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Here. Welcome to the latest edition of looking out for you. Let's get started. And we got a lot going on this week with the New York City mayoral race, ma'. Am. Donnie the socialist. Oh. So let's talk about this a little bit because I think it's important. Most people raised in a public school system, they don't know what communism, fascism, socialism, capitalism. They don't really know. And I'm sorry to be supercilious. Word of the day, that means arrogant. I don't want to be. But it's true. You go out to the mall and stop a 19 year old and go, what's socialism? They're not going to know. So let's start here. I want everybody to know with the definition, okay, of socialism. This is from the Webster dictionary. A system or condition of society in which the means of production are owned and controlled by the state or state of society. And Marxist theory, transitional between capitalism and communism. That is socialism, okay? Where the state tells everybody what they can have. That is socialism. Here's what you can have, all right? Capitalism is you can have as much as you earn, you know, minus taxes and reasonable things. That's capitalism. Socialism is. No, we're going to tell you what you can have. So there are three main socialists that get a lot of media attention. Bernie Sanders, a senator from Vermont. Alexandria. Ocasio Cortez, a congresswoman from New York. And Zoran Mam Doni would be mayor of New York City, okay? They're pushing socialism and they're all doing very well. Bernie Sanders, three homes, Burlington, Vermont, worth about 750,000. He's got a lakefront home on Lake Champlain worth almost a million. And he's got a D.C. capitol Hill townhouse. Bernie has 800,000. Whoa, Bernie, that's a lot of jack. His estimated total worth is $5 million. Okay? And he's a socialist. Now, Bernie, if real socialism were in play in the United States, could never have $5 million. So he's not a billionaire, but he's a millionaire. Okay, I don't begrudge him that, by the way, if he has earned it honestly, I'm a big capitalist. Ocasio Cortez. Too young to really have a portfolio at this point. Mandani was raised in an affluent home. Never had a private jobs, private sector job. But he's got a lot of money coming to his political action committee. They'll say now, around the world, there are five communist countries, all right? China, Cuba, Laos, North Korea and Vietnam. Russia is no longer a communist country, but it really is, because the Russian government, led by Putin, can take all your stuff tomorrow. You have no recompense there. Putin wants your stuff, he's gonna take it. Putin's the wealthiest man in the world. If you read Confronting Evil, we tell you how he got that way. But you can't put it into the communist countries because they say they're not. And the oligarchs over there to sell the oil and the guns and all that. I mean, they're not operating in, under communist principles. Socialist countries. Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal and Guyana. All right, so they are. We're socialists. That's it. Everybody else supposed to be capitalists. Of course they're not. Because totalitarian regimes control about half the countries in the world. And the Europeans say, no, no, no, we're democratic socialists. We're not going to have the government come in. But the government pretty much dictates cradle to grave entitlements. For example, in Great Britain, our biggest ally, when you're 16 years old, you got to take a test. If you don't do well on a test, you don't go to college because the government pays for all the college here. Now, if your parents have enough money to send you to Oxford or Cambridge, private colleges, then you can go. But nobody has that kind of money, particularly in a working class. So the government kind of controls this. In America, you can go to community college, go to state college. There's no limitations. Great Britain, there is. Do you know that? Okay, now let's get to a poll. This is Cato. Cato says that Americans between the ages of 18 and 29, 62% say socialism is okay. Now, I can only guess why they don't want to compete, blah, blah, blah. They don't understand, whatever it may be, but not good. Most of them will grow out of that, particularly when they buy a house, they have a family, that kind of thing. You got to earn as much money as you can. You want the government taking 70% of your take home pay. Socialism is. All right, let's do a little tape here, ma'. Am. Donnie. So if you don't live in New York, you may not know this guy, but he open. I'm a socialist, okay? He was born in Africa and he's an American citizen, but he doesn't buy into capitalism or much traditional American tenants. So here's what he said at the Young Democratic Socialists of America conference. Go.
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It is very critical for all of us to remember what it is that we are fighting for and to remember that our agenda is an agenda that must not be dictated by calculus but by conviction. And what I mean by that is that the many things that we believe, some of them are already popular in this moment right now, right? If we're talking about the cancellation of student debt, if we're talking about Medicare for all, you know, these are issues which have the groundswell of popular support across this country. But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in. Whether it's bds, Right. Or whether it's the end goal of seizing the means of production.
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End goal, Seizing the means of production. Zoran wants to control it all, okay? Giving you free health care, giving you a free college. No student loans. Nope, it's free. Well, we're going to pay for that. The rich going to take their stuff, their house, everything. These are communists. This guy. Seizing, seizing. He says it. Seizing the means of production. We're going to seize it. That means you're going to have a gun. That's how you seize it. Because they'll be good. Yeah, take my house, Zoran. Go ahead, take my car. To force him. Pretty frightening. Bernie Sanders. This was on CNN recently. Go. And I think messaging becomes easy when you're prepared to stand up and fight the right fights. And what is the right fight at a time when the top 1% owes were wealth in the bottom 93% and the rich are getting richer while working families are struggling. You tell me what the issue is. The issue is you don't tell the truth. Okay, so 1% owns more wealth than the bottom 93. How'd you arrive at that? America is a consumer society, all right? And we buy things and then companies make money because we buy their stuff. And that's what capitalism is. So you earn money. If you earn a lot, you buy a lot. Not me, but a lot of people. And if you don't earn much, then the government gives you assistance. Like we're going through the food stamp thing now. But 1% is responsible for 93%. Well, what is that? And the CNN person doesn't know. If it were me, I go, wait, gotta explain that. Now, where are you getting these numbers? So Bernie wants, just like Mandami wants, the government to come in and tell you what you're gonna have. Ocasio Cortez on with Stephen Colbert. Roll it. So what that means to me is health care as a human right. It means that every child, no matter where you are born, should have access to a college or trade school education if they so choose it. And, you know, I think that no person should be homeless. If we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States. Yay. Yeah. Okay, so she's in charge. Then. There are 330 million Americans, probably more now. Okay, so you get free of charge. You get total health care, the human right, whatever it is, drugs, visits, mri, free. Then you get, okay, free education, preschool all the way through to master's degree. Okay, it's free. Then you get a home. You don't have a home. We'll give you one. Get a home. Then you get food. What kind of food you want. Now, who's going to provide that? Who? It's all free. In order to do that, you would have to seize all the property, as Fidel Castro did in Cuba, of all 330 million Americans. You have to take what all of it takes. The only way you could do that. And there's a people in Colby. Yeah, come on, seize my house. Oh. Now, if you go to Cuba, and I've been there, and I recently got back from China, okay, I know what it is. I've seen it. I was in the Soviet Union when it was a Soviet Union. Okay, doesn't work. Everybody's miserable, everybody's poor. Everybody wants to get out. Ocasio Cortez knows nothing, but she memorized. We're gonna give you everything, and we'll take it from O'Reilly. We're gonna go big, send about 30, 40 armed people, and he'll take his deed to his house, check his bank accounts, take that, whatever it is. That's what Castro did. That's what Mao Zedong did. That's what Stalin did. You want that? That's what these people want. Can I make it any more clear? Dangerous. Everybody's jazzed to the election tomorrow. Mayoral election, very important. You know, Bill de Blasio was a terrible mayor, and New Yorkers reelected him for a second term, and he ran Roughshod over the city. Everything declined, social order declined, quality of life declined, Taxes went up, rents went up, city got dirtier and he got reelected. So I'm pessimistic tomorrow, but post the atlas fall, we'll get to that in this broadcast shows Cuomo closing a little bit. Single digit lead for maam. Donnie, I'd say no. 20% chance that Cuomo beats him right now. And big turnout, voting ahead of time. So here are the numbers that I have up to this moment. About 2 million voters expect to turn out for the mayoral race. Okay, that is 500. No, that is a half million more than in 2021. Okay. And the height of mayoral voting happened 1969. John Lindsay. Two and a half million people voted New York City for mayor. So we're down significantly. Half of the electorate in New York City is foreign born. And Mandani is big in those precincts. Manhattan has gotten about 220,000 votes early Bronx about 60,000. Brooklyn about a quarter million. Queens 167,000. Staten Island 54,000. So you can see that Brooklyn is the big one. And a lot of young people, a lot of minorities in Brooklyn, a lot of foreign born. The biggest new voter registrations are among New Yorkers 18 to 29. That's not good news. Okay, they're up 67% new registrations and a lot of them are going for. Man, Donnie, they don't know any better. I guess that's the excuse. They don't know any better. I kind of buy it. I mean, these younger people, I think back to when I was between 18 and 29, I was a dope. I mean, I got to be honest, I got, I started to wise up when I started teaching high school. My early 20s a little bit, but you know, you really don't know very much until you pass 30. And even then with social media and all that, it's hard. Anyway, we have an interview with the highest ranking member of the NYPD in uniform on the national show. He just retired in October and he's going to tell us what he thinks of Mandami, possibility of him winning and how it affects the cops. Good interview. You are going to want to hear this. But again, if you live in your own world, if you live in a bubble world, you don't project out like, oh, my eyes are getting mugged and hurt. I've just gone on up 50% because law enforcement isn't going to be as effective. People don't do that. They don't project out. And you know, you look into the future. So you can't say this is guaranteed, but it really is guaranteed. Sam Darmy doesn't want to punish criminals, even violent criminals doesn't want to punish him. Okay, so you're going to have more crime. That's what happens. If every place that has that far left, progressive point of view, Mandami is way, way, way left into the socialist cadres. Okay. He would seize your property. My property. I don't live in a city, I live eight miles outside. So I don't have to worry about this guy directly. But he sees our property, no doubt about it, and he wants to seize what they call the machinations of the economy. He wants the government to control all that. But he's not going to get that because the state legislature is standing in a way, even though they're nuts too, up in Albany. So here's a question for me, your humble correspondent. If I owned property in New York City, would I sell it? And the answer is, I would. I am not angry about Zorhan Mamdani being elected, but I cannot live in a communist dominated city. And I don't. I live just outside the Queensland limit. And my property in Nassau county has gone up about 20% on paper since. Ma', am, Donnie announced he was going to run for mayor. So people are fleeing the city. Some of them are going to Texas, Tennessee, Florida, the Carolinas, all that. I don't think I would ever do that. Maybe, but I doubt it. However, Nassau county is a sanctuary now because it defied the New York City vote, went exactly the opposite, into red territory, law enforcement. And Blakeman, the guy who runs the county, got reelected because he hadn't raised taxes. Jersey, I don't know what's going on in Jersey because the same folks in northern Jersey as who live in New York City, on Long island, no difference. My mother was raised in Teaneck, New Jersey, my father in Brooklyn, and I don't know. You're voting for a Democrat. Cheryl, I don't think. She's a nut, a fanatic, a socialist, a communist. But I'm not sure why you're voting for her. Because she is a member of the Democratic Party, which wants to redistribute income. That means they have to raise taxes. And Jersey people are up to their eyebrows in taxes and higher costs for food and insurance and utilities and everything else. And you're voting for a party who wants to spend, spend, spend, spend, spend. I don't understand. I really don't understand. I wish I did. Now I know there was an anti Trump vote in all this in the Northeast. He is not a popular guy. Donald Trump. That's just the reality of the situation. And a lot of people vote against him. They don't vote for anything. Couldn't vote for Kamala Harris, right, But they voted against Trump. Trump won. But Kamala got what, 75 million votes for what? Anyway, let's get back to the city. So I don't know what Mamdani is going to do. Maybe he won't do anything. It's easy to say. He's a democratic socialist, he's going to get free bus ride. You're going to do this, going to do that. A lot harder to do it, but he could do it. And I think he will have a direct impact on how the police respond to crimes. And I got family members who live in New York City and I'm saying you better be go out. Don't go out by yourself. You got to have people with you at night. Gotta be very, very cautious here. Alvin Bragg, the guy who will not charge criminals, will not got 75% of the new York City vote. Okay, again, you're voting against your own safety. Now there are a lot of dumb people everywhere, not just New York City. They don't know. They're uninformed. They live in a bubble. They just believe what they want to believe. Facts don't matter to them. They're ill educated. On and on and on and on. You know, some of them, I'm finding it harder and harder to deal with those people. I don't scorn them. That wouldn't be right. I don't. I do it on the radio and television and in my columns and books, but I don't do it in person. That's an intrusion. They have a right under the Constitution to be a moron. So we are at a, and this is the word of the day nadir in New York City history now. Lowest point. It will come back, but it's going to take a lot of pain to get it back. And I predicted that Governor Hochul will lose next November because Mamdani will make so many mistakes that the voters of New York State will hold Hochul accountable. That is a prediction not based on anything other than my ability to read the political landscape. Earlier this week I did socialism. Now I'm graduating to communism because mam. Donnie won. He will be once sworn in, the mayor of New York City. He's a communist. And most people don't know what that means. Everybody when I was growing up knew what it meant. Because we're in a cold war with the Soviet Union. They were communists. They were bad. We were good. We were capitalists. Everybody knew. Now they don't know. Okay, so let's walk through what the problem really is. First, Mamdani himself, defining what he believes. Go right now, right?
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If we're talking about the cancellation of student debt, if we're talking about Medicare for all, you know, these are issues which have the groundswell of popular support across this country. But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it's bds, right? Or whether it is the end goal of seizing the means of production.
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Seizing the means of production. There you go. You have to seize by force, okay? That's what communists do. That is the crux. Now, he mentioned BDS. That's boycott, divert, divestment, sanctions against Israel. 33% of Jewish voters in New York that cast ballots voted for Mandami and he hates you guys. 33%. It's stunning. It's absolutely stunning. Okay, now the media will not admit that Zorhan Mamdani is a communist. Here's a display on cnn. Go. When you put in communist and yes, communist policies, that's what Zora Mandani is talking about. He's not a communist socialist. He says he's Democrat. I can't tell what the difference is. Well, he can describe. Explain what the difference is. He can describe the differences for you. The socialism is not the same basis of communism in this country. You know that quite well. Madam, with all due respect, when you say you're going to seize the means of production, that's communism, okay? Socialism is redistributing income. That's taxing me, O'Reilly, right up to here, 80, 90%. And then giving that money to people don't have a lot of assets. That's socialism. And you do that through balloting, through voting. So you vote for progressive left candidates. That's what they want to do. Communism isn't no voting. That's we're taking. And if you don't like it, we'll put you in jail. And in extreme cases like Russia, China, Cuba, Vietnam, okay, all communists. Russia now says it isn't, but it really is. Soviet Union, Putin believes in that. They'll hurt you. And that's what Mandari wants. He was seize the means of production. So if I were the guest on Laura Coates's CNN program, I would just say gently, say, well, how can you explain that phrase that the man said she wouldn't be able to do it, she wouldn't. Because you can't explain it. It's self explanatory. Now, Mandani got 50% of the vote in New York City, as you may know, and he beat Cuomo by 9%. And this is the most important stat. Largest city in the world. It is the center of capitalism all over the world, New York City. And now it has a communist in charge. That's bizarre. Five million registered voters in the five boroughs of New York City. Most of them didn't show up to vote. And it was a heavy turnout because most people never show up to vote. And I'm saying to myself, you didn't vote in this one with so much on the line. Why? Because many Americans do not care. They don't pay attention. They're ill educated. They live in a bubble. They pursue happiness solely for themselves, not for the good of their country. None of that. No, I want to do this, I want to do that. I'm not going to pay attention. I'm not watching the news. I'm not reading newspaper. I'm not doing learn about socialism and communism and fascism. I'm not going to do that. All right, that's not fun. That's a majority of people in this country. Unfortunately, now I think it's a majority. Close. All right, a little history. Russian Revolution. Now, if you read my book, Confronting Evil, and I just happen to have a copy, right here is Putin, is Mao, Hitler, Ayatollah. So if you're reconfronting evil, Stalin was part of the Russian revolution. They overturned the czar. What the communists did to the Tsar and his family, you're not going to believe it, what they did. How am I going to tell you? You have to read it. And you'd read it slowly. Anyway. Stalin killed 10, 15 million people in Russia. Anybody who didn't sign on to communism or they're put in the gulags, okay? Where most of them died. And that was it. So Lenin's Bolsheviks came to power. The czar was corrupt, bad guy, okay? They got him, they got his family. They did horrible things to him. They Communists took over. And then Reagan and Bush the Elder bankrupted the Soviet Union. It collapsed. And it was supposed to be free for about 10 minutes. And then Putin took over. No, it's not free. In the Great Depression, when everybody was poor, there was a big communist movement in America. Okay? This is in the 1930s. And 80,000Americans call themselves Communists. By 1938, 80,000. And the labor unions were in the forefront of that. Eugene Debs Debs was the leader, but he was dead by that time. But he was the American that ginned all this up. Okay? And he was put in jail. Debs and Warren Harding. President Harding commuted his sentence. So the communist movement in the 1930s here was substantial in 1949, Mao took over after World War II and killed 20 million of his own people to impose communism, which is still there today. I was in Beijing in May. Some of you might know that pictures of Mao all over the place. Now picture this. You're an American dictator, you kill 20 million Americans, you think your picture's going to be everywhere. It's all over China. Why? Because the Chinese people have no blanking idea what Mao did. The totalitarian police state blanks all of it out. Kids aren't taught that. Nobody can publish that. You can't talk about it, say a bad word about Mao, hello, goodbye. No. China has never had a day of freedom in its entire existence. So Mao is the worst mass murderer under the banner of communism in world history. And again, it's in confronting evil, what he did to his own people. All right, after World War II, North Korea became communist. They were a satellite of Russia, Vietnam, North Vietnam, Communist. We fought a war against North Korea, Korean War, we fought a war against North Vietnam. They're all communist based. Communists want to expand. United States said no. And then hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops died. So this communism is pretty tough. Now in the 1950s, there was a hardcore cadre in Hollywood that were communists. And There were politicians, McCarthy, Wisconsin, the senator, who wanted to punish them, blacklist them, some big names. Dalton trumbull, ring Lardner Jr. On and on and on. Okay? Sean Penn's father, Communist, blacklisted. And Ronald Reagan was deeply involved in hunting down so called communists as the president of the Screen Actors Guild, that's a union I'm in. And Reagan, very ardent anti communist, but they went totally out of control. Celebrities. Charlie Chaplin, big commie, huge, okay? And he was a pretty big guy in 1930s and 40s. So Charlie got deported. They booted him out of here. He settled in Switzerland. Orson Welles, Lena Horne, Paul Robeson, Burgess Meredith. Remember in Rocky? Mick and Zero Mostell. The Producers, Bialystock and Bloom. Okay? Ozzie Davis, Ruby D. African American actors, very fine. Edward G. Robinson. Now he was a big famous guy. He said, I'm not a communist. And it turned out he wasn't. But he was. His career got hammered. Anyway, all of that was going on in the 1950s. So it was a. What they called a red scare. So now communism is back. It's back. Now I think Mandani is going to fail. That's what I want to happen. Because communism is no good. It deprives people of freedom. 75% of people say they were they voted for Mandami because they were atheists. Can't have religion. Okay? It's got to be the state. The state is your God. So I'm going to watch Mamdani very, very closely. Very closely. I can't imagine him succeeding. If he does and I'm wrong, I will admit it. Got to give me a year. But if things start going south fast, and they may in New York City, I'm on it. Thank you for listening to Looking out for you. Remember to subscribe to my podcast feed. Also, consider becoming a Billorilly.com Premium Member. It will enhance your life. Sign up@billoriley.com membership get access to full episodes of the no Spin News.
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