Valuetainment - February 14, 2026


“New Yorkers Are Paying The Price＂ - Mamdani's 2% Wealth Tax IGNITES High-Stakes NYC Showdown


Episode Stats

Length

9 minutes

Words per Minute

197.25032

Word Count

1,846

Sentence Count

196

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

5


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Let's go to somebody else that some people wonder whether he loves America or not, and that's Mamdani.
00:00:04.880 Mamdani here comes out, he meets with the Minneapolis mayor in New York City to discuss protecting immigrants.
00:00:15.500 Okay. All right. Allegedly, that's the discussion. Rob, do you want to show this clip?
00:00:20.820 We're looking to determine some of the next steps here.
00:00:25.440 We want to make sure that what happened in Minneapolis does not happen in other cities and states throughout the country.
00:00:32.520 We want to make sure that our immigrant neighbors are protected and mayors work together, you know.
00:00:36.920 We're all operating in the reality business, and the reality is what just happened with Operation...
00:00:42.260 It's well-spoken. Say what you want to say.
00:00:44.380 ...is not okay.
00:00:45.540 It's well-spoken.
00:00:46.280 It's anti-American.
00:00:47.000 How do you prevent that? How do you prevent that?
00:00:48.980 Well, a lot of what it is is local governments working directly with their constituencies.
00:00:55.660 I mean, what you saw at Minneapolis is tens of thousands of people...
00:00:59.820 The question is, do they work with the federal government?
00:01:02.600 Did he say woke governments?
00:01:03.920 No, no, no, no. Constituency. Local government, not woke.
00:01:06.380 Oh, local governments.
00:01:06.920 Okay, Adam, thoughts on this.
00:01:08.740 The meeting between Mamdani and them.
00:01:10.060 By the way, while this is going on, Mamdani also came out asking for an additional 2%.
00:01:15.540 I don't know if you saw that.
00:01:17.140 Wait, are you saying he's asking for more money?
00:01:21.080 Additional.
00:01:21.780 Wait, more money?
00:01:22.900 Vinny, what's wrong with that? He needs more money.
00:01:24.840 Because he just came out, and I know you're probably not happy that he said he wasn't going to.
00:01:29.640 Yeah.
00:01:30.120 But now he wants to. Rob, is this the clip, Rob?
00:01:32.500 This is where he's asked about the 2% increase for millionaires in New York City
00:01:36.420 and whether or not they're going to raise property taxes as well.
00:01:39.080 Go ahead. Why don't you play the clip, Rob?
00:01:41.000 I have two questions.
00:01:42.100 First of all, I want to talk to you about the deaths that happened because of the cold.
00:01:46.200 You know, we previously were able to get information from the NYPD.
00:01:49.660 Now it's only coming from City Hall.
00:01:51.680 I'm wondering why the policy changed.
00:01:54.060 My second question has to do with the budget.
00:01:56.520 I know that you want to have Albany pass these tax hikes on corporations and on the wealthy.
00:02:02.280 But if they refuse to do it, given the fact that it's an election year and the governor said she doesn't want to do it,
00:02:07.700 will you have no other choice but to raise the only tax you can raise, which is the property tax?
00:02:12.560 So I am encouraged by the conversations we've been having, not only with the governor,
00:02:16.420 but also with legislative leaders in Albany.
00:02:18.520 And these are conversations about putting the city back on firm financial footing.
00:02:23.760 When I was standing here in this room weeks ago announcing the fact that our conclusions were coming
00:02:29.960 to the same level of assessment at the very least as the previous city controller, the current city controller,
00:02:36.040 and the current state controller, we also said that we would then be updating those assessments
00:02:40.420 as we got more information about Wall Street bonuses, as we got more information about the economic forecast,
00:02:45.440 and as we also took savings measures of our own.
00:02:48.420 And so in that time since, as I shared yesterday in Albany, that $12 billion deficit is now one that we have been able
00:02:54.680 to bring down to $7 billion.
00:02:56.660 And that's in part because of the revenues, the Wall Street bonuses, also an aggressive savings plan,
00:03:02.220 and a use of in-year reserves.
00:03:03.840 I am encouraged by the conversations we're having with Albany about how we can bring—
00:03:08.120 Vinny, go ahead.
00:03:09.020 I know you like him a lot.
00:03:10.260 I'm just wondering, all those people that I saw on all these podcasts and all these talking about—
00:03:15.520 I'll pay the 1%.
00:03:16.440 Okay, so now it's going to be 2%.
00:03:18.360 What percent is it going to have to hit for people and the New Yorkers and the people with the—
00:03:22.760 I got the money.
00:03:23.520 I'll pay for it for them to start talking out and speaking out because the city looks like crap.
00:03:28.020 The garbage is in the streets.
00:03:30.040 He had a winter storm, and over 13 to 15 homeless people died because he took out the order to have them shelter
00:03:35.980 because he's like, no, leave them outside.
00:03:37.740 They're still—I saw them chopping ice from the streets still two days ago, Pat.
00:03:41.520 It looks like they're in Antarctica, okay?
00:03:44.340 He's not running it right.
00:03:45.680 He's still asking for freaking money.
00:03:47.900 He's speaking Arabic as if that's the language of freaking New York, and it's just—it's nothing.
00:03:53.280 Tell me one thing that's positive that's happening.
00:03:55.240 I'll wait.
00:03:55.740 Anybody?
00:03:56.340 Give me one positive thing coming out of New York.
00:03:58.540 Go ahead.
00:03:59.040 By the way, when he talks, believe what he's saying because he said savings, and they've limited—
00:04:04.580 take a look at what was happening a week ago where there were pictures in multiple boroughs of the trash that was building up
00:04:10.620 and that there were trash shifts that didn't happen because they were going to require overtime shifts,
00:04:15.780 and you can see where they're cutting it, and they're cutting it.
00:04:18.660 They're supposed to be serving the citizens, but they were cutting.
00:04:21.300 Look at that picture.
00:04:22.100 Look at that.
00:04:22.520 Look at that picture.
00:04:23.280 That's how you're saving money.
00:04:23.720 They wouldn't do the overtime because the trash pickup went slower, Pat, because of the icy streets.
00:04:28.480 So they wouldn't give the overtime to the trash collection because they needed it because they wanted to save money.
00:04:33.980 There's your savings, ladies and gentlemen.
00:04:35.860 Bingo.
00:04:36.120 There's your savings.
00:04:37.600 The rats are breeding under the warmth of that pile of trash.
00:04:41.480 This is horrible.
00:04:42.440 And Tom, I'm just wondering, where are the New Yorkers?
00:04:44.300 Oh, and some savings.
00:04:45.140 We also got some savings.
00:04:46.400 Yeah, he said it went from $12 billion to $7 billion.
00:04:51.220 Yeah, because that's what the city looks like, you moron.
00:04:53.340 Look at that.
00:04:54.180 And I'm going to keep talking about this because Eric deserves credit.
00:04:56.780 There was – I researched it.
00:04:58.600 We saw him in Washington, D.C.
00:04:59.820 He told us about the surplus.
00:05:01.660 I did research.
00:05:02.800 He did.
00:05:03.800 He left a multibillion-dollar surplus.
00:05:06.240 Eric Adams.
00:05:07.620 Eric Adams.
00:05:08.700 That Mondami has vaporized, and now he's looking for even more.
00:05:12.480 This is a guy – Mondami.
00:05:14.740 If Mondami ran a funeral home, no one would die.
00:05:18.140 I mean, this is basically what we have.
00:05:20.120 Just incompetence of leadership.
00:05:22.200 And now the solution is, I don't know how to run it.
00:05:24.920 I don't know how to fix it.
00:05:25.880 I don't know how to set the budget.
00:05:27.180 So guess what?
00:05:28.000 Let's just raise the tax.
00:05:29.500 This is what you voted for.
00:05:31.260 Get ready.
00:05:32.200 Buckle up.
00:05:33.240 Can you say his name one more time?
00:05:35.200 What?
00:05:35.580 Say his name one more time.
00:05:36.600 The mayor.
00:05:37.520 Mondami.
00:05:38.440 Mondami.
00:05:39.580 Mondami.
00:05:41.180 Donny?
00:05:42.080 Mondami.
00:05:42.960 Like, Mondami.
00:05:44.860 Mondami.
00:05:46.300 Mondami.
00:05:46.860 Mondami.
00:05:47.360 Go ahead.
00:05:47.760 Well, it's kind of like everyone's building out their team.
00:05:53.800 Like, if you're drafting a team, you have the Mamdani's, and you have the AOC's, and you
00:05:58.840 have the Jacob Frey's, and you have the Ilhan Omar's.
00:06:01.700 That's their squad.
00:06:02.820 Literally.
00:06:03.280 Like, that's them.
00:06:04.760 You know, there used to be a time where you used to – are you a communist?
00:06:07.960 Keep it on the down low, bro.
00:06:09.500 Don't tell anybody.
00:06:10.540 He's proud.
00:06:10.920 You're a socialist – we are proud democratic socialists.
00:06:14.720 Stand with me, and all our socialists unite.
00:06:17.800 They're saying the quiet part out loud.
00:06:20.640 You know, it's – you might disagree with how Trump does things, but at this point, it's
00:06:25.320 so clear.
00:06:26.320 The guy loves America.
00:06:27.820 He's America first.
00:06:28.780 And whoever you want to put in the America first camp, whether that's J.D. Vance, Marco
00:06:33.480 Rubio, Josh Hawley, name the names.
00:06:36.220 Put them on a – like, you know how you do a side-by-side, tailor the tape?
00:06:39.660 These guys believe in capitalism, biblical Judeo-Christian values, God-fearing community,
00:06:46.060 family.
00:06:46.820 These people are all woke leftists that are selling socialism, and people are buying it.
00:06:54.120 So, you know, you get what you pay for, and unfortunately, Minnesota bought and paid for
00:06:59.540 this ridiculous mayor and Ilhan Omar, and New York just bought and is now paying the price
00:07:06.060 for Zoran Mamdani, and they're going to end up losing in the long run.
00:07:11.280 A new Faith Over Fear hat is coming soon to a theater near you, but I just wanted to – this
00:07:16.400 morning, I was listening to Billy Graham, which, Pat, you told me to listen to him.
00:07:20.120 You're like, you know, Vinny, dive in and listen to him.
00:07:21.840 So I'm getting ready in the morning.
00:07:23.140 I'm just listening to Billy Graham, and he said something that I hadn't heard in a while,
00:07:27.060 and it was the Apostle Thomas, when Jesus rose from the dead, Thomas wasn't there to
00:07:32.340 see the resurrection.
00:07:33.360 So Thomas goes, I'll believe that he rose if I get to put my hands in his wounds and
00:07:37.820 in his side.
00:07:38.480 So then he finally sees Jesus, and he goes in there.
00:07:41.100 He goes, God, Thomas, God, put your hands in here.
00:07:43.260 And Jesus looks at him and goes, because you have seen me, you believe.
00:07:46.580 Blessed of those who haven't seen me and still believe.
00:07:49.700 And in that moment, Tom, it hit me.
00:07:51.160 He's talking about us, okay?
00:07:52.940 We weren't there.
00:07:53.700 We didn't see Jesus walk.
00:07:54.860 We didn't see him die.
00:07:55.520 We didn't see him rise from the dead, but we believe, and that is faith in real time.
00:08:00.840 And he's talking about us.
00:08:01.780 And the last one, you mentioned the story about the Nigeria that we're sending 200 troops.
00:08:06.400 Trump is sending 200 troops.
00:08:07.600 They're saying they're not going to do anything crazy.
00:08:09.140 But think about that.
00:08:10.460 Think about the priests.
00:08:11.320 Think about the parishioners in those churches that were bombed and murdered and slaughtered,
00:08:15.340 and they were in that church praying and saying, please help.
00:08:18.860 That is faith over fear in real time, and that's what we're about,
00:08:22.900 and that's what the brand is about.
00:08:24.020 And I can't tell you how many people see me with the shirt,
00:08:26.780 because the shirt's on the back, and just tap me on the back and go, I'm with you.
00:08:29.680 Or they see this hat and they go, where can I get that hat?
00:08:31.840 So you go on vtmerch.com, get the hat.
00:08:34.580 We have the hoodies.
00:08:35.200 We have Here Am I, Send Me, which is Isaiah chapter 6, verse 8 as well.
00:08:39.700 But yeah, just go to vtmerch.com and pick it up.
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