Whoa! WaPo Drops Blistering Op-Ed on Socialist NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani

RedState   

"The Democrats are running scared because they’re realizing that with folks like this and NY Dem Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, they’ve gone too extreme even for themselves."

"Well this was certainly unexpected. The leftist Washington Post dropped a devastating op-ed Friday by its editorial board that ripped into democratic socialist mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani and said that he would be “bad for New York.”

"As we reported, the political novice won a shocking victory in Tuesday's Democrat NYC mayoral primary, beating disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo and putting himself in prime position for the November general election.

"Usually the liberal rag is little more than a mouthpiece for the DNC, so to see them go after a Democrat this hard is a stunner and reveals two things: 1) Mamdani and his extremist policies are truly a danger to the Big Apple, and 2), leftists are scared right now. As I wrote earlier Friday, Mamdani could turn out to be a “big, beautiful gift” to the GOP because we can and will pound away the narrative that this guy is the new face of the Democrat party.

"Even for many libs, this permanently-grinning specter with his socialist utopia visions, grand tax schemes and antisemitism is a bridge too far.The Post agrees, and they give the entire game away in their headline: Zohran Mamdani’s victory is bad for New York and the Democratic Party.

"The WaPo was just getting started, saying that almost all other Democrats are “better” than Mamdani." . . .

Zohran Mamdani, the charismatic 33-year-old who is now the front-runner to be the next mayor of New York, might seem like a breath of fresh air for a Democratic Party struggling to move past its aging establishment. In fact, New Yorkers should be worried that he would lead Gotham back to the bad old days of civic dysfunction, and Democrats should fear that he will discredit their next generation of party leaders, almost all of whom are better than this democratic socialist.

"Whoa. Tell us how you really feel, WaPo." . . .More...

The Claim That America ‘Stole’ California From Mexico Is An Ignorant Lie

 The Federalist 

"The United States won California because of winning a war — the way lands have changed hands for virtually all of human history. This latest attempt to undermine the legitimacy of the United States in general and its western states in particular is disingenuous at best and an outright lie at worst. But of course, leftists never let facts get in the way of a good victimization story."

"Recently, Katy Perry claimed on her Instagram page that California has always belonged to Mexico and is another example of U.S. racism and bigotry. 

"That’s not quite … right. California, like most of the world, has a history that’s slightly more complex than will fit an average bumper sticker.

"Prior to the Spanish arrival in 1542, there were more than 100 different tribes inhabiting modern-day California. Most were small, and the total population of the area is estimated to be approximately 300,000. 

"Although there were some minor explorations and small settlements, Spain left California largely unexplored and unsettled for nearly the next 200 years. This was due to a combination of factors such as distance from Spain, the strained Spanish finances, and also because there were no pack animals, little agricultural tradition, and a food supply that was less than appealing to Spanish palates. 

"By the late 18th century, however, the Spanish decided they needed to better organize their North American territories to preempt incursions from other European powers, particularly the French and Russians. As a result, Spain began a more robust exploration of the state and would slowly colonize it, setting up missions along the vast coastal areas. 

"By the early part of the 19th century, however, Spain’s fortunes were changing, the empire was stretched too thin, and after a decade of fighting, Mexico gained its independence in 1821. The new nation included what is today Mexico, as well as California and much of the American Southwest, stretching east to Texas and north to Colorado. Here’s where the rub in the argument that the United States stole California begins." . . .

May Heaven protect America from the simple-minded who desperately try to be known as "Good People". TD

The recycling scam laid bare in California’s leftist heartland

 Andrea Widburg  "Here residents can be fined up to $500 for not separating their trash when disposing of it"

This is Tiburon, California
Here residents can be fined up to $500 for not separating their trash when disposing of it
As you can see when the city comes to pick it up, it’s all thrown in one bin and taken to the landfill
Amazing pic.twitter.com/O8Jk31i5GE

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) June 12, 2025

"Our South Carolina neighborhood has green cans for garbage and blue cans for recycling. All our neighbors dutifully separate their garbage. We don’t, and we don’t for a very specific reason. What I discovered a couple of years ago is that, while different trucks drive around collecting blue and green cans on garbage day, at the end of the shift, the trucks dump all the garbage into the same landfill. It’s a scam that, according to my local representative, makes people feel good about themselves.

"When I lived in Marin County, California, we also had to separate our garbage. That wasn’t surprising, though, given that Marin County is one of the most hardcore Democrat regions in America. There, it wasn’t voluntary, with municipal codes mandating separation, a mandate enforced with financial penalties. Since I left California, the state got into the action, too.

"It turns out, though, that in Tiburon, California, the garbage collectors haven’t gotten the message. This wonderful video shows that, while good citizens dutifully separate their trash according to complex instructions carefully written out on the garbage cans, the efficient trash collectors are unimpressed. Everything goes into the same bin, then to the same truck, and from there to the same landfill: This is the practice in Tiburon, CA as posted by Ms. Widburg.

On the other hand, here is how Cleveland handles recycling

UPDATED: Keep Natasha, fire CNN; Its lies damage America by undermining the man we elected president

 Don Surber  

The damage done by CNN seeps to the fiber of America as the Big Lie is repeated by liar after liar in the televised culture. For example, MRC News Busters reported, “Colbert Dances After CNN Article Casts Doubt On Success Of Iran Strikes.”

. . . "Benny Johnson posted a clip from CNN and tweeted:

After getting torched by the Trump Administration, CNN is now panicking and reporting the TRUTH about the U.S. strikes on Iran: “It worked flawlessly. Completely destroyed. Those centrifuges are gone. Fordo is inoperable. Probably forever.”

"The reason the man said probably forever is that once compromised by a dozen bunker busters, the mountain is unstable and would likely cave in if Iran tried to rebuild it. Iran has two choices: find another mountain or do what Saddam Hussein did when Israel blew up his nuke tech site: give up.

"Now CNN is making the Walk It Back of Shame. Mark Steffen reported:'

'The cleanup is underway at CNN, where days of withering criticism over its coverage of the U.S. bombing of Iran appears to have had its intended effect.

Network analysts are now backtracking on claims made in a bombshell report from earlier this week, which cited a U.S. intelligence assessment that the bombs had little effect on stymying Iran’s nuclear capabilities.

Brett McGurk, a CNN global affairs analyst and former diplomat, went so far as to assert that President Trump’s planned operation “worked flawlessly.”

“These massive [bombs], with significant computer software engineering, went directly down to those three ventilated shafts specifically as designed,” he told two CNN anchors on Thursday.

“It worked. It seems it worked flawlessly.”

McGurk also stated that he was briefed on the current phase of assessing the bombing, which is exploring if everything went as planned.

"Trump’s spokeswoman demolished CNN." . . .

Now we know why Deep State had to leak ‘fake Iran’ story to CNN’s Natasha Bertrand… 

"Now here’s where the story takes a turn. Enter Natasha Bertrand… CNN’s Pentagon and national security correspondent. But she’s a lot more than that.

Bertrand has been called a Deep State mouthpiece and a key player in pushing the Russia hoax, the infamous “pee tape” lie, and a long list of other intelligence-backed psy-ops, like the Hunter Biden laptop coverup and the “51 spies who lied.” But now, she’s got a new gig. Ms. Bertrand is the alleged leaker.

Press Secretary Levitt called her out by name."   Full article

UPDATE: CNN is backtracking BIG TIME as they air that Trump was RIGHT - the Iran strikes were effective, the leaked intel report was WRONG

"It WORKED. It seems to have worked flawlessly!"
"The 20,000 centrifuges...they are all COMPLETELY DESTROYED!"pic.twitter.com/tzPf9PJ1bh

— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 26, 2025

NY is Doomed: MAMDANI MIGRATION: Wealthy New Yorkers ditching NYC for Florida—deals collapsing overnight.

  Whatfinger News

Image published with permission from Ken Swope.

Laura Ingraham: 

"@LJMoynihan

explains the irony: "These are the very people Mamdani needs to pay for his programs. Where’s the money coming from if they leave?"

• Examine his actions from a wider perspective: Does he intend to expel those who will disagree with his future ambitions for the city and state? Those that remain will probably be his supporters, who will vote in favor of Sharia law. That, I think, is his goal!
• The money was NEVER going to come from the rich. The Dem ringleaders ARE the rich. They’ll wring it from the skilled craftsmen, professionals, and small businessmen that make up the Payer Class. – Mike
• Margaret Thatcher said, “The problem with socialism is that you eventually runout of other people’s money”. Also, “There’s no such thing as ‘safe’ socialism. If it’s safe it’s not socialism. And if it’s socialism, it’s not safe”. New Yorkers must unite and not vote for socialism. – Tiaggo
• Mamdani talks big on programs, but the wealthy New Yorkers who fund them are fleeing to Florida fast. Deals collapsing overnight—where’s the money coming from if the taxpayers bail? His promises don’t add up. Reality is catching up with radical policies.

Not everybody commenting was thrilled: . . ."then they should stay and clean up the mess. it's not florida's mess and no one wants to suffer their self righteous attitudes."

So, the "rich" want to leave New York for Florida? And someone please tell me who it is that is going to buy their residences and business properties in New York? You might want to leave, but are you willing to give up what you currently have for next to nothing?

Michigan Supreme Court Embroiled in Pronoun Battle Prompted by ACLU—Thomas More Law Center Joins Fray

Thomas More Law Center 

 “The State Bar of Michigan has no right to force this compulsion.  In its ostensible effort to be ‘tolerant’ or ‘diverse,’ it would, in fact, be enacting the least tolerant court rule in all its history. 

ANN ARBOR, MI — On Monday, May 1, the Thomas More Law Center (“TMLC”) filed its written opposition in the Michigan Supreme Court challenging the wisdom of a proposed amendment to Michigan Court Rule 1.109, which would require all judges in the state to refer to parties and attorneys by any personal pronoun they select.

"Erin Elizabeth Mersino, TMLC’s Chief of Supreme Court and Appellate Practice, authored the eight-page opposition to the proposed rule.  She commented that the proposed amendment “is the ACLU’s latest attempt to destroy the very fabric of our nation by subjugating our inalienable right to free speech to mandatory endorsement of its transgender agenda.”  The proposed amendment is so extreme, judges will no longer be able to make judgments on a case-by-case basis.  Failure to use a requested pronoun could result in the judge being punished for violating the court rule by the Michigan Judicial Tenure Commission.

"The pronoun controversy erupted when Michigan Court of Appeals Judge Mark Boonstra criticized the other two members of the three-panel court over their use of the Defendant’s preferred pronoun in a concurring opinion in People v. Gorbick.  The Defendant, convicted of multiple counts of criminal sexual abuse on children and self-identifying as having multiple personality disorder, told the court he wanted to use the preferred pronoun, “they” and “them.”  Judge Boonstra expressed his concern for blindly following such a request and wrote that the court “should not be altering its lexicon whenever an individual prefers to be identified in a manner contrary to what society throughout human history has understood to be immutable truth.” . . .

"Read Judge Mark Boonstra’s one-page concurring opinion here." . . .

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Commentary 128 Democrats Reject Latest Trump Impeachment—Here’s the Major Reason Why

 Victor Davis Hanson      

"So this opposition is really hurting the Democrats because it’s so hypocritical. But more importantly, it’s an act of omission."

"And this one was strange because 128 Democrats of the House caucus voted against it. And so, Reps. Al Green and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and all of these people that were affiliates for “the squad” and the radical fringe couldn’t even get a majority of Democrats.

"And you know why that was? Think about it for a reason. One of them was that Sen. Chuck Schumer in the Senate and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, who’s not speaker but she still has the influence on Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, the speaker who voted against the resolution, said, “Wait a minute. You got to remember that if we do this, we’re going to get killed by clips every day during the midterms.” . . .

Read more or see the video...

Amy Coney Barrett rips Ketanji Brown Jackson over dissent in birthright citizenship case

 NY Post  

“Holy s—, this is about as brutal as I’ve ever seen SCOTUS be on one of their own,” attorney Kostas Moros wrote on X in response to Barrett’s “imperial Judiciary” quote. “Translated: ‘you are so stupid that you aren’t even worth responding to.'”

"Conservative Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett stunned veteran bench watchers Friday with a blunt takedown of liberal Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s “extreme” dissent in the landmark birthright citizenship case in which the Supreme Court curtailed lower court use of universal injunctions.

"“We will not dwell on Justice Jackson’s argument, which is at odds with more than two centuries’ worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself,” wrote Barrett, the court’s second-newest justice, in a jaw-dropping rebuke of her colleague, the newest justice.

"“We observe only this: Justice Jackson decries an imperial Executive while embracing an imperial Judiciary.”

"Barrett had authored the majority opinion in the case, the most consequential on the docket this term, which gave President Trump a major win by limiting the power of district judges to block his actions.

"Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor penned the main dissent for the left flank of the high court, which Jackson joined." . . .

“The FACT that six Justices were OK with signing onto an opinion where Justice Barrett took a personal shot at Justice Jackson is a VERY STRONG indication that Jackson has alienated her colleagues and there is a growing lack of respect for her work,” mused X user Shipwreckedcrew, whose profile describes them as a former federal prosecutor.

" 'Justices circulate Memos among with their legal views on certain cases in order to bring others around to their thinking. Given what she has written in her dissent, imagine the memos that Jackson must have sent around in this case.” . . .  Emphases mine, TD

Justice Barrett gives Justice Jackson the nastiest judge-on-judge smackdown I’ve ever seen   Andrea Widburg

"With apologies to Jane Austen, it is a truth universally acknowledged that Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson must have been appointed based on her XX chromosomes (even though she doesn’t know what a woman is) and her melanin level. Take those away, and she is a truly dim bulb. But now that she’s on the Supreme Court, she’s a dim bulb with dreams of an all-powerful (leftist) judiciary.

"However, showing that the more intelligent people on the Court have finally lost patience with her, in today’s excellent decision saying that lower courts may no longer issue universal (or nationwide) injunctions, Justice Amy Coney Barrett gives Jackson a smackdown the likes of which I’ve never seen in a Supreme Court decision.

"The Supreme Court issued Trump v. CASA, Inc. this morning. Here are some key points from the main opinion." . . .

.Let me say again that, in all my years of reading appellate and supreme court decisions, whether state or federal, I’ve never seen anything like this. And so, while the opinion was a great win for the Trump administration and a necessary brake on out-of-control leftist judges, what social media caught was the fact that Jackson has clearly worn out her welcome amongst the members of the court with IQs over 100. Indeed, even Sotomayor and Kagan wouldn’t join her dissent, while six of the justices signed on to the main decision.

Blame must be assigned where it belongs; to the witless Biden and his unlearned handlers who placed Judge Jackson in this unfortunate position and set her up for predestined failure. Sadly, I see her on the opposite end of the spectrum from Justice Clarence Thomas.TD

"Ketanji Brown Jackson is a great example of how DEI feeds racial prejudice. When you elevate morons just because of their skin color, people get the mistaken idea that all people of that skin color are morons. It's a terrible thing to do to people."

Joel Berry Managing Editor of @TheBabylonBee, bestselling author of Postmodern Pilgrim’s Progress, USMC vet, grumpy dad

Momdani "is a typical know-it-all who actually knows nothing. His real-world experience is less than that of typical high school student from flyover country."

 Issues & Insights

"Unlikely, on both counts. The 33-year-old is a typical know-it-all who actually knows nothing. His real-world experience is less than that of typical high school student from flyover country."

Townhall

" 'Zohran Mamdani, winner of the Democratic Party’s New York City mayoral primary, is overflowing with Marxist ideas of how to govern that are so lousy that it’s hard to believe he got more than his own vote in Tuesday’s election. Each of them is horrendous, from free bus services to rent control to punitive taxes on those who create prosperity, but none are quite so laughable as his proposal to establish a chain of city-run grocery stores.

"Mamdani’s campaign literature – overflowing with empty leftist jargon – says if elected he “will create a network of city-owned grocery stores focused on keeping prices low, not making a profit.” The mission “is lower prices, not price gouging.” 

"In an interview, the socialist Mamdani said he wants “a pilot program of one store in each borough that builds on the feasibility study that was done in Chicago,” which, incidentally, was never released and has been put on a dusty shelf where it will grow moldy.

"Apparently not even that city’s Marxist mayor believed he could make the idea work.

"It’s nearly impossible to imagine any adult would propose opening government-owned grocery stores. The concept might make for spirited debate in a junior high social studies class. In the real world, though, there are consequences.

“If the city of New York is going socialist, I will definitely close, or sell, or move or franchise the Gristedes locations,” says John Catsimatidis, the CEO of the Gristedes chain, which “has been feeding New Yorkers for over 100 years.”

"This should alarm Mamdani. It won’t. He’ll be glad to get rid of a dirty profit-monger who doesn’t belong in his socialist utopia.

"Far from New York is Erie, Kansas, which became known as the “small town that saved its only grocery store — by buying it.” The city took over Stub’s Market in early 2021 after learning that it was to close.

"But it didn’t go well. The Wall Street Journal reported in October 2023 that it was “losing money almost every month.” City Clerk Jamie Janssen told the Journal that the goal was “to narrow losses to under $100,000 this year.” Losses had reached $132,000 the year before, even though volunteers stock the goods, some of which are donated by local businesses." . . .

Blue-State Socialism: You Wanted It, Now You Get It … Good And Hard   

. . ."We’re not gloating here. The Democratic Party was once a serious political group that based its popularity on appealing to centrist blue-collar working-class Americans and moderate urban liberals. The extreme left was largely, though not entirely, marginalized. "Today, that’s sadly no longer true. Take California." . . . 

Mamdani promises “freebies”   . . ."Mamdani is a ludicrously inexperienced candidate who tends to speak aggressively and insistently, which is the tone of an immature know-it-all. His personal work experience is extremely limited and there are no notable accomplishments marking his life since he graduated from Bowdoin College.

"As a true Marxist, his campaign derives its impetus from the communist slogan of “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” Since life is sustained at a basic level by the air we breathe and the food we eat, he has promised to have government run grocery stores where food prices will be kept down because the stores will not pay property tax or rent. As someone who had many students from the former Soviet Union after it collapsed in 1991, I heard many stories about obtaining food in the USSR under communism where all the grocery stores and butcher shops were government-owned.

"Students regaled me with stories of how family members would have to line up for hours at butcher shops to obtain even one chicken. Furthermore, to even be certain that a decent chicken awaited the customer after a long wait, bribes had to be paid ahead of time to those running the shops. The range of items for sale was quite limited. There was a pathetic lack of choice in the former USSR, a country big on promises but weak on delivery." . . .

Democrats Discover Innovative Strategy Of Promising Free Stuff To Stupid People   (Babylon Bee parody) 

  . . ."This is really fantastic stuff," said House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. "Free stuff for stupid people's votes? What a breakthrough! All we have to do is lie about how much stuff we can give away, and those horrible Republicans will never hold office again." . . .

How the Transgender Movement Turned the Left Against Women

 Victor Davis Hanson

"Transgenderism is an old phenomenon. It was very, very rare, a very small percentage of the population. Sometime around 2005 to 2015, it exploded as a civil rights issue. And the numbers have been vastly inflated. It’s been trendy among young people on campus. But it has almost destroyed female sports in a way that’s ironic, tragically ironic, because the Left once was a protector and the champion of female sports and now it’s de facto, it’s destroyer."

Victor Davis Hanson, a senior contributor for The Daily Signal, is a classicist and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and host of "The Victor Davis Hanson Show." His website, The Blade of Perseus, features columns, lectures, and exclusive content for subscribers. 

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AOC, Psaki, and Mamdani rejoice in New York

 

Rich Terrell

Jen Psaki Fawns Over Zohran Mamdani 

 . . ."Psaki’s full embrace of Mamdani without a shred of caution for his socialism suggests an emerging mood among the Democratic Party that the response to the party’s foundering after Kamala Harris’s defeat should be to push further to the left.

"That would seem to contradict the initial conclusions the party drew from its defeat, which seemed to be that its radicalism on gender ideology and critical race theory had gone too far and that it had drifted away from pocketbook issues to its detriment. Nevertheless, it seems some Democrats are increasingly concluding that backing away from advertising its most extreme social positions so prominently does not preclude the party from pursuing a radical agenda when it comes to the economy." . . .

New York Democrat says Mamdani is ‘too extreme’ to lead NYC… "At least two moderate House Democrats from New York are criticizing New York City's presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani.

"Socialist Zohran Mamdani is too extreme to lead New York City. His entire campaign has been built on unachievable promises and higher taxes, which is the last thing New York needs," Rep. Laura Gillen, D-N.Y., said in a statement Wednesday."

"Beyond that, Mr. Mamdani has called to defund the police and has demonstrated a deeply disturbing pattern of unacceptable antisemitic comments, which stoke hate at a time when antisemitism is skyrocketing. He is the absolute wrong choice for New York." . . .

. . . "She and Suozzi have both been known to break from their own party on issues like law enforcement and illegal immigration during her brief time in Congress so far.

"They're also breaking from Democratic leaders in her criticism of Mamdani, a 33-year-old self-proclaimed democratic socialist whose platform includes city-owned and operated grocery stores.

"Both House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in public statements on Wednesday that they had spoken to Mamdani since his victory." . . .

Zohran Mamdani’s shock win over Andrew Cuomo fuels rumors of AOC 2028 presidential run: ‘Broadens her horizons’

"Speculation is swirling about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s plans for 2028 after she successfully endorsed dark-horse socialist Zohran Mamdani in the heated New York City Democratic mayoral primary.

"Many observers believe the lefty “Squad” member will try to move up from her House seat — whether to the Senate or even the White House — in the aftermath of Mamdani’s stunning upset over ex-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Tuesday night.

“ 'It just continues to open more doors,” Corbin Trent, Ocasio-Cortez’s former spokesperson and author of America’s Undoing Substack  told The Post. “It just broadens her horizons.” . .  .

"But the democratic socialist’s win is also exciting Republicans who will have plenty of “fodder” — such as Mamdani’s pie-in-the-sky plans for government-run grocery stores and his anti-police and anti-Israel rhetoric.

"Those issues will be tough for Democrats to “navigate” between now and the 2026 midterms, according to a fourth party insider." . . .