In an appearance at a NYC DSA meeting last night, Mamdani urged the group NOT to endorse Chi Osse

[lapucelle]

in his primary bid against Hakeem Jeffries.

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[stopdiggin]

1. So the man makes up his own mind about a variety of things ..

Whodda' thunk .. ?
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[lapucelle]

2. "Whodda' thunk .. ?" Apparently not Chi Ossi

Better times...

Link to tweet

[stopdiggin]

5. the difference being. many of us never really envisioned pilitics

as a love fest.
(no doubt a failing on our part)

Still - there remains that small minority - that thought primarying a man that has his own able and laudatory history, along with accumulated political base and connection, backing him .... Might have been just slightly .... Ill advised? (slightly crack brained?) In the first place.
(But - like I said - no doubt do to major failings .. )

[lapucelle]

6. Mamdani advised Osse not run even before the mayoral votes were counted.

Mr. Mamdani has privately tried to discourage his ideological ally [Chi Ossfé] rom running. The mayor-elect and his team fear that another high-profile challenge from the left might compromise his own bid to push the Democratic establishment to support his affordability agenda.

Mr. Mamdani also may want to avoid the optics of having Mr. Ossé challenge the House Democratic leader, who endorsed Mr. Mamdani in October after months of negotiation.

The disagreement caused Mr. Ossé to be disinvited from Mr. Mamdani’s election night watch party, according to two people familiar with the matter, even though he has been a frequent presence at Mr. Mamdani’s campaign events. Instead, Mr. Ossé said he spent the night “with my constituents at D.S.A. events celebrating Zohran’s incredible win.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/nyregion/chi-osse-hakeem-jeffries.html

[msongs]

3. there's only one DSA star in this town lol nt

[lapucelle]

4. Meanwhile, here's Hakeem Jeffries' response to the challenge.

Link to tweet

[Cha]

12. Lol... I really like Leader Hakeem Jeffries!

[Polybius]

7. ...

Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani urged the leftist group to not endorse Chi Osse's run against Hakeem Jeffries, saying the move would make it "more difficult" to enact his agenda in NYC, per sources.

Hmm, I wonder what the real reason is?

[mcar]

8. So people who support Mamdani AND Osee's primary attempt?

[Cha]

13. Mayor Elect Mamdani is the Smart

one here. He seems to be thinking about Strategy and Winning..

I know .. What A Concept!

[leftstreet]

9. Not sure Osse is worth burning political capital on

He doesn't sound like a great candidate

But it's sad, because the discussion should be about whether Jeffries should be replaced as leader

[electric_blue68]

14. Actually i've been liking Jefferies more lately...He's getting spicer in his pushbacks against trump etc

[brer cat]

10. Good.

[electric_blue68]

15. Well, maybe, maybe not?....

I mean, the Nordic countries as partly democratic socialist countries; I don't Americans have bad opinions about them.

They're a hell of a lot different than the 😄 sourpuss Socialist Workers Party people I used to ocassionly run into in College waaay back; and I'll bet they haven't gotten much better!

[Celerity]

17. We (I live in Sweden) are NOT democratic socialist nations here in the Nordics.

I have battling this erroneous positing since I joined DU closing in on 7 and half years ago.

We are social democratic nation states, aka The Nordic Model.

We all have very robust, vibrant, AND also highly regulated capitalist economies that work synergistically with expansive social welfare state sectors to provide some the absolute highest standards of living on the planet.

[electric_blue68]

18. Oh, sorry!

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I do know you live in Sweden. 👍

ETA
After looking a bit more for the differences; does Sweden have any State owned industries like Norway owns it's oil industry.

And off-topic question bc I had a on line friend for a bunch of years who lives in Finland.
What is your daylight/night experience?

Right now, his sunrise is around 8:30A and sunset around 4:15P. He gets about 2 months of "midnight sun".
I'm fascinated by this stuff. Tia!

And like ?60+ yrs ago when a cousin of mine had cancer as a 9, or 10 ye old bc my uncle was already working for WHO, he was able to send his son actually to Sweden for (sucessful) cancer treatment. At that time I heard his sunrise was around 10A, and setting around 2P.

I was like bc up till that point I didn't know about the differences in sunrise/set according to latitudes.

[Cha]

16. Mamdani really Doesn't want

Osse to run.

TY