Donald Trump has said that he will withhold funding for New York City if presumptive Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor after November’s general election and doesn’t do the “right thing.”

  • JaggedRobotPubes
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    3418 hours ago

    Then join hands with New England and the west coast and starve them back, because that’s who has the money.

    • @VitoRobles@lemmy.today
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      18 hours ago

      That would only work with like-minded politicians. Old Democrats have spent more energy complaining about Mamdani in the past month than Trump’s current presidential run.

      • @Lucelu2@lemmy.zip
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        811 hours ago

        So… what you are saying is that it is time to separate the wheat from the chaff. Those old fuckers need to retire and try to still appear wise… they are fucking failures and should know it.

      • I actually think that conservative journals like the WSJ have created the appearance that Democrats are anti-Mamdani, in an attempt to “divide and conquer” democrats.

        i actually see a surprisingly positive response to Mamdani from democratic movements all across the US.

        • @Lucelu2@lemmy.zip
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          1011 hours ago

          Hey, I am an old Xer and have come to the realization that the reason we lost last election (other than the cheating but decentralized voting almost always wins over cheating)… is because we listened to those “Never Trump Republicans” and embraced the Cheneys and others. That was exactly the wrong tack. We should have embraced instead the Bernie/AOC and Elizabeth faction. That would have communicated to the people that we actually cared about their life circumstances in this post-Covid, war infected supply chain challenged economy. Let the New Economics/Distributist peeps inform us with some resilient strategies. We are Fucking Tired of the Old Ideas.

        • Lexi Sneptaur
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          815 hours ago

          Bingo. The media is entirely captured, obviously, and people don’t understand what’s really going on as a result.