Dave Rubin, Michael Malice, and Alex Stein dissect Blaze Media's cancellation following Glenn Beck's exit before scrutinizing Zohran Mamdani's election as NYC mayor. They condemn his immediate fundraising reversal after urging donors to stop, compare his potential tenure to Trump's first term with predictions of rising violence, and mock his age and background. The trio also analyzes Nancy Pelosi's strategic shift toward faith-based messaging via St. Francis of Assisi, critiques Jennifer Welch's controversial remarks, and concludes that Mamdani's victory reflects specific youth demographics rather than celebrity influence, signaling a volatile political landscape. [Automatically generated summary]
It is November 7th, 2025, Friday, November 7th, which means it's time for another Friday roundtable extravaganza.
And joining me is the Willie Wonka of politics himself, also host of your welcome, Michael Malice, as well as noted vegetarian and host of Prime Time with Alex Stein, Alex Stein, Alex, a vegetarian.
You know, there were a few months ago where I told supporters across the city to stop donating.
And today I am asking them to start once again.
And I am asking them to do so because of the fact that a transition that can meet the moment of preparing for January 1st is one that will require staff.
It will require research.
It will require infrastructure.
And those are things that we will have to provide.
And I'm excited for the fact that it will be funded by the very people who brought us to this point, the working people who have been left behind by the politics of the city.
Malice, I want to try a Michael Malice stab at this thing.
First off, it says a new era.
It should say a new error.
That's fairly obvious.
But it seems to me that perhaps within 24 hours of a guy saying everything's going to be free, begging for money, that that's actually baked into exactly what he's doing.
The insult around it and the obvious hypocrisy is precisely the point of the entire thing.
I'm looking forward to seeing what this mayoralty will look like.
I would want to point out, I don't think Momdani is going to be particularly worse than de Blasio.
De Blasio was a commie.
One of my favorite moments of de Blasio's mayorship was there's something called Billionaire Row, which is Central Park South.
I think it's the most expensive street on the earth or close to it.
And in perfect lefty logic, de Blasio is like, we're going to put a homeless shelter there because if we're going to have equality, why should the billionaires be able to escape from homeless people everywhere?
Now, if you had real logic, it would be like, put real estate there, put property taxes, and use that to home people.
But no, that's not how they think.
So I think New York has had eight years of this, some similar stuff in the past.
I also want to caution people.
I think the more Momdani mayor term is going to be a lot like Trump's first term because when Trump came in, the administration ran the table on him.
If any of us became mayor of New York right now, I wouldn't want to go against the city council, the real estate people, the police unions.
These people know how the game works.
They've been at it for a very long time.
He's 34.
He's going to staff it either with green people, meaning fresh to the scene, or party hacks.
Well, Dave, you know, listen, this is what I want to do.
I actually want to call out, you know, our own party a little bit.
We're acting like this is the end of the world.
And when in reality, let's look at Mamdani.
He's 34 years old.
He's smoking weed.
You saw him in the debate stage.
He says, oh, I go to the pot shop all the time.
So, first of all, he's high.
His mom's a filmmaker, right?
So he's not a real Arab.
I mean, and you saw Bin Laden's movies in those caves.
What they call filmmaking is garbage.
I mean, their number one leader in the movies that Bin Laden made was garbage.
I imagine she's probably not making as good movies as that.
So he's not going to be able to do Jack Squad.
He's going to get in there.
He's not.
Like Malice said, he's not going to be able to do anything.
Yes, he is going to cause a bunch of drama, but I'm telling you, this might be a good thing, kind of like how the Biden presidency was a good thing because it kind of woke and radicalized people to actually start fighting back.
So, you know, maybe this will be a good thing in the long run.
It feels like a bad thing, but sometimes you get some perspective and your whole opinion changes.
I mean, everyone's sort of saying, you know, the silver lining is okay, it goes to hell in a handbasket, but maybe that's exactly what finally has to happen.
But I want to throw this clip to you guys from Scott Jennings over at CNN because he just made the point that you made, Alex, about Momdani being an actor.
Malice, tell me a little bit more about why you predict violence and how bad do you think it's going to get to the backdrop of what I assume we all agree that he just is kind of faking all of this as James said.
So there's going to be a lot and he's going to disproportionately affects minorities, which obviously therefore means it's wrong.
So you're going to see if he has his way pulling back of the cops on crime, especially violent crime, and pointing the finger at white supremacists, you know, because that's what makes people rapists.
So that's what I'm concerned about.
We saw this a little bit with Dinkins when he was mayor in 1989 through 93.
There were kind of pogroms in Crown Heights.
And when that was happening, I remember Dinkins decided to crack down in jaywalking.
So that, you know, kind of Seattle, Portland, San Francisco mindset, we've seen it play out and we know what that looks like.
And it's, it's the people who are hurt the most are poor people, especially poor women.
But so to that point, Alex, it seems to me the reason this is going to be much worse than Dinkins, you know, late 80s, early 90s is because the culture is actually much worse right now.
We're tolerant of much more mayhem on the streets and that you're allowed to, you know, close streets and chant and march and blah, blah, blah.
The stuff that has been going on seems significantly worse and has been for years than it was back then.
And that's, and he's more outwardly like, I think he's pro-jihad.
I just do.
So to me, this is just an unbelievably toxic mess.
And then you kind of look at like, ever since Charlie's death, I feel like the protests have ramped up and I've been to these no-king protests.
And trust me, like now political violence is more acceptable because they've seen Luigi Manjion.
Like, you know, you've seen this thing where it's almost kind of, they like it.
You know, I mean, you know, Lu Gi Mangion, I can't even say his name is a hero now.
So I would actually not be, I would not be surprised, excuse me, if there is some more political violence in New York City because these people realize they could be a hero if they go and hurt somebody in a public way.
But again, that's why I think everything has been so degraded that, yes, they're not doing a great job.
Their qualifications have gone down.
People accept a lot more mayhem.
And I don't even, in a weird way, I don't even think it matters how much power he has because I think it just has now, they've now just created the conditions for chaos.
But let's leave that there.
I would say to New York, good luck with all of that.
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And then Nancy Pelosi is retiring, but she's not giving up any of the money.
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So Nancy Pelosi, watch what I do here when I talk about Nancy Pelosi, guys.
She's leaving.
She's going to retire for the children.
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And the children, here's their retirement video.
I speak for the people of San Francisco.
I have truly loved serving as your voice in Congress.
And I've always honored the song of St. Francis.
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace, the anthem of our city.
That is why I want you, my fellow San Franciscans, to be the first to know I will not be seeking re-election to Congress.
With a grateful heart, I look forward to my final year of service as your proud representative.
As we go forward, my message to the city I love is this.
She's been the most effective leader the Democrats have had in decades.
The fact that she had all those Democrats walk the plank and lose their seats to put forward Obamacare in 2008 and 2009 is no joke.
And I think you guys are laughing now, but you're not going to be laughing in a year because I don't think it's a coincidence that she's invoking St. Francis of Assisi.
If Democrats start talking about their faith and putting their religion first and foremost and discarding this woke stuff, like Alex pointed out, there's no pride flags.
When those midterms come in, all those swing voters are going to vote for them and against the Republican Party and Trump.
So people who thought I was on Gutfeld a few months ago and they're like, the Democrats are never going to win again.
And I said, you guys are crazy.
This isn't the end of the first quarter and you're having your victory lapse.
These people are playing the long game.
And we saw it on Tuesday and you're going to see it next year.
So you think there's a calculated move that they will shift from woke a little bit, even though New York is now, I would say, the culmination of woke in a certain sense.
Because the whole idea of woke is this kind of very secular LGBT internationalist, blah, blah, blah.
You didn't see that in Virginia.
You didn't see that in New Jersey.
They're talking like 90s Democrats about your economy, paying the mortgage.
I go to church.
I form a military, all this other good stuff.
So that's the kind of thing that alienated a lot of moderates and Republicans in years past, and they learned their lesson from 2024.
How many times in the past have you seen Nancy Pelosi talking about St. Francis of Assisi?
You think this calculating woman who's bringing it up in her video and not, as Alex said, mentioning, you know, the work we've done for gay people over the last decades or minority, she didn't bring up any of that.
So that she's very, very crafty.
She knows where the future of politics is going, and people should read those tea leaves.
I mean, Nancy Pelosi just, you know, she's a proud black woman.
I mean, what can I say?
And she always has been, and she really represents her community very well.
But I think Michael had a really good point.
I actually want to piggyback something he said.
If you see what Gavin Newsom is doing, he's just trying to copy Donald Trump's playbook.
So I would not be surprised if they don't try to become a little more spiritual because, you know, believe it or not, you know, people are, I don't think people are getting into organized religion as much, but I think people are becoming more spiritual.
And people do believe in God, even like these weird leftists.
They might not believe in organized religion.
So they're going to find ways to try to connect to that base.
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So I think it's not that they're getting creative.
But I mean, she did that and she saved how many House seats, right?
All the polling was showing that he was going to lose like New Mexico, so on and so forth.
This woman is now, I don't think Kamala could have won, but I do think Kamala did better than Biden would have done, especially at weeks of the Democrats attacking him.
And if God help him, if there was another debate, he might have literally died on stage to the amusement of many.
So this woman, I think she, how many, how many speakers of the House have taken out a sitting president?
I mean, this woman is very, very crafty and knows how politics works and talk about the long game.
She's like, we got to get rid of Biden, who's been around since the 70s.
She knifed him in the back to preserve the party's control of Congress.
Chatted with President Trump about this breaking news that Nancy Pelosi will be leaving Washington.
He tells me the following, and this is a quote.
The retirement of Nancy Pelosi is a great thing for America.
She was evil, corrupt, and only focused on bad things for our country.
She was rapidly losing control of her party, and it was never coming back.
I'm very honored.
She impeached me twice and failed miserably twice.
Nancy Pelosi is a highly overrated politician.
And so that is the first word, but definitely not the last word from President Trump about this because about 90 minutes from right now, we do expect to see him in the Oval Office.
The two of them, of course, throughout his entire first term, had historic battles.
Well, and when you hear the statement back, it really makes you think like when Trump talks, he does not waste one word.
I mean, he just starts off with she was evil.
I mean, he just, he just, you know, he hooks you right at the beginning.
He's such a good orator.
Very, and I guess I would say I would not say underrated because everybody knows he's one of the funniest guys in the world, but I'm just saying it's just, it's, we don't appreciate how well he is at just, you know, cutting someone down.
That was epic.
But in reality, she did do those things.
She failed twice.
And there's bad blood there.
So I love it.
I think we actually need a little more sensationalizing and sensationalism going on in politics.
So guys, I'm always trying to find the equivalent of us on the left.
You know, the whole online ecosystem, everyone's sort of on the right because we were all counterculture to the nonsense of CNN and mainstream media.
So we sort of have this robust thing, you know, again, on the broad right, whatever the hell you want to call it.
But I'm always trying to find lefty podcasters that are worth talking to or something.
And it's very, very thin.
This woman, Jennifer Welch, keeps popping up now.
She seems, yeah, and she seems to be, I guess she was a reality star or something.
I'm not even sure, but she's just sort of representative of the hysterical, I would say, kind of self-hating, middle-aged white woman who just wants to bow at the altar of diversity and all of this nonsense, never giving up her whiteness, of course.
I've had it with white people that triple Trumped, that have the nerve and the audacity to walk into a Mexican restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant, go to perhaps their gay hairdresser.
I don't think you should be able to enjoy anything but cracker barrel.
Dave, as a gay man that you are, I'm going to explain some to you.
Women engage in something called attention-seeking behavior, and they do it constantly and they do it incessantly.
And women like her would used to get it for their looks.
And when those looks start to fade and your face becomes pulled like silly putty, so you look like a foot, you have to get your attention in other ways.
So this is just the kind of things that they sit around in the hair salon, you know, talking about themselves and fluffing each other up.
And it's complete nonsense.
And the term I popularized for these people is offals, affluent white female liberals.
And once you realize this is just the Xanax and the boxed wine talking, you don't need to waste your time giving it any more oxygen.
I don't know because Michael, I think, because really I think you're kind of contradicting yourself.
And I'm not trying to call you out because I do think that she is LARPing.
So if she's LARPing, she wouldn't let her kids be trans, right?
And this is why I think she's fake because there is a video of her talking about, I'm guessing she lives in the affluent area in, I think, California, but how some black people moved into their neighborhood and they were so excited that there was black people in their neighborhood.
But in reality, you know what she was really like locking her door when she drives their house.
And she's, you know, in reality, she's like, oh, there's now there's a, no, you know what I mean?
You know what I mean?
You know, she feels some sort of way about it.
So she's, she's fake.
She's not really, she doesn't want her kids to be trans.
And she's saying this stuff because just like we like it when Donald Trump says wild stuff, she's just trying to push people's buttons.
So I mean, she's a phony.
I don't think she's really as a leftist as she's trying to pretend to be on her podcast.
Yeah, we also played a clip from her the night of the mom damny win where she was basically in a white people have no culture as she's standing there with Mehdi Hassan and a couple other Hamas guys.
And it's like, come on, lady, stop.
They're going to put you in a beekeeper costume.
Listen to this from Jay Manorino on X.
I thought this was interesting just relative to the numbers and the sex or the sex and or gender and or genital breakdown of who voted.
81% of young women voted for Mom Dami in New York City.
80% of young women voted for Sherelle in New Jersey.
78% of young women voted for Spangberger in Virginia.
And then he editorialized a little bit.
But the numbers there, I mean, that's pretty freaking significant, Malice, like in terms of that the sexes seem to be going in different ways when it comes to voting habits.
Sure, but I also don't think they're voting consciously.
I think it's more like if I'm a fat chick in high school, I'm going to listen to the Smiths and go to Hot Topic, right?
So for these, especially highly educated, not particularly intelligent young women, being a Democrat and having these kind of radical leftist chic views are the same thing as speaking at Upspeak or having vocal fry.
I don't think it's anywhere close to the point where you're going to have this wealthy exodus from New York because New York still has the status.
I left, but I can't.
There was lots of other things I didn't like about New York.
But she's not wrong that Mamdani is going to be in position to drive all the wealth and businesses out of New York in four years.
It's not going to happen.
And one more point.
My friend thinks with a tinfoil hat thinks this is a conspiracy by the real estate people to have real estate collapse because the Empire State Problems didn't be there in four years or eight years.
You buy it all up and then just wait for the real estate to explode again.
You find a dual agent who's selling houses in Miami right now and who's buying them over there.
You might be onto something.
Stein, the general thought process, okay, we'll tax the high hell out of these people.
And then the next statement out of her mouth is, okay, well, you know, basically once they leave, we'll tax the next one and the next one and the next one and the next one.
Well, I mean, it is socialism, but for her and Michael, I think you're right because she had that one good point.
You know, Wall Street is there.
So that's going to keep some of these financial institutions in New York because they can't really leave it.
But at the end of the day, if you're getting taxed 52 to 50% of what you make, I do think some of these big people like you see the Howard Sterns or, you know, all these other people, they are going to go.
The best moment of this was when Rosie O'Donnell's on the view and she goes, Barbara Walters, when I went to your house, I've never been around such rarefied heirs.
But this is one thing I'm going to disagree with Alex Carp, Alex on.
He said these people that graduate from Yale, you know, they look at a person that's on the oil and gas business.
I just, Alex Carp is a very smart guy, but people that actually make money in the oil and gas business, the roughnecks do okay, but they're petroleum engineers.
And I knew a lot of petroleum engineers at LSU, believe it or not.
They were the really, they were pretty smart.
It was hard.
Everybody wants to be a petroleum engineer.
So it's like, you know, I don't know if that's really a great comparison because I know they're not Yale graduates, but if you graduated from the petroleum engineering degree from LSU, you could get a job with Exxon and literally out of college, make like half a million dollars.
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All right, before we get to the boobs part of this, actress Jennifer Lawrence, people know I don't like talking about actors on the show because they're always bloviating about everything, but here she is actually saying that actors are bloviating about everything and she ain't going to bloviate anymore.
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You have been politically outspoken in the past.
In the first Trump administration, you know, you had a lot to say.
I'm curious how you feel about talking out now.
I don't really know if I should.
I think like the first Trump administration was so wild.
And just how can we let this stand?
Like, I felt like I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off.
But as we've learned, election after election, celebrities do not make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for.
And so then what am I doing?
I'm just sharing my opinion on something that's going to just add fuel to a fire that's ripping the country apart.
He's about to be on, he's about to be unemployed, or he is unemployed.
Look, at his point, I am.
The thing that she said that most caught my attention was when she said she was running around like a chicken with her head cut off because she had no brain.
And I love it when she was a jewel.
You had outspoken opinions.
No, you didn't.
You had the exact same opinions of your entire peer group.
You had no negative consequences, all positive consequences.
But like I was saying earlier, the Nancy Pelosi clip we had, they got the memo.
Go home and shut up because all you're doing is getting the Trump people to the polls.
You're not getting our people to the polls.
It's counterproductive.
Someone got on the phone with this broad and she got the memo.
So I want it to take advantage of the fact that as the first lady, yes, you can be smart and educated and beautiful and sexy and interesting and all those things.
And yes, you can be a black woman, a tall 5'11 black woman.
I'm going to just let you guys make your own assumptions when you see that because there's nothing that I can tell you to change your mind or convince you on.
The criticism of the content, which was basically that maybe specifically in this political climate, like white people shouldn't joke about genetic superiority.
Like that was kind of like the criticism, broadly speaking.
And since you are talking about this, I just wanted to give you an opportunity to talk about that.
I was going to start with Stein, but I'm going to give him the last word because Malice, the way that Sidney Sweeney was given side-eye to that girl as she was asking that guilt-ridden, woke, like that was B. Arthur Rue McClanahan level side-eye right there.
I think it's kind of really gross that Sid Sweeney, the idea, like we're told that Michelle Obama is beautiful, but like a pretty nine white girl can't be beautiful.
Like, what happens to everyone's beautiful?
This ad wasn't Nazi in any way.
It was just a regular person who's an actress who's in genes.
This is the norm.
And Steve Saylor has his rule of journalism that every female journalist has the rule come the revolution that she will personally be found more attractive.
So, of course, this, you know, Midwest Five wants Sid Sweeney to seek her approval.
And I'm so glad we're at a point where Sweeney's like, I don't know who you are and I don't need you.
Well, I have to give it to this journalist because just the way that they would ask the questions to Sidney Sweeney, they're very leading, but it was just almost like it was just a very weird, awkward dance in this.
Just the slow, the pace, like everything was like, it was like she was trying to press her in the most gentle way possible.
And I think Sidney Sweeney kind of felt that and gave her that, you know, reciprocal kind of energy.
But I do want to say this.
She asked her another question about her fame.
Has, you know, has the fame changed her.
Sidney said, no, not really.
And I think that from the interview and how her approach, it seemed like Sidney Sweeney was being real.
So if Sidney Sweeney is this humble and she's not afraid to be herself, it makes her a lot more likable than the Jennifer Lawrences and the people that are so scared to talk about it.
So I'm so happy that she's having this success and the fact that she'll show her boobs on Twitter.