This is why my dad hated Trump before he was in politics

Ay, shut it. Jersey remains solid blue. Everyone thought Jersey was going to be a close race and then it wasn’t.

There’s fairly specific reasons we were watching NYC’s mayoral election though, that being their use as a barometer for progressive ideals’ ability to win.

Basically the results I expected. Nobody who lost to Trump should run again.

I’ll never vote for Newsom in a primary but he’s a guy visibly against Trump, and progressives need to put in work to beat him, because we deserve better than him.

I think she’s simply a true believer, and all the other MAGA politicians are grifters; I think she has closer genuine beliefs to what most civilian MAGAs believe than the others within the government.

I don’t want her in power, but I’d take her over the grifters.

I personally read his statements as equivalent to “we mourn [amount of lives lost in 9/11, too lazy to look up the numbers] and [larger amounts killed by US military in the War on Terror]” but I could just be being charitable.

It was a bad tactic when the communists were doing it with Gaza, and it’s still a bad tactic when the liberals do it with Epstein.

It’s cuz they fawn over politicians. Their parasocial relationship with Trump is more important than any policy goals.

Honestly it’s only in lefty circles I see people insist that it’s not worse than before.

And yeah, it’s not the worst it’s ever been. But it is the worst in my lifetime. (mixed race btw)

I guess I’ll backpedal on “comparable,” but still bigger than you have.

My instinct is to be in favor of increased European military spending because in a saner world this would reduce US military spending, but I doubt it.

Your choices are to not decouple from the US or have a comparable MIC as a collective. You don’t have a comparable MIC because the US does it for you. But if you’re against the Trump administration, you have to support getting one.

I won’t go as far to say Europe “can’t survive” without the US, but Europeans seem to think the transition away won’t significantly change things and that’s not realistic.

I guarantee you that most people who are registered as independent don’t know that party exists.

Given that “independent” is supposed to mean “not registered to ANY political party,” it’s more fair to suggest the Independent Party change their name.

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Bruh most of Lemmy is smarmy

I agree with most of this, but Lemmy isn’t popular enough to decide the election.

That was the Weimar Republic.

Yeah…but at this point there’s more important things at stake :/ (referring to Newsom’s effort)

Democratic primary challengers

Finally some good commentary.

There’s no smear they could’ve done that’s worse than what Cuomo had going on.