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https://www.newsmax.com/newsfr...dkt_nbr=010502xgq03z With New York City’s Democratic mayoral primary only days away, voters in the Big Apple are considering electing a true socialist to run America’s largest city, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. While any politician elected to city-wide office in New York City will tilt leftward, none have pushed the expansive government control over private enterprise like Zohran Mamdani. A two-term state assemblyman from Astoria in Queens, Mamdani has experienced a dramatic rise in the polls the last two weeks and has put the city’s more centrist Democrats on edge. A self labeled “democratic socialist,” Mamdani has proposed free bus rides, a $30 minimum wage and city owned grocery stores. Critics are concerned that if enacted, his policies would push the limits of what businesses can endure, noting the punishing results of California’s minimum wage increase on fast food workers; higher prices and fewer jobs. Mamdani currently trails former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo in all but one major poll. A recent survey by Public Policy Polling showed Mamdani with a 4-percentage point lead over Cuomo, 35% to 31%. Mamdani’s stock has risen substantially in June since receiving endorsements from far-left politicians Rep. Alexandria Occasion-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. New York City uses a ranked-choice primary system so if no candidate crosses the 50% threshold as the top vote getter the second-place choices of those who ranked the lowest vote-getting first are counted until one achieves a majority. In February, only 1% of registered voters had Mamdani ranked first, but as of last week nearly 1/3 of voters have him as their number one choice. Mamdani has dialed back his previous rhetoric on defunding the NYPD but has indicated he wants to cap police expenditures at 2020 levels and hire more mental health professionals instead of cops. Old school New York Democrats are very concerned a Mamdani victory will force out even more of the city’s wealthy residents who have the option of conducting business elsewhere. Last week former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg donated $5 million to the super PAC supporting Cuomo’s campaign. It is the largest figure yet from a single donor and illustrates the concern mainstream Democrats have over the rising poll numbers for socialist challenger Mamdani. Speaking with Bloomberg Surveillance earlier in the week, Cuomo lamented that some in his party feel they lost to Trump because they weren’t “left enough.” Calling out Mamdani’s policies of “dismantle the police, everything free, and tax the rich.” SIGforum: For all your needs! Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>>  | ||
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Last one out, turn out the lights! Nevermind, lights require electricity which they won't have... "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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He's also been running up the "if you don't vote for me you're islamaphobic" rhetoric. He's another Humza Yousef. | |||
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So we are going to have our own "London" soon? What's next Sharia Law? It's amazing at how many idiots we have here that hate the country they're in. | |||
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Semantics. All democrats are socialists. What else does one think the "tax the rich to give to deadbeat welfare voters" is? | |||
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Maybe they'll be happy with Kaffee Mix in their new Trabant? | |||
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Other side of the state, about 500 miles away, but my former home region. NY will do everything it can to race California to the bottom. At least California has nice weather and beaches! At this point ( been a while actually) NY is doomed. To think that Cuomo is the better of the choices? I have no words | |||
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Erie county didn't have a vote for the stadium, 5th poorest county in New York State. I'm sure the Jets and Giants fans are happy to pay for it and then pay to maintain it. The State is done, how the democrats bury it remains to be seen. A lot of NYC this and that news, the problem is State wide. Poorest NY county list : https://www.nyscommunityaction...mparison%20Table.pdf | |||
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They will get what they deserve… Andrew Cuomo concedes the New York City mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani, who leads in the first-choice vote "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Yeah, if it's what the majority want, they can have it. Perhaps I'm just twisted, but I think it's kinda funny. Unless someone can demonstrate that the primary was rigged, the people have spoken. | |||
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Kinda ironic that on 9/11 it was a bunch of Muslims that destroyed the towers and killed over 3000 people, and now these very same people are electing a representative of the enemy to run their city. Must be something in the water that turned them into a bunch of stupid fucks. | |||
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The only way I can see Mamdani getting 'elected', is the shenanigans around ranked-choice voting. He'd need enough idiots that have him as their #2 or, #3 choice so, when the runoffs happen, he pulls all those votes. Voters need to understand you do not list/rank the people you absolutely don't want. | |||
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as I've said previously on this forum, the thin veneer of civilization on NYC has been peeling for years now. ___________________________ The point is, who will stop me? https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...990026293#5990026293 | |||
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Coming soon to a country near you. https://rumble.com/v6va75j-her...f-great-britain.html ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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My lawyer friend believes that the generation coming up is ill-prepared to be independent! Almost 20% of recent graduates take a parent with them to job interviews. It is easier to live off the parents, the government (at any level) than to be productive and support yourself. It is no wonder they support the candidate that promises everything - $30 minimum wage, rent control, free transportation, free child care and government owned grocery stores! All paid for by the top 1% of earners in the city. The top earners average close to a million per year and would end up paying an ADDITIONAL $100,000 in city taxes. I left New York due to taxes, ditto California and moved to Florida… let somebody else work their ass off and pay the bills. No quarter .308/.223 | |||
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Chicago Tribune warns NYC about electing a socialist: ‘What sounded good in theory has translated into dysfunction’ By Olivia Murray (See also “A shock poll suggests that the Marxist-Muslim Zohran Mamdani will be New York’s next mayor” by Andrea Widburg.) In one of the most ironic editorials I’ve ever read, the editors at the Chicago Tribune are warning the residents of New York City not to elect Zohran Mamdani because as they say, they’ve “seen this movie before” and “the ending isn’t pretty.” Want to know how a socialist mayor would govern New York City? Ask Chicago https://www.chicagotribune.com...mdani-cuomo-chicago/ The “no s**t Sherlock” expression comes to mind. The Tribune editors offered a “learn from our mistakes” perspective, specifically warning fellow progressives about the danger of installing socialists with too-good-to-be-true promises as they’ve already been there and done that when they elected Brandon Johnson to office—Johnson has been an absolute cluster for the city and its people. Again, no s**t, this has always been the case with socialism, and that’s not hyperbole. They want to talk about having “seen this movie before” as if we haven’t been saying that exact thing the entire time. We’ve been forced to watch this movie for more than 150 years, because progressive idiots both refuse to listen to our warnings, and are incapable of connecting the past with the present. We told them not to elect Brandon Johnson too, but with their heads full of nothing and an air of pseudo-superiority, they did it anyway. Here’s a quick rundown of how many times we’ve seen this movie: Abraham Lincoln and his full-blown support for what we now call corporate welfare? When Lincoln first ran for the state legislature, the first thing he addressed in his introductory speech was federal subsidies for “internal improvements.” Around five years later, with Lincoln leading the campaign, Illinois set aside $12 million for these projects, “investments” which Lincoln’s own law partner, William Herndon, described as “reckless and unwise.” The program was a massive failure. Here’s how Lincoln’s lawyer colleagues, who eventually served as personal secretaries to the White House, described the boondoggle: “a load of debt that crippled for many years the energy of the people, a few miles of embankments that the grass hastened to cover….” Herndon summed it all up when he recorded that Lincoln’s socialist visions collided with reality and left nothing but “enormous debt and an empty treasury.” Sounds about right. What about Joseph Stalin? His socialist sins are much more well-known than Lincoln’s, because Stalin’s resulted in the gory and brutal deaths of millions, whether by starvation or by state murder. Hugo Chávez? Che Guevara? Fidel Castro? I just started reading a book by Humberto Fontova about the “real” Che, and the horrors of the socialist-Marxist regime had me in tears in the first few pages—I had to switch to a romantasy to pull myself out of the pit of despair into which Fontova’s book threw me. There’s something called reality, a place that progressive ideologies have clearly never trod, and it’s the missing link between socialist ideas and why they always fail: eventually you run out of other people’s money…policies built on theft will not usher in prosperity…stealing from the producers to pay for parasites will never enrich the working class…and on and on and on. Will they ever listen? Because Mamdani has “surging support” in the race, and has pulled ahead of Andrew Cuomo. https://www.americanthinker.co...nto_dysfunction.html "Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." -- Justice Janice Rogers Brown "The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth." -rduckwor | |||
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Cuomo conceded the primary, but has not ruled out a run in the general election in November, my guess as an Independent, same with Adams. https://www.foxbusiness.com/me...ule-out-november-run "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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| Partial dichotomy |
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...3771#google_vignette Watch What This Mamdani Supporter Says When Asked If She Feels Socialism Can Work in NYC https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...734408&lctg=26773771 Chicago Tribune Has Warning for NYC Voters Ahead of Mayoral Primary SIGforum: For all your needs! Imagine our influence if every gun owner in America was an NRA member! Click the box>>> | |||
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Yay! Breadlines to buy your government bread. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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