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Allen Jackson: NYC Backlash | Allen Jackson Now

February 11, 2026 | 20:46

Allen Jackson: NYC Backlash | Allen Jackson Now
John Cardillo joins Allen Jackson to discuss current events.
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Allen Jackson NOW | Allen Jackson: NYC Backlash | Allen Jackson Now | February 11, 2026
  • Good evening and welcome to nashville.
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  • I'm alan jackson.
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  • It's been a very tough winter across the country, from record
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  • Snow and ice to power lines down and temperatures
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  • So low that car seats, though they feel like wood benches.
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  • New york city has had it particularly bad,
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  • As the new mayor struggles
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  • To figure out how to move from hip hop artist to mayor
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  • In a city where ed koch and rudy giuliani set the standard.
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  • Giuliani worked 24 over seven, most notably around 911,
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  • And it was the animated ed koch, who was a man of the people.
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  • He never stopped asking the voters, how am i doing?
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  • Well, as you're on,
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  • Mom donna, you started asking how he's doing.
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  • He wouldn't want to hear the answers
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  • From the frozen, dirty piles of snow and ice
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  • To his celebration of world hijab day.
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  • Mom, donny is now the talk of the town,
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  • But it's the kind of talk that if it happened on broadway,
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  • Well, the curtains would have already closed.
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  • Yet it's
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  • A fact that the socialists got the most votes
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  • Over a publicly damaged democrat.
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  • And in a city where republicans rarely win.
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  • But no honest socialist would start out as he's done,
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  • Only taking care of himself and not the voters.
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  • But according to chris christie, that's exactly what he did.
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  • Making sure the mayor's home address was spotless
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  • While the rest of the city was piled up.
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  • Not just snow, but trash.
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  • Listen to what the former governor told bill maher.
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  • All my kids live in new york city.
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  • I've been there since the snowstorm.
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  • The garbage is piled up everywhere.
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  • But you know, the one place bill that is pristine,
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  • The garbage is gone, and the there's no ice,
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  • Even on the sidewalk in front of gracie mansion.
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  • So, like socialist.
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  • Socialist, like, take care of my thing first,
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  • You know?
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  • So, like
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  • Any successful communist mom nannies all about mom nanny.
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  • Then he smiled his way
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  • All the way to the mayor's home at gracie mansion.
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  • You know, socialism destroys exceptionalism.
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  • It penalizes the very things that make a nation strong.
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  • Innovation, hard work, entrepreneurship.
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  • History shows it clearly.
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  • When government controls the marketplace,
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  • The people grow hungry.
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  • Venezuela was once the wealthiest nation
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  • In latin america.
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  • Then came nationalized industries.
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  • Price controls, the promise of free programs,
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  • Ultimately resulting in power
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  • Blackouts, empty shelves, and military repression.
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  • Socialism promises equality, but it delivers
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  • Misery when the state becomes your provider.
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  • It also becomes your master.
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  • It silences dissent and crushes freedom.
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  • Under hugo chavez and under maduro.
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  • Churches in venezuela,
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  • Especially evangelical congregations,
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  • Were subjected to government monitoring and intimidation.
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  • Christian leaders
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  • Who criticized the regime or defended religious liberty.
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  • They faced harassment,
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  • Arbitrary detention, and even interrogation.
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  • Socialism has been a disaster globally, with ineffective
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  • Policies failing to create human flourishing.
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  • And these principles,
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  • They've already taken root in our nation.
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  • In this decade, we've already had the rise and fall
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  • Of an infamous socialist experiment.
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  • In 2020, in seattle, it was during another period
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  • Of lawlessness and riots in the streets.
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  • The george
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  • Floyd protestors created what they called a chaz's own.
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  • Chaz stood for a capitol hill autonomous zone.
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  • These protestors created, in their words,
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  • Community gardens and painted murals,
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  • While in reality, the gardens became drug gatherings
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  • Where people would get high on narcotics in plain sight.
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  • Those painted murals?
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  • Well, most people would call them
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  • The vandalizing of property.
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  • The one key component of this chaz zone
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  • Local police were not allowed anywhere.
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  • They also opened free co-op grocery stores in the zone.
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  • It was all an effort to push the message
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  • Of black lives matter and socialism forward.
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  • Well, media from around the world
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  • Came to report on this socialist utopia.
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  • Excited to feature these new brave solutions.
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  • A better way forward
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  • Without the yoke of oppressive authority figures.
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  • Well, those were the words.
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  • Well, that's socialist dreamland.
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  • It lasted for about three weeks.
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  • It quickly spiraled into chaos.
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  • It ended in shootings littered streets.
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  • The desecration of private property.
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  • Dead civilians.
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  • A complete breakdown of law and order.
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  • That's what happens when the fantasy meets reality.
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  • And it's only our profound ignorance that gets individuals
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  • Who championed the virtues of socialism elected to office.
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  • Now, as christ followers,
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  • We shouldn't be filled with belligerence or get violent.
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  • But i do have a question.
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  • Well, we have the courage to speak up for truth,
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  • To speak up for a biblical worldview,
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  • No matter your age or your life stage,
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  • No matter what your peer group is,
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  • No matter what your day job is in every one of those
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  • Settings, begin to bring god into the conversation.
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  • We are called to shape culture.
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  • Well, tonight
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  • We're taking an early temperature
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  • On how socialism performs in the real world,
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  • Rather than the dreamland version
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  • They're selling to an ill informed public.
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  • In a moment, we'll talk to the new york city
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  • Police veteran and security analyst john cardillo.
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  • He'll join us in just a moment. stay tuned.
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  • He'll join us in just a moment. stay tuned.
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  • The biggest city in the country
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  • Has now had a taste of socialism,
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  • And even some people who voted for him know like it.
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  • Well, to break it all down, we brought back the former nypd
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  • Officer and the security analyst, john cardillo.
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  • There's a lot to talk about.
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  • Sure.
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  • As sure as you left the big city for florida,
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  • But you still have a lot of friends
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  • On the ground in new york.
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  • Before we get into the specific issues, what are you hearing?
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  • Because it looks like mom daddy's
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  • Magic carpet ride is already in the breakdown lane.
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  • Yeah, well, alan, thanks for having me back again.
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  • I was looking forward to it.
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  • Very interesting.
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  • I'll give you an anecdote, and i won't say the name
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  • Because she asked me not to.
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  • But for the last several years,
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  • I've been having a friendly debate with a democrat,
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  • A woman who was on a reality show, a more successful reality
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  • Show two days ago. pastor.
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  • She sent me a direct message on
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  • Twitter and said, okay, you win.
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  • You're right. my husband and i are done.
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  • We are out of here. we're coming to florida.
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  • So i don't think there's a that was representative
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  • Of what i'm hearing from pretty much everyone
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  • I know who still lives in new york city,
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  • Not so much a long island and westchester
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  • And rockland counties upstate.
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  • But if you're living in the five boroughs,
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  • More and more, i'm hearing exactly that.
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  • It's representative across the board now.
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  • Normal people are watching mom.
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  • Donnie just it's not even a slide to the left.
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  • I mean, it's a hard left turn against three lanes of traffic
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  • That this guy has pulled,
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  • And people see it and they're getting very nervous.
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  • You know mary, mom, he's already has egg on his face.
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  • He claims that he didn't know
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  • That the budget shortfall was $12 billion.
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  • He advertised half that during his campaign,
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  • But he might have gotten away
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  • With playing stupid, except for the fact
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  • That it was all documented by the new york city comptroller
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  • When he was running his go to solution raise taxes
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  • On the most successful part of the city. here's how he put it.
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  • That means
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  • Looking inward into savings and efficiencies.
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  • That also means raising taxes on the wealthiest new yorkers
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  • In the most profitable corporations.
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  • And it means
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  • Recalibrating the relationship with the state.
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  • Well, as for recalibrating with the state,
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  • The governor has already started to back off the support
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  • She threw him during the campaign. correct?
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  • Sure. yeah. i mean, she has no choice.
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  • You know, look, to, to address that point, i had lunch
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  • A few months back with some bankers,
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  • And one of the guys at the table
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  • Was was a very successful fund manager in new york.
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  • They specialize in corporate turnarounds.
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  • They buy distressed assets, build them back up.
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  • And he's been very, very successful over the years.
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  • And, you know, kind of a younger guy.
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  • Late 60s, early 70s.
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  • And one of the other guys at the table was
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  • I was a corporate lending guy at one of the big banks,
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  • And he and we were in palm beach and he said
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  • To, the fund manager, you know, how real is it?
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  • Because the fund managers in new york base,
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  • The other guy is florida based.
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  • He said, how real is this
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  • Financial industry, migration to florida?
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  • Is it is it a fad post-covid?
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  • And without missing a beat, the,
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  • The new york guy said, nope, it's very real.
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  • I can give you a list of all of my clients
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  • On the financial sector that are moving out.
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  • Look, ken griffin brought his fund down here
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  • About 15 years ago.
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  • I lived in the,
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  • Brickell area of miami, which is now a hot area downtown.
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  • Jp morgan put up a massive tower there.
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  • They're moving more people.
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  • And and so i hear this more and more from people
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  • In the financial sector that the migration of wealth
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  • Out of new york city to florida is real.
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  • It's happening at a record pace.
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  • And i think that's going to continue to happen.
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  • But it's going to move from the uber high net worth
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  • Down to the upper middle class people
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  • Who just don't want to live in that environment.
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  • And look,
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  • They used to say that
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  • Gavin newsom was u-haul, his best spokesman.
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  • I think i'm donny's replacement
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  • To try to get out of the mess.
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  • He wants to add a 2% income tax surcharge on high earners
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  • And higher corporate taxes as well.
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  • The governor's skeptical
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  • And would have to approve any such surcharge.
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  • So am i correct in saying that those free bus rides
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  • Are not going to happen,
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  • And the governor is not about to
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  • Jeopardize her reelection to help socialism look good?
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  • Yeah, exactly.
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  • And there's a really
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  • Simple reason why a guy like mamdani was elected
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  • And why he can say things
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  • Like that, but kathy hochul can, right?
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  • She needs money to get reelected because new york city
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  • Might be the people blue, but a lot of new york state isn't.
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  • You know, you go upstate
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  • And people it's much easier to get, for example, a concealed
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  • Carry license for a handgun.
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  • You just need to go sit in front of a judge.
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  • And in these small towns, well,
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  • Everybody went to school with the judge's kids, right?
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  • Or did the judges themselves.
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  • So it's not hard to do that.
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  • New york city is an anomaly.
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  • And mamdani, new york city,
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  • Allen has no republican party infrastructure.
  • 00:10:12.675 --> 00:10:15.445
  • It probably hasn't since george pataki,
  • 00:10:15.445 --> 00:10:18.614
  • Turned out and rudy giuliani last.
  • 00:10:18.614 --> 00:10:20.283
  • And bloomberg made it shift
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  • From republican, the independent to democrat.
  • 00:10:21.884 --> 00:10:24.020
  • Well, the state's all different, right.
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  • So kathy hochul has to be reelected.
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  • Mamdani can win without getting out of bed
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  • Because he's got the teachers unions, seiu, afl-cio,
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  • They all deploy 150,000 door knockers and ballot harvesters.
  • 00:10:36.165 --> 00:10:39.902
  • And he'll win.
  • 00:10:40.236 --> 00:10:41.437
  • So he doesn't have the same donor concerns that she has.
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  • So, yeah, it doesn't surprise me at all
  • 00:10:43.873 --> 00:10:45.975
  • That they're now at this impasse.
  • 00:10:45.975 --> 00:10:48.745
  • Well, here's another one that quickly backfired.
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  • Mom, donnie wanted to join the world.
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  • Hijab day at the beginning of the month,
  • 00:10:53.349 --> 00:10:55.718
  • But it took some jewish scholars
  • 00:10:55.718 --> 00:10:57.153
  • To remind him that february 1st
  • 00:10:57.153 --> 00:10:59.055
  • Was the same day that the ayatollah khomeini
  • 00:10:59.055 --> 00:11:01.157
  • Returned to iran and began enforcing hijab laws.
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  • Another example of mamdani not ready for prime time.
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  • Or at least that's the way it seems to me.
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  • Yeah, 100%.
  • 00:11:10.433 --> 00:11:11.567
  • I actually had a conversation with a rabbi down here.
  • 00:11:11.567 --> 00:11:13.703
  • He's actually very political, and he the chaplain
  • 00:11:13.703 --> 00:11:16.172
  • For some of the larger police departments.
  • 00:11:16.172 --> 00:11:18.141
  • We were speaking about mamdani, sunday morning.
  • 00:11:18.141 --> 00:11:20.777
  • And, you know, i was glad
  • 00:11:20.777 --> 00:11:21.844
  • We did anticipation of coming on the show.
  • 00:11:21.844 --> 00:11:23.446
  • I wanted to get his take,
  • 00:11:23.446 --> 00:11:24.814
  • And he told me he's
  • 00:11:24.814 --> 00:11:25.982
  • Been in heated arguments with the hasidic and orthodox
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  • Jewish communities in new york city
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  • Because they voted for donny, and he was very upset with them.
  • 00:11:30.787 --> 00:11:33.623
  • And he said, look,
  • 00:11:33.623 --> 00:11:34.657
  • This is a guy who despises your mere existence.
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  • What are you doing in their position?
  • 00:11:37.326 --> 00:11:39.162
  • Well, we're still in business.
  • 00:11:39.162 --> 00:11:41.197
  • He's going to win,
  • 00:11:41.197 --> 00:11:42.231
  • So we can't have an enemy in the mayor's office.
  • 00:11:42.231 --> 00:11:44.233
  • This rabbi is a bit hardcore.
  • 00:11:44.233 --> 00:11:45.468
  • Yeah, he's a they're a hardcore right wing guy.
  • 00:11:45.468 --> 00:11:47.637
  • And, he said that's not an excuse.
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  • He's going to hate you no matter what you do.
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  • He's never going to help you. and i happen to agree with him.
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  • I think the rabbi in this case, 100% right.
  • 00:11:53.976 --> 00:11:55.945
  • Well, john, we've got a lot more to talk about.
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  • Can you stay for another segment?
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  • Sure, ken, we'd love to.
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  • And i'll see it.
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  • We'll be back in a moment.
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  • We'll be back in a moment.
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  • New york is not the first american city
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  • To embrace socialism,
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  • But it does serve
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  • As a noticeable test case for other cities in cuba.
  • 00:12:29.281 --> 00:12:32.651
  • They have no choice.
  • 00:12:32.651 --> 00:12:33.886
  • But people here can vote and can pick up and live elsewhere.
  • 00:12:33.886 --> 00:12:37.022
  • What are the cubans
  • 00:12:37.022 --> 00:12:38.057
  • Who escaped to florida saying about the socialism
  • 00:12:38.057 --> 00:12:40.192
  • That's growing in our big cities?
  • 00:12:40.192 --> 00:12:43.295
  • Well, you know, down here, and it's so evident
  • 00:12:43.295 --> 00:12:45.698
  • When you, speak to, cubans.
  • 00:12:45.698 --> 00:12:48.000
  • I have many cuban friends where i lived in miami for 12 years.
  • 00:12:48.000 --> 00:12:51.003
  • And, people i worked with, just close friends
  • 00:12:51.003 --> 00:12:53.539
  • And venezuelans, these people, they lived through communism.
  • 00:12:53.539 --> 00:12:57.877
  • They saw how dystopian all of these concepts are,
  • 00:12:57.877 --> 00:13:02.314
  • That mamdani and others like him
  • 00:13:02.314 --> 00:13:03.716
  • Are trying to pitch his utopian,
  • 00:13:03.716 --> 00:13:05.618
  • And they are among the most conservative
  • 00:13:05.618 --> 00:13:08.153
  • People i've ever met.
  • 00:13:08.153 --> 00:13:09.421
  • Bro. law enforcement pro military, pro ice.
  • 00:13:09.421 --> 00:13:12.825
  • And so they're looking at this
  • 00:13:12.825 --> 00:13:14.460
  • With disbelief because, again, they lived through this, right?
  • 00:13:14.460 --> 00:13:17.496
  • Some 50, 60 years ago in cuba, some very recently in venezuela.
  • 00:13:17.496 --> 00:13:22.468
  • And they're they're just incredulous.
  • 00:13:22.468 --> 00:13:25.004
  • I mean, they're just shocked
  • 00:13:25.004 --> 00:13:26.772
  • As to how american citizens who really, in their eyes, don't
  • 00:13:26.772 --> 00:13:30.142
  • Know how good they truly have it in the global sense,
  • 00:13:30.142 --> 00:13:33.612
  • Will sit there and put a guy like this into power
  • 00:13:33.612 --> 00:13:36.782
  • Who wants to turn the greatest nation the world has ever known
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  • Into these third world countries where there's oppressive
  • 00:13:40.386 --> 00:13:43.956
  • Communist, dictatorial rule.
  • 00:13:43.956 --> 00:13:45.524
  • So, you know, these are pragmatic people
  • 00:13:45.524 --> 00:13:47.927
  • And they're shaking their heads in disbelief.
  • 00:13:47.927 --> 00:13:49.995
  • It's that simple.
  • 00:13:49.995 --> 00:13:51.864
  • Well, mamdani has
  • 00:13:52.298 --> 00:13:53.265
  • Made what's called
  • 00:13:53.265 --> 00:13:54.366
  • Gender affirming care a big part of his administration.
  • 00:13:54.366 --> 00:13:57.269
  • He says that new york city
  • 00:13:57.269 --> 00:13:58.370
  • Is a sanctuary city, not just for immigrants,
  • 00:13:58.370 --> 00:14:00.906
  • But for trans people, too.
  • 00:14:00.906 --> 00:14:03.175
  • But now he's up against the
  • 00:14:03.175 --> 00:14:04.343
  • American medical association, which is publicly agreed
  • 00:14:04.343 --> 00:14:07.246
  • With the american society of plastic surgeons,
  • 00:14:07.246 --> 00:14:10.015
  • That any such surgery
  • 00:14:10.015 --> 00:14:11.116
  • Should never happen, at least until 19 years of age.
  • 00:14:11.116 --> 00:14:15.187
  • Is there been any comment from mamdani?
  • 00:14:15.187 --> 00:14:18.791
  • You know, i think i think it's preposterous, right?
  • 00:14:18.791 --> 00:14:21.327
  • I mean, he's he's running with, you know, 70
  • 00:14:21.327 --> 00:14:23.896
  • Year old talking points.
  • 00:14:23.896 --> 00:14:24.964
  • Even the democratic party in masks,
  • 00:14:24.964 --> 00:14:26.999
  • The smart ones anyway, right.
  • 00:14:26.999 --> 00:14:28.300
  • Realize that they've got to look
  • 00:14:28.300 --> 00:14:29.501
  • A little bit more moderate because they lost
  • 00:14:29.501 --> 00:14:31.804
  • So many independents and nonparty affiliated.
  • 00:14:31.804 --> 00:14:34.406
  • And then you know this, right?
  • 00:14:34.406 --> 00:14:35.441
  • You and i have been doing this for quite a while.
  • 00:14:35.441 --> 00:14:37.176
  • Those are really the people who decide elections today.
  • 00:14:37.176 --> 00:14:39.278
  • You know, republicans vote or and democrats vote deep.
  • 00:14:39.278 --> 00:14:41.880
  • So if you can't swing those moderates, those independents,
  • 00:14:41.880 --> 00:14:44.850
  • Those non party affiliated
  • 00:14:44.850 --> 00:14:46.352
  • Who your way of thinking you're doomed.
  • 00:14:46.352 --> 00:14:47.953
  • And i know the democratic party i speak the democrats.
  • 00:14:47.953 --> 00:14:50.689
  • I work quite a bit in the political space in florida.
  • 00:14:50.689 --> 00:14:53.092
  • They look at guys like mamdani and shake their heads
  • 00:14:53.092 --> 00:14:55.494
  • Knowing that he's going to be the death of their brand. right?
  • 00:14:55.494 --> 00:14:58.464
  • A guy like mamdani
  • 00:14:58.464 --> 00:14:59.798
  • Is destroying any gains democrats might have made
  • 00:14:59.798 --> 00:15:02.134
  • To come back to the center.
  • 00:15:02.134 --> 00:15:03.435
  • And so, you know, they're looking at it as, please stop.
  • 00:15:03.435 --> 00:15:06.305
  • Just stop saying it's not.
  • 00:15:06.305 --> 00:15:07.373
  • But i think he's going to have real problems
  • 00:15:07.373 --> 00:15:09.775
  • Because the mood of america, i mean, new york
  • 00:15:09.775 --> 00:15:11.810
  • City is now becoming this is island of radicalism.
  • 00:15:11.810 --> 00:15:15.147
  • The mood of america has shifted away from that.
  • 00:15:15.147 --> 00:15:17.282
  • People don't want to use pronouns anymore.
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  • The di board members
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  • And di officers at most major corporations,
  • 00:15:21.086 --> 00:15:23.255
  • Especially the publicly traded ones, are going away.
  • 00:15:23.255 --> 00:15:25.357
  • Those positions are being, you know, faded out
  • 00:15:25.357 --> 00:15:27.726
  • Because the old saying, we saw this on twitter
  • 00:15:27.726 --> 00:15:29.728
  • So much go woke, go broke, all these corporate boycotts
  • 00:15:29.728 --> 00:15:32.765
  • Against these radical left companies.
  • 00:15:32.765 --> 00:15:34.466
  • And so mamdani is running, you know, a 78 year old playbook.
  • 00:15:34.466 --> 00:15:38.771
  • But i in a way, i hope he keeps doing it
  • 00:15:38.771 --> 00:15:40.873
  • Because he's illustrating exactly what guys like,
  • 00:15:40.873 --> 00:15:45.077
  • You guys like me,
  • 00:15:45.077 --> 00:15:46.211
  • And more significantly, guys like president trump, mayor
  • 00:15:46.211 --> 00:15:49.181
  • Ron desantis here in
  • 00:15:49.181 --> 00:15:50.149
  • Florida have been warning about
  • 00:15:50.149 --> 00:15:51.617
  • This is the face of much of the democratic party,
  • 00:15:51.617 --> 00:15:54.219
  • And mamdani is bringing it to life.
  • 00:15:54.219 --> 00:15:55.921
  • People are saying, wow, they're not just
  • 00:15:55.921 --> 00:15:58.057
  • These crazy right wingers spewing this nonsense.
  • 00:15:58.057 --> 00:16:00.893
  • There really are people this radical.
  • 00:16:00.893 --> 00:16:03.128
  • Maybe it's time to wake up.
  • 00:16:03.128 --> 00:16:04.196
  • So i'd say, let him go for a little bit longer.
  • 00:16:04.196 --> 00:16:06.532
  • It'll be good for our side
  • 00:16:06.532 --> 00:16:08.300
  • On. the mayor is a good talker,
  • 00:16:08.934 --> 00:16:10.803
  • And now he's practicing how to master the verbal flip flop.
  • 00:16:10.803 --> 00:16:14.740
  • It's already a pattern for him.
  • 00:16:14.740 --> 00:16:16.575
  • When he was running, he said that he was going
  • 00:16:16.575 --> 00:16:18.177
  • To turn control of the public schools to parents
  • 00:16:18.177 --> 00:16:20.746
  • Rather than the mayor's office.
  • 00:16:20.746 --> 00:16:22.448
  • But just before he was sworn in, he flipped
  • 00:16:22.448 --> 00:16:24.383
  • And he asked the legislature to extend his unilateral control.
  • 00:16:24.383 --> 00:16:28.387
  • What do you think's next in his flip flop circus?
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  • Whatever.
  • 00:16:31.790 --> 00:16:32.758
  • Randi weingarten and the united federation
  • 00:16:32.758 --> 00:16:34.860
  • Of teachers
  • 00:16:34.860 --> 00:16:35.861
  • And american federation teachers tell him to do,
  • 00:16:35.861 --> 00:16:37.596
  • Because they own them, because they were the ones
  • 00:16:37.596 --> 00:16:39.932
  • Who deployed those ground troops
  • 00:16:39.932 --> 00:16:41.533
  • That i was talking about earlier in the show here.
  • 00:16:41.533 --> 00:16:44.069
  • They're the ones
  • 00:16:44.069 --> 00:16:44.937
  • Who give him those ballot harvesters,
  • 00:16:44.937 --> 00:16:46.472
  • And they're the ones driving people to the polls
  • 00:16:46.472 --> 00:16:48.907
  • And getting out there and finding votes where they
  • 00:16:48.907 --> 00:16:52.144
  • Maybe shouldn't exist, you know, infer what you will from that.
  • 00:16:52.144 --> 00:16:54.913
  • So i think whatever the teachers unions
  • 00:16:54.913 --> 00:16:56.849
  • Dictate to him that they want, he's going to do it.
  • 00:16:56.849 --> 00:16:58.817
  • And it's not going to be good for parents and students,
  • 00:16:58.817 --> 00:17:00.886
  • You know. well, one last quick question.
  • 00:17:00.886 --> 00:17:03.655
  • I want to get your reaction
  • 00:17:03.655 --> 00:17:04.823
  • To his embroidered snow shoveling jacket.
  • 00:17:04.823 --> 00:17:07.493
  • Well, people were literally dying out
  • 00:17:07.493 --> 00:17:09.261
  • In the zero degree city temperatures.
  • 00:17:09.261 --> 00:17:11.296
  • He went out shopping for a new winter jacket,
  • 00:17:11.296 --> 00:17:13.298
  • And then he took the time to drive to another borough
  • 00:17:13.298 --> 00:17:15.734
  • To have some special embroidery added for the cameras.
  • 00:17:15.734 --> 00:17:19.238
  • Was that for the people magazine and vogue editors to capture
  • 00:17:19.238 --> 00:17:23.342
  • And mean?
  • 00:17:23.642 --> 00:17:24.009
  • Talk about
  • 00:17:24.009 --> 00:17:24.977
  • The complete disconnect from your base, right?
  • 00:17:24.977 --> 00:17:27.579
  • I mean, arguably
  • 00:17:27.579 --> 00:17:28.947
  • Some of the lowest income earners, the least educated
  • 00:17:28.947 --> 00:17:32.151
  • People in new york were among his biggest voting blocs.
  • 00:17:32.151 --> 00:17:36.221
  • And how often does
  • 00:17:36.221 --> 00:17:37.723
  • Somebody have to be when these people are freezing?
  • 00:17:37.723 --> 00:17:39.925
  • Maybe some of them can't pay their heating bills.
  • 00:17:39.925 --> 00:17:41.927
  • He's out there spending money on fashion excess,
  • 00:17:41.927 --> 00:17:44.730
  • But look kind of ridiculous anyway.
  • 00:17:44.730 --> 00:17:46.064
  • But i mean, to be out there, to be that tone deaf
  • 00:17:46.064 --> 00:17:48.367
  • With your base constituency as to what they need,
  • 00:17:48.367 --> 00:17:50.636
  • I think is a really good indicator of how his mayoralty
  • 00:17:50.636 --> 00:17:54.106
  • Is going to go for the next several years.
  • 00:17:54.106 --> 00:17:56.375
  • Well, john cardillo, thank you for your time today.
  • 00:17:56.375 --> 00:17:59.578
  • Thank you very much, alan. great to see you.
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  • I hope you come up to nashville someday.
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  • You can join us on set.
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  • I'd love to. you absolutely want to play on that.
  • 00:18:04.183 --> 00:18:06.151
  • Thank you. we'll look forward to it.
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  • I'll be right back with your emails. stay tuned.
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  • Thank you for taking the time
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  • To share your thoughts and your opinions.
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  • We always look forward to your emails.
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  • Jeffrey in columbia, tennessee, wrote, i'm interested in
  • 00:18:27.810 --> 00:18:30.746
  • How america is going to deal
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  • With the various religions which have integrated yet
  • 00:18:32.048 --> 00:18:34.717
  • Not assimilated, such as those which have come to overburden
  • 00:18:34.717 --> 00:18:37.453
  • Our social benefits and use sharia law.
  • 00:18:37.453 --> 00:18:41.057
  • I understand they're having multiple women
  • 00:18:41.057 --> 00:18:42.825
  • Who are bearing children by one man,
  • 00:18:42.825 --> 00:18:44.327
  • And then start receiving welfare and other benefits,
  • 00:18:44.327 --> 00:18:46.829
  • And are increasing in population
  • 00:18:46.829 --> 00:18:48.364
  • In various locations throughout our country.
  • 00:18:48.364 --> 00:18:52.535
  • Well, i don't know about the multiple women and the children.
  • 00:18:52.535 --> 00:18:54.737
  • I do believe that sharia law is incompatible
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  • With our constitution.
  • 00:18:58.474 --> 00:19:00.476
  • It demands supremacy, and we can't allow sharia law
  • 00:19:00.476 --> 00:19:04.914
  • To become the supreme law
  • 00:19:04.914 --> 00:19:06.949
  • In a community, a city, a state, or our nation,
  • 00:19:06.949 --> 00:19:10.052
  • Or we'll forfeit our liberties and freedoms
  • 00:19:10.052 --> 00:19:11.921
  • That are guaranteed to us under our constitution.
  • 00:19:11.921 --> 00:19:14.557
  • We got to pay attention.
  • 00:19:14.557 --> 00:19:16.525
  • Judy pea from tennessee, said in response
  • 00:19:16.525 --> 00:19:20.730
  • To your response about the spirit of antichrist
  • 00:19:20.730 --> 00:19:23.366
  • Being a group or a movement versus a person.
  • 00:19:23.366 --> 00:19:26.769
  • Can you clarify?
  • 00:19:26.769 --> 00:19:28.804
  • Well, maybe a little bit, judy.
  • 00:19:28.804 --> 00:19:30.673
  • In the new testament,
  • 00:19:30.673 --> 00:19:31.607
  • It talks
  • 00:19:31.607 --> 00:19:32.808
  • About the spirit of antichrist that's present in the world.
  • 00:19:32.808 --> 00:19:35.578
  • It talks about many
  • 00:19:35.578 --> 00:19:36.779
  • Antichrist that have gone out into the world,
  • 00:19:36.779 --> 00:19:39.915
  • And then it talks about the antichrist,
  • 00:19:39.915 --> 00:19:42.418
  • That leader that will eventually step
  • 00:19:42.418 --> 00:19:44.120
  • Onto the stage of human history
  • 00:19:44.120 --> 00:19:45.321
  • That we read about in the book of revelation.
  • 00:19:45.321 --> 00:19:47.556
  • So there's a spirit that represents the attitude,
  • 00:19:47.556 --> 00:19:50.326
  • The expression of antichrist.
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  • Antichrist carries with it two meanings.
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  • It means against the christ, the messiah, or in place of
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  • We saw a picture of that
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  • In the new testament when satan tempted jesus
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  • And tried to strike a bargain where jesus would worship him.
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  • That is the spirit of antichrist.
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  • It wants the worship,
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  • The praise, and the glory that's do the true christ.
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  • And then across human history,
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  • We see multiple people that seem to embody
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  • The spirit of antichrist.
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  • Maybe the most obvious would have been hitler,
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  • But there are many other across human history.
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  • At the end of the age, the most beastly
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  • Leader of the world has ever known will be the antichrist.
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  • But that spirit, it should work in the earth today.
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  • It pays to be aware,
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  • Know our bibles, and have a bit of discernment.
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  • Well, i'm alan jackson.
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  • Thanks for spending a few minutes of your day with us.
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  • God bless you.
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