In short
The episode argues that right-wing media and Trump allies are panicking after Zoran Mamdani’s primary wins, using xenophobic “replacement” rhetoric about immigration and New York City. It claims Jesse Waters (Fox News) calls NYC a “third world takeover,” misstates English-speaking realities, and targets nonwhite people while ignoring that NYC is economically successful. It portrays Stephen Miller as a white nationalist who uses Nazi-style “great replacement” messaging and says Trump and Katie Miller scapegoat immigrants to cover corruption. Notable examples include Katie Miller tweeting “New York will now be run by foreign communists,” and Elon Musk’s father warning about white minority status. The episode also discusses Democratic establishment pushback: NY AG Letitia James criticizes Mamdani’s understanding of race/class, while Mamdani says Democrats should focus on working-class voters.
Guests
none named; speakers include “Pumps” and “Katie Miller” (as referenced via clips).
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VORacial Dynamics in Political Discourse
0:30 to 3:40
Discussion on Jesse Waters' commentary and its implications on race and politics.
“The meltdown over Zoran Mamdani's victories in the primaries are reaching a fever pitch of just hysteria, both on the left and on the right.”
Stephen Miller and White Nationalism
3:40 to 7:20
Examination of Stephen Miller's influence and ideology within the Trump administration.
“Stephen Miller, of course, you know, total white nationalist.”
Immigration and Hypocrisy in Politics
7:20 to 11:30
Analysis of immigration discussions in light of hypocrisy among political figures.
“so that you can do a bunch of corrupt criming at the top of the ticket.”
Critique of Democratic Leadership
11:30 to 12:20
Review of Letitia James' criticisms and the Democratic Party's response to recent elections.
“I support what he did, but I think this is a fair critique.”
Discussion on Political Dynamics in NYC
14:35 to 19:36
A deep analysis of the political landscape in New York City and the importance of coalition-building.
“I think what is the Democratic Party if not its voters?”
Transcript
Automatic transcript. May contain errors.0:28Ever notice how life's best stories don't happen in your living room? Prices vary based on how you buy.
0:37The meltdown over Zoran Mamdani's victories in the primaries are reaching a fever pitch of just hysteria, both on the left and on the right. But let's start with the right first. Let's start with Jesse Waters being the racist that he is on the racist news organization, Fox News. Play the clip. around welfare. This is a third world takeover. This is what happens when you import the third world. Did you know that New York City is 70 % non-white, 40 % foreign born, 50 % of the apartments, they don't even speak English, not even their first language. Okay. That is just such a xenophobic, hateful garbage.
1:24But 50 % of the people in New York City don't speak English. I'm here every single day. I've never come across one person that doesn't speak English, literally not one. So I don't know what he's talking about there. But secondly, what this has to do with when they say foreign born, Melania Trump is foreign born. Ted Cruz is born in Canada. Elon Musk is foreign born. But what do they all have in common? They're all white. And so the problem that Jesse Waters has and the problem that a lot of people have is that this slate, this DSA slate, they've got some melanin in their skin. And that's what really bothers Jesse Waters.
2:03Oh, he can't take it. And when he's ranting on about this, I'm thinking, it's the largest city in the world. It's the hub of the financial district. It is successfully paying for all these other counties and states. So aren't you by definition, if that's what your definition of New York City is, aren't you saying how successful cities are with multiculturalism? Is that, I mean, if you take the backwards view of that, yes, it's right. It's supremacy and racism out the gazoo, but at the end of the day, New York is successful versus Oklahoma City. But that's not the propaganda that they sell to the Fox viewers, to the Fox viewer, to the audience that he's injecting this into.
2:51New York City is a communist crime, just lawless, tyrannical space. And so when he says that stuff, it lands, it hits hard with them because they're not starting at a baseline fact or a baseline critical thinking. But you're right. The fact of the matter is the state of New York gives more than it receives. When you get to a state like Oklahoma, it's a taker state. California is a donor state. But the Fox News audience will never hear that the true parasites in the United States of America are the white people in these red states with Republican super majorities that suck off of these states that have economies that produce a shit ton of tax capital that fund the underfunded Bible Belt states.
3:39And moving along, Stephen Miller, of course, you know, total white nationalist. And I just want to remind everybody, his wife went on Abby Phillips and was mad at Abby Phillips because you went on Jennifer Welch's podcast and she called my husband a white nationalist. Well, he is, Katie. He is a white nationalist. He reminds me exactly of a Nazi, specifically Joseph Goebbels. I mean, it's uncanny, the resemblance and the speeches. It's as though he's translated them from German to English. And here he is being a white nationalist and being just an absolute dick. Pop this up. Change the voters, change the country.
4:19This is insane. I mean, this is great replacement theory, Nazi shit. You know, this is really evil, evil, evil, evil stuff. And this guy has ascended to the highest forms of the federal government, so much so that people around the White House and the Oval Office refer to him as Mr. Prime Minister. I think that Stephen Miller has probably has a workbook at home. What what did the Nazis do next? And he has a plan, because when you read about what's going on behind the scenes at the White House, it's urgency. We've got to make everything an emergency and Trump calls everything an emergency. That's a key part of white supremacy.
5:01You have to prioritize the people with money. It's really stunning that somebody who has been a fucking racist, bigoted pig his whole life, he could only be in this administration because Trump digs it and the people around him dig it. And I can affirm to you that the Fox News viewers in my family, that hit hard for them. They like saying that because they want white people to control everybody else. All right. And then Katie Miller chimes in on Twitter, pop this up. New York will now be run by foreign communists. Immigration is the issue of our lifetime. OK, this is like, OK, and I want the Democratic base to understand this.
5:50They have been saying forever Barack Obama is a socialist, communist, Marxist, radical leftist Vernon scum that was born in Kenya. This is not new. This is all they have. So socialism, democratic socialism is really penetrating because the Democratic Party has failed to deliver materially for its citizens. Democratic socialists are talking about the needs of everyday Americans that neither party has been able to deliver. So now they're going to move the Overton window a bit and they're going to harp on communism. That's going to be the new thing. I heard Trump in the Oval yesterday talking about they're communists.
6:31They're all communists. I mean, Trump could not tell you what communism is. All right. And I doubt that Katie Miller could. And Katie Miller saying immigration is the issue of our lifetime in the face of the affordability crisis right now, shows you how divorce from reality is. And let's just talk about Katie Miller. Katie Miller lives in public housing, socialism. Katie Miller's husband has a government job. Katie Miller's entire life is railing against the very system in which she lives. So the hypocrisy on all of this is so incredibly rich, but at the core of this is a story as old as time.
7:15scapegoat, scapegoat, scapegoat, scapegoat, marginalized people, scapegoat, poor people, so that you can do a bunch of corrupt criming at the top of the ticket. And here's what they're scared about most. This is what all of these white supremacists are most, most scared about. All right. Because Katie Miller is not concerned about immigration. If she was, she would be concerned about Melania Trump and Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. But they're all white and they're all maggots. She didn't give a shit about them. But here's Elon Musk's dad. And here's a quote that he said, pop this up. Elon Musk's dad, Errol, says the U.S.
7:51is doomed if white people become the minority. And Evan Loves Wharf, great follow on Twitter, you guys, always monitoring what Elon Musk is doing. He has excellent analysis. Says nothing scares right-wing white people more than the idea that they will be treated the way they treat non-white people. And I think he nails it. There is an admission in Katie Miller and Stephen Miller's and Donald Trump's speaking out about immigration. They don't want people to be able to fail forward the same way they do because somewhere deep inside them, they know they're not the smartest people in the room. They know they don't have the best ideas in the room.
8:40How do we know this? Because they're borrowing ideas from Nazi Germany, a failed experiment that led to a Holocaust of millions of people. But they're trying it again because they're so inferior and they're so terrified that Zoran Mamdani or that Barack Obama isn't white, but they're smarter, they're better looking, they're more liked. And I could go on and on and on down the list. Black excellence or brown excellence exposes white mediocrity and they can't stomach it. Yeah. I would just say that I keep thinking when I, when I was reading all this and seeing all this, I thought what you thought.
9:27They're going by the Nazi playbook. Do they not know how that story ended? And do they think that they can make a better outcome? Because we all, anybody that knows history knows how this ends. And it's, I guess it goes back to, they can only see what they want. They can't see consequences, but it's really stunning. It's like they're driving down a cliff as fast as they can go, thinking they'll never crash. And in reality, history shows us this never ends well. I think that it's a feature of this type of ideology to be short-sighted. I think that it's like they put out little mini fires as they go along, but there's a raging inferno beyond the hills that they are incapable of seeing, which just exacerbates their feelings of mediocrity.
10:18These are not people that are tempered, that pause, that play the tape through, that are mindful and thoughtful. These are impulsive maniacs. All of them are impulsive maniacs. So I think that inability to see consequences and the inability to read a book and see how these, you know, authoritarian rules end up, you know, with the people furious at the elites, etc. I think that that's a feature of it, the short sightedness. And then that's what the right wing, that's their meltdown about what happened in New York City. And then there is some Democratic establishment pushback on this as well. Pop this up.
11:00All right. Letitia James, she and other political leaders she's spoken to are, quote, disappointed in Mom Donnie. All of us are a little frustrated with the Democratic Party, but you don't blow it up. That's what MAGA has done. And CNN reports, one particularly notable critic of his endorsements in Tuesday's primaries was New York Attorney General Letitia James, a key backer during his campaign. So Letitia James endorsed Zoran Mamdani. She says some of the candidates that he has supported are individuals who do not understand the politics of New York City, the cultural differences from district to district, who have not been a part of the history and the struggle of some of these districts, but are relatively new to the body of politic, James told CNN, pointing particularly to what she said was Momdani's lack of understanding of race and class issues that run deep.
11:58I'm going to say, I support Momdani. I support what he did, but I think this is a fair critique. Letitia James is a black woman. Letitia James experience in America is something that I can't speak on, and I'll never be able to speak on because I'm a white woman. All right, listener, I value my sleep above just about anything else. And when I feel like I'm getting horrible sleep, I always think I need a reset. I need a total bed reset. And oftentimes it's not the mattress. It's the sheets that can make the biggest impact. And that's why I recently switched to bowl and branch. They create everything you need to make your bed feel finished.
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14:55And what we saw is that a focus on the working class, whether it's from Claire, whether it's from Dottie Elisa, whether it's from Brad, is the kind of focus that New Yorkers want to see. Okay. This is the point where I don't think everything is so binary. I think that Zoran blew up the Democratic Party in his main oral race. And Tish James, who I respect deeply, I think she's a very accomplished, intelligent, badass fighter. I just I honestly am in awe of her. I think she's incredible. And she supported Zoran. Her complaints there are something because, as we mentioned earlier, New York City is so multicultural.
15:37rule. What I like about this disagreement right here, as opposed to a lot of the other mudslinging, is that I trust Zoran and the DSA and Letitia James and other members of the Democratic Party to sit down and objectively, critically think to find consensus. I think that they are all adults in the room. I think that Zoran and Letitia James can work through ways to build a coalition here. I don't see this as, oh my God, Letitia James is so mad at Zoran. Zoran shot his shot and he took a swing and he hit it out of the ballpark. But you do have a very multicultural city here. And the Black experience is the longest, most abusive, most pressed, most under-recognized experience in the electorate.
16:37And I trust that Zoran and others in the DSA will sit down to build a bridge here. And I think it's incredibly important because we have to build a gigantic coalition, not only to defeat fascism, but to deliver for Americans to make reparations to the black population that always gets poo-pooed. It's always, oh, this form of bigotry is on the rise. This form of bigotry is on the rise. And black people are like, we've been telling you guys, everybody's racist around here. And so I welcome this conversation and I welcome this disagreement. And I think it's incredibly healthy. I completely agree because I only learn and get better when I have a disagreement or something is pointed out that I'm doing or saying that needs work.
17:32I think people have to work together. I think these two can't. My concern, while I welcome getting together and talking and differences of opinion and perspective, my concern overarchingly is that the constituents of the Democratic Party have continued to vote in a way that shows the establishment what they're thinking. But the leaders continue to ignore that and move forward with the same old, same old. Yeah, I think that that is a very important conversation separate from this one with Letitia James. I think that because Letitia James was an outspoken supporter of Zoran and understands the material undeliverables that are on the ground, but also the backbone of the Democratic Party are black people, is the black voter block.
18:27And if Letitia James is saying this and she was a Zoran supporter, my overall point is I think these are healthy conversations for Zoran and Letitia to sit down to build a coalition. how do we deliver for people? How does the DSA and the Democratic establishment, how can we find common ground? But I'm 100 % with you, Pumps, that there's a lot of corporate Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries, Richie Torres, Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker, that will fight to the bitter end against what the voters have to say. And I believe that those Democrats are just as beholden to fascism as MAGA is, because they're funders and they're donor class.
19:19They service way more than they do the electorate. All right. That's all we have. Like, subscribe, comment. We'll be back later with more news.
19:35Thank you.
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