💬 My thoughts on the 'perfect' Democrat

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Escape from New York or vote like your life depends on it

We're heading into the weekend under our first government shutdown in seven years. If you're anything like me, you no doubt made sure to garrison yourself inside your government shutdown bunker. But before we get to the shutdown, I want to talk about New York City, the city of my formative years.

I may sound a little melodramatic putting it in such existential terms, but the New York City mayor's election is a month away and if you live there, you better vote like your life depends on it. If you need some energizing to learn the issues and get out to vote, try some of the Pique fermented tea I’ve been drinking lately. That’ll get ya going. Or maybe you're better off just fleeing.

Zohran Mamdani, despite everything he keeps saying, all of which gets dumber and dumber, is running away with the race.

If you think about it, he is the perfect Democrat for the strange times we live in. He's accomplished absolutely nothing in life, he comes from a wealthy and well-connected family and he just conjures up crazy ideas and goes on TV and says it out loud. This is just from this week:

🤡 A local TV news anchor in NYC asked Mamdani straight up: "Do you support decriminalizing prostitution?" His answer: "Yes."

🤡 Even the hosts of The View were taken aback when Mamdani in one breath said he condemned Hamas, but in the next breath regurgitated Hamas talking points.

🤡 This one might be my favorite one. OK, he didn't say it this week, but it was making the rounds on social this week. Basically, he's explaining he's soft on crime because "violence is an artificial construction."

"This can't all be real, Dave," you say. "Even his supporters can't all believe the crock of shit this guy is selling." (Yes, I can hear your thoughts, email newsletter reader.) And to you I say, your instincts are right. 

Check out this candid camera video showing what happens when Mamdani supporters are confronted with the actual political platform he's pushing. The crazy liberal women hearing about how Mamdani refuses to condemn Sharia law might be the best part. The “perfect” modern Democrat!

Want to understand the government shutdown, but only have two minutes? Watch this video of Pelosi and Obama -- just 20 years ago -- talking about how we can't allow illegal immigration. Fast forward to today -- it's like Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Not only are the Dems all good with illegal immigration, they want to provide the illegals with free health care. And Republicans are simply saying no to that. Damn straight.

Golf clap for Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. I've met Pete, I know Pete and I thought he was a great choice by Trump to lead the military. I told you way back in January, Hegseth was going to be an All-Star, and will you look at what he did this week?

He brought all the generals and all the admirals to Quantico on Tuesday, and he told them: No more fat troops. No more dudes in dresses in the military. It's not a good look. It's not who we are, Hegseth said.

Of course we shouldn't have fat soldiers and generals in our military, and people who can't meet minimum physical fitness requirements. Now that didn't stop some of the crazy people on the left from criticizing Hegseth this week, accusing him of fat-shaming.

No. He's just upholding basic standards ... for our Department of War. When you hear these crazy leftists screaming about body-shaming and inclusivity, particularly when it comes to the military, I want you to think of a great quote from the great 20th century poet GK Chesterton, who once said, "Tolerance is the virtue of the man with no conviction." This is precisely what Hegseth is changing.

I've said it over and over on The Rubin Report, and I'll say it again here: Believe them when they tell you that they want to "globalize the intifada."

It's not some harmless little slogan. We saw exactly what it means this week in Manchester, England, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar. A terrorist slammed his car into a synagogue. Two people were killed and four others were injured. Thankfully, police arrived on the scene and shot the attacker to death.

But where was he from? Syria. And as it turns out, he was under investigation for rape — but had been released recently (I don’t think I have to tell you why). And what did his dad, who also lives in England, do? Oh, ya know, he just made some Facebook posts praising the Oct. 7 terrorists as "Allah's men on Earth." No jail sentence for him, though.

JD Vance tops power rankings for second straight week

The vice president held on to the lead position in our weekly Top Trump Peeps poll, with Rubio coming in second and Bobby Kennedy in third.

Believe it or not, this is only the third time Vance has claimed the top spot since we started doing the power rankings back in early June. Woulda thought you guys might’ve had him on top more than that, but after the way Vance explained why the Democrats shut down the government this week in an attempt to provide health care to illegals, and having a good sense of humor about sombrero memes, I wouldn’t be surprised to see him pull off a trifecta next week. Then again, Pete Hegseth did have a good week, too. 🤔

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• In just two weeks, I’ll be going down under! I’m appearing at the Capitol Theatre in Melbourne on October, 18, and then at the Concourse in Sydney on October 21. And I’ll be wrapping up the tour at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre on October 27. For more info and to get tickets, of which there are not many left, click here.

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Until next week … — Dave