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Trump was expecting a poorly spoken non-white to match his biases, instead got Mamdani who is extremely well spoken.
Obama was too and that didn't stop him. Trump expects Mamdani to become a MAGA pickme.
Not really.
It doesn't have to be deeper than Mamdani saying:
trump would (figuratively) pay any price for that, it's what he's wanted his entire life. The wealthy NYers will never accept him, so he can piss them off and get some kind of authentic goodwill for his hometown?
trump could absolutely be talked into that short term.
Fuck. I hope he doesn’t do a Fetterman. Afettered, if you’ll indulge me.
I mean, Fetterman had some questionable views even before the point that most acknowledged that he’d flipped, he simply got less coverage than Mamdani and had the benefit of running against Dr. Oz so a lot of it was missed/overlooked. I think it’s significantly less likely that Mamdani flips because, to my understanding, he’s been very consistent in his views for quite a while now, even from the time before he was in office.
That said, if Mamdani flipped I could see it doing significant damage to the left on the basis of perception alone, so it could be that I’m just praying the left won’t be… fettered, by another pretender giving progressive policy a wrongfully bad name.
He's not even in office yet and us on the left are already trying to purity test his actions.
Jesus Christ, let's judge Zohran & his team by their policy actions when they take office. Anything until then is just rampant speculation that'll only serve the far-right and the foreign interest and big-money interest astroturfing bots trying to divide the left again!
Anal Fettering.
I did not expect this retort. It’s quite a fettering I’ve experienced.
This is Fetteral assault. I need an adult.
You win. I give up. I’m all fettered out.
Obama wasn't.......uhhh......that great...........of a.......uggggghhh.........speaker.
Those "uhh"s are a competent person thinking through how each thing they say could be misinterpreted and changing the language on the fly. He knew anything he said that could even be taken slightly as offensive to the right would dominate the news cycle for the next week. Its just sad that trump and his supporters knows the same thing and simply doesn't give a shit about who he offends.
Yeah, but like, it made him, like, sounds like a, teenage, like, schoolgirl. I would, like, take that, like, excuse if it was only, like, during important, like, speeches, and stuff. But he, like, did it during, like, the most mundane, like, things he would, like, say.
Interesting that you had to change to a completely different type of dialogue in order to make it sound bad.