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Welcome to the commentary magazine Daily podcast today is Wednesday November 30th, 2022.

I'm John Puthhortz, the editor of commentary magazine with me as always executive editor,

a Greenwald high-aid. Hi John. Back with us from her sick bed, media commentary columnist,

an American enterprise institute fellow Christine Rosen, high Christine. Hi John.

Listen to that you've got that husky, you've got that husky cold flu voice.

If I say anything ridiculous I'm blaming the viewers. They're like two little bank heads.

I'm too young to have made a tool of the bank head reference by the way.

Associate editor and author of the rise of the New Puritans, no Rothman, high knowa.

Hi John. So elections end and then interesting things happen when elections end, right?

We get we get flurries of activities in periods after you don't want to change any of the status quo

because you don't know what's going to happen. We have this effort to enshrine gay marriage

in federal law that just passed the Senate and will presumably be passed by the House and

signed by the president nationally. And then in New York City, Mayor Eric Adams, 10 months or

almost 11 months into his mayoralty has finally announced a plan to deal with the spiraling

mentally ill homeless problem, homeless problem in the city by with a major push to remove

people as the New York Times puts it with severe untreated mental illness from the city streets

and subways which involves involuntary hospitalizations of people who are in danger to themselves.

Now of course here's what's interesting about this. This power has always been it's sort of like,

you know, I don't want to sound like Linda the good witch of the nor wherever the hell she's from.

But this power has always been in Eric Adams hands. New York state law permits involuntary

hospitalizations of people who are of risk to themselves and always has. It is that the liberal leftist

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