Posted on 10/19/2025 3:41:25 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
From the inimitable Robert Spencer, a last-minute plea for New Yorkers to come to their senses.
I haven’t lived in my hometown, New York, for 27 years, but thanks to the Internet I’ve been able to keep in such close touch that sometimes, sitting at my computer in Norway, I catch myself thinking for a split second that I’m actually still in my last apartment on the Upper East Side, right down the block from Gracie Mansion, where the mayor lives. It’s an easy mistake to make: after all, I write regularly for Manhattan-based publications; I peruse the New York Post website daily for the latest local news and check the New York Times to keep updated on the newest twists in the left’s narrative; I exchange e-mails with New York friends; and I follow old New York acquaintances on social media mainly to monitor their Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Alas, as far as I can tell, these people’s TDS is still going strong. Nor is it just TDS that they’re afflicted with. Since October 7, 2023, many of them have been outspoken critics of Israel and have wrung their hands over the supposed suffering of the supposedly innocent people of Gaza. And in recent months, while the mayoral campaign has been heating up in advance of the November 4 election, many of them have expressed enthusiasm for the candidacy of Zohran Mamdani, who identifies as both a socialist and a Muslim. Yes, he’s made clear his distaste for Jews and his admiration for Islamic terrorists: on October 18, the Post ran a picture of him campaigning with Siraj Wahhaj, “a notorious, gay-hating Brooklyn imam who is an unindicted co-conspirator in 1993 World Trade Center bombing.” Yet a good number of the people whom I used to socialize with...
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Here’s one way to have some fun if Madmandani wins. Open up a K-12 school only for males, and have all the the mothers and sisters in a separate room without school. Just like the Taliban!
Diversity and cultural sensitivity, dontcha know!
If Sliwa wins I’ll commit to moving to NY for a year. Which neighborhood/borough?
History repeats.
Ford to NYC: Drop Dead.
(Teachers Union pension fund lined up for the bailout?)
That’s quite a list of absurdities that idiot Mamdani is selling to gullible New Yorkers. Last time I was in NYC, admittedly decades ago. he would have been casually tossed into the East River and forgotten the next day,
Has the gullible, evil left-wing media cleared a path for this idiot?
“Which neighborhood/borough?”
Staten Island South Shore.
The guy is a snake as slick as Teflon. That is why I call him the Teflon Snake.
I don’t think Ford said “Drop dead,” did he? I think that was from a headline writer.
NYT Headline. No, Ford didn’t say it but he did not bail out the city.
I don’t think so even though I don’t know. Ferrys to get around-show stopper. Guess going out at night would be too dangerous even if Rudy was mayor.
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