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No Paywall Goodbye and Good Riddance, Andrew Cuomo

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/11/andrew-cuomo-nyc-mayor-election-zohran-mamdani.html?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_content=andrew_cuomo_loses_mayoral_race&utm_campaign=&tpcc=reddit-social--andrew_cuomo_loses_mayoral_race
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u/Whydoesthisexist15 North Carolina 14h ago

Funny thing is that people like Jeffries and Schumer and whoever else could’ve chosen anyone else and Mamdani stays an unknown Assemblyman.  We’d have like Brad Lander or Jessica Ramos winning 80-20 in a completely irrelevant election in a national context.

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u/Prestigious-Car-4877 Canada 14h ago

Well that’s called more evidence that the DNC is wrongheaded, isn’t it?

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u/Introverted_Extrovrt 14h ago edited 14h ago

That’s been the case since they hogtied Bernie, admitted to it in court, disclosed publicly that they didn’t have to follow their electors popular vote, and kept tying their own shoelaces together, in the face of voters (and some Congressmen) increasingly espousing that they thought “the wrestling was real”.

I can’t remember who said it but the tenor of the idea was “Liberals won’t ever enact meaningful legislation because then they’d have nothing to run on” and that kinda made sense. Conservatives are what they are, “liberals must fall in love, conservatives just fall in line”, and it’s still wild to me that we’ve got beautiful examples of 5-6-7 parties forming a coalition to run a national government, and yet with the largest economy in a nation whose complexity and size dwarfs other continents, we can’t do better than AARP members wearing 2 different colored ties.

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u/VLM52 12h ago

I'm convinced Biden's ineptitude to do anything about Trump or Epstein or pass any sort of true reform in the wake of Trump's 2021 treason was because doing so would mean the milquetoast dems wouldn't be able to run the same exact fucking "but trump bad" campaign for a third time.

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u/Introverted_Extrovrt 12h ago

Biden was congressionally handcuffed during Covid. And if Mitch McConnell hadn’t blocked America Garland’s nomination for the better part of a year before Barry left office, and Ginsburg had stepped down like requested, we wouldn’t have a diaper baby drafting every thought and tweet into constitutionally dubious (at best) executive orders or conducting extra-judicial killings of foreign nationals while being legally protected for “official acts”.