It’s quite fascinating that, on the one hand they think everything he tries will fail and he won’t achieve any of the things he promised, and at the same time they also think his policies will destroy New York City and all the business will leave.
The enemy is both weak and strong
Well, in a general sense (meaning, to be extra clear, I am not referring to Mamdani specifically), “these ideas won’t accomplish what he intends” and “these ideas will mess everything up” are not mutually exclusive at all. They’re essentially the same sentiment, if you think about it.
I think the confusion is in the incorrect assumption that only the successful execution of a policy/idea/etc. can do the latter, but the same level of damage could easily happen in the course of an ultimately-failed attempt, as well.
That’s enough pedantry from me for now, though, lol.
If you’re going to be pedantic, you have to always reread for typos 😂
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Lol bet
They can stay in the Mississippian trailer park. Leave the rest of the country alone.
Sadly, they aren’t all old. The alt-right recruitment drive that’s been running for the last decade or so has borne a lot of fruit.
Yup.
Starting to think GenZ/Alpha aren’t going to save us. Not the men anyway. They’re buying into that dogshit hook, line, and sinker.
Millennials are the last generation to not be raised by an algorithm, and also seemingly the only generation that doesn’t get more conservative as they age, so I guess it’s up to us to save the planet.
Millennials are getting more conservative as they age, at least in the US. We thought this might be true during Trump’s first term when the age gap in voter behavior was so large, but millennials were delayed in reaching the wealth milestones like homeownership and to a lesser degree childbirth. We weren’t shut out entirely.
As millennials reach their peak earning power we will get more conservative still. The fact of the matter is that being poor shortens your life and being rich stunts your empathy. Individuals don’t change their politics much. As time passes the poor die off from the generational cohort and leave the rich conservative assholes.
Wealth concentration to the rich will push each succeeding generation left as a greater proportion of people are locked out of wealth accumulation, but that has a few generations to go before the limits and a tip into facism is always possible as we see right now.
Tbf, Gen Z just has a more “doomer” mindset, they don’t care anymore, they’d happily vote for a far-right, or even a socialist or a communist. I mean 60% of Americans have a positive view of Socialism. Its not really Gen Z being right wing, they are tired of the current system and is deparate for change, ANY change. So… lets hope they don’t choose change into the wrong direction.
I hope what we take most from this is that 2026, 2028 is NOT “too early” or “too high stakes” for an ACTUAL progressive campaign. The DNC has used that argument 3x with Trump and lost said elections twice (only winning 2020 because Trump bombed w/ Covid-19). I’m certain we’ll hear it again in the next two national elections.
Having a competent populist leftist politician is not a detraction. Quite the opposite. NO to Gruesome Newsom
If AoC wins the primary I’ll vote for her.
If Newsom wins the primary I’ll vote for him.
I’ll be donating to AoC’s campaign though.
That’s definitely the praxis here.
Just to be very clear, the DNC leadership is antagonistic to our (I assumed) shared goals.
The Democrats are obviously what needs to be supported in a 2 party system, so regardless of the DNC antics, the sacrifice for not choosing them will be more severe, and they know that.
I’m saying this all to say, absolutely support a progressive candidate if you can in the primaries, but when it comes election time, fall in line.
Also, there is a big problem where Mamdani is supremely clever and fast on his feet, having practiced every comeback a million times in the shower, ready to let them rip on command.
At the federal there is no one with that level of natural charisma or wit.
That’s something important to point out.
By any chance do you have a good link that explains all the terrible stuff Gavin has done? I know some of the stuff but my memory is not like it used to be and my wife was asking and I wanted to explain to her that even though he’s making some funny Trump jokes he’s a piece of crap himself
It would be next to impossible to find a video like the one you’re asking for without MAGA pollutants.
I can name off one thing, his partying with incredibly expensive wine and food at the height of the pandemic after the mask mandates. That was the big thing for me that convinced me he’s a differently colored snake.
I think the housing and homeless stuff would be worse. However I was not asking for a video. Definitely prefer not to be a video, actually.
Truth be told, I didn’t really know much about his homeless policies at the time. I was very much keeping my head buried as far as I could in whatever I could to avoid everything. This was just the piece of information that managed to reach me that made me think he’s not too good of a guy.
Because you’re right, how he’s ‘helped’ the homeless is absolutely worse.
No good link, but there definitely should be one at some point. That’s an idea to consider.
Here are some of Newsom’s worst decisions:
- CARE courts, violating the 14th amendment rights of all residents (not just the homeless)
- Pioneering destruction of homeless encampments, similar to Trump’s “Ending Crime and Disorder…” executive order
- Vetoing a passed bill to allow stockpiling HRT
Thank you
Fucked over the homeless in Cali, thrown trans people under the bus rhetorically.
He’s not wrong that he has signed a lot of legislation protecting trans Californians, but he’s been going into right wing talk show spaces and nodding soberly saying yeah, you have some good points about their moral panic about us.
The race was rigged! The people of Kentucky will not let this stand!
LMAO. TBH I don’t blame them [people in Kentucky confused the polls were closed] because 1 - civics education = no; 2 - the way the NYC election was covered, you’d think it was a national race.
“NEW YORK WILL BE DESTROYED JUST LIKE PORTLAND!!!”
Logs into all the public webcams in Portland and sees that everything is fine and, oh my, what a beautiful city.
Buys a plane ticket to Portland just in case the webcams were fake news. Oh yes, oh my, what a beautiful city.
I know it’s a tangent, but oregon has one of the best Webcam setups I’ve ever seen. Tripcheck
Wow. Thank you for sharing!
And our parks levy ballot measure just passed!
Unfortunately, it’s not just old or white people. Just look at the young GOP Nazi club or all the latinos that voted for Trump
or all the latinos that voted for Trump
It’s like fire voting for water. It’s honestly hard to wrap your mind around.
I don’t know how true this is.
I read recently that when Trump’s speeches have been translated for non-English speakers, they are wildly different than what he is actually saying.
And when bilinguals translate for them directly, they aren’t believed because the literal translation is pants on the head crazy.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
Having lived through 2008 and ‘Hope and Change’, I don’t expect much out of Mamdani. I’d love to be wrong about that.
Here’s hoping a democratic socialist turns out to be more progressive than your standard “not actually liberal” democrat.
I think it won’t be for lack of trying. He will be stymied at every turn by the city council, oligarchs, feds, etc.
The big mistake of 2008 was thinking electing Obama was sufficient. He’d go get it all done from there.
Doesn’t work that way. This is a marathon, not a sprint.
The big mistake was believing him at all.
He got plenty of it done, but his policies were oppressive and he fucking lied to us about it.
Yeah, I totally felt oppressed while Obama was president.
/s
Must not have had to pay a mortgage, or interact with cops, or be a brown person in the wrong country, or a kid in a cage, or stuck in a torture chamber in Gitmo, or use health care, etc. etc. etc.
It all happened. You just ignored it, same as with Genocide Joe.
Watch “Yes, Minister” for more background.
It’s ancient but it totally still applies.
You’re right. They all get absorbed by the corrupting blob.
You should see the racists from my shit hole county. In northeast Pennsylvania. Legit going out of their minds. And saying shit like their 20k a year income could ever afford them a life in NYC. Like sit down Tony. No one cares what you and your 41bmi has to say. Maybe take care of your health before you open your mouth.
What are the young racists doing right now?
Every 60 seconds in New York, a minute passes.
New Yokers with beards are just New Yorkers without beards with beards.
“I feel a disturbance in the billions”
They all said they’d leave if he won. I’m waiting for them to do just that.
Pass me that bottle of copium
Whats happening?
Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic Socialist candidate for mayor of New York City, won his race with more than 50% of the vote, even though every prominent right-wing personality including Trump and Musk endorsed his challenger, and millionaires and billionaires throughout the city and the country dumped truckloads of money on Cuomo’s head.
Don’t forget he’s the first Muslim mayor of New York, a city with more Jews than anywhere outside Tel Aviv!
Oh yeah. There’s tons of stuff about him that’s novel and impressive and will make MAGAs big mad.
The old guard Dem national leadership also refused to support Mamdani when he won the primary over Cuomo the sex pest. Fucking Schumer refused to endorse Mamdani.
Schumer (like so many DNC fossils) is bought by AIPAC. Isreal doesnt want US politicians that are critical of them.
But, perhaps simpler than that, I think Schumer would hate on Mamdani for free. I think Schumer is (even without money) a staunch Zionist, Islamophobe. Hes definitely anti-progressive and a firm corpo capitalist democrat. All his talk about strength and diversity is just lip service.
Yessss. Zohran congrats
“Ooh, I’m tellin’ Mama!”
Reruns are over now the fall season has started
I stream that shit but I have nothing against network television. We can never have enough of procedural crime dramas. /s
