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And Bill Cassidy down in Louisiana finishing a distant third in the U.S. senate primary to represent Louisiana in the Senate. He is out. He has been an object of eye for Donald Trump ever since he voted to impeach Trump following the January 6th jamboree at the US Capitol back in 2021. But, but that could potentially all be old news by tomorrow if the election today tonight in Kentucky does not go the president's way. Donald Trump is placing a massive, massive wager. There has been a huge amount, a huge amount of outside money that has come in to try to unseat the incumbent, Congressman Thomas Massie. We spent some time on yesterday's show talking about Thomas Massie, who entered Congress a little over a decade ago as something of a libertarian gadfly, someone who was very much in the mold of a Ron Paul, someone who you might not necessarily agree with all the time, but who you could at least respect for being a very principled voice, a very principled congressman, a very principled vote. At some point over the past few years, and really just over the past two and a half, three years at the most, Massie has moved from being a principled libertarian to being a two pronged problem. On the one hand, he has become a legitimate conspiracist, someone who is palling around with all of the conspiracies on the right and who just this past weekend had someone in a hoodie that said American Reich on it, like the Third Reich. He was hugging with him. Apparently he invited this out of state non Kentuckian online Nazi influencer to his home. So Massie's palling around with all the wrong people. He's tweeting about things like chemtrails, stuff that would have been dismissed as Alex Jones tinfoil hat garbage in the not so recent past. That, that's on the one hand. On the other hand, he's just a consistent vote against Donald Trump. As J.D. vance put it just yesterday, actually, Thomas Massie now votes with Democrats roughly 25% of the time. Roughly 1 in 4 votes Thomas Massie casts in the US Congress is against what Donald Trump wants, against what Mike Johnson is calling for the House Republican Caucus do. When there is one dissenting vote in the U.S. house over the past year and a half, it has typically been Thomas Massie. So he has become just a massive problem when it comes to actually advancing Trump's agenda and he has become an absolutely unhinged, deranged conspiracist. Now, Massie has been trying to make this election all about, you guessed it, the Jews and Israel. On yesterday's show, we played his interview on, on ABC's this Week from this past Sunday where he's saying that it's all the Israel lobbyists. This there he joked that his opponent, Ed Gallerim, has a Tel Aviv area code on his phone. Ed Gallerin is a Navy veteran. He, he served his country, our country, United States, admirably. So the notion that he is serving foreign interests is absolutely, positively ludicrous. More generally speaking, Thomas Massie has been advancing this notion that all of these groups, whether it's the rjc, the Republican Jewish Coalition, whether it's aipac, whether it's cufi, Christians United for Israel, any of them, he says they are serving a foreign agenda. He actually accused a rabbi in Kentucky, someone who is the University of Kentucky campus rabbi, he accused him of being an unregistered foreign lobbyist. There is absolutely no evidence of any of this whatsoever. These are American citizens. And this is one of these tropes that you just hear over and over and over again. You heard it from Marjorie Taylor Greene. Now you hear from Thomas Massie this notion, this argument that anyone who actually supports close US Israel relations, who thinks that the US Benefits from its alliance with Israel, is, is serving a foreign agenda or is an unregistered foreign lobbyist. What Thomas Massie is not telling you, what he's not telling you is that there is a at least 500 year precedent since roughly the beginnings of Protestantism and the breakaway from the Catholic Church. There is a long, long history in what has become known today as the Anglo American tradition of Christians who care a lot about the fate of the land of Israel, the children of Israel. We had a long conversation the show in the not so recent past with Samuel Goldman, who wrote a whole book on this eight years ago. Long story short, there are tons of reasons, whether they are theological, whether they are prudential, whether they are geopolitical, to actually care about this issue and this notion that aipac, which is just a group of Americans who lobby on this issue the same way that Americans lobby for the SEC man, when it comes to the nra, for the same reason that Americans lobby for the right to preserve unborn human life when it comes to National Right to Life or Susan B. Anthony List or any of the other various pro life groups there, this is the issue they care about. So I have no patience whatsoever, frankly, for this particular line of attack. I think that is absolutely, positively disgusting. And Ed Gal Ryan is running as a standard mag Republican there. He'll be a much more reliable vote for Donald Trump in the Congress. However, if Massie does prevail and the odds are the odds are close, the poly market odds, it's all very close. That is going to be a huge rebuke to Donald Trump and to all the outside pro maga super PAC money that is coming in here really over the course of what has become the most expensive House campaign actually in modern congressional history, which is really simply sounding there. So what does it actually mean for maga? What does it mean for Donald Trump heading into a midterm election year? Well, I've got a lot to say on that folks. But for now, just a quick word from our sponsor for today's show which is Balance of Nature. You know, I typically eat a healthy, well rounded diet. I try to avoid carbs, I try to avoid sugars. I eat lots of fruits and vegetables there. But hey, look, I'm not perfect. We're all super busy there. We work long hours. That's why I take Bouts of Nature supplements. These are super healthy Maha approved ingredients folks. Take it from me, my wife is a super RFK loving Maha mom. 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Well, frankly, it does not necessarily augur well the President's approval rating right now. I hate to be the bearer of bad news is heading in the wrong direction and there are enough data points out there to just state this. This is not just a one off pollster error there. You can look at the real Clear Politics average and looking this morning at the Real Clear Politics polling average, Donald Trump's approval rating is now in the average below 40%. It is now 39.9% for an average underwater rating of 17 points underwater. That is unfortunate and we can discuss perhaps what the reasons for those are. The Iran conflict is going to have to have some sort of resolution. I've been saying since day one that the easiest way to get a short and precise resolution to the Iran quagmire once you decide to launch the initial opening salvo is to go ahead and just to finish the job quickly, to go ahead and just use overwhelming force to actually finish the job on the own terms that you've laid out there. That has not happened there. The tariffs continue to be of mixed popularity. Let's call, let's call it Dontron recently calling for the lowering of tariffs on beef products to try to alleviate some concerns when it comes to beef, when it comes to American beef consumers, those of us who love our meat, that in turn has ticked off a lot of cattle ranchers in American heartland there. So he's kind of a bit between a rock and a hard place when it comes to that. Now Kentucky is not the only states or in that case the only commonwealth that is hosting elections, primary elections tonight. So the sane caucus on the right has a chance to out the insane at this point. Thomas Massie when it comes to Congress, Democrats have a very similar opportunity actually to try to patrol their own crazies in Pennsylvania. So Pennsylvania's third Congressional District is known as arguably the bluest most Democrat heavy district In America. It's an urban Philadelphia congressional district there. And there is a total DSA endorsed socialist gadfly by the name of Chris Raab, who was getting a lot of attention. He's got the endorsements from AOC Hasan Piker this and that there. He is running essentially to be the fifth member of the squad. Maybe he will seek to replace Ayanna Pressley as the Ringo star of the squad if Jasmine Crockett has not done that already. So Rab is running essentially as a total radical there. They're going to have an opportunity to go ahead and to defeat him, likely with a state senator of the name of Sharif street who has the backing of the Pennsylvania Democratic establishment and things like that there. We'll see how that goes as well. Donald Trump also placing a wager in a smaller capacity in some races in Georgia. So he has placed endorsement when it comes to the replacement for Governor Brian Kemp, who is now term limited. So Donald Trump has endorsed Lt. Gov. Burt Jones over the outside billionaire Rick Jackson. He's encouraged Jackson to get out of the race. He's promised him a job in the administration. We will see if Bert Jones prevails. He probably will in other Kentucky races. Donald Trump placing a wager as well. Congressman Andy Barr is now running in this primary to replace Mitch McConnell. Don't forget that Mitch McConnell is actually retiring. He will not be in the US Senate come January 2027. So Trump placing a large wager on Andy Barr looks like Andy Barr is likely likely to coast a victory there. So look, it's not that the MAGA brand dies tomorrow if Thomas Massie manages to squeak on by. And again in poly market, callously the online prediction market, it's actually really close. It is very, very close at this time. The point is this. The point is that Trump's overall approval rating is going the wrong way. And his domestic political team, folks like James Blair, who was the brilliant architect of this redistricting strategy, he's essentially being let go from the White House to run the politic political operation for Donald Trump at the midterms this November. There there's only so much that the political folks can do. Even someone as talented, smarted, as James Blair can do. If you have an incumbent who is losing the trust of the American people at large and simultaneously, simultaneously, potentially, potentially has declining support even within his party. Now, I don't think we're there yet. To be clear, I think Donald Trump is still the undisputed king of the Republican Party, the undisputed leader of Maga and MAGA at this point is the majority for sure of the Republican Party, especially after Indiana and Louisiana. But this Massey wager is a big one, is a high stakes, high risk, high reward gamble from Donald Trump and from all of the pro Trump, pro MAGA outside super PAC money that have just been flooding, been flooding Kentucky's 4th congressional district. Personally, as someone who supports the president's agenda, I hope that Massie loses. I hope that very much because he is a massive, massive problem when it comes to advancing the agenda that I support and you likely support as well. We, we will ultimately see where it goes there. MAGA will live on if Matthew survives there, but it will definitely be a bit of a dent in Donald Trump's very shiny armor. Folks, a quick commercial break. We'll be right back. This is the story of the one As a procurement manager for a hospital system, she keeps every facility in her network stocked and ready. That's why she counts on Grainger to be her single source for thousands of products from disinfectants to lighting, air filters and more. And with fast, dependable delivery, Grainger helps her keep every facility stocked, safe and running smoothly. Call 1-800-GRAINGER click granger.com or just stop by Granger for the ones who get it done. Welcome back. So I mentioned how there are plenty of other states besides Kentucky that are going to the polls today. Georgia, the great state of Georgia, is one of those states. And it's not just the elected office primaries. When it comes to the governor's mansion and other legislative offices, is also the judiciary. It's also the state supreme court that is going to have a law of justice on the ballot today. So every state is different when it comes to how you get your state judiciary. Some states are just straight up, you elect a judge. Sometimes that judge has a partisan identifier, whether it is a Democrat or a Republican or something else. Sometimes there is a vice and consent very similar to the way that the US Constitution has it where the governor selects and then and then the state senate approves. Sometimes you have these commissions, these so called independent commissions there that's oftentimes referred to as the Missouri plan because they were adopted. Every state's different. Personally, I am actually more of a fan. This is actually a somewhat rare take for people like me who went to law school and are lawyers. I actually prefer partisan elections. I actually prefer partisan judicial elections in my mind. You really should know what you're getting for and I can think of no better way than than that. So Georgia is one such state. Georgia is one state, just like here in Florida where I live, just like the great state of Texas as well. Georgia is another state that has partisan judicial elections. And the Democrats have been not so subtly trying to take over the Georgia Supreme Court on the abortion issue alone, really broadly alone. They've been running really, really hard. Yes, they talk about January 6th a little bit still. Yes, they really do do that because Georgia of course was the epicenter. Brad Rothenberger all that there was. But they've been trying to take over the Georgia Supreme Court on essentially an abortion specific platform because Georgia under Governor Brian Kemp signed a fetal heartbeat bill and has been a very pro life state. Now in trying to do that, you had certain candidates, Democrat aligned candidates for the Georgia Supreme Court who filed a secret lawsuit to stop their admitted violations and these violations had become known to them from the state's Judicial Qualifications Commission. It's a little complicated, so bear with me. They filed a lawsuit to stop these violations from coming to light before the election. Very, very shady, very, very sneaky stuff. Long story short, this got to the federal court appeals as part of the litigation and the US court appeals for the 11th Circuit which oversees Florida, Alabama and Georgia said that this can't happen, that these candidates broke the rules and therefore that they are out of luck. I say all that not because you should necessarily care about these super arcane and in the weeds details. I say that because this says a lot about what the Democratic Party is trying to do. They blatantly broke the rules in a very specific arcane, in the weeds way when it comes to trying to advance their candidates for judicial office for the Georgia Supreme Court. But they do this all the time, don't they? This is actually the whole main theme of yesterday's show when we talked about Kamala Harris's no bad ideas brainstorm. Democrats have fundamentally lost the argument with the American people. They have lost the argument when it comes to all of the key hot butting cultural issues, wedge issues facing the people. They've lost the argument when it comes to immigration. They've lost the argument when it comes to gender ideology, when it comes to things like Texas Children's Hospital now establishing this multi, multi million dollar detransition clinic. When it, when it comes to all sorts of other issues as well, there's and when you lose the argument, when you lose the argument, all that's left, as we said yesterday, is to start trying to change the rules of the system that takes us to the state of California. So California is the most iconic blue state in the country. After Donald Trump first encouraged Governor Abbott in Austin, Texas to go ahead and commence Texas's redistricting plan, which went quite well, actually. California became the, essentially they became the blue response to very red Texas. California swooped in and they muscled through on the ballot this constitutional amendment to essentially allow Sacramento Democrats to get a power grab, to carve up new congressional map lines. And that's what happens. The irony, and perhaps the delectable irony actually is that California is very blue. Yes, but it has been so, so poorly managed, so poorly managed that in the upcoming jungle primary, as it's often referred to, which is coming up actually here in just a few weeks in California for the governor's race this November, there, there is the possibility, albeit an outside possibility, that the two candidates who make it could, could be Steve Hilton, who is the former Fox's commentator, who's running as he's currently polling in the lead. Actually, he's running as a Republican as well as Chad Bianco, who is a sheriff, a sheriff from Riverside county there in Southern California there. That's unlikely. It'll probably be one Republican, one Democrat, likely Steve Hilton, and then likely Tom Steyer or God forbid, Katie Porter or some other absolute lunatic there. But Gavin Newsom had a pretty shocking thing to say about what happens in the off chance that it actually is a Republican versus Republican jungle primary. Let's go ahead and listen to this from Gavin News. We all have agencies. We can shape the future. There's still a lot. Look, I've said this before, so I'll repeat it. I don't anticipate this need to be the case, but there is a break the glass scenario and there's many people that have a deep understanding of what it would look like if Democrats were locked out. And we're going to do everything to make sure that doesn't happen. Gavin, please elaborate. What exactly is the break the glass scenario? Inquiring minds want to know. Listen, I love it, as I say on the show all the time, I love it when the Democrats mass drops, when the left drops all the pretense of following the rules, when they stop hiding between the euphemisms of pro choice and bodily autonomy and compassion for undocumented workers. No, definitely don't call them illegal aliens when they drop the fancy stupid language that deliberately obfuscates and obscures their point and when they just say it like it is. I actually appreciate that when Kamala Harris gets on some garbage no name podcast and says let's abolish The Electoral college. Let's add puerto Rico and D.C. estates. And yes, the Senate Democrats who rebuked FDR in 1937 were wrong. Let's go ahead and actually pat the Supreme Court when they say that, I say bravo. Not because they're right, they're stupid, they're wrong. They're very wrong and they're playing with fricking fire. But I say bravo because we know we're up against now, the voters know this November and beyond what they're up against. So Gavin Newsom, what do you mean, bro? What are you talking when you say this break the glass scenario doesn't sound particularly appealing. Frankly, I might say sounds rather undemocratic. Sounds pretty, dare I say even fascistic little fascisty trying just to change the rules. Because God forbid there is a Republican versus Republican showdown in the Golden State. No, California Democrats definitely cannot allow that. We have to have a one party system. You know what we call that? We call, we call that fascism. You know, we call that, we call that Chinese Communist Party style authoritarianism. That's tyranny. That's freaking tyranny. You don't have a monopoly. Gavin Newsom, the Democratic Party on Sacramento. You don't have a monopoly on your state. Once upon a time, actually California was run in pretty fine fashion by Republicans. It wasn't that, that long ago really that you had governors like Ronald Reagan wasn't in my lifetime. It was in my parents lifetime for sure. Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected two decades ago, wasn't the most right wing governor. But you get the idea. There is no monopoly when it comes to a political party. So the break your glass scenario, just another reminder, as if we needed it, that with all the rhetoric to the contrary notwithstanding, this is not a party, this is not a political movement that cares about democracy. The not so subtle sleight of hand that you hear from the left over and over and over again is this conflation of democracy with leftism. The most democratic outcome is just the leftist outcome. If the U.S. supreme Court acts a manner to overturn half the country's laws when it comes to abortion or marriage, but does so in a left wing direction, that's democracy. Never mind the fact that it is by definition anti democratic. It may or may not be correct legally, but it's definitely not democratic with a lowercase date. That's all they care about. It is pure outcomes oriented action. It is pure Alinskyite ends justify the means. It's garbage though. It's not how the Constitution works. It's not how the American way of life was predicated. But look, as crazy as Gavin Newsman is, and the California Democrats definitely are crazy, really. Old Gavin, Old Gavin in Sacramento has nothing on the new kink of far left Democrat socialist woke craziness. And that is Zoram Hamdani, His Honor, the King of New York City. Coming up after a short break, we're going to get into Zormadani's latest. Folks, you're not going to want to miss this. What a lunatic. We'll be right back to discuss Zoram Mamdani after this. This is the story of the One As a maintenance tech at a university, he knows ordering from multiple suppliers takes time away from keeping their arena up and running. That's why he counts on Grainger to get everything he needs from lighting and H Vac parts to plumbing supplies all in one place. And with fast, dependable delivery, he's stocked and ready for the next tip off. Call 1-800-GRAINGER click granger.com or just stop by Granger for the ones who get it done. So Kamala Harris is one thing, and Gavin Newsom, her fellow Bay Area California Democrat, is another thing as well. But is there anyone who better personifies, indeed encapsulates the far left drift of the current Democratic Party than Zor Mamdani himself? His Honor? They are in Gracie Mansion and in City hall in the Big Apple in New York City. Well, Mamdani has just announced that the city's first city owned grocery store, AKA literal Marxism, like actual control of means of production Marxism. The first city owned grocery store should be opening within the next year. It's a pure PR stunt, okay? There's apparently going to be one in each borough. Big freaking deal. Big freaking deal. How many supermarkets, how many bodegas exist all across the five boroughs of New York City? I have no idea. I frankly wouldn't even know how to begin counting that. So to have one in each borough, it's a pure symbolic stunt there meant, frankly, just to make himself feel better at night because he's doing the good work so he can think about his Marxist indoctrination and to be personally satisfied in a very smug, self serving way. But Mamdani had a statement also this week that was sounding, shall we say, very socialisty. He said that he disagrees with Reagan's famous most terrifying word statement and he has something else to say in his place. Here was Zoramdani. And standing here this morning, I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th President Ronald Reagan, he famously said the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help. It's a good quote, but I disagree. I think nine more terrifying words are actually, I worked all day and can't feed my family. We are going to use the power of government to lower prices and make it easier for New Yorkers to put food on the table. When government understands its purpose as serving the very working people that it has left behind time and again, it can make a difference in the most pressing struggles facing our city today. It's not just that government can help, it's that government must help, and our government will help. Okay, so full disclosure, I don't actually fully, fully agree with the Ronald Reagan notion that these are the most terrifying words in the English language. I think that there are any number of public taxpayer fund positions who do good in the world. Police officers come immediately to mind. I think more generally speaking that my view of government is a little bit less stridently libertarian perhaps than Ronald Reagan's position. He once famously said that libertarianism is the heart and soul of his conservatism. That's certainly not my take on what it means to be a conservative. So I have my disagreements with Ronald Reagan on some of this more philosophical stuff. Having said that, this is garbage. This is total gobbledygook, what Zurmadani is saying there. The most terrifying words are that I worked all day and I can't feed my family. First of all, first of all, how many people does this actually apply to in America? I'm not gonna do the whole Randian anarcho capitalist dismissal of all concern of laborers. That's not my stance. That's not who I am. That's not the shows out there. We are very much two tiers for capitalism on the show, not three tiers of capitalism. But serious question, how many people does this actually apply to? If you are working hard and you are working all day and you like literally can't feed your family? I'm not saying it doesn't exist for some people that live a decent, upright, virtuous lifestyle. I'm saying it's got to be a very, very small number because you're looking at minimum wage or maybe even below because you're just on a pure tips based job and I guess a gargantuan family. I mean, this is a very, very, very low number. So that then takes us then to the corollary, which is if there's a very low number, then if it's a higher number than that. If there are more people who fit this description there, it's because they're not doing what I said. They're not living an actual decent, virtuous life. They're probably just throwing their money down the drain. They're going to play the slots, they're going to play the online prediction markets. These days they're placing too much money on poly markets or on Kalshi or on sports gambling. Sports gambling, which has emerged one of the great epidemics of our time. The percentage of Americans who are gambling on sports is skyrocketing. We covered that a bit on the show here. It's a massive, massive social epidemic there. People are increasingly likely to carry over credit card debt month to month, to have higher mortgages and debts, and to be more depressed because they can't pay their bills. So that is the number one problem here. That is a much, much bigger problem when it comes to being able to just literally afford for your kids. I mean, also maybe just mind your purchases. Maybe don't rush to the Apple store to get the newest iPhone every single September whenever, whenever Tim Cook and Apple releases it or some other kind of consumer good. These are the kind of things that Mamdani is actually really getting at there. He's not telling you that. Again, I think for a very small group of people, it probably does apply that you actually work in good faith all day, you live a decent lifestyle and you still can't afford there. I think that number is very, very small. Generally speaking, America is still a country where if you work hard, if you put in the effort, then you are going to succeed. I'm not going to guarantee you that you will go from the lowest quintile of the income bracket all the way to the top quintile. I'm not saying that you're going to become the next Howard Schultz or the next Bill Gates or the next Elon Musk or whatever. What I'm saying is that percentage of people who follow the basic plan in life, who educate themselves and they get married before they have children, and they have a decent, a decent drive, a decent eagerness to provide for themselves, for their spouse, for their children, if you have all those basic ingredients, you follow the basic manual for life that sociologists have been discussing for decades and decades, you are generally going to be just fine. I'm not saying that there are no exceptions. That's why we have a social safety net. And again, I'm not a libertarian. I don't oppose a social safety net. I really don't. Especially at a state level, even more so than at a federal level. So generally speaking there, Mamdani is just way off base on this one there. But again, this dude is a literal Marxist which says all you need to know. Of course, Mamdani is not just a Marxist, he is a propagandist for third worldism. Really? He is a propagandist for third worldism dot I mean the guy who was born in Uganda is a Third Worldist Shocker. I know, an absolute shocker. And the number one Third Worldist cause that is near and dear to the very dark and depraved heart and soul of the mayor of New York City, of course is the so called Palestinian Arab cause. Which is why Zormadani could not help himself despite despite the fact that he is the mayor of the city in the world with the literal largest Jewish population of any city in the world, he couldn't help himself from releasing a highly propagandistic video just a few days ago on so called Nakba Day. Maybe Nakba is a term you've heard, but you probably don't know what it actually means. And now the propagandists say it means. But before we get into that at all, let's go ahead and actually play just a snippet of this pretty outrageous video that Zormi Amdani ran on so called Nakpa Day. I was nine years old, it was nighttime and my father came into our bedroom and told us surprisingly to get on all fours and make our way to the staircase that goes in to the roof. There were no windows on the staircase because bullets had come in through the wood shutters at that stage. And next day we just took what we could carry and went to my Uncle Hossein's house in Nablus. Because there was no fighting in Nablus. The Zionists were, you know, coming into Jerusalem. Okay, so this is apparently what your New York State taxpayer dollars are going towards is videos like this. No, I wish I were kidding, but unfortunately I am very much not kidding. So first of all, just a very, very brief bit of history. In 1947, the year before Israel was founded, the United nations voted for a partition to partition the land which was then the British Mandate. Following the post World War I carving up of the Middle east of the European powers, the United nations in its infancy decided to vote for a two state partition. The Jewish state, by the way, according to the un, even according to their map was this tiny, tiny, not even connected sliver. The Jews immediately said yes they were just happy to not be genocide after what just happened in the Holocaust. The Arabs said no. A few months later, Deo Ben Gurion declares independence of Israel. And immediately at least five different Arab countries send in their troops to try to annihilate the Jewish state. You had Lebanon, you had Syria, you had Egypt, you had Iraq, all trying to throw the Jews into the ocean. The term nakba, as was originally introduced by a Syrian academic, a Syrian public intellectual, Nakba, which does refer to disaster, catastrophe, refers to the fact that the Arabs failed. It refers to the fact that they failed to annihilate and genocide the Jews. That's literally what it meant. It does not mean today what the SJP crowd, what this video says it means. It literally referred originally to the failure to annihilate the Jews. Okay, that's the real history. They're not telling you that that's actually what it refers to. But there's a lot more to unpack here, folks. A quick commercial break. We'll be right back. This is the story of the 1. As a procurement manager for a hospital system, she keeps every facility in her network stocked and ready. That's why she counts on Grainger to be her single source for thousands of products from disinfectants to lighting, air filters and more. And with fast, dependable delivery, Granger helps her keep every facility stocked, safe and running smoothly. Call 1-800-granger. Click granger.com or just stop by Granger for the ones who get it done. So again, the history that you're not hearing anywhere is that these term nakba was a term that you hear all the time from the so called students for justice in Palestine crowd, sjp, all the typical keffiyeh clad campus jihadis who are marching in the streets saying, from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free there. They're not telling you that Nakba actually referred when the term was first coined to the failure of the invading Arabs to kill all the Jews. As it comes to the individual in this Mamdani propaganda video, a woman whose family name is Bushnak. What she is not telling you is it's actually dripping with irony. She's actually of Bosnian descent. Her family comes from southeastern Europe, the Balkans. Her family came from Bosnia. They settled in Syria in the early 20th century before eventually going to Jerusalem. So ironically, this woman is actually exactly what the SJP crowd says, that the Jews are European colonizers, European settlers there in the Holy Land. But it actually gets. It actually gets better. Her own family story. She Says that she was uprooted by the invading Zionists in Tulkarm. Yes, her family was apparently in a small town in Judea and Samaria, AKA the West bank, called Tulkarm. Well, by definition the Jews could not have kicked her out of Tulkarm in 1948 when the Arabs started the war. By definition, because the Jews didn't control Tulkarm, it was literally controlled by the Jordanians. It was controlled by the Arabs at that time. So what actually happened? The video that you saw, the statistic of 700,000 Arabs who fled, the number is roughly correct. We can debate the finer details, but again, the devil in the details is the Jews didn't kick the Arabs out. What actually happened was that you had a lot of the Arab leaders, including the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who was a noted Hitler ally, visited Hitler in Berlin during World War II. So this Nazi Arab leader told the Arabs who were living in the land of Israel in Judea and Samaria, etc. Said leave. You know why you should leave? Because we want to kill the Jews. Like leave so that all the Arab armies can kill the Jews. Finish job. And then, then, then you can come back in and resettle. That was literally why this woman probably left Tulkarm was that she was listening to the Jordanian authorities, the Syrian authorities, the Egyptian authorities, or the Graham Mufti himself, who was this Muslim Brotherhood type figure ruling the Arab community there in Jerusalem. One final note about this video because it's just so utterly delectable. So you may not have been able to see this poster that is seen behind her on the wall. It is a poster that is a view of the Old Sea of Jerusalem and you see the mosque, you see the walls of the Old City and it says in big letters, visit Palestine. If you squint really, really carefully, if you freeze frame on this graphic and you zoom in and I would never have noticed this were it not for an excellent op ed this morning from Leo Leibovitz over at the New York Post who pointed this out. If you zoom in there, you will actually see that the artist signed his name of this painting and he signed it in Hebrew because he's a Jew. Because he's a Jewish guy. Actually, the guy who did that painting on the wall of the video that you saw there is a Jewish guy by the name of Franz Krauss. Sounds like a very German name because it is. He came from an Austrian Jewish family. He was forced to flee Austria due to the rise of the Nazis and he settled in the Holy Land. The Holy Land, which at the time was just called Palestine because it was still using this Romanized name that the Romans first introduced after the Romans destroyed the second Temple and ethnically, ethnically cleansed the region of the Jews. So it would actually, it indeed was called Palestine for a very long time, again going back to the year 70 because of what the Romans did. But in the 1930s, in the lead up to World War II, the Holy Land, which still had a lot of Jews at the time, was referred to as Palestine. Which is why this Jewish artist said, visit Palestine. You go back and you look at the so called Palestinian soccer teams in the 1930s. There actually are videos and photos of this. There you will see them not wearing a green, red, white and black jersey, they're wearing a blue jersey with a gold star because they're a bunch of Jews. Their names are like David and Shlomo, not, not Mahmoud and Ahmed. In fact, my father in law, my father in law's mother, so my wife's paternal grandmother was a Jew born in the land of Israel before 1948, before Israel was a modern country. So she was born as a quote unquote Palestinian, by the way, she was born there even though her family was Iraqi because her family had already fled Iraq because of all the pogroms by the Arabs on the Jews happening around the time that Israel was founded. So to the extent that there was a legitimate Nakba, a legitimate genocide, a legitimate ethnic cleansing, the more historically accurate part of that Picture is the 800 to 900,000 give or take, Jews who were forcibly, forcibly kicked out of all of the Arab countries. It's called the Farhad, that's the historical term. Around the same time that Israel was founded, they were kicked out of Iraq, kicked out of Libya, Egypt, Syria. There's a long community there in Damascus, Aleppo. They were kicked out of all these countries around the same time. And not just kicked out, a lot of them were murdered, there were pogroms, their property was expropriated, there were mass rapes and sexual violence as the Arabs sometimes do, as we now know from the October 7th report that just came out this past week. So that is the real Nakba. Again, nakba itself is a fake term, right? It was invented by this Syrian professor to refer to the so called catastrophe that the Arabs didn't actually genocide the Jews in, in 1948. So all this is just totally, totally garbage. But again, what would you expect from Zoramdani? Speaking of garbage, there is a man running for Congress in New Jersey who is, I can't even believe I'm saying this. He is a former friend, a close associate of the man who was known as the Blind Sheikh. So Omar Abdel Rahman, otherwise known as the Blind Sheikh, was the Al Qaeda criminal Mastermind of the 1993 World Trade center bombing. This was essentially the test run for what became 9 11. Tragically, eight years later, February 1993, a World Trade center blast that killed six people, wounded more than a thousand. The Blind Sheikh was ultimately prosecuted in a highly publicized trial in 1995. I was too young to realize what was going on, but that's what happened. And he was sentenced to life in prison. So there is a Muslim man who is now running for Congress in New Jersey, in New Jersey's 12th congressional district who describes himself as, as a close friend of the Blind Sheikh. He actually has referred to the Blind Sheikh as a leader of the community. Again, this dude literally served as a witness. He was a defense witness at the Blind Sheikh's trial when he's being prosecuted by the government for orchestrating the World Trade center bombing in 1993. And now he's running for Congress. And just last week on the campaign trail, he was referring to, he was referring to the Blind Sheikh as a longtime leader of the local Muslim community. Let's go ahead and play this clip. 30 years ago, he's a well known person in the community. He spoke all over New Jersey. And he was a blind old man that people volunteered when he needed some kind of service because he couldn't take care of himself. And so that's kind of all the association is. There was nothing back then and there's nothing now. It's just they can't find anything else. As a Muslim, they're always going to find something to attack. I'm used to this all my life and just my experience and in my service should be enough to be able to show that that's not what I stand for. He's a blind old man. Ah, pity him. Oh, feel so bad. He's a blind old man. He's Al Qaeda. He's a Jihadist. He killed six and wounded over a thousand. One of the worst terrorist attacks on American soil and which very much set the stage for Bin Laden to finish the job. Eight years later he, this guy served as a witness at the trial, like the actual trial. You can't play dumb. The crimes have been, have been read, the indictments been read, and guess what? He was convicted. Because, duh, he was convicted. Obviously he did it. These are the kind of people that Democrats are turning out now to run in elections. They've got one in office now in Gracie Mansion, in Town hall in New York City. They've got this guy running in New Jersey. There's someone running in the Michigan Senate primary for the Democrats again out of Michigan called Abdul El Sayed, who has all sorts of other irksome connections as well when it comes to that state's very, shall we say, Hezbollah sympathetic community there in Dearborn. And let's not forget that it was fairly recently, actually, in Dearborn, Michigan, where they tried to blow up a preschool at one of the largest synagogues in the state, if not the entire region there. So the Democrats just have an unconscionable radicalism problem. And as much as they thorn the side of Trump and sanity, frankly, as people like Thomas Massie are, it's just a reminder that these problems pale in comparison, utterly pale in comparison to the problems from the other side. The Democratic Party is trying to burn it down by running candidates at times who have been witnesses, character witnesses for individuals and terrorists who quite literally sought to burn it all down. In that case, I speak, of course, of the 1993 World Trade center bombing. Folks, have a great rest of your evening. Josh Hammer signing off. We'll be right back. As always,