AOC BETRAYS Progressives At The WORST Time

Just a part of what she said. I take your point. Do you still feel though, if Democrats went back to House that Hakeem Jeffries is the right person to lead? You know, I've engaged in many conversations with Leader Jeffries. And for me, one, and we have a broad caucus, right? For me, I have made very clear that one of my priorities in determining and in a leader determination is securing public housing financing for New York City. And Leader Jeffries has made his prioritization for the residents of public housing very clear. And for that reason, I will be supporting Hakeem Jeffries for leader. Okay, I love this clip because we're going to show you how politics actually works. We're going to show you what she really meant and what the deal actually is. Because that's not why she's doing what she's doing at all. She's not only supporting Hakeem Jeffries for speaker if they get the house back. But she also didn't endorse any of the Democrats running against incumbents in New York, even though they were progressive. We'll explain why she didn't do that as well. And finally, I want you to be aware that Kamala Harris is apparently such a good ally of AOC that she's gifted her her word salads. And it's very mighty Christian of, as they used to say in the old days of Kamala Harris. And apparently AOC eats them at every time she's on camera. A word salad, great. Well, I mean, when you're being dishonest, it's kind of hard to say things confidently and forcefully, which is why the world, in my opinion, that's why we saw the word salad in that clip. But nonetheless, let me give you the details because AOC has drawn quite a bit of backlash from members of her own base, people who have supported her throughout her political career. Now, her comments come on the heels of a decisive progressive victory in New York. This happened last week, of course, I covered it in depth. And this is when the incumbent Democrats were facing some real primary challengers to their left, Claire Valdez, Daria Liza, Avila Chevalier, and also Brad Lander, all three of them won, all three of them are to the left of the incumbents that they beat. Now, successfully, they primaried long-term incumbents and Democratic establishment favorites. And all of these aforementioned candidates boasted strong endorsements from both the Democratic Socialists of America and Mayor Zoran Mamdani. However, in the case of Chevalier and Valdez, there was an endorsement missing from AOC, she chose against endorsing them. And City and State New York reports that Mamdani is backing DSA's state legislative candidates running for open seats and congressional candidates whom it would be politically difficult for AOC to endorse, that's what they're claiming, while AOC is backing DSA's challengers to assembly incumbents whom Mamdani isn't willing to endorse. Now, assembly members in New York, those are local races, local to New York, right? And so AOC apparently didn't want to ruffle any feathers as it pertains to federal elections. And it's probably because she doesn't want to upset her Democratic colleagues, her establishment colleagues. Now, Valdez specifically primaried Anthony Reynoso, who is or was running to fill the seat of retiring representative Nydia Velazquez, who endorsed Reynoso. AOC may be reluctant to cross Velazquez, who has acted as a political mentor to her or to back a primary challenge against a fellow member of New York's Democratic congressional delegation. But Mamdani has no such qualms, City and State New York reported. Now, AOC, if she's still considered a firebrand, I don't know. She certainly came into Congress as a firebrand, but she has found herself consistently at odds with the very faction of the Democratic base that she's supposed to be a leader of, right? So the more progressive, more left-wing contingent within the Democratic Party. So suspicions of her kind of abandoning that faction started when she decided to vote in favor of providing military aid to Israel in the form of Iron Dome capabilities, right? So her argument is, well, it's defensive weapons, it's not offensive weapons. Many do not want to provide any weapons to Israel, including defensive capabilities. I'm in that camp because I feel that Israel is able to carry out atrocities with impunity, knowing that they have this Iron Dome system, they can't do that. They can attack their neighbors, they can bomb, they can do genocide, and they have the Iron Dome to protect them, which we pay for. And so, understandably, progressive voters are against providing even defensive military aid to Israel. And as AOC is floated as a potential frontrunner in the 2028 presidential race, her perceived caution on the topic of Israel could hurt her among Democratic voters overall, certainly, considering where Democratic voters are on the issue of Israel. So as the nation points out, Palestine is the defining issue of our time, particularly within the Democratic Party. It is the principal dividing line between Democratic primary candidates in this year's midterms. And there is no reason to expect its importance to wane in 2028. And I pretty much agree with that assessment, especially when you look at the polling. So let's take a look at this Gallup poll, you're looking at a chart showing you the results of the Gallup poll. And it shows that 65% of registered Democratic voters say they actually sympathize more with Palestinians as opposed to Israelis or Israel. And as evidenced by the races that we just spoke about in New York last week, Daria Lisa Chevalier ousted Adriano Espelot, who was a five-term representative who has consistently taken large sums of money from AIPAC, the Israel lobby. And traveled to Israel with Hakeem Jeffries and Ritchie Torres. Hakeem Jeffries, or more importantly, providing a full throated endorsement of Hakeem Jeffries as the next Speaker of the House is a little bit of a problem considering his role in aiding and abetting Israel's crimes against humanity. And he has taken a lot of money from the Israel lobby, which is why it's not surprising that he took this trip to Israel with Ritchie Torres. Yeah, so look, Hakeem Jeffries is a giant sellout. And I don't think anyone should back him, but almost all the Democrats in Congress do. So that one I'm less bothered by than her non-endorsements. I'm going to come back to the non-endorsements in a second, but I do want to explain the trick here. 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Go to shopify.com slash tyt. That's shopify.com slash tyt. So she says, well, I made a deal with Hakeem Jeffries about housing in New York. And so that's why I chose not to endorse those candidates. Okay, wait, let's break that down. So why was Hakeem Jeffries against affordable housing, and you had to make a deal with him to get him to be in favor of affordable housing? I wouldn't be surprised. So can we flesh that out a little bit? It'd be nice, yeah. Can we get a reporter asked, why was Hakeem Jeffries opposed to affordable housing in New York? No, guys, it has nothing to do with that. I mean, Hakeem Jeffries, of course, would be opposed to that because he's opposed to anything that would help the average voter. because he's obsessed with his donors. He's got $5.5 million from AIPAC in the Israeli lobby. He serves those guys loyally. But overall, no, these politicians get together. I know this. I know what happens behind the scenes. And they go, AOC says to Hakeem, I need an excuse. I'm not saying that I know that that happened. I'm saying in general, this is how it works, okay? Says I need an excuse because I'm going to betray my own side, right? So what can we come up with? We'll say we did it because of housing in New York because what are the people in New York most upset about? Housing prices, right? Yep. So we'll pretend to help them. By the way, what does Hakeem have to do with that? And has it passed? No, nothing's passed. Has he tried? Nothing's happened yet. There was an affordable. There was a housing bill that did pass Congress that Trump is refusing to sign because he's like, I'm not going to sign this until you pass the Save America Act. But I just want to be clear. It's chow chow. It's supposed to increase the inventory of housing in America. I don't think it goes nearly far enough. It's better than nothing. No, no, but I don't want you to get misled by that because that's bipartisan. That's bipartisan, exactly. Everybody's in favor of that. You don't need any votes on that. Even the Republicans are in favor of that. They passed it already. So it's like saying, well, Hakeem Jeffries voted with the Republicans on this tiny little housing bill. So that's why I had to betray the progressives in New York. That doesn't make any sense at all. It's not even trying to make sense. Okay, so now, again, if Hakeem has done something that he wasn't going to do, but has now opened up amazing opportunities for housing in New York, I'd love to see it. Okay, so all right. So why does she actually not endorse them? Because of two reasons. Number one, she's become convinced that the establishment is her actual friends, and her actual colleagues, and who she actually serves. So that's why she's so afraid to go against anything the establishment wants. Because she knows this part is true. She knows that if she doesn't obey, they will get the New York Times and CNN to rip her apart. And right now, the New York Times and CNN and MSNBC love AOC. They're getting, and here, this will be a form of a compliment. They're getting Obama vibes from her, right? But it's also, in my opinion, not a compliment, why? because New York Times and mainstream media is getting the sense, she doesn't mean it at all. She'll do exactly as she's ordered. And but she has the appearance and the brand of being a progressive, etc. She's not a populist in any way she had performed, but a progressive, right? So that way, great, change on the outside, continuity on the inside. So she wanted to prove to her establishment colleagues that she could be relied on, okay? That's why she betrayed those people and didn't vote for them, didn't endorse them. But there's a second reason why. She cares so much about her win record. What is the amount of endorsements, the percentage that she won of the endorsements? Who cares? No one, I don't even know what her win record is, who cares? No, no, political cares, Axios cares, Semaphore cares. Who cares about political? Okay, she needs to understand, there is a division in this country right now. And the division is between the elite, which includes legacy media, and the very politician she's trying to ingratiate herself with, and the rest of the American people, okay? Ordinary Americans, they're not worried about what Politico is publishing about AOC's win record, that's insane. And so again, this is where I have experience on the ground in DC. All the Democrats are obsessed with their win record on endorsements. Okay, that's insane. That's why their own base hates them. Yeah, look here, I'll give you an example of how to, in my opinion, how to do it right. So when we started Justice Democrats back in 2017, people told us, hey, why are you endorsing all these people? I don't think they're likely to win like that stupid bartender in Queens. She's running against Joe Crowley, the number four guy, and he's going to be the next speaker of the House. You're going to ruin your percentage. I was like, what percentage? We just started, and I don't give a damn. So we endorse 78 candidates. Nice. Okay, only four of them won. So our percentage record was terrible. No, you guys have such a terrible win record. No, no. Okay. All the American people are thinking about it. Yeah, and who are the four? AOC, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, and Rashida Tlaib. So now look, they didn't stay on the right track, especially AOC. But so that's a different issue. But did we get some of the most spectacular wins in American political history? Yes, we did. And how did we get there? By not giving a damn about our win loss record, okay? So when you tell me, I have to keep my win loss percentage pristine. I go, well, then you're an egomaniac. Okay, so two more things that are super important and relevant to this, because I need you to know the full details. So you don't mistakenly go in the wrong direction, okay? Shortcut Chakrabarty was my co-founder in Justice Democrats and did way more than I did. Infinitely more important to that organization. And in the middle, he called me and said, I'm going to transfer to being campaign manager of AOC. I'm going to put all of our chips in on her because I think she's the best candidate. And at the time, guys, listen to this. AOC was down 35 points. What Shortcut did was totally visionary and bold. And I said, look, brother, you're running it. You're the executive director. If you think that's the right decision, let's go for it, okay? And they did. And he became a campaign manager. Corbyn, who was a communications director for Justice Democrats, became AOC's communications director. And they pulled off a miracle, a miracle. He was then her chief of staff. And he's behind the scenes, he's an angel, okay? She wouldn't endorse him in his race to replace Pelosi. But Pelosi had already dropped out. And then all of his opponents started running ads saying, Shortcut can't be trusted. Even AOC doesn't trust him. When he was her former chief of staff, there's something wrong with Shortcut Chakrabarty. And he was within two points of first place. He dropped in the third and lost. And she watched all that happen and did not intervene. She let him lose in that brutal fashion when he was on the doorstep of winning. By the way, the guy that came in number one, thanks to AOC, is the one that is being chased all around San Francisco now, and refuses to say free Palestine. Scott Weiner, yeah. Scott Weiner. So, look guys, this isn't about Shortcut. This isn't about Valdez and Chevalier and Lander, who she also didn't endorse. She hasn't endorsed a challenger to an incumbent in the last two election cycles. That doesn't surprise me. Okay, so- Yeah. What it is about is she was supposed to open the gates once she got inside, okay? She shut the door. Okay, because the whole idea was we're challenging the democratic establishment and we need as many primary challenges as possible so that more people can get inside the gates. So if we're lucky and good enough to get people inside, you've got to open the gates. Instead, she slammed him shut and said, no, these are my new friends and colleagues. And now I'm doing deals with Hakeem Jeffries and Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. And I'm going to tell you about how they're fighting against the genocide, which wasn't true at all. Because those are her new friends. And so now she doesn't back any of the challengers. And I'll do a prediction for you. Because she's embarrassed by it now, I guarantee you going forward, she'll be like- My God. I'm now doing new, yes, of course, I will endorse these people. My God, it's so funny that you say that. Because an hour ago, DropSite News reported the following. And I'm reading from their ex-post verbatim. New, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has introduced an amendment that could effectively halt all offensive and defensive US military aid to Israel under current conditions as part of a package of 11 amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2027. The proposal would require all US defense articles and services to be used in accordance with international law and consistent with Section 6201 of the Foreign Assistance Act prohibit transfers to countries that restrict US supported humanitarian aid unless the president certifies the recipient is complying with those requirements and Congress separately authorizes the transfer. Its practical force lies in the stripping of president's discretion to look past existing law. Section 6201 already bars aid to governments that block US humanitarian assistance, but administrations have repeatedly declined to determine that Israel is in violation despite restrictions on aid even still entering Gaza. Under the amendment, the president would have to affirmatively make that determination and Congress would have to specifically authorize the transfer through legislation before covered military aid could proceed. Okay, so that's her trying to cover her tracks. No, no, no, no, yeah, of course. Of course, I'm against Israel. But you know what, guys? It's okay. I'll take it. I'll take it, too. This is great. Yeah, I will give her credit for that. Thank you for turning around. And by the way, why is she being more aggressive now? And her voting record on Israel is not bad. It's not perfect. Anna's right about what she said. MTG is right about what she said. But overall, it's better than a lot of the other Congress people and that's a good legislation. Yeah. But I want to give you guys the credit. Because without pressure, she doesn't do that. That's right. So keep up the pressure in a good way. You don't have to. Don't, of course, don't hate her. Look, guys, we're talking about the context of people who are supposed to be on our side that we want to be better fighters, right? We're not talking about bad guys, right? So keep the pressure up. Not like, we don't like you. But by the way, go take that Senate seat in New York. Take Chuck Schumer's seat. That would help so much. Let me also just be very clear in what I feel needs to change about our culture of politics in America. I think Americans across the political spectrum, including progressives, including people on the far left, they've been conditioned and trained to see everything as tribal. And what happens is you end up working for the politicians as their defenders, as the people who provide cover for them, as opposed to remembering, these are elected officials who signed up to represent you to be public servants. So it is actually your obligation to apply pressure on our elected officials on our own side to carry out the very policies they promise to carry out. And when they don't, it is not up to you to provide cover for them. You're only hurting yourself. You're only hurting the country. It is up to you to ensure that they are fulfilling their role as public servants and not reneging on their campaign promises. Yeah, and so we're not tearing her down. We're telling her to run for the Senate and get a super important Senate seat away from Chuck Schumer and on the progressive side. But if you say you're not going to do the things you said you were going to do, like support primary challengers against incumbents, then it's our job to hold you accountable. If we don't do that, then we're letting down our audience and Democratic voters, etc. So I'm glad she's introducing that bill. She should do what she said she was going to do all the way back when she was running against an incumbent, which is support people on her side who are challenging her beloved colleagues, because those colleagues are deeply corrupt. They're not our friends. They're not our allies. They are very, very, very often our opponents, our political opponents. Exactly, and if Hakeem Jeffries is Speaker of the House, and he gets to decide what types of bills are introduced to the House floor, you think he's going to introduce an AOC bill that holds Israel accountable for its atrocities? Doubt it.