God, I’m glad that Cuomo didn’t win! But the Democratic establishment needs to really well and truly pull their heads out of their asses.
The future of Democrats ain’t looking promising, and they were the only ones who had a chance to beat Republicans.
“Abundance” refers to the ideas set out in the recent Ezra Klien/Derek Thompson book Abundance. Their argument is simple: To achieve progressive goals, Progressives need to stop their focus on process, checkboxed fairness, and the millions of other minutiae which convert a 2-year building process into a 10-year struggle of compliance, impact reports, zoning meetings, and more.
A lot of progressives do not like hearing the message that they are just as responsible as conservatives in stopping government-assisted progress, but as far as I’m concerned, the message is important… and true.
It’s a good book, rather short @ 200-pages or so, and worth the time it takes to read it.
Wtf?
As a Canadian I’m completely lost on what you, being very obviously not a Canadian, think is going on here with MAID.
The official Canadian position is : A man needs a maid.
…thats the subject for another thread. Feel free to start one.
Something that so many posters in here are failing to recognize:
If Democrats keep nominating pro-Hamas shitheads like Mamdani and AOC, they will lose millions of voters just like me. I, for one, will pick the most Trumpian right wing lunatic over these terrorism supporters every time.
If they nominate corrupt sexual abusers like Cuomo, they’ll lose a lot more votes, based on this election.
I would never support a pro-Hamas or pro terrorist politician, but thankfully AOC and Mamdani don’t remotely qualify. I’m sure Trump will try to spread lies like these, but hopefully those lies will fall flat.
I don’t think there are millions of voters who would vote for Democrats except that they massively misunderstand criticism of Netanyahu’s war.
The really crazy thing about Replacement Theory is that, duh, of course they’re being replaced. We all are. That’s how this whole “being mortal” thing works: We all die, and others replace us.
Mamdani is absolutely terrible with his “Globalize the Intifada” support - absolutely disqualifying, like if he supported “All Lives Matter” during BLM. AOC is not nearly as bad (and in fact far lefty types castigated her as a “Zionist” lately… You see a lot of “Zohran better not tolurn out like AOC” posts on BlueSky nowadays).
For example, AOC took a bunch of fire for this:
AOC: ‘Antisemitism is an assault on our values’ – The Forward AOC: ‘Antisemitism is an assault on our values’ – The Forward
And even an actual socialist like Mamdani is (slightly) better than MAGA.
This is Hamas’s war, not Netanyahu’s
Just to be clear: The slogan “Globalize the Intifada” means that people around the world should think that Palestine should be free of Israel, correct? Because that’s pretty weak, to make that out as “pro-Hamas”.
They’re on the same side of it. Both of them are on the side that wants war. The Palestinians and Israelis are the ones suffering, not Hamas nor Netanyahu.
I suspect most mayors are many levels removed from knowing how garbage collection actually works and that the key issue is whether they can pick good advisers and bureaucrats.
When the socialist Salvadore Allende was elected president of Chile, he stated clearly that even as president there was not a lot a socialist could do. The point is to do what can be done and provide hope and examples, try experiments, encourage people and arts, fight the right, and make sure the trash gets picked up. These are all worthwhile.
That vastly oversimplifies things, but talking about why is a move away from this thread. I don’t think that voters who oversimplify in this particular fashion but would otherwise vote for Democrats are all that common.
Just to be clear, the Intifadas were waves of violent terrorist attacks, and calls to globalize them are calls for terror against Jewish people across the world. The fact that some braindead people are duped into chanting the same slogan doesn’t make it any less violent or hateful - just as a backwater idiot who genuinely believes he is flying the Confederate flag to celebrate his southern heritage should be condemned.
But wait! It gets better! Maybe they mean to just replace Mamdani. /s
MAGA Republican groups are calling for the deportation of New York City Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani.
On Wednesday, the day after the 33-year-old democratic socialist handily secured his party’s nomination, the New York Young Republican Club, or NYYRC, took to X, begging Trump immigration advisers Stephen Miller and Tom Homan to revoke Mamdani’s U.S. citizenship and deport him.
Yikes. That’s disgusting, racist, and idiotic.
Mamdani’s flaws have nothing to do with his heritage.
Moderating:
This is off-topic, we have plenty of threads on this subject if you want to discuss the origins of the current stage of the conflict. Discussion of the candidate’s stance on the issue is pertinent, but let’s keep the focus on this specific election. If you want to have a general discussion on Democratic candidate’s opinions on the current conflict, you’re free to start your own thread.
This is just a guidance, not a warning. Nothing on your permanent record.
I like that Mamdani won. The party has gone way too far right. I don’t think becoming the gop of 80’s and 90"s is cutting it. We need to move forward as a party and a country.
miller is a creepy weirdo. He looks like a bond villan’s henchmen. Gives me the creeps.
The racist Fascists are calling Mamdani a Muslim Communist. He’s with the Democratic Socialists of America, which I am glad to be a member of too.