Podbit · The Dan Bongino Show
When government freezes rent, landlords stop investing in buildings they can't profit from, supply shrinks, demand surges, and black markets emerge. Mamdani froze rent for 2 million New Yorkers. The predictable result is less housing, not more.
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The Chavelier segment combines policy critique with classic Alinsky-style rule application: make them live by their own rules. Chavelier ran on a platform of seizing the means of production, abolishing police, prisons, and borders — and unlike most socialist politicians, she appears to know exactly what those phrases mean. Bongino explains the term clearly for listeners: a family-owned calculator factory in Tuscaloosa is a means of production. Seize means to take it. No compensation. That is what she is proposing. Then comes the New York Post reveal: her father is a landlord renting his Miami condo for $1,750 a month. [1] — Dan Bongino "Socialist congressional candidate Avilia Chavelier calls to 'seize the means of production' — but the New York Post reported her father is …" 53:50 Bongino asks directly: is she planning to seize that means of production? Of course not. Just like Bernie, she is full of it. He calls her a fraud who has never held a real job but wants to control the economic lives of millions.
Socialist congressional candidate Avilia Chavelier calls to 'seize the means of production' — but the New York Post reported her father is a landlord charging $1,750 a month for his Miami condo. She's not seizing that particular means of production.
New York Post reported that socialist candidate Avilia Chavelier's father is a landlord who rents his Miami condo for $1,750 a month, undermining her 'seize the means of production' platform.
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