***Official Political Discussion Thread***

[Deleted member 42060]

**** outta here Bloomberg. Someone stop and frisk him at the door, don't let him in.

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[hand2handking]

 

[RustyShackleford]

Walnuts finna speak his truth.

When he is snitching to Mueller, I wish I could be in the room to drop random "YASSSS" ad-libs whenever he implicates someone in the Trump Adminstration.

 

[Quincy McCall]

Based Gillum throwin' away all smoke dectectors ahead of time

 

[chao7]

Walnuts finna speak his truth.

When he is snitching to Mueller, I wish I could be in the room to drop random "YASSSS" ad-libs whenever he implicates someone in the Trump Adminstration.

Do you think the concern that he won't give up the goods is overblown? The reasoning being that he's legitimately concerned that the Russians will murder him, or, if they can't, his family?

Those dudes are wiling to murder ex-spies in other countries and basically brag about it.

 

[elpablo21]

My theory is Paulie probably not snitching at this point..he might be just trying to avoid having to go sockless due to the prison issued swagless joints they insulted him with

Still pulled it off doe

 

[aepps20]

I still don't understand how the governor in Florida can look at people with a straight face and do this. We have laws for a reason and packing the court is ridiculous. I implore my Florida NTers to do the right thing and vote this guy out of town and vote for the candidate for universal healthcare, for a better Florida, vote because the stakes are just too high. If I lived in Florida my vote would go for none other than against Gillium.

 

[RustyShackleford]

I still don't understand how the governor in Florida can look at people with a straight face and do this. We have laws for a reason and packing the court is ridiculous. I implore my Florida NTers to do the right thing and vote this guy out of town and vote for the candidate for universal healthcare, for a better Florida, vote because the stakes are just too high. If I lived in Florida my vote would go for none other than against Gillium.

****!!!

You got me again

 

[aepps20]

****!!!

You got me again

 

[Nike Jordan]

 

[whywesteppin]

The Puerto Rico death toll, just like global warming and vaccine efficacy, are incredibly well-studied topics that have already gone through multiple rounds of careful thought and open debate.

So it's pretty insulting when someone (whether it's the president or your "friend") spits out some uninformed conspirational nonsense without even putting in the 5 minutes it takes to read about it on Wikipedia.

We also do a disservice when we try to gloss over details for these topics. Vaccines aren't all the same; attributing deaths up a natural disaster does require some guesswork and there is a margin for error (and that margin is reported and discussed in studies).

Is what a libbie would try to say to hide the blatant truth that there is a huge cover-up going on led by disgruntled liberal elites to try to discredit President Trump. This is the only logical explanation. Vote GOP up and down and up again on the ticket, don't vaccinated your child, swim in the warm flood waters, burn that coal, and let the good times roll!!!

 

[d nice]

Please stop

Lord help us

 

[d nice]

Gov. Andrew Cuomo Easily Holds Off Cynthia Nixon in New York Democratic Primary

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo took a decisive step toward a third term on Thursday, quelling a threatened liberal rebellion by turning aside the insurgent challenge of Cynthia Nixon after a bruising battle to claim the Democratic nomination in New York.

Mr. Cuomo had marshaled the support of nearly all of the state’s most powerful Democratic brokers — elected officials, party leaders, labor unions and wealthy real estate interests — to defeat Ms. Nixon.

The race cemented both Mr. Cuomo’s standing as an unmatched force in New York politics and a merciless tactician with little regard for diplomacy.

Ms. Nixon had cast her first-time candidacy as a fight for the direction of the Democratic Party in New York and beyond, offering a pure brand of liberalism against Mr. Cuomo’s more triangulating pragmatism, a style defined less by ideology and more by what he deemed possible.

In the end, the governor’s record of achievements — on gun control, gay marriage, the minimum wage, paid-family leave and more — and his gargantuan fund-raising advantage spoke louder than Ms. Nixon’s objections over legislation he sidelined in the byzantine corridors of Albany’s capital.

The undercard races for attorney general and lieutenant governor, where insurgents allied with Ms. Nixon challenged loyalists to Mr. Cuomo, were too close to call. As Ms. Nixon’s hopes faded as Primary Day neared, liberal activists had redoubled their efforts in those contests, as well as some legislative primaries, to provide a check on Mr. Cuomo’s powers.

Mr. Cuomo’s victory ensures that no Democratic governor or senator in America lost a party primary in 2018, a sign of how steep a climb Ms. Nixon, an actress and activist, had faced, even before the governor’s campaign unloaded a sum close to $25 million to blanket the contest in a blizzard of television ads and glossy mailers.

In November, Mr. Cuomo, 60, will seek to match the three terms his father, Mario M. Cuomo, achieved as governor. He has forcefully denied any presidential ambitions of his own, saying the only way he would not serve through 2022 would be death.

Mr. Cuomo himself had sought to mostly ignore Ms. Nixon in recent months, focusing repeatedly on President Trump. His campaign, meanwhile, methodically pushed to undermine Ms. Nixon’s credibility in often-caustic terms, tapping into the concerns of New York Democrats that an experienced governor is needed while a hostile Republican occupies the White House.

After a six-month slog versus Ms. Nixon, Mr. Cuomo now faces a less than 60-day sprint of a general election against the Republican, Marcus J. Molinaro, the affable Dutchess County executive who was once the youngest mayor in the nation. He, like Ms. Nixon, is expected to be drastically outspent by Mr. Cuomo. And in a heavily Democratic state in what most strategists predict will be a Democratic year, Mr. Molinaro’s bid is not seen as a top-tier race for Republicans nationally.

The final margin in the primary — polls never showed the race closer than 20 percentage points — belied the ferocity of the campaign, which began with the charge that Ms. Nixon was an “unqualified lesbian” by a top surrogate for Mr. Cuomo and ended with a mailer accusing her of silence on anti-Semitism. Mr. Cuomo called it “inappropriate” but did not apologize.

“He won ugly,” said Bradley Tusk, who served as campaign manager for former Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.

Even before the polls had closed, there were worried whispers from New York City to Albany of those who had crossed him readying for a coming retribution tour.

When Ms. Nixon burst onto the political stage in March, it was as if she had unleashed the repressed id of New York progressives long frustrated with Mr. Cuomo’s transactional ways. But for many voters, Ms. Nixon never successfully presented enough evidence that she was prepared to be governor, other than offering what she was not: an Albany insider or Mr. Cuomo.

“If you run an outsider campaign, you have to run a campaign like Trump did, saying ‘Things are so bad that you’ve got nothing to lose, so who cares that I don’t have experience,’” Mr. Tusk said. “In this case, the guy with experience gets a lot done.”

Still, in losing, Ms. Nixon arguably made as much of a policy impact on New York as some elected officials have: Mr. Cuomo embraced a series of liberal ideas soon after her entry, including moving toward legalizing marijuana, extending voting rights to parolees and brokering a deal to dissolve a group of Democratic state senators who had aligned with Republicans in Albany.

While Ms. Nixon scored a record number of small donors for a New York race, she struggled to collect larger donations, pulling in a total of just under $2.5 million with about 10 days left in the race.

That is roughly how much Mr. Cuomo raised in a single day, at his birthday fund-raiser last December.

Mr. Cuomo stumbled across the finish line in the final days, dogged by questions of the timing of a bridge opening and a mailer that incorrectly sought to link Ms. Nixon to anti-Semitism.

Mr. Molinaro has used both issues to hammer Mr. Cuomo in some of the opening salvos of the fall campaign.

For now, Ms. Nixon is still technically on the November ballot as the Working Families Party nominee. She must decide whether to withdraw, and if so, the party, which spent much of the year at war with Mr. Cuomo, must decide whether to grant its line to the incumbent governor. Ms. Nixon declined to discuss her plans in a radio interview earlier on Tuesday.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/...tml?action=click&module=Alert&pgtype=Homepage

 

[RustyShackleford]

**** Cuomo

 

[chao7]

The only thing I saw from that Primary was Cuomo trying to smear Nixon as antisemitic. Not cool.

 

[d nice]

It was a longshot from the beginning for Cynthia Nixon to win because Cuomo is firmly entrenched and connected. But the best people can hope for is that Cuomo will adopt some of the policies that she pushed.

 

[nomnom]

Nicki

 

[RustyShackleford]

@nawghtyhare come get ya Queen

 

[aepps20]

 

[elpablo21]

Nicki

This fued got levels to it I wasn't expecting

 

[nomnom]

It's too bad she lost

https://www.motherjones.com/politic...-teachout-would-make-donald-trumps-life-hell/

 

[DADDYFATSACKS]

@nawghtyhare come get ya Queen

The queen of biscuits.

 

[Nike Jordan]

I posted this before, but it's my favorite "old person trying to reach out to the youth" tweet.

 

[nomnom]

!

 

[IATT]