Posted on 11/05/2025 8:31:56 AM PST by re_tail20
He won because there was no competition...
Occam’s razor: if you have two competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, you should prefer the simpler one.
Simplest answer, idiocy.
“Taxes eat away their paychecks. Buying a home feels impossible.”
If they think the new mayor will make this better they are in for a rude awakening.
Mamdani will fail and blame Trump ,LOL
(Mamdani) won because he captured something every politician should be listening to right now — a deep frustration that the system doesn’t feel fair anymore …More fraud denial.
Anyone who lives in New York City and complains about the cost of living is a fool.
It was always insanely expensive to live there.
I turned down a bunch of job offers there over many decades for exactly that reason.
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One anecdote—I was talking to a recruiter for a large New York investment bank who had a job offer for me.
I told her “move to Texas and then we can talk”.
Her response: “I hear that a lot.”
He promised free stuff.
This clown spoke this morning about law and order and that all law breakers will be held accountable. When he emigrated in 2018 he lied on his Federal gov’t form as told by retired emigration officials. Trump may have Mami by the cajones for breaking Federal law when he lied to emigrate. Its a felony. He needs to be held accountable.
Most political revolutions of the past couple of centuries have not been led by people who come from abject poverty nor by people from the wealthy elite. They’ve come from somewhere in the middle - people who have realized that no matter how well they’ve played by the rules they’ll never be part of the wealthy elite due to lack of connections, luck, or whatever else puts and keeps those in power there. Being part of a revolutionary vanguard is a potential short path to another elite for such people, or at least something that gives them some sense of agency. The specific ideology they subscribe to in the process doesn’t really matter.
“They don’t want handouts.”
He ran on giving handouts ...
If there was ever a perfect illustration of what “from the frying pan into the fire” means, this was it.
“I don’t like the sound of ‘ese ‘ere ‘Boncentration Bamps’”
Yyyeahhh. Just one question, Chief. Who's been making and breaking these promises in New York?
SOL, Chuckie Shroomer, Bill DeBlahblahblah, Andrew Coomo, Michael Bloomberg, Al Sharpton, Hitlery Rotten Clinton, Charles Rangel, must I go on? They all promised the same Utopia that Imamdani promises. There's just one small problem. The very word "Utopia" literally means "no such place".
He won the early voting and mail-in ballot cheating vote.
R’s won the election day vote.
I just read the excerpt, but my take is that, honestly, he’s basically saying that, to a great degree, he was elected for the same reason Trump was.
Dunno. Perhaps some of that plays a part. Certainly there was a segment that just liked his personality and smile.
“He promised free stuff.”
This.
Costs are out of control. He was the only person to at least adress it. and claim he can “fix it”.
It won’t work. But, he at least made that his platform.
You can not add MORE taxes on everything, then expect prices to go down. BUT, that is what he’s selling. And people are willing to try it.
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