In less than 2 weeks, New York City Democrats will elect a Communist Mayor.

[Lockback]

NYC is the financial center of this country, problems here tend to have a ripple effect on the rest of the US.

Bloomberg wasn't bad, he was just a nanny state idiot, but he kept the economy working and the cops supported.

I've been an outer boro person my entire life, and won't move out due to family connections. I've just got to ride the lighting I guess.

Fingers crossed for you, man.
Virtually every major urban center in America is run by Democrats.
They really don't have a clue what they're doing.
But Mamdani is clearly different. He's a Communist. And a radical Islamist. The fact that he can win in a city with the biggest Jewish population outside of Israel is really shocking. It's a portent of things to come.
And it ain't good.

 

[MarathonMike]

In less than 2 weeks, New York City Democrats will elect a Communist Mayor.​

Then they'll get the gov't they deserve. I suspect there will be an uptick in people leaving NYC in the near future.

Yes and I also expect a downtick in about every measure of quality of life in New York City after Imamdani becomes Mayor.

 

[martybegan]

Fingers crossed for you, man.
Virtually every major urban center in America is run by Democrats.
They really don't have a clue what they're doing.
But Mamdani is clearly different. He's a Communist. And a radical Islamist. The fact that he can win in a city with the biggest Jewish population outside of Israel is really shocking. It's a portent of things to come.
And it ain't good.

The Jewish community in NY isn't a monolith. You have the Conservatives and the Orthodox who won't vote for him, and then you have the reform/non-religious that are more Dem/progressive than Jewish.

 

[Lockback]

The Jewish community in NY isn't a monolith. You have the Conservatives and the Orthodox who won't vote for him, and then you have the reform/non-religious that are more Dem/progressive than Jewish.

I have Jewish relatives.
And they vote Democrat every single time.
I will never understand it as long as I live.

 

[frigidweirdo]

It's a done deal and it won't be close. Sliwa and Cuomo have no chance in a city with nearly 70 percent registered Democrat voters. They will do what was previously thought unthinkable. Elect a Communist leader to high office. It will be a sad day for America but hopefully the example of NYC's deterioration will head off any possibility of repeats elsewhere.

Oh, you have CDS....

 

[jackflash]

This is No Big Deal. New York is not a Duchy. It is a large part of a U.S. State and a significant city in U.S. and the World. But like California, it is already fucked up with an incompetent, massive, obstructionist government (it took TEN YEARS to do the PERMITTING for the new World Trade Center), and he literally cannot make it much worse than it already is.

He will seek to impose rent controls because the masses like the idea of rent controls, but he can't do it on his own. And these rent controls, like all of NY's previous rent controls, will benefit a few people but harm many times more than it benefits. He will do a few showcase socialist projects like city-owned grocery stores, but they will not make a dent in the high cost of everything in NY.

I look at it as a situation comedy, played out in real life and in real time. As of this writing, the Socialist has a clear majority of voter support in this three-way race. Sliwa could off himself tomorrow, but people who support him will not shift to Cuomo, they will sit it out.

Truly, New Yorkers deserve this.

I just luv it when the statist lefties get burnt by their own decisions!

 

[jackflash]

All different flavors of Marxism.

U R just sooooo correct!

A quote by Adolf Hitler

Basically National Socialism and Marxism are the same thing

www.goodreads.com

 

[MarathonMike]

Oh, you have CDS....

I recognize that Communism is the polar opposite of American Capitalism and has no place in our country.

 

[marvin martian]

Yes and I also expect a downtick in about every measure of quality of life in New York City after Imamdani becomes Mayor.

Good. NYC is about to enter the "FO" phase of "FAFO".

 

[jackflash]

NYC is the financial center of this country, problems here tend to have a ripple effect on the rest of the US.

Bloomberg wasn't bad, he was just a nanny state idiot, but he kept the economy working and the cops supported.

I've been an outer boro person my entire life, and won't move out due to family connections. I've just got to ride the lighting I guess.

Stay out of debt the best U can Marty for I sense rough water ahead of us a ways. Smart move with your family like blood is thicker than water for sure!

 

[martybegan]

Stay out of debt the best U can Marty for I sense rough water ahead of us a ways. Smart move with your family like blood is thicker than water for sure!

20% down on a COOP I'm buying and a mortgage will be my only debt.

 

[frigidweirdo]

I recognize that Communism is the polar opposite of American Capitalism and has no place in our country.

You don't even know what Communism is.

So how can you "recognize that Communism is the polar opposite of American Capitalism"?

 

[Oddball]

 

[Oddball]

 

[Lisa558]

I have Jewish relatives.
And they vote Democrat every single time.
I will never understand it as long as I live.

Their liberalism - now socialism - trumps their Judaism.

 

[Lockback]

Their liberalism - now socialism - trumps their Judaism.

Sadly correct. I wonder what it's going to take to wake them up.

 

[Lisa558]

Sadly correct. I wonder what it's going to take to wake them up.

I should add that I myself am Jewish - and woke up long ago. So too are about 1/3 of the Jews.

But the Jews who remain are impossible to reason with. I know someone who is adamantly pro-Israel - even went there after Oct 7 to volunteer - who admitted that Trump would be good for Israel and try to ramp down the antisemitism here at home, and that Harris would be a disaster, but she said she’ll vote for ANY Democrat over ANY Republican no matter what.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Their liberalism - now socialism - trumps their Judaism.

They still tend to forget, in a different time, different context, it wouldn’t have saved them..

Like l once said, if a Jew had supported Hitler back in the day, he or she would still have gone to the gas chamber.

Such was Hitler’s deranged fanaticism.

I might add to that. All those peaceniks living on the Gaza border, going out of their way to help Gazan people, who were old enough to know better.

Look what happened to them!

 

[Lisa558]

They still tend to forget, in a different time, different context, it wouldn’t have saved them..

Like l once said, if a Jew had supported Hitler back in the day, he or she would still have gone to the gas chamber.

Such was Hitler’s deranged fanaticism.

I might add to that. All those peaceniks living on the Gaza border, going out of their way to help Gazan people, who were old enough to know better.

Look what happened to them!

Exactly. The Kapos who sided with the Nazis and helped herd their fellow Jews into the gas chamber (which is figuratively what the NY Jews voting for Mandami are doing) were ALSO slaughtered once they were no longer useful.

And so true what you say about the Gazan peaceniks, too.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

Exactly. The Kapos who sided with the Nazis and helped herd their fellow Jews into the gas chamber (which is figuratively what the NY Jews voting for Mandami are doing) were ALSO slaughtered once they were no longer useful.

And so true what you say about the Gazan peaceniks, too.

I remember visiting Dachau some years ago. Now a wonderfully presented and detailed museum.

Roman Catholic priests were held in a separate section. Because their parents, or even one parent, were Jews.

That was how far the depraved ideology would go.