BONUS: Nithya for LA Mayor

OMFG Chapo is off the deep end! They had people on who said AOC is worse then MTG on Palestine (which is insane), and then they have someone on who's good on rent control but who is way worse than AOC on Palestine??

abstain from elections, organize the workers

You guys should have Aparna Raj on the show! She’s an actual DSA Cadre Candidate (as in spent years on the local steering committee and organizing tenants) and is running for city council in DC. From what I can tell she’s been very good on Palestine and distanced herself from the democrats as much as possible without running full third party (she did it for strategic reasons to block other candidates from winning the primaries or getting endorsements)

Lost me at 9/11 was not an inside job :(

We need Nithya !! Sandy fire doubled in size last night and the city has done nothing to address the corruption that left us all vulnerable.

Tapped out the second she complained about her opponent saying 9/11 was an inside job

I will do no further research on this candidate and vote for her!

This interview convinced me to vote for her. So much so I don’t feel the need to research her view on certain issues.

People shouldn't base their vote for mayor solely on their foreign policy opinion. That said, why doesn’t Nithya have any rizzz at all?

Did Chapo ever have Rae Huang on?

She would sound less annoying if she actually said something good. Oh well...

BLECH

Worst chapo guest since they had that active duty PR troop on the chris kyle ep. Sorry boys

9/11 wasnt not an inside job.

Honestly so disappointing. Lame ass episode.

This is almost as bad as the episodes where you glaze Graham Platner

why am i even hearing this person talk

Abundance-core dogshit

She did the onion "America introduces high-speed buses" bit, stop the train slander smh

This interview convinced me to vote for her. So much so I don't feel the need to research her views on certain issues. Thank you for helping me make my decision, Chapo! Please have more politicians on, and keep up the great work!

Yeah I’m out, have fun being lib zionists

Pretty crazy that the Zohran ep recently was just them ranting about Zohran, an actual antizionist, being forced by law to have to enforce a city council bill that was completely veto-proof and therefore something he has literally no control over — like they were just embarrassingly uninformed about the very basic nyc municipal political realities — and then having a LITERAL ZIONIST on. Just insane, so cringe, so stupid, they look like a bunch of dumbasses

why the fuck did you guys have this woman on????

Woefully rizzless opportunist

Miss me with this lib zio shit

It’s disappointing to see so little accountability on Gaza in this interview, especially from people who are usually willing to challenge politicians more directly. As a lifelong Angeleno and longtime listener, I find it difficult to reconcile the lack of scrutiny here — particularly given Nithiya Raman’s acceptance of money from Israel-aligned PACs during a genocide in Palestine. My family home was destroyed in the January 2025 fires, and it’s impossible for me to separate that destruction from the political rot and institutional failure that allowed the catastrophe to unfold. The mayor’s office and city leadership failed people here, and Los Angeles desperately needs new leadership if another disaster is to be prevented. If leaders in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the second-largest city in the richest country on earth could not protect their own residents from catastrophic destruction, what hope do Palestinians have under constant bombardment and blockade? You are usually the people willing to hold politicians to a higher standard. Why does that standard seem absent in this instance?

She knows how to win over the Chapo audience, glad she called out Pratt for thinking 9/11 was an inside job, that is exactly what we really want to hear right now. She seems good on housing, but fairly bland to untrustworthy on issues beyond that. To quote the great Denzel, "I said God help me"

Felix seems to have had a cryptic outburst about her Israel pandering on insta so maybe we'll get a real mea culpa next week. This was real F tier Chapo. FLUSSSSSH

Real low point guys

Im an LA voter & i couldnt sit through 4 minutes of her insincere corporate wordslop. Why did u agree to this?

Idk if it’s non-alignment between who books the show and will & Felix or just general shamelessness.. but the things said on the podcast and the steady stream of Dem party grunts as guests is not adding up

911 wa s an inside job ya bic

Tell us what you Will do, not what you Think you Would do

I don’t get it. This broad has no rizz… Karen Bass sucks. Spencer Pratt isn’t going to do diddly but he’s at least got some Rizz and talking the talk. How could LA not deliver ONE decent candidate. I thought there were wannabe actors all over. JeeeZ

I know literally nothing about this person or the LA mayoral race, and I came away from this interview wondering why the hell Chapo did this interview. Did someone pay yall to have her on or something?

Cmon Will

I would kill for chapo to stop having democratic politicians on. It makes no sense to me to spend the whole biden admin complaining about the ineffectiveness of the democratic party only to have on these "progressives" who are just the most blatant opportunists.

Name a more iconic duo than municipal elections and leftist infighting

This is the first Chapo episode in ten years that I stopped listening to after 5 minutes and never finished.

get the mayor of tel aviv on next

Bizarre to cite LA as an example of a city with a lack of nepotism,

yo this shit sucked overall the fuck was this

the public transit "big idea" blows, buses get caught in the same traffic patterns that cars do which make the driving calculus easier in favor of driving. if you dont want to expand subway then light rail or even resurrecting the old cable car systems would still be more cost effective than subways and actually add some convenience to taking public transit.

The synagogue West Bank land auctions happen in LA too. Will and Felix were bitterly deriding Zohran’s mayorship for failure to take action on this issue on the last episode and then they don’t even ask this mayoral candidate a single question about it? Pretty weak tbh.

Respectfully what purpose is this interview serving? Is this really gonna sway undecided LA listeners to vote Raman over Huang, or mobilize GOTV? I’d rather hear a candidate like this be pressed to their maximum left position and have an established public record of such promises/goals. I’m very suspicious of Raman campaigning on mostly the saying the terms “affordability” and “progressive” with scarce policy substance to back that up. And almost framing homelessness as an issue because it’s unpleasant to see homeless people rather than because homelessness itself is a devastation. The only policy goals Raman offered through the entire interview were - rezone to allow increased density - increase restrictions on converting properties to air bnbs - increase bus funding - increase infrastructure repair funding - enforce unenforced sanctuary city laws - negotiate a smaller contract with police union (separate from the police budget as a whole as far as I understand) - reform liability payments to make individual departments bear more of the cost And a lot of dead air to fill in the minutes in between. I’m left disappointed, befuddled, and agreeing with others’ criticisms.

yeah nah this ain't it✌🏾😭 y'all https://www.raeforla.com/volunteer/

even if she’s way more viable or possible, u gotta draw a line at a certain point. at the very least ask her about the grievances that a lot of leftists or even progressives have with her. yall should also have rae on

Hi all, I am going to be creepy. Any of you near Melbourne, Australia?

I’m getting whiplash from ya’lls criticism of Zohran last week and now platforming a Zionist this week without so much as a question about Israel. Wtf guys?

Not y’all soft endorsing a straight-up zionist yimby. and all her answers were ass too. at least zohran has some fucking juice, this lady’s the definition of sauceless. disappointing stuff

Would like to hear her stance on an effort to expand the city controller office. which would help with those issues with the budget and the fraud within the homeless service providers

Vote Rae Huang

Endorsing zionists now huh?

Hmm…not sure why y’all were haranguing Zohran for synagogue land sales and Raman gets a pass despite being much worse on the issues of I/P and upholding international law.

Made it 5 minutes and stopped. Her answer about homelessness was word salad

My Nithya

Write in Butch Ware!

Wait, she doesn’t think that 911 was an inside job?

Should've asked her why she's trying to keep LAPD's $3.6 billion dollar budget Shit put me to sleep. No rizz. The only votes she's getting will be yuppies and developers. But at least she'll succeed in torpedoing the real socialist running for Mayor

“Insurgent campaign” is such funny phrasing cause people on twitter are probably calling it that as well in a far less flattering way

Haven’t listened. Don’t know this woman. In this essay I will…

I ran a big portion of her field campaign in 2020, personally knocked thousands of doors, trained scores of volunteers and If I were still in LA I wouldn’t be supporting this candidacy. Such a disappointment

cannot be stressed enough that spencer pratt does not live in los angeles

So when's the actual episode for today?

LA muni politics makes me glad I live one of the two dozen reactionary beach towns on its periphery with a golden retriever as mayor

Generally I love the content you guys put out. This ain't it.

She is literally a Zionist wtf I thought y'all were pretty consistent with that topic in particular but this seems to say otherwise

I’m genuinely shocked Will didn’t ask a single question about Israel.

Shit makes me sad man LA is cooked if this is the best they got.

Wew lad

The phrase “Do the work” makes me homicidal

How about you actually do an interview with the true organizers out in Los Angeles that she is leaching off of? You’re ignoring a whole tenants union who fight landlords tooth and nail while she gets to shit on that by pushing for YIMBY.

If you think Zohran is bad, maybe check in on the history of this persons endorsements and past behavior when seeking endorsement from DSA. Come on Chapo. Take a look at what’s going on under the hood please. It’s literally your job.

“I’m something of a kingmaker…” Will nooo 😭

Would sooner slit my wrists than support a zionist opportunist like Nithya Raman but you do you

9/11 was an inside job tho…

Yeah, no.

Bruhs

Need to do a Colab with Stavy's world and Adam Friedland Show

Enshallah. Here's hoping for another W.

she’s definitely a politician lol

framing the transit discussion around buses and saying "well trains are expensive and just get held up in court, so we will add more buses" is just disappointing and seems to speak to a deeper hesitation to adopt a genuinely bold platform. rather than just cowing to the NIMBYs and their allied politicians by adding more shit to LA's roads, why don't we take a real stand for once and CHANGE SOMETHING. invest in shorter headways so the train makes more sense to use, invest in events that get people excited about the train and make more people realize it even exists, seize the momentum and build on it, anything but more fucking busses. jesus. it was a fucking dem (waxman) in the eighties who rammed a bill through at the FEDERAL LEVEL to stop the D line from tunneling in beverly hills and we're still doing this wimpy shit.

This is going to cause a Sino-Soviet split but between Hasan and Chapo

She's got zero rizz icl

she literally took an endorsement from Democrats for Israel tho…

lmao

PHILLY RESIDENTS VOTE CHRIS RABB ON MAY 19

Excellent work mr. chapo

She's hardly even a 'progressive' at this point. Tight relationships with Zionists. She's mostly gone over to the YIMBYs on housing. She is leading the effort to defund money for tenant programs because she buys into the narrative that the real estate transfer tax 'slows housing production.' She's a liberal technocrat at heart who flirted with the left because it was 2020 when she ran for office.

Zionist opportunist

How could they give Zohran so much shit the other day about Israel and then turn around and invite Raman on the show?? Haven't listened yet, so I hope there's some hard questions at the very least.

Quit her campaign when she got endorsed by democrats for Israel when running for re-election to city council last time around. She is an opportunist and definitely not DSA cadre in the same way as Zohran, you should still vote for her if you’re in LA tho, prevents a Bass vs Pratt nightmare scenario.

TGANK YOU. Rae is great but she's at like 3%

I think Chapo does a lot of great stuff, but I do think y’all’s discussions of ‘the Left’s engagement in electoral politics’ would be more sober and grounded with a touch more knowledge about, say, the parameters of these conversations inside DSA (and not just what the loudmouth DSA accounts on Twitter say) Ex: 1/ Raman is not endorsed by DSA-LA. And she has long operated in ways that has frustrated and exasperated DSA members (on issues like Israel-Palestine) in her chapter and across the whole organization. 2/ Prior to the campaign launching, many in DSA asked questions (and didn’t receive complete answers) about the exact sorts of pressures inherit to executive office Zohran is now dealing with, and responding to inadequately [i.e., with respect to the police]