The Whitewashing of Zohran Mamdani Has Begun

[Paddlefoot]

FREE BUSES NYC | Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul pushed back on mayoral-elect Zohran Mamdani’s plan to make city buses free in the Big Apple.

 

[White 6]

He will. He made a LOT of utterly ridiculous and absolutely impossible campaign “promises.” He simply can’t accomplish them.

But he and that hideous City Council will try. And the good people of NYC will suffer. People and businesses will flee. Those businesses which can relocate, will. Those which can’t just pack up and leave, will simply go out of business.

It will be an insufferable city to live in. Worse than usual. And when landlords can’t afford to remain in business, I’d love to know how anybody but squatters will be able to live in those apartments.

I genuinely hope I’m way wrong. But I foresee a very serious likelihood that NYC is going to be forced out of “business.”

The impact on the rest of NY State and nearby communities and States will also be a problem. And the impact on the national economy will also be dire.

That will be funny to watch, on those campaign promises. It always is.

Do you think he will be another Abraham Beame?

I am glad I do not live there, no matter who is in office.

 

[BackAgain]

That will be funny to watch, on those campaign promises. It always is.

Do you think he will be another Abraham Beame?

I am glad I do not live there, no matter who is in office.

I don’t think we will read a headline declaring “Trump to City: Drop Dead.”

But … I do think that NY City is about to be “governed” in such an asinine manner that it may be confronted with a self-administered gut shot.

Orange County California once had to declare bankruptcy. NYC is likely to face a similar dilemma. And one of the likely outcomes is going to be discord in DC about “bailing out” NYC.

 

[FDR_Reagan]

Hmmmm. First guy to get over a million votes for mayor since 1969, winning with 50.4 % of all votes cast among a field of 3, beating his closed competitor by 136,000 votes, and somebody thinks he needs his image improved in that city?

Most original New Yorkers voted Cuomo.
See breakdown. https://archive.is/zvgqz (ABC 11.4.25)
Relative newcomers to New York City were some of the most likely voters in the state to vote for Mamdani, according to exit polls, with about 8 in 10 of those who have lived in New York City less than 10 years supporting Mamdani. He also earned over half of the support of New Yorker City voters who lived for over 10 years but were not born in New York. Voters who were born in New York City voted for Cuomo over Mamdani.

 

[White 6]

Most original New Yorkers voted Cuomo.
See breakdown. https://archive.is/zvgqz (ABC 11.4.25)
Relative newcomers to New York City were some of the most likely voters in the state to vote for Mamdani, according to exit polls, with about 8 in 10 of those who have lived in New York City less than 10 years supporting Mamdani. He also earned over half of the support of New Yorker City voters who lived for over 10 years but were not born in New York. Voters who were born in New York City voted for Cuomo over Mamdani.

Interesting. I am just glad I wasn't born in New York.
I hope all those new people you spoke of are happy with what they get, for their vote.

My question becomes, if there were 2 million or so votes cast in that election, in a city of 7,936,530, with 6.5 million people in New York City 18 or older, were the other 4,500,000 that did not vote, new comers or some of your original New Yorkers, that just no longer gave a sht? I like to see people get the government they deserve in elections, so I hope the 4,500,000 get what they deserve. also.

 

[FDR_Reagan]

Interesting. I am just glad I wasn't born in New York.
I hope all those new people you spoke of are happy with what they get, for their vote.

My question becomes, if there were 2 million or so votes cast in that election, in a city of 7,936,530, with 6.5 million people in New York City 18 or older, were the other 4,500,000 that did not vote, new comers or some of your original New Yorkers, that just no longer gave a sht?

I would just add, that the fact that Sliwa staying in the race , might have put off many to just give up...

 

[Deplorable Yankee]

Is this gonna be real democratic socialism?

 

[frigidweirdo]

In my personal opinion, this has begun already BEFIlORE the Novv4 elections.

Anyways .

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The Whitewashing of Zohran Mamdani Has Begun​

Nov 10, 2025 2:00 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald4 Comments




Now that Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City, the media have been cleaning up his history, trying to make him seem less threatening to the city’s Jews and more acceptable to the general public. More on what is being whitewashed, or deliberately overlooked altogether, for the benefit of Zohran Mamdani, can be found here: “Media Amnesia: Zohran Mamdani’s Extremism Forgotten as Pro-BDS Socialist Wins New York City Mayor,” by Rachel O’Donoghue, HonestReporting, November 5, 2025:




Mamdani’s “landslide” and “spectacular victory” was not, in fact, a landslide, and furthermore, not all that “spectacular.” He squeaked by, with only 50.4% of the vote, while running against one of the weakest candidates in recent years, Andrew Cuomo, who was fatally tainted by charges from eleven women of sexual harassment during his time in office as governor.


“Globalize the intifada” means that “just as Jews in Israel were killed during the First and Second Intifadas, so now Jews everywhere (“globalize”) must be killed.


Is calling for the murder of Jews worldwide a legitimate “protest slogan against occupation”? How does the murder of Jews in France, or Germany, or the United States express one’s opposition to “occupation”? And since every last Israeli pulled out of the Strip in 2005, how can the word “occupation” conceivably apply to Gaza?


And now that he’s Mayor, when the hurly-burly’s done, and the battle lost and won, can he be asked to explain on what evidence does he rely to call the Gaza war a “genocide”?


Mamdani did more than confuse his aunt with his cousin in this tale, but almost certainly made up the whole story of her supposed worry over “Islamophobia” out of whole cloth. Perhaps he could explain how he knows that a cousin had been “afraid” to go out in public wearing a hijab after 9/11. Does he know of any attacks on Muslims in New York after the 9/11 terrorist attacks? No, I thought not. So why should any Muslimah have been fearful of wearing a hijab in public? Tens of thousands of Muslim girls living in New York have appeared in public after 9/11 unconcernedly wearing their hijabs.


Mamdani has not “said or done anything antisemitic”? Is repeatedly and falsely accusing the Jewish state of committing genocide not antisemitic? Does his refusal to condemn the use of the phrase that calls for the mass murder of Jews worldwide — “globalize the Intifada” — not amount to antisemitism? Does his insistence that BDS — that is, the plan to devastate the Jewish state’s economy through boycotts, divestment, and sanctions — should be adopted everywhere not reveal Mamdani’s antisemitism? For he has not proposed applying BDS to any other country in the world — not to Putin’s Russia, despite its aggression against Ukraine, not to Iran, despite that country’s support for terrorism worldwide, not to China, despite its ruthless campaign to suppress the Uighurs. Mamdani has one measure for the Jewish state, and another for all other countries on our giddy globe.

The whitewashing of Zohran Mamdani in the media, whether by failing to note so many examples of his anti-Israel animus, or by misinterpreting them so as to soften their meaning, is already well underway. But when next January he becomes mayor, and then begins to implement his hugely expensive economic measures — the free buses, the free and universal childcare, the city-owned food stores — to be paid for by a rise in taxes for the well-off that will lead many of them to move out of the city, thereby shrinking New York City’s tax base, and with companies also moving out of New York, in response to Mamdani’s increase in corporate taxes, shrinking that tax base still further, people will become less willing to overlook or forgive his animus for Israel.

All the excitement about this young Lochinvar come out of the east, the best thing, we are being asked to believe, to happen to American politics in many years, or so his supporters devoutly insist, will eventually die down as Mamdani’s supreme incompetence undermines his supreme self-confidence.

Or maybe he's not going to put Jews in concentration camps. Maybe he's not really much of a Muslim at all.

What Mamdani's Muslim-Shiite faith means: Shia Muslim from Interfaith Background Elected NYC Mayor | Israel Hayom

Zohran Mamdani has been elected New York City mayor, marking a historic moment as the first Shia Muslim from an interfaith background to lead America's largest city. Despite enduring waves of Islamophobic harassment and criticism over his anti-Zionist stance, Mamdani's authentic approach to...

www.israelhayom.com

""I am a Shia Muslim," he stated, "but I was raised in an interfaith family. My mother's side of the family is Hindu, and I grew up celebrating Diwali, Holi and Raksha Bandhan. Though I identify as Muslim, these Hindu traditions and practices have shaped my worldview." "

 

[White 6]

I would just add, that the fact that Sliwa staying in the race , might have put off many to just give up...

I suspect for some reason, this was an important election for you. So, I can leave you with a final bit of information.
Cost of living in Nashville is 40% less than New York City.
There is no state income tax in Tennessee.
New York has one of the highest property tax rates in the U.S., with an effective rate around 1.69% to 2.47%, depending on the area. In contrast, Nashville, Tennessee, has a lower effective property tax rate of approximately 0.75% to 1.00%.
And not a single toll road, toll bridge or toll tunnel in the entire state of Tennessee.
Visitors and settlers welcome if they mind their manners.

 

[georgephillip]

Globalize the intifada” means that “just as Jews in Israel were killed during the First and Second Intifadas, so now Jews everywhere (“globalize”) must be killed.

Intifada means a rebellion or uprising. In Palestine it meant a resistance movement against an illegal military occupation.

Today it means a global civilian uprising against genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

Why would anyone support ethnic cleansing and genocide?

Over 1 million years of children’s lives lost in Gaza during genocide, study finds : Peoples Dispatch

 

[FDR_Reagan]

Intifada means ..

Killing yahood.
The genocide drive by Arab pAlaesTiNiAnS since April 1920:
"We will drink the blood of the Jews".

See also Hamas chapter no.7

 

[FDR_Reagan]

I suspect for some reason, this was an important election for you. So, I can leave you with a final bit of information.
Cost of living in Nashville is 40% less than New York City.
There is no state income tax in Tennessee.
New York has one of the highest property tax rates in the U.S., with an effective rate around 1.69% to 2.47%, depending on the area. In contrast, Nashville, Tennessee, has a lower effective property tax rate of approximately 0.75% to 1.00%.
And not a single toll road, toll bridge or toll tunnel in the entire state of Tennessee.
Visitors and settlers welcome if they mind their manners.

I don't live in NYC. But it's still "the financial capital of the world ".
I have friends in TN.

 

[FDR_Reagan]

Or maybe he's not going to put Jews in concentration camps. Maybe he's not really much of a Muslim at all.

What Mamdani's Muslim-Shiite faith means: Shia Muslim from Interfaith Background Elected NYC Mayor | Israel Hayom

Zohran Mamdani has been elected New York City mayor, marking a historic moment as the first Shia Muslim from an interfaith background to lead America's largest city. Despite enduring waves of Islamophobic harassment and criticism over his anti-Zionist stance, Mamdani's authentic approach to...

www.israelhayom.com

""I am a Shia Muslim," he stated, "but I was raised in an interfaith family. My mother's side of the family is Hindu, and I grew up celebrating Diwali, Holi and Raksha Bandhan. Though I identify as Muslim, these Hindu traditions and practices have shaped my worldview." "

He is a Muslim alright. With TAQIYYA to fool the infidel.

 

[g5000]

He will. He made a LOT of utterly ridiculous and absolutely impossible campaign “promises.” He simply can’t accomplish them.

I know a guy who promised to repeal and replace Obamacare on Day One nine years ago.

I know a guy who promised to end inflation on Day One a year ago.

I know a guy who promised to lower grocery prices on Day One a year ago.

I know a guy who promised to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours even before he was sworn in.

There is a very long list of promises he knew he was lying about, but he also knew you would not hold him to account for those lies.

So, again, you cultists have no moral legs to stand on.

What a shame, eh?

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[g5000]

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So long as Mamdani runs NYC better than Donald Trump ran his failed casinos, they will be okay.

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[White 6]

I don't live in NYC. But it's still "the financial capital of the world ".
I have friends in TN.

It is the financial capital of the world. But, I have not noticed the New York Mayor, having much effect on that, any more than a flash at the moment, then back to doing business. If you are in the financial sector, though not living in New York, how often has the Mayor of New York effected you business decisions? I was in a different industry but, never gave the New York Mayor a second thought, even though there were branches of the same company, located in New York. After the initial hoopla, how much do you expect to be effected by him now? A little? A lot? You said, you do not live there. Is that city's mayor going to have some psychological effect, that will change how you live your life, wherever you are? I doubt it will have much impact on me, in Tennessee, nor your Tennessee friends.

 

[BackAgain]

I know a guy who promised to repeal and replace Obamacare on Day One nine years ago.

I know a guy who promised to end inflation on Day One a year ago.

I know a guy who promised to lower grocery prices on Day One a year ago.

I know a guy who promised to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours even before he was sworn in.

There is a very long list of promises he knew he was lying about, but he also knew you would not hold him to account for those lies.

So, again, you cultists have no moral legs to stand on.

What a shame, eh?

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Apples and oranges.

Your asshole pal, of course, was promising shit which included a clear violation of the Constitution. Also, NYC doesn’t have its own mint.

Do politicians make campaign promises which they find they can’t honor? Very frequently. That has nothing to do with our morality or even yours.

But making promises which you know full well are bullshit does the motivate your lack of morality.

 

[georgephillip]

Killing yahood.
The genocide drive by Arab pAlaesTiNiAnS since April 1920:
"We will drink the blood of the Jews".

See also Hamas chapter no.7

How many Jews in Palestine have lost their farms, homes, and businesses to Arab terrorists since 1948? Hamas was created as a resistance organization to oppose a racist, terrorist occupation by Israel. End the occupation and its resistance will end; otherwise Israeli Jews will go the way of the Amalek.

Amalek - Wikipedia

"Gaza genocide​

"Further information: Gaza genocide

"During the Gaza war Benjamin Netanyahu said that the Israeli government was 'committed to completely eliminating this evil from the world', and he also stated: 'You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible. And we do remember.'"

 

[Meister]

A treasonous lie not shared by the vast majority of Americans who view it. This bullshit is now seriously costing Republicans votes and elections.




The definition of insanity is endlessly repeating the same experiment and expecting a different outcome. You are a sick delusional traitor and a wholesale liability to the cause of conservatism in America. In the end, the voters of NYC really didn't care Cuomo/Zohran. What they cared about was flipping the bird at you and the rest of the cause of Zionist Fascist Treason against America. Given the outcome, it takes an IQ under 5 not to notice that.

You are not sane.

And American Airlines Flight 77 just.................?

Nice conspiracy theory, bro. Your theory has been retreaded several times and continues to just wear out.
I would check your own sanity before questioning others.

 

[Deadstick]

In my personal opinion, this has begun already BEFIlORE the Novv4 elections.

Anyways .

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The Whitewashing of Zohran Mamdani Has Begun​

Nov 10, 2025 2:00 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald4 Comments




Now that Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York City, the media have been cleaning up his history, trying to make him seem less threatening to the city’s Jews and more acceptable to the general public. More on what is being whitewashed, or deliberately overlooked altogether, for the benefit of Zohran Mamdani, can be found here: “Media Amnesia: Zohran Mamdani’s Extremism Forgotten as Pro-BDS Socialist Wins New York City Mayor,” by Rachel O’Donoghue, HonestReporting, November 5, 2025:




Mamdani’s “landslide” and “spectacular victory” was not, in fact, a landslide, and furthermore, not all that “spectacular.” He squeaked by, with only 50.4% of the vote, while running against one of the weakest candidates in recent years, Andrew Cuomo, who was fatally tainted by charges from eleven women of sexual harassment during his time in office as governor.


“Globalize the intifada” means that “just as Jews in Israel were killed during the First and Second Intifadas, so now Jews everywhere (“globalize”) must be killed.


Is calling for the murder of Jews worldwide a legitimate “protest slogan against occupation”? How does the murder of Jews in France, or Germany, or the United States express one’s opposition to “occupation”? And since every last Israeli pulled out of the Strip in 2005, how can the word “occupation” conceivably apply to Gaza?


And now that he’s Mayor, when the hurly-burly’s done, and the battle lost and won, can he be asked to explain on what evidence does he rely to call the Gaza war a “genocide”?


Mamdani did more than confuse his aunt with his cousin in this tale, but almost certainly made up the whole story of her supposed worry over “Islamophobia” out of whole cloth. Perhaps he could explain how he knows that a cousin had been “afraid” to go out in public wearing a hijab after 9/11. Does he know of any attacks on Muslims in New York after the 9/11 terrorist attacks? No, I thought not. So why should any Muslimah have been fearful of wearing a hijab in public? Tens of thousands of Muslim girls living in New York have appeared in public after 9/11 unconcernedly wearing their hijabs.


Mamdani has not “said or done anything antisemitic”? Is repeatedly and falsely accusing the Jewish state of committing genocide not antisemitic? Does his refusal to condemn the use of the phrase that calls for the mass murder of Jews worldwide — “globalize the Intifada” — not amount to antisemitism? Does his insistence that BDS — that is, the plan to devastate the Jewish state’s economy through boycotts, divestment, and sanctions — should be adopted everywhere not reveal Mamdani’s antisemitism? For he has not proposed applying BDS to any other country in the world — not to Putin’s Russia, despite its aggression against Ukraine, not to Iran, despite that country’s support for terrorism worldwide, not to China, despite its ruthless campaign to suppress the Uighurs. Mamdani has one measure for the Jewish state, and another for all other countries on our giddy globe.

The whitewashing of Zohran Mamdani in the media, whether by failing to note so many examples of his anti-Israel animus, or by misinterpreting them so as to soften their meaning, is already well underway. But when next January he becomes mayor, and then begins to implement his hugely expensive economic measures — the free buses, the free and universal childcare, the city-owned food stores — to be paid for by a rise in taxes for the well-off that will lead many of them to move out of the city, thereby shrinking New York City’s tax base, and with companies also moving out of New York, in response to Mamdani’s increase in corporate taxes, shrinking that tax base still further, people will become less willing to overlook or forgive his animus for Israel.

All the excitement about this young Lochinvar come out of the east, the best thing, we are being asked to believe, to happen to American politics in many years, or so his supporters devoutly insist, will eventually die down as Mamdani’s supreme incompetence undermines his supreme self-confidence.

You mean the smearing don't you?