What are dems saying about him?
We all know they are just the other side of the uniparty
They’re trying to paint him as a radical. He has Hakeem scrambling to discredit and disparage him any time he’s in front of a mic and asked. So I’m guessing his donor puppeteers are shaken up too.
Notice how democrats only demand choices when the left wing candidate wins the primary but theyll demand eveyone fall behind the right wing candidate when they win. I wonder where all the vote blue no matter who people went.
I wonder where all the vote blue no matter who people went.
FWIW this shit is getting about as old as the “wondering aloud about people who thought Trump would be better for Palestine” comments.
I wonder where all the vote blue no matter who people went.
They’re all still working for and with Republicans.
This is funny considering the comment right below yours
more like teletubbies, instead of barnie.
Vote blue no matter who!
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I’ll believe it when I see it. I’m not ruling out a rat fucking yet.
A vast majority of Democrats support Mamdani, in legislative chambers state and federal and especially in polls. That’s why Zohran Mamdani IS A DEMOCRAT.
That vast majority excludes every one in a leadership position in the party.
Ah yes, those people. The ones we all know. “The establishment.”
He aint doing shit they actually have a problem with. Or they’d do something about it.
Somehow I understand their reaction… the democrates are afraid that this guy shows the worlds what powergreedy hippocrites they are and how similar they are to the republicans.
They became the very thing they swore to destroy…
hippocrites
A river horse?
Lmao, reminds me of my brother calling me a 河马 (“hippo” in Chinese, or as you said it transliterates to “river horse”) when he couldn’t find the word for “hippocrite” in Chinese.
(For context: We are a Chinese-American household)
No, that’s a hippopotamus, you’re thinking of an ancient philosopher from Kos.
Lmao no we’re not, that’s why he’s on our ticket. Zohran’s our guy.
I hope so. For your sake.
Polls are showing him above every other candidate combined.
Don’t be shocked if he loses. I wouldn’t put it past even Democrats to help the Republicans rig that election. Worse case they see he will win even with all the rigging that Trump sends ICE and bam he off to El Salvador. Democrats will quietly cheer.
I have no hope in our politicians saving us and damn sure not in voting our way out of fascism. Until we rise up collectively and realize this a class war. Us vs Billionaires nothing going change.
I do hope he wins and turns over all the dominos but on the other hand. I seen to many so called progressive like him. Who after they won they fall in line with the party.
We need more Luigis and I hope he wins and sticks to his principals. Guess we will see. But I am not getting my hopes up anymore.
We need to organize and protest
With firearms if you want to be respected
Considering what happened in Buffalo with India Walton, you’re absolutely right to be concerned. For anyone who doesn’t know, Walton successfully challenged Buffalo mayor Byron Brown in the Democratic primary, but he colluded with Republicans and ran as a write-in candidate in the general election and beat her.
The problem ist still the people that vote.
In Germany our last government was a coalition of social democrates and the green party. The actual majority party is the “christian” conservatives again after the green party did a lot they had promised that was the right direction but shook the peoples minds. A lot was done with good intensions but rushing forward with blind actionism.
Also some politicians needed some “time to acclimate” to political reallity.
And of course our version of the MAGA jokels… instead of concentrating on the real problems… they constantly shit on peoples weight or youth.
Vote NYC !
The inverse applies to Trump. He is a T-rex to his fellow Americans and allies, but a Barnie to Putin.
I’m not going to get excited until Mamdani wins and actually does what he promises. Speeches and vocal support aren’t worth anything anymore.
Still, solid meme that makes a good point.
I don’t doubt Mamdani, I doubt the NYC City Council. They’re gonna be a huge roadblock.
Yes, but Mamdani has shown his willingness to fight for us. Even if he can’t pull off all his agenda, it’s still better than the alternative candidates who won’t even try.
I’m not going to get excited until
Our future survival as a species depends on teaching ourselves and our kids to find the reasonable line to ride between getting prematurely excited and letting our emotions getting exploited, and sinking into absolute, checked-out, fucking apathy and this is a tall order because the majority of Americans, and much of the larger developed world, fall into one of those two camps and few people in between, because measured, thoughtful responses and appropriate emotional investment and momentum is just not as easy to rally behind and make memes about.
Nothing inspires apathy like the 40 years of Democrats doing the wrong thing and making it so food and shelter are cost-prohibitive for tens of millions.
I’ll believe Mamdani is the real deal when he shows me. It’s unreasonable to expect Democrats to do the things they say they’re going to do.
Fair, but do show up and vote please
I always vote, not that it matters.
You’re fucking pathetic
It does matter, but its also just one part of building out our progressive movement
Good point.
It may just be me, but Mamdani just reminds me very much of 2007-2008 Obama, who himself was massively popular and saying all the right things, and then opted to rule as a conservative and helped usher along US fascism in the end.
I feel Mamdani might be different since he openly and unflinchingly said he doesn’t like capitalism, something that many politicians are afraid to do. And he is a member of DSA which Obama isn’t a member of so that is something of a solid credential for Mamdani. But only time will tell if he sticks to his promises and conviction.
Time, and a constant light show around him to help any would-be assassins miss.
He’s saying a lot of the right things.
The question is what he’ll do when he realizes that being the mayor of NYC means he and his family have the opportunity to accrue generational wealth if they just play ball with the bad guys. Obama’s answer to that was: “I’ll do whatever you want.”
Obama was never anywhere close to socialist and was already deep in the political game when elected, this is why he was successful in his role, he accrued political capital in his time in Senate by “dealing with the bad guys.” They are from very different places playing very different games going into very different roles.
And we have to expect every politician is going to “deal with the bad guys” because that’s how you play. Vast sums of virtual and real wealth change hands behind closed doors and through policy decisions, this isn’t the “bad” in what makes for “bad guys” in politics, what makes it bad is the source of this money and how it’s being used by outside forces like corporations seeking specific agendas to make their shareholders even wealthier.
Obama could’ve codified Roe and he didn’t. He ran on doing it.
He also could have forced through single-payer healthcare if he wanted, the ACA is a watered down, conservative-designed alternative. There were many ways that Obama established a set-in precedent for Democrats basically becoming the modern conservative party as the Republicans pushed so far right without actual political or cultural opposition that they threw the overton window out into the fucking sea.
Thank you for your commentary. I hope you have a wonderful Saturday afternoon.
Anyone can do anything, so obviously we can’t say definitively what Mamdani might do, but comparing him to Obama is disingenuous nonsense. Obama never said the workers owning the means of production was the ultimate goal; he was never a socialist and never espoused leftist beliefs personally, regardless of policy.
Furthermore, all Obama did was talk about hope and change. He coasted into office on empty rhetoric, whereas Mamdani has been crystal clear about his policy goals right from the start. Saying a politician could bail once in office is reasonable, but comparing these two is unbounded idiocy.
I hope I’m wrong. Time will tell.
Did Obama actually said that? I don’t know if it’s true, but I heard that Obama told Bernie that he can’t be the good guy and be president.
Corruption aside, once getting into position of political power, it is actually harder to maintain it because of different stakeholders involved. Take the military industrial complex, for example. We rightly chastise its profit taking motive by artificially inducing wars. But the sad truth is that they are jobs providers to peripheral places where there are little to no opportunities for many, especially in the desert states in the American Southwest and in isolated regions of Scotland and Northern England in the case of UK. No politicians want to be branded as jobs destroyer.
Even without the opportunity for personal corruption, balancing genuine concerns and interests is a hard juggling act for any politicians. And that’s not even including campaign financing and its trap of being beholden to the donor. Unfortunately, there is strong correlation between electoral success and how much money is thrown into the campaigning. It is one factor as to why the Citizens United was allowed by the US Supreme Court.
Did Obama actually said that?
Absolutely he did. He stood aside when Occupy was brutalized. He did nothing meaningful to help consumers during the foreclosure crisis. He gave the MIC seven wars at once during his presidency. (Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and Libya.) He made sure the big banks got their bailouts. His promise of universal health care morphed into ‘access to health care’, which of course, only existed if you could absorb being price-gouged for your insurance.
Hell, he walked into Flint and pretended to take a drink of water as a political stunt, when he and everyone in that room knew their water was still poisoned with lead.
Obama was a massively corrupt president, and one of the biggest disappointments in American history.
only existed if you could absorb being price-gouged for your insurance.
The last time i tried to get insurance on the exchange, they said it would be 5 thousand dollars.
I said “5000 dollars a year? that seems high”
they said “Oh, no sir. 5000 dollars a month”
I said “Goodbye” and hung up.
It’s the party of status quo. Appeasement while they court the progressives and disallow the progressives to run for office
Now that Newsom’s pushing through the redistricting vote there’s a chance some actual progressives can run in the new districts. If they’re brazen enough they can gain some power but only if they fight for it.
Is that Barney Sander?
Democrats facing Trump: “We tried nothing and we’re all out of options”
Only one of those men is a threat to their comfort zone.
