133: The Mamdani Reaction
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🗓️ 13 July 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
After a brief review of Grok becoming 'MechaHitler', we chat about the hysterical meltdown that ensued upon Zohran Mamdani's victory in the Democratic primaries to become candidate for Mayor of New York. Jack brings his researches into the New York Times smear story and the fascist eugenicist blogger Jordan Lasker (AKA Cremieux) who gave the Times the leaked info. Daniel brings clips of Megyn Kelly's unhinged Islamophobic response to Mamdani on her podcast, including a conversation with Charlie Kirk in which racism wars for inanity for supremacy.
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Episode Notes:
NBC News, Asked to condemn the phrase ‘globalize the intifada,’ Mamdani says mayors shouldn’t ‘police speech’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggV2SeiGrVw
Zohran Mamdani told director mom Mira Nair to pass on Harry Potter movie
https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/news/zohran-mamdani-mira-nair-harry-potter-namesake-b2778144.html
"'She explained that she was just a month away from filming The Namesake when Warner Bros. reached out to her. Nair said she felt compelled to attend the meetings with the studio because her son had learned to read through J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter books.
However, she didn’t want to give up on working on her own film, so she asked her then-14-year-old son what to do.
“He said to me, ‘Mamma, many good directors can make Harry Potter, but only you can make The Namesake,’” Nair recalled. “And it was such a liberating and clarifying statement, and it kind of is about how I lived my life. Like, what can I do that is so specific that you cannot do? How to make my distinctiveness my calling card.'"
The Times of India, Why MAGA Is Losing Its Mind Over Zohran Mamdami Eating Rice With His Hands
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/why-maga-is-losing-its-mind-over-zohran-mamdani-eating-rice-with-his-hand/articleshow/122209140.cms
"First, let’s get one thing straight: eating with your hands isn’t dirty, weird, or backward. It’s normal. In India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, parts of the Middle East, and even in some parts of Europe, using your hands to eat is a sign of connection—to the food, to your senses, to tradition.
But in the video of Mamdani eating with his fingers, Gill and his supporters saw something else. They didn’t see heritage. They saw a threat. Because in their worldview, anything outside the “white, Western” norm becomes fair game for mockery or suspicion.
It wasn’t about rice. It was about power."
Megyn Kelly Episode 1098: Tacky Celeb-Filled Bezos-Sanchez Wedding, and Zohran Mamdani's Fake Origin Story, with Walter Kirn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hj1yAA3Dqo&pp=ygUbbWVneW4ga2VsbHkgdGFja3kgYW5kIGdyb3Nz
Tweet from The Charilie Kirk Show on the value of eating with utensils.
https://x.com/charliekirk11/status/1940114312124862947
Megyn Kelly (From Episode 1095): What It Means That Radical Socialist Muslim Zohran Mamdani WINS NYC Mayoral Primary, w/ Charlie Kirk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c09GVJu_Xn0&pp=ygUbY2hhcmxpZSBraXJrIHpvaHJhbiBtYW1kYW5p
The Times of India, Why MAGA Is Losing Its Mind Over Zohran Mamdami Eating Rice With His Hands
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/why-maga-is-losing-its-mind-over-zohran-mamdani-eating-rice-with-his-hand/articleshow/122209140.cms
"First, let’s get one thing straight: eating with your hands isn’t dirty, weird, or backward. It’s normal. In India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, parts of the Middle East, and even in some parts of Europe, using your hands to eat is a sign of connection—to the food, to your senses, to tradition.
But in the video of Mamdani eating with his fingers, Gill and his supporters saw something else. They didn’t see heritage. They saw a threat. Because in their worldview, anything outside the “white, Western” norm becomes fair game for mockery or suspicion.
It wasn’t about rice. It was about power."
Mediaite, ‘Take it Down’: Fox News Host Scolds Charlie Kirk Over ‘Gross and Islamophobic’ Post
"'Tarlov shot back, “I’m not afraid to say that I don’t think Mamdani’s vision for the city is a good one and I think a lot of his policies are crazy – NYC is the home of capitalism, not socialism. I want more police funding, not to defund. BDS is repellent. We can’t freeze rent, making everything free. But none of that has to do with him being Muslim.'"
The Lauren Southern interview we reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNxG4EYF_-0
Vance follows Lasker https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/jd-vances-neofascist-reading-list
Capitolhunters thread on the Lasker academic paper scandal https://bsky.app/profile/capitolhunters.bsky.social/post/3lt4cc5tmpk2n
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/natal-conference-austin-texas-eugenics
https://www.cjr.org/news/times-mamdani-college-application-race-article-hack.php
https://www.commondreams.org/news/zohran-mamdani-new-york-times
https://bsky.app/profile/petersterne.com/post/3ltdkev7t2s24
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kjjhbsc3pp3vkqjsivk6z2yd/post/3ltep4kvwfc2h
https://hellgatenyc.com/nyt-race-science-zohran-mamdani/
https://donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afraid-of-zohran-mamdani
The ADL identify “every damn/single time” as antisemitic trope https://www.adl.org/resources/article/coded-hate-extremists-weaponize-seemingly-innocuous-content-promote-bigotry
https://jwmason.org/slackwire/can-zohran-do-it/
Lasker on Hanania’s podcast https://www.cspicenter.com/p/35-baby-brainwaves-and-broken-science-740
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| 0:00.0 | Some New York business leaders are very scared. Some Jews in New York are very scared that this guy who defended globalized the intifada recently on a podcast at the dispatch is their next likely mayor. So they could potentially organize now in a way they didn't be for the primary to stop him. But if you had to put money on it, you'd have to put it on this guy becoming the next mayor. What does this say about New York and our country? Well, a lot. And I'm going to push the envelope a little bit, Megan, |
| 0:26.6 | so you have to give me. You can push back at any time. So I think it's very important. I saw you're |
| 0:30.9 | in trouble with Jessica Tarlov of Fox News on the internet. Well, yeah, I'm going to say it here on air |
| 0:35.2 | because I just like, I don't hide from my my opinion. So at the beginning of the last episode, which is only released a couple of days ago, I was tickled by the fact that GROC over on Twitter, the AI chatbot, which is supposed to be, you know, Mr. Facts, simultaneously became convinced that it was Elon Musk and was answering questions, denying everything about his connection with Jeffrey Epstein as Elon Musk, you know, saying I, when it meant Elon Musk and was answering questions, denying everything about his connection |
| 1:11.2 | with Jeffrey Epstein as Elon Musk, you know, saying I when it meant Elon Musk. And as I say, |
| 1:16.2 | simultaneously with that, it was stating as fact the cultural Marxism conspiracy theory about |
| 1:22.7 | the Jews running Hollywood as a liberal propaganda mill. And we remarked upon that, and we all had a very good laugh about it. |
| 1:29.6 | Yes. |
| 1:29.9 | But what we didn't know was that pretty much simultaneously with me editing that episode |
| 1:35.9 | and then releasing it, Grok over on Twitter decided to go completely full Nazi and |
| 1:41.7 | start advocating. |
| 1:42.6 | It went even further. |
| 1:43.5 | It was already doing great replacement in like Jewish even further. It was already |
| 1:44.1 | doing great replacement in like |
| 1:45.6 | Jewish surname shit. It went |
| 1:47.8 | from Mr. Fax, as you said, to Mr. Fax |
| 1:50.1 | with three K's. That's, you know. |
| 1:53.0 | Specifically, it actually |
| 1:53.9 | kind of said, you know, if |
| 1:55.8 | these are the facts and |
| 1:58.0 | they're Nazi facts, then |
| 1:59.6 | I'm GROC with three Ks. |
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