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‘Tax the Rich!’: Packed Mamdani Rally Features Sanders, AOC, and Hochul Ahead of Election Day
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tax the rich.... lets see how this plays out.
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If they can afford to buy Trump gifts, they can afford to pay taxes.
Zohran said it best in the debate, they're spending more money to smear him than they would be paying in extra taxes if he won.
I highly recommend watching AOC’s speech, she was amazing, truly inspirational.
The only thing I don't like about AOC is her voice, it's like nails on a chalkboard to me. It's worse when she's speaking to a crowd or just really motivated or angry, calm interview tone I can handle, but speeches... nope. I'd vote for her, but I'd just read her statements rather than listen to them.
Worse than Trump?
Oh no, I'd listen to her over him any day. Plus I'd actually vote for her, not something I've ever said or will say about him.
Always nice when you can find an excuse to wear the same dress twice
~~tax~~ eat
ftfy.
I feel like they probably would taste nice. Maybe composting them would be better
If we can convince them they taste like foie gras, maybe they'll eat themselves...
Eat* damn autocorrect
That must have been the most out of place Kathy Hochul has been since that one time she accidentally went to Jamaica, Queens instead of to lunch with a billionaire owner donor at a luxury resort in Jamaica, the country.
I was like Mahndani, yeah! AOC, yeah!, Bernie, fuck yeah! Hochul what the fuck is she lost.
Technically, voting has already started.
Go. Cuomo!
Just...go.
it was a pretty damn good and powerful speech.
but also, these events are the least of things politically. they don't really tell you anything new. It felt like a bit of a victory lap.
It's pretty clear Cuomo has not a snowballs chance in hell and also with turnout so far this is going to be a kind of stunning defeat that won't be forgotten any time soon.
I expect plenty to say things along the line of "but that's new york" when it comes to replicating the plays we saw here, and sure there is some of that.
yet to see what this does for other insurgents. polling this week will show if Platner, who is taking the same tack, takes a haircut from tattoo gate. Then you have Abugazalla, fatah, Ruwa romman, many others watching how this unfolded very closely.
the playbook is straight word. Identify a small set of straightforward, understandable issue (rent, transportation, cost of food). Laser focus on them. Stay focused as the hits come.
the outcome of tattoo gate will also be a bit telling. If Platner shakes it off and continues to surge. he was still +30 in polling which was conducted last week after the scandal erupted. it's clear that some people in Maine see this as obviously coming from DNC leadership in Schumer's attempt to tip the scales towards a corporatist. My intuition is that more than anything, Mainers hate the idea that Washington gets to pick their candidate for them, so I think the oppo will have backfired. Schumer might actually be one of the least popular politicians of all time and is a poison pill.
Schumer is a limp dick. He poisons everything by existing. He speaks and we all wish he would not.
If I paid the highest tax rate on all my income but we had the type of universal healthcare where I don't have to worry about any bills I just go in and get done what needs to be done and hey maybe gives me cabfare home if I need it. I would be so happy although it would nice to have other social safety nets.