Zohran Mamdani...

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Anonymous wrote:Eric Adams is gonna win bigly. He fixed the trash and rat issue

He did? NYC was full of trash the last time I was there

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Anonymous wrote:Zohran Mamdani, 2nd place candidate for Mayor of NYC is 10x worse than De Blasio, 100x worse than Brandon Johnson, and 1000x worse than Bowser. Please help spare us from him!
He believes in DISMANTLING the police permanently. He will replace the NYPD with "Department of Community Safety" with unarmed security and social workers.

https://www.change.org/p/stop-zohran-mamdani-from-destroying-new-york-city

source for nypd comment: https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1336087694636707841

If it’s too costly an area to live and you don’t have a stable job there, just MOVE to a lower cost of living place with your industry jobs or switch industries or functions.

Wtf.

This is so obvious even uneducated illegal immigrants get it.

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Anonymous wrote:A socialist mayor in the same city as the NYSE? Who woulda thought? There’s no such thing as free anything . Someone always pays and it’s going to be the people who voted for this lunacy. Businesses and the wealthy will either leave, or raise prices of the businesses they own to account for higher taxes.

De blasio was socialist

[Anonymous]

Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight.

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight.

All this - exactly. He has sold the people who voted for him a false bill of goods.
Reminds me of Chicago's mayor, Brandon Johnson. We all see how that one has turned out.

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Anonymous wrote:Dcum...where the people making $1M per year are "middle class" and just need some more billionaire money to make sure the poor get their free food. The height of generosity

Works in Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries: pay 65% of the population to not work, do nothing, and keep voting for them.

Sounds good to me

Where’s our multi-trillion dollar sovereign wealth fund with decades of oil?

Well- begs the question, why don’t we have one? Individual Americans have become billionaires through oil in the gulf & Texas - why didn’t the American people tax some of that money & invest it like the Norwegians, saudis etc?? Oh you know why? B/c it’s a progressive idea!

Oil money supplies the money for the Public University Fund in Texas. It is one of the reasons UT Austin, followed by A&M, are very wealthy universities. But agreed, it could have been better invested for the remainder of Texans.

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight.

All this - exactly. He has sold the people who voted for him a false bill of goods.
Reminds me of Chicago's mayor, Brandon Johnson. We all see how that one has turned out.

I’d expect young Jews to be a bit wiser.

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight.

All this - exactly. He has sold the people who voted for him a false bill of goods.
Reminds me of Chicago's mayor, Brandon Johnson. We all see how that one has turned out.

Yes. Even the Chicago Tribune warned New Yorkers.

I do blame white liberal Gen X parents for raising these silver spoon kids. As mentioned upthread, the minute the going gets tough they will bail and leave the rest of the working class holding the bag of a 1970s - early 1990s NYC of crime and inability to walk the streets safely. They aren't even aware of what NYC was like back then, and very nearly defaulted on its debt. The Republican President (Ford) said "go to hell" and refused to bail NYC out. It was the business leaders who put together a plan to save NYC. Then about 15 years after that to pull NYC out of the absolute hellhole that it had become, and only because Giuliani wasn't afraid to do the hard work. Then Bloomberg truly took NYC to the next level.

Eric Adams saved us from the mess that was de Blasio. The thought of going back there is terrifying.

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Anonymous wrote:Have any of you met the average $60k a year govt social worker? They are not psychologists.

Have any of you met the average adult mental illness patient or criminal, poor or not, and know how compliant they are with any meds or therapies?

Exactly.

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight.

All talk or means it, either way he’s a waste of space either way this nonsense. But yeah, likes the attention, power and greed side of campaigning.

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Anonymous wrote:Zohran Mamdani, 2nd place candidate for Mayor of NYC is 10x worse than De Blasio, 100x worse than Brandon Johnson, and 1000x worse than Bowser. Please help spare us from him!
He believes in DISMANTLING the police permanently. He will replace the NYPD with "Department of Community Safety" with unarmed security and social workers.

https://www.change.org/p/stop-zohran-mamdani-from-destroying-new-york-city

source for nypd comment: https://x.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1336087694636707841

If it’s too costly an area to live and you don’t have a stable job there, just MOVE to a lower cost of living place with your industry jobs or switch industries or functions.

Wtf.

This is so obvious even uneducated illegal immigrants get it.

True.

Thanks for the link where Mamdini said he’ll DISMANTLE the NYPD. There’s no point in anyone trying to hide what he said.

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani seems like a well intentioned guy, but also extremely naive. He is one of these effete socialists who never grew up in the struggle but claims to have all these solutions for people who grew up in conditions he doesn’t even know about. On a personal level, I like my socialists to come from the environment they’re championing. Like Bernie Sanders and Jesse Jackson.

Mamdani is a socialist for rich brats. There’s a reason he lost Black New Yorkers by a lot.

Yep. Well said. These rich kids playing bohemian is a tired old schtick. Takoma Park comes to mind. I like their ideas but they always sell out if things really get tough. Notice that they are always “leaders” but never seem to suffer the same hardship that they claim to understand..

Love how none of them can figure out that the reasons costs went up was due to govt intervention in hiking taxes on everything in the tristate are plus minimum wages.

Didn’t he say he’ll mandate $30. minimum wages?

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight.

All this - exactly. He has sold the people who voted for him a false bill of goods.
Reminds me of Chicago's mayor, Brandon Johnson. We all see how that one has turned out.

Yes. Even the Chicago Tribune warned New Yorkers.

I do blame white liberal Gen X parents for raising these silver spoon kids. As mentioned upthread, the minute the going gets tough they will bail and leave the rest of the working class holding the bag of a 1970s - early 1990s NYC of crime and inability to walk the streets safely. They aren't even aware of what NYC was like back then, and very nearly defaulted on its debt. The Republican President (Ford) said "go to hell" and refused to bail NYC out. It was the business leaders who put together a plan to save NYC. Then about 15 years after that to pull NYC out of the absolute hellhole that it had become, and only because Giuliani wasn't afraid to do the hard work. Then Bloomberg truly took NYC to the next level.

Eric Adams saved us from the mess that was de Blasio. The thought of going back there is terrifying.

De Blasio presided over a LOWER crime rate and successfully rolled out preK for all, subsequently implemented for 2s and 3s. That is a life-giving program for families. The positive impact is literally incalculable.

I came here for college, left for work and grad and returned, and have lived in two boroughs. You’re legitimately a clown and don’t give a damn about this city. Go on, lie to us all.

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight.

All talk or means it, either way he’s a waste of space either way this nonsense. But yeah, likes the attention, power and greed side of campaigning.

Yep. Right now Bernie is on the morning shows talking up how great this is, and that the Dems should use his platform to win. I shake my head. I saw a chart that showed that MAGA and Centrist have pretty much stayed steady in their beliefs. But Dems argue they have shift further right. When in reality, the Dems are the one who have shifted so far left.

It will be interesting to see how far left we go before those who voted to make it happen have to live with the consequences.

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Anonymous wrote:Mamdani is all talk. Notice that he says he's going to raise taxes on the 1% and businesses? The mayor of NYC has no power to raise those taxes. That is up to the governor and the legislature. The only tax base he can affect is property taxes, which would totally screw the middle class if he raised those. And notice, not a peep about raising property taxes.

My guess he is making promises for everything he has to ability to change, then can say, I tried! But the big bad government wouldn't let me.

Also note, that as an assembly person, he could have brought up these issues to raise taxes, but didn't.

He is a disingenuous silver spoon boy playing at being a grownup. As are so many of the young white liberals who voted for him.

My hope is Cuomo steps aside and lets Eric Adams get in there and fight.

All this - exactly. He has sold the people who voted for him a false bill of goods.
Reminds me of Chicago's mayor, Brandon Johnson. We all see how that one has turned out.

Yes. Even the Chicago Tribune warned New Yorkers.

I do blame white liberal Gen X parents for raising these silver spoon kids. As mentioned upthread, the minute the going gets tough they will bail and leave the rest of the working class holding the bag of a 1970s - early 1990s NYC of crime and inability to walk the streets safely. They aren't even aware of what NYC was like back then, and very nearly defaulted on its debt. The Republican President (Ford) said "go to hell" and refused to bail NYC out. It was the business leaders who put together a plan to save NYC. Then about 15 years after that to pull NYC out of the absolute hellhole that it had become, and only because Giuliani wasn't afraid to do the hard work. Then Bloomberg truly took NYC to the next level.

Eric Adams saved us from the mess that was de Blasio. The thought of going back there is terrifying.

De Blasio presided over a LOWER crime rate and successfully rolled out preK for all, subsequently implemented for 2s and 3s. That is a life-giving program for families. The positive impact is literally incalculable.

I came here for college, left for work and grad and returned, and have lived in two boroughs. You’re legitimately a clown and don’t give a damn about this city. Go on, lie to us all.

Lived outside of NYC since 1990. Moved into the City in 1998. I lived through squeegee men and 42nd Street being the red light district. I lived up the street from the Twin Towers. Went through the financial collapse and everything since then.

Don't tell me I don't know NYC and don't give a damn about the city.