The Wrong Side of the Desk: Mamdani's Speech Scrutinized

 Welcome to another episode of the Carpefeide Podcast where if the shoe fits you wear it and if the truth hurts you bear it. I am Justin Gruber and I am Jesse Gruber and today we hope you will seize the faith. Well, hey everybody, welcome to episode 234 start at 43517.8. Captain's log. Captain's log. Start at 84517.8. Episode 234, the Carpefeide Podcast. That's for the Trekkies out there that don't exist. Anyway, not ever since they were like they had gay aliens. Gay aliens. In case you're curious, that is the actual start at 4 the day and time that we are recording. So, wait what? The actual start at. What numbers did you say? Start at 43517.8. How do you calculate that? There's a 10 minute video you can watch on what they mean. The first one you do. What did you do? Looking up. I did. I thought someone would say yes, I did. I looked it up. Okay. Why? I did. Well, what's the start date on Friday when the episode drops? I can tell you that too. One Google search later. When you're listening to this, it's start at 43526.0. The dot will change depending on how late the day you listen to it on Friday. But the Friday date is 43526. And then the last number is based on what time of day you're listening on. Basically you divide 24 hours by 10 because it's the tenth place and you get what time of day you're listening. You're all welcome. For information, you did not need to know and will never be counted to you personally ever. This is not a space episode. No, we're going to do back to back kind of a fun, a fun little set. It was called a set of podcasts. We thought we. Jesse, did you know that the Jews invented rap music? Sorry, I had to get that out early. Sorry. I'm sorry for all of you that that made that may not land with most of you, but it's information that I found out this week. I purposely wasn't showing that clip because I knew that you would put a full episode on it. It's not true. It came out last night at meds group and I it was a mistake. I shouldn't have mentioned it. Jews, they didn't. They changed the frequency, man. They didn't invent rap music. Change the frequency. Anyway, so we're going to move on for the. The what we're going to do is a set of a set of podcasts. We thought we had a this is this is. The 250th anniversary of America and we just celebrated it and the sky ever watching DC was turned to fire and it was awesome. Oh my god. Cool. That fireworks display was the liberal streaking. It's pollution. Look at the trash or the. I would. I'd watch it every day. I'm like watching every day. I didn't really care. I would I would love it. It was amazing. It was. And we had. We have a wonderful speech to go over today. And basically we're going to compare and contrast. So today we're going to go over speech that was given on. The 4th of July by an idiot. And then next week we're going to take a historical speech. And kind of go over it. We're still deciding we have access to many historical speeches. Not just on the internet, just like. I have a lot of. So much materials. And then my brother gave me a lot of book of social materials. I have a lot of social materials. We're going to take a speech from history. And either we'll do a 4th of July speech or we'll do a. Speech from a historical governor of New York. Or we'll just do a historical speech around the founding area around the July 4th. 1776. So we're just going to take a speech from around that time. Where should we compare and contrast them? Maybe just to take a look at how far we've come. Or rather how far we. How far we've degraded. I don't know. But the. Islamic Socialist mayor of New York decided to give. A independence day speech. And. I've been staring. So I've had this pause at the beginning. It's on my screen. He is high as a kite. His eyes are so red. I cannot even tell you. That's an easy out though. I mean. He was what morning. The. Birth of America. He's morning. The tragedy that America has become. I think is what he was. What he would say was doing on X one of the comments was. Was he kidding. It's said of the desk right because the desk is turned. Dude, the staging on this is so bad. The desk is facing us. But like it's the wrong direction for if you're sitting at it. Like he's sitting at the back of the desk. No, you're missing a symbolism. Jesse, it's it's the people's desk so the people have access to the desk. Because America was for all people and we've robbed it of all people of America. I got you. I got you. So he's making the desk accessible to all the people. And he doesn't have access to the desk. The man's wearing a digital watch. I'm pretty sure it's because he doesn't know how to read a real clock. Maybe it counts as steps. I don't think that Cassios counting any step. Maybe it's a. Maybe it's a sub-mariner and he's dives. It's a sub-standard. It's the people's watches. He's an every man, dude. Bumdani's an every man. He's just like the rest of us. I've never been stoned like that. I've also never made a rap video featuring my grandmother. So like there's lots of things we haven't done. Yeah, that we're missing out on so many life experiences. And that's an episode. If you want to check out Bumdani's rap video, yeah. I successfully that that was the day I learned how to bleed things out in audacity. Oh, yes, we had the edit because we had the edit mom Donnie's rap video because of course we did. Oh, man's life. We should. Yes. It's so beautiful. They made rap music on X. They made rap music in 1928, which is ironic says the first rap song traditionally attributed to the sugar Creek gang. Sugar Hill gang. Yeah. Oh, good about in the 70s. So anyway, you know, I got to fight this reply on X. It was it was pretty funny. And where is it? Sugar Hill gang. I guess he's looking that up. It's sugar Hill gang. The song is rappers delay and it is very not Jewish by the way. And that is when hip-hop started. So whatever. My computer is. So well, just he's going to keep looking stuff up. I'm just going to keep. So they I got it. I got it. It was can impressed and they were posting their interview with John level. And one of the. Where is it? Man. And Eric Con posted because the thumbnail is different than the shirt that John's wearing is a different shirt and outfit than what's in the video. And Eric Con replied and said, how did the logo disappear? How did the logo on a shirt disappear? You know, I got to press. I had the best role. He said they said, hmm, the Jews. You replied. He said, guys, not everything is about the Jews. Can't a press clap back. He said, they said if not them. They would have done this. Yeah. I'm. Rappers delighted traditionally considered the first commercial rap song just so we're all on the same page. So. Yeah. 1979 by the way. 40 years. And that's 40 years. Do it. 50 years. We're not doing an episode on this. Why are you still working it up? I'm just saying that barely that's 50 years after the Jews invented. Let them cook. Let them cook themselves and stupid. All right. Not cook themselves. No. I just met the people that were trying to speed those down. Facts. The British guy. Anyway, starting at 4357. I want to have a done. Mom Donnie's mom died. We're going to this is critiquing mom Donnie's 4th of July. I don't even want to call it a speech. In old days, we would call this a proclamation. It's not he's not proclaiming anything. He's just ignorantly spewing stupid. We'll do some like live fact checking and commenting on this. And then we're going to compare contrast it with where we've come. How far? Oh, how far we have fallen. It's not good. This is when you want to start. I think we should let. Let's let off of this. Some point and some point in this. We're just going to have to blame the Jews. But we'll just get we're just starting out. Good morning. Good morning, Americans. Season after season. Year after year. The tides have come in and out of New York Harbor. Long before the name New York had ever been spoken. Well, an ape dugouts crossed these currents. It was on these waters that tall masts crested the horizon. Captain by explorers like Verizano and Hudson, after whom we've named our bridges and rivers. And never since, ships full of travelers weary from long journeys have passed through the narrows, the winds of the Atlantic at their backs. When those passengers lifted their heads to glimpse what lies just beyond the waves, what did they see? They saw land, lush, and teeming with life. They saw men waiting at the docks to take them into bondage. They saw tenements, rife with squalor. They saw industry rumbling with activity, steam, and smoke rising a city on the move. They saw a towering monument to freedom, her torch glowing worldwide welcome. They saw New York City. They saw. Wait, so when. So when the first people landed, they saw New York City. I, I think before there was America, there was New York City. I think he was trying to unfold history there. That was what he started with people landing that were going to be taken into bondage, which feels out of order, I guess, maybe. Oh my gosh. Definitely out of order. He is sitting on the wrong side of the desk. He doesn't know where the doors are. Tomorrow, our nation marks 250 years since we declared our independence. 250 years of a grand experiment in self-governance, an experiment so audacious that some in 1776 doubted it would last more than a few years, let alone a quarter of a millennium. From Lexington to Los Angeles, Selma to Santa Claus, more Asania to Midwood, Americans will come together for a day, just as we do each year. Families will gather around the grill. Fireworks will fill the night sky. This will be no ordinary day of celebration. 250 years presents a rare opportunity for more than 340 million people to turn together, both towards one another and towards ourselves, to take measure of who we are as a nation. When we look at America, what do we see? Here at City Hall, as I sit behind George Washington's desk, I want to... So you're sitting in... You can't see this. You can't see this. With the cameras slowly zooms out, and all these people just are filing it out of nowhere. But he's not sitting behind George Washington's desk. He's sitting in front of George Washington's desk. It's wrong sitting there all over the way. You're sitting in front of his desk. You do know this, right? We're sitting behind George Washington's desk. We can pull out the drawers, bro. Americans who came to this country, I cannot see all of America. But like so many who came before, I can see New York City. The city I see today looks very different than the one that greeted George Washington. In July of 1776, our city simmered under the yoke of oppression. The British had imposed a colonial rule so repressive, that 250 years ago, 80 miles south, a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed their names on a document declaring truths that feel self-evident... I'm sorry, I thought that I was... ...but were revolutionary then. Establishing the ideals our nation still strives to feel... How can they be self-evident? The British should not take it well. War broke out. And that August, as the largest battle of the Revolutionary War unfolded in Brooklyn, batteries on Governor's Island took aim at British ships anchored just offshore. We were outgunned. We were outmaned. And we were soundly defeated. I thought he was going to break out any of that. After only a few months, it appeared our fledgling attempt at democracy was on the precipice of collapse. But that night, with the moon overhead, thousands of our soldiers silently climbed into fairies and flat bottom boats and escaped to Manhattan. The Continental Army survived to fight another day. Independence may have been declared in Philadelphia, but it was rescued in New York City. Oh, shit. George Washington was the last to leave Brooklyn. As he waited at the river's edge, the sun beginning its rise. He would have looked out over New York City's waters and seen what so many have seen in the 250 years since. Yeah, that actually that night is what that song was going to sleep until Brooklyn is about... Well, it's the lack of sleep that George Washington got. No sleep till Brooklyn. Yeah. I don't know what the till is for, but... I'm pretty sure no sleep till Brooklyn is not about that. Guns and ships is the song from Hamilton that that night's about. But no sleep till Brooklyn by BC Voices is definitely not a historical song. Oh, sorry. Oh, sorry. An opportunity to begin a new. Those opportunities, like everything in New York City, are not given. They are one. In 1838, 11 years after New York... Those opportunities are not given. They are one. Unless you're Mimdani, in which case he's going to give you everything. It's going to take it from those that have and distribute it to those who have not. I wonder what the current stats are over like people who have left. Like businesses who have left. I'm sure it's out there. It's like a stock counter. It just keeps going. It just keeps his counting right now. Like right now it's actively counting. The people that are standing here look so disinterested in what's going on. It's pathetic. York outlawed slavery. A recently emancipated black man by the name of James Weeks. Sock to begin a new as well. And to help hundreds of others do the same. He bought property in Brooklyn. Wanted himself the right to vote. And sold lots to others. Newly free. When they landed in New York Harbor, they knew they had something waiting for them. But they had never had before. A home. Weeksville still stands today. A living breathing testament to what we know America to be. The cameras off releasing the effect. A place each of us has the power to make. The harbor was busy those years. The ships poured in from around the world. Hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants arrived with stomachs aching from a famine manufactured by Imperial cruelty. Chinese sailors settled in what is today. Chinatown. Millions more traveled on to the Statue of Liberty and through Ellis Island. I thought he said tiny sailors. I don't need to what is now China town. I was like, wait, can you say that? I'll be close your tiny sailors. Yes. Jewish people escaping pogroms. Italians feeling fleeing poverty. Serians seeking economic opportunity. Each of these new arrivals peered through port holes on to a city that was changing as fast as the nation. They saw merchants peddling their wares on the docks. Streets being laid out on a grid. Buildings rising into the clouds. They could not yet see the nativism they would face. The jobs they would be refused. The landlords who would not rent to them and the object labor and living conditions they would withstand. The land would not rent to them. They still saw an opportunity to begin a new. Over the years that followed, despite laws enacted by the federal government to bar their entry. Despite sweatshop fires that killed hundreds of women. Despite riots aimed at their dear existence. Hundreds of women? Hundreds of women? Hundreds of women? Hundreds of women? Hundreds of women? Particularly there was one horrible streamed extract factory fire. That actually produced a lot of laws that came out of that about how you could... Because there was people working... I wasn't questioning the history of this question. Women? Well, he spoke wrongly because hundreds of women. Well, in the dirty little thing, English isn't his native language. You have to be kidding me dude. You got it. The whitenest Muslim I've ever met. And they helped to make New York City. That legacy of every generation of Americans insisting that the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness extends to them too, is no relic of the past. It carried millions of black Americans north during the Great Migration. It drew hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans to New York City after the Second World War. It invited countless others from the West Indies, in South Asia, in West Africa, and across the world. And it is what brought my family to the city when I was seven years old. My family did not arrive by boat, although we saw the Statue of Liberty from the window of the plane. Even from the air, we could make out the promise of America. The promise of the beautiful patriotic work of rendering America, year after year, a little more faithful to its founding ideals. There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it. America has no clue what that means to reform this back to our founding ideals. He can't have it both ways. I would say he can't say that there is despair and poverty and slavery, and also say it's the best ever. You can't say both of those things. Why, in one of them? American exceptionalism. American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom, tells us, makes our freedom a little more free. Is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West. Is why children in faraway lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here. And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth, that they were anything but exceptional. In the migration after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It has sent puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong gods, angering the wrong people. It has sent peasants and serfs from slums and stettles, who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes. He says, shuttles, railing trunks, and look at this out. I'm going to see if I can spell this. Stettles. How would you spell shuttles? Stettles. Stettles. Stettles. Stettles. Toles. Question mark? Okay, wait, yeah, that's a word. Let's see. Stettles. S-H-T-E-T-L. Oh no. A small Jewish town or village in eastern Europe, especially before World War II. It's always the Jews. A village or small town, usually referring to Jewish towns in eastern Europe. A Jewish village or small town, especially on an eastern Europe. Yeah, that's a stettle. Powerful. That's just interesting. Anyway, there you go. Well, it's something someone else had. We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer. Stronger, more powerful, and everyone else. Yeah. The truth, my friends, that America is exceptional. That's not why America became that because it's exceptional. Like, we are that because of the exceptionalism. And it's because the exception is that we were not founded on humanistic, his ideals, on Hilliniels. It's not some sort of humanistic, socialistic, atheistic worldview that founded America. That's why it is exceptional. It is not the norm. It is different than and other because of these ideals. But you know what, we can let him go on. He was about to tell us why he thinks America is exceptional. Because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed. We may have walked on the moon. But the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. That work endures. And it belongs to us all. It belongs to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel, the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too. You each hold a special power, the power to determine what America means. The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom. We're not all are created equal. What? America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right trait of skin. The rest of us they insist should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal. At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation, have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics, and the cheapest. But time and again, including 250 years ago, those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress. As Thomas Payne once wrote, this new world have been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty. Hither have they fled. And yet today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum. As we mark 250 years, what do we see? We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world. One where children go to sleep hungry, while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs. Every industry. We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-street hands, those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone. And we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead and the soft hands of a precious few. Yes, we see America in a health insurance industry that exploits the sick, but that is not all we see when we look for America. We see it too in the nurse who works a double shift and then stops on our way home to check on an ailing neighbor. Yes, we see America in corporate landlords for whom negligence is a business model. We see it too in the father who tucks his children into bed beneath a ceiling stained with leaks, who wakes before dawn to go to work and still believes his country can do better by his family. Yes, we see America when we spend our tax dollars on bombs and bailouts when we sell our elections to the highest bidder. Yet we see it just as clearly in every American who still believes this country belongs to we, the people. We see America each time neighbors link arms with neighbors without asking how long they have lived here or what papers they have as ice invades our neighborhoods. We see America each time those young and old stand in the beating rain or the stifling heat to cast their ballots. We see America each time working people demand more, not just for themselves, but for their fellow Americans. There are some who respond to those who ask for more from America with a simple refrain, love it or leave it, they say. But patriotism has never been about pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous descent. It is every march led under the heavy sun. It is every protest held a decade before its time. It is precisely because we love this nation that we will not leave it. After all, who loves America more than those who have sacrificed so much to make it free? Today I think not only of the first sacrifice to make it free. I think too. They don't understand. The people that fight for higher wages, the fathers that put their kids to bed with leaky ceiling tiles. I mean, love it or leave it is the literal reality. This is the nation. You mold and the only molding and shaping that truly happens with the nation is in the societal voting that you try to collapse through progressivism. Progress is not what is building the nation. The idea is not to progress so that it becomes a different nation. It is to keep it the nation that it is. But the whole, it is so convoluted. I don't know what he is saying. Who loves America more than those that fought to make it free? Well, that is literally no one in that room or in this room. Like those people, they fought to make it free. And the question is now, it is a public if you can keep it. The question is whether or not you will maintain the freedom that he already said are self-evident. And he said that they are self-evident to us now but we are not at the time. No, they were self-evident at the time. That is why they wrote them down. They were still self-evident. And they were self-evident because they were endowed by a creator. The creator, God, the God of the Bible. The God believed by the majority Protestant men who signed the Declaration of Independence. The majority Protestant men who shaped the founding documents. That is who died and fought to make America free. Then the majority of Protestant men who died to rid the nation of slavery. In the shortest span of a nation ever has gotten rid of slavery. Even though the slavery itself was foisted upon us by Britain who had already thrown off. Everything, I don't blame him for the stupid things he is saying. I don't blame him. He does not know. He does not know. He is reading from a teleprompter these words but he doesn't know the history of America. He doesn't. This is... It just feels like a Kamala Harris speech. We are just linking things together that sound good. But it is not... There is no substance to it. There is no real tangible substance to it. Even the workers comment. If you need or want to make more, you develop skills or build something that you can sell. You can't do something. You can't simultaneously say that you have to take it and make it while also simultaneously saying that you can also just demand it. Nobody... I am in middle management. It bothers me to know when people complain about things like their victims of the company. No one is forcing anybody to work where they are working. In America, it is a voluntary contractual mutual relationship. If you don't want to work there, you work somewhere else or work harder. Or like you said, develop a new skill and use that to market yourself. America is so free. You could learn a college course's worth of information in one afternoon on YouTube. We live in such an extraordinary time that that is not hard to do. If you don't have internet, you can go to a library and do that exact thing with your free Google account. It is truly painful. The fall is real. We all complain about our jobs. It is literally built into the fall of man. God told us exactly what would happen. That is why we all complain about our jobs. No one... I always remind other people and myself, I am not a slave. I chose to be here. I don't have to be here. I cannot work my job tomorrow. The thing that I am compelled to work is the job that doesn't pay me and that is a pastor. I am compelled to work that. But that is not... He is talking about Adolf. There are no slaves in America. That is not true. There are slaves to the government. To the welfare system. The government owns them, tells them what they can and can't do and then gives them food and shelter. That is the essence of what it is awful. It is a horrible blight. But those are the only slaves in America. There are no slaves in America. But even then, you can get off that system. Our churches helped multiple people do that very thing based on conviction and scripture. Victimhood status breaks multiple of the Ten Commandments. They will not steal and they will not cover it. People always forget about coveting. It is an affront to God to cover other people's possessions. And then to think that you are entitled and have a right to them just because you exist is an affront to God. The whole we should be united thing. You literally are a divisive figure. You hate people that own land. You hate them. He viscerally hates that people own land. And that people want to rent that land to other people for a price. And that he has made his ideals have made the state of trying to rent your property in New York untenable because of the costs you incur by owning property to then rent that property. So much so that he believes he'll just institute a government panel of somebody's that will take your property and manage it better. Like did you see the news that they have a building at the 20 it's a 21 story building that they're trying to add office space on the top of the New York. And the top two floors of the existing structure actually started to bend. They had to evacuate the building. Oops. Yeah. But like that's the reality. No one there's nowhere to build. There's only up and you can't build up and there's nowhere for the people. So he has to take other people's things to give it to the people that he wants to give it to that he decided. Okay. Which is not just that it's also tier me. It's exactly what it is. And it's a really, really. Ike it's a it's going to be a wonderful like like 50 years from now. My great grandkids will probably study what's about to happen in New York or the next several years as a full course on how horrible policies can destroy a population. And that's where it's going. It does you just think that people got rich just like from nothing. I mean, I guess some people are like trust fund babies and stuff but like you build a giant company you employ hundreds and sometimes thousands of people like. No, you enslave them. Oh right. You enslave them, Jesse. Anyway, I don't know. I've seen inside like Google headquarters, not personally, but like on the internet. It looks pretty fancy to me. I kind of want to live there. I want to live. Google said, go squat. Squat. This is mine now. And all of the buildings can take you as to it. Just pretend to be a drug addict and they'll have to let you stay. I pooped here. It's mine now. Gosh. I guess that's why I'm not making a fool of the nineth of July. 5 days after the declaration of independence was signed. It arrived here in our New York city. Redcoats had disembarked on Staten Island. More than 100 British ships loomed just offshore. Across this city, the Continental Army prepared for an invasion. George Washington commanded his brigades to assemble just a few feet from this building. It was known then as the commons today. We call it City Hall Park. Within range of British guns, Washington ordered his generals to read the declaration allowed. And with the world's mightiest empire poised to attack, Washington told the people of New York City what we will celebrate tomorrow, that we had declared our independence, that freedom was within reach. That evening, danger loomed. Conflict was not a question, but a certainty. And yet when those early New Yorkers marched toward the statue of King George III, that stood in the bowling ring, a statue they would melt down into bullets for their young army. They walked in unison, grounded not in the pursuit of plunder, but in ideals that for the first time had a name, America. Those ideals upon which our nation was built, they are strong enough to endure any authoritarian regime, but only if we reach for them. Hours as a nation working each day towards the perfection in which it was conceived, a nation striving each day to better itself. Therein lies the work of America, the striving, the bettering, the reaching towards perfection. What a privilege each of us has to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What a responsibility each of us possesses to prove ourselves worthy of all those who came before. What power each of us holds to bring America ever closer to the greatness so many have seen when they looked upon these shores. The greatness that for 250 years has been America. Thank you. God bless America, God bless New York City, and happy Fourth of July. Get my gods name out of your mouth. Get my gods name out of your mouth. What goodness gracious six alive. He's doing people quote Thomas Paine. Really bothers me. Why? Because of all the founding figures that you could so readily quote, there's it's innumerable. Thomas Paine is not the one, dude. He is not him. He wrote common sense. Like congratulations. And then essentially he was driven from the nation. I was like, no, he left by choice. He was driven from this nation because his ideas of atheistic humanism were gross. His disdain for religion were disgusting, and they were appalling to the founders of America. You know where he went? He went to France because he fell in love with the French Revolution, which was all about atheistic humanistic knowledge. Well, a lot of commandments broken on that one. Yep. That's where he went. And then you know what he did? He came back to America. And he had racked up debt. His ideals were hated. He died in essence alone in America. He had no friends. They did not like him because his ideas were antithetical to their understanding of God. That's who Thomas Paine was. There you go. And now you know. And you can read it. There's a wonderful letter that Benjamin Franklin, who I know everybody likes to say was a deist. And if he was a deist, he was a really bad one. He was a deist that believed in God's providence. So he wasn't some sort of open deist for God, just later, everything out and then walked away. He believed that God literally was providing exactly what he determined to have it. But Tom Ben Franklin wrote him a letter when he was about to release another book called The Age of Reason, which is literally like the French Revolution in an arch-el. He was going to release another book. And Ben Franklin said, you can't release this, dude. Like you can't put this book out there. He'd strongly encouraged him not to release that book after he made his script. Because he knew that this was a nation of people that believed in God. And his book was going to get him shunned. And turns out, if so, facto, it did get him shunned. I don't, I always bothers me. Anyway, a lot of great founders. You don't have to run Thomas Paine. There's so many better ones. Mamdani has a lack of understanding. And he believes that the nation, which was blood and died for, exists to give things to him and others. When all it does is establish self-evident truths that require responsibility and action that require dedication to maintain, not to be given free things. The self-evident truths are the baseline of God's creative order. And from there, from there, it is a responsibility of God's creation to live in them and flourish in them by the acts that they then do with God's given creation. It requires engagement and accountability and the responsibility and commitment. Not an open hand saying, where's my stuff? I have a right to. A right to what? You're right to what? What do you have a right to? You can live. You can prosper, which will require you to do something. And you can be happy, which is probably a loose understanding of what life, liberty, and the ability to gain. You can work and prosper and have and you can grow your family and grow your home and you can grow your business and you can grow these things to provide this the prosperity part for your betterment. That's the happiness part. That's what you can do. And because you have that, you've got lots to do. So get to work. Not take other people's work and decide it's your own now. It's painful. There are so many, like there are literally so many and so many founding proclamations and speeches and oratories and letters written against the exact ideals that are espoused by Mamdani in his desecration of American history on July 3rd. That I don't know how we're going to pick one. We'll just read one proclamation from one of the historical governors of New York. It just seems appropriate. I read a really great one that was happening just after the Civil War. And it's like, hey, everything was really hard. This is a really hard time. We need to be thankful, thankful for what we have and what we've been given. I was like, oh, wow, geez. I think I see sure maybe he didn't mean thankful. Maybe he means we deserve, we deserve things. We must demand that we are given things. There's just, we have fallen so far from the ideals. And the reality is we just had what we currently still have. We had millions of people visit America. Four soccer games that are returning to their own countries and saying, I miss being in America. I saw Belgium post after they won. Like, like, they were upset because we are, our guys red card was overturned and they are like, overturned that. And I'm like, bro, 90% of the capital of Belgium is immigrants, dude. You don't even have a country anymore. Why don't you go ahead and turn your air conditioner. Oh, wait, you can't turn your air conditioner on. You're just let people die of heat stroke. Like, congratulations. You want a soccer game. You've lost life. You've lost at life. In case you're curious, yeah, that stat is, you know, I probably can Google that accurately. F irish the googling. That's just the capital region. I want the whole city. Half of the capital region in Brussels is foreign-born. Wow. The capital region is not the full the whole city though. So that's problematic. But half of the capital region is foreign-born. Here's a good one. 78% with, well, I'll just say 22% of Brussels is Belgians. Wow. The rest is other. 78% other. Like, I can imagine, I mean truly, like Belgium needs, here's the dirty little secret, Belgium needed to win that soccer game. They don't have anything else. But for someone like Wendani, Brussels actually has it right. Like, the city of Brussels, that's the American ideal. I mean, it doesn't actually work in any sense of the reality because Brussels isn't Belgium in any way. There is no ethos there that is Belgian. There is a strong ethos there that is Muslim. There's a strong, I mean, you gotta watch out for the ceremonial daggers, you know what I'm saying? Like, but this is where this idea of people deserve things is so absolutely incorrect. It's so detrimental because as soon as you say people deserve things and you create that victim, but guess what? You are going to lose. You're going to lose everything that you have because the people that will truly be able to leverage your ideas will take it from you. Anyway, thank you Mayor Wendani for such a riveting speech. Absolutely riveting. In his defense, he probably had to get high just to make it through himself. I can't like it through this speech. 13 minutes of reading is hard. Bro, bro, bro, bring me my ball. I can't get through this. It's medicinal. It's medicinal. I'm not the ball. Oh, man, I delivered to a dispensary the other day. First of all, it's weird to walk into those places. Second of all, it's a strong odor. It's a very strong odor. It's a dispensary. Yummy. I was like, look, contact hyzer real and I'm like, wait, can I deliver here? This is appropriate. I'm operating machinery. I'm driving. I'm driving a big vehicle. Anyway, that's not part of the speech. The reality is if you feel that you're entitled to something, it's a lack of understanding about what the gospel is. It's a total lack of understanding what the gospel is. The gospel is literally that we are entitled to death, separation, eternal suffering that we're entitled not even to the worst that this world has to offer, but to far, far greater evil than this world could possibly think up. And yet, God has done something. So all of life is grateful, rejoicing and thanksgiving for what God has done and the responsibility to glorify God in what he has given. That was the ethos of the founding of this nation. That is the reality of what has been on the lips of the visitors to this nation over the past month and a half. Just an amazing all at how amazing and great America truly is and we are not thankful. We are not grateful for it. In a 15 minute rant about how we have gotten everything wrong is not being thankful or grateful for where we get to live. And we should rejoice and be glad in what God has given us and leverage absolute every ounce for his glory. And I think that'll come out quite nicely in our historical reading next week. Closing thoughts, Jesse? I just think he's stupid. You're stupid and I can't believe you made me watch it. We're doing this for you, everyone, so that you didn't have to. Well, I guess now you kind of have to. We just made them do it. So you made me do it. You're even looking at him. I had to look at him the whole time. I didn't have to look at him at all. I was so great because he does have a swarm. He does have a swarm about him. There's a certain level of swarm. Swarm. Swarm? Swarm? Am I saying it wrong? Swarm? There's definitely some swarm about that guy. Oh my gosh, she made a whole song about it. I just don't know who these people are. And like, so the way they're standing makes me and the way that they're looking makes me think that someone behind the camera is holding a gun and pointing it at them. They look nervous. They look really nervous. I'm just making up words. I don't even know what I was trying to say. I believe, Shmarme is the... I believe you're right. Furiously great anyway. We've done a lot of looking up random words. Unconscious. That's a great word. Anyway, we're done with this. Here it is. Don't be Mamdani. Don't be Mamdani. Instead, rejoice and be glad in the day that the Lord has given you. Be thankful because we're very grateful to be living in America. And we should be leveraging that for the sake of the gospel. That was the goal. This is as Sam Adams desperately wanted this to be a great nation. And just don't give up pushing. Like, counter this at every turn. Don't be afraid to use your voice because there's no reason to stay silent. Yes, he is the most limperinced non-threatening looking person in the world. But his ideas are built to destroy nations. And they have destroyed nations. I don't want that here. No, he can't become president because he wasn't born in America. But he is consolidating a fringe base in the Democratic Party. And that's... I mean, he got three gross democratic socialist borderline, some of them, just evil people nominated to be the Democratic candidate in several districts in New York. They're not even a win. They were articulate people. They sound so dumb. No, they will. And they will 100% win. Yeah. I mean, this guy put that chick in charge of housing and she is a highly religious bigoted person, but not for Jesus. So, like, there's just so many things that are problematic here. We should make that sure I'm a bigot for Jesus. Should we spell it big space IT? That'd be... No, we should do. That was dumb of the bad idea. Yeah. Throw that idea out, that was bad. But truly, Sam Adams wanted this to be a Christian Sparta. It was going to require people to work and engage and fight for the ideals of what God's word said. And I think that a Christian Sparta is exactly where we should desire to live. It is one that would be of intense work and strenuous activity and engagement in the reality of God as Supreme sovereign Christ, as Lord and King, and a people that live and move and breathe under that reality. And I think that's where we should head. That's head there. Because that one, that is just walking right into eternity. That's the whole idea of walking towards eternity. Yeah. And the church is the thing, the church is the thing that stands against those ideologies. So, if you're not going to stand like, don't listen to our podcast, like, you know what I mean? Like, if we need churches with chests that will stand against the lies, our battles, not against flesh and blood, against the principalities and powers, we must demolish these disgusting and idolatrous ideas. They need to go away. Make them unthinkable. Yes. And amen. And is with that in mind, dear Christian, that we hope you this day would seize the faith of crap. I wasn't requiring that entire time. I'm just kidding. I was.