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Maga. Israel. The usual. Possibly the Dem party. They really don't like these new unbought Dems coming in and making them look bad.
Cuomo is literally a sex abuser and establishment democrats can’t get enough of him.
Jeffries should be ashamed it took him this long to endorse Mamdami. But good to know he’s a traitor to his supporters.
It's not that they like Cuomo. It's that they hate Mamdani because he represents an actual threat to the wealth of their friends. They just have to cling to Cuomo because he's the only way they can fight Mamdani; stumping for the Republican instead will get them in trouble and give the game away.
I don’t care if it sounds incredibly naive, but getting money out of politics would make life better for everyone who deserves it.
People would become politicians because they genuinely have passion to fix things for the people.
Australia just banned corporate pac money. We should too.
Feels like Biden in the 2020 primaries. The centrists didn't love him, he was an elderly gaffe machine (with scandals way worse than anything with Platner), but after trying and failing to make literally my every other moderate take off and the likely alternative was Bernie, they took what was available.
They'd love someone who wasn't scandal plagued, but their other options all suck too, so I guess it's all-in on the corrupt sex pest.
Hey, that reminds me: Once we survive the current crisis and move the Democrats somewhere in the vicinity of a left-wing party or replace them, let's primary the fuck out of Debbie Wasserman Schultz. I'm sort of irritated that she still has a job.
It's really wild how some people still keep existing in the party. Like why the fuck does Rahm Emmanuel's name keep coming up in serious political conversation? And Henry Cuellar is still a sitting congressman with apparently most of the House leadership ready to answer his calls. Popular imagination generally paints party leadership as a bunch of cut throat sociopaths, but it really feels like if you've made the right friends you can just never go away.
I mean, they are very bad people. Like almost all of them.
A friend of a friend of mine worked in government (for a Democrat as it turns out), and she said that they're way worse than you think. Just on a personal level these horrifying caricatures of what a human should be, makes you want to take a shower after interacting with them type of thing. I don't think it's universally that way; I do think there are some people in Washington who are trying to do the right thing, but I cannot imagine that you can exist in an environment that corrupt and not have it do some level of damage to you (and drive away the people who are not cool with that level of evil). And the people who are comfortable successful creatures within that environment I think are pretty universally bad.
There is also this upsetting factor that I think a lot of the American voting populace are fine with that. Like I feel like if you tried to primary DWS by painting her as the objective monster that she is and what she did to the country, people would be fine with it and you'd go down in flames. Maybe things are changing now as the young progressives furious about their situation are getting involved in politics, but I think all of the old guard is unapologetically horrible and that's not likely to change for as long as they are the old guard.
Yeah a very strong sign of how corrupt the Dems in office are.
Kinda like they all take money from the same people...