Other news, Anthony Weiner ran again yesterday, for city council, and lost to Harvey Epstein. Yes that’s real.
They made a snl skit about it and the actual politician ran with the new found fame and won .
Yes there is a real politician named Harvey Epstein in nyc city council now
Zohran mandami won the nyc democrat mayor primary. That’s terrifying as a New Yorker. He is a snake oil salesman promising all sorts of weird free items: free train rides/metro, free childcare for all mothers, rent freezes for people with a stabilized lease. And a massive tax increase on people making over 1m+ to pay for it all
In that case, I actually hope Mandami wins, and I hope he gets deported and has his citizenship stripped. That would be interesting.
A lot of people have asked me if I will get involved in the NYC mayor race by supporting a candidate that can defeat Zohran Mamdani. TBH, I’m torn and undecided. Like every other city run by democrats, NYC is a broken kleptocracy. Taxes are astronomical and services are pathetic to nonexistent. Anarchy and socialism are the next logical steps in this story arc. It's what the people of NYC have been asking for for years and it looks like it's what they are about to get. Trying to fight against this tide seems like throwing good money after bad.
It appears things will have to get worse in NYC before they get better. The Zoomers and Millennials need a refresher on the outcome of Marxism and socialism. They are too young to remember the crack and crime epidemic and murder sprees of the late 80's and early 90's. The squeegee men, graffiti, mugging, lawlessness, chaos, and pandemonium. Streets that were too unsafe to walk alone at night or even during the day. Getting mugged on the way to and from school was not just a rite of passage, it was an inevitability.
The Wall Streeters, financiers, and hedge funders have been too busy working on their fishponds and climbing the rungs of polite society to remember to protect the system that allowed them to achieve their success in the first place and allowed New York City to once become the greatest city in the world. Not ruffling feathers was more important than questioning the ideological insanity being taught in the private schools and universities that they sent their kids to. All that mattered was fitting in and getting invited to the right dinner parties.
Now their kids are indoctrinated NPCs, always protesting and supporting the current thing. Like their parents, they too want to fit in. To do so, they unironically exchange bromides and platitudes on the benefits of socialism over rosé brunches in the West Village. Because their friends hate America and capitalism, they do too. It never dawns on them that their lifestyle and studio apartment that their parents subsidize are all made possible because of capitalism.
This delusional thinking was ingrained in them at an early age by institutions that were captured by insane ideology and left unchecked by their grossly negligent parents. Instead of providing their children with immunity from stupid and provably bad ideas that have only led to misery and death throughout history, these parents shrugged it off as kids will be kids.
Now these kids are adults who can vote, but are totally unequipped to do so. In many ways it’s not their fault. From their parents, they learned some combination of magical thinking, preference falsification, and an inability to stand up for anything greater than themselves. As a result, they never learned how to think critically or independently. They never learned the value of Western civilization so they don't understand why, or know how, to fight for it.
Sometimes the only way to learn something is to learn it the hard way. Sometimes the only way to learn the value of what you have is to lose it. If that’s the case, Marxism and socialism might just be what the doctor ordered.
He'll basically do de Blasio 2.0, and I would expect a palpably unfavorable outcome.As a mayor of NYC, I am not sure if he can do worse than Adams or De Blasio, we're going from corrupt establishment tools to a liberal ideologue.
Cuomo losing pleases me.
Rabbi Moshe Hauer, vice president of the Orthodox Union, called for Mamdani to “prioritize the safety and security of New Yorkers over his ‘strong feelings about what happens overseas,’” quoting the candidate’s victory speech.
Supporters of New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani cheer as they watch results come in at his primary election party, in New York City, June 24, 2025. (AP Photo/Heather Khalifa)
“The safety of all New Yorkers — including Jewish New Yorkers — is the single greatest responsibility of the Mayor of New York,” Hauer said in a statement. “That safety has been deeply impacted by the rhetoric and actions of those whose opposition to Zionism has driven them to work to instill fear and intimidation in Jews who support Israel. It is time for Mr. Mamdani to move from disturbance to responsibility and to unambiguously reject and [rein] in these actors with whom he has been strongly associated.”
Key Jewish Democratic politicians sounded a starkly different note, embracing the rising progressive star and highlighting shared areas of agreement on domestic issues.
New York Senator Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader who likes to call himself the “shomer” (guardian) of Israel, spoke with Mamdani Wednesday and congratulated him on social media.
“I have known [Mamdani] since we worked together to provide debt relief for thousands of beleaguered taxi drivers & fought to stop a fracked gas plant in Astoria,” Schumer posted on X. “He ran an impressive campaign that connected with New Yorkers about affordability, fairness, & opportunity.”