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Mamdani is the mayor New York Democrats deserve
Washington Examiner ^ | 11 July 2025 | Mike Gonzalez

Posted on 07/13/2025 3:27:31 PM PDT by Rummyfan

That people get the government they deserve is a cruel adage, too cruel if you live in dark places where a small minority with guns terrorizes an unarmed population — see “Cuba, socialist state of.” But in a democracy, the maxim holds firmly.

Which means that if the citizens of New York City vote in Zohran Mamdani as their mayor come November, and things go badly, then Gotham really can’t ask for our sympathy. That Democrats voted him as their candidate in the primary on June 24 is one thing, but if voters of all parties ratify that decision on Election Day, that’s another.

Then it’s Pottery Barn rules: If you break it, you own it. Sure, it’s only natural to spare an initial thought for our compatriots from the Bronx to Staten Island if things go south, but after that, sit back and get the popcorn. I plan to do so wearing my threadbare Yankee cap.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: curtissliwa; dumbingdownfr; epsteinobsession; jewhatersonfr; kathyhochul; lookwhohatesjews; newyorkcity; zohranmamdani
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To: NoLibZone

At all.


21 posted on 07/13/2025 4:05:38 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: antidemoncrat

And that’s the issue right there. He’s a cancer and he will metastasize if not stopped now. No sign, yet, of which, if any, of the other three stooges will bow out and start getting momentum behind one of them


22 posted on 07/13/2025 4:08:35 PM PDT by j.havenfarm (24 years on Free Republic, 12/10/24! More than 10,500 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: Rummyfan

N.Y.C. is over 40% migrant, legal or otherwise. It’s been replaced as planned. Don’t waste tears over the tiny number of people there who actually vote.
This is happening because that’s the plan for all large urban areas...chase away anyone with money or brains and waltz into power. It’s even easier if you bring in people who have no respect or knowledge for individual freedoms.


23 posted on 07/13/2025 4:10:39 PM PDT by Arkady
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To: OHPatriot

And to top it off, when it fails spectacularly, they’ll blame Trump!


24 posted on 07/13/2025 4:11:38 PM PDT by Vesuvian
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To: Rummyfan

Just another Ghost Town for tourists.


25 posted on 07/13/2025 4:12:04 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: AZJeep

It must be walled off or the virus will spread.


26 posted on 07/13/2025 4:12:57 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA, AND HE WILL HAVE NO ODS BEFORE HIM!)
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To: Rummyfan

NYC always expects the entire country to kiss their ass. :)


27 posted on 07/13/2025 4:18:29 PM PDT by dljordan (The Rewards of Tolerance are Treachery and Betrayal)
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To: Rummyfan

i am a lifelong NYer and still live here- and i hope this happens...NYChitty is a third world craphole and this will be the final nail in their coffin....i laugh as i am surrounded by pasty white, self loathing liberal Jews who constantly vote for their own demise- this is just the next step...

I was part of a large group of NYers who purposely did not have our families counted in the 2020 census as we do not want NY’s influence spread around the country- and it worked...

I literally hope every day and night this state and NYChitty go bankrupt-....ayatollad mandani becoming the next mayor of NYChitty is a good thing- for our side...


28 posted on 07/13/2025 4:19:38 PM PDT by God luvs America
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To: Rummyfan

Why don’t people think New York has been taken over by the same group that put JB in after Trump won in 2020?


29 posted on 07/13/2025 4:20:21 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: mass55th

New Yorkers don’t vote for this.


30 posted on 07/13/2025 4:20:53 PM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: Rummyfan

He got where he is because:
1. his opponent was Andrew Cuomo, a man tarnished by nursing home deaths (due to his excessive willingness to bow to hospital demands to transfer Covid death risk) and a perceived (if not deserved) reputation as overly aggressive towards females,
2. a number of soundly thought-out reforms, and
3. a number of proposed widely-sought changes [child care, etc.] that are simply more than many NYC corporations and individuals are willing to pay taxes for.

Going forward, Mamdani is positioned to enjoy a divided opposition (Cuomo & Silva) that will likely enable him to win just as with the divided opposition (Reform & Conservative) that resulted in a Starmer-led UK Labour government.

Mamdani’s campaign has been skillfully run and that has caused many New Yorkers to think he is skilled enough to run New York City.


31 posted on 07/13/2025 4:25:51 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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the rats may be a life-threatening infection, but the remainder of the body doesn’t deserve assured terminal illness

Islam is a war plan


32 posted on 07/13/2025 4:26:44 PM PDT by Gene Eric
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To: johniegrad
He will not be elected.

How do you see this playing out? Sliwa winning? Adams getting reelected?

33 posted on 07/13/2025 4:29:23 PM PDT by Salvey (<I)
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To: mass55th

Not a Bloomberg fan, at all, but the two times I was in NYC during his administration, I was struck by how well the municipal functions were. Grew up in the suburbs in the bad old days, only there a couple of times during the Rudy years, and then twice during De blah blah blah’s term. Granted, Bloomberg inherited Rudy’s legacy, but at least he did not squander it. Thanks.


34 posted on 07/13/2025 4:32:37 PM PDT by jttpwalsh
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To: AZJeep

“”They should not expect us to bail them out!””

They will probably gamble and bank/bet on the Democrats stealing another election... whereby they’ll get their federal income taxpayer-funded bailout.


35 posted on 07/13/2025 4:34:25 PM PDT by Danie_2023
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To: Rummyfan

Every major city is run by hardcore leftists. The mayors and city councils have been Democrats for decades.

Crime and corruption in Democrat run cities is a fact of life. Anyone who thinks the electorate is going to have an epiphany is naive.

The voters never learn.


36 posted on 07/13/2025 4:40:46 PM PDT by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: Rummyfan

There really IS such a thing as mass-scale brainwashing.
Joseph Goebbels knew it well.

Control the mass media. Control the schools. Find and groom some entertainment and sports figures to parrot the commie/nazi/islamonazi false narratives.

That’s MORE than enough to indoctrinate the vast majority of the population.

What’s fascinating is that the old (and continuing?) “mind control” experiments ... weren’t (aren’t) necessary. Not at all. Neither are brain-controlling implants or chemicals (other than perhaps sedatives).

Orwell saw this clearly. His 1984 character OBrien said,
“We (the Party) control matter (people, society, everything) because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull.”


37 posted on 07/13/2025 4:57:14 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: Rummyfan
According to GROC

racial and ethnic breakdown of NYC based on the 2020 Census:

-Hispanic White: 2,719,856 (30.9% of the population)

• Hispanic or Latino (of any race): 2,490,350 (28.3%)

• Black or African American (Non-Hispanic): 1,776,891 (20.2%)

• Asian (Non-Hispanic): 1,373,502 (15.6%)

• Two or More Races: 299,959 (3.4%)

• Other Races: 143,632 (1.6%)

• Native American or Alaska Native: ~0.4%

• Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: ~0.1%

• Hispanic/Latino: The largest ethnic groups within this category include Dominicans (the largest Hispanic group in the city), Puerto Ricans, and Mexicans. Since 2022, over 100,000 Venezuelan asylum seekers have arrived, particularly in Queens.

• Asian: The Asian population, over 1 million, is the largest of any U.S. city. The Chinese population is the largest outside Asia, concentrated in Manhattan’s Chinatown and Flushing, Queens. Other significant groups include Indians (2.4%), Koreans (1.2%), Filipinos (0.8%), Vietnamese (0.2%), Bangladeshis (0.7%), and Pakistanis (0.5%). Queens hosts the largest Tibetan population outside Asia.

• Black/African American: The city has the largest African American community in the U.S., with significant populations in Brooklyn, the Bronx, and Harlem. Many are of Caribbean descent (e.g., Jamaican, Haitian).

• White: The non-Hispanic White population remains the largest single group, with significant European ethnic enclaves (e.g., Italians, Irish, Russians). Italians form the largest Italian-American population in the U.S.

• Foreign-Born Population: Approximately 36% of residents (around 3.07 million in 2023) were born outside the U.S., with the largest groups from the Dominican Republic, China, and Jamaica. Christianity: ~53% of metro-area adults (2025 estimate). The largest group, including:

• Hispanic Catholics (especially in the Bronx, ~30% of residents).

• White Christians (evangelical, mainline Protestant, Catholic), most prominent in Staten Island (42%) and Manhattan (17%).

• Black Protestants, significant in Brooklyn (17%)

. • Judaism: ~8% of metro-area adults, with an estimated 960,000–1.1 million Jews in the city (2011 UJA-Federation report). The largest Jewish community globally, surpassing Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Nearly half live in Brooklyn, which is 12% Jewish, driven by Hasidic communities. 16% of Jews identify as ethnically Jewish rather than religiously.

Islam: ~3% of metro-area adults, with estimates of 600,000–1,000,000 Muslims citywide, including 10% of public school children. The largest metropolitan Muslim population in the Western Hemisphere, with significant diversity (e.g., South Asian, Arab, African). The Powers Street Mosque in Brooklyn is one of the oldest in the U.S. A recent wave of Chinese Uyghur Muslims has arrived in Queens, fleeing persecution.

• Hinduism: ~2% of metro-area adults. Concentrated among Indian Americans, particularly in Queens.

• Buddhism: ~1% of metro-area adults, often among Asian communities (e.g., Chinese, Tibetan).

• Unaffiliated (“Nones”): ~26% of metro-area adults, with Manhattan having the highest proportion (34%). The Bronx and Staten Island have the lowest (21%). As of 2023, 24% of Greater New Yorkers identified with no organized religion, including 4% atheists.

Immigration Impact: The city’s diversity is driven by its role as a primary gateway for immigrants, with 36% of residents foreign-born. Recent trends include increased Asian immigration (especially Chinese and Indian) and Venezuelan asylum seekers.

38 posted on 07/13/2025 5:00:51 PM PDT by HockeyPop
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To: Rummyfan

39 posted on 07/13/2025 5:04:46 PM PDT by 4Liberty (One person’s Socialism is another’s neighborliness. -Tim Walz)
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To: Arkady

Well said.


40 posted on 07/13/2025 5:09:12 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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