California Politics Is Cooked

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]Two new posts about Hamawi and Shyot.

[00:00:02]Yeah, we got some good we got one good poll, one bad poll. Uh really good internal for Hamawi. Uh the Hosanabi bump is is alive and well. Uh very real.

[00:00:12]Okay. Uh Hamawi and I'm just joking.

[00:00:16]It's not me obviously, but like Adam Hamawi went from being third place at like fifth at like 5% to an internal poll which is always going to obviously favor Homawi. Hamawi for New Jersey is out with an internal poll that finds him leading New Jersey 12 splinter Democratic field with 90% way up from the 5% he received in a prior unreleased poll conducted a month ago. A friendly super PAC spent 1 million in the interim. The new the New Jersey Fields uh top four in the May 57 5 to7 poll is Adam Hamawi at 19%, Sue Alman at 12%, Brad Cohen at 11%, Verinia Verina Reynolds Jackson at 10%. I mean, Adam Hamawi obviously is a stud and he's gotten tremendous endorsements. Bernie Sanders, uh, being one of them. Uh, so I do think that, uh, I What the, bro? I'm over here doing election analysis. And this guy goes, "Fart of the year, please watch." It's like I I literally have to laser in on chat all the time. And I see this and I have to watch now. What the do you mean fart of the year?

[00:01:41]No, no, >> whatever.

[00:01:45]>> No, no, no. How is she not laughing?

[00:01:50]This got to be fake. That's got to be fake, bro. I How is she not perishing?

[00:01:55]Hello, Fox News. Yes, we are looking at farting horses.

[00:02:01]Oh, that's crazy. That's crazy. Okay.

[00:02:06]Okay. Okay. Okay. Let's get back to it.

[00:02:08]Anyway, that was the the uh the good news. Hamawi is doing really well. He deserves it. Absolute stud. You guys already know. I mean, he literally saved Tammy Duckworth's life. Like, can you be more of a stud? He throws his life on the line. He throws his body actively.

[00:02:23]He was a combat medic and he on top of that throws his body in the crossfire.

[00:02:30]He's been to Gaza. He's uh he's he's worked in in not one but two different uh active genocide zones. He's incredible. And you know, I'm obviously honored to endorse him. He's fantastic and I'm glad that New Jersey 12 is seeing that as well. So that's the good poll. The bad poll is California's 11th congressional district jungle primary.

[00:02:54]Top two vote getters advance in November. You got Scott Weiner who's lost a little bit of sauce. He went from 43 to like 38. Connie Chan has picked up some steam at 22% and shortcut Chakraarti at 21% in third position following Connie closely. Now, initially some of the polls showed Shyot having a much bigger bump, a much bigger lead on Connie, which was good because like the hope is at this point to have it go to the general and have Shyot be the guy and then the left the local uh organizations uh end up reluctantly endorsing him even though he doesn't have any uh a lot of the left has been like, "Nope, what you did to Dean Preston is uh is is unbelievable. we are always gonna consider you to be a a carpet bagger and outsider even though he's not. He's from the he is just as much from San Francisco as like you know Scott Weiner is. Scott Weiner is just more involved in local politics because he's a recognizable figure in California politics in general. But uh what did he do? I mean he's just rich and the left in San Francisco understandably hate tech bros and he's technically a rich tech bro. He's just a rich tech bro with very good, very radical views, but the local left organizations despise him because he's made uh local donations that are against the San Francisco left in uh cuz a couple years prior, I don't know if you guys remember, but San Francisco had like a growing leftist movement. He's [ __ ] up and now he's paying the price. Oh, East Bay Elitas.

[00:04:33]Yeah, I hate this [ __ ] I hate this argument. He's [ __ ] up and he's paying the price. Okay, dude. Then have a worse person overall as your congressional representative. He undermined a DSA comproller. No, it's not. No one gives a about Okay. Yes, people do give a about that because the entirety of the DSA uh San Francisco worked very hard on the the Preston campaign and he was great to be fair. But in San Francisco, there's two things, okay, that that people uh people treat like the Sunishia split.

[00:05:06]I've talked about this before. The nimiism versus Yimiism. You you will never understand it. San Francisco is like its own uh internal local politics uh uh system where you're either a nimi or you're a Yimi. It's the Bloods and Crips. It's the Sunni versus Shia. As a matter of fact, I think Pax Islamica could happen. the the entire UMA could unite before the Nimbies and Yimies can arrive at like a reasonable conclusion on what to do with housing. Anyway, wait, these people had no issues voting for Nancy Pelosi in every election. See, that's the other side of the story.

[00:05:42]Nancy Pelosi is a towering figure in American politics and it's mostly liberals. San Francisco's actual voter base is not even leftists anyway. It's actually rich liberals. So if you have any sort of like crossover appeal with a guy like Shycott who is like uh getting flamed by the the uh local left organizations who actually has in my opinion really good national politics and would be a fantastic congressperson, one of the best uh congresspersons that we would have in this uh you know incoming round uh in the midterms. He would be amazing. He'd be infinitely better than Scott Weiner and definitely better than Connie Chan as well. Yeah.

[00:06:22]San Francisco is literally the the incubator of the titans of California politics and it has always given us dog [ __ ] politicians. Kla Harris, Gavin Newsome, and uh and and Nancy Pelosi.

[00:06:36]These are all San Francisco politicians.

[00:06:38]We have an opportunity to change that.

[00:06:40]Okay? We have an opportunity to make a a real national impact. But I can't get DSA and and all the San Francisco leftist to to listen to me. uh even fans of mine that are uh you know normally very open-minded to the things I have to say and Diane Feinstein that too. Oh my god. In any case, that's a big part of the reason why people hate Troycott on the San Francisco left because he is uh he's funded a lot of candidates that are uh you know in the national front obviously he's uh funded a lot of candidates that are unbelievably left but in San Francisco he's funded uh due to I guess nimism yimism distinctions uh funded candidates that subscribe to uh his housing policies closer. I don't know why the done it. I don't really care that much to be honest, but people people do and and that's the reason why they're like, "No, we'd rather vote for Connie Chen." Even though Connie Chen is like a pretty cookie cutter, inoffensive, somewhat progressive Mallerie McMororrow style candidate in this particular race.

[00:07:44]Perhaps a little bit more trustworthy than Mallerie McMorro is. I'll I'll say that. But like I I mean, there's a reason why Adam Schiff has also endorsed Connie Chen, right? and and Nancy Pelosi is entertaining an endorsement of Connie Chin. With Nancy Pelosi, it's a little bit more personal. I think um she just despises Scott Weiner because Scott Weiner has been very ambitious and has entertained potentially taking over Nancy Pelosy's seat while Nancy Pelosi was still in the seat. So, I think she's just holds a personal grudge against um Scott Weiner. But yes, Weiner LOL, I know. God damn it, dude. Y'all are babies. I swear to God, we can't have a normal conversation at all. But um but that's that's just the situation in San Francisco. I I really like Shya as a national politician. I can't speak to his uh donations at the local uh level.

[00:08:37]It's kind of weird that um people don't look at the the policy at all. They just think that it's like they just think that uh Shycott is like fake radical I guess but he's been fake radical since 2015 or 2014 if that's the case, right?

[00:08:54]And um they also despise the fact that he's like, you know, he's a rich guy coming into the race and like funding his own campaign. He spent a [ __ ] ton of money on his own campaign, but obviously just spending a [ __ ] ton of money on your campaign doesn't necessarily matter uh for a lot of people. And now CNN is writing about him too. CNN is, and it's not just CNN, it's Edward Isaac Dover.

[00:09:15]This is the uh the anti- Bernie hit job guy. Okay, Edward Isaac Dover is an op of not only myself, but the entire leftist movement, and they're heading out, they're sending out heavy hitters.

[00:09:28]This is like CNN's hatchet guy uh against the left. So, uh, when he's when he's in the, uh, in the cut, just understand that there are a lot of people in corporate media that are paying close attention to a lot of these, uh, primary races because they want to make sure that the Democratic party doesn't become a left party in any way, shape, or form. That's precisely what's going on here. David Dan, my goat from the Prospect, writes, "I was in San Francisco a couple weeks ago covering one of the more fascinating house races in the country, CA11, held by retiring Nancy Pelosi. The race is a simple narrative, but the reality is more complex. The front runner, Scott Weiner, gets pigeonhold as an abundance centrist for his work on housing, but he contains multitudes fighting power and tech and healthcare while benefiting from wealthy super PACs.

[00:10:13]Shockerbard has inspired a lot of uh grassroots volunteers knocking on 364,000 doors already, and he's trying to inspire a new kind of politics, but there's a bit of a sty dynamic here.

[00:10:23]Shortcut is self-funding. I've thought about this quite a bit. On the one hand, it's ridiculous if you're shortcut Chakraarti and a sententillionaire and you don't self-und your campaign, but I think self-funding your campaign makes voters uh it it's offputting to voters.

[00:10:38]I think like I genuinely think even if you're a sentillionaire, you should probably run uh a publicly funded uh campaign rather than self-funded because I think it's an automatic L. Uh I think voter perception is very negative on on wealthy self- financed campaigns. Even Tom Styer, I think, is having a really hard time with it. These guys are no these guys are nowhere near Michael Bloomberg level, obviously. They're uh I mean, they might be even I don't know who's wealthier, Bloomberg or Styer. It doesn't really matter to me, but I'm saying like their policies couldn't be further apart from one another. But when you are trying to actively court the left and you're an incredibly wealthy person, I think it probably is better, even from a messaging side, for you to uh not self- finance your campaign, even if you have the money to self- finance it because it kind of looks like you're just a rich guy who wants to make a name for themselves or something. Uh on the Republican side, it makes sense. The other side of the story is like if you don't self finance I mean if you don't sell finance then people are obviously going to say or if you don't sell finance then people are going to say you're incredibly rich guy why the would you not self finance right like that's going to be the the main point of contention so I don't know what the u what the best method is here but I do think that this is uh frustrating I do think that it's frustrating for a lot of folks I mean I myself I've known I've known of shyut thought for a decade.

[00:12:09]He's worked with a lot of people that I I also work with that I care about. Like I trust him, but even then it was hard for me to get on board initially. I had to talk to a lot of people that have known him for years, right? Uh to to initially get on board with him cuz you know he is a scent a millillionaire. He is he did work at Stripe. He was like one of the uh original uh engineers at Stripe and he made a [ __ ] ton of money off of that and automatically my first, you know, my first reaction to that is always h I don't know is this like is this guy legit? So I I even understand that initial skepticism. In any case, I I do think that his politics are far closer to mine than Connie Chenzar.

[00:12:51]That's it. Um, in in any other circumstance, I I wouldn't even be paying attention to this race uh if it wasn't the fact that, you know, Shy Kakabardi is involved because I don't think Connie Chen has the uh the juice to to actually take on uh Scott Weiner in any way, shape, or form. And it's really funny because like people will be like, "Whoa, Troycott is a is an outsider." He's not, right? He's just a rich guy trying to buy his way into into power. Uh, okay. Well, Scott Weiner is a slave to corporations. Like, he literally is such an unbelievable surviile creature to corporate interests that the SEIU had to unendorse him because he couldn't even get on board with taxing the billionaires. It's very frustrating. And Connie Chen is certainly a lot better than Scott Weiner on the issue of Israel, but still nowhere near as good as Shrocott is.

[00:13:48]Connie Chen is doing the same like, "Oh, I'm actually very critical of Israel route that every other Democrat is currently trying to do. I agree with your criticisms against Scott Weiner, but short publicly supported a horrible mayor Luri. How could anyone call themselves progressive and support Daniel Lurri?" Yeah, I don't know the level of his involvement in the Lur campaign. I think you guys are uh I think local politics is the reason why a lot of like I said, San Francisco left is is Yeah, Daniel Lur is is a monster by the way. Um but uh but that's that's the major reasons as there's also a lot of misinformation about what he's done as well. Like people go to like unbelievable lengths to just be like this guy shortcut is a evil deity. Um but I'll I'll I'll get into this a little bit further. But um you know I really obviously trust David Day's work.

[00:14:32]He is a California guy born and bred uh and obviously uh he is the guy uh for policy at the American Prospect. So he wrote this like long 23 minute article.

[00:14:46]It's long and comprehensive and uh the top line is he went to San Francisco to check out CA11. He gives a a pretty solid pretty honest shake, pretty fair shake to all the candidates. talks about Weiner's work on housing legislation in California uh who has uh won him support from the abundance faction is often at odds with progressives focus on the relentless influence of corporate power.

[00:15:09]But Weiner is also carrying one of the main bills in the state legislature this year to prevent anti-competitive conduct from big tech passed legislation in 2024 to crack down on pharmacy benefit manager middlemen and endorsed the bipartisan housing bill that some abundance types have opposed. He even expressed discomfort with investor purchase of housing. The more we move towards mass mega ownership, you really do get into situations where you have Wall Street pressures that end up screwing renters. Weer says the humanity is immediately stripped out. Most national commentary on the 11 candidate field has focus on Weiner and Shroikat Shakabari, the progressive co-founder of Just Democrats who wants to generate a bottom-up political revolution among a restless population of dissatisfied with the status quo. Connie Chen, a San Francisco County Supervisor has picked up many of the state uh and local endorsements you would expect from progressive leader, California Teachers Association, National Nurses United, the State Working Families Party, San Francisco Labor Council, California Federation of Labor Unions, the Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club. She believes her focus on breadandbut issues and support among city's large Asian-American population can pay off.

[00:16:07]And while the race has been described as a test between experience and rhetoric, between workh horses and show horses, another factor is the obvious but too often overlooked question of big money.

[00:16:16]Weiner has cryptocurrency mogul running a super PAC on his behalf. And Shakardi is drawing on his own fortune game from being an early career employer stripe.

[00:16:23]Sometimes in a brawl between the two flavors of big money a less tainted challenger can sneak through. Much of Weiner's legislative record has been mainstream progressive stuff. public transit funding, criminal justice reform, public health access, immigration protections, phase out of single-use plastics, childcare expansion, caps on out of cost uh for insulin, bans on surprise er billing, and a number of LGBT rights bills. He wrote the law requiring federal officers like ICE operating in the state to remove mass. When a judge tossed it out because it didn't also apply to the state officials at the request of Governor Gavin Newsome, Weiner reintroduced it with the state ban.

[00:16:56]Also, Scott Weiner, on the other hand, has been unbelievably pro-Israel. After October 7, he visited the state of Israel and uh went on stage with the president of the state of Israel and has also written a bill uh that is uh anti- Palestinian advocacy in schools. Closer to home, Weiner has been inshed in a number of controversies involving big money. Labor Union SEIU unendorsed him for his opposition to a local measure on the ballot in June called the overpaid CEO tax which would increase taxes on businesses whose CEOs paid more than 100 times the median earnings for their employees. Fantastic. SEIU threw their endorsement to Chan. They had double endorsed Chan and uh uh Weiner, but they pulled the Weiner endorsement. So now Chan has the SEIU endorsement. Now, local labor union endorsements, they can be meaningful, but just remember they also, in the case with Connie Chan, I think it's because they trust her more.

[00:17:53]Oh my god. Pulled the wiener endorsement. Oh my god. Pulled the wiener. God damn it, dude. I'm done. I'm [ __ ] done. I'm done. Hello.

[00:18:10]We can't keep doing this.

[00:18:13]Please stop. I shouldn't have started off with the fart video. I set the stage for my own demise. So, uh, some see Chan as a more authentic voice in the cities left in the race. She also has mainstream support. Pelosi hasn't endorsed, but Senator Adam Schiff, a key Pelosi ally, has endorsed her. Pelosi's attended a bunch of her campaign stops, by the way. Pelosi has a personal distaste for Scott Weiner. uh she does not like Weiner uh because of what I just explained earlier. She has like a personal vendetta against Weiner because Weiner wanted to unseat uh Pelosi when she was in office and I think that's carried over some resentment. Uh but getting that message out takes money. As of most recent campaign finance disclosure, she's lagging far behind her opponents in fundraising. And while Labor and the Asian vote are strong factions, they are only fragments in the electorate. Can she succeed? That's the reason why they hit me with the anti-Asian ray. That's why remember when uh when I for the first time ever received a line of attack that I have never received before RNC went in dug up clips from like 2020 when I was [ __ ] on some proTrump uh uh old Vietnamese lady who was like you have to vote for Donald Trump because Joe Biden is a communist and Donald Trump is an anti-communist. Troycott is also Asian, but he's not uh he I mean Connie Chen is from Hong Kong, but if you remember, San Francisco has a massive uh Asian community, a Chinese community specifically. You literally just went to the Gold Gala law. I know. Which is why it's really funny. I've never I've never heard the the Hassan's anti-Asian attacks before in my entire life until this San Francisco race. The line of attack I usually receive is I'm too pro-China, which is actually in San Francisco, one of the only places in the country where having a a let's not wage war with China message is actually literally seen as a positive. In every other district, you come across like a crazy person. What do you mean we shouldn't nuke China? What the hell are you talking about? San Francisco is the one place where that message is actually a positive one. and they're still calling me anti-Asian, bro. Two of the three will make the November runoff, so the primary won't settle in. The race is about offering something new to voters, delivering on promises, standing up for working people, and fighting control of politics by the wealthy and the powerful. And of course, the San Francisco left, which doesn't understand that their votes and their voices are marginal in the broader scheme of things, are um are not sold on Troy Kat Chakrabarti because of his uh like his local decisions that he's made. I'm sorry, that's just the way I see it. I don't even have any smoke for Connie Chen, by the way. I I want to make that very clear. I think Connie Chen is a a very blanket cookie cutter center-left politician. And the reason why I say this is because I I judge her off of her decisions. Like I said, Israel is not the only thing that matters. Obviously, despite what my naysayers might claim, but Israel is a very good litmus test, and it's clear that she does not have her own personal opinions on a lot of the things that she speaks on and is simply speaking for what she thinks is the broadest subsect of voters. Um, she has smoke for you, repeating attacks on you. I don't care. She's trying to win.

[00:21:30]She's trying to get the second place, chatter. That's the reason why she's doing that. That's why. Yes, she said I'm anti-Asian. It's ridiculous. She doesn't know who the I am. Of course, she's going to literally take any opportunity she can to attack Shroycott because right now the race is between Shyot and Connie. They're trying to win the second place slot. Yes, that is indicative of of of what kind of politician she is. Certainly, she's the kind of politician, just like Mallerie McMorro, that will get those talking points and we'll go, "Great. I'll just repeat them verbatim." She's doing the McMorro, but using anti-Asian instead of anti-Jewish chat. Exactly. That's it. I just know the state them party has your face on a dart board given their behavior and forever against you. I'm sure I mean it makes sense if your job is to preserve your control, your ideological control and and therefore corporate control over the party. I'm public enemy number one. Of course I'm public enemy number one. Like I'm going around the goddamn country trying to prop up insurgent campaigns in the Democratic Party primaries to try and forcibly change the party's attitude towards placing the interest of profits over the interest of the population. So yeah, of course, people that want to keep their jobs, the consultant class that that have made, you know, unbelievable lumps of money by by being this corporatebacked uh by by delivering this corporate backed messaging over and over again are doing everything in their power to to stop the bleeding within the party. If it doesn't happen in this cycle, and it's only beginning in this cycle, it will certainly happen in the next. And they know that. I know that it's it's over. It's done. It will be done. Why didn't do anything political earlier?

[00:23:16]See, this is what I mean. Look, look at this. Thank god y'all can't vote here.

[00:23:20]Why is Shroycott running here and not in LA? Make him your congressperson then.

[00:23:23]Shroycott's local political decisions have doomed him. It's political choices he made against local leftists here.

[00:23:27]Yeah, in spite of all that, he's still actually defeating Gonnie Chen in second place. Why didn't Shroycott do anything political earlier is a stupid statement.

[00:23:35]You're just you're I'm sorry. You're stupid if you think that he hasn't done anything political earlier. Do you think San Francisco is the only place in the United States of America? Is that what you think? The are you talking about? He worked on the Bernie campaign. Then he was uh he he started the Justice Democrats and he literally was AOCC's uh campaign manager or chief of staff.

[00:23:56]Sorry. They co-authored the Green New Deal. What are you saying? Didn't do enough. The were you doing in 2014, 2015, 2016? Jerking your penis. That's what you were doing.

[00:24:08]the um the last piece of the the puzzle is uh is is you know Edward Isaac Dover, the anti- Bernie uh hitman who also wrote a piece. Democrats internal fights sway the race to succeed Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco. So there's this campaign is getting this this race is getting more national attention now. Pelosi had long been quiet about the race but has become more explicit about her potential preference with uh with time running out before June 2nd. and Pelosi has appeared at events with Connie Chan. Member of San Francisco Board of Supervisors spoken positively about what Chan could do in Congress. Still, a spokesperson for the former speaker points back to a November statement after she announced her retirement that she did not plan to endorse. For her seat to be open is wild for the city. Mayor Dan Lurri told CNN, sitting in the office in city hall, he won by ousting fellow Democrat in the 2024 race that became its own referendum on whether traditional Democratic governance had failed the city. I don't think we even know quite what to make of it. Okay. Scott Weiner has been preparing to make something of it for years. Raised in New Jersey, Weiner lived nearly for 30 years in the uh in the Castro, one of the nation's most prominent gay neighborhoods. He started as a lawyer and then made his way into the LGBTQ political activist board of supervisor San Francisco's equivalent to a city council to represent a state senate district that overlaps almost entirely with Pelosy's house district.

[00:25:19]That's the reason why he has unbelievable name recognition. He's been there for the longest time. And that's the reason why he's like putting up insane numbers of like 43% or whatever, now down to 38. Weiner's years of preparations to follow Pelosi were about as subtle as chonkers and oversized seas line. Oh god, Edward. God damn it.

[00:25:36]Just just write, man. Just write. Don't don't do this. Don't just write what you're going to write. Weir acknowledged that a relationship that started out strong had become a little bit strained as he made it clear that he was going to run for her seat this year before her announced retirement. That he wouldn't step aside for her daughter Christine Christine now running for Weiner's state senate seat. That that is what it is. Do you see? Do you see how petty these tyrants are? By the way, like Nancy Pelosi just Scott Weiner for that reason alone because she probably wanted her daughter to take over the lineage. They want to do dynastic politics. This is a democracy. What the are we talking about? Weiner is the kind of local politician constantly popping up at events back and forth. Yes. Uh in his district in Sacramento, Newsome, who is staying neutral, calls him a bit of a legend up here in terms of his ability to carry bills. onetime rival and now endorser Raphael Mandelman. The reason why Nuome won't openly endorse Weiner is because he's scared of Pelosi. For the record, I mean, you guys don't understand. I don't think Nancy Pelosi is a towering force in Democratic party politics. Her experience and her power, her influence goes far beyond the district. understand this that there is a reason why people are uh genuinely worried about like endorsing against her, for example. I'd go so far as to say maybe even AOC's uh uh reluctance to endorse might be a Nancy Pelosi thing partially. That's the level of influence that she has. Bro, she literally got Nancy Pelosi from a hospital bed in Germany was able to overthrow uh AOC slot AOC's pick for head of oversight committee. Okay. Which she uh gave to and she wasn't even in the party at the point. I mean she wasn't the speaker obviously at the point but she she gave that to her uh other friend by way of seniority who died shortly after. Shakabardi makes a point of saying that he doesn't take money from corporate real estate or AI interest but that's largely due to his self financing from the millions he made during his first stint as tech founding engineer of the financial service company Stripe. Now, is that the real reason or do you think the reason is because of his platform? What corporation, what corporate pack would spend for Shrocott Chakraarti when they are busy spending against Shrocott Chakrabarti? Like, they're literally spending against him. His campaign has developed a custom of offering full-time living wage jobs to anyone who's offered to be a committed volunteer, giving him a sprawling office in a former bank filled with payroll of upward 200 field organizers, door knockers, and phone bankers. Yeah. only this would be spun in a negative by the way that he is unbelievably wealthy and therefore has the capacity to pay full-time staff but that's a bad thing instead of penny pinching instead of running an aesthetic operation and refusing to pay his volunteers he's literally paying them what do you want like he is running the most ethical way that he possibly could and they're using that they're spinning it they're spinning it as a negative he has lent his campaign 4.8 8 million so far. According to campaign finance records, Cherabarti spent more per district voter than billionaire Tom Styr spending per voter statewide in the governor's race. Chakraarti has pegged much of his campaign to his connection to a politician from the other side of the country, Okazi Cortez. He was her campaign manager and first chief of staff and claims credit for a sizable chunk of our early success, including, he says, authoring the Green New Deal.

[00:28:50]At one forum, he referenced a time when I was in Congress. Shakabardi said he's also inspired by how US Representative Rocon of California whipped up media attention on Jeffrey Epste to help get uh a nearly unanimous vote for the bill, calling for the release of the Justice Department files on convicted sex offenders. You can pick those fights and by picking those fights, you build power outside of DC, Chuckery told CNN. And when you use that lever of power outside as leverage on the inside to get stuff done and that's sort of what I saw AOC do in her first term. What Chakraarti tends to leave out is why he stopped working for AOC after only about seven months in what has become a minor obsession in San Francisco political circles inspired a car that follows him to some events with a sign reading AOC fired shortcott. Chakraarti uh became infamous for tweeting attacks on Aaziocortez's new house colleagues including scoffing at those who called Pelosi a legislative mastermind. One person. Yeah. Does that sound like a Does that sound good or bad? Does that sound like the energy that we need right now? Or does that sound like a guy who is uh too hotheaded and and and or sorry, too invested in uh the the corporate Democrat wing of the party like the Gary Tans of the world. H what do we think guys? Perhaps these are the types of reasons why I like him. Have you thought about that? One person familiar with what happens to the freshman congresswoman struggled with whether to fire him but accepted his resignation when he offered. Cherabardi told CNN it was a planned transition out from before the tweets because he had a daughter on the way but did not dispute that she accepted his resignation.

[00:30:15]Chakraarti is conspicuously lacking endorsement from his former boss. The same person familiar with what happened said Kazi Cortez wasn't pleased to find out from media reports that Chakraarti was running instead what instead of from him directly. He confirmed to CNN that he hadn't told her in advance, explaining that he initially entered the race to challenge Pelosi before she announced her retirement and that I didn't want her to be in a weird spot where she's asked about, you know, someone stepping up against Nancy Pelosi. A spokesperson for Kazy Cortez did not respond to several requests for comment about the circumstances of Chuckerart's departure or why she isn't backing him. Asked last month by a reporter from Drop Site News why she wasn't backing him, she spoke about the role she's trying to play more broadly in primaries and never mentioned his name. Beyond Accaziocortez directly, Chakraarti says he's channeling the spirit of the work he did with the group Justice Democrats supporter in her first race to create his own network of like-minded House candidates around the country. Just last week, he had half a dozen of these candidates flying from around the country to join his rally headline by Assan [ __ ] the streamer who's become a focal point of the Democratic fights over his criticism of Israel. Park has been criticized for saying US deserved 9/11, a comment he has since regretted making and saying Hamas was a thousand times better than Israel. A comment I do not regret making, a comment that I think is 100% true. Anyway, while Chakraarti says he's often trying to localize the national issues on his mind, for example, saying the high cost of living in the city could be tackled by getting universal healthcare or money being spent in the war in Iran should be redirected to fixing the highways and public transit.

[00:31:33]Several prominent San Francisco politicians told CNN that he remains so unknown that they were unsure how to pronounce his name. Tell them that my name is pronounced Shyot and they should learn that. They can ask me. I'm very friendly about it, he said. And then we have Connie Chan. Chan is not running so much to change the party as to recenter on its roots. was born in Hong Kong, raised in Taiwan. She talks about so-called sanctuary, city protections, other work for immigrants, and she refers constantly the union support she's racked up. There's a moment for us to decide. Is it going to someone like me who's been a first generation immigrant, a Chinese American woman, and has been endorsed by the working people, the labor movement, or are they going to the go with a corporate Democrat that have been bankrolled by a billionaire, or a tech bro that has been helicoptered into San Francisco, Chan told CNN on Wednesday after one of the candidates community forums in the Woody Halls, Woody Hills and Randall Museum. Notice how Shyot doesn't really attack Connie Chen by the way, but Connie Chan is [ __ ] daggering Shyot. Chan said on stage that San Francisco will always be the conscious of the nation and the conscious of Washington DC. To her that means beating back the money supporting wiener and the money Troycott is spending on her own on his own campaign.

[00:32:34]Edward Isaac Dover and and and you will see this you will see this not just with Edward Isaac Dover who is a hatchet man for corporate Democrats anyway, but you will see this attitude a lot more frequently in the upcoming primary season where these guys that would normally directly lean into guys like Scott Weiner will find themselves leaning into at least the more moderate progressive forces in these primaries.

[00:33:02]Mallerie McMaro as as opposed to Haley Stevens, for example, when they realize that the establishment wing in these races have no way of of getting out the primaries. Well, I guess in the in this case, Scott Weiner does have a a pretty solid uh uh lead on everyone else. But I promise you, I promise you that they're doing that because they're like anybody but the insurgent wing, okay? anybody but the anti-Israel guys, anybody but the anti-corporate uh uh finance guys, anybody but the the people that will center the working class in their policies, in their legislative agenda, in their ideology. According to an ally who spoke anonymously sure her thinking, Pelosi is hyper aware of San Francisco's lost a number of prominent female representatives in the recent years, including going from both senators being women from the Bay Area to having both senators be men from Los Angeles. Weiner and Chakraarti are also both announced their campaigns against Pelosi before her retirement announcement. Plus, Pelosi likes Chan and sees a Kindred political player in the kind of coalition she's building. It's no accident, according to the ally, who spoke to CNN, that Pelosi has been showing up at some of the events as Chan, including popping by a DC fundraiser for her last month with plans to do more. And Chan is already in the endorsement of Adam Schiff. How is this not a way bigger red flag for goddamn San Francisco progressives than anything else? I will never understand it. This is the reddest of flags and not the good kind of red flag. We're not talking about the Communist Party of China's flag or the the People's Republic of China. We're talking about a different type of red flag, a bad one. They're fueled by their grudge rather than anything else. No, it's not just like a petty grudge. This is not just a petty grudge. Obviously, if you don't know the guy and you hear that he is like a a tech bro with hundreds of millions of dollars and you've seen like the only way to make up the only way to figure out what he is about is by looking at his like national ambitions, what he has done at the national level and also the local ones. The problem with a lot of San Francisco voters is they are dialing in on the local and not looking at anything else. And as a matter of fact, they don't even care about anything else. They're only looking at the local, which is fine. I think it's okay to look at obviously his endorsements or his funding initiatives in local races. Of course, it's understandable. Of course, it's important to look at just like his background. But they don't comprehend what it means that both of his opponents, Connie Chen and Scott Weiner, are either directly directly uh getting funding by massive corporate packs or or massive uh you know AI uh not AI, sorry, like uh uh I think it's crypto for Scott Weiner if I'm not mistaken and real estate developers who is uncomfortably close to or in the case of Connie Chan the institutional Democratic party in California that has sold us down the river time and time again. And all of these major super PACs are spending against.

[00:36:11]So make that calculation. Be smart. What do you think is going on here? Why do you think they're doing that? The two top vote getters in this race will go all the way to November and Pelosi is much likely to endorse them. If Choabardi is one of the candidates, that could make it more likely that she endorsed the other. Yes, Pelosi will.

[00:36:28]The way I see it is in the best possible scenario, Shyot makes it in the top two over Connie Chen and everybody buries the hatchet and the San Francisco left uh works to to prop up Shyot. I think between Connie and Shyott and I'll be very serious about this. I'll be sincere about this. I think Shyot has a better shot at defeating Weiner as well. That's the other thing. I re I'd rather live in San Francisco than LA though. No, San Francisco is beautiful. San Francisco is absolutely nicer than Los Angeles. It's it's a beautiful city. Straight up. I I totally understand why people are are people think it's at the center of everything in their universe. I mean, it's got at least some level of adequate public transit, for example. That is, you know, reason alone to Ray Huang was supposed to debate Bass and Nathy in a televised debate on Wednesday. Nitia and Bass both pulled out. So now it's canled. Are you serious? They cancelled the debate? Bro, that is pissing me the off. I was actually looking forward to see how Ry performs. Oh my god, they literally pulled out because they don't want to be up there with Ray Huang. Oh my god.

[00:37:47]That's [ __ ] dude. That's actually [ __ ] God, California politics is so ass. Did you have Niti on your show or am I misremembering? know, I had Rayon one time. Uh I'm I'm planning to have Nithon as well, and I'm planning to have Rayon again. Um I just haven't I purposely didn't put my finger uh put my thumb on the scale because it was uh I thought that DSALA would be able to handle it internally. Um they uh refused to endorse either of the candidates. I believe um Nitthia got 54% of the vote.

[00:38:22]But um look, I've I've I've openly told you I I like Ry. I think Rey uh is I think Ray Huang is is a great candidate, but unfortunately she's green and she hasn't uh been able to secure the name recognition necessary to get up uh to to uh get a decent poll position. Nithia, on the other hand, has viability, but uh her her media appearances have been horrible. And also, there's a bunch of stuff that I uh am am skeptical of, which I was going to ask her directly when I have her on. Um specifically saying that she was in favor of defunding the police and then uh and then once uh elected into office, she did end up u uh signing on with police funding. This is not like there's also a lot of ultras in Los Angeles too in LA politics. There's a lot of cinemisms in LA politics including cinemarxism himself at the time when he did live in LA. Uh who is who will treat uh DSA LA endorsed candidates like they are literally the great Satan themselves if they sidestep away from any of their promises. Uh even marginally and and yeah, people who pay attention to LA politics. Yeah, I pay attention to LA politics too. Okay, calm down. Like, Nithia, Nithia has has done a lot of good work with homelessness in the city.

[00:39:48]Can we both at least agree on that? It's probably her only strong suit and it's something that you care about quite a bit. But this is also true. Nia was endorsed by Democrats for Israel. I know you you're telling me [ __ ] that I know already. That's what I'm saying. That's the That is the reason for concern.

[00:40:05]Bread is not the enemy, man. Come on.

[00:40:06]No, I don't think I don't think Cinem Marxism is my enemy at all. What the [ __ ] are you talking about? I've literally worked with him directly. I've he's done camop work for me in the past.

[00:40:15]I can have reasonable disagreements with with comrades. Okay, it's normal. Shut the up. It doesn't mean anything beyond that. New poll prothia abundance network growth machine fund. Bass stalled out with a ceiling. Spencer Pratt growing a second place position. Nthia Roman in third but also winning in the runoff while Pratt gets thumped. I mean, I don't think uh yeah, there's still a [ __ ] ton of undecided people by the way.

[00:40:37]Yeah, Nthia endorsed Bass before running. I know. I know. And Nithia also came out of nowhere and decided to run out of nowhere. That's also true. It was literally a week after I had Ray on uh my my broadcast. But um again, like I said, I didn't want to put my thumb on the scale at all uh to see where things went. And um you know, I'm I'm not exactly very confident in Nthia at all.

[00:41:01]Although polls still show her as like if if the situation was that like Ray Hang was in striking distance, if she was in double digits alongside Nithia Roman, like I would I would lean into that. Are you the kingmaker of LA politics? No, I'm not. I'm just a random [ __ ] who happens to live here. Yeah. All right.

[00:41:19]We've done so many hyper local uh stories today. Holy [ __ ] This has been the first two hours have just been California politics and how absolute dog water it is. probably the most devastating uh part of of uh you know my political commentary is is how horrible California politics is. Uh we're moving off from