In a fiery speech after his win, the next mayor of New York warned Trump that the city will stand united: “To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us.”
In his first speech as the next mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani made clear he and his city are coming for Donald Trump.
“If anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him,” Mamdani said at his victory speech in Brooklyn Tuesday night. “And if there’s any way to terrify a despot, it is by dismantling the very conditions that allowed him to accumulate power.”
“So Donald Trump,” he added, “since I know you’re watching — I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.”
“In this moment of political darkness," Mamdani said, “New York will be the light.”
JFC that was the right thing to say
I haven’t been excited about American politics for a long time but this guy has me pumped.
Maybe you guys can get yourselves out of this Trump shit after all.
It’s only a spark, but holy fuck is it a big one!
If you want to be even more pumped, check out the PA Supreme court election and Virginia’s governor election.
TLDR: PA sided with trump by about 2% in 2024 but chose to retain 3 democratic justices this hear by ~23% each.
VA has had a MAGA candidate as governor since 2021 and they just elected a dem governor by a whopping 15% margin.
Finally, CA has decided to redraw its congressional districts to erase the republican gains from the Texas redraw, and CA did it with a 30% margin.
NJ has had Latino communities that were previously Trump leaning areas swing heavily in favor of dems yesterday, too, which is likely because of increasing CoL and ICE activity in their communities.
All in, democrats not only took every win they were hoping for but absolutely dominated across the board with no close calls.
We’ll see. I was hopeful with Obama. Bit of a dissapointment on that one.
When Obama took the stage on that stadium after his 2008 victory, to a screaming crowd, I was glad to see the Republican War Criminals out, but I never bought into the “Hope & Change” nonsense. I knew that he would be mostly a weak placeholder Democrat between destructive Republicans, who would do nothing to slow their steady rise to MAGA.
Besides a few Congressional Reps like AOC, Crockett, and Frost, we finally have a Democratic Socialist leader who doesn’t have to get MAGA’s permission do do what needs to be done, and with the courage to actually do it.
If he succeeds, it’s proof of concept in one of the biggest cities on the world, and that terrifies both MAGAs AND Democrats.
“So Donald Trump,” he added, “since I know you’re watching — I have four words for you: Turn the volume up.”
slow claps
It’s no fluke that he got elected… that was god tier.
I don’t fully get it - are those four words particularly fitting for another reason? Or is it just a prod that the pedo shithead is old and can’t hear well?
It’s just a taunt. It’s saying I know you care and I’m not afraid to say what I want and rub it in
I also heard it as a light jab at his age
I think it’s saying he knows trump is on his ass and trying to do anything to take him down. His statement is him not backing down, especially when compared to those news corporations that folded like a pretzel and spread their cheeks like cream cheese on the aforementioned pretzel
Don’t read too much into it. Sound like he just doesn’t want trump to miss the rest of the speech.
I didn’t doubt him, but it’s very nice to see that in victory he doubled down instead of getting comfortable
It’ll be really neat watching an actual person in power instead of a soulless husk. I don’t think I’ve ever seen that
Fuck yeah bro, let’s go!
dismantling the very conditions
Materialism is so rare nowadays in the anglosphere. Bernie does it constantly and paradoxically people use that as a moral virtue, completely sidestepping the damn point. Material conditions transcend the moral.
Explain, please, for those of us who don’t study this stuff deeply enough to know what you mean by “materialism”
Since the other comment was a bit flippant and didn’t really understand or care to explain genuinely.
I believe Materialism here is being used as a subset of a broader Marxist idea of Dialectical Materialism. The whole concept is pretty dense, but the core idea, and the subset being used here, is that the conditions people live in are the larger driver of their actions. So crime does not come from an innate spiritual poison one possesses, but from conditions that inspire criminal behavior in people, such as poverty and wealth inequality.
“Material conditions” is a common leftist phrase that summarizes the ideas materialism, so speaking to ‘conditions’ as Mamdani did can be a bit of a dog whistle for leftist ideas.
In short, to quote Kamala Harris, “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree? You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you”
Let me wikipedia that for you.
Materialism is a form of philosophical monism in metaphysics, according to which matter is the fundamental substance in nature, and all things, including mental states and consciousness, are results of material interactions. According to philosophical materialism, mind and consciousness are caused by physical processes, such as the neurochemistry of the human brain and nervous system, without which they cannot exist. Materialism directly contrasts with monistic idealism, according to which consciousness is the fundamental substance of nature.
what does any of this have to do with politics?
Nothing!
It’s why you never hear about wild philosopher parties.
