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Hank Sheinkopf, PhD | 05-18-26 · Sid & Friends In The Morning

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Speaker 1: All right, I've been looking forward to talking to this
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Speaker 1: guy for a long time. He's got a great grasp
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Speaker 1: of what's going on in New York City, has for
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Speaker 1: the longest time yet he's ever been on this show.
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Speaker 1: But we'll be on now, Hank Shinkough, Hank, welcome to
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Speaker 1: sitting Friends in the morning. It's nice to have you, buddy.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for having me on. Said, I'm
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Speaker 2: very grateful to you.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate that. So the mayor needs a
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Speaker 1: bit of a history lesson. It's moron, because what happened
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Speaker 1: in nineteen forty eight. I know you know this, Hank,
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Speaker 1: you're a very smart guy. Was that even after the
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Speaker 1: UE got involved in nineteen forty seven and they wanted
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Speaker 1: to split up Israel and the Arabs to two states,
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Speaker 1: and Israel said yes, okay, Israel said yes. In nineteen
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Speaker 1: forty eight, the Arabs five countries, five of them Egypt, Jordan,
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch of them, Syria. They decided, now we
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Speaker 1: changed our mind, we're going to kill all the Jews
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Speaker 1: and take over. But here's what they didn't get. You
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Speaker 1: ain't beating us. So we kicked their asses and we
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Speaker 1: won and we made Israel an independent state in nineteen
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Speaker 1: forty eight. So when this May it talks about Knakba Day,
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Speaker 1: which is ridiculous in this city, Okay, and treats it
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Speaker 1: out on shops purposely to stick it up the Jews
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Speaker 1: ass hank knack bad day. They stay. Were seventy thousand
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Speaker 1: Palestinians with displaced. That's a lie, that's not true. They
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Speaker 1: were actually forced out by their own people who decided
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Speaker 1: to start a war and got their asses kicked. That's
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Speaker 1: how that went.
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Speaker 2: You know that, right, of course, of course, And look,
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Speaker 2: the whole issue is a lie. You know. Bernard Lewis,
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Speaker 2: the great scholar on the Middle East and Islam, talked
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Speaker 2: about the seventy sixty seventy years ago that he predicted jihad,
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Speaker 2: and he predicted that because the Arabs would keep losing
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Speaker 2: these wars, they would be humiliated Muslim people would be
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Speaker 2: humiliated overall and would seek revenge, which is what they've done.
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Speaker 2: If you look at the history of the region, people
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Speaker 2: have to stop lying and ask themselves, where are the Zoroastrians,
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Speaker 2: Where are the Bahai, Where are the Chaldian Catholics, Where
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Speaker 2: are the Coptic Christians where once ninety percent of Egypt,
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Speaker 2: Where are the Assyrian Catholics? Happened to all these people?
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Speaker 2: They were murdered, ejected, I mean Jews with the largest
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Speaker 2: population in Yemen at one point. What happened to all
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Speaker 2: these people? We're not on why are the black people
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Speaker 2: were Muslims in West Africa? Why is this the case?
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Speaker 2: This is not by accident. When we're talking about people
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Speaker 2: who do not believe in what's the good word in pluralism,
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Speaker 2: who don't believe that somehow Jews should exist in the region,
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Speaker 2: and it is a it is a source of embarrassment
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Speaker 2: to them. And despite the fact that they killed Hevron
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Speaker 2: in twenty nine, nineteen twenty nine a class where rape
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Speaker 2: and murder with the act of the day based on
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Speaker 2: a rumor, and that was a constant in the pre
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Speaker 2: Israel mandate Palestine. There has never been a country named Palestine.
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Speaker 2: It's a ridiculous idea Palestina was created by the Romans
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Speaker 2: at the seventy a d destruction of the Second Temple.
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Speaker 2: There was a large Jewish population that was allowed to
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Speaker 2: exist there rareminic sources that there and the larger question
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Speaker 2: said is that this is all successful. The West is
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Speaker 2: finished because the basic arguments of democracy, which are you know,
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Speaker 2: the Fifth Amendment is a Jewish idea. Protection of women's
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Speaker 2: rights is in the marriage licensed marriage contract to Katuba
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Speaker 2: is a Jewish idea. Incorruptible courts is a Jewish idea.
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Speaker 2: Let's see what else. Property rights, it's extensive. It's a
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Speaker 2: Jewish idea. Protection against abuse by government is a Jewish I'll.
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Speaker 1: Take it a step further. I'll take it a step
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Speaker 1: how about everything? How about this Christianity is a Jewish idea.
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Speaker 1: I've got I've got Father Cassado on here. Often the
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Speaker 1: monsignor comes on Good Friday, comes on all these.
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Speaker 2: Very good men.
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Speaker 1: He's a great man. And I said, let me make
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Speaker 1: you got to explain to me how any Christian could
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Speaker 1: ever be an anti Semite. He said, I don't get
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Speaker 1: it either, because the truth is, first of all, Jesus
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Speaker 1: was Jewish. But there is no Christianity without Judaism.
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Speaker 2: You cannot. You cannot what Christianity did, and you know,
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Speaker 2: and look, I it was a little bit about this stuff.
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Speaker 2: What Christianity did was that it attempted to put a
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Speaker 2: spiritual light through the laws. As we created them, and
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Speaker 2: that relationship between the two religions is not insignificant. And
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Speaker 2: the Church thanked God for the Holy Father of Pope
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Speaker 2: John the twenty third in nineteen sixty three and did
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Speaker 2: the great enmity between Jews and the Christian world, the
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Speaker 2: Catholic world anyway, and that that that was, you know,
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Speaker 2: with the paper and center Gole of that year, you know,
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Speaker 2: which ended the calls for destruction of Judaism. So now
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Speaker 2: what we have is a recreation of unfortunately realism that
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Speaker 2: has not had a reformation. Islam and the Jews are
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Speaker 2: in the middle of it again because we're not leaving
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Speaker 2: our homeland and that's where we were. We were there
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Speaker 2: before Islam is Slum's a new religion on the block
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Speaker 2: there here since thirteen hundred years. We're here for thirty
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Speaker 2: five hundred years, and the Jews in that country for
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Speaker 2: over you know, let's say good numbers over two thousand year.
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Speaker 2: And the great books that I've talked about, the Torah
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Speaker 2: and the Talmut, described those of those kinds of rights
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Speaker 2: and frankly responsibilities of any civilized or functioning system. So
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Speaker 2: we have a complete reversal of ideas here. And we
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Speaker 2: had the left somehow having this delusional idea that there
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Speaker 2: will be a fluralistic society once we're gone. Douglas Murray
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Speaker 2: and others Melanie Phillis have talked about this, reasonable scholars
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Speaker 2: that that's not going to happen, and the country is
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Speaker 2: a great risk right now.
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Speaker 1: Couldn't agree more and start with New York and talk
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Speaker 1: about the country. Hank, you've been covering local races for
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Speaker 1: a long time, the great Hank Schinkoff right here. That
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Speaker 1: was also a great little history lesson right there. Somebody
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Speaker 1: said that to mom, Donnie, what Hank just said. You've
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Speaker 1: been covering the city's politics for a long time. God
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Speaker 1: was good to me. I turned fifty nine last month.
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Speaker 1: I've never seen anything like this. I've seen horrible mayors.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how you've built about these guys, doesn't matter.
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Speaker 1: Bill de Blasio was a horrendous mayor, horrendous, you know,
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Speaker 1: quite frankly. Eric Adams was a major disappointment. Three of
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Speaker 1: his four years. He did nothing but take care of
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Speaker 1: illegals and all the wrong people in this city. But
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Speaker 1: this guy, this guy, I've never seen anything like this.
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Speaker 1: I've made the point in my lifetime he's probably the
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Speaker 1: most dangerous that's the word, the most dangerous politician that
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Speaker 1: I've seen in our country. Is that a gross overstatement.
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Speaker 2: I don't think it's an overstatement. I think that he
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Speaker 2: is to be commended. He is an extraordinarily brilliant communicator.
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Speaker 2: I predicted in January of twenty twenty five that he
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Speaker 2: would be the mayor, and everybody said I was nuts,
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Speaker 2: And you can check the clips on that. I really publicly, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: check the clips. I said it.
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Speaker 1: I believe it.
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Speaker 2: I was the one to watch.
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Speaker 1: I believe it.
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Speaker 2: I predicted it, and people said it was out of
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Speaker 2: my mind. But I also.
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Speaker 1: Did you predict that? But did you predict that because
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Speaker 1: you thought he was that good?
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Speaker 2: I said it on John Katsman.
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Speaker 1: No, no, believe I believe you said it. My question
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Speaker 1: is did you say that because you're impressed with him?
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Speaker 1: Or was it a combination of him and then looking
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Speaker 1: at Adams Cuomo and Curtis.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, No, No, it's more important. It's more
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Speaker 2: said you have a good combination. But let me add
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Speaker 2: to that. Okay, maybe it'll makes some sense. I hope
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Speaker 2: it does. With great respect for you, when you have
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Speaker 2: these kinds of elections.
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Speaker 1: You have.
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Speaker 2: What they tend to signify is a major demographic and
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Speaker 2: economic shift in the city. Lindsey's sixty nine and sixty five. Okay, Julianne,
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Speaker 2: he would be let's say vibit in ninety three. You
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Speaker 2: have these kinds of extraordinary events that occur where leadership
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Speaker 2: changes because of ethnic and economic changes in the city.
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Speaker 2: The city is going through a major demographic shift, and
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Speaker 2: the great strength of New York historically, well, maybe why
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Speaker 2: so many of us feel so much angst is that
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Speaker 2: demographic shift which has resulted in the most productive you know,
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Speaker 2: you know what was a great line that how many
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Speaker 2: people could trace their to Brooklyn, this great ethnic balance
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Speaker 2: of people leaving New York being educated, coming to our
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Speaker 2: schools that used to work and education, educating people that
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Speaker 2: they came through that system and they became the most
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Speaker 2: productive immigrant class and second generation, a third generation from
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Speaker 2: those immigrants in the history of the world. Is that
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Speaker 2: going to happen again? And is the great promise of
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Speaker 2: New York still what it was? Could a guy like me,
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Speaker 2: you know, I come from a very very usive environment tonight,
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Speaker 2: you know, I was able to get a union job
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Speaker 2: and bring myself up and ultimately, thanks to a free
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Speaker 2: university which doesn't existing work, get a college education and
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Speaker 2: do the things I did having worked in you know,
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Speaker 2: campaigns in sixteen foreign countries ambition of what I've done
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Speaker 2: in the United States. I mean, can that happen again?
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Speaker 2: The answer is likely not, and the mayor's job is
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Speaker 2: to ensure that that can happen. But he is dangerous
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Speaker 2: because he doesn't believe that. He believes in a static
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Speaker 2: situation where the state provides sufficient services to keep a
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Speaker 2: static population in place. Why because the DSA is not Democrats,
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Speaker 2: but they are soless and the laws throughout the state,
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Speaker 2: as that country, make it impossible for third parties in
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Speaker 2: most cases to get in the ballots. What they've done
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Speaker 2: effect that is they've taken over the carcass of the
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Speaker 2: dead Democratic Party. They're using that and they're going to
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Speaker 2: elect people around the country and they're going to change
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Speaker 2: the very nature of the system. That's what he is leading.
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Speaker 2: Anybody who thinks otherwise is just fooling himself.
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Speaker 1: One hundred percent right. And the old Democrats they're just
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Speaker 1: following along because they're scared to death. Whether it's Chuck Schulman,
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Speaker 1: I mean Schumann was a good guy twenty years ago.
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Speaker 1: He really was. And he's a waste. He's a waste
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Speaker 1: at this point, he's embarrassing himself. And then you get
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Speaker 1: the governor. I mean, she's got to be Kidney. You know,
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Speaker 1: the Long on the railroad is on strike. She's blaming Trump,
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Speaker 1: she's blaming Blakeman, she's blaming sid Wait a second, she
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Speaker 1: found eight billion dollars for illegals, for illegals. She found
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Speaker 1: eight billion dollars in the next two years to give
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Speaker 1: mom Donnie, But you can't figure out a way to
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Speaker 1: get people to work from Long Island. What does she
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Speaker 1: think she's kidding?
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Speaker 2: You know, the Kathy Huckle tragedy here is that the
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Speaker 2: MKA belongs to her as the governor, and there's somebody
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Speaker 2: did an examination of patrint shops and that agency versus
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Speaker 2: people who are supposed to get things done. And how
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Speaker 2: this could have gone on at this level for this
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Speaker 2: long without gubernatorial intervention to get a contract on this
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Speaker 2: beyond me. But that's for another day. I mean the
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Speaker 2: real question now is what will happen to the City
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Speaker 2: of New York over the next three years. You're going
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Speaker 2: to have a continued out movement of businesses. Why, because
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Speaker 2: it tends to happen when you have a fiscal crisis
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Speaker 2: when the I represent a lot of In part of
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Speaker 2: my work, I work with an awful lot offul lot
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Speaker 2: of unions, both public and private sector, and I predicted
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Speaker 2: with my union clients a year ago that the budget
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Speaker 2: number would be budget holl would be about twelve billion.
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Speaker 2: So what you heard the other day was the mayor
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Speaker 2: finally admitting it. If the saying was five to four
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Speaker 2: or six, No, it's a twelve billion dollar problem. How
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Speaker 2: is it going to get closed? You can't expand government
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Speaker 2: and close it, and you can't threaten to cut public
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Speaker 2: employee pension payments. That's just not going to go. So
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Speaker 2: this is the great moment. Can this democratic socialist run
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Speaker 2: this city in the way he thinks it ought to
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Speaker 2: be run, which creates a national movement and uses the
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Speaker 2: resources available here to make that happen, or will we
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Speaker 2: have a disaster of sorts? That is the great moment
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Speaker 2: and and can he prevent that? Not sure, but that
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Speaker 2: what we are.
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Speaker 1: He's moving towards. It's he's he's it's going to be
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Speaker 1: the latter. So in the finals, sixty seconds whether you
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Speaker 1: Red Cox or Age, I don't know who's in charge
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Speaker 1: of the Publican Party in New York. And I've kind of,
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Speaker 1: you know, choked around about running because people want me
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Speaker 1: to run. But you know, whether Curtis has told Hi
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Speaker 1: about doing it again, which is beyond ridiculous. He's he's
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Speaker 1: embarrassed himself, not once, but twice fourteen seven percent. You
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Speaker 1: got to stop. You know, John Shall's talking about running.
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Speaker 1: I think eventually Jessica Tish may jump in, maybe Julie Menning,
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Speaker 1: I don't know. But the point is, if you're going
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Speaker 1: to beat this guy, even if he does run the
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Speaker 1: city into the ground, you gotta have a couple of
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Speaker 1: people out there that are worthy and that people are
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Speaker 1: going to trust and like. And the Republican Party in
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Speaker 1: this state, Hank has not done that, not at the
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Speaker 1: mayor level. You know, Lizo then win a very good
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Speaker 1: governor's race Andrew Giuliani, but we lost. Why are the
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Speaker 1: powers that be in the Republican Party Hank here in
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Speaker 1: New York going to figure out they got to bind
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Speaker 1: some real good people to run these races.
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Speaker 2: Well that's part of it. They got to find some
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Speaker 2: real good people. But with the other thing they have
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Speaker 2: to do is build a party. They don't have one.
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Speaker 2: The history of the Republican Party in New York is
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Speaker 2: an interesting one. If you look at city candidates who won,
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Speaker 2: they won with the Liberal party line. There is no
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Speaker 2: more liberal party. There is no place for people to say, well,
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Speaker 2: I don't like Republicans, but I'll vote on this line.
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Speaker 2: To get them there, you have to create a new
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Speaker 2: third party of some kind, and you've got to create
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Speaker 2: a new Republican Party. That is the ref Unfortunately, I
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Speaker 2: having to like the present leadership, but that is more
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Speaker 2: like what Joe Cairo, the Republican County chair, is done
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Speaker 2: in Nassau County, which used to put some fire into it,
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Speaker 2: and jesse Garcia has done in Suffolk County just to
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Speaker 2: put some fire into it into organize. We don't have
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Speaker 2: that in New York City. And the end result is
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Speaker 2: we have Zarnmandami, and we're going to have more of it,
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Speaker 2: and we're going to have more people leaving, and we're
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Speaker 2: gonna have a class of people I'm not talking about
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Speaker 2: in the minority community. I'm talking about in the non
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Speaker 2: minority community who somehow believe that there is a great
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Speaker 2: tragedy placed upon others that they have to correct while
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Speaker 2: destroying the city's economy at the same time. That is
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Speaker 2: a disaster waiting to happen, and it will be unfortunate
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Speaker 2: and for New York. I love. I said this in
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Speaker 2: the Waltrea Journal. I think last summer that our time
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Speaker 2: is over. Question is can we save enough of it
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Speaker 2: for the next generation? And that is that we face
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Speaker 2: because we're talking about people who have never put a
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Speaker 2: callus on their hands, never had a tough day, and
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Speaker 2: have no idea what it really means to struggle. The
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Speaker 2: New York that I grew up in was a place
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Speaker 2: where people strived and struggled. I come from a blue
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Speaker 2: collar world. That world is being destroyed and evaporated and
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Speaker 2: for purposefulness. And the new bout collar class is probably
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Speaker 2: the Chinese, and they're the ones they're going to have
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Speaker 2: to coming to New York and they're the ones they're
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Speaker 2: going to have to strap this ad and other immigrants.
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Speaker 2: And if they don't revolt, the city will turn into
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Speaker 2: who knows what. It will be diminished in population, it
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Speaker 2: will be a it will be The requirement will be
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Speaker 2: that it be supported by the federal government in order
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Speaker 2: for it to about.
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Speaker 1: What a mess boy. I gotta tell you, Hank, you
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Speaker 1: will You are great. I appreciate this this morning. What
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Speaker 1: do you hope you keep coming back because your perspective
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Speaker 1: is unfortunately the money. So thank you so much for
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Speaker 1: doing this this morning. Stay healthy, keep talking, and come
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Speaker 1: back on the show soon. Okay, pal, thank you so much.
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Speaker 2: I'm very grateful. Have a wonderful day one.
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Speaker 1: You too, You too. He was great, man, Hank Shinkoff.
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Speaker 1: That was a great, great description of will we'headon