Posted on 07/14/2025 7:17:52 AM PDT by MtnClimber
There are 123 billionaires living in New York City. Zohran Mamdani, the socially and economically advantaged socialist boy who’s apparently never held a real job and is busy stoking class warfare as he campaigns to be the city’s next mayor, says they shouldn’t exist. Voters need to know that their city can get along just fine without Mamdani. But it would fall into a raging hellhole without billionaires.
“I don’t think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality, and ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country,” Mamdani said last month on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
The views of an imbecile, or of a performative politician feeding his ego and trying to make up for a life of mostly idleness, apparently appeal to Gotham voters. Mamdani easily won the Democratic primary and is, for now, the favorite to win the general election in the fall.
For those who aren’t familiar with Mamdani, or need a refresher, he is a Democratic Socialist with Marxist urges that he doesn’t try to hide. As we noted last week:
Like Karl Marx, the privileged Mamdani, who calls himself a ‘BMW Bolshevik,’ sees the world through the lens of class struggle. The platform of the Democratic Socialists of America, of which he is a member, ‘fights’ for ‘the abolition of capitalism‘ as well as the ‘social ownership of all major industry and infrastructure,’ two Marxist principles that Mamdani supports.
Mamdani is also promising ‘free stuff’ for New Yorkers, from bus trips to child care; proposes to freeze rents (to stick it to those greedy capitalist landlords, no doubt); wishes to ‘shift the tax burden … to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.’
The spoiled, callow, nepo baby momma’s boy has also tweeted the Marxist rallying cry: “Each according to their need, each according to their ability.”
And there’s that loony idea of government-run grocery stores.
Mamdani will be the bringer of misery if he’s elected mayor. That’s always the outcome when Marxism and its somewhat lighter version called socialism are set loose on people. The promised utopias turn out to be wretched and grim places, from Cuba to the Soviet Union to Mao’s China to North Korea, with a lot of Nicaragua and Venezuela mixed in. Socialism destroys.
“Mamdani presents a real economic threat to residents of the five boroughs and their upstate neighbors – and even to the economic well-being of the entire country,” writes Bennett Nuss, an associate with the National Center for Public Policy Research, in the Wall Street Journal.
New York Post columnist Rikki Schlott says Mamdani “threatens to bring NYC back to bad old days” while Daily Mail U.S. correspondent Tom Leonard fears he “could bankrupt the once proud city I call home.”
“There is no shortage of experts,” adds Leonard, “arguing that Mamdani’s ideas are more likely to hurt the poorest New Yorkers than help them.”
Both the New York Times and Washington Post editorial boards have warned voters that they elect him at their peril.
Even a former Obama Treasury secretary, Jack Lew, believes the policies that Mamdani has “outlined are not policies that are good for New York.”
What is good for New York are the contributions of the billionaires Mamdani wants to erase. They invest, build, and create jobs. Their tax dollars keep the city government running. The philanthropy of billionaires funds health care centers and the cultural institutions New Yorkers hold dear. They are greater humanitarians than Mamdani will ever be, and every city, not just New York, needs more of them.
New York City cannot prosper without billionaires, but it would never miss Mamdani if he lost the election and moved to Los Angeles to record rap records bankrolled and directed by his mother.
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We don’t need another communist experiment. We already know what happens.
“Think of all the fun things I can do with your money!” - communism 101
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This guy has the look and feel of Obama, and he’s just as toxic. A billionaire isn’t necessarily broadly intelligent, he or she may be hyper efficient in one area. A billionaire like that may be stupid enough to vote for the communist. Heck, Jews will vote for an antisemite who wants them dead.
I expect the fools in New York City will elect him and things will quickly go to heck. The police department will see a surge in early retirements and resignations and the very wealthy will flee the city as will many corporations who maintain headquarters there. His government grocery stores will be a flop from outright theft from the shelves to gross mismanagement. His attempt to take over private property to convert to government housing will get shot down in the courts. His rabid anti semitism will make even the New York liberals cringe. New York will quickly take on the overtones of drab hopeless communist cities like East Berlin and Havana.
There are 123 billionaires living in New York City.
Not for long. They're heading to Florida, Tennessee and Texas - and taking their billions with them.
Madman will have to find another source to fund his lefty fantasies, and it won't be the Feds:
"President Trump threatens to cut off federal funding for New York City if Mamdani wins, calling him a 'pure communist.'"
Used to be the Gambinos would have quietly taken care of such.
Mamdani v freedom, government v citizens, destroyers v creators, fantasy v reality.
That giant sucking sound is Wall Street moving to Dallas. The offices and related equipment is all ready to go.
At least the Gambinos would have left you with most of your billions. All they wanted as protection money.
No matter what, no matter who runs against him, he’s going to win because NYC is the moron capital of the world. I grew up there and escaped in 2013 and when I did it was like that scene in the Wizard of Oz when everything turns to color from black and white “You mean people aren’t a*sholes everywhere? Aunty Em!!”
Look at this thread I posted yesterday, look how effed up these people are.........
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4328542/posts
“”President Trump threatens to cut off federal funding for New York City if Mamdani wins, calling him a ‘pure communist.’””
He can always raise tolls, raise prices to drive to various areas of NYC and increase property taxes. Wait. What?! That’s already been done? “Looks like the relief pitcher Mandahni has been called in to hold off the Corrupted and give the Commies the win.”
(I expect the fools in New York City will elect him)
Yep. Adios NYC.
09/11/2001 has been forgotten.
And yet, he is the darling of a party financed by billionaires.
The views of an imbecile......a performative politician feeding his ego to make up
for a life of idleness. Mamdani easily won the Dem primary said on NBC’s “MTP:
<><>”I don’t think that we should have billionaires because,
<><>it is so much money in a moment of such inequality, and ultimately,
<><>what we need more of is equality across our city and state and across our country.”
Why? I agree with equality of opportunity but not outcome. Some people simply won't put in the effort to improve their lot in life and I have zero sympathy for such people. The rich (income > $446,000/yr or 10% of taxpayers) pay 72% of total IRS tax collections while the lowest 50% pay less than 3%. I love billionaires as they are the people who invest in the economy, promote economic growth, and create jobs for the rest of us. We vilify the rich and praise the poor. Why? How many of you were hired by a poor person? Bezos is a common target for idiots like Mamdani, but until he feeds, clothes, and shelters 250,000+ souls, he should sit down and STFU.
There is no conflict here. All commie trash vie for one thing and one thing only: Power. He will cut a deal such that the commie trash billionaires (Yes, there are lots of them) will pay to get him into office so long as they get immunity.
CaCaLand’s Guv’na, Newscum, did the same thing when the state sack of sillies passed a $15/hr minimum wage. His friend and donor, the CEO or PaneraBread, got Newscum to issue an waiver for any fast food restaurant that also bakes bread. So, PBread does not have to pay that minimum wage.
Any business is interested in continuing to make money. If they have to pay bribes, say nice things about commie trash, or anything else; they will.
IF ALL 123 LEFT NYC & MOVED ELSEWHERE-—HOW MUCH WEALTH WOULD LEAVE NYC????
TAXES-—EMPLOYMENT—REAL ESTATE, ETC???
NYC needs to wake up
I SUPPORT THAT...
THEY NEED TO SHOW MAMDANI & others THAT THEY CANNOT CONSTANTLY LIE THEIR WAY INTO A POLITICAL POSITION
HE IS A VERY DANGEROUS PERSON.
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