#ritchie torres

[mysharona1987]

[tiredgirlvent]

I absolutely love Ritchie Torres

He is a true friend to Israel and all Jewish people 🫶

[dragoneyes613]

"How exactly can you 'win' a genocide unless you were lying about genocide in the first place?"

- New York Congressman Ritchie Torres, reacting to Palestinians and their supporters who have proclaimed that Hamas has won the war.

[eretzyisrael]

Source

[girlactionfigure]

ritchietorresny15

Private David Moser was a Jewish-American soldier who served with valor in World War I and died during the Spanish Flu pandemic. Despite his Jewish faith, the U.S. government buried him under a headstone engraved with the Latin Cross—a symbol of Christianity. I represent Private Moser’s 102-year-old niece, Deborah Eiferman, who has spent nearly a century advocating for a headstone that reflects her uncle’s true faith: one bearing the Star of David. Now, 105 years after his burial, a new headstone has finally been unveiled—and I had the profoundly moving experience of witnessing it firsthand.

[unsolicited-opinions]

New York Democratic Congressman Ritchie Torres:

Mehdi Hasan via Zeteo has rated me as “one of the villains of the year.” The reason? I’m an outspoken Zionist, and Zionism is a thought crime in the fringes of American politics. If Mehdi Hasan considers me a villain, I wear it as a badge of honor. Judge me not by my friends but by my enemies. Zeteo posted the following image, which I will happily repost with a sense of pride.

[twiststreet]

Ritchie Torres on the Adam Friedland Show difficult to watch in both halves. The first half, I just felt sad for Torres for the first time ever-- Friedland tried to tease out that there's a person there with a genuinely interesting human story about his coming out, tough background, etc., but struggled against Torres's relative lack of charisma. Still, I felt sad knowing Torres became this creature, when he could've possibly been a person.

And then the second half-- not even just the Israel talk but as soon as Friedland asks why Torres doesn't refuse money from Blackstone, Torres goes into robotic Democrat Machine mode. And that becomes just ... really, really hard to watch when Friedland becomes genuinely emotional talking about the genocide and rising antisemitism, and Torres is all AIPAC talking points, no humanity, just a total refusal (or more likely, inability) to connect. There's no point talking to the Democrats, we know that from 2024, if you try they just show you crude cartoons of Trolleys and then repeat the One Opinion that is allowed on bluesky. But Torres shuts down and goes propaganda mode on an Adam Friedland Show interview (which is a ludicrous decision) and gets angry when Friedland points out that he's shut down.

It's crazy to suggest it's a gotcha interview though. It's Adam Freidland-- he's not doing Isaac Chotiner moves-- he's a former co-host of Cumtown. That is not the guy doing gotcha shit! I genuinely would love to know why Torres's people thought him going on that show was a good idea, to begin with!! What was the hoped-for upside??

[tomorrowusa]

New York Dems line up to defend Mamdani from Trump — even if they don’t endorse him

Gov. Kathy Hochul and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have in recent days pushed back on broadsides from the president, a former New Y

Donald Trump is such a dumbass – even though he bizarrely regards himself as a "stable genius".

Trump's typically unhinged attacks on Democratic candidate for mayor of NYC Zohran Mamdani has prompted New York Democrats to hit back in defense of Zohran. At a time when some establishment Dems are still perplexed about the Zohran phenomenon, even some of his opponents feel obliged to strongly defend him against TACO.

New York Democrats who haven’t endorsed Zohran Mamdani are jumping in to defend the Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City from attacks lobbed by President Donald Trump. [ ... ] The president began lashing out at Mamdani the day after the June 24 primary. He’s since labeled Mamdani a “communist” and questioned his citizenship status, with some MAGA-aligned commentators attacking the Muslim candidate’s faith. Mamdani — who was born to Indian parents in Uganda — was naturalized as an American citizen in 2018. Now, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have in recent days pushed back on broadsides from the president, a former New Yorker.

What NY Dems are saying in response to The Orange One's attacks...

Gov. Kathy Hochul: "I don’t care if you’re the President of the United States, if you threaten to unlawfully go after one of our neighbors, you’re picking a fight with 20 million New Yorkers — starting with me." Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: "Stop lying about Assemblyman Mamdani. He is neither a communist nor a lunatic. And New York City doesn’t need to be saved by a wannabe King. Besides, you are too busy destroying America with your One Big Ugly Bill to do anything else." Rep. Ritchie Torres: "For a sitting President to causally threaten to arrest and deport a US citizen who won a major-party nomination is disgraceful. Free societies do not arrest, deport, and otherwise weaponize government against their political opponents." Former Gov. Andrew Cuomo: "President Trump’s threats to arrest Assemblyman Mamdani, while predictable, are insulting to the American principles of justice and further New Yorkers resentment of his heavy-handed tactics and the compliance and complicity of his supplicants. It should be universally condemned."

Those four are not exactly ideological bedfellows of Mamdani. And of course Cuomo was Mamdani's main primary opponent. But they regard Trump as so repulsive that TACO is unintentionally encouraging unity among frequently disputatious New York Democrats. Instead of dividing Democrats, the "stable genius" is bringing them together – against him.

NYC voters will pay more attention to the negative comments directed at Trump than to the parenthetical incomplete endorsement of Mamdani. Except for Cuomo, those Democrats mentioned in the article will give the nod to Zohran.