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I wish that were true. Im old enough to remember how a lot of these elections have played out in the past. You can never be too sure about the voting public. Sliwa is, of course, a non-starter. BUT, Cuomo has name recognition and the average voter doesnt turn out in the primary - they wait for the main event and the people who wait are also less informed and less plugged into politics. Yes, Mamdani blew Cuomo away in the primary but the voters in primaries are a different clade than those that show up for the general. Im just saying, it is not a gimme. Remember, Hillary Clinnton was basically an 80% lock for the 2016 election and here we are.

He has been going back a bit on his unequivocal support for the palestinian cause - insofar as he has made statements that cede some rhetorical framing to liberal zionism. It is an unforced error.

Let’s see how Mamdani does. He has been needlessly capitulating to the liberals in the party in a way that aleinates his base of support. If his lead holds, or if he wins, then this guy should gun for Jeffries’ seat.

Kind of a fun loophole that our government gives individuals the ability to completely implode the democratic process for purely partisan reasons and with no reasonable mechanisms of accountability. Send the capitol police in to arrest Mike Johnson for betraying his oath of office and have the minority leader swear her in.

He certainly is. I just wonder if the criticism is not especially meaningful in this context. It often feels like we are all waiting for the other shoe to drop, but it never does.

Our military is several generations deeps of mercenaries who have only been deployed against poorly equipped civilian populations on behalf of the interests of capital (and they still lost almost every single time). There is no chance any of these people stand up to Trump let alone anything more serious.

He is only dumb if he suffers any consequences. So far, he has managed to fail upwards his entire life and avoid ever experiencing any meaningful repercussions.

The american century of humiliation is moving along apace.