Posted on 07/04/2026 9:23:36 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani's speech for our nation's 250th birthday has gotten a lot of well-deserved criticism.
It was pretty awful on the whole. But there was one particular part on Friday that got a lot of attention, in which he lambasted America, attacked Elon Musk, and demonized Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
JUST IN: NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani used America’s 250th anniversary to sharply criticize the country, accusing the U.S. of allowing children to go hungry while billionaires and “oligarchs” gain more power.
He said America’s wealth was built by working people with “calloused, dirt-streaked hands" while accusing the country of allowing the wealth built by workers to be concentrated in “the soft hands of a precious few.”pic.twitter.com/p7Ayuza5je— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 3, 2026
READ MORE: On America's 250th - The Peril at Our Gate
Mamdani's Anti-American Meltdown: Oligarchs, ICE, and 'Supremacy' on America 250
The swipe against Musk was particularly nasty, saying children go hungry while the world's first trillionaire (Musk) "hungers for more."
In that you can see the evil of the radical left - to demonize the people who are actually achieving and whipping up envy and class warfare.
But Elon Musk responded, decimating Mamdani with one simple fact.
Mamdani has built nothing. He is a taker, never a maker.— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 3, 2026
"Mamdani has built nothing. He is a taker, never a maker," Musk declared.
Bingo. Mamdani is basically a nepo baby who had wealthy parents and went to an expensive private school, whose work history could be described as "light," at best. He worked briefly as a "foreclosure counselor" for an advocacy organization whose purpose was "organizing and advocating for systemic changes." Oh, and he was a "rapper" before he went into politics. It's sort of laughable for Mamdani to talk about "calloused hands," given his work history. But it's symptomatic of the champagne socialists we've seen.
Mamdani isn't even worthy of mentioning Musk's name, given all that Musk has achieved with all of his companies. He creates wealth, employs more than 160,000 employees, and contributes things no one else can, such as with SpaceX and Neuralink.
His real "crime"? He supports President Donald Trump. Notice you don't hear any of these leftists coming for Reid Hoffman or George Soros, the guys who contribute to Democrats. That's the real problem here. The Democrats think they have the right to seize money from Musk because how dare he be so rich? Regardless of whether they are, themselves, rich.
But Elon wasn't the only one who found some problems with what Mamdani said. So did Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R). He laid a big smackdown on Mamdani for being "regressive.
🚨 NOW: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis NAILS IT PERFECTLY
"When I see the Mamdanis of the world, they're basically offering these ideas, they claim they're progressive. They're really REGRESSIVE. These are things that the founding fathers REJECTED!"
"Their ideas have FAILED throughout history. And we have a chance now with 250 to look back and say — we're inheritors of an awfully GOOD legacy. We got LUCKY to have founding fathers pledge their lives, fortune and sacred honor the way they did when they did it!" 🇺🇸pic.twitter.com/M0c3yfieMT— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) July 4, 2026
"When I see the Mamdanis of the world, they're basically offering these ideas, they claim they're progressive. They're really regressive. They are things that the founding fathers rejected," DeSantis declared, talking about how rights come from God and how these ideas fly in the face of the principles of limited government on which our country was founded. The governor added:
"Their ideas have failed throughout history. And we have a chance now with 250 to look back and say — we're inheritors of an awfully good legacy. We got lucky to have the Founding Fathers pledge their lives, fortune, and sacred honor the way they did when they did it!"
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Let’s stop calling them “progressives” as they truly are REgressives.
Call a spade a spade.
They’re just commies.
All commies are the same.
If you don’t kill them, one day they will kill you.
BOOM! Comdami. Prime example of ‘hateriotism’.
As one of the latter, he should know.
Communists are the most “conservative” movement at all.
When they take over, time stops.
The whole country becomes frozen, nothing ever gets done, no change and progress ever!
I once met a guy who ran away from East Germany.
He was able to visit like 20 years later and, it was like he just left.
One of the letters on butcher shop was crooked, and guess what? 20 years later it was still there, as crooked as before!
Compare it to America.
When I returned to cities I once lived, 10 years later, I could barely find my way!
Everything changed!
Mamdani isn’t just a “taker” - he’s a foreign agent and a destroyer.
His family were standard, British colonial divide-and-rule comparators - Indian Muslims in Africa.
When they were kicked out of Uganda, they drifted around the Commonwealth for a while, then landed in the USA, in left-wing Hollywood and Columbia University. It was not by chance.
They’re communists and they need to be defeated. I care not how it happens.
The lousy NYC school system does not teach ANYTHING any more which used to comprise a classical education. They teach the alphabet designations (LBQT...lalala), how to cry "Racism! "and use it as a reason they failed their tests (when they actually did not attend class, did no homework, and never read assignments...), and hire teachers who push their own libtard progressive views on their students. How can this result in anything but intellectually retarded morons who vote dimmocrap? Ditto the local colleges, only at a higher level. The NYC City Council is made up of dimwits more interested in the well being of illegal aliens than their own NYC citizens. The average IQ of the NYC City Council is undoubtedly less than that of the little boy who lives next door to me. They disgust me from afar (I moved outta NYC a few years ago, never looked back). Every issue of the NY Post moves me to more and more disgust.
Last I cheked soft hands mamdami with his millions has never offered to help anyone but himself and his rich wife.
Mamdani is the ultimate communist piece of excrement.
Well, he's not wrong about that.
He's just wrong about who they are, which includes him and the entire (sans Fetterman) democrat cabal and leftist wing.
The only things more pathetic than Mondummy are the fools who grease his mouth.
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It’s not just this issue, the left along with the MSM do a great job of perverting the language to make their ideas seem safe and wonderful when in reality they are anything but.
Planned Parenthood sounds reasonable but is basically infanticide.
Global Warming was changed to Climate Change.
Illegal Alien changed to undocumented citizen
Inflation Reduction Act fueled wild inflation.
They’re countless examples of the Left perverting the language to further their agenda.
It’s not just this issue, the left along with the MSM do a great job of perverting the language to make their ideas seem safe and wonderful when in reality they are anything but.
Planned Parenthood sounds reasonable but is basically infanticide.
Global Warming was changed to Climate Change.
Illegal Alien changed to undocumented citizen
Inflation Reduction Act fueled wild inflation.
They’re countless examples of the Left perverting the language to further their agenda.
“Mamdani has built nothing. He is a taker, never a maker,” Musk declared.
Ditto
What has former rapper Mam Damn Me ever done that gave him “calloused, dirt-streaked hands”? What does he know about the struggles of the common people?
Nothing.
But he knows that fraud brings power and power brings money, and that’s what he’s after, like most of his African Muslim friends.
There it is.
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