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To be fair though I did just read that some of the names at the top are Jake Sullivan, Neera Tanden, and some Third Way asshole, so while the idea of a cohesive policy compendium is a good one, I'm unsure the execution here will be good at all.
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I mean...given that nothing in it can be implemented till 2029, not sure why everyone here's so upset? Should they have called it Project July 1, 2025 or would that have made y'all upset that they weren't thinking about the next eight hours?
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idk, have you given some thought to being king of bluesky
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“I enabled this dude’s agenda right up until it became bad for me personally and my reelection prospects”
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NY Democrats could not suck more if they tried
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You weren’t there, man. You weren’t there.
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Right now the only thing the old guard seems to be fighting is any erosion of their power.
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Still posting through it, eh Senator? Get your head out of your ass. People hate you.
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Sounds like something Chris Cabin would do
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…what does this even mean? We got two people fighting the good fight so we should be fine with that?
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Same but for Shawshank Redemption?
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Hey Kirsten: why don’t you get your head out of your ass and endorse Zohran Mamdani already?
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Inaction is the enemy right now, and a great deal of older Democrats are guilty of it.
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Money can’t make a bad candidate good. It only makes good candidates better.
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I just hope their efforts are nothing but futile flailing.
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The drunk and the wax goblin
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Do you have any evidence of the Democratic Party--as an entity--trying to do this, or have you decided that "Ilhan got a primary challenger, must be part of a secret Dem plot to destroy her"?
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...which would imply a certain level of competence if that was their aim, yes? Which is it? Are they feckless and stupid, or evil, calculating and Machiavellian? Can't be both.
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Strictly speaking, spending money to primary your own elected officials is not something a member of the party committee should be doing. Hogg should have known that before trying to become part of the organization he was trying to dismantle.
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5) Chuck Schumer is too old and too decorum-poisoned for leadership in the current political climate. He should not be the Dems' Senate leader. However, this particular race is not the reason why. He was a good soldier. He got on board when Mamdani won the nomination.
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4) Cuomo did have a long list of endorsements, that is true--but if you look at the list, you will notice a couple things: one, that many of them are NY state-level officials, and two, the rest are old and irrelevant hacks (Clinton, Clyburn).
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3) While I don't disagree that there were powerful people trying to stop Mamdani, the idea that there was any kind of concerted effort by the national Democratic Party to hurt him is a wild-eyed conspiracy theory.
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2) Andrew Cuomo conceding the race genuinely surprised me. I was expecting him to hang on or declare an independent run.
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1) Zohran Mamdani is a fuckin dynamo. He took on an entrenched political machine in New York that was hell-bent on stopping him, and he beat them like a rented mule. Take note, dinosaurs--he was just the first of many.
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...you realize that no proof of this exists, right? There's absolutely no evidence to suggest any kind of conspiracy to this effect? And by the way, Schumer endorsed Mamdani, so...
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I mean, the saner explanation is "Bill Clinton is old friends with Andrew Cuomo because they're both gross sexpests, Jim Clyburn is a fucking dinosaur, and Cuomo assumed that their endorsements would be relevant in a campaign for mayor"
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...okay, so you think the DNC, led by Ken Martin, ordered Bill Clinton to endorse Andrew Cuomo, and they also ordered their "media allies" at the New York Times and Washington Post to write anti-Mamdani articles?
I think you need to touch grass.
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Except there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that it happened this time other than your feelings. "Trust me bro" is not a valid source.
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He fits, ergo he sits.
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Schumer endorsed Mamdani. The man's not fit for leadership, but it isn't because he didn't get on board here.
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I'm not conceding that at all. I'm asking you who it is you think is "ordering" Torres to speak. You don't think it's at all possible that because he's planning to run for Governor that he's trying to raise his profile? Nah, couldn't be that. Not sexy enough, right?
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LMAO even Schumer and Jeffries publicly endorsed Mamdani. What a fucking loser she is.
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See, there you go again! The nebulous "establishment". Who is the "establishment"? Cause right now, the "establishment" consists of Democratic leaders in DC and the party chair. Did any of them endorse Cuomo or shit-talk Mamdani?
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I'm not saying there haven't been occasions where top Democrats--lookin at you, Nancy Pelosi--have put their thumbs on the scale in races they should keep their noses out of, but seriously...can we stop, take a breath, and look at this objectively?
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Seriously, the paranoia at work here is just mind-blowing. Even when, after he won the primary, establishment figures actually DID line up behind Mamdani (Schumer, Jeffries et al.) y'all found fault with that too.
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Who is "the party" in this context? And who do you think is giving Torres marching orders?
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I'm looking at this list and it's a Who's Who of used-to-bes, a handful of Congressmen no one knows (except Clyburn), a couple of borough Presidents, and for some reason the chairman of the Puerto Rico Democratic Party.
If this, to you, is evidence of a vast conspiracy...
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You mean a nobody Congressman from New York that is an utter unknown to like 95% of Dem voters (probably including those in his own district)? Why do you need to maintain this narrative that the Democratic Party went all in on trying to destroy Mamdani? At worst, they were neutral.
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While I think Trump would not object to being installed for another term, the work involved in doing this would require him to have made friends in places where he doesn't have them.
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Let's...maybe put the brakes on that. Doing this would require a level of coordination and cooperation from a lot of people who either a) have no incentive to help Donald Trump or b) hate him, including several Dem swing state governors, Secretaries of State, and federal judges.
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Not in 2020 he didn’t.
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God, Rowling is just irredeemable garbage. She’s white trash who fell ass-backwards into money after probably stealing an idea from a better writer.
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The number of times he’s insisted that the nuclear sites in Iran were destroyed is pretty much a guarantee that we missed them entirely
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You seem angry about this made-up scenario; why is that
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Weren’t you just cheerleading the Iran strikes?
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Literally the only establishment figures that endorsed him were *checks notes* an 80-year-old South Carolina Congressman and a sexpest ex-President who hasn’t been relevant for decades
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It’s just really sad. They can’t even win without whining about it. They think Jim Clyburn and Bill Clinton are “the DNC”.
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Why do you think the Internet has to cater to your backwards bullshit and stupid ideas
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God, David Sirota is such a toxic POS. He and Briahna Joy Gray were a huge factor in why Sanders didn’t make common cause with Liz Warren in 2020.