heir smaller transgressions 20 years ago, and I don't blame anybody for anything they did when they were 17 or 18. So college age, not interested. It's a fun story. I like talking about it and thinking about it. It's just sort of a fun interesting little story. But no, this isn't really, unfortunately I just can't drive a stake through his heart because of that. I would be inconsistent.

However, I'd like to steal an idea that I heard this morning. I won't do an attribution, but it wasn't my idea. All right. I'll tell you it was Greg Gutfeld. So Greg, if you're listening, I wasn't sure if you wanted credit for this idea, but I'll give it to you anyway. Does it seem interesting to you that Mamdani tried to pretend he was Black so he could get more advantages in society? Has anybody mentioned that yet? That pretending you're Black gives you such a substantial lift in getting into college that Mamdani was willing to lie and sort of suggest that he was Black because of the benefits. Yeah. I think that's a pretty interesting part of the story, isn't it? Because I believe that there's literally no Black person who ever pretended they were White to get into college ever. I believe that there's no Black person who ever pretended to be White to get a job at a Fortune 500 company. Not in my lifetime. Because in either case, getting into college or getting into a corporation, small companies would be different. I think there's plenty of discrimination in small companies, but for the big ones everybody knows that it's just a direct path to the top if you can sell yourself as being Black or female or lesbian or whatever.

So I don't know how we're in this world where Black people are claiming a disadvantage at exactly the same time people are pretending to be Black for the advantages.

All right. Amazingly, according to a Post Millennial story by Victor Davis Hanson, the number of New York City shootings is at a low and the murder rate is way down. And believe it or not, they had zero shootings and murders on Independence Day. And it's the first time ever, zero. On a day when shooting would be the easiest to do because there's fireworks anyway so maybe nobody would even know it was a gunshot. You'd think that the Fourth of July would be a big murder day, but Eric Adams is doing something right, current mayor, because it's zero. Not only that, but in the first six months of the year New York City saw the lowest number of shooting victims and shooting incidents in recorded history. In recorded history. And he's not going to be reelected. Are you freaking kidding me?

If you give me a mayor who in six months or however long he's been around can take your murder and violent record down to levels that nobody's ever even seen before, how does that guy or gal not get reelected? And I do believe that's probably because of changes that he made because remember he was a police person before he was a mayor. He knows what he's talking about. He knows where the levers are for decreasing crime and he must have pulled those levers.

How in the world does Mamdani get elected when he wants to defund the police and he's running against an ex-police person who apparently has pushed all the right levers and got an almost unbelievable success? I mean it's hard to even imagine that you could have gotten it to the level that it was historically a low. The only bit of cold water I'll throw on that is that there is an age element to violence. Older people are less violent. And as our population ages and there are fewer young people in the cities compared to old people, probably the violence would go down a little bit just because the demographics were older people. But that didn't happen in six months. So whatever this is is probably Eric Adams. And he's a really good communicator in my opinion. He has the charisma, etc. So if he's not standing all over this, he ought to be.

I saw a post on X from a user called Mila Loves Joe who said that every single store in San Francisco's Market Street, that would be like the main street of San Francisco, every single store on Market Street has closed down. Now I went to Super Grok and said, is that true? It turns out that's not true. But there are a lot of stores, a lot of stores that closed down. But here's something