Choose Your Side: Affordability for Millions or Elon Musk’s Ego
Why the Mamdani–Musk clash is a political layup Democrats must not blow
by Cliff Schecter
Mamdani vs Musk seems to be on, and by God, it’s difficult picking sides!
Per usual, Elon can’t shut his colossal, constant, pablum-emitting-cake-hole. The Ketamine Kid likes to ratchet up Russian disinformation while bullying any non-single-cell organism on the (dis)information platform he bought and renamed X.
Ya know, because of all the similarities to Malcolm X.
So you have Elon, the fungus-y yacht-kateer with a mind by K-hole, body by Newt Gingrich. A guy who can only gain vast wealth in a country where we reward Dunning-Kruger, audacious shamelessness, and an emotional IQ best described as AI in heat.
Meanwhile, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has proposed a number of far-reaching proposals for New York. Like a rent stabilization freeze, as rents have skyrocketed under the Trump economic “plan.” I’m told it’s Bolshevik by @MAGALOVE483567433 on Twitter.
Makes sense, as the New York City Rent Stabilization Law of 1969 passed while Republican Richard Nixon was President, Republican Nelson Rockefeller—of the Commie lineage!—was NY Governor, and Republican John Lindsey was NYC Mayor.
This is a crucial affordability issue. Mamdani is also trying to tackle that with other proposals, like free public transportation. Would this help millions of people now struggling under Trump’s stagflation? Yes.
Can it work? I dunno. But it seems to in Luxembourg, Malta, and Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. And, hell, we tried supply-side economics, mapped out a barroom napkin—true story! So, I think we can give free public transportation a shot, see if studies that show it raises productivity, more people enter the workforce, etc., are accurate.
The rigorous study that created an economic theory that ended up bankrupting us
Some of Mamdani’s ideas won’t pass go, some’ll be flushed out but not make it (there’s the city council he has to contend with, and in NY the Governor, due to some quirky laws, has say in many city economic matters).
But some common-sense measures, due to our insane income inequality, will pass. And likely make some lives better. And the Overton Window will expand faster than a shirtless Musk on a yacht (guess nobody in the vicinity had an itchy harpoon finger).
Elon Musk shows off one of his patented “Dudley Moore is drunk in a film again” looks
I think I prefer that vision to the guy who bought into PayPal with mommy and daddy's emerald mine money. What a genius, being born to that mom and dad! His ideas and coding sucked, but who’s gonna hold down another rich prat with high self-regard using family booty to buy ideas?
Then he did that thing he hates when anyone of a different race, sexual orientation, or their original chin does it: He got the government to pay for his company to grow.
He’s also a vandal who broke into our Treasury Department with “Big Balls” and the crew without the credentials of an actual task force, accessing data he had no legal right to go near. He settled a sexual harassment suit at SpaceX.
Made Shanghai Tesla workers live and sleep on the factory floor for days to meet production quotas.
And maybe his most special contribution: he destroyed USAID, which included erasing 20,000 jobs, wrecking a key part of our soft-power national security, and killing 500K-700K people living in developing countries, including over 200,000 children. (Center for Global Development).
So when Elon attacked a Mamdani appointee for her “lack of experience,” the corrugated ass-canoe with the government experience of a wombat is on weaker ground than a SpaceX terminal after its regularly scheduled explosion during take off.
But he did it anyhow, slamming Mamdani’s commissioner of the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) nominee, Lillian Bonsignore, on his dumbed-down social media platform. The fire expert, via osmosis, warned that appointing someone lacking traditional firefighting experience meant “people will die.”
Insert eyes-rolling emoji.
Bonsignore has worked at FDNY for 31 years and led the department’s Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Division. The place where 70% of the calls come in for emergencies.
So if you think Elon sound a bit sus, you’d be right. Because guess what else Bonsignore is—no, not one of Elon’s kids, though with 412 out there, I get it’s a statistically valid inquiry. No, it turns out Bonsignore is the second woman and first openly gay FDNY commissioner-to-be. Man, does that piss a Nazi off.
Mamdani responded by pointing out Bonsignore’s leadership during 9/11 and the COVID-19 pandemic. Elon didn’t lead anything during 9/11 except maybe in incel hair implants
And for the coup de grace, just look at otherworldly stupid crap this supposed smart man of the manosphere shares on Twitter without a second thought (or first):
Sorry, E-Loan, undocumented workers don’t get Social Security. Maybe in your home country, I’m not sure how things work in South Africa. But thanks for sharing!
Here we’ll see real human beings who didn’t live on Elon’s segregated side of the tracks get hurt here because of his bullshit. But he doesn’t care, he has a Hitler to Heil at a conference somewhere, I’m sure he’s later for.
Also kudos to Trump’s U.S. Dept of Labor for sharing Stalin-level disinformation!
In the end, Democrats should SO want this fight:
On one side: A social democratic vision of real democracy, affordability, and an economy for all Americans. Prioritizing a return of privacy, freedom from masked goons, guaranteed healthcare, affordable housing, and family leave-for-all.
On the other: A Nazi-loving, crony-capitalist oligarch handed our tax dollars to tank companies and spew vile shit. With an obscene trillion-dollar pay package from pals he installed on the Tesla board. Trump tax cuts and subsidies for malfunctioning cyber trucks stolen from SNAP and Medicaid for sick and starving children
Elon would dry hump Xi’s leg for a large order of Cybertrucks. Ya know, the thing that looks like two toasters sexed while mom was on a strict diet of Jim Beam and menthols, and this was their offspring.
The GD thing is so ugly it asks Stephen Miller for dating tips.
How are people so generally incoherent that they’re suckered into buying an aesthetic abomination—a large tin can with panels falling off because of a “brand?” How are they selling, you ask? You’ll definitely wanna starve more kids for subsidies:
“…declining new sales, plummeting resale values, and a failure to meet initial high demand projections, driven by high prices (even after discounts), quality issues, recalls, disappointing specs (range/towing), and its polarizing design”
Wow, money well spent!
Now, let’s get back to our regularly scheduled program. Democratic leaders, this is a layup. Create a simple, truthful message with emotional resonance and repeat it, FFS. It’s called “contrast.” Look at a farmer Trump bankrupted (sadly, you have a wide choice) and ask if they want their job or Elon’s 11,214th Rolodex? Or a family whose aid ElonTrump cut, and ask “your child eating or Elon’s 47th flab-encrusted yacht?
Cancer treatment for your Papa or Elon the plutocrat’s private, backroom deals to subsidize his newest stupid concoction, Neuralink, so he can try to steal your thoughts and impulses like he’s a Jim Carrey Riddler from Batman
So Musk’s vision vs Mamdani’s? Wow, such a toughie!
It’s pretty simple: Elon Musk has cost America, and its people more in money, souls, and the soul of America than any boogie-man immigrant he makes up ever could.
Sorry, all I've got to say is thanks a lot, stupid fucking Trump & partners in crime. I hope 2026 kicks you in the ass and elsewhere, because that's where we're aiming.
I wouldn’t advertise Mamdani, I’d recommend being mum about him, at least till after the midterms.
He calls himself a social Democrat, but Bernie calls himself that now too, and so does AOC, etc. but we all know that they previously called themselves socialist. At least Bernie did, and they touted him.
Advertising him and them will not help in the midterms.
Of course those running in parochial districts like Brooklyn or small democratic areas of Republican states like Iowa, they can waive their progressive flags and win. AOC only needs 18,000 votes to win her area. But nationally it’s a big loser.. and we have to think midterms,, that’s national 438 seats. The progressive label would cost Democrats millions of votes. We have to win states that we normally don’t in order to get a super majority, impeach Trump, and put him away where he belongs.
If the progressive label would keep us from doing that, how arrogant do you have to be, to keep waving it in areas that you’re gonna win, but you’ll cause other Democrat to lose, and for Democrats not to win enough seats to get rid of Trump.
Franklin D. Roosevelt was neither a modern “progressive” nor a social democrat.
FDR was a New Deal liberal.
Why FDR was not a social democrat, or a progressive.
FDR rejected this framing outright:
He opposed nationalized healthcare
He did not seek social ownership of industry
He defended capitalism, repeatedly calling his goal its preservation, not replacement
He never identified as a socialist or social democrat
In 1936, FDR explicitly said:
“I am fighting to save capitalism from itself.”
That is fundamentally anti–social democratic in ideology.
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Why FDR is often called a progressive
FDR did emerge from the Progressive Era tradition, which emphasized:
• Regulation of monopolies
• Anti-corruption
• Worker protections
• Government intervention to stabilize markets
His New Deal policies reflected this:
• Social Security (insurance model, not welfare)
• Banking regulation (Glass–Steagall)
• Labor protections (NLRA)
• Public works (CCC, WPA)
But even here, FDR differed from modern progressives:
Programs were means-tested or contributoryHe governed pragmatically, not ideologically.
FDR consistently used the term “liberal”, meaning:
• Pro-capitalist
• Pro-democracy
• Pro–regulated markets
• Anti–authoritarian (both fascist and communist)
Progressive is an oxymoron because they’ve been the group that gave the president presidency to the two worst presidents in history. They are very regressive..
What struck me when the new mayor of Miami, congratulations to her for winning the race, but she called herself a progressive, and when I looked at her platform, it was straight liberal democrat, with nothing progressive about it.
Just get rid of the term