Communist Takeover of the Democrat party—What it Means for America

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And Haley Stevens, who is a left-wing Democrat but not a fully insane communist Islamist, is at 512,656 votes, which is 46.3%. 72% of the expected votes are in. Now, it's too close to call, so maybe we'll wake up in the morning, and Haley Stevens will have surged and won. Maybe. Maybe, but look, all the polling says Abdul El-Sayed is going to win. Yeah. And listen, right now, we don't know. By the time you're listening to this pod, you may know. What I will say is Abdul El-Sayed is expected to win. He's ahead right now. And this is a sign of where the Democrat Party is. They are 100% bat-crap. crazy. Yeah, and that's putting it in C-rated for our audience. I agree with you on that one. You know, crap is a nice, it's like a word you can use with third graders. Crap is sort of soft. It's like, it's not poo-poo, but it's in the neighborhood. It's verdict-friendly. That's how I would describe the word. Hey, hey, we have a lot of kids, a lot of teenagers, a lot of, the truth of matter is I have two teenagers, and so. they've heard all the words yes but but even so have your kids heard all the words so how old are your kids now man Bradley turned 10 yesterday. It was the big, big double-digit birthday. And the twins are seven. He has definitely heard a lot more of the words. Like we've had to deal with the F-bomb in the last six months. That was like a big one. From him, did he say it? No, no, no. He didn't say it, but he heard it. And he knew it was a bad word. And it was like one of those like, how do we navigate this one kind of moment? You know what I mean? I do remember bizarrely enough in fifth grade. hearing that, and this was not true, but hearing that a boy named Rod effed, and that was the word they used, a girl named Marie. And by the way, fifth graders were not doing that. But I literally came home crying. Like I actually remember this in fifth grade. I was like, I didn't even fully understand what it meant, but it upset me. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. No, we had to deal with the full. It was like the full breakdown. Why would someone say this? It was bad. It was one of those. Someone said it to him or what was the context? He heard it. There was a group of kids that were a little older. They were on the golf course. And it was one year as old is what grade? Second, going into third. Okay. So, and look, you know, he went to the same school you went to. So, like, that's not a word you're hearing at school. Turns out people say and do bad things at Christian schools, just like every other place on Earth. Yeah, exactly. So he's in second grade, and he hears the F-bomb. And he comes to me, he's like, hey, dad, I heard a word. I think it's really, really bad. How bad is it? And I was like, well, what was the word you heard? He said, please don't tell mom.

And I said, I, like, okay. Like, like, Ben, let me say as a fellow dad, let me just give props to you that your son is coming to you telling you that. That's actually really cool. Yeah. Look, look, every kid's going to experience this. You can't put him in a cocoon. You can't isolate them. But I'm glad he, like, comes and raises it with you. That's well done on the dad front. Yeah, thank you. It was one of those moments. And he was like, don't tell mom. I was like, well, why? And he goes, because then she'll never let me play golf with them again. And I was like, you're a smart kid. Like you're a smart. Like, you understood the dynamic of the whole thing. It was, yeah, I told me, I was like, you don't say it. I told it I did the, I did the we don't say it for multiple reasons, but you don't want to be looked as an uneducated idiot like they are. That's how I. But by the way, I will say with teenagers also like, like, if you listen to like. sort of rap songs and modern music where they drop curse words and f-bombs and it's you know you're trying to like our girls are 15 and 18 so you're trying to they've heard the words they unfortunately sometimes use them we try to get them not to but like they'll play music and they're just dropping f-pom after f-bom and i'm like i really don't like this like could you like speak like a civilized human being and they're like dad we don't even listen to the lyrics we don't know what they are and I'm like yeah I know what they are I'm listening that's what they're saying and so getting back to politics and substance people are like okay we're hearing like the therapy reports of two dads dealing with their kids there's also a therapy report Like, what the heck is happening with the Democrat Party? Yeah. Like this guy, Abdul El-Sayed. All right. A liberal Democrat, there are lots of those. You know, you have someone who wants higher taxes. Okay, I don't like that. You know, you have someone who has all sorts of stupid views, open borders, even that. That's terrible. It's bad for America. It's bad for the world. But all the Democrats support that. Yeah, yeah. Medicaid for all. You can go through that. Yeah. It's like, yeah. Look. This is a communist takeover of the Democrat Party. And I don't use that phrase as exaggeration. It's not hyperbole. I want to break down what it is because I think it is really, really dangerous for America. Yeah, it really is. And by the way, we talk about this a lot. The stakes could not be higher than they are right now. And we finally have a president and administration fighting hard for America first. But if conservatives like you and I lose focus now, the same people who created this mess, they're ready and they're waiting to resume their destructive progressive agendas. Now, protecting this momentum takes more than just votes. It takes every American like you and I staying in the fight for our rights and our freedoms. And that's why more and more people are. I know are switching to Patriot Mobile. They are America's only Christian conservative wireless provider. Now, Patriot Mobile offers you premium priority nationwide service on all three major U.S. networks. You get unlimited data plans, mobile hotspots, international roaming. And this is what I love, a 100% U.S.-based customer support team. And you can switch now faster than ever before. It literally takes minutes while you keep your same phone and your same phone number.

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You look at these results, and let's just move into Zohran Mamdani and what is happening right now in New York. If they gain power and they get in positions of power, you now have a playbook of what they're going to do with that power. Look at what Zohran Mamdani has done. And now we have another example of this, even with his communist grocery stores. What's even so funny about these grocery stores is... He was asked a question about these grocery stores, and I'm sure you saw this. It's gone viral where they're like, hey, how do you going to police people coming in from maybe outside of New York City to go to these grocery stores to buy these groceries at a reduced rate? IDs. Yeah, IDs. Yeah, we'll just make sure they hold up their ID and they show us that they actually live in New York City. So you can vote in the election without showing an ID, but you can't get your communist groceries without an ID. Got it. That is Democrat logic. If you want to vote, you don't need an ID. In fact, we're going to stop anyone from asking for an ID. If you want to buy government lettuce, show me a damn ID, you thief. Yeah, how is that not, by the way, racist? Because they said showing an ID was a form of racism. And yet to show an idea to buy milk or eggs, that's not racist. I'm confused on their definition of racism now. And by the way, I want to read a thread from a guy named Nick Ocunas, who is in the grocery business. And it was actually a very interesting thread that I read on Twitter. He said, I downloaded and reviewed NYC's grocery store RFP as someone who's built businesses and bought a lot of food. Wow. Forget for a moment whether the government should own a grocery store. Let's review the dock instead. Here we go. And by the way, for people that don't know, RIP is a request for proposal. New York has put out to the public these requests for proposals for people that would want to run these communist grocery stores for them. So NYC strongly prefers bidders who commit to all five stores. There are going to be five government-run grocery stores. But three of the five sites haven't been identified. Bitters are supposed to price unknown stores. in unknown neighborhoods by assuming they're, quote, about 15,000 square feet. So you don't know where it is. You don't know what's going on, but you want to price it. Bitters get preference for operating all five stores, presumably because scale lowers cost. But New York City awards each store separately, so an all five bidder may win only one. They want scale pricing while refusing to award scale. The scores must use a limited SKU model. They must also carry full grocery departments, household goods, culturally specific products, plus kosher, halal, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, and diabetic options. Makes sense. The RFP says stores won't have deli counters or on-site food prep. Then its core basket includes chicken salad, egg salad, potato salad, and other deli prepared foods. So a deli...

without a deli. Yeah. Oh, and you're going to ship them in every day prepared. Gotcha. NYC chooses and pays for the design, equipment, refrigeration, and fit out. The operator pays utilities, maintenance, cleaning, and security. So NYC makes the capital decisions while somebody else pays for the consequences. That's how they control the goalpost. The best quote-unquote bid... promises 30% discounts, best-in-class wages and benefits, local sourcing, sustainability, community programs, and full-time jobs. Then 20% of the score goes to whoever claims they need the lease subsidy. Low-balling is the strategy, and then cost-overruns are guaranteed. Core basket discounts must be universal, quote, sticker prices, not promotions. Then the operator must create a membership card to, quote, implement a discount program. Which is it? Universal shelf price or an ID card system. By the way, also says it's available to all people. And it doesn't even properly target their goals because the subsidy isn't targeted. No means test. Anyone could shop there, so taxpayers will subsidize groceries for affluent shoppers who happen to live nearby. while needy families elsewhere get zero. I always thought this was a terrible idea. They could much better help people with money, and hey, there are already programs that they could expand. But after reading, now I know it's a ridiculous idea. We have an efficient system just changed the outcomes. So naturally, one asks, why would they want? to build crappy grocery stores. There's that 10 penny word again. Yep. That have conflicting goals and will be mismanaged. Because either that's their goal or else they have no idea how actually to craft an RFP or run a business. Perhaps my favorite page that I'd not included my original thread is just Chef's Kiss amazing. How could you possibly estimate such a thing and such a level of detail requested? You might want additional spreadsheets. And then there's a spreadsheet that estimates the sales cost core basket items, the sale cost non-core basket items, the cost of good souls, the cost of personnel, the cost of other operational, cost programmatic. Like it is, these are idiots who've never run a business, who don't know how to run a business. who are like, let's give away a bunch of free crap. Let's order people to give away free crap. Let's not actually think about how they get the stuff to give away. And isn't this awesome? We're communists. Yeah. There is a reason. Do you remember the moment? The Soviet Union fell. I remember vividly being at my grandfather's house watching the Berlin Wall come down. And I remember my grandfather getting a piece of that Berlin Wall. That was my most vivid memory as a kid of watching everything kind of fall into place. If you said, what was that moment? That would be the moment for me. So I will tell you there was a moment. At the time when the Soviet Union was collapsing, you were not a Texan. You were...

Up in Memphis, you were not living in Texas. Yep. You may remember in the 1990s, Boris Yeltsin visited Texas. He visited Houston, Texas. Oh, and I've watched his videos of him going to the grocery stores. And he went to a Randall's grocery store. And he walked down the aisles, and he saw like dozens and hundreds of choices, frozen food and vegetables and everything. And he looked at amazement because the Soviet grocery store, you had... One type of bread. You had one type of soup, one type of meat. Like whatever you had, you had no choices. And he looked at that. And there was a moment when he realized communism can never compete with free enterprise. Yep. Zohran Mamdani is literally saying, give us the Soviet model. Yeah. And. we think it'll work. And here's my other question, over, under on getting a legitimate company, not like... political propaganda BS, but a legitimate company to actually try to run these grocery stores. Do you think that they're going to get these requests for proposals that aren't, you know, already the debt, you know, you're playing the game where it's a genuine grocery. It's like, yep, I can do this and I want to do this business model. I think it can make money. I don't think anybody would do it. I don't know how you do business on that. These grocery stores are going to go broke. They're going to have shortages. They. are requiring IDs, which is the most laughable. The Democrat part is fully vested in saying IDs are horrible, racist, evil things. And they're requiring IDs to shop at the grocery stores. And this is going to be, and by the way, if they succeeded, they would drive out of business, the bodegas. If you're a, like, small Hispanic business owner, the Democrats want to bankrupt you. And look, I want you to listen. Listen, for example, to Van Jay Jones, who is a very left-wing commentator. Listen to him talking about the Communist Party, the Democrat Party. Give a listen. Yeah. Now, before we get to that, I do want to talk to you real quick about how you can get involved and pray for the people that are in desperate need right now in Israel. The headlines, they may change, the threats facing Israel, they remain. And while much of the world has moved on from that story of Israel being under attack to the next one, Israeli families, they continue living with the reality of terrorism, uncertainty, and recovery. Now, communities, they remain on alert. Parents still think twice before sending their children back to school. And families continue rebuilding their lives, knowing the next siren could come without warning. As Christians, we're called to stand with God's children in times of need just like it is right now. And that's why the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews remains on the ground in the Holy Land each and every day. And they're providing lifesaving aid, food for struggling families, emergency assistance, even bomb shelters, and critical support for those impacted by this war. Even after the cameras leave and the headlines fade.

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Francesca Hong is a full-on communist, but I want you to listen to her on CNN explaining why she hates Thanksgiving and wants to cancel Thanksgiving. Here, give a listen. One thing that they brought up as well was a post from you in 2021, where you said Americans should cancel Thanksgiving, should have done this in 1621. The post has been deleted. Republicans have been highlighting it. Do you still believe that Thanksgiving should be canceled? I'm a chef and one of the first meals that I made that was for the community when I was 16 was a Thanksgiving meal. I always think my hospitality background in owning a restaurant for seven, eight years that bringing folks around the table to share conversation and build community is always a good thing. But Thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many people in our communities. And so I think there I wanted to make sure that people understood that there are multiple views, but views can evolve. And the position that I'm running for right now, and I think my background as a chef, will actually help me become a better governor that's able to bring more people to the table. That is one heck of a sales pitch right there, Senator. That was Caitlin Susan Collins on CNN. She asked the question. And if you're not watching this on YouTube or on video, you need to watch Caitlin Susan Collins' eyes. Because she's listening to her. She asked the question, hey, you're running for governor of Wisconsin. Do you still want to cancel Thanksgiving? And it's clear Caitlin Susan Collins wants her to say, no, I love Thanksgiving. Like America's great. No, we don't want to cancel Thanksgiving. Yeah. And Francesca Hong is like, no, no, no, there's many people who are horrified by Thanksgiving and they hate America. And those are my people. So I'm not going to say that I'm a chef. You know, I once made a Thanksgiving meal. Like, like it's the most, I got to say that clip. If Saturday at Live was willing to make fun of leftists. Yeah, that would be the one. Like that's perfectly scripted. It's perfectly cast. Do you want to cancel and understand? So these communists, they hate capitalism. They hate property rights. They hate the Constitution. They hate free speech. They hate religious liberty. They hate the Second Amendment. They hate America. That gives me no joy to say that. Yeah. They think America is an evil, repressive, racist, oppressive place, and they want to destroy it. Yep. And so, look, that communist hates Thanksgiving. You know what? She also hates, and I don't even need to ask. She hates the 4th of July. She hates Christmas. She hates Easter. Oh, God knows she hates Easter. I think there are two holidays she likes, Juneteenth and Kwanza.

Yeah. And even, no, no, no, okay, hold on. I'm sorry. I made a major mistake. Mayday. Mayday, the time to celebrate communist takeovers and oppression, that she supports. But everything about America, by the way, if you're a Christian, she hates you. Yeah. If you're a Jew, she hates you. If you're in business, she hates you. If you love America, she hates you. And the same is true with Abdul El-Sayed, the same is true with Zohran Mamdani. These communists, and this is something I've said in a number of TV interviews. Look, there are Republicans who are right now beating their chest and say, this is great. The Democrat Party is going cray cray, so we're going to win in November because they're so extreme, we're going to win. I am not celebrating this. Look, history shows there's a pendulum to politics. Yes. Unfortunately, the Democrats will win again. I wish they wouldn't. I don't want them to. But there is going to be another Democrat president. Yeah. And I would like both national parties to be normal people who are not frigging insane. Yes. Like when there's the next Democrat president, and I hope I would be thrilled if that doesn't happen in our lifetime, but it will. I would like the next Democrat president not to be a communist who hates America. And what is happening to the Democrat Party is there. other than John Fetterman, is there one Democrat willing to say, no, we will not let our party be taken over. And by the way, in the Republican Party, I'm standing up and saying to the anti-Semites that are trying to take over our party, no, we will not be a Jew-hating, Israel-hating, anti-capitalist, anti-American party, get the hell out of our party. If that's who you are, you're not welcome. I'm doing that in our party. Other than John Fetterman, is there one Democrat doing that in their party? Yeah, they're all terrified. We're going to keep exposing. We're going to keep watching them. Don't forget, we do the show. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, hit that subscribe or auto download button. And the Senate and I will see you back here on Friday morning. Vital doesn't always mean visible. Across America, advanced technology is working behind the scenes, strengthening our nation. It protects our warfighters, advances life-saving health care, combat cyber threats, and defends the critical infrastructure that keeps our country moving. At GDIT, we power the systems that help America operate, connect, and stay secure. Every hour, every mission, every day. GDIT, behind America's invisible advantage.

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