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prior to the resurgence of Islamic fundamentalism in Iran in 1979 and its spread from there, some Muslims flirted with Soviet Communism despite its atheistic philosophies.

If not one and the same, Islam and Communism are natural allies.
They both tolerate very little individual freedom and autonomy.

Communism is jealous of and will allow no God to be put before the State. Islam represents the complete merger of Church and State, where the State is completely subservient to Islam.

Zohran Mamdani: End Goal Is ‘Seizing the Means of Production’

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...ng-means-production/

The ‘X’ post as embedded in the article, and the dirty G-D Commie shit-bag says it with a smile on his face -

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/1939507833571246584

Reap it.

I’m all out of fucks for New York. Let them crash and burn. They deserve it.

Miami must be pleased that it will be the recipient of fleeing NY'ers with money in their accounts.

We should care about NYC and its politics. Just as Detroit and Chicago, etc. Because it like a cancer it will spread so it needs to be stopped.

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Originally posted by abnmacv:
Miami must be pleased that it will be the recipient of fleeing NY'ers with money in their accounts.

Why would anyone be happy to have New Yorkers move in?

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Originally posted by Captain Morgan:
We should care about NYC and its politics. Just as Detroit and Chicago, etc. Because it like a cancer it will spread so it needs to be stopped.

Yes. If there were no federal welfare programs, if there were no federal bailouts of any kind, we could just be amused and let NYC fail. But the rest of us will pay for it.

BTW, the new Senate approved BBB raises the cap on the state and local tax (SALT) deduction from $10,000 to $40,000. I don't know about you, but here in MO not too many people have real estate taxes approaching $40,000. Making that deductible on your federal taxes means another subsidy to high tax states like New York paid by the rest of us.

Aglifter. AGREE!
Chellim; This SALT deduction crap pisses me off!. They vote for that shit and then the rest of the country has to subsidize it! F' em!

There's A Lot Of Honest Pain Out There

Submitted by QTR's Fringe Finance

Yesterday, someone left a comment on my post about Zohran Mamdani that stuck with me in a way few internet comments ever do. It wasn’t defensive or hostile—it was sobering.

The commenter challenged me, not to just oppose Mamdani’s ideology, but to think about why his message resonates at all. Here's what they said:

“You really ought to ask yourself: why does his message resonate? Why did Russia have a revolution? People don’t wake up, make the espresso, make an omelet, look out the back window across their deck, the lake, the boat, ready for a day of country living, and say ‘You know what, honey… how about we start that revolution today?’ Nobody does that. Revolutions are made by very unhappy people. Why are they unhappy? Mostly because society largely doesn’t work for them… There is a lot of pain out there, and a lot of it is honest pain.”

They’re right. There is a lot of honest pain.

And if you’ve followed anything I’ve written over the last several years, you know I’ve been screaming into the void about how broken our monetary system is. We have created an economy where the top 10% get wealthier with each crisis, while the bottom 50% watches their standard of living deteriorate. I’ve described it here when talking about the GameStop crisis (33:40).

The frustration bubbling beneath the surface is not irrational. It's earned.

People are watching the price of everything explode—housing, food, healthcare, energy—while wages stagnate. Meanwhile, Wall Street breaks records quarter after quarter. That disconnect doesn’t feel like capitalism to the average person. It feels rigged.

So when someone like Mamdani shows up and says “seize the means of production,” it doesn’t sound crazy to people living paycheck to paycheck. It sounds like maybe, finally, someone is taking their suffering seriously.

But here’s the part no one wants to talk about—especially not in polite political circles: the real culprit behind this pain is our broken monetary system. And both parties are to blame.

I laid this out in March, and it bears repeating. The U.S. is now at $35 trillion in federal debt. That number alone is alarming—but the speed at which we’re accumulating debt is what's truly terrifying. Since 2020, we’ve added over $12 trillion. No one in D.C. talks seriously about it because monetary policy is the third rail. Touch it and you’re finished.

Worse, Democrats have embraced a mindset that spending can and should be infinite—as if the dollar is magic and gravity no longer applies. They’ve adopted the pseudo-academic gospel of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT), which argues the Fed can just print money without consequences. This idea has infected the left's fiscal agenda with delusional confidence that everything can be free, deficits don’t matter, and taxes can rise forever.

But as I pointed out before: MMT doesn’t help the poor. It accelerates wealth inequality. I noted this in March 2025 using this chart:

(I don't know how to reduce the size, so click)
https://quoththeraven.substack...e=publication-search

The more the Fed prints, the higher asset prices go. Who owns the assets? The top 10%. Who gets wrecked by inflation? The working class. Every time the Fed steps in with more easing, more QE, more bond buying, the rich pull further away from everyone else. Look at the chart of wealth distribution over the past 30 years—it’s not just widening, it’s going vertical. And it’s not just happening by accident. It’s a direct consequence of our monetary policy.

Democrats say they care about “equity,” but their economic policy ensures the exact opposite. The bigger government gets, the more it feeds on debt, the more the Fed has to monetize it, and the more billionaires benefit. This is not some conspiracy. It’s math. It’s observable. It’s policy. And it’s failure.

I understand why people are drawn to Mamdani’s message. When you’re crushed by rising costs and watching others get rich doing nothing but holding assets, radical solutions sound appealing. But replacing broken monetary policy with socialism isn’t just wrong—it’s disastrously wrong. Every society that’s tried it has ended up worse off: Soviet Russia, Mao’s China, Venezuela, Cuba. The promises are always the same—fairness, justice, redistribution—and the results are always scarcity, repression, and collapse.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: the problem isn’t too much capitalism. The problem is we don’t have capitalism at all. We have central planning by unelected technocrats who distort markets, crush price signals, and rob the average American of any real shot at building wealth. And Democrats, for all their talk of the working class, are pushing harder than ever toward a centrally planned future with no brakes.

The solution isn’t to seize the means of production. The solution is to restore sound money, shrink the size of government, and reintroduce real market discipline. That’s how you give people a shot—not by handing them utopian slogans, but by fixing the corrupt system that’s keeping them down.

There’s a lot of honest pain out there. And that pain deserves a real answer. MMT is not the answer. Socialism is not the answer. A return to true capitalism—not cronyism, not corporatism, but honest, competitive markets—is the only way forward.

https://www.zerohedge.com/mark...onest-pain-out-there

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Originally posted by chellim1:
...the real culprit behind this pain is our broken monetary system.

...The U.S. is now at $35 trillion in federal debt. That number alone is alarming—but the speed at which we’re accumulating debt is what's truly terrifying. Since 2020, we’ve added over $12 trillion

...The more the Fed prints, the higher asset prices go.

...The bigger government gets, the more it feeds on debt, the more the Fed has to monetize it...It’s math. It’s observable. It’s policy. And it’s failure.

...the problem isn’t too much capitalism. The problem is we don’t have capitalism at all. We have central planning by unelected technocrats who distort markets, crush price signals, and rob the average American of any real shot at building wealth.

...The solution is to restore sound money, shrink the size of government, and reintroduce real market discipline.

...honest, competitive markets—is the only way forward.

https://www.zerohedge.com/mark...onest-pain-out-there

Great takeaways for me; I believe most of us instinctively recognize the path we're on is untenable. Thanks for posting.

Helter Skelter indeed.

Wait...NYC's Communist Mayoral Candidate Applied to Columbia As a Black Man?

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...a-black-man-n2659918

It would be even more shocking if Zohran Mamdani weren’t abjectly insane. The hard left Democratic New York City mayoral candidate has an agenda that will essentially destroy the city, with actions to defund the police and install government-run grocery stores, to name a couple. He’s not a fan of Israel and is pretty much every horror you think of regarding the American Left. So, in keeping with that trend, are you shocked he tried to claim he was black when applying to Columbia University, because he did. Oh, I forgot—he also said he was Asian. Mamdani did not deny he did these things, and his explanation made for a good laugh (via NYT):



As he runs for mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani has made his identity as a Muslim immigrant of South Asian descent a key part of his appeal.

But as a high school senior in 2009, Mr. Mamdani, the Democratic nominee, claimed another label when he applied to Columbia University. Asked to identify his race, he checked a box that he was “Asian” but also “Black or African American,” according to internal data derived from a hack of Columbia University that was shared with The New York Times.

Columbia, like many elite universities, used a race-conscious affirmative action admissions program at the time. Reporting that his race was Black or African American in addition to Asian could have given an advantage to Mr. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and spent his earliest years there.

In an interview on Thursday, Mr. Mamdani, 33, said he did not consider himself either Black or African American, but rather “an American who was born in Africa.” He said his answers on the college application were an attempt to represent his complex background given the limited choices before him, not to gain an upper hand in the admissions process. (He was not accepted at Columbia.)

[…]

“Even though these boxes are constraining, I wanted my college application to reflect who I was,” he added.

While neither Mr. Mamdani nor Columbia University could provide the template for the application form the college used at that time, a copy of it was archived online. Mr. Mamdani said he filled out all of his college applications in the same way.

It’s not going to sink Mamdani’s candidacy, but it’s yet another episode in which a leftist got exposed for pulling a racial hoax.

What a fraud who will say/do anything to get "privileged" treatment! Absolutely no integrity. Curious to see how NYC residents and others react to this revelation. Makes me wonder what else the NYT has uncovered about his past.

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Originally posted by Aglifter:
Why would anyone be happy to have New Yorkers move in?

Generally, I’d go along with the stereotype and agree with this position.

As the exception, however, I’ll offer up a couple I know down in North Carolina. Straight-up NYC, y’all, I’m not a bit kidding. He’s a retired NYPD detective and Marine reservist, I don’t know what her career there was.

They moved south and he went to work with local EMS and then in a hospital. They’re quiet, kind, friendly, and they take good care of their house and land. They’ve got two good, pleasant, polite sons.

Truly, they brought their NY attitudes with them when they came! But they recognize that fact, and make fun of themselves for it. They’ve truly tried to assimilate with the area they moved into, rather than trying to make their new home the same as their old one.

They’re my favorite New Yorkers!

The real issue is this:

Marxists pervert capitalism to try to get more "fair" results, but the effect is distortion of free markets and negative outcomes.

Rent control on SOME apartments leads to higher prices on the uncontrolled apartments. Holders of rent controlled apartment never give them up, reducing the supply of available apartments, and driving costs even higher.

They have done similar damage to college tuition loans, the medical industry, welfare, lending (anti-red-lining laws), and employment (DEI leads to substandard work from unqualified employees).

But when the easily predictable negative outcomes occur, they blame capitalism and insist on MORE Marxism. The solution to rent costs in NYC is to eliminate ALL rent control, allow ALL apartments to stabilize to the market, and fix the tax system where assessments cannot go up fast enough to keep up with valuations, and only newly sold apartments are fully assessed. The solution to high cost "food desserts" is enforcing shoplifting laws and not prosecuting store owners/workers for fighting back.

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Originally posted by Aglifter:

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Originally posted by abnmacv:
Miami must be pleased that it will be the recipient of fleeing NY'ers with money in their accounts.

Why would anyone be happy to have New Yorkers move in?

Folks fleeing NYC because of Mamdani are more likely to be right thinkers.

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More like Locusts fleeing what they destroyed and moving on to destroy again.