House Republicans exploring ways to prevent Mamdani from being sworn in as NYC mayor if he wins on Election Day

And both parties are scared. That is even more revealing.

You're pretending anyone would hold them accountable....

Cuomo is working with trump, like literally, trump and other Republicans are advising Cuomo, that's why he keeps running all their racist ads.

The NY Gov is still his old Lt Governor who took his post when he stepped down.

There's a non-zero chance republicans and neoliberal unite to steal an election Mamdani wins.

We've got a good DNC, but some of the state parties still suck. nY is one of the worst, because all the money from Wall Street.

Don't forget trump was a NYC neoliberal for decades, even had the Clintons at his wedding. We can't count on them even to stay out of it.

And the government will remain shut down, people will go hungry

Why would they? It's proven they can shit all over their voters and they'll sit there and guzzle it down with their mouths agape in awe at their divine leaders.

That is the actual goal.

They see it, but don't care. They're in control, and are going to do every fucking absurd thing they can do to keep it since they have the Supreme Court rubber-stamping everything for them. It's an all or nothing bet on maintaining power. They're not that stupid, they're just cravenly doing everything they can while they can to solidify their power.

To be clear, this is what I assume you're referring to:

It cites language in the post-Civil War 14th Amendment to the Constitution barring from office anyone who “engaged in insurrection or rebellion” or who has “given aid or comfort to the enemies.” The group argues that Mamdani’s own statements calling to resist ICE could violate the prohibition.

To them, there is no irony because they think anyone challenging their power or ideologically inconsistent with them is an insurrection or rebellion.

On the other side of the ocean, plenty of people not even living on the same continent are cheering for Mamdani. Not because the mayor of NYC affects us directly, but because 1) he's awesome and 2) if change starts with this mayoral election, tide may yet turn for the US as a whole. And of course 3) NYC is overly romanticized thanks to the American media my generation grew up on here in post-soviet Eastern Europe, plus it is awesome to visit. Maybe with Mamdani it can be awesome to live in again as well.

You don't get it! Mamdani just doesn't get 9/11 culture! He doesn't even like Israel! He's just not one of The Boys™

With this administration you need to move that red line up a couple of shades.

These are republicans. They have them

All I want from a new administration is to prosecute the criminals from this one.

It is now. They’ve crushed democracy while everyone watched from behind screens. It’s over.

I hope that includes the Republican Democrats because there sure seem to be a lot of them.

It’s not about what the law actually means, it’s about who is wielding the power

Logic agrees with you, reality may not. They’ll focus on mamdani and try to spin another story why adelita cannot be sworn in.

That's great, you at best have an AR with a couple loaded mags, and maybe a sidearm. And let's give you a plate carrier because everyone has one these days.

You open fire on a group of 4 ICE agents. You get one clean by virtue of surprise, and a second one wounded. Two agents return fire, it's now two against one. You manage to retreat, luckily, and now there is a manhunt on. Every street in a 5 mile radius has checkpoints set up within an hour, every law enforcement officer in the state has dropped what they are doing and are coming to join the fun. You have one loaded mag left, are driving looking for a gap in the net, trying to reload a magazine, when a local patrol car spots you and calls it in.

The state has such an OVERWHELMING monopoly of violence, a literal army is ready at a moments notice to enforce that monopoly. Resistance to ICE and the looming fascist America involves first community organization. Food, child care, income support, bail and legal funds, rent support, all of that needs to be in place before large scale, deadly force action can be used against the state, because the moment we do, a war is on. And there will be no terms of surrender.

It's a lot less words to simply say. "I want to commit suicide by cop."

Because ICE agents have the most guns behind them and they aren't really using them yet? We have a lot of advantages in nonviolent resistance, including local police being pretty neutral to even protecting protesters at times. The second it turns violent the advantage is theirs, and the cops will be all in on their side.

Anybody who goes Rambo on ICE fucks not just themselves. The blowback will come down just as hard on the communities they were supposedly trying to protect. For now the courts are restraining ICE and keeping most of Trump's attempts at military escalation off the streets.

Unless you can keep a good resistance from enemy forces and not risk casualties, not worth it.