The Political World’s Five-Alarm Mamdani Meltdown
Hello it’s weekends. It’s the weekend ☕️
We have a political effort in stage five in our hands.
During the four days that followed that the assembly, Zohran Mamdani, became the candidate of the Democratic Party in the elections of the Mayor of New York, many people have completely lost it. The reactions have varied from Islamophobia predictable to deeply disturbing Islamophobia.
Part of the reaction to Mamdani stems from the fact that the 33 -year -old relatively junior legislator entered the race as an upstart before defeating former governor Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani is also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, who places him firmly on the left wing of the Specter of the Democratic Party of the City and the State. This helps to explain why the leadership of the congress did not rush to embrace Mamdani and why the powerful real estate industry – which benefited from the friendly “City of Yes” policies supported by the current mayor, Eric Adams and other Democrats – has entered what the Wall Street Journal describes as “hysteria”.
The progressives are notably more critical of the Israeli government than the Democrats of the establishment and Mamdani have a history of pro-Palestine activism. These political differences have helped to contribute to the veteran strategist Lis Smith nicknamed a “complete panic” about Mamdani of the Democratic Establishment. And, while Jewish voters are increasingly divided on the War of Israel in Gaza (and about 20% were favorable to Mamdani), the republican Jewish coalition said “evacuating NY immediately” as the votes arrived.
Other reactions included billionaire Bill Ackman, who made a last attempt to find a candidate to save him before realizing that the rules mean that there is no room for a new black horse on the ballot. Ackman finally decided to support Adams, who, after scandals, legal troubles and a safeguard of President Trump, takes place as independent in the general elections of November. Another influential person influential in New York’s policy, Funder Hedge, Dan Loeb, seemed to use a cinematographic reference from the 1980s to suggest that the five arrondissements have become a hellish landscape filled with crimes where he will be forced to fight for his life. Others in the center, in business and on the right seem ready to throw their hat with Cuomo, who said he was going to keep hope alive and make him back as an independent.
Outside the city, Trump turned to – where others – the truth is social to explode Mamdani as a “100% communist madman”. Just like her custom, the representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) took an even more apoplectic road with an interpretation apparently generated by the AI of the statue of freedom covered with a mourning shroud.
Part of the collapse seemed more on the fact that Mamdani could become the first Muslim mayor in New York than any of his policies. After his victory, Mamdani faced what the goalkeeper called a “dam” of some who painted him baselessly as a terrorist threat. The most disturbed and purely racist attack of all came from the representative Andy Ogles (R-TN), a right-wing legislator whose own colorful history included ethical questions, the parade with false confederate soldiers and calling Trump to have a third term. On Thursday, Ogles pulled a letter to the Attorney General Pam Bondi calling for Mamdani to be denaturalized and “expelled”.
The MJ confirmed the reception of the letter to TPM but refused to comment more. The Mamdani campaign did not respond to a request for comments.
The letter from Ogles relied on Mamdani’s past criticisms of Israeli policy to mark the mayor’s candidate “an anti -Semitic, socialist, communist”. Mamdani previously stressed that he hates anti -Semitism. Opty for a megaphone rather than a dog whistle, Ogles also called Mamdani “Little Muhammad” in his post X on the letter. It is impossible to read it as something other than an attempt to denigrate Mamdani’s religion. Ogles did not respond to a request for comments.
While Mamdani resisted these attacks, even some pro-Israeli democrats firmly came to his defense. However, others, notably Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), tested the wheels on the train and took the opportunity to echo the idea that Mamdani was a bridge too far.
More than four months ago before the general elections, which will be a race for four to five. Mamdani is the obvious favorite, but it will clearly be quite chaotic.
Perhaps in some ways, Dan Loeb and the other hysterics are right. New York becomes an area of war (political). Fight for your life.
– Hunter Walker
Here is what other TPM has to pressure this weekend:
- The Supreme Court has maintained its tradition of ending it with a blockbuster series and, in some cases, disastrous cases. The same nine judges will be back next year.
- The signs can surface a disturbance linked to Doges in the DC economy.
- Has his Senate parliamentarian become too awake?
See you next year, Sam Alito
The Supreme Court put an end to this term in the same way as it finished the last mandate: with another famous consequence of the power of the judicial branch to the executive branch.
In a 6-3 decision on Friday written by Amy CONEY BARRETT, the court ruled that national injunctions, of the type which currently hold many most deratic policies of Trump, must be more closely adapted to a reparation to the complainants in a given trial. The judges cannot simply stop a policy on a national level, ruled the conservative majority. They should not suspend it only for the people involved in the case that seizes them. (It may be remarkable that this decision comes now, and not when the conservative judges of the lower court have used national injunctions to turn policies through the Biden administration.)
The result of this decision is that the executive power will have even more room to behave illegally, without control. And the decision has recognized as much: “The federal courts do not exercise the general surveillance of the executive power; They solve the business and controversies in accordance with the authority that Congress has given them, “wrote Barrett. “When a court concludes that the executive power has acted illegally, the answer is not that the court also exceeds its power.”
In this way, Friday’s decision was similar to the decision of the disastrous immunity of 2024, exempting the president almost entirely from criminal proceedings. As in the immunity decision, the judges awarded the issue underlying the lower courts to determine the details of how to apply their decision. Last year, this underlying question was Donald Trump’s criminal prosecution for trying to steal the 2020 elections; This year, it was his attempt to end the citizenship of the dawn. The two decisions suggest that it would take years before the Supreme Court really deals with the case on the merits.
This consecutive non-connection on the citizenship of the right of birth was not the only capital decision to fall on Friday. In another case, judge Sam Alito wrote for the majority that parents can question the texts “LGBTQ + inclusive” in schools and let their children withdraw from the lessons to which they oppose. Another decision allowed porn sites to effectively ban Texas.
In particular, the mandate of the Supreme Court ended with any retirement, which means that the two oldest judges -and the two most pro -Trump -, Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito, will be back in October. Martha-Ann Alito, recorded last year by an activist hidden from the camera, expressed her hope that her husband could soon move away from the “nonsense” to be among the most powerful people in the world so that she can steal her collection of right flag during the month of flameless pride. (“I want a flag of the Sacred Heart of Jesus because I have to look through the lagoon to the flag of pride for next month […] I said, “When you are free from this nonsense, I put it.” ) Now she will have to wait, at least, June 2026.
– John Light
Dogeying slumps
There are signs that the economic spinoffs of the mass cuts of Doge in the workmanship of the federal government are already starting to wreak havoc on the economy of the DC region, and perhaps even beyond.
The purchase and sale at home, historically the key to access the American dream and the wealth, show signs of slowdown. A brilliant MLS survey revealed that 40% of real estate agents in the DMV region reporting agreements affected by the reductions in the workmanship of the federal government, ideas by President Donald Trump and produced by the richest man in the world who, by Trump, also lost his head ” – Elon Musk.
Meanwhile, new economic data continue to report a weakened job market and have blocked consumption expenditure. A drop in data from the Thursday Labor Department has shown that the number of people claiming unemployment benefits has reached its highest total since November 2021 while data from the Ministry of Commerce noted that consumer spending has decreased slightly in May.
Real estate experts have said that a better overview of the potential success on the housing market could arrive in the fall.
As with the impact of Trump’s prices on inflation, the effects of the deeply unpopular reconciliation package, and even more unpopular, and any economic impact of the American bombardment, we will just have to wait and see.
– Layla A. Jones
Words of wisdom
“The parliamentarian of the Senate Woke, who was appointed by Harry Reid and advised Al Gore, has just canceled a provision prohibiting illegals from stealing Medicaid to American citizens … The Senate parliamentarian should be dismissed as soon as possible.”
It is Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Al) or, as he likes to be called (and encourages journalists to call him), coach Tuberville, reacting to the decision of the parliamentary Senate Elizabeth Macdonough to set up several health and health provisions.
As you can say, it is particularly crazy in this case because Macdonough has made through the arrangement that would reduce federal funds to states that allow undocumented immigrants to obtain Medicaid.
Of course, this was a major subject of discussion for the Republicans of the Congress, because they bend back to convince everyone that they do not cut Medicaid, except for “waste, fraud and abuse”. The reality is that undocumented immigrants are already unacceptable to the traditional advantages of Medicaid or Medicare. Some states choose to provide health coverage to certain immigrants, regardless of their immigration status, but these programs do not use Federal Medicaid dollars and come out of state funds.
However, according to Tuberville and other far-right Republicans who tried to sneak into this provision in their so-called “big” invoice, access to health care for human beings is apparently too “awake”.
– Emine Yücel
