AWKWARD: As NYC Embraces Communist Mayor… Uprisings Elsewhere Have Been Throwing Theirs Out
Mamdani takes Manhattan, while much of the world is pulling the other direction
As the ball dropped in Times Square, the Big Apple saw a new man sworn in as mayor. Meanwhile, other countries that tried communist leadership have been moving the other direction.
If ever there was a city that personified some of the best and worst aspects of the Western economic engine in the past century or two, it would be New York. Sure, there are other big, glitzy, rich cities in the world, but the Stock Exchange, Wall Street, and Manhattan all find their home in New York.
And if the experiment of Biden’s open borders is any indication, there is still a global belief that New York is the city that holds out the rags-to-riches dream for any scrappy upstart that can throw those dice and take his shot.
Until they get there, anyway, and find out that there’s a massive political project promising to give everything for free on the taxpayer dime. And would you look at that? These programs just happen to have deep connections to friends and donors of the political class.
It should surprise nobody that when a charismatic Ugandan millionaire socialite who embraces both Communist and Islamist rhetoric swings into town promising the moon to everyone who votes for him, that message gets traction.
Those of us familiar with the history will remember the name of Idi Amin — another famous Ugandan leader. He was unafraid to lead ‘audaciously’ by seizing assets, nationalizing the economy, and appealing to Islam as an ideology to further his agenda… leveraging tribal differences to gain power for himself. Yeah, probably just a coincidence, right?
The next few years will show us what can happen to a city run on the principles he espouses. But in the meantime, other countries that have already been down the road he is charting for New Yorkers have made up their mind to turn back and go the other direction.
The protests in Iran stand out as the nearest match for a people coming together in an effort to tear down what Hizzonner is trying to build up.
Here is a lovely Persian lady explaining how Iran was exactly the sort of unwanted takeover by both Communists and Islamists for which the AOC/Bernie Sanders types have been so loudly cheering.
Video as captioned:
Goldie Ghamari | گلسا قمری@gghamari
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Dec 31, 2025
Pro-Tip from an Iranian: Part 32.
(The Iranian Revolution. This is probably the most important “Iranian Here” video I’ll ever make. Javid Shah)
Her three points:
1) Iran is not a muslim country, and before the ’79 revolution, they were a secular, modernizing nation
2) The Islamic revolution in ’79 was NOT organic, it was organized by Islamists, Communists and (ironically) funded in part by some in the West
3) The Shaw of Iran was not a dictator, in fact, he was protecting Iranians from Islamists and Communists.
Now we have a better understanding of why so many Iranians are calling for a return of the Shaw who has been living in exile. We are seeing videos of young men working like dogs who still don’t have enough money to support themselves, let alone elderly parents they see wasting away in a destroyed economy.
But Iran has all sorts of money to spend on missiles to arm their terrorist proxies, right?
It’s not just Iran.
Remember Venezuela?
Who won the Nobel Peace Prize this year? That would be Maria Corina Machado. She is a woman who rejects the illegal hardline regime of Nicholas Maduro — the same Venezuelan regime Bernie Sanders once praised on his official Senate Website as a better example of the American Dream than America itself. Not surprisingly, Bernie was personally involved in the ceremony for the swearing-in as Mayor of Mamdani.
(The Venezuela post was in 2011, before the country collapsed completely. Of course, he’s nuked that story on his Senate site. But it can still be found on internet archives for those who know where to look. (Our reporting still has reference to both his agenda and his scrubbed post. Wayback seems to have erased the one they once carried for some odd reason.)
Argentia and El Salvador are countries that have both rejected major planks in Mamdani’s vision of the future and both countries have seen major turnarounds in both their economies and in crime, respectively.
Judging by the hand-wringing by hostile foreign press, the past year has featured a number of other elections in which the leftwing authoritarian practices are being rejected.
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