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Mayor Zohran Mumdani
This should be interesting.

It only took 24-years for a focused effort to re-program NYC.

Victory Speech
Out with the old, in with the new.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MfBp8xUR3Q

Is that smile getting more sinister towards the end of the speech?

It will be interesting to see which force wins out: the Wokism or the Islamism.

They don't like each other. They only unite when they have a common enemy in the "capitalist" West. When they win, they find they have different goals for society, and they have to go after each other. Islamism's proudly-declared goal is Sharia. This doesn't fit at all with Wokism's focus on Feminism, or homosexuality, or transgenderism, or libertinism of various kinds. They can unite on the goal of installing at totalitarian regime, but they can't unite on what that totalitarian regime is going to be devoted to bringing about.

Watch the fur fly shortly.

no antisemitism anywhere either

-Imp

"We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about."
-Zohran Mamdani

Definitely sinister. No person is too small a concern for Zohran.

Zoltar is the infamous Coney Island AI prophet.
Wasn’t Zohran, Superman’s enemy?

Let the looting begin.
There's always more.

True. Americans would rather loot than have free public transport, a roof over their head, and decent health care that's accessible to everyone

accelafine wrote: ↑Wed Nov 05, 2025 11:04 pm True. Americans would rather loot than have free public transport, a roof over their head, and decent health care that's accessible to everyone

That simplistic, child-like thinking got Zohran elected.

Open borders leads to Commie mayor. Cause and effect of the mindset.

How Did George Soros Break the Bank of England?
https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answer ... ngland.asp

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“So proud to be a New Yorker! The American dream continues! Congrats, Mayor Zohran Mamdani.”
- Alex Soros

Free bus, free house, free doctor, free food, free clothes, free Obama phones ... methods of looting, all fancied up with words and legislation.

accelafine wrote: ↑Wed Nov 05, 2025 11:04 pm True. Americans would rather loot than have free public transport, a roof over their head, and decent health care that's accessible to everyone

Who's going to pay for it? Will you?

Magic money is a myth. "Government money" means, "robbing the public."

Shouldn't everyone have health care?

phyllo wrote: ↑Wed Nov 05, 2025 11:39 pm Shouldn't everyone have health care?

Paid for by whom?

The Democrats are the party of slavery.
Slavery is a way of looking at the world.
Masters, and slaves.

Just enslave the doctors.

In fact, enslaving nurses should put an end to foreign nurses who get their training overseas and then forget to return to the homeland, forgetfulness induced by the big bucks in the USA, which is okay, ‘cause there folks pay,* but the homeland is more prone to suffer without nurses when the only pay for the nurses is the satisfaction of easing suffering, in comparison to the good life.

*Rhyming with Shooter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP1KHL0j0GU

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Wed Nov 05, 2025 11:29 pm

accelafine wrote: ↑Wed Nov 05, 2025 11:04 pm True. Americans would rather loot than have free public transport, a roof over their head, and decent health care that's accessible to everyone

Who's going to pay for it? Will you?

Magic money is a myth. "Government money" means, "robbing the public."

Funny that the countries which have equal access to good health care don't pay any higher taxes than those that don't. Isn't health care the kind of thing we are supposed to pay taxes for? WTF do Americans get for their taxes? Lots of nuclear weapons? The US is one of the richest countries but at the same time one of the most backward. It's similar to India in that way. Wow. What a comparison to be proud of

accelafine wrote: ↑Thu Nov 06, 2025 1:39 am

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Wed Nov 05, 2025 11:29 pm

accelafine wrote: ↑Wed Nov 05, 2025 11:04 pm True. Americans would rather loot than have free public transport, a roof over their head, and decent health care that's accessible to everyone

Who's going to pay for it? Will you?

Magic money is a myth. "Government money" means, "robbing the public."

Funny that the countries which have equal access to good health care don't pay any higher taxes than those that don't.

Tax-to-GDP in the US is 25%. The same ratio in the OECD is 34%. It's between 42 and 46% in France, Belgium, Italy, Finland, Austria, and Denmark, and 35% in the UK and Canada.

You'll have to explain how that means these countries "don't pay higher taxes."

And while you're at it, we should note that access is severely restricted in many of the same countries...a person who needs a hip surgery in Canada, for example, right next door to the US, can wait 6 months to a year-and-a-half to get it, regardless of the seriousness and potential damage involved, and cannot pay more to move up the wait list. In the US, it's going to be expensive; but if you need it, you can get it. That's something worth considering, too...especially if it's your hip. Doctor availability and skilling is much higher in the US. And as for the level of the medical technology available, there's simply no comparison.

So there are trade-offs, of which price is one. But only one.