the democratic base

If bacon can convince like three other Republicans to agree with this they could actually make it happen, otherwise it is just meaningless talk from the problem solvers caucus

"Trump is a fascist"
Trump: ok
Media: ok
"Trump is imprisoning old men who escaped the holocaust because he's given his fascist squads orders to do mass deportation."

Hmm this seems like an opportunity, with more reflection, for ZM to say to the world why he thinks he's a fascist like the murders or the kidnappings instead of...pivoting to agreeing with Trump on affordability

If you reduce "fascist" to a label like this it doesn't matter to anyone

Obama also didn't attack the mission of any department and did reductions in a normal way where people weren't afraid they might have to deal with some rich kid who calls themselves Big Balls instead of the actual work. Doge made fed jobs far less attractive to any good talent

How would you feel if chuck schumer smiled next to Trump and said they had a shared goal of improving affordability for new yorkers is the main thing to ponder.

Also, the idea that some idiot teenagers can just come in and do whatever for a couple months, up to and including closing entire functions, with almost no pushback from Congress or the judiciary is in fact quite destructive to future state capacity even if most people still have jobs

It was wildly shocking to dedicated federal employees that an outside entity would be given essentially carte blanche to fuck with them or worse and no one would really stand up for them.

But also we did hear evidence of them getting into various data systems so you're wrong there, we don't know the status there since the current administration wouldn't tell anyone if things were compromised

It was also a test of how institutions and the other branches of government would push back, which it was successful at

Matt seems to respond better to research papers with data so here's one
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

And centrists are the ones accused of low expectations.

He is going to get a lot of bad advice from people he has worked with in the very recent past and I hope he can be thoughtful enough to leave them behind. We will see

Goalposts

It won't matter in a few days but it shows that no one on here is consistent if they like a guy

The thing that is annoying is not that they're working together but that he said Trump wants things to be affordable

This is the thing he won last year on and is way underwater on, he clearly doesn't actually care and you're giving him a rhetorical lifeline. Schumer would be killed if he said this

A video from inside a Border Patrol vehicle shows agents chasing a US citizen for filming them. The citizen refused to get out when they illegally ordered him to stop. The agents say: "This is great." "This is fun." "He's going to get shot."

People on here in February were furious that any Democrat would be anything but 100% resistant to Trump all the time, no excuses were made for anyone who did.

But when one of those early resisters is running for perhaps the deciding Senate seat, we sleep because a man who Bernie likes is running

And spending went way down, right?

I mean Hochul said lol you're not stopping congestion pricing and Trump didn't, she didn't have to go to DC and smile in front of cameras with him to do so.

Bowser is the one who actually has to be nice because they could end home rule and she got destroyed for being nice

Absolutely insane how positions on this flip when Mamdani does a politics instead of an evil Democrat. People have no intellectual consistency if they like a guy. What an app.

Mass uprising is dumb but the second post is completely right. You can try to harm reduce by being nice without coming out and lying and pumping up the affordability pitch he's trying to rescue his popularity with, and people defending that are wild

I'd like to know what he would have said if trump hadn't jumped in, sure. Based on the rest of the press conference he didn't exactly meet the moment

Ultimately if you like the guy you should make excuses for him! That's what Trump fans and the K Hive and whatever else do. But you should also do that for 90% of other Dems who are almost the same particularly when the other side is SO BAD instead of attacking them for optics stuff

It's ok, you can call me Generalissimo isn't the same thing as just calling the guy Generalissimo and maybe noting the reasons why to the assembled press

It doesn't hit the same when you just said you had a shared agenda with the fascist on affordability and don't bring up the murders he's doing or the people he's disappearing. Just my opinion though!

This is basically the same thing as Bowser said about working with Trump on crime in DC and she got rightly destroyed for it even though she has less autonomy to resist anything than the mayor of NYC does

This is what Zohran BEGAN the press conference by saying. Complete nonsense and free advertising for an unpopular president who is tanking in polls and trying to pivot away from his destructive economic policies

Mamdani told the country Trump cares about affordability for new yorkers lol

Mamdani whistled a different tune yesterday, what are you talking about

Every response to this is hilarious. Since Jan this entire website has agreed that a major problem, a threat to our lives, a threat to Democracy is that Dems are acting like it’s “politics as usual” with Trump in office, which is EXACTLY what happened today but he has a nice smile so it’s ok.