The People's Republic of New York?

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The People's Republic of New York?

Or Mogadishu West?

Matt Jordan

Jun 27, 2025

Transcript

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A quick note

As of this writing, it looks like Sean (Poof Diddle) Combs MIGHT get away with the racketeering stuff. I always thought the government was too clever by a half trying to get him on a complex mountain of charges. We all watched as the scum bag beat a girl and dragged her back to his room against her will. That is the kind of loser he is. He was never worthy of the praise heaped upon him. I hope, no matter how this case eventually ends, that we all remember what a low rent, lowlife he is. To see him back in business would only be a testament to how pathetic this nation has become. We’re better than Poof Diddle.

To the business of the day!

New York has a history of political swings featuring colorful and sometimes barely tolerable characters. With exceptions, like that epic idiot Bill De Blasio (real name Warren Wilhelm - sieg heil!), most ran on party populism, but served with a more pragmatic style. De Blasio was just a bumbling incompetent, who took the wrong path at every crossroad.

If the city is truly as suicidal as pundits and polls indicate, that’s all about to change, with tragic consequences. If the present Democrat nominee gets into office, we will long for the halcyon days of the Wilhelm administration.

This could happen! AOC, the populist, bimbo bartender, WHO GOT NOMINATED BY AUDITION, who proves you need only feed pithy lines to an airhead to succeed, was elected and REELECTED from a district in NY that she has done absolutely NOTHING for and whom she harmed irreparably by chasing businesses away. It’s clear her district is a combination of emotional train wrecks and takers. Functional humans would have run her out of town on a rail. Not surprisingly, she has endorsed Zorhan Mamdani, and campaigned with him.

Mamdani is a pro-terrorist, antisemitic, authoritarian socialist. The fluffers in the media are keen to repeat, every day, that he is a democratic socialist. For the uneducated, the adjective is process oriented and in no way discounts the obvious problems with him being a socialist. And if you look at his intentions as mayor, you would be more accurate to call him a Maoist of the first order.

Consider:

He is a walking propaganda machine. Before we had Dem political whores throwing their fat bodies at law enforcement, before we had idiot Senators barging into press conferences, camera in tow, to create false narratives, we’ve had Mamdani doing it as a standard practice. He acts enraged and pushes against cops and security just enough to get cameras to point at him but not enough to get his skull thumped. And it’s all performance art. It’s all propaganda.

Free Busses

He wants free public transportation. What that means is he wants to cement the vote of more takers by convincing them he is giving them something. The ONLY people who will benefit from “free” busses are people who don’t work, and thereby don’t have their tax money spent on stupid programs like “free” busses. The genuine beneficiaries will then be able to take a bus to get their fix, or find a new bar to run a tab in.

Of course, you’ll then have the inevitable decline in quality that comes with something NO ONE pays for per use. Who would like to be the first to pretend you won’t have punks using busses as a mobile hangout? Who among you don’t foresee rampant drug use on busses? Who doesn’t imagine the more entrepreneurial hookers gettin’ funky in the back seat? Public transportation in NYC is already in dire condition. “FREE” busses will just mean no self-respecting New Yorker will ever set foot on a bus again.

$30 Minimum Wage

I’ve often criticized American labor unions for pricing the nation out of certain industries while accomplishing NOTHING long-term for their members. My biggest criticism of striking for more money at every contract negotiation is this: The union bosses don’t give a warm watery shit about the members. Members are a cash cows for the bosses - PERIOD. With every wage increase, the bosses get a pay raise, usually a fat one that far exceeds any benefit the union members will feel.

The same is true when political whores, especially local, Maoist whores like Mamdani, call for a higher minimum wage. Such a move, if successful provides a fleeting illusion of a benefit to the citizen. For a month or two they feel “richer”. But the most pronounced effect the raise will create is inflation in the market that minimum wage person does ALL of their purchasing. The entire LOCAL economy will float to the exact equilibrium that existed before the minimum wage was raised.

This won’t effect the rich guy a few miles away. He doesn’t shop at the same Walmart or bodega. He doesn’t buy used cars from Morty’s OK EZ Credit lot. The guy who waits his table is well-paid already because the rich guy spends far more for the service than minimum wage people spend.

This inflationary spiral will be dampened somewhat by the other immediate effect of the higher mandated wage. Mass layoffs IN THE POOREST AREaS OF THE CITY! You don’t have to look to far back in history to see the effect. California insisted on $20/hr. Many businesses built on the entry level jobs model simply closed. The ones that remained open reduced staff and automated. The same will happen in NYC.

And, if you do keep your job, don’t look for a promotion or raise any time soon. That ain’t happening.

Layoffs and inflation are certainties of Mamdani’s wage naivety. For a more detailed look at the damage ALWAYS done by government-mandated wages, see this article written in 2014 and revised in 2022.

And it gets darker. Like the union bosses, Lefty political whores need to fund the ridiculous ideas they promote. They know, at least on paper anyway, that higher wages mean more money into city coffers. THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU! They care about power OVER you. They care about their next political step. They care about the beautiful people who finance their existence.

Rent control

Mamdani doesn’t use the term “rent control” in his laundry list of stuff he is going to “give” New Yorkers. We all know how that worked out before. Doing it again, no matter how you label it, rent freeze, rent stability… it’s rent control. There has never been, and there will never be, a government price scheme that works. Maoists think they are so smart they can defy the laws of economics and history and do the wrong thing better then the other yahoos who tried it before.

The only people who will benefit from rent control ala Mamdani will be the lawyers who will make their entire career arguing cases rising from the necessarily Byzantine mountain of regulation this idiotic idea will spawn. A few tenants in apartments they really like at the onset of the scheme might be happy to hold onto what they have. Everybody else will be as happy as any citizen of any dull, grey communist city in Eastern Europe in the 1970’s ever was.

And oh, by the way, every time a landlord sees a crack in the pricing dike, they’ll jack up rents as high as possible. That’s the only way THEY will ever see an increase in income. High end landlords and slum lords will always get away with this. The rich can handle it and NO ONE IN CITY HALL cares about the poor folk. Working class landlords will have to be the most cautious.

Under Mamdani’s rent scheme, your freedom of mobility will be cut short. Housing, already in short supply will be made more difficult to come by. If you want to move to somewhere else in the city, you have to read the obituary columns.

City-run Markets

If the people of NYC are stupid enough to elect this guy, and if he actually tries to create city-run markets, this will go down as his most ridiculous idea - or a close second to free busses for hookers and drug users.

The implications of these Stalinist operations will be staggering. The city will insist on NOT being competitive. In fact they will subsidize everything to give the appearance of actually being competitive. They will by necessity force legitimate stores out of the areas the city stores operate in.

Because they will not be privately owned, NOBODY will give a shit about the condition they are in. And maintenance they do get will be done on bureaucrat time and under a mountain of red tape.

These “markets”, inevitable shit holes, will fail very quickly. But they will be kept open for at least a decade, probably more. Every time someone tries to close one of the dumps, perpetual whiners will turn out to scut-mouth the normal people who want the store closed. The TV stations will turn out. There will be social media posts of people in tears because the city-run pigsty is closing. Oh dear, Oh dear! But they’ll all eventually close, long after Mamdani has left office. Billions of dollars will have been wasted on them. In the end, all the problems the stores and free busses were supposed to fix will be far worse.

Universal Childcare

People of means will take one look at what this produces and will be looking around to a private option. The best childcare professionals will be offering it. That will leave the worst, the dregs of the industry available for the city baby sitting service. Oh what a joy that will be for the working mom to witness every day when she picks up her kid after a long day.

Mamdani’s list of goodies continues. In broader terms, he uses an old a bullshit, big government catch phrase. He talks about “INVESTING” IN THE SOCIAL SAFETY NET. There’s never any investment here. It’s spending. Its open-ended. There is no measurable success or return on investment. It’s just crumbs to the takers and a bonanza for the bureaucrats who run the game.

Who pays?

Mamdani says he will raise the corporate tax. Gotta make those damn companies pay! But they don’t pay. They very rarely ever do. YOU PAY! Every store you shop in, every service you buy, every gallon of gas you put in your car, has built into the price what the provider believes is an offset to what they think would be there tax burden for reaching their target income for the quarter or the year. YOU PAY THEIR TAXES! If they calculate too low, they may pay a bit of the tax out of pocket. If they calculate too high, they pocket a few bucks more than they expected to.

So, Chairman Mao Mamdani isn’t helping taxpayers to pay for his boondoggles for the takers. He will NOT make NYC more affordable. He, by his own words on HOT 97, is going to soak the NYC taxpayer for $8 billion more dollars per year, just through his corporate tax scheme alone.

Then he says he is going to hit the top 1% of earners with an additional 2% tax. (It’s just 2% according to him. Remember those words.) He says this is for people earning $1M/yr. I am fairly sure if you break it down, you don’t have to be make a cool million to be in the top 1%. So this will be hitting people making less than that.

A bit of history here. Shortly after the Federal Reserve was created, Congress passed the 16th Amendment. This established a tax on income. Naturally, folks were upset at the news. Don’t worry, they were told. It just a little 1% tax on people making more the $3000/yr. and 6% for people earning more than $500k/yr. That’s all.

But that wasn’t all was it. From that day to this, congress has voted away private wealth to buy votes. The programs they started were always more expensive than the citizens were told. As many failed, most government run programs do, congress just taxed more and spent more.

But let’s just say he isn’t lying, or ignorant and 1% is a million or above. New York - the city and the state - already have wealthy people moving out in droves because the taxes are too high, crime is terrible, services for money paid gets worse every year. Having a special zip code doesn’t mean as much as it used to. Now his tax base that is supposed to pay for all his goodies will leave faster.

The level of failure NYC will see under Mamdani will be staggering. Then they’ll say well, we have to tax the not-so-rich people as well, so we can pour more money on our failures. And so it will go, until a generation from now, some of the crap is ended.

And it doesn’t matter. Because all the ideas we listed above will makes NYC far worse than it is today, which is really shitty for a person of median income. And that would be the case whether the rich left or not. But they are leaving, so the decline will be magnified further still.

And if you think the antisemitism we’ve seen to date was bad…

Did you look at the college campi for the last two years and feel pride in their product? I didn’t. I would say that the Left has finally succeeded in creating a permanent, anti-American class of malcontents who think their shit doesn’t stink and raping, murdering terrorists are okay with them.

The antisemitism on naked display was stunning. Jews can’t walk here. Jews better stay in the dorms, we don’t want to offend the hate-filled scum on the college green. Jews have to use only the entrances and exits the scum designate.

Mamdani is an apologist for that kind of behavior as well as for the behavior of the Hamas subhumans on 10/7. He is OKAY with it ALL! NEW YORK: Look at London’s mayor and then look at what London, one of the finest cities in the West, has become. Look at what happens to people who criticize London’s mayor or his illegal immigration insanity online. THEY ACTUALLY GO TO JAIL! Mao Zedung1 would be so proud.

Aspiring Maoists usually don’t see the ruin they will cause with their programs. Modern Maoists are college educated. They’ve been told since they were 14 that the answer to everything comes at the hand of the government. At university, they are told that THEY (the individual Maoists) are special. They will use their degrees to earn big. But for the rest of the world there must be control and handouts. And the Maoists believe all this. And they punish those who criticize them. New York City WILL become London or Paris or Brussels or Stockholm. Take your pick.

Criminals will be coddled. Illegals will proliferate. When fanatical Muslims go to City Hall to interfere with the rights of people selling barbecue, they will actually be taken seriously. And YOU will be expected to shut up, especially if you are Jewish! The resulting mass exodus across all incomes and races will magnify further still the damage a Mamdani win will produce. He will take the stereotype of the Blue city to a new and unthinkable low.

On a happier note…

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