In short
The host attacks right-wing media and politicians (Stephen Miller and Tucker Carlson) as projecting and promoting racist/homophobic “multiculturalism isn’t possible” rhetoric, then argues Democrats (especially Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer) are failing to show “moral clarity” and to back affordability-focused candidate Zoran Mamdani. Key claims include: Democrats are pressured by AIPAC/donor money; establishment Democrats won’t endorse Mamdani despite grassroots momentum; Jeffries’ refusal to clearly oppose Andrew Cuomo is “limp dick energy”; and mainstream Democrats send mixed messages while Trump’s allies are “predators and convicts.”
Notable examples
Miller/Tucker clips; Bernie Sanders remarks about Mamdani’s 50,000 volunteers and Jeffries district win; David Axelrod criticizing lack of moral clarity; Hamptons coverage portraying Cuomo as panicking; a quote about Cuomo/Adams vs Mamdani.
Guests
None named as interview guests; the episode features commentary on public figures (Stephen Miller, Tucker Carlson, Bernie Sanders, David Axelrod, Hakeem Jeffries, Andrew Cuomo, Eric Adams, Zoran Mamdani).
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VOCritique of Stephen Miller
0:52 to 2:26
Discussion centers on Stephen Miller's controversial statements and psychological profile.
“DONALD TRUMP'S TOP ADVISOR IS THIS COMPLETE FREAK, STEPHEN MILLER.”
Tucker Carlson's Multiculturalism Claims
2:28 to 4:50
Analyzing Tucker Carlson's remarks on multiculturalism and cultural dominance.
“There's no such thing as a multicultural society.”
Bernie Sanders on Democratic Leadership
4:51 to 6:50
Bernie Sanders expresses frustration with Democratic leaders ignoring grassroots candidates.
“I mean, it should just be so easy to make a layup argument against these people.”
Critique of AIPAC and Democratic Compromise
6:51 to 10:15
Discussion on AIPAC's influence and the need for compromise within the Democratic Party.
“That's the fact that we have a welfare system for billionaires, that the working class waitress or the working class bus driver pays a higher percentage in taxes than a billionaire does.”
Failure of Democratic Leadership
10:16 to 11:34
Exploring the perceived failures of Democratic leadership during crucial political moments.
“You don't have leadership in Hakeem that is willing to do that style of compromise.”
Mom Donnie's Campaign Strategy
11:35 to 14:01
Analyzing the effectiveness of Mom Donnie's campaigning style and public perception.
“the Ten Commandments in schools and that this is the future Speaker of the House.”
Critique of Political Messaging
14:01 to 14:41
Discussion on the inadequacies of current political messaging and the frustration it causes.
“They talk about, you know, family values and they crash grinder.”
Analysis of the Hamptons Political Climate
14:41 to 17:26
Exploration of the political dynamics in the Hamptons, especially regarding upcoming elections.
“The New York Times wrote a piece about how everybody in the Hamptons, billionaires, are losing their minds about Mom Donnie.”
Wealth Disparity and Social Responsibility
17:26 to 17:58
A call to billionaires in the Hamptons to consider their social responsibilities amid rising inequality.
Transcript
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0:52DONALD TRUMP'S TOP ADVISOR IS THIS COMPLETE FREAK, STEPHEN MILLER. HE LOOKS LIKE A FREAK. HE SOUNDS LIKE A FREAK. HE IS A TOTAL FREAK SHOW. AND HERE HE IS TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF ON FOX NEWS. PLAY THE CLIP. ARE RUN BY DEMOCRATS. LOOK, THIS HAS BECOME THEIR RELIGION. CELEBRATING CRIMINALS. CELEBRATING PREDATORS. CELEBRATING ILLEGAL ALIENS WHO PREY ON OUR CITIZENS. Okay. This is a classic, classic case of projection that psychologists talk about. He celebrates all of the things that he's claiming that Democrats celebrate. This guy is the weirdest psychological makeup I've ever seen. He's literally like a Jewish Nazi.
1:39He is a total Nazi. He's the one behind the White House ASMR videos that advertise cruelty. And he is far more ambitious than Trump is. Trump can only see what's in front of him, which is a camera. And I'm going to do Sharpie pen and I'm going to put gold leaf and look at my angel. Oh, my God, I want to steal the World Cup trophy. You know, he's just like a little klepto. But Stephen Miller is a total psycho. So this is what is on Fox News. Here's another thing that's hitting mainstream media. This is what MAGA is talking about. When literally inflation is through the roof, the executive is trying to take over the Fed.
2:21The Supreme Court is abdicating their power to the aforementioned kleptomaniac kinks. And here's Tucker, who is in the Death Star, right in the epicenter of MAGA culture. Here he is on Piers Morgan. Listen to this word salad insanity. There's no such thing as a multicultural society. SITUATION. IT'S NOT SUSTAINABLE. ONE CULTURE WILL OVERWHELM THE OTHER. AGAIN, IT'S NOT THE SAME AS RACE. IT'S NOT IDENTICAL TO RACE. IT'S CONNECTED BUT IT'S NOT THE SAME. BUT MULTICULTURALISM IS BY DEFINITION INSANE. NO, THAT'S NEVER HAPPENED. IT NEVER WILL HAPPEN. ONE CULTURE WILL PREDOMINATE. IT WILL IMPOSE ITS VALUES ON EVERYBODY ELSE.
3:01THE GAY THING, WHICH WAS NOT A thing 40 years ago, gay was a slur, all of a sudden it becomes mandatory to worship at the altar of gayness or whatever. Trans stuff, sodomy, pride, all this stuff. This is a jet stream of bullshit that is mainstreamed to the people who are looking for cover to feel better about being racist. I mean, I could dismantle everything he's saying about the gay stuff and we could go back before Christianity and look at Roman times where people were openly gay and bisexual, and it really wasn't that big of a deal. But, you know, the danger of him saying this stuff is my maternal grandfather was a gay man and had to live his entire life closeted in Dallas, Texas.
3:50And it wasn't until after he died that my mother had kind of pieced it all together. And we went and talked to my grandmother about it. And it really makes me sad that he lived his entire life closeted and in shame because of people like Tucker Carlson. And this is what maggot, this is how regressive their conversations are. You just heard from Stephen Miller. You just heard from Tucker Carlson that multiculturalism isn't possible. Well, that's what we've been doing for the last couple of hundred years in America and trying to make it better and better. So these people are homophobic, racist, and they're regressive.
4:25The way they think is it all goes back to that make America great again. Pumps, this should be a layup for Democrats to take out. It absolutely should. Easiest thing on the planet. Let me just show you what's going on over on the Dem side. And I want to show you in Pumps this comparison because the shit that we just saw, freak show Stephen Miller and Tucker's jet stream of bullshit. I mean, it should just be so easy to make a layup argument against these people. But instead, the Democratic leadership is word salating themselves. Bernie Sanders was in Brooklyn with Zoran Mamdani over the weekend.
5:06And here is what Bernie says about Democratic leadership. I find it hard to understand how the major democratic leaders in New York State are not supporting the democratic candidate. One might think that if a candidate starting at 2 % in the polls gets 50 ,000 volunteers, creates enormous excitement, gets young people involved in the political process, gets non-traditional voters to vote, Democratic leaders would be jumping up and down. This is our guy. Yeah, you would think. Yeah, you would. When you think about how the Democratic Party has failed to endorse him in favor of establishment politics when their establishment politician is in bed with Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu.
5:59I mean, it's crazy. It is insane to me. And that is why, in my mind, we lost the last two elections because we are not playing. We're not looking and listening to the bass. Well, and if you, OK, the shit that I played first, I did that on purpose because the split screen for that is what Zoran is talking about, affordability. He got 50 ,000 volunteers, 50 ,000 volunteers, a total grassroots movement. He is beating the field. He beat he won the Democratic primary. And it irritates the shit out of me that establishment Democrats, particularly I'm talking about Hakeem Jeffries right here. To be a leader, you have to be a compromiser.
6:45And it should be such a layup for him to go stand with Zoran and stand up and say, I agree with him on about nine out of 12 things that he's saying here. And I want to focus on those things. And that's the affordability crisis. That's the fact that we have a welfare system for billionaires, that the working class waitress or the working class bus driver pays a higher percentage in taxes than a billionaire does. I'm very worried about people filing for medical bankruptcy. And there's been no compromise, no leadership from Hakeem on this. And David Axelrod, who is Obama's former top advisor, and you may remember Obama went through kind of the same thing.
7:32Weird name, melanin in his skin, major, major grassroots movement in the Democratic establishment pushed back against him as well. But let's listen to what David Axelrod has to say about the Democrats' decision, the Democratic leadership's decision not to have moral clarity on this issue. Democrats are not embracing him. Yeah, I think it's a mistake. I mean, I understand it. First of all, there's probably donor pressure from particularly in New York on this. And I'm sure that there's a fear that he will become emblematic of the whole Democratic Party. But understand that he ran on the issue of affordability and and on a kind of positive politics that got, as Bernie said, many, many young people in that city to involve themselves in the process.
8:21What is the message that they are sending? By the way, he carried Hakeem Jeffries district two to one. Well, he carried Jeffries district two to one. So what's happening here is it appears that it's APAC money. And for me, as a person who is desperate to fight against this fascism, who is desperate to make sure that we don't go backwards the ways of what Tucker Carlson wants to do, the ways of the turning point people with all of the anti-woman rhetoric, Stephen Miller's concentration camp, wet dream. Why are the Democrats beholden to the same lobbyist that helped elect Donald Trump? And this lobby, AIPAC, says we want to root out anti-Semitism.
9:13So they partner with the people that want to do away with education who are far right-wingers, which is an incubator for anti-Semitism. Right wing thought and lack of education is where Nazism blossoms. So it's this really weird marriage. And I wish Hakeem could just come to the public and say, I was totally beholden. And I thought that Israel, that was our best ally. They're clearly doing genocide. I'm sorry I'm late to the party here, but we're in the fight for the heart and soul of our country. I don't agree with Zoran's maybe a little bit further left than I am, but I'm about compromise. When you think about the political races in Europe, they have like six political parties.
10:03And you always hear about the socialists coming together with the centrists to fight off, like in France, to fight off Marie Le Pen, who is a far, far right fascist ruler. You don't have that sort of compromise here. You don't have leadership in Hakeem that is willing to do that style of compromise. Because the fact is the libs, the centrists, and the leftists need to come together. And the thing that's preventing us from coming together to form a real coalition against these fuckers is AIPAC. And that's so devastating. It's so devastating to me that the people that fell prey to genocide in Germany are now committing it in Gaza, and they are controlling both sides of the political party.
10:55And as you just said earlier, Pumps, that Hakeem and others in the Democratic Party have not outwardly spoken against Andrew Cuomo, who is Trumpian from top to bottom, the special interest, the sexual abuse allegations, not to mention he's second up to Donald Trump. It's devastating. It's really, really devastating that our Democratic leadership is letting us down this much. at such a horrible, horrible time. And, you know, Hakeem Jeffries has the luxury of living in a blue state. People in red states, they're fighting for their lives here. You have governments that are mobilized, mobilizing actively against trans people, gay people, women, and they're putting the Ten Commandments in schools and that this is the future Speaker of the House.
11:43This is his leadership? Yeah, it is extremely disappointing, particularly in the era of Trump when there's lie after lie after lie. And to piggyback off the money issue, you also have the issue of the strongly worded letter. You know, Hakeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, they're sending strongly worded letters. Stephen Miller is on TV saying, we Democrats support predators and convicts. Dude, it's the easiest thing in the world to say Donald Trump is both a predator and a convict. If anybody is celebrating predators and convicts. Here's the problem, Pumps. Hakeem Jeffries has said that. He said it two days ago.
12:21I saw it in a clip or yesterday. It's the credible messenger situation. When you don't see him uniting the party right now and uniting the base and actively like his silence on the Mom Donnie issue. Here's just a little clip of his leadership pertaining to not only his own district, but he wants to be the Speaker of the House for all Americans. Listen to this. NC posted in support of Zohan Mondani's campaign yesterday with a statement of Mondani saying, we welcome anyone to join this movement. You've met with him twice and stay tuned, you know, declined to endorse him. Are you out of step with your party on this issue?
13:02I don't know. I guess people are going to have to figure that out, if that's the question you think that my constituents are asking me because they're not. What a dick. I mean, seriously, what a dick. The person who answers the question like that and doesn't have the leadership ability to say, I have heard the voters in New York. I am very, very worried about Andrew Cuomo being compromised and not a good candidate. Furthermore, where he lost the Democratic primary. So I absolutely don't support him. And Zoran and I agree on eight out of 12 things. He's a little bit further left than I am, but I have listened to the people in my district.
13:45I am listening to the overall message about affordability, but he stands there and he says that. So with everything that you say under that, you don't have credible messengers. It's like MAGA. That's why I'm not a MAGA person. They're not credible messengers. They talk about, you know, family values and they crash grinder. You know what I mean? And so this just pisses me. It just pisses me off from top to bottom at Hakeem. This is horrible, horrible, limp dick energy. It's not even little dick energy. It is limp dick energy that he is saying that when so many Americans are suffering and he's smug as fuck standing there like that.
14:32It just makes me sick. But I want to play you how good Mom Donnie is at campaigning and how good he is and what a credible messenger he is. The New York Times wrote a piece about how everybody in the Hamptons, billionaires, are losing their minds about Mom Donnie. It's all they can talk about. And so he has somebody do a dramatic reading. And this is just, this is A plus, 10 out of 10, no notes. August in the Hamptons. Ocean breezes, oversubscribed Tracy Anderson classes, parking walls. And this year, with a New York City mayoral election looming in the fall, a freak-out that the most sumptuous of summer staples hasn't soothed.
15:20Even overpriced lobster salad can't seem to make people out here feel better. The veteran political fundraiser said, Everyone is talking about it all the time. What they are talking about, for the most part, is whether anyone, specifically former Governor Andrew M. Cuomo or Mayor Eric Adams, can beat the democratic socialist Zoran Mamdani. In June, he dared to say on Meet the Press... I don't think that we should have... ...dillionaires.
15:51The Hamptons is basically in group therapy about the mayoral race. In other words, the plutocrats are panicking. Another recent benefit for Mr. Cuomo took place at the Southampton estate of the conservative media executive Jimmy Finkelstein and his wife Pamela Gross, a former advisor to First Lady Melania Trump. Mamdani has a great smile and is wonderfully articulate. it. His social media is entertaining and his promises sound fine until you look at the fine print and they're not realistic. Okay. I think this is brilliant. I think he is very, to be a politician these days, you have to be smart.
16:28You have to get the attention of the people. You have to be a good campaigner and he's all of the stuff. And I just want to say to the people in the Hamptons. Be careful trying to align yourself with MAGA light. We can report from deep in red states at the epicenter of this MAGA base are people that want your daughters at home being trad wives, are people that want to bully and probably incarcerate gay people if they get their way, if this keeps going. These Christian nationalists are racist to their core. And I notice from some of the last names there, the people that are hosting these fundraisers are probably Jewish.
17:11And I have to tell you, be weary of the Christians that are rapture preppers that want you to be in Israel so that Jesus can come and then send you to hell forever. Because the anti-Semitism that spews from this group, the wasps, they will not have your back ever. Zoran is not an anti-Semite and shame on these people where capitalism has been so good to you, so, so good to you in a city that has been so good to you that you don't have enough decency or integrity to think about the people that don't have healthcare, that have to work a couple of jobs, that can't afford childcare. And you're a billionaire.
17:56If you're a hundred million dollars less rich, you're still rich as fuck. Period. Get over it. Seriously, this is really, really a dangerous moment. All right. That's all we have for today on this episode. We'll be back later with more news. Please, fire book is the coolest read of the fall. I hear it's really popping off in the Hamptons. Life is a lazy Susan of shit sandwiches. The link is below.
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