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0:00He has not produced a single thing of
0:01value in his entire life. And the man is
0:03in his 80s. He's a career useless
0:05person. But his entire life has been
0:07dedicated to wrecking the systems that
0:09have granted him fame and fortune. The
0:11biggest luxury belief in politics that
0:12actually is held by an enormous number
0:14of people. There are a few that actually
0:16cross the street from touch the grass to
0:18the internet. A and because people have
0:20not felt the ramifications of those
0:22beliefs in a long time in the United
0:23States, they continue to adhere to those
0:25beliefs. The biggest sort of luxury
0:27belief held by a huge number of
0:29Americans remains socialism. There are a
0:32bunch of Americans who are still in love
0:34with the idea of socialism because it
0:35seems to solve all of their problems
0:37both emotional and financial. The idea
0:40is that if you're not doing well in
0:41American society, it must be somebody
0:43else's fault. There's a giant conspiracy
0:44that can only be cured by handing over
0:47to a cadre of an unbelievably powerful
0:49people in government control over
0:52everybody's life. This is always a
0:54temptation. I point this out because the
0:57right is looking at the left and they're
0:58riding high because they're looking at
0:59the Democrats and they're saying, "You
1:00guys are really, really unpopular. There
1:02are some problems. There are some
1:04problems here." This is why I've been
1:05saying, I'm going to keep saying it. If
1:07the economy goes south, this country is
1:09in serious, serious trouble. Not because
1:11we can't survive a recession. We have
1:13before and we will again, but because if
1:15the country if our economy goes south,
1:18there will be a vast turn toward the
1:20socialistic left. And here I point to a
1:23Gallup poll that came out August 5th.
1:26Among 14 prominent US and global
1:28figures, the most positive image held by
1:31anybody is Pope Leo, which of course not
1:33a giant shock. He's a religious figure.
1:36And then number two is Vladimir
1:38Zilinski, who continues to hold a 52%
1:40favorable rating and a 34% unfavorable
1:43rating. But third on that list is Bernie
1:47Sanders. Bernie Sanders has a 49%
1:49favorable rating, a 38% unfavorable
1:52rating with 14% of Americans saying they
1:54have no opinion of Bernie Sanders. And
1:57you know who comes in number five on the
1:59list? Alexander Okaziocortez. 34%
2:02favorable, 38% unfavorable, 28% no
2:06opinion. That puts her at -4. That means
2:08that her approval ratings are better by
2:11the spread than JD Vance, who comes in
2:13at 38% positive, 49% negative.
2:17comes in hotter than Donald Trump 41%
2:20positive, 57% negative. Marco Rubio, 31%
2:23positive, 47% negative. And Elon, who
2:26has the worst of any of the public
2:28figures, 33% positive, 61% negative. And
2:31this is a problem because Bernie Sanders
2:34has stood outside the two-party system
2:35shouting socialist nostrums his entire
2:37career. He is a career useless person, a
2:39leech on the ass of American society.
2:41And yet, he is somehow seen as a widely
2:44admired figure in America. And this
2:47bodess ill. It bodess very very ill. So
2:50one of the reasons that Bernie Sanders
2:51remains popular is because he stands
2:53outside the two-party system getting
2:54nothing done but shouting extremely
2:56simple bumper slogans. And and and I
2:58think that that is the thing that that
3:01people are attracted to in Bernie is
3:03that Bernie is a purist. He never
3:05actually has to come down to earth to
3:06make policy. Instead, he just stands
3:09there saying that rich people are rich,
3:11not because they provide a good service
3:14or product to anybody who wants it, but
3:17because they are greedy. That the reason
3:19that some are succeeding and others are
3:20failing is because the system is rigged
3:22against you. And the parties themselves
3:25are rigged against you. And this is a
3:26very convenient stance for somebody in
3:29electoral office to take because it
3:31means nothing is ever his fault. He's
3:32not had to change a single thing in
3:34American public life. He just gets to
3:35stand there shouting at the system.
3:38Well, the problem right now for the
3:39country is that if the system then fails
3:41in some way, people tend to turn to the
3:43guy who is shouting at the system from
3:45the outside. When I've talked about the
3:48Zoran Mandonification of the Democratic
3:50Party, understand that is not Zoran
3:51Mandani. Okay? Zoran Mandani is second
3:54gen. He is just Bernie 2.0 but more
3:57ethnically diverse. The same thing is
3:59true of AOC.
4:01Bernie is the kingmaker in this space.
4:04and he continues to ride very high which
4:06is why the economy best not fall down.
4:09So over the course of the past couple of
4:11days he's doing a lot of TV and he
4:13suggests for example that the real
4:14problem the reason that Kla Harris lost
4:16is because she was influenced by wealthy
4:18people.
4:20>> You said something pretty tough when you
4:22were speaking to this crowd about Kla
4:24Harris. One of the reasons in my view
4:26that Kla Harris lost this election is
4:29she had too many billionaires telling
4:31her not to speak up for the working
4:33class of this country.
4:36>> Ouch.
4:37>> Well, no, I think I mean I don't think
4:39that that's I like her. She's a friend
4:41of mine, but she was her core um uh
4:45consultants, you know, were heavily
4:47influenced by very wealthy people. How
4:49do you run for president and not develop
4:53a strong agenda which speaks to the
4:57economic crisis facing working families
5:02again so convenient for him so
5:04convenient for him he wasn't the nominee
5:07and Kla Harris I mean again I think
5:09Kla's awful but the reason she didn't go
5:11full socialist is because she would have
5:12lost by more if she had gone full
5:14socialist but Bernie can sit there and
5:16say that the reason that she didn't is
5:17because the billionaire has bullied her
5:19into it or something. And then of course
5:20he says the government is run by
5:21extremely greedy people.
5:25>> Do you think that in America with all of
5:27our genius, all of our capabilities, we
5:30spending so much money cannot provide a
5:32highquality system that guarantees
5:34healthcare to all people? And you think
5:36people here don't know that? They know
5:37it. They know we can do it throughout
5:39Europe and other countries. You don't
5:41have to leave college $50, $100,000 in
5:44debt or a half a million dollars in debt
5:46if you're going to medical school. That
5:48makes zero sense at all. Look, let's be
5:50clear in the message of tonight and what
5:52I will continue to give. You have a
5:55government today that is run by the
5:57wealthiest people in this country. They
6:00are extremely greedy people. They want
6:02it all. And we got to stand up to them.
6:06>> Okay. So again, this is ridiculous on
6:10its face. The fact is that the
6:12government sucks money out of the
6:13pockets of Americans at an exorbitant
6:15rate. trillions and trillions and
6:16trillions of dollars every single year.
6:19He says that he wants to live like a
6:21person in Italy. Well, he can start by
6:22getting rid of his air conditioning in
6:23his lake house, right? That's where he
6:26can start. It won't end there, by the
6:27way. He can also give up civil
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7:37But what is the thing that undergurs the
7:39Bernie movement? What undergurs the
7:41Bernie movement is a seething hatred of
7:44the United States, a sthing hatred of
7:46the West, a belief that the West is
7:48somehow morally inferior to other parts
7:50of the world. This is why I've said for
7:52a while people on the right who say how
7:55could Zor Mani win despite being
7:58radically anti-Semitic? The answer is he
8:00won because he's radically anti-Semitic.
8:02That is the reason the left-wing base of
8:05the Democratic party is totally happy to
8:08do the third world thing. It is their
8:11favorite thing. Bernie Sanders is the
8:13kind of person, again, he remains
8:14extremely popular with Americans,
8:16broadly speaking, because he represents
8:18a sort of fantasy version of politics
8:20where you snap your fingers and
8:21magically everybody has a third car and
8:24it's a Ferrari.
8:26But he also suggests a system wherein
8:29the reason some people win and some
8:31people lose is not because some people
8:32make better decisions than others. It is
8:34because there is some sort of
8:36overarching conspiratorial system
8:38designed to harm other people. I have a
8:40new book coming out called Lions and
8:42Scavengers. He is a pure example of a
8:44scavenger. He has not produced a single
8:45thing of value in his entire life and
8:47the man is in his 80s. He's a career
8:50useless person, but his entire life has
8:53been dedicated to wrecking the systems
8:54that have granted him fame and fortune.
8:58He's the kind of person who believes
9:00that Hamas, you know, the terrorist
9:02group that has been stealing something
9:05like 90% of all trucks the UN ships in
9:08have been hijacked. The food has been
9:10stolen. Kamas has been stealing an awful
9:13lot of that. They've been shooting
9:14people in the streets. But Bernie says,
9:15for example, that kamas, there's no
9:17problem with kamas. Hamas has no
9:19responsibility for any of the lack of
9:22food in the Gaza Strip.
9:25>> Would you say Hamas has some culpability
9:28and people starving?
9:29>> No.
9:30>> Why?
9:31>> When they spent so much money building
9:32tunnels and everything under
9:34>> So right now, right now what is going on
9:37is a slaughter. All right. And right now
9:42Israel is, you know, with few exceptions
9:44is in control of the military situation.
9:47It is not kamas. Kamas is a terrible
9:50terrorist organization. All right.
9:52>> And I certainly hope they have no future
9:54in in in a new uh Gaza or Palestine. Uh
9:59but the fault right now is 100% on a
10:03Netanyahu government who has waged an
10:06allout war committed just I mean war
10:10crimes. They are war crimes.
10:13>> Okay. this despicable human being
10:15somehow has a plus 11% approval rating
10:17with the American people. And the reason
10:20that he is saying those things is
10:21because the left of the Democratic Party
10:22likes to believe that Western powers are
10:24responsible for all ills. Western
10:26civilization is responsible for all
10:28ills. This is the key luxury belief. We
10:31talk about luxury beliefs. You sort of
10:34fancy luxury belief has to do with
10:35climate change. But the luxury luxury
10:37belief is sitting in the west the
10:39beneficiary of hundreds of years of
10:42development particularly in the name of
10:43free markets. To sit there and talk
10:46about how free markets are the problem,
10:48how the west is the problem and how
10:49terrorist groups bear no responsibility
10:51for their purposeful starvation of their
10:53own citizenry.
10:54That is a luxury belief. And it's a
10:56luxury belief a lot of Americans hold.
10:58It's a luxury belief because again the
11:00people who actually have to live under
11:01regimes like the ones that Bernie
11:03Sanders is soft on, you know, like Kamas
11:06or in Cuba or in Venezuela, it turns out
11:09they don't like it very much. There's a
11:12reason why the United States is still
11:14the number one destination for people
11:16who are seeking to get to a better place
11:19on planet Earth. But these luxury
11:22beliefs have consequences. Armadani is
11:24currently leading that New York City
11:25mayoral race by 20 points in a fivep
11:27person field.
11:29The split continues in the field. By the
11:31way, right now he has 44% of the vote.
11:35Andrew Cuomo has about 25% of the vote.
11:37Curtis Siwa has 12% of the vote. And
11:40Eric Adams has 7% of the vote. Now the
11:43problem is that if you add together
11:44Cuomo, Siwa, and Adams, you still end up
11:47with about a tie with Mam Donnie. So it
11:50looks like Mam Donnie is going to be the
11:51next mayor of New York. And good luck to
11:53all of you. Truthfully, good luck to all
11:55of you in New York. I hope that you
11:58enjoy the ride because you are
11:59absolutely buying the ticket and you
12:00deserve what you get if you continue to
12:02subsidize a city that wants to vote for
12:05somebody like Azoran Mandani. And by the
12:08way, the hypocrisy continues to be
12:09astonishing. Zar Manani is a trust fund
12:11baby. He's literally living in a rent
12:13control department. He is taking a rent
12:15control department away from somebody
12:17who presumably would need the rent
12:18control. Here is Andrew Cuomo who again
12:20is no great shakes, but is correct for
12:22calling out Mani on this.
12:25rent stabilized units when they're
12:27vacant. Should only be rented to people
12:30who need affordable housing, not people
12:32like Zoron Mandami. You don't need to be
12:35renting rent stabilized units to wealthy
12:39people. Otherwise, what you're doing is
12:41you're abusing the system. I'm going to
12:43propose not rent that apartment by law
12:47except to a person who actually needs
12:49affordable housing. And I'm going to
12:51call it Zoron's law because it's an
12:53abuse of the system.
12:56>> Okay. Well, I mean, he's right about
12:58that, but does that matter to the
12:59socialists in New York City who again
13:02live on the back of generations of
13:03American growth? Of course not. They're
13:05going to rip on Wall Street while Wall
13:07Street really built gigantic sections of
13:09New York City. Now, I was re-watching
13:12the movie Gangs of New York recently,
13:13which is, you know, a fun movie. Uh,
13:16it's it's very dark, obviously. Great
13:17performance by Daniel J. But the the
13:20premise of the movie is that gang
13:22warfare in New York built the city of
13:24New York. No, it absolutely did not. You
13:25know what built the city of New York?
13:27Gigantic commerce and investment is what
13:28built the city of New York. So you want
13:29to shut that down. Good luck to all of
13:31you. But this is why I am deeply
13:33concerned about the state of the
13:35American economy. Because if the economy
13:36goes south then schmucks like Bernie
13:38Sanders who sit outside or Zoran Mandani
13:40who sit outside sit on top of the
13:43wonderful things the capitalism has
13:45wrought and then rip on capitalism in
13:47the system and talk about how the west
13:48in America are evil. Those are the
13:50people who are going to be the
13:51beneficiary of any sort of serious
13:53economic downturn. Well, that's all for
13:55now folks. Don't forget to like,
13:57subscribe, and comment your thoughts
13:59down below. Be sure to check out all of
14:00the other great content on my channel.
14:02I'll see you here next time.

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