Michigan Was the Warning Shot and America Is Ignoring It

Democrats didn’t just “shift left”—they detonated their own political center, and Michigan was the blast zone. This episode of The Rant Network tears through the illusion of a moderate Democratic Party, exposing how DSA-backed candidates like Abdul El‑Sayed are winning primaries while the establishment stands there smiling like hostages. From border chaos to billionaire taxes, from ideological brainwashing on campuses to the rise of fringe extremism dressed up as “progress,” we prove that voters aren’t choosing policy—they’re choosing vibes, trends, and outrage. And while media keeps screaming “Trump extremist,” the hosts claim the real radicalism is happening inside the Democratic Party itself, reshaping America faster than anyone expected.

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Transcript

Michigan Primary Sparks A Rant

SPEAKER_01 0:11

So while you were away at your cool conference, Michigan proved itself that Democrats have no fucking clue. Registered Democrats have no fucking clue what they're voting for. The anti-Trump, the Trump derangement syndrome, the investment in Trump bashing that the Democrats that media have done by calling Trump an extremist, you know, a Hitler, an authoritarian, has pushed the Democrat Party further left. That when you and I started this podcast, Stuart, we didn't think in their right minds they were going to go there. Six years ago when we started this, there wasn't a chance in hell. And here we are, six years ago, six years later, scratching our heads, going, how off the wall, off the charts, out of their minds, can Democrats be? Bud, what do you got?

SPEAKER_00 1:15

All right, I'm ready to roll. Nice to be back. New England was pretty, but it's the better in my desk.

Democrats Embrace A DSA Nominee

SPEAKER_00 1:21

The Democratic Party spent 10 years telling you they weren't socialists. 10 years. AOC was a fringe voice. Bernie was a movement, not the party. Well, Michigan just called their bluff, and the DNC folded like a lawn chair. I like that one. All right, here's the actually what happened. I can't wait. Sit down. The headlights, read clear politics this morning. Democrats set aside qualism, embrace El Said. Wow, I can't believe I should say that. Set aside qualms. That's not my framing. That's a Democrat-owned trade press telling you the party's establishment has reservations about their own Senate candidate in Michigan and is choking them down anyway. Why? Because they have no choice. Abdul A. Said, DSA aligned Medicare for all, wealth tax billionaires, whole platform is winning, not almost winning, winning primaries, winning. You know, the how do I explain this? All right. The progressive democrat proposal, including Medicare for All and new taxes on billionaires, have powered insurgent candidates like Saeed to primary victories this year, shaking the party's establishment. The establishment, their words, not ours. A national review is already calling it what it is. They're running a piece this week, literally titled Michigan Socialist Uprising. An uprising inside their own party. This isn't a Republican talking point. This is how it's being described by people in watching it in living it in real time within the DNC. The Republicans don't even have to comment. Here's the bottom line. For a decade, Democrats told suburban moderates, don't worry, the socialists don't run the party. The promise just expired. The DSA isn't infiltrating the DNC anymore. They beat them fair and square in primary after primary. And now the establishment has to stand next to El Said and smile for the camera while their own data tells them it might cost them the seat. If not, that's not a coalition, that's a hostage situation. Just like AOC has pulled for years, and every swing voter in America just watched a hostage tape on live TV, unfiltered, right? And unedited. Uncensored. Unfiltered. David, the whole 2024 playbook was where moderates don't believe the socialist scare story. The DSA is now strong enough to force the establishment to publicly set aside qualms for a candidate like Saeed. Was a moderate branding ever real? Or was it always a mess they drop the second it stopped being useful? Right? You know, listen, we're not talking cross-border. I'm gonna leave you alone. Because I can talk about the NDP party too. But I think I think I gave you enough crap today to go run with. David, what are your thoughts?

Establishment Panic And Messaging Problem

SPEAKER_01 4:59

Look, you know what, Stuart? Here's here's the crazy thing, right? So let's start with Abdul El-Said. He beat Haley Stevens, a sinning Democrat, by not even one percent, Stuart. It's 0.95%. Now, here's the thing. Stevens conceded to Abdul El-Said, losing less than 1%. Now, these are registered Democrat voters. Now, watch the pattern, Stuart, in Michigan. Who voted for Abdul El-Said? They weren't blacks, they weren't Hispanics, they weren't even Muslim majority, if you could believe it. They were white, suburban, college, college-educated putzes. That's right, ladies and gentlemen. Those elitists, those students that you spent your freaking mortgage and probably life savings sending your kid to be brainwashed at the finest institutions that money can buy. That's exactly who is you who voted for Abdul al-Sahid. And that is consistent to see what's going on across the country. Doesn't matter that Abdul al-Sahid stands up and just utters pure nonsense, hate, racism, lies in a Mamdani-like style. Him and Mamdani, these guys took a page out of Obama, how to talking people, how to how to sweet talk people into vote for him. People went for the surface, the tone, the beauty of the voice, and even some of the loony bin fucking ideas that they had, Stuart. Medicare for all is been Bernie's been pumping that forever. And as a Canadian, I keep telling people, watch what you wish for. Or how about let's get rid of

Who Actually Powered The Upset

SPEAKER_01 6:50

the police? Or how about let's get rid of ICE? Or how about let's get rid of our borders? Well, Stuart, while you were away, if you notice what happened in Spain when there were no borders, and you have 50,000 male migrants trying to cross through, not women, not children, not elderly, military-aged, able working people trying to cross a border. We want to go back to that. That's what Abdul Al-Said wants. He wants to cancel, and not just him, the whole Democratic Socialist Association, their whole group wants to cancel Israel, right? Cut every tie with Israel. Think about it. Not Iran, not China, not Russia, not North Korea, not even a single African country that is killing China, the Chinese, uh killing me Christians. Nope. And imagine China was killing up Muslim Uyghurs. Nope. Just Israel. The beacon of hope of the Democratic Socialist Association. The one rallying cry that they all love. They want to bring in Sharia law, Stuart. They see what's happening in Dearborn, Michigan right now. You see prayer runs being put on streets of New York. You see the cry from prayer, not just in your neck of the woods, by the way, but even in Saskatchewan, Stuart, where you said you won't cross the border. I am in Saskatchewan. They're letting this happen. In my community, Stuart, another Muslim, sorry, another mosque is being built, a massive one. Wake up, folks. This is not what you think.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

So, you know, I I heard a few senators chatting. You know, I was in Nantucket, right? And there are some high-end people running around there. And and I'm not gonna give any names. But I'm gonna make a statement. Can you tell me 50 years ago, David, did we have any Islamic jihadism in the United States?

SPEAKER_01 8:55

50 years ago? Yeah, you had you had you didn't have in the you had in the United States. You invited yes. Hold on, hold on, hold on, not hold on. Like you asked the question. Yes, you welcome Yasser Arafat to the United Nations.

SPEAKER_00 9:06

That's not 50 years ago.

SPEAKER_01 9:07

You're talking 40 years ago. I'm saying 50 years ago. No, Stuart, no, Stuart, 1970s, in the early 1970s. Yasser Arafat gave a speech at the United Nations with a gun in a holster in the United Nations, and they applauded him. They welcomed him to New York like a hero. That, my friend, is when things started to shift. That is when America lost its goddamn mind, calling him more of a Che Guevara, you know, style kind of hero. Yeah, that's what happened.

SPEAKER_00 9:38

1974, right? Okay, so uh 50 years ago, but prior to that, there was none of this and there was no active

Borders, Policing, And Progressive Demands

SPEAKER_00 9:48

import of terrorism in 1974 that started in in the 80s, primarily in Europe, and now it's spread all over like a black plague. Now it's not Muslims that are the black plague. I don't I want to be clear. I mean, it's not every day, it's not the religion, it's the it's the exotic part of the religion that is racist, anti-western, anti-modern. That that's really the issue. And so they had just said, we didn't have this problem 50 years ago. We've imported this problem just like Europe did. And maybe it's time to export this problem.

SPEAKER_01 10:30

Oh, okay, but but here's the stupidity factor. Okay, this is what the DSA has pushed hard to create. And and this, I don't know if you heard what happened in while you were in Massachusetts, my friend. But they're creating a government hiring, they're the creating a body. It's a it's a body in which they're aimed at Muslims through legislation that would establish an 11-member proposed commission on the status of people who practice Islam in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The bill would direct the commission to identify and recommend qualified American Muslims for government appointments and jobs, including boards and commissions, while promoting civil rights and inclusion and addressing, quote, discrimination against Muslim residents, not Jews, not Italians, not Irish, just Muslims. This is how off the wall they've gotten. The you know, to continue to promote this ideology that the only people being marginalized in the United States today are the Muslims is absurd. But Mamdani B Bam Dani and Abdul El Sayyid and these democratic socialists have convinced you and because of your woke ideology that you've been pumping us for years, you've convinced yourself you've been broughtwashed in school that the only thing that is that that because of we went from you know isolating blacks because of thanks critical race theory, and now it's Muslims. Muslims are being the one, so we need to once again flip the switch, reorient everything to accommodate for this growing population. Now, I'm trying to understand why. Can you please show me the statistics of Muslim discrimination versus any other community in the United States? No, they can't, and that is what has happened to the socialists, there, Stuart, or the communists, and they've admitted they're communists, Stuart. They're not coming coming around just calling them socialists. Francesca Hong, who's trying to become you know candidate for Wisconsin governor, she's saying she says all this nonsense with again with Hassan Piker, just this crazy nonsense. And these are the candidates you're voting for, people. Francesca Hong wants to cancel Thanksgiving, Stuart. She is imagine she's trying to convince you that isn't this

Israel, Religion, And Culture Fights

SPEAKER_01 13:03

that Thanksgiving offends people. And then two days later, she was on a CNN in an interview, she said that, and then two days later on a podcast, you know what she says? I love Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving. So here's the here's here's what you're dealing with, folks. You're not dealing with people who get it. They'll say whatever they want to convince you, they're the right candidate, they're lying to your teeth. Hassan Pikers said, I will break bread with Jews on Passover. Like what die? First of all, we don't break bread, thank you. Second of all, I don't want you at my table, but these morons, these idiots are voting in groves for these extremists. And it's no longer just California, Oregon, and Washington state. It's spreading Stuart, even in purple states, in blue state, other blue states, this movement is growing very fast, and it isn't scaring enough people. And that's thanks to the MS now who continue with Trump derangers, Stuart. I was watching it while I was in Florida waiting for you. I was watching it on television. It was in the it was in a restaurant, and all they could do while these elections were going on, they were propping up these candidates, all while bashing Trump as being an extremist, a racist, a radical, an authoritarian. And I'm sitting there going, what do you think these guys are? I'm like, whoa.

SPEAKER_00 14:36

All right. Well, you know, David, you can export a problem. It's the question is whether or not the government has the fortitude to do so. And yeah, there you go.

SPEAKER_01 14:48

No, but here's here's here's let me ask, let me ask you this question, Stuart. Let me ask you this question. You're you're you're a fine, you're you're a financial expert. You help people with their money and whatever. What's gonna happen when they slap that billionaire's tax? What do you think those investors are gonna do? Those those fine, those, those rich people are gonna do it.

SPEAKER_00 15:08

Listen, the the the that answer has already been given. The amount of wealth that left New York City in the last 24 months, you know, forget about it. I mean, it's been moving to Florida like like like a brush fire. I mean, the best real estate agent in America is Mandami. He is the single most best promoter for the every other state. I mean, that guy should get the real estate award of the century because they can't get out fast enough. You know, even even JP Morgan is at the point where, and like, you know, they're like the most liberal guys on the block. And Jamie Diamond has had enough. He's like, this isn't gonna work, you know.

SPEAKER_01 15:50

You know, hey, let me let me uh hey Stuart, let me ask you, I don't know if you've heard this, and this is one of those also underreported stories. Texas opened up the first stock exchange in the in the United States in years.

Massachusetts Islam Commission Debate

SPEAKER_01 16:02

And that's to me a sign that U.S. is in a greater divide than ever. Because if you're gonna pack it up and leave New York, a financial center of North America, one of the most powerful financial cities in the world, because of this socialist extremism. What's next, dude? What are what's next? Where, what, what more can these guys do?

SPEAKER_00 16:27

I saw my news feed come in this morning, David, and my hands are just up in the air, you know, disconnected for a couple of hours in Nantucket, and look what the hell happens, David. You know, we've been doing this for a long time. And every time we do our broadcasting, you know, we we get a little sharper, a little better, a little funnier. We laugh and we go, holy shit. You know, it's kind of like when you get older and you see friends and look how much they've aged. You know, I hate to say, you know, we don't look so young anymore. But and if you look at our video roles from like six years ago, I mean, yeah, we look a lot younger, but we're not that much younger, but but we sound a lot dumber. Now we sound a lot smarter. Like we've been doing this for a minute. Like it's hard to talk to people and make them understand that there's consequences for actions. It's like I'm dealing with teenagers on a regular basis, not just that at home, but we're talking to them here. Like all those bots that are responding to our posts like virally, which is pretty funny. I mean, I once got into an engagement with one of those bots, but it's not a real person. Like, when are we going to learn that you can't yell cry wolf in a in a movie theater? Or sorry, yell fire, can't yell fire to movie theater in a movie theater, and and then on the other side saying, fire, fire, fire, you know, on someone else. It just doesn't work. Rule for one, rule for me, rule for thee. I've had enough of these clowns, David. I have enough of these clowns. I'm not against any of the religion people, like Muslims, Christians, Jews, all great. Be a happy American, be a happy Canadian. Your religion has nothing to do with my country, your religion has to do with your spiritual well-being. And if you don't like the country you're in, find one that you do. And that's it.

SPEAKER_01 18:10

Hey Stuart, did you while you were away, did you hear this? That there was a push by a couple of Democrats to get the sitting Democrats in Congress to sign a document to say that they believe in capitalism. Out of the 200 plus sitting Congresspe, right? How many signed the documents? None. Eight eight. Eight out of 200 and something seats. That shows you how scared the and the and by the way, Akeem Jeffries wasn't one of them. And you know, it just goes to show you.

Wealth Tax And Money Leaving New York

SPEAKER_00 18:47

Okay, I I've got I've got a funny one, David, and and you're gonna laugh. Because we're gonna roll out this rest of the year, we're gonna lead up to our top 10, you know, which is anticipated by three and a half months. Well, we're getting ready for it, David, but because these podcasts are definitely getting us there. But you know what? I you know what I think I'm gonna do in January as we get to the elections, midterms. I think I may buy a video camera, I think I may hire a couple of guards and videographers, and I think I may go to DC and state capitals and start asking these questions. I think that there is a methodology to that insanity on getting America and Canada and the West to wake up and smell the roses. Because, you know, broadcasting is no longer controlled by a cable in your house. It is on every laptop, every phone, every airway, every Chromebook, every whatever in the world. And you know, David, I think that's going to be what I'm gonna do in January.

SPEAKER_01 19:53

You know, look, if you want to see, watch the Daily Wire, you know, shout out to what's his name, and I'll tell you, he's doing that. He's got his minions running around, checking things out, going to college campuses, Palestinian pro so-called pro-terrorist rallies, and he's doing that. And he's asking people about the democratic socialists, and they have they have a clue what they're voting for. It's a it's a brainwashing moment. Look at what has happened. This is and by the way, just just just because I have to say this, your your poster girl, Greta Thunberg, that you all ignored and loved, has moved off the Palestinian

Media Narrative, Capitalism Pledge, Closing

SPEAKER_01 20:34

situation. And now she's fighting for Moroccan, you know, you know, the Moroccans and and and their the fact that they are that they are controlling this Western Sahara. She's on to that. That's what you're cheering for, people. You're not cheering for an ideology. It's a trend right now. It's not an ideology. And you know what? Go back and watch Bill Clinton videos and even Barack Obama videos from the 90s and the 2000s and 2010s, and they will both, these are two democratic presidents who will both say to you, the worst thing for the United States is socialism and communism. It doesn't work and it destroys a country. Is that what you guys are pursuing? Okay. You want to pursue the people who have been who pushed 9-11? Okay. If you believe that we deserve 9-11, which is what many of these candidates are saying, like think long and hard. Who deserves death? No wonder you cheered for Hamas. No wonder they they you're cheering for all these terrorist movements because you've been brainwashed. Think about it as a human being. You think that death is the solution for problems? Conflict? If you say no more wars, but it's okay to get by attack by these terrorists. That's who you're cheering for, folks, in the DSA. Let's wrap it up, my friend.

SPEAKER_00 21:58

David, nice to see you. Sorry, I did. That's all we're seeing. That's on Monday.