Realtors report “the Mamdani effect”, New Yorkers seeking Connecticut homes after election - "Some realtors are calling it “the Mamdani effect”, a rise in New Yorkers looking to move to Connecticut after Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani was elected New York City’s next mayor... She said people of different ages, races and income levels are making the move. “Even the agents are saying the same thing, that they’re seeing more of an uptick in calls for New Yorkers wanting to buy in Connecticut,” Profit said."
CMV: hardly any millionaires are going to leave New York City because of 2% more in taxes : r/changemyview - "These kinds of taxes have been tried before, without success. I collected a few links here
“We argue that a well-designed wealth tax would reduce the tax base by 7–17 per cent if levied at a tax rate of 1 per cent.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1475-5890.12283
“Migration effects of the reform dominate: internal mobility of wealthy taxpayers appears as the major behavioral response to the change in the net tax rate, accounting for a large portion of the post-treatment total net wealth in the treated municipality.” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4991833
“We find significant migration responses among the wealthy: a 1pp increase in the top wealth tax rate decreases the stock of wealthy taxpayers by about 2%. A large fraction of the wealthy are business owners, and their businesses are negatively affected by owner out-migration.” https://www.nber.org/papers/w32153
Edit: responding to complaints that links above were about European wealth tax (borrowed from another thread where I argued that the UK eliminating non-tax status is economic suicide), I’m adding links about USA state income tax migration effects:
https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/state/taxes-affect-state-migration-trends-2023/
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2024/04/03/research-shows-direct-link-between-state-income-taxes-and-migration “Research shows direct link between state income taxes and migration. A new study looks at 110 years of income tax history across the U.S. and notes out-migration by wealthy Americans”
https://www.bakerinstitute.org/research/domestic-migration-and-state-tax-policy-0 “the estimates suggest that a 1 percentage point increase in the top marginal income tax rate is associated with a reduction in net migration by 6.1 federal taxpayers per 10,000.4 To put this into perspective, levying California’s top marginal tax rate of 13.3% (relative to no income tax) would be associated with a loss of 8.2 taxpayers per one thousand. If economic growth is roughly proportional to the population of taxpayers, it would imply a loss of nearly 1 percentage point of growth annually. Studying AGI flows, however, suggests that the economic losses could be more severe. The estimates indicate that a 1 percentage point increase in the top marginal tax rate is associated with a reduction in net AGI flows of around $11.54 for every $10,000 of AGI in the state. For California, this suggests an annual loss of 1.5% of AGI, relative to a tax structure with no income tax. “
Edit2: people keep smugly bringing up Massachusetts. It’s not the win you think it is:
“Massachusetts’ tax burdens were above average but nowhere near as high as now, the 36 percent increase in federal tax returns with an AGI of $1 million or more is far less impressive when compared to a national average of 49 percent, let alone against the 61 percent, 75 percent, and 77 percent increases in Texas, Arizona, and Florida, respectively—three notably low-tax states. And the performance of a state like Massachusetts is particularly anemic against the boom in the low-tax mountain west, where Utah’s 81 percent increase, Idaho’s 106 percent increase, and Montana’s 132 percent increase are particularly astonishing. All three states have cut taxes in recent years.”
Edit3: here’s more on Massachusetts since people keep insisting the tax policy was a winner. My debate isn’t about the morality of capitalism or does Massachusetts have good social services - I lived there for several years, it’s a perfectly nice place to live. But the question at hand is tax policy and migration :
“159,200 people left the state between Filing Year (FY) 2021 and FY2022, while just 113,586 people moved into Massachusetts from out of state during the same timeframe. That amounts to a net loss of 45,614 people in population size. According to an analysis by Pioneer Institute, there are only four states that have worse net migration losses: California, New York, New Jersey, and Illinois. Massachusetts didn’t just lose a net 45,614 people. In reality, 159,200 Massachusetts citizens moved out of state, taking about $13.21 billion in adjusted gross income (AGI) with them. Only $9.37 billion in AGI migrated into the state, leaving Massachusetts with a net loss of about $3.9 billion in taxable income, according to IRS data.”"
Reality doesn't stop left wingers claim no one will leave New York City. One cope I've seen is that this will help the housing situation, and another is that it doesn't matter, because other rich people will be attracted by cheaper property and move in
Escape from New York: Bankers flee Mamdani for Texas - "The Big Apple has already been suffering from a millionaire problem, one that has proved very expensive. The state’s share of America’s wealthiest citizens slumped from 12.7pc to 8.7pc in the decade to 2022 – the most significant drop in the country, according to the Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) of New York City. This decline has cost the state and the city a combined $13.2bn in tax revenue each year. “The root cause is the high cost and expensive tax in New York City,” says Blancato... The Texas Stock Exchange, headquartered in Dallas, will launch trading and corporate listings next year. The big beasts of Wall Street are flocking south... A significant driver for the exodus to Texas is the punishing personal tax rates many bankers face. Mamdani’s proposals for higher taxes on top earners will build on the fact that New York City already has the highest marginal tax rates on high earners in the country. The top 1pc of earners – which include most of Wall Street – pay 40pc of the state’s income tax, says CBC’s vice president of research, Ana Champeny. With state and city taxes combined, married couples in New York City face a tax rate of 13.5pc on combined earnings above $2.15m, 14.2pc on earnings above $5m and 14.8pc above $25m, according to CBC. In Dallas, by contrast, there is no state or city income tax whatsoever – adding an extra layer of appeal. Texas has long been a business hub, known more for oil barons than sharp-suited bankers. But that old “yee-haw” image is fading fast, replaced by a more urbane picture. It is home to more Fortune 500 companies than any other state. Banking and financial services initially moved more slowly to Texas, says Furlow. Now, that has changed. “Places like New York and San Francisco were historically perceived to be financial capitals. But political weaponisation, out-of-control taxation and affordability for employees have led to the new reality that staying in those jurisdictions is unsustainable,” says Furlow. “It’s hard to remain a financial capital when you despise capitalism. Cities run by people who have never run a business or met a payroll are killing their own proverbial golden goose.” Furlow argues that Texas is now where America’s financial power lies. “You’d have to put Texas high on your list because of its low tax and pro-business environment,” says Blancato... “We’re having emergency meetings where we’re looking at how big our portfolio is in New York,” says William Stern, founder of Cardiff, which lends more than $2bn a year to small businesses. “I do think it’s a war on capital. New Yorkers are already taxed to hell and back.” Cardiff is based in San Diego but has a portfolio in New York of nearly $500m. “That’s a lot of money. And when you’re unsure of the political climate, you pull back your bets,” says Stern. “I think many companies are rethinking whether they want to be there, whether they want to do business there right now.” Mamdani argues that his corporation tax rise plans will simply bring New York’s tax rate in line with that of neighbouring New Jersey. But this overlooks the fact that businesses in New York City also pay the corporate franchise tax and a state surcharge to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) region. “If you combine all three of those, business activity in New York is already taxed at 17.44pc, which is higher than New Jersey’s rate,” says Champeny. Texas, by contrast, is known as a low-tax, pro-business state. “We don’t view business as something just to be squeezed to fund political agendas – business is a partner in building thriving communities,” says Furlow... Mamdani’s plans come after former governor Andrew Cuomo already pushed through $4bn in tax rises on businesses and higher earners in 2021. Donald Trump’s first term Tax Cuts and Jobs Act also capped the amount of state and local taxes (SALT) that individuals can deduct from their federal tax bills – a move that hit higher earners in high-tax cities and states On top of this, Covid brought new possibilities for remote work and made people more mobile. Mamdani’s plans to increase taxes may not go ahead. Both the corporation and income tax rises would require Hochul’s sign-off, even though she has said she does not support them. But there is another lever he can pull: increasing property taxes, which would bring its own problems."
Left wingers keep claiming that millionaires will never leave New York - when many already have
The Persian Jewess on X - "Zohran Mamdani wants Americans to boycott 17,000+ Starbucks locations nationwide. All to support a union that represents only 4% of Starbucks’ 300,000 employees. But I’m sure this has nothing to do with his allegiance to terrorist-affiliated SJP, which has demanded a Starbucks boycott for years."
Magic Mamdani Theory - "It is not hard to see the appeal of Zohran Mamdani. He is, after all, not Andrew Cuomo — another corrupt, old, Democratic sexual harasser who’s already spent years in power and thinks he’s entitled to be mayor because of his last name. He doesn’t appear steeped in petty corruption like Mayor Adams. He’s not as obviously nutty as Sliwa seems to be. And he has done politics, pace Ezra, the right way: listening to the other side, earning people’s votes one by one, talking to people on the street, and, of course, mastering our new collective replacement for civil discourse: 30-second videos on TikTok. Those videos are fantastic... in many ways, he is the perfect candidate for today’s Dem elites: wealthy, woke, with a degree in “Africana studies.” His only problem is not being female — but since he denies that the category of female exists, no big deal I suppose. He will give the MSNBC/Bulwark crowd a new lease on self-righteousness. But to be honest, when I read his proposals, at first I thought I was reading a high-schooler’s essay. Free everything!... The problem, of course, is how to pay for it. And a NYC mayor, quite simply, cannot. Mamdani simply won’t have the power. None of the tax hikes he proposes — a new 2 percent tax on everyone earning over $1 million a year, and jacking up the corporate tax to 11.5 percent — can be passed by his council. Albany has the final say, will almost certainly say no, and the Democratic governor, Hochul, opposes the hikes. So a lot of this is purely performative, no? He has a good chance to create his Soviet bodegas and, in all likelihood, freeze rents if he replaces members of the board. (That will, of course, make housing availability and expense even worse.) He may be able to wangle some increase in NYC’s minimum wage — by trying to bypass Albany. But doubling it in five years? Meh. All of the economic stuff is iffy because of the very probable lack of funding. Maybe a big victory will change the dynamics and allow a big tax hike in one of the most highly taxed cities on earth. But it’s hard to believe it. So what’s left? What’s left is cultural leftism on hormones. You may get daycare — but it will come with full woke indoctrination of kids from the earliest years on. No more “boys”or “girls” allowed! Mamdani, as we all know, regards the police as the enforcers of “white supremacy,” supports the end of Israel as a Jewish state, will subsidize the transing of children with no safeguards, and has erased gays and lesbians from our own history, re-marginalizing us as “queers”. There’s no one the woke left hates more than an empowered and integrated person who just happens to be gay or lesbian. Like all good critical-theory racists, Mamdani believes in a racial hierarchy with whites, Jews, and Asians as oppressors, and blacks and Hispanics and “queers” as victims; he wants to make NYC “the strongest sanctuary city in the country” — i.e. go to war with ICE — and kill the educational programs that help gifted poor kids in kindergarten — because most turn out to be of the oppressor races. A racist, in other words — to his fingertips. And he is a near-perfect foil for Trump. “Queer liberation means defund the police,” he once tweeted — though he says he no longer wants to defund the cops. It’s the kind of 2020 slogan almost designed to ensure MAGA control of the national discourse forever. And if I were a show-runner on the Trump show, Mamdani would be central to provoking the kind of real fascist putsch that Trump and Miller are itching for, if they can find a suitable provocation. Mamdani is that provocation. He will go to war with ICE in NYC, and Trump will go to war with him. And broadcast it every day. In 2022, Mamdani declared of his political career: “For me, there’s no point in doing this without D.S.A.” The Democratic Socialists of America favor full amnesty for all illegal immigrants, abolition of the Senate, voting rights for noncitizens, and public ownership of major corporations. Since he won the nomination, he has softened on some of these points, but remains a DSA member and fan. New Yorkers can decide if he’s sincere. Obviously I don’t believe a word he says about moderation. But it’s not up to me. And I know many sane New Yorkers who are going to vote for him anyway — in part because of his opponents. I understand. But this is also what many Dems want: a woke party dedicated to non-whites and non-Asians and non-Jews and non-white queers (especially the queerest of the queers, the trans), equity over excellence, race over merit, ideology over economics, and leveling down rather than raising up. It’s a vision made feasible by capitalism’s failure to correct itself, but a vision that will, in all likelihood, ensure MAGA dominance for a very long time. Which, in some way, is what the far left may actually want: increase the contradictions, ratchet up the potential for street violence, create disorder, pit the races against each other, and revolution will arrive. And now they have their charming, smiling vehicle for the project. My money — and history’s lesson, I’d argue — is on the Red Caesar and not the Blue One in a raw American fight for illiberal control. Which is why the man most happy about Mamdani’s rise is sitting in his White Palace, waiting for yet another moment to tear the constitution to shreds."
What NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has actually said about Jews, Israel and antisemitism - "Mamdani sat for a three-hour interview with popular Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, who has repeatedly called Orthodox Jews “inbred,” compared Israelis to the Ku Klux Klan, and defended Hamas’s October 7 attack on the Nova music festival, in which the Palestinian terrorists killed hundreds of Israelis and committed widespread sexual assault. On one of his shows, Piker told off a listener who condemned the massacre, saying “Bloodthirsty violent pig dog, suck my d**k.” A number of progressive politicians, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and Ro Khanna of California, have also appeared with Piker. When asked about Piker, Mamdani said, “I am willing to speak to each and every person about this campaign.”... Before his political career, Mamdani released rap songs under the monikers Young Cardamom and, later, Mr. Cardamom. In one 2017 song, “Salam,” he praised the “Holy Land Five” — the heads of a former Islamic charity organization founded in the US who were convicted of aiding Hamas. In 2001, the US government designated the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development a terrorist organization and seized its assets; some have argued that the trial was based on “hearsay” evidence. “My love to the Holy Land Five. You better look ’em up,” Mamdani raps in the track."
Good luck getting him to appear on a "white supremacist" show
If you say he supports terrorists, that's Islamophobic
Meme - Melian Refugee @escapefrommelos: "All of the art by Zohran!™‘s “artist wife” — drawings of children, old women, men, even vases — are literally just self portraits of her own face Incredibly powerful self regard"
地獄ケーキ(Hokusaist)👹🐉🗡️🇺🇸 @JigokuCake: "She drew herself in a George Floyd scenario..."
ITV’s Adil Ray in crisis talks after appearing to endorse sharia in New York - "Good Morning Britain host Adil Ray is in crisis talks with ITV after he appeared to back the implementation of sharia in New York. The 51-year-old was hauled before bosses to answer questions over his apparent support for the controversial Islamic legal system. Ray made the remarks following the historic election of the first Muslim mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, on Nov 4. In a post celebrating his victory, the presenter wrote: “Some say Mamdani may implement Sharia Law. He might. “The heart of Sharia is social justice, welfare, fairness, charity and cohesion. “Most Muslim countries operate a hybrid of Sharia & civil law, are slowly reforming and abandoning unethical practices despite the West’s portrayal.”"
We keep being told that no one is trying to push sharia law and only ignorant far right conspiracy theorists believe that
Capt Kyle on X - "The nation's largest trucking company says it will no longer service New York City after Mamdani takes office: "We've instructed our dispatchers to reject loads to any of the Five Burroughs," said Company Spokesman Joe Barron, "We don't see a way to continue doing business in the Big Apple.." The news comes as Mamdani released his plan to increase revenue across the city by quadrupling the cost of tolls, licensing, permits, and inspections of all commercial vehicles. "He's going to put a lot of the independent truckers out of business.""
Damn billionaires!
Meme Drew Pavlou 🇦🇺🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @DrewPavlou: "I love how these guys don't rate a mention. They don't even figure in Zohran's world view. In his mind New York City just emerged out of an ether like 30 years ago when Yemeni bodega owners arrived. For him, New York City didn't even exist prior to the arrival of people like himself. Insane ethno-narcissism."
TheBlaze @theblaze: "Zohran Mamdani: “I speak of Yemeni bodega owners and Mexican abuelas! Senegalese taxi drivers and Uzbek nurses! Trinidadian line cooks and Ethiopian aunties!”"
I saw one cope about those new to NYC voting for him being that they're refugees from MAGA states
Opinion | Mamdani’s victory speech previews class warfare in New York - The Washington Post - "A new era of class warfare has begun in New York, and no one is more excited than Generalissimo Zohran Mamdani. Witness the mayor-elect’s change of character since his Tuesday election victory. Mamdani ran an upbeat campaign, with a nice-guy demeanor and perpetual smile papering over a long history of divisive and demagogic statements. New Yorkers periodically checking in on politics could understandably believe that he simply wanted to bring the city together and make it more affordable. That interpretation became much harder after his victory speech. Across 23 angry minutes laced with identity politics and seething with resentment, Mamdani abandoned his cool disposition and made clear that his view of politics isn’t about unity. It isn’t about letting people build better lives for themselves. It is about identifying class enemies — from landlords who take advantage of tenants to “the bosses” who exploit workers — and then crushing them. His goal is not to increase wealth but to dole it out to favored groups. The word “growth” didn’t appear in the speech, but President Donald Trump garnered eight mentions. People’s lives, in Mamdani’s world, can be improved only by government: “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.” The crowd cheered, of course, but a thinking person might wonder whether it’s good for the institution that has a monopoly on violence to insist that nothing is beyond its purview. Such crass appeals have real support in New York, where overpriced housing is a real problem. But it’s important to recognize that high rents are a function of too much government rather than too little. Temporary relief because of the rent freeze he promised for 2 million housing units will inevitably lead to less investment, driving up costs in the long run. In the days since winning, Mamdani’s favorite word has become “mandate.” He won decisively and now wants to pursue his agenda, from the rent freeze to “free” child care and buses. Yet as mayor of New York, his control over taxes and transportation is limited. He needs approval from the state to raise taxes... Mamdani was the first New York mayoral candidate to garner more than 1 million votes since John Lindsay in 1969. One reason he will be so constrained is that Lindsay’s mayoralty was such a disaster for the city’s finances that the state imposed these financial controls to make sure it wouldn’t happen again. More interesting will be how Mamdani interprets class struggle in the context of law enforcement and public education, where his powers are more sweeping. He says he wants to keep Police Commissioner Jessica S. Tisch, who is respected by officers and competent at fighting crime. Will he give her deference? Will he order that prostitution laws stop being enforced, as he has suggested? Will subway stations become dangerous social experiments where vagrants are welcomed in to receive services? On schools, Mamdani has done nothing to suggest he’ll take the side of children over union bosses when their interests conflict. New York schools make it too difficult to discipline misbehaving kids, which makes classrooms less safe and hurts everyone. Mamdani has also said he wants to phase out gifted-and-talented programs for elementary students. Exit polls showed that the New Yorkers most skeptical of these utopian promises are those who were born in the city and don’t have college degrees. Mamdani fared best among newcomers and people with advanced degrees. Apparently, living in New York for decades — and witnessing what does and doesn’t work when it comes to running a city — offers more wisdom than grad school."
Wow, no shit. Who could've possibly seen this coming?
The exit polls
show that clearly he is the man of working Americans
Left wingers keep going on about learning history, but ignore the history (and contemporality) of failed left wing policies
Zach Sage Fox on X - "Dear Zohran supporters — in what world do you think someone who didn’t have a real job until he was 30 (previously interned for mom, failed rapper on moms dime) then passed ONLY 3 bills in 5 years as a New York State assemblymen with a less than 50% attendance record (*lowest in modern American history) is qualified to run the biggest city in America overseeing 300k+ jobs and 110B dollars?"
Left wingers are usually quick to go on about "qualifications" but are oddly silent here
I fear the New York City I love is lost forever after Mamdani’s win - "Free buses were tried in Kansas City, for instance, and Mr Mamdani even touted their effectiveness in a 2024 article in The Nation. However, I don’t recall him mentioning since that the scheme was then dropped, amid concerns that the buses had become “unreliable, filthy, rolling homeless shelters”. But selective thinking is what Mr Mamdani does best – and voters appear to have bought what he is selling. After all, that “rent freeze” Mr Mamdani talked up, it only applies to apartments under New York State rent regulations. Mr Mamdani himself lives in a rent-regulated apartment – which means he’s been promising to freeze his own rent, not the rents of millions of New Yorkers like me living in market-rate housing. Mr Mamdani’s selective-thinking has applied most dangerously to Israel. He has made it clear that he supports Israel’s right to exist, but not necessarily as a Jewish state, which he surely realise negates the point of it existing in the first place. And again the double-standards: to my knowledge, he has not questioned the right to exist of Muslim states that embed Islamic values in their political systems. He campaigned on unity and affordability, but all he really delivered was division and fear."
Councilwoman Vickie Paladino on X - "The reason why people are so vehemently against Zohran's 2% tax on 'the rich' is not because anyone is trying to protect billionaires. It's because we all KNOW it's not going to end there. We've all seen this movie before. We know how it ends. And NOBODY trusts the friggin 'Democratic Socialists of America' to limit themselves to a modest 2% tax on people making over a million dollars a year. It won't stop there. They won't even pretend to promise otherwise. Just listen to their actual economic policy, such as it is, and it's crystal clear to anyone with a brain that the end result is going to be aggressive tax increases on nearly everyone, at every level. There's just zero trust. And rightfully so. Zohran is a snake, and the DSA is a revolutionary marxist party. You really think 2% tax on top 1% income is where this ends for them? Come on."
Kathleen Wood on X - "If Mamdani can’t handle a 1-hour sit-down with The Post, how’s he supposed to handle 8 million New Yorkers, 150 unions & Donald Trump? He claims he’s “Trump’s worst nightmare,” but he’s too scared to face a few reporters. 👻 If you can’t talk to the press, you can’t run the city."
Richard Hanania on X - "According to Mamdani’s father, Idi Amin may have expelled their family for being the wrong race, but at least he opposed capitalism. Hope this isn’t the ideology that NYC is voting for."
Who is Zohran Mamdani’s father? - "Britain had a Nazi streak. Ronald Reagan embraced terrorism to win the Cold War. Teddy Roosevelt was a white supremacist warmonger. And 9/11 was caused by an “American jihad”... The younger Mamdani has credited his father with fundamentally shaping his world-view, even though his controversial writings have come to haunt his son’s campaign. In his published works, Prof Mamdani likened Britain and the US to the Nazis while giving sympathetic takes of Idi Amin and suicide bombers. In “Slow Poison”, Prof Mamdani’s book about his native Uganda, which was published on Oct 14, Harold Wilson’s Labour government is compared to the Nazis for attempting to limit immigration... For Prof Mamdani, the “race-based citizenship law... followed earlier precedents set by Nazi Germany, where the Nuremberg laws distinguished between two categories of citizens: Germans and Jews”. Yet Amin, the brutal Ugandan dictator whose regime is estimated to have caused the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, is defended against comparisons with Adolf Hitler. The idea that Amin was a “Hitlerite presence in Africa” is a “media-driven preconception”, argues Prof Mamdani, who was among the Asians expelled from his home by Amin. “Even as Amin ethnically cleansed Uganda of Asians and expropriated them, he did everything in his power to spare Asian lives,” he insists. Those crimes, which Amin is widely acknowledged to have committed, are often explained away by Britain’s colonial legacy. The Asians were not the primary target of the expulsion: this was Britain, which had “no intention of taking responsibility for its colonial history”. And while Amin’s regime is referenced as an “orgy of blood”, this stemmed from his time suppressing rebellions in East Africa as a member of the colonial army, which “shaped his instrumental outlook on violence: if it works, it is right”, Prof Mamdani argues. Some critics, including those based in Uganda, have criticised Prof Mamdani for excusing Amin’s murderous reign. A Wall Street Journal reviewer called the work an “apologia for Uganda’s Idi Amin, a bloodthirsty tyrant like few others in modern history”... In Prof Mamdani’s writings, American presidents are treated severely, particularly in Prof Mamdani’s “Neither Settler Nor Native”, which is dedicated to his son Zohran, who is exhorted to “inspire and blaze a trail” in the preface. Teddy Roosevelt, who built his political career in New York City, which the academic’s son is seeking to govern, is declared a “warmonger, whose sense of history as a contest for racial supremacy was shared by the likes of Hitler”. The 26th president’s writings on the “genocide” of Native Americans made a “signal contribution to Nazism and other doctrines of scientific racism”, he claims. Abraham Lincoln is spared a Hitler comparison in the book. But in a panel discussion two years after the book’s publication, he argued Lincoln’s policy of “herd[ing] American Indians” into reservations was an “inspiration” to the Nazis, according to a report by Fox News which covered the event. According to Prof Mamdani, Hitler took his cue for the Holocaust from the US’ treatment of Native Americans, where he found “proof” the Nazi project could succeed. The US is the “outcome of a history of genocide, ethnic cleansing, official racism, and concentration camps,” he asserts. “Nazi Germany followed a similar path in the construction of the German nation.”... Even today, Prof Mamdani claims, the US maintains a colony through its Native American reservations, though he concedes that “even Indian activists” and “scholars of indigeneity fail to see this”. Just as Nazi Germany was inspired by the US, Israel is said to have the same “nationalist ideology” as the Third Reich. “Zionists created a Jewish state in Palestine so that Jews, too, could have their rightful homogenous nation-state,” he writes... Mr Mamdani, according to an interview unearthed by The Washington Free Beacon, claimed he would help edit the speeches and writings of his parents “to make it more accessible” and “stay engaged with what they’re saying”... He draws a “moral equivalence” between the US’ wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with the 9/11 attacks, and compares Mr Bush to Osama bin Laden. The Nazis claimed to follow the rule of law, but he argues the “Bush administration’s open disdain for the rule of law is unmatched in the history of Western imperialism”. In the end, Republican presidents seem to come in for fiercer criticism than suicide bombers, who should be understood as a form of “soldier” and not “stigmatised as a mark of barbarism”."
Meme - "MY AUNT STOPPED TAKING THE SUBWAY AFTER 9-11 BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T FEEL SAFE WEARING A HIJAB..."
"THAT MUST HAVE BEEN DEVASTATING, MR. MAMDANI... MY AUNT STOPPED TAKING THE SUBWAY AFTER 9-11 BECAUSE SHE WAS INCINERATED IN THE NORTH TOWER."
Ted Cruz on X - "Oops. My aunt is my cousin…. Leftist talking points collapse."
Van “Not Going Anywhere” Lathan Jr on X - "Honestly the fact that yall don’t get this Auntie/Cousin thing just tells me that you guys are super elite non-regular family having people. This is truly insanely ridiculous."
Geoff Axworthy on X - "Zohran never said “auntie.” He specifically said aunt. Keep reaching, though."
But of course, when Trump talked about coyotes, he was a bloody liar because dogs aren't involved in illegal immigration
Zohran Mamdani is a greater threat to Jews than many are willing to admit - "a group of nearly 800 prominent American rabbis finally said what so many of my fellow New York Jews have known for months: Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s dangerous rhetoric poses an undeniable threat to our safety. But the impact of his likely victory will echo far beyond New York’s five boroughs... Perhaps more than any politician of the modern era, Mamdani has mastered the art of convincing voters that what he is doing isn’t chilling or toxic, but normal politics. And perhaps most scarily, he has even used Jews to convince other Jews that he’s not anti-Semitic. In the face of what the rabbis correctly say is an attempt “to delegitimise our Jewish identity and our community”, the Mamdani campaign is succeeding in intellectually disarming such criticism. All it has to do is point to the Jewish groups that have endorsed him, and it can go on its merry, destructive way. Aided by his youth – along with his arch fluency in both social justice and social media – Mamdani has managed to avoid much of the scrutiny endured by his challengers. Time after time, revelations that would have blown up other candidates are treated as mere campaign blips. When it was revealed that Mamdani had declared himself “Black or African American” when applying to college, despite being of Indian descent, he got away with it. When he posed for a photo with a notoriously anti-gay politician in Uganda, despite his campaign pledge to protect “LGBTQIA+ New Yorkers,” it caused barely a ripple. But it’s on Israel and “anti-Zionism” that he’s been given the greatest pass. He’s talked relentlessly about Israel and the lie that it’s committing “genocide”, and yet he had the gall at the mayoral debate this week to assert that he was the candidate most likely to take anti-Semitism seriously. The truth is likely to be the opposite. Candidate Mamdani has demonstrated great skill in weaponising the avalanche of anti-Semitism that has swept across the globe since Hamas’s attack on Israel two Octobers ago. But should he be elected mayor, that anti-Semitism won’t be merely weaponised – it could be institutionalised. Given the imprimatur of New York City’s Mayor’s office, it is likely to become even more mainstream than it is already, casually infecting city government and culture. The possible end of the conflict in Gaza won’t make any difference. Despite the ceasefire, global pro-Palestinian activists are busier than ever. They’re ramping up BDS efforts, aggressively tallying alleged IDF violations, and replacing calls to end Israel’s war in Gaza with calls to end Israel. And mayor Mamdani is likely to be at the forefront, an arch-manipulator of political opinion who hides his demagoguery behind a made-for-TV smile and the fringe Jewish groups who have been willing to put themselves in service of a cause indifferent to their safety, or even their existence. And it won’t stop at New York. If Mamdani is elected mayor next month, it’ll be proof that running on an explicitly anti-Zionist platform can deliver victory even in a city with a significant Jewish population. That’s why he isn’t just a threat to New York’s Jews. His influence is likely to go global."
Eric Daugherty on X - "🚨 BREAKING: A desperate Zohran Mamdani stuns supporters by stating things can't ACTUALLY be free, begging for MORE money to fund his "transition" after $1M has been raised. Every communist is a professional swindler. New Yorkers got scammed, big time."
Greg Price on X - "This is one of the most insane things I've ever heard a politician say. Zohran Mamdani declares that New York is a "city of international law." Last time I checked, I was pretty sure New York is an American city under U.S. law."
Greg Price on X - "Meet Aber Kawas. Zohran Mamdani just endorsed her for a New York State Assembly seat in Queens. Here is Kawas saying 9-11 was America's fault because of our "system of capitalism, racism, white supremacy and islamophobia."
Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "11695 I’m talking to you! We’ve received over 50K resumes, from every single zip code in NYC… except for one. Apply today and help us build a City Hall for everyone."
Clown World ™ 🤡 on X - "This guy really asked a ZIP code with zero residents to apply. You can’t make this level of “leadership” up 😭🤦♂️"
New York Post on X - "Bigwig on Zohran Mamdani’s transition team railed against Jews, questioned gay rights in vile unearthed posts: ‘Horror show’"
Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر on X - ""Hassaan Chaudhary, who identifies himself as newly appointed political director for Mamdani’s transition and inaugural committee on LinkedIn, used the word ‘Jew’ as a slur, and even praised former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who infamously said Israel is ‘a cancer which will be eliminated soon.’" WHAT COULD GO WRONG? 😑"
Clearly we all know he meant "Zionists". Damn "Zionists", defaming him!
