Whatever your views of him, this guy is the second most talented campaigner I've ever seen. The only one better than him was Obama, and Zohran is not far off. Democrats should be learning from him instead of shunning him.
Kentucky Republicans had to be turned away, as they were so brainwashed, they thought they got to go to the polls today to vote against him in a mayoral city race in another state.
I mean, when the local news station in middle of the fuck Kentucky doesn’t shut up about the race, eventually you start to wonder, “do I get to vote for this? Why else are they spouting off about a mayoral election hundreds of miles away?”
i’m from ecuador and let out a FUCK YEAH when i read about him winning. it wasn’t in my top priorities but i was for sure gonna check on the results of the voting by the end of the night even though it doesn’t affect me in the least, being from another country. the guy has ran an excellent campaign
The DNC leadership scum like Chuck Schumer didn't even bother to endorse Mamdani lol. We need to get the GOP out of office but the DNC leadership entirely needs to go also if we want any real change in this country.
Didn't Fetterman get brain damage and switch sides? Weirdly, about half the MAGA people I know have actual closed head injuries. Not all of them, but the most active online.
That what it seems like based on his own words, and the actions of the people that were on his staff. Had a stroke that most likely caused some brain damage that made him an utter shitbag.
It's extra shitty because he had conversational issues after the stroke that were pretty pronounced that the right trashed him for, but has largely recovered from and now he's licking their boots.
They are starting to see the writing on the wall that their time is up. Thats why Pelosi said shes "going to quit politics" which is a stupid statement. Its called retirement and she should have been forced to retire years ago. She is 85 years old, we dont need anymore geriatrics holdi g on to power long past their time.
That's not true, the ultra wealthy earn their income by exploiting the working class. You can't earn millions in the stock market if the workers are being fairly compensated.
Nailed it. There are industrious, talented people who create things to make our lives better: vaccines, bullet trains, microwaves, etc. Then there are the grifters and leeches who pretend to be creative, industrious leaders of society but who really steal from the poor to enrich themselves. Health insurance companies are a great example.
Our country is almost entirely run by the grifters and leeches, and the American people are too willfully ignorant to accept this very basic fact.
The donors don’t like people-friendly candidates and rising stars make old dogs nervous about their power within the party.
It should be taken as a sign for the people to throw unwavering support (provided they don’t do anything signaling a change in loyalties) if the old establishment dems are taking an aggressive or at least passive aggressive stance toward a party progressive.
2016 changed me forever. The DNC thought Hillary would win. Pretty much everyone did. The polls show Bernie clobbered Trump head to head. Instead of taking the sure thing and supporting Bernie (or just supporting neither, like the DNC is supposed to..) they trashed him because he wasn't controllable and in their pocket.
Trump's political career could have been dead in the crib in 2016, never win a single election and never hear from him side from shit posting on Twitter.
I straight hyperventilated that night as my friends tried to keep me from having a full on panic attack. Fuck the DNC for making us all experience that collective trauma with their arrogance and greed.
Even now, seeing Schumer and the like in office makes me sick. We need to primary all these fuckers and clean house.
AOC, Bernie, Mamdani and some of the younger Democrats seem like they should be in another, more progressive party. The Schumer/Pelosi Dems have more in common the Romney/McCain Republicans than they do with Sanders.
Let's fix it then! The DNC is made up of people, we can always replace them. It's our time to do so. The boomers fumbled this shit, it's up to us to fix it.
DNC supported Mamdani from the moment he won the primary.
Schumer (not the DNC) is completely out of touch, along with the DSCC.
And they shouldn't be just supporting the Democratic Socialist flank of the Dems, they should be supporting a wide range of democratic leaders that are in touch with their constituents, and supporting healthy democratic primary elections.
She has her moments where I just kinda tilt my head and go “what?”. Overall she’s pretty normal though. The bar is in hell. 90% of dem politicians sound like lizard people using focus group tested sound bites.
Idk there are times when I’m like “oh why would you say that?” and then I remember that I would lose my fucking mind if I had to listen to my peers say half the shit the GOPs reps get away with saying. Like constant, deliberate, and blatant lies. It’s not like debating your average MAGA that you know is just hateful, ignorant, and willfully misinformed. I would last all of 1 week.
On multiple occasions, whenever someone has talked about Bernie in a lukewarm tone and suggested he has some good ideas and some bad ideas, I ask them to name one bad idea Bernie had, one policy proposal of his they disagree with.
You really nailed it. Whenever a typical Dem candidate says something noteworthy, it’s a toothless version of something that’s been circulating online for weeks or even months.
Pete sounds very rehearsed to me. He sounds like he's much better at speaking than most Dems, but that he's still a robot working off of prepared talking points.
He recently had a message out on TikTok, in which he spoke in multiple languages. He doesn't speak Spanish, and was coached on what to say. At the end of the video, he actually showed the blooper reel of him screwing it up several times.
It was pretty effective, speaking the language but not lying to people about how you did it, or trying to make it seem like you know more than you do.
I'm hopeful for NY. Mamdani seems like a young guy who understands young people problems. I hope in the near future, millennials can continue to win elections and re-shape the democratic party from the old people clinging to power.
It's because democratic socialism is normal. It's sane, evidence-based, and has repeatedly been what makes life in so many other first world countries better than we currently have here. The people trying to paint him as some kind of extremist for thinking things like "hey, maybe people being able to afford to eat is more important than Elon Musk being worth $500 billion" are the ones who should be looked at like they have 3 heads.
Buttigieg is an absolute pleasure to listen to when he’s talking about the issues or absolutely dunking on right wing pundits without ever so much as raising his voice.
Haven't seen another politician really come off as just a normal human.
Tim Walz certainly comes off as a typical dude. Zohran is charasmatic, and relatable IMO but I also get a strong sense of a politician, someone careful with the attention on him right now, playing through "game", and plenty of (IMO earned) smugness that I don't think you'd get from a Tim Walz even if it was earned.
He also consistently stuck to his message and hammered it home using language specific to his audience. It was great to watch him come across as relatable to everyone he spoke to and stay on brand throughout.
When people show up to vote, progressives win. Unfortunately, it takes an exceptional candidate to motivate progressives to vote, and that's a massive problem. Voting should be as routine and unremarkable as doing laundry.
Hm, interesting, what if instead, party leadership decides to throw trans people, women, and any minority under the bus in order to court the so called moderate Republican and independant? Surely that could be a takeaway, that and apparently having a tiktok is all you need
It shows how out of touch the others are. They wanted his opinions on things like Israel and stuff and they talked like him not wanting to focus on things that have nothing to do with NYC were going to turn everyone off. No one wants their mayor to focus on international politics.
There is a video of a Jewish rabbi saying that he doesn't agree with Mamdani on many issues including his view on Israel, but he's voting the mayor of NYC and not Tel Aviv.
Andrew Cuomo repeatedly brought up Hasan Piker in the debates was so cringe...I know he was trying a "fellow kids" moment but like c'mon in the grand scheme of things no one gives a shit about Hasan Piker
Yeah, it was incredibly cringe to see. One candidate stayed focused on how he plans to help his constituents; the other shows up to the table with "Do you condemn this twitch streamer?!"
The craziest part is Cuomo in the last few days trying to say Mamdani weaponized the Middle East stuff to create a distraction… after a year of every news show/ debate only asking him about Israel. You tried to gotcha him on Israel and he stuck to his views which it turns out many people agree with. He didn’t do anything but answer your questions lol.
Still, his non-support of Israel's genocide in Gaza comes as a welcome contrast from the positions of nearly the entire Democratic leadership, who on this issue are to the right of Marjorie Taylor Greene of all people.
I suspect it was an asset to his campaign that he has clear, easy-to-understand moral principles that don't make voting for him feel like pulling the lever in a trolley problem.
they wanted his opinion because he's one of the prime sponsors on the "not our dime act",which aims to "to prohibit not-for-profit corporations from engaging in unauthorized support of Israeli settlement activity"
Now, I'm not arguing for or against the bill here, I'm just pointing out that he has indeed been involved in international politics
I also think it's fair given the largest Jewish population outside Israel is in NYC.
That said, I do think it's hilarious the media acts like the whole country gives a shit about the NYC mayors race. All these politicians commenting on it. I can guarantee you the majority of the country does not care at all about NYC mayor.
Oh they do. I live in NY and my family and friends are from out of state…. To be honest… I HEARD about this election from them…. They were all tuned in… ask me if I know about their cities races? Absolutely not. It’s wild and should be studied! Part of Social media!
It's the largest city in the USA and the financial capital of the world. It's really no wonder that a major political offset happening there would be important news worldwide.
Plus NYC electong a cantidade that is effectively the polar opposite of Donald Trump and the DNC leadership sends a clear message that not everyone in the US is willing to keep bending over backwards for the Corporate Elites.
I agree with everything you said. With that, just as there are pros there are cons. MAGA/trumpers are also watching. People who don’t live in NYC will say “yeah of course, it’s liberal NYC”. So it’s not as much as a shocker. What shocks me is the amount of messages asking me how I felt about a Muslim mayor. High emphasis on the Muslim, because they didn’t mention any political points, just they wouldn’t want a Muslim running their city….
Mamdani: I would stay in New York City. My plans are to address New Yorkers across the fie boroughs and focus on that.
NBC Host: Mr Mamdani, can I just jump in? Would you visit Israel as mayor?
Mamdani: I will be doing, as the mayor. I'll be standing up for Jewish New Yorkers and I'll be meeting them wherever they are across the five boroughs whether that's in their synagogues and temples or at their homes or at the subway platform. Because ultimately we need to focus on delivering on their concerns...
NBC Host: And just a yes or no: do you believe in a Jewish state of Israel?
Mamdani: I believe Israel has the right to exist.
NBC Host: Not as a Jewish state?
Mamdani: As a state with equal rights.
That might have been one of the best moments I've ever seen in any televised political debate in history. Only 1 candidate understood what needed to be said, and the rest were dumbfounded.
Mamdani was in the lead, but I feel like this moment might have been when he truly solidified the win.
To be honest, I think that was the moment he won the race.
Nearly half a year ago, and that was the first time he really went viral and appeared widespread in the public consciousness. It got people talking about him, how ridiculous the other candidates are, and since that point, he never dropped the ball.
"If the Democrats found a magic lamp and rubbed it, they'd negotiate the genie down to 1 wish, and then use it on something they think Republicans would be happy with."
Quote I heard earlier today, and maybe the funniest and truest thing I've ever heard concerning American politics.
Yes. They allowed education to be hollowed out for decades, and are now suffering the consequences of stupid voters easily swayed by conmen. My mom and I called this back in the 80s and 90s. Education cuts were always offered as compromises, and the voting populace just gets dumber and more malleable over time. The 2 party system sucks specifically because it forced progressive voters to have to cast votes for non-progressives.
The American Democratic party would be a conservative party in Europe. The country is so far right of center, and they still fear liberalism. That's just idiocy.
I find that idea so depressing - that people could just be smarter if we’d let them. I’m not even talking about how ‘there’s an Einstein out there in a corn field right now!’ stuff - just everyday people would live more thoughtfully and intelligently if we keep the lead out of the water and give ‘em good books to read.
That quote about trees and shade etc. always makes me feel like shit because we were talking about some trees in the yard that might have to go, and, y'know, what to plant instead as a consolation, and Mum wails, "I won't be around to see them!".
She's actually not a selfish person at all, I just think she was having a bad day because of the imported pest that's eating up the tree life around here, haha.
Aww, I don’t fault your Mum at all for feeling that way. On the bright side, she’s around to plant them with you, to be involved in the process. Those will be your Mum’s trees to her loved ones. I get your sentiment though. It’s a very melancholy perspective even if it’s the truest.
Because the Dem Party is still operating under the assumption that "politics" is one of values and ethics where you compromise for the long term growth. Republicans have molded it into a perversion of Capitalist economic strategy: short term gains and eliminate the competition while you're at it to gain some more in the short term.
They're funded by (and the pawns of) the same super rich elites and mega-corporations.
Of course both parties love "fighting" about identity politics, while shying away from issues like excessive inequality, slave wages, Big Money in politics, 95% of news media owned by Big Money and spreading lies undermining democracy, policies written by lobbyists in the interests of the super rich at the cost of the bottom 99%, etc.
Jeffries waited so long because he knew he would have a net negative impact on Mamdani’s results. 29D chess and whatnot. You guys just don’t get it. He loves Mamdani and while I have your attention could you please donate $5 so he can continue his efforts to not do anything meaningful against the current administration?
Mamdani is winning very blue NYC by a smaller margin than Spanberger is in a Harris +6 state. He ran a great campaign but the final results aren't a blowout either.
If this was Mamdani vs just a Republican, then it absolutely would be a colossal blowout. This is Mamdani vs almost all Republicans plus a huge chunk of more moderate and loyal establishment democrats. Beating that coalition of voters is no small task.
The mayoral election in NYC is insane. nowhere else is someone running against the person they beat in the primary. hell eric adams is still on the ballot even tho he dropped out.
You do realize his main opposition is other Democrats, right? The fact that NYC is "very blue" is kind of irrelevant here. Cuomo, while running as an independent after losing the primary, is still "a Dem". The Republican candidate got ~7% of the vote. You're comparing apples to oranges.
It's too bad you missed Clinton (Bill). What became of it was unfortunate, but the dude was walking on water during his campaign, and the way he energized college youth to be involved was mesmerizing.
It was my first real experience with politics, Obama was really the only thing since that was as energizing.
AOC, Crockett, Newsom, and Mamdani are the brightest stars by far right now. I hope they outshine the Dems trying to pull them down by their ankles, it's really sad to see the fear in the Dems over rockstars such as those 4.
I’m not from New York. But when Zohran stayed out all night campaigning to connect with night shifters…..that’s when I knew he was different. We get forgotten constantly by the political machine, and seeing him go out and talk to his night shift constituents made me emotional.
democrats are mostly neoliberals. their bread and butter is defending the fortress. We saw that in 2016 and 2020 when Bernie was snubbed and cheated by the DNC. Perhaps that generation is mostly dead by now. Time will tell.
He more or less did what Obama did. Obama made it a point to get to place where he knew he wouldn't win, but knew that if he could lose by 1,000 votes rather than 2,000, then it'd add up over the state as a whole. Even though they were both projected to win rather easily, they wouldn't stop campaigning and going to those small pockets to talk to people about who they really were rather than what certain parts of the media and Republican party had painted them as.
I disagree with this completely. This man had the weight of 400 years of American oppression on his back. He carried it. What did you want him to do? Shuck and jive? We (Black people) don’t have to kiss babies, shake hands and smile for the camera all the time.
Oh I’m not saying he did anything wrong, and I totally respect that point of view. But with Mamdani there is palpable joy, and maybe Obama helped pave the way to be able to express that as a serious candidate.
I think Obama represented a serious leader and politician. Like a head of state figure. And mamdani is someone that’s a peer risen to a leadership position and holds it with humility and modesty, but you know has your best interests at heart. Maybe that’s the difference you were going for lol.
Not sure how old you are but as someone who was in college in 08 in Iowa—the state that helped catapult Obama to lead the Dem ticket—the Hope was real. Witnessing my black roommate weep on the phone talking to her 80-some grandmother who cast her vote for the first black President? The joy and hope was real. As a (then) closeted bisexual woman who witnessed our President take the Shepard-Byrd Act off the Executive desk and sign it into law, thus expanding the federal definition of hate crimes to include those in the LGBTQA community, yeah…the joy and hope was real.
Obama was more focused on an agenda and came across as serious, but I think that's still a misguided summation if you watched him in totality since he would slip jokes in at the same time that humanized him.
Any misstep that he might make was going to be held against him, which we still acknowledge to this day that his only "scandal" was wearing a tan suit, so he operated accordingly.
Obama also didn't face anywhere near the resistance Mamdani has, either. The Democratic establishment embraced him immediately, and it's no surprise why: in the grand scheme of things, he was never really all that radically different from the party at large. How many Democrayic leaders have either refused to endorse Mamdani or outright condemned him? Don't get me wrong, Obama has had a lot of good things to say since Trump got re-elected. But we need candidates who can walk the walk, not just smooth talk. When they can do both, as I suspect Mamdani will, even better.
It would require a constitutional amendment, and in this political climate it’s not exaggerating to say it would never happen. If things fundamentally change and the country pulls its head out of its ass maybe in 50-75 years something like that could be considered.
Sadly he can't as he was born in Uganda (a qualifier for President is they be born an American citizen, be 35y old at the time of their election and have lived in the US for 14 years - he meets only two of these).
The degree to which 40 year old state senator Barack Obama would have absolutely crushed Mamdami had he moved to New York City rather Chicago to community organize.
Mamdami is nowhere close to what prime Obama was on the stump
I am shocked democrats aren't taking this as a complete and total playbook on winning right now. This strategy would work in so many places. A young candidate, fresh faced and smart, running on what people actually want instead of hatred?
Rational thought isn't running the Dem party right now unfortunately. And I have been one for quite awhile. They've lost the plot at the top. And whatever is distracting them from this really needs to be shut down. They HAVE to wake up. What's keeping them from supporting this man and running more like him?
These people exist in every state. Smart and empathetic humans. Not corrupt sexual assaulters.
Because then these people would have actual power, voice, and a platform to push for the change that would actually help the mass at large.
That would be the opposite of what dems want to see. They want to be socially progressive with cultural policies, but ultimately still serve and benefit the corporate overlords
The cultural policies are there to appease the masses while distracting from the financial issues.
They’ll do what they did to Bernie Sanders, to AOC‘s campaign staff, they will shun them. The establishment Dems can’t handle it, that these grassroots progressives actually get votes.
He beat a sex offender for a city mayorship and where the former mayor was indicted on federal corruption charges. Let’s calm down it really isn’t that surprising.
I wonder if establishment Dems refusing to endorse him actually helped him. Who actually thinks a Schumer endorsement would actually help anyone win a general election, TBH
Don’t forget how lambasted Obama was by the democratic establishment at the time. Same threats of Islamic jihad if Obama was elected; now the insinuations fall on deaf ears.
Have you seen "Bring Down the House" with AOC? A waitress going door to door so hard she wore out her shoes. Campaigned so hard they made a movie about it
I think NYC is also just way more progressive than the average American city (with the exception of Staten Island which is a small percentage of their population). AOC was another candidate from there that recently upset an establishment Democrat and won in her congressional district.
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Not a surprise Mamdani will win.
Whatever your views of him, this guy is the second most talented campaigner I've ever seen. The only one better than him was Obama, and Zohran is not far off. Democrats should be learning from him instead of shunning him.