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Hey everybody. Welcome to Vince on a Tuesday. We have a massive show ahead brought to you by Blackout Coffee, the official coffee of all of us here at silverlock. Go to blackoutcoffee.com Vince. Use the code Vince. That's V I N C E. And you'll get 20% off your first order. Blackout coffee.com Vince. We do have a big show coming up today. We've got Michael Knowles, you know Michael. Michael Knowles from the Daily Wire will be stopping by the program. I'll have him live in studio. So he'll be here coming up shortly. Very eager to have a conversation with him. Is it time for the crusades again? That's the question for Michael Knowles. We're gonna ask him about whether or not, whether or not a bunch of Christians need to conquer the heathens. That's ahead on the program. Also, I wanna talk to you about what's going on with the American left. Some very violent tendencies and some very weak tendencies. Those things definitely go together. We'll take a closer look at that. And Karine Jean Pierre and Joe Biden are back in public and we can look back at them with some sadness because they're both in their own ways, kind of pathetic, but they're doing these things in public. I'll tell you the latest, all ahead on this edition of Vince. It's great to have you here. Best audience anywhere. Hey, do you ever think about aging very much. Does aging force you to think about aging? I know that that's been that way in my case for sure. And as you age, you try to figure out ways I have to get my energy back. And I'm excited to share something called C15 from Fatty 15 with you. It's the first essential fatty acid to be discovered in more than 90 years. Fatty 15 co founder Dr. Stephanie Van Watson discovered the benefits of C15 all while working with the US Navy. And based on studies we know that when our cells don't have enough C15 they can age faster. 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But something I do know about Michael Knowles is he's typically dapper. So I thought to myself as I was getting ready this morning, I said, self, you should wear a jacket. You don't want to be outdapt by Michael Knowles today. So that's the plan. So anyway, for those of you watching rumble.com Vince I do have the jacket on today. I've got the jacket. Here's a question for you. This is something I just Let me start with just a personal obsession and then we'll get into the meat of the show. What do you think about all of the panhandling that you're seeing in the United States of America right now? Are you concerned about this chat? Are you concerned about this panhandling? Is this happening in every community in the country? An increase in the number of people who are standing on medians and street corners, holding hats out and demanding money and saying, please give to me. And then writing a sob story on a piece of cardboard and saying that they desperately need cash. And then you sit there with some skepticism in your car and you're wondering, does this person need help? Exactly. And if I do hand cash out the window, am I only enabling this behavior to happen? People are saying in the chat they're seeing a lot of it in our country. It feels like we have seen a lot more of it over the last, say, decade. Certainly. I live in the Washington, D.C. metro area. I live in Virginia and I've seen the increase kind of dramatically in Northern Virginia just over the last decade. It's the worst it's ever been. Every street corner, it appears, every popular street corner, it appears there are people who are walking up and down trying to get people, get you motorists to give them money. And I'm not against people asking for help. In fact, my Christian conscience tells me constantly, like you should help people. But I try and focus that effort at church. I make contributions to charities and food banks and churches because I do want people to be genuinely helped. I don't want to enable some sort of long run pattern of self sabotage that I think often is associated with the panhandling, I don't like that. Also, it's a sign of societal decline. Don't you think. Don't you think that your community seems to be on the path towards degradation if the street corners are kind of third world filled with people begging for money? Not a good sign at all, actually. So why do we want this now? I was talking to an official yet last night in Fairfax County, Virginia, about this, and I was thinking, what can we do about this? This seems crazy to me that this continues to be an issue. And he said that nearby Loudoun County, Virginia has actually addressed this, which I didn't realize. Loudoun county also has a lot of insane people and leadership, but they had passed an ordinance of some kind that basically said, look, we can't stop people's free speech rights. You stand on the side of the road, you hold your sign, whatever you've written on it. We can't infringe on the First Amendment, but we can tell people, you're not allowed to exchange cash and goods on a public street. You can't do that. It's dangerous to do that. And so apparently Loudon started doing that, and the cops started telling panhandlers, hey, if you do this, we're gonna give you a ticket. So get off the median. And apparently it's had some success. It's worked, which is great news. They've only had to hand out like a dozen tickets because a couple of people refused the cops asking them to get off the corner. And they stayed there and they kept asking for money. So tickets dispensed. But apparently Fairfax County, a disaster still, because they refused, they're run by a bunch of libs. They refuse to tackle the problem. And it leads me to wonder, what is the lib explanation for this? What is the Democrat justification for. For enabling panhandling in your community? What is that? And there is none, actually. There's no sympathetic case for allowing panhandling. There's no justification for this. There are plenty of services and resources available to people who have fallen on hard times that they could go to. They could go to shelters and food banks and get financial assistance. There's welfare, there's unemployment, there's food stamps. There's a million means by which somebody could get the help they need to care for their families. And there is no lib justification for this. The only explanation for why Democrats continue to allow this to happen is because they're perfectly content with the decline of these communities. In fact, that might even be the point that, yes, no, the community's accelerating into decline and despair. Here is public evidence for it as people are begging on your street corners. It's really crazy, actually. And also to be clear, the panhandling is dangerous. Super dangerous, in fact, in Fairfax County, Virginia. Again, this is just a suburb right outside Washington, D.C. in the last year, there was a panhandler who was killed as a vehicular accident took place near him. A car slides right across the median and kills the panhandler. So how is this safe? How is this good for the community? It's not. It's terrible. And it is yet another thing that we're calling out on officials at all levels, not just the federal level. The federal level has all these big picture items to take care of, like deporting millions of illegal aliens who are in our country as out as quickly as possible. But on the local level, if you are a person who is either involved in local politics or who is a local official, let me give you a priority that you can very easily put right at the top of your list today. Get rid of the blight, get rid of the panhandling, get rid of the homelessness. Clean up your community. You wanna grow the tax base. You want people to move to your town. You want things to be healthy? Then fix the problems that are keeping people away and driving people away. Like stuff like this. Wild. Anyway, so chat. You're telling me it's everywhere? It's all across the country right now? Yeah, it does feel like that. It does. I travel all over the place and then I see this and I think, this isn't good for us. Not good. You know, America, I've always, especially if you've ever traveled internationally, you realize kind of the desperate lives that so many people live in other places on this planet as compared to the United States. And then when you see some of that desperation arriving in your own communities, all of the alarm bells should be going off. This is a bad slide that we're experiencing. Yeah. Kickley Bass 2 says everywhere is correct. It's everywhere in Las Vegas. Yeah. Aughie Dog also Las Vegas Boulevard. Super dangerous in Las Vegas. And people are idiots when they try and cross that. Very, very dangerous to try and cross it. People do. And they get killed every year. All sorts of people getting killed on Las Vegas Boulevard. Completely insane. Memphis has folks on every corner. Yeah. No, it's bad. And so no wonder people move away from the cities. They get out of the cities. They get away from the suburbs that are real close to the cities. That's why they're called Suburban, and they just move out to the rest of the country because they want to get away from all that blight. But what does that leave behind? It leaves behind these communities that are just completely dysfunctional and increasingly so, which is why I'm really annoyed by the emergence of people like Zoran Mamdani. Zoran Mamdani, who is a full blown socialist. He's a communist who is right now destined to become the next mayor of New York City. And he is a symptom of the very decline that I'm talking about, this sort of phony empathy where, oh, we're gonna take care of everybody. Things are gonna improve dramatically for all of these communities if only you put the socialist in charge. They'll just take all the money from the rich people and then they'll give it to the poor people and there will be no problems. Well, that sounds perfectly fine if you're a completely naive, childish moron. But if you have any experience in real life, what you've learned, especially if you have any sense of history, what you've learned is that every one of these socialist experiments, these communist experiments throughout history, have led to disgusting concentrations of wealth, utter corruption by the people in power who take all of the wealth, and then utter despair for the people who are robbed and have to live in communities that are made worse by that political ideology every single time. That's why the biggest body counts of the 20th century belong to socialism and communism. It's because it never leads to good things. It always leads to despair. Which is why you and I constantly make a mockery of this idea that. Oh, yeah, but it's never been really tried. Oh, it's never been done the right way. No, it's been done exactly the way that you would think you would try to pull it off. And every single time, it ends poorly. Every single time. It's one of the reasons Bernie Sanders, by the way, is. Well, he's a cartoon character. But don't let his cartoonish demeanor disarm you. The guy's a Soviet. And when he says that he's opposed to these concentrations of power, the millionaires and the billionaires and all the corporations and all this stuff, he taps into a small truth, a meaningful one, which is that concentrations of power, the bigger that they grow and the more out of control they become, they can create problems for your life. Certainly. See what the big tech companies did as they seized control of all the communication in the United States and then censored especially huge categories of conservatives to prevent you from having realistic conversations about our elections. That matters a great deal. Those concentrations of power and the abuses of that concentration of power is something that you should be vigilant for. I certainly am. I'm always. Any power center in the United States deserves scrutiny, whether it's in the media or in the big tech companies, but also, and certainly and very importantly, in the government. So Bernie's answer to corrupt concentrations of power is to create the single most corrupt, single most inefficient, single most tyrannical concentration of power. That's insanity. That's not the way out of this. That's the way to kill your country, actually. And that's what Zoran Mamdani believes in. This is his worldview. And he can smile all he wants and he can act friendly and chipper and he can do the podcasts and convey himself as some sort of good hearted, decent people person. But his political ideology is completely suicidal and destructive. Communism will wreck New York City and by extension, the United States of America. Communism. Just imagine, New York is the capitalist center of the United States. It's the financial center of our country. And what Zornon Mamdani represents is a full blown attack on capitalism, on the free market, on the financial center of our country, being launched internally with the support of the insane voters of New York City who are now on board with this. Now, who are the people in New York City who are supporting this? Well, one, it's a massive immigrant population. Certainly New York has changed dramatically over these last few decades. Just a lot of people who have come into the country who now live in New York City, who are now voters who don't really have any sort of intrinsic loyalty to the ideologies that made this country great, are all in on voting for the commie in New York City. That's true. It's a city with kind of a lost identity, no question. It is a city that anybody with means and sense about them has basically abandoned. In fact, Florida right now is the home of a lot of former New York City refugees. In fact, some of you are probably in the chat right now. People who've escaped Manhattan escaped New York City because it's too insane. There's too many taxes, and it doesn't in any way represent you and certainly has done everything it can to infringe on your liberty. So you escape a lot, like, kind of like the Trump family. Candidly, the Trump family escaped New York. They went to Florida. They're down there. They're not interested anymore in being in that city. And so what's been left behind is the people who had no other options and the most radical elements and an immigrant community that is completely untethered from any sort of American ideals. There was no assimilation whatsoever. And so now Zoran Mamdani seems to be the guy who they're on the verge of picking. And there is an immense weakness on the Democrat side, an immense weakness. So the socialists, the commies, are ascendant. The violent people in their party are ascendant. The most radical elements, whether it's the Islamists, the communists, the anarchists, they're ascendant. They've got all the power in the party because at the top of their party is nothing but cowardice. Nothing but cowardice. They are so scared of their own violent, in many cases base, that they're willing to accede to all of their demands. For instance, Hakeem Jeffries, who is the leader of the Democrats in the House, just this past weekend made the late game decision to offer a tepid endorsement of Zoran Mamdani. That's right. The New York congressman, the leader of the Democrats in the United States House of Representatives, has now taken the position that Zoran Mamdani's our guy. In other words, your party is not hiding it at all. Your most establishment figures are officially endorsing the commies. You're done for. Watch. Here's Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House, cut six. Pointing out what has happened to that party.