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Radical Democrats Taking Over The Party - August 5th, Hour 1
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Just when you thought uh uh Kami Mamdani or Marx's Mondani couldn't get any worse.
Linda, did you see this today in the New York Post?
Just when you thought this lunatic mayoral campaign could not get any further radical extreme left.
He's now endorsed a plan.
You know what the plan is?
I'm testing you.
What is the plan?
To offer free sex change operations paid for by New York City taxpayers to every single person in America who may want one.
The Marxist Mamdani campaign also wants to have city taxpayers pay for the airline tickets of out of state trans surgery candidates as well as their hotel rooms while they're in New York City.
By the way, it's not cheap to get a hotel in New York City.
Well, unless you're an illegal immigrant, then you get it for free.
Anyway, the Democratic Socialists of America leader is boasting that the left wing group helped write Zoran Mamdani's radical trans right platform.
The Zoran campaign was always eager to work with us, bragged a DSA member, Daniel Golden is his name, or in a conference panel discussion.
We wrote the platform with him, and it goes on to say he trumpeted a Mamdani plan for the city to pay for trans surgeries for all and not just in the big Apple.
Quote, Zoron wants to provide gender affirming care to anyone who wants it for free.
We're going to fly people in.
We're going to pay for their hotel rooms.
We collaborated with the Mamdani campaign on his trans rights platform, and what we explicitly wanted to do was use the power of New York City to provide free gender affirming care, not just to people in New York City, but across the country.
Many appeared to downplay the cost of the scheme.
Quote, New York City could provide trans health care for every trans person in the country who can't afford it, and it would be a blip on our radar.
Stuart Smith, investigative analyst with the Manhattan Institute, who initially posted clips from DSA's convention on X pointed out the $65 million in taxpayer funds that Mamdani wants to earmark to cover trans surgery for anyone who wants it won't last too long given the cost of the procedures.
I'm fine with this plan.
Let them keep pushing this plan.
I don't have any problem with it.
You notice that Mom Donnie won't talk to the New York Post.
And did you notice the New York Post is going to do a California edition, the California Post?
You know the New York Post?
I get the hard copy down in my free state of Florida, and I still like to read the hard copy because I've been doing it since I'm a kid when I delivered newspapers at eight years old.
I started reading newspapers.
What if they got to put in the California Post?
Well, then they're gonna build out, they're gonna put a printed edition.
Do you know the Post is like the most read newspaper in the country?
The New York Post.
I love the New York Post.
I read it every single day, and we have a lot of friends that are columnists for the New York Post.
But I mean, what is there to write in the California Post?
I mean, honestly.
State's a lot of people.
Oh, there's gonna be plenty to write.
Just uh how about cover Gavin Newsom accurately and start there?
Oh, it's gonna be a Republican Post.
No, it's gonna be like or I guess an honest paper.
All right, so they have the New York Post, and then they're gonna have the California Post, which is the equivalent of the New York Post.
Ah, okay, that's very cool.
I thought you were saying they were trying to combat the New York Post with like a liberal version called the California Post.
I'm like, freaking really.
Suffolk County, Long Island in New York is gonna offer tax breaks to big Apple companies to relocate if the uh Kami Mamdani, Zoran Mamdani, Marx's Mamdani is elected mayor of New York City.
Uh if Mamdani wins, I'm gonna encourage many of the corporations that do business in New York City to come to Suffolk.
It's about 70 miles east.
Uh, and we're gonna give them tax breaks and they're gonna be able to do better, according to the county executive Ed Romain.
Romaine is a Republican.
I mean, they do have good county executives out there.
Bruce Blakely's doing a good job in Nassau County.
I mean, they're doing their very best.
If you actually look at a map of New York, most of it is red.
It's it's it's you have a problem.
You have this densely populated city where you occasionally visit, and I never visit.
I stay away from.
And that's New York City.
Anyway, um, Mamdanny is what her party should look like.
You bet, I mean, this is Elizabeth Warren saying yesterday campaigning with Mom Donnie, uh, and then trying to defend Mom Donnie.
I'm like, I'm all for listen, we got we can't hear enough from Mom Dani, Jasmine Crockett, ALC, the squad, Pocahontas, Grandpa Bernie.
I want to hear from all of them.
And notice that the so-called leadership of the Democratic Party, their silence is deafening.
Uh, there's a part of me that is really enjoying what's what's unfolding for Democrats in terms of their hitting the panic button and you know, using the racial allegation and charge about the issue of gerrymandering in Texas, because this is all that they have done.
I mean, it it's it's pretty amazing because the when you when you look at what Democrats have done.
Now, Texas Governor Greg Abbott, we had him on TV last night, has issued issued arrest warrants, and I guess it's $500 a day fines for Democrats because they fled Austin and you know, fled doing their job and went to see J.B. Pritzker, ironically, we'll get to that in a second, why it's ironic in in Illinois.
And not only they're wasting valuable taxpayer money and time, it's just a performative political stunt, which is something we see often from Democrats and their plea for attention and their desire to scream racist and smear Republicans and smear Donald Trump, but there's a big problem for the Democratic Party.
Democrats, they don't, and they're all out there.
This is a declaration of war.
I don't know if you saw Kathy Hokel said this.
I was laughing.
Uh and you know, and then you had Gavin Newsom.
He's got a problem with what he wants to do, but New York Governor Kathy Hogle.
We are at war over Texas redistricting.
Well, Democrats, you know, already redrew the maps in all of these states.
Now, I want you to pay close attention to this, because they say they want fairness.
They say that this is about racism.
They say that this is about stealing an election.
Let's look at New York, for example.
Independent commission is designed to, you know, break a deadlock which allows the Democratic-dominated state legislature to take over and draw the maps.
Now, if you look at these states and you break down these states one by one, what you find, for example, in New York, after running the 2022 elections under a map that was drawn by a special master, oh, Democrats that control the state legislature, they redrew that map and they redrew it to favor them.
And it resulted in the loss of not one, not two, but three Republican congressional seats.
For example, in New York State, Republicans won 42% of the statewide House vote, but they only represent 27% of the seats.
And if you look nationwide, Republicans won the overall House vote by more than two points, but they ended up losing two seats because of Democratic gerrymandering in California.
Republicans won 39% of the House vote.
They only represent 17% of House seats in California.
Why?
Because of gerrymandering and Connecticut.
This is this is pretty amazing.
Republicans actually won 40% of the House vote.
They have zero Republican representatives from the state of Connecticut.
In Illinois, where these Austin politicians went to, perhaps the most gerrymandered map in the nation.
In 2024, Republicans won a very impressive 47% of the statewide House vote.
They only represent 18% of the seats.
They only represent three of them.
They won nearly half.
You would think they would have close to half.
They don't.
Maryland, one of the bluest states in the country.
Republicans only got 35% of the statewide House vote there.
Okay, 35%.
You would think they'd have at least a third of House seats in the state of Maryland.
No, they don't.
They only have 12% of the seats.
Massachusetts, another outrageous example.
For example, President Trump won 36% of the vote last year.
Republicans won zero House seats.
There were zero Republican candidates for House last year in the whole state because they realize that gerrymandering has made it a fruitless attempt for them to win out in Nevada.
Maybe worse.
Republicans won the statewide House vote by 10 points.
They walked away with one single House seat.
That's it.
Why?
Because of gerrymandering.
In New Jersey, Vice President Harris only won by six points.
Republicans got 45% of the House vote in New Jersey.
They only walked away with three seats, 27%.
They won 45% of the vote, but they only have representation for 27% of the people of New Jersey.
In New Mexico, Republicans got 45% of the statewide House vote.
They won zero seats after the five Democrats on the state Supreme Court ruled that the state houses map is not an egregious gerrymander.
Of course, Democrats on the court are going to vote that way.
I mentioned New York, out west in Oregon.
Republicans won 42% statewide House vote.
They only have 17% representation of seats in Congress, losing one and then leaving them with just one.
In Washington State, they won 42% of the statewide House vote.
Republicans only have 20% less than half of the seats, which represents two.
So all of this talk about Governor Abbott, and Governor Abbott now has threatened to arrest and expel Texas House members.
In the meantime, they're going to be fine for, I guess, every day that they're out.
We'll see what happens in the course of the day.
But this new Democratic-drawn congressional map, for example, that Kathy Hochul She wants to declare war on Texas.
They already did this in New York.
You know, it gives a modest boost to these battleground districts helping Democratic candidates in heavily contested election years win house races that could control the balance of power in Congress.
And they're out there saying that this is unfair and that this is racist, et cetera, et cetera.
They have gotten away with this the entire time.
And the idea that somehow Republicans are to blame for this is a joke.
Anyway, we'll see.
We'll see what happens.
Oh, by the way, the Texas Democrats, did you hear this story, Linda, that went to Illinois to see J.B. Pritzker?
Maybe J.B. Pritzker is another one that thinks he's going to be president.
All these people think they're going to be president.
They're not going to be president.
Nope.
Did you know they took uh a seventy-six seat private jet to Illinois?
Most of the state legislators boarded a 76 seat private jet flown out of the state-of-the-art private terminal at Austin International Airport, according to the Washington Free Beacon, and flight logs and photos.
And that jet left around 5 o'clock on Sunday, landed in Chicago two hours later.
A flight that likely cost them I mean, a flight like that probably cost them $50,000 $50,000 each way to meet with the uh Illinois governor and billionaire Hyatt Hotel heir, J.B. Pritzker, who said Texas Republicans are attempting to cheat.
Go back to Illinois for crying out loud.
The most gerrymandering.
I want to know the date for that flight.
Don't you want to know?
Inquiring minds would like to know.
So Republicans win 47% in Illinois, statewide House vote, meaning House of Representatives, and they only get 18% of the seats.
I mean, these P and then for them to say they're trying to steal an election.
No.
how about they're trying to have an equal playing field?
These are the rules that were designed by states like California and New York and in Connecticut and in Illinois and Maryland and Massachusetts and Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Washington.
They set the rules.
They set up the standards.
And now Republicans start fighting back, playing by their rules.
And now all of a sudden this is this is outrageous.
This is wrong.
This is immoral.
This is racist.
You're trying to steal an election.
Nope.
They're just doing what you're doing.
And you just don't like it that it's being done to you.
Maybe you shouldn't have done it in the first place yourself.
We're just watching.
I don't know if we uh brought up the issue of this young man who's in one of the terror tunnels built by Hamas instead of them feeding people and building out schools and roads and hospitals and infrastructure.
The number one state sponsor of terror, Iran has provided them all the monies to build these these terror tunnels, this whole network, all the weapons that they use to fire rockets into Israel.
And his brother, uh, which he's pleading for before the frankly very anti-Semitic United Nations, anti-American United Nations, which we shouldn't pay a penny for, they won't care.
But the world has been trying to blame Israel.
Let me be very clear.
If you want to end the hostilities and make sure everyone gets the assistance they need, return the hostages, stop the war, remove Hamas that has in their charter the destruction of Israel, stop firing rockets into Israel, stop taking hostages, stop beheading people, stop murdering people, stop raping people.
And the fact that so many Americans and people around the world don't have that moral clarity makes me sick to my stomach.
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So Linda, I have friends of mine um that are entrepreneurs, and they're in Clearwater, Florida.
And they've got about, I think this is their sixth store that they're opening.
It's called Chicken Salad Chick.
Doesn't that sound great?
Because I know you love chicken salad.
It's pretty popular.
Oh my gosh, it's so popular.
If it I am begging them to open one where I live because I love it so much.
It's so delicious.
You wouldn't think that you'd come up with like 20 different styles of chicken salad, right?
No, definitely not.
Okay, I like my chicken salad with a lot of onions and a lot of a lot of um celery, you know, to make it like you know, chunky, but they have all these flavors, little you want a little spice to it, they've got it all.
It's incredible.
And they're entrepreneurs, they work their tail off, and they had one of their stores a while back actually caught fire.
They're rebuilding that store, and it's been very hard for them.
I mean, they're small business owners, and on top of that, with Hurricane Helene, remember, they got slammed.
Their basement was flooded with water.
I'm like, uh, how much more can one family one one group of people friends of mine take?
Anyway, it's run by my friends Paul and Lindsay, and they just opened their new store today.
It's at tw if you're in Clearwater, you're listening on FLA or FTL, wherever whatever station you're listening on, um, it's 2140, uh Gulf to Bay Boulevard in Clearwater.
We were just at Clearwater at Ruth Eckert Hall.
We had a great time.
It's called Chicken Salad Chick.
Now they have other locations.
You can check those out as well.
Tell them your friend Sean Hannity sent you.
And I'm so proud of them because they work so hard, and it's like the American dream for Sonified.
Um, they started out, Paul did it part-time, and Lindsay did it part-time.
She was working full-time in the stores, and you know, he was working another full-time job to to make this thing work, and and they've slowly but surely been able to build a business, and they provide like this great product.
And I just know you so well.
Like you would probably order it four days a week at least.
I am a creature of habit, and I do like healthy food.
It sounds amazing.
Um, I love it, and you know how hard my palate is to to please.
I really do.
It's only in Florida, though, nowhere else, yeah.
It's uh I don't know if it's in other states.
I know there are different places in Florida, but this they are by far the biggest uh franchisee.
I mean, they they because they do such a good job, and they're so customer friendly.
Okay.
I mean, if you meet Lindsay and Paul, tell them your friend Sean sent you.
2140 Gulf to Bay Boulevard in Clearwater, go there today.
It's a grand opening.
They got all sorts of goodies for people, and I'm so proud of them, so proud to be able to call them friends, and and they work so hard.
You know what they do, you know how they make they get they get the chicken, what do you call it?
Tenderloy.
And they steam it, which makes it really, really moist.
You know, what have I always said about when I cook meat?
The key to cooking meat is moisture.
And then, of course, you know, you have to you have to have a little bit of knowledge in terms of how to season it.
Um, but anyway, it it is so delicious, like such a cut above any chicken salad you may have ever had in your life.
I'm telling you, it's gonna change the way you eat, and chicken is so healthy for you, it's look good for you.
And um, and they have all these different variations you can try.
I mean, you wouldn't think.
I mean, when I first when they first ran the idea by me, I'm like, what else do you sell?
No, we just sell chicken salads.
I'm like, wow.
And it's then I then I tasted it.
And every time they I see them, I will beg them to bring it with them.
I mean, I'm like literally begging for free food.
And they bring it, they're very gracious, they bring it to me every time.
Um, but if you tried it, you would definitely love it.
It's very good.
They're very cool people, very nice, they work so hard, they got great kids.
That sounds great.
At least they're in the you know, the wonderful state of Florida where you know entrepreneurism lives.
So that's a great thing.
Listen, even um the one Chick-fil-A that it opened not like I guess a block away from Fox News, and when that opened in New York City, and they literally had lines down a New York City block and around the corner, and people would wait.
And one day I was out to dinner um a couple of years ago, and I ran into Dave Cathy, and remember they took a lot of heat because they closed their store on Sunday, as a matter of for religious reasons.
Now they're losing a lot of money when you close a fast food place down for a day, you're losing money.
And it's a small margin business to begin with.
And these are all they're not franchisees, these are all owned by Dave Cathy, all owned, family-owned company.
It's kind of like In N Out Burger.
They've never franchised In and Out Burger.
And as hard as I have tried.
I, Linda, I have tried and tried.
Can't do it.
I I might do a deal with Crown Burger.
They're good too.
They're awesome.
That's a decision.
That would be great decision.
I'm telling you, Crown Burger, Florida, Crown Burger, Tennessee, Crown Burger, East Coast.
It would take the world by storm.
Um anyway, I just love entrepreneurs.
I love successful stories.
It's by the way, Crown Burger, same thing.
Crown burger, family and run business.
And they've done really, really well.
But they they mostly have stayed in Utah up until recently, in and out burger was the West Coast.
Now they're moving their headquarters.
Uh Lindsay Snyder is the CEO explained in a podcast interview.
Why you with um who did she do the podcast with?
The thing that I dislike the most about tariffs are I don't like to prop up inefficient industries.
Right.
We saw that in the 70s when we had tariffs that protected our auto industry, and it it really became fell way behind.
I don't like it when they prop up companies of the past, you know, the past, and hold back companies of the future.
But as Tim said, they raise a lot of revenue.
Right.
And I think it's worth really studying the the impact of that.
Now, I think the thing that I dislike the most is that they're uneven, right?
And so they're uneven.
They punish some, they benefit other.
I'm talking about within the within the U.S. economy.
And so they create distortions which have a which have an adverse impact.
Democrats are going to respond from coast to coast and at all points in between to this effort to steal the mid-term elections.
The tool they're using is a racist gerrymandered map.
It's starting in Texas.
But if this happens, all Americans will suffer.
Republicans are willing to rewrite these rules to give themselves an advantage.
Then they're leaving us no choice.
I'm telling you right now, we need to win in the midterm.
We need to stop him from cheating, from lying, and from stealing the election.
And if they're doing something to add their congressional seats, we need to look at our ways out of doing that right now.
All bets are off when the cult leader and you know would be dictator of the United States tells Texas to midstream change the game when they know that they're gonna lose in 2026.
All bets are off.
I want to hear your forward-looking vision for the party.
You're very clearly a rising star in the party.
So how do you want to piece it back together?
Yeah.
Well, for me, I I'm I'm real aggressive if y'all haven't noticed.
So my vision would be a very aggressive one.
I am confident it doesn't matter who the Democratic nominee is gonna be, we're gonna win.
But what are we gonna need to do then?
For me, it's getting aggressive.
Now now listen, I'm not gonna say this what we gonna do, but I'm telling y'all what my vision would be.
Listen, Donald Trump is a piece of sh.
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As you probably hear, this is not Sean Hannity, but I am his esteemed producer, Linda.
Awesome to talk to you for a hot second.
So I think as Sean was talking about, you know, chicken salad chick, he got super excited.
And he was like, you know what?
I need to run out and do that right now.
Linda, cover me for a minute.
And I was like, that's weird.
Let's not do that.
And he you know, it's hard to control someone that magnanimous.
So Sean's gonna be back in just a second.
But you know, we're talking about all sorts of things today.
You know, we have so much going on, you know, Donald Trump is doing his best to, you know, wage a really solid task of bringing the country back to normal after so many years of you know, sleepy Joe, and and it's it's incredible that we even have members of Congress like Jasmine Crockett and Al Green out there saying things like we have Hitler.
I'm not sure.
I'm not sure why that happened.
Anyway, and then from 2020 to 2024, we had the issue of you know, weaponization and lawfare to bloody up Trump, so we wouldn't be a viable candidate.
That's what's being investigated.
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And just imagine hearing like your grandmother, your grandfather.
It's such an amazing thing, and you just it's just awesome.
I can't say enough good things about it.
But back to what I was saying before, you know, about Jasmine Crockett and and Al Green.
I think we have some audio of Jasmine Crockett.
If you want to play that for me, Ethan Cut Six.
It's just insane.
You got to hear it for yourself.
They understand the importance of standing for what democracy is and making sure that it does not fall by the wayside.
They understand that we have a Timu Hitler in the White House right now that thinks that he is going to become the dictator of the United States.
I want to hear you.
I love Jasmine Crockett.
Jasmine Crockett's my favorite.
The gift that keeps on giving.
No, I want to hear from Jasmine Crockett.
I want to hear from Marxist Mom Donnie.
I want to hear from AOC.
I want to hear from all of them.
By the way, uh stations across the Sean Hannity Show Network, where we did have a technical problem.
We apologize for the difficulty.
Um occasionally you get these hiccups.
Yeah, one which is.
I told them the truth, Sean.
You don't need to tell them that.
I told them that you ran out to get chicken salad check.
You were overcome after talking about it for 10 minutes.
You're like, I gotta go.
No, you want to know what the frustrating thing is is talking about it for so long does absolutely make me hungry.
Anyways, so I would talking the whole time, and I I'm everyone missed my entire monologue about the with the weaponization and what is actually happening and how the DOJ launched the grand jury investigation into all the Russia gay conspiracy allegations.
And while they declined to comment on the report, but also that Jack Smith is under investigation by the Office of Special Counsel, and the specific scope of it's not clear, but it would be potentially about violating the Hatch Act.
I mean, the OSC's statutory authority comes from four federal laws the Civil Service Reform Act, the Whistleblower Protection Act, the Hatch Act, Uniform Services, Employment and Reemployment Act.
Now, what's interesting about this is Jim Jordan early on demanded that Jack Smith preserve all of his text messages and all of his emails.
Now, whether that happened or not, time is only gonna tell, but certainly there could be information in there that would be rather damning in a lot of different ways.
So we'll find out what happens.
Umcialists in America now they have the democratic socialists of America, the DSA is what it's called.
And this is where we learned of this plan uh by this Mam Dani guy, and this was in the New York Post today, a top advisor boasting that they are gonna have New York City taxpayers fund free sex change operations for everyone in America who wants one.
We're gonna fly people in, we're gonna pay for their hotel rooms.
Okay, add to that.
Apparently they had their 2025 socialism conference, and some of the highlights are quote, I want to perform abortions at a church before it's all said and done.
Okay.
The only real difference between marriage and prostitution is the price and duration of the contract.
Uh, quote, sex work and marriage can't exist without each other.
They're two sides of the same coin.
Quote, we argue for the abolition of the family in general.
The institution of the family acts as a part of this whole system that we despise.
And when we talk about family abolition, we're talking about the abolition of economic units.
Unbelievable.
All of our material needs to be taken care of by the collective.
And you know, all this took place.
This is what this is why Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jefferies cannot stand up to these radicals.
Because they feared they I do have a clock.
They fear standing up to them is gonna result in them losing their jobs.
All right, when we come back, we'll check in with my good friend Mike Rowe.
And also the other news of the day and a mayoral candidate in Cincinnati that would actually show up when a mob mob attacks people.
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