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Vote anyone but Mamdani

Posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jun 14 14:21:11 2025

Queens Chronicle

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Jun 14 17:20:01 2025, in response to Vote anyone but Mamdani, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jun 14 14:21:11 2025.

I agree. Him and Adams are at the bottom of my list.

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani

Posted by AlM on Sat Jun 14 17:32:12 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani, posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Jun 14 17:20:01 2025.

Eric Adams isn't on the ballot this week.

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani

Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Sat Jun 14 18:29:15 2025, in response to Vote anyone but Mamdani, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jun 14 14:21:11 2025.

100% he will not appear on my ranked choice ballot.

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Sat Jun 14 19:18:21 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani, posted by AlM on Sat Jun 14 17:32:12 2025.

The chick

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Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 23 11:01:22 2025, in response to Vote anyone but Mamdani, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jun 14 14:21:11 2025.

Still like ranked-“choice” voting? Never mind the abomination that early voting remains.
 
NY Poast

Shocking poll shows Zohran Mamdani overtaking Andrew Cuomo in NYC’s ranked choice primary

Lefty upstart Zohran Mamdani has leapfrogged over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo in the city’s ranked choice Democratic primary for mayor, according to a stunning new poll released Monday.

In its hypothetical initial round of voting, Cuomo’s lead shrinks to 3 percentage points, with 35% of likely Democratic voters supporting him compared to 32% for Mamdani and 13% for city Comptroller Brad Lander, the Emerson College Polling/Pix 11/The Hill survey found.

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams follows with 8%, Scott Stringer 3% and 5% split between candidates Zellnor Myrie, Whitney Tilson, Jessica Ramos and Michael Blake, with another 4% undecided.

But since no one garners the more than 50% of the vote needed to win outright, the ranked choice system kicks in. That means that even if a voter’s first choice is eliminated in successive rounds of calculations, their other picks could still be in the mix and emerge as the eventual overall winner.

Mamdani finally surpasses Cuomo in the eighth round of the simulated ranked choice voting — 51.8% to 48.2% — in the latest poll conducted June 18-20.

“Over five months, Mamdani’s support has surged from 1% to 32%, while Cuomo finishes near where he began,” said Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling.

“In the ranked-choice simulation, Mamdani gains 18 points compared to Cuomo’s 12, putting him ahead in the final round for the first time in an Emerson poll.”

Cuomo had led Mamdani by 12 points in the initial ballot in the Emerson poll last month and still finished up 8 points ahead of Mamdani in the 10th round of ranked choice voting at the time — 54% to 46%.

Mamdani has Lander’s voters to thank for his surge in the new poll.

Cuomo has a 1 percentage-point lead — 40.5% to 39.4% in the seventh round — when Lander is eliminated with 20% of the vote.

Most of Lander’s voters then switch to Mamdani instead of Cuomo in round eight — putting the Democratic socialist Queens assemblyman up by 3.6 percentage points.

Lander cross-endorsed Mamdani as his preferred candidate if he himself does not prevail. The left-wing Working Families Party also urged voters not to rank Cuomo.

Other polls, including a Marist College Institute for Public Opinion survey released last week, show Cuomo winning but Mamdani closing ground.

The Emerson College poll asked voters if they have already cast their ballots during early voting or are waiting to vote on primary day, Tuesday.

Voters who have already cast their ballots during the early voting period have broken for Mamdani, who holds a 10-point lead over Cuomo, 41% to 31%.

Cuomo leads Mamdani 36% to 31% among voters who plan to vote Tuesday.

There are big differences between the men by age and race.

Voters under 50 back Mamdani by a 2-to-1 margin, while Cuomo leads among Dems ages 50 to 59 by 63% to 37% and those over age 60 by 56% to 44%.

Black voters favor Cuomo 62% to 38% over Mamdani.

Hispanic voters also support Cuomo 60% to 40%.

But Mamdani leads among white voters 61% to 39% and among Asian voters 79% to 21%. The Uganda-born Mamdani is Indian-American or of South Asian descent.

Cuomo leads Mamdani among voters without a four-year college degree 61% to 39%, while
Mamdani leads Cuomo among college-educated voters 62% to 38%.

Men support Mamdani 56% to 44%, while women lean toward Cuomo 52% to 48%.

The new ranked choice poll of 729 likely Dem voters has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.6 percentage points, which means the race is up for grabs.

Emerson College conducted the survey by contacting voters by text on their mobile phones and by landline robocalls along with an online panel of voters.

In the last poll before the 2021 Democratic primary for mayor, the Emerson College poll had Eric Adams leading Kathryn Garcia 52% to 48%. Adams won by less than 1 percentage point.

The Cuomo camp dismissed the Emerson College survey as off the mark.

“This is an outlier: Every other credible poll in this election — including two released last week — has shown Governor Cuomo with a double digit lead, which is exactly where this election will end tomorrow,” said Cuomo campaign spokesman Rich Azzopardi.

“Between now and then we will continue to fight for every vote like he will fight for every New Yorker as Mayor.”

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by AlM on Mon Jun 23 11:32:42 2025, in response to Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 23 11:01:22 2025.

Emerson College conducted the survey by contacting voters by text on their mobile phones and by landline robocalls along with an online panel of voters.

Text is biased toward Mamdani.

I'm ranking Cuomo 5th, just to be sure. Trying to get my wife, who dislikes him even more than I do, to do the same.

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Mon Jun 23 11:36:51 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by AlM on Mon Jun 23 11:32:42 2025.

On my vote, Cuomo will be ranked. Mamdani won't.

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Posted by Chicagomotorman on Mon Jun 23 12:25:07 2025, in response to Vote anyone but Mamdani, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jun 14 14:21:11 2025.

Scary

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Jun 23 13:04:36 2025, in response to Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 23 11:01:22 2025.

So young people like the guy who is nothing but show and yells at people.

But yet Trump has to "be presidental". lol ok

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Mitch45 on Mon Jun 23 15:58:48 2025, in response to Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 23 11:01:22 2025.

Again with the word "shocking".

NOTHING is shocking anymore. Actually, the Jets winning a Super Bowl would be shocking. Nothing else.

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 23 17:08:20 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Mitch45 on Mon Jun 23 15:58:48 2025.

Not true. The Vikings winning a championship and advancing to the SB would be more shocking.

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 23 17:49:31 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by BILLBKLYN on Mon Jun 23 11:36:51 2025.

That's nice.

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Bill from Maspeth on Mon Jun 23 21:01:13 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Mitch45 on Mon Jun 23 15:58:48 2025.

That's how I am.

Between being an old buzzard and working for NYCT for 33+ years and commuting to/from work via public transportation for many of those years, I've seen so much that NOTsHING surprises/shock me anymore.

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Jun 23 21:24:35 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Mitch45 on Mon Jun 23 15:58:48 2025.

I disagree. This picture of the future mayor, who is a failed rapper apparently, is shocking.

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 23 21:27:29 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Jun 23 21:24:35 2025.

So who's going to stand up against NYC's rigged elections and stop the city from turning into a bigger bloodbath than ever?

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jun 23 22:06:00 2025, in response to Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 23 11:01:22 2025.

Ranked choice has its flaws, but what could possibly be the problem with early voting?

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jun 24 00:40:31 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Spider-Pig on Mon Jun 23 22:06:00 2025.

The fraud that you still continue to deny.

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Jun 24 04:38:36 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 23 17:49:31 2025.

Indeed!

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Jun 24 04:46:06 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Jun 23 21:24:35 2025.

NO SOUP FOR YOU!!

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Jun 24 08:58:59 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 23 17:08:20 2025.

Nope. The Pirates winning (getting to?) the World Series this year would be nothing short of miraculous.

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by mtk52983 on Tue Jun 24 09:45:07 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Jun 24 08:58:59 2025.

If I lived in New York City there would be a better chance of the Colorado Rockies winning the World Series this year than me voting for Mamdani. Any self-respecting Democrat should refuse to put him on their ranked choice ballot.

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 24 09:59:53 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jun 24 00:40:31 2025.

Seek help.

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 24 10:02:20 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Jun 24 04:46:06 2025.

All of these DSA types are theater kids who can’t get a real job.

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani

Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Jun 24 10:06:03 2025, in response to Vote anyone but Mamdani, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jun 14 14:21:11 2025.

Vote blind NYC Democrats

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jun 24 12:17:34 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Jun 24 08:58:59 2025.

So you're expecting the Vikes to win a championship?

The Pirates have been in the WS five times. The Vikes have never reached the SB.

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Jun 24 12:29:32 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jun 24 12:17:34 2025.

The Vikes will win the SB long before the Pirates win the WS, under current ownership (Pirates) that is. The Bucks have a beautiful ballpark. Too bad its wasted on a team with mediocre talent and an owner that won't spend.

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Jun 24 13:00:05 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jun 24 10:02:20 2025.

Yep!

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Jun 24 16:24:07 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jun 24 12:17:34 2025.

What do you mean they were never in a super bowl?

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Jun 24 16:40:08 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Tue Jun 24 12:29:32 2025.

Which has nothing to do with Manchester U.
Which I bring up, because next year is the World Cup in the US, so we're all going to be forced to care about "football".

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jun 24 17:34:04 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Jun 24 16:24:07 2025.

I stand corrected. Don't know why I thought that.

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Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo

Posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Jun 24 22:01:44 2025, in response to Re: Vote anyone but Mamdani—Emerson College/PIX 11/The Hill poll shows him ahead of Cuomo, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jun 24 17:34:04 2025.

10_4

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New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 30 23:32:27 2025, in response to Vote anyone but Mamdani, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jun 14 14:21:11 2025.

Original link and archive.ph snapshot. Goldberg has lost her mind, spewing all these lies.

Plenty of Jews Love Zohran Mamdani

By Michelle Goldberg
In 2023, a branch of the Palestinian restaurant Ayat opened in Brooklyn’s Ditmas Park, not far from where I live. The eatery trumpets its politics; the seafood section on the menu is headed “From the River to the Sea,” which I found clever but some of its Jewish neighbors considered threatening. An uproar grew, especially online, so Ayat made a peace offering.

In early 2024, it hosted a free Shabbat dinner, writing on social media, “Let’s create a space where differences unite us, where conversations flow freely, and where bonds are forged.” Over 1,300 people showed up. To serve them all, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported, Ayat used 15 lambs, 700 pounds of chicken and 100 branzino fish. There were also sandwiches from a glatt kosher caterer, a six-foot-long challah and a klezmer band.

The event captured something miraculous about New York City, which is, for all its tensions and aggravations and occasional bursts of violence, a place where Jews and Muslims live in remarkable harmony. In Lawrence Wright’s recent novel set in the West Bank, “The Human Scale,” a Palestinian American man tries to explain it to his Palestinian cousin: “It’s not like here. Arabs and Jews are more like each other than they are like a lot of other Americans. You’ll see them in the same grocery stores and restaurants because of the halal food.”

Eating side-by-side does not, of course, obviate fierce and sometimes ugly disagreements. But while outsiders like to paint New York as a roiling hellhole, there’s an everyday multicultural amity in this city that’s low-key magical.

I saw some of that magic reflected in Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign, and especially in the Muslim candidate’s alliance with New York’s Jewish comptroller, Brad Lander. They cross-endorsed, urging their followers to list the other second in the city’s ranked-choice voting system. The two campaigned together and made a joint appearance on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” and Lander was beside Mamdani when he delivered his victory speech.

Mamdani’s pro-Palestinian politics have sparked enormous alarm among some New York Jews, but he’s also won considerable Jewish support. In a poll of likely Jewish voters done by the Honan Strategy Group in May, Andrew Cuomo came in first, with 31 percent of the vote, but Mamdani was second, with 20 percent. On Tuesday, he won most of Park Slope, a neighborhood full of progressive Jews, and held his own on the similarly Jewish Upper West Side.

“His campaign has attracted Jewish New Yorkers of all types,” wrote Jay Michaelson, a columnist at the Jewish newspaper The Forward. The rabbi who runs my son’s Hebrew school put Mamdani on his ballot, though he didn’t rank him first. And while Mamdani undoubtedly did best among left-leaning and largely secular Jews, he made a point of reaching out to others. After he gave an interview to Der Blatt, an ultra-Orthodox Yiddish newspaper, Rabbi Moishe Indig, the leader of a faction of Hasidic Jews, told The New York Times, “As mayor, we wouldn’t have a problem with him.” (Though Indig considered adding Mamdani to his endorsement slate, he ultimately decided against it.)

So it has been maddening to see people claim that Mamdani’s win was a victory for antisemitism. A Republican running for local office in Long Island posted on X that Mamdani will try to shut down “every single synagogue” and Jewish nonprofit in the city. “Evacuate NYC immediately,” wrote the Republican Jewish Coalition, a political group.

Some on the right have responded to his triumph with anti-Muslim hysteria. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a picture of the Statue of Liberty in a burqa, as if Mamdani, a man who campaigned with drag queens and promised public funding for trans health care, wants to impose Shariah law. Her House colleague Andy Ogles called for him to be denaturalized and deported.

I can certainly understand why Jews who see anti-Zionism and antisemitism as synonymous find Mamdani’s rise alarming. There’s no question that he sympathizes with the Palestinians over the Israelis. New York’s past mayors — even the left-leaning Bill de Blasio — supported Israel reflexively. After the International Criminal Court issued a warrant for the arrest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on war crimes charges, Cuomo joined his defense team. Mamdani, by contrast, has said he’d enforce the warrant if Netanyahu ever comes to New York.

One needn’t even be an ardent backer of Israel to have reservations about Mamdani. I’m worried about his inexperience, and I suspect he won people over by making economic promises that he can’t keep. Even though my own stance on Israel’s prime minister is closer to Mamdani’s than to Cuomo’s, I thought it was a terrible mistake for Mamdani to try to justify the phrase “globalize the intifada” on a podcast this month. He’s right, of course, that the literal meaning of intifada is simply “struggle,” but context matters. Mamdani should understand why many Jews find the words threatening, particularly after the murder of two Israeli Embassy staffers in Washington and the firebombing, just this month, of people in Colorado demonstrating for the release of Israeli hostages.

He has consistently denounced antisemitism, and has spoken movingly about Jewish fear, including on the podcast that tripped him up. But Mamdani shouldn’t give the nervous people he aspires to represent any reason to doubt that he’ll protect them. He struck the right tone on the night of the primary, when he promised that while he won’t “abandon my beliefs or my commitments, grounded in a demand for equality,” he would also “reach further, to understand the perspectives of those with whom I disagree, and to wrestle deeply with those disagreements.”

Ultimately, though, New York’s Democratic primary wasn’t about Israel, no matter how much Cuomo wanted it to be. Mamdani won because of his relentless focus on affordability and our quality of life, and his ebullience, optimism and authenticity. At a time when the Democratic Party is ossifying into a gerontocracy, its leaders dependent on focus-grouped talking points, he’s young and energetic and comfortable speaking extemporaneously. In a cynical and despairing time, he gave people hope.

He benefited, too, from being underestimated. No one is underestimating him now. In the general election, he’ll be facing the disgraced mayor Eric Adams, running as an independent, and possibly an independent Cuomo as well. The attacks on Mamdani during the primary were brutal, but now that he’s a national figure, those coming his way will be worse. His foes will try to leverage Jewish anxieties to smash the Democratic coalition. Adams is even planning to appear on the ballot line of a fake political party called “EndAntisemitism.”

Mamdani’s opponents will try to reduce him to a caricature, some mutant offspring of Jeremy Corbyn and Yahya Sinwar. They will say they’re doing it for the Jews, and plenty of Jews will believe them. But don’t forget that the vision of this city at the heart of Mamdani’s campaign — a city that embraces immigrants and hates autocrats, that’s at once earthy and cosmopolitan — is one that many Jews, myself included, find inspiring. He won in part because he is so obviously a product of the New York we love.

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Re: New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Jun 30 23:44:23 2025, in response to New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 30 23:32:27 2025.

The first 4 paragraphs are some werid #%##. A cry for help.

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Re: New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani

Posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 30 23:51:51 2025, in response to Re: New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Mon Jun 30 23:44:23 2025.

The latter eleven paragraphs are even weirder.

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Re: New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Jul 1 03:47:09 2025, in response to New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 30 23:32:27 2025.

Wow, they really push the "narrative".

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Re: New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Jul 1 07:57:44 2025, in response to Re: New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani, posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Jul 1 03:47:09 2025.

"the seafood section on the menu is headed “From the River to the Sea,” which I found clever"

I would love to see a restaurant mocking gaza and see her reaction. Maybe have some items on the menu that alludes to honour killings.

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Re: New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani

Posted by mtk52983 on Tue Jul 1 12:11:27 2025, in response to New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 30 23:32:27 2025.

There are plenty of self haters

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Mamdani’s call for “seizing the means of production” draws criticism for former victims of communism

Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jul 1 14:25:40 2025, in response to Vote anyone but Mamdani, posted by Spider-Pig on Sat Jun 14 14:21:11 2025.

NY Poast

Zohran Mamdani’s ‘chilling’ call for ‘seizing the means of production’ draws outrage from Communist refugees: ‘Dangerous and scary’

Several Communist refugees and New York pols expressed outrage Monday after a clip resurfaced of presumptive Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani noting that one of his goals is “seizing the means of production.”

“After [the] Red October Socialist Revolution in 1917, Bolsheviks seized means of production, jailed or killed business owners, eliminated freedoms & took over private farms & food stores,” former Brooklyn City Councilman and Communist refugee Ari Kagan wrote on X. “I would never imagine NYC would consider this failed & dangerous government model.”

Kagan, a Belarus native who grew up under Soviet-style communism, further told The Post that the clip of Mamdani grinning as he parrots Communist godfather Karl Marx’s marching orders is “chilling.”

“It’s very chilling to hear that,” the former council member said. “It’s dangerous and scary. A majority of New Yorkers have to reject this man.”

“I remember government-run stores in Minsk. There were long lines,” Kagan recalled.

Mamdani is a double whammy for Kagan, who is Jewish.

“He’s a Hamas sympathizer,” the ex-councilman declared.

In the resurfaced clip — from a 2021 Young Democratic Socialists of America conference — Mamdani argues that the “purpose” of “this entire project” is “not simply to raise class consciousness, but to win socialism” and elect leaders who are “unapologetic about our socialism.”

The mayoral candidate, a self-described Democratic socialist, notes that certain issues socialists “firmly believe in” — such as boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israel and “the end goal of seizing the means of production” — are unpopular at the moment but should still be championed.

“It is critical to the way that we organize, the way that we set up our, you know, set up our work and our priorities that we do not leave any one issue for the other; that we do not meet a moment and only look at what people are ready for, but that we are doing both of these things in tandem, because it is critical for us to both meet people where they’re at and to also organize for what is correct and for what is right, and to ensure that over time we can bring people to that issue,” Mamdani said.

Last week, after Mamdani’s stunning upset in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary, President Trump described the presumptive nominee as a “100% Communist Lunatic.”

Mamdani has insisted that he is not a Communist.

“No, I am not,” he responded, when asked directly by NBC’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press” on Sunday.

“I call myself a Democratic socialist, in many ways, inspired by the words of [Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.] from decades ago, who said, ‘Call it democracy or call it democratic socialism: There has to be a better distribution of wealth for all of God’s children in this country,’” Mamdani added.

Brooklyn Councilwoman Inna Vernikov, a native of former Soviet-controlled Ukraine, argued that Mamdani was being deceptive about his true politics.

“This is exactly why Zohran’s whole song and dance about ‘Democratic socialism’ somehow being different from communism is pure deception,” Vernikov argued, when asked about the resurfaced clip. “Those of us who grew up under communism know this all too well. Our home countries were destroyed by ideas that came dressed in pleasant, persuasive packaging.”

“New Yorkers need to wake up before it’s too late.”

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), whose mother fled the Communist regime installed in Cuba by late dictator Fidel Castro, said the clip of Mamdani is the “scariest thing” she’s heard the controversial mayoral candidate mutter.

“Of all his left-wing rhetoric, this is the scariest thing Mamdani has said and it’s straight out of Karl Marx’s Communist playbook,” Malliotakis said.

“My mother fled a country that ‘seized the means of production’ and now my relatives have no medicine, no property and rationed rice and beans in Cuba,” the 11th District congresswoman added. “Venezuela also ‘seized its means of production’ and a quarter of its population fled and those who remain are living in poverty and misery.”

“What I really don’t understand is why immigrants would come to this country if they hate our form of government and economy so much,” Malliotakis continued. “His family could’ve chosen any other country in the world including Cuba or Venezuela if they love socialism and communism so much.”

Queens Councilwoman Vickie Paladino similarly argued that Mamdani’s comments were “straight out of the Communist Manifesto.”

“There’s no way to spin that. He’s obviously a full-blown Communist, and we cannot have someone like this in charge of America’s largest and most important economic center,” Paladino argued. “Between this and everything else we know about him, it’s obvious that Zohran doesn’t hold a single identifiable American value.”

“Clearly he lied on his immigration application, and he has no business being here. It’s time for this experiment to end. It’s time to review Zohran’s naturalization status. And it may be time to look seriously at the Communist Control Act again,” she warned.

The Post has reached out to Mamdani’s campaign for comment.

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Re: Mamdani’s call for “seizing the means of production” draws criticism for former victims of communism

Posted by AlM on Tue Jul 1 14:59:10 2025, in response to Mamdani’s call for “seizing the means of production” draws criticism for former victims of communism, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jul 1 14:25:40 2025.

I wonder how many of the complainers voted. 2.8 million people in NYC voted for president in 2024. 1.1 million just voted for mayor.

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Re: Mamdani’s call for “seizing the means of production” draws criticism for former victims of communism

Posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 1 15:08:29 2025, in response to Re: Mamdani’s call for “seizing the means of production” draws criticism for former victims of communism, posted by AlM on Tue Jul 1 14:59:10 2025.

lo@lm!

Thanks for posting here.

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Re: Mamdani’s call for “seizing the means of production” draws criticism for former victims of communism

Posted by AlM on Tue Jul 1 15:16:30 2025, in response to Re: Mamdani’s call for “seizing the means of production” draws criticism for former victims of communism, posted by LuchAAA on Tue Jul 1 15:08:29 2025.

If you're laughing, I guess you must be a Mamdani supporter.

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Re: Mamdani’s call for “seizing the means of production” draws criticism for former victims of communism

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Jul 1 16:16:35 2025, in response to Mamdani’s call for “seizing the means of production” draws criticism for former victims of communism, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jul 1 14:25:40 2025.

35 years ago I read a long magazine article form ex-soviets talking about how NYC had more laws and regulations than the USSR did.
Since then most of the decent people have left.

But at least Lenin's childhood home was a log cabin. Not some penthouse suburb liek Zo's and AOC's. I'm sick of rich "commies".
He'll be indicted by the FBI long before he seizes even a trash bag.

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Re: Mamdani’s call for “seizing the means of production” draws criticism for former victims of communism

Posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Jul 1 18:32:43 2025, in response to Re: Mamdani’s call for “seizing the means of production” draws criticism for former victims of communism, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Jul 1 16:16:35 2025.

And that was 35 years ago.

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Re: Mamdani’s call for “seizing the means of production” draws criticism for former victims of communism

Posted by Olog-hai on Tue Jul 1 21:24:52 2025, in response to Re: Mamdani’s call for “seizing the means of production” draws criticism for former victims of communism, posted by Orange Blossom Special on Tue Jul 1 16:16:35 2025.

But at least Lenin's childhood home was a log cabin

No it wasn't.

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Re: New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani

Posted by Mitch45 on Wed Jul 2 14:21:13 2025, in response to New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani, posted by Olog-hai on Mon Jun 30 23:32:27 2025.

She is right about this - I read that Mamdani got 20% of the Jewish vote in the primary.

Like Goldberg, these Jews need yet another lesson. Hiding behind their politics when the chips are down will not save them. Plenty of German Jews supported Hitler after he came to power in the '30s. They believed that his economic policies would save Germany and thought that if they publicly supported him, they would be safe from his anti-Semitism. They were dead wrong. All Jewish pro-Hitler political groups were banned in 1935 and who knows what happened to these German Jews.

Goldberg and her ilk, useful idiots like Bernie Sanders, need another lesson. And they will get another lesson. Liberal politics won't save them when the shit rains down on them.

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Re: New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jul 2 14:43:09 2025, in response to Re: New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani, posted by Mitch45 on Wed Jul 2 14:21:13 2025.

Oh; you still think there's no fraud in NYC elections. How cute

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Re: New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani

Posted by Mitch45 on Wed Jul 2 16:13:46 2025, in response to Re: New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani, posted by Olog-hai on Wed Jul 2 14:43:09 2025.

I'm sure there is, I just can't prove it.

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Re: New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani

Posted by AlM on Wed Jul 2 16:18:02 2025, in response to Re: New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani, posted by Mitch45 on Wed Jul 2 16:13:46 2025.

Yes, there are probably hundreds of illegally cast ballots every election.

Do you think if those in power could rig NYC elections, that Mamdani would have won? LOL.

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Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Jul 2 16:26:52 2025, in response to Re: New York Beobachter Slimes claims “plenty of Jews love” Mamdani, posted by Mitch45 on Wed Jul 2 16:13:46 2025.

LOL! Sure, Jan.

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