Andrew Cuomo, an elderly has-been, the lesser son of a greater sire, who as governor literally conspired with Republicans to hand them control of the New York state Senate for half a decade; who resigned from office in disgrace after he was credibly accused of 13 instances of sexual harassment; and whose campaign quite obviously had no purpose other than satisfying his own lust for accumulating personal power, along with that of his billionaire donors.
As the campaign progressed and Mamdani’s victory became ever more likely, Cuomo descended into vindictive gutter racism. He did not disagree with a right-wing radio host who said that Mamdani would be “cheering” another 9/11, suggested that Mamdani would have Muslim women “completely covered up,” and that he “doesn’t understand New York culture” because he’s a “citizen of Uganda.”
Cuomo happily took Donald Trump’s endorsement and went on Fox News to tout it. His closing campaign message, as The Nation’s Jeet Heer pointed out on Bluesky, smacked of Vidkun Quisling—implicitly threatening New Yorkers with a Trumpian occupation if they voted for anyone but Cuomo.
It was disgusting stuff. But it also was palpably desperate, and coming from one of the worst candidates imaginable…
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What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Musk’s Twitter/X and in various group chats. It’s why they got so worked up about Mamdani in the first place—the New York City mayoralty is not some omnipotent office, and there are a dozen ways to hem it in at the state and local level if they so wished. What these oligarchs spent to stop Mamdani feels like less on an annual basis than he wants them to pay for a better future for all New Yorkers, a joke Mamdani himself has made.
In any case, his slight tax increase on rich people, free buses, and city-run grocery stores are pretty far from a communist revolution. But that’s not how it appears to rich people, surrounded on all sides by yes-men and toadies, who spend several hours a day marinating in an online Nazi sewer.
Back in 1933, Robert Sterling Clark, one of the heirs to the Singer sewing machine fortune, was worth what would today be about $1 billion. He had no profession other than professional rich person: art collector, horse breeder, financier…
He famously said in the course of plotting a coup to overthrow FDR, “If I have to spend half my money to protect the other half, I’ll do it.” He meant spending half his money to finance a coup.
These useless scions of wealthy families really do think that the socialists are coming for all their money, either through taxation or unrestrained spending leading to inflation. They did absolutely nothing to deserve it in the first place, but they’ll commit treason to hoard it, if necessary.
But I bet if he was told he had to pay half his money as tax and the other half would absolutely be left alone, he would complain its a bad deal. Being rich is such a bizarre mind virus.
It makes more sense when you understand that billionaire is a mental disorder.
they’ll commit treason
And face no consequences.
It was disgusting stuff. But it also was palpably desperate, and coming from one of the worst candidates imaginable…
And yet 40% voted for him.
It also went up from earlier polls after the Trump endorsement, which helped minimize the impact of the actual GOP runner Silva.
Bigotry is certainly a strong sell to a large chunk of voters, but hell I think the red scare bullshit was probably even stronger. It’s wild how many people are still capitalist brainwashed and have no idea that socialism isn’t communism (or that either isn’t inherently bad somehow).
The red scare bullshit worked on the basis of having an actual State that was directly militarily opposed to the U.S.
Since there is no actual democratic socialist military enemy right now, and there are Muslim allied countries, it’s a really hard to sell him as being a traitor. During the red scare, it was super easy. You also had the FBI straight up prosecuting people and blocking careers for associating with the Communist party.
In my observation, the GOP is trying desperately to get back to that level of authoritarian control, but I don’t think they can anymore.
But now it works on the basis of being reinforced for so long that people just accept it without any thought.
Cuomo must be seething right now. Gotta love it.
“I wish Andrew Cuomo only the best in private life.” - Mayor-elect Mamdani
You forgot the best part imo: “…but let tonight be the final time I utter his name”
A remarkably diplomatic turn of phrase, when what was really meant was, “Suck it, Cuomo!”
Hope it does wonders for his circulatory system.
excluding sliwa voters, the gap between mamdani and cuomo was the same as in the primary, which is incredibly shitty when you think about it
That first “sentence” is the longest sentence fragment I’ve ever seen in my life.
I was waiting for it to go somewhere
The quoted line omits the beginning “on the other.” It still doesn’t technically have a verb, but the construction makes the implied “is” perfectly coherent.
Yeah, either of those helps. I agree it’s comprehensible.
Comprehensibility isn’t what defines a sentence fragment. I make this observation out of pure awe, rather than criticism. Modern day Cicero vibes.
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One of the best headlines ever.
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Ah yes, as we all well know, politics is an all or nothing game with no compromise allowed on anything or anyone.
Except that you’re lying your ass off.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-israel-palestine.html
So, since you have chosen Nothing, please disconnect your phone and Internet, move out into the middle of nowhere, and never inflict your presence in anyone ever again.
LOL, easy block.
Oh, shut up.
Like every other election the progressives have to battle all the other progressives while fighting everyone else.
Let’s see how much he manages to complete his promises before we get too excited. He’s a politician
He’s a politician
Yes…
Everyone who holds a political office, is a politician.
Very astute observation…
I’m suggesting that you avoid becoming parasocial with a professional politician before he even has a chance to demonstrate his values and capacity, and you took that as an attack on you, personally?
I’m suggesting that you avoid becoming parasocial
No, mainly because no one was doing that and you made a top level comment…
Like, maybe that’s what you meant to do, and thought you were doing, but you didn’t.
before he even has a chance to demonstrate his values and capacity
He didn’t spring into existence fully formed the first time you heard his name…
and you took that as an attack on you, personally?
What? Why would you think I took your comment as a personal attack against myself?
What? Why would you think I took your comment as a personal attack against myself?
Your reply reads incredibly snarky and dismissive
And that’s what your comment deserved.
Fairly rude, but alright. Everyone has their teen years to deal with
You’re talking with your “he’s a politician” I’m-14-and-this-is-deep shit
But why would your first thought be that the other person felt personally attacked and is just lashing out?
Do you not understand how many issues in life people have when they follow Kanye West logic?
Maybe if people are dismissive of your opinions, they have valid reasons?
You can open dialog and ask why people are dissimive of your opinions, and that would be productive for you and the people who take the time to help.
Because the less people in society use Kanye West logic, the better society is for everyone.
And I know this may feel like a tangent, but I’m just trying to help in a much broader way that will be more useful for you
Because you’ve either taken what I’ve said to be so intensely stupid that it’s worthy of ridicule or so offensive to your being that you refuse to accept that hero worship and politics aren’t a solid mix. Given the state of politics, I assumed the latter. If it’s the former, there’s a baseline level of misunderstanding that I can’t as easily overcome.
that hero worship
Again, no one was doing that…
And while my blocklist is healthy, I havent seen anything I would categorize as “hero worship” about Mamdani. Can you provide even a single example of this “hero worship”?
It really seems like you’re just misinterpreting things or not understanding them and just leaping to wild accusations instead of simply asking for clarification.
I’m trying to help you understand why that’s bad, because people that think like that make society very unpleasant for the rest of us.
LET. PEOPLE. CELEBRATE. This is a tremendous win.
It’s somewhat ironic you would claim that they took this personally when your argument is about being objective towards other people. Your argument has no legs since it is in fact a soggy piece of bread.
Still enjoying fetterman? I’m not
Would you enjoy Dr Oz more?
No, I would have preferred any of the other dem primary candidates
I guess you should have put in more work in the PA primary, then.
It’s better than raping women and not being punished for it
Woah man, you can’t just say that politicians rape women without consequences.
They also rape children, too.
Even if he accomplishes nothing, he’s trying to do good and improve things. His ideas have been proven popular. That’s a huge improvement over what we had before.
I love that he’s proven popular. But the number of darling democrats turned republican or no-name, in recent years, has tempered my expectations. New York has him for a few years. Nothing can change about that. Now we can only observe and hope
Gullible appears to be anything but.
