Valuetainment - February 14, 2026


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


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Length

9 minutes

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Word Count

1,846

Sentence Count

196

Misogynist Sentences

2

Hate Speech Sentences

5


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In the wake of the massive snowstorm that hit the city of New York City, Mayor Bill de Blasio and Governor Andrew Cuomo discuss the impact of the snowfall and the response from the NYPD and the Department of Transportation. They also discuss the mayor s new proposal to raise taxes on millionaires.

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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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