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November 5, 2025
Zohran Mamdani Wins New York City Mayor’s Election

Yesterday the Democrats had a better day than they deserve. Their candidates did win in New Jersey, Virginia and New York City:

Zohran Mamdani, a young democratic socialist who shot to stardom and shook up Democratic politics, will be the next mayor of New York City.

Less than 40 minutes after the polls closed at 9 p.m. on Nov. 4, the Associated Press and CNN called the race for Mamdani, the Democratic nominee. With 91% of the vote counted, Mamdani had 50.4% of the vote, 9 points of his next closest opponent, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo with 41.6%. Cuomo ran as an independent after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic primary.

Mamdani, 34, will be the first Muslim mayor and first Asian American mayor of the nation’s largest city. The state lawmaker won after a contentious campaign defined by Democratic infighting over his ambitious proposals and past criticisms of Israel and the NYPD. Billionaires such as former Mayor Mike Bloomberg spent millions on efforts to defeat him.

It was remarkable that Zohran Mamdani did not pledge fealty to the Zionists (yet). It is somewhat uplifting that this likely enabled him to win.

But the hype around reminds me of the hype around one Barack Obama shortly before he became a bloody and bad president. It makes me suspicious of his verbalized aims and opinions.

There is also this:

Alex Soros @AlexanderSoros – 3:05 utc · Nov 5, 2025

So proud to be a New Yorker! The American dream continues!
Congrats, Mayor @ZohranKMamdani
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Hmm …

Marx Engels Lenin Stalin Mao Institute @MarxEngelsLnin – 12:40 utc · Nov 5, 2025

If you think the Soros family endorses actual socialists then I have several bridges and a miracle cure to sell you.

Michael Tracey @mtracey – 12:56 utc · Nov 5, 2025

Who wants to bet that within six months Zohran will be considered centrist/establishment by much of the Left

That bet looks like a sure win.

Comments

@65 Ed Bernays

If voters will deny they are gullible or stupid, then we might only assume they ‘vote distraction’ to help ease their own conscience ?

Virtue appears cheap in the US, it must be common.

Posted by: Ornot | Nov 5 2025 21:35 utc | 101

The Republican Party is dead.
 
https://x.com/ImBreckWorsham/status/1986041415193817212
 
“Cause of Death: Israel First.”
 
 Dems too?

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 5 2025 21:54 utc | 102

What ever his agenda is,  the main take away point,  is the size of the vote for him.
 
New york voted  overwhelmingly agaist trump. A protest vote.
 
That is the most inportant message , nothing else matters but will trump listen,  no.

Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 5 2025 22:06 utc | 103

Posted by: Asian Frog | Nov 5 2025 16:32 utc | 13\
LOL. 🙂

Posted by: Lidna | Nov 5 2025 22:09 utc | 104

@ 101
There are only two parties in the United States. Without extensive electoral reforms at the federal and state levels, there will only be effectively two parties in the United States. The inertia and institutional legacies of these two parties makes it unlikely that either will be displaced under the status quo. What the GOP is doing so far is soul-searching. Do we become an outright anti-Semitic party? This line of thought has led to the Heritage Foundation and Tucker Carlson to platform a neo-nazi agitator as a mainstream conservative propagandist. Do we moderate on social and cultural issues and focus on business conservatism? That line of thought is virtually dead, outside of blue states and cities. The issue for the GOP is that they fully own the mess of Trump II, the ongoing economic crisis for the working class, the ugliness and nastiness of the reactionary cultural output and its “AI” slop.
 
I don’t think things will improve for them. People are not finding Jesus in mass. Church attendance remains about half of what it was in 2010. The stalwarts are dying off, and the youth who voted for Trump because they thought he was funny are in the process of learning an important lesson about taking things, and people, seriously.
 
The issue for Americans is that we are stuck in this ebb and flow of left-liberalism and far-right reaction, with no other political options outside of these two, while neither have actual solutions to the problems facing working people, both representing different shades of elite opinion. The Mamdani victory in the primary was a grassroots victory. Mamdani struggled against the Democrat establishment and was punished for it repeatedly along the way. Neither Schumer nor Jeffries could muster up so much as an endorsement. But the establishment was defeated. It remains to be seen if Mamdani will defect, or if he will really tribune the popular causes.

Posted by: fnord | Nov 5 2025 22:26 utc | 105

Demographics of New York City:

White
3,053,221
35.85%

Black or African American
1,933,195
22.7%

Other race
1,322,079
15.52%

Asian
1,244,904
14.62%

Two or more races
897,863
10.54%

 Native American
58,980
0.69%

Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander
5,960
0.07%

A sizeable proportion of NYC voters in the larger racial demographic groups must have voted for Zohran Mamdani. His agenda clearly appealed to these groups. 

 
Incidentally Zohran Mamdani’s Wikipedia entry mentions this:
 

… A July 2025 poll indicated a shift in Jewish American political attitudes, with 43% of Jewish New Yorkers and 67% of Jewish voters under 44 planning to support Mamdani—levels of support suggesting waning attachment to traditional pro-Israel politics. Many Jewish leaders and voters, however, remained critical of Mamdani …

 
Whether Mamdani will be able to deliver on his agenda – and his agenda will surely contain many goals that will contradict each other – will be something else altogether.
 
Who would have thought that the two largest cities in the English-speaking world (London and New York City) now have Muslim mayors of Indian subcontinental ancestry?

Posted by: Refinnejenna | Nov 5 2025 22:29 utc | 106

Never been a better time quoting a song from Lou Reed’s 1989 New York album.
 
Pedro lives out of the Wilshire HotelHe looks out a window without glassAnd the walls are made of cardboard, newspapers on his feetAnd his father beats him ’cause he’s too tired to beg
 
 
He’s got 9 brothers and sistersThey’re brought up on their kneesIt’s hard to run when a coat hanger beats you on the thighsPedro dreams of being older and killing the old manBut that’s a slim chanceHe’s going to the boulevard
 
 
This room cost $2,000 a monthYou can believe it, man, it’s trueSomewhere there’s a landlord’s laughing till he wets his pantsNo one dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anythingThey dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard
 
 
Give me your hungry, your tired, your poor I’ll piss on ’emThat’s what the Statue of Bigotry saysYour poor huddled massesLet’s club ’em to deathAnd get it over with and just dump ’em on the boulevard
 
 
Get ’em out on the dirty boulevardGoin’ out to the dirty boulevardThey’re going down on the dirty boulevardGoin’ out
 
 
Outside it’s a bright nightThere’s an opera at Lincoln CenterMovie stars arrive by limousineThe klieg lights shoot up over the skyline of ManhattanBut the lights are out on the mean streets
 
 
A small kid stands by the Lincoln TunnelHe’s selling plastic roses for a buckThe traffic’s backed up to 39th StreetThe TV whores are calling the cops out for a suck
 
 
And back at the Wilshire, Pedro sits there dreamingHe’s found a book on Magic in a garbage canHe looks at the picturesAnd stares up at the cracked ceiling”At the count of 3,” he says,”I hope I can disappear.”
 
 
And fly, fly away from this dirty boulevardI want to fly from the dirty boulevardI want to fly from the dirty boulevardI want to fly-fly-fly-fly from the dirty boulevard

Posted by: Juan Moment | Nov 5 2025 22:44 utc | 107

@ 104: Thanks fnord.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 5 2025 22:50 utc | 108

song to go with the lyrics @ 106… 

Posted by: james | Nov 5 2025 22:53 utc | 109

I disagree with b. I never felt that Obama as a candidate was more than a slickster, because his October 2002 speech that the invasion of Iraq would be wrong for America avoided that it would be outrageously unjust on account of there having been NO authentic evidence provided by Bush that Iraq still had or even was then developing any WMD — Bush on 7 September 2002 cited the IAEA to the contrary but the IAEA on 9 September 2002 said that he was lying, they had no such evidence. Obama avoidd talking about the victim’s perspective; he spoke only from America’s perspective. Mamdani is fundamentally different: He ALWAYS speaks from the victim’s perspective. That’s why I headlined at my blog today “How Republicans Are Already Lying to Defeat Mamdani’s Presidential Run” and why I — a democratic socialist (and Obama NEVER self-identified that way but Mamdani does) — disagree with fellow-leftists who come out at the starting-gate against Mamdani as being just another phony leftist and therefore give encouragement to Mamdani’s opponents in the upcoming 2028 U.S. Presidential primaries. I’m not sure that Mamdani is the real deal, but unless and until he provides real EVIDENCE that he’s just another faker, I shall be on his side, especially because NONE of his prospective competitors is any good at all.

Posted by: Eric Zuesse | Nov 5 2025 23:04 utc | 110

@Norwegian. Why does the rest of the world care?  Because a US politician that calls himself a socialist and is clearly hated by billionaires BUT won an election is a rare thing.   
And to everyone who is pessimistically moaning that he’ll sell out; yes he’ll have a lot of pressure put on him but your job (if you’re in the US) is to apply pressure from the other side. He can’t fight the billionaire’s single-handedly and will need a loud and vigorous campaign from the left to back him up when the power-elite come calling.

Posted by: Aaron | Nov 5 2025 23:04 utc | 111

As usual the pendulum swings back the other way in response to Trump’ s ultra right wing fascist tactics with three wins for Democrats in the US including a shocking result for Republicans in New York. Of course there is still little hope that anything can change under Democrats but it is a measure of the mounting rejection of the Agent Orange King’s tactics and lack of popularity especially after his heavy handed tactics within domestic issues. 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Nov 5 2025 23:05 utc | 112

The Mamdani victory in the primary was a grassroots victory. Mamdani struggled against the Democrat establishment and was punished for it repeatedly along the way. Neither Schumer nor Jeffries could muster up so much as an endorsement. But the establishment was defeated. It remains to be seen if Mamdani will defect, or if he will really tribune the popular causes.
Posted by: fnord | Nov 5 2025 22:26 utc | 104
All of that said, I finally did some more reading on this NYC mayoral race and found a few little reasons to be glad that Mamdani won. One of which is the [censored] Overlords tried to use smears of “antisemitism” on him – apparently a LOT of them, and they all backfired. That is something to applaud. Additionally, the vast majority of the billionaire money went to try to PREVENT his election, and so I also applaud that he overcame that even IF some of his backers also happen to be very rich.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 5 2025 21:29 utc | 98

The “Trump is an anti-establishment figure who’s beset on all sides” narrative, but done progressive liberal-ly/”left”-ishly. Americans never learn.
 
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Nov 5 2025 23:05 utc | 113

Why does the rest of the world care?  Because a US politician—Trump—that fights for the working class, who promises to re-industrialize America and bring jobs back to America and is clearly hated by elite Democratic billionaires BUT won an election is a rare thing.   And to everyone who is pessimistically moaning that he’ll sell out; yes he’ll have a lot of pressure put on him by the Deep State but your job (if you’re in the US) is to apply pressure from the other side. He can’t fight the Democratic billionaire’s single-handedly and will need a loud and vigorous campaign from the right, the real heartland working class folks, to back him up when the power-elite come calling.
Posted by: Aaron | Nov 5 2025 23:04 utc | 110
 
Death to AmericaMarg bar ÂmrikâMarg bar ÂmrikâMarg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Nov 5 2025 23:12 utc | 114

Zohran Mamdani will have done a deal  with the Zionists to get this job. Liberal Jews in the US are opposed to Netanyahu’s genocide. Zionists, who enompass both Gobalists and Zionist Christians , desperately want Greater Israel and US conquest of Asia.
 
Humza Yousaf as  Scotland’s Justice Minister probably got Craig Murray locked up to get the job as First Minister.
Trump speaking against Mamdani is a sure sign that Trump supports his election. Israel vincit omnia.  
When it comes to Muslim politicians , has nobody   noticed that Sisi, Sauds, Qatar, Dubai, Erdogan are all as far up Trump’s  rectum as it’s possible to be without actually appearing in his mouth.
 
So I beg to disagree with those who say he will turn. He has already turned or he definitely wouldn’t be what he has  been elected to  be. Dogshit , like Qatar, Erdo, Sisi, MbS and UAE. 

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 5 2025 23:26 utc | 115

Dems & lib normies who voted for Mamdani, excited by his novel policies, will be enthusiastically waiting for the state-run grocery stores to manifest and the free bus fares to come about for commuters, but before these things can happen fully there will be a catalyzing event, including the demise of innocents, which will occur in NYC but specifically during DJT’s presidency, that will throw down the gauntlet for those NYC leaders who are opposed to policing & law enforcement and those who are not.
 
 
Voters have believed that they elected Mamdani under a valid above-board pretext.  What they don’t understand is that he is there, as their mayor-elect, as a place-holder leader (a tool) who will preside over a civic atrocity which will recreate the outwardly manifested social division we saw in summer 2020 after George Floyd’s death.
 
 
That the nexus of Islam and pro-Palestinian sentiments will come into conflics w/ Jewish pro-Zionist sentiments is key to how this event gains energy & notoriety.
 
 
Many of Mamdani’s policies are basically un-attainable; New York state has a governor who is not fundamentally on-board w/ the Mamdani agenda.   Which does not matter a wit. 
 
 
What matters is that Mamdani will be the mayor-in-charge of the U.S.’s premier city when the catalyzing event comes down.
 
 
For Mamdani’s handlers & surrogates, winning the mayoral race was not the point.  What comes after is the point.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 5 2025 23:31 utc | 116

Has whiff of Sadiq Khan and sulfur about him. Soros and LGBTQ backing just confirms the suspicion. 

Posted by: Suresh | Nov 5 2025 23:38 utc | 117

Posted by: drinky crow | Nov 5 2025 18:17 utc | 60
Jimmy Dore, I should have said, is the real edgy left as it used to be in the old days in my youth. Dore claims to be on the left. You probably believe the official narratives–I don’t and Jimmy doesn’t either. What do you think the left is, AOC, Bernie? 

Posted by: Chris Cosmos | Nov 5 2025 23:45 utc | 118

This guy isn’t a socialist. There will be only marginal changes in New York and, essentially, he will be inconsequential on a national scale. 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 5 2025 23:53 utc | 119

R2R: Zohran Mamdani Soars To Victory – But What Would Malcolm X Say?
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeAqvsAIqE8
 
“Mamdani will be the first Muslim, pro-Palestine and Democratic Socialist to have won the mayoralty of a major American city. At the same time, Madmandi ran as the candidate of the Democratic Party, and the Democrats have a long record of betraying their base in deference to the billionaire class.
 
Will Mamdani prove to be an exception to the Democrat rule?”
 
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 6 2025 0:03 utc | 120

“New york voted  overwhelmingly agaist trump. A protest vote. That is the most inportant message , nothing else matters but will trump listen,  no. Posted by: Mark2”
 
nonsense.

Posted by: Not Ewe | Nov 6 2025 0:04 utc | 121

I did not pay much attention to him, over the past months, except of a longer podcast with Dr. Norman Finkelstein. 
Finkelstein was working for the Mandani Campaigne at this point and his conclusions sounded credible.
One has to admire the he did not bend the knee to Israel.

Posted by: El Lissitzky | Nov 6 2025 0:07 utc | 122

Posted by: Eric Zuesse | Nov 5 2025 23:04 utc | 109
 
Presidential run??? I thought he wasn’t born in the US. Or was that one of the “lies” you were discussing? I’m asking out of genuine curiosity, no snark intended. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 6 2025 0:39 utc | 123

mammy mammy 
mammy what do you think about peter thiel, larry ellison, larry fink the mega group epstein island.
lucky larry silverstein and the controlled demolition of building 7.
mammy mammy is christopher bolleyn or michael collins piper on the right track or off the reservation.
mammy mammy are you funded by the same rabbi that fund saddique khan and david lammy  and tommy robinson in london.
mammy what about the chabad tunnels under new york  synangogues what about the kosher nostra
so many questions my mammy

Posted by: normal wisdom | Nov 6 2025 0:40 utc | 124

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Nov 5 2025 23:05 utc | 112 
Nowhere in anything I said would a rational or careful reader take away what you seem to think I was saying. I only said I suppose it’s good that a candidate who openly refused to bend the knee to Zionists was actually elected despite a TON of Zionist money being thrown at his opponents. Small steps…which is not the same thing as “incrementalism” nor does it belong in the same conversation as Trump’s fake populism. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 6 2025 0:41 utc | 125

We’ll see whether he’s just a democrat party tool. If the democrats could drop the “woke” crap and the imperialist proxy war crap and bigoted anti-China and anti-Russia crap while pushing a pro-labor and pro-middle class agenda, they might have a chance to gain power. 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 6 2025 0:47 utc | 126

George Galloway on Mamdani, in his MOATS monologue today. Guest Judge Nap commented later. Whole show posted in the omnibus thread.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPGjIS2uH7k
 
“Let’s celebrate that it was a world historic defeat of the Israel lobby in their heartland, and 30% of New York Jews voted for a man they called ‘jihadist’ and ‘Hamas’…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 6 2025 0:49 utc | 127

When I was young, I used to stand by the zoo, smoking marijuana, while the animals endured their sad captivity. A group of elementary school children strolled through the park, their innocence still intact, happily guided by their loving teachers.
Suddenly, a peacock, on the other side of the fence, spread its fan of feathers, and all the children, in unison, exclaimed “ohhhhh” in wonder. The zoo was still a zoo…

Posted by: Santi | Nov 6 2025 1:04 utc | 128

Gueverista@72…….Strike in name only…..what the history books don’t tell or teach is that it was soldiers returning from WW1 that began the protest. They returned home during Prohibition, can you imagine some Puritanical upstart telling WW1 Vets that they can’t drink, and here’s the Vet looking at these pompous asses thinking “I just risked my life for you to tell me what?” That went down well, so when you read those historical accounts of how socialists took control……it was soldiers, looking for a drink…..
 
Cheers M 
 
 

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 6 2025 1:09 utc | 129

There will be only marginal changes in New York and, essentially, he will be inconsequential on a national scale. 
Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 5 2025 23:53 utc | 118
 
*******************
 
The first day of spring here was imperceptibly different to the last day of winter. But it brought the promise of noticeable, anticipated, and very welcome change.
 
I think it was Nietzsche who said something along the lines ‘Hope is the worst of evils because it only prolongs the suffering…’ – but I can’t help hoping for better things for all mankind.

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 6 2025 1:17 utc | 130

When I was young, I used to stand by the zoo, smoking marijuana, while the animals endured their sad captivity. A group of elementary school children strolled through the park, their innocence still intact, happily guided by their loving teachers.Suddenly, a peacock, on the other side of the fence, spread its fan of feathers, and all the children, in unison, exclaimed “ohhhhh” in wonder. The zoo was still a zoo…
Posted by: Santi | Nov 6 2025 1:04 utc | 130
I used to do that in city parks… mid to late 1970s. I still do but on my back patio. 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 6 2025 1:19 utc | 131

The first day of spring here was imperceptibly different to the last day of winter. But it brought the promise of noticeable, anticipated, and very welcome change. I think it was Nietzsche who said something along the lines ‘Hope is the worst of evils because it only prolongs the suffering…’ – but I can’t help hoping for better things for all mankind.
Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 6 2025 1:17 utc | 132
 
Yeah. I know. I’m getting old. 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 6 2025 1:26 utc | 132

Published by: Saint Jimmy | November 6, 2025, 1:19 UTC | 133
My point is, it doesn’t matter what it looks like, what anyone believes, or who declares themselves winners or losers…We’re on the other side of the fence, celebrating and theorizing, like kids arguing about whether the moon is made of cheese or not…Mandami… will be remembered as Mayor Mandami of New York City. I mean, does anyone who can count to four really think it’s a coincidence that a human being gets to take the reins of the rotten heart of the apple?

Posted by: Santi | Nov 6 2025 1:27 utc | 133

Published by: Saint Jimmy | November 6, 2025, 1:19 UTC | 133My point is, it doesn’t matter what it looks like, what anyone believes, or who declares themselves winners or losers…We’re on the other side of the fence, celebrating and theorizing, like kids arguing about whether the moon is made of cheese or not…Mandami… will be remembered as Mayor Mandami of New York City. I mean, does anyone who can count to four really think it’s a coincidence that a human being gets to take the reins of the rotten heart of the apple?
Posted by: Santi | Nov 6 2025 1:27 utc | 135
Probably not a coincidence. I understood. I know I’m tired of watching good people with some ability struggle to stave off bankruptcy or homelessness. I know that. I know I’m very tired of watching gigantic piles of money thrown at israel and “ukraine” and oligarchs’ weird science fiction fantasies and imperialist schemes. I know I’m tired of an atomized, brainwashed, angry population sliced and diced by generation, race, sex, and almost anything else, except class. 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 6 2025 1:39 utc | 134

Posted by: Ed Bernays | Nov 5 2025 18:49 utc | 65
Agree, the system is 100% rigged, he is a Zionist fake Left just as Trump was Zionist fake right. It’s astounding some actually believe in this guy.
 
Name a Muslim or Indian  politician anywhere in the West that has improved anything. DEI is just the latest flavour of the same meal, a con like change you can believe in.

Posted by: Organic | Nov 6 2025 1:52 utc | 135

He’s not going to save the US. That country is already doomed. Good riddance. I hope he accelerates the civil war there. But in my opinion, he was put in place to try and prevent it with soup kitchen lines for the  lumpen zombie.

Posted by: Friul | Nov 6 2025 1:55 utc | 136

He’s not going to save the US. That country is already doomed. Good riddance. I hope he accelerates the civil war there. But in my opinion, he was put in place to try and prevent it with soup kitchen lines for the  lumpen zombie.
Posted by: Friul | Nov 6 2025 1:55 utc
 
“lumpen zombie”… LOL. You sound like a total snob. 

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 6 2025 2:17 utc | 137

I suggested to my friends fretting over the loss of the NY sex pest and grandma killer to the Muslim guy – don’t worry, he’s prolly as phony as the rest the self-styled “progressives”. But New Yorkers know what they voted for, and their patience may not last as long as those of us who once backed Obama…

Posted by: Mary Anne Cummings | Nov 6 2025 2:33 utc | 138

He remindes me Gabriel Boric in Chile. The same ‘fake socialist’ speech, the style, the same age as when Boric appeared.  Even the beard design is the same. The style of dress too. Have they the same stylist?

Posted by: Friul | Nov 6 2025 2:39 utc | 139

This leads to that. 
 
As Donald has done internationally in uniting  countries against the US, he is doing domestically in uniting people against the Republicans and himself.
 
To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.  
 
 
 
 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Nov 6 2025 2:59 utc | 140

Just maybe ….
New Yorkers have woken up to the fact that george bush a republican president blew up the twin towers and buildinv 7. Killing thousands of their fellow new yorkers..
 
Maybe unlike the   majority on this thread  New Yorkers  dont like the republican mass murder of Palistinians in gaza .
 
Maybe the majority of rightous thinking MOA commenters have been driven away by the small but very loud agressive cohort of shapeshifting fascists on this blog.

Posted by: Markw | Nov 6 2025 3:17 utc | 141

Typo mark2 not markw.

Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 6 2025 3:18 utc | 142

Mahmood OD
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeJl_fKJr1Q
 
“The historic victory of Zohran Mamdani.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 6 2025 3:25 utc | 143

Mahmood OD: The historic victory of Zhoran Mamdani (corrected)
https://www.youtube.com/@Mahmood_OD/videos

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 6 2025 3:28 utc | 144

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Nov 5 2025 20:12 utc | 83
It is times like this when I think you really are genuinely Left , and I can agree with you, at least in principle.

Posted by: Recently updated | Nov 6 2025 3:34 utc | 145

The Grayzone Live: ‘Good Muslim – Bad Muslim’
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j2jhYbstcw
 
“Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate discuss the US elections that brought Zohan Mamdani to power in NYC and the unhinged reaction to his victory, as well as the civil war erupting inside the US right over Israel…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Nov 6 2025 3:44 utc | 146

I’m not sure that Mamdani is the real deal, but unless and until he provides real EVIDENCE that he’s just another faker, I shall be on his side, especially because NONE of his prospective competitors is any good at all.
Posted by: Eric Zuesse | Nov 5 2025 23:04 utc | 109
 
Well said!!  The rest of you, not so much!

Posted by: juliania | Nov 6 2025 4:07 utc | 147

Posted by: james | Nov 5 2025 20:19 utc | 88

Hello James, any theory called The Great Something turns on a warning light in my brain…

Posted by: xiao pignouf | Nov 6 2025 4:17 utc | 148

Posted by: Aaron | Nov 5 2025 23:04 utc | 110
 
And thanks to you as well, Aaron!   

Posted by: juliania | Nov 6 2025 4:23 utc | 149

Just another bourgeois progressive sheep dog, a la Bernie and AOC, masquerading as a “Democratic Socialist”.
 
@Posted by: Refinnejenna | Nov 5 2025 22:29 utc | 105
 
You forgot Ashkenazi, Sephardi and Mizrahi, about 13%. Half of them live in Brooklyn. That’s where the money and power is, and Mamdani is already bending to them.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | Nov 6 2025 4:36 utc | 150

@ xiao pignouf | Nov 6 2025 4:17 utc | 158
 
yes, that’s a fair response! i enjoyed the article, but it is a divisive issue and might have a lot more holes in it that i immediately picked up on.. 

Posted by: james | Nov 6 2025 5:06 utc | 151

I suppose  Trump’s brazen , White Supremacist deployment of the military in US cities against ordinary citizens might have caused some pushback from those citizens.
 
Trump pushes things too far. Nothing of what he has proposed in Palestine will happen, and nothing of what he has proposed in domestic politics will happen either. 
 
So it is conceivable that Democracy , the minds of ordinary people, will assert itself over the Caligula of the collapsing  US Empire. I have to celebrate that.
Like Hamas says it will hand over power to the PLO, knowing that without the tunnels, nobody can govern  Gaza.
Fair play to Mayor Mandani. Trump’s poisonous politics has found its answer.
I apologise for my  negativity earlier.
I hope Mandani delivers.
But really Obama was the biggest supporter of Greater Israel ever. 
Nobody can ignore that parallel here.

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 6 2025 5:43 utc | 152

Posted by: Patroklos | Nov 5 2025 18:03 utc | 48
————————————————————————–
What you wrote.
Plus let’s don’t forget that the US has been thoroughly vaccinated against the “socialist” virus (meaning actual socialism, not free public transport as you point out), going waaay back to the 19th century, and has kept up with its booster shots ever since.

Posted by: George the Zeroth | Nov 6 2025 5:56 utc | 153

Half of them live in Brooklyn. That’s where the money and power is
 
Posted by: Roger Boyd | Nov 6 2025 4:36 utc | 160
 

 
I thought the money and power was in the Upper East Side ???
 
Certainly the ridiculous NYC Real Estate wealth isn’t taxed high enough.  Hell of a way to prick a bubble.
 

Posted by: too scents | Nov 6 2025 7:01 utc | 154

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 6 2025 5:43 utc | 164
…without tunnels no-one can rule? 
What do you mean? PLO won’t also dig tunnels , or no Gazan force will be able to build tunnels as long as the Israelis are still there? 

Posted by: Recently updated | Nov 6 2025 7:06 utc | 155

Lillyhammer 156
 
The US – educared and US brainwashed jihadists say that the best income is what you steal from the non- believers.
The colonsers doctrine is the same , but stealing  from the believers.  Is either any better than the other.
 
Anyway, as  I suspected, you say Mandani is deeply steeped in Islamist politics, in other words, US imperial barbarism. Same as Jewlani and  Baghdadi. 
One thing is for sure , whatever New York thought it was voting for, it will get the exact opposite. Trump policies as spoken by an African American Muslim.
Karma ? Or just another piece of Israel like cherry tomatoes, a cross between a tomato an fish DNA. Enjoy the roller coaster.
 

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 6 2025 7:27 utc | 156

Zohran Mamdani is just the latest product line in the Hope and Change™ brand that spawned Barack Obama and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez before him.
In other words, Mamdani is the “liberal-left” version of MAGA and Donald Trump: Fake Populism and Change That You Can’t Believe In.
If anybody still believes that American “democracy” isn’t a Pro Wrestling-style tag team between the Democrat/Republican factions of the same American oligarchy, I have a Trump Gaza real estate investment opportunity that I want to sell you.

Posted by: ak74 | Nov 6 2025 8:43 utc | 157

Ak47  @ 164
Have you  got a better idear ? 
 

  1. I’m all ears,   (((

Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 6 2025 8:52 utc | 158

160 not 164

Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 6 2025 8:54 utc | 159

@Mark 2
In general, start decoupling from the US system, as much as reasonably possibly, by building independent community institutions free from the control and influence of a malignant American society that has no future. 

Posted by: ak74 | Nov 6 2025 9:09 utc | 160

Zohran Mamdani is just the latest product line in the Hope and Change™ brand that spawned Barack Obama and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez before him.In other words, Mamdani is the “liberal-left” version of MAGA and Donald Trump: Fake Populism and Change That You Can’t Believe In.If anybody still believes that American “democracy” isn’t a Pro Wrestling-style tag team between the Democrat/Republican factions of the same American oligarchy, I have a Trump Gaza real estate investment opportunity that I want to sell you.
Posted by: ak74 | Nov 6 2025 8:43 utc | 160
 
 
your wrong fella cheb mammy is the one i believe in this indian pakistani bangladeshi whatever.
hope is good change you can beliefs in he has such an honest face and a nice beard he helped free syria from animal assad.his cousin julani hero of damascus is mowing the lawn every day.
 
mammy and his crazy unkle  sadique khan in londonistan will be an amazing tag team and have drumpf trumped on his back in not a lot of cern time.
for mammy today new york tommorow the world.
never forget mammie character was forgered in the giant anvil of the nasty words spoken to his favorite aunty on a subway system after the 9 and 11  those harsh words directed at aunties head scalfs they can and should never be forgotten. 
mammies good friend and fellow soros projects including david lammy in london will not fail in these vital deconstruction frankfurt school projects.
 
oded yinon is not built in a day my friend give me mammy some time space

Posted by: normal wisdom | Nov 6 2025 9:17 utc | 161

This might eventually sound crazy, but I have to say it:I have a theory about our time, rentier tech-capital is increasingly using medieval methods to frame capitalism within itself. This symbiosis will eventually produce a kind of neo-feudal order, one in which even figures like Soros may end up being among the framed. That’s why I think his support in this case might have deeper intentions. It’s not just the usual short-term capital renovation; it’s an attempt to stop capitalism from collapsing into its own feudal shadow. He desperatly try to protect hom self and his ideas.

Posted by: Sidartha_6 | Nov 6 2025 9:45 utc | 162

He’s not going to save the US. That country is already doomed. Good riddance. 
Posted by: Friul | Nov 6 2025 1:55 utc
 
***************
 
It is too soon to pass judgement.
 
I see the US in a very sad state – but it is not as bad as the Soviet Union post-collapse. 
 
There us still hope. The US just needs an American Putin…

Posted by: General Factotum | Nov 6 2025 9:57 utc | 163

”The King of New York,The King of New York..”
Not so much.
He”ll be made to run the gauntlet and be brought to heel,soon enough.

Posted by: Jm | Nov 6 2025 10:14 utc | 164

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 6 2025 5:43 utc | 153
 
So it is conceivable that Democracy , the minds of ordinary people, will assert itself over the Caligula of the collapsing US Empire
 
Well, there is precedent in The GI Non-Partisan League. 
 
The U.S. Army (at least up to the rank of colonel) is the only institution with the independence, pluck, and skills to circumvent the left/right deception which seems to keep so many in thrall. 
 
But…
 
 “what is it you want us to do?”
 

Posted by: john | Nov 6 2025 10:31 utc | 165

“One has to admire the he did not bend the knee to Israel.”
@El Lissitzky | Nov 6 2025 0:07 utc | 122
I think his wealthy sponsor’s father George Soros is believed to be against zionism. 
He just wants to bring down all tradional societies with the endstate of a World Government commanded by the oligarchy. Socialists are expected to help bring that about.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Nov 6 2025 10:51 utc | 166

Ak47  @  163
 
Thats way to littel and way way to late.
 
The frankinstien monster of fascism has broken its shakles and marches across the country, nay the world.
 
But they are still the weak minority and  right now wounded,  hence the right wing loud squiling on this very blog,
 
Rise up ! Rise up i tell you and  drag the monsters down.
 
We will fight them  
… in the voting booth,  on the medias and on the  blogs.

Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 6 2025 11:01 utc | 167

on this great days me am reminded of the classic song from mike and the mechanicals the song is from the east side 2 the west side from the north side 2 the south 
la la la la la la la la 
la la la la 
la la lahhhhhhh.
 
always re member that the indian ran the slave systems for the empire of the city of london a kindred spirit with the khazhar who self identify as yahoo.
 
the muslim brother hood mammy 
the lame david lammy
humzah yusef sulphurous saddique khan smirking cohen.
 
everything is a trick as admiral akbarrr once said in starwars its a trap
all points on the compass have agent actor.
 
mammy mandami will give free sanitary products 2 all lgbtq plus plus and minus minus 
tampons for all transitioned intrans bytrans and including notquite transitioned yet.
who would have thunk it muslim brotherhood and the soros  chabad supporting are girls with free time of the month pads and granny nappies.
pedro pascal,mark ruffalo,sean penn robert deniro all just love mammy what a day historicull

Posted by: normal wisdom | Nov 6 2025 11:04 utc | 168

Giyane @153: “…the minds of ordinary people, will assert itself…”
 
 
Dembots should be careful of what they wish for as Trump’s wins have been the results of push-back from the population against Establishment overreach. When one misreads the mood of the population then the reactions of that population to one’s efforts to manipulate them will surprise. 
 
 
Dembots should take comfort in the probability that Republicants will likely campaign for the midterms on the “communist-jihadist” takeover of NYC rather than the much more legitimate and sinister reality of the CIA takeover of the DemocRat party. That will be another example of the elites misreading the mood of the public which will provoke yet another unexpected reaction from that public.
 
 
Fun stuff! Too bad there is no real left of any significance in the US to take advantage of all of this buffoonery from the elites.

Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 6 2025 11:41 utc | 169

I made the same points as b on the Happy Killer unelected real potus thread.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 5 2025 14:27 utc | 132
 
Mamdani is infact their answer to the rising anti Zionism. Anti Entity. AntiAipac. AntiZioKingship over the US !
 
 
He is wholly controlled and owned by the same ziofascist machinery but has no track record. So no obvious direct public connections as yet revealed .
A Lilly white, clean skin, spooky Zionist  –  he will soon show it  
 
 
 
Exactly like their ISIS zio puppet in Syria  – whom I expect he will be equally smooching upto instead of arresting for mass murdering Christian’s.
 
 
Let’s see if he even raises a fiat against the Entity’s genocide of Christians lin Lebanon yesterday? 
 
 

Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 6 2025 12:12 utc | 170

To demonstrait how weak the fascist trump supporters like gruff are ,  and how powerull the non right wing public can be….
 
The brit public finaliy  had enough  of pedo prince, and the media backed them,  within 2 weeks of coverage he was gone. And rightly so.
 
Peter medlelson the brit envoy to trump another freand of epstien should go next.
 
Then trump, why would any right thinking person  wamt a pedo for a president, if they do it says all we need to know about them.
 
I’m looking at you gruff. And all the other  trump supporters on this blog.

Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 6 2025 12:30 utc | 171

just stumbled on this – POTUS @ the 38th percentile & Daddy
 
Jimmy Kimmel Unseals The Trump’s 1970 IQ Wharton Aptitude Test Genius Think Again
 
5 mina. no comment

Posted by: Don Firineach | Nov 6 2025 12:32 utc | 172

O/T
Since I don’t want to register on  Larry Johnson’s site, here is a response to one of the comments there by Ollie since it is also of interest here:
 
“How I wish Iran hadn’t stopped. Taking the moral highground has just allowed more deaths so, how is stopping justified?”
Link to source on sonar21.com
 
It is interesting to consider some of the differences between the end of the 12-day war and now. At that time the uncertainty over the snapback mechanism was hanging over Iran – and also conversely the expiry of the entire JCPOA/UN sanctions issue in October. Now the coalition of the braindead states have tried to call bluff over snapback, and arguably it was dead in the water. Legally the entire issue has now expired, and the braindead would probably have no more success enforcing it than whipping a dead horse to the market. In parallel Iran signed the deal with Grossi/IAEA but that has now also expired with the expiry of JCPOA – Iran pulled a major master PR stroke there which for some reason nobody seems to have noticed until the expiry of the Grossi deal was pointed out by Iran. Also in parallel/as by-product Iran has major strategic support from Russia and China in the security council, and most probably the overwhelming support of the vast majority of the world.
 
Furthermore Iran has stated that no less than 50 intelligence agencies (i.e. states) were acting against Iran during the 12-day war, and Iran was not prepared for defending against so many fronts. Since then without question both Russia and China have given major additional support for Iranian defences. 
 
Meanwhile the Gaza genocide continues; ceasefire predictably ignored by Israel; ditto in Lebabon; strong implications of Israel in the murder of Charlie Kirk; war aggression by Trump against Venezuela and Columbia (even Mexico) and threats against Nigeria etc etc. All this and more has massive influence on the standing of Iran, and on the potential effects on the global standing of Iran that might result from any potential actions of Iran against Israel in the next war. 
 
Effectively in the 12-day war Iran was fighting with an arm and a leg tied behind her back; in the next war Iran will be better defended and with both arms and legs freed. How far will she go in the next war? One can only wonder, but what is certain is that the outcome will be of a very different colour. The main unanswerable is whether the entity will hit Iran with nuclear bombs. If the it does so, Iran will obviously go all-out, and it seems probable the entity will cease to exist when one considers the size and geography of Iran and the scale of its missile arsenal, combined with the very small size of the entity.

Posted by: BM | Nov 6 2025 12:38 utc | 173

Dembots should be careful of what they wish for as Trump’s wins have been the results of push-back from the population against Establishment overreach. When one misreads the mood of the population then the reactions of that population to one’s efforts to manipulate them will surprise.   Dembots should take comfort in the probability that Republicants will likely campaign for the midterms on the “communist-jihadist” takeover of NYC rather than the much more legitimate and sinister reality of the CIA takeover of the DemocRat party. That will be another example of the elites misreading the mood of the public which will provoke yet another unexpected reaction from that public.  Fun stuff! Too bad there is no real left of any significance in the US to take advantage of all of this buffoonery from the elites.
Posted by: William Gruff | Nov 6 2025 11:41 utc | 172
 
Both parties are owned by billionaires and Israel. Both parties are conservative and addicted to war. Both parties SUCK.

Posted by: Saint Jimmy | Nov 6 2025 12:40 utc | 174

I’m looking at you gruff. And all the other  trump supporters on this blog.
Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 6 2025 12:30 utc | 174
 
Stop the provocative agiprop and smearing your emotions all over the board.  New Yorkers voted for him FOR the SAME reasons America voted for Trump. Fascists that “identify” “left” like you seem to be, really are the biggest problem all of us face moving forward. That others can see trumps actions in a different light and put their thoughts into words here is part of the process of understanding and making up our own minds. It does not equate immediately to support. Loudmouth shnoooks who berate the commentariate almost religiously  are part of the problem not the solution. Here’s looking at you kid.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Nov 6 2025 12:59 utc | 175

Taking a step back, Mandami’s election could be a pilot test: Because throughout the world—beyond the fact that its consequences are being heard and analyzed—the words and actions of the US as a whole are completely discredited. This new governance could be a desperate attempt by the elites to impose a new narrative amidst the collapse. In other words… a last-ditch effort to whitewash the leadership, so they can say, like children punished in the corner, “Look at us, we’re good again.”
It’s clear that no citizen of that country has the slightest idea what the rest of the planet’s inhabitants think, and how little their antics matter these days…
Will they drop the atomic bomb? Won’t they? Come on! Come on, tell me later, I have to go water the beets now, but I’ll be back and listen to you…!!

Posted by: Santi | Nov 6 2025 13:07 utc | 176

I, personally, couldn’t care less about Mamdani. But Modi’s pet media (especially the yellow rag India Today which I remember well in 2003 jumped up and down hooting line a rabid hoolock gibbon demanding that India join in the invasion of Iraq) have been ranting against him for a while. Why, I wonder? Not one in a thousand Modi voters can locate New York on a map (or locate India on a map for that matter). Not one in a million will ever go there. Absolutely not one will ever live there. So what’s the Mamdani focus all about? Are they afraid that their god the illiterate bearded buffoon Modi will be defeated by an Indian Mamdani (young, charismatic, faux left wing, and owned by Soros)? That role already belongs to the Congress party’s Rahul Gandhi, who spends most of his time in the western hemisphere pushing his candidature as the Indian ꑭelensky.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Nov 6 2025 13:41 utc | 177

 To all,  See my  @141  @  161 and  @  170
 

Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 6 2025 13:45 utc | 178

this we have the real deal
change we can believe in  
change we can believe in 
change we can all believe in 
vote cheb mammy change agent 
frankfurt school
donmeh follower of jacob frank and sabbatai zvi
being their peter sellers
the mancurian candidate john frankheimer
eyes wide shut kubrick
change ala tony tory liar blair
like a muslim brotherhood likud chabad jason bourne without a memory
putting the simulated ackbar musselamic  call to prayer out for his rabbi handlers just another kosher arts project
Gelitin is a group of four frankfurt school  khazar artists from Vienna, Austria
soon  the austrian  9 and 11 tel aviv arts project b thing and gelatine will be making a my mammy sculpture all over new yorker
sculptures
mammy with kitten 
mammy with puppy 
mammy with headless lamb and halal bloodied  butchers knife
 
the wall street  name stealers and identity thieves the lucky larrys want you to believe in me mammy
 

Posted by: normal wisdom | Nov 6 2025 14:04 utc | 179

To all,  See my  @141  @  161 and  @  170 
Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 6 2025 13:45 utc | 181
 
Two of the three are examples of your attacks on the commentariate here. The third is a result of nose spelling

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Nov 6 2025 14:17 utc | 180

@179 Santi
 
It would be nice if your theory turned out true.  Either the billionaires will make things really bad for the people of New York to send a message to the US about the perils of voting for unacceptable candidates, which would be very helpful for republicans in the next few elections as Gruff is arguing, or they will make things a little better for the purpose of whitewashing our global reputation.  See – we do GOOD things!
 
I think it’s more likely that they will make things a lot worse in New York.   The worse things get in New York, the better republicans will do in 2026 and 2028.

Posted by: Woke American | Nov 6 2025 14:17 utc | 181

BM@176……..“no doubt”…….I doubt China or Russia gave Iran anything to defend itself with……..what fools, while the attack was being telegraphed, what did R/C do? What? Nuttin’! But now, no doubt they’ve armed Iran to the teef. Iran was surprised by the attack which means two things, Russia and China had no idea the Baby killing Squatters were about to attack Iran…..that helps Iran? How? Or Russia and China stepped down which appears to be the case. It sure worked in the Squatters favour which makes sense with the mamby pamby lip service R/C gives with help ……
 
Cheers M 

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 6 2025 14:28 utc | 182

– Zoran Mamdani will soon find out that the (political) power of a (political) leader is (more) limited than initially thought. I remember Obama. He had several plans but there always was one or the other powerful group who opposed those plans.
E.g. Obama wanted to reduce US military spending but he soon found out that there were groups in the US who didn’t like a reduction of US military spending. Obama knew that the US had no strategic interests in the Ukraine. But Obama wasn’t able to control the “Deep State” and that’s the reason why persons like Victoria Nuland and others were able to stage a coup in the Ukraine in february 2014.

Posted by: WMG | Nov 6 2025 14:40 utc | 183

Just wow! if true, the military applications (and broader) for this are off the scale watch the short video.
 
A real cloaking material.
 
brianslowsilver (@brianslowsilver): “Why would any Chinese Company in Europe? That is a very legitimate question, the answer to which brings tears to my eyes as a German and a European. Look at these examples of China’s innovative strength. Breathtaking and just 2 of thousands. And what about us Europeans? Us Germans? We used to be at the forefront of technological development. We were leaders in nuclear power, optics, mechanical engineering, precision engineering, and automotive technology. A walk through the Hannover Messe or the IAA (Carmaker exhibition in Frankfurt) in the 1990ies was like a walk through the wonder world of technology, breathtaking, like what we see in China today. Instead of using our technological strengths for the benefit of humanity and our own prosperity and converting them into marketable products, instead of turning the suboptimal into the optimal, e.g., converting first-generation nuclear power plants (largely safe but with extremely dangerous waste) into fail-safe plants whose waste hardly poses a radioactive hazard, we Germans are cutting off our own arm and leaving it to China and Russia to drive forward this aspect of clean energy (as one of many forms of energy). Instead of pursuing Mr. Piéch’s (former CEO of Volkswagen) dream of a 1-liter car (we weren’t that far off), we are cutting off our own arm and leaving it to other countries to take the lead in automotive technology. The only thing that still takes our breath away in Europe is the life-threatening stupidity of German, and European politics. In times of extreme challenge, when players have entered the market who are using the highest technical perfection and market savvy to gain leadership in all fields of technology, in times when our entire society should have only one goal: “to become competitive,” they are actually managing to take us back to the Middle Ages. Our education system has been turned into a disaster, bureaucracy is eating up business, energy is being made unaffordable on purpose, and to top it all off: We are seeking war in Europe. Not only are we destroying our economic base and thus our prosperity, but we are also working toward war, just as our politicians are obviously working toward razing the whole of Europe to the ground again…… Breathtaking.” | nitter.poast.org

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 6 2025 14:41 utc | 184

The problem is: according to Maaz and Janov, you need a certain neurosis profile to engage in politics. I’m quite sure most politicians are psychopaths or narcissists. They don’t care about the honest working people. They crave attention and affirmation and money.
If Mamdani was allowed to win, then he is a bootlicker of the rich and powerful. The same with Hussein Obama. People craved change and they got a new face.

Posted by: V for Vendetta | Nov 6 2025 14:46 utc | 186

Zionist? I heard from the RW press that Mamdani was going to institute Sharia Law in NYC, replace hot dog stands with Halal goat meat vendors and force all women to wear chadors in public.

Posted by: Noam A Larkey | Nov 6 2025 14:49 utc | 187

i once asked william tiberious shatner how he summoned up the rage and acting chops as he screamed the name khan.
he said well normal you do understand that the khan are the cohen,really i said so who was you thinking of as you squeezed out the words khannnnnnnnn i was thinking of my ex boyfriend menechem begin who left me for ms tel aviver  herselves golda my ears
 
 
Mamdani Announces All-Female Transition Team, Including Lina Khan
 
 
like i said the khans are the cohen 
everything is still dutch east india corporation
these brown headed freaks are just front men for the you know yahoos

Posted by: normal wisdom | Nov 6 2025 14:51 utc | 188

Drone that shut down Brussels main airport yesterday , was actually a Belgian police helicopter – Russia was implicated as being the perp – lies spread by the Belgian police.

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 6 2025 14:52 utc | 189

Not surprised at all, the same US terrorist backed  outfit – supposedly kidnapped girls a few years back – and now they are on a killing spree- that will illegally pave the way – for  the US terrorist state to invade Nigeria, and steal its assets such as oil.
 
The USA is a rogue terrorist state
 
“U.S. Congressman Scott Perry reveals BOKO HARAM in NIGERIA receives MILLIONS in USAID every year”
 
 

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 6 2025 14:58 utc | 190

john 168
 
 ‘What is it you would like us to do? ‘
 
Caligula’s horse is Netanyahu. Swift gave  horses intelligence and human yahoos animal ignorance.  So harness Yahu to a stagecoach  , feed him on  chaff and  give him some hard work to do.
The world would like that conceited cunt to  pay for the damage he has done before going to the Knacker’s Yard .
Home James and don’t spare the yahu.
 
 
 

Posted by: Giyane | Nov 6 2025 14:59 utc | 191

There are only two parties in the United States.
Posted by: fnord | Nov 5 2025 22:26 utc | 105
 
There is only one party in the yankeeland: the zionist plutocratic oligarchy.

Posted by: Naive | Nov 6 2025 15:12 utc | 192

As the EU at least has the sense to move away from the public money draining freeports, Britain embraces them with gusto – and freeports have swallowed an enormous amount of public cash – read this eye opening report on freeports – and the private sector robbing the public sector blind.
 
A taster.
 
“Take Teesside freeport, the flagship of the program and subject of Private Eye’s devastating eight-page exposé “Stripped Tees” in October 2024. By 2025, it had consumed £560 million of taxpayers’ money. The profit share? 90% to the private sector, 10% to the public. But the real scandal runs far deeper.
Here’s how the wealth extraction works: Land worth over £100 million, remediated at public expense at a cost of £120,000 per acre, was sold to Teesworks Ltd—90% owned by developers Chris Musgrave and Martin Corney—for £1 per acre. Yes, you read that correctly. One hundred and five acres sold for £110.35 plus VAT. The developers then immediately sold a 40-year lease on just 90 acres of that land to Australian investment bank Macquarie for £93 million—making a profit of approximately £68 million without investing a single penny of their own money.”
 
The Magic Money Tree: How Brexit Unlocked Britain’s Corporate Welfare Bonanza

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 6 2025 15:13 utc | 193

Posted by: Markw | Nov 6 2025 3:17 utc | 141
 
(corrected @) Posted by: Mark2 | Nov 6 2025 3:18 utc | 142
 
RE:   maybe New Yorkers  dont like the republican mass murder of Palistinians in gaza
 
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Recall that the mass murder/genocide of Palestinians in Gaza began in earnest in October 2023 during a Democratic presidency, that of Collective Biden.
 
 
When Nakba happened, for instance, U.S. and UK fingerprints were all over it, w/ politicians from both American parties involved as well.   Successive spates of ethnic cleansing occurred subsequently, Israelis against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and successive American presidents, both Republicans & Dems, continued subsequently to send the agreed-upon $5bn annually.
 
 
Think of all the periods when Israel ‘mowed the lawn’ and American presidents stood by, both Republicans & Dems. 
 
 
The indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza began on 8 October 2023 and revved its genocidal engine throughout that month as Collective Biden offered unwavering support for Israel’s right to defend itself, along w/ sending beaucoup bunker buster bombs.  Our current Republican president was not a decisionmaker @ that time, but he ultimately inherited the genocide when Autopen Robinette’s term ended.
 
 
The American precedent for this horror, the American infrastructure for this genocide, was already in place and well-grooved, routine even, w/ fully loaded C-130 cargo planes taxiing on the tarmac @ Ben Gurion International like clockwork each day, ready to unload the new shipment, when DJT returned to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Nov 6 2025 15:22 utc | 194

The $52 billion bailout by the IMF, World Bank, and US Treasury Loans won’t last long with this lot about.
 
“Javier Milei’s libertarian/”anarcho-capitalist” government in Argentina has at least 7 top officials who worked for Wall Street mega-bank JPMorgan: -minister of economy -minister of foreign relations -secretary of finance -secretary of economic policy -president of central bank -vice president of central bank -president of Argentina’s state-owned nuclear power company (which Milei is privatizing, and selling off to Wall Street). Libertarianism just means oligarchic rule by Wall Street.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 6 2025 15:28 utc | 195

https://youtu.be/Em4o_S5Heh4?si=7vqmV1jdkFEhGZ55
 
The girl seems to love the danger…But it is nice to see that at least a few people still got brains in an ocean of stupidity no!!!

Posted by: Brigitte Mohnhaupt | Nov 6 2025 15:34 utc | 196

Nato lickspittle, Rutte who calls Trump Daddy bumps his gums.
 
“Mark Rutte, NATO Secretary General: ‘Alliance countries need to prepare for a long-term confrontation with Russia – Russia is not alone in its efforts to undermine global rules; it is working with China, North Korea, Iran, and others, enhancing defense industrial cooperation to unprecedented levels and preparing for a long-term confrontation.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 6 2025 15:46 utc | 198

This treacherous b*stard should be in prison, she’s working against her own people – for  Yankee hegemony – she’s not the oppositions leader,  she’s a traitor who works for Yankee interests – interests that would see Venezuelans assets fall into the hands of the US terrorist state.
 
 
“Maria Corina Machado, Venezuelan opposition leader: “Iran has turned Venezuela into its satellite.”

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Nov 6 2025 15:57 utc | 200