Cenk: your plank idea for barring private equity from buying residential is a good one; but it is not enough! Consider also getting behind PLANNED microhousing. Once the zoning is greenlit, it can be accomplished in TWO YEARS!!
See “Better way” in this post, that details the specifics:
Microhousing can be very cool, and since a person owns the home and when it has its unique identity, they are psyched about its upkeep (as opposed to the ambivalence of being a unit in an affordable housing building…)
(<joke>“Trees not included”</joke> -but nothing would stop you from adding trellises and vines to the units, to make the neighborhood greener…)
You and I are on the same page about the City RUN markets, Cenk; for addressing access to affordable nutrition, he should just expand the opening of low-cost independent markets (Aldi, Trader Joe’s, whoever…) through the use of tax abatements and providing lower-cost real estate for them to open in more neighborhoods throughout New York.
By the way: I see a lot of online jubilation across the country for Mamdani’s win. I think the reason for it is that a tremendously rich and powerful cartel (NYC real estate) was unable to bury Mamdani’s campaign with money. More voters wanted him; that’s what it came down to.
I see a lot of rose colored glass thinking online: “Is he a blueprint for changing over the Dem Party?!” Guys: wake up from your fever dream! The present makeup of the Dem Party will not permit people like him to handle levers of power (and I saw a number of overt Dem neocons saying that out loud today in response to his win!)
It’s much more realistic to have an alliance for House Reps running on the Independent ticket, aligned on the issues of working class rights and conditions, and to fight pollution. At the end of the day, money-backed Dems will not be able to stop such balloting and voting; they can stop it on the Dem ticket, as evidenced by Hogg getting chucked out and AOC being passed over for the oversight committee!
I completely agree with Dore on the needlessness of the protracted lockdown; I call it “The Great Closing” (having just as much impact as The Great Depression -we still haven’t economically recovered from the spate of stimulus spending…)
I respect Carville’s shrewdness; but on this one he’s probably out of his depth.
Mamdani won because the New York City Dem machine got overconfident. Being labeled as a “socialist”, they figured his chances were poor.
Unless Adams were to convincingly start attacking Trump, he won’t win in November. New York City is a magnet for egomaniacs; Trump reminds NY voters of many of the people they have to deal with every day.
What if Cuomo flip flops and runs? It will split the anti-Mamdani vote between him and Adams (UNLESS Adams were bribed enough to drop out; but I doubt his ego will let him -and he can risk a loss because he has plans for a crypto job after this…)
Completely agree with Cenk in this video: if an illegal has been convicted of a crime (not merely charged…), why wouldn’t you allow ICE to deport them? (unless it could be found that they face torture or death in their country of origin…) This open border policy of many Dems has only invited the Steven Miller+Trump nightmare…
Exactly what I would expect a scared manchild to say.
He’s scared of a REAL pro-working class politico, as opposed to the sham Trump proved himself in spades to be.
Oh…let me go work my whopping extra 5 hours of overtime a week for which I will have to wait A YEAR to get! Let me blow ALL my wages on “quaint” groceries because Luttnick and Navarro jerked around with illegal across-the-board tariffs!!
