How did america elect this guy twice? So pathetic.
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40 years of crippled public education and propaganda talk radio
It isn't pathetic, it is an engineered strategy that has been ongoing since before any of us were born and it's working because almost no one bothers to do anything but meme about it
I have my doubts that we did it twice. 2024 looks fishy. I'm glad it's finally starting to get talked about
Do you really think it will matter even if they find obvious election fraud?
I think it might get a lot of people who don't like what's happening but accept it to cross over into not accepting it.
I'm not super hopeful that it would matter legislatively or judicially, but I might be the kick in the pants the population needs to go on a general strike, or take other actions.
Sincerely hope you are right, we've gotten so many kicks in the pants so far
I mean, No Kings day was good but we need to do this EVERY DAY
I read AOC +3 as like a d&d style stat modifier.
She's approaching peak power, send more vibes and she might upgrade to artifact
Calling that disgusting snake Chuck Schumer the Palestinian senator is pretty hilarious, given where he stands on the genocide.
Weird too because Shumer did not endorse Mamdani. Only a "congratulations". But in Trump land anything goes
Looks terrible, grating voice, not very smart... Hmm, who does that remind me of?
Republicans always whine about themselves.
I feel like getting trump to write an angry tweet about you is as good an endorsement as Weird Al wanting to parody your song.
Trump says somebody else is not smart
He's prepping up the fascist transition for the midterms, and it couldn't be any more obvious. If it isn't outright theft it's going to be voter suppression and voter manipulation on an entirely different scale. It's so ridiculous to think the US is a democracy anymore, at this point the whole country is a confidence game and a scam that's just mobilizing the capital of the people who they already have scammed against new targets.
They already stole the last one. They are absolutely stealing the next ones til they get caught. Ivankas voting machine patent in China was no coincidence imo
I wish he was a communist. I hope I get to vote for a communist in my lifetime.
Make the man afraid some more.
I'll often judge someone's character by who hates them. Zohran seems like a good guy
I don't think I've ever read anything so unhinged from a politician before.
Imagine calling someone out for his looks in a professional setting. In most places that would get you fired or sued.
Honestly, if I lived in NY, this post on it's own would make me vote for him.
Of course, I'd have to live in the US too, which I don't, thank some deity.
He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he's not very smart, he's got AOC+3, Dummies ALL, backing him, and even our Great Palestinian Senator, Cryin' Chuck Schumer, is groveling over him.
As a Canadian I know almost nothing about Zohran Mamdani, but I do know that he has more class than a man ever will who, while President of the USA, writes this, or the people who see a non-white left-winger win a democratic vote and immediately call for his deportation. The world can see this. Trump and MAGA are bringing shame on your country.
We know. We’re miserable. (Us sane people, anyway).
+1
every day is more embarrassing than the last. i have felt shame in the past for the things our ancestors did, but there's something different about living in the midst of it. i fucking hate this place. any time i hear "well leave if you don't like it" i'm like "I FUCKING WOULD IF I COULD"
has trump said anything about RKJ's voice being weird?
I mean... good? Why would we want a politician that's acceptable to him?
More shrieking dictator every day.
"All the (centrist fucks) are extreme leftist Marxists!"
"OMG a (milquetoast moderate) won, the Marxists are taking over!"
"Holy shit a (moderately left leaning person) won an election! It's over for America the Communists won!"
"The crazy Marxist Democrat extreme leftists have gone too far with this (standard progressive)"
...etc etc...
now we have an "actual" socialist, but the boy cried wolf so many times they can't label him anything more extreme because they already threw those words at people like... (Checks notes)... Nancy Pelosi... Lol
He looks TERRIBLE, his voice is grating, he's not very smart...
Trump describing himself.
Every accusation is an admission
I like how they've gone full mask off and given up on the anti-semite attacks and are just calling anyone not calling for Gaza to be ethnically cleansed a Palestinian like it's an insult. Not even hiding the Islamophobia any more.
It's also double funny that he's calling fucking Schumer a Palestinian, it's like calling Biden a communist, which he also probably said. It just goes to show no matter how much the dems try to moderate to accommodate the conservatives they'll always be the enemy.
It’s like there was a creative writing exercise with a prompt to pack as much bullshit as possible into 5 sentences.
It’s constantly horrifying that our president communicates like this in public. Completely unreal.
It's a Mayor these guys are freaking out over.
The president is freaking out over a Mayor.
That's true fear. They know we intend to use the law to put the real criminals in prison.
To be fair, NYC is a huge city and so its mayor is a major figure in the US. The most recent population I could find was 8.8 million people, vs. the total US at 340 million. NYC is, therefore, home to 2.6% of the US population. As a polity, NYC represents more people than the 9 least populous states (Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska, N Dakota, S Dakota, Delaware, Rhode Island, Montana, and Maine) combined. In fact, there are only 12 US states that have a bigger population than NYC alone, and one of those is New York state. From a population perspective, the mayor of NYC is equivalent to the governor of Virginia. That's why everyone is freaking out about this so much. Plus he's young and very handily beat the candidate backed by the DNC establishment, showing cracks in what they assumed was a solid neoliberal core.
Remember when people didn't get elected because they weren't "presidential" enough?
😢
Ha ha ha. This guys such a snowflake.
The irony of saying someone’s not that intelligent when it appears you don’t even know how to use punctuation.
I’m pretty terrible with punctuation but I’m not throwing stones from my glass house.
Trump and the Republicans are now calling him a communist and the GOP are asking Trump to revoke his citizenship and deport him under the Communist Control Act signed by Eisenhower in 1954. I think it's even money that Trump tries it.
Looks terrible, his voice is grating, he's not very smart. Who do those words make me think of? DJT and RFKjr win in a landslide.