Donald Trump has said that he will withhold funding for New York City if presumptive Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor after November’s general election and doesn’t do the “right thing.”
Bullying, threats and coercion are MAGA’s SOP. Also works to dominate the uneducated, contractors, colleges, vulnerable women, wage slaves and the GOP.
This is how the president responds to the democratic process…
I am so glad this guy is scaring the everloving fuck out of the right and the DINOs. I want a legion of folk just like him to run for office in every state and every office so we can sweep away the remnants of the old guard.
How will the federal government move forward if California & New York withhold their federal taxes?
New York & California are the real US’s incomes.
You know what??? NY will survive. We survived prior to the Revolution. We survived after the Revolution and before the Constitution. We will continue this… and honestly, the FEDS do fucking nothing for us and why do they deserve to be paid??? They are fucking loafing political lying fucks. Fuck them and fire them.
No, she can’t win. She is a great politician, but Trump has a 100% success rate at beating women presidential candidates. I actually suspect the DNC is doing it on purpose.
Oh, and yes … barring death or illness the dictator Trump will be going for a 3rd term.
He will die first. He is old, unhealthy, demented and shitting himself on the regular and is literally incoherent.
They said much the same about Putin and - regardless him being in better initial shape than Trump - he’s still around.
Being old and unfit means less event you’ve got money for top-notch healthcare and people willing to ignore (or take advantage of) your physical and mental decline
you have to wake up, the election wasn’t your fault
She?
Not sure what happened. This was a reply to a post saying AOC would be the best Dem presidential candidate.
First day on this new Voyager Lemmy App since Jerboa died … tis wonky.
Voyager is fine but not especially surprising you can’t figure it out
Jerboa died? I’m using it right now on Android…
No clue what happened to mine. It just stopped.
I still am laughing at what Wonkette used for their image and headline on how the qons are reacting to Mamdani… 🤣 🤣 🤣
“Wingnuts Exactly As Calm As You’d Expect Over Mamdani’s NYC Primary Win” https://www.wonkette.com/p/wingnuts-exactly-as-calm-as-youd
This is a still from Big Trouble In Little China, for the curious.
Then join hands with New England and the west coast and starve them back, because that’s who has the money.
I’m not sure how states could withhold money from the feds.
I’m not a lobbyist so I don’t write the laws, but I hear they’re trying it
Wow, interesting!
Thanks for that article. I’m glad they’re fighting back!
That would only work with like-minded politicians. Old Democrats have spent more energy complaining about Mamdani in the past month than Trump’s current presidential run.
So… what you are saying is that it is time to separate the wheat from the chaff. Those old fuckers need to retire and try to still appear wise… they are fucking failures and should know it.
Yeah, we need to support David Hogg’s initiative to primary old useless Dems.
I actually think that conservative journals like the WSJ have created the appearance that Democrats are anti-Mamdani, in an attempt to “divide and conquer” democrats.
i actually see a surprisingly positive response to Mamdani from democratic movements all across the US.
Hey, I am an old Xer and have come to the realization that the reason we lost last election (other than the cheating but decentralized voting almost always wins over cheating)… is because we listened to those “Never Trump Republicans” and embraced the Cheneys and others. That was exactly the wrong tack. We should have embraced instead the Bernie/AOC and Elizabeth faction. That would have communicated to the people that we actually cared about their life circumstances in this post-Covid, war infected supply chain challenged economy. Let the New Economics/Distributist peeps inform us with some resilient strategies. We are Fucking Tired of the Old Ideas.
Bingo. The media is entirely captured, obviously, and people don’t understand what’s really going on as a result.
He is copying Orbán in Hungary. He also “starved” the capital city because they elected an opposition mayor. The city is near bankruptcy at the moment. But hey, mini Trump also wanted to ban the Pride march there last Saturday, and as a result he made it the biggest mass event of the past 10 years.
So if things happen similarly, Trump might be able to actually do this, but it might just ruin his chances at the next election - provided there will be another one, according to him.
I mean doesn’t he already threaten that even when a centrist or conservative Democrat is elected?
ok, taco. can’t wait for the day he walks this back and act like he’s on top of things
I’m sure we’ll hear what he wants to do in two weeks
This is just taco talk. Nothing will come of it.
Peter Pan Trump. The most insecure little boy
This all feels like some carnival played-out Republican PR seeking drama with actors on both sides.
If that happens, time for more mass protests. Surround the White House and stop anyone from entering and leaving until funding to NYC is restored.
I’ll be honest they’re not working from my perspective. I see them everyday and I see the news the next morning.
Protests and public opinion have already contributed to Musk leaving D.C., which if you ask me is a pretty big accomplishment. And protests aren’t usually one and done… It’s about building a movement, and that takes time.
That’s fair. I was going to agree that it wasn’t working.
But we as liberals have to stop looking for perfection. Our protests made Musk have a breakdown and drop out. That’s a win.
I know nothing about this man.
But since Trump hates him he must be awsome
Now there’s plenty of reasons to consider him awesome - those have been listed by more serious comments than mine.
But did you know he used to rap?
Also, right-wing media tried to brand him “Zohran the Destroyer” and very promptly stopped doing so when they realized it sounds way too cool. Apparently he’s going to destroy NYC by advocating for 1) raised minimum wage, 2) universal free daycare, 3) A working fucking bus system. He’s got personal experience with the problems of the bus system, numbers, a working proof of concept, and a plan to Trump-Proof the city
I’m not even American and I’m rooting for him. Both because he might actually improve people’s lives and because he just seems awesome. Been a long time I’ve seen a politician with his charisma, enthusiasm, and vision. I hope NYC votes him into the office!
Mamdani is a NYC mayorial candidate who is a member of DSA, pro-palestine, has stated that he would have Netanyahu arrested if he came to NYC, and is running on a platform of:
- Fast and free buses within NYC
- Rent freeze every year for New Yorkers in rent stabilized housing
- City owned and operated grocery stores
- Creation of a Department of Community Safety to tackle mental health challenges rather than NYPD
- UPK
What’s the situation with grocery stores in NYC that the mayor has to promise city owned grocery stores?
Commercial groceries are expensive, a city owned distributer can negotiate prices with food suppliers and pass those savings along to citizens by selling food at or extremely near cost.
Also food deserts.
What he’s been saying is that NYC has an affordability problem. People can’t afford basic necessities (rent, food, transportation, childcare). Can’t speak for availability and pricing myself, I don’t live in the US.
Food deserts, I imagine.
UPK = universal pre-kindergarten
(Source: I just looked it up because I didn’t have a clue!)
Creation of a Department of Community Safety to tackle mental health challenges rather than NYPD
This type of program has been working out well for Albuquerque. It removes a lot of police intervention for calls they aren’t trained for (anything not involving a weapon, pretty much).
https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/acs-reports-94-success-rate-in-violence-intervention-program/
