He had influence because of a terrorist attack and being a dumb lickspittle to a con man with Russian mob contacts. New Yorkers hated Giuliani before it was cool.

I refuse to have hope.

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Oh you mean like Rudy Giuliani? Mayor of the biggest city? The Mayor of America?

Unless we’re going to back to polities like the ancient Greeks NYC thinks too highly of itself.

I saw “What Dreams May Come” in high school and wept the entire way from the theater to the car.

Even met some friends on the way and had to explain I was crying because it was so beautiful.

Oh goody, one good thing could happen anywhere while a million bad things could happen a million times in a million places.

You’re not gonna trick me into having hope over one dumb mayoral election. We’re too fucked for that to make a difference.

Not a presidential election. Or a senate election. Or even a house election.

A mayoral election.

And this should scare the DNC?

Baloney.

Don’t worry, even if it’s good now it won’t be good later for some dumb reason

I look forward to his single term fighting against every entrenched power structure in the city and also the procedural bullshit that will hamstring anything good he tries to do.

Or losing to the Republican.

I really don’t think Trump cares about public opinion.

The government doesn’t work that way anymore. We’re not gonna Woodward and Bernstein our way out of this.

Also: since when does Trump care what’s legal?

Right so why bother impeaching him anymore. It makes the legislative branch look like a bunch of idiots.

Didn’t the house already impeach him twice?

If the GOP having control of all three branches of government is the system working then we need a new system.

So your solution is to keep trying the thing that I’ve already indicated doesn’t work.

Unless you’re advocating for me committing interstate voter fraud to flip half the Republican districts blue.

Because we’ve already established that I’m shit at convincing people to vote because I’m a whiny asshole.

No, the entire structure of our government is unable to deal with the world it exists in.

In the rare cases a Democrat I vote for wins they’re either hamstrung by Republicans winning everywhere else or have a stroke and turn into Republicans.

1. Winning is binary, so me voting doesn’t make Trump any less the president.

2. I’ve been trying to do that too and people are too stupid to convince and I’m bad at it.

Nah, I’m done hoping. I’ve seen them dashed constantly.

I’ve been voting D for years and it still didn’t help.

But we won’t. We could have been creating a better world for the past 30 years and we didn’t.

And now it’s too late to prevent the Ross Ice shelf and all of Greenland from falling into the sea.

Yes, this shitty world is definitely the best we could reasonably hope for.