Malignate faster please

Godspeed

This is beautiful! I'll be quoting you.

his centaur feet is going to cause his knees to collapse.

I think this is the start of something much bigger. :)

They do: you! Run for local office and help infuse some vitality back into a tired, corrupt political system.

You had your chance to elect the lady with the cargo bike...

Based woke brown man

You talking about jesus??

both the DNC(old guard, DInos) and the gop donors were going in with the propaganda against madamni for months

If the dems are even half there at this point they will rally ny as a bastion and make that city shine. Show what proper government attention looks like. Unfortunately they will probably do absolutely nothing to help and many small things that manage to only hinder. Let's hope he shines though it all.

That already happened during the election. Can't say I'm worried about his PR team's ability to handle the onslaught.

I fully expect the media to start manufacturing bullshit issues the second he's sworn in though.

Please tattoo this onto every member of the DNC

Candidates control which way those winds go by having ideas or not.

ZombiFrancis is a great username.
Kudos. Francis wasnt perfect but he seemed to try harder than average popes.

A long-term losing strategy, yet short term it normally reliably drums up support in the kind of range that can tip an election. Quite eye-opening to me that an election can still be won with far-from-center politics.

First of all, it was a 3 way race, against far better known candidates. He was running an untested Socialist campaign, against ferocious propaganda from BOTH sides. The voters had to remain courageous, ignore ALL that, and tell the "experts" that they didn't care, something that they historically don't tend to do. By all standard political theory, he should have been crushed by 50 points.

In America, many races are within a few points. It's not at all unusual to have a race decided by only a point, or even less. In any race, an 8 point lead is significant. For an unknown Socialist, coming out of nowhere, against the most incredible bi-partisan smear campaign I've ever seen, to win by 8 points, is an enormous victory.

Both MAGA and established Democrats are terrified today. The Progressive Left just fired the first shots of the New Civil War, and hit every target.

The enemies of progress own most of the major US news outlets. I think that is the biggest reason why so many people voted for a dipshit like Cuomo.

A second possibility is name recognition. Now that Zohran gets to run New York for awhile, his name and ideas will spread. That means during the next round of elections, he becomes the defending champ with all the advantages that brings to the table. If he is a good leader, he probably will have a much greater margin of votes than Cuomo ever did.

As much of a POS as Cuomo is, he's been elected before and a lot of older people trust him because of that, for reasons I can't fathom. He was simultaneously a terrible candidate who also had a high floor.

Though I 100% agree that it's disgusting how many Americans don't seem to care about the character of their leadership, because it absolutely matters. You don't get to whine about corrupt, uncaring politicians when you consistently reward them with your vote.

It's all about money, and money brings out the worst in people.

I read that Mamdani polled at 1% back in February, about 9 months ago. Cuomo was a former governor of the state, so was his father, and his brother had a show on CNN so they had stacked named recognition. Thankfully negative recognition as well, given Andrew's behavior. Still, to go from 1% to over 50% in 9 months is an incredible result for Mamdani.

However, I am still dumbfounded on how 42% voted for the other guy. He is literally a sexual assaulter and he was endorsed by Trump and Elon Musk! How is it that so many people still voted for him?

because too many Americans still think "wE aRE NoT thEre YEt!"

People who vote for law and order or over things like "crime" that are displaced from the real statistics are fucking morons and will always vote their emotions.

Look at biden's election, a few hundred thousand people, three of those 5 states by 30k.

One would think they would have tried to be popular after that.

People do not realize what is at stake and how both sides will fail them generally, or how tjey will not fail them as with mamdani.

There is a lot of much racists, xenophobic, socialistophobe and communistophobe in the new york and the usa

I'm 100% for Mamdani, but wasn't the sexual assault case dismissed against Cuomo? Some people really do get falsely accused of sexual assault and it ruins their life. We should not try to normalize calling him an assaulter if it's not true.

Landslide

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/live-results-california-2025-election-on-proposition-50

According to CBS and ABC, yes. My fucking dipshit redneck county voted no, always fucking backwards.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/news/california-prop-50-results-2025/ https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/proposition-50-live-election-results-california-voters-weigh/story?id=126345346

Did you see that silly article with Gov. Abbot of TX indicating that people who left NYC would have to pay a tariff to enter TX?

"So ya leavin' or what? You a man a ya word? What kind of apartment ya got? How far is the subway? Whataya paying? You really should keep your word and get the fuck outta here, know what I'm sayin'?"

Of course not.

Just like all those millionaires that left the UK...

agreed, gtfo to all the people who said they'd leave, and dont come back.

I do hope they'll realize that concrete policy proposals are such a huge part of what won here, not just Mamdani's ideology or personality. The interview where he was asked about the bus plan being feasible was amazing, he had examples and numbers to back it up. It wasn't just an "it would be cool" idea.

I'd love to see AOC win the nomination in 2028, but we're already seeing swaths of morons trying to get us to 'fall in line' for an establishment candidate.

I genuinely have no idea why people are still so stupid after all that's transpired, but it's really lowered my expectations of them going forward.

It’s a good step. We need to see action now. I think the reaction from the rest of the country is not encouraging that this is the falling of small stones that will start an avalanche. Not yet. Let’s see him govern and let’s see others like him step up.

He’ll spend all his time fighting off billionaires and their roadblocks

Apathy isn't revolutionary. We must fully support leftist candidates while also being critical of their platform and aware that electoral politics inside a capitalist system will only get us so far. But never losing hope that more people see the light and become class conscious.

Mamdani is a pretty good politician as well, not perfect, but good.

This is the first time I can recall when a politician keeps saying things that make me like him more.

quote from Eugene Debs

I had to look that one up. Good reference.