Nepo red diaper baby teaches squatting | Hour 2

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She is the daughter of a famed music studio owner who recorded rock legends like David Bowie, The Ramones, Blondie, Lou Reed, Sonic Youth, the Foo Fighters, and Coldplay. NEPO Baby is Tracy Rosenthal. Her daddy took her to multiple Grammys. She literally walked the red carpet as a as a kid, while framing herself as a champion of the proletariat. Tracy Rosenthal grew up in a trendy one point seven million dollar pad with elite access to the music industry, attending the Grammys at least twice with her father, four time Grammy winner Stephen Rosenthal. Her father recorded hit albums by some of the world's biggest artists at the Magic Shop that is, the Soho studio that he founded in nineteen eighty eight, including Coldplay's two thousand and eight Viva La Vita, which sold more than ten million copies, The Foo Fighters Sonic Highways, and he was interviewed in the band's HBO docu series. Also, he did Bowie's final album, Blackstar. Yet, despite her first class upbringing, she's been on a four year rent strike since she moved back to New York City after a stint in Los Angeles. Why is she on a rent strike? Apparently she moved into this apartment in New York City and saw cockroach twenty three hundred dollars a month Bedford sty apartment, two bedroom Twenty three hundred dollars for a two bedroom apartment in Bedford sty like in New York and she saw a cockroach, which I think, like I think they were the indigenous owners of the land, you know, like you're just in their habitat in New York City. So she spotted a cockroach and complained about it. She claims the landlord refused to hire an exterminator. And by the way, I have lived in an apartment complex that had cockroaches, terrible, hated it. I bought bombs and I bought the tablets, and like I cleaned that place. And they and the landlord did not do like they just had like one guy. They had, like a maintenance guy who was like twenty and he would just like come in and throw a tablet under the oven, you know, a bait trap or whatever. That's it. Like I so, I basically and here's the thing about living in an apartment they all, basically every single apartment building's probably got some level of pest in it. All you're interested in doing is pushing them out of your unit into somebody else's. That's the tactic. That's all you can hope to do. You can set up like the perimeter. I got the diatamacious earth stuff and I was I poured down. I made like this whole barrier, Like what is it like the voodoo thing where you like make a circle and then they can't get you. Like, that's what I did around the entire perimeter of the apartment. So that's what a normal person would do. But to this little baby bolshevik, no, what she does is go on strike, a rent strike. So she apparently after finding out the building had more rental units than were legally approved and was facing foreclosure, she organized with the other tenants to stop paying rent, stiffing the owner of at least one hundred eight thousand dollars on just her unit alone, and it was successful. The landlord lost the building to foreclosure. In twenty twenty three, the landlord ad De Tunji Akimboboye, an immigrant who owned the building, lost the building to the kami. This is and by the way, this kami literally wrote a book teaching other people how to be squatters, because that's what she is. That's what she's doing. She's squatting. And they have held conferences and panel discussions to teach people of the tactics. US Bank now owns this woman's building in the foreclosure, and US Bank is now suing her along with four other tenants for eviction, saying that they have squatted upon the premises. Rosenthal wrote a book in twenty twenty four called Abolish Rent. It lays out the playbook of escalating tactics she used herself, starting with talking to neighbors to identified to identify shared grievances, and then making collective demands all the way up to rent strikes, which is just refusing to pay the rent, with the broader goal of shifting control of housing away from the people who owned the property and to the people who rent it. Because this is an injustice. How dare you collect tribute? She calls it. You're collecting tribute from me in this monthly ritual where I have to hand over this money for a basic necessity of life. By the way, shelter is like there's no there's no guarantee to that, Like you're born without that, Like clothing, Like this is the point, Like you get to be a wealthy society and then you can afford clothing, supplies of food, and water, shelter, Right, these are the benefits that come with actual progress. The more inflammatory techniques that she pushes include camping outside of a landlord's home, shaming them publicly in front of their neighbors, friends and family, so protesting at their houses, leaving really bad Yelp reviews, and at one point she crashed a landlord's daughter's wedding in Beverly Hills in twenty twenty three. Crashed the daughter's wedding. By the way, she has posted death to America the night that Mamdani clinched the Democrat primary. She's a visiting scholar at the City University of New York, and she put these tactics into practice as a strategist and a high profile battle involving renters across ninety three New York City buildings owned by Pinnacle Group, the focus of Mamdanie's taxpayer funded mini doc released this week. She helped tenants organize into a union that secured repairs and had millions of dollars in back rent forgiven after the bankrupt landlord sold its portfolio in the Bronx and Brooklyn because that's the point to seize the properties, so they owned them, they didn't build it. That's why I say this entire ideology, it's envy, greed, it's parasitic, It cannot survive unless it is leeching off of something else that was productive and built something. She's a spoiled rich white girl, LARPing as an oppressed socialist and bankrupted an immigrant landlord. How very on brand for the DSA. All right, For over a year now you've heard me talking about Create a Video. Great local company in mint Hill that has helped more than two million families preserve their memories by turning old photos, VHS tapes, film reels and slides into lasting keepsakes. Now creative videos helping families and groups create brand new memories while they're traveling. 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It's those those landlords, those dirty landlords, the landowners, you know, got to got to take those people out, which is that's very on brand for commies, Okay, it's that's always what they attack landlords literally throughout history. So he's been tracking them for a while. And they do a lot of panel discussions and such a lot of training sessions, right, and so they talk about this stuff in their conferences. They just did one. It was the People's Forum. This is the Devil Roy Singham operation, dark money group, the People's Forum. Singham is the over in Shanghai who is funding all of the like pro communist Chinese propaganda, funding a lot of the quote unquote grassroots activism on the left, also anti data center campaigns. Okay, that's the People's Form. So they're at this conference, People's Form conference, and listen to let's see here here she is. This is Tracy Rosenthal. A compilation of some of her comments. You know, we make this rent payment effectively at the barrel of a gun, living on rent strike, right, Like getting to experience having your housing without having to pay for it is one of those like liberatory is a liberatory vision of homes to call it a housing crisis. Specifically, OBSTU scapes the power relationship between landlords and tenants, right, and that power relationship is one is inherently one of exploitation and domination. See exploitation inherently Right, you got to tear down the whole system. It's inherently exploitative and dominating. That's the inherent nature of a landlord tenant relationship. That's how they view this. Not that you have property that you are willing to rent to somebody so they can use it. No, it's not that, you know, two people are voluntarily entering into an arrangement where one is willing to pay somebody for the use of their domiciles. No, no, no, it's not voluntary. This is exploitative and dominating. So we just don't pay rent. At the book launch at the People's Forum, here's a compilation, you're going to hear Tracy Rosenthal. You're also going to hear her co author. It's like Leonidas VCS or something, and he's a tenant union activist. Our book is called Abolished Rent. And one of the ways that we describe what that might be is a permanent in general rent strike and why do we have to do it right? Well, we pay rent at the peril of our need and at the barrel of a gun. My landlord is us bank. It's like the bank owns the building because they well, long story, they got it back at the auction after we sabotaged it because they said that they the person who bought it paid too little. So immlutely we go in there with the community. We break the pipelooks in the garage, We take all their stuff, put it back in the apartment, find the stuff in the trash we collected. It's not just about tenants and the relationship to a landlord. It's about the construction of territory. And as we built territory, it's about the construction of a space so we can when we have a war, we have a territory to the fin. You know, I think it's really clear that like rent itself, this power relationship, that this monthly tribute that we have to fork over to people already richer than us to pay for our human need for a home. Right like that, that itself is the crisis. What are the other forms of direct action that we can use alongside our strike, like reputational damage, the kind of raising the social cost of showing up at someone's the site of someone's home. I mean in the movement, we often say, like eviction displacement is personal for us, it should be personal for our landlords too. In this time, right when capital itself is reorganizing around speculation and the reordering of place. Sixty five percent of the world's wealth is held in real estate, and seventy five percent of that is in housing. So what is the like really revolutionary potential of a tenant movement to break down and redistribute that horde of wealth that is stored in the places where we live. We have to take what all of our territory, transform. That and treat in such a way that we can't take care of each other and take care of each other's needs. Of course, the state is gonna come after us, So then we have to build a defense, and we have to build the mechanisms. But you can only do that by taking over territory. Constructing territory. We have to form the organizations that make that possible. We have to form the organizations that defend that hold people themselves themselves and to help people build what is needed to be done in this country. There you go. So we have to take territory, construct our spaces. But he talks about like cutting through padlocks, like if they're evicting people, whatever, it's like to damage the property, to take over the property, to take to steal it. That's what they're talking about. You have to hold the territory in war, you have to defend territory. And so they look at this property as theirs, but they don't own it. They don't own the property. They have no responsibility in that regard. Be very careful if you own property, be very very careful who you rented to. Let us mosey on over to the text line. This is from Allen. Oh no, sorry, this is from Marie, the nice Marie. Do we have it? Do we have a mean Marie? Oh? Yeah, we do, don't we? Anyway? The nice Marie says, what are these COMMI kids going to do when there is nobody left to leach off of? Well? I think at a lot of the people in the DSA, particularly the leadership, I think a lot of them are trust funders. These are luxury beliefs, right, These are the NEPO babies of elites, and they're downwardly mobile. In other words, they're not succeeding at the cultural and economic level that their parents did, and so they have resentment towards the system. Right, Greg says, she is stealing from the owner's family precisely, and that's what communism is all about. Robin, I hang on, there's another message here, Robin says. Of course, of course they think it's exploitative and dominating because they don't want to participate in a fair exchange of goods. They want to take things that don't belong to them, so they make up new words for old systems that are working just fine for people who want to work and earn their way in this country. And furthermore, I love how they accuse us of what they're doing to us. Their behavior is exploitative and domination. The hell In says, what's scary about Rosenthal is I think she is a true believer. Yeah, she does come across as a true believer. Jeff with a G says, God help the poor property or that ends up with one of these cycle paths as a tenant. Yeah, like I've got to believe, But you know, when they do background checks and such like if you're a landlord, like you probably want to start, you know, I don't know putting that in people's files or something like, do not rent to this person, they will steal your property. Steve is wondering how they decide, how the tenants decide which rental properties go to which individuals. I have a human right to that penthouse, right, So I don't know, Like when you're sitting you're sitting around in the collective, Yeah, Like how do you vote on who gets the nicer units? You know what happens if somebody has a nice unit and someone else doesn't have a nice unit and they want the nice unit, And how do you adjudicate that? Do they just? Can you go? Like can you go and squat in a fellow squatters unit? Yeah? I don't know. So many questions. Stu Smith at The City Journal says the best way to understand the tenant organizing movement is through its most influential manifesto called Abolish Rent. How Tenants Can End the Housing Crisis by Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilschutz. The authors argue that tenants should become the quote architects of a long term project of expropriation, stealing through which that hoarded wealth becomes shared by us, all by means of militant organizing, strategic litigation, and coordinated pressure campaigns. The book has gained widespread attention in activist circles, appearing on a Democratic Socialists of America recommendations list and serving as the focus of DSA's nationwide Abolish Rent reading group see. And this is why this story is important because this, you know, this little Commi Moonbat is up in New York City and she's working with the Mamdani administration on this. However, you have to keep in mind that she is training and her co author like they are training tenant activists all over the country to do this kind of stuff to steal properties. They have pioneered this, these escalatory tactics, this escalating strategy with the Los Angeles Tenants Union, which they co founded. They camp out on the lawns of property owners, they leave negative reviews for their other businesses, or even disrupt private gatherings. And I mentioned that she and her allies sought to punish a landlord by crashing his daughter's wedding in twenty three. New York City's DSA Housing Working Group held an event at the Manhattan based People's Forum, and this is the Nevilroy Singham One. It's an organizing center with links to the Chinese Communist Party. You heard people like Nicolas Vargas DSA member, Esteban Geron DSA member, Holden Taylor DSA member, and then panelists Sabrina Basil or Buzzy, who had just finished nearly five years working for the New York City Department of Housing, Preservation and Development. She's an urban planner who describes her politics as rooted in decolonial, anti liberal, abolition and even degrowth thought. She said she saw it as her duty to move toward revolution from within the government. The panel's moderator was elated at this description and invoked the Italian Marxist Antonio Graham She's long march through the institutions and added that people working in quote the belly of the beast have a duty as a government worker to take that poop down to destroy it. See like when I talk about Antonio Graham, she and I've talked about the long march through the institutions. I was just telling you, like, this is what the Marxist strategy is and has been for decades. They write about it, they talk about it like this isn't some as a you know, our friend Mike you know, kind of accused me of like, oh, I'm just like trying to fear monger and all the commies are coming as a red scare, McCarthyism and all of this. Now they're saying this, and they are ascendant. They are rising in prominence and in power. They are knocking off all of these Democrat candidates in the primaries that will they win the generals. Some of them will, some of them won't, but some of them will, and then they're going to embed themselves. This is how they are operating, and they're telling us this is how they operate. I'm not making this up. I've got a couple more audio clips as well. Fella named Will Lawrence. He won a primary in a swing house district in Michigan. There was a three way fight in the Democrat primary and he emerged victorious. But he's not a DSA member any longer because he let his membership lapse last month. This is what This is what he told CNN's Manu Raju that I'm not a DSA member anymore. Oh well, when did that happen? Oh? Last month, I just didn't I didn't re up my membership, which that me thinking, do you have to pay to be a member? Is it like that kind of a membership deal? Do you have to like is there an annual fee that you have to contribute? Like that sounds exploitative and dominating? Does it not an annual fee to be a member of the of the Revolution? All right? So this is Will Lawrence who won a critical Democrat primary in a swing House district in Michigan, and whether or not he was asked whether or not he can bring Democrats together and appeal to swing voters when he's got such you know, commy crazy views. This is a swing district Democrats desperately want to flip the House. But last night you won the primary with less than forty five percent of the vote, meaning most Democrats voted actually for someone else. Isn't that a position of weakness heading into the general election? No, that's strength. Thanks for having me on ANU. We're feeling very strong. We actually built a coalition across every county in the seventh district, and we performed very well here in the Lansing area. But we also won Livingston County, where a lot of people said we would struggle. We won Eton County, and we really put up impressive margins throughout the district. So I'm confident about our ability to move into the general election and take on Tom Barrett, who has done nothing but raise the cost of healthcare for Michigan families while voting for these disastrous wars that are hiking the cost of gas and groceries. But Mishel Lawrence, you've called to abolish ice at one point, and at one point, although you've walked it back, you called for defunding police, and you ran an organization that essentially helped develop the Green New Deal. I'm wondering about these very progressive positions and if you're concerned that they could turn off some swing voters in a district that Trump carried in twenty twenty four. Now, we're building this campaign on face to face conversations with voters across the district who are sick of corporate funded candidates and they're looking for someone who is real and is going to fight for the working class against these billionaires in Silicon Valley and Wall Street. So we're finding tons of common ground on issues like stopping AI data centers, stopping these stupid wars around the world, and investing in housing and healthcare that we can actually afford and count on. And those are issues that are bringing together Democrats, Republicans, and independents in every corner of this district. So you have the support of Bernie Sanders, but you're not running as a Democratic Socialist. But you were once a member of the Democratic Socialists of America. When did you leave that organization and what drove you away? I let my membership lapse because I just want to make very clear that I'm here to represent the people of this district and focus on the issues that are bringing people together. And we just want to stay laser focused on these issues that we're hearing concern about all across the seventh district. The cost of housing, the cost of health care, and. Again cost of how cost of healthcare, cost of college education, right, all three sectors that the government is heavily involved in. Right, you look at sectors and industries and businesses where there is very minimal government intervention, that's where you see affordability. But their answer is always more government. So he led his membership lapse, and yes, I had these crazy positions when I was, you know, youthful indiscretions when I was a member of the DSA. Let it lapse, though, So there wasn't anything that drove him out of the party. He's just laser focused on the things the DSA is also laser focused. On gasoline and groceries, and the fact that we have criminals, frankly in government who are getting rich on the public expense and there's no accountability. So we're here to unite the seventh District by beating Barreed in November. So when did you leave the Democratic Socialist of America. It was within the last I let my membership laps. I've got a lot of respect for DSA and the work that they're doing around the country, but I've felt a need to make it very clear that the platform we're running on here is the one that has come up based on the conversations we're having across the seventh District. So, did you let that membership expire because of the general election? No, it's just because I want to make clear to my constituents that I'm here to represent them and my one and only job is to is to represent the people of the district by stopping these AI data centers, stopping these wars around the world, investing in the life we can actually afford. But where do you differ from the Democrats? So Source of America. You know, I don't want to comment on any I'm happy to comment on any particular policy if you're of interest. But the point is is that no, I'm an organizer and coalition builder, and we are laser focused here on. My talking point. My gosh, he's just running a script. He sounds like all of the other DSA candidates, and there's a reason why. It's because they are actually running the same script. The medicare for all stuff, right, housing, affordability. They don't tell you what they want to do, except you know when they do tell you what they want to do, and then you see it in action in New York City where they're like abolish rent sees all of the buildings and put nonprofits and government in charge. There's an account on Twitter Jarvis Best very worth of follow usually writes funny things, but he took the time to describe a problem that he calls the Overton poisoning. You've heard of the Overton window. Right when the Left were outsiders. They were obsessed with this thing called moving the Overton window. Right, where like things that were not accepted to talk about, or topics that were fringe or whatever, you move the window, and then things that previously you cannot talk about you now can talk about. Right. It meant that they would stake out radical positions, not because they genuinely believed in those positions, but be cost the very act of calling for those positions would broaden the scope of debate and increase the odds of a favorable compromise being enacted. In other words, they didn't actually want the radical positions they advocated for. They wanted the leftward compromise. Right, So when they said abolish police, they didn't really mean abolish the police. They meant weakened the police. You see, we're just shifting the window. But then these lunatics started getting funding and running candidates with an actual chance of winning. This is why every new leftist politician has to delete all of their old tweets. It's also why when the journalists them how society would even function without police, they start babbling like hobo's. They have no answer because it was never a real position. It was just a momentarily strategic position. Radicals give cover to moderates to move further left while appearing to be centrist, because hey, at least I'm not as radical as those guys over there. It's all deeply cynical and conniving. But the problem with the Overton window moving strategy is that in the long run it results in the Overton poisoning, symptoms of which include, you lie so much and so radically and for so long that nobody knows what you actually believe anymore. Number two, you run for office and you have to explain why you said all of that crazy stuff. Then you have to say, well, what changed your mind? And this guy couldn't do it, Will Lawrence, he couldn't do it. I'm happy to get into specific policies if you want to, but like, well he did just ask you, like, where do you differ from the DSA that you were a member of until about a month ago. Another symptom of the poisoning when you start winning elections, your base feels very betrayed because you start governing like the moderate. We could get off this lunatic roller coaster anytime if people would just be honest. But I don't think it's going to happen. Yeah, And the ones that are honest, those are the ones like that. For some reason, they seem to race towards the cameras like this Megan Romer dsa CoA chair, which she's just like, Yep, abolish police, yep, absolutely destroy the Senate. All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. 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