IHIP News - Mamdani Refuses to Bend the Knee to MAGA and Dem Gov. Goes Dark Woke

Episode Date: February 26, 2026

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All right, the biggest fear that everybody has, and I'm talking about corporate Dems plus Maga, their biggest fear is that a candidate like Zoran, Mom Doni, not that he fails, is that he succeeds. That's their fear. And that is a corporate Democrats fear as well because they want to be beholden to the corporate tit. And it is getting worse and worse as we head into these midterms. So Zoron obviously has the president's attention, which is incredibly. incredibly interesting. The president cannot quit talking about him, even mentioned him in the State of the Union address that they talk all the time that he really likes him. And they're all wound up because New York had this big blizzard, right? And 16 inches of snow. And this is how

the internet has memed this. Pop this up. Here we go. Zoron, 16 inches. And then he offers New Yorkers $30 an hour to plow every street. says every street across all five boroughs plowed. This ladies and gentlemen is big dick energy. And if we go to what happened after this, this is just phenomenal. So New Yorkers plan these snowball events where every snow fight, snowball fights. And some cops showed up at the snowball fight and some people hit some cops with snowballs. I don't think people should throw snowballs at cops, but I think on a scale of 1 to 10, this is a 0.02 situation. It is a snowball. All right. And so the right wing and even some Democrats, they want to fall into this. Oh, my God, people are

throwing snowballs. It's all Zoron's fault. Andrew Cuomo had a stage 5 meltdown over it. And so they asked Zoron, are you going to ban snowball fights? And notice a lot of corporate Dems would buy into this framing by MAGA. They buy into that. They allow MAGA to frame them. And they cede so much ground. Here's how Zoron handled it. Would you consider banning these crowdsourcing events because they can and sometimes do get out of hand?

So I'm not going to be banning snowball fights or organized snowball fights. or organized snowball fights. I've shared my thoughts with New Yorkers, and I continue to believe that what we are seeing in this response this winter blizzard from the city workers as a whole, and that includes the hardworking minimum of the NYPD, is part of why the city is getting back on its feet. Okay.

So I think this is just absolutely incredible, and here's how Tim Miller responded to this. Glad the socialist mayor does not give an inch to the insane reporter who thinks government surveillance of snowball fights is a reasonable policy idea in a free country. And we know Tim Miller that he doesn't give an inch. He gives 16 inches in this big dick energy. So to me, the way he handled that, he didn't seed an inch. He didn't buy into right-wing hysteria about this. He said, very calmly, I am not going to be banning snowball fights because on the one hand, all of these right wingers are about freedom and Zoran's

Akami and he's a socialist and he's going to take your rights away and then they're all like ban snowball fights and he will not buy into it. He stays laser focused on the big issues. The biggest fear that Hakeem Jeffries has, the Chuck Schumer has, that other Republicans have, is that they don't want to see him succeed. And bizarrely, I kind of think that. Trump wants to see him succeed because my personal opinion is he has a crush on him. Trump likes a winner. He does. And here's the thing.

When I saw this, I was just like, get a real problem. Like, there are real problems. You have the January Sixers who took guns to the Capitol, cops attacked, killed. Nobody gave a shit about that on the right. But now we're talking snowballs like, shut the fuck up. It's just kind of how I see it. Like get a real problem. We have real issues.

to deal with it's not one. Okay, so this whole shoveling thing that he did where he went, he knew they were going to have major, major, major, major dump of snow. And so he did what people want to see government do. And Ariana Jasmine Post, Zoran launched a $30 an hour snow shoveling jobs with $45 an hour overtime. And Republicans mocked him. And not only were the sidewalks completely cleared within a day, but he did exactly what taxes are intended to do.

Take taxpayer money and invest it in people while producing results that benefit everyone. Here's what the right wing meltdown was all about. You had ketamine head in a K-hole, Elon Musk saying, Zoran's trying to hire people to shovel the streets and you have to bring two forms of ID to do. this. Well, you know why, Elon? You have to bring two forms of ID? Because they're going to pay them and take out taxes. These shovelers aren't getting $30 in their pocket without taxes like you do, Elon. They are paying into Social Security. They're paying into the city. These people are paying taxes, which is completely different than voting and completely different than the way you and

Peter Thiel and Alex Carp operate. I wonder if Peter Thiel and Alex Carp have to give two two forms of ID to not pay taxes to the billions of dollars they make off of taxpayer money. So this is what the right is complaining about was Zoron using taxpayer money to solve city problems. They had so many people that sign up for these jobs. The streets were completely clear. This is exactly the way people want their cities run. And this is their main complaint about him. My main complaint about the Republican Party is that you guys defend child rapists and you guys defend pedophiles.

And you're fine kissing the ass of billionaires who think so little of you. That's the difference. That's the moral difference between the left and the right right now. And then you have these corporate Democrats that are playing patty cake with all of these oligarchs behind the scenes. You know, it's interesting to me. They wanted to pick on this idea because it was such a good idea. It was so well executed. And the worst thing they could say was you had to get two forms of ID.

Like they are reaching on this. And when I think about all the billionaires, I've really been thinking about it. Like death and taxes, those are two things that are absolutely assured. Not for them. Right. Yeah. They don't have to pay them. Yet we all benefit.

I'm happy that a single mother gets to take her child and gets a child care credit. I'm happy to pay for that because somebody needs to help these people. These people don't want to help anybody. They want to make billionaires richer. And the reason why these people need help is because the government and corporate Dems and Republicans refuse to put laws for people making a livable wage because the Republicans freak out and go, oh my God, you're harming big business. We couldn't possibly pay somebody more than $8.

an hour. And then when these people make $8 an hour and they're told by the Republican Party, be a pro-family, breed, have kids, live the American dream, they can't afford it. And then the Republican Party, the Family Values Party demeans them and browbeats them because of a system that they set up for them to fail. And so the thing was Zoron has been really interesting because the Democratic establishment sent in an alleged sexual harasser slash abuser, Andrew Cuomo, to run against him after he lost in the primary because, oh, my God, businesses are going to flee New York. They are going to flee New York. The billionaires are going to move out.

Well, ever since Zorn has won, the luxury housing market in Manhattan is booming. And furthermore, everybody said if Mom Donnie is elected, rich people will flee. Multinational financial services company says we're going to build a two million square foot headquarters a few blocks from City Hall. American Express Post. We are excited to share our plans to build a new state of the art global headquarters at two World Trade Center affirming our company's deep commitment to lower Manhattan. Read more about this announcement here. It's all bullshit. The one thing that these politicians, these corporate politicians and these corporations have in common is they lie. They are lying liars that get away with it.

And the only way we can get away from this is to stop believing their lies and start believing politicians who put forth policies that are for the people. You're either for corporations or you're for the workers. You're either for Peter Thiel, who doesn't pay that much in taxes, who has decided, he doesn't think democracy is compatible with his life anymore. Does he put his name on a ballot and run like Zoron does? No, he wants to cheat. He is in the Epstein files, colluding with Jeffrey Epstein celebrating the downfall of Brexit, trying to dismantle democracy right now because he thinks he's smarter than you. And he's simply not. He's just better at exploiting people and better at being a psychopath.

So where does this leave us with all of this? Zoron goes in to City Hall and Eric Adams left him with a horrific, horrific budget deficit. It is a part of law that he has to operate with a balanced budget, Soron does. So he has to work with the governor, Kathy Hochel, to help bridge this. divide. And so basically there's two options here. He can do, Kathy Hockel can do what all Democrats do, is they act like they're for the people, but secretly they're for corporations and they allow this right-wing narrative. In order to be pro-business, you have to give all businesses and all rich people tax breaks. Otherwise, they're going to hold you emotionally hostage and threatened

to leave. I'm sorry, but we're going to have to have leadership that bucks. the system. And Zoran is calling on Albany, specifically Kathy Hokel, to help define a different Democratic Party. But the thing is, it's not that different. It is the Democratic Party of FDR. This new Democratic Party that has been ushered in since the ruling of John Roberts Court Citizen United is not the Democratic Party. It is the party for corporations that adds in a slight bit of harm reduction. We all need to open up our eyes to this. And Kathy Hockel seems to be going through a political evolution that all of us are going through. We're all opening up our eyes that these corporations are liars. They don't care about the American people, nor do they care

about the American government. Are people fleeing Manhattan? No. Do you think they want to go live in dump truck, Ron DeSantis, little kitten hills, Florida? No, they don't. They're investing in Manhattan. They're investing in New York City. So New York needs a governor that will cooperate with this new Democratic Party, which is the party of the people, by the people, for the people, not for these billionaires that try to skirt taxes and then blame the very workers that made them rich, disgraceful.

So Kathy Hochel's going a little dark woke. I've got her on my watch list. Here's Kathy right here. So Pop Crave tweets, the cottage from heated rivalry will be available to book on Airbnb beginning March. Kathy, I didn't know you had this in you. She says, I hope the taxpayers are ready to fund Cash Patel's weekend here. Kathy A plus. Love it.

Right there. You did it. You said it right there with that tweet. Are the taxpayers wanting to fund Cash Patel? The overwhelming answer to that is no. Do the taxpayers want to fund Bill Agman or some other billionaire asshole that blames them for being poor while he exploited them? You've got to tax these guys. You've got to.

And it's bigger than just the billionaires because we can pick a personality and pick on them all day long. I could start right now on Elon Musk and not finished until next year. The same was Zuckerberg. But they aren't the problem. It's the system. The system that has enabled and allowed them. And you and Zoron have a roadmap to help the Democratic Party get back to its FDR roots. We have to be a party of the workers. And you have to sit down with these corporations and explain to them that you're changing the culture. It is a pro-business culture in New York, but it is a business culture that supports New Yorkers. what these people on the board of directors lose a couple hundred million dollars when their net worth is over a billion? I mean, this is just the greed and the selfishness that is enabled by corporate Democrats has to stop with you, Kathy Hochel. You and Zoron have got to create the roadmap for all of these other states, but more importantly for the heart and soul of this

nation, you're either pro-corporation and pro-rich, greedy psychopath. or you're pro-America and you're pro-workers. And we're going to stop allowing these corporations to exploit workers and then blame them and scapegoat them for all of America's problems. Kathy, you've got to buck up and do this. I just cannot believe it is 2026. And I have all these little goals, some like big time things that I want to accomplish, some minor.

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If you make less money, you pay less taxes. I mean, it's like a percentage game. And I don't, you know, somebody like a billionaire, to me, $10,000 is a ton of money, $100,000 is a ton of money. To them, it's not. And so it doesn't hurt them. It's not like they're punishing them. They're never going to know the difference. They're enabling them.

They're enabling this grotesque entitlement that the Republican Party started. And after Citizens United, the corporate Dems hopped on it. And it's that, oh, my God. we have to keep these billionaires happy. Well, look at what it's enabled. Right. Look at how deranged that Alex Carp at Palantir, that crackhead. Look at Elon Musk shows up to the White House with a black eye tripping balls on ketamine.

Why? Because American culture has said, you get to do what you want to do. Yeah, yeah, you can do whatever you want to do, Elon. Nobody on the plane is going to hold you accountable because you're rich. And we just as a political party and as a country, cannot enable that. So, Governor Kathy Hokel, you have two options here. Number one, you can tax the ultra wealthy, the billionaire class that has been largely untouched and create a culture. Sit down and sit down with these billionaires. Sit down with these corporations. Explain to them what community is.

Explain to them that we have to do something for long-term economic stability, not their short-term yachts and PJs. Like it has to stop. Or Kathy Hokel, you can make working people pay through higher property taxes, which is completely unfair. The burden that working class Americans have had to carry in order for these billionaires to reach this level of wealth, income disparity and the exploitation that has ensued has incubated Trump. And if you do not do this, Kathy, you're going to incubate far worse than Governor Andrew Cuomo in New York. It will incubate something really, really dangerous. So you have to be a governor that works with this mayor who has the highest approval rating in the country right now. And taxing the rich and taxing billionaires

is not some fringe opinion. It is a moderate position. The only people who oppose this are billionaires and a few MAGA cultists that are capitalists with zero capital. So I hope that you can set a blueprint for the rest of the country that this is how we are going to move forward as a culture because MAG is going to keep incubating crazy shit. The Democratic Party, we have to have Democrats like Kathy Hochel create common ground with Democrats like Zoron Mamdani to create a blueprint for the electorate to feel like we can believe in something because I can't sit here and report on this greed any longer and I hope that you do not partake in it. All right. That's all we have. Like, subscribe, comment. We'll be back later with more

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