894: Senate Passes "Big Beautiful Bill"

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Hello everyone, My name is Spech Walsh. Welcome to today's
episode of Newslash. We have a great and important show
for you as always, so thank you very much for
joining us today on the show, we're gonna be taking
a look at this big, beautiful bill. We're gonna be
breaking down all of the parts in it, taking a

(00:33):
look at how it passed and exactly what it does.
It's gonna give huge, huge tax cuts to the rich,
and to pay for it, it's gonna kick millions off
of Medicaid and food stamps while cutting huge amounts of
scientific research funding and funding for a whole bunch of
other critical stuff that our grandma does. We'll give you

(00:54):
all of the details on it and its prospects for
future passage and the House. It's gonna be very important
to getting it to the President's desk. Also, some news
that just came in today, Zoron clinching his win. Zoramandani
is the official Democratic nominee as ranked choice voting has

(01:15):
come out in the New York City mayoral primary. And
take a look at that. Zoran explaining how he won
and what Trump wants to do to him now, and
it's what he pretty much wants to do to every
brown person that doesn't actively support him, kick him out
of the country.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Well.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Also take a look at the latest from Gaza and
a new report that says a far right group planned
to violently antagonize Palestinian protesters on the streets of New
York City. Very very disturbing stuff. Keep it an eye
on all of it for you here today on Newsflash
and once again, all clips will be available on YouTube

(01:59):
of the show, so check it out at Spencer Walsh
YouTube channel. Ladies and gentlemen, what they are currently debating
right now in the House is a bill that will
essentially take the really awful course we're going on as
a country, especially economically, especially with the distribution of wealth

(02:19):
in this country, and they are going to absolutely turbocharge it.
I don't know if you remember, but we talked about
it recently. It's the big Beautiful Bill. And now some things.
If you don't know what's in the Big Beautiful Bill,
you've come to the right place. We're gonna break it
all down. Some of the things here have changed, so
we want to make sure that you are up to

(02:40):
date on it. And it's become under some really kind
of increasing increasing resistance on one hand by some of
the more moderate Democrats, essentially as usual, are playing no
role in this process aside from just trying to kind
of desperately put up put up amendments to these bills
that they know are gonna get voted down and then
kind of half heartily messaging. But we'll get more into

(03:02):
that a little bit later. But what's the big kind
of distribution is between more moderate Republicans who don't want
to be on the hook for the massive, massive cuts
to welfare benefits to kind of essentially things that are
going to help people stay alive in this country, all
these various various programs, and then there's also people who

(03:24):
are very big fiscal hawks. And you know, after this
bill presumably passes in the Senate maybe in the next
day or so, it's going to have to go back
to the House where you're gonna have a big chunk
of fiscal hawks who say, all these tax cuts that
we're doing, we want them to be offset with more
spending cuts because we are going to be getting less

(03:47):
in tax receipts, so we can't be spending all that
money on things that actually help people because we are
taking or taking significantly less money in taxes from the rich.
And you know, as you can see here, these tax
cuts are going to be extended. After taking office in
twenty seventeen, Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
He is going to extend that. It's going to be
benefiting higher earners more than most. He's making those provisions

(04:11):
the beautiful Bill, essentially making them permanent. In these in
these provisions of what increasing the is this is critical
here he increases the standard deduction for individuals. These are
people like you know, you and me that are paying
taxes on a normal level. He increases the standard deduction
for one thousand for individuals fifteen hundred and four heads
of household and two thousand for married couples, albeit only

(04:32):
through twenty twenty eight. And those are you know, going
to be much much less. They're going to be more
impactful on the day to day. But unlike those big
taxes for the rich, they're not going to be made permanent.
Same thing here, this is again only for a few years,
only until the uh it's time for reelection, and then
you know, Republicans can campaign on these stuff and kind

(04:55):
of rope you into saying, oh we need to extend
these taxts because that we could have extended. But we also,
you know, by the way, we had no trouble extending
the ones for the rich, which I think is very
very telling in terms of the attentions that they have
behind this bill. We're also getting some of the kind
of campaign promises cutting taxes on tips or overtime. Again,
those are going to not be permanent breaks. And I

(05:17):
could go on all day about why I think it's
better to just kind of get rid of the kind
of whole tipping system and make people pay even restaurant workers. Yes,
even restaurant workers do deserve a livable hourly wage. You know,
call me crazy on that. But until then, the you know,
Trump administration is throwing a bone on no taxes on
tips or overtime. But again it's going to be a

(05:39):
small bone compared to the bone that they give to
the rich. It's only going to last again until twenty
twenty eight. More money for mass deportations and a border wall.
As part of Tom's planning to remove undocumented nammigrants from
the country, Immigrations and Customers Enforcement will receive forty five
billion dollars for more detention facilities, fourteen billion dollars for
to pay deportation operations, and billions of dollars more to

(06:00):
hire an additional ten thousand agents. By twenty twenty nine,
more than fifty billion dollars will be allocated for the
construction of new border fortifications, which will probably include a
wall along the border at least at some point with Mexico.
And this is really just you know, messaging because in
a lot of respects, because ICE can already essentially do
whatever it wants to do in the Trump administration with

(06:23):
and by the way, you know, Biden raised the ICE
budget all throughout his time as well, so raising the
ICE budgets for pretty much everyone through Obama has been
a Bullget was created during the Bush administration, and you know,
they literally found the organization. Obama raised the budget, Biden
raised the budget. Obviously Trump raised the budget. So you know,
it's it's kind of a bipartisan thing. They're already going

(06:45):
to be able to do whatever they want, and they
can't really build a whole wall across the entire Mexico
border because of reasons like geography, so it's going to
be much more of a thing to say to Trump's
biggest supporters. Hey, look, we're looking after you. We know you.
We want immigration, we may not be able to deport
everybody from the home depots as much as we really
really want to, So in the meantime, we're going to

(07:08):
just throw some more money to ICE so they can
get paid higher salaries whole. And also, you know, we
could build a stupid border wall that isn't going to
do much to stop these coyotes and these smugglers who
are taking advantage of the chaos on the border. Anyway,
we're gonna just throw money at that problem while we
let Ice do whatever they want so it makes our

(07:28):
base happy. Meanwhile, we are going to slash Medicaid and
we're gonna cut food stamps. Republicans have attempted to cut
down on the bills costs by slashing two major federal
safety net programs. To get into this in a moment
a little bit deeper, those are going to be cuts
to green energy. The bill's going to phase out many
tax incentive created by Congress during Joe Biden's presidency meant

(07:49):
to encourage consumers and businesses to use electric vehicles and
other clean energy technology. And that is again, that is
One of the best things that he did during his
administration is set that kind of economic precedent, set that
making economic consentive for people to actually consider using green
energy and for people to make it more make more
sense marketably, and you can see it in the incredible

(08:09):
drop in clean energy pricing and the cheapness of energy
in the last four or five years. This is another
one that is going to screw with some of these
more modern Republicans. The State and local tax relief. One
of the thorniest state issues in the bill addresses is
how much relief to provide from state and local taxes salts,

(08:30):
which many Americans must also pay in addition to their
federal taxes. Several House Republicans representing districts in Democratic led
states withheld their support from the bill until the salt
deductibility cap was raised from ten thousand to forty thousand,
but the Senate Republicans made clear that they would change that.
The sense of version keeps the forty thousand dollars cap,
but only again through twenty twenty eight, which again gives

(08:52):
them more to campaign on and keeps these issues back
on the front for the election. As in twenty twenty eight,
as it is coming up sooner than we would all
want to want to think or believe. More benefits a
firm the for the rich than the poort. According to
the Budget Lab at Yale University, wealthy taxpayers are set

(09:13):
to receive more benefits them. People in the lowest income
quintile will see a two point five percent decrease in
their incomes largely due to the SNAP and Medicaid cuts
that they rely on. Well, the highest owners we'll see
their income grow by two point four percent. The budget
Lab estimated. The impact could change based on what amendments
the Senate adopts, but so far the amendments just closed

(09:34):
up and there hasn't really been too much major in
terms of these two major things like the SNAP and
Medicaid cuts and these benefits that are going to go
towards the rich. And again not as some of the
Democrats need to be completely trumpeting, parroting, you know, parading
all the way throughout in terms of the messaging on
this bill. This is going to be something that is deeply,

(09:56):
deeply unpopular at a time where Americans all over the
country are struggling to pay for basic necessities and what
do you have you have a massive, massive giveaway, and
you know all this stuff about we care about the debt,
we care about the deficit, how you can pay for that.
It's going to be a huge price tag. Despite the
geops attempts to use the bill as a vehicle to
reigning government spending, the bill would increase the deficit by

(10:19):
three point three trillion, not just make the deficit three
point three trillion, increase it by three point three trillion
through twenty thirty four. According to their non parisonings Correctual
Budget Office, most of that price tag is the extension
of the twenty seventeen tax cuts. The heavy budgetary impact
could complicate the bill's chances of passing the House, where
fiscal hardliners have demanded budget deficit reductions. Let's go to

(10:42):
more perfect Union on this for a little bit more depth.
More than half of nursing homes would be forced to
cut staff and more than one quarter would have to
close their doors, according to the American Healthcare Association, due
to these Medicaid cuts. It really really is awful stuff.
If you have a family member, if you know an
older person in a nursing home, they especially in a

(11:04):
poorer area, especially if they're on Medicaid, they would have
to be very much at risk or in some way
cut twenty seven percent closed facilities, fifty eight percent say
reduced current staff, and seventy seven percent say defer modernization efforts.
Only four percent say little to no changes. So that

(11:26):
is an essential, essential thing as we continue to see
an aging population as a result of this is interesting
here as a result, and I thought, we said, oh,
Republicans care about clean under or smart economic policies with
regard to energy. They care about increasing the supply of
oil in this country. They want to lower your electricity bills. Well,
take a look at this. As a result of energy

(11:48):
tax credits being killed, household electricity bills in every state
will be going up, most principally in the states that
would use green energy the most. There is twenty nine
point two percent in Wyoming. That's brutal, twenty five percent
in Illinois. So it just and it goes. You know,

(12:09):
you can see probably in very small texts, but all
the way down from there, all these states mostly around
I would say, the media like ten and a half
percent increase in energy bills, and so you know that
kind of sucks. But the bill contains the largest cuts
in history to SNAP as well, two hundred and eighty
seven billion dollars over ten years, at a time when

(12:32):
food insecurity has been rising in every single state. Even
without these cuts, more than fifty million people already experience
insecurity in the US. And SNAP it is not great.
You know, it's not nearly as comprehensive as you would
probably want it to be. But here's the thing. It's
really keeps a lot of people well fed. If it's
not well fed, but fed period. And it also you know,

(12:55):
people are going to experience worst quality of life. People
are going to die most likely because of these cuts
that would not have died otherwise. And I think that's
something that needs to be said and it needs to
be accepted by the American population because it is the reality.
The recon Reconciliation Bill would also cut healthcare by more
than one trillion dollars. Sixteen million people would become uninsured

(13:17):
on top of the twenty five million already insured, which
is crazy. It would be the largest cut to federal
support for healthcare programs in US history. This is again
just at least attributed to the House bill. Here, the
Senate has hasn't really changed it too too much from
what I understand, but this at least from the House bill,

(13:38):
Medicaid cuts will be seven point eight million people off
of health insurance, four million ACA marketplace cuts. From the
proposed rule and House bill, this would be four million
people off health insurance, and four point two million will
be from the failure to extend enhance premium tax credits.
That's just tax credits for your premiums and to help

(14:00):
people on the margins be able to ford healthcare a
little bit better. The North American Building Trades Union is
calling the gp POST the biggest job killing bill in
the history of this country. The reconciliation bill threatens estimated
one point seventy five million construction jobs, resulting in one
hundred and forty eight billion in lost annual wages and
benefits for workers. According to the nab to U, that's

(14:22):
probably a big part of the lack of investment in
terms of green energy projects. Let's see what we have here.
This is another big one. The US government is aiming
to get rid of a quarter of a million people
involved in science and research education by twenty twenty six.
That is a big part of our kind of soft power.
That's a big part of our ability. It's kind of
hard power when you're able to make changes, when you're

(14:45):
able to discover, when you're able to innovate. All these
things that make America such a powerhouse. Why so many
people want to come here and do research and get
paid well to do it and have it supported by
the government. You know, that is one of the biggest,
you know, major advantages we have, especially at the time
when China it is gobbling everything else up and you
get you're talking about a quarter of a million people

(15:05):
off of science and research education, huge cuts in funding
as well. And this guy on Twitter at lib crusher says,
this bill and Trump's trade policy our own attempt at
a Bexit esque national suicide. And I have to say
it's not the craziest thing in the world.

Speaker 3 (15:20):
Here.

Speaker 1 (15:20):
Let's say, look at Bernie Sanders explaining this bill in
what he calls a disaster and by the way, one
of the only ones who has done consistent messaging on
this bill. Not a surprise.

Speaker 4 (15:32):
What this bill will do is give massive tax breaks
to billionaires, close through a trillion dollars and then at
the same time make horrific cuts to Medicaid through nutrition
to education. So in many sense, this is a massive
transfer of wealth from low income and working people to

(15:54):
the people on top. If you can believe it, hear this.
What this bill does use is throw sixteen million Americans
off of the healthcare that they currently have because of
the cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act. There
are studies out there which suggest, I mean, this is
just almost unspeakable that some fifty thousand Americans will die

(16:20):
every year unnecessarily because of the healthcare that they lose.
On top of that, massive cuts to nursing homes and
the community health centers that are dependent on Medicaid funding.
So this is really what trump Ism is all about.
If you're rich, and if you're powerful, and if you

(16:40):
make big campaign contributions, you're going to get a very
large tax break. But if you're a working person and
your low income you can't afford multimillion dollar campaign contributions,
what's going to happen to you is you're going to
lose your health camp, your kid's not going to be
able to get an education, and they will the hungry

(17:01):
children in this country who will not get the food
they need.

Speaker 1 (17:05):
So and Bernie makes it as clear as can be.
This is going to be the reality. And you can
really hope that more politicians in the Democratic Party get
on this message and they do so with credibility, and
I think a big part of doing that with credibility
comes with advocating, you know, in that Zora Mom Donny
like style, there is another way to do this. We

(17:26):
can increase, we can make government work, and we can
make government make your life better. So that is where
we are headed in terms of what is in this
very scary bill. Ladies and gentlemen. We have just found
out in the last few moments in between I took
a little break recording the last video slash segment and

(17:48):
this one, and in that period of time we found
out the Senate has just gone ahead and passed their
version of the big beautiful bill is going to have
to go now to the House for final approval. But
it is finally and you know, if you're watching this
on YouTube and you didn't just hear me explain on
the podcast the last in detail what is in this bill.

(18:12):
We'll go through a quick highlighting of it from Brian
Tyler Tyler Cohen. He says, Republicans just built an all
nine er passive bill that will a strip healthcare away
from seventeen million Americans. B take food assistance away from
three million Americans. See eliminate school meal access for eighteen
million kids. D just forgot the letter T there send

(18:35):
energy costs soaring by getting a rid of these clean
energy subsidies and making clean energy, which a lot of
people rely on and it has become cheap over the
last few years, by making it much more expensive to
benefit their donors in big oil and kind of dirty energy,
so to speak. In the various forms that that will take.

(18:55):
It's also gonna add three trillion dollars to natural debt
and substantially raised healthcare prea for seniors with ACA coverage,
all to give themselves a tax cut. We are witnessing
the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the
rich and American history, courtesy of the working from the
quote unquote party of the working class here in the GOP,
and that has gone through. It's gonna have to go

(19:15):
to the House in for final approval. But it's interesting
to see three lawmakers here voting no. That was Susan Collins,
Tom Tillis and Ran Paul All joining Democrats in voting
against this bill, forcing President Jadvans to cast the tie
breaking votes. In the end. Lisa Murkowski, though, came through

(19:39):
and supported it because they essentially said that all the
worst stuff that all the other Republican senators are going
to deal with won't apply for her state, so she's
gonna vote for it. The bill would extend roughly three
point eight trillion dollars in tax cuts. That's the reason why,
you know, you're seeing all this funding that we just
talked about, or these funding cuts that you're just talking

(20:00):
thing about. You know, though the majority leader of the
Senate talked about it, he was he was supporting of it.
But their product Republicans are advancing, the Big Beautiful Bill,
has caused a lot of angst among pretty much throughout
the Congress, throughout the throughout the rank and file of

(20:20):
the Republican caucus. The Senate voted amounted to a political
and policy gamble for Republicans who embrace the bill to
make considerable reservations in their ranks about a measure that
would swelled the deficit and cut vital programs, including Medicaid,
that polls show is deeply unpopular with voters and so
you know it's going to add through. This is is

(20:41):
interesting to see, uh, this comparison with the House. The
changes Senators made to a version of the bill the
House passed in may have raised the cost of the
package while also teeing up deeper costs cuts that would
lead to really soaring, soaring deficits and also lead to

(21:03):
more Americans losing their health insurance coverage with that in
turn alienated both pulls the party, fiscal hawks concerned about
showing deficits and mainstream Republicans worrying of shredding the Social
Safety Net, complicating its path in the Senate and threatening
its prospects in the House. So the House tends to
be more of the fiscal hawks, who say we need
to absolutely balance out the receipts that were coming in

(21:26):
the lessened tax reteats that we're going to have coming
in by making deeper, deeper cuts to the Social Safety
Net and Senate Republicans. So many Senate Republicans who voted
against this, and two out of the three say that
they don't want to cut these social safety nets because
it's just going to be too damaging to their constituents
and they want to win elections in the future. So

(21:51):
Paul here, as you can see, he's the one that
was more for the deficit. He said, I asked myself
one question, will the deficit be more or less? Next?
The answer is, without question, Lisbael will grow the deficit.
So even Paul is saying that, So Ran Paul is
a pretty hardcore Republican. So take that with a grain
of salt the next time, and they will say it

(22:12):
the next time. The Trump administration tries to tell you, oh,
this is going to do nothing to the deficit. It's
going to be no big deal. In fact, it may
even make the deficit better. You know, it was just
ridiculous in the deficit obviously being the difference between how
much we spend and how much we get in funding
and taxes and things like that. Other Republicans, particularly those

(22:32):
up for reelection, openly wary about a measure they worry
could be a political loser and will result in loss
of access to healthcare and nutrition assistance for their constituents.
Josh Hawley voted for it because he said, oh, you know,
we can get away with it now, but we have
to stop doing this at some point, you know, just
kind of making an even more of a joke about

(22:53):
his attempts and his big efforts to be you know,
just man with the working class and make the GOP
a party of the working class. Not gonna happen anytime soon.
Sorry about that. But after Tillis said he could not
support the legislation because it result in cutting billions of
dollars to his state, Trump attacked him and called for
his ouster. Less than a day later, Trump Tillois announced

(23:14):
he would not seek reelection and went onto the floor
to rip the bill. So he said, you know, I
don't need it. I don't need it anymore. I can
speak my mind. What do I tell six hundred and
sixty three thousand people in two years or three years
when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off
the Medicaid because the funding is not there anymore. Tillis asked,
Republicans are about to make a mistake on healthcare, and

(23:35):
this is betraying a promise, which is a pretty brutal,
brutal thing to say, and assuming that really exactly the
Republicans would want to hear. They also, you know, they
did make some kind of concessions here. The legislation would
impose you know, these aren't the concessions the new work

(23:55):
requirements on SNAP or AKA food stamps, and would require
states for first time to shoulder some of the costs.
Just get that get that money off the federal government books, please,
so we can look better. That's essentially what they're trying
to say. And it would make sharp cuts to clean
energy tax credits established under Joe Biden for renewable energy
products including wind and solar farms, as well as for
makers of electric vehicles and hydrogen fuels. Dope. Leaders in

(24:18):
the Senate also agreed to add several costly provisions to
the legislation in a bid to win some of the votes.
That's why you know they're still doing these deep cuts
to Medicare and Medicaid and went up the deficit. But
they had to add some kind of essential conceptions to
the holdouts. Twenty five billion dollars in a fund for
rural hospitals to help healthcare providers absorb the impact of

(24:40):
Medicaid cuts. The bill advantage advances which are far deeper
than what the House proposed, and you're gonna see some
resistance on that when it comes to you know, when
it comes back to the House, they're gonna say, do
we really have to give twenty five billion these rural hospitals.
It's gonna make the deficits so big we can't do that.
So you probably see some resistance to that when it
goes back to the House for final approval. And they

(25:02):
also touched into the bill at an araya measures aimed
at one Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, who spent months
before the vote warning legislation could lead to devastating cuts
in her state. So again, the people who don't want
to lose election by cutting Medicaid and the people who
want to cut Medicaid more because they're sessed with the deficit.
Those are the two main divides at the moment in

(25:23):
the Republican Party. And it's going to be very very
interesting to see here how the Democrats message it, and
so far, I have to be honest, it's not looking good.
Christian Jill Rand supposedly one of the biggest figures of
this caucus. She's started to try and message it. Here's
a little taste of what she had to say.

Speaker 2 (25:42):
Let's be honest about what this bill does. It hurts
hard working Americans and the most vulnerable among us. It
cuts three million people off of access to food assistance.
That's hungry kids. It cuts people off of healthcare, seventeen
million people people on Medicaid, are our veterans, people disabilities, moms.

Speaker 1 (26:02):
And so yeah, she's she's hitting all the right notes
against this stuff, but you know, and not doing it
in a I would say, I have to you know,
maybe I'm being a little too harshy, but I don't
think she's doing it in a particularly compelling or charismatic way.
But also she's not even doing any interviews right now
because if you look at the comments to this, they're
all incredibly pissed about the uh you know, for example,

(26:26):
you know, racist, embarrassed. Real Americans literally don't want to
hear you open your mouth again unless I apologize for
my as well. Islamophobia is coming out of it Center
Guillia Brand. They're all mad about this, which was again,
she's not doing any any interviews right now because she
doesn't want to be asked about essentially calling Uhan mom

(26:47):
Donnie a g hottist. And even when the after his
recent win in New York, she kind of goes on.

Speaker 5 (26:58):
To say, asked to have that meeting. I'm going to
have that meeting and asked to have that.

Speaker 1 (27:02):
She goes on to say with talking to Brian Lair
on WNYC, and Brian Lair is like, he's not a
gihatis is you don't really think that, And this is
how that conversation goes Glee.

Speaker 5 (27:15):
Which has very serious meetings that are violent and destructive.

Speaker 6 (27:20):
So which which he says, and I pressed him on
this on the show on Monday, but which he says,
are not calls for violence because into fada is a
much broader term involving all kinds of uprisings and resistance
and things like that. So I just want to be
clear about how, at least he defines it, and maybe
he needs to be more clear. I don't mean this.

(27:40):
I don't mean that. He did say here that he
didn't want to be the word police, even as the
mayor of New York if he's elected. But I do
also want to be clear that he said he does
not support violent into fada. Is that there?

Speaker 5 (27:52):
So, Brian, I didn't hear your exchange with him, but
if I was speaking to him directly, I would simply
say that is not how the words are received, and
it doesn't matter what meaning you have in your brain.
It is not how the word is received. And when
you use a word like it sofada, to many Jewish
Americans and Jewish New Yorkers, that means you are permissive
for violence against Jews. It is a serious.

Speaker 1 (28:12):
Yeah. So she's essentially saying he wants some violence against
Jews there in that interview. That was a huge, huge
uprise as a huge, huge outrage, especially in many New
York political circles. Kathy Hochel even while people came out
and condemned what she said on this and now she's
essentially taken out of that debate because she's already pissed
off her base. Another thing, Sure, she's not able to
come out and message effectively against this big, beautiful bill.

(28:34):
Another guy you'd like to have him. It's a swing state.
He's a kind of senator who's supposedly popular with the
working class. You know, it's just got millions and millions
of people losing healthcare and snap benefits and all that.
And this is what you have Swing State Senator John
Fennerman talking about last night as this bill is about
to pass.

Speaker 7 (28:54):
Did you get any clues on the floor that what time.

Speaker 3 (28:59):
Oh my god, just want to go home. I've already
my I've missed our entire trip to to the beach.
My family's going to be back before we get on that.
So uh and again I'm gonna vote no. There's no trauma.
The votes are gonna go. In fact, the only interesting
votes are going to be on the margin, whether that's
Collins or Johnson and those but all the Democrats, we

(29:20):
all know how that's gonna go.

Speaker 1 (29:23):
Oh god, I just want to go home. I want
to go to the beach. Like you know, I'm surprised
you didn't get tricked into accidentally voting for the bill,
because you know, it's like, oh, there's a new card
under the under the Senate desk. That's the yes vote.
You should go there and check it out and be
like okay, oh go and go and vote it. So
you know, again, the people who are supposed to be
the number one kind of advocates against this built you know,

(29:47):
I got a top center from a blue state, a
top center from a swing state. They're completely out to lunch.
They're completely unable to do good messaging on this bill
in the National Democratic Party because they just don't have
any talented politicians. It really really is quite insane to see.
And you know, isn't there more they're more annoyed about
the fact that they're to stay up all night and

(30:08):
take away healthcare for millions of millions of Americans. They'd
rather just do it in the day and be done
with it. Apparently it's too big of a slog to
them to have to stay up all night and cut
medicare for millions of people, and a snap and things
like that. So it really is kind of an outrageous,
outrageous situation here. We'll see how it goes in the future.

(30:28):
But Democrats need to really start working hard to build
a positive vision and how they're going to reverse this stuff,
and not just that, how they're going to leave the
country better than they found it, not just through again,
not just through repealing, but through actively building a positive vision.

(30:48):
And right now there seems to be you know, of course,
other than Bernie Sanders, who's been doing some good messaging
on this, there seems to be nobody who is seriously
committed to that goal at this time. Sad to say,
this story also just happened as we were recording on
our show, and I had to talk about it, ladies
and gentlemen, Big news coming out of New York City.

(31:10):
The rank choice voting results have been tabulated and by
a final of fifty six to forty four percent, zoron,
Mom Donnie will be the Democratic nominee for the mayoralty
of New York. Here, let's zoom in on these Paperboy
Prince votes. These Sarlena Bartholomeule votes, Selma Bartholomeules. Sorry, sorry, Selma,

(31:33):
but yeah you're out. As you can see, at first,
it took the write ends to get transferred. That gave
a few people a few more votes, you know, one
hundred and two hundred nineteen here as you can see
in this column here that I'm trying and failing to
highlight in the center. But once these voters got translated,
they did a batch elimination once the write ends were gone.

(31:55):
And what that meant is two or more candidates with
the lowest number of voters can be eliminated any single
round if their vote total is less than the votes
of two candidates are less than the votes for the
candidates immediately ahead of them. This means that if all
next choices went to one of them, they would still
trail the next higher candidate. An outcome would be the

(32:16):
same if they were eliminated one by one or at
the same time. So that applied for all of these
candidates from brad Land are on down and once all
those candidates were kind of done in a batch elimination
here and it really was incredible to see ninety nine
thousand more votes went to Mamdanni compared to fifty three
thousand votes going to Cuomo. Fifty six to forty four

(32:38):
is the final score as predicted, the voting transferring from
all the other candidates, many of whom had said, don't
rank Cuomo. Put me on a coalition somewhere with Mom
Donnie so we can keep Cuomo out. That strategy worked
like a charm and he went ahead and won with
an expanded leader was around seven percent in the first round.

(32:58):
It is now twelve percent, as you can see here.
Let's go now though, to Zoron the man himself talking
about how he built this big win, which I think
is very smart because it shows it clues people in.
It doesn't condescend in them. It says, here's how we
did it, and it couldn't have done it without you.
Let's see Zoran's explanation of how he won his race.

Speaker 7 (33:21):
One week ago. We shocked the establishment and redrew the
political map with a campaign relentlessly focused on the needs
of working people. Since then, a lot of people have
asked me if I was surprised by the results. In
some ways I was. We always thought our victory would
come after multiple rounds of rank choice voting, so when
we got more first round votes than Eric Adams gotten
seven rounds in the last election, it was astonishing. But

(33:41):
in other ways, this was always the plan. We wanted
to rebuild a coalition that had frayed over years of
disappointment and neglect, to win people back to a democratic
party that puts working people first. So let's break it down.
Last November, New York City saw some of the biggest
shifts towards Donald Trump of anywhere in the country. Much
of it took place in working class and immigrant neighborhoods.
A few days after the election, we went to Hillside

(34:02):
Avenue in Queens and Fordham Road in the Bronx, not
to lecture, but to listen, and what we heard was
a desire to bring down the cost of living. That
was our focus, and many of those voters came back.
Brighton Beach went for Trump by forty four points. Last
week we won it by sixteen college point was a
plus eleven Trump neighborhood. We took it by eight points.
We saw similar or even bigger swings in Bath Beach,

(34:22):
Astoria Heights and the north Shore of Staten Island. The
headline is clear, we can win back voters many have
written off if we give them something to vote four,
not just tell them what to be against. When Eric
Adams eked out a win by seven thousand votes four
years ago, he called it a mandate and pronounced himself
the new face of the Democratic Party. Even then it
was a little ridiculous, but in some neighborhoods he did
put up impressive margins. Take Flatbush, for example, eric Adams

(34:45):
dominated there double digits ahead of his next rival. On Tuesday,
there was also a double edged victory, except it was
for US over Andrew Cuomo. We flipped Crown Heights by
forty five points, North Corona by thirty three, and Jamaica
by a staggering fifty seven points.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
These are the outer.

Speaker 7 (35:00):
Borough voters that Eric Adams said he'd bring with him
the City Hall. He served his donors instead, whether we're
talking about young voters, you.

Speaker 1 (35:11):
Can really see it there, You really can see it there.
I really like the part what he said about the
new voters, the Trump voters, you know, actually taking people
with them and actually convincing people that they could see
they could actually see the new voters. Here also is
a very interesting part. I do recommend we go to
his Twitter feed and check out that whole video there

(35:34):
because it really really is fascinating. It's like exactly what
I said it was in the in the My analysis
of the situation was what he was trying to do,
which was make sure that voters could see themselves in
the politics of Mam Nanny campaign. It was after years
of betrayal, after years of being let down by an
establishment that would promise the world and give them people

(35:56):
absolutely nothing. The incredible thing that Mam Donnie did was
give Trump voters who wanted to listen to Trump voters excited,
the new voters, you know, turn over the Eric Adams voters,
all this kind of stuff. He convinced so many different
people in so many different ways that they could actually
expect change from him, when so many people had promised

(36:17):
change and so few people had delivered and that what
I think is the getting people to believe that a
better world is possible and get them to actually come
out and vote for it is in my opinion, the
hands down biggest achievement of the Mam Donnie campaign. But
that's not all. There has been more threats, more attacks.
This is what President Trump had to say, and the

(36:40):
kind of new right wing movement to try and denaturalize
Mam Donnie that is gaining steam as Trump acknowledges it earlier.

Speaker 8 (36:48):
Today, Your beloved New York City may well be led
by a communist soon Zorhan Mundami, who in his nomination
speech said he will defy ice and will not allow
to arrest criminal aliens in New York City. Your message
to communists Orhan Mandani.

Speaker 9 (37:05):
Well, then we'll have to arrest him. Look, we don't
need a communist in this country, but if we have one,
I'm going to be watching over them very carefully on
behalf of the nation. We send him money, we send
him all the things that he needs to run a government.
And by the way, they get already they get about
three times what you get round if you look at
the per capita Florida gets one third of what New

(37:28):
York gets in terms of the numbers. What do you
give us those numbers? Yeah, well that's what we should
send him.

Speaker 1 (37:34):
Yeah, sometimes people say Florida. Okay, I can't even listen
to snibbling around the stantus there, but it is. It's
part of the new thing about this denaturalization, this idea
that Trump was really going to embrace for a long
time common This piece from Dave Wibel here comes after
Trump makes those comments, of course, that we can arrest him. Oh,

(37:56):
there's a chance he may be here legally. He was
also in toning that he lied on his I guess
his or his naturalization form about have you ever been
a member of Communist Party? But he was naturalized at
like ten years old, so it doesn't make any sense.
I mean, he moved to America when he was seven
years old, so it's good luck, you know. But Democrats
rallied behind the Democratic nominee for New York mayor over

(38:18):
the weekend after representative from Tennessee Andy Ogles urged the
Trump minstration to considered revoking Mom Donnie's citizenship. The intra
party support from Mom Donnie, who has been a naturalized
citizen since twenty eighteen. Grew after White House Press Secretary
Carolyn Levitt was asked about the idea and didn't say no,
I have not seen these claims, but surely if they
are true, it's something that should be investigated. Leave with

(38:41):
Total reporters on Monday, referring to Ogle's claim that the
Ugandan born mom Donnie might have concealed his support for
terrorism in his application for citizenship. A spokesperson for the
Department of Justice confirmed that had received Ogles lever, but
it did not comment further. Trump will stop at nothing
to protect billionaires and price scatching corporations. Even racist bs

(39:04):
like this said it can extender. Chris Murphy on Blue Sky,
a New York repreisdent of Richie Torres, a hard Mom
Donnie critic, called the ogo's effort un American. So you're
gonna see the Republicans try and kind of fear longer
and kind of handwave about this. Are they going to
actually push something through? You know, you never know. It's
certainly possible. They've done crazier things in the past. They

(39:27):
may try if there gets enough kind of right wing
momentum about this and people get pissed off enough on
the right, Trump may feel pressure to do something about it.
Also depends how Mom Donnie starts off the first kind
of part of his administration, and I do think he
will survive through a general election. But what's gonna be
really most interesting to me is how Democrats and how
kind of left liberals who are pissed off about Trump

(39:49):
in general, but also pissed off towards Mom Donnie respond.
Are they going to be people who are going to
play along with this fascism, play along to the racism,
and potentially lead up to the deep port of the
denationalization or something crazy. I don't think it's gonna happen,
but you know, it certainly could happen, you know, crazier.
As I said, greater things have happened. Or are they
going to actually get almost negatively polarized by the Trump

(40:10):
mestration into actually defending Mom Donnie and protecting him from
these kind of fascist, right wing thuggish attacks on somebody
who's been an American citizen since twenty eighteen and has
lived here since he was seven years old. That's going
to be very interesting. But so far, for the most part,
some exceptions definitely it seems like the Democrats are standing

(40:31):
up and almost kind of being negatively polarized in defending
Mom Donnie more than they would otherwise, but because of
the insane rhetoric on the Republican side. Really kind of
shocking story here put out by the incredible drop site News.
Let's sake look at this and it's it comes from
an organization that some of you guys may have heard before,

(40:52):
some of you maybe not, but this is about Baitsar.
It's a pretty hard hearted right wing Ruish organization to
the pointment obviously Zionist organization, that's to say, more specifically
to the point where they were so extremely they're blacklisted
by the ADL, which is one of the most pro
Isra organizations out there as being an extremist group. But

(41:13):
they've been working with local government and they've also been
trying to perpetuate this campaign of trying to incite and
harass pro Palestinian activists both in their homes while they're
on the street. Really really incredible stuff here. Let's take
a look at what they got there. This is from
Talia Jane there in drop site News. Chats are starre
with drop site by an anonymous member out of the

(41:35):
group's added to the groups by an organizer illustrate a
network of pro Israel agitators conducting street confrontations and provocations
in New York City. Bitchar also appears to have had
some coordination with the local government, with one member stating
they were affording information to a local state assemblyman. In
the same chat, others share their collecting information on pro

(41:57):
policy and activists to forward to the Department of Homeland
Security as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and at
times people who have been on their lists have been
on their kind of quote quote ban lists. And also
this goes to Israel as well. They have They've been
seen with you know, members of Bejar. I've been seeing
with Israeli government officials trying to ban quote unquote bad
diasks for a Jews from coming back into Israel, which

(42:21):
is pretty remarkable as well in terms of the deep
ties they have to people with pretty high positions of
power in the government. But really what has been interesting
here to see is also how they have been launching
these kind of a street conversations trying to agitate pro
polsting and protests. And this is definitely something that people
should be on the lookout for. As you know, more

(42:42):
more posting and protests happen, and you see, especially in
New York City, someone trying to be antagonistic, someone holding
a sign, someone you know, buying a laser or something
like that. This is all the things that they've talked
about in these chats, pepper spray, lasers and other illictic
devices to kind of antagonize these prop POWs protesters. Chances
are they are probably in some way associated with this

(43:04):
Betar group. You know, they claim to providing names issue's
parmament of Jewish Americans to ban them to entering from Israel.
They've offered bounties on prominent Palastine activists and boasted about
harassing mosques. So here are some of the clips, and
they essentially say they want to go and do this
protest group, but they don't like this the fact that

(43:27):
people are finding out about them, which is which is
kind of funny. Whatever color is. This is talking about
the lasers that they like. What color laser, blue, purple,
green or red, what color, whatever color you like. But
you need to be careful. They are borderline illegal. You
can't point in the sky. And then there's a response
to the page david Off. This woman here in the

(43:49):
chat says, I give no epps with blinding these motherfuckers.
And then I don't know why I bleeped out the
first one, but I spent the last one there. But anyway,
that's what that's what she said. And then this other woman,
Paige david Ov says, do it, do it? You know,
he's a sucker, punched a female while she was bending down.
She put off fire, put off the fire, f her

(44:10):
that I don't know what that's about. Just again, so
to give you a taste of what these people are
talking about here, you can see Paige david Off again
saying I'll be smoking and joining off that burning Kuran woo,
you know, burning Quran in front of you know, Palistin
and protesters trying to give people up to Ice who
are Propalsityan protesters and just really antagonizing people throughout. We

(44:33):
are most definitely marching in front of Mosque ive recruited
major Naguish allies will join me. Let her be confused.
We will also be marching in front of her satin
is at home. That's reference to a Palestinian activist. Members
also share advice on where to require peppers prey, as
well as devices that could be used to blind individually.
You know, this is a whatever color you like, you

(44:54):
need to be careful. You can point him in the sky,
but we can burn their eyes out. That's what one
member responded about the laser conversation. But yeah, this comes
this kind of increasing campaign of antagonization and violence that
really has been kind of at the forefront of you know,
the limited Zionist protests that we've seen has also come

(45:17):
as we have seen increasing violence and slaughtering by Israel
and their troops here as they bombarded Palastians across this
Gods strip on Monday with air strikes and artillery, killing
at least eighty since dawn the Northern Gods at least
four schools in the shelter that shelter, hundreds of families

(45:38):
were bombed, in addition to homes and other civilian areas
in Jeralballa. The Ox Martyrs Hospital complex was also struck.
One of the worst attacks when it became when Israeli
warplanes bombed Albuca, a seafront cafe, reportedly killing more than
thirty perched on the water and popular for its internet access.
The cafe was frequented by families as well as journalists,

(46:00):
and you could bet your bottom dollar, you know the
killing of a Ismael Abuta al jazeerra Boscher correspondent and
another journalist by an Abu Sultan was injured. And the
reason that is is because they don't want this stuff,
especially with regarding to the aid massacres that have been
getting more attention in the last week or so. I
would say in terms of the mainstream Western press, they

(46:22):
want to stop any sort of images, any sort of testimony,
any sort of report from getting out of Gaza towards
the Western world where they can find out about this stuff.
And the big way to do it is bomb one
of the very few internet cafes in box or in
Gaza that still has any sort of connection where journalists
aren't going to be, of course frequenting, and anyone else

(46:45):
who's posting anything else is going to be frequencing. And
of course you're gonna want to go in there and
bomb it if you are Israel. You know this is
really a horrific testimony. One guy Maher Bannak, who's an eyewitness, said,
you know this is this is a massacre. It's only
for entertainment. This is not a site but the resistance,
you know, this is this is a criminal act here

(47:07):
all you know outdoor cafe was a scene of carnage,
all broken apart and shredded wood, bodies strewn on the ground,
plastic chairs torn apart, blood soaked on the floor, a
large crater in the ground in the cafe that showed
the missile impact. At Elship Hospital in Gaza City, fresh
corpses and body bags were lined up outside. So you know,
you can see some of the images here. It is

(47:30):
really really unimaginable, but you know it's in some ways though,
it's it's quite immaginuable because you know, that's what we've
seen from so so many people at so many places,
so many times throughout Gaza since October seventh. The attendant
attacks come as President Donald Trump has launched a public
messaging campaign claiming he wants a Gaza deal. The messaging

(47:52):
began immediately after the Around Seas five was announced, with
similar stories appearing in Israeli media outlets, predicting a new
round of negotiations and Prime Mister Yahoo claiming that opportunities
have opened back up to free the Israeli captives held
in Gaza. Early Sunday morning, Trump posted on his Truth
social site, make the deal in Gaza, get the hostages back. Meanwhile,

(48:12):
the Israeli military continues to placement orders across Gaza, with
the latest coming on Sunday and Monday with orders for
Palestinians in the area of Gaza City and Jimbalia to
flee up to all Mawazi and the south, saying the
military is operating with extreme force in these areas, and
these military operations will escalate and censify and extend westward
to the city center. And this is the joke here,
you know, this is where they're kind of the red

(48:33):
is where they're trying to push people out of they're
moving in from Israel from kind of east to west,
and you know, pushing them into the coastal road, pushing
him into this white part here on the bottom. I
can't really highlight it, but it's southern southern southwestern part

(48:55):
of Gaza. Rafa conmunist A ball all completely rid it out,
where the displacement orders increasing here as they're trying to
again as what we can receive these aid groups there.
They're primarily in that white area in the right by
the sea right towards the south right towards Egypt. These
AID massacres are happening there. The distribution sites are happening there.

(49:19):
And what are you seeing. The Israeli military is systematically
moving in like a virus and pushing these people out
of the north, out of the east and towards the
south right, towards the sea, right towards Egypt. And this
is you know, as a quote unquote ceasefire is about
to come with regard to Israel. According to Israel and

(49:41):
the United States's top emissary, Ron Jermer, met with the
trumpdministration this past month to discuss potential terms of a
God's Deal. There are reports of a planned visit Byno
to the White House in late July may be moved
up and apparently that's confirmed for I think this weekend.
Throughout the past week, Moss has consistently cautioned their and
no substantive proposals submitted while the Mediators talks with the

(50:05):
Medias have continued. The group's understanding is that Israel remains
entrenched as long standing position that will only agree to
a short term deal that would permit Israel to resume
its general sidal attacks on Gauza after sixty days. So
what they can do is they get their hawkses back
and as you can see here up on this map,
force people into this white zone, particularly the southern part
of that white zone, right in between Conyunists and Rafa.

(50:26):
That's the Amawazi area where they can eventually push people
into the sea. We've been hearing talk like everything else,
statements and rumors in here, here and there, but in
reality nothing has changed. Mahama Mardawi, a senior AMAS official,
told Ajazirat Mubascher on Sunday. What we're seeing appears to
be talks between the US administration and Dezig and the side,

(50:48):
but none of it has reached us in any political form.
So can we interesting to see what they come up
with in recent days, But just know there is definitely
something here trying to happen. Regional mess mediators related messages
from Trump Special Envoy Steve Witcoff suggesting that Trump would
make sure that Israel does not resume war after initial truth.
The US, however, has refused to put this in writing.

(51:11):
You can't even put it in writing and break it later.
That's how low they are trying low levels of commitment
that they have, you know, towards this lie. The latest
time Hamas agreed to US verbal commitments was in May,
when the group released US Israeli citizen and IDF soldier
it On Alexander. Hamas said that Witcoff had pledged that

(51:32):
in return, Israel would compel Trump would compel Israel. Excuse
me to look at the full spectrum blockade of God's
in call for an immediate ceasepire. Neither of those happened,
So it was a good good faith jester that was
met with zero good faith in return. After weeks of
Qatar taking the lead, Egyptian medias are successfully playing a
central role in the discussions with Hamas. Palastinian sources told

(51:54):
drop Site a new point has surfaced in the negotiations.
Israel's military presence within the Philadelphia Corridor, which runs along
Gauza's border with Egypt. Hmm. You know, if they're only
about you know, moving past this and getting a cease fire,
and they're serious about the sease fire, why would they
want to keep that military presence because they only want
it for sixty days and then resume with this genocidal campaign,

(52:17):
Hamas has maintained that Israel must completely withdrawal from all
of Gaza as part of any ceasefire or prisoner exchange deal.
Sources said that Hamas may