.. and Cuomo is allegedly a member of the democratic party.
What a desperate fool.
Well, hopfully the knowledge that he's Trump's toady will be the kiss of death for his candidacy. Trump is about as popular in NYC as ass cancer.
It's wild how wanting to give the public a higher quality of life turns centrists into fascists.
Blue ~~NO Matter WHO!~~ Sometimes when WE Tell you!
Some Democrat Andy turned out to be
He's doing an RFK
The mask is officially off, then? After weeks of pretending that he's the "only guy who can stand up to Trump", he's now just openly admitting that he's actually team MAGA?
How does this guy even walk properly, with balls like that? Please, New York. Shame this man. He desperately needs a healthy dose of humility.
I mean, when the mask is made of tissue paper it doesn't really take much to come off.
he's now just openly admitting that he's actually team MAGA?
Always have been.
He loved the IDC (Independent Democrat Conference, a group of DINOs in NY state senate that blocked most progressive legislation despite consistent Democrat majority) when he was in power because they gave him a constant excuse for acting like the Republican that he actually is. Funny how the IDC dissolved around the same time that Cuomo's own machine started falling apart.
Fuck this used up enemy of the people, I hope the rest of his life is lonely and miserable. I can't wait for him to lose handily to the same upstart progressive twice in a row.
Dems see a socialist and immediately become Republican. They are so removed from their voters...
Isn’t Mamdani a democrat? Can you explain how the democratic party running Mamdani shows they are removed from their voters?
The Democratic party establishment has not been on his side at all. Ken Martin just endorsed him like two weeks ago, because it looks inevitable he'll win, not because he ever supported Mamdani. A last second endorsement from the head of the party is a slap in the face.
Well, the rules are forcing them to run with Mamdani. Plenty of Democratic lawmakers do not like it. Cory Booker, Chuck Schumer, a lot of democratic legislators in his own state are not endorsing him. A lot of them did endorse Cuomo, if they didn't this year, they have in the past, so to be suddenly mum and not even a feeble "I support him" is... odd at best.
There's also no word behind the scenes that any legislators are even attempting to get Cuomo to drop out after... how many years has the argument been that third parties split the democratic vote? Now you have a Democrat doing just that and no condemnation from any new York legislators that he's risking a republican victory. Not even a chant of "Blue no matter who" If bernie sanders had ran independent against Hillary, would Democratic leaders be this silent? Schumer would be furious and making press conferences condemning him. He doesn't do that to cuomo.
In the meantime, multiple sources have been pushing mayor Adams to step down from his own independent race. Both democratic and republican (and billionaire), presumably to get more votes to cuomo.
Well. We have a bit of a situation. While not too many of us were paying attention, the democratic party was all bought and paid for by aipac and pac. We all thought it was just Republicans. It wasn't.
The Dems have been becoming less for the people and just another Republican party. And for the last 10 years at least (likely accelerated by citizens United (aka- legal bribing of politicians) they are basically almost 100% Republican. I recall telling my lefty friends I thought Kamala sounded like a Republican. Cause she did.
Democrats were presented like the party that supported BLM, trans rights, pro lgbtq. Pro education. Housing the homeless. Food for kids. Free education. All that good stuff.
But in reality they have done very little for any of those things. They just didn't publicly go against any of them.
Though they often did vote against them if the aipac or pac money told them too. They are like 80% bought and paid for.
We incorrectly assumed they stood with those good things. In part due to a few of the Dem politicians actually pushing a few bills. Mostly at the state level.
But literally just a handful of bills in the last decade. Nothing that actually fully protected these groups or services.
So when Trump started his illegal b.s, they weren't going to go against him. Why would they. ?
Many Dems voted for his completely unqualified cabinet members.
That was at the start of the year.
Now after things have been ramping up, we have about a dozen Dems (in office) finally speaking up.
Out of those. Half are posers. They voted with Trump on cabinet picks, to block Epstein list. And they voted against Al Greens impeachment. Oh and let's not forget. The big beautiful bill. Plenty of Dems voted for it.
So here is our predicament. We have a compromised party.
They dem posers are going to do whatever they can to keep their positions and pac money.
It's a corrupt "club". They don't want anyone coming in and disrupting their power.
They don't want new dems coming in who will show everyone how corrupt they are. Call them out. Show the people it can be different.
These corrupt Dems all need to go. And right now there are so damn many of them. Including Jeffries and Schumer. That it's going to be a challenge just to get the party cleaned up.
At the same time we are trying to fight fascist take over.
It's quite a lot.
But we have to clean house. Replace every single one if we have to. Any who are not being incredibly vocal and direct about Israel, Gaza, human rights, and trump.
No more Dems who won't make a stand for us. No more Republicans pretending to be Dems.
Many are saying we need a 3rd party. We do have independents. But I do think we can take the dem party back for the people. We just need to vote in the right people. Push back against corporate bots and propaganda. Vote in our own self interest.
He won the primary so they have to run him. They've still unofficially backed Cuomo and even Adams, though, and all of the NY Dem leadership were either late in endorsing him or haven't yet.
He won the primary in a surprise landslide against the establishment favorite and they've been sulking ever since.
In contrast, Adams won his primary by a tiny margin and they were falling over each other to declare him "the future of the party" the very next day.
He won the primary so they have to run him.
Democracy in action! Those darned democrats.
I feel like yours is just an unproductive, cynical take. Look what the republicans did to transform from Bush era neo-con to whatever the fuck they are now. Sure the incumbents have an advantage, but parties do shift in their makeup and priorities. Instead of bemoaning the Democratic Party his win within it should be celebrated and a signal that it can be realigned into something people will get out and vote for. Really what is the alternative you are advocating for?
Edit: Read through the other comments eg https://lemmy.world/comment/20106587 I was just trying to highlight Mamdani winning as the system working and that DINOs like Coumo can be replaced. There are a lot of corrupt and entrenched democrats we agree on that.
Instead of bemoaning the Democratic Party his win within it should be celebrated
I AM celebrating. I'm celebrating him and the voters that brought him there while bemoaning the party leadership.
The party leadership that did their best to prevent Mamdani from becoming the nominee after working with Republicans and their media to make sure that his predecessor, a corrupt cop, became the nominee and thus mayor the last time.
I was just trying to highlight Mamdani winning as the system working and that DINOs like Coumo can be replaced
You're half right. It DOES mean that corrupt corporate Democrats can be replaced, like AOC also proved with her shock defeat of then-chair of the DNC and 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley in 2018.
It does NOT, however, mean that the system is working*. It means that if enough people work hard enough to elect someone exceptionally charismatic who actually listens to them rather than rich owner donors, it CAN be possible to defeat a system that's specifically designed by both major parties to make it almost literally impossible.
*for the people in general, I mean. It's working great for the rich and powerful people it was designed to further enrich and empower.
Looks someone didn't follow the primary lol. Even now establishment dems range from luke-warm to outright refusal to endorse him. The attack campaigns and hugely asymmetric funding for his opponents has largely been from dems.
He's the democrat nominee because he won against all odds, not because the establishment welcomed him.
Let's not celebrate before the day is over. Remember 2016!
But it really does sound like he just continues to fuck up:
instead of trying to cleave off Mamdani’s online support, Cuomo appears to be trying to siphon off support from Sliwa.
“It’s a desperate swing,” one Democratic strategist who spoke to WIRED under the condition of anonymity to speak candidly without involving the firm where they work. “The clear desire to align himself with power at all costs, wherever that power might be, is one of the reasons he’s getting rejected so hard online. It’s a misunderstanding of the moment.”
Also he sexually harassed women and there is nothing he can do to make us forget that.
Scratch a lib...
Fake libs aren't actually libs, you know. Scratch an imbecile....find a gullible, non discerning magat.
There's a reason we say scratch a liberal and a fascist bleeds.
That seems like a bad idea when running in New York.
The newest thing I've seen from Cuomo supporters is the twin fantasy that Sliwa will drop out and every single Sliwa polled voter will switch to Cuomo neither of which is at all realistic.
The calls for Silwa to drop out are so desperate. Asking the opposing party to just butt out of the race so the two Democrats can duke it out is just insane.
Yeah I have seen that all over Instagram. I think people with either not even go vote if silwa drops. Or vote mamdani.
Cuomo is like a Rudy Giuliani. He's slimy. Greasy. You can just tell by looking at him. He looks like a sketchy ass dude who would definitely steal the police pension fund and gamble with it.
One of the reasons MAGA Republicans hate the Democrats is because they see them as craven, politically opportunistic sell-outs. All Cuomo is doing here, is giving them a living example of that stereotype.
One of the reasons MAGA Republicans hate the Democrats is because they see them as craven, politically opportunistic sell-outs.
LOL, that would mean they don't take a look at their own party which is openly calling for the end of democracy, aligning themselves with people like Thiel and Curtis Yarvin and Musk, doing endless self-dealing, and selling America off for parts while most Americans are ground underfoot. Not sure how the Democrats could possibly top them on being craven, opportunistic sell-outs, honestly.
Cuomo is running as an independent for a reason, I think. As bad and as infuriating as the Democrats can sometimes be....they don't want Cuomo in their party.
LOL, that would mean they don't take a look at their own party which is openly calling for the end of democracy, aligning themselves with people like Thiel and Curtis Yarvin and Musk, doing endless self-dealing, and selling America off for parts while most Americans are ground underfoot.
That's just it...they don't see that. At all. None of the media they consume frames it like that.
They are told, day in and day out, that everything Trump and his allies are doing is justified, because Democrats have ruined the system. They are told, that all these extreme measures that Trump is "forced" to use, are the only way to correct the course that Democrats have set for the country. They are told that Republicans have been trying to stop them all along, and now have to tear the whole thing down, just to cleanse the rot.
It's all bullshit...but it is what they are being told. They're being told this on the news. They're being told this in church. They're being told this in the job. And they're being told this in the street. They are surrounded by an alternative version of reality, that paints Democrats as an inherently evil organization consisting of people just like Cuomo.
I would say it is true and polls reflect it. Democrats have spent the past 2 decades promising one thing and then giving up after the first hurdle. They gave up trying to reach anyone outside of major cities, and regularly sell out their base in the interest of "gaining moderates". They have lost their credibility with pretty much everyone but yuppies. That's why a self proclaimed socialist like Sanders polls so well in places that are 75% Pro Trump.
This Cuomo cunt just REEKS of desperation.
Being a complete piece of shit knows no political affiliation, and pieces of shit tend to band together.
I think he looks a bit like Vince McMahon
It's the high blood pressure.
Or a clever disguise... Have they ever been seen in the same room? Isn't Vince kind of disappeared lately?
Also isn't the situation with Cuomo kind of a classic heel turn?
But mama that's where the grift is.
Wow, this asshat. Just fuck off already.
Good?
Meh. It's really not about Cuomo. It's really about leftists and if they will show up.
This is a test.
He not really in this case, leftists showing up is of course good but not how a NYC mayoral race is won. NYC voters actually lean more conservative than you would think, but they're not ill-natured and full of resentment like a MAGA type. You get them to come out to the polls by talking about practical things like affordability and public transit.
Getting the leftists to come out is a good prime strategy in lots of city council and state assembly races though where the demographics are more constrained.
Guy, if they cannot show up for a candidate who is DIRECTLY a representative of what they want, then there is no point taking them seriously going forward.
Well slow down, the election hasn't happened yet and I have a feeling they won't let you down.
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