Americans have a new New York City team to laugh at these days. Instead of chuckling over the never-ending plight of the Jets. The NFL team managed to win three games last season out of 17, two worse than the previous season. No winning season in 11 years.
Last year, the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, New York City voters elected their first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani. He's an immigrant from Uganda who ran as a Democrat.
The truth, however, is that he's really a communist in Democrat Socialist clothing. Just like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (NY-14) of the Bronx. And for that matter, Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a Brooklyn native who' honeymooned in the Soviet Union but now is a Vermont senator, where he has two of his homes.
Mamdani lived in a rent-controlled apartment in Queens. But now he resides for free in the mayor's mansion in Manhattan.
He's promised quite a lot of things to the city's one million Muslim residents and the many younger voters who didn't study history in the city's failing schools. Free city buses, which he doesn't take. City-run grocery stores, which he won't need and will take years to build, costing roughly 10 times what private industry would need to open a similar facility.
Mamdani's newest plan is to take over privately-owned properties like apartment buildings and put them into the inexperienced management hands of their own tenants or a non-profit.
He says the city will seize only the properties of "the worst landlords," a category as yet undefined. Contractors are not exactly lining up to help landlords repair their facilities; Mamdani is requiring an hourly wage of $40.
The new mayor's appointed advocate for tenants has declared that private home ownership is "racist" and "a weapon of white supremacy."
So, even non-history majors might guess where this new New York City private property scheme is going in the Big Apple.
This should provide more than 40 months of entertainment for the rest of us. And 88 months if Mamdani wins reelection before the city's financial roof caves in. And the survivors turn to Washington for yet another multi-billion-dollar Gotham bailout financed by the rest of us, who didn't cast such a ridiculous vote.
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This week's Sunday column examined the accumulating victories stemming from President Trump's candidate endorsement efforts within his own party's primary contests, even down to the state legislative level where U.S.presidents have not often sought to be involved.
He has been very successful until this week.
Why is Trump doing this, especially in a crucial midterm election year, which will determine the political success or failure of the last quarter of his historically extraordinary presidency?
The most recent audio commentary took a detailed look at the little-noticed success of Trump's job creation process. The most recent government numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed a pleasantly surprising number of new jobs created in April, far more than the media said economists had predicted.
These encouraging numbers were generally described in media reports as aberrations. They are not.
Now, why do you suppose that is?
Something else in these latest numbers was encouraging news about the vast ranks of federal workers. And these numbers also revealed a pattern that most people do not know about. That's by design, I suspect.
Here is that audio commentary.
