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Mark interviews journalist Liz Peek. · The Mark Simone Show

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  Speaker 1: One an instant dose of honesty anytime, the Mark Simone podcasts.
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  Speaker 2: Mark Simon. Well, the great columnist Liz Peak, and of
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  Speaker 2: course you see her all over television. You can see
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  Speaker 2: her columns foxnews dot com. Also make sure you go
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  Speaker 2: to her website, a great news site, lizpeak dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Lizpeak dot com. Great stuff every day. Up there, Liz Peak.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing, I'm terrific. Thanks for having me on, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you know I'm watching Schumer and the keem Jeffries
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  Speaker 2: all over television. S every Hey's gonna die, We're gonna die,
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  Speaker 2: this is gonna die. And then they all left for
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  Speaker 2: the weekend. They're on vacation. Now, how does this work?
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  Speaker 3: I guess we're not gonna die right away?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So are these two just tone deaf Jeffries and Schumer?
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  Speaker 2: Are they just out of touch?
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  Speaker 3: They're scared to death? Mark, I think the progressive left
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  Speaker 3: has a stranglehold on the Democratic Party right now, And honestly,
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  Speaker 3: I think you can fairly say that if AOC Alexandrio
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  Speaker 3: Cacio Cortez, the progressive darling from New York State, was
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  Speaker 3: not threatening to primary Chuck Schumer when he's up for
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  Speaker 3: reelection in twenty eight we would not be having a
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  Speaker 3: government shutdown. When he signed on and agreed to go
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  Speaker 3: along with the Republican funding bill in March, he got
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  Speaker 3: absolutely sporched by the progressive left. They hated him for
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  Speaker 3: going along. They think the only thing the Democrats should
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  Speaker 3: be doing is resisting everything Republicans and Donald Trump are
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  Speaker 3: trying to do. And so he learned his lesson. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: when you look at poland guess what Schumer might be
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  Speaker 3: beaten by AOC. It's completely possible. So you know, it's
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  Speaker 3: like Andrew Cuomo running against Mom Donnie in New York
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  Speaker 3: City for the mayor's race. I mean, basically, Cuomo a
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  Speaker 3: sort of long time I guess moderate Democrat, although I
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  Speaker 3: think he's a pretty far left Democrat. He is nothing
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  Speaker 3: compared to Mamdani. That's where the energy is, that's where
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  Speaker 3: the excitement is in the Democratic Party. So I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: you have this ridiculous situation where the entire country is
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  Speaker 3: in the grip of AOC, who, in my view, is
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  Speaker 3: an incredibly know nothing Democrat representative who has tremendous social
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  Speaker 3: media presence, and that's about it.
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  Speaker 2: And how did we get to this point? Is it
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  Speaker 2: because the universities became in doctrination centers over the last
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  Speaker 2: few decades and we've raised generations of far left kookie
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  Speaker 2: socialist young Is that how this is happening.
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  Speaker 3: Without a doubt, without a doubt, that is part of it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think in terms of what ails the
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  Speaker 3: Democratic Party, well, first of all, let's look at their record.
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  Speaker 3: Show me a Democrat run state in the United States
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  Speaker 3: that is prospering. The answer is, you can't because their
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  Speaker 3: policies don't work. Mandani has risen to fame by talking
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  Speaker 3: about affordability. He's completely right that the two most expensive
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  Speaker 3: states to live in are New York and California. Why
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  Speaker 3: would that be, I wonder Well, let's talk about high
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  Speaker 3: taxes and tons of regulation that make it almost impossible
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  Speaker 3: to operate a small business, and all the kinds of
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  Speaker 3: labor laws that they put in effect that jack up
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  Speaker 3: the price of everything from uber drivers to delivery drivers,
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  Speaker 3: delivery people for food and stuff. All that may seem
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  Speaker 3: like a good thing, but the reality is it means
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  Speaker 3: it's incredibly expensive to live in these states. So weirdly,
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  Speaker 3: it's Democrat policies that have pushed the emergence of Democratic
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  Speaker 3: socialists who pretend they're going to solve those affordability issues
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  Speaker 3: by being even farther to the left, having even more
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  Speaker 3: regulation and more taxes, and doing everything that Democrats have
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  Speaker 3: been doing for decades, but on steroids. I mean, you
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  Speaker 3: cannot come up with a worse argument for election than that,
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  Speaker 3: and yet it is resonating.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, if you think about it, the Democrats have run
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  Speaker 2: every inch in New York legislature, all Beanys, governor, mayor
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  Speaker 2: city council for about twelve years. So why would if
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  Speaker 2: it's such a crisis, why wouldn't you just switch parties?
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  Speaker 2: That's the obvious thing to do.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Mark, you know you're thinking straight. The problem is
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  Speaker 3: all these young people are not and part of it
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  Speaker 3: is what you call indoctrination. And that's exactly the right
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  Speaker 3: word for it. You know, during the Vietnam era, if
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  Speaker 3: you think back that long, what how did you escape
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  Speaker 3: the draft? All the lefty hippies who didn't approve of
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  Speaker 3: the war in Vietnam could avoid the draft by becoming teachers,
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  Speaker 3: and professors. So they did, and guess what here we
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  Speaker 3: are all these years later. These guys have organized and
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  Speaker 3: run the departments of America's colleges now for forty plus years.
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  Speaker 3: They hire people who think the way they do. Polling
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  Speaker 3: shows literally the faculty at Harvard, for example, doesn't even
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  Speaker 3: want to have any kind of diversity of opinion in
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  Speaker 3: Harvard's faculty. They don't approve of that. So you have
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  Speaker 3: a very solid generation now that is incredibly left wing
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  Speaker 3: and by the way, incredibly ignorant because they don't know
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  Speaker 3: the history of the Soviet Union. They don't know the
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  Speaker 3: history of Venezuela and how or Cuba or any of
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  Speaker 3: these countries that are so poor and so destitute in
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  Speaker 3: the case of Soviet Union, that actually collapsed under the
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  Speaker 3: weight of the kinds of policies that they are now embracing.
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  Speaker 3: Had they been ever taught that, or taught about the
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  Speaker 3: virtues of capitalism and how capitalists free countries do well
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  Speaker 3: and create wealth for their people, maybe they wouldn't be
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  Speaker 3: so eager to flock to a guy that is touting
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  Speaker 3: the same failed policies that really have caused millions to
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  Speaker 3: live been poverty.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a strange election here in New York. You
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  Speaker 2: got one candidate is the absolute worst of the new
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  Speaker 2: generation Democrat and the other candidate's the worst of the
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  Speaker 2: old generation demosra.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, isn't that the truth? That's a really good point.
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  Speaker 3: It's oh, it's like and that's you know, that's obviously anyway,
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  Speaker 3: that's a local issue. We have two terrible candidates running,
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  Speaker 3: and so it's it's like, you know, the worst of
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  Speaker 3: the choice you can make. But but I think generally nationally,
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  Speaker 3: when you look at Schumern, Schumer in particular should be embarrassed.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how many times has he paraded before the
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  Speaker 3: cameras well every Sunday night he used to if you recall,
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  Speaker 3: because nobody else bothered, uh, and he would talk about
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  Speaker 3: how terrible government shutdowns are, how they really hurt the country.
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  Speaker 3: And here they are insisting on one for what end?
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  Speaker 3: To what end they want to I mean, they don't
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  Speaker 3: want to give the Senate and it's just a few
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  Speaker 3: weeks to get their spending bill in order they'd want
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  Speaker 3: to do that. So again, this is this is play acting.
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  Speaker 3: It's performative politics, which is what Democrats have really kind
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  Speaker 3: of you know, become very good at or at least
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  Speaker 3: sort of. That's all they do.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, it's performative politics with no particular purpose, and it's
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  Speaker 3: I think it's a tragedy honestly.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, great stuff, Liz Peak. Hey, everybody check out her
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  Speaker 2: website lizpeak dot com. You got great stories there every day.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great news site, lizpeak dot com. Be a
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  Speaker 2: subscriber to it, and of course reader columns. Watch her
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  Speaker 2: all over television and great stuff, Liz Peak. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: being with.
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  Speaker 3: Us, Thank you so much for having me.
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  Speaker 2: this morning and we'll get to that. Coming up on
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