Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: Just days after winning the NYC mayoral election, Zohran Mamdani flew to Puerto Rico — and attended a mosque where the Imam called October 7th a “silver lining.” Utterly disgusting."
Abhijit Iyer-Mitra on X - "The only thing you need to know about political Islam is that they use people like Zohran Mamdani, Mehdi Hassan & Ilhan Omar to cover for Masood Azhar, Yahya Shinwar & Osama Bin Laden. Two sides of the same coin they flip, in the hope you’ll focus on only one side. Remember it wasn’t a bearded fanatic who created Pakistan. It was a clean shaven, pork gobbling, whiskey chugging, lawyer, whose wife wore scanty dresses that were scandalous even by British high society standards. The bearded fanatic is the puppet, the clean shaved “modern face” is the puppet master."
RNC Research on X - "Zohran Mamdani met and praised Imam Siraj Wahhaj, an unindicted co-conspirator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
FOX NEWS: Wahhaj "supported and praised an infamous radical Islamic terrorist leader, but ... Mamdani not only met with him but is not renouncing him.""
Robert - Slava Ukraini πΊπ¦πΊπΈ on X - "I don't recall Trumpers losing their minds when Kash Patel, who also has Indian parents, was named Director of the FBI. If you can survive that, you'll survive Zohran being mayor of New York City. Your selective racism is bullshit, MAGA. Cry harder, Fuckwits."
Left wingers always work backwards to reach their desired pre determined conclusions rather than realise their premises are wrong. Imagine almost getting the point that racism isn't the reason people oppose him
Insurrection Barbie on X - "So let me get this straight, Mumdani just won a second ago and he already came out and said he is going to start confiscating private property. His exact words: expand the cities special enforcement programs and force landlords to pay for expensive repairs landlords can’t afford and then if there are further violations they will take away the property. On day one he’s taking steps to further his goal of communal government owned housing. I don’t ever want to hear about Trump being a dictator you communists on the left."
‘Capitalism Is Theft’: I Followed Zohran Mamdani’s Internet Trail - "Mamdani’s internet trail reveals far more than a veneered candidate biography on a website ever could. In tweet after tweet, he calls for the end of the free market, for defunding the police, and for dismantling the prison system, which he describes as the “carceral state.” He champions communism (at least in one jokey photo), stans anti-Israel activist Linda Sarsour, calls cops “haram” (the Arabic term for forbidden under Islamic law), and insists that New York should look more like socialist Vienna. As Mamdani moves more into general-election mode as the front-runner to beat—wearing suits, moderating his message, and cozying up to the business community—his digital past offers a rare glimpse of the ideology beneath the polish... “Capitalism is theft.” That is how Mamdani put it in 2020, when he was a first-time candidate and self-described socialist running for New York’s state assembly in Queens. He posted a PDF from the Marxists Internet Archive, used hashtags like #TaxTheRich and #CancelRent, and referred to supporters not as voters but “comrades.” This wasn’t just talk. He called for a “political revolution,” and argued that socialism wasn’t “some utopian fantasy” but the “only pragmatic response to the crises we face.” He praised Vienna’s public housing model—where roughly 60 percent of residents live in government-owned apartments—and said New York should emulate it. “We want to move away from a situation where most people access housing by purchasing it on the market,” he wrote, “[and] toward a situation where the state guarantees high-quality housing to all.” But Vienna’s housing system, widely cited by Mamdani, has been plagued by reports of rising rents, deteriorating buildings, and aging units without basic amenities like private bathrooms or central heating. That didn’t dull his enthusiasm. He comes from a posh family—his mother, award-winning director Mira Nair, sold her Chelsea loft for $1.45 million in 2019—but Mamdani treats wealth itself as a form of theft. “Socialism doesn’t mean stealing money from the rich,” he wrote on X in 2020. “It means taking back money the rich stole from everyone else.” In another post: “Taxation isn’t theft. Capitalism is.” He hasn’t disavowed those views. When asked on CNN last month whether he liked capitalism, Mamdani smiled. “No, I have many critiques of capitalism,” he said... “We don’t just need more accountability. We need fewer police.” That’s what Mamdani tweeted in the summer of 2020, at the height of the George Floyd protests. He wasn’t subtle. “Defund the NYPD,” he wrote during a week of violent unrest across the country. A month later, he laid out a four-point plan to begin doing just that: freeze hiring, cancel overtime, halt equipment purchases, and slash $1 billion from the NYPD’s budget over four years—“to start,” he added... “May the light guide us to freedom, justice, and equality for all.” That was Mamdani’s Hanukkah post in 2023. He often posts greetings for most major religious holidays—but only in his messages to Jews does he pair them with progressive political refrains. His Passover message in 2020 struck a similar note, ending with the activist slogan “until all of us are free.” A few days earlier, he celebrated an endorsement from The Jewish Vote—a group affiliated with Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, which later described the October 7 massacre by Hamas as “neither justifiable nor unprovoked.” At the time, Mamdani used the endorsement to affirm his opposition to antisemitism—but only while also condemning Islamophobia and condoning the struggle for “collective liberation.” When he has posted about Muslim holidays or his visits to various mosques, no such equivocation appears. When Israel suffered the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, his first reaction was not to condemn the terrorists. In his statement on the Hamas attack, released October 8, 2023, Mamdani didn’t mention the word Hamas once. There was no reference to the Israeli women who were raped, the children who were kidnapped, or the festivalgoers who were gunned down. Instead, Mamdani criticized Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and accused Israeli lawmakers of calling for “another Nakba.” A few days later, Mamdani claimed that Palestinians were on “the brink of genocide,” even though Israel had not begun its ground invasion. He was arrested for disorderly conduct at an anti-Israel demonstration. Mamdani also amplified disputed or false claims about the war. He repeated the allegation that Israel bombed the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza, a narrative that international investigators have largely debunked. He reposted a claim that pro-Israel students had sprayed chemical weapons on anti-Israel demonstrators at Columbia University. It turned out to be fart spray... Meet bayaye27. That was Mamdani’s Instagram handle from 2015 to 2019... At the top of the account, one image stood out: his profile picture, of a man in a red T-shirt with one word written across the chest: COMMUNIST... In another interview, this time with a Ugandan media outlet in 2016, Mamdani made a different kind of claim: that he had lived in Uganda his whole life. “While Uganda is my birthplace and home, I don’t have anything besides Kampala,” he said. “I’ve lived in Buziga since birth.” That isn’t true. His official state assembly biography says that Mamdani moved to New York at the age of 7. He attended a private elementary school on the Upper West Side, then went on to Bronx Science and Bowdoin College, a liberal-arts school that has a $93,800 annual sticker price. By the time he gave that interview, he had spent more years in America than in Uganda."
Clearly, those who call him socialist or communist have no idea what they're talking about
Zohran Mamdani says 'I don't think we should have billionaires'
What does Zohran Mamdani stand for? His policies explained - "Call 911 in Mr Mamdani’s New York and the police may not always respond. The new mayor has pledged to create an agency of mental health support teams, who will step in to relieve the pressure on the city’s 34,000 uniformed officers (all Mr Mamdani’s opponents pledged to raise that number.) In its scope, the socialist, mayor-elect’s vision for the city would make New York the international standard-bearer for Left-wing government at a local level. He has joked that voters should see him, essentially, as a Scandinavian politician, “only browner”. By 2030, he has promised a new law raising the minimum wage to $30 (£23). The highest as it stands is Washington, DC’s $17.50 (£13). All this, of course, requires somebody to pay for it. Much requires somebody other than the mayor to approve it. One Democratic strategist fondly recounts the time he was told by the state’s governor that “the mayor can’t flush the toilet unless I tell him.” Mr Mamdani has claimed he will raise $4bn (£3bn) through a 2 per cent rise in income tax for those who earn more than $1m (£768,000). Another $5bn (£3.8bn) could follow through raising corporate tax to 11.5 per cent, the same as neighbouring New Jersey. But Kathy Hochul, New York’s Democratic governor, has ruled out tax rises on the wealth, and she holds the ultimate authority. It remains to be seen how Mr Mamdani will find the minimum $6bn (£4.6bn) needed to implement universal free childcare. His team has said they will consider “alternative” funding routes. New York’s 385,000 millionaires may well consider “alternative” places to live."
How Zohran Mamdani’s rent caps will hurt New York (beware, Sadiq Khan) - "“It would be catastrophic,” she says. “Small rent-stabilised buildings still haven’t recovered from three years of Mayor Bill de Blasio rent freezes and the restrictions of the Housing Stability and Tenant Protection Act of 2019. “They need rent increases to keep up with constantly rising property taxes, insurance premiums, utilities and all other building operating costs – or they are at risk of landing on the city’s lien sales list.” Figures from Spony show that every year since 2015, when the first rent freeze was introduced, inflation has consistently risen quicker than landlords have been permitted to raise rents. This threatens the quality of rentals, as landlords have less income to spend on maintenance, and risks driving a surge in “warehousing”, whereby rental properties are taken off the market to avoid penalisation for falling below the minimum requirements for upgrades. More than 50,000 apartments in New York are estimated to be empty as a result – housing stock that, if put back on the rental market, could help ease price rises. Sidorova says that ultimately, it is renters who will lose out: those in rent-controlled properties will cling to worsening properties that aren’t right for them because they know the rent won’t rise; while those in the other million or so “market-rate” properties will see prices climb as competition ramps up... “We’re going to see some landlords suffer, but the people who are going to suffer the most are tenants.”"
New York elites flock to Florida after Mamdani victory - "around nine per cent of New York’s 8.4 million residents said they would “definitely” leave the city if Mr Mamdani was elected... “If you make a million dollars a year in New York City, you break even with a family. Now they’re going to add more taxes, and if you don’t have better public safety and you feel like people don’t like your religion or where you’re from, why be there?”"
X on X - "Here’s what I think will happen in NYC under Mahdami. The free buses and government grocery stores won’t happen, they never do. They sound good during campaigns, but collapse under basic math. You can’t run a city on ideas that cost billions and produce no revenue. The only way to make housing affordable is to build more housing. The free market lowers prices, not regulation. Every time politicians try to control rent or force affordability by decree, developers stop building and landlords stop maintaining. Supply dries up, the quality collapses, and the few properties that remain skyrocket in price. Once landlords can’t make a profit, they sell, lose properties, or walk away. Eventually, the government takes over. Taxes will rise to pay for the promises, and the middle class will be the ones shouldering the burden. The rich will relocate, the poor will depend on subsidies, and the productive class will be squeezed from both sides. Thriving businesses are the foundation of any thriving city. When they leave, everything else follows, jobs, schools, grocery stores, stability. Chicago already proved this. Boeing, McDonald’s, Caterpillar, Citadel, nearly 70k jobs, all gone. Now they’re facing billion-dollar deficits, half empty schools and neighborhoods without grocery stores. I saw someone who lived in a rent-controlled apartment in California put it perfectly, he said his landlord could no longer afford maintenance so the pool was filled with dirt, the floors had soft spots, and the foundation ended up cracking. That’s what overregulation does, it destroys quality. People who voted for this will eventually feel the pain but they won’t blame the policies or the politicians, they’ll blame the rich for leaving. This conversation is always difficult because most people simply don’t understand market dynamics or incentives. In a free society, people act in their own self-interest. If you remove profit and reward dependency, productivity dies and the city with it. If you think things are expensive now, just wait until they’re “free.”"
Douglass Mackey on X - "NEW POLL: The foreign-born are propelling Mamdani to victory in NYC. Mamdani loses with native New Yorkers"
Douglass Mackey on X - "The literally imported a new voter base to vote a Ugandan-born Indian Muslim naturalized citizen into power. This is your New York thanks to the Immigration Act of 1965, Reagan Amnesty, and Immigration Act of 1990 (H.W. Bush)."
Shaun King on X - "To be a Muslim and win as Mayor of New York City you basically have to be the single most gifted politician of this generation."
Adam Johnston on X - "Or you can just import a new electorate and win."
Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: Exit polls show non–college-educated New Yorkers overwhelmingly voted against Zohran Mamdani — while the city’s most privileged, privately educated elites voted for him. He’s not the candidate of the working class. He’s the candidate of the cocktail class."
Exclusive | Zohran Mamdani campaign still receiving overseas cash after returning $9K in foreign donations - "Mayoral front-runner Zohran Mamdani’s campaign returned nearly $9,000 in potentially illegal foreign donations — but still is receiving contributions from people with overseas addresses, a Post review has found. The revelation followed news that Mamdani’s campaign was hit with a pair of criminal referrals just weeks after The Post revealed the upstart socialist had raked in nearly $13,000 in donations from overseas... You must be a US citizen to donate to a city campaign."
Exclusive | CUNY professors union 'illegally' using government emails to push Mamdani mayoral campaign: critics - "The far-left union representing professors at the City University of New York are illegally using a taxpayer-funded, government email system to promote socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign"
ππππ π― on X - "“Some people used to violently attack bus drivers when asked to pay the fare. We got rid of the fare, so now they don’t need to attack drivers anymore. And those people are now inside the bus. With you.”"
Kane θ¬ε±ε ― on X - "“There are people willing to commit felony assault over $2, and my solution to this is to let those people sit next to you on public transit for free”"
wanye on X - "“One percent of the population won’t stop stealing Amazon packages, so we spent millions of dollars convincing the other 99% never to leave their packages on their porches and thefts went down.” πThis is an outrageously bad, intolerable outcome
“One percent of the population keeps assaulting bus drivers over the fare, so we eliminated the fare and assaults went down.” ☝️ this is an outrageously bad, intolerable outcome.
I don’t know, man, if my neighbor yells insults at me every morning as I leave for work, then we’re probably gonna get into it on the lawn at some point. I’m not going to pay him $100 a month to stop."
The Blanco on X - "This is the steady creep of harm reduction policy. And it can literally be applied to every anti-social behaviour. My (least) favourite example is a work colleague who provides his teenage daughter with fresh sterilized razor blades with which she can cut herself. An outrageously bad, intolerable outcome."
A left winger was claiming that crime is socially constructed so changing the definition of what's a crime can eliminate crime, and when I pointed out that he could indulge in academic conceits, normal people didn't want to be murdered, he tried to backtrack
Zohran Mamdani said NYPD shouldn't respond to domestic violence calls in resurfaced podcast interview - "Mamdani also noted that the NYPD shouldn’t similarly respond to situations involving homeless people on the train or jaywalking due to fears of “escalation” that could have fatal results."
Alex Thompson on X - "Mamdani ran for vice president in high school “with its wayward pledge of fresh juice for all, squeezed from locally sourced fruits. (“I promised things that were simply impossible,” he conceded years later.)”"
Mamdani confronts his past calls to defund police after an officer’s death in New York
Zohran Mamdani’s socialist victory will crush New York City - "With his easy-going manner, and his mastery of social media, he is emerging as the tribune of the millennials. The trouble is, he will have to make a success of running New York, and that will prove far harder than his supporters imagine. To start with, his brand of socialist economics has been tried and failed repeatedly in the past. Back in the 1970s, the Swedish economist Assar Lindbeck memorably described rent controls as “the most efficient technique presently known to destroy a city – except for bombing”, and endless attempts since then have simply proved the truth of that observation. New York’s existing controls are already accused of sending apartment prices spiralling upwards, and new regulations will only make that worse. It is hard to imagine, meanwhile, that state-run grocery stores will be better than Walmart; they will almost certainly be as hopeless as every other state-run industry. As for free buses, demand will quickly outstrip supply, with queuing the only way to ration the product. Add it all up, and “East Berlin On The Hudson” is unlikely to be a great success. Mamdani’s “democratic socialism” will be especially catastrophic in a city with completely open borders. He can’t push up income and corporate taxes by himself, but if he does get what he wants then surely both companies and “the rich” will simply move to Florida or Texas (as many have already threatened to do). They are unlikely to stick around merely to fill the mayor’s coffers, and he will have no way of stopping the exodus. Finally, the federal government can’t afford to tolerate a New York that is intent on destroying itself. New York state accounts for almost 8pc of the country’s output, and much of that is generated within New York City. More importantly, it is the financial and commercial hub of the American continent, home to the stock market, and all its major banks and trading firms, as well as many of the biggest conglomerates. So Mamdani will be at war with Washington, and however magnetic his TikTok feed, that is a battle he will surely lose. The constitution gives the president far, far more power than any city mayor, and this one will have little hesitation to use it to destroy an opponent he has already denounced as a “communist”. The city will be starved of support, and at precisely the time when companies are leaving, its wealthiest citizens are getting out and when he has promised an endless supply of “free” stuff, the new mayor will have to start finding the tax revenues to deliver on his pledges. Sure, New York has a lot more capital than most places, and to paraphrase Adam Smith, “there is a great deal of ruin” in a city. And yet there is nothing to stop New York from going the way of Detroit, and ultimately failing. Many of the voters who flocked to the polling stations will be feeling good about themselves for having elected a charismatic socialist mayor, and one who will take the fight to a president they mostly detest. But he is about to destroy their city and ordinary New Yorkers will suffer most of all.
This won't stop left wingers from claiming that there is no left wing party in the US
Why won’t Curtis Sliwa stand aside in the mayoral election? - "Curtis Sliwa stands little chance of becoming New York’s next mayor. But when asked what it would take for him to drop out of the race, the red beret-wearing Republican left no room for ambiguity. “A Mack truck hits me and I get turned into a speed bump, and they can’t recover me in the ICU. That’s the only way.” Mr Sliwa has been behind in the polls from the outset and those desperate to keep Zohran Mamdani out of Gracie Mansion would prefer a two-horse race between the socialist and Andrew Cuomo. Donald Trump and a raft of billionaire New Yorkers, including John Catsimatidis, who owns the radio station on which Mr Sliwa’s has a show, have suggested the Republican drop out."
When ego is more important than the common good
The Persian Jewess on X - "Linda Sarsour says the pro-jihadists backing Zohran Mamdani “won’t let him do whatever the hell he wants when he gets to City Hall." She also bragged she’ll "hold Zohran accountable" to dismantle the NYPD’s SRG counter-terror unit. Mamdani isn’t a leader. He’s a Trojan Horse."
End Wokeness on X - "Holy sht. Linda Sarsour admits that Mamdani's rise in NY was secretly bankrolled by Jihad-linked CAIR groups."
I Want Your Vote, You Bigot - WSJ - "With days to go in the New York City mayoral contest, Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani—often smooth and charismatic—made a real misstep. He revealed a new, ugly side to his message that will likely cut his election margin. Despite being a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America and previously espousing radical views, Mr. Mamdani has largely emphasized populist topics in his mayoral campaign... Then last Friday Mr. Mamdani changed course. In an emotional speech in the Bronx, he accused his opponents of “Islamophobia.” Even less wise, he posted on YouTube a nearly seven-minute speech “to speak to the Muslims” of New York. While eloquent and flawlessly delivered, it was also angry, bitter, divisive and dumb. In the video, which has 286,000 views and counting, Mr. Mamdani depicted the remarkably diverse community he hopes to lead as a hotbed of bigotry... He recalled an uncle who told him with a heavy look that he “did not have to tell people I was Muslim.” His uncle had learned that safety for Muslims “could only be found in the shadows of our city.” He recounted how his “aunt . . . stopped taking the subway after Sept. 11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab.” Mr. Mamdani declared that Muslim teachers and police officers “all make daily sacrifices on behalf of this city, only to see their leaders spit in their face.” All Muslim children in New York, Mr. Mamdani asserted, are “marked as the other” and made to feel “they carry a stain that can never quite be cleaned.” Having grown up “in the shadow of 9/11,” he knew “what it means to live with an undercurrent of suspicion.” “The dream of every Muslim,” he said, has been “to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.” Instead, they have been “told to ask for less than that.” Sadly, “in an era of ever-diminishing bipartisanship, Islamophobia has emerged as one of the few areas of agreement” among New York’s people and candidates. On and on it went. The impression Mr. Mamdani created wasn’t of New York as a welcoming community, a joyful mix of cultures, races, religions and ethnicities. “We know the truth,” he said. “This is who we have allowed ourselves to become.” His implication was that New York, dominated by bigots, is a city enraged and polarized... Mr. Mamdani’s blanket condemnation of many of the people he wants to represent may spring in part from his background in the DSA. True believers have a way of rhetorically overdoing it. The New York City DSA don’t merely call backers of other candidates political adversaries or opponents. They are “enemies of democracy” out to “silence the voices of working New Yorkers.” This may work in some of the rough-and-tumble scraps of urban politics, but it’s hardly the approach of someone who wants to unite a city as important as New York... for Democrats nationally, it’s a sign that a Mayor Mamdani would be, for Republicans, a gift that keeps on giving."
Jonathan Eric Lewis on X - "If Mamdani wins, he is simply going to be unable to deliver on any of his campaign promises People will begin to notice and grumble That's when he will revert to his trademark antizionist activist rhetoric All his failures will be blamed on "AIPAC" and "billionaires" It's all so sadly predictable"
Eyal Yakoby on X - "BREAKING: It’s been revealed that Hasan Piker, who said “America deserved 9/11” was front and center at Zohran Mamdani’s rally last night. Zohran disavowing Hasan is yet another lie to voters."
Mamdani freezes when asked for details on how he'll deliver key housing promise - "Zohran Mamdani on Monday only spewed another meaningless, baffling word salad when asked how he would deliver on his ambitious promise to freeze the rents for stabilized units across the Big Apple. “We would use the full extent of powers that we would have as the mayor with the Rent Guidelines Board,” the leading mayoral candidate responded when quizzed by reporters over how he would specifically out-maneuver Mayor Eric Adams’ latest plan to stack the agency with members who would tank Mamdani’s keystone proposed policy. “I continue to be confident of our ability to deliver a rent freeze, and I continue to be confident that we will be able to match whatever last minute betrayal that Eric Adams tries to concoct, because we’ve seen it’s not just that he’s actively looking to betray New Yorkers,” the Democratic Socialist said, without offering a scintilla of detail... Mamdani’s silence on the issue has already started to ruffle the feathers of even City Council members who endorsed him for mayor."
