Denouncing Democrats While Dressed as Mao

You can feel the changes with every new story.

The sense of backlash that's in the air.

Inflation is not under control.

Data centers that no one wants are taxing energy grids,

fueling an AI bubble that may not really replace you,

but will get you laid off regardless.

It seems like every week our mass Gestapo, ice,

kills another innocent person.

In all my years, I don't remember seeing this much blood

on American pavement.

I often say that the United States is an empire in decline.

And home, that means we are a nation in crisis.

But we're so much of Washington sees dangerous instability.

I and many of you see promise.

I see a real opportunity to change this country's trajectory

to improve the lot of humanity.

And I know you feel it too.

It's rooms like these that remind me

just how many people see right for wrong

and want to do something about it.

(audience applauds)

All around the country, we're getting real fighters elected.

Fighters who see the crisis and can describe it

in clear and truthful terms.

This means demanding an end to the endless wars.

An end to profiteering off of healthcare.

(audience applauds)

An end to the rule by people who put the interests of capital

over the interests of the working class.

(audience applauds)

It's talk like this that has Washington terrified.

It's talk like this that has MAGA terrified.

(audience applauds)

These people that hate movements

who try to control our lives

are most afraid of popular action,

of democracy, of the people.

They're afraid of us because of the simple fact

that there are more of us than there are of them.

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And all these happen and they're always building.

(audience applauds)

There are more good, decent people

with moral conviction who find it unfathomable

that the wealthiest nation on earth chooses to spend

its billions blowing up schools overseas

rather than building schools in our neighborhoods.

(audience applauds)

Find people who can't understand why

in the wealthiest nation on earth,

there are hundreds of thousands of people

who will go to sleep outside tonight

and millions more who live paycheck to paycheck.

(audience applauds)

Hardworking people.

Frustrated that an honest day of labor

delivering packages, cleaning counters,

or teaching children is no longer enough

to take care of a family or own a home

all the while the world's wealthiest man

sits around tweeting racist screeds

and unfunny jokes as people grow

his net worth into the trillions.

(audience applauds)

I should add that none of this is an accident.

The inequality is the design of our system.

When you see broken downtowns in a state of disrepair

or pot holes that never get filled

or homeless people suffering in the streets,

remember this is the design of our system.

It is not the moral failings of the individual

but a whole architecture where the ultra rich

stick their hands in the pockets of everyone else.

Just as every person who has no shelter

is a policy failure, every billionaire is a policy failure.

(audience applauds)

But just as every billionaire is a policy failure,

every congressperson who's refused

to change these policies have failed you,

have failed all of us.

(audience applauds)

We have placed organ interests

above the interests of the people.

I say no more and we say no more.

(audience applauds)

I've traveled all around the country.

I've talked to countless people over dozens of protests.

Gone to rallies, I've gotten to marches.

I've got shot at by my own law enforcement

that I pay with my taxes, the salary of.

And all I ever hear from the people by my side is no more.

And not just, thank you.

(audience laughs)

And not just the no more to Trumpism

but no more to the Democrats who compromise,

who conciliate and who betray us.

(audience applauds)

No more to the fascist reactionaries

but no more to the Democrats who will collaborate

and cooperate with the fascists who will fund ICE,

who will fund Israel, who will help poison the planet,

who will sniff burgers and help bosses.

We don't need those Democrats anymore.

(audience applauds)

In fact, I know we have a message.

We are coming.

We are on-box.

We're on-box.

We're on-box.

And we will become undeniable.

(audience applauds)

Thank you.

(audience applauds)

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