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____no5 said:
Yes something like that. At least since after Reagan. It would have been the same even under Sanders. Trump appeared to be different due to MAGA which he is now killing. I certainly liked its populist focus and the anti-forever wars side of it.
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Donald Trump has never told the truth about anything. Ever. Except maybe when he talks about how much he wants to fuck his own daughter.
 
The Garlon said:
Donald Trump has never told the truth about anything. Ever. Except maybe when he talks about how much he wants to fuck his own daughter.
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Probably. But his anti-war record was good we have to give him that.

PS.
I saw the movie Apprentice in the airplane, nice movie by the way, and discovered that not even Make America Great Again slogan was his. It was Reagan’s!
 
Yup. As me and other members had been warning for literal months: Believing that Trump would be a pro-peace president was entirely foolish.

Not only that. His actions were, once again, unconstitutional. Acts of war require congressional approval, but Trump simply did his own thing.

But no, Biden is soooo much worse, right? GTFOH :rolleyes:
 
Despite establishment Dems pumping money and endorsing Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani won the NYC mayoral primary. Hopefully he'll win the election as well. Time for some important changes, rather than having another sex pest running everything into the ground.
 
Vaenyr said:
Despite establishment Dems pumping money and endorsing Cuomo, Zohran Mamdani won the NYC mayoral primary. Hopefully he'll win the election as well. Time for some important changes, rather than having another sex pest running everything into the ground.
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Cuomo vastly underperformed despite having both of those big money interests and big-name political players such as Bill Clinton come out to endorse him. Even in boroughs that Cuomo was expected to do well in, Mamdani put up big numbers there.

Interesting to see considering the Harris campaign's collapse of the share of the vote in NYC and Trump's performance there. I do know a big chunk of Mamdani's platform is addressing the affordability crisis in the city whereas that didn't get touched on as much in Cuomo's platform. But, interesting to see the electorate move more to the left rather than embrace moderate centrist policies as a kneejerk reaction to the Trump loss that party leadership seems to be angling for.

Will party leadership fall in line and embrace Mamdani? Will Cuomo launch an independent bid himself? We shall see come November.
 
I'm cautious getting my hopes up, since this was only the Dem primary and not the actual election yet, but you raise good points. Let's hope this is a sign of things to come.

Not sure how much a realistic danger this poses, but Cuomo running as an independent could theoretically split the non-conservative vote, which could have disastrous effects. It's far too early to tell though, of course.

For now I'm really happy with the results.
 
Vaenyr said:
I'm cautious getting my hopes up, since this was only the Dem primary and not the actual election yet, but you raise good points. Let's hope this is a sign of things to come.

Not sure how much a realistic danger this poses, but Cuomo running as an independent could theoretically split the non-conservative vote, which could have disastrous effects. It's far too early to tell though, of course.

For now I'm really happy with the results.
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Could split it theoretically, true. It appears the Republicans are running the same candidate from the last election and his ceiling appears to be about 300,000 votes. Third place in the primary, Brad Lander, had already co-endorsed Mamdani for the ranked choice vote. Say their primary results hold and all of Lander's votes go to Mamdani he'd still have 544,654 votes. Cuomo's vote total last night was 361,840 votes. Eric Adams is running for re-election and his vote total expectation is likely DOA.

Key endorsement after last night's vote was a major Cuomo surrogate in Brooklyn pledging her support and endorsement to Mamdani. Long way to November though.
 
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