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Speaker 3: This is It Could Happen Here Executive Disorder, our weekly
Speaker 3: news cast covering what's happening in the White House, the
Speaker 3: crumbling world what it means for you.
Speaker 4: I'm Garrison Davis.
Speaker 3: Today I'm joined by Mio Wong, James Stout, and Robert Evans.
Speaker 3: This episode recovering the week of October thirty first to
Speaker 3: November fifth, one of the most exciting weeks in politics.
Speaker 5: Yeah, because it's onon finite if.
Speaker 3: You remember the poem that's right, And that's not the
Speaker 3: only exciting thing to happen, but also not the only
Speaker 3: sad thing to happen this week, because as exciting as
Speaker 3: election Day was for people in New York, there was
Speaker 3: like a looming sadness throughout the day because earlier that morning, obviously,
Speaker 3: Vice President Dick Cheney passed away and that was rough
Speaker 3: for many people, not rough many others, but that certainly
Speaker 3: was illuming presence over the day. Does anyone have any
Speaker 3: words to say on the passing of mister Cheney.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I just want to let everyone in
Speaker 2: hell know this too shall pass. You know, you won't
Speaker 2: be stuck with him forever. Just try to grin and
Speaker 2: bear it. I know it's going to be hard for
Speaker 2: a lot of you, especially Saddam Hussein, but I know
Speaker 2: you can get past this. You know, he will get
Speaker 2: reincarnated as a Senate Republican staffer within the next six
Speaker 2: to eight months, so so you won't have to put
Speaker 2: up with him long.
Speaker 5: I guess this is also just your reminder that it's
Speaker 5: going to date to practice see full essential rooms of
Speaker 5: firearms safety at old times.
Speaker 2: Don't shoot with Dick Cheney if you see Dick Cheney
Speaker 2: while you're hunting quail?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 4: Do the kids even know about this?
Speaker 6: Now? Oh?
Speaker 4: The kid the kids know? The kids? No?
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is.
Speaker 3: Cheney Laura is permeated throughout generations of American culture.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 7: When I was a kid, there was like a whole
Speaker 7: thing where we all thought the song Jamie's Got a
Speaker 7: Gun was Cheney's Got a gun.
Speaker 4: In front of excess.
Speaker 5: Because it just lined up with everything you knew about
Speaker 5: the world.
Speaker 2: What's funny about it is that my actual thinking on
Speaker 2: that shooting hasn't changed since I was a Republican kid.
Speaker 2: Like when I was a young right winger, I thought, Wow,
Speaker 2: Dick Cheney's so cool. He shot a man and got
Speaker 2: him to apologize to him, And now as an adult
Speaker 2: on the left, I still think that's kind of the
Speaker 2: coolest thing Dick.
Speaker 5: Cheney ever did. Like it is a head of a feat.
Speaker 2: That man apologized for getting in front of his sights.
Speaker 2: That's amazing.
Speaker 4: Now it is.
Speaker 3: It is unfortunate that Dick Cheney did not live to
Speaker 3: see the election of Zormumdani as the mayor of New
Speaker 3: York City, which happened, and that would have been funny
Speaker 3: on Tuesday. Later that day, Zoran has become the first
Speaker 3: candidate in New York mayoral history to win over a
Speaker 3: million votes since nineteen sixty nine. Nice this election itself
Speaker 3: saw over two million votes. This is a million more
Speaker 3: votes in the last in New York mayoral election.
Speaker 4: Huge turnout.
Speaker 3: Currently, as of Wednesday afternoon, Zoran has fifty point four
Speaker 3: percent of the vote. Former governor and sexual assaults enthusiast
Speaker 3: Andrew Cuomo, running as an independent, has forty one point
Speaker 3: six percent, and the bray wearing Curtisilwa as seven point one.
Speaker 3: Not a spoiler candidate in many ways, nor would it
Speaker 3: be correct to say that all of Silver's votes would
Speaker 3: have gone to one candidate or another. But even if
Speaker 3: you do add all of his votes on to disgraced
Speaker 3: former Governor Andrew Cuomo's total zoron still comes out on
Speaker 3: top well.
Speaker 2: Which was something that there was legitimately a lot of
Speaker 2: question about as to like whether or not will Sila
Speaker 2: staying in matter?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Uh, And it's it's a really good sign that it didn't.
Speaker 3: It did not Sliwa. So no one really knows how
Speaker 3: to pronounce the name, including in the city. You hear
Speaker 3: it different pronunciations with different people at different times. Sometimes
Speaker 3: it's Slilwa, sometimes it's Silwa saliwa.
Speaker 2: All I know is he got stabbed on the subway, right.
Speaker 4: And shot five times in the back of a cab
Speaker 4: in the back. That's right. How did they fail to
Speaker 4: kill him? Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2: It's harder to kill people by shooting them with a
Speaker 2: handgun than you might think.
Speaker 5: Yeah, apparently hanggum ballistics are just different.
Speaker 4: Yes, and he does have seventeen cats.
Speaker 3: He ran on the Republican and the Protected the Protect
Speaker 3: Animals party. You can have some criticism for for past
Speaker 3: ills that that he has contributed to, but he is
Speaker 3: certainly mixed up for that some way.
Speaker 4: For being a fascinating character.
Speaker 2: He's a very New York kind of figure.
Speaker 6: Ed.
Speaker 3: He was the only mayor all candidate to call and
Speaker 3: congratulate Zora Mom Donnie last night. Both Clobo and Mayor
Speaker 3: Adams did not call Mamdani, but Curtis did, which is
Speaker 3: kind of beautiful. It's kind of beautiful.
Speaker 2: He's a classy man. You don't get to wear a
Speaker 2: red beret like that unless you have some manners.
Speaker 5: The British Parachute Regiment would beg to disagree about having
Speaker 5: nanas and wearing red hats.
Speaker 2: No, he's my head cannon now is that he is
Speaker 2: the British paratrooper.
Speaker 5: Just drop him in with seventeen cats and he and
Speaker 5: he starts milling immediately.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he saves that fucking mall in Nairobi.
Speaker 5: Or tell you what, the Argentines wouldn't have funcked with
Speaker 5: the Falklands of Curtis and being there now with all
Speaker 5: those cats. That's where he's going now that he's been
Speaker 5: banished in New York like piss.
Speaker 2: Guys, shouldn't take this just.
Speaker 4: An island, Yeah, Staten Island, which.
Speaker 2: You're you're a real New Yorker now Gary, you shed
Speaker 2: on Staten.
Speaker 3: Island, which is the only borough that went for Cuomo,
Speaker 3: where he was up thirty three points.
Speaker 5: That was very funny.
Speaker 3: Mamdani won every other bureau up twenty in Brooklyn, up
Speaker 3: ten in Manhattan, of five in Queens and eleven in
Speaker 3: the Bronx.
Speaker 2: From what this should tell everyone everywhere in the country
Speaker 2: about what is possible in politics, even in times as
Speaker 2: dark as this is that he was what eight percent
Speaker 2: a year ago?
Speaker 3: They six percent, it's like in January, six percent in January.
Speaker 2: And he he didn't just eke it out because there
Speaker 2: were a shitload of guys. This isn't like an Arnold
Speaker 2: thing where everybody's on the fucking ballot and it's like
Speaker 2: a crazy cartoon election. He legitimately votes nowhere and one.
Speaker 3: The most votes for a mayor old candidate in almost
Speaker 3: fifty years. Yeah, nearly reaching the the like the vote
Speaker 3: totals in this election for like a presidential election in
Speaker 3: the city.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's very impressive for like a mid cycle off
Speaker 5: cycle election turnout wise, yep.
Speaker 3: Specifically, he won a whole bunch of votes that he
Speaker 3: did not gain the primary. Among uh, some like black
Speaker 3: and Latino voters. You can see that in the turnout
Speaker 3: at like the Bronx.
Speaker 2: And these these people aren't overwhelmingly at least at this stage,
Speaker 2: folks who have been convinced of every aspect of ideology
Speaker 2: that Zorn has ever put out there. People who looked
Speaker 2: at who was available are like, this guy seems like
Speaker 2: he genuinely wants to do something. Yeah, and they told
Speaker 2: me to the specific policies. They're not they're not paying
Speaker 2: attention to the fact that he quoted Eugene V. Debs.
Speaker 2: They're talking, they're listening to his his policies on like
Speaker 2: creating municipal grocery stores and stuff.
Speaker 3: Right, it's about affordability, not ideology. And Zorn's strict focus
Speaker 3: on affordability not running a campaign that like falls back
Speaker 3: on fear, not running a campaign about foreign policy when
Speaker 3: you're in fucking New York City. Strict focus on affordability
Speaker 3: was the key to winning this campaign.
Speaker 2: A strict focus on affordability while not pretending not to
Speaker 2: have the ideology, which is also really not worthy. Right
Speaker 2: where he's still he's still he isn't he's not like
Speaker 2: talking around it, right.
Speaker 3: No, he's not apologizing or hiding the fact that he's
Speaker 3: a democratic socialist. Yeah, and this produced some super interesting
Speaker 3: results if you if you refer back to the last
Speaker 3: election twenty twenty four and in everyone bemoaning like, how
Speaker 3: how come young men are so politically lost? Why are
Speaker 3: they all going so far to the right? Sixty eight
Speaker 3: percent of men age eighteen to twenty nine goes to mom, Donnie,
Speaker 3: sixty six percent of men thirty to forty forty five
Speaker 3: percent of men forty five to sixty five. Among women
Speaker 3: eighteen to twenty nine years old, eighty four percent.
Speaker 7: Donnie Booking said, dom number larious bath party election numbers one.
Speaker 2: Actually Saddam Hussein out to Creedy did in fact vote,
Speaker 2: but he went for He broke hard for Cuomo. Honestly
Speaker 2: at the end, it was the sex crimes that that
Speaker 2: that that did it for UNI did vote for Slowa
Speaker 2: though that was kind of weird. I'm gonna be honest
Speaker 2: with you. We're all trying to parse that one out.
Speaker 5: It's a cat thing.
Speaker 3: Yeah, like I said, like not hiding his political inspirations
Speaker 3: in any way, quoted Eugen Debs ten seconds into his
Speaker 3: victory speech. Yeah, immediately you understand, like, oh, this guy's
Speaker 3: like player, he knows what's up.
Speaker 2: Eugene V. Debs, the socialist who ran for president from prison. Yeah, yes,
Speaker 2: for to know who Eugene V. Debs is, like arguably
Speaker 2: the most radical national candidate who has ever existed in
Speaker 2: this country.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and his speech was extremely poetic. It got a
Speaker 3: very strong positive reaction from the people who I watched
Speaker 3: this with in Bushwick, which was the district that was
Speaker 3: the most pro Mamdani out of the entire electoral mathemicity.
Speaker 3: But he started by talking about how power has been
Speaker 3: kept out of the hands of working people by the
Speaker 3: hands that keep the city going by lifting boxes, by
Speaker 3: gripping the handlebars of delivery bikes, and collecting burned scars
Speaker 3: from cooking food.
Speaker 4: Quote.
Speaker 3: Over the last twelve months, you have dared to reach
Speaker 3: for something greater tonight, against all odds, we have grasped it.
Speaker 3: The future is in our hands unquote. The whole speech
Speaker 3: was kind of a rife with little like metaphors and
Speaker 3: allegories like that.
Speaker 4: It was very cute.
Speaker 3: Went on to discuss how the campaign toppled a political
Speaker 3: dynasty and gave one of the most like fine tuned
Speaker 3: dishes I've ever seen quote, I wish Andrew Cuomo only
Speaker 3: the best in private life.
Speaker 4: It's a phenomenal cook.
Speaker 2: But I hope I never have to say his name.
Speaker 4: Again, or but let tonight be the last time I
Speaker 4: utter his name.
Speaker 3: Only the best in private life is down.
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I mean it's basically this is like, he's
Speaker 2: not the originator of this particular kind of disc It
Speaker 2: goes back a while, but the gist is like everyone's
Speaker 2: moment be a family man, get out of a way.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Repeatedly, Mam, Donnie has has used the word mandate to
Speaker 3: describe this selection and the results.
Speaker 4: Quote.
Speaker 3: New York has delivered a mandate for change, a mandate
Speaker 3: for a new kind of politics, mandate for a city
Speaker 3: we can afford, a mandate for a government that delivers
Speaker 3: exactly that. I'm going to play a short clip here.
Speaker 6: Thank you to the next generation of New Yorkers who
Speaker 6: refused to accept that the promise of a better future
Speaker 6: was a relic of the past. You showed that when
Speaker 6: politics speaks to you without condescension, we can usher in
Speaker 6: a new era of leadership. We will fight for you
Speaker 6: because we are you, or as we say on Steinway
Speaker 6: an amincom wile.
Speaker 2: Coum the Arabic there wild wild that we've moved this
Speaker 2: far in New York that it's in credit wins you
Speaker 2: an election Like that didn't win him the election, but
Speaker 2: like they really tried the nine to eleven shit. Rudy
Speaker 2: Giuliani posted today a crude photoshop of his own face
Speaker 2: in the fires of the twin of the burning twin towers. Yeah,
Speaker 2: we forgot written across it, and that did None of
Speaker 2: that shit did anything.
Speaker 3: The last month of the campaign against Mamdani, whether that's
Speaker 3: from people like Bill Accurate as Bloomberg or Cuomo's actual team,
Speaker 3: has has used what people have been calling the nine
Speaker 3: to eleven card, incessantly playing clips of nine to eleven
Speaker 3: with like zoron like emblazon, like over overtop plank from
Speaker 3: Hassan talking about nine to eleven. But the Islamophobia that
Speaker 3: the Cuomo campaign has resorted to as a last ditch
Speaker 3: effort to stop Mamdani has been despicable, And the fact
Speaker 3: that this did not scare Momdanni into like hiding or
Speaker 3: like restricting that part of himself is incredibly admirable.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but they wasn't just nine to eleven, right, like
Speaker 5: you said, it was the broad Islam, like they deployed
Speaker 5: as they always do, like every urban area in Britain
Speaker 5: is now like the Caliphate, like this bullshit that that
Speaker 5: exists only in the American conservative mind and it failed,
Speaker 5: which is.
Speaker 3: Good specifically for a lot of the speech, it was
Speaker 3: about juxtaposing like how we used to have good things
Speaker 3: in the past, like we have this idea that like
Speaker 3: good things now are always out of reach, and juxtaposing
Speaker 3: this like idea of like hope or or like past
Speaker 3: exceptionalism that we just don't feel like we've access to anymore,
Speaker 3: and showing that if you actually involve young people, we
Speaker 3: can actually do do good things in our city now.
Speaker 3: And I really liked the line about like politics that
Speaker 3: speaks to you without condescension, and how much this campaign
Speaker 3: was like ran by and for you know, young candidates
Speaker 3: and young voters.
Speaker 6: Sorry.
Speaker 3: Went on to thank the people who have been forgotten
Speaker 3: by the politics of our city and how they've supported
Speaker 3: his campaign quote Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican ubuelas, Sengalese
Speaker 3: taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses, Trinidadian line cooks, and Ethiopian
Speaker 3: aunties unquote, and he went on to mention the kind
Speaker 3: of people that this campaign is about, and towards the
Speaker 3: end of that section, he talked about the hunger strike
Speaker 3: that he participated in four years ago in order to
Speaker 3: win debt relief for cab drivers, And it's about people.
Speaker 6: Like Richard the taxi driver I went on a fifteen
Speaker 6: day hunger strike with outside of city hall, who still
Speaker 6: has to drive his cab seven.
Speaker 7: Days a week.
Speaker 4: My brother, we are in city hall.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 3: That is that is the energy of like the campaign
Speaker 3: in the city right now. Like that that sort of framing,
Speaker 3: and that's the energy that people are like carrying.
Speaker 2: Through I saw among the right wing fever spawns responses
Speaker 2: to this, Mike Cernovich taking a clip from the election
Speaker 2: night party where one of the people who is attending
Speaker 2: Zoran's party made a comment about how like white people
Speaker 2: need to get on board with the idea that like
Speaker 2: our culture is multiculturalism in this country right, Like it's
Speaker 2: it's not anything else, Like that's that's like what has
Speaker 2: made America. And Mike did not react well to that.
Speaker 5: I can't imagine the declaration of wars and Avich mad, Yeah.
Speaker 3: But no, like especially in New York, out of like
Speaker 3: anywhere in the country, like, especially in New York like,
Speaker 3: the culture is made through the mix of immigrants that
Speaker 3: have built this city, and this is something that discussed throughout.
Speaker 3: Zaran went on to thank the one hundred thousand campaign
Speaker 3: volunteers and specifically how their efforts quote eroded the cynicism
Speaker 3: that has come to define our politics.
Speaker 4: I liked that line, and.
Speaker 3: Then he asked New Yorkers to breathe this moment in quote.
Speaker 3: We have held our breath for longer than we know.
Speaker 3: We have held it in anticipation of defeat, held it
Speaker 3: because the air has been knocked out of our lungs
Speaker 3: too many times to count, held it because we cannot
Speaker 3: afford to exhale. Thanks to all of those who have
Speaker 3: sacrificed so much, we are breathing in the air of
Speaker 3: facity that has been reborn. There are many who thought
Speaker 3: this day would never come, who feared we would be
Speaker 3: condemned only to a future of less, with every election
Speaker 3: consigning us to simply more of the same. And there
Speaker 3: are others who see politics today as too cruel for
Speaker 3: the flame of hope to still burn New York. We
Speaker 3: have answered those fears unquote.
Speaker 6: And while we cast our ballots alone. We chose hope together,
Speaker 6: hope over tyranny, hope over big money and small ideas,
Speaker 6: hope over despair. We won because New Yorkers allowed themselves
Speaker 6: to hope that the impossible could be made possible. And
Speaker 6: we won because we insisted that no longer would politics
Speaker 6: be something that is done to us. Now it is
Speaker 6: something that we do. Standing before you, I think of
Speaker 6: the words of Juan lal Nehru. A moment comes but
Speaker 6: rarely in history, when we step out from the old
Speaker 6: to the new, when an age ends, and when the
Speaker 6: soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. Tonight we
Speaker 6: have stepped out from the old into the new.
Speaker 3: The line about politics not being something that's done to you, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that really outlines how politics has felt in this country
Speaker 3: for as basically as long as I can remember. He
Speaker 3: then outlined what his central agenda to tackle the cost
Speaker 3: of living crisis is, including freezing the rent for more
Speaker 3: than two million rits, timbolized tenants, making buses faster and free,
Speaker 3: and delivering universal childcare across the city, saying quote, this
Speaker 3: will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their
Speaker 3: leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather
Speaker 3: than a list of excuses for what we are too
Speaker 3: timid to attempt. Let's go on a quick break and
Speaker 3: we will come back to talk a little bit more.
Speaker 4: About the election.
Speaker 5: All right, we're back.
Speaker 3: During the second half of this speech, Zoron turned to
Speaker 3: address Donald Trump. Right this looming thing across politics nationwide,
Speaker 3: but specifically New York, as Trump has threatened to start
Speaker 3: to fuck with New York even more if Zoron is
Speaker 3: elected and people in New York know this. And about
Speaker 3: halfway through, Zoron addressed Trump directly, which we will get
Speaker 3: to you in a sec But before he directly talked
Speaker 3: to Trump, in this speech, Zoron laid out what types
Speaker 3: of people the city government will be focusing on protecting
Speaker 3: from Trump's division and hate.
Speaker 6: In this new age we make for ourselves, we will
Speaker 6: refuse to allow those who traffic in division and hate
Speaker 6: to pit us against one another in this moment of
Speaker 6: political darkness. New York will be the light here leave
Speaker 6: in standing up for those we love. Whether you are
Speaker 6: an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of
Speaker 6: the many black women that Donald Trump is fired from
Speaker 6: a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the
Speaker 6: cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with
Speaker 6: their back against the wall. Your struggle is ours two.
Speaker 3: Specifically, I like this idea of in the darkened political moment,
Speaker 3: this United States is in New York and the Zorn
Speaker 3: administration and how that reflects New York and general though
Speaker 3: will be a beacon for the rest of the country.
Speaker 3: And naming like the trans community is like the second
Speaker 3: group mentioned there was heavily appreciated in the Bushwick Trans
Speaker 3: Watch party that.
Speaker 4: I was at.
Speaker 3: Zorah went on to say that quote, no more will
Speaker 3: New York be a city where you can traffic in
Speaker 3: Islamophobia and win an election. This new age will be
Speaker 3: defined by a competence and a compassion that have too
Speaker 3: long been placed in odds with one another. We will
Speaker 3: prove that there is no problem too large for government
Speaker 3: to solve and no concern too small for it to
Speaker 3: care about. Tens of millions of dollars have been spent
Speaker 3: to redefine reality and to convince our neighbors that this
Speaker 3: new age is something that should frighten them. As has
Speaker 3: often occurred, the billionaire class has sought to convince those
Speaker 3: making thirty dollars an hour, that their enemies are those
Speaker 3: earning twenty dollars an hour. They want the people to
Speaker 3: fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the
Speaker 3: work of remaking along broken system. Together, we will usher
Speaker 3: in a generation of change. And if we embrace this
Speaker 3: brave new course, rather than fleeing from it, we can
Speaker 3: respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears,
Speaker 3: not the appeasement it craves.
Speaker 7: I think this whole section is something very important, and
Speaker 7: this has been something that's been very consistent about Donnie's
Speaker 7: entire campaign, which is there's been on the left for
Speaker 7: a very very long time, a just interminable, intractable conflict
Speaker 7: between this idea of like purely focusing on class politics
Speaker 7: or talking about race. And but I think what Montdammi
Speaker 7: is doing here ha's been very effective, right, is you
Speaker 7: can just do both. And in fact, as the left
Speaker 7: over the last you know, sort of senses kind of
Speaker 7: the reemergence of this kind of left in like twenty fifteen,
Speaker 7: twenty sixteen, as it's gone on, it's gotten less white,
Speaker 7: it's gotten more to verse, has gotten more multicultural, and
Speaker 7: it's been able to fuse these two things together, and
Speaker 7: it's been able to fuse that with just you know,
Speaker 7: like being very very openly pro trans and like there
Speaker 7: was you know, there's also a pretty big response that
Speaker 7: I saw from people talking about the fact that he
Speaker 7: specifically mentioned that it was black women who were being
Speaker 7: fired by the Trump administration. Right, And you can just
Speaker 7: do all these things together and it works, and it's
Speaker 7: worked the whole time. And refusing to pit these things
Speaker 7: against each other, like refusing to pit affordability against trans rights,
Speaker 7: refusing to pit yes, yeah, you know, like fusing to
Speaker 7: pit the politics of like defending and this is some
Speaker 7: thing that like fucking Bernie is terrible at, right, where
Speaker 7: like Bernie like has been like has a whole rant
Speaker 7: about how Trump has been right on like we have
Speaker 7: to reduce immigration, right, and you don't have to do that.
Speaker 7: You can be pro immigrant, you can be protraned, you
Speaker 7: can be pro black women, you can be you know,
Speaker 7: and and you can also want everything to cost less,
Speaker 7: and you can be in favor of the fact that
Speaker 7: the US is a is a multicultural society and can
Speaker 7: only function as one. And it's it's a winning form
Speaker 7: of politics. And I'm glad we're finally getting there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it will be great if this New York
Speaker 3: City as a beacon can actually shine and not get
Speaker 3: rectifled out in.
Speaker 4: These in these next four years.
Speaker 3: Because Zorn is, unless unless things happen, will be the
Speaker 3: mayor for the remainder of the Trump term, right like
Speaker 3: this is he will be mayor after second Trump administration
Speaker 3: is over, barring any unfortunate incident.
Speaker 4: Make sure your private security is really good.
Speaker 5: Way whoever ypd detail get your own guys. Yeah, it'll
Speaker 5: be fine. But it also it means like like from
Speaker 5: I guess a national perspective, it is likely that mom
Speaker 5: Danny will become like the enemy number one of the
Speaker 5: Trump administration, where they probably Newsome or prish Karan now right,
Speaker 5: like it's it is easier because of the obvious bigotry
Speaker 5: that underlies a lot of the Republican Party to go
Speaker 5: after a brown dude. Yes, and that is what they
Speaker 5: are going to do. And they're going to use.
Speaker 4: Brown democratic socialists.
Speaker 5: Yeah, who stands up for trans people and migrants. And
Speaker 5: likely you saw how acceptable islamophobia is in Cuomo's campaign, right,
Speaker 5: like you just go on to every mainstream network and
Speaker 5: say shit, that it is fucking disgusting. Yeah, and so
Speaker 5: we should prepare our sales for four more years of that,
Speaker 5: I guess. And I think he does a very good
Speaker 5: job of repudiating that, and obviously the electorate in New
Speaker 5: York did too. But that is going to be what
Speaker 5: we are going to see as a result of this.
Speaker 8: Well.
Speaker 3: No, and like so much of the resistance to Zoron
Speaker 3: came from this idea that if he wins, that means
Speaker 3: that this is going to be what people point to
Speaker 3: as a future for politics, specifically democratic politics, And a
Speaker 3: lot of people wanted to stop him because they knew
Speaker 3: that's going to happen. If he is in control of
Speaker 3: the biggest city in the country as the Democratic mayor,
Speaker 3: that's going to be influential for what democratic politics will
Speaker 3: be after they got completely clobbered last year. And he's
Speaker 3: showing that a different type of politics is possible, even
Speaker 3: even within the Democratic Party. And that's that's true, like
Speaker 3: altering what the party is fundamentally, Yeah, and I think
Speaker 3: it's it is. It is a cool little side note
Speaker 3: that Zoron voted for himself on the Working Families party
Speaker 3: line and in fact not the Democratic Party line. Becau's
Speaker 3: called the New York mayoral ballot's work. I'm gonna pay
Speaker 3: one more clip from the speech of Zorn, specifically addressing Trump.
Speaker 3: It's going to be a teeny bit longer, and I
Speaker 3: think we'll cut We'll shorten some of the applause bits
Speaker 3: because some of the applause sections gone for quite long.
Speaker 4: But this will be the last club.
Speaker 6: After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by
Speaker 6: Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city
Speaker 6: that gave rise to him. And if there is any
Speaker 6: way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the
Speaker 6: very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power. This is
Speaker 6: not only how we stopped Trump, it's how we stop
Speaker 6: the next one. So, Donald Trump, since I know you're watching,
Speaker 6: I have four words for you. Turn the volume up.
Speaker 6: We will hold bad landlords to account because the Donald
Speaker 6: Trumps of our city have grown far too comfortable taking
Speaker 6: advantage of their tenants.
Speaker 4: We will put an end to.
Speaker 6: The culture of corruption that has allowed billionaires like Trump
Speaker 6: to evade taxation and exploit tax breaks. We will stand
Speaker 6: alongside unions and expand labor protections because we know, just
Speaker 6: as Donald Trump does that when working people have ironclad rights,
Speaker 6: the bosses who seek to extort them become very small. Indeed,
Speaker 6: New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city
Speaker 6: built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight,
Speaker 6: led by an immigrant. So hear me, President Trump, when
Speaker 6: I say this, to get to any of.
Speaker 7: Us, you will have to get through all of us.
Speaker 4: The ship rocks.
Speaker 5: It's good, it's good.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's pretty cool. It's pretty cool for a mayor
Speaker 4: alection to.
Speaker 5: Say that he didn't manage to get in the New
Speaker 5: York is the anchora of America, which I was hoping
Speaker 5: for them.
Speaker 2: Otherwise, great, that's Eric Adams this bit.
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, sad day for sad day for Turkey today.
Speaker 7: I guess on an actually important note, I think it
Speaker 7: is really important that you know, all of this energy
Speaker 7: against Trump, right and against all the shit that he's
Speaker 7: doing that's so hideously unpopular, it's starting to be channeled
Speaker 7: into politics that can actually defeat him. Yeah, and that
Speaker 7: are actually good, you know, and that he's talking about
Speaker 7: specifically the fact that you have to deshoy the conditions
Speaker 7: that created it and so they don't create the next
Speaker 7: one like this fucking rocks.
Speaker 4: This is good.
Speaker 5: Yeah. For so long, like for I mean most of
Speaker 5: the twenty sixteen to twenty twenty period and for a
Speaker 5: lot of this year, we've seen so many people turn
Speaker 5: the obvious disgust that people have a what Trump is
Speaker 5: doing into grifts into some reporting of politics which fundamentally
Speaker 5: allowed for the conditions we are in now, right, And
Speaker 5: to see someone repudiate that and to see more than
Speaker 5: a million people turn out to support that is fantastic.
Speaker 5: Like it's genuinely hopeful.
Speaker 3: It's something like zoronas like acknowledge. It's like this is
Speaker 3: not like the end, right, this is a means, not
Speaker 3: the means either, Like this is this this is a
Speaker 3: means to an end. And this whole campaign started, as
Speaker 3: he's referred to it as a quote unquote electoral project
Speaker 3: by the New York City DSA, Like this was largely
Speaker 3: an experiment and an experiment that grew wildly, wildly kind
Speaker 3: of out of what I assumed they kind of saw
Speaker 3: it as in the earlier in the earlier days, and
Speaker 3: now they're in this like moment and they have to
Speaker 3: they have to keep rolling with it. But it is
Speaker 3: it is an experiment for a a version of doing this,
Speaker 3: and he knows this is not like the only method
Speaker 3: or tactic to be utilized, but as as an experiment,
Speaker 3: I think it's so far pretty well done now, as
Speaker 3: is on closest speech by calling to chart a new
Speaker 3: path as bold as the campaign has already been, saying
Speaker 3: that conventional wisdom would claim that he is far from
Speaker 3: the perfect candidate. Quote, I'm young, despite my best efforts
Speaker 3: to grow older. I am Muslim, I am a democratic socialist,
Speaker 3: and the most stabbing of all. I refuse to apologize
Speaker 3: for any of this. And yet if tonight teaches us anything,
Speaker 3: it is that convention has held us back. We have
Speaker 3: bowed at the altar of caution. We have paid a
Speaker 3: mighty price. Too many working people cannot recognize themselves in
Speaker 3: our party, and too many among us have turned to
Speaker 3: the right for answers to why they've been left behind.
Speaker 3: We will leave mediocrity in our past. No longer will
Speaker 3: we have to open a history book for proof that
Speaker 3: Democrats can dare to be great. Our greatness will be
Speaker 3: anything but abstract unquote, and he concludes by saying that
Speaker 3: the greatness will be felt by rent stable ie tenants
Speaker 3: who will wake up knowing they are rent hasn't sword
Speaker 3: by grandparents who can afford to stay in their home
Speaker 3: and whose grandchildren live nearby because the cost of childcare
Speaker 3: is not driving them out of the city, And by
Speaker 3: the single mothers who don't need to rush their kids
Speaker 3: to school because they can commute to work on a
Speaker 3: fast bus.
Speaker 4: Quote.
Speaker 3: Most of all, it will be felt by each New
Speaker 3: Yorker when the city they love finally loves them back unquote.
Speaker 3: The stuff about like worshiping at the altar of caution
Speaker 3: for like the past, the past like twenty more than twenty,
Speaker 3: but especially the past like twenty years of like Democrat politics,
Speaker 3: and how he is also recognizing that like this is
Speaker 3: this could mark a fundamental shift in what the Democratic
Speaker 3: Party actually is because the people Democrats included, who've been
Speaker 3: trying to stop this have failed miserably so far, putting
Speaker 3: tens of millions of dollars into a campaign to try
Speaker 3: to crush crush this version of what the future of
Speaker 3: New York Democrat politics is, and more people since nineteen
Speaker 3: sixty nine showed up to deny that future. That's all
Speaker 3: I have for Zoran right now, it's literally, you know
Speaker 3: less than twenty four hours after the Yeah, but this
Speaker 3: was not just a New York City mayoral election.
Speaker 4: There were there were other races, including other other things.
Speaker 4: In New York.
Speaker 3: There was a Prop one amendment to the state Constitution
Speaker 3: to retroactively authorize the winter sports facilities on Mount then Hovenburg,
Speaker 3: which is protected forestland and would require the state at
Speaker 3: two thousand, five hundred acres of newly protected land elsewhere
Speaker 3: in the ad Ranak that's how I'm saying it at
Speaker 3: Irondack Mountains. Yeah, which was passed, and this allows them
Speaker 3: to continue to build and maintain the winter sports facility.
Speaker 3: Propositions two through six were New York City Charter Amendments.
Speaker 3: Two to four were housing reform proposals to fast track
Speaker 3: the approval process for affordable housing and simplify zoning reviews
Speaker 3: and establish an Affordable Housing Appeals Board.
Speaker 4: All of the passed.
Speaker 3: These will limit the ability of the City Council to
Speaker 3: control and slow down housing development and empower the mayor
Speaker 3: specifically to build more affordable units faster. And Prop five,
Speaker 3: which also passed, creates a new digital methnic city. The
Speaker 3: only prop to fail, which was Number six, was to
Speaker 3: move local elections to be in line with presidential elections
Speaker 3: on that four year basis. Basically, the ballot that Zorn
Speaker 3: filled out himself was the one that passed for all
Speaker 3: of these, all of these proposals.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you get. They call it a coattails effect in
Speaker 5: political science, right, like the idea that the.
Speaker 4: People announced his ballot that morning. He did not.
Speaker 3: He he didn't, and he didn't even announce it like
Speaker 3: a journalist asked him what he was voting on. He
Speaker 3: specifically did not advocate for any of these or or
Speaker 3: try to dissuade anyone from any of these before the election.
Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure. But you get a generally aligned politically electorate, right,
Speaker 5: a relatively progressive in American terms, electorate coming out to
Speaker 5: vote for him, who will look at these things and
Speaker 5: say that seems to make sense with the way I
Speaker 5: see the round.
Speaker 4: Absolutely.
Speaker 3: Democrat Abigail Spenberger won the governor of Virginia flipping blue.
Speaker 3: Jay Jones, a Democrat candidate for Virginia AG also beat
Speaker 3: the Republican incumbent. This was after a month of attacks
Speaker 3: for a series of text messages from twenty twenty two
Speaker 3: where j Jones said that if certain Republican delegates died,
Speaker 3: he would quote go to their funerals to piss on
Speaker 3: their graves unquote, and wish for the hypothetical deaths of
Speaker 3: Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert's children quote only would people
Speaker 3: feel pain personally?
Speaker 4: Do they move on policy?
Speaker 3: I mean, do I think Todd and Jennifer are evil
Speaker 3: and that they're breeding little fascists?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 4: Unquote.
Speaker 7: That's also not really hipathetical deaths like he did in
Speaker 7: a call with a with another Republican politician.
Speaker 3: Then after the call, they continued texting about it. So
Speaker 3: the proof is in these texts, and he is admitted this,
Speaker 3: and basically he was like, Yeah, if these people's like
Speaker 3: children were to get killed in mass shooting, maybe their
Speaker 3: opinions on guns would change.
Speaker 4: That's essentially what he's expressing there.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 4: And then he also he also was.
Speaker 3: Quoted in these leads text messages as saying, quote, three people,
Speaker 3: two bullets, Virginia Huse Speaker Todd Gilbert Hitler, and Paul
Speaker 3: Pott Gilbert gets two bullets to the head.
Speaker 4: Spoiler put Gilbert in the crew.
Speaker 5: With sorry, just as an elected official, as an attorney general,
Speaker 5: someone going to be a call that you put in
Speaker 5: the fucking text message spoiler.
Speaker 3: Put Gilberts in the crew with the two worst people
Speaker 3: you know, and he receives both bullets every time. It's insane,
Speaker 3: up sec hero, But that is the new attorney general.
Speaker 3: That's a new Democrat Attorney general of Virginia who the
Speaker 3: right has been attacking for quite for relentlessly the past month,
Speaker 3: because you really fucked up.
Speaker 5: If you can't like, no, if you can't run attacks
Speaker 5: on that guy, and you still.
Speaker 7: All of those jokes about the wine moms in the suburbs,
Speaker 7: like wanting blood and like there looking at this Oh no,
Speaker 7: hell yeah, yeah, give me four ward bullets will put
Speaker 7: in this guy.
Speaker 4: It's pretty crazy. It's it's it's pretty astonishing.
Speaker 3: Maine voted no sixty three percent on a voter restriction measure.
Speaker 3: Voters extended the Democrat Pennsylvania Supreme Court, and the California
Speaker 3: Redistricting Measure or Proposition passed with sixty three point eight percent.
Speaker 4: James, Yeah, do you have stuff on this?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 5: So Prop fifty in California, California, it was like a
Speaker 5: one issue ballot, right, you said the Prop fifty this
Speaker 5: would temporarily redistrict I think people maybe have not been
Speaker 5: like like often it gets missed, and it is temporarily
Speaker 5: redistricting California until re establishing the non partisan committee that
Speaker 5: does districting in twenty thirty one. For the twenty thirty
Speaker 5: two those districts will come back, or that they will
Speaker 5: return to a non partisan districting in twenty thirty two.
Speaker 5: This is one of the most expensive propositions in state history.
Speaker 5: One hundred and twenty million was spent in favor, forty
Speaker 5: four million against. There was also outside money. Newsome already
Speaker 5: called on New York, Illinois and other Democrat majority seats
Speaker 5: to do the same. Right, it's going to likely remove
Speaker 5: about five Republican seats, or those Republicans are going to struggle.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 5: One of them would be at ser Diego's Mountain Empire
Speaker 5: and East County seat, which is currently the forty eighth.
Speaker 5: That seat has been redistricted a few times, right, it's
Speaker 5: moved around. It's currently Darryl ISO's seat. In response, California
Speaker 5: Republicans have already filed a lawsuit. Suit was filed by
Speaker 5: high Meet Dylan's law firm.
Speaker 2: Yayyay so Dyland of the party.
Speaker 5: Dylan is in the Trump administration now.
Speaker 2: But yeah, Elean is in the Trump administration and occasionally
Speaker 2: in my inbox making threats.
Speaker 5: Fastic great, But with Dylan's law firm that that father
Speaker 5: case right. The case has claimed that California drew the
Speaker 5: new lines to quote specifically favor Hispanic voters, which it
Speaker 5: is a similar claim to the Louisiana versus Calais. I
Speaker 5: think Calais. There is the way they say it here
Speaker 5: case which is currently before the Supreme Court, which the
Speaker 5: Supreme Court seems to be suggesting it might be it
Speaker 5: might be amenable to this argument right, that the consideration
Speaker 5: of race in redistricting is discriminate free. Yesterday Trump truth
Speaker 5: quoting here, the unconstitutional redistricting vote in California is a
Speaker 5: giant scam. That part is in block capital as is characteristic.
Speaker 5: The rest is sporadically capitalized. I'm going back to the
Speaker 5: quote now, in the entire process, in particular, the voting
Speaker 5: itself is rigged all quote mail in ballots where the
Speaker 5: Republicans in that state are shut out. It's under very
Speaker 5: serious legal and criminal review. Stay tuned. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: fairly predictable what we talked about it last week. It's
Speaker 5: not entirely possible for me to pass out that second sentence,
Speaker 5: but I think we can see what direction is pushing in. Right.
Speaker 5: This was predictable that this was going to happen, and
Speaker 5: we'll keep you updated on it. Also predictable that we
Speaker 5: would have to pivot to ads again, which is what
Speaker 5: we're going to do now. And we are back a
Speaker 5: little bit of immigration news this week, as always according
Speaker 5: to report it, this is actually last week, but we
Speaker 5: didn't have time for last week. Equalt remportant by CNN.
Speaker 5: Trump claimed he was quote very much opposed to his
Speaker 5: own administration's immigration raid on our HONDB plant in Georgia,
Speaker 5: which obviously this is what he's saying to try and
Speaker 5: get that foreign direct investment back in Georgia rape, because
Speaker 5: it looks very much like Georgia is going to pay
Speaker 5: pretty heavily for that raid. Unfortunately, another man lost his
Speaker 5: life when fleeing ice officers last week. He seems to
Speaker 5: have left a car that he was in and tempted
Speaker 5: across a freeway where he was fatally struck by another car. Yeah,
Speaker 5: that's the second time this has happened this year. Texas
Speaker 5: acidned an agreement with a federal government to allow local
Speaker 5: DPS officers to operate as ICE officers or technically to
Speaker 5: operate under the authority of ICE officers under the two
Speaker 5: eighty seven g program. So this is not the first
Speaker 5: law enforcement agency in Texas to do this. Lots of
Speaker 5: local agencies had, but the DPS is statewide. Right, so
Speaker 5: this would this would include offices of the Texas Highway Patrol.
Speaker 5: It has five thousand employees. It will make Texas a
Speaker 5: markedly more hostile place for migrants. The authority allows warrantless
Speaker 5: detention under loosely limited, loosely phrased supervision by an ICE officer. Right,
Speaker 5: it allows Texas cops to detain a question people with
Speaker 5: they suspect of being in the United States without documentation.
Speaker 5: Here in San Diego, San Diego's Border Patrol Sector released
Speaker 5: a video with I think it was like, I'll have
Speaker 5: to check what song. It was like some cringe kind
Speaker 5: of pop punk soundtrack of the dynamting of land west
Speaker 5: of the Hakumber Wilderness. This is likely the construction that
Speaker 5: saw many environmental and cultural protections waived by the HS
Speaker 5: secretarynme earlier this year. Right, we're always seeing the beginning
Speaker 5: of what that looks like and what that looks like
Speaker 5: here is just a very unique landscape. Many one I
Speaker 5: know some people who listen came out to Hookumber a
Speaker 5: couple of years ago to help out. Like it's an
Speaker 5: extremely unique high desert landscape and it's currently being dynamited. Right.
Speaker 5: These are the areas where there were little gaps in
Speaker 5: the border wall because construction there is very hard and
Speaker 5: the way that they're going ahead with the construction is
Speaker 5: blowing stuff up. Finally, on the immigration beat, the case
Speaker 5: regarding conditions in the broad View Facility, which is in
Speaker 5: Chicago until earlier this year it was only for very
Speaker 5: short stays, like not for twenty four hour stays, has
Speaker 5: revealed some of the horrific conditions inside the facility. It
Speaker 5: confirmed something I've heard from multiple migrants who have been
Speaker 5: detained or over the US, which is ICE is using
Speaker 5: the threat of longest stays in poor conditions to get
Speaker 5: people to sign deportation paperwork. Often it's literally in the
Speaker 5: overcrowded rooms where they're sleeping and staying right, Like, at
Speaker 5: any point you can just walk up to it and
Speaker 5: sign your name and you will presumably be removed from
Speaker 5: those conditions and place into deportation flight as soon as possible.
Speaker 5: Reading directly from the lawsuit here quote people are forced
Speaker 5: to attempt to sleep for days or sometimes weeks, on
Speaker 5: plastic chairs or on the filthy concrete floor. They are
Speaker 5: denied to fficient food and water. They cannot shower, They
Speaker 5: are denied soap, high giene items and mental products, and
Speaker 5: they have no way to clean themselves. They are often
Speaker 5: denied a change of clothes. Continuing my quote here, the
Speaker 5: temperatures are extreme and uncomfortable. Most nights are freezing cold,
Speaker 5: yet only some receive a thin foil blanket, sweater or
Speaker 5: sweatpants to try to retain warmth. The lights are typically
Speaker 5: on all night. People have also reported being denied waterway
Speaker 5: agents that are being their running water in the places
Speaker 5: where they are held, and very little food. We've reported
Speaker 5: on these conditions before. Some of this is standard. Right,
Speaker 5: lights on all night, freezing cold, you only get a
Speaker 5: very thin blanket like that. That has been the case,
Speaker 5: That was the case throughout the Biden administration. Right they
Speaker 5: call these places of the ice box, both in English
Speaker 5: and in Spanish. This has always been the conditions to
Speaker 5: people have been held in in these facilities have always
Speaker 5: been in humane, but some of this is particularly bad.
Speaker 5: People in broadview reported being so crowded they could not
Speaker 5: extend their legs Jesus Chris, Yeah, so they had to
Speaker 5: sit like sort of fetal position. They couldn't sit down
Speaker 5: and extend their legs right alone sleep. Disgusting the unclean
Speaker 5: conditions they have. Lots of people have reported paperwork not
Speaker 5: being able to language that they read write. Bathrooms there
Speaker 5: are not private, and the lawsuit alleges that people of
Speaker 5: other genders could see each other using the bathroom, which
Speaker 5: is pretty disgusting. I've linked to the lawsuit. You can
Speaker 5: read it if you want.
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Speaker 7: Ah music to My Ears, Oh boy, okay, abrough shift
Speaker 7: in tone. So we got a little bit more details
Speaker 7: on the sort of partial agreement that Trump and the
Speaker 7: Chinese government have sort of come to that has staved
Speaker 7: off some of the most disastrous of the new trade
Speaker 7: war elements. Both sides seem to have gotten rid of
Speaker 7: the fees from ships both docking at their ports and
Speaker 7: also on like the sort of complicated shipbuilding stuff we
Speaker 7: talked about last year. The US has paused the thing
Speaker 7: we talked about last week where they were using the
Speaker 7: Foreignansity list to do anything that was controlled that was
Speaker 7: like forty percent or more controlled by a thing on
Speaker 7: the foreignansity list couldn't be traded with. The US is
Speaker 7: backing off on that for a year. Chinese agreed to
Speaker 7: buy more soybeans. There's also some discussion of China buying
Speaker 7: more energy products. But this is one of these things
Speaker 7: that we just we have no idea what that is.
Speaker 7: It's possible by the time you're listening to this, there
Speaker 7: will be information. All we have is buy more energy.
Speaker 7: And the last thing that Trump said that didn't seem
Speaker 7: to be part of the negotiations between him and the
Speaker 7: Chinese government per se, but we're definitely part of negotiations
Speaker 7: that have been going on between Trump and his cabinet
Speaker 7: was that there's going to be restrictions on AI chip exports.
Speaker 7: Oh though exactly what is not known. All Trump said
Speaker 7: was quote the most advanced we will not let anybody
Speaker 7: have them other than the United States. What this seems
Speaker 7: to be, and again everyone is kind of murkily hobbling
Speaker 7: together whatever information they have. What it seems to be
Speaker 7: is Trump stopped in Vidia from selling its most advanced
Speaker 7: AI grade chips called Blackwell, to China, which was which
Speaker 7: Nvidia has been massively lobbying for because they need to
Speaker 7: expand their market to continue the giant bubble that they've accumulated.
Speaker 7: Trump has stopped them. It's unclear whether this is going
Speaker 7: to be made into formal policy or if Trump is
Speaker 7: just going to personally intervene every time a CEO asked
Speaker 7: him to do this. But yeah, we also have so
Speaker 7: today recording November fifth is the start of the Supreme
Speaker 7: Court case against the tariffs. I think it's worth noting
Speaker 7: that this court case against the tariffs, it's framed as
Speaker 7: like a lot of small businesses brought this lawsuit, and
Speaker 7: they did. But also the reason it's gotten to the
Speaker 7: Supreme Court is because they're being backed by a huge
Speaker 7: player in the conservative legal machine. Almost the entire thing
Speaker 7: is being funded and paid for by the Liberty Justice Center,
Speaker 7: which is it's a kind of libertarian right wing legal
Speaker 7: thing backed by like the Walton family and the Coke Network.
Speaker 7: And this is I think one of the most direct
Speaker 7: and interesting actual oppositional moves we've seen from this wing
Speaker 7: of the libertarian business wing of the party, which is very,
Speaker 7: very pissed off at the tariffs. We've seen a whole
Speaker 7: bunch of amicus curia briefs from the American Enterpresents, the
Speaker 7: Tree and the Cato Institute, and a whole bunch of
Speaker 7: other wrote wing think tanks who are extremely angry about this.
Speaker 7: We don't know exactly how it's going to go, but
Speaker 7: the initial arguments do not seem to be going well
Speaker 7: for the Trope administration. So that'll that'll be unfolding, and
Speaker 7: we'll report on it. More is as we know more.
Speaker 7: It's this is literally recording the first day of trials.
Speaker 7: So and finally I'm going to close on a genuinely
Speaker 7: deeply baffling piece of news, which is that the day
Speaker 7: before the election in New York, Great Abbott posted that
Speaker 7: there would be a one hundred percent tariff on anyone
Speaker 7: moving to New York after the election.
Speaker 5: Yeah, how does that work?
Speaker 2: Isn't it moving to Texas from New York?
Speaker 7: Well, I thought it was to New York.
Speaker 4: It's for me, it looked like moving to New York
Speaker 4: as well.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's certainly unclear, because this doesn't not seem
Speaker 3: like a policy proposal. It seems more like a post.
Speaker 4: It's just a post. It's someone post posting through it.
Speaker 2: Because this from moving from New York to Texas. Yeah,
Speaker 2: any one moving from New York to Texas.
Speaker 7: Interesting. I don't know that tariffs are just posts now,
Speaker 7: I don't.
Speaker 2: That's not like a thing that there's law around you
Speaker 2: being able to do.
Speaker 3: No, it's it's so one constitution. I think it's just
Speaker 3: a post. I don't think it is anything like is.
Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean evidently, I think the interesting thing about
Speaker 7: it is like is the way in which tariffs have
Speaker 7: come to be seen in their Republican mind as like
Speaker 7: this is something you do to people you're mad at,
Speaker 7: which is very new development in this is this is
Speaker 7: a this is a pure Trump too phenomena effectively.
Speaker 2: Well absolutely yeah, a marker of how intensely they're paying
Speaker 2: attention to this election. Like I mean, Abbots said doing
Speaker 2: this because I'm sure it'll show show up his local popularity.
Speaker 2: But it's a marker of like a change that has
Speaker 2: been going on that that has been really like supercharged
Speaker 2: in the Trump era of No, No, you can't have
Speaker 2: local politics, like it's it's all national politics and any
Speaker 2: kind of vote at a state or local level that
Speaker 2: goes against whatever the party wants is something to be punished,
Speaker 2: like even if it's two thousand miles away. And that
Speaker 2: is that hasn't been as dominant in US politics as
Speaker 2: it has been recently. We should probably talk a little
Speaker 2: bit about Texas's election night, because that was also pretty consequential.
Speaker 2: There were seventeen ballot measures passed by the Texas legislature
Speaker 2: earlier this year by a two thirds majority, And the
Speaker 2: way Texas law works is that once the legislature votes
Speaker 2: for a ballot measure to two thirds majority, it becomes
Speaker 2: a constitutional amendment after a simple majority of voters on
Speaker 2: a ballot support it. And there were seventeen measures on
Speaker 2: the ballot in Texas, which is wild, very few states
Speaker 2: and constitutional amendments that the rate Texas dons and all
Speaker 2: of them passed, which is nuts, and some of them
Speaker 2: are like fine. There was want to create like a
Speaker 2: three billion dollar fund for dementia research with like which
Speaker 2: is like whatever, and nobody's got a problem with that really.
Speaker 2: Some questions about implementation maybe, but there's some absolutely bug
Speaker 2: fuck nuts stuff in here. Proposition thirteen raised the homestead
Speaker 2: exemption from one hundred thousand dollars to one hundred and
Speaker 2: forty thousand dollars. It was passed by about eighty percent
Speaker 2: of voters. This lowers the taxable value of a home,
Speaker 2: which reduces overall tax bills on your primary residence. Per
Speaker 2: an article in the Houston Chronicle, the amendments will be
Speaker 2: especially felt by elderly or disabled Texans who are poised
Speaker 2: to receive a separate tax, a separate break that brings
Speaker 2: their total property tax exemptions to two hundred thousand. As
Speaker 2: a result, roughly half of seniors and people with disabilities
Speaker 2: living in Harris and Bear Counties will no longer pay
Speaker 2: any school property taxes. Jesus I should have to say
Speaker 2: how bad that is for Texas schools and in general.
Speaker 2: This A lot of these ballot measures were about making
Speaker 2: heavy cuts and making it impossible to raise new revenue.
Speaker 2: The cuts that are just in these ballot measures are
Speaker 2: going to cost the state about four billion dollars over
Speaker 2: the next two years. Right, But that's not all that
Speaker 2: was done. Several of the bills that were passed banned
Speaker 2: the potential to create new taxes. Right, So it is
Speaker 2: now illegal in Texas to create taxes on capital gains
Speaker 2: or taxes on the growth of assets like property in stocks,
Speaker 2: or taxes on inheritance, and to state taxes. Taxes on
Speaker 2: the operations of stock exchanges are now banned because several
Speaker 2: have announced plans to open in taxes. Right, So you
Speaker 2: are looking at I think the estimate here that I'm
Speaker 2: seeing in the chronicles articles that the states can spend
Speaker 2: about fifty one billion dollars over the coming biennium to
Speaker 2: pay for the new cuts and maintain existing ones. Texas
Speaker 2: is a state that has had for quite a while
Speaker 2: a budget surplus, and they are basically lighting a lot
Speaker 2: of that on fire to appeal to rich people and
Speaker 2: business Note owners in stock exchanges to take their assets
Speaker 2: to Texas. You won't have to help society if you
Speaker 2: come to Texas. We don't have a society in Texas, right,
Speaker 2: And that agenda did very well in Texas.
Speaker 5: Jeez. Anyway, good stuff.
Speaker 2: I guess the last thing I want to talk about
Speaker 2: a little bit, since we've got a couple of minutes
Speaker 2: here is the question on everybody's mind. Should I be
Speaker 2: flying anywhere for the holidays? Is that going to be
Speaker 2: a good idea? We're I'm saying this a day after
Speaker 2: a horrific crash of a UPS flight over Muhammad Ali
Speaker 2: International Airport in Louisville, right, which I mean, I think
Speaker 2: seven was the death toll last I saw night maarish fireballs.
Speaker 5: I mean at nine this morning?
Speaker 2: Is it at nine? Because the plane just the engine
Speaker 2: caught on fire basically on takeoff, and normally, from what
Speaker 2: I'm reading from pilots, normally that should have been a
Speaker 2: manageable problem. But because it happened during the ascent, which
Speaker 2: is the most dangerous part of piloting a plane and
Speaker 2: where you have the least control, they were not able
Speaker 2: to recover or gain any kind of control. And the
Speaker 2: plane basically plowed directly into a UPS warehouse, And it
Speaker 2: was loaded with something like three hundred thousand pounds worth
Speaker 2: of fuel because it was about to fly to Honolulu,
Speaker 2: so it was as full of fuel as a big
Speaker 2: plane can be, and just a horrific crash. Is this
Speaker 2: tied to the fact that you have a lot of
Speaker 2: federal employees furloughed? Is it tied more just to the
Speaker 2: fact that the FAA is not functioning the way it
Speaker 2: should be or used to as a result of changes
Speaker 2: the Trump administration made as soon as they came to power.
Speaker 2: I think it's too early to say that, but this
Speaker 2: is part of a pattern of pretty disastrous near misses
Speaker 2: that absolutely can be attributed to things like the air
Speaker 2: traffic controller shortage and the fact that there's just a
Speaker 2: lot less safety precautions being taken. And this is something
Speaker 2: the administration is aware of and has become critical enough
Speaker 2: that they're no longer able to deny it. Secretary of
Speaker 2: Transportations Sean Duffy on Monday said that all commercial flights
Speaker 2: might be stopped nationwide to protect public safety, and they
Speaker 2: were certainly going to need to cut off flights in
Speaker 2: specific parts of the countries at times as a result
Speaker 2: of the ATC shortage.
Speaker 5: Right.
Speaker 2: Basically, there's different like grids that the country is divided into,
Speaker 2: and you might have to shut down one or more
Speaker 2: of those at a time in order to make the
Speaker 2: shortage of air traffic controllers able to handle the rest
Speaker 2: of the load.
Speaker 6: Right.
Speaker 2: For an example of how bad this can get locally,
Speaker 2: on last Friday in New York State, eighty percent of
Speaker 2: air traffic controllers did not show up for work. So
Speaker 2: this is a potentially pretty calamitous problem. There have been
Speaker 2: ground delays on Monday for three major Texas airports in Austin,
Speaker 2: Dallas Fort Worth, and Dallas love Field. And this is
Speaker 2: just in general, a problem that's only going to get
Speaker 2: worse as the shutdown looms, because I've seen some interviews
Speaker 2: with air traffic controllers where like one guy was like, look,
Speaker 2: we're not getting medicine for my kid and she'll die
Speaker 2: without it. It's just not coming in. How do you
Speaker 2: expect me to be a fucking air traffic controller right,
Speaker 2: like the hardest job in the country that requires absolutely
Speaker 2: perfect concentration at all times without ever fucking up or
Speaker 2: hundreds of people die. So I don't know to answer
Speaker 2: the question of like, should you fly be planning flights
Speaker 2: for this holiday season? You should certainly get the flight
Speaker 2: and share its and be paying attention the days before
Speaker 2: as to what's happening if the shutdown doesn't end, because
Speaker 2: right now we are seeing delays the likes of which
Speaker 2: haven't really been seen since maybe either the pandemic probably
Speaker 2: before nine to eleven was kind of the last time
Speaker 2: things were this completely fucked. Garrison can tell you how
Speaker 2: much of a fucking nightmare they had coming back. And
Speaker 2: it's not just in the United States. By the way,
Speaker 2: multiple major airports in Europe over the last week and
Speaker 2: change have had to shut down entirely or partly because
Speaker 2: of unauthorized or unknown drone flights in their airspace. That's
Speaker 2: just going globally. Air travel is not doing well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Russia's been probing Europe with these or lands for
Speaker 5: a little while. Yeah. I think all then know Roberts
Speaker 5: flowing Garrison. I have flown this month. It fucking sucks.
Speaker 5: Use a credit card if you can when they had
Speaker 5: some protections, but maybe maybe consider not flying right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, just you know, keep an eye on things. I
Speaker 2: don't know what else to tell you.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's great. Everything's going great. That is the slogan.
Speaker 5: Everything's going great.
Speaker 4: You know, there's been worse times.
Speaker 2: There's been worse time, Yeah, the Blitz.
Speaker 5: Yeah, talking of worse times. Lots of people are hungry,
Speaker 5: right because we are we're fucking with people's snap benefits
Speaker 5: now as part of the culture war. Lots of people
Speaker 5: are very worried about where their food is going to
Speaker 5: come from. Right, and we're entering a time of year,
Speaker 5: you know, kids are going to be off school, there's
Speaker 5: lots of places you can still get your free school meals,
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