Andrew Schultz (4:55)

I don't think anybody's moving and I honestly feel that way. I'm in the tax bracket. We're going to tax more like, dude, if you're going to deliver all this for 2%, give it. I, I'm 100 supportive. It makes life easier for New Yorkers. This my one identity in entire life is a New Yorker. It's the thing I care the most about. But I think that there are going to be people in government that are going to try to restrict you from doing that. And I know that you're aware of that. What the fuck do you do when special interest groups are going to be lobbying like crazy?

Zoran Mamdani (5:20)

I mean, you have. How do you do that? You have to be ready to take on these fights. There is a reason why we haven't had progress. There are people making money off the status quo. And so there will be a lot of interest in retaining that status quo. Right now, the city of New York will pay McKinsey a few million dollars to design a trash can. McKinsey's not going to be happy when I say we don' need you to design that anymore. We can actually design that ourselves. You're right. That we're going to have to transform the inner workings of government and that means ending a patronage politics. There are a lot of people who have jobs more to do with who they know than what they do.

Podcast Host (5:52)

So this right here, the preservation of the status quo, this is what corporate Democrats and MAGA have in common. And you have Bill Ackman. Another clip in this podcast. Bill Agman is this billionaire that spends literally more money trying to defeat Mamdani than he would with raised wages. These billionaires have utter disdain for working class people. They completely suck off of them. They are parasitic to the working class. Really wealthy people feel entitled that their wages should go up and that they should control everything. This Bill Ackman is so delusional that he thinks because he's a billionaire that he deserves a one on one sit down meeting with Zohran Momdani Mom Donnie's like, no, I'm not sitting down with you. I'm sitting down with working class people. I'm sitting down with union people. I'm sitting down with the police. I'm sitting down with the people that make this city run. And they can't stand it. They can't buy him, they can't own him. And he goes deep in the heart of the manosphere. And there's the flagrant podcast guys saying, look, nobody's going to leave New York. They're all full of shit. And Andrew Schultz says, I will gladly pay more money in taxes because my whole identity is being a New Yorker. And that is what during FDR's reign, that is what a lot of wealthy people felt about America. I will gladly pay more in taxes because it's patriotic. And that's why FDR was so popular because he did a lot of working class proposals that affected the most of us. The Democrats sent Citizen United States. And after Reagan, he started really moving the party to favor profits. And the Democrats started clinging on to corporate donorship. And they are always executing the interests of corporate donorships. And as a Democrat, I feel like when I hear Democratic leadership speak that they are the party of preservation, that they want to preserve the status quo. That lost Hillary the election, that lost Kamala the election and leaves this void for grifters to come in like Kanks with his online flea market and all of the obnoxious shit that he's doing, like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Steve Bannon and Tucker Carlson because they know that this FDR style politics, this style of populism is incredibly popular. Moving along, this is really Interesting. The only thing that they've really been able, they've tried to peg Zoron with being an anti Semite. It's bullshit. Of course there some hardcore Jewish people that just absolutely will never vote for a Muslim that's theirs to deal with. There are plenty of Jewish New yorkers that are 100% on board with universal human rights. But the one thing that was a deficit in Zoron's campaign was this time that he went to bench press and everybody made fun of him. Andrew Cuomo piled on and made fun of him. Fox News went bananas and Here he is 100% laughing at himself. Cutting up with these bro sphere guys. This guy again, master class on how to run a campaign. Play the clip.

Zoran Mamdani (9:06)

Joey, bring in the bench press because he has. Every year. I'm gonna do one pound more next year. 136.

Podcast Host (9:16)

Let's go.

Zoran Mamdani (9:19)

You up, dude. Let me tell you, you shouldn't have done it. I knew I fucked up when I said you think? I thought I was gonna kill it. I knew there was a problem and this guy was like, you gotta do it.

James Carville (9:36)

You gotta do it.

Zoran Mamdani (9:36)

He's like, I really don't. You should have put the big 10 pound weights on. You know them big 10 pound weights. I was trying to get it.

Podcast Host (9:43)

Now you got it.

Zoran Mamdani (9:44)

I was trying to get it. But next year. 136.

James Carville (9:46)

Okay.

Zoran Mamdani (9:48)

Hey, watch it. As promises I can keep. 136, 130. You didn't keep 135 from the other.

Podcast Host (9:59)

This is what politicians sound like when they're not beholden to corporate corporations and they don't lead with their ego. This is so refreshing. This is the what the Democratic Party needs to return to the Hakeem Jeffries, the Cory Bookers, the Chuck Schumer's, that word salad, even Alyssa Slotkin. It is this word salad corporate bullshit that is a snooze fest, inauthentic and loses elections. This guy is everything that a candidate needs to be. And don't take my word for it. Let's listen to veteran political strategist James Carville. And you may remember Mr. Carville was a little upset at the beginning of Trump's administration when David Hogg was at the DNC and he wanted to put candidates like Zoran Mamdani all across, all across the nation. And now James Carville is realizing this corporate minuscule baby step Democratic Preservation Conservative Party that the current Democratic leadership subscribes to is a death kneel to fascism. Listen to James Carville here.

James Carville (11:12)

Communications at the College level, four years of community college, nine years of Tulane, Ford, lsu. If I could have one guess to demonstrate to my students how to communicate, I think I would pick him. That guy stays on message. You cannot get him out of talking about affordability. Notice what he was talking about? Rent, stabilization, building more houses. He talks about transit and it's just a real tutorial. And Mondavi does something that is very important. He tells people, I see you, I see what your life is.

Podcast Host (11:52)

So this is the biggest message right now. It's so frustrating being an American right now that it is opposed to fascism because in many ways you're also opposed to Democratic leadership. And it's so frustrating. It's so incredibly frustrating because Democratic leadership, when you look at Booker, when you look at Jeffries, when you look at Chuckles, they will not endorse Zoron because of their APAC donations, because of they are terrified of AIPAC running candidates against them. And I kind of go back to David Hogg here. Maybe we run progressives against them because that leadership is the death kneel to fascism. That style of corporate Democratic party leadership leads directly to the vacuum that allows the Marjorie Taylor Greene's, the Steve Bannons, the Tucker Carlson's and the Donald Trumps to fill it. And lastly this guy, Curtis Lee Williams, he is receiving a lot of pressure from billionaires to drop out of the race. Billionaires that lost in the primary, billionaires that are terrified of paying 2% more in taxes, billionaires that are butthurt. The Zoran Mamdani won't sit down with them because they think they're so entitled and they think they're so special that they should have a one on one meeting with this man. And he's beholden to no one but New Yorkers and he doesn't lead with his ego, he leads with empathy. So let's hear from the Republican opponent of Zoran Mamdani.

Zoran Mamdani (13:23)

That means if you talk to me and you offer me a bribe which is unethical, it could be illegal and I'm going to have to run right to Alvin Bragg and his investigators and you could be in double trouble.

Podcast Host (13:39)

So I mean they are really putting a lot of pressure on this guy. And this is the system that corporate Democrats are trying to preserve. They are conservative preservationists that want to preserve the status quo. Status quo politics brought us Donald Trump and look at the two different games we play. Does Donald Trump govern incrementally? Fuck no. He's tearing down the entire east wing right now and he doesn't give a shit. He doesn't care who has to approve it. He tore it down. He and he'll ask for forgiveness later. He doesn't ask for permission. He is going and doing everything that he wants to do. The days of incremental pussyfooting, lollygagging politics are over, and the Democratic leadership needs to take note or step aside. And I agree with David Hogg. Let's run true progressives that don't lead with ego, that don't lead with corporate interests, that lead with the best interests for the United States of America. Because the capitalism that all of these billionaires love so much, it is not sustainable in this system. All right, that's all we have for this episode. Please like and subscribe. Buy our book. It's linked right below in the show notes. And we'll be back later with more news. It.