From NJ.com:
Democrats flip 6 N.J. counties back to blue, cementing Sherrill’s sweep for governor
Six counties that voted for Republican Donald Trump in the 2024 presidial election have flipped blue, early election results show, helping to cement Democrat Mikie Sherrill’s victory for governor of New Jersey. Five of those counties also backed Republican Jack Ciattarelli in the 2021 gubernatorial election.
Gloucester, Cumberland, Atlantic, Morris, Passaic and Hunterdon are all backing Sherill as of 10 p.m. on Election Night, Associated Press vote results show.
The Associated Press called the race for Sherrill, a Congresswoman from Morris County, around 9:30 p.m. on Election Night. She will be the second woman, and first Democrat woman, to lead New Jersey.
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High Tax Jack ran as radical maga in a blue state. Genius
Not looking good for NYC. RIP. I wonder how the election will effect real estate prices if the high earners take off. We live in interesting times!
I blame the Republicans for not fielding better candidates.
Is German Gary aka chad powers leaving socialist Germany and moving to the south now that Mamdani won?
Zohran Mamdani: “Elon Musk’s endorsement is one of the most expensive endorsements that Andrew Cuomo has ever gotten because it cost him and the state of New York $959 million in tax breaks… that’s actually more money than it would cost to make every bus free in New York City.”
We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry.
-Michael Adams, KY secretary of state
Mcgreevey might be back..he has been on a two decade redemption tour praying and plotting a return to politics and power. Runoff next month for Mayor of Jersey City.
https://www.nj.com/news/2025/11/councilman-edges-ex-gov-jim-mcgreevey-as-jersey-city-mayoral-race-heads-to-runoff.html
Trump played his part. Not loading this months $230 per person on the EBT cards on Nov 1st surely got people off their asses and to the polls in NYC.
Record turnout for Mayor about 2 million votes in NYC,
“ New York City hit the polls in record-breaking fashion on Tuesday, with turnout reaching more than 2 million voters before polls closed at 9 p.m., a level of turnout not seen in a mayoral election since 1969.
The high-volume turnout on Election Day comes after a record-breaking 735,000 voters cast ballots during early voting.”
https://gothamist.com/news/voter-turnout-on-pace-to-hit-historic-high-for-nyc-mayors-race
Scott Jennings: [Mamdani’s] now the leader of their party.
Anderson Cooper: He’s the leader of the Democratic Party?
David Axelrod: He’s a life raft for Republicans who have to go on TV and get their asses kicked today.
VSG,
I’ll be staying right here for the moment. There’s money to be made.
FYI, Germany is not a socialist state. It does have a social market economy however.
NY and NJ got the people they voted for. Exactly what should happen during voting.
This is America. That is what is supposed to happen. It’s in the design.
Don’t like it, or do, doesn’t matter.
Anyone against this is Anti-American, and should be picked up by ICE and deported.
Red or blue doesn’t matter. Only thing that matters is you play by the rules.
It always comes down to the money.
Chad Powers says:
November 5, 2025 at 7:35 am
VSG,
I’ll be staying right here for the moment. There’s money to be made.
VSG – Very cheap shot..
SolarCity tax breaks? That is a stretch if I ever heard of one. The state grants and tax breaks in the “Buffalo Billion” initiative from 2012 (yes that long ago) was to spur economic development there it would become a solar manufacturing city. Solar panel factory was built and completed in 2017.
Did not pan out, as the cheap Chinese solar floods our markets to this day.
Tesla had to pivot and start making car parts instead, otherwise, that factory would now be closed. 600 people still work at the factory in Buffalo today..and Elon is still trying to get homegrown solar roofs made. The same now Giga factory in NY is now making solar panels after a massive investment from Elon. They have a new line for solar manufacturing being built at Giga New York and will start shipping a new line of solar panels.
https://electrek.co/2025/10/23/tesla-production-new-solar-panel-us/
Chad Powers,
“I wonder how the election will effect real estate prices if the high earners take off.”
if…
Cuomo said he’d leave to FL, and now is like, “We are all NY’ers and we need to support the govt in NYC.” So, no luck with bargain sales of properties in NYC.
Yikes!
VSG says:
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 am
We’re getting calls about polls being closed. They are closed because we do not have elections today. Kentucky votes next year. You cannot vote today in Kentucky for the mayor of New York City or the Governor of Virginia. Sorry.
-Michael Adams, KY secretary of state
Ten 411
Someone,
Cuomo would never leave NY for Florida regardless of what he said. That is his power base. He‘d have zero supporters in Florida. He‘ll try another comeback with some position somewhere, somehow. However, look at the number of financial powerhouses that have already set up shop in Texas. The odds are that they will move more positions to Texas and reduce the size of their footprint in NYC.
Someone: In reference to your comment last night, I don’t have to worry about role eliminations, reorganizations, or AI. I do happen to care about all those people that do.
Chad: It’s amazing how many clueless Americans point to Germany and Denmark, and other countries, and claim they are Socialist. They are not of course, but Americans left or right, are very ignorant about the rest of the world.
Europe definitely has larger welfare systems and government as % of the economy is bigger than the US. It’s the kind of socialism a lot of slackers and losers yearn for.
People can study a worthless college major on the taxpayer’s dime, work part time as a tour guide while the taxpayer subsidizes you and your “partner”‘s rent, pays for your healthcare, babysits your out of wedlock child in a state-run institution, subsidizes your train fares, and allows you and your partner to live without ever really having ambitions beyond the day to day, because momma government always has your back, and there are enough people in the society willing to work harder for more, even if they pay half their incomes in taxes. Now even some of these people leading these care-free lifestyles are getting worried because suddenly people from South Asia, middle east, and Africa are pouring in and jumping straight onto this generous welfare system, having way more kids, flooding the systems with their foreign language screeching, which when translated, says something “hey you preached to each according to their need, and we’re way better at creating needs than you slackers”. Now European officials who preach the virtue of self-sacrifice are putting it into practice like never before, and trying to arrest/disqualify politicians who complain about it.
As Milton Friedman once said: “Why is it that free immigration was a good thing before 1914 and free immigration is a bad thing today? Well, there is a sense in which that answer is right. There’s a sense in which free immigration, in the same sense as we had it before 1914 is not possible today. Why not?
Because it is one thing to have free immigration to jobs. It is another thing to have free immigration to welfare. And you cannot have both. If you have a welfare state, if you have a state in which every resident is promises a certain minimal level of income, or a minimum level of subsistence, regardless of whether he works or not, produces it or not. Then it really is an impossible thing.”
Mamdani s speech was a lot different than his slick, polished appearances while he was campaigning. He showed the real Mamdani to NY ers,.
Mamdani’s smile always looked to me like a guy with dead eyes baring his fangs.
No one,
Excellent post.
Mamdani is one more of those angry far leftists. I always wonder what exactly they are angry about. For Mamdani maybe it was because his rap career didn’t take off. Mayor of NYC should be a good consolation prize.
tHaT’s wUt i vOteD fOr
3b
Social justice warriors are always angry. They hate themselves, hate their country, and will never be happy. His dad was an anti-West academic. Imagine hating the West while enjoying all its benefits. Living a constant contradiction, one’s mind a chaos of hatred.
NJ women tipped this election, full stop.
Republican males might want to question their spouses…
She probably didn’t vote the way you think she voted…
11:12 “…if you aren’t angry then you aren’t paying attention.” Sturgill Simpson
And if you aren’t angry paying attention then hug deeeez nuts faggot
And they voted for him. So that tells you who they are, and that is the message you should get. Just like those who voted for Trump or Biden or Sherill.
3b says:
November 5, 2025 at 10:40 am
Mamdani s speech was a lot different than his slick, polished appearances while he was campaigning. He showed the real Mamdani to NY ers,.
Check her texts when she is showering.
She is checking yours.
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Grim says:
November 5, 2025 at 11:17 am
Republican males might want to question their spouses…
She probably didn’t vote the way you think she voted…
I want some of the NY’ers to go to Texas just to see if they are really going to be tariffed 100 percent.
United we stand, divided we fall.
It’s the Russians fault.
The Chinese are the reason.
The dog ate my homework.
No One: These radical leftists love to engage in self flagellation. Always angry, and always on the look out for some new outrage. Mamdani a child of wealth and privilege , and mad at the world. How many people get to indulge their hobby as a rap singer and not have to worry about paying the bills. His father as you note is an anti western academic, like so many he hates the west but has no problem availing himself of all it has to offer. And he has his 4 acre compound back in Uganda as well. So much irony, and yet so many dumb NY ers voted for this clown.
The healthcare sounds socialist to me.
3b says:
November 5, 2025 at 10:08 am
Chad: It’s amazing how many clueless Americans point to Germany and Denmark, and other countries, and claim they are Socialist.
“The German healthcare system is one of the least restricted in the world, meaning you can get almost any kind of care you want. This might factor into a lot of people’s decision making process if they know that they will require regular medical treatment.”
Dark: I was just noting how Mamdani changed his persona once he won. History shows Socialists/ Communists can soften their message to appeal to more moderate people. Once elected the cloak comes off , and the radical reappears.
Umm,
Almost everyone in Hollywood.
Kardashians don’t seem to have a hard time doing much of anything.
Or any reasonably good looking young woman with a great smile that’s an “influencer.”
Mamdani a child of wealth and privilege , and mad at the world. How many people get to indulge their hobby as a rap singer and not have to worry about paying the bills.
Dark: Healthcare in Germany is not free, but it is affordable. It’s paid for by government, employers and employees, and based on income. Chad Powers can go into more detail if he wants.
They all do. Why are you surprised?
America is run by patholgical liars.
And like Grim pointed out, you cannot even trust your own spouse.
She will close her eyes and have sweet dreams knowing she got one over on you.
3b says:
November 5, 2025 at 12:20 pm
Dark: I was just noting how Mamdani changed his persona once he won.
Sherrill won 62 percent of the female vote in NJ. That is impressive.
If something is affordable, it might as well be free when you compare it to the USA.
You know why it’s so expensive here? Your politicians are all bought and paid for.
3b says:
November 5, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Dark: Healthcare in Germany is not free, but it is affordable. It’s paid for by government, employers and employees, and based on income. Chad Powers can go into more detail if he wants.
3b says:
November 5, 2025 at 12:28 pm
Sherrill won 62 percent of the female vote in NJ. That is impressive.
The other 38 percent were grandmothers and Karens.
The grandmothers are drinking tea right now.
The Karens are seething.
It’s paid for by government, employers and employees, and based on income.
OMG, based on income???
You mean people in Germany pay more if they make more?
Meanwhile back to Germany,where the government has shut down several Islamic organizations in Berlin , Hamburg and other German cities, for being a threat to the German constitutional order, due to their views and n sexual minorities and anti semitism as well as their advocacy of Islamic law taking precedence over German law in Muslim communities.
it’s almost as if you are rooting for sports teams to win and not for anything to actually improve
Even CNN has called out Mamdani on his angry speech last night. Silly NY ers.
We just eliminated a lot of risk in the markets. We’ve shaken the trees about as hard as possible. Maybe a few more fruit to fall but it’s close to becoming a risk on environment again.
No One,
Your post about Friedman mirrors Bernie Sanders’s view. Sanders pointed out that easy immigration was a Koch brother’s view where cheap labor would increase corporate profits and decrease social cohesion and thereby governmental power which would replace by corporate power.
3b,
CNN, like ABC, NBC and CBS can no longer be trusted to have an independent view that is not “King” approved. CNN is owned by Warner Bros Discovery and about to merge with the Paramount Skydance Ellison family King circle jerk.
I stick now to Reuters, Canadian Broadcasting, BBC and Australian Broadcasting
Don’t: Whatever, the fact remains CNN was right.
From Rachel Janfaza on x
Young Women:
81% for Mamdani in NYC
80% for Sherrill in NJ
78% for Spanberger in VA
Grim says:
November 5, 2025 at 11:12 am
NJ women tipped this election, full stop.
Mamdani s voting and attendance record as an Assembly man was poor. Not surprising. No work , experience, no discipline, no consequences.
Perhaps women would like to control their health care decisions? Who would’ve ever thought they would like Gary’s classic American Dream where white Christian alpha males made all the calls.
And now we get to see the right focus 99% of their coverage on Mamdani who might get 1% of his promises completed. And now for the shocker. Mamdani is essentially Trump on the Left. He’s angry, he’ll try to take things too far and he will try to run an end around on what was traditionally acceptable. I look forward to the exodus of the one million NYers who said they would leave if he got elected. Funny, barely even one million New Yorkers voted for Cuomo/Sliwa combined. So that essentially means every single non Socialist voter is going to leave. The stuff that the right passes as news is idiotic at best.
See folks,
This election is 100% American. People voted for these individuals. Anyone who doesn’t think this is the way elections should work are:
Anti-American.
Our politicians should be elected:
NOT BOUGHT.
Anything else is
ANTI AMERICAN
I thought DeBlasio’s saving grace was that he was a malingering lazy fuck. It sort of made his administration more of dereliction of duty versus Trump’s aggressive cruelty. I was concerned he would be in the Trump mold. If he is just a do nothing blowhard, then it won’t take long for him to be discouraged, and then apathetic.
3b says:
November 5, 2025 at 1:26 pm
Mamdani s voting and attendance record as an Assembly man was poor. Not surprising. No work , experience, no discipline, no consequences.
Chicago: We shall see. It says a lot in my opinion about Mamdani, that he could not be bothered to show up for Assembly meetings. He was elected to the position at 32 or so, no real work experience, no consequences for not showing up. I think he is an angry little fraud, and wont be up to running the city.
Lib: No disrespect, but you are pretty angry yourself. I am focused on Mamdani, because he is now a classic example of just how stupid the left can be, just as bad as MAGA.
3:18 apples & oranges
3B
Maybe they’re not stupid. Maybe they are fed up maybe they are tired of trickle down. Maybe they feel like nothing left to lose. It’s kind of arrogant to completely dismiss half of the population and call them stupid
Maybe you think they’re beneath you. But they have every right to vote just like you do. That is America. Whether we like it or not, that is how our constitution works.
Anything less is anti-American
Dark is right.
Just like King Bankruptcypolluza got elected and there will be consequences to it, just wait to see the financial and budgetary mayhem if tariffs are found illegal by SCOTUS.
If Mondani start screwing up, rest assure that the king to avoid his epstein, tariff and other issues will find a way to mess with him.
If you look at it logically. He should not touch Manhattan. Leave it alone as the 1% playground. The other borough issues can be addresses individually.
The housing issue is a two fold. Restriction on building which makes it very profitable to all real estate speculators from illegal 2 family conversions to 3/4 family properties to slumlords running multiple tenements. You don’t want to go back to the Bronx is burning years, the other option is to do as it has been posted here by many observing the massive buildings of 5 over 1 wood apartment building all over horrible spots. He should just allow a massive “build baby build”.
The grocery store issue is about kneecapping the Bodega Owners Association that kills off the Walmart that competes with them. Bodegas are great for playing the numbers racket and getting your legal/illegal pot and other narcotics, but they can’t compete at prices because they buy their stuff from middle men, not directly from manufacturers like Walmart, Costco, etc.
The free bus issue is not my bailiwick. But having free buses during overnight hours to encourage use and make people feel safe. Or having free buses during rush hours in certain routes to encourage use and alleviate traffic issue or to use as offset when there is subway or road construction makes sense. Think of free frequent express bus shuttle to LGA/JFK/EWR from spots through the city.
Stop judging right now. Give him time to perform and then you give the hook or the ovation. Even the King was given time to perform and the evaluate, 1st yr – great, 2nd years -wheels wobbling, by third car screeching out of control into a ditch.
Dark: Perhaps, but if people studied history they would understand that Socialism is a failed economic policy. Mamdani is a snake oil salesman. Is calling the people who voted for Mamdani stupid arrogant, or do I think those people are below me? No. Is it somehow ok to call all the people who voted for Trump stupid? That’s certainly been the case with some on this blog. Maybe, they feel the same way as you describe the people who voted for Mamdani. There can’t be one rule for one side and a different rule for the other. We are told that those on the left are educated and sophisticated, especially so all those people in NY and yet they voted for Mamdani.
Don’t: No one gave the king time to perform.
3:15 the ultimate fence sitter weighs in. Doesn’t vote. Prevaricates endlessly. Charter member of Grindr.
I don’t believe people who voted for Trump or Mamdani are necessarily stupid.
I know very intelligent people who have voted for Trump. I don’t know anyone who has voted for Mamdani, I don’t live in NY, so that explains why.
Personally I think they are all constipated. Both sides. Constipated from eating lobbyist money that they jones for like fish at feeding time. Greedy, self serving, or perhaps, they have been compromized by any of the special/corporate interests that have some sort of agenda that is in their best interest vs the average American.
I believe in honeypots. I believe some have been blackmailed. I believe many have been bribed or coerced. Some are closeted racists. Or they hate by gender, or sexual desires.
Some just hate the poor, just for being poor.
But if you have any of these attributes, and most of them have some or more, you cannot really be unbiased. This is where voting comes in.
The poor get to vote just like the rich. It’s not right to call them stupid. Money or not, white or black, these are your fellow Americans and are human beings just like you are.
The area that is skewed is not in the voting, many invest time and encourage all to come and vote. This is a good thing. The area where it is skewed is at the top-cause if you cannot control who votes, you control who they get to vote for. This is where the corruption is, not at the voting booth. To say it is, well, that’s a distraction in comparison to the bribes, corruption, and criminal behavior that occurs at the top of the food chain.
It’s amazing how well bribery and lobbying work. A 10k donation to one of the elected officials can get 1000% payback. Those who donated to Trump’s ballroom, just look at the government contracts they have.
“Report: Donors to Trump’s White House ballroom have $279B in federal contracts
The list contains heavyweights in the tech, financial and defense sectors, including Google, Comcast and Lockheed Martin.
The fact that the Epstein files haven’t been released gives you a very good reason to believe that there are very important people who would be compromised.
I can only hope a hacker or whistleblower will somehow get this all dumped for everyone’s eyes to see.
Most of them are so arrogant would just laugh and say “who cares,” others have enough money to never be prosecuted or just get a plain ol’ pardon.
3b,
Yes, the king got time to perform 2017-2021 and performed like Charlie Sheen on crack. Now he’s doing his second revival tour which looks more and more like a feeding trough for the Not Sees, Crooks, Swindler Confederate Society.
“they would understand that Socialism is a failed economic policy”. You are wrong.
Social Security, Medicare, Military are socialist entities. If they are not captured by vested interest they perform well. If they are captured by vested interest, those interest will force their way to others. To force their way to others you need compliance, which comes in the way of state power. The naked display and actions of that power is what makes the Cuba, Soviet Union, North Korea which are the same as Apartheid South Africa, Franco Spain, Pinochet Chile and others where “vested interest” use force to force compliance for their benefit but the underlying economic system does not matter in any of them. What matter is the force require for compliance of that system. No different that the slowly but presently building DHS -aka- Fat Red Neck Gestapo.
3b
If you think the German system is so good and not socialist, don’t you think “Making America Great Again” would be having that exact system here?
Chad is loving it.
And making money too.
Sounds like a “win-win,” right??
PoPo “Umm, send an ambulance.”
Dispatcher: What is the condition I need to tell them?
Uhh, I smashed his face and head into the ground. Not sure what code that is. He was responsive, but not any more.
You wonder why your taxes are so high, well, this bill is headed for you. Pony up!
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/1opc0bx/lawsuit_seeks_27m_from_upstate_town_officer_over/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Without further ado:
https://youtu.be/hZXxmhok1AU?si=4gzo2g7Obee0B0in
Imagine hating government intervention your whole life while… remind me again, what do you do for a living? Has federal intervention added any zeros to your income or investments? Has financial services percentage of the economy increased or decreased the last few decades?
No One says:
November 5, 2025 at 11:12 am
3b
Social justice warriors are always angry. They hate themselves, hate their country, and will never be happy. His dad was an anti-West academic. Imagine hating the West while enjoying all its benefits. Living a constant contradiction, one’s mind a chaos of hatred.
Just waiting to pick up my load and …….
https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/1opfevw/dashcam_footagw_of_the_recent_ups_plane_crash/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
Doesn’t really explain the NYC vote. I think it’s something instinctual about women and the idea of socialism and ‘sharing the wealth’ or an attraction to a provider etc.
Libturd says:
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 pm
Perhaps women would like to control their health care decisions? Who would’ve ever thought they would like Gary’s classic American Dream where white Christian alpha males made all the calls.
Dark Phoenix,
Without getting too deep into it health insurance in Germany is mandatory. Long term care insurance is also mandatory. Healthy young people have to have insurance even though most of them don’t have any chronic health issues. This of course helps support the older population who have many health issues. There is public and private insurance. Private insurance can get expensive as your premium goes up the older you get. Medication here is not as expensive as in the US, and those working in the medical system don‘t earn as much as in the US. However, the entire system is totally different than in the US so you really can‘t compare them.
Many blacks and latinos learned the meaning of buyer’s remorse
However, the entire system is totally different than in the US so you really can‘t compare them.
Anything and everything can be compared and contrasted.
Even Apples and Oranges.
One is red, one is orange
One is round, one is not. Get the idea?
Always an excuse for not getting the job done. No wonder China is moving ahead, it’s less complaining and explaining, and more doing.
D-FENS says:
November 5, 2025 at 4:45 pm
Doesn’t really explain the NYC vote. I think it’s something instinctual about women and the idea of socialism and ‘sharing the wealth’ or an attraction to a provider etc.
Seriously?
Think about birth control and what will happen to single women if it stops. Not the 50 year old’s that don’t need it anymore, the young ones.
You think it doesn’t help keep them “upwardly mobile?”
*MCDONALD’S: LOWER-INCOME TRAFFIC FELL NEARLY DOUBLE DIGITS
3:26 The unemployed pot head back at it again. Go back and hide behind your wife, while she earns a living, and you goof off, and smoke pot, drive around aimlessly, and draw dick pictures. An angry 60 year old fucker who couldn’t handle the corporate world and bailed out years ago. Sad and pathetic.
WTF?
Revenue from premium airfare will surpass main cabin sales within a quarter or two, Delta Air Lines (DAL) executives said.
Dark:I never said the German system was good or bad, just gave a very simple description of how it works. I do believe we need to have some type of universal healthcare system/ insurance. What did would look like and how it would work I don’t know. I do know the NHS in Britain is in very bad shape, and the Canadian system is struggling as well. Since you are in the healthcare profession, perhaps you can share what you think a national health insurance system would look like. Is it just Medicare for all?
Dark: There are still 50 year old women who might be on birth control.
Okay.
3b says:
November 5, 2025 at 5:18 pm
Dark: There are still 50 year old women who might be on birth control.
the new mayor will look the other way if Kristallnacht happens on 47th st. in Manhattan .
5:07 But somehow life goes on… me? I’ll muddle through.
Chicago,
That is the K economy.
The thing to watch is the point that the upper tier forward slash of K acknowledge the following. https://youtu.be/qLUoTzkLOss?si=i8NVC4q2kUh7m8Lv
5:23 Yes it does. And you are very good at muddling as you have been doing it for years.
Perhaps but in the current context & apart from whatever career success/failure I’ve enjoyed the ride, I cannot get behind a party who rounds up landscapers and cleaning ladies separates them from their families and abuses demonstrators. I also don’t like watching an idiot POTUS enrich himself while millions of Americans can’t eat.
3b, who is constantly outraged and angered at The Left, AOC, Kamala, Mamdani, me etc. with a straight face scolds Lib, LAX and others as being angry. You are a bitter old man in the same mold as SmallDik and Eddie.
Interesting……. to some extent, Trump sold the same lies, but he is not a socialist, but rather a crony capitalist.
WSJ Editorial
By William McGurn
From the skyline to the stock exchange, New York has always embodied the creative power of capitalism. But Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani is running for mayor as a proud socialist. And he is winning.
Economically, the proposals he lists on zohranfornyc.com read as though they came from a “Saturday Night Live” skit. “Freeze the rent.” “City-owned grocery stores.” “Fast, fare free buses.” “No cost childcare.” And so on. Though I would like to see free cheeseburgers for the elderly.
Unfortunately, it’s working. If Mr. Mamdani wins Tuesday, his victory will be a rebuke to Democrats who argue that the party’s problem is that it is moving too left.
One response to the prospect of Mayor Mamdani is to point out the economic flaws with socialism and why it is doomed to fail. The critiques are all thoughtful and correct, but they don’t seem to be denting his popularity. Why? Sidney Hook knew the answer.
Hook (1902-89) was a philosopher at New York University who started out as a Marxist but later became a leading critic of communism. He alluded to that past in his 1987 autobiography, “Out of Step: An Unquiet Life in the 20th Century,” and he noted the paradigm that today may deliver a socialist mayor for America’s richest city.
“I was guilty,” he wrote, “of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature. To this day, this error and its disastrous consequences are observable in the judgment and behavior of some impassioned individuals, mostly young.”
Almost 40 years later, those words help explain why Mr. Mamdani’s campaign holds such appeal, especially among young people who have no experience with how socialism actually works.
It starts with happy talk about free things. But that means taking wealth from those who have earned it and giving it to those who haven’t, or forcing people to spend their money in ways they don’t want.
Mr. Mamdani is all happy talk. An NBC poll released this weekend on capitalism and socialism perfectly illustrates the dynamic. The cover photo features a jubilant Mr. Mamdani raising his hands at a rally with fellow socialists Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The nationwide poll finds that an increasing number of registered voters have a negative view of capitalism, and the parties differ sharply. “Two-thirds of Republicans view capitalism positively, compared to 44% of independents and 25% of Democrats,” NBC found. “Just 12% of Republicans view capitalism negatively, compared to 28% of independents and 45% of Democrats.”
It would be more telling if NBC conducted a longitudinal study of New Yorkers—measuring their attitudes now and coming back in four years with this question: Mayor Mamdani promised to freeze your rent and make life affordable. How has that worked out for you?
The Hook paradigm means that no matter how much socialism fails in practice, socialists will blame greedy businessmen, never socialism itself. In the same way, socialists and people who don’t understand economics attribute the unaffordability of housing, medical care and education to market failure. Never does it occur to them that the culprit might be the perverse effects of government regulation.
Many problems in New York would be solved with a stiff dose of market capitalism. If Apple faced the same kind of government intervention the Big Apple has imposed on its housing market, those Mamdani voters would carry flip phones.
It’s also telling that in the political realm, the champions of socialism always are looking for new and mostly unknown candidates. That’s because the people who have put socialism into practice don’t have successful records to which they can point.
This isn’t good news for Republicans, whose nominee for mayor, Curtis Sliwa, trails not only Mr. Mamdani but independent Andrew Cuomo. But Democrats are in a no-win position.
On the one hand, in a tightening race if enough Sliwa voters decided they had to vote for the independent Mr. Cuomo to prevent Mr. Mamdani from winning, the Democratic Party would be repudiated at the polls. Likely that would mean a new civil war with the Democratic Socialists of America. On the other hand, if Mr. Mamdani does win, it will signal his successful hijacking of New York’s Democratic Party by the DSA.
Sounds about the way socialism works, with just about everyone except those at the top emerging worse off. Especially the voters.
Forget the Republican Party in New York — that’s a joke — but the national Republican Party and some of the smartest strategists do not realize the power of the Working Families Party and the [Democratic Socialists of America] for ground game. Modern politics now is about engaging low-propensity voters, and they clearly turned them out tonight, and this is kind of the Trump model. This is very serious.
You call Mamdani a Marxist, but a lot of other folks would call him a populist —
He’s a Marxist, a neo-Marxist.
Are there alarm bells for Republicans in this victory? I mean, he clearly is trying to make this populist appeal.
There should be even more than alarm bells. There should be flashing red lights all over.
This is not Karen Bass. This is not the guy in Chicago. You’re going to see a whole new group of Mamdanis in these major urban cities because they’re just flooded with immigrants, right? That’s where his vote came from, principally, and the progressive left, these kids have come up through the public school system. This is the flower of what the progressive left has delivered over the last 40 or 50 years. You saw it tonight and people, we’re going to have a fight on our hands.
All the Republicans sit there and tell me, “Oh, Steve, this is what we’ve always wanted, a socialist.” I said, “This guy is a Bolshevik, he’s a Marxist.” These guys are going to hunker down for a while, and they’re going to take over every apparatus of New York City government, and they’re going to start putting the squeeze on business. And you’re going to see, they’re going to roll, they’re going to roll hard.
His speech tonight could not have been nastier or more aggressive. He mocked Cuomo. That is one of the first families of the Democratic Party, particularly in the state of New York.
And then with Trump, it was a direct throwdown to Trump, unlike any politician’s ever done. He tried to call President Trump out, and President Trump responded.
I think tomorrow — and I’ve argued from the beginning — this guy’s citizenship should be checked immediately.
To me, it ought to be addressed. It ought to be addressed by the State Department, DHS and the Justice Department, to go through all this. If the guy lied on his naturalization papers, he ought to be deported out of the country immediately and put on a plane to Uganda.
Mamdani was born in Uganda and moved here when he was 7 years old and is an American citizen. Have you spoken to President Trump about trying to denaturalize him?
I don’t want to say who I’ve talked to, but on the [War Room] show, I have been very pointed about that. I’ve been very upfront about my beliefs on this.
I told people this back in July. A bunch of donors asked me to come up after he won [the primary], because I kept saying, “This guy’s going to win.” What Cuomo ran here is like “The Last Hurrah,” the novel. In the movie by John Ford, after World War II, a politician named Frank Skeffington — which was really [Boston Mayor] James Michael Curley — ran the same kind of race he’d been running for years and got smoked by a young upstart
That’s Steve Bannon on last night’s mayoral speech and victory.
One post from reddit that it is not from Dark.
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I pick Fat Eddie vs Small Con for who was the most acute case of Trump Devotion Syndrome
https://www.reddit.com/r/CrazyFuckingVideos/comments/1okrwbj/someone_picked_the_wrong_day_to_mess_with_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
“ Scrap” l don’t know why you use post under a different name. I know who you are. You let it slip some time ago like I said. No anger on my part, just stating facts. AOC , Mamdani, Harris, yes they are all idiots, any reasonable person can see that. And as for name calling, I only do that with one person, and it’s recent, but then you know that. I see you can’t help yourself with the name calling, as evidenced by you using SmallDik. I don’t understand your fascination with Dicks, perhaps you might examine that in therapy.
but the national Republican Party and some of the smartest strategists do not realize the power of the Working Families Party
What exactly is a “Working Families Party”
Is that the ” Average American’s Party?
Sure sounds like it. Well, Mr Bannon, yeah, if it represents the majority vs the wealthy/poor, then it damn well should have power.
The angel and the devil
Secretly they get along
Sitting up there with me in the middle
From dusk till dawn
I get so confused by
Which way to turn
They’re looking at me like
“Decide which bridge to burn”
If I’m wrong or right
You stand by my side
The devil never knows
The devil never knows
Listen, listen
As you forgive me
For the thousandth time
The devil never knows
The devil never knows
Angel in disguise
Ohh-oh-ooh-ohhh-oh
Ohh-oh-ooh-ohhh-oh
Looking over my shoulder
Looking out,looking out for me
Ohh-whoa-ooh-ohhh-whoa
Ohh-whoa-ooh-ohhh-whoa
Looking over my shoulder
Looking out,looking out for me
It’s a long way down
Even longer way back up
And when the chips are down
You’ll always back me up
You can talk me down
Talk me out and talk me up
When the ship goes down
You’ll always back me up
From “Rudderless” a fine film.
Mandami is promising free buses. Well fare beaters have been a problem since my uncle was a bus driver in NYC many years ago and only has gotten worse. No enforcement. Mamdani wants to make it free buses well half the people today that get on a bus don’t pay today anyway.
Here are the MTA losses today. IN 2024 estimates are the fare beaters skipped $568 million in unpaid bus fares, $350 million in unpaid subway fares, at least $46 million in unpaid commuter rail tickets, and at least $51 million in unpaid tolls.
Without the federal subsidies today the transit in NYC would have already collapsed.
The projections are only going to get worse. Here is what they say.
https://www.mta.info/budget/MTA-operating-budget-basics
Mamdani: “My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate the law, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense that is growing across this country that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be the president or whether they be the agents themselves. And what New Yorkers are looking for is an era of consistency, an era of clarity, an era of conviction.”
Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn’t get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night.
He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
VSG – Mamdani going to order the NYPD to arrest Feds? He very well might land himself in a federal lockup.
Juice Box says:
November 5, 2025 at 6:52 pm
IN 2024 estimates are the fare beaters skipped $568 million in unpaid bus fares, $350 million in unpaid subway fares, at least $46 million in unpaid commuter rail tickets, and at least $51 million in unpaid tolls.
How many of you on here have done any of these things? I haven’t.
Because I have always been fortunate to have a job with a living wage, or parents that supported me until I did.
Not everyone is as fortunate as me.
Even after being married to Satan I still support myself and my kid, with lots of luck and hard work.
Every single candidate Trump endorsed lost last night.
Lord, before I start through this thread, give me the strength to deal with the stupid. Those that predicedted the wins, calling the enivtable like it was calling the chancles of the sun rising in the moring. If you had called the prediction by double digits, you would have a shread of Cred, And honestly you need any shread you can harvest.
I blame the Republicans for not fielding better candidates.
In NYC GOP I think the sadest think I saw was Curtis in a suit, If he stuck on the red Beret, it would have been more honest.
I want to see the numbers how many GOP crossed to Cuomo>
So why did Donnie win, they say that he appealed to the disenfranchised that fe;t they didn’t have a voice. You wonder what the appeal with this is?
” that’s actually more money than it would cost to make every bus free in New York City”
“Hey, we have a new ballroom and Lincoln bathroom…”
So If we can add a Soup Kitchen as an extension to Gracie Mansion, we’re good?
“Sherrill another clueless blow in as our governor”
Was it you, Juice or Left bull-shiting back in the day that she, (like Bernie) was the Dem that you could pull the voting leaver for.
Grim, I dont have time, but could you run tape on that one?
FAb – My point is that even with 90% of fares collected NYC Transit is doomed. Covid money is ending…
Without another federal bailout, it’s doomed, Mandami or not.
Sad part it Trump is weaponizing this..He was around back then and not the youth that voted for Mandami that now rely on the MTA today.
“I wonder how the election will effect real estate prices ”
Sorry, dont want to be part of the grammar police, built I feel surrounded by them.
I understand it its AFFECT!
Preparing for future ICE interactions.
Fab – “back in the day” Yeah I get it you no longer shit your pants drunk anymore.
You problem is you cannot fathom that they can never soak the rich, it will always be the middle class that will get screwed. Grow up…
Republican males might want to question their spouses…
Grim, can we have a Wellness check on Joyce, we haven’t heard from her in a long time. Hopefully off living her best life.
It’s that time. Zero self awareness.
“Mamdani s speech was a lot different than his slick, polished appearances while he was campaigning”
I thought it was great. Cuoma I wish you a happy private late, but I never have to say your name again.
Cold but Accurate.
“Mamdani a child of wealth and privilege”
That went on a 15 day Hunger Strike with a cab driver.
You need to take a long hard look at that thread.
“History shows Socialists/ Communists can soften their message to appeal to more moderate people.”
And the big sweeping brush comes out. Focus on the person and actions instead of the sweeping generalizations
“Healthcare in Germany is not free”
It is if you hold a EU passport!
Sherrill won 62 percent of the female vote in NJ. That is impressive.
C0ntrast “They should just tell every woman in NYC that they are expected to wear a Burka when he takes office in January.”
Against
GOP pushing all but the elite should be in the Handmaids Tale costumes.
“Mamdani who might get 1% of his promises completed”
But that’s the point, He might get 1% achieved, but will attempt to deliver for the majority of workers in NYC. You will start to see this when you find NYPD can move from the burbs back into the boroughs.
“if tariffs are found illegal by SCOTUS.”
I heard a fragment of the Oral arguments, Barret asking if there would be a mess if it was over turned and the admin had to return the money.
Should Barrets concern should be on the scope of the legality, rather that the impact implementation of the consequences
Trump, using the beginning words of “Tricky Dick”:
‘My fellow Americans, our movement is far from over, in fact our fight has only just begun,’ Trump said in a video posted to Truth Social.
‘We are one movement, one people, one family and one glorious nation under God.’
As he spoke a remix of the Norman Greenbaum song ‘Spirit in the Sky’ played in the background.
“health insurance in Germany is mandatory”
Chad, this is a little disingenuous. Most of the population is in SHI that is the same in most of Europe. If you have a job there is a mandatory deduction to cover healthcare. It covers most of the public system. Beyond that if you want private coverage above and beyond, you are welcome to it.
“ust gave a very simple description of how it works”
No lets go for a deep dive!
“the new mayor will look the other way if Kristallnacht happens on 47th st”
Rolling Stone did a piece on this.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/zohran-mamdani-misinformation-antisemitism-1235376681/
“Interesting……. to some extent, Trump sold the same lies, but he is not a socialist, but rather a crony capitalist.”
So much to unpack on this one. I’ll have to put in on the back burner.
Here is a thought. Disney run free buses to get people around the same acreage in Florida. So why not free busing? It would cost as much as you were willing to give to Amazon in tax breaks for HQ2.
“AOC , Mamdani, Harris, yes they are all idiots”
Are they? How do they get that title?
This is what you need to get away from, criticize them on their policies not just some generic Ad Holmium
“back in the day” Yeah I get it you no longer shit your pants drunk anymore.”
No one of the three of you was going down the line if “This is a Dem I can vote for!”
My point is that now the rubber hits the road and its she’s the worst in the world.
Donate some money, become instant Fire commissioner, yet you have never been a fireman.
If you smell something, it’s warranted here.
FDNY chief Robert Tucker announces resignation day after Mamdani election .
6 weeks before Eric Adams appointed Robert Tucker as commissioner, 8 employees from Tucker’s security company all donated to Adams on the same day. nyc campaign finance board flagged it
Tucker was also never a firefighter.
Exactly what I said yesterday.
“You call Mamdani a Marxist, but a lot of other folks would call him a populist —“
It is what it is.
“Mandani is born out of Trump’s style of politics. Trump created the crazy woke left and he has created Mandani now.
Trump doesn’t understand the universal law of reversion to the mean. For every action he pushes hard with, the universe will punch back equally strong with the other side. That’s why populist politics is a losing game for everyone…both sides become unbearable….back and forth to extremes with every election in this populist trap.”
Pendulum hasn’t swung fully yet, this is just 30%. Wait for AOC challenging Schumer. A slew of young DSA members showing up. ICE will become a force to stop elections next year for stupid reasons and we will see more chaos.
So it begins,
If people vote the Dems can win. It’s that simple.