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9:00>> [music] >> Hello, this is Russell Dobular filling in today for Jimmy Door. Uh, our first guest is going to be someone who has never been on the show before, I believe. Uh, Melissa Wit, know you probably know her better as Mel on X.
9:24Uh, she's a southern Republican, a Christian advocate, and an activist who strongly supports Palestinian struggle for human rights and criticizes the United States relationship with Israel.
9:38She shares her commentary and insights on Twitter under the handle village crazy lady. Please welcome Mel.
9:48>> Hi.
9:50>> Hey. [laughter] How are you, Mel?
9:51>> I'm good. How are you doing?
9:54>> Very good. What What state do you live in?
9:56>> North Carolina.
9:58>> North Carolina. Nice.
10:00>> Yeah. Right smack in the middle of it, too. So, >> how's the weather? [sighs and gasps] >> Well, this is my weather. I love hot weather. So, it's very hot right now.
10:09It's um Today was like 93, I think. Um I like to go walking in the middle of the day.
10:14>> 93.
10:15>> Yeah. Because I'm insane. And so if it if it anything above 90 is just it's my favorite. If I'm complaining that it's hot, that it's it's like uh you know, seven circle of hell hot outside.
10:29[laughter] Like that's usually the barometer. Like it's it's almost unbearable for mo most people. But I love it. Uh, you know, I just got back from Southeast Asia. You would like it a lot there.
10:41>> Yeah, probably. Yeah, because I like humidity and I like um I like heat. I like humidity and neither one bother me.
10:49I like it when it's sticky. So, you know, um the only place I've ever been where it has been a bit much is Orlando in the middle of July is that's that's a it's it's rough there sometimes. Some days, some days is fine. But um yeah, >> the the first time I ever went down there in the summertime, I went to Graceand and I could not believe as soon as we got out of the car, you're just like drenched.
11:20>> Yeah, it's not even that bad in Tennessee, though. Yeah. [laughter] >> Is it worse in North Carolina?
11:25>> Oh, yeah. It's much much worse. Yeah.
11:28North Carolina has some really really intense humidity. Um, and I live in what's like called the up dip, which is just this weird geographical location where um we kind of get um this swirl.
11:43So, it's kind of it's not like a valley, but it's like where two points meet down. Um, and so we get a lot of um extreme weather fluctuations right around where I'm at in the sand hills.
11:55And yeah, I I think it's worse. I remember I lived in San Antonio for uh about a year and a half and um everyone there was like, "Oh, are you okay with the heat?" You know, they were always like checking on me and I'm like, "This is this is nothing." Like you guys don't [laughter] know this is because it's hot but it's dry so it's fine. So >> now you got a lot of you got a lot of northerners moving down though, right?
12:18>> Um not where I live, but I have heard um up in Raleigh there are a lot. And so um uh I don't want to say thankfully, but we haven't uh experienced that.
12:31>> You you could say that. You could say that. Um and actually that goes very well into my first question. Um all right. So you so you say we we met on the Jose Vega fundraiser the other night and you said you become a oneisssue voter, but in your bio you still describe yourself as a Republican, as a Christian. So how did that evolution take place? Like did you vote for Trump in 2024?
12:59>> I did. did I voted for Trump three times and so um which is funny because after 2020 I swore I would never vote for him again and I hated him for years and I um uh really um spent a long time dragging him um over COVID over policy issues um I was very very focused on domestic politics and really on COVID I was so upset about what had happened with like the our schools were shut down. The way I felt like, you know, there was this bureaucracy that all the politicians just turned everything over to a nameless, faceless bureaucracy that was never held accountable for any of the decisions that it made that ended up
13:43ruining people's lives, ruining children's education, ruining small businesses, all of the things, you know, the ma the biggest money, you know, transfer of wealth in I believe it was human history. Um, and so I was so angry about that and then October 7th happens.
14:01And so I was I supported Ronda Santis, which I always like cringe at now. He's such an insane >> Zionist, but at the time he was very good on pushing back on a lot of the the COVID madness and whatnot, right?
14:17>> And and so um but then October 7th happens and he just like goes off the rails. like he was crazier than almost anybody. I couldn't believe it. Well, Nikki Haley of course outdid him. But I don't know if you followed the Republican primary in um the fall, late fall, early winter of 2023, but it was genuinely like a >> a contest of who could get on their knees more for Israel. All of them except Trump. He was the only one who he made a couple comments in the beginning.
14:49He like went after Netanyahu. Um, I don't think he bought the official narrative on October 7th. I don't think he believed that. Um, you know, he was very questionable about the security around it. He thought things were fishy.
15:03And then he just doesn't say anything at all um for months on end. And it actually wasn't until um uh March of 2024 because Miriam Addison was keeping her powder dry. She wanted to be Haley.
15:19That was her girl. she um uh that she finally has to sit down when it becomes very clear that um uh Trump's going to win again and you know then he comes out and he's still he's like very he's tepid and he's not and you know and so I was like ah [sighs and gasps] and I just I wanted to punish Biden for for what he had done. I wanted to punish Biden and Camala and all of them. I hated them so much for what they had done. And >> um I kind of let that blind me, I think.
15:52Um now I've committed to >> Yeah, this is a a single issue I'm a single issue voter now. Um but if in fact neither one of you, you know, when neither candidate um represents my values on um Zionism and on Americans uh you know, relationship with Israel, then I just simply probably won't vote or I'll write someone in. I'm not not actually going to pick the lesser of two evils anymore because this is so such an important issue to me. Um, so that's kind of where I am and going, you know, if I was faced tomorrow with the same vote, I probably would have just written somebody in. I don't I don't know if I would have.
16:35>> Now, what now? Now, what do you think happened with Trump? You You feel like he was compromised by the Epstein materials? Is it purely Aden money and other money that comes to him? What do you think happened?
16:51[sighs] You know, I um I don't know. You go back. Somebody posted a um an interview that he did in 2000 where apparently he was kind of trying to uh dip his toes into like paleoconservatism, but he attacked Pat Buchanan and he um this is this interview was from 2000.
17:13They posted it a few weeks ago in which he said um uh you know our relationship with Israel is so special and we have to um protect it at all costs, you know.
17:25And I I remember when he came out in 2015, he definitely wasn't saying those things. He wasn't like that. I mean, he was calling Rubio, you know, um Sheldon Adlesen's perfect little puppet that he could buy.
17:38>> You know, he was saying all of the right things back then. So, it's like you did something happen. Was he was he always a Trojan horse or um I don't know. He's surrounded by a lot of religious fanatics. Um a lot of these uh Christian Zionists who are part of a movement called the New Apostolic Reformation, which is kind of this hybrid Pentecostalism.
18:04Um I wouldn't even call I mean most Pentecostals don't know what N is. And um but these these folks um they believe they are either uh prophets or apostles.
18:15So they can interpret they are um God speaks through them. Um and God and they are also um allowed to have their own special interpretations of the Bible.
18:25They can add amendments to the Bible, appendages to the Bible. It's really crazy stuff. But um he's actually surrounded by them because they were the only evangelicals who would support him in 2016. and um in the so they they were really influential around January 6th and then in the four years afterwards they did stand by him um pretty loyally.
18:48And so these people have tremendous amounts of power. They are fanatical Zionists um as hardcore as you can possibly get. And one thing that they really worked on while Trump was out of office was um kind of doing this whispering thing where they told him he was Cyrus. He was he was like Cyrus, right?
19:11>> Um or now the new one is that uh so in um 45 he was Cyrus. Now he's Darius who was uh the the Persian emperor who helped to refinance the uh or helped to finance the uh building of the second temple. He um helped to secure the border of Jerusalem.
19:33And um Trump is very, you know, he's egotistical. He has a huge ego. And I believe he's the kind of person that if you stroke his ego enough and you whisper in his ear all the right things that you actually can um go get along far away with him. I know a lot of people don't like to hear that. I do think there's a lot of um emotional and intellectual manipulation going on.
19:58[laughter] I thought it was funny that the Iranians picked up on that and so they got their own psychologist come in >> and um seemed to have some success [laughter] with uh what they were able to communicate to him um which I found very interesting.
20:15Uh, and so I don't know. I because initially one thing I thought was, okay, you know, if nothing else, Trump is a narcissist and he's he's going to want to he's going to be very worried about his legacy, right? And so he wants to be the peace president. He wants to be the guy who who makes peace. So we can really play into that. And so when he um came in and it did seem initially like he that's what he was doing, right? like um uh but then BB's there every every month for like I don't know it was six times >> bringing his laundry. Yeah.
20:52>> Yeah. I know. It's so disgusting. And um so it's very clear that they're very aware of that and they are just I mean on him 247. And something else that the Israel lobby did that was very successful very early on was they waged campaign after campaign against anyone that would not tow the line. And it's incredible the number of people they were able to purge from the administration um very early on who would be any sort of a dissident whatsoever. And um you know you you have to give Zionists that and that they're very well organized and they can't accomplish these things. I mean it's it's quite incredible because
21:33there's we don't have any organization on our side. So there's nobody pushing back against this. They start a campaign against someone and then um and these guys aren't even some of them weren't even anti-Israel. They were literally just like America first like hey this isn't good for us so we shouldn't be doing it. Like that's it. Like they >> definitely weren't. and um uh it didn't matter. Um yeah, so so there was >> Sorry.
21:56>> So it's all right. So now last night in New York City, Apac did get out organized. So I want to show you a little uh a little clip of some of the celebration. And one of the reactions and for somebody coming at this with your perspective, I'm very curious to see how you feel about this. So there's the crowd at the victory party. uh chanting very exuberantly, "Fuck Apac.
22:39All right. So now, so now they're pretty excited. But now Matt Walsh's reaction was pretty typical of a lot of reactions you get from a lot of uh self-described Christian conservatives.
22:51Third world communists are the enemy.
22:54They've taken over our greatest American city. They're taking over one of our two major political parties. They hate this country. They hate white people. They hate our heritage and their traditions.
23:07This is the fight. Get in the game or go away. Now, when you look at those two things, do you feel more culturally aligned with Matt Walsh or with the people uh chanting Ice or neither?
23:20And it's just irrelevant to what your political mission is at this point, >> right? Yeah. everybody kind of so this is the thing that they always do especially on the right is they want to force us into choosing between oh you have to join the third world communists and you have to sacrifice on Israel and you know my question is well why the hell do I have to sacrifice is on Israel why can't the Republican politicians sacrifice on Israel because the Republican politicians can win easily right they'll definitely win my support my you know I I'll push them all day long on my platform if they just
23:53compromise on this one thing of a foreign freaking country. You know, most of these people are in the south. They don't even have any Jewish constituents, let alone um you know, any connection whatsoever to this state. So why is it that I have to compromise on this thing where you know I can show you where Americans have to trade, we have to give them money, we have to trade, you know, incalculable amounts of p soft power in support of Israel. we have uh you know seated um any kind of moral standing we might have had on the world stage to dictate about anything to lecture about anything because we have quite literally
24:27funded supplied and enabled a full-blown genocide and not only that we've waged diplomatic and financial warfare against anyone who has has been even moderately effective at criticizing Israel not even stopping them but simply criticizing them you know um Francesca Albanese obviously being the most famous one, but she's not the only one. All of the uh the um prosecutors at the ICC we have sanctioned as well and made their lives a living hell for doing their jobs. So we give up a lot, get nothing in return but grief and demands of more more. So why this is a difficult thing for Republican politicians once again who
25:12don't most of them don't even have any Jewish constituents. Um why they care so much is it's infuriating. So no, I'm not going to have Matt Walsh or anybody else force me into this false choice between oh you have to side with the commies, you know, and just, you know, surrender on Israel or you're not with us, go away. And it's like, you know, I was I'm not with you period. I can tell you that, right? Because you haven't been willing to give an inch on Israel. And so, you're not willing to give an inch on on the thing that I care about. So, you know, I guess we're just at a standstill. And I guess we can go our
25:49own separate ways. And you don't need us. You clearly have said this multiple times. You say it all the time. If you don't stand with Rosio, get out of the Republican party. Well, then, okay, bye.
25:58Have fun. Good. you guys are going to be the ones to lose to the quote unquote third world communists, which is just hilarious because all it was was replacing three liberal Democrats with three other liberal Democrats. And really the biggest thing that I can tell is that the ones that they replaced them with are just, you know, some of them are are pretty hardcore anti-Israel. I believe the lady is. Sorry, I don't I don't know any of their names.
26:22>> That that's uh well well her name's tough. Darla Avilia Shave.
26:28>> Okay. And then the two gentlemen, but one of them is actually there's another woman, Valz, who also won. And then there's Brad Lander, who's actually Yeah. He's a liberal Zionist.
26:41>> Like he's a two-state solution kind of >> right >> Zionist who thinks we should stop funding Israel because they're committing a genocide. But he's the only one of the three who does not question Israel's fundamental right to exist as a Jewish state.
26:57>> Gotcha. And hold up, but there's another there was another Jewish gentleman, I believe, that was also elected in a surprise win, was it not? I don't know.
27:07>> Um, no. No, I don't think so.
27:10>> Okay.
27:11>> Um, I I saw somebody's post earlier that said uh it was it was two Jewish men.
27:15So, um, but uh, yeah. So, you know, for the most part, it's like I mean, again, somebody posted something really great earlier about Dan Goldman quite literally led the charge for the impeachment against Trump. So, it's >> Well, well, yeah. Actually, Trump truth about this. All right. So, you mentioned uh Francesca Alban.
27:38>> So, this week, I don't know why they keep doing this. I mean, I kind of do, but the Zionists keep having these conferences where you would think they would ixay on the control of the media and the banks nay, but they they feel such impunity.
27:57This was a really incredible case where he just completely contradicts himself over the course of the speech. says Chris Manahan. Zionist lawfare activist Hillel Newer blasts UN special rap uh raptor Francesca Albani for saying America is controlled by the Jewish lobby then brags about successfully lobbying the US government to sanction her. So let's uh take a look. Venezi the UN rapper tour on Palestine as you know I don't have to tell this audience she has said that America is controlled by the Jewish lobby on October 7th she defended Hamas said there's a context and every five minutes on Twitter she is echoing the worst
28:44blood liels against Israel she is the leading purveyor of the genocide liel we are fighting back we are fighting back we have exposed >> [applause] >> We have uh exposed her hateful remarks.
29:00She is the first she is now the first UN reperator in history to have been condemned by France, Germany, Canada, the Netherlands, the UK, Argentina, Hungary, the US and many other countries, Latvia, Estonia, many other countries. And uh each condemnation matters. And we led a campaign. We got 120,000 people, including many here, who signed our petition asking Secretary Rub Rubio to take action. When the UN failed to act, Secretary Rubio announced for the first time in history the US would sanction a UN official on July 9th. For the first time in history, UN reperator Francesca Benz was sanctioned by the
29:34United States.
29:37[applause] No more lectures that she used to give in Harvard, Princeton, uh, Georgetown and Colombia. She has banned entry from the United States. She cannot use a bank card. She cannot use a debit card. She cannot receive a payment.
29:54And in her words, the sanctions are devastating. And as she says, Urb sends a message of deterrence. And after she was sanctioned, we got her husband who works for the World Bank who shares in her incitement. He was demoted from his position at the World Bank for incitement to hate.
30:16And after she was sanctioned, the head of the commission of inquiry against Israel, uh, Na'vi Ple resigned. We heard we heard that she has family in the US.
30:24She was afraid if she got sanctioned, she couldn't enter the US. She resigned.
30:34Uh, so Alan actually responded to this clip. My family and I are exposed to all sorts of threats, restrictions, and hateful rhetoric. Yet we would say and do everything we have said and done against the genocide. Its ideologues and propheteers again and again forever proud to stand on the side of justice.
30:55Now I see a clip like that and I feel you could not with a million chapters of Stormfront do more to spread anti-semitic tropes than the Zionists do themselves. You're applying to every trope. You are saying we're going after her for claiming we're committing a genocide by proving we control the government, the banking system, uh the media, academia. Um how do you react to this? And you live, I take it, given the lack of Yankees coming down there, it sounds like you're living in a kind of conservative area. How does this kind of thing play there? Because for me, I'm Jewish. I see things like this. I say
31:46these people are trying to get us all killed. Like this is the kind of thing that's going to create anti-semitism because then you can't say to people you're crazy if you think that. Oh yeah.
31:57Well, did you see that clip?
32:00>> Right. Well, I think I think for the most part everybody understands that there is uh most division is on class lines, right? These are not these are not your normal Jews, okay? Um they're just not they're very wealthy. They're very very powerful, right? And um these people Zionist because they love to use your everyday quoteunquote Christian Zionists as well, the people who are filling up these evangelical um uh pews as well. It's like, "Oh, look at all this support. This is what justifies this." And it's like if you talk to your average uh evangelical and I know because I know a lot of them um
32:41they either are just like disgusted, blown away by what Israel is doing. They um everyone's uncomfortable at the very least. Many many are absolutely disgusted and they don't actually know why they support it. It's like one of those things. It's just oh well that's you know they don't most don't know about dispensationalism. They could not tell you um what the uh esquetology of their church is. They don't know what premillennialism is or anything like that. Like you know, this is just not taught in most churches. And yet, sorry, they're used as this thing. They always say, "Well, there's 10 million." Um,
33:26I apologize. There's a serial killer outside >> and he's trying to deliver the mail.
33:33>> He is. [laughter] Yes, he is. Um, but um, so, you know, that said, I do think I don't know. I I don't ever hear any Jew hate in my everyday life, but people do send me these clips and they're like, "What the >> like they have no they've never heard of anything like this." And >> for the most part right now, they all assume, well, she must have done something really bad.
34:06>> They still, unfortunately, they still do benefit from that. Most Americans are not familiar with Francesca Albanese.
34:14They don't know who she is, >> right? Um, a lot of conservatives do not like the UN. So, you say, "Oh, she's the UN repertoire." And everyone just assumes that she's must have done something really bad because how could you get all of those organizations to go along with this, right? So that's been a very frustrating thing that I've experienced and I feel like we got to do a better job about exposing and God bless you know Tucker Carlson he had her on his show and he let her um really uh you know talk about her experience but um you know there was a lot of deplatforming a lot of um financial warfare waged against January 6ers which
34:54again was very wrong. there was this manipulation and control and it was waged against them. People were were um debanked um for having anything to do even if they didn't do anything on January 6, you know, and so um this the weaponization of the financial system in America. Um, well, we're getting a tiny taste, you know, conservatives got a tiny taste of what the US has been doing via sanctions warfare for, uh, the last 40 years, right? So, um, >> I do think it's, you know, God bless Chris Mahan for watching all of these.
35:34He goes through all these videos. He clips them. He does a very good job of just putting them out there, but really showing like you guys have to see how powerful this lobby is. And it's it's for the benefit of billionaires of uh people, you know, AI um companies who are running these um you know, targeting platforms. It's for drone companies, the military-industrial complex, um the deep state who wants to spy on you. It's a very It's a small group. It's a big club. Small group, big club. You're not in it. Okay. [laughter] And um I I think it is important to kind of stay focused on that obviously, but
36:15yeah, I would agree with you. They don't make it easy sometimes to um >> I mean they do they they feed they love because they love to be like to look like they're so powerful, right? And they're so you know they you might as well not even fight us because we will win. Look at what we can do to this woman who was appointed by the UN. If we can do that to her, we could quash, you know, we could squash you like a bug.
36:36>> Of course. Of course.
36:38>> Um, well, speaking of the UN, this blew up this week and I know from your appearance on Jose's fundraiser.
36:48This is something you feel very strongly about, the abuse of the Palestinian people. Um, so tensions boiled over at the United Nations after a public hearing on conflict related sexual violence descended into a heated confrontation between Israel's UN ambassador Danny Dannon and senior UN officials. Dannon demanded the resignation of Premier Patton, the UN's special representative on sexual violence and conflict, accusing her of bias after a report placed Israel on a UN blacklist for alleged conflict related sexual violence violations.
37:33Let's take a look.
37:35>> I'm sorry. Wait, I have to make a point.
37:39I will be quiet because what the should be doing. I make order.
37:44>> Three weeks ago, Israel was added to the Secretary General's blacklist for conflict related sexual violence.
37:50Israel, a democracy governed by the rule of law, a country defending its citizens, placed alongside Hamas, alongside Boo Haram, alongside ISIS. I would like, Were you afraid the facts will not match the conclusion? This was surrender. Surrender to the secretary general's campaign against Israel.
38:11Surrender to the raptors and the so-called UN experts who bully pressure and smear. You caved you caved to the pressure. You caved to the secretary general's obsession with targeting Israel. I'm sorry. Wait, I have to make a point of order. I will be quiet because I should be doing I make a point of order. This should not be passed.
38:34You part of the I have a point of order.
38:36Shame on you. I have a point of order.
38:39You spoke my wife out. We have evidence.
38:42You part of this point of order. You part of his obsession. You part of this obsession.
38:48>> No person.
38:50>> All right. Now, surprisingly, given what they did to Franchesca Albani, there are people at the United Nations who are willing to continue to speak up.
39:00So just a few days later, they dropped a report uh confirming what everybody has known, what a lot of doctors who have been in the combat zone in Gaza have been screaming from the rooftops. We've interviewed some of them that they've been intentionally targeting children.
39:19So he's from the United Nations. The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the occupied Palestinian territory prepares new report to the UN Human Rights Council. Quote, "The evidence shows the Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted and killed by the Israeli security forces."
39:40Um, Adam here kind of summed up the report. Uh, it's not very long. It's very easy to find if anybody wants to read it. It's only about 80 pages. Um, the UN officially concludes that Israel intentionally waged a genocide on children. The official UN Commission of Inquiry just concluded on the record in a published report that Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children as a strategy to destroy the biological continuity of the Palestinian people. Just let that sink in. 20,179 children killed, 44,143 injured in two years that we know of so far. Since the ceasefire in October 2025, UNICEF confirmed at least 265 more
40:31children killed. And Israel's response to the UN report, a lielist sham. Let me tell you what's in the report because it's so much worse than the headline.
40:42The report's full title is the essence of childhood has been destroyed. Here's what they documented.
40:50Israel deliberately targeted maternity wards and neonatal units not as collateral damage but as a strategy. The result, rising miscarriages, birth defects, and the destruction of Palestinian newborn life and population continuity. Palestinian children were arrested, tortured, and held in Israeli detention facilities with no information on their whereabouts provided to their families. A 14-year-old boy was shot by an Israeli military patrol as he walked outside his own front door. No fighting, no combat, just a child walking out of his house. The commission has identified the specific Israeli military divisions,
41:35brigades, and units responsible for killing children in documented incidents. This is not a war. It is not a conflict. It is the documented systematic destruction of a people starting with their children by a state that receives billions in Western military funding every single year. And your government calls it self-defense.
41:59Now, is this the kind of thing that really drew you into being a oneisssue voter? Is it really that the horror of that?
42:08>> Of course. You know, um here if you don't um mind.
42:14>> Um >> here [snorts] is uh this one really uh struck me and this was uh um you know paragraph 42. In one example investigated by the commission between 20th and 21st of December 2023 in Shik Rodwin, uh, Israeli soldiers threw four hand grenades inside a house with 30 family members without any warning, severely injuring a 5-year-old boy who suffered from multiple injuries, including abdomal abdominal evisceration. The Israeli security forces then forcibly entered the house, shot and killed eight family members, including the parents, and ordered the survivors to evacuate to a nearby school. The Israeli security forces did
42:56not provide any medical assistance to the injured or assist them with their evacuation. The boy was carried from the house to the school with severe injuries. He lost consciousness at the school while he was treated by a doctor who reinserted his exposed intestines by using diapers and taped his stomach. He was taken to the Ashifa hospital where he underwent surgery alone. Later, the boy was medically evacuated out of Gaza and underwent eight surgeries while three more were still needed as of December 2025. The boy had been left with a permanent disability in one of his legs and has to use a wheelchair.
43:34The boy and his surviving six-year-old brother suffer from severe mental harm and behavioral change as a result of this incident. In particular, since they witnessed the brutal shooting of their parents by the Israeli security forces, including their pregnant mother shot in the abdomen and breast and father in the head. Mental harm against Palestinian children by Israel. The commission finds that Israeli soldiers of the 162nd division, specifically the hund the 401st brigade and Shyete 13 were operating in the area uh at the time of this incident.
44:14So [clears throat] um yeah that's again um you know one story horror story and this is what uh America has traded incalculable amounts of soft power for.
44:28This is what we're defending on the national st on the international stage.
44:32This is what we are sanctioning um you know debanking going after the family members of people who speak out against this kind of stuff. Um it's it's really it they have aligned us with with pure evil. Um I think that Israelis are um at this point to me they're they are akin to a drugaddicted um person who we are handing you know $100 bills to and dropping them off on Skid Row every single day. You know we have feeding this blood lust this addiction. It's not um uh it's it's just it's so horrific for everyone, of course, most of all for the Palestinians who have to deal with this. And why like what
45:20what are we not that there's anything that we could get out of this, but it doesn't make any sense, right? It's very very frustrating because I'm not naive. I know that evil happens in the world. I know that there's bad things happening. I know there are conflicts and war zones and and everything, but this one's it is different in that it has the fullfledged backing support and protection of the you know the world's biggest superpower, right? And it's it doesn't make any sense. And so, um, yeah, you do start to, and I think that that's one reason why, uh, conspiracy theories, um, start to really run wild around this topic
46:05because it's so nonsensical. Everyone is looking for it to make sense. Right.
46:11>> Right.
46:12>> And, um, so yeah, and yeah, sometimes you just you watch it and if you're I'm sure you were the same way. if you've been watching since October 7th and just horror. Um it's it makes for long days sometimes, you know, obviously nothing compared to the people of of the region, but you know, >> it it's it's been yet another thing it seems in a long series of things that have divided Americans from each other.
46:40Um, you know, I mean that's happened with the Trump kind of Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Green and your end of the pool and on our end it's kind of it's kind of split people along the Israel supporters and the people who just cannot support an aparttheid state and and especially coming right out of this whole wave of social justice to see so many of the people who mouthed that when confronted with a real colonial project back. It has just been insane.
47:13So, speaking of Massie, one last thing.
47:15I want to boost this because our friend Gen XGirl is trying to draw attention to this.
47:21>> Um, so Massie is going out swinging with his last few months in office. One of the first things he's doing is to introduce a bill to cut 3.3 billion of Israel funding from the NSRP Appropriations Act. Um, so hey, now's the time folks. 2022 3121.
47:51Call your House rep. Tell them to vote yes on the Massie amendment. Now for you, Mel, it you you identify as a Republican, you identify as a Christian.
48:03Now, does that mean Thomas Massie, Marjorie Taylor Green, like what does that mean for you at this point? And if so, what did you make of the way Trump was able to crush their political careers, at least for the moment?
48:20Yeah, it was um obviously very frustrating especially for Marjorie Taylor Green because um I I know she said a lot of things that you know people obviously take issue with um controversial things but one thing I was so appreciative of her was that um she really really approached the issue from just a humanitarian standpoint. again, she was sharing, you know, Gaza notifications last August. Um, none of, you know, the quote unquote like, you know, uh, third world communists, [laughter] they don't even do that, right? And she was sharing, she's like, "This is a baby. Like, this baby is starving." And
49:05so, I was so grateful to just see someone argue it from a um, this is this is not a political issue at all. this is a are you a decent human being issue if you can see these babies starving and you know that we're enabling this food blockade right so I really just um really adored her for that and I I just so appreciate her willingness because it's not easy on the right especially to stand up and she's like in one of the reddest districts in Georgia and you know she was going out there she was still representing the things that her people cared about and yet she's still talking about this as well and so I
49:43thought that she just really represented a good balance. Now, of course, Massie, he he approached that issue from more of like his classic libertarian standpoint and that like we just shouldn't. He has since pushed back a little bit more from just a hey, this is um this is wrong.
49:58It's just wrong, right? Um but uh yeah, to the way that Trump, which he has hated Massie for a really long time, >> right?
50:07>> Um >> right. But uh yeah, the way that they organized against him was and just the way that Trump needlessly uh inserted himself because he could have just held back because the thing is is that Thomas Massie for the most part had actually supported almost all of his uh agendas. There was a handful of votes that you know Massie I don't know maybe could have given a little bit on. I don't know. Um he always made like decent points. It's just the the whole thing had become such a show at that point. It to me it just didn't matter either way what he said. But Trump, it was so personal for him. But
50:46his betrayal of Marjorie Taylor Green to me was just so dirty um and just so uh really unforgivable in a way. like you just someone who had been through what she had been through in supporting Kim and he just threw her to the wolves like that and uh you know it was kind of like just you you freaking >> right.
51:16>> So [laughter] >> now at the time that that happened were you still nominally a Republican or had you already walked kind of walked away from being active?
51:26Oh, no. At by that point I was I was really after Charlie Kirk I was pretty much done after he was murdered in, you know, uh broad daylight uh clearly by some sort of um uh operation. Um I Nope.
51:43Don't buy the Tyler Robinson uh line. I think it's BS. I I think it's >> Oh, really? You don't you don't you don't think kids in their 20s write like a dime store pulp novel from uh the depression? You don't think those are real texts?
51:56>> I don't I don't think that kids um in their 20s with no behavior, mental uh health issues, no history of violence or outbursts or even political activism whatsoever, wake up one day and decide to commit first-degree murder and then find their way onto college campuses they've never been to and somehow know exactly where it is they're supposed to go to and then, you know, uh slide grandpa's uh you know, antique rifle out of their blue jeans.
52:23uh line up no um you know you know with their scope that they you know had to to put back on the you no tripod no nothing like that they're just lining it up and scopees already you know uh realigned perfectly it's resting on the backpack fire off the perfect shot you know that somehow Charlie Kirk's uh you know bones of steel were able to stop um >> adamantium >> yeah [laughter] it's it's quite incredible when you slow it down. So, no, I don't buy that at all. And um no one did. I know plenty of people um you know, in and around the administration.
53:01I know a lot of staffers on the hill. No one believed it. And um they were all too cowardly, all too chicken to stand up and demand real accountability and a real investigation. And so now we have this Yahoo, this just drunken idiot out there, you know, Cash Patel and his country music sensation girlfriend. Um, you pushing this absolute slop on us. And everyone just kind of went along with it. And then they then they tried to use it to make us hate the left again. You know, they wanted to like it was like we were somehow back in 2016 or 2017 again. And so, no, I was really disgusted with them um over that. It's just so it was so
53:51wild to me that when people would say, "Oh, you really think that Israel would do that?" I'm like, "Israel's shooting children in the head." Okay. So, yeah.
53:59Like the idea that they would assassinate a grown man who posed a an actual threat to them because he was done with their movement and he commanded the largest most wellorganized youth uh conservative movement in the country. The idea that they would want to take him out. I I I don't even understand how you're fighting me on this. So, >> all right, Mel, thank you very much for joining. Where can people find you?
54:27You can find me on X or Substack. Um, Village Crazy Lady. Uh, there's no A in the in the village because there's a there's a character limit. And, um, yeah, you can always find me there every day. I'm doing a series on the N, the New Apostolic Reformation, where it came from, and really how it started to become, um, intertwined and how it really became uh, was able to take control of our uh, Republican party. And so, >> is that so is that related to like the Scoffield Bible or is this something else? It's so it's it's um it's so Scoffield Bible is is very old. If you go and you if you um are curious about
55:03where dispensational riddling comes from, that's pinned on my um profile right now. But that um the N is different. It was actually started in the 70s. Um it's kind of this weird CIA propped up. It's not CIA funded initially, but there there's lots of intelligence links in there. Um there's there's links to uh you know Mir Kahane.
55:29Um >> the yeah the founder of the Calvary Chapel. Um uh just came across something on him the other day that was fascinating and his links to Gahane. So yeah, you you start to see this it's this new movement that comes up and they really kind of tried to attach themselves to the old stuff to kind of distract from the fact that actually >> they made it all up in the um you know starting in the 70s. So >> all right definitely check that out.
56:00That sounds right up my alley. Uh so you're primarily on X. That's where people should primarily find you.
56:06>> All right, Mel, >> thank you so much for having me.
56:08>> Thank you very much. It's been a pleasure.
56:10Thank you.
56:11>> Bye.
56:12>> Bye. Bye.
56:14>> All right. So, that was Mel. Uh, are we going to go to a break?
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59:49>> [music] [music] >> Hey, hey, hey.
60:46All right, we're back. Russell Dobler filling in for Jimmy Door. Uh we have next up Blakeley Bartley. She is an American singer and content creator who's gained a significant following online from her satirical and politically pointed videos on Tik Tok and Instagram commenting on current events including the widely shared piece we are Israelis. We also have a common enemy Michael Shelonburgger. Although I think I'm the only one of the two of us that's been physically attacked by Michael Shelonburgger. Please welcome Blakeley.
61:26Is your mic on?
61:30[laughter] >> Can you hear me now?
61:33>> That's all right. I didn't know you I didn't know you sang.
61:42>> Your mic uh your mic is kind of messed up. Are you having a tech? Yeah. Yeah.
61:48Yeah.
61:49>> Wait. I think I know. I think. Wait.
61:53>> Happens to me all the time. Don't worry about it.
61:57>> How about now?
62:02>> It's a little like speak again.
62:06>> Can you hear me now?
62:08>> It's a little like uh grabbly >> and I'm getting like um I'm getting feedback like I'm hearing myself a little bit.
62:18>> Okay, hold on. Let me try one more thing cuz I think I think it's because of my headphones.
62:27>> All right.
62:28>> Sometimes just have to test it on the air.
62:40>> I can hear myself when I speak. You probably can, too.
62:46All right. Now I can't.
62:49All right. So maybe it's >> No, now I can't. Now I can again.
62:55>> We're going [laughter] to clip this. So uh Andrew, this is clip number six here.
63:03>> Can you hear me now?
63:05>> I hear you. But let me see if I can Yeah, I'm getting feedback.
63:09>> I'm getting like I'm hearing myself.
63:14>> Let me try leaving and coming back. Hold on.
63:17>> All right. All right.
64:09>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> All right. How we doing?
65:15>> Say speak more.
65:18Can you hear me now without the feedback?
65:21>> There we go.
65:23>> Okay. [laughter] >> All right. I was like, well, this is gonna be a short show.
65:29[laughter] >> No, no, totally. No, I was like, actually, the the little short bio blurb you read was almost accurate. Two things. They put she, which I'm non-binary, so I don't use she >> Oh, no, it's okay. Well, also I also don't really go by my last name and that's mostly to um spare my extended family right now. Um so I just go by Blakeley or I am Blakeley is like the handle that I use. I I don't usually New York Post though use my last name and then they put it as my first name and called me Bartley Blake. [laughter] >> Uh I I was actually a little surprised your last name was in there because I've
66:11never seen it anywhere. Yes.
66:12>> Yeah. Because I don't I don't really Yeah, I don't really use it, you know, like publicly. I don't I don't use it.
66:18>> Right. Yes. Um All right. So, slow news week here in New York. Here in New York.
66:25Blake Blakeley's over there. What are you in Brooklyn? Right.
66:28>> Yeah. Yeah. Right in the corridor.
66:31>> You're in Brooklyn. I am in uh I am in Harlem. Not the commie corridor.
66:37Although you do have uh Revolution Books up here, just kind of a hot bed of radical politics up in Harlem. Uh so Big Mom Donnie sweep last night.
66:50>> Yes.
66:50>> Uh all of his endorsed candidates won. I personally did not see that coming. I thought he was going out on a limb with Valdez.
66:58>> I I thought I thought Shiovay would win.
67:01Lander looked like a layup. That one surprised me, especially as large as the victory was. Um, so little bit here about this.
67:14Uh, last night was a catastrophic night for Apac. Let's count the bodies. New York 10, Dan Goldman, Levi Strauss air.
67:25Yeah. You know, you know what they call Nepo babies in China? I've been trying to make this a thing. It's not catching though. I But I loved it. They call them lucky boys and lucky girls. That's the term for Nepo baby. I love it.
67:39>> That's amazing.
67:41>> Lucky boy. Dan Goldman.
67:44253 million net worth, 377,000 in Apac donations backed by Governor Hokll and House Minority Leader Hakee Jeff. Lost to Brad Lander 66-34.
68:02called by New York One less than 10 minutes after polls close out. Lander took zero APAC money, called Gaza a genocide, and won with 11,000 plus grassroots donors. Goldman said at their June 1st debate, Israel is not the most important issue in this district, voters disagreed by 32 points. New York 13, that's my neck of the woods. Five-term incumbent Adriano Espott, chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, fell from 32year-old public fell to 32-year-old public defender Dar Liza Aia Shaveay 49 to 45.
68:46I think uh she actually won by more than that.
68:49Apac and its allied super PACs funneled nearly 3 million through Shell Packbold America to defend Espot. Voters in East Harlem said the Apac money was their breaking point. One voter told reporters it was the last straw. Espot had taken over 676,000 from Apac over his career. Didn't matter. Uh, you know who you know who was actually uh very excited about Dan Goldman losing? Donald J. Trump. Weak and pathetic Congressman Dan Goldman just lost big. I guess people didn't like him illegally targeting President Trump. In any event, this jerk is finally gone. President DJT.
69:38Uh, so let's take a look. For anyone who's not familiar, this was kind of a uh a really resonant moment in the debates where they asked Espat whether he would consider what was happening in Israel a genocide.
69:53>> The question, do you believe Israel has committed genocide on the Palestinian people since the October 7th attack?
69:58You're you're a yes.
69:58>> Yes.
69:59>> Do you believe that it was genocide?
70:01>> It's a horrific situation in Gaza.
70:04Unimaginable.
70:05Men, women, and children have been killed. innocent people and whoever perpetrated that action should be held to the highest standard of accountability. It's horrific and and there are international entities that like the United Nation and the International Court that have established what it is.
70:21>> United Nations has called it a genocide.
70:24>> Okay, so she won and uh our friend Professor Zenis here pointed out a little irony about this victory. Darly Liza Aia Shaveier, who was an organizer at the Palestinian Solidarity Encampments at Columbia University, worked closely with Makmoud Khalil and Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace. Both groups later banned by Columbia University. And just two years after that same Colombia administration called the NYPD to violently break up those encampments has now become the next Congress member to represent the district which includes Colombia University Free Palestine.
71:09Indeed. So this this is you know without giving away without giving away too much about where I am. This was very close to me. Um I could have run into him. This is right by my polling station. I didn't know he was your Congress member.
71:23Espayat, >> you didn't know that?
71:26>> No, I didn't know that. That's That's really funny.
71:29>> Yeah. No, Espat This is This is right at the Shoberg Center. Uh so Ryan Grim happened to be out there. I went and voted that day. Like I could very easily have run into him. I was three blocks off from here. Uh but you can see how popular he is with the voters here. And Ryan Grim kind of found his way over there, too. Stop defending genocide.
71:53When will you condemn the genocide in Gaza? When will you condemn the genocide in furious people of you? You supported genocide. You supported genocide. Never actual. They don't actually have policy.
72:13She literally said, "I'm just going to go to do what he said." We're standing on Malcolm X Boulevard. Malcolm says Stanford is something of our own.
72:22[laughter] This lady showed up in February. If she cared about Harlem, she could have organized throughout her years. She's been here for 15 years, right? She went to Colia. She only ever did one protest. This man has almost gotten arrested by how many immigrants by how many are speak of Congress do you know outside on the street?
72:43>> Uh so Espionad has a hype man there uh talking about how they're on Malcolm X Boulevard. Yeah. What side of this do you think Malcolm X would have been on?
72:53What are you What are you even talking about? [laughter] >> I love how he goes. He's done so much for immigrants. It's unbelievable. Um, notably not Mammud Khalil or his wife who tried to reach out to him.
73:07>> But also, I love I'm so amused by the fact that they are trying to make her a white gentrifier.
73:13>> Like, they really were trying to make that happen.
73:15>> Yeah. Yeah, despite the fact that she and >> a black and Dominican Muslim. Yeah.
73:20>> Yeah. A black and Dominican Muslim. But then they also tried to do that angle.
73:23They were throwing anything at the wall to see what would stick. They were trying to do the she's actually like a gentrifier who like hasn't she works at Colombia. She's a She's a PhD. She's never done nothing. She's just But it wasn't working. And then they tried the oh maybe she's trying to great replacement theory her way in here.
73:43she's actually Haitian and Muslim. Like, so it was just disgusting, dirty tactics. And it's funny that you said the thing about um who you didn't think was going to win. Probably because I live in New York 7. I was not surprised Claire won at all. Like, >> right. See, and I live here and I thought she would win. So, I don't know your district. You're right.
74:06>> Right. Right. So, I was the most nervous about and the most unsure about um Daria Lisa. I thought that that was going to be the one that like maybe she wouldn't win. Not because I didn't think that she could, but because I feel like they ran the dirtiest campaign against her. Like >> they did >> to be fair to Nia Velasquez and to Antonio Renoso. I don't think that they did a couple of things. They tried to paint her also as like a gentrifier. Oh, you don't know the district. This and that. They threw some at her like, "Oh, she took money from, I don't know, whatever." like but it could have been a
74:43lot more dirty. They didn't go as nearly as low as they either could have and or as Espott did. Um, and she obviously won by a lot and I wasn't surprised she won by a lot. Even though um, Antonio Renoso had all the endorsements like not just from the establishment, he got all the pro establishment endorsements, but he also got all the endorsements from all the like progressive groups like Working Families Party and a bunch of the unions and you know, Tish James is still considered like a progressive and like all of these people.
75:17>> We'll get to her. I I I know. I was I [laughter] was waiting for that, too. I know. I was like, "Yes." But um but she still won. So, I think that Mum Donniey's endorsement definitely played a huge part because he did have a lot of backing. But I also think that um there was a lot of um and and we'll get to it when we get to Tish James. There was a lot of entitlement. a lot of entitlement despite the fact that they were saying around Claire, oh, she's just uh, you know, a gentrifier and it's mom Donnie and Antonio Renos knows the district.
75:50And I'm not taking that away from him.
75:51Yes, he knows the district pretty well.
75:53He's been living here for a long time.
75:54So much so to the point though where everybody was already talking about how it was his seat before Nidia announced she was stepping that she was retiring. And I think that that entitlement from the establishment, the establishment progressives really turned a lot of people off.
76:15>> I I think this also really demonstrated how much juice mommy has right now because in Harlem, I kept saying I even dropped a video on X about it. Espionad had all the money because when I when I walked around the neighborhood, >> I saw one bank of posters near my house for her and that's it. All the literature was espe when I would go for a walk. If I passed by polling stations, no literature for her, no volunteers for her, only espot volunteers out handing out flyers. That was I thought the biggest advantage that he had because a lot of people don't follow this. They don't really know who's running. They
77:04know who handed them a flyer. And that's I was getting mailers every day in my mailbox from Espat's campaign about how the Democratic socialists want to defund the police and you're going to have crimeridden neighborhoods.
77:21and she still did pretty well what not only won she won pretty convincingly.
77:27That's a lot of juice. I also think having lived in Harlem for 20 years, part of it is Espat uh that was very disappointing for a lot of the black community when he won because that seat was held by Adam Clayton Powell Jr. from 1945 to 1970 and was held by Charlie Wrangle from 1970 to 2016. There have been a black person in that seat from 1945 to 2016. So, especially with questions of demographic shifts and gentrification, it was very shocking to a lot of the black community. And I think the kinds of attacks that they launched on her probably backfired on that level in that community that already was never all
78:21that hot on SPF to begin with.
78:24>> I agree. I think you're right about that, especially since she won black voters in that there was like polling that or exit polling already that came out that said that she won black voters.
78:33And listen, it's the best of both worlds. She's Afro Latina, so she's Dominican and she's black.
78:38>> There you go. It's the best of both worlds. Also though, but you're right.
78:41They ran I agreed that I think it probably backfired because they were being so dirty about it. They were being so racist toward her. Like they were all like going in there was like leaked messages in WhatsApp about how they were calling her like, "Oh, well, she's black. Oh, she's Haitian." Like being super racist and then claiming that um she was going to usher in like Haitian immigrants to take the place of the debate.
79:07like all of this like it was disgusting.
79:11>> And that was exactly the wrong move for him to pull because Harlem was never that hot on him. He It was It was It was weird. It was one of those things. He got in in a year where there was no credible challenger.
79:23>> So his base of Latino support was enough because there was no one that really excited the black community that year.
79:32You had Adam Clayton Powell IVth who was just a nepo baby who had never really done anything. You had some Clinton machine guy running. So he was able to win. And then you know once an incumbent is in it's very difficult to get them out. But all it took was someone with some momentum because he never really had that kind of support here.
79:54>> Yeah. which is wonderful because he's trash. And um he's like again like I was so happy. I was the most excited about her because like from if we're talking from like the horse race perspective because if Antonio Renoso had won, I would say I'd be upset. I would be upset but because I don't think he is that progressive and he was super late on the genocide thing. But there are worse people than Antonio Renoso. Like he's not the worst they could have put up.
80:26You know what I mean?
80:27>> Espotts dirty all the time. You saw you showed his answer. What a joke that answer was.
80:38>> Um and also he had all he he's a powerful incumbent. He's the head of the Hispanic progressive or the congressional Hispanic caucus and he had all the endorsements from Hakeem Jeff and like all of the you know DC establishment. So that made it all the more like it was just like it just made it so much better. So much better because it was like Yes. Yes. And I love them crying about how Zo but he did endors Zoran not until after the primary And you know why I love this so much? I love it so much because you never see people on the left do that. Like play politics like ever, ever, ever. Like it's always like, "What if we kiss the
81:24ass of the establishment? What if we did that instead?"
81:27>> Like, and so I just actually love that they were like, "Well, Mom Donnie said that he probably would support him." And then he's like, "Actually, I'm not. I'm going to endorse this person." Which I absolutely love because I'm like, "He sucks." And he didn't endorse Mom Donnie. And um I think it's great that they swept. I was obviously thrilled to see um Dan Goldman lose, but I was expecting it. Like I knew he was going to lose.
81:50>> Yes. Yeah.
81:51>> Um >> so it just was but it was still satisfying as hell. Um because he's such a hack and his wife's a psycho by the way. I know that his wife is not in politics or whatever, but she's also a lunatic Zionist that like retweets derange So I'm glad to see him gone. Um >> well, what other kind of wife would that guy have? Oh my gosh. True, [laughter] true.
82:14So that was so like it was just so I am not going to lie. I have been enjoying injected into my veins watching all of the blue maggot Democrats meltdown. They all were like Espott's going to win and oh la and I'm just like it's so much like I'm just like >> well well because for so long I I don't I don't I don't know how old you are.
82:39Um, but it seems like you might not have been fully in the whole Bernie Hillary thing. Um, these guys have been kicking the out of out of the left for a very long time. And, uh, they're pretty confident.
82:57>> What's that?
82:58>> The Bernie Hillary thing was my political intro. That was the first time I ever voted.
83:02>> So, there you go. There you go.
83:04>> But I saw it. I saw it and I was like, the Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna get into that with you, too, because this the whole Manni thing has created a lot of conversation with a lot of people who were burned by the Sanders campaigns or feel burned by them. Uh so, let's see a little bit of Bombani's uh victory speech there. known this evening whether for state assembly, state senate or congress is that a year ago it was not the end of a political movement.
83:41It was the beginning.
83:44[cheering] [applause] And I want to thank you because in this room I see those who believed no matter what tweet they read from Michael Lang.
83:57[cheering] They believed.
84:01>> They put that anxiety into shifts. They put it into door knocks, into phone calls. Raise your hand if you canvased.
84:10[cheering] >> Those are the hands that won this race.
84:15And every single one of these incredible candidates, [cheering] they are going to be the partners in transforming the most expensive city in the United States of America into one that working New Yorkers can afford.
84:29[cheering] >> So one more time, let's hear it for Tiana Moreno.
84:37>> Let's hear it for David Organ.
84:39[cheering] Let's hear for Samantha Katan.
84:42Let's hear it for Abu Kawas.
84:45Let's hear it for Claire Valdez.
84:48[cheering] >> And let's hear it for a politics for a politics that will never forget working people. [cheering] >> For a politics that is ready to write a new chapter in our party's history.
85:06[cheering] And for a politics that realizes the old politics that got us to this crisis is not the politics that's going to get us out of this crisis.
85:18>> All right. Now, I just want to take a look at one more thing from him and then uh we'll talk about the whole DSA post duopoly all this stuff. All right. So, so mom Donnie gave a speech that was, if you're a native New Yorker like I am, uh, from the generation I'm from, it was pretty remarkable to see a New York mayor give a speech about how Apac is moving around dark money, uh, and dividing us and creating uh, violence.
85:49Uh, so he was asked about that and to your point about backing down, he doubled down. So this is what he said when he was asked about that >> of the Jewish community, including Democratic Congressman Josh Godheimer, were alarmed by the language he used at the rally last week, calling Apac monsters who move dark money. These are phrases that invoke old anti-semitic tropes and conspiracy theories. What do you say to those who are concerned that the language you used is dangerous? Now, >> I want to be very clear. We're talking about a status quo where children are being killed on a daily basis.
86:27More than a thousand Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military since the so-called ceasefire. Even an Al Jazzer journalist, Ahmed Wishah, was killed this past Saturday by an Israeli strike. And when I am speaking about Apac, I'm speaking about an organization that has been supportive of the status quo, that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people not just in Palestine, but frankly um through much of the region and it is a status quo for immorality. It is one that I will not accept. And when it comes to the way in which they defend the status quo, often times they defend
87:06it through direct contributions as we are seeing right now in New York 13. Um, often times they also support the status quo through dark money by filtering money that would have previously been directly from Apac now through other uh shell organizations whose identities of their cont contributors are only made clear after an election. [clears throat] And I think that it is important that when we ask ourselves how such death and destruction is happening overseas, we also name those who allow it to take place.
87:37>> All right, we're going to go.
87:41>> So, yeah, he did not do what we expect from Democrats at this point. They're going to walk it back. They're going to massage it. They're going to on the one hand, on the other, they're going to Obama it. Um, I think a lot of people expected him to be more of an Obama in that way than he ended up being. So, this comes at the end, I think, of a long road for a lot of people or maybe the midpoint. We'll see how things play out. You know, you had a lot of people, myself included, really got into politics in the Bernie campaign, like got serious about politics in that campaign. And a lot of us uh were sweet
88:23summer children about what the Democratic Party was. And that was this really eyeopening and very traumatic experience I think for a lot of people.
88:33Uh Bernie at that point he still had credibility uh with his movement. So when he called for them to stay inside the Democratic party and reform it, a lot of people heated that call and then were kicked in the teeth again and again with Obama with the what I call the Monday night massacre the night before Super Tuesday with frankly and we'll get into this with the Tisha James thing with the squad with AOC with backing these people who were supposed to be were kind of doing what gold the post Goldwater Republicans did starting with the smaller seats and building up and then they all just turned on us. Um, people
89:16went post duopoly. They walked away.
89:22I I personally I think a lot of people felt at at the time and I said this to people, you know, 10 years from now the things that we're fighting for are going to take over the Democratic party if but it's it's going to take about 10 years for that to happen. It seems like when you look at all these victories, that's what's happening now. But what I'm seeing is a lot of people are so bitter they can't take part in what I would argue is their own victory. Like they're the pe like those troops who went out there in the snow in New Hampshire for Bernie Sanders and wouldn't let it go and frankly wouldn't vote for Kla Harris
90:07as long as she was supporting a genocide. That broke the lips. The fact that Trump came back finally actually disillusioned them to the point about their preferred media and what they had been shoveled all these years. Like how many times are you going to tell people, "Oh yeah, no, Hillary's going to flip Texas before they finally finally say these people have no idea what they're talking about. Maybe those Sanders people were right the whole time." So I don't know where I I Are you a DSA member? Are you in the DSA?
90:41>> No, I used to be. I let my membership lapse and um I honestly don't even remember what they did to piss me off.
90:49They did something that pissed me off and then I was like, I'm not renewing my membership and then I forgot. I think I think it had something to do with them not fighting Biden. It had something to do with that because like we kept >> not fighting what?
91:06>> Biden like the Biden administ.
91:08>> Ah, right. Okay. Um because I remember hearing like people kept saying like, "Oh, we're going to push Biden." But then I felt like anytime we would criticize Biden, they were always running to his rescue and being like, "Leave him alone." Like [laughter] and like >> Yes.
91:24>> I So I feel like So I was and then I let it lapse. But like I'm not opposed to them. Some people really like hate the DSA. Like I'm not opposed to them. I think that you know I have to give them their flowers on this. like they actually do the work. Like they actually are out there showing up, doing the work, actually doing a lot of things that a lot of people who sit on the sidelines and complain all the time don't actually do. So, you know, I give them credit for and I don't agree with everything that the DSA says, but this is how like I explain it to people when like they ask why I was so supportive of
92:00all the DSA candidates is that like I don't agree with everything DSA stands for. For instance, the whole like abolish the police thing. I'm not I'm not abolish prison, whatever. I'm not with that. However, however, that is not going like I have way more in common with the DSA and or with people who even would identify themselves as communists, which I I don't identify as, but I've got more in common with them than I do with Hakee Jeff. So then why is it that whenever somebody's like >> more like progressive, like I would consider myself progressive. How come whenever somebody's progressive, it's
92:39always acceptable for them to align with the more right-wing factions, but it's never acceptable for them to align with the left-wing factions. Even if they don't agree with the left on everything, you can't. It's always got to just go one way, you know? So, like it'll be like, "Oh, if you disagree with the left on one thing, you can't you can't be a part of it." But like, but I've got a lot more in common with them than I do with the the moderates. So, I was broadly very supportive of all of them.
93:09Like, I didn't agree with everything that Daria Lisa, you know, stands for.
93:13However, I'm like her over Espott any day of the week. Any day of the week.
93:20And also, like a lot of things I do agree with her on. And for me, like, you know, I to me it's my where where I've changed cuz I've gone through that same evolution of like, oh my gosh, feeling totally betrayed by the party with what they did to Bernie Sanders and then also what it feels like they also did during his second run with helping Biden and all dropping out and then also like once Biden got in, they all tried to like gaslight us and tell us he FD instead of like actually like pushing him and you know demonizing >> dementia. What dementia?
93:59>> Yeah, exactly. but also gaslighting us when I criticized them for breaking up the bill back better bill even though they claim we would be pushing the left PLA Gipol that useless feckless member of Congress came out and it's like he's actually the most progressive president we've ever had and we have a seat at the table and I was like listen I know that progressives are used to losing but just having a seat at the table if they're not listening to you doesn't actually mean anything and like that's my thing that's my thing too is that's not just a policy thing progressives in the laugh always piss me
94:31off because they're so pathetic.
94:33It's always like, "Can we please?" And it's like, "Why aren't you ever adversarial? Why?" Which is why I was so excited about Mom Donnie because it was like the first time that I even saw like a inkling of like adversarial energy where like I'm like, "Yes, no." Because at least for me, I'm not interested in the whole AOC approach of let me kiss their ass and talk about my colleagues and how we like need to work together.
95:02Like absolutely not. No, no, no, no, no.
95:05Listen, these people should when they're like when Tis James is like I'm like no.
95:12These people should be crushed. Crushed actually. They I don't I don't want to hang out with these people. I don't want Oh, well they and I feel like the left is always like begging for scraps instead of ever being aggressive. And so that's why >> right >> I was excited about mom Donnie his win, but also like his energy during this where he endorsed this whole slate because it's like no no no that's the energy I want to see. I don't want to see you kissing their ass and talking about how you need to do this and it's actually 8D chess not to stand up to them or primary them and oh AOC's just keeping her powder dry and la I'm not
95:49interested in that. Okay. I want to see the energy of him being like oh actually I am going to primary Espott actually.
95:56[laughter] >> Which which was a very bold move because if it had backfired on him >> now you made enemies.
96:04>> Yes. Yes. Now, now you you you have people who are going to work actively against you. So, speaking of >> they are mad. [laughter] >> Speaking of uh of our old friend AOC, Tish James shared this out. My friend AOC and I never back down. We deliver.
96:28Uh so, here they are. Uh, I go. Where's that ad? Uh, that one, I think. Right.
96:41>> Oh, no. We'll get to that. [laughter] >> Jump scare. [laughter] >> Hang on. Did I load that in? I did, right? Oh, no. Hang on. I don't have it.
96:57Oh, no. I do. Right. Yeah, there it is.
97:00Okay. You deserve an attorney general who has the courage to fight for [music] you. And that's Leticia James.
97:08>> I've spent my career going after people who thought they [music] were above the law.
97:12>> And when corporations ripped off working people, we made them pay more than $9 billion for the people of this great state. [music] >> And when guns flooded our streets and threatened our lives, >> we took nearly 10,000 of them off of our streets. And we need leaders in Washington who will stand up for our neighbors. When the director of ICE came after [music] AOC for doing her job, she had one answer.
97:34>> Bring it on. Because no one is going to stop us from defending our rights and our communities, not Donald Trump, [music] not the lobbyist, not anyone.
97:41That's the AOC I know, a leader who delivers. Bringing back millions in federal dollars to our neighborhoods.
97:47>> Since getting elected, I've secured nearly $50 million for the Bronx and Queens.
97:52>> We will continue to protect our communities, lower costs, and help working families prosper. vote June 23rd.
98:01>> Okay. So, uh you know, she didn't endorse any of her fellow DSA member candidates. I guess she's a little too big for DSA to excommunicate her. Kate Willlet shared this out. This is who AOC endorsed and did ads with while staying utterly silent about Dar, Liza, and Claire. AOC is working tirelessly for something, but it isn't to end US imperialism or build a socialist electoral movement. No socialist or should co-sign this. And of course, Tisha James marched with the Israeli war criminals that came for the Israel Day parade, including Beielub Smootri, as we call him. Um, and Briana Joy Gray shared
98:48out, "Tickled pink that they're doing Bernie Brocks about a bunch of black, Latino, Muslim, female candidates." Not too surprising.
98:58Today, Tisha James came out to express her displeasure at the results. She had endorsed the other side in all of these races. One particularly notable critic of his endorsements, his meaning Mum Donnie in Tuesday's primary was New York Attorney General Leticia James, a key backer during his campaign. Quote, "Some of the candidates that he has supported are individuals who do not understand the politics of New York City, the cultural differences from district to district, who have not been part of the history." So, you don't even have to be white to get Bernie brood. uh and the struggle of some of these districts and
99:36are relatively new to the body politic, James told CNN, pointing particularly to what she said was Mandani's lack of understanding of race and class issues that run deep. James said she and other political leaders she's spoken to are disappointed in Mandani. All of us are a little frustrated with the Democratic party, but you don't blow it up. That's what MAGA has done. All right. So, this these are your this is who runs the party and these people took a blow last night. But Tisha James definitely represents the people like Jamie Harrison tweeted out that thing. Don't use our resources if you hate us as a
100:24party. These are the people who run it.
100:27And that is why people justly so even with what Mandani is doing, which so much is in accord with what so many people have fought for for so long, they still don't want to with the Democrats because they feel like >> totally, >> you know, all it's going to take is Obama gets up there, makes a speech, and and screws the whole thing, >> right? Which is understandable because uh and I don't fault anyone for that.
100:51First of all, I keep always saying this too when people try to like constantly bully people when it comes to politics.
100:58It is the responsibility of the candidate to inspire the people. And if they don't, that's on them.
101:03>> That is not on the people. And people have every right not to trust them. Why should they like and why should anybody even trust the left for that matter or like this the DSA or whatever when you look at how AOC has moved in Congress? And I know that a lot of people who are AOC stands will run to her defense and say like, "You don't understand. She's playing AD chess.
101:28She's keeping her powder dry. Don't criticize her. She's our best hope for 2028." First of all, she's our best hope for 2028. Um, oh, hang it up. Hang it up. We're already not going to win.
101:38Okay, so that's number one. But number two, um I understand and I always bring this up this caveat that there are a lot of deranged attacks on AOC and so people get, you know, like jumpy about it because there are a lot of deranged attacks on her. A lot of very real misogynistic psychotic attacks on her and that but that's not where where people like me who are critiquing her or criticizing her are coming from it at.
102:03Where I come from it is I think a lot of people saying very similar to Bernie Sanders is disappointment.
102:09Disappointment that she had so much promise. Disappointment that you know and it's whatever. I get like you got to move on. Like you got to move on. Like okay we're very disappointed by AOC.
102:20She's not what she promised to be. Okay.
102:21We're moving on. No. The problem that I still have with it is that they're still constantly trying to position her as a leader of the left. And no, you don't get to position yourself as a leader of the left if you're going to be doing like not putting your neck out and endorsing, you know, Daria Liisa over Espott.
102:39I'm sorry. There's no Oh, but she I got into an argument with Adam Carlson on Twitter. He's like, "Yeah, but you know, you don't understand. She was friends and a mentee of Nidia Velasquez. Cool story. I'm glad you guys are friends and you guys can hang out over Tian's trumpets, but this is politics and she should have endorsed the DSA candidate.
102:59It is that kind of that makes me think I'm sorry again. I don't think AOC is the worst person in Congress. She doesn't have the worst voting record, but I can't stand them always trying to shove down this she's a great leader situation.
103:13>> Well, that that's how you know they turned her. When you when you're getting a foot rub from Jen Saki, they turned you.
103:20>> Right. Right. Well, that's the other thing is that it's like how comfortable and like excited a lot of the establishment are with her now is already making me side eye the out of her and has for a while. But even if like that wasn't the case, she doesn't move like somebody who is willing to take a risk as a leader. She moves in a very very cautious way. And I'm not interested in that. Right. I mean, I have a theory. There's that video of the Iron Dome vote where Pelosi whispers something in her ear >> and she starts crying afterwards and she abstained on that vote. She broke her, man. She was never the same after that.
104:04A lot of people say she was always CIA.
104:08I I don't buy it, man. Something happened there. I think she went up there and said, "Join me and I will complete your training." And she wound up uh taking taking the offer. She went to the dark side. She was never the same after that vote. She was never the same after that.
104:25>> And I always wonder what happens to them, you know, cuz it's like they get to Congress and then all of a sudden they they just I'm like, do they all go into a room and get like Epstein taped?
104:36Like what is going on? Why do so many of these people >> I mean some people show them some people say they show them the JFK assassination from a different angle?
104:46[laughter] >> I'm like honestly like I'm like does something happen because why is it that they go in one way and then they although to be fair to some of the other people like Corey Bush really was pretty consistent throughout her entire tenure and that's why they primar. Um but I don't know. So yeah, my my thing is like I thought it was super cringe that she did not endorse Daria Lisa. Daria Lisa being the AOC of that district. Okay, she took out a very powerful incumbent.
105:17If anything, actually AOC did not have as hard of a time as Daria because they didn't really realize that AOC was AOC him until late >> with Daria. they were coming down on her like a month before like it was before and like AOC could have made a difference and didn't and again did not endorse in New York 7. She didn't endorse the Palestinian that ran for the state senate. I mean, there was a bunch of people she didn't endorse. But then she ran out very quickly to tell everybody not to endorse that one woman in Texas because she was an anti-semite >> and she needs to endorse that one hack that's running against her. And it's
105:58like that kind of where I'm like, bro, like, >> well, she morphed into an establishment Democrat at this point.
106:06Sharkery, which also annoyed me only because tell us why. if you're not gonna endorse him because I wanted to know why. Is it is he a sex pest?
106:17Because if he is, you should tell us.
106:19>> Like, what did he do that made you a fraud?
106:22>> Cuz if he's a fraud, you should tell us that, too. The fact that she was being so annoying about it, I'm going to stay out of that race, but then not tell us why she wasn't endorsing him. Again, I just thought was so I just thought it was so annoying. So to me, it's like again, I'm not one of these people that like hates AOC with a passion. Like some people really hate her. Like I don't hate her.
106:45On the other hand, I also am not interested in her. Like I'm not interested in your presidential run. I'm not interested in your triangulation.
106:54And um I don't trust you. And it's not because you're an epic Latinex woman who's willing to, you know, run and and talk about anti-semitism constantly. No, it's cuz I think that again despite the fact that there are way worse people in AOC than AOC in Congress. Like I said, of course, her voting record is not terrible. Um I see the way she moves and the way that when she does things like coming out and condemning the anti- genocide protesters and basically pretending to play dumb and act like she didn't know why they were there and act like it was cuz you know like like pretty simple. It's anti-semitic. Like
107:33it was just so cringe that I was just like, "Okay, to me the reason why I don't trust her is because whether she's CIA or whatever or not, she clearly and she's she's shown this time and time again because I've given her lots of chances." Okay? I've given her lots of chances. She's shown time and time again that she's a careerist. She's interested in her career.
107:52>> That's it. That's it.
107:54>> She's interested in moving up in the party and that is why she doesn't do things that made me really like her in the first place. when she got elected, I was very excited about her. And I remember loving >> I I campaigned for her when she was a bartender.
108:07>> When she when she was still bartending, I was out uh handing out flyers and getting uh signatures in Atoria, >> right? And then like and then like when the Bernie thing happened, like I remember being really like giving her so much credit and being like she's amazing because she endorsed Bernie Sanders after he had his heart attack. And I was like, "Yeah, that was so brave of her, you know, like to to come out like that when the establishment was against her."
108:33So, I think but like since then, like you said, the Iron Dome thing, I don't know if it was a combination of that and maybe also I think that um she was also broken by the attacks from the media. It seems like, you know, the media really came after her and it really affected her. And whatever it is, I don't know the reason. again like I am not arguing at all that she hasn't come under some deranged attacks. Um but because of that she was tested and showed me over time that again it wasn't one thing she did that I was like her. It was like over time I kept seeing her capitulate capitulate capitulate and I was like
109:10right >> she morphed into Nancy Pelosi.
109:16>> Exactly. morph into the next generation Nancy Pelosi, >> right? And if she were to stay a congresswoman in New York 14 and continue to vote very progressively, I'd be like, "Okay." But the reason why I still come down on her sometimes is because I know that they think that they're going to run her for president in 2028.
109:34>> Well, like, >> well, that's that's the one thing that could get Marco Rubio elected.
109:40[laughter] >> Um, all right. All right. All right. So, so quickly, I I want to drink some uh I want to drink some tears. I think we should drink some tears. Megan McCain, to my beautiful Jewish friends in America, we love you. You are not alone.
109:59We are just as freaked out as you are.
110:02And see with clear eyes exactly what is happening. So, Professor Zenis responded, "Look at you fear-mongering to try and regain."
110:12Margaret Kimberly, I'm glad you owned being a Nepo baby in your profile, but the best response was Matt Leeb.
110:20>> What about your ugly Jewish friends?
110:22Guess we can all go ourselves.
110:25>> Yes.
110:26>> Uh, New York Post. Listen, man.
110:29>> New York Post is unequaled with their headlines. I I got to give them credit.
110:33The hateful slate.
110:36Three Israel cop and private propertyhating momdites. Mambdites. That's new. Win Democrat congressional primaries. Well done, New York Post. Evil, but well done.
110:49>> Um, Fat Randy, what is happening in New York tonight should scare every American. The Democrat party there no longer seeks to make America prosper. It seeks to destroy it.
111:05Ben Shapiro.
111:07Last night, a bunch of candidates who literally despise America won in NYC.
111:14Establishment Dems. Whoops.
111:17Establishment Dems who live in fear of their radicalized base. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. They never cross their base. Will cave to them by 2028. People who hate the country and wish to destroy it could be in charge. you know, uh, kind of seems like that's the situation we're in now. Actually, >> also I they really don't understand the Democrats at all. Like they see no distinction between the Democratic base, people like Espottisa, they live in this world where they think that the Democratic Party's leadership and that the party itself loves the left. Like, are you >> Yeah. Where where there's like a left. I
112:01mean, there's not a left any more than I just at the top of the show, I interviewed Mel, who's basically walked away from the Republican party, still considers herself a Republican Christian, but Israel was the thing that made her say, you know, I can't vote for this anymore.
112:20You know, you have that. You have the Marjorie Taylor Greens, you have the Thomas Massies. it they I mean I think a lot of them do get it but the market that they're shoveling the to doesn't and they want to keep it that way that there are distinctions between the left but you do get a lot of people who don't understand like Democrats and leftists are not the same and among people on the left it's extremely fractious uh particularly now I would say you you almost had a unity of rejecting the Democratic party and now people are kind of like, well, if you get Democrats who are anti- genocide, what do you do? You just you just were
113:02never presented with that before because they all were. Bernie, you know, Bernie Bernie's a Zionist.
113:09>> So So like there's there was really nobody until relatively recently who actually held office who was willing to have that position.
113:19>> It was literally like Talib and Ilhan Omar. That was like it. [laughter] That was it. For obvious reasons, they were not gonna give away that inch of their soul.
113:30>> Uh, so Josh Godheimer, >> these are the same photo. Enough is enough. Where do we draw the line? So he has uh graffiti outside Dan Goldman's office saying free Palestine next to 1930s Germany Jude with the Star of David painted in the window. Uh Katie Halper responded, "These are the same photo. The only thing missing from the recent one is the Star of David, the word Jew, and the sign saying Germans protect yourselves. Don't buy from Jews." But besides that, the exact same thing. [laughter] Uh, >> such a hack.
114:14>> Johnny, let's draw it here. Trader meaning the line. Look at all that AP pack money.
114:20And that's last year. It's probably racked up a lot more since then.$2 million.
114:27>> Two million.
114:29>> Darth Powell here points this out.
114:31That's not even a recent picture. A photo from 2023.
114:36Maybe Israel should stop giving you money to buy your favor and forcing us into Middle East wars. How about that?
114:42Yeah, how about it? And then Dan Bacon, this this how you see how they get told what to put out >> cuz why would you pick a picture from 19 uh 2023 out of your hat? Obviously, they're coordinated. Charles points it out. Wait a minute. Did you all get your Hosbur script today? Yeah, they did.
115:07>> And it's not just the Zionists. I mean, you know, Kim Iverson said, "I think there are 5,000 actual people online and the rest are uh bots." I I would say she's she's probably right. It's bots and people who are being paid. You get Ashley Sinclair just did all of those videos spilling the beans about how all these MAGA influencers have a chat room they go into and get their marching orders. That's why they all have the same opinion at the same time. Kim Iverson says very sensibly here. So one Jew beat another Jew in NYC, but because the winning Jew is against genocide, people are panicking that this election
115:48proves anti-semitism is thriving in America and a genocide is coming for Jews. Is that right? Yeah, you got it, Kim. Ari Fleer, free advice for New Yorkers. Get out while you still can.
116:02Okay, everyone who takes Ari Fleer seriously, please take this advice.
116:07>> Yes.
116:07>> The rise of socialists in NYC will threaten everyone. Mom Donny's power will increase. Socialists will gain more seats and they're coming next for you.
116:19Get out now. NYC is going down the tubes. And you actually responded to this. No one cares. Yeah. No one cares.
116:29No one cares. Uh, and Elise Stefonic.
116:33All right, so this is this is the they put out. You know, it's funny. I have a travel channel now and I do some videos about how tourism is down in New York.
116:43>> And I get all the kind of people who watch Cash Jordan. Like, that's not my explanation. My explanation is, well, they tourism with the ice stuff.
116:53Nobody wants to get a get a rectal exam to come visit the Statue of Liberty.
116:58They decide they're going to go someplace else, they'll say, "Oh no, New York is collapsing. It's mom Donnie."
117:05So, she's playing to that. This is where they get that from.
117:08>> Gotham has fallen. The mass exodus out of New York will continue a pace. I call it the blue exodus. Last night's sweep of Marxist socialist candidates will further destroy New York City. The virulent anti-semitism in the socialist campaigns is dangerous not only to Jews but to every American because they are attacking the West. If they continue to win, the American dream and Western civilization will fall. Wake up. Uh, you know, that's funny that there's this exodus because Manhattan office leasing is is up at records now. Wakefield, >> no exodus.
117:52Wakefield Kushman said the office recovery is no longer mainly measured in terms of a shrieking supply of subleas space but by demand for direct leases, renewals, and expansions. Growth by tech sectors, including AI, is a major driver of the trend. Meanwhile, according to CBRE, leasing volume in May alone, totaled 3.02 million square feet, or 43% above the 5-year monthly average of 2.10 10 million square ft. It marked only the second time since 2019 that the 3 million benchmark was topped in a single month. So, uh that's quite a blue exodus there with [laughter] with uh hot real estate market. Uh so
118:38yeah, so those are some of the reactions that we got there from the usual suspects to this. You live here, I live here. I my theory of why look New York being hated by the rest of the country is an old story. That's a old old story.
118:56>> Yeah.
118:57>> Um I think a big part of why reactionary elements in particular are so determined to believe that New York is failing and this didn't start with mom Donnie.
119:09There's a very old trope. That's why there's so much money to be made in pedalling that online. like San Francisco is falling, LA is falling, New York is falling. These blue cities, there's a big market for that, but none more so than New York. If New York works, then everything they believe is wrong.
119:29>> It's it's it's a place where you have people from all over the world. In many ways, and this is something they'll never admit, it is the American dream made real at its best, right? It's it's everyone from all different walks of life all around the world living together. We have our moments but mostly in peace. Mostly people ex respect each other's differences. Kind of a libertarian ideal, right? You live your way, I live my way. Most people in New York just want to go their own way. You leave me alone, I'll leave you alone.
120:07Right? And it is an economic world capital. Now, according to these beliefs that homogeneous societies work better and people are naturally tribal and they can't get along that way and if you have these kinds of social programs, you're going to have economic collapse. New York is a repudiation of everything they believe. So they have to project this fantasy on New York that it's it's horrible and everyone's getting lit on fire on the subway and like that. Why you all of these people, they're supposed to be kind of, you know, um local government, small government people. Why you give so much of a
120:53about a place you don't even live? Why do you care? Like most of these people who obsess on New York City, we voted for it. Like, why do you care? Okay, so what if it's a disaster? You don't live here. Why do you care about that?
121:05>> That's why I love when they'll be like, "Oh my gosh, everyone's going to leave."
121:08Okay, bye. Bye. Right. Yes.
121:12>> Wins all the Okay, bye. Bye. Some My friend used to say, my old friend used to say when people would say that that they were gonna leave, she would be like, "Uh, cool. Someone needs your apartment. [laughter] >> There are plenty of people." Like, but they don't. But they don't. But they never leave. There is no mass exodus.
121:29like you said, it's just this fantasy that they're constantly projecting. Um because New York is like a actual melting pot and a financial capital and a place where yes, we do have more of a social safety net certainly than places like Florida do and it's very diverse and I love it here and I wouldn't I wouldn't I wouldn't want to live in a really like small there's nothing, you know? I mean, no shade to anybody that does, but I find it interesting that they are so Why are you so obsessed with me? Why are you so obsessed with me?
122:05>> Right. Right. Right. Leave us leave us alone.
122:09>> Leave us alone. Look, I having >> government people.
122:13>> Right. Right. Having traveled around the country and having been fortunate enough to see a fair amount of the world, you know, Spalding Gray used to call New York an island off the coast of America.
122:26any in many ways it's it's true. It's true. It's not like any place else in the world. It's certainly not like any place else in the country. Um and why would you need it to be like do you need it to be like the middle of Minnesota? Like leave it alone. Like for the most part the people here, why is this mayor so popular if people are so unhappy? And the kinds of social programs we have like rent stabilization that's left over from the progressive era. New York had a long tradition of that that over the last 30 years got lit on fire in a lot of ways. mom Donnie being elected is a return to an earlier
123:16New York, >> right?
123:17>> One that >> made provisions for working people to be able to live in it. Bloomberg expressly said he didn't think working people should be able to live in New York. This is trying to reverse that. It is amazing that you have so many working people who are so broken and brainwashed that they will get angry at the idea that you're going to tax billionaires and make New York less palpable for them.
123:45>> I know it's so there's nothing more having like like there's nothing more painful than watching some schmuck who makes like 40 grand a year like lick the boots of billionaires and trillionaires.
123:57Like have some dignity, dude. Like it's just it's so embarrassing. Like it's just it's just it hurts. It hurts in the soul cuz it's like how do you not like why?
124:11Because again because they're brainwashed and they're delusional and they think that that's going to be them.
124:15>> Hey man, that you want to talk about CIA? That's CIA man. That's that's the end result of 60 70 years of scops >> that have been run on the working class.
124:24>> Totally. Totally. make it make you hate yourself and Mom Donnie is like a repudiation of that and I think that that is really exciting and you know I'm still like you know I'm still like I'm watching I'm watching because again because of the fact that I have been burnt multiple times whether that be about >> Yeah. I mean he kept Tish you know he sits down and has meetings with Jamie Diamond. Sure.
124:48>> Exactly. So it's like I'm not all in like for instance like I'm just looking I'm trying to look at politics now more okay I'm going to vote for somebody if I align with what they're saying and we'll see how it goes and if they don't then them rather than getting attached to people. And I know that sounds stupid, but like the where was different was that like I went out of my way this time not to buy any merch of mom Donnie before he won >> because I didn't want to get that attachment that I got to Bernie Sanders where I had all this Bernie merch. Like I had so much Bernie Burge >> and like I'm like I don't want to do
125:26that again. I want >> I still have a couple of shirts in the drawer that will probably never come out again.
125:31>> Yeah. And I'm like I'm like I want to have a more I need to have more of a transactional relationship to politics.
125:40>> Sure.
125:41>> Where and that's like what my goal is where it's like okay I'm not going to emotionally become invested either way in loving somebody or in hating them.
125:51I'm going to look at the policy and say do I think this is going to work for me or people that I care about and I will vote on that basis. Now I I'm I'm so I'm trying to be careful of that because there are moments where I get really excited about mom Donnie where I'm like and then I got to like bring myself back and be like okay like remember he's a politician and you need to be we need I'm working on trying to change my relationship because I think that many of us people like me who tend to get very passionate we need to change our relationship to politicians and not treat them like they're our friends
126:27because they're and they're not right. You need to be you need to figure out what you're trying to achieve like ending a genocide and you need to be ruthlessly strategic about it. You're not you're not you're not dating these freaking people, man.
126:41You're using them to achieve a goal.
126:44That's it. Doesn't matter to me if they're Democrat, Republican, independent, I don't care.
126:49>> Activist, political, uh politician, whatever. Whoever's gonna help to stop the killing, that's the direction I think is your guiding star.
127:01>> Yes, for sure. Good way good way to put it.
127:05>> All right, Blakeley, thank you very much. The producer going to shoot me.
127:08You know, you get you get two New Yorkers talking New York.
127:12>> I [laughter] We could have gone on. We could have got on. Okay, we are being merciful. Um, yeah. Thank you so much for having me.
127:19It was great. Thanks for thanks for coming on and thanks for uh thanks for going second chair when I was away >> on Distance.
127:28>> That was really um really fun.
127:31>> All right, cool. So, where do people find you?
127:34>> Um all social media basically. I'm on I am Blakeley.
127:37>> Yeah, you're everywhere.
127:39>> Uh say it again.
127:41>> Uh just I am Blakeley on like pretty much everything.
127:46>> Okay. All right. All right, Blakeley.
127:49Thank you very much for joining.
127:51>> Thanks, guys. See you later.
127:54>> Okay, we're going to go over to Rumble.
127:58Oh, should I be doing the uh super chats now, guys? I can do them. All right, I guess so since I'm still on. All right.
128:07Uh so super chats on Russ needs to work on his IG pay inlay IG paint.
128:22Okay, I don't get it. Danny Danny D.
128:25I'll look back at it later. I'll probably figure it out. Danny Danny D.
128:29Does Melissa condemn Hamas asking for peers? [laughter] Funny. Uh, from Rumble, Ericuso, our friend Mel, why do Republicans keep voting for Lindsey Graham? I wish I'd seen this. That would have been a good question for her. Vianticus Prime.
128:48Everything's a scam. Everything's a lie.
128:50Everything Wait, who the is this guy? [laughter] That's good. Another one of our fans from uh Due Dissonance. Uh, another one from Vianticus Prime. Underneath Matt Walsh's beard is his true gay nature.
129:04Yeah, he's he's he's a beard, literally.
129:07Eric Huso, I say both parties and we start a new party, the dirt party, and Ker will lead us. He'd be down for that. Vietnus Prime, I ask again, when we'll be at the part of the saga where the Zioith are defeated once and for all by the Judai. [laughter] I don't know, man. I don't know. I think it's an eternal battle. Eric Huso, I think sometimes the the Judai are up and sometimes the Zo are up. Uh Erico, if Trump really wanted to be a hero, he'd invade Israel and confiscate their nukes. Uh that would be nice. At that point, I'd have to change everything I ever said about Donald Trump. Scooby, this chat is bad for your brain.
129:52They're doing all right so far. I've seen worse. Let's put it that way.
129:55YouTube d Henry Dshazzo Blakeley is the goat. Their content is amazing. Cracks me up all the time.
130:03Super chat for a better mic. I mean, it got straightened out. Uh, Sierra 5867, why' Russell get physical with Michael Shelonburgger? What's your beef? Did I I didn't say Shelonburgger, did I? Did I say Shelonburgger? I meant um Rapaort.
130:19Oh, whoops. [laughter] Now, now that's going to be a rumor that's going to haunt me forever. Uh, Steve D. Bertram, is it safe to assume that Kurt won't be here? Yes, Steve D.
130:33Bertram. Russ has the worst Trump impression. Listen, I'm going with the Chvy Chase Gerald Ford theory of impersonation.
130:44You don't have to do a perfect impersonation. You have to capture the essence of the person. Uh, Steve D.
130:51Bertram. Oh man, how cool would it have been to run into Ryan Grim, lol. I mean, I would not have been excited to run into Ryan Grim. I would have been excited to go over there and see Espio get yelled at and ask him a couple of questions on camera. Uh, Steve Bertram, I'm so sick of hearing about NYC politics. Well, you know what?
131:13Maybe you all should stop uh paying so much attention to it then. Steve Bertram, I finally understand the concept of hate watching. I finally understand the concept of losers who just keep paying to say stupid Uh Steve Bertram, explain why any of us should care about NYC politics. You don't have to. You could go get a girlfriend. Oh, maybe you can. Roger Meadows. Russ, what role has Columbia University had in reentrifying uh foundational black American freed men out of Harlem since 1975?
131:48Uh, you know, I am not afraid to to not know what I don't know. I know Colombia, very much like NYU downtown, has gone on a campaign of purchasing uh property and real estate uptown. Um, I think a lot of that happened before I moved up here, so I haven't witnessed it. Like in Greenwich Village, I saw it happen because I was very familiar with the area and a lot of the institutions that NYU destroyed.
132:20Um, so but I'm not as familiar with that to be honest with you. Uh, Steve D.
132:29Bertram, I want Russ to have to say tea and trumpets. Well, you got your wish, man. Maybe you'll get a girlfriend, too.
132:37Zaden, you don't change the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party changes you.
132:42DSA needs to run independent socialist candidates. Break with the Democrats.
132:48You know, I mean, in all in all seriousness, like I hear what you're saying. Um, you know, that you pro you're not going to win like that uh 99% of the time. So you got to ask yourself if you want to make a uh a statement or if you want to wield power because in the system that we have right now uh it's going to tend to be either or. Uh and you know a lot of people have said since I went to Asia you changed. Yeah.
133:20You know what changed me? I went to the Hanoi Hilton and I saw pictures of Vietnamese people strung up going blind in the dark for their principles. And then I thought about the left in America doing that. And I said, well, okay, so that's not going to happen. So, you need to really be strategic about how you're going to uh save lives and help people because that shit's not happening in this country anytime soon. Um, Bman Bernie said no right of return for Palestinians. It would destroy Osal.
133:58Uh, yeah. Uh, cuz he's a Roger Meadows. Is it is imperative we focus on putting Indies in New York State legislature seats to use leverage to force a vote on a legislative amendment on ballot? From your mouth to God's ears, my friend. You tell me the plan. I want to hear it. uh asking us to rat also Roger Meadows asking us to ratify the New York State Constitution that allow us to run petition drives statewide to place our own citizen-led amendments on ballot for us to ratify into New York State into New York State Constitution. Well, I'll give you this.
134:37You offer a plan. The thing is it won't happen. like you're not going you you you just you have to build enough outside power to be able to leverage against the insiders and that power doesn't exist yet. You would have to focus more on building outside power before you busted a move like that. Uh Rumble Scooby Free Palestine lawns are fun just joined the ACP, American Communist Party. Nobody else is rejecting the two-party Epstein regime in a serious summer. Hey man, I I I look, I I can't endorse it because I don't know enough about you, but from what I've seen, I' I've liked what you guys are doing. Like I I don't feel like
135:23uh it's either or. I I I feel like you do need to build up communist parties based on my politics. You need to build that so that you will be in a position to leverage that power against the establishment. And from what I have seen from the outside, it looks like you guys are trying to do that. And kudos to you.
135:44Uh, Vanticus Prime, the only mass exodus is useless hot air from their freaking [laughter] mouths while they're crying.
135:51You're right. Uh, oh, he's saying I need to work on my pig Latin. Yeah, I never learned it. I never picked it up. Uh, all right. So, those are all the chats.
136:03Uh, we will go over to Rumble now. Uh do a few segments.
136:30Heat. Heat. N.
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