Donald Trump Urges New Yorkers To Vote For Andrew Cuomo For Mayor Over Zohran Mamdani And Curtis Sliwa: “You Really Have No Choice”
7mon 16d ago by lemmy.world/u/return2ozma in news from deadline.com
Good, his endorsement will hopefully be the thing to put that old bag out to pasture
I don't exactly have the polling data but I wonder what the expedected shift is from that. I assume the Republicans want to push Sliwas voters to Cuomo, but a Trump endorsement can also scare off democrats that may have been on the fence about Cuomo at a time when his approval is at it's lowest.
He's gonna say the same thing about Newsom when he loses the presidential primary to a progressive.
Silver spoon neoliberals aren't on our side, they never were, and they never will be.
Quick edit:
In a Truth Social post on Monday evening, Trump wrote, “If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home, (further deranged ramblings...)
His threat is he'd only pay the minimum taxes legally required...
People forget a billionaire tax in NYC taxes trump
I do not understamd his threat. They have already suspended funding for things in New York before he has been elected.
Also how anyone can be just ok with the president threatening funding in a major city because he doesnt like the candidate is fucking insane. I would say the press should ask every republican in congrsss about this, but they will all say they havent heard or seen what he said and then it will be forgotten in a day.
I sure hope Newsom loses the primary. That dude is just a younger Joe Biden that writes catty tweets. It's fun to read the tweets, but come on... We can all do better.
His policies suck but no ones pushing for a more progressive alternative, california would shift red, idk if yall live out here but plenty of ppl are still trump dickriders
but no ones pushing for a more progressive alternative
What?
The DNC chair has openly been saying he wants a presidential candidate like Mamdani...
Or are you saying no one is campaigning for a governorship a year away?
In california? Newsom?
He doesn't even write the tweets, it's likely an intern
he's still a progressive
Newsom isn't even a liberal, he's just a sucking void of ambition. There's no room for ideals or ethics. He's a politician and only a politician.
Today it benefits him to troll trump on twitter so he does that. Tomorrow, if trump dies and miller offers newsom the presidency, he'd join the regime in a heartbeat.
Newsom I'm is not a progressive.
His approach to homelessness and trans rights makes it clear. He is just another neolib grifter
dem want to tax the rich, repeal citizens united, and give healthcare coverage to all.
That's just not true though. At no point have dems taken concrete steps towards any of those goals.
Obamacare is the closest they've got to any of that and it was explicitly to prevent medicare for all.
Cuomo would have been on your list of Dems that pretend to be progressive if Mamdani had not stepped in. Trump’s endorsement of the false progressive should tell you all you need to know about that crowd.
We’re not even at the primaries and here you are with the “yeah, he’s transphobic and would murder unsheltered people for spot if no one was looking, but YOU MUST VOTE NEWSOM IF YOU ARE NOT A REPUBLICAN.
Fuck Newsom and fuck the “blue no matter who” crowd that shits on actual progress.
Fuck Newsom and fuck the “blue no matter who” crowd that shits on actual progress.
I just want to say how grateful I am to have finally come full circle on this after being a voice in the wilderness for sooo long. Litterally Blue MAGA/ BNMW/ ABWD threw the election to fascists and then tried to blame the left. Its so heartening to finally not have to be the only one making this point and to watch it break through into the mainstream.
So, an imaginary candidate is preferred over Newsom, imperfect as he is?
Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good. Republicans don’t, which is why they’re in power.
Champion the overtly and successfully progressive when they’re available, and the less progressive to be better.
Here in the real world we need candidates who are electable.
Every cycle. Every fucking cycle. Before the primary: “We need someone ELECTABLE. Not someone good.” After the primary: “The time to have a problem with this racist, transphobic, corporate dick sucking bag of hateorade was BEFORE the primary. It’s your civic duty to vote for this blue piece of trash now!”
When the alternative is the republicans? Ya.
I don't think you realize how politics works. You're saying that you would not vote or vote 3rd party if there was a choice between hitler and newsom? You vote your conscience until the choice is made for you.
Before the primary, we have choices.
Oh. I just noticed who I was arguing with. Fuck off palespirit. You’re the worst kind of troll.
Oh. I just noticed who I was arguing with. Fuck off palespirit. You’re the worst kind of troll.
That's a new way to deflect, lol. I don't recognize your name.
Newsom will take whatever political stance is most convenient to him at the moment
What's our side here? You say that like I know. Like any of us know. But what side is that? Cuz you keep naming people that are on the corporate side. You mentioned Gavin Newsom being against trans rights and homeless people, but you left out the fact that he's incredibly Pro corporate. And he's been a thorn in the side of people trying to regulate corporate overreach. Particularly Tech corporations. He has shown himself hostile to labor. He has showed himself hostile to regulation. He has shown himself hostile to environmental regulations. He has shown himself to be Pro big business. So what side is he on and what side am I on is my question? Like all neoliberals he is an arch capitalist. I am decidedly not. So how the fuck is he on my side?
The saddest thing about this is I think you're serious. I think you really think these people that have aligned themselves as the servants of the ultra wealthy have your interests at heart. That these people that believe in late stage capitalism are going to protect you from fascism. And that's just crushingly depressing. Because somewhere in your mind you think capitalism and fascism are opposing ideologies. Whereas in reality one's just the result of the other.
You are like the oysters walking along happily with the walrus and the carpenter.
No buddy, neoliberals only draw water for their ultra wealthy friends. All while telling us that the water is gone. That's why they've been dismantling all the public wells for the last 40 years. Open up your eyes and notice.
If Trump says you should vote for someone thats an obvious sign they are comprimised and should be removed by force.
Mamdani frightens them. Good.
Top office in USA says we have no choice in our votes, 2025...
This is like a negative endorsement do they have those? A subtraction? If Trump is telling you to vote for a guy, absolutely do not vote for the guy. He has no one but his own interests in mind.
Historically his endorsement results in a net negative for any candidate that he endorses.
New Yorkers don't have a choice? That's literally what voting is, choosing.
Literal narcissistic abuser.
"You have no choice." Exactly the kind of choice Trump is working hard to ensure we all have.
One man one vote
If the Federal Government is shut down, why are ICE and the Secret Service still going to work?
They get paid, of course.
they get paid, but they'd probably do it for free.
Haters gonna hate
This headline is fantastic for Mamdani, plus serves as yet another example of Trump shooting himself in the foot. I want to put it on a billboard.
So, an endorsement for Mamdani.
Do the right thing, NY. Throw up them middle fingers, say fuck you fascists and vote that man in!!!
I thought he did not want Mamdani to win? Why is he campaigning for him???
I think he forgets how much New York despises him.
Did the pedo forget that New York hates his guts?
Man I remember when Democrats presented things to voters as not having a choice.
Voters always have a choice.
It’s why those in NYC chose Mamdani to represent the Democrats.
Andrew Cuomo:
"huh? didn't hear you."
You do know he only switched to third party after losing the Democrat primary, right?
Democrats haven't they properly noted voting third party is losing with extra steps
Sexual predators helping and endorsing sexual predators…
Is it too early to talk about the effect on future elections of Trump's endorsement being negative? R candidates in purple states starting to jump ship soon?
It something that's been noted since his first term.
He tends to suck away the oxygen from the rest of the party. Republicans in primaries that he's endorsed have lost. Then he switches endorsements to whomever won, and that candidate barely wins in a district that should have been an easy R win. Also, several state level GOP organizations are struggling for funds and are on the verge of bankruptcy. All the donor money is going to the Trump organization specifically, and he doesn't share. That's as close to literally sucking the oxygen away as you can get in politics.
In a very real way, the GOP is no longer a functioning party at all. The mechanisms of mutual support are not there, and that's the nuts and bolts of what a political party in a democracy does. To succeed at the federal level, they must build the state level. They aren't. They can't, because they gave too much power to a self-absorbed idiot. Sauron put too much power in the One Ring, and now it's a vulnerability.
It's not just that they are undermining democracy. They have no way of functioning in a democracy.
It's quite clear that they only way the GOP wins the midterms is cheating. They know it, we know it. For it to be anything else, Trump would have to behave like someone other than Trump.
Go eat a dick, you orange fuck.
Predators of a feather flock together
Like I’m gonna listen to a pedophile.
I’m surprised Trump didn’t say it’s illegal to vote for Mamdani.
This just in: president of the USA says democracy is over.
Oh wait, that's not news at all.
Ah. So NYC is the battle between progressivism and trump that will define the next decade. Cool. Cool.
On a completely unrelated note, I need to buy more whiskey.
Don't forget champagne.
Why would he endorse Cuomo over Sliwa?
Edit- oh lol, guess he thinks Sliwa is a spoiler candidate or something. Weird af.
Sliwa came out against the George Santos pardon.
Sliwa is a spoiler candidate... Republicans in that race run as Democrats
Take Adams and Cuomo... Both who work closely with Trump and got in trouble for sexual assault
Sounds like a threat. Hope this isn't the reason they started testing the nukes. He's a sick fuck
The growing Chinese nuclear arsenal unrestricted by cold war-era treaties is the more pressing concern in nuclear arms (de)escalation.
"It'll be the last time you have to vote for Cuomo!"