the thing with Mamdani is that he’s obviously an incredible political talent - the campaign he’s run has been extremely impressive even if you don’t like his policies
the party should be delighted, and that they’re instead pulling out all the stops to beat him speaks volumes
the party should be delighted, and that they’re instead pulling out all the stops to beat him speaks volumes
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Really, eff the DNC. So bought & paid for by AIPAC.
The moneyed old-boy network is clearly in the bag for Cuomo.
But they couldn't even handle a little heat from him yet they think they can beat trump?
https://resistanceradio.substack.com/p/dear-democrats-1
#Neoliberals are #Evil
Maybe Mamdani isn't the right guy, but we need people campaigning and governing the way he campaigns.
Tells you where the true opposition is
If we voted in Primaries, like Tea Party did, we could reshape the party.
I realize that's probably what you meant, but worth qualifying. Win or lose his whole thing has done -amazing- work, and deserves tons of praise!
#DontRankCuomo #FightTheOligarchy
And speaks volumes to what?
https://bsky.app/profile/rincewind.run/post/3ls7qthzagk2c
They have absolutely no interest in appealing to them with policies Gen Z like.
Any new face with new ideas gets squashed in their stupid seniority system.
I hear how congressional dems are frustrated they cannot make progress because their colleges ignore them.
Same for us on the progressive left. Sucks, no?
The DNC is a centrist machine that needs to be rewired to actually start working again instead of being stuck on Baby Steps and Capitulate modes.
Then they wonder why folks don't vote.
Pelosi Schumer Cuomo Clintons Clyburn Biden etc, etc. They did their part in allowing this current fascist nightmare to drown the USA.
Policies focus on:
Affordability
Free public services like buses and childcare
Create 200,000 units of rent-stabilized housing
Higher taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations to fund these initiatives
Emphasizing community-based approach to public safety.
But while he’d likely win in a landslide in a standard FPTP election, there’s a very real chance he might lose thanks to ranked choice
In ranked choice, it’s at least close enough that the establishment dems are worried enough that they need to throw massive donations and endorsements in at the 11th hour
He's like a Madison Avenue genius. He's like a 1990's Volkswagen ad, up against a sign spinner in a badly fitting tailcoat jacket.
The failure to repudiate Cuomo by Jeffries et al is deafening, a lot of local electeds have endorsed him, too
The worst state Democratic Party in the United States, in spite of having champs like AOC and Mamdani
If my entire social media bubble loves him and he loses, that must mean the Dems cheated…
People really do not get that their interweb world isn’t real.
That includes Jeffries, Pelosi, Schumer, Obama, Biden, the Clintons, etc
Mind you, I don’t know which way the causality points….
Bill’s been out of power for a quarter century. There’s also the mutual sex pest thing,
(Plus some random outliers and weirdos, of course. Like Paperboy.)
So they refuse to vote for ppl bc they didn’t do something they actually did do two years ago, but the podfuq didn’t tell them about it so they’re pissed.
(We also have a whole slate of viable candidates here, this race is not just “Mamdani VS Cuomo” - there is a range)
(I mean, if someone REALLY wants to go “outside the establishment,” there’s Paperboy Love Prince, who makes Mamdani look basic)
It's very insidious to use "The Dems" to refer exclusively to "The Bad Dems." It mischaracterizes the party and marginalizes the people who you (ostensibly) think should define it.
This is a good way of putting it! (Not mad at OP here, there's just a thread of the discourse that does this a lot and it frustrates me.)
I certainly agree that Cuomo ain't confronting fascism.
"It appears that the Democratic Party has for a long time, existed as a coalition between liberal and conservative wings"—me, Jan 2010
All the Democratic party leadership can think about seems to be their donors, not their voters.
What’s been neat about this race is how Mamdani, Lander, and a few others have been teaming up and boosting each other while also running against each other.
So the party is now split: “The Cuomo Gang” vs “The Progressive Gang”
Like I legit thought you were gonna backtrack after realizing what you said.
That's fucked up.
It's really weird you don't think so, *really* weird.
And that's assuming the serial sexual harasser isn't someone with Cuomo's record of corruption and antisemitism
If I'm honest, for you to say this comes off passionately anti-historical.
Consolidating and insulating power over norms of discourse is how Dems formed
You think it's impossible that both, rather than one, of the main parties of the propaganda and war country that did multiple concentration camps could be corrupt?
Okay. You're allowed to be naive.
“The Party” is famously not a monolith!
They all do whatever they want!
One of them even campaigns in clown makeup!
We got healthcare.
🤨
Democrats can't resist attacking their future in order to protect their past.
"I will unscramble all the eggs the maniac chef has already smashed" doesn't work. Describe what you're going to make with the cracked eggs and how fast you plan to lock up the maniac.
I am not ranking Mamdani, but it doesn’t make Cuomo any less of a fucking criminal.
Donors, not voters. #DNC @democrats.org
Billionaires, bigots, boobs, and berks. #GOP
This gives the Republican Party more power.
(Obama getting on board as part of making peace with that crowd certainly didn’t help)
Among other things, I am an election lawyer and have been politically active since I was 9. Dude knew that, of course (at least, he knew the election lawyer part), but couldn't help himself.
And guess where she's been on the Andrew Cuomo issue the past 4 years?
These people are bizarre.
See, for example: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/dec/28/johnmccain.uselections2008
It's stupid because "being an edgelord" and "propping up the agenda of milquetoast octogenarian establishment neoliberals" isn't a thing that can happen.
And now they’re being replaced by / changing into / always were Trump nutters and that’s the criterion to win a primary.
I mainly remember him because Dave Barry pointed out that "Paul E. Tsongas" was an anagram for both GASEOUS PLANT
*and* GET NASAL SOUP
The continuous beef
Mamdani is credibly accused of antisemitism even though he denies it. We do not need his baggage.
His mother, btw, is the great filmmaker Mira Nair.
don’t even bother
Credibly a bigot
They prefer a puppet, Cuomo.
Mamdani needs to win.
Screw #Oligarchy
New York, make the break.
Congrats, establishment Dems, you're enabling fascism and more people like Trump and his Cabinet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandicota
*although subservience to big donors didn’t begin there!
Poor New Yorkers
Stupid autocorrect
At least it wasn’t mandamiento again