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This Is Not a Drill
Townhall.com ^ | 19 July A.D. 2025 | Katie Pavlich

Posted on 07/19/2025 8:02:51 PM PDT by lightman

The Democratic Party’s newest star, Zohran Mamdani, was welcomed into the center of political power in America and the world this week, shepherded by “Democratic socialists” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pramila Jayapal. After winning the Democratic primary to become New York City's next mayor, Mamdani is being nationalized.

“Anybody that’s staying out at this point and not endorsing this incredible, dynamic leader is missing an opportunity,” Jaypal told reporters about his Washington, D.C., visit in an effort to get the Democratic Party to endorse Mamdani and his political platform. ”It’s hard not to be won over…it’s really inspiring.”

But Mamdani’s ideology isn’t one of fantasy or academic delusion. His policies have been implemented in countries around the world, leading to their destruction and the mass suffering of humanity.

We saw this play out in Castro’s Cuba and at the hands of Che Guevara — the charismatic, dynamic “democratic socialist” who led a revolution to poverty, despair, starvation, scarcity, intolerance and tyranny.

"Che Guevara co-founded a regime dedicated to abolishing almost everything today’s [young people] hold dear. Most victims of his firing squad massacres were Cuban youths in their twenties. Many as young as 16. Some even younger. Carlos Machado was 15 years old in 1963 when the bullets from a Che-commanded firing squad shattered his body. His twin brother and father collapsed beside Carlos from the same volley. All had resisted Castro and Che’s theft of their humble family farm, all refused blindfolds and all died sneering at their Communist murderers, as did thousands of their valiant countrymen,” Young America’s Foundation exposes.

That same regime was dedicated to eliminating private property and seizing the means of production.

"Soon after Fidel Castro came to power, his government seized the refineries, hotels and sugar plantations that were the most visible signs of the American hold on the island’s economy,” the Associated Press details. “But a look at long-unsettled claims for what was taken shows that many of the Americans who lost out were individuals and families rather than corporations. And much of what was seized, while of limited value in dollars, was sometimes dearly prized.”

“Nearly 90 percent of the Americans who filed claims for confiscated Cuban property were individuals, according to a Creighton University study commissioned by the U.S. Agency for International Development,” the report continues.

Just as Mamdani has regularly advocated for, claiming it will benefit the working class.

“We have to continue to elect more socialists. We have to ensure we are unapologetic about our socialism,” Mamdani says. “There are other issues we firmly believe in…it’s the end goal of seizing the means of production.”

Despite his third world facade, Mamdani is an elite, not someone who understands those working long hours and overtime shifts. Communism has always been implemented through and by those who seek power to subjugate the population under the guise of helping them. He sells the idea of “free” housing and groceries, but a promise of free from a comrade isn’t free at all. Instead, it’s an exchange of an individual’s freedom.

“After [the] Red October Socialist Revolution in 1917, Bolsheviks seized means of production, jailed or killed business owners, eliminated freedoms & took over private farms & food stores,” former Brooklyn City Councilman and communist refugee Ari Kagan wrote on X. “I would never imagine NYC would consider this failed & dangerous government model.”

New York City, a beacon of free commerce throughout the world, has a choice to make. History has shown us what will happen if voters make the wrong one.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: andrewcuomo; communist; curtissliwa; defundthepolice; ericadams; kathyhochul; mamdani; newyork; newyorkcity; radicalsocialist; zohranmamdani; zorhan
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NYC: "You have chosen poorly".
1 posted on 07/19/2025 8:02:51 PM PDT by lightman
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To: lightman

Any government that owns the grocery markets can deny one access to the grocery markets and food.


2 posted on 07/19/2025 8:05:56 PM PDT by healy61
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To: lightman

Have Crop Dusters been seen over New York skies earlier this year? Maybe something was sprayed at and on the people, something that greatly effects personal judgement.


3 posted on 07/19/2025 8:06:47 PM PDT by lee martell
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‘’ Have Crop Dusters been seen over New York skies earlier this year? Maybe something was sprayed at and on the people, something that greatly effects personal judgement.’

lol.

Yeah. You nailed it.


4 posted on 07/19/2025 8:10:13 PM PDT by Fuzz (`)
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To: lee martell

Spraying began over NYC in 2002.


5 posted on 07/19/2025 8:10:49 PM PDT by Old West Conservative
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To: healy61

They can do that under “private” stores too...do you not remember covid?


6 posted on 07/19/2025 8:17:13 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (ui)
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To: lightman

Pramila spent five hours in the beauty salon.

And that was just getting a quote ...

>That wasn’t very nice! An FR scold

I don’t care. She’s a beast.


7 posted on 07/19/2025 8:17:42 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives)
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To: lightman

The rats are desperately trying a BS triangulation play because outside of NYC this commie hurts them. It’s a lie of course, every one of them would vote for him if they lived in NY.


8 posted on 07/19/2025 8:19:36 PM PDT by iamgalt
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To: lightman

please, please, please DNC, PLEASE endorse Zohran! ... [did i say please? ... OK, how about, pretty please with sugar on top!]


9 posted on 07/19/2025 8:33:32 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: lightman
He chose...poorly
10 posted on 07/19/2025 8:38:30 PM PDT by lightman (Beat the Philly fraud machine the Amish did onest, ja? Nein, zweimal they did already!)
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To: Old West Conservative

This is all the logical long-term outcome of policies established by the most heinous Republican who ever lived: John Lindsay...

He is, ultimately, the key orchestrator of the NYC of today...


11 posted on 07/19/2025 8:48:37 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: lightman

If Madmandani starts to falter significantly, perhaps we need to reload and retool the El Rush-Bo Operation Chaos, this time propping up the islamofascist running for NY mayor. Keep him in the national public eye for a while.


12 posted on 07/19/2025 8:49:18 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try - AND - Every Time You Fall Down, Get The Frak Up! )
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To: tumblindice

If Popeye became Transgender, bought a wig and a full can of spray on tan, he would look like Pramalia J.


13 posted on 07/19/2025 8:50:19 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lightman
He chose...poorly

Boy, I could not stop laughing after watching this.

14 posted on 07/19/2025 9:18:20 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: lee martell

It is a foreign country, do not try to understand them.


15 posted on 07/19/2025 9:39:50 PM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: lightman

Surely This will result in completion of the move of the Stock exchange To Texas

Escape from New York It’s not a fantasy movie any longer


16 posted on 07/19/2025 9:50:28 PM PDT by Sequoyah101
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Surely This will result in completion of the move of the Stock exchange To Texas

Oh boy. Just what we need - more Yankees. Tell them to bring some roads and bridges with them.

17 posted on 07/19/2025 10:34:56 PM PDT by Nachoman (Proudly oppressing people of color since 1957.)
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To: lightman
Why isn't anyone talking about the Communist Control Act of 1954? There are laws on the books banning avowed anti-Americans from ever getting into office. Yet here we are.

I'm also patiently waiting for someone to point out that the word "Nazi" was a contraction of NSDAP which was the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or National Socialist German Workers Party. This idiot is running as a nationalist Socialist, but they're calling us Nazis?

18 posted on 07/20/2025 2:22:32 AM PDT by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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To: lightman

I don’t know why, but I feel like guy might have the numbers, 666, on his head somewhere


19 posted on 07/20/2025 3:10:50 AM PDT by Ouch (The only way three people keep a secret is if two of them are dead.)
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To: lightman

Rank voting scam will elect him handsomely


20 posted on 07/20/2025 3:22:03 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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