• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    He’s gonna say the same thing about Newsom when he loses the presidential primary to a progressive.

    Silver spoon neoliberals aren’t on our side, they never were, and they never will be.

    Quick edit:

    In a Truth Social post on Monday evening, Trump wrote, “If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home, (further deranged ramblings…)

    His threat is he’d only pay the minimum taxes legally required…

    People forget a billionaire tax in NYC taxes trump

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      I do not understamd his threat. They have already suspended funding for things in New York before he has been elected.

      Also how anyone can be just ok with the president threatening funding in a major city because he doesnt like the candidate is fucking insane. I would say the press should ask every republican in congrsss about this, but they will all say they havent heard or seen what he said and then it will be forgotten in a day.

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      I sure hope Newsom loses the primary. That dude is just a younger Joe Biden that writes catty tweets. It’s fun to read the tweets, but come on… We can all do better.

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    If Trump says you should vote for someone thats an obvious sign they are comprimised and should be removed by force.

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    This is like a negative endorsement do they have those? A subtraction? If Trump is telling you to vote for a guy, absolutely do not vote for the guy. He has no one but his own interests in mind.

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    “You have no choice.” Exactly the kind of choice Trump is working hard to ensure we all have.

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    Do the right thing, NY. Throw up them middle fingers, say fuck you fascists and vote that man in!!!

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    4 months ago

    Is it too early to talk about the effect on future elections of Trump’s endorsement being negative? R candidates in purple states starting to jump ship soon?

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      It something that’s been noted since his first term.

      He tends to suck away the oxygen from the rest of the party. Republicans in primaries that he’s endorsed have lost. Then he switches endorsements to whomever won, and that candidate barely wins in a district that should have been an easy R win. Also, several state level GOP organizations are struggling for funds and are on the verge of bankruptcy. All the donor money is going to the Trump organization specifically, and he doesn’t share. That’s as close to literally sucking the oxygen away as you can get in politics.

      In a very real way, the GOP is no longer a functioning party at all. The mechanisms of mutual support are not there, and that’s the nuts and bolts of what a political party in a democracy does. To succeed at the federal level, they must build the state level. They aren’t. They can’t, because they gave too much power to a self-absorbed idiot. Sauron put too much power in the One Ring, and now it’s a vulnerability.

      It’s not just that they are undermining democracy. They have no way of functioning in a democracy.

      It’s quite clear that they only way the GOP wins the midterms is cheating. They know it, we know it. For it to be anything else, Trump would have to behave like someone other than Trump.

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    Why would he endorse Cuomo over Sliwa?

    Edit- oh lol, guess he thinks Sliwa is a spoiler candidate or something. Weird af.