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Originally posted by oddball:
NYC is on a clear path worse than San Francisco when the latter elected London Breed as mayor in 2018.The city went from a single turd in the bowl to overflowing shit over the seat and onto the floor.
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The city suffered extensive, long term damage, and the outrage was enough to have the voters throw out Breed and replace her with a white male moderate Democrat businessman. No question, at the very minimum, the same damage will be heaped upon NYC in the next four years, and very likely worse. And like a self-inflicted gunshot wound, NYC voters only have themselves to blame.

Sounds like you watched/listened to the podcast I posted.

Like SF over the last 5-years, NYC will only change when the problems that affect the common citizen, start to affect the influential & connected. When there's enough piles of shit on the sidewalk and the crazy drug addicted start to invade their neighborhood's, it's only then when the actual day-to-day issues take precedence over the exaggerated & engineered social issues that they want to push. When Mayor David Dinkins was in office, racial issues and crime were at an all-time high in NYC, Giulliani was then elected as the citizens had enough of the dirty 80's and 90's that NYC had become. The crux is the NYC City Council which is infested with far-Left radicals and extremists.

Mandami was never pressed hard about his position on public safety and crime, as his only response was 'defund the police' and develop a 'community-safety department'. Nevermind that Berkeley tried this years ago, funding fluctuated and the unit was disbanded after a couple of years as there wasn't enough vehicles for all the 'workers' and none of them wanted to work the graveyard shift or weekends. Oregon's so-called 'harm-reduction' program is supposed to be state-wide, the reality is not every country is fully-staffed and the majority of people that's getting 'help' are drifters looking for more social engagement than actually getting 'cleaned-up'.

There will be a bit of time while he puts his band of merry communist anti American sycophants into positions of power and then formulate the agenda, implement that agenda and get a real world result.

Courts, Cops, Groceries, free transit (I think Ho-chull stopped that for now) it will take time to put together the grocery plan, you need facilities for retail, warehouses, employees to stock, transport, contracts with suppliers and funding mechanism that a large supplier can trust to pay the bill.

Just because he wants it, these things don't happen overnight.

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Originally posted by HRK:
Just because he wants it, these things don't happen overnight.

Tell that to the free shit crowd that voted for him. They will expect instant gratification.

All this attention to ZM's transition team being all women and many other women in high profile positions. lots of talk about empowerment but it's looking more like a harem.

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Originally posted by corsair:
Sounds like you watched/listened to the podcast I posted.

Actually, I did not. My post was from experience with the city, and then keeping tabs on the shitstorm of that retched city after I retired, relieving me from the ugly task of ever entering that shithole for business, pleasure, anything.

Looks like the communist movement for control of larger cities is moving to Seattle next...

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Mamdani-style candidate living off parents' money could ouster incumbent Dem mayor

An inexperienced, far-left radical mayoral candidate, who has conceded that financial support from her parents has allowed her to run her campaign in the expensive city of Seattle, is on track to take down the incumbent Democratic mayor who has worked in city politics for almost two decades.

Katie Wilson, a self-proclaimed "socialist," is out front of incumbent Bruce Harrell by just under 100 votes as of Tuesday, according to the latest election results from Seattle's King County. The lead has ping-ponged back-and-forth between the two candidates since last week's Tuesday general election.

The race was held alongside a slate of other top races around the country, including gubernatorial races for New Jersey and Virginia, as well as the New York City mayoral race. The elections were largely seen as a win for Democrats and, in particular, for the far-left faction of the base, which saw local socialist candidates, like Mamdani and others, come away with victories.

Wilson, who has been likened to Mamdani, could become the latest self-described socialist to win elected office if she maintains her lead. However, unlike many of the other socialist candidates who won their elections last week, but similar to Mamdani, Wilson will end up in a post charged with leading one of the country's largest metropolitan areas. Seattle's metropolitan residency is among one of the largest in the United States with over 4 million residents.

It's so strange how these places which have seen such disastrous reigns by Democrats, instead of trying out a conservative, they go further extreme to communism. Almost as if the divisiveness will not allow such voters to even consider voting for the opposite party. Despite clear successes from conservative cities.

^^^ Yes, it's truly a mental disorder!

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Originally posted by HRK:
There will be a bit of time while he puts his band of merry communist anti American sycophants into positions of power and then formulate the agenda, implement that agenda and get a real world result.

Courts, Cops, Groceries, free transit (I think Ho-chull stopped that for now) it will take time to put together the grocery plan, you need facilities for retail, warehouses, employees to stock, transport, contracts with suppliers and funding mechanism that a large supplier can trust to pay the bill.

Right. But time is not on his side...

New York Bleeds Out
By William Levin

The nightmare descent of New York City under Mamdani rule has begun. Defunding the police, “free” services, and antisemitism are the tip of the spear. Staffing, policies, and mandates will issue from the mayor daily, implemented by an administration of hardcore socialists.

The outlook is far worse when measured in dollars and cents. Spending will soar from already unsustainable levels, even as the tax base exits. When the top 1% leave, along with major financial firms, they never return. The glory of New York will fade. The city will not even be able to sustainably pay its bills for basic services.

As they used to say in grade school, show your work.

It is typically claimed that New York contributes far more to the federal government than it receives in federal aid. The implication is that New York is impervious to federal cut-offs and holds the financial moral high ground.

Hogwash.

New York City pays nothing to the federal government. The so-called contribution, totaling an estimated $60 billion, excluding Social Security payments, is the individual income tax dollars paid directly by NYC residents to the U.S. Treasury. None of these payments has anything to do with the city budget. The federal government will receive these revenues regardless of where people reside.

What matters is the NYC budget and the source of revenues.

In 2025, NYC’s budget totaled $119.8 billion. The city starts the Mamdani-era madness with a forecasted annual deficit of $5 billion to $6 billion, with no answers how to fill this gap. Factor in the city’s dependence on $10.5 billion in direct payments from the federal government. President Trump says he will lower that number to the legal minimum. Mamdani insists that no cuts can be made, that these payments are inviolate. He is about to learn that U.S. taxpayers are not obligated to subsidize the schemes of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).

Even greater danger lurks. NYC stays afloat, financially speaking, only due to an additional $20.7 billion in annual direct aid from New York State. Why would this money be at risk, given the prospect of endless state Democrat rule? Because it is a shell game all the way down.

N.Y. State itself is forecasting $27 billion in unfunded deficits over just three years, 2027–2029. Forty billion dollars in state debt must mysteriously appear, for an unprecedented increase in outstanding debt by 2029, from $56.5 billion to $95.6 billion. In the words of the state’s own controller, Thomas DiNapoli, “the vast majority of State-supported debt outstanding has been — and is projected to continue to be — ‘backdoor borrowing’ issued by public authorities, which circumvents the constitutional requirement for voter approval of State debt.” That is a sentence worth rereading. New York State funds itself in knowing, continuous violation of the state constitution, to avoid the will of the people.

Now consider potential federal budget cuts. Direct payments from the federal government to New York State in 2025 total $98.5 billion, or a whopping 40% of the State’s total $246.7-billion budget. The state already knows that federal payments are slated to decline by $5 billion over the coming years. Further declines are inevitable, not due to President Trump, but reflecting the reality of an overwhelmed federal budget, now $37 trillion in debt. Yet into this morass Mamdani bases his mayoralty on outright defiance of the federal government, President Trump in particular. Polymarkets is open for betting.

Put simply, by any normal accounting, New York State is using federal funds to pay $21 billion to NYC. By the same standard, New York City too is presently bankrupt, in the old-fashioned sense that it cannot pay for its extravagant spending, collecting $86.8 billion in total revenue versus outlays of $119.8 billion. The $31 billion needed annually by New York to survive comes, directly or indirectly, from the federal government. That will not last.

But all this is mere prelude to the Mamdani tax-the-rich onslaught about to hit New York City. The numbers are frightening.

At the individual level, in a city of 8.5 million people and 4 million taxpayers, the top 1%, or some 40,000 individuals, account for an estimated 45% of the city’s total $17.4-billion personal income tax receipts. While the New York Post talks of 1 million potentially exiting New York, it is highly likely that at least half of high-income taxpayers will choose escape over life in Mamdani New York. So goes roughly $4 billion, from a mere 20,000 departing for greener pastures. Others are sure to follow. Seventeen point four billion dollars will be the high-water mark for New York City personal income tax revenue.

It gets markedly worse when businesses choose to exit New York, especially financial firms.

The city collects roughly $13 billion in direct taxes on businesses, but the impact of business exit would be far greater, as associated spending ripples through the economy, conservatively tying $30 billion in city tax revenue to business-driven activities. Ten major financial firms alone could reduce NYC tax revenue by $5 billion. The city is at enormous risk, made all the greater by the well understood impact of technology. At a minimum, no financial firm needs to be in New York any longer, especially when the most needed 1,000 firms are specifically targeted by Mamdani for sharply higher taxes.

Think of it. On top of already record-high taxes, 40,000 individuals are being told they, and they alone, will pay $4 billion in incremental annual taxes. Likewise, the 1,000 businesses most responsible for sustaining New York City will now face a $5 billion yearly tax increase. Or they can save $9 billion annually, plus more in existing taxes, by simply relocating in the beautiful U.S. of A., all the while flipping a New York bird on the way out. Mamdani is a fool or a liar (he could well be both) to claim that neither has alternatives. The Mamdani $9 billion will “unexpectedly” fail to raise anywhere close to expectations, even assuming New York State sees fit to authorize this suicide mission.

Put it all together, and New York City revenues are likely to decline, permanently, by at least $10 billion due directly to Mamdani’s actions, adding to $5.5 billion in structural deficits, on top of an already slapdash concoction of sticks and glue that is New York State, made worse by implementation of devastating, and costly, Democratic Socialist Party principles, with President Trump vowing to restrict federal spending to the “bare minimum required by law.”

At the same time, NYC spending will explode as Mamdani implements his absurdist vision of universal childcare, free buses, and city-run grocery stores.

The harsh reality is that the Mamdani cataclysm will not be shouldered by Mamdani. It will be felt in every corner of the city, worst of all for the working class he pretends to champion.

So call it as it is. Mamdani is a demagogic, antisemitic, anti-American socialist nepo baby vying to be the future of the Democrat party. He and his backers are ruled by the Marxist-Leninist master belief, “the worse, the better.” They affirmatively want leading corporations and the wealthiest 1%, including Democrats, to leave. Level New York. Reduce property value to Detroit size. Everyone has nothing, totally dependent on government. That is the goal, spun for the gullible as “affordable New York.”

https://www.americanthinker.co...york_bleeds_out.html

All I can say to the people of NYC: Choke on it! You wanted this guy well now you're gonna get him:

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The WaPo’s admission about Zohran Mamdani’s dark side comes a bit too late

By Glenn Harlan Reynolds
Published Nov. 12, 2025, 3:39 p.m. ET
NY POST

Now they tell us. Or maybe I should say, “Now it can be told.”

In an editorial Sunday, the Washington Post informs us that New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani is a dictatorial ideologue.

He ran an “upbeat campaign, with a nice-guy demeanor and perpetual smile papering over a long history of divisive and demagogic statements.”

This might have fooled voters into thinking he was a feel-good technocrat who’d fix the city. But after being elected, the mask came off.

“Across 23 angry minutes laced with identity politics and seething with resentment,” the editorial says, Mamdani made clear that he wants to identify “class enemies” — like landlords, and “bosses” who exploit workers — and set about “crushing them.”

His goal, it notes, isn’t to increase wealth, but to redistribute it to his supporters. He didn’t mention “growth” once.

Even Democratic talking heads Van Jones and David Axelrod criticized Mamdani’s “character switch” and his divisive speech.

What a surprise. Who knew Mamdani would turn out to be such an almost Hugo Chavez-like figure?

Well, anyone paying attention, actually.

Certainly more people would have known had the Washington Post covered his “long history of divisive and demagogic statements.”

By telling us now, the editors are engaging in a longstanding ritual of the Democrat-supporting legacy media: the post-election purge, where they report all the stuff they didn’t share, or at least soft-pedaled on, back when it might hurt Democrats.

That’s what they do. Over a decade ago, blog humorist Jim Treacher tweeted: “Modern journalism is all about deciding which facts the public shouldn’t know because they might reflect badly on Democrats.”

We’re told the Washington Post is going to focus more in the future on things that promote free minds and free markets. Perhaps this editorial is a sign of something new at the paper, not a cover-up for inadequate pre-election reportage.

Perhaps.

But the national press has a long history of glazing up Democratic candidates — especially young, photogenic ones — while suppressing public knowledge of their flaws.

Journalists bent over backward to cover up JFK’s infidelities and health problems while promoting his youth and vigor.

They even performed similar services for the not-so-photogenic Lyndon Johnson, and they did their best to cover for Bill Clinton, but he was too much of a challenge, so they settled for buying his excuses, or pretending to.

This propagandizing isn’t just done on behalf of candidates, of course.

The press peddled — quite deliberately — one-sided narratives on COVID, trans issues, the post-George Floyd racial shakedowns and Hunter Biden’s (and Joe Biden’s) outright corruption, even freezing out this paper’s reporting on Hunter’s laptop revelations.

The press did so because it wanted to help Democrats, or at least didn’t want to hurt them.

And even those reporters and editors inclined to tell the truth were afraid of being mobbed by their colleagues if they did.

The New York Times, after a staff revolt, sacked an editor simply for running a 2020 op-ed by Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) calling for the president to use troops to put down race riots in major American cities.

The press eventually admitted that, yes, the COVID narratives were wrong, trans hysteria was just that, Black Lives Matter was an organization run largely by grifters and the Bidens had, in fact, been massively corrupt.

Always, of course, when it was too late for their admissions to make a difference.

In a particularly stark example this weekend, the BBC finally confessed that it deceptively edited a Trump speech to make it sound like he was encouraging a riot on Jan. 6, 2021; several leading figures have been forced to resign.

Again, long after the admission ceased to matter.

People do notice, though, which is why trust in the press has plummeted, particularly as social media — like blogs, and particularly X — have allowed policing of media lies, and non-coverage.

But to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln, you can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time — and if you know what you’re doing, that should be enough.

Well, it was enough to elect Zohran Mamdani.

Good luck, New York.

Glenn Harlan Reynolds is a professor of law at the University of Tennessee and founder of the InstaPundit.com blog.

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I'm not concerned that he got elected, it showcases the far lefts bizzarro fascination with electing dictatorial over bearing officials.

The only downfall is the moving of Democrat voters from NYC Burroughs to the rest of the country and bringing their voting patterns with them.

It also highlights the pitfalls of allowing massive numbers of third world citizens into the USA who didn't come here to assimilate, work hard and build lives like our ancestors, but to take over and obtain all the benefits from the wealthy class level ie anyone with a job to pay for their lives.

Free food, healthcare, transportation, housing...


let him run, let it happen, and publish it world wide on X for all to see. At some point even the LSM will have to deal with the situation...

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Originally posted by HRK:
Looks like the communist movement for control of larger cities is moving to Seattle next...

Mamdani-style candidate living off parents' money could ouster incumbent Dem mayor

An inexperienced, far-left radical mayoral candidate, who has conceded that financial support from her parents has allowed her to run her campaign in the expensive city of Seattle, is on track to take down the incumbent Democratic mayor who has worked in city politics for almost two decades.

Seattle has long been a Far-Left extremist stronghold for many decades. The only difference today is they're very open about their embrace of socialist policies and the irony of the candidates own wealth & background used to be subject to relentless cynicism and ridicule, today they're just another resource that's drank the Kool-Aid.

..and then, there's Seattle's city council. NYC's city council is quite a collection of kooks and crazies but, Seattle's takes it to another level. Local politics are filled with esoteric and odd but only Portland and Oakland can rival Seattle for strange and pathetic.

Socialism is resentment, disguised as compassion, enforced by tyranny, disguised as tolerance...


The Socialist Mayor Clown Show Is Truly Something To Behold

The progressive left never admits they are wrong and they always double down on failure. This is the mindset that continues to lead Democrats down a path of self destruction along with the cities they inhabit. One cannot separate the ongoing decline of US cities from far-left policies; one precipitates the other.

The implosion of Joe Biden's faux presidency and the defeat of the Kamala Harris campaign left Democrats reeling and searching for answers, but it didn't take long for them to dismiss the idea of self reflection and come to the predictably insane conclusion they are right and everyone else is the enemy.

The answer, they argue, is not to abandon their radical ideology and find their way back to common sense. Rather, they believe that they lost the elections because their candidates were "not extreme enough."

But what could possibly be more extreme than Biden's mass online censorship campaign? His calls for pandemic vaccine passports for Americans to keep their jobs? His implementation of DEI and CRT programs across the federal government and the US military? His consistent denials over the stagflation crisis? When he declared Easter Sunday as "Transgender Day of Visibility?" What about the topless LGBT parties on the White House Lawn?

How much worse can a political leader get? Well, we're about to find out.

Democrats in cities like Chicago, New York and now Seattle have decided to replace their bumbling leftist mayors with more openly socialist mayors and the trend is likely to grow. This seems to be a calculated reformation of the Democrat base around increasingly more militant Marxist policies, using blue cities as a "proving ground."

It makes sense when one considers how freely groups like Antifa and anti-ICE are able to operate, with clear coordination between radicals and the local government. These are places where activists feel most safe and comfortable because they are protected by resident politicians and police. Blue cities are becoming experimental playgrounds for color revolution and socialist policies that would never be allowed anywhere else.

They see these cities as toys to be played with. The problem is, their initiatives are falling apart before they get into office and conservatives haven't had to lift a finger.

For example, Zohran Mamdani's campaign promises are drying up on the vine like grapes in the desert sun. His supporters are now realizing that his 4-year rent freeze policy faces serious obstacles, with the new mayor relying on full support from the Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) appointed by Mayor Adams (which he is unlikely to get until a new board is appointed). The reality is, a rent freeze would result in an immediate selloff of rental properties and landlord flight from NYC, meaning, there will be an even worse housing shortage.

Mamdani also got word from Governor Kathy Hochul that she will not be backing his fare free bus service concept, nor will she support his universal childcare program. In other words, Mamdani doesn't have the authority to fulfill his campaign promises.

Furthermore, if the "Democratic socialist" gets approval from all parties involved he still has to deal with Trump's inevitable cuts to to federal dollars. NYC gets around $10 billion in direct federal aid and over $100 billion in federal funding through a variety of avenues. Even with all that cash, the city is still in the hole and desperate for relief after the Democrats disastrous migrant housing programs which crippled their subsidies for the homeless.

The loss of a mere $10 billion could cause chaos for NYC's budget concerns and all of Mamdani's projects require an increasing budget, not a falling budget.

https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...uly-something-behold

How long will it be before the socialists in government begin to call themselves communists?

Socialists, historically, have been the best friend and ally possible to the people. Until they are in power. Once that is achieved the people learn exactly what tyranny is....

Apparently the only qualification needed for the fire department commissioner is being lesbian.

https://x.com/TheChiefNerd/sta...ing-to-make-n2668528

^^^^^^^

And the same, exact business model (socialist mayor + lesbian fire chief) worked so well for the Pacific Palisades residents early this year.

A comet would not be large enough.

And I am a little puzzled why a devout Muslim is appointing a gay person to such a position. The immediate politics are obvious, but is the ultimate motive to be able to easily identify all the gays when the caliphate comes into power?

It's still completely baffling how many Jews voted for this guy!

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
Socialists, historically, have been the best friend and ally possible to the people. Until they are in power. Once that is achieved the people learn exactly what tyranny is....

Socialism is resentment, disguised as compassion, enforced by tyranny, disguised as tolerance...