Valuetainment - December 30, 2025


＂People Will DIE!＂ - Musk TORCHES Mamdani Over FDNY's DEI Hire


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Elon Musk appointed a woman who has never even served as a firefighter to run the New York City Fire Department. What does that mean for the LGBTQ community? And what does it say about the future of the FDNY? Plus, a look at what's going on in Iran.

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00:00:00.000 Musk hits Mamdani, and then Mamdani hits back.
00:00:03.520 So, Rob, if you want to pull that up.
00:00:05.140 Musk hits Mamdani for appointing non-firefighter to the fire department of New York.
00:00:12.160 Let me say this to you.
00:00:13.640 A non-firefighter became appointed for fire department of New York, and Elon said people will die.
00:00:23.180 Okay?
00:00:23.540 Elon says people will die because of this.
00:00:26.860 Proven experience matters when lives are at stake.
00:00:30.740 Zoram, I'm down to your points.
00:00:32.040 Lillian Bonsigno, as the new FDNI commissioner, although she's never served as a firefighter.
00:00:38.760 Rob, keep that tweet up.
00:00:39.640 Although she's never served as a firefighter.
00:00:43.140 Rob, can you keep that tweet up?
00:00:44.840 I was reading it.
00:00:45.540 Although she's never served as a firefighter, she's confident that won't matter.
00:00:50.880 Bonsigno is a trailblazer for the LGBTQ community.
00:00:55.840 Tell me how much that makes sense.
00:00:58.220 Vinny, I'm going to come to you.
00:00:59.680 Well, January is going to be one of those, like, let's see if the proof is in the pudding.
00:01:07.560 And guess what Mamdani is going to show it to you?
00:01:09.260 All the people in New York, all the young people, all the white liberal women, they're like, yeah.
00:01:13.620 And all the young people are like, he's going to give us free stuff.
00:01:16.700 You're all going to see it come crashing down.
00:01:18.360 On top of this, appointing a, like, while you were saying it, I'm like, appointing someone who has never even been a firefighter to run the fire department is like hiring a vegan to run a steakhouse because they said, oh, I love cows.
00:01:35.500 It doesn't work like that.
00:01:36.880 You have to know the ins and outs of everything.
00:01:39.500 You've had to have lived the life, Pat.
00:01:41.160 By the way, this is the tip of the iceberg.
00:01:43.500 He also hired an ex-con who was in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery to, guess what, to work in the community safety advisory board.
00:01:54.280 What are we even talking about here?
00:01:56.660 So I don't, listen, Elon is right, Pat.
00:01:59.080 And I feel bad for the New Yorkers because everything, everything that we've warned you about and we've told you guys about, January it starts.
00:02:07.760 And this is, I'm telling you right now, this is going to cause a lot of harm.
00:02:11.080 Just like we saw in California with all the fires, when all of a sudden we started peeling back the layers.
00:02:16.560 And you're like, wait a minute, this chick is running this? 1.00
00:02:18.840 She's never done that.
00:02:19.640 Why?
00:02:20.060 And look at how all, it all fell down.
00:02:21.960 It's not, it's not going to look good, Pat.
00:02:23.300 They keep confusing symbolism with leadership.
00:02:26.200 And the people are going to be the ones that have paid the price.
00:02:28.540 So you're going to see it, it's going to happen.
00:02:30.660 Yeah, and look at that.
00:02:31.340 That's Mamdani.
00:02:32.200 He appointed a convicted armed robbery to a transition team.
00:02:35.160 Good luck.
00:02:35.700 Good luck, New York.
00:02:36.580 And by the way, Mamdani, really, really close to the LGBTQ community.
00:02:41.060 I'm very curious why a guy, a Muslim man who, by the way, I'm reading the Quran right now.
00:02:48.260 You guys have no idea the attitude towards these people, towards women and gays.
00:02:52.960 It's kind of weird that he's so pro-trans, so pro-gay, and putting up people in positions 0.80
00:02:58.520 that don't belong there.
00:03:00.320 It's kind of weird.
00:03:01.760 It's kind of weird if you connect the dots of what he's actually doing.
00:03:04.520 What is he up to?
00:03:05.500 I'm very, very curious.
00:03:07.220 There's a brief story, and Pat would know this, about what happened in Iran.
00:03:12.320 The Red-Green Alliance is real, and it's happened in 1979.
00:03:16.420 The Islamists team up with the communists, and they overthrow governments, and they try 0.97
00:03:22.860 to put their Sharia law in there. 0.98
00:03:25.080 And then you know what happens to all the communists and the Marxists and the socialists? 0.98
00:03:28.440 Yeah, once they get power, the Islamists kill them. 0.94
00:03:32.120 So that's what's happened in Iran, which I'm sure we'll cover.
00:03:35.080 But back to New York, is there a bigger dichotomy of ideology and belief and doing things than
00:03:44.380 Elon Musk and Zoran Mamdani?
00:03:47.180 We talked about builders versus destroyers, how it's so easy to destroy and tear down.
00:03:52.100 It's hard to build.
00:03:53.300 There's only two ways to have the biggest building.
00:03:55.280 You actually build a building that's taller than the biggest building, or you just tear
00:03:59.060 down all the other buildings.
00:04:00.000 So Elon Musk is a full-on capitalist, unapologetic, and Zoran Mamdani is a democratic, socialist,
00:04:07.740 Islamist.
00:04:08.500 So he believes in wealth redistribution, and Elon Musk is creating wealth.
00:04:12.820 So here's my advice to people in New York.
00:04:15.140 Stop listening to what Zoran Mamdani says.
00:04:18.480 Just watch what he does.
00:04:20.560 Watch who he brings into his cabinet.
00:04:22.700 Watch how the taxes will go up.
00:04:25.080 Watch what happens.
00:04:26.140 Forget about your feelings.
00:04:28.240 Watch what actually happens to your city with these nonsensical people that he puts into
00:04:33.380 power.
00:04:33.880 By the way, Rob, can you pull up the tweet by Mamdani responding to Musk?
00:04:38.760 Yeah.
00:04:38.920 So here's a tweet, and I want you to hear from this chief commissioner of the fire department
00:04:43.220 in New York.
00:04:44.260 He responds to Elon, experience does matter, which is why I appointed the person who spent
00:04:48.600 more than 30 years at EMS.
00:04:50.500 EMS, you know the workforce that addresses at least 70% of all calls coming into the fire
00:04:57.280 department of New York.
00:04:58.240 Rob, do you have that clip I sent you with her speaking?
00:05:01.720 This is the commissioner, by the way, of the fire department of New York.
00:05:04.640 Let me know if you're worried about your fire in New York when something happens.
00:05:08.300 Can you pull up this clip, Rob, that I just texted it to you?
00:05:11.740 Lillian Bonsignor is a career first responder.
00:05:14.420 In just nine days, she'll be running the world's busiest fire department, one of the most important
00:05:19.480 appointments of the incoming administration.
00:05:22.480 And they deserve a leader who cares about their work because she did it herself.
00:05:27.240 Where's the girl? 0.99
00:05:28.240 Who understands every detail and will fight tirelessly to empower FDNY and make it the
00:05:33.760 best firefighting force in the world.
00:05:35.680 Lillian Bonsignor began her career as an EMT in 1991 and was ultimately promoted to chief 0.95
00:05:42.280 of the city's EMS division, where she served for three years before retiring in 2022.
00:05:48.760 Although she never served as a firefighter, she's confident that won't matter.
00:05:53.640 I know the job.
00:05:55.100 I know what the firefighters need, and I can translate that to this administration who's
00:06:00.540 willing to listen.
00:06:01.860 I know what EMS needs.
00:06:03.260 I have been DMS for 30-plus years.
00:06:06.340 Bonsignor is a trailblazer for the LGBTQ community, who will serve as the FDNY's first openly gay
00:06:13.320 commissioner.
00:06:14.460 She's a highly respected, detail-oriented manager, whose style has been compared to NYPD commissioner
00:06:20.780 Jessica Tish, who will remain in her post in the new administration.
00:06:26.240 I am so confused.
00:06:28.120 I have no idea what the hell is going on right now.
00:06:30.200 I am so bothered.
00:06:32.500 Well, at least they checked the DEI LGBT box. 0.95
00:06:36.340 Let me just show you something.
00:06:37.260 Let me just show you something.
00:06:37.980 Let me just show you something.
00:06:39.260 Rob, did you guys see the video of the female cop that was trying to get this guy in the
00:06:44.980 middle of the freeway two days ago, three days ago, and what the guy did to the female 0.72
00:06:48.800 cop?
00:06:49.140 Did you guys see this video or not?
00:06:50.240 Have you guys seen it?
00:06:50.500 I saw it.
00:06:51.300 I saw it.
00:06:52.040 Rob, can you pull this up?
00:06:53.480 Can you pull this up?
00:06:54.460 What I just sent you.
00:06:56.280 And when you pull it up, Rob, can you go right in the middle of it?
00:07:00.340 Go to like the second 50.
00:07:03.380 Go to 52nd right there.
00:07:04.660 Watch this, folks.
00:07:05.660 That's a cop car, okay, that pulls up.
00:07:08.680 That video is a TMZ video.
00:07:10.760 This is Seattle, Washington State.
00:07:13.280 Go ahead.
00:07:13.660 So that's the patrol car.
00:07:17.700 She's trying to find out what the hell is going on with this guy in the middle of the
00:07:20.220 street, and look what he does.
00:07:22.160 He all of a sudden pulls up.
00:07:23.480 He's like, ah, what are you going to do about it?
00:07:25.860 Watch this.
00:07:27.280 Pulls up, opens the door.
00:07:30.200 Keep in mind, this is a cop in Seattle.
00:07:33.440 He leaves it.
00:07:34.220 What the hell is she doing? 1.00
00:07:35.660 That's her. 0.98
00:07:36.080 What?
00:07:36.640 Boom.
00:07:37.460 Drops the cop.
00:07:39.460 Are you kidding me?
00:07:40.180 Oh, my God.
00:07:42.020 Oh.
00:07:42.340 He drives off. 0.84
00:07:45.520 By the way, if there's guns in the car, she could have shot him. 1.00
00:07:48.180 She should have shot him. 1.00
00:07:49.140 He drives off. 0.99
00:07:49.940 So you know what the moral of the story is?
00:07:52.020 You ever hear me give that stat about all these people that are the jobs that are men
00:07:57.640 do and in jobs that women do? 1.00
00:08:01.140 I don't want a man at a daycare babysitting my kids. 1.00
00:08:05.660 I don't.
00:08:06.740 I want a woman. 1.00
00:08:08.180 They're more gentle.
00:08:09.420 They're more loving.
00:08:10.320 They're more caring.
00:08:11.120 I think yesterday we're at the movie theater.
00:08:13.040 One of our guys' son has diarrhea, TMI for you guys.
00:08:18.460 Do you know how many times she takes him to the bathroom to change the diapers? 0.96
00:08:21.160 Over and over and over and loving and caring and do all this.
00:08:24.960 Imagine the day that Adam's got a kid and that boy's got diarrhea seven times in a row.
00:08:29.860 Can you guys visualize Adam changing diapers?
00:08:32.680 Can you visualize that picture right there?
00:08:35.440 Adam right now is getting second thoughts of even thinking about having kids.
00:08:38.300 Last week, he was open to the idea.
00:08:40.460 Now he probably is delaying that for another 15 more years.
00:08:43.560 What's the moral of the story?
00:08:44.960 Nothing against women and men. 1.00
00:08:47.260 There are certain jobs I just don't want to see a man doing. 1.00
00:08:50.580 And there are certain jobs I just don't want to see a woman doing. 1.00
00:08:53.000 And so for you to say a fire, the commissioner of the fire department, the logic to say, we need a lesbian chief commissioner to be up there doing that because we feel safer. 1.00
00:09:03.880 However, I wonder how many New Yorkans who are willing to set aside their politics will say, yeah, that's the right decision.
00:09:10.680 I feel so much safer now.
00:09:12.200 Tom, I'll give you the final thoughts on this.
00:09:14.420 Yeah.
00:09:14.620 30 years answering 911 calls.
00:09:17.240 Is that important?
00:09:18.340 Yes.
00:09:18.680 Does that give you exposure to the problems?
00:09:21.020 Yes.
00:09:21.300 Does it allow you to look at data and say how many fire calls?
00:09:24.260 How many paramedic heart attack calls?
00:09:26.460 How many this?
00:09:27.760 But you know what it doesn't give you?
00:09:28.960 It doesn't give you the moral authority to look all of the battalion chiefs in the eyes and say, what equipment do you need in the parts of New York City where you have crumbling buildings and your team is expected to go in there to rescue people and to save lives?
00:09:43.360 What is the equipment that you need in there?
00:09:45.220 What's different?
00:09:46.100 What are the training that we need?
00:09:47.700 What is change going on here?
00:09:49.700 This is a symbolic hire.
00:09:51.680 I don't care what her background is.
00:09:53.880 I actually don't.
00:09:55.320 Do I think that she was probably a good man or he, she, whatever she identifies that I will give her the respect of her pronouns while not, you know, you know, belittling.
00:10:04.480 But the point is, you've been answering 800 numbers, excuse me, nine 911 calls.
00:10:08.900 And now you've got the entire chief.
00:10:10.880 The reason that you needed a police chief that represented the police chief, because there's a hell of a difference between answering a 911 call and people understanding what it's like to be shot at by people you're trying to arrest.
00:10:23.300 That's why that's important.
00:10:24.560 So don't you think it's important that someone that's been out there, because remember, New York is not perfect.
00:10:30.840 The streets are narrow.
00:10:32.200 The complications are many.
00:10:33.760 The infrastructure is difficult.
00:10:35.760 The buildings are old.
00:10:37.040 The buildings are tall.
00:10:38.560 And these people fearlessly walk inside to save lives every day.
00:10:43.220 Do I want a battalion chief who rose through the ranks that understands all that, that's been there, that can say, I don't know which of the city recommended this model fire truck because it didn't work.
00:10:54.320 These three were great.
00:10:56.120 I want that guy.
00:10:57.340 And I want that guy there for the safety.
00:10:59.340 Except for talking about the safety in New York City, you want somebody there.
00:11:02.380 And this, to me, is a symbolic hire, which is DEI, and trying to say, well, did answer the 911 calls.
00:11:10.740 I'm sorry.
00:11:11.420 I'm not buying it as an excuse for qualification.
00:11:14.240 Pat, just, I know, like, 20 seconds.
00:11:16.660 I kind of brushed over it, but I want to make that point clear.
00:11:20.100 Like, Mondani, to me, is like the Trojan horse.
00:11:22.840 Pat, think about it.
00:11:23.900 He's hiring ex-convicts from prison for robbing and kidnapping to head the community safety advisory board. 0.96
00:11:31.320 He was in a church with a gay LGBTQ that's like, hey, the children, the children. 1.00
00:11:37.100 So he's pushing the ideology on the children.
00:11:39.200 And now you're hiring a he, she, whatever that's never been a fireman. 0.98
00:11:42.500 And it's almost as if he's coming with that smile, and he's slowly going to destroy the freaking community. 0.96
00:11:49.580 Guys, Adam, I'm not playing it lightly. 1.00
00:11:51.900 That's like a Trojan horse, and he's doing it with that stupid face. 1.00
00:11:55.480 You look at the history, and you look at what he actually wants to do. 1.00
00:11:58.960 That's the Trojan horse, and he's trying to destroy a freaking city, just like they're doing in Minnesota. 1.00
00:12:03.420 And just how they're trying to do that shit in freaking Texas. 0.99
00:12:06.200 Sorry for my language. 0.99
00:12:07.460 Interesting.
00:12:07.860 I'm just excited for the 2026 fireman calendar of the year.
00:12:13.000 You know, we've seen these calendars.
00:12:14.600 It'll be littered with they, them, trans, LGBT. 1.00
00:12:18.920 And you know, they say that facts don't care about your feelings.
00:12:21.320 Well, fires don't care about your feelings.
00:12:23.640 We saw what happened in California when the Palisades burnt down. 0.93
00:12:27.500 God forbid something ridiculous happens in New York. 0.94
00:12:30.420 I'm just warning New York, be smart. 0.94
00:12:33.060 And by the way, you know how Andrew Schultz said many years ago, he said,
00:12:36.900 you know, I judge a great president by the way he moves merch.
00:12:40.040 He said, Biden doesn't know how to move merch.
00:12:41.800 Trump knows how to move merch, right?
00:12:43.280 I wonder how much merch those calendars are going to sell of Fire Department of New York.
00:12:49.560 I'd love to see her be in it. 0.99
00:12:51.620 But maybe we're wrong.
00:12:52.960 Maybe 50 million people order it, and you see it in offices.
00:12:56.400 And I have no problem being wrong.
00:12:58.520 And if 50 million sell, I'll Wi-Fi with them myself and hand it over to Vinny, Adam, and Tom and Humberto.
00:13:04.300 I need Tabasco for my eyes.
00:13:07.840 Right now, with everything that's happening, I think the spiritual battle that the nation, that the world is going through right now,
00:13:15.280 I think it's more obvious than I think it's ever been.
00:13:18.480 And I think letting people know, Pat, I was watching Gladiator, and they kept saying, hold the line.
00:13:23.720 I watched another movie.
00:13:24.880 I was watching Game of Thrones.
00:13:25.880 Hold the line.
00:13:26.660 When it comes to Christianity and your spirituality, I think having faith and not caring about anything. 0.99
00:13:32.520 Dylan, I actually, Pat, and you remember this on the plane coming here.
00:13:35.440 Guys, on the flight here, the turbulence was so bad.
00:13:40.000 I have a huge, my biggest fear, my biggest fear of all is flying.
00:13:44.960 Ask Pat.
00:13:45.420 I'm sitting next to Pat.
00:13:46.640 We're dropping.
00:13:47.760 By the way, we're in Aspen.
00:13:49.260 The mountains are like this.
00:13:50.640 The altitude, it's horrible.
00:13:53.180 And we're coming in for landing, and we're finally all nervous.
00:13:56.940 And then Pat's like, ask Dylan.
00:13:58.800 Like, Dylan, were you worried?
00:14:00.460 Were you worried?
00:14:01.040 Were you scared about anything?
00:14:02.400 And Dylan, Dylan.
00:14:04.440 How old is Dylan, Pat?
00:14:05.700 Whoa.
00:14:07.420 Pat?
00:14:08.220 12.
00:14:08.660 He's 12 years old.
00:14:09.460 Okay, Lumpson Showman.
00:14:10.640 12 years old goes, Dad, no, I'm not afraid.
00:14:13.880 I have faith, because I'm not scared about anything, because if anything, God forbid,
00:14:17.780 happens, I'm going to be with God and Jesus Christ in heaven.
00:14:21.420 So again, wearing this shirt, guys, I can't tell you how many messages I get of people seeing
00:14:26.660 the back of faith over fear, and people are like, hey, what does that mean?
00:14:29.980 What does Hebrews mean?
00:14:30.960 And then the conversation sparks, and I learned from Dylan at 12 years old, in that moment,
00:14:36.040 what do you have to be afraid of?
00:14:37.360 Nothing.
00:14:38.180 Nothing.
00:14:38.580 You have nothing to be afraid of if you have faith, and yeah, we have the faith over
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