I think the Democratic party hates Zohran on a personal level because he's not a bloodless quant. Dem insiders seem to adore people with self-evidently craven, dull and obsequious personalities. They are flummoxed and angered by someone who has the behaviours and predilections of a normal human.
The perfect Democratic candidate would be "Body Without Organs 2028"
Skin man / muscle pile 2028
mayor pete it is!
"A pulse and a central nervous system" didn't score well with focus groups.
You don't think it's the socialism?
So technically, the Mummy.
I hope he will be as great as he seems but he could also be ground down a bit by the whole machinery or just alienated from the everyday struggles of New Yorkers the way AOC has become.
oh the ritornello! love your posts, haus.
this is the second deleuze dogwhistle in two days, are you okay?
I would vote for pete buttigieg over any conservative but surely we can do better
A mannequin, only it can’t stand for some reason
Coming soon from David Cronenberg.
*Nate walks around the chair, the agent has somehow fused to it, his flesh spilling out of his tailored suit, pulsating.* AGENT BENWAY: "Can you imagine, Nate, 20 years from now, 10? The *perfect* political candidate - A body without organs. Pure, serene... and utterly under our control."
(Agent Benway opens its shirt to reveal nothing but belly buttons)
😂
Pete Buttigieg. You are describing Pete Buttigieg
Disembodied Head/Flavourless Blancmage, 2028.
I would say that describes Biden but obviously he has been confirmed to have at least one organ (a prostate trying to do everything in its power to kill him.)
ah, but that's just one, not organS, so he still qualifies
Just an empty hollow cage with a single enflamed gland rattling around inside it like a rain stick
Critical support to prostate cancer in its ongoing struggle with Joe Biden.
We already have Chuck Schumer with no spine and John Fetterman with no brain so we are close.
EXPLAIN THE BwO RIGHT NOW. PLEASE. IS THIS THE KIND OF THING IT MEANS? I THOUGHT IT WAS LIKE THE OPPOSITE
I think in this way, she means that the perfect candidate has no strata of principles or identies but rather is all or none of these things simultaneously and infinitely dispersed. you can be a feminist and anti-abortion, and pro-queer and pro-family, or environmental and pro-frack, etc.
kind of like an egg is just a distribution of protein and albumin they expect a Democrat to be a useful smear of politically expedient labels and soundbites at a whim that forms into what is needed before returning to amorphousness.
I would vote for the BwO / Plane of Immanence ticket
it would lose to hitlers unearthed corpse granted citizenship
That Simpsons gag will never age
All Hail the New Flesh 2026
Why do I post takes? This isn't my beat. And I just get annoyed with the replies. The answer is I crave punishment.
the discover tab is happy to oblige
This is Bluesky. All of us, little worms wriggling around craving petulance and pain
I think the perfect Democratic primary, to the Democratic Establishment is the election episode of Futurama that results with Nixon becoming president of Earth.
The cost of being correct :\
punishment, and material?
We didn’t ask to take part in your kink but ok.
There’s a cartoon here i know it
Yes. A Dom shibari a Sub and say "now, you will suffer". The Sub says "YES, PUNISH THIS LITTLE WHORE". Then, the Dom take the Sub's phone and post some take on BlueSky. Final panel: "NOOOOO! STOP, what was the goddamn safe word?"
some of the most deranged QTs are actually kind of funny, in a way still hope they die (I can say that, praying for someone's death isn't actionable)
Sounds like a very personal problem
This happened to me the other day where I replied with a bit of a dry wit, a little jape and people responded like i was genuinely asking and unaware and I got very annoyed.
There’s a little masochist inside your brain that craves online debate, you must crush that creature
i liked the take, for what it’s worth
The real Torment Nexus was the forums we posted on, along the way.
like a weird backwards tantalus. except food forever reach, the post button is ever under your finger.
I was promised Decline, not reasonable and pithy political takes.
Democrat candidates gotta do a reverse Voight-Kampff test where the more inhuman and detached the answers, the more suitable they are for candidacy. Buttigieg posted the best numbers they've ever seen.
he's the human manifestation of "toast water"
Appropriate since he famously “worked for a company that was fixing bread prices.”
"Replies are getting toxic. Better dunk on Pete to bring the tone up."
Once upon an acid trip I likened Buttigieg to an American Pinocchio. Literaly a wooden puppet who, on a wish and a pocketful of neoliberal dreams, came to life.
Hes a mix of Frosty the Snowman and Doctor Bazinga from "bing bong theory" Whats his magical article of clothing that gives him such sapience? Inquiring minds must know!
there must have been some magic in those old tighty whities they found.
Pete is a minor West Wing character who somehow escaped into reality
Maybe the issue is that you look at some "numbers" and memes rather than actual people? The reason why people still talk about Pete is the same they like Mamdani. Passion, empathy, authenticity and interacting with people like a normal person.
He's the most uncanny valley human being I've seen
His 2020 campaign hired Andrew Cuomo alum Lis Smith, who was noted by Tish James as an operative who worked to ruin the lives of his female accusers. So, that tracks about Pete
I think the perfect Dem candidate is actually Mitch McConnell Just completely dedicated to working the system and whipping the votes and never even caring about anything outside of DC
I mean...see also Krysten Sinema, right
Seems you don't talk about the way Republicans behave. Wonder why that is. Not really. Republicans actions are to hurt people and benefit the wealthy.
'You criticise the firefighters for aiming their hoses in the wrong direction, but I don't see you criticising the conduct of the fire!'
No. I don't criticize firefighters for that. Because I've never seen them do that. Don't put your ignorance on me. The fire is not a human that has a mind that makes choices to do evil to hurt people.
It's a metaphor. The point is that we have no control over what Republicans do, because we're not Republicans. We don't vote for them, we don't fund them, they don't care about our opinions.
That is why their opponents should work to defeat them. Let those that claim to represent our views know what is wanted and needed. Yet those that are Republican, they aren't listening to them either.
That's their problem - their opponents are doing a rubbish job of working to defeat them.That's why people are criticising them!
THATS YOUR OPINION AND YOU ARE WRONG. ANY PERSON THAT OPPOSES TYRANNY AND CORRUPTION IS THEIR OPPONENT. YOURE FULL OF CRAP. IGNORANT TOO. GO BACK TO X REPUBLICAN MAGA. YOU SAY YOUR CRAP TO PROMOTE TRUMP AND ALL THEIR AGENDAS.
"The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over. But it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that, Chuck?" "Does the tortoise support Israel's right to defend itself?"
Lotta quote tweets. I assume it's everyone agreeing with me and saying how smart I am
No joke you summarized this in a really smart manner. Thanks Haus of Decline!
Yup everyone agrees with you, no need to look at them <3 honestly there's a lot of folks that think they are disagreeing, but then their response suggests they just misunderstood you completely and actually really do agree. Love Bluesky
Pretty sure it is
Always love me some Haus in da haus.
All 10
They hate you because you're correct
Ooh, someone hit the discover tab I see.
Mr president another haus post has hit the discover feed
I mean, looking at the Quote Tweets, it's at least proving how smart you are.
... dear gods, I just called them "Quote Tweets." 0-0
Sorry. That was just me reposting your Donquixote Doflamingo impression over and over and over again.
it is. I read them all
perfect skeets, how could they not??
You aren’t even a human being from this earth. Maybe AI. What planet did you come from? You are not welcome here. Go back!
It’s true!
You're in a desert walking along the sand when all of a sudden you look down and you see a tortoise. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why Pete?
"You wanna know about my mother?"
"You see a wasp crawling on your arm--" "I'd subject it to means-testing."
Pete gets style points because he's multilingual; he says nothing beautifully in many languages.
Helping the tortoise stuck on its back, but only if it's current on its Obamacare payments.
I mean hey it's better than drawing that "you're not special" comic discourse
You read them to filth 💞👑
unfortunately for them there was only one Joe Biden
Damn, quality dunk
Parks and rec did this joke when the democratic candidate made ben who did his political campaigning wonder if he was a robot
The British Labour Party has a similar penchant for selecting robotic, charisma-free meat-suits as candidates.We call them "briefcases".
deleuze and guattari reference
Unfortunately they'd deleuze the election
‼️😂
"A Fleshbag We Can Believe In"
I mean, the conservatives are also very inclined to electing mummies to office
They take arbitrary predictions as gospel, think to get votes they have to please swing voters. But if they actually had left principles and acted accordingly, they would get the votes. People are sick of voting "Republican light", when they know they can't be trusted to be of any help.
The old guys have got to get out of the way……
My theory is that they hate him because he don't have to make an effort to be likeable. That and the actual leftist policies.
They cannot rid themselves of the idea that not being a soulless ghoul and offering things people want is somehow cheating
I think you’re onto something. Mainstream Democrats are all about consulting culture and manufacturing narratives. Zohran’s popular positions represent a huge loss of income for Dem insiders.
This is really it. The strategists and consulting people have every incentive to win on the slimmest possible margin & lie about their own professional skillset. As it stands the job consists of telling the folks paying you whatever they want to hear and cherry picking the data to support it.
Tbh I was only thinking about the envy aspect, even at a subconscious level, but the economic angle seem plausible to me.
Things don’t need to make sense if they make dollars.
It’s both though. The money shows up for those who can flatter it and right now that means shutting out any bad news about the right-wing-centrist position lacking public support
They want people who will please the PACs.
Im a democrat. I would vote for Zohran because he is nice and decent. Not at all like the republicans
He refused to bow to the parasitic bludgercunts that own the party the whole political system and the media Never fear he will either join the assholes or be removed
Truth and poetry.
Cynical
I agree
I like Zohran. He's a male AOC or maybe a Muslim Bernie. He's young, charismatic, eloquent, smart and friendly. Go, Zohran!
Most democrats are praising him, and love his strategy. Don’t believe the haters trying their hardest, once again, to divide the party. They’ve done it for two disastrous elections cycles, and people have wised up to their intent.
The Democratic Party is better for health, science, environment, education, women, seniors, children, workers, diplomacy, economy, trade, governance, public health and safety, justice, world leadership, alliances, and the future of Life on earth. Republicans fight against every one of those causes.
Better but still shit on all of those things Almost like the entire political system and the entire media landscape is owned and operated by corporations
Republicans are the enemy. Let's stop infighting. The enemy votes like lemmings.
Vote like lemmings to defeat Republicans who vote like lemmings that checks out
done with you. But for anyone buying tofu's BS, Dems tried to deliver just what voters wanted and what Democrats in Congress and the admin - 98% of them backed. Much was delivered, but REPUBLICANS blocked the rest. FOCUS - they are the enemy.
That’s funny because I’m done with genocidal freaks 🤷🏽♂️
And so we should too, hrm?
We should vote. Younger voters especially, who want younger leaders. All our elections are close, especially non-presidential years. Any large group could win EVERYTHING, librarian to president. THIS is a big part of why we're where we are 👇
Cool deflection, didn't respond to my point at all. Fuckoff man. No one's saying people shouldn't vote.
so you agree then: we should shake out this dusty rug and replace the entire democratic party leadership with younger people who will actually do something instead of just backstab the people who will
We don't get to choose that for "the entire leadership'. Voters do. For example - I don't KNOW what Chuck Schumer's VOTERS want or demand of him or voted for etc. I don't have a say in that. In my district and state? Well, we nominated Bernie twice, and voted for the women twice.
do you think chuck schumer listens to the people who elect him and what they want? or do you think he listens to the israel lobby, and the whispers of an imaginary voter he dreamed up entirely inside his head?
I don't know. Nor do you. We need to focus on taking down Republicans now. You can help reform the Dem party later. There IS no other group that can take on the fascists and their billionaire donors.
they are literally the group that enabled them to take power, rob they are currently in congress crushing everyone who acts up against it, and voting to confirm his appointments and policies the president has a >20% approval rating among democratic representatives, man
Name any cabinet appointee they could have blocked. Name any legislation they had the votes to block.
they're not even trying dude
So, no. We can't name a single thing they could actually block. Meaningful action would be nice, but what is that?
because only one of these theories is backed by evidence
Real human beings that come into politics for altruistic reasons always make soulless apparatchiks feel deeply insecure.
yup.
It’s more “will this guy be able to fund raise insane amounts of cash from oligarchs or will he terrify them.”
You are a brainless idiot haus of decline. You should get a clue or stop typing. All the creativity and intelligence is on this side.
it's simple, he is not in the club, doesn't go to the same garden parties, has a weird name, talks to the voters, not at the voters and most importantly, not old and white...
Kinda like Obama.
yup...
We need more humans in public office!
Does quant mean queef?🤔🤔
There isn't the slightest reason for believing "The Democratic party hates Zohran." There are two people (Evans and Cuomo) who do. Oh and Cuomo's brother. There are many who don't know who Zohran is because NYC is not the center of the universe. The DNC is neutral. Others are cautious because
they want to see if he is a talented politician or a flake. Others initially were put off by some statements he made (or was falsely accused of making) and have since been supportive. And so on. The NYC mayoral race is a LOCAL issue. Believe it or not, the relevance elsewhere is limited.
Don't forget the guy who was fill-in governor 12 years ago that no one ever thinks about. Surely he represents the party.
He also isn’t bought. And he really seems to want to be the next LaGuardia! He upsets the Apple cart😊
I am a dem, and I really like him. Young fresh forward thinking with a heart to love and help others ♥️.
He seems to be doing fine. The "Democratic party" can hate whoever they want to, my vote is not dependent on their guidance.
Democrats love him. nypost.com/2025/07/07/u...
"bloodless quant" is the most accurate diagnosis I've read
I am a Democrat and I think Zohran represents what the American people expect from our elected leaders. See the problems and fix them. For us. Earn the money we pay them.
That's because Democrats are craven ghouls who are only interested in maintaining the status quo and moving the Overton Window all the way to the right.
Learned a new word today: Quant
We always eat our own. He’s the overwhelming winner of the primary and Dem establishment are trying to suppress his candidacy. 🤯
I disagree with no evidence.
People love to lie. nypost.com/2025/07/07/u...
Both parties are only for the rich. The Democrats just give a few more crumbs. Zohran might actually do something for regular people.
Sweeping generalizations, usually untrue. Every dem I know, are against the billionaire class.
If the Dem establishment doesn’t want to adapt, they will go the way of the Whigs, and I won’t mourn them. An actual populist party in the style of Teddy R (minus the condescending imperialism, sexism, racism) would be a good thing. So Bull Moose reboot!
We are certainly allowed our favorite candidates and then it comes down to Democratic or Republican in our two party system and we vote together.
I don't think that the Democratic party hates Zohran. You're going to see a lot of support rallying. We are standing united against Trumpism.
oh so you think the Democratic Party should just let its brand be associated with fringe ideas like “winning,” then?
Yeah because hes not a republican lmfao
More hating to follow. Believe that!
With fronds like these who needs anemones? 🐟🐳🐡
He isn't a sell-out like most centrist/establishment Dems. He's running on actually helping people rather than doing the bidding of DNC donors.
Yes, by all means, let's continue to spew hate and division within the #Democratic Party. This will surely be conducive to winning the next election. 🙄
I’m 65. Dyed in the wool Dem. my entire life. I love what Zohran did. If I lived in NYC, he’d have my vote! Go @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
Most dems love him. These purity haters, are why we got Trump. I ignore them.
dead-on correct
Define the “Democratic Party”, because I, a lifelong Democrat, strongly support Zohran Mamdani. Pretty certain I’m not the only one.
Most Democrats are ecstatic over him. Obviously, look at him impressive win. Ignore the usual suspects trying so hard to divide the party. We got Trump twice bc of them.
I think he's referring to the Democratic party machinery, consisting of the national party leadership, their political consultants, and their large donors.
We Dems need to all shut the fuck up and get behind Mamdani, because he was chosen by the voters. This includes the old guard Dems, but also folks like you who won't brook one iota of criticism of the man. I like much of what he says; I have reservations about other things. It's not "personal".
Who are the humans behind making this hard for him? Who are the established decision makers? How do we call them out directly?
I feel the need to reiterate that this is very much "Democratic party leadership", there's a firm chunk of the Dem party that is in favor of Zohran but the leadership is so entrenched that the narrative flows around them instead
Those with billions cannot control him...Schumer, easy...he's got a pocket. Bernie, Warren, and AOC want $$ out of politics. So do I.
He's what they preach
They fear him because they don't know how to control him. Politics in the U.S. revolve around bribery, blackmail and coercion, as these are the most popular ways of controlling politicians. Nothing terrifies them more than a popular candidate that isn't easily corruptible gaining real power.
The Dem establishment main goal is to maintain the status quo and not for actual change, Obama was the last openly progressive Dem presidential nominee in 2009 and the party kneecapped him at the first chance
I love him! He’s such a positive spirit! 🙏🏼 👍🏼
If they haven't been made into a corporate cyborg, they're "very concerned".
nypost.com/2025/07/07/u...
lol. Thank for shutting down the bullshit taking points by many on here.
afraid how they'll look next to someone who can't stuff down the natural urge to punch a nazi using the power of the state
Remember when they were this scared of Obama? 😂
The question you should ask is if Dem party is this bad, why insist on taking it over ?
The idea is to make it not be bad anymore
All of the people who voted for him in droves were Democrats.
It’s a case of “how dare he be what we pretend to be?”
They hate him because he's not a Wall Street stooge!
"Bye, bye Miss American Pie" Old Wall St Democrats are afraid of the new blood. Proof? They picked a man who is (possibly) dying instead of AOC to take over a congressional committee. If NYC's votes,we only needed 2 rounds to choose Mamdani, are nullified, we can kiss Democracy goodbye.
*possibly* dying? the man literally already died like a month and a half ago en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_C...
Their entire purpose is to dilute any degree of revolutionary spirit in anyone who adopts a political stance left of the perceived center
Having a personality is an attack vector when you have no policy to stand on
That checks out. I remember hearing that I should feel bad for the titan billionaires and someone explained that they actively separate themselves from communities to be able to become billionaires and not feel bad. The same could probably be said for politicians since they dont live where they rep.
Kamala Harris . I think not. Your analogy just doesn’t fit all
you should check the batteries in your carbon monoxide detectors! safety is so important 🥰
More than that - he's joyful! And charismatic. Dem establishment has to be decapitated. Make way for the new.
Yeeeah, upon further review F the big tent we just need more Zohrans
They hate him because democrats in general are gonna have to step up on their game instead of just banking on people settling for them
It’s not the Democratic Party it’s democratic leadership.
Nope nypost.com/2025/07/07/u...
It's not personal, they don't know him. Zohran embodies EVERY major category that they think is political poison for Democrats: socialist, Muslim, immigrant. They fear he will become an avatar that R's can invoke nationally the way they try to use progressives like AOC now.
The same argument was made back when Obama was running against that rapist's conservative wife.
True, but in Obama's case they weren't true (except for the black part) and didn't stick. Mamdani actually IS those things. He appears to be a good enough politician to succeed in NYC, but we - and the DNCists - don't know yet how he will play beyond the five boroughs.
From a strictly political perspective, I'm not sure how much of a difference there actually is between a guy who is a muslim (kinda) socialist immigrant and a guy who half the country BELIEVES is a muslim socialist immigrant. Thats especially true when his "socialist" policies are broadly popular.
This is the key right here. The GOP will label every single Dem a leftist lunatic Muslim socialist atheist anarchist baby-eater, regardless of how moderate (or explicitly rightwing) they try to be. We have nothing to lose by running actual leftists with genuinely popular platforms.
I agree with your last paragraph - but progressives (like other movements) often have trouble keeping the focus on positions that are "genuinely popular" during campaigns.
Actually most Dems support. He’s going to do great! nypost.com/2025/07/07/u...
It’s all one big cocktail party not a political party. The guest list is already set as well
Strokes too broad. Stop spreading divisiveness.
Obama seemed pretty normal to me. I mean extraordinary as a politician, but like if you just stumbled upon him in a bar, you’d think he was cool.
Nah i dont fw drone boy
Never go for some complex psychological reason when there is a very simple reason based on money The mayor appoints the board that sets rates for rent controlled housing, so in theory Mayor Mamdani could in fact freeze rents on rent controlled units this is a simple, unlike your complex theory
Must be doing something right this independent is rooting for him and he made me a progressive fuck Republicans
I don’t know much about him but what I’ve seen he has charisma and he gets voters excited. We need that in the Democratic Party.
He also beat their chosen sex predator cuomo
Their upcoming strategy was to try electing sex pests, since that worked for the Republicans.
I was hoping that cuomo would walk into traffic
I love it
You'll love @vickybunbun.bsky.social
There's always still time for that...
Maybe someone could even help him along, and push him into traffic!
It would be nice revenge for all those old folks he killed in the pandemic
Right?!?!! They overplayed, and it won't end well for them IF we have a real election next year.
upcoming?
Who would've know Dems also had loyalty fetish? Only with them it's more like these sophisticated unwritten rules of aristocratic circles. It might be bad manners to play as ruthlessly as the Reps or something. They wanna compete in their Bigger Person pageants right until we're all in gas chambers.
If only they could focus that hate on the republican party. Not just trump. The whole damn party. But noooo
I keep saying this but they're afraid because he ran a campaign around not being a spineless fucking ghoul and it worked
I think Dem leaders have decided that Mamdani threatens their grand strategy of doing absolutely nothing while Trump burns everything down. Then, the theory goes, voters will return to the Democtatic Party. The problem is nobody will want to vote for people who did nothing while the world burned.
Nope. nypost.com/2025/07/07/u...
Many NYC Dems are on board. It's the national leadership that seems leery of doing ... much of anything.
He’s not from their political machine so he’s less likely to give them and their friends kickbacks and favors.
What does quant mean?
They want predictability And conformity. Saying they support progressive policies but little to get them done. During the Dem convention they refused a Palestinian to speak, silencing, & supporting genocide, while a hostage family spoke. Hypocrisy! Refusing a small gesture, but costing them a lot
They hate him because he doesn't put the rich Donor class first. To them Donor class the rest of the world is a "worthy cause" at best, but otherwise a threat. They are at war with anyone who can be otherwise marginalized for a marginal gain for them and who complains about this fact.
this hausofdecline sounds like a mud #troll attempting you know what in a corrupt poli shithole
Oh, God, just shut up. There's enough actual persecution going on in this country that your preening about your imaginary victimization is obscene.
who gives a fuck what moderate democrats think? they got us here.
i understood everything but "quant". i thought it was some foreign pejorative but the only thing i see when googling is "quantitative analyst" you got something against people who develop severe eye strain from looking at data all day?!
In politics, it's people who do what is popular, rather than taking the moral position and trying to make it popular.
oh. im surprised we just dont say "clintonesque" or "clintonlike"
oddly their definition of "what is popular" never seems to touch israel, health care, or drug policy! strangest thing! which is also why they despise Zohran so deeply
People always forget which party implemented dont ask, dont tell Or who decided "lets show everyone our brand new flying death robots and unleash them on the gaza strip"
You clearly don’t have the behavior of a normal human. Your message is mindless.
I saw it described once as a party of teacher's pets trying to talk the rest of class into voting for them instead of the bullies.
Lmao, I was most teachers' pet AND scared away bullies, but for that you gotta have brains AND guts. I bet the Dems are just jealous of someone who has both. Even a higher education isn't an indicator of intelligence, it's easily achivable by learning all the textbooks and professors' opinions.
Oh shit. That’s it.
And yet the bernie bros still vote for the bullies, brilliant!
And they're either doing it in hushed NPR voices or a sternly worded letter.
That fucking NPR voice. Blegh
everyone sees it through their own lense, but estab dems mainly feel like corporate people to me, like they mostly just act according to their own self interest and play the game within their chosen organization with the expectation of moving up and they see zohran as somebody jumping the line
This is part of it, too. And they should 100% be criticized relentlessly for it. US politics shouldn't actually just serve as a social club for self-satisfied wannabe meritocrats.
which is also why i feel like they keep losing and doing nothing. party of corporate dorks just in it for a paycheck trying to win elections against bloodthirsty zealots
100%
I’m a democrat and I approve this message
The Democratic Party is stupid, Vote blue no matter who.
The Democratic Party needs a major Colonoscopy to root out its inability to attract the best people for political positions.
I think you’re on to something.
He looks too much like those bastards democratic voters democratic politicians hate so much...
Correct 💯
Jeffries wants to meet & speak with him first..Schumer is a lost cause on a singular road trip. I will never get over that he convinced the Dem Senators to vote for the MAGA sicking bill that was supposed to save the country from being worse than the MAGA were!
As Jeffries said, the Democratic Party represents middle Americans...The MAGATs represent only one person, the fat orange that never supported ANY of the Americans and only the oligarchs! He did use the MAGA and abuse the MAGA and they starting to see that!
You're right. He's too bloody human.
bsky.app/profile/criq...
Who exactly are you talking about? Every Dem I know thinks he's the bees' knees.
The Democratic establishment at large, not voters.
Or they are afraid of conservatives
and grass is green
PERSONALLY, I think it's because the establishment cannot possibly conceive of a time when they will NOT be in power. So when someone challenges the system like Zohran, they piss shit cry vomit because someone has the sheer gall to tell them they are bad at their job. Death is for other people.
I think you give the ones who use Republican framing as scare tactics too much credit. I think the responses are Machiavellian and the reason why so many of us dislike those that make up the establishment wing of the Democratic party. Granted, they're working under the constraints of needing
funding because of all the dark money allowed by Citizens united. I just don't get why they don't catch on that they keep turning voters away with this behavior. And perhaps it's that part that's explained by your comment. They're blinded to the fact their strategy harms them.
They are literally the boomers at work who refuse to learn how to open a pdf or insist on face-to-face meetings over a simple email or virtual conferences. I'm 64, and I'm embarrassed by a lot of my peers.
Stereotype much?
I don't care what they think. I'm 77 years old and I've seen plenty. Would that someone like him could be in the running for every single HR and Senate and Presidential candidate.
Same here. If old line Democrats are having trouble backing him, let’s remember the “big D tent” has lots of room. If we can take in former MAGAs we sure as hell can take in AND support a D that New York wants.
I think you are imagining things. The party does not hate him. Perhaps you just just focus on helping him win the election. Losing what should be an easy election to win is what will make him hated.
I agree with your broader thesis about the Dems, but feel in this instance it's probably just racism.
He's a fraud
Zionist love rapists. I'm not shocked
it's similar to when AOC got elected and Fox News dug up an old video of her dancing and having fun and they turned a whole news cycle into sneering like "can you believe an attractive young woman was dancing and having fun with her friends? disgusting"
Literally correct though. Takes a special kind of souless corporate stooge to run on the center-right platform the Dems do while simultaniously acquising to further rightward to every talking point the Reps latch onto to merely "not alienate the voters." Dead fucking party.
Can't believe that the old corporate Dems actually thought it was a good idea to bring in Bill Clinton to attempt to salvage the Cuomo campaign. Utterly clueless.
I’m digging Zolran. He’s enjoying this ride and people are responding to his normalcy.
Honestly the far simpler explanation is that he's a threat to the corporate order that currently has the party bought and leashed.
They only want officials who they can control
Oh, ffs. Just stop! He’s gotten nothing but praise and applause from 80% of Democrats. Stop trying so hard to divide this party. People like you are why we got Trump. We 👀 thru your bs.
youre completely full of shit lmao. corrupt centrists have spent ~30 years rhetorically, electorally, financially opposing politicians like Mamdani, "dividing the party," while freely "compromising" with the right. thats how we ended up with Trump.
if you wanna get on board with changing the party for the better now that theres no other choice, feel free, but dont try to fucking gaslight people
You’re full of shit. Nobody buys your nonsense.
an incredible amount of people do actually, these are beliefs widely shared by left-leaning people under 50
and there's a reason for that: because we've watched it our entire lives, a Democratic Party that actively thwarts its own left wing base but offers only weak half-hearted opposition to the far right, that instinctively moves right to appease conservatives & donors even as their base moves left
STFU already, things are like this because assholes like you never showed up to vote in primaries. You only have yourself to blame
i voted in a lot of primaries. you dont know me anymore than you know politics
What you want, a fucking cookie?? Turnout in the 2016 primaries was LESS THAN 30%. Y'all really love to complain on the internet but never show up when it matters. You exist to be keyboard warriors. Progressives actually winning elections would be bad for your victimhood narrative
no i dont want a cookie, i want fascists & their enablers in a mass grave, bc im not a ~progressive~ and im not gonna waste my time with inexplicably smug debatelord liberals who made sure of this outcome every step of the way their entire lives while scapegoating everyone one amoeba to their left
Keep moving those goalposts. This has historically worked out wonderfully for Dems.
🙋♂️AND OVER 50!!!
(Stares in India Walton.)
This democrat loves zohran. I think you are just a jealous twat.
Sorry bro! He is a Pinocchio just like Trump! 🤥
Evidence? Thought not. Stop spewing lies
Says the person with the Israeli flag in their name.
Right! And a NYer for over 40 years!
sure, but have you considered he only scored in the 98th percentile on his SATs and Holden Bloodfeast doesn't like him
I will never vote for a Democratic Socialist. Berniebros help to elect Nazis. And Putin just LOVES Bernie.
Thank you for proving OPs point that you're a freak
Good luck Comrade! www.npr.org/2023/11/17/1...
You're not really helping yourself here
Try learning some German history Comrade. www.newstatesman.com/world/europe...
Hey go find out who made Hitler chancellor and why and get ready to have a long look in the mirror after, comrade
It's literally like Democrats just started getting their political takes from Sean Hannity once Mamdani won the primary. Grievous shit.
Dems are not Communists. Dems do not wave Nazi swastika or Confederate flags. And Berniebros helped to elect Trump. No thanks. www.newsweek.com/bernie-sande...
Democratic Socialists aren't Communists. And Communism is defined as "any Government regulation of markets at all."
And by refusing to vote for the Democratic nominee, you are doing EXACTLY what you claim BernieBros did.
Al. Gore.
Dems are homework loving nerds who would prefer to create a Byzantine system of public transport deductions with phaseouts at certain incomes in a way that leaves nobody happy instead of wielding power and saying, “Buses are free now and the rich will pay for it.”
"Let me explain to you our funding mechanisms with these graphs and projections..."
which Democrats would that be?
I think they are just trying to wrangle donor money and they're worried about the national implications of losing those donors. maybe even just Bloomberg, who had bailed Democrats out a few times in recent years. I don't think the interpersonal stuff is driving the action.
If the GOP didn’t exist, I’d hate the Dems and their leadership. But in a country obsessed with freedom, we somehow only have two political options, yet for meaningless shit, we have a million. Our options - one is really bad, the other is completely fucked up.
That's a very broad brush you're painting with. Seems like the majority of Democrats voted for him, so...
Unfortunately there is a difference between the party and the voters. The party is a machine run by a handful of consultants and geriatrics and they’re not generally on the same page as the voters.
Sorry. You’re wrong. This is the Democratic Party leadership 👇 Stop trying to divide the party with falsehoods. nypost.com/2025/07/07/u...
All political parties have this problem. Sociopaths seek power, and the wealthy support them. 'Regular' people rarely participate in any party functions. Fight the rich - not each other.
"The Party" IS the voters - in primaries, anyways. Party 'leadership' and donors is a different issue - and where these complaints seem properly directed. The rich buy anyone who is for sale. They don't care who's team jersey you wear.
So like, everyone already knew that democrats was talking about democrat leadership in this context.
I get what you’re saying, and it should be true in principle, but it’s not. The party has always been known for favoring smoke-filled back room dealings than dealing with the messy “Will of the people.” This is absolutely nothing new.
But...he doesn't even have a political prop to show on Instagram. It doesn't make sense 😕
I think they realize that people like Zohran are a huge turn off to centrists like me. By all rights I should be voting democratic, yet this general lunacy has moved me away from democrats and I re-registered independent. You need people like me to win elections.
Seems like it's just pure racism and anti-"socialism", which is par for the course for Democrats.
Plug-and-play semi-sentient candidates can slide right into the package deal for campaigning and messaging.
The successful nail that sticks out gets hammered down.
Look, we're not here to give people what they want. We are supposed to *promise* we'll give them what they want so they vote for us. If we actually do what they want, they'll have no reason to vote for us next time.
Except they don't even do _that_ anymore. They only merely suggest that they'll be less bad than the existential threat the GOP constitutes.
He isn’t being lead around by the nose by consultants and corporate donors, thats the difference between him and the establishment
Homan is coming. He said he will crush NYC if Zohran is elected. It's all show!!
Wait until he turns into john fetterman
It's worth noting that Fetterman was already a 13 year veteran of Pennsylvania Democratic politics when he ran for Senate. Hell, he was the second highest elected official in the state. The man was an insider.
I never like him, or trusted him from the beginning. I always thought he was a conman. Too many people fell for his shtick.
It comes stems from their de facto policy of respecting “seniority”.
That just proves that Zohran should get elected Mayor of New York. And can we please find a few thousand more just like him? If the Democrats we have can't do anything then let's find more people who can.
He's about as corny and performative as any other career Dem.
let's not generalize the Democratic Party as a whole, it takes away from your statement by not sounding seriously thoughtful. i happen to love Zohran and been Dem all my life, pretty sure i'm not the only one
Most Dems have lined up behind him against his November opponents.
People love to lie, and try to divide the party. 👇 nypost.com/2025/07/07/u...
I think you are being aggressive and untruthful. Maybe it is you who doesn’t like Democrats?
They're desperate for the blind, uncaring loyalty of the Republican party. The perfect willingness to throw aside inconveniences like "morals" or "beliefs" if the party leader decides his friends deserve a tax break more than poor people deserve food.
"Insiders" don't like ones that they feel they can't control. It's that simple and happens at all levels of government.
Like these Dem insiders? ::::eye roll:::: nypost.com/2025/07/07/u...
You must think that the local chapter of a single borough represents the democrat leadership, easy mistake to make when you don't think about anything other than trying to spam away things you don't want to see.
I really like the interview Joy Reid just gave on the Breakfast Club where she talked about how the Democratic Party is very orderly, but that orderliness is very illogical when it comes to dealing with fascism.
With the way they’re behaving, one has to wonder if they’re a fake opposition party, an Alan Colmes, an intentionally weak opponent whose job is to be a punching bag and to create the illusion of a two party system.
They are terrified of him because he can raise millions of dollars in donations because of his charisma and policies, not because he promised something to corporate donors and the rich.
It just goes to show that everyone is capable of bigotry, hate, and ignorance. Even those who speak against those evils must look inward and humble themselves, and CHANGE.
They just do lip service. If they looked inward they'd encounter the void
Maybe but in my opinion..the old white women and men just want to stay in power.
The Democratic Party doesn't hate Zohran. NY primaries are closed. You must be a registered Dem to vote. Zohran crushed Cuomo thanks to me and a whole lot of registered Democrats. Some right-wing Democratic leaders hate Zohran. Those who have to face NYC voters are very much at risk.
Thank you. The haters lie, an awful lot like Trump. Weird.
Yes
Hey, I'm a Democrat, and I like Mamdani.
Not true
I don't know that the Democratic party as a whole hates him. Certainly there are those who use the same framing as Republicans and they can F themselves as far as I'm concerned.
Yes, hate to say it, but everything the magas have been saying about the Democrats is pretty much borne out in their attitude to a person with actual personal charisma. A candidate with money and no empathy lose that competition every time.
lol. Dumbest, most untrue statement I’ve ever read on Bluesky. You know Russian bots and the like are working overtime to divide the dems, especially Musk.
I understand your desire to unite the resistance, and I applaud your vigilance against efforts to "divide the dems". I can't see this as anything but a good thing, an effort to either primary the dems who will _not_ fight, or turn the letter-writers and the hand-wringers into proper warriors.
So you get your advice from MAGA…got it🙄
How do you think we got into this mess? Trump was historically unpopular and Dems still lost. Or are you still blaming voters for Democrats not doing shit to help anyone but the rich and Israel?
youtu.be/6LPuKVG1teQ?...
🥱…all cap…🙄
Bigots voted for a fascist so they could crush black and brown people. Why are you coddling bigots?
And the median voter helped them along with it because the Democrats don't offer any solutions to people's problems, so they turn to the guy who says he will help (by doing a bunch of terrible things). Better no chance of change and some change, is not surprising the median voter code "some chance."
Democrats are conservative in the true sense of the word. They're trying to conserve and preserve the existing Order. The reactionaries are not. If you're not happy with the existing Order, then it's not unreasonable for people voting for someone promising to upend that order.
Yeah how has that worked out in 2016 and 2024…you guys pull the same ish sniveling about Dems but have no clue how to achieve any of your policies! You can’t win with just progressives so either get onboard with getting MAGA out or just go away to irrelevance with Green Party or DSA!
Oh. I get it the dems are all conservative and boo yucky so people were forced to vote for a genocidal fascist who promised to rip away civil rights from all Americans. I don’t know about you, but I don’t bow that easily to a fascist. I’m not a bigot.
Facts💯
I don't either, but most don't think in terms of political spectrum. They just think in terms of who is most likely to help them and the people they care about. Elections are about competing proposals. If you run on the status quo, like Cuomo or Harris and the status quo is unpopular, you'll lose
The half Jamaican/ half Indian VP that graduated from an HBCU would never be considered status quo…her views are very forward thinking because of her diversity…Cuomo is status quo…stop with the bs🙄
Oh really? What big sweeping reforms was Harris banging the drum for every day on TV and the campaign trail? She could be Bernie Sanders, but if she doesn't campaign like it, then how are voters to know? She campaigned trying to get the vote of Liz Cheney. She got it and still lost.
This is why the Democrats have made massive campaign blunders by eschewing progressive policy proposals in favor of going after Liz Cheney centrists. The political center doesn't actually exist. It's an illusion. People want change or they don't and they usually do want change
I didn’t read that I don’t waste time on people who defend the choices that bigots made. Either you hold the voters accountable or you don’t. Right now, you don’t. Bye.
There's always that one moron who assumes anyone who criticizes the Dems is MAGA. Absolutely fucking pathetic.
This is amazingly succinct and accurate. Zohran has a spine and actually wants to change things. Whereas the Democratic Party wants to sit on their hands, fart out pretentious platitudes and then smugly grin while sniffing their fingers.
All members of the ruling class feel this way.
You've made extreme assumptions.
he threatens EVERY politicians job...
Come on now, the party endorsed him. What more do you want?
I think you should speak English and stop attempting, albeit poorly, to sound intelligent by using big words you don’t know the meaning of! I love Mamdani! I hate trump🤬🖕🏻 MAGA is cruel, violent and stupid. I’ll be a democrat forever because the GOP is full of assholes.
Democrats are craven ghouls who are only interested in maintaining the status quo and moving the Overton Window all the way to the right.
probably unwise to align yourself with a political movement based on what it isn’t rather than what it is
Utter nonsense.
Good God, the quote-posts on this one. Diagnostic criteria for chronic gas leak exposure.
I never look at my quoted posts. It’s more peaceful this way.
I get this. I'm 100% progressive Democrat liberal. But I love what he's saying!
I like him!
At the end of the day the party will go with whoever wins elections including Zohran. If he wins this it WILL change the party even if only in a small way. Folks should spend time making sure Zohran wins.
In Les Mis, Javert lets Valjean go after years of chasing and afterwards is driven to despair at the realisation that nothing he had done up until then was necessary, he could have been a good man, compassionate and just, and didn't need to adhere to the law. He could have been a hero but was not.
Same with the Dems. They have seen that none of the things they said were necessary really were so, Zohran lays it all bare that they did it because they wanted to. They see the path they didn't take and the guilt eats at them. "And must I now begin to doubt, who never doubted all these years..."
The sitting president has threatened to deport him and send in the feds to take over if he wins. What is this post talking about again??
Such a classic example of a bunch of jaded silo’d people incapable of believing that someone might believe in something bigger than themself. Seeing the video of him greeting New Yorkers while trying to film a campaign video is the perfect example dems wish they could connect like that..
If you don’t like democrats, get off the democrat social media site. You can always go back to meta and x. They seem more up your alley.
Haha maybe so, maybe so. I'll give you a like. 😁
I agree, and I’m one of those boomers both sides, particularly my own, like to disparage
Not certain it's Hate, maybe fear, because they see that, they hold old habitual beliefs and patterns....& to change it one must be present/ aware.
They love that corporate life.
