1 00:00:11,657 --> 00:00:14,937 Speaker 1: You're listening to The Buck Sexton Show podcast, make sure 2 00:00:14,937 --> 00:00:17,977 Speaker 1: you subscribe to the podcast on the iHeartRadio app or 3 00:00:17,977 --> 00:00:21,537 Speaker 1: wherever you get your podcasts. Hey, everybody, Welcome to The 4 00:00:21,657 --> 00:00:26,137 Speaker 1: Buck Sexton Show. On this episode, Jacqueline Toberoff is with 5 00:00:26,217 --> 00:00:29,937 Speaker 1: us right now. She is politically activated. She's an author. 6 00:00:30,057 --> 00:00:32,937 Speaker 1: She ran for New York City Council. It's got a 7 00:00:32,937 --> 00:00:36,537 Speaker 1: book coming out on being a supermom. She also writes 8 00:00:36,537 --> 00:00:39,337 Speaker 1: for Human Events and like me, she's a fellow New 9 00:00:39,417 --> 00:00:42,697 Speaker 1: York girl, though I'm a former fellow New Yorker. Jackie. 10 00:00:43,137 --> 00:00:45,857 Speaker 1: Great to have in the show first time. Thank you. 11 00:00:45,937 --> 00:00:49,057 Speaker 1: I'm so excited to be here. So you were actually 12 00:00:49,137 --> 00:00:56,377 Speaker 1: down there earlier this week at the Trump indictment arraignment situation. 13 00:00:56,617 --> 00:01:00,257 Speaker 1: Just tell everybody, you know, what's that like, What was 14 00:01:00,297 --> 00:01:03,977 Speaker 1: the vibe? What was the feel? The vibe was amazing. 15 00:01:04,097 --> 00:01:06,897 Speaker 1: So Gavin Wax and the New York Young Republicans put 16 00:01:06,897 --> 00:01:09,857 Speaker 1: it together. This was their second one. The first was 17 00:01:10,337 --> 00:01:15,377 Speaker 1: in March on the twenty first, I think when news 18 00:01:15,417 --> 00:01:18,377 Speaker 1: first broke today. It was the second one. They had 19 00:01:18,497 --> 00:01:23,177 Speaker 1: Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green as one of the speakers, and 20 00:01:23,417 --> 00:01:26,817 Speaker 1: it was they invited members to their club, so it 21 00:01:26,857 --> 00:01:32,457 Speaker 1: was basically all locals. No one was bust in to riot, 22 00:01:32,537 --> 00:01:36,817 Speaker 1: to arson, to loot, to assault. It was very orderly, 23 00:01:37,097 --> 00:01:40,577 Speaker 1: with a couple of exceptions. It turns out after going 24 00:01:40,737 --> 00:01:46,257 Speaker 1: on to Twitter that New York City council person Shays 25 00:01:46,297 --> 00:01:51,657 Speaker 1: Say was handing out whistles so that agitators could basically 26 00:01:51,977 --> 00:01:56,737 Speaker 1: blow out ear drums of people they're protesting Alvin Bragg. 27 00:01:57,177 --> 00:02:03,377 Speaker 1: But it was very civil, orderly. Everyone was cheering for 28 00:02:03,897 --> 00:02:07,057 Speaker 1: Marjorie Taylor Green. And again this is in New York City, 29 00:02:07,097 --> 00:02:11,057 Speaker 1: this is in Manhattan, and there was genuine support. What 30 00:02:11,137 --> 00:02:13,777 Speaker 1: do you think it means now that it's official. I 31 00:02:13,857 --> 00:02:16,977 Speaker 1: mean Trump is indicted, the indictment is out. This is 32 00:02:17,017 --> 00:02:19,817 Speaker 1: really happening. Just start first with I mean, as a 33 00:02:19,857 --> 00:02:23,137 Speaker 1: New Yorker, it must be very weird. I mean this 34 00:02:23,177 --> 00:02:25,857 Speaker 1: is how I feel as a you know, thirty some 35 00:02:26,017 --> 00:02:30,097 Speaker 1: odd year New Yorker feels weird that this native son 36 00:02:30,217 --> 00:02:33,737 Speaker 1: of New York, of Queens no less, became president and 37 00:02:33,817 --> 00:02:37,497 Speaker 1: now he's being pulled back to his hometown to face 38 00:02:37,817 --> 00:02:41,137 Speaker 1: the most absurd charges I've really ever seen in any 39 00:02:41,137 --> 00:02:46,257 Speaker 1: criminal proceeding. Yeah, I think the people that were at 40 00:02:46,297 --> 00:02:48,817 Speaker 1: this protest today. There were plenty of them that were 41 00:02:48,817 --> 00:02:50,897 Speaker 1: in support of Trump, and then there were just plenty 42 00:02:50,937 --> 00:02:54,137 Speaker 1: of them that didn't see how indicting him and arresting 43 00:02:54,177 --> 00:02:57,177 Speaker 1: him would make their lives any better. You know, I'm 44 00:02:57,217 --> 00:02:59,937 Speaker 1: a mom of two. I don't know how this improves education. 45 00:03:00,097 --> 00:03:02,377 Speaker 1: I don't know how this improves crime. I don't know 46 00:03:02,377 --> 00:03:08,057 Speaker 1: how this improves the illegal crisis, drug crisis, the homeless encountments. 47 00:03:08,457 --> 00:03:10,377 Speaker 1: So there were plenty of people there that might not 48 00:03:10,417 --> 00:03:15,217 Speaker 1: have necessarily been Trump supporters, but they were certainly not 49 00:03:15,377 --> 00:03:19,857 Speaker 1: in support of what Alvin Brad is doing. Where do 50 00:03:19,857 --> 00:03:23,537 Speaker 1: you think it goes? I mean, I'm just wondering. You know, 51 00:03:23,817 --> 00:03:27,497 Speaker 1: there's there's now the possibility the judge will throw the 52 00:03:27,537 --> 00:03:29,537 Speaker 1: whole thing out. I'm sure there'll be a bunch of motions. 53 00:03:29,777 --> 00:03:32,777 Speaker 1: I would bet that it will not be thrown out. 54 00:03:33,457 --> 00:03:35,617 Speaker 1: My assumption is that they're going to let this play 55 00:03:35,617 --> 00:03:37,537 Speaker 1: out and go to a jury. The part of this 56 00:03:37,577 --> 00:03:39,897 Speaker 1: that I have not gotten a single good explanation for 57 00:03:40,057 --> 00:03:43,057 Speaker 1: yet is what do they want? Meaning? If they were 58 00:03:43,057 --> 00:03:44,977 Speaker 1: to get you know, usually you have a plead. This 59 00:03:45,057 --> 00:03:48,217 Speaker 1: is a it's a misdemeanor campaign finance charge right that 60 00:03:48,297 --> 00:03:52,497 Speaker 1: they've elevated to a felony based upon a nonindicted federal 61 00:03:52,577 --> 00:03:54,697 Speaker 1: crime that has nothing to do with the local, local 62 00:03:54,737 --> 00:03:59,817 Speaker 1: state statute at issue about you know, falsifying records or whatever. 63 00:04:01,297 --> 00:04:02,657 Speaker 1: Are they going to try to send him a jail, 64 00:04:02,697 --> 00:04:04,337 Speaker 1: because I mean, what, really is this going to turn 65 00:04:04,377 --> 00:04:07,777 Speaker 1: into one hundred thousand dollars fine for Trump? Is like 66 00:04:07,857 --> 00:04:09,737 Speaker 1: buying a soda for the rest of us? Like, what 67 00:04:09,777 --> 00:04:11,617 Speaker 1: are they think this is going to do? We know 68 00:04:11,697 --> 00:04:14,217 Speaker 1: the politics of it, but legally it just feels like 69 00:04:14,577 --> 00:04:18,777 Speaker 1: the whole thing is just crazy. I mean, look, I 70 00:04:18,817 --> 00:04:22,777 Speaker 1: think it's so clear that these people just hate this country. 71 00:04:22,777 --> 00:04:25,297 Speaker 1: And I saw that Leezeldon put out a tweet and 72 00:04:25,337 --> 00:04:30,697 Speaker 1: he said that they are hurting America. That's the point 73 00:04:30,817 --> 00:04:33,937 Speaker 1: that they're hurting America. They don't like America. This is 74 00:04:34,177 --> 00:04:38,657 Speaker 1: this isn't a big deal to them. I'm unsure whether 75 00:04:38,697 --> 00:04:40,937 Speaker 1: they took his photo for a monk shop, but then 76 00:04:40,977 --> 00:04:43,617 Speaker 1: there was news that they weren't going to They want 77 00:04:43,657 --> 00:04:47,137 Speaker 1: him disappeared. It feels like they want him in Siberia. 78 00:04:48,017 --> 00:04:50,777 Speaker 1: They don't want even though this is happening in Manhattan 79 00:04:50,817 --> 00:04:53,737 Speaker 1: and there naturally has so much attention on it. It's 80 00:04:53,777 --> 00:04:58,017 Speaker 1: almost like they just want to they just want to 81 00:04:58,057 --> 00:05:02,817 Speaker 1: disappear him. It's it's really just perverted and sick. And 82 00:05:03,417 --> 00:05:06,497 Speaker 1: I mean thirty four counts. What are these thirty four counts? 83 00:05:06,537 --> 00:05:08,857 Speaker 1: I mean you've been You're from New York City. You 84 00:05:08,857 --> 00:05:11,377 Speaker 1: know what's going on here. I mean, rapists and murderers 85 00:05:11,377 --> 00:05:14,337 Speaker 1: are roaming free. I want to ask you next about 86 00:05:14,337 --> 00:05:16,017 Speaker 1: how the city, how the city is doing, or we're 87 00:05:16,017 --> 00:05:19,097 Speaker 1: going to get into how Eric Adams is doing the 88 00:05:19,177 --> 00:05:22,657 Speaker 1: latest just feel of walking around on the streets there 89 00:05:22,657 --> 00:05:24,097 Speaker 1: and you know how how we're going to get to 90 00:05:24,217 --> 00:05:27,017 Speaker 1: to all that. But but just on on this Trump issue. 91 00:05:27,017 --> 00:05:30,337 Speaker 1: I mean, do you get the sense right now? I 92 00:05:30,377 --> 00:05:31,817 Speaker 1: mean you were there, I know, with a bunch of 93 00:05:32,257 --> 00:05:35,857 Speaker 1: young Republicans club members in New York City. Is it 94 00:05:35,937 --> 00:05:37,897 Speaker 1: just Trump for you? Or Trump for you already? Like 95 00:05:37,937 --> 00:05:39,977 Speaker 1: it's you don't even want to see the primary play out? 96 00:05:40,017 --> 00:05:41,857 Speaker 1: Have you already decided in your mind? Or do you 97 00:05:41,937 --> 00:05:44,497 Speaker 1: want to see I was voting for I mean I 98 00:05:44,577 --> 00:05:47,577 Speaker 1: voted for Trump before. I'm one hundred percent voting for 99 00:05:47,617 --> 00:05:50,457 Speaker 1: Trump again. I unlike some of the other people, I 100 00:05:50,497 --> 00:05:53,617 Speaker 1: have no issue with dessentists I just don't know. We 101 00:05:53,657 --> 00:05:56,697 Speaker 1: have Trump. Things were great under Trump. I just don't 102 00:05:56,777 --> 00:06:00,817 Speaker 1: understand why we would go towards descantists. So I'm already 103 00:06:00,937 --> 00:06:04,897 Speaker 1: committed to who I'm voting for. UM. 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So all right, 142 00:07:50,257 --> 00:07:52,497 Speaker 1: I left New York. Everyone listening to this knows that, 143 00:07:52,697 --> 00:07:54,417 Speaker 1: and I live in Florida. There are a lot of 144 00:07:54,417 --> 00:07:57,177 Speaker 1: reasons why people could go back to the many, many 145 00:07:57,177 --> 00:08:00,257 Speaker 1: shows I've done talking about this. But I still love 146 00:08:00,297 --> 00:08:02,417 Speaker 1: New York and I'm still rooting for New York and 147 00:08:02,457 --> 00:08:04,657 Speaker 1: I haven't ruled out that one day I would at 148 00:08:04,697 --> 00:08:08,417 Speaker 1: least spend part of if not, you know, permanently, my 149 00:08:09,097 --> 00:08:12,817 Speaker 1: my life back up, How is it going under Mayor 150 00:08:12,937 --> 00:08:16,457 Speaker 1: Eric Adams? Like, honestly, not just I know under de Blasio? 151 00:08:16,497 --> 00:08:18,777 Speaker 1: The answer was, he's awful top to bottom. He does 152 00:08:18,817 --> 00:08:22,097 Speaker 1: nothing right, He's an imbecile. Okay, that was de Blasio. 153 00:08:22,497 --> 00:08:25,217 Speaker 1: What's the honest assessment of Mayor Eric Adams in New 154 00:08:25,297 --> 00:08:28,017 Speaker 1: York City right now? Like, walk me the honest assessment. 155 00:08:28,217 --> 00:08:32,257 Speaker 1: The honest assessment is Eric Adams is a hundred times 156 00:08:32,257 --> 00:08:35,817 Speaker 1: worse than to Blasio. He was pitched as a moderate. 157 00:08:36,377 --> 00:08:39,817 Speaker 1: This guy, let me tell you something. From the very beginning, 158 00:08:39,937 --> 00:08:43,057 Speaker 1: he ran his campaign on race and from the basement, 159 00:08:43,617 --> 00:08:47,217 Speaker 1: no one pushed back on anything. He barely made it 160 00:08:47,257 --> 00:08:50,617 Speaker 1: through his primary, and he has been an unmitigated disaster. 161 00:08:50,737 --> 00:08:54,137 Speaker 1: So I have some numbers here. Within the past two years, 162 00:08:54,457 --> 00:08:58,737 Speaker 1: crime across the seven majors is up forty five point 163 00:08:58,857 --> 00:09:04,537 Speaker 1: forty percent. Okay, rape rape is up six point five percent, 164 00:09:05,017 --> 00:09:08,537 Speaker 1: and Graham larceny auto is up almost one hundred percent, 165 00:09:08,737 --> 00:09:14,057 Speaker 1: ninety three point five percent. It's a disaster. Arrests are 166 00:09:14,137 --> 00:09:20,337 Speaker 1: down fifty two percent of all of the arrests have 167 00:09:20,457 --> 00:09:24,257 Speaker 1: been downgraded. All of the crimes are downgraded. We are 168 00:09:24,297 --> 00:09:30,417 Speaker 1: emptying prisons. We have, as I said before, a homeless crisis. 169 00:09:31,497 --> 00:09:35,977 Speaker 1: We have illegal weed shops sprouting up on every other block. 170 00:09:36,097 --> 00:09:41,297 Speaker 1: It's like Starbucks. They're ubiquitous. What else I mean? We 171 00:09:41,377 --> 00:09:45,497 Speaker 1: have outmigration, we have a wrecking ball to the educational complex. 172 00:09:46,377 --> 00:09:49,537 Speaker 1: It's a disaster. It's really a disaster. I mean the 173 00:09:49,617 --> 00:09:52,817 Speaker 1: highlight was the rally this morning. It was a disaster. 174 00:09:53,857 --> 00:09:57,057 Speaker 1: So I don't understand this part of the equation. Right, 175 00:09:57,217 --> 00:10:00,897 Speaker 1: you're still in New York. It's eighty twenty Democrat to 176 00:10:01,017 --> 00:10:03,937 Speaker 1: Republican in New York City, and in that's across the 177 00:10:03,937 --> 00:10:07,057 Speaker 1: whole city. In Manhattan, I think it's more like ninety ten. Right, 178 00:10:07,137 --> 00:10:12,497 Speaker 1: It's Manhattan has become an enplay of comming nonsense. Sadly, 179 00:10:12,537 --> 00:10:15,457 Speaker 1: it's where I was born and raised. You two, and 180 00:10:16,577 --> 00:10:19,497 Speaker 1: I'm wondering, what do the people who voted What are 181 00:10:19,537 --> 00:10:23,817 Speaker 1: the Democrats who voted for Adams say to you, or like, 182 00:10:23,897 --> 00:10:26,257 Speaker 1: what is the conversation like with him? Do they think 183 00:10:26,297 --> 00:10:30,217 Speaker 1: he's doing a good job. Well, firstly, voter turnout, as 184 00:10:30,297 --> 00:10:33,777 Speaker 1: you know, was abysmal. It was very low. So this 185 00:10:33,857 --> 00:10:37,857 Speaker 1: is what you get with very low voter turnout. Again, 186 00:10:37,977 --> 00:10:40,777 Speaker 1: he was pitched by the media as a moderate, so 187 00:10:40,897 --> 00:10:44,297 Speaker 1: people maybe shrugged it off and thought, look, this guy 188 00:10:44,337 --> 00:10:47,817 Speaker 1: worked with the NYPD. Finally we're going to have someone 189 00:10:47,857 --> 00:10:51,217 Speaker 1: who's tough. I'm crime. Don't forget we had some wackos 190 00:10:51,297 --> 00:10:55,537 Speaker 1: running against him. I mean we had Maya Wiley, we 191 00:10:55,617 --> 00:10:58,577 Speaker 1: had someone who was head of the sanitation. This is 192 00:10:58,617 --> 00:11:02,217 Speaker 1: on the heels of garbage piles up to the sky. 193 00:11:02,737 --> 00:11:06,737 Speaker 1: It was a disaster. So we have Adams, and I 194 00:11:06,777 --> 00:11:11,657 Speaker 1: think that people are into camps. There are the people 195 00:11:11,817 --> 00:11:15,537 Speaker 1: that are deluded and they think everything is great and 196 00:11:15,577 --> 00:11:18,617 Speaker 1: they live in their doorman buildings on the Upper West Side. 197 00:11:19,857 --> 00:11:23,577 Speaker 1: And then there are the people that are really galvanizing. 198 00:11:23,577 --> 00:11:25,137 Speaker 1: And again I hate to go back to this, but 199 00:11:25,177 --> 00:11:28,337 Speaker 1: it really is. It's the moms you know, things get 200 00:11:28,377 --> 00:11:32,177 Speaker 1: real in the field once you have kids. And really 201 00:11:32,217 --> 00:11:34,737 Speaker 1: there's a common phenomenator. Everyone wants a good school and 202 00:11:34,777 --> 00:11:37,057 Speaker 1: everyone wants to feel safe. And we have neither of 203 00:11:37,097 --> 00:11:40,977 Speaker 1: those two things. Under Adams, everything is worse. The priority 204 00:11:41,177 --> 00:11:46,377 Speaker 1: is always criminals over constituents. What is he focused on? 205 00:11:46,417 --> 00:11:49,017 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just amazing to me because you know 206 00:11:49,097 --> 00:11:51,577 Speaker 1: New York it's when and then this is true because 207 00:11:51,577 --> 00:11:53,817 Speaker 1: you know, I do a radio show and we're on 208 00:11:53,977 --> 00:11:56,817 Speaker 1: basically five hundred stations or on base really all over 209 00:11:56,817 --> 00:11:59,457 Speaker 1: the country. Right, But we always say that New York 210 00:12:00,297 --> 00:12:03,977 Speaker 1: was the place that the whole country looked to for 211 00:12:04,497 --> 00:12:10,937 Speaker 1: the Juliani crime miracle turnaround situation that then was replicated 212 00:12:11,017 --> 00:12:13,017 Speaker 1: in terms of the policing and the strategy in a 213 00:12:13,017 --> 00:12:15,377 Speaker 1: lot of other places across the country. Right. So, because 214 00:12:15,377 --> 00:12:18,217 Speaker 1: it worked in America's biggest city in the nineties, going 215 00:12:18,297 --> 00:12:21,737 Speaker 1: from over two thousand murders in nineteen ninety two three 216 00:12:21,857 --> 00:12:24,217 Speaker 1: hundred murders by the early two thousands something like that, 217 00:12:24,337 --> 00:12:28,177 Speaker 1: maybe maybe you know the low four hundreds. Because of that, 218 00:12:28,857 --> 00:12:31,497 Speaker 1: people will understand that New York is this symbol right 219 00:12:31,537 --> 00:12:35,777 Speaker 1: for what could be possible, And Adams was the one 220 00:12:35,817 --> 00:12:37,177 Speaker 1: thing that I mean, I was still living in the 221 00:12:37,177 --> 00:12:39,177 Speaker 1: city at the time. I remember the one thing that 222 00:12:39,177 --> 00:12:42,017 Speaker 1: everybody was saying, other than you know, COVID and Triple 223 00:12:42,097 --> 00:12:45,977 Speaker 1: Mask and be lunatics, was this guy needs to clean 224 00:12:46,057 --> 00:12:48,457 Speaker 1: up the city in terms of crime, also in terms 225 00:12:48,457 --> 00:12:50,217 Speaker 1: of like sanitational the streets by the way, the city 226 00:12:50,257 --> 00:12:52,097 Speaker 1: was getting dirtier. It really was that. You know, they'd 227 00:12:52,097 --> 00:12:55,217 Speaker 1: cut the sanitation budget, as you know, And it seems 228 00:12:55,217 --> 00:12:57,977 Speaker 1: to me like all he has to do is look 229 00:12:58,017 --> 00:13:00,257 Speaker 1: at what has worked in the past and have a 230 00:13:00,297 --> 00:13:04,457 Speaker 1: maniacal focus as mayor on that, on bringing down these numbers, 231 00:13:04,457 --> 00:13:07,977 Speaker 1: and he'd be not just a good mayor, a national 232 00:13:08,057 --> 00:13:11,817 Speaker 1: hero and a likely Democrat presidential contender in the future. 233 00:13:12,417 --> 00:13:16,057 Speaker 1: It's so obvious. What is he unwilling to do it, 234 00:13:16,217 --> 00:13:18,937 Speaker 1: or is he not capable of doing it because of 235 00:13:18,977 --> 00:13:22,457 Speaker 1: the realities of the Democrat Party around him today or whatever. 236 00:13:23,537 --> 00:13:26,737 Speaker 1: I don't think that's it. I really don't think the 237 00:13:26,777 --> 00:13:33,777 Speaker 1: Democrat Party believes at this point that cleaning up the city, 238 00:13:34,337 --> 00:13:38,097 Speaker 1: which includes literally cleaning it up as well as making 239 00:13:38,137 --> 00:13:44,617 Speaker 1: it safer, is a value that they share with the 240 00:13:44,657 --> 00:13:46,657 Speaker 1: rest of us. I just I think that that's the 241 00:13:46,777 --> 00:13:51,017 Speaker 1: real disconnect. I don't think he would be accepted in 242 00:13:51,057 --> 00:13:53,937 Speaker 1: those circles if he cleaned up the city at all. 243 00:13:53,977 --> 00:13:57,937 Speaker 1: I think he'd probably lose his value to the Democrat Party. 244 00:13:57,937 --> 00:14:00,377 Speaker 1: I mean, right here in city Council, we just had 245 00:14:01,697 --> 00:14:03,937 Speaker 1: a group I've forgot how many they are a number, 246 00:14:04,017 --> 00:14:08,697 Speaker 1: but they're part of now the Progressive Caucus. They were 247 00:14:08,817 --> 00:14:13,057 Speaker 1: literally kicking out Democrats from city Council that did not 248 00:14:13,217 --> 00:14:18,217 Speaker 1: agree to completely abolish the NYPD. So, I mean, to 249 00:14:18,257 --> 00:14:22,217 Speaker 1: your point, I don't know if cleaning up the city 250 00:14:22,537 --> 00:14:28,177 Speaker 1: would secure him any higher office within the Democrat Party 251 00:14:28,217 --> 00:14:30,577 Speaker 1: at all. Well, to do it, you'd have to lock 252 00:14:30,697 --> 00:14:35,137 Speaker 1: more people up. You'd have to reincarceer rate instead of 253 00:14:35,177 --> 00:14:38,497 Speaker 1: d incarcer rate, which has been the mantra of so 254 00:14:38,537 --> 00:14:41,977 Speaker 1: many Democrat controlled cities for a long time now. And 255 00:14:42,017 --> 00:14:45,617 Speaker 1: I think that the activist and donor class of the Democrats, 256 00:14:45,937 --> 00:14:49,977 Speaker 1: whether in New York or in any major left wing 257 00:14:50,057 --> 00:14:53,537 Speaker 1: enclave across the country, they're just unwilling for that to 258 00:14:53,577 --> 00:14:57,577 Speaker 1: happen right now. Maybe at some level it's there's a stubbornness. 259 00:14:57,617 --> 00:14:59,377 Speaker 1: They don't want to admit that they were wrong through 260 00:14:59,417 --> 00:15:02,617 Speaker 1: the policy change, right, But also I mean to your 261 00:15:02,657 --> 00:15:04,497 Speaker 1: point about the people who live on the Upper West 262 00:15:04,537 --> 00:15:06,897 Speaker 1: Side in the doorman buildings, and I know plenty of them, 263 00:15:06,937 --> 00:15:10,937 Speaker 1: and so do you. I think that they would rather 264 00:15:11,777 --> 00:15:17,937 Speaker 1: people in poorer neighborhoods live in less safety, greater jeopardy 265 00:15:18,057 --> 00:15:21,417 Speaker 1: of suffering from crime, including violent crime, as long as 266 00:15:21,497 --> 00:15:24,617 Speaker 1: they themselves, meaning the rich people get to feel good 267 00:15:24,657 --> 00:15:30,137 Speaker 1: about themselves and are getting the virtue signaling points in 268 00:15:30,137 --> 00:15:32,817 Speaker 1: their peer group that matters more to them. And that's 269 00:15:32,817 --> 00:15:38,177 Speaker 1: the calculation they make. A hundred percent, I mean, that's 270 00:15:38,177 --> 00:15:40,097 Speaker 1: what it is. I mean, look at cnpole just came 271 00:15:40,097 --> 00:15:42,937 Speaker 1: out eighty percent of New York City residents say crime 272 00:15:43,017 --> 00:15:46,177 Speaker 1: is a serious issue. Eighty percent. So going back, New 273 00:15:46,257 --> 00:15:50,217 Speaker 1: York City is eight to one Democrat to Republican and 274 00:15:50,457 --> 00:15:54,057 Speaker 1: eighty percent or saying crime is a serious issue. Yeah, 275 00:15:54,057 --> 00:15:56,817 Speaker 1: it seems like this should be the most obvious, the 276 00:15:56,817 --> 00:15:59,817 Speaker 1: most obvious pathway forward laid out for a may or 277 00:15:59,817 --> 00:16:02,697 Speaker 1: for administration you could ever find. But also, you know, 278 00:16:02,777 --> 00:16:05,617 Speaker 1: recently in the city, what was it just over the weekend, 279 00:16:06,417 --> 00:16:09,097 Speaker 1: there was that and I know that garage. I've actually 280 00:16:09,097 --> 00:16:11,057 Speaker 1: spent a lot of time in that area, you know, 281 00:16:11,177 --> 00:16:13,537 Speaker 1: near in between Hudson Yards and actually where my old 282 00:16:14,257 --> 00:16:16,337 Speaker 1: studio used to be. And so I've just I've been 283 00:16:16,377 --> 00:16:18,017 Speaker 1: around there a lot. I know, I haven't, you know, 284 00:16:18,137 --> 00:16:19,857 Speaker 1: not like super familiar with the garage, but I know 285 00:16:19,897 --> 00:16:23,537 Speaker 1: it by sight. And that guy who confronted somebody who 286 00:16:23,577 --> 00:16:26,417 Speaker 1: was coming clearly a career criminal with I think over 287 00:16:26,457 --> 00:16:29,217 Speaker 1: twenty arrests already, twenty arrests. I mean, you think by 288 00:16:29,297 --> 00:16:31,217 Speaker 1: arrest number five you might start to question some of 289 00:16:31,217 --> 00:16:34,777 Speaker 1: your life choices. But twenty arrests and the guy pulls 290 00:16:34,777 --> 00:16:38,057 Speaker 1: out a gun shoots him. It's amazing. The guy Musa 291 00:16:38,137 --> 00:16:42,337 Speaker 1: I believe was his name, the employee he turned the 292 00:16:42,337 --> 00:16:46,297 Speaker 1: gun on the individual shot him after being shot, So 293 00:16:46,377 --> 00:16:49,537 Speaker 1: he shot the criminal. It's remarkable. He's not dead. And 294 00:16:49,577 --> 00:16:51,977 Speaker 1: he spent the weekend chained to his bed at Bellevue 295 00:16:52,577 --> 00:16:57,257 Speaker 1: under attempted murder charges. Because Alvin Bragg is a pro 296 00:16:57,337 --> 00:16:59,777 Speaker 1: criminal psychopath. I don't know how else to put it, 297 00:16:59,817 --> 00:17:01,497 Speaker 1: Like what I know, he dropped the charges and we're 298 00:17:01,497 --> 00:17:05,577 Speaker 1: also to think that's fine. What kind of maniac charges 299 00:17:05,617 --> 00:17:08,017 Speaker 1: the I mean, the fact pattern was very clear. An 300 00:17:08,097 --> 00:17:10,777 Speaker 1: employee of the place, he didn't bring the gut in there. 301 00:17:10,897 --> 00:17:13,897 Speaker 1: He wasn't trying to steal anything Like, it's just, well, 302 00:17:13,937 --> 00:17:15,417 Speaker 1: how do you live with that? How do you deal 303 00:17:15,497 --> 00:17:18,897 Speaker 1: with that? Jokes on Musa, he thought that, you know, 304 00:17:18,977 --> 00:17:24,937 Speaker 1: defending himself was some sort of right. It's not here 305 00:17:24,937 --> 00:17:27,497 Speaker 1: in New York City. It really Again, it's it's just 306 00:17:27,737 --> 00:17:32,417 Speaker 1: pro criminal. Every single policy favors that of a criminal 307 00:17:32,457 --> 00:17:37,737 Speaker 1: over law abiding residents. It's it's really it's terrifying. Quite frankly, 308 00:17:37,817 --> 00:17:40,697 Speaker 1: it's really terrifying. You don't you go to see It's 309 00:17:40,697 --> 00:17:42,417 Speaker 1: interesting me because you're actually a lot of people talk 310 00:17:42,457 --> 00:17:44,657 Speaker 1: about like, oh, we're gonna do you run for city 311 00:17:44,657 --> 00:17:47,537 Speaker 1: council in New York. You're involved in politics in New York. 312 00:17:47,537 --> 00:17:49,137 Speaker 1: So just to be clear to everybody, you're not you know, 313 00:17:49,577 --> 00:17:51,777 Speaker 1: you're not a mom who's saying maybe somebody else is 314 00:17:51,817 --> 00:17:54,057 Speaker 1: gonna pick up the tours and try to do something. 315 00:17:54,097 --> 00:17:56,817 Speaker 1: You're you're actually trying to charge up that hill in 316 00:17:56,817 --> 00:18:00,977 Speaker 1: this nest of very wealthy commies in New York City. 317 00:18:01,057 --> 00:18:03,697 Speaker 1: Like you're actually trying to charge up that hill. Um, well, 318 00:18:03,817 --> 00:18:05,057 Speaker 1: I want to come back to that actually and ask 319 00:18:05,097 --> 00:18:07,417 Speaker 1: you a little bit about the internal political dynamics and 320 00:18:07,737 --> 00:18:11,337 Speaker 1: running for city council. And I'll maybe if I remember 321 00:18:11,377 --> 00:18:13,577 Speaker 1: to do. There's a funny story about the Austin City 322 00:18:13,577 --> 00:18:16,937 Speaker 1: Council from when I visited there that you might find worthwhile. 323 00:18:16,977 --> 00:18:18,337 Speaker 1: But we'll come back to that a second, because I 324 00:18:18,377 --> 00:18:20,857 Speaker 1: want ever to know. You got to prepare now for 325 00:18:20,897 --> 00:18:24,737 Speaker 1: what's coming financially, the recent bank failures, the nation's largest 326 00:18:24,857 --> 00:18:27,617 Speaker 1: since two thousand and eight, the financial collapse. So if 327 00:18:27,617 --> 00:18:29,417 Speaker 1: you've been on the fence about buying gold and silver, 328 00:18:29,537 --> 00:18:31,297 Speaker 1: now is the time to make the call. Gold and 329 00:18:31,337 --> 00:18:33,897 Speaker 1: silver can be a protection for your portfolio, but can 330 00:18:33,937 --> 00:18:35,857 Speaker 1: also be used as currency. I think we may need 331 00:18:35,897 --> 00:18:38,097 Speaker 1: both of those at some point. You might not have 332 00:18:38,217 --> 00:18:41,177 Speaker 1: a little gold at home, yet you should, and now 333 00:18:41,297 --> 00:18:42,977 Speaker 1: is the time to call the Oxford Gold Group. I've 334 00:18:43,017 --> 00:18:44,937 Speaker 1: got my gold over here, I've got my gun safe 335 00:18:44,977 --> 00:18:46,977 Speaker 1: over there, my gold and my silver over here, silver 336 00:18:47,057 --> 00:18:49,777 Speaker 1: over here. This is how we roll in the Sexton household. 337 00:18:49,857 --> 00:18:52,257 Speaker 1: So now is the time. Oxford, who I've been working 338 00:18:52,257 --> 00:18:55,417 Speaker 1: with for years. They'll help you get a good position 339 00:18:55,457 --> 00:18:58,257 Speaker 1: for your portfolio that makes sense for you, and it's 340 00:18:58,297 --> 00:19:01,017 Speaker 1: so easy. Just call them today. Call the Oxford Gold Group, 341 00:19:01,257 --> 00:19:03,337 Speaker 1: ask about bonus opportunities. By the way, that you may 342 00:19:03,377 --> 00:19:07,017 Speaker 1: be eligible for two and get some precious metals. Look 343 00:19:07,017 --> 00:19:10,337 Speaker 1: at what's going on with the economy. Get some precious medals. Now, diversify, 344 00:19:10,457 --> 00:19:13,857 Speaker 1: head your portfolio, prepare for an uncertain future. Oxford Gold 345 00:19:13,897 --> 00:19:17,537 Speaker 1: Group eight three three four zero four gold. That's eight 346 00:19:17,577 --> 00:19:21,777 Speaker 1: three three four zero four g O l D. All Right, 347 00:19:21,817 --> 00:19:25,297 Speaker 1: so you you tried to run Jackie in New York 348 00:19:25,377 --> 00:19:30,177 Speaker 1: City for the council there, and how how is that? 349 00:19:30,377 --> 00:19:32,977 Speaker 1: By the way, are you shocked when you because you 350 00:19:33,097 --> 00:19:37,257 Speaker 1: must be coming across the the Democrat positions and everything 351 00:19:37,297 --> 00:19:39,657 Speaker 1: because city council, I feel like they have to fake 352 00:19:39,697 --> 00:19:42,137 Speaker 1: the Democrats have to fake people out at the state level, 353 00:19:42,697 --> 00:19:44,577 Speaker 1: not so much in New York and California, but you 354 00:19:44,577 --> 00:19:47,177 Speaker 1: know they have to they have to sound not completely 355 00:19:47,217 --> 00:19:51,297 Speaker 1: insane um just because of the national level profile those 356 00:19:51,337 --> 00:19:54,217 Speaker 1: kinds of roles as well. But city council, I mean, 357 00:19:54,857 --> 00:19:57,577 Speaker 1: you know, you go to a Democrat enclave. I remember 358 00:19:57,617 --> 00:19:59,737 Speaker 1: the college. I went to the town. The town council 359 00:20:00,177 --> 00:20:02,897 Speaker 1: declared that it was a nuclear weapon free zone in 360 00:20:02,937 --> 00:20:05,057 Speaker 1: the town, like they actually passed the resolution. Like you know, 361 00:20:05,097 --> 00:20:08,337 Speaker 1: these people can be totally wacko. How wacko is the 362 00:20:08,337 --> 00:20:12,537 Speaker 1: New York City Council. The New York City Council is 363 00:20:12,937 --> 00:20:18,377 Speaker 1: freaking wacko. I mean, it's ground zero of wacko. The 364 00:20:18,457 --> 00:20:20,697 Speaker 1: good news for me when I was running is I 365 00:20:20,777 --> 00:20:25,297 Speaker 1: knew nothing. I was never politically active before. I had 366 00:20:25,617 --> 00:20:27,937 Speaker 1: no basis. It's not like I tried this a couple 367 00:20:28,017 --> 00:20:30,257 Speaker 1: times and had any sort of clue. I went in 368 00:20:30,377 --> 00:20:36,657 Speaker 1: guns blazing figuratively, and I truly it was one of 369 00:20:36,697 --> 00:20:40,737 Speaker 1: the best experiences of my life. I would encourage anyone 370 00:20:40,777 --> 00:20:45,537 Speaker 1: who is sick of the policies and what's outside their 371 00:20:45,577 --> 00:20:49,257 Speaker 1: front door, actually inside their front door, to run. It's 372 00:20:50,017 --> 00:20:53,177 Speaker 1: beyond me why people look for others to lead them. 373 00:20:53,737 --> 00:20:56,417 Speaker 1: And you know, even going back again to this rally, 374 00:20:56,457 --> 00:20:59,377 Speaker 1: all the people that were criticizing Gavin Watts, at least 375 00:20:59,377 --> 00:21:03,417 Speaker 1: he did something. I mean, people need to stop waiting 376 00:21:03,457 --> 00:21:05,377 Speaker 1: to be told what to do. You really need to 377 00:21:05,377 --> 00:21:07,737 Speaker 1: be told by someone to take off a mask after 378 00:21:07,857 --> 00:21:11,457 Speaker 1: three years, you know, you know, people need to exhibit 379 00:21:11,537 --> 00:21:15,457 Speaker 1: some sort of personal agency in their lives. Are you 380 00:21:15,537 --> 00:21:22,457 Speaker 1: coming across Democrat moms who are red pilled at this point? 381 00:21:22,497 --> 00:21:25,857 Speaker 1: I mean, are you coming across Democrat moms who realize 382 00:21:26,377 --> 00:21:29,097 Speaker 1: that they are casting votes and have been casting votes 383 00:21:29,817 --> 00:21:32,737 Speaker 1: for their own kids, especially if they're boys, they're teenagers, 384 00:21:33,217 --> 00:21:35,697 Speaker 1: to be more likely to get, you know, beaten with 385 00:21:35,897 --> 00:21:39,697 Speaker 1: a bottle on their way home by some lunatic. More 386 00:21:39,737 --> 00:21:42,617 Speaker 1: likely that they themselves, as women, maybe assaulted on the 387 00:21:42,657 --> 00:21:46,697 Speaker 1: Street's more likely that there'll be some maniac relieving himself 388 00:21:46,777 --> 00:21:48,777 Speaker 1: on their front door wherever they live in Manhattan, Like 389 00:21:48,857 --> 00:21:50,217 Speaker 1: this is what goes on in New York. I mean, 390 00:21:50,217 --> 00:21:51,537 Speaker 1: I'm not you know, everyone can just look at the 391 00:21:51,537 --> 00:21:54,537 Speaker 1: headlines and look at the reality. There are there Democrat 392 00:21:54,577 --> 00:21:57,657 Speaker 1: moms who are being red pilled. They're freaking attacking me. 393 00:21:57,777 --> 00:21:59,897 Speaker 1: They stopped me on the street. Anyone that lives in 394 00:21:59,937 --> 00:22:02,257 Speaker 1: my district that recognizes me from when I ran, or 395 00:22:02,257 --> 00:22:05,697 Speaker 1: that follows me on Instagram, they attack me. I mean, 396 00:22:05,857 --> 00:22:09,617 Speaker 1: I look, I'm a Republican. I've always been a Republican. 397 00:22:10,097 --> 00:22:11,937 Speaker 1: In my house. It was when we were growing up, 398 00:22:12,097 --> 00:22:15,777 Speaker 1: who is more Republican? We never had those awkward family 399 00:22:15,817 --> 00:22:18,737 Speaker 1: dinners or anything like that, so I never thought it 400 00:22:18,817 --> 00:22:23,497 Speaker 1: was weird to be a Republican. Quite frankly. That being said, 401 00:22:23,577 --> 00:22:26,657 Speaker 1: I know my audience, and Democrats seem to think that 402 00:22:26,737 --> 00:22:29,817 Speaker 1: everyone is their audience. They always assume I'm one of them, 403 00:22:29,937 --> 00:22:31,977 Speaker 1: you know, and I'm not one of them. But in 404 00:22:32,057 --> 00:22:35,097 Speaker 1: any event, anytime I'm walking home from school or I'm 405 00:22:35,097 --> 00:22:37,177 Speaker 1: going to pick up drop off and I run into someone, 406 00:22:37,537 --> 00:22:39,777 Speaker 1: the first thing they say is, I can't believe I 407 00:22:39,857 --> 00:22:42,217 Speaker 1: voted for this person. I don't even care which Republican 408 00:22:42,297 --> 00:22:45,457 Speaker 1: is running, I'm voting for him or her. They are 409 00:22:45,497 --> 00:22:50,137 Speaker 1: completely red pilled. I think there was the death knell 410 00:22:50,217 --> 00:22:53,097 Speaker 1: of CRT critical race theory that really did it for them. 411 00:22:53,417 --> 00:22:56,977 Speaker 1: Plenty of these parents were believe it or not, okay masking, 412 00:22:57,377 --> 00:23:00,777 Speaker 1: they were even okay vaxing. It was really the CRT 413 00:23:00,897 --> 00:23:04,737 Speaker 1: in schools. They just they've had it. They've had it, 414 00:23:05,057 --> 00:23:08,817 Speaker 1: and of course the crime. How can you fix the 415 00:23:08,937 --> 00:23:11,817 Speaker 1: schools the public'sool system. I mean to what we talked 416 00:23:11,817 --> 00:23:14,177 Speaker 1: about before. In New York City. You have all these 417 00:23:14,217 --> 00:23:16,057 Speaker 1: people and I know them and you know them. We 418 00:23:16,097 --> 00:23:19,577 Speaker 1: grew up around them who will defend the public school 419 00:23:19,697 --> 00:23:23,217 Speaker 1: system like their life depends on it. And then you'll 420 00:23:23,257 --> 00:23:24,577 Speaker 1: be like, where do your kids go to school? And 421 00:23:24,577 --> 00:23:26,657 Speaker 1: they're like, well, I can send them to a sixty 422 00:23:26,697 --> 00:23:30,857 Speaker 1: thousand dollars year private school obviously. Yeah. Wait, why you 423 00:23:30,897 --> 00:23:33,137 Speaker 1: say the public school system is great, and you love 424 00:23:33,177 --> 00:23:35,937 Speaker 1: teachers unions, but your kids. You know, one of the 425 00:23:36,177 --> 00:23:38,497 Speaker 1: great moments of hypocrisy, if you remember, back to the 426 00:23:39,377 --> 00:23:43,337 Speaker 1: back to the early in the Obama administration, was when 427 00:23:43,457 --> 00:23:48,057 Speaker 1: then President Obama was on board with cutting funding for 428 00:23:48,337 --> 00:23:51,577 Speaker 1: DC charter schools. If you remember this, so all these kids, 429 00:23:51,577 --> 00:23:55,017 Speaker 1: including a lot of minority kids, who were doing phenomenally 430 00:23:55,057 --> 00:23:58,417 Speaker 1: well in publicly funded schools, just with a different approach 431 00:23:58,457 --> 00:24:02,337 Speaker 1: and not as beholden to the teachers unions, etc. He 432 00:24:02,417 --> 00:24:04,417 Speaker 1: was gonna cut funding to them, or you know, he 433 00:24:04,457 --> 00:24:06,577 Speaker 1: was favorable too, I should say, cutting funding to them. 434 00:24:06,577 --> 00:24:08,217 Speaker 1: And this was in the district of Columbia, you know, 435 00:24:08,297 --> 00:24:12,057 Speaker 1: so it's a federal, federal protect it. And his kids 436 00:24:12,057 --> 00:24:13,697 Speaker 1: were going to Sidwell Friends or whatever, which at the 437 00:24:13,697 --> 00:24:15,897 Speaker 1: time was forty five thousand dollars a year. And everybody 438 00:24:15,937 --> 00:24:18,657 Speaker 1: looked at this like, yep, this is this is democrats. 439 00:24:18,737 --> 00:24:21,217 Speaker 1: This is what they do. It's absolutely true in New 440 00:24:21,257 --> 00:24:24,857 Speaker 1: York City. So how do you fix the public school system. 441 00:24:24,897 --> 00:24:27,017 Speaker 1: I don't think you do fix the public school system 442 00:24:27,057 --> 00:24:30,337 Speaker 1: unless you break up the teachers unions. They are completely 443 00:24:30,657 --> 00:24:34,137 Speaker 1: political animals. They donate ninety nine point nine percent of 444 00:24:34,217 --> 00:24:38,977 Speaker 1: the time to Democrats, Democrat candidates or Democrat causes. They 445 00:24:39,017 --> 00:24:42,497 Speaker 1: are They're a pack. I mean, they are a political 446 00:24:42,857 --> 00:24:47,017 Speaker 1: entity and they need to be completely broken up. That's 447 00:24:47,057 --> 00:24:52,657 Speaker 1: the only way you fix public school education. Like even 448 00:24:52,777 --> 00:24:57,337 Speaker 1: on the at the city council level, you know how 449 00:24:58,057 --> 00:25:00,697 Speaker 1: how much of an influence? Well, actually a better question 450 00:25:00,737 --> 00:25:03,457 Speaker 1: would be even for the mayor's race. For example, could 451 00:25:03,497 --> 00:25:05,417 Speaker 1: you be elected mayor of New York City if the 452 00:25:05,457 --> 00:25:08,657 Speaker 1: teachers unions mobilize against you? I mean, realistically, is it possible? 453 00:25:09,777 --> 00:25:13,057 Speaker 1: I I think it is possible. So you know, there 454 00:25:13,057 --> 00:25:15,937 Speaker 1: are fifty one members of City Council creating this body, 455 00:25:16,097 --> 00:25:20,497 Speaker 1: and they basically they have a lot of influence over 456 00:25:20,537 --> 00:25:23,977 Speaker 1: the mayor. The mayor like for example, Mayor Giuliani, he 457 00:25:24,057 --> 00:25:28,457 Speaker 1: knew how to rule the city council. Mayor Adams does not. 458 00:25:29,177 --> 00:25:33,177 Speaker 1: And within the purview of city council is weighing in 459 00:25:33,497 --> 00:25:36,657 Speaker 1: on all local agencies such as the NYPD and the 460 00:25:36,697 --> 00:25:40,657 Speaker 1: Department of Education. So city Council has a big say 461 00:25:40,697 --> 00:25:44,497 Speaker 1: in education and Mayor Adams is ultimately the one presiding 462 00:25:44,497 --> 00:25:49,417 Speaker 1: over it. Again, this educational failure is his. He also 463 00:25:49,577 --> 00:25:53,137 Speaker 1: installed one of the Banks brothers. What is his name, 464 00:25:53,217 --> 00:25:57,097 Speaker 1: David Banks, one of his longtime friends. It's a really 465 00:25:57,137 --> 00:26:00,377 Speaker 1: weird It's kind of like Tammany Hall. You have Philip Banks, 466 00:26:00,777 --> 00:26:04,457 Speaker 1: who is the Deputy mayor. It was like this newly 467 00:26:04,497 --> 00:26:07,777 Speaker 1: created post for him. And then you have Philip. Then 468 00:26:07,777 --> 00:26:12,297 Speaker 1: you have Philip Banks's brother, David Banks, who is now head. 469 00:26:12,417 --> 00:26:17,417 Speaker 1: He's the Chancellor of Education. And all three two Banks 470 00:26:17,457 --> 00:26:21,097 Speaker 1: brothers and Eric Adams go way back. It's a very 471 00:26:21,177 --> 00:26:28,097 Speaker 1: strange relationship. Can I be saying this anyway? It's a 472 00:26:28,137 --> 00:26:32,937 Speaker 1: strange relationship, and one of them is presiding over the 473 00:26:33,097 --> 00:26:36,857 Speaker 1: educational situation that we have and it's a disaster. So 474 00:26:37,017 --> 00:26:39,937 Speaker 1: New York City taxpayers spend the most out of any 475 00:26:39,977 --> 00:26:42,897 Speaker 1: person in the nation, twenty eight thousand dollars per public 476 00:26:42,937 --> 00:26:46,057 Speaker 1: school student annually, and the prize is being in the 477 00:26:46,057 --> 00:26:49,537 Speaker 1: bottom half of the nation for reading and writing. That's 478 00:26:49,537 --> 00:26:54,737 Speaker 1: what we get, twenty eight thousand dollars. That's before you've 479 00:26:54,777 --> 00:26:59,657 Speaker 1: taken any into consideration anything else special meets children, it's 480 00:26:59,777 --> 00:27:05,697 Speaker 1: much more. But yeah, it's amazing because you think about what, 481 00:27:06,297 --> 00:27:07,977 Speaker 1: let's call it thirty grand just to make it a 482 00:27:08,057 --> 00:27:10,697 Speaker 1: round number. If people could pick where they wanted to 483 00:27:10,697 --> 00:27:13,737 Speaker 1: put their dollars of thirty thousand dollars a year for 484 00:27:13,897 --> 00:27:17,097 Speaker 1: purely educational purposes for their kids. What that would do 485 00:27:17,177 --> 00:27:19,577 Speaker 1: to the system, And you know, I've seen it. I 486 00:27:19,577 --> 00:27:22,697 Speaker 1: don't know, do you know. Mike Zernovich really really smart, interesting, 487 00:27:22,777 --> 00:27:25,337 Speaker 1: interesting guy, you know Mike. I mean, he's fiery right, 488 00:27:25,377 --> 00:27:27,137 Speaker 1: like he'll say whatever's on his mind, but he has 489 00:27:27,177 --> 00:27:29,497 Speaker 1: some very interesting thoughts, you know, he tweeted out recently, 490 00:27:30,137 --> 00:27:33,057 Speaker 1: look at what we've done on meaning the country has 491 00:27:33,097 --> 00:27:38,937 Speaker 1: done on constitutional and concealed carry issues, effectively expanding dramatically 492 00:27:39,337 --> 00:27:41,737 Speaker 1: the ability of law. And there was a time not 493 00:27:41,857 --> 00:27:44,137 Speaker 1: long ago, twenty years ago, when that seemed crazy, like, 494 00:27:44,137 --> 00:27:45,857 Speaker 1: oh my gosh, what do you mean, We're just lucky 495 00:27:45,897 --> 00:27:47,857 Speaker 1: they're not taking all of our guns, right, But the 496 00:27:47,897 --> 00:27:50,177 Speaker 1: work is done at the local level. And I think 497 00:27:50,217 --> 00:27:51,657 Speaker 1: that's what's so interesting. That's why one of the reason 498 00:27:51,697 --> 00:27:54,617 Speaker 1: I want to talk to you, because you look at 499 00:27:54,617 --> 00:27:58,217 Speaker 1: things like school choice. School choice that works locally in 500 00:27:58,297 --> 00:28:02,137 Speaker 1: a city in particular, or even in one state, provides 501 00:28:02,177 --> 00:28:04,377 Speaker 1: a model for other places around the country. And this 502 00:28:04,417 --> 00:28:07,257 Speaker 1: is what Rohnda Santis down in Florida is obviously trying 503 00:28:07,257 --> 00:28:10,417 Speaker 1: to do with the schools well with everything, which is 504 00:28:10,417 --> 00:28:13,137 Speaker 1: provide a model of governance that other Republican states can follow. 505 00:28:13,177 --> 00:28:16,497 Speaker 1: I know you can't do that, generally speaking in New 506 00:28:16,577 --> 00:28:19,457 Speaker 1: York because of the political makeup, but it does feel 507 00:28:19,457 --> 00:28:22,377 Speaker 1: like any room to experiment with the New York school 508 00:28:22,377 --> 00:28:24,737 Speaker 1: system that just shows what works and shows how much 509 00:28:24,817 --> 00:28:28,577 Speaker 1: the current system doesn't work could have effect. Right other 510 00:28:28,617 --> 00:28:31,177 Speaker 1: places look at and SAC which is why they hate obviously, 511 00:28:31,217 --> 00:28:33,537 Speaker 1: it's why they hate charter schools, and Harlem Success Academy 512 00:28:33,577 --> 00:28:36,977 Speaker 1: comes under attack from the left, which is insane. I'll 513 00:28:36,977 --> 00:28:40,257 Speaker 1: tell you the truth, though, there's a big issue that 514 00:28:40,297 --> 00:28:44,177 Speaker 1: no one wants to discuss regarding school choice, specifically here 515 00:28:44,217 --> 00:28:47,257 Speaker 1: in New York City, and that is that private schools 516 00:28:47,537 --> 00:28:51,297 Speaker 1: have lost their independence. You have big government, you now 517 00:28:51,377 --> 00:28:53,937 Speaker 1: have big education. The truth of the matter is many 518 00:28:54,017 --> 00:28:57,457 Speaker 1: of these private schools, if you go onto their website, 519 00:28:57,457 --> 00:29:01,657 Speaker 1: they have opted into accreditation and what that means is 520 00:29:01,697 --> 00:29:06,737 Speaker 1: that they are beholden to public school rules. So when 521 00:29:06,817 --> 00:29:09,857 Speaker 1: we talk about school choice, we really need to understand 522 00:29:10,137 --> 00:29:14,817 Speaker 1: this shouldn't be a Republican talking point. There actually has 523 00:29:14,857 --> 00:29:16,537 Speaker 1: to be a choice, and quite frankly, here in New 524 00:29:16,617 --> 00:29:19,297 Speaker 1: York City, there is no choice. Moms. Here are the 525 00:29:19,377 --> 00:29:21,857 Speaker 1: choices for you. You can go to public school, or 526 00:29:21,897 --> 00:29:24,297 Speaker 1: you can spend fifty to sixty thousand on a private 527 00:29:24,297 --> 00:29:27,017 Speaker 1: school and have it at like a public school. Well, 528 00:29:27,017 --> 00:29:28,977 Speaker 1: one thing that I do know is that even my own, 529 00:29:30,137 --> 00:29:33,457 Speaker 1: my own grammar school which I won't name, but people 530 00:29:33,497 --> 00:29:36,897 Speaker 1: could figure it out pretty easily. I talked to people 531 00:29:36,937 --> 00:29:38,617 Speaker 1: recently about it because I got a tour of it, 532 00:29:38,657 --> 00:29:41,377 Speaker 1: and they've spent I walked past the school. This is 533 00:29:41,417 --> 00:29:43,817 Speaker 1: actually kind of funny. I walked past the school during COVID, 534 00:29:44,457 --> 00:29:46,537 Speaker 1: just randomly. I was up on the upperas side visiting 535 00:29:46,657 --> 00:29:50,777 Speaker 1: visiting a friend, and my science teacher from when I 536 00:29:50,897 --> 00:29:54,457 Speaker 1: was a kid just happened. She still teaches there, So 537 00:29:54,497 --> 00:29:58,337 Speaker 1: we're going back like thirty years or something. Now still 538 00:29:58,377 --> 00:30:01,497 Speaker 1: teaches there, and she, which is crazier I think about. 539 00:30:01,697 --> 00:30:04,537 Speaker 1: She says like, Oh, you've got to see this game 540 00:30:04,537 --> 00:30:07,737 Speaker 1: in this whole tour, and it's amazing what they've done. 541 00:30:07,777 --> 00:30:11,497 Speaker 1: I mean, they have spent tens of millions of dollars. 542 00:30:11,497 --> 00:30:15,097 Speaker 1: I mean, I remember we played basketball in the lunch 543 00:30:15,217 --> 00:30:17,697 Speaker 1: room where we also had our school play. I'm not kidding. 544 00:30:17,777 --> 00:30:21,337 Speaker 1: We had one room that was for our gymnasium. They'd 545 00:30:21,417 --> 00:30:24,177 Speaker 1: roll tables out for our lunch, and now they've got 546 00:30:24,177 --> 00:30:26,577 Speaker 1: like an amphitheater. It looks like something out of Harvard. 547 00:30:26,617 --> 00:30:29,097 Speaker 1: I mean, it's just crazy. And I was like, wow, 548 00:30:29,097 --> 00:30:30,457 Speaker 1: this would be amazing. And I was like, well, you know, 549 00:30:30,457 --> 00:30:31,817 Speaker 1: I didn't you know, the bank roll would have to 550 00:30:31,817 --> 00:30:33,257 Speaker 1: be pretty big to be able to send my son 551 00:30:33,297 --> 00:30:34,697 Speaker 1: here one day. But I thought about it, and I 552 00:30:34,737 --> 00:30:36,977 Speaker 1: talked to somebody who has a kid there. She's like, 553 00:30:37,497 --> 00:30:44,537 Speaker 1: she's like, it's communists now, woke d ei transagenda. I'm like, transagenda, 554 00:30:44,617 --> 00:30:48,617 Speaker 1: communist stuff. It's sixty k a year yep, for grammar school. 555 00:30:49,937 --> 00:30:52,297 Speaker 1: This is really this is the crux of it. When 556 00:30:52,297 --> 00:30:54,457 Speaker 1: people discuss school choice, there has to be a choice, 557 00:30:54,457 --> 00:30:57,937 Speaker 1: and right now there unfortunately, there really isn't a choice. Also, 558 00:30:57,977 --> 00:31:00,617 Speaker 1: a lot of the schools are the private schools are 559 00:31:00,657 --> 00:31:03,377 Speaker 1: looking to unionize. That will be it, that will be 560 00:31:03,417 --> 00:31:05,457 Speaker 1: the death knell to the private school. I hadn't even 561 00:31:05,657 --> 00:31:08,937 Speaker 1: I hadn't even heard that. Really, that's yeah, little Oh 562 00:31:09,017 --> 00:31:11,737 Speaker 1: I shouldn't. I'm not going to name them, but they're 563 00:31:12,377 --> 00:31:16,097 Speaker 1: quite a few, you know, I just I have to ask. 564 00:31:16,137 --> 00:31:17,737 Speaker 1: I mean, this is I was gonna say, can we 565 00:31:17,737 --> 00:31:19,857 Speaker 1: close on a on a hopeful note here, Jackie. I 566 00:31:19,857 --> 00:31:22,057 Speaker 1: don't know that's really possible today, given what's going on 567 00:31:22,097 --> 00:31:25,137 Speaker 1: with the country. But what keeps you there? You know? 568 00:31:25,217 --> 00:31:27,337 Speaker 1: I mean because because I used I used to talk. 569 00:31:27,537 --> 00:31:30,497 Speaker 1: I was a I'm gonna be here when the last 570 00:31:30,537 --> 00:31:33,977 Speaker 1: skyscraper crumbles and and the and the you know, the 571 00:31:34,257 --> 00:31:37,057 Speaker 1: hammer and sickle is flying over Central Park like I'm 572 00:31:37,097 --> 00:31:39,377 Speaker 1: gonna be here, damn it, I'm not. And then eventually 573 00:31:39,417 --> 00:31:41,377 Speaker 1: during COVID, I was just like you, the people, not 574 00:31:41,697 --> 00:31:44,257 Speaker 1: the administration. I was like the people that live here 575 00:31:44,257 --> 00:31:47,177 Speaker 1: and vote here in Manhattan, not sat N Island, not 576 00:31:47,257 --> 00:31:50,537 Speaker 1: you know, Nassau County in Manhattan are too crazy. I 577 00:31:50,577 --> 00:31:53,497 Speaker 1: can't do this anymore. I'm out. I regretted it one day. 578 00:31:53,497 --> 00:31:56,097 Speaker 1: Since are you thinking about it? Are you there? Are 579 00:31:56,137 --> 00:31:57,897 Speaker 1: you actually in it to win it till the end? 580 00:31:58,857 --> 00:32:02,337 Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not seating New York City. Wow, look 581 00:32:02,337 --> 00:32:07,337 Speaker 1: at that. No, I'm not not gonna abandon it. I 582 00:32:07,417 --> 00:32:09,497 Speaker 1: really do. I think we can win it back, and 583 00:32:09,497 --> 00:32:14,857 Speaker 1: why should give it to them? I love it so much? 584 00:32:14,937 --> 00:32:16,697 Speaker 1: Like that's the thing. I love New York so much, 585 00:32:16,777 --> 00:32:19,537 Speaker 1: and I just love you know, it makes me so 586 00:32:19,577 --> 00:32:22,497 Speaker 1: sad that that they've done this to that city and 587 00:32:22,497 --> 00:32:24,457 Speaker 1: the people who say, oh, it's really not that bad 588 00:32:24,497 --> 00:32:27,537 Speaker 1: all this stuff, that really is actually, especially when you 589 00:32:27,617 --> 00:32:30,817 Speaker 1: understand when you've lived in another place and you see 590 00:32:30,857 --> 00:32:35,737 Speaker 1: what your tax rate is Texas, Florida, Tennessee, Nevada, you 591 00:32:35,777 --> 00:32:38,137 Speaker 1: know a bunch of them, and then you realize that 592 00:32:38,217 --> 00:32:40,057 Speaker 1: not only are you going through this stuff in New 593 00:32:40,137 --> 00:32:42,817 Speaker 1: York City and paying incredibly high cost of living, the 594 00:32:42,857 --> 00:32:45,417 Speaker 1: highest cost of living really in the country, you are 595 00:32:45,497 --> 00:32:48,217 Speaker 1: paying the city government for the privilege of being there 596 00:32:48,217 --> 00:32:52,137 Speaker 1: and the state government for for them to basically spit 597 00:32:52,137 --> 00:32:54,377 Speaker 1: in your face and act like maniacs and you know, 598 00:32:54,537 --> 00:32:56,417 Speaker 1: suck at everything. I don't know what else to say, 599 00:32:56,497 --> 00:32:59,177 Speaker 1: like it's too much, but you're you're not You're not 600 00:32:59,257 --> 00:33:02,657 Speaker 1: getting You are a honey badger in New York City. 601 00:33:02,737 --> 00:33:04,897 Speaker 1: You just don't give a what. You are not going 602 00:33:04,977 --> 00:33:08,057 Speaker 1: to abandon it. And I respect that so much. Jackie. 603 00:33:08,097 --> 00:33:10,137 Speaker 1: Where can people go to follow you on social and 604 00:33:10,377 --> 00:33:12,937 Speaker 1: look at what you're up to on with the columns, 605 00:33:12,937 --> 00:33:16,057 Speaker 1: et cetera. Yeah, firstly, thank you so much. I really 606 00:33:16,097 --> 00:33:20,097 Speaker 1: had fun. You can go to Instagram at Jacqueline. For NYC, 607 00:33:20,297 --> 00:33:23,017 Speaker 1: that's j A c q u E l I n 608 00:33:23,097 --> 00:33:26,977 Speaker 1: E f O r N YC. Same thing for my website. 609 00:33:27,417 --> 00:33:30,937 Speaker 1: On Twitter, I'm at j A c q u E 610 00:33:31,017 --> 00:33:34,177 Speaker 1: t N Y I wrote it down. What did I 611 00:33:34,177 --> 00:33:37,537 Speaker 1: write down? I think it's ny something like that on Twitter. 612 00:33:38,057 --> 00:33:41,257 Speaker 1: And you can follow me on Human Events, the Manhattan 613 00:33:41,297 --> 00:33:44,817 Speaker 1: Dot Press and that's right. And when your book comes out, 614 00:33:44,857 --> 00:33:47,177 Speaker 1: come and come and talk about the book on the show. 615 00:33:47,537 --> 00:33:50,177 Speaker 1: So we're for you on that one. That's great. Save 616 00:33:50,257 --> 00:33:52,897 Speaker 1: New York City. Let me know how that goes, all right, Jackie, 617 00:33:53,097 --> 00:33:54,897 Speaker 1: Thank you so much. Great to have you