WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.120 --> 00:00:03.279 The battle of capitalism versus socialism is taking to the 2 00:00:03.319 --> 00:00:07.360 streets and bizarre voting processes in New York City. Brandon 3 00:00:07.440 --> 00:00:10.439 Strock is one of the Republican Party's top organizers, and 4 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:13.279 he's dispatched to the Big Apple to defeat the Zoron. 5 00:00:13.640 --> 00:00:15.160 His report is at the top of the show. 6 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:17.559 Plus Coriy DeAngelis is here to follow how the Trump 7 00:00:17.559 --> 00:00:21.280 administration is using new powers unlocked by the Supreme Court, 8 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:24.280 and we get perspective on the violence in Syria by 9 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:25.920 a man who has spent time there. 10 00:00:26.079 --> 00:00:27.920 It's all next to the Matt Gates Show. Let's do 11 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:32.320 this shaking up Washington, d C. We're breaking the fever. 12 00:00:33.079 --> 00:00:35.719 Do you haven't watch this guy on television. It's like 13 00:00:35.759 --> 00:00:43.799 a machine. He's great. Matt Gates. New York City. 14 00:00:43.840 --> 00:00:46.960 It's the global symbol of capitalism and it's about to 15 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:49.840 fall to a socialist government in the form of mayoral 16 00:00:49.880 --> 00:00:53.039 candidate Zoron Mamdani. If you don't live in New York 17 00:00:53.079 --> 00:00:55.719 City and don't plan to go there, given Gotham's decline, 18 00:00:55.799 --> 00:00:57.039 you may be wondering why. 19 00:00:56.840 --> 00:00:59.399 This story matters to you. Here's the deal. 20 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:03.200 Donnie is able to show coalition building that brings together 21 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:06.200 yuppie whites and non white voters. You are going to 22 00:01:06.239 --> 00:01:10.120 see leftist politics in the United States look a lot 23 00:01:10.239 --> 00:01:13.280 less like Bill Clinton and Al Gore and a lot 24 00:01:13.319 --> 00:01:16.879 more like AOC and the Zorn. You'll start to see 25 00:01:16.879 --> 00:01:19.519 it in Democrat executive committees in your community all of 26 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:23.000 a sudden, The sensible Democrats who don't want to defund 27 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:25.319 the police or turn your son into a girl are 28 00:01:25.359 --> 00:01:27.079 going to be replaced with the likes of this. 29 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:31.400 We have to continue to elect more socialists, and we 30 00:01:31.519 --> 00:01:36.239 have to ensure that we are unapologetic about our socialism. 31 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:38.640 Do you think that billionaires have a right to exist. 32 00:01:40.319 --> 00:01:43.079 I don't think that we should have billionaires. 33 00:01:42.640 --> 00:01:45.879 Shift the tax burden from over taxed homeowners and the 34 00:01:45.920 --> 00:01:51.120 outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and wider neighborhoods. 35 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:55.120 Explain why you are bringing race into your tax proposal. 36 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:58.640 That is just an description of what we see right now. 37 00:01:58.920 --> 00:02:01.480 Whether you called the abbol of private property or you 38 00:02:01.599 --> 00:02:04.879 call it just a state wide housing guarantee, it is 39 00:02:04.920 --> 00:02:06.560 preferable to what is going on right now. 40 00:02:06.640 --> 00:02:09.479 We're going to provide sixty five million dollars in funding 41 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:10.719 their genders. 42 00:02:10.400 --> 00:02:13.159 For care, r'mes of Ramadhani, and as mayor, I will 43 00:02:13.199 --> 00:02:15.879 create a network of city owned grocery stores. It's like 44 00:02:15.919 --> 00:02:17.560 a public option for produce. 45 00:02:17.800 --> 00:02:20.879 Also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it's 46 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:24.759 BDS right or whether it's the end goal of season, 47 00:02:24.800 --> 00:02:25.840 the means of production. 48 00:02:26.680 --> 00:02:28.800 Bad idea is and somehow a worse sweater. 49 00:02:29.159 --> 00:02:31.439 New York isn't just a city, it's a loud symbol 50 00:02:31.479 --> 00:02:35.400 of American exceptionalism. Then all kinda knew that New York 51 00:02:35.439 --> 00:02:38.879 cranks out mayors like the Kardashians crank out skincare lines, 52 00:02:38.919 --> 00:02:42.000 and each somehow manages to be more clownish than the last. 53 00:02:42.680 --> 00:02:46.080 I legitimately, miss Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He wanted to take 54 00:02:46.080 --> 00:02:46.960 away your big gulp. 55 00:02:47.039 --> 00:02:49.759 But at least the trains ran on time after running 56 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:52.280 New York City rather effectively. This is how Bloomberg was 57 00:02:52.319 --> 00:02:53.639 treated by his fellow Democrats. 58 00:02:54.159 --> 00:03:00.039 Billionaire who calls women fat broads and horse faced lesbians. No, 59 00:03:00.439 --> 00:03:03.439 I'm not talking about Donald Trump, I'm talking about Mayor Bloomberg. 60 00:03:04.199 --> 00:03:08.560 Jena Press are not going to win if we have 61 00:03:08.680 --> 00:03:13.039 a nominee who has a history of hiding his tax returns. 62 00:03:13.400 --> 00:03:18.400 Of harassing women and of supporting racist policies like redlining 63 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:20.400 and stop and frisk. 64 00:03:21.599 --> 00:03:24.319 Senator Pocahontas would like to speak to the manager enter 65 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:27.280 Zoron Mamdani. Every time I see the name, it feels 66 00:03:27.280 --> 00:03:31.039 like I'm summoning some sort of nemesis of Batman. The 67 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:33.280 scary part the gen Z crowd in New York is 68 00:03:33.319 --> 00:03:35.120 eating it up like it's free tofu. 69 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:35.840 At a Bernie rally. 70 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:39.479 Zoron is a state assemblyman from Queen's which sounds impressive 71 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:42.159 and soil you realize New York has more elected officials 72 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:44.759 than it has rats. Zoron is basically what would happen 73 00:03:44.800 --> 00:03:47.919 if AOC's tweetscrew legs put on a scarf and started 74 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:50.439 yelling about housing justice while sipping a. 75 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:51.960 Twelve dollars oat milk latte. 76 00:03:52.439 --> 00:03:55.840 He's got all the socialist swagger and probably a Spotify 77 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:59.639 playlist that's about ninety percent NPR podcasts. He's the kind 78 00:03:59.639 --> 00:04:03.439 of guy who uses the word neo liberalism in casual conversation, 79 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:06.800 saying things like this community is being oppressed by the 80 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:10.840 violence of systemic zoning. Zoron's not just here to complain 81 00:04:10.879 --> 00:04:14.280 about capitalism. He wants to abolish it, which makes sense 82 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:16.839 because if I were a socialist with a Gucci belt 83 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:19.319 living in an apartment my parents paid for, I'd want 84 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:23.439 to abolish capitalism too. The man tweeted that landlords should 85 00:04:23.439 --> 00:04:26.399 not exist. Bro, you live in a city where even 86 00:04:26.439 --> 00:04:29.560 the pigeons have landlords, Good luck with that. Let's not 87 00:04:29.680 --> 00:04:33.040 forget his grand vision a city without police, without landlords, 88 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:38.000 without billionaires, also probably without electricity, plumbing, or protein. In 89 00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:40.800 a sane world, someone suggesting we abolish the police and 90 00:04:41.000 --> 00:04:43.600 all of these things would not be taken seriously. They'd 91 00:04:43.600 --> 00:04:46.519 be politely asked to step away from the group project 92 00:04:46.560 --> 00:04:50.519 of governance. But in New York City, he's cool, he's visionary, 93 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:52.920 he's got a campaign logo that looks like it was 94 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:55.720 designed by Banksy on a sugar high. But here's the 95 00:04:55.800 --> 00:04:58.560 punchline that people who vote for Zoron don't actually want 96 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:01.240 to live in the world he is selling. They just 97 00:05:01.279 --> 00:05:03.439 want to tweet about it. They just want a virtue signal. 98 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:08.240 They're keyboard revolutionaries. They want their socialist utopia with Wi Fi, 99 00:05:08.279 --> 00:05:10.800 Whole Foods and a four point eight uber rating. 100 00:05:11.480 --> 00:05:13.680 Eric Adams is the current mayor of New York. 101 00:05:13.720 --> 00:05:17.199 He's a part time nightclub enthusiast and has been costplaying 102 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:20.360 as a centrist ever since his approval ratings started free 103 00:05:20.360 --> 00:05:22.199 falling like Joe Biden on a bicycle. 104 00:05:22.720 --> 00:05:25.680 Is Adams the best option to take on Zoron? 105 00:05:25.879 --> 00:05:29.000 Or? Is there a Cuomo resurgence? Like a phoenix rising 106 00:05:29.040 --> 00:05:31.720 from the ashes? The former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo 107 00:05:31.800 --> 00:05:34.560 lost the Democratic primary in New York, He's stayed in 108 00:05:34.680 --> 00:05:37.560 the race to run in the general election as an independent. 109 00:05:37.959 --> 00:05:40.319 So who comes out on top in this big Apple 110 00:05:40.399 --> 00:05:44.560 political hunger games? Joining us now founder of the walk 111 00:05:44.600 --> 00:05:46.120 Away campaign Brandon Strock. 112 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:48.360 So, Brandon, give us an update from the ground. 113 00:05:48.439 --> 00:05:52.360 How are you organizing activists to take on Zoron Mamdani? 114 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:55.519 Yeah, So, I actually have moved back to New York 115 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:58.240 City and with the main purpose here of wanting to 116 00:05:58.240 --> 00:06:00.519 fight this guy. Because I've lived in New York City 117 00:06:00.519 --> 00:06:02.959 for over twenty years. I love the city. I'm very 118 00:06:03.000 --> 00:06:05.399 concerned about the road that we could be going down 119 00:06:05.439 --> 00:06:08.920 if they decide to embrace putting a mayor into office 120 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:12.319 who supports democratic socialism. What I'm trying to do here 121 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:14.480 in New York is gather as many people as I 122 00:06:14.560 --> 00:06:18.680 can on the ground and actually deploy volunteers to canvas boroughs. 123 00:06:19.160 --> 00:06:21.079 I'll go to all areas of New York City, and 124 00:06:21.079 --> 00:06:23.920 we really need to be talking to black people and 125 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:26.360 Hispanic people. We need to be talking to young people 126 00:06:26.439 --> 00:06:30.360 gen z college kids and letting them know that the 127 00:06:30.399 --> 00:06:35.839 seduction of the idea of free everything from socialist policies 128 00:06:36.279 --> 00:06:38.560 might sound really great and might address a lot of 129 00:06:38.560 --> 00:06:41.120 the pain points that New Yorkers have, which by the way, 130 00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:43.160 are very real, and I want to make that very clear. 131 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:46.079 Rents are too high in New York. Life is afford 132 00:06:46.319 --> 00:06:50.240 unaffordable in New York. Groceries are unaffordable. So the pain 133 00:06:50.279 --> 00:06:52.639 points are very real. But the solutions being proposed by 134 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:55.560 Mom Donnie are not real solutions. And in fact, for 135 00:06:55.600 --> 00:06:57.560 a lot of the groups of people that I just named, 136 00:06:57.800 --> 00:07:00.360 their lives are going to become markedly worse if we 137 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:02.639 actually go down this road, and the city I think 138 00:07:02.959 --> 00:07:05.079 really could be on the verge of collapse. So I 139 00:07:05.160 --> 00:07:08.759 take this very very seriously, And in addition to deploying 140 00:07:08.839 --> 00:07:11.279 volunteers and trying to educate people all over New York, 141 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:14.600 including these different minority factions, We're also going to be 142 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:19.160 doing events all over the city, including marches, rallies, debates, 143 00:07:19.199 --> 00:07:22.040 and tabling events right on the street, including what I'm 144 00:07:22.040 --> 00:07:24.920 doing on July twenty seventh, Sunday July twenty seventh and 145 00:07:25.040 --> 00:07:28.160 Union Square. We're going to be doing a rally and 146 00:07:28.240 --> 00:07:31.839 a tabling event where we're actually going to be conversing 147 00:07:31.879 --> 00:07:34.439 with and debating New Yorkers right and one of the 148 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:37.120 busiest areas of New York, which is Union Square, to 149 00:07:37.319 --> 00:07:40.199 educate people on the dangers of socialism. And one more 150 00:07:40.240 --> 00:07:42.439 thing I'll say about that is we're inviting every mayoral 151 00:07:42.519 --> 00:07:45.279 candidate to come and attend this rally with us, and 152 00:07:45.319 --> 00:07:48.839 we've already heard from Curtis Sliwa and a couple of others, 153 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:50.360 so I think it's going to be a great event. 154 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:56.920 I would pose it that Mom, Donnie's connection with working 155 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:01.079 class voters is probably pretty instant, and if there is 156 00:08:01.120 --> 00:08:04.560 a part of his coalition that is weakest, it's those 157 00:08:04.600 --> 00:08:08.199 New Yorkers who go to work every day and actually 158 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:12.000 have that capitalist energy to make a better life for themselves. 159 00:08:12.360 --> 00:08:15.120 Do you see that as a vulnerable group within his coalition? 160 00:08:16.639 --> 00:08:19.360 I think so, But I mean I think again, if 161 00:08:19.399 --> 00:08:22.360 you're living in New York City. You know, like I said, 162 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:24.519 as I have, for a very long time, you've seen 163 00:08:24.560 --> 00:08:30.040 the city become progressively more unavailable and unaffordable to everybody. 164 00:08:30.079 --> 00:08:32.360 So you don't even have to necessarily be a working 165 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:36.000 class person anymore to find it almost impossible to get 166 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:38.679 by in New York City. So again I use the 167 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:43.200 word seductive because I do think that the solutions he's proposing, 168 00:08:43.240 --> 00:08:45.759 in the ways in which he's addressing people's pain points, 169 00:08:46.639 --> 00:08:49.679 it's I think he's making people feel like maybe there's 170 00:08:49.720 --> 00:08:51.799 a let me say, I was going to say, a 171 00:08:51.799 --> 00:08:54.080 path forward, but let me also say I think a 172 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:55.840 lot of people too have kind of gotten to this 173 00:08:55.879 --> 00:08:58.840 point where they're almost like, screw the government and let's 174 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:01.639 break the system, because people are feeling like they just 175 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:04.519 can't get ahead and they're being held down. And I 176 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:07.440 can understand why a person would feel that way if 177 00:09:07.440 --> 00:09:10.200 they're out there working two or three jobs and still 178 00:09:10.240 --> 00:09:12.279 struggling to just get by and saying, well, why am 179 00:09:12.279 --> 00:09:14.600 I trying? So I'm trying to do everything right and 180 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:17.480 I can't make it. The problem, I say again, is 181 00:09:17.519 --> 00:09:20.240 that the policies that he's putting forward are not going 182 00:09:20.279 --> 00:09:21.200 to improve people's lives. 183 00:09:21.200 --> 00:09:22.759 They're going to make things much much worse. 184 00:09:22.960 --> 00:09:26.919 And this is I think one of the most egregious examples. 185 00:09:26.960 --> 00:09:29.440 People ask me all the time, Well, you know, we 186 00:09:29.840 --> 00:09:34.039 have Alexandro Casio Cortes, we have the Squad in DC, 187 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:36.799 so you know, how is this different. I actually think 188 00:09:36.840 --> 00:09:39.120 he's more radical than the squad, and I think that 189 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:42.600 the policies he's pushing for are more radical, including the 190 00:09:42.639 --> 00:09:45.840 fact that you know, he's not just part of Congress. 191 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:49.559 He's talking about running the economic capital of i'd say 192 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:53.039 the world, certainly the United States of America. You know, 193 00:09:53.120 --> 00:09:56.320 he wants the government to control power, he wants the 194 00:09:56.360 --> 00:09:59.919 government to control housing, he wants the government to control grocery, 195 00:10:00.279 --> 00:10:02.879 and there's really no limit to what he wants the 196 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:06.120 government to not be in control of in New Yorker's lives. 197 00:10:06.200 --> 00:10:08.919 And I have no idea who he thinks is going 198 00:10:08.960 --> 00:10:11.120 to pay for all of this, especially when you know 199 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:13.720 his whole thing is, well, we're just going to overtax 200 00:10:13.759 --> 00:10:16.240 the rich. We're going to continue to tax wealthy people. 201 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:18.320 What he's calling a wealthy person as a person making 202 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:20.799 a million dollars or more a year in New York City, 203 00:10:20.919 --> 00:10:23.279 that's not that much money in New York. I mean, 204 00:10:23.320 --> 00:10:24.519 it might sound like a lot of money to a 205 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:25.679 lot of people. It's a lot of money to me, 206 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:29.360 but it's a million dollars a year. I don't think 207 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:31.600 it creates a wealthy person in New York City. It's 208 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:33.840 a very unaffordable city. So I think we're going to 209 00:10:33.879 --> 00:10:36.600 see a mass exodus from New York when he wants 210 00:10:36.639 --> 00:10:39.600 the government to be in controlled paying for everything, and 211 00:10:39.600 --> 00:10:40.919 the people who are gonna have to pay for this 212 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:43.600 are people that are really not even that wealthy. 213 00:10:43.840 --> 00:10:49.159 Imagine people fleeing New York to New Jersey for better governance. 214 00:10:49.399 --> 00:10:52.320 I would have never imagined, but may actually be on 215 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:56.159 the horizon. So, Brandon, you're an experienced political operative. How 216 00:10:56.159 --> 00:11:00.000 do we avoid winning the argument and losing the lie? 217 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:04.039 And I ask that because I see Eric Adams has 218 00:11:04.080 --> 00:11:08.320 a small cohortive voters, Andrew Cuomo seems to be in 219 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:13.080 the swan song of his career but still nonetheless running. 220 00:11:13.360 --> 00:11:16.320 Curtis Sliwa has a batch of voters who've been voting 221 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:18.559 for him to no avail for some time. 222 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:21.440 Is there any chance that that. 223 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:25.840 Will divide the majority, that you will persuade to vote 224 00:11:25.879 --> 00:11:26.759 against Zoran. 225 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:29.240 Yeah, it definitely will. 226 00:11:29.279 --> 00:11:31.120 And I mean there's going to have to come a 227 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:34.559 reckoning and very very soon where these gentlemen take a 228 00:11:34.559 --> 00:11:38.320 hard look at what the true viability is of their 229 00:11:38.360 --> 00:11:41.360 ability to be successful and that we're going to have 230 00:11:41.399 --> 00:11:43.960 to rally behind one person. I mean, that's going to 231 00:11:44.039 --> 00:11:45.799 have to happen, and it's going to have to happen 232 00:11:46.279 --> 00:11:49.600 very very soon. But in regards also to your question 233 00:11:49.799 --> 00:11:53.320 about winning the argument, you know, one thing that I 234 00:11:53.440 --> 00:11:56.919 hear we have an uphill battle as conservatives in New 235 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:59.000 York City. You know, it's been a very long time 236 00:11:59.039 --> 00:12:04.600 since conservatives have gotten behind Republican candidates. And one thing 237 00:12:04.639 --> 00:12:06.440 that is not going to help us, I think, is 238 00:12:06.600 --> 00:12:10.320 attacking this guy in this sort of alarmist state. I 239 00:12:10.320 --> 00:12:13.399 hear a lot of conservatives saying, oh, well, you know, 240 00:12:13.399 --> 00:12:16.320 he's a Muslim, he's an Islamist, he's you know, all 241 00:12:16.320 --> 00:12:19.600 these different things, and okay, that's fine. But the thing 242 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:22.600 is we have to also recognize the fact that record 243 00:12:22.720 --> 00:12:25.080 numbers of gen Z people came out to vote for 244 00:12:25.120 --> 00:12:28.759 the very first time in this primary to support him. 245 00:12:28.919 --> 00:12:31.480 They don't care, you know, So things like that are 246 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:33.720 not going to win these people over. And I also think, 247 00:12:33.919 --> 00:12:36.360 you know, he's he's got a lot of support among 248 00:12:36.639 --> 00:12:40.559 racial minorities, of course, and of course white liberals, you know. 249 00:12:40.840 --> 00:12:43.000 So I think what we have to do is not 250 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.279 focus on these sort of alarmist talking points that get 251 00:12:46.320 --> 00:12:49.279 conservatives sort of up in arms. But I want to recognize, Look, 252 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:51.120 I look at this guy. I've said this many times 253 00:12:51.159 --> 00:12:54.960 and I'll say it again. He's a charming guy. He's charismatic. 254 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:58.000 You know, I get the appeal, you know. I watch 255 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:01.240 him doing his videos and out they're interacting with people, 256 00:13:01.320 --> 00:13:02.840 and I think, you know, if I didn't think that 257 00:13:02.919 --> 00:13:06.799 his policy prescription was horrifying and his plans for New 258 00:13:06.879 --> 00:13:10.840 York City were catastrophic, I would think that this guy 259 00:13:10.960 --> 00:13:13.120 was If I met him at a party, I would say, hey, 260 00:13:13.120 --> 00:13:14.759 this is a pretty cool guy. Maybe we could hang 261 00:13:14.799 --> 00:13:17.679 out some time, maybe we could be friends. But unfortunately, 262 00:13:17.720 --> 00:13:19.960 this is a much more dire situation than that. So 263 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:22.200 I think what we have to do is not try 264 00:13:22.200 --> 00:13:24.919 to convince people that he's a terrible person. We have 265 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:27.919 to try to convince people that he has terrible policy ideas, 266 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:31.720 and while also recognizing that the issues that he's addressing, 267 00:13:31.799 --> 00:13:35.960 like the unaffordability of New York and safety issues and 268 00:13:36.240 --> 00:13:39.080 things like that. What he's trying to put forward as 269 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:42.279 policy ideas are absolutely terrible and are not going to 270 00:13:42.279 --> 00:13:44.759 make people's lives any better, you know. I mean, this 271 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:48.039 guy wants to abolish ice, he wants to defund the police, 272 00:13:48.080 --> 00:13:51.559 he wants the government to control everything in people's lives. 273 00:13:51.320 --> 00:13:52.600 It's not good. 274 00:13:52.600 --> 00:13:56.440 He wants to provide free public transportation for people. I mean, 275 00:13:56.759 --> 00:13:59.519 we already have a subway system that's subsidized by the 276 00:13:59.559 --> 00:14:03.080 government and also paid for by New Yorkers and taxpayers. 277 00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:08.000 But it's a terrible It's the most unreliable public transportation system. 278 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:10.120 And I can only imagine you put the government in 279 00:14:10.240 --> 00:14:13.639 charge completely of public transportation. 280 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:15.720 It's not gonna get better. It's gonna get much much worse. 281 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:20.879 And we wonder, in that need to avoid the splintering dynamic, 282 00:14:21.240 --> 00:14:22.960 how do you do it? I mean, you've got the 283 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:28.279 polling showing Cuomo among the non Mamdani candidates leading, but 284 00:14:28.519 --> 00:14:31.120 he's already lost to Mamdani, and so the other folks 285 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:33.759 would say, well, why would we concede to someone who's 286 00:14:33.799 --> 00:14:38.320 already lost to this person? Sliwa is in second place. 287 00:14:38.799 --> 00:14:41.960 The other two would say, well, gosh, Sleiwa has lost repeatedly, 288 00:14:42.639 --> 00:14:45.639 he's not someone who really is campaigning to win the election. 289 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:49.480 And Eric Adams is the incumbent, but he's the one 290 00:14:49.519 --> 00:14:52.559 polling the lowest of the three, and why would two 291 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:56.320 people pulling higher than Eric Adams fold in behind him? 292 00:14:56.360 --> 00:15:00.240 So with that being like the normative construct overall this, 293 00:15:00.480 --> 00:15:02.639 what do you think the odds are that you can 294 00:15:02.679 --> 00:15:06.879 have a unified force to rally these people too? Because Brandon, 295 00:15:06.879 --> 00:15:09.399 if you go out and have these rallies, organize these 296 00:15:09.440 --> 00:15:11.960 folks tables, sign people up, you have to push them 297 00:15:12.279 --> 00:15:15.279 to something, not just away from Mamdani. 298 00:15:15.399 --> 00:15:19.039 Right, Well, yes and no, But I think we have 299 00:15:19.120 --> 00:15:20.840 to do two things at the same time. I think 300 00:15:20.879 --> 00:15:25.240 we have to push them away from the magic wand 301 00:15:26.600 --> 00:15:29.720 hypnot hypnosis that I think that they're under believing that 302 00:15:29.759 --> 00:15:33.240 democratic socialism is going to fix their problems. But then yes, 303 00:15:33.320 --> 00:15:35.440 I think that we have to somehow find a candidate 304 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:38.000 that we can all get behind. And again, it's going 305 00:15:38.080 --> 00:15:40.840 to require some teamwork, it's going to require people putting 306 00:15:40.840 --> 00:15:43.159 their egos aside, and I think doing what's best for 307 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:44.000 New York City. 308 00:15:44.399 --> 00:15:45.240 I don't think we're there. 309 00:15:45.279 --> 00:15:47.759 It's a city of egos, isn't New York like the 310 00:15:47.799 --> 00:15:49.840 place nobody puts their ego aside? 311 00:15:50.759 --> 00:15:53.799 Well, our president I think hails from New York City, 312 00:15:54.519 --> 00:15:58.840 and he's certainly got a big personality to be mayor. 313 00:15:58.879 --> 00:16:00.120 I don't think you're going to be able to talk 314 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:02.919 him into the mayoral race. I don't think does Adams 315 00:16:02.960 --> 00:16:03.840 have a prayer in this thing? 316 00:16:03.879 --> 00:16:04.200 Brandon? 317 00:16:04.279 --> 00:16:05.720 Are you do you really look at I mean, Eric 318 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:09.240 Adams is down in single digits. Every one of his 319 00:16:09.559 --> 00:16:11.559 political events looks like one of the scenes from the 320 00:16:11.559 --> 00:16:15.200 movie Coming to America? Is this guy actually running a 321 00:16:15.240 --> 00:16:16.159 credible campaign? 322 00:16:17.679 --> 00:16:19.480 I think there's a lot of work to be done. 323 00:16:19.519 --> 00:16:21.960 But I look, I wouldn't be doing what I'm doing 324 00:16:22.039 --> 00:16:23.919 right now if I didn't think that there was a 325 00:16:23.919 --> 00:16:26.399 solid chance that we can overtake this mom Donnie guy. 326 00:16:26.480 --> 00:16:28.919 I don't know at this point who is going to 327 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:30.919 drop out of the race so that we can sort 328 00:16:30.919 --> 00:16:34.320 of coalesce and I'll get behind somebody with a solid 329 00:16:34.399 --> 00:16:36.200 chance and try to create a united force. 330 00:16:36.440 --> 00:16:38.240 But I know, showing up at your events, do you 331 00:16:38.440 --> 00:16:39.200 what do they want? 332 00:16:39.279 --> 00:16:41.960 Like the people who are showing up not to argue 333 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:45.320 with you, but because they're waking up. They're hearing your 334 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:49.799 call to get involved in save Gotham from the socialist villain. 335 00:16:50.600 --> 00:16:54.279 Do you you know, are they coming with that singular 336 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:56.120 focus or do you have some sleeve. 337 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:59.240 What people come? Some Cuomo people come, and some Adams 338 00:16:59.240 --> 00:16:59.720 people come. 339 00:17:00.360 --> 00:17:03.080 Well, there's people from all over the political spectrum. And 340 00:17:03.080 --> 00:17:05.319 that's what I'm actually telling people too. Look, I don't 341 00:17:05.359 --> 00:17:08.240 even care if you're a current Democrat, if you're a 342 00:17:08.279 --> 00:17:11.839 registered Democrat who loves the Democratic Party. All I'm asking 343 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:16.039 for is for people to recognize that opening the door 344 00:17:16.079 --> 00:17:18.400 to socialism in New York City, that's a door we 345 00:17:18.440 --> 00:17:21.039 haven't really opened before. And once, I think, once we 346 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:23.240 take the lid off that box, we can't put it 347 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:25.839 back on. So I'm asking people, Look, you don't have 348 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:28.519 to abandon your party, you don't have to abandon your principles, 349 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:30.480 but you have to take a hard look at what 350 00:17:30.519 --> 00:17:33.319 we're talking about doing here and recognizing that this is 351 00:17:33.359 --> 00:17:35.559 a step farther than we've ever gone before. And I 352 00:17:35.599 --> 00:17:39.640 think it's a very catastrophic step. Who shows up at 353 00:17:39.680 --> 00:17:41.759 these events, it's all kinds of people. I mean, we have, 354 00:17:42.119 --> 00:17:46.559 you know, former Bernie Sanders supporters, we have former AOC supporters, 355 00:17:46.559 --> 00:17:49.640 and then of course we have everyone in between, centrist people, 356 00:17:49.680 --> 00:17:52.200 moderate Democrats, former Democrats, and then. 357 00:17:52.079 --> 00:17:53.440 Of course there are people on the right. 358 00:17:53.599 --> 00:17:56.519 Some people you know, love Trump, some people are more 359 00:17:56.559 --> 00:18:00.279 traditional Republicans who maybe aren't totally behind the Magamus movement. 360 00:18:01.160 --> 00:18:06.039 I'm not trying to push any particular policy idea or 361 00:18:06.119 --> 00:18:08.720 political party. What I'm trying to do is bring people 362 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:12.119 together across the spectrum to say, let's all rally together 363 00:18:12.400 --> 00:18:15.799 to not open the door to democratic socialism in New York, say. 364 00:18:15.519 --> 00:18:19.799 Gotham, like say superhero Brandon Strock has gone to Gotham 365 00:18:19.880 --> 00:18:21.799 to save the city, and we wish you well on 366 00:18:21.799 --> 00:18:23.839 that mission. Safe, stay safe when you're out there in 367 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:25.839 Union Park. You can get a little dicey sometimes. 368 00:18:26.359 --> 00:18:27.920 Thanks Matt, I appreciate that. I just want to tell 369 00:18:27.920 --> 00:18:31.000 everyone quickly. July twenty seventh, one pm, Union Square, Please 370 00:18:31.039 --> 00:18:33.240 be there. 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