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Chuckie Finster

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  1. It was less commentary on Israel and commentary that someone who is uncompromisingly for "The Groups" that liberals find so frightening can certainly win and win big even if the big money is behind their opponent.
    And he isn't the only example of this, Andy Beshear is another great example of a progressive, uncompromisingly pro-LGBTQ Democrat who is a wildly popular (he has like a 70% approval rating currently) governor of a deep red, Southern state right now.

    To be clear, I 100000% agree with all of this. Your initial post was Israel-specific, so that’s what I commented on. But yes, most of the Democratic party’s core beliefs are insanely popular with the masses but messaged horribly and allowed to be largely defined by the opposition.
    But it is also important to acknowledge that Beshear and Mamdani are very, VERY different politicians and assuming that any specific messaging that worked for Mamdani is replicable nationwide is a dangerous conclusion.
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  2. This is not, like, AT ALL what I said. In fact, that's such a bad interpretation of what I was saying it almost seems deliberate if I didn't know any better.

    Whoa dude. You made a post about the political implications of a stance of Israel, and I was simply trying to point out that drawing any definitive conclusions about that would be misguided.

    I’m sure folks tried to write essays about how Democrats could replicate Doug Jones performance in 2018, but sometimes the simplest answer is “run against a Roy Moore.”

    Mamdani capitalized and tailored his message to appeal to a voting base that is amenable to his pitch, but the main reason he won is that Andrew fucking Cuomo was the main competition. Don’t nominate Roy Moores.
  3. Another thing I want to say about this race is I do not want to hear another god damned word, from ANYONE, about how taking a critical stance of Israel is too politically risky for a Democratic candidate to take.
    I've been screaming about how this is bullshit since well before the Harris campaign and if a socialist Muslim that is uncompromisingly anti-Zionist can blow the doors off one of the most recognizable incumbent candidates in the country that's being backed by every billionaire in the state, in the most Jewish place on Earth besides Israel, I think I can confidently feel vindicated on that one.

    See, this is a perfect example of the incorrect conclusions that will be drawn from this race.

    The correct conclusion is “you ran an establishment candidate SO UNPOPULAR that a socialist, Muslim, anti-Israeli candidate won in the most Jewish place in the country” not “a socialist, Muslim, anti-Israeli candidate won because of his stance on Israel.”

    And I know you are smart enough to know that NYC politics is in no way replicable throughout most of the rest of the country.
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  4. It’s insane to me that the Dems aren’t going all in on “fuck the billionaires.”

    They all showed up to his inauguration. They all have bowed before their king. They gave Dems the ammo, and none of them realize that they are passing on a slam dunk.

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  5. Isn't he polling 20% with Jews? at the end of the day the same fears were had for Sadiq Khan and he has been successful mayor of London.

    Not speaking about his ability to be mayor, just how gross this election cycle is about to get.
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  6. Hopefully old Dems understand the message being sent tonight.

    But four months of election talk featuring Mamdani and the Jewishest city in the country is going to be hell on earth.

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    https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/early-us-intel-assessment-suggests-strikes-iran-did-not-destroy-nuclear-sites-2025-06-24/
    WASHINGTON, June 24 (Reuters) - An early U.S. intelligence assessment indicated that the U.S. military strikes on three of Iran's nuclear facilities last week did not destroy the core components of Tehran's nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, CNN reported on Tuesday, citing three people briefed on it.
    "This alleged assessment is flat-out wrong," CNN quoted White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt as saying.

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