Ep. 2473 - LIQUIDATE THE RICH: Mamdani Releases Names, Addresses Of Apartment Owners

July 28, 2026

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In a move that Ben Shapiro calls "the single most disgusting communist stunt" he has seen in America, New York City Mayor Eric Adams—whom Shapiro refers to as "Zoran Mamdani"—released a searchable online database listing the names and addresses of nearly a million property owners who could be subject to the city's new "pied-à-terre" tax. Originally sold as a tax on roughly 31,000 luxury second homes worth over $5 million, the list ballooned to include 960,000 residences, targeting everyone from A-list celebrities like Taylor Swift and Martin Scorsese to modest homeowners in working-class Bronx neighborhoods whose properties are valued at $500,000. The database even mistakenly included city council members and residents who have lived in their apartments full-time for decades.

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1 (01:02) **Mamdani’s Doxxing Database** - The mayor’s administration publishes a searchable database of nearly a million properties, listing names and addresses of owners in an intimidation tactic.
2 (11:56) **The Implicit Threat Behind the List** - Shapiro argues the database is an explicit threat, not a policy tool, designed to force property owners to sell or pay for private security.
3 (12:25) **City-Run Grocery Stores as a Destruction Plan** - Mamdani announces five government-run grocery stores, claiming they will undercut private retailers by 30%.
4 (18:29) **The Real Goal: System Failure, Not Feeding People** - When a reporter asks why not just fund existing food banks, Mamdani dodges, proving his plan is about destruction.
5 (22:06) **Rent Control’s Reverse Robin Hood Effect** - Mamdani’s rent control policies, Shapiro argues, actually benefit the wealthy, not the poor.
6 (24:30) **Mamdani’s “Republican” Small Business Plan** - When Mamdani wants effective policy, he adopts deregulatory, Republican-style ideas.
7 (25:50) **Americans Don’t Like Socialism** - A Manhattan Institute poll shows a majority of Americans oppose universal basic income and believe government assistance should be targeted, not universal.

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Show Notes

Zohran Mamdani doxxes every property owner in New York City, launches a nationalized grocery store, and spits in the face of 9/11 families. How the hell did we get here? Plus, Hunter Biden sits with Nick Fuentes and feminist scholar Emily Wilson hates Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey.

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