WEBVTT - Executive Disorder: White House Weekly #40 0:00:01.680 --> 0:00:02.840 Cold Zone Media. 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.360 Am I introducing the podcast. Welcome to the podcast. 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:15.200 This is It Could Happen Here Executive Disorder, our weekly 0:00:15.320 --> 0:00:17.960 news cast covering what's happening in the White House, the 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:19.280 crumbling world what it means for you. 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:20.320 I'm Garrison Davis. 0:00:20.360 --> 0:00:23.440 Today I'm joined by Mio Wong, James Stout, and Robert Evans. 0:00:23.840 --> 0:00:27.639 This episode recovering the week of October thirty first to 0:00:27.800 --> 0:00:31.600 November fifth, one of the most exciting weeks in politics. 0:00:31.800 --> 0:00:33.479 Yeah, because it's onon finite if. 0:00:33.360 --> 0:00:37.440 You remember the poem that's right, And that's not the 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:39.920 only exciting thing to happen, but also not the only 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:42.879 sad thing to happen this week, because as exciting as 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:46.199 election Day was for people in New York, there was 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:50.760 like a looming sadness throughout the day because earlier that morning, obviously, 0:00:50.920 --> 0:00:58.160 Vice President Dick Cheney passed away and that was rough 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:02.080 for many people, not rough many others, but that certainly 0:01:02.160 --> 0:01:05.280 was illuming presence over the day. Does anyone have any 0:01:05.440 --> 0:01:09.960 words to say on the passing of mister Cheney. 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:12.360 Yeah, I mean, I just want to let everyone in 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.039 hell know this too shall pass. You know, you won't 0:01:15.040 --> 0:01:17.440 be stuck with him forever. Just try to grin and 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:18.920 bear it. I know it's going to be hard for 0:01:18.959 --> 0:01:22.760 a lot of you, especially Saddam Hussein, but I know 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:25.480 you can get past this. You know, he will get 0:01:25.520 --> 0:01:30.679 reincarnated as a Senate Republican staffer within the next six 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.160 to eight months, so so you won't have to put 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:33.800 up with him long. 0:01:34.720 --> 0:01:37.240 I guess this is also just your reminder that it's 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:39.959 going to date to practice see full essential rooms of 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:42.160 firearms safety at old times. 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.480 Don't shoot with Dick Cheney if you see Dick Cheney 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:47.840 while you're hunting quail? 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:48.400 Right? 0:01:48.520 --> 0:01:50.040 Do the kids even know about this? 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:51.920 Now? Oh? 0:01:52.040 --> 0:01:53.600 The kid the kids know? The kids? No? 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:57.760 Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is. 0:01:59.400 --> 0:02:04.240 Cheney Laura is permeated throughout generations of American culture. 0:02:04.400 --> 0:02:04.960 Yeah. 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:06.800 When I was a kid, there was like a whole 0:02:06.840 --> 0:02:08.960 thing where we all thought the song Jamie's Got a 0:02:09.000 --> 0:02:10.720 Gun was Cheney's Got a gun. 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:13.800 In front of excess. 0:02:14.440 --> 0:02:16.320 Because it just lined up with everything you knew about 0:02:16.320 --> 0:02:17.000 the world. 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.600 What's funny about it is that my actual thinking on 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:24.600 that shooting hasn't changed since I was a Republican kid. 0:02:24.800 --> 0:02:27.240 Like when I was a young right winger, I thought, Wow, 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:29.560 Dick Cheney's so cool. He shot a man and got 0:02:29.680 --> 0:02:32.520 him to apologize to him, And now as an adult 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:34.680 on the left, I still think that's kind of the 0:02:34.680 --> 0:02:35.519 coolest thing Dick. 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:42.120 Cheney ever did. Like it is a head of a feat. 0:02:42.440 --> 0:02:45.520 That man apologized for getting in front of his sights. 0:02:46.240 --> 0:02:47.160 That's amazing. 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:50.400 Now it is. 0:02:50.639 --> 0:02:54.000 It is unfortunate that Dick Cheney did not live to 0:02:54.080 --> 0:02:58.679 see the election of Zormumdani as the mayor of New 0:02:58.800 --> 0:03:01.160 York City, which happened, and that would have been funny 0:03:01.400 --> 0:03:05.800 on Tuesday. Later that day, Zoran has become the first 0:03:05.880 --> 0:03:08.680 candidate in New York mayoral history to win over a 0:03:08.760 --> 0:03:14.520 million votes since nineteen sixty nine. Nice this election itself 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.680 saw over two million votes. This is a million more 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:20.000 votes in the last in New York mayoral election. 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:22.240 Huge turnout. 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:28.600 Currently, as of Wednesday afternoon, Zoran has fifty point four 0:03:28.639 --> 0:03:34.120 percent of the vote. Former governor and sexual assaults enthusiast 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:38.360 Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent, has forty one point 0:03:38.360 --> 0:03:43.880 six percent, and the bray wearing Curtisilwa as seven point one. 0:03:44.720 --> 0:03:47.440 Not a spoiler candidate in many ways, nor would it 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.200 be correct to say that all of Silver's votes would 0:03:51.240 --> 0:03:54.600 have gone to one candidate or another. But even if 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:57.720 you do add all of his votes on to disgraced 0:03:57.760 --> 0:04:02.120 former Governor Andrew Cuomo's total zoron still comes out on 0:04:02.480 --> 0:04:03.400 top well. 0:04:03.320 --> 0:04:05.800 Which was something that there was legitimately a lot of 0:04:05.880 --> 0:04:08.360 question about as to like whether or not will Sila 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:09.960 staying in matter? 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:10.760 Right? 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:13.960 Uh, And it's it's a really good sign that it didn't. 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:18.640 It did not Sliwa. So no one really knows how 0:04:18.640 --> 0:04:21.279 to pronounce the name, including in the city. You hear 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:25.480 it different pronunciations with different people at different times. Sometimes 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.960 it's Slilwa, sometimes it's Silwa saliwa. 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:31.640 All I know is he got stabbed on the subway, right. 0:04:32.200 --> 0:04:34.120 And shot five times in the back of a cab 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:37.480 in the back. That's right. How did they fail to 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:38.960 kill him? Jesus Christ. 0:04:39.000 --> 0:04:41.560 It's harder to kill people by shooting them with a 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:42.680 handgun than you might think. 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:45.960 Yeah, apparently hanggum ballistics are just different. 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:48.240 Yes, and he does have seventeen cats. 0:04:48.240 --> 0:04:51.520 He ran on the Republican and the Protected the Protect 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:55.320 Animals party. You can have some criticism for for past 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.680 ills that that he has contributed to, but he is 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:00.440 certainly mixed up for that some way. 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:02.560 For being a fascinating character. 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:05.320 He's a very New York kind of figure. 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:06.000 Ed. 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:10.440 He was the only mayor all candidate to call and 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:16.720 congratulate Zora Mom Donnie last night. Both Clobo and Mayor 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:22.320 Adams did not call Mamdani, but Curtis did, which is 0:05:22.440 --> 0:05:24.160 kind of beautiful. It's kind of beautiful. 0:05:24.200 --> 0:05:25.800 He's a classy man. You don't get to wear a 0:05:25.839 --> 0:05:28.440 red beret like that unless you have some manners. 0:05:29.279 --> 0:05:32.279 The British Parachute Regiment would beg to disagree about having 0:05:32.360 --> 0:05:33.800 nanas and wearing red hats. 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.400 No, he's my head cannon now is that he is 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:38.400 the British paratrooper. 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:43.080 Just drop him in with seventeen cats and he and 0:05:43.120 --> 0:05:44.600 he starts milling immediately. 0:05:44.640 --> 0:05:47.280 Yeah, he saves that fucking mall in Nairobi. 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:50.280 Or tell you what, the Argentines wouldn't have funcked with 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:53.600 the Falklands of Curtis and being there now with all 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:56.760 those cats. That's where he's going now that he's been 0:05:56.839 --> 0:05:58.400 banished in New York like piss. 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.400 Guys, shouldn't take this just. 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:08.039 An island, Yeah, Staten Island, which. 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.760 You're you're a real New Yorker now Gary, you shed 0:06:11.839 --> 0:06:12.880 on Staten. 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:15.839 Island, which is the only borough that went for Cuomo, 0:06:15.920 --> 0:06:17.880 where he was up thirty three points. 0:06:18.000 --> 0:06:19.279 That was very funny. 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:23.240 Mamdani won every other bureau up twenty in Brooklyn, up 0:06:23.279 --> 0:06:26.600 ten in Manhattan, of five in Queens and eleven in 0:06:26.640 --> 0:06:27.240 the Bronx. 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:30.160 From what this should tell everyone everywhere in the country 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:33.400 about what is possible in politics, even in times as 0:06:33.440 --> 0:06:35.520 dark as this is that he was what eight percent 0:06:35.680 --> 0:06:36.320 a year ago? 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:41.800 They six percent, it's like in January, six percent in January. 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.800 And he he didn't just eke it out because there 0:06:43.800 --> 0:06:45.760 were a shitload of guys. This isn't like an Arnold 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:47.760 thing where everybody's on the fucking ballot and it's like 0:06:47.800 --> 0:06:53.839 a crazy cartoon election. He legitimately votes nowhere and one. 0:06:54.080 --> 0:06:56.719 The most votes for a mayor old candidate in almost 0:06:56.760 --> 0:07:00.640 fifty years. Yeah, nearly reaching the the like the vote 0:07:00.680 --> 0:07:04.400 totals in this election for like a presidential election in 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:04.640 the city. 0:07:04.720 --> 0:07:07.680 Yeah, it's very impressive for like a mid cycle off 0:07:07.680 --> 0:07:10.080 cycle election turnout wise, yep. 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:13.600 Specifically, he won a whole bunch of votes that he 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:17.520 did not gain the primary. Among uh, some like black 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.760 and Latino voters. You can see that in the turnout 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:22.360 at like the Bronx. 0:07:22.080 --> 0:07:26.880 And these these people aren't overwhelmingly at least at this stage, 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:30.320 folks who have been convinced of every aspect of ideology 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:32.960 that Zorn has ever put out there. People who looked 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:34.680 at who was available are like, this guy seems like 0:07:34.720 --> 0:07:37.640 he genuinely wants to do something. Yeah, and they told 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.640 me to the specific policies. They're not they're not paying 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:43.000 attention to the fact that he quoted Eugene V. Debs. 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.720 They're talking, they're listening to his his policies on like 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:48.040 creating municipal grocery stores and stuff. 0:07:48.120 --> 0:07:52.280 Right, it's about affordability, not ideology. And Zorn's strict focus 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.760 on affordability not running a campaign that like falls back 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.560 on fear, not running a campaign about foreign policy when 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:01.840 you're in fucking New York City. Strict focus on affordability 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:04.400 was the key to winning this campaign. 0:08:04.560 --> 0:08:08.800 A strict focus on affordability while not pretending not to 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:12.400 have the ideology, which is also really not worthy. Right 0:08:12.440 --> 0:08:14.360 where he's still he's still he isn't he's not like 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:16.440 talking around it, right. 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.520 No, he's not apologizing or hiding the fact that he's 0:08:19.520 --> 0:08:25.400 a democratic socialist. Yeah, and this produced some super interesting 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.280 results if you if you refer back to the last 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:32.160 election twenty twenty four and in everyone bemoaning like, how 0:08:32.320 --> 0:08:36.120 how come young men are so politically lost? Why are 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:39.439 they all going so far to the right? Sixty eight 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:45.280 percent of men age eighteen to twenty nine goes to mom, Donnie, 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:49.600 sixty six percent of men thirty to forty forty five 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:53.560 percent of men forty five to sixty five. Among women 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:57.560 eighteen to twenty nine years old, eighty four percent. 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:04.199 Donnie Booking said, dom number larious bath party election numbers one. 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:08.200 Actually Saddam Hussein out to Creedy did in fact vote, 0:09:08.240 --> 0:09:10.760 but he went for He broke hard for Cuomo. Honestly 0:09:10.760 --> 0:09:12.839 at the end, it was the sex crimes that that 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.600 that that did it for UNI did vote for Slowa 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:18.360 though that was kind of weird. I'm gonna be honest 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:20.560 with you. We're all trying to parse that one out. 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:21.480 It's a cat thing. 0:09:22.080 --> 0:09:25.440 Yeah, like I said, like not hiding his political inspirations 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:29.200 in any way, quoted Eugen Debs ten seconds into his 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:33.520 victory speech. Yeah, immediately you understand, like, oh, this guy's 0:09:33.559 --> 0:09:35.160 like player, he knows what's up. 0:09:35.559 --> 0:09:40.400 Eugene V. Debs, the socialist who ran for president from prison. Yeah, yes, 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:44.199 for to know who Eugene V. Debs is, like arguably 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:47.760 the most radical national candidate who has ever existed in 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:48.360 this country. 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:53.000 Yeah, and his speech was extremely poetic. It got a 0:09:53.120 --> 0:09:56.840 very strong positive reaction from the people who I watched 0:09:56.880 --> 0:10:00.280 this with in Bushwick, which was the district that was 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.760 the most pro Mamdani out of the entire electoral mathemicity. 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:06.960 But he started by talking about how power has been 0:10:07.040 --> 0:10:09.600 kept out of the hands of working people by the 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.480 hands that keep the city going by lifting boxes, by 0:10:12.760 --> 0:10:16.600 gripping the handlebars of delivery bikes, and collecting burned scars 0:10:16.600 --> 0:10:17.400 from cooking food. 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:18.120 Quote. 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:20.679 Over the last twelve months, you have dared to reach 0:10:20.800 --> 0:10:24.160 for something greater tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it. 0:10:24.480 --> 0:10:28.800 The future is in our hands unquote. The whole speech 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:31.560 was kind of a rife with little like metaphors and 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:32.600 allegories like that. 0:10:32.679 --> 0:10:34.520 It was very cute. 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:37.760 Went on to discuss how the campaign toppled a political 0:10:37.840 --> 0:10:43.920 dynasty and gave one of the most like fine tuned 0:10:44.040 --> 0:10:47.439 dishes I've ever seen quote, I wish Andrew Cuomo only 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.679 the best in private life. 0:10:50.920 --> 0:10:52.439 It's a phenomenal cook. 0:10:53.280 --> 0:10:56.000 But I hope I never have to say his name. 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:58.280 Again, or but let tonight be the last time I 0:10:58.360 --> 0:10:59.080 utter his name. 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.160 Only the best in private life is down. 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:07.520 Yeah, yeah, I mean it's basically this is like, he's 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.200 not the originator of this particular kind of disc It 0:11:10.240 --> 0:11:12.760 goes back a while, but the gist is like everyone's 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:16.480 moment be a family man, get out of a way. 0:11:17.080 --> 0:11:19.880 Yeah. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.040 Repeatedly, Mam, Donnie has has used the word mandate to 0:11:23.240 --> 0:11:26.000 describe this selection and the results. 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:26.360 Quote. 0:11:26.480 --> 0:11:28.520 New York has delivered a mandate for change, a mandate 0:11:28.559 --> 0:11:30.480 for a new kind of politics, mandate for a city 0:11:30.520 --> 0:11:33.400 we can afford, a mandate for a government that delivers 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:37.960 exactly that. I'm going to play a short clip here. 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:42.600 Thank you to the next generation of New Yorkers who 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:46.320 refused to accept that the promise of a better future 0:11:46.880 --> 0:11:51.760 was a relic of the past. You showed that when 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:55.840 politics speaks to you without condescension, we can usher in 0:11:56.160 --> 0:12:01.800 a new era of leadership. We will fight for you 0:12:02.160 --> 0:12:07.360 because we are you, or as we say on Steinway 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.440 an amincom wile. 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:17.560 Coum the Arabic there wild wild that we've moved this 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.200 far in New York that it's in credit wins you 0:12:21.240 --> 0:12:23.640 an election Like that didn't win him the election, but 0:12:23.760 --> 0:12:26.280 like they really tried the nine to eleven shit. Rudy 0:12:26.320 --> 0:12:31.480 Giuliani posted today a crude photoshop of his own face 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:35.600 in the fires of the twin of the burning twin towers. Yeah, 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:40.360 we forgot written across it, and that did None of 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:41.360 that shit did anything. 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:45.200 The last month of the campaign against Mamdani, whether that's 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:49.560 from people like Bill Accurate as Bloomberg or Cuomo's actual team, 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:53.120 has has used what people have been calling the nine 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.120 to eleven card, incessantly playing clips of nine to eleven 0:12:56.440 --> 0:13:00.440 with like zoron like emblazon, like over overtop plank from 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.440 Hassan talking about nine to eleven. But the Islamophobia that 0:13:04.480 --> 0:13:06.960 the Cuomo campaign has resorted to as a last ditch 0:13:07.000 --> 0:13:10.520 effort to stop Mamdani has been despicable, And the fact 0:13:10.559 --> 0:13:14.120 that this did not scare Momdanni into like hiding or 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:18.280 like restricting that part of himself is incredibly admirable. 0:13:18.480 --> 0:13:20.560 Yeah, but they wasn't just nine to eleven, right, like 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.640 you said, it was the broad Islam, like they deployed 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.000 as they always do, like every urban area in Britain 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.280 is now like the Caliphate, like this bullshit that that 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.000 exists only in the American conservative mind and it failed, 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:33.439 which is. 0:13:33.400 --> 0:13:35.920 Good specifically for a lot of the speech, it was 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:39.640 about juxtaposing like how we used to have good things 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:42.120 in the past, like we have this idea that like 0:13:42.240 --> 0:13:44.920 good things now are always out of reach, and juxtaposing 0:13:44.920 --> 0:13:48.080 this like idea of like hope or or like past 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.360 exceptionalism that we just don't feel like we've access to anymore, 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:54.520 and showing that if you actually involve young people, we 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:58.680 can actually do do good things in our city now. 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.160 And I really liked the line about like politics that 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:06.200 speaks to you without condescension, and how much this campaign 0:14:06.280 --> 0:14:09.480 was like ran by and for you know, young candidates 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:10.280 and young voters. 0:14:11.000 --> 0:14:11.240 Sorry. 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:14.880 Went on to thank the people who have been forgotten 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:19.000 by the politics of our city and how they've supported 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:24.680 his campaign quote Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican ubuelas, Sengalese 0:14:24.720 --> 0:14:28.800 taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses, Trinidadian line cooks, and Ethiopian 0:14:28.800 --> 0:14:31.760 aunties unquote, and he went on to mention the kind 0:14:31.800 --> 0:14:34.920 of people that this campaign is about, and towards the 0:14:35.000 --> 0:14:36.880 end of that section, he talked about the hunger strike 0:14:36.880 --> 0:14:39.160 that he participated in four years ago in order to 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:43.440 win debt relief for cab drivers, And it's about people. 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:47.880 Like Richard the taxi driver I went on a fifteen 0:14:48.000 --> 0:14:54.920 day hunger strike with outside of city hall, who still 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.000 has to drive his cab seven. 0:14:56.760 --> 0:14:57.440 Days a week. 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.400 My brother, we are in city hall. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:01.800 Now. 0:15:06.040 --> 0:15:08.720 That is that is the energy of like the campaign 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.800 in the city right now. Like that that sort of framing, 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:14.360 and that's the energy that people are like carrying. 0:15:14.040 --> 0:15:18.160 Through I saw among the right wing fever spawns responses 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:21.480 to this, Mike Cernovich taking a clip from the election 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.360 night party where one of the people who is attending 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:27.880 Zoran's party made a comment about how like white people 0:15:27.920 --> 0:15:29.880 need to get on board with the idea that like 0:15:29.960 --> 0:15:33.560 our culture is multiculturalism in this country right, Like it's 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:36.640 it's not anything else, Like that's that's like what has 0:15:36.760 --> 0:15:41.760 made America. And Mike did not react well to that. 0:15:42.680 --> 0:15:46.760 I can't imagine the declaration of wars and Avich mad, Yeah. 0:15:47.360 --> 0:15:49.520 But no, like especially in New York, out of like 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.840 anywhere in the country, like, especially in New York like, 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:55.520 the culture is made through the mix of immigrants that 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:59.440 have built this city, and this is something that discussed throughout. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.400 Zaran went on to thank the one hundred thousand campaign 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:07.640 volunteers and specifically how their efforts quote eroded the cynicism 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.160 that has come to define our politics. 0:16:10.840 --> 0:16:12.640 I liked that line, and. 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.520 Then he asked New Yorkers to breathe this moment in quote. 0:16:15.560 --> 0:16:17.240 We have held our breath for longer than we know. 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.360 We have held it in anticipation of defeat, held it 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.400 because the air has been knocked out of our lungs 0:16:22.600 --> 0:16:24.960 too many times to count, held it because we cannot 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:28.160 afford to exhale. Thanks to all of those who have 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.320 sacrificed so much, we are breathing in the air of 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.240 facity that has been reborn. There are many who thought 0:16:33.240 --> 0:16:35.360 this day would never come, who feared we would be 0:16:35.360 --> 0:16:39.280 condemned only to a future of less, with every election 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.640 consigning us to simply more of the same. And there 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:46.120 are others who see politics today as too cruel for 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.880 the flame of hope to still burn New York. We 0:16:48.960 --> 0:16:51.840 have answered those fears unquote. 0:16:53.000 --> 0:16:57.720 And while we cast our ballots alone. We chose hope together, 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:05.480 hope over tyranny, hope over big money and small ideas, 0:17:07.040 --> 0:17:13.399 hope over despair. We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:19.399 to hope that the impossible could be made possible. And 0:17:19.520 --> 0:17:23.639 we won because we insisted that no longer would politics 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:27.320 be something that is done to us. Now it is 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:40.159 something that we do. Standing before you, I think of 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:45.480 the words of Juan lal Nehru. A moment comes but 0:17:45.680 --> 0:17:49.080 rarely in history, when we step out from the old 0:17:49.119 --> 0:17:52.119 to the new, when an age ends, and when the 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:57.080 soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. Tonight we 0:17:57.160 --> 0:17:59.440 have stepped out from the old into the new. 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:06.520 The line about politics not being something that's done to you, yeah, yeah, 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:12.000 that really outlines how politics has felt in this country 0:18:12.040 --> 0:18:15.000 for as basically as long as I can remember. He 0:18:15.080 --> 0:18:18.720 then outlined what his central agenda to tackle the cost 0:18:18.720 --> 0:18:21.680 of living crisis is, including freezing the rent for more 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:25.080 than two million rits, timbolized tenants, making buses faster and free, 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:28.359 and delivering universal childcare across the city, saying quote, this 0:18:28.400 --> 0:18:30.679 will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.000 leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.680 than a list of excuses for what we are too 0:18:37.040 --> 0:18:42.199 timid to attempt. Let's go on a quick break and 0:18:42.240 --> 0:18:44.040 we will come back to talk a little bit more. 0:18:43.960 --> 0:18:45.320 About the election. 0:18:58.560 --> 0:18:59.400 All right, we're back. 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:03.679 During the second half of this speech, Zoron turned to 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:09.600 address Donald Trump. Right this looming thing across politics nationwide, 0:19:09.600 --> 0:19:13.040 but specifically New York, as Trump has threatened to start 0:19:13.080 --> 0:19:15.359 to fuck with New York even more if Zoron is 0:19:15.400 --> 0:19:19.440 elected and people in New York know this. And about 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:23.200 halfway through, Zoron addressed Trump directly, which we will get 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.879 to you in a sec But before he directly talked 0:19:27.040 --> 0:19:30.960 to Trump, in this speech, Zoron laid out what types 0:19:31.040 --> 0:19:34.000 of people the city government will be focusing on protecting 0:19:34.280 --> 0:19:36.960 from Trump's division and hate. 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:41.400 In this new age we make for ourselves, we will 0:19:41.440 --> 0:19:45.720 refuse to allow those who traffic in division and hate 0:19:46.080 --> 0:19:51.399 to pit us against one another in this moment of 0:19:51.440 --> 0:20:00.360 political darkness. New York will be the light here leave 0:20:00.480 --> 0:20:05.120 in standing up for those we love. Whether you are 0:20:05.160 --> 0:20:10.960 an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:13.760 the many black women that Donald Trump is fired from 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:18.800 a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:24.240 cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:28.440 their back against the wall. Your struggle is ours two. 0:20:31.920 --> 0:20:37.000 Specifically, I like this idea of in the darkened political moment, 0:20:37.000 --> 0:20:39.960 this United States is in New York and the Zorn 0:20:40.000 --> 0:20:42.760 administration and how that reflects New York and general though 0:20:43.160 --> 0:20:46.280 will be a beacon for the rest of the country. 0:20:46.720 --> 0:20:50.119 And naming like the trans community is like the second 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:55.320 group mentioned there was heavily appreciated in the Bushwick Trans 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:57.200 Watch party that. 0:20:57.160 --> 0:20:57.840 I was at. 0:20:58.280 --> 0:21:00.840 Zorah went on to say that quote, no more will 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:02.720 New York be a city where you can traffic in 0:21:02.800 --> 0:21:06.040 Islamophobia and win an election. This new age will be 0:21:06.240 --> 0:21:09.440 defined by a competence and a compassion that have too 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.120 long been placed in odds with one another. We will 0:21:12.160 --> 0:21:14.359 prove that there is no problem too large for government 0:21:14.400 --> 0:21:17.199 to solve and no concern too small for it to 0:21:17.240 --> 0:21:20.440 care about. Tens of millions of dollars have been spent 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:23.600 to redefine reality and to convince our neighbors that this 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:26.080 new age is something that should frighten them. As has 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:29.080 often occurred, the billionaire class has sought to convince those 0:21:29.119 --> 0:21:31.240 making thirty dollars an hour, that their enemies are those 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:33.960 earning twenty dollars an hour. They want the people to 0:21:33.960 --> 0:21:37.199 fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:41.160 work of remaking along broken system. Together, we will usher 0:21:41.320 --> 0:21:44.840 in a generation of change. And if we embrace this 0:21:44.880 --> 0:21:47.000 brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:50.720 respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:52.880 not the appeasement it craves. 0:21:54.119 --> 0:21:57.080 I think this whole section is something very important, and 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:00.399 this has been something that's been very consistent about Donnie's 0:22:00.480 --> 0:22:03.960 entire campaign, which is there's been on the left for 0:22:04.000 --> 0:22:09.480 a very very long time, a just interminable, intractable conflict 0:22:09.640 --> 0:22:13.480 between this idea of like purely focusing on class politics 0:22:13.560 --> 0:22:17.240 or talking about race. And but I think what Montdammi 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:20.560 is doing here ha's been very effective, right, is you 0:22:20.600 --> 0:22:23.520