Posted on 06/27/2025 4:49:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber
OK, I know that all you smug people out there in the hinterlands are now snickering at me behind my back because I’m about to get stuck with one Zohran Mamdani as the Mayor of my city.
Probably, you have already read enough about this guy to know just how crazy and ignorant he is. If you haven’t yet studied up, here is a small sample of his stated positions: free transit buses for all, free childcare for all children 6 weeks to 5 years old, city-owned grocery stores, a rent freeze on all regulated apartments, vast expansion of city-owned subsidized housing (building on the success of NYCHA!), “cracking down” on landlords, plus some kind of a mental health intervention corps to intervene with violent criminals in lieu of police, all of this to be paid for by “taxes on big corporations and the wealthiest New Yorkers.” And of course, “globalize the intifada.” This guy founded the Students for Justice in Palestine chapter at Bowdoin College.
And don’t get the idea that he doesn’t mean it. When pressed on any of these issues, he has absolutely declined to back down or moderate on any of it. His no-limits version of the leftist project has earned him the endorsement of a who’s who of the far left of the Democratic Party: Bernie Sanders, AOC, New York AG Letitia James, New York City “Public Advocate” Jumaane Williams, Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, ex-U.S. Congressman Jamal Bowman, and so forth.
If this guy actually gets elected in November, he will give the far left a trifecta of mayors of the big three U.S. cities: Karen Bass in Los Angeles and Brandon Johnson in Chicago, in addition of Mamdani in New York.
However, being the eternal optimist, I would note that this guy can serve a very useful function for the sane people of the country: he can be pointed to (along with Bass and Johnson) as representing and defining what the Democratic Party actually stands for, and what the Democrats will do if put in charge nationally.
Mamdani’s ascendancy puts what passes for the national leadership of the Democratic Party in what I would think is a rather tough spot. Or, maybe they don’t see it that way. But their choice at this point is either to support this guy enthusiastically, or repudiate him and try to get other Democrats to join in the repudiation. So far, from the big guns, it’s mostly support.
Consider Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the most senior of the elected Democratic leadership. From New York Jewish Week, June 25:
New York Sen. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who likes to call himself the “shomer” (guardian) of Israel, spoke with Mamdani Wednesday and congratulated him on social media. “I have known @ZohranKMamdani since we worked together to provide debt relief for thousands of beleaguered taxi drivers & fought to stop a fracked gas plant in Astoria,” Schumer posted on X. “He ran an impressive campaign that connected with New Yorkers about affordability, fairness, & opportunity.”
(The New York Times does point out here that Schumer stopped short of a full-on endorsement.). Uptown Manhattan’s prominent Jewish Congressional Representative, Jerrold Nadler, did not stop short, and made the endorsement:
U.S. Rep. Jerry Nadler, the pro-Israel stalwart on the Upper West Side and parts of the Upper East Side, was even more enthusiastic in a statement intended to assure pro-Israel voters that he understood their qualms. “Voters in New York City demanded change and, with Zohran’s triumph, we have a direct repudiation of Donald Trump’s politics of tax cuts and authoritarianism,” Nadler said Wednesday, as he endorsed Mamdani in the general election.
The Times points out that a few Democratic Congressmembers from swing suburban districts expressed hesitancy about Mamdani. But did any of them actually repudiate him, and say something like “this is not what our party stands for”? Not that I can find.
The fact is that Mamdani in fact represents what the young and activist wing of the Democratic Party supports and believes in. The Democratic leadership cannot and will not stand up to this faction. So Mamdani provides an excellent opportunity for the Republicans to define the Democrats in a way that the large majority of voters will recoil from.
Meanwhile, I would not at all be sure that Mamdani will win in November. In this primary, Mamdani got about 432,000 votes out of about a million cast. That represented about 43% of a 30% turnout of the Democratic electorate in a closed primary. The total number of registered voters in New York City exceeds 5 million. Granted, the heavily Democratic general electorate tends to support whatever the primary voters have tossed their way. But in this upcoming election, there are plenty of votes that can be marshaled to defeat Mamdani if the opposition can get organized and can coalesce around one candidate. The most likely such candidate is the current incumbent, Eric Adams, who himself is rather badly flawed. But then, everything is relative.
The far left sure are getting the opportunity to show off their “wisdom”.
Someone posted a video and his supporters were all libtard white women.
There are actually posts by these clueless females about how Sharia isn’t so bad.
Insane. New York will look like London.
What more could a democrat want? He is perfect.
In a perverse way, I too think that should "Madman-i" be elected we could see the the nail-in-the-coffin of what passes these days for liberalism in America. It would be extremely painful for NewYorkers in the short run, but serve as a case-study for other American cities with large urban cores.
The libtard white women are letting their psychological demons do the voting.
BTTT
I’m not exactly for Eric Adams, but he might be the better Democrat choice. Aren’t there any Republicans running? Mamdani is a defite no-no.
Agree. He’s the future of the party.
Democrats would’ve lost (and likely did) in 2020.
Bernie was winning primaries and heading to be their nominee. Carville and some other ‘leaders’ of the party (Obama?) got together and decided to install Biden. Remember this? Pete got a cabinet position and basically a year off to raise ‘his baby’ (adopted); Bernie got a second home and drives a $130,000 Audi so he cut a deal - book deal is easiest payola these days; Kamala got the VP spot. ALL of Biden’s opponents endorsed him and he was the nominee.
So the base of the Democrat party is far left and likely about 25% of the country is actually ‘Democrat’ - aligned with their nutty beliefs. 12% or so of that are the African-Americans who are on the gimme dat train and vote 90%+ for Democrats consistently. Then the alphabet people another 2-4%. Aging hippies (and young people are far more conservative these days) another 5-10% - your Boomer Woodstock folks.
Democrats are a minority party but they control the big cities and media hubs - New York and Los Angeles - so they can brainwash America using pop culture.
Interestingly the last election showed Hispanics here legally and paying taxes will vote Republican. They aren’t the mindless hive voters blacks are and was amusing seeing the liberal elites scolding working class Latinos who voted for Trump.
Yes, democrats are a minority party now, but their plan to flood the country with millions and millions of dregs from third world, sh*t hole countries is their plan to fix that. That is why they are so vociferously fighting any and all deportations.
They are playing the long game.
Curtis Slewa is running as a Republican. He is the only one so there is no primary. He is what NYC needs, but he is not given much of a chance in the polling.
Mark Simone is confident Sliwa will win
Is Nadler an idiot or does he play one in Congress?
More demonstrations on the Army's 250th birthday with Mexican flags everywhere!
More Muslim socialists for Mayor!
More people like AOC and Maxine Waters!
More LGBTQIA, mutilating children, paid for by the tax payer in part!
More "essential female health care," AKA abortions, on demand: including late term, for under age girls without parents consent, and paid for at least partially with tax money!
More DEI, especially for air traffic controllers and pilots!
More climate change and electric car mandates!
More Covid mandates, masks, social distancing and shutdowns (I think most to varying degrees have begun realizing this was overblown political nonsense)!
More needless wars and money for Ukraine, another $200,000,000,000. Why not?
Now is the time where the Democrats need to take the most extreme position and showcase the most radical candidates.
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A few years back, when Obama was in his second year, things looked pretty gloomy.
Was this the future? Did America drift in this direction and is this a permanent condition? That was a depressing thought.
Who would have guessed that the Democrats would self embowel themselves like this?
And half of them are "educating" your kids. Any wonder the kids are so screwed up??
The evidence strongly indicates that Angry White Female Liberals (AWFLs) secretly desire to be treated as property, dressed in burquas, and beaten with rods.
Either that, or they are as ignorant of Islam as they are of most other facets of reality.
https://torah.org/torah-portion/perceptions-5781-bo/
...The Arizal makes it clear that when the Erev Rav returns in the final generation, it will be as gilgulim — reincarnations. The original souls will be born into new bodies, and guide these people in the ways of the ancient Erev Rav, though their actions will fit into the modern world...
...the Jewish people were not the only ones to leave Egypt after the Plague of the Firstborn. A “mixed multitude,” “erev rav” in Hebrew, also left with them, and changed the face of the redemption, and all of Jewish history, for that matter. They will later build the golden calf at Mt. Sinai in Moshe’s absence, and become the cause of his dying in the desert...
He’s not the futre of the democrat party he is it as they call it a back up plan always place two in the race.
not with the sane vote split between adams and sliwa
Momdani is The Face of the “modern” Democrat party.
New York City is certainly going to pay a high price for voting him in - but it will be a stark warning as to what others of his ilk, such as AOC will do to the Nation if they win at the national level.
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