"why didn't the establishment coalesce around Lander/Adrienne Adams/Myrie/Blake" is a very good question that's being asked a lot, with a very unpleasant answer - ThreadSky

primaryschool.bsky.social • 23 hours ago

"why didn't the establishment coalesce around Lander/Adrienne Adams/Myrie/Blake" is a very good question that's being asked a lot, with a very unpleasant answer

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as my brain's too fried to pull together even an abbreviated council preview I'm left just going back to the most important part of my mayoral preview: a reminder that the NYC and national Dem establishments WANT Cuomo BECAUSE of his disqualifying flaws, not just to stop Mamdani

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aussophia.bsky.social•21 hours ago

I’m sorry you had to endure NJT on a hot night in a state of severe dehydration but it did wonders for your prose (which is bloody good at the best of times) - blistering!

trimdog.bsky.social•22 hours ago

You might say NYC just loves bullies, from Trump to 50 Cent it’s a city that has produced some of the most ruthlessly mean spirited people in modern society and it’s proud of it

Prove me wrong NYC

kingoftheegayz.bsky.social•22 hours ago

But why? Is it a KPD-style "once they're done, it's our turn" kinda thing?

kaelik.bsky.social•22 hours ago

If it's legal to give and take bribes then the rich can give bribes and the powerful can take bribes so all the rich and powerful are thinking this goes well for them.

winterreisende.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I think it's an affective investment in impunity for rapists

publicuniversal.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Biiingo, plus a political culture that lets them keep trading favors

jafarvcf.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I thought they just picked him because he polled the highest.
But maybe Jeffrey Epstein associates would have backed the others as much as Cuomo

blodeuweddcrone.bsky.social•22 hours ago

📌

geisty.bsky.social•21 hours ago

@moiradonegan.bsky.social at @theguardian.com totally concurring with you: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/24/cuomo-trump-democrats-nyc-mayoral-race

primaryschool.bsky.social•23 hours ago

not all of the establishment tbf but the segments of the establishment that have broken for non-Cuomo candidates (most notably I'd say are Tish James and the Clarke family's operation in Brooklyn for Adrienne Adams) are outliers compared to silence-as-Cuomo endorsement or actual Cuomo endorsers

charlerk.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Today I leaned my congresswoman (I assume) has a family operation

primaryschool.bsky.social•22 hours ago

it's really run by her mother Una

primaryschool.bsky.social•23 hours ago

the bosses of the Brooklyn, Queens, and Harlem machines are openly backing him and the boss of the Bronx machine is doing one of the less convincing non-endorsements in a race full of unconvincing non-endorsements

dwilliamesq.bsky.social•21 hours ago

Brooklyn Dems send me emails talking about Cuomo the way Fox talks about Trump. It’s fucking deranged.

rev-avocado.bsky.social•22 hours ago

I think there is a real opportunity to build an alliance with the Clarke folks and use that to take out some of the Central Brooklyn ghouls.

rev-avocado.bsky.social•22 hours ago

They love Kevin Parker unfortunately but they hate Rodneyse with a burning passion.

winterreisende.bsky.social•22 hours ago

In discussion, people don't want to accept that, as a whole, they *like* it when politicians are corrupt, personalities, and sexual abusers. It is a selling point to Americans

winterreisende.bsky.social•22 hours ago

*personalistic

nickyphorus117.bsky.social•23 hours ago

I’m kinda shocked Lander and A. Adams didn’t get more establishment support. Especially Adams since she was specifically recruited for this, especially by the Black establishment

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