Month: November 2025

Mamdanimania

Lots of excitement in the US today, particularly for Zohran Mamdani. There was a bunch of election stuff the Democrats were successful at, but Mamdani’s victory as NYC mayor over Andrew Cuomo was the biggest one… as an avowed outright socialist and Muslim born in Uganda to Indian parents, he had a lot going against him, like Fox News, the GOP, elements of his own party (even if he did win the Democrat primary over Cuomo, as long as Chuck Schumer’s running that show the party will never be as brave as it needs to be against TrumpCorp), etc, and he still beat Cuomo. Which I think had to happen; Cuomo had made too much of a cunt of himself in the last days of the campaign (things like the overtly racist AI ad), plus he comes trailing multiple accusations ofand if Zohran had lost then right-wing American media would’ve had a collective breakdown. They really needed him to win so they would have something to screech about.

I just hope he pulls it off. I know he’s now the Republicans’ chief target (Mushroom Cock had already threatened to cut federal funding to New York even before the election, obviously), so they’ll do everything in their power and probably several things they can’t legally do (cos illegality has proven no barrier to them) to get in his way. But I’m equally worried that the Democrats will fuck things up for him too; like I said, he might’ve won the election primary cos Cuomo was too obviously compromised, but Democrat leadership has been a lot less resistant than I suspect most people would like them to be. I fear they’re not going to be much to him, and they’ll try and make him more useful to them…

Still—nice to see Democrats actually achieving something, especially on the same day that Dick Cheney checked out, even if it was maybe more of a reaction against the GOP than for the Democrats as such. I just hope people aren’t down now; there’s a lot of people online rejoicing as if it were Obama ’08 all over again, and I understand that happiness, but, well, all of these victories have been at a much lower level, and at the federal level Krasnov’s still running the show, or at least pretending to, so I’m hesitant to get too excited. But we have to take what we can get when we can, don’t we…

Nothing of value, etc.

Dick Cheney’s dead.

Dick Cheney, the hard-charging conservative who became one of the most powerful and polarizing vice presidents in U.S. history and a leading advocate for the invasion of Iraq, has died at age 84.
Cheney died Monday night due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease, according to a statement from his family. […]
Cheney was, in effect, the chief operating officer of the younger Bush’s presidency. He had a hand, often a commanding one, in implementing decisions most important to the president and some of surpassing interest to himself — all while living with decades of heart disease and, post-administration, a heart transplant. Cheney consistently defended the extraordinary tools of surveillance, detention and inquisition employed in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Years after leaving office, he became a target of President Donald Trump, especially after daughter Liz Cheney became the leading Republican critic and examiner of Trump’s desperate attempts to stay in power after his election defeat and his actions in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who was a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,” Cheney said in a television ad for his daughter. “He tried to steal the last election using lies and violence to keep himself in power after the voters had rejected him. He is a coward.”
In a twist the Democrats of his era could never have imagined, Dick Cheney said last year he was voting for their candidate, Kamala Harris, for president against Trump.

How nice of him. Given his part in steering the Republicans into the increasingly far-right morass it’s been in ever since Obama displaced Dubya, though, I’m disinclined to give him too much credit for finally seeing the light. Him and Rummy were the real power behind Bush the Younger, and though the latter must take ultimate responsibility for his catastrophe of a presidency, Dick & Don deserve as much blame. No mourning here.

Catbert plays the world’s tiniest violin

Oh Scott, you really ARE declining fast if you think Mushroom Cock either knows or cares who you are or that he will do anything for you. What’s in it for him to do that? And who the fuck are YOU that you think you deserve direct help from Krasnov (assuming he could give it anyway)? I’m sure you’re hardly the only person Kaiser are screwing over at the moment, you don’t have any more right to live than those people…