Join Mike Gallagher as he navigates through the complexities of Florida’s groundbreaking decision to abolish vaccine mandates for children. This episode is a thorough exploration of the broader implications this decision might have on public health and individual rights. As Mike converses with listeners and experts, he emphasizes the core debate: should health mandates be a matter of personal choice or a public necessity? Highlighted by contrasting perspectives from health professionals and political analysts, the episode sheds light on the clash between governmental authority and personal freedoms in healthcare decisions. With Florida as a case study, Mike examines the
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Well, this ought to be an easy day. The state of Florida has banned all vaccine mandates for children. Go 800-655-MIKE. Won’t be a hard day because the left is melting down. Here’s Dr. Michael Osterholm, cut number four. This is CNN last night. Really getting out the smelling salts, breathing into the brown paper bag because Florida is probably one state of more to come where people are saying no more. to making my kid get a vaccine that I don’t want my child to have. Listen to the reaction from the left.
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We’re right now in free fall in this country with regard to public health. Free fall. Free fall. We basically are losing all the safety nets that we had with the public health system, and vaccines are at the heart of it. And, of course, this administration is doing everything they can to limit, if not totally eliminate, vaccines for people.
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Here’s CNN, Dr. Cliff T. Parnell. They like this talking point, falling off the cliff. So you have him, the former Biden COVID advisor, Dr. Michael Osterholm. Here’s another one, another fall off the cliff of death.
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Reckless, if I could sum it up in one word, let’s just go to some facts, and I have them here to keep myself honest. Since the last 30 years, we’ve saved over 150 million lives because of vaccines globally. If we begin to think about in the United States, we’ve saved over 1.1 million children due to vaccination since 1994. We’ve prevented 508 million illnesses and 32 million hospitalizations. That’s not anything to wink at. That’s hardcore data. But what’s happening in the United States is as if we are… a runaway train. In public health, we talk about the cliff of good health, and we have fallen completely off of the cliff.
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We’re off the cliff. We’ve fallen off the cliff. Now, you know what they do on the left, which is clever. They did this with illegals. Remember when they didn’t want to call illegals illegals, so they call them undocumented? It’s against the law to sneak into the country, of course, and take our services and take our health care and take, you know, what taxpayers provide for. But they don’t want to call them illegals, so they call them undocumented. It’s a clever little sleight of hand. They do this with the vaccine debate. This has to do with mandates. Now, first of all, a bunch of you will probably object to everything that doctor said about what the vaccines did, how many lives the vaccine saved. I guarantee you a lot of you heard that and you got furious because you don’t believe it. You don’t agree with it. You don’t trust it. And I respect that because I don’t either tell you the truth. I’ve got my own doubts. I’ve got my own suspicions. I have my own. I mean, they lied every day. Every chapter was a lie. Get the vaccine, you’re never going to get COVID. Okay, you got the vaccine, you’re going to get COVID, but you’re not going to get all that sick or die. I mean, everything was a lie. But what that woman did on CNN last night was conflate getting a vaccine with a mandate. In Florida, the Surgeon General, Joseph Ledapo announced that Florida is ending all state vaccines. Now, according to Axios, Florida already leads the Southeast in non-medical vaccine exemptions among kindergartners. The rollback could mean fewer children will be inoculated against deadly viruses like measles and polio. I saw somebody on social media last night, I’ll never go to Disney World again. I’m going to get sick when I go to Disney World because you’re going to have all these Floridians without any vaccines. Here’s what Axios writes. Do you know, Tracy, is it Ladapo or Ladapo? I never know how to pronounce his name, but he’s the Surgeon General. He’s a well-known vaccine critic, according to Axios. He announced his plans to end the practice of vaccine mandates forever. via an administrative rule at a news conference in Hillsborough County. Now look, I’m going to open up the phones for a few minutes on this. I want you to join me here in the Relief Factor studios. Welcome in. Incidentally, quick health update. I’m fine. EKG, normal. So thank you for your prayers. I should have never mentioned it on the air yesterday. I felt dumb. I knew when I went to the urgent care up the street. that it would be probably nothing, and it was not. And they got me right in, EKG normal. I’m going to follow up with my doctor next week. I’m feeling way better today. No more chest pain. So thank you, thank you, thank you for all the kind words of love and support that you shared my way. And it means more to me than you could ever, ever imagine. So quick update on that. When we talk about Florida’s decision to end all vaccine mandates… I want you to try to follow a couple of ground rules. I don’t want to argue with you about COVID and vaccines. If you’re mad at me because my doctor at the beginning, at the outset of the pandemic, recommended that I get the Johnson & Johnson jab, okay, you’re mad at me. I can’t do anything about that. I trust my doctor. I listen to my doctor. I didn’t know what was going on at the time. Nobody really did. Many of you did. Good for you. Please don’t beat me up. I don’t want to argue about the COVID vaccine. What I want to discuss with you is the mandate. To me, that’s the story. It has nothing to do with whether or not you want to get a vaccine. It has to do with whether or not you should be forced to get a vaccine for you or any member of your family. And look, Florida is simply saying we’re not going to force parents who don’t want their kids to be vaccinated against anything to do so. You want your kid to be vaccinated? Knock yourself out. Get your kid vaccinated. But if you don’t want your kid to be vaccinated, you should have absolutely every right to. to say no. That’s all this is about. I want to see if you agree with me or not. Let’s open it up. 800-655-MIKE, 800-655-6453. Here’s a good text from Minnesota on the MyPillow text line, which I always appreciate. Minnesota writes, Michael Osterholm is a washed-up hack from here in Minnesota. He was wrong about everything related to COVID, but he helped to lock down the state. That’s what happened. The Ulster homes of the world locked down the country. We were shut down because of the panic, because of the fear mongering, because of the deceptions, because of the lies. And that’s the issue at hand here. Not about the efficacy of a vaccine. That’s up to you. That’s your body. It’s your life. It’s your doctor. It’s your decision. But doggone it, do not force any American to get a vaccine against their wishes. 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Okay, let me repeat the ground rules of this conversation because already Alex is getting a number of calls about arguing about the booster, arguing about Johnson. We’re not talking about that. I’ve had it. I’m not doing that. It gives me a headache. Like I said, I don’t want to argue. I’m talking about, we’re talking about polio, whatever, whatever vaccines kids are supposed to get when they’re in school. It’s a mandate. It is mandated that your child gets vaccinated. Florida is saying no more vaccine mandates. The debate today on this show, the discussion is not going back over what we’ve argued about for years. Because I’ve had it with that. I mean, I always get frustrated because people get mad at me like I did something horrible. And by following my doctor’s instructions during the pandemic, his advice. And I get frustrated. I’m like, why are you mad at me? I’ll tell you what I’m mad at myself about. I have colleagues in this industry who have never told you whether or not they’ve gotten a vaccine. For COVID, I’ve got some colleagues who’ve confided in me that they lied about it, that they claim they didn’t get a vaccine when they did. Because all they’re trying to do is appeal to people who are anti-vax. So they go on their platforms and they lie to you and they say, I didn’t get a vaccine. And they did. They privately and quietly did get a vaccine. They just don’t want to admit it. So look, if I have anything to be guilty about, it’s probably opening up my big fat mouth like I always do. And I tell you the truth. My doctor recommended it at the outset. Incidentally, as I’ve told you, he doesn’t want me to get any more. for what it’s worth. He doesn’t think it’s a good idea. We’re not having that argument today. Okay? You want to get mad at me for that? You knock yourself out. I don’t understand that. I think that’s irrational. I think that’s misplaced, misguided anger. But you do you, boo. Leave me alone. Let’s talk about the mandates. Let’s talk about Florida ending all state mandates. Jennifer in Pennsylvania. Hi, Jennifer. How are you?
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Hi, Mike. I’m great. How are you?
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I’m good. I’m good. What do you think about the news out of Florida?
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I think it’s awesome news. I think parents should have the choice to have their children vaccinated. I dealt with this 20 years ago. I have four sons. Oldest is 20. Youngest is 14. We homeschooled. which makes it a benefit. You know, I don’t have the public school down my back telling me that my kids have to have all these kinds of vaccines to enter school. However, I will tell you, they still try to push the vaccine. At one time, I had the head lead doctor of my practice. He was from Poland. Right. And he actually told me, he’s like, you don’t realize how much of your rights in the United States you’re losing each and every day. He said, I do because I’m from Poland. Well, he allowed me to, with no pressure, of course, to not vaccinate my children. But over time, one of the lead doctors, he retired, and now the Polish guy started pushing vaccines because he had to.
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He was forced to.
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Right. Our family got fired from our pediatrician. I pointed out to him when he wanted me to vax our children, I said, you realize by the time our children turn the age of five, they will have over 30 vaccines in their body.
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Wait a minute. Go back. Your pediatrician said he wouldn’t treat you anymore? Yes. He fired me. He fired you. The doctor fired you.
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Yes, I signed a waiver and everything claiming that I would never go after the practice if my children had come down with a disease that they weren’t vaccinated for. And he still fired me because they belong to this big umbrella of a practice that required all the practices underneath them. If you have a family that doesn’t vaccinate their children, They no longer come to our practice.
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Well, they also, I’m sorry, go ahead. I want to say something about the role, though, of government in all of this and what they think the mandates are all about. But go ahead. I didn’t mean to interrupt you. Finish your point.
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But people need to realize by the time their children turn the age of five, they will be vaccinated with over 30 vaccines.
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Well, that’s it. I mean, you said that. And I will tell you that in Florida, for example, in Florida, state statutes currently require school kids to get immunized against seven illnesses. Polio, diphtheria, measles, whooping cough, mumps, and tetanus. As of August, the State Department of Health required students to be vaccinated against four additional illnesses. Chicken pox. hemophilius influenza type B, HIV, hepatitis B, and pneumococcal disease. Ladapo said, who am I to tell you what you should put in your body? What you put in your body is because of your relationship with your body and God. The government doesn’t have that right. Now, to Democrats, that’s heresy. And I’m going to give you an example of the Democrats’ love affair with government running your life. And it came out of Virginia. I saw a story this week that Virginia, it looks like, you know, Winsome Sears has a mountain to climb in the Virginia gubernatorial race. It’s becoming bluer and bluer, more liberal and more liberal. You have got to hear what has been described as a breathtaking admission by Virginia’s Senator Tim Kaine, who said something that people are so shocked about. This is a U.S. Senator. And it gets to the core of this whole vaccine mandate debate, the role of government in our lives. Every single day, it’s a joy to remind you that portions of our show are sponsored by MyPillow. As you know, our friend Mike Lindell, big legal victory last week. He’s been in a ton of hot water, as you know, because he believes in election integrity. Of course, due to his friendship with President Trump. Well, last week, there was a $5 million judgment against Mike that was overturned by the courts. Good news for MyPillow. So you keep praying for MyPillow, and you keep supporting this great American company. The premium MyPillow, limited time, great price, $18.98. If you go to MyPillow.com, this pillow is a godsend. Look, I bring the MyPillow products with me when I’m on the road. Here at the hotel in Washington State, I’ve got the MySlippers with me, those unbelievable slippers, because I pat around in the hotel room. I don’t know what’s on that rug. I bring the MyPillow with me. I roll it up into the suitcase. I’ve even got my MyPillow loungewear. Tons of great products. If you haven’t been to the site in a while, go check it out. Go to MyPillow.com. Look for the Mike Gallagher specials. Click on that box. And with anything you order, enter the promo code MikeG. You’re going to save big. The slippers, the doggy beds, and the Giza dream sheets. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. MyPillow.com. Promo code MikeG. Or call 800-928-6034. 800-928-6034. Like we love to sing.
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Quick health update, I guess I should say. That’s a nice way to start the whole thing, right? Stumbling and being tongue-tied. A quick health update. I’m fine. Yesterday I had some weird chest pains, and I stupidly shared that with you. But it wasn’t stupid. So many of you were so kind and so loving and so gracious, and you prayed for me. I went over to the urgent care, which I thought was going to be a good move, because they got me right in. EKG was fine. Kind of a weird thing on the chest x-ray, they said, but not cardiac related. I’ll follow up with my doctor back in Florida after I leave New York later today, and all is going to be well. So thank you very, very much for checking in. I updated you on X. See, if you don’t follow me on X, you’re going to miss out on, you know, Mike’s personal travails. So check it out, at Gallagher Show. That’s my handle on X, and we’re pretty active there. I like it a lot. I really love the X platform. It’s a lot different than the Jack Dorsey days, so I hope you follow us there. All right, big breaking story out of Florida. And the left is in a complete hysteria. They’re in total meltdown mode. because the state of Florida has announced no more vaccine mandates statewide. Now, that prompted a huge, wild free-for-all on CNN last night where folks like Scott Jennings reasonably asserted that nobody should be forced to get any vaccine they don’t want to get. And Florida is clearly leading the way nationally on heading in that direction. The Washington Post has a big article today. Vaccine policy has begun to fracture along state and political lines in the United States, with some states breaking away from the guidelines set by the Trump administration and others going even further to loosen vaccine requirements. The contrast was on stark display Wednesday as the states of Washington, Oregon, and California announced a new coalition to make shot recommendations to counter what they called the Trump administration’s destruction of the CDC. So blue states, blue, blue states like Washington, Oregon, and California are going to add vaccine mandates to the slate. Hours later, Florida announced it’s the first in the nation to end all school vaccine mandates. That’s another reminder about why my move to Florida a few years ago was such a smart decision. It’s a decision that our newsman, Roger P. Shulman, made many, many years ago. He’s a veteran of the industry, and he joins us from the Mike Gallagher Show newsroom. Roger, let’s do a deep dive together. Tell us a little bit about what this looks like after the Florida Surgeon General made this historic announcement.
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Dr. Joseph Latipo made the announcement yesterday, and there has been a firestorm. Latipo is a Nigerian immigrant. He came here at age five, and he was in many prestigious medical schools, taught at the University of Florida, and is now our Surgeon General. Very competent physician, according to his biography and his curriculum vitae. But he says that this is not going to eliminate vaccinations in Florida. He says pediatricians can still make recommendations. Parents can decide for themselves what vaccinations their children will and will not get. Now, I did talk to a prominent epidemiologist and internal medicine specialist, infectious disease specialist, Dr. John Sinnott, in the past and recently. And he has said one thing of great interest. Of all the medical advances we have made in the past 100, 150 years, vaccines have saved more lives than any of them by eliminating a lot of diseases that used to kill people. Measles, rubella, diphtheria. And in the 1950s, a lot of us are old enough to remember polio was a dread disease. It killed and paralyzed people. It is gone. And vaccinations have eliminated smallpox from the earth. So there’s two sides to this coin. Yeah, but wait a minute. But wait a minute.
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Wait a minute. You know, I love you. I got to push back here. It’s not about the efficacy of a vaccine. If you want your child to be vaccinated, Florida is not saying you can’t. opt into a vaccination what they’re saying is we’re not going to force a family to do it and there are lots of people look if the if the pandemic and i’m not by the way i’m not arguing with you i know you’re you’re doing your job here and talking to people who are presenting another side but i i worry i fear that that conflates the the issue of a vaccine efficacy with a vaccine mandate florida is simply saying we’re not going to mandate it any longer right
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That is right. And people can take advice from their medical professional. And if your pediatrician says you should get the kid vaccinated, then you can decide whether or not to do it. And that is freedom. That is Florida, the free state of Florida, we call it. However, we’re not eliminating vaccines for everybody. We’re just letting the parents and the doctors make the decision for the individual child.
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That’s right. And that’s what’s important. And that’s what this whole debate is about. Roger, we appreciate you checking in from the newsroom. Roger P. Shulman in Tampa Bay, 12 past the hour. Our number is 800-655-MIKE. I want to have this discussion with you, but here’s the ground rules. I’m not arguing about COVID vaccines. This is not a… jab shot vaccine debate because i’ve i’m tired of it i it gives me a headache it stresses me out i’m confused about why people get mad at me i don’t i don’t believe in anything that i think is unreasonable you should not be forced to take any vaccine you don’t want to take period Your child should not be forced to get any vaccine that you don’t want your child to have, period. This is only about mandates. But instead, people go down this rabbit hole of saying, oh, vaccines save lives, and we’re going to go off the cliff. We’ve fallen off the cliff. Cliff, here’s some woman, Dr. Chris T. Purnell, whoever she is, This is last night on CNN. Boy, they had a knockdown drag out with Scott Jennings in the middle of it. Here was Dr. Cliff Purnell claiming that we’ve gone over the cliff when it comes to vaccines and mandates.
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Reckless, if I could sum it up in one word, let’s just go to some facts. And I have them here to keep myself honest. Since the last 30 years, we’ve saved over 150 million lives because of vaccines globally. If we begin to think about in the United States, we’ve saved over 1.1 million children due to vaccination since 1994. We’ve prevented 508 million illnesses and 32 million hospitalizations. That’s not anything to wink at. That’s hardcore data. But what’s happening in the United States is as if we are… a runaway train. In public health, we talk about the cliff of good health, and we have fallen completely off of the cliff.
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We’ve fallen off the cliff, and we’re going down the ditch. We’re lost because a state like Florida has a reasonable conclusion that if the pandemic taught us anything… The pandemic should have taught us we’re not mandating vaccines anymore. But here’s a great text from California. Terrific point. Mike, I’m confused. It seems as if people on the left don’t know the definition of the word mandate. They’re screaming and yelling like this is an elimination of vaccines altogether. I don’t understand the disconnect. Oh, I can explain it to you, Ryan. The disconnect is the left wants to control your life and tell you what you may or may not do when it comes to something like a vaccine. Remember Jane Fonda. COVID was God’s gift to the left. And… And she giggled about it. We played that over and over again during the pandemic. Remember when Jane Fonda said that? COVID is God’s gift to the left. She was right. Because they feel like they can get away with all of this. No more. It’s a new day. 800-655-MIKE. Again, I want to talk about this, but I do not repeat, do not want to have a debate about COVID vaccines. Please. This is about vaccine mandates. This is about the state of Florida announcing that they will end all state vaccine mandates. Hey, South Carolina, are you listening? Hey, Arkansas, are you paying attention? Texas, what about you? Who’s going to be next? Because a red state, it’ll never happen in blue states, but red states ought to jump on this bandwagon as well. Florida ought to be the first of many. This is freedom. This is what freedom, this is the way that America should go.
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Oh, and there’s some news about the troop surge in communities like Washington. I’ll give you that information here in just a moment. I’m going to be in South Carolina next week. I cannot wait. I’ll be… hunkered down for a big event that I’ve got to tell you about. Of course, portions of our show sponsored by my home away from home when I’m in South Carolina, the Hotel Hartness. Travel and Leisure’s world best rates the Hotel Hartness the number one resort in South Carolina, the third best resort in the United States, and number 24 in the world. That’s right in the upstate. You can stay there, too. Go to hotelhartness.com, hotelhartness.com. A week from Saturday… It’s the Freedom Farm Fest. This is really a cool idea. Look, I have spoken for years about my dear, dear friends, Peg and Joey Hudson, right? And I’ve talked about staying on the farm. I’ve talked about all the years I’ve spent on the farm. And it’s a beautiful, beautiful home. Well, Joey has opened his home to everybody for the Freedom Farm Fest. It’s a week from Saturday, Saturday, September 13th at 6 p.m. Let freedom ring at the Freedom Farm Fest with Mike and Joey, sponsored by Tuck and Howell. A night to remember. Enjoy the great outdoors on Joey and Peg’s farm while having conversations with Mike and Joey and a celebration of the freedom we enjoy with Donald Trump as president. So look, come out and see us. You’re going to love the farm. It’s beautiful. And, hey, good for Joey. Now, look, I like that Joey is a man of the people that way. We will not be having a condo fest at Mike’s condo anytime soon, okay? We’re not going to be gathered around the dining room to talk about any issues. But, hey, good for – this is great. And you can get your tickets today, 989WORD.com, a week from Saturday. They’re calling it the Freedom Farm Fest with Mike and Joey. And I can’t wait. It could be a blast. And thanks to the 4th Congressional District in the club there in South Carolina that kind of put this together along with the sponsor, Tuck and Howell, the great plumbing, heating, and air conditioning folks there. But the 4th Congressional District, Joey has a great relationship with them. They’ve wanted to do this for some time, and it just finally came together. So I can’t wait. I’m so excited about it. A week from Saturday. The Freedom Farm Fest with Joey and Mike and all of us at WORD, Saturday night, September 13th, 6 p.m. for tickets, 989WORD.com. I have a hunch there’s got to be a limit on this. Because, look, as popular as WORD is in the Carolinas, they’re going to have a lot of people there that night, I think. I didn’t realize this was, like, thrown open to the public. And I’m glad it is. So I’m looking forward to meeting you. But I would urge you to order your tickets quickly. 989WORD.com is the website. 989WORD.com, the website. All right, some breaking news out of our nation’s capital.
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The city of Washington has filed a lawsuit against President Trump and the military over the deployment of the National Guard. They’re suing what they call the illegal deployment. Now, this is fascinating because you’ve got the mayor who is doing everything but wearing a red MAGA hat. Muriel Bowser… has been all on board with this. In fact, yesterday she said that she supports the National Guard being there indefinitely. According to the lawsuit, President Trump has run roughshod over a fundamental tenet of American democracy, that the military should not be involved in domestic law enforcement. Now, I’m reading this breaking news from an NBCNews.com story. Only at NBCNews.com would it say the following? Now, you’ve got to hear this. This is in the actual article. Mayor Muriel Bowser, who has treaded carefully with the Trump administration and pointed out The vulnerability of the city to acts by the federal government has said the presence of National Guard troops is not working, but credited the Trump administration’s surge with bringing down crime. Can I read that line to you, an actual sentence from a real news story at NBCNews.com? I repeat, and this is a quote. Mayor Muriel Bowser, who has treaded carefully with the Trump administration and pointed out the vulnerability of the city to acts by the federal government, has said the presence of National Guard troops is not working, but credited the Trump administration’s surge with bringing down crime. Can anyone translate that for me? Wouldn’t bringing down crime… mean that it’s working? What in the heck are they talking about? She says the presence of the troops is not working, but credited the Trump administration’s surge with bringing down crime. So it absolutely has worked. And it is working. So much so that the mayor wants to extend this indefinitely. But the Attorney General… of Washington, D.C., Brian Schwab, whose office represents the city of Washington in court, filed the lawsuit. Sounds to me like they’re not on the same page. And only NBC would claim that Muriel Bowser is saying that the troops aren’t working, but credited the Trump administration surge with bringing down crime. More importantly, more importantly, we now have Democrats suing on behalf of crime. We now have Democrats on record as saying we need to sue to stop the substantial decrease in crime. In Washington, D.C., I think the carjacking rate the last time I saw it was 86% lower. 86% lower. Can you imagine how horrifying and terrifying it would be? to be the victim of a carjacking. You’re driving your car. You’ve got the window down. Maybe it’s a nice summer day. You’re at a red light. Some criminal runs up to you, sticks a gun in your face, makes you get out of the car, steals your car. Well, that crime that I just described is down, again, this is about a week or two ago, 86%. The Attorney General of Washington, D.C., Brian Schwalb, excuse me, it’s Schwalb, S-C-H-W-A-L-B, not Schwab, Schwalb. Brian Schwalb wants to sue so that you get carjacked. He’s like the carjacker’s best friend. These Democrats are criminals’ best friends. And there’s a reason for this radicalization. There’s a brilliant essay at Hot Air by David Strum that you need to read. It’s over at MikeOnline.com. Check it out. Real important. So there we go. Here’s a lawsuit on behalf of the criminals filed in Washington, D.C. Hey, good luck, D.C. residents, because you’ve got lunatics running your city. Not much different here in New York and in big blue cities all over America. Buckle up.
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I think I’m kind of hanging out and streaming shows for the rest of the day by the time I get home. You, mere hours later, were on a talk show panel slinging the hot wisdom about our industry in front of an audience there in Manhattan.
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Which was great fun. It was the Barrett Media Summit. I was on stage with Eric Erickson, Sid Rosenberg, Mark Simone. Mark and Sid are New York-based hosts, and you’ve seen Sid before. He’s this real great guy, bombastic. He’s the bald-headed guy who’s real tight with Trump. And I got some insight on Trump, and I got some insight on the mayoral race from Sid, which I want to share with you here. But they’re all great guys. And Eric, you know, sometimes Eric is kind of an establishment, you know, not really on board with Trump.
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Just these contrarian things that he thinks helps him score points as an independent thinker.
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But a good guy. I mean, I liked him. Absolutely. And they were all great guys. And we had Glenn Beck was there and Scott Jennings was there. Our boss, Phil Boyce, was there. So it was a lot of fun and got to catch up with some old friends. Sid made an interesting point. He said, look, Trump doesn’t really know Curtis. He knows who he is. He goes, he’s a Cuomo guy. Trump knows Cuomo. He thinks Cuomo has got the only chops to win. But now Sid disagrees with that because Sid’s a Curtis fan.
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Well, duh, as any Republican-leaning person should be. Thank you. Can you hear listeners in your earpiece and my headphones right now going… OK, that’s lovely that Trump is familiar with Cuomo, but Cuomo is a Democrat. Trump is a Republican. Shouldn’t he move heaven and earth to help Curtis?
SPEAKER 06 :
Well, but he’s probably not. And I think I suspect he doesn’t think Curtis is electable. And he believes Cuomo is not unreasonable. And he believes Cuomo has the best path to beat and to stop Zoran Mamdani.
SPEAKER 05 :
Isn’t that the goal? Because our ultimate goal should be elect Republicans, elect Republicans, elect Republicans. Understood. It does remain, however, New York City. So then maybe our plan B, if you want to call it that, is prevent a communist Islamist from becoming mayor. That would be just A, B, M, anybody but Mamdani. Well, I said that. If Cuomo’s the best solution there, then maybe that’s what you do.
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I said that to Sid, and Sid said, oh, really, Mike? So you want to throw all your conservative principles out the window? He said, Curtis, he goes, Curtis breathes and lives New York and loves New York. He’d be a great mayor. And he would be, by the way. He would be terrific. And I said, but Sid, is he electable? He said, that doesn’t come into the equation. You’ve got to fight, fight, fight till the bitter end. And here’s what Sid said. May the best man win.
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I know, and I admire that so much, and he’s not wrong to have that instinct, and I don’t want to suppress that instinct in anybody.
SPEAKER 06 :
No, I don’t either, because I get it. And you’ve actually said that to me before over the years. There’s been situations like this before where you say, look, you can’t abandon your principles, but on the other hand, look, this is an Armageddon-like possibility, a scenario. This guy, and he’s getting everybody lining up behind him. Kathy Hochul… Tish James, Big Tish, they’re all lining up behind Zoran Mamdani. They’re all lining up.
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You know what people are talking about? Two things on Trump. If Trump were to come out today, both feet all in and back every day, Curtis Lewa. I’d love to think that that’s it, race is over, because it’s Trump.
SPEAKER 06 :
But again, it’s New York City, where a Trump endorsement is only so powerful. Let me point out why that’s a mistake, because even Mondami, who now knows, he knows that Trump really, his pick is Cuomo. And now Mondami, on the campaign trail, is using that as a weapon. He’s saying… Cuomo is Trump’s hand-picked candidate. He’s the chosen one, and he’s trying to look at New York. He knows that works. He knows what works in New York. He knows telling a bunch of bratty, entitled, young Gen Zers, I’m going to freeze rent, is going to fly. He knows that telling them you’re going to get free bus rides is going to fly. City groceries. He knows city grocery stores goes over well with entitled, struggling young people who do think that the man is sticking it to them.
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And so affordability, it’s all affordability, like equity should have something to do with affordability. The second Trump thing is, have you heard the notion that in order to thin the field and I guess give Cuomo a better chance that Trump may be about to offer sitting mayor Eric Adams a post in the administration?
SPEAKER 06 :
Correct. But I’ve also heard that he’s also saying that about Curtis Sliwa as well. And Curtis said, nope, I’m interested in one job that’s mayor of New York. And that’s what Sid said. He said he’ll tell him to stick it in his ear. There’s no way he’s going to run for mayor. And according to Sid, nothing, nothing is going to remove Curtis from the race.
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And good for him for that. But what about Eric Adams? He knows if there’s anybody that cannot win, it’s Eric Adams, which is weird because he’s the sitting mayor of New York. And he fell from grace because he was too reasonable. He became too reasonable, too Trump tolerant. And so he is just a marked man. He is spoiled on the shelf. So why not accept a gig in the Trump administration? He may. He may do that.
SPEAKER 06 :
You know, we always say it’s New York. There’s a story out about the new school here in New York. They’ve got a new course they’re going to roll out. How to Steal. It’s the name of a course, How to Steal. It’s in the sociology department. I’m reading from the curriculum here. This is the actual curriculum at a New York City-based school, college. This field-based seminar explores the politics, ethics, and aesthetics of theft in a world where accumulation is sacred, dispossession is routine, and the line between private property and public good is drawn in blood. Students will critically examine what it means to steal, from whom, for whom, and why. through site visits and field work in places where capital is… Field work?
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Today we’re robbing a jewelry store. Right.
SPEAKER 06 :
Today we’re going to jump over the turnstile where capital is hoarded and value is contested. Corporate storefronts, grocery chains, museums. So, you know, it brings me to an example I’ve told you before, and it happened again this week. I’ve been using… I know you get mad at me, but I’ve taken the subway a lot.
SPEAKER 05 :
Look, the subway is an easy… Haven’t you learned I don’t want you to die? I got it. That’s my concern over your chest pain yesterday and my admonition that You maybe do some Uber since you can.
SPEAKER 06 :
It’s the best way to get around New York. Uber takes forever. You get car sick. Anyway, but look, here’s what happens every single time I get on the subway. Every single time I witness somebody jumping the turnstile. Every single time. Not occasionally, Mark. Every time. And generally, it’s people fairly well-dressed. It’s often black people. Sometimes it’s white people. But the point is, this is theft. Here we go back to the Zoran Mamdani mindset. Well, you’re taking back what’s yours. You know, maybe I’m owed reparations. Maybe I’m owed. And today I saw an NYPD officer. I got on the subway, as I always do when I head down to get my hit with the M&M experience. I’m getting on the A or the C train, and there’s a guy right ahead of me, young black guy, well-dressed. He even had a briefcase. jumped right over the turnstile, stole, you know, right in front of me. Committed a crime. And then I’m going down the way, and there’s a cop. And so I go up to the NYPD officer. I said, look, I don’t mean to bother you. I said, but tell me what your mindset is when you guys see these turnstile jumpers. Because I said, every time I come here, that’s all I see. He says, yeah. He says, you have to understand… There’s a mindset in the city that it’s kind of like, let’s look the other way. He said if we see somebody, we probably will stop them. We might give them a summons, or we might just kick them out of the subway station. But he says now the value to it is many times when we interrogate them, we find out they’re wanted for something else. They’ve committed other crimes, and then we can lock them up. And I got to thinking about that. I thought, yeah, if you’re brazen enough in front of God and everybody to jump over a turnstile and steal, what else have you done in your miserable life? And these are miserable. I wish I had the guts to go up to these people and say, what the heck’s wrong with you?
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