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Chaos Creeps in on Little Cat's Feet
"Great cities fall to the sound of cheering crowds." Ami Kozak on "X"
Chaos Creeps in on Little Cat's Feet
"Great cities fall to the sound of cheering crowds." Ami Kozak on "X"
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The Democratic Party put another bullet in its head this week with the election of the charming, affable jihadi communist Zohran Mamdani. Is “communist” too harsh a label? (He styles himself, softly, a “socialist.”) Yet his campaign platform looks like a template from the venerable Soviet Council of Ministers circa 1957: Free Everything: housing, buses and subways, college, child-care, government food stores. . . with a cherry-on-top of replacing police with social workers in high crime areas — because rapists and car-jackers would quit their rowdy ways if only they could talk about their feelings.
If you believe the news reports emanating from Woke Central, Zohran received major support from the folks who predominate the Upper West Side, where he was raised-up by his Columbia prof Dad and film-maker Mom. That is, voted in by the same high-income demographic that flocks to Zabar’s Deli on Sunday mornings for smoked sturgeon and babka — a curious alliance. I guess this solves the old riddle of why Europe’s Jews walked so placidly into Auschwitz.
“Life imitates art,” old Oscar Wilde liked to say, and with so many self-administered bullets in its head now, the Democratic Party looks more and more like The Walking Dead, a necromantic tribute to its erstwhile mascot, “Joe Biden,” the Phantom of the White House. Fortunately, the Latinx bombshell, AOC, America’s answer to Eva Peron, has stepped up to the leadership role, flanked by the foxy Jasmine Crockett, with their mentor, Bernie Sanders close at hand (on a leash, really) barking validation for the Party’s death trip.
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Of course, we’re not there yet. Zohran hasn’t been sworn in, though the victory celebration just now looks like it’s fait accompli. You can only imagine the frantic conversation running between the old party poohbahs out in the cold: Chuck Schumer, Hakim, Nadler, Obama, even the loser, Cuomo, plus the non-elected party apparatchiks: Axelrod, Podesta, Carville, Plouffe, Emmanuel. . . . They’re not saying, but I bet many are silently wondering: Is there some way we can just disappear the guy? Make him go away? X him out? Cancel his ass? (Someone, for Godsake, find a couple of girls who will say he groped them in an elevator!)
Or maybe some electoral work-around? Maybe put what remains of the party’s dwindling financial mojo back behind Eric Adams — yes, he’s still Mayor — who supposedly quit the party (after they tried and failed to stuff him in prison) and is running for mayor now as an independent. . . but who will surely welcome whatever support and moolah they can bring to his cause. Adams’s two great virtues as a political figure: he’s not Bill de Blasio and he’s not Zohran Mamdani.
New York might go down the drain anyway. At least for a while. That broken business model for skyscrapers is not going away anytime soon, and neither is the greatly augmented Third World population funneled across the open border into New York City by “Joe Biden’s” shadowy minders. Will New York turn into that fairytale town whose economy subsisted on people simply taking in each other’s laundry?
Commentary:
If the voters in NYC are that dumb, they deserve this clown and the total destruction of their city, like Johannesburg as described above.
As it is, many Wall Street firms are relocating from New York City to lower-cost areas like Dallas, Salt Lake City, and across the river to New Jersey driven by high living costs and the desire for remote work options. This trend is part of broader cost-cutting initiatives and reflects a shift in the financial industry's operational landscape.
What we do know is that the NYSE is already in the process of establishing a presence in Dallas.
Reporter Bill Melugin of Fox News sum it up succinctly showing that some of the things socialist NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has previously called for such as; Abolish NYPD – Abolish prisons – Abolish medical bills – Abolish private health insurance – Ban all guns – Legalize sex work – Safe injection sites – End cash bail – Decriminalize drug possession – End sentencing enhancements – End all cooperation with ICE.
are all failed objectives previously espoused by DSA Marxist Democrats in various cities in the U.S.
Now DSA Marxist Democrat Zohran Mamdani also promises if elected City government to run grocery stores, and other such idiocies, as a card-carrying socialist.
Well we saw the results of government run stores in Russia, and Venezuela didn't we.
10 Facts About Hunger in Russia - The Borgen Project
Hunger in Russia is on a downward trend and both NGOs and the government are undergoing concerted efforts to address poverty.
borgenproject.org
