Cuomo?

[jon-nyc]

Gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/opinion/jews-zohran-mamdani.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SE8.oB05.GZiBBZQT6ydM&smid=url-share

[jon-nyc]

I didn't read it because its Michelle Goldberg.

[Doctor Phibes]

Every year there seems to be more people about whom I say 'Who the hell are they?'

[jon-nyc]

For me it’s more like ‘Why the hell are they?’

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Cuomo?:

Gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/opinion/jews-zohran-mamdani.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SE8.oB05.GZiBBZQT6ydM&smid=url-share

"He was elected by promising economic solutions that are not possible in practice, but I really love his authenticity, and that's why I voted for him."

[jon-nyc]

Is the article about Trump or Mamdani?

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Cuomo?:

Is the article about Trump or Mamdani?

Fair, but at least economic stuff was only part of Trump's platform. And, reasonable people can still believe that his economy would be better than Harris's.

[jon-nyc]

[Horace]

The educated progressive whites know why that is - because the people they are helping, are low information voters who only vote by name recognition. They don't say that out loud of course, but they know that that's why the poor people voted for Cuomo.

[jon-nyc]

You may be giving them too much credit, at least on average. I imagine most assume that of course the oppressed people they’re trying to protect voted for The Good Guy.