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Mamdani admin. fails to attract any shovelers for hours at NYC site
New York Post ^ | Feb. 22, 2026, 5:40 p.m. ET | Kevin Sheehan, Fenix Suriel and Ronny Reyes

Posted on 02/23/2026 2:58:52 AM PST by Olog-hai

S’no thank you.

The Mamdani administration failed for hours to attract any emergency shovelers at one Queens garage Sunday — while planning to try to dig out New Yorkers with a fourth of the force the city used for its last mega-storm.

Despite Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s widespread attempted promotion of the city’s public-fueled emergency shoveling program, a sign-up sheet at the Maspeth Sanitation garages was empty, city workers told The Post during a visit late Sunday morning.

“I haven’t seen anybody sign up yet today. No, no one,” the employee said.

There were also no signs of shovelers lining up for work at 299 South St. at a Sanitation garage on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Workers there declined comment to The Post. …

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Humor; Local News; Weather
KEYWORDS: blizzard; freestuffisntfree; gettingitgoodandhard; islamosocialist; kathyhochul; lol; mamdani; newyork; newyorkcity; nyc; ohnoanyway; snowshovelers; spendaholics; yourwishisgranted; youvotedforthislol; zohranmamdani; zoltarspeaks; zoltarwisdom
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To: Olog-hai

Soooo, Each according to their ability... Guess this applies to only taxes.
Not each back or labor...


41 posted on 02/23/2026 5:55:01 AM PST by midwest_hiker
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To: Olog-hai

While they voted for “to each according to his needs,” I guess New York City residents aren’t too keen on the “from each according to his abilities” part of Communism. Let someone else do it!


42 posted on 02/23/2026 5:57:40 AM PST by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: Olog-hai

Expecting ‘volunteers’ to serve the “New Collective.” Just like the USSR and Cuba. Get the people to do what the state can’t do for itself. Next he’ll be recruiting for the Venceremos Brigade.


43 posted on 02/23/2026 5:59:20 AM PST by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative. )
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To: hinckley buzzard

He’ll do like in Schindler’s List, just get the Jews to shovel the snow. (Hopefully they won’t catch one with only one arm)


44 posted on 02/23/2026 6:02:27 AM PST by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: Skwor

Yes. Infidels shovel. Their slavemasters watch.


45 posted on 02/23/2026 6:02:46 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Olog-hai

Throw in free bus rides...

They’ll come...

:)


46 posted on 02/23/2026 6:03:08 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: Olog-hai

Mamdani said he was going to give everyone the warmth of free stuff. People assume that they do not have to work when they are supposed to get free stuff.

All Mamdani has to do is force people to work for free. USSR style

That is how commies roll.


47 posted on 02/23/2026 6:03:34 AM PST by dforest
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To: Olog-hai

Sorry, Mayor Kwame. I didn’t have the necessary paperwork to qualify. And I didn’t want to be an “undocumented shoveler.”


48 posted on 02/23/2026 6:06:38 AM PST by SharpRightTurn (Giving money & power to government is like giving whiskey & car keys to teenage boys. P. J. O'Rourk)
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To: changeitback440

$20 per driveway? 65 years ago my friends and I charged $0.25 per driveway and $1.00 for the big ones. We had fun working and the homeowner was happy to employ us. Times have changed.


49 posted on 02/23/2026 6:10:10 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Olog-hai

The prevailing thought in Mamdanistan is that shoveling snow is a job for “white boys”.

Fact is that is likely the smallest minority in the Rotten Apple.

And probably half of those have put on a skirt and are pretending to be a woman.


50 posted on 02/23/2026 6:13:44 AM PST by Biblebelter
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To: Olog-hai

Nobody “Leaned” how to shovel at the Leaning Centers.


51 posted on 02/23/2026 6:16:16 AM PST by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: Olog-hai

“Mamdani admin. fails to attract any shovelers for hours at NYC site”

I suspect that’s what he expected - after all, he understands Communism and thus understands that the whole point of Communism is that no one has to work anymore.


52 posted on 02/23/2026 6:18:41 AM PST by BobL (Trusting one's doctor is the #1 health mistake one can make.)
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To: PGalt

A snow day in grade school meant serious coins in our pockets. We were out the door with the last few flakes and didn’t come back home until supper-time..


53 posted on 02/23/2026 6:19:08 AM PST by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: Olog-hai

They voted for free stuff
not to provide stuff for free.


54 posted on 02/23/2026 6:20:00 AM PST by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: Olog-hai

Typical commies and socialist New Yawk turds. “I’m not working and you can’t make me.” ROTFL! “I’m only here for the freebies.”


55 posted on 02/23/2026 6:20:45 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Supreme Court Sucks. Time for the old dinosaur to go along with the U.N. and NATO.)
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To: maddog55

don’t forget the corner office and heated snow cat to inspect the work of the others.


56 posted on 02/23/2026 6:20:55 AM PST by cableguymn (Can't cancel all of us)
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To: blackdog
“ Nobody “Leaned” how to shovel at the Leaning Centers.”

That's because they went to Learing Centers instead.

57 posted on 02/23/2026 6:21:14 AM PST by Chgogal (The NYT is the mouthpiece of the violent left-wing Democrat Pa)
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To: BobL

He is missing the most important piece. The forced work camps consisting of your enemies, unpopular groups, and deplorable ethnic groups.


58 posted on 02/23/2026 6:22:07 AM PST by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: Olog-hai

Biden told us that he imported illegal alien slave laborers to do this kind of work. New Yawkers shouldn’t have to do any physical labor with all of the subhuman, knuckledraggers Joe Pedo brought into America. They love dollars a lot more than they love pesos.


59 posted on 02/23/2026 6:24:08 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Supreme Court Sucks. Time for the old dinosaur to go along with the U.N. and NATO.)
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To: Olog-hai

JO Pedo’s “Twenty Million Illegals” should be able to knock this snow out in a heartbeat.


60 posted on 02/23/2026 6:29:12 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (The Supreme Court Sucks. Time for the old dinosaur to go along with the U.N. and NATO.)
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