9/11 & Mamdani's NYC, Trump's $5,000 Bribe, Aaron Rodgers Vindicated, & Tesla's Cybercab Takeover | TBNS 1098

9/11 25th anniversary, Zohran Mamdani's New York City, Trump's $5,000 GOP dividend, Aaron Rodgers vindicated on COVID, and Elon Musk's Tesla Cybercab takeover. Brian Nichols breaks down the 2026 GOP midterm convention and what it signals, then hands the mic to the PoliTicks crew.

Twenty-five years after the September 11th terrorist attacks, New York City is run by a Democratic Socialist. The GOP is holding midterm conventions for the first time since the 1980s and promising $5,000 checks. Aaron Rodgers is out talking about fake vaccine cards in the NFL locker room. And Tesla just dropped a $30,000 driverless Cybercab in Austin that might end Uber and big taxi for good.

In this episode Brian covers:

The 2026 Republican midterm convention and why the GOP is panicking without Trump on the ballot
Trump's $5,000 dividend promise, Thomas Massie's lone objection, and the inflation lesson nobody learned
Why the GOP's boomer-first, Israel-first posture is bleeding young voters ahead of 2028 and JD Vance
Mayor Zohran Mamdani, the 9/11 anniversary, and 25 years of demographic change in New York City
Tesla Cybercab vs Waymo, LIDAR vs full self-driving, and the fleet-ownership passive income play
Optimus, robotaxi networks, and what the Tesla economy does to small business

Then stick around for the full PoliTicks episode with Brian McWilliams, John Odermatt, Lou Perez, and Brian Nichols covering the 9/11 Islamophobia narrative, Saudi Arabia's role, boomers vs Gen Z, Mike Flynn's young men take, Aaron Rodgers and NFL fake vaccine cards, Flock surveillance cameras, the murder of Andrew Wimsatt in Round Rock, the Lindsay Clancy jury, Ross Ulbricht, and Sweet Baby Inc coming for Wolverine.

Heads up, the PoliTicks segment is R-rated. Earmuffs if the kids are in the car!

CHAPTERS

00:00 - What's Coming Up Today

00:40 - Welcome To The Show

01:15 - The GOP Midterm Convention: First Since The 1980s

01:55 - Trump's $5,000 Dividend Promise

02:20 - Thomas Massie And The Trump Bucks Lesson

02:45 - Socialist-Lite: Why The GOP Won't Touch Entitlements

03:10 - The Israel Lobby Problem And Young Voters

03:55 - Trump Won 2024 On Young Men. Now What?

04:35 - Good Luck In 2028, JD Vance

05:00 - Zohran Mamdani Is The Mayor Of New York City

05:35 - 25 Years After 9/11, The City That Was Attacked

06:05 - Boomers Won't Cede Control And Won't Let Us Fix It

06:45 - When Young Men Have Nowhere To Put Their Ambition

07:15 - Cybercabs Are Here

07:40 - Waymo vs Tesla: LIDAR vs Cameras

08:10 - The Car Drives Itself. There's No Steering Wheel.

08:40 - $30,000 vs $150,000 And The Fleet Ownership Play

09:00 - Optimus Is Next

09:40 - Why Tesla Built FSD For Human Roads

10:15 - Full Self-Driving V15 And The Next Four Years

11:00 - Go Test Drive One. Seriously.

11:20 - Subscribe To PoliTicks

12:15 - Where To Find The Show

13:00 - PoliTicks Begins / The Wheel Of Fortune Announcer Got Caught

16:30 - Can AI Take Over Content Moderation?

19:00 - 25 Years Since 9/11

22:00 - Remembering It vs Being Propagandized By It

24:30 - The Islamophobia Reframe Nobody Asked For

27:00 - Kids Aren't Being Taught 9/11 At All

29:30 - Planes Hit The Towers. That Happened.

31:00 - Why Nobody Talks About Saudi Arabia

33:00 - A Third Of Americans Weren't Alive For It

35:00 - Boomers, Gen Z, And "It Can't Happen Here"

38:00 - Mike Flynn's "Young Men Are Lazy" Take

41:00 - 98% Of New Jobs Went To Women

43:30 - The AOC Clip At The Memorial Reading

46:00 - The 9/11 Drone Tribute

48:00 - Aaron Rodgers Was Right

50:30 - NFL Fake Vaccine Cards And The Immunized Loophole

53:00 - Flock Cameras And What 2020 Would've Looked Like

56:00 - Trump's $5,000 Checks, Round Two

58:00 - The Murder Of Andrew Wimsatt

1:01:00 - Three Priors, Three Dismissals

1:03:30 - Cameras Everywhere And Still No Accountability

1:06:00 - The Insanity Plea Problem

1:09:00 - The Lindsay Clancy Jury

1:13:00 - The Holdout Juror

1:16:00 - The 19th Amendment Discourse

1:19:00 - Sweet Baby Inc Comes For Wolverine

1:22:00 - Woke Isn't Dead, It's Just Defunded

1:24:00 - Ross Ulbricht Is Free

1:25:30 - Wrap Up

LINKSThe Brian Nichols Show - https://briannicholsshow.comBrian on X - https://x.com/BNicholsLibertyLions of Liberty Network - https://www.lionsofliberty.comPoliTicks Podcast (standalone feed) - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/politicks/id1819072410Lions of Liberty Network on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lions-of-liberty-network/id706061933

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