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I love how this asshole talks about "cannibalizing support" when he's openly against the officially recognized Democratic nominee for mayor.
What a fucking joke. I hope to fuck he gets primaried too. We need to stop letting these corpo democrats suck up all the oxygen in the room.
Third party time!
Mamdani is the officially recognized Democratic nominee. So third party is exactly what this asshole is advocating for.
Don’t care what he thinks; vote blue no matter who
Maybe finally people will start getting it in their heads that the current Democratic party - aside from the obvious outliers, Bernie, AOC, Warren etc - is not acting in their best interests...
I really don't understand why Warren keeps being put in the company of Bernie or AOC.
Bernie and AOC are leftists (center left), and Warren is firmly center right at best.
The US is fucked.
Mamdani is a glimpse of hope
Honestly if these are the kinds of dregs they find still willing to serve the party line, I am a little encouraged.
They are gonna hand the election to the GOP because they refuse to fucking retire and let a new generation make decisions.
The DNC is just as culpable for both Trump terms as the GOP voters imo.
One of the youngest members of congress is Kyrsten Sinoma. Its not age, its that they're trusted to protect the interests of capital.
They are gonna hand the election to the GOP because they ~~refuse to fucking retire~~ are beholden to and allied with the 1%
FTFY.
The DNC already handed the election to Trump. And now that a leftist gets any momentum the DNC are still doing everyhing in their power to prevent leftists from winning.
It’s not really a generational thing.
The DNC has been bought by the donor class. They operate under the (not insane) belief that they need huge sums of money to win elections.
Mamdani makes the donors unhappy, it’s as simple as that.
Mamdani is around the same age Pete Buttigieg was when he started getting into the national spotlight. Buttigieg doesn’t threaten the donor class, so full support. Fun memes and tweets about him going on Fox News and making a host look like a fool.
You see any popular candidate get crapped on by the DNC, go read what the candidate wants to do and ask yourself a simple question “does this threaten the wealth of the donor class?” If the answer is yes you are guaranteed that the DNC establishment are going to be fighting that candidate.
The DNC and the top of the party would MUCH rather lose to the Fascists across the aisle they have a corpo bribe sharing agreement with than win with a candidate that campaigns on bringing accountability to those wealthy bribers.
Or to put it another way, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer would lock arms with Republicans and treat President AOC, for example, the way most Democrat voters wish they were treating Trump. Scorched earth, not a single meeting, not a single appointment, just bill after bill trying to strip all Presidential power until a hypercapitalist sits in the chair again.
Neoliberals are much closer to Republicans than they are to anything resembling a leftwing, politically. The only thing that separates them is not actively pointing and laughing at you when they hurt you to line their pockets, they just shrug, call it market forces, and hand you an affirmation ribbon you can neither eat nor live inside.
Which is why this nation is beyond repair and we need to force collapse and start over, with a constitution barring capital markets and any profit sharing that isn't tied to working/laboring for what's being profited from. Speculative investment is cancer that breeds sociopathy, division, and death ☠️. No neoliberal or fascist is against the for profit deathcare confidence scheme we call American healthcare for all but the wealthy. They're both paid to defend it from us.
It's... scared
So "blue no matter who" and "the time for debate is during the primary" is only meant to benefit corporatist, war-hawk candidates?? I'm shocked, I tells ya.
Democrats are clearly unwilling to do anything to fix the problems we have.
This whole situation has been the final straw for me and my support of the Democratic party. I used to think they were just incompetent and disorganized but this has shown that they are perfectly willing to openly sell our country to fascists to keep someone who is actually going to make a change for the positive out. I have never seen the democratic party unify so solidly behind anything other than hating on this guy.
No joke. Fuck'em. I'd sooner throw my lot in with actual leftists than have it be counted for these useful idiots and Vichy assholes that capitualte to fascism daily.
They also unified around hating bernie and let trump win
They are extremely competent and organized, just not for you. Welcome to reality.
Did he delete this I can't find it?
Edit: never mind I found it. I swear Twitter used to be so much easier to use and whatever this fucking thing is now is a soup of bullshit in the wrong order.
I'm actively telling dem politicians to remove me from their stupid fundraising lists over this. Hell if a dem has offered anything but open support for Mamdani I will not even entertain the possibility of donating.