I don't live in New York. I've visited, I think, twice. My girlfriend (now my wife of 30 years) took me there on the train in the early 1990s, and it was great. I went back soon after with a group of family members, and remember we had a really nice suite at the Embassy Suites on Times Square. So I have good memories of New York, which is good, because I don't think the city will be left standing if socialist Zohan Mamdani becomes mayor — and it's looking like he will.
I see on the control panel that our own Warren Squire is working on a post called, "Four Things NYC Democratic Mayoral Nominee Zohran Mamdani Has Called to Abolish." I know from old tweets that gun rights is one of them.
NYC en route to full ruin. https://t.co/JreljJAyvO
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 25, 2025
I think Matt Walsh had a really good take on Tuesday:
The fact that a foreign socialist even has a chance to be elected mayor of NYC proves that the voters in our major cities are essentially suicidal. They want to see their own communities destroyed. It’s a spiritual and mental sickness. I don’t think there’s any way to fix it.
— Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) June 24, 2025
Not only did the liberal New York Times urge voters not to vote for Mamdani, but even the Chicago Tribune tried to help New Yorkers see the light, and their mayor has an approval rating somewhere below 7 percent.
The Chicago Tribune is warning NYC residents not to vote for Zohan Mamdani.
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) June 24, 2025
No Chicago 2.0 in NYC. pic.twitter.com/dJA0KKB7bv
I'm not sure when this was, but here's Mamdani saying as mayor, he'd have Benjamin Netanyahu arrested if he stepped foot in the city. (Mehdi Hasan was certainly nodding his head in approval to that one.)
Zorhan Mamdani: “As Mayor I would have Netanyahu arrested if he came to New York!”
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) June 24, 2025
pic.twitter.com/qVlrDPR6JU
Matthew Yglesias saw people pulling up old tweets from Mamdani as Dana Loesch did above, like this one reading, "Queer liberation means defund the police." Yglesias seems to think that's 2020 Mamdani, and his "wokeness is in deep remission."
It's fair to hit Mamdani with old tweets, but the fact that his 2025 campaign sounded nothing like his tweets from 2020 to me is in fact a sign that wokeness is in deep remission. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GuQdj_0WgAAHwkr?format=png&name=small
— Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) Jun 24, 2025
As I reported, in an earlier run for assemblyman, Mamdani said he stood for "socialist feminism," writing on Instagram, "Defunding the police is a feminist issue."
But no, his wokeness is in deep remission. Right.
You're still painfully stupid.
— JWF (@JammieWF) June 25, 2025
It says nothing about the level of brain rot in a candidate who could have held that belief in the first place.
— Eupeptic Joe (@jmotivator) June 25, 2025
He promised city owned grocery stores, rent control & to prevent ICE from operating in NYC during the race. Who needs to go back to 2020?
— Stacey (@ScotsFyre) June 25, 2025
Absolutely crying laughing at this, thank you
— Ian Miller (@ianmSC) June 25, 2025
If it really was, those tweets would've been deleted well before now.
— Robert Simmons (@RobertS62561042) June 25, 2025
Have you tried... asking him if he still supports these previously-stated positions?
— Mark Elevate (@mark_elevate) June 25, 2025
Should be a pretty simple question, right?
His wokeness is not "in remission." He's just being more careful about what he says and posts. Just look at the issues the guy ran on in his mayoral campaign. There's no difference from 2020, other than he's more careful about sharing his beliefs.
Ignore everything he’s said in the past, folks! https://t.co/0bMoARBWHs
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) June 25, 2025
I liked New York City. I don't think I'll be headed back if the subways are converted to homeless shelters with city workers handing out needles.
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