Ep. 1842 - BREAKING: China Pushes Muslim Communist To Take Over New York

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The Muslim communist who is likely to be the next mayor of New York has racked up a lot of big endorsements in his race to destroy America's greatest city.

But a new report from the New York Post suggests that he has earned the most important one yet, previously undisclosed, and that would be from the government of China.

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Big story, splashy, New York Post.

TikTok has been promoting Zohron Mamdani.

TikTok, owned by China, propaganda vehicle into the United States, is pushing an anti-American Muslim communist who fights for queer liberation who's going to destroy New York City.

I have no doubt that that is all true.

I have no doubt that that is all true, okay?

And there are problems with TikTok.

TikTok is a vehicle for foreign propaganda into the United States.

That's true.

That's all true.

But one of the reasons that conservatives haven't totally jumped on board with beating up TikTok is because the other guys, the domestic players,

are also propagandists pushing left-wing candidates and ideas against our interests.

That was the problem.

If you wanted to get conservatives to rally against TikTok, and many of them did, but many, especially younger conservatives, did not, if you really wanted them to rally against TikTok, then you need to give us a better alternative than Facebook and Instagram and Google and YouTube and all these places that, though they've course corrected a little bit since the election, have been very bad for conservatives.

If there were a great domestic alternative, I guess X is providing that, but if there were really, really big domestic alternatives, then we could say, all right, get rid of the Chinese propaganda TikTok.

We don't need that.

But the direct competitor to TikTok is Instagram Reels, and Instagram and Facebook historically have been very bad to conservatives.

So if you're an American conservative, you're looking at that, you say, look, man, I don't like the Chinese Communist Party, but if we boot them out of the country, If we really bring the hammer down on them, all we're doing is empowering our domestic opponents who increasingly look like domestic enemies because they encourage our murder and they celebrate our murder and at the very least they prosecute our politicians and they try to kick them off the ballot and they try to throw pro-life grainies in jail.

And it's just, I'm not doing that.

Okay, I recognize the geopolitical problem of this.

You don't want your greatest geopolitical adversary, China, to have a backdoor into subverting American politics.

I have no doubt that's exactly what they're doing.

But you know why else Zoran is leading in the polls?

Because of mass migration.

That's not China's fault.

That's not TikTok's fault.

The Democrats did that, and the Squish Republicans let that happen.

And I'm not just talking about illegal immigration, just mass migration generally.

He plays well in New York with a lot of the migrant communities.

You know why else Zoron is leading in New York?

Because of our terrible education system.

that the Libs took over decades ago and that they have used to pump a bunch of anti-American ideas into our heads, not all that different from what TikTok's doing.

You know why else So Ron is leading right now?

Because of a political order run by the left for decades that has turned people against their own country and encouraged them to tear down statues of the founders and builders of our country, like George Washington.

That wasn't just China.

That wasn't just TikTok, okay?

So

yeah, I don't want China doing that, but please spare me the selective outrage.

I'll make you a deal.

I would be happy to boot, not even just have a deal with TikTok, you know, in in a way that protects American interests a little bit more.

I'd boot the whole thing out of the country.

If

you guys would also agree, not you guys, you guys are very intelligent and handsome and understand what's going on.

I'm talking about the left.

Yeah, great.

Okay, now you're upset because Mamdani's creating problems.

You're like the kind of centrist damn establishment left.

Yeah, all right, let's boot TikTok out.

If you will also.

stop the mass migration, if you will also fire all the terrible teachers and take the power away from the Communist Teachers Union, and if you will also stop your political leaders from turning people against their own country, if you'll do all that, all the other big, long-term problems that have contributed to the Muslim socialist who's about to take over America's most important city, then we should also get rid of TikTok too.

And it'll be a big handout to Facebook, but that's fine, whatever.

If you're not going to fix all those problems, sorry, I just can't believe that you're serious, all of a sudden recognizing the threat from China now.

We got identical threats from our opponents here in the United States.

And if they're not going to do anything about it, all right, whatever, so be it.

Speaking of foreigners, here's a clip.

It's been going viral right now of a couple of illegal aliens going on the Caleb Hammer Show.

It's a popular podcast to talk about debt.

Here's just a little taste of what they racked up.

Well, you guys also have debt.

How much debt do you guys have?

Oh,

over $100,000 of debt that's not even, that's not even the house.

Literally,

wow,

$130,000 of debt that is not the house.

So they rag up a huge amount of debt.

This thing goes way, way longer.

They talk about hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.

By the way, they have decent jobs, but they're game in the system.

They're illegal aliens.

So you got to wonder how, if they're paying taxes, maybe not so much.

No intention to pay back any of this debt.

And that's not the worst part.

Everyone's really offended at that part.

Everyone's really offended.

How are these illegals getting all these handouts and probably not paying taxes and ragging up all this?

How are we tolerate?

That's not the worst part.

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That was a great transition talking about wealth and money.

And anyway,

everyone's saying the worst part of that clip is the illegals racking up their debt and taking their handouts and this, that, and the other thing.

The worst part to me

is that they felt confident to go on the show.

That to me is the most dispiriting part of the whole thing.

They know that our immigration enforcement historically in the last several decades has been such a joke.

They know that half of the country's political order wants them to break the law, actively wants to stop law enforcement from arresting them, that they can just go on a show, brag about how they broke our laws, brag about how they're here, show their faces, brag about all of the problems they're creating for our country, and they know that very likely they will face no consequences for it.

And now you could say, I know what you're going to say, you're going to say, Well, look, they're obviously not the most rational people.

They're racking up all this debt and they don't have enough money to pay for it.

And

maybe they're not totally rational.

Maybe they're super rational because they realize they're never going to be held to account for this.

But put them aside for a second.

How many times in the last 15 years have you seen illegal aliens get up on stage at some rally to protect the dreamer future American, undocumented American Americans?

How many times people get up there?

They say, I'm undocumented.

They're confessing to a crime and they're inviting law enforcement to come arrest them and they know.

They're mocking you.

They're mocking all of us.

They're saying, you're not going to do it.

You're not going to arrest me.

If you do, it'll get gummed up in the courts and the Democrats are going to try to have my back.

And it's so

deeply offensive, which is why every time this happens now,

from now until the end of this term, which is all we're guaranteed, Frankly, from now until the midterms, which could shift the political power in the country, though I don't think it will right now,

the administration has to not just just deport a lot of people, and they've done a lot better on the deportations than they're getting credit for, because a ton of the deportees are self-deporting.

And that's showing up in labor statistics, that's showing up in studies from Immigration Hawks, from the Center for Immigration Studies.

So the administration is doing a good job and a much better job than their critics are admitting from the right on deportations.

But the problem is they have to deport the high-profile people.

because they have to establish deterrence.

They need to make clear that if you show your face in public and and you have the temerity to admit that you're here illegally and to demand a bunch of stuff, you're going to be first of the line to get out of the country.

You can't treat these people the same way that you're treating all the other illegals.

Yes, I know they're prioritizing the face-tatto gangsters and the terrorists.

Yeah, you got to prioritize these people

because it's very psychically damaging.

to see illegal aliens mock your country, mock your whole system, and get away with it.

Got it.

They need to...

I'm sure Tom Holman's already taken a look at that video.

Everyone saw it if they were on social media, but they got to go.

They got to leave.

Okay.

Speaking of America's interactions with foreigners, an unbelievable scene that it seems unrelated to something we were just talking about.

I think it's totally related.

Do you remember I said on the show yesterday, the day before, I said, quoting Cardinal Manning, I said, there is a time to come that will reverse the confident judgments of men.

That many of our big political obstacles that we seem to be struggling with are actually just failures of political imagination.

We're just so dispirited.

We just feel like nothing can change.

It's just, this is it, this is the way it's always going to be.

And I say, guys, things can change very quickly.

Civil wars have started for less than some of the things we've been looking at.

We obviously want to avoid that.

We want a healthy restoration of our political order.

I'm going to give you a scenario.

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And

you might say, ah, that would have been impossible.

And

the Pope that he's praying with is an American monarch.

The King of England, head of the Anglican Church, goes to Rome to pray with the Pope, who is an American monarch.

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With apologies to my Anglican friends out there, I think there are still some Anglicans.

No, I can name a couple Anglicans at least.

I know it's tough.

It's tough these days with the bishoprices and all the rest of it.

The fact that King Charles would do this very excellent thing and go to the Pope, go to the Sistine Chapel, pray with the Pope, is really good.

And I think any reasonable person would have to conclude this is a tacit acknowledgement that Anglicanism

has not totally worked out.

And you know, by the way,

the Anglican ecclesiology, I'm not going to pretend to be some expert on it, but it is at least a little more open in principle to being in communion with Rome despite some of the political fights of the 16th century, despite certain kings of England maybe kind of wanting to chop their wives' heads off and look, it's water under the bridge.

he did it he went to Rome because Anglicanism is not a vital force and as a religious spirit continues to reawaken and we're seeing this in just about every social scientific data point we can find

I don't I don't think it's going to be Anglicanism exactly that gets the big boost with apology look I have great respect for my Anglican friends it's twice the liturgy half the guilt a lot of the time but this is a big sign and on top of that is this the first time ever that

a British monarch has met with an American monarch?

Because Pope Leo is an American, so he's an American citizen, but he's the monarch of the Holy See.

He's an actual monarch of a country and an American citizen.

It's kind of weird.

I don't know how it works out with taxes.

There have been a few of these other occasions where like a guy who had American citizenship or who was born here becomes the king of some far-flung Pacific island or something.

But this is weird.

This might be the first time.

Maybe it's not the first time, but it's pretty notable historically, which means that for the broader point, maybe you're not Anglican, maybe you're not Catholic, maybe you're not all that religious.

The fact that this could happen, a thing that five or ten years ago would have been thought completely impossible for a whole host of reasons, reminds you,

we can change things.

Things do change, actually.

Things change very rapidly in politics.

And this is at the highest level because the Holy Spirit is on the move in the world.

And at a lower level, because human beings have the free will to cooperate with God's grace and to do a whole lot of things.

And we actually can change things because

polities are just you and me, kid.

That's what countries are, yes, there's constitutions and creeds and there are mountains and oceans and all, but you know what countries really come down to?

They come down to people.

They come down to...

you and me and everybody else.

And when we want to do stuff, we can if we have the vision and the courage to do so.

Okay, turning away from peace and love, I want to get to what the Democrats are up to because the Democrats just went to Los Angeles.

Democrat legislators went to Los Angeles, were there with a former Democrat legislator, Karen Bass, another communist, like an actual card-carrying communist some decades ago, who's now the mayor of Los Angeles,

to announce a program to track ICE.

I shared this with the mayor.

Over the course of the next couple of weeks, the Oversight Committee will be launching on their website a master ice tracker where we're going to be essentially tracking every single instance that we can verify that the community will be able to send us information on.

They're going to put the ice master tracker on their website.

Let me ask you something, which you just heard there from the Democrats.

Let me ask you,

what's that for?

What's that for?

Because they said it in a really boring way.

And we're going to have a master tracker on our website that people can go to look when ICE is coming.

What does that mean?

What's that for?

There are only two things that can be for.

I'm going to give the most charitable view.

The most charitable view, ignoring the reality of Democrats in politics right now, just being as gracious as I can be,

is that

Democrat federal officials working with local officials are undermining law enforcement.

Undermining cops who are enforcing the most basic of American laws, namely, who can come in, namely the border, which literally delineates the country.

You have Democrats who are so lawless, who are so tyrannical, or would be tyrannical if the people would give them the power that they demanded, who are so

irrational

that they would undermine law enforcement, kicking out murderers and rapists and gangsters and terrorists.

That's the best thing I can say about them.

Because you know the more likely reason that they're putting this website up?

It's to encourage violence against ICE.

Because there's been a lot of violence against ICE.

That's why ICE has to wear the masks now.

And then Democrats like Gavin Newsom in California try to pass laws that force the ICE members to take their masks down.

It's the one mask that Gavin Newsom doesn't like.

Gavin Newsom made us put masks on two-year-old babies for years.

Oh, we were all about masks when we had to hide from the wu-flu,

contrary to scientific data.

But now that federal law enforcement are trying to protect themselves and their families from being doxxed and harassed and murdered,

now they got to take the masks off.

And now there's going to be a website put up not by Antifa,

not by some fringe left-wing group,

by the Democrats in Congress,

federal law enforcement,

sorry, federal legislators, the lawmakers who are undermining federal law enforcement and threatening them.

And the contextual evidence for that is they have been minimizing and excusing and in some cases celebrating the murder of a center-right civilian for over a month now.

And that's just one example.

There have been many, many more examples.

I'm actually going to be at the Senate in a few days.

I'm going to go down for a committee hearing to testify about left-wing political violence.

So stay tuned for that.

I'm very, very grateful to Senator Schmidt and the Republicans in the U.S.

Senate for taking this issue seriously.

First, though, speaking of Democrat meltdowns, I want to get to MSNBC Mika Brzjijajijijinski because

The excuses that they're making for their political unpopularity are getting so delicious.

Take a listen to this take on Abigail Spanberger, the Democrat running in Virginia, who is struggling a little bit politically right now because she has endorsed a man who called for his Republican opponent to be murdered and for his children to be murdered.

This woman,

she'll still probably get it, but she hit a couple rocks.

Here is MSNBC's explanation as to why.

It really is incredible when you have Abigail Spanberger, Mikey Sherrill, her background, all the different jobs that she has held in the military.

And also, like Alyssa Slotkin, I mean, my God, these women are incredible.

And to them, I would say, fight, fight, fight,

because we need them.

Yeah.

We need them.

And Mikey is like, she's doing a ton of interview.

You know, when I talked to them, when I was in the car, you know, it was this car, she had gone from interview to interview to talk to talk.

But, you know, you still see the anxiety.

Yeah, Cheryl did have a few missteps in her campaign, but she still has, as you say, about a five or six point lead proposing Spanberger's lead in Virginia, a little bigger than that.

But both still competitive races here heading into the last couple of weeks.

But to Mika, to Molly's point, I mean, this is something that a lot of Democrats are grappling with right now.

They've nominated women two of the last three elections for the presidency, lost both.

There are some who say, well, we can't do that again.

The stakes are too high.

But of course, that does fall into the same misogynistic trap.

Other countries have no problem electing women.

Other countries have no problem electing women.

Other countries, those good countries, have no problem electing women.

This country, Abigail Spanberger, is struggling because people don't want to elect a woman.

My brother,

my sister, Mika, Abigail Spanberger is running against a woman.

Does Mika Brzezinski not know that?

The race in Virginia is between two women for governor.

It's Winsom Sears on the Republican side and Abigail Spanberger on the Democrat side.

Last I checked, Winsom Sears is a lady.

This reminds me, there was a time, this was years ago at this point, when I think it was David Webb, he was hosting a radio show and he brought on this lady, a black lady, to come on the show.

She's a liberal, liberal Democrat.

So she goes on and says,

They're getting into some heated arguments.

She's losing the argument.

She goes, well, you're only saying that because of your white privilege.

Now, this was a radio show.

And Webb starts laughing.

He's laughing because the lady didn't know that David Webb is a black guy.

And so she's completely losing the argument.

She got nothing.

She goes, well, you're just a dirty honky.

I hate you, Whitey.

Death to Whitey.

Your white privilege.

And then Webb has to laugh.

He's like, man, you don't even know I'm black.

So the only reason Abigail Spanberger is having a tough time, the only reason these Democrats are having a tough time is because people don't like, wait, me, me, me, me, me, me.

No, they're voting for the other woman.

Maybe, maybe, we'll see.

I'm actually, look, I hope it works out in Virginia.

I'm not, not totally holding my breath.

Okay, one quick thing that I have to get to before we get to the mailbag.

Great, great news.

A TikToker took off her nose ring.

Okay, I posted a video about men not liking me.

And the comment section is just absolutely frying me at the moment.

But the amount of people that brought up my nose ring is wild.

And then someone said I look like a Democrat because of the nose ring.

So I'm taking it out.

I just want to see.

I just want to see because I don't take this thing out.

I just want to see.

Oh my god, my light is so bright.

I have a feeling I'm not gonna be able to put this back in.

And oh my god.

Oh, I got it.

Oh f, I like it.

God

sorry.

Bad reaction.

Bad reaction.

I like the no-nose ring.

Oh my god, I never thought I'd say that.

I can inch my nose.

I still have that though.

Hot.

Yes, you can do it.

You can do it.

I'm so

in this line of work, you don't always feel like you're making a difference.

You know, you know, you don't always know if your message is getting out there, but I released my very profound investigative report on the link between girls wearing the bull nose ring.

I'm not even talking about the little side one, which can be kind of cute sometimes.

I'm talking about the bull one right in the middle, that, and being totally crazy.

I released my very deep report.

You can catch it on YouTube.

What was that, two weeks ago or something?

And already it's bearing fruit.

And it's true.

She looks better without the nose ring.

She looks better.

She feels better.

There is, if we want to really get deep into it, there actually is a connection between your physical state and your emotional and psychological and spiritual state.

There actually is because we're incarnate creatures.

Because we're like the animals and that we're bodies, but we're like the angels and that we're sensitive souls.

And anyway, there is actually a great deal of depth that we can get to.

But look at that.

And you can change.

People say, oh, I'm too far gone.

I've just, we were talking about this the other day with the boomers and the divorce.

Sometimes I say, oh, I'm too far gone.

It's never too late.

It's never too late.

You can have five face tattoos, three bull nose rings.

You could have been doing OnlyFans for 150 years.

That'd probably be pretty rough by the end of that career.

You could be, you could have all these problems.

It's never too late.

Now, that can really screw you up.

It's going to be hard to dig out of all that stuff, but it's never too late.

You can do it.

You can even just take that nose ring out.

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My favorite comment yesterday is from the Drummers Workshop, Norm's Music, says the left went from no electoral College to no branches of government.

That's really amazing, isn't it?

That was a fast one they pulled.

We need to get rid of the Electoral College.

And then why?

Well, because we win the popular vote.

Okay.

Then what happens?

They lose the popular vote and the Electoral College and the Presidency and the House and the Senate and the Supreme Court.

They say, all right.

We need revolution in the street.

We need to, I know, I know.

That's how it works.

Because the election is only legitimate if they win.

That's what they mean by our democracy.

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Let's take it away.

Hey, Michael, this isn't a question so much as just thoughts about what you were talking about with the boomers.

You know, I was thinking, how did they come to be so strange and off-kilter?

And I wonder if it doesn't have to do with the Great Depression and several wars back to back and their fathers coming back broken and messed up

and

distant.

Not trying to run interference for them, but I just wonder, because we know all these statistics about

Kids doing better with single fathers than single mothers.

I just wonder if the boomer generation

is all screwed up because their dads were all screwed up.

Anyway, take care.

Thanks for the show.

God bless.

It's a great point.

Yes, of course.

Yeah, remember, I'm a conservative.

I'm not one of these arch libertarian types who thinks we're all individuals and

Pache Kamala Harris, we just fell out of a coconut tree or something like that.

I know, I think that's true.

That's why I'm not so hard on the boomers.

I was a little tough on them the other day because I said the reason that you're seeing

problems and social turns among boomers and Gen X, sorry, Gen Z and millennials.

The Gen Z and millennials are actually, they're the ones leading church attendants now.

The boomers still not really going back to church.

I said, it's the same reason.

It's because the boomers got divorced.

And because they got divorced and continue to get divorced at the highest rates of any generation ever in recorded history.

Because of that, They believe that they can't overcome their sin.

They just feel alienated from the church because marriage is an image of Christ and his church.

And

the Zoomers and the millennials have had to deal with the fallout from all those divorces.

And so they recognize that there's some disruption of the social order and this is not how things are really supposed to be.

And that's, I think, is pushing them.

I understand that's all psycho-babble, but that's why I'll grant your psycho-babble about the boomers.

Yeah, maybe, I don't know, maybe their dad didn't hug them enough or something.

I mean it, maybe they did.

I don't know.

That's tough.

That's why, you know, we're all...

We're all humans, man.

We have human solidarity.

We all come from the same parents, Adam and Eve.

So I don't beat up really on one generation or the other but different generations screw things up differently in this fallen world and it means that you have to you know

you gotta you gotta figure it out you gotta you gotta improve you don't need to be afraid to improve okay next one

hey Michael big fan of the show I've been listening to you for about three years now while stationed overseas in Japan so every time I get to listen to you in the morning it's probably evening wherever you're at I had two questions.

My first question was, do you believe in the rapture?

And if not, why not?

My second question was, what is the creme la creme?

Three years to this day, I still don't know what that is or what it means or how it came about.

So if you could shed some light into that, I would appreciate it.

Thanks for what you do.

Happily, thank you for your service.

First of all, I'm honored that you've made it through this show for years.

And the crème de la creme.

That's a very pretentious way of saying all of you, all of you, the best, the very best.

Other people, you know, who they listen to other shows, they read it there, they read other books,

they're okay.

They're kind of the hoi paloit, but you, the you, the Cheim du Lachem.

As to your question on the rapture, I believe in the Antichrist.

I think there will be an Antichrist, and there's a spirit of Antichrist and many Antichrists.

I believe in the apocalypse.

I believe in the second coming.

I believe in the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.

But the rapture is a more specific, I won't even say just Protestant notion, because it's a very particular kind of Protestant notion.

And traditionally, most Protestants do not believe in the rapture.

But as I understand it, in the 19th century, the notion of a rapture before the tribulation where all the elect will just be sort of beamed up to heaven,

that really came about in the 19th century and was popularized by John Nelson Darby.

And it was popularized as a footnote in the Schofield Bible, which has gotten a lot of attention in commentary recently.

And so that's a very modern idea.

Now, an idea can be modern and true, but in this case, I'm not really persuaded by it.

I hold to the

view, traditional view held by Catholics and

mainline Protestants and the Eastern Orthodox.

Okay.

Do we have time to get to any more?

Mr.

Davies doesn't want me to get to any more.

I'm going to get to one more.

Hi, Michael.

Huge fan of the show.

Love watching you every day.

I'm just wanting to know your thoughts on Halloween.

I've been seeing a lot of Christians lately saying that they don't celebrate it because the origins of Halloween and that it's Satan worship and things like that.

It's personally one of my favorite holidays, and so I just wanted to get your thoughts on the holiday.

No, Halloween's great.

It can be great.

It can be bad, too.

But Halloween's great.

It comes out of Christianity, really, because it's the night before All Saints' Day.

So it's great.

You know, it's perfectly fine.

But there's a big but to this.

I think you should take your kids trick-or-treating, and it's lovely.

But I would not go in for all the occult stuff, because there is weird occult stuff on Halloween.

You know, people sometimes dress like demons or witches or stuff.

I wouldn't do that.

I would have a little more wholesome costume.

On the secular side, you know, dress your kid up like he's Aaron Judge or something.

And if you want to have a a little more religious appeal, dress your kid up like a saint or, I don't know, biblical figure.

So that's kind of fun.

I wouldn't go in for, don't, don't dress up like the devil or anything.

Don't do, you know, don't do that on a Tuesday either.

You know, don't, just, don't, just don't do devil stuff generally was good advice.

But in terms of dressing up and having fun and going out and eating candy, it's good.

It's good.

And it has actually has a religious foundation.

Okay.

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I'm sorry to say I'm still in Central Europe, but I'm coming back.

I will be back.

And we will have the membrane segmentum again.

Avec, le Chréme du Lachrème.

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I just want to make one more point here, and then you can say whatever you want.

I'm not going to play that game with you.

What makes you a conservative?

No, I don't think that's right.

Well, hold on.

I just want to say I agree with that.

I totally disagree with it.

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