Enjoy your delusions of grandeur, New York City, they’re already fading away;
When I was young, my parents told me never to take delight in the misfortune of others. That said, when people keep making choices based on unrealistic self-centered expectations, it’s hard not to take some enjoyment out of watching them languish when those choices prove to be as idiotic as the reasons they were made.
New York recently elected a socialist/communist as its mayor. Apparently, they not only forgot that the state of New York was in the United States, but they also haven’t ever read a history book, watched the news, or spoken to anyone who lived through a socialist/communist regime.
My parents also taught me that it wasn’t nice to call people names, but these are exceptional circumstances. So let’s be honest, if you voted for this ex-rapper who never did an honest day's work in his life and bought into the paper-thin lies he based his campaign on, you are dangerously incompetent.
Mamdani is a socialist/communist, which means he has never had an original thought. The premises he bases everything on have repeatedly failed over the centuries. It’s too bad that the MSM didn’t have the integrity to mention that, so that the naïve mob that voted this moronic comrade into office might have at least suspected his intentions.
The recent generations don’t seem to have much interest in history. Too bad, they can learn much about not only U.S. History, World History, and even themselves. However, selfies and taking pictures of their food are more important. They will shackle themselves to an uncertain future rather than take the time to research a candidate whose whims they will be forced to live under for the foreseeable future.
Mamdani is not a magician. Anyone who bought into the empty promises he made must still believe in the tooth fairy and leprechauns. How did they think that this do-nothing, know-nothing con man would magically be able to fulfill things no one before him could?
I like the Wizard of Oz, too. It’s a great movie, but the Wizard was a phony. The voters in New York have just made New York the new Oz, except this phony Wizard/magician has nefarious intentions, and his curtain is the DNC and the MSM.
Among the asinine promises that Mamdani made was that he would impose rent freezes and institute free busing, the latter of which would cost around $700 million. These are such typical, “I’m a good guy” Communist bait techniques that only the most naïve, “I’m voting for change, imbeciles” would have fallen for this ham-handed nonsense.
Dan Mannarino is the primary anchor for the PIX11 Morning News in New York and serves as the host and managing editor of the political show "PIX on Politics."
In an interview that he conducted with Mamdani, he asked some obvious questions and received no rational answers. Including one that is so disturbingly ignorant that it should cause even the most loyal leftist Democrat to shudder.
MAMDANI: Well, I think the mayor will find that he’ll have a tough time trying to stymie the momentum that we have as a campaign and as a movement, because more than a million New Yorkers came out to vote for our vision of making the city more affordable. I know that’s difficult for the mayor because he ran an administration where, for four years, he made it more difficult for those New Yorkers to afford this city.
And even one of the people he floated appointing to the Rent Guidelines Board is a star of a show that I think is called Selling New York, which in some ways is a description of what Eric Adams tried to do.
MANNARINO: But if he does it, does that put a foil — or at least a pause — on freezing the rent?
MAMDANI: I think it’s an obstacle, but it’s one that I think we can overcome.
MANNARINO: And the other one — talking about fast and free buses, and your meeting with the governor. I’ve heard you say many times that you don’t want to take money away from the MTA — you want to put money back in. And it’s something she agrees with, right? “We don’t want to take away money from the MTA.”
How are you getting that $700 million to make the buses free into the MTA if she’s not for raising taxes?
MAMDANI: You know, I think the two clearest ways to raise that money is through raising the state’s corporate tax to match New Jersey. A lot of this is still a case to be made — whether it’s the corporate tax or the personal income tax on those who make more than a million dollars a year. I think these are the clearest ways.
I’ve also said that if there are other ways to raise this funding, the most important fact is that we fund it — not the question of how we do it, but that we do it.
Translation: Mamdani has absolutely no idea how he will do anything. Saying that people should not be concerned about how this administration does things, but only that they do them, is an extremely frightening statement.
If I lived in that state, I would not be typing this column. I would be packing and talking with my real estate agent at the same time. This is the opposite of transparency; this is blatant obscuring of the truth.
Enjoy your delusions of grandeur, New York City, they’re already fading away.
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