Valuetainment - August 19, 2025


＂A HUGE Democratic Party Problem＂ - Fareed Zakaria SLAMS Blue Cities Taxes & Crime CRISIS


Episode Stats

Length

5 minutes

Words per Minute

193.64774

Word Count

1,006

Sentence Count

131


Summary

The best cities in America are blue. The best cities historically have always been blue. But as we see more and more people are moving to the red states, the Democrats are having a hard time keeping up with the cost of living in blue cities.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 So watch this Freed Zakaria, what he does to Rahm Emanuel.
00:00:03.760 Just watch this, folks.
00:00:04.880 He was just on flagrant, too.
00:00:07.160 To be fair, Rahm, this is actually...
00:00:09.040 I was being fair.
00:00:09.920 No, no, this is a huge Democratic Party problem.
00:00:13.060 If you look at Democratic cities, they are terribly run.
00:00:17.020 They have incredibly high taxes.
00:00:19.140 It is impossible to build to the cost of housing.
00:00:21.820 Let me finish. Let me finish. I'll give you a chance.
00:00:23.900 The cost of housing is crazy in places like New York and Chicago.
00:00:27.880 If you look at Democratic states, you go look at New York versus Florida.
00:00:34.180 Roughly the same population.
00:00:36.260 The budget of New York state is twice that of Florida.
00:00:40.340 What do they have? Streets paved with gold?
00:00:42.880 I live in New York. I pay the highest taxes in New York.
00:00:45.480 You get nothing for it.
00:00:46.980 And I think that is the image people have of the Democratic Party.
00:00:51.020 Lots of taxes, lots of regulation, but nothing gets done.
00:00:54.820 I live in L.A.
00:00:56.380 And I think, you know, listen, the Democrats have to own this and realize the answer to everything is not more taxes, more regulation.
00:01:06.960 People are fed up of that. They feel that it isn't working.
00:01:09.840 The Democrats...
00:01:11.100 How uncomfortable was Rahm?
00:01:13.680 Did Rahm respond?
00:01:14.860 Well, go watch the whole show. I just have the clip.
00:01:17.540 But the point is, it's getting to the point that there are those reasonable Democrats like him.
00:01:23.020 And I know, Adam, this is your guy, so I wanted to kind of tee you up if you wanted to say something on this.
00:01:27.060 That he is sitting with the former mayor of Chicago whose brother runs, you know, in Denver.
00:01:33.060 Ari Emanuel.
00:01:33.960 They made a whole show about this guy.
00:01:36.020 Saying it to his face on Bill Maher.
00:01:37.620 Adam.
00:01:37.860 I mean, facts don't care about your feelings.
00:01:40.760 Everything he's saying is accurate.
00:01:41.900 It sucks.
00:01:43.680 The best cities in America are blue.
00:01:46.740 The best cities historically in America are blue.
00:01:50.000 New York, L.A., San Francisco, Chicago.
00:01:53.780 Every major city is blue.
00:01:55.000 But, as we're seeing the woke get woker and weirder, and all these policies, high taxes, crime, homelessness, cost of living, cost of housing.
00:02:05.980 All of a sudden, people are going to be moving out of these cities and going to red states.
00:02:09.920 Where's the most migration happen to?
00:02:11.840 Florida, Texas, Nevada to an extent, Tennessee.
00:02:15.280 At some point, if you can get up and move, you don't have to buy a house, you can rent, you're not going to sit and just sustain all the trauma and drama that a blue city provides you.
00:02:26.460 It's not fun.
00:02:27.460 Okay.
00:02:27.860 I want to give one last shout-out to Harley Kennard.
00:02:30.020 Okay.
00:02:30.820 If I'm saying your name correctly, brother, I want to give that shout-out.
00:02:33.660 So, here's Harley Kennard.
00:02:34.960 Can you go to a story, please?
00:02:36.520 Go to a story.
00:02:37.440 And let's just kind of keep going through some of these stories.
00:02:39.500 He's going to be so surprised we're doing this.
00:02:41.660 Go next.
00:02:42.440 Go to the next story.
00:02:43.560 You're probably wondering what I'm doing.
00:02:45.120 Next story.
00:02:46.580 And I'll stay right here.
00:02:47.600 Watch this.
00:02:49.160 18 hours of driving of listening to PBD Podcast on binge.
00:02:54.320 We need an Aussie version of this show.
00:02:56.440 Look at this.
00:02:57.400 Look where he drove to where.
00:03:00.340 And he's watching this podcast from Australia.
00:03:03.600 Okay.
00:03:04.240 I don't know who's watched it longer and listened to it longer.
00:03:07.560 I don't know if I can listen to myself for 18 hours.
00:03:09.840 But I just want to give you a shout-out.
00:03:11.500 Victoria.
00:03:11.980 To our friend here who listened to it for as long as he did in Australia.
00:03:17.920 That's awesome.
00:03:18.360 Just so you know, folks that watch the podcast, whenever you post stuff on stories,
00:03:22.420 whenever you wear the Future Looks Bright hat, the shirts, whenever you tag us,
00:03:26.120 any of that stuff, when you post it in the pictures, we see you.
00:03:29.280 We just wanted to give a shout-out to you and tell you much love from Fort Lauderdale.
00:03:34.440 That's awesome.
00:03:35.180 All the way out to Sydney.
00:03:36.720 Okay.
00:03:36.960 And I don't even know what the time zone is.
00:03:38.540 Just want to give you a shout-out.
00:03:39.520 Go ahead, Adam.
00:03:39.920 Well, I've actually made that drive before.
00:03:42.180 I've driven from Sydney to the Gold Coast.
00:03:45.760 There ain't much going on there.
00:03:47.060 Byron Bay, Brisbane, everything out there.
00:03:49.880 Made that drive.
00:03:50.700 So shout-out to you.
00:03:51.520 What's his name?
00:03:52.800 Harley.
00:03:53.300 Harley.
00:03:53.780 Shout-out to you.
00:03:54.660 I assume he's moving to a less woke, less expensive city.
00:03:57.600 Go back, Rob, so we can see his name.
00:03:59.560 Go back to see if I want to get his name right.
00:04:01.160 Harlan or Harley?
00:04:01.940 Harley.
00:04:02.200 Harley.
00:04:02.760 Harley.
00:04:03.420 Fantastic.
00:04:03.840 Harley.
00:04:04.100 We're starting to see all these cities crumble.
00:04:06.620 By the way, Australia is number two on Mannex.
00:04:08.120 I don't know why.
00:04:08.720 But Australia is number two.
00:04:09.620 It is, for whatever reason.
00:04:10.660 I get a ton of Mannex from Australia.
00:04:12.480 There's a lot of things that's going on right now in the marketplace.
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