Hodgetwins - AOC AND Mamdani Humiliate Themselves at NY Rally
Aired: 2025-10-29
Duration: 13:04


=== House Belongs to Freemen (03:33) ===

[00:00:00]  So ALC and Mamdani had a rally this weekend.
[00:00:04]  And look at all this diversity.
[00:00:08]  That is a nightmare.
[00:00:09]  David got three guys wearing turbans.
[00:00:12]  No matter what he's doing, that house doesn't belong to him, New York.
[00:00:17]  It belongs to us.
[00:00:20]  It belongs to the people of this country.
[00:00:24]  And I want us all to remember and to know that the future...
[00:00:30]  Our future is not determined by a despot in a house built by enslaved people.
[00:00:38]  Oh, Jesus.
[00:00:38]  We're still talking about slavery.
[00:00:40]  I hate to take the Lord's name in vain, but man, he's a despot.
[00:00:44]  He's a duly elected president.
[00:00:45]  He won in a fur election by landslide.
[00:00:48]  He's not a tyrant.
[00:00:49]  He's not a despot.
[00:00:50]  And now you're talking about how slaves built the White House?
[00:00:52]  They probably did, but hell, that happened a long time ago.
[00:00:56]  Need to get over it.
[00:00:57]  What you going to do?
[00:00:58]  Turn it out in the White House and have a bunch of white people build it?
[00:01:02]  It's just stupid.
[00:01:05]  Our future will be determined not in a house built by slaves, but in a city built by freemen.
[00:01:12]  In a city built by unionists and immigrants and suffragists.
[00:01:19]  Legal immigrants, you should say that.
[00:01:31]  Hey, D A. Seamstress paid the price by blood.
[00:01:36]  Hey, Kevin, you see these three guys wearing turbans?
[00:01:39]  I don't think they even understand what she's saying.
[00:01:43]  Look at there.
[00:01:44]  There's no reaction.
[00:01:45]  It's almost like they're like suicide bombers.
[00:01:49]  This city was built by the Irish escaping famine, Italians fleeing fascism, Jews escaping Holocaust, black Americans fleeing slavery and Jim Crow.
[00:02:03]  Latinos seeking a better life.
[00:02:06]  Native people standing for themselves.
[00:02:09]  Asian Americans coming together in Queens.
[00:02:13]  Look at that.
[00:02:14]  Brooklyn in the Bronx in Manhattan.
[00:02:16]  It's Staten Island in this country in a vision.
[00:02:22]  Man, y'all could use some more white people back here.
[00:02:25]  I mean, the country is 70% white.
[00:02:28]  I don't think New York City is, though.
[00:02:32]  Well, this is New York City.
[00:02:33]  Y'all deserve Mamdani, actually.
[00:02:36]  You know, I'm pulling for him.
[00:02:38]  Y'all actually deserve him.
[00:02:39]  No, I'm pulling for him.
[00:02:42]  Maybe he is what this country needs.
[00:02:46]  Maybe we need to resort to democratic socialism.
[00:02:52]  Capitalism is not working.
[00:02:53]  We poor as hell.
[00:02:54]  Majority of people living paycheck to paycheck.
[00:02:57]  I mean, I'm not poor as hell, but a lot of people are.
[00:03:00]  I mean, let's give this guy a chance.
[00:03:04]  That's all I'm saying.
[00:03:09]  And it's New York City.
[00:03:10]  It'd be a great place to test out his policies.
[00:03:13]  I mean, it's a great place to test out.
[00:03:16]  Far and away from us.
[00:03:17]  Yeah, I'm actually hoping that he gets.
[00:03:20]  I hope he wins.
[00:03:21]  I think he is going to win.
[00:03:22]  I don't think you even have to hope.
[00:03:24]  He's going to win.
[00:03:25]  Yeah.
[00:03:26]  This is the future of the Democrat Party.
[00:03:28]  And sometimes I think you got to take two steps back before you can take a step forward.
[00:03:32]  Mamdani needs to win.

=== Testing Policies in NYC (08:20) ===

[00:03:34]  Destroy that city.
[00:03:35]  Man, it's going to be crazy.
[00:03:38]  Let's say he does destroy the city, right?
[00:03:41]  That's great leverage for Republicans.
[00:03:43]  Exactly.
[00:03:43]  But what if he builds a great city behind him?
[00:03:46]  How the hell you going to, ain't nothing's been built with socialist communist parties.
[00:03:50]  Nothing.
[00:03:51]  Well, I understand that, but.
[00:03:52]  No, no, you don't understand it.
[00:03:53]  Yes, I do.
[00:03:54]  Nothing.
[00:03:56]  There's no example of a communist regime or a socialist regime where it's outdid capitalism.
[00:04:05]  Never, ever.
[00:04:06]  He's going to destroy.
[00:04:07]  The city already sucks.
[00:04:08]  Now he's going to nuke it to build the freest, toughest, and greatest city on earth.
[00:04:18]  And we will not stop now, New York.
[00:04:21]  It's already free.
[00:04:25]  It is no surprise.
[00:04:31]  This video sucks.
[00:04:35]  NYC, baby.
[00:04:37]  NYC.
[00:04:38]  All right, enough of her.
[00:04:39]  I'm going to go to Mom Danny.
[00:04:40]  Look at that stupid look on his face.
[00:04:44]  Yeah, AOC is still an idiot, but he's an even bigger idiot.
[00:04:48]  Check out his impossible.
[00:04:50]  No, he is.
[00:04:51]  He's a bigger idiot than AOC.
[00:04:53]  Yeah, I don't believe you.
[00:04:54]  Yeah, check out his plans for New York City.
[00:04:58]  For nostalgia's sake, the BX10.
[00:05:00]  Long before he was running for mayor, Zoran Momdani would run for the BX-10 bus.
[00:05:06]  I used to ride it to get to high school, coming off the one train at 231st Street, two stops away, and knowing that if I ran fast enough, I could still catch up to her.
[00:05:14]  Because it was so because it was so slow, which is good for me, bad for the city.
[00:05:18]  Mamdani says as mayor, he'd make buses free.
[00:05:22]  Riders could skip the lines.
[00:05:24]  Think about the trash you're going to bring on public transportation in New York if you make buses free.
[00:05:31]  Yeah.
[00:05:33]  All the doors to board quickly and finally get moving.
[00:05:37]  Without hyperbole, the slowest buses in the country, eight miles an hour.
[00:05:41]  We could have this interview walking alongside it and still get there before the bus.
[00:05:44]  We might be able to outrun the bus.
[00:05:46]  I don't know if I could outrun the bus.
[00:05:47]  Poor people don't make a lot of money, and then you're taking out what, $290?
[00:05:51]  $290 for a bus is crazy.
[00:05:53]  Some think it's crazy for the city to pick up the fare.
[00:05:57]  A cost Mamdani estimates between $600 million.
[00:06:01]  Currently, more than four in 10 bus riders don't even pay their fare, according to the MTA.
[00:06:07]  Right now, people are hopping the bus, getting in trouble for the bus, getting tickets for the bus.
[00:06:11]  If the train or the bus suck, I don't pay.
[00:06:16]  Excuse my fridge.
[00:06:18]  Unlike on the subway, when you...
[00:06:21]  Yeah, that's the typical New York City voter.
[00:06:24]  He's going to win.
[00:06:25]  You don't got $2.90 for a bus?
[00:06:27]  Well, they live in New York City.
[00:06:29]  It's expensive there.
[00:06:30]  $2.90?
[00:06:32]  Yeah, well, your rent is $10,000 a month for 100 square feet.
[00:06:37]  You spend $3.
[00:06:38]  You work five days a week.
[00:06:40]  That's $15.
[00:06:41]  One way.
[00:06:42]  Who the hell ain't got $15?
[00:06:44]  You don't have a car.
[00:06:45]  You don't have car instructions.
[00:06:46]  Y'all bitching about $15.
[00:06:50]  But you're dead.
[00:06:52]  Bunch of deadbeats.
[00:06:54]  When you pay your fare, you're doing so on the bus.
[00:06:58]  The act of doing so or not doing so, it impedes and impacts the ability of the bus to actually make buses faster!
[00:07:07]  The Momdani movement has shifted boring buses into a controversial new lane.
[00:07:12]  While some critics don't seem to mind the idea of fast buses, nothing is sweet here, y'all.
[00:07:18]  The idea of free buses is triggering some rage about socialism.
[00:07:28]  I don't believe in communism.
[00:07:30]  And that's what's coming to Staten Island.
[00:07:32]  I didn't hear Staten Islanders protesting when they made the ferry spree back in the 1990s.
[00:07:39]  Noted socialist Rudy Giuliani.
[00:07:41]  And who says you don't get something for nothing?
[00:07:43]  Mayor.
[00:07:44]  Rudy Giuliani are doing a great service to Staten Island.
[00:07:47]  Actually, when we made five bus routes free, one of them was on Staten Island.
[00:07:52]  Mom Danny's referring to a one-year free bus pilot.
[00:07:55]  You're going to see a free bus route in every single borough.
[00:07:59]  That he pushed through Albany with help from Mayor Eric Adams back in 2023 before they were rivals.
[00:08:05]  I think we'll make a major impact.
[00:08:08]  According to the MTA, Mamdani's free bus experiment boosted ridership 32%, with the lowest income riders taking trips they had previously avoided.
[00:08:18]  But the free buses did not become fast during the pilot, in part because they did not use backdoor boarding.
[00:08:25]  If you talk to bus drivers, you'll hear again and again that a significant number of assaults were tied to fair pilots.
[00:08:33]  We found that we decreased exact change.
[00:08:39]  He owe me another dollar.
[00:08:41]  He ain't got it.
[00:08:41]  So he beat up the bus.
[00:08:44]  But he keeps saying it's free.
[00:08:46]  It's not free.
[00:08:47]  Somebody's paying it.
[00:08:48]  Somebody's paying.
[00:08:49]  You're going to pay for it.
[00:08:50]  They're going to raise your taxes.
[00:08:53]  It's not free.
[00:08:54]  They keep saying it's free, but it's not.
[00:08:57]  Assaults on bus drivers by 38.9%.
[00:08:59]  Can the city afford this right now with the federal cuts lump?
[00:09:03]  I think we absolutely can.
[00:09:05]  Mamdani says he'd bring in $9 billion by raising the state's top corporate tax rate and personal income taxes on New Yorkers making a million dollars a year.
[00:09:15]  I will not raise income taxes.
[00:09:17]  But what if Albany won't raise those taxes?
[00:09:20]  Mamdani says he could find another billion dollars in part with more aggressive collection of unpaid water bills and local taxes to the city.
[00:09:29]  I think it should be going after poor people.
[00:09:34]  I'm telling you, if he gets elected, it's going to blow up in their face.
[00:09:38]  Yeah.
[00:09:38]  Yeah.
[00:09:39]  Because you can't promise people all these great things to not deliver.
[00:09:42]  It's going to blow up in his face.
[00:09:44]  Yeah.
[00:09:44]  And that's free.
[00:09:46]  At the one-year mark, the pilot was not renewed.
[00:09:49]  Mayor Adams suggesting in an interview it was Mamdani's fault.
[00:09:53]  He came and met with me.
[00:09:54]  I said the concept is a good concept.
[00:09:56]  I'll support it.
[00:09:57]  I'll help.
[00:09:58]  He didn't move it through.
[00:10:00]  He couldn't land a plane.
[00:10:01]  He didn't land the plane like I land the plane.
[00:10:04]  He didn't do it.
[00:10:07]  Well, I was thankful for Mayor Adams' support.
[00:10:12]  Mamdani and the Assembly Speaker deny reports that he botched the renewal of his own pilot by casting a symbolic protest vote on their budget deal last year.
[00:10:22]  That had no impact on his promises for bus lanes.
[00:10:34]  The mayor touts numerous bus lane projects that improve street safety and his approval of the new car-free busway on 34th Street.
[00:10:43]  There is an affordability crisis, but I think what's driving that crisis is not the bus.
[00:10:49]  The evidence from the pilot, I think it's encouraging, but I don't think it is the runaway slam dunk.
[00:10:56]  Andrew Cuomo has praised Mamdani's free bus pilot and says he would consider expanding it.
[00:11:02]  Cuomo wants to get more low-income riders signed up for the city's existing half-price fare program, which is underenrolled by 60%.
[00:11:11]  Why should New Yorkers subsidize the bus fare for rich people?
[00:11:18]  Governor Kuang said, why should we be paying the fare for people who are wealthy?
[00:11:23]  You know, I don't see all that many of Governor Cuomo's donors getting on the bus.
[00:11:28]  This is the kind of logic that would have prevented us from having public education, wouldn't prevent us from out of public library, sanitation, you know, the fire department.
[00:11:36]  How about providing service?
[00:11:38]  I don't see the service there.
[00:11:40]  Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa called Mamdani's free bus plan a gimmick.
[00:11:45]  He wants to enforce penalties for fare evasion.
[00:11:49]  Mamdani says he has no future plans to make subways free, just buses.

=== Republican Gimmick Critique (01:09) ===

[00:11:55]  We take very seriously that this is a promise we have made, and it's our job to uphold.
[00:11:59]  These buses could be a shining light of public transit in New York City.
[00:12:04]  And yet, right now, I could likely outrun this bus.
[00:12:09]  It'll be a major test if he continues to outrun his rivals.
[00:12:13]  Melissa Russo, News 4, New York.
[00:12:17]  What is the point he's trying to make?
[00:12:18]  I can go fast in the bus.
[00:12:20]  Yeah, you can, of course.
[00:12:21]  But when you get to work, you're going to be all sweaty and tired.
[00:12:25]  So, what's the point of making that argument?
[00:12:27]  It's asinine.
[00:12:30]  And he's just bold-facedly bold-faced lying to everybody.
[00:12:34]  It's free.
[00:12:34]  No, he's going to charge everybody.
[00:12:36]  That's just part of his sales pitch.
[00:12:39]  Well, I hope he wins.
[00:12:41]  Either I want him to win or silver.
[00:12:45]  Well, I want the Republican to win.
[00:12:46]  I want the Republican, but if he loses Republican and he wins even better.
[00:12:51]  Yeah, y'all deserve it.
[00:12:53]  I'm going to watch that place blow up.
[00:12:56]  Yeah.
[00:12:57]  Well, sometimes you got to take a couple steps back before you can take a couple steps forward.
[00:13:00]  Unfortunately for New York, little like y'all are going to take about 500 steps back.