Speed-running the revolution | Hour 3

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It's true. That's true. I totally forgot they are Bogatas, right, not Bodega's. That was a, Yeah, she actually said that on a stump speech, remember her, Doctor Jill, I do have a bunch of text messages on the text line about this, about the grocery store plan, the nationalization of grocers, because again, you can't have a good Marxist uh utopia without breadlines, so that it makes total sense. Why zoron Mom Donnie, would you know, rush so quickly to get these things up and running because they are such a feature of Marxist economies. So we covered that last hour and I mentioned, you know, that's the food part of the equation. Marx is always trying to get at the means of production on the food. And then they also because you know, these are things that people need obviously, so if you can you can get the food supply, and then the other part of that is shelter. So if you can get both of these things, then you really you squeeze people. And then what are they going to do? Right? Like if the government is running the store and you're not happy with the product line being offered or whatever, it's like, okay, well what are your options here? Like they're taking tax dollars to fund and heavily subsidize the grocery store. They're undercutting all of the private stores in the vicinity, and so they go out of business. And now you're left with one option. And if the service is terrible, if the food is terrible, if the selection is terrible, what are your options? You now have to go farther away. And who suffers the most are the people who cannot actually travel farther away to get the other products. And that's always the way this stuff plays out. But again, this is mandatory, this is required in Marxist economies. The company that they're bringing in to manage the first thirty million dollar building grocery store is a company called Yellow Banana. And I don't know why it's called that, but the good Jeff on the text line says, this is a very fitting name. Actually, you think about it. What is the communist nation or country called? It's always what a banana republic? That's so true, Jeff, I totally didn't even see that. I bet almost none of the citizens got that message. Early on, the Hellion says I used to never hear grocery until two years ago. Yeah, I mean I call it supermarket also grocery stores supermarket. Usually I just say you know, I'm going to Harris Teeter's. That's usually what I say. We're going food shopping. Margins are tough at grocery stores. We have food City up here. They are awesome. Okay, I read that one already, Seth says Pete. The reason that Kami's think there's such a problem with groceries is because their moms started making them pay for groceries instead of just eating whatever they find, eating whatever they want when they finally came up from out of the basement. Now, yeah, I mean that may be true, Like you grow up. As I have said many times, right, the revolution is led by the children of the upper middle class. Right, these. They come from the halves, not the half nots, and they are accustomed to a certain standard of living. And this traces back through every one of these communist revolutions, and it traces all the way back to Karl Marx himself read a biography about that guy. I mean, he was just a terrible person, just a mooch. Also, he had some really gross like he didn't shower, he refused to shower and stuff just anyway. He he would mooch off his family and when they finally cut him off. He was mooching off of angles, just mooch off of anybody. He demanded somebody else fund his lifestyle, which consisted of, you know, writing and going down to the bar and getting drunk like that's like, that's what his life was. And so when you are finally forced to have to actually trade your time and labor for currency that will then allow you to purchase all of the beer that you want to consume, he didn't think that was fair. How dare these capitalists make me work? That's really what this is about. It's a very materialistic kind of system. It's always about the material stuff. Now they're dressing it up. And by the way, the issue is never the issue. The issue is always the revolution. And they swap out things depending on whatever the flavor of the modern era is. And so now you hear them talk about, you know, affordability. That's how they're talking now. It's all about affordability. We care so much about the poor and all of this, right, that's a cover all of the way they sell it, and this is true throughout all of these revolutions. They sell it in a way that is attractive to themselves but also gives them moral superiority, a feeling of moral superiority. Right, But it's always anti uh West, Like, that's what's at the heart of this. It's anti Western. That's the feature here. That's why I hear them talk about affordability. And meanwhile they're they're going after you know, rich people. And I've got this story too about the about the hit list, basically that mom Donnie just published. He docked people like almost a million New Yorkers, put their names and addresses out there for everybody to see, including a lot of wealthy actors and people of the arts community, you know, these wealthy patrons and stuff. They got docs too. Those are the useful idiots, you see. And again this is always the same trajectory in all of these revolutions, the useful idiots, you know, they have to be sacrificed because when you're no longer useful, well now you're just an idiot. Right. So he's won his election. And so now what he initially promised, Oh, we're only going to go after like thirty thousand of the richest of the riches, you know, and now it's oops, it's a million people. Let's see here, my friend Ralph wanted me to send you a message telling you about his amendments to the Constitution. Okay, all right, well thank you. To do seven oh four numbers, says Communists don't think beyond the idea that the goods are here and they just need to be redistributed. Yeah, they Communism does not exist, cannot exist without the free market doing all of the production first, because it's not about production. This ideology is not about it is not about production. It can't be because you have no market signals to tell you what to produce. I've talked about this before. Like the beauty of the free market is that it is the best system ever devised, and it isn't even really something that man created. It's just sort of the natural state. It's like, oh, I have this, you have that, let's trade like that's essentially the free market, and those are signals that are sent between those two people at that moment in time. I am willing to trade you this thing for that thing because right now I want that thing or need that thing, and right now you're willing to trade me for this thing that I have. That's it, And there's no government planner that can ever replicate that interaction that transaction across hundreds of people at every moment of every day. The market signals are overwhelming. You cannot you cannot operate that kind of a system. It's just impossible, 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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The market shifts constantly, and you have to be making deals and hustling to find merchandise, and you have to know how to get good quality. Good grocery buyers are well paid for their hard work and long hours. No New York City unionized bureaucrat will even be will be even close to capable nor willing to work the long and odd hours, so the place will be full of garbage quality stuff leftover that the wholesalers shoved to them because they can. Yeah, people in the industry are looking at this and they're like, you, guys, this is a terrible idea and you're going to fail, and it's going to cost tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of dollars. Reese says, how is this different from the three hundred million for Charlotte trying to put grocery stores in a place that there are food deserts? Why are there not stores there? Now? Usually it's because of crime. If it were financially sound, there would be stores there now. Yeah, look this, and it's the same argument with regard to the whole certificate of need in the medical field in North Carolina, the con permits basically that medical providers have to go to the state and ask permission before it opens up, like a radiology clinic. You have to prove there's a need in this area. No, you know what proves if there's a need in an area. If the business goes out of business. That's the proof. Otherwise, leave it to the people with the money who are willing to put up the money and risk it thinking that their market analysis shows that there is a demand sufficient enough to support a business, and if it is a bad market analysis, they will go out of business. And then the resources get reallocated away from the failing business towards something that is not failing. That actually is how you have progress. Bad ideas, bad service, bad implementation, or poor operations, poor quality. Right, all of those things are all signals that are translated through prices. And so when a business goes out of business because nobody wants it for whatever reason or a multitude of reasons, right, you can look at how that business failed, what were they doing, why did it fail, and say, okay, don't do that or correct that problem. Fix this thing, do it differently like this, and then maybe you'll be successful and people put risk there. Right, So here's the problem. There are rests or grocery stores near the government stores that they're trying to open in New York, and they're the ones that are now threatening to sue because they're going to get put out of business. They are running businesses. They they're competitors, and you're bringing in the government with subsidies of tens of millions of dollars. How do you compete with that? It's like sitting down at a poker table with somebody who has just limitless funds and they'll just keep pushing you off the table all the time. Like, how do you compete with that? Shane says, I had a terrible thought you might have to take one for the team and go back as they keep breaking everything while you are gone, though, I say, let it burn will keep you. Yeah, I'm this is going to be the problem too. And this is tied to the next topic that mom Donnie again promised people when he was running. Because remember, Marxism is rooted in envy. Okay, that's really what the ideology is about. Okay, it's like for all of the you know, economic theories and the class warfare, like all of the aspects of Marxism as an ideology, it is all rooted in really one thing, which is envy. And that's what this latest is with They would, I don't even know how to I don't even want to try to pronounce this. It's a French word, and so I just have like a de facto knee jerk reaction here. It's like, I don't want to try to pronounce it because it's French. But it's this they call it. It's like Pierre Atterre or something. It's spelled pied a terry, all right. It's basically second homes, okay, right, second homes. And there are a lot of people that purchase property in New York City because they do business there or whatever, and they're super rich supposedly, and they purchase some you know, condo or an apartment or whatever, and they purchase some property in New York City. So when they go to New York City for however many times a year they go, they have a place to stay. Okay, So they have these second homes, these these condos or apartments, and so mom, Donnie went to the state legislature and the governor and said give me their money, give me their money. Remember, he also wanted he wanted a wealth tax on the richie riches, and the state said no. And so this was sort of the bone they threw to him, which was, Okay, we're not going to let you do a wealth tax because that's going to chase out all of the millionaires and billionaires out of New York City and we really rely on them to balance our budget because you know, everywhere does that. Everywhere does that. The millionaires the billionaires like they are the ones that pay way more money in taxes that the governments use to then provide all the programs and services. Right, So you can't chase out the rich because if you do, you have no money to fulfill your campaign promises to everybody else. So they were like, no on the wealth tax. But here's this this second home tax. Right. So now he's running around and remember the first video he put out about this, he was standing in front of what's the guy's name, Ken Griffin, the baseball player. I think no, I'm kidding. He's like a hedge fun guy, and he had some you know, multimillion dollar condo or penthouse or something, and Mam Donnie puts out a video in front of the guy's building and he's like, hey, Ken Griffin, I'm here at your house and we're gonna hit you up for all these men. You're gonna pay your fair share in all of this. I mean, he did it with a smile, that smarmy, poop eaten smile that he's got. But that's what that was. That's intimidation. That's the threat, right, We're coming to take your stuff, envy right zorn mam Donnie's This is, by the way, a piece by Isaac Shore at The New York Post. Mam Donnie's perma smile belongs not belongs not to the friendly, well intentioned neighborhood socialist he's advertised himself as, but to a toothy, vindictive predator. The mayor rushed through his pie de te piere de te piere torey whatever tax he rushed through. This tax, a surcharge attached to second homes, valued it over a million dollars, and he's been licking his chops ever since. Spoiler, A lot more people are now on the list to have this quote surcharged than was originally thought. No, really, a government program expanded. I mean again, this is why I say, mom, Donnie is speed running the revolution here. They didn't even get the program implemented before the list blew up an included way, it's already expanded, it's already broken containment beyond its original scope, and it hasn't even been implemented at this point. From the text line, Stanley says, communism sells itself by convincing people a more equitable, government controlled distribution of less will solve the problem. Yeah, when a lot of so called poor people think it's okay to spend money on tattoos which are very expensive, and also cooking at home instead of eating out. Yeah, we covered that the eating habits eating out versus cooking at home. Yeah all right, So back to Isaac Shore's piece at the New York Post about this second home tax. He says it was a dubious, misleading prediction about a destructive policy that will be shouldered by people of much more modest means than Mamdannie would ever admit. Okay, because first it was sold as oh, it's just going to tax people's second homes worth more than five million. But now City Hall has published a list of not just the addresses that it expects to be subjected to the tax, but the names of the owners of those properties as well. And rather than it being somewhere around thirty thousand properties that was the original pitch, now it's almost a million. And what's funny here, Mark Penn, who was the Clinton polster guy, he put up a post welcome to socialism. Mayor Mom Donnie with fanfare, released a list of nine hundred and sixty thousand owners in a searchable database by the way of Real Estate and New York City that have been determined they could owe the tax because New York City computers have determined they own what was billed as a market value of five million or more, nine hundred and sixty thousand owners. There's only about a million. Residential tax lots in New York City, so basically like every owner got put on the list. The idea of the tax was to create massive taxation without representation. The people being taxed are non residents. By definition, they don't vote, and so the political genius was to create and discriminate against a class of people who do not vote. That by itself might be unconstitutional. And they also don't use schools, they don't use much of the garbage service, They actually don't use much of any city service, so taxing them actually makes little sense as you drive away people who were contributing but not using very many services at all. With a million people on the tax hit list, welcome to the lie of socialism. It starts with the idea that only they are going to get it. Only they are being targeted, and before you know it, you are on the list. Now, the Mamdani administration has already sent letters. They have privately informed the relevant homeowners of their impending fate. So what Praytel was the purpose of outing them publicly on this database, on this website. Why would you do that if you already sent them all letters, Isaac Shore says. The obvious yet disturbing answer is that the mayor wants to punish his targets for the crime of investing in his city by opening them up to intimidation, harassment, and maybe even some acts of violence. It's reckless to the point of being unfit for office. He's turned these people into political punching bags. After all, the far left movement from which he hills is an increasingly violent one. It was only a little over a year and a half ago that Luigi Mangioni allegedly murdered United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in cold blood in Midtown and in the name he did so in the name of the same toxic ideas that Mam Donnie is peddling as well, the same class warfare crap. Right, So why would you put out these names? What's gonna happen? By the way, wasn't there an actress that was also stalked and murdered by some deranged quote unquote fan in New York a couple of years ago. Because they are famous people who live in New York and they just got outed. Their addresses and names just got outed too. Why would you stay there? Why would anybody live there? And people are thinking like, why would mom Donnie be doing this and chase the people away and all of this. How is this going to better the lives of the people of New York. That's not the point. That's not the point. The point is the destruction. It's very clear to me the guy's ideology is anti Western. He has rapped about it, he has talked about it for years. He grew up steeped in this Marxist clap trap. Both of his parents. He has espoused these same views himself. So people are like, oh, I don't understand. You know, he says he wants to improve the lives of the working people and affordability, and that's all of that is the sales pitch. That's just the window dressing. At the heart of it, as is at the heart of all of the DSA garbage, is anti Americanism. It's anti Western envy across the board. So all these policies and like, oh my gosh, it's going to destroy the grocery sector, it's going to destroy the housing market. And the couple this with the rent control stuff that he's doing and the taking over of apartment buildings and who's going to want to own property? Yeah, that's the point. That's the point. It's to destroy the financial capital of America. It's very clear to me he's not interesting it in actually improving the city. That's not the point. So then there is another piece here. Eli Albrecht. He is a lawyer. He does mergers and acquisitions for Gibson Dunn law firm. And there's another story about there's an Advisory Committee on the Judiciary in New York City. An advisory committee on the judiciary, and apparently this committee recommends, you know, stuff in the judicial system. I guess, you know, judges or policies and that sort of stuff. And there are eighteen members on this advisory committee. And this week Mom Donnie announced his eighteen member advisory committee and the committee was promised to be quote truly reflective of New York City. Okay, do you want to take a guess. What what type of person was not represented on the advisory committee? If you had to take a guess, if Mom Donnie's got a group of people that's going to be giving him advice on the judiciary appointments and that sort of stuff, if you had to pick a class of people that he would not want to hear from. What class of people do you think that would be? If you guessed Jews, you are correct, No Jews on Not a single Jewish person on the advisory committee. Now, why is that important? Jews are a pretty large population in New York City? Is that a coincidence from the guy who refused to denounce the globalize the Intifada, from the guy who you knows and went to the mosques of nine to eleven apologists and such campaigned with us on Piker, Like, is that really a surprise here, people? Is that a coincidence that he just happened to overlook like a million Jews in New York City to represent the New York City, to reflect New York City and its population. Not one of the eighteen people for the committee is Jewish. No Jewish attorney, former judge, law professor in a city where one out of every eight residents is Jewish, So one out of eight, you would think there would be like two, just if you're doing it like by population, you would think there'd be two. Even Justice John Levinhal, recommended by the state's chief Judge, was rejected. It is estimated that over fifty percent of the New York bar, so the lawyers, more than fifty twenty percent of the lawyers in New York are Jewish. So what are the chances of him not picking a single Jewish person for this advisory committee? Point zero zero zero four. That's the chance of not having a single Jewish person on the eighteen member body. Why is that important? Glad you asked, I will tell you in a moment. Eli Albrecht, lawyer at Gibson Dunn, a law firm does mergers and acquisitions, And he was pointing out this Advisory Committee on the Judiciary in New York City, eighteen members appointed by the mayor, and the mayor came out with his list this week and there's not a single Jewish person on the list. And Jews make up like one out of eight residents in New York City. So just by way of population alone, I you would think that you would have two, right, but no, there's there're zero. And even though one of them was recommended by the state's chief judge for appointment, and even that guy got rejected, just as John Leventhal he got rejected. So why is this important? Eli Albright says one time he took he went on this trip with associates at the law firm to the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in d C. And a Holocaust survivor spoke to the group and told them something that's stuck with him. And I guess because this was a group you know, of lawyers and such, this person spoke about what happened in Germany before the Holocaust. He said, lawyers need to know the Holocaust did not begin with camps. It began when Jews were removed from institutions above all legal institutions. Judges were stripped of their robes, lawyers were disbarred. And then when law groups were juden ryne or cleansed of the Jews. Right, when the law groups were cleansed of Jews, then their replacements, non Jews, codified laws that made discrimination systematic and quote unquote legal. Right, you take control of the institution, you get rid of all the Jews, and then you weaponize it against the Jews. You remove the Jews from the institutions, and then you can discriminate against them without representation. There's nobody on that panel that's going to get discriminated against because you already discriminated against them by not putting them on the panel. That's what mum Donnie just did. It's a marginalization move. This is the same thing that he did when he put out that video the other day where he was like, Okay, look, I know I promised that I was totally going to arrest Benjamin Netton Yahoo, but it turns out I don't really have any authority to do that, which, like most people with more than half a brain, were like, yeah, we knew you couldn't do that, so why put out the video? Why put out a video where you're basically admitting that you are caving on your campaign promise, because that's what that was, Right. He promised the Jew haters that I'm going to arrest Benjamininton Yahoo if he steps foot in New York City, where the United Nations is located. Right, okay, So why would you put the video out? There was a oh ed written by Michael Goodwin, also at the New York Post. He says, mam Donnie's decision to go public with his desire to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netan Yahoo if he sets foot in the Five Burrows, but then he had to do, you know, an about face on that. So why put out the video? And he says, in effect, the video turned the limits on his power into an opportunity to remind Jew haters that he is still with them, Like, look, guys, I know I couldn't do this thing, but don't worry, I'm still one of you. That was the point. That's the message. Because again with. Mamdani, as with all of the DSA, at the core of the philosophy at the core of their movement. I should say that unifies them all. The unifying issue is anti West. That's the key principle. Everything else is just a sales pitcher, window dressing. All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. 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