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They think the most milktoast lib is. like a radical communist. Like it. doesn't They don't know what the word. means. Keep your government hands off my. Medicare. Like [laughter]. >> All right, joining us today on I Hip. News is Blakeley. They are a non-binary. artist, songwriter, political. commentator, who has gone viral on social media for. their takedowns on both sides of the. aisle. Blakeley, welcome.

>> Thank you so much for having me. >> Yeah, I just want to give my audience a. a little background about you and me. So. we follow each other online. And I think it's probably safe to say. you're further left than me, even though. I like to think of myself as fairly. left. I want to build alliances and have. healthy conversations, because I think. people on the left agree on a lot more. than what they disagree. online. So. you identify as a leftist.

>> Yeah. >> And what do you take about this civil. war that's going on with the Democrats? With like maybe the libs, the [snorts]. progressives, and the leftists. >> So for me, I. mostly blame the Democratic Party. And I. separate that a little bit from your. rank and file lib, right? So sometimes. the libs, just the rank and file libs, do make me insane. Like I'll be being. driven crazy, but I think it is actually. mostly the power apparatus. And I think.

one of the problems is, which is why I'm. so glad we're having this conversation. and why you're one of the few people. that I would say is like more liberal. that is even been willing to have it, is. that the Democratic Party and the people. that are in the media, the people who. are influential, they have done everything they can to. not talk about it. They don't want to. confront it. This has been going on. >> what are you talking about? >> The war, the fight between the left and. the progressives, the the Democratic. establishment. They don't want to. confront it. It's kind of like it's kind.

of like what, you know, how our government and our politicians. want to close their eyes and cover their. eyes and they they don't want to talk. about Palestine, right? Like in in. Israel, they don't want to talk about. it. It's the same thing with the. Democratic Party and the liberals and. the progressives. The entrenched power. in the Democratic Party and the people. that run the party, the people who have. the influence and the power in the party. do not want to confront what is. happening at the grassroots level and. they don't want to confront how corrupt. the party is and why people leave more.

and more and more. I'll see sometimes. the liberals being like, "Yeah, but we. still have like a little bit of this.". And it's like people the party is. bleeding. People are leaving the party. People are leaving and more and more. identifying as independent. The fact that they are constantly trying. to hold onto the past and act like. nothing is wrong is what is so. dangerous. And I get criticized a lot, especially when I'm arguing with. liberals, like, "You're criticizing Democrats and it's. helping Republicans." No, you're.

enabling Republicans and you're enabling. fascists and you spend more time being. angry at the left that constantly tries. to sound the alarm than you are at the. fascists that are literally driving this. country into the ground. You're helping. them. You are putting their seatbelt on. for them. It's. and a perfect example of that is what's. been happening with Hasan It's. insanity. >> That's crazy. >> It's insanity that he is the one that. their ire is directed at. >> Mhm. >> When they should be directing their ire.

I always say, "No, the problem is not. that I'm not I'm not I'm criticizing. Democrats too much and helping. Republicans. The problem is you have way. too much in common with them. The. Democratic Party, the leaders of the. party, they have way too much in common. and enable the Republican Party." And I. say I oppose the Republicans at every. turn and everything these fascists stand. for. They need to be destroyed. They. don't need to be pandered to. They don't. need to be, "Well, you know, both sides.

and we're bipartisan and la la la la. la." No, they need to be crushed. Their. ideology needs to be crushed. So, my. question always is to the Democrats, I. do oppose the Republicans. Why don't. you? Why are you so intent? You look at. the way that they fight the left and you. see, "Oh, they've got fight in them.". They fight the left. They viciously. fight the left. We saw the way they. treated Zohran Mamdani. But then they look at the right and. they're finding every way they always. can to be like, "If you ever notice, the. Republicans when they're talking, the.

Democrats when they're talking about the. Republicans, they're always like, 'We're. bipartisan.'" Like they think that's the. end all be all instead of being like, "We got this.". >> Don't you think Republicans use. scapegoating um as a motivator to vote? They use like, "Okay, these trans people. are doing this to you and these. immigrants are doing that to you and. these other people are taking your. money, so you have to go vote for us." I. feel like a little bit of the. establishment messaging, not the. Democratic part members of the. Democratic Party at large, but the. establishment messaging right now is.

scapegoating the left and I'm really. concerned about that. You cannot. scapegoat the people on the far, far. left and I feel like the whole Hasan. thing for, you know, this has been going. on around like week four of this thing. My concern about that is I don't agree. with everything Hasan says. Hasan is my. friend. We have far more in common than. we do not and. this fixation on him versus Republicans.

and taking down Republicans and taking. down fascism shows an inherent weakness. in the people that are doing that and I. always say they're probably like fascist. collaborating. I'm very concerned about. this because I see it as. the establishment Democrat is. scapegoating leftist and we can we will. not win. >> No. >> elections. Now, I do think in the. midterms the Democrats are going to win. >> I do think. >> regardless of what they do. That's how. bad Trump is. >> I agree.

>> That's how bad Trump went. So, let me. ask you this. If let's say of the new flock of. Congresspeople, let's say that 50% of. them are establishment and 15% of them. are in the progressive caucus. Do you are you a person of a political. mind that believes that they're going to. have to compromise those two factions to. get stuff done or is it all or nothing? >> I don't think [snorts] it's all or. nothing. I think it depends on the. issue. Because if you notice the compromise.

always comes at the expense of the most. marginalized. >> Yeah. >> It's never oh, we're going to compromise. to, you know, I don't know, get one. certain policy. The compromises always. only go one way, scapegoating. marginalized people and throwing them. under the bus whether that be black. Americans, trans people, people um who. can get pregnant in a red state. Um. that's always the the compromise. >> Mhm. >> Um but so it's not that I'm against I'm. not one of these people that's like. never.

>> What do you think about Zoram Houkal? They've been working together. >> Exactly how it should be done. Yes, absolutely. >> I love it. >> The problem is when they always say, as. you said, they're scapegoating the left. constantly. They never want to work with. the left. They always are demonizing. them and the problem with that is you. are not the right understands that they. need to cater to their base and the. Democrats demonize the people that are. on the left. They alienate them. They. say go away, we don't want you instead. of actually trying to work and actually.

understand and try to appeal to the. left. That was something Zoram. brilliantly did was like no, I'm. actually going to try to appeal to you. instead of kicking you in the teeth, which is what the Democratic Party. always does to the left. And the insane. thing is is that too many people are. just okay with accepting that. Like to. me what I find not acceptable is things. like we're not going to release the. autopsy report. >> Oh, that pissed. >> That is so unacceptable. >> That really pissed me off. >> Last night, how is it acceptable that. the leader, the so-called leader. chuckles in the Senate.

>> He's a fascist. >> He's a fascist and a fascist. collaborator. That he's out here. voting down. the the blocking sending thousand pound. bombs to the terrorist genocidal. apartheid regime of Israel. when 90% of the Democratic voting base. does not want them to. >> We cannot we cannot as a party. be an anti-war party which we must be in. the face because all every it doesn't. matter which Republican it is, they all.

lead to neocons. >> Exactly. >> Every single time they cannot help. themselves. So we have to be the. anti-war party and we cannot fund any. country, any military that commits war. crimes every day. And it seems to be a. feature, not a bug of the IDF that they. cannot help themselves and intentionally. target and double and triple tap strikes. kids. >> which we would all have an understanding.

easily if they weren't white. That is. the reality. If this was any other. country doing this or even if I want to. be, you know, fair and say, "Okay, if it. was Russia.". They would be doing this. The fact that. they have done what they have done and. continue to mass murder children and. women and. the most horrific atrocities that I've. ever seen that have been burned and. etched in my mind that I'm never going. to recover from. And our so-called leaders keep trying to. convince us that this is normal and.

acceptable and we just need to give them. nice murder tools. Absolute like that's. where I do draw the line. Absolutely the. not. >> So it is a huge shift though and I agree. with you. I I mean I cannot stand. Chuckles. I think he's worthless. I wish. they would just deal with him now. I. wish they would say you're not the. minority leader but that's my wish, whatever. But I will say that it is. pretty impressive. that a year ago would have been unheard. of that 40 people would have voted the.

way they did. >> That's because of the left. >> Right and there is progress. There's. progress happening but sometimes when I. because I would say I'm like you're. here, here's the libs, I'm here. I guess. I'm a progressive. >> Yes. >> Okay. So and a lot of people just FYI. listener viewer, where I grew up in. Oklahoma City, they make no distinction. Oh, 100%. like I had a conversation with a guy and. he's like yeah, you know, that Obama was. a liberal commie. He's as left as they. come and that's the way all Republicans.

perceive it. But um. sometimes when I when I'm on the. algorithm and there's a lot of leftists. What I like about you is you're not. scared to be an attack dog. You're not. like. uh oh my god, we have to do it all PC. and everything's great. You're like we. got to win, we got to dis them and I. like that fight. I see a lot of stuff. about um. AOC. A lot of bed-wetting about AOC and. Axios reported the this. Let's pop this. up. Axios, AOC wrestles with the.

left-wing Dems as 2028 decision looms. In private, Ocasio-Cortez has fumed. about the criticism believing it's. unfair and counterproductive for the. progressive movement. One liberal. strategist told Axios that AOC has. lamented the left was not there for her. and that they are never pleased. Okay, so my take on this is there's a little. bit of truth in that. It I do see. sometimes as a person who's I'm a. Democrat and I'm you know, I'm. definitely more than center left but not.

quite all the way as left as you and my. friend Hasan. I do see that there is this like demand. for perfection in this very quick. takedown of the people that we have that. are fighters. Do you see that? Do you. think that's productive? Give me your. take on all that. >> I do see it um because if anything, sometimes I will call myself a. progressive because sometimes people to. my left will tell me I'm not left. enough. >> Right. >> is a little bit of that perfectionism.

because I'll be like, you know, as you. know, a leftist and sometimes I'm a. little hesitant to call myself that cuz. I know that there's a communist in my. comments. Someone will be like, [laughter] "Leftist, you're a shitlib. cuz you vote.". >> moderate. You're a centrist, right? >> Which which okay. Like so I say I'm a. progressive because I do vote and I. >> believe in harm reduction voting? >> I do but um it I also believe in holding. people accountable and not continuing to. enable abusers. So there's harm. reduction and then there's.

you're actually not reducing harm. You. are being the wife that's allowing the. husband to still beat the out of. their kids and telling them that you're. trying to protect them. So there's. there's that. With the AOC thing um. which is kind of the analogy that I used. when I watched the whole thing with you. and Hasan that blew up when people had a. meltdown about him saying he. wouldn't vote for Gavin Newsom. I made. like three videos about it cuz I. That was. >> They lost their mind, yeah. >> know. People lost their mind. >> He really like people just he occupies. so much real estate in that.

>> And part of that is honestly like legit. just racism and Islamophobia because his. name is Hasan and people think scary. Muslim and it's you know, that's that. and the fact that he's unapologetic. which I absolutely love because, you. know, so with AOC. I do think that yes, there is. perfection. I'm not an unreasonable man. I'm not like, "No, the left is perfect. and this like" I sympathize with the. libs sometimes and we'll be like, "No, you know, we we need to be a little bit. more understanding in certain areas.". And I think my theory is.

and you'll understand this as somebody. who also grew up with a lot of. evangelicals is that I actually think. that one of the reasons why the left can. be so harsh sometimes is cuz they just. haven't deconstructed their abusive. evangelical Christianity that they grew. up in. They just grew up and became. atheist, but they never deconstructed. that kind of religious abuse, so they're. very harsh and they're very quick to. punish. It's a very religious mentality. >> get on board. >> I think that's what it is cuz a lot of. the left will be like a lot of people I. know in the left will be like, "Yeah, we're anti-imperialist and the.

police and we're anti-carceral." And. then like you'll mess up and they'll be. like, "Fuck you, you piece of You. deserve to die." And I'll be like, I. think it's a very My experience is I'll. ask them about their religious. upbringing and a lot of them grew up. Christian. I'm like, that's what it is. >> Okay, I've seen online that you are very. disappointed in Senator Elizabeth. Warren. >> Yes, I hate her now. >> Really? I love her. >> I hate her now. I used to like her. >> I love her. >> She's never beating the snake. allegations.

>> What Why do you hate her? What in a couple of sentences without. >> same reason why I think people really. get disappointed with AOC. I agree with. you that AOC sometimes people can be. harsh with her and I also know that I. agree that, you know, as a woman she. deals with a lot of very deranged. misogyny, but people get upset with AOC because of. her promise and what she came in. promising to do and that's why I think. some people are harsh with her. The same. goes for Elizabeth Warren. Elizabeth Warren.

ran on being an aggressive progressive, created the CFPB, has voted positively. in many ways, but she also can be a. duplicitous snake. Why the are you. standing up cheering for Donald Trump as. he warmongers about Iran? >> But do you think that. in in the overall scheme of things her. standing up and cheering This is the. part of politics that sometimes bothers. me. We have to really look at her votes. She's always I agree. I always do. If. she's always voted really well and I'll.

tell you one thing about Elizabeth. Warren that I appreciate in this space. I have senators and congress people on. Her staff contacts or I contact her. staff. She will come on anytime, zero. script. She will talk about anything and. everything. And that's not the case for. all Democrats. A lot of them want to say. these are the talking points and we're. not going outside of that. And Elizabeth. Warren is is very um. my thing about. you get to beat up on Elizabeth Warren. if you want to. I don't want to take.

that. >> [laughter]. >> Because sometimes I get it. I understand. hating on you need to hate on it. But. here's my thing. Is it worth it to beat up on Elizabeth. Warren because at the end of the day if. we do have a progressive sweep, she's. going to be the most malleable and she's. going to swing in to full-blown. progressive and she does a lot of the. that's boring to me, all of this. financial oversight, bean counter. Like she's really in on all that. And. like I'm like more about political. gossip. >> [laughter]. >> You know, I'm not going to sit around. and policy wonk out.

>> brilliant. Yeah, definitely brilliant. and I love that the CFPB and again, I. think that's why I've been so hard on. her because she it disappointed you. Because she's disappointed me so many. times. And um. I also believe in the same way of like, okay, you got to do harm reduction, you. got to make sure that you're you're. taking into consideration their votes, all of those things. But what I also. feel like a lot happens, which is also. why I'm so aggressive, is there is a lot. of the voters excuse making.

A lot of excuse making and I think that. as voters we enable the Democrats to. continue to a lot of times disappoint us. and not do the right thing because they. know, "Oh, well, we can just have a. rotating villain and our voters will get. over it." They're not There needs to be. a changing. >> It is, but that's because people like us. are talking about it. >> That's why I wanted to have this. conversation with you because. I see online, I don't actively tweet. because I just I have a private account.

just and I have a list that I follow. because I just get death threats and all. sorts of stuff cuz Fox will feature me. But um I see you fighting with uh. establishment Democrat people. >> I have met It's like my addiction. >> a kick out of it and I see this kind of. going and I don't I don't think it's so. bad. I think it's kind of good because. when I see the infighting, it's always. about something stupid and nothing very. serious and um. they seem to.

want these corporate Democrats, but they. just don't outright say it. Like I would. respect these influencers if they said. I like a corporate Democrat. I like a. Democrat that services both the public. and the corporations arbitrarily as to. how much they get in donations. I would. respect that more. Um but we have in. this city that you and I are both in. right now, Zohran Mamdani, which I think. it's incredible what he did. He took on. the Democratic establishment. He took on. the billionaires. Andrew Cuomo is a very.

Trumpian style Democrat that refused to. pack his toys up after he lost. >> Yes. >> And then he had to run again as an. independent cuz he doesn't understand. the word no. And Zohran is winning and governing and. reminding these Democrats, this is what. government is supposed to do for us. We. don't have to hate it. Let's play this. video for Blakeley. >> Do you think it's possible a Democratic. Socialist platform can translate into. something that's electorally viable in a.

statewide election or national election. given that according to Gallup many. older and rural voters still have issues. with the term with the label socialist? >> You know, what I find is that New New. ask me less about how I describe my. politics and more about whether my. politics includes them. And I think what. we can see is that a democratic. socialist politics is one that should be. judged on its delivery like any. ideology. And what we're showing in this. city is we can we can pursue the big. things like universal child care and do. the pothole politics at the same time.

that we're showing and not just filling. in the potholes, changing the catch. basins, but also repaving over a. thousand miles of roadway. >> But but Mr. Mr. Mayor, presidential and. and statewide elections are often. decided in battleground regions that do. not look like New York City. >> Yeah. I'll be honest with you. Before I. was the mayor, I was an assembly member. of Astoria and Long Island City. At that. time I was told that you could only be a. democratic socialist in Northwest. Queens. Then I became the mayor, now the. next question is the state, then it'll. be the next question will be the. country. I think that this is a politics. that can flourish anywhere because. frankly, there is only one majority in.

this country, that's the working class. And it's time we have a politics that. puts them at the heart of what it is. that we're pursuing and not as part of. the appendix. >> He said, "So if I can get at this. >> Yeah, he really is. I don't want to be a. stan or whatever. I could try to you. know, like my thing is like if Zorn and. people got mad at me for if Zorn does. something that I think is wrong, like. when he endorsed Hakeem Jeffries, I will. criticize him. But it's hard at moments. like like this not to love him. And I. and I and I am such a big supporter of. Zorn. So I'm like.

I'm he's so talented. >> He's so talented. And it's sincere. >> Yes. >> It is it is we I've had him on the pod. in person. It is sincere. The reason why. it's so easy for him to stay on script. and that he can answer any question is. because he genuinely believes it. >> 100%. >> It it's genuine and he stays on that. So. let me ask you this. Um only 28% of Americans have a positive. view of the Democratic Party right now.

Only 28%. And so you're from Missouri originally? >> Colorado. >> Colorado. Okay, so I'm from Oklahoma. originally. I am not so sure that if a. politician took that brand of politics. reminding people who the scapegoating. the proper. villain, which is the billionaires and. not them personally even though they're. great villains to you know, just. browbeating them. It's the system. >> Yes. >> And took that and might not be the first. election cycle, but over the course of.

two to three election cycles, I think. this type of politics could pop off. >> 100%. >> And and fly over America. >> 100% because first of all, if they're. like, oh well, they might call you a. socialist as you rightly pointed out. They see no distinction. They think the. most milktoast lib is like a radical. communist. Like it doesn't they don't. know what the word means. Keep your. government hands off my Medicare. >> [laughter]. >> It's like they don't know the. difference. So like yes. No, the this is. the gaslighting of the Democratic Party.

That message absolutely could and would. win. The reason why it doesn't make more. progress is because the Democratic. Party, whether it be their influencers. that they pay to not admit that they. like Sanders or the party themselves. The real reason why we are not getting. that and we're looking at Zomaron going, oh my gosh, like this should happen all. around the country. Why isn't it? Is. because fundamentally and this is not. going to get better until we confront. it. The Democratic Party wants to be the. party of the people without actually.

serving the people. They want to be the. party of the people while still taking a. pack money. They want to be of the. people while still taking all the same. donor money that the Republicans take. They want to take all the corporate. money that were Republicans take. They. want to be the aesthetic of the working. class without actually giving up the. thing that makes them impossible because. if you are going to be a politician and. you're going to serve the people, you by. definition have to reject the people.

that are corporatists and the. billionaire class and all of the other. corrupting influences of the money in. politics and the fascists that fund the. Republicans. They want to do that to to. appeal to people and not let go of that. money and not let go of that influence. and it is never going to happen and that. is the fight they constantly have. Republicans don't have that fight. because their voters love the. corruption. Their voters love being also. >> also likely because they're in a cult.

And so this is my biggest thing. People. say to me and they might they'll. probably say to you, "Why are you. criticizing Democrats?" And my response. is because we're not in a cult. As we. get closer to an essential. uh primary and to an essential uh uh. presidential election. Um that big thing that I had with his. son where he says, "Do you think the. Democratic uh base takes your vote for. granted?" He's true about that. It's. right. But at the end of the day for me. personally, having grown up in Oklahoma.

City and have a ton of LGBTQ+. uh friends. um and uh know. people that are trying to raise a trans. child there, at the end of the day I. will do a harm reduction vote because I. know. how traumatizing it is to live in a. Republican supermajority state. But. before we get to that, I think it's. absolutely paramount that we criticize. the Democratic Party. most importantly because why the hell.

did they stop a 50-state strategy? Because when you stop that, in Oklahoma, you've got a gubernatorial race right. now, Blake Lee, and they are. out-crazying each other cuz it it's just. a Republican primary basically. Laser-focused on. woke trans ideology in the schools. We're talking about Oklahoma. here. You know, I mean it's just utterly. insane. But okay, last thoughts and tell. my listeners how they can follow you. Please follow them because they are. always fighting with the moderate. Democrats and it's wildly entertaining.

So, tell them how to find you. >> Thank you. I'm on every social media app. for the most part. My handle is I am. Blake Lee everywhere. So, just like I am. Blake Lee. Um YouTube, Twitter, Upscroll, shout out. to Upscroll, Palestinian owned Instagram. alternative, TikTok alternative. Um so, it's I am Blake Lee on all of them. So, yes, definitely. um please follow me, engage, stay. politically active. I agree that going. to what you said about the thing about. harm reduction, but I'm also at the. point where I believe that there needs.

to be accountability and that we need to. for me um. I am not going to allow them to use. marginalizations. um to basically continue to aid and abet. fascism and that is what they do. They. throw trans people under the bus, they. throw marginalized groups under the bus, and then what come election time, instead of actually doing anything to. protect these groups, protect the poor, protect the working class, they. basically hold us all hostage and go. vote for us or else.

And as we've seen, it's not just that. it's immoral and they we shouldn't be. rewarding them for that. that holding us hostage, it's also it's. not just because I want to teach them a. lesson, which by the way, I'm at the. point where it's like, no you. need to earn my vote. You need to earn. my vote. I am no longer just going to. vote blue no matter who because you hold. my rights hostage. >> that's a I I think us having a healthy. electorate that says earn our vote and. Zoran took that very seriously. He went.

out started at 1% and he earned. >> And what does it tell you about our. country that the voters have to be. terrified that they might lose their. rights if they don't allow the party. that refuses to represent us to hold us. hostage. So, that's where I'm at and I'm. also at the point where there needs to. just be a lot less putting up with that. I think a lot of Democrats and liberals. who are good and well-meaning people. have operated out of fear. And a lot of. it, and I get it. I'm scared, too.

And I've been scared. But the other. reason why I think it's imperative that. we actually start getting more. aggressive and holding them accountable, and by that I mean Chuck Schumer and. Hakeem Jeffries need to go. And the the. the Democrats that are protecting them. in the House and the Senate need to be. held accountable and called out. And the. other reason why I say that it's so. important that we do that, and not just. oh vote blue no matter who, is because. we have seen time and time again it's. not working. >> Yeah. >> It's not working. We this country is.

moving. Exactly. It's moving further and. further and further to the right. It. that that just simply okay, we're just. going to vote blue no matter who, look. at where we are now. It is worse. >> I agree. All right. Follow my friend. Blake Lee. You will enjoy their posting, and I will see you all soon.