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MAGA boogeyman Zohran Mamdani becomes NYC Mayor

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    Mingus faints.

     
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    Capitalism , the Houston Rockets
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    Giuliani cleaned up NYC and they have been handing it back to the criminals ever since.
     
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    If only maga could see how there viewed by the rest of us.......oh wait, we showed you with the elections last week. trump is under water in the polls, has extravagant parties while holding back benefits for the "pheasants" ......................the mid-terms will be not be kind to ya`ll if you keep lying and cheating the American Public, it takes awhile for some but the tide is turning for your wanna be king
     
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    https://quaerens.blog/2025/11/06/heather-mac-donald-zohran-mamdani-will-destroy-new-york/

    Proposal one: decommodify housing!
    Mamdani’s rent freeze would apply to nearly half of all rental units in the city: those whose rents are set by an appointed ‘Rent Guidelines Board,’ not by the housing market. Those million or so rent-stabilised apartments make up one-third of the city’s homes, including owner-occupied homes.

    Even left-wing economists have concluded that rent controls produce only housing shortages. Yet for those with an undergraduate mindset, landlords are greedy for wanting to earn a market rent, whereas tenants enjoying a below-market rent are merely receiving their due.

    The four-year freeze would decimate New York’s housing stock. The city’s small landlords are already at death’s door. Maintenance costs have risen by 28 per cent over the last five years; the regulated rents fail to cover repairs, property taxes or the costs of deadbeat tenants. Thanks to the city’s advocate industry it takes about two years to evict a non-paying renter, during which time the landlord has to provide him the same services as paying tenants. Apartment owners shell out their own lawyers’ fees; activist-assisted tenants do not.

    There are already 50,000 to 60,000 abandoned rental properties in the city. That number would balloon under a rent hike moratorium, adding to the city’s blight. Ripple effects could spill over to the banking sector. But more abandoned properties merely mean more opportunities to move ‘toward the full de-commodification of housing,’ as Mamdani puts it. Meanwhile, the rent freeze would do nothing to lower the cost of other housing in the city, in which the majority of New Yorkers live.

    Proposal two: farebeating for all! Mamdani wants to make city buses free, at the cost of almost three-quarters of a billion dollars a year in cancelled fares.

    Nearly half of all New York City bus passengers already steal their rides. That is not because they are poor, but because they feel entitled to free stuff. Though the full transit fare – $2.90 a ride, with discounts for those with weekly or monthly passes – is already heavily subsidised, the city offers half-priced transit fares to lower-income residents. But fewer than 40 per cent of those eligible have signed up for the half-price fare programme.

    If the principle of free bus rides is established, farebeating in the subways, already pervasive, will skyrocket. The loss to the city will be more than monetary. The greater loss will be in the further degradation of public order underground.

    Proposal three: it takes a village! Mamdani is promising $5 billion worth of free childcare to all New Yorkers, starting from the sixth week after birth. Where this new army of social-service workers will come from is anyone’s guess. Their level of competency, however, is predictable. Run-down nonprofit organisations providing taxpayer-funded foster care, welfare programmes, illegal immigration support and the like dominate the streetscapes in less affluent New York neighbourhoods. Their employees are often but one baby step ahead of their clients in terms of social functioning.

    Proposal four: fight hunger! Or rather: fight food insecurity! Or, well… whatever! Mamdani’s fourth election plank is among his most Quixotic: a city-run grocery store in each borough. We are to believe that New Yorkers can’t afford to feed themselves from private grocery chains, due to the evil profit motive of greedy store owners. To test this proposition, exit the Lexington Avenue subway line at 125th St in Harlem. You will emerge into a sea of fast-food detritus – half-eaten pizza slices, discarded soda cans, paper wrappers from submarine sandwiches, chicken bones with the meat still on them, greasy Styrofoam clamshell containers. The fast-food outlets on 125th St do a brisk business, even though a large, well-stocked supermarket is just a block away from the subway station, offering sustenance at a fraction of the cost of takeout.

    In an October 16 mayoral debate, Mamdani claimed that children in New York were going hungry. In fact, their biggest problem is obesity. If their meals are haphazard, the reason is not the cost of food but the disorganisation of their usually single mothers, sometimes strung out on drugs.

    The American grocery store is a miracle of capitalist abundance; Mamdani sees it as a scourge. We are to believe that the government can master supply chains without taking price signals into account and can run clean, well-stocked stores that meet consumer demand. Mamdani is apparently unaware of the state of retail under communist and doctrinaire socialist countries or of their people’s struggles to throw off the shackles of government control.

    If there is a food problem in New York, it is the relative scarcity of grocery stores in some areas, not the cost of their contents. There would be more options if the city reduced shoplifting. Target opened its first Manhattan branch in East Harlem in 2010 to great fanfare, despite the efforts of Mamdani’s ideological allies to keep such a capitalist Goliath from besmirching the city’s corporate-chain-free purity. The East Harlem outlet boasted an exquisitely multicultural inventory and low-cost fresh food. It shut down in 2023 due to retail theft and crime risk to its employees. For its losses it can thank the Manhattan District Attorney, Alvin Bragg, who has decriminalised shoplifting by not prosecuting it. Mamdani would not even have the police arrest shoplifters in the first place, since shoplifting is not a ‘serious’ crime.
     
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    We need a king in America breh. Nobody would want to F with royalty. I’m tired of all the assassination attempts on our presidents.
     
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    Trump invites former Al Queda member to the white house

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    So?
     
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    Lack of understanding of socialism: check
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    Missing irony and hypocrisy: check

    Winning post.
     
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    Wasn't his literal family members put on a Private Plane and smuggled out the country my the Bush Admin?

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    pace yourself. trump has not even completed a full year of his term. he's going to be around for a while.
     
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    Trump wants to shrink the government? The guy whos sent the military into American cities ? The guy who gave ICE 200 billion and permission to arrest you with no probable cause wants to shrink the government? The guy whos issuing tariffs on everything we buy wants to shrink the government?

    Do you realize just how utterly stupid you sound? Take a break from posting.
     
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    With the sun blocker in place, and the town aghast…
     
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    The Republican Mamdani

    "Billionaire Miriam Adelson Pledges $20 Million to Unseat Rep. Thomas Massie in Kentucky Primary
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    Pro-Israel billionaire Miriam Adelson, along with donors Paul Singer and John Paulson, has committed $20 million to a super PAC supporting Navy SEAL veteran Ed Gallrein against Rep. Thomas Massie in the 2026 Republican primary for Kentucky's 4th Congressional District. The funding targets Massie's opposition to U.S. aid for Israel, with $2 million already spent on attack ads. President Trump endorsed Gallrein last month, calling Massie a RINO, while Massie relies on grassroots donations from over 13,000 supporters to counter the effort ahead of the May 2026 primary."
     
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    It was never about "less government".

    It was always about "more government I agree with".
     
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