Andy Ogle (R-TN), of ‘had his cell phone seized by the fbi shortly before the election in relation to $320k campaign filing disclosure discrepancies that magically disappeared with the new admin’ fame, has already pushed to have him denaturalized. I’m not linking to racist trash, but you can look it up or I’m sure it’ll be on Lemmy.
No, if he runs it will be as an independent, and he would have to meet whatever requirements NYC has for getting in the ballot as a third party/unaffiliated candidate. Theoretically he could even win as a write-in candidate without ever even qualifying for the ballot as that’s really just to keep ballots from being potentially ginormous. It’s only shitty because it’s him haha. The main thing is that by winning the primary Mamdani has secured access to the democrats party infrastructure while denying it to Cuomo. That’s not to say that the insiders in the party won’t be in the tank for Cuomo, but as far as party resources go it should all be Zohran.
Time for some of them to publicly do so. Ireland maybe?
When the tariffs first started up a few months ago, I heard multiple conservatives who had never met each claim that ‘yeah these tariffs hurt, but it’s about respect, and the world needs to learn to respect us again.’ So no, I do not think they are more informed than me, just that they learn talking points through rote memorization and repetition (the only thing taught by our US education system these days).
Does it get oversimplified, sure. But most of that is because I don’t feel like writing an entire essay explaining the nuance of how these people think that they are actually saving our economy by removing all of these ‘freeloaders and jobstealers’ while in reality they are being fucking racists.
Those top comments linking to posts are the talking points being disseminated. That’s the response you’ll get whenever you try to push against their narrative. If you look into most of them, they are just grievance politics and often rely on partial information to force the wrong conclusion. If you ever manage to get past these talking points with real people, that’s when the conversation ends.
These people cannot be changed. I am tired of engaging with them or about them as n the premise that ‘we just need to figure out where they are coming from.’ They may not realize they are bigots, but that sure as fuck is what motivates them.
It’s because they are all being brainwashed by conservative media. Seeds get planted early so that when the time comes, they can think to themselves ‘this has been a long time coming.’ Traveling all around the country and interacting with conservatives is wild. People three thousand miles apart will go through the exact same talking points like its lockstep for them. I think people really underestimate how much conservative media drills itself into the thought-space of people who consume it.
I wonder with today’s SC ruling if they actually are going to try and deport him. From what I understand that would now be an actual option, fucked up as it is.