Sexual predators helping and endorsing sexual predators…
So, an endorsement for Mamdani.
Like I’m gonna listen to a pedophile.
Did the pedo forget that New York hates his guts?
Top office in USA says we have no choice in our votes, 2025…
If the Federal Government is shut down, why are ICE and the Secret Service still going to work?
They get paid, of course.
they get paid, but they’d probably do it for free.
Haters gonna hate
Do the right thing, NY. Throw up them middle fingers, say fuck you fascists and vote that man in!!!
Predators of a feather flock together
Mamdani frightens them. Good.
Good, his endorsement will hopefully be the thing to put that old bag out to pasture
I don’t exactly have the polling data but I wonder what the expedected shift is from that. I assume the Republicans want to push Sliwas voters to Cuomo, but a Trump endorsement can also scare off democrats that may have been on the fence about Cuomo at a time when his approval is at it’s lowest.
This is like a negative endorsement do they have those? A subtraction? If Trump is telling you to vote for a guy, absolutely do not vote for the guy. He has no one but his own interests in mind.
Historically his endorsement results in a net negative for any candidate that he endorses.
Is it too early to talk about the effect on future elections of Trump’s endorsement being negative? R candidates in purple states starting to jump ship soon?
It something that’s been noted since his first term.
He tends to suck away the oxygen from the rest of the party. Republicans in primaries that he’s endorsed have lost. Then he switches endorsements to whomever won, and that candidate barely wins in a district that should have been an easy R win. Also, several state level GOP organizations are struggling for funds and are on the verge of bankruptcy. All the donor money is going to the Trump organization specifically, and he doesn’t share. That’s as close to literally sucking the oxygen away as you can get in politics.
In a very real way, the GOP is no longer a functioning party at all. The mechanisms of mutual support are not there, and that’s the nuts and bolts of what a political party in a democracy does. To succeed at the federal level, they must build the state level. They aren’t. They can’t, because they gave too much power to a self-absorbed idiot. Sauron put too much power in the One Ring, and now it’s a vulnerability.
It’s not just that they are undermining democracy. They have no way of functioning in a democracy.
It’s quite clear that they only way the GOP wins the midterms is cheating. They know it, we know it. For it to be anything else, Trump would have to behave like someone other than Trump.
“You have no choice.” Exactly the kind of choice Trump is working hard to ensure we all have.
One man one vote
If Trump says you should vote for someone thats an obvious sign they are comprimised and should be removed by force.
He’s gonna say the same thing about Newsom when he loses the presidential primary to a progressive.
Silver spoon neoliberals aren’t on our side, they never were, and they never will be.
Quick edit:
In a Truth Social post on Monday evening, Trump wrote, “If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home, (further deranged ramblings…)
His threat is he’d only pay the minimum taxes legally required…
People forget a billionaire tax in NYC taxes trump
Now is exactly the time for a truly progressive candidate. Taking money from AIPAC is a disqualifier.
I sure hope Newsom loses the primary. That dude is just a younger Joe Biden that writes catty tweets. It’s fun to read the tweets, but come on… We can all do better.
His policies suck but no ones pushing for a more progressive alternative, california would shift red, idk if yall live out here but plenty of ppl are still trump dickriders
but no ones pushing for a more progressive alternative
What?
The DNC chair has openly been saying he wants a presidential candidate like Mamdani…
Or are you saying no one is campaigning for a governorship a year away?
He doesn’t even write the tweets, it’s likely an intern
I do not understamd his threat. They have already suspended funding for things in New York before he has been elected.
Also how anyone can be just ok with the president threatening funding in a major city because he doesnt like the candidate is fucking insane. I would say the press should ask every republican in congrsss about this, but they will all say they havent heard or seen what he said and then it will be forgotten in a day.
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Newsom’s got some bad policy stances, namely his takes on trans rights, but he’s still a progressive. A more accurate comment would be to say “a more progressive candidate.”
“Silver spoon neoliberals” such as the Clintons, Obama, Biden, Newsom, Pelosi, etc are definitely on our side as long as you’re on the side that opposes Republicans, which is really the bottom line here: we need to get Republicans out and oppose them at every turn, and hopefully New York remembers that when they hear this Trump endorsement of now third party Cuomo.
he’s still a progressive
Newsom isn’t even a liberal, he’s just a sucking void of ambition. There’s no room for ideals or ethics. He’s a politician and only a politician.
Today it benefits him to troll trump on twitter so he does that. Tomorrow, if trump dies and miller offers newsom the presidency, he’d join the regime in a heartbeat.
If Newsom can make the whole of the USA in any way even slightly more like California is now, then great progress will have been achieved.
Newsom I’m is not a progressive.
His approach to homelessness and trans rights makes it clear. He is just another neolib grifter
Him and every other dem want to tax the rich, repeal citizens united, and give healthcare coverage to all. That’s progressive even if one of his fringe stances were to sacrifice a small third world child to the mountain god every month with a ritual dagger.
dem want to tax the rich, repeal citizens united, and give healthcare coverage to all.
That’s just not true though. At no point have dems taken concrete steps towards any of those goals.
Obamacare is the closest they’ve got to any of that and it was explicitly to prevent medicare for all.
Biden and the DNC did raise taxes on the rich with the “Build Back Better Bill” passed via reconciliation and funded the IRS with directions to audit the rich, which they did and actually made a large profit doing so. They also expanded Medicaid to the point that a record breaking number of people were covered as Biden left office.
The Republican tax bill from 2016 would have expired this year and at no point during have the DNC had more than 48 senators: repealing that, reversing citizens united, and giving healthcare coverage to all would require supermajority or at the very least a large enough majority to safely remove the filibuster.
You haven’t seen progress? How very astute of you! You’ve also never seen a clean DNC majority, and you’ve specifically ignored the small wins that did happen.
Newsom will take whatever political stance is most convenient to him at the moment
Cuomo would have been on your list of Dems that pretend to be progressive if Mamdani had not stepped in. Trump’s endorsement of the false progressive should tell you all you need to know about that crowd.
We’re not even at the primaries and here you are with the “yeah, he’s transphobic and would murder unsheltered people for spot if no one was looking, but YOU MUST VOTE NEWSOM IF YOU ARE NOT A REPUBLICAN.
Fuck Newsom and fuck the “blue no matter who” crowd that shits on actual progress.
Fuck Newsom and fuck the “blue no matter who” crowd that shits on actual progress.
I just want to say how grateful I am to have finally come full circle on this after being a voice in the wilderness for sooo long. Litterally Blue MAGA/ BNMW/ ABWD threw the election to fascists and then tried to blame the left. Its so heartening to finally not have to be the only one making this point and to watch it break through into the mainstream.
If it were Cuomo vs Sliwa I’d be 100% behind Cuomo. “Better than Republican” is the only qualifier for my support, and it’s a real fucking easy bar to clear.
But Cuomo thankfully lost the nomination and “a more progressive” candidate is the DNC instead.
You seem to actually really like the Republicans.
I don’t think you realize how politics works. You’re saying that you would not vote or vote 3rd party if there was a choice between hitler and newsom? You vote your conscience until the choice is made for you.
Before the primary, we have choices.
Oh. I just noticed who I was arguing with. Fuck off palespirit. You’re the worst kind of troll.
Oh. I just noticed who I was arguing with. Fuck off palespirit. You’re the worst kind of troll.
That’s a new way to deflect, lol. I don’t recognize your name.
So, an imaginary candidate is preferred over Newsom, imperfect as he is?
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Republicans don’t, which is why they’re in power.
Champion the overtly and successfully progressive when they’re available, and the less progressive to be better.
Here in the real world we need candidates who are electable.
Every cycle. Every fucking cycle. Before the primary: “We need someone ELECTABLE. Not someone good.” After the primary: “The time to have a problem with this racist, transphobic, corporate dick sucking bag of hateorade was BEFORE the primary. It’s your civic duty to vote for this blue piece of trash now!”
When the alternative is the republicans? Ya.
What’s our side here? You say that like I know. Like any of us know. But what side is that? Cuz you keep naming people that are on the corporate side. You mentioned Gavin Newsom being against trans rights and homeless people, but you left out the fact that he’s incredibly Pro corporate. And he’s been a thorn in the side of people trying to regulate corporate overreach. Particularly Tech corporations. He has shown himself hostile to labor. He has showed himself hostile to regulation. He has shown himself hostile to environmental regulations. He has shown himself to be Pro big business. So what side is he on and what side am I on is my question? Like all neoliberals he is an arch capitalist. I am decidedly not. So how the fuck is he on my side?
I would hope that we’re all on the side of “stop the endless pointless suffering” but apparently a lot of the people in this thread are very pro-rich and pro-authoritarian that they want to abstain from voting for DNC frontrunners if they win the primaries.
The saddest thing about this is I think you’re serious. I think you really think these people that have aligned themselves as the servants of the ultra wealthy have your interests at heart. That these people that believe in late stage capitalism are going to protect you from fascism. And that’s just crushingly depressing. Because somewhere in your mind you think capitalism and fascism are opposing ideologies. Whereas in reality one’s just the result of the other.
You are like the oysters walking along happily with the walrus and the carpenter.
How incredibly foolish that you’ve seen people draw water from the well for you but still insist the well is dry.
No buddy, neoliberals only draw water for their ultra wealthy friends. All while telling us that the water is gone. That’s why they’ve been dismantling all the public wells for the last 40 years. Open up your eyes and notice.
