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00:01:02.200While the Democrats attempt a major working-class rebrand led by AOC and Zoran Mamdani, streamer Hassan Piker reveals what they're really thinking with a pre-midterms endorsement of communist dictator Mao Zedong.
00:01:15.220We will get into the fake populism push and the polling, shocking polling, really, that explains why the Democrats are so desperate to make it happen.
00:01:24.340Then Olive Garden institutes better security measures than American elections, and scientists unfairly blame Taco Bell for the recent explosive outbreak of the old Aztec two-step.
00:03:34.840one of the great leaders of our world. He's been dead for a little while. I don't know if Mr.
00:03:40.080Piker's aware of that, but he says he changed the universe. He didn't, not just the country,
00:03:45.960not just the world. He changed the whole universe. He was one of the great leaders. And so
00:03:49.940Hassan Piker will never make fun of him. Mao Zedong, of course, for those who missed history
00:03:57.760class in school, or probably for those who attended history class in school, Mao Zedong
00:04:01.960killed an estimated, I'm being somewhat conservative in my estimates, 30 to 45 million
00:04:06.800people during the Great Leap Forward alone. He killed an additional two to eight million people
00:04:12.220through political persecution. The number could actually be much higher than that. I'm being
00:04:16.840relatively restrained here in my estimates. However, before we clutch our pearls, before we
00:04:23.540feign shock and outrage that one of the real thought leaders of the American left is openly
00:04:29.800endorsing Mao Zedong, we should remember he's already told us this. This is the guy who said
00:04:36.940that the streets should run red in capitalist blood, who's called for the murder of Senator
00:04:41.180Rick Scott in Florida, who's called for the murder of Senator Tom Cotton. This is the guy
00:04:46.380who said that America deserved 9-11. And this is the guy that Democrats to this day choose to be
00:04:51.980associated with. Momdani giving him fist bumps and high fives, AOC. Big Democrat leaders. He's
00:04:58.960going out there. He's campaigning for people. The New York Times is platforming him time and time
00:05:03.480again. So that's who they are. That's what they believe. And the only difference, the only
00:05:09.440shocking thing about Hassan Piker's statement is that he will state it explicitly, whereas the
00:05:15.900rest of the left, including the mainstream left, just kind of wink at it. They wink at it. They
00:05:20.800imply it. But Hassan Piker will just state it openly. But they all believe it.
00:05:24.780all of the other evils of Mao aside, he killed a lot of people. He killed a lot of his political
00:05:33.460opponents. But then again, a lot of the mainstream left supports political violence
00:05:37.460against his political opponents. Hassan Piker is just more open about it.
00:05:40.700So in some ways, you got to kind of give Piker some credit. He's just saying the quiet part out
00:05:45.240loud. He's being more consistent and honest about what a lot of the left believes in.
00:05:50.320that's why they keep embracing him. You know, it's not even like we're trying. I remember there
00:05:56.780was this op in, when was it, 2010 or something, where the Democrat strategists tried to say that
00:06:02.200Rush Limbaugh was the de facto head of the Republican Party. He wasn't really the head
00:06:05.780of the Republican Party. He was an important broadcaster, an important voice on the right,
00:06:09.760without question. Very, you know, he's the guy who was the king of talk radio.
00:06:14.560But he wasn't the de facto head of the Republican Party. When it comes to a guy like Hassan Piker,
00:06:20.040I'm not saying he's the head of the Democrat Party. I'm just saying he's without question
00:06:24.100one of the most important thought leaders on the left. And he supports murdering
00:06:30.020moderate Republicans in the Senate, and he supports Mao Zedong. So it's an important1.00
00:06:35.180thing to keep in mind for the midterms. And I think voters know that, and I think it's showing
00:06:38.920up in the polls. So this is why, speaking of Mamdani, the Democrats are trying to make a hard
00:06:44.300pivot right now. The Democrats, which in recent years have been defined by woke, by trans rights
00:06:52.480for kids or whatever, boys and girls bathrooms, by abortion on demand without apology, by slut0.91
00:06:59.460walks, by totally open borders, by the George Floyd riots. The left, which has been defined0.94
00:07:08.020by woke is trying to shift away from this cultural radicalism toward economic populism you're seeing
00:07:16.000a coordinated effort between mom donnie aoc and others they're screwing it up though and here's0.99
00:07:22.300here's mom donnie screwing it up with the new york times just yesterday uh when he was asked
00:07:27.740hey you say you're a working class hero what is the working class and according to mom donnie
00:07:32.480the working class, is people who make less than a million dollars a year.
00:07:38.620I've drawn it at about a million dollars a year.0.97
00:07:41.120Okay. So anyone under a million dollars a year in income is working class?
00:07:45.240That's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying in terms of the practicality when it comes to fiscal
00:07:48.700policy. I think a lot of our politics has been a debate over who you leave out. And I'm more
00:07:54.740interested in debates of how you bring more in. And I think that that is, it's part of what I'm
00:08:02.920looking to be a part of is a vision where people understand no matter what you call it, that there's
00:08:07.980room for them too. But yes, I do want to raise taxes on people who make more than a million a
00:08:12.240year. It just feels like someone who is a janitor is going to feel some kind of way about that
00:08:21.860description if you're lumping them in with someone who is a lawyer. That feels like
00:08:29.320a distinction that might matter. Do you think everyone's in the same club?
00:08:34.240You know, when I was running, a lot of the questions I would face is what does it mean
00:08:39.100to be a democratic socialist? And I only bring that up because I think sometimes there's a
00:08:44.900fixation on a definition of something. And what I found is when I would knock on New Yorkers doors,
00:08:50.980they would just ask am I part of your vision okay so they you got to give credit to the
00:08:57.400New York Times here they're doing it in the New York Timesiest way you know I just feel like
00:09:01.820people are going to feel like kind of some kind of way you know like with the big liberal glasses
00:09:06.620and the kind of crazy clothes but they ask the question they say okay so you're a working class
00:09:10.880hero so what's the working class and he says well you know I'm going to raise taxes on people who
00:09:14.880make more than a million bucks a year and so the woman goes hold on you're working if you're making
00:09:19.440$999,000, 99 cents per year. You're working class. And he says, no, no, no, that's not what0.85
00:09:28.680I'm saying. But yes, that is what I'm saying. And you know, I just want to bring people in and I
00:09:32.600just want, and you know, why do we even, it's like, what do words even mean, man? You know,
00:09:38.880it's like, hold on one second, New York times. Let me just pull up this bong here.
00:09:42.640it's like man what are words why do we care about definitions man oh well um we care about
00:09:51.580definitions because the way we communicate is through words which are signs and in order for
00:09:56.220the communication to work uh you need to have a common understanding of the meaning of the words0.98
00:10:00.680which is why you have definitions that's why but politicians like you who are cheats and crooks0.76
00:10:07.940you try to obscure the definitions of words so that you can try to get one over on us but he
00:10:12.060can't even get one over on the New York Times. It's a very good follow up from the New York
00:10:16.580Times, which is, hold on. You want to say you're a working class hero. So you run on a campaign
00:10:21.980platform of eat the rich, but then you get into office and you realize you need the support of
00:10:25.980some rich people. So you decide that you're just going to redefine working class to include people
00:10:31.840who make a million bucks a year. Don't you think a janitor working two jobs for very low pay in
00:10:40.200unpleasant conditions, and some hotshot lawyer at Cravath, Swain, and Moore who makes a million
00:10:44.820dollars a year. Don't you think that the janitor might object to your lumping him in with that
00:10:49.680person? Wouldn't anybody object? It's just absurd to suggest that those people are in the same
00:10:54.360socioeconomic class. Mom, Donnie says, enough with definitions, man. You know, come on. What
00:11:01.360is the working class? The median household income in the United States is actually higher than I
00:11:06.900thought it was. The median household income in the U.S. right now is $84,000. Now, that's not
00:11:11.560owing to real wages rising mostly. It's mostly due to inflation, but nevertheless, median household
00:11:16.540income is $84,000. The working class income is somewhere in the range of $30,000 to $60,000.
00:11:23.220Now, income doesn't tell the whole story. You could have a super rich guy who sold his company
00:11:26.500for $20 million, and he has not a lot of income. So, you also have to include net worth. Working
00:11:32.460class net worth is estimated between $20,000 and $100,000. All of those numbers are going to be1.00
00:11:37.860higher in New York and California because there's higher cost of living because there's bad liberal
00:11:41.680economic policies. Nevertheless, the point that the New York Times lady is making is that there's0.90
00:11:48.060an economic component to the working class, which Mamdani gets wrong. By basically no definition
00:11:55.000of the working class can someone who makes a million dollars a year be considered working
00:11:59.200class. But there's also a quantitative element. There's also a qualitative element, which is that
00:12:04.820working class usually implies a physical job, a tradesman, say, a manual laborer.
00:12:14.940The term working class usually implies something about education. It usually implies no college
00:12:19.360education. The reason this is really important is because there are lots of tradesmen who didn't go
00:12:24.600to college who make more money than PhDs in gender studies who are associate or adjunct
00:12:31.420professors at some kooky liberal school. In other words, there are people who qualitatively
00:12:36.720seem like they're in a higher, more prestigious class who actually make less money than the people
00:12:41.860who qualitatively are categorized in a lower class. And this is brutal for the Democrats'
00:12:48.700That's class politics because when it comes to the actual working class, people who are tradesmen, who have an actual physical skill, who regardless of their income, they're not making $2 million a year at Gravath, Swain, and more.
00:13:06.900But the people who fit into that category don't support Mamdani.
00:18:13.260There was a memo that went out from the Democrat campaign operations that say, hey, stop painting yourselves as woke, definitely.
00:18:20.320stop painting yourselves as leftists. Paint yourselves as working class that is identifiable
00:18:27.900with a lot of voters. I think 35% of Americans identify themselves as working class, even if
00:18:33.880their income and their wealth don't necessarily fit that definition. They identify that way.
00:18:38.360So identify yourself as working class. This is grumpy in politics 101. This is when the left1.00
00:18:44.120is really cooking, this is what they do. We're common sense. We're working class. We want economic
00:18:48.380populism. It doesn't work for AOC though, because I recall on, let's see, when was this? October 7th,
00:18:55.6402019, AOC tweets out, I know the term prison abolition is breaking some people's brains.
00:19:01.660The right is already freaking out. Yes, the US incarcerates more than anywhere in the world.
00:19:05.940We have more than enough room to close many of our prisons and explore just alternatives to
00:19:10.640incarceration. I'm not a radical leftist. I'm just working class. Now let's empty all the prisons and
00:19:16.340let all the criminals out on the street. Let's storm the Bastille. I'm just working class.0.55
00:19:21.360November 17th, 2025, AOC writes, this Transgender Awareness Week, we celebrate the resilience,
00:19:28.200courage, and beauty of the trans community. Your lives matter, your stories matter,
00:19:32.540and your right to thrive and exist authentically is non-negotiable. We stand with you today and
00:19:37.760every day, Trans Flag. I'm not a militant leftist. I'm just an economic working class
00:19:43.120class warrior. Are you? AOC, October 14th, 2025. This is just eight months ago,
00:19:49.300nine months ago. Congresswoman AOC shares powerful message of support for trans kids.
00:19:54.960I'm not a militant leftist. I'm just working class. Now, hold on. I got these hedge clippers
00:20:00.240over here. Give me your kid. Give me your little boy. I'm not. No, don't worry. I'm not a radical
00:20:04.640leftist. I just want to castrate your child. But I'm working class. Don't worry. I've got1.00
00:20:10.240common sense. I'm a normal person. It's not going to work. Not going to work at all.
00:20:15.480The left made its bed with wokeness, and we need to rhetorically wrap that one around their necks.0.96
00:20:23.100I mean, this one really is inescapable for the left. It's inescapable because there are just0.98
00:20:28.200so many tweets. There are just so many clips. This is why James Tallarico is having a big
00:20:31.580problem in Texas right now, is every time he tries to position himself as a moderate.
00:20:36.240I'm just a straight, white, male Christian.
00:20:40.080But every time he does that, there's some clip of him saying that God is non-binary or that using the Blessed Virgin Mary to justify abortion, to say that women are our neighbors with uteruses.
00:20:51.100It's just there's too much evidence from too recently that these guys are super woke.
00:20:56.340But the other problem for them is they can't be economic populists because their base of support is not the working class.
00:21:04.060Their base of support really is wealthier people.
00:21:08.460And so even if they were able to pivot and make a real economic populist message, it wouldn't work for them.
00:21:17.320What their base wants is not true economic populism.
00:21:34.060The left-wing base thinks it is much better than the manufacturers and the tradesmen and the carpenters and the laborers and the truck drivers.
00:21:46.000So really, all the left can muster if it wants to get some attention, if it wants to seem avant-garde or new or different, is the cultural radicalism.
00:21:56.480So they're really boxed in, and I can't wait to watch them squirm.
00:22:01.500Okay. All of this is showing up in the polls. In my, how long has it been? It's been 30 years
00:22:09.640since I've been a political nerd, arguably more than that. I first got interested in politics
00:22:13.800when my grandfather taught me it's a grand old flag in his kitchen when I was about two years
00:22:20.640old. I got interested in politics when I was two, three years old. I have distinct memories of this,
00:22:25.440by the way, when Bill Clinton was running for president and George H.W. Bush said,
00:22:33.800read my lips, no new taxes. That was one of the first phrases I recall. I know I'm like a young
00:22:39.540Republican built in a laboratory, but that was one of the first phrases I ever learned.
00:22:42.560I campaigned around my first grade classroom for Bob Dole, 1996. That's where I really trace the
00:22:47.440beginning of my political life. And in all of those years, I have just seen the craziest poll
00:22:53.960I've ever seen in politics, and it's about these midterm elections. We'll get to that momentarily.
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00:31:09.100what a great contribution of the italian americans to give us a place like olive
00:31:14.040garden that has a never-ending pasta pass that's beautiful it's my main thought my second thought
00:31:19.340though is the pasta pass is the perfect indictment of democrat election rigging
00:31:25.900we we talk about this we say hold on you gotta you gotta show an id to get a pack of cigarettes
00:31:30.940you gotta show an id to buy a beer but you don't think that we should have a higher threshold or
00:31:35.800at least the same threshold of security for our elections. That's a lot more important than
00:31:40.260buying a pack of cigarettes. But when it comes to Olive Garden, it's even better.
00:31:45.400Because what the Democrats say, the Democrats' main pitch against the Save America Act,
00:31:49.740the Democrats' pitch against voter ID, which is an 85-15 issue in America. Everybody supports
00:31:55.080voter ID except for Democrat politicians. Their argument against it is that black people and
00:31:59.640women are too stupid to get IDs. That's actually their argument. And maybe Hispanics too. Their1.00
00:32:05.000argument is that blacks and Hispanics and women are really, really stupid, completely incompetent,1.00
00:32:14.680barely human, only arguably sentient, and they can't go get an ID.1.00
00:32:22.520What's so funny about the Olive Garden comparison is that Olive Garden is not, it's not considered
00:32:28.120Michelin rated dining, right? It's not, Olive Garden is not the most exclusive restaurant in
00:32:33.060the world. Olive Garden is a very accessible restaurant. Olive Garden's patrons are not
00:32:39.560the upper crust of the upper crust of the socioeconomic ladder. It's kind of a middle
00:32:43.620class restaurant. It's accessible to working class. And the Democrats, who are supposed to
00:32:49.020be the working class heroes, the party that's really in touch with the common man, they're
00:32:53.320saying, well, we can't have voter ID because what? The average voter isn't as smart as the
00:32:59.380average Olive Garden customer? Is that it? Talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations.
00:33:06.880What are we doing here, folks? Love it. I love, keep promoting the pasta pass. Also,
00:33:12.220I want a pasta pass. Speaking of popular dining options, Taco Bell is under fire
00:33:18.380because they have been blamed by scientists for a recent, brutal, much reported on outbreak of
00:33:28.220Montezuma's revenge. There is, if you read the news, if you watch the news on TV or on podcasts,
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00:35:20.680davies why do you never pick a comment also go follow the new behind the wire instagram behind
00:35:25.280the wire oh my goodness that's what i get that's what i get for not it's behind the wire underscore
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00:36:01.600instagram okay taco bell has been blamed for this outbreak of it's called a cyclospora but the way
00:36:11.420it's being reported in the press is just as explosive um you know i don't i don't like to
00:36:17.040go blue on this show but uh deli belly you know i'm talking about you know deli belly you know
00:36:22.180what i'm saying the old uh the old montezuma's okay the fda now which blamed taco bell is now
00:36:31.060walking back its claim. Taco Bell was falsely accused. According to the New York Post,
00:36:36.480the FDA is walking back its initial claims that a Taco Bell lettuce supplier
00:36:39.800is responsible for sickening hundreds of Americans with explosive
00:36:43.520excretions, saying that the original test results were a false positive.
00:36:50.700The stunning reversal comes after the agency double-checked a lettuce sample,
00:36:54.080which found that the leafy greens supplied by Taylor Farms de Mexico did not have traces of
00:36:59.880cyclospora, the parasite that causes, in the New York Post's words, the crappy condition.
00:37:05.780So there's a false positive. They say, basically, you have this huge group of people in America
00:37:13.200who are running to the bathroom. There's this outbreak of some kind of parasite. They're all0.82
00:37:18.820running for the water closet. And I'm using as many euphemisms as I can. And so we're going to
00:37:25.600test and see if this came from Taco Bell. And they said it did. It definitely came from Taco
00:37:30.640Bell. But then they reversed it. They said, no, that was a false positive. And I guess just as
00:37:34.280someone, I've been a Taco Bell customer for roughly 36 years of my life. And I would just say,
00:37:41.220probably in retrospect, the scientists should have expected a false positive there.
00:37:46.180If they were merely looking for the outcome as proof of the parasite, they were always going
00:37:52.640to get a false positive. It's like they didn't know what Taco Bell is, but we know. And so you
00:37:59.240can't, I guess what I'm saying is you need a control. In science, you need a control
00:38:04.560to test, you know, whatever you're trying to test and you're not going to get that control
00:38:09.860at Taco Bell. Okay. It's enough of that, right? This is a high class show. The reason I mentioned
00:38:15.400this as a political matter though, is it's wall to wall coverage of this disgusting story because
00:38:21.980apparently some people are, you know, having the need to run over to the bathroom. Okay.
00:38:28.780Why is this major news? Do we really need a national campaign about this?
00:38:35.600That if people eat a bad taco, they might, you know, need to clear their afternoon.
00:38:39.760Do we really need, it's not that big a deal. Do I really need to read about this every day?
00:38:45.440There are real problems in the world. Look, maybe this is why Trump is doing so well. Maybe this is
00:38:50.060why Republicans are doing so well in the polls. I thought we had bigger problems in this, but
00:38:54.900if our bigger problem is people are running to the loo after Taco Bell, I don't know. I don't,
00:39:01.140I don't need, that's not a man bites dog story. Now, speaking of excretions, I promise the show
00:39:06.500is going to take a turn after this story, but I do have to get to this one because we're talking
00:39:10.560about the Democrats' failure to pivot from woke to economic populism. We're talking about the
00:39:15.620Democrats' apparent failure in the midterm elections thus far on the polls. Ashley Webb.
00:39:21.640I don't know Ashley's real name, but he goes by Ashley Webb. He is one of the main Senate
00:39:28.440Democrat candidates. He is a trans activist. He says that he's a woman. He's now going viral,
00:39:38.180not for his tax policy or his immigration policy or even his view of foreign policy,
00:39:44.400But for his claim that even though he has an X and a Y chromosome, even though he does not have ovaries or a uterus or anything like that, he claims to have a menstrual cycle, which is evident from his derriere because when he imagines himself to be ovulating, he excretes mucus.