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00:00:59.980 It's the Anthony Cumia Show

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00:01:07.460 It is another Sunday.

00:01:09.900 Look at that. Another week.

00:01:11.260 Right by. And that

00:01:13.580 means, of course, the

00:01:15.580 Anthony Cumia Show.

00:01:17.360 You tuned in. I appreciate that.

00:01:19.760 Thank you so much.

00:01:21.560 So much to get to this evening.

00:01:23.840 my god speaking to uh new york for a moment of course talking about the election last week

00:01:32.180 i said yeah this is the way it's going to go everyone did though no no big surprise there

00:01:37.020 uh i hope you enjoy uh your choice and uh it goes it goes well for you uh the the financial

00:01:47.380 things i was just talking about the financial aspects of a danny mayor mayorship there in in

00:01:54.920 new york and uh i said it's just not going to happen everything he wants to do the mayor cannot

00:02:01.000 do it's like a a substitute school teacher saying i am going to change the entire curriculum of the

00:02:10.760 school district now you got to talk to a few people i think you're going to get a pat on the

00:02:15.660 head and some people going that's adorable uh let's wait until maybe you can use your big boy

00:02:21.320 voice uh kathy hochel the governor i was uh talking about how she has already said

00:02:30.220 she will not raise taxes she's just not going to raise taxes to finance some of these mamdani

00:02:38.440 projects, why would she want to put her neck on the line 0.99

00:02:43.380 and lose 1.00

00:02:45.620 money for the state?

00:02:51.100 But she endorsed Mandani, of course, but on his free bus policies

00:02:55.500 she just said this, I cannot set forth a plan

00:02:59.820 right now that takes money out of a system that relies on

00:03:03.820 the fares of the buses and subways. Now where

00:03:07.960 was that before the election? Where was that Hochul? She was on stage with Mamdani cheering

00:03:17.400 him on. Yeah, this is great. Oh, he's going to do wonders for New York. And then he gets

00:03:23.020 elected and goes, yeah, you know that free bus nonsense ain't happening. She's not going 1.00

00:03:29.560 to get rid of the money pouring. That's what a lot of people don't understand. The money 0.98

00:03:36.240 that pays for the buses and the subways

00:03:39.580 and so many other things

00:03:41.120 that Mamdani thinks he's going to make for free.

00:03:44.880 You're going to change everything, make it free.

00:03:47.600 I don't think a lot of people understand

00:03:49.440 that money goes into politicians' pockets.

00:03:54.900 And it's used to pay cronies and for favors

00:03:58.660 and all this other stuff. 1.00

00:04:01.520 What is this guy, an idiot? 1.00

00:04:02.640 Haven't you seen that they use federal and state funding for their own devices? 1.00

00:04:11.360 You're not going to take that away.

00:04:14.420 Do you know how many pockets are lined with MTA fair money?

00:04:19.160 We're going to make it free, are you?

00:04:22.520 Are you?

00:04:23.440 Because we don't see it that way.

00:04:25.960 So Hochul, days after, not even a week after the election, she's not into the whole free bus thing.

00:04:39.340 She's also said, and this she did say before the election, but not as vehemently as she is now, the tax thing.

00:04:50.300 The taxes are not going to be raised.

00:04:54.080 And Memdani has absolutely zero say in the matter.

00:04:59.140 He could want to raise taxes.

00:05:00.800 He could want to lower taxes.

00:05:02.180 He never would.

00:05:02.940 But you can't do that as the mayor.

00:05:06.660 You have to go through all kinds of hoops and other politicians,

00:05:12.020 politicians that have been in office way longer than you

00:05:14.460 and are firmly entrenched in the system and know better.

00:05:20.720 But, you know, I think this is going to be a great example of this novelty.

00:05:27.280 A bunch of people, and boy, if the left, if the young lefties

00:05:32.920 have not been disappointed time after time,

00:05:37.300 if Lucy doesn't pull the ball out from Charlie Brown

00:05:41.680 when he tries to kick that ball every single time,

00:05:45.400 young liberals, they fall for it.

00:05:48.700 Remember the Joe Biden?

00:05:51.980 We're going to take care of your student debt is what we're going to do.

00:05:56.180 What happened there?

00:05:58.880 The free health care and Obamacare and everything.

00:06:02.940 Obama phones.

00:06:04.860 We're all going to get free phones.

00:06:07.620 Remember all that?

00:06:08.360 And then they just go, drats, foiled again.

00:06:13.320 They just don't get it.

00:06:16.300 They really don't seem to get that these politicians are using you.

00:06:23.180 They use you.

00:06:25.160 You are an ends to a means or a means to an end.

00:06:28.900 Yeah, means to an end.

00:06:30.200 I was a little dyslexic on that one.

00:06:32.720 You're a means to an end.

00:06:34.300 You're a pawn, a puppet, a cog in the machine.

00:06:38.340 Whatever they need, that's what you are.

00:06:41.280 And the whole game is hinged on them keeping their job, which means being voted back into office.

00:06:52.320 That's what they care about.

00:06:54.740 When the Democrats come out and profess how much they care about the citizens of America or the state or the city or the local township, we care. 0.95

00:07:07.260 And I always bring up Liz Warren because she'll whine.

00:07:11.340 She'll whine about how much she cares.

00:07:14.320 My job is to help the people because I care about them.

00:07:19.880 We care. 0.69

00:07:20.980 Donald Trump is starving young children.

00:07:25.360 Oh, she cares. 0.95

00:07:27.300 They don't care.

00:07:29.880 They care when late October, early November rolls around

00:07:35.300 and it's time for someone to pull the handle for them.

00:07:39.240 Then watch them care.

00:07:42.100 Watch how much they care.

00:07:45.060 That's it.

00:07:46.980 They're so bamboozled. 0.83

00:07:48.860 So this Mom Danny thing in New York,

00:07:51.620 all these young liberals,

00:07:54.400 they love the idea of socialism

00:07:56.680 because first of all,

00:07:58.300 they haven't earned a dime of their own money yet.

00:08:01.400 I've seen some of the funniest videos on the internet

00:08:04.920 it's when a young person gets their first real job

00:08:09.960 and it's a paycheck

00:08:11.940 and the parent, the father or the mother

00:08:15.360 is picking them up from their workplace

00:08:17.780 they're very proud, they have their first check in their hand

00:08:21.040 and they open the envelope and they look at the check

00:08:24.440 and you see that smile turn into sad confusion

00:08:30.040 and the father or mother starts laughing

00:08:33.780 and they go, what?

00:08:34.920 what what's the matter what is but i make this much an hour and i did the math and i'm supposed

00:08:44.400 to make this much oh yeah there's taxes and then a bunch of other stuff that comes out fica and

00:08:53.560 unemployment insurance and this and that and stayed and and they just are boggled it is a

00:09:00.700 life-changing moment for the young liberal all the sudden they care about where other people's

00:09:10.140 money goes because they are now the other people and it's their money and they go well you know

00:09:18.400 why don't i have a say in where this goes well you do you vote don't you you voted for zora and

00:09:23.740 Mom, Danny, now you got that paycheck and your New York state taxes.

00:09:29.460 They're going to go to some great programs to help people that just choose not to work.

00:09:35.760 And then that look, that look that that parent, it's that look that later on in life they give

00:09:42.960 when the kid brings their kids to a family dinner and the little kid's being rambunctious

00:09:49.860 and the parent just starts smiling,

00:09:52.760 I told you, I told you this was what it was like.

00:09:58.000 That's kind of a, it's great how it steps up like that.

00:10:02.400 And they start realizing like, oh, oh, I'm paying for this now.

00:10:07.640 It's not someone else.

00:10:09.300 Yeah. 1.00

00:10:10.480 Yeah, that's a bitch, ain't it? 1.00

00:10:13.340 So that's, you know, that's an awakening of some of these liberals. 1.00

00:10:19.080 But when they're still young liberals that are full of this twisted ideology, there's

00:10:26.180 no concept of reality.

00:10:28.680 Everything is given to them. 0.99

00:10:30.940 They're excused for so many of their ridiculous actions. 0.98

00:10:36.940 They're with their pals. 0.98

00:10:38.760 They painted some protest signs.

00:10:40.960 They think they're trans.

00:10:43.220 Whatever it is, some of them grow out of it. 0.96

00:10:47.620 It takes longer for some than others.

00:10:50.140 Some of them just never grow out of it.

00:10:52.780 You see these old liberals, you know, grandmas with the nose ring and the blue hair,

00:10:58.720 and you're like, what the hell are you doing?

00:11:01.500 But, you know, some of them grow out of it.

00:11:05.140 And a reformed lib is a good thing to say because they learned through experience.

00:11:13.320 No one sat them down.

00:11:14.780 A conservative didn't sit them down and tell them what the deal was

00:11:20.240 because they never would have believed it.

00:11:22.180 They never would have accepted it.

00:11:24.300 They needed to tear open that first paycheck,

00:11:27.640 take a look at what you made, the gross pay, and your net pay,

00:11:32.420 and go, I don't understand this.

00:11:34.980 Does not compute.

00:11:37.360 And then it computes.

00:11:39.200 And, you know, like many people are going to find out with Zorin Mamdani,

00:11:44.780 These youngsters, this 85% young women that voted for Zoran, they want safer cities. 0.98

00:11:54.540 They bitch and complain how they can't walk the streets without being sexually harassed. 0.98

00:11:59.560 They're afraid to go in the subway system. 0.99

00:12:02.120 And then they vote a guy who, by every measure, is going to make the city a lot more dangerous for women.

00:12:17.460 There's a horror story coming up on the show.

00:12:21.880 I debated even talking about it because I do like keeping things a little fun here throughout the depressing realities of life.

00:12:30.940 but you know this goes hand in hand with the politics in new york and and all over the 1.00

00:12:36.900 country especially in these big cities um a horrible sexual assault and uh these women

00:12:42.980 vote for mem danny they they don't know what they're voting for uh and they they want to be 0.93

00:12:51.640 safer and they vote for someone that is absolutely going to make the city unsafe especially for them 0.62

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00:13:55.060 Thanks for tuning in

00:13:57.000 Always greatly appreciated

00:13:59.260 You know, week after week

00:14:02.040 It's work for me

00:14:03.920 It's work

00:14:04.660 I toil

00:14:05.380 I toil

00:14:07.300 When it comes to trying to find

00:14:09.840 The Clown of the Week

00:14:12.420 The Anthony Cumia Show presents

00:14:16.060 The Clown of the Week

00:14:18.340 not so much that it's hard to find one there are just so many so many clowns to choose from 0.54

00:14:26.440 it's a ringling brothers little circus car uh clown car of people to choose from for clown

00:14:33.760 of the week this week i uh i boy it was close uh but again uh celebrity important very important

00:14:44.520 person because they're a celebrity we really should listen to everything they say and uh adhere

00:14:50.540 to it like gospel mark ruffalo mark ruffalo he's got something to say about everything

00:14:58.180 every single aspect of your life mark ruffalo knows what's best and uh this guy's worth a

00:15:07.440 pretty penny or two once you're a character in a couple of marvel movies i don't think you have

00:15:12.420 to worry about things like the subway, food prices, taxes, things like that. But that doesn't

00:15:22.400 mean we shouldn't listen with both ears wide open to the likes of Mark Ruffalo. In this statement,

00:15:32.360 Mark wants to just tear down your Second Amendment rights. That's right. He's already told you that

00:15:41.020 your First Amendment rights are crap, and that you should not be able to say certain 0.96

00:15:47.240 things about people, things, or other nations, or what have you. 0.80

00:15:53.580 Now, of course, he's commenting on the Second Amendment, your right to bear arms, which

00:15:59.240 pretty much guarantees the first, and all the rest of them.

00:16:03.000 And you'll hear when he's in this discussion with someone, I don't know what podcast this

00:16:10.460 If you've listened to the show for any length of time, you understand how disgusted I am with the concept of podcasts, especially celebrity podcasts.

00:16:23.660 It's just at the point where everyone has one.

00:16:27.780 Everyone has a podcast.

00:16:29.880 And most of them, they don't do it well.

00:16:34.440 Celebrities are really bad because they think they are so entitled. 1.00

00:16:38.300 and every word that comes out of their maw

00:16:41.940 that usually has other people's words coming out of it,

00:16:45.240 everything they've done of merit, of note,

00:16:48.840 it's because other people's words were coming out of their mouths.

00:16:53.500 And they've felt that sting.

00:16:56.820 They're not really getting the accolades for what they say.

00:17:02.100 It's the writers, directors that do it.

00:17:05.540 So they've felt relatively of late that they need to speak up and let you know how horribly you're leading your life.

00:17:17.660 So Mark Ruffalo talking about this Second Amendment, and he's got someone else there.

00:17:23.000 I guess it's their podcast.

00:17:24.820 And a question comes up or a statement that I've addressed numerous times on other platforms.

00:17:31.960 and it's the uh well we'll let them talk and then we'll address it here's mark ruffalo and some other

00:17:37.320 podcaster talking about the need of weapons of war but look what we're doing here in the united

00:17:46.380 states we're letting the kids get mowed down because of some crazy idea that we need weapons

00:17:52.980 of war to what what are you going to do you're going to fight the american government that's

00:17:57.300 insane what are you going to do like how what are you going to do with your weapons of war 0.99

00:18:02.240 you're going to kill other americans is what you're going to do well yeah other criminal 1.00

00:18:08.880 americans perhaps other americans that want to kill you it would actually be great for america 0.99

00:18:17.900 if if people were using their weapons to kill other criminal americans that would mean we have 0.99

00:18:26.160 a lot of Americans in our country. Unfortunately, you know, illegals and criminals that have already

00:18:32.140 been in and out of prison numerous times that are let out on probation. They're paroled. They get 0.63

00:18:37.360 out with no bail. You know, I don't think we're just shooting Americans. And here's the topic I

00:18:45.500 kind of want to hit on. We might have to go into the next segment with this one. People, an armed

00:18:53.540 American populace is a deterrent against the American government from trying to wield too

00:19:04.440 much power.

00:19:05.620 People go, oh, wow, you got your AR-15.

00:19:08.660 What's that going to do against a fighter jet?

00:19:11.760 Or, you know, we got atomic bombs.

00:19:14.640 They don't understand that even though the weaponry of the government is much better,

00:19:21.180 bigger, can kill a lot more people at once

00:19:24.440 than the lowly American can with a rifle, 0.97

00:19:28.300 you must understand it's still a detente.

00:19:31.960 It's still a balance of power here.

00:19:35.020 Because once the American government starts

00:19:38.940 mowing down Americans on American soil

00:19:42.400 with fighter planes and atomic bombs, 0.86

00:19:48.000 I think the whole game's over.

00:19:50.240 I think the government, the people that were in charge, and the people, the American people, would know, whoa, I guess that's it for America.

00:20:01.540 There's a power in an armed populace because there would have to be bloodshed.

00:20:09.120 And once that happens on a great scale, look what happened during the Civil War.

00:20:13.380 It was almost game over for the country.

00:20:16.040 it doesn't matter the strength of weaponry

00:20:21.200 one side has or the other

00:20:22.540 of course the side with more powerful weapons

00:20:26.680 will inevitably win

00:20:28.980 there have been differences

00:20:30.520 look at Vietnam for instance 0.93

00:20:32.140 a bunch of guerrillas took on the whole western world 0.99

00:20:36.140 but that doesn't matter

00:20:39.660 it doesn't matter who would emerge victorious 0.97

00:20:41.920 by killing more of the other

00:20:43.840 It matters that it happened at all.

00:20:47.380 And a government that, you know, we've seen the reaction to places like Waco and Ruby Ridge.

00:20:54.900 But if you start wholesale killing American people with the American military, it's game over.

00:21:04.740 No more country.

00:21:05.700 That's why even an armed populace with rifles is a balance of power.

00:21:11.940 It's a detente between the government and the people that prevents the government from becoming a murderous, rampaging mob.

00:21:23.000 And it's worked.

00:21:24.300 It's worked throughout the years during some amazing turmoil in this country. 0.98

00:21:30.340 So, of course, Mark Ruffalo, that dumb idea of, well, you know, the atomic bombs. 0.98

00:21:39.160 You're going to shoot at an A-10 with your little AR-15? 0.99

00:21:44.700 No, you don't have to. 0.93

00:21:47.860 And by the way, screw off.

00:21:50.260 I'll have whatever weaponry I choose to have.

00:21:54.180 All right?

00:21:54.600 You got me, Mark Ruffalo, Clown of the Week?

00:21:57.580 Okay, coming back in moments with a lot more.

00:22:00.240 Stick around.

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00:22:46.280 The Anthony Cumia Show.

00:22:48.620 And, boy, I'm looking at the phones.

00:22:50.620 The caller ID here is some bar in Corning, New York.

00:22:54.580 Who is this?

00:22:56.860 Hi, my dear.

00:22:58.440 It's Susan.

00:22:59.540 Oh, I should have known that.

00:23:02.000 I saw it was some gin mill up in Corning, so I should have assumed it was Susan.

00:23:06.960 uh thank you gin who would drink gin but anyway i wanted to say like this is just uh so nonsensical

00:23:17.620 that these uh young women in new york city would be so enamored uh to uh vote this way because 0.99

00:23:27.700 this is what's been happening are there just is there a black out there that it's young women and 1.00

00:23:35.960 all kinds of women that are getting sucker punched all over thrown into subway tracks like the 1.00

00:23:41.960 beautiful uh michelle uh go she was the first one uh 40 years old uh superstar on uh wall street 1.00

00:23:49.960 thrown into a subway track in uh 1922 uh she was the first one uh are they just like oblivious or

00:23:59.660 do they just like have mommy and daddy paying their rent and they only stumble out into their

00:24:05.280 streets uh as they don't go to work susan susan you know i know you're a woman but i i i've been

00:24:13.880 very critical of women on my various social media accounts over the course of the week because

00:24:19.300 85 percent of young women voted for zoran mamdani and i do not get it i can't understand unless

00:24:29.620 there's only one direction to go here and it's that women will vote with emotion and not common

00:24:38.920 sense what's best for the city what's best for you oh i don't care he made good tiktok videos

00:24:47.420 he wants to help everybody he's going to uh save new york they have no idea how he he's going to

00:24:56.120 do this they don't know anything oh i didn't want the old white guy or the guy with the beret and

00:25:01.360 the cats i do it they they don't understand what they're voting for when in fact they're voting 0.65

00:25:07.680 to put their own lives in danger what what of you susan uh what about these broads uh voting like

00:25:16.160 this it makes no sense other than that they're just totally devoid of any reality because

00:25:25.960 they're looking at tick tock they're not getting real information i do blame the you know the press

00:25:33.700 but they don't even listen to that kind of press no they are living in an alternate reality but

00:25:40.660 this is so dangerous they are going to be the first one to feel the pain and but the whole city

00:25:50.000 The downward spiral of all this is, I lived there for 40 years.

00:25:58.120 It means a lot to me.

00:25:59.200 I still have a lot of friends there.

00:26:00.000 Wow, you were 40 years old?

00:26:04.980 Oh, barely.

00:26:07.140 But I lived in New York City from 1800s.

00:26:14.800 Susan, thank you so much.

00:26:17.080 I got to move on.

00:26:18.100 Tell the bartender to get you a slow gin fizz and put it on my tab. 1.00

00:26:22.240 There she goes, the always lovely and intoxicated Susan.

00:26:27.260 Here's Scott.

00:26:28.780 Scott from Venice, Florida.

00:26:30.940 What's up, Scott?

00:26:32.200 Hey, Ant.

00:26:33.260 Always a pleasure to talk to one of the best talking junior high school graduates in the country.

00:26:39.580 Thank you.

00:26:40.580 You listen to Gavin, do you?

00:26:42.460 Of course.

00:26:43.240 um no i think a lot of this you're talking about how the young liberals voted for mondani and these

00:26:49.700 communist candidates yep they've never lived under the specter of communism like we did growing up

00:26:56.820 every day or every week on the news you you saw stories about how horrible it was in the soviet

00:27:02.000 union right right they know nothing of that you know until you've gone under an elementary school

00:27:07.920 desk because it was the perfect defense against an atomic weapon you know you don't quite

00:27:16.040 understand right exactly and all they've been taught is oh how good it is well we all know

00:27:22.680 communism works good in a group of 50 or 100 people not when you start talking about hundreds

00:27:27.940 of millions of people don't work worth a damn and and mamdani is the perfect example of one of these

00:27:34.220 leaders of socialism slash uh communism comes from a wealthy family he's all about money and

00:27:41.220 power and you know the the the minion uh his minion will be taken care of but then the lowly

00:27:49.280 people that are under his rule they suffer immensely and that's what's going to happen

00:27:56.820 exactly and i think as far as the young women go now i'm no expert on women trust me i'm lucky i

00:28:03.440 got a wife who is scott am i right which one of us guys are can't can't live with him can't live

00:28:09.440 without exactly but i mean i think these young women are looking for a daddy figure i'm sorry

00:28:15.780 but they they all say they want these beta males but when they when they come across an alpha male

00:28:22.840 or a guy who's just a guy they reject him in public but secretly that's what they want

00:28:28.120 he's promising to take care of them do everything for them it just to me that's what that's why

00:28:34.820 they do it scott i saw a post today on x and it was uh a video of a woman complaining that she

00:28:43.280 can't find a guy she belongs to all these dating services that are available online and apps and

00:28:50.440 whatnot and she goes i can't my criteria was i want a man who uh takes care of himself he's six 0.86

00:28:58.000 foot two she's looking for a six foot two guy that's kind of going to cut down on uh the the

00:29:05.960 amount of people responding to your um your profile but the other thing is a lot of these 1.00

00:29:12.180 women they do not even know how to have a face-to-face conversation with someone there could 1.00

00:29:18.560 be a guy that's five eleven six foot doesn't fall in to her height criteria but sitting there 0.76

00:29:28.260 wherever it is a bar or or a show a church and being face to face talking about something sharing

00:29:37.540 a common interest or something you don't have as a common interest and you have a little lively 0.52

00:29:43.120 debate but you're interacting with human effing beings this is a thing of the past and this woman

00:29:51.580 thinking she's going to be able to text out on an app her picture a profile of what she does and 0.99

00:29:59.080 what she wants in return is an insane insane uh thought process what happened to meeting someone

00:30:08.180 The hard, cold truth of cold calling on someone sitting at a bar.

00:30:13.980 It was a nightmare walking up trying to get enough beers in you to get the courage to walk over to a girl and go,

00:30:20.760 hey, can I buy you a drink or something?

00:30:22.300 You get shot down.

00:30:23.500 Your friends start laughing at you.

00:30:25.280 It was hell.

00:30:26.700 It was hell.

00:30:27.480 But you learn.

00:30:28.700 And you get sloppier and sloppier and it just gets worse as the night goes on.

00:30:32.920 Yes.

00:30:34.220 And you learned and you did.

00:30:36.540 you you figured out how to have conversations with real live people and now they think they

00:30:43.580 could just post something and this knight in shining armor is going to ride up fulfilling

00:30:48.420 all of her ridiculous criteria sweep her off her feet and now she's you know Mrs. Mr. Perfect 1.00

00:30:54.960 well they want style over substance and that'll never work and real quick I know I've been 0.99

00:31:00.900 you're talking about that stupid ruffalo his comment about oh what are you going to take on 1.00

00:31:07.240 the government yeah those same idiots existed in 1775 yes and what happened to them they look like 1.00

00:31:15.200 the fools right exactly i'll tell you what scott if britain was anything like it is now 1.00

00:31:20.700 it's obvious how a bunch of farmers and coopers and cobblers kicked their asses because i've been 1.00

00:31:27.900 seeing some videos of their police force over there they're arresting people for uh social 0.99

00:31:32.680 media posts for taking pictures in a town square they're questioning people uh so yeah i i don't

00:31:39.680 know what's going on in great britain it's not even pretty good britain anymore scott no thanks

00:31:45.620 they fail to realize that most most people in the military are pretty conservative plus they forget 0.99

00:31:50.940 about all the veterans that are out there right right it's a stupid argument it's it's detente 0.99

00:31:56.960 my friend thank you scott appreciate the call man yes sir rain so um with the uh with the election 0.98

00:32:04.300 uh it wasn't the only one it wasn't just mem danny here in new york city uh mayor fray

00:32:10.200 mayor fray over there in minneapolis minnesota jacob fray he beat out omar fatah which surprised

00:32:18.940 me uh this guy was the spitting image of the pirate from uh captain uh what the hell was his

00:32:26.200 name you know i'm the captain now guy uh look just like him uh yeah captain phillips

00:32:32.360 omar fatah i thought he was a shoe in i thought he was a sandal in for uh for office as mayor of

00:32:42.340 minneapolis but uh the incumbent mayor jacob fray he won and instantly he's now facing backlash

00:32:51.140 He spoke Somali during his victory acceptance speech. 1.00

00:32:58.540 He is so embarrassing, this guy. 1.00

00:33:03.120 And I think he must have felt the heat and the pressure because it was a close race. 0.54

00:33:08.540 And I think he feels he has to get a little closer with the Somalis in Minneapolis

00:33:13.660 because they make up a huge portion of Minneapolis right now, especially politically.

00:33:19.080 So he got up and he started speaking Somali.

00:33:25.160 I don't even know what this is.

00:33:28.300 You know, I remember when I was a kid and you'd make up a language and just start babbling something.

00:33:34.760 That's kind of what it sounds like.

00:33:37.200 I don't know if he's speaking Somali.

00:33:39.100 The applause from the crowd seemed to be indicative of him speaking Somali. 1.00

00:33:45.420 But just him doing it is so embarrassing and humiliating. 1.00

00:33:51.700 So here's a little clip of it.

00:33:53.740 Let's listen to Mayor Jacob Frey speaking Somali.

00:34:15.420 all right that's all we need there

00:34:26.400 um

00:34:29.720 minneapolis mayor jacob fray facing backlash after giving victory speech in somali uh yeah

00:34:38.060 Yeah, he welcomed a bunch of Somalis at his victory, shindig, and popular conservative influencer ripped into the progressive mayor, writing, the pandering here is insane.

00:34:52.540 Mayor Jacob Frey, as he won re-election, spoke almost a minute in Somalia, then said Minneapolis belongs to Somalia.

00:35:01.980 In a second round of non-pars and ranked choice voting, Frey narrowly defeated a challenge from socialist Minneapolis state senator Omar Fattah.

00:35:12.760 Fattah is the first Somali-American and first Muslim to serve in state senate.

00:35:18.420 How many firsts do we need?

00:35:21.700 Are we done with the firsts at this point?

00:35:24.800 So he said, to the great people of Minneapolis, I say that very intentionally, because no matter where you're from, Minneapolis should be a place where you are proud to call your home.

00:35:37.340 He said he then proceeded to list a number of Somali regions, saying whether you are from Basaso, Mogadishu, whether you're from Hargesa or Garo, whether you're from Beledouin or southwest Minneapolis, yeah, you can come here for seeking prosperity where you can raise your family.

00:36:03.640 and he said, here's what the election means.

00:36:07.380 The election means this moment for unity

00:36:10.920 where entire Somali community can come together and say,

00:36:13.900 this is our people, this is our city.

00:36:16.360 We are united behind each other.

00:36:18.840 Oh boy.

00:36:21.800 Another comment said,

00:36:24.640 any politician raised in America, educated in America,

00:36:27.460 ostensibly representing Americans, 0.96

00:36:30.800 prostrating himself in front of a bunch of foreigners 1.00

00:36:33.440 could be the most humiliating thing I've ever seen.

00:36:39.320 Podcaster Matt Walsh, he chimed in, writing,

00:36:42.740 As I have seen many times now, politicians in this country

00:36:45.260 should be required by law to speak English

00:36:47.620 when addressing the public in an official capacity.

00:36:51.760 There should never be a time in America

00:36:54.400 where an American can't understand

00:36:57.000 what their elected leaders are saying.

00:37:00.560 And another influencer wrote,

00:37:03.240 I don't know how large ISIS presence is in Minneapolis, but it needs to be much larger. 1.00

00:37:10.480 Yeah, that was kind of a smart ass answer right there. 0.89

00:37:13.400 That was the smart ass comment.

00:37:16.280 This guy, Mayor Frey, boy, talk about stuck between a rock and a hard place. 0.67

00:37:22.200 You had, you know, a Somali socialist and Jacob Frey.

00:37:29.500 And Jacob Frey, you might remember, was the guy at George Floyd's funeral

00:37:35.660 who knelt beside the golden casket that was going to haul St. George of Floyd

00:37:44.900 off into the cosmos like Spock in Wrath of Khan.

00:37:51.520 I knew George Floyd. 0.95

00:37:54.060 His soul was the most drug addicted.

00:37:56.960 And he, yeah, he knelt down, he was weeping, not even a subtle cry.

00:38:03.540 Look, if you adore the person that is being eulogized, being waked, whatever other religions do their thing,

00:38:15.960 I can understand getting choked up as a dude, you know, your dad, my God, a favorite uncle, a best friend, sure.

00:38:26.960 Tear up a little.

00:38:28.500 Doesn't take anything away.

00:38:30.540 But if you're bawling like a woman, crying hysterical, which he was,

00:38:39.100 while kneeling in front of St. George Floyd's casket, 0.99

00:38:44.820 you are a disaster. 1.00

00:38:48.160 You are a mess. 1.00

00:38:50.340 He was doing that shaky cry, you know, 0.98

00:38:53.620 when someone's crying and they, you see from behind and you're not sure.

00:38:59.120 It's like, what are they doing?

00:39:00.260 Is that a convulsion, a laugh?

00:39:01.740 Oh, no, they're crying.

00:39:03.080 He was doing that to George Floyd's golden casket.

00:39:08.300 The brothers weren't even doing that.

00:39:10.480 They didn't even care as much.

00:39:12.300 But, again, it's pandering.

00:39:15.100 It's pandering.

00:39:17.120 He was putting on an act like he puts on an act 0.99

00:39:21.120 when he goes to one of the Somali malls.

00:39:24.520 I saw that clip a while back.

00:39:26.720 He talks about Mall of America up there in Minneapolis.

00:39:29.880 He goes, well, Mall of America is great and all,

00:39:32.040 but until you've been to a Somali mall, you just haven't seen it. 1.00

00:39:36.480 And this looked like the Moog. 1.00

00:39:38.920 It looked like you should be hearing Blackhawk helicopter rotors above your head.

00:39:45.300 And he's walking through there making like he's buddies with all of them.

00:39:49.860 Hey, how you doing?

00:39:51.560 Giving some Somali greetings. 0.62

00:39:55.360 And then you walk around, and it looks like one of these flea markets, a bazaar. 0.77

00:40:00.040 Some third world street festival.

00:40:03.440 They're selling, you know, a chicken and a dog.

00:40:09.560 I don't know.

00:40:10.660 But it is, this guy is the king of pandering.

00:40:14.480 And, you know, Minneapolis, I guess it's the only way he could have won against Omar.

00:40:22.560 Is it Omar? No, no.

00:40:24.220 It is Omar. Omar Fatah. That was his name.

00:40:27.440 I had thrown it in the garbage where he absolutely belongs. 0.73

00:40:32.060 But, yeah, he beat that guy because I guess he knows how to pander. 1.00

00:40:36.520 And he's probably responsible for really doing a lot for Somalis. 0.70

00:40:44.480 You know, Somalia itself is in turmoil, constant turmoil.

00:40:50.560 There are factions of Somalis that war with each other.

00:40:54.340 This is a big thing on the dark continent.

00:40:56.300 A lot of countries that you look at people and go, well, what's the difference between you guys?

00:41:01.580 It would be like watching the American Civil War.

00:41:04.380 Wait a minute.

00:41:04.880 You guys are, you know, brethren.

00:41:08.760 But they have such disdain for each other.

00:41:14.160 And I think it translates to American Somalis politics.

00:41:21.120 They don't like this guy. 1.00

00:41:22.540 He's Somali, but he's not the right kind of Somali. 0.99

00:41:25.400 And they know a dopey white guy like Mayor Jacob Frey, he can be manipulated. 0.98

00:41:32.400 You hint at him that if he doesn't do something, he's going to be called a racist. 0.98

00:41:36.880 He will do whatever you want as quickly as is humanly possible.

00:41:40.840 So I think that's what really put him over the top. 1.00

00:41:44.820 He's a pushover for the Somalis. 1.00

00:41:49.700 Anyway, good luck. 1.00

00:41:51.700 Minneapolis, New York, Dearborn, Michigan, and plenty more cities to come.

00:41:58.600 You're sunk.

00:42:01.840 Oh, boy.

00:42:02.560 Okay, back in a moment.

00:42:04.380 Don't go anywhere.

00:42:05.120 More of the Anthony Cumia Show to come.

00:42:07.720 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:42:14.740 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

00:42:21.740 Welcome. Welcome to the Anthony Cumia Show.

00:42:26.700 And this was funny over the weekend.

00:42:30.160 They rolled out Joe Biden, old Joe Biden.

00:42:34.800 A little bit of dementia, apparently stage four cancer.

00:42:42.100 He's been through treatments.

00:42:44.080 He's been through everything.

00:42:46.660 But given the opportunity to trash Donald Trump, the Republicans, and try to pump up his legacy, boy, they dragged him out.

00:42:59.520 I don't know who does this.

00:43:01.700 It can't be him.

00:43:02.600 He can't sit there going, I want to go out and talk to people about his wife

00:43:08.280 or Obama or some other candidate.

00:43:12.460 It's like, can we get this guy?

00:43:14.020 And the thought that he would be a plus to anything you're pushing 0.99

00:43:19.160 just shows how ridiculous the Democrats are. 0.98

00:43:25.900 No one's watching this guy and thinking, wow, he's awesome. 0.99

00:43:31.300 No one but the nuts that always thought he was awesome.

00:43:34.820 They will never say anything bad about him.

00:43:38.560 But you're not going to change anyone's mind with the likes of Joe Biden.

00:43:43.500 You're not putting him out in front of an audience behind a podium,

00:43:47.380 and he's not going to say anything that you go, wow, that was really well said.

00:43:52.480 And I think I better re-address some of my opinions.

00:43:58.280 He's gone.

00:43:59.600 He's a mess. 0.80

00:44:00.240 And now he just goes out and lies even more blatantly than he did when he was the figurehead president. 0.97

00:44:09.420 So here's a couple of clips.

00:44:12.120 The first one, he's yelling, and he goes from that low speak.

00:44:18.620 And he's always done this, but it seems even more pronounced now.

00:44:21.800 It must be part of the dementia.

00:44:24.200 He speaks, and then he starts yelling.

00:44:26.840 And then he tells the people he's not joking.

00:44:30.240 It really is every hacky impersonation of Joe Biden come to life.

00:44:37.860 Like, really, it's really him.

00:44:40.380 But he does go, no joke, no joke.

00:44:42.860 No, I'm serious.

00:44:43.840 I'm serious.

00:44:45.120 Like, what?

00:44:45.520 No one was questioning that it was a joke or that you're not serious.

00:44:51.580 We're just saying it's an absolute lie.

00:44:55.600 That's what we're saying.

00:44:57.560 So here he is talking about Trump making money during the presidency,

00:45:03.960 during his presidency, Trump's presidency.

00:45:07.000 Let's listen, shall we?

00:45:09.000 Has anyone noticed how much the Trump family has made while he's been president

00:45:12.380 and put in their pocket?

00:45:15.320 Reported $1.8 billion.

00:45:19.980 Can you imagine that if any other president in American history did that?

00:45:26.400 Can you imagine what happened?

00:45:28.920 Ah, yelling.

00:45:30.960 I was getting anxiety listening to that,

00:45:33.620 like it was my dad just come home from work,

00:45:36.140 and he started yelling.

00:45:38.500 I had a, I got a stomachache,

00:45:41.560 is what I used to say as a kid.

00:45:44.160 But there he is, yelling.

00:45:45.760 Yelling about Trump's family, mind you.

00:45:49.980 Making money.

00:45:51.880 The Trump family is a dynasty.

00:45:56.400 They've made money for years.

00:45:58.360 They've gone through very good times, very bad times.

00:46:01.960 And they are where they are right now because they have businesses.

00:46:08.800 Trump, during his presidency, has handed those businesses off to his sons and his daughter.

00:46:15.840 And they run a very profitable business, the Trump empire.

00:46:23.800 See how that works?

00:46:24.800 He had some of these businesses before he was president, and then his kids continued with that and made money for the family business.

00:46:39.520 Does it say that the president can't, the president's family can't make money during the time he's president with legitimate business dealings?

00:46:50.060 not you know not your son your your drug addict son selling his spitball straw and paint paintings

00:47:02.720 for half a million dollars oh yeah yeah that wasn't to get access to the then vice president

00:47:13.080 and then the president, you're talking 12 years that Joe Biden was either vice president or president

00:47:22.160 and access to him was being sold, allegedly, but it's so obvious, that isn't a problem?

00:47:35.980 If any other president did that, you did it.

00:47:38.920 What are you talking about?

00:47:40.780 But Trump, his family took over the business while Trump is in office.

00:47:48.700 Trump doesn't take pay.

00:47:50.380 He's putting money out of his own pocket and getting donors together to pay for the ballroom.

00:47:55.580 And they just can't stop with the, hey, he's taking money, made a fortune. 1.00

00:48:02.240 Here's the other idiotic thing he says. 1.00

00:48:05.000 Do we got time for this? 1.00

00:48:06.720 I'd have to come back.

00:48:08.460 Let me see.

00:48:09.500 All right.

00:48:09.960 Yeah, play the other clip of how his wages were up and inflation was down. 0.75

00:48:15.760 But folks, we rule.

00:48:19.740 We got the respect of the world, not just because of the example of our power, but the power of our example.

00:48:27.920 That's why the world followed us.

00:48:30.180 Not a joke.

00:48:33.400 When I was president, wages were up and inflation was down.

00:48:37.820 It's a lie

00:48:40.440 That's a lie

00:48:42.000 Wages were up and inflation wasn't down

00:48:44.240 Oh my god

00:48:45.400 Alright we'll talk more about this when we return

00:48:47.820 It's the Anthony Cumia Show

00:48:50.860 On the Red Apple Podcast Network

00:48:53.260 It's the Anthony Cumia Show

00:48:58.180 On the Red Apple Podcast Network

00:49:01.180 Yes the Anthony Cumia Show 0.77

00:49:06.000 And, you know, the parade of mayors that are just clown shoes in this country is astounding.

00:49:23.020 A lot of people like talking about red states and how the red states are the ones with the most gun violence.

00:49:32.480 The red states are the ones that have more people on EBT and SNAP benefits.

00:49:39.700 And the red states, what they don't do is let people know that it's the blue cities in those red states that are the catastrophe going on.

00:49:55.580 It's not the states.

00:49:56.920 It's these blue cities with these mayors that are just how they do not get arrested for gross misconduct, negligence of their duties is beyond me.

00:50:12.960 And an Anthony Cumia show would not be complete any week without having to bring up Chicago's Mayor Johnson.

00:50:21.460 this guy is has to be the worst mayor now we'll see what happens with memdani in new york

00:50:32.280 technically well not technically literally he is not mayor yet until um until uh january 1st

00:50:40.740 but right now i defy you to find a mayor worse than chicago mayor johnson because this guy

00:50:50.700 would rather stack up the bodies of young people in Chicago

00:50:57.840 than do anything realistically that will curtail the violent crime

00:51:06.120 and murder going on in his city.

00:51:08.800 He will look at real solutions and just go, nope, pile them up,

00:51:16.420 stack them up, don't care.

00:51:18.900 I'm not going to make law enforcement look like they actually serve a legitimate purpose.

00:51:26.520 I can't allow the Chicago Police Department to do their job because then if it works,

00:51:33.660 how am I going to tell people that the police department are terrible and racist and should be defunded?

00:51:41.500 And he will do anything but actually take the hard steps that are needed to try to do anything to stop the carnage that goes on in Chicago.

00:52:01.320 So that's, you know, if you're in Chicago, that's your mayor.

00:52:03.940 That's Mayor Johnson. 1.00

00:52:04.800 And we thought Lori Lightfoot was an abomination.

00:52:11.600 Boy, you guys.

00:52:13.700 And then, you know, this happens everywhere in these blue cities.

00:52:19.240 And some of them statewide with their governors and congressmen and senators.

00:52:25.900 But, you know, you just vote these people in.

00:52:30.540 You got rid of Lori Lightfoot.

00:52:32.520 Good job. 0.92

00:52:33.500 And then you vote in a guy even worse than Lori Lightfoot.

00:52:39.560 What are you doing?

00:52:41.600 What am I doing?

00:52:43.960 You guys are screwing up so bad in Chicago.

00:52:48.240 So maybe I'm speaking a little prematurely because I have in my hand another one of Chicago Mayor Johnson's

00:53:03.500 solutions to the violence problem going on in chicago now you might say anthony what problem

00:53:11.180 is there what what seems to be the problem in chicago well this story is um interesting and

00:53:19.580 pretty typical of chicago there's a a serial woman puncher how this is even a thing

00:53:28.680 A serial woman puncher has been arrested again.

00:53:33.580 William Livingston, 32, charged with two felony counts of aggravated battery in a public place.

00:53:39.220 Police say Livingston was identified as the man who struck two women aged 40 and 29 on June 12th.

00:53:46.340 He previously spent time in jail for punching several other women.

00:53:52.060 Kathleen Miles, a mother of 11 from Lake Villa, was punched on August 19th.

00:53:59.300 Livingston was named a suspect and taken into custody.

00:54:02.940 CPD records show he had seven arrests in the past 10 years for similar attacks,

00:54:09.400 including two in 2017, an aggravated assault charge in 2015 and 2016.

00:54:16.060 coming in with seven punches it's uh william livingston 32 says dear casey i love punching

00:54:28.440 women um he faced four felony counts of aggravated battery for the early 2022 attack

00:54:37.620 so here's chicago's problem and it's not unique to chicago any liberal democrat city

00:54:45.680 can show you similar statistics.

00:54:49.280 They just let these people go.

00:54:53.100 They let them go. 0.95

00:54:55.480 These are violent felons.

00:54:59.680 This isn't the, you know,

00:55:01.360 oh, why would a guy arrested for a couple of roaches in his ashtray

00:55:06.420 have to go to prison?

00:55:08.420 And everyone agreed with that.

00:55:10.840 I think any rational person would go, yeah.

00:55:13.520 If you get arrested for two roaches in your ashtray during a traffic stop and somehow end up in jail, by the way, that never happens, then, yeah, you should be let out.

00:55:26.140 There was some miscarriage of justice there.

00:55:29.840 But that isn't the case.

00:55:31.520 that's what they sold all of this bail reform on and and uh putting people giving them probation

00:55:40.840 and paroling uh criminals violent criminals it was all under this hey this guy had a joint or

00:55:50.040 two on him he's a good guy why are we locking him up and everyone went oh okay and then they just

00:55:57.020 flung the doors open and are are letting violent felons roam the streets and they get arrested

00:56:07.260 again they let him out arrested again they let him out for the same thing beating women you know

00:56:12.740 i thought we were a chivalrous nation i thought we we looked at women with respect and honored them

00:56:19.180 and kept them safe.

00:56:21.540 Isn't that a man's job?

00:56:23.740 To keep women safe? 0.89

00:56:27.220 And then you got Mayor Johnson in Chicago

00:56:30.760 that just refuses to do some of the most common sense actions

00:56:37.820 to make Chicago safer.

00:56:41.140 So here is, let me read this to you.

00:56:43.820 It's the community safety surcharge that he is going to try.

00:56:50.500 At least he's proposed it.

00:56:51.680 He wants this.

00:56:52.920 This, my friends, will take care of the crime in Chicago.

00:56:58.280 Not, you know, taking criminals off the streets, putting them in jail and in prison for lengths of time to do their sentences.

00:57:08.000 Not that.

00:57:09.860 This is literally a tax.

00:57:12.560 It is a safety, safety tax, the safety tax, a safety tax.

00:57:20.340 Mayor Brandon Johnson's proposed twenty one dollar per employee tax on corporations with twenty one or more workers aimed at generating revenue for violence prevention programs.

00:57:35.580 You have a violence prevention program.

00:57:40.020 it's called the chicago police department there's your violence protection program

00:57:46.440 prevention program and if you let them do their job and you put a police commissioner in place

00:57:54.260 that lets them do their job then you've prevented violence by having a strong police presence

00:58:04.240 that is no nonsense they make sure they're arresting people for the crimes they're committing

00:58:11.320 and then you need a judicial system that will follow through but your first line of defense

00:58:19.100 this violence prevention program that you're trying to come up with to raise 200 million

00:58:26.140 a year by taxing companies $21 per employee over 21 employees.

00:58:34.740 So you're a big company, you got thousands of employees, you're now going to pay the

00:58:41.040 city of Chicago $21 for every employee over 21 people that you have.

00:58:49.480 Good luck, Google.

00:58:51.080 good luck other uh corporations that have thousands of people working for them

00:58:57.260 because he thinks he needs 200 million dollars to put in place some violence prevention program

00:59:07.140 that will do nothing this guy comes up with more programs what would that be used for

00:59:14.300 uh jobs he thinks if you offer gang members and thugs people that have no qualms about

00:59:26.260 murdering people all you got to do is give them a job that's funded by companies that are actually

00:59:35.040 employing people and penalizing those companies to come up with 200 million dollars to give to 0.95

00:59:42.320 thugs or that other thing

00:59:44.420 that he came up with

00:59:46.160 the

00:59:46.760 where they hire gang

00:59:50.280 members

00:59:50.760 to go to where violence is and tell

00:59:54.320 him hey knock it off

00:59:56.260 home knock it off bro

00:59:57.840 knock it off 0.99

00:59:59.420 what you doing cook stop with the killing 1.00

01:00:02.320 cook

01:00:02.680 you have a violence

01:00:08.380 prevention program

01:00:09.500 they're budgeted

01:00:12.320 You have the manpower.

01:00:14.760 It's the police department.

01:00:16.720 He will not use it.

01:00:18.340 Stack up those bodies.

01:00:20.080 That's all he cares about.

01:00:21.720 Stack them up.

01:00:24.120 We're going to take a break before we play the clip of Brandon Johnson talking about this.

01:00:33.800 Why wouldn't you utilize the resources you already have?

01:00:40.180 Because he can't line his pockets.

01:00:42.320 and give cronies money.

01:00:44.160 All right.

01:00:44.620 We'll be right back with his words next.

01:00:48.300 It's the Anthony Cumia Show

01:00:50.640 on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:00:55.660 It's the Anthony Cumia Show

01:00:57.900 on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:01:03.280 The Anthony Cumia Show,

01:01:04.940 and we were talking about Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson

01:01:08.000 and his safety tax

01:01:10.300 that he wants to put in place, $21 a head

01:01:14.900 for any company that has 21 employees or more,

01:01:20.260 more than 21 employees.

01:01:22.340 So, you know, you're a company with a few hundred

01:01:25.540 or thousand employees.

01:01:26.940 That adds up, and that tax will be going to programs,

01:01:32.540 certain programs that will curtail the violence problem.

01:01:37.540 And none of his programs over the course of his mayorship in Chicago have done anything to bring crime down.

01:01:47.720 But he's so afraid of utilizing his greatest resource, the Chicago Police Department, because he's afraid that when they start arresting people and putting them in jail, that Mayor Brandon Johnson is going to look like he's trading. 0.62

01:02:02.400 He's a traitor to his race.

01:02:05.180 so that matters to him more than actual dead bodies of the vast majority of which are young 0.99

01:02:15.220 black men so i don't know why mayor brandon johnson is in office this is a gross negligence

01:02:24.660 of duties that has resulted in the deaths of people any other person responsible for that 0.90

01:02:34.280 would be thrown out of their job at the very least and brought up on charges

01:02:39.180 if you had a rational thinking machine working the whole gimmick there in Chicago.

01:02:47.320 So here is what Mayor Johnson there in Chicago is talking about,

01:02:53.220 his safety tax and his, this is going to do it, this, finally, taxing companies.

01:03:00.480 It's not going to chase corporations out of Chicago.

01:03:02.640 It's going to make Chicago the safe place it's supposed to be.

01:03:07.860 Brandon?

01:03:09.440 The community safety surcharge.

01:03:11.780 It's a job killer for the city.

01:03:13.380 Why, if I were Google, would I stay here in the city and pay that head tax instead of going out to Naperville?

01:03:18.880 The notion that these taxes kill jobs, there's just no empirical data that corroborates that.

01:03:25.960 It just doesn't exist.

01:03:27.060 We found a way to generate revenue without it being on the backs of working people.

01:03:32.140 without having to raise property taxes, without expanding garbage fees, without collecting a

01:03:38.460 grocery tax. As someone who is a part of the labor movement, who comes out of the working class,

01:03:43.480 my father who worked his butt off the third shift to raise 10 kids, I know what it's like to open up

01:03:48.940 a refrigerator and there's no food in it. I know what it's like to have an orange extension cord

01:03:52.760 from my window to our neighbor's window because we cannot afford electricity. There is no way in

01:03:57.680 the world that I'm going to present a budget that's going to harm the working class. So in

01:04:01.420 terms of the corporate responsibility that we're calling for through the community safety search

01:04:06.160 that's going to go towards 50 million dollars to hire young people it's going to go to the wellness

01:04:11.660 and the health of our police officers there's a provision in there that ensures that we're

01:04:16.120 providing support for victims and survivors of domestic and gender-based violence and then of

01:04:21.860 course our cvi workers which has been demonstrated all over the city of chicago where brown and black

01:04:27.580 organizations have community members who are working in some of the toughest precincts in the

01:04:32.200 city where they have driven violence down violence interrupters chicago violence interrupters or

01:04:38.660 community violence interrupters that's his cvi program that's the one where he pays gang members

01:04:44.100 to um go into a beef and try to cool things down by the way two that i have read so far two of

01:04:54.180 these cvi people in chicago were directly connected to gangs and utilizing their power

01:05:01.320 and money that they're being paid by the city to involve themselves in gang crime drug dealing and

01:05:09.840 violence so you know i don't know what this guy's doing what is he thinking with this

01:05:17.100 and again you know just give a thug a job give them jobs not everyone is fit for society

01:05:28.360 and getting a job is going to make them better some people really just need to be locked away

01:05:34.200 from everyone forever and he just will not fess up to that um it's it's beyond me how this guy

01:05:44.960 And then he says, the corporate responsibility?

01:05:50.860 So it's corporations that do business in the city of Chicago

01:05:56.440 are responsible for trying to stop the crime in Chicago?

01:06:04.000 Huh?

01:06:05.500 They're doing you a favor by running a business in your city

01:06:10.920 and paying taxes and giving the people of Chicago outlets for things like food

01:06:17.320 and goods and services, but they have a responsibility to make the city safe

01:06:24.880 enough so they can do business?

01:06:27.660 What? 0.98

01:06:29.280 That's called the police force.

01:06:33.800 What business would stick around? 0.98

01:06:37.440 The woman who asked him that question right off the bat is absolutely right.

01:06:43.740 What's keeping these businesses from picking up and moving to a city or a township close to Chicago without having to pay these insane taxes?

01:07:00.860 And he, him, Danny's the same thing.

01:07:03.660 You know, I'm raising taxes in New York from 7.4% to 11.5%.

01:07:11.600 They will leave.

01:07:15.900 Now, Danny's even funnier.

01:07:17.080 He says they're going to love it.

01:07:18.660 They're going to pay more taxes and love it.

01:07:23.300 But this guy, he really has no fear that these companies will leave.

01:07:30.000 And the audacity to say that it's the companies, these businesses that are doing business in Chicago, it's their responsibility to pay money, pay a tax, to make them safer.

01:07:44.320 That is the mob.

01:07:46.760 The mob, Brandon Johnson and his cronies, go to a business.

01:07:52.800 And they go, yeah, we need $21 for every employee you have over the count of 21 employees.

01:08:00.960 Yeah, I don't want to pay that.

01:08:02.460 It's a shame.

01:08:03.940 It's a nice window you got there.

01:08:05.500 Nice big picture window.

01:08:07.820 Be a shame if anything happened to it.

01:08:11.900 You try to tell me what's different.

01:08:15.240 Between the mafia shaking down local businesses under the guise of protection,

01:08:21.160 and we're going to help you be safe,

01:08:24.180 and and brandon johnson taking their money and telling them they're going to be safe 1.00

01:08:31.240 it's the mafia oh my god what are you people in chicago doing you are insane you are insane 0.98

01:08:43.280 chicago but you know you voted him in i can't wait to see the next mayor if the trend continues 0.98

01:08:51.340 chicago i cannot wait to see uh the next the next mayor uh greg from indiana what's up greg uh we

01:09:00.300 got a couple of minutes here so make it fast hey anthony i'm a big fan thank you for taking my call

01:09:07.600 thank you um i'm actually glad you were talking about this topic but criminality is the biggest

01:09:14.040 thing that has resonated with me as a fan for many many years now and i do delivery work

01:09:21.140 uh in ohio and and around the cincinnati area which has gone worse worse over the years and

01:09:27.160 oh yeah it's it's just viewing the decline of our society over the years and i'm only 26 so

01:09:35.100 you know i haven't been here very long but right you know you have you have to wonder

01:09:39.580 how the people especially the people that are you know actually having to live in the muck in the

01:09:45.640 mire and you know the people that are actually having to deal with the threat of assault and

01:09:50.120 robbery and murder and yeah uh you know with with the people that are in charge you know it's

01:09:56.360 like mayor you know adams is a dope and johnson is clearly motivated just by a perverse sense of 0.92

01:10:02.660 racial solidarity and yes regardless of how it affects the black community in chicago 0.98

01:10:08.720 he doesn't care at all which is ironic but you have to wonder how regular people and obviously

01:10:16.580 especially in Chicago, it's racial solidarity.

01:10:18.960 You've got like 10 seconds, Greg.

01:10:20.900 I'm sorry.

01:10:22.720 Oh, that's all right.

01:10:23.720 Yeah.

01:10:24.120 Well, thanks for the call anyway.

01:10:26.000 Thank you.

01:10:26.660 And we'll be back in moments.

01:10:28.140 Stick around.

01:10:29.300 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:10:36.640 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

01:10:43.420 The Anthony Cumia Show.

01:10:44.900 and uh yeah we're kind of we're kind of talking about mayors of some of these uh blue cities

01:10:55.000 and uh it's it's just a mess they'd rather as my mom used to say cut off your nose to spite your

01:11:05.300 face you're cutting off your nose to spite your face i didn't know what that was as a kid but it

01:11:11.740 horrified me because i took things very literally so i i imagined um my nose being cut off and i

01:11:18.900 didn't know what the word spite meant at that time but yeah whatever so uh let's move to the west

01:11:27.980 coast seattle seattle washington has a new mayor and uh apparently really likes this um mem danny

01:11:38.720 plan especially when it comes to these grocery stores these state-run grocery stores where you

01:11:45.920 know a place like uh gristini's where you can go in and get everything look at me commercial for

01:11:52.980 the boss's um grocery stores uh it's called private enterprise and competition and that is

01:12:00.980 always done very well because it forces companies to be better uh you want people to use your

01:12:13.400 business you got to be better than the next guy that also is doing the same type of business you're

01:12:20.880 doing competition it works state run means that there's no competition you go to a store

01:12:31.180 and they don't have what you want you're going to go to the next state run store and they're

01:12:37.640 gonna have it no there's no motivation either to make money to make a profit

01:12:44.340 so there's no motivation to satisfy the customer this is socialism this is communism that's how

01:12:54.320 it works that's why during many years you know we we used to get a lot of propaganda and fake

01:13:00.980 news about the soviet union but when the soviet union finally fell and we were hearing from the

01:13:10.500 people that would come here and what it was really like not what america told us the soviet union was

01:13:18.480 during the cold war we heard horror stories about some of the simplest things buying food clothes

01:13:24.680 you you'd get the same green jumpsuit same khaki green jumpsuit and a bottle of vodka with the

01:13:35.120 tinfoil on the top for a cap and cigarettes and that's what you got because everyone gets the

01:13:42.840 same thing see we all we all the people the workers we all get treated the same and the

01:13:49.180 government gives us what we need to live well what you need to live might not necessarily be what you

01:13:54.640 want to live socialism the bar has to be lowered so far down for everyone to enjoy if i may use the

01:14:05.040 term uh having what everyone else has you don't have rich people oh you do they're the ones in

01:14:14.340 charge of socialism whatever your socialist government is but the people they all have the

01:14:22.280 same which sounds great if they all have the same good stuff but they lower the bar and go hey what

01:14:29.300 are you complaining about your neighbor also got a bottle of vodka some cigarettes some crappy food

01:14:34.440 and a green jumpsuit to go to work in.

01:14:39.480 That's socialism.

01:14:41.640 So you're not going to get anything better. 0.99

01:14:46.000 It's going to be, everything is going to be crap. 0.99

01:14:50.000 So this mayor is, well, let's hear from Kate Wilson, 0.99

01:14:56.480 Katie Wilson, self-proclaimed socialist,

01:14:59.360 is out in front of incumbent Bruce Harrell

01:15:03.280 by just under 100 votes as of Tuesday.

01:15:06.560 Oh, this was the election. 0.99

01:15:10.080 Yeah, she wants the Memdani-style socialism.

01:15:15.460 Let's hear her. 0.96

01:15:16.700 Katie Wilson. 1.00

01:15:17.960 Access to affordable, healthy food is a basic right. 0.99

01:15:21.900 We cannot allow giant grocery chains to stomp all over our communities,

01:15:25.880 close stores at will, and leave behind food deserts.

01:15:28.420 Together, we can build a Seattle where fresh food is for everyone,

01:15:31.540 not just for those who can afford it.

01:15:34.280 Food deserts are not natural.

01:15:35.880 Corporations create them when they abandon our communities.

01:15:38.940 As mayor, I'm excited to step up and, with UFCW,

01:15:42.240 explore public option grocery stores to fill those gaps.

01:15:46.820 Can you believe what she's saying there?

01:15:53.060 Food deserts.

01:15:54.580 Do you know I've never heard the term food desert until relativity.

01:16:00.200 Relativity recently, maybe eight years, I guess, five to eight years, because that wasn't a thing.

01:16:14.380 That just wasn't a thing, a food desert.

01:16:19.740 Companies, businesses leave when it isn't profitable to be at a location.

01:16:27.000 It's too dangerous to be at a location.

01:16:30.200 they pick up and leave, and that's what they do.

01:16:36.680 So, yeah, you're right.

01:16:37.760 Food deserts aren't natural.

01:16:40.820 It isn't something that should organically occur.

01:16:43.820 Something has to make it happen.

01:16:45.460 And to say that it's corporations that are leaving some of these impoverished,

01:16:53.660 high-crime areas, why?

01:16:57.200 Out of greed?

01:16:58.080 if they were making money there isn't some guy some ceo of a company going like what

01:17:08.460 where's uh store number 65 well it's in a inner city area a lot of minorities shop there and

01:17:19.500 ah well let me see the papers let me see uh the ledger let me see the profit loss

01:17:25.140 wow it's making a lot of money yes sir it's one of our our most profitable stores yeah but 1.00

01:17:33.360 black and brown people use it well yes sir it's very nice and they yeah but pack up board it up 1.00

01:17:43.580 we're moving i don't care how much money we lose thank you and scene uh that isn't what's happening 0.99

01:17:53.000 the stores are being robbed the employees are being assaulted and or murdered uh the shoplifting

01:18:05.000 which i love that they call robbery shoplifting these days uh is at a rate where they're just

01:18:12.420 not turning a profit there's too much loss because they're not allowed to do anything about

01:18:18.240 the robberies that are going on in their store.

01:18:22.220 So what are they to do? Stay there?

01:18:26.300 Because, what, they're a public service?

01:18:30.020 No, they're a company that needs to turn a profit.

01:18:34.180 So this woman here, this mayor,

01:18:37.900 is blaming the company 0.97

01:18:41.400 for making food deserts and retail

01:18:46.180 deserts there's a reason and it's not corporate greed doing it corporate greed would mean stay

01:18:54.320 there if the stores were making money i don't care how many of our employees have to be

01:19:00.480 shot or punched that store's making bank we're staying that would be corporate greed

01:19:07.740 but when you look around and go yeah we can't we cannot make money here and they leave you don't

01:19:14.920 blame the company you blame the leadership in that community or that city their leadership

01:19:23.920 that is the mayor city council police commissioner and you you go what is going on can you do better

01:19:33.420 so that companies don't pick up and leave because they're they're experiencing horrors

01:19:40.340 and crime no no no it's the uh it's the terrible greedy corporations that are doing it is this the

01:19:50.740 same mayor that's still lives with her parents i heard some stories that this uh woman still lives

01:19:58.440 with them with her parents which is a great reflection of her constituents in seattle 1.00

01:20:05.240 somebody who has no idea what it's like to have actual responsibilities as a working person as an

01:20:14.580 adult that needs to go out understands how you function in a civil society speaking to people

01:20:22.960 negotiating debating my pizza rolls bob that's that's what we get that is what we

01:20:35.080 get um oh here we go the lovely sondra from jersey what's up sondra hi how are you tonight

01:20:45.600 good how you doing i'm doing okay as well you know i wanted to say two things one

01:20:51.720 when these supermarkets are going to be taken over i was thinking amazon and all those people

01:20:58.780 that order online they're going to start getting all their favorite products that way because if

01:21:03.400 They're not going to get them in the supermarkets.

01:21:05.640 That's how they'll get them, right?

01:21:07.400 Absolutely.

01:21:08.420 It's already a lot of people use Amazon or other delivery services to get food and goods and whatever they need.

01:21:17.580 You know, I don't step into a Home Depot anymore.

01:21:20.500 I go to their site.

01:21:22.080 I buy something, and they deliver it that day.

01:21:25.260 So why am I going to trudge around in a Home Depot and deal with, you know, people?

01:21:31.960 so so certain people will suffer not everyone that's my point so then the other thing i wanted

01:21:39.160 to ask you is my sister texted me earlier tonight saying the big weekend show fox news said the

01:21:47.060 gems are going underwater but then she said to me then why are they winning all the elections so 1.00

01:21:52.580 that's what i wanted to ask you anthony i know you talk about aoc she's a laughingstock but 0.96

01:21:58.360 anthony she's going to be another mandami that's what i'm afraid of you know i'm well that's a good

01:22:06.280 question and um but if you look into it even on the surface you'll see there were no amazing

01:22:15.380 democrat upsets this past election did we really think curtis liwa was going to win new york we

01:22:23.580 We knew Mamdani had that wrapped up.

01:22:25.660 And the only other option was Cuomo, who's also a Democrat, Jersey's governor.

01:22:30.720 Did we really think, you know, Jersey is far from a red state.

01:22:35.040 They've had Republican governors, but not anymore.

01:22:39.420 That wasn't an upset.

01:22:41.300 We knew that was going to happen. 1.00

01:22:42.680 The mayoral race in Minneapolis, Minnesota, you had the Somali light bulb head guy. 0.99

01:22:50.840 And then you had Mayor Frey, who is a bleeding heart, crybaby Democrat mayor. 0.78

01:22:59.740 So if if they were winning elections this past election day a couple of weeks back that were supposed to be Republican wins, but they ended up being Democrat wins, then I'd say, wow, I guess their narrative is hitting with with people on the right.

01:23:20.000 but they won every election they were absolutely supposed to win by miles okay all right well

01:23:27.280 that's what i want i wanted your opinion on that so you're okay you think we're doing nicely we're

01:23:31.840 moving along the way we should be i'm sad about jack cattarelli though honestly i really felt that

01:23:38.320 he was gonna win that yeah yeah i i know we all get disappointed sondra but i don't know what to

01:23:45.920 think quite frankly i've seen things change on a dime people are so fickle these days i never

01:23:52.060 understand when you watch a poll and and you go uh well the polls are in and they're polls like

01:23:57.880 every week and then you go oh this one went up or this one went down or the undecideds it's like

01:24:03.440 can you people make a commitment like the poll should be exactly the same every week how do you

01:24:10.440 change your opinion weekly and go i like this guy i hate that guy i like this guy now well i hate

01:24:15.800 him i'm doing this now well well i would assume it's different people that they're well i would

01:24:20.760 too same person i would too sandra but it's supposed see it's supposed to be a sampling

01:24:25.980 of people to get a pretty basic look no matter if it's different people the same people

01:24:31.580 there should be a um kind of a steadiness in the numbers right uh you know people that just

01:24:38.240 who are these people sandra thank you so much for your call um yeah that's kind of what it is

01:24:44.420 there weren't any surprises this election day.

01:24:48.520 Minneapolis.

01:24:49.940 You got the I'm the captain now guy 1.00

01:24:52.480 and the guy that was babbling like an idiot 1.00

01:24:55.520 kneeling in front of Sir George Floyd's golden casket 1.00

01:25:00.180 at his funeral.

01:25:01.680 Holy moly, Minneapolis.

01:25:04.360 Wow, I really thought a Republican was going to snag that.

01:25:08.500 I don't even think there was one running.

01:25:10.760 There's two Democrats facing each other.

01:25:12.900 so yeah that's kind of my my take on uh on that one um we also have the mayor in denver

01:25:22.560 mike johnston mike johnston i don't know what happened to denver i thought denver

01:25:28.620 was a rough and tumble kind of western town cowboy right wing people or right leaning politically

01:25:38.360 And over the course of the decade or so, the past decade, maybe even more,

01:25:43.080 Denver's just turned into, ugh, I don't know what's going on there.

01:25:48.020 But here's Denver Mayor Mike Johnson.

01:25:50.240 He's talking about a brandy new affordable housing building that is in Denver.

01:25:57.400 And he's got great dreams and aspirations.

01:26:02.420 And let's listen to him talk about this.

01:26:04.720 This is what affordability looks like here in Denver.

01:26:07.820 Today we opened 128 units of affordable housing here.

01:26:11.020 Let me show you what this means.

01:26:12.380 This means both workforce housing.

01:26:15.180 So if you are someone that's a teacher, that's a nurse, that's a firefighter, looking for a place to work and a place to live, you can live here.

01:26:21.920 If you're looking for permanent supportive housing, that means you might be someone who's coming out of corrections or homelessness and need some supportive services as well.

01:26:31.160 You can see amazingly built public spaces, beautiful outdoor patio and grill.

01:26:38.000 Great.

01:26:38.400 We've got my favorite room here, which is game day room where you can have folks sit.

01:26:43.720 That will be the crack smoking room in six months.

01:26:46.840 If there are case managers who are helping people provide access to services.

01:26:51.460 They have offices right here.

01:26:53.620 That's where you'll shoot up.

01:26:54.920 But the idea is this is true for all levels of affordability.

01:26:57.360 So we want Denver to be affordable for those folks struggling the most.

01:27:00.260 But we also want to be affordable for working families all across the city.

01:27:04.260 And so that means if you are. 1.00

01:27:05.300 You could stop them right there.

01:27:07.860 Did you hear this?

01:27:10.660 I'm stunned every time I hear this.

01:27:13.480 It's affordable housing.

01:27:15.200 So it's a project.

01:27:16.820 It looked beautiful.

01:27:18.660 The video, I mean, the architecture.

01:27:21.600 You could smell the new wood, new carpeting and everything from this.

01:27:26.960 This will be destroyed in very short time.

01:27:31.040 And he's saying that the residents are going to be, you know, working people, maybe your nurses in the area, firefighters, police officers, professional people.

01:27:43.320 And, you know, convicts and homeless, affordable housing, because those people mesh very well together.

01:27:54.820 I'm sure someone that works their ass off putting out fires and dragging people out of burning buildings and being faced with a gun in their face during a traffic stop and the like, I'm sure they're going to love the smell of urine in the elevators that, you know, the criminals and homeless that you're cohabitating with will surely be doing in the elevators and the offices.

01:28:23.480 there was a hallway with these tiny cubicle-like offices that will help you

01:28:28.680 if you need help with your SNAP benefits or you're chilling, my chow,

01:28:35.440 whatever it is, those, I can't imagine that short of a year

01:28:41.620 there will be people sprawled on the floor ODing in those offices.

01:28:47.840 It's a project like the projects.

01:28:51.860 all that money going to this beautiful building that will be garbage within a year because

01:28:59.880 there's no responsibility when you don't have a stake in the game when you give people

01:29:06.600 a place to live they don't have pride in that place and to think to hallucinate that you're

01:29:16.540 going to get professional working people to cohabitate with some of the worst degenerates 0.63

01:29:22.700 in Denver is insane. I had a grave misconception about what Denver was all about. Maybe I'm

01:29:33.680 thinking back a few years, but oof. Good luck with all that, Mike Johnston. Okay, back in

01:29:41.480 moment stick around it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network

01:29:48.000 it's the anthony cumia show on the red apple podcast network

01:29:55.940 yes it is the anthony cumia show and um i guess we'll finish off our mayor our tribute to

01:30:07.020 the Democrat mayors of America with Mamdani,

01:30:13.540 who will be New York City's mayor on January 1st.

01:30:18.380 Godspeed, New York.

01:30:20.660 All of those campaign promises that were made,

01:30:25.780 especially things like free child care and the free fast buses.

01:30:32.200 He really went with this one.

01:30:33.980 And it seems like this just isn't going to happen.

01:30:38.000 We heard from Governor Hochul that said, I'm not raising taxes.

01:30:44.020 And this is how Mamdani was talking about funding this whole thing.

01:30:49.940 Well, we'll just raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy, the filthy rich of New York City.

01:30:58.000 You know, the million-dollar earners.

01:31:01.000 If you make a million dollars a year or more, which in New York City, I'm sorry to say it.

01:31:08.960 I don't want to sound like a snob, but a million bucks is pretty much the bare minimum you can make and live comfortably in New York.

01:31:17.680 But that doesn't mean tax the crap out of me. 0.89

01:31:20.380 So I can't afford to live in New York.

01:31:24.720 And I've talked about it before.

01:31:26.460 I don't understand why New York has to be affordable for everyone.

01:31:33.000 Where did that come from?

01:31:38.440 Who decided that everywhere in the country has to somehow be affordable to people?

01:31:46.280 Oh, New York City, I can't afford to live there.

01:31:48.240 Well, we'll change that.

01:31:49.420 Why?

01:31:50.180 Why?

01:31:51.460 There are some places you can't live.

01:31:54.580 Oh, my God.

01:31:55.640 I want Beverly Hills to be more affordable.

01:31:59.700 Where's my public housing?

01:32:01.840 Where's my rent freezes?

01:32:03.520 Where's my free busing in Bel Air?

01:32:07.580 It doesn't happen.

01:32:09.640 They don't want it to happen.

01:32:12.140 Some places are just out of the income range of a lot of people.

01:32:19.780 And New York City, one of those places.

01:32:23.140 Certain places in New York, sure.

01:32:25.640 But it's not going to be nice.

01:32:28.000 It's not going to be ritzy, as they say.

01:32:32.160 So Mamdani is finally addressing reporters' questions that Hochul says no.

01:32:40.620 She says the MTA needs the money that the buses generate

01:32:46.200 to make their budgets, to pay the employees.

01:32:50.480 And there's no way that she could see, especially without her giving the okay to raise taxes.

01:32:57.640 And she can't even do that unilaterally. 0.98

01:32:59.960 She's got to present that to people.

01:33:02.980 And she's like, I'm not even going to present raising taxes.

01:33:06.740 And then she says the MTA needs bus money. 0.80

01:33:10.920 So, Ma'am, Daddy's screwed here. 0.88

01:33:13.300 He lied to the voters, of course. 0.96

01:33:16.380 But he's answering some questions, or is he?

01:33:20.140 Here's Zoran Mamdani when asked about Hochul saying no to free buses.

01:33:26.240 Let's just talk about what Governor Hochul said very recently about buses.

01:33:30.140 I cannot set forth a plan right now that takes money out of a system that relies on the fares of the buses and the subways.

01:33:39.540 But can we find a path to make it more affordable for people who need help?

01:33:43.540 Of course we can.

01:33:44.560 It sounded like it was a bit new, that she was saying it's not a good time to take revenue out of the MTA.

01:33:50.140 Now, my understanding of your plan is that the city would subsidize the revenue,

01:33:54.140 but she has other reasons why she doesn't sound too keen on the bus situation.

01:33:59.240 Should she have said that before people voted based on that issue?

01:34:03.800 Is that a shift, or have you always known that she felt that way?

01:34:07.020 And also, is that a workaround?

01:34:09.860 Well, I think the governor and I share a belief that in making buses free,

01:34:13.880 we have to replace the revenue for the MTA.

01:34:16.000 We cannot simply demand that they do so without covering the amount of money they would raise from fares.

01:34:20.320 And that's a cost of about $700 million a year.

01:34:23.460 And I continue to be excited about the work of making the slowest buses in America fast and free

01:34:28.000 and of sharing the governor's interest in delivering on an affordability agenda.

01:34:31.460 But do you need to get past whatever her objection is to it at this point that she just stated in the last couple of days?

01:34:36.860 I see the concern being that we don't mimic what we saw under the previous administration in Albany,

01:34:42.840 where what we would find time and again is the MTA was told, make this happen no matter what the cost is.

01:34:47.720 And what we want to do is what we did when we made five bus routes free in New York City,

01:34:51.160 we found $15 million, gave it to the MTA, covered the revenue they would have made from fares,

01:34:55.840 and ensured that they could still be whole.

01:34:57.420 Is that the solution in your view?

01:34:59.440 We're going to approach this as there's always a way to get to yes, that there's going to be a way.

01:35:04.700 and we're going to work with the governor and her staff,

01:35:06.760 and we're going to have conversations to get there.

01:35:11.640 Whatever the barriers are, whether it's financial, whether it's operational,

01:35:17.380 there's a way to figure that out, and that's how we're approaching this.

01:35:21.080 We'll figure it out.

01:35:22.340 Now it's we'll figure it out.

01:35:24.220 I will give you fast, free buses.

01:35:30.900 We'll figure it out.

01:35:32.800 I'm working on it. 0.95

01:35:34.700 Ha, ha, ha, ha, you lying sack. 0.96

01:35:38.280 Oh, my God. 0.95

01:35:40.480 Yeah, Hochul ain't going for free buses.

01:35:44.420 You're not getting free buses in New York.

01:35:47.280 But we all knew this.

01:35:48.540 We had talked about this many times, how ridiculous the idea is of $700 million that it will cost.

01:35:58.500 Where's that coming from?

01:36:00.020 Raising taxes.

01:36:01.220 Hochul is not raising taxes.

01:36:03.380 We'll now work it out.

01:36:05.440 We're talking about it.

01:36:07.280 But that was a campaign promise.

01:36:09.460 It wasn't really a promise.

01:36:11.920 I had my fingers crossed.

01:36:13.960 We didn't pinky promise it. 0.99

01:36:16.580 You suckers. 1.00

01:36:18.320 Bunch of suckers. 1.00

01:36:19.560 You're saps. 1.00

01:36:21.360 Voting for this guy.

01:36:23.780 By the way, it's going to be everything.

01:36:26.180 There's not going to be state-run grocery stores.

01:36:29.400 It would be great.

01:36:30.200 I would love to see it.

01:36:31.660 It just ain't going to happen. 0.99

01:36:32.880 he's a fraud 0.98

01:36:35.140 who didn't know this 1.00

01:36:36.840 alright stick around

01:36:38.600 for the next hour of the Anthony Cumia

01:36:41.140 show

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01:36:50.860 Cumia show

01:36:51.780 on the Red Apple Podcast Network

01:36:54.780 hey welcome

01:37:00.800 the Anthony Cumia show

01:37:02.640 and uh you know we can't do a show without including aoc at some point good old aoc uh

01:37:13.860 she's been coming out with some pretty funny stuff of late one of which is uh she says young

01:37:22.820 men young American men are embracing the wrong type of masculinity now I would assume that for

01:37:34.460 the past few years that has been the wrong type of masculinity to be embracing for young men you

01:37:42.860 know beta males I think a lot of young American men are embracing other men's masculinity maybe

01:37:51.960 that's what she meant but uh it's kind of good i i've i've seen of late some young men and they

01:38:01.000 are taking on a more traditional masculine role and uh saying that betas are you know they use

01:38:11.320 other words of course starts with an f but uh you know the the idea that aoc thinks men

01:38:19.540 young men in this country it shows how out of touch she is with the young people of uh this

01:38:26.020 country young people aren't these bleeding heart liberals anymore ready to embrace the left it just

01:38:35.280 isn't happening i'm not talking about people in their early 20s here i'm talking about the young

01:38:41.020 people the people that are in high school right now in junior high even uh they don't want to

01:38:48.520 embrace what the left has been about the past few years i think you really have to look at people

01:38:58.020 in their maybe late teens early 20s to find the tail end of those liberal uh dye the hair and

01:39:07.980 and pierce your nose septum kind of a thing um because the younger generation the ones that are

01:39:16.400 coming up into their late teens and early 20s in a couple of years they uh they've had it

01:39:23.860 they have had it with the nonsense with the liberals and they're you know they some of

01:39:30.460 their joking around is a lot similar to the joking around that we used to do as kids 0.95

01:39:38.340 busting balls it was called you talk to your friends and you know you'd call them things

01:39:45.280 that aren't really socially accepted these days uh so it is kind of good to see and it always

01:39:55.160 works like that it kind of ebbs and flows and uh it's a swinging pendulum and uh the young people 0.99

01:40:03.760 really don't want to do what they consider older people uh have done they just don't it's stupid 0.99

01:40:11.060 It's it's it's not cool. So we're kind of seeing that. But AOC has a thought on this and what men, what type of masculinity men should be embracing as opposed to what they're doing today. 0.97

01:40:27.260 And they are able to radicalize and target and exploit a generation of young boys, in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

01:40:51.860 and that is why they are resonating online because they are appealing to the most basest 0.50

01:40:59.000 and worst parts of human nature to divide can you even you know does she understand

01:41:07.280 that the only people that are creating this uh mindset in young men and she says you know

01:41:19.020 against brown people as so what young white men is that who she's talking about when she says the

01:41:25.660 certain type of masculinity to embrace do you know who has affected the the mindset of young people

01:41:34.960 you dummy liberals you think these young people especially young white kids do you think they've

01:41:45.180 enjoyed being called the biggest problem this country has? That everything they do and achieve 0.97

01:41:54.060 is based on some kind of past gift that's been handed to them? Privilege? Do you think they've

01:42:06.560 enjoyed being the, the, uh, being the, the, the people that can be kicked around with impunity

01:42:14.900 for years now? Is that it? Or do you think these crazy people have hypnotic powers and for no

01:42:25.720 reason at all, these young people have decided they're not putting up with being, uh, the

01:42:33.940 punching bag anymore and they're going to speak out when they're pissed at things and when they're

01:42:42.300 called uh these these names by the left these titles are put on them the phobes if you're a

01:42:51.740 phobe or an ist whatever it may be they're just going to turn around and go yep don't care i just

01:43:02.340 don't care what you call me what you think of me you matter nothing to me and you think there's

01:43:10.880 this secret right-wing cabal that is brainwashing these youngsters into that mindset or do you think 0.99

01:43:21.100 they've just had it with you and you're garbage and how they're the root of all evil around the 0.98

01:43:29.840 entire world they got a few more years to uh to ripen and to ruminate but they're coming up 0.98

01:43:40.640 and they're not happy with the way the liberals have been running things in this country

01:43:45.840 for a few years now that has brought us things like drag queen story hour and lgbtq

01:43:53.720 women

01:43:54.920 in men's sport

01:43:57.760 or women, men in women's

01:44:00.160 sports. I can't even get it straight myself

01:44:01.960 sometimes.

01:44:03.900 So, yeah.

01:44:05.520 I hope

01:44:06.520 people like AOC realize

01:44:09.900 that that's

01:44:11.960 just the new

01:44:13.880 latest generation coming

01:44:16.020 up that's tired 0.99

01:44:17.100 of the crap that 1.00

01:44:20.000 the previous generation has 0.98

01:44:22.040 has given them godspeed godspeed kids uh jazzy jasmine i i also can't get through a show without 1.00

01:44:34.660 talking about jazzy jasmine crockett she's all over the place too much like aoc i think she's 1.00

01:44:43.340 looking for a senate seat in uh texas is that what she thinks she's doing now she really is 1.00

01:44:52.700 under the misconception that she's popular in a good way she thinks all the people talking about 1.00

01:45:01.940 her means that she's liked and popular no we talk about you because you're you're freakishly stupid 1.00

01:45:13.080 and your your thought process if it can even be called that is so screwy and she rides this uh 1.00

01:45:24.580 fence between being a hood rat she wants to be ghetto for the credibility but we all know she 1.00

01:45:33.560 went to a very nice school she was raised in a nice neighborhood she speaks properly when 1.00

01:45:39.900 she wants to and then she could do you know a crip dance with her tongue sticking out 0.51

01:45:46.100 uh if need be she's uh quite a chameleon this one jazzy jasmine crockett she uh first clip 0.98

01:45:55.720 we have of jazz is she's defending you know that virgin island representative stacy plaskett

01:46:01.720 she uh she thought it was all fine and well to text with uh jeffrey epstein during a congressional

01:46:10.800 hearing on donald trump pretty important one donald trump's lawyer um uh was was testifying

01:46:19.920 and uh she was taking questions from jeffrey epstein jeffrey epstein was saying say this

01:46:30.600 here's something do you know who this woman is ask him about this woman he was directing her

01:46:38.840 and this is after he had already been uh uh at least at the very least accused he had been

01:46:48.700 through some legal wranglings before the last one that put him in jail and had him commit suicide

01:46:56.000 him but uh he had already gone through legal wranglings uh that entailed uh sex with underage

01:47:05.820 girls and on his little island there in the virgin islands by the way she was um his representative

01:47:13.860 he was one of her constituents and that's the excuse she gives for accepting his texts his

01:47:21.720 direction she was being directed by him and uh it's all well and fine because uh he's a constituent 0.99

01:47:31.780 uh and then jazzy jasmine crockett defends her texting in one of the most ridiculously 0.71

01:47:41.980 idiotic ways uh let's listen to jazzy because i'm sorry but like we don't have ethical like rules

01:47:50.600 that say that you can't receive text messages or you can't respond to text messages especially if 0.99

01:47:56.340 somebody has a certain record and you can't do it in committee we all be sitting on our phones

01:48:00.600 and yes people be texting i mean our staff people be like everybody texts us like people

01:48:06.460 i remember when i had the bleach blonde situation you know who was texting me my pastor okay so like

01:48:12.360 let me be clear there is no ethical violation and so the idea or the audacity to decide that 0.64

01:48:20.160 You want to strip a black woman of her committee assignment because she was

01:48:24.540 texting with Epstein. 0.97

01:48:27.160 Can you believe?

01:48:29.800 Oh, my pastor texted me.

01:48:32.260 Yeah.

01:48:32.520 It's a little different than a guy who ran a pedophile Island.

01:48:39.780 They just cannot accept the responsibility of having done something at the

01:48:47.740 very least inappropriate.

01:48:50.160 she's all like

01:48:52.140 we be texting

01:48:54.120 really

01:48:55.360 what college did you graduate from

01:48:58.440 Jazzy Jasmine

01:49:01.220 we'll come back

01:49:03.040 I got one more clip from Jazzy Jasmine

01:49:04.880 when we come back stick around

01:49:06.360 it's the Anthony Cumia show

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01:49:19.300 This is the Anthony Cumia Show.

01:49:36.420 the anthony cumia show and uh we're focusing here for a bit on jasmine crockett who uh she's getting

01:49:50.100 a lot of um a lot of attention she has been for kind of a while now and some people are anointing

01:49:58.060 her perhaps a presidential run please please oh i would love to see jd vance and jasmine crockett

01:50:15.800 on that debate stage the primaries would even be hilarious watching her with who liz warren 1.00

01:50:23.440 Is she going to give it another try? 0.95

01:50:25.560 I don't know.

01:50:26.800 But that would be kind of fun to watch. 1.00

01:50:29.760 So as we know, Jasmine Crockett has to throw race into everything. 0.99

01:50:36.980 Every single thing is a racial slight or some type of, you know,

01:50:44.280 bringing up the evil past of America.

01:50:48.900 so um she's blaming trump what is she blaming it it's this is impossible just listen to this

01:50:59.300 here's jasmine crockett blaming donald trump again don't do they not even go honestly they're

01:51:06.160 about to outlaw the idea of white supremacy and white hate like they are about to be like oh

01:51:11.780 that's not a thing forget the fact that you're talking about getting rid of like the classification 0.94

01:51:18.180 for nooses in a time in which we have seen these random black bodies be strung up down south 0.70

01:51:25.140 also seemingly at a time in which you're back in office because what you do is you embolden 0.61

01:51:32.840 the hate you embolden everybody to take off their hoods that is what he has done he is the one that

01:51:39.680 is producing this violence listen it i don't know how to even react to that

01:51:47.060 the people that are being strung,

01:51:51.220 is she implying that there is a new,

01:51:54.360 a bunch of,

01:51:59.060 she's saying that people are being lynched again?

01:52:05.100 Is that what she's trying to say?

01:52:11.200 What?

01:52:13.340 Show me anything.

01:52:14.580 I've seen stories, but they've all concluded through rigorous police investigations

01:52:22.360 that these were anything but lynchings, suicides.

01:52:28.300 It's unfortunate people hang themselves.

01:52:31.960 They're depressed, whatever it may be.

01:52:34.680 But the thought that Donald Trump being president is somehow emboldening

01:52:43.040 people to take their hoods off, their masks, because, you know, everyone's a Klansman to

01:52:49.760 Jasmine Crockett, and lynch people? It's astonishingly ignorant and just blatantly 0.98

01:53:01.220 lying. And talk about divisive. You want to start telling people in your community 1.00

01:53:09.960 that listen to you especially when you speak like that let me tell you that white people are back to 0.98

01:53:18.400 lynching black people in the south that's a way that you feel you can unite the nation 1.00

01:53:28.120 holy mackerel lady she is out of control just out of control but like i've said i think she's 1.00

01:53:38.320 just cannon fodder for the left they're letting all the mental patients get it out of their system 0.99

01:53:44.580 because they know damn well especially if they're going to run against jd vance 0.90

01:53:49.600 they need a moderate a real moderate not one of these liberal moderates uh they need a real

01:54:00.200 moderate and in order to make someone even look like a moderate on the left they need to 0.98

01:54:07.980 contrast with ridiculous mentally ill people and that's why you see people like jasmine crockett 0.93

01:54:16.120 out there and representative presley and aoc even you need them out there to seem like the the 0.99

01:54:29.620 lunatics that they are and then they could bring someone out that has some moderate ideas and they

01:54:37.800 will look like oh my god even some people on the right will go now that's a guy i can vote for

01:54:44.680 he's not crazy like jasmine crockett so that's the only reason let's be clear it's the only 1.00

01:54:52.400 reason they're letting jasmine crockett run around like the idiot she is to get her her 1.00

01:55:00.020 nonsense out there it's just to contrast the actual presidential candidate that will be a 1.00

01:55:10.800 moderate dude that's that's it boy that was uh that was something imagine doing that and uh our

01:55:21.020 elections god no who knows who knows what they will bring uh if swalwell has his way you know

01:55:29.320 the guy that had sexual relations with a Chinese spy and remained on the

01:55:36.480 national security council.

01:55:38.180 I don't know.

01:55:39.260 I don't know.

01:55:40.860 I'm not a politician.

01:55:42.780 I don't profess to be a poli sci expert or anything like that,

01:55:47.480 but I would think you'd lose your job pretty quickly.

01:55:51.080 If you're a part of national security committee and, 0.98

01:55:55.280 and you're you're having sex with a Chinese spy but nothing again no consequences why would there

01:56:04.180 be well Mr. Swalwell wants to change the way we vote I think he's making a run for California

01:56:13.080 governor and he wants a whole nother voting thing does he mean ID does he mean verification of

01:56:20.420 citizenship does he mean live ballads uh right there at the polling place well let's hear let's

01:56:28.620 hear what uh he says about what he wants as far as voting goes i want us to be able to vote by

01:56:34.840 phone i think every california by phone yeah if we can do our taxes do our you know our make our

01:56:42.460 health care appointments uh you know make uh essentially your do your banking online you

01:56:48.020 should be able to vote by phone, make it safe, make it secure. But it's actually already happening

01:56:52.240 all over the United States. I want us to be a blue state that doesn't do just a little bit better

01:56:56.440 than like Georgia or Alabama when it comes to like voting access. I want us to max out democracy.

01:57:02.020 Also, as it relates to democracy, if you wait in line for 30 minutes or more, if you do want to

01:57:06.320 vote in person, I think you should fine every county for every minute that a person has to

01:57:11.060 wait longer. We have to be better, not just a little bit better than the other states. The DMV.

01:57:17.360 I don't think Californians should have to go in person to the DMV anymore.

01:57:21.800 I think we can do that virtually.

01:57:23.420 I think you can have the DMV employees do it virtually.

01:57:27.260 But that's a lot of real estate.

01:57:28.680 Is that the most popular position?

01:57:31.600 Digitize the DMV.

01:57:32.920 We can modernize the state.

01:57:34.320 And I look forward to bringing these ideas to Californians.

01:57:38.200 Oh, my God. 1.00

01:57:38.860 What an idiot. 1.00

01:57:40.620 First of all, yeah, we do our banking. 1.00

01:57:42.540 We do our taxes.

01:57:43.800 We do everything on our phones.

01:57:45.600 Yeah, we do.

01:57:46.400 And you know what you have to do in order to get through to those sites to do your banking?

01:57:51.800 You have to go through an unbelievable security protocol where you have to prove who you are.

01:57:59.200 Are you okay with that part of it?

01:58:01.900 Or do you just want people to be able to go, well, let me dial up my vote.

01:58:07.180 I think I can vote for this guy on my phone.

01:58:10.140 Yeah.

01:58:10.740 Is that what you want to do?

01:58:12.040 does he understand that security is a huge part of doing anything on your phone

01:58:20.600 and we've seen the the uh the content farms and the the farming that that india and china are

01:58:34.080 doing as far as our social media platforms go to make money and to influence things so you think

01:58:40.800 that wouldn't become a problem in an election oh holy smoke let's just get back to where

01:58:50.180 there's id and and in-person voting at polling places how about that instead of your let's vote

01:58:59.240 by phone all right we'll be back in moments stick around for more of the anthony cumia show

01:59:07.140 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

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01:59:21.000 The Anthony Cumia Show.

01:59:23.640 And a lot of people have something to say about the meeting between Trump and Memdani.

01:59:32.020 We did address that just for a little bit earlier.

01:59:36.240 But Nate in the Bronx, what's up, man?

01:59:40.760 Hey, Anthony, how are you?

01:59:43.180 So pretty much, you know, I frequently mention the book, The Culture Critique by Dr. Kevin McDonald.

01:59:50.360 And the reason why I'm calling tonight is really to make the connection between that book,

01:59:55.480 its critique of immigration policy, and the rise of Mamdani here in New York City.

02:00:02.060 Now, it's no secret that, you know, well, he's now being accused of anti-Semitism, but it's no secret that Jewish voters and Jewish politicians tend to be politically left-leaning.

02:00:13.980 Yeah, I'm amazed at how many New York Jews voted for Mamdani. 0.83

02:00:19.380 It seems a bit self-destructive, but what do I know? 1.00

02:00:22.420 Right. Right. So but, you know, basically in the book, it details how Jewish politicians like Emmanuel Seller, Jacob Javits, Herbert Lehman, Sam Dickstein, a whole host of them in the Congress worked literally for decades on end to overturn European oriented immigration policies and open the borders to the third world.

02:00:49.980 And, you know, it's a policy that's really coming back to bite them in the ass, because that's how you really ended up with Mom Donnie. 0.74

02:00:56.660 I mean, he wouldn't even be here if the 1965 Immigration Act had not been enacted. 0.98

02:01:02.080 Absolutely. 0.99

02:01:02.520 You know, so and, you know, it's a clear case that Jews support policies that oftentimes short-sightedly do a disservice to their own community. 1.00

02:01:14.500 And, you know, they dominate institutions like the media. 0.94

02:01:18.260 They dominate institutions like the academy, the universities.

02:01:22.520 They remain politically on the left.

02:01:24.540 But again, the left is increasingly anti-Israel and increasingly anti-Jewish.

02:01:29.000 So it's really a paradox of power that, you know, you really see still displayed by the

02:01:34.460 2 percent of the U.S. American population that happens to be Jewish. 0.71

02:01:38.540 I sometimes think like Memdani getting in and, you know, he's been at least trying to

02:01:45.600 present himself as a champion for the Jews in New York, is it kind of like, hey, you're

02:01:54.380 under the microscope here because you're a Muslim and we will really be able to keep

02:02:01.540 an eye on you to see if you do anything that is not good for the Jewish people of New York

02:02:11.060 city so perhaps it's kind of uh you know you put someone in there that is going to be under that

02:02:18.620 microscope it it's possible but you know i really i really doubt it um i see i see uh mom donnie as

02:02:29.060 being potentially i mean i know you they might make your stomach wrench but i see him potentially

02:02:34.660 is a presidential candidate

02:02:36.620 along the lines of... Well, he can't

02:02:38.720 be.

02:02:41.320 That's right. Excuse me.

02:02:42.440 Excuse me. He has to be a natural

02:02:44.340 born citizen. Thank God

02:02:46.660 we have that going for us

02:02:48.600 at least now. Who knows?

02:02:50.560 It might change over the course

02:02:52.600 of the years with the way this country is going.

02:02:55.580 Right.

02:02:56.700 But I see him more of

02:02:58.300 the type of leader like Jeremy Corbyn

02:03:00.820 in the Labor Party in Britain 0.58

02:03:02.380 You know, whereby you had a party that depended on Muslim votes or at least immigrant votes to get politicians elected, but Jewish donors to get to get the campaign funds flowing.

02:03:15.320 The Democratic Party is at that inflection point where a lot of American Jews are saying, hey, you know, we're rethinking whether or not we should be supporting the Democratic Party and then moving over to the Republican Party. 0.65

02:03:27.640 It's really how the it's really how the neoconservatives came to power.

02:03:31.280 They used to be former leftists who thought the Democratic Party was insufficiently supportive of Israel.

02:03:37.920 Yeah, yeah.

02:03:38.400 That's how the neoconservatives really grew to be a political force in American politics.

02:03:43.960 Unfortunately, we'll see.

02:03:45.680 Unfortunately, yeah, I think we can't really figure this one out.

02:03:48.620 I think we've got to see how it goes.

02:03:50.060 But thanks, Nate.

02:03:51.500 Appreciate the call.

02:03:54.260 And there's a story here out of New York.

02:03:57.960 A 67-year-old guy sentenced to four years in prison for defending himself.

02:04:05.300 His crime, he didn't have a registered gun.

02:04:11.500 You know, you could argue the point, well, you know, law's the law, the rules are the rules.

02:04:15.800 But when a state and a city like New York State, New York City, actively prohibit people from exercising their Second Amendment right,

02:04:25.820 uh some people have to you know i'd rather be judged by 12 than carried by six is the common

02:04:33.180 phrase that people use uh they'd rather have a gun and if they need to use it face the consequences

02:04:41.160 of having a technically illegal gun but uh this guy is 67 and he's gonna spend what could be his

02:04:52.600 last years um who knows at that point in prison he uh fatally shot a would-be mugger during a

02:05:02.140 robbery gone wrong seems like it went right if uh he shot him uh charles phoner from queens new york

02:05:10.920 appeared stone-faced as he arrived in queens county court phoner retired doorman was walking

02:05:17.380 Talking to a parking garage outside his queen's apartment when he was mugged, the suspect, Cody Gonzalez, demanded money.

02:05:27.760 That's what they do.

02:05:29.620 And Foner whipped out his firearm and blasted the assailant.

02:05:35.220 After killing Gonzalez on the spot, Foner was charged with 26 counts of criminal possession of a weapon, but did not receive any charges related to the fatal shooting.

02:05:47.380 This if you're if you're in my age bracket, you might remember Bernhard gets Bernie gets subway gunman back in the 80s when New York was really a treat to ride the subway, especially Bernie was approached by four.

02:06:05.460 I think it was four, four gentlemen who were robbing him, demanded a dollar, I think, or five bucks.

02:06:12.780 and um bernie pulled out a gun and shot them i think he wounded all of them he paralyzed one

02:06:21.260 he hit one in the leg bernie was a geek he wasn't really the charles bronson that we all wanted

02:06:28.940 when the news came out bernie had fled upstate right after it happened and there were just some

02:06:35.100 drawings of him witnesses said oh it was a tall guy and and uh we all thought it was going to be

02:06:42.180 charles bronson from death wish and then we see who bernard gets is and he's this tall geek

02:06:49.980 glasses like pen protector in his pocket kind of a geek and uh he had just had it you know

02:06:59.200 he had had it he'd been uh robbed before and he never felt safe out on the streets or especially

02:07:06.560 in the subway so he got himself a gun he didn't especially back then it was really difficult to

02:07:12.840 get a gun in new york city um and he was forced to use it to protect himself he didn't get charged

02:07:22.460 for any of the shooting of of shootings of those uh gentlemen but he got a year for an illegal

02:07:30.620 weapon in new york and uh he did the year and this guy's getting four years for pretty much

02:07:38.760 the same thing um it's just too difficult they put you through too many hoops and it takes too

02:07:47.560 long if you're a 67 year old guy in new york city and you've been threatened before maybe you've

02:07:55.360 been robbed before. You don't have time to go through all of the paperwork and money

02:08:02.580 to exercise your right. This should be illegal. If they want to restrict people from getting

02:08:12.140 guns in New York, which they obviously do, they should have to come up with some other way

02:08:18.840 than having people pay money to exercise a right it costs money to do this i don't know how that's

02:08:29.980 uh legal but uh he did this uh it was on surveillance camera it shows that this guy

02:08:38.600 was mugging him and they decided the prosecutor that he should do four years now

02:08:48.400 the other argument is well he pled guilty so it's his fault if he's doing four years

02:08:55.640 he should have went to trial anyone saying that doesn't understand how plea deals work and how

02:09:02.120 the court system works when you have an overburdened court system like new york city does

02:09:06.940 uh the last thing they want is an actual trial i think 90 of all cases in new york city are

02:09:16.120 pled out or a deal is made or something and uh that happens and what they do is they tell these

02:09:24.640 potential defendants that they could do 25 years oh boy you want to go through a trial well it

02:09:32.340 could be 25 years in prison and you're sitting there going that's a life sentence absolutely

02:09:38.480 a life sentence and or we could give you four years look you're good you could be out in two

02:09:45.060 and a half um and most people take the deal the the prospect that you're going to do 25 years

02:09:54.820 in prison it uh and when you make a plea deal they make you um they make you say that nothing

02:10:03.780 forced you into making this deal i was not coerced no i was given no favors um i i wasn't

02:10:12.680 threatened i make this uh this deal of my own fruition and blah blah blah meanwhile that's 0.93

02:10:21.780 crap they are threatening you they're holding 25 years over your head and you don't know in a new 0.99

02:10:31.460 york city courtroom what kind of jury you're gonna get you're just some old 67 year old white dude 1.00

02:10:41.520 that shot somebody, someone named Gonzalez.

02:10:46.160 And you're going to take that to trial in New York, New York City?

02:10:52.440 And they're telling you 25 years if you lose?

02:10:56.560 Believe me, you're being coerced into taking four years.

02:11:02.620 It's unbelievable that there are people that commit heinous crimes

02:11:07.860 that result in death, maiming of people.

02:11:15.040 They terrorize people, and then they're back out.

02:11:18.760 They're out on the streets with an ankle monitor that no one monitors.

02:11:25.100 So the fact that this guy has to do four years in prison

02:11:29.300 is the proverbial travesty of justice. 0.91

02:11:35.260 It's disgusting. 0.87

02:11:37.860 It's totally disgusting. 1.00

02:11:40.040 This poor bastard, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71 years old. 1.00

02:11:48.980 Maybe he gets out. 1.00

02:11:52.480 That's an iffy period of your life right there.

02:11:55.980 You don't know what one month to the next is going to bring.

02:11:59.780 He's never been in trouble.

02:12:02.660 Never been in trouble before.

02:12:06.020 Got a family.

02:12:07.860 they're doing him a favor.

02:12:10.500 He didn't have to report to prison until after New Year

02:12:14.760 so he could spend Christmas and New Year with his family.

02:12:19.360 Thanks.

02:12:19.800 Thanks a lot. 0.61

02:12:20.680 Thanks for the frigging favor. 0.65

02:12:24.400 This guy. 0.97

02:12:26.480 They couldn't just cut him a break.

02:12:30.580 No.

02:12:31.340 You know why?

02:12:31.940 because the judge probably didn't have a similar background

02:12:38.280 and could have utilized his experience as a white guy

02:12:42.980 to maybe let this guy off the hook.

02:12:46.580 Hmm.

02:12:48.100 Hmm.

02:12:49.180 A little interesting turn of events.

02:12:55.580 Unbelievable. 0.87

02:12:56.760 So disgusting, though. 0.53

02:12:58.960 Hi, Sandra.

02:13:00.500 How are you?

02:13:01.940 Oh, hi, Anthony, for you. Oh, great. What's up? I'm listening to you and I'm thinking,

02:13:09.860 you know what I'm thinking? I'm almost beginning to think there's no hope with anything going

02:13:15.380 forward. Every which way I look, there's a problem. But I continue to stay strong and I

02:13:21.600 continue to stay positive, even though I was just saying what I said to you. I was thinking about

02:13:27.260 donald trump and his meeting with mandani yeah i i expected it to go exactly the way it did because

02:13:35.300 that's how trump is he's like you know visualize a beehive and all the bees they're really peaceful

02:13:42.880 but you sting if you play around with those bees you will get stung and that's what donald trump

02:13:49.620 i hope will do if need be going forward when he becomes mayor i'm trusting he's gonna keep an eye

02:13:57.240 on him, and maybe by being friendly with him, he'll share his ideas with Trump, and Trump

02:14:03.700 will be on top of things, I'm hoping.

02:14:05.980 And if I'm wrong, I'll be disappointed.

02:14:08.660 It's from the godfather, keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

02:14:14.080 That's right.

02:14:14.680 And then I'm thinking, look at Marjorie Taylor Greene.

02:14:18.360 Now, I'm concerned about that.

02:14:20.140 I'm concerned about the primaries, what's going to happen now that she's not going to 0.93

02:14:24.560 be in Congress.

02:14:25.900 Now, Donald Trump, he felt that she wasn't really right to be a senator or a governor.

02:14:32.600 And he said her polls were low, whatever the reason was.

02:14:36.480 Right.

02:14:36.780 He said, no, he didn't cave in.

02:14:38.900 He doesn't cave in and he won't cave in with this man.

02:14:41.620 No, he doesn't have to.

02:14:43.140 That's why he's like people don't understand.

02:14:45.680 That's why.

02:14:46.700 Thank you, Sandra.

02:14:47.540 They don't understand.

02:14:48.720 That's why Trump has the power he has.

02:14:52.300 he doesn't have to be liked he doesn't have to do things for for uh uh other other people

02:15:00.860 he could just be the the a-hole that people think he is i think that's a good thing i want to get

02:15:10.000 mike from hudson valley on uh mike you says here you were a rookie cop in williamsburg uh

02:15:16.860 Your precinct arrested, Bernie Getz?

02:15:20.320 No, in 1984, I was a brand-new cop out of the academy,

02:15:25.560 and Getz was spotted in Williamsburg, and we're turning out,

02:15:31.580 and this big, burly Irish lieutenant goes, 0.84

02:15:34.860 let me talk to these son-of-a-bitching greenhorns. 0.98

02:15:38.220 He goes, you do not bring him in this station house. 1.00

02:15:43.340 If you see him, you let him go.

02:15:46.400 Wow.

02:15:46.860 You do not bring him in here.

02:15:49.640 Good old days.

02:15:50.340 And let me tell you, if we saw him, we would not bring him in.

02:15:55.680 Yeah.

02:15:56.460 Yeah, he went upstate for a little while.

02:15:59.040 I did an interview with him a while back.

02:16:01.500 He's nutty as a fruitcake, but he had dumped the gun up there.

02:16:06.500 I think he buried it on the side of the Taconic or something. 0.96

02:16:11.400 Oh, my God.

02:16:12.340 It's just a fascinating story, though, because especially back then,

02:16:16.220 And it is like now people were fed up with it and they'd had it and they looked at Bernie

02:16:21.600 Goetz like he was Charles Bronson.

02:16:23.980 And then we saw him.

02:16:24.760 It was like, well, I guess everybody's kind of pissed at this whole thing.

02:16:28.780 And Anthony, not for nothing, not for nothing. 0.71

02:16:32.100 Williamsburg in 1984 was a burnt out shell ghetto run by the gang. 0.91

02:16:38.340 Not a hipster. 0.97

02:16:40.620 Nothing like this today.

02:16:42.020 Yeah.

02:16:42.280 Hipster central.

02:16:44.420 Yeah.

02:16:44.940 Yeah, believe me.

02:16:47.360 But I love your show.

02:16:48.640 Thank you, sir.

02:16:49.660 Thank you, Mike.

02:16:50.700 Take care, man.

02:16:51.680 Thank you for your service on the NYPD.

02:16:58.040 Yeah, those were the days.

02:17:00.920 People were just, and it's getting a similar feel in New York.

02:17:07.180 There's a similar vibe to the 80s.

02:17:10.780 Not quite the 90s.

02:17:12.520 The 90s was really nuts because of like crack and everything had really taken hold and organized crime was still kind of a thing.

02:17:22.320 So it was nutty.

02:17:23.800 But there's a vibe in New York now where it's not like it was with Giuliani or even Bloomberg or even de Blasio when it really started turning.

02:17:34.120 There's just a bad feeling people have right now about New York.

02:17:42.520 About walking around and being safe.

02:17:45.500 And I see the tourists take their kids there.

02:17:48.680 And you're like, what are you doing?

02:17:49.940 You flew all the way from Germany or England to wheel your luggage down a sidewalk, down 9th Avenue and 43rd.

02:18:03.660 And you're like, what are you doing, dude? 0.99

02:18:06.620 Get your family out of here, you nut. 0.94

02:18:08.800 All right, back in moments with more of the show. 0.99

02:18:13.160 Don't go anywhere.

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02:18:21.900 It's the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network.

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02:18:31.900 And, you know, I like talking about the media, the mainstream media.

02:18:37.900 here in the United States of America,

02:18:40.540 and what a left-wing propaganda machine

02:18:43.800 this has just been forever, really.

02:18:47.680 You know, I kind of look back

02:18:50.300 with the rose-colored lenses on

02:18:53.280 when I think of what the news was many years ago,

02:18:58.120 and you kind of believed it.

02:19:01.020 You know, you had your local news guys

02:19:03.940 and then your national news guys,

02:19:05.620 Walter Cronkite and um even I was you know a little young for Walter Cronkite but uh I do

02:19:13.440 remember people believed him he had what they called journalistic integrity and uh he was

02:19:22.180 a known liberal all of them really were all your your news people once they started getting

02:19:30.900 just the talking head on especially cable networks when when that came about it didn't matter they

02:19:40.120 were just going to follow whatever orders came from the top i think people like cronkite and

02:19:45.920 all the the real reporters of that era i think they believed what they were doing

02:19:52.840 and they had their political ideology and it was usually left left wing but uh i think it was very

02:20:01.480 hard for them to uh to try to taint that that journalistic integrity that they at least

02:20:09.220 showed people that they supposedly had um now they just don't even there's no integrity at all

02:20:18.460 journalistic or any other type of integrity in the media and uh it is funny though how

02:20:26.860 these that we we know the media is unbelievably left-wing fanatically left-wing and uh they like

02:20:37.680 trying to tell their viewers dwindling by the way on a daily basis they like trying to tell

02:20:46.420 their viewers that the right are the ones that are uh have taken hold of the media donald trump

02:20:55.840 somehow has intimidated and frightened the media so much that they will now do his bidding

02:21:04.060 and it's just insane every story that comes out about trump is negative how is he running

02:21:11.620 the media and the narrative of what they're saying about him uh it's just not true but it won't stop

02:21:18.700 them uh from saying that the media is in trump's pocket here is um former white house spokesperson

02:21:28.000 jen saki remember jen saki and she's talking with the uh completely unbiased katie couric

02:21:39.360 oh boy and uh they're talking about the white house press corps now the white house press

02:21:46.900 corps are people in the media that have white house press credentials they go in and you know

02:21:54.140 you can't have every reporter go in there so they come out and the major networks get the stories

02:21:59.580 from these reporters and then the minor kind of uh news organizations uh take uh from those stories

02:22:08.520 to present their own thing about what they saw in the White House.

02:22:13.700 And I guess Jen Psaki is talking about the White House press corps

02:22:19.540 and how they are now, get this, sycophants, sycophants of Donald Trump.

02:22:28.120 They're under his spell, doing his bidding.

02:22:31.320 How is that possible when you see every day on the news anti-Trump stories? 0.70

02:22:40.100 Let's listen to Jen Psaki here. 0.98

02:22:41.880 that I think doesn't, 1.00

02:22:43.540 I think you've probably talked about this

02:22:44.960 because you know well,

02:22:45.740 but I don't think that's enough attention

02:22:47.260 is the way they're reshaping the people

02:22:50.080 in the press briefing room.

02:22:51.780 More and more of the questions in there

02:22:53.920 are by sycophants,

02:22:55.840 are by people who are not asking about news

02:22:59.660 that the American people cares about,

02:23:01.560 but they're asking about,

02:23:03.600 I mean, literally a question has started

02:23:05.260 more than once.

02:23:06.260 Why is Trump in such good shape, right?

02:23:08.500 Or they are, you know, putting out...

02:23:11.880 conspiracy theories. There are people who, and they are getting a lot of the questions.

02:23:16.220 There are some of the people who are in the press pools. This means that reporters who are there to

02:23:21.080 cover MBS being at the White House or to cover Zelensky being at the White House or to ask

02:23:27.680 these questions that Mary Bruce fortunately asked yesterday, there are fewer of them. And that is,

02:23:34.720 you don't know that and see that unless you've lived there. But that's a huge, huge problem

02:23:38.960 because it's becoming more of a Kremlin-esque press corps.

02:23:42.500 Kremlin.

02:23:42.940 And they've invited a lot of reporters from very right-wing media outlets.

02:23:47.700 And you're right.

02:23:48.360 They usually say, I forget, there was one example.

02:23:50.940 Like, did you ever believe that you would be the peacemaker?

02:23:54.360 I mean, just so. 0.86

02:23:57.040 You could cut her off there.

02:23:58.840 Yeah.

02:24:00.320 Maybe a reminder of Joe Biden.

02:24:03.440 What ice cream you like, Joe?

02:24:06.220 How about that?

02:24:07.020 while his son was allegedly doing coke in the White House

02:24:11.600 and making deals with Ukraine. 1.00

02:24:14.400 And they are such liars. 1.00

02:24:16.620 Do not buy into the nonsense. 1.00

02:24:19.320 All right.

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