The Cuomover!

When you're out of gas, you decide to siphon from someone else's car. 

The final weeks of the New York City mayoral race has gotten more uglier. It makes me wonder whether anyone should back a Democratic resurrection.

Rep. Daniel Goldman (D-NY) kicks off with the refusal to back Democratic mayoral nominee, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani. He went to the junk food media to say he is still not ready to endorse the mayoral nominee because of "concerns."

Those concerns are literally about Mamdani not denouncing protesters chanting "globalize the infitada." He also vowed to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and any Israeli official that steps foot in New York City.

Goldman claims that Mamandi is not addressing the rise in antisemitism.

While speaking with CNN's Kasie Hunt on Tuesday, Goldman was asked if he was ready to endorse Mamdani for mayor. "You know, I've had conversations with him, I'm not ready to endorse him," he said.

"I don't know what I'm going to do, to be honest," Goldman said when asked if he was going to vote for Mamdani. He answered similarly when asked if he plans to vote for Cuomo, "I don't know; honestly, I haven't gotten to that point. I have been trying to work through these issues. You know, I am a Democrat at heart and I believe in the Democratic Party."

Goldman continued: "I am very concerned about some of the rhetoric coming from Zohran Mamdani, and I can tell you as a Jew in New York, who was in Israel on October 7, I and many other people are legitimately scared because there has been violence in the name of anti-Israel and anti-Zionism. And I've asked him to speak out on that and to condemn that and I frankly haven't really seen him do much on that."

"And I believe," Goldman added, "that you know for my personal reasons and as well as my professional reasons as a representative of New York City, that it is my duty to make sure that everybody, including the Jewish community, feel safe here, and many in the Jewish community do not feel safe right now. And I hope that Mr. Mamdani takes that to heart and takes some action to make the Jewish community understand that he will keep us safe and secure."

Then you have the two opponents that Mamdani is facing. 

Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor who lost the Democratic primary is now running as an independent. He is currently the closest candidate to challenging Mamdani. Cuomo has the backing of establishment Democrats and several Republicans.

Several Republicans are pushing for the other candidate, Republican, mayoral nominee Curtis Silwa to drop out. Silwa is a founding member and president of the Guardian Angels, a militia group that patrols New York City streets. They often rough up alleged criminals. 

An underdog in a city of hounds. It's almost over.

Cuomo is now going scorch earth on Mamdani. He first got the endorsement of independent incumbent Eric Adams. Adams who dropped out the race quickly endorsed Cuomo and called Mamandi a communist and socialist.

"I'm fighting for the family of New York," Adams said. "That's why I'm here today, to endorse Andrew Cuomo, to be part of this fight, and I'm going to give him my all these next few days to make sure that Black and Brown communities, specifically, who have believed there's nothing at stake in this election for them. It is."

"Am I angry that I'm not the one taking down Zohran, the socialist and the communist?" Adams said, eliciting President Donald Trump's moniker for Mamdani. "You're darn right I am. But, you know what, the city means more to me than anything, and it is time for us as a family to come together."

Adams dropped out at the behest of Netanyahu and President Donald J. Trump who waved around a pardon and criminal charges against him being dropped. Trump has hinted Adams a position in the future.

Mamdani address the endorsement.

"Today confirms what we’ve long known: Andrew Cuomo is running for Eric Adams’ second term," Mamdani said in a statement Thursday. "It’s no surprise to see two men who share an affinity for corruption and Trump capitulation align themselves at the behest of the billionaire class and the president himself. We are going to turn the page on the politics of big money and small ideas that these two disgraced executives embody and build a city every New Yorker can afford."

Cuomo also went on a conservative agitator program to chat it up about consolidation.

He addressed the Mamandi lead and outright called him a charlatan. He even chuckled at the host claiming that Mamandi would celebrate another 9/11.

During an appearance on Sid Rosenberg’s “Sid & Friends in the Morning,” a radio show on WABC, Cuomo lambasted Mamdani for lacking experience. Cuomo said Mamdani, 34, a state assemblyman who is the Democratic nominee and front-runner in the mayoral race, doesn’t have a track record of dealing with the type of crises that executive officers like mayors and governors face — and have faced in the past.

“That job is a scary job. You wake up as mayor, you wake up as governor, any morning there’s a prison uprising, there was just a mass shooting, there’s Legionnaires’ disease, there’s gonna be a fiscal collapse, Wall Street’s moving to doubt, any given morning there’s a crisis,” Cuomo said in the interview. “And people’s lives are at stake — God forbid another 9/11, can you imagine Mamdani in the seat?”

At that point, Rosenberg jumped in, replying with a laugh: “I could. He’d be cheering.”

In response, Cuomo said: “That’s another problem. But can you imagine that? If Mamdani was in the seat on 9/11, what would have happened in this city?”

Rich Azzopardi, a spokesman for Cuomo, told NBC News that Cuomo did not agree with Rosenberg's comments and that his response was in reference to comments by a progressive streamer, Hasan Piker. Cuomo has repeatedly criticized Mamdani for appearing with Piker, who once said America "deserved 9/11" before he called the comments inappropriate.

Piker was not specifically invoked during that part of the interview, and Mamdani said at last week’s mayoral debate that Piker’s comments were “objectionable and reprehensible.”

"He was referring to Mamdani’s close friend Hasan Piker, who said ‘America deserved 9/11,’ a statement 9/11 families called on Zohran Mamdani to denounce but he refused for months," Azzopardi said in an emailed statement, which included a link to a New York Post story.

"This is not new -- the Governor held a press conference along with 9/11 families to denounce Mamdani’s association with and refusal to denounce Piker’s hateful comments," Azzopardi continued. "The overall topic of the conversation was that Mamdani is deeply unqualified and unprepared to be Mayor of the Greatest City on earth, which every New Yorker saw last night."

Mamdani reacted to the comments in an interview on WPIX-TV.

“This is disgusting. This is Andrew Cuomo’s final moments in public life, and he’s choosing to spend them making racist attacks on the person who would be the first Muslim to lead this city,” he said.

“There are more than 1 million Muslims who live in New York City, and to have our faith be smeared and slandered by someone who at one point was considered a leader of the Democratic Party showcases the fact that that bigotry and racism is not exclusively a Republican problem,” Mamdani said.

Mamdani would be the city’s first Muslim mayor if he is elected, and discussions about his faith — as well as deep divisions between Cuomo and Mamdani and among New Yorkers over the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza — have become major issues in the mayoral race. In this interview, Cuomo repeatedly mispronounced Mamdani’s name as “Mamdami,” as he has through much of the campaign.

Cuomo has been deeply critical of Mamdani over his criticism of Israel's handling of the war. Mamdani referred to Israel's conduct as "genocide" and, during the primary, did not distance himself from the use of the term "globalize the intifada" despite pleas from Jewish groups that have said the language evokes calls to antisemitic violence. Mamdani has since said he would "discourage this language."

“Not everything is a TikTok video. You’re the savior of the Jewish people? You won’t denounce ‘globalize the intifada,’ which means kill Jews. There’s unprecedented fear in New York,” Cuomo told Mamdani during Wednesday’s debate.

"There's no doubt there's two sides on what's going on and the passions are very high. That doesn't justify antisemitic behavior in New York," he continued. "It doesn't justify having a Jewish population that feels unprotected in New York. It doesn't justify leaders who stoke the flames of hatred against Jewish people, which is what Zohran does, in my opinion."

After Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa jumped in Wednesday and accused Mamdani of supporting a "global jihad," Mamdani pushed back.

"I have never, not once, spoken in support of global jihad. That is not something that I have said, and that continues to be ascribed to me. And frankly, I think much of it has to do with the fact that I am the first Muslim candidate to be on the precipice of winning this election," he said.

This week, on an episode of the YouTube series "Flagrant," Mamdani addressed the issue when he was asked whether he thought he'd be accused of antisemitism if he wasn't Muslim.

"I do think that Andrew Cuomo, there are a number of things that he has said and done, he would not have done if I weren't a Muslim candidate," Mamdani said. "And it is all too familiar for a lot of Muslim New Yorkers [who] grew up in this city to see the speaking up for Palestinian human rights to then be labeled as if it is bigotry against the Jewish faith. And what I've appreciated is for all of the fearmongering that he's done, there are so many Jewish New Yorkers who can see through that."

Let's me explain this to the Democratic Party. Y'all need to focus on domestic issues and stop this gotcha politics. At the point, the Democratic Party is at risk of losing more than the young voters. They are going to lose the progressive base.

It is a wrap for the party if they continue the status quo.

First things first, everyone is flawed. Cuomo carries baggage that led to deaths under his leadership. It lead to population decline, corruption and endless promises being broken.

Adams on the other hand was a Republican who wanted to win as a Democrat. Under his leadership, the residents have complained about the rising prices of subways, the controversial congestion travel fees, the plain clothes New York Police Department returning and Adams backing Israel over the city.

End the status quo of American politics. Enough of the noise. Enough of the dehumanizing of people. Enough of the "Us versus Them" bullshit. 

Focus on the domestic issues in the 50 states and five territories.

I don't care about the culture wars and partisan banter. I don't my taxpayer money funding border walls, Israel or lawmakers' travel expenses.

If you truly care about these issues about Mamdani being a scary Muslim, a democratic socialist and an inexperienced politician, then vote against him. But if you care about ending the status quo, stopping your town from struggling, ending the continuation of insurance premiums increasing, stopping the cost of living from rising, putting an end to food inequality, stopping your taxpayer money going to Israel and putting a check on the endless chaos of the Trump presidency, vote for candidates that care about that.

When the party support for Israel is a mere 8%, why is the Democratic Party still trying to encourage their voters to support this country?

As Israel continues to commit a genocide under the guise of a ceasefire, some Democrats and the influncers are calling out the progressive base for moving on from Gaza.

I haven't moved on from Israel. I am laser focused on ensuring Israel will fall. I am seeing the endless attacks on Zohran Mamdani, Graham Platner, Cori Bush, Katie Porter and even former vice president Kamala Harris.

I am sick of this endless distractions. I don't care about tattoos or photos with imams. 

Focus on the domestic issues that Americans are facing. Democrats stop with moral high ground nonsense. It didn't help Kamala Harris win. We need to ignore the noise and fight dirty. We need to stop being nice to Republicans. 

Nevermind. 

If you are a progressive, just abandon the Democrats. They want to be centrist/conservative. Fine, let them be them and let progressives form a new national party devoted to focusing on issues, not culture wars and circular firing squads.