On today's episode of Triggered, we take a deep dive into the growing trend of communism going mainstream in New York City, and across the entire Democratic Party. We discuss the dangers of communism being mainstreamed in America, and why it's time to be prepared to fight back.
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00:10:07.000And now, guys, let's get into all of the top headlines that the mainstream media simply won't tell you the truth about.
00:10:16.000And we'll begin in New York City, the city I grew up in, the city I love, or at least loved.
00:10:26.000Now it's probably pretty different, where it is now clear and perhaps more clear than ever that we are in an all-out battle between common sense and communism.
00:10:38.000And I'm not even being hyperbolic here at this point.
00:10:41.000I mean, this is not, you know, a raid cycle.
00:10:44.000This is just what's actually happening.
00:10:46.000The newly elected mayor, Zoran Mandani, is making it crystal clear that he wants to impose government-run everything.
00:11:53.000He wants free buses, which means working people will pay for them through higher taxes while the quality of service goes down.
00:12:04.000It all sounds good when you hear about it until you realize the unintended consequences.
00:12:11.000He wants to look the other way on crime.
00:12:14.000So they'll do what they usually do, right?
00:12:17.000They're going to tell you that crime went down because they're just not going to arrest people for doing criminal stuff.
00:12:23.000So again, he wants to look the other way on crime because apparently the real victims here, the real victims of crime, are the criminals, not the hardworking New Yorkers getting mugged on their way to work, on the way to go get groceries, whatever it was.
00:13:13.000And of course, he wants to globalize the infitada.
00:13:17.000I mean, those are actually his words, not mine.
00:13:20.000They're his words to globalize the infitada and try to hinder ICE operations in the five boroughs.
00:13:28.000So while regular New Yorkers are struggling to pay their bills and to stay safe, this guy's priority is protecting people who shouldn't even be in the country and spewing off every cliche far-left slogan day in and day out.
00:13:48.000But if you notice this in his speech on Tuesday night, the mask completely came off.
00:13:54.000All the happy talk, all the feel-good rhetoric turned into something that sounded more like a threat from a communist dictator.
00:14:05.000When he said, we will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve.
00:14:12.000What do you think he meant by that, guys?
00:14:14.000I mean, that seems like something right out of the Marx playbook.
00:14:21.000There's no problem the government can't solve.
00:14:25.000I mean, it's sort of like the opposite of like Reagan's slogan, right?
00:14:29.000Like the seven worst words in the English language or whatever the number of words is, like, you know, I'm here from the government, I'm here to help, like, whatever it is.
00:14:35.000Like the government has not had a great history of solving a lot of problems for regular people.
00:16:06.000The conditions have deteriorated so much that everyday Americans, in spite of their lack of class consciousness, are finally arriving at the conclusion that perhaps there is an alternative out there.
00:16:18.000There is an alternative that focuses on them as opposed to the interests of the billionaires and the millionaires, as opposed to the interests of the capital owners.
00:16:26.000And I mean, you can't help but notice that.
00:16:29.000You can't help but feel at least a little bit of excitement around that.
00:16:34.000And the guy you saw in that video is the same guy being slammed for abusing his own dog during a live stream.
00:16:44.000And communists, they don't exactly have a great history with how they treat their pets.
00:16:52.000The same people claiming to be so threatened and opposed to the millionaires and the billionaires, the same people who rail against the 1% have absolutely no problem cozying up to them the second they smell power or opportunity.
00:17:14.000It's the oldest trick in the socialist playbook, guys.
00:17:18.000Claim you're for the working class while you're dining with the elite.
00:17:25.000Yes, George Soros' son, the heir to billions, posted a photo with Mamdani congratulating him and saying he was so proud to be a New Yorker.
00:19:24.000Now, just consider the stark juxtaposition here.
00:19:28.000You've got that message in Miami delivered in a room full of business leaders, entrepreneurs, job creators, risk takers, many of whom fled communist regimes in places like Cuba and Venezuela.
00:19:42.000People who have seen firsthand what socialism does to a country.
00:19:56.000And then you've got Mandani in New York speaking to a bunch of Champaign socialists, trust fund revolutionaries who have never worked a real job in their lives.
00:20:09.000They're talking about basically seizing the means of production while they sip their $15 lattes.
00:20:18.000These people think that breadlines are a theoretical concept from a history book somewhere, not something that actual human beings suffered through.
00:20:28.000Again, I've witnessed it with my own eyes.
00:20:47.000No one escaped Eastern Europe under the USSR and said, you know what, we got to try that in America.
00:20:55.000Not a single person, only the Bernie Sanders of the world, the academics, the AOCs, the Mandanis, they're the ones that want to do it here.
00:21:21.000It's like the rest of the Democrat Party, folks.
00:21:24.000If we can't get those people to vote for it, we're just going to make sure we take care of illegals and then they'll vote for us and we'll make them citizens and they'll vote for us and then they'll bring their friends and they'll vote for them.
00:21:35.000They'll burn the health care system, the education systems that are already failing.
00:21:41.000We'll flood it with more people rather than actually take care of real New Yorkers.
00:21:44.000The real New Yorkers, they rejected him.
00:21:48.000His strongest support, you guessed it, people who've been in the city less than five years.
00:21:55.000The transplants, the temporary residents who treat New York like it's their personal social experiment before they move back to their parents' homes in the suburbs and start a real life.
00:22:09.000It tells you that the voters who actually know the city, the people who are actually vested, who have skin in the game, who are raising their families there, who own businesses there, okay, they have a real stake in New York's success.
00:22:28.000They know how catastrophically bad his agenda really is.
00:22:34.000They understand it and they know they're going to be there for the long term.
00:22:37.000They remember the bad old days of the 70s and 80s.
00:22:41.000They remember what Democrat incompetence did to this city before Giuliani saved it.
00:22:47.000And they're not buying what Mandani is selling.
00:22:51.000I lived through those times in New York City.
00:22:54.000My father changed the skyline of New York City.
00:22:57.000When Walman Rink couldn't get fixed by the government, he did it himself.
00:23:02.000And he did it in months, not the years that it lay there stagnant.
00:23:07.000It's probably why Florida realtors are getting absolutely flooded with phone calls about relocating.
00:23:16.000Realtors in this exclusive area say there's a new sense of urgency for wealthy New York buyers.
00:23:22.000These are families, empty nesters, looking to buy a home like this and gain residency.
00:23:28.000So some New Yorkers are taking a closer look at Florida's no-state income tax, especially as a potential tax hike looms.
00:23:36.000Raising taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers has been one of Momdani's key campaign promises.
00:23:41.000Luxury real estate agent Johnny Del Pretty says this is a main concern.
00:23:47.000I networth people, you know, they're paying those taxes.
00:23:50.000So they really want to know what they are getting for what they're paying.
00:23:54.000There definitely has been more traffic, more flow through here in regards to showings.
00:23:59.000And it's not just the realtors seeing the shift.
00:24:02.000Local officials say they're feeling it too.
00:24:04.000The mayor of Boca Raton says the Momdani effect is real and he's been fielding calls from worried New Yorkers.
00:24:11.000In June, the city launched a New YorkTaboca.com, which has seen thousands of views, also igniting a billboard in Times Square.
00:24:22.000We're getting people concerned about the potential of 17% tax rate just in city-state alone, potential of higher crime with comments about defunding police.
00:24:33.000The lowest property tax rate of any full-service city in Florida.
00:24:39.000And Sandra, this home behind me is listed for $73 million.
00:24:42.000Although that price tag may seem high, realtors say this is on par for the competitive market down here.
00:24:48.000And the real problem is New York City, the people who pay the vast majority of the taxes, the elite, they can actually just get up and move.
00:25:10.000They can go elsewhere, whether it's Florida or North Carolina or all of Georgia, the other places that people have been flooding from New York City.
00:25:18.000It's the hardworking people that don't have the ability to be that mobile and have to show up to the office because they need that job, not something else.
00:25:25.000They can't work from their phones or remotely.
00:25:28.000They're the ones that are going to get screwed hardest.
00:25:32.000Reports also say that parents are desperately looking for new schools outside the city and in other states because they see exactly what's coming.
00:25:56.000He's going to make the de Blasio years look like the golden age.
00:26:00.000And I can tell you in Florida, we're affected by this just with the law enforcement alone.
00:26:05.000If you're working in NYPD, do you want to go out there and risk your life knowing that the mayor hates you?
00:26:13.000No, a lot of them are not going to want to do that.
00:26:15.000And in Florida, we've established a $5,000 recruitment bonus.
00:26:19.000So if you are somebody that doesn't want to serve under that guy as mayor, you come to Florida, any state or local law enforcement agency, you get $5,000 right at the top.
00:26:42.000You know how many people I know in Palm Beach and the areas around that are New York City cops that moved down there, and they're like, this is the greatest thing I ever did.
00:27:52.000He carried a ton of baggage from his family name and from the first terms and the scandals and the me too stuff and putting people in nursing homes.
00:28:02.000And he ran as a third party, which already split the vote.
00:28:06.000And of course, Republicans are far outnumbered in New York City to have a realistic shot at winning in the current environment.
00:28:15.000The registration, you know, disadvantage is hugely massive.
00:28:22.000So it's really more of an indictment of the entire Democrat Party and what they've become.
00:29:29.000Defeated the oligarchs and rich folks who jumped in to try to stop them and then defeated Donald Trump.
00:29:35.000So the triumphalism that you see there is earned.
00:29:38.000A year ago, nobody ever heard of the guy.
00:29:40.000And the younger people who I'm hearing from feel a great deal of relief and pride and they're fired up and they feel they've been silent for too long.
00:29:56.000I think the Mamdani that we saw in the campaign trail, who was a lot more calm, who was a lot warmer, who was a lot more embracing, was not present in that speech.
00:30:08.000And I think that Mamdani is the one you need to hear from tonight.
00:30:12.000There are a lot of people trying to figure out, can I get on this train with him or not?
00:30:32.000I think he was using the microphone in a way that he was almost yelling.
00:30:36.000And that's not the Mam Daniel that we've seen on TikTok and the great interviews and stuff like that.
00:30:40.000So I felt like there's a little bit of a character switch here where the warm, open, embracing guy that's close to working people was not on stage tonight.
00:30:50.000And there was some other voice on stage.
00:31:27.000Remember, the mayor of San Francisco came back and said, hey, maybe that wasn't a great idea when crime skyrocketed?
00:31:32.000I mean, he wants it handled by social workers.
00:31:35.000He doesn't even think crime is much of an issue.
00:31:39.000Despite the fact that if you can't walk through Times Square without stepping over someone shooting up or witnessing a violent assault, it's probably a problem, guys.
00:31:49.000He sees the criminals as the victims, not the people getting pushed on the subway tracks.
00:31:55.000He won't even commit to putting more officers on the streets when they're already down thousands of cops from where we should be.
00:32:05.000Look, the day-to-day job as mayor isn't even as much about ideology as it is about getting things done.
00:32:45.000It's making sure the schools are open on time, that kids can get an education.
00:32:50.000It's making sure you're working with the governor to make sure that the subways are safe and also running on time.
00:32:57.000Not hosting seminars on why punctuality is white supremacy.
00:33:03.000Yes, apparently that's a thing, folks.
00:33:05.000It's not a job to just experiment with your crazy communist ideas while real people actually have to suffer the consequences of those things.
00:33:15.000Making life more affordable and safe for working people doesn't come from liberal academia or from pie in the sky socialist fantasies that have failed everywhere they've been tried.
00:33:30.000It comes from actual work to incentivize business growth, slash the regulations that are strangling small businesses and increase safety so people actually want to live and work on your city.
00:33:44.000That's like common sense, folks, but it's not so common in the Democrat Party.
00:33:49.000You can't tax and regulate your way to prosperity.
00:33:59.000That's the core of my father's historic election, a victory that happened a year ago.
00:34:07.000It was about having a real commitment to actually getting things done for the American people, not to virtue signal while the country burns down.
00:34:18.000It was about ending the failed status quo that enriches politicians while impoverishing citizens.
00:34:28.000Closing the border so American workers aren't competing with illegal, cheap labor.
00:34:34.000No tax on tips so bartenders and waitresses can keep what they earn.
00:35:24.000And delivers absolutely nothing except poverty and tyranny.
00:35:30.000And once you lose that success, once you lose those freedoms, folks, they don't come back easily.
00:35:37.000It's the biggest scam in human history.
00:35:40.000Every single time it's been tried, without exception, it turns into tyranny and human suffering on a mass scale.
00:35:51.000If you were watching the remarks yesterday at the business conference in Miami, where my father spoke, you heard those stories firsthand from people who actually lived through it.
00:36:02.000These aren't theoretical discussions for them, guys.
00:36:31.000So the Castro family could live like kings while everyone else starved?
00:36:35.000I mean, it doesn't seem like a great plan.
00:36:38.000Just decades ago, Venezuela was the absolute richest nation in South America.
00:36:43.000They had everything: oil, natural resources, an educated population, a thriving middle class.
00:36:52.000But now, after just a few years of socialism, 90% of the country lives in abject poverty, crushing poverty, and inflation rates that's the highest in the world.
00:37:07.000No food, no business, no industry, no opportunity.
00:37:14.000That's the real legacy of socialism and communism.
00:37:18.000Like I always say, and this is important, folks: the migrant boats only go in one direction.
00:37:26.000Have you ever seen someone in a raft out of Miami trying to go to Cuba or Venezuela?
00:37:41.000And it's why the free enterprise system, capitalism, the American way of life and system is the only hope for lifting up a society and achieving true human greatness.
00:38:42.000Venezuela will be the envy of the world.
00:38:46.000They would look and say, How did you do that?
00:38:50.000How did you turn a country in ruins into a beacon of hope, of prosperity, of security?
00:38:58.000I know many people feared that the destruction and devastation have been so huge in our institutions, in our infrastructure, in our resources, in our families, in our soul.
00:39:15.000But believe me, this has brought a country united as never before.
00:39:20.000We turned down the barriers the regime had built to divide us for racial or ideological or social issues.
00:39:31.000And the country is united around values, human dignity, justice, responsibility, solidarity, freedom, and love.
00:39:41.000And this, you know, this urge, this need to bring our children back home.
00:39:47.000So Venezuela will turn into a country of prosperity that will be a living example of what citizens organize with their, you know, will and genius to turn into a great nation that will also be recipient of citizens that come all over the world because they want to invest,
00:40:15.000to create, to live their dreams in a land of grace.
00:40:21.000Guys, let this be a warning to every single one of you watching.
00:40:31.000I mean, Mandani's opening lines in his speech referenced like the guy that ran failed, luckily, many times as a leader of the Socialist Party in America.
00:40:57.000We have to stay on the offense and keep our foot on the gas pedal.
00:41:02.000We can't let the Democrats get away with shutting down the government over their radical agenda, stoking violence in the streets when they don't get their way.
00:41:13.000And we especially can't afford to be fighting amongst ourselves while they're plotting their comeback.
00:41:21.000Here's my father speaking to Fox's Brett Baer on the road ahead.
00:41:25.000You know, I'm so torn because I would like to see the new mayor do well because I love New York.
00:42:11.000I also want to take a moment here to talk about something that shows you what real leadership looks like, what actual, what actually caring about people looks like.
00:42:22.000Scott Adams, the Dilbert creator, a few days ago publicly opened up about an issue he was having, navigating some healthcare bureaucracy and getting treatment scheduled in his battle with cancer.
00:42:38.000It was heartbreaking seeing what Scott's going through.
00:42:41.000It was heartbreaking to read the guy's fighting for his life and dealing with insurance companies and medical bureaucracy.
00:42:49.000I had posted about it trying to help, and it made its way to my father's desk and to RFK, and people saw it, and they immediately started working on getting him everything that he needed.
00:43:01.000Not for publicity, not for political points, but because that's what you do when someone needs help and you have the ability to actually do that.
00:43:09.000He wanted to get on something to try it.
00:43:35.000And this is really worth watching because this is who my father really is when the cameras aren't rolling.
00:43:42.000I know he doesn't love to show his empathetic side.
00:43:45.000He sometimes looks at that as weakness.
00:43:47.000I've told him a lot of times, I was like, man, you have that.
00:43:49.000If you listen to the stories from people who worked for him for years and decades, they tell these stories and he's just unwilling to actually show that side because he's like, how do I negotiate with Putin and these dictators around the world if they think I'm soft?
00:44:00.000But this is who he really is when the cameras aren't rolling.
00:44:06.000The first sentence is, this is your favorite president.
00:44:11.000And I thought to myself, no, did I just send the most important person in the world to voicemail?
00:44:36.000And then he says, you can call me back on this number.
00:44:43.000Now, obviously, I don't call him back, right?
00:44:46.000Because that would just be ridiculous.
00:44:48.000It just was a nice thing for him to say because, you know, because he called me, you could call me back on this number.
00:44:55.000So I didn't call him back on that number because I thought I'd, you know, it's not like he's sitting at the resolute desk waiting to do for my call.
00:45:06.000I thought that whatever it is he's doing has got to be more important, you know, than randomly taking a call from me.
00:46:26.000That's really what this movement is all about, guys.
00:46:30.000For all the fighting and the division, even amongst ourselves, sometimes when we come together Is when this movement is the most powerful.
00:46:43.000It's the most powerful force on earth when we do that.
00:46:47.000When we remember that we're fighting for each other, that we're fighting for our families, that we're fighting for our communities, for the American dream.