Bernie Sanders (4:24)

I find it hard to understand how the major Democratic leaders in New York State are not supporting the Democratic candidate. One might think that if a candidate starting at 2% in the polls gets 50,000 volunteers, creates enormous excitement, gets young people involved in the political process, gets non traditional voters to vote, Democratic leaders will be jumping up and down. This is our guy.

Political Commentator (4:56)

Yeah, you would think.

Progressive Analyst (4:58)

Yeah, you would. When you think about how the Democratic Party has failed to endorse him in favor of establishment politics when their establishment politician is in bed with Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. I mean, it's crazy. It is insane to me. And that is why in my mind we lost the last two elections. Because we are not playing, we're not looking and listening to the bass.

Political Commentator (5:23)

Well, and if you okay the shit that I played first, I did that on purpose because the, the split screen for that is what Zoron is talking about. Affordability. He got 50,000 volunteers. 50,000 volunteers. A total grassroots movement. He is beating the field. He beat. He won the Democratic primary. And it irritates the shit out of me that establishment Democrats particularly I'M talking about Hakeem Jeffries right here. To be a leader, you have to be a compromiser. And it should be such a layup for him to go stand with Zoron and stand up and say, I agree with him on about nine out of 12 things that he's saying here and I want to focus on those things. And that's the affordability crisis. That's the fact that we have a welfare system for billionaires, that the working class waitress or the working class bus driver pays a higher percentage in taxes than a billionaire does. I'm very worried about people filing for medical bankruptcy. And there's been no compromise, no leadership from Hakeem on this. And David Axelrod, who is Obama's former top advisor. And you may remember Obama went through kind of the same thing. Weird name, melanin in his skin. Major, major grassroots movement. And the Democratic establishment pushed back against as well. But let's listen to what David Axelrod has to say about the Democrats decision, the Democratic leadership's decision not to have moral clarity on this issue. Democrats are not embracing him.

David Axelrod (7:06)

Yeah, I think it's a mistake. I mean, I understand it. First of all, there's probably donor pressure from, particularly in New York on this. And I'm sure that in part there's a fear that he will become emblematic of the whole Democratic Party. But understand that he ran on the issue of affordability and on a kind of positive politics that got, as Bernie said, many, many young people in that city to involve themselves in the process. What is the message that they are sending? By the way, he carried Hakeem Jeffries District 2 to 1.

Political Commentator (7:38)

Well, he carried Jeffries District 2 to 1. So what's happening here is it appears that it's AIPAC money. And for me as a who is desperate to fight against this fascism, who is desperate to make sure that we don't go backwards. The ways of what Tucker Carlson wants to do, the ways of the Turning Point people with all of the anti woman rhetoric, Stephen Miller's concentration camp wet dream. Why are the Democrats beholden to the same lobbyist that helped elect Donald Trump? And this lobby, aipac, says we want to root out antisemitism, so they partner with the people that want to do away with education, who are far right wingers, which is an incubator for anti Semitism, right wing thought. And lack of education is where Nazism blossoms. So it's this really weird marriage and I wish Hakeem could just come to the public and say I was totally beholden And I thought that Israel, what, that was our best ally. They're clearly doing genocide. I'm sorry I'm late to the party here, but we're in the fight for the heart and soul of our country. I don't agree with Zorin's, maybe a little bit further left than I am, but I'm about compromising. When you think about the political races in Europe, they have like, six political parties, and you always hear about the socialists coming together with the centrist to fight off, like in France to fight off Marie Le Pen, who is a far, far right fascist ruler. You don't have that sort of compromise here. You don't have leadership in Hakim that is willing to do that style of compromise. Because the fact is, the libs, the centrists and the leftists need to come together. And the thing that's preventing us from coming together to form a real coalition against these is aipac. And that's so devastating. It's so devastating to me that the people that fell prey to genocide in Germany are now committing it in Gaza, and they are controlling both sides of the political party. And as you just said earlier, pumps that Hakeem and others in the Democratic Party have not outwardly spoken against Andrew Cuomo, who has Trumpian from top to bottom, this, the sexual abuse allegations, not to mention he's sucking up to Donald Trump. It's devastating. It's really, really devastating that our Democratic leadership is letting us down this much at such a horrible, horrible time. And, you know, Hakeem Jeffries has the luxury of living in a blue state. People in red states, they're fighting for their lives. Here you have governments that are mobilized, mobilizing actively against trans people, gay people, women, and they're putting the Ten Commandments in rules and that. This is the future speaker of the House. This is his leadership.

Progressive Analyst (10:57)

Yeah, it is extremely disappointing, particularly in the era of Trump, when there's lie after lie after lie. And to piggyback off the money issue, you also have the issue of the strongly worded letter. You know, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, they're sending strongly worded letters. Stephen Miller is on TV saying, we Democrats support predators and convicts. Dude, it's the easiest thing in the world to say, Donald Trump is both a predator and. And a convict. If anybody is celebrating predators and con.

Political Commentator (11:26)

Convicts, it's here's the problem. Pumps. Hakeem Jeffries has said that. He said it two days ago. I saw it in a clip. Or yesterday. It's the credible messenger situation when you don't see him uniting the party right now and uniting the base and actively like his silence on the Mamdani issue. Here's just a little clip of his leadership pertaining to not only his own district, but he wants to be the speaker of the House for all Americans. Listen to this. NC posted in support of Zoan Mandani's campaign yesterday with statement of Mandani saying, we welcome anyone to join this movement. You met with him twice and stay tuned. You know, declined to endorse him. Are you out of step with your party on this issue? I don't know.

David Axelrod (12:15)

I guess people are going to have to figure that out.

Political Commentator (12:16)

If that's the question you think that.

David Axelrod (12:18)

My constituents are asking me, because they're not.

Political Commentator (12:22)

What a dick. I mean, seriously. What a dick. The person who answers the question like that and doesn't have the leadership ability to say, I have heard the voters in New York. I am very, very worried about Andrew Cuomo being compromised and not a good candidate. Furthermore, he lost the Democratic primary. So I absolutely don't support him. And Zoron and I agree on 8 out of 12 things. He's a little bit further left than I am. But I have listened to the people in my district. I am listening to the overall message about affordability. But he stands there and he says that. So with everything that you say under that you don't have credible messengers. It's like maga. That's why I'm not a MAGA person. They're not credible messengers. They talk about, you know, family values and they crash Grindr. You. You know what I mean? And so this just pisses me. It just pisses me off from top to bottom at Hakeem. This is horrible, horrible limp dick energy. It's not even little dick energy. It is limp dick energy that he is saying that when so many Americans are suffering and he's smug as standing there like that. It just makes me sick. But I want to play you how good Mom Donnie is at campaigning and how good he is and what a credible messenger he is. The New York Times wrote a piece about everybody in the Hamptons. Billionaires are losing their minds about Mom Donnie. It's all they can talk about. And so he has somebody do a dramatic reading. And this is just. This is a plus 10 out of 10, no notes.

Narrator (14:13)

August in the Hamptons, Ocean breezes. Oversubscribed Tracy Anderson classes, parking woes. And this year, with a New York City mayoral election looming in the fall, a freakout that the most sumptuous of summer staples has ensued. Even overpriced lobster salad can't seem to make people out here feel better. A veteran political fundraiser said. Everyone is talking about it all the time. What they are talking about for the most part is whether anyone, specifically former Governor Andrew M. Cuomo or Mayor Eric Adams, can beat the Democratic Socialist Zoran Mamdani. In June, he dared to say on Meet the Press, I don't think that we should have. The Hamptons is basically in group therapy about the mayoral race. In other words, the plutocrats are panicking. Another recent benefit for Mr. Cuomo took place at the Southampton estate of the conservative media executive Jimmy Finkelstein and his wife, Pamela Gross, a former advisor to first lady Melania Trump. Mamdani has a great smile and is wonderfully articulate. His social media is entertaining and his promises sound fine until you look at the a fine print and they're not realistic.

Political Commentator (15:34)

Okay, I think this is brilliant. I think he is very. To be a politician these days, you have to be smart. You have to get the attention of the people. You have to be a good campaigner. And he's all of the stuff. And I just want to say to the people in the Hamptons, be careful trying to align yourself with MAGA light. We can report from deep and red states. At the epicenter of this MAGA base are people that want your daughters at home being trad wives are people that want to bully and probably incarcerate gay people if they get their way. If this keeps going. These Christian nationalists are racist to their core. And I noticed from some of the last names there, the people that are hosting these fundraisers are probably Jewish. And I have to tell you, be weary of the Christians that are rapture preppers that want you to be in Israel so that Jesus can come and then send you to hell forever. Because the anti Semitism that spews from this group, the WASPs, they will not have your back, ever. Zoron is not an anti Semite. And shame on these people where capitalism has been so good to you. So, so good to you in a city that has been so good to you that you don't have enough decency or integrity to think about the people that don't have health care, that have to work a couple of jobs, that can't afford child care and you're a billionaire. If you're a hundred million dollars less rich, you're still rich as period. Get over it. Seriously. This is. This is really, really a dangerous moment. All right. That's all we have for today on this episode. We'll be back later with more news, please. Fire Book is the coolest read of the fall. I hear it's really popping off in the Hamptons. Life is a lazy Susan of shit sandwiches. The link is below.