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2025 NYC Mayor Race
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Cuomo's first objective if he wins should be to improve cell service in NYC so he doesn't keep getting disconnected when people ask him tough questions.
the cac mamba
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Do I even need to say anything?
Example # 100,257 of Nap actually being a Republican.
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Cuomo is a corporate Democrat. not a republican
How Andrew Cuomo Made Homelessness Worse
Cuomo claims that “housing is a top priority.” A dig into his track record says something very different.
www.thenation.com
Politics / June 13, 2025
How Andrew Cuomo Made Homelessness Worse
Cuomo claims that “housing is a top priority.” A dig into his track record says something very different.
Tracy Rosenthal
Former New York State governor Andrew Cuomo.(John Nacion / Star Max / IPx)
Just 43 seconds into the video that first announced his 2025 mayoral run, Andrew Cuomo reduces the city’s current crisis into one of homeless people: “Our New York City is in trouble,” he says, “you feel it when you walk down the street and try not to make eye contact with a mentally ill homeless person.” Only he, his campaign insists, can restore the city to sanity. He invites voters to join him in sweeping the problem—along with his own record on housing and homelessness—out of sight.
Cuomo’s mayoral hopes seem to rely on a combination of name recognition and amnesia; that voters will recall his job titles but not what he did. Across ads and interviews, he cites his former roles as Housing and Urban Development secretary and governor of New York, contrasts his years of experience with the upstart socialist Zohran Mamdani—who has been projected to beat him by one recent poll—and chides rivals, including NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, City Council Speaker Adrianne Adams, and former NYC comptroller Scott Stringer, for chasing Mamdani’s coattails. But like his pledges to restore the public-sector pensions he once cut, Cuomo’s campaign promises on housing and homelessness ignore the impact of his own past political decisions. Cuomo devised, implemented, and nationalized policies that have not only proved to fail at keeping people housed but have also actively grown the ranks of the homeless.
Cuomo’s most substantial policy impact over the course of his half-century-long career is likely his least reported: reshaping homeless services. In 1986, after managing his father’s campaign for governor, Cuomo founded and served as president of Housing Enterprise for the Less Privileged. HELP’s strategy was novel in both financing and design: It leveraged the sale of public tax credits as well as loans secured by bonds on revenue from state contracts to fund the company’s operations, and it focused on temporary over permanent housing—with mandatory behavioral treatment for residents, a strict code of conduct, and a 10 pm curfew. HELP’s answer to the social question of shelter was to discipline individuals who lacked it. As Cuomo put it, “The very term ‘homeless’ is a misnomer.… An apartment doesn’t cure a crack addiction.”
Besides his father’s career, it was that project that formed the basis of Cuomo’s influence in New York City. (He took his first wife to visit a HELP facility on their first date.) In 1991, as the city expanded its congregate shelter capacity but failed to catch up with the growing need, and as poor people’s movements escalated demands for adequate, permanent housing for all, NYC Mayor David Dinkins appointed Cuomo to lead a commission—the “Cuomo commission”—to reevaluate the city’s approach. The authors of the resulting report denied that the city had an obligation to house all of its citizens. They suggested that more was to blame for homelessness than a lack of affordable housing—namely, the deficiencies of homeless people themselves. They surveyed assessments of mental illness among shelter residents and extrapolated rates of alcohol and drug abuse from anecdotal evidence and a urinalysis test they commissioned in a single facility. The entire system, they argued, needed an overhaul to “discourage dependency.”
The commission proposed two major reversals for the city, both modeled after Cuomo’s HELP: First, privatize all city shelters; second, reorient services to route people through a disciplinary system of temporary, transitional housing. “‘Jail, jail, jail’ is just as much a false remedy as ‘housing, housing, housing,’” Cuomo later summarized. His commission offered something in the middle: a “continuum of care.” Through it, homeless people could earn access to permanent housing by demonstrating what would later be called “housing readiness,” that is, by passing fraud screenings and drug tests, meeting work requirements, attending “life management” classes, and accepting counseling and prescribed medications. Cuomo’s “continuum of care” served an ideological purpose and a financial one: to institutionalize categories of people deserving of public support and to justify austerity.
Recruited by President Clinton as assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development and then promoted to secretary, Cuomo nationalized the “continuum of care” framework. Echoing Reagan’s assistant HUD secretary, who said his administration would be “getting out of the housing business. Period,” Cuomo promised that Clinton’s administration would “get government out of the service business.” The federal government offered new contracts to private nonprofits and prioritized temporary, transitional housing in line with its disciplinary requirements. Cuomo’s influence fed back into the success of the organization he helped start. By 1994, HELP was the largest private provider of “transitional” housing for the homeless in the country. (HELP remained a family business for decades; his sister Maria Cuomo Cole served as chair of its board from 1993 to 2021.)
November 2025 Issue
Cuomo’s impact on homelessness policy can still be felt across the country. He oversaw the extensive privatization of homeless services, which bloated into a cottage industry of private, nonprofit subcontractors. While he defended privatization in the name of cost-cutting, the approach has had the opposite effect: Nonprofit services often exceed their preliminary budgets, not least because they must cover the exorbitant salaries of their executive officers. (By 2011, the top salary at HELP had reached $500,000 a year.) Ceding placement decisions to private industry has segregated shelters and interim housing; facilities are often located in poorer neighborhoods and outside city limits, away from transportation and other resources unhoused people need. Finally, a lack of accountability in private accommodations has led to abominable conditions. HELP’s own properties have earned multiple code violations from heat outages, mold outbreaks, and sewage leaks.
While the original Cuomo commission report admitted that “‘transitional’ housing succeeds only when there is ‘permanent’ housing to enter,” Cuomo’s singular focus on transitional housing helped produce lasting imbalances in the national shelter system. As his mayoral rival Comptroller Brad Lander’s urgent reports often note of NYC’s ratio, a lack of permanent housing serves to trap unhoused people in transitional limbo or ultimately eject them back into the streets. As early as 1999, research on HELP’s shelter model revealed that its disciplinary methods promoted social isolation among residents that exacerbated rather than alleviated mental health struggles. While some local and federal policies have helped reverse his actions, delinking behavioral modification requirements from housing access, research continues to demonstrate that forced treatment, whether for mental health or substance abuse, not only fails to keep people housed but also drives people from resources.
Perhaps Cuomo’s gravest impact on homelessness policy has been stigmatizing homeless people and ceding ground to right-wing narratives and policy interventions. He helped turn legislators away from systemic solutions and toward individualized treatment, and turn the public’s understanding of the homelessness crisis toward law and order rather than affordability. In 1993, the conservative Manhattan Institute’s City Journal celebrated the insights of the Cuomo commission report. Now, some of the most ardent defenders of the methods Cuomo invented include Donald Trump and his supporters, who have spent a near-decade rallying around “treatment first” solutions. When Christopher Rufo, a City Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute fellow, asserted that homelessness is a “human problem—not a housing problem,” he took the words out of Cuomo’s mouth: Homelessness is a “human problem…not an economic problem,” Cuomo once said.
Individualizing the homelessness crisis has likewise protected Cuomo from accounting for his own role as an architect of the failures of our housing system more broadly. In the more familiar side of his HUD record, Cuomo helped oversee one of the main reasons the country’s housing became so wildly unaffordable: the decimation of its public housing stock. Here too, his suspicion of using public resources to solve public problems drove privatization schemes, and his paternalistic disdain for the agency of the poor inflected new admission policies, such as work requirements, drug testing, and fraud screening, as well as bans on residents with criminal records. Instead of public housing, Cuomo pressed for privately owned, publicly subsidized housing—a strategy that failed to meet the needs of the most vulnerable tenants—as well as “empowerment zones” that gave tax breaks and public land to real estate speculators.
Cuomo’s years in the real estate industry may best reveal his loyalties. In his time as HUD secretary, Cuomo assisted federal suits against real estate companies in violation of fair housing practices, basic living standards, and the law. One case, against Insignia, then the nation’s largest owner and manager of multifamily property, headed by Andrew Farkas, settled with a $7.4 million fine. Two years later, when Cuomo’s HUD term ended, he went to work for Farkas’s new venture. Soon, Farkas became a top donor to Cuomo’s failed campaign for governor (which Cuomo announced from outside his first HELP shelter) and his bid for attorney general, where he was often accused of favoritism in approving new developments.
As governor of New York, Cuomo repeatedly slashed the budget for serving homeless New Yorkers. In the first year of his term, he cut $65 million of state appropriations for people leaving homeless shelters, triggering a $27 million loss of federal matching funds. Two years later, the city’s shelter population had increased by 35 percent. He also shrank New York State’s contributions to the city’s homeless services. In his first five years in office, those contributions had been nearly halved. In 2016, against the guidance of the original Cuomo commission and even against the counsel of police commissioner William Bratton, Cuomo issued an executive order to expand involuntary commitment laws to hold unhoused people against their will if they refused shelter placements during freezing temperatures. But at the same time, he was eliminating places to put them. Over the course of his governorship, from 2011 to 2021, Cuomo oversaw a 28 percent reduction in state-run psychiatric hospital beds in the city.
Nor did Cuomo work to keep tenants housed. Instead, he defunded the state agency tasked with overseeing the city’s rent-stabilization laws—by 62 percent after his first two terms as governor—and declined to collect the fines landlords owed for negligence and tenant harassment. Each year of his tenure, the city lost more rent-stabilized apartments—more than 66,000 in 2021 alone—and his promises to restore regulations went unkept. The only Democratic candidate besides venture capitalist alum Whitney Tilson who will not commit to a rent freeze for rent-stabilized tenants, Cuomo recently expressed regret for signing NYC’s 2019 rent laws, a landmark expansion of rent stabilization, in a private meeting with the executive committee of the Real Estate Board of New York.
Cuomo made his name in New York by insisting that the city should intervene in the private lives of poor people, but not in the private housing market. Across the country, his legacy persists in policies that discipline the victims of that market rather than its beneficiaries, and in austerity budgets that withhold public support and diminish regulatory power. For his decades of service, real estate firms have poured $2.5 million to his mayoral super PAC. At least $410,000 of that comes from companies currently being sued by the city for persistent and glaring violations of its habitability codes.
At the primary mayoral debate last night, asked what part of New York City’s government he would target for cuts, Cuomo said he would start with the agency responsible for enforcing that housing code and for developing new affordable and permanent housing—because “housing is a top priority.” Either he forgot the question, or he’d prefer that the rest of us did.
Cuomo’s impact on homelessness policy can still be felt across the country. He oversaw the extensive privatization of homeless services, which bloated into a cottage industry of private, nonprofit subcontractors. While he defended privatization in the name of cost-cutting, the approach has had the opposite effect: Nonprofit services often exceed their preliminary budgets, not least because they must cover the exorbitant salaries of their executive officers. (By 2011, the top salary at HELP had reached $500,000 a year.) Ceding placement decisions to private industry has segregated shelters and interim housing; facilities are often located in poorer neighborhoods and outside city limits, away from transportation and other resources unhoused people need. Finally, a lack of accountability in private accommodations has led to abominable conditions. HELP’s own properties have earned multiple code violations from heat outages, mold outbreaks, and sewage leaks.
While the original Cuomo commission report admitted that “‘transitional’ housing succeeds only when there is ‘permanent’ housing to enter,” Cuomo’s singular focus on transitional housing helped produce lasting imbalances in the national shelter system. As his mayoral rival Comptroller Brad Lander’s urgent reports often note of NYC’s ratio, a lack of permanent housing serves to trap unhoused people in transitional limbo or ultimately eject them back into the streets. As early as 1999, research on HELP’s shelter model revealed that its disciplinary methods promoted social isolation among residents that exacerbated rather than alleviated mental health struggles. While some local and federal policies have helped reverse his actions, delinking behavioral modification requirements from housing access, research continues to demonstrate that forced treatment, whether for mental health or substance abuse, not only fails to keep people housed but also drives people from resources.
Perhaps Cuomo’s gravest impact on homelessness policy has been stigmatizing homeless people and ceding ground to right-wing narratives and policy interventions. He helped turn legislators away from systemic solutions and toward individualized treatment, and turn the public’s understanding of the homelessness crisis toward law and order rather than affordability. In 1993, the conservative Manhattan Institute’s City Journal celebrated the insights of the Cuomo commission report. Now, some of the most ardent defenders of the methods Cuomo invented include Donald Trump and his supporters, who have spent a near-decade rallying around “treatment first” solutions. When Christopher Rufo, a City Journal columnist and Manhattan Institute fellow, asserted that homelessness is a “human problem—not a housing problem,” he took the words out of Cuomo’s mouth: Homelessness is a “human problem…not an economic problem,” Cuomo once said.
Individualizing the homelessness crisis has likewise protected Cuomo from accounting for his own role as an architect of the failures of our housing system more broadly. In the more familiar side of his HUD record, Cuomo helped oversee one of the main reasons the country’s housing became so wildly unaffordable: the decimation of its public housing stock. Here too, his suspicion of using public resources to solve public problems drove privatization schemes, and his paternalistic disdain for the agency of the poor inflected new admission policies, such as work requirements, drug testing, and fraud screening, as well as bans on residents with criminal records. Instead of public housing, Cuomo pressed for privately owned, publicly subsidized housing—a strategy that failed to meet the needs of the most vulnerable tenants—as well as “empowerment zones” that gave tax breaks and public land to real estate speculators.
Cuomo’s years in the real estate industry may best reveal his loyalties. In his time as HUD secretary, Cuomo assisted federal suits against real estate companies in violation of fair housing practices, basic living standards, and the law. One case, against Insignia, then the nation’s largest owner and manager of multifamily property, headed by Andrew Farkas, settled with a $7.4 million fine. Two years later, when Cuomo’s HUD term ended, he went to work for Farkas’s new venture. Soon, Farkas became a top donor to Cuomo’s failed campaign for governor (which Cuomo announced from outside his first HELP shelter) and his bid for attorney general, where he was often accused of favoritism in approving new developments.
As governor of New York, Cuomo repeatedly slashed the budget for serving homeless New Yorkers. In the first year of his term, he cut $65 million of state appropriations for people leaving homeless shelters, triggering a $27 million loss of federal matching funds. Two years later, the city’s shelter population had increased by 35 percent. He also shrank New York State’s contributions to the city’s homeless services. In his first five years in office, those contributions had been nearly halved. In 2016, against the guidance of the original Cuomo commission and even against the counsel of police commissioner William Bratton, Cuomo issued an executive order to expand involuntary commitment laws to hold unhoused people against their will if they refused shelter placements during freezing temperatures. But at the same time, he was eliminating places to put them. Over the course of his governorship, from 2011 to 2021, Cuomo oversaw a 28 percent reduction in state-run psychiatric hospital beds in the city.
Nor did Cuomo work to keep tenants housed. Instead, he defunded the state agency tasked with overseeing the city’s rent-stabilization laws—by 62 percent after his first two terms as governor—and declined to collect the fines landlords owed for negligence and tenant harassment. Each year of his tenure, the city lost more rent-stabilized apartments—more than 66,000 in 2021 alone—and his promises to restore regulations went unkept. The only Democratic candidate besides venture capitalist alum Whitney Tilson who will not commit to a rent freeze for rent-stabilized tenants, Cuomo recently expressed regret for signing NYC’s 2019 rent laws, a landmark expansion of rent stabilization, in a private meeting with the executive committee of the Real Estate Board of New York.
Cuomo made his name in New York by insisting that the city should intervene in the private lives of poor people, but not in the private housing market. Across the country, his legacy persists in policies that discipline the victims of that market rather than its beneficiaries, and in austerity budgets that withhold public support and diminish regulatory power. For his decades of service, real estate firms have poured $2.5 million to his mayoral super PAC. At least $410,000 of that comes from companies currently being sued by the city for persistent and glaring violations of its habitability codes.
At the primary mayoral debate last night, asked what part of New York City’s government he would target for cuts, Cuomo said he would start with the agency responsible for enforcing that housing code and for developing new affordable and permanent housing—because “housing is a top priority.” Either he forgot the question, or he’d prefer that the rest of us did.
the cac mamba
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there's no way that dikkhead Cuomo goes out like this
hard chance that he gets into the Senate primary race against AOC, or makes some sordid backroom deal with Schumer to freeze her out
hard chance that he gets into the Senate primary race against AOC, or makes some sordid backroom deal with Schumer to freeze her out
KFBF
Superstar
spidermanmeme.jpgCuomo is a corporate Democrat. not a republican
I wasn't planning on voting, but I might change my mind.
I would vote for Mamdani as a fṳck you to Cuomo and Republicans.
I would vote for Mamdani as a fṳck you to Cuomo and Republicans.
Lifelong Democrats for Zohran #ImWithHim 🌊🌊🌊 (@vodkasnowflake.bsky.social)
does not matter that they’re “disgraced” because he’s annihilating them and doing so while touching the third rail of Israel/Palestine in the process. Trump is the most disgraced person on the planet and Harris lost to him anyway. this isn’t a “fluke,” it’s a proof of concept and a success...
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vodkasnowflake.bsky.social
does not matter that they’re “disgraced” because he’s annihilating them and doing so while touching the third rail of Israel/Palestine in the process. Trump is the most disgraced person on the planet and Harris lost to him anyway. this isn’t a “fluke,” it’s a proof of concept and a success.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...9.uigxmnhj3wlyrivziynxtbddit4u1szo3kc_xlpjrwe
[QUOTED POST]
@whereisted.bsky.social
Should they be searching for more Mamdanis? The Democrats are torn.
(Also: a reminder that he has been helped by running against "the two most disgraced figures of New York Democratic politics of the last 40 years.")
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
2/3
vodkasnowflake.bsky.social
i have family that called my suggestion that an AOC 2028 win was possible “laughable.” not “hmm maybe but i think others could beat her.” “laughable.” moderate Dems and liberals gave us Trump twice because they’re in a bubble. they don’t know what does and doesn’t work, even when it’s proven to them
3/3
vodkasnowflake.bsky.social
i mean, the biggest part of this is that they don’t actually *want* the Left to win. partly because they’d be proven wrong, partly because they don’t support these positions or policies. that’s ok. they can leave the Democratic Party. or we’ll force them out.
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vodkasnowflake.bsky.socialdoes not matter that they’re “disgraced” because he’s annihilating them and doing so while touching the third rail of Israel/Palestine in the process. Trump is the most disgraced person on the planet and Harris lost to him anyway. this isn’t a “fluke,” it’s a proof of concept and a success.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...9.uigxmnhj3wlyrivziynxtbddit4u1szo3kc_xlpjrwe
[QUOTED POST]
@whereisted.bsky.socialShould they be searching for more Mamdanis? The Democrats are torn.
(Also: a reminder that he has been helped by running against "the two most disgraced figures of New York Democratic politics of the last 40 years.")
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
2/3
vodkasnowflake.bsky.sociali have family that called my suggestion that an AOC 2028 win was possible “laughable.” not “hmm maybe but i think others could beat her.” “laughable.” moderate Dems and liberals gave us Trump twice because they’re in a bubble. they don’t know what does and doesn’t work, even when it’s proven to them
3/3
vodkasnowflake.bsky.sociali mean, the biggest part of this is that they don’t actually *want* the Left to win. partly because they’d be proven wrong, partly because they don’t support these positions or policies. that’s ok. they can leave the Democratic Party. or we’ll force them out.
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Ted Mann (@whereisted.bsky.social)
Should they be searching for more Mamdanis? The Democrats are torn. (Also: a reminder that he has been helped by running against "the two most disgraced figures of New York Democratic politics of the last 40 years.")...
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vodkasnowflake.bsky.social
does not matter that they’re “disgraced” because he’s annihilating them and doing so while touching the third rail of Israel/Palestine in the process. Trump is the most disgraced person on the planet and Harris lost to him anyway. this isn’t a “fluke,” it’s a proof of concept and a success.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...9.uigxmnhj3wlyrivziynxtbddit4u1szo3kc_xlpjrwe
[QUOTED POST]
@whereisted.bsky.social
Should they be searching for more Mamdanis? The Democrats are torn.
(Also: a reminder that he has been helped by running against "the two most disgraced figures of New York Democratic politics of the last 40 years.")
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
2/23
vodkasnowflake.bsky.social
i have family that called my suggestion that an AOC 2028 win was possible “laughable.” not “hmm maybe but i think others could beat her.” “laughable.” moderate Dems and liberals gave us Trump twice because they’re in a bubble. they don’t know what does and doesn’t work, even when it’s proven to them
3/23
vodkasnowflake.bsky.social
i mean, the biggest part of this is that they don’t actually *want* the Left to win. partly because they’d be proven wrong, partly because they don’t support these positions or policies. that’s ok. they can leave the Democratic Party. or we’ll force them out.
4/23
whereisted.bsky.social
Should they be searching for more Mamdanis? The Democrats are torn.
(Also: a reminder that he has been helped by running against "the two most disgraced figures of New York Democratic politics of the last 40 years.")
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...9.uigxmnhj3wlyrivziynxtbddit4u1szo3kc_xlpjrwe
5/23
ofsevit.bsky.social
Should the Democrats recruit candidates who suck shyt or not? The Democrats are torn. theonion.com/de-blasio-we...
6/23
whereisted.bsky.social
look it says it right there, it's not so easy, ok?
7/23
freejack.bsky.social
We're not torn in NYC...
8/23
gleaningsage.bsky.social
DSA isn't perfect, nor a political party, but the difference between how they act towards their members and towards their endorsed candidates versus how the Democratic party acts towards its members and candidates feels very different.
9/23
krissimonian.bsky.social
Should we repeatedly slam our dikks in a car door or sit down for a nice home cooked meal?
Dem politicians and consultants say the answer isn't as simple as you think.
Unrelated, the Democratic Party is currently polling at "Let a bear eat my dog" levels of popularity
10/23
maggie162.bsky.social
“Disgraced” doesn’t have the same impact with the full backing of billionaires and the legacy media
11/23
lawyerforcat.bsky.social
He also ran against and beat a bunch of moderate Democrats. But the point of this article is to undermine his potential influence, so they gotta pretend he was only competing with Cuomo and Adams.
12/23
elvigy.bsky.social
Oh. Yeah, tough question. Win elections or lose elections. That's a real thinker fer sher.
13/23
deltajulietmike.bsky.social
One great line in the last paragraph that ought to be highlighted.
"The cable news crowd is missing the point."
Does that need to be in big bold letters for the media class to grasp?
14/23
ravincool.bsky.social
Uh, Cuomo and Adams are completely supported by the Elderly and Money Backed Dem Establishment. They are both despicable characters, but the fact that the media, billionaires, isolated leaders like Schumer that bait on anti Muslim hate disguised as fear of antisemitism. The "Dems" are not torn.
15/23
eveshabazz.bsky.social
It’s simple. If Mamdani wins the election then doesn’t represent his constituents, replace him.
16/23
johnnybananas.bsky.social
If a “Mamdanis” cares more about the people he works for than the corporate interests to enrich himself/herself … um duh.
17/23
zoopaul.bsky.social
Party insiders at their cocktail parties will continue to regurgitate the same old lawyer who sounds like a professor borefest.
18/23
wewillbreathe.bsky.social
Why is it so hard to understand that Mamdani may be fine for NYC but not for Peoria Illinois. Demos should meet the needs/sentiments of their districts.
19/23
ossiansfolly.bsky.social
Also a reminder it was an open primary with ELEVEN fukking options to choose from, and New Yorkers chose @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social . What a completely disingenuous, backhanded comment in your parentheses. THIS is why Democratic voters are discouraged with the party.
20/23
billthepony.bsky.social
If zohron was boosted by running against the most disgraced Democrat...
Why were centrist Democrats not boosted when they lost to the most disgraced Republican?
Doesn't your secondary point make the 2024 loss even more of a searing indictment of the democratic center?
21/23
barryd.bsky.social
The old anti-anti- thing.
22/23
torrleonard.bsky.social
True:
23/23
axeeugene.bsky.social
There are lots of disgraceful Dems.
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vodkasnowflake.bsky.socialdoes not matter that they’re “disgraced” because he’s annihilating them and doing so while touching the third rail of Israel/Palestine in the process. Trump is the most disgraced person on the planet and Harris lost to him anyway. this isn’t a “fluke,” it’s a proof of concept and a success.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...9.uigxmnhj3wlyrivziynxtbddit4u1szo3kc_xlpjrwe
[QUOTED POST]
@whereisted.bsky.socialShould they be searching for more Mamdanis? The Democrats are torn.
(Also: a reminder that he has been helped by running against "the two most disgraced figures of New York Democratic politics of the last 40 years.")
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
2/23
vodkasnowflake.bsky.sociali have family that called my suggestion that an AOC 2028 win was possible “laughable.” not “hmm maybe but i think others could beat her.” “laughable.” moderate Dems and liberals gave us Trump twice because they’re in a bubble. they don’t know what does and doesn’t work, even when it’s proven to them
3/23
vodkasnowflake.bsky.sociali mean, the biggest part of this is that they don’t actually *want* the Left to win. partly because they’d be proven wrong, partly because they don’t support these positions or policies. that’s ok. they can leave the Democratic Party. or we’ll force them out.
4/23
whereisted.bsky.socialShould they be searching for more Mamdanis? The Democrats are torn.
(Also: a reminder that he has been helped by running against "the two most disgraced figures of New York Democratic politics of the last 40 years.")
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/feat...9.uigxmnhj3wlyrivziynxtbddit4u1szo3kc_xlpjrwe
5/23
ofsevit.bsky.socialShould the Democrats recruit candidates who suck shyt or not? The Democrats are torn. theonion.com/de-blasio-we...
6/23
whereisted.bsky.sociallook it says it right there, it's not so easy, ok?
7/23
freejack.bsky.socialWe're not torn in NYC...
8/23
gleaningsage.bsky.socialDSA isn't perfect, nor a political party, but the difference between how they act towards their members and towards their endorsed candidates versus how the Democratic party acts towards its members and candidates feels very different.
9/23
krissimonian.bsky.socialShould we repeatedly slam our dikks in a car door or sit down for a nice home cooked meal?
Dem politicians and consultants say the answer isn't as simple as you think.
Unrelated, the Democratic Party is currently polling at "Let a bear eat my dog" levels of popularity
10/23
maggie162.bsky.social“Disgraced” doesn’t have the same impact with the full backing of billionaires and the legacy media
11/23
lawyerforcat.bsky.socialHe also ran against and beat a bunch of moderate Democrats. But the point of this article is to undermine his potential influence, so they gotta pretend he was only competing with Cuomo and Adams.
12/23
elvigy.bsky.socialOh. Yeah, tough question. Win elections or lose elections. That's a real thinker fer sher.
13/23
deltajulietmike.bsky.socialOne great line in the last paragraph that ought to be highlighted.
"The cable news crowd is missing the point."
Does that need to be in big bold letters for the media class to grasp?
14/23
ravincool.bsky.socialUh, Cuomo and Adams are completely supported by the Elderly and Money Backed Dem Establishment. They are both despicable characters, but the fact that the media, billionaires, isolated leaders like Schumer that bait on anti Muslim hate disguised as fear of antisemitism. The "Dems" are not torn.
15/23
eveshabazz.bsky.socialIt’s simple. If Mamdani wins the election then doesn’t represent his constituents, replace him.
16/23
johnnybananas.bsky.socialIf a “Mamdanis” cares more about the people he works for than the corporate interests to enrich himself/herself … um duh.
17/23
zoopaul.bsky.socialParty insiders at their cocktail parties will continue to regurgitate the same old lawyer who sounds like a professor borefest.
18/23
wewillbreathe.bsky.socialWhy is it so hard to understand that Mamdani may be fine for NYC but not for Peoria Illinois. Demos should meet the needs/sentiments of their districts.
19/23
ossiansfolly.bsky.socialAlso a reminder it was an open primary with ELEVEN fukking options to choose from, and New Yorkers chose @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social . What a completely disingenuous, backhanded comment in your parentheses. THIS is why Democratic voters are discouraged with the party.
20/23
billthepony.bsky.socialIf zohron was boosted by running against the most disgraced Democrat...
Why were centrist Democrats not boosted when they lost to the most disgraced Republican?
Doesn't your secondary point make the 2024 loss even more of a searing indictment of the democratic center?
21/23
barryd.bsky.socialThe old anti-anti- thing.
22/23
torrleonard.bsky.socialTrue:
23/23
axeeugene.bsky.socialThere are lots of disgraceful Dems.
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