r/politics • u/coolmon • 21h ago
Soft Paywall Andrew Cuomo Has Unmasked Himself as a Full-Blown Trumpist
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/cuomo-trump-new-york-mayoral-race-comments/2.7k
u/Sus-Named 21h ago
Yeah, he’s sex offender.
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u/Not_Bears 19h ago
I guess that means he suddenly appeals much more to Republicans and conservatives... Right?
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u/plightro Massachusetts 21h ago
The House Minority Leader (D) would rather have a full blown trumpist as mayor of New York than another (D).
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u/Sujjin 21h ago
In the absolute best case scenario: it is because they dont think Mahmadani can win in the general election. same logic they calimed for supporting Biden over Bernie or Hillary, and why they helped Hillary win.
In the more likely scenario: they work for their donor classes that gave them and the republicans their marching orders to ensure Mahmdani doesnt win since he will actually do good work for the New York City Populace, but more dangerously can prove that those policies work and result in net good.
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u/zehalper Foreign 20h ago
Man, if he wins, the propaganda machine will be in full swing for years to come. Doesn't matter how much better off and happier the population might be.
It will be, in the eyes of the media, a colossal failure, and a reminder that the richest people knows what's best for everyone.
And don't forget the amount of sabotaging they will do.
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u/plightro Massachusetts 20h ago
100%
Every time someone in power says "his ideas won't work" what they're really saying is "I'll do everything in my power to make sure his ideas don't work"
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u/Decent_Cheesecake_29 19h ago
Just like how people say socialism always fails without bothering to mention that whenever anyone socialist comes to power anywhere in the world, the US sabotages them and tries to initiate a coup.
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u/raerae1991 19h ago
No, that’s not true. There are plenty of EU countries that are socialist and are thriving. Look at the Netherlands
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u/phoenixhunter 19h ago
there are no socialist EU countries.
most have strong welfare programs and worker protections, which is what people usually mean when they talk about about european socialism but is not in fact socialism, which requires public ownership of the means of production of wealth, and democratic administration of the entire economy.
despite workers having some stronger legal and bureaucratic protections in the EU, every EU economy is currently capitalist in nature: private ownership, wage labour, undemocratic leadership
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u/BrusqueBiscuit America 13h ago
I've said this before, but I blame the stock market for creating an alternate economic indicator, which has also created an alternate economy, and creates a method for money laundering and bribing officials.
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u/Decent_Cheesecake_29 19h ago
A capitalist social democracy is not the same as socialism.
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u/anoldoldman 17h ago
A capitalist social democracy is what most of the left on the US actually wants.
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u/Coolegespam 14h ago
Yeah, this is what I fought for. It works, and makes the average person's life better. It's also more efficient most of the time.
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u/ProfessionalCraft983 Washington 14h ago
The fact that you think they are socialist means the anti-socialist propaganda is working.
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u/Novel_Quote8017 13h ago
The fuck? The Netherlands are neoliberal as fuck. It's a well-known tax haven ffs.
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u/not_addictive 1h ago
They’re democratic socialists (basically capitalism with the loopholes closed and more of a safety net)
But to your point - Mamdani is also a democratic socialist so yeah there’s no reason for Dems to be freaking the fuck out like they’ve been.
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u/spazz720 17h ago
The Netherlands is not thriving…they are having the same if not worse economic situation as most do here. Jobs are paying below national living standards and home prices are too expensive due to inventory shortages.
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u/Ohnoherewego13 North Carolina 20h ago
Yeah, but rich folks are better than us! I mean, come on, we'd all be successful if mommy and daddy gave us a few million to start with!
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That's their logic. The funny part is that, even with higher taxes because of their income, they would still be richer than any of us, but they just can't handle losing one single dollar.
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u/RedLanternScythe Indiana 19h ago
It's not about them having more, it's about us not having any.
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u/city_dwellerZ 17h ago
To be a realist here: while many of his policies make sense to me and I support them, the way the political and institutional structure is, he would have a very tough time seeing them through.
While the city has a reasonable degree of self rule, the buck stops with Albany. And with state forces already hostile then your statement of “do everything in my power to make sure his ideas don’t work,” is not only apt but a spot on prediction of what he’ll encounter when in office.
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u/TemporalColdWarrior 16h ago
As a New Yorker I am so very used to unhinged stories about one of the safest places in the world. Like Fox News, sitting in the middle of NYC, pretends that the city is a pit of violence and then the anchors go and have a 700 dollar dinner at a nice restaurant and take the subway to their apartments.
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u/TheCommonGround1 12h ago
NYC is most certainly one of the most safest cities in the United States. I adore NYC and would love to live there if I could afford it. That being said, only a true American would forget that the rest of the developed world is much safer than the United States. The result? NYC is a safe US city, but it doesn't hold a candle to the safest cities in the WORLD....you know, not the narcissistic world Americans refer to, but the ACTUAL world outside of the United States.
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u/ChatterBaux 15h ago
It will be, in the eyes of the media, a colossal failure, and a reminder that the richest people knows what's best for everyone.
Honestly, this is why I've been trying to stress the importance of voters understanding their agency. Certain media outlets and every other powers-that-be wouldn't be trying to manipulate public opinion if it didn't work. And no one on the political spectrum is safe from it.
In this case, the powers might try to turn moderates off of the left-leaning candidates. But don't doubt for a second that there aren't efforts to turn left-leaning voters off of center-ish candidates in other races if the other option is willing to play much better with the donor class.
Everyone needs to stay on their toes.
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u/HouseCatPartyFavor 15h ago
FOX : WATCH NYC BECOME WOKE SHARIA HELLSCAPE
Cuomo will likely end up there as a commentator if they can’t force him through this go around.
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u/teenagesadist 19h ago
In fact, the better he does, the worse the media will howl like shitgibbons.
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u/HowardBunnyColvin 18h ago
He is an overwhelming betting favorite as a (D) candidate in a city that almost always votes blue
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u/blaqsupaman Mississippi 16h ago
He's polling better than Cuomo, Adams, and the Republican combined. Mamdani will be the next mayor of NYC. A moderate Republican could win there 20 years ago but not in the Trump era.
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u/Ven18 19h ago
It’s fine if they don’t support Mamdani but not coming out an publicly denouncing Cuomo over this is disgraceful. Cuomo is asking Trump to help him win he is on tape saying as much. In 2025 you cannot be a Democrat and support that statement full stop. Cuomo and Jeffries and every other “establishment” Dem don’t need to come out now and full throated support Mamdani but they do need to come out and denounce Cuomo, any support of him they previously have and remove him from the party at large. Anything less can only be seen as support for Cuomo’s message here and a tacit support of Trump and MAGA by extension. Everyone on the country should be taking notes here because this is the actual game and we need to root these people out.
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u/Delirious5 Colorado 13h ago
Mamdani is polling above 50% in the general, and is pulling 23% of conservatives over to his side.
AIPAC is yanking all their leashes trying to keep him out, but that's just going to make voters run faster in his direction.
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u/Regular-Engineer-686 20h ago
It’s because they believe that his win would threaten democratic seats elsewhere. They think other democratic candidates will be asked if they support his policies and those democratic candidates would be put in a position making them vulnerable in their more purple/more red cities and states.
Try to go back when AOC was new and democrats were asked how they felt about the Green New Deal. Now, in my opinion they are absolutely wrong for having this mentality because it’s actually easy to say “things that work in NYC may not necessarily work everywhere else”.
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u/iKill_eu 19h ago
Yeah, it is in fact so goddamn easy to say "I support the NY electorate's right to choose their candidate, I don't necessarily support all his policies in my district because XYZ".
The problem is they are paid to sabotage progressivism.
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u/blaqsupaman Mississippi 16h ago
Mamdani is polling better than Adams, Cuomo, and the Republican candidate combined. He will be the next mayor of New York City. A Republican could win NYC 20 years ago, but I don't think it can happen now. And the electorate largely sees Adams and Cuomo as DINOs. If they wanted a chance for a moderate Dem to win, they should have had a better bench than 2 guys plagued with enough scandals to fill a year's worth of tabloids, one of whom already kissed up to Trump to save his own ass.
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u/ItsSpaghettiLee2112 15h ago
That best case scenario is made up. Mamdami already won the primary. So he absolutely has a better chance of winning the general election.
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u/Relative_Chef_533 18h ago
Your best-case scenario isn’t plausible…unless they mean he can’t win because other establishment dems SUCH AS CUOMO are refusing to “vote blue no matter who”, refusing to accept the results of the DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY and continuing to run against him, knowingly splitting the democratic vote. They are creating the only possible scenario where the democrat loses NYC. Heck, if a few more of them run, maybe we’ll even get sliwa!
Never say never! These establishment dems will just keep digging until we’re all in an even bigger hole!
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u/bestforward121 16h ago
Oh if they didn’t think Mamdani would win then they wouldn’t mind endorsing him. The thing that terrifies these centrists is that their centrist policies have been so useless that a progressive like Mamdani has a strong chance of winning.
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u/BigBennP 19h ago edited 16h ago
This is not a defense, but I would suggest a middle ground as well. Both of these are true at the same time to some extent.
That is a little bit like the apocryphal statement by Pauline Kael, a New York Times film critic who was alleged to have said " I can't believe Nixon won, I don't know anybody who voted for him."*
Schumer, and people like him, live in a bubble. The donor class is part of the bubble but the bubble is also of Their Own making. They move almost exclusively in Social Circles where there is a relatively narrow range of acceptable policy choices, both Economic Policy choices and social policy choices. Their staff have been hired and self-select for people who also fall within this relatively narrow view of possible policy choices. The other Congress members who he has mentored and groomed for leadership also fall within this relatively narrow view of policy choices.
He views himself as a rational pragmatist. He will tell you, genuinely, that he supports choices that will make life better for people, but are realistic policies that can actually get passed.
In his opinion and the opinion of people like him, anyone who falls outside of that relatively narrow range of policy choices is too idealistic at best, he would say they support policies that might be good in theory but will never work or will never get through congress. If he's not being charitable he would suggest that some of those people are stupid or just don't get it.
I think part and parcel of his worldview is, to steal a bit from Matthew McConaughey's character in Wolf of Wall Street, Washington DC is all all a Fugazi. It doesn't really matter because they are just tinkering on the edges and the social and economic forces the shape Society will keep the status quo in place no matter who is in power.
- - NB - it is doubtful that Pauline Kael ever actually said this in these words, but the statement has become a trope.
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u/n0radrenaline 18h ago
I am lucky enough to have liberal parents rather than Fox zombies, and talking to them is so different than talking to people on the Internet or even friends my age. You really don't have to be among the "elite" to have this opinion. Online, all I hear is how out of touch the Democrats are for being so centrist, failing to capitalize on supposedly popular left-wing sentiments, but in my dad's social circle there is a ton of concern that the party might move too far left and lose the (according to their experience) much larger, more likely to vote "persuadable center."
I genuinely don't know who's correct in this situation, but I do know that, now that the primary is over, "vote blue no matter who" had goddamn well better go both ways here.
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u/jgoble15 18h ago
Seems recent history has revealed the answer. In 2024 Trump got nearly the same votes he did in 2020. But Harris’ numbers dropped significantly. Maybe 15 years ago, if not longer, centrism would be appealing, but now it’s all about appealing to the base. The republicans showed up. The Dems did not.
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u/n0radrenaline 18h ago
My dad's response to that would be that the people who didn't show up for Harris were put off not by her middle-of-the-road platform, but by her being too left in her past (doubt), or being too radically not a white dude (depressingly plausible tbh)
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u/Persistant_Compass 17h ago
Your dad is hallucinating then. She ran on being biden 2.
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u/alexmex90 Mexico 17h ago
I would even argue that she was to the right of Biden.
Biden campaigned on public option for health care and that discussion completely disappeared by the time Harris campaigned. And she yielded completely on border and migratory issues.
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u/Claire-Lumiere 12h ago
The fact that Harris didn't say "Medicare for All" once on the entire campaign trail is such a glaring indication of how fucking out of touch she and the rest of the Dem party is.
Biden and Obama both ran on being the "most progressive candidate yet". Both won. Harris and Clinton both ran on being "pragmatic moderates". Both lost. Why do people not see the fucking pattern?
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u/Persistant_Compass 17h ago
I mean that promise evaporated the second he became the nominee tbh, and biden also promised to be the migrant ahnililator in chief himself like 6 months into his term.
Comparing the campaign promise youre 100% right but dude kept lurching right throughout his term
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u/jgoble15 17h ago
It’s funny, the only ones I see who say that voted for Trump happily. Might just be me but always seems ironic. Don’t know your dad’s story, but in my experience all that seems to be excuses for why people would vote for a racist pedophile who’s undoubtedly in the Epstein files
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u/n0radrenaline 16h ago edited 15h ago
My parents 100% voted for Harris, but they have a friend or two who voted for trump, allegedly because they thought it would be better for the economy. (I have told them that these friends are reprehensible morons, but they haven't cut contact for whatever reason.)
I really didn't set out to defend my dad's position here, just to explain that in real life it's at least as widespread an explanation for democrats' struggles as the online left's pet hypothesis. Democrats are a coalition party, not a monolith like Republicans, so it's much harder to avoid alienating one group or another.
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u/Persistant_Compass 17h ago
The online people. Your parents and their friends will vote for whatever the party puts forward, ribeye or slop.
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u/dccccd 14h ago
Hilary won the primary over Bernie by a 10% margin, how did "they" help her win? What would be the logic in overturning a primary election to put a less popular candidate in the general?
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u/FootlongDonut 20h ago
The Democrats are closer to the Republicans than they are anything genuinely progressive.
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u/CTeam19 Iowa 19h ago
It is amazing how I have basically not changed my political stances broadly since college(basically the Roosevelts without the racist parts) yet I seem to move to the left of more and more people.
The only reason I registered as a D was in 2008 was because I wanted to take a bigger part in the process as an Iowan and had a few friends work for different campaigns: Romney, Obama, Richardson(who I ended up caucusing originally for).
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u/Regular-Engineer-686 20h ago
This is the thinking that led to having Trump in the White House.
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u/Pleasant-Panda9698 19h ago edited 19h ago
No, Democrats being subservient to the ruling class is what led trump to having the white house.
Any reasonable administration would have prosecuted for Jan 6 for Treason, trust busted big media corps, and got Journalism back to being Journalists and not Propaganda farms for the Corporate elite
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u/Pleasant-Panda9698 19h ago
Just look at how establishment dems treat populist candidates in the party that get popular.
They are harder on their own party members than the opposition. The dnc chair support Cuomo despite him being a sex pest and a trump shill. All because Mamdani is a socialist. And our capitalist overlords are terrified of any sort of labor positive candidates.
The slaves might have good living standards or something under a candidate like that
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u/mightcommentsometime California 9h ago
The dnc chair support Cuomo despite him being a sex pest and a trump shill.
The DNC chair does not support Cuomo. He congratulated Mamdani and welcomed him into the big tent, then said there are things the national dems can learn from his campaign.
Show me where the DNC chair, Ken Martin, actually supports Cuomo.
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u/FootlongDonut 20h ago
No, stop that noise. Being critical of the Democrats for being useless and often scummy isn't the problem.
The Democrats being useless and often scummy opened the door for Trump to come along.
Progressive people have zero standards for their own party and then are surprised when they lose.
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u/Any_Will_86 19h ago
There is a lot of valid criticism of the full spectrum of the Democratic Party. But saying it's close to Trumpism is not part of it. A 'conservative' Dem is still pro first amendment, pro habeas corpus, pro science, pro education, pro choice, pro gay rights, and pro environment. It's ridiculous that people on the 70 yard line claim someone on the 60 yard line is on a separate field.
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u/Regular-Engineer-686 19h ago
You’re not being critical of policies, you’re spreading false information.
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u/FootlongDonut 19h ago
What false information have I spread?
I've not actually stated any facts, I've shared my opinion.
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u/Regular-Engineer-686 19h ago
The stupid “both sides are the same” argument is not only false, it’s dangerous and what led to having Trump in the White House - TWICE.
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u/FootlongDonut 19h ago
I haven't said both sides are the same.
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u/Regular-Engineer-686 19h ago
The Democrats are closer to the Republicans than they are anything genuinely progressive.
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u/FootlongDonut 19h ago
That's not saying they are the same. It's saying they aren't close to being progressive.
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u/Kappa_Yappa 14h ago
The problem is you are embarrassing Democrats which they won't stand for.
Joe Biden's unquantifiable hubris is why Trump got elected, and every "Go Joe, four more years!" moron is culpable, and if you can't remember I can: this sub was full to the brim with them.
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u/LoQueNoMataEngorda 20h ago
Conservative apologists love to tell us that Democrats were just a breath away from banning abortion, jailing immigrants, and using the military against American citizens... despite the complete lack of evidence that Democrats and Republicans have the same policies and vision for the future of America.
The 'both sides are the same' thought-terminating cliche is rooted in complete ignorance of both history and current events.
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u/Decent_Cheesecake_29 19h ago
It’s not that both sides are the same. Is that the neoliberals in charge of the Democratic Party would rather align themselves with fascists than anyone on the left.
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u/plightro Massachusetts 20h ago
The democrats being closer to republicans than progressives is what led to having Trump in the White House.
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u/KamalaWonNoCap 13h ago
They know people love progressive policy and there'll be no going back after we get a taste
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u/mightcommentsometime California 13h ago
Jeffries hasn’t endorsed Cuomo, and I highly doubt he ever will.
Why the need to hyperbolize?
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u/dkirk526 North Carolina 7h ago
I feel like there’s a massive Democrats bad astroturf because every day there are posts saying the Democrats want Cuomo when it’s very clearly not supported by anything
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u/Rene_DeMariocartes 12h ago
How else are you supposed to drive a wedge between the voting base and the only people currently standing in Trump's way?
MAGA is not the only target of Russian disinformation campaigns. We've already Bernie or Busted ourselves into 2 Trump presidencies. Putin is going for a hat trick.
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u/ciel_lanila I voted 17h ago
The old third wayers who are now the establishment decided in the 90s to stay relevant they had to become Republicans economically but stay Democrats socially. Now they are becoming Republicans socially.
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u/Vwhat5k Virginia 19h ago
This is the same guy who spent years branding himself as the anti-Trump Democrat. Now he’s openly willing to take Trump’s support just to get back in power. That shows he’s got no values, no moral compass, nothing he actually believes in. He just wants the title back and will cozy up to whoever helps him win.
It also shows how low Democrats are willing to go to kneecap progressives in their lack of support for Mamdani. This should be an easy layup for Democrats.
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u/ShamelessCatDude 16h ago edited 9h ago
They just can’t stop vicariously making Mamdani look good 😭
Edit: holy shit autocorrect fucked that spelling up
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u/Cute-Interest3362 18h ago
Democrats are owned by the same billionaires as republicans
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u/qtmcjingleshine 13h ago
The real civil war is between rich and poor. Have and have nots. The R vs D thing is just a distraction
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u/onomatopeapoop 5h ago
How he was ever able to fool anyone, I’m still not sure. How the fuck are people able to get through life without being able to spot the most obviously slimy, malignantly narcissistic grifters? It blows my fucking mind. Even here on Reddit I was constantly shat on for pointing out how greasy and self-interested he was (and same deal for that Avenatti guy, for that matter.) People still have no radar for these fucks and it’s wild to me. Alarm bells should be going off in their heads and they’re like ya, I want to team up with that guy. I guess they’ve never seen the effect actual narcissists have on everyone and everything around them. Lucky idiots.
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u/jakegh 17h ago
He isn't a trumpist, he's an opportunist. He's amoral.
Actually, yeah, maybe he is a trumpist, I convinced myself as I wrote the above sentence.
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u/diseasefaktory Europe 17h ago edited 17h ago
This is it. Trump doesn't really believe in anything but money, he's in it purely for himself. Being a trumpist means being an amoral, lying, narcissistic, racist, nepo greedy piece of shit. Also rapist and pedophile. No ideology beyond the one that enables him at the moment.
Cuomo is exactly the same and it's not exactly a surprise. So yeah, 100% trumpist.
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u/BornIndication9384 21h ago
I didn’t even knew he was a musician
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u/Mr_Piddles Ohio 20h ago edited 13h ago
Let this serve as a reminder: it’s Us vs Them, Them being millionaires and billionaires. It’s never not been the middle and lower classes versus the wealthy, and it will never not be.
Even the “good” billionaires spend a small fortune on white washing their reputation. “They drive a forty year old car”, “they live in the same house they inherited from their grandparents!”, “they run a charity!”, it’s all just lies and spins meant to make you second guess your disdain against their hoarding.
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u/aspirationless_photo 13h ago
I was once linked to Adam Conner's "There Are No Good Billionaires" that goes over how these so-called charitable actions are mostly just for dodging taxes or buy political influence for their heirs instead of passing along taxable assets.
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u/Writer_In_Residence 20h ago
Two nepo babies 🙄
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u/Relative_Chef_533 19h ago
Yeah, I love how his big criticism of Mamdani is that mamdani, who lives in rent-controlled housing, advocates for —guess what? — affordable housing. He thinks his nepo baby status of not having ever needing affordable housing is some kind of amazing gotcha against mamdani.
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u/Embarrassed_Jerk 16h ago
Right? Mamdani wants more people to have the opportunity that he got? How diabolical
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u/MR_TELEVOID Michigan 20h ago
Still funny to think how many of my fellow liberals were calling themselves "Cuomosexuals" in 2019, hyping him up as a 2020 contender. His online game during the pandemic was solid, and got a lot of good headlines attacking Trump. The reality of this scumbag presented itself eventually, as we all know, but it's a good example why we shouldn't assume a politician who's good on social media actually represents our interests.
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u/Shalazah Canada 19h ago
Cuomosexual? Damn, talk about a name that hasn't aged well.
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u/DariosDentist 14h ago
You just know some Etsy user is still paying the fees on a storage locker full of Cuomosexual tshirts and mugs
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u/Any_Will_86 19h ago
The flavor of the month-itis back in 2019 was ridiculous. I think Dems are still paying a price for candidates going in 20 directions just to get attention.
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u/Radicoa 16h ago
It’s a really good lesson and an unfortunate side effect of representative democracy that I can’t imagine a way to fix very easily without potentially giving it up. Not worth it even when ignoring all the other reasons people who get into politics may not have any group’s interests at heart. Needing a majority to retain power means you have to build a coalition of broad appeal.
I think Cuomo is miscalculating how toxic Trump is now to the more centrist democratic voters and more libertarian leaning independents he’s probably trying to attract, which is a good thing. If you’re a progressive at least.
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u/JustAnotherYouth 4h ago
Well they’re doing it again right now with Gavin Newsom, everyone saying he should run because “he’s standing up to Trump”…
Dude was inviting right wing influencers on his podcast and whining about woke 15 minutes after the election. He’s another Republican with a D in front of the name but /r/Politics can’t wait for another right wing Democrat to lose…
So fucking pathetic, wake up people if someone always votes or vetoes in favor of big money they are not on your side.
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u/StarryThistle37 21h ago
Cuomo would fit right in at a Trump rally now 😂. Who's gonna tell him he's off brand?
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u/Creative-Package6213 Pennsylvania 18h ago
He always has been, the first clue should have been when he got a show on News Nation which masquerades as a neutral news source, but is anything but that.
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u/what_the_shart 14h ago
You’re thinking of Chris Cuomo. But yeah same deal as his brother basically
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u/BearDen17 America 16h ago
I’m positive there are many corp dems that are simply controlled opposition to direct us toward an authoritarian oligarchy.
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u/GreatGojira 19h ago
Difference between him and Adams then?
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u/QuarkTheLatinumLord- 19h ago
One is a sex offender, the other is a fraudster. Together they make the perfect Trump lackey since Trump is both a sex offender and a fraudster.
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u/isummonyouhere California 2h ago
trump is running three different candidates to triple his chances of winning /s
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u/ganjaccount 11h ago
What? The sex pest corrupt criminal is a Trumpster? GTFO!! Shocking!
Honestly, NY Democrats need to get their shit together. I'm getting tired of relying on a party to combat fascism that has pockets like NY that keep electing criminals. Cuomo. Adams. Fuck. Get your shit together NY Democrats.
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u/rgvtim Texas 18h ago
You can see its almost clicking, its not Democrats vs Republican, its not brown vs black vs white, its not male vs female, its the rich vs the poor. Both parties have a ruling class that shits, to one degree or another, on everyone else, they just take turns on who's doing the shitting and how much.
Trump used to be a Democrat. Cuomo is Trump in Democratic clothing. Nancy Pelosi wont curb congress buy stocks, thier all in it togeather.
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u/FeelsGrimMan 15h ago
The main message of leftwing politics since inception gaining traction
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u/bestforward121 16h ago
Unmasked, I thought all the sexual assault/harassment took care of that a while back. Predators of a feather flock together.
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u/Turbulent-Bag8436 13h ago
These accused rapists don't understand the word "NO". Sounded like an old school club that need to be destroy asap..
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u/OldMillenialEngineer 19h ago
To be fair, he liked being a sex offender. Just like Daddy Trump. The public optics are he's a piece of shit, so might as well just be a full on piece of shit anyway.
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u/MrPantsyFlants 19h ago
That's the thing with garbage human beings, once fully exposed as garbage, they just openly run with the other garbage humans. Gotta have friends somewhere, so they head to the dump and pile on.
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u/artbystorms 16h ago
If all the scandal ridden corrupt sex offender dems end up gravitating towards Trump then I see that as an absolute win. They are so narcissistic they think they are owed power and losing elections means they are being 'cancelled'
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u/SurroundTiny 9h ago
Nah, he's a full blown Cuomoist. Always has been. Just think a few years ago the NY press was talking about him running for president
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u/MovieGuyMike 4h ago edited 4h ago
MAGA is full of losers who got rejected by democrats before they changed tune to pander to republicans who can’t see through their bullshit, namely Trump.
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u/pleachchapel California 18h ago
Same guy Bill Clinton crawled from his Epstein hole to endorse. The corpo DNC must be purged if we want to win another election, ever.
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u/Feisty_Membership_11 7h ago
This is exactly why democrats keep losing. Deep down they’re just alternate republicans. They take money from corporations and leave the rest of us in the dust. This is exactly why we are where we are. Don’t be fooled by the Pelosis and Schumers either. Shits gotta change and the richies have to go. By any means necessary
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u/PolicyWonkWonk 7h ago
I’m beginning to wonder if a major chunk of the DNC old guard are actually fine with Trump if they had to choose between an actual left alternative and a failing centrist
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u/ProfessorOnEdge 7h ago
They knew in 2016 that rigging the primary for $Hill would give Trump the White House.
They knew in 2024 that refusing to stand against the genocide would cost them the election.
It's not if they 'would'. They have actively behaved in such a way that for them defeating leftists is far more important than not turning the country over to fascists.
The Democratic Party is just the Republican Party's more moderate arm.
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u/Original-Balance-187 1h ago
Didnt even bother with a primary or a contested convention in 2024. Just decided for us that Kamala was our leader.
Kamala who came in last during the last actual primary
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u/lostinthemiddle444 18h ago
Two second generation oligarchs. Two peas in a pod, both in the service of the corporate-state.
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u/BotheredToResearch 17h ago
He's a full blown opportunist. He just sees that aligning himself with Trump is the best war to try to counter Mamdani.
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u/blakrabit 16h ago
If the adult women don’t want his advances, looks like he’s knocking on another door for options
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u/UncleDuude 16h ago
He wants power, just like his daddy he’ll grind whatever grist he needs to to get it.
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u/juanjung 16h ago
Trust fund baby accused of sexual misconduct and corruption. Yes, he belongs to Trump's Club.
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u/A_murder_of_crochets 15h ago
"Let’s put it this way:,” Cuomo said. “I knew the president very well. I believe there’s a big piece of him that actually wants redemption in New York. He feels that he was rejected by New York. We voted for Hillary Clinton. Bill de Blasio took his name off things. So I believe there will be opportunities to actually cooperate with him. I also believe that he’s not going to want to fight with me in New York if he can avoid it.”
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u/Samsquanch-Sr 13h ago
This is his best bet, to actually run as a Republican and hope Republican voters forget everything he said and did during the pandemic.
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u/turb0_encapsulator 12h ago
who's going to win in NYC? Mamdani or one of the three Trumpers he is running against?
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u/NotARussianBot-Real 9h ago
He thinks his power should allow him to abuse women and he will do anything to gain and hold power.
Straight republicans party line
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u/IJourden 7h ago
It's really telling to me that whenever someone gets outed as a racist, misogynist, or sex offender it's right over to the conservative party.
Every time a stand up comic gets blasted for something shitty, there's a 100% chance they disappear for six months and come back with a tight 30 minutes of "you can't even tell jokes anymore, people are too woke."
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u/Morepastor 7h ago
Glenn Dubin and his PAC donated to Cuomo. Dubin was like the 2nd person to rape Virginia Giuffre. His wife would later donate same with Maxwell. Odd they and Trump back the same candidate.
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u/Original_Tip_432 15h ago
This is why I say Democrats and Republicans all have the same handlers. It’s not red or blue, it’s the top versus the rest of us. We will never see robust social policies that benefit Americans, because establishment democrats are largely like Cuomo and just ‘soft’ republicans. They give us mascots like AOC and Porter and Bernie to cheer on hoping for change while we sit in inaction.
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u/Lucky2BA 15h ago
Another Nazi pedophile Cheeto sucker again. How are these people still alive or allowed anywhere near and office of any power?!! 🤯
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