NYC residents push back against Mamdani’s Communist takeover

0:00music On Tuesday, September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda terrorists, mostly from Saudi Arabia, hijacked four commercial jetliners and turned them into flying bombs. We don't hear that story in education any longer. Your children aren't being told the details. We went over this report the other day.

1:0166% of college professors that teach Middle Eastern studies say that their college students don't know who attacked America 9-11 and they don't know why we were attacked. But it was 19 al-Qaeda terrorists that hijacked four commercial jetliners, Islamic extremists, two of the hijacked planes slammed into the 110-story twin towers of the World Trade Center New York City. Americans watched their TV screens in horror as the two skyscrapers among the tallest in the world collapsed. Another plane hit the Pentagon and the fourth jet crashed in rural Pennsylvania. Nearly 3,000 people died in the attacks, including more than 400 firefighters, police officers,

2:07and emergency medical service workers who rushed towards the World Trade Center to help survivors before the buildings fell. Rushed into the fray, not out of it, not in retreat, but rushed into. Among the day's heroes were passengers on board United Flight 93, which had left new work international airport for San Francisco. That flight changed course toward Washington, DC, after four terrorists seized control the plane. Officers who began making frantic calls on their cell phones learned that other airliners had been hijacked, crashed, suicide missions. Realizing their captors must be headed towards a high profile target, a group of Flight 93 passengers resolved to stop them. Messenger Todd Beamer told an operator that he and a few others were going to jump the

3:09hijackers. The operator heard him say to somebody, are you ready guys? Let's roll. Moments later, Flight 93 went down in rural southwestern Pennsylvania. All aboard were killed. The hijackers target was probably the U.S. Capitol building or the White House. Congress and the president have designated today September 11th this Patriot Day. The flag should be flown at half staff today. Americans are asked to observe a moment of silence to honor the innocent victims who perished during the worst acts of terrorism ever carried out against the United States. And yet we have young people that are entering college this fall.

4:09On this 25th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks, the young people entering college who don't know why the attacks were perpetrated upon us and they don't know who attacked us. And that's a shame. And the only reason that that is is because the lens has changed. We are no longer educating students to look through the lens of life from the perspective of the victim. Instead we are told that the perpetrator, the villain in the story is misunderstood. So the villain in the story is he's not at fault. He's merely misunderstood.

5:12He or she. Mamdani has taken to the airwaves, has taken to video, has taken to press conferences and made statements in regard to the aftermath of 9-11. The effect that he's talked about relatives that the day is following 9-11 were afraid to where they're hijops on the subway. And that's who he references. I'm not saying his relatives were evil. I'm not saying that at all. I'm not saying that his relatives shouldn't be concerned. But that's not the focus here.

6:13The focus is the lives that were lost. That's the focus. Those are the people that matter. Today, on this day, those are the people that matter the most. Our culture cares more about understanding the villain than condemning evil. Stories once gave us moral clarity. Think about this. Traditionally, there was a hero, there was a villain, and the hero triumphed. Always triumphed over evil. And the stories we told gave us that moral clarity. But today, today we're getting the villains backstory and a culture sympathetic to evil. Think about it. We got the Joker movie and we got the Joker's backstory. We understand now why the Joker's evil.

7:14For all of Deville wasn't evil. She was just misunderstood. We got her story. Maleficent wasn't evil. She was betrayed. We got Maleficent's story. The Wicked Witch wasn't wicked. She was wounded. And of course, we got her backstory. We once admired the hero for their courage, for their honor, for their sacrifice. Now the hero is deconstructed and the villain, or the villain is the one who garners sympathy. Our culture explains the villain and questions the hero. That's the culture we're living. We no longer get the hero's backstory. It's now the villain's backstory. The villain becomes the victim while the hero becomes morally suspect. We seem uncomfortable with goodness. Virtue is portrayed as outdated.

8:17Conviction is portrayed as dangerous and morality is intolerant. We once condemned Deville. Now we excuse it and we call it empathy. Our kids don't need stories that explain human brokenness. They see human brokenness all around them. They need stories that inspire moral courage. Our kids need to know that good is worth choosing. Even when it's hard, even when it's difficult. It's worth choosing. And our kids need to know that good will always prevail in the end. Good will always triumph over evil. Good is always the victor. That's what our kids need to know. That's what our kids need to hear. Our kids need to hear why evil exists. Our kids need to know what evil perpetrated the attacks on 9-11-2001 and our kids need

9:21to know why. Why the attacks were perpetrated? Unfortunately, they don't because we're too busy. In the culture, that is more interested in helping the villain. In understanding that the villain just needs to be understood, that's all. We need to be sympathetic to what brought the villain here. Oh, yeah, it's interesting. It's an interesting story of what brought the villain to the villain's place of action. Oh, it's very interesting. But it shouldn't garner our sympathy. It shouldn't claim our sympathy.

10:22This should make us want to stop the villain and it should make us want to punish the villain. This is why we have laws. Laws that are just, laws that are wholesome and laws that are necessary for the public good. This is why we have a constitution. This is why in this country, we operate under the rule of law. And everybody knows what the law is, everybody knows what the consequences of breaking the law become. And therefore, we are a society that operates under laws. And this is how our children should be raised. This is how our children should be trained. This is how they should be educated. And Connecticut, I saw this news report the other day in Connecticut, a city council,

11:29mid-sized city in Connecticut sparked anger from the Trump administration after it's city council decided to let potentially violent illegal aliens serve as cops. Did you see this story? I didn't read the story. I just saw the headline. I don't even know the name of the city. I just saw the headline that the Trump admin responded to this small mid-city in Connecticut after the city council overwhelmingly voted to allow illegal aliens to serve as police officers. The word illegal describes that one is breaking the law. So it means doing something that goes against the legality of our culture. We have laws for a reason. And would you want someone who's breaking the law to be an officer of that law, operating

12:32in the peace that the law is to bring? Is this an oxymoron or is this just moronic? It's a little bit of both, probably a lot of the latter. You cannot have an illegal alien. I'm sorry, you cannot have an illegal alien operating as an officer of the law. It is, it doesn't make sense, my friends. You know it. I know it. Why doesn't this city council here in Connecticut? Why don't they know it? Why don't they understand it? Why are they completely clueless? We are a nation of laws. And we have those laws for a reason. And this is how our young people need to be educated.

13:34They need to be educated that we should love and fear our laws, that we should love and respect them. And we should love and respect the heroes who defend them. Not the villains who break them. This isn't about the villains who break the law. This is about the heroes who defend it. The New York Police Department, the commissioner there, Jessica Tish. She, in a speech the other day, she demanded some moral clarity on 9-11. And there's mom Donnie right there at her side while she is demanding moral clarity. I want to play a clip from her speech because I think we all need to hear it. I think our young people need to hear it. The words that she said right there in the presence of the mayor.

14:36I mean, this is important. Roll the clip. The scale of the loss and the devastation that day was unfathomable and so too was the heroism that we witnessed in response. Preserving that history also means preserving its moral clarity. The men who attacked the city were terrorists. The men and women who ran into the towers to save innocent lives were heroes. 25 years cannot be allowed to blur that distinction and shame on those who do. The courage we remember from September 11th was not confined to a single morning. It was there in the members who moved toward the World Trade Center while thousands of people were desperately trying to escape. It remained in those who returned to ground zero afterward even while they were grieving friends and colleagues of their own. They kept working while families waited for answers and a devastated city depended on them.

15:36That service came at a terrible cost. And today these names ask something of us in return. They ask us to remember these men and women is more than names or numbers from one of the darkest chapters in our city's history. To preserve who they were and the extraordinary standard of service they left to those who followed them. Moral clarity. We need some moral clarity on the subject. And we can get moral clarity by calling the heroes who they are. The brave men and women of the New York City Fire Department and police department. In the medical teams, the first responders that rushed into and around ground zero. Those are the heroes and that's moral clarity. And also issuing and describing and giving moral clarity. We have to call out the villains.

16:38Speak to the villains and declare the villains so people know who the villains are. The villains that day were evil radical Islamic terrorists. This doesn't mean that every member of Islam is an evil terrorists. But those men who attacked that day were radical, radicalized by this version, this evil version that calls for death to America. Those villains need to be called out, not sympathized with, not understood, not placated to not held in a steam, but called out. That's moral clarity. And moral clarity is severely lacking.

17:42Soverearly lacking. We care more about the villain than condemning evil. And really the stories that Hollywood has given us over the past, I don't know, decade began this. We had to get the backstory on the Joker. We had to get the backstory on Maleficent. Why was she so evil and why did she? You know, it's not about sleeping beauty anymore. It's about Maleficent. It's about the evils of Maleficent. Well, what made the wicked witch of the East so wicked? What made Koele Deville so so evil? We have to understand the villain. My friends, we don't. We don't have to understand the villain. An evil clarity demands that we understand the hero. And why the hero does what the hero does and why the hero rises to fight.

18:46When others cower away, when others cower in fear, the hero does not. The hero rises to the challenge. The hero faces the challenge head on. Looks at straight in the eye and offers a challenge of its own. Do your worst because I'm going to do mine. And we're going to go around and we're going to go around. And the hero has the attitude that he might, he or she might die in the process. But they're going to, they're, they're, they're last breath. They're going to fight it out. That my friend, that's moral clarity. And that's the story that, that we should be telling on this 25th anniversary of 9-11. Your heart is the most crucial muscle in your body. Are you doing enough to keep it strong?

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22:59All right. So what else is happening today? What else is going on in the world today? Well, let's pay a visit to the communists in New York City. Can you believe that we're celebrating 25? I mean, we're not really celebrating, but we're honoring the 25th anniversary of 9-11. And the city that received the onslaught of the attack, New York, has a communist mayor who just is going to do everything in his power to take this city to its knees. Okay, I'm looking at this piece here, this article here. And it's entitled New York will open city run supermarket down the street. And the grocery store says he can't compete. Wow, I don't even know that they meant for that to rhyme. That's poetic. Michelle Rafale Nunez just purchased new refrigeration display shelves for fresh produce.

24:03And the meat counter at his C-town supermarket in the South Bronx. His clean, orderly supermarket has been feeding the community for four decades. But that's about to come to a screeching halt. Because Nunez is concerned that he might not be able to pay back the loan he took out to buy the new shelves. Nunez is worried he will lose the business in which he has invested more than 40 years of his life. And does Nunez sound like a white man? Do you? Nunez does not sound like a white man. So where, you know, I'm Donnie and the other communists want to create a class warfare amongst the races. It's the evil white man. Nunez here and others are paying the price. You don't have to be white to pay the price.

25:05Everybody who lives in the realm of a communist dictator is going to be paying the price. Nunez is full service grocery store on the Southern Avenue. It's just four blocks from La Peninsula. La Peninsula is an old juvenile detention center where the New York City Economic Development Corporation plans to open its first of five city-owned grocery stores all in 2027. Of course, the city-owned grocery stores are part of Mayor Zoran Mam Donnie's plan to fight rising food prices. I mean, he's convinced everybody that food prices are rising. And we have to fight it. The only way to fight it and be victorious is through city-run grocery stores. Yes, because it's the city-run grocery stores that will offer a list of staple food items

26:06that 30% off. 30% off the going market rate. Although Nunez is really sure how the market price will be calculated. That's not been disclosed. That'll be interesting though. The city is searching for a private operator to run the store. All five stores. Neither the proposed site here in Manhattan, nor the site in the Bronx, would be considered a food desert according to this piece. So the city-owned stores will draw customers from local independent markets. The Bronx location at La Peninsola has at least three full-service supermarkets within half a mile of its planned location. Three. Nunez said that if he had known in advance the city would open a grocery store so close to him, he would not have made the investment. I feel extremely upset about what New York is doing, he said, because they are number

27:11one responsible for the reason that the prices in New York City are not lower for food and for the retail industry in general. Nunez said. So it's their fault. Nunez is claiming. And yet they're going to sweep in and they're going to plant themselves a grocery store with three other grocery stores within a mile. And they're going to undercut those three other grocery stores by 30 percent all because full prices are too high. We've got to bring them down. But in the process, in the process, they will destroy business in the community. They're going to destroy it. They're going to destroy Nunez's grocery store and the other two that are just down the road because that's what communism does. And as said, the city is portraying the situation as if groceries have a monopoly on prices. And the city has to step in to break it up by competing against them.

28:13Well, that's their thing. Or we're against monopolies. I mean, El Sayed keeps saying that I'm not a democratic socialist. I'm just against monopolies. And so these three groceries here in the Bronx have a monopoly. Are they in co-hoots? Is it one corporation that they don't understand the definition of a monopoly? Three small family-owned individual groceries do not represent a monopoly. And this is how the city's presenting it. This is how mom dining and the gang are presenting it. That there's a monopoly here in the city has to step in and break it up. Nunez said the city has failed to address one of the mental cost drivers for retailers, which contribute to higher consumer prices. He lists some, for example, high real estate taxes.

29:16The real estate taxes are through the roof in the city of New York. And you think mom, Donnie could bring those down. If he brought those down, don't you think that retailers and grocers would be in a position then to lower their prices? High energy costs. He lists high insurance. He lists. He said instead of having the tools to go after those problems, they come after me. That's what Nunez said. They're coming after me. He said New York is an extremely competitive market. He displayed his weekly promotional coupons here in this article with the Epoch Times. He pointed out items marked down so low that he said he would make no profit and recover only his costs. That includes items such as two and a half gallon jug of mazola corn oil, which he sells for $2,99.

30:17One per family, as long as a shop spends another $25 at the store. And if you're going to sell stuff at wholesale, you're not going to be in business for very long. You've got to make a profit. But mom Donnie doesn't want you to make a profit. He wants to put you out of business because he's a communist. Nunez opened his store in 1984 after Bronx grocery store chain Fedco went bankrupt. Nunez said he saw him need in the community and he decided he would work to meet it. How can I imagine in my life that New York City is one day going to try to compete against my business? He said, well, this is unimaginable. You couldn't expect you to imagine that. You would have never dreamed that New York City would be controlled by by communists.

31:17And that nobody dreamed that. On the 25th anniversary here honoring 9-11 and to think that the mayor of the city is a blooming communist just 25 years later. Nunez is on the board of directors of the National Supermarket Association. It's a coalition of independent grocers who lobby for the interest of independent store operators. Of course, mom Donnie would say it's a monopoly. They've got him a monopoly. The organization is critical of mom Donnie's approach and has met with the mayor and his team to recommend alternative ways to reduce food prices across the city. Well, yeah, you can offer alternatives, but the mayor is not interested in your alternatives. He's not going to hear it because his goal is not to reduce food prices across the city. That's not his goal. His goal is to have the city own the grocery stores.

32:24His goal is to have the city own the food prices. He's a communist. His goal is to have the government run their production. Not the individual people that they don't matter. They're going to own nothing and they're going to like it. That's his goal. And you're approaching this all wrong. They're all approaching this wrong. They've got to understand what the goal of the communist is. It's not to reduce food prices. So giving him alternatives is not the answer. You want to know what the answer is? The answer is a recall. That's the answer. The answer is recall the communist and get somebody in there who's a capitalist. That's the answer. Let's get a free market individual in there. Because that's the person who understands. Anthony Pena is president of the National Supermarket Association. He said he wishes the city would work with independent groceries rather than against them.

33:25Of course we all do, but they're communist. They're not going to. The epic times had a phone interview with Mr. Pena. And by the way, Pena does, does he sound like he's, you know, a, a, I mean, he might be a white man. I don't know, but Pena, Nunez, they, they sound a Latin to me, my friends. All right. So Pena said, if you want the people to save money on groceries, the first thing you should be doing is talking to the experts boots on the ground. And he's not because he doesn't want people to save money on groceries. That's not the goal. The goal is that he controls the groceries. He controls the grocery stores. And you guess what he's coming for next? He's coming for the retail stores. He's coming for the gas stations. He's coming for the liquor stores. He's coming for all of it. The movie theaters because ticket prices are too higher for the movie. So we're going to, I'm telling you.

34:28Pena said the mayor's plan will help only a few neighborhoods. Rather than all New Yorkers, it's not even going to help a few neighborhoods. In the end, it's going to destroy all neighborhoods. Pena said he wishes the city would support independent groceries and help them find ways to lower the end. They're not going to do it. The National Supermarket Association proposed a plan to the mayor's office, but Pena said the independent groceries could only agree to hold static prices on fresh, perishable food items for 15 days. If they held them longer in prices rose over those 30 days, they could lose a lot of money on an item by the end of the month. But the economy is doing understand that. What Mamdani has called for a setting prices on a list of basics for 30 days. In a July 27th statement in Brooklyn, has he announced 30% discount to be offered at the

35:32city on store as Mamdani said, no exceptions, no gimmicks. The savings will last for the entire month. And then what happens at the end of the month? I'm just telling you what, New York City, they're in trouble. My friends, the mayor's approach here at a variety of press conferences, press events has been to make it clear that his aim is to stabilize prices for low-income families and seniors in order to reduce food insecurity. Listen to this direct quote here from the mayor. We are not looking to compete with grocery stores when it comes to their ability to survive. What we're looking to do is to provide affordability that is guaranteed to New Yorkers. All right, so the language here is important.

36:35We got to pay attention to what they're saying. We are not looking, he says, to compete with grocery stores. We're not looking to do this. I mean, it's regardless of the fact that we're actually competing with grocery stores. We're not looking to compete with grocery stores. We don't even know that's exactly what they're doing. They're competing with grocery stores and they know up. But they're not looking to compete with grocery stores when it comes to their ability to survive. So that makes it okay. It makes it all right. We're not looking to do this. But yet it's exactly what you're doing. What we're looking to do, he said, is to provide affordability that is guaranteed to New Yorkers. And yet they're not going to provide affordability that's guaranteed. Because eventually this scheme is going to fail. So what they're looking to do and what they're not looking to do is flip.

37:40Whatever they're not looking to do, they're doing it. And whatever they're looking to do, they're not doing it. And they say that the language is specific. I'm telling you, it's on purpose, we are not looking to compete. I mean, we are though competing that is. The mayor said the grocery market is big enough for the more than 1000 existing grocery stores in the five city groceries. Then if you've got 1000 existing grocery stores, what's the point? What are five grocery stores going to do? Are five city run grocery stores really going to reduce prices that much in the city? You've got 1000 grocery stores. Are five going to do it? Really truly? No, they're not.

38:40They're not going to put a dent in rising food costs. What they're going to do is debilitate the grocery store market. That's what they're intended to do. And that's what they're going to do. The city owned grocery stores, according to a mandami, are intended to be a novelty and a destination for people from other neighborhoods. Well, if they're intended to be a destination and a novelty, then you're going to hurt the 1000 existing grocery stores. You're going to hurt them if you want this to be a destination. You want people leaving other neighborhoods to come to your grocery store. And then you say we're not looking to compete with grocery stores. Ideally he says strengthening the neighborhood, including existing supermarkets because this is going to be a novelty and a destination.

39:43Some people say the novelty is going to wear off. I mean, it will, but to what extent and at what point will the damage already be done? No studies have been done to evaluate the impact on the local business community and they're not going to be done because the communists don't want to know what the impact is going to be on the local business community. So that's the gist of a lawsuit that's been filed. It was filed on August 24th by the multicultural business coalition. And I want to get into that lawsuit here on the other side of this break because some people are standing up. They're not just going to just just lay down and let let the communists run rough shot over them. Okay, let's pause here for this break. We'll dive into the lawsuit on the other side. I'm Doug Evans, author of the Sprout Book and I've devoted my life to helping people reconnect with food at its most alive stage, the Sprout.

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42:53This is a group representing roughly a thousand minority-owned delis, supermarkets, bedegas, and they argue that the mayor's plan to open city run grocery stores will drive them out of business rather than help their neighborhoods. They're arguing correctly, by the way. The Coalition filed a class action complaint in New York County Supreme Court on August 24th alleging anti-trust violations in predatory pricing. And a second suit filed the same day alleging that the city retaliated against members after they began organizing against the mayor's plans. The mayor's office wouldn't do that. They wouldn't retaliate. And why they're good communists? Not those evil communists, they're only the evil ones retaliate. They're the two suits marked one of the most direct legal challenges yet to one of mom

43:57Donnie's marquee policies. So here's the first complaint. It states that the defendant's municipal grocery stores deny the class members hundreds of grocers, many small grocers, it's denying them equal protection as they are not able to offer discounts that markedly depart from globalized commerce thereby violating New York City civil rights law. At the direct quote, the second suit states the following at the opening of the underlying municipal grocery stores is diametrically opposed to the city's longstanding reasons for refusing to allow Walmart to operate grocery stores in the city. At the fallout from allowing Walmart to operate deep discount business while bringing affordability, further enriching a multi-billion dollar business would eliminate an untold amount of opportunity

44:59for minority businesses and small businesses at large. Bum bum bum bum. Mom Donnie responded to the suits the same day they were filed. In August 24th news conference he said I'm confident in both the legality of this that will stand up court and the importance of delivering it. Hmm. Okay. Frank Garcia, the coalitions chairman and head of the New York State coalition of Hispanic Chambers of Commerce, said the mayor's confidence misses what's actually at stake for the coalition members. Here's what he told the epoch times. He said my grandfather opened up one of the first padegas in the late 1960s when East Harlem was burning. I'm proud to be following in his tradition because what Mayor Mom Donnie is doing is disgracing his memory. So inside the $70 million plan, what does it look like?

46:03Under the plan first unveiled last year. The city will spend $70 million to open five publicly owned grocery stores, one in each pearl, offering staples at prices roughly 30% below market rate. The stores won't sell beer cigarettes or lottery tickets and they'll be designed to keep prices lower rather than turn a profit. This is their, this is their realm. Their spin. Putting to mom Donnie the goal is to make food more affordable in neighborhoods with high poverty rates and limited access to full service supermarkets. As I mentioned earlier, the Bronx location is quote, an affordable housing complex at Huntspoint and it's expected to open in 27. And the East Harlem store will be located at the 9,000 square foot marketplace La Marquetta and is projected to open in 2029, according to city officials.

47:08Mom Donnie has repeatedly defended his initiative. He said I continue to be fully confident in both the legality and the importance of our initiative to deliver five city run grocery stores, one in each pearl to the people of our city. This was a statement made in July and here he noted that grocery prices in the city have climbed roughly 30% in recent years and that city hall could also ease regulations to help existing store owners in the meantime. Wonder if they did that. Garcia said the coalition tried repeatedly to meet with mom Donnie before filing suit without success and that the city moved ahead without ever conducting an economic impact study. He said why are they going against immigrant business owners who can't speak English and defend themselves. I don't see that the mayor is being fair.

48:10Mark Jaffee is general counsel to the multicultural business coalition and president of the Greater New York Chamber of Commerce. He told the epoch times that the city's plan goes further than officials have admitted. His direct quote is their plan is to eventually put every independent store owner out of business. If you're lucky maybe they'll give you a job. That's accurate because that's what communists are interested in doing. Putting everybody else out of business because the government needs to own it all and the government needs to run it all. When he pressed city officials for details and how the stores would actually be run he said he got no real answer. We asked what the business plan was he said. They told us we don't need a plan because the people we select will be responsible for coming up with the plan. I mean that must be nice.

49:11You don't need a plan just pick others and they'll come up with a plan. Jaffee also questioned whether a single store per burrow would even reach the people Mamdani said he wants to help. Who is this really going to serve you said by the time you get on the train it's been two hours traveling. You're paying more than you would have shopping at a neighborhood store. That's a fantastic point. Economists are divided in what the lawsuit and the underlying policy mean for the city's food supply chain. Christian Briggs, a political and economic analyst who has advised members of Congress argued that the plan fits a broader pattern of government expansion into private markets. This is a man may take over the food supply system. Briggs told epoch times comparing the initiative to nationalization efforts he attributed to past presidential administrations.

50:12He noted that grocery stores typically run on net margins of just four to five percent making a government subsidized competitor selling goods 30 percent below market what he called the beginning of the nationalization of the food chain supply system. He also predicted that despite the coalition's legal argument consumer behavior would ultimately favor the city run stores. Free is the most powerful word in the English language. He said like in the grocery plan to the long term trajectory of entitlement programs. The lawsuits are valid. They're justified. He said, but in the end you will not win over the word free because voters love free. Well, I mean, that's true. Voters love free, especially the uneducated among us. But it doesn't matter what the voters want or what the voters like. It's legality here.

51:14What's legal and what isn't legal? I mean, if the lawsuits are valid and if they're justified, where does legality fall in? A guyer is the owner of the little Mexico meat market and he said the math is simple and it's also unforgiving. The margin on a $10 stake helps cover the mortgage. Children's tuition, the rent and utilities, a city run competitor selling the same stake for $7 funded by taxpayers rather than sales. They don't have to make that math work. A guyer said that he can't afford it because he's using taxpayer money. We don't have any help. Loans have been made difficult to get. A guyer and her sisters have quietly begun discussing their plan B. And their plan B would be teaching or other careers or anything that doesn't mean losing

52:14more of what their father built before he died. And that loss follows her behind the register every day, she said, behind the same corner where her father used to stand. Is it fair for me to leave and start a new career, she asked? It's not a question she wants to answer. So she grew up, a guyer grew up among the pinatas hanging from the ceiling of the little Mexico meat market. This is the store her parents opened in New York City's El Barrio in 1997. Just three years after her father crossed the border from Mexico and he was 17 years old. So at the age of 20, newly in the country, three years, he opens the little Mexico meat market. And yes, he has two girls. She has a bachelor's degree in business management, which is a qualification she said her parents

53:21Oscar and Guadalupe insisted on. But even after getting her business management degree, she came back to work at the store anyway. She said, I wanted to come back to those three, those same three coolers of fresh cheese and cilantro and the same shelves of jalapenos and the same customers who still bring in their mail. So she can read it to them in English. The store survived the opening of a Costco just down the road. She said the store survived COVID-19 barely. Her father however didn't. He caught the virus and he died before he ever got to enjoy the retirement he had worked 28 years for. And now she and her sisters who run the shop together are bracing for what they see as the biggest threat yet. A city subsidized grocery store that can sell a $10 stake for seven bucks. Because unlike them, the city grocery store doesn't have to turn a profit.

54:26We're not scared of competition. She said we just want fair competition. We just want it to be fair. The city doesn't have to turn a profit. Well here's the thing. The city might not need to have to turn a profit. But eventually the city is going to run out of other people's money. Because they're already driving out the wealthy. They're already depleting their tax base. And running out of other people's money makes it extremely difficult to carry on business as normal. Makes it almost impossible. By the way, virtually impossible to carry on business as normal. Someone's got to tell the mayor that someone's going to have to inform the mayor and let him know that he's going to run out of other people's money.

55:31OPM, my friends, OPM is it's a real thing. And I don't know that the Communist understand it. I don't know that the Communist realize it. I don't know that the Communists can comprehend it. It's going to catch up to them. And eventually they're going to wake up. And I don't mean the Communists. I mean the people in New York City. It's happening. The rise are opening. Obviously this is a beautiful example of what the minority own growers and delis are doing here in the city. Not filing just one lawsuit, but filing two. We're going to keep our eyes on it. We got to pay attention to it. So we can watch to see how this is going to shape out. Are we going to continue being a constitutional republic? Or are we going to slowly divest from republicanism, from constitutionalism and dive into communism?

56:34Okay, my friends, keep up the good work out there. Encourage your friends and family to get on the Dean's List. Let's unite to renovate the age.