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I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. Well, you were all focused on the threat of the Iranian nuclear program to Israel, Europe, the United States. You were not paying attention to the threat posed by the Liver King to Joe Rogan. We will get to that. The Liver King has been arrested. I have many more thoughts and things to say, but first you must go to balanceofnature.com, use promo code Knowles. You've heard me talk many, many times about balance of nature. That is because balance of nature, fruits and veggies is the most convenient way to to get whole fruits and vegetables daily. Especially if you're focused on creating a healthier, happier lifestyle. Nature is pretty good at giving us the nutrients we need through our fruits and veggies. So balance of nature takes fruits and vegetables, freeze, dries them, turns them into a powder, puts them into a capsule. 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Then you've got Eric Adams, who is the current mayor of New York, who is a Democrat, but compared to the other Democrats in New York, he's like a far right wing fascist, meaning he's at least semi, sometimes kind of reasonable. And he could run as an independent. And. And so it's a messy primary. But right now, Zoran Mamdani is far and away the favorite to be the next mayor of New York. And the conservatives have decided to focus on the fact that he's Muslim. They say he's Muslim. He's Shiite. He's not just Shiite, he's a Twelver Shiite. Just like the Ayatollah of Iran. Sure, I guess. I guess that Is that kind of true. It doesn't seem totally true because of tweets like this. This one's been making the rounds. Last 24 hours from Zoran Kwame Mamdani. Queer liberation means defund the police. Doesn't exactly sound like Saladin, does he? Not exactly. Sayyid Qutib. You think this is a Muslim radical? You think this is some jihadi? I don't think so. In many ways, it would be better if he were. In many ways, if this guy were a sincere Twelver Shiite Muslim radical, that would be an improvement over his actual beliefs. His actual beliefs, which are just kind of run of the mill, pinko ism with a fascination for weird sex stuff. That's it. He's in many ways more assimilated than many right wingers in America. He's assimilated to liberal culture in New York. Queer. What was it? Queer liberation means defund the police. Oh, man, that is bad. That is bad. This guy, Zoran Mamdani, strikes me as Muslim. In the way that Joe Biden is Catholic, which is to say he is that thing in as much as it is convenient for advancing liberalism. That's it. Same with Biden. I'm not trying to examine their own self identity or the way they think about their relationship to religion. I'm looking at Biden. Biden flagrantly ignores non negotiable aspects of the Catholic faith. Ignores them, contradicts them, mocks them. But when it's convenient for him, he makes a big show about being a Catholic, ignores Catholic teaching, violates important aspects of doctrine. But when it's helpful to advancing his true religion of liberalism, he puts on a good show. I think it's the same thing with Mamdani. Say what you will about the Ayatollah, the guy's got nine lives. We almost took him out, he's still sticking around in Iran. Say a nasty fellow, nuclear program, death to America. But say what you will about him, he doesn't support queer liberation or defunding the police. I think he likes funding the police and I think he looks with a great deal of opprobrium on lgbtism. That's not it. If you wanna go after this guy, go after him for his real problems, which is that he's. What's the phrase that people use? A race communist. A gay race communist. He focuses on the LGBT stuff and the weird racial stuff. And most important of all, he focuses on class issues. Don't forget the big issue in the campaign was affordability. And he didn't focus his whole campaign on transing the kids though he wants to do that. He didn't focus his whole campaign on letting criminals out of prison though he wants to do that. He focuses his campaign on soaking the rich and freezing rents and creating government run grocery stores to drive down prices from private industry. That's what it is. In many ways he's more of an old school leftist than a lot of the Woke people. And that could present a challenge. Cuz Wokeness is repulsive to most voters. Wokeness was taken out back like Old Yeller and shot in the head during the 2024 presidential election. I think Wokeness is deader than disco, but left wing populism might still have some life in it. And Mamdani is channeling that. And if conservatives miss the real ways to go after him and they pretend that he's Osama Bin Laden or something, it's not gonna work. And the guy's gonna be mayor of New York. Now Trump gets it. Trump, after I was writing that I was just taking some notes for the show today, and I was looking at Zoran. I said, he's really not some jihadi. He's not the great imam. He's like a big crazy leftist. Trump tweets this. He says, it's finally happened. The Democrats have crossed the line. Zoran Mamdani, a 100% communist lunatic, has just won the Dem primary and is on the way to becoming mayor. We've had radical lefties before, but this is getting a little ridiculous. He looks terrible. His voice is grating. He's not very smart. He's got AOC plus three dummies all backing him. I think he means the squad. AOC plus three dummies all backing him. And even our great Palestinian Senator Cryan, Chuck Schumer is groveling over him. Yes, this is a big moment in the history of our country. That's the way to go after him. Trump gets it. Trump is not afraid. He's not some squish. He's not afraid to go after Islam when it's appropriate. Trump was accused of the Muslim travel ban. Trump has made plenty of politically incorrect statements about Islam and radical Muslims. He just realizes this guy isn't a radical Muslim. In many ways. It'd be easier to talk to him and reason with him if he were a radical Muslim. At least there are some points of commonality. At least they believe in God, right? Does this guy believe in God? I don't know. I don't get the impression that he does necessarily. This is it. This is the way. He's a communist lunatic. That's really what he is. And they pretense that he's a Wahhabist or something is silly. We have this reflexive impulse to. And it comes really from the early 2000s, but this reflexive impulse to oppose Sharia and radical Islam. You don't need to convince me, man. I'm well aware that Western civilization has been fighting expansive Islam for 1400 years. No need to convince me of that. But Zoran ain't setting up the caliphate. He's gonna set up breadlines. He's much closer to the Secretary General of the Communist Party than he is to the caliph or the 12th imam. Now, there is a big winner in that primary, and I guess it's Zoran's a big winner. But the biggest winner is not Zoran, certainly not the people of New York. It's another New York politician who is now looking at presidential prospects. Hold on. Pull over. Sit down one second. We'll get back to my very important point. First though, go to helixsleep.com knowles I absolutely love Helix though I have to confess to you I had a terrible night's sleep last night. It had nothing to do with my mattress and it was mostly cause my wife sweet little Alisa is nervous about flying to Italy. But can you imagine the night's sleep I would have had without my mattress? That would have been absolutely horrible. I wouldn't have gotten a second sleep. I adore Helix mattresses. I've had my Helix for what like five years or something now. Helix. It will improve your night's sleep. 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This is a quote from Corbin Trent, AOC's former spokesman, who is obviously still promoting her quite a lot. Says it just continues to open more doors. It just broadens her horizons. You can always count on AOC being underestimated for sure. That's a given. AOC came out endorsed this guy, went to the mat for this guy. Yet other Democrats lining up behind Cuomo. And this guy won the old school Democrat Party, the Bill Clinton wing of the Democrat Party, that they lost the AOC and the squad wing one. This means that AOC's prospects are rising. She's already being floated by her former spokesman here implicitly as a 2028 presidential candidate. And I think she would be a good 2028 presidential candidate. I'm not trying to psyop her into the nomination because she'd be easier to beat. I'm just looking at it. If I were advising AOC right now, I would say you should seriously consider the 2028 run. She already floated that she Was prancing around the Midwest, and she put out some commercial talking to the voters. I'm just a girl from the Bronx, but, you know, I represent you and whatever. She clearly wants to run for president, but the question right now is, what is AOC's next step? Should she run for president or should she run against Chuck Schumer for his Senate seat in New York? She could do either. Her star is rising. Still, I think she should run for president rather than Senate. And the reason is it'll be tough to beat Chuck Schumer, even though Chuck Schumer has made all sorts of missteps and no one totally loves him. He's good. He shows up to everything in New York. I've been on multiple events in New York. I'm a Republican. I've been to multiple events that Chuck Schumer shows up to, even to support Republicans. He's just a good retail politician. He would be a very tough candidate to beat in New York for the presidential race. It's wide open. Who's she gotta beat? Gavin Newsom. Gavin Newsom's one of the big losers of that New York City mayoral primary. One of the big, big losers. Because Gavin Newsom, especially with his recent pivot to try to appear more moderate to start his podcast, to try to be friends with Charlie Kirk and Steve Bannon. Gavin Newsom is the Bill Clinton wing, the Tony Blair wing, the. The 90s wing of the party, the Andy Cuomo wing. We're just. We're gonna grow together. We're gonna be. We're gonna. We're gonna reach across the aisle. We're gonna be abundant. We're gonna. Yeah. No. Zoran runs. He says, we're gonna soak the rich. We're gonna eat them. We're gonna eat up the millionaires. That's the AOC wing. He won. So who's that? Who's AOC gotta beat right now to be a leader in the Democrat primary? She's gotta beat Gavin Newsom. Gavin. Who else does she have to beat? Pete Buttigieg? Give me a break. Kamala Dunne. Gretchen Whitmer, I guess is. No, it's open. I'm not saying she would win. She's got some problems, but I think she'd have a better shot for president than for Senate. If I were advising her. I mean, this. No trick up my sleeve. I'm just. If I were a Democrat operative, I'd say, tell her to run for president now. Then you gotta ask. All right. On paper, I see how she could win. I know Chills up our spine. But does she have the goods? Yeah. I get, in theory, an AOC like candidate could, maybe Zoran Mamdani could win, but could AOC herself go all the way? Well, here's her audition. This is her on camera responding to President Trump, responding to her calls for Trump to be impeached.