Ben Shapiro’s Revenge of Reality skewers Biden’s VP search as a choice between "communists and liars," then pivots to the Wall Street Journal’s alleged Marxist framing of Portland protests, praising The Man in the Arena for exposing Roger Ailes’ Hollywood smear campaign. Chicago’s Lori Lightfoot denies riot looting while police chiefs blame false narratives, exposing leftist policies’ collapse under "reality’s backlash." Cuomo’s COVID nursing home deaths (6,600+) and NY’s exodus of wealthy taxpayers highlight socialism’s inefficiency, with Bernie Sanders’ Scandinavian myth debunked. Cardi B’s WAP becomes a cultural battleground—small gestures, the show argues, shape societal rot before systemic failure. Money, not ideology, measures truth. [Automatically generated summary]
Presumptive former Democrat President Joe Biden is laughing off the idea that he needs to take a cognitive test to see if that stuff dribbling out of the side of his mouth could be his brains.
Speaking to an imaginary interviewer who had him trapped in a corner of his basement, Biden said, quote, come on, man, I can pass a cognitive test as easily as Blueguin of Falderoon.
Or, you know, that thing, whatever it is that you do whenever you can do something really easily, like passing whatever it is we were just talking about.
But maybe I shouldn't have said that.
I'll have to ask my wife, now why don't you just disappear back into my mind and stop asking me all these questions, unquote.
The issue arose after Biden made yet another racial gaffe, this time telling a reporter for NPR that black people all think the same way.
Later, Biden issued a correction saying, quote, come on, man.
When I said black people all think the same way, I didn't mean they all think the same way.
I just meant it was hard for me to tell which one of them was speaking because they all look so much alike.
Except the ones who won't vote for me because they ain't black.
And that tricky way they change color makes me suspect they're up to something.
Or maybe that's the Jews.
I can't remember because they look pretty similar too.
But the point is, someone is definitely conspiring against me.
And when I'm president, believe you me, I'm going to get on my elephant and track them down.
Or maybe that's not an elephant.
I'm a little confused because I was taking one of those cognitive tests and boy, oh boy, it was harder than Blueguina Falderone, unquote.
Meanwhile, Biden continues his search for a vice president and has reportedly narrowed the choices down to the communist, the nasty communist, and the liar.
He promises to choose quickly so people know who they're actually voting for.
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But that's good news because if mostly peaceful means violent, then you mostly died means you're living the good life.
Yesterday, I did something I almost never do, which is I wrote a letter to the editor.
I wrote to the Wall Street Journal, which is the last truly major national newspaper in the country since the New York Times, a former newspaper, became a former newspaper.
The journal's op-ed page skews right, but their news coverage has traditionally been center-left, pretty much.
Now, though, as the young brainwashed woke crowd comes in as staff, the rot of leftism is beginning to spread in their coverage.
We know it's there because two years ago, then-editor-in-chief Gerard Baker lectured his reporterial staff, telling them to avoid commentary dressed up as news reporting.
And last month, nearly 300 news side workers sent an angry letter demanding that op-eds stop disagreeing with settled leftist doctrines.
For now, the journal managed to stave off the attack and save what is genuinely an excellent op-ed page.
But on Monday, in a story called Portland Protests Turned Into Riot, police say, this was the second paragraph.
And this is kind of typical for the journal nowadays.
Nightly protests for racial justice have rocked the city of Portland for over two months since the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, with tensions flaring after President Trump sent in federal agents last month.
Every word of this paragraph stinks of leftist rot.
Are the Portland demonstrations protests for racial justice?
What is racial justice?
Is it even a thing?
Or is it just a phrase like racial profiling or social justice?
It's a bunch of words that sound important put together to mean whatever Marxists think will best spread the poison of Marxism.
Did tensions actually flare after the feds went in?
And if so, how come the rioting got worse after the feds left?
And has it been thoroughly determined that Floyd was killed by the police?
Have we had a trial and I missed it?
Why shouldn't the sentence just have read, nightly demonstrations have rocked the city since the death of George Floyd in police custody?
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As always, it's not that they're lying, it's that they don't know they're lying because their entire language is packed with lies.
This may seem a petty complaint, and I know they won't run my letter, but it's really everything.
It's everything.
I've spent my life writing and rewriting sentences to find the exact words that will convey what I want to say.
It's not too much to ask journalists to use simple English to describe facts without the built-in editorializing of the language they learned in leftist colleges.
Only the truth will defeat the Marxist movement that is set on ending the American ideal of individual liberty.
And you can't tell the truth if you don't know the words.
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You know, speaking of Gerard Baker, who's no longer the editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, he's now editor-at-large and writes a very, very good column called Free Expression.
Fox News Revisited00:07:25
He was talking about this thing about the truth talking about the Chinese flu.
And this has been one of the hardest things for me to cover because the numbers change.
No one is reliable.
No scientist is reliable.
They say different things.
The governors obviously have put out politicized lockdown orders bent on destroying religion, but letting people protest and riot.
It is really hard to know the truth.
And Gerard Baker goes after them saying there are large representations of this massive and complex story in the press that we should mark as simply unforgivable.
The notion implicit or at times explicit in so much of the reporting that the U.S. handling of the pandemic has been a globally unique failure.
This is quickly ascribed to the ignorance and malevolence of the Clorox-injecting quack cure peddling bozo in the White House.
The death toll in the U.S. stands at around 500 per million people.
That is significantly higher than in Germany or Japan, for example, but still some way below the UK, Italy, Spain, and several other European countries.
And, you know, by the way, you know, each country is different.
America has more black people.
Black people are dying more from the flu because they have more comorbidities.
There's also states on the East Coast that have more deaths than entire countries.
What if you lopped New York off?
Then our death rates would change.
But he goes on to say, even less forgivable is the naked, politically motivated selective use and manipulation of data to damage Republicans and favor Democrats.
In fact, it's literally opposite the case that Democrat states have done better than Republicans.
It's the other way around.
It's worth noting that of the 10 states and the District of Columbia with the highest death rates, eight have Democratic governments.
This is what we're going to talk about today.
We're going to talk about the revenge of reality.
We're going to talk about the fact that they have to, when you start lying, you have to lie more and more and more because reality will speak louder and louder and louder.
And that is what is happening to the left and that is what is happening to the press.
And that is why they become utterly useless when they're not destructive.
But first, I want to talk about a friend of mine who has made what I think, I mean, talk about the revenge of reality.
I think this is one of the most important documentaries, left-wing documentaries, to come along in a long time.
Now, the Me Too movement, which was very important right up until the minute Joe Biden was accused of digitally raping a coworker, and then it didn't matter.
It claimed a lot of careers, claimed Harvey Weinstein, and there's been no movie about that.
Lockhart Steele, the Vox, no movie about that.
Hamilton Fish, who ran the leftist New Republic, no movie about that.
But Roger Ailes, two major films.
Here's a couple of clips.
Here's one from Bombshell.
This is clip 11.
This was the theater film.
Have to adopt the mentality of an Irish street comp.
The world is a bad place.
People are lazy morons.
Minorities are criminals.
Sex is sick but interesting.
Ask yourself what would scare my grandmother or piss off my grandfather.
And that's a Fox story.
So that's Fox News as depicted in the theatrical release Bombshell.
Here's the HBO version of the Roger Ailes story.
Two stories about Roger Ailes, who was accused but never convicted, never proved to be a sexual harasser.
This is the loudest voice from HBO Cut 12.
Television is the most powerful force in the world.
We're going to give them a vision of the world.
The way it really is.
And the way they want it to be.
If we can do that, then they will never change the channel.
People don't want to be informed.
They want to feel informed.
I said HBO, that's Showtime, the loudest voice.
That's the version of Roger Ailes that Hollywood rushed, rushed to put in front of you.
Here is the version in the Man in the Arena, which is now available on Amazon Prime and other places.
Here is a little trailer of this.
And this is a real, this is the real Roger Ailes documentary footage with recorded interviews, Cut 13.
I tend to think of it as something I've done, which my critics would not have done.
If I were to pick the most consequential conservative of the modern era, it would be Roger Ailes.
And so he engineers presidencies, and then he engineers the most successful news network.
What Roger Ailes did was create somewhat of a miracle.
And it's called Fox News.
He was one of the most creative people anywhere in America in the news business.
I love to sort of be the agitator.
Roger, you are, face it, I mean, to Democrats, you're a good villain.
I'm a 28-year-old former ditch digger from Ohio, and they're asking me to produce television for a presidential campaign.
When Roger Ailes is on your team, you win.
Michael Barnes is the writer and director of The Man in the Arena, which is, like I said, it is a new level of documentary for conservative filmmaking.
One of my favorite stories about him is I bumped into him during the last election, 2016.
I remember he was in a bar.
He was playing with a straw.
I don't know why that stuck in my head.
And I said, boy, it really looks bad.
It looks like Hillary Clinton's going to be the next president.
And he said, no, it's Trump.
He's won.
And he was the only person I knew who was saying that.
And he got it exactly right.
And he explained it to me why.
And it was all very logical.
The guy sees the truth, obviously.
He sees the truth very clearly.
And now he has made a documentary that I think is a new level of documentary from right-wingers.
We are not doing very well in narrative content, but we're doing very well with a lot of documentaries.
But this one is a new level of artistic achievement as far as I'm concerned.
Michael, it's good to have you on.
Thanks for coming on.
Thanks, Andrew.
Good to see you.
And I don't remember that straw story.
I remember the beer and the pizza.
I don't remember the straw, but I do not know why that stuck in my mind, but you were just kind of looking off into space, playing with a rapper from a straw.
And you were the only person, the first person who said to me, the first person who could explain himself, who said to me that Trump was going to win.
So I'm going to ask you at the end of this interview who's going to win the next election.
So get your prediction ready.
Fair enough.
Why did you take this on?
This was a hard project.
Why did you take this on?
You know, good question.
I knew Roger tangentially and, you know, talked to him a bit after the downfall.
And as I saw what was lining up in Hollywood of these films that you just highlighted that were coming out, it was like a football game where one team wasn't allowed to show up.
We know what that score is going to be.
It's going to be 200 to zero.
And you could just see a 200 to zero game coming because one team wasn't going to be there.
It's like a prosecutor without a defense, a defense without a prosecutor.
So that caused me to look into it a little bit further.
And then I realized what an extraordinary life and influence he had been.
But that was what set the hook initially was knowing what was coming and then doing a little research and realizing that, boy, if you put two teams on the field, it's going to be a far different ballgame.
Ailes, I mean, when I watched this documentary, I have to say, I did not know that Ailes was involved in so many important hinge moments in politics.
I mean, he really, it was not just creating Fox News.
It was his whole career.
You know, it's a terrible analogy to make.
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So of course, I'll step right in it.
It's almost like a Forrest Gump film where you've got this apheliac guy who happened to have been brilliant and just a baller, as my guys say in the film, who just was again and again and again, decade after decade, in the rooms as a principal, as a causal agent.
And most people don't know that.
They only know that he started Fox News.
He was in his mid-50s when he did that.
Yeah, I mean, it was like the fact that he helped George W. Bush win a debate that when George W. Bush got rid of him, he lost the election.
It was just again and again, he would pop up, like you said, like Forrest Gump at these major, major moments.
It's a really good story.
How hard was it to get this made?
Was it tough?
It was tough because I thought it would be a small haystack and I'd find some needles.
And as I began investigating, I realized the scope of his life and his story.
You know, I think we all would say, gosh, it should be a mini-series.
You know, Showtime agrees with me.
So that was the tough part is deciding what to put in.
There are a bunch of constituencies because how you tell the Roger Ail story and what context you tell it in, some people aren't going to be happy with you.
And other people want this thing, this aspect accentuated.
Other people want this played down.
That was the hard part was the timing, putting it in theatrical length and satisfying the very different groups that I was hoping would watch the film.
You know, the big thing, people who don't work in Hollywood don't know this, but it's easier to get a picture made than it is to get it distributed.
How did you get it out and how do people find it?
Yeah.
The best way is go to maninthearena.com and we have the digital platforms there.
It's on, you know, we released it on Amazon to start.
I think iTunes is joining this week and the various platforms.
But it's so this is digitally released.
Maninthearena.com is where you get it.
You can one-click punch right through it.
That's the best way.
It's interesting.
So you actually set up a website where people, I mean, is this the way we're going to break through?
Do you think?
Is this going to be a new way of getting through Hollywood without having to go through distributors, theaters, and the rest?
Andrew, I'll make the big reveal on your show, and that is about six months to a year ago, the filters that existed on digital platforms went away.
You can upload your family videos today and sell them on Amazon as a movie, and no one's going to block you so long as you've QC'd.
Once that word gets out to fair and balanced filmmakers that you no longer need to seek permission of a gatekeeper to be on digital platforms, no more excuses.
Let's make films and have, we have an audience, but now you get to compete head to head, granted, with billion-dollar conglomerates, but at least you get to be on the field.
And that was not the case a year ago.
That is big news.
That is real.
I did not know that.
And that is really, really interesting.
That could truly change the game until they find the loophole and try to close it up.
All right.
I got a minute left.
Who's going to win the election?
Andrew, it's the same conversation you and I had in the summer of 2016.
It's too close to call, but realize we are at peak Biden right now.
The campaign of the president is now going to turn and start focusing on Biden the same way Trump focused on Hillary in the summer.
It's too close to call, but that's what I'll say.
Okay.
Okay.
But do you think this is Biden's peak moment?
There's not a single other Biden vote to be harvested.
If this is Biden at his peak, I think we're the guy who's in big trouble.
Michael Barnes, the writer and director of The Man in the Arena about Roger Ailes, please go on and watch it.
It is genuinely, I'm not kidding it, is genuinely a new level of conservative filmmaking.
It's great talking to you, Michael.
I hope to get to see you soon.
Thanks.
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You know, if we're talking about reality versus these lies, these lies, the lies go around the world.
I think it was Mark Duane said they go around the world before the truth gets its pants on.
But now that is an actual conspiracy.
It is a conspiracy to keep reality from getting into your mind.
But reality keeps speaking, so you have to keep silencing reality.
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You have to get more and more oppressive.
And that's where the left always goes down.
It always goes down that path.
Because their systems don't work, because their systems are immoral, because their systems make people miserable.
They have to keep telling you that what's happening isn't what's happening.
And now that is coming to pass in both Seattle, in Seattle, in Portland, in Chicago.
In Seattle, the police chief Carmen Best is resigning after they defunded the police and threatened her with a large salary cut.
This is a, you know, Seattle is a mostly white city.
I think it's 70 to 75 percent white.
This is a black female leader who was supported by the rank and file.
She's walking out.
In Chicago, you know, remember when the riots and lootings happened in Minneapolis after the death of George Floyd?
I always have to pause before I say George Floyd because I think of the Prime Minister Lloyd George.
But after the death of George Floyd, there was the riots and looting in Minneapolis.
And Donald Trump said, this is looting.
And when the looting starts, the shooting starts.
This is the mayor of Chicago, Laurie Lightfoot's reaction to what Donald Trump said.
This is Cut 18.
His goal is to polarize, to destabilize local government and inflame racist urges.
And we can absolutely not let him prevail.
And I will code what I really want to say to Donald Trump.
It's two words.
It begins with F and it ends with you.
Now, that's a tough code, but people who voted for Laurie Lightfoot might just be able to figure that one out.
So this is what she said yesterday after her city, the luxurious shopping district of her city, was utterly trashed by violent looters after an armed gunman was shot in a running gun battle with the police.
It was just lucky it wasn't the police who got shot.
It was the bad guy.
And that started the rioting and the looting.
This is cut five.
These individuals' engagement can only be described as brazen and extensive criminal looting and destruction.
And to be clear, this had nothing to do with legitimate protected First Amendment expression.
What occurred in our downtown and surrounding communities was abject criminal behavior, pure and simple.
And there cannot be any excuse for it.
Period.
This is not legitimate First Amendment protected speech.
These were not poor people engaged in petty theft to feed themselves and their families.
This was straight up felony, criminal conduct.
So those teeth in your ass, Madam Mayor, are the teeth of reality biting you.
I mean, what's the difference between what happened in Minneapolis and what happened in Chicago?
There is nothing.
You know, here's what a Black Lives Matter leader said about the looting.
This is Arielle Atkins, a BLM organizer, according to NBC Chicago, said, I don't care if someone decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy's or a Nike store because that makes sure that person eats.
This is reparations.
Anything they want to take, they can take it because these businesses have insurance.
So in other words, the same BLM people who were rioting in Minneapolis when Trump called them rioters are the same people rioting in your city when you call them rioters.
It's true.
It is true that the death of George Floyd looks much worse than obviously the death of an armed gunman.
And we don't know exactly what happened yet.
A new video has come out that throws some doubt on it.
It still looks to me like reckless policing and cruel policing.
But still, just because something like that happens, just because an injustice happens, doesn't give people the right to loot and riot and terrorize the rest of the citizenry, who after all had nothing to do with it.
It had nothing to do with it.
And the thing is, the aldermans in Chicago, they have this system where they have wards and they have aldermens in each ward.
They know what's going on.
They've been trying to complain to Lightfoot forever.
Here's Anthony Beale of the 9th Ward.
The city is in total unrest.
In my opinion, I think the mayor has lost the confidence and the control of this city.
You know, she's listening to the wrong people, and the wrong people are the ones that's really leading this unrest in the city of Chicago.
You know, the aldermen are the ones that are elected by their constituency, and there's a total disregard of listening to the aldermen who know the pulse of this city, know the pulse of their ward.
So this is the same mayor, by the way.
Remember when she was told by Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez that he was worried that local, you can't rely on local church congregations to keep the peace between rioters and the police.
And she said, you're full of S, and they started cursing at one another.
She has not been listening.
She has not been listening to her aldermen, who are actually the people running the sections of the city.
This woman is with Bill de Blasio, two of the worst mayors in the galaxy.
There are planets, seriously, there are planets watching us from a distance going, I don't know, I've never seen a mayor that bad.
They really, these are terrible, terrible mayors.
And mayors, you know, mayors have a responsibility.
They're supposed to fill up the potholes.
They're supposed to make sure the subways run.
They're supposed to make sure the garbage is picked up.
This is what they're supposed to do.
If you are not controlling the rioters in your town, you are a bad mayor.
And so the thing is in Portland, where they were blaming federal agents for the tear gassing going on, now they have riots and now things are being set on fire.
Buildings are being set on fire with people inside, which is just attempted murder.
And now, here's the thing.
Classic reactions.
These are the things I love.
One of the reasons I love talking about politics is because the absurd makes me laugh.
This is one of the things that is probably one of my ugliest characters.
This is a character trait I'm going to have to explain to God at the last day.
I'm going to have to say, yes, I was laughing at that abject corruption that was destroying the country.
Something about it just cracks me up.
What I love is when confronted with reality, it really is like the mentally ill.
The mentally ill are just like this.
When they're confronted with reality, the villain becomes the person confronting them with reality, not the fact that they were wrong.
You know, if you tell people, no, Martians are not speaking to you through your teeth, it's like, you know, you just don't understand what the reality is.
So here is Lori Lightfoot now being asked if maybe, perhaps, her lenient attitude toward violence before has led to an escalation in the rioting.
This is Cut 16.
It almost sounds as though you're saying this is the reason we have it is because the courts and the prosecutors were not doing their job, that they were going too easy on the looters from the last time around.
Don't take it from me.
Drink, let's be clear.
Don't bait us, okay?
No, do not bait us.
Do not bait us.
This is a serious situation.
People are concerned about their safety.
Don't bait us.
Don't bait us.
You know, remember when Donald Trump would say to these guys, you're fake news.
This is not the news.
The things you're saying to me aren't happening when he was right.
And they said, oh, this is a terrible threat to the First Amendment.
It's a threat to the First Amendment.
This is not like an unserious thing like telling people they can't go to church, but telling other people they can riot because you like what the rioters are saying, but you don't like the person that the people in church are praying to.
That's, you know, that's not a threat to the First Amendment.
But telling fake news people like Brian Stelter and Jim, look at me, I'm Jim Maca over at CNN, telling them that they're fake news when they're fake news, that's a threat to the First Amendment.
I love that.
Don't bait me by asking me a hard question.
Just like Nancy Pelosi said the other day to Judy Woodruff, a liberal reporter.
If you ask me a tough question, you're basically playing for the other team.
You're playing for the other team.
So as reality bites back, as reality takes its revenge, as reality speaks up, which it always does, the gods of the copybook heading always come back with fire and fury and slaughter.
When that happens, they just have nothing to say anymore except shut up and shut up.
And you remember all of this.
You know, the guy in Chicago, the police chief in Chicago, James Craig, points out the fact that so many of these things, so many of these riots, and this has been true since the 60s, start with a lie.
They start with a lie about the police killing in the first place.
This is cut 17.
One of the things that we saw here in Detroit, almost eerily similar to what happened last night in Chicago, a false narrative was perpetrated by these criminals very quickly and indicated that an unarmed team was shot and then called for people to come downtown to loot.
The one similarity is that the criminals try to do the same thing here in Detroit.
About three weeks ago, when our officers were fired upon and we ended up using deadly force, they put out a false narrative that we shot an undermed African-American man seated on his porch.
Totally false.
So I said that was Chicago.
That's Detroit.
He was talking about Detroit.
But this is the thing.
You know, the same thing has been true of almost all of these killings is we don't get the full information.
And sometimes they're a bad killing, but it's very rare.
It's very, very, very rare that it's just some racist guy going, I'm going to kill you because you're black.
It's always some kind of discrepancy.
I mean, even with George Floyd, the guy was full of drugs.
He was resisting arrest.
We don't know the full story yet, and we won't until the trial.
But it's always like this.
You never have the right to riot.
Never do you have the right to riot and loot unless you're starting a revolution.
In that case, the administration has the right to fight back.
All right.
Let us talk a little bit more.
Talking about reality, let's talk about rockauto.com.
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And you also get to say rockauto.com and you get to say it at home so your wife can hear you and it sounds really cool.
Rockauto.com always offers the lowest prices possible rather than changing prices based on what the market will bear.
They have lots and lots of choices.
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I need a Delta FG.
I paid Honda Odyssey for a 2005-2010 Honda Odyssey and it costs $350 at a big chainsaw.
You can go on your computer and just say, I have no idea what I'm talking about, but give me that thing that I need at rockauto.com.
Rockauto.com always has low prices, always has a great selection, and it's always right there in your computer so you don't have to drive there because your car is not running.
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You know, I think it was David Mamet who said in one of his movies, he had the line, everybody needs money, that's why they call it money.
But, and of course, there are a lot of reasons to love money.
But one of the reasons I think conservatives love money is that money is also reality.
Money is a good way, as Stephen King said, it's a way of keeping score.
It's also a way, you know, I'm not sure what you're keeping score of, but it's also a way of telling whether things work.
You know, whenever I talk to college students and they say, I want to go into nonprofit, I think nonprofit is something that people don't want.
That's why you don't make a profit with nonprofits.
And so, profit is giving people something they want.
It may be something useless like a pet rock, but it's still something that people want.
That's why you make a profit.
And money is a really good way of telling what's going on and who and how cities are being run and how the country is being run.
You know, this is why I'm not a big fan of all this printing money without any kind of standard because eventually that's going to come due.
You can't just fantasize money, it will work for a while, but it will not work forever.
Now, Andrew Cuomo, who is still one of these popular, the popular governor of New York, who has handled the Chinese flu crisis worse than any other governor.
I mean, this is a guy, truly, something like 6,600 old people died.
6,600 old people died because Andrew Cuomo mandated that old people's homes should take in Chinese flu patients.
He mandated that.
He said they couldn't turn them away.
And of course, it spread the infection, and old people are the people most vulnerable to the flu.
And so, at least 6,600, now they're saying it may have been thousands more.
It may have been thousands more than 6,600 because they didn't count those people who were taken from the old nursing homes to hospitals and die there.
So, it may have been even thousands more.
Now, when he was just to show you that this is not the most honest guy in America, you know, maybe a little bit more honest than Muggsy the thug in you know, uh, in Gray Bar prison somewhere, but but not an honest guy.
When he was asked if there should be an investigation, he said, No, no, no, that is a purely political thing.
This is cut six.
I wouldn't do an investigation as to whether or not it's political.
Everybody can make that decision for themselves.
Just look at where it comes from and look at the sources and look at their political affiliation and look at who wrote the letter in Congress and look at what publications raise it and what media networks raise it.
It's kind of incredible.
But he did swear he was going to spend the rest of his life searching for the real killer of the old people.
It's going to be like a TV series.
It's like Andrew Cuomo and OJ are going to search for the real killers that the news media just somehow can't seem to find.
But he is honest.
He is honest when he has to be, Andrew Cuomo.
And one of the reasons he has to be is because of money.
And money is a way that reality bites back, okay?
You know, Bill McGurn, the great McGurn, writes a column in the Wall Street Journal as well, has a column today called Who Needs Billionaires.
And he says, Representative Alexandria Equesio-Cortez has a demand for Governor Andrew Cuomo in a new video, the Progressive Democrat from Queens says it's time to stop protecting billionaires and pass a billionaire tax, right?
So Andrew Cuomo is not that happy with that because Andrew Cuomo is in fact the executive of the state and he knows what executives know.
And he says this.
He says a single percent of New York's population pays 50% of the taxes and they're the most mobile people on the globe.
This is what conservatives have been saying for a long time.
If you tax rich people, they will leave.
They can leave.
They'll stay around for a while.
They'll stay around in California because the sun is nice.
It's very beautiful here.
But after a while, you know, they're not going to stay forever.
He is basically begging them to come home.
This is Cuomo begging the rich people who have left the city.
They've left the city because of the crime.
They've left the city because of the rioting.
They've left the city because the services are so lousy under de Blasio.
They've gone out to Long Island.
They've gone out to Connecticut.
And this is Andrew Cuomo begging them to come back.
I literally talk to people all day long who are now in the Hamptons house, who also lived here, or in their Hudson Valley house, or in their Connecticut weekend house.
And I say, you got to come back.
When are you coming back?
We'll go to dinner.
I'll buy you a drink.
Come over.
I'll cook.
They're not coming back right now.
And you know what else they're thinking?
If I stay there, they pay a lower income tax because they don't pay the New York City surcharge.
So this is the thing about lying, okay?
This is how this works.
When the Soviet Union basically said, now we're going, everything's going to be wonderful.
Everything is going to be run by the state.
There's not going to be any competition.
It's all going to be state-owned.
This is what real socialism is, by the way.
Socialism is not a welfare state.
Almost all capitalist states, as they get older, develop a welfare state.
Socialism is when the state owns the means of production so that there's no competition and there's nobody to say, you know, you're doing this wrong.
We can do it better.
I'm going to beat you out.
That doesn't happen.
It just, and everything goes down the drain.
People who can leave start to leave.
So what do they do?
They start to build walls.
And they're not Trump walls that keep people out because they want so much to get in.
They're Berlin walls that keep people in because they want so much to get out.
As reality catches up with you, people become a problem.
People who see, can see with their eyes, they know with their minds, they feel with their hearts what the truth is.
And as the lies go down the drain and as reality catches up with you, people become a problem.
I mean, almost every leftist theory, almost every leftist idea is if we could just get rid of the people, everything will be fine.
If we can just convince the people that men are women, then men will be women.
If we can just convince the people that riots are mostly peaceful, then our cities will be running great.
If we can just convince the people that having homeless people defecate on your sidewalk outside the piece of property you paid a million dollars for is absolute paradise.
They'll stop moving away.
And if they won't stop moving away, maybe we can build a wall to keep them in.
This is how socialism, Marxism, every system that doesn't work, this is how they progress.
Because reality catches up with you and people become a problem.
So Andrew Cuomo, who's an executive of the state, and you'll find this, that executives of states are usually a lot more realistic than mayors because they're actually looking over a bigger field of play and they actually have to deal with certain problems that mayors don't have to deal with.
This is as opposed to an actual communist, Bill de Blasio, the mayor of New York, who is with Lori Lightfoot, one of the two worst mayors in the galaxy, right?
This is not just on Earth.
This is in the entire galaxy, not just in the solar system.
This is in galaxy where there are lots of other planets with populations.
These are the two worst mayors.
Bill de Blasio says, rich people, I don't need no stinking rich people.
This is de Blasio.
To the point about the folks out in the Hamptons, I have to be very clear about this.
We do not make decisions based on the wealthy few.
That I was troubled to hear this concept that because wealthy people have a set of concerns about the city, that we should accommodate them, that we should build our policies and approaches around them.
That's not how it works around here anymore.
This city is for New Yorkers.
This city is for people who live here, work here, fight to make this place better, fight through this crisis.
So there's a lot of New Yorkers who are wealthy, who are true believers in New York City, and will stand and fight with us.
And there's some who may be fair weather friends.
You know, you got to love communists, socialists, whatever they call them these days.
You got to love them because they never change.
Like Bernie, you know, Bernie, it doesn't matter.
My favorite moment in Bernie Sanders' campaign, and I can't remember which venue he was on, CNN or Fox, was when he said, you know, I'm not talking about communism like the Soviet Union.
I'm talking like the kind of socialism they have in Scandinavia.
I think he named a country, maybe it was Denmark.
And the interviewer said, but they don't have socialism there.
They tried it and it didn't work.
And he said, well, I'm not an expert on those economies.
So I thought, well, if those are the economies you want this economy to be like and you don't know anything about them, what are you talking?
What words are coming out of your mouth?
Why are you even saying these things?
It doesn't matter to an ideologue.
It doesn't matter to an ideologue.
And this is the way it progresses all the time.
Lies, lies, lies, or delusion, delusion.
I really think at this point it is a delusion.
And I really do, and this is only a theory.
I can't prove it.
I really do believe that the great shock, the great trauma is the fall of the Soviet Union.
Remember, this was the place where they said, I've seen the future and it works.
The Soviet Union, it was going to be paradise.
And it didn't work.
And that's a whole generation of intellectuals who wasted their lives.
And the people who believed that went into our universities and they taught our children.
And they taught our children.
No, no, no, it didn't fail.
It didn't fail.
Read Howard Zinn.
It was America's fault.
The Cold War was America's fault.
Read communist Howard Zinn.
And these kids come out schooled on those lies that are the failure to face reality.
And as long as you don't face reality, reality will bite back.
And when it bites back, people become a problem.
And you've got to silence them.
And if that doesn't work, you've got to wall them off.
And if that doesn't work, then you got to do what communists do everywhere they take power, which is you got to wipe them out.
And that's the progression because lies have consequences.
Lies have consequences.
And the truth always bites back.
All right.
Just a final reflection.
Yesterday I talked about that Cardi B. Wap song, that filthy song.
It was just terrible.
I mean, you know, everybody's complaining about how filthy it is.
It's just bad.
But I have to say, I have to admit that Ben Shapiro was funnier than I was.
He actually read the lyrics, blanking out all the dirty words, which is every other word.
And he was genuinely funny about it because just watching Shapiro rap was worth the price of admission.
And if I had done it, I have so much soul and so much rhythm and so much, you know, so much heart.
It wouldn't have even been funny.
It would have been, wow, that guy's really good.
But when Shapiro does it, it's just hilarious.
So he was trending on Twitter.
And I was looking at some of the people.
And, you know, in a conservative trends, it's all people attacking him.
I was watching Ben get attacked for talking about this thing.
And what they all said, what they all said was, you know, with all the serious problems with Trump orange man bad doing such terrible things, why are you talking about a rap song?
Why are you talking about this crappy rap sign?
That's the point I was making at the beginning.
These little things, as the old song goes, these little things mean a lot.
When language is twisted, when the human person is misrepresented, when culture is taken over, it's always little things.
I remember right-wing intellectuals attacking Donald Trump when he started to attack the football players who were disrespecting the flag.
And I said, Trump is right.
This is where the culture takes place.
Culture takes place in sentences.
It takes place in words.
It takes place in phrases.
It takes place in gestures.
It takes place in songs.
Never let the left tell you you're being petty.
Never let them tell you that you shouldn't speak up about their toxic culture because it is a toxic culture.
It turns people into meat puppets.
And the consequences of that are very serious indeed or much bigger than the small thing you might be talking about at the moment.
I got to stop there.
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