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Taxing Whiter Neighborhoods - June 27th, Hour 2
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Hour two Sean Hannity show this Friday.
Toll-free, our number is 800-941 Sean.
If you want to be a part of the program, uh, well, the Democrats have a big problem.
And that is this mayoral candidate, Zoran Mamdani, and you know, the guy that supports a rent freeze and seizing buildings from landlords.
Uh, if they decide they are demonstrating consistent neglect, uh, calling for a massive raise of property taxes, taxes on business, taxes on the rich, replacing police with social workers, creating the Department of Community Safety, deploying outreach workers to subway stations.
How do outreach workers deal with people that are mentally ill on the hardest drugs?
They're out of their mind.
Not a good idea.
Government operated grocery stores, food distribution, free buses, you know, make life harder for corporations, um, and and banning all hidden fees and misleading advertising.
I mean, make it in incredible.
I mean, nobody's gonna want to stay in New York City.
Governor DeSantis is salivating here in Florida.
Free child care for everybody, free gifts for each new parent in New York City.
What is a free gift?
Oh, okay.
Uh, diapers, baby wipes, nursing pads, postpartum pads, swaddles, books, raising taxes, you know, the the nearly doubling the corporate tax rate, two percent New York City income tax for and by the way, I know a million dollars is a lot of money, but for a lot of people in New York that work on Wall Street, uh, that have, you know, 10, 15, 20, 30 million dollar homes.
Uh, at that point, they don't have the money to pay for all this.
They're gonna agree new deal for 500 public schools promoting the trans agenda, uh, expanding and protecting gender affirming care, raising the minimum wage uh to thirty dollars an hour, you know, shutting down all ice, which by the way, which would be against federal law, and we do have jurisdiction.
It's called the supremacy clause of our cop uh of our constitution.
You know, quote, queer liberation means defund the police.
These are these are direct quotes from his post on X. We need to ban all guns.
BDS is a righteous movement for liberation.
Quote, there's no queer liberation with occupation, not for the quote, queer Palestinians murdered by the IDF.
Um, you know, and then of course the global antifada comment.
We all remember that.
Uh and, you know, we're we are the birthplace of global socialist feminist movement.
I don't even know what half the stuff means.
We need free abortion and contraception on demand.
Climate change is the central issue of our time.
The climate crisis isn't separate from the crisis of capitalism, decarbonize our economy, oppose all new fossil fuel infrastructure.
If we don't get it, shut it down.
When we tax the rich, we're reclaiming the wealth bosses and corporations that are stealing.
Uh we can build the socialist New York.
We should exercise eminent domain, acquire the 4,000 unsold luxury apart apartments in New York City for homeless families, sex workers in Queens from flushing to Jackson Heights, endure nonstop harassment, not only from bigots, but the MYPD.
Uh we need to decriminalize sex workers now, open up the city's F H E P S to undocumented undocumented siblings, uh, you know, free Palestine.
We will support uh I mean it just goes on and on.
Oh, safe injection sites.
Israel is committing genocide.
White supremacy has many faces from the police and prison system to occupational and apartheid in Palestine.
I am Donald Trump's worst nightmare.
We're showing up in Bryant Park to say no to Trump's union busting anti immigrant anti LGBT agenda.
You know, stop New York registered charities from donating money to illegal Israeli settlements.
Uh abolish medical bills.
Well, who's gonna pay the doctor?
You know, we need to abolish private insurance.
This this will be the biggest disaster in New York City history.
Anyway, let me play Mamdanny and some of his uh highlights for you, and then we'll get some reaction.
You're a proud democratic socialist.
Do you think that is a platform that would work for other candidates running in other parts of the country?
Absolutely.
I think ultimately this is a campaign about inequality.
And you don't have to live in the most expensive city in the country to have experienced that inequality because it's a national issue.
I'll meet with anyone.
I will meet with them and I'll explain why I believe in the necessity of raising the top corporate tax rate.
And I'd also tell Bill Ackman that I firmly disagree with his attempt to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion across the country, because it's not only against the morals of so many, it's also against the actual bottom line for so many businesses.
And as a businessman, he should understand that.
Do you like capitalism?
No, I I have many critiques of capitalism.
And I think ultimately the definition for me of why I call myself a democratic socialist is the words of Dr. King decades ago.
He said, call it democracy or call it democratic socialism.
There must be a better distribution of wealth for all of God's children in this country.
All right, so Montadani thinks the democratic socialism is a good platform for other democratic candidates.
He said, This is great for the Democratic Party.
Even Crazy Carvel knows this is bad news.
He's not going to work with Trump the Trump administration on deportation.
That would be breaking the law.
Um he believes in the necessity of raising the corporate tax and DEI and businesses.
What that's going to be mandated?
AOC is an inspiration to me, he said.
And anyway, he was asked if his city-run grocery store idea is Soviet Union grocery stores on every corner.
I mean, is that what that is?
I'd like uh more a deeper explanation.
Wants to pay for free buses, universal child care by taxing corporations and the rich.
Richard New York attack they they pay all the taxes in New York City.
I don't like capitalism.
There must be better distribution of wealth for all of God's children.
Okay, we'll empower our government, take people's money and give it to people that will vote for you.
That's what it sounds like to me.
Anyway, Misha Maynard is with us and Darius Mayfield is with us as we discuss this.
Uh Misha is the former Georgia State rep and former Democrat, and Darius Mayfield, Republican congressional candidate, Virginia's 7th District.
Uh Misha, former Democrat, explain to me.
Is this good for the Democratic Party and Brand?
Thank you for having me back, Sean.
Everything that you just said in that opening gave me a headache, to be honest with you.
I don't want to go.
I don't like to give guests a headache.
I'm sorry about that.
Can I get you an excedrine?
We just gotta get um Zoran Mom D, Mom Denny out of the picture.
Mom Donnie, I'll help you.
Mom Donnie.
Mom Donny.
Americans better pay attention.
Democrats like him are selling control as compassion.
But to me, socialism is like slavery two point now.
It's anti-freedom, anti-business, anti-education, and anti-faith.
It tells people they're too weak to succeed without government handouts.
I left the Democrat Party because I read the Constitution and I listened to real families that were trapped in these welfare prisons and failing school districts, which are all run by Democrats.
So for New Yorkers, this isn't social justice.
It's a setup.
It's not American, and it's oppression with the lipstick, if you want my opinion.
Let's get your take.
Darius.
Well, Sean, thank you for uh having me on today.
And um, you know, I I think not only is it bad for Democrats, but I think this is great for Republicans, if Republicans do the right things going forward, and that starts with electing common sense Republicans uh like myself.
I'm I'm pretty uniquely positioned to actually talk about this because one, I moved from uh uh a progressive state New Jersey to Virginia to escape some of these same policies that we're talking about uh now.
And also, I grew up in New Jersey, so right across the bridge from New York, so I spent a lot of time there.
Um and I understand, you know, what doesn't work, and I understand that the patch of New York.
They just had a progressive mayor and uh the Blasio there not too long ago that into and tried to implement a lot of these same policies and New Yorkers rejected those policies.
That's why you got somebody like an Eric Adams afterwards who one of the first things Eric Adams did when he went in there was put over six hundred plainclothes officers back on the streets because under the Blasio, you had double digit gains and violent crimes and rapes and car thefts and things of that sort.
So, you know, this is just Democrats now doubling and tripling down on their failures of the 2024 presidential election, and that's good news for Republicans.
But we're what Republicans need to do is make sure we have empathy, make sure we're willing to listen to everybody's plight because we do have the issues at the end of the day, and I've been telling the Republicans this for the last six, seven, eight years.
We have the issues.
We don't always relay them the right way, but that's why it's important that we show that empathy and go in there and start talking to people because people in these communities that Johan Zoran purportedly uh claims to represent, they want their police.
They don't want to defund them.
They want a better relationship with their police, they want respect between them and their police, and people like myself can help accomplish those things, but they want their police because they understand what happens if they get rid of those.
They want lower taxes.
They don't want to tax the rich, they want those rich people to actually build more jobs and bring more jobs in, not take them away like AOC did a few years ago when they closed down a Google factory that was going to go into place because of her say so.
And she she eliminated essentially hundreds of high paying jobs in the city of New York.
People don't want this.
So this is bad news for the Democrats.
This is great news for Republicans.
We just need to uh capture this and go about it the right way going forward, and I plan to do that here in the 7th District.
Quick break, right back.
We'll continue more with Misha Maynor and Darius Mayfield uh on Zoran Mamdani and what this means for the Democratic Party in general.
We continue now with Misha Maynor and Darius Mayfield talking about the impact on the Democratic Party with the Democratic Mayoral candidate of New York City, Zoran Mamdani.
So here's where we stand, Misha, with your old party.
Uh they had a chance in the US Senate to stand up for women's rights to in sports and Title IX, but they decided to champion the rights rights of men to play women's sports.
Uh they are about to oppose the largest or uh tax cut in history, and by doing so they will support the largest tax increase in history.
Uh they won't support the president's plan on no tax on tips and no tax on overtime, which is great for hardworking men and women, and I say that as somebody that worked in the service industry for a decade of my life and in construction for almost a decade of my life.
They are fighting for the rights of the illegals.
Well, first of all, they lied about the borders being closed and secure for four years, and they allowed terrorists and murderers, rapists, and and cartel members and gang members in our country, and we have paid a very dear price and will continue to for a long time, but you know, they're champion championing the rights of a brego Garcia uh in in LA,
you know, ICE has been telling us they're arresting murderers and child molesters and drug dealers and gang members, and they're furious at ICE out in Los Angeles, and that doesn't make any sense to me because they're putting the rights of illegals over the safety of citizens.
Uh this is the party of the Green New Deal, which is cradle to grave womb to the tomb.
Um, what is government do well?
I mean, in in every big city that has been run by Democrats for decades, how is law and order and safety and security doing?
How's your educational system doing?
The people like paying all those high taxes.
Why is there a mass exodus out of these blue states to states with with lower taxes, better services, better schools?
You know, when I think about the crisis that we're in right now, you know, half the country really believes that President Trump is the source of every problem they have, and the other half believes that these democrat policies like Zorron is the is in fact the problem.
The New York mayoral race is gonna be a reflection of what could be if Republicans do not really do a better job at messaging to independent swing voters and all the disgruntled democrats that are out there.
People like Zoran, they believe government control is Necessary because they believe honestly that the American people are ignorant, feeble, and incapable of making decisions for themselves.
And it frightens me, honestly, as a mom.
I have a little girl in middle school, another one in college.
Their solution is a cement ceiling that offers economic imprisonment.
You know, think about the free block of government fees that was given back in the day.
People are campaigning right now as Democrats that are anti-American, anti-family, anti-school for that matter.
Democrats are also against just the principles, and when you think of like a growth mindset, their version of government control is telling people you can't make more than minimum wage.
You have to go to the school that I tell you to go to.
You have to go to this doctor.
have to eat at this grocery store.
You can't go to church when I tell you you can't go to church.
It's really vital that Americans are educated on the core values of our country.
And it needs to start with the Constitution, regardless of whatever historical context that people have against it.
If you don't know your rights, you don't know your rights.
And right now, immigrants know more about the physics of America than actual Americans.
So I think we need to really be focused on K through twelve education, which President Trump is doing with revamping the Department of Education or abolishing it.
I think he's doing a great thing with that.
The more local we can bring back education to get our country back on track, I think the better off we'll be.
I appreciate both of you for being on.
Misha Maynard, thank you so much for being with us.
Darius Mayfield, we appreciate you being with us, and good luck to both of you, and we'll have you back soon.
Well, it is interesting, this Mom Donnie thing.
Very interesting.
New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, apparently talking about Mom Donnie's comments on global antifada.
Listen.
So, Brian, I didn't hear your exchange with him, but if I was speaking to him directly, I would simply say, that is not how the words are received.
And it doesn't matter what meaning you have in your brain, it is not how the word is received.
And when you use the word like antifada, to many Jewish Americans and Jewish New Yorkers, that means you are permissive for violence against Jews.
It is a serious word.
It is a word that has deep meaning.
It has been used for wars across time and violence and destruction and slaughter and murder against the Jews.
It is a harmful, hurtful, inappropriate word for anyone who wants to represent a city as diverse as New York City with 8 million people.
And I would be very specific in these words.
And I would say you may not use them again if you expect to represent everyone ever again, because they are received as hateful and divisive and harmful.
And that's it.
So I appreciate that he told you he didn't mean that.
And that's great.
And I think we also clarify, or he was clarifying that he never said globalize the antifada.
He was asked in an interview if he would denounce the phrase globalize the antifada.
And then that led to this kind of conversation, you know, that you were just referring to.
But that he was never out there saying globalize the antifada.
He was asked about other people who used it.
So just to be precise about about what happened there, yes.
Well, as a leader of a city as diverse as New York City with eight million people, the largest Jewish population in the country should denounce it.
And that's it.
Period.
And you can't celebrate it, you can't value it, you can't lift it up.
So on that radio interview, I agree with Kirsten Gillibrand, he should denounce it.
What's so hard about that?
Listen to AOC who had supported Mom Donnie and says this is about the message that the people of New York City are trying to send to our party.
This is getting fascinating to watch this intramural battle, but more importantly, the leadership of the Democratic Party is scared to death to take on the likes of AOC, the squad, Jasmine Crockett, the Elizabeth Warren's grandpa Bernie's of their party, the loud voices in their party uh that have silenced the likes of Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries.
Listen.
We have a a choice to listen to that message that people are sending us or not.
This isn't just about um Mr. Momdani as an individual.
This is about the message that the people of New York City are trying to send to our party.
Now, James Carville, he's been a little off off the uh off of the rails lately.
I don't know what's happened.
He used to be pretty reasonable.
Um, but he I think got this one right.
Crazy Carvel says Mamdani's victory is potentially a damaging event for Democrats.
They can't escape the socialism question.
Listen, I can't imagine that any Democratic candidate anywhere in a country is going to be able to escape answering this question.
I think the microphones will follow them around.
I think that that they're gonna pound this home as hard as they possibly can.
Uh and it's also, you know, honestly, given uh you in, you know, what I of course everybody's gonna try to do.
Let's look at our nominees in in Virginia and New Jersey.
And great.
I mean, what that has to be big part of our answer.
And depending on who comes in a general election, there's a lot of Democrats gonna have a hard go at this.
I think it's a potential potentially damaging event.
It's beyond damaging.
And James knows it.
He's not stupid.
I've debated him, smart guy.
Used to be a fun guy.
He's getting a little crazy in his old age.
I'm not sure why, but uh I still like him deep down.
I can't help it.
I always like the guy.
Fun to hang out with, but he's a he's crazy Carval.
Can't help it.
Bernie Ohio, a liberal.
What's up, liberal Bernie?
What's going on?
Yeah, um, I I know that you guys think that Trump did a great thing and everything with bombing um Iran using the bunker bombs and all that, but this is a situation that he created when he got rid of the uh agreement that we had with Iran.
So every you mean the agreement that was in place by Barack Obama, and you think that you should reward the number one state sponsor of terror with millions of dollars and cash and other currency and do a deal and and give up all that money to a terror regime?
You're okay with that?
Do you think that was a good deal?
There was a deal set in place.
Stop.
I asked you a question.
Was it the right decision of Barack Obama and Joe Biden to send cargo planes full of cash and other currency, billions of dollars to the number one state sponsor of terror and the mullahs in Iran?
Was that a smart decision?
It was an agreement, so yeah.
I didn't ask you if it was an agreement.
You see, you can't answer the question because you know it'll sound asinine if you give the truthful answer.
Was it a good idea, yes or no, for Barack Obama to send cargo planes with you know billions in cash and other currency to the mules in Iran, the number one state sponsor of terror, yes or no?
Well, good good idea, bad idea.
I say yes, and can I explain?
You say it was a good idea to send the number one state sponsor of terror, you know, billions in cash and other currency.
That was a good idea to you.
Go ahead.
Tell me why.
Okay.
Because number one, it kept them from producing any any kind of like nuclear weapons that false.
Stop stop.
No, you're not allowed to lie on this program.
They accelerated the nuclear program because they had the money now to do it.
And number two, it accelerated their their proxy terror war against Israel because they had the money to buy and create the weaponry.
So you're wrong.
Next point.
They increased their ability to do so after Donald Trump.
Can you acknowledge this fact?
Is is Iran the number one state sponsor of terror?
Can you acknowledge that simple truth?
I don't know.
I'm not an expert on state sponsors.
Well, then why are you calling this program trying to act like you know, you t telling Donald Trump what to do?
If you can't acknowledge, if you don't read a newspaper, if you don't follow the news, they are the number one state sponsor of terror.
And the fact is you know that to be true, but because of politics, you just won't admit the truth.
Why don't you admit that the number one state sponsor of terror?
They help plot and plan and fund uh October 7th, they fund Hamas's Bullah, Islamic Jihad, the militias in Syria and and Iraq, and the Houthi rebels.
Can you acknowledge basic fundamental truth or this?
You're just wasting my time on this Friday.
I'm not really in the mood for for playing games.
I don't have those records to review in front of me.
Do you?
You don't have the records to do you ever watch the news?
Do you ever read a newspaper?
Do you ever read anything?
Which news?
Your news, our news, their news.
Who's new?
All right.
I try Linda.
Was that did I give it a fair try, or do I need to be more fair?
I think it being very fair.
I think that it's called the Sean Hannity show for a reason.
So Amy in New York.
What's up, Amy?
How are you?
Hey, Sean.
You are wonderful.
I'd be in fair to that call.
I'm trying, I we we don't we we don't uh you know um screen out liberal callers.
Oh my god.
But when the when they when they're not smart, it's very hard to have a conversation with them.
I am a Trumper.
Everything that Dr. uh everything that President Trump has done is the best thing for America.
I I'm what he did last Saturday was wonderful.
What he's continuing to do is wonderful.
When he left off Hamas, I'm sorry, Iran had no money.
They were poor.
When Biden came in, all of a sudden they were billionaires, and then they supported Iran to attack Hamas to they supply Hamas with money to attack Israel on October 7th.
And well, that's all true.
Thank you for being an informed caller.
That is correct.
He turned a blind eye to the sanctions that were bankrupting them that when Donald Trump was president, and like his hero, Barack Obama, he you know, allowed the Iranian regime to get rich again.
And what did they do with that money?
They expanded out their their nuclear facilities and enriched more uranium, and they fomented more terror in the region, and they built out more lethal weaponry to attack Israel and fulfilled their their stated goal and pledge to wipe Israel and the U.S. off the map.
That's it.
Now, I think the president, I agree with the Trump doctrine.
I think the president made the right call.
I think it's consistent with how he has managed foreign policy in his first term by taking out the caliphate, by taking out Solomani, by taking out Baghdadi, and by take, you know, dropping the mother of all bombs on Afghanistan, but also preventing us from getting involved in these forever wars.
And I admire it.
It was a great success.
I gotta run, Amy.
Appreciate the call.
God bless you.
Have a great weekend.
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Mike, how are you?
Glad you called.
Good.
How are you, Sean?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Happy Friday.
Happy Friday.
I got a question for you.
I think a lot of us can agree that the past four years have been terrible with the reckless spending the omnibus bills and those things, but I'm curious to hear your thoughts and how the big beautiful bill is different from the liberal omnibus bills.
Well, there's a lot of things I like in this bill, there's a lot of things I don't like.
Well, look, I mean, you you're stuck with uh the swamp and and this arcane, you know, rule.
Um you have cloture, and there is one way to get around it in the U.S. Senate, and that's reconciliation.
And this is what they've run into with the Senate parliamentarian, and and instead of needing 60 votes to actually get the president's agenda cross the line, you get you can do it with 51 votes, but everything has to do with taxes and spending, and you know, there are very rigid guidelines because you have to you have to deal with the bird rule, the bird rule, you know, is can be very stringent and arduous.
So it's never going to be under those circumstances, and that that that there's no blame to go around to any Republican on this um to get a majority of what we want.
What will we get out of this bill for sure?
We're gonna get the largest tax cut in history.
We're gonna get for sure no tax on tips, no tax on overtime.
We're gonna get for sure money for the border so we can secure the border and money for national defense for the next generation of weaponry and some level of reform when it comes to Medicaid, etc.
So uh they're working on, you know, language that'll be acceptable to the Senate parliamentarian.
They won't get everything that they want.
Uh there's enough good in there for me to say that it's it's perhaps even one of the more conservative bills that they've ever passed.
Uh however, as Lindsey Graham has said on this program, they've got to come back and cut more.
And he says there should be a second reconciliation bill.
I agree with them.
Um I hope that answers your question.
It it it uh yeah, there's things in there I'm never gonna like, nobody's gonna like, but it's just either that or you stick with the Harris Biden economy.
That's our choice here.
Not a good choice, but you make the best of a bad situation, in my view.
Imperfect as it is.
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