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Let’s look at some of the comments made before Election Day.
Bill Maher, liberal commentator—podcast:
"He (Mamdani) definitely has the power and influence to
elect JD Vance, or whoever is the Republican candidate
next time. It is a walking commercial for the Republican
Party nationally."
President Donald Trump; Truth Social
"If Communist Candidate Zohran Mamdani wins the Election for Mayor of New
York City, it is highly unlikely that I will be contributing Federal Funds, other
than the very minimum as required, to my beloved first home, because of the
fact that, as a Communist, this once great City has ZERO chance of success,
or even survival!
"It can only get worse with a Communist at the helm, and I don’t want to send,
as President, good money after bad. It is my obligation to run the Nation, and
it is my strong conviction that New York City will be a Complete and Total
Economic and Social Disaster should Mamdani win."
Lyle J. Rapacki, Ph.D.; Arizona Today (excerpt)
"Zohran Mamdani is an example of the anti-American, anti-Christian assault
already underway to collapse this exceptional (not perfect) nation. Our
founding principles are far and away removed from the Marxist/Islamic
darkness working to destroy what was given to us if we would keep it.
Do not
think only large cities are the targets. Small and rural communities are a major
target of the Marxist movement with the thought that no one will really pay
attention to who serves on a public parks board, or library board, or zoning
committee, etc. Slowly and deliberately, deceptively and appearing innocent
but with new ideas, personalities, like New York City Mayoral candidate
Mamdani are coming into the light - NOT to serve but to collapse the unique
and wonderful country given to us.
Come out of your comfortable numbness!
WAKE UP…America is under assault."
Jim Hoft, “Socialist Mayor-Elect Zohran Mamdani Declares War on
President Trump” - The Gateway Pundit
"This is the new Left, obsessed with tearing down not only Trump but also the
millions of Americans who believe in faith, freedom, and the rule of law."
Chef Andrew Gruel, X post (regular guest on Gutfeld)
"Exit polls show 92% of California voters who voted yes on prop 50 thought
they were voting to impeach Trump."
Arthur Schaper, “Election 2025: What Happened?”, American
Thinker (excerpts)
"A lot of the new MAGA Trump voters are centrist or liberal-leaning
independents who have joined the GOP. These voters don’t get engaged
beyond the
presidential elections. Republican activists must concentrate their
efforts on
getting them to vote more.
"Republicans need to understand that they have to maintain a winning
message and a winning organization, whether President Trump is running at
the the top of the ticket or not. Republicans cannot get comfortable with
trusting that a spirit of Trumpism or a veneer of Trump sentiment will pull
them across the finish line for every future election."
"Election Day was a massacre at the ballot box for Republicans. It was also a
tremendous defeat for anyone who believes in faith, family, and freedom. The
Left swept virtually everything. Across the country, it wasn’t just Democrats
who won, but far-left socialists who won.
"Many of our political allies believe that Mamdani will be the “kiss of death” for the
Democrats. That’s wishful thinking. It would be true if it were 1980, 1984, or 1988. It
was less true in the 90s, and it’s not true today when 66% of Democrats have a
positive view of socialism.
"Both AOC and Mamdani are left-wing, populist demagogues. They know how to
rally the average person to their banner. The affordability issue is H-U-G-E, and a
significant part of the GOP establishment doesn’t get it."
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John Nolte, “GOP Can Fully Embrace MAGA or Face More Tuesday Night Election Beatings,” Breibart News (excerpt)
"Fourth, it really is the economy, stupid; and, of late, Trump has been
awfully
distracted with world events — trade deals, peace deals, etc. There’s
been a
lot of world travel. There’s been a lot of success. Nevertheless, the
Trump
Administration needs to refocus on Making America Great Again, which is a
lot less attractive to any president. After all, overseas, U.S.
presidents hold all the
power. Domestically, it’s all about in-fighting, compromise, haggling,
and
partial victories. The lure of foreign policy is obvious, but it can
also be a trap."
Finally:
In his acceptance speech, communist Zohran Mamdani told President Trump
he had four words for him regarding what will be happening in New York City:
Turn up the volume.
President Trump responded on Truth Social with his own four words:
And so it begins ..
Zohran Mamdani won a little over 1 million votes (at current count) in a city with a population of around 7 million adults.
That’s about 14%.
The total election turnout was a little over 2 million (that will likely increase) making for an election turnout of 28%.
That’s not even a third of New York City’s population.
New York City’s election turnout has always been weak. And while the city has a large illegal alien population, it still has 5 million registered voters. That’s a below 40% turnout rate even for registered voters.
The media is hyping this as the highest election turnout in decades. Only if you don’t pay attention to population growth.
In the 1993 showdown between Giuliani and Dinkins, a racist hack who let the city burn, and whom Bill de Blasio viewed as an inspiration, 1.9 million voters turned out in a city with a smaller population and 3 million registered voters for a 59% voter turnout.
The turnout fell in the 2001 election that was effectively a referendum on Giuliani’s policies by Bloomberg, versus another liberal Democrat, was at over 40%.
So no, this isn’t a mandate.
Putting together 1 million votes in a city whose Muslim settler population is somewhere below 1 million (most estimates are dubious) and whose leftist population is certainly in that range is not a big deal.
The opposition didn’t put together enough votes. Everything rested on turnout and with the Muslim settler population and the leftist TikTok voters and college students, Mamdani had a cushion that was hard to beat.
It’s not a mandate. It’s colonization and apathy.
2. Socialism Didn't Win. Social Media Hype Did.
Two mayoral elections in major cities with two candidates.
Both Omar Fateh and Zohran Mamdani followed the familiar AOC playbook of seizing their party’s nomination in low turnout primaries or in Fateh’s case, DFL conventions, against an established candidate.
Both were Islamists running on ‘free stuff’ and socialism.
Mamdani beat Cuomo in New York City while in Minneapolis, Jacob Frey appears to have defeated Fateh.
The difference didn’t come down to policies, it came down to social media hype.
Mamdani kept that fake smile up the entire time and painstakingly followed the ‘people’s struggle’ handbook of pretending he was representing some electorate other than fellow Muslims and leftists. Omar Fateh tried the same routine, but it doesn’t help that he looks like a fairy tale goblin.
Smiling only gets you so far when you look like you’re about to demand that a fairy tale queen guess your name or you’ll make off with her daughter.
Mamdani mostly benefited from massive amounts of astroturfed social media hype.
We’ve seen the waves of fake hype for Obama before, not to mention other radical candidates like Bernie Sanders and Ron Paul, in which a small social media campaign by radicals pumps up a candidate that otherwise no one would care about. It only works when the candidate, like Obama, has enough charisma to front it. No amount of hype could make anyone make Bernie Sanders or Ron Paul president. And the hype wasn’t enough for the Minneapolis goblin.
Socialism is only a part of it. The radical candidates don’t really run on socialism. They run on hype aimed at low-information voters. Especially young ones. That worked for Mamdani, but you have to have the media training, the looks, the polish and the personality to make it happen.
Those can be manufactured.
Consider the difference between the pre-politics and post-politics Mamdani.
Would this guy, who looks like the neighborhood sex-offender, have won? Less likely.
And compare 2000 era Obama with the guy who eventually took over the party.
Mamdani didn’t win a policy debate. He won a personality contest.
And would Mamdani had even won if he were facing a single focused opponent instead of two aging narcissists from the past who spent half their time squabbling with each other? Much like the Obama era might have been averted if the GOP hadn't run a holdover from another era who got the nod because 'it was his turn'.
3. These elections weren't about the issues. They were about the economy.
The average voter cast ballots based on his or her perception of the state of things and a big part of that is the economy. Trump and Republicans had that going for them in 2024. They don’t in 2025 and they won’t in 2026.
This is an urgent reality check.
Yes, Republicans and conservatives will agonize that Virginia voters didn’t make their decision based on the Jay Jones death threats. It’s 2025. Moral qualifications for candidates are deader than Gary Hart (correction Gary is still alive) which is why Graham Platner is doing better than ever after the SS tattoo and the Communist declaration. There may be nothing too awful that a politician can do to be morally disqualified. People vote down party lines, they vote based on which party they think is screwing them harder, based on identity politics and just sheer ‘cussedness’.
Conservatives become complacent. These elections should be a dash of cold water. President Trump has done a lot of great things, but much of the country is still agonizing over prices, over the economy at ground level, and is not feeling good about the state of the nation. Unless that changes, not just Dems, but Islamists and the far Left will exploit the opportunity to take more positions, climb the political ladder and eventually take over the country.
We’re not safe. We’re in the middle of a war. The echo chambers have become too cozy and we’re seeing too many memes while losing sight of the battle.
There’s still time before 2026 and 2028. But only so much time..
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We have frequently shared that it appears the GOP wants communist Muslim Zohran Mamdani to win New York City’s mayoral race so he would become the face of the Democrat party. After House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries finally endorsed the communist Mamdani, House Speaker Mike Johnson called the endorsement a “seismic shift in politics.”
Alex Hoffman, a Democratic strategist and donor adviser, told Politico:
“If he (Mamdani) wins, this guarantees that he’s going to be the albatross that Fox News and the MAGA universe hangs around the Democratic neck for the foreseeable future. They will loop him with [Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] and Bernie and say the ‘radical left’ runs and owns the party even though they don’t speak for the rest of the party or the country.”
New York Republican Representative Elise Stefanik is running for governor of the Empire State against incumbent Gov. Kathy Hochul. It took a while, but Hochul finally endorsed Mamdani. You can bet all your MAGA hats that Stefanik will make sure Hochul owns everything Mamdani does.
Should Mamdani win—and we support Curtis Sliwa—how long before the Democrat party officially changes its logo?
Rent Control
If government controls worked, Chicago would be the safest city in the nation as it has the most stringent gun control laws. Yet, every week people are murdered or injured since the bad guys carry guns—and use them.
Communists like Zohran Mamdani, Alexandria Cortez and Bernie Sanders think landlords are billionaires who own thousands of apartments charging obscene prices on poor, working– and middle-class people. In many instances, landlords own one or two properties, each with a few units. If commie Mamdani wins the mayoral race, New York’s government run rent control and rent stabilization is expected to result in many landlords letting even more apartments sit vacant rather than rent them at devalued rates where they don’t earn enough to maintain the unit or make a small profit. Others might sell the property which could be converted into a non-apartment structure.
Wait until the ignorant Mamdani supporters realize that raising taxes on property owners increases their rent!
If rent control worked, New York City would be one of the most reasonably priced rental cities in the United States. However, after decades of government involvement, that isn’t the case. Just as Chicago isn’t a safe city with its government gun control. How fast can you say, “Thank you, Democrats!”
Life
is about patterns and circles. Patterns of behavior, and the social
circles prompting that behavior.
He’s a
terror supporting Muslim.
A Marxist who never had a job.
He wants
to confiscate the money from the doers and give it to the non doers.
Are we’re surprised he’s also a liar?
I’m shocked…. shocked I tell you.
If a politician supports corruption, they are corrupt. Once corruption sets in,
there are no boundaries. There is no misunderstanding Mamdani.
First, definition leads to clarity and
the distance between communism and Islam is skin deep. While communism
is foundationally atheistic, atheism isn’t a requirement to accept the
concepts of communism, and Islam embraces all the foundational values of
communism. Central planning, total economic and social control by a
few over everyone else, lack of concern about individual rights,
censorship, all predicated on the moral foundation of hate, greed, envy,
lust, and violence.
Secondly, while his election as mayor is
considered a shoo it, which initially I agreed with, but time and circumstance befall us all.... and now ….. that may not be that sure. His numbers are
dropping and Cuomo’s are rising, but Cuomo is really disliked in New York, and I wouldn’t be surprised if all
these polls, which I stopped believing in decades ago, are all wrong.
Sliwa may well be a dark horse winner, as it’s being reported that over
70% of the people polled are undecided. If that’s true, then what’s
that mean? If might well mean they’re secret Sliwa supporters, since
it’s well documented people lie to pollsters.
Here are articles I've been saving as source pieces. While not in chronological order, they're enlightening, which confirm what I've said in My Mamdani Articles.
Unless freedom-loving
New Yorkers, especially those who can’t easily move to red cities, vote
for Curtis Sliwa on November 4, they will bear witness to the Big Apple
becoming the Rotten Apple.
Polls show that Gen Zers living in their parents’ basements are
excitedly going to vote for the AOC-endorsed communist Zohran “free
stuff” Mamdani. Should Mamdani win, drastic changes could start with the
New York Police Department.
This is the largest police department in the United States, with
nearly 34,000 uniformed officers, but it is still understaffed. Proud
men and women in blue with 20 or more years of service are expected to
submit their retirement papers should Mamdani be elected. These
dedicated officers will not want to work for a mayor who tweeted on October 23, 2020, “We need to elect a socialist city council to defund the NYPD.”
Bill Bratton,
who was police commissioner for mayors Rudy Giuliani, a Republican, and
Bill de Blasio, a progressive Democrat, said in an interview:
There will be a very significant exodus from the NYPD very soon after
his (Mamdani) election, if he is elected. They’re going to leave. And
that’s a reality.
During the campaign, the smooth-talking communist tried to walk back many of his anti-police comments and tweets. Finally, Mamdani issued an apology that sounded as sincere as Joe Biden endorsing Kamala Harris for president.
Mamdani, like all communists, lies.
New York Post reporters Vaughn Golden and Craig McCarthy wrote that Mamdani’s top campaign staffer, Robert Akleh, was caught in several undercover videos saying of law enforcement officers, “Who gives a s**t what cops think of Mamdani?”
Akleh went on to add (all on video) about police officers who risk
their lives every day to protect New Yorkers: “They’re city employees.
You get told what to do, shut up. When did you get an opinion?”
Akleh is Mamdani’s senior consultant. He has previously worked for
Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) candidates Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez and former Representative Jamaal Bowman. What else do you
need to know? In the taped conversations, Akleh also dumped on New York
Governor Kathy Hochul, “Israel supporting” Democrats, and his disgust
for wealthy people. (We assume he really means white wealthy people and not rich Muslims like Mamdani.)
Every New Yorker who cares about the city must get out and vote for
Curtis Sliwa, the Guardian Angels founder who has devoted his entire
life to making the city a safer place for people to live and work.
Otherwise, historians will pinpoint November 4 as the exact day New York
City became a third-world “utopia” cesspool. (Some say it already is.)
Former Mayor Rudy Giuliani endorsed Curtis Sliwa for mayor of New York City.
In his X podcast, Giuliani said, “Curtis Sliwa has been a hero for New
York from the time...he was born [snip] Here’s my choice: 100 percent
Curtis Sliwa.”
As noted above, should Mamdani win, it is expected that officers with
more than 20 years on the force will submit their retirement papers.
Those with less than 20 years could be forced to seek work elsewhere
since they rely on overtime to make ends meet, and Mamdani has
repeatedly said he wants to reduce the NYPD’s overtime. There are three
NYPD groups that greatly depend on overtime pay:
Officers with fewer than five years on the job because their starting pay is low for an expensive city.
Officers with five to ten years on the job who earn more but are likely to have family expenses.
Officers seeking to boost their income in their final years to receive higher pensions.
In New York City, a starting officer’s annual salary is $60,884.
After five-and-a-half years, they earn $126,410. A family of four
requires just over $318,000 to live comfortably. NYPD salaries
are not that high, considering what it costs to call New York home.
It’s overtime that gives police officers the income they need in
expensive New York City.
However, comrade Mamdani has made it clear he wants to bring down the NYPD’s overtime. In February, he told the New York Editorial Board,
a group of veteran journalists, “We need to bring down the NYPD’s
near-billion-dollar overtime. We need to eliminate that overtime.”
Curtis Sliwa is the only mayoral candidate
who knows every inch of the city and has spent his entire life seeking
to make it safer for those who live and work in the five boroughs. This
is why, in addition to multiple Republican endorsements, Sliwa has
received glowing endorsements from current and former Democrat
officeholders who care more about New York City than party.
Comrade Mamdani supporters who excitedly plan to vote for the
communist are enthusiastic about free this, free that, free everything.
However, with fewer police officers protecting them, the only thing that
might be free in New York City will be crime sprees.
Robin M. Itzler is a regular contributor to American
Thinker. She is the founder and editor of Patriot Neighbors, a free
weekly national newsletter. Robin can be reached at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com.
In the early days of this blog — say, prior to about 2020 — I made a regular sport of heaping scorn on the New York Times. Every week or two I would take a particularly preposterous article and attempt to analyze whether it represented incomprehensible ignorance of the world versus intentional deception of the readership. Or maybe both! More recently, the Times has gotten so crazy, and the craziness so widely recognized, as rarely to justify such an effort on my part.
But then, sometimes I can’t stop myself. Take today’s Times.
As background, yesterday was the occasion of the last televised debate in the three-way mayoral race among Zohran Mamdani (Democrat), Andrew Cuomo (Independent) and Curtis Sliwa (Republican). Election Day is only 12 days away, and early voting starts in two days. If you go to the New York Post, you will find that the front page and several internal pages are devoted to coverage of the debate, including key soundbites from all candidates. That seems about normal to me. The Post’s take is that Cuomo had a good night, and Mamdani not so good, which you can take for what it’s worth (given that the Post is strongly supporting Cuomo at this point). Here is the Post’s cover from today:
And then there is the Times. I continue to subscribe to the print edition. I have gone through today’s edition multiple times to verify that the following statement is true: There is not one word about the debate. There is not even a mention that it took place.
Now granted, in this internet age the print edition no longer represents the totality of content at the Times. So I have gone through the website as well, looking not only for information about the debate, but anything about the campaign. First, I go to the opening page at www.nytimes.com, where my subscription gets me behind the paywall. Then I scroll way, way down — past Weather, and past More News, and past Culture and Lifestyle, and past The Athletic, and past Cooking, and past Games, and finally I come to an area called “News,” which among multiple other topics has three articles under a heading of “New York.” One of those is about gambling and the NBA, one is about an ICE raid on Canal Street, and the third has the headline “After Remark About Mamdani and Sept. 11, Cuomo Faces Democratic Rebukes.” This article also mentions nothing about the debate; and indeed the event reported in this story occurred this morning, and thus could not have been covered in today’s print edition. It seems that Cuomo appeared on a radio talk show hosted by conservative host Sid Rosenberg. The Times reports the exchange as follows:
Former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo laughed along with a conservative radio host on Thursday who said that Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim mayoral candidate, would celebrate another Sept. 11-style terrorist attack on New York City. Within hours, the exchange ricocheted across the campaign trail, where Mr. Mamdani and a cross-section of Democrats denounced the conversation as Islamophobic and outside the bounds of even a heated campaign.
The Times then proceeds to quote a litany of Democrats who are horrified and take the opportunity to cast Cuomo as an “Islamophobe.”
If you click the link and read this article, and make it all the way to the end, you will find a section headed “More on the N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race.” And in there is a link to this article: “N.Y.C. Mayoral Candidates Trade Zingers in Final Debate.”So yes, it does exist. I wonder how many people other than myself had the persistence to find it.
Cricket had never been recognized as an official sport in New York City’s public schools. Mr. Mamdani, like many South Asian schoolmates who had grown up around the game, wanted in anyway. And so, he and a friend effectively created a team themselves, with all the logistical fortitude available to distractible adolescents, amassing a cache of bats, pads and player sign-ups (“brown ain’t no requirement to play this game,” Mr. Mamdani urged on Facebook) and working to persuade enough students and adults that they were fronting a legitimate operation.
Just an innocent, enthusiastic, hard-working kid! And he promised free orange juice for all!
(Should I mention that my mother-in-law spent her career teaching at Bronx Science? She retired about 10 years before Mamdani got there.)
Getting back to what is actually on the front page of today’s Times, the biggest article in terms of real estate on the page has the headline “Pro-Palestine Activists Lament the Steep Cost.” (Slightly different headline online.). It’s all so sad:
For a time, the Gaza protests seemed to have the ingredients to grow into the next mass political movement for young Americans. The cause — which adherents saw as a struggle between a marginalized and dispossessed people and an oppressive global power — connected with university students, many of whom were already drifting to the left and had experienced their political awakenings during the racial reckoning in the summer of 2020. Many of them, in fact, started calling the Palestinian suffering “the moral issue of our time.”
And then, somehow, the American people just wouldn’t go along. It’s so inexplicable!
The other item taking up a big chunk of page 1 real estate is a picture of some activists gathering on an iceless King William Island in far-northern Canada to lament that global warming is making the Arctic more accessible to unwanted outsiders.
You get the picture. It’s not just that each article is more absurd than the next. It’s that none of them contain any actual useful information. They are all just the latest spin to promote one left-wing cause or another.
I apologize to the readers for continuing to spend money on this, but every once in a while it is useful to this blog to consult the Times to understand what the official party line of the left is on some particular subject.
There have been over 1,600 rapes, 2,000 sexual assaults with penetration and over 4,300 sex crimes as part of a staggering wave of assaults so far this year in New York City.
Total rapes were up 42% in just the past week, and as an exclusive FPM+ report titled ‘New Rape City’ revealed, are up as high as 300% in some parts of the city. And it’s getting worse.
In the middle of this shocking wave of sexual assaults, Zohran Mamdani, the socialist candidate currently ahead in the mayoral election, has offered proposals tailor-made to sex offenders.
Critics had already warned that Mamdani’s pro-crime proposals, including having social workers rather than cops respond to domestic violence calls, will enable further violence against women.
Mamdani’s proposal to free half of the criminals being held at Riker’s Island that called for exempting from prison those sex predators charged with sexual misconduct, forcible touching, as well as sexual abuse in the second and third degrees, and early release for sex abusers.
Additional details in the Mamdani endorsed proposals sought to release larger numbers of violent felons including rapists to pour fuel on the city’s already critical sexual assault crisis.
Why does Zohran Mamdani want to enable rapists, predators and domestic abusers?
Even in politics, Zohran Mamdani has a history of relationships with sex predators including those who prey on minors. In 2021, Mamdani hailed Matthew Thomas, a Democratic Socialists of America member who served as his Communications Director, who six years earlier had been charged for “sexual solicitation of a child” alongside a deputy to Joe Biden’s son.
Mamdani tweeted that Thomas “was a big part of why we won.”
And long before he ran for public office, Mamdani told a revealing story about the protests against the Muslim Brotherhood terror regime in Egypt. “Many women at the protest, and at protests in the days ahead,” he wrote in his college paper “had to contend with the very real threat of sexual harassment and assault, especially at night” but while he considered volunteering, he decided that “the last thing Egyptians needed was a well-meaning foreigner’s assistance.” The sexual assaults were often more like gang rapes and one of the victims was Lara Logan, then a mainstream media correspondent, but Mamdani didn’t want to get involved.
While Mamdani decided he didn’t want to ‘interfere’ to protect anti-Brotherhood protesters, he described increasingly being identified by others with the Muslim Brotherhood ruling movement. The same movement that created Hamas, played a major role in Al Qaeda and dominates Islamist movements, including the ones enabling his candidacy, in the United States. It’s the same movement on whose behalf he rallied protesters after the Oct 7 attacks. Mamdani refuses to condemn Hamas, including its sexual assaults, and won’t even call on it to disarm.
Egypt has a sexual harassment rate in the high 90s and high rates of violence against women. Mamdani seems all too comfortable with enabling the growth of a similar culture here even while phrasing the transformation in the familiar terms of social justice discourse.
When Zohran Mamdani didn’t want to interfere with Muslim gang rapes in Egypt or domestic violence in New York City (a behavior that Islam mandates) and wants to free sex offenders from custody, it’s always phrased as if the perpetrators, Egyptian rapists, Muslim wife-beaters or illegal alien sex predators, are the victims of an unfair system. But what’s really unfair is that women, girls and other victims can’t count on law enforcement to protect them.
And that’s because pro-crime radicals like Mamdani always side with the perpetrators.
“A key reason we have to make the bus free is that it reduces assaults on bus drivers,” Zohran Mamdani recently suggested. How would Mamdani like to reduce assaults on women?
Mamdani has failed to address New York City’s rising sexual assault crisis, but if he did, it would be invariably in the language of ‘restorative justice’ which always asks us to understand the point of view of the criminal, not the victim, whether it’s a bus driver or a rape victim.
An article in the same publication from which Mamdani garnered his proposal to free half the criminals in New York City’s most notorious prison proposed documenting the “complex relationships between crime victims and the individuals who caused them harm” and seeking “wherever possible, support reparative work such as restitution or mediation” between the victim and her attacker.
When Zohran Mamdani first ran for office, he championed “ restorative justice approaches” like these in which attackers, instead of going to prison, go to a chat session with a therapist and perhaps the victim.
At a pro-Hamas rally, Zohran Mamdani quoted Mariame Kaba. As he does so often. Kaba is known as the “godmother of police defunding” who wrote a New York Times op-ed headlined, “Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police” and proposed getting rid of prisons entirely.
As New York City suffers under a wave of sexual assaults, the personal experience of applying restorative justice to rape by the activist whom Mamdani cites almost more than any other is instructive as to what the women and girls of the city could expect under his idea of justice.
When a community organizer in a BLM-style group assaulted a sexual assault educator after telling her that “sexual violence prevention was something he was really passionate about”, Mariame Kaba was brought in to lead a “restorative process” to show how it would work.
And predictably the rapist went on raping.
“In the coming months and years after our process ended, other people came forward to share their own stories of sexual harm involving Malcolm,” Kaba admitted.
“After a year and a half long accountability process, Malcolm made the choice to continue raping Black women,” his victim complained. “The process had many goals, but the main hope was that at the very least Malcolm wouldn’t rape anyone else.”
But that’s how ‘restorative justice’ works. Or doesn’t. Depending on your point of view.
New York City, already suffering under a wave of sexual assaults due to pro-crime legislation which frees sex offenders to continue offending, would see the situation worsen a good deal.
And while women and girls are the leading targets, they would not be the only ones.
Mohammed Azeem called a man on a Manhattan subway train “cute” before sexually assaulting him. The obese Muslim predator taunted police and reporters as he was taken away. He had been previously charged with another form of sexual misconduct on public transportation.
Mohammed is currently being held at Riker’s Island on charges of rape and sexual abuse, but if Mamdani has his way, he may soon be free.
If you’re in New York or would like to donate to a New York mayoral
candidate, there’s only one serious candidate who hasn’t caused
thousands to die (that would be Andrew Cuomo) and isn’t allied to a
political ideology that has historically caused tens of millions of
people to die (i.e., Zohran Mamdani). The man who should win, of course,
is Curtis Sliwa.
Americans who follow elections will carefully search their ballot to
find the candidate of their choice. According to several studies, almost
everyone else focuses on the top two or three names and selects the
candidate from their party. Positioning on a ballot matters...a lot!
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The New York City Board of Elections
has announced the order in which candidates will appear on the November
4 ballot. Note that two leading candidates are listed twice, and,
although Eric Adams and Jim Walden dropped out, they remain listed on
the ballot. Also, two candidates no one ever heard of (nor raised money
or campaigned) are listed ahead of Andrew Cuomo.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani—Democrat Party
Curtis A. Sliwa—Republican Party
Irene Estrada—Conservative Party (Raised little money and has not done any campaigning.)
Zohran Kwame Mamdani—Working Families Party (aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America Party)
Curtis A. Sliwa—Protect Animals Party
Eric L. Adams—Safe & Affordable/End Anti-Semitism Party (Under
New York’s rules, his name remains on the ballot although he has dropped
out.)
Joseph Hernandez—Quality of Life candidate (Raised little money and has not done any campaigning.)
Andrew M. Cuomo—Fight and Deliver Party, former Democrat governor
Jim Walden – Integrity Party (Under New York’s rules, his name remains on the ballot although he has dropped out.)
According to a UC San Diego report
published in December 2024, New York City ranked 49th for turnout among
U.S. major cities. New York City is comprised of five boroughs: Bronx,
Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and Staten Island, with the island being
the most conservative. (Personal note: Robin was born in
Brooklyn, raised in Queens, and married and lived one year on Staten
Island before she and her husband moved to California, once worked in
Manhattan across from St. Patrick’s Cathedral, and skipped the Bronx
except when driving up to the beautiful Catskill Mountains. She knows
New York City.)
The City, an online site focusing on New York issues, analyzed the 2021 mayoral race that elected Eric Adams:
Of the more than 4.9 million active registered voters for the general
election that year, only 1.147 million cast votes, according to the CFB
data. That’s just 23% of eligible city dwellers who actually exercised
their right to vote.
[snip]
Manhattan had the highest voter turnout during the 2021 primary, with
33.4%. The highest voter turnout in the general election, though, was
the Republican stronghold Staten Island, with 33.7% voting.
The borough with the lowest turnout for the primary and the general
was The Bronx — 19.1% came out in June and 17.5% voted in November.
Brooklyn’s primary turnout was 27.5%, and Queens had 25%; their general
turnout were both above 22%.
The excitement for the communist Muslim Mamdani comes from the downwardly mobile—those
who want others to pay for their basic needs. Should the communist win,
New York City (like other blue cities) will see the rich and
middle-class leave. It’s been happening in the Big Apple for decades and
will accelerate.
In 1965, 128 Fortune 500 firms
were headquartered in New York City. Today, it’s about 50 firms. Texas
boasts 54 Fortune 500 companies, and Florida has 22. There are many
memes of Florida calling Mamdani ‘realtor of the year.’
New Yorkers should rally around Curtis Sliwa. After all, when you
think of someone who repeatedly stands up for New York’s working and
middle-class residents, Sliwa’s name is among the first that comes to
mind. He founded the now international Guardian Angels to protect New
Yorkers when no one else cared – sort of how things are today. Every
borough’s Republican Party has endorsed Sliwa, along with the Rockland
County GOP. Former Republican New York Governor George Pataki was one of
Sliwa’s earliest endorsements.
Sliwa’s campaign is projecting its strongest fundraising stretch
so far, reporting more than $421,000 raised in the last filing period.
Moreover, he is gaining endorsements from both sides of the aisle. For
instance, Democrat Assembly Member Jamie Williams and Democrat Council Member Robert Holden have endorsed the Republican Sliwa. Holden touts the Guardian Angels founder’s “decades of public service and straight talk.” He adds,
He (Sliwa) built the Guardian Angels into a global public safety
force. He has walked the streets, ridden the subways, and stood with
victims when no one else would. His campaign has grassroots support, a
serious platform, and the toughness to govern.
Why would anyone want former New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo,
famous for “murdering” elderly nursing home residents during the
“scamdemic?” Speaking on The View on October 6, Andrew Cuomo focused on...President Trump:
Mamdani is a gift for him (President Trump) — a gift. He wants
Mamdani, for two reasons. One, going into the midterms, he will take a
picture of Mamdani, run around the country and say, ‘Here is what
happened to the Democrats. They are now communists, they hate the
police, they legalize prostitution, legalize drugs, they want to elect
this Democrat, no experience whatsoever — being mayor of New York would
be his first real job.
At this point, the only debate is whether Mamdani is a socialist or a communist. Ayn Rand explained the difference:
There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the
means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave
men by force, socialism—by vote. It is merely the difference between
murder and suicide.
Cuomo’s ballot position, at the bottom behind someone who didn’t
campaign and who has no name recognition, is going to hurt him. The
choice is now between a communist who has a platform to the left of Karl
Marx and a man who has spent his entire life trying to make New York
City a place where people can safely live and work. New Yorkers should
elect Curtis Sliwa.
Click here for an AI-generated: Commietown – The Musical. Sliwa’s campaign site is here.
Robin M. Itzler is a regular contributor to American
Thinker. She is the founder and editor of Patriot Neighbors, a free
weekly national newsletter. Robin can be reached at PatriotNeighbors@yahoo.com.
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Secondly, while his election as mayor is considered a shoo it, which initially I agreed with, but time and circumstance befall us all.... and now ….. that may not be that sure. His numbers are dropping and Cuomo’s are rising, but Cuomo is really disliked in New York, and I wouldn’t be surprised if all these polls, which I stopped believing in decades ago, are all wrong.
Sliwa may well be a dark horse winner, as it’s being reported that over 70% of the people polled are undecided. If that’s true, then what’s that mean? If might well mean they’re secret Sliwa supporters, since it’s well documented people lie to pollsters.
Here are articles I've been saving as source pieces. While not in chronological order, they're enlightening, which confirm what I've said in My Mamdani Articles.
So, take some time and .... "enjoy".
- FBI Agent John Guandolo Explains Islam in Under 3 Minutes
- Zohran Mamdani’s Mother Says He Is 'Not an American at All' in Resurfaced Interview
- Beyond mere hypocrisy: the real Zohran Mamdani revealed
- GOP Moves to Revoke Zohran Mamdani’s Citizenship
- Obama Calls Mamdani to Praise His Campaign and Offers to Be Sounding Board
- Islamic Extremist Network Supporting Mamdani Raises Alarm
- Mamdani Incites Muslim Rage and Resentment Against the United States
- Muslim Candidates Threaten Violence in U.S.
- Mamdani’s Terror Mosque Called for Taking Over America.....
- The Shadow of Terror: Zohran Mamdani’s Radical Islam Problem
- Zohran Mamdani’s $5 Billion Corporate Tax Hike Threatens NYC’s Status as the World’s Financial Capital
- Zohran Mamdani's Tangled Web of Islamophobia Lies Just Got Messier
- What Would the "Falling Man" Think of Mandami's "Aunt"?
- Mamdani’s hijabbed aunt who feared going out in NYC after 9/11 doesn’t wear hijab, lived in Tanzania 2000-2003
- Mamdani Sez Aunt He Claimed Was Victim of 9/11 over Fear of Wearing Hijab Is ‘Father’s Cousin’
- Zohran Mamdani Says That Muslims Were Hit Hard After 9/11
- Mamdani’s False Charge of Israeli ‘Apartheid’
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AOC Rallies for Mamdani: ‘They Want Us to Think We Are Crazy — We Are Sane
- ‘Mayor’ Zohran Mamdani Says if Trump Goes After Illegal Aliens in NYC He’ll Have to Go Through Him
- ‘Conservative’ Bill Kristol Endorses Socialist Mamdani
Finally, if you like this: New York: Muslima on bus rants ‘F*ck you, dirty Jew… You f*cking Jew b*tch… I’m gonna slap you…’, you're really gonna love NYC if Mamdani is elected.