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Dems Divided - October 17th, Hour 2
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It is remarkable to me, and it is sad.
It is pathetic.
It is unconscionable.
And I said this about the Democratic Party that after they wouldn't stand for the family of Lake and Riley at the joint session speech, and they wouldn't stand for the family of Jocelyn Nungari, a little 12-year-old girl brutally raped and murdered in Houston, Texas.
And they wouldn't stand for a young man that had just beaten cancer.
He's 12 years old, had it for four years and became a Secret Service agent.
I said, this is a party that has lost its heart, its soul, and its conscience.
I mean, how do you not stand?
How do you put politics above families that lost loved ones?
What they don't like is it is a reminder to America that the, you know, 12 to 20 million unvetted Biden-Harris Maorcas illegals have included known terrorists and murderers, rapists, and other violent criminals and murderer and cartel members and gang members and drug dealers.
And they're not making our city safe and secure.
You can't pursue happiness.
It's a prerequisite that you have law and order and safety and security.
That's why everyone, you put your trust in government.
How's D-Fund dismantled?
Nobel reimagine sending the social workers working out for you.
How's your educational system?
You know, in blue states and cities, you know, run by Democrats for decades.
They have failed spectacularly.
And then in comes Donald Trump and he's like, okay, the dying's got to stop.
You know, or if they are threatening ICE agents like in Portland, I couldn't believe in Chicago, they had to put a fence up outside of a ICE facility.
And when they put that fence up, you know, then in comes J.B. Pritzker and takes it down.
Are you out of your mind?
And he's just been lashing out like a madman against everybody in the administration.
Here's his latest rant against Stephen Miller.
The people who serve for the president, including all the way down to ICE agents, can be held accountable when there's a change of administration who's willing to hold them accountable when they break the law.
Now, Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law.
So, you know, he should know that, yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but make sure I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget.
And it's not like we don't have a record of what they're doing.
Pretty remarkable to me.
You know, and then say, hey, all of you people that are trying to save lives, yeah, you better be careful because when Democrats get back in power, we're coming after you.
You know, the Biden administration, how often did they tell us that the border is secure and the border is closed?
Here's a reminder.
Sounds to most folks like a crisis.
Well, look, it's way down now.
We've now gotten control.
Precisely that.
The border is closed, nor could I have been clearer and continued to be so, which is the border is closed.
The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border.
The border, we are working to make the border more secure.
You're confident this border is secure.
We have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation, including ours in our administration.
We agree that the border is secure.
Pretty remarkable.
Now, here are the facts since this idiot governor, J.B. Pritzker, has been in office.
4,000 people in his state are murdered.
Five times the murder rate of New York City.
And that is saying something.
You know, and then Democrats, they sit idly by.
No Democrats pointed out, no, the border's wide open.
They didn't tell us the truth.
It was like, you know, oh, we can't call out our own party and say, hey, this is dumb and not good.
And it's sad because they give into the radicals, the extremists that wanted open borders.
It's pathetic.
I mean, now we have ICE trying to do their job and all they do is go after Tom Holman, doxing ICE agents, putting their lives in jeopardy.
They're taking down fences because that are protecting ICE agents.
They're telling ICE agents you got to take your mask off.
Although, obviously, constitutionally, jurisdiction lies with the federal government because of the supremacy clause.
But there are a couple of Democrats that, thank God, they exist and can see the truth.
They're not blinded by party loyalty.
And one is Alderman Raymond Lopez of Chicago.
And he's sick and tired of all of this.
And here's what we welcome him to the program.
Alderman, great to have you.
How are you?
Thank you, Sean.
Thank you to you and your listeners.
Let's get your analysis of this.
You know, you're exactly right.
You know, the Democratic Party has lost its way, lost its purpose, and is completely enamored now, not just with criminality, but with their own self-fulfilling Trump derangement syndrome.
We have opportunities to work together, and yet we are fighting our own American law enforcement that is enforcing the laws that Congress passed when it comes to immigration.
They are doing the job that should have been done for the last four years of the previous administration when everyone ignored the Venezuelan migrants that were coming here by the millions, unproperly vetting them, shipping them throughout the entire nation.
And now it is the cause celebrity of the Democratic Party radicals and professional protesters to now stand and try to harm and injure ICE agents doing their job, trying to go after the worst of the worst, trying to convince cities like Chicago, New York, and others that we should be working together in strategic surgical ways and being rejected and rebuffed at every turn.
It's madness.
And I think that we have an opportunity to work with the president to do something that we haven't seen in 40 years, which is hit the reset, work with the president, and then both parties need to commit themselves to not just moving forward, but moving forward in a way that ensures that we have proper enforcement and adherence to the law so that we don't have millions of individuals coming here illegally without proper authorization and disabling once again our country.
Did you see this week that the Democrats in Pennsylvania want a primary John Fetterman?
Now, John Fetterman has broken ranks with the Democratic Party.
He praised the president, for example, with him taking out Iran's nuclear sites.
The idea of radical Islamic terrorists that chant death to America, death to Israel, having nuclear weapons does not exactly make for a safer world.
It's common sense.
They absolutely condemn the president on every aspect of law and order and safety and security that he's trying to instill.
And, you know, John Fetterman supports Israel, gave praise to the president because of the hostage release and the potential for peace in the Middle East, which we haven't seen in God knows how long.
And it's frustrating to me.
And I would imagine that you probably experienced the same thing.
Am I wrong?
You are not wrong at all, Sean.
Even in my own city of Chicago, anytime that I mention that we need to work with our federal partners, if I say that we have to find ways to have common sense solutions that include the federal government, that include working with the Trump administration, not an hour will go by that I'm not called a traitor to my country, traitor to my people, traitor to my city, that I'm a closet MAGA.
And the fact of the matter is that I put country above all else.
You know, it's faith, it's country, and family.
And so many of the Democratic Party are just obsessed with having the fight that they lose sight of what they're fighting for.
Your party, I don't think I'm wrong in saying many in your party, and I won't speak so broadly, many, and I would argue the majority in terms of leadership have lost their heart and soul, and I don't understand it.
How do you not stand for the family of Lake and Riley?
How do you not stand for the family of Jocelyn Nunngari?
You can't put petty partisan politics aside for 20 seconds and honor families that lost loved ones?
No, you're exactly right.
And it's shameful when you look at this is what this is the kind of role models that we're showing to younger generations of voters, people who want to be aspiring leaders in our country and who might be associating with the Democratic Party see that refusal to honor our heroes, to honor victims of violence, to honor cancer survivors.
That's a sickness.
That's the true sickness in the Democratic Party.
And sadly, those loud voices make up the small minority of the electorate, the Democratic Party electorate, but oftentimes take center stage because people give them the most amount of time and attention simply because they're the loudest, craziest voice in the room.
4,000 people in your state dead.
Nobody, I bet most people in your state can't mention their names.
They don't know their names.
I know one, you know, for example, Giano Caldwell, a friend of mine, who lost his innocent brother in a senseless shooting.
I know others because we've covered it for so many years.
For so many years, I'd scroll the names of the people shot and shot and killed, and nobody seemed to care.
And Pritzker's, you know, yelling at Donald Trump for trying to save lives in Chicago.
How do the people of Chicago feel about it?
If I'm in Chicago, I'm going to love your hot dogs.
I never thought I'd like deep dish pizza, but I do.
But I would want my city safe.
I would want my children safe.
Remember the case of that little girl that was killed in her grandmother's backyard?
I couldn't believe that story.
You know, where's the breaking point here where people realize these Democrats don't care about us?
They're not restoring law and order.
Well, I think we're seeing some of that now, Sean, when we hear people who are wondering why we have leaders like Johnson, leaders like Pritzker who are constantly telling us to resist, to fight back, to push, to rebuff the invasion of the Trump militarization in our city, and yet hear crickets louder than gunshots when it comes to those individuals who are shot and killed and victimized in the city of Chicago every day, every weekend, like clockwork.
You know, the irony was when Donald Trump had said that he wanted to send in the National Guard and Pritzker and Johnson both said our city's safe.
We don't need resources.
I believe it was a holiday weekend, Labor Day weekend, if I'm not mistaken.
And we had 57 people shot that weekend, nine people killed.
And you're right.
Not one single mention of any of the victims, least of all the ones that were killed by the two top leaders of Illinois' Democratic Party.
You want to know why that is?
If they can't weaponize a killing and they can't politicize it and they can't blame Republicans or Donald Trump or try to, then why would we want to know the people's names that are shot and shot and killed?
I thought every life mattered.
You know, my Christian faith teaches me that God created every man, woman, and child in this country.
Yep.
And one would think that that should matter.
And for all of those fake Christians and fake religious elected officials out here in the city of Chicago, their outrage is like their faith, a buffet.
They pick and choose what they want, when they want, and how they want it, as opposed to the unilateral acceptance that if you believe in the sanctity of life, then you should be fighting for even those lives in our communities that are being gunned down and taken from us every single day.
Yeah, pretty unbelievable.
All right, quick break right back.
We'll continue more with Alderman Raymond Lopez of Chicago, one of the few Democrats to speak out against the insanity and violence and shootings and death in that city.
More on the other side, then we'll check in with Curtis Sleewa fresh off his debate with Comrade Marx's Momdani and Andrew Cuomo and much, much more coming up as we continue.
What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
It's almost a dirty word, one that connotes conspiracy theory.
Will we ever get the truth about the Benghazi massacre?
Bad faith, political warfare, and frankly, bullshit.
We kill the ambassador just to cover something up.
You put two and two together.
Was it an overblown distraction or a sinister conspiracy?
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We continue now with Alderman Raymond Lopez of Chicago, one of the few Democrats to speak out against the madness of shootings and murder and death and destruction of Chicago and the leadership of J.B. Pritzker and Brendan Johnson.
Alderman, you are a voice of reason.
It's not a fair question, but I have to ask it.
Have you ever considered changing parties?
You know, my party gives me an excuse almost every reason why I should leave every week.
You know, they become harder and harder to associate with, truly.
But I think that the Democratic Party needs beacons of sanity like Fetterman, like myself and others, to remind people that this is what we talk about, what we fight for, is what the party should be fighting for.
And sometimes you need a reminder of that.
And just like recently, like I reached out to President Trump to discuss solutions for the undocumented and for the Venezuelans, you know, you have to be willing to show that we can still work together without disagreeing with each other.
We can disagree without being disagreeable and work together.
We have to show that to the people.
But, you know, not a day goes by, Sean, that I don't sometimes wonder if I'm living in the upside-down world here, being the crazy one amongst the sane.
Nah, just be a beacon of light.
And, you know what?
Let these people, you know, go crazy.
And, you know, I wish I had more hope for cities like New York and Chicago.
I just don't.
I don't know why.
I just feel like it doesn't matter how bad their leadership is.
They keep getting reelected.
It's unbelievable.
Alderman Raymond Lopez, Chicago, you're a shining light in a sea of darkness there.
And these lives deserve to be protected and saved.
And I wish you well.
And if we could ever help you, please let us know.
Thank you, Sean.
800-941-Sean, our number, if you want to be a part of the program.
Curtis Sleewa, you know, hot off his debate with the comrade Marx's Mamdani will join us.
The worst moderated debate in history.
It was awful.
Anyway, we'll get to Curtis in a minute.
As I said at the top of the program today, I've never been more frustrated in my entire life.
I've watched many political debates.
I've watched many horrible moderators in my life.
I really have.
And I've never been more frustrated than watching the New York City mayoral debate last night.
It's like, okay, you have women.
Are you one minute's up?
You want a minute's up?
Wait a minute.
He mentioned me.
I want to do that.
Well, no, no, no.
You can't talk right now.
No, no, no.
Even though those are the rules, you can't talk.
Okay.
We want to get to the next question.
Okay.
Well, we'll give you 22 seconds to respond.
It was awful.
It was so frustrating.
When I moderated the debate, and I'm not patting myself on my back here.
When I moderated the debate with Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis, my governor, I said to them at the top, guys, I'm going to let this breathe.
You know, just try to be respectful of each other.
Let each other finish their sentences and finish their thought.
Then we'll, at the end of the day, I'm going to be monitoring the time and I'm going to make sure that I'm going to get as close to equal time as possible, which we successfully pulled off and it became a real debate.
I can't stand the way these debates are where the moderators think they're the ones that are debating the candidates.
It's so frustrating.
Anyway, so this, the first and only debate with Zoran, Kami, Marxist Mamdami, and Andrew Cuomo, and the person I'm supporting, Curtis Sleewa, who will join us in a moment, took place.
We learned something that, you know, Comrade Marxist Mamdani has absolutely no political compass.
He'll say and do anything.
And he has that phony, fraudulent smile, as David Asmund points out.
So did Fidel Castro.
But he is a Marxist and he is a communist and he will destroy New York City.
I guarantee, you know, this idiocy, defund, dismantle, no bail, all of that, and reimagine the police and send in the social workers.
Anyway, he flip-flopped finally on Hamas and really doesn't answer the question on global antifada, but here's what he said.
Do you believe that Hamas should lay down their weapons and leave the leadership in Gaza?
I believe that any future here in New York City is one that we have to make sure that's affordable for all and it pertains to Israel and Palestine, that we have to ensure that there is peace.
And that is the future that we have to fight for.
But you won't say that Hamas should lay down their arms and give up leadership in Gaza.
I don't really have opinions about the future of Hamas and Israel beyond the question of justice and safety and the fact that anything has to abide by international law.
And that applies to Hamas.
That applies to the Israeli military.
It applies to anyone you could ask me about.
You were asked if Hamas should lay down its weapons, key to the peace plan and ceasefire.
And some say they found your answer confusing.
You said, quote, I don't really have opinions about the future of Hamas in Israel beyond the question of justice and safety and the fact that anything has to abide by international law.
And that applies to Hamas and that applies to the Israeli military.
So for the voters tuning in tonight, Mr. Mamdani, what do you believe about Hamas and how lasting peace will be achieved?
We know it's a complicated matter, but we'd like to keep your answer to a minute if you're a fairly good.
Of course, I believe that they should lay down their arms.
I'm proud to be one of the first elected officials in the state who called for a ceasefire.
And calling for a ceasefire means seizing fire.
That means all parties have to cease fire and put down their weapons.
Oh, okay.
Hamas is a terrorist organization whose very own charter calls for the destruction of Israel.
And this idiot also wants if Prime Minister Netanyahu, I'm not sure what part of murder, rape, torture, kidnapping, beheading, and hundreds of thousands of rockets fired into Israel, this moron doesn't understand.
But he refuses to call, you know, Hamas out for who they are and instead condemns Israel, talks about arresting Bibi Netanyahu and condemns Israel as an apartheid state and refuses to say if it'd be, it should remain primarily Jewish.
Listen.
I, like many New Yorkers, am hopeful that this ceasefire will hold.
I'm hopeful that it is durable.
I'm hopeful that it is just.
And for it to be just, we also have to ensure that it addresses the conditions that preceded this.
Conditions like occupation, like the siege, and apartheid.
I've said time and again that I recognize Israel's right to exist.
I've said that I will not recognize any state.
I said that I will not have a Jewish state if I would be allowed to finish.
Okay.
That I would not recognize any state's right to exist with a system of hierarchy on the basis of race of religion.
And then Curtis had many great moments.
A lot of talk about the fact that he didn't wear his red beret and he looked great, in my opinion.
I've known Curtis for decades.
And anyway, this was maybe one of my favorite moments when he goes after Cuomo and Comrade Marxist Mamdani at the same time.
Thank God, I'm not a professional politician.
We have the architect and we have the apprentice of no cash fail, which has been a disaster.
We have the architect and the apprentice here of Rage the Age.
My own son was almost killed because of that in the gang attack.
Anyway, Curtis Sleewa, Republican, New York City, mayoral candidate is with us.
I never was more frustrated.
First of all, I felt that they were being unfair to you.
So that annoyed me.
And I mean, the format and the interruptions by the moderators was beyond frustrating.
It had to be frustrating for you.
Oh, absolutely.
You know, it's just made me think of what Charlie Kirk did around the nation by engaging in debates with adversaries, full-packed auditoriums, field houses.
And yet, people all had a say.
Everybody had a right to a say.
The first 10 minutes, there's John.
I thought that even though I was positioned right in the middle, they didn't see me there.
I was like the invisible man.
And then I realized I had to get my rearing gear.
They weren't going to speak to me.
They weren't going to address me.
And I had to keep injecting myself into a conversation between two Democrats, one who paved the way for our destruction in New York State, former Governor Andrew Kobo.
And now the guy who wants to put the last nail in the coffin, Zorhan Mandami.
And that's when I sprung into action.
I didn't listen to what the moderator said.
They tried to shut me down.
But more importantly, I had to make sure that I could be heard because I'm the only Republican candidate in this election, the only one talking about cutting taxes, making it more affordable, trying to keep people here prove don't move.
And all they were saying was they were just following the old, same, old, same old, raise taxes, and then obviously catered to small constituencies that have led to New York City falling into the abyss.
So I had to paint myself as Rudy Giuliani 2.0, who just came out two weeks ago and supported me wholeheartedly, because then the audience could understand.
Yeah, this is the law and order candidate, and these are the guys who want to turn the criminals loose in the streets.
I mean, Sean, I say it all the time.
We have become a city where we lock up toothpaste and we don't lock up criminals.
And I'm going to change all that on day one, January 1st, 2026, when I get sworn in as the next mayor of the city of New York.
Well, this guy also revealed himself as a flip-flopper and lying about issues involving Israel.
But, you know, I think one of the biggest issues facing New York City is the issue of policing.
And when he's describing sending in the social workers and reimagining the police and, you know, and then actually making the claim that he'd never said defund the police.
Let me read one ex-post after another by Zoron, Kami, Marx's Mamdani.
Quote, one, defund the police.
Two, defund it, dismantle it, end the cycle of violence.
Three, defund the police, build a socialist New York.
Four, queer liberation means defund the police.
Five, defund and dismantle.
Six, in New York City, 99% of office holders are Democrats, yet they refuse to defund cops who murder with impunity.
Seven, no, we want to defund the police.
Eight, we need to defund the police.
Nine, defund the NYPD.
Ten, what we need is defund, hashtag defund the NYPD.
By the way, you can thank Elon Musk for that research.
I mean, this guy is a disaster.
It's already not safe in New York City right now, Curtis.
And you know, because you live in the subways, you live in the streets.
Now you have to have armed security for crying out loud.
Yep, I have to have armed security because of all the threats against my wife, Nancy, who's been such a major part of this campaign.
And naturally for myself, first time, as you know, I survived the hit from John Gotti Sr. to John Gotti Jr. and the Gambino crime family in June of 1992.
I got shot with five Hollow Point bullets.
When I recovered, I never had armed security.
Now, unfortunately, I have to have armed security.
But there came that moment in the debate where Zoran Mandami wasn't just acting like a robot.
Every answer is affordability, affordability, affordability.
But he said, you know, I'm looking at a program in Eugene, Oregon, where they take care of their emotionally disturbed.
And I erupted and I said, Zahn Mondami, you've never been to Eugene, Oregon.
I have.
Are you out of your mind?
This is New York City.
You're going to compare what they do in Eugene, Oregon to here.
And he fumbled and stumbled.
He had no answers.
But you see, what he's doing is riding the wave of affordability in which he won a Democratic primary against the odds.
You know, Andrew Cuomo was already measuring the Drakes in Gracie Mansion.
He let the Democrats down.
He didn't campaign.
He wasn't aggressive.
He didn't take this guy on.
And he is a dollar short and a day late.
And I would suggest after last night's debate, Sean, he's got no gas left in the tank.
He should just roll over, go back to the Hamptons, leave it to me in the last three weeks to take on Johan Mondami because we are both opposite in all points of view.
And I've got the energy.
I've got the programs that can counteract Zoran in the neighborhoods where he did very well in the Democratic primary to defeat Andrew Cuomo.
Quick break, right back more with Republican New York City mayoral candidate Curtis Lewa is with us.
We'll get your calls coming up as well today on this Friday, 800-941.
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you with New York City mayoral candidate, Curtis Leeway is with us.
For the sake of you, our mutual friend Mark Simone, for the city of New York, for other friends of mine in New York City, I don't want this city to become, you know, to disintegrate.
Under this guy, implementing his stated policies, it is a predictable, unmitigated disaster.
And this is the choice people in New York City have.
What do you say, your closing argument?
This will result in a sequel to Kurt Russell's Escape from New York.
So everybody listening in all the locations where they followed you for years, and they've heard me before, you've been so kind to lend me your microphone.
If you have no other reason to want me to be mayor of New York City, whether you live here and can vote or you can support the evidence from somewhere else, I will keep people here.
If there is an escape from New York City, all those red areas out there could well become purple and maybe eventually blue.
You do not want New Yorkers coming into your areas because they have a lot of these values of what I call the Zora Nistas, Democratic Socialists of America.
They're not allowed in my free state of Florida unless they abandon their crazy views that they left behind.
They don't get to ruin two states, two cities at once.
But you see, that's what the intention is.
Win in New York City and then roll into other major municipal areas, especially north of the Mason-Dixon line, and put the flag of socialism, the Bernie Sanders flag of socialism.
Good grief.
Flag of socialism.
Listen, Curtis, if people want to get in touch with you, I know you're fighting the good fight.
We are hoping and praying that you can pull this out.
I know you're up against all odds here with registration so favoring Democrats.
How do they get in touch with you?
Sleewa4NYC.com.
That's Sleewa4NYC.com.
And help me save New York City.
Because if we can't save New York City, they're coming to a city near you.
And then you're going to have to adopt this same philosophy of improve, don't move, because they'll think that they can take over your community too.
All right.
Great job last night.
Curtis Sleewa, Rock Riv, All-American from Brooklyn, New York.
We appreciate you being with us, sir.
Appreciate your tactical air support, Sean.
800-941, Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.
Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?
Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.
From Prologue Projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi.
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