Democrats seem to be having this debate whether or not Mayor May mayor Mamani is a socialist or a democratic socialist. Let me settle it. He's a straightup communist. How do I know this? Well, I'm reading between the lines when one of his major adviserss says, "Elect more communists." the kind of utterances I might forgive as something a dumb white girl said while she was at Binoir because it's the kind of privilege hating you can only learn for $95,000 a year. But these are statements made as an adult. Yes, for co-eds from elite private colleges, you're only a lesbian until graduation. But the communism lasts a lifetime. >> So Zohoran Mani has begun putting his socialist agenda into action and Mah isn't amused. Recently Mandani appeared on The View and showed his disdain for law enforcement while outlining his socialist blueprint. Mah still believes this is a step in the wrong direction for New Yorkers and they had better wake up and smell the coffee. Mar's critique was sharp and fiery. So hit the subscribe button and let's get into it. You know, I am in support of abolishing ICE. And I'll tell you why. Because what we've what we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people no matter their immigration status, no matter the facts of the law, no matter the facts of the case. And I'm tired of waking up every day and seeing a new image of someone being dragged out of a car, dragged out of their home, dragged out of their life. What we need to see is humanity. And there is a way to to care about immigration in this city and in this country with a sense of humanity. What we're seeing from ICE is not it. And we have not seen that from them in a long, long time. >> All right, let's pause here for a moment and take stock of what we're dealing with. We know that Mandani is a firm advocate for open borders, a policy where almost anyone can enter the country with limited vetting, limited oversight, and limited consequences. It's an idealistic position, but one that realworld experience has thoroughly stress tested. We saw firsthand the devastating impact of lacks border enforcement under the Biden administration. A crisis that didn't just strain communities and resources, but ultimately became a political albatross that helped drive the Democratic party out of the White House. voters sent a clear and unambiguous message at the ballot box. So, the question isn't just whether Mani's position is morally defensible, it's whether it's politically survivable. And we'll get to Bill Maher's take on all of this in just a moment. But first, let's hear another one of MDN's socialist policy proposals because the border isn't the only eyebrow raiser on his agenda. >> I'll say to your first question that just to put it very clearly, these are programs for every single New Yorker. These are not programs that are going to ask the immigration status of any one of the children. All of those children are New Yorkers. They should all be enrolled in preK and 3K, no matter where they were born or where they come from. And we are also proud to be a sanctuary city. What a sanctuary city means is that we have policies in place, policies that have existed for years in this city that deny ICE agents access into schools, hospitals, city properties, or even the properties of city contractors unless those ICE agents can present a judicial warrant signed by a judge. We know that the vast majority of the time, ICE agents are not presenting that kind of documentation. If they're presenting any documentation, it tends to be an administrative warrant and often times there isn't any documentation even provided. >> And this is precisely why handing the Democrats full control of the country is a gamble many Americans aren't willing to take. If their most progressive voices, people like Mamani, get their way. The immigration crisis we've already witnessed wouldn't just continue. It would accelerate dramatically. The blueprint is becoming clearer by the day. Abolish and strip away the enforcement mechanisms that keep border security functional. expand sanctuary city protections that shield undocumented individuals from federal oversight and ultimately push the country toward open border policies under the banner of compassion and inclusion. To millions of Americans, that's not a policy platform. It's a recipe for chaos. And the 2024 election results suggest the voting public largely agrees. Now, if you thought our analysis was pointed, just wait. Bill Maher has never been one to sugarcoat his opinions or pull his punches. Brace yourself. His verbal evisceration of these positions is something else entirely. >> It matters that the mayor stands by and I so I assume stands with someone who says things like, "If you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize private property, it's over. Seize private property. Home ownership is racist. Elect more communists. Private property, especially home ownership, is a weapon of white supremacy." really even among the 20 million black Americans who own their own home. And this is what has Bill Maher absolutely livid. Mammi's close ally and right-hand woman, CA Weaver, has characterized home ownership itself as a weapon of white supremacy. A claim that doesn't just strain credibility, it flies in the face of measurable documented reality. Because here's what the data actually shows. Black home ownership in America has been on the rise. Families across the country, regardless of race, are actively pursuing property ownership as a pathway to generational wealth and financial stability. To reduce that deeply human aspiration to an instrument of racial oppression is not only intellectually dishonest, but it's insulting to every black family that has worked and sacrificed to own a piece of this country. But perhaps that framing makes more sense when you understand Mamani's broader ideological vision. one where private ownership is steadily weakened and the government steps in to control more housing resources and ultimately more of people's lives. >> These are the kind of utterances I might forgive as something a dumb white girl said while she was at Binoir >> because it's the kind of privilege hating you can only learn for $95,000 a year. But these are statements made as an adult. Yes, for co-eds from elite private colleges, you're only a lesbian until graduation, but the communism lasts a lifetime. And this is what leaves Bill Maher genuinely bewildered. Sew Weaver is an elite educated woman, the kind of academic pedigree that presumably exposes you to history, critical thinking, and the full sweep of 20th century political thought. You'd expect that somewhere between those lecture halls and library stacks, she'd have encountered the documented horrors of communist regimes, the economic collapse, the suppression of individual freedoms, the human cost of centralized government control. And yet here we are. Rather than emerging from that education with a cautionary appreciation for why communism has failed everywhere it's been seriously attempted, Weaver is doubling down passionately and unapologetically. Just like Mumani, she isn't tiptoeing around the ideology. She's embracing it openly. And that many would argue is becoming an increasingly serious liability for the Democratic Party. A party already struggling to reconnect with mainstream voters who rejected this brand of radicalism at the ballot box. >> Seem to be having this debate whether or not Mayor May mayor Mamani is a socialist or a democratic socialist. Let me settle it. He's a straightup communist. How do I know this? Well, I'm reading between the lines when one of his major advisers says, "Elect more communists," which is fine. It's fine. It's a belief system. He's allowed to believe it and people are allowed to vote for it. But if liberals deny it, like he's just going through a goth phase, They're going to lose more elections. This is not a communist country. >> And right here, Bill Maher drops the hammer with the kind of blunt, unsparing clarity that has become his trademark. His message to the Democratic Party is direct and urgent. If you refuse to denounce Meani's socialist and communist adjacent ideas, you are writing your own losing ticket. The parallel he draws is impossible to ignore. Democrats spent years refusing to confront and condemn the excesses of woke ideology, and that silence cost them dearly in 2024. Voters noticed. Voters responded. The pattern is now repeating itself, and the party appears to be sleepwalking into the same trap. Because at its core, America was not founded on socialist principles. The ideals baked into this nation's DNA, individual liberty, private enterprise, and limited government stand in direct opposition to what Mandani and his allies are openly advocating. Most Americans understand that instinctively, and if Democrats won't say it, voters will make their position known once again at the polls. And this is the pendulum never lands in the middle problem I'm always bitching about. Really, the choices we get here are either the worst version of crony capitalism or communism. Either a side deal for the Trump family every time he does business overseas or the lady who says impoverish the white middle class. Oh yeah, there's a great campaign slogan for you. Honestly, as New York mayoral races go, I was less creeped out by Anthony Weiner's dick. Now, this is where things get particularly interesting and frankly alarming. A growing faction within the Democratic Party appears to be drifting not just leftward, but toward outright socialist and communist adjacent ideology, and the agenda embedded in that drift is worth examining closely. The vision being pushed involves squeezing the wealthy until the well runs dry, while policies that disproportionately burden the middle class get quietly packaged as progress and equality. It's an economic worldview that sounds righteous in theory but has never delivered in practice. And here's the deeper irony that millions of Americans already live with. We are already one of the most taxed populations in the developed world at the federal level, the state level, the local level. And yet the infrastructure crumbles, public services underdel, and accountability remains elusive. So where exactly does the money go? That question haunts taxpayers today. Under a much more socialist system, it would become the defining and unanswerable question of everyday life. Now, check out some of the new problems that Mamani's socialist policies have created. >> That was me for a second. >> So, I took the problem to the mayor himself, showing him video of people camped on the street in such frigid weather. What is your office going to do about it? And is it acceptable given the fact that it's 21° for these people to be there on the street on the Upper West Side and getting no help? It is not acceptable for a New Yorker to have to find shelter outside whether on the upper west side or anywhere in this city. New Yorkers should be able to find a place to call their home. And what I have said consistently first as a candidate and now as the mayor is that outcomes are how we judge ourselves. Manny said he would not follow former mayor Adams approach of removing the encampments. He wants to take a softer approach convincing them to come in from the cold. And it appears that Meani's sanctuary city vision is already bearing visible, undeniable fruit, just not the kind his supporters were promised. On the Upper West Side of New York City, homeless encampments are growing. The streets that residents once walked freely are increasingly defined by the very crisis that progressive policies were supposed to solve. So what is Mamani's answer to this worsening situation unfolding right in his own backyard? Persuasion. His proposed solution is to simply convince homeless individuals to voluntarily leave the streets. A gentle dialogue-based approach that sounds compassionate on a podium but falls apart completely in practice. We know this because Gavin Nuome already ran that exact playbook in California. The result, a homelessness crisis that spiraled into one of the most visible policy failures in modern American governance. The evidence is overwhelming. The precedent is damning. And yet the same failed ideas keep getting recycled. Some people, it seems, are simply determined not to learn. >> I spoke to a man living on the street on the Upper West Side. >> And I asked him, you know, would you go into supportive housing? Would you, you know, and he said, sure, I would go into supportive housing if somebody would offer it to me. >> That's why at the heart of this has to be the connection with services that they want, that they will use, that they will actually utilize. >> So, were you satisfied with the mayor's answer? I think it put him on notice that he has to come up with an answer. I've been talking to the deputy mayor every day and she's approaching it in a clinical way. Well, the clinical way is now now and she has to find them housing. I hope that's what thankfully you did. >> Now, the man I spoke with today said city shelters aren't for him because he doesn't feel safe. >> And here is where the fundamental problem reveals itself in stark unavoidable terms. Ma'am Dany is proposing sweeping solutions to New York City's homelessness crisis. But the critical question nobody on his side seems eager to answer is where exactly is the money coming from? This isn't a hypothetical concern. New York is already staring down a staggering 12 billion deficit, a fiscal hole that existed before a single one of Mani's ambitious programs gets added to the ledger. The city's finances are already under severe strain, and the math simply does not work in his favor. Yet, when pressed for concrete funding mechanisms, Mamani and his socialist allies consistently reach for the same worn out lever, tax the rich. It's a rallying cry that energizes crowds and fits neatly on a protest sign. But it is not a serious sustainable fiscal strategy. At some point, the wealthy leave, the revenue dries up, and the bill lands squarely on everyone else. And finally, new rule Democrats must recognize that Zoron Mani is the future of the party. Unfortunately, it's the Republican party. Get it? And if you missed his victory speech in last week's mayoral election in New York, don't worry. You'll see it in every attack ad for the next two years. Now, Venami seems like a nice guy, and I congratulate him on an extraordinary political achievement. But before the whole left side of the country catches socialism fever, let's listen to the other big winner in last Tuesday's election. Virginia Governor elect Abigail Spanberger, who before the 24 election said things like, "If the party didn't shift to the center, we will get [ __ ] torn apart." So what are we left with after examining Mandani's platform in full? A collection of ideologically driven proposals that have been tried, tested, and failed repeatedly across the world. open borders, abolishing ICE, sanctuary cities, taxing the wealthy aggressively, and government control of housing and private enterprise. Bill Maher, hardly a conservative voice, sees the writing on the wall clearly. If the Democratic Party wraps itself around this brand of radical socialism, it isn't just risking another election loss. It's risking its own long-term relevance. America was not built on these ideals, and most Americans are not buying them. The 2024 elections delivered that verdict loudly and unambiguously. Mani and his allies can continue doubling down. But if history and recent electoral reality have taught us anything, the bill for ignoring common sense always comes due, and ordinary Americans will not be the ones paying it. And on this note, we draw the curtains on today's video. 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