I don't know, will NYC elect two African American mayors in a row?Mamdani needs to win. Adams is a failure and Cuomo is the old guard of stupidity. Forget your fear of the word "socialist." The mayor of New York doesn't have the authority to impose Stalinism on you. Get over yourself. We need new blood. Go Mamdani.
Forget the socialism, if he unleashes a Defund the Police policy, this is going to get ugly (remember when people said no one is supporting that?):
https://nypost.com/2025/07/14/opinion/mamdanis-threat-unleashing-the-wild-woke-city-council/
To envision what a council without any counterweight could do, we need only look as far as the Progressive Caucus’ existing proposals.
A quick glance at the group’s website reveals a series of ruinous policies buried in a towering heap of woke euphemisms.
The caucus demands an “environmentally just city,” funded by a “more inclusive budget.”
Its members want schools that focus on “human development rather than punishment or criminalization.”
After they “reduce the size and scope of the NYPD and Department of Corrections,” they will implement a “holistic, multi-strategy approach” to law and order while funding an “alternative safety infrastructure.”
What does any of this actually mean?
In practice, Progressive Caucus members have wasted their time on senseless yet seemingly innocuous bills — like the time Councilman Lincoln Restler tried to ban Mr. Softee unless he shows up in a solar-powered ice cream truck.
Yet the caucus has also attacked our democratic rights, spearheading legislation that allowed non-citizens to vote (struck down, thankfully, by New York’s top court).
Worse, the caucus has led the council on policies that are devastating the very communities they claim to serve.
Lefty council members stood arm-in-arm with Mayor Bill de Blasio to open the nation’s first “safe injection sites.” Today, many of those same officials are simply stunned that their voters object to the “fentanyl fold” addicts nodding off on their sidewalks all day.
Progressive Caucus housing proposals would cripple new residential development and stymie renovations of vacant rent-stabilized units.
Albany leftists successfully pressured Gov. Kathy Hochul to include the construction-killing Good Cause Eviction law in the state budget — so don’t expect Mamdani to put up even token opposition to the Community Land Act, the next item on the progressive punch list.
It would abolish tax liens, requisition public land for housing and prevent desperate landlords from selling their underwater buildings until tenants and community groups have a chance to buy them out.
When Mamdani & Co. use Marxist terms like “seizing the means of production,” laws like the Community Land Act are the tools of their revolution.
The rest of their agenda includes rollbacks on public safety — eliminating the NYPD’s successful gang database, for example — and an outright freebie free-for-all, from free daycare for all to unlimited housing for the homeless.
Needless to say a Progressive Caucus-dominated City Council won’t seek to tap the brakes on Mamdani’s own $10 billion government giveaway plan.
Mamdani needs to win. Adams is a failure and Cuomo is the old guard of stupidity. Forget your fear of the word "socialist." The mayor of New York doesn't have the authority to impose Stalinism on you. Get over yourself. We need new blood. Go Mamdani.
Who is we? It's a bit confusing as you say that he's limited to what he can do since he's only a mayor, but then you use we in what appears to be a broader scope.
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https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/5400005-democrats-socialism-new-york-mayoral/
Beware the Democrats’ dangerous embrace of socialism
The Democrats’ move to the left is nothing new. In just over a generation the party has gone from having 25 percent liberal membership to 54 percent. But their leftward move is much further than most Democrats want to publicly admit.
Democrats’ flirtation with socialism is not an emerging development. What’s new is the Democrats’ increasingly firm, and public, embrace. A 2020 poll found that over three-quarters of Democrats admitted their willingness to vote for a socialist as their party’s presidential nominee.
Never has the Democrats’ attachment to socialism been more pronounced. Never has it been more dangerous.
Unquestionably, this applies for America. The Democratic Socialists of America’s website states, “we want to collectively own the key economic drivers that dominate our lives.” But it also applies for a Democratic Party that is becoming more radicalized and removed from mainstream American politics by the day.
Mamdani needs to win. Adams is a failure and Cuomo is the old guard of stupidity. Forget your fear of the word "socialist." The mayor of New York doesn't have the authority to impose Stalinism on you. Get over yourself. We need new blood. Go Mamdani.
is this a serious post? Mandami is not just a nut job, he is an extremely inexperienced nut job. Like any mayor, the NYC mayor influences every aspect of municipal government, and municipal governments hold the most influence.
Mamdani’s view of governmental operations has never worked anywhere. Examples of NYC mayor’s influence:
- He has the authority to appoint and remove commissioners for over 40 city agencies.
- He also appoints members to more than 200 boards and commissions that are crucial for the city's functioning and development.
- Additionally, the Mayor appoints Criminal Court Judges, Family Court Judges, and Interim Civil Court Judges.
- The Mayor's Office of Appointments helps him identify and select candidates for senior leadership positions within his administration and across city agencies and mayoral offices.
I don't know, will NYC elect two African American mayors in a row?Mamdani needs to win. Adams is a failure and Cuomo is the old guard of stupidity. Forget your fear of the word "socialist." The mayor of New York doesn't have the authority to impose Stalinism on you. Get over yourself. We need new blood. Go Mamdani.
/Laugh emoji
Mamdani needs to win. Adams is a failure and Cuomo is the old guard of stupidity. Forget your fear of the word "socialist." The mayor of New York doesn't have the authority to impose Stalinism on you. Get over yourself. We need new blood. Go Mamdani.
You trolling to rile up the Cons?
Mamdani needs to win. Adams is a failure and Cuomo is the old guard of stupidity. Forget your fear of the word "socialist." The mayor of New York doesn't have the authority to impose Stalinism on you. Get over yourself. We need new blood. Go Mamdani.
is this a serious post? Mandami is not just a nut job, he is an extremely inexperienced nut job. Like any mayor, the NYC mayor influences every aspect of municipal government, and municipal governments hold the most influence.
Mamdani’s view of governmental operations has never worked anywhere. Examples of NYC mayor’s influence:
- He has the authority to appoint and remove commissioners for over 40 city agencies.
- He also appoints members to more than 200 boards and commissions that are crucial for the city's functioning and development.
- Additionally, the Mayor appoints Criminal Court Judges, Family Court Judges, and Interim Civil Court Judges.
- The Mayor's Office of Appointments helps him identify and select candidates for senior leadership positions within his administration and across city agencies and mayoral offices.
This guy is clinically insane.
https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1945845567336153388?t=BX-sla-a9ZV6Kzmy_ESxaA&s=19
Mamdani needs to win
hope you're kidding here. the last hting the largest city in america needs is this nutjob. he can do some real damage.
@dbmhoosier I sympathize with him about the housing issue. But I think you could solve it without the abolition of private property--and he's not exactly advocating for it there.
@bradstevens very scary stuff
He's rising.
https://twitter.com/OpenSourceZone/status/1946322905840652597?t=MVpakRz8k6e0k0IhuHOQtQ&s=19
@dbmhoosier Shapiro at 3 is mental
in what way? Why would you expect a relatively pro-business, Jew to have any kind of popular support in a Democratic primary?