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Ten bucks says the moment the election is over, Cuomo flips Republican.
He's already asked Trump to help him win.
And Elon Musk endorses him too!
hes been asking sex pests to help him win as a sex pests.
He is a DINO
They're all DINOs, or at least enough of them that Democrats seem to never be able to get anything done.
there was a debate I was watching the other night where it was one panelist betting beat up by the others who were basically defending Sinema and Manchen as "well at least a democrat" held the seats.
Like.. who cares if it's D in the seat if they always vote Republican?
it's kike they just don't give a shit about policies or have no conception beyond D versus R.
Donors, mostly. You can raise a lot more money on the back of a Senate Majority. Sinema and Manchin, in particular, become focal points for bribery and political money laundering, because they're the gatekeepers of Senate legislation.
If Republicans hold these seats, Schumer can't extort Wall Street or Silicon Valley for another bag of crypto tokens to spread around to his minions into the next election cycle. All the money just lands in the wallets of Thune and Johnson, because... why bother bribing a party that has no power?
The value of policy is as a leverage point for raising money and paying off your friends. You put the GND on the table in order to get Exxon to pay you to take it off. You put Public Option on the table so Aetna and United Healthcare pay you to kill it. You put DC Statehood on the table as a bargaining chip to remove again, for a price.
This is the modern state of American Democracy. Everything is for sale. The big difference between the Bush/Obama/Biden Era and Trump Era is that Trump wants to get a taste of everything. So he's more nakedly corrupt and transparently greedy than his predecessors.
And that's what Dems are sold on voting against. Not an end to corruption, but an end to making it so fucking obvious.
If they're all DINOs, then does the term "DINO" even have meaning?
It becomes a TINO 😉
Republicans need Cuomo where he is, because they want a guy who can say "I'm a lifelong Democrat and I hate all the voters in the Democratic Party". Guys like the Cuomo Brothers and Eric Adams make for excellent Kapos by screaming "Save us from ourselves!" with a megaphone provided by Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.
Meanwhile, as Sliwa himself as demonstrated, there's really no stomach for a turncoat Democrats in the Republican Party. This is one big difference between the two parties. Democrats down in Florida will happily nominate a former Republican to run statewide, because all they care about is "winning" in the abstract. Republicans enjoy having Cuomo kowtow to their leader while wearing Dem swag, but would never trust this guy anywhere near a position of authority.
Tracks for an SAer