Everyone All Hot and Bothered About the Jihadi Running for Mayor in NYC
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I’m talking about everyone I read. The folks who have an ounce of common sense and human decency left in their bones, and also the native intelligence to see where electing a guy like this could very well end up.





As a wise man once said, ‘It ain’t rocket science.‘

And, for God’s sake, even if you can’t do the calculus on your own, it’s not like there aren’t a million examples already of the possible disaster in store one way or the other.

Chicago has a weak, ineffective, progressive Bear of Little Brains mayor who talks a big game. He has not personally been destroying the city – he’s not smart enough – but letting it fall apart as he shoves it ever further into the abyss on behalf of his union puppet masters and his big ego.

Brandon Johnson has cultivated all the wrong sorts to populate his administration and raise their flags at Daley Plaza, whilst the citizens of the city duck for cover literally and figuratively. Johnson, like Zohran Mamdani, is not real hep on the police. 

Life and death on Chicago streets reflect that.

As for the intellect required to run a major city, Johnson is definitely short a load of the required stem cells, and Chicago’s sad state reflects that.

It will be interesting to see where Mamdani drops in the ‘gifted’ category. Unfair as it might be, there is speculation that the recently revealed bout of untruthfulness on his Ivy League application was an attempt to game the system à la Elizabeth Warren’s high cheekbones, as opposed to the lad simply confusing the terminology for where he was born. Why did he do it?

What makes the gambit look all the more obvious is that Mamdani, for all his exotic heritage, in addition to having his professor father teaching at the very school he was applying to, still didn’t get in.





How mediocre is this guy that he wound up at Bowdoin?

I am firmly on team ‘Dumb Ass.’ [Beege Adds: Retracted. See note below]

That would be the first and easiest strike against him. The ‘cutie patootie’ is a prettily spoken but utterly empty shell. We’ve seen those before.

AOC is one. Luckily, she’s not running anything but a scam.

The real concern and horror for folks watching this fellow’s chirpy, astonishing ascendance to the heights of New York City, and really, national power, is the depth of his involvement and promotion of Marxist and anti-Semitic beliefs.

Mamdani loves the Marxist tropes. Simple minds are chanters of simple slogans.

He is steeped in fervent Palestinian hate speech from his earliest college days. Mamdani founded Bowdoin’s first ‘Students for Justice in Palestine’ chapter, a college that only averages about 1880 students on campus.

Very special students, I might add. It’s quite an elite little place, as one commenter I found noted.

…More than any other university I have seen, Bowdoin’s administration actively feels like they care about and tend to their students. The Princeton review rated Bowdoin’s food as the best among all colleges in the country, which I will definitely attest to. Bowdoin also doesn’t fall into the common problem of campus security acting as an antagonistic force—the head of security, Randy Nichols, is one of the most beloved people on campus. Again, if you feel strongly independent and don’t want to feel pampered, Bowdoin might not be the place for you.

Bowdoin has a lot of international students, so it definitely isn’t just white American students. I will be the first to admit that there are not a great many African Americans at Bowdoin, however (but then, that is a problem at many colleges and universities)—while it does seem like the administration tries to attract a diverse student body, that is a difficult task, as they have to work with people who would want to live in Maine, which is a much less diverse group of people than the general population. That said, people at Bowdoin are some of the most friendly and compassionate that I have met, and the administration has little tolerance for anything that could even seem to be discriminatory. If you are strongly socially conservative, Bowdoin might not be a great place for you.





Perfect for someone who wanted to start a little virtue-signaling hate club, though.

And Mamdani’s kept it up ever since leaving. His social media posts haven’t been wiped, and there’s lots of fodder for more gasping in horror articles.

What happens if this Jew-hating pretty boy gets elected?

Well, you have Sadiq Khan in London to point to as an illustration.

Take today, for example. It’s actually a very somber day of remembrance in the United Kingdom, 7/7 is. This is the 20th anniversary of that horror.

The 7 July 2005 London bombings, also referred to as 7/7, were a series of four co-ordinated suicide attacks carried out by Islamist terrorists that targeted commuters travelling on London’s public transport during the morning rush hour. The perpetrators said they were responding to atrocities against Muslims committed by the west.

Three terrorists separately detonated three homemade bombs in quick succession aboard London Underground trains in Inner London. Later, a fourth terrorist detonated another bomb on a double-decker bus in Tavistock Square. The train bombings occurred on the Circle Line near Aldgate and at Edgware Road, and on the Piccadilly Line near Russell Square.

Apart from the bombers, 52 people of 18 different nationalities were killed and nearly 800 were injured in the attacks. It was the UK’s deadliest terrorist incident since the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 near Lockerbie, and the UK’s first Islamist suicide attack.

The Muslim mayor of London only mentions ‘those who seek to spread division and sow hatred.’





Nothing about Islamists murdering and maiming almost a thousand innocent people on their way to work and school. Nothing about THAT hatred.

His words are straight out of the playbook for keeping the ‘right-wing’ in line, aren’t they?

You can’t tell who the terrorists are or that there were any. ‘Terrorist’ isn’t in there either.

New York can look forward to that come their next 9/11 ceremony, should Mamdani be elected- a sort of ‘some people did something’ memorial.

It’s inclusive.

Everyone is fretting about what ‘the Jews’ in NYC will do, as if they didn’t already know what this guy is. Everyone’s going crazy telling the world what this guy is, forgetting he’s taken care of that part pretty well himself.

What is going to be the hardest part to predict, and shouldn’t be, is what NYC, and specifically the Jewish community, does about it.

There was an interesting Bloomberg article this weekend (and it’s paywalled) that explained his primary win among young voters, and the premise was absolutely wild. It wasn’t so much these young progressive resistance fighters, according to the author, as it was resentful wanna-be nepo babies who haven’t landed as well off as their parents.

Hell hath no fury like the disappointed haute bourgeoisie. A populist revolt has been brewing among the American left since the global financial crisis dealt a severe economic shock to young college graduates. The surprising primary win of 33-year-old Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani in New York City’s mayoral primary is the latest manifestation of their economic frustration. And it will only get worse.

One of the more surprising results of the Mamdani victory concerns his base: Younger, well-educated, fairly affluent and living in Brooklyn — especially the more bohemian Williamsburg and Bushwick neighborhoods. Mamdani was much less popular among lower earners who lived in the Bronx. So it’s revealing that the relatively well-off turned out enthusiastically for someone who, only a few years ago, promised to seize the very means of production that underpinned their success.

The reason may be that Mamdani’s supporters tend to be elite, but don’t feel elite enough. They are the ones who suffer from what University of Connecticut professor emeritus and complexity scientist Peter Turchin calls elite overproduction. Many children of middle- and upper middle-class households went to college expecting to have a career that brought wealth and status. But there are a limited number of “elite” jobs. The result is a surplus of aspiring elites who end up resentful and blame a system they deem unfair. Turchin argues that past periods of social unrest were due to an overabundance of disappointed elites. It also explains recent bouts of populism, including the Occupy Wall Street movement.





Call it the WAAH vote.

…Only 30% of creative college-educated Brooklynites are homeowners, compared to 76% of college graduates in the rest of country. And it gets worse when they compare themselves to their peers who became part of the economic elite. Brooklyn also houses many people who work in finance, law and consulting. Their median household income is more than $290,000, and 58% own their home (though they tend to be a bit older).

Although the cultural and economic elite have always lived alongside each other, the reason the divide is getting wider is because in the last few decades being in a big city such as New York has become necessary to elite success, be it cultural or economic. But cities have also become much more expensive, mainly as the result of increased demand for housing and limited supply. Economically elite jobs have also become even better paid relative to cultural elite jobs.

All this is why Mamdani’s focus on affordability, his promises to freeze rent, subsidize food costs and impose large taxes on the economic elite, is appealing to so many well-educated voters. To some extent, it is hard to feel sorry for them. They chose to work in professions that pay relatively less given their education. And they are hardly the only ones who struggle with the high cost of living. Don’t forget that most college educated workers in New York earn more than those who don’t have such degrees, with the median household income in Brooklyn (for all education levels) coming in at $73,000.

But this is no comfort for those who feel cheated in a job that a generation ago could have afforded a comfortable lifestyle. It is also a legitimate problem that success in their industry requires living where they can’t necessarily afford the lifestyle they want and feel they deserve.

This are also the same demographic that earned a BA in some exotic ‘studies’ program at an expensive, uber exclusive liberal arts school, who still wants to work in the city and is now pissed off the NGO money is drying up.





They are all voting for the jihadi.

The Jewish vote, if it coalesces around stopping Mamdani and doesn’t splinter between ardent Jewish defender but hopelessly befuddled Adams, and traditional NY Democratic candidate Cuomo, however disgraced he may be, could be a deciding factor. God willing, coupled with regular folks voting ‘Oh, hell, no,’ that might be enough to prevent it from happening.

But I worry that all the histrionics, moaning, and handwringing about what a communista, terrorist sympathizing, light-weight Mamdani is just makes him even more appealing to the pathetically resentful slacker crowd.

They hate everyone anyway and just want to return to those college days when they were ‘pampered and dependent.’

And for all the pricey education, they still don’t get why we aren’t gladly paying their student loans.

You know they are SO voting for the cutie patootie.

Beege ADDS: Don’t it figure. Just as I hit ‘post,’ Rufo comes in with the goods on Mamdani’s SAT scores and his Columbia application. I will retract ‘dumb ass’ per his scores. As for the rest of it…

…The Times story captured the details of Mamdani’s box-checking, but gently avoided the underlying question: With such an elite background, why did Mamdani feel the need to falsely portray himself as black?

I have obtained Mamdani’s full Columbia application, which might help unravel this mystery. According to the materials, Mamdani scored a 2140 out of 2400 on the SAT. At the time, this was below the median SAT score for admitted students at Columbia and, given the prevailing distribution by race, well below the median SAT score for Asian students, but likely above the median SAT score for black students—hence, the advantage of marking “black.”