyway, yeah, I don't know, like, you say that, like, the idea of that, like, that, you know, the, the Black Mirror

episode with the two lesbians on the beach, where they, they're in, like, that, it's like the only Black Mirror episode that ever has a happy ending, and it's like them live, it's like the notebook, but they are young together in, and fucking digital eternity on a beach and a computer somewhere at the end of it. You know, I, I like that. I like the idea of that, but, but we're not going to, you can't, you can't. You know, have you ever read the book, the short story? I have no mouth and I must scream. Because that's probably what it would be, which is hell on earth.

Something like these guys are so fucking arrogant. Like, they really do believe all this stuff and they're pushing this towards this future. And that's the reason they're willing to crack whatever eggs they have to crack to make this omelet. But one thing I want everyone, when people talk about AI and AGI and like transhumanism and all this shit and making computers conscious, we still don't know how human consciousness works as the problem that people have been trying to figure out for the entirety of human history it's what the fucking book of genesis is about so like the the no one we can't

recreate something that we don't understand right can we just enjoy a miracle the other problem with it the other problem with it is even if you could like accurately recreate it or copy it it being your consciousness and you could upload it into a digital paradise that is just a version of you, but it's not the you, you know, like you would just blank out and not ever wake up, and then a computer version of you, who has all your memories and stuff,

would wake up in the digital paradise, but you wouldn't experience that. Like in the prestige, you know how they, you never know who's going to be in the box or who's going to come out like that. It would work like that, even if they could recreate it. So it makes it kind of pointless anyway, in my opinion. Right.

But anyway, we've got to spend a trillion dollars and destroy a bunch of lives trying to do it. While we're on this subject, Elon Musk this week, he said that people with neuralink brain chips will eventually be able to have full body control and sensors from a Tesla optimist robot so you could basically inhabit an optimist robot. Let me quote here. Not just the hand, the whole thing. You could mentally remote into an optimist robot. Yep. To do what?

Right. Yeah. Well, there was, there's, you ever seen the movie surrogates in the Bruce Willis movie? maybe you think of altered carb in the sci-fi series where like but the point of that was to save time on space travel where you could send your consciousness across the universe into a mercenaries could do it to send their brains into a body waiting to fight and they could like flee back once they find out of it's basically just you're not in any

physical danger you know what I mean like you're at home like safe or whatever and you get plowed by a bus it's just a robot version of you and you just put yourself into a different robot and you know I think that was the idea there but anyway so we never have to go outside again I know Yeah. Also, these robots are not, you know, they're still like clunky and goofy and shit, you know, not just... I was trying to think of use cases for it. I guess you could project your consciousness into a robot at a warehouse. You didn't have to commute to the Amazon warehouse you work at. But like, but like, but the main thing that people are going to do with it is fucking. Like, if you put your... If I put my mind into a Tesla robot and jerk myself off as a gay, right?

Yeah, I don't know. The ultimate stranger. Right. But maybe if you're like quadriplegic or something like that, you know, then maybe... Maybe they could, do you know what I mean? Like if you're fully, if you're like locked in your body physically or something and you could, you know, control a robot, then they'd probably think that's pretty cool. But that's pretty limited. But you can't feel? Right.

Right. So can you use wear VR goggles and look at stuff, look at a view of something walking around? Like, it doesn't matter. It's fucking stupid. It'll never happen. He just makes shit up. All right. Yes.

All right. Our next honorable mention is anti-American types who don't think it's cool to set a promo video for a concentration. camp to butt rock baby the hypnotist of all rock that of the butt here we go the next month five thousand migrants will be housed in trailers and heavy duty tents remote abandoned airfield as i call it alligator alcatraz in a promotional video set to music for it as attorney general lays out what he considers a deterrent for any potential escapees people get out there's not much waiting for them other than alligators and python but some local Do you hear that guitar shredding in the background?

Yeah. So the public just found out about this thing last week. Like last week, your Times reported there was, there were starting constructional alligator Alcatraz. Like, construction was supposed to start Monday, right? The Monday that we're recording on. Now NBC News is reporting that it's opening Tuesday with Trump taking a tour of it. At present, this tent city with no air conditioning or whatever in the fucking Everglades.

can house 5,000 people, but they want to get it up to 100,000 people? Yeah. It's basically a holding pen with an airport. It's an old airport used to use for training base so they can fly deportation flights out of it. Here, like, this is fucking madness, and I can't believe that this is just happening, and there doesn't seem to be any organized thing to stop it. Yeah, well, so it's like a, it's like a forward operating base for sending people to the concentration camps or something. Like, you send, if they're going to El Salvador, you send them here for, like, processing. So they're in these, these little trailers in the Everglades for a while.

And then they use that airstrip to sip them off to whatever hell's, you know, hellish cell on the other side of the world they're going to. And, yeah, like, the Supreme Court just greenlit third party deportation. So basically, you can send, you can send Vietnamese immigrants to South Sudan. I know. That, how, what is the rationale for that? Because I just, you know, like, if. If you want to say, like, oh, no, we're kicking them out of the country, then how do you justify not sending them back to the country they came from? Like, what possible rationale is there for, oh, this Vietnamese guys here illegally?

We're going to send them to Sudan. Like, a lot of their countries won't take them back. Right, but. Yeah. So what, it's like, well, they broke the law by coming in here and their punishment is to go to this prison in another country? Or just probably probably uses slaves in South Sudan Like this is so fucking bot Like if anybody

I'm sure everybody knows their history here But like there was a past fascist power Whose original plan was to deport people And originally ran out of people to take them Including United States turning around Turning away a boat that Anne Frank was on So they had to come up with a type of solution Like it was a final for this problem

Right So this is the This is how you get there Oh, yeah. It's like, yeah. So here's Ron DeSantis giving a tour of this fucking concentration camp to Fox News, of course. This is going to be, illegals will come in, they'll be processed, there'll be places for them to be housed, you'll have an ability for food, you'll have you an ability for them to consult legal rights if they have that. Yep, they'll have the ability for legal rights if they have that.

He goes on to point out where the showers are As if it's like an amenity Concentration Auschwitz famously did not have showers Yeah The situation we find ourselves in Is like Since Hurricane Katrina There was this fever swamp

Fever Swamp right wing conspiracy theory That FEMA was building camps To herd people into Now we're literally using FEMA money To build concentration camps and the people that spent decades complaining about this possibility under George W. Bush and Barack Obama are now cheering this on like fucking psychos.

The whole point of putting this in the Everglades, by the way, is so they can make it lower staffed. They don't have to have as many guards because there's nowhere to run to. Yeah. Their plan is to be... Well, they just deputize the gaiters down there, like they said. Put a little badge on the song.

Here's a real tweet from Homeland Security. I swear to God, I had not seen that. I did not know they had done that when I said that just now. I was about to call for it, Matt's on point. That's a real tweet from Homeland Security. It's an AI-generated image of alligators wearing ice hats around a fence with razor wire. All right. Which the sheer imagery of this is like, we're cold-blooded lizard brain killing machines.

Yeah. Or, you know, we'll happily feed these people to alligators. You know what I mean? Like, like, it would be funny if anyone tries to run and gets eaten alive by alligators in the swamp. Like, that would be hilarious. Don't you all agree? And the alligators would be the good guys there. They'd be cheering on the alligators while they rip, you know, Venezuelans apart or whatever.

It's very. I got to tell you, if I'm like a, like a Venezuelan immigrant, I'm risking it. Or Cambodian, you're about to send a fucking Sudan. I'm waiting through that swamp. Maybe. I guess the only upside here that's being so lightly guarded because it's low budget is like we can do a new underground railroad with swamp boats. I guess if you just run a swamp boat and you'll get your family back. So they're fucking this. They're selling beer coosies with alligator Alcatraz branding on it. If you got this image, Matt. There's a T-shirt in Florida, their Florida GOP website is a bunch of merch. I hope people buy these. so everyone knows who to not talk to ever again, whatever this fucking ends. The context we're operating in here is that today as we speak,

the Senate is debating doing voter-rama shit on the, I refuse to call it the, it's by its name, the al-bub-ba. If it passes in its current form, will establish ICE is the single largest internal policing entity in the United States. ICE will potentially have more employees than the FBI and more detention space than the Federal Bureau of Prisons. prisons. People should be throwing their bodies in the way of this shit. Like, like, we're talking about ice expanding.

It's, it's, like, detention abilities. Like, they just passed their record for in-custody deaths yesterday, by the current, we're only halfway through the year. The previous record was 12, and they just hit 13, I think. The guy that died was a 75-year-old Cuban guy who'd been in America since 1966. There is simply no way, like, these kind of camps kill old people and children. There's no way around it. You cannot do it without killing people.

Of course, if there's no air conditioner in the fucking Everglades in July. I don't even know if he'll just be fucking old people and kids, you know. Like there's no way around it. Many, many people will die from those conditions, I would imagine. Didn't they also just rescind the, because we talked before about their quotas. It's fucking 3,000 a day or whatever, and it's an impossible number to hit, which means there's going to be a lot of collateral damage. But didn't they also just like rescind the legal?

status of like half a million people, you know, who were otherwise legal. You know, they should, they, uh, the Haitians, yeah, the Haitians came up. Their number came up, uh, which is like, the, the statement they put out being like, Haiti's safe now. They can go back and what the same, they don't even have like a fucking government down there. Eric Prince currently has a contract from somebody to assassinate Haitian, uh, gang leaders with drone strikes.

Mm-hmm. And we're saying it's safe to send people back there. Um, as far as the, like, the sauce is getting made of this bill because everybody knows it's fucking toxic and evil is but they feel like they have to pass something as utterly hilarious like they bought the originally had bought Lisa Murkowski's vote this Republican senator from Alaska by saying that the Medicaid work requirements put language in there where the Medicaid work requirements would not apply to non-contiguous states right so just Alaska and Hawaii yeah which is like that's so I guess if you wanted to not have Medicaid work requirements you You could just, in California, we could pray for earthquake to slide us, like, slightly into the ocean. Or, like, you'd get a saw and saw Florida off, like, like, the fucking Looney Tunes cartoon. You could all have, you could all have federal benefits again. Fuck.

Anyway, the House, what do you call it? The parliamentarian said that was stupid, and they didn't fly according to the Senate rule. So they stopped talking to the parliamentarian now, so none of the numbers add up anymore. Tom Tillis announced he's not going to run for reelection. He's a senator from a Republican senator from North Carolina. sort of being castes that act of bravery which kind of is

it's more of a fuck you I quit but he's been an utter coward most of the time in the Senate and everything having to do with Trump but the basic jamies

put in with North Carolina as half a purple state he had a choice between voting for the bill and losing in the general or voting against the bill and Trump's saying he was going to prime marry him

so he's like fuck you guys you guys get a Democratic senator now next term he gave a floor speech to his credit shitting all over this bill and pointing out

that the whole thing's based point a lie. The Medicare cuts are slated to phase in after the midterms. They did that on purpose just to nobody would feel it so they don't get to keep one more term in their jobs. Isabel, to go through the particular, the biggest wealth transfer in American history, kills the solar energy. It doesn't just like get rid of the tax subsidies. It raises taxes on solar wind projects just to sabotage them. A trillion dollar cut to Medicaid, which is going to lead to, they say, one in four nursing homes closing plus a bunch of rural hospitals. Energy a shortage. Texas's fucking power grid

probably cannot survive without wind and solar. It's like half wind and solar at this point. $4.2 trillion in new debt. One of the... Elon's even coming down on the bill because of the wind and solar ship because they need all this new power to supply their AI

data centers. And the Democrats to their credit, a lot of them are trying to assuage the evil language's bill and draw the process as long as possible to increase political pressure on senators like Murkowski and Susan Collins to vote against this bill or soften the language in it. I want to play

this video from John Fetterman earlier today complaining about how other senators are doing work. Oh my God, I just want to go home. I'm worried that I missed our entire trip. All right. You can kind of Matt.

It sounded whatever is. I don't know what it's fucked up. But he was saying is like, oh, God, oh, God, I just want to go home. We shouldn't be here until all hours of the night. I already missed my whole beach trip with my family. Motherfucker, I do not care about you going to Ocean City and dripping butter from crab legs in your tummy on the fucking beach. They're like, like 17 million people are going to lose health care. Yeah, I know.

It's not like, you know, I don't know. How often are they even have to be there in D.C. doing what is actually their job anyway. Like the vast majority of their time is spent just trying to keep themselves in office. and, you know, asking people for money and fucking speaking engagements and all kinds of bullshit like that, but actually making laws or legislating, you know, they hardly ever do it anyway. And then when they go there, they just bitch about it all time. Yeah, people ain't, ain't nobody trying to hear that fucking do your job, especially coming from that, dude.

If they keep everybody at 4 a.m. and somehow soften the language to make it so 5,000 people keep their health care, that's fucking worth it. And like, fuck. All right. What do you, so normally they would need 60 votes, right, to pass it. But there's loopholes to make it to where they can do it with 51. And part of the give and take of that is that Democrats can add unlimited amendments to it or something like that. So they're going to, what, I mean, I guess nobody knows, right? Like, how long could this, how long they're going to argue about it did, you know,

when are we going to have an outcome from this? I mean, I guess with this outfit, there's just no way to know, because it could go any number of ways. But, because it's happening right now, right? Like, they're currently fucking with it right now. But. Trump wants to sign something before July 4th.

He wants to have a big party before July 4th. That's, that's the impetus behind all this. Okay. All right. Let's talk about New York City, baby. So, Zora Mondami won the New York Democratic primary and fairly, for mayor, and fairly

overwhelming fashion, which was kind of unexpected, considering he was pulling at 0% the end of last year and 2% in January. And he got 46% in the first round, when you do the ranked choice voting, he's going to get more and more votes as it goes. So it's pretty astounding victory. And everybody's freaking to fuck out. And the fourth thing I want to ask,

Trey, what is a mayor? I mean, I don't know. I know in movies, especially 80s movies, They're, you know, the all-powerful king of whatever community is the protagonists are, you know, operating inside of. Like, you know, the mayor, they give people medals, they put ribbons on it. They cut big ribbons with large pairs of scissors. These are all things that mayors do, I believe. I was under the impression they were a mid-level bureaucratic functionary of, like, a municipal district.

But apparently they're all-powerful, like, Shah. And I have no idea if he'll be a good mayor of New York. No, there's anybody else. I don't even think that's really possible anymore. What was the last time New York had what anyone would consider to be a good mayor? So we've said that before on here because we're talking about Eric Adams so much and everything. But, like, it is funny how they literally never have a mayor that hits for them or other people.

But, like, we were, I was just in New York a couple weeks ago for a week and we took a cruise around the island of Manhattan. and it had a tour guide on it. We went by the Statue of Liberty and all this other stuff, and it was great, and we're giving fun facts and shit the whole time. And he was very careful, I thought, to, like, not get into overt politics. Like, he literally read every word of the Statue of Liberty poem, right, which, but he didn't have any kind of commentary on it. He just read it.

And, of course, I'm sitting there thinking the whole time, it's like, I bet, you know, there's so many Americans today. We'd be like, we need to get rid of that gay shit, you know, the poem about the give me your huddled masses. and I light my lamp beside the golden door and all that. But he tried to be very apolitical. The only thing, in a three-hour cruise, the only overtly political thing he said was,

we went by the part of Manhattan where the mayor's mansion is. It's like up in the northeastern, like part of the island of Manhattan. And you can see it from the water. And he was like, so yeah, that's where mayor, what's his name, lives now. But you also notice the next thing you're going to see over here, this is the, whatever the name of it is, landfill. It's the largest landfills. Phil in the island of Manhattan, which is actually right beside the mayor's house, which

most New Yorkers find to be exceedingly appropriate. So, yeah, like, the only time he got political was to shit on the mayor, and not just Eric Adams, but, like, just the office of mayor in New York City. Eric Adams is that a 20% approval rating. It's pretty safe to criticize them in New York. So, and I don't know if Zorod Mundani can possibly be a successful mayor of New York, because the same forces that are going to try to, like, start. stop him from getting elected,

you're going to try to stop him from being successful, which is like the idea that the fact, the idea that they're afraid he'll be a bad mayor seems completely silly to me considering the current mayor

as Eric Adams. They're afraid he'll be a good mayor that people will like the shit he does and that's what's fucking terrifying to them. Which is like, why I find this hysteria hilarious, it's like the autoimmune response that happens in a political system,

anytime anyone proposes even small changes to directly help working people. Like, the fact of this, guy who's young and charming and charismatic could win a primary by just walking around New York shaking hands and talking to people of all stripes about the cost of living problem that's how he becomes a Hamas woke communist right yeah the I feel like the status quo democratic establishment types really out themselves as being much closer to you know just like the Fox news crowd or whatever whenever this type of situation comes

up because Mom Donnie's already getting the exact same treatment on Fox News that, like, AOC did when she first came out where they'll post like a graphic that's entitled, like, you know, radical leftist mayoral candidates, actual policies, right? And then it's a bullet point list that's like free baskets for newborn babies, you know what I mean? Lowered health care costs, more efficient bus system or whatever, just stuff that's like objectively good for people, but it's framed in a fear. bongering way on Fox News that I don't even fucking understand, but then that's the same way that, like, Cuomo and Democrats like that talk about him, too. It's just...

The presidential election was just in November, and I specifically remember Trump campaigning on $5,000 baby bonuses for newborns. I remember that. I was alive then. And now it's communism for him to send him a basket with fucking diapers and baby powder? This is a guy, like...

So, anyway, yeah, Zoran, if you watch the news, is a fundamentalist, Muslim, radical who happens to have a Brooklyn artist wife who he met on Hinge and didn't take his last name. And the idea that he's a Muslim sleeper agent, does he may remember last year when Eric Adams was indicted

for being a spy for the government of Turkey? Yeah. Am I the other one who remembers that? Right. I wanted to start off here by talking about a collection of what I call the most hinged responses. Maybe the most sane anti-Zeron.

take was Marjorie Taylor Green saying this hits hard with an air-generated image of the Statue of Liberty wearing a burq I've got this image Matt right again the they being Marjorie Taylor Green

and all of them on their side especially lately in this era and the way they're treating immigrants and immigration the very idea of it and sending people with concentration camps and shit they're way more openly disrespectful to what the Statue of Liberty stands for and is about than, you know, just being a Muslim politician or whatever Mom Dani is doing.

But I'm just saying it's like, she's right there beside Ellis Island. The whole thing is like, you know, about fucking welcoming people. And this is the melting pot. Come, things are better here. It's what we do. And it's like, they're spitting in the face of Lady Liberty every single day of the Trump administration. So I don't want to hear that shit from her. I feel like if they knew anything about what Shariah actually was,

they wouldn't be so afraid of it. Well, they'd just pretend to be afraid of it. But, like, oh, yeah, they would love the parts of it that they imagined it is. But, like, what it actually is, like, directions on how to process your food and shit. But, like, so, like, under Sharia law, Zoran would not be able to inherit property because his mom did not convert to Islam. Right? So I don't think he's for it.

So New York Young Republicans came out. the Trump administration to revoke Mondani's citizenship and deport him, which Congressman Andy Ogles came out in favor of. Carolyn Leavitt was asked today if Donald Trump was considering revoking his citizenship, and she laughed about it. Um, oh, fuck. Just like, try it. Just try it, mother. I'm at the point where it's like, just try it, motherfuckers. Let's just, let's just get to it. This is all so fucking insane infuriating. Um, but watch these two edited together. C.S. C. C. CNBC clips, where this first guy is struggling to remember the plot of the Dark Night Rises, which he seems to think is a documentary?

What Batman is up against in Gotham and what the guy running for mayor is up against? That's what it reminds you. They're taking Wall Streeters and make him walk out under the ice in the East River and then they fall through. I mean, there is a class warfare that's worth it. What's happened here, I think is... The rent's too high. what the new mayor potentially of new york is going to freeze the rents and everybody eats for free so they don't have to worry really yeah but how about the rich no no no no no no shot no yes they get

the voters united states will occasionally be like hey rich people can you pay 50 cents more in taxes to buy milk for children right and their wall street guys are like like how the bolsheviks did zard nicholas's poor beautiful daughter anastasia it's like jesus christ man you fucking whiny babies. They do not understand that paying marginally more in taxes is the compromised position. What they're describing is if they don't let Zoran Guffer. Right. Yeah, no. Everybody's just got a fucking persecution complex, whatever. It's just like how Christians had to feel like they're actually the most, you know, oppressed minority in this country or whatever. Like, rich people are like that too. It's like they, you know, when this type of

shit comes up. It's like you said, just asking to pay marginally more. Like even, not even up to levels that historically they have had to pay in this country and still managed to, you know, like their grandpa's still got rich as fuck when the marginal tax rate was much higher, you know, 50, 60 years ago or whatever and fucking it was fine, made the trust fund that they then used to build their wealth off of. But they act like if you just suggest we should even go back to 50% of that or whatnot, we're going to line them up in the street. We're going to, you know, start polishing the guillotines back up and stuff like that. Which, you know, I mean, if they don't chill out, then maybe. But nobody's talking about that yet. occasionally there'll be a guy who goes on CSNBC or Fox business who gives a rant about yeah I'm rich but we don't do something at equality soon we're all going to end up dead and then he mysteriously

has never shown in the air again so here's another one in response to Zora Mumdani's primary win Laura Lumer the podcaster apparently has hiring and firing authority in the White House over national security staffers Laura Lumer pushes the idea that

Muslim Uber, Lyft and taxi drivers would start coordinating attacks on non-Jews to carry out jihad. I have no idea why she said non-Jews, but she didn't say that. I watched it. Do we have a legal regime where Uber drivers report to the mayor?

Right. Well, it's just all Muslims, Mark, I think. You know, they just had their meetings where they plan their jihads and stuff. And now he's the top Muslim in the area. You know, he's been elevated to chief Muslim. Yeah. In the New York metropolitan area.

Fundamentalist Muslims. fundamentalist Muslims famously decide their leadership through elections so here's a the rainbow coalition of Papas

have come out against Zora there's something about him that I can't see like just triggers about his type triggers the fucking craziest old people here's a guy

to protest in Queens was attended by like five people they was talking he's talking about Zoran used to make YouTube videos Ray Rath

when he was younger Mr. Mamdani's name is Mr. Cardamom Mr. Cardamom is a C-class rapper. Is that his actual rapper name? I don't know.

Was it like Mr. Cardamom or M.C. Cardamom or something like that? Mr. Cardamombe. Mr. Cardamom was his rapper name. Okay, gotcha. He wasn't, he wasn't, by the standards of such things, he wasn't that bad. It's not as bad as, like, Vivek's stupid rapper. Zora, at least, writes his own shit. Vivek would just, like, do karaoke rap tunes.

So, this isn't the worst one, but it did maybe kind of laugh. is a New Yorker write-up comparing Andrew Cuomo and Nandami. One thing the candidates share, I suppose, that both got accused of being Nepo babies. Mandami's mother made the 1991 indie romance

Mississippi Massala. Cuomo's father was the governor of New York. Yeah, basically the same thing. A 1991 movie, there was one of Denzel Washington's first starring roles when he was basically an unknown that grossed $7 million at the box

office about him falling in low with an Indian lady in Mississippi has made Zoran Mandami the most powerful and stoppable force. Yeah, 92% on Rotten Tomatoes, by the way. Yeah.

Yeah. On the Democratic side, like, they're going to do what they, I imagine what they usually do is just dither around and eventually come around to the same position for most of them, but a lot of them aren't. Like, a lot of these strategists and advisors here are saying, like, look at these nightmare policies.

And it's a bunch of, like, populist, slightly lefty stuff that, well, they may not find super realistic. It's obvious why it has an appeal to a Democratic base. Their determination to have learned nothing since 2016 is absolutely fundamentally amazing to me. Here's one of CNN's data guys here, Ian, and talking about this. The most of a Democratic establishment. We have seen poll after poll, after poll showing Democratic voters fed up with their leaders in Washington, fed up with their leaders in government. They've been complaining about the problem with young men voters.

Guess who turned out, who had a huge turnout Tuesday, right? Since Zoran won Tuesday night, more than 1,100 young people reached out to run for something.net to explore run for local office, according to them. It's one of their biggest spikes of the year. It's worth knowing that one of the things that Zoran did to pander to young people did not include curse for no reason, talk about hip-hop groups in the 90s, and push cryptocurrencies. He didn't do any of that shit. And it's worth noting that... No, he made social media videos with the Comtown Boys. Yeah.

Which, by the way, those guys hit for me. Those guys are hilarious. So that was a good call on his part. He also, like, because he doesn't rock with cancer culture shit. Right. He's like, yes, right. He's the, yes, exactly. He'll go anywhere and talk to anybody, which is what they say they should be doing.

And he actually does it and pulls it off. They're like, no, not like that. Because you actually said you wanted to do stuff. That's not what we meant. We meant go on Joe Rogan and talk about UFC, not go on Comptown and talk about raising the universal basic income or some shit, right? Yeah. But yeah, like you said, the old guard, like you said, I don't know. The world and the majority of the left has been screaming at them for, you know, years now that like they need to get with the times or just fuck off would be better. But that they're not, people aren't picking up what they're laying down and haven't been for a long time. But they're just. clinging to it for dear life, you know, and I don't know if it's just human nature. It's like the relinquishing of power. People just don't want to do it.

Like you get into these positions and you just won't let it go. But they're burying their heads and they're saying and refusing to face it. Or if it's just like they had such a good setup for so long in terms of, you know, how the status quo benefited them and people like that, you know, it worked out very well for them. And it's like they can't, they just can't accept that it's like that it's over or what, but. Dude, the politics here, they act like they're so complicated, but they're so sensitive. simple and a political organizer who I won't like name but let's say his name is producer hat Mildreth yeah who for his day job does a lot of purr polling of rural people has told me repeatedly when he goes in these pitch meetings tells him like the number one thing you can do to

sway people is just shit on fucking rich people right everyone hates billionaires right fucking hate them the lane here is obvious to anyone who wants to see it is my boss makes a dollar I make a dime. It's why I take a shit on company time. Right. But they will not shit on billionaires to do everything they can to not do it. And that's why they hate him. That's because he shit.

I mean, he gently shits on billionaires. We've got to show you a video clip in a minute. But, like, everyone's trying to make this of an anti-Semitism, which is fucking hilarious because they just tried this hustle for fucking, it's a mayoral election about the city of New York, a military conflict, 7,000 miles away doesn't have much bearing on anybody who, like, their day-to-day life living there. But, like, so. Right.

That's, well, yeah, that's the thing. The first time I saw the mayoral primary race even get brought up was when they were on some local, like, regional debate that they all did between the candidates. And they all got, it was demanded that they all stand with Israel or whatever. And he was the only one. That's the first time I even heard of him. But as some of people point out, it's like, what the fuck does Israel have to do with the city, the municipality of New York and being the mayor there? Like, what? To go through what actually happened, there was like an eight-person debate or whatever.

To go from person to person, where would your first to person? where would your first foreign trip to be be be and it's like they compete that everyone escalates like Israel we go Israel because it's the holy land Israel it'll be my fourth trip is like they go and then they get to Zoran and be like I would stay in the five boroughs and work with New Yorkers of all stripes and he goes right do you do you support is I will speak to the Jewish people here in New York I'll work with them I'll go to speak with them with their moths yada yada yada I but like I work here in New York it's like do you believe Israel has a right to exist he goes yes I believe Israel has a right to exist and they go as a Jewish state and he goes as a state with equal rights

and everybody fucking lost their mind. Right. So, let me quote here, the globalized the Infant Intifada thing you're going to be hearing a lot about if you haven't already. He was asked about that some people at one of the campus Gaza protests

chanted globalized the infant Intifada, Intifada being the terminal resistance used in the first Intifada, second Intifada. The first one was peace, the second was violent in Gaza, in the 90s, I think. And it's kind of a trap question.

It's one of those, do you still beat your wife questions? Because if five people had a 10,000 person rally chance something, does everybody own it? He's basically, he's been asked about it a bunch. He's basically like, I don't think the true meaning of a protest should be obscured by a few people saying something, which is the only way out of that trap, right? So he's a, he was asked about it on Tim Miller's podcast again. And he goes, I want to read here from his answer. This is the one that set everybody off.

And you're going to see how crazy it is that people are trying to pretend this is anti-Semitic, okay? The first thing, as you were saying, as anti-Semitism is a real issue in our sales. and it's one that can be captured in statistics, the ones that you're citing. And it's also one that you will feel in conversations you have with Jewish New Yorkers across the city. I remember one conversation I had with a friend of mine after the horrific war crime of October 7th. He was telling me that he went to Shabbat services at his temple and he was facing forward when he heard the door open and a chill went up his spine because he didn't know who was coming in. And that's more than a year ago.

He even kept another conversation with a Jewish man in Williamsburg, told him at the same door he would keep unlocked for decades. he now walks out of fear of what could happen in his own neighborhood. And he goes on to talk about he has a plan to increase anti-hate-cram programming by 800% in the Department of Cuban Community Safety. Hitler. Right. I don't, yeah, he's, I mean, I don't know. He just said, yeah, there's real, anti-Semitism is a real thing.

And I've talked with people that have, you know, concerns about it. And also, October 7th was super fucked up. I mean, what else did he even say right there in that quote that you just read? but my Jewish friends say they don't feel safe and I feel awful about that I'm going to increase hate crime spending as anti-hate crime spending as a mayor right so

in response to this Moring Joe, I watched a clip ahead where he repeatedly says that Duran wants to globalize the infitata he said it wrong like 10 times and if you're the purpose of repeating it not to get all like the level of policies people

do our experts at it the purpose of repeating it over and over again is to get you to think he said globalized the infidified at the infidatevada, right? Which he never said. And it's worth noting, again, a point of this already failed. New York City is one of the most Jewish cities in the world.

He got a bunch of Jewish people's votes. This hustle did not work. I have no idea who the fucking target of it is. And this is an environment where the White House Bible study, the guy leading White House Bible studies, is teaching people the Jews killed Jesus. He's a guy named Ralph Drolinger. He also hates Catholics, by the way.

Drolinger says that Israel may have killed Jesus, but God never meant it to hold that against them forever. Therefore, thank you for your forgiveness, you know, Rod. So, we need to have Brad Lander here for a minute, a really cool guy. He was basically Zoran's running mate, even though he was also running for mayor. The beauty of right choice voting is you can do coalitions, right? Yeah, and he got detained too, right? He's the guy that got arrested, but he's been going to escorting people in and out of immigration court for years.

And the first time they tried to snatch somebody without saying why. He'd like, say, excuse me, Surg. And then they arrested him. He got lit out later that evening or whatever. So, but as far as, and Zoran went to protest to get him released, yada, yada, yada, yada. They're two-man buddy acts pretty fine. Zora, Lander's Jewish, is an important context here. Probably helped people, people who were barely informed feel safer by voting for Zoran.

And so they did a cross-endorsement thing here. I want to watch this video and see how utterly scary and frightening Mamdami is and how, you know, this is fucking great. Hey, hey, good morning. How's it going? Please go second. No, I insist you go second. How about I go first, and you go second? Well, we don't

love New York City. That's why it's so important to not stand scandal-ridden, corrupt Andrew Cuomo to City Hall. They teamed out to be Cuomo because he's one of the biggest assholes in fucking national and American politics, and they successfully did it. Congratulations to them. I want to think a little bit more about

Zander's not just Jewish. He's a self-proclaimed Zionist, although he seems like a fairly moderate one by the standards of those things. And me quote here from Ford, which is a Jewish publication. This is just fucking hilarious. I love Brad Lander.

I mean, before I know about it, Lander, who is as comptroller, is the city's highest-ranking Jewish elected official deployed Yiddish curses against political rivals who questioned his commitment to Israel. I'm going to fuck up reading this Yiddish because I don't know to pronounce stuff. I'm looking forward to this.

Go ahead. A biser-Zar-Zol-Ehr-Oft-Humans, Lander said, denying Cuomo's claim that Lander had divested from Israeli bonds. The Yiddish curse means, may an evil decree come upon him. Mayor Adams wasn't spared either. After hearing that Adams attacked his Israel record, Lander responded, Gay Kakin Afinyam, which is Yiddish for go poop in the ocean.

And for his service to the people of New York, he got, Brad Lander got to give this speech election night, and I want to just all enjoy it real quick. Andrew Cuomo. Andrew Cuomo is in the past. He is not the present or future of New York City. Good fucking riddance. Yes.

Yeah, he also went on to say we're not going to let people divide Jewish and Muslim New Yorkers. So here's, so Mom Dami, because they're making, turn this to a national election to make everybody very scared, even though New York has a population of more than 38. states. So it's not nothing, but can you name the governor what the 12th most popular state is and whether the governor of it is? Because I can't. No, but, but, you know, I mean, like we were talking about earlier, New York, we almost always know who the mayor of New York, you know what I mean? Because I was thinking that to us, like, it's so wild that this has become so relative, because you're right, it is like a hot button thing and it's like very culturally relevant and they want to use it to fearmonger. But also, we always be knowing what's going on

with New York's mayor and shit, oftentimes because they're crazy, but still, like, it's still, usually you're up on it, you know. They go on SNL and stuff. SNL is a huge part of it, for sure. Yeah. Here's a, Mondami, we did the Sunday show rounds this week. And here's a hip, Kristen Welker on NBC, asking him about his stance on billionaires. You are a self-described democratic socialist.

Do you think that billionaires have a right to exist? I don't think that we should have billionaires, because frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality. And ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country. And I look forward to work with everyone, including billionaires, to make a city that is fairer for all of them. Yeah. So she basically phrased it, should billionaires exist? Like, do you want to murder them? Yeah, right.

And he didn't back off of it either, though. You know, I mean, he said, I don't think we should have them. Like, he didn't, you know, he kind of, like, he didn't duck it, you know, like you guys, you know. like you might expect. It was just like he kept it real. In an era we're living through where Elon and Peter Thiel have bought the fucking government? Do you not understand now

why we shouldn't have people that fucking rich? Like, people's freaking out over this shit. Like, let me read this headline from Bloomberg. Zura Mundami's shock win as Wall Street fretting over, quote, hot commie summer, hence quote. Hammering how stupid this is, the headline, the photo in the news article, has Zoron standing in front of a pool that no longer has lap hours in the morning

because of a lifeguard shortage because of fucking Eric Adams budget cuts. If you're wondering what his actual political agenda is, a baby baskets, rent freezes on rent-stabilized units, which Bill de Blasio did a bunch, and most units are not rent-stabilized, so it doesn't even apply to most of them. A pilot program for five city-run grocery stores, one in each borough, three buses,

which is just the point of that is to make them go faster so more people ride them and traffic moves faster because people aren't to like arguing with the bus driver or being 50 cents short on a metro card

and a $30 minimum wage when it's 17 right now. Now 30 is the ass so you get 22. They're freaking out like he's going to get 30. Again, he's not a fucking dictator. And permitting reform

to make it easier for small businesses which is a libertarian thing. Right. And if you want to know I was like, let me ask let's find out what the communist think of him if he was a communist. I went to a communist website

says, why communists can't support Zaron and Mumdani. Their beef is he doesn't end capitalism right away. His plan is to raise the tax on the rich by 2% on incomes over $1 million. Which means if you make $1.1 million, you pay an extra $2,000.

I can slow down Carl Marks. God damn. A little extreme, don't you think? Yeah, no, that's fucking... It's also those people too don't realize Like you said, that a lot of people don't know how that even works where it's like it's only income over that. Like, you can make up to a million dollars a year, which is so much. And it doesn't even matter.

It's just, and then over that, it's a slight increase in income over that. It's all people are talking about and they get called communist for suggesting things like that, you know. Yeah. Here's like the Wall Street Journal had an article on bankers panicking, and then this line cracked me up. me quote here. Other bankers who quietly supported Mom Dami wouldn't talk on the record. One tries to use a fake name.

So, Wall Street bankers are like, hello, I actually care about others and they could really hurt my career. Can I use a nomadip balloon? Yeah. So this is like a cop thinking

you shouldn't plant coke on a black guy. Yeah. It's pulled over for no fucking reason. I wanted to quote it like, so, New York had a mayor called LaGuardia. You might have flown into an airport named after him because he was so beloved.

Yeah. He was also called a socialist. Here's the New York Times editorial board in 1935. Quote, he seems to want to have in hand some socialistic plaything or other. Just now it is a municipal power plant. LaGuardia himself understood

exactly how the tutorial game worked. In a reflective moment, 1933, he lamented to the Times. When anyone raises a question about the existing order, he is called either a call it a radical, only because I have consistently objected to things which I believe unjust and dangerous.

When Ligordia spoke forcefully against fascism abroad in 1938, conservative groups dismissed him as, quote, un-American, socialistic and communistic. I just want to say about the city-run grocery stores thing. My first time living in New York, I stayed out in bedstay. And I had to walk like 25 minutes in the snow

to a store that described itself as an organic grocery store is the closest place they had vegetables. And they had one stock of half rotten broccoli for $9. There are parts of New York that have no access to groceries. outside a dollar store type shit and fast food places. This is about food deserts. Cities have specific problems.

He's not trying to put Kroger and Aldi and Trader Joe's out of fucking business. 17 states have state-run liquor stores. New York State owns three different fucking ski resorts, which is not communist. But if you tried to make the lifts free, that would be fucking communist. Anytime American voters are so cucked Anytime they ask for their tax dollars To be spent on themselves Instead of rich people

They call it a handout I'm losing my goddamn mind Yep Well, that makes millions of us You're not alone in that But again, we're halfway through The first year of this You know, this second go-round

With the Trump administration We're, you know, it's going I mean, it's going very badly But we're all like still alive and everything including you guys. I mean, statistically, some of you all have died. But I'm glad that most of you

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