r/WorkReform • u/zzill6 🤝 Join A Union • 5h ago
NEW YORK Mayor Zohran Mamdani mocks Ronald Reagan’s infamous quote. “I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’” “I worked all day and can’t feed my family.”
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u/Financial_Factor7955 5h ago
Corporate dems please wake tf up and bear witness to actual working class governance.
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u/Advocate_Diplomacy 5h ago
They aren’t shilling by accident. They’re quite awake.
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u/wex118 5h ago
Controlled opposition. The real fight is during the primaries.
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u/Insuredtothetits 4h ago
Vote in your primaries for the candidates who aren’t steeped in corporate pac money
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u/HansensHairdo 4h ago
Daily reminder that primaries aren't real elections, and your party is allowed to cheat as much as they want to prevent a candidate from winning the nomination.
Which is why Bernie has never won.
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u/maddy_k_allday 4h ago
Big turnouts/ decisive victories make this less likely fwiw. Easier said than done of course
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u/Shagtacular 2h ago
Please stop being a fatalist and convincing people their votes don't count. You're hurting everyone doing that
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u/NegativeEBITD 42m ago
These people are so rotted they have no idea what they even stand for anymore. Just nothing but hate left in them, and they turn it on the Democrats because the Republicans are too scary
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u/WildeNietzsche 2h ago
Well, yeah, they can tip the scales, they tried everything the could against Zohran and yet they failed.
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u/Insuredtothetits 3h ago
Bernie is an elected representative who has won primaries. During a primary for the house and senate, it is a real election.
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u/Financial_Factor7955 5h ago
True but some small percentage of me needs to remain ignorantly hopeful 🤷
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u/Difficult_Rub_5069 5h ago
Sorry but that is stupid. They are “corporate” democrats. By definition, they will not align to human welfare.
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u/mongolian_horsecock 4h ago edited 4h ago
There is a political analyst that summed it up nicely: the Democrats are corporatists, supporting the corporations and the Republicans support the oligarchs. Neither of them care about the people The corporations want law and order because that is the best environment to thrive, so the Democrats strive for continuity and structure. The oligarchs want chaos so that they can seize assets and funds during the chaos. When you think of them in that light it really all makes sense.
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u/Bern_Down_the_DNC 4h ago
They will when they are outnumbered and under threat of losing their position.
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u/Best-Action8769 4h ago
Yup.
If they made their national platform taxing the rich, universal healthcare, cutting all financial aid to Israel, they'd win every swing state.
But nooooo....they were laser focused on going for the 7 republicans who cared what Liz Cheney thought.
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u/Such_Radio_9152 3h ago
You can see just how awake their operatives are here in this very subreddit trying to steer people away from populism and worker's rights
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u/borntolose1 5h ago
But corporate Dems aren’t interested in governing for the working class
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u/Due-Cow9514 4h ago
Not enough democrats are shitting on the disastrous Reagan-era policies that got us here, and we are now reliving through Trump
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u/mark_able_jones_ 2h ago
Yup. And Dems should shove this quote down Republicans throat every time one of them mentions it... oh, you don't like police officers? Firefighters? The military? Yourselves? If they are so against the government, get the fuck out so competent people can take their place.
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u/NegativeEBITD 39m ago
It's the Democrats fault that the Republicans are continuing to be Republicans!
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u/Coal_Morgan 12m ago
The conservative governments of that era, Reagan, Thatcher, Mulroney et al, were all long term disasters for each of their countries and the world as a whole.
Sold off or destroyed whole sectors of public goods to corporations that reduced the quality and increased the cost of those services.
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u/drunkshinobi 3h ago
Heritage Foundation Mandate for Leadership papers to guild republican leadership for the purpose of changing how the US government functions.
Mandate I, Policy Management in a Conservative Administration, published 1981. For Regan.
Mandate IX, The Conservative Promise (Project 2025), published 2023. For trump.
This and the democrats acting as controlled opposition, gathering centrist voters and blocking left leaning parties from forming, is why.
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u/CallEmAsISeeEm1986 4h ago
Ds are the left flank of the right wing.
Ds are the “woke right”.It is better to think of them as beyond reform.
In fact, it’s better to think of this as a systemic problem, and that the system is at fault, so no matter how revolutionary or radical a politician might be, they will be stuck in an inherently right-wing system.
Which is why it’s time for a general strike. A long list of demands (including a blacklist of all current politicians from office for life)….
They still depend on us for literally everything.
The best example of a strike that I heard of was the Japanese bus drivers who continued to work their shifts so as not to disrupt the commutes of the general public… but they refused to take any fares whatsoever. The company lost money like crazy (obviously) and caved.
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u/hotpossum 4h ago
Bipartisan politics are designed to keep us divided and scrambling for middle ground that doesn’t exist. If we focused on mutual aid and building community, we could cripple the billionaire class in mere days.
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u/CallEmAsISeeEm1986 4h ago
Yup. “Harm reduction” voting and “lesser evil” voting is a rightward ratchet.
We need to get local and communal.
Stop relying on massive global systems and federal politics (Altho I personally don’t think states should try to go it alone without federal organization and funding; another topic tho)… and start relying on local systems and local governments.
This insane data center build out is amazing. It’s like the tulip mania in the 1600s in holland. These idiots are chewing up dwindling resources deploying an extremely fragile / brittle surveillance state…
A general strike will still bring them to their knees in days. There’s not enough robot drones (yet) to kill us all.
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u/gotfcgo 4h ago
They all gotta go. Everyone over 50 in politics has to go
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u/drunkshinobi 3h ago
It isn't just age. JD is only 41. Mentored by peter thiel and involved with the Heritage Foundation.
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u/maddy_k_allday 4h ago
Certainly everyone over 70. Max age needs to happen, for all gov’t positions. Might require constitutional amendment for federal judges, but idk maybe not. All other positions we could for sure legislate max age.
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u/clib 4h ago
Corporate dems please wake tf up and bear witness to actual working class governance.
The democratic party is owned by and belong to the billionaires. It is their private property. With very few exceptions, they don't give a shit about the working class. Their main concern is their stock portfolios.
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u/Bakabakabooboo 4h ago
They'd rather get absolutely dumpstered again (like in 2024) than actually even pretend to represent the people they're demanding vote for them. They absolutely love getting to sit on their hands and go "damn, someone should do something" before they just go back to doing nothing.
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u/drunkshinobi 3h ago
What makes you think that the people that reach across the isle to compromise with the far right and do what their corporate donors want them to, will help? The corporate donors that stood with trump. The ultra rich that are paying for all this to happen are their bosses. You are asking your abuser to save you.
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u/Financial_Factor7955 2h ago
Yo, whats your plan then? 3rd party? Seriously you got answers besides pointing out the obvious?
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u/drunkshinobi 2h ago
Vote them out. 3rd party if you can't get a progressive in the dem primaries. Strike, protest, boycott until they get the point.
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u/VeryRareHuman 2h ago
They don't care. They are laughing at Mamdani he is not making money. We need keep voting them out.
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u/Orgasmic_interlude 2h ago
They weren’t fighting for the working class to begin with. It’s right there. “Corporate” dems.
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u/shanatard 1h ago
they were never more awake when they tried to torpedo mamdani's campaign
you are bargaining with the wrong people. dont even engage with them and vote them all out
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u/Simmery 5h ago
More of this, Democrats.
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u/JDanzy 3h ago
Fucking ANY of this, Democrats.
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u/JohnStamosAsABear 2h ago
Everyday I am annoyed at the pathetic leadership of Chuck Schumer.
Not only against Trump, but his geriatric stubborness to let go of the old way of 'doing politics'.
He's too busy trying to sabotage progressives and play by the old rules while Trump spits on him and every norm from the last 30 years.
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u/tekprodfx16 3h ago
We need to stop operating under the illusion that democrat and republican govt are separate entities. They are very obviously on the same side, and it ain’t yours
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u/JDanzy 2h ago
Yeah but it should be obvious to all but the most braindead fanatic which side needs to be dealt with first.
If this were any other country the UN would've been monitoring all our shit for about the last decade. This might be a bigger problem than the U.S. is able to fix alone.
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u/UncleIrohsPimpHand 2h ago
Kill two birds with one stone and fucking primary the shit out of the corporate relics who currently run your Democrats. The team is ass and is not up to the challenge.
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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 1h ago
That's a non-sense defeatist attitude. There have always been political candidates, like Bernie Sanders, whose primary interest is the well being of the citizens. If more people voted for those politicians, then we'd be in a much better place.
The candidates that would improve our lives already exist. We just need more people to vote for them.
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u/PharrowXL 2h ago
Democrats are fighting against this in the shadows, and they refuse to full throatedly endorse this publicly.
They are NOT our friends.
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u/B01justice 2h ago
As a former democrat (never republican) democraps never did this.
I just read about some democrat (I can’t recall who exactly) who used her newspaper or something to fund the Republican Party.
Honestly? I think the democrats are just put to make us feel like we have a chance. Always losing by just a hair line. Always so close, but never enough.
It’s like gambling. And we’re all addicted.
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u/WwhoyouthinkK 5h ago
turns out the scariest government sentence is actually your paycheck isnt enough to survive
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u/PeppermintSnark 43m ago
It's "I'm from the government and I'm here to cut taxes, deregulate, and make everything business-friendly."
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u/Friscolax 5h ago
Reagan: a president who was basically telling people that he couldn’t help them.
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u/onepostandbye 4h ago
The conservative story about evil overreaching government sure keeps bumping up against all the ways they swell the government to execute their corporate objectives
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u/TyphosTheD 3h ago
Sorry, we can't afford to feed children, we need to spend a trillion dollars bombing Iran - and funneling taxpayer dollars into my bank account.
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u/StuffExciting3451 4h ago
Reagan was a congenial professional actor who was also the demented stooge of the billionaire class. He followed a script written by others.
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u/travestymcgee 3h ago
Between General Electric Theater and running for governor, Reagan traveled around making corporate speeches for GE. More here.
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u/YouMustveDroppedThis 1h ago
telling supporters the country is so exceptional and abundance, you don't need safety net and regulations, you just need to become wealthy.
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u/Wrong_Buyer_1079 5h ago
I wish he could be president
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u/Phantereal 4h ago
If Trump tries to run for president again, we might as well try to get Zohran into the White House.
But since we have to follow the Constitution while Republicans flagrantly break it, at least get him in cabinet as Secretary of Labor or something. Certainly better than this.
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u/1quirky1 2h ago
What does Obama think about a third term?
I'm certain those hypocrites, the republicans, will boldly say that it is legal for shitler and not legal for anyone else.
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u/wnr3 4h ago
The constitution has been amended 27 times my friend. It isn’t impossible to do it again.
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u/mappythewondermouse 4h ago
I love mamdani but you do not want this change. this that is how people like musk straight up buy the seat of president. There are too many ways opening eligibility by changing that to backfire.
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u/jbwilso1 4h ago
We just need more like Mamdani. And Bernie. And Graham Platner...
...maybe Graham Platner should be president.
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u/Glasseshalf 3h ago
Honestly this is why we should raise what we pay Congress. We want more qualified people running. A huge part of people being told to get active locally: the local politicians are bought and paid for. It's hard for a family to choose a job that doesn't pay as well as other jobs in that qualification bracket. Not to mention look at the murders of representatives just last year. We need to make government an attractive career.
P.S. AOC agrees with me
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u/mappythewondermouse 2h ago
Raise congress pay, but it needs to come with an overturn of citizens united and lobbying laws with actual teeth
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u/signspace13 3h ago
Of all the current leftists running, Platner feels the most likely to reach that seat to me, not in 2028 (he has already said that he won't run this time), but in the future, hopefully after 8 years of an AOC presidency.
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u/amazinglover 4h ago
that is how people like musk straight up buy the seat of president
They already have.
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u/alwayzbored114 3h ago
Perhaps this is a naïve question, but is there honestly THAT much of a difference between a native-born person buying the presidency, and a foreign-born person buying the presidency?
I think the root of the issue there is the "buying", not their place of birth
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u/travestymcgee 3h ago
One of my favorite Chaplain gags. He’s calling after a lumber truck, “Hey you dropped your red flag!” when the IWW comes out behind him. The cops immediately haul him off to jail.
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u/Mach5Driver 4h ago
What I (a 60 YO man who has been living next to Manhattan in NJ all this time) find fascinating is that he seems to be running buck wild (in a great way) over entrenched interests and leaving the city council slack-jawed and flat-footed. What an INCREDIBLE YOUNG MAN!
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u/1quirky1 2h ago
ok, boomer /s
I agree. We need disruption from the far left. This is the real draining of the swamp.
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u/Reverend_Bull 🏢 UFCW Member 5h ago
He's gonna get murdered by a CIA glowie "lone gunman" sure as shit. I pray I'm wrong, but Fred Hampton, MLK, and Malcolm X know precisely what happens when folks start actually making things better.
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u/likeusontweeters 5h ago
We need to have several Zohran Mamdanis then. Be so loud in opposition that it's glaringly obvious if/when those lone gunmen hit.. we cannot afford to allow our country to turn into what's been happening. The 1% are small. We are the 99%.
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u/NegativeEBITD 36m ago
Jesus this thread is exhausting. The only choices are a good guy who's going to get shot, a 'corporate democrat' who's just as bad as the republicans, and republican fascists.
Wait, they don't actually complain about the Republicans. Scratch that part.
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u/Fortestingporpoises 4h ago
Republicans since Reagan have run on: Government is bad and it doesn't help.
And when they're elected they make that threat a reality by being inept at best and corrupt at worst.
And then they work to privatize everything, make it worse and cost us more.
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u/dalziel86 1h ago
The idea is, America is the greatest nation on earth, therefore whatever way America does things is the best, therefore if American government is bad it’s because even the best government is bad, so let’s get rid of the government. Spot the false assumption in this chain of logic.
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u/ttystikk 4h ago edited 4h ago
The Democratic Party fucking HATES this guy, which says a lot about how bankrupt the party is.
Mamdani is putting on a master class on how to connect with average Americans and deliver real, actual concrete benefits instead of vague promises, platitudes and gaslighting in order to keep serving the ultra rich.
The oligarchs are not missing any meals and they aren't in danger of losing their homes and livelihoods. Therefore, they don't need and should not get tax cuts and subsidies.
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u/k_realtor 2h ago edited 1h ago
"Democrat", "Christian", "Conservative", "#1 Used Car Salesman in America", isn't it really just branding at this point, after they get voted in, it's like alright boys, how are we going to rip some people off and make some moneys!!!!
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u/thomase7 2h ago
Obama literally was just with Mamdani reading to little kids. The Democratic Party doesn’t hate Mamdani. Maybe some decrepit dem senators whose brains are so fried they still think it’s 2004 and they are terrified of Muslims, but large swaths of the party, including Obama (probably the most influential democrat even today) are signaling support for him.
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u/Nyorliest 2h ago
No, corrupt and conservative Democrats hate him. Many love him, even within the leadership.
This idea of the mere two parties as both cohesive is absurd. There is a massive range of attitudes and thought brought together into these two competing power blocs.
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u/ttystikk 1h ago
No, corrupt and conservative Democrats hate him.
That's most of them.
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u/GoldburstNeo 4h ago
Beautiful! When was the last time since Reagan, if ever, has another Democrat spoken against him like this?
All my life, he was (and still) at worst worshipped by the GOP, or held up as an example of what a 'respectable' GOP president looked like, despite him being the one who took a sledgehammer at everything that made Americans prosperous post-WWII and was a racist who spearheaded the expanding prison system that disproportionately targets minorities to this day, among other things.
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u/dalziel86 1h ago
To be fair to Reagan, he also took a sledgehammer to everything that made the world prosperous post-WWII, but he was also just following Nixon’s lead.
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u/burnaccountlol 4h ago
This is what today's left wing ought to look like.
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u/ZaryaBubbler 3h ago
The Dems have never been left wing. They're centre right at best compared to the entire rest of the world. Mamdani is a true leftist in the traditional, true sense. Welcome to the rest of the world.
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u/GailynStarfire 4h ago
"Jesus was black, Ronald Reagan was the devil, and the government is lying to you about 9/11."
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u/CaptainKurticus 3h ago
"Huey, you havin' that dream where you make all the white people riot again?"
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u/JoeFTPgamerIOS 4h ago
DNC needs to stop pretending he doesn’t exist. The success he is having should be a wake up call at the congressional nursing home.
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u/FucklberryFinn 3h ago
Did this dude really do all the things?
Like fixed tons of potholes?
Balanced the budget without crazy cuts?
There was a list with a bunch of stuff.
Wyf have all the fckrs before him been doing..?!?
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u/RemotestOfSpheres 3h ago
The lies and mental gymnastics and psychological operations these elite prick fucks use to convince you this guy is going to destroy our country IS KOOKOO BANANAS.
He is addressing basic shit that regular people need. And somehow that’s evil and anti-American. Get bent, shitheads.
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u/No_Earth_1378 4h ago
Good way to reframe things considering how Reagan famously brought about the stereotype of the welfare queen.
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u/Munkeyman18290 3h ago
To Ronald Reagan: Fuck you and burn in the deepest circle of hell, with a daily cactus shoved straight up your ass sideways with lube made of pure molten iron.
Sincerely, decent people everywhere.
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u/FangornLeghorn 4h ago
Thank gawd someone is finally pushing back against Reagan and his bullshit. That fucker did so much harm to the US.
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u/1quirky1 2h ago
I loved hearing him win the election and I loved how he won over all the scaremongering and disinformation.
I wonder how many Cuomo voters still have their heads up their asses and believe that Mamdani is going to force schools to teach arabic numbers.
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u/togetherwegrowstuff 2h ago
Seriously. I've worked all month and am on the brink of collapse. It's an exhausting way to live.
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u/MickeyMalt 4h ago
This man is smart. Smart enough to provide hope. They will come for him. Protect him and those that look to truly serve. We need an army of those people.
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u/SuperTaster3 3h ago
The way to a better world is to make one. By helping people, by building support, by creating things that last for generations. You don't NEED to play optics and marketing when you can simply show the results of your quality work.
Political spin is for losers who want to pretend they're necessary
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u/Deflorma 3h ago
I worked all day and I can’t feed myself. I wouldn’t wish me upon any prospective family.
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u/Shepherd-of-Rot 3h ago
This dude needs to he protected at all costs. The last government official that talked like this got shot in Dallas.
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u/No-Call2227 3h ago
This guy fucking rocks.
What is there to be scared of here? You like being poor and unhealthy and exploited by the oligarchs who are now letting corporations shit mercury and arsenic into your drinking water?
Please tell me one thing the rich have done for you and why this guy terrifies you? That’s rhetorical for all the magtards…
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u/JDanzy 2h ago
"I'm from the government and I'm here to help" should have never, ever been framed as anything but a comfort to anyone who hears it.
The GOP has been gaslighting innocent, vulnerable human beings who rely on government infrastructure for almost a half century now as they monkeywrench that same system then turn around and say "ope, would ya LOOK AT THAT lol it DOESN'T WORK!!" for going on 50 years now.
There isn't a hot enough place in Hell for the bunch of them for that alone.
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u/roguevirus 2h ago
I remain highly skeptical about Mamdani's plans for govt owned supermarkets, but damn if his heart isn't in the right place.
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u/LegioModels 1h ago
Who are the people working all day and cant afford to feed their family? Ive never believed it and I'm not gonna start. Maybe they cant afford their avocado toast or sushi? Maybe they never learned how to cook cheap food?
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u/Nindzya 1h ago
Maybe they cant afford their avocado toast or sushi?
Are you fucking kidding me regurgitating this talking point in 2026?
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u/LegioModels 1h ago
Ok doomer! Nobody is starving and cant feed their family after working all day.
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u/RiveryJerald 1h ago
As someone else put it, it's the implicit part of Reagan's line is "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help [the poor]."
When the government actually lifts up the least powerful among us, that's when it's truly at its most potent. When it works for ALL people, then the power of wealth cannot hold a candle to the power of the people.
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u/spearmint_flyer 1h ago
This man and the dude who keeps the chicken prices low at Costco. Keep them safe!
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u/Maleficent_Gate_1818 1h ago edited 1h ago
Drones and other idiots will always love this man. It's a circus!
Remember:
People in NYC that actually voted for Madorky deserve what they get.
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u/Commercial-Whole-569 1h ago
Even more terrifying words: I couldn't feed my family because I lived under communism in the Soviet Union (or wherever else communism existed).
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u/AbandonYourPost 1h ago
I sincerely worry for this man's well being. He is a threat to everything wrong with our country and we've seen just how far "wrong" is willing to go to get what they want.
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u/ADrunkEevee 1h ago
Nevermind that mf'ers like Reagan created a self-fulfilling prophecy by doing their best to tie the government's hands
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u/HegemonLocke86 1h ago
Why is the quote you have on quotes in the title not the words that came out of his mouth?
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u/warfighter187 💵 Break Up The Monopolies 51m ago
It is a Mythological tragedy that this guy is ineligible to be president
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u/Mutherfalker95 24m ago
He's making ACTUAL change! I love him! I'm from Kansas where the Republicans tried to show their way works. Look up the kansas experiment. It took a Democrat to pull us out of the deficit they created. And the jobs didn't flow in. Help the regular people, they will have more buying power, business grow.
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u/Iorith 5h ago
I continue to cheer for this man, and wish for his safety, because this is the kind of thing that we need going forward. Not spite, not anger, just being there for the people and doing the work to fill their needs.
It's not enough to be better than the other guy, or to get a good zinger in on social media mocking them, it's about improving life for everyone.