HOT TOPICS | Escalation in Los Angeles: Is This Autocracy? - June 10th, 2025
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What local and national events sparked the show's opening discussion?
Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Hot Topics 10 a.m. Oh, look, I got the notification as soon as I went on. So I hope you got your notification. Here we are. Oh, my gosh. Another day. More chaos happening. Well, more incitement, inciting violence, I believe. In California. And it's not just California. Most folks I talk to, people who know things, they believe that it's going to start happening all around the country. Okay? That this is going to spread around the country. Good morning from Chicago, Cynthia. So that's a concern. Hi, TJ Walker. That's like Madam CJ Walker, for those of you who are in the know. Thank you. Someone says, I love the sweater, Don. Yes, that's because this is our merch show. Our merch store is open, and we're going to show it to you.
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Okay. Hi, Sly Stone. Hi, Denise. Sly Stone. Yes. Sly Stone. Sly from Sly and the Family Stone passed away. So prayers up. Rest in peace. So yes. Wow. I don't know what's going on in America. Let me just see where you guys are before I get into it. My mug is on the way. My niece got her mug. Do we have the picture of my niece's mug? I know we showed it on the private last night. If we can show it here, that would be great. If you find it, let me know. But good morning from Seattle. Good morning from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Good morning, San Francisco Bay Area. Canada is in the house. Great merch says J Mac. Thank you. I just want to read some of your comments because I just need to be with you this morning. Midtown Manhattan is here.
Atlanta is here. What's going on? Midtown Manhattan, Orlando, Florida is in the house. Let's see who else. Marrero County, Memphis, Tennessee, Charleston, Charlotte. Wow. Olive Branch, Mississippi. Crazy. Good morning from the front poles of New Jersey. We're going to tell you about some polls, too. We didn't put the mayor polling up. If you have that mayoral race polling, I think you do have it. Let me just show you. Philadelphia, Boston, Winchester, New York. I'm going to get to all this stuff because I'm waiting to warm up a little bit because things are crazy. I don't want to tell you about it. Okay, so listen. You guys know there is Zoran Mamdani. is a progressive candidate just endorsed recently by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Andrew Cuomo is the sort of centrist candidate in the race that was leading hugely, or big league, as Donald Trump says, high looking to California. And look at this. I mean, I think Cuomo was up like 30 points at one point, but this Mamdani is surging. And it has got P. Miller Groove in Bent Salem, Pennsylvania. Hello. It's got the folks here going, whoa, wait a minute. What is going on? Now, the people who are a little bit more centrist, even though there are they are Democrats and they are liberals, they're very centrist and maybe center right, central left. Christie Prude in Wisconsin. Here's what's happening. Folks are worried that a progressive candidate. You're right, Mari. He was with her. She was with him at the Puerto Rican Day Parade.
He was with her. They're going, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. What is going on? They want law and order. Right. In the city. Michaela J. Mamdani for mayor. And that's like the you know, the folks who have the haves and the have nots. The haves are like we want the crime taken care of. We want what do they say? We want crime. We want the homeless situation taken care of, you know, on and on and on.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What local and national events sparked the show's opening discussion?
0:16–10:19
2
How did the episode pivot to New York mayoral politics and Zohran Mamdani's rise?
10:19–39:11
3
Why is AOC's endorsement of Mamdani and rank-choice voting significant for NYC?
39:11–56:32
4
How does Don compare progressive populism in New York to Trump-style campaigning?
56:32–1:12:16
Speakers
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