-75% of Cubans are repubs and they voted for the GOP candidate

I've never understood the latino community's attraction to Trump. It makes no sense to me.

-God, but you are prissy bitch!

For calling out your lies?

Okay

-Couple of million of them showed some recognition for others than themselves.

that's they reason why they voted for this guy? Because they care about others?

Not because they want to stick it to people much better off than themselves?

Instead, it's because they care about "others than themselves"

I'm sure some of them did it for that reason....but you've concluded they all did it for that reason?

How desperate can you be for my attention to make such an absurd and 100% unprovable allegation?

-I bet the Democrats really appreciate the help.

It's hard for them to openly thank him since they should probably express some sympathy for the actual victims of these acts by Trump.

IOW, try to contain your excitement.

-Perhaps they have a clearer view of the devastation caused by crass crony capitalism inflicted upon the serfs (formerly The People) that the Billionaire Boys System has created.

The voters in NYC? They have a clearer view of the devastation caused by crass crony..........?

I would agree but I don't assign disgust to them. I would think they (NYC voters) would embrace it since they are close to it.

People making millions a year living in such indulgence which is why things are so expensive and out of reach for most New Yorkers.

I'm seeing this through my recent visits there because my daughter moved there. She lives in the financial district, works at a law firm chock full of folks making $700K+ a year.

but if you want to live there.......it comes with territory.

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That's a fair point. Personally, I don't think it's very well organized effort.

Certainly the wealthy people within the confines of New York City we're gonna be against him

-Pretty sure you are wrong about that. As you are about so many things.

All I was saying was that Republicans in Virginia who thought Democrats were evil still do

They didn't go anywhere. They just didn't win this time.

"It's masterful how the wealthy have got the poor, including myself, to hate each other." FT

-Clownshack

-Going after charter schools and gifted and talented programs because they foster "inequity."

Yes, completely crazy. New Yorkers regardless of their political affiliation have a comfort level of "inequity" all around them.

NYC is the center of inequity. Multi-millionaires co-mingling with middle class and poor folks all the time.

It's going to be an interesting experiment. Let's see where it goes.

agreed. My daughter just moved to Manhattan to work her first job out of law school for a big firm.

Her boss is a partner....making $4-5 million a year. You can imagine what she thinks of this.

I don't believe there will be an exodus from NYC. Will some folks cross the Hudson and move to NJ? maybe but if you work in NYC, then are you subject to these policies Mamdani is proposing even if you live in Jersey?

the RNC doesn't give a crap about who's mayor in NYC and most of the republicans in the US don't care either.

I believe it's possible this was deliberately lost for the ratings boost Mamdani gives to the media throughout this term as mayor.

-Since when did you become a conspiracy nut?

we used to have 2 posters that were frequent conspiracy theory enthusiasts.

Buffalo Bob
TonyRoma

9-11
Sarah Palin's baby
Moon landing faked
every national election where a republican won

It was very entertaining.

-FishPawn is upset a political candidate is fighting for the working class.

maybe...I don't know really but that's not what he is saying. He's asking reasonable questions as to what parts of his agenda have a chance of being implemented due to the presence of a State legislature and a Governor neither of which likely take the same position as Mamdani on those issues. Also, what part of his platform has to travel that route vs being implemented by Mamdani himself.

-But nice attempt at both sides.

It's 1 side from what I'm seeing.

and you're not looking at this from 40,000 feet. You're on top of his ear, on the crane operator, etc.....that's not 40,000 feet.

It's on the ground.

The implausibility of the official narrative should be a red flag for anyone seriously looking at it.

the unaddressed questions are a red flag, yes. And accepting that Trump is evil enough to want to pull something like this off is the single largest factor......it's really 90% of it.

-What does this mean for Red leaning but not safe districts Texas gerrymandered into existence?

who knows. I don't know anything about that house seat race in Iowa and what happened.

The race for Mayor in NYC was lost by a horrible horrible candidate. He was so horrible that it seems possible to me it was done on purpose so the GOP, Fox News, and the conservative pundits have a target to hammer at in NYC.

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Yeah, I knew all of that and much more in fact about the Virginia election.

I have family and friends from Virginia. Many work in DC.

It doesn't come within a thousand miles of explaining how this impacts anything moving forward.

It's amazing what election results can do to people. It gets them to out their ignorance of where challenges really lie.

Democrats are still evil in Virginia.....according to the same people who believed that before this election. They didn't change their mind.

Women have won elections for governor is WAY WAY WAY more red states.

Geez.......

-Government dependence, classy when you're rich, trashy when you're poor.

Couldn't have said it better myself. That's how society sees it.

You don't which is admirable, but you're part of a very small group.

except me, of course.....:-)

"You're desperate"

And you're not?

You taking the "moon landing was faked" approach with this.

Trump was a candidate for president.....and the SS doesn't report to him. So I know you can buy the notion that the SS and the local police were inept. Don't pretend otherwise

I don't know anything about some crane operator but he's one guy and we know who he is.

The rest of your suggestion is to suggest hundreds of people are in on this....and it involved murdering people.

And they were all in on it.

and your evidence is the ear healed up?

Everyone engaged in this debate is desperate, BTW.

-I suppose the election was really about empathetic tolerance vs. callous authoritarianism.

Yes....but they are campaigns and I'm personally glad Mamdani won. The other option didn't deserve to win.

But I'm skeptical Mamdani will get very much of this platform implemented.

I think the obstacles are pretty large.

-The People being dependent on the People isn't freedom?

It's a slippery slope. Very slippery when you refer to governmental dependence as "people".

-Mamdani tapped into the same rage that Pedo47 tapped into last year... prices going up up up...rent going up up up....insurance going up up up...home ownership dream vaporizing.

just an fYI.....Pedo47 didn't create that strategy. Politicians have been using that as a wedge to win elections forever.

-This election clearly has National implications.

such as?

First, tell us how this changes things just in Virginia.

Then, tell us how this impacts the rest of the country.

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No chance it's a "57 state" kind of moment?

True believers of libertarianism take the stance that this will get able bodied people off their butts and back to work where they belong.

And I have no trouble believing any anecdotal evidence of this actually happening being promoted throughout conservative media.

But I doubt it moves the needle in the big picture.