In his swearing-in ceremony, the new Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, said, "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism."
The Quran seems the antithesis of our constitution. How can a US politician be allowed to swear an oath on a book that has no connection to the ideals of where he is to govern? Immigrants, both legal & illegal, make up a large percentage of NYC population. Modern day immigrants are different than in the past - in general they seem to be here for the freebies & not to for the freedom to make a good life for themselves & their families. So of course the sweet lies of communism appeals to
Muslims migrate as a religious duty - to spread Islam worldwide. The freebies are a bonus, and help them with their task.
In a way the "moderates" are more dangerous than the jihadis. The moderates lull ignorant non-Muslims into complacency. Unable to recognise the danger.
See:
Muslims see the left as weak, this is why Muslims vote left
They fear the conservatives, as conservatives have principles
Islamic Socialism is where the Nation of Islam intersects with the crime problem in our US cities.
By blaming all of inner city problems on whitey, they can tap into the collective white guilt liberals feel when they wake up every day...and leverage that guilt into a career either as Attorney General of Minnesota or a US Congressperson from Minnesota or as a Mayor of NYC.
Even the Jewish Mayor of Minneapolis is hoping to convert to Islamic Socialism...he's well on his way...
Modern immigrants are here for the freebies, 'cuz back in the day (1880s-1920s) there were no "freebies" to be gotten, with the exception of public schools.... There's your problem...
Americans haven't quite come to terms with how loyalty is owed first to the ummah, the community of Muslim believers, not to the nation-state and its population. This is not a secret or extremist position; it is a mainstream Islamic doctrine openly taught to the diaspora. Demographic pressure, parallel legal systems, self-censorship/intimidation, and the gradual replacement of one moral order by another are all why the tolerance of liberalism should come to terms with what the illiberalism of Islamic piety entails. If is unwilling to do so, then our hospitable desire to live and let live is willingly writing its own death sentence.
Most white Leftists I have known have a very strong streak of self-loathing, a quasi-masochistic desire to punish themselves and the civilization of which they are a part. Their impulses seem more rooted in psychology than in politics.
Yeah man. Bust out the pedophilic mysogynistic eye4neye bible and let’s get real. See Epstein chapter one verse one. “Fuck all that come onto me.” Yeah, I’m really worried about Islam too.
Lets be real here.. people break oaths on the bible too. People just lie when they lie. A holy book oath unfortunately is not some magic that makes people tell the truth. I get your point, but him searing on a Qaran is the lowest level of problems he is about to bring upon New York
According to Koran 9:111 we would be doing them a favour. According to the Koan, the only guarantee of paradise for a Muslim is to kill or be killed while fighting for the cause of Allah.
You have fundamentalist Muslims who want Sharia Law.
You have clans from Somalia who inter-marry and still carry out female genital mutilation now that Minnesota Democrats legalized it with their Gender Affirming Care Law.
And you have some who are rather secular in their beliefs who've assimilated to US customs by becoming doctors and lawyers and keeping their faith in the background. These are the Muslims wearing business suits and not keeping their women 10' behind them...or marrying their brother to commit immigration fraud.
Problem is thinking we can lump all Muslims into one category. Same with Jews and every other religion.
Here in MN, Ilhan Omar's largest donors are Jews.
Explain that to someone who just landed on this planet.
I'm one of those fabled New York Jews, so I have standing to contribute my two cents. But also, I don't fit the stereotype.
The progressive Jews in my family are some of the most uninformed, self-righteous people I know. They suffer from chronic TDS which flares up often.
They all voted for Mamdani because he's going to give us free stuff and make things fair for everyone and we'll all live happily ever after in Munchkin land with our Wizard-market-manipulated, government-sponsored grocery stores. And besides, what's more progressive than socialism?
They choose their causes on the basis of identity politics: the victims du jour are on the bottom rung of the oppression ladder. That includes Muslims, as well as transgender women (i.e. men). They care about abortion rights but nothing at all about the 5'2" female shoplifter of color who's forced to share a prison cell with a 6'5" murderer calling himself Mindy.
I'm sorry, that's cognitive overload. How do you choose your victim when you can't keep track of all the contenders for the Victim Olympics gold medal?
To put it plainly, they're desperate to distinguish themselves from anyone in a MAGA hat, and they get their news from a few select outlets, so they're uninformed. Hence, they never heard of the Muslim grooming gangs in London. And they don't know that in many parts of Sweden, women can no longer walk the streets unaccompanied by a man, or that rape statistics have gone through the roof since the country opened its borders to thousands of Syrian men.
Maybe progressive Jews are particularly susceptible to feeling sorry for groups who are ostensibly victimized. As a Jew, I'm instinctively drawn in that direction, so I understand it...at least until I do my homework and realize that the victim carries a very big stick.
Conveniently, if all you read is the NYTimes you're going to miss some stuff. But you sure do feel good about yourself.
“Conveniently, if all you read is the NYTimes you're going to miss some stuff. But you sure do feel good about yourself.”
The New York Times sets the narrative for the msm nation-wide and is certainly the narrative in Chicago where I live. I can’t even remember the last time they mentioned anything about black racism. The official narrative set by the NYT is that it simply doesn’t exist. Except for 4 years in the Marines I’ve lived all my life on the northwest side of Chicago and have often read of reports of white women attacked by black men downtown and on the north side. They’ve been punched out, had urine thrown in their face, stabbed, slashed and beaten over the head with metal pipes. Never yet have I seen any of these men charged with a hate crime. Most have a long history of such attacks but are soon back on the streets. If I were a white woman in Chicago I’d never go out without a gun.
Last year a young (26) white woman on a train downtown had gasoline poured on her and was set on fire by a black man. She has 3rd degree burns which took off the skin on her head, face, upper body and could easily have blinded her. She will be permanently disfigured and in constant pain. She will never again have a normal life so it’d be best for her if she simply dies and avoids the nightmare ahead if she lives. This was obviously a hate crime yet as always that’s ignored by the media. The democrats and their media are evil.
“Blue Line fire attacker yelled “Burn alive b****!’ as officers took him into custody.”
It commands Muslims not to befriend Christians and Jews. Those who do will go to hell, according to the Koran.
Any Muslim who is friendly to a non-Muslim is either:
- ignorant of the Koran or
- knows the Koran and deliberately ignores it (in which case they are not really a Muslim) or
- knows the Koran, believes it, and is only pretending to be a friend to non-Muslims.
In the third case usually for some advantage to themselves. For example, extracting money from gullible non-Muslims. And / or getting themselves into high office in order to help other Muslims.
That’s sick. The Muslims are people, some good, some bad. I’ve known Muslims in Chicago who are no different than other people. I think the ones in Europe are lower class whereas the ones who came here are middle class. That makes a big difference. I used to see Muslim women here in hijabs which looked very strange but it’s been years since I’ve seen that. I think they stopped dressing like that.
If this is true then they need to start openly taking a stand against their Muslim brothers who are on the wrong side of things. Standing by quietly and stating “we are not all the same” is condoning the behavior of those they don’t want to be seen in alignment with. If they can’t speak out strongly, they will understandably get swept up in being treated all the same. It is not up to us to sift them, it is up to them to sift themselves. I’m done with being expected to figure it out on our own, and then being accused of bigotry or racism when we come out against a collective group.
Sasha, you’ve expressed a wariness about this guy that many of us feel. It’s not because he’s brown or Muslim, either. And it’s not hatred at all, Dr. Who. It’s warranted skepticism of someone selling “free lunch” tickets. I’m black and come from a family full of Muslims, (and I am a minority Christian within the group), and Mamdani gives me the creeps. It’s not always about race or religion. It’s about underlying values. More people in the world’s history have been helped by capitalism than by socialism or communism - - and that’s putting it mildly. Communism kills millions at a time, and Socialism is just the appetizer for it. The people voted because they responded to an appeal to their envy and lethargy. “The rich are getting richer, and they’re taking what belongs to you.” “You don’t have to work for what you get; the system is rigged anyway, so you may as well get what you can from the government.” “The government owes you everything that you need.” It’s that kind of thinking that elected Mamdani. It’s self-destructive, and I am personally hoping that the new mayor’s “collective vision” is side-stepped. It’s a nightmare of a vision.
And here, I quote myself: "This is a nation divided by those who can smell the bullshit, and those who smear it all over themselves."
Mamdani is OBVIOUSLY a snake oil salesman. Obviously a deep state puppet they dug up for his good looks and dark complexion. Anyone cognizant of judging characters can see that. It's not about race, or even religion, although the Muslim issue is concerning. It's about a guy who came out of nowhere, has no practical experience, a fake grin, and VERY BAD IDEAS.
All totalitarian leaders had this kind of charisma. A charisma that AOC and Jasmine Crocket have. They get far too much media coverage and a big mistake is being made in discounting their power. AOC was selected as a Democrat candidate via a live performance when her brother nominated her for the review held by the party. Has anyone wondered why all attention has been diverted from NYC corruption to Minneapolis, Columbus, and Seattle?
We might be at the stage where more and more people, deep down, think the shithouse is going to burn down. Might as well grab some goodies while you can. Everyone else does.
COVID was a 'ripping the veil' moment for the world. There's a them and a us, and it became impossible to unsee.
What a terrific comment that I wish every American under thirty was required to read and process. So easy to yell tax the rich; of course what happens after it is done. I suppose ultimately the goal is to equalize all of the nation's ( or NYC's ) wealth. But then what comes next. Maybe then each will work hard in accordance with their abilities. Wanna bet pigs would fly first?
In saying that the disapproval of Mamdani “was not because of religion,” I meant that one could disagree with his politics without “hating” him solely because he is brown and a Muslim. In other words, his philosophy is objectionable no matter what he looks like or what religion he’s adopted. If he hopes to implement or enforce Muslim principles in NYC, he must be challenged directly. I love my family, but I follow Jesus.
The people voting for him were immigrants came out in an article. Shame on Americans that didn’t come out and vote. New York is going to deserve what it gets
Look, maybe he'll apply hard core Marxist policy and force single mothers to prepare their children for school every day. He might force public school students to all wear the same uniform to school and any disrespect to teachers will be met with re-education camps for both the child and their mother.
He can apply massive penalties and fines for those who break laws, even as simple as speeding or running red lights. Urinate in public...face 1 year in Rikers Island.
A real Marxist knows that if EVERYONE obeys the laws, very few people will get hurt.
Here's your chance NYC...embrace Marxism all the way to get people better attitudes....and then......let the rest of us know how it works out for you.
When he took the music aid money from the fire victims, he didn't even feel a smidgen of guilt. He spends and spends our money on nothing. Can anyone point at anything that he finished or made better. Anything?
A New Yorker here. Pretty upsetting to see all my friends celebrating Mamdani’s swearing in on Facebook. Yikes. Mamdani also appointed a fire chief, first gay woman, who was not previously a firefighter, but an EMT. I am not an expert in this area but isn’t that what happened in LA?
So now America’s 3 largest cities, LA, NYC and Chicago are run by Woke Democrat leftists who hire on the basis of race and gender which means no straight white men allowed. Just imagine what men like Putin and Xi think of this. Mamdani learned nothing at all from LA’s experience with their DEI Fire Chief who presided over LA’s disastrous fires. These people seem incapable of learning although they always consider themselves highly intelligent. How can we ever again have a functional society if the democrats, half the country, keep voting for this?
“Elon Musk vs Mamdani: 31-year-old Lilian Bonsignore To Lead New York Fire Department.” (2 min)
Nope....they're not in power. They want to be, but they're petulant noisemakers who have been tolerated by a destructive Biden administration for much too long.
They'll always be around but in the land of the free might makes right.
I think we need a new rule that says if you vote for someone, you can't move until the next election. I'm thinking about all of the wealthy white females and effeminate wealthy men who voted for him. He's coming for their money and I think the best thing for people like that is for them to experience consequences. I am disgusted with New York in that we watched a man swear on a Quran 25 years after people of that same thought process and religion killed so many people. However, it is important to note that this is what real diversity is our strength does to our society. We have to end Hart-Celler. I'd put good money down betting that most of his voters were not born in the United States. People who are so ignorant as to run from a collective government to come somewhere better in order to ...turn this place into the same place you just left? Moronic. I
Well please make sure you don't ever bother to drive on the public roads, don't go to libraries or parks unless they're private, do not allow your children to attend public schools, never call the fire department or police, do not collect Social Security or Medicare benefits...all glaring examples of the rottenness and evil of collectivism. And there's no way you could possibly support the US military as it's the largest socialist organization in the entire world.
The utter ignorance. stupidity and xenophobia on display in these comments is truly stunning to behold.
Failure is guaranteed. If his proposals get stopped, he’s a failure. If he gets them implemented, they will fail because they’re all stupid and contrary to economics and human nature, so he’ll be a different kind of failure.
I talked to a Holocaust survivor, years ago. She was 13 when she was sent to a forced-labor camp. Her father had the means to fight back or immigrate, but he said similar things about Hitler. He didn’t take the man or the movement seriously.
Her father, mother, and three siblings died in the camps.
Impossible. States aren’t allowed to declare bankruptcy and these huge cities will have to be bailed out by… you guessed it, the tax dollars that we all pay. They’re ’too big to fail’ just like the banks. Just like how these locations that went overboard on Covid got billions of dollars more than the states that didn’t. Honestly, I don’t know how this ends, I see zero incentive for states or large cities to be governed well.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I understand that Mamdani is already facing pushback from the governor who doesn't want to raise taxes in New York State to finance his programs in the city. Will be interesting to watch! Don't need to destroy Mamdani, just failing will do nicely!
Please give it a break fidhu .socialism doesn't work. it didn't work in Russia ,Italy , Geirmany and it's not working in Venezuela and it will not work in New York . As for Islam tell me how many Baptist put explosives in their underwear get on a bus and blow it up ? How many many Lutherans go out on a given Sunday and behead people ? Get my drift ?
You brought out all the nasty libtard accusations trying to shut down debate racism etc.
And naxy Germany was a socialist regime that started with many of the same promises as mandani
Sasha, thank you for a great piece. I love it when you whip out theories of history and other sources. You have an incredible record of accuracy when applying these. That 4th Turning stuff is like the trailer for upcoming news stories. Scary accurate.
IMHO, Mamdani thinks America is an implacable threat to people of color all over the world and racist beyond redemption, and he thinks the best way to break the back of that threat is to permanently weaken America, fooling useful idiots in major coastal metros like NYC into betraying themselves. I doubt he actually believes half of what he says.
As long as Mamdani follows the typical socialist/communist leader playbook and gets HIS assets out FIRST, his concerns for the fate of the governed will be negligible.
Witch hunters were a feature of early modern Europe well before Salem. They were basically civil servants working for either secular or religious authorities. They were funded by confiscated wealth of the accused, much like civil forfeiture today. They used torture to establish networks much like the KGB.
NY has around 5.6 million registered voters. 38% turned out to vote and Mamdani got half of that - 50.8%. That means 19% of New Yorkers chose Mamdani. That can't be democracy when less than 1 in 5 call the change. Ignoring illegals voting, cheating systems, money trails, 1 in 5 is ridiculous to change the character of what used to be America's powerhouse city - one of the World's powerhouse cities. Australia has compulsory voting - it's flawed but you at least know it reflects the people - all the people.
I live in Chicago which is being destroyed by city-wide black wilding so crime was the number one issue during our mayoral election. The runoff election was between a white, tough on crime, moderate named Paul Vallas and a black, Woke, blame whitey, leftist named Brandon Johnson in May 2023. Only a third of registered voters bothered to vote and Johnson won 51% to 49%.
So why did the 51% vote for Brandon? Partly because of anti-white Woke ideology which teaches that AmeriKKKa is permeated with white racism, “systemic racism” which is always everywhere oppressing blacks and keeping them down. The way then to stop the social breakdown, crime and dysfunction in black areas in cities like Chicago is to go to the source, “systemic racism” and stop it. Once the source is shut down the problem will be resolved.
This is taught in many of our public schools, universities and even Biden used to like to talk about and promote this idea so it’s really not at all surprising that so many believe it. In other words, we exist in entirely different realities which is why we are no longer a functional society.
I watched my old Chicago friends on FB brag about voting for Johnson with great interest and panic over the stupidity. How could they do that after the disaster that is Lori Lightfoot? After observing them for several years now (these are former punk rockers I knew in the early 80s) the best excuse I can think of is that they are mired in the past, and can't for the life of them see that these POC's have bad ideas, are racist, and poor leaders. They refuse to see it. They pat themselves on the back even.
You hear it every time Michelle Obama opens her mouth.
Born into Chicago Union privilege....Harvard Law...$250 million net worth
Yassir Arafat's daughter is a billionaire.
Bernie Sanders....has to decide how to split his time between 3 houses...
Ilhan Omar....the head of the clan....just like the Somali fraudsters who chose a white woman to be their front person in their scam knowing they could blame it all on white supremacy...Omar herself marrying a white guy....who's the front man as her net worth soars in just a couple years....
And then you have Bill Clinton, the white front man for the Clinton criminal organization led by Hillary herself.
Everyone needs a front man to deflect.
This is Mamdani's weak spot. He's got nobody to take the heat when all hell breaks loose.
Probably because he's more principled to Karl Marx than the others...who merely use him a front while they rob America blind.
You may well have a real Marxist on your hands NYC. Someone truly committed to the ideals and ethos of a collective society.
I follow Chicago flips Red on X. These women are doing the hard work, showing up to all public hearings and calling out Brandon Johnson. They don’t hold back!
Real Clear Politics. The American Prospect. July 16, 2025
“Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was elected on a left-wing agenda. But he is struggling to maintain support while governing, due to his own errors and relentless opposition.”
The reason Johnson was because Chicago through it's patronage with city and county and state and school unions....owns the joint lock stock and barrel.
It's the ultimate evil in our society where elected people get to promise free stuff to people who turn around and give some of that free stuff to the people who want to get reelected to continue to give away free stuff.
I wonder how many of NYC's "registered voters" are even real. NY Congressional districts have notoriously low turnout - some less than half of what turns out in other states. Perhaps they just don't delete dead and moved people from the voter rolls - ever.
The primary concern now is Islam. Dressed up as socialism.
The Koran permits Muslims to break their oaths - swearing an oath on the Koran is meaningless
It should be banned from use in public office, courts of law, or any other important matter.
https://hellish2050.substack.com/p/the-koran-permits-muslims-to-break
The Quran seems the antithesis of our constitution. How can a US politician be allowed to swear an oath on a book that has no connection to the ideals of where he is to govern? Immigrants, both legal & illegal, make up a large percentage of NYC population. Modern day immigrants are different than in the past - in general they seem to be here for the freebies & not to for the freedom to make a good life for themselves & their families. So of course the sweet lies of communism appeals to
Muslims migrate as a religious duty - to spread Islam worldwide. The freebies are a bonus, and help them with their task.
In a way the "moderates" are more dangerous than the jihadis. The moderates lull ignorant non-Muslims into complacency. Unable to recognise the danger.
See:
Muslims see the left as weak, this is why Muslims vote left
They fear the conservatives, as conservatives have principles
https://hellish2050.substack.com/p/muslims-see-the-left-as-weak-this
Islamic Socialism is where the Nation of Islam intersects with the crime problem in our US cities.
By blaming all of inner city problems on whitey, they can tap into the collective white guilt liberals feel when they wake up every day...and leverage that guilt into a career either as Attorney General of Minnesota or a US Congressperson from Minnesota or as a Mayor of NYC.
Even the Jewish Mayor of Minneapolis is hoping to convert to Islamic Socialism...he's well on his way...
Reading Israel, Islam & the West by Danny Burmawi.
Modern immigrants are here for the freebies, 'cuz back in the day (1880s-1920s) there were no "freebies" to be gotten, with the exception of public schools.... There's your problem...
Americans haven't quite come to terms with how loyalty is owed first to the ummah, the community of Muslim believers, not to the nation-state and its population. This is not a secret or extremist position; it is a mainstream Islamic doctrine openly taught to the diaspora. Demographic pressure, parallel legal systems, self-censorship/intimidation, and the gradual replacement of one moral order by another are all why the tolerance of liberalism should come to terms with what the illiberalism of Islamic piety entails. If is unwilling to do so, then our hospitable desire to live and let live is willingly writing its own death sentence.
Most white Leftists I have known have a very strong streak of self-loathing, a quasi-masochistic desire to punish themselves and the civilization of which they are a part. Their impulses seem more rooted in psychology than in politics.
Just that topic has been discussed and defined.
See: https://babylonbee.com/news/the-left-starting-to-wonder-if-their-policy-of-the-complete-and-utter-destruction-of-america-isnt-popular
As long as taqiyya is in play there is no trust in a muslim.
It's where Global Marxism and the Nation of Islam converge.
Feel sorry for the NYC Jews.
This isn't going to end well for them.
Yes, we may indeed feel sorry for NYC Jews -- more than a few of whom voted for Mamdani.
Yeah man. Bust out the pedophilic mysogynistic eye4neye bible and let’s get real. See Epstein chapter one verse one. “Fuck all that come onto me.” Yeah, I’m really worried about Islam too.
Lets be real here.. people break oaths on the bible too. People just lie when they lie. A holy book oath unfortunately is not some magic that makes people tell the truth. I get your point, but him searing on a Qaran is the lowest level of problems he is about to bring upon New York
The point is that the Bible includes the 10 commandments, one of which prohibits telling lies. Thus Christians and Jews are commanded to be honest.
Yes some individual Christians and Jews may be dishonest, but they are dishonest despite their religion not because of it.
Muslims are dishonest BECAUSE of their religion.
In Christianity and Judaism it is immoral to be dishonest.
In Islam it is NOT regarded as immoral for Muslims to be dishonest.
I cannot make the point any clearer.
Same as Jews.
Islam has always been a collectivist ideology, and it was around long before Marx and Lenin despoiled the Earth.
According to Koran 9:111 we would be doing them a favour. According to the Koan, the only guarantee of paradise for a Muslim is to kill or be killed while fighting for the cause of Allah.
Before they kill all the Jews?
Look....we can't treat all Muslims the same.
You have fundamentalist Muslims who want Sharia Law.
You have clans from Somalia who inter-marry and still carry out female genital mutilation now that Minnesota Democrats legalized it with their Gender Affirming Care Law.
And you have some who are rather secular in their beliefs who've assimilated to US customs by becoming doctors and lawyers and keeping their faith in the background. These are the Muslims wearing business suits and not keeping their women 10' behind them...or marrying their brother to commit immigration fraud.
Problem is thinking we can lump all Muslims into one category. Same with Jews and every other religion.
Here in MN, Ilhan Omar's largest donors are Jews.
Explain that to someone who just landed on this planet.
I'm one of those fabled New York Jews, so I have standing to contribute my two cents. But also, I don't fit the stereotype.
The progressive Jews in my family are some of the most uninformed, self-righteous people I know. They suffer from chronic TDS which flares up often.
They all voted for Mamdani because he's going to give us free stuff and make things fair for everyone and we'll all live happily ever after in Munchkin land with our Wizard-market-manipulated, government-sponsored grocery stores. And besides, what's more progressive than socialism?
They choose their causes on the basis of identity politics: the victims du jour are on the bottom rung of the oppression ladder. That includes Muslims, as well as transgender women (i.e. men). They care about abortion rights but nothing at all about the 5'2" female shoplifter of color who's forced to share a prison cell with a 6'5" murderer calling himself Mindy.
I'm sorry, that's cognitive overload. How do you choose your victim when you can't keep track of all the contenders for the Victim Olympics gold medal?
To put it plainly, they're desperate to distinguish themselves from anyone in a MAGA hat, and they get their news from a few select outlets, so they're uninformed. Hence, they never heard of the Muslim grooming gangs in London. And they don't know that in many parts of Sweden, women can no longer walk the streets unaccompanied by a man, or that rape statistics have gone through the roof since the country opened its borders to thousands of Syrian men.
Maybe progressive Jews are particularly susceptible to feeling sorry for groups who are ostensibly victimized. As a Jew, I'm instinctively drawn in that direction, so I understand it...at least until I do my homework and realize that the victim carries a very big stick.
Conveniently, if all you read is the NYTimes you're going to miss some stuff. But you sure do feel good about yourself.
“Conveniently, if all you read is the NYTimes you're going to miss some stuff. But you sure do feel good about yourself.”
The New York Times sets the narrative for the msm nation-wide and is certainly the narrative in Chicago where I live. I can’t even remember the last time they mentioned anything about black racism. The official narrative set by the NYT is that it simply doesn’t exist. Except for 4 years in the Marines I’ve lived all my life on the northwest side of Chicago and have often read of reports of white women attacked by black men downtown and on the north side. They’ve been punched out, had urine thrown in their face, stabbed, slashed and beaten over the head with metal pipes. Never yet have I seen any of these men charged with a hate crime. Most have a long history of such attacks but are soon back on the streets. If I were a white woman in Chicago I’d never go out without a gun.
Last year a young (26) white woman on a train downtown had gasoline poured on her and was set on fire by a black man. She has 3rd degree burns which took off the skin on her head, face, upper body and could easily have blinded her. She will be permanently disfigured and in constant pain. She will never again have a normal life so it’d be best for her if she simply dies and avoids the nightmare ahead if she lives. This was obviously a hate crime yet as always that’s ignored by the media. The democrats and their media are evil.
“Blue Line fire attacker yelled “Burn alive b****!’ as officers took him into custody.”
Real Clear Politics. CWBChicago. Nov 21, 2025
https://cwbchicago.com/2025/11/blue-line-fire-attacker-yelled-burn-alive-b-as-officers-took-him-into-custody.html
“Editorial: A woman was set on fire on the Blue Line. Chicago can’t shrug this off.”
Real Clear Politics. Chicago Tribune. The Editorial Board. Nov 21, 2025
https://web.archive.org/web/20251121140514/https://www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/21/lawrence-reed-cta-crime-arson-blue-line/
This is grotesque, but not surprising. The anointed must not be besmirched.
Yes we can and we should. Radical Islam is the snake in the grass, moderate Islam is the grass.
Have you read the Koran?
It commands Muslims not to befriend Christians and Jews. Those who do will go to hell, according to the Koran.
Any Muslim who is friendly to a non-Muslim is either:
- ignorant of the Koran or
- knows the Koran and deliberately ignores it (in which case they are not really a Muslim) or
- knows the Koran, believes it, and is only pretending to be a friend to non-Muslims.
In the third case usually for some advantage to themselves. For example, extracting money from gullible non-Muslims. And / or getting themselves into high office in order to help other Muslims.
“We murder all of them.”
That’s sick. The Muslims are people, some good, some bad. I’ve known Muslims in Chicago who are no different than other people. I think the ones in Europe are lower class whereas the ones who came here are middle class. That makes a big difference. I used to see Muslim women here in hijabs which looked very strange but it’s been years since I’ve seen that. I think they stopped dressing like that.
If this is true then they need to start openly taking a stand against their Muslim brothers who are on the wrong side of things. Standing by quietly and stating “we are not all the same” is condoning the behavior of those they don’t want to be seen in alignment with. If they can’t speak out strongly, they will understandably get swept up in being treated all the same. It is not up to us to sift them, it is up to them to sift themselves. I’m done with being expected to figure it out on our own, and then being accused of bigotry or racism when we come out against a collective group.
The "moderate" Muslims have zero theological basis for beng moderate.
They are either deceiving themselves regarding the reality of Islam, or they know it and are just pretending to be moderate.
They would ask why so many Americans accept the genocide/ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
This is Treason! (2 min)
Kim Iversen. Oct 15, 2025
https://youtube.com/shorts/1ZoAt7ZYads?si=urCz6sv6iufo99nv
“Prof John Mearsheimer: Trump/Biden Responsible for Genocide.” (11 min)
Glenn Greenwald. Oct 14, 2025
https://youtu.be/Rf2j9uMCjms?si=etVPdlkxp4fYAnQB
It's actually simpler than that in my view, Islam is a movement of devil worshippers with the devil being Allah with Muhammad being the devil's dupe.
Simpler, indeed.
Sasha, you’ve expressed a wariness about this guy that many of us feel. It’s not because he’s brown or Muslim, either. And it’s not hatred at all, Dr. Who. It’s warranted skepticism of someone selling “free lunch” tickets. I’m black and come from a family full of Muslims, (and I am a minority Christian within the group), and Mamdani gives me the creeps. It’s not always about race or religion. It’s about underlying values. More people in the world’s history have been helped by capitalism than by socialism or communism - - and that’s putting it mildly. Communism kills millions at a time, and Socialism is just the appetizer for it. The people voted because they responded to an appeal to their envy and lethargy. “The rich are getting richer, and they’re taking what belongs to you.” “You don’t have to work for what you get; the system is rigged anyway, so you may as well get what you can from the government.” “The government owes you everything that you need.” It’s that kind of thinking that elected Mamdani. It’s self-destructive, and I am personally hoping that the new mayor’s “collective vision” is side-stepped. It’s a nightmare of a vision.
And here, I quote myself: "This is a nation divided by those who can smell the bullshit, and those who smear it all over themselves."
Mamdani is OBVIOUSLY a snake oil salesman. Obviously a deep state puppet they dug up for his good looks and dark complexion. Anyone cognizant of judging characters can see that. It's not about race, or even religion, although the Muslim issue is concerning. It's about a guy who came out of nowhere, has no practical experience, a fake grin, and VERY BAD IDEAS.
All totalitarian leaders had this kind of charisma. A charisma that AOC and Jasmine Crocket have. They get far too much media coverage and a big mistake is being made in discounting their power. AOC was selected as a Democrat candidate via a live performance when her brother nominated her for the review held by the party. Has anyone wondered why all attention has been diverted from NYC corruption to Minneapolis, Columbus, and Seattle?
Don't forget trump - the charismatics totalitarian leader!
I admire your persistence, NW. Happy New Year!
LOL!
Isn't that the truth
We might be at the stage where more and more people, deep down, think the shithouse is going to burn down. Might as well grab some goodies while you can. Everyone else does.
COVID was a 'ripping the veil' moment for the world. There's a them and a us, and it became impossible to unsee.
But the government gets to decide who it will give welfare to. It's definitely not our veterans
Teach, sister.
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What a terrific comment that I wish every American under thirty was required to read and process. So easy to yell tax the rich; of course what happens after it is done. I suppose ultimately the goal is to equalize all of the nation's ( or NYC's ) wealth. But then what comes next. Maybe then each will work hard in accordance with their abilities. Wanna bet pigs would fly first?
In saying that the disapproval of Mamdani “was not because of religion,” I meant that one could disagree with his politics without “hating” him solely because he is brown and a Muslim. In other words, his philosophy is objectionable no matter what he looks like or what religion he’s adopted. If he hopes to implement or enforce Muslim principles in NYC, he must be challenged directly. I love my family, but I follow Jesus.
He terrifies me almost as much as the fact so many people voted for him
The people voting for him were immigrants came out in an article. Shame on Americans that didn’t come out and vote. New York is going to deserve what it gets
Indeed - Zohran the Moron may ultimately destroy NYC.
Then we'll know.
Look, maybe he'll apply hard core Marxist policy and force single mothers to prepare their children for school every day. He might force public school students to all wear the same uniform to school and any disrespect to teachers will be met with re-education camps for both the child and their mother.
He can apply massive penalties and fines for those who break laws, even as simple as speeding or running red lights. Urinate in public...face 1 year in Rikers Island.
A real Marxist knows that if EVERYONE obeys the laws, very few people will get hurt.
Here's your chance NYC...embrace Marxism all the way to get people better attitudes....and then......let the rest of us know how it works out for you.
The bigger concern....
I think Gavin Newsom should terrify us more!
After his awful performance in California, I just overheard a bunch of obvious liberals in a restaurant talking about him favorably.
When he took the music aid money from the fire victims, he didn't even feel a smidgen of guilt. He spends and spends our money on nothing. Can anyone point at anything that he finished or made better. Anything?
Umm ... his own career? The growth of his annuities?
Touché!
100%
I could not agree more
Absolutely
This is the city that lionizes a con man like Mamdani and detests their savior Giuliani.
A New Yorker here. Pretty upsetting to see all my friends celebrating Mamdani’s swearing in on Facebook. Yikes. Mamdani also appointed a fire chief, first gay woman, who was not previously a firefighter, but an EMT. I am not an expert in this area but isn’t that what happened in LA?
So now America’s 3 largest cities, LA, NYC and Chicago are run by Woke Democrat leftists who hire on the basis of race and gender which means no straight white men allowed. Just imagine what men like Putin and Xi think of this. Mamdani learned nothing at all from LA’s experience with their DEI Fire Chief who presided over LA’s disastrous fires. These people seem incapable of learning although they always consider themselves highly intelligent. How can we ever again have a functional society if the democrats, half the country, keep voting for this?
“Elon Musk vs Mamdani: 31-year-old Lilian Bonsignore To Lead New York Fire Department.” (2 min)
WION. Dec 27, 2025
https://youtu.be/56M0MhzCjS4?si=jWjAcYO1RPTJl4LW
“Kristen Crowley To Make History As LA’s First Female, Openly Gay, Fire Chief.” (1 min)
Today. Mar 25, 2022
https://youtu.be/NolnOqUIsVA?si=CeiaLn_CaOTqm9pN
They are the machine
The alphabet people are now in power my friend.
BLM
ANTIFA
DSA
NOW
NAACP
OWS
LGBTQ
AAPI
GTFOOH
Nope....they're not in power. They want to be, but they're petulant noisemakers who have been tolerated by a destructive Biden administration for much too long.
They'll always be around but in the land of the free might makes right.
I think we need a new rule that says if you vote for someone, you can't move until the next election. I'm thinking about all of the wealthy white females and effeminate wealthy men who voted for him. He's coming for their money and I think the best thing for people like that is for them to experience consequences. I am disgusted with New York in that we watched a man swear on a Quran 25 years after people of that same thought process and religion killed so many people. However, it is important to note that this is what real diversity is our strength does to our society. We have to end Hart-Celler. I'd put good money down betting that most of his voters were not born in the United States. People who are so ignorant as to run from a collective government to come somewhere better in order to ...turn this place into the same place you just left? Moronic. I
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Any person who speaks well of collectivism is retarded beyond words.
The "warmth of collectivism" is a euphemism for the fires of hell on earth.
Literally.
"Retarded" ... and/or a victim of our 'woke' & broken education system
No, it's not either or. It's both
To put it very directly! :)
Well please make sure you don't ever bother to drive on the public roads, don't go to libraries or parks unless they're private, do not allow your children to attend public schools, never call the fire department or police, do not collect Social Security or Medicare benefits...all glaring examples of the rottenness and evil of collectivism. And there's no way you could possibly support the US military as it's the largest socialist organization in the entire world.
The utter ignorance. stupidity and xenophobia on display in these comments is truly stunning to behold.
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Unfortunately, many citizens in NYC and elsewhere have and are buying the idea that there’s a “free lunch”. We will have to see how he fares!
Failure is guaranteed. If his proposals get stopped, he’s a failure. If he gets them implemented, they will fail because they’re all stupid and contrary to economics and human nature, so he’ll be a different kind of failure.
I talked to a Holocaust survivor, years ago. She was 13 when she was sent to a forced-labor camp. Her father had the means to fight back or immigrate, but he said similar things about Hitler. He didn’t take the man or the movement seriously.
Her father, mother, and three siblings died in the camps.
Thankfully, this guy is only a mayor. He won’t be sending anyone to a camp.
He has Rikers to fill up. But in 3 years, he might just become a Senator - a job more suited for his talents of fakery and showmanship.
I don’t think a Muslim communist can win a statewide election.
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I know what you mean I’ve been around for a while still haven’t found the free lunch. We all pay in the end some how
Impossible. States aren’t allowed to declare bankruptcy and these huge cities will have to be bailed out by… you guessed it, the tax dollars that we all pay. They’re ’too big to fail’ just like the banks. Just like how these locations that went overboard on Covid got billions of dollars more than the states that didn’t. Honestly, I don’t know how this ends, I see zero incentive for states or large cities to be governed well.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I understand that Mamdani is already facing pushback from the governor who doesn't want to raise taxes in New York State to finance his programs in the city. Will be interesting to watch! Don't need to destroy Mamdani, just failing will do nicely!
Please give it a break fidhu .socialism doesn't work. it didn't work in Russia ,Italy , Geirmany and it's not working in Venezuela and it will not work in New York . As for Islam tell me how many Baptist put explosives in their underwear get on a bus and blow it up ? How many many Lutherans go out on a given Sunday and behead people ? Get my drift ?
You brought out all the nasty libtard accusations trying to shut down debate racism etc.
And naxy Germany was a socialist regime that started with many of the same promises as mandani
Sasha, thank you for a great piece. I love it when you whip out theories of history and other sources. You have an incredible record of accuracy when applying these. That 4th Turning stuff is like the trailer for upcoming news stories. Scary accurate.
IMHO, Mamdani thinks America is an implacable threat to people of color all over the world and racist beyond redemption, and he thinks the best way to break the back of that threat is to permanently weaken America, fooling useful idiots in major coastal metros like NYC into betraying themselves. I doubt he actually believes half of what he says.
As long as Mamdani follows the typical socialist/communist leader playbook and gets HIS assets out FIRST, his concerns for the fate of the governed will be negligible.
Witch hunters were a feature of early modern Europe well before Salem. They were basically civil servants working for either secular or religious authorities. They were funded by confiscated wealth of the accused, much like civil forfeiture today. They used torture to establish networks much like the KGB.
NY has around 5.6 million registered voters. 38% turned out to vote and Mamdani got half of that - 50.8%. That means 19% of New Yorkers chose Mamdani. That can't be democracy when less than 1 in 5 call the change. Ignoring illegals voting, cheating systems, money trails, 1 in 5 is ridiculous to change the character of what used to be America's powerhouse city - one of the World's powerhouse cities. Australia has compulsory voting - it's flawed but you at least know it reflects the people - all the people.
I live in Chicago which is being destroyed by city-wide black wilding so crime was the number one issue during our mayoral election. The runoff election was between a white, tough on crime, moderate named Paul Vallas and a black, Woke, blame whitey, leftist named Brandon Johnson in May 2023. Only a third of registered voters bothered to vote and Johnson won 51% to 49%.
So why did the 51% vote for Brandon? Partly because of anti-white Woke ideology which teaches that AmeriKKKa is permeated with white racism, “systemic racism” which is always everywhere oppressing blacks and keeping them down. The way then to stop the social breakdown, crime and dysfunction in black areas in cities like Chicago is to go to the source, “systemic racism” and stop it. Once the source is shut down the problem will be resolved.
This is taught in many of our public schools, universities and even Biden used to like to talk about and promote this idea so it’s really not at all surprising that so many believe it. In other words, we exist in entirely different realities which is why we are no longer a functional society.
I watched my old Chicago friends on FB brag about voting for Johnson with great interest and panic over the stupidity. How could they do that after the disaster that is Lori Lightfoot? After observing them for several years now (these are former punk rockers I knew in the early 80s) the best excuse I can think of is that they are mired in the past, and can't for the life of them see that these POC's have bad ideas, are racist, and poor leaders. They refuse to see it. They pat themselves on the back even.
You hear it every time Michelle Obama opens her mouth.
Born into Chicago Union privilege....Harvard Law...$250 million net worth
Yassir Arafat's daughter is a billionaire.
Bernie Sanders....has to decide how to split his time between 3 houses...
Ilhan Omar....the head of the clan....just like the Somali fraudsters who chose a white woman to be their front person in their scam knowing they could blame it all on white supremacy...Omar herself marrying a white guy....who's the front man as her net worth soars in just a couple years....
And then you have Bill Clinton, the white front man for the Clinton criminal organization led by Hillary herself.
Everyone needs a front man to deflect.
This is Mamdani's weak spot. He's got nobody to take the heat when all hell breaks loose.
Probably because he's more principled to Karl Marx than the others...who merely use him a front while they rob America blind.
You may well have a real Marxist on your hands NYC. Someone truly committed to the ideals and ethos of a collective society.
Let us know it turns out for you.
Seva,
I follow Chicago flips Red on X. These women are doing the hard work, showing up to all public hearings and calling out Brandon Johnson. They don’t hold back!
“They don’t hold back!”
That sure is the truth.
“Chicago residents call mayor ‘loser, criminal’ as council votes down $300M property tax increase.” (4 min)
America’s Talking Network. Nov 14, 2024
https://youtu.be/Bb3QDK1SK8M?si=U8PL24caB0XSCteX
“Chicago Has a Warning for Zohran Mamdani.”
Real Clear Politics. The American Prospect. July 16, 2025
“Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson was elected on a left-wing agenda. But he is struggling to maintain support while governing, due to his own errors and relentless opposition.”
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-07-16-chicago-has-warning-for-zohran-mamdani/
The reason Johnson was because Chicago through it's patronage with city and county and state and school unions....owns the joint lock stock and barrel.
It's the ultimate evil in our society where elected people get to promise free stuff to people who turn around and give some of that free stuff to the people who want to get reelected to continue to give away free stuff.
Not sure how we break out of this cycle.
Any ideas?
I wonder how many of NYC's "registered voters" are even real. NY Congressional districts have notoriously low turnout - some less than half of what turns out in other states. Perhaps they just don't delete dead and moved people from the voter rolls - ever.
Doesn't matter.
That's how the game is scored.
Roger Federer could have lost more points in a set against an opponent, but won the set 6-2.
Doesn't matter.
We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism." Hideous!
The warmth of N Korea and. Venezuela
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
- H. L. Mencken
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I’m afraid it’s FAFO time for New Yorkers.