patrick.net

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/lessons-leared-saturday-january-3

No, the actual extent of Mamdani’s first housing orders could have been lifted from the first chapter of a textbook on Reagan-style supply-side economics. The Mayor didn’t tinker with free market prices on the demand side. Instead, his orders were intended to increase the supply of housing by (1) privatizing public property for use as private housing developments, and (2) cutting green tape, to lower developers’ costs and speed development.

I’m not making this up or exaggerating. Here’s how NBC carefully explained it. First, “the LIFT Task Force (Land Inventory Fast Track) will leverage city-owned land to accelerate housing development, increase supply, and drive down costs.” In other words, he’s going to turn over city property to private developers for new housing. It doesn’t seem like something Karl Marx would embrace.

Second, “The SPEED Task Force (Streamlining Procedures to Expedite Equitable Development) will identify and remove bureaucratic and permitting barriers that drive up costs and slow housing construction and lease-up, making it more affordable to build.”

In other words: deregulation. We noted with great amusement that neither Mamdani nor NBC mentioned which “bureaucratic and permitting barriers that drive up costs” would be “removed.” In this case, it will almost certainly require waiving or rescinding environmental regulations. ...

To be fair, and for completeness, Mamdani also appointed a crazed liberal activist to the city’s “tenants’ rights division,” announced a legal crusade against a particular big landlord (which is already in bankruptcy), revoked several of his predecessor’s orders, and practically gushed with communitarian claptrap.

Don’t get me wrong— Mamdani is a commie. But could he be a different kind of Marxist? Although the proof will be in the socialist pudding, these housing orders suggest he’s trying to lower rents using free-market principles —supply and demand— instead of mandates and edicts.

Put differently, Mamdani’s most significant practical orders —LIFT and SPEED— were conservative strategies. Fascinating! We’ll continue to watch the city’s first socialist mayor’s progress with great interest.

stereotomy says

Patrick says

Charlie blamed the boomers for taking everything for themselves, and leaving nothing for future generations.

I believe this - both my wife and I were denied promotions in our workplaces so that the crotch fruit of the boomers, who were 10-15 years younger with virtually no experience, were given management jobs.

They pulled up the ladder behind them, occasionally reaching down to pick up their children in purely nepotistic fashion.

We'll see how things end up. It's not going to be nice. . .

Plenty of Boomers worked hard to change the world and be successful. That’s IMHO a rash generalization. I would bet the success/failure rate would be the same amongst generations. Boomers were by far the largest generation so it seems like they had an advantage when actually there were just more of them.

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/trying-to-replace-the-american-dream

SharkyP says

Plenty of Boomers worked hard to change the world and be successful. That’s IMHO a rash generalization. I would bet the success/failure rate would be the same amongst generations. Boomers were by far the largest generation so it seems like they had an advantage when actually there were just more of them.

The Boomer hate stuff is just more foreign division. Not every Boomer was a Yuppie. Sure, there are plenty of jerkass Yuppie Boomers / Boho Bourgeois but they're a minority.

The BoomFuck Curse was all Gen X and the Millenstoners faults for not murdering Boomers for their stuff when they had the chance. Even the death vax hasn't been able to get all the BoomFucks like it was supposed to.

I'm a boomer and I am determined to acquire all of the possessions and wealth of the generations after me.
They must stay poor; they must continue to buy iPhones and new cars, eat out at restaurants, blow cash at bars and travel for vacations.

The problem is not that the boomers didn't work hard, many did and prospered through many boom cycles, but they aren't currently paying their fair share, and too many are never trumplers. Medicare is basically taking money from the younger generations to keep paying for boomer procedures which costs inflate by 10%-20% per year. Kicking the can down the road is despicable, regardless of how poor the work ethic of many millenials and the younger generations may be. As much of a communist dick zoran may be, his election made sense from the viewpoint of many young have nots.

“ when one has too much student debt or if housing
is too unaffordable, then one will have negative
capital for a long time and/or find it very hard to
start accumulating capital in the form of real estate;
and if one has no stake in the capitalist system, then
one may well turn against it.”

I don’t know what America is at the moment but, it isn’t capitalism.

mell says

The problem is not that the boomers didn't work hard, many did and prospered through many boom cycles, but they aren't currently paying their fair share, and too many are never trumplers. Medicare is basically taking money from the younger generations to keep paying for boomer procedures which costs inflate by 10%-20% per year. Kicking the can down the road is despicable, regardless of how poor the work ethic of many millenials and the younger generations may be. As much of a communist dick zoran may be, his election made sense from the viewpoint of many young have nots.

Trump, as an extremely early boomer is really the anti boomer. It’s funny, the Silent Generation…the generation that probably has the most wisdom amongst us, and certainly has the most lived experience, overwhelmingly supports Donald Trump. Boomers and their offspring collectively blew America’s beautiful fuck you position. Trump has restored it. No one is fucking with the US after this one. Notice Russia and China’s lack of anything in response to kidnapping Maduro? Trump has them acting like Biden..:they’ll give a harshly worded response lmfao!!!! They saw it, they grumbled, they sat on their hands and did nothing. Think about it. The US went into another country, took their leader from his home, and he’s now locked up in prison in New York. All without losing even one American life. And he even got the Dems, and their idiot boomer voters, to protest on behalf of a despised dictator!

Like I said, the anti boomer.

Btw, a couple years ago, I got like a thousand downvotes on a prior Reddit account when I said that the US government is gangsta, idiot Democrats blindly clutching to the idea that Joe Biden had any sort of integrity.

I’ve never seen anything more gangsta than openly waking up and kidnapping a president from another country!

Btw, for those of you unfamiliar, overall negative accounts basically can’t post on Reddit. You have to make a new email address and new account. Democrats weaponize it to silence dissenting opinions, all the while chanting “no kings” lolz!

In today's shitshow the mayor is gonna harass landlords of rent controlled properties for not pouring more funds into the properties. Things like forcing the landlords to lose money just ain't gonna work. The mayor just can't quite wrap his head around that fact.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/nyc-mayor-zohran-mamdani-signs-rental-ripoff-order-for-all-5-boroughs-in-fight-against-shady-landlords/ar-AA1TCuFX

If the mayor insists by leveling frees against the property owners, expect Jewish lightning to start hitting buildings like what happened in the 70s.

Misc says

In today's shitshow the mayor is gonna harass landlords of rent controlled properties for not pouring more funds into the properties. Things like forcing the landlords to lose money just ain't gonna work. The mayor just can't quite wrap his head around that fact.

His goal is to force the landlords out of business and have the government take over the rental business. Even that "Jewish lightning" fits the plan as the government will condemn the property and rebuild rentals on the lots.

We will know he has succeeded in his KommieKunt resposibility to inflict maximum suffering and privation when New Yorkers are standing five hours in line for a bagel.

Actually, Mamdani did not raise the fares, the MTA did that back in Sep with an effective date of Jan 4th. Even so, it went from $2.90 to $3.00. There is plenty of stuff to go after Mamdani without resorting to easily countered items like this bus fare. I suspect this was put out by Mamdani supporters just for his detractors to latch onto and look foolish later.

HeadSet says

Actually, Mamdani did not raise the fares, the MTA did that back in Sep with an effective date of Jan 4th. Even so, it went from $2.90 to $3.00. There is plenty of stuff to go after Mamdani without resorting to easily countered items like this bus fare. I suspect this was put out by Mamdani supporters just for his detractors to latch onto and look foolish later.

Psychopathic smile...

HeadSet says

His goal is to force the landlords out of business and have the government take over the rental business. Even that "Jewish lightning" fits the plan as the government will condemn the property and rebuild rentals on the lots.

Insurance money is probably more lucrative though.

•It is reported that her mother lives in a $1.4 million home in Tennessee.
•It is reported that her father lives in a $700,000 home in Rochester, New York.
•It is reported that her father owns rental properties and is a landlord.
•She attended elite private universities, with tuition exceeding $60,000 per year.
•Her family’s stability and lifestyle were built through property ownership, private education, and capital growth.
•She benefited directly from the American system of homeownership and wealth building, while advocating policies that restrict those same paths for others.
•This is a clear case of good for me and my family, not for you.
•A 37 year old public figure breaking down under basic scrutiny raises serious concerns about the ability to handle the pressure of participating in, shaping, and advocating policy within New York City.

US homeownership rates (recent data):
•Overall: ~65–66%
•White: ~72–74%
•Asian: ~61–63%
•Hispanic/Latino: ~49–51%
•Black/African American: ~45–47%

Who remembers Bill Clinton during his administration, openly celebrating rising homeownership as proof the American Dream was working?

These are not people who want the American Dream for you or for anyone else.

Socialism is taught in theory, not lived in practice. It fails in every real world implementation, and it will fail here too, ruining lives in the process.
https://x.com/TheJewishAlly/status/2008940488758309030

More "Stop Gentrification" tweets from another Female Millennial living in an expensive apartment whose family owns mulitple rental properties as well as homes valued at around $1M (In Tennessee! Not California) and $700,000

https://unherd.com/newsroom/more-extremist-posts-surface-by-mamdani-tenant-czar/?edition=us

Getting a good start on the ole daycare money laundering racket. Guess they haven't been watching Minnesota. Or, maybe they have, and they realize nobody will be arrested so they may as well exploit the template.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/01/here-we-go-ny-governor-kathy-hochul-zohran/

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/honor-among-thieves-friday-january

On Wednesday, the UK Daily Mail ran a silly followup story about Socialist Mayor Zohran “the Magnificent” Mamdani’s new anti-white Tenant Advocate Director, headlined, “Anti-white NYC mayoral aide SOBS when asked about mom’s home.” Online-insurgent-turned-bureaucrat Cea Weaver was confronted outside her townhouse by Daily Mail journos earlier this week, who merely wished to clarify her anti-white, anti-capitalist views. Weaver, a Bryn Mawr graduate, demonstrated the cool aplomb of a hardened French revolutionary with her fingers on the guillotine handle by dissolving in tears and fleeing down the street.

In 2018, Weaver tweeted, “There is no such thing as ‘good gentrifier,’ only people who are actively working on projects to dismantle white supremacy and capitalism and people who aren’t.” But diligent Daily Mail researchers, doing proper journalism, dug up the fact that Weaver’s own parents (Vanderbilt professors, of course), own a $1.4 million home in a chic neighborhood in Nashville— a former black neighborhood that is now too expensive for lower and middle class folks. In other words— Weaver’s parents are textbook gentrifiers.

Weaver herself said there was no such thing as a good gentrifier. Weaver’s townhouse in Crown Heights is also in a gentrifying New York neighborhood. You can imagine the questions the Daily Mail reporters had hoped to ask, were it not for Weaver’s bourgeois tears, deployed the same way an octopus squirts out a cloud of ink before it jets away.

There is one way that "Cea" Weaver can redeem herself:

Admit her error, and campaign twice as hard and twice as long in the opposite direction, calling out and denouncing the divisive Democratic race-baiting.

Jewish fake Muslim KommieKunt knows a good tax money laundering scam when he sees it. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.