Swann Marcus on X - "Funniest shit ever is how Mamdani balanced the budget by raiding public pension funds and increasing ambulance fees and progressives were like “Greatest statesman of all time. Thank God he’s not a neoliberal”"
Elica Le Bon الیکا ل بن on X - "Can somebody ask @NYCMayor Zohran Mamdani why he isn’t plannning to arrest Pezeshkian, the president of the Islamic Republic, who is attending the same UN conference as Netanyahu in September? Tens of thousands of Iranians murdered in two days. The worst massacre of our time. No speech? No arrest? No performance?"
AP on X - "Mamdani isn’t stupid. He’s actually very clever. He understands that many Americans would rather convince themselves he’s mainly a problem for Israel and the Jews than for America itself. So while he pushes policies that would fundamentally transform the United States and move it toward Soviet-style socialism and Marxism, he drops another video about Israel every few weeks. It goes viral, everyone argues about Israel again, and the conversation shifts exactly where he wants it. Meanwhile, his real agenda keeps moving forward. As he said this week, his goal is to take his socialist movement nationwide in 2028. If he succeeds, it will have little to no effect on Israel. America is the country that will bear the consequences. By the time people realize that the constant obsession with Israel was a convenient distraction from what he actually wanted to accomplish at home, it may already be too late. But I’m too hoarse from saying this over and over. You guys are on your own."
Dr. Maalouf on X - "Shocking data reveals: 95% of Zohran Mamdani’s engagement comes from foreign, mostly Islamic nations. 60% from Pakistan alone. How is this not considered foreign influence?"
Nicholas Lissack on X - "Zohran Mamdani once called an article "important" for questioning whether Lee Rigby's murder was terrorism. Rigby was run over by a car, stabbed repeatedly for three minutes, then beheaded with a meat cleaver as his killers screamed "Allahu Akbar." Mamdani is an Islamist."
Dr. Maalouf on X - "TERRIFYING: Zohran Mamdani attended Friday prayers at a mosque where the imam literally called for the killing of infidels (non-Muslims). This did not get enough attention."
Lee Kuan Yimby on X - "If someone of another faith attends a place of worship calling for mass killings and terrorist attacks it would be news right?"
End Wokeness on X - "Not a single word from Mayor Mamdani on 4 recent "church fires" in NYC I wonder why"
End Wokeness on X - "!!! NYC Department of Buildings rejects plan to save a 174-year-old church in Bushwick that burned via arson. Demolition is set to begin in August. Ahmed Tigani leads the agency"
End Wokeness on X - "Last night, the FDNY confirmed what we all suspected: it was arson. No arrests made."
Dr. Maalouf on X - "Zohran Mamdani’s intern Hadeeqa Arzoo Malik reveals that electing him was all part of a Holy War and jihad: “This is all jihad, this is all ibadah, this is all counted by Allah. How committed am I to this? What am I willing to sacrifice for this noble cause?”"
If you ask questions about Mamdani's links to Islamism, that's misinformation and Islamophobia
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani dodges questions on key political topics - "New York Times journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro asked Mamdani whether he and the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) have a definition for the working class that they say they represent. "I think if you have to work to pay your bills, I think that that is one definition of being a part of the working class," Mamdani said. "So someone making $250,000 a year is working class?" Garcia-Navarro asked. "I haven’t sat at home and asked myself where it starts and stops," Mamdani answered. "What I would say is those who are working to try and afford the basic dignities of life and aren’t able to do so, I think that that is also working class. Oftentimes we’re asked how we divide this country. I think there’s only one majority in this country — it’s the working class." When Garcia-Navarro pressed him further, saying that answer doesn’t ring true, Mamdani eventually said that he draws the line of working-class at "about a million dollars a year." "So anyone under a million dollars a year in income is working class?" Garcia-Navarro asked. He argued that that was not what he was trying to say, eventually lamenting that when taking questions, such as what it means to be a democratic socialist, "I think sometimes there’s a fixation on a definition of something."
Mamdani dodges question about wishing to run for presidency
Mamdani sidesteps question about whether Iran is better off without the ayatollah
Mamdani weaves around addressing condemnation of socialism
Mamdani ducks question about calling to globalize the intifada"
Amy Curtis on X - "With socialists, it’s Schrödinger’s working class. If they need your vote, you’re working class. If they do not, they will confiscate your wealth and punish you."
End Wokeness on X - "Mamdani on why rape is up in NY: "A lot of it is from expanding what counts as rape""
Lucy van Pelt on X - "What is important to know is that a lot of the increase in “Islamophobic attacks” by “racists” also comes from a twisted definition of what counts as victimhood, as well as “victims” coming forward over acts that took place generations before in their own imagination. “I want to speak to the memory of my aunt who stopped taking the subway after September 11 because she did not feel safe in her hijab. -Aspiring Communist leader & Revered Islamic scholar Zohran Mamdani"
Democrats Deliver on X - "🚨 Zohran Mamdani launches pilot program offering parents free babysitting during a night out."
Chris Freiman on X - "At the risk of being a libertarian killjoy, I don’t think that providing free babysitting during a night out is one of the legitimate functions of the state."
Patrick Bet-David on X - "Did you know the Mayor of NY City makes more money than:
1. Zohran Mamdani $258,750
2. Marco Rubio (Secretary of State) $250,600
3. Pete Hegseth (Secretary of Defense) $250,600
4. Scott Bessent (Secretary of the Treasury) $250,600
5. J.D. Vance (Vice President) $235,000
Here’s the kicker. Mamdani’s self appointed committee is asking for an 18.2% raise for Mamdani and his elected officials. His new salary would be $305,800. Even a democratic socialist is a deep down capitalist. The guy loves giving himself a raise with tax payers money."
One Secret to Zohran Mamdani’s Political Success - WSJ - "We’ve been telling you for years about the flight of taxpayers from New York, so it’s nice to get confirming evidence from the New York State Comptroller’s office of all places. Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli rolled out a new migration dashboard on Friday that proves the point—and may explain why this taxpayer flight is leading to the political rise of socialists... While out-migration has slowed in the last couple of years, high earners and married people continue to leave in large numbers. The data show that 13,662 taxpayers—roughly 1 in 1,000 resident taxpayers—on net left the state in 2024. “The greatest net loss of taxpayers was among married filers with incomes between $100,000 and $500,000—a net loss of 8,200, or more than half of the total net out-migration, in 2024,” the comptroller’s office says. The highest out-migration rate was for households making $500,000 or more—about one in 100 of whom moved out that year. The data underscore how the state’s high taxes and cost of living drive out top earners as well as middle and upper middle class families. Other flight propellants include New York City’s poor public schools and disorderly streets. Enrollment in New York City public schools has fallen 117,800 since 2019. But here’s the political irony, which the comptroller’s office calls “one positive post-pandemic trend”: An influx to the state of single tax filers. These include the young urban progressives who form New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s base and propelled his socialist comrades to victory in Democratic primaries last month. Progressive policies in New York City and other big cities are driving out the moderate and conservative voters who have historically been an electoral check on bad governance. The New York voters who made George Pataki Governor in 1994 and Rudy Giuliani mayor in 1993 now live elsewhere. These are the taxpayers who pay the bills for the welfare state and public unions. Good luck funding universal child care and socialist housing with the taxes from graduate students and community organizers."
Richard Hanania on X - "High earning, married taxpayers are fleeing NYC while young socialists move in. Doesn’t sound like the city is moving in the right direction."
Weird. Left wingers keep claiming rich people will never leave
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.”"
Cynical Publius on X - "A key thing to understand about Marxists is that they use the language of the oppressed so that they can be the oppressor."
I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 on X - "Hugo Chávez, like Zohran Mamdani, vowed to smash entrenched elites, redistribute wealth, and end poverty through bold socialist programs. Result in Venezuela? Roughly 8 million people, a full quarter of the population, fled the country in desperation from hyperinflation, shortages, and collapse. Yet fans of Mamdani cheer the same playbook for NYC, convinced this time socialism will magically deliver in the world’s financial capital, despite its spectacular failure just hours away by plane. History isn’t a suggestion. It’s a warning."
They will just blame Republicans, just like they blame US sanctions for forcing Hugo Chávez to unleash death squads
Daniel Levy on X - "H/T America Loves Liberty New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani has been asked not to come back to the famous Katz's Deli on the Lower East Side after he entered the 120-year-old Jewish establishment with a group of pro-Palestine "Activists." "We told him we don't mind them being here," said Katz's owner, Jusef Barronberg, "We just ask that they respect everyone and put away their flags and signs." The group refused, and Mamdani refused to leave without being served. "We made him a sandwich for free to get him out of here, then we had the police serve him with a no trespassing notice." Barronberg says this is the first time in his 60 years at the restaurant that he's ever seen politics mixed with brisket. "It's just wrong.""
Ro Khanna on X - "Our message to the oligarchs: bring it on. After last nights decisive wins, have a new, strong, bold Democratic party."a>
Sam E. Antar on X - "Hey Ro Khanna: Which oligarchs? The ones who use tax-deductible charitable dollars, routed through layers of tax-exempt organizations, to support political operations that help elect candidates like Zohran Mamdani? Sunlight shouldn’t be partisan. If you’re serious about fighting oligarchic influence, follow the money wherever it leads. The tax code doesn’t care about political affiliations. Neither should the IRS. Here are some receipts:"
New York primary election results: Mamdani’s anti-Israel Democrats sweep primaries
When the Individual Is Nothing, Freedom Dies - "Joseph Stalin said it plainly: “The individual is nothing; the collective is everything.” Mao Zedong echoed the same: “The interests of the individual must be subordinated to the interests of the collective.” Benito Mussolini, the fascist dictator of Italy, was even more direct: “Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State.” These weren’t philosophical musings from ivory tower academics. These were battle cries for some of the most brutal regimes in human history. And here’s what keeps me up at night: In January 2025, New York City’s newly elected mayor, Zohran Mamdani—a self-described socialist—stood at his inauguration and declared: “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” The crowd applauded. Y’all. They applauded... The “warmth of collectivism” always ends in cold graves."
Zohran Mamdani’s socialist New York dream is about to turn sour - "There’s nothing that the rising progressive movement hates more than billionaires. But there’s nothing they love more than their money. New York mayor Zohran Mamdani may bask in his new status as a “Congressional kingmaker”, with candidates he backed in recent primary elections winning against three liberal Democrats. But the essence of his politics, and that of his California mini-mes, attacks the very source that keeps the government budget from collapse. Like contemporary London, New York City and California depend on the rich, both the billionaires as well as the larger, also much despised top 1 per cent. New York City is essentially a financial ward of Wall Street and the rich who serve them, like lawyers, accountants, marketers, and PR agencies. The top 1 per cent pay about 40 per cent of all the city’s income taxes, higher than their overall share of city income. But the number of people paying these taxes has dropped, making getting more from those who remain a priority. Between 2010 and 2022, New York City’s share of all Americans earning over a million annually dropped from 6.5 to 4.2 per cent. New York’s dependence on the rich few will likely grow as employers head to more accommodating places like Miami and Dallas Ft Worth. Meanwhile, California, notes economist Gad Levanon, is losing high-end business service jobs faster than anywhere else in the country. All this makes the neo-socialists all that more dependent on upper-class money, particularly from the stock market. California’s top 1 per cent pays 40 per cent of the state’s income tax revenues, much of it from capital gains proceeds. This money has allowed both New York and California to indulge in expanding their welfare states. New York’s state budget has grown significantly since 2020, even as the population has dropped. California has accelerated its spending by a remarkable 60 per cent over that period, even as its once burgeoning population has stagnated. But socialists like Mamdani seem to have given little thought to broad-based wealth creation, preferring to focus mostly on redistribution. The mayor has seen fit to fill 40 positions at the Bolshevik-style office of “mass engagement” but has yet to appoint an economic development director. Growth is not popular among neo-socialists. The very people who have advanced California’s controversial wealth tax have also partnered with European intellectuals, such as France’s Thomas Piketty, to create an agenda that effectively seeks no growth in the industrialised countries, to protect the environment while transferring wealth to poorer nations. Yet eschewing broad-based growth means an unhealthy addiction to asset inflation. California’s tax revenues tumble with stock market corrections, as occurred in 2000, 2008, and in 2022. New York is, if anything, more vulnerable. Outside asset inflation, the job markets in both places are fundamentally compromised as companies and entrepreneurs flee. New York and California are among the states with the largest surplus of workers. California alone has a surplus of nearly 500,000 employable people. In New York, high-wage employment, including finance, is stagnating. Firms are moving their operations to places like Texas and Florida, and their employees are taking their money with them. New York and California have been leading in the race to lose taxpayers, particularly the affluent. In the short run, this set the stage for the socialists. The campaigns that are electing people like Mamdani, after all, are no rebellion of the working class, or racial minorities, but one of the downwardly mobile children of the bourgeois. According to the New York Fed, 42 per cent of recent graduates are underemployed . Along with welfare recipients and government workers, the socialists’ drive is underpinned by a vast class of largely childless, overeducated and often underpaid young people. The “yuppie dream” of yesterday has faded, as the New Republic snidely reported recently, as young urbanites embrace Mamdani’s warm “collectivism” in lieu of making their own way. As a result, policies linked to past failures, such as expanding public housing, rent control and reducing police ranks, suddenly are back in favour. There’s something child-like about this new socialist drive. Perhaps, like Mamdani, many are nepo-babies who may be slow to realise that you have to pay for things yourself. There’s little thought, particularly as the affluent leave, about who is going to fund the free buses, state-owned food stores, care for undocumented migrants, or the salaries, much less the pensions, of the state apparat. Yet economic logic means little in modern America. Mass discontent allows the Democratic Socialists of America to win, particularly in low-turnout elections, aided by a well-developed turnout the vote operation. This pattern is being replicated across the country, not only in New York, but Seattle, Washington DC and, quite possibly, Los Angeles this fall. For those parts of the Democratic Party long aligned with Wall Street and the tech oligarchs, this is a bitter pill indeed. But many Democratic leaders seem unwilling to take on the “hot” winners in deepest blue America even, as their establishment incumbents lose safe seats to more radical candidates. But if there’s a sustained decline in the markets, the socialists may find themselves forced to operate in a cash-short environment. At the same time, their calls for such things as the ownership of the means of production, open borders, kneecapping police, abolishing the Senate, and emasculating the independence of the Supreme Court may not sell in the rest of a country; in America, people still favour capitalism over socialism by a four to one margin. The next big battleground for the socialist-establishment fight will be in California. Governor Newsom and his possible successor, former Biden cabinet member Xavier Becerra, have rejected a proposed state wealth tax on billionaire assets, although the governor recently embraced a national wealth tax. Unlike the socialists, they know the tech oligarchs and the rich have funded not only their expanding welfare state, but also their campaigns. Socialist ambitions to ban data centres are a direct attack on the tech elite’s AI plans. Increasingly unpopular in deep blue states, the rich and their companies keep leaving, taking their money with them, and making places like Miami their new Valhalla. The growing power of the socialists will not slow this trend. Such realities are not something many progressives even think about. But someday, perhaps sooner rather than later, they will feel the consequences of their actions, as will the rest of us."
Batya Ungar-Sargon on X - "It wasn’t the working class that voted in this slate of “socialists” and it wasn’t “socialism” they ran on. It was a hatred of this country and a deeply-embedded resentment that their vanity pursuits haven’t resulted in the riches they were promised in their fancy schools."
Dr. Maalouf on X - "Hasan Piker, an anchor baby born in New Jersey, was immediately taken back to Turkey, where he was raised and lived until he was 18. He grew up hating America, Christians, and Jews like everyone in Turkey. He came back to the U.S. as an adult to sow chaos. Aber Kawas was born in New York to Palestinian Muslim parents. She grew up hating America and openly supports Hamas and Islamic jihad, saying America deserved 9/11 because of Islamophobia. She won the Democratic primary for NY State Senate. Darializa Avila Chevalier was born in Florida to Dominican or Haitian parents. She converted to Islam, claiming that Palestine is the only thing that matters to her. Openly hates the U.S., calling it a disgrace of a country and was part of an organization that calls for its eradication. She won the Democratic primary for Congress in New York. The enemy within."
Mamdani's Netanyahu backtrack shows NYC mayor distracted by social media activism - "Reality killed the TikTok star. Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s carefully manicured online image took another hit this week when the lefty pol had to back down on his ridiculous vow to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — just the latest in a string of polished promises that failed the real-world test. Free bus rides for all New Yorkers, a tax hike for the Big Apple’s upper crust and cheaper groceries for everyone — all of them pie-in-the-sky campaign promises that have fizzled out of the gate. Meanwhile, critics contend Mamdani is so fixated on ideological wars that he’s forgetting the job he was hired to do — run the city. “Mayor Mamdani knew that he does not have legal authority to arrest Prime Minister Netanyahu, yet he continues with his blood libels against Israel,” the Israeli Consul General said in a statement. “He should start focusing on the people of his city instead of meddling in matters he doesn’t understand.” The socialist mayor, who repeatedly harped on the Israeli leader on the campaign trail and in his curated online profiles, was finally forced to admit he doesn’t have the juice to lock up Netanyahu when he visits the city — but continues to flash his disdain for the Jewish state. Democratic insiders told The Post that Mamdani’s online polish gives him a “get out of jail” free card — but it won’t last if he doesn’t follow through on his online persona. Part of the Mamdani sales pitch was a vow “to make buses fast and free,” but the estimated $1 billion price tag put the brakes on the idea right away and it has gone nowhere. Mamdani said he would impose a corporate tax and a 2% personal income tax on “the most affluent New Yorkers,” but neither has happened, with the controversial “pied-à-terre tax” on second, non-residence homes coming the closest — and that came from Gov. Kathy Hochul. Hizzoner also pitched a plan to open public, city-owned grocery stores in every borough to make essentials more affordable. However, only two locations have been identified, and the first won’t be stocking the shelves until 2027 at the earliest. Mamdani also promised a $1 billion “community safety” program that would replace the NYPD on most 911 calls, and yet only two staffers have been assigned and cops continue to respond to the calls. He also said he would “freeze the rent,” and while he stacked the rent-stabilization board with like-minded lefties, a lawsuit filed by landlords this week has cast doubt on that crusade... Several of his other pledges are out of his direct authority as mayor, critics have argued — with the MTA in control of bus fares, the state in control of income tax hikes... Democratic operative Ken Frydman said Mamdani knew he couldn’t have Netanyahu arrested “before he floated the idea.” “Unfortunately, that threat plays politically to his far-left base. So it was worth it to him to float it,” Frydman argued. Meanwhile, a fifth New Yorker has died from a troubling outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease on the Upper East Side that has infected dozens of people, with city lawmakers blasting the mayor for not acting. On Tuesday, City Council Speaker Julie Menin unveiled a bill that calls for stepped up efforts to address the deadly outbreak — and slams City Hall for not doing enough, particularly after a similar outbreak in Harlem last year killed five people. “But public health depends on public trust — and public trust depends on timely, transparent communication and action,” Menin wrote in a follow-up op-ed in The Post. “This outbreak exposed a dangerous gap between what our laws require and how the city executes them.”... “Legionnaires’ disease knocks off Manhattanites and the best this guy can do is to pretend he’s got powers that he doesn’t,” Sheinkopf said. “This proves again that hating Jews gets you news but fighting for dying New Yorkers gets you zero.” Evan Roth Smith of Slingshot Strategies said the mayor “really can do no wrong” with his supporters... Mamdani was also slow to react to a homeless encampment along more than a dozen city blocks along Manhattan’s West Side, dragging his feet for days — then botching the response. City Hall wasted more than a week to address the issue despite concerns from locals about the filthy shantytown, where drugs and sex were peddled in the shadow of the Intrepid Museum. When Mamdani finally had city workers and police move in, the vagrants simply relocated."
