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Zor Momdani is the new mayor elect of New York City and he is taking off the mask. He's doing all the aggressive things. How should Republicans fight back? What are the dangers for Republicans? Plus President Trump's tariffs on the board at the Supreme Court. What happens over there? We'll get to all of it. First, we have less than 2,000 daily wire lifetime memberships remaining. It turns out that having all access benefits for life is really popular. So here are your options. You could buy one while they're still available, or you could win mine. Yes, I, as a co founder of the company, do in fact have my very own lifetime membership. But I am willing to give it to you, the people. But only if you head on over and Download that free DailyWire plus app in the App Store, open it and tap follow under my picture. That's it. You are now entered. And who knows, I could be calling you personally. Yes, I to give you my personal lifetime membership. Before any of that happens, you need to download that Daily Wire plus app and follow me inside it right now to enter to win. Well, folks, Azor Momdani campaigned as a smarmy, smiling, empathetic gentleman who only cared about affordability and just wanted to help you. And he cut a bunch of fun, fun videos around bodegas and eating rice with his hands and speaking in various languages. And it was all happy dappy do. And now here comes the hammer, because Zaram Dani has made very clear that he wants to actually do all the things he said he was going to do. And so New Yorkers are about to find out the ticket that they just bought, and they're about to take the ride. According to the New York Times, a newly empowered Zaramdani on Wednesday vowed to use his convincing victory in the New York City's mayor race as a mandate to push an ambitious progressive agenda past potential obstacles from billionaire antagonists to a Albany bureaucracy. In a shift from the mollifying tone he had used for months, Mr. Mamdani made clear that while he would govern for all New Yorkers, he was determined to deliver for those who had been agitating for structural change. One of my least favorite phrases in all of politics, I'm here to govern for everyone, okay? That's what the government does. The government literally makes legislation that affects everyone. But clearly you are not. You are here to govern for the people and on behalf of the people who elected you, namely far, far left progressives and third Worldists. I mean, that is what Zoran Mamdani is here to do. Here's. He's here to govern on behalf of socialism and pro jihadism and chew bubble gum, and he's all out of bubble gum. He said in a phone interview, quote, I'm also looking to be clear about the mandate that we won over the course of this election. It is a mandate to deliver on the agenda that he ran on. He had said that he was going to try to find creative ways to pay for his signature policies without radically increasing taxes. And then he immediately reversed himself and. And then he started talking about taxing the rich. Quote, my supporters in our movement are hungry for a politics of consistency, a politics that actually focuses on the needs of working people. I think our tax system is an example of the many ways in which working people have been betrayed. Now, as we talked about on the program yesterday, actually, the amount of tax revenue derived from the top of the top of the top of the income tax bracket in New York City is far out of proportion to their percentage of the population. I mean, it is not even close. The top 0.1% of income earners in New York pay 25% of all the tax revenue in New York City. And he's saying that somehow this is targeting working people, which is an astonishing claim. I mean, just on a statistical level, it's an astonishing claim. The New York Times is trying to make excuses for all of this. His confidence is understandable. He's the first New York City mayoral candidate since John Lindsay to win over 1 million votes. Now, let's be clear. The reason he won over 1 million votes is not because he is so much more popular than all the other candidates of the last 30 years, 40 years, who have not won that number of votes. The reason he won over 1 million votes is because there was a competitive candidate coming up behind whom, who was also a Democrat. And so in order to defeat Andrew Cuomo, he had to win more than 850,000 votes. That's the reality. But it's okay. You know, the good news is that Democrats, again, they're gonna have to own this stuff. Now. There are no economics behind what he's attempting to do. In order for him to actually pay for all of this, he needs the governor of New York to go along with massive tax increases. As the Wall Street Journal points out, in order for him to get his proposals paid for, he would need to raise the highest state corporate tax rate from 7.25% to 11.5%. Okay? That is a massive increase, a huge increase in the state corporate tax rate, and it applies to businesses that have a physical presence in New York and to businesses that derive a certain amount of sales from the state. Now, if you think the businesses won't relocate over that sort of stuff, they absolutely will. They absolutely will. And that requires approval from state lawmakers and Kathy Hochul. And so if they acquiesce, it could drag down the Democratic Party. Kathy Hochul very narrowly beat Lee Zeldin in the last New York gubernatorial election. There's certainly no guarantee that she would defeat Elise Stefanik, who's already running dead even with her in the New York gubernatorial race. He also wants a millionaires tax, a 2 percentage point rate hike, or 51% increase on the personal income tax paid by New York City's highest earners or more, or those making more than $1 million a year. The tax rate in New York City alone on the highest income New Yorkers would move from 3.88% to 5.88%. And that's on top of the state tax, on top of the federal tax. And if you're a rich person, guess what? You're mobile. And you can leave. This is how cities die. Truly. They destroy their tax base. They decide they want to make payoffs to a particular set of citizens at the expense of the taxpaying public. And the people who pay the taxes decide, you know what? I'm not in, I'm gone. And then they leave. And then the city in need of more tax revenue increases the taxes on the next richest group of people, and then those people leave. And this is how you destroy the tax base of a major metropolitan area. Coming up, we'll get into Zoran Mandani. How much money is he going to spend? 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Meanwhile, he also wants to spend $7 billion a year on new rent stabilized units, $70 billion in municipal debt for a decade, and he wants to freeze the rent. Okay, now freezing the rent, I'm just telling you, will result in no new units being built in the city. I'm still in New York. No union, no one, no developer is going to build new units in the city if the rent is frozen. There's no way to do it because why would you. Meanwhile, he wants to spend almost a billion dollars a year on fast and free buses, which by the way, will just become homeless shelters. Because if it is free to ride the bus, then there is no way to kick you off the bus if you have overstayed your fare. So people will just live on the bus. All of this as New York City's finest NYPD are freaking out. I know people in the nypd. There, there are. Everyone who can retire is going to retire. Everybody who can find another job will find another job. Already the Jewish FDNY commissioner in New York handed in his resignation. Robert Tucker. One day after Mamdani's election, he informed Mayor Eric Adams, who had stepped down from the roles he had held for 12 months. On December 19, he's going to go back to running a private security firm. Not a shock. Many, many more people will follow because Zoran Mamdani's team is extraordinarily radical. Really, really radical. The New York Post has a breakdown on the people who will be in Mamdani's year now. First of all, Mamdani himself is radical. Pretending that Mamdani is not radical is totally insane. The man got into politics as a member of Students for Justice in Palestine, a radical anti Israel and pro terrorism group. Zormandani has repeatedly spoken up on behalf of terrorists. It's astonishing when I hear Democrats try to claim that he's not pro jihadist. He literally cut a rap on behalf of people who are in jail for funding jihad. The Holy Land 5. He literally posed next to an unindicted co conspirator in the 1993 World Trade center bombing who has talked up the value of jihad during this campaign. He literally went on national television and said he had no opinion on whether Hamas, a terrorist group, should disarm. Spoiler alert. If you're anti jihad, typically you think all terrorist groups should disarm, not just Hamas. Boko Haram should disarm. Like, sure, why not? They're terrorist groups. But he had no opinions whatsoever because he actually is not in favor of Hamas disarming. So he is perfectly radical on all these issues, economic to foreign policy related. But he's also surrounded by people who are extraordinarily radical. So Linda Sarsour, a mentor and friend to Mamdani, is going to be very close to him. She, of course, said back in 2019 when she was part of the Women's March, that Jewish marchers could not take part because, quote, one cannot be a feminist and a Zionist at the same time. Which is kind of an astonishing thing considering that I'm not sure how one could be a radical Islamist and a feminist at the same time. Radical Islam does not say, seem to treat women particularly well or equally. The Council on American Islamic Relations and CARE Action are going to be in his ear. That group has long standing and deep ties to terrorist organizations. According to Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton, they too were unindicted co conspirators in a 2007 terrorist funding case linking CAIR to Hamas. Political action committees connected to CAIR donated more than 140,000 to Zoran Mamdani's package. They helped mobilize the Muslim vote in New York City, which of course got out in big numbers for Zorn Mamdani. Democratic Socialists of America, of which he is a charter member, is backing him. Of course, the United Federation of Teachers, which destroys public education, is backing him. Those are the people who are surrounding him. And then there are the people who are part of his transition team. His transition team, just as shockingly radical as you would imagine. Apparently he has named a five woman transition team stocked with former officials from City Hall. But also he has included Lena Khan, the former FTC chair, a person who is radically, radically anti business, Melanie Hartzog, a former deputy mayor for Health and Human Services under Bill de Blasio, Alana Leopold, another Bill de Blasio hold over Grace Benilla, the head of the United Way of New York City and an alumna of Bloomberg, who might be the only sane person, and Maria Torres Springer, the deputy mayor to the current mayor, Eric Adams. He says he's going to keep Jessica Tish on as the head of the nypd. Nah, she's going to leave. She's going to leave. You watch. She will quit. Sometime in the next six months, she'll quit. And by the way, she still doesn't have a former job offer, a formal job offer. According to the New York Post, the Democratic candidate told Tish they would speak about his plan to keep her as commissioner. But you know, we'll have to see how all of that plays out. Now, meanwhile, it is worth noting Olivia Rheingold has an excellent piece over at the Free Press talking about the plan that the DSA has for cities beyond New York. And those are very, very shockingly radical plans. According to the Free Press, they have now reviewed thousands of pages of internal Democratic Socialists of America documents which show that the organization's leaders view Mamdani as a tool in their agenda to abolish prisons and borders and ultimately end what they call the barbaric order of capitalism. The DSA was founded in 1982. It's a political body dedicated to the doctrine of democratic socialism, which is a variety of socialism that simply specifies how it would like revolution to occur peacefully through subversion of democracy. Now, again, one of the fun things about the left is that they're constantly screwing around with the definitions of terms Socialism. Typically speaking, is the government control of the market based order, nationalization of resources, getting rid of the pricing system, all the rest. Now you can have touches of socialism in a capitalist economy. This is called a mixed system. The United States obviously has a mixed system. So by the way, does Denmark, so does Norway. Fully socialist countries would become countries like Cuba, North Korea. China is sort of a. An economically fascist system that has maintained aspects of nationalization but then allowed certain aspects of the private market to operate so they can actually have a workable pricing system. When people say democratic socialism, sometimes they mean Norway and sometimes they mean like the dsa, which is to say like communism achieved through democratic means. The DSA held its annual convention in August with the theme Rebirth and Beyond, reflecting on a decade of DSA's growth and preparing for a decade of party building there. According to Olivia Ryan Gold at the Free Press, delegates voted to adopt a resolution titled Principles for Party Building, which stated that the purpose of the DSA is to, quote, unite workers to win the battle for democracy and bring about socialism, not to seek a governing coalition with a perceived lesser evil under the current undemocratic political system. A socialist party in the United States must be part of a global political movement of the working class. I mean, these are just communists, that's all. And they have nothing to do with the traditional democratic party and yet they have more and more play, more and more play. They, they have made it a full time job to infiltrate school boards and minorities all over the country. And they are not, they're not being stopped. They're not. There's going to be a whole new wave of DSA inspired candidates all across America. There's one, Rura Rahman, running for Georgia governor in 2026. She, of course has talked about how Israel is a fascist government, which is sort of table stakes for the dsa. She canvassed for Mamdani. She is mainly driven again by the same concerns that drove Zoran Mamdani, this sort of radical Third Worldism that is deeply connected, of course, to anti Semitism and anti Israel sentiment. Her bid is a long shot in that Democratic primary, but she is running. Graham Platner is very likely to win the Senate nomination in Maine in 2026. He too is a radical in the mold of Zoran Mamdani. He's taken some hits because he had a giant Nazi tattoo on his chest, which he then denied was a Nazi tattoo and then covered it up with an even uglier tattoo, actually. But he is of course, a Democratic socialist. There's a woman named Kat Ubagazola. She's a candidate for Illinois's 9th congressional district in 2026. She has a lot of followers on TikTok. She, like mom Donnie, is very socially media savvy. She was indicted by a federal grand jury recently for allegedly blocking vehicles outside an ICE facility. Apparently she and other protesters surrounded a federal officer's vehicle, banged on its hood and windows, etched pig on the side and impeded movement. Although she's not formally dsa, her platform basically mirrors dsa. There's Shama Sawant, who I actually have met before because she was running for mayor at one point in Seattle. Now she's running for Washington's 9th congressional district in 2026. She's running as an independent socialist. I mean, she's openly a socialist, openly a Marxist. Abdul Al said, running for U.S. senate in Michigan in 2026. He again is very much in the mold of Zar Momdani. Omar Fatah, who ran for Minneapolis mayor, he came in second place in the first round of votes. And since no candidate originally received a majority, there will now be a second round of votes. Now these candidates are there, they are very much to the left and the Democratic Party seems to have very little systemic immunity to them, like at all. All it's going to cost you if they win is all your money and all your freedom. This is basically the platform. Zor momdani. Well, one of the fun things about the socialists when they campaign is they campaign on happy dappy, do as I say, and then the mask comes off and they say, give me your money. So yesterday, Zormadani did that already. Coming up, Zormadani, he is in fact implementing socialism because he's doing the first thing socialists do. He's trying to take money from people. We'll get to that in a moment. First, Good Ranchers. Ok. Good Ranchers is great. Why? Well, because it's American meat. 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