Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "It might be hot outside but the rent is freezing."
The Rational Animal 🤔 on X - "Yes, your rent is frozen. So is the landlord's budget to fix your heat, your leaks, and your broken freezer. But don't worry, when nothing works, at least the number on your lease stays the same. You can admire it while you eat out. And the rent won't rise, true. Neither will any new buildings, because no one builds apartments he's forbidden to price. So enjoy the same aging unit for the next thirty years, paying yesterday's rent for tomorrow's ruins. Freezing a price doesn't freeze reality. It freezes the supply, halts the repairs, and ends the building, while the line of people waiting for an apartment grows longer every year. But feel the warmth of collectivism: everyone equal, shivering together in identical crumbling units, sharing the broken elevator and the dead freezer as one community. The number stays the same. That was the promise, and that is all you'll get."
Meme - Ariele @PositivistWitchL "One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results"
kae making music!! @kaesepi: "EVERYONE DESERVES GOOD PEOPLE AS THEIR ELECTED OFFICIALS"
*Zohran Mamdani freezing rent*
Meme - Sean Fitzgerald (Actual Justice Warrior) @IamSean90: "Talking to a leftist about rent control is pointless. Point out that every study shows it decreases supply & quality of units due to owners not being able to afford basic maintenance, & they'll respond to this basic reality with. Um we passed another law making that illegal"
evan loves wort: "Landlords are required by law to provide those things"
Spencer Pratt on X - "The communist frames everything as victim vs oppressor, and they've cast tenants as victims, and housing providers as oppressors. Tenants can steal your property or trash it, costing the landlord hundreds of thousands of dollars, but commie government blocks them from recouping the costs, so apartments fall into disrepair and they'll just leave units empty instead of taking further risk by renting them out to unscrupulous tenants, which creates a phantom housing supply shortage. I know it's tempting to demonize landlords when it's hard to pay your rent, but this idea that they're just greedy scoundrels is insane. Government is making it impossible to provide housing. Rent freezes sound nice, but like all other commie "solutions" there are downstream consequences to the "free stuff" promises, and it puts society in a death spiral. The problem is...for every 1 landlord, there's 30-100 tenants. So as far as voting blocs go, landlords are hopelessly outnumbered, they will always lose out, and their needs get crushed. Everyone loses. Months ago, I wrote about the phantom housing crisis that these insane policies has created."
Libs of TikTok on X - "BREAKING: Mamdani vows to protect illegal alien Haitians and Syrians following SCOTUS ruling “To have people have their freedom put into Jeopardy by the actions of a Supreme Court and a federal administration… it’s something that we will not ever accept.”"
Hon. Vickie Paladino on X - "We are in the first stages of secession. Mamdani considers New York an independent city-state, with it's own foreign policy, immigration policy, and economic policy. He does not recognize the legitimacy of the federal government or even the United States as a nation to any extent beyond that which his party can directly control or benefit from financially. He does not talk about himself as an American, nor does he speak of New York as a component of the United States. Quite the opposite, in fact. And aside from his official portraits, he is never voluntarily photographed with or around an American flag. And he is WAY too conscious of optics for that to be anything other than deliberate. He (and the DSA with him) will use the power of this city to wage a soft civil war against the nation itself. It is LONG PAST TIME for an appropriately severe reaction from the federal government. The Constitution is not a suicide pact. This is not politics, this is the enemy."
Open Source Intel on X - "NYC City Hall: NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani urges the U.S. to embrace Islamic values of immigration"
The Notorious S.E.B. on X - "The Saudis literally machine gun Ethiopian and Eritrean refugees at the border with Yemen. In Libya under both Ghaddafi and Haftar the government uses would be migrants to the EU as slave labor. Afghan refugees in Iran have no legal rights and were conscripted and sent to Syria"
Olivia Reingold on X - "Tuesday: ask Mamdani's comms team—why does Rama Duwaji appear to have a Spotify account with songs about greedy Jews and how “Israel gon’ die bitch”? Any comment? Wednesday: the account is totally shut down, made private"
Yehuda Teitelbaum on X - "Zohran Mamdani just endorsed Darializa Avila Chevalier for Congress. On October 8th, 2023, while Jews were still being slaughtered, raped, kidnapped, and hunted across southern Israel, she attended the "All Out For Palestine" rally in NYC. Some clips:"
Guy Benson on X - "“Who is the terrorist? The United States of America!” This is Mamdani’s endorsed candidate for Congress, as the October 2023 Hamas massacre that killed dozens of American citizens was still unfolding. Understand what is happening here. There is no chance he’s not aware of this. He knows. He supports it. He literally endorses it. Mamdani himself was arrested protesting at Chuck Schumer’s house just days after 10/7, preemptively opposing the Jewish state’s response to the slaughter through disorderly conduct outside a prominent Jew’s home. This is who he is."
Miranda Devine on X - "Mamdani victim Thomas Diana is not a fat cat landlord. He's a construction worker from Queens who toiled hard all his life and planned to retire on the proceeds of a run down 8-unit building that he fixed up himself at night over years. He always took care of his tenants and now he's being taken for a ride by a 9-year squatter, NYC is treating him like the bad guy. I told his story last week: https://nypost.com/2026/05/27/opi"
WestHarlm on X - "The worst kind of socialists are fake socialists. Mamdani is a fake socialist. Socialism for thee, but not for me. Our former mayor Adams lost his political career after accepting a free upgrade on a flight to Turkey. Our new mayor was in a luxury box at the World Cup today. He also paid $1k for a Knicks ticket last week. The cheapest seat available to normal people from the time Mamdani bought his ticket, to the start of the game was $4k on the secondary market. Mamdani's ticket was sold directly by the Knicks organization to him at a special rate reserved for 'friends of the Knicks.' The mayor purchasing that ticket was illegal...and that is not debatable. Further investigation is needed to determine whether the Mamdani received preferential treatment at today's soccer match. Given that Governor Hochul was seated next to him, it is difficult to imagine they didn't receive discounted tickets not available to the general public."
Joseph Hernandez on X - "Looks like the alleged misconduct of Mayor @ZohranKMamdani ’s hand-picked schools chancellor has gotten so bad it now troubles even Mamdani himself. The current DOE Chancellor stands accused of deliberately splitting payments to dodge the $25,000 competitive-bidding threshold, the exact kind of contract games a watchdog exists to catch. A Manhattan attorney has already told the press it could rise to the level of criminal charges. So who’s reportedly being floated to clean it up? Meisha Ross Porter, the former chancellor who left the DOE to run the Bronx Community Foundation, a nonprofit that, under her leadership, failed to distribute most of the money it raised and spent more on consultants and overhead than on actual charitable giving. Her own board fired her in 2024. A chancellor under a contracting cloud, replaced by an executive fired for failing to manage donated dollars. In a city of 8 million people, why can’t Mamdani find one honest, common-sense chancellor? Here’s my reminder to everyone involved at Tweed: come January 1, 2027, the State Comptroller’s office will audit the NYC Department of Education top to bottom. And in New York, fraud carries a 5-year statute of limitations. To anyone who treated taxpayer dollars like their own piggy bank, don’t go far. The abuse of New York’s taxpayers ends the day I’m sworn in."
Sam E. Antar on X - "Zohran Mamdani loves talking about AIPAC, “dark money,” and “monsters” while invoking antisemitic tropes. Fine. Let’s talk about his dark money funding. My investigation traced a charitable-to-political conversion pipeline involving organizations funded through George Soros’s tax-exempt network. Tax-deductible charitable dollars flowed through nonprofits and ultimately reached organizations that became politically active. 🔥Eight of those organizations went on to endorse Mamdani. Full investigation with evidence traced to sources documents signed by the parties involved: 🔗"
I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 on X - "Thousands of Muslims shut down NYC streets with blood-drenched donkeys, men beating their chests, and public displays honoring martyrdom. This is Father’s Day in NYC. Very Western and progressive, right?"
Hon. Vickie Paladino on X - "Imagine if we had an evangelical Christian mayor, and almost every week after his election public parks and city streets were taken over for massive Jesus revivals, complete with crowds of worshippers, giant crosses, and Christian prayers and revival music blared from loudspeakers, with the mayor himself even attending some of these takeovers personally. Imagine the absolute meltdown the press would be in. Imagine the dire lectures about the separation of church and state we’d all be enduring from Democrat politicians and civil rights groups. Imagine the boiling outrage from the average New York City liberal. Frankly I doubt it could happen more than once or twice before the injunctions were handed down and the mayor was sued personally by the ACLU. Not to mention the leftist militants that would mobilize to disrupt the events. Yet none of that is happening to the Muslims. Very odd, isn’t it?"
🇺🇸 Jason Curtis Anderson on X - "Zohran his whole life: “Israel is evil”
Zohran campaigning: “why do you keep asking me about Israel? My interests are to serve the City of New York. These questions are racist.”
Zohran as Mayor: “AIPAC are monsters.”"
Of course there're still terrorism supporters who criticise him for supporting "Zionists", or even of being one himself
Yehuda Teitelbaum on X - "Mamdani playbook:
Step 1: Constantly talk about a conflict 5,000 miles away and endorse candidates whose entire political identity revolves around that one issue.
Step 2: Say something totally unhinged about Israel for the 1000th time.
Step 3: When reporters ask you to explain your comment, suddenly insist that you're "too focused on NYC" to answer.""
Yehuda Teitelbaum on X - "🚨 In the midst of doubling down on his insane AIPAC rant earlier this week, Zohran Mamdani cited Hamas operative Ahmed Wishah as an innocent Al Jazeera "journalist" killed by Israel. We're talking about a man praised as a mujahid by Palestinian accounts, who posted photos of himself with weapons, and who was identified by Israel as a Hamas operative involved in sniper attacks. How much does this man hate Jews? Enough to stand in front of cameras and lie through his teeth. The craziest part is that unless the @nypost happens to pick this up, most New Yorkers will never hear about it. Absolutely disgraceful."
And if the New York Post picks it up, left wingers will just dismiss it
Ryan James Girdusky on X - "A fundamental problem for NYC is that nearly a third of the working-population works either for the govt. or a govt. supported non-profit and another quarter lives on welfare. Pensioners add 350k more to the rolls. So you need new income streams to maintain the city’s bloated budget. Urban planners and politicians target car owners because in NYC, it’s a minority population with no political capital. Mamdani is exploring another way to squeeze the minority of people in the city who generate wealth and jobs to sustain the millions living off the government. Completely unsustainable."
Dr. Maalouf on X - "Zohran Mamdani now holds the lowest approval rating and the highest unfavorable rating of any recent New York mayor at this point in their term."
Sam E. Antar on X - "Mamdani will find a way to blame Israel, AIPAC, and the Jews for his low rating."
Magdi Jacobs on X - "I don't really believe that Mamdani deserves the benefit of the doubt on antisemitism anymore, but, for the sake of argument, let's give it to him. Let's say he is naïve. This rhetoric is dangerous. It objectively sounds like it could be from the early 1930s. He needs to stop. The phrase "AIPAC" is, linguistically, politically, and socially being used as a substitute for "International Jewish Power." You don't have to defend or like the organization to acknowledge this linguistic use. The idea that Jews are involved in a shadowy effort to turn other members of society (gentiles) against one another is present in the Protocols of Zion. Protocol No. 3 describes a deliberate strategy of using "the hands of the left and the right"--liberal and conservative forces--as instruments to be played against each other, with Jewish power holding the strings of both. In Mein Kampf, Hitler claims that Jews infiltrate labor movements and capitalist institutions simultaneously, specifically to keep workers and owners at each other's throats. Hitler argues that the the unity of the German people is the one thing Jews are seeking to prevent. Joseph Goebbels--Hitler's Minister of Propaganda--repeatedly employed the trope of Jews turning other members of society against one another. Here Mamdani--knowingly or not--is employing a template: [shadowy they] keep [the people] divided so [the people] never unite against [them]. This is dangerous rhetoric, whether he means it or not. If he truly is naïve, I suggest he take the concerns of Jews more seriously. Personally, it's hard for me to believe he is naïve. He is a very smart, educated man. I think he does know what he's doing. We'll see if he keeps doing it."
Conor Friedersdorf on X - "Do his pretty words lower prices for anyone? Do they increase housing supply? Reduce homelessness? Make the subways safer? Why are fans of charismatic politicians, across the ideological spectrum, such easy marks?"
Daniel Friedman on X - "As someone who despises Zohran, the truth is, he doesn’t actually have to do anything to succeed. The New York City government is a vast bureaucracy that will function without his involvement. All he has to do is let it. He has done nothing for six months but make YouTube videos and post pictures of himself on Instagram. He has been focused for half of his mayoralty so far on boosting DSA congressional candidates. His supporters absolutely, unabashedly believe that he has taxed the rich, cut the rent, and made New York affordable. Even the ones who are living here, whose rent and grocery bills have not gone down believe he has done these things. This guy doesn’t need policy wins. He can take over the Democratic Party with YouTube videos. Gavin Newsom has presided over debacle after debacle as governor of California, and he’s still the Democratic frontrunner because he looks good on television. Nothing matters except vibes."
Sam E. Antar on X - "For a Knicks parade, Mamdani can find 10,000 NYPD officers and call it “appropriate.” But when New Yorkers want public July 4 / America 250 celebrations, suddenly it’s “staffing shortages” and “resource constraints.” Apparently the NYPD is oppressive until there’s a trophy involved. Then it’s crowd management."
Zohran Mamdani, Slumlord - WSJ - "New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani last month issued a housing plan that calls for building more—what else?—public housing. So it’s startling to hear even some progressive elected officials complain about the appalling conditions at the city’s existing housing projects. New York Attorney General Letitia James, Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso and New York City Council member Crystal Hudson on Monday issued a press release condemning a months-long natural gas outage at a New York City Housing Authority (Nycha) complex in Brooklyn. This “is unacceptable. Without gas service, a simple but essential home-cooked meal becomes much more difficult,” they aver. Tenants “deserve to live in dignity with basic necessities like working stoves and ovens.” Yes, they do. Perhaps the Democratic leaders could file a complaint with the city about this slumlord. Oh wait—the city is the slumlord. And a months-long gas outage isn’t unusual in Nycha building. Tenants regularly endure leaky pipes, mold, rodent infestations and furnace breakdowns. Perhaps Mr. Mamdani considers this “the warmth of collectivism.” Nycha says it needs $78 billion to bring every apartment up to standard. That’s $439,275 per unit, which is about as much as the cost of a home in most parts of America, and it’s the bill that adds up when the city delays maintenance so it can spend money instead on union pensions and more social welfare. While Nycha apartments fall deeper into disrepair, Mr. Mamdani last month proposed that the agency finance new housing projects across the city. Just what the city doesn’t need. His plan would require construction workers on these projects to be paid at least $40 an hour in wages and benefits. Such wage mandates are why it cost Nycha $1,973 per apartment to install LED lights, as we wrote several years ago—and why the agency’s backlog of repairs is taller than the Empire State building. Mr. Mamdani hilariously proposes in his housing plan an “economic mobility program” to train Nycha tenants to “launch home-based childcare businesses,” which would be subsidized by the city. The program would guide tenants through “health and safety compliance.” Will the filthy apartments without heat pass city inspection? Mr. Reynoso and other Democrats running for Congress have made Nycha a campaign issue. Most have called for more federal funding, though Washington already covers two-thirds of Nycha’s operating budget. Rep. Adriano Espaillat wants the feds to divert money from immigration enforcement to Nycha. Meantime, his Mamdani-backed primary opponent, Darializa Avila Chevalier, has endorsed legislation by Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that would spend hundreds of billions of dollars to eliminate CO2 emissions from public housing. New York City has found a cheaper way to do that: Neglect buildings, and voila, gas emissions gone."
Left wingers were complaining about this article without addressing the argument, naturally
Left wingers keep condemning landlords and calling for more public housing, ignoring the fact that public housing often has a very poor record - sometimes worse than the "slumlords" they want to guillotine
Left wingers demand the government build more things, but also high wages and lots of regulation, because they think everything can be paid for by "taxing the 'rich'" and they want unlimited social spending
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "Happy Venezuelan Independence Day to everyone celebrating across New York City. Today, we honor Venezuela's long struggle for self-determination, the generations of people who have carried that history with them to our city, and Venezuelans around the world who are still reckoning with the tragic aftermath of this devastating earthquake. Our hearts are with our Venezuelan brothers and sisters during this moment of celebration and struggle. ¡Feliz Día de la Independencia! 🇻🇪"
Common Sense Extremists on X - "Notice he has a more positive Independence Day message for a foreign country than for the one that took him in and gave him citizenship?"
Libby Emmons on X - "How can Mamdani possibly think a nation that welcomed him at 7-years-old, granted him citizenship at 28, and elected him mayor of the greatest city we have is racist and anti-immigrant? He didn't buck the odds, he just took advantage of the vast opportunity America offers."
Auron MacIntyre on X - "He doesn't care about the logic, it's an exuse for stealing your stuff and taking your country You don't try to convince foreign invaders, you expel them or you lose We don't understand the nature of the fight but he does Mamdani is declaring a simple truth : Vae Victis"
Fox News on X - "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.”"
Adam Milstein on X - "Even Mamdani’s Independence Day comments insinuate that he hates everything about America. The main premise of his comments were that everything in America can change. Someone get this man out of office. What a joke."
Naturally, he trots out the tired line that when left wingers hate their countries, they are being patriotic because dissent is patriotic. Of course, this only applies to left wing critics of right wing governments
Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 on X - "America turned 250 and the First Lady of New York City bounced to Spain for an “Islamic wellness retreat.” The disrespect is the point."
City Journal on X - "REPORTER: "Recent reporting shows the international commissioner, Ana María Archila, was trying to meet with Iran's ambassador."
MAMDANI: "That meeting did not take place, will not take place, & I did not know about it until there was a press inquiry.""
David Marcus on X - "So the mayor’s international commissioner tried to set up a meeting with the ambassador of a nation we are at war with, without telling him, and she hasn’t been fired? Or, like, arrested?"
Av Michal אביגיל מיכל on X - "Holy shit. Mamdani’s wife’s Muslim lady retreat refers to Spain as Al Andalus and Sicily as the emirate of Sicily lol. And she calls the one tiny Jewish state that just wants to be left alone a “colonizer” 😂 be so for real"
The Italian American Civil Rights League on X - "Zohran Mamdani wants to ERASE Italian Americans. First, he denied our permit for Unity Day 2026. Now, he is excluding Little Italy as a recognized location all together on the map. Italian Americans BUILT NEW YORK CITY. Not third world Ugandans, We stand AGAINST COMMUNISTS!"
Trisha Posner on X - "There’s been plenty of chatter on X about how Mayor Mamdani’s “immigrant neighborhoods” map conveniently omitted Italian and Irish enclaves. Guess who else got erased? The 10-12% of New Yorkers who are Jewish. Yet somehow “Little Egypt” and “Little Palestine” made the cut. Sorry, @NYCMayor you won’t get rid of us that easily. Jews built this city too."
