fuckin state lurched to the right because of our worthless democratic party but how did it go this bad?

  • SmokingFish [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    Before he was revealed to be a sex predator, Andrew Cuomo appointed a bunch of his friends to New York state supreme court positions.

    These same judges were his friends and loyal to him, but were also die hard conservatives. With Cuomo out of power, however, they defaulted to advancing Republican interests.

    NY just had redistricting from the census. Those judges and some of Cuomo’s other spaghetti brained pasta bois carved up the state to be more red (they needa the bolognese sauce)

    Combine this with Eric Adams attacking his own party nonstop because he’s a craven opportunistic pig and the end result is a bunch of state and federal positions going red this election.

    The dems seriously got bored wiped in NY, they lost a ton of both state and federal level seats. This includes the head of the DCCC lol. The dems literally lost the US House of Representatives because of Andrew “Big Pedo” Cuomo.

    • SmokingFish [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      That redistricting also only happens once a decade or whatever. NY is going to have to deal with 10 years of Republican gerrymandering and all of the reactionary bullshit that involves.

      The gabba ghoul just kept on trying to fuck everyone he could. No wonder Andrew Cuomo can’t go within 500 feet of a school now.

      • MC_Kublai [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Still mad my :gabaghoul: emote never got added (it was Cuomo but his skin is gabagool :AyyyyyOC-big: )

    • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      jesus fucking christ. All that plus Sean Patrick Maloney kicking Mondaire Jones out of his seat.

      • SmokingFish [none/use name]
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        2 years ago

        Yeah. It’s really bad. The dems were not paying attention and got absolutely ratfucked by Cuomo.

        :doomer:

    • alcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]
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      2 years ago

      I have a really strong sense of deja vous.

      Didn't this happen like a decade ago, after Cuomo donated a bunch of money to or campaigned for republicans or something?

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I don't remember the full story but I think there were 2 main things

    1. They had some ballot measure that affected redistricting, and the NY Democratic party didn't do a damn thing to get people to vote correctly on it, and that threw seats to republicans.

    2. Eric Adams ran on a campaign of "this place is a fucking shithole full of criminals and violence and you can't even go outside without getting cannibalized by roaming hordes of homeless people" and that... that makes people vote against the party in power.

    EDIT: Oh also I just heard today that the NY democratic party is so corrupt and so intentionally demobilizing that when they actually needed people to mobilize they were incapable of it. They may get shaken up by the national machine if their incompetence is the deciding factor

  • LeninsRage [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    The Cuomo machine that dominates NY state ran a terrible campaign primarily focusing on responding to Republican allegations they were "soft on crime". This was amplified by Eric Adams essentially writing GOP attack ads for them by emphasizing "rising crime" and criticizing the party in his own press releases to boost his own profile. This resulted in every county in the state moving significantly to the right, numerous Democratic representatives at the national and state level losing their seats (including the chairman of the DCCC) but Hochul surviving Zeldin's challenge.

    In reality crime is still down compared to pre-pandemic except in homicide. And everywhere else in the country reformist candidates for DA won major victories, and Republicans running particularly outspoken "tough on crime" Willie Horton campaigns took huge Ls (such as in IL).

    EDIT: Additionally, conservative judges appointed by Cuomo threw out a gerrymandered state map and ordered a new one drawn up by an independent commission, reverting back to the old map for this election. Republicans took 7 Congressional seats in NY by this map. The Cuomo machine quite literally cost the Democrats their House majority.

  • CantaloupeAss [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Whatchu mean "this bad"? Repubs flipped a couple of US House seats but Dems are still in control of Governor, AG, both chambers of state gov, US Senate seat... doesn't seem to me like all that much changed