If you’ve ever wanted to know what the height of cringe could look like, we now have an answer. There’s a long list of excruciating moments in the annals of politics and theater, but this one instantly goes to the top of the all-time list.
As we all know, socialist and Marxist philosophies have failed everywhere they’ve been tried, and millions of people are dead as a result.
But that didn’t stop former President Barack Obama and democrat socialist NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani from reveling in the movement’s historical murderous history; in fact, they’re positively giddy about it. Try not to feel queasy as the USSR wannabe Mamdani and the (only partially) closeted socialist Obama conduct a little sing-along with little kids in NYC:
OMG, is there anything more cringe on planet Earth than two radical communists, Barack Hussain Obama and Zohran Mamdani singing the wheels on the bus go round and round to a bunch of preschoolers? pic.twitter.com/atvitmJXHC
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) April 18, 2026
Listen, I am not so jaded that I can’t find it cute that politicians are interacting with children, the lifeblood of our nation. But do you remember how the media savaged George W. Bush for continuing to read to kids as 9/11 unfolded? He tried to keep a sense of normalcy — and not panic — but was ripped for it by our nation’s press. Shameful. He didn’t yet know what was really happening (none of us did), and yet he acted honorably in that horrible moment.
This latest little act isn’t innocent — it’s our nation’s 44th president showing that he’s all-in on socialism/Marxism/communism, the antithesis to everything America has stood for almost 250 years. We always knew it about Obama, but now he’s taken off what was left of a mask and is just outright throwing down with the Comrades.
Desperate Photo-Op Pander - Obama and NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Sing “Wheels on the Bus” With Kids in The Bronx.
— Kristin Sokoloff (@ksoklower48) April 19, 2026
Nothing says “serious governance” like a has-been ex-president and the socialist NYC mayor using toddlers as props to buy goodwill and fish for future votes. pic.twitter.com/JrLheOpCpL
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Ghosts of Former Soviet Union Leaders Grin As Mamdani's $30M NYC Communist Grocery Store Unveiled
Kids are adorable — but Obama and Mamdani are anything but. “The wheels go round and round” brings up visions of the wheels turning only because a totalitarian government says they do, at their discretion, at their command, and only depending upon their whims. Over and over and over again, this model has shown that the buses don’t really run at all, and the people are left waiting in lines begging for transport. Mamdani has been introducing government-run grocery stores, but remember, what was the reality in the Soviet Union?
The Soviet grocery store: empty shelves, bread lines, and bureaucrats deciding what you "need."
— Handre (@Handre) February 13, 2026
The American supermarket: 40,000+ products, global supply chains, and market prices coordinating billions of decisions seamlessly.
Mises called it a century ago. Central planning is… pic.twitter.com/jjjWzqxwFk
[Austrian philosopher] Mises called it a century ago. Central planning is economic blindness. The market is humanity's greatest information processor, and no commissar can replicate what emerges spontaneously from free exchange.
Every empty Soviet shelf was a testament to the impossibility of rational economic calculation without private property and market prices.
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Ghosts of Former Soviet Union Leaders Grin As Mamdani's $30M NYC Communist Grocery Store Unveiled
Barack Obama has always been an extremist, but he (partially) hid it for years under the disguise of a pragmatist. Now, he’s all in on a radical communist zealot mayor. The kids might be cute, but the communists trying to capitalize off of them is anything but.
The Libs love their wheels going round and round, but is it me, or is it always just incredibly unimpressive?
— Chölo Sevigny (@xXnarcissistXx) October 31, 2022
Editor’s Note: New York City is now facing the consequences of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist takeover.
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