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Posted on 07/03/2026 10:40:20 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) called on Americans to confront the nation’s flaws rather than ignore them on the eve of the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence, framing “righteous dissent” as core to the country’s founding ideals.
“This will be no ordinary day of celebration,” he said. “Two hundred fifty years presents a rare opportunity for more than 340 million people to turn together, both toward one another and toward ourselves, to take measure of who we are as a nation.”
Speaking from former President George Washington’s desk at New York City Hall, the first-term mayor reflected on the resilience of American revolutionaries who sought to free themselves from the British “yoke of oppression” in pursuit of a “grand experiment in self-governance.”
He recounted New York City’s role as the symbolic gateway to the nation, tracing the struggles and triumphs of enslaved Africans through the generations of immigrants who came in search of greater opportunity.
Mamdani argued that the idea of “American exceptionalism” had been co-opted by those with “power and influence and wealth” who have tried to cast immigrants aside rather than recognize their role in helping shape the country.
“For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best,” he said, an apparent reference to comments first uttered by President Trump during his 2015 presidential campaign launch.
“We are told that America is exceptional because it is stronger, more powerful than everyone else,” the mayor added. “The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because, here, nothing is fixed into place.”
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This guy is going to be a problem going forward.
The Hill or Babylon Bee?
Taqiyya, anyone?
He is going to be the
“Shah of America”
in a few years
"Hey, that's me!"
Yes, and we saw how your party handled that under Biden's White House occupancy, Islamocommie.
May the pigs of Hell shower that ilk and his family with merde.
Hopefully, the Mandami-hole will witness some real dissent sometimes soon in his useless, sordid, Muslim life. He will not like it, but we’ll love it.
Like Jan 6?
Of course, once they are in power, dissent will be treason.
Will no one rid us of this troublesome mayor?
Hispanic Generic Ballot: R plus 5. They don’t seem to be enthused by this Marxist wave.
In Albert Speer’s Inside the Third Reich, in a chapter detailing the autumn of 1939 as Hitler prepared to invade Poland, we find the following passage:In the course of the night we stood on the terrace of the Berghof with Hitler and marveled at a rare natural spectacle. Northern lights of unusual intensity threw red light on the legend-haunted Untersberg across the valley, while the sky above shimmered in all the colors of the rainbow.The last act of the Gotterdammerung could not have been more effectively staged. The same red light bathed our faces and our hands.
The display produced a curiously pensive mood among us. Abruptly turning to one of his military adjutants, Hitler said: “Looks like a great deal of blood. This time we won’t bring it off without violence.”
(“This time” was Hitler referring back to the bloodless takeovers of Austria and Czechoslovakia that preceded his grab for Poland.)
But will they actually vote or stay home?
“...cast immigrants aside...”? No, send illegal invaders back. The taqiyya talking muslim is clever.
He vomits many words of enlightenment but how has his track record for fulfilling promises made to get elected being fulfilled?
Sand Uyghur POS
Allah bends over in the pickle park.
“yoke of oppression”....you mean like....No gas stoves for you....
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