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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The Crreative News Network gets slapped for calling D.C. carjacking death an "accident"

Washington, D.C., -- The Creative News Network (CNN) reframed a botched carjacking in which two teenage girls used a taser on a Uber Eats driver but that resulted in a serious vehicle accident that caused his death. 

Rather than calling the incident what it was, a carjacking, they referred to the driver Mohammad Anwar's death merely as an "accident."

The reason CNN apparently left out the important detail about what caused the "accident," might have something to do with the fact that the girls are Black. In fact, carjackings among young people in Washington, D.C., has increased significantly of late, and most have been committed by young Black men.

The fake news network received a butt-load of backlash over the weekend as a result of their selective methods of reporting what police called "felony murder" as an accident.

The girls — ages 13 and 15 — were charged with felony murder. Police officials say they attacked Anwar with a stun gun during the attempted carjacking, the car later crashed, flipped on its side, and Anwar died from his injuries after being thrown from the vehicle. The girls, for their part, were more interesting in what happened to their respective cellphones in the accident, not so much what happened to Anwar, 66, who came to the U.S. in 2014 to create a better life for his family.

The enhanced murder charges against the teens stem from a legal doctrine that "allows a killing that occurs in the course of a dangerous felony, even an accidental death, to be charged against the felon as first-degree murder," according to Nolo's Plain-English Law Dictionary.

Video of the carjacking incident made the rounds on social media. It shows the event in progress as the car speeds off with Anwar hanging outside. It crashes and the videographer races toward the scene. Meanwhile nearby National Guardsmen pull the girls from the wreckage with Anwar's body twitching nearby on the ground as onlookers just kept looking on, doing nothing to help him, as most onlookers are wont to do.

One of the teen girls can be heard saying, "Please, my phone is in there. My phone is in there," as Anwar was dying nearby. She cared more about her freaking phone than a human being she was responsible for killing.

This is what our society is devolving into.

CNN reported:

"Police said the girls, 13 and 15, assaulted an Uber Eats driver with a Taser while carjacking him, which led to an accident in which he was fatally injured"

It did not lead to an "accident"--it led to a felony murder.

By Sunday morning, CNN's verbal calisthenics of the murder as an "accident "was one of Twitter's top trending topics with more than 100,000 tweets.

Comedian Tim Dillon mocked:

"These girls made a whoopsie when they murdered this man. Total accident. They were in wrong place at wrong time! They're good kids! Kids murder in cold blood/ make mistakes."

 Fox News host Laura Ingraham reacted:

"Wonder what took CNN so long to report what the rest of us did days ago. Doesn't advance their poisonous race narrative, that's why."

Another Twitter user said.

"A white man shoots 6 Asians and 2 white people, and he is a white supremacist. A middle eastern man shoots up a store, and well, 'Don't jump to conclusions,' they say. 2 young black girls assault a man with a taser and murder him, and it's an accident. Oh, the hypocrisy."

Yet another user said:

"If these girls were white, this headline would be worded much differently and the outrage factor would be dialed up."

It would have led to a CNN party if the two girls were White men.

As one person rightly noted:

"It's always interesting how CNN and other news organizations are highly selective when determining whether or not it's worth mentioning the demographics of those involved in incidents such as this."

The trouble is, no matter how much outrage the Crappy News Network receives as a result of how they report stories they aren't going to change as long as the outlets have the backing of rich leftists who propagate such crap.

The only bright side to this horror is that more than $400,000 had been raised for Anwar's family by Sunday afternoon.

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