You mean wreckitDon? I feel bad even typing this but I want them to pass the Big Beautiful Murder Bill . I want them to pass it because this plus what ever wreckit don and couchlover do will be the end of this era with a bang not a whimper
Yes! I agree with you. Let preface this by saying, I agree with David Hogg. When need Dem leaders who are about fighting and leading not maintaining the status quo with their AIPAC handouts!!
I don’t understand these comments - were you reading the same post I was from Mike Nellis? Inclusive, not divisive; additions, not subtractions; working for the basics that every person should have because human beings should support and want to help their fellow people. I’m Jewish, raised, no longer practicing, but I’m sick to death of being used for racist propaganda, calling people who don’t want to see innocents slaughtered while trying to get food antisemitic. Bullshit! Netanyahu is evil, and trump is too stupid to see how he is used.
There is plenty of room for DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS (would people EVER get this straight?) and centrists, and everyone else who wants to continue to see democracy be the driving force in this country.
As a Jewish American, I agree, Netanyahu is unmitigated evil, only to be in the shadows of the more evil and sinister Kachists Ben Gvir and Shmolet. Money only goes so far in winning elections. Instead of accepting donations from the dyed-in-the-wool GOP-Likud coaligned AIPAC, whose funding is sourced by means of donations from greedy billionaires and wannabe billionaire millionaires, and stupid alta kaker, and little pisher Jews who have voluntarily lost their humanity and Jewishness, Democrats should embrace J Street and Labor Zionism. Doing so would better reflect objective goodness and righteousness. As Hillel said, when confronted by a Roman legionaire at spear point and demanded he recite the whole law of Moses and Israel, "don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you. That's the entire law. All else is explanation..."
Zohran is a complete antisemite and is aligned with terrorists. I'm a longtime supporter of Democrats, but when you endorse an antisemite you lose my support and respect.
I would encourage you to watch his interview with Stephen Colbert from the other night where he addresses some of the things people are concerned about
If you want to “globalize the intifada” then the accusation stands. I saw him try to finesse it. Prepare for an exodus of people from the Democratic Party.
I have seen him choke up in interviews and that is bs. He is against Israel and, so, in my mind that equals antisemite. He will destroy New York and it’s Jewish population. Go back and listen….really listen….to his past interviews and you will hear his true colors. Disappointed in you, Mike!!!
When ppl espouse any kinda hate towards others, like Islamophobia, it's a bad look. Being against genocide doesn't make a person antisemitic. Labeling and fear mongering definitely makes you look like Islamophobe.
The only pass on this is for discrimination against Nazis of all stripes, looking at you, MAGA.
I support Israel and the right to exist. I don't support the indicted tyrant running Israel and the head of the Lukid.
I hope you start giving ppl the chance, you want extended to yourself.
The people in Gaza are not being “slaughtered”. You’re confusing the war in Gaza with the just concluded war in Syria which left over 650,000 dead and the ongoing war in Sudan with 150,000 dead and which according to several leading NGOs is currently the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Not Gaza.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian death toll from the 20-month Israel-Hamas war passed 55,000, the Gaza Health Ministry said Wednesday, and hospitals said at least 21 people were killed while on their way to aid distribution sites. Aid workers including world central kitchen have been deliberately killed . Sudan is another horrible situation. The war in Syria has been sickening and desperate for years. But that doesn’t minimize or negate the horror and desperation in Gaza. When people complain that Netanyahu should be reigned in, that we should not keep giving 10 million a day to Israel while they block aid from getting through, it doesn’t mean they are antisemitic or against the state of Israel.
I’ve been a straight ticket Democratic voter my entire adult life. I’ve donated tens of thousands of dollars to the Democratic Party. I think the current government is horrible. If Mamdani is the new face of the Democratic Party I’m out.
If he wins the general, he will be *a* face of the Democratic Party. I encourage you to keep staying engaged and support the candidates you believe in. Big tent.
The whole point is that the only way the Democratic party can succeed is by embracing the diversity—ideological as well as ethnic—that has always been its strength. This isn’t about everyone being “democratic socialist,” it’s about strong, appealing candidates who are willing to go out and meet people where they are.
I agree with you on this. Funny you should mention Joe Walsh - who I actually know. He was my son's Little League coach almost 30 years ago (geez). He was a major league asshole for many years, but now has changed his ways, apparently, so good on him. Yes, our coalition needs folks like him.
However I'm beginning to get a bit tired of some of his never-Trumper friends who think it's their job to boost centrist Dems and prove their GOP colors in denouncing "socialists", even as they may have supported Mamdani against Cuomo.
And I'm tired of hearing about "defund the police" five years after two or three Dems ran on that platform (which was a mistake) as being a question he "has to answer". Bullshit! Trump has to answer for nothing.
If asked about this, Mamdami should reply "Why are you asking me this? It's not my platform."
And if they persist, wanting to bring up his earlier support for the idea, his reply must be "I changed my mind. Next?"
Um, law enforcement is an issue but I don't expect white men in particular to understand the issue. After the Trump regime and pass to LE, we are going to be having quite a few issues but again white men seem to have hard time understanding those issues. Or the fact, throughout the SE and as far North as NY, there have been lynchings...but LE's open/shut case of suicide.
Mike, I'm sorry, but your justification for supporting Zohran stinks of the same wretched smell associated with "good Republicans" that united behind Trump after it became obvious that there was no alternative in the GOP. Supporting a candidate and their mission simply because it's the only option that has momentum is NOT morally, ethically or strategically right. Nor is courageous or defensible. We need good Democratic candidates. I will NOT allow myself to be associated with radical socialist ideologues simply for "partisan" ends, especially since I despise never-Trumpers who now support MAGA because it's their party. Patriotism OVER Partisanship. Always and Forever. Shame on you.
Did your grandparents vote for FDR and other New Dealers? Did you approve of FDR and the New Deal? If so, Zohran's politics and agenda is no different than those of New Deal Democrats. The New Deal saved the United States from going fascist in the 1930s. Social Democrats have their hands on the pulse of real Americans and their needs. They will save the nation from Trump's fascism.
He is trying to win an election and will now say what he needs to in order to do so. However, he has said enough of the wrong things time and time again to show his true colors on this issue. My grandparents were Holocaust survivors and it is terrifying that Americans would support this man.
As a child of Holocaust survivors, what's your take on the strategy and tactics of Trump's ICE? What's your take on the absolute destruction of Gaza and the planned starvation of its entire population? Have you no tolerance for people who rightly criticize the behaviors of the Netanyahu government? Are you okay with West Bank settlers occupying illegal settlements and terrorizing Palestinian farmers on the farmers' own land? And, besides all this, every Israeli government since 1947 has accepted UN Resolutions 181, and since 1967, 242. Even Netanyahu's previous governments accepted these resolutions... until now, when Bibi is looking at serious prison time for corruption in office. And it was Netanyahu who conflated criticism of the State of Israel's behavior with antisemitism, and now his petty political act is coming back to bite Israel and world Jewry on tje tuchus, because of the very un-Jewish behaviors of his government and the people who make up his government, like the Kachists Ben Gvir and Shmolet... May they all suffer the fate of Abraham Stern... who was not taken out by the British.. he was offed by Haganah..
Here’s the deal: big D Democrats need to be small d democrats as well. Loudly. And all the time.
I agree with you right now its about if we become like Russia or we become like india
Yep, we cannot let Trump descend us into further into madness.
You mean wreckitDon? I feel bad even typing this but I want them to pass the Big Beautiful Murder Bill . I want them to pass it because this plus what ever wreckit don and couchlover do will be the end of this era with a bang not a whimper
And what if it doesn’t. This rhetoric of collapse is self sabotage.
More than that, it's who can take a punch and continue to function on a mature level.
Take a punch and keep doing the work too, not melt away
Yes! I agree with you. Let preface this by saying, I agree with David Hogg. When need Dem leaders who are about fighting and leading not maintaining the status quo with their AIPAC handouts!!
I don’t understand these comments - were you reading the same post I was from Mike Nellis? Inclusive, not divisive; additions, not subtractions; working for the basics that every person should have because human beings should support and want to help their fellow people. I’m Jewish, raised, no longer practicing, but I’m sick to death of being used for racist propaganda, calling people who don’t want to see innocents slaughtered while trying to get food antisemitic. Bullshit! Netanyahu is evil, and trump is too stupid to see how he is used.
There is plenty of room for DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS (would people EVER get this straight?) and centrists, and everyone else who wants to continue to see democracy be the driving force in this country.
I think some people only read the headline lol
As a Jewish American, I agree, Netanyahu is unmitigated evil, only to be in the shadows of the more evil and sinister Kachists Ben Gvir and Shmolet. Money only goes so far in winning elections. Instead of accepting donations from the dyed-in-the-wool GOP-Likud coaligned AIPAC, whose funding is sourced by means of donations from greedy billionaires and wannabe billionaire millionaires, and stupid alta kaker, and little pisher Jews who have voluntarily lost their humanity and Jewishness, Democrats should embrace J Street and Labor Zionism. Doing so would better reflect objective goodness and righteousness. As Hillel said, when confronted by a Roman legionaire at spear point and demanded he recite the whole law of Moses and Israel, "don't do to others what you don't want others to do to you. That's the entire law. All else is explanation..."
Well if he wants to win he needs to show up in the areas he was weakest at ….
I agree with that
Excellent column providing much food for thought. Thank you!
Thanks Deb
Spot on! People need to feel seen and be validated. Forget consultants - go to the people
Not all consultants :)
I could hold space for this approach. Thank you.
Zohran is a complete antisemite and is aligned with terrorists. I'm a longtime supporter of Democrats, but when you endorse an antisemite you lose my support and respect.
I would encourage you to watch his interview with Stephen Colbert from the other night where he addresses some of the things people are concerned about
If you want to “globalize the intifada” then the accusation stands. I saw him try to finesse it. Prepare for an exodus of people from the Democratic Party.
I have seen him choke up in interviews and that is bs. He is against Israel and, so, in my mind that equals antisemite. He will destroy New York and it’s Jewish population. Go back and listen….really listen….to his past interviews and you will hear his true colors. Disappointed in you, Mike!!!
How do you explain the fact that Brad Lander endorsed him? I know many Jews including myself who don't feel as threatened as you do.
When ppl espouse any kinda hate towards others, like Islamophobia, it's a bad look. Being against genocide doesn't make a person antisemitic. Labeling and fear mongering definitely makes you look like Islamophobe.
The only pass on this is for discrimination against Nazis of all stripes, looking at you, MAGA.
I support Israel and the right to exist. I don't support the indicted tyrant running Israel and the head of the Lukid.
I hope you start giving ppl the chance, you want extended to yourself.
You ok!?
I am okay! Thank you
Once again, being opposed to the starvation and slaughter of people in Gaza doesn’t make someone antisemitic.(meant to reply to ktoranto
The people in Gaza are not being “slaughtered”. You’re confusing the war in Gaza with the just concluded war in Syria which left over 650,000 dead and the ongoing war in Sudan with 150,000 dead and which according to several leading NGOs is currently the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Not Gaza.
DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Palestinian death toll from the 20-month Israel-Hamas war passed 55,000, the Gaza Health Ministry said Wednesday, and hospitals said at least 21 people were killed while on their way to aid distribution sites. Aid workers including world central kitchen have been deliberately killed . Sudan is another horrible situation. The war in Syria has been sickening and desperate for years. But that doesn’t minimize or negate the horror and desperation in Gaza. When people complain that Netanyahu should be reigned in, that we should not keep giving 10 million a day to Israel while they block aid from getting through, it doesn’t mean they are antisemitic or against the state of Israel.
https://www.who.int/news/item/12-05-2025-people-in-gaza-starving--sick-and-dying-as-aid-blockade-continues
I’ve been a straight ticket Democratic voter my entire adult life. I’ve donated tens of thousands of dollars to the Democratic Party. I think the current government is horrible. If Mamdani is the new face of the Democratic Party I’m out.
If he wins the general, he will be *a* face of the Democratic Party. I encourage you to keep staying engaged and support the candidates you believe in. Big tent.
The whole point is that the only way the Democratic party can succeed is by embracing the diversity—ideological as well as ethnic—that has always been its strength. This isn’t about everyone being “democratic socialist,” it’s about strong, appealing candidates who are willing to go out and meet people where they are.
I agree with you on this. Funny you should mention Joe Walsh - who I actually know. He was my son's Little League coach almost 30 years ago (geez). He was a major league asshole for many years, but now has changed his ways, apparently, so good on him. Yes, our coalition needs folks like him.
However I'm beginning to get a bit tired of some of his never-Trumper friends who think it's their job to boost centrist Dems and prove their GOP colors in denouncing "socialists", even as they may have supported Mamdani against Cuomo.
And I'm tired of hearing about "defund the police" five years after two or three Dems ran on that platform (which was a mistake) as being a question he "has to answer". Bullshit! Trump has to answer for nothing.
If asked about this, Mamdami should reply "Why are you asking me this? It's not my platform."
And if they persist, wanting to bring up his earlier support for the idea, his reply must be "I changed my mind. Next?"
Um, law enforcement is an issue but I don't expect white men in particular to understand the issue. After the Trump regime and pass to LE, we are going to be having quite a few issues but again white men seem to have hard time understanding those issues. Or the fact, throughout the SE and as far North as NY, there have been lynchings...but LE's open/shut case of suicide.
Mike, I'm sorry, but your justification for supporting Zohran stinks of the same wretched smell associated with "good Republicans" that united behind Trump after it became obvious that there was no alternative in the GOP. Supporting a candidate and their mission simply because it's the only option that has momentum is NOT morally, ethically or strategically right. Nor is courageous or defensible. We need good Democratic candidates. I will NOT allow myself to be associated with radical socialist ideologues simply for "partisan" ends, especially since I despise never-Trumpers who now support MAGA because it's their party. Patriotism OVER Partisanship. Always and Forever. Shame on you.
Did your grandparents vote for FDR and other New Dealers? Did you approve of FDR and the New Deal? If so, Zohran's politics and agenda is no different than those of New Deal Democrats. The New Deal saved the United States from going fascist in the 1930s. Social Democrats have their hands on the pulse of real Americans and their needs. They will save the nation from Trump's fascism.
Totally out of touch with the country outside of the bubble of NYC. This is why we keep losing.
He is trying to win an election and will now say what he needs to in order to do so. However, he has said enough of the wrong things time and time again to show his true colors on this issue. My grandparents were Holocaust survivors and it is terrifying that Americans would support this man.
I, totally, agree with you!
As a child of Holocaust survivors, what's your take on the strategy and tactics of Trump's ICE? What's your take on the absolute destruction of Gaza and the planned starvation of its entire population? Have you no tolerance for people who rightly criticize the behaviors of the Netanyahu government? Are you okay with West Bank settlers occupying illegal settlements and terrorizing Palestinian farmers on the farmers' own land? And, besides all this, every Israeli government since 1947 has accepted UN Resolutions 181, and since 1967, 242. Even Netanyahu's previous governments accepted these resolutions... until now, when Bibi is looking at serious prison time for corruption in office. And it was Netanyahu who conflated criticism of the State of Israel's behavior with antisemitism, and now his petty political act is coming back to bite Israel and world Jewry on tje tuchus, because of the very un-Jewish behaviors of his government and the people who make up his government, like the Kachists Ben Gvir and Shmolet... May they all suffer the fate of Abraham Stern... who was not taken out by the British.. he was offed by Haganah..
What, specifically, are you talking about?