Zohran Mamdani Just Announced Plans to Begin Seizing and Redistributing Private Property, Because This Time Socialism Will Be Different, Guys

New York City Mayor, Comrade Zohran Mamdani kicked off his plan to “fix” the city’s affordability crisis with his official housing policy agenda, titled “Block by Block,” under which one of the first priorities is to allow the government to seize property from owners deemed “negligent” and redistribute it to so-called “responsible stewards,” a category that includes anyone from land trusts, nonprofits, or even tenants themselves.

"Through our new citywide campaign, Fix the City, we will focus on the worst landlords in New York City," Mamdani, a communist who was born in Kampala, Uganda, announced. 

"When necessary, we will take aggressive legal action to remove negligent owners and property managers. And for buildings that have suffered chronic neglect, we will work to transfer ownership to responsible stewards. Stewards that include community land trusts, non-profits, or even the tenants themselves," he said. 

In other words, despite Mamdani’s claims that this time his own version of socialism will be different, it appears to be heading down the same familiar path, one that students of history expected upon Mamdani's victory, right before they started Googling “Venezuela real estate prices” and “how to flee to Florida.”

Government redistribution of private property, however, is not the only pillar of Mamdani’s “Block by Block” agenda. He has also vowed to fast-track the construction of low-income and government-subsidized housing, while promising to impose price controls on those units that would limit rent to just a quarter of a tenant’s income, because the surest way to create abundant housing is to make it illegal for anyone to actually profit from building it.

One has to wonder if the guy ever took a basic economics class as opposed to majoring in “Karl Marx, the Man, ther Freeloader, the Absent Husband.”

Mamdani ended his “Block by Block” agenda announcement with a unifying, though ironic, speech, praising the city for what it is known for: its iconic skyscrapers, bridges, and museums. They didn't get there via the collective.

Yet those achievements were made possible not because of politicians like Mamdani, but in spite of them, driven largely by private industry and capitalists who somehow managed to get things done before the government decided their buildings were “negligent” for not being run by community land trusts. 

Today, Mamdani’s own agenda still depends on the very economic forces he blasts daily, relying on private wealth to help fund his socialist policy vision—like a man standing on the shoulders of giants while loudly complaining that the giants are too tall and need to be seized for the greater good.

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Communist NYC Mayoral Candidate Pretends He Isn't a Communist, But Record Says Otherwise

Comrade Zohran Mamdani

Oh, look, another wide-eyed communist running for mayor of New York City, swearing up and down he's not a communist, even as his greatest hits album screams otherwise. Zohran Mamdani, the DSA darling who's got the Big Apple dreaming of bread lines and state-run bodegas, keeps batting away the red-flag label like it's a killer bee. But let's be real: the guy's resume reads like a Karl Marx fanfic come to life.

"No, I’m a democratic socialist," Mamdani lied CNN earlier this week when asked if he's a communist, a label bestowed on him by many critics, including President Donald Trump."I’ve said that time and again."

Sure you have, Zohran. And I'm the Shah of Iran. Because nothing says "totally not Stalin 2.0" like casually dropping lines straight out of The Communist Manifesto at your socialist pep rallies. A Fox News Digital review dug through the archives and found Comrade Mamdani hawking communist classics like they're hot dogs at Nathan's Coney Island, including his not-so-subtle nod to seizing the "means of production."

"Right now, if we're talking about the cancellation of student debt, if we're talking about Medicare for all, you know, these are issues which have the groundswell of popular support across this country," Mamdani told a Democratic Socialists of America conference in 2021.

"But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it's BDS or whether it is the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment."

Ah yes, the old "seize the factories from those evil capitalists" routine, vintage 1848 Marx, baby. 

As the late Lee Edwards, that sharp-eyed Heritage Foundation scholar, laid it out back in 2018: Marx was an "atheist socialist who insisted that his was the only 'scientific' socialism based not on wishful thinking but the inexorable laws of history."

"The whole of history, declared Marx and his close collaborator and friend Friedrich Engels, is the history of the class struggle between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. The inevitable collapse of capitalism and the victory of the proletariat would end the conflict and usher in a classless society and pure socialism or communism (Marx used both terms interchangeably). He listed 10 necessary measures as steps along the way to his utopia, including a progressive income tax, the abolition of private property, free education for all, and centralization of the means of communication and transport in 'the hands of the state.'"

Mamdani's got that abolition-of-private-property kink in spades, too. Remember that viral clip from July, the one where he basically said screw your deed, the state's got dibs on your walk-up?

"If there was any system that could guarantee each person housing, whether you call it the abolition of private property or you call it, you know, just a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now."

And don't forget his tax-the-rich-till-they're-broke scheme, all while chirping that billionaires just shouldn't exist. Because nothing screams "freedom" like the government deciding who's too successful for their own good. 

Don't you just love millionaire commies?

But hey, it's not just Mamdani solo; his squad's got that commie glow, too. Take Cea Weaver, the housing firebrand in his campaign's "brain trust." She has her fingerprints all over radical outfits like Housing Justice for All, which rolls deep with the Communist Party USA and the New York Young Communist League.

"Elect more Communists," Weaver posted on social media in 2017, New York Post reported. "Seize private property," Weaver posted in 2018.

Classy crew. When Fox News Digital cornered him in July about the commie vibes and whether he'd disavow any of it to snag Hakeem Jeffries' blessing, Mamdani? Crickets, as usual.

Heritage's Mike Gonzalez, who's seen more red ink than a Soviet accountant, didn't mince words: Mamdani is "absolutely a communist" who "repeats lines out of the 'Communist Manifesto' and other writings by Karl Marx."

[Have you noticed, it's always easy for these communist leaders to hawk communism after they've made the money via capitalism.]

"When Marxists today say they are socialists, they usually want to convey the impression that they believe in elections and not just in shooting your way into power," Gonzalez added. "Of course, that election often ends up being the last free and fair one. Witness Venezuela."

Spot on. And Mamdani's got the full menu: state-run buses, government grocery stores—the works. As Gonzalez quipped in his July takedown, "Mamdani Is the Mayor New York Democrats Deserve": "State stores are the bread and butter of communism, except they don't contain either bread or butter and are usually empty."

Echoes of Marx's big 1875 flex, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs," right? Mamdani couldn't resist remixing it on X in 2020: "Each according to their need, each according to their ability."

Then there's his 2020 thirst tweet for a commie mayor: the city's next boss should be like "Comrade Arya Rajedran," that card-carrying communist running things in India.

And let's not forget his DSA sugar daddies, who the New York Post says are banking on Mamdani to shove their agenda down Gotham's throat—complete with their long love affair for every tinpot commie regime from Havana to Pyongyang.

New Yorkers, you wanted "progress"? This is your red dawn. Enjoy the gulag chic.

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Yes Virginia, your parents must provide the school's permission from them to adopt your opposite gender identity

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The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother's care, shall be in state institutions. --Karl Marx

The Virginia education department has finalized a rule requiring all public schools to get the permission of the students' parents before cooperating with their child to identify as the opposite sex. So if Mary wants to be called Marty, and Jimmy wants to be called Jenny, the school staff must ask permission of their parents to do so. Naturally, there will be some parents who think it makes them look woke and tres cool to have a gender dysphoric kid, but most parents might feel otherwise. In fact, schools that have allowed misidentification of the student's gender in the past, have typically withheld the child's disorder from the parents, so this bill will allow parents to be parents.

The new policies were released on Tuesday prohibiting schools from going along with student's request to use a different name or pronoun unless the parent provides the school with written permission. Worse for the woke, students can only play on school sports teams and use school toilets that match their biological sex. 

“All children in Virginia deserve to have a parent engaged in their life and to be treated with dignity and respect,” Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin  said regarding the new policies.

“The VDOE updated model policies reaffirm my administration’s continued commitment to ensure that every parent is involved in conversations regarding their child’s education, upbringing, and care. Public comment, input, and concerns were carefully evaluated and assessed to formulate the updated model policies. The Department of Education has delivered policies that empower parents, prohibit discrimination, create a safe and vibrant learning environment by addressing bullying incidents immediately, and protect the privacy and dignity of all students through bathroom policies, athletic procedures, and student identification measures,” Youngkin said.

Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Lisa Coons said the new policies “provide families the opportunity to weigh in on their child’s decisions and be a partner in their education.” This should be a no-brainer for all parents, but somehow the woke don't agree.

“We are elevating parents and giving them a seat at the table,” Coons said, although it was never up to any outside organization to 'elevate parents' as they have always been the primary decision-makers of their developing offspring. 

But Coons meant well.

Parental rights advocates applauded the new policies.

Parents Defending Education Action praised the governor, as well as parent advocates, for the “huge win.”

“In the face of threats, including from public officials, Virginia parents have stood strong. They continue to fight for their kids. These policies are a huge win for those parents, and they should be so proud of their courage and their efforts,” Alex Nester, the political director of Parents Defending Education Action, told the Washington Examiner.

The policies were first proposed by Youngkin’s administration in September.

Some student activists around the state reacted by protesting the proposed policies because it takes away their power of manipulating children to do as they suggest.

It's good to see sanity being restored across the country, one step at a time.

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Comrade de Blasio quotes his soulmate, Marx, on radio interview

The Sandinista National Liberation Front is a socialist political party in Nicaragua. Its members are known as Sandinistas, named after Augusto César Sandino, the leader of the resistance against the United States' occupation of Nicaragua in the 1930s. 

The Sandinistas overthrew the Nicaraguan government in a bloody war from 1978 to 1979. and the Contra War in the 1980s killed tens of thousands of Nicaraguans. The Soviet Union backed the Sandinistas while the United States backed the Contras, a right-wing group.

New York City Mayor, comrade Bill de Blasio, like another far-left Democrat named Bernie Sanders, backed the Sandinistas. And backing them is like backing Karl Marx, the father of envy, theft of labor, sense of entitlement, and absence of personal hygiene.

De Blasio quoted "Stinky" [as those who knew Marx often referred to him when he wasn't around] on Friday during a WNYC radio broadcast, as he explained that he wasn't focused on the interests of the elite: “I am tempted to borrow from Karl Marx here.” According to the New York Post, he added: “There’s a famous quote that ‘the state is the executive committee of the bourgeois’ and I use it openly to say, ‘No.'"

“I actually read that as a young person [by 'person,' he means 'Communist'] and I said, ‘That’s not the way it’s supposed to be,'" the country's worst mayor explained.

De Blasio's press secretary was totally fine with the schmuck quoting the father of communism to make his point.

"Show me the lie!" the mayor's worker tweeted alongside De Blasio's remarks. "Bill de Blasio's Press Secretary appreciates materialistic approach of his boss's Communism," tweeted New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz.

The commie mayor got some blowback on Twitter, where blowback is in abundance for every issue imaginable.  

Hizzcommie has a history of being criticized for his socialist ideas, such as implementing a $15 minimum wage, taxing the wealthy, and eliminating private health insurance while his is covered by the taxpayers.

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Teen Vogue revisits post on Karl Marx, but here are 11 Fun-Facts about the Commie

Former teen magazine turned far-Left propaganda garbage pail liner, Teen Vogue, dug up an old article about the relevance of the father of death and poverty, Karl Marx.

Teen Vogue’s piece last May on the relevance of Karl Marx’s ideas is so important in their socialist minds, they’re running it again. They should have titled the piece "Everything you want to know about Marx and you're glad he's gone." But let's face it, if you want to be educated on Communism, Teen Vogue is the place to go.

The idea that Teen Vogue is pushing Marxism makes one think they're behind most of the Democrats on the Left, and not Joe Biden who still sniffs the hair of the girls who used to read the magazine.

The article only discusses Marx's ideas, not his personal, more detestable side. You can read the article here.

Here are just a few Fun Facts about the unwashed Commie:

1.  While attending Bonn University in 1835, where he studied law at the behest of his father, young Karl the Commie drank himself silly and partied like it was 1965. He also borrowed a lot of money without re-paying it because he was, after all, Karl Marx.

 2. After receiving his PhD at the University of Berlin [go you fightin' Weiner schnitzels!] he went the capitalist route and made his money via writing and journalism.

 3. He had 7 children, all of his daughters were named Jenny in honor of his wife, Jenny. Of his children overall, only 3 survived into adulthood due to the extremely poor living conditions Marx provided for them. 

4. When living in Paris, he borrowed money from his buddy Friedrich Engels, about $36,000 in all. That's a lot of bread in those days. In a letter Marx wrote to Engels for his 50th birthday, he recalled his mother's words: "If only Karl made capital instead of just writing about it,"

5. When his father died of TB in 1838, Marx did not attend his funeral.

6. He had frequent sex with the [unpaid] family maid under the same roof as his wife and children, and she became pregnant and bore a son. But he forbid the son to visit his mother in London when he was at home, and when he did visit, he had to use the back door. He also had Engels claim parentage of the boy to avoid public embarrassment and an angry wife. 

7. When he lived in London, he used many aliases so he could get out of paying the rent and covertly move out of the apartments. [This may be the inspiration for Bernie Sanders and the rest of the Dem crew for the notion of "free stuff".] In one instance, he was kicked out of his apartment for failing to pay the rent and his wife had to sell a pair of his pants just to buy food. Communism works great, eh? In fact, from the time he moved to England in 1849, to the time of his death, he and his family lived in abject poverty.

8. He played the stock markets. He wrote his uncle [husband of his mother's sister]  Lion Philips, a Dutch businessman, in a letter dated June 25, 1864: "I have, which will surprise you not a little, been speculating partly in American funds, but more especially in English stocks, which are springing up like mushrooms this year (in furtherance of every imaginable and unimaginable joint stock enterprise) are forced up to a quite unreasonable level and then, for most part, collapse. In this way, I have made over 400£. Now that the complexity of the political situation affords greater scope, I shall begin all over again." So when it came to himself, Marx was a hypocrite capitalist.

9. Marx was anti-Semitic in spite of being born a Jew. "What was the profane basis of Judaism?" he wrote. "Practical need. Self-interest What is the worldly cult of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money." [See number 8]

10. He had poor personal hygiene and smelled like a bicycle seat at the end of a hot summer day. A Prussian cop investigating the commie in London in 1850  reported on his room: "Everything is dirty and covered with dust, so that to sit down becomes a hazardous business." Other accounts say that he hardly ever took baths or washed otherwise. He had numerous boils that he suffered for decades and once wrote to Engels: "Whatever happens, I hope the bourgeoisie, as long as they exist, will have cause to remember my carbuncles." 

11. He died on March 17, 1883. Eleven people in all attended his funeral. Perhaps they were out drinking as it was St. Patrick's Day.

Marx memorial vandalized

There's plenty more about Marx that depict him as a scumcrumpet and this should be considered merely as a primer.

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Strong political views may be due to odor tolerance/disgust

In a hard-hitting report by The Telegraph (a media rag from the immigrant-flooded UK) a study conducted at Stockholm University found that strong right-wing views may be driven by a fear of disease and increased concern about hygiene, the study suggests.

The socialist researchers found that those who are "easily disgusted by the body odours of others, such as sweat, bad breath or the smell of urine, are also drawn to authoritarian political leaders such as Donald Trump."

Therefore, those on the left, one can hypothesize, actually enjoy the smell of piss, feces and sweat. This may account for the Occupy Wall Street movement and George Soros' breath.

It is quite probable the researchers observed how President Trump has a clean, minty odor and bathes regularly, while many on the left have taken their hygienic cues from the likes of Karl Marx, who bathed only when sighting a comet.

It is said that in order to save the planet, Al Gore reuses his bathwater and only changes it on Sunday after the second use. He also traps his flatulence and uses it for fuel, which is why he isn't disgusted by odors.

And like the UK researchers, many leftists are doing their bit to save the planet by keeping the chlorine out of the water supply. Of course, the chlorine I'm talking about is in the toothpaste they don't use.

People who vote for authoritarian figures (aka doers, not talkers) such as President Trump, are likely more afraid of diseases than those on the left because the latter group has been overly exposed to STDs and have built up an immunity to them (see Bill Clinton), and those who voted for Trump generally have a normal immunity system and thus, have more to fear.

Bad breath and other foul odors can be an indication of an underlying disease, which may be why people who voted for Trump avoid liberals with bad breath and foul odors.



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PC in D.C. 2050 predictions

Ground Zeroville -- In a town once known as Washington D.C. an anti-fascist young man stands guard by a newly erected memorial. 

Holding a baseball bat caked in dry blood, dressed in midnight black garments with his face covered, he paces back and forth in front of the Tomb of the Undocumented Transgender Migrant Farm Worker. 

Not more than a healthy stone's throw away, a modified Washington Monument casts its long shadow upon the earth. The monument, now known as "The Mega Flip-Off," depicts a giant middle finger that can even be seen from the building that was once known as the White House.

The house where the U.S. president resided has been painted black. It is, of course, now called the Black House Matters and is populated by a young, rich anti-capitalist who identifies as a lesbian trapped in a gay man's body. He or she runs the country and his or her word is the law.

A flag flies above the Black House Matters--it is the flag of the hammer and sickle and waves proudly in the cool breeze that was supposed to be a hot breeze by this time in earth's history.

The Lincoln Memorial is no more. It is a hollow structure in which skateboard ramps have been constructed. The ramp has a golden jump made in the shape of a former president's hair. 

The only people permitted to use the skateboard ramps are the Antifa men and women who now run the government.

The statue of Thomas Jefferson has been destroyed and replaced by a likeness of Karl Marx. 

In spite of the many pigeons who gain purchase and poop upon the beard, head and shoulders of this figure, the statue maintains better hygiene than the actual author of The Communist Manifesto.

The Korean War Veterans Memorial and Vietnam Memorial have been destroyed and replaced by statues of heroes of the early 21st Century: Bill Maher, Rosie O'Donnell, Stephen Colbert and Al Gore to name a few.

Under each statue are inscriptions of the last words they spoke on their deathbeds.

The Maher inscription reads: "Donald Trump had something going on with Ivanka. I just know it."

The O'Donnell inscription reads: "I'm glad I'll never again have to see or hear that piece of s**t, Donald Trump after this."

Colbert's reads: "I'm very cool and I plan to stay that way forever."

Gore's inscription reads: "I know that I told you Washington would be under water by now. Give it a little more time . . . trust me."

The nation has changed. The inmates are now running the asylum.

But the people will rise up and take the country back.



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Thank a Vet, Tweak a Liberal

I hope everyone has a good Veteran's Day today.  Well, except perhaps not so much for Bowe Bergdahl and "Chelsea" Manning. I hear that Chelsea is putting in for a Lipstick Request because "she" doesn't want to have to pay for it "herself" out of the money "she" earns making Diplomat license plates and would rather have we taxpayers foot the bill. At least we don't have to pay for "her" birth control, so tough bullets to you, Sandra Fluke (pronounced 'Fluck').

Remember, Chelsea, being gay doesn't excuse treason. They should have hung you for that.

I listened to a little of Joe-the-Village-Idiot-Biden's speech today. Some of it was lost due to technical difficulties but I believe I was able to get the gist of it: "Will the banner yet wave?" hither and thither and yon.

But you have to give Joe credit for belting out the words .  .  .  over and over. He actually sounds patriotic and perhaps he is. Like Obama, Biden wants what he thinks is best for the country. It doesn't matter that what he and Obama really want is a form of socialism that has proven time and again to not work, it only matters that he has good intentions.

Good intentions get pretty worn out and old when the people with those good intentions have absolutely no clue of the reality those good intentions would bring about. Look at Communism and the hundred million deaths it has been responsible for over time.

And if Karl Marx is your role model, please take a bath and use soap in spite of who you look up to. Oh, and feed your own children--it's your responsibility, not "the collective."

Every year we honor veterans. For those on the left, it's an act. They have cut military spending to a dangerous level. They send a minimum of ground forces into war zones to ensure our military impotence; they make disrespectful remarks that are carried on websites like Salon and Huffington Post.

If those on the left like socialism so much, how come they never move to socialist countries? 

Obama is in China and in China they are mocking him. In Russia, Putin laughs at him and does what he wants to do in Ukraine and Crimea. I wonder what's next for Vlady.

So please, in spite of my dour words, have a good, no a great Veteran's Day and be sure to thank a vet if you see one.


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Obama's New Hitmen

The Obama administration (or regime, take your pick), is now using the IRS for political purposes. He is now using this already messed up branch of government to oversee businesses. Companies must now swear that if they lay off any workers that  they are not doing it due to Obamacare. Of course, this comes to us by the man who would be king.

In a country that has become great because of our freedoms and free enterprise, this administration is looking to impose itself into what used to be the free market by dictating what a company can and cannot do in order to ensure its own survival. The purpose of the employer mandate the administration released on February 10th was to make the compliance process easier for employers. The 227 page document had a requirement, hidden on pages 125-126 where employers had to swear, under penalty of perjury, that they haven't scaled down the number of employees or cut back hours to protect themselves from the costs of Obamacare.

The IRS is already under investigation (albeit by a big Obama campaign donor) for its unlawful practice of political bias toward the left, and now the left wants the IRS to come down hard on employers to do business their way. It's going to hurt them and perhaps destroy them, but it seems that Obama doesn't give a rat's butt--his signature legislation is more important than the people it supposedly was written to serve.

A significant percentage of America doesn't want Obamacare. Insofar as the "Affordable Care Act" is concerned, it is neither affordable and the government doesn't really care. The only accurate thing is that it is an act, one perpetrated on the American people.

Maybe it's time for all of us to write to our representatives and tell them how we feel. Mine, unfortunately, is Chuck "Mega-Nostrils" Schumer. He makes Karl Marx look like Rand Paul. But perhaps your senators and representatives will realize what a disaster Obamacare is.

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Obama is the Big Kahuna

My fellow folks, I'm speaking ta you today from beautiful Hawaii, the state where I was allegedly born. I know the mainland, as we alleged Hawaiians call where most of you live, is being pummelled by snow and ice and tornadoes, I can assure you that no such problem exists here in Paradise.