00:06:58.420He's not wrong about it being all the Democrats' fault.
00:07:02.720What he is wrong about is, if he stays in it, all he's doing is guaranteeing Mamdani is going to be elected the next mayor of New York City here in 13 days.
00:07:11.980And I have made the argument, and I really do believe this, that Mamdani winning is simultaneously the worst thing that could happen to New York City and the best thing that could happen to the rest of the country.
00:07:24.820Because it makes Mamdani and AOC the face of the Democrat Party, socialist-communist in New York City.
00:07:32.840And New York City, as nice of a place as it is, does not play well in all of the battleground states, the places where control of the Senate is going to be determined, and the places where control of the House is going to be determined.
00:07:47.700So, with that in mind, there is an argument that Curtis Lee was actually doing what is best for the Republican Party by refusing to drop out.
00:07:57.580I don't think there's any argument at all that he's doing what is best for New York City because his continued involvement in this race, his continued staying in this race, ensures that Mamdani is going to be elected the next mayor of New York City.
00:08:14.440And then it becomes a case, Buck, of you just have to hope that Mamdani is so incompetent that he isn't able to implement the things that he has promised he is going to be implemented.
00:08:26.740Well, this is my silver lining explanation.
00:08:31.760Unfortunately, I think Eric Adams had a similar but different problem in that he had some good ideas on public safety, but lacked the bureaucratic skills to implement them.
00:08:44.440So, Mamdani, it's a different problem.
00:08:47.240What he wants to do is bad, but he may be incapable of doing it.
00:08:51.660Here we have Curtis Lee, we're continuing on.
00:08:54.180This is a hat tip Nate Friedman podcast.
00:08:56.500I've never heard of Nate, but this is from his podcast.
00:08:59.220But here's Curtis Lee, we're making his case, Clay, that this idea that all the Cuomo people, rather that his people will just vote Cuomo, is also detached from what he sees as reality.
00:09:10.000And how dare you, people who know nothing about politics, suggest that everybody who's going to vote for me is suddenly going to be reborn.
00:09:27.160He told conservatives and Republicans in 2014, if you're a conservative and you believe in right to life and the Second Amendment, you have no place in New York.
00:10:12.780And again, this is where I come back, and I understand we've got a lot of W.R. listeners.
00:10:17.300This is where I come back to it can simultaneously be the best and worst thing for the Republican Party for Mamdani to win.
00:10:25.340I think it's the worst thing for anyone who is sane in New York City.
00:10:29.540I think it's arguably the best thing that could happen for anyone who is sane in the country.
00:10:34.240And this is why I've said sometimes you just got to let the island go under the water.
00:10:38.060Best case scenario, to your point, Buck, he's so incompetent that he can't actually change anything or implement any of his ideas.
00:10:45.120Worst case scenario, he does, and New York City, really, as one of the crown jewels of America, starts to reflect some of the same issues that we have seen happen in many of the top capitals across the West,
00:11:01.040which is all of the choices they're making are finally starting to catch up with them, whether it's London, whether it's Paris, you name the big Western civilization capitals.
00:11:11.900I think they're making increasingly left-wing choices that are bad for the overall populations there.
00:11:17.020Part of the problem is that leftists have a much higher tolerance for inflicting pain on the masses than a lot of the sane people, us, realize, right?
00:11:26.000San Francisco should have known 20 years ago, hey, what are you doing?
00:11:32.640Now it seems they finally have a more sane mayor, finally, but it took way too long.
00:11:39.500I worry that something like that will happen in New York.
00:11:41.480But here, just for one last bit of the argument, Clay, here's Curtis Sliwa telling Andrew Cuomo that it's on him to go out and convert Sliwa voters.
00:13:31.380A lot of people really personally dislike Andrew Cuomo.
00:13:34.540So he may not personally dislike Momdani, and this may be personal on Curtis Sliwa's behalf.
00:13:40.320But again, in 13 days, the data is going to be out there.
00:13:44.220And I think you can look at it, and we'll see whether Momdani wins a majority of this trio.
00:13:50.640Or do the numbers reflect that if there had been a 1v1, Momdani would have lost?
00:13:56.840Because right now, as we're speaking to all of you, Momdani keeps setting new highs, Buck, in the likelihood of being able to be the nominee and to win this race.
00:14:09.060And so long as that continues, I think that we're in a really, really tough spot for the city of New York.
00:14:16.440Now, positive is there does seem to be some good momentum for Cittarelli on the jersey race.
00:14:25.400And certainly Jason Miara's and Winsome Sears, I think, have made up some ground in the state of Virginia as that race is going.
00:14:34.680But right now, you have a 93% chance in all of the sort of prediction markets that Momdani's going to win.
00:14:45.020And if you think Sliwa's going to win, because we get these calls every time, you can 100 times your money in 13 days.
00:14:51.820So this would be one of the most epic upsets in the history of upsets.
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00:25:38.580The First Amendment doesn't mean that there aren't consequences for your behavior.
00:25:42.900And if you are a public school teacher, elementary school, I don't think you should be teaching kids if you are going around publicly celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
00:25:55.700I wouldn't want my third grader, I wouldn't want to walk in there and know that she had been at a No Kings protest doing celebratory gestures having to do with Charlie Kirk's murder.
00:26:07.240Because I would think that would influence her teaching.
00:26:10.740To all the people who are saying this about that teacher, for example, it's always situational with leftists.
00:26:17.760They want what they want, how they want it, when they want it.
00:26:21.320There's no rule that we can all be held to.
00:26:24.620And I just give you this, if Jimmy Kimmel, or if this teacher, had been shouting a racial slur, a racial slur that you're never allowed to say, would we be hearing about free speech arguments?
00:26:38.020Would they be saying, oh, but, you know, it's free speech, you're allowed to say that?
00:26:47.440The line is, what is abhorrent to the people that you are either serving, in the case of a teacher, the community you're serving, or to a very unfunny late-night talk show host who's representing a broader corporate brand?
00:27:02.260And this is true of anybody, I might add.
00:27:04.260You don't get to make a free speech argument.
00:27:06.280If you walked into Initech while you're working for Lumberg, and you told Lumberg what you really think of him when he's like, would you come in and work on Saturday?
00:27:17.560And you started, great movie, and you started just dropping all kinds of curse words and telling him what you really think of him and his stupid suspenders and the whole thing, and he fired you, you don't have a First Amendment argument.
00:27:31.780I just feel like people intentionally confuse this thing now, where you are entitled, if you are advancing leftist ideology in some capacity,
00:27:41.340the First Amendment means you have an ironclad right to not be fired from your job or have there be any consequences for it.
00:27:47.700Then people say, well, what about when the cancel culture stuff?
00:27:50.360The cancel culture stuff was unreasonable and irrational firing of people for saying entirely valid and normal and things that half the country agrees with.
00:28:01.780Yes, and look, again, I think that public school, elementary school teachers, which are being funded by all of our taxpayers,
00:28:12.880I don't think it's too high of a standard of behavior to expect that you're not going to be in public celebrating a public assassination of a figure.
00:28:23.500And so I think if you did that and Rachel Maddow had gotten shot and you were a super right winger, which I don't think people would even really celebrate it,
00:28:33.420the consequence on the same side, you shouldn't be celebrating political assassinations and making a living teaching young kids.
00:29:39.120Or have you betrayed a large enough portion of your audience with what you've said or outrage them with what you've said that you cease to be able to function as somebody who they can trust and who is still a viable show?
00:29:53.840Well, I mean, this is the real what was happening on the other side and the cancel culture wars was people were were creating a fiction that there was outrage at somebody.
00:30:04.020This happened to Rush outrage at somebody for something that was said.
00:30:07.880And then there were actions taken based on the lie that this was actually so outrageous.
00:30:14.100Look, I think if you went back in time and you were looking at the Jimmy Kimmel thing, the FCC weighing in, I think, actually made it a bigger story than it would have been if nobody had weighed in at all on the government level.
00:30:28.940Because then they said, oh, well, this is government pressure and coercion.
00:30:33.700Look, the reality is he missed four days and now he's back on the air and there is virtually no discussion about this.
00:30:40.280But but that also tells you that there was no real fear of government coercion because they wouldn't have just put them on the air a few days later.
00:30:47.300The whole thing was, again, that's why I said, if you didn't say anything about Roseanne or Gina Carano when they were canceled at Disney, which almost no one did.
00:31:46.500You remember, Buck, in New York City when Kyrie Irving refused to get the covid shot in Brooklyn and they wouldn't allow him to play in the games,
00:31:56.780but they would allow him to sit in the crowd courtside.
00:32:00.580Do you remember that absurdity of covid?
00:32:02.520They wouldn't let him play in the game, but they would allow him to sit on the court and watch the games.
00:32:09.400That was the line that they were drawing at that point in time.
00:32:13.060I remember being in line for the Columbus Circle, New York City, Whole Foods peak pandemic time.
00:32:20.880And they were enforcing with with Prussian efficiency, six feet of distancing between people standing in the line.
00:32:32.640You got into the Whole Foods and it was absolutely mobbed with people like shoulder to shoulder and all the aisles and everything.
00:32:39.800You know, unlimited time to shop, do whatever you want to do.
00:32:43.000So outside where you actually cannot spread the virus in open air, in open air, six feet of distancing inside shoulder to shoulder with worthless masks on.
00:32:55.180And, you know, there is this is all you need to know about somebody is a public figure, as a leader, as a commentator.
00:33:13.480In fact, I think you could argue he was the worst because he really set the tone of panic and authoritarianism alongside it that then all these other states followed because New York got hit first.
00:33:24.500And here to close out, to tie in all of this, as the story has altered, Stephen A.
00:33:30.180Smith, ESPN's most prominent employee, now says, hey, Kyrie Irving was right.
00:33:35.500He should have never taken the covid shot.
00:34:51.360Most people won't even acknowledge that Kyrie Irving and Aaron Rodgers and other prominent athletes who said, I'm not going to get the covid shot were, in fact, correct.
00:35:01.240But it's just one of very many things that, to your point, Andrew Cuomo, who is now supposed to be the savior of New York, was one billion percent wrong on.
00:35:13.260This is why I can't get that energized about the anything to defeat.
00:35:17.640I think Sliwa probably feels this way, too.
00:35:19.480I haven't heard him say this, but we're supposed to go and break out, you know, and break the glass, do anything we can so that Andrew Cuomo can be the mayor.
00:35:35.520I am in the New York City studio with our team and producer Ali is wearing her cozy earth cashmere sweater because she says that we keep it too cold in the studio here.
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00:37:36.840We also have Trump just speaking a few moments ago because, you know, there is a and the team pointed this out to me, privately funded renovation, really a remodel, a demo and remodel of the east wing of the White House to accommodate a ballroom.
00:37:57.860That is, some people are saying, going to be the most fabulous ballroom of all ballrooms.
00:38:03.700It's going to be spectacular, I'm sure.
00:38:05.920And this is President Trump speaking about the West Wing's history and more.
00:39:17.720These angry emails are Buck Sexton's fault.
00:39:21.060So word is from the White House historian crew that back in the day, JFK, as soon as Jackie Kennedy would leave the White House, would roll in girls and they would have naked swimming parties in the White House swimming pool.
00:39:42.700So if you think Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky was scandalous, what Trump is referencing is that they would have skinny dipping sessions when JFK was president with girls that they would bring in.
00:39:59.660So that pool is now covered up and that's where the press goes.
00:40:03.360But that is a accurate, so far as I have heard, a historical rendition that Trump was referencing there.
00:40:10.860Probably did not expect that that would be the opening of the third hour.
00:40:15.520But that is what I will say is talking about JFK and Camelot and all that stuff is a pure the same way that that they went with Biden doesn't have dementia.
00:40:26.940It was a pure fabrication of the Democrat-aligned media and not just then, but a continuation, perpetuation, because it created this Kennedy dynasty, so-called dynasty, that led to someone like Ted Kennedy, who let a woman drown in the back of his car.
00:40:47.280These are the kind of people that the Kennedys brought us in politics.
00:40:52.360And isn't there a, wasn't there like the red-haired guy who was going to be the, you know, the great hope of the Kennedys and he gave some like sweaty face speech after the, you know what I'm talking about.
00:41:03.700There was a young Kennedy, another, a member of Congress.
00:41:12.020Yeah, basically, they're a Democrat brand and they're protected as such.
00:41:17.600But if you actually look at the conduct of JFK in the Oval Office, in the White House, and as a person, he was also a very sickly guy, needed a whole bunch of different controlled substances to get through the day.
00:41:32.500This idea that he was this strapping, handsome, you know, all-American guy and all this is all, I'm just saying, it's all a fabrication.
00:41:40.040This is all stuff that was fed to people because there was no, you know, it's different.
00:41:44.900You didn't have the constant media cycle, you didn't have so many people that have not just access but are able to use their own methods of capturing information.
00:41:55.720Everyone walks around now, think about it this way, when Kennedy was actually president, Clay, the press had a fraction of the access and the ability to create content that every single one of our listeners right now does.
00:42:39.820And, well, they also got away with Woodrow Wilson's wife running the White House for the last year or so.
00:42:46.200Edith was basically the president of the United States because he had such a bad stroke.
00:42:51.940I also think that that, we didn't talk about it that much.
00:42:54.280I think that same dynamic factored in with Dr., I love that we all call her Dr. and just, gosh, Dr. Jill Biden, I think she recognized that her frail husband meant that she was in a more powerful role than a first lady could or should be, generally.
00:46:04.320But I think the idea that there was going to be some mass rallying effect to the Democrat side has certainly not been reflected in the polls.
00:46:14.980And it hasn't been reflected in the reactions by and large.
00:46:19.160As most people have just kind of said, yeah, there's not a lot to this.
00:46:24.320Well, here is, since we're talking about the shutdown a little bit.
00:46:27.960The latest explanation of this that we get from Chuck Schumer, who is really, it is the Schumer shutdown.
00:46:36.800I mean, this guy, more than any other, is responsible for where this is.
00:46:40.600We enter another week of Donald Trump's government shutdown, and Republicans seem happy not to work, happy not to negotiate, happy to let health care premium spike for over 20 million working and middle class Americans.
00:46:55.380Our country is staring down the barrel of a health care catastrophe, and Republicans will spend this week either vacationing or holding pep rallies at the White House.
00:47:05.060It's been over a month since the House of Representatives even took a single roll call vote.
00:47:22.160He can say whatever he wants about it, Clay.
00:47:23.800I don't think that it's going to work.
00:47:24.820I also think that the more they talk about health care, hold on a second.
00:47:29.140Obamacare, we're supposed to make everything cheaper.
00:47:30.560Why do we have to shovel billions and billions of dollars into Obamacare to make it even temporarily seem solvent?
00:47:38.620All of us are paying way more than we were told we would ever have to pay for health care to a large extent because Obamacare has failed.
00:47:50.400And this idea that your insurance was going to be cheaper or you were going to have more flexibility when it came to your doctors, it has been proven to be, I think, a complete and total lie.
00:48:00.980And so everybody out there who is dealing, and I think it's all of us, when you have to go to the doctor and you get back your bill and you say how in the world could it possibly have cost this much or how can my insurance premiums have risen to the level that they have, Obamacare has actually made, as many people argued that would be the case, everything more expensive and worse than it would be if we had never fiddled with it at all.
00:48:26.380And in fact, it kind of ties in with this, I can't believe I'm going to give him credit here, what Jon Stewart said about Bernie Sanders.
00:48:34.260The Democrat solution is always subsidies, and when the government causes endless funds to be spent, Jon Stewart's actually making sense here.
00:48:44.520The Democratic solutions have never been to directly provide, it's always been a subsidy to a middleman.
00:48:55.380But what happens is, when the government promises endless funds to insurance companies or private universities without any cost controls, and Trump seems to understand this, prices rise far beyond the rate of inflation.
00:49:12.240And we've seen it in tuition, and we've seen it in pharmaceutical, and we've seen it in healthcare.
00:49:18.640So my question is, will Democrats recognize the poison pill that they've often placed into well-intentioned policy?
00:49:28.900They don't understand basic economics, and I think to Jon Stewart's credit, he's elucidating that Democrats don't understand market-based policies and get all of their prescriptions wrong, which ends up costing us all more.
00:49:42.100But let's play the Bernie response to that on the other side of this.
00:49:45.860You're going to hear Bernie Sanders, it's going to be like, but the more we spend comes from the millionaires and the billionaires.
00:49:56.700I think that is likely to be proven true.
00:49:58.380Yeah, I don't know what it is, I'm just guessing, but economic illiterate Bernie Sanders is going to have some foolish thing to say, and you'll stick around with us and you'll hear it.
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