Episode 571 - "Democrat on Democrat Violence" (w/ Jose Vega)
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Bad Faith
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
We've been interviewing candidates running against Ritchie Torres in NY's 15th district for about a year now, and today we've collected the final infinity stone in the set. Jose Vega is perhaps best known for viral videos in which he confronts politicians and journalists about their commitment to war and lack of ideological courage, but now he's running to unseat the House's most unabashed Zionist Representative from the Bronx. As the left considers the best strategy to unseat Torres, should they consider the young upstart who has no qualms being maximally adversarial to Democrats over the left-establisment pick Michael Blake, who we interviewed last week? Is running on the Democratic ballot line a strategic win given it granted him access to the debates? What did he make of some subtle antipathy from Blake during last week's interview, and what is he hearing from Bronx residents on the ground? Also, what's the deal with Lyndon Larouche?
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Produced by Armand Aviram.
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| 0:00.0 | We committed an act of war. |
| 0:01.6 | What are you doing to respond to that? |
| 0:03.7 | We have to hold Biden accountable. |
| 0:05.8 | Listen, you're from Brooklyn, right? |
| 0:07.3 | You know when to call bullshit when you see it. |
| 0:09.3 | So do I. |
| 0:10.3 | This is bullshit right now. |
| 0:12.2 | And I see what's happening right now. |
| 0:14.1 | That does not silence me. |
| 0:15.6 | You can hear me right now. |
| 0:17.0 | I want you to say something about the bombing. |
| 0:20.7 | Because we're all going to die from a nuclear war right now |
| 0:23.6 | unless you stop it and you at least put an inquire into whether or not it's true. |
| 0:29.6 | This war in Ukraine is going to leave us all dead. |
| 0:32.6 | So what are you going to do? Because you need to inquire. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm a New Yorker too. |
| 0:36.6 | Here's what I'm saying. Say it. We're going to continue to stand with the Ukrainian. |
| 0:40.0 | That's fucking bullshit! What a pleasure to have on Bad Faith Podcasts, |
| 1:11.6 | definitely not for the first time because we did do a live stream together about a year ago, maybe a little over a year ago now, |
| 1:18.6 | but on the main feed proper for the first time, Jose Vega, who of course is running against Richie Torres in the 15th district of New York. Welcome to Bad Faith. |
| 1:28.3 | Thank you for having me. This is great. This is good. Is this going to be a tough interview? |
| 1:32.3 | I can usually tell how your interviews go based on your thumbnail. Like if you're doing this in the thumbnail, if you upload this and your face is like this, I fucked up. That's it. Like, I'm calling it, you know. That's hilarious. Well, that's all |
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