The Mamdani Facade Begins to Crack

**Josh Holmes** (0:00)
Zohran Mamdani, guys. I can't believe this guy's American, let alone the mayor of the largest city in this country.

**Zohran Mamdani** (0:09)
Benjamin Netanyahu should be arrested and tried for his crimes. It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant.

**Comfortably Smug** (0:17)
You just told everyone why you're an idiot.

**Josh Holmes** (0:19)
Well, it's your-

**Comfortably Smug** (0:20)
You're a municipal employee, worry about maybe the subway's running on time, maybe people not getting stabbed when they're riding, the subway's in your town.

**Michael Duncan** (0:28)
What he's selling works in a Democratic primary right now.

**Josh Holmes** (0:32)
They make the inroads here to have a Hamas-led House of Representatives? What do you think that means for 2028?

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**Josh Holmes** (2:18)
Good Thursday to you. Boy, oh boy, do we have a show for you here on the Ruthless Friday program. Josh Holmes, along with comfortably Smug, Michael Duncan and John Ashbrook, left to right across your radio dial is always a full cast and crew ready to give you some content here that you're not going to believe.
I felt like we went through a couple of weeks where, you know, there was stuff, but we were having to really put our back into making things entertaining.

**Michael Duncan** (2:46)
Doldrums, if you will.

**Josh Holmes** (2:48)
Yeah, it was kind of that summer thing. You're like, oh man, I hope that's not going to be the case all summer. Well, it's not.
I mean, Monday morning, you get out of the rack and there's like a sheet, a wolf, an eddy pea put together and it's like, I don't think we can get to all of this. And then every day, it's stacking on top of each other. Zohran Mamdani, guys, I can't believe this guy's American, let alone the mayor of the largest city in this country.
The beacon of freedom for the world in New York City. 25 years after 9-11, you've got basically a terrorist running the financial capital of the globe. It is, it's stunning. We're gonna get to an awful lot that he talks about. We've got a special guest, Dan, Senator Dan Sullivan. And he's gonna give you a real eye opener into what Democrats are doing to try.

**Comfortably Smug** (3:48)
I mean, like, you know, the topic of election fraud being perpetrated by Democrats is hot in the news. This is exactly that.

**Josh Holmes** (3:57)
This is exactly that. And then you've got examples in New Jersey with that new, you know, kind of Spamburger routine that Mickey Sherrill is doing there, the governor. She's got some voter fraud that she does not want to call voter fraud.
And you need to dig into that a little bit. We've got some lightning round fun, some variety and a King of the Hill. It's going to be a big Thursday here on the program. So let's just kick things off and get right into Mamdani. Now, you've probably seen the news that he's like the the two camera situation, the mayor of New York, who like everybody's wondering if they're going to clean the dead homeless person off the street. And he's like, no, I'm more focused on Gaza than anything else.