D (3:26)

The rise of Mamdani should be a, it's a coming attraction of what is coming next.

A (3:31)

Who's Mamdani?

D (3:31)

Zoran Mamdani, the, the, the, the Muslim communist that is running for mayor in, in New York City. Who. Obviously there's a whole rabbit hole we can go down there. He just looks kind of be like central casting and, you know, his ideas are terrible. He wants the city to run the grocery stores, all that. But I think everyone's kind of not everyone, but most people are missing the point of really what this is. This is yet another distress signal by young people to say, hey, if you're not going to fix our life economically, we're going to get very radical politically, okay?

A (4:03)

So I think that is an interesting way to frame the show because Charlie, if nothing else, and there was plenty of goodness about Charlie, understood the minds of young people, right? That's what his main focus was. That's what he built with Turning Point. That's why he was doing those debates on college campuses. And there he is only four months ago saying, guys, if you don't address some of the problems here that young people see, particularly as it relates to the economy and they can't get in buying houses and they feel like, you know, they're working for less and they're just getting less in general. It's going to come out in some radical ways. As a sidebar, it's a little bizarre to me that Tucker either pretended or didn't know who Mamdami was back in August. But whatever it is, anyway. So now let's flash forward to what happened yesterday. Mamdami did win in New York City with 49.5% of the vote, about 660, 77,000 votes. Cuomo got 41.6 with about 570. And Curtis Sliwa, the Republican got about 108,000, almost 8%. And if you add up the 41.6 plus the 7.9, Cuomo might have won. So it is extremely interesting. And obviously I had Rudy Giuliani on yesterday, who's America's mayor, Who was the single best mayor of New York City? Without question, he supported Sliwa. And I asked him about what happens if Sliwa becomes the spoiler here. And in some sense, look, you don't know that all of that, you know, 7.9% would have voted for Cuomo, but it could have been different. However, here we are. So the socialist, as Charlie said, Muslim communist, will now be the mayor of New York City, the once great epicenter of capitalism, literally in the entire world. And here he is quoting socialist Eugene Debs during his acceptance speech last night.

E (6:01)

Thank you, my friends. The sun may have set over our city this evening, but as Eugene Debs once said, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity.

A (6:27)

All right, I can see the dawn of a better day for humanity. That's pretty standard quote. You might be going, well, who is Eugene Debs? They all applauded Eugene Debs. Eugene Victor Debs was an American socialist, political activist, trade unionist, one of the founding members of the Industrial Workers of the World, and five time candidate of the Socialist Party, Party for America, President of the United States. So he's going all in on the socialist communist stuff. We don't have to split hairs about it. We don't have to pretend or anything else. He went out of his way to open his acceptance speech with someone who ran for president five times as a socialist. Then he said one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard a politician say.

E (7:15)

We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.

A (7:24)

Oh, no problem too big for government to solve. Do we have a Ronald Reagan? I think you all know that I've always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help. So do you see where we are at right now? Let's put aside the jihad stuff because it's there, but let's just put it aside for a second. Let's pretend none of that existed and he was just a socialist communist. What he wants is the government to do everything. There is no problem the government can't fix. Nothing will be too big for the government. The government will have every bit of control of every part of your life. The bus you get on the food that you eat, etc. Etc. Ronald Reagan, wisely, 40ish years ago, was saying that the government is actually the impediment to freedom. But Zorhan never talks about freedom, right? He talks about control, but he does it in this sort of Pollyannish, what would you call it, Rose glasses way. So that it sort of all sounds nice, but it actually is just, oh, we will get more money from some people to do what we want with it, and you will applaud until it all breaks down and you people are at each other's throats fighting over the last can of Goya beans. Where is Ronald Reagan when you need him? Can we reanimate Ronald Reagan? Like, where's Dr. Mindbender who created Serpentor so that we could reanimate Ronald Reagan? That would help. Here is Zorhan. And listen to the identity politics. Instead of this just being about New Yorkers. New Yorkers came together. Listen to the way they have whittled everybody down using identity politics.

E (9:14)

Thank you to those so often forgotten by the politics of our city, who made this movement their own. I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas, Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses, Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties. Yes, aunties. So, Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you. Turn the volume up. We will hold bad landlords to account because the Donald Trumps of our city have grown far too comfortable taking advantage of their tenants. We will put an end to the culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks.

A (10:23)

Trump hasn't avoided taxes. It's like when they say the thing about Elon avoiding taxes. These people pay more taxes than anybody, right? And if you have a problem with them not paying the taxes that you want them to pay, then you change the tax law, which, of course, he is going to increase taxes on everyone who earns and they are all going to flee. We'll have more of that in just a minute. But this, this thing with identity politics and the Algerian this and the Ethiopian that and the rest of it, it's like, sorry, Greeks who built New York City and Jews and Irish and Italian, you guys are all white, in essence, particularly you Jews are really out and you guys are done. He is making that very, very, very clear. But even putting all of that aside, who really built the city and everything else, and the Puerto Ricans and everything else, even putting that part aside, you can see what he's trying to do. To piece together this coalition, as he says, smiles the. Ugh, it's gross. I'm going to need. We're going to have to replace the Ilhan Omar bucket with a zorhan bucket. A zorhan puke bucket. Then, of course, he just plays into just all of the backwards things that these people have pushed on us, which is. Well, you'll see in just a second. He talks about New York being a city of immigrants. And you're right. Over the course of the last hundred plus years, since about 1900, actually, New York City, mostly through Ellis island, was a city of legal immigrants. People who came here with nothing, with only the hope and the promise that maybe their life could be better and they could pursue their happiness and that capitalism would free them from whatever it is that they were fleeing. But here he is talking about the city that was built by immigrants now being led by immigrant. The only problem is he hates the fucking country.

E (12:05)

But whatever, New York will remain a city of immigrants. A city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant. So hear me, President Trump, when I say this. To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.

A (12:49)

Okay, first off, let me point out that you can start to see a little of his jihad coming through. You're going to hear more of the guttural that's going to start coming through a little bit more and more over time, and the smile will start dissipating. That's one version of it. And you know how they code switch and they play it differently to different audiences, but you can see a little bit of his little jihad thing kind of bursting through there. Again, nobody. The city was built by immigrants, but which immigrants built the city? Well, it was the immigrant that I just mentioned. It was the Italians and it was the Irish, and it was the Greeks, and it was the Puerto Ricans, and it was the Jews and several other groups. But again, you guys, your day is done in the city because you guys did it right. You paid taxes, you built families, you built communities, you built businesses. That has nothing to do with the future of New York City under this guy. So you are done now. And then, of course, he points out that and now it will be led by an immigrant. Nobody cares. Well, first off, it shouldn't be led by an immigrant who came here seven years ago with the only intent of destroying the city, who's making it clear that he's not gonna follow federal law, and who hates the very foundation of this country and the economic system we were built upon and everything else. But nobody cares that you are an immigrant per se. It's because you have all of the wrong ideas. So all these brain dead morons, and that's what they are. They are applauding the end of their freedom and liberty. And good luck to all of you.

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B R-I K.com this is not going to end well. Now I want to play a clip of Van Jones. Van Jones, you know Van Jones from cnn. He's usually crying about things, gets most things wrong, but then in slow motion occasionally gets things right. Here he is. He should have been over the last couple weeks going off, explaining because he always tries to pretend he's the same Democrat. So he should have been saying, boy, New York City, you really better vote for Cuomo to stop this guy. I'm not sure that he did that, but here he is after listening to the speech, actually making some sense on how the tone of the speech was just really way off.

G (15:09)

I think he missed an opportunity. I think the Mamdani that we saw in the campaign trail, who was a lot more calm, who was a lot warmer, who was a lot more embracing, was not present in that speech. And I think that Mamdani is the one you need to hear from tonight. There are a lot of people trying to figure out can I get on this train with him or not? Is he going to include me? Is he going to be more of a class warrior even in office? I think he missed a chance tonight to open up and bring more people into the train. I think his tone was sharp. I think he was using the microphone in a way that he was almost yelling. And that's not the mom Danny that we've seen on TikTok and the Great interviews and stuff like that. So I felt like there's a little bit of a character switch here where the warm, open, embracing guy that's close to working people was not on stage tonight and there was some other voice on stage.

A (16:09)

I'm sorry. I know we all need like, I hate the word allies. I know we all need friends and we should be looking for. But Van, like, does any of that surprise you? Are you surprised? What have I been saying for months, and it's not just me. He used the soft lens, he used the fake smile, he used the lo fi music. It was all fake. Now he attained power and you're suddenly shocked that he switched tones. Well, wait till the full jihad tone kicks in and then you will really be shocked. How are you a political analyst and not realize that this is exactly what's going on here? But the tone is shifting and it's not just Zorhan. Here's AOC now coming out with what really this battle has been all about.

H (16:49)

So many people who participated and were brought together by his campaign because they were not just tasked with defeating a Republican, they were also tasked with defeating the old guard of the Democratic Party that essentially led us to many of the perils of this moment. So he had a two front war to win, which is what makes his victory so deeply impressive. And I do think that this moment, a lot of people who are willing to talk about party unity when it serves them, but not party unity when it serves everybody, it puts those folks on notice. And I think it also puts folks on notice that we have a future to plan for, we have a future to fight for. And we're either going to do that together or you're going to be left behind. And I think that that is not a partisan issue. It's not about progressive, it's not moderate, it's not liberal.

A (17:40)

This is about.

H (17:41)

Do you understand the assignment of fighting fascism right now?

A (17:45)

Yeah. We have a party to build and if you don't like she's about to say, and we're going to send you to the fucking gulag, you get it? Like that shrill, crazy eyed psycho communist bitch. But actually I'm sort of happy that she's saying all this. It finally has all bursts forth. They are not pretending to not be radicals anymore. They're not pretending to be the old guard. Decent, but probably wrong on most stuff. Democrats, they're not pretending to be liberals anymore. I, for 10 years was screaming the left should become liberal again and stop abandoning its liberal roots. But now we don't have to pretend anymore, right? The revolution is here. You've destroyed the old guys. Chuck Schumer, you are screwed. Timu Obama, you are screwed. All of you guys, you are on the outside. The revolution is coming to eat all of you. And by the way, aoc, it'll eventually eat you too. Because when one day they want to put you in a beekeeper costume, I have a feeling you're not going to want. Well, maybe you Will maybe you'll convert. We'll see. Scott Jennings, I thought had quite good analysis on what is going on here.

F (18:44)

You know, I think just want to offer condolences to Chuck Schumer. Honestly, what I'm reading here in New York City is that AOC is going to be the next senator from New York after she gets done whooping his rear end in the 2020 Democratic primary and for his Senate races in 2026. I see the energy in the Democratic Party tonight behind a socialist. And I see the energy in Virginia Democrats looking the other way on a violent candidate for Attorney general who says he wants to murder Republicans and their children. If you think you're getting rid of Graham Platner in Maine now, think again. This is a terrible night for national Democratic image given what is happening inside their party. Mamdani is an avowed socialist. It's not what people say that he is. It's what he says that he is. He's now the leader of their party. That's their energy and Chuck Schumer's.

G (19:29)

He's the leader of the Democratic Party.

A (19:32)

There is no.

F (19:33)

Who is the leader? Can someone tell me?

A (19:34)

He's a life raft for Republicans who have to go on TV and get their asses.

F (19:40)

You own this now.

E (19:41)

You all own this now.

A (19:43)

And I wish we had played the Scott in the Retards bumper because that's a perfect example. He told the truth there. That is the truth. They are a socialist party now and Mondami is the leader. Like Mamdami, aoc, it doesn't really matter. Like they're interchangeable parts of a radical sort of America hating, fundamentally America hating system that they are trying to import, but that they all kind of laugh him off. And Anderson Cooper, your husband, I think, or at least your ex husband or former husband or something, owned a gay bar in the East Village. Let's see what happens when the jihadists take over, how it's going to work out for them over there. So you guys can all pretend, but yes, he's completely right. Schumer's going down in 28. Obviously he should probably step away before he gets completely humiliated on top of the fiasco that's going on with the shutdown right now. And in 2026, the Dems now have to run on the socialist platform, right? They took New York fucking city. They took New York City. So how are you not going. How is any decent Democrat, whoever they might be, if there's another one besides Fetterman out there, how do you not then go in that direction. How do you run away from that? All of the energy's there and AOC is telling you we've got a revolution here, so get out of the way because we are here to take over. We will have more on some of the other races because they were equally. Well, not equally as bad because I don't think they include the jihad portion at least yet, but they were quite terrible. We'll do that in just a second. But first, policy genius. Have you noticed how easy it is to overestimate costs these days? A quick grocery run you thought would be 50 is suddenly 80 bucks. Well, here's the surprising part. 72% of Americans also overestimate the actual cost of life insurance. That's where policygenius comes in. They make finding and buying life insurance fast, easy and surprisingly affordable. 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Let's jump over to New Jersey, which was an unbelievable unmitigated disaster that I don't think anyone saw coming. Mickey Sherrell, The Democrat won 63.6% of the vote and Jack Citarelli, the Republican, 35.9. I mean, there was a lot of people that thought this was gonna be a win for the Republicans or at least just super, super razor thin close. And let me just say as a Floridian, I really wanted the Republican to win because knowing that Mamdani was 99.9% chance going to win, some of the sane people who are going to flee New York City now, they would have just gone to Jersey, right? Because you keep your family in the tri state area, you might have elderly people, your kids, whatever it is like you keep people somewhere there. So you just jump from communist New York City over to. Over the river to Jersey. You stay there. Now they're all going to come down here. And there's a by the way, house prices already. I already saw this morning, house prices in Texas and Florida are booming. My real estate agent texted me this morning. He's like, I'm going to have a really good year. Even though he's conservative and not thrilled about what just happened, but he personally, down here, will have a great year. So that was an abject disaster. And then another disaster, although it was a little bit closer. In Virginia, Abigail Spanberger got 53.1% of the vote. And Winsome Sears, a black woman who Barack Obama campaigned against because he's racist and hates black people. She got about 46.9%. Do we have a picture of Spangberger? I don't feel like overanalyzing this, but there she is with her head in a plastic bag. So good luck with all of that. Virginia. The other thing that happened in Virginia was that the Attorney General race came out and Jay Jones, the man who said he wants to murder his opponents in a text thread, got 50.9% of the vote. Jason Mieri's got 49.1%. And you remember these text messages. I'm not gonna read all of them. From J. Jones to a colleague. And basically here's Carrie the colleague saying they say nice things about everyone. Lol. And Jay says, if those guys die before me, I will go to their funerals to piss on their graves, sending them out awash in something. Carrie says, Jay Jones. Jay says, three people, two bullets. Gilbert, Hitler and Pol Pot. Gilbert gets two bullets to the head. I'm not even gonna read all of this. He. He basically says people need to die to show them that their policies don't work. And Democrats voted for him. So good luck. Here is a lady from Kenya, legal, apparent legal immigrant, who's been here for about 20 years from Kenya, explaining why she voted for the guy who wants to murder his political opponents.

H (24:56)

I always vote since I became a citizen and that was 20 years ago, and I migrated from Kenya, Kenya originally. My family is back home in Kenya. And how I see how things are going on, like with families being separated as a human being, as a mother, separating families, especially children, from their mothers or fathers, I don't believe in that. So that made me come out and also come and what?

A (25:30)

Well, maybe you should leave America, lady. This is a real problem because I don't Think that lady cares about America very much. You apparently came here legally and that that's just fine. I don't care whether you're from Kenya or Mexico or New Zealand or anywhere else, that is just fine. But then you're upset that people who are here illegally are being sent home because of family separation. They took the chance. They took the chance. And if, you know, the other thing is if when they kick out a mother, the kid can go too. Or when they kick out the kid, it's all so boring. But we've imported people who want the destruction of the United States and have decided to vote for people based. So they basically are voting for. In that case, she was voting for Spangberger and she's voting for Jay Jones, who wants to kill his political opponents because they don't like Donald Trump. Now, I got to give you a little silver lining to all of this or a little bit of hope, right? Cause this is pretty freaking depressing. But it should be noted that Virginia is a pretty blue state overall. And also because of its proximity to D.C. it's very, very connected with the swamp. A lot of people who work in government are there. And Jersey is kind of blue, red, purplish, whatever. Here's Scott Jennings on. Maybe everyone should just calm down before reading too much nationally about all of this.

F (26:47)

I wouldn't overread it. Virginia in particular has never been a great bellwether. I don't think a lot of folks had a lot of confidence in the Virginia campaign that was run on the Republican side. And New Jersey is New Jersey. So I would hesitate to overread it. I don't think the concerns you raised are illegitimate political strategy.

A (27:06)

Right. So it is worth noting that neither. Look, New York City, which basically always goes blue, went blue. I mean, in this case, it went, you know, Marxist jihadist blue. That's kind of the red green alliance, which, if you mush them together, normally would turn into brown. Well, it did turn into shit, but it turn blue, I guess, if you're just going with Democrats or blue. So Jersey, it's a look. You can't be happy about it. Right. It was a demolishing loss for the Republican, but it's not like they took a solid red state and turned it blue. And Virginia, again, because of its proximity to DC, it is generally a bluer place. So it's not like yesterday, as bad as all of this is, it's not like a solid red state was flipped. So there should be a little bit of solace in that. However, just to give you the counterpoint on that, listen to this about the polling as it came, as it came to the Virginia governor's race. Sandra, what are you seeing that moved Virginia voters?

B (28:02)

She carried key groups by significant margins. Really, Jesse, as far as the strengths that we're seeing show up. College voters, those with a college degree in Virginia. She garnered 60% of their vote. She got the youth vote, 67% of it. Nine out of 10 black voters in Virginia cast their ballot for Spamberger. Lastly, I'll show you this. We know the federal workers in Virginia. We are watching closely affected by those federal cuts. Well, for those who said when they cast their vote that they were a federal employee worried about those cuts, obviously they cast their vote for Spamberger by a pretty overwhelming margin. Really starts to paint the picture, Jesse, as to how Spamberger pulled off victory there.

A (28:46)

So it's kind of interesting. She gets young people, she gets college educated people. She got 90% of the black vote going against a black woman. Barack Obama did not want that black woman to win, which is sort of interesting in and of itself. But the last part's the most interesting part, which is that federal workers live in Virginia. They live in Alexandria. They live in those suburban areas right outside D.C. and they want their money and they want their jobs. Thus they vote Democrat. Are you ever gonna vote to drain the swamp, to restrict the system, to put more money back in people's pockets and take it away from yourself? Probably not. Listen to this New York Times on Gen Z on what happened here. This going back to New York City. Now, data from the New York City Board of elections shows that 18 to 29 year olds have cast ballots at a 38% higher rate in early voting compared to the same period in 2021, with over 45,000 young voters already participating, up from about 32,000 four years ago. So young people came out to vote and, you know, this is another example of why maybe we need to fix our education system. Because young people suddenly think that socialism is good. And what is one of Mamdami's main things? He wants free childcare and they want all their free schools and everything else, which are basically going to become indoctrination centers for their set of bad ideas. Little bit more on the exit polling in New York. Listen to this from ABC News. Exit polls from ABC voter study groups Show Mamdani earning 72% support from voters aged 18 to 29, a stark contrast to Cuomo's 22% in that group. This is the voice of a generation demanding affordability and equity, said pollster Anna Greenberg. So again, young people are pushing this now. Young people often have new ideas, and that can be just fine. And young people, it's good to have young people engaged in politics and all of those things. But we are at a very dangerous moment here where young people are being taught all of the bad ideas and young people are being brainwashed by algorithms that are causing them to import the bad ideas that literally caused their grandparents, great grandparents or generations before that, to flee other countries. That is what's happening here. But I will say there is something about the affordability issue. We will get to that in a moment. But first, be better. Now, if you or your partner is over 55 and dealing with bladder urgency, you know, it's more than just a minor inconvenience. Trips, outings and travel start to feel like they're all about finding the bathroom. And when one of you has a hard time, you both feel it. That's why so many people have turned to betterment and better woman. These are clinically tested formulas trusted by thousands for more than 25 years. They help reduce urgency, cut down frequent trips, and support deeper, more restful sleep. All natural with no known side effects. They also give you something just as important. More confidence, more control, and more freedom to enjoy life together. Get them at be better now dot com. That's bebetternow.com and for our listeners, you'll get 10% off your first order with code Reuben. 10 live fully with confidence and control. Okay, so I want to stick on this affordability issue for just a second. So let's flash back to Charlie Kirk, August 3, talking about the rise of Mom. Da me.

D (31:59)

The rise of Mamdani should be a. It's a coming attraction of what is coming next. Who's Mamdani? Zoran Mamdani, the, the. The. The Muslim communist that is running for mayor in, in New York City, who obviously there's a whole rabbit hole we can go down there. He just looks kind of be like central casting. And, you know, his ideas are terrible. He wants the city to run the grocery stores, all that. But I think everyone's kind of not everyone, but most people are missing the point of really what this is. This is yet another distress signal by young people to say, hey, if you're not going to fix our life economically, we're going to get very radical politically.

A (32:36)

Okay? So let's stick with the. Fix our life economically. And you know, Charlie obviously was for limited government, so it's not that he wants the government to do everything. What was the turning point phrase about government? It was big, big government sucks, right? That was the big. That was the T shirt that they had. So it's not that Charlie really wanted the government to come in and fix people's lives, but he did want the government to create the economic conditions with the light touch of government so that people could flourish. So if people feel like, for whatever reason, whether it's justified or not, that their life isn't going well, you're always going to punish the party, the people that are in power currently. So although I think Donald Trump has done a great job so far in these, you know, 11 months or so of being president. And how do you clean up the mess of the endless inflation and all of the border stuff and everything else? Just in 11 months, you can't. They're going to place the blame somewhere. And we do have an affordability issue for sure. We showed you this clip, I think about eight months ago. This is NYU School of Stern School of Business Professor Scott Galloway, who I've had on the show, and I think we have him on in a week or two again, talking about how for the first time in American history, right now, a 30 year old is not projected to do as well as their parents.

I (33:50)

For the first time in our Nation's history, a 30 year old man or woman isn't doing as well as his or her parents were at 30. That is the social compact breaking down. People aged 30 to 34, 60% of them in 1990 had one child, now it's 27%. People are opting out of America. They're not optimistic about it. They're not having kids. Young people aren't having sex. They're not meeting, they're not mating. The pool of emotionally and economically violent viable men shrinks every day, which lessens household formation. So we have a real issue. Young people are enraged. So it turns every cut, every movement into an opportunistic infection because quite frankly, they are just pissed off. They look up, they see wealth, exceptional wealth across my generation and people in certain industries, and they are really struggling. Their purchasing power is going down. And the incumbents create artificial scarcity. On campus. We take pride in rejecting 90% of our applicants. So the incumbents who already have a degree see their degree go up in value.

A (34:49)

Okay, all right, so Galloway lays out a lot there. And I'm gonna show you another clip of him in just a second. But he points out something that I think if you put aside. Let's put aside Trump. Let's put aside Mamdani, Democrats, Republicans, all that stuff, if what he laid out there is correct, that for the moment, as it stands right now in this particular moment, that if you are 30 years old, there is every reason to believe it will be worse for you. You will in essence have less. Not that life is just about stuff, but you will have less. It will be harder for you to own a home and then you add the social parts of it where people are having less sex and all that other stuff. But if you think it's going to be tougher for you for the first time in America than it was for your parents. Right. And I just want everyone for just a moment, you guys in this room can do it and everyone watching this can do it. I want you to try to think about your parents for just a second. And if you have it better or worse now, think about your grandparents. Did your parents have it better or worse? And do you have a better or worse now if you knew them, if you were lucky enough to know them, I knew three of them, great grandparents. Did you have it better or worse? And I can tell you in the trajectory of my family, it got better every generation. Now if my son at 30 felt, wow, it's going to be worse for me than it was for dad, well then something about that social contract would have broken down. So to whatever extent that has a, the government has a role in that, then it is showing. It doesn't matter if it's a Republican in power or a Democrat in power. If young people feel that I can't get a house, I'm working harder and getting less. Again, to whatever extent it's true, that is a huge problem. And then that will lead a whole bunch of them who have also been educated with the wrong ideas to think that socialism will give you stuff. We'll freeze rent, we'll give you free buses, go get your once a week groceries at the government run grocery store, they might turn to all of the wrong solutions. The housing part of this, of course, is probably the biggest part. And you know, I don't give a lot of financial advice on this show, but I always say that one of the things that I view as a good marker of a good economy is when interest rates are low and you can borrow from the bank. I like paying my mortgage because it's like, oh, I'm paying my mortgage, my house is increasing in value, I'm paying some small percentage. When interest rates are low, I'm paying some small percentage to the bank. They have to make Some money too. And then you can hopefully sell the house, make a profit, someone else can get in. Like that's the beauty of the fluidity of capitalism. However, it is struggling right now. Here's Galloway on that.

I (37:14)

We get very concerned with housing and traffic once we own a housing. Housing permits are sequestered from young people. Housing prices have gone from 290 to 420 in the last four years. So a young person, a house, stocks that I don't own skyrocket in value. Let's have Covid relief and flush the markets and take assets way up. Because if a million people dying would be bad, would be tragic if I got less wealthy and I were doing it on their credit card. Young people have every reason to be enraged. And every issue they see, they look up, they get angry and they see someone doing better than them. And then every day it is speedballed in their face that they are failing, that they are not doing as well as everyone around them. We have lost the script. Our kids are more anxious and more depressed and more obese and more addicted. And we have made a purposeful decision to let this happen by ensuring the people around this table stay wealthy at the cost of young people.

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Okay, so he's addressing a whole bunch of things here because, right. Like there's all the social stuff about why they're addicted and why they're anxious and all that related to the phone, related to drug use, related to social media, related to just the breakdown of face to face contact and all of those other things. But at the end of the day, so let's say you're like this. Let's say you're moderate, apolitical kid who grew up in a decent home and you go to a college and you don't get a degree in that much of anything that's that important, right? You get your lesbian basket weaving degree, right? And then you're out of college and then you don't get this great job and you're in some debt because you went to college in the first place and no one said to you, you know, maybe you don't need that college degree in the first place. And now you're at some marginal job and you're in debt and you realize, boy, it's gonna be tougher to get into the housing market because as Scott pointed out, housing prices have almost doubled basically in the last 10 years. And there's a million reasons for that. And it's across the board blame. And then you see interest rates go up and all these other things. And then you start feeling like the whole system doesn't work. So what might you want to do? You might want to burn it down. So now let me go back to my friend Charlie Kirk, who back in July, he tweeted that video that I just showed you of Scott Galloway and he wrote this. I think of this Scott Galloway clip often because Gen Z confirms his basic thesis to me directly. Every single day I hear about how frustrated and angry young people are because they feel like buying a home and starting a family is out of reach for them. President Trump made historic gains with young voters because they trust him to set things right and oversee a rebirth of the American dream. We are making progress, but we are in a race against the clock. If we fail, we will see the rise of more and more Mamdamis in elected office pushing class and race warfare. But if we deliver, and I believe we can, we will save America for the next generation and beyond. Well, unfortunately, Charlie is not with us right now to see that the clock, at least as it pertains to New York City, has just run out. And they are now going to try the other experiment. And we all know how this experiment, because it's been run before, we know how this experiment ends. But Trump, now I would say, Trump, for all of your wins, and there's been a lot of them and they have not, you know, a certain set of the media will never, never give you credit for it and all these people will lie about you and all of those other things. Now, you're going to have to fix perception around some of this stuff so you don't lose these young people to this mind virus. Here's Charlie Kirk again.

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Let's take a step back. President Trump won the youth vote in many states across the country, in many battleground states. Now, Tucker, 12, 13 years ago, when I started Turning Point, if you would have told me that a Republican running for the presidency would be winning the youth vote in Michigan and in Arizona, I'd say no way. It was. It's an incomprehensible accomplishment of what President Trump was able to do. One of the reasons he was able to win younger voters and younger men, especially in big numbers, is that they were trying to get their leaders attention. They said, hey, this guy Donald Trump, he is pledging to go fix our economic anxiety. He is loud. He is going to get your attention. Donald Trump was a distress signal by a lot of young people, especially young men that were stuck in a credit centric renter economy. And again, this is what is the rise of Mamdani. It's just another iteration of this only from.

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I miss him more and more every day. So now let's just give you a little backup evidence on what that, on what the conditions are that lead to that frustration. Listen to this from Fixer. Home prices rose 197% since 2000. That is extraordinary. 200% since 2000. But household income only rose 40%. And by the way, that doesn't even factor in inflation. So your dollar is also worth less at the exact same time. So again, if you are a young person and this is not the fault of Donald Trump, but this may be his moment to address it in a new way. If you are a young person and you're pissed about stuff, you might start just turning to the system. Please give me something. Give me something and I will live in a little box for free and make sure it never goes up in price. And I'll take the universal basic income and I'll eat at the government run grocery store and I'll never really accomplish an American dream, which is go out and get yours, because I won't see a path because of the current conditions. Listen to this from ChatGPT. According to a housing inflation calculator using the US Bureau of Labor Statistics category for housing, something that cost $100,000 in 2020 would cost about 127 in 2025, a 27% increase. Official data using the Federal Housing Finance Agency housing price index data, one summary estimates about a 55% increase from 2020 to 2025. And one more data point here, the total US housing market value rose roughly 57% since 2020, according to Zillow. So something is happening with the houses. By the way, this is not Trump's fault, right? He is trying to clean up a lot of the mess. What I'm saying is I'm sounding the same alarm that Charlie was sounding, is he better address it now before we lose more cities and more young people. Those numbers whether housing went up 27% in five years, which is an insane, insanely high percentage to jump, or whether it was 55%, which is completely absurd. And we all know this. If you ever open up Zillow or Trulia or anything else and just you look at, just look at houses in your area and just look at their price history and you're like, wait a minute, this house sold three years ago for 300,000 and now it's somehow 450,000 Three, three years later? None of it really makes sense. And of course the Fed continues to fight Trump on this. They are not reducing interest rates. So a young person, where you might have gotten a 3% interest rate, right, and then you can get in the game and you pay your little penalty to get the money that you're borrowing now it's 6, 7, 8%. And it's a lot more difficult to do that. So it seems to me, and this is, this is a note for the Trump people. If the socialist campaigns on affordability, the socialists will win, but if the capitalist campaigns on affordability, the capitalists will win because the capitalists can create better economic conditions. And I think maybe that's what Trump needs to focus on right now. That's what you have to do, focus on the issues. So a little bit more on the housing market, because I think this is really an important piece of this that we need to focus on going forward. This is from Apollo Global Management, 10 facts about the US housing market. US homes are getting smaller. The size of new homes being built has declined by 12% since 2016. The median age of all home buyers is now 49 years old, up from 31 in 1981. That is an extraordinary difference. Our home price model predicts that house price increase will house price increase 10%, 10.8% over the coming year. 40% of US homes don't have a mortgage, meaning they're owned outright altogether. So that's usually people who have paid off their mortgage. Older people. The average number of homes sold per real estate agent every year is 21, down from 54 in 2004. So people are buying way less homes. Households. Equity in real estate is at A record high 73% of housing values. A record 36% of Americans say they would rent if they were going to move. You want to own something, It's a key part of being a functional citizen. More than half of all mortgages outstanding have an interest rate below 4%. 95% of mortgages outstanding or 30 year fixed rate and 63% of all mortgages outstanding were issued after 2018. So, okay, so I think we've illustrated something here. There is a legitimate problem. Is the solution socialism? No. Is the solution communism with a side of jihad? Absolutely not. It is capitalism and it is freeing markets and creating the conditions so that there is more competition. And there's also something that people on the right can do, which is stop some of the crazy infighting that is bursting fourth over the last two or three months. Here is Vivek on last night's results. We got our asses handed to US in New Jersey, Virginia and New York City. Democrats swept all three. There's two key lessons for Republicans. Listen carefully. Number one, our side needs to focus on affordability, make the American dream affordable, bring down costs, electric costs, grocery costs, health care costs and housing costs, and.

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Lay out how we're going to do it.

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And number two, cut out the identity politics. It doesn't suit Republicans. It's not for us. That's the woke left's game, not ours. We don't care about the color of your skin or your religion. We care about the content of your character. That's who we are. Okay, so let me deal with the second part first. Obviously there is no room for this identity politic lunacy on the right. And this is what he's really calling out. Right there is the endless assault that has been coming from certain quarters on the right, most at the Jews. But by the way, it's been on the Indians too. He is getting a crazy hit. You know, he posted a picture with his kids who obviously are Indian and was getting hit by the same people that are going after the Jews all the time. And JD's wife Usha, who happens to be Indian and brown and not Christian, they were going after her too. So enough of that guys. Enough. Enough already. But the first part is the key part here. To whatever extent the government can do anything to fix economic conditions and it can do something, it must be done right now. Like Trump, you gotta get on this. You've got to get on this now. Like, people need to feel like capitalism works because it does work. Who has the quote, capitalism is the best of all bad system, Something like that. Like, and capitalism is what allows you to have a little skin in the game, fight for what is yours and trade freely with other people. It is a beautiful thing again that all of our ancestors fled highly controlled communist societies to come to. Like that is the thing. Phoenix is giving me this one live. Apparently. JD just tweeted this 20 minutes ago, so I'm just reading this on the fly with you guys. But he said it's very applicable to what we are talking about right here from J.D. vance. I think it's idiotic to overreact to a couple elections in blue states, but a few thoughts. Scott Pressler, TP USA and a bunch of others have been working hard to register voters. I said it in 2022 and I've said it repeatedly since. Our coalition is lower propensity and that means we have to do better at turning out voters than we have in the past two we need to focus on the home front. The president has done a lot that has already paid off in lower interest rates and lower inflation. But we inherited a disaster from Joe Biden and Rome wasn't built in a day. We're going to keep on working to make a decent life affordable in this country. And that's the metric which will ultimately be judged in 2026 and beyond. Three, the infighting is stupid. I care about my fellow citizens, particularly young Americans, being able to afford a decent life. I care about immigration and our sovereignty. I care about establishing peace overseas so our resources can be focused at home. If you care about those things too, let's work together. Well, that's, I mean, in essence, that's basically everything I've laid out on this show. I couldn't agree more. And it will now be incumbent upon you, JD and you, President Trump, to clean up some of this stuff. Right. And by the way, the point one there was particularly interesting that, that Republicans are lower propensity voters. And there's a reason for that, right? Republicans don't always want the revolution. They are trying to conserve something. You can get these young cloned people to get excited about anything and be part of anything, whether it's burning down a city in the name of BLM or getting out there to support a communist jihadist, you can do it. They can be riled up pretty easily. Where to get people to to be like, vote for the guy who will keep America going. It's maybe a little less exciting. Trump captured something amazing with Make America Great Again. But maybe that needs to be refined. Right now we're going to talk a little bit about California, which also went the wrong way. Surprise, surprise. But first, cars for kids. Cars are valuable assets. Unless you've got an old one just sitting there, it's taken up space costing you money and insurance and you're way too busy to deal with selling it. That's where Cars for Kids comes in. Donating your car is insanely easy. These folks have been doing it for over 30 years and have accepted more than a million vehicles. Just give them a few basic details about your car and they'll schedule a quick hassle free pickup at a time that works for you. You'll get a vacation voucher, a tax deduction, and best of all, you'll be helping real kids. Don't let your old car sit there just collecting dust. In just two minutes, your car could be on its way to a better place. Cars for Kids will take any car in any condition and they make it super convenient. Just head over to carsforkids.org Rubin to help a kid today. 1-877-cars-for kids. Donate your car today. Okay, so California, as we addressed over the last couple days, the main thing that was being voted on there was that they were voting for Prop 50, which was basically going to gerrymander the state even more. So they would in essence probably get five more seats to the Democrats. They had an independent commission that was supposed to be dealing with this. But Prop 50 was going to basically hand it to the state legislature, which of course is all Democrats and surprise, surprise, in a place that is completely run by Democrats, the Democrats decided to make sure it will always be run by Democrats. Here's Fox and breaking right now, the.

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Polls are closed in California and Fox.

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News is now projecting that Proposition 50 will pass the congressional redistricting plan from Governor Gavin Newsom that is expected to.

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Flip five seats held by Republicans.

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Yeah, not good, guys. Not good. So a super majority state had some little mechanism to make sure that it would be a little fairer. And then the people who are part of the supermajority decided to wipe it out. Here's some interesting numbers on the actual people and the reasoning for their decision.

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The yes vote in particular with Prop 50. The reason voters said they voted yes on Prop 50, 82% of the case. Eight out of 10 voters say it was to counter the GOP changes, not because they saw it was the best way to draw those district lines. Now if you go back and look at those who said no to the vote, they said their reasoning to do so is that they saw this as not the best way to draw those district lines, while only 34% said it was to stop the Democrats from adding seats in Congress.

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So do you get that? And this is why Kelly is just so beyond a boondoggle of stupidity. So a super majority Democrat run state who has a lizard man devil incarnate as the governor who pushed this thing forward, they eliminate the independent. To whatever extent something can be independent in California. The independent people who are looking at the Jerry and then 82% of the people who voted on this and it's a huge super majority state for the Democrats decided it was literally admit it's to stop the GOP. 17% that said that the lines make sense. 17% of the people who voted for the thing said that the redistricting line makes sense. But they want to win and they will do it at all costs. And there's probably a lesson to be learned in that. Here's Donald Trump on truth social media. The unconstitutional redistricting vote in California is a giant scam in that the entire process, in particularly the voting itself, is rigged. All mail in ballots where Republicans in that state are shut out is under very serious legal and criminal review. Stay tuned. Well, Trump, here's where I would say, and I know, I guess I'm needling you a little bit here, Prove it. If there was something illegal there, you gotta prove it now. Like, does is Cali deeply corrupt? Are their voting rolls deeply corrupt? Absolutely. Are there dead people on them for sure? Well, the last time I voted in California, when I literally took out my ID to show the guy, he was like, no, no, no, put it away, Dave Rubin. Now he knew who I was. So he goes, dave, I don't need to see yours. But he didn't need to see anybody's. Right? Like, so they have voterless voter ID list voting. You just have to know someone's name and their address. So I could have gone to another polling station and I did know my neighbor's name and address and I could have just pretended to be him. It's completely absurd. But Trump, you gotta show, you got to show me some evidence on it now because now, now that it has happened in California, well, it looks like it's going to happen in Maryland too. Here's Democrat Governor West Moore. Tell us about this effort. Are you trying to Trump proof any election rigging? And if so, does that mean you have a partisan agenda in this project?

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No, it just simply means that I want to make sure that Maryland has fair maps come next November when people, people vote. And you know, and just to remind.

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People why we are here, the reason that we are even in this situation is Donald Trump decided that he wanted.

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To try to rig elections because he knew that his policies weren't popular. So he started picking and choosing which states that he thought should go through.

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Processes to determine whether or not they had fair maps. And as soon as this happened, I was just very clear that if we were going to have a mid cycle conversation, national conversation about who has fair maps, that there was no way that Maryland was going to sit on their hands. Okay, you know what, I'm not even going to blame anybody right now, not going to blame Trump, and I'm not going to blame the Democrats or anyone else. I'm just going to lay out what the issue is right now, which is that if states, if the people in power in any state, whether it is red or blue, can decide at any given point basically to redraw maps so that it suits them. It is quite literally the end of democracy as we know it, because no one that is ever in power will be like, you know what, I'm not going to do that. So we have opened a Pandora's box here and we're in a lot of trouble. Now the unfortunate part of all of this isn't just that we're ushering in communism with the dash of jihad. It's that there is so much goodness to talk about. And one of the things I have consistently tried to do on this show every day and it has not been that hard to do because it's real and it's true, is point out Trump's wins. And there have been a ton of them. And unfortunately, I suppose a certain amount of young people or a certain amount of people in general have been brainwashed in Trump derangement syndrome and Hitler this and all, and distracted by everything else and brain broken by TikTok and they don't see it. But here is Carol Caroline Levitt yesterday laying out some of Trump's second term accomplishments.

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In other news, tomorrow will mark the one year anniversary of President Trump's historic election victory where he won nearly 80 million votes. The popular vote in all seven swing states. This was the ultimate poll. On November 5th, in less than 10 short months, President Trump signed the largest middle class class tax cut in history, including no tax on tips, overtime and Social Security to put more money back into the pockets of the American people. The President ended the southern border invasion of the Biden administration, made our border the most secure in history. And he is carrying out the largest mass deportation campaign of illegal aliens in our nation's history. To protect our homeland. Just as promised. Promised, President Trump has aggressively taken on drug cartels by declaring them as foreign terrorist organizations and even blowing up narco terrorists who have tried to poison the American people with fentanyl and other illegal narcotics. Inflation has remained low and steady, averaging just 2.5% compared to the painful average of 5% under Biden. And we know it was historically higher than that for most the of President Biden's term. The President has restored America's place as the leader of the free world through his unwavering peace through strength foreign policy that has already ended eight wars and counting. And the President ended illegal DEI initiatives in our federal government and is returning our country to a merit based society based on common sense.

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So look guys, you know it. You know it because you watch this show. I know a lot of other shows, including some on the right don't talk about his wins, but there are massive, massive wins. And you cannot clean it all up in 11 months. But this is now an interesting moment. Whether we like it or not, whether it is fair or not or anything else, a certain set of people, particularly young people, particularly in blue states, think that the thing is not working for them. And in some way they might be right. So the challenge for the president now before these midterms is kind of what JD Just tweeted out this. And it's exactly what Vivek said and it's exactly what I've been saying on this show. Something as it pertains to the economy and making young people feel like this works, this magical, precious system that we have, that it actually works. And sometimes it doesn't work as well, and sometimes it does, but you gotta get that imagination going again and showing them that it works and that if they, if they play fairly and they're part of it and they work hard, that they will succeed. Otherwise, things will get much worse at scale across the country. Charlie Kirk, one more time.

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This is yet another distress signal by young people to say, hey, if you're not going to fix our life economically, we're going to get very radical politically. Now let's take a step back. President Trump won the youth vote in many states across the country, in many battleground states. Now, Tucker, 12, 13 years ago, when I started Turning Point, if you would have told me that a Republican running for the presidency would be winning the youth vote in Michigan and in Arizona, I'd say no way. It was. It's an incomprehensible accomplishment of what President Trump was able to do. One of the reasons he was able to win younger voters and younger men, especially in big numbers, is that they were trying to get their leaders attention. They said, hey, this guy Donald Trump, he is pledging to go fix our economic anxiety. He is loud. He is going to get your attention. Donald Trump was a distress signal by a lot of young people, especially young men that were stuck in a credit centric renter economy. And again, this is what is the rise of Mamdani. It's just another iteration of this, only from the left.

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Okay, so all of this is not to blame Trump, but he now has an opportunity. And I think if Donald Trump knows one thing, it's a little something about branding and probably rebranding and maybe something about MAGA now has to be rebranded so people can start realizing that this, this thing can work for you and does work for you. But I want to end On a slightly different note here, because obviously what we are seeing is a further separation of kind of blue and red states. And as I've been saying on the show, you know, a lot of what we're seeing is not just blue and red. It's not just liberal and conservative. It's urban versus suburban. Meaning urban people want much more control over their lives and there's lots of reasons for it. They need to be more dependent on systems because they can't grow their own food, because they live in apartments, and they don't have access to certain things and a series of things. But the founders did do something magical in this. In this. They did many magical things. One of the magical things that they did was the Federalist paper. So I want to quote John Jay in Federalist paper number two here. Listen to this. Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of government. And it is equally undeniable that whenever and however it is instituted, the people must cede to it some of their natural rights in order to vest it with requisite powers. It has often given me pleasure to observe that independent America was not composed of detached and distant territories, but that one connected, fertile, widespreading country was the portion of our western suns. Providence has in a particular manner blessed it with a variety of soils and productions and watered it with innumerable streams. A people descended from the same ancestors, speaking the same language, professing the same religion, attached to the same principles of government, and very similar in their manners and customs. This country and this people seem to have been made for each other. And it appears as if it was the design of Providence. An inheritance so proper and convenient for a band of brethren should never be seen split into a number of unsocial, jealous and alien sovereignties. So as they are writing the Federalist Papers, which are designed to show us why we should have these laboratories of democracies and that most of the things that govern your lives should be relegated to the states themselves. There you have John Jay talking about all the things that actually should bring us together. Because if we don't have those things, we will end up thinking about the identity politics version of all of this, which is exactly what is being sold to us through the socialists on. Well, through the socialists and the Marxists and everything else. So I will leave you on this rather. It's. I guess it's been sort of a black pill show, but I think we've offered some white pill moments here. I would also say that I saw an article this morning. Well, I saw an article Yesterday that said, 1 million people are planning, assuming Mondami leaves, to leave New York City and we'll see where they have to generate the tax revenue and everything else. There's been some updates on that and people are saying somewhere between 700 and a million. We're already seeing poly markets calling for huge amounts of people to leave and everything else. But we do have states rights and if you are upset and you live in New York, you can leave. And that's the beauty of America, because you don't have to leave America. You can go to places where your life will be valued, where your family can be flourish. One of those places is Florida. Now, I don't know if this is AI or not, I'm a simple man, but if you're coming here, just warning to you guys, we do things a little bit differently. We'll throw to this video and then we've got a postgame show. Rubenreport.locals.com thanks for watching. I want to issue a friendly warning to New Yorkers considering moving to Florida in light of recent events. First, we are digging a moat along Florida's border and putting alligators in it.

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To separate ourselves themselves from the others.

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Second, we're implementing a 1% entry tax where your money will be put towards Florida's infrastructure. Third, if you're tired of the protesters.

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In New York, you can plow right through them here.

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Next. And I know this is a culture shock, but we don't have porn in our elementary school libraries. And finally, we have no state income tax. But since you're generous liberals, feel free.

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To donate whatever you like to Florida.

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Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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