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The War For The Soul Of Our Movement (Ep. 2546)
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Avilia Chavelier: Seize the Means of Production (Her Dad's Landlord)
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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.
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.
