Mamdani 

Perhaps you don’t realize it, but it’s a good thing when an elected leader like Zohran Mamdani says it loud and clear. And that is that he hates Israel, Israel’s leaders, and Jews just about everywhere.

But he harbors no disdain for Jews like Bernie Sanders or former New York City comptroller Brad Lander. These two and others like them don’t hate Jews. They have a serious problem with looking in the mirror and seeing their reflection and realizing who they really are.

Mayor David Dinkins in 1986

credit: Bernard Gotfryd

Mayor Michael Bloomberg

Credit: Rubenstein

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is a fake, and you can tell that by the inaugural remarks he delivered on New Year’s Day. Most notable is what happens next between him and Governor Kathy Hochul.

During the campaign, of course Gov. Hochul was forced into endorsing Mamdani, but he did not—in an obvious fashion—return the favor by endorsing her candidacy. That glaring omission raised the distinct possibility that sometime soon, Mamdani and his leftist communist crew in the Democratic Socialist party will put up their own candidate, who will be even more extreme left than Hochul.

If the left selects, let’s say, someone like crazy former Congressman Jamaal Bowman, then we will have a race in November between Bowman and Republican candidate, Bruce Blakeman, which should be interesting to say the least.

What’s also interesting about Zohran Mamdani was his declaration at his inauguration that even though he knows that the policies he intends to implement “may not always succeed,” he’s going to go ahead and implement them anyway.

That’s an interesting and even fascinating feature about him. He tells you that his policies may be doomed to failure, but he’s okay with that and he’s going full speed ahead anyway. Unfortunately, that’s the left’s key to success in attracting voters: continued failure.

I think Stephen Stills had a lyric in one of his popular songs when he was with Crosby, Stills, and Nash that went: “We never failed to fail / It was the easiest thing to do.”

Mamdani is even less obscure about his unbridled and uncompromising hatred for Israel, and the refreshing thing about him is that unlike others, he doesn’t try to hide it. So, he strings together some far-fetched and extreme positions about the hostility he harbors for Israel but he does it so you cannot be misled. He hates Israel and Jews, and he’s right out there with that and that’s good. Know thine enemy.

Sanders and Lander are Jews by birth. They know they cannot tolerate themselves and who they are.

Mamdani was beaming on that first day when he was sworn into office by that wacko Socialist, Jewish-by-birth Senator Bernie Sanders. Project number one for Mamdani was to go after the landlords. He knows behind that frightening grin of his, that in most cases, “landlord” is a euphemism for “Jew.” He’s going after Joel Wiener, the owner of the Pinnacle Group. If you happen to know, Wiener is a Brooklyn real estate magnate who also happens to be Jewish. In Mamdani’s mind, “Let’s get the landlords” translates to, “Let’s get the Jews.” It’s the same thing.

It was not too early to do that. He was already mayor for a few hours so he might as well hit the ground running. Joel Wiener owns more than 100 buildings in Brooklyn alone. It might not have been a bad idea if Wiener had been a better landlord all these years (as has been reported in the news and documented by multiple sources). There’s always room for improvement.

After I read that story, I reached out to some prominent real estate people in New York. They all agreed on two things. Number one was that they do not want to be identified. And the second thing is that the Mamdani reign in New York will be a disaster for all New Yorkers.

If you own multi-family buildings with multiple apartments and you want to sell them, according to the new Community Opportunity to Purchase Act (COPA), you must first notify the NYC Dept. of Housing Preservation and Development (HUD) of your intent to sell and by law you’re not allowed to sell for at least six months, giving the nonprofits 60 days to notify the owner and HPD of their intent to purchase, and 120 days to make a competitive offer on the building. It is during this interim that either nonprofit groups that work with the homeless or the city itself have to be given priority to buy the real estate.

There is a housing shortage in New York City, with too many people on the streets because they cannot afford rent or the price of a home, and the idea here is to legally get a hold of these buildings and put people in them. How much rent they’ll pay will be determined later. Maybe there will be no rent. The powers that be will decide that.

For Mayor Mamdani, it’s a victory that pays off dividends. Not only does he get to possibly empty out and shake some buildings loose, at the same time, with New York’s inordinately high number of Jewish building owners (many of whom are ardent supporters of Israel), he gets to legally expropriate their buildings.

The building owners are rightfully concerned about the future of their investments. The long-time owners are ready to hunker down and wait for the Mamdani era to come to a quick end, hopefully after four years unless he resigns or is fired by the governor at some point.

New York City has been through huge disasters presided over by David Dinkins and more recently, Bill de Blasio. In fact, at his inaugural address, Mamdani referenced those two former leaders, but neglected to make any mention of Rudy Giuliani (8 years) or Mike Bloomberg (12 years). Those last two were the most proficient and efficient mayors in New York City history. But to Zohran Mamdani, they did not even deserve honorable mention.

In a way, it’s good that he didn’t mention them. And that is because of his fundamental dishonesty and deceptiveness in that, what he’s really peddling to his constituents is a surefire Socialist economic disaster under the guise of “hope” and “change.”

And if you believe that, at 34, Mamdani will be satisfied with being just mayor of New York City, it’s early in his imaginary process, but you will need to rethink the matter.

So, let’s look at it this way. Maduro was a Venezuelan dictator who lost a democratic election but refused to leave office. The corrupt guys with the tanks and big guns were with him as was one of the largest oil fields in the Americas. The U.S. and the UN have slapped sanctions against Maduro and Venezuela, but he’s a criminal, so slap here and slap there, it doesn’t really matter.

He provided China and Russia with cheap oil, and in an extremely odd arrangement, he provided Cuba with oil and Cuba provided doctors and other Cuban healthcare professionals to Venezuela. Cuba is known internationally to produce the most incompetent and ill-trained doctors in the world.

The president of Cuba is Miguel Díaz-Canel, the first Cuban leader without the name Castro since 1959. Cuba today is a hellhole where homes can run electricity only a few hours a day, food is scarce, and supermarket shelves are mostly empty.

Last weekend, President Trump indicated that after things settle down in Venezuela, Cuba might be next. Zohran Mamdani doesn’t like that idea. And as soon as he heard about the Maduro capture, he called the president to express his disapproval. Maduro and Castro are Mamdani’s heroes, even though their people are starving and lack electricity and basic medicine. I guess that’s what Mamdani means when he says that here in New York we need “collectivism.” That means we starve and suffer together.

So, we need to be mindful of how all this works. So long as Zohran and his wife are comfortable and living in high style then that is good. And that goes for his parents as well as for Senator Bernie Sanders, who at last count was worth at least $10 million, even though he works on a government salary of $179,000 a year. And we can include AOC in that bunch, who’s most likely going to knock Chuck Schumer out of the Senate in 2028.

Schumer is both incompetent and Jewish, so he’s really gotta go regardless of the circumstances.

The situation is still unsettled, but at least we’re certain that Maduro and his wife are in jail cells in Brooklyn and an Orthodox Jewish judge, Alvin Hellerstein, will be presiding over the Maduro trial.

Perhaps it was that knowledge that induced Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodriguez to say on Sunday that she feels the U.S. military’s capture of Maduro had “Zionist undertones.”

And it’s important to add that as long as we’re talking about buffoons, former Vice President Kamala Harris said a few days ago that the Trump action was “unlawful.” She may have forgotten that her own Biden-Harris administration posted a $25 million bounty for information leading to Maduro’s arrest or conviction on drug trafficking and weapons charges. For this, Biden and Harris need to express their gratitude to Mr. Trump—and as long as they’re doing that, they should include a check for $25 million. 

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