AOC responds to Trump's Congressional Address | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Mar 6, 2025
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- hey everyone how's it [Music]
- going we've got some post State of the Union chat um hey everybody how's it
- going hope you're doing well hey
- everyone yeah so um State of the Union just happened if you didn't watch it it
- God bless you protect your [Laughter]
- peace someone said glad you stayed away me [Laughter]
- too um yeah I I didn't go to all that
- I knew that was going to be a mess um
- and personally you know I watched it from
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- home I paid attention to what the president was saying um I watched it so you didn't
- have to um but uh so if you didn't you
- know that's okay uh I watched the whole thing um but I watched it from
- home everybody makes different decisions um I just
- felt like I couldn't um I didn't feel
- like I could legitimize his presence um that being said you know I
- know different people had different takes on it uh in terms of the House of
- Representatives um you know I'll I'll give you an alternative
- perspective um in terms of the House of Representatives you know some people
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- feel and it is true that the State of the Union occurs in the House of
- Representatives known as the people's house um and technically in terms of the
- proceedings of the State of the Union an interesting thing about the house is
- that it is different from almost every other uh chamber in that
- only house members are typically allowed in the House of Representatives so um
- anybody else that is brought into the house that walks into the house has to
- be invited and um and so Trump actually has
- to be formally invited to the house floor in order to be allowed into the
- house floor same thing with all those senators and the cabinet members Etc so
- so you know I think other people had a certain logic which is that this is the people's house
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- and Trump showing up uh should not kind
- of force the duly elected representatives of that chamber especially those who
- disagree with him out so you know that was a that's some of the perspective
- there anyways I watched from home um
- and if you if you did if you didn't honestly and I this is like I listen to
- Trump I do because he has won um he has won two
- presidential elections now the first one was not by popular vote and the second vote he has not won more than 50% of the
- of the of the US electorate but he has won these elections nevertheless so I listen to him I I listen to what he says
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- as an observer and I have to tell you I mean I feel like even if you're like a
- big Trump fan this speech was not his
- best um he rambled a lot he was reading a lot of
- lists uh he was reading a lot of wrong information on
- lists and um you know to be honest it to me it was
- giving word minimum for a school essay and you just kind of start typing
- things so that you get to the word minimum that's what it was giving except
- for the fact that this was the longest State of the Union speech in
- American almost this I think it was the longest or the second longest speech or
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- a joint address SL dat of the Union speech in history I think it was like him and like a Bill Clinton speech I
- think they were saying on television shortly after and so he talked a lot but he didn't say much and I want to tell
- you why that is like why get up there and even if you
- disagree with it why why get up there and not give the most compelling story
- that you can give why get up there and just like read number after number after
- number in these cuts which are not real by the way why rattle off and make all
- these claims that like about like you found all these 140 year olds who are taking checks from Social Security which
- is not real by the way why do that and I'm going to tell you why because just
- like I said in our last live we can we have to remain focused because our focus
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- is the same thing as their focus they keep talking about all this waste which
- by the way like almost all these numbers that Doge has been putting out ends up
- being fake they say like they'll come up with some initial number and Doge
- themselves has to revise it down and so they get the headlines saying like oh we got so much but um but then they all end
- up revising it down and so why are they doing this like I said before it's all
- about Medicaid it's all about what they're not
- saying don't you find it interesting that Donald Trump if you
- listen to that speech Donald Trump said a lot of things he said a lot of random
- things about studies and and waste and all this other
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- stuff he did not talk about Medicaid not
- once and as a certain right-wing operative likes to say mag's on
- Medicaid and Maga Trump is coming for your Medicaid
- Maga Republicans are coming for your Medicaid
- and the reason they are rattling off all of these things because listen where
- there is waste we should address it where there is corruption we should address it where
- there's Fraud and Abuse we should address it but don't you think that if you found a bunch of money in the couch
- cushions that you would put that to expanding Medicaid improving schools
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- fixing our roads right but that's not what they're planning on doing the reason they're shaking all these couch
- cushions and the reason that they are rattling off all these numbers is because all those numbers they are
- trying to add up into the one of the most massive tax cuts for billionaires
- and the 1% probably in modern American history and do not forget that don't forget that
- it's not not just about what Trump is saying it's about the big obvious things
- that he is ignoring y'all okay Medicaid
- don't you find it interesting that he did not
- mention Medicaid once
- once the largest source of health insurance the large one of the largest
- insurers in the United States that impacts most Americans and by the way
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- 30% of Medicaid money goes to Medicare recipients
- too so he's doing that for a reason because
- he's scared if he was confident about his attacks on
- Medicaid he would have said something wouldn't he he's confident about his attacks on immigrants he's confident
- about his attacks on federal workers he's confident about all those things why won't he own up and Republicans own
- up to their attacks on Medicaid and if you are a Donald Trump supporter
- and you believe him when he says we're not going to touch Medicaid why wouldn't
- he say that in his speech I mean it's one of the most
- vulnerable point points that Republicans have right now is is this attack on
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- Medicaid they know it's sinking them in fact the nrcc this is an organization
- that's like kind of in charge of electing Republicans across the country they came in this week and they told
- every Republican in the House of Representatives to stop doing Town
- Halls to stop doing Town Halls why why because they're getting too much heat
- over Medicaid and personally I think they are trying to bully Republicans to
- get in line to try to line up to vote to gut Medicaid and so they want to extract
- Republicans out of their communities out of their districts so they don't feel as
- connected so they isolate them so they can be more easily manipulated and bullied into cutting Medicaid
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- and if that if Donald Trump were so
- proud about it he would own it and if it wasn't true you could if this is a
- massive political vulnerability he could end he could have ended tonight a lot of
- the speculation in and a lot of the vulnerability that Republicans were
- experiencing right now if he went up on that Podium and said we're not going to touch Medicaid but he didn't say that did he
- he didn't say that mark my words they're coming after it and all of
- that rattling off on Social Security and trying to frame Social Security as
- largely wasteful this idea that there's like checks going out tons of Social Security checks going out to dead people
- no no no social security monitors who passes away and processes who passes
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- away that doesn't mean they're cutting a check to people who pass away and they
- are setting all of this up they are trying to trick you they're trying to
- trick your your grandparents they're trying to trick young people into
- thinking that it's all wasteful so that they can get away with cutting it to
- Pieces it's the same thing with Medicaid my Johnson is going on television
- talking about how people who are on Medicaid are just all able-bodied
- 29-year-old young men who are playing video games Medicaid let me tell you all
- Republicans have attacked Medicaid so often for decades that any
- little sliver of fat that you can possibly gut from it has largely all
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- been trimmed away this is not the first time that Republicans have gone up and
- frankly anybody has gone up to talk about efficiency and
- so understand and I'm tell I'm talking directly to Republicans right now
- because I know some of y'all love to be on my feeds so welcome and I'm happy
- that you're here to all the Republicans who are on
- Medicare who are on Medicaid who maybe you're on children's
- health insurance and by the way a lot of states name these Insurance programs
- different things like um uh you know New York has a different
- children's health insurance program uh and so on and so forth so if you have like a little state Healthcare
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- program it it's probably public funded and or it might have some sort of public
- connection to it and I want you to ask your
- representative if they're going to touch any Medicaid dollars at all and if they
- try to tell you oh yeah there's a ton of waste ask them how much how much waste like ask
- for the receipt ask for the receipt if they want to say there's race waste ask for the receipt because what they are
- trying to cut from Medicaid I'm going to tell you is somewhere to the tune of
- 88 billion dollar from Medicaid okay
- $880 billion and I sit on the committee that Medicaid goes
- through and the math ain't math there's even when you talk to
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- Republicans their Wildest Dream fantasy of the amount of so-called waste that
- they have identified if you believe absolutely everything which like they include long-term care as waste like
- they include actual certain kinds of Health Care as wasteful in their wildest fantasies
- their number is still $50 billion so where where's the other $830
- billion coming from it's coming from Grandma it's
- coming from your prescriptions it's coming from your care it's coming from
- your your insulin it's coming from your kids copay they are setting up to rob you to
- rob you and that is the moral of the story of
- this state of the union tonight he was yammering and he was blabbering
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- and he was reading off listicles like this was some like this was the longest BuzzFeed right-wing compilation of all
- time it was boring it was yes it was
- unsettling very dangerous in terms of um how he is tearing apart us alliances
- tearing tearing apart uh you know at our allies
- attacking our our allies um it's not to undermine the seriousness of what he is
- doing but it is to really communicate that he was trying to dance
- around their number one priority which is to Rob and gut Medicaid medic care
- and all of our public systems Social Security Etc in order to pay for tax cuts for
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- billionaires billionaires and let me tell you something as far as taxes go he only
- actually talked about about uh what was it no tax on
- tips no tax on Social Security benefits and no tax on
- overtime that is by the I can talk about those specific things but let me tell
- you something those tax cuts are a little little little tiny line in terms
- of the entire tax bill it is like 90% well maybe not 90 it is like but it is
- overwhelmingly tax cuts for billionaires corporations it's the writeoffs on the Yachts it's the write offs on the
- private jets it's the rich getting richer this bill is the rich getting
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- richer and then they put as little lipstick on a pig these little crumbs of
- no tax on tips no tax on Social Security benefits and no tax on over time let's
- talk about a couple of these things um in terms of no tax on tips I obviously
- you all know I was a waitress for many years I was a bar tender on
- many years someone said your sweater guys I made it thank you it's all I my hair's covering all the holes up here
- so but in terms of no tax on tips listen I was a waitress I was a
- bartender I get it um and if you live
- off of tips I I get it the one thing
- that I want people to think about is even as a waitress
- if any of you all else have gotten gone like
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- completely mad with every single job being a tipped job with an iPad screen
- now like especially during covid I mean it's even to the point where the
- freaking where the freaking self checkouts at the airport get tip screens
- if you are tired of that I do think it's important for us to
- recognize the danger of every job becoming a TI
- job and all of us then now having to pay
- each other's wages not just in waitressing not just
- in bartending I'm talking about everything
- everything and I think it's just a precipice
- that we all need to think about because it's
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- not there is a very careful and slippery slope
- here that we just need to pause and consider
- um because then it we can very easily enter a world where no one is paid where
- like no one's employer is like actually paying their wages and we're all just tipping each other and essentially Gund
- meing the entire economy and that is the one
- area where I want us to be thoughtful about okay thoughtful about about and
- because historically tipped we think of tipped jobs as
- waitresses bartenders Hospitality but we all have also been
- experiencing the typification of a lot more jobs outside of that
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- and um if you don't want every single person that you
- interact with starting to turn an iPad screen around we need to take this very
- carefully um because employers need to pay their
- employees a living wage employers need to pay their
- employees a living godamn wage and this
- idea that we are going to transfer and
- disincentivize and prevent or give people an outing massive corporations an
- out from paying a living wage to making everyone
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- and incentivizing everyone into becoming a tipped worker I will be the first to
- tell you as a waitress as a bartender in New York City the
- volatility of being a tipped worker is a big deal now we choose it we
- have that job you know that's that's a separate issue but
- if it gets to a point where no one can get a stable job because everything's become typified because we've changed
- and altered the tax code to reward employers for not paying a living wage
- and for paying sub minimum wages sub minimum tip wages I want us to really
- think about that really think about that number one number two no taxes on Social Security benefits another one honest
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- face listen we can talk about that but I want to tell you about how um Social
- Security is funded because we hear all the time right like especially if you're
- a millennial I don't know if gen Z when y'all were in high school tell me in the
- comments um but when I was in high school we would get these little like sometimes like right-wing videos that
- got wheeled into our classrooms that were like I mean it happened to me where it was like oh Social Security is going
- to um uh going to run out of money you guys aren't going to get Social Security just so you know Social Security is running out of money it's running out of
- money they have been priming us to give up on the social security system for a
- long time but let me tell you something why that is not the case
- Okay Social Security does have there are Financial
- issues with Social Security but let me tell you why because we all get tax to
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- pay we all pay into Social Security right like if you have a job and you pull up your pay stub you can look at
- your pay stub how much money you pay um in Social Security and it's a lot of
- money at the end of the year like it's a lot of money for us for a normal person
- if you're making 20 30 if you're making 30 40 50 $60,000 a year you look at the
- end of the year how much money you've paid into Social Security it's a lot of money um but that money the amount of money
- that you pay into Social Security stops at $250,000 at if your income is
- $250,000 you have a cap you don't really pay into it proportionately as
- much all you need to do is lift that
- maximum income cap of $250,000 um on Social Security and we're
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- good social security has does not you eliminate overnight any sort of solvency issue
- that the right wing and Republicans want to tell you that social security has so let's revisit
- why Trump's proposal on not taxing Social Security benefits is a problem
- now if we want to like the idea on his face I think is
- something that could potentially be negotiable right um because on its face
- it's not the it's not like on its face not whatever but the way that they have
- structured the way that Donald Trump and the Republican Party have structured the
- the no tax on Social Security benefits their proposal is the following current
- currently Social Security the taxes on Social Security benefits actually go
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- around the taxes on Social Security benefits go around to help fund Social
- Security it goes back into the Social Security fund now when they take away the taxes on Social Security benefits
- what Trump is proposing that they do is you take away the tax and then you take
- away the Social Security funding so the way that the little wrapper that they've put on it is no tax
- on social security but the fine print is that
- they're trying to make Social Security run out of money faster they're trying to bankrupt Social
- Security by selling it as a no tax on Social Security
- benefits now if we wanted to approach that we
- would lift the cap on the lift the $250,000 income cap
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- on social security so that we can fully fund Social Security not have to worry
- about a solvency issue at all and then we can talk about the tax on benefits and see what possibilities there are
- there so scam
- scam and then tax on and then no tax on overtime okay I hear that also just so
- you know there are some people and some professions on overtime that also make a
- lot of money and so is there going to be any
- income cap on that because I will tell you Republicans want to means test
- Medicaid left right up and down you all know if anybody here has ever had any
- experience with Medicaid they they like they basically
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- floss everything about your life for you to be able to get the tiniest amount of
- help on your health care so if we're going to give a huge amount of money for
- no tax on overtime are they going to plan on do doing the same thing or is there going
- to be any sort of income cap on it or can you make an unlimited amount of of income and still get the tax benefits
- what if you make a quar million dollars a year do you still think they PE that that those folks shouldn't pay taxes
- shouldn't contribute what about people who make most of their you know it's I it's not
- again it's not to say that these things are flat out up or
- down it's to say those are the only three proposals that really have any
- relevance to working people and I'm just saying think about it a little bit more
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- just think about it like just think about it just a little bit under the surface and even then those three things
- no tax on tips no tax on social security no benefits and no tax on overtime
- represent this much of a tax package that is this big and this much of it is
- um give money to Elon Musk give money to Jeff Bezos give money to Mark Zuckerberg
- give money to the biggest corporations in America and this much of that tax package has anything to do with you and
- even this part is still kind of scamming you a little bit
- so that's in terms of the substance of it and then by the way all of this the
- money for all of this is to be is taking out of Medicaid we're going to take all of this out of Medicaid and then we're
- going to move it over here give this much to to billionaires and then give this much in dubious things maybe for
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- you because it sounds good on a Podium but when you actually look when you actually open the hood it's kind of
- crazy so that's that um and I'm going to see
- if I can take a so I know people are like crying but listen I just want to break that down for you um but I don't
- want to just leave you with that okay um I want to uh I'm I'm going to dive into some of
- your questions here um folks are saying AOC we're listening we hear you tell us
- what to do so
- um I think there's a couple of things there are some folks that are around here that are interested in
- electoral actions some people here who are not interested in electoral actions I'm
- going to start electorally these Republicans I'm telling you
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- all they are getting scared Trump not mentioning
- Medicaid at the State of the Union is the
- game he doesn't talk about what he
- fears and he knows it's dyn Dynamite the Republic House Republicans
- know that it's dynamite for them and um that's why they're talking
- about not hosting Town Halls we need to be creatively
- organizing in Republican districts and I don't want to hear K Republicans don't
- listen they are afraid of this I'm telling you if they weren't afraid of it
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- they would continue to be hosting their Town Halls
- if they weren't afraid of it Trump would have said
- something they're afraid of it and the reason they're not the reason they're trying not to host the town halls and
- the reason that Trump is not even using the word Medicaid at the State of the Union speech is precisely because they
- don't want people talking about it and they don't want people making noise about it so what we need to do is that
- if you're you are near a republican District which a lot of people are if
- you are near a republican district and not even if you're near a republican District if you are in a republican
- district and your Republican is not hosting a town hall
- it's time to do community Town Halls it's time to do community
- teachings it's time to to do community Town Halls it is time um to to start
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- advertising their absence okay advertise their
- absence in New York New York City has a representative
- New York City has a Republican representative Nicole malot takz
- Brooklyn and Staten Island it is time if she is following the party line and not
- doing a town hall guess what it's time for you to do a town hall it's time for us to start doing community Town Halls
- Mike Lawler out in Westchester County we you've got Republicans all across the
- country if the Jeff Van Drew in New Jersey we've got I I don't want yall to
- say this is an r+ 20 seat guys if Democrats have lost D
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- plus you know a lot seats over the years Republicans can lose R plus 10
- seats just straight up like if if
- Democrats can step on a rake Republicans can step on a rake and I am telling you
- they are stepping on one of the biggest rakes in modern American history we are
- seeing social SEC they are they are messing with Social Security y'all
- they're me I need you to understand how much of a political noo that has been
- for both parties for a very long time for a reason
- because your stuff will collapse Republicans have wanted to go after
- social security for a long time they haven't because if they did they would
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- lose in big numbers in big numbers magas
- on Medicaid and you're on Medicaid and I've
- had family on Medicaid This is the part when people want to talk about transcending party
- when people want to talk about transcending party now's the moment to to transcend party if you are a fan of
- Donald Trump and you like to punish yourself by watching my live streams
- welcome I'm still fighting for your health care anyway if you are
- Maga and you're on Social Security congratulations welcome I'm fighting for
- your benefits too because I actually believe that people should age with
- dignity in this country I believe believe that people should have access
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- to health care they want to talk about work requirements they want to say oh
- all these people with Benefits Medicaid especially I want to take all your preconceptions just like about any other
- program to the side for a second Medicaid specifically they're want to talk about adding more work require
- requirements to Medicaid the amount of people who who like fall under this
- per like percentage wise it is it is almost no one it is almost no one what
- does happen when you implement paperwork requirements sorry guys I didn't weave
- in my ends here if you're a nit I need to do that next but I was really excited about finishing this order so I put it on
- um if what was I saying so if you
- are what was I talking about I was talking about social security guys help me out in the chat um oh yeah work
- requirements the amount of people that like are
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- actually you know I if you are for example 29 and you're on
- Medicaid um and you are not working you are most likely disabled you
- are most you most likely have a major major disability
- like these idea when they talk about like you know if you do not have a job
- and you do not have a job for a long period of time and like the the
- percentage of people on that on Medicaid it's like I I don't quote me on it but I
- think it's like three or 4% very very very small and those are people who are often looking for work
- and um the vast majority of people are Medicaid
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- lowincome um because we know what Private health insurance is like right uh
- lowincome uh disabled major major major
- disabilities that would really prevent people from having like full-time
- work um or or you know any other kind of
- extenuating circumstance Medicaid has been means tested to death to
- death um so they're coming after it they're coming after it and
- like I this is as someone who believes that Health Care is a human right I
- believe that I personally believe in a Single Payer Health Care
- System um but you know if you want to compromise and go with a public option
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- you know at the end of the day
- like the worst sin that can hen in my view in my view the worst sin that can
- happen is that you accidentally gave someone Healthcare you
- accidentally let someone see a doctor and that
- is like a crime because why and before people say we
- don't have the money for it we don't have the we don't quote unquote have the money
- for better a better and improved social safety net because we let like
- Elon Musk gut Medicaid and gut Social Security in order for him
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- to pay for a TA his own tax cuts and be his own billion dollars in private
- Federal contracts this guy takes billions and billions of your tax
- dollars of your public funds of and it's not just Elon all these guys a lot of a
- lot of these Tech guys that were uh standing behind Trump at the inauguration a lot of
- tech talks about themselves as Tech but they're really just defense
- contractors they're the new Boeing they're the new Lockheed
- Martin um they're defense contractors
- and they are robbing us of the tiny slivers of
- what we have left in our in our Collective public social safety net in
- order to get billion doll defense contracts cuz here's the thing you want to hear another interesting fact you
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- could fire every single federal worker and it would still be on something only
- like 4% of the federal budget where's all the rest of it going
- if you actually wanted to go after waste Fraud and Abuse you would go after defense contractors you would go after a
- lot of other contractors um but the problem is those are the guys who are making the
- money off of cuts to Medicaid Medicare and Social Security and they fund
- propaganda for it and they and they buy
- platforms like Twitter and yeah meta and all these other things and they
- influence what you see so that you don't see what they
- do okay so understand the stakes here so what do
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- we do we cannot give up on winning the
- hearts and minds of our fellow Americans
- okay yes the problem the power problem is up here but the actual
- work I'm so serious the actual work that we have to
- do is on a person toperson basis I'm going to take Westchester County as an
- example Westchester County I went to public school in Westchester County
- um that County big parts of Westchester are currently represented by
- Republican those are like
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- neighbors those are people that you know that I
- know just work on them they like and it's not I'm not saying you have to
- fight with people I am saying that the work of persuasion is actually the work
- of community and you're not going to persuade anybody
- you are not going to debate anybody into your side into convincing you of
- your side you are going to embrace people and connect people and create
- Community with people to win them over this is a work because I've got to
- tell you because a lot of people say like where's the Democratic party this is failure of Democratic
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- party and listen like you know I it's it's no secret that
- I have had my own like you know I came in primarying a Democrat okay like I got
- into office because I ran against a Democrat and I ran against a member of
- Democratic Leadership and and he had millions and millions of dollars and I
- was just a waitress and we won and so like when I
- and and when I won my initial reception from the Democratic party was extremely
- hosel and um I I was primaried at the first chance
- that they got very very well funded it was like a $3 million primary challenge against me by my own party like trust
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- me when I say that I get it
- um and when I am in conversations in
- these rooms one of the things that I also learn and also know is
- that a lot of these people like
- yes and it's not to dismiss serious problems with big money it's not to
- dismiss the structural corruption that exists in our political
- system but also a lot of people do
- represent districts that don't see things the same
- way who have voters that don't see I have traveled the country
- [Music] and you would just be really surpr I mean guys like Donald Trump won the
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- election Republicans won the Senate and Republicans won the house and some of
- that was a rejection of Democrats and some of it was an Embrace of
- Republicans and we can do things I think to shape
- and address the rejection of the democratic party which in many ways depending on the thing I find to be
- eminently understandable but I think sometimes people forget at
- the Embrace of the Republican party because I think that's harder to
- look in the mirror but we have to if we're going to win this thing we have have to do
- it um we just do and that is actually like
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- that is lateral work that is the work of community it's the stuff that we don't
- want to do right we no one wants to be like there are plenty of folks and some people are
- legitimately not s like I'm not going to sit here and tell the trans Community to
- endanger themselves or anything like that but like you know there are people out there like
- if you actually have ever canvased before and knock on doors you know that like most people do not have neat
- worldviews that fit in one category or another it's a hodge podge of things and
- they'll have some from one and some from the other and like the most important thing that you
- can do is find those people and start to build relationship with
- them now because a lot of people don't change how they vote based on a
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- debate they don't a lot of people may not change how they vote because they see a video from me maybe some
- do but most people like a lot of people will change how they
- vote based on someone they care about sometimes I know a lot of people have
- had a lot of painful experience where that's not the case but if you slowly you know it's
- like when people start seeing actions happen around them when they start you know first it's like oh there's a town
- hall down the street they're not going to go but they're going to notice that it's happening people start getting the
- message eventually and that heart be Starts Now it can't and this is some
- this to me is where I think one area where the Democratic
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- party has historically been quite weak is we can't show up for election
- season like we need to be beating Hearts we need to be and I
- don't mean that like emotionally I mean like for me you know I I won my election
- and because I ran on a message of and I ran against
- the whole reason I ran is because I felt like our local representation was taking us for granted and he wasn't account and that
- you know there wasn't accountability to us that's why I ran and so because I won
- the way that I did because I ran against the Democratic party establishment because I wasn't supposed to win because
- they they still tried to kick me out like I always I never took that for
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- granted and I do yearr round organizing and I'm not the only one um
- there are plenty of good members that I think don't sometimes don't get the attention that they
- deserve um and um and do really good work
- but you know it's not just the party it's like
- all of us and um and it's
- about who we can change it's about who we can change and
- that's hard right how many of you how many of us have
- had a family member or like someone that you care about that
- you've lost to this kind of like Trump dark web how
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- many young boys do you know that gets sucked up into like this Andrew Tate
- stuff I feel genuinely really I don't even feel defensive about it or angry
- about it I feel like really bummed that the rightwing is
- like really dooming a lot of little boy trying to Doom a lot of little boys into
- unhappiness and like conditioning a lot of men into loneliness because of these
- ideas that they have around other people like it's really sad to be like it it it's genuinely sad and uh you know I
- think um that work that's like really
- complicated that's the work that we need to do there's just no two ways around it I
- mean I know you and I like you see those election
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- results you know like Trump has substantial
- support and we have to do a lot of work
- yes targeting it up at people in power but if we can do the lateral work and
- showing up laterally um it's not just it it is about applying
- pressure to elected officials and it is also about
- transforming each other and let me tell you they do it to us don't they don't
- they you know um gen Z had a decent amount of gen Z I
- mean listen jenzie didn't vote for Trump let's be very clear um but there were numbers there Gen X Gen X was like the
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- most trumpy voting generation they they voted I believe they voted for Trump
- more than even Baby Boomers did um you know but here's the thing if they swung
- it so can we and we really need to do
- that work because it is foundational it's it is the it is foundational and
- it's where they have directed a lot of their energy and it's time for us to do
- that too so wrapping up it's midnight that was a long ass speech and I got work tomorrow
- see y'all bye-bye
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