https://rumble.com/v6wffha-who-is-zohran-mamdani.html
He says one thing and then the opposite. Who is he really?
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/saraharnold/2025/07/13/new-poll-shows-the-democratic-party-is-in-trouble-n2660294
A new poll reveals a sharp decline in support for the Democratic Party since the 2024 election, as frustrated voters say the party has drifted far from the concerns of everyday Americans. Instead of focusing on inflation, border security, or public safety, Democrats are increasingly seen as obsessed with destroying President Donald Trump’s legacy, woke virtue signaling, and identity politics.
A poll conducted by Unite the Country, a Democratic super PAC, shows that many voters — especially white men, Hispanic men, and working-class Americans — see the Democratic Party as “woke,” “weak,” and disconnected from everyday realities. The party’s approval rating has dipped below 35 percent, raising serious concerns about its ability to rebound before the 2028 presidential race. Adding to the challenge, enthusiasm among the Democratic base has continued to decline following the 2024 election, signaling deep frustration within the party’s own ranks.
Democratic strategist Rodell Mollineau acknowledged that the Democratic Party is facing a serious perception problem. He said many Americans, beyond just the MAGA base, see the party negatively, and unless Democrats accept this reality, it will be difficult to make progress. He emphasized that this view isn’t limited to far-right critics but also includes voters who should naturally support the party.
“Democrats need to realize that in order to improve and get better to not only win in 2028 but to win in 2030 and 2032 and beyond,” Mollineau said.
A CNN/SSRS poll from earlier this year shows the Democratic Party facing historically low approval, with just 29 percent of Americans viewing the party favorably—the lowest level since CNN began tracking the data. Even Democratic-leaning voters are unhappy, with 58 percent saying the party needs significant changes or a total overhaul. Only 16 percent of voters say Democrats provide strong leadership, while 43 percent believe neither party offers effective leaders. The numbers reflect growing frustration, especially among young and independent voters, posing serious challenges for Democrats as they look ahead to the 2026 elections.
https://issuesinsights.com/2025/07/14/mamdani-vs-the-billionaires/
There are 123 billionaires living in New York City. Zohran Mamdani, the socially and economically advantaged socialist boy who’s apparently never held a real job and is busy stoking class warfare as he campaigns to be the city’s next mayor, says they shouldn’t exist. Voters need to know that their city can get along just fine without Mamdani. But it would fall into a raging hellhole without billionaires.
“I don’t think that we should have billionaires because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality, and ultimately, what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country,” Mamdani said last month on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”
The views of an imbecile, or of a performative politician feeding his ego and trying to make up for a life of mostly idleness, apparently appeal to Gotham voters. Mamdani easily won the Democratic primary and is, for now, the favorite to win the general election in the fall.
For those who aren’t familiar with Mamdani, or need a refresher, he is a Democratic Socialist with Marxist urges that he doesn’t try to hide. As we noted last week:
Like Karl Marx, the privileged Mamdani, who calls himself a ‘BMW Bolshevik,’ sees the world through the lens of class struggle. The platform of the Democratic Socialists of America, of which he is a member, ‘fights’ for ‘the abolition of capitalism‘ as well as the ‘social ownership of all major industry and infrastructure,’ two Marxist principles that Mamdani supports.
Mamdani is also promising ‘free stuff’ for New Yorkers, from bus trips to child care; proposes to freeze rents (to stick it to those greedy capitalist landlords, no doubt); wishes to ‘shift the tax burden … to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.’
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/07/10/the-democrats-phoney-populism-is-fooling-no-one/
It’s no secret that the Democrats have long been losing the support of the working class to Donald Trump and the Republicans. To counter Trump’s populist appeal, voices within the Democrats say they need to offer their own version – namely, an ‘economic populism’ aimed at working people.
Those Democrats are all pointing to Zohran Mamdani’s victory earlier this month in the New York City mayoral primary – a win that puts him in prime position to become the next mayor in November’s election. Mamdani’s campaign brought economics to the forefront, prioritising issues around affordability. He offered radical-sounding answers to cost-of-living concerns, including free bus rides, rent controls, childcare and government-run grocery stores. At the same time, he sought to downplay his woke cultural views on race, gender and Israel.
Will Mamdani’s brand of economic populism succeed in bringing back the working class to the Democrats? In a word, no. For one thing, Mamdani, who claimed to speak for poor and working-class New Yorkers, failed to win much support from those very voters in his primary. Mamdani’s opponent, former governor of New York state Andrew Cuomo, beat him by 19 points with those earning under $50,000 annually. Cuomo also won over NYC’s predominantly black neighbourhoods. In contrast, Mamdani’s support was strongest among higher earners and those with a university degree, especially the white millennials of Brooklyn and Queens. Far from reversing Trump’s gains among workers, Mamdani reinforced the Democrats’ position as the party of the university-educated elite.
There are two main reasons why the Democrats’ push on economic populism won’t work. One, because their version of economic ‘populism’ isn’t actually popular with workers. Two, because a focus on economics won’t overcome the Democrats’ association with the woke cultural views that most Americans reject.
Mamdani’s ‘socialist’ economic policies essentially amount to welfarism and redistribution: offering more generous state-provided resources, to be paid for by higher taxes on the wealthy. Apparently, he believes the wealthy are incapable of moving out of New York, and so will provide an endless source of tax revenue.
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/07/08/elon-musks-party-for-oligarchs/
Just what America doesn’t need – another party dominated, and this time even started, by oligarchs. SpaceX owner Elon Musk may be able to design rocket ships, but his understanding of politics and public opinion is below elementary-school level. His plan to launch a new party, the America Party, seems largely delusional.
Musk had been teasing the idea of a new, third party for several weeks, following his spectacular falling out with US president Donald Trump. Musk, who had previously led the White House’s efforts to cut public spending at the Department for Government Efficiency (DOGE), was dismayed to learn of Trump’s plans to massively boost spending in his flagship One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Last weekend, Musk announced the creation of the America Party, which he claims will be able to defeat the Republican-Democrat duopoly and represent the ‘80 per cent’ of Americans ‘in the middle’. Billionaire Mark Cuban and financier Anthony Scaramucci have offered to help get the party going.
Musk may be the most successful entrepreneur of his generation, but he is not remotely popular, with 55 per cent of Americans disapproving of him. Nor is the idea of oligarchs funding political parties well received. According to Pew Research, 80 per cent of Americans believe wealthy donors have too much power – and they are right. In 2024, election spending in real dollars is estimated to have been two to three times higher than two decades ago. Some 40 per cent of all political contributions, according to Jacobin, come from the wealthiest one per cent.
The US Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling, which essentially prevented any real restraints from being placed on campaign spending, accelerated this pattern. This is hardly just a Republican gambit. Until recently at least, the main beneficiaries of so-called dark money have been Democrats, getting big paydays from backers like Microsoft’s Bill Gates, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. These donors helped Kamala Harris raise well over $1.5 billion – the highest figure in history – for her losing presidential campaign.
Americans once admired the tech oligarchs but increasingly find them objectionable and scary. Between 2018 and 2021, Facebook, Amazon and Google all suffered a large-scale loss of confidence. They are now even more unpopular than the hated mainstream media.
Let’s face it. These guys are not upstarts anymore, but increasingly monopolists. Google and Apple account for nearly 90 per cent of all mobile-browser use worldwide, while Microsoft, Android (Google) and iOS (Apple) hold roughly the same share of all operating-system software. Like Wall Street bankers, their power epitomises the relentless concentration of the economy that many Americans instinctively fear.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/07/09/a-green-beret-doctor-runs-for-texas-governor/
What a breath of fresh air. Retired Army Lieutenant Colonel Pete Chambers is throwing his hat in the ring to seek the governorship of Texas.
Pete is a true patriot and has led a fascinating life. I got to know him years ago in the course of my work examining issues surrounding the COVID virus and COVID “vaccines.” During my professional research, I got to know many of the doctors who recognized very early on the great dangers posed by the experimental mRNA-based injections, which the federal government falsely touted as a “vaccine” for the COVID virus, despite the injections operating on completely different principles from traditional vaccines. Pete was one of those skeptical doctors.
Pete first joined the Army as an enlisted man in 1983. He then left the service with an honorable discharge to attend college and then medical school. He completed his residency in primary care and worked as an emergency room physician while also serving as a SWAT team physician and sheriff’s deputy. After the attacks of 9/11, Pete rejoined the Army and graduated from the Special Forces Qualification Course.
Pete would be deployed to multiple combat zones as a Green Beret officer and Special Forces flight surgeon. He is the recipient of the Purple Heart for injuries sustained in combat, and is a disabled veteran.
Pete worked as a military liaison to Texas Governor Gregg Abbott’s COVID Task Force in his final two stateside deployments (in 2020) before becoming the Task Force Surgeon in 2021 assigned to Operation Lone Star on the South Texas border—a joint Texas military-law enforcement operation to stop the flood of illegal aliens, human smuggling, and drug trafficking coming across the Southwest border.
It was in his capacity as the surgeon assigned to care for the thousands of military personnel taking part in Operation Lone Star that Pete began to ruffle feathers. He recognized from decades of treating diseases among military personnel in foreign countries that early treatment of the COVID virus was key.
https://lizpeek.com/news/mamdanis-shocking-claim-blames-america-for-al-qaeda-terrorists-rise/?utm_source=newsletter.lizpeek.com&utm_medium
Zohran Mamdani, the self-described socialist who is the Democratic nominee for New York City mayor, has faced renewed scrutiny over past comments regarding Anwar al-Awlaki, the former head of Al Qaeda in Yemen. The New York Post reports, in previous social media posts, Mamdani appeared to suggest that U.S. law enforcement actions contributed to al-Awlaki’s radicalization and eventual embrace of jihadist ideology. These remarks were made in the context of a New York Times article that criticized the FBI’s surveillance of al-Awlaki, noting his ties to the 9/11 hijackers.
According to The Post, “Mamdani, in a series of tweets in 2015, bizarrely criticized the terrorism — after reading a New York Times account of the snooping, which revealed the cleric’s hooker fetish. ‘Why no proper interrogation of what it means for FBI to have conducted extensive surv. into Awlaki’s private life?’ the socialist candidate wrote.
In another post, Mamdani wrote, “How could #Awlaki have ever trusted@FBI to not release surveillance esp. if he continued to critique [the] state? Why no further discussion of how #Awlaki’s knowledge of surv. eventually led him to #alqaeda? Or what FBI’s surveillance of al-Awlaki — and claimed the G-Men actually pushed him into that says about [the] efficacy of surv?”
Anwar al-Awlaki, born in New Mexico to Yemeni parents, was an American Islamic who became one of the most influential figures in Al Qaeda. He was linked to several terrorist plots. According to The Post, al-Awlaki directed the failed attempt to blow up an airplane on Christmas Day in 2009. He directed the failed attempt to blow up US cargo planes in 2010,’ Obama said at the time. ‘And he repeatedly called on individuals in the United States and around the globe to kill innocent men, women and children to advance a murderous agenda.’”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/twenty-one-things-to-know-about-zohran-mamdani/
1. Mamdani is a salon Bolshevik. His mother is Mira Nair, a millionaire movie director. It was Mira Nair who tried to have the actress Gal Gadot banned from the Oscars because she is Israeli.
2. In 2013, Mamdani retweeted an article by Glenn Greenwald which defended the Muslim killers of Drummer Lee Rigby, who used a machete to murder him on a London street, arguing that Rigby was a legitimate target because he was a soldier.
3. Mamdani has repeatedly refused to say that Israel, as the state of the Jewish people, has a right to exist. During an event hosted by the UJA-Federation of New York last month, Mamdani declined to recognize Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state.
He said instead that “I believe that Israel has a right to exist with equal rights for all,” in a “carefully worded response when asked, sidestepping the issue of Israel’s existence specifically as a ‘Jewish state’ and seemingly suggesting Israeli citizens do not enjoy equal rights. Then during a New York City Democratic mayoral debate, he once again refused to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state, sparking immediate backlash among the other candidates.”
4. “In 2023, while speaking at a Democratic Socialists of America convention in New York, Mamdani encouraged the audience to applaud for Palestinian American community activist Khader El-Yateem, saying, “If you don’t clap for El-Yateem, you’re a Zionist.” Apparently, in Mamdani’s view, being a Zionist — supporting the right of Jews to a state of their own — is a terrible thing.
https://amgreatness.com/2025/07/07/the-frightening-dream-house-of-zoran-mamdani/
After his first-place win in the New York City mayoral primaries, Zoran Mamdani is furiously denying everything that he once glibly thought was cutting-edge and cool.
So, like a good postmodern relativist, Mamdani now claims he didn’t really mean that violence was merely a “construct.”
I suppose Mamdani asked Jewish New Yorkers—the target of 44 percent of all hate crimes in the city—and discovered that their concussions and blood were all too real.
As a good soldier in the ranks of Black Lives Matter, Mamdani now insists he did not trash the police and advocate defunding them. Neither did he really, really mean to claim falsely he was African-American when he applied to college nor did really, really mean to do a video mocking the Jewish holiday of Hannukah.
Mamdani once thought it was cool to boast about defunding the police when he was an edgy, rising, left-wing community activist.
But then it was smarter to play it down as a candidate. And now it is essential to lie and deny it as a front-runner.
As a good communist, Mamdani echoed Karl Marx by bragging about his ultimate agenda: “the end goal of seizing the means of production.”
But whose “means of production” would Mamdani start seizing?
Trump Tower? Tesla dealerships? Amazon warehouses?
Mamdani warns us, “I don’t think that we should have billionaires, frankly.”
Then, please tell us, how would you get rid of them?
Confiscate their money? Tax them at a 99 percent rate?
Maybe dox them and let the public handle the rest?
Mamdani brags he would “globalize the intifada.”
Given that most define the intifada (“shaking off”) as the two violent Palestinian waves of terrorism against Israel, what then does Mamdani mean by globalizing it?
https://jonathanturley.org/2025/07/06/new-york-times-struggles-to-explain-why-it-reported-news-to-traumatized-readers/
This week, the New York Times experienced an uprising in its ranks and among its readers. The paper was denounced by its own staff and liberal pundits called for the entire editorial staff to be canned. Why? Because The New York Times actually reported news that was deemed harmful to the Democrats, specifically Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani. The newspaper took the additional step of publishing a cringing explanation of why it reported the news that Mamdani lied on his Columbia application in claiming to be black.For liberals, it was an utter nightmare. For a party still defined by identity politics, Mamdani’s false claim over his race left many uncertain about how to react.The left has always maintained a high degree of tolerance for false claims by its own leaders, from Sen. Elizabeth Warren claiming to be a native American to Sen. Richard Blumenthal claiming to have served in the Vietnam War.
The problem is when a news eco-chamber for many readers is shattered by an errant outbreak of journalism. Many Times readers live within a hermetically sealed news silo, relying on MSNBC for cable, The New York Times for print, and BlueSky for social media. You can literally go all day without being exposed to an opposing view or fact. Then suddenly this happens.
The result is often anger. It is the same response many in higher education have to “triggering” views being expressed on campus by conservative or libertarian speakers.
The fact is that the Mamdani story was obvious news—and confirmed by the candidate himself. Mamdani identified as both Asian and African American on his 2009 Columbia University application, according to the New York Times.
