Re: Spin Cycle: How Do You Solve A Problem Like Mamdani?

In article <103umrn$2b0h3$1@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:

On Jun 30, 2025 at 9:12:38 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

When self-described Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York
City mayoral Democratic primary, critics on both sides of the aisle began
to wake  up to just how problematic his meteoric rise could be.

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Mamdani hasn't even become mayor yet and he's already promising to alter the
city's tax code to tax people based on their race; he wants white people to
pay higher taxes than black and brown people.

I am not familiar with NYC civics, but does the mayor have the ability
to do what he claims he will do?

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), for example, appeared to be
uncomfortable when pressed on whether or not he intended to endorse
Mamdani in the upcoming general election. It's certainly possible that
Jeffries hesitated because there may be three Democrats running -- current
Mayor Eric Adams, who won as a Democrat, has announced an independent bid
for reelection; and disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), who
lost to Mamdani in the primary, left the door wide open for a third party
run. It's also possible that Jeffries, who represents a district that is
11% Jewish, has concerns about Mamdani's support for BDS-- "Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions"-- against Israel or his claim that, as mayor,
he would have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested if he
came to New York City.

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Arresting Netanyahu during a visit to the U.N. would violate both federal
law and the international treaties that established the United Nations. So
here we have a guy who's openly promising to commit federal felonies and
abrogate international law as a campaign platform and all the people who
continually screech "32 felonies!" About Trump's made-up paperwork crimes
are lining up to vote for him.
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And that doesn't even get to his call to 'globalize the intifada', which is
the call of anti-Jew terrorist organizations worldwide. So he's apparently a
violent Muslim extemist, also.
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It took less than 25 years to go from radical Islamists attacking New York
and murdering thousands to New Yorkers enthusiastically electing a radical
Islamist as mayor because he promises them free groceries (because
nationalized food stores have worked so well everywhere else they've ever
been tried).

If there's a silver cloud to this, there was a hooge spike on Google for
"what is a communist?" after the election.