{"id":42201,"date":"2025-06-26T13:42:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T20:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=42201"},"modified":"2025-06-26T13:42:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T20:42:44","slug":"democratic-party-accidentally-elects-someone-who-believes-in-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/democratic-party-accidentally-elects-someone-who-believes-in-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Party Accidentally Elects Someone Who Believes in Democracy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

r\/PoliticalHumor<\/a><\/strong> \u2022 1 day ago NewYorkerNIck<\/a> on Reddit.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Democratic Party Accidentally Elects Someone Who Believes in Democracy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

From – @GothamGoose on Instagram<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NEW YORK (GOTHAM GOOSE) \u2014 In a shocking twist no one saw coming except literally everyone under 35, Queens Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary last night, leaving party insiders and political pundits scrambling to figure out how to spin \u201chonesty\u201d as a red flag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to anonymous DNC strategists, confusion set in shortly after the win was announced: \u201cWe kept refreshing NBC 4 New York waiting for someone to call him unelectable again,\u201d said one senior comms staffer from an anonymous well known newspaper. \u201cWe even tried to use Chat GPT but it generated a donation link and asked how it could help Mamdani in the general election.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a group chat reportedly titled \u201cDemocratic Unified Messaging Board (aka D.U.M.B.\u201d) centrist consultants floated the idea of labeling Mamdani as \u201ctoo young,\u201d then \u201ctoo ideological,\u201d before settling on \u201ctoo sincere.\u201d That didn\u2019t stick either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, a team of digital advisors tried reviving an old Vine meme to confuse younger voters, hoping it would trend before they realized TikTok isn\u2019t a time machine. In a last-ditch attempt to manufacture scandal, a source confirmed that mayoral candidate Whitney Tilson was consulted to produce a new \u201cAI Slop\u201d attack ad\u2014a remix of Mamdani\u2019s old rap video meant to discredit him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately for the DNC, Mamdani\u2019s base just made the remix go viral and turned it into a ringtone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s giving grassroots,\u201d said one Gen Z voter. \u201cAnd also bars.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When reached for comment, one journalist at a major outlet said,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe were ready to call him inexperienced. If that didn\u2019t work, we were gonna go with unelectable. Now that he\u2019s electable\u2026 we\u2019re pivoting to: \u2018Is democracy moving too fast? Is ranked voting actually democratic?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Party insiders are now reportedly researching ways to gerrymander TikTok and rebranding \u201cmeeting people\u2019s material needs\u201d as \u201ceconomic instability.\u201d Stay tuned for more panicked think pieces. And another AI video later in the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Contributed by Gwyllm Llwydd)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

r\/PoliticalHumor \u2022 1 day ago NewYorkerNIck on Reddit.com Democratic Party Accidentally Elects Someone Who Believes in Democracy From – @GothamGoose on Instagram NEW YORK (GOTHAM GOOSE) \u2014 In a shocking twist no one saw coming except literally everyone under 35, Queens Assemblymember Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary last night,… Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42201"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42203,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42201\/revisions\/42203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}