Townhall's Mamdani art gallery
Mamdani's old posts come back to haunt him; here's why "New York City's Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani has found himself in controversy over his past social media posts.
"The controversy was sparked by his old tweets and a recent visit to a Brooklyn mosque during the campaign trail.
:One of the resurfaced tweets shows him giving the middle finger to a Christopher Columbus statue in Astoria, demanding its removal." , , ,
Because it's the same as someone claiming he is patriotic – if you have to speak up and say it, no one believes you are.
"The good news is the violent left is coming apart at the seams; the bad news is that they are still coming after us, the pro-freedom right.
"The violent commie-fascist far left are supplanting the sane people in the party, because the latter are afraid of their crazies like everyone else.
"Violent leftists are still full of rage against freedom, the country, and President Trump in particular.
"It's to the point that left-leaning publications are openly warning them that they are going overboard and driving away normal, sane voters.
"But that's the problem for them in general, and because of this, they're openly splitting themselves apart in a leftist cold civil war, but the far-left end of the party is increasingly embracing threats and violence.
"And these always have a chilling effect on some.
"So, read what their saner voices are saying, and then listen to their new threats. Because while they might be destroying themselves, leftists seem to always like to burn things down in the process when they don't get their way.
"For some reason, the violent commie-fascist far left isn't listening to their saner voices." . . .
Below: Victor Davis Hanson knows exactly where this is headed: The Fresh, New ‘Jacobin’ Faces of the Democrat party.
Bill Kristol Endorses Zohran Mamdani for NYC Mayor Despite Him Being ‘Against Israel’
“He’s a very impressive politician. I don’t know that he’s going to be a very good mayor. He’s 33 years old, he’s never run anything. They’re good people who could work for him though, in New York,” Kristol said. “So, who knows? I don’t know.” . . .
Let Commie Mamdani Take New York City . . . "Everything went downhill with Democratic Bill de Blasio. For whatever reason, New Yorkers welcomed a communist to take the mayor’s mansion. And yes, he was a communist, a sympathizer of Central American drug lords and dictators. What were New Yorkers thinking? Not much, apparently, as they willfully endured de Blasio’s unprecedented permission of crime, corruption, and, of course, communism. And when you allow collectivism of any kind, you see crime and corruption come together in one big conniption of crap.
"After Mayor Blah Blah, Gothamites seemed to have learned their lesson, and they elected a former police officer and state senator—and former Republican!—named Eric Adams. He put more emphasis on fighting crime, and he pushed back on some of the wokeness, although not enough. After all, he was still a Democrat when he served as mayor, and he still promoted a whole bunch of the Democrats’ major progressive talking points to stay in good graces with the generally liberal hoi polloi. While de Blasio was unkind and contemptible, Adams was personable but relatively incompetent. Of course, corruption issues dogged him, too, but New Yorkers were willing to give someone who was a little less crazy a better chance at governing the city.
"Still, Democratic politicians running (or rather, ruining) New York City inevitably unleashed a long subway of failures. They run on pragmatic platforms, but they will cower to all the progressive lobbying and donor groups really running city political machinations." . . . More...
‘Self-involved narcissist’: Douglas Murray blasts Mamdani over ‘fictitious’ aunt story
Comment to this video: "3,000 Americans burned alive or were crushed by thousands of pounds of bricks, Thousands of families torn apart, Thousands suffering TODAY from the health affects of the dust.
"Mamdani: A moment of silence for my aunt who I later admitted was my dads distant cousin who feared taking the subway afterwards. Who wasn't even here (Confirmed thanks to him giving the cousin's name and the media researching it).
"REAL New Yorkers know and better get out and vote."
Video: What are rare earth minerals? AP explains "U.S. President Donald Trump has been making headlines this week as he spends time in Asia signing trade deals with different nations in many areas, including rare earth minerals. So what are they? (AP Video by Mike Householder)."
Highlights
In his Foreign Policy column, Carnegie Endowment fellow Alasdair Phillips-Robins argues that Chinese President Xi Jinping “may have miscalculated” by tightening export rules on rare earths, inadvertently handing U.S. President Donald Trump a strategic opening. The narrative is tidy, almost cinematic: Beijing overreaches, Washington rallies allies, and global markets reward American resilience. But the reality, when viewed through the hard geometry of the rare earth supply chain, is far less linear—and far more inconvenient for Western assumptions.
