“We, the soldiers of The National Liberation Front of America, in the name of the workers and all the oppressed of this imperialist country, have struck a fatal blow to the fascist police state.” – Escape from New York
I don’t watch soccer. If I wanted to see grown men try to score for 90 minutes, I’d go to a bar. (all tweets® as-found)
I’ve been to New York City once. I flew in to JFK, met with some friends, drove up north to a cabin he owned, and, drank some beer, and then saved the President from the Duke of New York (He’s A Number 1!) after his escape pod landed there.
That was fun. I mean, not the New York City part, but the beer and saving the President part. When I got to my friend’s apartment, it was a third-story Manhattan thing that was smaller than a closet. Yet, he was married, and two people lived in this tiny place.
It’s not like he was poor, either. He did okay, and his wife was an executive vice president at a company you’ve heard of.
They owned a car, and we were going to take it to their cabin.
How do you make a sandwich in Venezuela? Put a meat coupon between two bread coupons.
He asked me if I wanted to go with him to get it. What he meant was that he was going to take a taxi two miles to the building where it was stored. He had to schedule picking it up, because they packed the cars in like sardines and have to work a dozen our so out to get to his, which, after seeing it, probably took 20 minutes.
These were people that were in the 1%, and my life was easier in almost all respects even though I made a fraction of the money that they made.
I didn’t see the attraction of New York City then, and I don’t see it now. I mean, here in Modern Mayberry if I shoot my .30-06 off the back deck it’s Wednesday. But in New York City, it’s national news. But as bad as it in the Big Apple, it’s now worse.
Zohran Mamdani (by his name, a fine Irish lad, no doubt) was just elected Mayor. He’s not a Democrat. No, that’s not retarded enough. He’s a Democratic Socialist®. That must be like “extra-fancy” ketchup.
Mamdani’s policies are just as American as his name and upbringing. I mean, you can feel the love, because his Director of Appointments, Catherine Almonte Da Costa said back in 2016 posted, “It’s important that white people feel defeated.”
Whelp.
This was the woman hand-picking key officials in City Hall, and her worldview sees white folks as the enemy to be crushed. And Ms. Almonte Da Costa wasn’t alone. On Mamdani’s campaign trail, he called for raising taxes specifically on “whiter neighborhoods” to fund his socialist schemes.
So, it’s about money. And power. I mean, it always is, but most of the time they’re not so blatant. Let’s dig into his housing policies, for one. These seem designed to eviscerate the concept of private property altogether. On purpose.
Cea Weaver (her parents couldn’t afford a consonant for her first name) is Mamdani’s pick for Director of the Mayor’s “Office to Protect Tenants”. Weaver isn’t just a tenant advocate. Nope. She’s a full-throated opponent of homeownership itself. In her own words, she’s called for seizing private property and described individual homeownership as a tool of “white supremacy.”
Must be news to COMMUNIST China, which now has, what, a 90%+ homeownership rate? Re-read that. NYC is officially farther left than the CCP. Achievement unlocked!
Cea (I wonder if anyone besides me refers to her as the Cea-word?) believes homes should be owned collectively, like some throwback to the Soviet Union where the state decides who gets what (and who is: never you and what is: never what you want).
According to the NY Post®, Cea-word’s mom has a $1.6 million house in Tennessee.
Weaver’s background as executive director of Housing Justice for All® screams daddy issue GloboLeftist. What were those commies at Housing Justice for All in favor of?
Rent freezes, eviction moratoriums, and government takeovers that have already tanked property values in every progressive stronghold where they’ve been tried.
But it gets worse. I mean, worse than being in New York in the first place.
Mamdani’s support for the Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA) is a dagger to the heart of property rights. Under this new law, if you want to sell your multifamily building, you must first offer it to the city and favored nonprofits. Like the Quality Learing Center. For how long? Six months.
Six months.
An owner must notify the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), and these friends of Zohan “qualified entities” get first dibs. If you finally get an offer from a private buyer, NYC and its pet nonprofits still have a right of first refusal to match the offer within 15 days.
But this is no surprise, since Mamdani has openly hailed South Africa as the blueprint for New York City. In his inauguration speech, he electrified his crowd by declaring, “South Africa is the model for New York,” praising its post-apartheid “transformative justice.”
South Africa now has more racial laws than it did under Apartheid. But the quality of life is better. Wait, what?
Have you heard about what’s happening in Johannesburg lately? That “model” is a crumbling mess of blackouts, rampant violence, street piracy, skyrocketing rape rates, and economic disrepair. South Africa is built on corruption scandals, farm seizures, and a GDP that’s flatlined
Great role model, but no coincidence. Mamdani’s family ties run deep into anti-Western activism. His father, Mahmood Mamdani, has long peddled narratives glorifying “resistance” movements, including defending suicide bombers. Apparently, the manual for suicide bombers is called C4 Yourself, but I digress.
The warm embrace of collectivism has resulted in the greatest tragedy in human history: communism in the twentieth century. That doesn’t matter. My guess? Lots of New Yorkers are going to be doing a real-life reenactment of Escape from New York.
Snake Plissken had it easy. He only had to escape roving bands of violent criminals who wanted to kill him. New Yorkers in 2026 will have to escape taxes, too.
“C4Yourself.”
Comedy gold! Downright inspired! Maybe even divinely inspired.
Now we just need to write it!
Year Zero comrades, NO shirking.
Property is theft.
Forward to the New Man workers utopia, yes we can!
Doubleplus goodthink, there.
The entertainment value of this Communist takeover of New Yawk City is priceless! Should we start a Ghoul Pool? Let’s estimate how long it will take for some true patriot to go full Dan White and set things right by giving that hideous Bint and Mayor Mendacious the Harvey Milk Memorial Award. I’m saying it will never happen. But then, as Sister Mary Hercules taught me in 7th Grade: “Never say never.” Life is indeed a vale of tears if you are living in that corrupt, syphilitic-thinking Blue Hive. Bleib ubrig, New Yawkers.
Seriously, how much worse could their schools be? Will they start eating each other for lunch?
As the definitely not ghey Barry Soetoro, aka Barack Obama, famously said “elections have consequences” and the Big Crapple is about to get what they voted for, good and hard.
I believe the people who are going to get it good and hard are not the people who voted for this Muslim. The people who voted for it -gimmegrants, EBTers, Snappers and some of your basic stupid Libs voted for this to give it to the rest good and hard.
Yup, and I’ve got the popcorn.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn , The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956
God made men to be free, but you’re gonna have to fight the whole world if you want to keep it. Suits me but it ain’t for everybody.
‘We didn’t love freedom enough’. Exactly. Comfy in their cribs with their beloved stuff. And that’s men in the anglo West on steroids.
Women love safety, men love freedom. But Alexander’s cohort failed to love their birthright enough, so the penalty was captivity.
Move out, early.
Akchually…
The greatest catastrophe in human history was the Muslim conquest and occupation of India. 400 million dead Hindus over 800 years.
I will give you that Communism killed people a lot faster. The ancient Muslims didn’t have industrial methods of murder. And, of course, the Communists killed “their” people, whereas Muslims *mostly* kill everybody else.
You call 400 million fewer jeets a catastrophe?
The communists didn’t kill THEIR people. They killed Slavs and Chinese and so forth. Mere talking animals and most definitely not Actual Human Beings like themselves.
I just hope Mamdani goes good and hard against the New York “whites” who are the kin of the architects (and leadership of the murderous NKVD, etc) of the USSR.
Ironically, I’m sitting in a midtown (Manhattan, duh) ramen shop having dinner as I type this.
Also: @DonnyC — hahaha!
And . . . Mamdani is both.
The key part about COPA is not that it delays sale of a property, it is that is imposes rent control in perpetuity on a property once it is sold to a non-profit or tenant association. San Francisco has had a COPA for several years now and for their COPA properties “Avg Rents cannot exceed 80% of Area Median Income” and “Avg income of all tenants cannot exceed 120% Area Median Income”. These SF buildings often have deferred maintenance costs and are brought up to code with millions in subsidies from City government and Federal grants. Um, can you say “Quality Learing Center?”
https://shelterforce.org/2023/09/07/how-its-working-laws-that-help-tenants-and-nonprofits-buy-buildings/
Her goal is to kill private property. Yay, commieblocks!
Lie Weaver and Mandamnhe. It’s always the empowered white females allied with swarthy invading men. Disempower the females, the invasions stop.
NYC should be towed into the Atlantic and sunk. Then billed.
Yup.
I love it. I hope to see this raging success implemented in at least a half dozen other blue hive shitholes before the years end.
Acceleration pairs so well with a pipe and a nice old fashioned.
As long as we wall them in.
Let 5-6 months pass and summer starts. Things in NYC will get “interesting”. Garbagemen & bus drivers strike, maybe? Food riots once quite a few grocery stores close?
And if the power goes out . . . .
Sounds like those who are the targets and can afford to pay the bills, need to quickly unass the vehicle.
Look at South Africa.
Wow, it’s always the hot ones
Should have seen C-word’s face when the mean reporter was asking her about her mom’s $1.6 million house. Priceless.
NYFC is the least American city in this nation. They were on the side of GIII during the revolution, they rebelled against the Union during the Civil War, they supported anything FDR did, and they have the largest concentration of foreigners and illegals anywhere in the nation.
Can we deport the entire five boroughs?
Four boroughs. Staten Island’s hard Red. Plus, Monty filmed “Easy Money” there. His best other than “Caddyshack”.
Works for me. Let’s put them on Venus.
Yes. Supposedly 700 F. there. But the late John Lear said life is on every planet and their moons. Plus, there are 25+ other planets in the solar system. With life.
Go figure.
Little People is on SiriusXM 27. Always funny. Love me some Randy Newman.
It’s up in the clouds (really) where they’ve seen signs of life (probably one-celled) and the temperatures aren’t 700F.