Chaim Steinmetz | Facebook - "We’re waiting, Mayor Mamdani. Tonight, an angry mob gathered around Park East Synagogue. The NYPD was able to avert any possible violence. The rioters are certain that you’re on their side. The last time they rioted, you condemned the synagogue along with the rioters. When the buffer zone bills came to your desk, you vetoed the one you could block. When there were swastikas and acts of vandalism against Jewish sites in Queens, you offered AI-written platitudes. So we’re waiting for a statement about tonight’s riot. We’re waiting to see if, for once, you can condemn the pro-Hamas protesters unequivocally. We’re waiting to see if, for once, you can say you stand with Park East Synagogue. We’re waiting to see if, for once, you actually take pro-Palestinian antisemitism seriously. Because the rioters are inspired by you."
Joseph Hernandez on X - "This forensic accountant may have exposed how NYC Mayor @ZohranKMamdani ’s campaign cheated the system. In plain English: $80 MILLION in tax-deductible charity money (your donations) flowed through nonprofits into political groups. Those groups shared the exact same treasurers, offices, and bosses as Mamdani’s “independent” super PACs. They moved $950,000 in one transfer, did a $45,697.14 same-day penny-perfect swap, then dumped $1.8 MILLION into attack ads and door-knocking for him. It’s illegal for campaigns and “independent” groups to coordinate like this. It’s illegal to use tax-free charity cash for elections. Where there is smoke there’s fire. Read the full report. The public filings don’t lie."
How much non profit activity is just pushing the left wing agenda?
Mamdani Considers Delaying Pension-Fund Payments to Ease Budget Gap - The New York Times
Steven Fulop on X - "This can be dangerous and the council/mayor should be careful here - Every major municipal fiscal crisis of the last 50 years has a common thread: cities that deferred pension contributions during hard times and never caught up. Detroit. Chicago. Puerto Rico. The short-term relief becomes a permanent structural hole. Pension deferrals aren’t free money they’re the most expensive borrowing a city can do. Unlike a bond, you can’t restructure a pension obligation. Once you’re behind, you’re behind forever (just ask NJ)"
Meme - "Mamdani before the election: "We're making all city buses free and fast."
Mamdani now: We're facing a budget crisis. We have no revenue. The deficit is enormous.""
Negligible Capital on X - "Ken Griffin is “appalled” that Zohran used his $238m Manhattan penthouse in his tax the rich promotional video. Citadel is now apparently considering bailing on their construction plans to build a new office in Midtown. The project would involve $6 billion in spending and would create 15k permanent jobs in NYC according to Citadel’s COO. "It is shameful that he used Ken's name as the example of those who supposedly aren't carrying their fair share of the burdens associated with New York City's often costly and wasteful spending," the email said. "In doing so, the mayor has once again manifested the ignorance and disdain of the elite political class towards those who have been consistently committed to building one of the greatest cities in the world." Would be both incredibly petty but also hilarious if Citadel backed out of their plans over this"
Dave Portnoy on X - "I’m not the biggest Ken Griffin fan from the GameStop saga days. But I’d love for him to give Zohran a big fuck you and pull his construction plans and pull the hundreds of millions he pays in taxes and charity. NYC officials are hilarious. All they do is say they hate rich peole and then beg them to stay and pay for all their useless shit. There was zero reason for Zohran to antagonize Griffin except to appease his yellow and purple haired communist base. He could have still initiated the tax without trying to be Mr Cool Guy Communist and rubbing people’s faces in it. Why would any rich person stay there? NYC wanted a communist mayor. They got a communist mayor."
Lloyd Blankfein on X - "Ken Griffin is self-made. He built his businesses largely outside NYC but is now growing it in NYC. With Ken comes construction of an office tower, high paying jobs, tax revenue and a remarkable commitment to local philanthropy. Not sure why that pisses off the new mayor."
John Tillman on X - "Watching @ZohranKMamdani 's oafish, unprovoked attack on Ken Griffin blow up in his face in real time tells us so much about how contemporary leftism has been reconfigured by its elite practitioners. Firstly, Mamdani is not a "have-not." He is a Bowdoin graduate, the son of a Columbia professor and an internationally celebrated filmmaker, whose path to a New York City mayoralty ran through exactly the credentialed-creative pipeline that produces most of his voters. His base is not the working class. It is the downwardly mobile but college-educated, who were promised a particular kind of life by their degrees and are furious it didn't arrive, and who have decided the people standing between them and that life are not the radicalized professors who sold them seductive fictions or the ideologically captured universities that took their money, but a hedge fund manager in Miami. This is what I'd call Privilege Populism. The aesthetics of class struggle, performed by people whose parents or grandparents technically already won the class struggle, but with the appropriated symbolism recast in the direction of people who won it slightly more. It is war between the "haves" versus "have-mores," as some others have put it. The Mamdani's inciting video, gleeful in its innumeracy about about whether a $500 million pied-Γ -terre tax can actually fund anything it claims to, defiant in its ignorance about the dynamic effects of such taxation on human behavior and wealth outmigration, is the genre's mature form. Griffin's response is the part worth watching. He didn't argue or issue a statement offering a philosophical defense of capitalism. He simply pointed to his Miami construction project and said: this is the way. Then he said the part that should make every blue-state mayor uncomfortable: that what's happening in New York is "triggering the trauma I went through in Chicago." I watched that trauma play out for twenty years. Progressive politicians perform to excite the grievances and resentments of credentialed creatives, the productive class that subsidizes the city quietly relocates, the tax base hollows out, and the people who stay behind look at the resulting societal decline around them and misinterpret it as proof that they must vote even further to the left than before in order to improve things. In a warped but unignorable way, liberal mismanagement of states like Illinois and New York helped nurse the conservative governance triumphs of Florida and Texas. The Privilege Populists never figure this out, because the point is never truly to improve the lives of the "have-nots." It's to *perform* therapeutic acts of Resistance for them, on camera, against "villains" who can afford to leave and do."
Exclusive | Mamdani's billionaire bashing could cost NYC $12 billion: data - "Dire data exclusively provided to The Post by the Partnership for New York City shows the coalition’s 300 corporate and financial firms that have created nearly a million jobs, as well as contribute $13.5 billion in taxes and generate $370 billion to the city’s GDP every year. The windfall for the Big Apple, however, could be endangered if growth declines even a modest amount, according to the data — a growing prospect if a feared exodus of billionaires fleeing the socialist mayor gains steam... “New York’s private sector has invested billions and created hundreds of thousands of jobs. You can only treat job creators like the enemy for so long before they stop creating jobs here. The far left can run on socialism all day, but cities run on tax revenue — and tax revenue requires businesses that actually want to be here.” Long-simmering fears that the “tax the rich“-advocating Mamdani would scare off — or tick off — businesses and the well-to-do boiled over this week when Griffin said he’s adding jobs in Miami for his Citadel hedge fund instead of New York City. The Sunshine State switcheroo was a “direct consequence” of Mamdani using Griffin’s glamorous $238 million penthouse as a prop in a social media video drumming up support for a proposed tax on luxury second homes in the city, the billionaire seethed. Griffin’s reprisal was joined by fellow financial titan Marc Rowan taking further steps to open a new hub for his Apollo Global Management in either Florida and Texas, two growing hotspots for ex-pat New York businesses. Both Citadel and Apollo are pillars within New York City’s financial services industry — a sector that accounts for nearly one in 10 private jobs in the city, according to the Partnership’s data. The financial services sector outpaced every other industry in job growth during 2025, expanding by 3%, the data shows. Assuming the same amount of growth, financial companies within the Partnership alone would bring in a projected 10,000 jobs, $8.4 billion in tax contributions and $247 billion in GDP every year through 2030, the data shows. But even a small downtick of 10% would lead to roughly 3,000 fewer jobs, a $168 million dip in taxes and a $4.8 billion GDP hit, the analysis from the Partnership of NYC shows... The city has a massive spending problem, leaving it particularly susceptible to economic slowdowns because revenue doesn’t keep pace, said a former budget official in Michael Bloomberg’s mayoral administration. “If you are just raising taxes to fill a gap and doing nothing to close the gap, you are just going to raise taxes,” the official said. The tax hikes in turn will prompt Griffin’s billionaire buds and other businesses to follow suit and cut their losses, according to the official. “It’s a real death spiral,” the official said. “Business leaders are just going to reallocate their workforce to Florida. That’s not a loss of a billionaire and their tax bill — it’s the workers and tens of millions of dollars.” Companies increasingly have a choice, rather than be tied to one particular city, said Jared Walczak, senior fellow at the Tax Foundation. “It used to be that if you were finance, you had to be New York City, and that is not the case anymore,” he said. “If they feel unwelcome or they are going to be an ongoing topic, that can easily push them elsewhere. They do not want to fight new proposals every year and be the solution to every revenue problem that can drive them elsewhere.” Big biz fears of an antagonistic left-wing mayor, however, have been proven wrong in the past... Mamdani is different because bashing the rich helped sweep him into office on an unabashedly lefty message, said Evan Roth Smith, a strategist with Slingshot Strategies... “He should have picked someone who has a penthouse that doesn’t employ thousands of people,” the strategist said. “I think the target was ill-advised. I think when it’s Zohran versus a rich guy who employs tens of thousands of people during a budget fight it’s a problem, but I think it goes to a draw.” The democratic socialist likely will return to his more vocal rich-bashing after the budget process, Smith said. “Stuff like this is a winner for him and he’ll go back to it,” he said. “I think the voters exist and they hate rich people.”"
NY leaders desperately try to stop billionaire bigs from fleeing city over Mamdani - "The burgeoning biz bolt has prompted Andrew Murstein, founder of Medallion Financial Corp., to launch a campaign dubbed Operation Boomerang to woo his peeved peers back into the New York groove. “This is a personal contribution of $1 million,” he said. “I’m a big believer in New York City and tradition... Former Mayor and new Albanian Eric Adams stepped into the fray by personally lobbying Griffin to reconsider his decision to withdraw from New York City. He sent a simple message on X to Griffin and other business leaders: “Stand your ground.” Alarm over the exodus has even reached City Hall, where officials are looking for ways to tamp down Mamdani’s rhetoric. “The mayor’s office is feeling pressure around this and they are looking for ways to change the narrative around business,” a city business leader who asked not to be named told The Post. “They’re in a pickle because he’s hearing all the business leaders are looking for exit strategies now and Mamdani needs money and needs to keep his base happy. “This might be an inflection point because NYC is already a welfare state supported by very few people at the top who can leave,” the leader added. Even before Mamdani, the Empire State has steadily watched its standing as a business haven slip. New York lost $660 billion in economic growth over the past decade, leading all 50 states, according to economic data from the Committee to Unleash Prosperity. Red states, particularly Florida and Texas, have started to scoop up disaffected New York residents and businesses. A huge exodus unfolded during the pandemic as New York City residents fled skyrocketing cost of living and high taxes, data from state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s office show. City residents represented 71.5% of the state’s entire out-migration in 2020, according to the data. New York City lost 114,000 more residents to other US cities than it gained, according to the Citizens Budget Commission... The Lone Star State has surpassed the Empire State when it comes to financial sector employment, with a total of 519,000 employees, compared with New York’s 507,000, according to data from the nonprofit Partnership for New York City. JPMorgan Chase already has more employees in Texas than in New York — where the Big Apple is at risk of losing its crown as the center of the global financial industry. The loss of Wall Street business could deal a major blow to New York City’s finances, which are buoyed by taxes on bonuses from the sector. Average Wall Street bonuses hit a record $49.2 billion last year — but still fell short of the projections in Mamdani’s 2026 city budget proposal that was counting on a 15% bump, according to state data... Many business leaders have quietly opted to flee, eschewing the more public exits that Griffin and Rowan took, one insider said. “They aren’t telling people, they just do it,” the business insider said. “New York City has become so hostile. For cities, it’s a problem because they are just gone.” One prominent corporate honcho who requested anonymity said Mamdani hasn’t done anything to repair the damage with the business community after his Griffin stunt."
SightBringer on X - "⚡️What is emerging is the collapse of the old urban elite bargain. For decades, New York ran on an unspoken pact: capital accepted punishment because the city conferred power. High taxes, brutal costs, political hostility, congestion, disorder, regulatory pain. The exchange still worked because New York gave access to the center of gravity. Deals, law firms, media, finance, culture, status, elite labor, philanthropic prestige, institutional validation. That pact is breaking. The new political class still wants the fruits of capital, but no longer wants to honor the status of the people who create it. It wants the tower, the jobs, the taxes, the donations, the office demand, the civic subsidy, the global prestige, then wants the builder to stand there and be morally indicted after delivering it. That is the deep contradiction. A city can extract from capital when capital believes the city is indispensable. A city can insult capital when alternatives are weak. A city can tolerate dysfunction when proximity remains mandatory. New York’s danger is that all three conditions are weakening at once. Capital is more mobile. Work is more distributed. Financial elites have alternatives. Florida is no longer a retirement punchline. Texas is no longer a provincial sideshow. Miami, Palm Beach, Dallas, Austin, Nashville, and global private networks now offer enough infrastructure for wealth to keep compounding without begging New York for permission. That changes the psychology. The old New York premium was: suffer here because the center is here. The emerging question is: why suffer here if the center can move? That is the part the political class does not understand. Prestige used to be New York’s moat. Now prestige is becoming portable. Capital can build its own rooms, its own conferences, its own private networks, its own schools, its own philanthropic channels, its own media, its own political machines. Once capital no longer needs the city to certify its status, the city loses its deepest leverage. The Griffin fight is a symbol of that transition. He represents a type of actor who should be treated as strategic infrastructure by any city that wants to remain dominant. A builder of institutions. A buyer of land. A creator of high-value jobs. A source of tax flow. A donor. A signal to other capital that the city still matters. If the city’s response is contempt, the message to other capital is clean: come build here and become prey. Deep deep down, this is the emergence of jurisdictional sovereignty inside America. The wealthy and productive are no longer merely choosing neighborhoods. They are choosing regimes. One regime offers prestige plus extraction plus moral hostility. Another offers lower taxes, friendlier politics, more space, and fewer rituals of humiliation. The old coastal model assumed talent and capital were captive. The new map proves they are not. That is why this matters beyond New York. This is the same pattern showing up everywhere: high-status legacy institutions still believe they own the future because they owned the past. Universities, media, cities, agencies, credential systems, old financial centers. They keep charging the old premium after the monopoly has weakened. That is how incumbents decay. They mistake inherited gravity for permanent gravity. The emerging structure is harsher: capital will increasingly route around contempt. Talent will increasingly route around decay. Builders will increasingly choose places that treat them as assets rather than tribute animals. Legacy cities will still matter, but their monopoly on ambition is cracking. The real truth is that New York is not fighting one billionaire. New York is testing whether a city can despise its own engine and still remain the center of the world."
I Meme Therefore I Am πΊπΈ on X - "NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani rushed to call the family and personally visited Jabez Chakraborty, the man shot by NYPD after he charged at officers with a knife. But when 15-year-old Jaden Pierre was brutally beaten by a group of teens and then fatally shot, he stayed silent. He skipped the vigil and only addressed the killing days later after heavy backlash, saying he was “trying to arrange” a meeting with the family. A violent suspect gets immediate sympathy and a hospital bedside visit. An innocent 15-year-old kid gets crickets until the heat turns up. That tells you everything about where his priorities really lie."
Satmar Hasidic community endorses Mamdani for NYC mayor
Satmar Headquarters on X - "π¨ We're horrified by @NYCMayor Mamdani’s decision to veto Intro 175, legislation that would have mandated clear safety plans around our schools and Yeshivas. Our children’s safety should always be a top priority! This veto clearly doesn’t defend rights! It puts the safety of every student in NYC in harm’s way. #SafetyFirst #ProtectOurKids"
Amelia Adams on X - "“I never thought leopards would eat MY face,” cries @HQSatmar after endorsing the Leopards Eating People's Faces candidate."
New York Post on X - "East Villagers sue Mamdani to stop relocation of notorious Bellevue men's homeless shelter into their neighborhood"
Mr. VIX on X - "That neighborhood went 70%+ for Mamdani."
Nathaniel Hawthorne's Ghost on X - "Despite what some people are saying, it’s not ironic that East Villagers are suing Mamdani despite his winning nearly 75% of the vote in this area. The whole point of leftist luxury beliefs is to appear virtuous among your equally dim-witted friends, while not having to live with the consequences of your beliefs."
Leopards eating people's faces is only for people who oppose the left wing agenda
Marco Foster on X - "Zohran Mamdani: “I wish the words of Tupac from the 90’s weren’t still prescient, but they continue to be true for too many which is that we always have money for war and not to feed the poor”"
Noah Smith ππΊπΈπΊπ¦πΉπΌ on X - "We spend a tiny amount on our military compared to social welfare. People who use this talking point just want America to be a defenseless, weak country. They care about foreign policy, not about the poor."
No amount of social spending will ever be enough for left wingers, because they think social problems all result from a lack of social spending, and there will always be social problems
Meme - Andrew Follett @AndrewCFollett: "Exactly 8% of US government spending goes to defense. 47% goes to social welfare. Warfare is cheap, welfare is obscenely expensive!"
The American Tribune on X - "Leftism is just the sullen and glowering face of the Stone Age skulking out of a shack in the favela and demanding that all higher forms of life be crushed in the name of equality. Also America spends ~50% of the budget on welfare of various sorts, compared to less than 10% on defense"
Billy Binion on X - "This should be disqualifying. The US spent over $1 trillion on anti-poverty programs in 2025. That's more than $30,000 per person below the poverty line. The mayor of NYC should know that. Instead, he’s recycling buzz phrases that sound like they belong on a corny Facebook post."
Michelle Tandler on X - "I'm digging into New York City financials, and it is NOT looking good. Between 2019 and 2023, New Yorkers who moved out made $68 billion more than those who moved to New York City. $14B to Florida, $2 billion to Texas, $23 billion to NY State.. These ppl aren't coming back."
Coddled Affluent Professional on X - "‘Ha ha ha ha New Yorkers aren’t going to move. Won’t happen. We can just raise taxes. Forever. Free ice cream. You can just do things. The city must cater to NGO workers, not billionaires. You didn’t build it! Blah blah blah blah…’"
Weird. Left wingers keep telling us that rich people will never leave, so you can continue to flog the golden goose forever
Mamdani's visit with Rikers Island jailbirds to break Ramadan fast has critics peeved: 'Disgusting' - "Critics bashed the mayor for consistently elevating criminals above crime victims. “He actually visited inmates on Rikers but hasn’t visited any victims of the heinous crimes some of these guys have committed,” said an NYPD veteran of 20 years. “I think it’s absolutely disgusting. “We clearly know he doesn’t like us. He’s already made his stance clear on that. Even after we get clear extensive video of the guy trying to knife the police officers in Queens, he visited the criminal’s family in that case too!,” raged the police veteran. He was referring to Mamdani last month visiting the family of Jabez Chakraborty, the man shot by a police officer in Queens as he attacked the cop and his partner with a 13-inch carving knife. “He can go visit the inmates at Rikers, but he can’t go visit a cop who gets injured? That’s not right,” said another law enforcement source, referring to cops hurt earlier this month responding to an ISIS-inspired attempted terrorist attack outside the mayor’s home at Gracie Mansion. “I think next year there’ll be nobody to visit because he’s going to let everybody out of jail. Maybe he was going there to tell them we’re reducing everybody’s sentences,” the source said... Mamdani and Richards were also joined on Rikers by Councilman Yusef Salaam (D-Manhattan), a practicing Muslim and one of the “Central Park Five” who were exonerated in the infamous 1989 rape on a jogger. NYC-based mystery novelist Daniel Friedman was among the many questioning Mamdani’s priorities. “You have to be an absolute monster to be sent to Rikers Island these days,” he wrote on X. “Offenders on Rikers all have long histories of doing things so horrible that even the woke, pro-crime judges and prosecutors in NYC don’t want to be responsible for what they’ll do if they let them go.” Sam Antar, a convicted fraudster and former CFO of electronics store Crazy Eddie said Mamdani elevated criminals at the expense of victims. “If you commit a violent crime in NYC, Zohran Mamdani has your back,” he wrote on X,."
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on X - "Happy Tax Day, New York. We’re taxing the rich."
ππππ π§π ππ on X - "Mamdani singled out and named a private citizen not for a crime or corruption, but for the offense of having money and owning a home. That is how third-world despots operate. I do not know how it works in Uganda, but in America we do not build policy around punishing people, and we do not declare law-abiding citizens enemies of the state or take their money simply because the mayor dislikes them. Taxes exist to fund the functioning of a city. They are not instruments of revenge or tools to satisfy a mayor’s personal envy. This has no place in New York City and runs against everything America stands for, but if you import the third world, you become the third world."
Oddball NYC ‘tenant advocate’ Cea Weaver has Mamdani as her phone wallpaper - and her reason is suss - "City Hall’s radical tenant advocate Cea Weaver has a picture of her boss, Mayor Zohran Mamdani, as her phone wallpaper, she weirdly revealed in a glowing magazine piece. The odd moment came as Weaver, the director for the Mayor’s Office to Protect Tenants, sat down with New York Magazine in March ahead of one of the new administration’s “Rental Ripoff” hearings, where tenants can sound off on their landlords... “We are seated at little desks in a classroom at a Queens high school and she shows me her work phone’s backdrop, which is a photo of Mamdani,” it reads, “not out of professional devotion but so she can tell the otherwise identical devices apart by having her boss’s face looking back at her when she picks one up.”"
Jobs are fleeing New York -- so guess what Mamdani is focused on - "Not even 100 days into Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s term, Gotham is already facing grim economic prospects. So what is Hizzoner focusing on? Why, racial equity, of course... The mayor released two reports: one outlining a framework for addressing supposed racial bias in city government, the other reporting the city’s “True Cost of Living” — a bizarre, made-up number that lets Mamdani somehow claim 62% of New Yorkers don’t earn enough to “fully participate in the economy and save for the future.” The racial equity report has already caught the attention of the Justice Department for potential “raced-based” policymaking."
