After just a month, New York City is already falling apart, and people are dying by the dozens. After just one month of Mayor Zoran Mamdani, how bad are things going to get? Do we even want to find out? Also, why are leftists furious at the singer Shibuzi for saying that immigrants built the country? And I have some words of advice for young men in the light of another gloried conservative influencer scandal.
00:03:29.120I mean, when you run pretending to be a genie in a lamp that can grant unlimited wishes, this is what you get.
00:03:38.100So they elected a theater kid, supposedly from the middle of nowhere, who promised to burn everything down and completely transform New York City.
00:03:46.760A month later, they realize he's a fraudster who has no idea what he's doing and that his life story is a lot less storybook than they had been told.
00:03:54.500You see, when these people heard Mamdani reading the speechwriter's line about the Mexican abuelas and Yemeni bodega owners and Uzbek nurses and Ethiopian aunties,
00:04:07.780they were under the impression that Mamdani had something in common with the working class.
00:04:11.600And now they're finding out that while the Yemeni bodega owners and Trinidadian pimps were earning a living the hard way in the Bronx,
00:04:19.780Mamdani's mother was getting name-dropped by Epstein's publicist.
00:04:24.500That's got to be a tough, confusing realization.
00:04:28.660And it gets worse when you realize that the buses still aren't free.
00:04:44.040In fact, bus fares have increased since Mamdani took office by around 10 cents.
00:04:48.840Now, the Trump administration says that they're thinking about cutting federal funding to New York if they don't change fares as part of a new transportation bill.
00:04:55.620So all of a sudden, what seemed to be a very simple, straightforward proposal is turning out to be a lot more complicated.
00:05:01.200And from the moment Mamdani was elected, that has raised some questions for New Yorkers.
00:22:03.420Well, it's the most open and shut, clear-cut case imaginable.
00:22:09.700The officer obviously did what they had to do.
00:22:13.480Actually, the officers were, like, they went, yet again, the officers were more reluctant to shoot than they needed to be.
00:22:22.260You can see the officer, if you were not watching the video, if you're listening to the audio podcast, he's being charged at.
00:22:27.400Like, the guy has a knife, is charging at him, very unambiguous.
00:22:31.100The officer retreats back into another room, shuts the door to give this guy another chance.
00:22:37.420And then when the guy opens that door and crosses that barrier and charges again, and this officer is now cornered, he's got nowhere else to go, he opens fire.
00:22:45.620If you're saying he should not have fired, should not have fired the gun, then what you are saying, it's not an exaggeration, what you are saying is that his responsibility as a police officer was just to be stabbed to death.
00:23:56.220Their policy ideas are designed to make your city more dangerous and your life more miserable.
00:24:01.160But one reporter tried to make sense of the policy anyway.
00:24:03.520After Mamdani was done speaking, the reporter asked a pretty obvious question.
00:24:07.000If we're going to send emotional support counselors to visit emotionally disturbed people instead of police, what happens when those emotionally disturbed people try to kill the person that you have sent?
00:24:18.240How exactly are we going to decide whether or not the police should be dispatched when we don't know whether the emotionally disturbed person poses a lethal threat or not?
00:24:28.340Well, Mamdani had no answer to that question.
00:24:58.940And then if it turns violent, if a person's there without the ability to stop him, what happens?
00:25:03.940So I think there's a few things to say here.
00:25:06.880One is a lot of this is exactly the focus of the conversations that we're having internally in developing out this Department of Community Safety.
00:25:14.960Additionally, I want to make clear that a person experiencing a mental health episode does not always have to be served first or exclusively by a police officer.
00:25:24.820It is important for us to have all of the options available.
00:25:27.820And that's exactly what we're looking at.
00:25:31.200So in other words, he has no answer to the question.
00:25:34.180If you send a community safety advocate and the person pulls a knife and charges at them, what then?
00:25:44.960Because, you know, the answer from the left is, well, the real answer is, oh, I don't care.
00:25:51.720I mean, the real answer is, okay, well, I guess that person just dies then.
00:26:49.780Well, this is going to be a theme of the Mamdani administration and of every socialist administration like it.
00:26:56.500Assuming he actually starts attempting to govern instead of shooting influencer videos with his drones.
00:27:01.480We're going to see a lot more of this.
00:27:03.360They'll continue to advance leftist agenda items that would be very popular in a classroom at NYU or the Soviet Union, even though these policies have no chance of success in the real world.
00:27:13.960And even as these agenda items result in human misery and death, they will continue to press on.
00:27:18.420They'll just vomit out some word salad and continue as if nothing had happened.
00:27:22.360The death toll will rise week after week.
00:27:25.800People will get shanked on the free buses.
00:27:27.900Social workers will get stabbed and shot as they were spout on the calls that law enforcement should have handled.
00:27:33.320Tourists will get pushed off the new observation deck on the ugly building in Manhattan.
00:27:39.540Homeless people will die in large numbers every winter, and they'll continue to attack New Yorkers, particularly white women.
00:27:44.960And in the meantime, if Mamdani's voters continue to feel buyer's remorse, and if they decide to get too unruly, they're not going to be met with social workers.
00:27:58.740They'll be crushed by the full power of the state.
00:28:02.240So their only option is to retreat to the safety of their $5,000 a month one-bedroom apartments and scroll blue sky as they wonder why exactly this guy's mother is in the Epstein files.
00:28:13.780That is the rather bleak future that awaits New York.
00:28:17.960It's also the future that awaits the rest of this country, unless we see New York as the gigantic warning sign that it is.
00:28:24.980Even Mamdani supporters are starting to realize that now.
00:28:29.100And the rest of us should pay very close attention to what happens next in New York.
00:28:34.500We should also bear in mind that the winning strategy in the Cold War was containment.
00:28:38.240And in the same vein, we should do everything we can to contain democratic socialism to the hellhole that New York City is already becoming.
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00:33:33.900Like, if you came to me and told me that someone said something, even if that thing was objectionable, and then I say, well, who said that?
00:33:52.380So you'd think that'd be the end of it, except that poor Shabuzi had to issue a statement of clarification, an apology, basically, for that speech.
00:34:02.140And not because anybody on the right was upset.
00:34:04.560He had to apologize and clarify because of outrage on the left.
00:34:46.020You're the one who gave me this thing to read.
00:34:47.560You said that this is what the liberals wanted me to say.
00:34:51.680So here's the, here's the, the statement that he, he published or he put up on social media.
00:34:58.960First and foremost, I want to express my deep gratitude to everyone who has supported and celebrated my journey.
00:35:03.340As an artist, I also want to acknowledge the conversation surrounding my acceptance speech.
00:35:07.480To be clear, I know and believe that we black people have also built this country.
00:35:12.760My words were never intended to dismiss that truth.
00:35:14.840I am both a black man and the son of Nigerian immigrants.
00:35:17.440And in the overwhelming moment of winning my first Grammy, my focus was on honoring the sacrifices my parents made by coming to this country to give me and my siblings opportunities they never had.
00:35:27.400At the same time, winning this award on the first day of Black History Month and becoming the first black man to win best country duo.
00:36:00.460And so, and so that's what, that's why he had to issue a clarification.
00:36:04.120And needless to say, judging by the comments, the statement is still not enough to assuage the anguish that he has caused.
00:36:10.980All of the, uh, you know, if you read the comments from the, um, from black Twitter, it, the, the pain, the pain that has been caused by Shibuzy not saying black people also built the country.
00:36:26.840The pain is just, it's, they'll never get, it's, it's, this is not enough.
00:36:36.620Speaking of these people living in fantasy lands, this is it, you know, in their fantasy land, this country was built by two groups, black people and non-white immigrants.
00:36:48.060You know, he talks about his, well, his parents came here from Nigeria.
00:36:52.740So I want to acknowledge the immigrants who built America, like my parents who came from Nigeria.
00:36:59.500How did your parents help build the country?
00:37:01.140Hey, Shibuzy, how exactly did your parents from Nigeria, how did any Nigerian immigrant help build the country?
00:38:32.040In fact, a lot of other countries, a lot of the good things in those countries, you do give white people credit because of colonization, which introduced technology that they wouldn't otherwise have.
00:39:01.620Well, because almost all of the pioneers, settlers, colonists, founders, inventors, entrepreneurs, and political leaders who made America, formed the country, and turned it into a world power, were white.
00:39:15.080Almost all, almost all, almost all of them, I didn't say all, but almost all, almost all the soldiers who fought and died in our wars, especially over the first 150 years, were white.
00:39:49.440You're not allowed to complain about anything that I'm saying unless you're going to meet this challenge, which you should be able to do if you disagree with my point.
00:39:58.200I want you to come up with a list of the 50 greatest Americans and come up with a list of the 50 greatest Americans that isn't majority white.
00:40:14.860So can you write down a list of the 50 greatest Americans?
00:40:17.380If I'm wrong that white people predominantly built a country, well, okay, then if that's the case,
00:40:24.540then it would seem to me that if you were to make a list of the 50 Americans who you can reasonably argue were the greatest and most influential,
00:40:35.100on that list, at least 26 of them, a majority, should be non-white.
00:40:42.000Can you come up with 26 non-white people who you could reasonably argue belong on the list of the 50 greatest and most influential Americans in history?
00:42:09.640And yet, in spite of all this, our country now is full of people who think that white people not only weren't the predominant builders of the country,
00:42:29.180As a happily married man, I have some dating advice.
00:42:32.240As you're trying to find the right person, you should probably ask them the important questions up front to rule out any problems in the future.
00:43:42.800Speaking of lunacy, in many ways, well, in many ways, this is not really worthy of a headline.
00:43:49.680But there is actually something important to glean from this video, which I will play and which you will no doubt find deeply troubling and grotesque on multiple levels, both aesthetically and in terms of the content of what is being said.
00:44:04.060So here's a TikTok video that's gone viral where a woman with a lot of facial piercings, and that's an understatement, explains what she will do if ICE ever comes knocking on her door.
00:44:16.520I really pray it doesn't get bad enough, but being a mom in America, I had to stop walking for this.
00:44:23.420I often think that if it gets to the point of knocking on doors, God, and like, to even have these thoughts, it's like I'm literally separating from reality right now.
00:44:35.140If it comes down to me taking out myself and my kids versus us being taken and harmed by ICE, like, God help me, I did not want to do it.
00:44:48.740But that is a very dark thought that I've had.
00:44:51.360Death would be a easier out than for my children to be taken and harmed by these pedophiles.
00:44:59.060Okay, so this woman, who by my account has approximately 8 billion facial piercings, says that, I mean, she's pierced parts of her face that I didn't even know you could pierce.
00:45:14.340I guess you could pierce any part of your body, I suppose.
00:45:17.580But it's like a random piercing just like on her forehead and her cheek.
00:45:22.360It's like, but anyway, she says that she will take out herself and her kids, i.e. commit a murder-suicide if ICE ever comes knocking on her door.
00:45:36.360But in spite of the fact that she is pretty clearly and tragically an American citizen, I mean, she's pretty clearly, this is an American citizen, she was almost certainly born here and, for all we know, has been here for generations and is a legal citizen.
00:45:53.700Sadly, as much as I would like to think that she's not, so ICE would have no reason to ever come for her.
00:46:04.180There is, however, now reason for the FBI and local law enforcement and certainly CPS to come, which they must.
00:46:15.060I'm not saying that as a joke or as a bit or something.
00:46:22.540These children are in very real danger.
00:46:25.580And so if that doesn't get your kids taken away permanently, then I don't know what does.
00:46:33.740But the other thing we glean from this is that, you know, aside from the fact that has been observed so many times, liberalism is a mental disorder, truly is.
00:49:05.640Um, it's your responsibility as an American citizen to not be this stupid and ignorant.
00:49:13.140But, uh, but this, this is how it works.
00:49:16.640And this is how unbelievably clueless these morons actually are.
00:49:20.800Now, the thing that's working in our favor, the thing preventing these people from acting out even more drastically than they already are.
00:49:27.200The thing, frankly, that will hopefully save that woman's poor children is that while they're stupid and ignorant and, uh, you know, while these are people who are credulous moronic dupes, they're also performative and fake.
00:49:48.900And they're motivated most of all by a desperate need for attention.
00:49:54.920You know, this woman threatened to annihilate her whole family for the sake of being dramatic on TikTok and getting attention.
00:50:03.620Which is not to say the threats should not be taken seriously.
00:50:44.940And the last takeaway here is that anybody with that many facial piercings should be assumed incompetent and should lose the right to vote or to participate in society in any other capacity.
00:50:54.920And I am so deadly serious when I say that.
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00:54:38.960So I wasn't sure if I would comment on this, and normally it's the kind of thing that I don't comment on, but I do feel compelled to say a few things.
00:54:49.480So over on X right now, there's a new episode of Right Wing Influencer Soap Opera happening.
00:55:01.160There's a new episode of Days of Our Lives, the Right Wing Influencer Edition.
00:55:05.280And I'm not going to get into all the embarrassing details.
00:55:07.920You can go find out about it yourself.
00:55:12.360Just a brief overview so you understand what is precipitating what I'm about to say.
00:55:17.860As the story goes, allegedly, Elijah Schaefer, who's a conservative podcaster and commentator, influencer guy, is now headed for a divorce.
00:55:27.760And it was revealed that allegedly he had an affair with a woman named Sarah Stock, who's a conservative influencer, sort of recent, new to the scene, kind of recent, and was herself in a relationship with a man that she eventually married.
00:55:40.880But before she married him, but was in a relationship with the guy, this tryst was going on.
00:55:44.220And I don't know what's true or what isn't.
00:55:56.420And there are stories of alcohol and drugs on the part of Schaefer, other lurid details, affairs happening at CPAC, which part of the story you hear often with these soap operas of conservative conferences turning into drug-fueled orgies and all that.
00:57:15.460Because anytime I see a married man whose life comes crumbling down because he was off having affairs and partying and doing all that kind of stuff,
00:57:26.080which, let's be honest, is pretty common.
00:57:30.180I mean, it's pretty common in general.
00:57:32.840It's pretty common in the business, in my business.
00:57:37.520And a lot of it does happen at conservative conferences like CPAC and all those kinds of events.
00:57:44.900That's why I don't have a lot of friends in this business.
00:57:47.140I have a small group of people that I would consider friends who I know and work with and trust.
00:57:51.560I have a larger group of acquaintances who I, you know, would sometimes call friends in a sense, but I work with, but I don't, I don't, or I've worked with, or friendly with, I don't really hang out with, though.
00:58:04.060As for everyone else, I don't, you know, I don't know.
00:58:28.040On the rare occasion that I do go to any kind of like conservative function, usually because I'm speaking or something, if there's a party or a cocktail hour or whatever, and I, and I always want to avoid those, but sometimes, especially when I'm speaking, they'll go, they'll say, well, we got this cocktail hour ahead of time.
00:59:31.020As a man, if you want to be happy, which who doesn't, as far as I can tell, there are three things that you should have if you want to be happy.
01:00:14.340You need, you need a vocation that is important to you.
01:00:18.880And I say important to you because that's what I mean.
01:00:23.380It's, you know, it, it, it, you don't need other people to think that it's important.
01:00:27.600Everyone has different jobs, different vocations, and you might do something for a living that other people look at and they don't think it's that important or they don't see why you care about it that much.
01:00:45.920If you don't do anything, right, if you aren't pursuing any goal, if you have no vocation, if you have no profession as a man, that is a recipe for misery.
01:00:57.540And if you do something every day that you don't think matters, that doesn't even matter to you, that isn't even important to you, then that is also misery.
01:02:25.480You know, there are plenty of cases where women have a happy, loving family, a loving spouse who's loyal to them, and they go and they ruin it.
01:02:51.940So, I'm not putting it all on men, but I'm just, I'm talking about men right now, and I think I can more credibly, like, give the ingredients for a happy life for men, because I am one.
01:03:04.300If you're a man and you have a family, because all that seems obvious enough, although it can't be said enough.
01:03:09.140If you're a man and you have a family and you have a job, but you crave more excitement, you know, you want more action, you want more excitement, you want more of a challenge, you want more to do.
01:03:39.240Don't be stupid, especially if you have a family, if you have kids.
01:03:41.580But, you know, men do crave excitement.
01:03:43.980And what I'm saying is that you should harness that energy into your pursuits.
01:03:49.360I'm not saying that you get married and have kids and all that, and you become this, like, domesticated eunuch who has no other goals and ambitions and has no desire to, like, get out there in the world and do something.