Democratic (Party) Direction

So Breyer’s really gonna keep riding this one out to see what happens, huh…

Why not? The Democrats are doing the same.

6pm:

What a wonderful bipartisan women Senators dinner at our @VP’s residence! Thank you Kamala! I am so proud of you! pic.twitter.com/l5sVNWO7lU

— Sen. Debbie Stabenow (@SenStabenow) June 16, 2021

8pm:

Sisterhood, solidarity and a late night Chinese dinner is our fuel 😘 pic.twitter.com/atZcEY8bNs

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) June 16, 2021

Andrew Yang: "Yes, mentally ill people have rights, but you know who else has rights? We do!" pic.twitter.com/l6AJ4xpqWV

— KnowNothing (@KnowNothingTV) June 17, 2021

d-fens

NYC left twitter was AWASH this morning with responses to that hot Yang take. Bleh.

It's scary that people take Yang seriously given how much of a complete and utter clown he is

Yeah. It seems like the clownishness, which is actually kind of chaotic, like, accelerationism??? appeals to ppl who think politics is a sport that you watch for entertainment. Ie, I guess, people who already have all the rights so they don't care because it doesn't affect them.

Is he likely to actually win?

(Genuinely curious, have not been following the mayoral race)

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams holds a solid 11-point lead in the Democratic primary for mayor, according to a new survey released Wednesday.

Adams is the choice of 26 percent of likely Democratic voters, with entrepreneur Andrew Yang in second place with 15 percent support, the poll conducted by the lobbying firm Capalino & Company with the Honan Strategy Group.

rank choice makes this unpredictable though

I am never getting past "YEEEEEEEEEEAH"

How old is that poll the last major one i saw was adams by like 2 over garcia and adams is no one’s second choice

yesterday i think

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politics/adams-garcia-wnbc-poll-nyc-mayor/3104963/

^^ from a couple of days ago

https://www.capalino.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Capalino-Honan-Election-Infographic.pdf

I think the end message is "too many people take Yang seriously"

Enough of New York City loves rich people telling them what to do, sadly.

been laughing at yang campaigning on "re-opening our schools" when schools have basically been open for months already.

his whole campaign is based on targeting low-information voters.

Dunno if this is the nyc mayor thread but this is incredible:

Oh look, here's a highly normal response from Eric Adams https://t.co/hmiOXAKEr7 pic.twitter.com/sKFj4T1uvf

— mattie kahn (@mattiekahn) June 21, 2021

I mean I'll give him the benefit of the doubt that the performance up to that unfortunate point was enough to make it the best he'd seen.

Trouble is, the accident happened right before he was supposed to start performing.

Hmm, something fishy then..

I thought this was a joke and then I looked it up and I am afraid my face is now stuck like this

I bet the Route 91 Festival was great as well. Too bad about the ending.

Confirmed in Mayfield’s son Todd’s book, excerpted by Rolling Stone. Mayfield didn’t play/sing a note that nighthttps://t.co/ebDcYN9yh0 pic.twitter.com/LjF0OAFIP7

— Escocés (@EscocesDays) June 21, 2021

You'll never guess who Mayfield's son blamed for not canceling the gig when the weather turned wild: local politician Marty Markowitz, who then served 12 years as BK borough president before passing the office to... Eric Adams https://t.co/JDQngAOQPY

— Leigh Walton (@leighwalton) June 21, 2021

all these answers are completely insane, holy hell pic.twitter.com/Bhvh8olRCR

— dj (@derekjay_) June 21, 2021

Andrew Yang doubles down on his debate comments:
"We all see these mentally ill people on our streets and subways, and you know who else sees them? Tourists. And then they don’t come back, and they tell their friends, ‘Don’t go to New York City.’” https://t.co/0rwphjOmix

— Emma G. Fitzsimmons (@emmagf) June 21, 2021

'What we need is a kind of sweep up operation, I don't know what you'd call it, cleansing. Like rain. A real rain to come and wash this scum off the streets'

How do motherfuckers like this get so powerful, they're just total fucking idiots

How do motherfuckers like this get so powerful, they're just total fucking idiots

Other total fucking idiots find them inspiring and relatable.

Yang does seem ridiculously bad at this tho, doesn't he?

yeah but that makes him better than the pros don't you see

What worries me is that this might be his voters want to hear.

Generally speaking, political power is too important to be entrusted to anyone who craves it. It's a paradox. Those with the arrogance and ambition required to seek power are usually the last people to whom it should be given.

Adams in likely lead with 31% of first-place primary votes, followed by Maya Wiley and Kathryn Garcia on 22 and 20, and Yang in fourth with 11.5%.

It seems like the NY Republican Party just gave up on this election: the only two candidates in their primary were Curtis Sliwa, a literal subway vigilante from the 80s, and Fernando Mateo, who looks like if Fat Joe was cast as The Thing in a Fantastic Four movie, and Sliwa won it like 75-25.

Especially wild since the “demented fascist mutant” vote has probably never been stronger.

Curtis Silwa, fucking lol

So Bernie Goetz isn't running?

At least Andrew Yang ate shit?

now that would be a sight

YEAAAAAAAa-NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOglmph

Yang Flamingos

in cooler mayoral primary news

Political newcomer and unabashed socialist India Walton is on the verge of defeating Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown in a Democratic primary on Tuesday night. It would be a stunning loss for one of the most prominent figures in New York’s Democratic establishment.

If Walton holds onto her lead and goes on to win the general election, she would become the first socialist mayor of a large American city since Milwaukee's Frank Zeidler, who left office in 1960.

As the the state's progressives struggled to drive the narrative in New York City’s mayoral election, organizations such as the left-leaning Working Families Party made Walton's campaign a major priority. Still, she had scant resources compared with her well-established opponent, an ally of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

With over 99 percent of in-person votes counted, Walton led Brown 52 percent to 45 percent.

https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2021/06/22/buffalos-walton-on-verge-of-becoming-first-big-city-socialist-mayor-in-60-years-1386839

I can still recall the numerous news articles, television stories, and fawning interviews with Curtis Sliwa praising his beret-wearing vigilantes back in the day.

lmao

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/23/opinions/andrew-yang-mayoral-campaign-failure-mitchell/index.html

Yet he failed to realize the kind of coalition he would need to build to win a Democratic primary in New York. Instead of focusing much energy on Black and Latino voters, he tried to cobble together a new coalition of Asian Americans, ultra-Orthodox Jews and young moderates. And, even in that, he appears to have only partially succeeded.

love it when innovation delivers

Nice to see the published take about Yang. Of course the media class was obsessed with the “progressive non-profit” candidate coming second and therefore discrediting progressivism forever but no equivalent takes about how Yang’s much more dismal placing was the death knell of centrist technocrat dumbfuckery.