The “just move to a blue state!” Liberals are the absolute worst.
The “just move to a blue state!” Liberals are the absolute worst.
The @nytpitchbot.bsky.social will soon be waiting in the unemployment line at the rate things are going.
Even as a current New York State resident, I’m tired of hearing centrists declare that we need to pander to the median swing state voter while laundering these New York and California politicians as a forgone conclusion. Hell, the overlap between the Newsom stans and the Cuomosexuals is immense.
Donald the Dove
And have to pay $5 for a lukewarm cup of stale drip coffee.
Cuomo’s next idea: a scavenger hunt where participants get clues on how to get away from him.
Free pizza? No! Class.
Interviewer: Why shouldn’t President Trump send the military to occupy your city? Big Important Democrat: I support and love the Police I really want to kiss the Police
It’s a good thing that people vote, and not just business leaders.
“We need to appeal to the swing voters of Pennsylvania and the Midwest! That’s why we will launder California and New York* politicians as an inevitability.” (*Some notable exclusions may apply.) -Democratic consultants, probably.
And GOD FORBID you put too fine a point on it, proposing solutions that might demand more of corporations and the upper class. Fear of alienating donors keeps the centrists defanged.
Ah yes—free market, limited government, etc etc.
"Tax the rich" is three one-syllable words.
I dare say the NYT has out-satirized itself. The Pitchbot simply can’t compete.
Another exciting round of “NYT or Pitchbot.” Regret to say that it’s literally the NYT, yet again!
Sigh. bsky.app/profile/taka...
He was about as good as you could expect for a WV senator, which is a low bar.
Also, didn’t Sinema move further right after being elected, whereas Manchin was basically a consistent conservative Dem?
But the Cuomosexuals said they had to vote for him since he would stand up to Trump!
Meta AI has infuriated me from day one. More useless than Jeff Bezos’ hairbrush.
But the Cuomosexuals said they had to vote for him because he’d stand up to Trump!
But the Cuomosexuals said they had to vote for him because he’d stand up to Trump!
Good!
AIPAC money can’t keep him in office forever.
As much as I can’t stand Torres, he isn’t an idiot. Gillibrand and Schumer will never come around, but he is too young and ambitious to lose to a primary challenger.
Cuomosexuality is an aberration. This is why I’m Cuomophobic.
Lander for governor! Lander for senate! Mamdani has my heart, but Lander is good for the soul.
So, obviously, that’s why we should get our asses back to the fascist hellsite.
Do not accept the question "But how do we pay for it?" about social programs ever again. That talking point is done forever.
Cuomosexuals: “He will stand up to Trump!”
@schumer.senate.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social are absolutely USELESS.
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From me: We've been getting all Gilded Age-y for a while in America, but the writers are getting too lazy with the references now. A transcontinental railroad merger? Rotten borough-style gerrymandering? Tariffs? A Lochnerian court? The 1800s are back. prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Disbar Bondi, disbar Bove, disbar them ALL.
Even normie liberals in NY are getting fed up with Schumer and Gillibrand! As they should be!
This is why competitive primary challenges are so important. Being in a safely and reliably blue state doesn’t mean much if the electeds are riding the center line.
Yes! I have hope for him. And I’d not heard much of him before!
It would be SO simple for Democratic politicians and candidates to embrace and act upon this rhetoric. It’s so painfully obvious that this could be a winning message. But nah.
Obama can’t keep being the standard by which we measure future leaders, either. He was what the country needed in 2008. It’s not 2008 anymore, and will never be again.
Congratulations!
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But how can the Democratic Party make inroads with young men? I think we need to move further right, obviously.
Can’t wait for Jonathan Greenblatt to weigh in on this!
If he did produce such videos, you’d bet I would have watched them. For science.
I wasn’t happy with Kamala’s moderation in 2024 because I saw it as ceding too much to right-wing framing. But I naïvely figured that it had to be good electoral calculus in extenuating circumstances. Yeah, no.
I watched the @mehdirhasan.bsky.social debate video and came away with the sense that these people are having a good time being callous and malicious, and that they have no real politics. badfaithtimes.com/its-one-long...
First day on the internet?
How dare he go to his home country and not Israel!
Every time I think I can’t love him more, he proves me wrong.
Don’t threaten me with a good time!
But…if the Dems do that, they might lose the Baileys? (Who never voted D and never would!)
Yet another harrowing game of “NYT or Pitchbot.”
Luckily Adams, Cuomo, and Sliwa are such colossal egomaniacs that none of them will want to drop out. Adams is too corrupt, Cuomo is too power-hungry, and Sliwa is just too stubborn.
And her effigy of Saikat Chakrabarti, probably.
Now let’s see if he can draw a clock.
“What are you afraid of, Nancy? Are you scared we might find BiLL cLiNtOn on there?”
People have lost trust in government ever holding the powerful accountable. This is how Trump wins by saying “drain the swamp.” If we want government to do good things, we MUST restore trust in government. Release the Epstein Files and ban congresspeople from trading stocks!
Centrist/Moderate is great branding because it implies reasonableness but there's nothing reasonable about stubbornly clinging to pro-business and pro-upper class politics when the country is falling apart. This is an ideology like any other, and it's a bad one
I canceled Prime and deleted my Amazon account in November. Not been missing it badly. Definitely easier than I thought!
Anyone from the Trump admin could say the fourteen words on national TV and Greenblatt wouldn’t flinch.
Vote blue no matter who! Wait, not like that!
The NYT willfully ignores how spectacularly repulsive Andrew Cuomo is to vast swaths of voters in NYC, NYS, and the whole country.
Stop. Voting. For. Trump. Nominees.
All kinds of levels, too. State and local races are badly in need.
I typically use many em dashes and semicolons in my writing, but now I’m not so sure about it. I have too much shame and pride for anyone to accuse me of using AI to generate prose.
New York City if Cuomo just let Andy Byford do his job
Stop. Voting. For. Trump. Nominees.
Stop. Voting. For. Trump. Nominees.
Stop. Voting. For. Trump. Nominees.
@kirstengillibrand.bsky.social what’s your DEAL?
I regret having voted for her in November. She’s not a Republican but she’s damn close.
Of COURSE Gillibrand is on the list. She never ceases to disappoint.
Looked up Judge Frimpong, and I honestly think that once we’re on our way out of this present mess, she would be an excellent Supreme Court nominee.
Hell, imagine even getting two leftists to agree with one another!
Ah yes, a room full of centrists, liberals, progressives, and leftists. Totally homogenous opinion, complete and total agreement.
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It’s almost like Americans were never fundamentally, inevitably “anti-immigration” and Democrats never had to just put their hands up and meekly chase Republicans (and lose), and affirm all their anti-immigrant positions that helped get us here at all!
Not surprised to see Schumer there. Booker looks like he just shat himself.
Booker looks like he’s just then realizing how bad the optics are but is in too deep.
You’re awesome! Wish I could vote for you!
Excellent piece.
Rahm Emanuel won’t even come close in Illinois. I want to see Pritzker absolutely body-slam him in the primary.
He wouldn’t even come close in Illinois. Pritzker would absolutely body-slam him in the primary.
Beautiful AND smart…that’s dangerous!
Mamdani’s opponents are…so unserious.
They cannot be reformed, period.
I cannot support a Democratic candidate who does not call for the dismantling and abolishing of ICE.
I’m seeing increasing numbers of Normie Libs saying (with decreasing amounts of throat clearing) that ICE should be abolished. I’m not sure that the party will listen even though popular support for dismantling ICE is growing by the day.
The NY Dems are seemingly the most beholden to Wall Street and AIPAC. They just need to run as Democrats to get the votes from NYC and the upstate cities. But they can’t be too progressive for their wealthy donors on Long Island.
The Daily Scallion?
Also for those of us coming of adult age around “Feel the Bern,” as cringe as it might have been, it gave us hope that better things were necessary AND possible. Corporate centrism as a counter to Trumpism just never had the juice.
“Vote blue no matter who!” “No, not like that!”
But congestion pricing polled terribly. The “popularists” who run Democratic party strategy said we shouldn’t do it. Because the polls were bad. But public opinion can change, and politicians can and should lead it. Vote for politicians who will lead public opinion, not follow it.
They can’t be governed with in good faith. At best, they are too compromised to vote with a conscience; at worst, they have none. I can only imagine how many are in fear of actual danger if they don’t fall in line, and not only the electoral consequences.