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Episode 522 - "What's Right & What's Left?" (w/ Andre Easton)

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Bad Faith

Chapo, Bernie, Left, Leftism, Socialism, Socialist, Berniesanders, Comedy, Democrat, News, Politics

4.52.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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NY Rep. Ritchie Torres has a new challenger: Bronx-based teacher and member of the Party for Socialism & Liberation Andre Easton, who joins Bad Faith to talk about his decision to run outside of the Democratic Party and how Zohran's latest campaign moves -- such as retaining NYPD commissioner Jessica Tisch -- might illustrate the risks of running within the duopoly. Is it possible to be in solidarity with Palestinian liberation while allying with liberal Zionists? As Andre asks, is the left fighting to get a good guy elected in a bad system? Or are we fighting for a system that doesn't tolerate "bad guys" to exist within it? What does "success" look like to an outsider insurgent campaign, and how can a leftist like Andre compete without the public financing and rank choice voting dynamics that benefited Mamdani?

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Produced by Armand Aviram.

Theme by Nick Thorburn (@nickfromislands).

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I'm There's one good. There's one good, correct me, audience, I'm sorry, like, people can correct me and get mad at me if they want.

0:46.5

But I think there's one good Chinese restaurant in Washington, D.C.

0:50.6

It's a kind of a higher-in Chinese restaurant. And guess what it's called?

0:56.9

It might not be called like Great Wall?

0:58.5

What's it?

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No, no, it's called Astoria because it's like they know.

1:03.6

They know where the home of the good Chinese food is.

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The restaurant knows.

1:07.8

Wow, New York to the world.

1:09.7

Wow.

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Yep, yep. And they got like the subway tile, kind of blue and white subway tile font and everything like 100%. They did their research. Yeah. I hope you know that. Like you're never going to be able to get there without a line now because once people will see it, they're going to be like, oh yeah, I'm going to. And people are going to go, it are going to go viral. There's already a line. The pro tip, if you happen to me in DC and you want to go to Astoria, go basically when it opens at 5 p.m. I used to walk past it on my way home from the Rising Studios. And I like, so I had kind of a good barometer on when it would be busy and when it wouldn't be busy. And the key is basically going when it's open. Just pro tip. I'm shocked at the fact that it opens at 5 p.m. That is, wow. Yeah, look, why was it never closed, basically? It's a different role. I will say this also, though. I will say that

2:02.2

when I went away to, I miss New York, I love New York. I'm still, you hear it in my voice. I have

2:06.3

like a love-hate relationship with whether or not I should turn around and go back. But there was a time

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when I'm not living in New York and I'm visiting New York, I do get what people say about

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