patrick.net

Someone should rub the dot off his mother's head.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/11/crowd-chants-allahu-akbar-as-nyc-mayor-elect/

New York City’s political shift took a dramatic turn as Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani, a self-described socialist from Queens, delivered a post-election speech at a Brooklyn mosque where the crowd chanted “Allahu Akbar.”

The 34-year-old Democrat Socialist, now the first Muslim mayor in city history, used his platform to promote redistribution of wealth and socialist-style governance under the banner of faith and community service. ...

Mamdani’s agenda includes sweeping rent controls, higher property taxes, and expanded welfare programs that analysts say will drive out business investment and worsen the city’s housing shortage.

His prior calls to defund the police and restrict cooperation with federal immigration enforcement have already alarmed law enforcement officials who warn of further crime spikes and weakened public order.

For decades, New York stood as a global model of resilience, free enterprise, and safety.

The city’s revival under leaders like Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg showed what strong, practical governance could achieve.

Under Mamdani’s rule, that legacy faces its greatest test. His victory marks not just a political transition but a cultural one—away from merit, law, and order, and toward ideological conformity.

The chants of “Allahu Akbar” at the Brooklyn mosque captured a city surrendering to a movement that confuses activism with leadership and ideology with governance.

https://babylonbee.com/news/zohran-mamdani-horrified-to-discover-he-now-has-a-job

https://babylonbee.com/news/mamdani-moves-mayors-office-under-childrens-hospital

https://babylonbee.com/news/mamdani-announces-plan-to-blame-racism-after-his-policies-fail

https://genesiustimes.com/farm-politics-wolf-wins-election-with-huge-sheep-chicken-vote/

Zohran Mamdani is a Khoja Muslim, not Sunni nor Shiite...Khojas are disliked by both Sunnis and Shiites...I wonder if Dems researched this before choosing him. Khojas are not the worst among Muslims.

Patrick says

https://genesiustimes.com/farm-politics-wolf-wins-election-with-huge-sheep-chicken-vote/

So, if this is approximately correct, why is democracy held on a pedestal?

gabbar says

Patrick says

https://genesiustimes.com/farm-politics-wolf-wins-election-with-huge-sheep-chicken-vote/

So, if this is approximately correct, why is democracy held on a pedestal?

Because alternatives are even worse.

https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/make-america-affordable-again

From: Peter Thiel
Date: Sunday, January 5, 2020 at 2:44 AM
To: Mark Zuckerberg, Nick Clegg, Antonio Lucio
Cc: Sheryl Sandberg, Marc Andreessen
Subject: RE: Milennials

There are many themes that could be developed
more here; let me make a few quick points for now:
Nick - - I certainly would not suggest that our policy
should be to embrace Millennial attitudes
unreflectively. I would be the last person to
advocate for socialism. But when 70% of Millennials
say they are pro-socialist, we need to do better than
simply dismiss them by saying that they are stupid
or entitled or brainwashed; we should try and
understand why. And, from the perspective of a
broken generational compact, there seems to be a
pretty straightforward answer to me, namely, that
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.

Problem is, capitalism delayed is still better than Communism manifest in every circumstance.

The Scandiavians proved once more that intensive socialism was a failure in the 90's, and returned to a mixed model of some socialist benefits with capitalism and ownership society, which has worked better.

Even China has a mixed model, though they are at the forefront of centralized control and the infliction of social credit and AI. However, that experiment has not yet run its course, either, and remains to be seen. It may only be entirely possible in dense population centers for a time, while parallel economies develop elsewhere as they did in the crumbling Soviet Union.

Why the only "stake in the capitalism system" is RE (according to Thiel)?

So, let's see how many actually leave NY.

HeadSet says

So, let's see how many actually leave NY.

One thing about taxing real estate...the rich can't move it. Add in rent control...a commie's dream.

If your average NYC resident starts moving out that means housing prices in the suburbs will go up. Now for someone who already owns and is locked in, good for me. But for a 20 something or 30 something looking to buy their first house? It was tough 20 years ago when I first started looking. I can't imagine it under the current climate. And rents are no better. They have gone sky high as well.

Between students loans and rent most young professionals don't have money left to save, be it for retirement or a down payment. No wonder they think communism is the awnser (hint, it isn't).

Call it "Democratic Socialism" it's still redistributing money from the "rich" (really, the upper middle class, since the truly rich can avoid such things) but we know from experience any government program has a cost to administer not to mention the aforementioned grift, making goods and services MORE expensive, not less.

Once again the so called middle class gets screwed.

Why was there not a credible opponent either in the primary or the general?

I don't really accept the narrative that NYC wanted such a progressive mayor. Look at the alternatives people were offered .. they voted for the only one who was charismatic and not mired in controversy. Rando beret guy and disgraced Handsey McHandserson were not credible choices. People just voted for the only credible one, despite the progressive politics.

I think a credible charismatic moderate from either party could have won, if any had been on the ballot.

DeficitHawk says

Why was there not a credible opponent either in the primary or the general?

I don't really accept the narrative that NYC wanted such a progressive mayor. Look at the alternatives people were offered .. they voted for the only one who was charismatic and not mired in controversy. Rando beret guy and disgraced Handsey McHandserson were not credible choices. People just voted for the only credible one, despite the progressive politics.

I think a credible charismatic moderate from either party could have won, if any had been on the ballot.

Sliwa is an outstanding man and would make a great mayor. The young generation voted for free shit, joining forces with the already lunatic American cat harridans. After years of even worse than typical democrat corruption in NYC who can blame them. Leftoids turn everything they touch to shit. Now is NYCs turn.

They say quite a few left during Covid. Without the bread and circuses, nightclubs, restaurants, diversions, stores, fashion slut venues, theater, symphony etc. living in a little box in a skyscraper, with street level being a nightmare, doesn't hold as much charm. Street level is going to be much more dangerous and desperate for walking, jogging, canoodling etc. We can look forward to some exotic horror stories.

It depends on what kind of specialized infrastructure groove you can still get into (richfuck). There will always be something there because of the port and certain clustered legal and financial services, so there's that.

Even Detroit has the vestiges of a privileged and somewhat urban/costly downtown area if you are daring. However, nine out of ten of the civil servants and police are black, so there's that, too.

Ceffer says

It depends on what kind of specialized infrastructure groove you can still get into (richfuck). There will always be something there because of the port and certain clustered legal and financial services, so there's that.

It has been a fun city for the rich only for many decades now. People who think it's cool to live in NYC while being poor are delusional, heaven forbid you have to take the stinky crime-ridden subway, esp. when it's 100 degrees and percent humidity down there during the summer. Maybe as a cool "rebel", musician or artist from age15-30 absolute max, then get the fuck outta there if you're not wealthy by then.

Ceffer says

Problem is, capitalism delayed is still better than Communism manifest in every circumstance.

The Scandiavians proved once more that intensive socialism was a failure in the 90's, and returned to a mixed model of some socialist benefits with capitalism and ownership society, which has worked better.

Even China has a mixed model, though they are at the forefront of centralized control and the infliction of social credit and AI. However, that experiment has not yet run its course, either, and remains to be seen. It may only be entirely possible in dense population centers for a time, while parallel economies develop elsewhere as they did in the crumbling Soviet Union.

We aren’t capitalism, we are government managed bubble economy.

Maybe that is “real capitalism”, I don’t know, not a philosopher. But it’s clear system is carefully managed for benefit of few at expense of many.

FortWayneHatesRealtors says

government managed bubble economy

It's actually the Fed doing the bubble economy management. The made themselves distinct from the government right from the start in 1913, so as not to be subject to pesky control by democracy.

They threw in some lines about government supervision, but it's obviously bullshit because even the mortgage fraudster Lisa Cook can't be removed by Trump.

mell says

Sliwa is an outstanding man and would make a great mayor.

Oh come on. . He was a joke and got less than 10% of the vote. He was not a serious candidate at all.

No matter your opinions on him as a human... He was not viewed as a serious candidate in the race by the vast majority of voters.

Cuomo is more centrist and got a pretty big fraction of the vote despite his character flaws and prior scandals....

I think its pretty clear if someone with a bit of charisma, and Cuomo's politics but without his scandals/baggage had run, that person would have won easily.

Scandal ridden has-beens should retire and let the new generation take over. Hopefully some viable moderates will emerge.

DeficitHawk says

No matter your opinions on him as a human... He was not viewed as a serious candidate in the race by the vast majority of voters.

That may be true but that's on the voters. And the reason we need and have people like Trump. Any half mannered conservative and/or libertarian is somehow regarded as a joke and mercilessly beaten down with lies by the left, who remembers Ron Paul's alleged "rayscyst newsletter" from decades ago somebody wrote who he is not affiliated with. The left has no business complaining about Trump, it's exactly what they deserve. The leftoids voted a fucking lunatic DA in VA in who fantasizes about murdering his Republican opponents and their children via text. We cannot have enough Trumps:
https://thefederalist.com/2025/11/05/the-assassination-left-elects-their-champion-in-virginia/

mell says

That may be true but that's on the voters.

It's on the party leadership and the candidate selection/primary process. If the party is so out of touch with voter expectations that they nominate a candidate who is widely seen as a joke, that's not going to result in a win.

"Blame the voters" is a really counterproductive point of view.. in a democracy, the voters are the ground truth. You have to bring candidates that appeal to the voters if you want to win.

There was a wide open gap for a moderate, credible candidate to win. That's the sweet spot the voters wanted a candidate. But none were on the ballot. So they had to choose between a disgraced elderly Cuomo with moderate politics, a charismatic super progressive young candidate, and an old joke of a guy in a beret.
It was surprisingly close between Cuomo and Mamdani.... If a young charismatic moderate without scandal had been there instead of Cuomo or Sliwa, they would have won easily.

Not having that candidate in the race is the fault of the parties and the primary process... Not the general election voters.

NYC has the most unequal income and wealth levels in the world, You have kids living 6 to a rat infested bedroom, while having some other kid attending kindergarten costing $100k per year. The crony capitalists will say their progeny worked their butts off and deserve what they've "earned". They gloss over all the bailouts and systemic privileges received. The have nots have to spend everything they earn just to survive.

That disparity will end. The rich and powerful never give up their privileges willingly. The commies always start out with good intentions, but no matter how much they take from the rich it is never enough and devolves into "how long can we survive eating zoo animals".

DeficitHawk says

Not having that candidate in the race is the fault of the parties and the primary process... Not the general election voters.

Strategically speaking yes. But NYC is still too far lunatic left to vote any sensible candidate in, so I'm ok with Mamdani putting the nail into the coffin. When the NY governor election comes though Republicans by then better have figured out backing their candidate with the best chances to unseat the lunatic corrupt bramlnch covidian hochul. They have a real chance there, NYC mayor was meant to go demonrat anyways, either full retard marxist or old style old money demonrat corruption a la cuomo. 1 : 0 for the marxists

DeficitHawk says

There was a wide open gap for a moderate, credible candidate to win. That's the sweet spot the voters wanted a candidate

Also the democrat party currently doesn't have any moderates at all which stand any chance of winning. Look who they have been voting in, Mamdani is no worse than the lunatic DA in VA or spanberger who can't get enough of talking about aborting children. The Democrat party is in dire need of a reset of JFK/RFK types taking the helm again. That would be common sense moderate.

mell says

But NYC is still too far lunatic left to vote any sensible candidate in

I don't agree.

They voted in Giuliani and Bloomberg, both moderate republicans at the time.

It's a left leaning city for sure. But moderates can still win if any run. Cuomo was more centrist than Mamdani and he got 40% despite being a scandal-ridden creep who was made to resign his last job by these same voters .. it shows you how many of those voters wanted a moderate candidate.

Charismatic moderates can still win. There just weren't any in the race. It's a failure of the candidate selection.

DeficitHawk says

mell says

But NYC is still too far lunatic left to vote any sensible candidate in

I don't agree.

They voted in Giuliani and Bloomberg, both moderate republicans at the time.

It's a left leaning city for sure. But moderates can still win if any run. Cuomo was more centrist than Mamdani and he got 40% despite being a scandal-ridden creep who was made to resign his last job by these same voters .. it shows you how many of those voters wanted a moderate candidate.

Charismatic moderates can still win. There just weren't any in the race. It's a failure of the candidate selection.

I'd argue the old guard rich and connected left of the cuomos or bloombergs has left the building long ago. And to vote in a other Giuliani crime isn't bad enough yet. Free shit, at least for a while until they run out of other people's money, trumps law and order, especially with the have nots. Maybe in 5-10 years again.

I just see things differently. I think voters only get to choose between what is on offer.... If the primaries produce one crazy beret guy, one scandal ridden has-been, and one charismatic young smart person who leans socialist, they will vote for the charismatic young smart person DESPITE the fact he is a socialist... Not because of it.

You seem to think they wanted the socialism. I think the fact Cuomo got 40% even though he is a deeply deeply flawed candidate disproves the notion that most people wanted a socialist. They just accepted the socialist to avoid the other two awful candidates.

I think our primary system coupled with single choice general election is the problem. It produces two candidates that result from an echo chamber of primary voters that may not resonate with the general population. We'd be better off to let more parties and independent candidates run and do ranked choice general elections. Then we could have moderates participate even if the 2 parties produce echo chamber candidates.

Edit: ranked choice needs to be in the general election. I don't think ranked choice within the primaries will fix the problem, since that is still the echo chamber.

https://slaynews.com/news/zohran-mamdani-hires-chief-architect-radical-anti-police-proposal-top-advisor/

New York City’s far-left Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani has just hired the Democratic Socialist strategist behind a controversial anti-police plan that seeks to replace NYPD officers with social workers.

Elle Bisgaard-Church is widely credited with crafting Mamdani’s most controversial public safety proposal.

On Monday, Mamdani tapped Bisgaard-Church to serve as his chief advisor at City Hall. ...

Campaign aides described Bisgaard-Church as the “chief architect” behind Mamdani’s proposal to create a Department of Community Safety.

The sweeping plan will replace police officers with social workers and mental health personnel for certain non-violent 911 calls, particularly in the subway system.

The dangerous proposal has been sharply criticized by law-enforcement groups and public-safety advocates, and would cost approximately $1.1 billion, according to Mamdani’s campaign materials.

The physical safety of New Yorkers is about to be yet more severely endangered.