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Cuomo defeated in NYC Democratic Mayoral Primary

Lukraak_Sisser said:
I'm man and I can honestly say I've never even considered the ability of a politican to bench press anything when I vote.
I tend to look at silly things like their ability to do their job and proven qualities in earlier parts of their career.

But enlighten me, maybe the US is different. What part of the job of major of New York city involves bench pressing?
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It's obviously silly. Real men know that what's important is that their candidate can pee, longer, further and more accurately than the opposition and has therefore claimed more lamp posts and fire hydrants in the constituency they're standing for.
 
acbytesla said:
This might be the dumbest thing you could say. What does physical strength have to do with governing? NOTHING!

I won't vote for intellectual weaklings. I'll take someone with a doctorate in physics, engineering, biology, medicine etc, as opposed to someone who benches 250 or 50 pounds.
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Heh. It takes all kinds. I would take someone with a bachelor's and ten years of experience in a non-academic, non-political career, over anyone with a PhD.

And I don't care about physical strength. Physical weakness isn't a turn off for me, in a candidate. But I do think it's comical that Mamdani walked face-first into a physical posturing activity without stopping to think about whether he could pull it off, or how he would look if he couldn't pull it off.

Isn't this a common complaint about Trump? That he bulls into situations he doesn't understand and has no plan for, and beclowns himself and his constituency as a result?
 
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I agree that overestimating ones athletic abilities is a silly, though human, thing to do.
To equate it the the attitude of personal infallibility and brilliance, regardless of any actual skill, that Trump displays... eh.
 
theprestige said:
Heh. It takes all kinds. I would take someone with a bachelor's and ten years of experience in a non-academic, non-political career, over anyone with a PhD.

And I don't care about physical strength. Physical weakness isn't a turn off for me, in a candidate. But I do think it's comical that Mamdani walked face-first into a physical posturing activity without stopping to think about whether he could pull it off, or how he would look if he couldn't pull it off.
Isn't this a common complaint about Trump? That he bulls into situations he doesn't understand and has no plan for, and beclowns himself and his constituency as a result?
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That is the only part of this of note. It is fairly comical that he tried in public without knowing whether he could or not. Other than that, meh. Something for is opposition to laugh at and his supporters to not care about. I'm sure if Cuomo or Addams had done something similar, the response would be largely the same with different cast members.
 
Trausti said:
LOL. Yes, to men it's quite relevant that a 33 year-old man can't lift that puny weight. That's a weakling and I'd have no interest in voting for weak men. While some Democrats will probably vote for this socialist soy boy, their wives and their wives' boyfriends are going with Cuomo or Adams.
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It is only men who are insecure in their own masculinity who are obsessed with dumb meathead bull ◊◊◊◊ like how much they can benchpress. They're easy to spot. They humiliate themselves by using phrases like "soy boy", they think a soft flabby weakling like Trump is somehow the epitome of masculinity, and most of them aren't allowed within 500 feet of a school or playground.
 
theprestige said:
Heh. It takes all kinds. I would take someone with a bachelor's and ten years of experience in a non-academic, non-political career, over anyone with a PhD.

And I don't care about physical strength. Physical weakness isn't a turn off for me, in a candidate. But I do think it's comical that Mamdani walked face-first into a physical posturing activity without stopping to think about whether he could pull it off, or how he would look if he couldn't pull it off.

Isn't this a common complaint about Trump? That he bulls into situations he doesn't understand and has no plan for, and beclowns himself and his constituency as a result?
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While I don't condone this stupid thing another Trump voter said, I also sort of condone it. And aren't you all a bunch of hypocrites for not holding Mamdani's attempt at benchpressing to the same standard you hold Trump's catastrophic incompetence that is destroying the country?
 
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johnny karate said:
While I don't condone this stupid thing another Trump voter said, I also sort of condone it. And aren't you all a bunch of hypocrites for not holding Mamdani's attempt at benchpressing to the same standard you hold Trump's catastrophic incompetence that is destroying the country?
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Bench pressing as part of a campaign event is pretty stupid. He sort of deserved to fail it.
 
Hercules56 said:
Bench pressing as part of a campaign event is pretty stupid. He sort of deserved to fail it.
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A lot of things that a lot of politicians do during campaign events are stupid. The question is whether or not this is consequential or meaningful. It's not in the slightest.
 
This reminds me of Stacy Keach when he was on Two And A Half Men. His character was still in the closet. The way he described the men he served with on the submarine. "Good, hard men. And the hardest of them all was..." who he ended up living with in a homosexual relationship.
 
johnny karate said:
A lot of things that a lot of politicians do during campaign events are stupid. The question is whether or not this is consequential or meaningful. It's not in the slightest.
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Some even thrive on it, the third place leader Ed Davey ran his campaign on failing at physical activities just to get the air-time over the over-represented Reform.

And frankly Mamdani seemed to take it in his stride;
After throwing in the towel, Mamdani stood up and gave all the credit to the spotter
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especially as it's a trap take, if he hadn't done it they'd probably be scurrilous whisperings that he was scared or had something to hide.
 
johnny karate said:
While I don't condone this stupid thing another Trump voter said, I also sort of condone it. And aren't you all a bunch of hypocrites for not holding Mamdani's attempt at benchpressing to the same standard you hold Trump's catastrophic incompetence that is destroying the country?
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It can help to read MAGA posts with the subtitles on. Thanks.
 
ZiprHead said:
This reminds me of Stacy Keach when he was on Two And A Half Men. His character was still in the closet. The way he described the men he served with on the submarine. "Good, hard men. And the hardest of them all was..." who he ended up living with in a homosexual relationship.
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Never watched that show but it is amusing to think of Stacy Keach playing a gaymen on account of his usually roles.
 
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