In this episode, Mike Gallagher dives deep into the heated debate surrounding the concept of deplatforming. As provocative figures like Tucker Carlson and Nick Fuentes emerge at the forefront, Gallagher explores the implications of silencing controversial voices in a purportedly free society. With insights from insiders and callers alike, the conversation weaves through perspectives on free speech, young conservatives, and the backlash of censorship.
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Critics blasted Tucker Carlson for platforming Nick Fuentes, a Holocaust denier who on Carlson’s podcast referred to organized Jewry. Allies of Turning Point USA… are being particularly blunt in hammering Tucker Carlson. They noted that Charlie befriended Tucker, but sought to distance MAGA from Fuentes. Welcome in. It’s Monday. We’re back in the States after a very successful week in Israel. Not quite a full week, but thank you for being part of our broadcast sponsored by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. This is a subject that’s near and dear to my heart because I’m a big believer in warning people against… Censorship, censorship, stifling voice, silencing speech. And we better be real careful, especially us boomers. We better be real cautious against trying to ignore a growing movement of young people in America. And the way this is unfolding is troublesome to me. I want to welcome you in. This is election eve. I’m wearing a black suit today, because I figure if I wear it on Wednesday, that will be a foreboding of mourning. I might be in here wearing sackcloth and ashes if New York City elects a communist Islamist. We’ll see how that plays out. But, you know, we’re ready to go. It’s a Monday, first Monday in November. We’re in the Relief Factor studios. I’m rested up, a lot of travel. I totaled it up. We traveled, let’s see, what is it, New York, Florida? That’s probably another, that’s 1,000 miles, you think, Eric, 1,500 miles? So New York to Israel is 7,000. So 14,000 miles round trip, and that doesn’t even include round trip between Tampa Bay and New York City. So we did a good 15,000-plus miles over a few short days, which is kind of a weird experience, especially with the time zone difference. Thank goodness I’m all stocked up with my think factor and my relief factor, and I’m feeling good. Got a lot of stamina, I hope. There will be a time when this might not be so easy, but I can get through it okay. And I’m really anxious to find out where you are on this. I had a chat with my buddy Mark Davis this morning in Dallas. Mark made the mistake of, I think it’s a mistake, of criticizing the deplatforming of Nick Fuentes. When I hear that, when I hear people talk about, use that word deplatform, I think of Mike Lindell. I think of General Michael Flynn. I think of Alex Jones. I think of people who have been completely shattered by a force that doesn’t think they get to speak. And it worries me, deeply. I am deeply, deeply concerned about the movement to tell people to basically shut up and go away. Hate that. Whether you like it or not, and I’ve got somebody on my team, Christian Russell, who has, and he’s a young guy. He’s got a really good perspective on what Gen Z is thinking and feeling. And Christian, when I was in Israel last week, Christian sort of casually said to me, Mike, Nick Fuentes has a lot of fans among young people. There are a lot of people who don’t believe we should continue to support Israel. And there are a lot of people who think that if you are hesitant in our continual aid and support for Israel, then you’re an anti-Semite. And that’s a little bit ridiculous. It’s a little bit crazy. Why in the world… Does somebody not have a right to believe that we give too much aid to Israel? I mean, it’s in the billions of dollars. We’re in the middle of a government shutdown that the Democrats refuse to ignore or fix. The Democrats, I think, Ted Cruz has the best theory about why there’s a government shutdown. They want to use it to propel people to vote for Democrats tomorrow. Once the election is over tomorrow, then they’re going to capitulate and they’re going to give in and the government will reopen. They’ll vote on a clean, continuing resolution and it will all be political posturing. That’s all the Democrats are about. That’s why they’re doing what they’re doing. I think Ted Cruz is right. So the argument against billions of dollars of aid to Israel is, we got problems here in America. We don’t need to worry about these other wars. And young people who have admittedly a bit naive, if not simplistic worldview on things like this, well, that’s how they feel. And they see a guy like Nick Fuentes And they say, he makes a lot of sense to me. Now, it’s up to us to educate and inform and enlighten young people about what anti-Semitism is, where it comes from. If you are denying the Holocaust occurred, if you think that the Jews control the world, and if you think Jews are controlling, you know, there’s checks coming from Qatar and all this crap, the whole Tucker, Candace, Nick Fuentes thing, look, we’ve just got to engage. Nothing wrong with having the conversation, but when I hear somebody like, again, I’m going to quote my friend Mark Davis, Tucker Carlson shouldn’t have put Nick Fuentes on his platform if he wasn’t going to challenge him. And that’s the criticism that Tucker’s getting. He didn’t push back hard enough. All right, well, that’s one criticism. But Mark used the term deplatform. Mark used the expression, people like Nick Fuentes should not be platformed. And I… adamantly disagree with that stick your head in the sand mindset. You better talk to these people. You better engage with them. We have to have the conversation. Having a debate is fine. Spare me the deplatform crap. Have we learned nothing? Should we debank Nick Fuentes too? Put him on the no-fly list again? Keep him from being able to get on an airplane because of his views? no matter how noxious you think his views are, he’s an American who, frankly, is a heck of a lot smarter and more effective at building a platform than a whole lot of podcasters sitting in their mom’s basement trying to build an audience. I admit, I know what I don’t know about the guy. But what I understand is he is becoming increasingly popular online. among young conservatives. And to ignore him, We do it at our own peril. What’s wrong with my way of looking at this? What’s wrong with my outlook? 800-655-MIKE, 15 past the hour. We’re so glad you’re here. We’ve got a lot of breaking news today. We’ve got the election tomorrow. We’ve got to talk about Trump’s spectacular appearance on 60 Minutes last night. And, yeah, he was good. He was real good. But in the meantime, I want to get your take on what Axios describes as MAGA’s war within. For now, MAGA is being held together by Trump’s personality, but open disagreement has broken out over who should and shouldn’t be accepted under its tent. That’s the rub to me. That’s the issue, is a debate about who is allowed to speak. And I wish I could let loose with worse than what I’m about to tell you, because I would if I could. That’s bullcrap. That’s bullcrap. Who gets to be the gatekeepers and decides who gets to speak, who gets to have a platform, and who should be deplatformed? We should all be united in saying, let’s have it out. Put it all out on the table. And let’s win hearts and minds. Let’s be persuasive. Let’s be factual. Let’s be truthful. But let’s stop with the deplatform crap. Tucker shouldn’t be deplatformed. Nick Fuentes shouldn’t be deplatformed. Candace Owens shouldn’t be deplatformed. No one gets to decide who gets to speak and who doesn’t speak. And if we haven’t learned that by now, we’re doomed. We’re doomed. Because that’s a hallmark of a free and open society. And I’m getting sick of the scolds and the nags And the arrogant elitists telling other people what they are and are not allowed to say and what platform they are or are not allowed to be on. That’s a load of crap.
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Here’s Congressman Randy Fine from Florida going after Tucker Carlson big time.
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Five years ago, if I was talking to my father, who’s watching, hi, Dad. If I was talking to my father at 8.59 p.m. at night, he would say, Randy, I got to go. Tucker Carlson’s going to be on. But make no mistake. Today, Tucker Carlson is the most dangerous anti-Semite in America.
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The most dangerous anti-Semite in America is Tucker Carlson. So de-platform him, shut him down, ignore him, maybe he’ll go away. And make no mistake, there is a track record to do this to people. Just ask Mike Lindell, ask Alex Jones, ask Michael Flynn. And Pardon my, pardon, ooh, gosh, somebody’s in my ear, guys. Something’s going on with the phones. I guess we’ve got a phone issue there. Make no mistake, pardon my French, that scares the hell out of me. Telling people, and look, again, my video producer, Christian Russell, has a real great take on all of this. The Nick Fuenteses of the world are all into being dark and edgy and taboo. But there are a whole lot of young people who are drawn to the Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Nick Fuentes narrative. So the question is, what do you do about them? Let’s start with Don in Philadelphia. 25 past the hour. Number is 800-655-MIKE. Don, welcome back. How are you?
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Yeah, Mike. Thank you, buddy. Sure. I don’t think that Tucker Carlson is a Christian person. And I don’t know much about Nick Fuentes. I’ve never seen him. I’ve never heard him, but I’ve heard about him. And it sounds like he’s a Nazi. And if the Republican Party embraces those all the way out on the far right, they’re going to fall off the edge.
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Well, on the other hand, if you ignore voices that have a lot of followers, you’re going to fall off the edge because they’re going to come bite you in the rear end without you knowing where it came from or how it evolved. I mean, I don’t know that name-calling… Do you know Tucker Carlson personally to say he’s not a Christian? Well, Mike, you called me goofy last time I called you. I’m about to call you goofy again. Do you know Tucker Carlson well enough to say he’s not a Christian?
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Well, Mike, I don’t believe he’s a Christian.
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Based on what, Don?
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Because of what he says. Well, give me an example. He went to Russia. He was fine until he got fired from Fox.
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And he went to Russia and met with Putin, and he seemed to fall off the defense. What’s that got to do with his Christianity, Don?
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Well, he said that a Christian Zionist is a heretic. Well, what he said, no, he didn’t say heretic. He said he dislikes Christian Zionists as much as anybody, and that doesn’t mean he’s not a Christian. He might not be the kind of Christian you approve of, but like I said last time when you called and you wanted to argue with me, who the heck are you? Who are you to determine who gets to speak and who doesn’t get to speak? And incidentally, you have a right not to like Tucker. You have a right to object to any of these guys. But trying to ignore them and name-call them, it just strikes me as petulant and a little shallow and, yeah, goofy. Nick’s in Louisville. Nick, you’re on the Mike Gallagher Show. Hello.
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Hey, so my take on the last caller, that’s interesting. My take on it is the whole thing is just the quest for the truth. We’re all looking for the truth. People that listen to Nick Fuentes… are not stupid. We all want to know the truth. And there’s like this Republican conference that just went on is just like, It’s absurd. Everybody is laughing at it. They’re pearl clutching and accusing us of being Nazis. The left has been accusing everybody, all of us, of being Nazis. And now a segment of the right is calling us Nazis.
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There are a lot of really great moments in Israel. And one of the moments I wanted to share with you was. my dear friend Joey Hudson talking to one of our security guys about weapons. Now, I don’t know a lot about guns. I just have a staunch defender of the Second Amendment, and I honor and respect and appreciate people who carry. And there’s an interesting issue evolving here out of Florida. Maybe we’ll get our Roger P. Shulman from the newsroom one of these days to give us the update on this. But a Florida appeals court has legalized the open carry of firearms statewide. You know, concealed carry has been fine, as it is on so many states around the country. But here in Florida… The courts have legalized a citizen’s ability to carry your weapon, you know, on your holster, on your waist, on your shoulder. Carry it openly. And they’re concerned about letting people with a gun strapped to their waist visibly. There are lawyers… and administrators who are worried about allowing people who are open carrying into county buildings. In a September 12th email, according to the Miami Herald, in a September 12th email with an open carry of firearms as subject line, Sharif Nasri, a lawyer and security administrator for Miami-Dade, noted to a superior that current security protocols call for police to stop anyone from entering a county building with a visible firearm. Well, that contradicts the court ruling. Masry wrote, it will likely create anxiety and fear for our employees, contractors, and visitors who may see openly carried firearms. Well, too bad. I get… visibly anxious when somebody walks by me with, you know, strong perfume on. I don’t like people that, you know, take their shoes off on the airplane and clip their toenails. A lot of things I’m anxious about. Who cares about the anxiousness? If the courts have ruled that you have a right to keep and bear arms in the state of Florida, and yes, you can open carry… That includes going to the library. The Miami Herald article focuses largely on the library. Oh, a library can’t have a mass shooting with some lunatic who goes in there? Yeah, let’s do this again. Let’s play that game some more. It’s a gun-free zone. No guns allowed. Baloney. Baloney. And… Under Governor DeSantis, I suspect they’re going to get this right. 800-655-MIKE, 23 before the hour. Here is Florida with a text about Tucker. Tucker is an anti-Semitic. Quote, we shall know them by their fruit. Well, I don’t want to believe that. I hope he’s not. I’ve followed Tucker for years. I’ve interviewed him on this show. I certainly don’t know him well enough to consider him a friend. I am blown away by his comment regarding Christian Zionists. I don’t get that at all. In fact, can somebody explain what he means by that? He’s deeply offended by what he calls Christian Zionists. I understand a Zionist to be somebody who defends and supports Israel, believes that God’s chosen people have a right to exist. Israel has a right to exist. If that makes me a Zionist, I guess I’m a Zionist. I certainly am a Christian, so I guess Tucker dislikes me as intently as anybody on the planet. I guess he didn’t like his father. Tucker’s own dad was described as a well-known high-profile Christian Zionist. What does he mean by that? To Florida’s text message, Tucker is anti-Semitic. We shall know them by their fruit. Why is he anti-Semitic? Because he doesn’t believe we should be funding Israel? Because he’s opposed to Christian Zionists? Does that make him a de facto Jew-hater? And make no mistake, Jew hatred is real. There’s a lot of that going on these days, normally from the left. But according to a lot of the reporting I’m seeing, more and more on the right seem to be going down this dark and dangerous path. And it is dangerous. It’s terrible for the soul to hate somebody based on how they believe, on their faith. Do you know what Tucker means when he says he hates Christian Zionists? Can you explain that to me? Like I’m an 11-year-old? Talk slowly and tell me why somebody like Tucker Carlson, who has millions of people all over the world who follow him and like him, support him, why he would have said such a thing. We played that clip the other day from Israel. What does that mean? He called it Christian heresy. It’s heresy to believe in the biblical pronouncement that Israel has a right to exist. My Bible says those who bless Israel, God will bless. Those who curse Israel, God will curse. That’s my Bible. Is he reading from a different one? Can you help me understand it? 800-655-MIKE. Join us. I want to put your voice front and center. I’m looking for any explanation about why Christian Zionism is somehow offensive and worth Tucker’s contempt. I don’t get it. Maybe you do. Got a smart audience? Let’s put your voice front and center here on the Mike Gallagher Show. 800-655-MIKE. Before we do that, though, I mentioned Christian Russell. I don’t like to highlight Christian because I’m afraid somebody’s going to want to snatch him up because he’s the best video producer in the country, bar none. Christian, are you old enough to remember the TV series MASH?
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Yeah, my mom actually would always say I remind her of Hawkeye Pierce.
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Well, you remind me of Radar O’Reilly because Radar O’Reilly always was there for his boss and would always fill in the blanks. If I think Kamala Harris, before I get the words Kamala Harris out, you’re playing Kamala Harris B-roll. I don’t know how you do it. I think there might be some dark magic involved. You might be a wizard. Maybe you’re a mind reader.
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Well, Mike, like millions of Americans, I hang on to your every word, and while I’m working, I’m just anticipating the next thing that you’re going to say, and then I roll with it.
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Okay, now you’re being sarcastic, but that’s okay. That’s okay. Hey, Christian, you and I have been talking a lot about this whole Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens thing, and you’ve got a really good interpretation. How old are you? Remind the audience how old you are.
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Actually, I’m going to be over the hill next month. I’ll be 30. I turn 30 on Pearl Harbor Day.
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All right, so get ready for Medicare. It’s knocking on the door. Christian is a 29-year-old New Yorker. You tell me about your take on the whole Nick Fuentes phenomenon because you’re the one that I kind of lean into and I rely on to help me understand what Gen Zers are thinking and feeling and saying. And look, you’re the one that’s pointed out to me this guy’s a lot more popular than us boomers want to let on.
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Yeah, well, so I think I’ll first start with the idea of censoring someone like Nick Fuentes. So his whole platform and popularity grew out of him being deplatformed and censored. So he’s the first person to not be verified on X to have a million followers. That happened, the vast majority of that, while he was deplatformed and censored. His Rumble, he’s the second most streamed person on Rumble behind Alex Jones. Both of those people, deplatformed, censored, taken offline, kind of had all that accomplishment without any kind of perpetuating by mainstream media, quote-unquote, whatever that means. But all that to say that this popularity existed before… any sort of highlighting by, like, Tucker Carlson or anybody like that. And now it’s just Streisand effect. Now the more that we’re highlighting it, it’s perpetuating a cycle of popularity. But the reason that Nick Fuentes and people like him are popular in the first place is because they’re taboo provocateurs. It’s edgy and it’s cool. It’s like punk rock, you know? It’s underground and it’s something that… is created with the mythos of it, the more that that’s fed into it, then the more it’s paid off. And it’s ironic and cool and edgy to be into it because it makes people PO’d. People want… We live in a reactionary society now. So the more of a reaction you could get out of Randy Fine or Ted Cruz, the more dividends you’re paying to the power of a Nick Fuentes. So it’s kind of like an ironic shakedown by internet trolls, you know? Continuously making someone like Nick Fuentes more… somebody like Tucker Carlson’s platforming of him isn’t necessarily making him more palpable. It’s honestly just proving the point that Internet trolls can get under anyone’s skin, and that’s the power that they really have, the cultural currency of making people PO’d.
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You know, I’m thinking about your description of Nick and Candace and other, even Tucker, I guess, to a degree, as provocateurs, and that edginess, that tabooness, That’s what makes them popular. But in a way, to kind of bring this thing full circle, it’s kind of Trumpian. When you think about it, Trump came along and was edgy and said taboo things and talked about the media in a way nobody ever had. And they did their best to de-platform him.
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Yeah, and that’s the… Like, as a young guy who, like, leans right on some issues, you know, like, one thing I really liked about kind of, like, the conservative Republican Party was the idea of not squandering people based off their ideas and their speech. Yeah. So, I mean… I’m not a perfect case example of anything, but I do think I speak for a lot of people my age where it’s like that’s one thing, especially during COVID, where the Republican Party did well was to not censor and stifle speech and people and these kinds of things done by like the. kind of party apparatus is sort of a signal against the exact thing that is appealing for people like me.
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So it’s a double-edged sword. Yeah, I mean, and you agree with me, I take it, the way to handle this is to engage, not to try to continue to deplatform and silence people and stifle them.
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Oh, yeah, totally, because the more you try to just cover it up, the more anyone’s interested in watching it. Like me, I never really cared about Nick Fuentes, but he’d pop up, and he’s an engaging guy. You could watch his clips and understand what people find funny about him or whatever, but then… It becomes oversaturated when it goes on the mainstream, I guess. It becomes less interesting, and I don’t care. No one really cares except for the people that are really into it.
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Yep, yep. All right. Thank you, Christian. Of course, I will point out, I will chastise you during that segment. I did not see a lower third that said Christian Russell, video producer, Mike Gallagher show. Now, you know, you could have been typing that while you’re talking. You can do two things at once. There you go. No comment. There it is. There it is. Oh, there it is. Now go back. I like to see that. Yeah, it’s good. Christian Russell. See, he did it. He had it up there. Christian Russell, video producer, Mike Gallagher Show. And thank you. He really does do a tremendous job and gives me a lot of insight on, you know, what people who might be in the Nick Fuentes camp are saying, what they’re thinking. It’s a bad idea to go around and start bragging about deplatforming anybody. And, you know, perhaps, arguably, there was an effort to ignore the emergence of somebody like Zoran Mamdani. There was an inclination to ignore this guy in Minneapolis. Fattah. Is Fattah, is he on the verge of winning in Minneapolis? Because I’m seeing stuff on social media that suggests he’s in the lead. I didn’t think he was. I’d like to get some data, some documentation on that. Maybe a call from Minneapolis-St. Paul. Are you actually going to have a guy waving a Somali flag be your next mayor? I’m not making that up either. It’s not AI. That clip of Omar Fattah waving the Somali flag and saying over and over again, Somalia, Somalia, Somalia. It’ll make your blood run cold.
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The rise of Omar Fatah. A lot of people are calling him the Mamdani of Minneapolis. I had lunch yesterday in New York City. We flew through New York to come home from Israel after our tremendous visit to the Holy Land last week, and thanks for being a part of that. I had such an incredible experience over there, as I always do. It was my 11th journey to the Holy Land, and it was as meaningful as it was the very first time I got to walk where Jesus walked. And coming back, because we landed too late in the evening on Saturday. I had to spend the night in New York and then go from New York back home to Tampa Bay yesterday. So a lot of flying, a lot of lugging around bags. P.S., you be ready for JFK Airport if you’re going to hope to take an Uber from the JFK Airport into Manhattan. Oh, my gosh. What a crap show that is. You’ve got to take a bus like 15 minutes to get to the Uber lot. They don’t let Uber come to the airport because of the construction there. It amazes me how a big American city can be so broken. It took two hours to drive in from JFK to Manhattan on a Saturday night. Two hours. Ridiculous traffic. Never-ending construction. A city that largely doesn’t work. And the guy who says he’s going to fix it all is Zoran Mamdani. The guy who says he’s going to fix things in Minneapolis is Omar Fatah. Omar Fatah makes Zoran Mamdani look like, you know, Ronald Reagan. Abraham Lincoln. But they are aligned. They’re both Muslim. They’re both young. They’re both Democrat socialists. And they hope to capture the hearts and minds of young voters tomorrow in their respective cities. The Fatah thing blows my mind. Mamdani is pretty bad. Make no mistake, Mamdani is a nightmare. A nightmare in waiting. saw a report today that nearly a million New Yorkers are ready to flee New York City if Mom Donnie is elected tomorrow night. If residents of this number were to leave, it would be equal to the population of Washington, D.C., Las Vegas, or Seattle fleeing the city. Almost a million people will either leave New York or consider leaving if Mamdani is elected. What about the Mamdani of Minneapolis? I’m going to play a clip for you that I just can’t get enough of because it actually happened. This is a guy who’s challenging the incumbent, Jacob Fry, and boy, he’s no walk in the park either. He’s a doozy. It’s not unlike New York. Pick your poison. Cuomo, Curtis Lewa, who trails in the polls, but is the only sensible candidate of the three of them, or a Muslim, Democrat, socialist, communist named Zoran. And bad things are going to happen in New York. When President Trump says he’ll likely withhold funds from a city like New York if New Yorkers are dumb enough to vote for this guy, you think he’s bluffing? I guarantee you he means it. I can promise you he’s going to come along and he’s going to do exactly what he says he’s going to do. Here is what he said to Nora O’Donnell last night on 60 Minutes. It was one of the rare times I’ve watched and enjoyed 60 Minutes. Nora O’Donnell was fair. She was, hey, she was pointed. She pressed President Trump on a number of issues. President Trump seemed to appreciate the line of questioning. And Zoran Mamdani came up.
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He’s the communist, not socialist, communist. He’s far worse than a socialist.
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Some people have compared him to a left-wing version of you, charismatic, breaking the old rules. What do you think about that?
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Well, I think I’m a much better looking person than him, right?
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She didn’t take the bait. She didn’t confirm or deny if Trump is better looking than Zoran. But on a serious note, President Trump did say there could be a real crisis for New York not getting federal funds. Do you remember the New York Daily News cover from many years ago that was very famous? It was Gerald Ford when he was going to deny federal funds to New York City. And the headline said, Gerald Ford to New York City, drop dead. Well, there could be a recurrence of that if Zoran Mamdani gets elected.
SPEAKER 13 :
What if Mamdani becomes mayor? It’s going to be hard for me as the president to give a lot of money to New York. Because if you have a communist running New York, all you’re doing is wasting the money you’re sending there. So I don’t know that he’s won. And I’m not a fan of Cuomo one way or the other. But if it’s going to be between… A bad Democrat and a communist, I’m going to pick the bad Democrat all the time, to be honest with you.
SPEAKER 08 :
Again, back to New York, I had lunch with this friend of mine yesterday, businessman, lifelong New Yorker. He’s considering moving. And he said, essentially, we’re screwed. In fact, he used those words over lunch. We’re screwed. We’re just in big trouble. And New York knows it. But look, New York is Shangri-La compared to Minneapolis. What if Omar Fatah gets elected? I’m going to play this clip for you. This will be the third time I played it. I first came across it when I was in Israel last week. When I played this, I could not believe my eyes or my ears. Now, I’m reading this profile from The Guardian. Fatah is a 35-year-old, became a state senator by ousting an incumbent. Um… He talks about affordability. He talks about, you know, tapping into the insurgent left. And here was a little bit of one of his latest, from one of his latest campaign rallies.
SPEAKER 01 :
As-salamu alaykum. As-salamu alaykum. Somalia. Somalia. Iran State. Ma’awisleh. Ma’awisleh. I need your vote. I need you. Hello. We’re going to win.
SPEAKER 08 :
Now, if you’re watching on Salem News Channel, he’s wearing some kind of garb that’s draped over his left shoulder that I imagine is some kind of Somali garb. And he was waving through that whole rant a Somali flag. I don’t even know what to say to that. Do you? Other than we’re screwed. This country, if this gets taken over by radical Islamist communists and socialists, all because they have cleverly made fake promises about making life more affordable for people, We’re doomed. I mean, I’m sorry to be so negative today. I mean, I’m in a great mood. Hope you are, too. I’m feeling good. And I’m feeling cautiously optimistic that Americans are going to say, well, no, we can’t have this. We cannot have this. This cannot stand. Sheila in California sends a text message, says the Democrat Party is full of gullible, irresponsible people who want other people to pay their bills. It has to be what it boils down to. And you don’t care if it’s an Islamist in New York City where not all that long ago they were picking bodies out of the rubble of the World Trade Center because of the evil actions of Islamist terrorists. You don’t care if you’re in Minneapolis if you’ve got a mayor that’s going to replace the United States flag with the flag of Somalia. And incidentally, I’ve been reading about this Omar Fatakai. He wasn’t born in Somalia. He was born in Washington, D.C. And yet feels a need to wave the Somali flag. It wouldn’t, I mean, Zoran Mamdani is clever enough not to wave the Ugandan flag, but he has certainly made it clear what his intentions are. So we’re in the final stretch. The New Jersey governor race, the Virginia governor race, the New York City mayoral race. There’s a lot on the line. There’s just a lot at stake here. Are we going to get it right tomorrow? How are you feeling about the election? As candidates are making their final push ahead of Election Day tomorrow, we want to break it all down for you here on the Mike Gallagher Show in the Relief Factor Studios. 800-655-MIKE. 800-655-6453. Call or text. I mean, if you’re in Minneapolis, do you feel like you’re in a fever dream that this guy might beat Jacob Frye tomorrow night, waving the Somalian flag? Asala Malakalekum? Are you kidding me? This doesn’t even feel real. It’s hard to believe this is actually happening. 800-655-6453. Call or text. Join us here on the Mike Gallagher Show.
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