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NEW YORK POLITICS SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS AND ZOHRAN MAMDANI MeidasTouch: Bernie RIPS Trump TO SHREDS at MASSIVE BROOKLYN RALLY!!! PLAY YOUTUBE VIDEO Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IfJpa3vjfs
Bernie RIPS Trump TO SHREDS at MASSIVE BROOKLYN RALLY!!! MeidasTouch 5.36M subscribers Sep 8, 2025 The MeidasTouch Podcast MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas covers the packed Bernie Sanders rally with Zohran Mamdani in Brooklyn, New York where they destroyed Trump and rallied against the MAGA oligarchy. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! MeidasTouch relies on SnapStream to record, watch, monitor, and clip the news. Get a FREE TRIAL of SnapStream by clicking here: https://go.snapstream.com/affiliate/m... Support the MeidasTouch Network: / meidastouch Add the MeidasTouch Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Buy MeidasTouch Merch: https://store.meidastouch.com Follow MeidasTouch on Twitter: / meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on Facebook: / meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on Instagram: / meidastouch Follow MeidasTouch on TikTok: / meidastouch How this content was made Auto-dubbed Audio tracks for some languages were automatically generated. Learn more Peter Burgess COMMENTARY Peter Burgess Transcript 0:00 [Applause] A standing ovation in Brooklyn, New York for Senator Bernie Sanders and Zoron Mdani. Mam Donnie of course is running for mayor of New York. Here at the Midas Touch Network, we've been covering Senator Sanders Fight the oligarchy tour, which has traveled everywhere from Portland, Maine to Los Angeles, California to everywhere in between. And he's been filling stadiums, packed crowds on an off election year, bigger crowds than Trump could command during the election year. Yet, corporate news is ignoring what's taking place on the ground. Not here at the Midas Touch Network where we cover the packed crowds that are there to see the message being delivered by Bernie Sanders and people like Zoron, Mom Donnie. So, let me show 1:01 you what is energizing the crowds, what is energizing the grassroots right now. It's speeches like this. And I want you to watch the full speech right here. So you can see what is on the minds of the Americans. And one of the things that Senator Bernie Sanders does so well in these speeches and he talks about it is he listens. He doesn't just speak. He listens to what the people are going through. When I spoke to Senator Bernie Sanders once, he told me something that sticks with me forever. that been the most important issues that are impacting Americans are the issues that are often least discussed on corporate news and elsewhere. If you listen to the people and you fight for the people, that is what it means to be involved in politics and that is what it means to fight the oligarchy and to truly stand up in this moment. So, take a look right here at Senator Bernie Sanders incredible speech before this packed crowd. Let's play it. 2:04 And it is an honor and privilege to be with you this evening and to congratulate the next mayor of the city of New York on an extraordinary campaign. This guy started at 2% in the polls and he blew away the opposition. And what was most extraordinary about his primary campaign and the campaign he is running right now is his campaign is not ugly 30 secondond TV ads. It is a grassroots movement. 3:01 which you have been part of. [Applause] I don't know, Mr. Zon, if it's a world record or not, but having 50,000 volunteers in a mayor's election, pretty good to me. Now, as part of our fighting oligarchy tour, which Zeron is joining me on tonight, we have now been to 21 states. [Applause] We have done 35 events for over 300,000 people from Maine to California. And what I can tell you without any fear of hesitation is the American people in red states and 4:03 in blue states do not want to live in an oligarchic society. They do not want to live in an authoritarian society. They do not want the White House to be practicing unprecedented kleptocracy. And they sure as hell do not want to see a continuation of the oligarch's war against the working class of this country. [Applause] And what Shiron's campaign is about is an understanding that today we are living in an unprecedented moment in the modern 5:01 history of our country and we have got to fight back in an unprecedented way. So, let me say a few words. Let me just say a few words about what's going on in this country. Thoughts I think you're not going to see in corporate media. You're not going to hear in the halls of Congress today. In America, we have more income and wealth inequality than we have ever had in the history of America. [Music] Zan just talked about children in New York City and in Vermont who are hungry, people who are homeless, and yet the wealthiest 1% have never had it so good. [Applause] If you can believe it, today you have 6:02 and it's it's important that we feel the outrage of children going hungry, people being homeless, 85 million without healthcare, and you got one guy, one guy, Mr. Musk, whose own wealth is more than the bottom 52% of American households. And you may have seen in the papers they want to give him a little bonus another 8 $900 billion. We are living in crazy worlds. Millions of people struggling to put food on the table and making one guy a trillionaire is insane. not what this country is supposed to be about. And we are not going to allow that to happen. 7:07 But it's not only income and wealth inequality. Today you have more concentration of ownership in America in every major sector. financial services, transportation, agriculture, media. You got a handful of giant corporations that determine what is produced, how it's produced, how workers are treated, and what you pay for those products. But it's not just income and wealth inequality. It is not just a small number of people controlling our economy. You have six major media conglomerates that control in this country what 90% of our people see, hear, and read. 8:00 It is not an accident, brothers and sisters, that Mr. Musk owns Twitter. Not an accident that Mr. Zuckerberg owns Meta, which is Instagram and Facebook. Not an accident that Mr. Ellison recently bought Paramont, which owns CBS. Not an accident that Jeff Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post and Twitch. Not an accident that our good friend Rupert Murdoch owns the New York Post, Wall Street Journal and right-wing publications all over the world. Bottom line, never before in American and in fact world history have so few people had so much wealth and economic power. 9:06 And with this development of AI, which is a whole world unto itself, [Applause] they're going to have, unless we stop them, more concentration of ownership and more power. But it's not just the economy that these guys control. And that is what we're seeing and what makes this particular campaign of interest worldwide. These guys control, especially since this disastrous Citizens United Supreme Court decision. We have a situation where it is perfectly legal for billionaires to set up super PACs and spend hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars supporting candidates who will protect the interest of the rich and defeating 10:03 candidates who are trying to represent working families. So in other words, what you are seeing now is an oligarchy with enormous economic power and enormous political power in both political parties [Applause] and what this campaign is about and why it is so enormously important. Is it a test case? It is a test case of whether or not democracy is still able to prevail. You know, in the old days, I mean, money has always played an enormous role in politics. Nothing new about that. But in the old days, they kind of kept it secret. 11:01 Right now, you got people like Bill Aman and others saying openly front pages of the new p newspapers, we will spend as much as it takes to defeat this guy. [Applause] You have the president of the United States working to make it harder for him to get elected. [Applause] So what are these people, these oligarchs afraid of? Seems to be a nice guy. Dresses very nice. Beautiful smile. Unlike me, he's a pleasant guy. What the hell are they afraid of? And what they are afraid of, brothers and sisters, is not the only the 12:00 question of bringing justice to New York City. You know what they're afraid of? They're afraid of Mr. Mumani becoming an example to what could happen all over this country. [Applause] That's what this campaign is about. They are scared to death. If 50 or 70,000 people in New York City can get involved in the political process, that means that millions of people coast to coast or can get involved and elect progressive leaders. That's what this campaign is about. 13:02 And you know what else they're afraid? They have because they control media and political life and economic life. They control in many ways the culture of America. And this is what the culture today is about. It's about walking the streets of America and finding people sleeping out on the street. It's about seeing 60% of our people living paycheck to paycheck while the people on top are becoming phenomenally rich. And what the culture says basically is you are powerless. There is nothing you can do about it because the oligarchs own it all. They have unbelievable wealth. They have power. They own the media. They own the political system. You are powerless. And what we are here tonight to say is to hell with you. We're going to take you on. We're going to defeat you. 14:15 [Music] That's what this campaign and that's what fighting oligarchy is about. They want to tell you that we cannot change this incredibly unfair and unjust status quo. Think about what Ron is campaigning on. Every psychologist in the world tells us that zero through four are the most important years of human development. Right? In Washington, I hear all of my colleague, they love America. Oh my god, got big flags all over the place. 15:00 Well, if you love America, you love the children of America. If you love the children of America, you don't have hungry kids in Vermont or New York City. And you don't have a broken and dysfunctional and unaffordable child care system. Oh my god, what a radical idea to say that parents and kids should have good quality child care. Oh, how radical you are. Oh my god, all over this country, in Vermont, in New York City, people cannot afford their housing. Now, it's a funny thing. I did some calculations. I grew up, as some of you may know, about a mile away from here. And I grew up in a family that did not have a lot of money and we lived in a 16:06 rent controlled apartment. So my dad never made any money but we were able to live with an element of security. And I did some calculations based on my dad's income. We were spending back then, Zeron, about 18% of our family's income on housing. 18%. Okay. First year of college, I went to Brooklyn College, if my memory is correct, and my brother graduated from Brooklyn College before me. And when he graduated, do you know what tuition was in Brooklyn College? It was zero. 17:03 It was zero in state colleges in Vermont. It was zero at the University of California. It was zero in many great public colleges and universities. What a radical idea. You want to make college affordable? Unheard of. We only had it 70 years ago. What a radical idea to say that we should stabilize rents so the workingclass people can live in this city. What a radical idea to say that workingclass families should be able to go into a grocery store in an area where there are food deserts and be able to afford decent quality food for their children. Oh man, 18:03 what a radical guy he is. What's the point? The point is, you've been sold a bill of goods. You have been told that this is the best America can be. You've been told that it's okay for a few to have unbelievable wealth while 60% struggle to put food on the table and pay their rent. You've been told that it's okay that we got kids all over this country who give up the dream of a higher education because they can't afford it and don't want to go deeply into debt. You've been told that it is okay for workingclass parents to have to spend 30 40% of their limited incomes on child care. That's what you've been told. Well, what Son is telling you and what I am telling you tonight, that is a croc of dash. [Applause] 19:06 And here is the story that they don't want to get out in the richest country in the history of the world. It is not a radical idea to say that every man, woman, and child in America can have a decent standard of living. That ain't radical. It's not radical to say that we can have a vibrant democracy by getting rid of Citizens United and moving to public funding of elections. It's not radical to say that the billionaire class has got to start paying their fair share of taxes. It is not radical to say that healthc care is a human right, not a privilege. 20:08 And that we should not be the only major country on earth not to guarantee health care to every man, woman, and child. It is not radical to say that we should have the best educational system from child care to graduate school in the world. It is not radical to say that we should not have the highest rate of childhood poverty, the highest rate of senior poverty of almost any major country on earth. And by the way, it is not radical to say that we should have a foreign policy based on humanity 21:02 and based on justice. then we should not be spending tens of billions of dollars on the government of Israel that is currently starving children to death. That is not radical. That is what the American people want. So brothers and sisters, what this struggle is about, and let me not kid you, it's going to be tough. It is going to be tough because these guys, these oligarchs, they are very religious people. Their religion is greed. [Applause] 22:05 You would think that if you had a couple of billion dollars it might be enough. Not for them. These are strongly motivated people. They work very hard. They want more and more and more and they don't care whom they destroy in the process. So they have the wealth, they have the power, but you know what we got and that what Sauron's campaign is showing. We have the people. And the whole world after Zan is elected, the whole world, all the oligarchs are going to come down hard on 23:02 them. Believe me, they will. Media will come down hard on them. So, he's going to have to figure out a new way to govern. And you are going to be an integral part of that governing. [Applause] So, brothers and sisters, I want to thank all of you for coming out in this difficult moment in American history. And I want to remind you what you already know. What's going on here in New York City in this campaign is being watched all over America, all over the world. [Applause] So the struggle we are engaged in is not just for us. It's not just for our kids. It is for the future of this planet. It's for the future of democracy. 24:00 This is a fight we cannot and will not lose. Thank you very much. Now, let me show you the portion of the speech where Zoron Mum Donni spoke and of course he is running for mayor of New York. And that election is right around the corner, folks. Here, play this clip. And in the same year that Ronald Reagan won, not just the presidency, but the state of Vermont, Bernie was in his 30s, a Democratic socialist running against someone who had been powerful and well-known for years, an opponent who struggled to pronounce his last name. There are some parallels And Bernie won that race by 10 votes. 25:04 And then he won again. And he won again. And he won again. [Applause] And the motto of not just Bernie's campaign, but governance was Burlington is not for sale. And it is a motto that drove the work that he did when he fought back against corporate greed to transform the Lake Champlain waterfront not simply into testaments to profit but instead a living breathing testament to what is possible for investing in working people. When he fought for affordable housing. When he took on a broken property tax system. when he continued to show what it looked like for city government to understand dignity as as its responsibility. That is how Bernie fought. And we know that in that motto of Burlington is not for sale, we see echoes in our own struggle today where 26:04 we have to say that New York City is not for sale. New York City is not for sale to Donald Trump's billionaire donors. It is not for sale to corporations like Door Dash. It is not for sale to corrupt politicians like Andrew Cuomo. [Applause] And Bernie has continued to lead in this movement going from Burlington is not for sale to fighting back against oligarchy coast to coast in this country. 27:06 And and that fight not just against oligarchy but for democracy is a fight that has energized tens of thousands of Americans across this country. It has shown once again that politics is something that can be powered by ordinary people with not just a rejection of authoritarianism but a belief in what is possible as well. And we know that that oligarchy has an impact right here in New York City. We know it does because when Donald Trump ushered through his so-called big beautiful bill, [Applause] 28:03 he did so ushering through the greatest wealth transfer in American politics. His legislation will throw millions of New Yorkers off of their healthcare. For a man who campaigned on cheaper grocery prices, it will cut SNAP benefits for the hungriest among us. And all of this to give more money to those who already have more than they know what to do with. That is the fight that we are seeing taking place here. The interconnectedness of an attack on working people, all to enrich those same billionaire donors that gave us Donald Trump's second term. That is the fight that unites us across this country in this moment. A fight where we make clear that this is a city where we will choose our own mayor. 29:01 [Applause] It's not going to be Donald Trump. It's not going to be Bill Aman. It's not going to be Door Dash. We will choose our mayor. [Applause] and we know that this fight is not an easy one. It was not an easy fight for Bernie when he led Burlington. It was a fight that took every single thing every single day. But are you committed to continue this fight? I need to know, are you committed to continue this fight? Because I want to be clear. We are not just 30:02 here together with the message to come out and vote in November, though that is critically important. We will continue to organize beyond the election. We will continue to organize because we have an agenda to win. The promises we have made are promises we must keep. And so together we will freeze the make buses fast and deliver universal. We will freeze the make buses fast and deliver universal. We will do these things and we will do them together. [Applause] If anyone tells you that after you cast your vote, you have done your job, tell 31:02 them it is just the beginning. It is just the beginning. Because in a city where one in four are living in poverty, in a city where for the ninth consecutive year a 100,000 children in our school system are homeless, in a city where 500,000 of those children go to sleep hungry every single night. It will take all of us to ensure that dignity is not only possible, but it is a reality for each and every New Yorker. [Applause] And one of the many things that we love about Bernie is you could go to any year that he has been in politics and you will find him saying the same thing. The same thing. No matter if the photo is in black and 32:01 white or it's in color, you know, it's about income inequality, it's about justice, it's about dignity. But today, Bernie said something to me that no man is an island. We are all in this struggle because someone brought it to us. And as we remember that, we must know that now it is also our turn to not only join this struggle, but to lead this struggle. It is a time for all of us to see ourselves as the people who could deliver the world that we deserve. And in this moment, we must make clear this is a intergenerational struggle. This is a struggle not just for some, 33:01 not just for the young, not just for the few, not just for those in the beginning of their lives and their careers. This is a struggle for everyone. [Applause] It is a struggle for everyone because it is about everyone. We talk about our vision. It is a vision of universality. It is not one where we ask you your name, where we ask you where you were born, where we ask you your religion, where we ask you your status. We simply ask you to join us. That is our question. [Applause] And so it is an honor to be here alongside an icon of our struggle. So, two very powerful speeches before packed crowd in Brooklyn, New York. 34:06 Please tell me what you think in the comment below. And it is an honor here at the Midas Touch Network to be able to cover speeches like this and this whole fight the oligarchy tour which frankly all corporate news, all media, all independent media should be focused on. Of course, we know corporate news is beholden to the oligarchy, so we know why they aid show in this. But this is so important to share what's going on in the grassroots with the people. Um, and I think incredible speeches right there. Leaves me with chills. Tell me how you think about it. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 6 million subscribers. We appreciate you. Love this video. Support independent media and unlock exclusive content. Add free videos and custom emojis by becoming a paid member of our YouTube channel today. You can also gift memberships to others. Let's keep growing together. [Music]

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