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With Zohran Mamdani On The Cusp of Becoming Mayor, NYC Embraces Its Own Demise
American Thinker ^ | 3 Jul, 2025 | Vince Coyner

Posted on 07/03/2025 5:05:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber

As a child of the Cold War with the Soviets as America’s enemy, when the wall came down and the threat of Communism faded, I was under the illusion that the world had inexorably turned a corner and that history was on the march to bring freedom, capitalism, and prosperity to the whole world...

The events of September 11 exposed that illusion for what it really was: a delusion. There were actually people out there who wanted to start a war with the United States.

With 9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Islam went from an almost nonexistent issue for most Americans to front and center. Suddenly, Islam and Muslims are in the news on a daily basis, doing unspeakable things to one another and others.

Knowing nothing of this threat and wanting to know more, I picked up books like Dore Gold’s Hatred’s Kingdom and Benny Morris’ Righteous Victims, and even a copy of the Koran, which, honestly, I couldn’t get through. And I read a lot more online from guys like Steve Emerson, Robert Spencer, and David Horowitz.

Over the following years, you had everything from the Shoe Bomber to the Ft. Hood shooter to the San Bernardino attack and countless others. And elsewhere in the West, you had everything from the murder of Theo Van Gogh to the London 7/7 attacks, the Charlie Hebdo attacks, and others. It seemed like Islam was at war against the entire world.

But a funny thing happened on the way to the news, despite everything we were seeing with our own eyes, the blood, the carnage, the innocent victims, we were told that Islam wasn’t the problem. Instead, the problem was the individual terrorists who just happened to be Muslim. “Islam isn’t violent,” we were told, despite

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KEYWORDS: communistlunatic; feralcity; intercession; jihad; marxism; newyorkistan

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1 posted on 07/03/2025 5:05:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

Will people in NYC vote to demonstrate their lack if “Islamophobia”? I think they will, but I hope I am wrong.


2 posted on 07/03/2025 5:05:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

all the nyc voters are thinking about is

all the free govt cheese


3 posted on 07/03/2025 5:08:24 AM PDT by joshua c
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To: MtnClimber

The amazing thing is that this guys is going to get elected with Jewish backing and Jewish votes.


4 posted on 07/03/2025 5:11:44 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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I doubt he’ll be worse than DeBlasio. Maybe as bad, but not worse.


5 posted on 07/03/2025 5:15:15 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: MtnClimber
Maybe Mamdani is the coup de grâce that will put New York out of its misery.
6 posted on 07/03/2025 5:16:34 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Nothing inflames unrest in the delusional, and nothing inflames unrest in the evil, like TRUTH.)
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To: Angelino97

I doubt he’ll be worse than DeBlasio. Maybe as bad, but not worse.

lol. It’s going to be much much worse. The financial district will move to Florida, and that will start a collapse that NYC will never recover from.


7 posted on 07/03/2025 5:17:09 AM PDT by Pete Dovgan
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To: MtnClimber

The Mooselimb mayor will burn the city to the ground. And all those self-loathing Jews will gladly dig their own graves before they are beheaded. The frog and the scorpion comes to Gotham.


8 posted on 07/03/2025 5:18:06 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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It’s hard to imagine “much much worse” than DeBlasio.


9 posted on 07/03/2025 5:21:38 AM PDT by Angelino97
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10 posted on 07/03/2025 5:21:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

And it’s Gotham’s own fault.


11 posted on 07/03/2025 5:23:32 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Savage Beast

Most likely.


12 posted on 07/03/2025 5:23:43 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: rdcbn1

And when Zohran ruins New York City, will the Jewish voters still regret choosing him?!


13 posted on 07/03/2025 5:25:28 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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The Left never regrets anything.


14 posted on 07/03/2025 5:29:10 AM PDT by rdcbn1 (TV )
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To: MtnClimber
I left in 1983. NYC has been embracing its own demise since at least the 1970s, but it takes a while to fritter away all that wealth and good will.

One doesn't think of NYC as a major manufacturing center, but all those sweet little loft apartments in SoHo were all factory lofts at one time. That is walking distance to Wall Street.

And the waterfront below Brooklyn Heights was a working waterfront with adjacent industry, not an upscale neighborhood with great views. Brooklyn Heights is walking distance to Wall Street over the Brooklyn Bridge.

When the NYSE and "Wall Street" move out, that is when you'll know NYC is done.

Wait. I forgot United Nations HQ, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Federal Reserve Bank branch with all the gold. Do those institutions even need a working city around them in order to function?

15 posted on 07/03/2025 5:30:47 AM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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The city may yet survive if the other side can unify around a single candidate, most likely Adams, and he can raise the funds that he needs to run scary ads.


16 posted on 07/03/2025 5:34:05 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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The Left never regrets anything.

If something they do is stupid or ruinous, they will actually double down on it.

17 posted on 07/03/2025 5:35:48 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: rdcbn1

The Left never regrets anything.

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And they NEVER admit they were//are wrong.


18 posted on 07/03/2025 5:37:49 AM PDT by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possible.)
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To: rdcbn1

The Issue is never The Issue, the Issue is always The Revolution.


19 posted on 07/03/2025 5:38:56 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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And they NEVER admit they were//are wrong.


Trump is the only Republican I know that also never admits he’s wrong.


20 posted on 07/03/2025 5:42:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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