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.”
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.
“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.
“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
Don’t read too much into it. Sound like he just doesn’t want trump to miss the rest of the speech.
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
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.
