The corporate Dems will unite behind closed doors with the Replutocrats and they will still lose. The Reich Wing is already planning national campaign lies to use against Mamdani & NYC.
you're really putting it all together here, and certainly going to be an uphill battle. Ackman was joined by doordash and other corps when they got all Cuomotional™️. These weird political 'thinktanks' are just banks. funding their own future, not mine nor yours, nor many businesses either. Fascism
Insane like "it's fine we wealthy should be the only set able to afford rent" insane? Or insane like "if the market wont put a grocery where needed we'll put in a city coop" insane...bc i definitely will prefer the latter
In 1972, IRS Rev. Ruling 72-513 held that a student newspaper receiving funding & resources from an educational institution doesn't endanger the institution’s tax-exempt status by endorsing a candidate. A revenue ruling is an opinion released by the IRS that can be used as precedent by taxpayers.
How the fuck does an endorsement breach it's non-profit status? He doesn't even seem to be implying that money changed hands, just the endorsement itself.
If Shai Davidai wants colleges to be a partisan-free space from education, I assume he's starting that by resigning his assistant professorship and calling for a permanent reinstatement of his campus suspension.
Oh GOD why is he still around??? I could go the rest of my life without hearing that sniveling little shit's name and it still wouldn't be enough respite to recover.
Eric Adams is an indicted criminal who was caught red-handed by the FBI. He would be well on his way to jail if not for the charity of the t***p regime.
It’s rich for him to label anyone else a “snake-oil salesman”.
Can I just say that as a Scot seeing Humza Yousef referred to as an Islamist is fucking mental? He's anything but! He was First Minister when they pushed through self ID for trans people, which was blocked by Westminster
Sure, Mr. "I'd sell the tits of my daughter & your health for a kebab and a one-way ticket to Istanbul" calls the winning dem candidate for his post corrupt and a fraud.
The Sin of Wrath is insufficient to describe the anger at seeing Eric Adam’s have the absolute gall to imply that another politician could be more corrupt than he is
He should try talking when Trump doesn’t have his foreskin in a stranglehold
summers is right, this is demonstrating that democrats have exactly the same problem as the labor party in the UK: as soon as anyone remotely left gets anywhere near levers of power they have a screaming meltdown, screech 'antisemitism' and blow up the whole party to get rid of them.
"The most problematic aspects of Britain's Labor Party." Firstly it's Labour. Secondly the most problematic aspects of our Labour party right now is trying to be a Reform tribute act attacking all the worst off people.
3/3 (sorry)
Harvard is showing moral strength, not witness, in standing up to the t***p regime.
Summers insinuates that antisemitic rhetoric somehow contributed to ZKM’s victory…or something like that…which is bull.
He ought to switch to GOP and start a show on Fox. Most Dems wouldn’t miss him 👋
Lawrence H. Summers: "I fear it is evidence that our party is following the most problematic aspects of Britain's Labor [sic] Party."
Projection. The Labour Party is doing exactly what Democratic strategists would suggest, and it has been terrible. New York is rejecting that failed approach.
He is right about one thing, although the way he worded it is wrong: the student protesters DID shift the consciousness of many Americans, and the majority of Dem voters do not support Israel’s genocide campaign against Palestine. Crazy that he sees that as a dangerous immoral shift.
Idk...tbh i think Netanyahu and the grotesque crossing over every pretend line he had, made it so even ppl loathing the actions of Oct 7 (like say, the family of those kidnapped) can see this is clear murder and starvation of largely children. Netanyahu punished ppl by making lies of fair defense.
I am really proud of the young people speaking up. I am glad it motivated fellow young people. I don't think it's what moved the needle for the rest of the public, i think continual murder did that.
They wish he'd actually said "globalize the intifada" so so bad instead of:
"antisemitism is a real issue... that has to be the focus of the next administration, not just talking about it but tackling it... I'm less comfortable banning certain words... it's more evocative of a Trump-style approach"
I love how all these rich cosseted fucks have absolutely no respect for the will of the voters. It’s like they don’t even exist.
Prediction: rallying around Adams will blow up in their face even worse than with Cuomo. They have no idea how much they’re pissing off rank and file liberals.
This is literally the opposite of following Britain’s Labour Party. Labour purged anyone left of Mussolini, and is trying to out-right wing the far right, & leaning into the most extreme anti-trans, anti-immigrant and anti-disabled sentiments
Given the Overton window is just left of literal Hitler and is as narrow as Cameron Frye's ass crack it could use a little movement in the correct direction.
it’s wild that the center right always needs to be mollified, but everyone else has to eat shit and fall in line. why should mamdani trim his sails vs. the center/right expanding their minds?
I love that theyre scaring themselves shitless because they refuse to learn anything about other cultures or languages. No wonder you're racist, you've invented phantoms to haunt you 24x7.
I get why it's triggering for some folks when it's phrased as 'intifada', but it's not like he ever used the phrase. He was just trying to give a context that many of us don't have. It wasn't a campaign promise or anything!
This country was founded on religious tolerance. We do not have a state religion. Pilgrims came here to escape religious persecution. These bigots need a history lesson, I wish Democrats were capable of articulating how wrong these fascists are.
Just inject this directly into my veins. He just spent a ton of money to find out no amount can guarantee you an election win in America and I love that for him.
"I destroy the planet at an accelerated rate just for fun. Now that somebody has dared to oppose me, I'm going to try to get some assistance from the moribund justice system that I have evaded and paralyzed for years!"
The only things that excite your voters are "politically toxic"?
Is there a second definition of "politically toxic" that I'm not aware of? Because I could have sworn that things that excite voters are basically the opposite of "politically toxic". One might even call exciting voter good politics.
toxic among the donor class specifically. "if the Democratic Party takes these positions, we won't get donations from DuPont, Monsanto, Blackrock, and Peter Thiel!!! simply toxic among The People That Matter"
Mamdani’s positions excite voters but are politically toxic among the billionaire donor class. These guys are accustomed to elected officials delivering the opposite.
Thanks. Anonymous Democratic Strategist appears to think the billlionaire donor class is all that matters. But money doesn’t vote. If it did, then Hillary would have beaten t***p handily.
Are you being hard on them just because they have bad ideas, give bad advice, drain lots of $ from candidates, lose elections, and don’t learn from their mistakes? For the most part anonymously?
What I'd love to know is why the highbrow journalists at respected outlet Politico feel that the "Dem strategist" should be allowed to give a comment like this off the record when it's just them farting out an opinion.
Anyone identifying as a dem strategist should be taken out back and summarily shot and their organs donated to people who might actually do something useful.
Um, a rent freeze is just as legal as rent control, and way more temporary. Most of the "businesses" who will be affected are Pirate Equity companies/big banks. All of these folks set rent hikes together, using computerized arbitrage. It will be child's play to arrange to bail out small landlords.
"Dammit! Why do these Democratic candidates keep running on Democratic ideas. How are we supposed to keep our corporate overlords happy with policies that support the general population?"
--- Dem strategist
This is all you need to know that establishment Dems and their strategists don’t actually care about their base or about enacting policy people really want. Apparently that’s “bad policy” and “politically toxic”. Why don’t they just join the GOP?
i was thinking about that, i feel like a decent chunk of people vote democrat because they dont want to associate with the Walmart/Monster Truck Rally vote, but still want neocon policies.
To put a sharper point on things, my salary was paid in part by Arnold grant $ at two past jobs, they pretty much are the supreme leader of the CJ reform sector these days because many funders have abandoned ship entirely.
We elected a President who promised to end the Ukraine war on day one, bring food prices down immediately and deport 3 million people. Where has this guy been?
"gentlemen, the situation is dire. instead of making billions and billions of dollars, we now face the possibility of making only billions of dollars."
I'm slightly disappointed Mamdani isn't going to just Mao all the landlords now. A shame he has reasonable policies that will keep most wealth intact. Truly tragic. 😮💨
These fascists are shitting their fucking pants over people having more money to spend on the economy. Let this be start of the sacrificial tribute to the sun gods with these monsters first in line
(Carrie Bradshaw voice over): "As I thought about the primary I thought, 'what if socialism and capitalism aren't competing systems vying for world dominance, but complementary tools a society can use to build strongest, most stable and healthiest economy possible?'"
Dem operative James Carville thought he had finally retired. But right in the middle of a bowl of gumbo, he got the call. One last job. This time the stakes were higher than ever: NYC rental profits.
Everyone knew. Only Carville could pull together the team of rich guys (the real estate rich guys, entertainment rich guys, finance rich guys, and rich lawyers) and finally address, The Zohran Situation.
Yes my friend! Give me the shirt and also the hat, and a reusable grocery bag kind of jam. All made from recycled materials if possible please and thhhhhanks! We just spoke it into the universe and I am a decently powerful witch, I think I can maybe pull this off with vibe amplifying help!
I don't disagree that it would look better, but that might make the text less accessible (for instance to people using screen readers) and I think inclusivity is important
I'll bet you the Charging Bull's nutsack that all options, legal and criminal, are on the table. Capital will pay the world in its grave before it concedes the power to decide the future of human civilization, even if it means that global civilization collapses.
Hear me out, if you just give up your $3000/month bachelor apartment and live in a box for 19 years you can save enough to afford two parking spaces to pitch a tent in
meanwhile we gotta petition a city for 6 months and get 1 million signatures and still wait 5 years for them to repaint some parking spots with disability parking.
it's well-know, from their side, it's only democracy when they get to control the offering of candidates
having the people picking any regular Billy Bob not screened by the party could accidentally result in freedom
someone needs to remind politicians that serving the people is not bad policy or politically toxic, the government's job is to serve its people, not its corporations
We’re really learning everywhere that the good ol’ boy network (GOBN) is less-dead than we thought. Not saying it’s the same everywhere, but the GOBN is more pervasive than we should be comfortable with.
"But how will we exploit the masses to enrich ourselves to a degree of almost clownish obscenity if we can't fool them into putting our people in power?"
It would be a miracle if they can't simply stifle him within the vast money-stuffed recesses of the real estate/developer/finance/Albany/agency blob that has done for every mayor who deviated from a narrow scope of action since, I dunno, LaGuardia?
Zohran unironically should have a Patreon so we can all chip in for security for him, because I don't see a version of this that doesn't involve at least one fascist psycho trying to take him out.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for real, Mr. Mayor. We are concerned. We live in a (partially) wicked world. People WOULD donate to make sure you have top-notch security. Also -- obviously -- watch out for those cubes (🧊), we know they don't have reservations about attacking elected officials 😔
“Guys we might have to actually rent out some of our vacancies below our collusion rate, probably up to 10 percent. I’d caution you all to stop drinking while in the possession of firearms or windows above the 6th floor than can open.”
This fall’s election will be an existential crisis for the wealthy establishment. They gonna form a coalition of their own and come out guns blazing. We need to be ready for it.
i think the more that we work together and push behind better candidates, we can continue to do great work. there was really solid "don't rank cuomo" movements, and phone banking and canvassing plus messaging helped us sweep the wisconsin supreme court election out from under musk and trump.
People from all over the US are already committed to contributing to his campaign. I’m hearing people in other countries talk about helping fight the inevitable global smear.
Yeah my friend! I am with you in Memphis, TN! My Zeide has been taking me to see theater/comedy/art and to eat since I was a little girl! So much family there, it's my ❤️❤️❤️❤️ All of us with eyes to see are with NYC❣️❣️❣️❣️❣️💋💌🍾
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https://bsky.app/profile/justkelly.bsky.social/post/3lsghpmmku227
(also, "islamist"?!?!)
You’re telling me that no student newspaper has ever endorsed a political candidate before?
It’s rich for him to label anyone else a “snake-oil salesman”.
That he has the nerves tho ...
He should try talking when Trump doesn’t have his foreskin in a stranglehold
Socialism is the most problematic aspect of Britain's Labour Party
Sure, whatever
An election is not an “anointment”.
The DNC isn’t the Democratic Party or even the Democratic establishment.
Harvard is resisting the t***p regime by protecting its students free speech rights -
Summers, The Guy Who’s Always Wrong About Inflation, is wrong about many other things too.
Harvard is showing moral strength, not witness, in standing up to the t***p regime.
Summers insinuates that antisemitic rhetoric somehow contributed to ZKM’s victory…or something like that…which is bull.
He ought to switch to GOP and start a show on Fox. Most Dems wouldn’t miss him 👋
Projection. The Labour Party is doing exactly what Democratic strategists would suggest, and it has been terrible. New York is rejecting that failed approach.
https://www.youtube.com/live/f2MEOolNEyE
"antisemitism is a real issue... that has to be the focus of the next administration, not just talking about it but tackling it... I'm less comfortable banning certain words... it's more evocative of a Trump-style approach"
Prediction: rallying around Adams will blow up in their face even worse than with Cuomo. They have no idea how much they’re pissing off rank and file liberals.
He is not a spanner. He is the whole toolbag.
*Mamdani winning the primary
Brilliant strategist, that man
#fuckbillackman
I'm sensing a pattern here...
Women are people too!
Is there a second definition of "politically toxic" that I'm not aware of? Because I could have sworn that things that excite voters are basically the opposite of "politically toxic". One might even call exciting voter good politics.
(also, the party that does that unapologetically is currently running the country)
Have you noticed they’re nearly always quoted anonymously?
I agree that some more liberal policies will fail with establishment politicians standing in the way.
They’re missing that the plan is to get rid of all the deadweight establishment politicians. Cuomo was just the first
things that exist elsewhere
(I already know the answer to this.)
(It's also probably James Carville.)
Trump is old news, he's running out of ideas and tricks.
We need leaders with a bold vision for what comes next. We need to get to work on that.
--- Dem strategist
Classy.
Or fucking shatter it like the Whigs and start anew.
I wish it on these folks.
Their aged white knight got thrown from the horse?
Dem operative James Carville thought he had finally retired. But right in the middle of a bowl of gumbo, he got the call. One last job. This time the stakes were higher than ever: NYC rental profits.
firesale you fuckers
https://youtu.be/YflQRpuzR5Y?si=HwFJRDK1K8Dnm3D7
Joking not joking
having the people picking any regular Billy Bob not screened by the party could accidentally result in freedom
Larry Summers is upset and concerned? SQUEEEEE!
🤷🏽♀️😡
https://bsky.app/profile/adamparkhomenko.bsky.social/post/3lshbg7jpyc2x
If it is true- then it's a clear sign of a problem; more likely it's not true and it's just a random collection of rich guys
No? then they they can fuck off into the sun assbackwards
It would be a miracle if they can't simply stifle him within the vast money-stuffed recesses of the real estate/developer/finance/Albany/agency blob that has done for every mayor who deviated from a narrow scope of action since, I dunno, LaGuardia?
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
THE
ZOHRAN
SITUATION
…
🤭
(I’m so excited!)
OMFG!!!! 🤡🤡🤡😂🤣😅