Mamdani's Spanish language video sparks calls of treason

Smells his own flatulence

Behold the utopia of Greater Gotham, where the municipal government is now officially a wholly-owned subsidiary of the global open-borders lobby. "Come one, come all!"

Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently decided that his primary fiduciary duty as the chief executive of America’s financial capital is to act as a pro-bono defense attorney for individuals who bypassed every legal checkpoint to get here.

In a viral broadcast dripping with bureaucratic compassion, the city's self-styled revolutionary treated us to a masterclass in civic subversion. Speaking in Spanish, the socialist mayor offered a handy instruction manual on how to evade federal immigration authorities, complete with stage directions for dodging accountability.

"If you encounter ICE, here's what every New Yorker should know," comrade Mamdani posted on X.

According to our fearless leader, ICE "cannot enter private spaces like your home, school, hospitals or private areas of a workplace without a judicial warrant signed by a judge."

Naturally, citizens who pay taxes, follow the rule of law, and expect the government to enforce actual borders were less than thrilled. The pushback from federal lawmakers was swift and pointed.

"It should be insulting to every American that the mayor of our largest city is a guy who became a citizen less than a decade ago and now spends his time coaching illegal aliens in a foreign language on how they can avoid being lawfully deported," posted Rep. Brandon Gill (R-TX).

"Unless you're here illegally, you have no reason to fear ICE," posted actor Dean Cain. "This wanker is dangerous."

"At no point in this video is anyone urged to abide by the laws of the United States," posted Sen. Mike Lee (R-MI). "Because it was not made for the benefit of the people of the United States."

"If you're here illegally, you're not a New Yorker," posted Rep. Nancy Mace (R-NC). "Period."

"Treason," posted Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH)..

Commentators also noted the sheer audacity of running a sanctuary metropolis funded by the productive class.

"Here we are in 2026 with foreign born Democrats instructing illegals how to evade the law and remain in our country to suck off our system and best case scenario free load off our hard work," posted Tomi Lahren, mistaking Mamdani for a Democrat when he's actually a socialist anti-Semite.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton added, "Dangerous incitement full of disturbing falsehoods by communist terrorist supporter @NYCMayor. This statement could put lives in danger."

None of this should surprise anyone paying attention. 

Mamdani's entire political brand is built on treating federal law as a joke. Since taking office, he has aggressively expanded sanctuary city policies, effectively drawing a legal moat around the five boroughs to keep federal authorities at bay, all while ensuring that municipal agencies look the other way.

It seems that New Yorkers have forgotten what happened on a sunny morning on a September day back in 2001. Of course, some of them may be sleeping with the enemy.

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Mullin Warns Mamdani’s Anti-ICE Rhetoric ‘Dangerous,’ As Mayor Continues Campaign To Make Immigration Enforcement Someone Else’s Problem

Comrade Zohran Mamdani

WASHINGTON, D.C. The Department of Homeland Security has responded to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s latest denunciation of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, warning that his rhetoric risks inciting hostility toward the very agency tasked with removing criminal offenders from American streets.

DHS Press Secretary Markwayne Mullin pushed back Friday after Mamdani used an ICE shooting in New York City as an opportunity to renew his call to abolish the agency. The mayor declared Thursday that ICE has "killed far more of our neighbors than they could ever have claimed to save," apparently concluding that the best way to address immigration enforcement controversies is to eliminate immigration enforcement altogether. Either he's a dolt or has a secret plan he's keeping close to the vest.

Mullin was not persuaded by the proposal.

"His words are dangerous and incite hostility," Mullin said during a Friday press conference. "Well mayor, if you abolish ICE, who's going to take criminals off the streets of your own town?"

Perhaps that's Mamdani's feature, not the problem.

Oscar Belgal 

It was an inconvenient question for a mayor whose preferred solution to the agency’s existence appears to be making the agency cease to exist, leaving the practical details of enforcing immigration law for another administration to sort out.

The controversy followed an incident Thursday involving Oscar Belgal, who was shot by ICE officers after allegedly refusing to leave his vehicle and driving into two government vehicles, according to ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations Executive Associate Director Marcos Charles.

The incident, Charles explained, involved considerably more than an immigration officer knocking on a car window and asking an occupant to update his address.

"He refused lawful orders to exit his vehicle," Charles said. "He then accelerated his vehicle, smashing into two of our government ICE vehicles and then weaponized his vehicle and proceeded to accelerate going towards other officers," he said.

Mullin also addressed reports that a child was inside the vehicle during the confrontation. Authorities, he explained, were unaware of the child's presence at the time. Belgal, however, knew the child was there.

"Oscar knew he had a child in his car."

That detail added another troubling dimension to an incident that had already become a political flashpoint, with Mamdani condemning ICE and renewing his demand to abolish it while federal officials defended the officers' actions.

For Mullin, the broader concern was the mayor's rhetoric toward federal law enforcement. While politicians can debate immigration policy, he argued, portraying ICE as a threat to the public while calling for its abolition risks encouraging hostility toward officers carrying out their duties.

Markwayne Mullin

New York City now finds itself confronting a familiar political question: If ICE is abolished, who will be responsible for removing criminal offenders who are subject to deportation?

Mamdani has made his position on the agency clear. The question of what replaces it, however, remains considerably less clear.

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Jihadi Mamdani’s Definition of “Socialism” Is Actually State-Controlled Totalitarianism

NEW YORK — In a display of economic brilliance previously seen only in breadline queues and collapsing regimes, NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani sat down on Theo Von’s podcast this week to explain that socialism simply means the government generously handing you every single thing required to exist. Let's call it Big Brother, just for argument's sake.

According to the card-carrying Democratic Socialist and devout anti-Semite, the government shouldn’t just handle minor, trivial tasks like keeping violent criminals off the streets or picking up the trash. No, it needs to step in as a full-time parental unit to ensure no citizen is ever forced to experience the raw, unfettered horror of paying for their own life.

“Socialism, to me, it means that you will have whatever you need to live a dignified life and that it is the government’s job to deliver on that,” comrade Mamdani told Von.

Taking a play out of the Putin handbook, Mamdani went on to explain that voting every few years is far too much freedom for people to hold without state guidance in between elections.

“It’s a belief that you shouldn’t live in a place where all you can do is pick your own leaders,” added the DSA member, outlining a revolutionary framework where bureaucratic oversight replaces basic personal responsibility. “You should also be able to have that power in the rest of your life, right? People talk about it as the extension of democracy from the ballot box to the rest of your life.”

Lest anyone worry that "dignity" means something vague—like the ability to earn a living without the state taking half your paycheck—the Mayor graciously clarified the precise items City Hall plans to nationalize.

“When people say dignity, I want to be very clear, we’re talking about the things that allow you to take a breath: housing, childcare, public transit,” he said. “No one should be priced out of these things. These are non-negotiables; you need these to live.” And after all, who wants to be priced out of being able to purchase a Lamborghini, right?

Critics were quick to note that letting a city government manage every aspect of daily life sounds remarkably like a system history already tried, tested, and buried along with the Berlin Wall. “But communism has never been done right,” the useful idiots will say, except that it has been done right and that's why it has always failed.

City Council Minority Leader David Carr (R-Staten Island) pointed out that Mamdani’s vision of government-supplied happiness sounds a bit too familiar.

“I can’t imagine even his most ardent supporters would want to live in a state where the government determines everything you need to live a dignified life, whatever that is,” said Carr.

Other local leaders wondered how a municipality that routinely fails to patch potholes or manage basic public services expects to efficiently manage the entire human existence.

AI Generated but reality soon

“The Mayor says it’s government’s job to deliver ‘whatever you need.’ I have a different view of government’s job: keep us safe, educate our kids, pick up the garbage, maintain the roads and make New York affordable enough that people can build the lives they want for themselves,” said Councilman Frank Morono, a Staten Island Republican. “Given how hard City Hall sometimes finds it to deliver the basics, I’m not quite ready to put it in charge of delivering ‘whatever you need.’”

Meanwhile, national lawmakers noted that turning the economy over to local politicians usually works out about as well as asking the DMV to run a five-star restaurant.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) chimed in on social media to remind everyone of the dictionary definition of the Mayor's ideology.

“Socialism is an economic and political system where the … government owns and controls the major means of production,” Paul noted. “So, the same entity running the Post Office in the US, would be responsible for everything. Anyone who supports this does not have sound judgement.”

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At the time of this posting, Mamdani was reportedly finalizing a new city directive that would require the NYPD to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on sight, right after City Hall finishes figuring out how to budget for free housing, free childcare, and state-subsidized breathing.

Mamdani, who reminds one of post-digestive waste circling the bowl, much like his political career should be doing, thinks he's running the country when he never has, nor ever will, be capable of running so much as a lemonade stand.

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Mamdani's War on the Bodega: Because Nothing Says “Helping Immigrants” Like Destroying Their Businesses

New York City Mayor and comrade Zohran Mamdani has apparently discovered the ultimate solution to economic inequality: have the government open grocery stores and compete directly with the immigrant entrepreneurs who spent generations building New York’s neighborhoods.

Naturally, the immigrant grocers being targeted by this brilliant socialist experiment are not impressed, especially since their own tax money is going toward the funding of these stores,

The Multicultural Business Coalition (MBC), which represents immigrant-run businesses, has filed two lawsuits against Mamdani’s plan to open government-run supermarkets, arguing that the city’s taxpayer-funded grocery empire could drive family-owned bodegas and supermarkets out of business.

One lawsuit represents “hundreds” of grocers who are “members of groups historically discriminated against,” according to The New York Post. The city plans to open the first of five government supermarkets next year.

Apparently, the revolutionary dream of replacing capitalism with socialism has reached the point where the government now gets to compete with the very immigrants Democrats routinely celebrate as the backbone of American entrepreneurship.

Sure, keep voting for these leftists, my Democrat friends, and quit complaining. You got what you voted for, good and hard.

MBC President Ken Roldan called the plan “a direct assault on minority business by a mayor who claims to be a champion of disenfranchised poor and working-class New Yorkers.”

That's one way to describe it. Another would be: “Congratulations, your reward for building a successful neighborhood business is a government competitor.” Again, on their own tax dollars.

Mamdani, naturally, is naively confident that everything will work out beautifully. On Monday, he defended the proposal, saying he is “fully confident in both the legality and the importance of our initiative.”

Because when a socialist government starts opening competing businesses, the one thing you definitely do not need to worry about is whether the government knows what it is doing.

The second lawsuit raises concerns similar to those surrounding previous efforts to bring Walmart into New York City. Opponents of Walmart argued that the retail giant could drive small storefronts out of business.

But apparently Walmart was insufficiently progressive. Now New York City wants to become Walmart, except with taxpayers footing the bill and politicians deciding what gets stocked on the shelves.

The immigrant grocers also allege that the city “failed to study the discriminatory effects” of the planned supermarkets on family-owned bodegas and supermarkets operated by Hispanics, Arabs, and Asians. The lawsuit asks the city to conduct such a study.

Never held a real job until now

Frank Garcia, chairman of the MBC, explained why the issue is personal.

“My grandfather opened up one of the first bodegas in the late 1960s when East Harlem was burning, and the A&Ps and Walbaums were leaving,” Garcia said. “He established the first Latino Grocery Association to protect the rights of immigrant store owners. I am proud to be following up in his tradition because what Mayor Mamdani is doing is disgracing his memory.”

Nothing says “honoring immigrant entrepreneurs” quite like making them compete against City Hall.

Jairo Guzman, president of the NY State Mexican Chamber of Commerce, called the immigrant-run bodegas “New York City’s great mosaic,” and said that “Mayor Mamdani needs to withdraw his disastrous plan and work with us to find different ways to bolster and sustain what so many (New York City) immigrants have created.”

“The Puerto Ricans were the bodega pioneers and they were followed by the Dominicans, the Arabs, the Koreans, the Chinese, and finally, my Mexican business members,” Guzman said.

There was a time when the American dream meant immigrants arrived with little, worked hard, opened businesses, served their communities, and eventually built something their children could inherit.

Under Mamdani economics, the dream appears to be evolving into something more modern: work hard, build a successful business, pay your taxes, and wait patiently for the government to open a competing store next door.

Mamdani has pledged that the government-run grocery stores will offer products at prices 30% lower than private retailers.

Economists have warned that the plan could lead to supply-chain breakdowns and bare shelves.

But why worry about shortages when you can simply blame capitalism for them?

Venture capitalist Shaun Maguire recently offered a less optimistic assessment.

“This is LITERALLY how you destroy an economy,” Maguire warned, adding, “This is the story of the Soviet Union, Cuba, Venezuela, etc. Now coming to NYC!”

Of course, New York is not the Soviet Union, Cuba, or Venezuela.

Not yet, anyway.

But if Mamdani succeeds, New Yorkers may soon discover the exciting socialist experience of paying taxes to support a government grocery store while standing in line outside a private bodega that has already gone out of business.

At least the empty shelves will be affordable.

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Curtis Sliwa Tells 9/11 Families to Stop Being ‘Sore Losers’ Over Mamdani

Happy faces

Apparently, the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks now comes with a new rule: You are allowed to remember the nearly 3,000 Americans murdered by Islamist terrorists, but apparently not to complain about the Islamist mayor attending the ceremony.

Former mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa told relatives of 9/11 victims Thursday to “stop being sore losers” after some families launched a petition urging New York City Mayor, comrade Zohran Mamdani, to stay away from this year’s Ground Zero commemoration.

“He’s the mayor. Stop being sore losers!” Sliwa told reporters Thursday. “You knew this is Zohran Mamdani. He was never a fake, phony, fraudulent, fugazi like a lot of politicians. He told you who he was.”

That is certainly one way to put it. 

Some relatives of the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks have backed a petition asking Mamdani not to attend the ceremony marking the 25th anniversary of the attacks, which killed 2,977 people.

Giovanni Galante, whose 29-year-old wife, Grace Catherine Galante, was killed on 9/11 and who helped organize the petition, accused Mamdani of failing to “meaningfully acknowledge the horror” of the attacks and associating with people who have minimized them. 

[In fact, on the day of the Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, Mamdani's wife, Rama Sawaf Duwaji, like a post from The Slow Factory account that included images from the assault. It showed a bulldozer breaching the Gaza-Israel barrier and terrorists on a captured IDF vehicle. An overlaid text of the image said: "Resisting apartheid since 1948," and "Systemic change for collective liberation." The next day, she like posts from The People's Forum (associated with Times Square protests involving Democratic Socialists of America and their buddies.) These promoted standing with "Palestinian resistance," along with the "from the river to the sea" slogan. In February 2024, after a NY Times investigation into sexual violence during the attack, Duwaji liked a post referring to reports of Hamas rapes as a "mass rape" hoax that was "fabricated" by The Times. Mamdani never condemned his wife's words.]

Cheri Sparacio, whose husband, Thomas, was also killed on 9/11, pointed to Mamdani’s association with left-wing scum-streamer Hasan Piker, who said in 2019 that “America deserved 9/11” before having to later apologize.

Mamdani has said he plans to attend the September 11 ceremony anyway, his way of doxing them.

Sliwa, who ran against Mamdani and former Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo as the Republican candidate in last year’s mayoral election, said families have every right to dislike the mayor, but apparently the mayoral chair now comes with a complimentary halo.

Sliwa called the petition effort ridiculous. Sliwa is wrong.

“Once he got elected, you should have known he was going to be there at 9/11,” Sliwa said. “Now, if you choose to turn your back on him, I don’t want to ever tell family members what they should be doing on this holiday, not holiday, but this solemn occasion, that’s your choice.

“But I believe you respect the office,” he continued. “He’s the mayor. He’s representing the city.”

Why? Why must we 'respect the office' if the person in office is a socialist-Islamist who apparently plans to ruin the city's economy with his communist ideas? Maybe respecting the office means going after the person who is degrading the office. 

Sliwa also revisited an embarrassing moment from the closing days of the 2025 mayoral campaign involving Cuomo and radio host Sid Rosenberg.

Rosenberg joked with Cuomo, who was running as an independent, that Mamdani would cheer for the terrorists if another September 11 attack occurred while he was mayor. Cuomo chuckled before replying, “That’s another problem.”

Sliwa said the remark hurt Cuomo at precisely the moment when his campaign had begun gaining momentum.

“He was gaining traction, and then he made that stupid remark and then didn’t handle it well,” Sliwa said. “And then Zohran exploited the hell out of it, as he should.”

“That was Islamophobic,” Sliwa added.

So, in the strange political universe of New York City, the 9/11 anniversary has somehow become a referendum on Islamophobia, mayoral etiquette and whether grieving families are sufficiently respectful of the office.

Meanwhile, the families who actually lost loved ones on September 11 apparently get to choose between keeping quiet and being labeled “sore losers.”

What a country. What a crazy take by a guy who's lost my respect.

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Luigi Mangione Seeks Plea Deal, Apparently Discovering That Revolutionary Courage Has Its Limits

Luigi Mangione, the alleged cowardly assassin who became an unlikely folk hero for parts of the online left, is reportedly looking for a plea deal with federal prosecutors. 

Apparently, declaring war on capitalism from behind a gun is one thing. Facing the federal justice system is another.

Mangione, who is charged with the cowardly 2024 killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, is reportedly in “serious negotiations” with federal prosecutors, according to a new report. An unexpected hearing has been scheduled for Friday at 11 a.m. in Manhattan federal court, less than a month before his federal trial is scheduled to begin on September 8.

Mangione cowardly shoots Brian Thompson in the back, allegedly

According to TMZ, a potential deal could involve Mangione pleading guilty to murder in an open plea, leaving his sentence entirely up to the judge without a recommendation from prosecutors.

The federal case is going to be presided over by U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Garrett, Southern District of New York. She was nominated by President Joe Biden in 2023, recommended by Sen. Chuck 'Nostrils' Schumer (D-NY), and confirmed by the Senate on a largely party-line vote (49-46, with nearly all Democrats supporting and nearly all Republicans opposing).

the left's angry heart-throb 

Her professional background includes long service as a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, roles in the New York State Attorney General’s office, and serving as New York City Department of Investigation commissioner. Federal judges are officially nonpartisan, but her appointment by a leftist vegetable of a president is the primary public indicator of association.

The state case is being presided over by Justice Gregory Carro, New York Supreme Court. He was appointed by then-Mayor Rudy Giuliana, a Republican.  

By having Judge Garnett presiding and deciding the sentence, it could give the cowardly Mangione an opportunity to present mitigating factors at sentencing, including his views about healthcare, corporate greed and whatever arguments his attorneys believe might explain how those grievances supposedly contributed to the killing.

In other words, the revolutionary who allegedly decided that society needed a violent dose of his personal ideology may now be hoping the court will consider his feelings before deciding how long he should spend in prison.

And based on how the left is adjudicating crime, he may get a medal of valor for the cowardly murder of Brian Thompson.

Such a deal could potentially result in a sentence of less than life in prison and could also raise double jeopardy issues in the state case. Mangione faces additional charges in New York and Pennsylvania. Judge Gregory Carro previously dismissed the defense's double jeopardy argument as premature.

The sudden hearing follows reports that plea negotiations took place in June before stalling. Mangione's top lawyer, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, accused federal prosecutors of attempting to “prejudice” public opinion against her client.

“This information attributed to ‘anonymous sources’ is part of a troubling, deliberate pattern by prosecutors and law enforcement to prejudice Luigi, manipulate public opinion, and violate his constitutional right to a fair trial and impartial jury. Every defendant in America is presumed innocent until proven guilty, including Luigi, who has to fight the same charges twice.”

Of course, every defendant is entitled to the presumption of innocence and a fair trial. That is precisely why civilized societies have courts, judges and juries instead of allowing angry political ideologues to decide who deserves to live or die.

Brian Thompson's family

Mangione's case has nevertheless attracted an unusual amount of attention, particularly from people who appear to regard an alleged murderer as a symbol of resistance against corporate America.

On Tuesday, a judge ruled that jurors in the trial will remain anonymous because of concerns about intimidation and harassment involving witnesses and jurors. The judge also approved an overflow room for media and spectators, with both audio and video permitted.

More than 80 news organizations are expected to attend if the trial proceeds as scheduled.

For now, the alleged revolutionary has apparently reached the stage of his grand crusade where lawyers, judges and sentencing guidelines matter quite a bit.

The man who allegedly wanted to send a message to corporate America may soon be sending one to the judge instead: Please, sir, may I have less than life?

What a coward. Do you agree?

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Eleven Chinese Nationals Busted by Feds in Alleged Marriage Scheme

Eleven people in New York, mainly Chinese nationals, have been indicted in what authorities describe as a massive sham marriage network that allegedly turned the American immigration system into something resembling a decade-long dating service for people who were not actually looking for love.

The alleged operation ran for roughly 10 years and arranged more than 1,000 phony marriages, allegedly for the sole purpose of obtaining legal status in the United States. Some customers were reportedly willing to pay more than $100,000 for the privilege of participating in the scheme.

"Gaining American citizenship and legal status to reside in this great nation is a sacred privilege, and we will ensure it is always done in accordance with the law, protecting our communities and national security,” Attorney General Todd Blanche said Wednesday at a news conference.

"This scheme was not a quick fly-by-night operation, but rather a year's long multimillion dollar cottage industry to criminally assist people," he said.

The Wednesday indictments were filed entirely in New York City, but the Justice Department said the alleged sham marriages extended well beyond the Big Apple, with suspected activity in Massachusetts, Kentucky, Tennessee, several other states, China and Vanuatu, wherever that is.

Under the alleged arrangement, American citizens could receive as much as $30,000, paid in smaller installments throughout the process. Recruiters reportedly received about $5,000 for every American citizen they successfully brought into the operation.

U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald for the Southern District of New York told conservative media outlet Townhall that Americans were recruited through social media, including advertisements that may have been deceptive on their face.

So much for "love at first sight." Apparently, the real matchmaking algorithm was Facebook, cash and an immigration attorney.

"As alleged, this decade-long scheme turned marriage fraud into an international business model arranging countless sham marriages and causing hundreds of fraudulent Green Card applications to be submitted to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services,” Acting Executive Associate Director John Condon of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) said in a statement. 

“Through the Homeland Security Task Force, HSI and our partners will continue to dismantle criminal networks that undermine the rule of law, exploit federal laws, and profit from fraud.”

The case is a reminder that America's immigration system is not supposed to operate on the principle that anyone with enough money and a sufficiently creative story gets to skip the line.

For millions of immigrants who followed the rules, waited their turn and pursued citizenship legally, these alleged schemes do more than commit fraud. They undermine the very system that lawful immigrants worked so hard to navigate.

The American Dream is still available. Apparently, the Justice Department would just prefer people obtain it legally.

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Florida awards Zohran Mamdani as their "Economic Developer of the Year" in Times Sq. campaign

"Hey Zohran, thanks for the jobs" --love, Florida

Communism [the left calls it socialism] is apparently a strong motivator to get people to run as fast as they can away from where it's imposed. New York City, run by comrade Mayor Zohran Mamdani, is one case in point. The beneficiary of New York's exodus in large part is Florida.

At the corner of Broadway and West 43rd Street, basically the heart of the Big Appel, a massive new billboard is sending an infuriating message to New York leadership: "Thanks for the jobs!" [H/T Fox News.]

The United States is now facing a choice between free enterprise or more government control under socialism. Florida is having none of that and has launched a Times Square campaign naming  New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani Florida's "Economic Developer of the Year." Let this once again show the [wo]man in the street, how progressive socialist policies with their all encompassing taxing, are driving businesses and families to conservative-run states such as Florida and Texas.

Florida now has a $1,800,000,000,000.35 record-breaking wealth migration. That's even more money than Elon Musk has earned.

"We wanted to thank him [Mamdani] for the jobs, the companies, the people that they're pushing out of New York — and a lot of them are coming to Florida," Chamber CEO Mark Wilson first told Fox News Digital on Monday.

"America is at a crossroads right now. I think everyone that's paying attention knows that our country was built on freedom and free enterprise and people having the liberty to make their dreams come true," Wilson said. "And there's a push in our country right now to take those liberties away and to attack free enterprise. And that's never worked anywhere, and it won't work in America."

"What Mayor Mamdani is doing is dangerous for the country, right? It's bad for New Yorkers. It's bad for New York. It's very harmful for the country," Wilson continued. "We can choose free enterprise, which is what America was built on, or we can choose to destroy that, which is what the social[ist] policies do… And so, what we're hoping happens from this campaign is that we refocus America on free enterprise."

In addition to putting the blame on Mamdani, the Chamber’s campaign highlights its argument that lower tax rates yield higher total state revenues by incentivizing growth, while blue-state tax hikes trigger a tax-based exodus. According to the Chamber, citing IRS migration data, Florida gains approximately $2.4 million in net taxable income every hour, while New York loses approximately $1.1 million per hour. The Chamber also says Florida gains a net 551 residents daily, compared to New York losing 115 residents daily. Now that's an enormous difference.

"Heading South" [AI generated]

According to the Chamber's press release, New York’s state budget is over twice Florida’s, and New York City’s municipal budget alone is more than $8 billion higher than the entire Florida state budget.

"What do people like Mayor Mamdani do? They want to then increase taxes on the people who are left, which just further accelerates people leaving places like New York," Wilson explained, showing that comrades like Mamdani, know nothing about economics and are dangerous to their constituents and the country as a whole.

So just like Barack Obama was the gun industry's best salesman, Mamdani is Florida's best jobs head hunter.

"Florida's lowered taxes over 50 times in the last 15 years. And we have record revenues coming in because people want to be here. And when the economy grows, tax revenues grow. That's how free enterprise works," Wilson said.

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Covert Bot Army Boosting Mamdani on X May Be Traced Back to City Hall

The allegations coming out of New York City are so bizarre that they make the average political campaign look honest. [H/T The Jerusalem Post.]

According to The Jerusalem Post, dozens of suspected bot accounts flooding X with glowing praise for New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and his allies may have something rather awkward in common: cyber experts say they appear to trace back to City Hall's own internet infrastructure. Apparently, taxpayer-funded enthusiasm may be the hottest new renewable energy source.

The Post independently consulted the cyber experts involved, who said they are "100% sure" the IP addresses could be traced to City Hall. The report, however, does not establish who controlled the accounts or whether city officials directed their activity. [My money is on Mamdani.]

The findings were compiled by the World Zionist Organization's Department for Combating Antisemitism, which has been monitoring coordinated online campaigns amid rising anti-Semitism. Their cyber specialists examined IP addresses, posting habits, and account behavior that looked less like passionate grassroots activism and more like someone accidentally leaned on the "copy" button for several months.

According to the analysis, dozens, and possibly hundreds, of accounts displayed nearly identical characteristics. Many pumped out hundreds of posts every single day, rarely produced any original content, had virtually empty profiles, and spent their existence doing little more than enthusiastically repeating posts from Mamdani's official account, city accounts, and political allies.

One account reportedly averaged 955 tweets per day with a 100% repost rate. Another managed 864 daily tweets with the same flawless commitment to never having an original thought. Even the most terminally online political activist usually remembers to stop for coffee.

The researchers emphasized that posting at an absurd pace does not automatically prove automation. A determined human equipped with unlimited caffeine, no employment, and an alarming disregard for sunlight could theoretically accomplish similar numbers. Still, when dozens of accounts exhibit virtually identical behavior while reposting the same material around the clock, suspicion naturally grows.

The report found that Mamdani's account frequently served as the launch point for what appeared to be coordinated amplification. A post would appear on the mayor's account before rapidly spreading through networks of accounts displaying the same unusual characteristics. Some reportedly devoted between 98% and 100% of their activity to amplifying the mayor's content, proving once again that loyalty programs have come a long way.

Some accounts were only a few days old yet somehow managed to put out hundreds of daily posts almost immediately. One account, created just three days before researchers examined it, reportedly generated 201 tweets per day despite having virtually no followers or posting history. 

Researchers say this kind of amplification can dramatically increase visibility. The initial wave of coordinated reposts encourages algorithms to promote the content, attracting genuine users whose engagement then pushes the posts even farther. In other words, the internet's recommendation engine may have mistaken an echo chamber for public enthusiasm.

The report cited a July 27 video in which the anti-Semite Mamdani discussed why he could not arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu while accusing Israel of killing thousands. The video ultimately received millions of views, with researchers saying the suspected bot network played a major role in expanding its reach.

The analysts stressed that the available evidence does not prove Mamdani, his staff, or his communications team instructed anyone to operate the accounts. Rather, they say the evidence raises questions about whether city officials were aware of the activity, whether it was reported internally, and whether any organizational relationship existed between those operating the accounts and City Hall.

In short, the evidence points to what researchers describe as significant signs of organized amplification, while leaving unanswered who was behind it, who funded it, and whether anyone in government knew what was happening.

The World Zionist Organization says it plans to ask Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun, the United States' Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, to forward the findings to federal law enforcement for further investigation.

"There is a need for a thorough, professional, and independent investigation into these hate-amplification operations," Yifat Ovadia-Luski, head of the WZO's Department for Combating Antisemitism, told the Post.

"Today's anti-Semitism begins online and then moves into the streets, and the spread of hatred on social media is a central driver of that incitement. This is a well-oiled influence machine designed to shape the international arena, and it is making Jews feel less safe in New York City and across the United States.

"We cannot stand by. We are calling for intervention by the US federal authorities."

Mark Goldfeder, CEO and director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, said his organization is referring the matter to New York City's Department of Investigation and the Conflicts of Interest Board while requesting access to City Hall server logs.

"City employees may not use public resources for political messaging, and public officials may not deceive the public they serve; that has been New York law since long before anyone wrote a bot," Goldfeder told The Jerusalem Post.

If the allegations are substantiated, New Yorkers may discover they weren't witnessing a spontaneous outpouring of public support after all. They may simply have been watching the world's most enthusiastic municipal fan club, one that never sleeps, never complains, and apparently tweets faster than any human who has ever lived.

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Socialist Mayor Mamdani booed off the stage in a New York minute: gets instant karma in Staten Island

New York City’s freshly minted socialist, comrade Mayor Zohran Mamdani showed up to a massive pro-police celebration on Staten Island thinking the working-class crowd would greet him like a conquering hero. 

Fat chance.

Instead, 3,500 residents and families treated him like the defund-the-police enthusiast he has always been and the result was that in under a minute of incoherent taqiyya mumbling, the crowd drowned him out with pure, unfiltered American 'eff off.'

Mamdani, the Democratic Socialists of America, anti-Semite, who spent years treating cops like the enemy, stepped up to the microphone at the NYPD’s 43rd Patrol Borough National Night Out Against Crime. He barely got out a greeting before the boos, jeers, and chants of “get out of here” and “nobody wants you” turned the stage into his personal walk of shame. 

He tried to power through but the crowd refused to let up and bow down to his nonsense.

Eventually the commie mayor clutched his heart in that signature performative Islamic-like gesture, waved like a beauty pageant contestant who just lost, and fled the stage still smiling as if the entire humiliation was some kind of progressive victory lap. This was what can only be described as a major dork performance and embarrassment. 

The audience kept right on booing and shaking fists while organizers desperately tried to restore order. Conservative voices wasted no time celebrating the moment of clarity. Pundit Eric Daugherty summed it up perfectly: the mayor was “VICIOUSLY booed and jeered off stage” and “walked off in SHAME.” 

Commentator Joey Mannarino added the necessary realism: “New York’s communist mayor just got the reception he actually deserves.” 

The same cops and taxpayers this DSA scumcrumpet spent years vilifying and trying to defund finally told him exactly where he could stick his soft-on-crime agenda. 

Staten Island, unofficially known as the last remaining pocket of common sense in the five boroughs, saw right through the act. This was not some random outburst because everyone with eyes and ears knows how Mamdani’s entire political brand has been built on treating law enforcement like the problem. His campaign embraced the defund movement. His first budget sliced police funding and scrapped plans to hire 5,000 new officers. 

New York City Police Department Chief of Department Michael LiPetri attends the
National Night Out Against Crime at Restoration Plaza. (Getty Images)

Then came “Snowballgate,” the February incident where roughly 100 people pelted NYPD officers with ice projectiles, injuring two. Mamdani’s response was to minimize the dickwads behavior by calling them “kids” having a playful snowball fight and carefully avoid any suggestion that assaulting cops might actually be illegal. If you saw the video of the incident, you'd immediately know that this wasn't a freaking snowball fight but an attack on police. 

Crime expert Rafael Mangual noted the obvious: the mayor refused to back the NYPD or call for prosecutions. The message was clear. Officers are the bad guys. Violent mobs are simply energetic youth.

So when the same commie mayor waltzed into a National Night Out Against Crime event expecting applause, Staten Island delivered the only logical response. The people who actually live with the consequences of progressive soft-on-crime policies decided they had heard enough. No amount of hand-over-heart theatrics could paper over years of anti-police rhetoric. The crowd simply exercised their right to free speech and informed the mayor that his particular brand of socialism has no constituency among the people who still believe cops should be allowed to do their jobs.

In the end, Mamdani left the stage to sustained mockery while the rest of the city continues to deal with the real-world results of his bs ideology. High crime, declining quality of life, and a police force under constant political assault do not magically disappear because a socialist mayor smiles through the boos. 

Staten Island just made that point louder and clearer than any policy paper ever could. God bless the people who still refuse to pretend otherwise.

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Israeli Consul-General says Mamdani is an anti-Semite behind a fake smile

Israel’s Consul-General in New York City, Ofir Akunis, has accused the city’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, of being an anti-Semite who conceals himself behind a false smile, which some would call a sh*t-eating-grin.

The charge was made in an interview with CBS News on Sunday.

“He is saying, I will ensure the security of the Jewish community in New York. How will you do it if you are saying that Israel is responsible for a genocide in Gaza?” Akunis said. “This is a disgusting lie, Mr. mayor. You know that there is no genocide in the Gaza Strip.”

In fact, the Gazan population has grown significantly since 1948 as the graph shows [below].

1948: Approximately 80,000 residents (pre-refugee influx). Large numbers of Palestinian refugees arrived after the 1948 war, raising the population to roughly 240,000–245,000 by 1950.

Steady growth followed (driven largely by high fertility rates), with a temporary dip after the 1967 war.
By the early 2020s the population exceeded 2 million (US Census Bureau International Database estimates used in the main series: ~2.10 million in 2023 and ~2.14 million in 2024).

End of 2025 (PCBS): About 2.13 million. The Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics reports a decline of roughly 10.6% relative to pre-war projections, attributed to deaths, missing persons, outflows, and lower births during the war that began in October 2023.

Sources: Annual figures 1950–2024 primarily from the US Census Bureau International Database

So if that's what Mamdani, or any other jihadi calls genocide, they're peeing on your leg and telling you it's raining.

His S.E.G.

Akunis further condemned comrade Mamdani for applying the word “monsters” to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the influential pro-Israel lobby group in the United States. He didn't even have to mention Mamdani's anti-Semitic history and how she "Liked" a post on X praising the October 7, 2023 attack on innocent Israelis at a music festival and in their homes.

“It’s the same word that the Germans, that the Nazi regime used against the Jewish community,” Akunis said. 

The consul-general closed the interview by issuing a warning to the United States, a nation of which he declared himself a devoted admirer. “It’s very emotional to me to see the American flag right here in the streets of Manhattan,” he stated. “I don’t want to see them force the Sharia laws on you. You must stop them now before it will be too late for you.”

Mamdani and his ilk need to get thrown out of office either by vote or impeachment. Please repost of you agree and feel free to comment.

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Mamdani's crackdown on food delivery tips inspires ire

New York City's newest socialist experiment in mayoral form, comrade-jihadi Zohran Mamdani, is out here acting like he just invented tipping after taking credit for a reported $104 million bump in delivery worker tips that critics note was locked in by legislation that hit the books long before he ever set foot in City Hall and was failing as a rapper.

The anti-Zionist mayor declared at a press conference Wednesday and in a social media post, "We've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets," pointing to changes in the Uber Eats and DoorDash apps that made tipping pop up more obviously."This is only the beginning," Mamdani wrote.

Those app tweaks come straight from a city law the New York City Council approved BEFORE Mamdani became mayor. [The way he's going with the lies, it wouldn't surprise me if he took credit for the Oct, 7, 2023 attack on Israel.]

Former Mayor Eric Adams (D) neither signed nor vetoed the thing, so it became law after 30 days. The rules kicked in this past January under the Mamdani administration, which handled the implementation and enforcement. Before that law took effect, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection found that Uber Eats and DoorDash had hidden the tip buttons and set default tips under 10 percent, which helped cause a 79 percent drop in tips for delivery workers. 

The law forced the companies to make tipping more visible, and city officials claim those changes have generated an estimated $104 million in extra tips since. Mamdani's office brushed off the notion that the mayor was grabbing credit for work that wasn't his, much like Joe Biden did with the economy. Mamdani claimed that while the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection pushed the reforms earlier, the rules got implemented under his watch starting January 26.

"A law is only as good as its implementation," a spokesperson for Mamdani told Fox News Digital. "We have been intentional about enforcing the laws on the books so that we are putting money back into the pockets of working New Yorkers." 

Conservatives and political commentators on social media wasted no time calling out Mamdani over the already sky-high costs of everything in New York City, with more than a few accusing him of claiming ownership of legislation that predated his term.

"This guy is a fantastic lying politician," actor Michael Rapaport posted on X. "He had literally nothing to do with this. City Council passed the bill last August and 419 Eric Adams never signed it so after 30 days the bill became law. It went into effect when Mamdani was in office. He just taking the credit." [See meme below.]

"In other words you are trying to say that you forced Uber and Doordash to make it that New Yorkers pay more for their food deliveries by having the default tip amount be a lot higher," conservative influencer account Leftism posted on X."

Socialism 101 — have others pay for things and make as if it's your accomplishment. Coming soon — $50 avocado toast," Washington Free Beacon reporter Jon Levine posted on X.

"So you increased prices for your citizens?" National Review contributor Pradheep Shanker posted on X. "Congrats."

"Suckers"

"What really happened," finance podcaster Joseph Carlson posted on X. "They forced delivery drivers to be paid minimum wage of $22/hr. This wage is paid by higher fees passed on to DoorDash or Uber customer. Since the customer was already paying these higher fees, these apps made tipping optional. Then New York required them to also be tipped on top of the higher fees."

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So now New York (residents) get to enjoy paying both a high base pay and a tip on top of it. The customer is double-paying for delivery. All of this cost is passed onto the New Yorker resident. They’re paying more than the market demands for a product and service because of market manipulation."Leave it to a democratic socialist mayor to celebrate making your takeout order more expensive while pretending it's a personal victory for the working class. 

Classic.

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