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
LINKS
The Brian Nichols Show - https://briannicholsshow.com
Brian on X - https://x.com/BNicholsLiberty
Lions of Liberty Network - https://www.lionsofliberty.com
PoliTicks Podcast (standalone feed) - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/politicks/id1819072410
Lions of Liberty Network on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lions-of-liberty-network/id706061933
