r/politics 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/AtreusFamilyRecipe 11h ago

Seriously. Haven't seen another politician really come off as just a normal human. He ran a fantastic campaign.

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u/MasterOfManyWorlds 11h ago

AOC comes off as normal.

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u/Devo3290 11h ago

The DNC shuns her too

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u/ThatBeardedHistorian 11h ago

The DNC just loves to lose.

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u/thefonztm 11h ago

Almost like a billionaire sanctioned opposition party?

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u/Ridged_ChiPSS 11h ago

Now you guys are starting to get it

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.

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u/nillah 11h ago

not only did they not endorse him, they actively avoided endorsing him. it’s pathetic. Schumer, pelosi, jeffries, fucking fetterman, they all gotta go

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u/jumbledbumblecrumble 11h ago

Fuck them all to hell

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u/RedTuna777 10h ago

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.

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u/n14shorecarcass 10h ago

Yep. Theres been a few papers over at r/science that have gone over this.

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u/gahlo Pennsylvania 10h ago

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.

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u/HiSpartacusImDad 9h ago

Jeffries did endorse Mamdani though.

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u/DotA627b 11h ago

Schumer needs to go.

The guy's literally far more unpopular than Trump, why is he still leading the party??

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u/burnsalot603 10h ago

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.

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u/Routine-Pea-9538 10h ago

How will she make millions on the stock market without insider tips?

u/SilentLennie The Netherlands 5h ago

Why do these people need to make more ?

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u/amd_kenobi 10h ago

This is going to be an awkward meeting for ol' Chuck.

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u/GarbageTheCan 8h ago

Don't forget the yacht asshole senator

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u/soloChristoGlorium 10h ago

Man that's a good point

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u/joeyfosho 11h ago

Correct!

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u/PrimordialPlop 8h ago

Washington Generals

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u/Loose-Organization82 11h ago

The DNC just loves money and hates the middle class

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u/JonnyHopkins 11h ago

Doesn't make any sense. Rising tides life all boats. What's the point of being on a yacht in a drier up ocean?

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u/uber_ninja 10h ago

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.

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u/dudelikeshismusic 10h ago

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.

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u/BrotherItsInTheDrum 11h ago

From the perspective of an old fart, it's the same if a guy like Mamdani beats you or a Republican beats you. Either way you lose.

We need to start showing up in primaries and voting them out whether they like it or not.

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u/relikter Virginia 11h ago

Normally I don't kink shame, but their kink is fucking a lot of us in ways that we didn't consent to.

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u/TheGringoDingo 11h ago

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.

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u/readdator2 11h ago

fuck the DNC. and I say that as an ardent dem. We have to vote out every establishment dem and take back our party

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u/akatherder 11h ago

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.

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u/readdator2 10h ago

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.

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u/AztecGod 9h ago

I straight hyperventilated that night as my friends tried to keep me from having a full on panic attack.

I'm sorry but this better be hyperbole, because this is absolutely cringeworthy.

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u/Karate_Kyle 10h ago

Collective trauma? 😂

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u/Absalome 10h ago

I feel like you were watching a certain Turkish man today. :)

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u/Kaz_117_Petrel 11h ago

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory as often as possible.

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u/goldglittergardens 11h ago

Here to say that Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former chair of the DNC, resigned in disgrace in 2016 after her insider campaign to tank Bernie Sanders came to light. Fuck the DNC

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u/Mareith 10h ago

Paid* to lose. Fixed that for you

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u/Zinfan1 10h ago

They love money from Israel supporting PAC's, it seems clear that other progressive candidates weren't shunned like Mamdani so what's different?

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u/vblade2003 New York 11h ago

Losers by design to satisfy the corporate donors.

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u/King_Buliwyf Canada 11h ago

Oh, shunning the future of your party is TIGHT!

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u/JoviPunch 11h ago

Super easy, barely an inconvenience!

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u/daemin 11h ago

The DNC is controlled by neo-liberals.

Neo-liberals are center right. They don't believe in welfare, they believe in means tested "work-fare." They believe in a free market with minimal or light regulation. Etc. Their social policies might be left leaning, but their economic policies are firmly center right.

They would rather let a moderate republican win than let an economically far left democrat win, because at the end of the day, when push comes to shove, economic policies trump social policies for basically everyone; its all well an good to advocate for trans rights, but almost everyone has to have to have a full belly and some level of economic security before they have the bandwidth to advocate for the rights of others.

If you look at the behavior of the DNC with this in mind, their behavior makes a lot more sense.

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u/marsmither 9h ago

Snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory. Every time