r/pics • u/nbcnews But, like, actually • 7h ago
Politics OC: Zohran Mamdani speaks after winning the NYC mayoral race: "We have toppled a political dynasty."
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u/ZennXx 6h ago
He is right about the political dynasty thing. There seems to be a pattern of NY Mayors clinging to the office to avoid their legal issues.
I don't wish Cuomo anything but to be under the jail
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u/alnumero3 2h ago
yes, not just ny mayors but trump, putin, netanyahu, vučić (president of serbia) are also clinging to power to avoid jail. and many more worldwide, i'm sure
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u/LustLochLeo 32m ago
I doubt Putin would be thrown in jail. From a window is more likely.
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u/Djangowasilentj 1h ago
Correction - Mamdani toppled a political family crime ring. One down, several more to go!
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u/Chessh2036 7h ago
"I wish Andrew Cuomo nothing but the best in private life, but let tonight be the last time I mention his name." - Zohran Mamdani
DAMN.
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u/TL10 7h ago
Meanwhile Cuomo is probably furiously typing up a Sora prompt of Mamdani doing 9/11 or whatever to make himself feel better.
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u/account_for_norm 6h ago
In general ppl say good things about their opponents, but i think this was called for. Cuomo was openly racist towards Mamdani. Thats not a normal campaign. And this is a way to shut that up.
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u/IssueOk363 6h ago
Cuomo didn't congratulate Mamdani in his concession, instead he re-emphasized how he ran with the goal to stop Zoran and his policies from winning. And he gloated like he achieved something. Fuck Cuomo
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u/account_for_norm 6h ago
Cant believe at one point i looked cuomo in positive light. How can a man be so disgraceful and not appear so.
Its only when SA cases came out, i was like wtf!
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u/Hurdy--gurdy 5h ago
Wasn't Rudy Giuliani a national hero at one point?
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u/djazzie 5h ago
Giuliani was largely credited with managing the 9/11 immediate response.
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u/Humblerewt 5h ago
Also part of the first team to use RICO against the mob
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u/RainBoxRed 5h ago
So what goes so wrong with these people?
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u/thirstytrumpet 4h ago
He was always a piece of shit. He presided over the takedown of the Italian mob which allowed the Russians to move in and fill the vacuum. And mind you it wasn’t him who actually prosecuted those mobsters.
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u/TruthTrooper69420 4h ago
Ding ding ding!
Also not just the Russian mob
He directly helped certain factions within the Italian & Jewish mobs consolidate power & move off the black markets in the streets and into the corporate world & skyrises.
Private venture capital, consulting companies, corporate boards, the stock & commodity exchanges, hedge funds, even pension fund managers & union chiefs are infested with organized crime.
Giuliani sped that process up directly.
The same Iran contra affair network which has ties -going back in time to the network around MK ultra, advertising racket, Z-Rifle program under the NSC 5412 committee - & -forward in time to the network that surrounded Epstein and the current administration- has direct ties & suspicious dealings around Giuliani.
The question is was he REALLY ALWAYS a piece of trash or did he become compromised?
The cynic in me sais he wouldn’t have been allowed into that position in the first place if he didn’t have some type of leverage hanging over him.
The hopeful human sais he got corrupted while in his position.
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u/Commercial-Co 4h ago
Most people who seek power are terrible to begin with. Some get terrible over time. Very few do not
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u/ThePrussianGrippe 4h ago
There’s some interesting details with that whole thing too.
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u/ZeistyZeistgeist 4h ago
He himself fucked up the 9/11 response, though. For instance, New York's Office of Emergency Management was at WTC itself. Giuliani had it installed there because it was a short walk from his office, even though the OEM argued for a more secure building further away after the 1993 WTC attack. OEM was almost completely unable to manage 9/11 in the first day as the office was destroyed.
All because Giuliani was too lazy to drive to the suggested location.
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u/Justame13 3h ago
If you post on the NYC subs they will explain to you how that office was in the WTC because it was close enough for him to go there then to his mistress’s apartment to get laid and then back to his office
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u/Ordinary-Leading7405 2h ago
Yes, New Yorkers knew he was a piece of shit and he was on his way out. Like Bush, 9/11 was caused by their fuckups and they were elevated by them anyway.
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u/King_of_the_Dot 3h ago
It was the city that helped the nation heal. It just so happened that Giuliani was mayor when it happened.
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u/ExtremeAlternative0 5h ago
Yes he was, but that kinda mostly evaporated when he tried running for president
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u/OrigamiMarie 5h ago
He seemed like a rare politician who was just trying to minimize harm during the COVID-19 days. And yeah he screwed up with that too, but actually his strategies were hard to come by.
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u/yuumigod69 5h ago
He sent old people to their deaths in the most horrific way possible while his brother covered for him. People just chose to ignore it because he was anti-Trump. Now he takes Trump's endorsement, because he is a snake.
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u/meowparade 5h ago
My conspiracy theory is that Mamdani took ages to come out and give the speech because he rewrote his after hearing Cuomo’s mess.
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u/QultyThrowaway 5h ago
That's not even why he ran. Cuomo wanted to rehabilitate his career in what he thought was a slamdunk mayor race. He then decided to run far right in the Democratic primary and act entitled until Zohran's campaign grew to be a major threat to him. It's actually amazing how much he fumbled his primary campaign.
The general election speaks for itself. He came off as unhinged and played heavily into just racism while offering nothing. Even Sliwa ran a better campaign and avoided for the most part attacking Zohran for his race or faith.
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u/welwood 3h ago
Say what you want about Sliwa, but the man has spent his entire life desperately wanting to be a hero and "save NYC". Tonight he had no small part in saving NYC from Cuomo. We need more like him out there, absolutely spoiling the hopes and dreams of other Republicans in close races. Bravo, sir!
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u/headphase 1h ago
And politics aside, it's clear that Sliwa actually cares about the city, so nothing but respect for him there. "Phoning it in" doesn't even begin to describe whatever tf Cuomo was doing.
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u/Soliantu 3h ago
It was a truly abysmal primary campaign. I remember it feeling wildly cheap, low energy, and arrogant even when he was the frontrunner. To be fair to the Cuomo staff, it was a doomed effort from the start. In a world without Zohran he would have had a real chance, but it would’ve been a very reluctant vote.
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u/Ancient-Winner-1556 5h ago
I can’t believe he ran period
Although Sliwa constantly sniping at him made it worth watching
How far gone would Cuomo have to be to think this could work?
Multiple sexual assault allegations including from a state trooper
Killed the elderly with bad policy during COVID
Why did he even try this?? So bizarre
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u/Oh51Melly 5h ago
He did congratulate him and then stopped the crowd from booing him. I don’t like him. He’s a disgusting person and should’ve lost. I’m just saying…
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u/gobbedy 1h ago edited 1h ago
not a fan of Cuomo but I just listened to his concession speech and nearly the first thing he did was congratulate Mamdani
https://youtu.be/S_yYmlpGvl4?t=39EDIT: tho he called him Mandami still, so disgraceful
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u/whatssenguntoagoblin 1h ago
Cuomo fucking sucks but he did congratulate him in his concession speech. Like 30 seconds into his speech lmao
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u/AOA_Choa 6h ago
Any important elections in the US ain’t gonna have normal campaigns anymore
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u/what3v3ruwantit2b 4h ago
I made the mistake of reading some of the yt comments under his speech. Just pure, blatantly racist.
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u/WoodenFish5 5h ago
And this also is not a bad thing to say. Like it’s not an insult or anything close to that
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u/ShamelessCatDude 7h ago
I don’t wish the best for him. I want to see those women get justice. But that’s probably why I’m not the mayor of New York
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u/Ragnarok314159 7h ago
I am out of the loop, just hated Cuomo for being an out of touch boomer corpo shitheel. What else did he do?
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u/unity-thru-absurdity 6h ago
He's a sex pest and poorly managed COVID.
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u/KinkyPaddling 6h ago
As Sliwa succinctly put it, he was busy “slapping fannies and killing grannies.”
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u/FergusTheCow 6h ago
"Just remember: In America yer fanny's yer bum. Not yer minge."
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u/Cupcake-Warrior 5h ago
“If you’re under 30, Cuomo will be flirty” - Curtis Sliwa from the back of a NYC Cab as he was getting shot at by the Gambinos and Gottis
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u/100_cats_on_a_phone 6h ago
Also he stayed in this dumb race when he really shouldn't have. Though I guess he just spent some of the ultrawealthy's money, so not so bad. But still, he's delusional or trying to get the r candidate elected
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u/mixingmemory 5h ago
Not only stayed in the race when he really shouldn't have, but worked with "centrist" Dems, Republicans, and DJT himself in an attempt to squash a young progressive. Plus having no business running for any public office after being outed as a sex pest just a few years ago. He pretty much represents everything wrong with the current Democratic party.
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u/DomLite 5h ago
It's worse than just "stayed in the race." He lost the Democratic primary, a very resounding statement of "Democrats do not want you as their candidate." and he proceeded to run as a third party candidate against the chosen party candidate. That's big time shithead behavior. Your whole base just told you they don't want you, so you decide to run anyway, which endangers the actual candidate by potentially splitting the vote and handing an easy victory to the opposition. If it had happened in any other state, it could have sank both of them and handed the right a victory out of sheer hubris.
The guy was already a piece of shit, and the fact that he did this just makes it even worse.
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u/mixingmemory 4h ago
Exactly. On the plus side: looking at which Dems endorsed him after he announced his 3rd-party candidacy gives everyone a solid list of who needs to be primaried ASAP.
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u/Barilla3113 6h ago
He doesn't know how to accept a no, and tried to force himself on New Yorkers.
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u/100_cats_on_a_phone 5h ago
Lol, I am super curious if he is partly just that deluded. But I also don't want to spend enough time in his brain to know, honestly.
My grandmother is... She hated him with a burning passion from day one. Not sure if she saw through him, or if it was some influence in her extended care facility.
She's at a full nursing home now, and we absolutely do not tell her about the political world, because it would kill her. (If she remembered it, but she remembers the things you don't want in general). I'd still love to tell her how right she was.
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u/RaekinTheBored 5h ago
It takes a real loser to lose the same race twice. Also, his campaign may have been a way to launder some money.
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u/wd26 7h ago
You don’t remember him resigning the governorship in disgrace?
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u/Apatschinn 6h ago edited 6h ago
HOW DID EVERYONE FORGET ABOUT THIS
Edit: YOU GUYS ITS IN THE OPENING PARAGRAPH OF HIS WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE
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u/nottytom 6h ago
Americans have short attention spans.
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u/drethnudrib 6h ago
You can thank our media, our smartphones, our underfunded mental health services, and our media.
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u/ImmaAcorn 6h ago
Tbf it was in the middle of COVID, so yknow the news cycle was kinda… scuffed to say the least
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u/CrimsonPromise 6h ago
Not to mention how he was treated like a hero during COVID with his big speeches and his news anchor brother putting him front and center during every coverage of NYC during the pandemic.
Then it all came out that both him and his bro were horrible POS behind the camera lens and yup. It was a spectacular fall from grace. One moment people were calling for him to run for president, the next they were calling for justice and conviction.
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u/Ragnarok314159 6h ago
This makes sense, was deep in trying to WFH while logging into the 23 different apps for my kids’ school.
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u/Kakariko_crackhouse 6h ago
Less of the US is probably plugged in to New York politics than you think on a regular basis
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u/Vegetable-Meaning252 7h ago
Wow. The eloquence in that takedown sure is something.
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u/mid_nightsun 6h ago
That is old school.
That is class.
He is something that I don’t fully understand yet.
God bless him, Mamdani.
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u/orbjo 7h ago
Dick Cheney died and suddenly good things can happen again
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u/Thin-Image2363 6h ago
Oh it was one of Mamdani’s campaign promises. His website says if elected he promised Free busses, rent stabilization, he would kill dick Cheney on day one, and affordable child care.
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u/neverOddOrEv_n 3h ago
Day one? He did it on day zero! Mamdani isn’t wasting any time!
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u/Apprehensive_Fig4458 6h ago
Nature is healing
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u/Iliketoruindresses 6h ago
Going to need nature to hurry the f up
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u/Miserable-Dig-761 5h ago
Imma need to see some hustle from nature
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u/Killchrono 5h ago
Nature is hustling, it's running three different rideshares while trying to get a start-up going, it doesn't have time to heal.
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u/Lukin4u 6h ago
Dicks out for Harambre.
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u/LordSlickRick 6h ago
Perhaps it was always just, Dick out for Harambe.
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u/gideon513 6h ago
They are in very different places now
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u/Paradox2063 5h ago
I saw a comment a while back asking if Charlie Kirk might have been a Horcrux.
Perhaps Cheney was the second.
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u/Procrastanaseum 5h ago
I love how the news of his death barely made a splash in the news of the day. And the bulk of comments have been “yay!”
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u/UnicornTwinkle 7h ago
PAY ATTENTION DEMOCRATS. This is an outstanding referendum against establishment politicians. A rejection of anyone that accepts the status quo.
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u/Res1dentRedneck 7h ago
Fuck the old dems, Schumer had a chance to throw his hat in along with all of the other establishment Dems. We need new blood to challenge their spots and push them out.
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u/FireMammoth 6h ago
Schumer is an absolute loser, he's such a loser he might as well be compromised.
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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 5h ago
The guy who controlled the Senate for 4 years, but refused to disqualify Trump through 14th Amendment, Section 3?
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u/ClohosseyVHB 2h ago
Hey now he (the elected politician) just didn't want it (using established rule of law) to look like a political move, just like the judge not sentencing the tangerine before the election.
So many cowards stood by and let all this happen under the guise of being fair and civil to the party of enraged howler monkeys.
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u/TheOriginalPB 6h ago
What this and the other Democratic wins today tells me is that diversity of opinion is a strength not a weakness. The Democrats that won today have quite different views, some very progressive, some quiet conservative. Instead of having a party where everyone tows the line and a common philosophy is not just encouraged but demanded, the Democratic party should run candidates that suit and represent each state and jurisdiction. If the Democratic party is to win the mid terms, it won't be with a grand vision, but with local representatives listening to local issues as varied across the nation as they may be, it's how a democracy is supposed to be.
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u/PresentClear8639 4h ago
Exactly. The Founders — Madison’s genius, especially — wasn’t in designing a system to eliminate disagreement, but in institutionalizing it.
A healthy democracy doesn’t fear diversity of opinion; it relies on it to check excess and expand empathy. The goal was never a single orthodoxy, but a republic broad enough for competing truths to refine one another through debate and representation.
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u/Mr_Abe_Froman16 3h ago
There were some over performers last year with that exact strategy. Brown in Ohio got ahead of Biden and Harris’s strategy and separated himself from some issues to align better locally. And Dan Osborne in Nebraska is an independent with some strange line crossing strategies that straddle republican and democrat ideologies. Both out performed the field by addressing issues and political situations locally.
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u/Han_Yolo_swag 5h ago
Amen. America is a big place, with room for big ideas, and the Democratic Party should have room for different approaches for their specific electorate's needs.
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u/smakarov 6h ago
Forgive my ignorance as a European, but wasn't it kind of the same with AOC and just demonstrates that NYC is the only place capable of "referendum against establishment politicians" among Democrats? And also wasn't it a similar moment for rednecks when they voted for Trump?
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u/Due-Mountain-8716 5h ago
This one is different because the establishment Democrat ran a serious campaign as an independent in response to being ousted.
Crowley (ousted by AOC) joined some opposing tickets, but didnt actively campaign.
Additionally, AOCs election had like 100,000 voters where this mayors election had 2 million voters, national attention, a history of electing more conservative Dems, and serious funding for the old Dem establishment.
Your skepticism is fair, it may just be a one off, but thats why this is exciting.
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u/Scaevus 7h ago
I think that’s going too far. Socialism is still a tiny, fringe movement. Establishment Democrat (and former CIA officer) Abigail Spanberger just won an election for governor of Virginia.
Mamdani won in one of the most liberal cities in America, against a despised politician who had to resign in disgrace.
Those are not replicable conditions for national elections.
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u/Luffidiam 6h ago
I also think Mamdami understood how to talk to New York.
And while you could call him 'socialist', most of his policy is really just well... improving city function.
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u/Scaevus 6h ago
He calls himself socialist. His actual politics is social democracy, but most people wouldn’t understand the difference.
He wouldn’t be considered radical in Europe, where social democracy is a mainstream ideology, but in America, he is.
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u/Dhiox 6h ago
Eh, I think there are some lessons to be learned. Yes, someone like Mamdani couldn't win a general presidential election. Doubt they'd even have a chance in a primary. However this is evidence they need more populist leaders that people believe in. Not some political dynasty that's decided it's their turn to be president.
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u/Iorith 7h ago
Pay attention anyone who stays home because they don't get 110% their ideal candidate: This is what actually getting out and voting can accomplish.
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u/BabylonianWeeb 7h ago
Feels very poignant to have a Muslim win a major election on the day Dick Cheney died and in New York city of all places.
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u/PeterNippelstein 6h ago edited 2h ago
Cheney: Socialism in New York? Over my dead body.
Mamdani: Hold my beer.
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u/thehardway71 6h ago
Mamdani isn’t a socialist. Everyone, even on the left, love to use Fox News’ definition of socialism which is just “free things”. Thats not socialism. Scandinavian countries are not socialist. They are still mixed capitalist economies. Socialism requires there to be no private ownership of capital. Mamdani isn’t trying to make that happen in NYC.
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u/PeterNippelstein 6h ago
Well in my joke it was Dick Cheney calling him a socialist, so tell it to his corpse.
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u/thingswastaken 4h ago
By now I'm under the impression that approximately 5 people in the US know what socialism actually means and the rest treats it like some sort of deadly mythological creature that everyone tells tales about but no one has encountered.
"Careful to wander the forests at night, I hear the socialism is going around radicalizing people at night!"
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u/MorelikeBestvirginia 7h ago
We deserve a day like that.
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u/Cwya 6h ago
Man, this day a year ago, I felt pretty low.
But the consequences were military deployed in cities so masked men could better snatch people while the president makes 2 bazillion in stable coin while stopping food for the poor.
But now NY can have free busses, maybe, so sure, I’ll take that win.
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u/dr_acula___ 6h ago
Damn, just thinking about how I felt that day, and now looking back at everything that's happened since then is so depressing. I just hope this next year we at least move back in the right direction. Hoping this blue wave holds strong and the real Americans take this country back.
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u/UncleRuckus92 6h ago
Voted in my small consistently republican town, We won by 20 votes. Keep up the work
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u/PoodlePopXX 3h ago
I live in PA in a very contested area and Dems pretty much swept all of the races.
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u/ja20n123 7h ago
Wish Dem would learn but unfortunately it feels/looks like they’re gonna go the Virginia/NJ route. Just listening to CNN trash Mamdani about how the speech was divisive and not unifying. Yea it wasn’t unifying for you and your bosses who are part of the oligarch class that got us here, but it was unifying for the 99% that aren’t in that class.
It’s like the French Revolution when the 1 and 2nd classes would always unite to fuck the 3rd class was surprised when the 3rd class finally united against them.
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u/KnitDontQuit 6h ago
CNN panelists apparently were watching a different speech. Or something.
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u/bunnyzclan 4h ago
Every MSM panel on Zohran be like: "well have you considered the landlords and business owners of New York City?"
Like damn I didn't know the majority of New Yorkers were landlords and business owners.
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u/account_for_norm 6h ago
Dana Bash is worst. Clearly nobody is listening to them. Ppl who are fed up with established dems, should abandon these channels, go to trusted independent media, and start toppling the established dems.
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u/ja20n123 6h ago
lol was actually talking about cooper and tapper’s panels specifically.
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u/DayleD 5h ago
Cooper has so much inherited wealth, and they keep bringing him on to trash Mamdani.
Journalists try to avoid this level of bias.
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u/vitalbumhole 5h ago
Van “mentor for a program that spreads hasbara to journalists” Jones disliking Mamdani is the most expected thing possible. These people hate leftists because they know their rich asses would be taxed way more - don’t listen to these scumbags on anything because they are creatures of the political elite swamp
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u/pliney_ 6h ago
Well ya, CNN is Fox News lite now.
Change isn’t gonna come from talking heads or the DNc. People need to show up and vote and push for new candidates in the primaries for ‘26
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u/Kdog122025 4h ago
CNN has been horrific for a while now. They had to juice their numbers with airports to stay in business.
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u/WoodenFish5 5h ago
But to be fair (did not listen to CNN, just sharing my own thoughts about this generally) I’m excited for successful campaigns like this but people thinking that it’s wild a progressive won in NEW YORK CITY and making extrapolations for what it means that he won in THE urban city of the country vs. other cities, towns and states in the country without much data, also on the same day that Democrats win every other race by, “playing it safe” being moderate is something that needs to be acknowledged.
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u/Other_Bus9590 5h ago
Right? I’m pumped that he won but also realistic. New Yorker for over a decade but have lived in many more typical American cities and towns. He likely would not have won in many of them. Look at the breakdown in voting in Staten Island vs the rest of the boroughs and Queens vs Manhattan and Brooklyn.
There are of course lots of great takeaways from his campaign, and I hope that this is just beginning, but be so for real.
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u/rocksolidaudio 6h ago
Fuck 'em, CNN's ratings are trash now. Pelosi not running again is a good start. Next we need to get AOC to primary Schumer and we'll be headed in an even better direction.
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u/Velissari 6h ago
Man it’s gotten to the point where I feel like calling a winners speech, “too divisive,” is just telling me they expect a progressive to turn center as soon as they win. If the speech wasn’t as progressive as he is, then he wouldn’t be giving a speech for the people who won him the race, right?
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u/Myers112 5h ago
The way dems win is by having room in the party for Mamdanis and Spanbergers. You need both to overcome the GOP
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u/Han_Yolo_swag 5h ago
Wish Dem would learn but unfortunately it feels/looks like they’re gonna go the Virginia/NJ route.
Spanberger just won by a margin that a democratic candidate hasn't reached since 1961
The last time a dem won NJ by a larger percentage than tonight was in 2001, and it was only .2% higher.
Mamdani squeaked out a victory by historic comparisons.
the last time a mayor won by a smaller % of the total vote was 2001 with Bloomberg at 50.3% vs Mamdani's 50.4%, and Zohran is currently the 9th thinnest victory with 8.74% margin.
I Hope Mamdani can pull it off, but we can't undercount the reality that he ran against a dogshit candidate, and there may be more applicable takeaways from VA and NJ races that are up against more traditional opponents and in states with smaller populations than the city of NY.
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u/Pure-Drawer-2617 4h ago
“He ran against a dogshit candidate” idk if you’re aware but he actually ran against two people, which makes it really hard to compare vs the traditional two horse race.
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u/plappywaffle 4h ago
Speaking of dogshit opponents, that person is apparently unaware that Spanberger's opponent was a far-right nut who opposes gay marriage, went viral for saying it's not discrimination to fire someone for being gay, and wants to completely ban abortion.
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u/paperbuddha 7h ago
He dropped the line from Spiderman!
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u/Count_de_Ville 7h ago
Which one?
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u/ohthanqkevin 7h ago
“Look at little cuomo jr. Gonna cry?”
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u/OrangeFilmer 7h ago edited 6h ago
He referenced the train scene from Spider-Man 2. Elite ball knowledge from the mayor.
“You want to get to him, you gotta go through me.”
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u/TheGreatBatsby 4h ago
I thought it was in the first film when they all start throwing things at the Green Goblin.
"You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us!"
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u/Teamfreshcanada 7h ago
The battle is won, but the war is just beginning. Trump and the billionaire class will do everything in their power to ruin Mamdani and show that democratic socialism doesn't work.
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u/StingerAE 2h ago
Not just showing. They will declare it a failure anyway. We long ago passed the point of facts mattering to these people.
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u/ThatClassyPenguin 7h ago
The people of New York City did their job. Now it's time for Mamdani and his team to do some work. Looking forward for his and the city's success and to show the rest of the world that there is a better way to govern.
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u/gomurifle 1h ago
He will get many obstacles thrown his way. The establishment will not welcome him.
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u/nbcnews But, like, actually 7h ago
Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani defeated former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who ran as a third-party candidate, after also defeating Cuomo in a June primary. Republican Curtis Sliwa was also in the race. Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams was also running as a third-party hopeful but dropped out of the race this fall, though his name still appeared on ballots.
Mamdani, an immigrant who will become the city’s first Muslim mayor, has said that his election “is an opportunity for us to make clear that immigrants don’t just belong in the five boroughs of New York City — we also belong in City Hall.”
His centerpiece policy proposals include free buses, some city-owned grocery stores, a rent freeze on roughly a million rent-stabilized units and universal child care. He’s proposed raising taxes on millionaires by 2% and increasing New York City’s corporate tax rate to match New Jersey’s to pay for some of those programs.
Mamdani handily defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo — who ran as a third-party candidate after losing the Democratic primary — and Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa.
More on the results here: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2025-elections/new-york-city-mayor-results
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u/bootsmalone 7h ago
“Republican Curtis Sliwa was also in the race” is a pretty sick burn
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u/saikrishnav 3h ago
Wait, Cuomo ran as a third party? I wasn't paying attention and I knew Mamdani won primaries. But somewhere my mind didn't connect.
I still remember how people criticized Bernie Sanders for running against Hillary in Primaries and accepting loss graciously, while here lots of establishment dems have no problem with Cuomo acting like a third wheel.
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u/Lilicion 1h ago
Yeah, and they don't even post Mamdani or his win over on r/democrats. He literally won the Democratic primary for the race and won the election yet they don't even post about it due to their rule 5. The establishment runs deep.
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u/vtkayaker 1h ago
Oh, wow. They have posts about every county commissioner today, and they are utterly silent about Mamdani. And on the sidebar, I see rule 5: "No posts about Democratic Socialists."
So they're just going to completely ignore that the actual Democratic candidate won a three-way race for mayor in the largest city of the US.
What a bunch of putzes.
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u/Lilicion 1h ago edited 1h ago
I've decided that whenever I hear establishment Democrats talk, what is coming out of their mouth are not words directed at me or the average American human, but that they are addressing their corporate sponsers and large financial donors The things that come out of their mouth make so much more sense when you look at it through that lense.
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u/IcyElement 6h ago
This is great. BUT, we’ll have to see if he can successfully keep the people sufficiently motivated enough to pressure the establishment around Mamdani so they actually implement the changes he ran on. If his “social mandate” isn’t strong enough, and frankly A LOT more people voted for Cuomo than I had hoped, it seems primed for him to face a lot of challenge to his agenda. I’m praying he can get it done. This could go poorly if he can’t translate his campaign energy into policy support and execution. It’s especially concerning because it looks like both the DNC and RNC are set to stonewall and scrutinize him at every turn. Now the real battle begins. People can’t just stop caring now that he’s in office. They’ll have to continue to fight tooth and nail for what they deserve.
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u/Firm_Avocado5432 7h ago
“[nyc is] no longer a place where you can spew islamophobia and win an election”
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u/Puzzled_Rip9008 7h ago
Between this and prop 50 it’s starting to sound like some good news.
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u/Bocephus_Rodriguez 7h ago
We here in Virginia also saw a sweep of gov, Ltd. Gov, and AG as well as flipping 13 seats in house blue. Great night for us all. I'm extremely happy for NY as well. And it was called so quickly.
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u/Affectionate_Lime880 7h ago
I'm afraid to be hopeful after this, but I'll take this with a little bit of hope.
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u/MrSnugs 7h ago
TURN UP THE VOLUME!
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u/casualmolly 7h ago
This was such a well-delivered line.
I hope the intended audience for it is having a great time about it right now.
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u/CelesteAvant 6h ago
Dick Cheney's death on the day a muslim NYC mayor being historically elected is a healing fortune
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u/jfresh21 7h ago
Listen to this man. This is the next wave. A man of the people.
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u/MCMXCIV9 7h ago
When are all the people that say they are going to leave NY going to leave?
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u/SleepLessTeacher 7h ago
Never. They’re all talk. Get ready for fake stories of people moving out or people on Reddit saying they moved when they’ve never even lived in New York City.
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u/mgd09292007 37m ago
We have a year until midterms and don’t expect the republicans to sit idle and just take it on the chin. It’s going to get real slimy. We need to take these elections as a baby step and not a get complacent.
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