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Altman

Same as it ever was.

His "exceptions" are clearly the guy who can't get through a press conference without rolling on molly (and has dozens of illegitimate children) the guy who talks with a vocal fry and practices "concerned face" in the mirror because he thinks it fools people into thinking he isn't Patrick Bateman, and the guy who injects the blood of young people and gets stumped when the interviewer asks him if the human race should survive.

I mean kinda. He could have done like Obama and Guantanamo and pretended to work on it for years. It would have been a more dishonest form of lying than what we got.

Finally a party that is controlled for and by a billionaire

Seen what the liver king looks like layely? Stacking will wreck you.

So many of the "centrist" social democrats from Weimer Germany ended up in the camps or victims of the post-July 20th purge. You'd think the Chuck Schumers in the Democratic party would be aware of that.

I'm still extremely happy Johnson won because the alternative was Vallas. Not looking forward to the next election though because I don't think Johnson can win a second term and I know they're going to pull out some Vallas-like creature.

Johnson's base was extremely hopeful that he would be a forceful reformist and we've been disappointed. Carter is a good example, I guess Carter did recently resign on his own and now the CTA has an acting director, but we were hoping Johnson would fire Carter and the whole board and bring in people who actually care about transit. Johnson, however, doesn't seem to care at all about the CTA and doesn't want to have anything to do with it.

We were hoping Johnson was the second coming of Harold Washington and even though HW's term was chaos due to the council wars at least he was fighting. Johnson doesn't appear to be a fighter.

Johnson has done alright in chicago

Johnson has been disappointing, although he's been subject to constant and withering Media attacks his entire mayoralty, which is something Mandani can also expect. Johnson's substantive problem are not his policies but the fact that he's still a little too machined-up and not quite as progressive as we were hoping. For instance, I guess he owes a lot of south side preachers a lot so he has given them sinecures in his administration. Unfortunately some end up in positions where they're way out of their depth like Carter at the CTA.

I think we also tended to see a lot of hopes for reform in Johnson where he had no intention of delivering. He mostly ran as not-Rahm-not-Lightfoot-not-Vallas rather than articulating a positive vision. We kinda hoped he had one but he doesn't really seem to. This is not a problem Mandani has.

I think Trump would not be president if the Democrats hadn't thrown a horrible batch of candidates at him.