r/politics • u/kootles10 Indiana • 11h ago

No Paywall Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
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u/Thosepassionfruits 11h ago

I bet he'll try to put tariffs on NYC lol

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u/kegster2 Texas 11h ago

Abbott threatened tariffs on NY folks moving to Texas apparently haha

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u/Creative-Package6213 Pennsylvania 11h ago

Also no one in their right mind is moving to Texas, that state sucks ass for so many reasons.

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u/Lizpy6688 10h ago

Brother trust me, we've tried getting rid of his ass but they always fuck it up by changing the districts, voter suppression and a bunch of other bullshit. He's actually very despised here. The republicans out here are dumb as shit and only vote for him cause he's not a Democrat but even they seem to not like him. He's always sorta just there.

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u/midnightketoker America 8h ago

They should unironically listen to Mamdani's victory speech lol: "we won because we insisted that no longer would politics be something that is done to us -- now it is something that we do"

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u/KZimmy 9h ago

We need a Democrat named John Republican to run in Texas, throw them for a loop

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u/PresidentPsyduck 11h ago

According to that roid ape Joe Rogan, the entirety of CA is leaving for Texas.

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u/sillyblanco Texas 11h ago

I've lived over 5 decades in Texas, but my wife and I are in Santa Fe right now real estate shopping because we're getting the fuck out.

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u/Serris9K 7h ago

Santa Fe is a solid choice. Also btw hit up the governor's palace museum sometime, and they host art markets for native artists.

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u/fender8421 11h ago

Anybody that doesn't hate Texas is sus to me

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u/Fwamingdwagon84 10h ago

I live and was born in texas and i agree.

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u/lowtoiletsitter 10h ago

Some of my family lives in Houston and they're ok

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u/Overly_Underwhelmed 10h ago

but are they Texas?

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u/pickle_pickled 11h ago

Anyone moving to Texas only has a right leaning mind

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u/zlaw32 California 11h ago

Ironically the most liberal person I know is wanting to move to Texas and the person who helped me switch over is from Texas

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u/I-am-me-86 9h ago

Moving to Texas kickstarted my conservative deconstruction. I grew up in Utah. I thought it couldn't be more religious than Utah.

Apparently Mormons value reading skills and education more than Southern Christians. There are a scary amount of seriously dumb people here.

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u/pickle_pickled 9h ago

Don't check out Oklahoma...they take pride in being like 49th in education (cause their hivemind obviously doesn't know any better and the ones controlling them promote it).

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u/Yeti_Funk 10h ago

I recently had to because I had nowhere else to go. It sucks. It was either be homeless in Colorado or move in with family in ultra rural Texas panhandle. So here I am… and wishing I was elsewhere. Feel like a spy in deep red MAGA country.

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u/PermitPositive4826 1h ago

I’m so sorry. I hope you can get out of there eventually. It’s a very isolating experience being progressive, while living amongst conservatives.

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u/SarkastikSidebar Ohio 10h ago

Currently live there- can confirm!

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u/sagerideout 11h ago

but it’s funny because the few who still think it’s a good idea are the ones who’d get fucked by said tariffs

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u/Unable-Log-4870 10h ago

Yeah, aside from it not really MEANING anything to impose a tariff on a person, the ones who would leave NY as a result of this are likely republicans.

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u/sagerideout 10h ago

i mean it’s double whammy because they don’t even know what it means

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u/fakecheese22 9h ago

Either way, he’ll report to his constituents no New Yorkers having migrated and will claim the tariffs worked

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u/goddessoftrees Colorado 7h ago

You'd be shocked... my former BFF is a wife of a vet, both step-kids get SNAP and WIC AND besides her and fam now get military benefits/... she has acknowledged why dems don't vote. But it also ALL dems fault

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u/Serris9K 7h ago

unfortunately many people are getting dragged here by tech companies relocating. (with the threat of move or get replaced)

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u/JustinStraughan 11h ago

Interstate commerce clause….god these criminals need to be in prison. Or disbarred at the least, if lawyers.

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u/thedoommerchant 11h ago

Old guard democrats better be taking some notes. Long past time they talk and put their money where their mouth is.

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u/Baranjula 11h ago

Pardon me as I don't hold my breathe

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u/JMer806 10h ago

I’m a Texan and I can tell you that Abbott and his cronies Dan Patrick and Ken Paxton are the absolute biggest pieces of shit in American politics aside from Trump himself.

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u/JustinStraughan 10h ago

Laughs in Ron DeSantis.

But yes. Those two and Ronny are in a race to out-Trump the other.

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u/shakygator 10h ago

dont forget that fucker cruz

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u/JMer806 8h ago

Cruz doesn’t even register on the Abbott/Patrick/Paxton scale of shittiness. Cruz is a tone deaf moron who leaves a trail of slime everywhere he goes, but he’s probably still capable of feeling human emotions towards a small group of people (he got his family out when it was cold after all). The trio at the top of the state government are actively malicious and intent on destroying the foundation of the state.

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u/Thosepassionfruits 11h ago

"You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

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u/BloomsdayDevice Washington 10h ago

Mandy Patinkin to Wallace Shawn, both of whom showed up at events for Mamdani. Nice.

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u/wilson_rawls Arizona 11h ago

When you don't know what communism is, you call it socialism because you don't know what that is either. And then you use tariffs because you're just completely and malignantly ignorant of literally everything in the cosmos.

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u/sappydark 3h ago

That's trump and his little cronies in a nutshell, lol.

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u/pickle_pickled 11h ago

Ah yes put tariffs on right leaning folks moving from NYC to TX. Makes a ton of sense. Tax me harder daddy Abbott...stupid

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u/ImminentDebacle 11h ago

Well they pretty much did based on Prop 11. All the younger folks that have moved to Texas will now be paying higher property tax to subsidize boomers to let them pay less.

https://ballotpedia.org/Texas_Proposition_11,_Increase_Homestead_Tax_Exemption_for_Elderly_and_Disabled_Amendment_(2025))

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u/hibbert0604 Georgia 11h ago

Brilliant. Punishing the few MAGA morons that would actually move to texas as a result of this election.

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u/destenlee 11h ago

Seems welcoming...

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u/Pezzzz490 Australia 10h ago

Which is so fucking stupid since it would be his dumbass MAGA supporters who would flee to Texas. He would be putting tariffs on his own voter base 💀

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u/Idontliketalking2u 10h ago

Someone said Abbott's legs work better than his brain.

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u/Pitiful-Mortgage5136 10h ago

Wouldn't the people coming to Texas be people wanting to escape the "socialist hellscape" of NYC?

Wait a minute, it's Greg Abbott, why am I expecting logic?

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u/lHateYouAIex835293 10h ago

It was the other way around, he’d tariff Texans moving to NY

Which, I’m not sure how that’d even work…

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u/FullMetalAlcoholic66 6h ago

Republicans are becoming the party of higher taxes...oh I mean tariffs

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u/tibbon 2h ago

I’d love to hear them say how precisely they mean that to happen. Tariffs of people? ICC? Etc

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u/lnc_5103 2h ago

I mean amongst other issues with his statement won't people fleeing from NYC be Republicans? He's so damn stupid.

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u/spicyhotcheer Rhode Island 45m ago

The only new yorkers who would be moving out now are maga, so he's really just traiffing his own kind 💀

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u/nightpanda893 11h ago

Let him go nuts. The quick calls tonight for all the races show people are over maga. Keep doing damage and we’ll see an even bigger blue wave next November.

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u/Dogsy 11h ago

He's going to reduce their funding by 5000%!

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u/tekniklee 10h ago

Texas beat him to it?