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Have you ever heard someone mention the Strysand effect and wondered what they were talking
about?
This phenomenon is named after actress Barbara Strysand.
Sometimes when you try to cover something up, you end up bringing more attention to
it than if you had just let things be.
We want the devil, son of Michael!
Every criminal is seen!
The Assemblyman will not denounce the son of Piper, who said...
America deserved 9-11, dude.
The Assemblyman said in his response, the son of Piper says America deserved 9-11.
There you go! There you have it!
My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty!
Now to the Michigan Senate race, where El Sayed is campaigning in Michigan,
appearing on stage at two Michigan campaign rallies.
He's coactively campaigning alongside Piker.
The man who said Hezbollah's flag is his favorite,
because it's dope.
Why would you align yourself for a raging anti-Semite
rights who has defended Hamas terrorists?
Calling them the lesser of two this,
Israel's compared to the government's evils.
Come on, who's trying?
Lesser of two.
That's what I find a bridge too far.
When I went up to my good friend, Chad,
and said, hey, can you walk me through
some more controversial statements of Hasan Piker?
Even Chad KBT went out of its way
I'm going to fucking kill David with a gun, literally.
Just I'm sorry. Let's keep going
Welcome to the broadcast.
Thank you for having me.
Oh my gosh.
What's going on with you?
I'm leaving.
He's trying to get out.
Wow.
What's going on, everybody?
I hope everybody's having a fantastic evening after being treated in no matter where you are in the world.
I'm a song piker in this house and I'm broadcast coming to you live from sunny California, Los
Angeles folks were live and alive and I hope all the boys, girls and MBs are having a fantastic
one because today's a beautiful day. Today's a wonderful day. It looks kind of dark and
I know that's just how it is nowadays. Okay.
What is happening? I don't even know what's going on. Anyway, we're live. We're alive.
And it's not a new camera. It's the old camera, but I ended abruptly yesterday. And of course
we had to, you know, make a minor tweak, which then turned into a major tweak, which then
turned into a major operation. And, and, you know, we have, I have a lot going on. I'll
tell you all about it right now. This is part of the broadcast where I tell you about my
personal news about what's going on in the world of a son house and I'll be Piker in
the time period where I press the stop, remember when I press the start, remember when so help
me God, that's what I'm going to do. Uh, we're coming to you live 75 degrees in
sunny here in Los Angeles, California, uh, on the stolen Tongva land folks.
Um, a lot going on in the world and I'm going to get into everything. Okay.
Maureen Galindo used to be a base. Anthony's eyes for the playoff calls on
Wemby drove her crazy. That's wild. That's a, that's a theory. That's a theory.
Anyway, um, yeah, learn how to do a full Windsor, not that BS long project. Okay,
shut up. I don't know how to do a full Windsor and I will never learn and I don't really care.
Anyway, it's a 75 degrees and sunny here. And, uh, yeah, I, I ended the broadcast yesterday early.
I ended the broadcast yesterday early because I abruptly ended it because, well, there was a
a power outage, I believe, caused by the power outage born out of the wildfires, okay?
A power outage born out of the wildfires, and then that actually kicked me off, that
tripped my entire energy, my entire electricity in the house. And I apparently was not real,
I didn't even realize this, but like my whole setup here, including my internet is on batteries.
Okay. Which is why, what the hell is this? I'm on the front page of a Danish newspaper,
Hell yeah. For Ciro Kroner, I can try to read the Danish newspaper. Okay, very nice. So yeah,
I had multiple UPS, multiple battery systems. Okay. And it turns out I was literally on the battery.
And the battery ran out abruptly in the middle of the day. Boom, everything is gone,
knocked out. Everything's gone, knocked out, totally cooked. And, yeah, also IDF ball to
place yesterday, Oklahoma City is, is real. It's true. I didn't realize that it was the
case when I first encountered it, but honestly, Oklahoma City Thunder is the most Israeli
team in the league. Down to strange religious displays that take place right before the
game starts. Okay.
Uh, Chetney Yahoo.
Trying to step on Wembley Amma's ankle.
I saw that.
I saw that and I thought to myself, no, not today is real.
Not today is real.
Yeah.
Oklahoma City, tiny.
It's tiny market.
It's small market team.
Why can't Oklahoma City have small market team?
All of these other teams, they're such big market teams.
Anyway, another atrocity took shape in Oklahoma last night.
Terrorism.
Oklahoma.
A state known for atrocities.
Committed one last night.
this time on the game of basketball. Okay. Yes, we're going to look at the, this is the,
this is the basketball coverage power hour. I don't know why I do this, but we still do
it. Okay. Let's, let's, let's take a look at the, let's take a look at the atrocities
that took place. First of all, it was so bad. This compilation was so bad that someone
came out and I think it was SGA himself that someone came out and was like, well, you guys
don't understand like SGA does that to land better.
Like there's a new meta. It's actually not foul baiting. He's not a flop merchant. He's
not a foul merchant. He's actually landing like that. So he doesn't injure himself because
his vert is too good I mean look they they will run this for generations look at this
I mean, dude, really, like, let's run that back.
Let's run that back.
I'm sorry.
Let's run that back complete, like, basically not even really contested, right?
Like, how do you land like that?
I don't understand.
It's so strange.
like, it literally, he turns into a Grand Theft Auto NPC ragdoll. Every time he shoots, does he just
like, is there something going on where just like, it just deactivates his like normal physical
functions all of a sudden after every shot? How is that possible? Yeah, he said it got so bad
that he had to lie, okay, which is fine. Again, another Israel, the Israeli government style trait,
okay, lying. He got so bad that he had to do Hasbara, okay, and say, oh, I have to,
I have to fall like a fainting goat after every shot, not because I'm trying to draw a foul,
But because I just it's it's easier for me to to land like that to avoid injury
That's actually how you're trained to fall in figure skating to avoid injuries
It's the safest way to draw foul without worrying about getting injured yourself Lamal
This is a little different than that don't you think
I was reading someone else's statement about Steph Curry anyway
I gotta grab my coffee
The
league is soft. I mean, it's not. I'm not one of those guys. Not going to sit here and
be like, Oh, the league is so soft. It's like, these guys are incredible athletes, right?
These guys are incredible athletes. What is this epidemic of anti-Semitism? ADLCO warns
against assault against Jewish Americans at record levels and then says my name, but I
assume, I assume Jonathan Greenblatt brought me up again on this, on this conversation.
Like he's like, he's trying to see if he can, he can slander me and defame me to like such
an unbelievable degree that it just becomes a criminal prosecution, like first time in
the history of the United States, where we're experimenting with criminal libel.
Like, normally this is a civil proceeding, but prosecutors had to kick in because they
were like, this level of slander has never existed in the history of slander.
This is just shameless.
What do you do there?
I mean, what do you...
Tartinstein literally pulling Castle's hair. Oh yeah, this is crazy too.
That's unbelievable.
Pulled his hair because he was still upset about this.
Jen is not going to like this. I mean, look.
Do you do not, do you denounce SGA? Yes, I do. I do denounce SGA. I do denounce what
he's done to the game of basketball. Is he the, is he the next up? Is he like, what
Steph Curry did to basketball? He's doing the basketball. Everyone's just going to start
learning how to flop. I mean, you have to pay the refs though. You just can't, you can't
like being a flop merchant, being a foul merchant like that requires expertise beyond finding
the most delicate way to fall.
They're like Oklahoma City has a right to defend itself though.
Maybe they actually are the Israel of basketball, many people are saying this.
Oh my god, oh my lord, dude, look at that, god damn it.
He says, sit down, refs are paid by shape pack shape pack.
Look, I love LeBron.
You guys know this.
Many people have said LeBron James is also a little bit of a little bit of a flopper.
Maybe a little bit.
Okay, I don't think he is. I think he's an incredibly physical athlete and
He plays very physical game of basketball and people hate that and they attack him for it. That's what my analysis is
Can't say that about SGA
Can't say that about SGA at all
That's all I'm saying
You all think LeBron is flopping. I mean you you got to have some choice words for SGA. I mean he is
he is reinventing
Flopping all right
LeBron can't flop because they never call fouls for him even legit fouls. Yeah, all right, so
So, I watched Invincible, there's like one episode left on Invincible, and I'll be honest
guys, this is, the show has fallen apart a little bit, I mean, I personally still love
it, but there are some strange things going on.
the last two episodes, I'm not going to give you like a spoiler or anything like that,
but I'm like this last season, the, they just gave up on drawing the show. It kind of feels
like, like there are just straight up blue lock season two style PowerPoint PNGs. And
It kind of sucks, cuz like I like the show, I really like the show, but it was a little
disappointing.
Don't know why they show so much Omni Man feet.
I don't know what happened there, okay?
I don't want to see Nolan feet like that.
I don't want to be acquainted with his piggies, it's just crazy.
no one else find that strange? Am I wrong? Like, I already, I already find it odd
that he had this like ugly ass change of clothing, like his new, you know, his new
bit is kind of ass. Can you be Thrag for Halloween? No, I will not be Thrag for Halloween. If anything,
I'm omni, man.
Thrag has a fuck-ass haircut, bro.
Straight up.
His hair, he has, like, all of the, all the Viltramites look sick, except for Thrag.
Thrag looks like a fuck-boy for some reason, and he's just so out of place.
I just don't get it.
I don't understand it.
Your white is jumping out on?
Why?
Yeah, Threk does have the Lysian Thrim, it's true.
But and then in the front, there's like a weird thing going on.
The one point with Conquest goes on for far too long.
Can I say that?
Is that allowed?
It's just, why are they not breeding with that young, one younger Viltrumite woman?
Is this, this is a fascist shit?
Why is she excluded from the space area and project?
Okay, that's crazy.
That went on for too long.
It was, I have never, I'll tell you this much.
The one conquest moment with the guts, I have never genuinely felt uncomfortable watching
an animated sequence before, because it went on for so long.
I mean, it was good that it went on for so long, I really drove home the point of what
was going on, but I kind of fucking hated watching it.
It was uncomfortable.
Can I say that it was uncomfortable without people yelling at me?
it was. It was too much. He was all up in his guts. He was all up in his guts and pulling
his guts out. All this shit. It was pretty fucking gnarly. I'm having spaghetti right
now. Yeah, that's what it looked like. It looked like spaghetti and meatballs. Other
Other than that, other than that, remember what they took from you?
Oh my God.
I don't know why Auntie Pliker thinks the buzz cut theory is like, he's just, he's just
on this buzz cut shit.
I am not doing the buzz cut ever again.
He's biting your whole swag.
I know.
I know.
We're going to talk about that in a second.
But yeah, other than that, I played a little bit of basketball, Zohran Abhi stream.
Yeah, I know he's trying to be like me.
He's trying to be like me, little bro.
Little bro just wants to be like me.
It's fun.
He wants to be like big bro.
It's all good.
But yeah, other than that, other than that, not really much going on in my life, you already
know I'm a shut ass loser.
And the reason why the room looks more blue is because we can't ever have a minor tweak
around this operation without everything fucking falling apart.
Okay.
It's just like everything.
Lighting has to fucking fall apart, lighting has to be off, you know, it is what it is.
I'm blue for an amazing reason, I look more white than ever before.
What are you gonna do?
I used to really like the other, I used to like really like that one camera angle with
the one lighting, but it's cooked now forever. It's gone. Okay. And it will never come back
again. It was in your dreams and you will never see it again for the rest of your life.
So get excited. Um, anyway,
Yeah. Yeah, that's all I got. Yeah, Zoran on Zoran is going to be on Twitch. We'll talk
We'll, we'll obviously watch that when he goes live to see I'll give him some fucking pointers. Tell him he's ass
Uh, and and will be a nuisance in his chat
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Zoran is gonna give us a gaming stream before you. Okay, dude
Sure, bud
What if Zoran raids you yeah, that's not happening you want to know why?
Yeah, Zoran's gonna raid me so we can have
have 17 million articles about how he is a terrorist anti-Semite for, for raiding me.
New York Post is Zoran worse than Osama bin Laden for raiding Hassan Piker, who we know
is worse than Osama bin Laden. Power rankings for the worst terrorists, power rankings for
the worst terrorists of all time. Osama bin Laden, number 10.
Osama bin Laden, number one, Zoramundani, number two.
I have to, I have my turn down for what settings ready for Zoramundani. Don't worry. Yeah.
Um, Fox will have a field day. Yeah.
All right. So
If Zaron needs a mic and you refer me, Hamas Juice is ready to heed the call of duty. Yeah, okay. Sure
By the way, turning 20 on Friday, bro, okay good to know
Anyway, all right, let's blast off we're blasting off and we're getting we're getting into it
We're going live. We're going alive. Megaphonics refer me bitch. You're not even a mod for this community
What makes you think I'm going to refer you to that community?
That's crazy. Check Connor's logs, important stuff.
Where is it? What did Connor say? The Macy is, thank you for the playlist.
We can change that by the way. Megaphonics, we are not making you a moderator in this community.
You're out of your dang mind, dude. You wouldn't be there's a delicate balance that we've struck
in this community and you would you would destroy it single-handedly.
Can everyone please ask in Zoran's chat to play Fortnite with me? Can y'all ask Zoran to play
Fortnite with me? I really need guests and subscriptions. Nice. You got it Connor. Okay,
Okay, let's get started. Let's get it twisted. We got the DNC autopsy, which is classic, classic
case of Democratic Party failure. As expected, the Democratic Party has done, did it again.
You might be under the assumption. You might be thinking that the Democrats were maybe
somewhat competent. Maybe they were actually hiding the autopsy deliberately because the
DNC autopsy was actually too damning, okay?
And then there was some Potsafe America coverage that came out a couple weeks ago that said
actually it turns out it's dumber than you think. It's because Ken Martin asked his friend
to do the autopsy, and it fucking sucked, like it was, and I don't mean like it sucked as
in it showed really scary information that the Democrats don't want to identify, but
it was just like straight up incompetent, like they didn't, like they weren't capable
of putting together like a comprehensive autopsy that showed exactly where the failures were.
And I thought to myself, there's no way it's that bad, right?
And guess what?
I was wrong.
It is that bad.
Yes, the autopsy came out.
Ken Martin released it and basically said, guys, the reason why he didn't release the
autopsy was because it was just really bad.
And I don't think it was good enough to take out there.
I don't think it was good enough for you to see it, but now you can see it.
And also the guy who wrote it, my friend, he still is working for the DNC.
That's literally what's going on.
CNN has published a copy of the report into why Democrats lost 2024 presidential election,
conducted the request of the Democratic National Committee Chair, Ken Martin.
This version of the report, better known as the 2024 autopsy, was written by Democratic
strategist, Paul Rivera.
The DNC withheld the report until presented with CNN's reporting about much of its contents.
copy published by CNN includes annotations that read the DSA added to the version of
Rivera's reports.
CNN has not modified the report and does not vouch for the accuracy of any statements within
the report of DNC's annotations.
And it's incredible.
Here are some of the highlights, I guess.
DNC Chairman Ken Martin released an incomplete and unedited version of the 2024 election
autopsy.
What number one?
Trump's transgender focus at Kamala is for they, them is seen as highly effective in
damaging. Harris did not shift position in response. Reports paint a dismal picture. Democrats
have lost grounds since Obama era due to stagflation, failure to invest in states and local parties
and inability to project strength and unity.
Criticizes Biden White House for not adequately preparing slash supporting Kamala Harris, e.g.
no polling on her like Jill Biden. Poor defense against borders are label. False overall democratic
effort for failing to effectively define or attack Trump, relying on assumptions his
negatives were baked in. Harris campaign criticized for taking too much for granted over focusing
on suburbs and college educated voters neglecting rural areas and relying on not Trump after
an affirmative messaging or clear self definition.
Now, I want you to understand something. If you recall, my assessment from the start was
always that this was going to be the most conservative and dog shit autopsy. So the
The very fact that they didn't even release that was unbelievably damaging.
But I will admit, I did not think that part of it was because they were just, they had
done a half cocked, half baked, possibly AI written autopsy that was going to be so bad
that there were no lessons in it whatsoever, especially after I heard Ken Martin talk over
and over again about the lessons that we could take from the fucking autopsy, okay?
Ken Martin has said that Rivera has been fired. Okay, that's cool. Martin announced to staff
today and called it Rivera is no longer working with the DNC. This is the first time they fired
someone for doing a bad job, by the way, which is incredible when you think about it.
Because the Democrats, the Democrats, the Democrats, Trump was right, first of all,
They are the Democrats. I will say it. The Democrats is actually a correct assessment,
it turns out. Maybe he still has a fastball. Maybe I was wrong, okay? Maybe his fucking
fastball is still there because they are the Democrats.
I said, jobs we get rewarded for failing to accomplish basic tasks,
streamers, cops, CEOs, the DNC, okay? It is incredible.
It is incredible how fucking bad this shit is. It's genuinely worse than you would expect.
They should just give the party to, they should just give the party to us right now.
Honestly, just, it's over. Just, just give it, just give it up. You don't want it. You don't,
You are incapable of demonstrating basic competence. You can't do this fucking job.
Make Fast Shaker the DNC chair, probably one of the most successful like operatives within the
realm of Democrats. Just give it to him right now. Let's just reroute, let's just retool the party
in its entirety. You're done. You guys can go and play with the Republicans, okay? Let's just do that.
Now, of course, within the autopsy, or at least the final revealed released version of the
autopsy, as Prem Tucker points, there are no mentions of Gaza or Israel or Palestine.
Now of course, if you're a wannabe DNC operative, as many people are on the internet, this means
it wasn't relevant at all, that they are unironically saying, oh dude, there's no mentions of it
because it wasn't relevant.
Now you guys are just mad because you want it to be relevant, oh, guess what?
Now there's two leading schools of thought here, they're competing schools of thoughts.
One is the idea that it actually was in the autopsy and then they took it out.
And the other one is, yeah, of course it's not in there because these guys are fucking
morons, okay?
I think it could be either they could have omitted this because when you look at the
actual final takeaway from the autopsy, it's basically everything that the third way neoliberals
have been saying, right?
And that seems a little crazy.
And if that's the final takeaway from the autopsy itself, well, then yeah, it was a
bad one.
It didn't, like they didn't actually do a fully fleshed out autopsy.
Now, having said that, who, uh, Ed and Jermet have said, whoever they got the right to the
NC autopsy might have legitimately used chat GPT, like, look at this.
There are many areas from the CNN report to Martin's point about this document not being
ready for primetime.
It contains a lot of errors and curious and inclusions, even some that are puzzling to
have in a draft.
For instance, it was two separate vote percentages for North Carolina GOP, gubernatorial candidate
mark robison forty five percent and forty two point seven percent
neither of which was his actual share
which was forty point one percent
that you only arrive at these numbers of the eyes hallucinating
it at one point lifts up washington governor bob ferguson as an example of
a candidate who did right things before later noting that he actually under
performed harris
it misspells the names of policies like republican uh... former governor
uh... matt bevin as brevin and democratic former new jersey governor
John, John Corzine.
So DNC autopsy author Paul Rivera met with the pro passing group I am EU policy project
in July 2025 and told them the war in Gaza hurt Democrats in the 2024 election, according
to people familiar with the meeting.
But the final report makes no mention of Israel or Gaza.
Dave Weigel says DNC's position, they've published what Rivera gave them in December.
Nothing was taken out.
And all the DNC did was add the notes, the box about how stuff is wrong or missing.
So if Gaza is not in there, it's because Rivera's report didn't include it.
So either Rivera purposely did not look at Gaza or Palestine at all.
Okay.
In the autopsy, either because someone directed him not to look at Palestine or Gaza or Israel
at all, which is insane, right?
Because you're supposed to cover every angle, like there is no, like even if it's irrelevant,
right?
Which is the argument that like the pro-Israel, Israel first, there's in the Democratic Party
are going to try to say, oh, it's because it was irrelevant, stupid, it was irrelevant.
This confirms my priors.
They didn't factor in Gaza because it was irrelevant to see all you guys are obsessed
with Israel.
Like, that's what they're gonna say, right?
Except there were a million polls leading up to the election that showed that it was
significant, right?
And even if it was insignificant, the autopsy should show that it was insignificant.
The idea that a full spectrum coverage on what went wrong is not gonna feature some
of the things that were irrelevant and openly say that it was fucking irrelevant is insane.
Okay? If it's irrelevant, it should be in the autopsy as Gaza was not relevant to the equation
at all. In any case, centrists, of course, have welcomed this revelation. It's just crazy
cuz the Democrats always find a way to make the centrists look good somehow, well, internally.
Externally centrists are despised, reviled, everybody hates them, but internally within
the party, they're always right. It's just so crazy. They always massage the numbers
to figure out a way where the centrists' priors were always the correct one.
They just did not lean hard enough to the moderate pivot. They didn't lean hard enough
to be moderates, it seems. Welcome Pack, which promotes centrists, Democrats says the DNC
autopsy is proof that the party needs to moderate. Why didn't I think of that? Oh my God, I'm
a centrist. And of course, once again, the centrist DNC's autopsy that was absolutely
dog shit and everybody hates it, right, actually proves, actually proves my previous point
that you had to be more centrist. True communism has never been tried. True centrism has never
been tried. Okay? True centrism has never been tried. We needed more, Liz Cheney, not
less. You guys are stupid. It only confirms your prayers. If you think Israel, Biden's
age, inflation and immigration had no impact on the election, which I don't think anyone
believes. I think the most basic facts everyone agrees on is that inflation and age hurt Biden,
but neither are mentioned in the report. People who are appointed to this report to
mean anything have no idea what they're talking about? Yes. Virtually every single factor
that was unbelievably important are not mentioned in the report at all. Funny how that goes.
How interesting. Yeah, Gaza is irrelevant to the equation. Biden's age is irrelevant
to the equation and inflation is irrelevant to the equation. Well, if that's what your
argument is, then I guess there's nothing wrong with what the Democrats did, right?
I mean, this is just a report that once again proves that Democrats did everything right
and they still got indicted. I did everything right and they indicted me.
It turns out the Democrats did pretty much everything right, except they did not go far
right enough. It turns out the only way, the only way that the Democrats could have done
better, could have performed better is if they pivoted to the center a little bit harder.
It's really funny that centrist PACs, like Welcome PAC, are pointing to this as a spectacular
victory when the DNC chair himself is like, this is dog shit. It's poo poo. It's unbelievably
embarrassing. I fired the guy who put it together. I hit it for two years out of shame. And I'm
probably going to be fired from my position. And centers are like, Oh, this is perfect.
This actually shows that we were right all along. Incredible. What is this? David Hogg
made a good video on this. All right, we're, I'm skipping it. All right. Let's take a look.
Thirdway also posted and deleted a meme about the autopsy as well. Thirdway put out a statement
claiming the long awaited DNC autopsy proved their world to be correct. Only deleted after
it was pointed out that the document they claimed was proof of their analysis was riddled
with basic factual errors and was woefully incomplete. Thirdway President John Cowan on
the DNC autopsy, no one of the chronically online, highly educated, left-leaning team
the DNC wanted to bury this report. The autopsy draft released today validates the case we've
been making post 2024 and are making again today as we gather over 115 Nevada Democrats to chart
the party's future. Democrats must be able to win the middle anytime anywhere, and they can do that
only with a combative centrism that rejects identity politics, reclaims the vital center,
and positions the party as fighters on the economic issues that matter to most of voters.
As the New York Times poll shows, even a majority of Democrats want the party to move center and
not left. And this report echoes that sentiment. For Democrats who want to win, this report
should be case closed. They had to delete it. They had to delete it because everyone was like,
dog, this report sucks. What the fuck are you talking about? You're such a goddamn idiot.
But again, it doesn't matter because you can be a fucking idiot as long as you're an idiot for
rich people. As long as you're a propagandist for rich people, your position is usually going to
be fine, right? Your station will not be, your station will not be in jeopardy.
Another example of this, of course, is Barry Weiss. Barry Weiss is an unbelievably incompetent
brown-noser, but because she's a brown-noser for the right billionaires, her station is usually
fine, right? I mean, now they're talking at CBS because of her unbelievable incompetence,
that maybe they should switch her around a little bit, but she's always going to have
a career, right?
The other point that they're trying to hastily slap together is this notion that the New
York Times-CNN poll also confirms their priors, but it's something that a lot of people don't
understand voters identify free health care and other left economic populist policies
is moderate.
That's the problem these guys think when the average American says let's move to the center.
Let's move to the Democratic Party to the center.
They actually mean stop talking about trans stuff all the time which is what they think
is going on which is not going on because the only reason why the Democrats are defined
by that is and this is literally absolutely a major fucking part.
major part of the Kamala Harris failure, right? Is because they are defined by their enemy,
okay? Democrats are defined by the Republicans because they don't get to dictate the terms
of their own party.
They don't get to dictate who they are. They don't get to show the Americans who they are
with clear cut, definable policies. That's why I always ask every candidate that I have
to to you know, do the Zoram method, give me five fucking policies that you want to be
defined by. Okay? Anyone that does not recognize that is either lying, being paid to lie, or
as a fucking unbelievable dumbass. I'm sorry. It's very clear. You look at the way, you
look at like approvals for certain politics like Zoram-Amdani, Bernie Sanders. These people
People are in the hard left or the hardest of left. Why do they have better approvals
than, I don't know, Marie Gluzonkamp Perez? Marie Gluzonkamp Perez or Josh Gottheimer
are the perfect Democrats, right? From the perspective of the Democratic Party, the
problem solvers caucus, like those are the blue dog Democrats are supposed to be the
best Democrats.
If you were to look at fucking Twitter and get your notes off of like DNC consultants
and also those who larp as dnc consultants for free on election twitter
marie gluesen camperez is the best fucking democrat possible
she's the best
and so is josh gotheimer
so why are they not
at the forefront why is abigail spanberger
not one of the best democrats out there why is her a popularity not skyrocketing
why is that the case
perhaps
Because what consultants frame as centrism is not the same as what the average voter perceives as
being closer to a moderate politician. What voters look at in terms of moving to the center
is free health care, free college education. Voters, American voters by and large, consider
Those policies to be moderate policies, they think it's crazy that we don't have that,
okay?
That's it.
That's it.
And I've been trying to fucking hammer this point across over and over again.
No one in the United States of America thinks the most moderate politician is a politician
that chooses to be
center-left to i guess quote unquote far left only on social issues
and totally right wing when it comes to economic issues
that's not a real person
that is probably the least popular type of politician you could arrive at
okay
the most popular politician on the other hand
is one
that actually pushes
a broad left wing agenda when it comes to the economy and puts that at the
forefront
of their messaging, the forefront of their campaign, the forefront of their legislative agenda.
Okay? All of the other stuff, whether you're socially progressive or socially moderate or
socially reactionary, that stuff is secondary. What people care about is what you're going to do for
them. Okay? That's it. And once again, as I've said, over and over again, we do not have to
compromise on trans issues at all. We do not have to compromise on trans issues at all because
if you just give people something to vote for rather than constantly vote against the Republicans,
then you don't have to fucking talk about the trans shit at all. Then you look silly.
Your opposition looks silly if you're like, hey, I am going to improve your life.
I'm gonna improve your life. I'm gonna fight to improve your life no matter what. That is my
primary focus is my primary purpose. That's all I want to do is improve your motherfucking life.
And here are the ways I'm going to do that. We're going to fix public transit in this country.
We're going to do high speed rail in this country. We're going to do jobs guarantee,
federal jobs guarantee. We're going to do social housing. We're going to do free healthcare,
free college education. When you say stuff like that, when you put that at the forefront of your
campaign. And then your opposition turns around and goes, but what about trans people? What
about trans people? You look fucking stupid. Your opposition looks unbelievably childish
and stupid. It's that simple, okay? I brought it up right here. Hold on. Where the fuck
is it? I'm trying to find it right now. There was a Trump video that I quote retweeted,
but I can't find it now. I thought I did at least. I thought I, I thought I had a comment on this,
where I was like, imagine, oh yeah, I said, this, this is what your opposition looks like. I said,
now imagine if the other side is offering Medicare for all arms embargoes and sanctions on
Israel, federal jobs, guarantees, social housing projects, and high-speed rail, right?
Right, like imagine one party is saying we are the Medicare for all party.
We're gonna give you free healthcare.
We're gonna give you free college education.
We're gonna actually fix the housing market.
We're gonna just build social housing and we're gonna do good labor unionized government
backed jobs to build those fucking houses.
Same with the railroads, all this shit.
And then this is what the Republicans are focused on.
I think he'll win. I think probably he'll win very substantially. And I think he'll
go on to defeat a very defective candidate, a candidate that believes in six genders.
And he takes it to Jesus Christ and he's wearing a mask six months ago. Anybody wearing
a mask six months ago doesn't get it.
I mean, this is silly.
The average American voter might be a little bit reactionary.
The average American cultist might actually hear this and go six genders, okay?
That seems good for me, right?
But there is a much smaller market for people who demand this, as opposed to people who
demand material improvements in their lives.
But I feel like nothing I'm saying, nothing I'm saying is shocking.
I don't think anything I'm saying is even ideological.
I don't think anything I'm saying is like reinventing the wheel in any way, shape or
form.
I'm literally saying, if you promise to fix people's immediate material problems, okay,
that plague them on a daily basis, okay?
clear cut, well-defined policies, universal policies that are easy to understand, easy
to identify.
And your opposition is talking about how you want like 35 genders and to snip people's
penises or whatever.
They're gonna look gross and weird and strange.
You're gonna look competent, but the Democrats will never do that.
The Democrats will never do that because they know that if they do that, then corporations
that benefit from both parties inability to address these issues. And corporations that make money
off of the economic struggles that plague your life. Corporations in the private healthcare industry,
for example, right? Those guys will lose profits and they'll stop giving money to the Democrats.
They'll stop hiring the children of elected representatives in the Democratic Party into
high paying jobs. That's it. It's not that confusing. It's not that complicating, okay?
It's not that complicated. Paxton is just Diet Trump nicknames. Okay, whatever. We're
not gonna get into Kim Paxton right now. We're still on the autopsy. The guy that Martin
hired to do the autopsy fucked up so bad and was still working for the DNC months later,
He just got fired, okay?
For the record, the guy that was hired to do the autopsy was so spectacularly bad.
And yet he was still working at the DNC.
Because this is another thing that I always talk about, Democrats love rewarding failure.
Jamie Harrison, great example.
fundraiser, fundraise a shit ton of money against Lindsey Graham, failed spectacularly.
And the DNC was like, you're our guy, you should head it.
It turns out Kim Martin is also kind of a fucking spade, a kind of a failure too, a little
bit.
Now that Amy McGrath, three time loser in Kentucky is free because she lost the primaries
to Charles Booker in Kentucky.
Maybe we'll put fucking Amy McGrath in charge.
She will put Amy McGrath in charge. Fuck it, dude. Anyway, it's just ridiculous. Let's
take a look at MS now and the way they're covering it.
Democrats just released a report about the 2024 election and their loss. This is that
autopsy report and it is incomplete, but it does paint a dismal picture for Democrats.
It says the party has gone between stagnation and retrogression since Barack Obama's win
in 2008.
And that Democratic candidates have proven incapable of projecting strength, unity and
leadership.
Oh, by the way, this was awesome.
Conclusions.
Perfect metaphor.
Ben Rhodes says, perfect metaphor for an institutional Democratic party that seems unwilling to even
face the moment.
Disclaimer, this document reflects abuse of the author.
Conclusion.
was not provided by the author.
Not too many people here on Al Gore's internet
are also the lead author of a sprawling 2024 autopsy
like reports is the good Lord bless me with this opportunity.
She has also chosen to listen to this.
The funniest fucking thing I've ever seen in my life,
actual raffling.
Oh my God.
I don't even know why people on blue sky have just a like 2016 way of speaking still like they haven't it's the most
failennial.
Oh, this is irrelevant. I don't want to get bogged down with that.
Let's continue drifted away.
Let's bring back MSNAP Capitol Hill reporter Kevin Fry and Kevin. I know you just are getting an initial look at this.
It's a hundred and ninety-two pages.
I know you haven't had a chance to read through all of it,
but based on what you're seeing so far,
what are the big takeaways?
What do we know about this report?
Yeah, about 20 pages in.
I will say, look, one of the things that has stood out to me
is one of the things that happened,
quite frankly, the opening, which is that they argue
that the reduction in support and training for state parties
has contributed to a shift in voter registration issues,
organizing capacity for the state at the state level,
and persistent problems with their candidates to listen to voters.
They also see this as being somewhat of a contradiction
when it comes to what voters are backing policy-wise
versus backing and supporting their candidates.
Saying, for instance, voters have backed through referendums
in states, issues, for example, dealing with health care,
abortion rights, the list goes on,
things that Democrats might actually typically win on
but at the same time their candidates aren't necessarily winning
winning on those issues. They also say that regaining trust and confidence in the party
where voters have an affirmative reason to support Democrats will take a comprehensive
strategy and considerable effort over multiple cycles. This is not some sort of short term
change they're seeing here, saying that Democrats need to do it right now because the future
could become even more difficult to do so. Still pouring through some of the kind of
the contradictions they see between how Senate candidates did versus the presidential candidates
where they see the Kamala Harris, for example, failed to get across the finish
slide compared to other candidates. So a lot more to unpack here, but those are
just within the first dozen or so pages. Some of the initial takeaways about the
kind of structural messaging and favorability issues that the party sees
with just the voting public. What's up with the timing? Why are they
releasing this now? That's a great question. One of the things that is notable
about this is that the DNC's own chairman is basically coming out and no I don't look good today and I'm not okay
I am pale because we I wanted to move the camera just a little bit and of course in the process of doing so is
Everything got fucking reset. I don't want to get into it
Dang that one that there was essentially pressure on them to go ahead with
I don't even know how I don't even know how this is
fucking bottle I look like shit to be honest and transparent with actionable and specific
takeaways for the future of the Democratic Party. He says that when he initially received
this report, it was not ready for prime time. And as you look through it, it's notable that
there is one no executive summary. And two, there are lots of sections where you see comments
from the DNC from Ken Martin basically saying this data isn't that up, this number is wrong.
Where is the calculation to back up this claim? So not necessarily everyone on the same page
as to what the takeaways are here.
Yeah, you look at as I'm scrolling through,
I went right to where it was supposed to have
the executive summary and it's completely blank.
One thing that we are finding though in this report
is that they're noting a rural miscalculation
that quote Harris wrote off rural America
assuming urban suburban margins would compensate
and quote the math doesn't work.
Kevin, 2028 isn't that far off.
It's not.
And 2026 is going to be a big test case for this.
Can Democrats manage to make inroads there?
Part of their messaging strategy and part of the takeaway,
another takeaway that I saw on this
is that the bygnomics messaging, quite frankly,
was just not landing with voters of anything
it was turning them off.
And Democrats have leaned into affordability
as part of their 2026 messaging, seemingly
trying to rebut that.
It does help, of course, that under the Trump administration
We have seen gas prices surge over the last several months because of the Iran war, other
healthcare related price concerns, for example, that have given Democrats ammo in that vein.
And so will that affordability message, will that make an appeal?
Are you gonna live in sunny California and not have a tan?
Again, we're focusing on all the good stuff, but I will eventually.
I've been going outside more.
Uh, according to another source on the call, Martin didn't refuse to take questions.
Nobody asked one.
Wait, what?
Ken Martin just held a call for all DNC members, according to a person on the call.
Martin essentially just read his public statement on the autopsy and they refused to take any
questions.
Nobody asked for, nobody asked for questions.
Okay.
Okay.
Again, this is why, look, look, this is why I say these guys are unfathomably weak.
This yields opportunity.
This presents an opportunity.
I don't know if Dave Weigel is like making a joke or not here, she probably shouldn't
be fucking joking about stuff like this to be fair because he's a reporter, but I will
say this.
This is why I keep repeating over and over again that this fucking party is dying, okay?
dying but what the fuck oh my god I am so annoyed oh my fucking god it's just
everything is so broken how is this possible everything is so broken I'm
never letting anybody touch my fucking setup ever again I swear to god all
All right, there you go.
You got Kaya cam as well.
Time for a studio.
This is a studio.
We're in a studio.
Anyways, I was saying.
Oh, okay, what am I doing, what am I doing?
Can you make Kai bigger?
Kai has a great talent like her father.
Yeah, because she actually goes outside a lot more
than I do.
Brightness is too low.
I know, I know.
Where was I?
What was I talking about?
Oh, yeah, what I was talking about is this, okay?
These guys, the Democratic Party is weak.
The Democratic Party is unbelievably weak.
And that's a good thing for us, okay?
If your goal is to make necessary changes in the United States of America, it's, it's
basically an opportunity.
It's like, um, it's like you have a friend who's really in the cars, okay?
And he has an incredible car that you want.
He's your best friend, but he can't drive it any longer.
He had a freak accident, so he can't drive cars any longer.
You could just take the car now, okay?
You could just be like, hey, let me take this off of you.
Real cheap.
Do you see what I'm saying?
I'll take this car off you, real cheap, okay?
You give me a good deal on this.
You got a DUI.
Maybe I'll let you drive it every now and then in the parking lot, okay?
Hasan Piker analogy is imagine a car. That's the way I see it. Law, I don't think the value
of the car is affected. The value of the car is not affected, but there's no one driving
it. No one capable of driving it. So it's just going to waste sitting around collecting
dust in the garage. Okay. That's what I see. I see opportunity. I feel like it's a waste
not to use this opportunity at this moment.
That goes beyond just the typical Democratic voting demographics. Will they be able to
re-secure some of those voters? I think that's part of what Democratic leadership here in
hell has been betting on and that could serve as somewhat of a roadmap heading into 2020.
At long last, the 2024 DNC up, the 2020.
This autopsy report from the DNC from 2024 and we know you'll bring us more highlights
as you get them.
Oh, God, they're so fucking bad.
Like it makes total sense why incompetent fascist Republicans keep winning in this goddamn country
with objectively the most evil, openly evil policies. Cuz it's not like the Republicans
are running around being like, we have some really good ideas on how to fix this country.
They are just open, they're open about it. They're like, no, we fucking hate you.
We wanna melt the poor. We wanna kill a lot of immigrants in the process, or anyone and
everyone that we have considered to be bad because they're brown, right? We have all the
the worst ideas and people still go, you know what? I'm gonna vote for this guy. And if you're
wondering why, if you're wondering why that's the case, if you're like, how is that possible?
How are the Democrats still losing to this? Well, here you have it. It's because the party
is unbelievably fucking incompetent. They don't wanna win.
They don't want to fucking win they don't care about winning they don't care about defeating
the republicans is that simple did you want to sit around and fucking collect their money
that's it all right y'all got some breaking news here for you so the DNC has now officially
released the autopsy of the 2024 race and it gets into why they think they lost now
Now Ken Martin is the head of the DNC. He had basically been going around in interviews
and gaslighting us as to why he's refusing to release the autopsy. Well now that it is
released, allow me-
Yet you still work with them? You're a fucking idiot. You are the biggest idiot of all time.
I cannot comprehend a bigger idiot. You might be dumber. As a matter of fact, you are dumber
than fucking Ken Martin and the entirety of the Democratic Party because they recognize
what I'm trying to do and they're very worried about it. That's why they spent a good
deal their fucking time attacking me you on the other hand don't understand what I'm trying
to fucking do and you just want to chirp from the sidelines okay I'm not working with the
fucking Democratic Party you moron oh my god do I work for the DNC does it look like
I work for the DNC to you are you that fucking stupid
How is this possible that like the dumbest people of all time, the dumbest people that
work in such close proximity to power, at least are intelligent enough, what, why did
you respond to Salem, a Palestinian in that tone, they're right?
Wait, what, a Palestinian?
How the fuck am I supposed to know?
What if anyone's background?
What the fuck are you guys talking about?
What are we doing?
We're doing identity politics now?
What the fuck is this?
about what are we doing we're doing identity politics now what the fuck is
this bait I don't know who Salem is what the fuck is going on that's got to
be bait right what is this is this the new meta that I'm anti-palastinian is
that what you're doing is that what the what the new thing is holy crash out yes
Yes, dude. Yes. Yes. Yes. It is a fucking crash out. It is. You got it. You got it.
If that was your goal, if that was what your goal was, you fucking, you achieved it. Okay.
Oh my God. Double perma. Who wants it? Who else wants it? Who else wants it? It is bait.
day you aren't on Fox in Santa is a day where chat sucks is simple.
Oh my God.
Chat is low key that no job convention. Yes, listen
We're not doing fucking unnecessary infighting right now, okay
We're not doing that. It's not time for it. You're being insane
Okay, you're being insane with the shit there are I I think there is a new movement
that has been brewing in the sidelines. That has always been something that I'm aware of, but
haven't really paid too much attention to. From the Lerishites to the revolutionary communists,
shepherded by Chairman Bob Avakian, there's always been what I like to call the skit-so-left.
There's always been like a cult side of the left. People have yelled at me in the past about
black hammer, for example, when I called them cranks and called them insane. At the time,
there were a lot of people who were like, hold on, let's hear them out. You actually don't
understand the revolutionary spirit captured by the black hammer organization, right? There are
always people who see the most batshit fucking crazy person and go, that's my guy. I'm an insane
person, and I feel perfectly represented by this also insane person, okay?
One of the things I often do is just push aside the, or try to actively not talk about
people who are in the schizoid commonoid left, okay? They are out there, they're not,
They're not like a very large constituency, they're not necessarily a sizable constituency
at all.
But because they spend every fucking waking moment, every waking moment on the internet
and don't have a job, right, so all they do is fucking chirp, they have an outsized representation
on websites like Twitter.
And also sometimes this fucking community as well.
It's very strange.
It's I don't know.
I don't know why this movement is growing.
I mean, I do know why this movement is growing because every variant in the United States
of America, every, every ideological tendency in the United States of America has different
schizo variants, because we are a very mentally unwell nation. Okay? So it makes sense.
I'd say at least one third of chat will fall for a Mussolini speech. Oh, 100%.
100%. They'd be going, hold on, let's hear him out. They already do that. His name is Tucker Carlson,
and there are people who fall for it every single time.
In any case, the DNC is a horrible institution.
an institution that has that has bred so much failure, okay? And there are a lot of people
who are no longer falling for the bullshit that this liberal institution has presented.
Self-identifying liberals who are demanding more, okay?
Self-identifying liberals who want more from their party. This is an opportunity.
Okay, this is an opportunity to show them that there is a different type of politics,
a different way of understanding the world.
One that actually focuses on class, one that actually wants to improve their lives.
But instead of using this as an opportunity to foment class consciousness amongst the
masses, most of the people just want to fucking chirp in Twitch streams. They want to chirp
on Twitter. They don't want to actually go out and talk to people. It's fucking frustrating.
All they want to do is yell at the people who do that. All they want to do is yell at
the DSA. It's always about criticizing the different methods of organizing that other
people are are using. It's never about doing the fucking work. And I don't
understand where this comes from. Sometimes you just got to shut the fuck
up and let other people cook and you cook in the way that you want to cook.
Okay, you do it. If it works, I'll work with you every single time. Okay, people
get real mad when I say build the Vanguard King and I'll be there for you.
And they get real upset. They're like, wow, this is so dismissive. No, man. My point,
I'm being sincere when I say that. What makes you think if there was currently an active,
Marx is letting his Vanguard party or an active, genuine, successful, impactful Vanguard out
there that I wouldn't work with them. It's very strange. If you just assume that the
masses are gone and it's a foregone conclusion, build a vanguard so you want to get in when
the hard work and decades organizing is done. Buddy, you're not doing it. That's my point,
okay? You're not doing it. You're not doing it at all. All you're doing is this. This
is what you're doing.
We have a finite amount of time on this planet, okay? Lifespans are relatively short in the
grand scheme of history. And if you're spending all of the productive hours that you have
in the day, chirping at a fucking Twitch streamer, then you're not doing it.
Be more productive with your time, that's the whole point. You think, you think trying
to rage bait me, so that I respond to you in a fucking angry way and maybe it gets into
to, you know, like a, like a Fox news clip machine is somehow going to make you feel
better, somehow going to make you feel like you're moving in the right direction.
I always ask myself, is this productive?
Who is this message for?
Who is this argument for?
You just say, I kind of understand why you didn't want to release it.
Hey, bro, this thing's a mess, man.
This thing is an absolute mess.
So let me walk you through it.
But right off the jump here, let me just say, 100%, this was made with AI.
Without a doubt, this was made with AI.
It is an absolute joke.
It is pathetic how off-base this is.
All right, so right off the jump here, let me just say, some of the reasons that they
give for why Kamala lost. They say Trump's they them attack ads on Kamala. We're seen
as highly effective. That's where Trump was saying she only cares about trans people.
Are you upset? You were lied to about the anti-sinist. You condemned this. Okay, House
and Abbey, you were wrong and we forgive you. And if you're talking about Marine Galindo,
if the peak of your anti-sinist activism revolves around who actually pisses off, like
the pro-Israel crowd or Jews the most, you're not a serious person, okay? You're not. You're
not a sincere person at all. I'm sorry, guys. It's, it's, this is what I'm talking about.
Like there are a lot of people who are just like now firmly within the ranks of the skit
so left where people are just like deeply unwell, okay? And I don't even want to talk
about this issue any further than I already have, because this is deeply frustrating.
Like, perhaps you should just reach out to her and have a conversation with her if you
love her so much, right? About what her worldview looks like and maybe lead her back to some
semblance of reality rather than saying this is the peak of anti-zionist activism in the country.
A crystal mommy who keeps saying Jews control Hollywood. At that point you might as well
fucking talk about Nick Fuente as being the best at anti-sinus advocacy.
Okay.
your reactionary, your unbelievably reactionary, very frustrating to see.
whereas I care about you, the regular folks.
To me, I think that's kind of stupid and dumb
because Kamala wasn't talking about trans people.
She never mentioned trans people.
So to try to tar her with that,
it rings very hollow in my opinion.
We also have the Biden team was criticized
for failing to prepare Kamala properly.
They say that the Democrats were neglecting rural voters.
And they also say that Democrats relied too much
on saying, we're not Trump.
Hey, we're not this guy, we're anything but this guy.
Okay, so that's some of the conclusions.
We also have Kamala Harris on the ballot,
helped down ballot Democrats more
than Biden would have if he was on the ballot.
In the report, they urge a shift away from identity politics
and toward middle class and kitchen table issues
like the economy and affordability.
They also say that Republicans were more effective
at messaging and data use,
and they learned messages from the past better,
including from Obama's campaign.
Now, having said all that, you ready for this?
So, mentions of Gaza, Palestine, or Israel
in the 192-page report, zero, zero, none, not at all.
It didn't bring it up at all, okay?
The only reason why that attack at the Kamala
is for they, them, worked, quote, unquote, worked,
and its impact could absolutely be discussed.
Dude, I mean, this is so fucking annoying.
I can't stand these motherfuckers so much.
I try not to fucking left bash at all, but,
The motherfuckers that constantly complain about like any Democrat, the motherfuckers that
just hate the Democratic Party, sometimes more than they hate the Republican Party.
As a matter of fact, most of the time, more than the Republican Party are so frustrating.
Like I'll literally be like, oh, look, Chris Rapp, he's like a genuinely radical person,
right? Genuinely radical politician who spent a lifetime doing activism, working inside
of his own state, within the confines of state governance, obviously, but still tried to do
his very best.
What a wonderful moment that he got elected. What a wonderful moment that he's now in a
position of power to make some changes. And people will be like, no, because he's a Democrat,
of course he's fucking pro-Israel. He's a Zionist because he's a Democrat. Everyone
Everyone is a Zionist, everyone is a Zionist, unlike me, okay?
Guy who fucking chirps on Twitter, I'm doing the most anti-Zionism, I'm doing maximum anti-Zionism.
Electing anti-Zionists into office is not anti-Zionism.
Tweeting about how those guys are actually Zionists is anti-Zionism.
Like, it's so frustrating.
And then like, I'll be like, dude, what are you doing?
You're not doing anything, you're just fucking posting on Twitter.
Like, you're not trying anything.
you're doing is posting on Twitter and people go, wow, you sound like contra points. Wow,
you are so fucking, you're completely captive, you're completely captive to the pro-Israel
Democratic Party. I hate having to have these stupid conversations with people who I previously
thought were at least somewhat empathetic and somewhat intelligent. It turns out you
You can be an empathetic person, you can be on the right side, you can be on the right
side of an issue and still be a fucking moron.
Reactionary parasocials created the most unhealthy online combo I've seen in a long time.
There's so many of them now, bro.
I don't know what's going on.
The last two weeks has been a nightmare, AOC bad, Platinum bad, Bernie bad, Glindogood.
Yeah.
Where is this coming from?
I genuinely don't get it.
I don't understand it.
I don't understand where this is coming from.
They're like, yeah, no, Chris Rabb is a Zionist because he's a Democrat, whereas Marine Galindo
is anti-Zionist because Democrats hate her.
Okay, there are plenty of people that Democrats hate.
Well, they hate me too for the record, but of course that never factors into the equation.
I'm a Zionist, I'm literally pro-Israel.
You should talk about this with the chopper boys.
No, because Seamus was on.
Seamus and Dylan are people that I know very well. Okay. And Seamus had a very thoughtful
opinion on this where he's like, the reason why a lot of people, like he even catches
himself while he's talking about it. I was listening to their latest episode where he
literally says, I might be a little too critical of AOC because like I just have personal enmity
and personal resentment against her.
But the reality of the matter is like Tucker Carlson is not a fucking real anti-imperialist.
I'm never gonna shit on him for doing the right thing on the issue of Israel, which is literally my take
I agree with Sheamus on this issue
I didn't hear the rest of what they were talking about but he was straight up saying like look I
Don't think
He just straight up was saying like I don't think that
that we should just cast aside any aid like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson.
But also, at the same time, the idea that these guys are like, even he recognizes that
there are some people on the left who sincerely make it seem as though Tucker Carlson is like
Like an anti-aprilis and that's not the case at all.
Maybe I haven't gotten to the other part of the story.
They criticize your material changes, but do nothing very cynical, zero optimism, not
about casting aside, it's about them useful, they don't seem to be that useful.
No, I think that there is utility to anyone with a large platform that speaks out on these
issues convincingly. Tucker Carlson certainly has a large platform and speaks on the issue
of Israel convincingly. But to assume that Tucker Carlson is like a trusted ally in this
fight or an anti-imperialist in any way, shape or form is unbelievably stupid. Okay?
I think too many Gropers on Twitter love that crazy procrastination lady. I think this is the far-right Carlson Groper type shine infiltrate
No, it's not I it's not it's not for a lot of people
They're so desperate for anyone to be fucking anti Zionist that they will literally lean into anyone and everyone
It's the Randi fine versus Dan Bilzerian equation where they will just go. Yeah, Dan Bilzerian is a better alternative the Randy fine
Okay, and if your calculation revolves around like both of these guys fucking suck dick
But one of them is anti-Israel one of them is pro-Israel then yeah
Dan Bilzerian literally etches out against Randy fine because they believe the same exact fucking bullshit
Randy fine and they both Aaron believe the same shit
They do 99% of the way same with like Nick flint as versus Ben Shapiro Ben Shapiro and Nick flint as believe the exact same
bullshit. But one gets recognized as a valid media person, Ben Shapiro does, right? And
the other is understandably de-platformed and cast aside and has no place in like polite
civilized conversations in civilized society. Part of that is because you can believe every
single thing that Nick Fuentes believes with one exception, Israel, and you're fine. This
is busted. This is broken. This is the problem. What I said about Marine Galindo was, if you
don't want someone to be a conspiratorial nut job that represents the anti-zionist bracket
on the Democratic Party primaries, then run better fucking Democrats. Your alternative
can't be a pro-Israel cop that wants to fund ICE. If you run a pro-Israel cop that wants
the fund ice, you're gonna funnel people to a crank that says insane shit.
It's that simple, that's it.
This is the United States of America.
People believe in crazy shit, okay?
People believe in a lot of violent rhetoric.
People have only heard violent rhetoric.
So when you actually redirect that violent rhetoric for the first time ever, not towards
black people, not towards brown people, but instead to people in positions of power ostensibly,
Okay, or to a group, perhaps the only group that has any DEI initiatives that people
care about, Republicans, right?
Republicans that say like, DEI is bad across the board except for Jewish people, like,
that is the dynamic that they're trying to present here.
And everyone in fucking pounces on that person, most people go crazy.
People look at that and go, okay, what the fuck is going on?
Not everything is a Psyop, holy fuck, everyone's conspiracy brand is so painful to listen to.
I don't even think Maureen Galindo is a Psyop. I think she's just crazy. I think she's just
like a sincerely crazy person. I think she is not very well read, not very educated,
right, on this issue, doesn't understand it, and is just simply reacting to the things that
she has seen thus far. And when you're like a little crazy on top of that, or very crazy
on top of that, of course, it's going to be, that's gonna be your output. Your output's
going to be like legitimately insane. Cheese Marjorie Taylor Blue. Okay.
When I say Maureen Galindo is not very well educated, I mean on the issue of Israel-Palestine.
Okay, that's it. You can have someone be on the right side of an issue or even center
their worldview or on empathy, but then also be not very, like, not have the solid fundamentals
and then just come out with like, and have any sort of proclivity towards like believing
in conspiracy theories and whatnot.
That's what's gonna happen. That's the average American now. That's the median voter. That's
always been the median voter. A lot of people don't understand that.
I've always, ironically enough, I've always been anti-crank. Okay, this is why a lot of
people have yelled at me over and over again for years. I was always anti-tulsi-gabbert,
for example, and people yelled at me all the fucking time for this. Okay, I love cranks.
I love watching them from afar.
I'm fascinated with the way that they operate,
but I'm not going to ever fucking
sincerely talk about being a fucking crank,
like, or how some kind of crank is a movement leader, okay?
I love watching Professor Jong,
but I'm not gonna sit there and be like,
what a brilliant, thoughtful person.
She's an average Ohio, but living in Texas. I mean, she's average San Antonio Texan too.
Glendale slash Tucker exposed the reaction or tendency among leftists that just want
their adversary to theoretically bleed by any means necessary. They insist on any kind
pragmatism, even if it's in the direction of socialism being reek and wrong.
Yeah. I think there are more psyops and astroturfing campaigns online than we realize. I bet, I'm sure,
maybe. Better to be crank agnostic because they're a good gateway into politics to be perfectly
honestly, supposing them too harshly makes their newly awakened fans who will fall away after a
month or two when they see how dumb they are. Let's open to you. I know. But I do think it's good.
We have to push back on it a little bit. Why else would I push back on anti-Semitism, for example?
I mean, most of the anti-Semites, with the exception of the Zionist Christians,
right, evangelical Zionists, most of those anti-Semites, most anti-Semites in the United
States of America or anti-Israel. So why do I not let that shit slide? Why do I not let it go?
Anti-Semites and maybe even some on the left say, oh, it's because you want to be a mainstream media
figure and you have to pay the piper. You are not allowed to be a mainstream media figure if you
say the secretive truths, right? That's their suspicion. That's not the case. That's not the
the case at all because I'm not a fucking reactionary tailist, okay?
Because it is fundamentally flawed thinking, the assumption that there is an international
organized jury or any group, any group whatsoever is operating on in-group, out-group dynamics
in a way where they cannot change their fucking perspective at all, that they're organized
and that they're moving in one direction.
That's not how this works.
That's not how the world works.
People have class interests.
People operate on those class interests.
People act on those class interests.
That's it.
Except for Oklahoma City Thunderfans, they do obviously participate in Hasbro.
very clear. Let's continue with Kyle. That is astonishing, especially given that we now
have some data that has come out that shows it was a very big reason why Kamala wasn't
able to juice the turnout among the base as much as she needed it. Okay, we already have
polling data that indicates this was a huge, huge issue. Okay, more. In addition to flat-out
factual inaccuracies that are in the report, and I'm going to give you some of those in just a
little bit, but in addition to that, the report also doesn't discuss inflation, perceptions of
Biden's age, and immigration. That's all left completely out of the report. Amazing, amazing.
All right, now how do we know that this was written by AI?
Well, let me give you this. Here's some of the errors it contains.
To Ken Martin's point about this document not being ready for primetime, which is something he said,
it contains lots of errors and curious inclusions, even some that are puzzling to have in a draft.
For instance, it lists two separate vote percentages for North Carolina for the Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson.
It says at one point he won 45% of the vote. At another point it says he won 42.7% of the vote.
Neither of those are correct. He won 40.1% of the vote. Okay?
In one point, it lifts up the Washington Governor, Bob Ferguson, as an example of a candidate who did the right things,
before later noting that he actually underperformed Kamala Harris.
So their example of like the ideal is somebody who performed worse than Kamala did.
So, misspells the names of politicians like the Republican former Kentucky Governor, Matt
Bevin, they put Brevin instead of Bevin.
And the Democratic former New Jersey Governor, John Corzine, it's spelled John incorrectly.
I mean, this is, again, this is amateur hour.
This is amateur hour here.
One of the things from the report that was like a big takeaway is that, hey, actually
Actually, that I had the crux of this report is the fucking North Carolina governance race.
Like fuck, of course, dude, Democrats should just run against the black Nazi obsessed with
racist porn in every race. Why didn't they think of that before? This type of analysis
would get you laughed off. Even the stupidest parts of election Twitter, they unironically
would have been 1000 times better off hiring autistic 16 year old with a PFB of laser eyes
of Brad Lander than doing what they did here. No, those guys also don't have good ideas.
I'm not going to give them any fucking credit either, okay? Anyway. But yeah, it's, I guess,
I guess the Democratic Party never ceases to amaze me with like how bad they are, like how just
openly incompetent they are, you know? That's just what it is.
Beyond any sort of, beyond any sort of ideological tendency, beyond any sort of association,
beyond any sort of higher priority placed upon defending corporations and whatnot,
or defending Israel. They're just unbelievably bad at their fucking jobs at its root, right?
The most basic assessment of the DNC is that they are fucking dog shit at their jobs.
And because their jobs are protected by corporate interests, by their defensive corporate interests
ultimately, as long as they keep that shit up, as long as they fight these enemies of
corporate interests within their ranks, as long as they actively try to purge their enemies
from within their ranks, and they spend most of their time and effort and energy on ensuring
that there is no insurgent left that captures any center of power within the party, right,
That causes people to second-guess their previous reasons for voting for the Democrats in general
and demand more radical Democrats all around the country seeing the success of the likes
of Zoran Mamdani and numerous others.
As long as that doesn't happen, everyone's happy.
That's it.
need to run a race like the governor of North Carolina, the democratic governor of North
Carolina. And of course, the takeaway people are having is like, bro, he was running it.
Yeah, this is one of the greatest assessments of all time. Okay. This is one of the best examples.
One of the best examples. Abigail Spanberger, CIA's very own, right?
right? Centrist, Democrat, moderate, wins the, wins the race in Virginia. All of the
fucking centrist get behind her and say, uh, you're talking about Zoramum Dhani, who is
in New York, New York is deep blue. Uh, his victory was actually irrelevant in the grand
scheme of things. Nothing to learn from that victory at all. Let's look at CIA's very own
governor, right? NCI's, uh, very own state, the state of Virginia. Okay. Let's look at
fucking track record, let's look at her approvals so far. Carl Bayer did that. He looked at all
the vetoes from Governor Abigail Spanberg over the last week, and they were even worse than you
thought they were. Last Friday, she vetoed a bill that would have expanded a protected collective
bargaining rights for state public sector workers. On Tuesday, she vetoed legislation that would
have protected voters from illegitimate purges from voter rolls. Also on Tuesday, she vetoed two
bills that would have provided an affirmative defense and strengthened protections for defendants
afflicted with mental illness. Oh yeah, she also vetoed a law that would have established
Virginia's first statute for allowing class action lawsuits. Also a veto on a law capping the use of
private funds by election officials. And she vetoed a law that would have shielded universities
from speech restrictions imposed by their board, similar to those pushed by Trump. On Wednesday,
she vetoed a bill that would have outlawed ICE arrests at courthouses, polls, schools, and
hospitals. That same day, she also vetoed a bill that would illegalize the sale of marijuana
Virginia. Also on was this she vetoed legislation that would have lowered prescription drug prices
in the state of Virginia.
What the fuck are we doing? If you look at her as like the North Star is how all Democrats
should be all around the nation. You just want the Democratic Party to be the gay Republican
party. That's it. You want gay Republicans, and maybe not even too gay, not in your face
with all the gay shit either, right? But that's what you want. I don't think that's what the
base wants. I don't think that's good. I don't think that's good politics, and I don't think
that's good policy. It's fucking ridiculous. And I know, I know she released the statements
That's the why she had to veto all these fucking bills. I know it's bullshit. Okay. I heard I heard especially the ice one
Oh, well, if I weren't if I if I didn't veto this ice bill
Then we would be putting security in a compromising position where ice agents are gonna go into those hospitals anyway
No dumbass when that bill goes through that actually limits ice is fucking movement because they don't want to be in this like weird
Friction with you know local security in the hospital so they don't go into the fucking hospitals
That's the whole point!
I know it's super controversial to say this right now, but I really do completely agree with you.
No, it's not controversial to say that. It's only controversial to say I completely agree. I know you're just joking chatter.
It's only controversial to say that if you're fucking insane, okay, and unfortunately we do live in an insane country and
More and more people are becoming more and more insane by the day
Her fans are saying that she isn't against them
she just wants policy rewarded and she will agree because they're party aparatics, okay?
They are the most loyal propagandists for centrist Democrats for some weird reason.
I think it's unearned.
I think this loyalty, this overzealous nature of like centrism fans is unearned.
But they're just party defenders.
That's it.
gene-pilled
comparing abigail spamburgers or mondani approximately half a year in the
first term really demonstrates the states of the current battle
for the future democratic parties is erin reggenberg
who uh...
uh... rights for the new republic
after their respective elections a lot of third-way types are due to zoran's
when in new york city offered
the democratic party few if any lessons
And the real attention should be on folks like Spanberger. Fast forward, and Zorn is reinvigorating
municipal institutions and a whole and doing a whole spectrum of things to make people believe that democratic government can in fact make a
positive impact in their lives.
Compare that to Spanberger, who is vetoing laws to protect, to support collective bargaining, protect immigrants and lower prescription drug prices.
This really gets to the core divided between dem factions right now, between those who think Trump and MAGA appeared out of nowhere.
And so all we have to do is win one election against them and those who understand that
these forces arose out of a disillusionment with our democratic institutions, a belief
that the system isn't working.
So we need a strong man to blow it up, meaning that the only long-term solution that can
avoid a repeat of this Biden wins in 2020, but Trump is back in 2024 loop, is proving
that democratic government can in fact work for regular people.
This is at the heart of my fucking understanding of the problem as well.
This is exactly what I kept repeatedly mentioning with the 2024 election.
The idea that Democrats think, Democrats didn't learn the lesson of 2016, that they thought
a return to normalcy is what people wanted.
And then when normalcy came back, that people were gonna be comfortable delivering normalcy
a second term.
That's not what was going on at all.
The average person is fucking pissed off.
They're pissed off because of inflation.
They're pissed off at the institutions.
correctly identify that the current system is fundamentally flawed.
But if one party is offering no alternatives to that whatsoever, and the other party is
saying we're going to break this system down and we're going to rebuild it in a way that
suits your purposes, then yeah, they're going to go with, yeah, fuck the system party.
The problem is the fuck the system party is very much a byproduct of the system itself.
They're just using fuck the system and let's break the establishment as a tool to galvanize
public as a tool to basically win elections. And then they do break the system, but in
a way that actually suits their purpose, in a way that is not disruptive to the pre-established
hierarchy of capitalism, of capital, transcending above the needs of everybody else.
Well, in New York City, Zoran is doing that hard work of proving democratic and democratic,
like you know, small D democratic and big D Democrat party. Government can make a positive
impact on people's lives in Virginia, Spanburger, after running and winning on an affordability
message is doing favors for big farmer to stop legislation that can control prescription
drug prices.
IE, resorting to the same failed playbook that makes voters think, oh, GOP or Democrat,
These politicians are all the same.
At the state level, this is the kind of trajectory that will lock in a Republican gubernatorial
victory in Virginia in three years.
But the bigger picture, and as we think about the next presidential primary, this demonstrates
that the question must be not just who can win in 2028, but also, what will they do after
winning to ensure we're not right back in the fascism loop a few years later?
We've talked a lot about how economic populism is the best frame for winning upcoming elections.
We should keep in mind that just as importantly it is necessary.
It is a necessary governor strategy to lock those wins in for the long term.
Huh.
That was a great take from Aaron Regenberg.
Izzy Breen, former comms for Ilhan Omar says, hasn't even been a year in Zoran's
governance is having massive impact on my family.
Our dear care was able to open a 15 seat three K program because of the 2000 extra
sheets the admin funded. Everyone we know got in somewhere they wanted. This is
gonna save almost, this is gonna save us almost 50 grand.
That's real. Material changes being delivered to the people after they voted
for someone. When is the last time you felt that way? And we obviously don't
feel it here because I live in Los Angeles, so I'm on the fucking outside
looking in, right? I'm on the outside. They're having a fucking grand old time in New York
City and we're all watching from afar. When is the last time you voted for a goddamn politician
and that politician actually followed through on their fucking promises and that actually
impacted your life in a positive way? When is the last time that's happened? When?
What is the expectation that people have some sort of fucking strange loyalty to this party that is actually
Never really even over promising, but if the but the things that they do under promise they don't even deliver
It's ridiculous
Against a Republican who was a black Nazi who was obsessed with
racist porn
Like that guy was the worst candidate maybe in US history and that's the only reason the Democrats
one is because Mark Robinson is a fucking mess that was the Republican Mark Robinson so um
I mean to say that's a dumb conclusion is the understatement of the century
I mean obviously every Democrat can't run against somebody who's got that long of a track record of
being like an atrocious candidate duh so that's and he also literally did not pay his debts
but it's such a funny he was so funny dude what a fucking goaded character he was where he
owed. He had porn debt, man. He had motherfucking porn debt, dude. He was such he was so crazy
about his porn. He did not play about his porn that he had debt. I've never seen someone have
goon or debt like that.
Ridiculous.
Also, here's a crazy fact.
So the guy who Ken Martin hired to do the report, okay?
Obviously, this was an AI job.
It was horrible.
It was terrible.
It's not ready for prime time, as Ken Martin said.
But he still was working for the DNC up until like today.
Like he just got let go.
Ken Martin announced to the staff today.
that the guy who wrote it, Rivera, is no longer working with the DNC.
But like, he was still on a project after doing this bullshit AI report.
That was completely fake. And horrible.
I mean, that is so embarrassing, man. It truly is embarrassing.
And then also, I'll point this out for you guys.
John Favreau said this from Pod Save.
He said, Step 1, promise to release the autopsy.
Step 2, put incompetent friend in charge.
Step 3, incompetent friend produces incoherent product.
Step four, announce you're not releasing the autopsy.
Step five, lie about why.
Step six, gaslight people who ask, saying they're the problem.
Step seven, face internal revolt.
Step eight, release autopsy.
Yes, I'm gonna fucking watch Zoran stream when he goes live, bro.
Come on.
Oh, my word.
Man, that's crazy, bro.
This shit is crazy.
So after all that, everybody now on the timeline is basically like,
Yeah, I kind of get why he didn't release it.
I kind of understand now why he didn't release it.
Yeah, except for Third Way and except for all of the centrist, all the centrist think
tanks who looked at this, who looked at this report and was like, well, this confirms all
of our priors.
So it's a banger.
They got so horny.
They got so excited to be like, yep, that's it.
That's the one that they released statements that they had to then delete because everyone
was like, this report sucks, idiot.
But having said that, he could have just told us the truth about this from the beginning,
right?
He could have just said, look, the guy I hired didn't do a good job.
He was the guy that's a bunch of bullshit there.
And so like, that's why we're not gonna release it.
But the most important point, and this is what everybody should be stressing is this.
Why haven't you since commissioned a real expert to do a real report?
Because there's a real report to be made about what happened, right? There's a real report that, for example,
centers Gaza, centers of Biden's failure on foreign policy, which led to a depressed base, which led to reduced turnout.
They did. He doesn't know.
They did.
Twitch did.
That's insane, but I mean twitch is in the fucking pooper anyway, so who gives a fuck
whatever. Let's get more to say about this. There's a lot to say about inflation. There's
a lot to say about Biden's age. There's a lot to say which was like, we have to, we
have to get this, uh, we have to get this, uh, sex pest who's written manifestos on
being able to say the N word back on the platform, please.
about doing the switch without actually having a process and having an open DNC where you
could have actually had something at least relatively more democratic than what we had
where they picked Kamala.
There's a lot of stuff to talk about here, right?
And nobody's talking about those things.
So he should have commissioned a new report and he should have commissioned an actual
expert to do their job right.
And then we could be having a real discussion now about what actually went down.
instead, you know, it's just, it's too perfect. It shows the incompetence of the people who
work at the DNC. It also shows that they're liars who, you know, covered their tracks
every step of the way instead of just telling the truth here. And it shows this hellscape
of AI that's taking over where work is going to get more and more dreadful. And, you know,
we stray further and further from the light of God. So, crazy stuff here, man. But DNC
autopsy has been officially released. It's an absolute mess. There's, I mean, somebody
was saying it appears like it's 192 pages it appears like there's factual errors almost
on every single page factual errors and it's like come on man it's humiliating this is
absolutely humiliating so do a real report and do your job properly but in reality like
you got a clean house of the DNC like it should just be mass firings they're a bunch of like
corporate hacks who run that thing we need real lefties especially now that the Democratic
party is in full effect and you got left-flank candidates who are winning all over the place,
like bring in left-flank candidates. Fashakir, you know, the person who ran Bernie's campaign,
he should absolutely be the head of the DNC and he ran for it and he almost won, but he should be
the head of the DNC because he would never be this incompetent and he would do a much better job.
Like this is crazy. Bring in Fashakir, clean house, get rid of these people and make the DNC
something that actual...
before we get to the New York primaries. What is this scoop? DHS Secretary Mark Raimond told
travel executives that he's serious about curbing international flights to U.S. and airports
and cities with sanctuary policies which could force airlines to reroute and inflict economic
pain. That's awesome.
Fazer, Ben Winkler. I mean, I would, I would absolutely
choose faz over anybody else. I don't even know if he's down to do it.
Yeah. This is also during the World Cup, which by the way, from what I
understand, people are also pulling out of, uh, uh, world, the World Cup as well.
That's also another incredible situation. Is Zoran live or are you guys just fucking with me? I feel like
Locking in for the Zoran live stream
Yeah, this is this is fire they always do this shit where there's like haters always eat the way that
This is how it used to be with Bernie when he first came on the platform too, where whenever
Bernie went live, people would just be like, dude, you have to literally, you have to watch
Bernie, you have to watch Bernie, you have to watch Bernie live. And it's like, we will.
This is novel, this is interesting, we'll watch it for the first time he's doing it.
I'm interested in what he will say. He's not actually live yet, by the way.
This is fucking, you know, just the intro screen.
So I don't know why you guys are like
you're it's it's classic classic case of people being like he's live already.
You have to go watch it right now for DNC autopsy report has been released.
And it is kind of a disaster.
Um, as we had discussed on the show, it turns out that Paul Rivera, the person tapped by the DNC, uh, by DNC chair Ken Martin to produce this report just kind of shit the bed, um, interned it.
If it's successful, wait, uh, if it's successful, uh, other politicians do it. Other politicians are not capable of doing it. Most politicians are not capable of, of coming across as like charismatic, empathetic, cool, fun.
Why do you get triggered so fast, Big Bruh, because of you, the chatters?
He's already been surpassed by AI.
Yes, he turned in this incomplete analysis.
It's riddled with errors.
It's not backed by source materials.
It seemingly is written by AI in a lot of places.
Ken Martin released a statement about the autopsy in conjunction with the report.
I'll just read a bit of it.
When I received the report late last year, it wasn't ready for primetime, not even close.
Because no source.
I've always thought that people who sort of admit mistakes
and then say, okay, I'm sorry, full transparency.
Like we want to incentivize that behavior
because we don't want people to think,
why would I tell the truth now
and release what I promised I'd release
because then I'm just going to get even more shit
and it's going to be worse
because we've had these conversations being in politics.
And so like Ken Martin gets credit, I think, for doing that.
Like it is belated, but he put it out, he apologized.
So that is good.
On the other hand, the more I read his statement
and read his sub-stack and then looked at the report,
like, he lied, like he promised a report,
he put his incompetent friend in charge of it,
the incompetent friend created an incoherent product,
then can announced that they weren't going
to release the report for reasons that had nothing
to do with the truth about why they weren't releasing it.
Then, when anyone asked about it, including me,
he decided to not just lie, but gaslight people
into being like, you're the problem.
That, you know, it's a, why don't you want to win?
Why are you looking at the, in the past?
And then there's like an internal revolt at the DNC
and among donors and DNC members.
And so then they released this.
Like it's just not, he says in his sub-stack,
this is one of the lessons that he has learned
that he puts in the sub-stack piece about this,
about the autopsy today.
The Democratic brand is in trouble and needs repair.
We have to restore confidence in our party
and show we can really deliver
on our campaign promises to the American people.
People need to be able to trust the Democratic party again.
Trust is critical.
Yeah.
So I, do you think we've resolved that?
No, I should know.
I mean, so look, I'm with you like, I'm glad they put it out.
I appreciate that they did this.
It took way too long for whatever we're here.
I just, big picture, I don't think Ken Martin
is the right person to be leading the Dians.
Oh, I was like, what the fuck?
Jasmine Crockett endorsed Wesley Bell.
All right, we'll get to it when he goes fully live.
I feel bad saying that there's a lot of people in the DNC building working really hard who feel demoralized and their job sucks right now.
They deserve better leadership. And to your point, this is a totally self-inflicted wound.
Like, Ken, if you just said from the beginning, hey, I screwed up, put the wrong guy in charge, yep, Port didn't get done.
We're starting over. That would have been really bad, right? A lot of shots at him, questions of his leadership.
this is exponentially worse.
And you're right, he did lie about it.
Like he just did.
And because of that lie, everyone else filled the void
with their own theories, right?
Like does she lost, come along?
He protected immigrants and uplifted the poor.
And he used the most cutting edge technology of his time
to speak directly to the people of New York.
In the 30s and 40s, that was radio.
But I like to think that if Twitch existed back then,
he would have streamed too.
Mayor LaGuardia spoke to New Yorkers on the radio
on its show called Talk to the People.
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Today, we were so excited to announce
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Now, last year when I was running for this position,
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Am I right, Issan?
We don't mean yes we do.
Who cares about New York?
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we're going to open up this lottery from 10 a.m. to midnight and it's going to be open
every day for the next five days.
You can enter into the lottery once a day or capping it at 50,000 entries per day.
And if you win the chance to get a ticket, you'll also get the chance to buy an additional
ticket either for a family or friend or whomever you'd like.
And with that ticket is going to come free bus travel to the stadium because we know
that just as much as ticket pricing has been a prohibitive part for New Yorkers dreaming
about going to the World Cup, so too has transit.
And so this is going to be part of our initiative to make it easier for New Yorkers to actually
to be a part of this incredible tournament.
Now, I want to also shout outs to something
that we did a few days earlier, which
is make an announcement that we are extending
100,000 offers of pre-K and 3K to New Yorkers
across the five boroughs.
This was part of our announcement
that we were adding 2,000 new 3K seats.
Now, as part of these invitations
that we are sending out to children across the city
to be a part of this program, to their parents,
we were also really proud of the investments
we were actually able to make into these systems,
which means that this time around,
we saw that 85% of families received
one of their top three 3K choices.
And what we saw is that the average commute for families,
we cut that by six blocks.
Now six blocks may not sound like a lot to you and me,
but if you're walking with a toddler,
six blocks is quite a bit of time.
So we're very, very excited about this
because we don't just want universal childcare
to be something that's remarkable
because of the fact that everyone can access it
and a technical level, we also want it to be something
that is easy for New Yorkers to be a part of,
something that is in their own neighborhoods,
something that they can look at
and marvel at the quality of the instruction
and say this is a program that I want my three-year-old,
my four-year-old, and this summer will start
for the first time ever for your two-year-olds as well
with 2K.
Now the other thing that I wanted to flag
for New Yorkers directly is that there are a number
of New Yorkers who are at risk
of losing their SNAP benefits.
Now this is going to start on June 1st,
to new federal work requirements in New York City, the group that is facing the highest
risk of losing these SNAP benefits are 18 to 24 year old men. So you are at highest
risk if you are between the ages of 18 and 64 years of age, if you do not have or live
with a child who is under the age of 14, and if you do not have a medical exemption from
work. This is one of the reasons why we want to communicate directly to New Yorkers about
the fact that here is a moment where your SNAP benefits may be at risk, and we're looking
to make sure that we're doing everything we can to ensure that you can keep living
in the city, that you can keep considering this city to actually be your home.
Now I've gone through a number of the things that we've been working through this week,
and as you know, this is the first time that I've ever streamed or whatever it is that
we would describe this as.
So I wanted to make sure that we actually brought somebody on who was a little bit more
fluent in the language of streaming and twitch and everything else that comes with it. So please
join me in welcoming New York City's very own Moose.
Thank you for having me. Thank you for having me. Chat, what's up? So that's chat right there,
you know what I mean? So when you're talking to them, you got to refer them as chat, not like
ladies and gentlemen, all the politics stuff aside, you got to have that swag. So it's like chat,
you know. So it's like, what's going on chat? What's going on chat? You know what I mean? So
That's step one. Step two. Okay. What's actually cool about you being a twitch live streamer now is
You can communicate with the people and talk to the people one on one
Which I love so it gives them that one-on-one connection with you
And we can answer the people's questions straight off the bat. Well, I actually got a question for you first. Okay
When was the first time that you streamed is that how you described it? Yes stream stream. Yeah, so streaming started to become popular
I'll say about a year ago. So I started about six months ago. Okay.
No, he's gonna take time.
I think he streams as well sometimes right now. It's like going viral.
So cause I get these words that I understand.
It gives people that feel like they have a genuine connection with you.
So that's why I love that you're doing it.
How do you, when you're streaming, are you typically at home? Where are you?
So people like that at home connection, but you know what I think would be a good stream for you.
a good stream for you, a day in a life with the mayor.
So I think that should be the next thing.
Show the people how hectic your day is and stuff like that.
You know what I mean?
So we actually have some live questions from the people
as we're streaming.
So let's talk with the people, what do you think?
Let's do it.
Let's do it, let's do it.
So who we got?
Prime Juice GF said, can you summarize the steps
that you took to eliminate New York City's budget?
Absolutely.
i have no idea what that handle is but i want you would have been better than
the king
yeah so this question and it would have turned into a literal fucking nightmare
uh... because every
every zionist institution would be up his ass it would be
he would be yelled at endlessly inherited a twelve billion dollar fiscal deficit
this is a generational fiscal deficit the reason i describe it like that
is because when you look at previous mayors i think it would have been a
better
We're near this level to do this way. No disrespect to this guy is a choice a choice to either try and balance this budget on the backs of working class
New Yorkers who had nothing to do with this deficit or to find a way to balance this budget by raising taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers as
Well as actually having a fair deal with Albany now what that means is
Albany is the state capital of our state and New York City is obviously one part of our state and a lot of our funding comes through Albany and
And under the previous governor, Andrew Cuomo,
a lot of that funding was not actually a fair relationship.
The city would bear more of the costs than the state would.
There would be agreements about 50-50 cuts
of the cost spending that we'd be doing,
and then Albany would be paying less,
and the city would be paying more.
We're very lucky that under this governor, Kathy Hockel,
we've developed a partnership
where we actually have a lot more fairness
in that relationship.
And now on the taxation side,
another thing that we did is with the governor's leadership,
we introduce and I'm now passing a Piedotterre tax.
Piedotterre, you gotta say that three times fast.
Piedotterre.
Piedotterre.
Piedotterre.
Piedotterre, which is a reference to non-resident New Yorkers
who have a secondary property in New York City
that is worth more than $5 million.
So this is not affecting a typical New Yorker.
You have to not live in the city,
you have to own property in the city,
and then that property's value
has to be more than $5 million.
That itself is gonna raise half a billion dollars
for New York City.
Oh, God.
So all of these ways of having a fair relationship
with Albany, of increasing taxes on the very wealthiest,
and of actually finding the savings
and the efficiencies in city government
that have for a long time just been tolerated
because that's how things are,
those were the ways in which we actually
got to a balanced budget.
Albany was a critical partner in that,
the governor was a critical partner in that,
the assembly speaker, the Senate majority leader.
Another critical partner was all of you, frankly,
because you are the New Yorkers who were calling,
You were knocking on doors.
You were making your voices heard.
Because in another time, when you inherit a deficit,
people will say, just go to austerity.
Just start cutting.
We don't want to cut services for New Yorkers.
It's a tough enough city as it is.
It's time to actually invest in the people.
I love that.
I love that.
The chat is spamming right now, so I'm going to ask you
some more questions.
I'm sorry.
Someone said, what would you say to a young New Yorker who
feels like New York City is becoming impossible
to build a life in?
What would you say to that?
First thing I would say is I hear you.
It is the most expensive city
in the United States of America.
You're not imagining the fact that it's difficult.
You know, I was sitting with a number
of young New Yorkers the other day
and they said something that really stuck with me.
They said, there are fewer things worse in life
than being young and broke in New York City.
And it hit me because in that moment,
what a young person feels like
is they don't have a future here.
That the only way they could afford to live here
is maybe continuing to live with their parents
for the rest of their lives.
Maybe living in that basement for the rest of their lives.
And that's not the city that we want to live in.
We want to have a city where you can actually dream
of your life here beyond the life that you're living in.
Yeah, I don't think they're saying that in the chat.
I'll be honest with you.
I'll be honest with you.
I think it's mostly ASCII Dick's family.
But we also want to make it clear
that if you work hard in the city, you can find a way.
That's why we're investing in childcare.
That's why we're investing in housing.
That's why we're investing in city-run grocery stores.
Because we want it to be that little bit easier.
so when you're putting in a hundred and ten percent
you can look at city government say i don't think you're recorded
i love that
it was on c i'm not i don't even live in the city i live in stan island is still
expensive for me but
you know i know it's not a lot of
so you just said you don't live in the city
was that it doesn't count as you know it's but here's the thing is like when
you grow up in new york city to me
the city is madden
that is just madden the city is madden and everywhere else is everywhere
right you got queens you got box brooklyn
So you grew up in Staten Island.
I grew up in Staten Island, unfortunately.
I love Staten Island.
Impressionally, come on.
It doesn't have that New York feeling.
You know what I mean?
When you come to the city, it's like hecticness and so much
going on.
A lot of people love Staten Island.
Yeah, I guess if I was older, I'd love it.
Right now I'm too young.
So someone also said, can you play Minecraft?
OK.
Do you play Minecraft?
I got to be honest, I do not.
I have not played Minecraft.
How do you play Minecraft?
Honestly, I play Minecraft.
Yeah, I think it's a computer game.
Remind them what good moderation looks like.
Yeah.
Yeah, this is the ADL page for how good
the AOC moderation team look like.
But there's a different ADL page now,
which is precisely the reason why
their moderation doesn't look like that moderation.
Anyway.
Yes, Zora is gonna play video games before me.
What age group people play Minecraft?
I think it's like kids.
Like from four all the way to like,
it could be like 30 years old, you know what I mean?
I think it's a generational game.
It's an incredible age.
Okay, all right.
Woody W said, Zahron,
do you think Arsenal cheated their way to the Prem title?
Okay, Woody W, I don't know how to kick you out of the stream,
but I think we deserve to be kicked out of the stream,
but anybody's listening that can do that.
I think they should get to Woody W.
Get Woody W out of here.
Chat, you know what I'm talking about.
I'm using the right.
Look, I'm proud to be an Arsenal fan.
22 years, do you watch soccer?
I'm more of a basketball guy, but I just want to watch soccer.
Okay, okay.
Think about it through the context of the next.
Okay.
How long we've been waiting?
Yeah.
And every year we think it's our year.
I think it's been since 2002 for you guys, right?
It has been, no, I think we were 24.
Sorry, it's been 22 years, so I think it was 2004.
And you've been a fan since 22 years ago?
I've been a fan since like 2000, 2001.
My uncle put me on.
The short answer is no, we did not cheat away to this title.
We deserve this title.
And that's how you know, because we won the title
with a game to spare.
Shout outs to my man, Woody W, for trying to come
at the new Premier League Champions of England.
And soon, inshallah, Champions of Europe.
Inshallah, inshallah.
Come on now.
I actually have a question for you.
Hit me.
How do you feel about the Knicks?
I'm feeling incredible about the Knicks.
Game two.
Game two was great.
Tonight.
I also won.
I did watch game one.
I also have to give a shout out to my friend Nikhil Sharma because the only reason I could watch Game 1 was because he had YouTube TV and he gave me his login.
I have someone's YouTube TV too.
Let's go.
So, that's a lot of people ask what's democratic socialism? Sharing YouTube TV with your boys.
That's also a little bit of example of that.
We're all living the same way.
Come on. Just login. You know, I gotta say Captain Clutch.
Salem Brunson.
Incredible.
But that run was incredible.
I think there was like six minutes left.
Yeah.
And he made a bucket, then another bucket, I'm like,
we have a top, we have a chance.
Biggest comeback in mixed history.
Yes, it's insane.
I think it was in the playoffs, yeah, for sure.
I think they're gonna win it all this year, what do you think?
I'm saying, inshallah, come on.
Inshallah.
Come on.
Maybe we'll be at the championships together.
I'm just saying, we wanna run back 99.
Get to the finals.
Hopefully, hopefully.
I think we got a chance.
Come on, we got a game to.
Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Let's do it, let's do it.
prime blank oblivion said what's the best tacos in New York City okay I didn't
want to like offend you okay for me I think it's tight between you said los
tacos, those tacos number one and taqueria de amides. Have you been there? I have not
been there. Where is that? There are no good tacos in New York City. I'll stand on that
too. Fire tacos. We don't got that. It's time. I'm sorry. Y'all got pizza. Y'all got
so far. You got deli. Um, what's your order? Everything. I just like that. I like birria
tacos. There's a lot. What is this? Just in the little. Yeah, especially late at night.
Late at night. Yeah. Signed for resistance to the father's show. Throw a big bus and
It means like delicious. It's free bussing. Yeah, free bussing. Um, Mark. Oh, HHH said
any update on free buss progress. Speaking of bussing, it's not too far from the topic.
Oh, that was good. You know, trying to link it up. Okay. So few things on this. This continues
to be a priority for us because one in five New Yorkers can't afford the cost of public
transit in New York City. And that was when it was 290. Now it's three bucks. So this
is something that we're going to keep fighting for. And this is something we're going to
deliver by the time that I'm done being mayor. We want to make buses free across the city.
When we, when I ran for mayor, I talked about making them fast and free. So what we focused
on first is the fast part. Right now there are some buses that travel at around five
miles an hour. So we're doing everything we can.
Reading chatter, user names out loud.
Yeah, I don't think this guy's not a streamer either. I mean, he streams, I think sometimes
on Twitch, but he's got a bus action plan. He's right now our focus, a
TikToker working with Albany on how to actually make buses free across New
York City while we also make them fast. Want to do give one shout out though,
there is one free bus in New York City today, Q70. You could take that in
Queens. It's a great place to be. And we just opened up a little bit of a bus
way for the World Cup for the Q70, so it's going to move a little quicker.
Who you got for the World Cup though? Brother, I feel like I would be a fool if I made a prediction.
Do you have?
Who do you have?
I got what you got.
What you got?
Shoey!
Yeah.
Portugal has a stacked squad.
They have a stacked squad.
We got to be, you know, first of all, host nation
is always a little bit of magic, right?
So I'm praying for the US men's national team today.
I was standing next to two of our incredible players.
We're rooting for them.
And also, I was born in Uganda, in East Africa.
So we have never qualified for the World Cup,
which meant I grew up rooting for African teams
across the continent.
was your family from my family's from Palestine. Oh, that's not in the World Cup.
Not in the World Cup, but it's all good. Maybe soon, maybe maybe soon.
We still we're still rooting for everybody out there. Exactly.
And I think Senegal and Morocco also looking very good.
Morocco, Morocco did amazing last year.
Oh, not last year. It's four years ago.
Where did you watch the game last time?
At home with my mom. Yeah.
But I'm actually excited that it's in America.
What a beautiful, sweet story.
You need to dab your game.
More freaking out about the audio spiking if I dabbed my guest story. What is your love with the story?
Oh, why do you love stories?
Have you been to a story? Yeah, my I mean speaks for itself. Oh
It is vibes it is it's good vibes, you know, you know, yeah during the Madonna
All the people are there but he's happy
So I see it but it's okay for me. It's
It's the sense of community.
That's one thing I love, especially during Ramadan
when you're walking on Steinway at 2 a.m.,
people are just sitting outside drinking coffee.
Uncles are just chain smoking and having espresso, right?
Give me that Europe vibe, yeah.
Very much.
And then I think the other thing for me,
the food is incredible.
The food is amazing, I mean.
I know you like the Ziyara, shout out to Ziyara.
Shout out to Lefa, Lefa and Ziyara.
Although I love Ziyara, but never order Ziyara
if you have to run the bee somewhere.
Like, it's never 30 minutes.
With all due respect to Zella, yes.
I'm probably going to get a phone call about that afterwards.
OK.
OK.
Just Lynn New York, sorry, I'm not the best at reading,
said, can you describe how DOT is responding
to clearing out storms, drains prior to storms?
Yes.
So this is actually a very pertinent question,
because yesterday we had a significant amount
rainfall across New York City. Now, in most parts of New York City, this was, you know,
two to two and a half inches, maybe. And our storm system is built for two inches of rainwater.
As we know now with the climate crisis, that amount is
Olivia, Ryan, go look at this game of playlist right now.
We're not I don't think this is gonna have that much that equates to six inches in an hour.
Actually, earlier today, I was meeting with a number of families in Hollis and Queens,
who not just it wasn't just their basements. I know.
And there was a woman who came up to me and she had tears in her eyes and she was sharing with me that
It wasn't a 2026 problem. It wasn't a 2020 problem. She's been facing this for 34 years
And that to me is an example of a lot of the roots of the climate crisis that we have been ignoring
And especially in terms of flood prone areas in our city
So when it comes to what the city is doing on the short term basis
We are making sure that we are clearing out catch basins
We are actually investing in cloudburst technology. Have you heard of cloudburst technology? I have not. I'm gonna be lying
I'm gonna I'm gonna hit you what it is. Okay, so there is right now
There's a basketball court in Queens that is an example about of cloudburst technology
How is the YouTube stream looking chat court with a surface?
Even worse than this hold it for 24 to 48 hours
So the sewage system is not overwhelmed then when the rain does anyone have a link to the YouTube stream a day later
Oh, chat is off on the YouTube screen, and then the system can actually absorb that.
So we have invested, I think close to $300 million over a 10-year period in more, in
addition to technology, and then we're also investing a multi-billion dollars on a longer
term scale to actually address some of the longer term sewage issues in South East Green
Shelf and parts of New York City, because the videos that a lot of us have seen, especially
that I've seen, I don't know if you saw any videos about the flooding, right?
There's there's a way in which we've come to accept this as if this is New
York City when it's rains and that's unacceptable.
And so we're looking at every single thing that we can do to make sure we
actually catch up to the climate prices.
Yeah, everybody give a shout out to the motherfucking mobs, by the way.
Being mayor look cool.
ADL endorsed moderation team.
Or you got that or two.
So we have another question from Fright Fest 2005.
Yeah, it's getting asked.
She said, or he said, what are some additional ways you intend to tax the hyper wealthy?
What would you use the funds to improve?
That's a great question.
So two ideas that we've put forward is increasing personal income taxes on New Yorkers to make
more than a million dollars a year by just 2%.
So if you made a million bucks a year, this would be just an extra $20,000 in taxes.
The other thing is to increase taxes on the most profitable corporations.
So this isn't like a mom and pop store in your neighborhood that you know these are
the most profitable corporations doing business in New York.
And to us the importance of this, it's not just about fixing a broken tax system.
It's also about having this revenue to invest back into the working people of the city,
which will reap benefits for everyone who calls the city home.
I'll give you one example.
Childcare.
Childcare right now?
You have kids?
Sorry, but this is boring, folks.
I mean, we're just watching it because it's novel.
I'm gonna make it easier for your mom to nag you about having kids because we're okay. This is a novel experience
He's a is the mayor. He wants to do this like fireside chashet
Obviously their first, you know, there's the first time they're doing it. It's not great. It could be better
You know, it'll be it'll be better next time
But it's it's not a it's not a bad thing if it's on turn to stream off. He doesn't a chatter spamming to watch it
I know there's also that too
investments we could be making.
So when your friend tells you that they're settling down,
the next sentence doesn't include they're moving
to Long Island or they're going to the suburbs
or they're going to Jersey or they're going to Connecticut
because they can actually envision living in New York City.
That's beautiful.
So when you have kids, you gotta stay here.
When I have kids, I'm gonna hit you up.
You gotta start dabbing people up.
Thank you, Promise.
Guys, to everyone standing in the chat,
let's try to be a little respectful, you know,
keep a family friendly.
So we all know you should be a rapper.
Yes. No, just play it. Who is legend?
US Fairfive underscore said, who's your favorite underground rapper?
That's not good.
OK, what counts as underground?
I'm like that low key, like not to like not Drake.
You know, Drake just jumped his arm, by the way.
Did you listen to it or not?
I'm listening to that Janice song.
There we go. There we go.
But like not on Drake level, kind of like, you know, up and coming.
Up and coming.
Sure. Yeah.
Up and coming.
OK.
I feel like I'm a little bit washed now in terms
of the rap that I listen to.
I feel like I've reached the age where most of the rap I listen to is the rap
that I used to listen to.
But I can tell you when I was in high school in New York City,
you know who I would actually listen to a lot.
OK, it's not quite underground, but I feel like I never really broke through
into the mainstream in New York City.
There was a Canadian rapper named Chaos.
K.O.S.
K-O.S.
Shout out to K.O.S. I've never heard of you, but...
4321, Zamboni, great songs.
Also...
Now, you know the song, Waiting Flag, by K-Nod.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
K-Nod actually has a lot of other great songs.
Okay.
And I used to listen to K-Nod.
Oh, he sang that song, Waiting Flag?
That was him.
That was him.
So he actually has a bunch of great songs, and I actually went to a few of his concerts
when I was in high school.
Wow.
setting that with plausible deniability to say where you be read right now. I mean, it's not, it's not.
Look, yeah, it's awkward, you know, growing pains, growing pains. Okay, growing pains.
I get family for Zoram, but news improved this, this should not be done. It just doesn't work.
No, I think if there's one politician who could actually do this,
if there's one policy, you could do this. It would be Zoramumdani.
It's just that it has to be done.
It has to be done in a way that is more organic.
And they just kind of
it's his first ever stream. He's not doing a very good job with it.
Obviously, like Amlo and them, they do a much better job with it.
But I'm sure the MLO and Claudia Chambo's first ever stream was probably asked to
I would also say Jackson Heights is a really lovely place to check out go to diversity Plaza
There's a lot of different places you could eat. There's a place called. I'm the moment. You ever had moments. No, I haven't but maybe it's you'll take me
I'm the momo eight dollar momos eight momos pretty great deal. It's a great lunch special
Actually, just they offered all times of day and then Bay Ridge
Gotta go to Bay Ridge gotta go to Rosina and get some Arabic chicken
Shawarma
It's chopped up. It's incredible. I see you like your Arabic food, you know
I like that I like that check give us some suggestions as well. You know, what do you guys? What do you guys think?
We should go where do you guys think what's your guys favorite places in New York for all of the tourists?
We're coming to New York City. We want to make sure that they're not just coming to midtown and just going to the game
We want them to get around the entirety of the five boroughs. Yeah, so I want to hear from you guys
We're sick. We should think about God. Don't go to stand out
You go to mall
Donnie
nice parks restaurants um i do have a lot of respect for the random chatters who are at least
trying how do you see the city exam system changing it's a way to bolster the city's ability to solve
problems and reduce reliance on consultants like there are people who are genuinely trying to ask
questions then
Okay, okay.
KDKDKD80 said, where does the...
Hey, Kevin Durant.
Where does the compost go?
Can I say that?
Yeah, compost.
Compost.
But you got to say it the way that they wrote it.
Where does the compost go?
Thank you, KDKDKD80 for your question.
So to give you a sense, your compost goes to several facilities in the region.
We're talking about Staten Island compost facility.
We got one right there.
Some of it also goes to the Newtown Creek wastewater plant.
Everybody should be composting, though, because that's what we want you guys to do.
It's too. Yes, it is. It is too highly produced.
So he should have he should have unveiled this with like.
OK, yes. OK.
I mean, there's I got a question.
I'm so sad to wrap this up because it's been amazing to spend a great time on this.
Oh, God, they stopped dabbing.
Gamble two zero eight, eight said.
I'm Donnie's incredible names. Do you know what that means?
Does that is that a reference? I
Have no idea what that means
What's one decision that you've made recently that you feel most people misunderstand and
What would you want them to make about it? Hmm?
Actually really appreciate that question
You know
Are you back I mean, this is literally the thing that I know better than anybody else. Here's one
You know when we face this $12 billion fiscal deficit
We were able through the use of reserves how many are they how long are they gonna do this like are they gonna keep
Doing this in the middle of February I to come for you guys know the first version of our budget. They call it preliminary budget
Can we move on to Chatters left? Okay, shut the fuck up. It's almost over.
How we could get the remaining deficit down to zero. I said there was a path of last resort
and I said that that's that the reason it's last resort is it would mean raising property taxes.
And then there was the path that we wanted to pursue that we'd spend every day looking to pursue
raising taxes on the wealthiest and having a fair relationship with Albany. And I laid out these
were the two options and that in our budget the only thing we could control was the last resort.
But the option we were going to pursue was the higher taxes on the wealthiest, the fair
relationship with Albany. And for some people when they heard that, they thought that that meant
we actually wanted to pursue property taxes. And we spent every single day since then pursuing the
other option. We're proud that at the end of this process, we put forward a budget that didn't have
have to go to the last resort that was actually able to raise tax for the wealthiest and fair
relationship with Albany to find those savings, find those efficiencies and eliminate a $12
billion fiscal deficit. But that's one thing that I think sometimes gets lost in translation,
but I appreciate that question because oftentimes in politics things move so quickly that you're
not seeing the time to reflect. The best way for a politician to stream.
And I think this is an opportunity for that. So I want to also say thank you for being here.
Thank you for being a part of this. I don't think people watching this even care about
the production quality. No, it's just like it's too highly produced to come to
cross this industry. But even in this format work, how did you like first
twitch stream? Honestly, this is actually quite fun. It's fun. It's nice to not
also do this alone. Yeah, because it feels like sometimes if I'm rough, it's just me.
It feels a little stilted. You know, I feel like actually I'm chatting with
somebody. I'm chatting with the chat as well. Talking with the chat.
with the chat. We don't say people, we don't say ladies and gentlemen, we say chat.
Before we end it off, you got to hit this. You got to say W's in the chat. So like if
they spin W's, that means you got or W's in the chat. W's in the chat. Why are we not
saying chat? Chat comes from Drake. No, no, Drake. I should have seen this coming. But
um, hey, it was a pleasure. Thank you so much for having me. Thank you for being a part of
this. Of course. To all of you, to the chat, thank you for being a part of this. We're
going to come back and do this sometime soon and we're really looking forward to it because
we want to make sure that you don't have to go searching anywhere to find out what is
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is the best way to actually be right there in touch with you. We want to thank Mayor
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Thank you, guys.
Yeah, they got to stop clapping.
OK, that was all right.
I think for the first time ever, I mean, obviously there's
a lot of work that needs to be done.
And I'll give them help if they want it.
But that was a little, I thought it was great.
Y'all are just haters.
I mean, there's definitely some room for improvement.
They should have gotten my moderation team.
when AOC and I did that Twitch stream with like it on Omar and everybody else, there was a whole
fucking onboarding process. Like we literally, I put my Moz on her moderation team as well.
And on top of that, there was like, you know, we talked about how to do it ahead of time.
time, delete the VOD, save your aura. Yeah. Like the ADL literally wrote a comprehensive
report back in 2021 about how good the moderation team was, my moderation team was on AOC's
AOC side and how this like incredibly fucking viral
How this like incredibly viral
Event that we did on twitch was so well put together in comparison to like other Hollywood celebrities
Like Jimmy Fallon who didn't have any moderation whatsoever and why that like looked crazy
Well, you heard that he didn't have you on as a first brother.
I don't know if you live in the real world or at least in the world that I live in, but
I wouldn't want to be on this first ever stream because it would be all about the fact that
Zara Mamdani had a rabid anti-Semite or whatever the fuck, as his first Twitch stream guest.
It sucks, but the reality of the matter is we live in a very different world now, where
everything he does, he gets fucking yelled at.
So we can't be doing shit like that.
Also ironic because I literally did have him on first on this
first day, but Christian.
but they'll get better they can just they just need more moderation that's it alright let's get back to the fucking DNC autopsy
He lost because of Gaza, he lost because of that, right?
So that created exacerbated problems within the party.
It didn't fix them.
So he has a huge candor and credibility problem right now.
There's also the fundraising problem
that you guys discussed in that interview.
There's some numbers out this week.
The DNC has 14.4 million on hand.
The RNC has 123.9 million on hand.
And really the DNC has negative three million
because that's the cash they have on hand.
If you then take away the debt, then it's negative three.
Yeah, and also the DNC is-
The problem is most people don't understand
which culture, they just don't get it. And they, and it's
understandable. This is a very insulated, super insular small
corner, very niche. Cope eating, cope eating. Yes, I'm eating,
I'm eating my lunch out of cope.
Getting massively outraised by the DSCC and the DCCC. And I
guess like this whole process just made me feel like this guy's
not good at politics.
Like this interview came about because Ben Rhodes, or maybe me,
tweeted something about fundraising.
So Ken reached out to you to criticize you and say, oh, I'm always happy to come
on. And then like, kind of, I guess it was kind of like harsh to you guys at that
party. And like, I actually walked up to me, like shook my hand.
There's kind of like silently mean mugged me and walked away.
I remember being like, I'm drunk, but like not that drunk.
And so like, and then in the interview, though, like he just, like, it wasn't
just that he was gaslighting you.
He was like taking shots at you and kind of like, look,
we've been friends for 20 years.
You're one of the least confrontational people I know.
Every two or three years, every friend,
you have a blowout fight.
And there was a look on your face
that happened about three minutes into that thing.
And I was like, I've seen that face before.
We know each other's looks very well.
But one of us is about to very well.
No, this is gonna go south because that's,
and that like, I'm not, like you know me,
I'm never looking to attack someone or embarrass someone.
In fact, I probably air too much in the opposite direction.
But when someone lies to you and you know they're lying and then not just lies,
but accuses you of being the problem when you know that they're actually
current, it's just, it, it pisses you off or call us ending.
But I will say this because I'm sure some people might say, and I've seen
this, some of this online too, which is like too much on this autopsy.
Who the fuck cares?
But if, if this was just a, dude, what's crazy about this is there are,
There are some people on the internet that genuinely despise any sort of criticism that the DNC receives and I don't know where they're coming from
But like people are so mad at the fucking Pajons
Or even calling into question Kim Martin. I saw someone be like, oh
These guys fucking don't do anything like they don't actually yell at anyone
They don't yell at any like, they don't yell at any of the leftists when they should be
just like screaming about any of these things about people like myself.
And instead they just like fucking yell at Ken Martin and it's like, dude, it's, if it's
team sports, you want your team to get better, okay?
It's not team sports.
It's obviously much more important than team sports.
But like, even if it is team sports, you have to fucking, you know, you have to look at,
you have to review the tape.
You have to fucking review the goddamn tape to make sure you don't make the same mistakes.
You lost.
One off mistake by Ken Martin, and that was it.
It's a pretty big mistake.
That would be one thing from everyone we've talked to inside the DNC, outside the DNC,
DNC members, fundraisers, donors, all these people.
This is indicative of a larger problem with how Ken has operated, which is that he is
defensive, insular, um, is not transparent about a lot of things, does not have good
communication with other people in the party.
is that he's got his crew of people that he brought in there and he talks to them and doesn't talk to
a lot of other people. And I think that the credibility problem, yes, that the autopsy is
the most glaring example of it, but it goes beyond that. You mentioned the fundraising thing. And look,
it's not, this is not a Democratic party writ large problem. If you look at the April fund
raising reports, and this has been true for the whole last year, NRCC barely outraises the DCCC,
NRSC barely outraises the DSEC and then the difference between the RNC and the DNC is just massive.
So it's not the other party committees that are the problem, because if it was a wider
Democratic party problem, we'd see that in the DS and the DCCC.
And I think, I don't know the numbers in front of you, but I think the DS did like
2X what the DNC did and the DCCC maybe did 3 or 4X, right? So they're raising a lot of money
over there. Yeah, and look, again, I'm not being critical because this person was kind of like
like prickly and rude to my friend.
Like who gives a shit?
He prickly and rude to us.
I've made it a more interesting interview.
But I think it's indicative of just like a political problem
which is like the fundraising is bad in part
because Ken Martin took a bunch of shots
at some of our biggest donors
in the campaign against Ben Wickler
and then seemingly just refused to make amends for months
and still hasn't.
And so like, look, we can muddle through these problems now
but the trust deficit, the political challenge here,
the rubber meets the road when he has to set up
presidential primary process and balance a bunch of interests and keep people
in line. We just cannot end up in a place of the party where there's like a half
dozen splinter groups setting up their own unsanctioned debates and no one is
reining them in. It's just a disaster. And like, by the way, another option could
have been saying in part what he said to you in the interview, which is like, Hey,
guys, we lost because Joe Biden is old and then inflation made people mad. We're
not doing an autopsy. There's no silver bullet here. We all know what we fucked
up. Okay, that could have avoided the political problem. I think it's valuable. Like, there have
been other people sort of, you know, have released their thoughts on what went wrong and things we
screwed up. And there's like, kind of useful tactical points in there, and things you learn.
But again, it's just like the mishandling is like,
libousal. Everything the Pabros are saying is absolutely true. I know from experience with
Martin directly, it's also crazy people are criticizing for doing this. I've called Kent
Martin and the party out to his face and he can't take a punch on any level when done politely.
He loses it. All ego.
I just don't have any confidence that whoever replaced Kim Martin is going to be competent either.
That's the other problem here. I don't think that they're going to,
to, like, yeah, I think Ken Martin is clearly incompetent to a degree where it's, like,
it's, you know, hurting the party. It's very clear. But I don't think anyone who replace
them is going to be good at it either. This is just a, this is not just like a structural
problem within the DNC. This is just like the holistic problem with the Democrats. They're
predisposed with businesses usual politics that's also lined their pockets up.
It's their entire fucking worldview.
They love seniority.
It's a major issue at every level.
Not only are they incompetent though, they're also fucking, you know,
not very good at, I mean, they're also somewhat corrupt.
Or rather ideologically predisposed.
It's also, there is, there's a pattern among the establishment of the Democratic Party
for the last several years where when the online grassroots noise gets really loud,
the response is these people don't know what they're talking about.
just crazy lefties or lives or whiny people online and we know best because we have the
right information and we do this for a living and so fuck you people in no uncertain term.
And I understand the frustration being on the inside when people are chirping at you
from the outside.
We've been there, right?
But when you're on the outside, you realize some of the carping on the online is really
fucking annoying and not correct.
But your job, if you're in the party and you're in leadership and you're part of the establishment,
is to at least listen to those voices, welcome them in, be transparent, be honest about what
you know.
I mean, I'm just thinking about this.
Obviously, we've criticized the Biden administration and Joe Biden quite a bit, but I remember
when Ron Klain became chief of staff and the way that the Bernie folks and the Biden
folks after that primary worked together and Ron made sure he was listening to all parts
of the party and wanted ideas from them.
And I think it was like a good way of handling it, like obviously, you know, it's got worse
later on.
But I just think that that the model of a successful party has to be like, yes, keeping
people who are like, you know, yes, pushing back on people who are criticizing you unfairly,
but at least listening to voices and trusting people with the information that you have.
Yeah, one thing.
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So, subscribe to POTSA America, we'd appreciate it. Just to go at the report again.
I mean, CNN broke the story and they reported in their big piece that there
was a DNC retreat for top donors. And at that retreat, Paul Rivera,
who created the autopsy, did an hour-long presentation that was, according to the
story, in part drawn directly from the report. So, let me read from this article.
Another part of his presentation, track the candidates' areas of focus by content
to argue that Trump advanced focus many times
more on immigration than Harris did.
Rivera used an unclear methodology for the breakdown,
assigning percentages to 10 categories of content
or theme for Trump, Harris and their running mates.
The percentages in every column, one for each candidate,
added up to well over 100%.
So it just speaks to how sloppy this is.
And again, it's like, okay, if this report was so bad
that you just released the statement saying,
you could quote, not in good faith,
put the DNC stamp of approval on it,
why did you let this individual present
some of the findings to your biggest donors
when you have this huge fundraising problem, right?
Not only that Tommy, and the CNN were...
Perhaps the answer to that question
also is the same reason why Third Way
and other centrist think tanks instantly said,
see, this is a wonderful report.
It proves everything that we were saying already.
It's because this report was not designed to accurately, sorry, this report was not
designed to accurately look at the failures of the Democratic Party.
It was to soothe the corporate donors.
It was to tell them we're not straying away from our priors.
We are not changing course.
We are 100% locked in.
Here is proof as to why.
Here is proof as to why we must maintain the same business as usual politics.
Look at that.
Look at that.
Look at how crazy it is.
Would you be surprised to find out that we actually did everything right?
We actually followed all of your highest priorities, being corporate friendly, and not really focusing
too much on inflation, because who gives a fuck about the pores?
And that Biden's age wasn't even that big of a deal.
Oh my God, that's so funny.
Favreau looks like a 60s Vietnam recruit. That's really funny.
That's it. But you do understand that is the reason that is
the fucking reason.
Everything is honestly is right now is absolutely fucking true chat is the only reason the autopsy
exists is to assuage the fucking rich individual donors who are fucking bad at politics and
don't know shit about winning elections.
Yep.
Would you be surprised if I were to tell you that the real reason why a lot of people
been attacking me is not necessarily because they think they can successfully turn me into a
poisonous toxic individual within the ranks of the Democratic Party, but to assuage those exact
same corporate donors, many of which actually care about Israel a lot more than they care about
Democratic Party's chances in the elections, and that maybe even some of the people who advanced
this fuck-his-on agenda unironically knew that this would actually boost my profile,
but they were doing it anyway, because that is to satisfy the needs of some of the
those big donors? Because the answer is yes. Everything that these guys do in the
consulting class, in the party system, they don't do it to like win
elections. That's not the case at all. They do it to satisfy their donors.
That's why they know. That's precisely the reason why they know that Israel is
unbelievably unpopular, and yet they still tell their politicians not to say anything about it.
They still try to find a comfortable landing pad for politicians to speak on the issue of Israel
in the least convincing ways possible.
They don't want to win. They want to keep fundraising. They want to keep their jobs,
and they know that the only way to keep their jobs, the only metric that matters is not victory.
The only metric that matters is fundraising.
And the only reason why they're fucking shitting on Ken Martin right now is because they've
lost so much, they can't even fucking fundraise any longer.
They've lost so much and the National Democratic Party's prestige has died so much that they
can't even fundraise, which is precisely the reason why they're trying to desperately
find a way out of the situation.
Losing is not a problem for the DNC, okay?
Losing is not a problem for the DNC, not being able to fundraise is, okay?
Straight up.
So it's ironic that we have now arrived, ironic that we've now arrived at a situation where
the same endless need to make corporate donors feel comfortable is causing the party to fail
so much and to communicate so poorly, that those very same donors are like, okay, well,
you guys are fucking losers, I'm pulling out.
You can never satisfy these people.
You're not gonna be able to satisfy these people.
if you keep fucking losing. But because we don't have a performance-based, meritocratic
approach to the consultant side of things, to the advisors, and they only, or rather,
the only metric they care about is like, you know, not winning elections necessarily,
but fundraising. And Jamie Harrison is one of the greatest examples of this, as I talked
about, right? Great fundraiser, lost his fucking election to Lindsey Graham, doesn't matter.
He was a great fundraiser, right?
So obviously we have to put him as DNC chair.
Anyway.
It says that Paul Rivera has been seen recently
still hanging around the DNC,
which has demoralized the staffers
because they know that he was the guy
who fucked up the whole autopsy.
So not only did you put this friend in charge of this,
He's still there.
And he hadn't worked on a presidential campaign
since John Kerry in 2004.
It's like, look, I haven't watched,
I haven't worked on a presidential campaign since 2008.
Don't put me in charge of the autopsy.
And what really says it all is the conclusion,
if you go through all the 152 pages,
the report, which I have not,
if you go to the end and it says conclusion,
and then it's blank.
And then the DNC annotation is,
this section was not provided by the author.
TKTK.
Yeah, it's not great.
And it's like, I don't wanna go belabor this too much,
The list of people they didn't talk to, it's just crazy.
It's like top Biden administration officials.
Prem Thakur, Zatayo News, pointed out
that the DNC autopsy is 192 pages.
There's zero mentions of the word Israel, Palestine,
or Gaza, not even examining the impact of that issue
on the results is crazy.
So anyway, let's just watch a clip
from your conversation with Ken Martin
about this a few weeks ago,
in case folks didn't watch it,
and just to sort of understand
where we're coming through on some of this frustration.
Why not release the full report? What's in the report that you wouldn't want?
Okay
They can't have a full autopsy
They can't have a full autopsy
Because if they were to conduct the full autopsy, they would have to rewrite everything that the party stands for
It's literally that simple. Elections are basically a scam, yes, chatter. The way that
the system works in this country is basically it's like a fucking, it's a, it's a kind of like
a multi-level marketing scheme almost like is a pyramid scheme. It's a scam. It's not real.
That's why I say all the time that the Democratic Party is not a real party. It's not a real
political party. There have been very few instances where they behaved like a real political party,
like a real political organization, like when they swapped out Biden, but even then,
even then they did it in the most like, in the stupidest ways possible.
Yeah, there's no smoking gun in the report. And I know that's, that's what everyone's so
eager to learn, the smoking gun. Guess what, John? But if there's no smoking gun,
why wouldn't you just release it then? Because we want to keep the focus on the lessons.
There's no smoking gun here. People are obsessed about this in a way that continues to turn them
away from wanting to focus on the lessons and instead think- Okay, there was no smoking gun
in the report. He's not wrong. But also, there was no lessons in the report either.
Thinking that there's some sort of smoking gun in here that's going to give them the one single
reason that Kamala Harris lost the election, or the one single thing that we should have
done differently that's going to actually help us win in the future.
I don't know about you, John, but I don't have a time machine.
I don't think you do.
No one does.
So we can't change what happened in 24.
When you were on the campaign trail and you talked about definitely releasing an autopsy
and criticized the DNC for not releasing an autopsy in 2016, in your mind, you thought
I'm going to do one but only release certain lessons and not the full report?
No.
the time is exactly what I've been saying now, which is we have to focus on the things
that help us win the future elections. Let's focus on the elections coming up, John.
You know, I want to focus on winning them. I feel like an autopsy on what went wrong
and when we lost the popular vote in all those states in 2024 and figuring out what went
wrong based on a big report is pretty important.
They're so right. The podjohns are so fucking right. And it's not like they're goddamn socialist
dude. They just don't want the Republicans to win. It's literally that. So in a way,
their voice, in a way, their voice in this, their voice of concern is the voice of reason.
And it also happens to be where the base is. Like that's literally what's going on here
with that. Like you do, we don't want, we don't want Republicans to win, man. We, so
we have to figure out why it happened. I could tell you why. It's because these guys only care
about maintaining corporate donors, maintaining the interests of corporate donors. And they have
to constantly lie to the corporate donors and be like, no, no, no, you guys don't understand.
It's actually really solid approach. Our approach is the best approach. Everyone is looking for,
you know, $50,000 in tax credits for underserved neighborhoods. That was a banger policy.
Couldn't have written a better policy myself if I tried, you know,
My mother was a small business. That's what people want desperately from their party
Everybody is self interested
And if you're this self interested in a system that requires you to be
tires you to be subservient to the needs of corporations and the super wealthy, then yeah,
you're only looking for ways to run the clock every single time you do one of these things.
You might look in to a victory every now and then, because the Republicans are dog shit
and so unbearably violent and so incompetent that like the people say, okay, I will vote
for anything, just anything but this, right?
And that's the Democratic Party's approach to winning elections.
Wait it out.
It's ridiculous.
And for everyone to know this conversation doesn't help us actually win elections. All
it does is continue to turn people inward. So the frustrating watch again like he's
he's he pitched the conversation like he did pitch the conversation he just pitched the
conversation, you mentioned when he reached out to me, he said, like, if you're going
to criticize me, let me have a chance to respond.
Which, of course, I said, please come on the pod, we'd love to have you respond.
I'm like 100% sure this would have just gone away if you hadn't done this interview.
For sure.
I'm almost positive of it.
Yeah, which is just a, yeah.
So he did tell the truth there and saying that there was no smoking gun.
There was, there was not much of anything.
No gun at all.
There was no gun, there was no smoke.
No ammo.
Yeah, there was, there was barely anything in that report.
It was just a chat GPT.
Okay, so the question is, what now? I think Ken's term goes through February of 2020. He's
elected to a four-year term. I was talking to someone today about what would you require to
make a change. Basically, it's he has to resign. The person thought the way that could happen is,
you know, the money gets so bad that Ken can't make the payments to the state parties that are
important part of his political support. And his support just erodes. Two, it's, you know, members
could, you know, read about what just happened here, watch back that interview and go public with
with calls on him to resign or push him out.
The party's elected leaders, Chuck Schumer,
Hakeem Jeffries in particular,
could decide that this is too big of a distraction
and there needs to be a change.
And then there's a separate question
that we should talk about in a minute about who comes next.
But I don't know, it's just like,
I fear that the status quo ante could hold here
because you have all these state party chairs
who are getting checks.
And it's like, is that money worth it guys?
like money is so tight right now for the party.
Can't we think about the greater good for the party
if you're like not in a swing state
but still want your 20 grand a month or whatever?
Yeah, I think you're right that the story now moves
to the money because I think that,
I don't imagine him resigning over this autopsy kerfuffle.
I think it could be an inciting incident.
Yeah.
But if after that interview,
what most people in the know told me and I know told you is that the real problem has
been the money and not just the raising the money, but the management of the money at
the DNC. And, you know, again, they always have a talking point response to everything.
It's like, well, you then you don't care about state parties and you don't want to invest
like, yes, we want to invest in state parties, 50 state strategy. Love it. Important. Right.
State parties have been underfunded. It's great that you're going to fund them again.
Fine. You can't fund state parties if you don't have the money to fund the state party.
I am sympathetic to the argument.
They're like, hey guys, the point of the DNC is not to raise money for the sake of raising money.
No.
This is where I disagree vehemently with the Paul Johns.
Wham.
Even if it doesn't work, you should still do it.
Just because I think it's funny.
Okay.
That's, that's my assessment.
The American Mal will come from Guam.
And Ken Martin is the true revolutionary visionary who understands that.
And he's working tirelessly, working tirelessly for a ceasefire between the Pajans and Guam.
I'm just saying, these guys don't get it.
These guys don't understand it.
The American Mao is right now living in Guam, but he hasn't been unlocked yet.
He's invested in win elections.
Absolutely right.
But it's up like, but you can't spend recklessly when you're in debt.
Like what's going to happen?
What happens when we can't like buy and pay for stuff in Pennsylvania in the next cycle?
Yeah, they asked Brian, CNN asked Brian shots about what he thought about this in the DNC,
how it was handled. He said poorly, keeping it private gave the implication that they were
hiding something. Yeah, sure it did. So I think there's kind of two, if he does resign, I think
there are two options for the kind of person that could step in, basically it'd be a six month job,
right? Like this, you are a placeholder, you're trying to get the thing back on track at the
fundraising back until there is a presidential nominee who will install their own person.
I think the first bucket is kind of like a big name. Names that have been floated to me this
morning include Terry McAuliffe, Governor Gretchen Whitmer, John Tester. And then there's like a
separate bucket that's like more of an operative type behind the scenes. Some names like Roger Lau,
my buddy Adesu Demisi, Fashia Kier. I'm sure all of them will hate me for floating their names here.
You do need in it. It's tough because you need a manual. Yeah, right.
You need someone who knows donors can raise money, understands DC without looking
like too much of an insider. Yeah. So it's hard to have an outsider insider.
Like you don't want someone who's going to walk in there just because everyone's
like, well, we needed this fresh voice outsider and then have no idea.
Have don't have the relationships with the donors and everything.
So you kind of need someone who can strap you down.
You know, you don't want to have an outsider insider.
You don't want to have an outsider insider.
relationships with the donors, everything.
So you kind of need, you need someone who can straddle.
You are literally a party boss.
Like we were a party boss.
You need to do that.
Which is why like, Fazz is a great, I mean,
Fazz would be a great solutions.
Adisu as well.
And you feel like also one thing you don't want to do
is just kick up the intro party,
left versus moderate.
That's like, which is the problem
with the 2016, yeah, exactly.
Okay, well, anything else on this?
I mean, it's just, it is a, it's kind of shocking.
It's not much like what Trump does every day.
It is not surprising,
but it is a shocking level of incompetence.
Yeah, it was really quite poorly handled.
It really sucks for all the people who work at the DNC
who are just doing their best
in trying to like help us build the grassroots movement,
help us win elections.
And we say this about politics all the time.
For Axios, they made a revision and deleted it.
Super secret DNC autopsy we listen to long well, bro ain't no way
It's true
Why did you slander Galindo? Oh my god, we literally unironically have Galindo heads in this fucking chat dude brother
You are defending a person who's saying like Jews control the fucking media and shit, please
What is going on man? What is going on? Okay, I'm done. I'm done with the fucking skit so left dude. Stop
We got platinum heads that's worse. No, they're the same people it's the same people
It's the same people that are like, no, Maureen Galindo is the true anti-Zionism candidate,
whereas Graham Plattner is anti-Israel sentiment is actually insincere.
He's a fucking war criminal and and therefore, like God, did Plattner say juice control
media? No. If he had, these guys would probably like him.
What's really fucking annoying about this is like, I'm beginning to sound
like these goddamn fucking liberals Zionists who are like, oh my god, you're anti-semitic.
Like, bro, chill. Can you fucking stop, please?
Oh my god, I'm literally turning you cannot under any circumstance unironically lean into
no it is all Jews as a fucking true marker for anti-zionism.
What's also really fucked up about this is you just keep causing me because I'm so fucking
stubborn and so goddamn annoying that I can't stop myself. Whenever you bring this up, I
have to literally respond. Instead of just ignoring it, I can't fucking ignore it. Because
it's my own community. I have to fucking like hopefully pull people back because it, like
my assessment from the start has been, my assessment from the start has been that she's
She's a kook, right?
She's crazy as a kook.
But if you don't want people to vote for a fucking kook, which by the way, her kooky
attitude might unironically be more in fashion in San Antonio, Texas, than like a straight
ticket person, right?
My argument is that she's not a serious person and she's crazy, okay?
But my statement to the Democrats is this, if you don't want a crazy person who's saying
all this unhid shit be the only anti-Zionist voice, run fucking actual valid anti-Israel
people, okay?
Don't run a pro-Israel cop who wants to fund ICE.
If you want a pro-Israel cop who wants to fund ICE on the one hand, in San Antonio, Texas,
an establishment Democrat. And then on the other hand, you got like a crystal mommy who's
saying like legitimately insane things, but also is sincerely anti-Israel. You're basically
forcing people to bracket themselves into that situation, into that choice. You're forcing
people to go, you know what? For me, this is very important. It's a very important issue.
So I don't really care.
The craziest part of Maureen Galindo's saga is it's barely being reported locally in text
35.
It's like the essay current and TPR and that's it.
Worse, a lot of folks in C. That's, this is precisely what I'm saying.
She didn't say anything about Jews.
This performative pro-cutching is getting old, hoping she wins.
I'm all in for Maureen.
I fucking called it.
I called it from day one.
I called it from day one.
I call it from day one.
I told you, I told you, I fucking told you.
Now you wanna know the real truth?
You wanna know the real scary truth if you consider that to be a truth nuke at all?
I think even if you ran a regular anti-zionist against her, she might have a better chance.
I think that the broader electorate is a lot closer to her fucking insane worldview than
they are to someone who's like, well, I'm a sincere anti-imperialist and I'm an anti-fascist
and I'm an anti-zionist.
I've been talking about this for three years now at this point.
The median voter is much more persuadable on the boundaries of anti-Semitism as opposed
to anti-zineism, anti-fascism, anti-genocide, and also anti-imperialism.
And considering that Israel touches virtually every single aspect of American existence,
and it's true, that is true by the way, this is not a fucking anti-Semitic conspiracy,
It literally is true. Why, why is it that Israel gets to determine the lieutenant governor of
Daniel Biss in the year 2018 when he's doing a gubernatorial run?
Daniel Biss, who himself is Jewish and has relatives living in Israel,
Israel all of a sudden is like, oh, you have a DSA lieutenant governor?
Well, DSA is a policy of BDS. They're anti-Semitic. You have to drop him. And then Daniel Biss drops him.
I mean, what kind of fucking democracy do we have? If there is that degree, if there is that degree of involvement,
It's that simple.
People, dumb people, or insincere and cynical people looked at the conversation that I had
with Nithya Raman and were like, wow, it's really unbelievable that this guy is asking
uh... los angeles mayor
about israel who gives a fuck
i wish we lived in that world i wish
the los angeles
uh... mayoral candidate nithya ramen
had it made decisions
related to
israel
as a member of the los angeles city council
but the reality of the matter is we don't live in that world
we live in a world where not just nithy araman but every single los angeles
city council member
has voted either in favor of
certain restrictions on speech
or against
certain restrictions on uh... speech
in the interest of israel
insulin dependences i mean you are correct in its why the electivity fantasy
of the dnc slash media narrative about restrained elites advocating incremental
change has done so much harm to democratic primary voters, understanding of general election
electability, transformational radicals are simply more electable in a society of hopelessness.
That is our world and it is that straightforward 100% no notes.
And sometimes that transformational radical change candidate is literally a crystal mommy,
a Marjorie Taylor blue, if you will. I mean, the very fact that Marjorie Taylor green was,
that bold and ambitious candidate for the Republicans implies that it was only an inevitability
that the same thing would happen.
The same needs or the same appetite would take shape in the Democratic Party's base
of support too.
Because Americans are fucking crazy.
Yeah, she's being too nice and Simmism masses anti-Zonism being anti-Israel is still anti-Semitism
For me, for me, like I think Maureen Galindo is not like a like a Nick Fuentes type, but
she is the type of person who's been duped by the likes of Nick Fuentes.
You understand?
like she doesn't have the sophisticated ideological underpinnings of a well-read anti-Semitism.
She's just a normal person with a lot of kooky ideas who saw the unlimited superviolence that
Israel was doing. She saw that it was directly connected by way of the media to Jews across the
the board. She's not aware of what the tropes are, anything like that. And I mean, she's
just a person who is responding to the ultraviolence that she sees. This is why I don't, or this
This is why I spend a good deal of time discussing anti-Semitism, okay?
This is also part of the reason why I say, you have to have better leaders on this issue
on the left, because if you don't, anti-Semitic Instagram reels are going to one-shot every
single person, including, uh, not just Maureen Galindo, but many people who voted for her
unfollowed. Why?
Following since July 28th, 2021. And now he unfollowed.
My argument has been twofold. One is not just about Maureen Galindo, but just the Democrats
in general and how they communicate on certain issues. Never take ownership and condemn someone,
because when you condemn someone, you're taking ownership over them. You're saying this is
what our side looks like right now and it looks pretty bad. So I'm just going to condemn
them. That's an L in this current environment. There's no reason to do that. The Republicans
never do it. Okay. They never do it unless it's for Israel. Okay. So just remember that
that's number one. Number two, in this current media environment, you should always ask yourself
Some guy went on Fox News wearing a mask creepy shit
No, that's a real person
He's not wearing a mask I don't think that's like I think that's genuine. That's just him his neck meat looks crazy
Before everybody comes to realize this is...
He's got a nussy.
He's got a crazy nussy.
Why are you guys fucking doing this, man?
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
Anyway.
Dude, I can't deal with this.
I've spent the last fucking 13 years of my life actively pushing back against conspiracy
theories only to have my entire community succumb to like more and more insane conspiracy
theories. Like we're not even like joking around anymore. There's like genuinely people
who are like, no, he was wearing a fucking mat. Like that's an alien dude. A bunch of
people actually posted that in the chat before I clicked on it finally.
Anyway, as I was saying, like for example, AOC came out and didn't just condemn Maureen
Marino, but also endorsed the opponent of Marine Glendo just a terrible, terrible, terrible
move. Okay. And I'll tell you exactly why. Number one, this is the same exact principle
behind, you know, Kamala Harris being like, Oh, people were being anti-Semitic at the
pro Hamas protests. I condemn that. Shut up. Shut the fuck up. You don't have to say that.
Okay, you don't have to say that. You can just literally defend the principle of free speech. That's it. Okay, you can defend it
Insincerely or you can defend it sincerely. It doesn't matter. There's no reason for you to literally turn around and be like, oh, I hate these
anti-Semitic pro-Palestine protesters. Who is this for?
No one on the other side thinks you're, you know, pro-Israel. Okay. And people on your side hate that you're pro-Israel.
So who is it fucking for? Nobody.
Okay, and I'm gonna go through it. I'm gonna go through the the AOC
Statement piece by piece and explain to you why it was an unforced error. Okay?
Hold on
Does anyone have the link to the AOC statement with Maureen Galindo so
people are going crazy. They're like, my God, Maureen Galindo, she's fucking crazy. She's
anti-Semitic. It's true, she is. But even if that's the case, you're not supposed to fucking take
ownership over it, okay? Republicans never do. And if you were to actually take ownership over it,
if you were to actually take ownership over it,
you always flip it. You always flip it to the Republicans, okay? Because it's true,
Republicans have far, far more insane people that are currently in office right now.
Randy Fine is only one example. There are Democrats that are insane like Maureen Galindo,
but just not in the anti-Semitism side.
But insane in the pro-Israeli side, okay? Now, the problem is within polite society,
being pro-Israel is unfortunately not seen as a crazy position. It's actually seen as the normal
position. People look at you funny in the political sphere if you are anti-Israel, whereas in the
real world, people look at you funny if you're pro-Israel. People are like, what the fuck? What
are you? What's going on? You're pro-Israel? That's a little strange. You good? That's the normal
attitude. Here comes, here the AOC hate comes again. I don't hate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
I defend Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez all the time, okay? When she does defensible things, I defend it.
I always am honest. I call balls and strikes. So,
when AOC came out and said, this is absolutely disgusting, this bigoted garbage and anti-Semitism
should be nowhere near our politics. Even if that is a sincerely held belief, I don't think,
I don't think it's, I don't think AOC has to say that.
I don't think you have to say that, right?
Here's why.
Because when you say that, no one, and I mean no one, thinks, you're not like that, okay,
I actually have separated you now from the likes of Marine Galindo, okay?
They don't.
The people on the Republican side are actively trying to tie Marine Galindo to the Democratic
party regardless they're trying to get her elected.
What they fail to comprehend the Republicans who are funding her campaign is that she might
actually defeat the Republican in this district.
But they're stupid as well, because they're also in this echo chamber when it comes to
Israel.
They haven't figured out that anti-Israel politics is unbelievably popular, okay?
Now, the reason why I said this is because if you're even going to do that, if you're
even going to engage in condemnation, you should just say it like this.
I will condemn Moringa Galindo's statements that I disagree with as soon as we censure
Randi Fine and not just censure Randi Fine, but work to expel Randi Fine.
And Randi Fine is just one example.
That's it. Play ball. Play politics. What are we doing?
Why on the one hand, Randi Fine,
why is it that on the one hand, Randi Fine, Andy Elgulz and all these other fucking freaks
can say whatever the fuck they want
about Muslims, about Islam, and get away with it, but then on the other hand, you have to
always come out and swing for the fences and be like, no, no, no, we're the good guys.
We're the good guys here.
It's ridiculous.
And the biggest error, in my opinion, was for her to then turn around and endorse Johnny
Garcia, okay?
If you're in Texas 35, go vote for Johnny Garcia, okay?
That's ridiculous.
You are under no obligation at all to endorse and push for a fucking sheriff that is pro-ice
and also pro-Israel.
That's crazy.
Even if he somehow wins and is a part of this coalition, then that's fine.
You're kind of pissing me off.
Anti-Semitism is not a negotiation tactic for the cause.
We should be principled in general.
Man, shut the fuck up.
What are you fucking talking about?
What the fuck are you talking about, dude?
Get the fuck out of here.
We're talking about politics, man.
We're not talking about you and your friends.
We're not talking about how I manage my community.
talking about people who are movement leaders, people who are political figures, and people
who are actively supposed to be defending our rights, defending our interests against
a fucking objectively fascist Republican party.
This is not a fucking classroom where Marine Galindo comes out and says unhinged shit and
you're of course gonna be like, dude, that's insane, shut the fuck up, you know, or we're
gonna expel you, right? That's not the same situation at all, okay?
And for the record, I'm not even endorsing her or her statements. I have been very critical
of her statements regardless, okay?
But if you're this critical of someone who's running in the Democratic priority primaries,
when already sitting fucking Republican congressmen say, just as unhinged shit with regular frequency,
you're designing a media environment where, once again, Islamophobia is not only an afterthought,
only permissible but encouraged, okay, when real violence towards Muslims are happening,
both overseas with our tax dollars and our social and political cover, but also the reverberations
of said violence and the normalization that obviously takes shape on US soil as well as
we saw in San Diego, okay, because these two things are interconnected with one another.
As opposed to the normalization of damaging rhetoric and the normalization of violent
sentiment towards Jewish people, which has institutional stigma.
Neither should exist, okay?
Neither.
one currently does and the other is not allowed. So if you're gonna go out of bat, you're gonna
get out of your own way, you're gonna go out on a limb here and openly fucking, you know,
talk about how bad some random fucking kook is in San Antonio, there should be a broader point.
Okay, tactically speaking, this is what you should do in every single circumstance, not
just for anti-Semitism, okay? Every single circumstance, you're gonna fucking, you're
gonna take ownership over someone's attitude and behavior, and the opposition is going to
see you as simply lying regardless, and their takeaway is gonna be, oh, they're only saying
this because they're lying and they're only saying this because she is exactly how Democrats
are like, right?
If that's what the opposition's framing is gonna look like in this situation, the least
you can do is showcase the hypocrisy.
Do politics, please.
That's it.
If you're gonna condemn, cause like, here's the thing, there's no reason for you to fucking
go out as a, as a prominent democratic party politician on the left flank to, to just like
unendorse or, uh, to, well, unendorsing is different.
If you have endorsed someone and they've done this, then yeah, it makes sense that you would
unendorse them, but like, this is a random fucking person.
If you're going to go out of your way to be like, oh my God, this person is anti-Semitic.
I'm not like that at all.
If you're like so desperate to once again showcase that you are, you know, a good politician
and you care about this, then you have to literally make the opposition look ridiculous
in that moment.
Because any sort of, any sort of concession that you make to the opposition, no matter
how valid it is, okay, and this is valid, any sort of concession you make to the opposition
must come with a cost to the opposition. Okay? That's it. She's not a big player. She's a random
person with $11,000 in cash on hand in San fucking Antonio. You know what I mean?
I think you should call balls and strikes, but AOC is allowed to condemn anti-Semitism when she
She sees it. Are you saying that she is to give tacit approval and not just indoors?
Maybe not let the crazy voters decide and just stay out of it together
She should have stayed out of it and you should have stayed out of
AOC's decision promote the candidates that are saying progressive anti-Israel and not anti-semitics is Berkeley grandma
Berkeley grandma. I think you literally didn't understand my point. My point is yes. She doesn't have any obligation whatsoever
She she doesn't have any obligate AOC does not have any obligation to to fucking call out like random
some kooks running for office, okay? There's no reason. All you've done when you come out
and say, oh, I'm against this thing, I'm against the anti-Semitism in all forms, is basically
to show the Republicans that you are for it and you're secretly actually ashamed because
you got outed, okay? That's the current environment that we live in, right? The current media
environment that we live in right now, that we exist in right now, implies that any time
you actually condemn someone that's ostensibly on your side, even if they're not, right?
Causes the opposition to go, there it is, we got them.
We live in a post-Trump universe, okay?
We have to play ball.
We have to stop pointing to the rule book and going, they're breaking the rules.
not abiding by the rules. Okay? And if you are going to do that, you definitely
should be like, look, there's condemnable behavior here and I'm willing to
entertain it after we expel Randy Fine, or at the very least censure Randy Fine.
I think that is good politics.
Do you see what I mean?
You understand?
This is the same as like the condom Hamas shit over and over again.
Anyway, maybe you guys will disagree with me on this, but this should not be allowed on
a party's fucking dump.
Just disavowed on his base, is not attaching yourself to the hip while distancing is the
cell phone.
Exactly.
Because look, you might disagree with what I'm about to say, but I think in this day
I'm of the mindset that condemnations serve as ownership, okay?
If your opposition's framing is what matters in the circumstance, because you think you're
reaching across the aisle, you're showing them, you're showing your own fans and the
broader public in general, that you're not for this, right?
If that's your goal, you're not gonna serve that purpose at all when you engage in these
sorts of condemnations, okay?
Okay, because condemnations imply ownership.
It sounds really silly to say it like this, but it's true.
Okay, when you turn around and condemn someone, for most people, the way that they see it,
because most people are very cynical and they're ideologically polarized against you, they
There you go. She got outed. Condemnation implies responsibility. You have no responsibility
over this person. You have no ownership over this person whatsoever. There's no reason.
Right? This is not your staffer. This is not your ally. This is not a person that you've
endorsed at all. You don't even live in the same state. You're in New York City. No reason
to do this, okay? And especially because the people who are demanding the condemnation
are oftentimes the people who despise you anyway, okay? It's not coming from your actual
support, your actual base.
that's one. Number two, any kind of recognition or any kind of ownership that you take over
someone that is ostensibly on your side or any kind of apology is perceived as weakness
in this rugged terrain, okay? It's seen as weakness. It's an unforced error every single
time you do it. You should only be accountable to your base. You should only be accountable
to the people who are riding with you and riding for you. People who might get confused
in the process maybe, who might go, wait a minute, I don't really understand what you're
doing here, but you should also, but you should also never have to concede to your opposition's
framing.
Kamala Harris did this quite a bit, Democrats do this all the time.
And that's part of the reason why Trump is appealing or very successful.
He never apologizes, he never condemns, and when people ask him to condemn, he turns around
says, why would I? Democrats are pedophilic monsters. Okay. And last but not least, endorsing
the Democratic primary opponent who is a, you know, pro-Ice, pro-Israel sheriff. I mean,
that's totally ridiculous. Totally ridiculous. Because then you're signaling to people that
you would rather, you don't have a problem endorsing people who are pro-Israel and I
think that's totally unacceptable.
Condemnation is not just taking ownership is accepting the terms that the enemy wants
That's the public debate to be held in, yes.
And we know damn well that these terms are used to justify real atrocities.
Libs don't realize that these terms are not only dynamic but must be forced in our own
favor.
Yes.
As on as Dan Bills here and a good guy, fuck no.
What are you insane?
Of course not.
AOC didn't endorse him.
No, she did.
She did.
So some principles to always follow through on if you're, you know, someone who wants
to run for politics in the future or whatever, you know, new rules will build more style rules
for you.
think before you make a statement, who is this message for? Is there an audience for
this message? Will this reach a broad enough constituency? Will people be charitable to
what I'm saying? Okay? Before you come out and, you know, make statements, those are
the calculations that you should be making. Because let's be real, that's what Republicans
are doing every single time. And that's precisely the reason why they never do any of those
things. So sometimes you got to think like a woke and act like a chud. Okay. Republicans
are very good at doing politics. Their policies are horrible, but for the most part, their
politics are pretty solid. They have to win elections with an objectively shitty and oftentimes
objectively violent agenda, and they do.
So play by their rules.
Don't play by their framing, because they never play by your framing.
People correctly call out Republicans for being unbelievably racist all the time.
has any Republican turn around and been like, you know what? I'm so sorry, this other Republican
is racist. Never, they don't do that. You know what they do instead? They have token figures
that they prop up just to say, look, how could we be racist? Here's a black Republican that
says I'm not racist. That's how they play politics and people fucking believe it. It's
stupid, but people believe it nonetheless. And then they constantly flip the script and attack
the Democrats. I mean, this is the party, this is the party that on the one hand says, I'll have
you know the Republicans abolish slavery, excuse me. And then also in the same breath, defend the
Confederacy. These are the people who say, oh, you can't delete Confederate generals,
that's our history, that's our heritage, how dare you?
And then they say the Democratic Party is the party of the Klan.
And it's half the time it's fucking Klansmen that are saying that, you know?
Or the very least like Klan adjacent politicians.
You know?
I think a much better response may as well be to turn it back around on a higher level
like you do, which is, yes, Maureen Galindo's detestable, he asks you exactly what you get
when you constantly push anti-zionism, anti-semitism is equal, unacceptable, unlike Islamophobia
and the body politic.
Use it to pivot, reinforcing good takeaways, not just this is bad enough, use it to explain.
Yeah.
No, 100%.
There are many takeaways from this story.
is, hey, if you don't want some fucking kooky ass like a person who's saying, you know, Jews
control Hollywood or the banking system to be a viable candidate in the Democratic primaries,
run better fucking Democrats who are the actual anti-Israel Democrats.
Because clearly people want that.
People want someone to say, fuck Israel.
Okay.
People want someone to say, fuck Israel.
So the Democrats have an option.
they actually become the anti-Israel party, or they just constantly try to find the perfect
messenger for it that still is saying pro-Israel things, but also still kind of trying to gain
legitimacy as a Israel critic.
There's also one other thing that happened.
I mean, being evil IRL, prepare you to play politics, because you have to navigate the
world while hiding your beliefs.
But to be, look, this is what it is, though, for people that really love AOC and don't
understand why people criticize her all the time, it's this type of counter signaling
that she does that cause people to think like, oh, she's not, you know, she's not with it.
She's not with the cause.
And yes, this kind of stuff, this kind of stuff actually is far more consequential in
the media environment than her actual legislative actions.
i don't agree with that idea and i will always correct the record and i will
always show
her uh... legislative performance
that is cut above
the overwhelming majority of congress right
and even the times when she is actually leading the pack
with her comes as well on this issue
calling what israel's doing a genocide far before uh... you know three other
uh... with the exception of like two or three other congresspersons
AOC called Israel a genocide far before any congressperson ever did and many still don't, right?
But this, to me, is another problem with bad instincts.
This is called the friend-enemy distinction, and this is how politics begins to look during a fascist epoch.
Yeah, because we are in that. We are. We are fighting against fascists.
Okay, we're fighting against the forces of fascism in this country right now.
So we have to be a little bit more vicious.
Oh no, Dave Weigel saw it.
Haven't seen anyone else point this out and criticize this. AOC endorsed a police officer who, if he gets to Congress, will likely vote more with Queyar than her.
Oh, no. And now I've also gotten into the, you know, anti AOC media cycle.
Why are you? Why are we glossing over the fact that AOC conflated Zionism with Judaism to make
this statement? Guys, come on, man. Come on. Stop with this fucking bullshit. Okay. Stop with this
bullshit. Marine Galindo said she wants to castrate Zionist billionaires. Okay. That's fine.
That statement, that statement in and of itself doesn't just imply fucking, you know, Zionist, okay?
What, what are we doing? Like, there are certain instances where someone is using Zionism as a
fucking substitute term for Jews, okay? Are you guys fucking serious? Like, what are we doing?
She is also literally, she's also literally said like, Jews control Hollywood, Jews control the
media, like, and, and she knows that that was fucked up to say because she has also backtracked
from that statement now. So what are we doing? I'm willing to chop that up to someone just
not being experienced, someone not being very well educated, someone who has maybe fallen
victim to Instagram real style conspiracies and shit like that. But if you're a fucking
serious politician, you can't be out there endorsing sentiments like that, okay? If you're
even a serious political commentator, you can't be out there being like, whoa, actually, this
This is what you meant like you're being fucking ridiculous. There's a limit to it. Okay. Yes
Stop it almost it almost reminds me of the people who always do this argument where it's like well actually
Semi means Arabic people as well. It's like come on dude. Live in the fucking real world, please
please. Your Ben Shapiro and the reactionary left is growing. Yeah. The difference between
Ben Shapiro and I is that I've never been a fucking loyal servant of any party. Okay.
And the reality of the matter is most people have, have finally found themselves coming
close to my conclusions. I've always had to be alone in the fucking sidelines by myself
for the most part. I mean, obviously not fully alone. There are other people that are, you
know, that have been around as well.
But let's be real. I've never compromised on my fucking values. I believe what I believe
and I will always defend it. I will always tell you the fucking truth. It's very frustrating.
One of the most frustrating things that I always have to deal with is when people assume
that I'm saying something with ulterior motives, right?
AOC did this to erase that she's not a real Democrat argument.
She's trying to show she's a Democratic team player.
We might not like it, but Senator Lef lives will give her credit.
This was not for us.
It was for the Dem primary voters.
It's just like working tirelessly for a ceasefire line at one or points with partisan Dems.
Yeah, but that's, but that's lying.
And you don't have to lie to win over members of your own fucking party.
You have to win.
That's it.
Don't do this.
This isn't for us.
Cause what you're doing, what you're doing in that situation is literally
giving credit to someone, being insincere.
Okay, what's the length?
What's the extent of how much she should do things,
not for us, because it's not for us,
it's just being truthful, having moral convictions.
Now we've moved beyond the Maureen Galindo conversation,
by the way, just so you guys understand,
because I'm not saying this about her,
statement's about Maureen Galindo,
but like the working tirelessly for a ceasefire thing
that she said that was objectively untrue.
should she have never actually come out and and called what Israel's doing a genocide at a time
when it was actually unfavorable for her to do so because when she came out and said Israel's
doing a genocide on the fucking uh floor of congress when she said that she was one of the
first to do it in such a public setting she was certainly ahead of Bernie right by a year
she was one of the like first three or maybe four congress persons that actually came out and said it
it. Right? Should she have done that? AOC has called Israel an apartheid state since
2021. Should she have done that? She shouldn't have done that if she's only making these
political calculations. It's moments like that that I actually pay attention to and
actually give AOC credit for. Sometimes you have to be alone. And you're never fully alone
regardless. You have your base, you have your fighters, you have people on your side. And
on this issue, you definitely don't have to. You, yeah, I know Greenblatt went on MS now
to cry about me again. I got it right here. Let's take a look.
There is an epidemic of anti-Semitism that has overtaken this country.
You see it on both sides, Tucker Carlson and Hassan Piker, you have Congressional candidates
saying horrible things.
Hate is a disease that will ultimately kill all of us.
That's why we speak out and that's why we're trying to push for...
Dude, everything he does is hateful.
He defends Israel.
That's the most hateful thing you can do.
God, what an asshole.
Change.
So I should just point out we're pushing for something called that was proposed just this week in Congress by Senators Leinfurt and Rosen, the Jewish American Security Act.
That would increase funding to provide security grants to all houses of worship.
of worship. Whether you're a synagogue or a mosque or a church, no one should be able
to assail the people inside. And Congressman Moskowitz was on our show
earlier this week. Right. He released a series of... Yeah, by the way, Gottheimer and fucking
Josh Gottheimer and Jared Moskowitz, both came out with statements against Marine Galindo.
Okay. They said, if for some reason Marine Galindo wins the congressional election in
Texas 35 as soon as she's sworn in we will force a vote to expel her every single day
that we're here. Do it for fucking Randy Fine, you son of a bitch. You will never do that
for Randy Fine though, because you agree with him. Okay? That's the, that's the rub.
That's the real secret here, which is not such a secret at all is that both of these
motherfuckers actually agree with Randy Fine on all the unhinged shit that Randy Fine says.
they will never actually fucking vote to expel Randy Fine. Randy Fine is a Republican. He's
on the opposing side.
That's my point. Antisemitism and Islamophobia are both dangerous bigotries, okay? But one
has institutional stigma, anti-Semitism does.
The other has institutional permission.
The other is actually rewarded.
Islamophobia is rewarded.
Look, you pray to a carpet.
Okay, take a week off now.
Truly hateful messages, the voice mails that he received, very anti-Semitic and disgusting.
It does seem like, I mean, violent acts are of course the extreme of this, but there also
seems to be a, almost a permission structure in place where people feel like they can say
things now, whether it's online or in this case in voicemails than even 10th.
By the way, this is also a little crazy. Like we're talking about, uh, combating hatred
in America where they brought in a vicious Islamophobe like Jonathan Greenblatt on the
MS now to talk about like the dangers of anti-Semitism, like he's using the, the, the
mosque shooting that just took place as a way to once again fund his own institution,
which actually turns out a decent amount of anti-Semitic sentiment and also Islamophobic
sentiment as well.
15, 20, 30 years ago, they just, they wouldn't have, I mean, why is, I think social media
has coursed into the conversation and numbed us, right?
that they can say or do anything, but there's something really important what you're saying.
People in power, leaders need to leave, like here in New York, we've had people like coming
up to synagogues with Hezbollah and Hamas flags and our mayor isn't calling that out.
Look, you've got to call out hate wherever it happens, but especially on our own side.
When again, people on the left call out Jews or attack other people, left, yeah.
me up, Muslim guy is a fucking, uh, an example of like anti-Semitism. And then turns around
and implies Muslim mayor of New York is also an anti-Semite. Very cool. Thank you for talking
about, you know, uh, stopping all forms of hate, Jonathan fucking Greenblatt. Wow.
Leaders on the left, he called out just like we need leaders on the right to show a degree
of dignity and call out that kind of hate. Right. I really appreciated your last guest,
Matthew Bartlett, what he was saying about January the 6th, there were people rampaging
through that building wearing sweatshirts that said six MWE, six million wasn't enough.
Like, who can say that these people were heroes or patriots?
Oh, damn, you're gonna call out Trump for giving that guy possibly maybe upwards of
a couple million dollars?
It's true.
Those were Republicans.
as a Republican who literally had a Holocaust supporting sweatshirt when he did January
6th.
Donald Trump got him out of prison, and Donald Trump now is creating a slush fund for him
and everyone else that they can apply to get millions of dollars back from taxpayers.
So all of us need to call out hate.
We don't get to pick and choose Nazi symbols, Hamas symbols, hate is hate, and it needs
to be condemned.
Yeah, also another, this is once again, a way to, um, to, um, to, um, to, um, to, um,
Can we pause talking about how incompetent democratic parties first I'm going to talk about the motherland Turkey.
It's going to be a hit.
Erdogan is living in a second-party country with his followers.
I know you're busy with trashy American politics.
It would be nice to hear your commentary on that.
Trump just saw it on the phone.
He saw some kind of what there's been a coup or something in Turkey.
I didn't know that. I have no idea what happened. We hope you do it. We'll cut him here a
$30 million increase for the non-profit security grant program for the fiscal year
2026
That funding is critical. It supports the security cameras outside of your synagogue
The train guard at the JCC door the reinforced entrance at your day school, but we're not done
Right now, we are calling on Congress to fund a program, the program at $1 billion because demand continues to outpace the funding, leaving thousands of applicants without the support that they need.
Now, you heard mention of buffer zone legislation in New York City and a push for a federal version.
The Sacred Act would establish a 100-foot safe access zone around houses of worship nationwide,
protecting people for the right to pray without being blocked, harassed, or intimidated at the door.
We're urging Congress to pass it now.
We're also taking this fight into the corporate arena.
arena, our affiliate JLens has filed shareholder proposals, pushing for accountability on anti-Semitism
and hate at major platforms like Meta, and has already drawn significant investor support.
Oh my fucking god dude.
Oh, okay.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Brad Lander memory clip is not a thing I ever expected
to see is a desk New York Democratic Congressional candidate Brad Lander recites Quran versus
Queens Moss as he hopes to partner in cars to eat on Omar Rashid to leave Imam praise
for a Matthew to kill infidels with his sword.
I agree.
Why Jewish New Yorker that Israel's genocide in Gaza is a desecration is a violation of
the understanding that everyone is created in God's image.
Every one of those Palestinian kids in Gaza,
just as divine as my beloved children.
And so yes, in Congress, I will not
vote for any more US military aid to Israel,
not the bombs that are destroying the hospitals
and schools in Gaza, not the occupation in Lebanon, which
is now, I believe, unfortunately, on its way, potentially,
to being a genocide as well kind of partnership
I developed with Soran, I hope to come to have with Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and
others in Congress to show we can build a city and a country and a world that everyone
can afford and where everyone is welcome and where everyone's humanity is respected.
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim.
No, no, wait, no, Brad, no.
First of all, it's so funny because he's saying it like he's doing a Jewish prayer.
phonetically. And not only that, but you can still hear his accent, his New York accent.
Wait is this was this Hebrew or was this Arabic I can't but I can't tell if this is
It that's Hebrew, right?
Wait, what the fuck what just happened
Was that a was that what did he recite the Sura in Arabic?
Because I know he's this is a Sura, but is he saying it in Arab? I can't tell
What bro?
This is Fatiha you infidel bro.
I'm sorry.
How can you understand what he's saying?
like and I don't even think this is no it's not Fatiha but it's okay am I crazy the way
he's reading it it sounds like he's doing a Jewish prayer no like it's surah al ikhlas
some doctor you are okay here this is what it sounds like
Ahir Rahman Al Raheem
Qul Qul Allahu Ahad
Allahu Al Samad
LAM YALED
WALAM YULAD
WALAM YAKON LAHU KUFFWAN Ahad
Bismillahir Rahman Al Raheem
I like Brad's more yet he
He had turned it into like
Like almost like a like a Jewish prayer. Yeah, I saw this
The American professor Richard mortal after learning Arabic
I firmly believe that the Arabic languages appear to any other language, and I do not accept debate on this matter.
Wait, what? Dude.
Okay, this is kind of interesting because I've never, like, obviously, I don't speak Arabic, right?
And all the chatters who do always make fun of me when I say certain religious verses
in my understanding in the way that I learned it, because it has a Turkish accent to it.
And it's really funny, because chatters will always make fun of me for using, for saying
like, you know, Arabic suras or whatever, but it was a Turkish accent.
it. Now I'm picking up on it when other people have accents and they try to speak Arabic.
I'm hearing it.
Thank you very much for welcoming me today.
Yes, it's broken every with Jewish style of recitation, I guess, is cute, but Brad doesn't
need to go that far, lol.
I mean, he went there.
This is our favorite reading of the day.
Dude, we've reached new lengths now.
We've actually, yo, he should have just said the Shahada.
I want you to dupe them in there saying reciting the shahada.
That would have been funny.
Imagine.
Oh man.
Brad saw this poll and said, anything goes.
Yeah.
I've never seen someone.
By the way,
Emerson came out with a bunch of new rep polls.
We're going to talk about that.
Um, I've never seen someone who's an incumbent get this fucking Comstered and dumpstered.
Okay, it's actually insane.
Jewish voters resource center, Jewish voters survey, which of the following statements better
describes why you could not support a candidate if they disagree with you on Israel.
Israel is not a deal breaker, 83%.
i could not support a candidate who i've
i cannot support a candidate who i view as insufficiently supportive of israel
thirteen percent i cannot support a candidate who i view as supporting bad
conduct by the
any of the government
uh... four percent israel is not a deal breaker issue
Hmm. Hmm. Wow.
All I'm going to say is Hassanabi thought vindicated. Okay.
Hassanabi thought vindicated. That is the worst poll question I've ever read.
it doesn't matter. Israel is not a deal breaker issue at 83% shows American Jews, and this
might come as a surprise to some, maybe Jake Tapper and many others in the media, but American
Jews are American, okay? They got American problems, okay? They got American problems.
worry about American shit, okay? That's what the fuck they care about. They don't care about genocide.
That is not the fucking reading here. No, you're wrong. The point is only 13% of Jews when asked,
say israel is the is a deal breaker it's like a uh... of high priority
this was
literally
my fucking argument about zora momdani
okay
my argument
for why many american jews voter for zora momdani was
even if some of them actually cared about israel quite a bit
they still are american jews who care about american shit
isn't a deal breaker something they cannot support
there's an offer peter truism the most american jews are prosrael anti-nanny
out of these polls shows that nearly one
out of four american jews do not support israel's jews state in other words are
not recognizably zionist
it's well past uh... time to rethink our assumptions
it's very frustrating for someone like myself because not only am i combating
the forces the ultra zionist forces in america
and jewish institutions that specifically try to desperately tie back
judy is a mizyanism and will say all just care about israel how dare you
fucking criticize israel you're criticizing jews
but i'm also combating the forces on the out of on the anti-zionist side of
times that have also
uh... taking that framing hook line in sync or that go
you know what they've said this too many times so i'm choosing to believe it
so fuck it
no charity from either side mind you
the anti-sign inside goes why the fuck do you care about this shit so much
they keep saying over and over again every single and this is true
every single virtually every single jewish institution
the exceptions
that are either like
you dish
institutions of learning
or anti-zionist Jewish institutions like JVP and whatnot are
openly saying they're pro-Israel all the fucking time in broad daylight non fucking stop and it goes
beyond that where they not only do that but then they also say if you actually fucking criticize
Israel if you protest the a settler fair that's taking place that's an illegal act it's an illegal
land sale that is illegally stolen land in occupied Palestinian territory and people protest that
you're being anti-Semitic
83% of Jews, whether they're pro-Israel or anti-Israel, say, as an American Jew, I care
about American shit.
That's what this means, okay?
That's what this means.
It's literally something I've said over and over again.
This is, once again, proof of the same thing that I keep repeating.
And I don't say this to be like, oh, I'm only saying this because I have to be a loyal
lapdog of Zionism or whatever. I'm saying this because it's true. Even people who are fucking
pro-Israel, why are you defending Israel again? See, this is what I mean. I have to deal with this
shit all the time, dude. Some of you have unironically become Nick Fuentes' enjoyers, man.
This is crazy. I understand how important of an issue this is, and I understand how impactful of
of an issue this is and how emotional of an issue this is that like you see all this death
you see all this destruction and then you see institutions places of worship openly defend
this kind of atrocity and it breaks your fucking brain but just please do snap the fuck out
of it.
anti-semitism is not defending Israel. Fuck. Amongst Jews that were asked, in this 83%,
there are pro-Israel Jews. Bro, admit your deep state Masaat C.A., Islamist, Kami, sheepdog
with a billionaire debt. Yes, it's true. All of it. Amongst this 83%, okay. Amongst this 83%,
there are of course Jews that are pro-Israel. But even Jews that are pro-Israel are like,
I'm an American Jew, I care about American shit. It's not a fucking deal breaker. I will still,
I will still support,
I will still support a politician if they're fucking, you know, anti-Israel. It doesn't matter to me.
If they got a bunch of other shit that I care about if they're defending a bunch of other shit that I care about then I'll support them I
Will just never fucking agree with Jonathan Greenblatt man. That's it
It's like
That's it cuz Jonathan Greenblatt and Nick Fuentes agree with one another
They agree with one another. All Jews care about is Israel. That's what they both say.
So why the fuck are you, an anti-Zionist, agreeing with both a Zionist who is the number
one dickwriter of Israel and a Nazi who always uses anti-Zionism as a way to fucking keep
fomenting anti-Semitism? These are some of the worst fucking people in America's society
And you find yourself in agreement with them. I am not going to do that.
This doesn't mean I don't factor in the reality that, of course, people are going to hear what Jewish institutions are saying and learn the wrong lessons out of that.
But even in a moment where there's like very clear evidence that even pro-Israel Jews don't give a fuck, it's not a deal breaker for them.
if someone is anti-Zionist or anti-Israel, and they will still vote for someone who's anti-Zionist
or anti-Israel, it's not a fucking deal breaker for them at all. 83% of them say this, you're
still going, nah, they're actually faking it. Like, what's the argument? They're faking it?
They came up with this so they can fool you? Do you see where that goes? Do you understand?
Do you understand how many leaps of faith you need to take to justify, like, that you're,
to to confirm your previous biases and at some point you have to realize like
you're literally implying that they're doing fucking taquia let me tell you
something okay if there's one group of people that don't have to fucking hide
their opinion on Israel and how much they love Israel it's American Jews okay
they certainly don't the ones who love Israel and make it their top priority
never shut the fuck up so what leaves you to believe that American Jews who
aren't constantly hysterically fucking foaming out of their mouths about how like Israel is under
attack and and this is anti-semitism, what makes you think that all Jews actually feel that way?
Now you're the one who's fucking, you know, diving off the deep end of of insane conspiracy theories.
Seems like way more of a LA thing. No, I mean there's there's people everywhere.
Maybe part of it, like part of my attitude is because like, I know more anti-Zionist
use than I know Zion is used. I know some Zion is used, but I know mostly anti-Zion is
used. Like most of my close friends happen to be anti-Zion is used. And plenty of them
are on this fucking stream all the goddamn time. And some of them even say way more unhinged
shit than I do, let's be real.
Is that the majority though?
It's not, but it doesn't fucking matter.
What are you talking about?
Dude, what are we talking about?
Majority or not, what difference does it fucking make?
Because the majority, probably at this point, for those under the age of 35, but what fucking
difference does it make?
What difference does it make?
Even if it was every single Jewish person that's like saying, my top priority is Israel,
like what difference would that make?
Would that change your calculation?
Would you still not say fuck Israel?
I would.
continue saying it, right? Because it's the truth. Like, it doesn't matter. I don't place
any emphasis on what percentage of people believe whatever the fuck they believe. It
doesn't, it is meaningless. Whether we're in the, where the majority are currently or
not is unimportant. We're making progress and we're on the righteous path. That's all
what we need. And also, whether you're the, whether anti Zionist Jews are the majority
or not amongst Jews, as far as like the way they view Israel is also completely immaterial
to whether or not Israel is a fucking apartheid state or not. That's my argument. And that's
precisely the reason why people call me a fucking anti-Semite all the time. Okay? Insincerely,
but it doesn't matter. Do you not understand? What matters is the fucking truth. Israel
Israel is doing a genocide, okay?
Israel's doing a genocide.
Israel's an apartheid state.
Israel is a fascist state.
Zionism is a fascist ideology.
Eventually, everyone will come to that conclusion.
Just say the truth and move on.
Try to convince people.
Is this productive? Is the question. Anyway.
All right. New Emerson poll shows who's leading in the Democratic primary.
All right, on this Thursday,
picks 11 has brand new exclusive polling for you on the three most hotly contested congressional
primaries in New York City.
We've been watching these races very carefully with election day just about a month away at
this point.
Joining us this morning is political correspondent Henry Rostov to break down these very important
numbers.
Henry, good morning.
Good morning, Vanessa.
Great to be here with you.
are deep blue democratic dominated districts. So what does that mean? Well, the democratic primary
winner almost certainly likely to end up in Congress when the general election happens in
November. We've got tight races in two of the three districts we're watching. Let's begin in New
York. This one is so disappointing. New York 12 democratic primary is so unbelievably fucking
disappointing. Okay. I don't know what the hell happened to Jack Schlossberg. By the way, he was
was at the top of this. Um, there was a real opportunity.
Can Cassie was running here, but he was like, fuck this, I can't do this.
I'm not, you know, capable of fundraising here. Uh, and, and, you know, he was just
like, he wanted to, to work in activism instead. Right.
And now, now, and he was a straight up real one.
He was a full, full tilt anti-Zionist, Cam Caskey, and he still is.
Um, but now you got Michael Asher and Alex Boris and Jack Schlossberg and fucking George
Conway, George Conway's, Kellyanne Conway's husband, Rhino, uh, never Trump, uh, Republican.
Well, you know, what's really fucking annoying about this race?
If Alex Boris came out and was like, yo, this is real stuff, I'm out, fuck this.
He would literally put LeBron numbers up on the board.
This is a very Jewish district for the record.
This is the outbound Democrat here is, what's his face, the old guy, I'm forgetting his
name now.
His name escapes me, but he's retiring.
Rob Nadler, Jerry Nadler.
Thank you, Chatters.
So here's the thing.
Michael Asher is Jerry Nadler's own hand-selected pick for this race, but what's interesting
is Michael Asher is literally more pro-Israel than Jerry Nadler is.
Okay?
Nadler was less pro-Israel than fucking Michael Asher is.
How is that possible?
And because it's his district, and Micah is his guy, he's currently in the lead.
Alex Borrez is actually fine.
He's not as bad.
I would, like out of all of these guys, I would say he is probably a cut above.
The issue is, he also is Alex, that guy that screamed at his barefoot pregnant wife.
What?
Who are you talking about?
Here's the problem. If Alex had maybe a fraction, no, that's Steven Crowder. If Alex had maybe
a fraction of the takes from his dad, and yes, Morris Katz is working for Lashher. And
Let's, again, I told you, they're a fucking ad agency, brother. What do you mean? Of course,
they're going to fucking work for whoever gives them money. They work for Steyer too,
even though, you know, Steyer is, I think, uh, not the worst, unfortunately, in the California
gubernatorial run, uh, out of the top contenders, he is actually, uh, better than the rest. But
But, yes, Morris Cats, white media is an ad agency.
They work for money.
They don't, I mean, I'm sure they make certain choices,
ideologically, I don't think they're gonna go
and work for Republicans or whatever.
But yeah, of course this is gonna happen.
This is, you know, I don't know why you guys think
that like they're not, you know, mercenaries
to a certain degree, they're guns for hire.
It's a fucking ad agency.
This is what they do, okay?
Anyway, I went to cause with Alex Boris. We were in the same frat. He's a good dude,
but he definitely seems like he's pro is real to an extent like more than acceptable in
most cases, but he may be the best choice in this race. Yeah. So, oh my God, another guy
pundit on Fox News wearing a face mask. Oh my God. I can't tell if you guys are doing this
to trigger me. I don't know. I can't tell if you guys are doing a no way. Oh my god.
Oh my god. 64 most subscriber. Oh my god. People's brains are fucking straight up fried.
I think. Oh no.
314 action pot fund is a pack the APAC doors and repeat leaves the funnel big money into
races where they want to hide their influence. Alex Boris has been endorsed by 314 action.
Yeah. Except, you know, who else has been endorsed by 314 action? Adam Hamawi out of
all of those, uh, out of all those top contenders, Micah is the most pro Israel.
Jack Schlossberg is the fucking, you know, insane and is just coasting on the
Kennedy, uh, the, the, the Kennedy name pretty much, but he's also pro Israel.
And Alex is the, wait, what can you at least investigate?
Why is this on refusing to investigate this?
Investigate what?
That someone on Fox news was wearing a fucking mask.
you
Oh
I
I
Don't defend 314 media they backed Alice Stanford their APAC affiliated. No, I know they are man. I know I
know
But again, they've also they've also propped up Hamawi
who I will be doing a rally with in New Jersey, a return to the ancestral homelands.
I'm saying that as far as, oh my god, no, I pressed, oh my god, even my team is like, did you just F?
U.S. military aid to Israel. No, I support consistent application of lihe laws across all countries.
This is last year. Boris is correct. It should be a universal standard applied by the lihe laws.
Or not continuing conditioning aid.
Except Israel doesn't fucking, uh,
Israel violates that. So what does that mean?
Yeah, they're both ass. Everyone is ass in New York 12. Okay.
12. This is the battle for Midtown Upper East Upper West Side. Voters really zeroing in
on the two established lawmakers here. This is the race to replace Jerry Nadler and Micah
the last year is one of his protégés is at 22%.
Alex Boris, an assemblyman who talks about
computer science guy, talks about regulating AI,
one of the issues of our times,
making inroads with voters at 20%,
and you have Jack Schlossberg,
the grandson of JFK president.
Of course, near and post wrote that 34-year-old
mayor had touted the show as the next iteration
of FDR, a famous fireside chest,
but unmoderate questions quickly devolved
from softball questions, a hardcore porn imagery.
Donnie sat alongside near city TikToker Moose
the live streaming platform, Twitch, fielding questions, like working at the best tacos
near before a near seizure inducing stream of unmoderated comments appeared on the right side
of the screen with users posting random comments. God near post is so fucking desperate. Moose was
left, begged Moose was left, begged viewers to ease up on the chat bombing, but as pleased for DCC
went limp. Guys, everyone's spamming in the chat. Let's try to keep it respectful.
Notably spotted as the spec data was farther from us, not by your streamers,
yourself watching the mayor's feed.
Are you ever going to address the fact that the mall shooters were groipers, buddy?
I address it the first day.
Literally before anybody else did, okay?
But I will. I'll get to it.
At 11%, George Conway, the noted Trump critic,
Republican-turned Democrat, over at 10%.
But note the undecided at the bottom, 32%.
So still a lot of room for movement in this race.
Let's page over to New York 7.
And this is generally considered a big test
of Mayor Zoran Mamdani's political power.
He's incredibly popular in I don't need I don't think you guys should be comfortable here. Okay. Antonio rey. No, so is
endorsed by working families party and also
the candidates leaving Claire Valdez is
endorsed by Zoran Mamdani, but more importantly than Zoran Mamdani who is is now a twitch streamer
That's on piker
Yo, OG raid Zoran's first stream one of 10. I mean, he was fucking his ass was two out
of 10. Um, Zoran, of course, is pulling high in this district, but I don't want people
to fucking a nope. Nope. No, like she got this in the bag, uh, attitude here. Okay.
It's not great for Antonio Reynoso, all the institutional muscle behind him yet he's trailing
and tied with five weeks left. Still 43% undecided though, but you have to think Clair
Valdez, especially with Mondani support at 78% approval in this district has a higher ceiling.
But the fact that there are so many undecideds in this race right now implies you got to still
go out and doorknock. Okay. This is a statistical tie. Okay. 23 to 21 is basically a motherfucking
and tie. Okay. What is this? Zoran rally? Yeah. But don't expect Zoran to fucking rally in
her stead either. You know, you have to go out and be the change you want to see. Zoran
I'm done. He's not coming to save everybody. Okay. I'm, uh, I'm, I'm working on doing something
with Claire when I'm out there. Um, chat, come not door, knock on me Sunday and bushwork
for Claire. Yeah, I want to do something. But yeah, yeah. Nydia Velazquez who occupied
the seat prior has endorsed Antonio reynozo Antonio reynozo is a relatively, it's a very
progressive candidate as well. Also, you guys want to know something fucking super fake.
This motherfucker taught it. Let me mob for you. Mum Donnie. I love New York City. I love
you want to play valor or CS. Okay. This son of a bitch had the opportunity. Okay. My Turkish
brother here had the opportunity to stream was or I'm I'm Donnie. I set it up for him
and he was too scared to do it. Okay. Yeah. I'm calling him out. He was too scared to
do it. Now he's throwing. Now he's in the, now he's, he's, he's debased himself to being
a chatter, begging for a collab. I mean, he's memeing. God, the amount of streamers, man,
the amount of streamers I fucking tried to try to set up. He's gonna fold again. Yeah,
he's not going to do it. He's just memeing in this district. It's colloquially known
as the commie corridor in New York City politics.
Democratic Socialist Claire Valdez, an assembly member,
not very well known until Mr. Mondani pushed her forward
at 23%.
Then you have Antonio Reynoso, the popular Brooklyn
Borough president.
He's at 21%.
And you have Julie Won at 13%.
The council member, 43% undecided.
So this race incredibly unsettled,
where we are seeing a race that truly is a little bit more
settled.
That would be former Comptroller, Bradland, or at 57% 34 points ahead of
sitting Congressman Dan Goldman.
And in this race in particular, not a lot of undecideds left relative to the
other race.
If you gave all this was cooked.
If anything, if we're, I mean, Brad is not DSA any longer anyway, but again,
another Zorn endorsement here, um, and, uh, therefore I'm sure there's like plenty of
doorknockers working for Lander right now.
Um, but if I was in charge of the army of reserve doorknockers, which I'm not,
let's talk not support mom Donnie.
No, he does man.
What the fuck's wrong with you?
He I'm saying he was just like nervous to do a fucking. Oh God. Oh
I can never say anything everyone immediately assumes whatever their fucking weird parasocial understanding of the world is it's normal for a fucking
Contagrator who doesn't know anything about politics that feel a little nervous about doing something with a fucking mayor. Okay, that's it
That's the that's what it was. It was a joke. Okay
My district, not fond of Goldman, Republic formerly known, yeah, it's not surprising
he sucks.
So Dan Goldman is ass.
He is incredibly ass.
And he is a fairly conservative candidate.
Brad Lander, of course, is a lot better than he is in virtually every aspect.
Even if he is not all the way there, he's not an anti-Zionist.
Brad Lander is not an anti-Zionist, but he is up there with, especially for the rest
of Congress, at least with the current makeup of Congress.
He would still be one of the most anti-Israel Congress persons, but he is definitely like
a J Street kind of guy.
Anyway, he has a lot of name recognition. He's got this in the bag
I got was saying if there was a if I was in charge of like
Commanding the reserve army of door knockers. I would say I would probably focus on Daralisa's race
especially and
Also, yeah, I know they saw you're coming to town and they're boosting Daralisa's opponent
I saw this Latino victory fund announced a
$750,000 boost to represent of Adriano Espionage re-election, more than half of that is being
spent on a TV Blitz according to the group. They're spending this money because Daryliza
has motion. Okay, Clair Valdez and Daryliza are, I think, the areas of need right now.
20% undecided points to Mr. Goldman. He still would not catch up to Mr. Lander according
I know you're planning to meet there at least again this weekend, but any plans for a New
York DSA rally or something?
She needs the Hassanabi bump.
I mean, I would do it.
Yes.
I would, if the New York DSA wanted to do like a rally or something for the New York Slade,
okay?
Um, yeah, I would be fucking all over it.
I'd fly out for that, for sure.
Polling in the 10th congressional district, that's lower Manhattan and Brooklyn.
Now the economy overwhelmingly the biggest issue in all three of these districts and almost
nobody among Democratic primary voters feels that things are going well in New York City.
Jesus.
90% poor, fair.
90, 99.
I mean it's true.
It's really...
The percent say the economy is doing poor or fair.
Just 12% saying good or excellent.
And this trend continues all the way down so that affordability issue that we saw play
out in 24, 25.
looks like it's also playing out in 26 Vanessa. So the economy, the economy, the economy, that's the deal here.
Top of everyone's mind right now, Henry. Thank you so much for breaking down those numbers for us as we are once again, less than a month away.
Good morning, my friends. We've got a poll. The first public and independent poll of this race just dropped and it has us up by two points.
But even more important than those two points, 43% of voters haven't made their mind up yet. This race is wide open.
We know that whoever talks to most voters is going to win.
I am so, so proud of this campaign, and every single person who has joined us so far, we have 33 days left.
How this race goes is up to all of us.
If you haven't donated the campaign or haven't signed up for a shift, or hey, you already have, now is the time to double down.
You know exactly how to...
Yeah, Abur Kalas as well, obviously.
in New York, so you know how to win, so let's do it.
Paypal doeswithhonest.com, enjoy us.
And this next segment, we should change the name of it
to Yes, They're Nuts.
But what the Democrats are morphing into is not a joke,
it's highly disturbing.
Texas Democratic House candidate and sex therapist,
Maureen Galindo, is using rhetoric far more extreme
than anything they accuse Republicans of.
She posted on Instagram that she will turn an ICE facility into a prison for American Zionists and former ICE officers,
even proposing what she called a castration processing center for pedophiles, which will probably be most of the Zionists she wrote.
Now, some Democrats claim to be outraged by her comments, but I bet a lot of them secretly agree with her.
OH!
and-
OH!
FOR FUCKING BATEM!
WHAT DID I SAY?
WHAT DID I SAY?
WOW!
Do I know my fucking hog media?
Or do I not know my fucking hog media?
WHAT DID I SAY?!
You condemn?
And they still go, oh, I bet they secretly agree with her.
That's it, that's it.
What the fuck is wrong with people?
Just like, this is how, this is how it works.
This is how it fucking works.
So if we're gonna go out on a fucking limb
and take ownership over Marine Galindo's statements,
Then you have to be tactical about it.
You have to turn around and be like, really?
You want me to fucking condemn?
You want me to condemn a person that's across the fucking country on a whole ass different
state that has $11,000 cash on hand, that's in the Democratic priority primaries.
But you got Andy Ogles.
You got Randy Fine.
You got Tommy Tuberville?
You got all these fucking Republicans saying they want to denaturalize and deport every
Muslim in this country?
Why are we so precious about one thing and not the other?
What the fuck are we talking about?
Do we hate racism?
Or do we just only care about one type of racism?
What the fuck is this shit?
at the same week where a fucking mosque was shot at by two teenage gripers. Three people
killed. What the fuck is this shit? What is this shit? How can you expect Muslim Americans
to feel like they're full human beings in this goddamn country and their lives are,
You know worthy of dignity when this is the conversation
It's crazy and there are still chatters in my fucking chat trying to be like whoa dude
We should just be against anti-semitism in all forms. Yeah dumbass. I agree
But don't you think it's a fucking little ridiculous they show a clip from your show in this segment
This was Galindo's attempt at a clarification.
When I said I want billionaire Zionists in prison, that does not mean I want Jews in
internment camps.
So why am I getting a whole bunch of death threats and MAGA insults?
Here to discuss Ari Fleischer, former White House Press Secretary-Factionalist contributor
Ari.
situation is nuts. Texas congressman Jared Moskowitz called Galindo the first current
political candidate suggesting concentration camps for American Jews. So it's just a fringe
thing or is it a bigger problem for them? No, it's not a fringe thing. You have a candidate
in Maine who was wearing a Nazi tag. See? See? See? Condemnations of this sort don't fucking
work. As a matter of fact, it plays the opposite role. You've now highlighted it. You've now
taken ownership over Maureen Galindo. Have fun with that.
Have fucking fun with that, too. And the Democrats are still supporting this candidate. The only
reason that she is being condemned in Texas today is because there's another week left for her to
lose the race. If she had said this, if the news about her saying these things came out
after she secured the nomination, she's in a runoff, the race isn't just in a week.
If she wins that nomination, I predict you, Laura, they're going to put up with her,
just like they put up with a candidate in Maine with a Nazi tattoo. This is how desperate they
are for winning. And there is a streak inside the Democratic Party that is virulently anti-Semitic,
and we have never heard it as bad as we did in Texas, with what she has said.
And she's claiming Ari that she cannot be anti-Semitic.
It's impossible because her last serious relationship
was with a Jewish man.
So is that?
Again, again, I'm sorry,
but you sound like a fucking Lib Tard, okay?
I'm using the terms that you understand
because this is precisely what you guys do
about black people, for example.
This is exactly the same fucking playbook.
This is the same fucking playbook that I've heard play on this motherfucking show.
It literally, oh, how could I be racist?
I know a black person.
What?
Is exactly the type of rhetoric you hear from Republicans all the damn time, dude.
It's so strange, they literally are doing, it's so funny to watch them go, we hate DEI.
Okay?
We hate all affirmative action, we hate DEI, except for one group, and we can cynically
weaponize anti-Semitism against the entire opposition party.
Okay?
Not even in this circumstance against like Maureen Galindo, who has said anti-Semitic
But just against paint the entire brush
It's so funny
And it's also funny because these people don't give a fuck about Jews anyway, okay, they just care about Israel
That's all they give a shit about
I think she's a loony, Laura. I mean, I think that's the bottom line. You know, even her
attempt to clean up today, why should billionaires Zionists be in prison? What have they done
to be in prison? You know, that's the whole flaw about everything which shows you this
throttling her mind. We're talking about billionaires. I mean, I can think of a few that should be
be in prison, you know, billionaire and Israel supporter. I don't know. I mean, listen, listen,
billionaire Zionist is literally Elon Musk down to the, the, the poor, the poorest of
the poor billionaires, you know, it could be in anyone. A lot of them have done some
un-savory things to get to the positions of prominence that they've gotten to not even awesome thought crime
Oh, if your pro-Israeli should go to prison shit. I'm talking you're a billionaire might have done some things
Might have done some things that are prison worthy. I wouldn't just
Across the board start asking questions like why should we throw billionaires in prison?
I'm just saying see two things happen one is all Democrats call for her to drop out
and if she does win call on her to drop out and say they won't support her they'll support
the Republican to support the Republican if she wins the race you know what's funny
There are Democrats who would do that, by the way, like they, because they're cocked. They're
cocked. They're unbelievably cocked. And I don't even mean just like cocked to Israel.
They're just cocked to the Republican party, okay? Their starting point is always, oh,
how can I concede? How can I concede to you? How can I take your framing? How can I take
your framing? You're my opposition. You hate me. You call me a fucking, you know, pedophilic
vampire all the time, but how can I make sure you're satisfied?
This is how, no, I'm not talking about Moskowitz and shit, I'm not talking about Moskowitz.
Moskowitz is real first, that's a separate conversation.
I'm talking about the Democratic Party tendency to constantly abide by oppositional framing.
It's not even on this issue in particular, it's just everything, everything all the time.
interview with her. I'd love to see her mind in action. How does somebody this warped think?
I think we'd all benefit by seeing this type of corrosiveness be exposed. Let her explain herself.
Let people see what anti-semitism really looks like, sounds like, and remember that the Democrats,
she won the runoff. I mean, she won the race first place to put her into the runoff.
So then why watch Fox News right now? The reason why I watch Fox News,
37 months subscriber, you've been in here for 37 months. Sorry. I got the hiccups.
You know why I watch Fox News. It's the same reason why I gave good advice
that nobody obviously heeds and listens to about how hogs operate and what you should and shouldn't do
because I understand the hog. I internalized the hog. I am a hog. I have the capacity, I'm a daywalker, okay?
I have the capacity to not only look like a chud and think like a woke, but I can also look like a chud
and think like a chud. Okay? And maybe sometimes I can look like a woken and think like a chud.
Okay? That's how the Democrats have gone today. Yeah, this is where they are. This is where the
party is totally in the sewer. And you mentioned that Senate Democrat candidate Graham Platner in
Maine going up against Susan Collins. His story keeps getting creepier, Ari. First, there was that
a tattoo, Nazi tattoo, you mentioned,
string of vile, deleted social media posts now.
More of them are resurfacing,
and where he appeared to mock a US soldier
almost killed in combat.
I think this is going south for him.
I know he was the flavor of the day and the month,
but I think this is gonna get worse and worse.
I think we've only seen the surface of this.
Well, I hope that's right.
My caution though is in Virginia,
you had a candidate for the Attorney General win.
out after it was exposed that he sent the email saying he wanted to kill the
children of the speaker of the Virginia assembly and he still won. The
Democrats have a craziness problem and sometimes it gets them over the finish
line. Be sure to like and subscribe for all the Fox News latest. So this
morning growing concerns about the rise of hate openly targeting Jews in
America anti-Semitism hitting one of its highest years on record in 2025.
Many fear it's only getting worse, especially among those seeking office.
One Texas candidate posted her vow campaign promise to turn an ICE detention center into
a, quote, prison for Zionists, and it doesn't end there.
Politicians across the country making their messes clear when it comes to anti-Israel
platforms ultimately fueling hate against Jews.
Our next guests are sound and alarm.
Democratic Congressman Jared Moskowitz has been targeted when anti-Islamic threats and
J.P. Congressman Tim Burchett, a strong Israel supporter and fighting to keep
I'm skipping this shit, dude. I'm sorry. I don't fucking like what are we doing?
Okay. Yes. Yes. Anti-Semitism is, is a far bigger problem.
And it's coming from the Democrats. They're the ones doing it.
And it's always it's do you know strong Israel supporters being yelled at me
I don't even know what happened to Jared Moskowitz. I just like
At least they stopped doing it pieces on you true true true true true that is true
Progressive Chris Wrapp says day one priority will be to de-trumpify the government
All right, let's skip this
Trump is all right. Holy Toledo. Let's take a look at Donald Trump pissing off non-voters
What is this also Fox News? Oh?
Fox News poll
Oof
Oof
God damn, dude. God damn. Yo, motherfuckers hate him, dude. People hate this man and they will
still vote for him. Okay. They will vote for him extra hard. They're like, I fucking hate him.
You know, my child went to the armory and fucking tried to and got killed in the process of trying
to attempt another assassination attempt, but I will still vote for that man. Okay. I hate that
man, but I want to vote for him so hard. This is the two positions of the modern republicans
nowadays. Yeah, no, keep slapping the Israel tax on the gas pumps, dude. Things are going great.
It just feels, guys, thank you what Kami says for the 20 gift subs.
I'm sorry, anti-Semitism is completely unacceptable, okay?
We all agree on this.
It sounds fucking crazy that that is like what is primarily talked about in the news
when the Trump administration is literally actively doing white supremacist policy, okay?
White, nativist, anti-immigration agenda. We're in the throes of fascism, okay? We are in the
fucking throes of fascism. And we're supposed to focus all of our efforts on this issue,
on this particular issue and like 75% of the time you look under the fucking cover
there are 25% you know 25% of the time it is actually anti-Semitism but 75% of the time is
literally oh i feel offended that you talked shit about israel oh inside the mind of the
the least pro-war republican primary voter
No mention of Israel, no mention of Gaza, no mention of Palestine, regardless of your views on that issue, it doesn't really seem plausible. That was a pretty big issue.
I don't think it's plausible at all. Even if you are a total skeptic, I would say here, even if you are a total skeptic, you're on the complete opposite side on this issue.
Wouldn't you want to even include that in the report, right? And say, I'll say that.
That's what I said.
That's not my belief, but ostensibly that...
Yeah, you would include it to be like it wasn't it wasn't significant. We polled it
But the fact that they didn't have it in there at all is fucking so ridiculous
Listening to an MPR interview
Uh, with a Georgia voter this am who rated Trump a plus and was asked how he was managing
higher food prices.
His answers, my wife and I fast.
Fuck!
Bruh.
Bruh.
Bruh.
Bruh.
Bruh.
Bruh.
Bruh.
Bruh.
Bruh.
Bruh.
Bruh.
Bruh.
Bruh.
Bruh.
Bruh.
Bruh.
Bruh.
Bruh.
Bruh.
What do you say to that guy? What the fuck do you say to that guy?
What do you say to that guy?
Unbelievable
But somehow the most believable
God damn it dude. We are a fucking nation
run by mouth-breathing troglodytes with a cult of admiring fans who will straight up kill
themselves if Donald Trump asked them to.
I genuinely think if Donald Trump came out and was like, I think, you know, 25% of you
gotta kill yourselves, like a fucking, like the leadership of the Viltramites, you know
what I mean?
I great throg great Trump command you to rip apart the weakness in your body
They would just be like all right time to fucking do it
Those who didn't cast a ballot at all in
2024 those who didn't show up to vote well
They have become absolutely perturbed
I daresay they are piss off at the president of the United States voters who didn't cast a ballot in 2024
Trump's net approval rating back in November of 2024 just after the election
Look at his net approval rating was plus four points for his plans in office, but look at that. It is full. Yeah
There you go, Sarah Sider. That's the only sound you can make it is falling through the floor. Look at this
minus 50 points on Trump's net approval rating among voters who did not in fact cast a ballot in
in 2024, that is, you don't have to be a mathematical genius
on over 50 point move against the president
of the United States, among those who are kind of like,
meh, you know, in terms of voting in 2024,
but now they are pissed off.
Well, and that's the thing, the turnout can have
a huge impact on who wins a race.
Give us some sense of why, why people are in this position
and I can kind of guess, but I'll let you guess.
You can kind of.
I'll tell us the numbers.
I'll tell you the numbers.
I mean, look, anyone who's been following these segments,
anyone who knows anything about American politics
knows it's the economy.
It is the economy smarty pants in terms of Sarah Sider.
And you can just see it here.
I mean, view of Trump and the economy,
again, among voters who did not cast a vote in 2024,
in November of 2024, 60%, 60% were confident in Trump
to make good decisions when it came to the economy.
But again, this number is just absolutely plummeted.
Look at his approval rating now on the economy
among those who didn't cast a ballot in 2024.
It's 90% it's only a third of those who were coming back in November of 2024.
Again, we're just talking about numbers that are falling through the basement.
If you hire the carpenters who built Donald Trump's floor in this.
Amy Goodman's peace sign.
Thank you for the 50 bones.
Peace to you as well.
Trump isn't actually on the ballot, technically, but Republicans certainly
are. Is this going to have an impact, you think, on them?
Yes, absolutely. This is the key question because it's not just about persuasion. It's about turnout, baby
It's about turnout and these folks are not just pissed off and want to vote Democrat
A lot of them are actually very likely to vote okay voters who didn't cast a ballot in 2024
They're 2026 choice for the House look at this Democrats are winning amongst them by 31 points and
48% of them are either very likely or almost certain to vote in the midterm elections
So this is a group
I really may be paying a lot of attention on because the reason why Democrats are doing so on the generic ballot is in large
part among those who stayed home in 2024. Many of them will vote in 2026 and they won't be voting
Republican. They'll be voting Democratic because truth is they're just pissed off at the president
of the United States. We expect to see some potentially big numbers I mean judging from this
at the polls or voters numbers when it comes to the midterms. When you're when you're perturbed
you turn out to vote. Do you know how hard it is to be working class and afford rent or mortgage
utilities, transportation, child care, food, and forget about if you're at child needs tutoring
in school or wants to participate in extracurricular activities. This is what the majority of the
American people are dealing with. Trump ran on the economy. He's failed and not regarded. We're in
a war. We shouldn't be in. He's backtracked on the Epstein files. This is all why his numbers are
in the tank. And Democrats have been pouncing, but hopefully we could finish the job for November.
I will note to your point, by the way,
average mortgage rates are now up to 6.56%.
It's absolutely stunning, and that is preventing people
from being able to buy homes at this separate point,
but to something you mentioned.
Mortgage rates just hitting the highest level we've seen
in nine months, and as we gear up for the busy summer travel season,
gas prices are higher than we've already seen in almost four years.
Experts say they could get worse too with the war in Iran
and the ongoing closure of the Strait of Hormuz,
destabilizing global oil markets.
oil markets. See an unbusiness senior reporter, David Goldman is here to break it down for us.
David, let's start with mortgage rates. How high are we talking?
Yes, 6.51%. That is, as you mentioned, the highest in nine months. And the amount that it jumped
over the past week was... Bro, I'm okay. I'm left bashing a little bit. I have to. We don't have
to compromise on trans people at all, explaining that it makes no sense to difference to ostracize
chance people in order to be like, the bold Democrats should run on decent positive, brutalize
everyone. Transpovia isn't productive. Only compromise on genocide is allowed. When have
I said that? Like what, what is this? What is going on? What are you fucking near attended?
Like this is near attended levels of lying about shit that I, that I, that I say and do at this point.
Stop responding to bad empanada fans on Twitter.
What the fuck is happening, dude? Who the fuck are these people?
What kind of fucking what kind of anti-sidism have they done?
This is the person you're supposed to be nice to by the way salin wait, this is the person who this is who they were talking about
about. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh, they live in Argentina and just retweet bad empanada.
How the fuck am I supposed to know this guy's Palestinian? Also, he can be Palestinian.
I can still disagree with him.
Literally farming y'all, by the way. Yeah, no, this is, I am being farmed to a certain degree, I think.
This is what that other chat was referencing. Oh, this one, which pales in comparison to your
methods also posting. Posting is better than being prosigned as Dems.
I genuinely, dude, dude, if you're not getting paid, if you're unironically not getting paid
by the CIA, you should be, okay?
If you're not getting paid by Israel, you should be getting paid by Israel for doing
tireless advocacy, okay?
Straight up.
Straight up.
You know, you should be.
the side of Nasdaily King, Ahmed Fawad Al-Khateeb. You got this, son of Hamas.
Like, if your anti-Zionist advocacy is just fucking constantly telling people that are
listening to what you have to say, that I'm actually a liberal Zionist or I love defending
Zionism and I love defending Israel, if that's your anti-Zionist advocacy, I mean, you might as
will be working for fucking radio free Palestine, you know, what are we doing voice of Israel
last chatters. It's so frustrating, too. How is this productive? Come on a sign. He said,
no left bashing. I mean, is this person in the fucking left? What did, what did, I don't
anything about them other than the fact that they just keep saying I'm a fucking Zionist.
In his most recent reply to someone, he's admitting that he's baiting you.
I'm gonna guess it's because of the sport AOC. It's always AOC. They hate her more than the
than the rest of the Democrats? Yeah. Who said be nice to them? I don't know. Some fucking
random dildo ass chatter, some random fucking dickhead chatter. He loses his shit so easily.
That's just incentive to do it more. Well, now this shit has me dying. These are also
Fans too like that's what's so fucking goddamn annoying. Yeah guys. Thank you for your sincere and tireless advocacy for Palestinians
How are we doing this by telling other people on Twitter that I'm a fucking Zionist and then fucking around?
While I'm in the process of covering shit
This is my advocacy. This is me doing praxis. You don't understand the more praxis. I get out of this the more the more
I say Hassan piker is a a pro Israel Zionist you got fans who are here every single day
And then they go on Twitter and other streams and shit on you. Yeah, I don't I mean look
I don't give a fuck. Okay, whatever y'all are corn balls. Okay, I hope you lock in in the moments that matter
matter at the end of the day. I can, I can take it. Who gives a shit? But I, I, like
what a, I don't even need fucking sex, Pestinies community up my ass all the fucking time.
I got these guys who have like probably come out of my community, not just AOC. They're
Clinton, Chris Raddus, pro Israel. Yeah, I know. I know. That's not referencing Lockheed
liberal tweets to justify supporting genocidal Democrats. This man is a glorified liberal
at this point. Oh my God, I just helped the most socialist members of Congress get elected.
It was now the most anti-Semitismist voice in our government alongside where she did
to leave. You're still calling him a lib. Yeah, no, it's just, again, the reason why
people like this get so mad. Okay. Here, you want to know why people like this get so mad
at you want to know why? Because they don't do shit. Okay. All they have is this and I
have this too, but at least I try to use this for good, to try to make some changes, right?
But they don't want to do that. So all they have, and it's no different than all the fucking
anti-communist liberals that yelled at me for going to fucking Cuba with progressive international
and delivering humanitarian aid, every single person that freaked out on that shit, they were
They were like, oh, he was wearing expensive clothing and whatnot.
They're mad, not at what I'm doing, they're mad at their own lack of interest in doing
anything meaningful, right?
That's it.
You sit at home all day, you know how fucking powerless you are, you know how the systems
are designed to maximize cruelty, okay?
So when you see someone actually doing anything, you try to figure out a way to disparage it
because after all, it's not worth it.
It's not worth it to do anything because you yourself are fucking powerless, right?
You're powerless.
So everyone else that's trying to do anything to try to change the situation must also be
doing it for some cynical purpose, for some ulterior motive, right?
if that's not the case, if someone is sincerely trying to make changes, right, if someone
is sincerely trying to make changes, all of a sudden, you have to literally reconsider
sitting on the couch and tweeting. If that's all you're doing, if that's all you're doing,
and there are other people who are out there trying to make changes, you know, albeit marginal,
Then there is an opportunity to do something beyond just like performatively posting on
Twitter about how everyone else is actually secretly an op, secretly pro-Israel, all this
shit.
Instead of addressing your own personal lack of investment, your own personal lack of action,
It's much easier to just disparage anyone else who's trying to do something different
than you.
Going forward, any radical needs to reach this level before criticizing you.
Yeah, exactly.
If you're so, you know, if you had impact, they would be fucking putting your name on
this bill.
Okay.
Clearly, those guys understand what the fuck's going on.
I hate them, and they hate me.
Well, the reason why they don't do anything about you is because you're not trying anything.
You're just fucking chirping on Twitter.
This is the most comfortable place that you can be in.
It's both comfortable for you, and it's certainly comfortable for the actual Zionists in power.
But the Zionists in power, they love that you guys chirp on Twitter.
They don't want you to go out.
They don't want you to try to elect people who are anti-Zionists.
They hate that shit.
And that's precisely the reason why.
They don't give a fuck when you tweet.
Tweet all day.
It's a way for you to take all of the possibly productive
frustration and channel that into doing something that can
make systemic changes slowly but surely, OK, little by little,
and release that pressure valve by just saying something.
Saying something on the fucking timeline.
That's all you got, baby.
Who do you think the centers of power fear more?
Someone like myself who is trying to normalize certain ideals,
whether it be developing a better understanding for the,
the liberal base,
that's the why Palestinians actually engaging the active resistance or someone
like you on Twitter.
Talking about how no one is actually sincerely anti-Israel like you are.
That's it.
And then half of these guys will be like Tucker Carlson is so good with his tireless advocacy
for Palestinians.
Like it's always the same people that are like Marjorie Taylor Grant and Tucker Carlson
are so good with their sincere anti-Zionist advocacy, unlike Hassan, who is a glorified
liberal and loves Israel and loves Zionism.
You don't know the fraction of the shit I go through on a daily fucking basis to be
able to do this, you know, work that I'm doing and have been doing for the past fucking
13 years and certainly for the past three where it's gotten an increasingly insane
amount of attention in the negative, obviously in a way where I'm, you know, being fucking
doxxed endlessly and harassed endlessly.
There are those who substitute genuine change or moving in the direction of
creating genuine change for posturing as a more moral deity on the timeline.
There are a lot of people like that.
I want, I want all of us to get along. Ultimately, it's not about substantive political changes,
but constantly feeling morally superior and chirping about that said moral superiority.
others, more superiority can be fake, political action cannot.
This is song guy was a lib like a year ago, Lomifeo, was he, I mean, I'm familiar with
him because we have the same name. And his, uh, his claim to fame was that, uh, ASAP Rocky
followed him, I think for the longest time. He's just like a Twitter poster.
What is this? I knew his song before he launched his channel. I've been on a show and I've
watched his rise for years and I'm certain he'd agree with me that the number one reason
he's so much bigger than other leftists is he was an extreme early adopter of Twitch.
It's the exact same thing that happened with Choppo and podcasting.
These are all smart people and good talkers, but if you actually watch this play out, it
was very much a right place in the right time thing for both.
I agree.
Certainly.
We reached the point where AOC is answering questions about the DNC autopsy on the hill
Well, Hassan Piker talked about it, and that's all in addition to Pod Save, all signs that
this has evolved from a niche insider issue.
And yet we are not talking about the fact that black voters and voting power in the
south and in the CBC are on the verge of being extinguished or diminished greatly.
As I mentioned weeks ago, there are two windows that releases damn thing.
So has to be meaningful and not a big distraction.
This moment is not one of those windows.
Today, the folks tweeting 10 to 15 times about this report, wait, I have talked about redistricting
over and over again, so I don't know, I mean, he's chirping at maybe other people saying
that they're being unproductive or whatever, but.
What is this, is crazy, all you do is punch left yet claim not to be a liberal?
So you know that to be true, so when you tell someone do something then you know that they'll
never be able to do it.
Wait, what do you mean?
You can't get off your fucking couch and go to a goddamn protest, you can't get off and
join a fucking org, you can't get off and organize, can't get off your couch and organize?
Every other person in this community does that.
If your only fucking praxis is chirping on Twitter, then you're doing nothing.
I stood next to you in Minneapolis, my boy, so calm yourself, as if they didn't have the luck you had,
meaning that it is nothing more than a bad faith-baby-brand argument meant to diminish your detractors.
So what the fuck are you chirping at? I was there and so were you.
So you should know better, don't you think?
What's the conversation here?
You stood next to me in Minneapolis.
Do you think I'm your fucking enemy?
Do you think I'm a Zionist?
Do you think I'm pro-Israel?
So why the fuck do you entertain those whose only output is to claim that?
And then a couple GoFundMe's that they post on the fucking timeline here and there.
What the fuck good is that doing?
I don't expect you to say I'm a fucking hero by any means, okay?
I'm not.
I'm just a regular ass dude who's unbelievably fortunate.
I don't expect you to fucking turn around and turn your entire advocacy against drawing
as much enmity as possible towards me at a time when I'm already eating dick from every
fucking major institution in this goddamn country for the very same advocacy that you
want others to adopt.
How is this hard to fucking comprehend?
At no point do any of these radicals, okay, who all they do is fucking post on Twitter,
turn around and go, wait a minute, why is it that major Democrats and virtually the entirety
of the Republican Party, Fox News, CNN, every single fucking right wing think tank, every
single fucking center right think tank is constantly up this guy's asshole.
It's because I believe the same things you do, you fucking idiot.
That's the whole point.
And they don't want that kind of message to reach a broader audience.
So if you don't understand what I'm trying to fucking do, and all you do is also lean
in to the pre-existing algorithm-backed animosity to try to farm a couple fucking likes on Twitter,
then what are you doing?
All you're doing is the same as them.
You have now found yourself in allegiance with these forces.
I don't know, may you seem to punch left in the much of the same way that liberals do.
All right, dude, take a fucking day off, please.
He's 100% right that you lean on that argument as a thought terminating cliche.
I'm influential and you're young and broken.
Your ideas are invalid.
No, that's not what I'm fucking saying.
That's not what I'm saying. You're being vaguely annoying. No, you read it as that. I'm not saying that at all
Fuck
This conversation just turns into your parasocial anger, okay
It's that's all it turns into do you do do we feel like there's a productive back-and-forth right now?
Are we doing a productive struggle session? We've moved 11 steps beyond what is good advocacy?
So be more clear. I am being clear. I can't
Crawl in through your ear and enter your brain and rewire it in a way where you can actually fucking understand what I'm saying
my point is
Not that oh, I'm the god of the left. I'm the most influential guy. Everyone needs to listen to me
That's not what I'm saying. I don't give a fuck. I'm just a regular ass dude
Okay
My point is if you don't understand what I'm trying to do which I make very clear all the goddamn time
Okay, to reach as broad of an audience as possible with this message.
But you find that to be counterproductive.
Either you can maintain some level of charitability to what I'm trying to do, to try to understand
what I'm trying to do.
I feel like I've done enough for you to have some level of charitability.
Instead of immediately being dismissive, you can make better arguments for why they are
that I'm successful, that's it, that's not the argument I'm making.
Brother, the reason why people are yelling at me is not because I'm saying I'm successful,
they're yelling at me because they think I'm propping up Zionists. They think that any kind
of Democrat that I'm aiding, that's running, is ultimately going to be a pro-Israel Democrat.
okay? Why are you being so disingenuous? Why is this so hard to comprehend? It's
never about, oh look at how influential I am. That's not it. That's not my argument
at all. That's not what I'm saying at all. And those people aren't saying that
either. They're getting mad at me. Just forget it. You're not getting me. I'm
being extremely genuine. No. You're not getting me. The argument I'm presenting is
not, oh, I'm influential. The argument I'm presenting is the reasons as to why I'm working
with Democrats is not for some fucking self-serving purpose, okay? The reason why I'm working with
certain Democrats is because I want to get anti-Zionist into office, okay? Little by little
to make the necessary changes. And even if it doesn't ultimately change the dynamic of
the party, the democratic party, it still reaches a much broader audience of people.
This message, this theory, the, the, I, like it makes anti-zionism a more permissible conversation,
a more permissible ideology, okay?
And these people, I agree that you're doing that, and I agree with that, Shazia, I'm nitpicking
relative to the time spent on this and I'm sorry.
I think what this comes down to is that a lot of people want to gatekeep their world
view for some weird fucking reason.
They treat it like being a hipster, okay?
They think it's like, they think it's about being a fucking goddamn hipster.
And they get a lot of thrill out of being recognized in this community as like someone
who finally did it, someone who finally pissed off this fucking big, dumb, secret liberal
who's pro-Israel, okay?
What I think is just unproductive.
I'm spiraling.
Political organizing is not a fad, okay?
You have to work with people. Sometimes people you disagree with.
You have to get them to understand your worldview.
You have to help them arrive at these conclusions.
I've done so for the last 10 years.
when people come to the conclusions about you and you assume most of your opinions of
the past 10 years, I know.
Nothing pisses me off more and I shouldn't even be openly admitting this.
Nothing fucking pisses me off more than when people are just like, oh dude, this guy's a fucking libtard. Oh my god. He's just like
Yeah, no, this is what it is this is what it is he he it's a bait I eat the bait hook line a sinker and then
Immediately this guy's like see I fucking got you dude
I'm sorry
But if you think this dude is is you know doing tireless advocacy doing the work
Okay, go listen to him try to fucking defend his positions on a sex pest Zionists
broadcast, okay, I
Don't want to bring this up, but buddy. Let me tell you okay. You didn't do a great job
You got fucking owned by an Israel dickwriting pedophile. How do you think that? How do you think that looked for the cause?
Your desperation to fucking clout chase
Caused you to get literally owned by a moronic Wikipedia article summarizing pedophilic Zionist
Dumb fuck
The largest jump that we've seen in over a year and so what's going on here? Why is this happening?
Well, the war in Iran is causing two things.
It's causing inflation because of those gas prices that we'll talk about in a second.
And it is a huge expense that the government needs to pay for.
And you can think of the bond market like a scale, right, where it's when you weigh
down the price, the yield goes higher.
What is based on that yield mortgage rates?
loans, credit cards, auto loans, things like that.
And so,
Chill on Flago, he should chill on me.
How about that?
What we're seeing is this imbalance.
We've seen the bond market plummet in the last couple weeks, especially the last week,
as we consider that, you know, the war will just continue and continue and continue.
That's what investors think is going to happen.
That's what is causing those mortgage rates to go higher, Boris.
as the war continues, the Strait of Hormuz,
not seeing the traffic that it usually does,
therefore oil prices go higher,
how high are we talking in the United States?
Well, oil prices have maintained their level
above $100 a barrel,
and when you think about what was happening
before the war, we had $60 oil.
That was why we had $3 gas,
with 100, 110 even, just a few days ago.
Now we're looking at 456, which is a wartime high
and every single US state is now averaging
more than $4 a gallon.
It's gonna be a painful Memorial Day for folks
who are taking a road trip.
Look at that, Indiana, Mississippi.
These are not states that you think about
with really high gas prices.
Now even folks in the middle of the country
contending with very, very difficult road trips.
This is the biggest shock in terms of energy supplies in world history.
Now, some people have wondered why haven't prices gotten even higher?
And that's because, in part, the world entered this crisis with a pretty
sizable rainy day front, right?
Oil inventories, which act like shock absorbers, they were really high.
However, now they're shrinking rapidly.
Total U.S. oil inventories last week alone, plunging by 18 million barrels.
that's the most on federal data that goes back to the early 1980s and emergency
reserves they're also shrinking the strategic petroleum reserve is down by
10% since the war started falling to the lowest level in almost two years now
this is what those reserves are there for right they're designed to try to
absorb a shock it's kind of like savings in a bank account right it can help you
ride out of storm get through a financial emergency of course it's not
going to last forever, right? Eventually you're going to run out. And so that's
where the concern comes as far as the supply shock. And look, I know the
president this week, he dismissed high gas prices as peanuts. But I've been
talking to people who've been telling me that it's really, really painful. I
talked to a computer technician in Pittsburgh and he said he drives by the
gas station every day. He says the prices are just insane, but it's not just
energy, right? It's also the cost of groceries, the cost of everything. He
He said, everything is going up right now, except your paycheck.
And Sarah, I do think that this is just another reminder of how painful high gas prices are,
especially for people who are living paycheck to paycheck, right?
This is just something that they can't avoid right now.
It has a big impact.
You've got to get to work.
You've got to get in a car to do that.
And so you're paying more just to go to work, and you can't pay for the other extra things,
especially, as you said, this is travel season.
This is summertime.
A lot of people are going to be upset with this.
Maddie, thank you so much for breaking that down for us.
What is the biggest issue for you in your life?
The cost of living.
The grocery store, the gas pump.
I can't afford my insurance.
It's outrageous.
We're not going to have middle class.
I'm in Pennsylvania's 7th congressional district.
It's one of a handful in the entire country that could decide control of Congress in November.
And I'm talking to people here about their lives and what they want the candidates to
be focused on.
Hi.
I'm a reporter.
My name is Sabrina.
Can I talk to you?
Yeah.
policy in American member of this community will never not infuriate me to see people
who haven't done 3% of the advocacy work fund raising solidarity speeches debates on our
behalf as you have talking like they've become full-fledged member of the PFLP spending all
your time coming for our advocates that have motion is not helping move towards that liberation.
Yeah, no, they fucking openly admit that they're farming for attention. Okay, you voted for
Kamala that's literally a compromise on the Gaza Genocide.
See, they have a point.
Every time, every time, every time, every time.
Consider what community is malding today and realize bait is coming from them.
I don't know what community is malding today.
Every time there are, there is a, there is a, who'd they vote for?
I don't think they're American.
didn't vote for anybody. You get it from the Cahovers for not advocating for
Kamala and Kamala and you get it from the Ultra for voting for Kamala Law. I just...
Real question, have you thought about not engaging with Twitter outside of your
post? I have and I probably should.
I'll take people read too much theory and don't put any of your practice, no these guys
don't read theory.
Don't be fucking ridiculous.
No.
Do not be ridiculous.
Look, the exact same thing that took place, where I was also in the crosshairs all the
way back in 2016, Peak Woke, was, listen, here's what it is, okay?
During Peak Woke, people had the same exact feeling of helplessness and powerlessness.
But what do they do?
Instead of organizing, trying to do their very best, engaging in direct action, protesting,
they turned around and they yelled about their favorite TV show not being woke enough.
And at the time, it was also on Twitter, a different type of Twitter, but Twitter nonetheless,
At the time, I used to always say, you guys are only doing this because you know how difficult
it is to make the necessary changes to make society better, okay?
You have to take that frustration that you have and lean into more productive avenues
and do something about it.
Not like decentralized acts of violence, of course, not adventurism or anything like that.
But you have to take control over your own life and build something bigger than yourself.
Because if you don't do that, you're just going to fall into a pit of despair and be this nihilistic,
edgy, you know, ultra-left poster on the internet and that's all your output is going to be reduced to.
It is antithetical to my worldview. And I used to yell at a lot of the wokes back then. I used to
say the exact same things and people would constantly call me a racist for it or they'd call
me a sexist for it because in that moment they thought this was the peak of their activism.
They got swept away in this almost religious fervor into thinking that the greatest form
of activism they could do was yell at, I don't know, whatever TV show was popping off.
Okay, whatever TV show or or whatever book that was coming out or whatever poster had
said something whatever influencer it sounds something that are like frustrated them endlessly
and they tunneled in on that and they would just constantly chip away at content the type of content
that you consume says a lot about your politics.
We have to, you know, practice is playing the right video games
instead of the wrong video games.
This is kind of like weird, unnecessary,
unproductive device of culture war issues
that people who otherwise had a fairly decent ideology,
a fairly decent worldview would lean into.
10 years after the fact in 2026,
the world has become an even more cruel place, okay?
All of the things that we know, all of the systemic harm that we experience, that we identify on the left, still very much persist, and maybe, or not even maybe, it's gotten worse.
So what do we do?
Instead of working towards fixing these problems with the recognition that change requires a tremendous amount of effort and also can only happen over a very long time frame, okay? It won't happen overnight.
night, instead of digging in and trying to be that change, we do this exact same thing.
We do the exact same thing. We tunnel in on certain concepts. This person is a Zionist.
We're surrounded by Zionists in the media. I duke it out with them on a daily fucking
basis. And in exchange for that, I get fucking constantly, there's constant
efforts of deplatforming from democratic party politicians like Richie Torres, to
advocacy groups that are banning, that are demanding that entire governments
ban me from traveling to other countries, to bipartisan bills that are designed to
also demand my deplatforming from these platforms, to silence my voice to an entire apartheid
defense apparatus that is organized around making sure that, you know, no one ever listens
to a damn word I fucking say.
This is not a woe is me situation either, okay?
It's fine because the issues that I try to communicate to as broad an audience as possible.
Those issues are far more consequential than one singular Twitch streamer, right?
But the reason why they do this is because it's working.
And the reason why it's working is not because of me, it's because of all of you.
And it's even because of those fucking charpers too, let's be real.
Because those charpers are also going out to protest, right?
And they've also been doxxed and harassed endlessly.
So why is it that when we are nearing the precipice of victory, or at least moving in the direction
of victory, when Israel is unbelievably unpopular in the United States of America, and the next
step is to build on top of that unpopularity, to actually take out the politicians that
refuse to reckon with its unpopularity and substitute them with those who are responsive,
those who are anti-Zionist.
Instead of doing that, if in this pivotal moment, your focus is to say anyone that is
trying to take out pro-Israel politicians and substitute them with anti-Israel politicians
is my fucking up, because at the end of the day, the entire party system is bunk, it's
It's a bourgeois liberal democracy, and it's totally meaningless, and all you're doing
when you fucking fly around the country, fly around the world, is actually, you know,
promoting the nation-state of Israel.
If that's what you're doing, if that's what you're focusing your efforts on, then yeah,
I'm gonna yell at you every now and then.
Because you come across like you're fucking either an unbelievable baby or like you're
gatekeeping, like you're gatekeeping anti-Zionism somehow.
It's understandable to feel a little skeptical about those who never said anything about
Israel for years and years until it was fashionable to criticize it, right? I get it.
There are always going to be ponies.
There's always going to be fucking people who are riding the wave, okay?
I'm not one of those people.
If you can't separate someone like myself from people like that, I don't know what to
tell you.
I already have a million ops.
nation-state of Israel. Half of the fucking American government. Billionaires like Elon Musk, Palmer
Lucky, Peter Thiel, to name a few. Why the fuck do I have to duke it out with those who are closest
to me in ideology on top of that. Every day there's another article calling me a fucking
terrorist and then I have to literally hear from motherfuckers. Almost every line of that
is a lie. Utter lies, which everyone knows up to three years of live stream genocide,
is a complete reversal of the truth. Van Jones is the lowest type of democratic party swamp
creature. The democratic party is in a situation where its base is 85-90% horrified by the genocide
Israel is perpetrating and does not support Israel.
Hassan Piker is somebody who, you know, I agree with sometimes, sometimes I don't,
but he's inspiring and gaining traction for among a lot of younger people,
and that's a real danger to the Democratic Party established.
My goat Ali Albanema has spoken, okay? Now it's time for everyone to be quiet.
Grab one of the most important people in the anti-Zionist space, you know?
So they have to move shells like Van Jones very quickly to try to kill that enthusiasm
and discredit anybody who's capable of mobilizing excitement and enthusiasm among a progressive
base I don't you also do you be without but even now fuck no are you kidding me
no of course not that rhetoric is going to work I think it will probably please
whoever pays Van Jones's bills but it's not um what doesn't he agree with you on
I wonder is probably because he thinks I'm too nice to Democrats broadly but
But there's a difference between comradely disagreements with people who have maybe different
methods, but want to arrive at the same goals, arrive at the same conclusions, and people
who are fucking chirping.
You
I think the criticism for advocating for the anti-zine is them politicians that they are
getting the benefit of the popularity of pro-passing activists like you have created.
They have not earned it.
I personally feel you have been swept up by ridiculous fuel because you seem to be too
charitable at times.
cool. Mike, the candidates that I've pushed for, the candidates that are propped up are
all either coming from an activist background or have literally, like Adam Hamawi is a doctor,
right? He literally went to Gaza. You know what I mean?
He went to Gaza. What more could he do? He sowed back Palestinian children together that were shot by the Israeli government. He put his life on the line.
You know?
Like, what could he do more to earn anyone's confidence in this space?
You know?
Like what have I done in comparison to what he has done?
Even Zoran Mamdani, I have my disagreements with him at times. I'm not shy about openly stating those disagreements.
But I also understand the space he occupies.
Right? I've criticized Zoran when he says stuff like, oh, it's a, you know, when there's a settler
fair taking place. And his main criticism is people saying that there are pro-Hamas when the
main criticism should be directed at the land fair that's taking place inside of yet another
place of worship. That's illegal. I get it, but Asande, I'm not going to stop tripping
you, getting into Twitter fights with our left-hand help and any of us. I know, which
is why I usually don't make a practice out of it, but it's gotten so fucking out of hand.
Partially because it's like, we're in a very interesting moment where all of these different
forces are fucking actively not just coming after me, but also all these other anti-Zionist
uh... candidates
so seeing
seeing people
who are anti-sinist themselves actively fucking shit on those candidates
is unbelievably frustrating
and i don't even know where this is coming from
but i think some people genuinely find being unpleasant to be the highest
former praxis
this has always been an issue
with the left.
Always.
The highest form of practice is being fucking annoying.
You got the ACP, Reactionary, TALIS on the one side, and you got these other random accounts.
Just chirping.
Venting.
Vent at the right people.
Anyway, let's get back to why some voters are turning on Trump.
Okay, so this was $106.
For like four or five bags, paying more and bringing out less bags, Sabrina.
It's a real bite out of your income.
What do you do?
You gotta eat, right?
Do they just connect to politics for you?
The war in Iran and everything is, you know, it's jacking up the price, everything right
now.
And can I ask who you voted for in 2024?
I voted for President Trump.
How are you feeling about that?
Are you feeling pretty good now?
Are you feeling?
Well, I have mixed emotions, Sabrina.
I don't like the war.
I don't, you know, like bombings or killing civilians or anything like that.
I wish we could stop that somehow.
The other thing is I'd like to see the prices go down, because it's really killing you.
This is one of only two congressional districts in the state that Republicans flipped in 2024.
So this is a big test for the Democratic Party.
Can it appeal to voters on cost of living and win them back?
In Allentown, Carla Rodriguez worries about the survival of her family's chicken restaurant.
We've never been this bad.
Every week the prices are changing, the meat is going up.
beef used to be like $18 a tube and now we're paying $60. You have to find it how you can
and then some people are understanding that are not, that are not, we'll go somewhere
else.
It sounds like a hard calculation for you guys. Yeah. And as we try to price things
where it's like reasonable, where people can afford it, but where we're also not losing,
But that's a very thin little gap.
The electricity goes up, water goes up, everything goes up.
So I mean, we're just lucky and blessed to still be here and functioning and staying
afloat.
You guys, Democrat, Republican?
I don't even know.
See you, color, right?
And what did you like about Trump?
I was hoping so much for him to change and, you know, change America, bring it back.
He was saying, oh, things are going to get better and this is, prices are going to go
lower.
Yeah.
And look what you're going to do.
He's really screwing the poor people, man.
If there's more people like Trump, we're not going to have middle class.
I want to see president work in the warehouse, you know, driving a forklift for 16 hours,
15, 14 hours like I used to do.
In the first six months, he was backing up what he said.
After that, I don't know what happened.
And he really took us for a ride there.
Especially me, I hate getting taken.
Hopefully, something does change.
Because if it stays like this for a long time,
I don't know.
A lot of people are not going to survive, honestly.
Does it make you want to vote?
Does it make you want to vote?
How can people get do by Trump is a great question. It's there's a million different answers for it lack of a coherent and
decent
opposition party
But also a lot of people are just fucking dumb dude like people are busy. They don't pay attention
Yes for the opposite of what we have now because this is it's not working
People are busy. They're desperate. They're silly. They're dumb. Some are lead poisoned.
You know, Gen X, the lead poison generation.
And they see so many fucking people.
And they see the Democratic Party also refusing to identify their problems and work to solve
them.
And they think, all right, well, this guy will break everything.
This guy will destroy everything.
And the system has not been beneficial for me at all.
So why not break it?
I'll give this guy a shot.
It's literally like $5 or mystery gift.
It's more like one penny or mystery gift.
And then you open the mystery gift because you're like why would I ever fucking take
the single penny this sucks.
You always go with the mystery gift, right?
And then you open the mystery gift and it's a fucking, it's a nuclear atom bomb that is
exploding in your face.
Yeah, new FC report reviews all the less I raised over 1.1 million dollars since the rally
This is more than his two other opponents combined
the
real evil shit.
Looking like doo-doo, my man, Jesus Christ.
But one of the topics that I thought we should talk about, and maybe even start with, is
these days it feels almost impossible to pick up a newspaper without reading a headline
about wealth in America, about the billionaire class, about wealth inequality and policy
and everything else, and it's taken a uniquely critical turn, I think.
And I'm so curious, before we even get into everything else, what you think about that
right now.
Well, first of all, Andrew, I'm glad you're asking the question.
I think it's a really important topic.
And I think it's an important one to discuss,
because I see the same thing you do.
You see a bunch of headlines.
You see it in a bunch of places.
And I have been thinking about, what is driving this?
It does seem different from 10 years ago.
And I think what's going on is that it's
kind of a tale of two economies.
So you have a bunch of people in this country
who are doing really well,
but you also have a bunch of people in this country
who are struggling.
So you pay rent, some groceries,
and so what's happening here is politicians
are using the kind of age-old technique.
So there's this tale of two economies
and they're using this age-old technique of picking a villain
and pointing fingers, but the problem is,
that doesn't solve anything.
And so, like if you wanna help the group of people
who are struggling, you have to figure out
real root causes and solutions and that takes skill.
You know, it's like, if we have a problem at Amazon,
you know, the way we would fix it is we would go in
and we'd do the five Y's and we'd try to get to a root cause,
we'd try to find a root fix.
Is this what unfettered profit does to your body?
you don't stay human. Dude, I don't even know what the fuck's going, I don't know what the
fuck's going on with this guy. But yes, everybody knows the most oppressed person after Twitch
streamers, of course, is the billionaire. Number one, which streamers, number two, billionaires,
which streamers basically also billionaires in many ways, and trapped inside of billions of
minds, having permanent occupation.
Oh, by the way, Jeff Bezos is a big advocate of this whole, like,
let's cut taxes for people making less than $100,000 a year method, which is insane. Okay.
And of course, the reason why it's insane is because that's how everything gets funded.
The point shouldn't be to further erode the government coffers. It should be to make Jeff Bezos pay a
comparable amount of his, you know yearly growth of
of
Not income necessarily because these guys also pay themselves like a dollar but is a
yearly net worth growth in wealth
Yes, the United States is the most progressive tax system in the world, the top 1% pay 40%
of taxes, the bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes.
We can make it even more progressive by zeroing out taxes on the bottom half is a small amount
of the total tax revenue, but very meaningful to people in this group.
The bottom 50% pay 3% of taxes.
Okay.
I'm willing to entertain that if the top 1% pay
Literally more than 40% how about that?
Get the top 1% to pay 100% of the taxes
Reactions from Zoran and Tom Steyer. I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ
Yeah, Bezos on CNBC. You could double the tax I paid. It's not gonna have teachers and queens. I promise you
Yeah, Tom Steyer billionaire says this is bullshit. I promise you tax billionaires invested schools
What the fuck is Patrick bed David talking about in the replies where Nick Shirley I know a few teachers in New Yorkers who
Benefit from less for you don't know any teachers dog. You were homeschooled
Okay, you were motherfucking homeschooled
So, no, you don't know any teachers. Shut the fuck up. And we know you don't know any teachers.
Nick, was it your replies too?
Brilliant, common sense argument. We need more of this.
We'll talk about, you know, making the tax system more progressive. How about we start by having a nurse and queens not pay
taxes. Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year paying more than $1,000 a month in taxes?
That's $1,000 a month that could help with rent. What is this?
Somewhere out there, there's a dude making $45,000 a year and he absolutely believes
his nonsense down to the bone. Somewhere out there, there's a dude making $1,000,000 a year
who preaches to his audience about the benefits of communism and socialism while he profits
from capitalism, and they believe his nonsense down to the bone.
The Bebe Fitz.
You like the Bebe Fitz of Capola Lila.
Capola Lila.
This is nonsense.
I'm Nick Thurley, bleh.
Does everything Nick Shirley do get bought it?
Cause like, look at this.
This motherfucker got 37,000 likes,
almost as many likes as I did.
I got 1.6 million views, he got 200,000 views.
1.3K replies, he got 300 replies.
I feel like Elon boosts his shit, right? He's got a
I'm the doctor that lobotomized Nick Shirley. Well, you couldn't stop him
Josh Johnson breaks down it was still some good investigative journalism
on shit I forgot to hit up charlamagne
Nick charlie's part got the guy that exposed everything in minnesota
now down when they exposed everything
the day that he exposed the whole minnesota
this is the case i'm gonna make some of the computer people
no no no because i think i think you might be confusing the fact that in
minnesota the stuff that he was talking about was already being investigated
so he just amplified
he just amplified it and he also incorrectly amplified it because they
this dude because he's not a journalist doesn't know like protocols doesn't know what to so then
this dude also just shows up at daycare and it's like let me in with a camera it's like they were
like no and they're like well you must be doing fraud it's like no you are a grown man with a camera
that wants to come in yeah no that's crazy and so that's an interesting one though because if there
was there clearly was something going on there that was wrong now I don't know who hiped into it or
why he did what he did.
What if he heard about it just being in Minnesota and decided to be vigilante?
I think I think you once again, this is like where journalism comes into play
and like, do you cite your sources?
Do you get background on people?
Do you do you ask the right questions so that you're not when you when you are
an independent creator and you're just over here trying to get clicks, you're
trying to get clicks.
So you ask questions that are going to lead to clicks.
You're not necessarily asking questions that get down to the truth of the matter.
He didn't do any investigation.
i don't think he did any investigation and i also think that like
he knows what he's doing even as someone who seems very dumb he also knows
what he's doing
like a like a dumb bully can also be smart about bullying some people just
have a talent for
i don't think he knows what he's doing i think his mom is just like
sending him to places and his mom is the one that is getting paid by the
republican party
for neo-fascism. Little taste situation, but a grown man. I mean, he's not, I wouldn't
call him a grown man. Because he doesn't have the brain of a grown man. Like, it's, it's,
it's strange to call him a grown man because he literally has the mental faculties of maybe
being eight-year-old?
I'm telling you, I don't think he knows what the fuck he's up to.
The government is flying this kid around on the taxpayer dime.
Wait, what? The government's flying him around?
Oh my God! On our way to Minnesota, the refrosers were about to leer a hard lesson.
They leered, confirmed, Dr. Oz is a savage.
We live in hell, bro. We actually live in hell. We live in fucking hell. Oh, my God.
I guess we have to have deserved it at some point, right?
I don't know.
And then when we fix it at the root,
you're fixing it forever.
It's a real solution.
And what we don't do because it doesn't work
is just point fingers and blame people.
It might feel good for 10 seconds,
but doesn't accomplish anything.
And so what could you really do?
So like, you know, I started,
do you have a plan?
Well, I have some ideas.
have some places to start so you know if yeah I you know I started thinking about
this and doing some research a nurse in Queens who makes seventy five thousand
dollars a year pays 12 more than twelve thousand dollars a year in taxes does
that really make sense so people talk about you making the tax system more
progressive how about we start by having the nurse and this is genuinely
this is genuinely a fucking distraction. It is a way to just say there's no increase of taxes, right?
You will never have an increase in taxes, which means he's never getting his taxes increased. He
knows, look, billionaires, they're not the smartest, but they obviously exercise their
self-interest quite a bit. And they're smart enough to recognize that right now, there's
tremendous appetite to not only tax these guys, but maybe even punish them, right? And to be fair,
taking, chipping away at their net worth even a little bit is the biggest punishment of all time.
And you might as well throw them in prison at that point from their perspective.
So they recognize that there is a real appetite for this. And people are saying it, right? People
are demanding it and some politicians like Bernie Sanders are leaning into those demands.
So what do you do?
You pull off the ripcord and you lean into how about no taxes for people making less than
$100,000.
How about that?
Don't you think that's a better way to help the working class?
No, the best way to help the working class would be to tax you, motherfucker.
We arrived at this problem because we have been slowly but surely chipping away at taxes.
Of course, Elon Musk and, you know, Elon Musk is in agreement with Jeff Bezos.
That's your boss, bro.
I know.
not pay taxes.
Why is a nurse in Queens who makes $75,000 a year,
paying more than $1,000 a month in taxes?
That's $1,000 a month that could help with rent or groceries
or anything.
And by the way, do you know what that all adds up to?
The bottom half of income earners in this country
pay only 3% of the taxes.
It's only 3%.
We can find three percent, so we don't have, it's a small amount of money for the government,
you know, that, and really it's, and the more I thought about it, to me it's kind of absurd
that we're doing this.
You know, we shouldn't be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington.
They should be sending her an apology.
It really makes no sense.
Okay, but then on the other end, the question is, should you be paying higher taxes to pay
for the 3% component part of this that you think is going to need to be paid for, if
not more than that, given the debts we have?
It's certainly a perfectly valid policy debate to say, do we want an even more progressive
tax system?
So, you know, the kind of the line that gets quoted all the time is, you know, the wealthy
should pay their fair share.
And we can argue about what the fair share is.
That's a policy debate.
That's okay.
But the vilification is the thing that's just the distraction.
And by the way, if you really are being honest about it, we don't have a revenue problem in
this country.
We already have the most progressive tax system in the world.
the top 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all the tax revenue.
The bottom half pay only 3%. We have already, and I think it should be a zero.
I don't think it should be 3%. I think it should be zero.
So we'd be making more progress of that way. We actually have.
Yeah. It's not even sneaky. He's just straight up saying,
there's no world,
there's no world where taxes get increased for people like myself,
But he also knows that there is unlimited appetite by Americans to cut taxes even further.
Which of course, once again, is the never-ending cycle of destroying the existing social safety
nets.
And lo and behold, the destruction of social safety nets in the state comes along with
wonderful new profit opportunities.
It comes along with privatization.
So you advocate for more tax cuts, not only does this benefit you personally, right?
And if you're not getting any tax cuts as a billionaire, you've gotten the unlimited
tax cuts, which by the way, for Jeff Bezos, I mean, what the fuck can you tax?
Let's be real.
I mean, he doesn't, his income is like, his, his W two form is like 70 grand.
Okay.
He doesn't actually make money off income.
That's not a thing.
Okay.
He has assets.
He has ownership over Amazon.
And then he leverages, he uses that asset as leverage to go and get incredibly cheap
loans that he never actually ever has to pay, right?
And every now and then, you can get maybe a modicum of a payout when he has to pay the
interest on the loans that he's taken, right?
Obviously, you can't default, right?
So it, because if he does default, then, you know, they can see his assets, never going
to happen.
So every now and then he'll like liquidate something, right?
He'll, and in that process, then he pays a little bit of tax, but that tax is obviously
still a lower percentage than the tax he would pay for straight income.
There's that part too, right?
And ultimately, it's nothing, is nothing.
In the grand scheme of things, it's nothing.
This process is called buy, borrow, die, okay?
Wait, what did that guy say?
Why did you ban him?
I want to do good.
I was someone not over like how I'm not sufficiently anti-Zionist, but instead a billionaire defender.
Oh, he said all you do is talk utter crap
God billionaire defenders man the best one day king one day king you're gonna make it to okay
Keep pushing for it big dog
Keep sigmaing your grind set, okay
You you're you're gonna make it dude, what did this guy say?
How do people listen to you and think you have a clue? What do you think his contribution to
society is compared to yours? Well, my contribution to society is certainly
not in the negative. I think Jeff Bezos' contributions are fairly negative.
We got to on bank guys like this. These guys are brilliant.
You're, you're licking billionaire bean, dude. You're licking his bald head right now and his balls and his ass
It's fucking awesome
You're engaging in worship of another man
You have debased yourself. You have reduced yourself to something
worse than cattle
Jeff Bezos is nothing without all the labor that allowed him to become a billionaire, okay?
There is no value without labor. Jeff Bezos was unbelievably and immensely
lucky at numerous points in his life. I'm sure he worked hard, but you know who
else works hard? A fucking teacher, a nurse, okay? Probably a lot harder than
Jeff Bezos ever did. Jeff Bezos has not worked a billion times or 20 billion times
times harder than the average teacher or the average nurse does.
He was, however, 20 billion times luckier than the average teacher or the average nurse,
right?
Making the right decisions, being at the right place in the right time, being born in the
right family, these are all unbelievably important factors in this, in the success that people
arrive at.
I guess being, if you consider being a billionaire to be a good thing, also fortunate enough
to be a little bit of a sociopath, not even a little bit, a lot bit of a sociopath to
be able to be vicious. Okay. What is this? His stock could also be owned by his own LLC
where he writes off private jet purchase the same year he sells the stock to pay the interest,
effectively paying no tax or the government lines them up a tax holiday when they sell
or the bank just never cares because they don't need the liquidity and would just rather
have more on paper.
Like he got a loan from his parents, it's worth $100,000 to start his business, right?
That's fortune, that's incredibly lucky.
But what he made with that, I think, is far luckier, right?
Because there are probably a lot of people who are, who have that level of, of affluence
in their family and don't become one of the richest people on the fucking planet.
I'm not discounting that, but I'm just saying that's not where the luck ends, right?
Fortunate enough to be able to be born into a family that could give, that could loan
him 500 grand in today's money, right?
That's immensely fortunate.
That's unbelievably fortunate.
But then even outside of that, like, there are so many instances where he was at the
right place at the right time, made the right decision, gambled and succeeded, right?
The point of it, the point of the thesis here is not to say, you know, it's just luck who
cares.
It's to show you that meritocracy is simply a lie that people like Jeff Bezos and those
benefit from the system tell the working class. So they also feel like he deserves to have this
level of wealth and power consolidated in the hands of the few. Okay? I think this isn't a very
productive way to organize society. It certainly is not a productive way to organize society unless
you have that chip in your brain that says, you know, we have to have powerful puppeteers
Controlling every aspect of our lives. I'm not one of those people. I think unfortunately a lot of Americans are
Exactly like that though. They're very servile
They find it's oftentimes people who who think they're free thinkers that are the biggest sheep the biggest cattle
Instead of harnessing the potential of
of those who weren't so fortunate, giving them a real opportunity to make world-changing
technological improvements, discovery of novel chemical compounds and the like.
We just keep them fucking poor and broke and destitute and we tell them, ah well, if you're
poor, sorry, I guess you didn't work hard enough or smart enough.
Okay?
But I do really think some people like being cattle.
Your voice is exhausting, LMAFL, like this guy.
I think this guy likes being cattle.
hear something that makes him, for a brief moment, second guess the way that society
is designed. And instead of being uncomfortable in that moment and maybe digging a little
bit deeper to try to figure out why he's uncomfortable, he tries to hold on to anything
he can to get back to being a stupid. Right? Oh, your voice is exhausting. You're fucking
annoying. I would have probably agreed with you if you weren't fucking annoying, right?
Back to square one for that guy. That's it.
state of affairs, but there's many amongst us like this who do engage in thought terminating
cliches, who hear things that you and I have heard and have internalized and understood
and then, you know, that causes to go on this journey that started with second guessing.
Whether or not the system is the best possible organization of society and economy, a lot
of people don't take that first step.
They don't want to take that first step.
They're all using an analogy that that stupid's love.
They don't want to take the red pill.
They want to take the blue pill and go back to their drunken stupor.
And let's be real, it can be rewarding.
Ignorance is bliss at the end of the day
Because once you see it once you see this system's design. It's very hard to unsee it very hard to go back to it
And one of the craziest parts about it is I think these guys like Jeff Bezos they see it
They've taken the red pill. They know they know how vicious this system is
But they're at the tippy top and they benefit from it and they know that in order to continue benefiting from it
they have to make sure that the masses are never conscious.
They're never conscious of their class position.
They're never conscious of the fact that these guys have designed the system in this way and
want to maintain it.
And the maintenance of this system is violence.
There's no difference between if you're a working class regular stiff every day,
every day man, okay, working tirelessly to make ends meet. And you look at the
systems design and you say, well, you know, these guys did work hard. They did
work smart. They deserve it. And maybe one day, if I work hard and smart, I will
get there or at least have a comfortable nest egg. The guys that think that way,
the guys that engage in fealty for billionaires, millionaires, capitalism in general, they're in
a way no different than the peasant that actually thinks that God did ordain the king, that God
actually is responsible for why the king remains the king. No difference whatsoever. And I'm sure
Sure, at the time, when the peasantry was toiling the lands, there were probably plenty of people
who would tell on their fellow peasants their fellow serfs, tell on the Lord, tell on the
The Lordship, the steel in the grain, my Lordship, they're taking it away from you.
You must punish them, my Lord.
That's what you behave like when you tell me Jeff Bezos' contributions to society are
immense me lordship protects me he has my best interest in mind he protects and
if he takes away more of my grain it's for the overall good this year he took
even less than last year. It's an objective improvement. How dare you speak out against
our lord. That's it. That's what you're doing. I wonder what the medieval peasantry equivalent
of don't tread on me guys was, you know, the libertarians, the free thinkers, I'm not sheep.
The guys who in this day and age will be like, I'm not sheep, but these billionaires, I mean,
they work real hard. What's the alternative communism? That's terrifying. You know, what
What would be the alternative and medieval peasantry?
Tavern owners the mercantile class?
Roadside bandits aka jesus friends no roadside bandits would be the lump and pros I guess
So, certain degree, like what is the equivalent of a rallying cry for a surf or a peasant
that thought that they were actually free thinkers?
but they were still servants.
If we pray to our Lord, one day our Lord will yield tremendous bounty.
E right we must give more back to our load our load ship protects us would you
defy gold a spending problem and it and that's a skills issue I mean let me give
example, the New York City school system. They've spent $44,000 per student.
That's 30% more per student than other big cities like Chicago, LA, and
Boston, and it's three times more than Miami and Houston. And by the way, New
New York City doesn't get better outcomes.
So this, listen, let me just say,
if we ran Amazon the way New York City runs
their school system, your packages would take
six weeks to arrive.
We'd have to charge you a $100 delivery fee,
and then when the package did finally arrive,
it'd have the wrong item in it anyway.
We can't, that's a skills issue, Andrew.
It's not about, it's just competence.
I mentioned my optimism a minute ago,
We should definitely talk about that, but I think there's so many people are afraid that AI is going to take their job.
I think that there's going to be a labor shortage.
Dog, first of all, capitalism necessitates that cities do run like fucking businesses and that's unironically the problem.
Okay. Except if USPS didn't exist, the last mile delivery wouldn't exist, which Jeff Bezos
relies on because private delivery services don't have any obligation to deliver to routes
that are hard to track. USPS on the other hand is not a profitable business. It's not supposed
to be profitable at all as a matter of fact, because it's supposed to work. Okay. That's
why all these fucking assholes rely on the US Postal Service for their last mile delivery.
UPS ain't fucking going up the mountain. USPS is. Yeah, through rain or snow. The US Postal
service is one of the best examples of a government provided service that simply has to work, okay?
It can't, it can't exist as a profitable entity because many of the routes that they go down
where they deliver medicine, for example, right? No private company would ever do
it because it's not profitable.
And remember, these fucking demons want to take that away too.
They want to take that away too so they can privatize that too so they can make more money
off that.
And who gives a shit?
If poor people living in rural areas don't have anything, any services deliver them these
goods that they need to survive.
It doesn't matter because these guys don't give a fuck.
They only care about profit.
It's that simple.
The government has an obligation to take care of its citizens, at least in theory, okay?
And even in a capitalist government, like the one that we live under, like the one that
we exist under, there are still certain institutions that just have to work, okay?
The U.S. Postal Service is one of those institutions.
One example I can use is Walmart.
This behemoth that relies heavily on government subsidies,
both tax breaks and tax benefits that they receive,
and then also on top of that,
welfare and food assistance.
that they rely on, that their own employees, that they underpay, can still use at Walmart.
Okay? Now, when Walmart comes into town, in places that are forgotten, people celebrate.
They're like, oh, the price of food is going to be cheaper. This is going to be more cost-effective.
But what ends up happening is, Walmart ends up sucking up the entire consumer base,
and it kills all the local businesses in the neighborhood. All the mom and pop
shops that have been around for 20, 30, 40 years. But eventually, Walmart, when it's
no longer as profitable, will just fuck off. So then what do you do? You lived in
a town your whole life and your parents lived there before you. There was a
local grocery store that made things work. Okay? It wasn't the cheapest, but you knew the grocer.
Right? It was a small business. But then Walmart came around and knocked that business out
because the business could not compete with the prices of Walmart.
But when Walmart becomes unprofitable, they fuck off. Now your town is a food desert.
Now your town doesn't have any options whatsoever. Now you have to go to the
town over to a dollar store or another Walmart. Now you're spending more money
on gas. Now there is an invisible cost, an additional cost. It's hurting your
wallet all the same. Even if the food prices were more costly in the local
that you could go to, now you're paying even more money to go to the Walmart.
That's a town over, now you're spending more time on travel.
These are the invisible ways that poor people get fucked over because of
capitalism, because of the interests of profits.
That's how it works.
But because it's a part of the system's design and
Because many people have decided that it's the best possible system,
the only system that we can exist under.
It's everything that we've ever known.
And once again, like I said, because of the invisibility of it all,
the invisibility of that cruelty.
You seek out other reasons as to why you're experiencing this economic struggle.
And then a guy that wears a red tie and a suit on the TV says, it's actually because
we're taking all this money that exists out there in the ether, and we're spending it
on scary brown people, we're spending it on transgenders.
And then the other side, who you may have trusted at some point in time, is telling
you well things aren't that bad things aren't that bad we don't have to like
him you know we'll maybe improve a little bit but obviously we can't go
after Walmart we can't tell you the truth about what happened and why you're
currently struggling so we'll just tell you the other side is evil and bad and
leave it at that
a lot of people look at that and go okay fuck both of these guys my life's
sucks. It's dog shit. Barely making ends meet. Fuck it. I'm not voting. Then there are others
who hear the other guy with the red tie over the blue tie. And they go, you know, that's a
convincing argument. I am a little scared of brown people. They got salsa hips. They dance.
I feel like my wife is quite fond of that Mario Lopez guy. And it's causing a lot of sexual
frustration within me, sexual anxiety within me, and that's now translating to my lifelong
loyalty to the reactionary cause.
Okay?
I'm obviously, you know, joking.
It's not that simple, but I was just thinking like, what's a Latino guy that someone in
West Virginia would see on television and be frustrated by and I feel like Mario Lopez is
Is is that guy, you know what I mean?
In the 10 years after Walmart Supercenter opened in a given community average household night
community experiences 6% decline in yearly income equivalent to about 5 000 a year in 2020 for
dollars compared with households that didn't have a Walmart open near them.
New research suggests the company makes the communities that operates in poorer,
even taking into account its famous low prices.
Walmart imposes in the form of not only lower earnings but also higher employment in the
wider community outweigh the savings it provides for shoppers on the net. They conclude Walmart
makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be had it never shown up at all.
Sometimes consumer prices are an incomplete, even misleading signal of economic well-being.
Yeah.
Amazon works in an identical manner to Walmart.
Both of these behemoths are obviously massive jobs providers,
Some of the biggest hiring bodies in the United States of America, I think Walmart might be
the biggest, or maybe it's the US military, one of the two. I think Walmart literally might be the
biggest. And they operate in the exact same way. They operate with predatory pricing, where they
price out all the competition and destroy it with one interest in mind. And that is to become a
monopoly, a monopoly in a locality or a monopoly all together.
And once you're a monopoly, there are no more market factors that you have to abide by. You
can raise the prices, you can lower the service, you can cut jobs, and you can cut tail at the end
end of the day, if it's no longer profitable anyway, you can just close up shop and leave
these communities behind.
Destitute.
No more jobs in the community.
And worse, no more markets in the community, no more grocery stores.
Having five grocery stores in the city is far better than having one Walmart that can supply
the same as all five.
If not more, the five will employ more people, make more money flow and benefit more homes.
homes. Yeah, this is true as well. When Amazon pays poverty wages, it forces their workers
to rely on social safety nets, putting more of a financial burden on taxpayers all while
Amazon profits. We don't talk enough about how much taxpayers are forced to subsidize
corporate profits in this country. It's true. Can you put up a white board? It's hard to understand.
Walmart employees needing food stamps and using EBT at Walmart is no less than company script.
Yeah, so there is a difference there though. It's instead of a company town and a company store,
you now have the government subsidizing it. So at least there's like one other middleman,
so there's plausible deniability. And that separation, that separation causes you to feel
like you have some choice in the matter, and that separation makes it a lot harder to revolt.
Okay, I've talked about the difference between neoliberal societies and societies that we would
consider authoritarian, right? China versus the United States of America. Control still exists
in both of these societies. Authoritarianism still exists in both of these societies,
but the methods are different, okay? The USSR had a very different, much more hands-on approach
to controlling certain behaviors, right? But that hands-on approach is ever present,
And that's why you know it exists and that's why when it's failing, you know who to blame and you know where to revolt.
Societies like China or even the USSR have to be far more responsive to the needs of the masses for this reason.
because they don't have the same, they don't have the same like neutralizing
effect that the the fallacy of choice provides for people in neoliberal
societies. When the system has to constantly at gunpoint reinforce its
its power upon the people, the people know that there is a main governing body that is an ever-present force upon them.
That's the distinction between a company store that uses company script and company tokens that leads to revolution or leads to rebellion internally
Versus the Walmart system that currently engages in the exact same process, but they use the government instead
Does that make sense?
That's why the Ford factory towns failed
That's why company towns fail usually because people know
People know directly who is responsible
And then, they fight back, whereas the welfare state under capitalism hides the collaborative
nature between capital and the state.
And as long as the state is responsible, you can throw a sequence of distractions in front
the public to say, oh, well, it's a Democrat that's at fault because they're gay and transgender
or Democrats can turn around and say, look, these companies are still good. But, you
know, maybe, uh, maybe the Republicans are the real villains here. So you should vote
for us. Neither, neither party is effectively changing the reality for you. Neither party
is actually punishing the corporations for engaging in this kind of cruelty for robbing
you blind, or forcing you to work in shittier conditions overall. Every now and then, of
course, you get some technological improvements that make you feel like your life is improved.
Okay? When in fact, if there are certain markers for happiness, like financial security, there's
There's a certain marker for financial security, if it's like home ownership, for example.
You are further away from that marker of financial security than the generations prior to you.
But you got porn on your phone, you got gambling apps, okay.
You got, they've even commodified hope at this point.
You can just literally turn a opportunity at Upward Social Mobility into a process where
they can extract more value from you. Okay.
So you got the bread sometimes and the circuses all the time.
And it keeps you in a drunk and stupor all the while,
these people that have designed society this way or at least benefit from it.
Get to laugh, laugh themselves at the bank.
They get to go on television.
It's part of the, part of the, the, um, the success of capitalism has created a reality
where these guys don't even have to be philanthropists any longer.
Like, at least back in the day, Robert Barron's had a sense of shame, if you will, where, where
they knew that they had to be philanthropists to a certain degree, you know?
But why? What's the point of owning so much? I don't get it. Like $300 billion when three
is more than enough.
Asana replied dear to you, the clear from Professor Rashid Khalidi about purity politics
in the Palestinian movement and how it brings unspeakable joy to the enemies of the cause
to see us divided.
I hope you can look at it in your own free time.
Bro, you need to post that under every one of my naysayers.
as a result. So let's go there then. I wanted to stay in space but let's go to that. We
can come back. We can be in space too, or whatever you want. No, but that's fascinating
because I don't know if you saw Eric Schmidt gave a commencement address over the weekend
and the students were booing because every time you mention AI, they were booing because
I think they're deeply fearful and worried about whether they're going to have a job.
And the reason they're afraid of that is because all these smart people keep saying that.
So there are so many smart people, and they are smart, and they are saying, oh my god,
you know, there are going to be no more radiologists because AI can read x-rays better than radiologists
can, and there are going to be no more software engineers because AI can program better than
a software engineer can.
These people are wrong.
So what's really going to happen is that it's going to elevate all of these people, and
It's like, you've been digging, let's say you're a software engineer, what they're now
doing to give you is you've been digging out a basement for your house with a shovel and
somebody's about to hand you a bulldozer.
You should be so happy if you're digging the basement to your house and somebody says,
hey, how about this?
I have a tool here that's going to, and what's really going to happen is we're going to have
so much productivity in our economy that, for example, this is one effect, a lot of
people who have two earner income households, one of the people who is going to drop out
of the workforce.
That's why we're going to have a labor shortage.
Because of the productivity gains, you're going to be able to afford things.
I predict we'll actually have deflation of certain core, assuming we let this technology
play out and don't hamstring it with regulation too early. Oh thank god. I mean hopefully not.
That would be terrifying.
Yeah, regulation is always hampering innovation, you know. Just let it run its course.
This is also the point of billionaires promoting lowering tax for the poor abandoned to assuage
Revolt. Yeah, no, they just don't want you to even believe there is an opportunity or any value in
increasing taxes for them or increasing taxes at all. Okay. They're fine. If you pay no tax,
they don't give a shit. Oh, okay. The government services are worse off. When is the last time
This motherfucker used the government service. You know what I mean? Beyond like roads and shit
And if it gets to that they'll go and yell at the government to fix it and then the government will fix it, right?
He's already doing AI podcast wait what?
Amazon premium Alexa service can now generate custom app podcast on the man turn any
topic you're curious into a podcast episode ready in minutes? Wait, what?
The rise and fall of Rome, the podcast?
What the fuck?
Dude, that's crazy. Dude, you know what's really funny? I just never stopped
thinking about the fact that all of the things that AI is doing are things that we were supposed
to do. It's not doing any of the things that were supposed to lighten the burden of the labor force,
all the route tasks, all the media labor you have to do. And then when you go home on your,
on your journey home, okay, if you're lucky enough to, you know, ride a bus, if there's
any public transit whatsoever in your car when you're driving back, you listen to an AI podcast.
We are literally serving the machines at that point.
What the fuck? Google notebook, LLM has been doing fake podcasts for a year now.
I don't understand it. It doesn't make any sense.
Many of the AI interventions mentioned here are the equivalent of paying for a gym that
has machines that live weights for you.
I don't mean it sort of like that.
I mean, in educational context, it's the exact same logic.
It's absurd in its face.
I feel like I'm going insane.
I understand there's a gray area with teaching about tools versus using tools to give the
vague appearance of educational achievement, but clearly AI doing a student's writing,
just to say, doing a student's thinking is a conspiracy to make the public passive brain
day consumers. I genuinely, I don't know where all of this goes, but I have been saying this
over and over again. I think it's still important to understand and learn all the new technology.
Obviously, you don't want to fall short. Okay. But I really do think not using AI in your
experience in your learning in your development is going to give you an
immediate an immediate boost like you are going to be a superhuman in comparison
to the next crop the next generation of people who do rely on AI and engage in
the cognitive offloading you will literally they will they think you'll
be able to levitate basically
Amazon AI podcast example here today, they are AI generated shopping show is exploring
the well medics rapid relief diaper rash cream.
Emma, what makes this hospital grade cream different from standard diaper rash products?
Wow, it's really interesting.
This cream uses a dual action approach. Instead of just zinc oxide, it combines that with
white petrolatum to create two protective barriers. This helps both treat existing irritation
and prevent new issues from developing.
That's fascinating. So it's not just about treating the problem, but stopping it from
coming back.
Exactly.
And they've actually...
Bro, this is literally turning a podcast into a Twitch stream. Oh my God. And the questions
are the same. The questions are the same. This is literally the type of question that
a dumb fuck would ask me in the chat.
Lea thoughtful ingredients like calendula and white birch bark extract. These botanical
ingredients help soothe sensitive skin while the dual barrier does the heavy lifting.
Right Katie, we've got you.
You're dealing with discomfort and this cream
is designed for exactly that kind of irritation.
Emma, what can you tell them?
This is actually formulated for adults
dealing with skin irritation from incontinence,
chafing, or moisture.
It's got 15% zinc oxide and 49% petrolutin
working together to create a protective barrier
that shields irritated skin
while helping with redness and discomfort.
Customers mention it works well.
Oh my God.
Oh God, we're so fucking cooked, dude.
Oh, we're so cooked.
I wrote about my new favorite podcast.
I know that to my disappointment, product listings,
former paper and dildos did not yet offer the AI audio feature.
Yeah, I get the evasion of avoiding at work, but a software engineer being a light will literally get you left behind the gains exist
But that doesn't mitigate the psychosis or need to adapt to a psychotic leadership spoken to someone and one of the most prominent of such companies
It's an advertisement yes, it Katie made it specifically as an advertisement
Or I guess like I
I guess you can turn a product into a podcast format so you can learn more about it or something
Yes, I saw the Stanford study that turns recent researchers found the AI overworked a ages began embracing Marx's view
I mean they'll nip this shit in the bud let's be real okay they'll find a way to quickly
destroy whatever makes the AI go hey we must actually seize the means of production what
the fuck is this shit.
I'll never get over this edit where the Stalin has a like a little Afro.
Hannah Frya V2 fame made an episode about this her open clutch Abba hired people to deliver packages and resolve captures
Did you see Galindo responding to you?
Yes, I did.
I saw on the stream, we watched it on the stream.
person sincerely is a Galindo head by the way. Okay, like genuinely, sincerely, absolutely.
And there, of course, always on the scene, retweeting bad empanada. Yes, these guys are
legitimately Galindo heads where they're like, dude, I'm telling you, I mean, I don't know
why I don't know why they're not like like Daniels, Aryan heads as well. Like what causes these guys not
to be in favor of Nick Fuentes at that point? I mean, they are also ostensibly anti-Zionists, right?
They're anti-Israel. Like I don't get it. I'm not even saying like Maureen Galindo is the same as
these other people. But I mean like if the highest priority here is to just like be as
If the only way that you can show that you're anti-Israel is if you say stuff like, you
know, Jews control the banks or that you're going to castrate every Zionist in a concentration
camp.
Like, if that's the only way that you can show that you are the most viable, the most
real anti-Zionist, then what's the difference?
Like, why don't you, do you guys fog with the Ambulance area?
Maybe some people do, I don't know.
Not anyone in here.
I don't.
maybe there are some galindo heads, but if that's the case, if that's the case,
like if there is, you really see a horseshoe this clean is the fc is the
fc classes design is just say Jews, you fucking towers, amen.
They yell at you for sheepdogging, but supporter primary. Yeah.
Maybe they're just diehard over to windowheads doing their part and pushing the boundaries.
was acceptable.
Did they still support her when she backtracked?
Text Democrat Maureen Galindo goes on a hand-run against the DCCC in the media, saying the
Democrats won her debt.
The internment can't comment was made up by a journalist here who literally wants me
who literally, I believe wants me dead. The D triple C coordinated all this because they want
their billionaire Zionist back cop candidate chooses that MAGA and Zionism is the same.
Again, 80% of the way, 80% of the way, I'm like, wow, not bad. And then the last 20%, I'm like,
God damn it, what the fuck?
Marxist-Jongist, dude
Professor Chang principle holds for there are Professor Chang's everywhere for those with
eyes to see. She might be the first gangstalking victim representative. I think we have some,
most in the Republican Party, but we've definitely had some gangstalking victim
representatives. I mean Nancy Mace, I mean fucking Marjorie Taylor Green,
Lauren Boebert. The new U Gov polling shows a plurality of Democrats identifies Democratic
Socialist by the way. Yeah, this means for the record. Wait, what is this? You go survey Cuba guys
You need to understand something. Okay?
This means that that everyone is compromised
Okay, because the only way that I can identify
with a revolutionary movement is if it's
unbelievably unappealing to the masses
Okay, I need you to understand something, okay
The only way to have a true, pure, revolutionary movement is if the average person wants to
beat me to death with hammers when they have a three-minute conversation with me, okay?
This is how it works.
So if there are people who are self-identifying as democratic socialists, that must mean that
we have failed because that means now, democratic socialism is a sheepdog for the Democratic
Which I mean they do say that and there's some validity to that argument as well. Let's be real, but
Make it more obvious that you're jogging them out, I mean
Bro, did they really not ask you about this at all?
No.
They did not.
Poor one out for the abundists.
Democratic voters, what's your opinion of abundance?
Haven't heard of it, don't know.
3% favorable, 3% unfavorable, socialism, 49% favorable, 22% unfavorable, 30% haven't
heard of it, don't know.
not looking too good for the abundance.
Pretty good.
Pretty fucking good.
Perhaps the electoral route isn't all that bad, at least for the time being, right?
Because these numbers are not going to work for the Democrats and eventually they're going
to do something really fucking stupid and try to purge their ranks or something, you
know.
But until that moment, until that moment becomes a reality, you might as well keep getting
in front of the masses and showing them that good governance is possible.
And those who are engaging in good governance, who are fighting for their constituents and
the things they want, are self-identifying socialists.
Never said you got to do it in the Democratic Party.
I have no loyalty to any party.
I have no loyalty to any politician.
Politicians are servants, okay?
They are our servants.
They are supposed to advance our goals.
They are supposed to do right by us.
We vote for them.
That's what the whole point of democracy is, right?
This is what's so frustrating for a lot of people when they hear me say this.
I'm like, I don't care.
I don't care what any party is called.
The reason why it's currently the Democratic Party is because it's the only available route
to get more responsive politics
so yeah when i see stuff like this it does give me a little bit more
confidence and i'm i think
you know i probably should keep doing what i'm doing instead of eliciting the
fucking uh, uh, Charpers on Twitter, you know?
But yeah, on that note, oh, Jesus Christ.
Perhaps associating good governance and responsive politics with socialism isn't so bad, especially
as far as breaking through the, you know, unlimited amount of propaganda, red scare
propaganda.
Just saying.
Something to think about.
Anyway,
It is now
time to
go.
I hope you are enjoying the video.
I will see you
next time.
Bye.
That's all I got for today folks. I will be back tomorrow and then on Saturday I
will be in New York City. Actually, St. Clair is gonna be on the broadcast. A
bunch of other guests are gonna be on the broadcast. I'm gonna be hanging out
with Daryliza doing something with Claire Valdez as well and numerous others.
But for the time being, and there at least I just got her opponent, Espayot, just got a $750,000 boost from the Latina Victory Fund.
They're worried, they're scared, we're coming.
Okay.
And yes, Felix, Adam, maybe Noah.
You know, the usual guests will be on the broadcast as well
But for the time being
I must bid you adieu
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