So it's him against Eric Adams now. Shouldn't be all that hard, and I wish him the best.
Long time supporter of incremental change and centrist policies here. Saw the way the Democratic party crumbled to dust after the election, saw the way Schumer and Jeffries went AWOL. It's time for change. Not just generational, but also political, social, and philosophical.
Let Mamdani win, and let him turn New York into a better, more humane place.
Cuomo still might run as an independent, and the DNC might back him given how terrified they are of someone like Mamdani
This is a wake up call to the DNC
DNC gonna keep hitting that snooze button to any and all wake-up calls.
If they ignore it, the progressives are starting to get ready to take it in the primaries themselves. There's been an increase in young progressives running for state & local office following these results
(https://bsky.app/profile/amandalitman.bsky.social/post/3lsflzpcjlk2i)
What an awful graph... Looks completely made up.
If it isn't complete bullshit, they did a really bad job of making it appear legitimate in any way whatsoever.
Not a presidential election. Or a senate election. Or even a house election.
A mayoral election.
And this should scare the DNC?
Baloney.
They poured millions and million and massively outspent Zohran and still lost. Zohran had no name recognition, and was virtually a nobody in February. The establishment worked hard against him and still lost. They rolled out shameless endorsement of Cuomo after shameless endorsement (like Bill Clinton, apparently). The establishment didn't lose for a lack of effort. This could happen anywhere next
Millions thrown away just so he can fold over.
The US PACs system is absolutely broken...
Oh goody, one good thing could happen anywhere while a million bad things could happen a million times in a million places.
You’re not gonna trick me into having hope over one dumb mayoral election. We’re too fucked for that to make a difference.
It's 1933 and hitler is gonna take over the world and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it. nazis are gonna win, might as well give up. They can never be defeated
Fine, give up on hope universally. Just do it less vocally.
(That is to say, shut up)
Hope does not mean blind hope. It does not mean you will always win. It means knowing that you can
Always try. No matter how hopeless it seems, you always have the possibility to win a seemingly impossible fight. This a shining example of overcoming and winning big
Giving up is a guaranteed loss. That is what they want us to do. Never give in
Politics is one of those claw games where they rig it to barely be able to win. Just enough that you keep shoving quarters into it, but not so much that you get something you actually want.
Except I’m forced to play and get berated when I say it’s a stupid game designed to frustrate you.
Mayor of the biggest city in the nation is pretty damn important. Higher population than half the states in the nation. Most governors are small potatoes in comparison.
Oh you mean like Rudy Giuliani? Mayor of the biggest city? The Mayor of America?
Unless we’re going to back to polities like the ancient Greeks NYC thinks too highly of itself.
Oh you mean like Rudy Giuliani? Mayor of the biggest city? The Mayor of America?
I mean, yes? What point do you think you're making here by bringing up someone who hasn't been mayor for nearly 30 years?
These are his policies:
rent freeze, making city buses free and raising taxes on the most wealthy
If this goes ahead in NY, you can be damn sure that it's going to stir the pot.
Yeah man. Giuliani was pretty damn influential for a while. Did you not notice that?
He had influence because of a terrorist attack and being a dumb lickspittle to a con man with Russian mob contacts. New Yorkers hated Giuliani before it was cool.
I refuse to have hope.
I don't really understand what the point of bringing up Giuliani here is...?
Ok, so go mope in a corner and stop posting, because you have nothing to add to the conversation.
"Submit, peasant. Resistance is futile!"
Democrats the people of this nation are screaming at you. Listen.
Please please please let this one good thing happen.
This won’t affect me directly, but I’ve been pulling for Mamdani anyway. I know that basically amounts to “thoughts and prayers”, but still.
If New Yorkers manage to elect a Mayor that's not a bootlicker it's a sign that everything has a chance to get better.
Yeah, that’s what I think, too.
Yeah same, I’m on another continent but it’s great to see good news out of America for once. I’m happy for New Yorkers!
Don’t worry, even if it’s good now it won’t be good later for some dumb reason
Cuomo conceded. Mamdani won!!
Unless Cumo splits the vote by running as an independent in the election.
Please let this be the snowball that causes an avalanche of change in our country.
I can't wait to see what centrists are going to do instead of voting blue no matter who.
No idea who Mamdani is but they are sure to blame ranked-choice voting and keep trying to get it banned.
Simple: vote for Cuomo.
Cuomo's speech seemed to go more into the direction of sitting this one out and wait for a safer way to attempt a comeback.
He's probably going to do some polling but unless there's some big advantage for him in a realistic scenario, trying to run and risking losing can damage his political career beyond repair. And yes, on an ideal world it would already be dead beyond saving, but we have the world we have.
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