So, I'm gonna tell you a really interesting story now of civil war
within the Democratic Party and why It's awesome.
Not awesome, is it fun?
Although it's fun as you're about to see, but it's really important and strategic.
But this one is a hot mess.
So, let me start from the beginning and explain what's happening, okay?
So, first we start with this woman, you might recognize her.
She was really angry at this guy who was
now really angry because of this woman.
And this guy was so duplicitous that he was going to screw over this guy,
who then thought about fighting against this guy.
Wait a minute.
But he decided, no, I'm not gonna do that.
He said I'm gonna fight this guy, what in the world?
So, then here comes this woman again, and she's elated because now
he's elated, but back to the other guy, he's really mad.
And so is his friend.
[LAUGH] And all of a sudden out of nowhere,
this guy steps in and helps the Republicans.
This is a mess, but a wonderful mess.
And then this guy comes along.
You don't know this guy at all, but
he's one of the worst guys in the Democratic Party.
I'm gonna explain who all these folks are in a second, but
he's really the guy talking for, this guy who he worked for a long time.
And this dude ain't happy either and I'm glad he's not happy.
There's only one guy happy in all of this mess and it's this guy.
I know that guy.
All right, so let me explain now.
So, gerrymandering happens all across American politics.
If you follow politics at all, you know about it.
And what is that for those of you who don't know?
Normally you should have districts that look like roughly like squares or
rectangles, normal size and shapes, as every other country does to determine.
Okay, that's the Congressional districts in New York, for example.
But we don't do that in America.
We allow our politicians to pick their own voters so that they can't possibly lose.
I'll give you an example from Texas.
This is what a gerrymandered district looks like.
And if you don't live in America, you're gonna say, what,
how are those people related?
They're not even in the same city.
And look, what the hell is that shape, right?
No, no, in that case, Republicans speaking,
a district that they like that is specifically carved out of voters,
that they think will pick them instead of the Democrats.
Now, the Democrats try to do likewise in the states that they control, but
they're bunglers, serial bunglers.
So, they try to do it in New York and they totally screwed it up.
So, let me tell you, here's a quote from the intelligence that explains what
the Congressional seats in New York were and what they wanted becoming.
So they explained, under the current map, Democrats represent 19 Republicans.
I'm Sorry, 19 congressional districts in the state and Republicans eight,
under the legislature's map.
So, that's the new map that the Democrats wanted in the new gerrymandered districts
because of the new census.
Most political prognosticators thought that he gave the Democrats a shot at
winning 22 seats, reducing the Republicans to a mere four seats,
depending on the national climate.
So do you get that so far?
They redistrict the hell out of the state, New York's blue state.
So, Democrats are trying to go from 19 seats to about 22 seats.
Except they run into a bunch of Republicans and Andrew Cuomo.
And what happens next?
A Republican judge in boondocks in New York, hold for Andrew,
he's gonna come into the story in a second.
The Republican judge says, I don't like the Democrats map.
I'm a Republican, I say no.
Did any Democratic judges do that in any of the red states where they Jeremy and
the living crap out of it to give the Republicans an unfair advantage?
No, Democratic judge, not that.
But a Republican judges like, I don't care.
I'm partisan, I don't want it.
And then another Senate Republican judges, agree with him on appeal and
all of a sudden they throw out the Democratic map.
They're only down to now 20 seats.
It looks like instead of 22 they were gonna get.
Now, why is that important?
And by the way, the last set of Republican judges.
Now we go to Cuomo.
Relied on Andrew Cuomo coming o basically out of the grave political graveyard.
And writing an op ed saying now, remember guys, when I wrote the original bill back
in 2014, I was trying to help Republicans and even though the Republicans are not
at all in charge in New York anymore, I wanna split power with them.
So the Republican judges go, look, there's your former Democratic governor,
Andrew Cuomo and he says we should help the Republicans.
Well, I guess that's what it is, right?
So, that's Andrew Cuomo's big FU to the Democratic Party that kick them out for
all the scandals that he had.
So, once they did that and they're down to 20 seats.
Now a bunch of Democratic incumbents have to fight each other because there's not
enough seats, especially in southern New York.
So, now back to the guy that you might not have recognized in the original pictures.
This guy is Sean Patrick Maloney, okay?
So, he is the, let's go to the guy after Cuomo.
There you go.
And that he's on the left.
Now, he's a really important character because he's the head of the D triple C.
What that means is, he's in charge of fundraising for the house Democrats,
so that they could raise enough money to protect incumbents.
On the right is Mander Jones.
Mander Jones is a progressive Democrat who's also in New York.
Sean Patrick Maloney says, well, you know what?
I'm not gonna run in my own district, I'm gonna go to Mondaire Jones district and
running his district to try to kick him out.
Then Mondaire Jones then has to decide, do I stay and fight Maloney or
do I move to Jamal Bowman's district and then we fight.
But wait a minute, Mondaire Jones and
Jamal Bowman are both progressive Democrats from New York.
So, there's one set of folks here that I have to give tremendous credit to and
that is Mondaire Jones staff.
If the intelligencer is right, when Mondaire Jones was considering
running as Jamal Bowman, apparently, almost his entire staff, said that
they would quit if he ran against another progressive like Jamal Bowman.
So, if that story is true,
I wanna thank from the bottom of my heart,Mondaire Jones staff.
Thank you for staying true, thank you for being progressive and thank you for
doing the right thing.
I love that, okay?
So, Monder decides that you know what?
I'm not gonna go in Maloney's district, I'm not gonna go in Bowman's district,
there's kind of an open district down here.
And so, I'm gonna run it in that district,
except a guy had already said he was gonna run in that district.
And a guy who lives in that district and that's Bill de Blasio,
the former mayor of New York, who's also progressive.
So now, it's gonna be Mondaire Jones versus Bill de Blasio.
Now, that's not ideal, but that's not as bad as Jamal Bowman versusMondaire Jones.
So, I think Mondaire relatively made the right decision.
I would have stayed and fought in Maloney's district.
But that's gonna be super hard because Maloney has all the money,
he's the one in charge of raising all of the money,
including the corporate money and that's gonna be very relevant to this race.
So, everything looks like it's settled but now the progressives got screwed,
they're gonna get screwed out of a district.
And this is what progressives are supposed to bow their heads and
say yes sir, may I have another sir?
Of course sir, I will respect and cherish my colleagues who just screwed us out of
a district when we could have had de Blasio and Mondaire Jones and
Jamal Bowman.
Maloney just stayed in his district.
So, you know what happened next?
Here comes AOC.
She comes back and goes, you know what?
I'm not gonna support Maloney and his race.
I'm going to go to an old friend Alessandra Biaggi,
who is a wonderful progressive,
who helped Democrats recapture the state of New York from BS
set of fake Democrats that Andrew Cuomo had put in there.
And help the Republicans Biaggi beat them back, won the seat is a great progressive.
So AOC says, you know what?
I'm gonna endorse her in Maloney's seat and
that's when the establishment Democrats blow up, there like this is outrageous.
How could you do this to us?
I love that part.
I'm gonna get back to that second.
But first I wanna give you a quote from state senator Alessandra Biaggi
about all of this.
She said, about AOC is endorsement.
Her endorsement is really an indication to everyone that this is an important
fight for the party.
She really is a standard-bearer.
Representative Sean Maloney's job is to maximize the number of seats that we
have a Democratic majority and if he was doing his job,
he would have stayed in the 18th congressional district.
Damn right he would have, but he didn't.
He was trying to squeeze out a progressive and make it an easier race for himself.
He figured to, for my corporate donors are gonna be super happy,
that I eliminated a progressive and I'm gonna get a slightly safer seat.
Well, it turns out it's not so safe anymore,
because AOC who is a standard bearer had the courage to endorse Biaggi.
Now, all every establishment Democrat has caught feelings.
So, how could you do this to us?
But wait a minute, you guys are the ones who attacked first.
So, I'll tell you a quick story before I get to the how Obama gets involved
here, okay?
I gotta fight in Miami, this is not a good story, okay?
Let's keep it real, okay?
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get all these crazy stories.
So, I the last fight that I was in and you shouldn't be in any fights is ridiculous
and this is a good example of it.
I got my face punched about 5-6 times, okay?
My nose on this side of my face it's a mess.
But finally I grab the sumbitch, okay?
And I put him in a headlock that's called the Uber maneuver.
Once you go into the maneuver, nobody ever comes out, okay?
So, I finally got him, right?
I mean I'm a mess but I got him and he starts screaming, why you grabbing me?
Why you grabbing me?
Why am I grabbing you cuz you punched in the face five times.
That's why I'm grabbing you because my nose on the other side of my face,
that's why I grabbed you.
But that's the establishment, after they punch you five times in the face,
if you say yeah well now I'm gonna endorse someone in your district like,
why are you grabbing me?
Why are you grabbing me?
So that Maloney's super mad and then all of a sudden here comes Obama's top ally.
Now, you probably don't know Jim Messina.
But Jim Messina was campaign manager for Obama was sort of his top aides.
So, I don't know if this is sanctioned by president Obama,
but trust me that Obama and Messina are as close as they could possibly be.
And Messina, who ain't got nothing to do with nothing,
is just now a corporate guy which I'll tell you about in a second,
comes out of the woodworks and then sends this tweet about AOC endorsing Biaggi.
He says, this is so counterproductive.
The Supreme Court is about to outlaw abortion.
We could lose both houses, so we're gonna focus our time running against each other.
Now, we're primary and committed progressives because why?
If we lose the house it's because of dumb crap like this.
Whoa, wait a minute, wait a minute, let's break that down.
Were primary and committed progressives ain't nothing progressive about Maloney?
Maloney is literally in charge of raising corporate cash for the Democratic Party.
But Messina knows the mainstream media works for corporate Democrats.
So, nobody in media is gonna challenge Messina there.
That was Obama's campaign manager.
Of course, listen to Jim Messina, what a wonderful guy, Jim Messina.
He says, it's all the progressives hold.
And wait how could it be the progressive [INAUDIBLE], if you just told me,
Maloney is a progressive.
Because you don't really think Maloney is a progressive?
In fact, you know he's not a progressive, okay?
Then he says, can you believe that they
are doing these internal fights.
But wait a minute, Maloney is the one that started the fight in the first place,
randomly going to Mondaire Jones district, cuz it's two points.
He said safer.
It's two points more Democratic than his seed.
His seed is perfectly safe.
No, he did it so that he could purposely push out a progressive.
And all of a sudden Messina is like, there's fighting in this establishment.
I didn't know that now the progressives are fighting back.
It's all their fault, if we lose.
And why does he says if we lose, it's because of progressives and
we've shown you this on the show many, many times.
It's because the corporate Democrats know they're about to get slaughtered.
They didn't pass a goddamn thing.
They didn't help the American people at all.
They don't want to help the American people.
All they wanna do is pass corporate pork bills like that infrastructure
bill was which Jim Messina loves.
And he doesn't want you to get higher wages.
He doesn't want you to get universal health care.
They had eight years to do it, they never did it.
Under Obama they had eight years and the minimum wage,
they left office at $7.25 and that's where it is now.
Messina Love's crushing the average worker.
He works for multinational corporations.
And so, because of their policies, they know for a fact that they are gonna lose.
So, ahead of time, the losers are setting up an excuse of
the progressives hadn't started to fight, we would have won, okay?
[LAUGH] You know, you weren't gonna win.
And you know, the progressives didn't start the fight.
And you know that you're gonna lose because of you.
Despite the fact that progressives actually pushed you to do incredibly
popular bills that could have helped you in those elections.
So, I wanna tell you, other than being Obama's right hand man through a lot
of his campaigns, both of his campaigns, especially the second one.
Here's what Messina is up to lately.
After Obama leaves office in 2013, Jim Messina launched the Messina Group.
In this role, Messina provides strategic consulting to businesses around the world.
Clients include Uber, Pill pack, Airbnb, Google, Delta Airlines,
Hutchison Whampoa, and over 300 other corporations.
In this role, Jim continues to advise Democratic organizations on domestic
political issues in the US.
I love that last sentence because they didn't even bother taking it out.
They bragged that's from his website, he brags about it.
He's like, I represent 300 corporations and
I influenced Democratic policies to help those corporations.
That's on his website.
He brags about it.
He's the one that has turned the Democratic Party into
the corporate disgusting pro oligarchy company.
Just almost accidentally called it a company into the party that it is now,
it's the party that says, no I don't want a higher minimum wage.
I don't want a child tax credit, I don't want paid family leave,
I want corporations to get everything, that's what Jim Messina is about.
And he brags about it and then he says, I'm worried about progressives.
These guys are a joke.
I'm gonna read you one more thing from his website.
Messina continues to provide insight on news outlets such as MSNBC,
CNN Bloomberg, FOX News BBC and others.
Does he?
Of course, he does.
Note that he's on all three of the cable shows, cable networks,
why, they all love the corporate message.
All their fights are fake.
All their fights are about culture wars.
When they're helping the Jim Messina is of the world, rob you blind,
the rest of it was that Jim serves on the boards of Blockchain.com.
Great, more crypto stuff.
And that's those are the guys that come into all the elections and
try to defeat progressives et cetera.
I don't know about that company in particular, but the crypto guys do
Vectra.ai Lanza Tech, United States Soccer Foundation etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
So, that's Obama's top boys I told you.
So, Obama and and Messina and Maloney and Hakeem Jeffries, who is another
conservative corporate Democrat that I showed you earlier, they're all furious.
But guys, why am I happy?
Because for my whole life,
establishment Democrats have been punching progressives in the face.
And progressives in Congress, just take it and say thank you, sir,
may I have another and they never, ever, ever fight back.
And what we learned between the fights between the Democrats and the Republicans.
When the Republicans punch punch,
punch, punch punch and the Democrats never counter,
the Republicans win, because that's the only message that anybody ever heard.
That is why the Democratic Party,
even though it's a massive advantage in voter registration,
policy issues etcetera, has been losing my entire life cuz they never punch back.
They do punch progressives and the progressives never punch back.
So for the first time, AOC is actually punching back and
not through a tweet and not through things like that.
No, through an endorsement saying,
I want this progressive to beat that incumbent Democrat.
That in to you and I that might be normal.
That might be obvious.
Of course you're gonna support the progressive instead of the corporate
guy, right?
But in Washington, that's the beginning of a revolution.
They've never seen progressive spiked back.
And that's why they're outraged.
That's why Obama's guy and all the others are saying how dare you, progressives,
you are not allowed to fight back.
Well, sad day for all of you, we are allowed to fight back.
And now, finally, the fight has begun and
now we make our case and when we do that, you know what's gonna happen?
We're gonna win cuz we're right, where we have the popular positions,
all of our positions pull from 2/3 of the country being in favor.
All the way up to 90% of the country being in favor.
So, let's go fight and let's go win and
thank you AOC for doing the right thing here.
And if you live anywhere in New York, make sure you know which district you're in.
And you vote for the Progressive, whether it's Biasggi or Jamal Bowman.
And then in the district with Mondaire Jones and Bill de Blasio,
look into their policies and make your own decisions.