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What's REALLY scary is that he is showing it can be done. No excuses. We could have had universal health care when it became a big talking point in the 90s (you can obviously argue sooner) if the reps had a spine and a real desire to help.

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A politician must be dour, overly serious, and speak in sweeping, hyperbolic generalizations at all time, damn it!

I think the fear is rooted in the understanding that the combination of taxing the wealthy and using the revenue to fund social services is actually incredibly popular both in theory and in practice. God forbid this catches on more broadly.

#EndTheOligarchs #TaxTrillionairesIntoMillionaires #TaxBillionairesIntoMillionaires #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #EndTheBrunchlords #ApartheidClydeEmeraldMine #LoneSkum #TaxElonMuskIntoAMillionaire #TaxSergeyBrinIntoAMillionaire #TaxJeffBezosIntoAMillionaire

Taking a clickbait article and using it to reinforce overly simplified narratives about the way the world works is exactly what Fox News does too

Also says a lot about their own personality when they take his genuine courage and confidence for arrogance.

Does THAT …

And not just people who identify as conservatives. It's also people who claim to be liberals but only are when it doesn't inconvenience themselves.

It’s because Conservatives live via comparison They’re not “winning” unless someone else is losing They’re literally “you can’t have nice things because then my nice things are with less to me”

It's amazing how much of that extremely pertinent detail managed not to get disclosed in the publication.

That firm was at point point acquired by these guys: youtu.be/aMPu99_Xvjw?...

Having read that op-ed, I can now say with total confidence that "Liz Peek" is full of shit.

Surprise surprise that Trump bootlicker and sometime Fox News contributor Liz Peek doesn't like Mamdani and pens a clucking tsk-tsking smeary oh-so-predictable article that pretends that the wildly (and increasingly) popular New York mayor is losing support.

The arrogance of competency! How dare he!

With trump it's more like drooling arrogance.

… and this (punching down on progressives) is their priority in the midst of a fascist coup?! Really?!?

brunchlords, man they genuinely view progressive reform as a bigger threat to their class and race priorities than fascism

“Brunchlord.” :)

F the haters. I♥️NY

this is really funny

The author is a former partner is a big Wall St firm, says her bio. I expect this is actually more about the surcharge on big-ticket apartments than alleged slights to ethnic groups she may or may not care about.

Uh oh, a handsome brown man with no obvious issues with pills or prostitutes wants to make bus fare cheaper, surely the Red Army is massing on the border

As usual either these clowns, It’s Always Projection.

Liz Pee, things of this nature

yah, someone else posted their wiki bio: oil industry insider.

Yeah, they had a QAnon guy as a regular columnist

And if you read the article it just quotes the Post a bunch of times.

When she was a petroleum financial analyst, I wonder did they call her Peek Oil?

What the hell is so scary? He says he's gonna do stuff and then he does it. He talks to people and finds out what they need. He cares about his city and the people in it. He's really nice, ffs. (Yes, I know he's not perfect but he's loads better than anyone else)

The obsession of all American media with ruining any politician who might help a single normal person.

The more piece like this that are published the more I love that man.

I like mamdani and this article is profoundly stupid (probably racist as well) but I understand the “preening arrogance” critique. What he ACTUALLY has, though, is Only Child Energy. It doesn’t bother me because he’s doing great work.

Why are they talking like Skeletor?

So acting like a regular human being is "preening arrogance." 😒

Reactivating the Obama-era "He thinks he's so great" beat

What in the name of all actual F?

Excuse me, you dolt, that's not arrogance; it's intelligence and confidence.

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A real “HILLARY DIDN’T BAKE WHITE HOUSE COOKIES???” gotcha moment

Communism is when you go to a foreign country on the 4th. Freedom is when Ken Paxton does.

They are training plants in Islamist states to take over on American Jesus's half-birthday!!!

They really have nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Wonder why they didn’t complain about Ken Paxton going to Britain for the 4th of July with his girlfriend that he cheated on his wife with?

Arrogance? Arrogant a-holes generally wouldn't be caught dead jumping into a swimming pool in a full business suit!

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The Hill. Always the worst take. I found them suspect back on Twitter. I won’t read or repost. Something is wrong with them.

Mamdani notably refused to endorse Platner, but sure, Marsha, these things are totally related 🙄

Is there a human on the planet with more unearned preening arrogance than Dump? I love their fear but hate that they can easily spew crap like this and get paid big $ to bear false witness, the number one fascist industry.

The authors really got her finger on the pulse of America.

*barely distinguishable

Just shocking racism. All Muslims are terrorists! And he doesn’t even have the decency to be ashamed by it.

Preenng arrogance! Funny; the first name that came to mind was E Mux...

Every time they attack him, they show their asses. In this way he’s politically like Trump - he confounds them, they don’t know how to attack him, and they look bad doing it. But he does so with wholesome enthusiasm, vitality, and good policy vs. Trump’s cynical misanthropy, fraud, and corruption.

Is brunchlord a new word? I'm dying!

I really haven't seen him do anything arrogant

“winning over large numbers of Blacks and Hispanic voters” that phrasing tells me everything I need to know about this author.

I like how they try to claim that the DSA is responsible for noted not a member of DSA

As opposed to the unpreened arrogance of every marginally sentient thumb face in the Trump admin?

A guy that enjoys his job and likes his city. How dare.

The other ladies at the New York Women's Auxillary Central Park Conservancy Luncheon will be all a-titter at this scathing review!

You have to scroll past a lot of dick pill ads to get to a The Hill article.

“Preening arrogance” … is it projection on the part of Politico or lack of self awareness?!

Brought to you by the preening arrogance of Fox News fascist enabler Liz Peek. bsky.app/profile/karl...

Didn't the wife of the owner of The hill serve as some Trump lackey's apprentice during Trump's first term? Thehill is dopey.

"Liz Peek is a former partner of major bracket Wall Street firm Wertheim and Company."

Really gotta squint to find any suggestion of “preening arrogance“ in his funny, charming, utterly disarming short videos

Yeah, there's no winning when the game's rigged.

lol she's really mad that Mamdani didn't attend the Bezalel Smotrich parade.

"preening arrogance" and it's the nicest, friendliest looking guy you've ever seen

They take confidence on the strategy of following working class' political agenda as arrogance.

He's making them all look bad by actually governing for the people. Empty promises are easier than doing the work and most politicians aren't interested in doing the work, they're just interested in getting our money and constant vacations.

The hell of it is he's barely done anything to deserve it His biggest strike against the rich has been a tax on multi-million-dollar vacation homes

After decades of getting us to vote in mediocre establishment people who make little change it’s got to sting like the devil to see someone outside the box just fix shit. Of course, that’s something you should keep to yourself because whining about it just draws attention to your lack of success…

The article is dripping with arrogance and condescension. I couldn't even finish it.

She never encountered Eric Adams. Preening was his only work product.

If they *really* wanted to hurt him, what they should do is cheer his wins in the interim and express hopes for his success, so that when that scandal arrives they could say "I've been an ardent supporter of the man, but blah blah blah."

They keep trying to create scandals and he's so squeaky clean, they keep coming back with nothing.

Reminds me of Obama and the business with that solar panel company I can't remember rhe name of. An actual conflict of interest worthy of a scandal but no-one remembers it because of the Republicans Who Cried Scandal.

Yes, the sort of person establishment democrats fall all over themselves to compliment and please. Your point?

you know what it means, you might just be stupid or playing stupid either way, lmao

This piece is dripping with condescension that I’m sure will totally stop the DSA.

“Getting above his station”

Welp they have no idea what actual joy is.

The person who wrote this is a Republican. Why not just make this post an attack on Republicans? Who are these brunchlords? Attack Republicans you dweeb

Figures.

Ahhh, thank you, that’s why it felt so familiar

They edited the headline. The original was "political arrogance." I guess that wasn't getting enough clicks.

This

A bunch of arrogant preeners are certain that the guy who caused their own downfall is actually the one who is going to go down.

WE (everyone!) should be talking about democratic socialist (nordic) countries more as an argument/response…it’s demonstrably a better alternative to late capitalism!

If continual smiling and being comfortable with the common folk is preening then preen on.

Thanks. The Blob abides.

They fear the possible that is not the status quo for them.

They say he's "going out of his way to offend as many people as possible" and the first example is "he said Israel is committing genocide"

Yeah, If I were a woman I'd avoid the whole bad dye job, crispy dry mar-a-lago coif like a pencil mustache or frosted tips.