Human Events with Jack Posobiec – November 5th, 2025

Podcast: Real America's Voice
Host: Jack Posobiec (iHeartPodcasts)
Date: November 6, 2025

Episode Overview

This episode of Human Events dives deep into the fallout from the November 2025 U.S. elections, focusing on the political shift in America’s urban centers, particularly New York City with Zoran Mamdani’s historic mayoral win. Jack Posobiec, joined by special guests, dissects the election results, the state of the GOP, issues with military funding during the government shutdown, and the impact of activist-driven campaigns. The show maintains a strongly populist, "America First" tone and critiques both establishment Republicans and left-wing Democrats, while warning of the dangers of "cultural Marxism" and a shifting political landscape headed by younger, activist-driven progressives.

Main Segments & Discussion Points

1. Opening Observations: Political Upheaval and War on Cartels

[00:00–01:38]

• Posobiec sets an urgent, combative tone: "This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare."
• Breaking news: The Trump administration is planning military operations against Mexican drug cartels, potentially involving American troops and intelligence on the ground.
  • Posobiec: "This would essentially open a new front in the President's military campaign against cartels." [00:42]
• Context: Extended government shutdown blamed on “radical left Democrats,” causing pain for federal workers, air traffic, SNAP recipients, and military families.
  • Quote: “Only because of President Trump finding a legal maneuver are our troops continuing to be getting paid.” [01:22]
  • Posobiec’s message to Trump: “Turn the volume up.” [01:38]

2. New York’s Political Earthquake: Zoran Mamdani Elected Mayor

[01:38–07:05]

• Zoran Mamdani becomes NYC’s first Muslim, immigrant mayor, representing a “political earthquake.”
• The episode draws a direct line between Mamdani’s victory and the ascendancy of Gen Z voters, heavily criticizing Republican candidates for failing to appeal to Gen Z’s economic anxieties.
  • Posobiec: “Gen Z, massive swing across the board. And it has to be said, it just has to be said. Traditional candidates, Republican candidates, old school candidates ... got crushed.” [03:29]
  • Cites Charlie Kirk, referencing his warning: “Gen Z is going to swing against Republicans if there is not an economic conditional fix for Gen Z.” [03:43]
• Critique of Mamdani’s victory speech and campaign:
  • Posobiec: “[Mamdani] didn’t talk about fathers, he didn’t talk about America as a country... He talked about the gimme grins and the Mamdani model.” [04:41]
  • Quote: “It is grievance. It is resentment. The mask went completely off … He is targeting you. It’s going to be open season on white people.” [05:23]
• Reiterates call for GOP to end the Senate filibuster and "start governing":
  • Posobiec: “Rip it off like a band aid. ... The Democrats are going to if you don’t do it first.” [06:18]

3. Interview: Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson

[08:48–18:30]

• Wilson provides updates on U.S. military operations targeting drug cartels (“narco terrorists”), claiming 16 vessel strikes and elimination of 66 targets.
  • Wilson: “That is a direct result of the charge that President Trump gave this department, the War Department, when he declared them designated terrorist organizations.” [10:19]
  • Notable statistic: “Each one of these vessels... would kill 23,000 people.” [10:57]
• Historic deployment: The USS Ford carrier strike group moves to the SOUTHCOM area for the first time in years to target drug trafficking.
  • Wilson: “It is historic that we are going to be sending an aircraft killing carrier to that region to deal with this threat.” [11:58]
• On possible military strikes in Venezuela: No decision yet, but all options are being prepared.
• Military families and government shutdown: Wilson strongly criticizes Democrats for federal pay disruptions and details how military households are affected.
  • Wilson: “58,000 military spouses are employed by the federal government ... now they're having to rely on one income.” [15:16]
  • Describes the emotional and logistical hardships for military families in limbo.
• Concludes with the importance of maintaining high living standards for service members.

4. Election Analysis with Adam Weiss (Media Exposed)

[19:35–26:46]

• Weiss dissects the Mamdani win, emphasizing the power of activist-driven campaigns (DSA) vs. traditional business leaders.
  • Weiss: “They live and breathe this stuff. So they caught them off guard. They won the primary.” [20:12]
• Criticizes Mamdani’s “bitter, angry socialist” victory speech:
  • Weiss: “He was bringing up Trump and wanted to fight with Trump. Why you want to fight with the President of the United States? You just won the mayorship of New York City, our largest city.” [21:41]
• Both Posobiec and Weiss denounce Mamdani’s “grievance politics,” tying his campaign tone to class and ethnic resentment, and call out establishment Democrats for their lack of outreach to conservatives or willingness to tackle issues like cashless bail.
• Raises the specter of an internal “Democrat civil war” (old liberals vs. young socialists).
  • Weiss: “This newer generation, they're like invested. You can't even be friends with these people. They're so radical.” [24:56]
• Contends that Democrats are now willing to accept more radical, even violent rhetoric, as witnessed in recent Virginia races.

5. Turning Point Action and the Mesa Recall Victory

[28:54–37:47]

• Interview with Brett from Turning Point Action, reporting on ground-game success in recalling Mesa City Councilwoman Julie Spilsbury, labeled a “fake Republican” for her ties to Democrats.
• Details the intensive ballot-chasing operation led by Turning Point, which included significant out-of-state volunteer support.
  • Quote: “Julie Spillsbury herself gave credit to Turning Point action. ... The recall would never have been successful without Turning points employees.” [32:39]
• Brett explains “relational organizing” as the “new way to winning elections”—focusing on repeated personal contact and support to mobilize otherwise apathetic conservative voters.
  • Brett: “Our ballot chase model encourages them to say, you know, hey, can I shoot you a text tomorrow just to make sure that you get your ballot in the box?” [36:19]

6. Conservative Media and the Issue of Infighting

[38:13–42:36]

• Posobiec calls out conservative media for being too focused on internal disputes (“infighting”) instead of front-line election battles.
  • Quote: “What good is our media infrastructure if we just use it to put each other on blast and not to advocate for the causes we need to address and advance to save the United States of America?” [38:33]
• Josie (the Redheaded Libertarian) argues that the “ragtag band of misfits” coalition that elected Trump in 2016 has become splintered, distracted by internecine fights between “neocons” and “gripers.”
  • Josie: “...they're now fighting with each other and demanding all these other people pick a side or they're anti American. And this isn't something that we should be focused on at all.” [40:05]

7. Cultural Marxism, Gen Z, and the Rise of Progressive Populism

[42:36–47:50]

• The conversation turns philosophically toward the victory of “cultural Marxism” in U.S. cities and the economic malaise of Gen Z.
  • Josie: “If we do not improve the economic conditions of Gen Z, they are going to go full Mamdani. ... That’s what happened last night.” [41:42, 42:26]
• Critique of the left’s coalition of resentment and promises of redistribution—the “Mamdani model”—with warnings about the social and fiscal consequences for New York.
  • Posobiec: “This idea that we’re going to bring people in who are not like the settlers… [but] want the government dole, they want free stuff.” [44:15]
  • Josie: “Settlers come here and they build. Immigrants come here and they add. ... Migrants and illegals, they come here and they take.” [45:27]
• Jack and Josie liken the current political moment to “giving a loaded weapon to a toddler,” warning of “completely immature” leadership and a breakdown of social cohesion.

Notable Quotes

• Jack Posobiec [01:38]:
  “Donald Trump. Since I know you’re watching, I have four words for you. Turn the volume up.”
• Jack Posobiec [05:23]:
  “He is targeting you. It’s going to be open season on white people. And I'm going to say this. It's very clear.”
• Kingsley Wilson [10:19]:
  "That is a direct result of the charge that President Trump gave this department, the War Department, when he declared them designated terrorist organizations."
• Adam Weiss [21:41]:
  “He was bitter, he was argumentative. He was bringing up Trump and wanted to fight with Trump. Why you want to fight with the President of the United States? ... He sounded like a bitter, angry socialist.”
• Brett, Turning Point Action [36:19]:
  “Our ballot chase model encourages them to say, you know, hey, can I shoot you a text tomorrow just to make sure that you get your ballot in the box?”
• Josie, Redheaded Libertarian [40:05]:
  "...they're now fighting with each other and demanding all these other people pick a side or they're anti American. And this isn't something that we should be focused on at all."
• Josie, Redheaded Libertarian [45:27]:
  “Settlers come here and they build. Immigrants come here and they add. And then migrants and illegals, they come here and they take. And this is what we're seeing. We're seeing mass taking right now without adding almost like, I deserve this for whatever reason, because they've been...”

Timestamps for Key Segments

• [00:00] – Opening, government shutdown and Trump admin news
• [01:38] – Mamdani elected NYC mayor; Gen Z’s political shift
• [08:48] – Interview with Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson (cartel operations, military pay, shutdown effects)
• [19:35] – Adam Weiss on New York, Gen Z turnout, "grievance politics"
• [28:54] – Turning Point Action: Mesa recall victory strategy
• [38:13] – Editorial board statement, conservative infighting (with Josie)
• [42:36] – Rise of cultural Marxism, Gen Z politics, Mamdani’s NYC, and coalition analysis

Episode Tone and Takeaways

• Tone: Urgent, combative, populist, unapologetically critical of establishment politics (both left and right), and rallying for an "America First" populism.
• Key Messages:
  • The Democratic left, now led by activist-driven figures like Mamdani, is successfully mobilizing the youth around economic and cultural grievances.
  • The GOP must shift from legacy, establishment models to a direct, populist approach addressing cost of living, jobs, and debt—otherwise, it will continue losing, especially among younger voters.
  • Activist organizations with strong ground games (e.g., Turning Point Action) offer a model for electoral success.
  • Conservative infighting is harming the movement’s ability to win pivotal elections.
  • America’s cities are at a tipping point, with deep concerns expressed about “cultural Marxism,” social resentment, and the consequences of demographic and ideological change.

For more:

• Follow Jack Posobiec and guests on X (Twitter) for updates
• Media Exposed with Adam Weiss airs Sundays at 6pm (Real America’s Voice app)
• Follow Josie (Redheaded Libertarian) at @TRHLOfficial and at Timcast.com
• Turning Point Action: Featured for grassroots Republican activism in Arizona