Posted on 11/05/2025 12:51:52 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Earlier, we told you about Zohran Mamdani's doomed promise to make groceries "cheaper" for New Yorkers. As we explained, Mamdani will use government tax dollars to subsidize subpar food at "public" grocery stores and this move will force other grocers to compete, lead to empty shelves, and eventually food rationing.
But that's exactly what Democratic Socialists like Zohran Mamdani want. How do we know that? Listen to the most alarming part of his speech last night and it'll explain everything:
“We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about."
Genuinely one of the most horrifying quotes I've ever heard from a politician.
Ronald Reagan once said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”
And Mamdani's statement is that. On steroids.
It's clear that Zohran Mamdani and his socialist allies believe they know best how to run our lives. Back in August, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) made it clear they want to abolish the traditional family structure, calling it "inherently repressive, racist, sexist" and that it "promotes capitalism." Who will step in to fill the void? The government, of course.
Mamdani also wants to abolish private property, which would make everyone reliant on government-subsidized housing, and his housing advisor, Cea Weaver, believes property ownership is a tool of "White supremacy" and is "racist." Weaver has called for the abolition of private property and the impoverishment of the White middle class. That would also make people reliant on government assistance for housing.
But there's something far more hypocritical in this statement, the blatant communism aside. There are, in fact, concerns "too small" for Mamdani to care about.
For example, crime and violence. He doesn't care about the New Yorkers concerned with rampant crime on the subways and the state's catch-and-release policies that cut loose career criminals like Ramon Rivera. Despite a lengthy criminal record, Rivera was released early from Rikers only to be arrested the same day for theft. He was released again and then fatally stabbed three people.
Mamdani also wants to stop the NYPD from responding to domestic violence calls. It's clear he doesn't care about the concerns of women and men who are living with abusive partners and will do nothing to protect them. Violence isn't a "social construct" to them or their families. But that's what Mamdani believes, and he calls for the abolition of the police because they're "racist" and "anti-queer."
Speaking of "anti-queer," Mamdani doesn't seem to care about the gay New Yorkers who might be concerned about his relationship with an Ugandan politician, Rebecca Kadaga, who wanted to imprison gays for life, or his friendship with Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who called gays the "disease of society" and urged Muslims to bully gays into joining Islam. Even Mamdani's own father bullied and harassed a gay Ugandan professor, Stella Nyanzi.
As for women, their concerns about "trans women" in their sports and safe spaces? Mamdani won't care about those. He supports radical trans ideology and trans inclusion. Women's thoughts and opinions don't matter.
Nor does Mamdani care about the Jews in New York City, who see his push to "globalize the intifada" as a direct threat to their safety and an indication that Islam will rule the Big Apple and not the democratic, liberal Western values that are the bedrock of American freedom, individualism, and liberties. Actor and comedian Michael Rapaport warned that "globalize the intifada" is actually violence against all of us, and he's correct.
Parents who want their children to have good educational opportunities also aren't worthy of Mamdani's consideration, it seems. Mamdani plans to abolish gifted and talented programs at New York schools, in the name of "equity," of course. Mamdani himself had the privilege of attending an elite private school, a fact that highlights the notion that "some pigs are more equal than others," as Orwell aptly put it.
You get the government you vote for, and sometimes you get it good and hard. New York is in for a rude awakening.
The spread of this DISEASE started in earnest under 0bama and that idiot Merkel in Germany and all of her European counterparts!.
There’s no doubt in my Military Mind that we’re in for so much more - and worse!
All I can keep saying is for people to plan accordingly for increasingly disfunctional governments at all levels under Socialist Democrats.
Arm yourselves while you can. Prep and be ready to move out if need be. Move to Greener Pastures if you can! They’re gonna catch up with us all eventually, but maybe you can eek out a few decades of peace and quiet until then. :(
Kansas City tried the same thing. Their government run grocery store failed miserably.
It’s going to be interesting. We know the suckup press will spin everything in the most positive light they can.
Look for lots of lawfare as the city sues entrepreneurs
There are many ways .gov uses force. You must obey
Yeah, that quote is a pretty clear statement of totalitarianism. That’s actually mainstream left these days.
Not really-go to grok, duckduckgo, etc to check out govt grocery stores in the old USSR-take a good look at the empty shelves, etc-that is what NYC is going to get. MrT5 was career Army-I never saw a shortage of anything in a commissary I shopped at...
Can't wait for the 911 calls when that happens. After all, idiots call 911 when McDonald's runs out of chicken nuggets.
Eye opening for a 13year old when I went.
I was roughly the same age.
CC
Glad for the trip.
Same here. Gave me a perspective many of my generation didn’t have.
CC
LOL! And the current have zero clue.
Right here in Kansas City one of those stores recently failed.
And mandated to eat with your fingers, no utensils.
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The current NYC Sharia police will be expanded and permitted to inspect homes for Sharia compliance which means residents can have no decorations or furniture, only rugs and cushions on the floor. Photos are absolutely forbidden and if found, a fine will be levied.
Women on the streets without covered hair will be beaten into submission. Refusal will result in a stoning.
I lived in Gitmo in the 60’s.
A number of Cubans came onto the base every day to work. They didn’t really work for the money, because the guards confiscated almost all of it. But they would eat all week and fast on the weekends. That way their families could eat their rations. They said all of Cuba could eat on the scraps the Americans on base threw away.
One time a lady we knew came in bawling her eyes out. In the middle of the night the army came into her village and used machine guns to blast the locks off everyone’s doors. They announced there is no private property in Cuba. Now, anyone can walk into her home while they are at work, any take anything they want.
One year around Christmas we gave a woman some tiny toys for her kids. The guards took the toys and hung her by her wrists for the 3 day weekend. They beat her several times a day. She came back with black eyes and a swollen face.
Fascinating. I didn’t know such a place already existed.
Our commissary in Gitmo had rotten potatoes and empty bins often.
But that was 63 years ago.
But it was still better stocked than what they had on the other side of the fenceline.
As businesses flee NYC, watch for the requirement that vacated and unmarketable commercial space be repurposed as low-income housing.
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