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.”
I know nothing about this man.
But since Trump hates him he must be awsome
that is how you know he is the right candidate, Trump is an inverse indicator
I predict Mamdani and Trump will have similar acts through the media landscape. The media hated Trump but just couldn’t stop paying attention to him, even though every time they attacked him it only made him stronger. Now they are all bending the knee to him.
The same exact thing is happening with Mamdani, but this time for all the best reasons. Mamdani’s campaign might easily become a nationwide avalanche.
Mamdani is fucking AMAZING, I’m from the UK and I’m hyped xD
Mamdani won a mayoral primary, hasn’t even been elected yet and the hype on all sides is enormous.
Really hope New Yorkers dig in and back this dude.
He was already the favorite, Trump’s endorsement here will cinch that up
Billionaires are happy to say people work harder when they’re desperate and boy the billionaires are working hard to smear this guy.
This Mamdani guy is BAD NEWS! He wants to GIVE YOU BACK your Tax Dollars in the Form of Food and Healthcare and Transportation! That’s LUDICROUS! DO the Right Thing New York and Elect the Politician who will CONTINUE GIVING YOUR TAX DOLLARS TO THE BILLIONAIRES DESTROYING YOUR DAILY WAY OF LIFE!
Oh but blue states not giving federal taxes over is “starting a civil war.”
The civil war is already happening. Wake the fuck up people.
Or it’s not, and that’s the problem. The organised rightwing forces of state repression can easily push around a left that’s been trained and groomed to function as entirely beholden to corporate sponsors and big money donors.
…to the point it’s now visible and blatant that the establishment left cannot stand and legitimately claim even the possibility they are the solution.
Because the solution is something more revolutionary that will cause bloodshed and more regular interruptions to people’s daily lives.
So of course, keep your head down, hope none of this effects you. Ignore that it already has. The dems will fix it later, ect…
It’s understandable to ignore the civil war even though it’s not rational to.
Terrorists (freedom fighters) are made as needed, they’re not born ready. Trump’s administration will be looking to stay under that threshold.
rightwing forces of state repression can easily push around a left that’s been trained and groomed to function as entirely beholden to corporate sponsors and big money donors.
That’s not a “left” at all. There are traditionally three groups that vie for power, royalty, merchants, and the people. The left serves the people, Democrats serve the merchants, and Republicans are the royalists.
The Democrats may represent the left some day, but it’s not who they are right now.
“Left.” 😂
I had the same reaction. The US has two parties, a far right one and a center right one. There are some center left members in the Democratic Party but the rest of the party sure tries to smother them any chance they get.
Viva la revolución
Good thing New York doesn’t need it and provides money for the federal government. It’s more like New York will stop till they get their shit together.
What does New York pay to the Feds? Dr into people pay taxes and that goes to the Feds? So how can a city or state stop that.
Another way to escalate this situation is to raise the taxes on billionaires enough to account for the missing revenue from the federal government. Itemize it and call it the “Trump tax”.
Seize all of Trump’s assets in NYC
Excellent idea. Dems would be foolish not to do this.
Just FYI: withholding money is financial abuse, a favorite tactic of abusers, since it leaves no visible marks until significant damage is done.
I’m so tired of people not telling this old bunch of shit sacks to fuck off. I’d have so much respect for any threatened tRump victim if they just told him the fuck off after shits like that.
This shows that waiting to 2026 and hoping that Dems will take over Congress is really pointless. They won’t acknowledge and certify any results that aren’t their people.
At this point we either fight or accept end of US as a democracy.
We do not fight on their terms.
They want battles in the streets. They want explosives, dead feds and cops.
They want 258,000,000 dead Americans. They don’t give two shits what side it’s on.
A Mayoral election giving the elite this much terror is extremely telling. The GOP didn’t work the top down, they worked the bottom up. Local governments, states, and the branches of the Federal government.
If NYC can get this guy elected, then the doubt that fascists need to instill in the idea of democracy gets bolstered, and they have to do things that will be even more unpopular than kidnapping immigrants.
At this point we either fight or accept end of US as a democracy.
I really wish we could stop all the pussyfooting and just get to the actual open conflict portion on the program already. It’s obviously what both sides want at this point, let’s cut the shit and just do the fuckin thing already.
I don’t want that. I just am afraid at this point it’s inevitable.
A frequent occurrence with forced regime change is trading out one evil for one or more worse evils. Check out Sudan’s history. It’s not at all easy to build a democracy, so the establishment is rightly hesitant to just scrap this one, as direly troubled as it is.
Odds are we’re just going to coast BAU into oblivion.
Lmao, damn, trump seems really scared of this guy.
All the conservatives seem really scared of this guy.
Wonder why republicans might be scared of Democratic candidates left of dead center. Almost like a real alternative not slobbering out neoliberal, Chicago school of economics, nonsense could sweep them in a lot of traditional safe seats.
Or at least be really hard to rally their base against if their base actually hears what the policies are.
Well of course. He’s charismatic, young and he talks to the people he wants to represent. He’s the antithesis of everything they are.
With the current state of affairs, I’m worried he’s going to fall out of a window and shoot himself in the back of the head
This :/
SMALL GOVERNMENT!!!
— GOP
For real. Imagine successful infrastructure and social welfare programs being carried out at the city level, with little or no involvement or oversight from the state or federal governments.
Decentralization is what Republicans claim to be all about. Of course it’s a bullshit claim.
Small government only when the conservatives institute Christianity in school, ban abortion and sexual education and rob their constituents of everything they have.
Big government when conservatives need to oppress minorities, fight wars in the Middle East and deport people.
The problem is, we would have a massive amount of people being totally abused in red states if federal laws didn’t exist.
The problem at this point isn’t Republican hypocrisy, this is a known thing, it’s every institution that supposedly has the duty to put checks and balances on it not doing that. Congress, the courts and the press are all complicit at this point. It’s not leaving the people many options.
You’d think that even with as delusional as they are, the establishment Democrats that are also taking shots at Mamdani would be able to see how much the Republicans are scared of him and the weapon he is. They’ll still fuck it up, but it couldn’t be more clear the path they should follow.
And we’re right back to election interference. I wonder if something will be done about it this time.
Narrator: It won’t.
… because Americans keep telling themselves “wE aRE nOT thERe yET”
This sounds like more of the “socialism never works [because conservatives/capitalists sabotage it]”
If a system doesn’t work when it encounters opposition, it doesn’t work.
The problem with this, and so many other problems in America right now - is that they’ll only ever be fixed by Democrats swinging the other direction.
The majority of whom will only go as far as they believe their corporate sponsors will allow. Preventing real progress.
This is the mechanism and economic base structure of “democracy” in the west which prevents real progress and real change from happening to the structures and systems we have.
The result? An ever increasing risk of populist fascism, which may become increasingly systemic in its use of deadly force and violent repression (yes, things can go further unless the structure itself is forced in the other direction - in a revolutionary manner).
To clarify: Only leftwing revolution can fix and prevent this happening again. Hence why Biden and establishment “leftists” were unable to prevent the current era - because it requires a revolutionary movement much further left to do these adjustments to democracy, rights, and the state of western politics.
establishment “leftists”
Who?
You can’t get enough people to vote for your cause, but you can get enough people to fight and die for it?
Even if your vanguard does win, what do you do with the people who don’t agree with your methods after the dust settles? What lengths will you go to I order to “protect” the revolution?
You can’t get enough people to vote for your cause
But… enough people just voted for Mamdani? That’s what the thread is about?
