6/27/25: Hegseth Meltdown On Iran, Gaza Ceasefire, Zohran & MORE!

the like the energy seems super fun. But then I remembered it was like one hundred degrees and it was like, no, it's better for me to be here.

they're sluttering as a matter of course. So talk about that bunch of stuff going on with Zoran Richie Torrez defending him, some Republican congressman saying he should be denaturalized and deported. You've got a bunch of Democratic leaders who are you know at Krek, Kirsten Gillibrand just like aggressively racistly attacking him, Kathy Hochel sort of I guess, keeping her options open. It's like, y'all, this is the Democratic nominee. Voters chose him, So what happened to the whole vote?

we got that. We also have Peter Teal getting asked if he's anti christ by Rosstatat of course, and it's sort of like yeah, and him, it's like sort of awkwardly contemplating whether that could be the case for a moment, so that.

I don't doubt that's the case. But it also gets into this is the other part of this is one of many things that are driven me crazy about the way that the administration is talking about this is they act like it's something special for an American president to be able to drop bombs on a place, and that's

actually the easiest thing in the world to do. The hard thing, apparently based on you know, the experience of our lifetimes is to not drop bombs and to get us out of conflicts rather than get us into conflicts. So what did you make of Pete Haggs's little performance here?

media over something. The kernel here is legitimate. Someone leaked part of an intelligence report and we're about to get into that to CNN and the New York Times, And it was something that said the administration strike was not successful. Now I'm curious whether these reporters, these Pentagon reporters, allow themselves to be used as props in these spectacles going forward, because that's basically what they were. That's it.

completely obliterated. In fact, even the things this administration has put out has not say that, it said that it's been completely obliterated. So, yes, you have a motivated actor in putting out this leak, but the information is also accurate. So if you're a journalist, oh, you have a response, you have a response. It's not the journalists fault, Like you have a responsibility to put out information that is accurate and will help people understand the fact that the

truth of the matter is. Trump wants to claim a victory and Okay, if that's going to let him not go back to this war, which by the way, I'm still skeptical about whatever, but it is probably a lie. And you know, so they want to attack the media over presenting what is in all likelihood accurate but yes,

motivated information. But almost every leak, whether it's from within the government or from a source or whatever, it's very common that it will be a motivated leak to try to achieve some information, and you know, one way or another. So if you're as a journalist not going to publish that, then you're picking and choosing what information the American public is allowed to have access to.

or the President for peace, however they phrase it. And they now find themselves saying that the Pentagon Press Corps is insufficiently patriotic, which is amusing because the Pentagon Press Corps, I think crystal notoriously is like intertwined with the I don't know what was the best way, but like the military industrial complex and is eager to sell stories about how incredible these planes are, how incredible the you know,

new munitions are, and like it. It's so to see the Trump administration then come in and say you're not selling this war enough after I mean, it's just it's a kind of an interesting like she was on the other foot moment, And I do have a lot of thoughts on the intelligence itself. I think I totally agree with you. So we should probably roll the Jennifer Griffin clip because that gets into what the administration is actually saying happened.

you could possibly ask. So let's see how Pete Hegseth responds to this perfectly legitimate, fair question being asked by his former colleague.

So it was like, and Heike Seth has attacked her before, so it was like he was ready to just unload this years of resentment from working at Fox towards Jennifer Griffin. Interesting that her voice sounded like it was shaking a little bit, like she was she was rattled and genuinely very angry. Totally totally fair. You are being dressed down on a Actually the question that she asked him, and this is how we queued up the video is completely, completely,

completely legitimate. There were reports, obviously that trucks were moving away from the facility facility in the days before the strikes, and actually, if you I mean, there are a couple of ways that that could that could be a that could have been a deterrent and attempted to turrent to say like Trump, don't bomb for dough because we already moved everything. Or it could be legitimate, it could be real, and the administration is using two lines. They're saying total

obliteration and severely damaged. There's daylight between those. There's actually a lot of daylight between those. So she actually was not asking a bad question, but it.

that says, no, the uranium stockpile is largely intact. So you know, I mean, which understores Listen again, if they want to pretend that you know, it's completely obliterated, and if that helps prevent us from getting into a war with Iran, okay, But it also underscores emily how stupid and pointless and risky this whole mission was and how

ultimately counterproductive. Like if your goal was to actually set them back and make it impossible for them to develop nuclear weapon, there's no doubt that they that failed, like you have made it much more likely that they will rapidly pursue a nuclear weapon. The thing that had the chance to succeed was the negotiations that you yourselves blew up. So I think it is actually important for people to understand that no, not, actually nothing was accomplished by dropping

these bombs. In fact, you have set back your own stated goals of preventing around developing nuclear weapon, not to mention that you have also set back the overall global goal of non proliferation, because other countries will be looking and assessing what happened in Libya, what happened here, you

know what happened and what happened in Ukraine. Even and the fact that we don't mess with North Korea and we're fearful to get involved in a direct fight against Russia, and they will logically come to the conclusion that the only thing that can keep the US and Israel from completely fucking with you and trying to destroy your country is by developing a nuclear weapon.

They don't actually seem to have the intelligence yet. And it seems crystal from all of the points you just laid out, there is a non zero chance that the Jennifer Griffin report, in this case, which likely was leaked by somebody who wants more action in Iran, she was reporting that it was set back by quote one to two months, and that's similar to The Times and to CNN.

So that's why it's really getting under their skin because it undercuts the entire higher premise of what they did, and that's why, to your point, it was always really risky. So they need to they really need to come up with answers. I don't think it's impossible that the program was set back years. I don't think it was impossible that it was set back one to two months, but they haven't produced the intelligence yet to suggest that it was longer than one to two months.

intelligence to begin with. They also are additional sidelining Tulsi to a greater extent, apparently than she already was, So they planned to limit classified intelligence sharing with Congress after leaks amid a political battle over what the intelligence shows. White Houses expected to send four of its top national security officials to brief lawmakers Pete hag Seth, Marco Rubio, John Ratcliffe, and General Dan Caine that he's the chair of the Joint chiefs of Staff. You will note who

is not there. The Director of National Intelligence. That would be Tulsi Gabbard. It says she testified March that US intelligence agencies assessed a Run was not building a nuclear weapon, and she will be notably absent. According to the senior

Trump administration official, Ratcliffe will represent the intelligence community. The media is turning this into something it's not emily, so that is their line on that, any thought, any thoughts on that report and on the you know, the sidelining of Tulci Gabbard, which is significant at a time when they're claiming also that they're following more of her what she would want to see, right since they are claiming that this is, you know, the end of the war

and the ceasefire will last forever and ever and peace will reign for all time, I don't know why you need to sideline, you know, one of your most prominent sort of anti interventionist voices.

We just have to put together the pieces from reports, from what they're saying publicly, like Tulsa Gabbard coming out and putting that post up that said her presentation of the intelligence was being misconstrued and you know, taken out of context by the media ahead of the strike. That was quite an interesting moment. And it's came the week after she put out that cryptic video about her what

Nagasaki and Hiroshima. So it seems that, you know, there's something serious brewing, but I don't know how serious it is behind the scenes.

say the things that she said, et cetera. But it could just be he's sort of irritated with her on a personal level because she, you know, grabbed the spotlight in a way that was not sanctioned by him. We've actually got Dave Weigel standing by to talk about Zoron, which I'm excited about hearing, you know, to hear from Dave about what he's seeing inside of the Democratic Party and efforts to stop Zoron in the general election. But first,

just let me just mention this. So there is reporting from CNN the Trump administration has discussed a new potential Iran deal helping them access as much as thirty billion dollars to build a civilian energy producing nuclear program, easing sanctions, freeing up billions of dollars in restricted Iranian funds, all part of an intensifying attempt to bring Tehran back to the negotiating table. For sources familiar with the matter said, and you know, listen, who knows what they really are

aiming for here? Who knows if these new gestures towards diploma diplomacy are legitimate or part of some new ruse. But it's clear that if you're the Iranians like you're not going to trust these people there's no way you're

going to trust these people. And so even the framing here that they would have to offer all of these things in advance in order to get them back to the negotiating table where they previously were, and there were, like, you know, indications that it was fairly close to being able to make a deal if the Trump administration didn't

have this hardline zero enrichment policy. It shows you that again in terms of their stated goals, the military action set them back from being able to achieve some sort of diplomatic and may have made such a thing completely impossible.

that was fascinating. So the idea that New York Democrats say, we're tired of austerity and we don't need it right now.

he was not disqualified, That Guomo was disqualified. There are so many elements to this, but just the reason he was covered to somebody who was interesting but probably not going to win those merits and re examination. A lot of New Yorkers said, no, I'm fine with it. I'm fine with everything else he's saying, because I went to my city to be more affordable.

politics Plicans. No, Republicans who are now attacking him. They know that there's just a collapse of faith in every institution, uh even even theirs, even the even even the ones that they control right now. But being the party side of Donald Trump win and down Trump win by saying I'm going to protect Wall Street. I love capitalism, he didn't. It's assumed he loves capitalism and say he hates it is he's a critic. But the idea of a rig of a rig system, there have been different ways to

talk about that. We've had ten years now at Bernie Sanders talking about it his way. We've had ten years of polls. Now, Bernie has never been a general election where he could beat him up with a billion dollars of ads. But but Poles saying, yeah, the guy who says as a socialist need and he thinks banks are destroyed or screwing us, and healthcare companies screwing us, I agree with that guy. There's just so much overlap. Joe Rogan's very helpful here, but shows like this personify this.

And so when I hear the Bill Lackman's of the World, you shudder at that and say, well, this is going to make capital flee from from the city. Look, there are other externalities there but you but there are there are Trump voters. There are people who vote who voted against Harris for Trump, I should say, in New York who voted for Mom Donnie. And it's in that delta is those people who say, yeah, all the systems are rigged.

And Eric Adams, who a lot of them probably also voted for, seemed like he was bowing down to donors, cutting services, reversing promises he made when people gave him money. If you say you're against that, even if you say you don't love capitalism, again, I'm pretty easy for a lot of people to swallow.

The number of people who were like indicted or resigned from his administration in shame. I've completely lost track of at this point, he only is able to get out of his charges by appearing to make some directly corrupt deal with the Trump administration. Not exactly beloved within New York City. And yet now you have business leaders who are like, uh, maybe we've got to just stick with

Eric Adams. Cuomo was also now said he's sort of waiting to see he's going to keep his ballot line and wait to see whether he actively competes in the fall. But you've got this New York Times report about Eric Adams meeting with business leaders who are desperate to stop mom Donnie's rise. Mentioned in here is you've got the

Polymarket CEO in here, among others. Uh so, what do you know, Dave, about the sort of efforts that are going on with these business leaders to try to figure out some anyone but Zoron kind of a strategy.

a different, different climate. But if you go back and read the coverage whin to Blasio won the primary in twenty thirteen because he won a large part running and stopping frisk, there was a lot of the same editorializing it was New York is going to implode, crime is going to surge, the wealthy are going to leave the city, and Mom Donnie other parts of that scene and interview which I watched yesterday, he says, one, there's data that says most people who are leaving New York are actually

working class people who can't afford it. And two they say this all the time, and the other just to say, Mom Donnie's premise and this is the thing that to be fair to actman if I want to. He just doesn't believe Mondanni's premise. And I interviewed him a few weeks ago about this is you need to prove that you vote for progressive you pay taxes and things get better,

and people have not been doing that. Every Democrat agrees like there's has been this overlap between the as reclined abundance people and this are on people, whether I've like it or not, because that's where they agree. They want Republicans to not win elections, and they worry when Democrats win and screw up their Republicans win. So this is where the Adams theory is not very compelling. He's saying that the city has improved since he got elected, and it has in some ways. Crime is down, but it

got more expensive. He has no answer for how it got more expensive. It's is the same position Kamala Harris is in last year and the Mandanni. It's very well put up put by him. I have to I praised him too much, but I interviewed him. He says it everywhere. It's he looks at Bernie Sanders and Burlington or progressive mayors in other cities.

that mont Donnie's running on. These folks were talking about, don't believe because they have a vision that socialists are just going to direct the economy and everyone's gonna be on the streets. This is their view of what happened in San Francisco. I get that, but the Mount Donnie premise is, you know, we're going to raise taxes and

improve things to everybody. When congestion pricing, I'm not trying to swerve too much, but talking to people when I was in New York covering this race, they're saying, that's an example. It's a tax. It has made more people go in public transit. That's been fine. There have not been a crisis. It's not really been working class people use who are changing their habits. That's been well. For people who are no longer driving into the city. They progressive.

If there are anything, but please vote for us because Republicans screwed up. They need to be the party that can win and govern well and will include raising taxes on people. That that is the premise. They just don't buy it because every in their mind, every liberal city is San Francisco, but some liberal cities are Boston. Some cities are able to do this a lot better.

saying on the abundance front. It's like about putting things in front of people and making the social compact like more obvious so that it doesn't look like somebody's just talking about the police being racist and then crime goes up. You want people talking about the city being too expensive and having the rent go down or their rent be frozen or something like that. It just seems that he's actually sort of very aware of that dynamic too.

what Ackman's saying and saying. This is Charlie Kirsch, this is Matt Walsh, this is Ogels to an extent, saying well, this is what happens when you let in immigrants and they turned the city into a Third world hellhole. And their premise is that is going beyond the economic argument and saying that, well, pluralism and mass immigration doesn't work, and he's going to be the mayor of mass immigration

that'll wreck the city. He wants to bring his anti colonial values from Uganda and India and wreck the cunt tree. I've noticed. I bring that up not because Acman's saying that, it's because there really is this cacophony of reasons not to trust Mom Dannie. And you've seen also this comparison to London, which is very popular JD Vans who made this joke, I think just once, but you've seen the clip a bunch of times saying you know, what's what's

the first Islamist nuclear power going to be? It might be the UK because there are all these Muslims living living in the UK living, and there's a Muslim mare of London. But again I've I've been London fairly recently. There are things that could improve, but people pay a lot to live there. It has congestion pricing, it has some homelessness, it has a lot of things where if you copied them in American City, you'd say that's working

really well and it's worth paying for all that. So that is that is the challenge is part of you're right, the Deblaso experience looms. But the first term in Deblasio people were pretty happy with it was the criminal defist perform movement and the other big topics that you put into it. But the intersection of crimindust reform happening just when COVID happened, how much of the rising crime was people shutting down and social cohesion breaking down? How much

of it with bail reform and things like that. Yeah, Tom Dundee, and I did not run on his twenty twenty positions about defunding the police. He said that he's just going to hire more people to make the city safer without fighting with the end of NYPD, without shrinking it. That is important too. I want to see how that is litigated because right now there is Democrats who's like Cursey jail Brand, who have not endorsed him yet are saying they want to talk to him, and I, honestly

I have an open mind about that. I want to see as he does these interviews. He's very accessible. What he says he might tack in if he no longer says, hey, I'm going to I'm going to be there and we're actually not going to touch the NYPD, We're just going to hire more public safety officials. Is that offensive to

Bill Ackman? Do they not trust it? Because that's actually what's been happening in places like Philadelphia and Boston Standy eggobs obviously places where Democrats run things, but you don't care nightmare stories about how scary they are.

is going to ultimately satisfy them. And I don't even know that that would benefit Zoron because the fact of their freak count, in my opinion, benefits him. It proves that he's uncomfortable for them. But you brought up Kirston Jilbrand. I want to get your reacting. I'm sure you listen to her on this radio show. I'm just going to play a piece of it because it's like six minutes long, but you'll get a sense. So a caller calls into Brian Lair's radio show and is asking about, you know,

oh my god, isn't Zoron antisemitic? And what's your response to this? And Center Kirsten Gillibrand is on the show, and interestingly, Larr is actually trying to someone defends. Zoron, who he spoke with, had asked some of these questions too, and the specific thing they start getting hung up on was Zorn's explanation of why he won't condemn the phrase globalize the into fada, and I'm going to pick up

here you can hear. I think this part that I'm about to press play on is where Lair is trying to say, you know, I uh, I understand, this is why people are concerned, but this is also something that he hasn't himself personally said. So let me go ahead and see if we can start this here.

mayor of New York if he's elected. But I do also want to be clear, and he said he does not support violent into fada. Is that there?

a word that has deep meaning. It has been used for wars across time and violent and destruction and slaughter and murder against the Jews. It is a harmful, hurtful, inappropriate word for anyone who wants to represent a city as diverse as New York City with eight million people. And I would be very specific in these words, and I would say you may not use them again if you expect to represent everyone ever again, because they are received as hateful and divisive and harmful.

students in our universities have felt unsafe. It is why Jewish students have felt that their schools did not have their backs and cared about them or their learning. Because the people doing these protests use words that have meetings that are far more violent and horrific than they may have intended.

did not work. And in fact, I think it's possible actually inord to his benefit, because while on the debate stage, all the other candidates were clamoring for saying how quickly they would run to this or that foreign country, most prominently Israel. He says, I'm going to be the mayor who stays here in New York and delivers for people, including Jewish people here in the city.

as politicians to not back down. And generally Mom, Donnie has never has not backed down. This is a answer on should Israel exist as a Jewish state has been it should exist as a democratic state with rights for everybody.

the context changed in the last six months. It went from who I feel unsafe because of this rhetoric to it looks like I'm not allowed to criticize this country anymore. And I'm not saying these are different people we're talking about who had these reactions. But I think, one, mom, Donny benefit from that, but two he has what is he going to choose just to not say some things that, beyond losing votes, would make people worry? And he said that.

Another point says victory speech, he sort of needs to he needs to speak for everybody, even if he didn't vote for him. How was he going to interpret that? Does that mean he's gonna he's going to piss off some people who vote over him by not renouncing bds, which he has not renounced these sports bds, but not using some of these phrases. You don't want to be in an announcement with Olympics, which which sometimes happens in campaigns where you're asking to anounce this statement, that statement,

this Endorsemer saysn't crazy to do denounce it. But again he said in November twenty twenty on Twitter, queer liberation means defund the police. And he's not running around every TV show is saying yes, I still mean the queer liberation means to the police. So I think he's going to be consistent as a progressive who thinks that Israel's one committing a genocide to should have its government changed constitutionally, three in the meantime should be boycotted. He believes those things.

There might be a mayor of New York who believes those things, which is unprecedented. But how do you express it, that's the question. The only thing I'd say is that the interview is not very long, the bull arg interview. And if Democrats, i think, are risking a backlash that will help Mandanni if they Russian and repeat what somebody else said about him and don't look at what he's

what he said. Adams has already been doing this. Adams just accused him of saying things he never said, supporting hamas being an anti anti semi and Adams Adams is not just generally not very honest. But there is a well, yeah, there is a risk. There is a risk though if if Mount Donnie is called out for something he said, that's a problem. But if he's slandered you've already seen Democrats are pretty sympathetic to that, and they're a little

bit tired. Not all of them, but let's say forty four percent of New York are a little bit tired of being told you might lose your job. Well, the port you will shame you if you criticize what is Reel's doing. That is that doesn't feel very American to people, even if they even if they agree with with with like eighty percent of what is Reel's doing.

this guy won, he didn't. It wasn't a squeaker. He went overwhelmingly Democratic voter said this is the person who we would like to see normally, that's the end of the story in terms of the Democratic Party supports the nominee. And that does not seem to be the end of the story here. So let's take a listen to this. Will you support his candidacy and will you back him?

in our city under siege with expressive temperatures. We have to making sure our subways are safe, building more housing on the city of yes, which were the finish line. So as much as there's a lot of people, perhaps even in this room, who are very focused on the politics, I don't have the luck. I focus on governing and delivering for New Yorkers and working with the people that are in government today.

Where do you think that this is going? Are they going to try to pull basically another India Walton, who was the lefty candidate in Buffalo who knocked down a long time corrupt incumbent and then he came back and was able to defeat her in the fall with the coalition of establishment Democrats or like corporate Democrats and Republicans.

that they could do it with Doron. We just talked about all the flailing they're doing, and Adam's just done some of this, all the truss On baby did not figured out an effective line. But if you're a national Democrat, what is the risk of something this sign profile ending with Democrats betraying the Democratic nominee? How does that play out in two years? Four years? Look at how much anger Bernie Sanders engendered just for saying he was recruiting

candidates to run for office Democrats or independents. And he would tell anybody he told me, but anybody who asked him he meant independence in like a place where Democrats can't win. He did not mean I'm a recruiting be able to run against them. But you saw the knee jerk. How dare he do this? He's not a real Democrat reaction. The party has very little credibility left, and I might

be overstating it by saying very little. If it looks like it is undermining a duly nominated Democratic candidate, then it will be hurt in ways that we can't even predict right now. And I think that's where clets to me from what we're Hope's doing, because Hopel if I were calling, correctly endorsed Walton but didn't do anything for if she does that in this race, well, the complication is that she's got a challenger at Tendo Dogatu who is very pro Zorn and endorsed him already and says

she should what she's doing right now. I was giving some giving space, I suppose for the Gila brands and vocals if they do want to have conversations with him and say, look, this is what happened with Trump in twenty sixteen. Trump wins the nomination and there are a lot of people who didn't support Trump who get meetings with him and say, hey, I represent ten million pro life voters. You should really be doing this and say this now, and you should can't this interview answer you

gave and he did. Like this is the thing that actually Zorn learned a lot from having talked to him in the campaign that it's not like Trump got away with everything. Trump actually did change some of his rhetoric, change some of his answers moderate and so if they're doing that, I feel like they can get away with that if they if they undercut him, it will hurt the party long term. What would Democrats prefer? Would they prefer this situation or one where they can ever winn'

the Senate ever again? Because there's a fifty to third party left wing organization that gets fifteen percent of the vote, Like that is that is the risk right now they have progressives in the tent and the best situation, I might sound what to do. It's the best situation for them clearly is Zoran Mom Dannie winning the election, being successful and in four years people saying that wasn't so bad.

That is for the party. That's what makes sense. For some donors in the party, they don't want that, and that's complicated. But if you're elected Democrat and you want Democrats to want elections, your your choices are sabotage him and sabotage yourself, or try to just get him to move in your direction so you're both successful.

Queen's and mostly in Nassau County. Pat Ryan in Westchester County hasn't said something the Mom Donnie. My understanding of Mom Donnie, I haven't talked to I talked to him last night. But about this is yes, he's going to give some people some room to not get on board with everything, which is what again Donald Trump did in twenty sixteen. He is not demanding every Democrat anywhere around the country. He says, I love Zora Mandanni. He's the future of the party. I agree with him on everything

that he's not doing that. It's actually us in the media who were asking Democrats if they agree and the answer we're getting are I guess they're this in the two camps. One is or three one is just pure excitement, like AOC Yes, this is the way the party should go, or Bernie one is. Alyssa Slockin did this. I was talking to Abigas Banger span Burgerk yesterday and she did this is well, voters want things be affordable. We learn it in November. We're learning that now, which is a

very diplomatic way. I think that's where most Democrats will end up. Is I don't agree with on everything, but if somebody like him can win. This is what they say about Trump, right, Like Trump's victory proves that people are worried about some of these issues and we need to we need to figure that out. That is the diplomatic way to do it. The least diplomatic is the Swazi way of I can't support this guy, and that camp is pretty small. So right now they're still on

the hill. They're gonna be chased around, asked if they endorse them or not. I think that'll last for two or three more days. It might pop up again, because look, I have mentioned New York as the media capital the world, so specifically New York Post is there, and Fox News is there, and the New York Post can make anything famous. So there will be news cycles or Zoran does something where something is revealed and Democrats are asked about it.

But I don't think that there'll be other stories that happen. I think the Democrats were safest will be the ones who have some yeuristic that says, yeah, I see why he's winning and people are angry, but I don't agree with him on X y Z. That's where I think most of them are ending up, because that's my conversation so far, and that's what makes the most sense.

the Republican nominee, to take some Trump administration job. He has ruled that out quite definitively, in a very Curtis Leewa kind of a way, with rhetorical flourish, and you're

not gonna. But I think I think probably the most important point is that if Democrats really do try to rat fuck him, or even appear to try to rat fuck him, then it is devastating for them because here you have them having just lost this election, and they're all running oud, oh, we need someone who's younger and has ideas and that the bros Are into, and you know, can we back young people? And you know, create new

energy in the party. And then he shows up and they're like, nope, we want Andrew Cuomo over the sky. It's crazy, and it comes at a time when democratic leadership is already deeply unpopular with their own base. And this is what's so different this that's what makes this moment so different, even from the burning moments, from the AOC moment, is at that time, most of the Democratic base was still enamored with democratic leadership. That is not the case anymore, so, you know that, which is part

of why Zorn's able to succeed. Even though you had all of the establishment lining up behind Cuomo and saying you can't possibly elect this guy. He's an anti Semite, he's a radical, et cetera. People didn't listen and they didn't care because those leaders are now not only failed in the eyes of the broader public, but they're failed specifically in the eyes of the Democratic base.

It's just like many like, if you don't like zoon mom, Donnie in the city right now, you are absolutely cooked because you have Eric Abdams out there chanting Focus, No Distractions and Grind in front of a crowd of boomers seemingly like it's.

he has no subvlts. Just put that out into the world of like this guy wants to make the buses free and make it, you know, your rent cheaper. God, we can't have that, God forbid. So we're willing to spend one hundreds of millions of dollars. And I'm in the group text where we're trying to control everything behind

the scenes, you know. Again, like that is part of the reason why so many people voted for Zoran because he represents a repudiation of that type of politics that Ackman is just openly professing to, you know, to believe in and be a part of.

you're trying to thwart the will of the voters. And so you really don't have any good options, Like if

you organize an alternative candidate, it looks completely astroturfed. It looks like what they did to Bernie and Zora not benefits from this interesting scenario that the establishment has found itself in where they know if they if they try to beat him with some other mechanism, whether that's a third party candidate pouring tons of money behind like Eric Adams or Curtis Leewa, it has the effect of proving his point.

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