Zohran Mamdani Rally

All of the real estate that is only used for billionaires, right? That they only come here, you know, one third of the time or just one day a year, just to do their little trade. All of those three-story apartments in downtown Manhattan, in midtown Manhattan, that mostly remain empty, we should take those over. The working class should take those over,

and they should give housing to all of the people.

There is an incredible housing crisis, right?

You can't afford to fucking live in this town.

Yeah.

Money that people get is not enough to pay rent.

I don't think New York City survives a Mandami victory. Crime goes up, taxes go up, people leave.

We survived Andrew Cuomo being the governor of this state. We will survive anything. And we are actually going to do more than just survive.

We're going to thrive in the city. Fuck Cuomo.

Let's go Zoran. We're going to turn this country socialist. Socialism to me means equity, not equality. Unfortunately, we're not all equal. I come from extreme privilege, yo, and I want everyone to have the same privileges that I have.

Shout out Andrew Callahan.

Y'all doing great work. and its establishment has failed us. Not only as young people, but as Americans.

New York is an incredibly wealthy city. It's the wealthiest city on the planet. Why is it that we have homeless people? Why is it that we have people without homes, people that can't afford to pay their rent? It's only because the billionaires,

this tiny, tiny minority of society,

is leeching all of the wealth.

No.

Yeah!

Let's go Cuomo!

Yeah!

Let's go Cuomo!

We must fight to keep capitalism in our country. Capitalism allows what? Freedom, free enterprise. Mamdani is for control, government control, which he talks about. He talks about not having private property.

He talks about taking back the means of production. He talks about taxing white people more than other kinds of people, government supermarkets.

Fast and free buses, universal child care, abolish the commodity form, seize the means of production,

all that good stuff.

What do you think?

I mean, he's got good pauses.

Um, he's hot.

He's Muslim and from everyone I know, I've heard is he's hung like a donkey.

He backs terrorists.

He's a jihadist.

I think there's a lot of Democrats, especially in swing districts, that shy away from issues such as free Palestine or trans healthcare or things that may seem scary, but in reality those issues and Zora not being afraid to back down is what's keeping his volunteer base here.

You know what? Fuck them. You want to do something? You want to stand up? Start riding bicycles. Buy a rabbit, kill it, eat it. You go hunting season, you go get two, three deers, you chop it up, you take it to your house, you're great. For the whole year. That's how I go against the system. I don't really know nothing about that I just play basketball all day. Have a wonderful day y'all

You guys want weed?

Hell yeah, I play a little bit of weed

Ladies and gentlemen, you're watching channel 5 My name is Andrew Callahan and this is the first installment of our New York City mayoral election coverage from a content perspective We have an action-packed schedule for you guys. From Saddam live on the streets of Brooklyn speaking to the people, to the actual infiltration of a private Andrew Cuomo sponsored young

professional luncheon in Manhattan, which by the way was hosted by the Cool Girls

for Capitalism collective. I designed the shirt shout out to Canva. It says Cool

Girls for Capitalism. I didn't love him when he was governor.

I think that he's not handled a lot of things well.

We also have a sit down interview with the 27 year old Chi Osei, who is the youngest New York City council member in city history and represents the neighborhoods of Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy. So the Cuomo and Chi Osei segments I just mentioned

are hosted by our brave and dedicated social media manager, January 6th participant, John Peter Scatini, aka the homie JP, who's been working behind the scenes at Channel 5 for four years, slicing together clips like his life depends on it and keeping the 5 train rolling forward. So shout out to Saddam and JP for their fantastic coverage.

What do you think about Sliwa?

I love Sliwa, yeah.

Please don't be glazing me here. So I'm sure some of you guys might be thinking Andrew, this is great, but why the heck weren't you there? Well compadre I was down in Mexico shooting original content with our canal Cinco Latino America Street team and documenting the festivities surrounding Mexico's glorious Independence Day.

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All right, back to New York.

Oh, sorry, hello, what's up?

How's it going?

Who'd you vote for?

Mom Donnie.

Why? but I think everything boils down to, like, an unequal distribution of wealth. And, like, any candidate that's willing to speak to an ability to make things a little bit more livable for people that are in, you know, the 99.99% of humans, I'm gonna support.

We will make buses free by replacing the revenue that the MTA currently gets from buses. This is revenue that's around $700 million or so. That's less money than Andrew Cuomo gave to Elon Musk in $959 million in tax credits when he was the governor.

He's pretty witty, you know, he puts his words together just like a nice rapper would.

Go ahead, make a rap for your daddy.

It's a rap!

Get the glass, spin the rack, put your dada in it.

He understands his linguistic communicating abilities. And he's been around like-minded individuals. I understand why he's so pressed on the concern

with our given times today.

Zoran.

Zoran.

Zoran.

Why's that? Why's that?

We need to change. We need something different. They always promise us the same old stuff, you know? So we need somebody who can relate, somebody younger, somebody who's willing for change.

I think he's running to make things different for real. Now everybody's threatened. Because why?

Because he's a Muslim. You know what? I'm not even going to tolerate this. As we all know, the New York skyline was rearranged by jihadists.

It's not just about New York City.

It's a battle for the soul of our nation. This country is about what you are, it's not who you are. It's about what you are.

Mamdani, definitely voting for Mamdani. Feel very comfortable voting for him. And it upsets me to see him being framed as a communist, as anti-Semitic. I don't think he's anti-Semitic.

He can be pro-Palestinian without being anti-Semitic. To understand Zoran's meteoric rise, which was largely carried by social media platforms and we'll want to love each other and just be able to, you know, do our own things in peace.

To understand Zoran's meteoric rise, which was largely carried by social media platforms the establishment calls Gen Z platforms, like Instagram and TikTok, it may help to understand the rise of a different New York politician who came before Zoran,

using the same tactics.

Okay, we're here.

Thank you for your time, for sitting down with us. Could we just start by you telling us your name and your position?

Sure. I'm New York City Council Member Chi Osei. I represent the 36th City Council District. That includes Bed-Stuy and Crown Heights in Brooklyn.

Before running for office at 22, Chi Osei developed a following on social media through his coverage of the BLM protests in New York back in 2020.

The Black Lives Matter movement really brought me into this world by chance. I took to the streets after, you know, the first 48 hours after George Floyd was murdered and started documenting a lot of what was happening on the ground in the streets of New York City at these protests and seeing a lot of crazy shit, right? Like police pepper spraying people and hitting people with their cars and knocking people with barricades and none of this was being documented on

You know MSNBC and CNN we were seeing a lot of looting and I was just using my iPhone to like live stream There's a lot of Instagram live back then and posting on social media and people were following and watching what I was doing and Started speaking at some of these protests just about you know a lot of the inequities within our city, especially when it came to budget matters, and started organizing with some people on the ground

who were sharing some of the same sentiments that I was. I decided to run for city council myself and ran an extremely grassroots campaign. Was 22 years old when I first launched. Ran against a 40-year Democratic establishment. Utilized very different strategies

in running a city council race. And I think we were running it, like we thought we were running for president of the United States and learned a lot in the process and ended up winning and getting elected at 23 years old.

So- And you were the youngest city councilman

in the history of the city, right?

Yeah, you know, I, there- That's at least on Wikipedia. That's what people say Like I like to claim that but there is this one dude. His name is William Rivera He was a council member up in the Bronx who I think got elected at 22. Okay But his dad was the council member before him. Okay, so like I may be the youngest council member without

Yeah, all right, yeah

Cut that right. Yeah. Cool. We'll let you claim it.

Cut that shit. Yeah. I'm the youngest council member in history.

When did you first meet Zoran?

Oh man, I think I met Zoran at like a New York Working Families Party rally post 2021 election. And I know he recently got elected as a state assembly member. And I didn't really get to know him throughout my run for office. He still was an assembly member, you know, based out of Queens.

And at the time of doing that, no one was using video in politics in the way that I was, right? It's not just your landlord. The literal government board decides how much to jack up your rent.

And you know what they decided? They want to raise your rent by as much as 16 percent. New Yorkers wages aren't even going up by 16 percent. But we still have hope. The RGB is responsive to public pressure, which is why we need to show up to the next meeting. And, you know, I started using TikTok and Instagram reels to not only like organize around the rent guidelines Board, but started using it to get people involved

in pushing a bill that I got passed called the FAIR Act, which banned forced broker fees in New York City. And it was the first time that an elected official in the city or state was speaking to people directly through these mediums that got them excited, that got them organized,

that got them to call their council members, tell them to sign on to the bills, that got people to show up to city council hearings and testify in support of these bills. Without relying on any of New York's traditional guarded media outlets, Chi was able to draw crowds of thousands of people at a moment's notice, effectively respond to criticism from the press, spread the message and get people voting with only the power of his phone. Not relying on local news stations or op-eds that no one reads, right?

Having a tool at my disposal where I'm able to change the narrative or combat narratives or create my own narratives through social media and through building an audience through that social media or through those social media platforms

was essential in passing this bill. I was pushing this bill that was being contested against by a multimillion dollar lobbying group. You know, the real estate board of New York, you know, basically runs a lot of, you know, our politicians and government within the city

really did not want this bill to pass, right? And other council members of the past and state electeds of the past tried to pass bills around this, but were never successful because of big money, because of the Real Estate Board of New York.

And I understood that going into this, whether it was them trying to threaten my colleagues for signing onto the bill, them trying to threaten my colleagues for signing onto the bill them trying to you know Frame their own narrative about how bad this bill would be for other reasons aside from the fact that they would lose money But I was given a position and built a platform where I was able to combat all of that through a device in my hands

Right and it was I was able to out organize them through through through narrative Through media and through how I communicated and people trusted me people Aided in my efforts and building a public pressure campaign that aided in getting this bill passed. I remember when there was You know after I passed the bill and whatnot. I remember when there was talk about you know, Zoran You know running for for, and we sat down,

I want to say like July of 2024. This was I think after my hearing with the bill, and then we sat down and he told me that he was deeply inspired by the social media strategy that my team has, and I have been doing for a couple years and was asking that, well first and foremost was telling me about his plan to run for mayor. And at first I was like, this motherfucker's a little crazy to be like, it was like, I mean, there was just so many other dynamics at the time and I think that's what makes

this moment so amazing, right, is that not only did he pull it off, but he really proved to all of us that this was a campaign to believe in. And he was asking for some advice on how to navigate that space. Shortly after the meeting, acting on Xi's advice, Zoran and his digital team of internet-savvy New Yorkers

put together a social media campaign that was as effective as it was simple, focusing on one keyword, affordability.

Let's talk about the housing crisis. New York City is a majority tenant town, but too often our government works for the landlords. It's time to take the power back and build housing for the many. Let's get to work.

For context, if you're watching this from, I don't know, Grand Platte, Nebraska, Manhattan is twice as expensive as any other city in the US. The average rent is $5,450 per month. Comparatively, minimum wage in New York City is around $35,000 per year. Before taxes. After taxes, it's about $25,000 per year, which is equivalent to 5.5 months of rent

in Manhattan. Of course, not everybody in New York lives in Manhattan, and most people make above minimum wage. But according to a recent Cornell University report, only 30% of New Yorkers make what's called a living wage, which means enough money to cover basic needs on top of housing, like food, health care, and transportation. Now contrast this with the fact that New York has had so-called progressive Democrat mayors in office for the past 12 years.

Because of that, I think people are waking up and seeing that those Democrats who are bought and paid for are not the right leadership that we need to not only oppose fascism and Donald Trump and the right, but show themselves as being a better alternative and bettering our lives and bettering our public institutions.

What do you think of Andrew Cuomo?

He's pathetic. He's full of shit. And, yeah, he's gonna lose really big. And I'm really excited to see him lose and never hear from him again.

What are your feelings about Cuomo?

Anyone that's gonna vote for someone that has 13 credible counts of sexual harassment is a fool. And anyone that doesn't recognize who is funding his campaign is also a fool.

Well, who's funding his campaign?

Like all of the top Trump donors. Bill Ackman is like a huge sponsor of his campaign. Just people that, again, on purpose live in the shadows because they're voting with money. They're not voting with politics.

Alex Karp of Palantir backed him up, sent some money over to him, and you know that's unacceptable, except especially with like how like Alex Carr and Palantir is all tied up in the Trump administration. We can't have that in New York City. You know, we gotta go up against that.

I think Cuomo's part of the old guard and I think we need a big change in the city.

Do you feel like Cuomo's too old or?

He's just not it at all. Cuomo, he had his time, man. He was the governor, now he wants to run for mayor. Why? Why? Because you know why? He misses that power. He misses that authority, because that's what it's about, authority.

Despite the enthusiastic energy given by some people in the streets of Brooklyn, Saddam also noticed a lot of apathy and picked up on a sense of jaded disillusionment as to the possibility of real change in the quality of life.

I don't believe anybody.

Why?

Because they all crooks anyway, they do everything for themselves anyway.

Yeah.

So, blue and white, Yankees all day.

I don't really know nothing about that, I just play basketball all day. That's all I really do. Have a wonderful day, y'all.

Cuomo or Mamdani? I don't even know man, I'm not really into that right now. Oh, alright. Sorry about that man. Cuomo or Mom Donnie?

Neither one. Everybody's for sale.

Everybody's going to get bought at that title. So no matter what you do, it's always going to be the same end result.

Yeah, because it's like everything's fucked.

So we just watch South Park and you know, it's easier to deal with life that way.

Could you ever trust any politician ever for real? Probably not.

Everybody just needs to get a little more stone.

Yeah.

Do you guys want weed?

I don't take any side. I don't take any side.

You don't take any side?

I don't take any side.

Okay.

Yet beneath the mask of nihilism came several sage tidbits of wisdom. Pain comes from a lack of understanding. Once you figure out and sit in your feelings and find clarity with the situation that you're going through,

your pain will go away because you will start to understand where it's coming from.

You got opportunities here. And if you don't take advantage of that, then I don't know what to tell you. You know? And for all these American people you want to do something you want to stand up buy yourself a bicycle Everybody this whole country start riding bicycles you get healthy you breathe better You save money on top of that start growing your own vegetables start growing your own fruits

You understand buy a rabbit kill, kill it, eat it. You go hunting season, you go get two, three deers, you chop it up, you take it to your house, you're great for the whole year. You don't need cows, you don't need chicken, all right? You don't need eggs.

That's how I go against the system. I don't eat eggs. Eggs is $10 a dozen. You know what? I could do without it. So think about it, people. This is how we're going to fight this country,

the politicians, and their decisions on what they want to do with us. We decide what we want to do with us. I decide what I do with me. Not the mayor, not the governor.

Me. It's important to remember that sometimes, no matter what's going on, whether we're on the brink of nuclear warfare or a natural disaster, a solid fraction of the population is living in their own world at all times. For real. Anyways, as the New York City mayoral race has heated up, we've seen every type of mainstream institution try and influence things one way or another.

And depending on which network you watch in the morning, you're either attending a rally for justice or participating in a leftist mob takeover of the streets. That's the thing about how major outlets frame politics right now. Narratives are crafted in boardrooms, far, far away from the people actually living the reality they speak about.

And what you're shown on TV or in the newspapers often has more to do with agenda than it does accuracy. So naturally, before me, Saddam, or JP put boots on the ground, we get informed, using what you might ask, ground news. For example, the left-leaning CNN headline about the rally reads, Mamdani rallies with Sanders and Ocasio-Cortez as Democrats close ranks around NYC mayoral

nominee. Meanwhile, the right-wing New York Post headline reads, NYC rally infuriates locals over last-minute parking ban. Completely unacceptable. Odd thing for a news outlet to be focusing on given the moment, don't you think?

But not so odd when you realize it's owned by the Murdoch family.

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or dictated by corporate interests. So check it out, stay informed, and most importantly, don't let the media tell you what to think. All right, sounds good. Back to New York City. After catching a mosaic of vibes from Brooklynites,

Saddam headed to Forest Hills, Queens, to the Zoran, Bernie Sanders, and AOC rally, where he was first met by a local communist outside, slangin' newspapers for the people.

I am a communist. Yes, I'm with the Revolutionary Communists of America. I think that a lot of New Yorkers see Zoran as a glimmer of hope in a vast political landscape which is totally barren. The fact that he is, you know, talking about affordability, he's talking about cheaper rent, he's talking about, you know, cheaper rent, cheaper grocery prices, right? I think that that is all something that is worth fighting for. The only problem is how do we actually get that, how do we actually make that happen,

right? And what we are here to say is that Zoran should decide who his enemies are and who his friends are. And we think that his enemies are the establishment democrats of the democratic party as a whole uh... who is going to try to drag him down and prevent him from actually

meeting his policies because cheaper rent means going against the landlords right it means going against the interests of quite powerful landlords in the city of uh... of new york uh... it means going against the against the grocery store capitalists, which have quite a powerful lobby. One of the grocery store bosses,

he said, I think, of Gristidis, he said that he was going to pull out of New York City if Zoran won. We would say, sure, pull out, and we will take over your grocery stores. And we will use them for cheaper groceries, and we will take over your grocery stores, right? And we will use them for cheaper groceries and we will take over the

entire food industry because that's something that can be done if the working class is organized.

And then the working class people will have no place to eat and no place to buy their food. Because the working class people, some of whom get EBT and some who don't, rely upon good grocery stores with good food, with good produce, and not the government that doesn't even know how to run a grocery store. In New York, they haven't run grocery stores,

they do have food pantries, but people need proper grocery stores with fresh, good, reliable food for themselves."

Though obviously a minority, the Cuomo supporters who did show up to the Zoran rally to protest were among some of the most vocal.

Andrew Cuomo is a lifelong New Yorker. He grew up in Queens, just a couple of miles from here. What a nice day you could walk there. He's an experienced, knowledgeable person who has brought good programs and good architecture projects

into the city and into the state. LaGuardia Airport, different bridges, the train station, and other things also over the years. No, he is not a perfect person, and neither am I. Neither is anybody. But we have choices of who is on the ballot.

And Ma'am Danny has no background, no experience, no knowledge. And he keeps doing things to incite to get different groups to be fighting one another. And I'm Jewish. Even if I wasn't Jewish, I would feel this way. He is inciting. And if you call him on any of those things, he says, oh, this is an Islamophobia. Everybody is afraid of the Muslims or doesn't like Muslims.

And Cuomo believes in bringing everyone together. I was just at a rally and that's what he spoke about.

Black, white, brown, public unions, private unions, middle class, all together fighting for fairness and justice and the values that this country represents.

Has Mamdani ever even worked in a supermarket, let alone run a supermarket? He doesn't know the first thing about food distribution, keeping fresh food on the shelves, managing the supermarket. There's a lot involved because we're dealing with public health. And the underlying assumption with all residential real estate I used to be a real estate accountant that's why I'm just not speaking off the top of my head

here is that the tenants pay the expenses in the building but the cost of everything are going up the utilities the maintenance the staff we cannot just have a rent freeze because what happens when the rent is too low the maintenance, the staff. We cannot just have a rent freeze because what happens when the rent is too low, the maintenance in the building...

Can I get a word in?

Go ahead.

Yeah, I think that what we are seeing in the city is a rent crisis beyond any scale. I mean rent has been going up year after year after year and yeah it is incredibly unaffordable, right? And I think that actually I would support a rent freeze, right? What I would support even more is capping at rent at 10%. This lady, you know, she's saying that she's worked in real estate, then you might know that there is a tremendous amount of real estate that is totally empty in the city. The amount of

commercial real estate in downtown New York is tremendous.

Let's go Brandon. Let's go, Brandon. Let's go, Brandon.

Let's go Cuomo.

I'm only supporting Cuomo because Sliwa can't win.

I respect him, but 13 is an interesting number.

I'm here as a pro-Israel anti-socialist protesting Mondani and his cohorts who have come to my neighborhood to spew their nonsense

about socialism and anti-Zionism.

He's a jihadist.

He's a Jew.

He's an American. He certainly won't denounce the jihadists, that's for sure. He's a shithole just from the place he came from.

A freaking shithole.

And he wants to spread his socialism, communism, jihadists.

Do you think people will leave if Mamdani wins? Socialism, Communism, Jihadists. Raise Palestine, you're coming apart!

Do you think people will leave if Mamdani wins?

You know what? A lot of people have a lot of money invested here. We'll survive him. We survived de Blasio. We'll survive, right? It's going to be tough. It's going to be tough. It's going to be tough. But we'll survive. We're not running. We don't run. We don't run. We're not running. Jews don't run.

IDF! IDF! IDF!

After catching some of the worst vibes imaginable, Saddam decided it was time to go into action. IDF! IDF! IDF! IDF!

After catching some of the worst vibes imaginable, Saddam decided it was time to go inside to the rally and see what's up.

I would define socialism with community. I think socialism is actually caring about the community you live in and are involved with. So when I hear Zoran actually express the values of socialism, they actually sound helpful. They sound communal. It's like, do we want to all survive and live in this together healthily or not?

You know, it's too expensive to live.

I think the Democratic Party has a bit of an identity crisis and the younger generation is speaking up as loudly as it knows how to. And if the older generation isn't listening, we're going to have a problem. And the thing is, like, if they actually want our vote,

which, by the way, they do, they need it, then they got to listen to it, man. And we're speaking for AOC, we're speaking for Zoran, we're speaking with Bernie. And yeah man, I think partnership, it lies with this. I think Zoran represents a big change.

He's not afraid to embrace tough issues like Israel-Palestine. He was quick to say it's a genocide, apartheid, in a way, in a time that people were not willing

to face that sort of criticism about Israel.

And I also think public safety is a really big one, but I think so many communities, no matter where you go, like I was talking to a friend in Jamaica and a friend in Pelham Parkway in the Bronx, and we all talked about public safety. And I think so many people think, you know, more police, more police, but in fact, there's so many mental health issues. And I think the Department of Community Safety would be absolutely life-changing to addressing

those issues. And it would be a platform and a program that would also be sensitive to LGBTQ people, BIPOC people, and communities that are often left out of decisions.

And I think the Mamdani campaign is, you know, in a similar vein, standing up for the things that Democrats have always said they believe in but that we have to

Be you know stronger and fight harder for what you cannot replicate is authenticity and personality And I think that's something that you can see through how someone communicates online a lot of the time in addition to that The values really matter right like? Like I think what makes Zoran successful in that form of media is that not only is he reaching and speaking the language of the internet, right? He's speaking to an audience that wants to hear and wants to see a politician fighting

for affordability, right? Wants to hear a politician speaking about how rents are skyrocketing and what they'll do about it, right? Not every politician can do that, right? You can do the videos, but some of you can't speak about what you're going to do to solve the problems that people within those spaces are very passionate about.

And I think that authenticity and values systems are lacking and maybe some of the replications that we do see other electeds

Attempt to do online. I know there's hot cream Jeffries or Chuck Schumer There's all these guys, but if they're not tapping into the culture then they're missing the point vote for Zoran New York City is not for sale, baby. Come on. Welcome. Join us. You know, the water is warm We won't even make you change your sex. You could just show up and we can make things cheaper and better and less corrupt. I have been supporting Zeron since the beginning of the campaign. I believe that he is the mayor we need to actually, you know, make sure that the labor movement has a secure place and a secure standing to

rebuild in New York, continue building in New York, and take it to people like Jeff Bezos who are every single day keeping their foot on the necks of Amazon workers across the country. You know, a year ago I was arrested on a picket line by when Amazon tried to, you know, interfere with what was happening on the picket line. They arrested me, a bunch of other Teamster leaders. And the reality is people didn't do anything to stop that.

And Zoran is going to, he's been an ally for labor unions across the city i think i'll continue to be and i i hope that in the future will see uh... some real success

uh... with him as an ally and zoran seems separate from a democratic

like uh... establishment platform he seems like his own guy

um... i mean he's everything he's done as a split has been pro worker from the fact that he was on hunger strike with the taxi drivers to many things beyond that. I just want to be very clear, I'm not here as a representative of the union, I'm speaking as a volunteer.

I think Zoran's run, his primary win and hopefully this general election win will show the party that people crave these ideals, these democratic socialist ideals. They want someone who is going to fight to make their lives more affordable and is able to do it because they are unbought and unbossed. There is millions, tens of millions of dollars

spent against Soran to try to beat him in the primary and he won by 12 points because people are starting to see past this old way of doing politics. They're craving this new wave of democratic socialist electeds who, again, are standing on business for some of the things that they're fighting for because they are not owned by these corporations.

And whether it's Medicare for all, a Green New Deal with 100% union jobs, whether it's an arms embargo to Israel and ending the genocide in Gaza, and what the DSA is doing is showing that there is a better alternative. What do you think of Curtis Lewa? I love how much of a hater he is and he's a true New Yorker and how he bashes Andrew Cuomo is artistic and incredible. No, Siwa's a G. Listen, I would

never vote for him but if I could grab a beer with Siwa just to hear stories I'd listen to every single one of them man. But I can't believe he's on that stage.

I fuck with him.

Yeah I mean listen dude, if I could go on a road trip, tell me about your life man,

most entertaining trip of my life, swear to God.

All of a sudden He says take this you son of a bitch pool and he fired Curtis Lewa

Donald Trump Eric Adams. These are three men who should not have been in politics And should have been on reality TV. They need to be on Bravo. Yeah, you know

I'm gonna drop into a Bravo show tomorrow

We got we were unfortunately put in the wrong timeline to get some of those folks to think that they should run for office. But like, I just needed them to just be messy queens on TV.

I wonder.

And like guests on the Wendy Williams show.

How do you feel about Cuomo?

Man, I feel like Cuomo is your standard politician. He's a man in a suit that's caring about green more than he's caring about us. So, Ticomo isn't special to me. He isn't different to me. I feel like we've seen thousands of him if we've

been watching. So, yeah, I wouldn't vote for him if my life depended on it.

Yeah, what an embarrassing individual, failed leader, disgraced governor.

I just think, you know, he's basically been in office my entire life. I'm 26 years old and I think that even if like when I do debate people I'm like we've already seen him and we've already seen how he runs the government we've seen you know the 6 train getting messed up on weekends because he cut funding to the MTA and We've seen you know New York's leadership go in complete crisis And we've seen even with this campaign him use chat GPT for his ads

I think that he has a lot of great experience cutting social programs, harassing women, and taking bribes. So I'm a little worried that Zoran doesn't have as much experience in those fields. But I don't know. I feel like Cuomo probably smells like aqua velvet and like leather polish. And I don't know, he just makes me feel very uncomfortable. It feels like one of your dad's friends just like talks a little too close.

And it's like a little too handsy with everyone.

As New Yorkers, we can tell when someone's ten toes and when they're not. That's it.

What we've had so far sucks.

What are your thoughts on Cuomo?

Sucks. What can I say? He comes from a family of politicians. After a while you start stinking.

Zoran represents something different in a way that I think maybe for many people Trump did too.

MAGA has understood this for the last 10-15 years. You have cool music, you have food, everyone's welcome. Like the only thing we're gonna talk about is how to make your life better, right? Like there's no like check at the gate and I think that these progressives finally get it and they know how to message it, right? There's like, hey, you know how your life kind of sucks right now? What if we made it suck less? And I think that's a powerful message. I think these guys actually believe it, unlike the MAGA people who have been saying that

and then blaming trans immigrant basketball players.

What brings you out here today?

I don't know, I just kind of found myself. I'm a big fan of visiting Yeah, he's the goat. Of course. They'll still say oh, it's New York smoking gay That's why they want universal childcare as opposed to Arkansas. Yes, but it'll work everywhere. It works here works everywhere

Uh, what do you thought on Cuomo?

What can I say about Andrew Cuomo he's a. And he's not a big fan of mine either.

Has he talked shit about you?

Quite a bit. Especially this past week. He's been bringing my name up virtually every day.

The Assemblyman will not denounce Hamas. The Assemblyman will not denounce Hasan Piker who said America deserved 9-11.

I find the comments that Hasan made on 9-11 to be objectionable and reprehensible.

Cuomo is throwing out mailers, or the Cuomo campaign is throwing out mailers. I think it's a sign that his campaign is failing so spectacularly because New Yorkers, majority New York voters, they don't know who the fuck I am, you know what I mean? They don't know who I am, and the ones that do are here, and they obviously like me.

Yo, you saw Hasan- uh, Hasan Abi earlier? Because I think he was dead.

Oh yeah, yeah, I chopped a little bit up.

Yo, you chopped it up with him? Yo, type shit that's dope.

Yeah, he's cool.

So I don't think a single New Yorker's gonna be like, for Zoran. I wanted fast and free buses but he did he he did a podcast with a guy he did a Twitch stream with a guy? Nah, not for me. It's cancel culture bullshit which is crazy because he's the right-wing candidate. Yeah. You know?

What about cancel culture in general?

Cancel culture in general sucks. It's not great but everybody does it. Everybody

utilizes it. Everybody leans into it. I think everyone's getting, you know, fucking over that shit.

They're so over it, I kind of want to bring it back a little bit. Like I think we went a little too far on the other side. Everyone is just like promoting Adolf Hitler on the timeline. Maybe we should bring back some woke culture, you know? Like maybe not all the cancer culture, but like we we need to bring walk back a little bit What do you think started that shift? Elon bought Twitter and then said I love neo-nazis and we should have them fucking do whatever they want on the platform

I mean he openly did it. Yeah. Yo, it's crazy seeing y'all out here. It's like New York City, bro

Yo, it's lit. What lessons do you think that the Democratic Party and people running for office around the country can take from the success

of Sorin's campaign?

Yeah, I mean, I think the authenticity, not only in terms of values, but in terms of believing in what you stand for while not being tied to, again, the same financial institutions that are harming the lives of working people, right?

The Democratic Party needs to let go of, you know, of AIPAC, of BlackRock, of Lockheed Martin, you know, of the same institution, the same financial institutions that are electing, you know, Republicans who, you know, are dismantling our democracy.

I think people are fed up. They realize that the situation is untenable. There's no hope for the younger generations out there. They feel like they can't pay rent. They feel like they'll never be able to own a home. They feel like they'll never be able to retire at a reasonable age. And everything is increasingly more dog shit year over year.

So people arrive at that position, not because of people like myself or whatever, leading them into that position, but they arrive at that position on their own

because they're like, well, okay, there's got to be an alternative out there because this shit doesn't fucking work.

New York is not for sale.

New York is not for sale.

It'll be great to have a mayor who is really about the people. And it sounds cliche to say, but it's really hard to get elected as a mayor off of the backs of people and not corporations and not big money and Zoran was able to do that. So to have someone who is untethered to the very powers that make life difficult in this city is what I'm most looking forward to and showing the country how a democratic socialist leads, how a leftist leads, and how a progressive

leads, right, in comparison to a moderate mayor. So I'm looking forward to seeing a human-centered way of governing and being one of the most powerful people in the city. And Zoran's a good person and has gotten here through the power of movement strength and co-governance and That's unlike many of the people who have led this city

Or have ever led the city and I'm really excited about that. What do you think about maybe?

cutting back from eggs and then maybe like hunting deer or

Killing rabbits, you know, bro that a you know know it's like just out in the city you know it just isn't practical you know we ain't hunting rats and shit

you know you know what's going on with that you know. Big Zo right there. Big Zo. I gotta make sure to go vote November 24th.

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