Galad

Realist | Hon. Economics | Interests in governance, politics & economic development | If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything - Malcolm X

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I'm not running for office. But if I were, these are some of the lessons I'd take away from what happened in NY yesterday.

1. Authenticity is measurable. Voters can smell a focus group from a mile away.

2. Endorsements from the current Democratic leadership now read like warnings. The establishment wing of the party is no longer a sword. It's a question mark.

3. Conviction beats caution. The candidates who said hard things about rent, about who pays for what, about Gaza, they won. The triangulators lost.

4. Cost of living is everything. Everything else is wallpaper.

5. The middle is not a strategy. It's an empty room. Voters reached past the establishment to grab someone who actually believes something.

6. Don't fear the base. Court it. The Democrats who ran from their own voters lost. The ones who ran toward them won.

7. If you want to lead a party you have to be willing to fight inside it. Mamdani didn't ask permission. He took the field.

The lesson under the lessons: the country is tired of being managed. People want to be led.

[George Galloway @georgegalloway]

Look what they did…

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

When white people tell you they spread civilization, this is how they spread it.

[Duke Of Nigeria. @xagreat]

People who did this are trying to lecture us about humanity.

[W.E.B. DaBoi @Tyre_94]

We, as a society, have progressed passed the need for a Stephen A. Smith.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Should she not? How is this controversial? How do Republicans of all people, who are obsessed with reflecting their Chrisitan faith in the halls of power, have the nerve to criticize Muslims for saying this?

The gaslighting is just too much.

[Peter Daou @peterdaou]

A Jew beat a Jew in New York and they're calling it antisemitism.

That word has been rendered UTTERLY meaningless.

[🖤ℨ𝔬𝔢 𝔖𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔰🖤 @ZoeSinns]

They are so afraid of you realizing there are politicians who can and actually want to make your life better and not just collect checks from lobbyists and corporations.

[𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐚𝐥𝐯 @heis_fede]

Colonial masters when they’re not holding guns:

[Galad @galadjamaa]

Zohran Kwame Mamdani
@ZohranKMamdani

[B. Nux @BumpyNUX]

you can just tweet “Zohran Mamdani” and immediately get 1000 likes

[Praise @tufpraise]

Socialism is so sick I love when tax dollars go to schools instead of wars

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

AYO NEW YORK CAN YOU FEEL THE SPECTRE HAUNTING THE NATION!!!!! SOCIALISM IS COMING TO YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD TOO

[Maine @mainey_maine]

Zohran did some risky shit bruh putting all
his cards into democratic socialists running up against incumbent/establishment dems.. He really went 3 for 3 bro.. Thats crazy

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The irony of Republicans controlling all branches of government while

bankrupting the country, starting a war, sending money to fraudulent programs, violating the Constitution, giving corporations immunity...

but arguing that the biggest problem we have is “stolen elections.”

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Yep, must be "genuinely scary" for the Jewish residents of New York's 10th, one of the most Jewish districts in America, who voted tonight to replace a pro-genocide Jewish congressman with an anti-genocide Jewish congressman.

[Sam Seder @SamSeder]

Congressional Districts with some of the largest Jewish populations in the country just told AIPAC to suck it.

[Aaboom16🇸🇴 @aaboom16]

If this was an African countries’ tradition they would call it backwards and barbaric

[BeshearStan @BeshearStan]

Reminder that NY-10 is *the most Jewish district in America*, and voters still rejected pro-Israel incumbent Dan Goldman by 30+ points for Brad Lander, who called Gaza a genocide and wants to cut off all weapons to Israel.

Jewish people aren’t falling for rabid Zionism

[KUTT THROAT⚔️ @Gatsoxo]

Ronaldo let a black man take a free kick instead of him, Messi would never

[FIFA World Cup @FIFAWorldCup]

Cristiano Ronaldo: The first man to score at six #FIFAWorldCup tournaments