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Posted on 01/11/2026 11:53:58 AM PST by MtnClimber
When New York City’s 8.5 million residents elected a self-professed socialist to be their next leader, conservatives across the country warned that his tenure would be a disaster. But the first week of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s term has been even worse than most predicted.
Like a true Marxist, one of Mamdani’s first acts was erecting a monument to himself. The 34-year-old Ugandan-born immigrant was officially sworn in as the Big Apple’s 111th (or 112th, depending on how you’re counting) mayor just after midnight on January 1. Mamdani, the first Muslim mayor of the city, took his oath of office on a Quran, which will now be kept on display at the main branch of the New York Public Library alongside a photo of his swearing-in and the slogans “The People’s Qur’an” and “Making history at City Hall.”
Clearly, the new mayor wants everyone to understand just how important he is.
Mamdani’s inaugural address, which sounded like a ChatGPT rewrite of the Communist Manifesto, was even more ghastly. “I was elected as a Democratic Socialist and I will govern as a Democratic Socialist,” he declared, promising to start an “era of big government” and to govern “expansively and audaciously.”
By far the most controversial line was his pledge to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Perhaps nothing else he has said so completely captures just how dangerous, ignorant, and deeply un-American Mamdani and his political ideology are. Rugged individualism is the beating heart of the American spirit. It fueled the first settlers to forge a new nation from wilderness, spurred on the Founding Fathers to craft a cradle of liberty from tyranny, and has sustained every generation of American patriots since.
The record of collectivism, meanwhile, is one of scarcity, pain, and despair. According to the best estimates, “collectivism” (also known as communism) killed 100 million people in the 20th century alone. That Mayor Mamdani doesn’t know this – or perhaps just doesn’t care – should be terrifying.
Lest any listener still have doubts about what Mamdani’s socialist dystopia will look like, the new mayor also pointed to South Africa as a model of his governing philosophy – specifically encouraging New Yorkers to view every problem through the lens of racial injustice. Never mind the fact that South Africa is rapidly descending into chaos and violence as white farmers are killed en masse. Mamdani wants us all to know that he wants America’s largest city to look just like Johannesburg, and that anti-white discrimination is his guiding light.
For anyone unconvinced of that fact, just look at the record of Catherine Almonte Da Costa, Mamdani’s first Director of Appointments – the individual charged with placing candidates in senior leadership positions throughout the city government. In 2016, Da Costa wrote, “It’s important that white people feel defeated.”
Da Costa lasted just one day in the job before she was forced to resign over antisemitic posts, including one that complained about “money-hungry Jews.” But Mamdani has continued to support Cea Weaver, his executive director of the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, in spite of her own troubling social media history.
Along with calling for treating private property as a “collective good,” Weaver stated her desire to “impoverish the *white* middle class” and described homeownership as “a weapon of white supremacy.” In another social media missive from 2018, she wrote: “There is no such thing as ‘good gentrifier,’ only people who are actively working on projects to dismantle white supremacy and capitalism and people who aren’t.”
Weaver has also called on people to seize private property and elect communist lawmakers. Yet in true champagne socialist fashion, Weaver’s mother, who is white, owns a $1.4 million home in Nashville, and Weaver burst into tears when a reporter asked her about it.
Of Mamdani’s other appointees who aren’t somewhere to the political left of Joseph Stalin, most are hopelessly unqualified. Perhaps the most glaring example of this is Mamdani’s choice of Lillian Bonsignore as the next fire department commissioner.
In announcing Bonsignore, Mamdani gushed about the fact that she would be the second woman and the first openly gay individual to lead the department, but was strangely silent on the details of her experience as a firefighter – probably because she has none. Bonsignore most recently served as EMS chief for three years before retiring in 2022. She has never been a firefighter.
The appointment outraged many longtime firefighters, as Mamdani passed over more senior and qualified choices. “It’s so stupid,” one told The New York Post. “EMTs have no idea what firemen do. They have no idea how to fight a fire.”
Stupid as it may be, it’s likely only a sign of things to come for New York City. No decent American wants to see his fellow citizens suffer. But elections have consequences, and Mayor Mamdani is showing just how dire they can be.
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When people are warned and they refuse to listen then it is hard to have much sympathy.
History is replete with once great cities falling into utter decay and ruin.
Business pulls out and NYC becomes the Detroit of the eastern seaboard.
You know those lights were bright on Broadway
That was so many years ago
Before we all lived here in Florida
Before the Mafia took over Mexico
There are not many who remember
They say a handful still survive
To tell the world about
The way the lights went out
And keep the memory alive
-Billy Joel
“Good and hard,” as Mencken said.
Well written
I’m afraid that his free childcare which has begun will make New Yorkers happy. They didn’t need to raise taxes for it but took excess funding that Governor had in the state budget.
Rhetoric aside, this is a continuation of an existing nightmare that started a generation or more ago, with an occasional brief respite.
Well Ma’amdami got hot pants Hochul to pony up 4.5 billion for universal child care. Unfortunately for them the timing is bad as the Somali looting of MN is big news. No doubt the a large part of the 4.5 will be a slush fund for the DSA.
Zohran Mamdani
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Moron Man’s A Dummy
“When people are warned and they refuse to listen then it is hard to have much sympathy.”
I will enjoy watching Mamdani inflict pain upon NYC. Sadly, many of those idiots in NYC want socialism so much that they won’t admit they’re being hurt.
All the smart people already left NYC, so this is what is left.
Blue areas just get bluer over time, because they drive out the smart people.
I don’t like Billy Joel’s political views, BUT he writes songs with lyrics that actually say something.
Today music is just a bass sounding boom, boom, boom, and some guy talking into the mic about how big his pecker is because he has a gun.
Mami appointed the homo for one reason, to keep the money and support in place.
NYC is in for a rough ride.
I grew up in GITMO in the early 60’s.
Cubans came onto the base to work every day. The government pretty much confiscated any money they earned, but they could eat on the base and let their families eat their food rations in Cuba.
One day, a woman we knew was in tears and shaking. During the night, Cuban soldiers shot the locks off the doors of people’s houses using machine guns. They were told it was illegal to lock their doors. Now anyone who wanted to could walk into their house while they were working and take anything they wanted. Or they could come into the house in the middle of the night and rape the women.
This is what Mad-mani supports.
His picture will be on every building to remind you who owns NYC ,LOL
America’s largest city to look just like Johannesburg, and that anti-white discrimination is his guiding light.
Indeed NYC a lesson in Don’t Try This.
PS send help
The guy is and will be an economic & political disaster throughout his term.
Hopefully, NYC voters will learn a lesson.
I have my doubts.
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