Zohran Mamdani Is My Mayor (I'm in Los Angeles)

Lalala Let me breakdown why people, myself included, are fascinated, obsessed maybe even, with NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Madani's Campaign, the ideological split in the Democratic Party, and why this campaign(and hopefully his win) feels like a light at the end of a very dark tunnel.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Him to a couple of things.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
I want to get into why mom Danny is my
mayor although I'm residing in LA and to get into that,
let me bring you back in time real quick. So,
first of all, in November last year, twenty four I
had the pleasure of speaking with David Ryand of CNN
on the topic of the Latino vote.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
If you hear the interview, you'll know.

Speaker 2 (00:23):
That I brought up the points that Latinos are not
a monolithic group. We look different, act and socialize differently,
and vote differently. In twenty twenty five, we're all heavily
aware of the election results, and I bring this up
not to vote that I was on CNN, or about
Trump winning, but about the first of many times hopefully,

(00:44):
but to bring this point up as well. I was
asked who I was voting for, and I expressed feeling unsure,
and I remember David being like, huh, for lack of
a better expression, taken aback. Now some of y'all are
hearing it's like huh. But before you cut me up,

(01:05):
hear me out Jennacide, Oh yeah, we're going There isn't
something I'm willing to look past.

Speaker 1 (01:11):
And I'm not alone.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
In twenty twenty, we were so tired of all of
the shenanigans that Trump and his administration exemplified.

Speaker 1 (01:20):
We voted for Biden. We were just we were tired.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
We were like, damn, let's just get this guy out
of But here's the thing. In twenty twenty four, people
weren't willing to repeat the same action with the same enthusiasm.
I'm sorry, no, and I'm one of those people because
just because we're all collectively educated enough to understand the
mass absorption of issues by the two parties, it's done for.

Speaker 1 (01:42):
It, Like it's not flying no more.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
I need you guys to hear me, Like, just because
there are two parties doesn't mean that we have to
vote for one or the other just because if we
don't get one, we'll get the other.

Speaker 1 (01:53):
We're tired of that. We deserve better than that.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
Oh so yeah, we're trying to fight for better than that.
Deserve is a very strong word. Say thanks for what
they are, but a black glado. In the Democratic Party,
there's a significant ideological split. They're the moderates and the progressives,
and sadly, the way the party is operating, they won't
split because they know it'll create a massive shift, and

(02:16):
quite frankly, the moderates, which attracts an older, more conservative group,
will lose by landslides. They don't want to give it
to us young people during elections, and I'm talking local
and at the state level. In any two party system,
absorbing all of the issues results in squashing descent. I
swear I'm not trying to explain for the million times

(02:37):
why people did not vote for Kamala, but instead why
people are voting for Mamdani.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
I hope that I'm not.

Speaker 2 (02:44):
Being premature because obviously we don't have the results yet
by saying that this election has great potential to be
the perfect case study as to what a successful contemporary
progressive election looks like at the local level, but also
what people actually want and fasus on actually want. So yes,
Ma'm Danny is my mayor all the way from outside

(03:06):
New York. But also these are you know, I'm just
echoing with people in Tokyo, all over Europe, even in
Latin America as we're seeing online are saying, and from
different states of wealth as well. Because the general public
are tired of being treated like they're stupid. Okay, so
PSA the Democrats, like this is you can't run campaigns
like you used to in the sixties, seventies, eighties, like.

Speaker 1 (03:28):
It's a new time.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
We're in the information age, and to treat people like
they don't know things is honestly silly in twenty twenty five.
So this whole gaslighting and being diplomatic and just not
addressing issues head on, people aren't standing for that anymore.
Do with that which you will. And with that said,
taking a stance is the most effective way to get
this generation to pay you any mind instead of moving diplomatically.

(03:53):
I don't know, I'll come back to you with that,
Hakim Jeffries.

Speaker 1 (03:56):
It's giving.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Just be clear on APEX, the issues with billionaires throwing
their influence around with no remorse, and quality of life
more importantly, like most importantly, people are indeed tired of
being resilient.

Speaker 1 (04:11):
And this country is embarrassing. How embarrassing is.

Speaker 2 (04:14):
It that we have all of the resources but people
still don't know how they're gonna eat, don't know how
they're gonna pay their rent, don't know how they're going to.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Pay their medical bills. It's embarrassing. We are embarrassing.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
We have the highest GDP in the world and an
ability to put to be equitable, but this country chooses
not to because it.

Speaker 1 (04:32):
Hates black people. Like that's crazy.

Speaker 2 (04:34):
Okay, moving on, Trump is doing whatever is in his
latest project, twenty twenty five Man Date. We're all aware
of that, we're watching in real time, we're feeling the effects.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
But let's talk about the reconstruction.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
Of the White House East Wind because honestly, it's pissing
me off. The truth is, I wish it were illegal
what he was doing. To listen to the whole la
la last segment, make sure to check out episode twenty nine.

Speaker 1 (04:57):
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