A) I doubt the “right thinking” NYC folks are worth the spread.

(Honestly, if there was an option for mass deportation and a wall, are there any polities which would against it?)

B) It’s as much about their coarse behavior, as it is their politics.

For some reason, NYC people behave somewhat decently, in NYC, though everyone seems depressed.

Once they leave NYC, on average, they behave as if they belong in a monkey house.

AOC meets with socialist Mandami to try and build up support for him.

https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1945460552743989693

For the life of me, I cannot understand why the people with financial wherewithal that actually run NYC are not actively pushing back against this nonsense. It seems that like most leftists, they’re content with either paying outright because they can afford it or preparing to flee and take their toxic politics to less spoiled environs.

Every instance I hear AOC speak reminds me that a majority of America lives on buzzwords and slogans for facts and courses of action. AOC never has stated an actual.plan to her lunatic agenda. Scary if NYC elects this communist, many other blue cities will follow.

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It seems that like most leftists, they’re content with either paying outright because they can afford it or preparing to flee and take their toxic politics to less spoiled environs.

I live in Louisa County Virginia and since COVID we've had a huge amount of growth. People are selling their homes for millions in NY/NJ/MD and moving here. They buy a lakefront lot to build on and think they're getting a deal because of what they're used to. It's screwing locals and our Board of Supervisors seem to be encouraging this nonsense. The next 2 election cycles will likely see a hard flip to the democrat side because those that are more conservative are dying off or simply moving away because they can no longer afford to live here. They're being replaced by the citiots that bring their shitty politics with them. As an example of how these people think: they are trying to ban wake boats on the lake because they don't want to put riprap on the shoreline of their lots to control erosion. They already have a proposed 500 ft buffer that will likely raise the taxes due to how much it will cost to get buoys placed throughout the lake. This was thought up by two Karen's that came down from NYC. It's hard to fight them because they have millions and all the time in the world whereas the locals are a hard working bunch with little time and even less resources.

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Originally posted by spunk639:
Every instance I hear AOC speak reminds me that a majority of America lives on buzzwords and slogans for facts and courses of action. AOC never has stated an actual.plan to her lunatic agenda. Scary if NYC elects this communist, many other blue cities will follow.

I have come to the conclusion that most voters have as much depth to their analysis as they did when voting for high school student council. Ergo "Hope and Change" was successful.

Jmho, but AOC is no dummy when it comes to getting elected. She's a moron on the issues, but I believe she knows how to play the issues to gain power.

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Originally posted by Fly-Sig:

I have come to the conclusion that most voters have as much depth to their analysis as they did when voting for high school student council. Ergo "Hope and Change" was successful.

Meanwhile, across the pond --
Leftist Utopia: Labour Government Kills Voter ID Law, Slashes Voting Age to 16


..Under international and UK law, a child is any person below the age of 18, but by the time of the next UK General Election those age 16 and 17-years-old will be legally allowed to vote for their next Member of Parliament and won’t need photo-ID to do it, the Labour government has announced...

^^^ They were screwed anyway, but this is more icing on the cake!

I left there in 1978 to join the service. Never looked back.

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/...734408&lctg=26773771

Mamdani's 'Free' Bus Rides Would Cost Taxpayers Big Time

NYC Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for “free” bus rides in New York City wouldn't actually be free. Instead, the cost would be borne by hard-working American taxpayers. The city would face an estimated $650 million annual shortfall. Covering this massive cost would likely mean higher taxes, cuts to other essential services, or more debt for taxpayers. While the idea may sound appealing on the surface, the reality is that funding such a program would strain the city’s budget and could compromise other priorities, including education, public safety, and infrastructure.

Kansas City’s experiment with a fare-free bus system is coming to an end after running up a $30 million budget deficit. The Kansas City Area Transportation Authority (KCATA) has forced the city council to approve a $46 million emergency funding plan just to keep transit running through October 2025. While the plan avoids cutting nearly half of the bus routes and laying off over 170 workers, it also means reinstating a $2 base fare for most riders—because free rides are simply unsustainable. Seniors, people with disabilities, and low-income riders will still receive assistance through programs like the "Fountain Card," but taxpayers cannot continue to foot the bill for everyone’s transportation. Even the costly IRIS on-demand rideshare service, which averages 800 trips a day, is on the chopping block due to its wasteful expenses. This shows once again that government giveaways without proper funding only lead to financial trouble and reduced services.

Mamdani is advocating for the unrealistic idea of eliminating all bus fares across New York City, a proposal stemming from his 2023 “Fix the MTA” pilot project. However, transit authorities warn that implementing this program citywide would cost taxpayers an estimated $650–700 million each year in lost fare revenue, excluding express bus services. Mamdani wants to foot the bill by hiking taxes on high earners and corporations, including a proposed two percent surcharge on those making over $1 million. But critics argue that those tax revenues are far from guaranteed and could leave the city holding the bag when funding inevitably falls short.

https://townhall.com/columnist...734408&lctg=26773771

My Socialist Mayor Part 2

The Socialist politicians are coming!

In Minneapolis, Democratic Socialist Omar Fateh is favored to be Minneapolis's next mayor.

In New York City, bettors say there's an 80% chance that socialist Zohran Mamdani will be the next mayor.

"We have to continue to elect more socialists, and we have to ensure we are unapologetic about our socialism," says Mamdani.

But he should be apologetic! Socialism wrecks lives.

My last column/video covered some of Mamdani's bad ideas, but he has so many, I needed part II:

Mamdani promises buses "fast and free for every New Yorker."

Free would be nice, if the city could afford it. It can't.

And it's a peculiar proposal from a man who complains about what the government does now: "These are the slowest buses in the country!"

Will they move faster when they're free?

Public transport is a good example of socialist confusion about what makes things work.

I ask people, "Who do you think built New York's subways?" Most say: "the government."

Who else could afford to dig tunnels and buy trains so everyone, rich and poor, can ride? Private businesses wouldn't do it. They wouldn't be able to charge enough to cover their costs. That's why government must do it!

But actually, private companies built most of New York's subways. The trains only became government-run after 1939, when the capitalists proposed raising the fare from 5 to 7 cents.

NYC's mayor called that "a grab for the public's pocket" and took control.

He promised they wouldn't raise the fare.

But within a few years, the fare was 10 cents. Now it's $2.90.

And when NYC tries to build new subways, they struggle to get it done.

One train line was supposed to be finished in 1938. Then they said 1980. Today, it's still not done, but it's already the world's most expensive subway.

They work so slowly that subway cars built for it (they cost a million dollars each) can no longer be used; they don't fit the tracks.

That's government work.

Mamdani also promises to make workers' lives better by raising the minimum wage to $30 an hour.

That's popular. But just dumb.

Last year, California demanded fast-food workers be paid at least $20 an hour. Unions and politicians cheered.

But when companies have to pay even beginners $20 an hour, they employ fewer people.

Pizza Hut laid off 1,200.

Over the next year, while other states added jobs, 18,000 California fast food workers lost jobs.

Customers also get hit. Even "Good Morning America" noticed, "Restaurants in the state have increased prices by 10% faster than all other states."

Finally, "Freeze the rent!" shouts Mamdani. Socialists like rent control.

Most voters do, too. But that's because most don't realize that, aside from bombing a city, little destroys apartment buildings more than rent control.

Saint Paul, Minnesota, imposed rent control in 2021. Multifamily building permits fell by 80%. In Minneapolis, its twin city, building permits increased.

So St. Paul rolled back its rent control.

But now Minneapolis' likely new mayor wants to impose it? Don't socialists ever learn?

No.

The vice president of the Minneapolis City council is a socialist. I once asked her, "Where has (socialism) ever worked?"

She was silent an interminable nine seconds.

Finally, she said, "I'm doing a fine job representing my community."

Her policies would wreck her community.

George Will says he wants Mamdani to win because, "Every 20 years, we need to experiment with socialism" so people can watch it fail.

But can't the model of failure be what Gov. JB Pritzker is doing to Illinois? Gov. Gavin Newsom bankrupting California? We need a third example?

Sadly, we're about to get one.

I want to ask my likely new mayor, "How will your socialism succeed when every other, everywhere in the world, brought poverty and misery?"

So far, he hasn't responded to my interview requests.

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Originally posted by Fly-Sig:

I have come to the conclusion that most voters have as much depth to their analysis as they did when voting for high school student council. Ergo "Hope and Change" was successful.

Meanwhile, across the pond --
Leftist Utopia: Labour Government Kills Voter ID Law, Slashes Voting Age to 16


..Under international and UK law, a child is any person below the age of 18, but by the time of the next UK General Election those age 16 and 17-years-old will be legally allowed to vote for their next Member of Parliament and won’t need photo-ID to do it, the Labour government has announced...

If you remember right ,the democrat party here in the US about 3-5 years ago . proposed to lower the voting age in the US to 16 years old. Iam sure we have not heard the last of this from the democrat party

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Originally posted by spunk639:
Every instance I hear AOC speak reminds me that a majority of America lives on buzzwords and slogans for facts and courses of action. AOC never has stated an actual.plan to her lunatic agenda. Scary if NYC elects this communist, many other blue cities will follow.

I have come to the conclusion that most voters have as much depth to their analysis as they did when voting for high school student council. Ergo "Hope and Change" was successful.

Jmho, but AOC is no dummy when it comes to getting elected. She's a moron on the issues, but I believe she knows how to play the issues to gain power.

She’s young and attractive. I once worked with a guy a few years younger than myself (we were both in our 60’s) and he’d go on about her looks.

I said “It’s all a facade, kind of like if you married her.” The adage comes into play, First your money, then your clothes. Next thing out the door you goes….

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She’s young and attractive. I once worked with a guy a few years younger than myself (we were both in our 60’s) and he’d go on about her looks.

I said “It’s all a facade, kind of like if you married her.” The adage comes into play, First your money, then your clothes. Next thing out the door you goes….

Exactly! It's just human nature.

I've heard comments from young and old alike about a politician's good looks. My mother-in-law, who is a long time Texan and a big time Republican (she has pictures of her with the Reagans and both Bushes at the White House when each was POTUS) likes Beto O'Rourke because he's "a nice looking young man". Young people like AOC because she looks cool.

Rush Limbaugh in the 90's talked about the "arousal gap" where women loved Bill Clinton for his good looks, even when their politics were the opposite of Clinton's.

“New York City Mayor Eric Adams dropped out of the city's mayoral race on Sunday, ending his reelection bid. …”

DailyMail article:
https://mol.im/a/15142523

Regarding attractiveness of politicians:

"It's 70% how you look 20% how you sound, and 10% what you say." - Eddie Izzard

I'm convinced that most people are NPC's who really don't put a whole lot of thought into what they believe and just parrot "their side's" conformation bias. Tribal group affiliation is hardwired into human DNA because the group offers protection and banishment was basically a death sentence. There is some rationality to the argument that only very strong minded/willed men, and neuro-atypicals can be truly objective, because they don't care what anyone else thinks. Everyone else has a filter where they consider what their "group" will think of them if they believe something, not if the thing is objectively true.

As for Mamdami:

I want to see Wall Street move to Florida or Texas. Without Wall Street NYC will be in deep shit financially. This idiot might just make that happen. Maybe the pundits are right that you have to let them fail to show how their ideas don't work.

But the problem is they implement SOME socialism, which doesn't work and then they claim they need MORE socialism to fix the problems they created. Partial rent control in NYC has had a lot of negative effects, but they won't admit it and insist they need more of it.

I've thought that the democrats should have let Bernie get the nomination in 2020 so he would lose by a landslide (New York Jewish Communists don't sell well in national elections) and take the whole wacky socialist wing of the party down with him and get back to sanity. Now the socialists are being mainstreamed.

What is most alarming is that Mamdami has zero experience managing anything and he wants to run the biggest city in the country. His only real job was a "foreclosure avoidance counselor" along with his failed attempts at hip-hop.

He also plays cricket so that should disqualify him from all public office in the U.S.

AOC looks, sounds and says things like a psycho that she is. That says a lot about the psychos that voted her in and keep re-electing her.

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AOC looks, sounds and says things like a psycho that she is. That says a lot about the psychos that voted for her and keep re-electing her.

Remember when you marry a Latina you get an additional 5 lbs a year for life. She will be fireplug shaped in a few more years and will lose the advantage.

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Rush Limbaugh in the 90's talked about the "arousal gap" where women loved Bill Clinton for his good looks, even when their politics were the opposite of Clinton's.

I believe it was the same for JFK.

There have been studies where actors were sent into job interviews after practicing with each other to present themselves exactly the same way. Education and experience on their fake resumes was equivalent.

Every single time the interviewers rated the more attractive one as smarter, more personable, more likable, etc.

People are just biased like this.