Governor Kathy Hochul suffered through agonizingly awkward moments in her native habitat of Buffalo, New York.
Donned in Buffalo Bills gear, Hochul took the stage on Tuesday to rile up the fans but was met with a less-than-enthusiastic response.
“Alright, let’s get this party started, let’s go!” she shouted to what sounded like an empty stadium (it wasn’t.)
Hochul then tried a different approach and attempted to lead the crowd in a chant.
“Buffalo!” she yelled to one section. “Let’s go!” she too quickly yelled to another.
When, yet again, the sound of crickets consumed the air, Hochul tried to scold the audience for not being in the spirit.
“Alright, seriously? You want to win a championship season with that kind of enthusiasm? Men and women of labor, you know what I’m talking about,” she said before failing another attempt at engaging the crowd with another chant.
The flustered Dem finally gave up and yelled, “We gotta give this place some good karma, right?”, presumably referring to the newly built stadium.
Kathy Hochul met with crickets by Bills Mafia. They can see right through her phony ass. pic.twitter.com/QHKEy0NVGS
— J
(@blackhawkce457) June 26, 2026
There could be a plethora of reasons why Hochul received such an ice-cold reception, but the surge of socialism within the state likely didn’t help.
Hochul’s had a rough week with the win of three socialist primary candidates and NYC’s Mayor Mamdani’s minions vowing to target Hochul to push their ‘tax the rich’ agenda.
“She knows we’re coming for her,” Democratic Socialists of America leader Gustavo Gordillo told The New York Times.
Hochul, who’s branded a moderate by comparison, endorsed the socialist mayor in an apparent attempt to placate a growing base of radical leftists.
Wow. The enemy from within.
Comrade Kathy Hochul just endorsed a defund -the- police,
anti -Semitic socialist for Mayor. New York, how much lower
are you willing to sink before you WAKE UP ? pic.twitter.com/k0FaGADZM2— April Color (@ColorApril) September 15, 2025
Big mistake.
Republican New York Congresswoman Nicole Malliotakis put it succinctly when she addressed Hochul and her ilk for “feeding a radical socialist monster… And now this socialist monster has eaten them alive.”
Out of self-preservation, Democrats from Cuomo to Hochul to Schumer and the New York Congressional delegation moved more and more to the left, feeding a radical socialist monster & and now that monster is eating them alive, one by one. pic.twitter.com/WH3N8hcLSt
— Nicole Malliotakis (@NMalliotakis) June 25, 2026
