lol didn't he say in the debate that the thing about him was that he was the only one who could stand up to the orange guy? these cuomos are really the slimiest, most disgustingly unprincipled people... i never understand people who have literally zero shame.
this NY election is the staging grounds for the next presidential election.
Will there be election interference? national guard show up during the mayoral election day, hitting locations where Zohran is polling well? would the government declare the vote fraudulent and appoint whoever they want? Will the government just arrest/deport/disappear the leading candidate and fabricate a smear campaign?
keep an eye open and if anyone can, they should resist
I think they'll let Mamdani win and then endlessly fuck with NYC and blame him for it.
socialism always fails... thanks to US interference.
Real talk? New Yorkers kinda fuck with that.
With his corruption and sexual harassment, joining the Trump camp makes total sense for him.
If NY elects Cuomo, one of America's most powerful blue states will be in Trump's pocket.
There's no chance of that happening without some kind of election interference. New Yorkers hate Cuomo. He resigned in disgrace because he's a sexual predator and because he spent COVID killing everyone's grandparents and lying about it. By the time he resigned in disgrace, he was a full mask-off villain.
He's a nepo-baby politician that got to play King of New York for a very short time because of his daddy's connections. Born on third base and thinks he hit a triple. He's only doing this at all because, even though he resigned in disgrace, he thinks he's owed a shot at the White House, and mayor of New York is a first step back into the field.
I genuinely believe Alan Chartok would have a better shot at being mayor at this point.
Trump was found liable for rape, was responsible for fumbling America's response to COVID killing a lot more than just people's grandparents, and incited a violent insurrection against the Nation's capitol and despite all that America handed him back the keys to the Whitehouse.
The majority of Americans seem to have short memories. Hopefully New Yorkers are better than that.
"Trump himself, as well as top Republicans, will say the goal is to stop Mamdani... and you'll be wasting your vote on Sliwa. So I feel good about that," Cuomo said in a leaked recording.
Liberals are in bed with MAGA. Just different kool-aid flavors.
Liberals are in bed with MAGA
What an absurd and reductive take, have you considered including a drop of nuance with your hyperbole?
Are you shilling for corporations, the rich, and in bed with MAGA? No? Then, Stfu, it doesn't apply to you.
Neo-libs are
Is it your impression that Cuomo is a liberal?
depends on your definition of liberal
yes, and i'm tired of pretending the word doesn't mean "capitalist pig".
Yes that's about what I thought you thought it meant lol
At a certain point in a tribal structure and framework, a word just gets reframed to mean "enemy" and becomes more or less useless for having any kind of conversation, because of logic like this.
liberalism is that political philosophy which combines capitalist economics with democratic election based governance. and yes, capitalists are the enemy, good job!
Doesn't sound like Cuomo is very in favor of democratic election based governance, that's kind of literally 100% of the point of why he's even in the news still
And yes, lumping anyone who is "enemy" into the same category and using catchy labels for them and using labels for one "enemy" camp to refer to people who are in a totally different camp, because what's the difference the important thing is we found an enemy, is exactly the thinking I am calling out. Good job providing a pretty good example of it
split whatever hairs you think will help you sleep at night, lib.
Wait, why am I a lib now? You know me, you know my viewpoint? Or you just start deciding anyone who disagrees with you in any way, must be a liberal otherwise they wouldn't be disagreeing with you?
It's actually remarkable how well this propaganda framework works. It's actually exactly the same as a lot of the MAGA structure, where they declare media as "biased" or people as "Marxist." It doesn't matter whether it's actually true. It's just a little self-sustaining structure, a reason to dismiss anyone who disagrees with them in any way, and they don't need to think any more about it once that box has been ticked.
I've actually noticed this thought process in a lot of Lemmy people. That little fumble where you decided Cuomo was a liberal might seem like kind of a trivial misstatement or something, but it's actually hugely telling about how your thought processes are working. I would really encourage you to reflect on it.
i'm sure you have an argument, i'm just not interested in masturbatory hair splitting and mental gymnastics anymore. but thanks for making assumptions about me, my thought process, and my stances, while lambasting me for doing the same when you've offered no clear position of your own except "lol u dum" dressed up in flowery language.
i'm just not interested in masturbatory hair splitting and mental gymnastics anymore
Good to hear! I'd recommend letting go of them, yes. Good job!
Depending where you are from it doesnt though. Same as "freedom to..." and "freedom from..." are two completely different aspects. Economic liberal and social liberal are two different ways of thinking
split hairs all you like, liberals are capitalists and capitalism is poison
I am not splitting hair. Are equal rights and minority protection capitalist ideas? Is democracy capitalistic? The right to education and religiouse freedom? The freedom to not be exploited at the workplace?
rofl you're talking to a middle aged queer and religious minority who has spent their entire adult life watching liberals make it very fucking clear that they don't give a shit about any of those things, they pay lip service then throw us under the bus the moment they're elected. for decades they have declined opportunity after opportunity to codify our rights into legislated law, preferring to leave it as case law and impotently stand by as the courts are captured to the inevitable end of our rights being stripped from us, which is now in progress. stop being so naive.
Holy fuck, Cuomo just won't give up. The voters have spoken very clearly, and they said "you fucking lost."
It's a winning strategy if they can pull it off. Spoil the democrats' vote by organizing the republicans who know they are bound to lose to vote for cuomo. and once again the only thing on decency's side is decency itself because this coordination is perfectly lawful, and mamdani can basically only appeal to the honor of cheaters or the passion of an apathetic public to do anything about this.
~~What I'm not seeing is any explanation for why the DNC, an independent and definitely-not-captured opposition party, is accepting help from president Donald "not only is the emperor not wearing any clothes but i'm pretty sure I can make out decades-old dried blood and jism on his thighs" Trump. Unless of course cuomo has taken that extraordinary step for himself, which of course leads to the question of why the DNC, an independent and definitely-not-captured opposition party, would tolerate such a brazen display of broken faith and ~~seeking~~ finding comfort from their supposed opponents.~~ it's because cuomo isn't running as a democrat this time.
What I’m not seeing is any explanation for why the DNC ... is accepting help
Cuomo is running as an independent. He is running against the DNC.
Cuomo is running against the Democratic nominee, not the DNC. I haven't seen the DNC has step up to back Mamdani, and it's pretty clear that DNC leadership backs Cuomo.
The closest I've seen is an interview With Tim Miller of The Bulwark and Jeffries. In that interview he presses him on that, where's the endorsement? All he could bring himself to answer with was 'I can tell you, the only person I have scheduled meetings with are with Mamdani', so actually I'd say it's pretty clear that DNC leadership isn't backing Cuomo but also not doing much for Mamdani either, which is bad and absurd but not as bad actually as backing someone other than who the people chose in the primary.
You can't simply take the lack of vocal support in this intermediate time in between as clear evidence that they back Cuomo, reality is far more nuanced. Your take could have more ground to stand on as we get closer to the actual election without anything different happening though.
interview link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_szbshrgQHg
The DNC doesn't get the benefit of the doubt. No endorsement and no support from Democratic leaders is active opposition to his run. They burned up all their second chances years ago. Anyone paying attention knows who they are.
I'll be goddamned, you're right. Not a single thing on his campaign website about DNC.
He's doing a great job sinking whatever is left of his reputation.
I knew the president very well
Do tell us about that, known sex pest Andrew Cuomo
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