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Good morning and welcome to Vince. It is Sean Farish filling in again for the great Vince Colonnades, the King of the Morning podcast. We are coming to you live this morning on the heels of a very contentious Michigan Democrat Senate primary. Who won? I guess we don't know because again, it's those typical blue counties who are taking their sweet time counting the mail. It's like Blue's Clues every time a new ballot comes in. We we just got a letter. Wonder who it's from. It looks like Abdul Al Said is going to win the Democrat Senate primary, so we'll talk about the fallout there. In Michigan Democrat Party appears to be completely taken over by dsa. Communists, yes, Communists. We've got a whole lot more to get to as well. Zoran Mamdani backpedaling on his his little push for IDs. Chuck Schumer says the Democrats are a big tent with people who want to burn the party down. Another amnesty push from another Republican representative on Capitol Hill. I've had enough of that. 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It looks like it's Abdul Al Said. But once again, as we've seen when it comes to blue states, I know I'm going to get a bunch of people. Oh, well, Michigan's a not a blue state. It's a swing state. Yes, but it's run by blue people right now, is it not? Jocelyn Benson won her primary last night. I think she's what, the secretary of state out there in, in, in Michigan running for governor on the Democrat side of things. So right now where it stands, Abdullah Said with 95% of the vote in, Abdul Al Said leads with 734,832 votes. Haley Stevens. That's, that's the Michigan way. Yeah. Haley Stevens, 715,339 votes. 1.2 percentage points separate them one from another. Now, I said this last night on X because I was kind of watching it and I love it when the Democrats have to start. I saw, I saw one or two not these aren't high profile people, but I saw like one or two like, you know, just like Democrat voters going, oh, you know, we're not going to know who won this race tonight because there's going to be voter fraud. And I was like, ah, did you, did you just, did you just say the thing that if I said you'd be like, oh, conspiracy theory, you know, election denier, lawyer. I'm like, no. First of all, as Dan says all the time, nobody's denying that election happened. I'm not denying that there was an election. I'm questioning the veracity of the results because it's very, it's unclear how they're counting the votes, how they're going about doing this in places like Wayne county in Michigan. Like, we've seen this. OK, do you want to relive 2020 with me for a minute? I remember going to bed in, you know, the night of the 2020 election. Donald Trump is leading by hundreds of thousands of votes across the country. Right. Pennsylvania Michigan, Wisconsin, some of these states. I wake up the next morning hungover, by the way, because I had, you know, I was feeling good the night before. The first thing I did was I roll out a roll out of bed. I look at the TV and I go, what the hell happened in Michigan? You know, remember that graph we have like the line? And it's like. Yeah, yeah, that, that's, that's what it looks like when you count votes. Statistical impossibilities when you're tabulating votes in a, in a presidential election. Now, you don't have the same type of thing here, but you don't know who won the morning after. Granted, it's a close race, all right, whatever. You're waiting to get every single vote in. But why, why is there a wait? And it's because of places like Wayne county where the mail in ballots are all over the place. They all haven't come in yet, you know, who knows what the rules are, et cetera, et cetera. And so I said this last night on X, I said, no matter who wins this race, whether it's America's favorite chipmunk, Haley Stevens, or it's Abdul Al Said, right, Whoever it might be the loser, right? Because Michigan is not a runoff state. It's a plurality win state. So whoever wins, wins. This does not go to a runoff. The loser is going to hate this woman by the name of Mallory McMorrow. Now she's got 60,000 votes. It's like three times the margin of, three times the margin that separates Abdullah Said and Haley Stevens. And, you know, so you're going to have, of course, the Haley Stevens supporters who aren't like full blown, straight up jihadist, communist, unholy alliance type people and be like, oh, if it wasn't for Mallory McMorrow, we would have won. And then if the roles were reversed and Haley Stevens was on top, he would have had, you know, all the DSA. Oh, if it wasn't for Mallory McMorrow, so, and so would have won. So there's a little bit of a wild card in this race with the 60,000 votes that went to Mallory McMorrow. How would that have broken out if, if this was a two horse race? I guess we'll never know, right? I guess we'll never know. We also may not ever know who won this primary. We'll see how long that takes. But as I mentioned, Michigan is not a state where there's a runoff. So NBC News has called it for Abdul Al Said. But they remain, I think the Only outlet, if I'm not mistaken. Who has called it? I generally rely on decision desk hq. They have not called it yet. The New York Times has not called it yet. I don't believe the Associated Press has called it yet, but NBC News has called it for Abdul Al Said. If you look at the prediction markets, Polymarket, Kalshi, they are just at about 100% odds that Abdul Al Said is going to hold on. The prediction markets aren't sniffing out any shenanigans. It would have been very interesting though think if there was some overnight games being played, right? Like you go to bed. Abdul Al Said is leading by, I don't know, 40,000 votes, 30,000 votes. You wake up, Haley Stevens is up by like 10,000 votes. Nobody knows what happened. Remember the cardboard going up on the windows? Remember that in 2020 they had to put cardboard up on the vote counting windows? What? Why are you doing that? Right? What don't you want us to see? Seriously. I mean it's not like people could have, it's not like people could have, you know, seen in detail, you know, who's who voted for who with these ballots in Detroit, right. When they were counting and they boarded up the windows, what exactly were you hiding? Did you not want to see people pulling votes out where they were coming from? Like that to me was shady, right? It should be shady to everybody. And here's the thing, to everyone looking at a race like this or California or any of these places where you always deal with these long drawn out, quote unquote, you know, post election vote counting, which fine, whatever you do want to count every vote. I'm all about that. You don't want people casting legal votes and then having their vote not be tabulated, not be counted. It is their constitutional right. They have the right to vote. If of course you're a citizen. Right. Eligible voter in the United States. So by all means count every vote. I'm not arguing that, but when, when you ask why is it taking so long to counter revote in Wayne county, the answer is mail in ballots. Well, maybe the solution is let's stop, let's stop the mail in ballot stuff or let's drastically reduce how many votes can be cast by mail. If you remember ahead of 2020, the whole argument about vote by mail was all Covid social distancing. We don't want the polling places to be super spreader locations. Right. That was the, that was the biggest argument in favor of mail in ballots in the 2020 timeframe. That's gone. We're done. Right? Like that's not a thing anymore. It's not, it's not something that, you know, people need to worry about anymore. But we're still doing it. And the answer is why? We know that mail in ballots are or, or the mail in ballot system, for example, we know that the mail in ballot system is very, very susceptible to fraud. How do we know that? Dan points this out all the time on his show. The Adam Liptak New York Times article from 2012 said so. New York Times, that was not a mistake. Because back then in Florida mainly, it's what that article was about. You had a lot of elderly folks disabled, couldn't necessarily get to the polls, and they were voting by mail, granted, not at the scale that it's being done now. But they were saying, oh, it's susceptible to so much fraud. And it's because Republicans were using it, Republican voters were using it. Those older voters that were down there in Florida were using it to cast their votes. And the New York Times, a hard left outlet, was looking at that, saying, oh, we should probably stop the mail in ballots up for, you know, a lot of Republican votes come through there. Look, we can, we could shave off a lot of the, a lot of the Republican vote share or at least a decent portion of the Republican vote share in Florida, which was still a swing state at that time. If we get rid of mail in ballots now, all of a sudden, Democrats love mail in ballots because they figured out how to weaponize it, they figured out how to manipulate it, they figured out how to use it to cheat in elections or at the very least, undermine faith in elections. You have to be able to trust your electoral process if you're able to move on after each election. And this is one of the, this is another one of the points I like to make. And this is not a very popular thing to say among folks who are on our political side of the aisle, but I feel like it has to be said, okay? Now in a race like this, that is decided by a point and a half, one point, two, whatever it might be, even two points, maybe even in some cases, three points, you can make the argument and say, how much, how much fugaziness is. Frank, Fugazi Day is only three days away, right? How much fugaziness, how much, how many shenanigans are being played? What was the level of shenaniganism? Is that even a word? It is now. Hear ye, hear ye. Okay, I have declared. Let me go here. We're gonna have a royal Vince's crown. The king has spoken. Hear ye, hear ye, hear ye, hear ye. The word shenaniganism is now a. It's an official word. I got along very well, by the way. I got along very well with Merriam Webster. You may have heard of them. Great people. A lot of people think that's one person. It's two people. It's Miriam, it's Webster. But these are great people. We wrote the dictionary together. I know every single word. And shenaniganism. I don't even know where I was going with that. Yes. What level of shenaniganism was being played? How many. How many fake votes were inserted into the. Into the vote tally that may or may not have influenced the results? So this is something that I say all the time, and I take heat for it all the time, but I say it because I believe it's true, and I say it because I think it helps us not look like crazy people. And I don't want you to. I don't want you to think that I think election integrity purists are crazy because they're not. It's very important. I'm a huge believer in the Save America Act. I want that to get passed. But here's. Here's something I think we all need to remember. It's very important. Okay? Get to the point. It's very. It's very important. Every race in this country contains election fraud. Okay? So what? Every single race has election fraud. You think every race is illegitimate? No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I didn't say that. I said there's election fraud in every election. A dead person voted somewhere, someone might have voted twice, you know, an ineligible voter. Look what happened in New Jersey. There is election fraud in every election. And even with the Save America act getting passed, if it ever does get passed, I still don't think we're ever going to reach perfect. Right? Because it's an election system that is administered by human beings who are inherently flawed. Therefore, there will be imperfections. Okay? But the Save America act would help us get as close to perfect as possible. You understand? I'm saying there is election fraud in every election. However, election fraud does not decide every election. And I think it is very important to maintain that mindset when we talk about elections. I don't want to become the party that believes every election is fake because then how could you have faith in the. Then, then. Then how can you have faith in the process as a whole? And you're now demoralizing people by saying that, right? You're because now people are going to look at it and say, well, if every election is fake, why should I even vote? And if you go into this mindset of why should I even vote? Now you're, now you're talking about potentially depressing turnout when you're dealing with races that are razor thin, point and a half, two points, maybe even three points. By all means, let's have the fraud discussion about whether or not the fraud margin could have, could have changed the results or played a role in deciding the outcome. But when you see a race that's decided by 10, 15, 20 points, I don't think that's the race where we should be talking about election fraud. Right. Like, for example, I'm From New York, 2022, Lee Zeldin lost that race by six points. And how many people told me it was illegitimate because I worked that race, I was on the ground in that state. He lost legitimately. That's why he didn't go crazy after the race and say, this is, this is ridiculous. Believe me, if there was an avenue there, you would have seen that campaign push. He lost by six and a half points. Take the fraud out. He probably still, I think he still loses in New York. Right. So I know that's not a popular thing to say and there's going to be folks who are going to get very mad at me and that's okay. We can have a difference of opinion. I don't want to become a party of people. I don't want to become a movement that looks at every election and says that wasn't real. If we don't win now, again, if it's decided by a razor thin margin, like for example, what happened in Los Angeles with Spencer Pratt and you all saw abnormalities and things of that nature where it's super close. Let's talk about fraud. That probably did decide the race in Los Angeles. When you're looking at a race though, like let's say in Virginia where Jay Jones won by eight points, Abigail Spanberger won by 15 points. That wasn't fraud. There was fraud in that election. But I believe if you take the fraud out, the results are the same. Right. That doesn't mean we ignore the fraud. We just don't blame the loss on the fraud. Because even without the fraud, it's still a loss. Hopefully this makes sense. Now, what you're seeing in Michigan, I don't know if there's, you know, how, what the level of fraud is here, but it's razor thin. And I would like to be a Little instigator here, you know, you ever see a Batman? Well, introduce a little chaos, right? The Joker. I would like to be a little instigator here and tell America's favorite chipmunk. Hey. The hell happened there? It's 19,000 votes. Fight Haley. You gotta fight Haley Stevens. You know why you got. What happens if you're sticking to him? That's the Michigan way. That's the Michigan way. Where's your joy and your enthusiasm and your energy and your sticker to them? Where are you? I want you to fight these to contest. Contest. Contest the results you may, maybe you didn't lose. Audit. Audit Wayne County. I want the Democrats now to dive and that, you know, somebody wants to do it, to dive into the election fraud conversation. And so let's see if there's going to be a little bit of a Democrat civil war that brews in the results here in the, in the aftermath of, of, of these Michigan elections. But aside from these technical questions of fraud and Wayne county and how long is it going to take to get the mail in ballots. And by the way, again, we're watching Michigan, this is example number 572 regarding why the Save America act should be passed. Because we'd have the results. We'd have the results. There wouldn't be a question. It would be done because the number of mail in ballots that would be, you know, outstanding would not be as large. You wouldn't be dealing with as pronounced an election season. Okay. In Michigan. There would be ironclad results here that we would have and we wouldn't have to worry about, well, what's going to happen? How long is it going to be till everybody else calls the race, even though it looks like Abdul Al Said is going to hold on. But the real story here that I want to get to and the real story that I think it's beneficial for us to talk about is what the Democrat Party actually is now and how last night essentially proves it. Michigan's a swing state. Right. In the general election, Michigan's a swing state. So they call it a purple state. Right. It goes back and forth. Yeah. When Trump won in 2016, it was a razor thin margin. When Trump air quotes lost in 2020, it was a razor thin margin. When Trump won in 2024, it was a razor thin margin. It was within two points. Right. Michigan. So it is a swing state, just like Pennsylvania, just like Wisconsin, just like Georgia, just like Arizona. Okay. In the, in the general election. But if we look at it now in these midterms we look at it just on the Democrat side of things. It's a swing state internally for Democrats. Also, you know, you've seen these very convincing Democrat Socialists of America candidates, victories all across the country. Colorado, New York, a lot of other places where you've seen these DSA types, you know, blowing the opponents out of the water, the, the traditional establishment Democrats out of the water. But in Michigan, you had something extremely unique. You really had the establishment old guard Democrats getting behind Haley Stevens to try and show the country ahead of the midterms. You know, all that noise that you're hearing about the dsa, all that noise you're hearing about the Communists. Well, it's not going to happen in Michigan. And the establishment old guard came up short. And I'm sure they're furious with this Mallory McMorrow character, too. But the Jim Clyburns of the world, the Gretchen Whitmers of the world, the Gary Peters of the world up there in Michigan, the old guard, the Chuck Schumers of the world, those, the Hakeem Jeffries of the world people, those people, they're not comfortable this morning. They threw a lot at this race. They ran a candidate. I mean, we laugh at her, but they ran a candidate that was known in Michigan. They had heavy hitters endorsing her on the establishment side, and they still couldn't pull it off. What does that tell you? It's not like you're dealing with a hotbed of pure socialist energy like you are in New York City or California or some of these, Seattle, some of these other places. You're in Michigan, it's a Rust Belt state. It's an old school, working class state. And you're seeing the Democrat Party there, the old guard, establishment Democrat Party there coming up short. So if the DSA can win in a state like Michigan, than they can win in any state. The Democrat Party as you once knew it, the party of Chuck Schumer, the party of Jim Clyburn, and these are hard leftists. So listen to what I'm saying. The party of Chuck Schumer, the party of Jim Clyburn, the party of Bill Clinton, hell, even the party of Barack Obama, that Democrat Party is dead. It's dead. We're going to get to that in just a second. We got to take a quick break and then we'll jump back more into the, the inner workings now, the dynamics at play when we talk about the Democrat Party. Uh, but before we do that, I want to talk to you about our friends at Brick House Nutrition. I Love this company. By the way, aside from, from. From this product that I'm going to tell you about, I take a lot of other stuff that Brickhouse Nutrition makes, but this is Lean everyone' about weight loss injections because the results are so dramatic. They work by helping to lower blood sugar and reduce appetite. 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Now we have a little bit of a poom. They got clubbed in the head. And that was it. Scooped off with the rest of the dead bodies from the, from the, from the plague in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, folks. I don't care what Chuck Schumer wants to tell you. I don't care what, what Any of these. You know, establishment voices on the mainstream media want to tell you none of that matters. The Democrat Party, as you know, it is gone. It's dead, totally dead. Now you're seeing establishment Democrats beginning to pivot on the Democratic Socialists of America, the dsa. Now, remember, here's what the DSA has said about their platform. What is their goal? I mean, our goal, our goal is communism. So to all these fools who, on social media, they have, the talking points are out. I don't know if you've noticed this. It's been, it's has been going on for a couple of weeks. The talking points are out on the left. When you start, the Democrat Party has gone communist. They go, oh, you just, you just call everything you don't like communism. You just call everything you don't like communism. Oh, yeah, this is summed up pretty good over here on Red State, the Democrat establishment's pivot on DSA insurgency begins and it ain't gonna go well. It is not gonna go well. The prevailing talking point among the Democrat establishment in recent weeks in response to the Democratic Socialists of America insurgency taking place has been to tout the supposed big tent nature of the party, where all kinds of differing viewpoints are allegedly welcome. That is what Chuck Schumer, Charles Schumer. That is what Chuck Schumer said. I think it was either yesterday or the day before about, you know, when he was asked about the Democrat Party and, you know, what's going on with these dsa, these commies. And then again, everyone wants to say, oh, you call everything you don't like communism. No, no, they call themselves communism. They call themselves communists. They admit they openly have embraced this communist platform. Someone's like, well, you called Kamala Harris a communist. She is a communist. Her dad was a Marxist professor. She's walking around talking about, oh, we're going to be unburdened by what has been. Which is like out of the Communist Manifesto. It's a, a quote from Marx or it's inspired by a quote from Marx, ok? And she ran on freaking price controls. She is a communist. Well, you know, you're acting like the Democrat Party takeover by communists is new. Well, I mean, it's, it's new for the normies, but we've seen this coming for years. We were the ones pointing out, hey, if you look at the verbiage on Black Lives Matter's website, it kind of mirrors the Communist Manifesto a little bit, right? You know, divide the nuclear family and, you know, talking about the working, the worker, the working people and A working class revolution and all this, even the BLM fist, you know, it has its origins in. In, you know, Soviet communist propaganda pieces. But I want to play. This is Chuck Schumer. The Democrats are a big tent, according to Chuck Schumer. I'm going to explain to you after this clip why this is going to be a problem for the Democrats. Let's roll it in Michigan, I know you endorse Haley Stevens, but if Elsa Glenn wins this primary, will you endorse the winner of the primary? Bottom line, we are going to win Michigan, take back the Senate and have a majority. And Manu. Thank you. Is the rise of the DSA good for your party? Look, we are a big tent party, and being a big tent party is a strength, not a weakness. Leader Schumer, thank you. Okay. All right. So let's, for all intents and purposes, compare this to a circus, right? Because that's what the Democrat Party is, right? Circuses have big tents, right? They call it the big top. Ringling Brothers. Bartum and Bailey got along very well with them. Bartum, tremendous guy. Bailey, tremendous guy. You know, they were the first people to make Rosie o' Donnell popular. The elephant in the circus, right? Think about it, sir. Don't call her fat, sir now. She's a disgusting person. She's returning to the View. Before the show started, Josh was extremely excited about that. He actually, he was so excited. He was like, you know, I can't wait to watch the View. I said, josh, you're gonna watch the View. So I can't wait to watch review. Rosie's gonna be back. She's my favorite. Don't tell anybody. Whoops. I just said it on. On the. I'm just kidding. Josh doesn't like the View. Big upgrade. And she's now. This whole thing about her is like singing songs now to Trump. You heard last week the, the wizard of Oz thing that she did, right? You know, she made a little. She made a little remix, and then we remixed her remix and responded. This woman is so crazy, so ugly. Fat and lazy, Decaying in distress. Da da da da da da. I'll be chowing on McDonald's while we mock Rosie O'. Donnell. She's got stage five TDS. I'm working on a full song. It's great. You want to play games, Rosie? We'll play games. All right? You look at the big tent. You look at these. The Democrat circus, right now they say, oh, we're a big tent. We include everybody. Well, you've. You've included a Bunch of people who have made it very clear that their goal is to burn your tent down. Like, you've. You've admitted pyromaniacs into, like, a forest that you don't want to burn. And you're like, hey, I know what you guys do. You light fires. Don't light them now. Even though that's all you know how to do. Right? They talk about burning down the Democrat Party and going to war with the establishment and abolishing the Senate and abolishing the presidency, and it's this whole anarchist, communist view. And you've welcomed them into your tent as if that's a good thing. When you. Their stated goal is to burn your entire. Your entire tent to the ground and then build it back in their image. How is that a good thing? Well, because here's the thing. Chuck Schumer is terrified of these people. Hakeem Jeffries, AKA Dallas Dollar Store Obama is terrified of these people. All right, The. The. The whole. Well, we're a big tent. We welcome everybody. No, you don't. Since when? No, they forced their way in. It was a hostile takeover. You can't just say we're being hostilely taken over, but we actually welcome these folks that are coming in because we're a big tent party and, you know, we're diverse. You're not diverse. Not even close. Got more on that in a second. Debbie Dingle. What a name that is, by the way. Dingle. That's fun. We got a. We got that. We have that and a whole bunch coming up with it. With regards to the Democrat Party hostile takeover, The Democrat Party is dead. Dead with a capital D. Democrat Party is dead. I'm going to show you on the other side of this quick break what and who exactly has taken it over. And the results in Michigan all but proof. 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Democrat Party establishment Chuck Schumer, Debbie Dingell Jim Jim Clyburn who goes by Kingmaker in Democrat circles. It's the truth. Gary Peters he's not a big name in the Democrat Party. Gretchen Whitmer sort of a big name in the Democrat party. These establishment Democrat figures, they all tried to get behind Haley Stevens the chipmunk. That's the Michigan way and be able to. Where's my button. You know, I haven't used my Karen slash Haley Stevens button at all today. We're gonna do it with a little bit of joy, a little bit of enthusiasm, a little bit of energy and a little bit of stick it to up. Well all that joy, all that energy, all that enthusiasm and all that stick it to him just wasn't quite enough in Michigan. And if the establishment figures in in Michigan couldn't put and get their candidate over the finish line, then it is over. Then the Democratic Socialists of America are now calling the shots. There's no arguing that anymore in that party. I want to play for you this let's bring it out to 30,000ft. Just so you say, okay, the Democratic Socialists of America. But are they really communist? Like what's their platform? This is an older clip. It's about a week or so old. All of us have seen it. But it matters for context when we're talking about this here. So, so let's roll this cut. This is from Shannon Bream show on Fox News. This is a Democratic Socialist of America national co chair openly admitting this is the DSA's platform. And now we have the results in Michigan. The DSA has taken over the Democrat Party. Roll this cut. So we're going to put up on the screen a few of the things that are part of your platform. And I want to ask you just give me sort of a true or false on these. Abolish the Senate. True. Okay. Replace the presidency and Supreme Court as we now know them. Yep. Abolish ice. Absolutely. Abolish borders and give amnesty to anyone currently in the US Illegally As a long term plan. Yep. Defund the Pentagon. Absolutely. Abolish prisons at least in large, large part. Yeah. Again as part of a long term program. Yeah. Okay. So no prisons, government or public ownership of most large corporations. Yeah, absolutely. I mean do we have to play it this? I mean our goal is liberation. Our goal is communism. Okay. So you heard the DSA's platform. Well, you call everything you don't like communism. Did you hear, did you hear the lady did you hear the lady on the screen on Fox News go through the. Does that sound like I'm just labeling anything I don't like communism or you don't even know what communism is. That was communism. Matter of fact, don't take it from me. Take it from folks who are experts in this type of thing. Oh, you're saying trust the experts. Well, I'm give you a different voice. Here's this was another clip from Fox News saying, you know, that DSA platform that is being proposed that they're not shying away from? It's not like we're like, oh, did you see what they said in their hidden discord messages that leaked? She said it on national tv. They're not, like being covert about it anymore. They used to be like, hey, let's not say that we're socialists. The democratic socialists of America are openly saying that they're socialists. People within that organization are saying their goal is communism. And they're listing their party platform, they're standing behind their party fricking platform on cable news across the country. Unapologetically, that platform, almost to a T was implemented in places like Venezuela. And you could see this on Fox News is a great cut from Fox News saying, you know, everything the DSA is offering, they tried here and it didn't work out very well. Let's play this question. What did Maduro promise to the people of Venezuela and what did he actually do when he took or took office? Well, they promised us the same things that Francis is promising Americans, which is free housing. You know, everybody has a right to housing. Everybody has the right to food, right? We need government grocery stores. We created government grocery stores in Venezuela. We had government run large enterprises, the banks, right? Because you need a loan for your business. You need free electricity, free water. And everything that was made free was something that disappeared. So we had blackouts. We had no water. We had no good quality housing. It was destroyed in the earthquake. By the way, that is what they delivered. And by the way, that is what public housing in America delivers to. Is he lying? Does he have a reason to lie? It's always great to point to Venezuela because it happened, like in our hemisphere and it happened quick. You know, over a matter of a couple decades, Venezuela went from a prospering, flourishing country to a disaster where people were actually burning their money, the paper, the currency in Venezuela, to heat their homes because it was worth more to light it on fire than it was to use it in a grocery store. They were eating zoo animals in that country because of food shortages. There were. You could see videos of people trailing behind garbage trucks trying to get scraps that were still edible. This is not a joke. This is not like, oh, you're exaggerating this thing. You can see it. There's an old video from 2017. There were some protests in Venezuela. Of course, the people didn't have guns. So Maduro and his Chavistas, they were out there mauling people, running people over mowing them down in the road with military vehicles. That's communism. And you heard the gentleman on there talking about how the. The DSA platform is the same thing that was being promised to Venezuelans. I got to hear you. Spare me this nonsense. Well, we're going to do it the right way. There is no right way. Did you hear one of the most important things that he said? Once the item became free, it disappeared. Gosh, that's one of the most important things that I think I've ever heard regarding communism and socialism. And folks, it's one in the same. Don't tell me, oh no, she's a socialist, not a communist. What's the difference? The government is seizing means of production. You're going to consolidate power, strong central government. There's no difference. Socialism is the gateway drug to communism. Ok, but they're one in the same. Spare me this euphemism game. Oh, well, it's democratic socialism. What does that mean? What's. Oh, so, so it's. You voted for it. So somehow it's different because you think you've got like the democratic mandate to implement it. Give me a break. Democratic socialism. I'm going to go into this. Here's a, here's an establishment figure, Debbie Dingle, she disagrees, by the way. This is probably going to be, you know, her last, you know, words politically. She disagrees with Abdul Al Said's stance on Israel, which is a dividing issue. It's a wedge issue when it comes to the Democrat Party now because the DSA types and these New Democrats, these neo socialist communist Democrats, their biggest, you know, virtue signaling issue, like the beacon on the Hill is how much do you hate Israel? You have to openly proclaim that you at least hate it a little bit. Debbie Dingell isn't like that. She's old guard. She supports Israel. She's upset with Al Said stance on Israel. She's upset with some of his other stances. So let me roll this and then show you that doesn't matter. Go ahead. Let's roll this first Dingle clip. Just in the last month, Syed has said Israel should not exist as a Jewish state. I've known you. Hang on, I've known you a long time. Can you support that and if so, how? No, I categorically won't support that. Israel has a right to exist. Then how can you endorse him if he is the candidate in November? Bill, I'm going to be very blunt. There are going to be a lot of things that I don't agree with. Mike Rogers on either. And I have told, I have told him, Phil, exactly what I think. He then, you know, says, well, this, this or this, I'm going to get him on record. Okay, so you heard Dingle saying, I categorically do not support the comments from Abdul Al said that Israel should not exist. What's the problem? The problem is what we're about to play from Debbie Dingle. She's endorsing him anyway. And this goes. This, this is going to wrap up and put a nice little bow on the overall theme of this show. The Democrat Party as you once knew it is dead. The people like Debbie Dingell, Chuck Schumer. And by the way, I'm not like saying that these are great people because they're not. They're far leftists. The folks like Dingle Schumer. I'm sorry, I'm a child. I, I say Dingle and it takes every, every fiber of my being not to crack up, you know, but the folks like Dingle, Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, Nancy Pelosi. This one, Nancy Pelosi. I have her teeth. Shut up. Is it. They still go. Sometimes they go off in the background. Nancy. Nancy Pelosi. Remember, she rubbed her wrists. It's a wrist wrapping time. And we have to fight back against Donald Trump is a nasty president. Working on my Pelosi. Debbie Dingell said, I'm going to endorse the entire Democrat ticket roll that you have not endorsed in this primary today. If El Sayed is the winner, will you endorse him in November? I will endorse the entire Democratic ticket because I know what's at stake. Bill. So you categorically disagree with his stance on Israel. You said to Bill Hemmer, you can't support that. But then you gave us a blanket reason as to why you're going to support it because, oh, I know it's at stake. What a, what a weakling. This is my point. And I have been saying this, I've been saying this for the better part of probably a month plus because that's how. That's, that's when this DSA takeover, the Democrat Party really started to erupt. There are no more moderates left in the Democrat Party. Okay. Yeah. You may come back and be well. What do you think? Debbie Dingell sounds like a moderate. She supports Israel. She doesn't support the social. She's not a moderate. She's a hostage. There are no more free thinkers aside from John Fetterman, who's the only person to stand up and Say, I will not get behind somebody like this. Right. Like you look at Platner after Graham Platner with his Nazi tattoo won the primary in Maine, which, by the way, let's not stop talking about the fact that the Democrat Party in Maine stole that race from him and his voters. Well, but it was. There were rape allegations. Oh, yeah, I know. And you know, the statute of limitations in Maine for rape is 20 years. And we were told that these allegations were credible. Right. And last time I checked, rape is a crime. How come there's been no criminal charges filed against Grand Platner in Maine? It's almost like the only reason why those allegations came out was because of bad polling to get him out of the race. The Democrats would never do something like that. Oh, wait, yes, they would. Just ask Eric Swalwell again, I'm not saying that they're. These people are innocent. They don't care that there are crimes or rape or any of that committed. It's all about political power. Graham Platner couldn't win. They knew it and they executed order 66 in the last second and got him out of the race. It was, you know, it's like that scene from episode three. Kill him. Kill him now. Do it right. And that's it. You know, there are no more free thinking moderates left on the Democrat side of things. They're not, they don't exist, folks. They're hostages. If you think you're voting, I'm going to vote for Debbie Dingle. I'm going to vote for this one. I'm going to vote for that one. This is a sensible Democrat. You think that Democrats actually going to be able to operate as a sensible, not communist, still far left progressive, you know, devout liberal, Clinton, Obama, Democrat? You think they're going to be able to operate under those parameters? You think they're going to be able to operate without their DSA overlords who have taken over the party cracking the whip? You think so? If you think so, watch what I just played. Watch what we just played here from Debbie Dingell. Go ahead. She said she can't support something. She can't support Abdul Al Said stance on Israel. She, she will not support that. But here's why I'm going to support him because I'm going to endorse the whole ticket. Because she can't resist. Because she knows that people like her within the Democrat Party are outnumbered or at least aren't strong enough to push back against the energetic wing of the party, which is the dsa, Democratic Socialist, communist, antifa wing of the Democrat Party that has now taken over the party. If the establishment had won in Michigan last night with Haley Stevens, we'd be having a different conversation. All right. The takeover is on the horizon, but it's not here yet. It's here. It's happened, it's done. Michigan proves that. Verdict is in. Here's the gavel. Right. All rise. The gavel. The verdict is in. Democrat party has fallen. It's dead. What you're used to is gone. Buried, gone. See ya. Take that. Go back. Back to Monty Python. It's like the scene from the TV show with the parrot. You ever see that sketch? The parrot is dead. This is an ex parrot. It has ceased to be. It has gone to meet its maker. The Democrat Party is dead. It is a communist party now. It has been taken over by radicals that admit they're communist. They gave you the platform. They say it's. Their goal is liberation. Our goal is communism. I can't. I can't play that clip enough. David Jenkins. It's not me. It's not a voiceover DSA guy. The goal is communism. Don't tell me I'm calling everything. I don't like communism when they're, when they're calling themselves communists. All right, now, speaking of communists, one of the best things, One of the. One of the things communists do a lot or the things they do the most is they lie. Right? So we had yesterday, we talked about Zoran Mamdani, Zoran the moron and his little plan for city run grocery stores, which as you heard from that, that gentleman that was on Fox News before earlier, right. That, you know, they tried the city run grocery stores in Venezuela and it wound up with food shortages and rations and starvation and squalor and all these things. So you heard Zoran Momdani talking about the city run grocery stores. We played for you yesterday that cut of Zoran Mamdani at a press conference with his, you know, whomever that was, that. That lady who said in order to shop in the city run grocery stores, they're going to issue a, and I quote, library card esque thing. How do you determine who gets the library card thing? Sounds like at some point in the process these folks are going to have to show identification. Right? Hey, I want my library card as thing to shop in the city run grocery store. Cool. Do you live in New York City? Yeah, I live in New York City. Cool. Can you prove it? Yeah. Here's my ID. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,. Whoa, whoa, whoA, whoa, whoa. ID is supposed to be racist, right? Black people, married women, etc. They're apparently too dumb or whatever, too poor or whatever. You know, not innovative enough, not resourceful enough to get IDs. Not. Again, that's not my stance. I believe, I don't, I don't believe that about married women or black people. That's the Democrat stance. I'm not the one who said young black men in the Bronx don't know what the word computer means. Kathy Hochul, the bucktooth Botox bandit of Buffalo, the current governor of the state of New York, said that, not me. Zoran Mamdani now is pivoting hard. Pivot these, these guys pivoting hard on city run grocery stores. He was on with Joy Reid. Now we have a thing on the show I do on LFA TV right now and all over the place. We have, it's called the Joy Reid safety glasses. Remember the 2024 eclipse? That was fun if you guys were able to see it. My wife and I drove up to Evansville, Indiana from Tennessee. So we, I still have my April 8th eclipse glasses. These are the Joy Reed safety glass. You have to put these on before Joy Reid comes on the screen because. And these statements have not. They go Schumer style down the nose. These statements have not been evaluated by the fda. However, anecdotal reports would suggest that prolonged exposure to Joy Reid could cause itching and burning of the skin or face. Your eyes may fall out, you may projectile vomit, you may have explosive diarrhea with prolonged exposure to Joy Reid. So I'm going to put on my Joy Reid safety goggles and my safety glasses here. But this is mom Donnie and Joy Reid. You know, use, like do what they, what was it, the Medusa where you have to look at it through a mirror or you turn to stone. This is, this is mom Donnie talking to Joy Reid saying, yeah, I know we kind of said like id, but we're not actually going to do id. Don't worry about what you heard because what you heard was wrong, even though it was us who said it. Let's roll this clip with mom Donnie on. With Joy Reid glasses on. We're talking about a city run grocery store, one in each borough, which, by the way, you do not need an ID to shop at, no matter what you've just heard. In the news of today, we're talking about actually addressing the question of skyrocketing grocery prices. We've seen in the last six or seven years alone an increase in grocery prices of around 30% and we are going to be delivering a city run grocery store, one in each borough, five in total, that will have the staples of a shopping experience. An essential basket of goods that are discounted by 30% compared to typical retail prices. And that is something that New Yorkers will be able to feel in their pocket. They'll be able to save hundreds of dollars on an annual basis knowing that the city is looking to actually deliver for them on something that is a non negotiable in their life, which is healthy and accessible food. Okay, glasses off. We're clear. Clear. I don't want itching and burning of the skin or face. I don't want the projectile vomiting. I don't want the explosive diarrhea from prolonged exposure to Joy Reid. So the Joy Reid goggles are there. And hey, maybe I wasn't going to get those side effects, but she's ugly, so I just didn't want to see her. It's hard enough to listen to her. So here's the problem though, okay? So some folks may go, well, you were mad that he was going to implement IDs, now you're mad that he's not going to implement IDs. I'm not, I'm not mad about any of it. I'm calling out the hypocrisy. I don't live in New York City. None of this matters. I, I'm not. We don't have city run grocery stores here in Tennessee or this is a free state. Okay, here's the problem. And this is the catch 22. This is the other side of the equation here. When you talk about mom, Donnie and okay, all right, so he's going to do the library card esque thing. That was his, that was his lingo, that was his, his, his little minion, that woman who is out there talking about it. Do a library card. I think, well, now that he says that, they're not going to be checking id, just like our election, same argument, right? Isn't the point of a city run grocery store, the taxpayers of New York City who are footing the bill for this grocery store isn't the point so that those people can enjoy the benefits of having this store, Right? So now the example that I cited yesterday of that guy who lives in New Jersey, this hypothetical guy, he lives in New Jersey, but he works in New York City. He pays his income tax in New Jersey, he pays his property taxes in New Jersey because he is a resident of New Jersey. Okay? But he works in New York City. He's not contributing much. I mean maybe through purchases and sales taxes and some other small. He's not per, he's not participating or contributing much to the, the, the tax fund that is going to be paying for the city run grocery stores. Yet because of what Mom Donnie just said with Joy Reid, if they are moving away from the library card esque thing that we heard about just a day ago, then the guy from New Jersey who isn't contributing to the tax fund that is going to pay for the city run grocery stores can walk into a city run grocery store, buy his food at 30%, go back over the border to New Jersey and bring it home to his family. I thought it was supposed to be for New Yorkers. Don't you see how that could be a problem? Aren't you getting screwed now? It's like one of those things, I pay for this. I should receive the benefits. I pay for this. I don't pay for this so someone else can enjoy the benefits who's not paying for it. And I think you're going to see that complaint when you start to see stock run low in these stores. They're going to say how many people are, are, are, are using the city run grocery stores that aren't supposed to. They're not actually New Yorkers. Well, I don't know. You know how to prevent that. Id, but ID is racist. So you're either going to have your system infiltrated by ineligible shoppers or you're going to use identification, which you've told me and told the whole world, is racist, to make sure that only eligible people are utilizing the system that you've put in place. And once you have to grapple with that, then you see why the Save America act, proof of citizenship and, and photo ID to vote is so important because you don't want ineligible participants to influence and participate in a system that the eligible are either paying for or are supposed to be the only ones participating in. It's that simple. It is not controversial to say that only American citizens should be participating in our elections. And it's not controversial if you're in New York to say, hey, only New York City residents should be able to use the city run grocery store. The only way to make both of those things happen. Id, right? 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Host: Sean Farish (filling in for Vince Coglianese)
Date: August 5, 2026
Network: Cumulus Podcast Network
Duration: ~1 hour
Theme: The fracturing of the Democratic Party, illustrated through the Michigan Senate primary, and the argument that the party has been overtaken by Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and is no longer the entity of previous decades.
Sean Farish, stepping in for Vince Coglianese, dives deep into the fallout from a razor-thin and still unresolved Michigan Democratic Senate primary. He argues that high-profile establishment Democrats have lost control of the party to fringe, DSA-aligned communists. Using Michigan as a bellwether, Farish expands on nationwide trends, election integrity, and the consequences for both the Democratic Party and the country.
Race Overview (05:00–09:30):
Vote Counting & Mail-in Ballots Concerns (09:30–15:30):
Spoiler Effect (Mallory McMorrow) (14:00–16:30):
Mail-In Ballots as the Central Issue (15:30–24:30):
Fraud Nuance & Party Rhetoric (24:30–29:30):
All elections contain some fraud, but not every race is decided by fraud.
Warns against conservatives undermining electoral legitimacy wholesale, as this can depress turnout.
Quote: “There is election fraud in every election. However, election fraud does not decide every election... You don’t want to become the party that believes every election is fake.” (Sean, 27:00)
Establishment Defeat in Michigan (29:30–36:30):
Monty Python Analogy (36:30–38:00):
National trend, not one-off (38:00–44:00):
The DSA is openly running on a communist platform.
Host highlights mainstream media’s pushback as proof of establishment panic.
Quote: “Their stated goal is to burn your entire tent to the ground and then build it back in their image... It was a hostile takeover.” (Sean, 44:00)
Platform Highlights—Direct Clip from DSA Leadership (49:30):
Venezuela Comparative Analysis (52:00–55:00):
Debbie Dingell Example (57:30–1:01:30):
Publicly disavows Al Said’s stance on Israel: “I categorically won’t support that. Israel has a right to exist.”
But then says: “I will endorse the entire Democratic ticket because I know what’s at stake.”
Quote: “There are no more moderates left in the Democrat Party... They’re hostages.” (Sean, 1:02:00)
Contrast with GOP/Conservative Claims:
Zoran Mamdani’s DSA Policy Proposal (1:05:30–1:10:30):
Proposed city-run grocery stores in NYC.
Initial plan mentioned requiring a ‘library card-esque’ ID, then pivots on Joy Reid’s show: “You do not need an ID to shop at [the city-run grocery stores], no matter what you’ve just heard.”
Quote: “ID is supposed to be racist—right? … But now the system will be infiltrated by ineligible shoppers, or you’re going to use identification, which you’ve told the world is racist.” (Sean, 1:09:30)
Broad Point on ID & Voting:
“The Democrat Party is Dead” is repeated as the show’s thesis.
Michigan’s primary is seen as the official end of the old Democratic Party and the rise of an openly socialist, even ‘communist’, party in the U.S.
Old-guard figures like Dingle and Schumer are framed as either compliant or helpless to stop the tide.
Memorable Sign-off Quote (Final minutes):
On Election Fraud (27:00):
“There is election fraud in every election. However, election fraud does not decide every election… You don’t want to become the party that believes every election is fake.”
On the DSA Platform (51:30):
DSA Official: “Our goal is communism.”
On the Democrat Party’s ‘Big Tent’ (44:00):
“Their stated goal is to burn your entire tent to the ground and then build it back in their image… It was a hostile takeover.”
On Debbie Dingell’s Endorsement (1:01:30):
“I will endorse the entire Democratic ticket because I know what’s at stake.”
Sean: “There are no more moderates left in the Democrat Party… They’re hostages.”
On the Michigan race’s implications (35:00):
“If the DSA can win in a state like Michigan, then they can win in any state... The Democrat Party as you once knew it, the party of Chuck Schumer, the party of Jim Clyburn, ...it's dead. It's dead.”
On Government-Run Grocery Stores (1:09:30):
“ID is supposed to be racist—right?... But now the system will be infiltrated by ineligible shoppers, or you’re going to use identification, which you’ve told the world is racist.”
Sean Farish’s argument is clear: The Michigan Senate primary is a bellwether for the end of the traditional Democratic Party. He contends that DSA-aligned, openly socialist and even “communist” activists have seized control from establishment figures, who now either capitulate or are sidelined. Election integrity and identity politics debates are reframed to underscore party hypocrisy. For right-leaning listeners, it is a call to resist demoralization in the face of electoral uncertainty and to recognize, in Farish’s terms, the existential stakes of current internal Democratic divisions.
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For listeners who missed it:
This episode is a sweeping, pointed analysis of the Democratic Party’s direction post-Michigan primary—framed through the lens of conservative skepticism about mail-in ballots, deep distrust of socialist-leaning Democrats, and skepticism toward establishment figures’ ability to resist radical influence.