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.”
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 :/
If that happens, time for more mass protests. Storm the White House, storm Maralago, drag those responsible to the streets.
I know nothing about this man.
But since Trump hates him he must be awsome
Mamdani is a NYC mayorial candidate who is a member of DSA, pro-palestine, has stated that he would have Netanyahu arrested if he came to NYC, and is running on a platform of:
- Fast and free buses within NYC
- Rent freeze every year for New Yorkers in rent stabilized housing
- City owned and operated grocery stores
- Creation of a Department of Community Safety to tackle mental health challenges rather than NYPD
- UPK
UPK = universal pre-kindergarten
(Source: I just looked it up because I didn’t have a clue!)
Creation of a Department of Community Safety to tackle mental health challenges rather than NYPD
This type of program has been working out well for Albuquerque. It removes a lot of police intervention for calls they aren’t trained for (anything not involving a weapon, pretty much).
https://www.kob.com/new-mexico/acs-reports-94-success-rate-in-violence-intervention-program/
What’s the situation with grocery stores in NYC that the mayor has to promise city owned grocery stores?
Food deserts, I imagine.
Commercial groceries are expensive, a city owned distributer can negotiate prices with food suppliers and pass those savings along to citizens by selling food at or extremely near cost.
Also food deserts.
What he’s been saying is that NYC has an affordability problem. People can’t afford basic necessities (rent, food, transportation, childcare). Can’t speak for availability and pricing myself, I don’t live in the US.
Now there’s plenty of reasons to consider him awesome - those have been listed by more serious comments than mine.
But did you know he used to rap?
Also, right-wing media tried to brand him “Zohran the Destroyer” and very promptly stopped doing so when they realized it sounds way too cool. Apparently he’s going to destroy NYC by advocating for 1) raised minimum wage, 2) universal free daycare, 3) A working fucking bus system. He’s got personal experience with the problems of the bus system, numbers, a working proof of concept, and a plan to Trump-Proof the city
I’m not even American and I’m rooting for him. Both because he might actually improve people’s lives and because he just seems awesome. Been a long time I’ve seen a politician with his charisma, enthusiasm, and vision. I hope NYC votes him into the office!
Just FYI: withholding money is financial abuse, a favorite tactic of abusers, since it leaves no visible marks until significant damage is done.
Threatening to withhold money from a place that gives you the most money doesn’t seem like a smart idea.
If New York and California don’t give them their money, the Federal Government isn’t going to have money to withhold.
That’s what abusers do, too. They will cut their own throats to make you squirm.
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.
Peter Pan Trump. The most insecure little boy
It’s time to dissolve the union.
Woah calm down there Jeff Besos. /jk
Big FSB vibes
that is how you know he is the right candidate, Trump is an inverse indicator
Mamdani is fucking AMAZING, I’m from the UK and I’m hyped xD
You can tell the quality of someone’s character by the enemies he makes.
Hopefully he also makes more friends and helps gain momentum to get the rest of the goons out in other jurisdictions
I predict Mamdani and Trump will have similar arcs 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.
Why would liberal media ever bow to a socialist? The capitalists will always understand socialism as a greater threat than fascism.
For the same reason they speak in reverence of Martin Luther King Jr. and pretend that liberals didn’t hate his guts back in the day.
On a long enough time scale the left always wins, and liberals always pretend that they backed the left the whole time and claim the victory for themselves.
“A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now.”
might easily become a nationwide avalanche
Anecdotally, I have fairly non-political coworkers in other states that are hyping up Mamdani. His reach across Gen Z is honestly insane and people are even making TikTok/Instagram hype edits of him all the time
Imagine someone good drowning out Trump in the media.
I kind of doubt that Zohran will have the same arc, since he’s campaigning directly against the vested interests of the owners of our major media outlets. I could see him becoming an outside force too large for them to ignore, who ultimately forces them to change tactics, though.
At the moment, he’s an outlier of a candidate for them to try and beat down, and the mainstream media will fight tooth and nail to keep him that way, since him inspiring a broader insurgency of proper leftwing candidates to challenge “progressive” establishment Dems represents an existential crisis for them.
A successful term as mayor for Zohran could well sound the death knell for them if it leads to either a Tea Party style takeover of the Democrats, or produces enough momentum to lead to a proper third party that unseats the Democrats from their position as the GOP-lite party of controlled opposition. Imagine what could happen if those media organizations had to face a properly funded public broadcasting service, for example, that gained broad purchase amongst the public.
I think my explanation to another reply explains it.
This all feels like some carnival played-out Republican PR seeking drama with actors on both sides.
Then join hands with New England and the west coast and starve them back, because that’s who has the money.
I’m not sure how states could withhold money from the feds.
I’m not a lobbyist so I don’t write the laws, but I hear they’re trying it
Wow, interesting!
Thanks for that article. I’m glad they’re fighting back!
That would only work with like-minded politicians. Old Democrats have spent more energy complaining about Mamdani in the past month than Trump’s current presidential run.
So… what you are saying is that it is time to separate the wheat from the chaff. Those old fuckers need to retire and try to still appear wise… they are fucking failures and should know it.
Yeah, we need to support David Hogg’s initiative to primary old useless Dems.
I actually think that conservative journals like the WSJ have created the appearance that Democrats are anti-Mamdani, in an attempt to “divide and conquer” democrats.
i actually see a surprisingly positive response to Mamdani from democratic movements all across the US.
Hey, I am an old Xer and have come to the realization that the reason we lost last election (other than the cheating but decentralized voting almost always wins over cheating)… is because we listened to those “Never Trump Republicans” and embraced the Cheneys and others. That was exactly the wrong tack. We should have embraced instead the Bernie/AOC and Elizabeth faction. That would have communicated to the people that we actually cared about their life circumstances in this post-Covid, war infected supply chain challenged economy. Let the New Economics/Distributist peeps inform us with some resilient strategies. We are Fucking Tired of the Old Ideas.
Bingo. The media is entirely captured, obviously, and people don’t understand what’s really going on as a result.
I guess they’ll have to withhold they’re federal taxes to help pay for the shortfall.
Who? The people pay taxes not the city.
If that happens, time for more mass protests. Surround the White House and stop anyone from entering and leaving until funding to NYC is restored.
I’ll be honest they’re not working from my perspective. I see them everyday and I see the news the next morning.
Protests and public opinion have already contributed to Musk leaving D.C., which if you ask me is a pretty big accomplishment. And protests aren’t usually one and done… It’s about building a movement, and that takes time.
That’s fair. I was going to agree that it wasn’t working.
But we as liberals have to stop looking for perfection. Our protests made Musk have a breakdown and drop out. That’s a win.
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
I’m pretty sure new Yorkers hate trump more than the Eagles, Red Sox, Patriots, and Mets combined.
What a pathetic pile of garbage excuse for a human being. Just fuck off.
Bullying, threats and coercion are MAGA’s SOP. Also works to dominate the uneducated, contractors, colleges, vulnerable women, wage slaves and the GOP.
He is copying Orbán in Hungary. He also “starved” the capital city because they elected an opposition mayor. The city is near bankruptcy at the moment. But hey, mini Trump also wanted to ban the Pride march there last Saturday, and as a result he made it the biggest mass event of the past 10 years.
So if things happen similarly, Trump might be able to actually do this, but it might just ruin his chances at the next election - provided there will be another one, according to him.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t want that. I just am afraid at this point it’s inevitable.
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.
