"Democrats will be doing a disservice to the people they wish to serve"
So.... billionaires
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2025
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As long as Democrats block popular leftist policy they are no better than the Republicans.
If a party only allows policy that consolidates wealth into the hands of the rich then it is useless to workers.
Sorry babe, but vote blue no matter who.
And, uh, by blue we mean red this time.
Are recalls a thing there? Because that Paterson guy needs to be recalled.
Edit: He’s not even governor. He served a partial term in 15 years ago and wasn’t even elected. This is madness.
Slander is spoken, libel is written.
That dude nailed that character in one of those 'best in history, nobody else could have' performances.
JK Simmons was the objectively correct choice. 100% perfectly cast.
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I'll change the title to 'attack' instead of slander because the grammar police is getting out of hand
"Democrats will be doing a disservice [...] if they don't come together and decide to support whichever candidate has the most support among them"...
what do you think a primary election is? it is literally seeing who has the most support among democrats. so this guy is the one who is doing the disservice of not deciding to support Zohran
Yeah but the people don't know who they want. The DNC knows who the people want. This is why I nominate Hillary Clinton as NYC mayor.
yeah, let's stop "cannibalizing each other's support" by attacking the nominee and giving support to others. very sound strategy, mr paterson.
sheessh. can't he SEE that the democrats need new blood
Democrats and Republicans work for the same billionaires. You are about to witness Democrats working against Mamdani like they never have against Republicans.
In a fight between socialism and fascism, liberals will ALWAYS support the fascists.
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Fuuuuuck the Democrats. The other right wingers.
I've been saying for years and years that the whole American political system is WWF theater. It's all scripted to catch the attention spans of people who only care about seeing "bad guys versus good guys" and it's been wildly effective. It was somewhat cathartic to see this idea take off in the mainstream and people like John Stewart calling it out now.
Too bad it's too late now. We could have used better representation and actual leaders who care about people about 30 years ago. Instead we have pathetic actors shit-talking for the camera and voting on bills with their investment portfolios.
Nah, even wrestling has more than two factions
And the actors are often human behind the mask. Sometimes even likable!
Plus the athleticism of the performances is, you know; something.
Mamdani: It's about the policies
Democrats: Gee whiz, you ran such a good campaign
Voters: It's about the policies
Democrats: Gosh, if only centrists could find such a charismatic guy.
They think everyone but them is so stupid. It's infuriating that the system is set up so we're forced to work with these twats.
We found that charismatic centrist they're looking for. His name is Barack Obama, and we're still dealing with the fallout of him campaigning on "change" and failing to deliver.
Gosh, if only centrists could find such a charismatic guy.
The Overton window has moved so far right that the DNC only has humorless executives and dead faced lawyers left as candidates.
Because of Obama I had health insurance. Because of Obama I was not in medical bankruptcy.
But then again that was almost 10 YEARS AGO. Blaming a black American man for White Backlash is so American it hurts.
The last time a non-change candidate won a presidential election in the US was 2004. No president since Obama has had enough of a majority in congress to enact meaningful change, and it was squandered. It's not entirely his fault, but as the leader of the Democrats at the time he takes the plurality of responsibility. The ACA started off as a change that could have fixed healthcare in the US but got watered down into propping up a fundamentally broken system.
Trying to deflect a politicians legitimate failures as racism or sexism is so Democrat it hurts. Yes, racism and sexism played a part in Trump winning, but discontent with the status quo pushed him over the finish line. If racism and sexism alone are enough to fuel the Trump regime and keep it in power, then I guess it's time to flee the country, because we're a lost cause.
Leaders move masses. Look at Lincoln, look at either Roosevelt (who didn't even come from the working class). They had a vision and they pulled the country towards that vision. I refuse to believe that out of 350million of us there aren't a couple people capable of being real leaders. 'we don't have the votes' - so get them. Bernie Sanders was polling at less than 1% when he entered the race against Clinton, and he nearly beat her by building a movement. The reason they don't have the votes is because they don't want them. They don't actually believe in progressive policies.
He should have ripped heaven from earth for that supreme court seat.
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Barack... Obama? Oh! You mean Captain Drone Strikes?
"Already caught up in a scandal involving a close aide, embattled New York Governor David Paterson was charged on Wednesday by the state's ethics watchdog for unlawfully taking free baseball tickets to the 2009 World Series.
The charge came days after Paterson ditched his short-lived campaign for a new term in office following revelations that he and state police had spoken with a woman who accused a top governor's aide, David Johnson, of assault last year.
After speaking with Paterson, the woman failed to appear in court and her case was dismissed, according to The New York Times, which first reported the story."
Democrats' dicks don't work.
We cannot aford ideas without a plan for implementation or funding.
From Zohran's site:
Taxes on big corporations and the wealthiest New Yorkers
Zohran has a plan to bring down the cost-of-living through city-owned grocery stores, universal childcare, and other bold proposals, and he knows exactly how to pay for it, too. Zohran’s revenue plan will raise the corporate tax rate to match New Jersey’s 11.5%, bringing in $5 billion. And he will tax the wealthiest 1% of New Yorkers—those earning above $1 million annually—a flat 2% tax (right now city income tax rates are essentially the same whether you make $50,000 or $50 million). Zohran will also implement common-sense procurement reform, end senseless no-bid contracts, hire more tax auditors, and crack down on fine collection from corrupt landlords to raise an additional $1 billion.
There’s some unspoken words there:
We cannot aford ideas without a plan for implementation or funding.
“…that must not impact our wealthy donors.”
Shhhh, their corporate doners are trying to push propaganda through them! Stop defending a candidate who is not at all sympathetic towards the upper class!
He hasn't been NY Governor for 15 fucking years. I haven't heard a peep from him since. Now all of a sudden he's issuing press releases using his old title?
The GOP must love seeing the Democrats doing the work of destroying the Democrats for them.
They've spent more time and effort going after Mamdani than they did trying to stop the "Big Beautiful Bill."
Hey, don't be disingenuous, they got the name changed in the senate and Booker stood tall with his little-league baseball bat! You can't expect perfection!
le sigh
/S because this is the world we live in...
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The Democratic establishment are almost as bad as Republicans are at this point. He beat his competition in the primary, so that's what voters want. I don't understand why they are debasing themselves like this, it's humiliatingly shameful.
The Democratic establishment are almost as bad as Republicans are at this point.
They're the same. They're literally fighting for the same thing and hiding behind a world wrestling theater spectacle of shit-talking each other on camera, and then following the script off-camera.
We let money seep into politics and now we have thousands of actors pretending to run the country.
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these shills put a lot more effort fighting for trump and oligarchs than against them.
hopefully mamdani is the beginning of trend of booting out superpac pimps from dnc. these parasites have grifted enough with lesser evil excuse. no more compromise, dnc either becomes a democratic party or the progressives should form a new party.
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Is a primary not "Democrats ... [coming] together and [deciding] to support whichever candidate has the most support among them?"
Perfect. Given how unpopular the Democratic party is at the moment, this must have positive effect for Mamdani.
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