If we can have "rent strikes" without eviction, we should also be able to have "tax strikes" without penalty.

These people really are scumbags of the lowest order. Pure vermin.

I wish there was a nicer way of saying it, but it's the truth.

The rooster will come home to roost however, and these people will wail and gnash their teeth, to no avail.

Karma is coming for them.

I despise squatters. I rank them near the top of people who are the worst in our society because it's in direct conflict of one of the foundational concepts that makes this country what it is - private property rights.

Squatters are some of the worst things this country has to offer
So it should be no surprise that a squatter is a "rent advisor" to Mamdani.

You import the 3rd world, you get the 3rd world.

Mamdani promised New Yorkers free busses. Hasn't made that happen.

But he promised.

Overall riders down 8% when compared to last June.

In Mamdani's first six months, MTA revenue drops by $31M

Half of riders skip paying the $3 fare and there is no enforcement

Drivers reporting "fare evasion" is the worst they have ever seen.

Mamdani blames fare evasion on people who can afford to pay it, not paying it, and affordability. MTA already projecting a $300M lost for 2027. "Free busses" will cost the city $1.1B.

LMAO. Commies in action.

Mamdani's free bus push linked to $31M MTA fare revenue loss in NYC | Fox News

But it will work this time.

It's weird how when you announce people will no longer have to pay for stuff while establishing a culture of non-accountability and then people start taking you up on it.

It's just so odd how that happens.

Will this be a $300M ask to Hochul to bail him out again?

YouBet said:

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It's weird how when you announce people will no longer have to pay for stuff while establishing a culture of non-accountability and then people start taking you up on it.

It's just so odd how that happens.

Will this be a $300M ask to Hochul to bail him out again?

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No.

It will be a $2.2B DEMAND for aid from the FEDERAL budget....

Urban Ag said:

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Mamdani promised New Yorkers free busses. Hasn't made that happen.

But he promised.

Overall riders down 8% when compared to last June.

In Mamdani's first six months, MTA revenue drops by $31M

Half of riders skip paying the $3 fare and there is no enforcement

Drivers reporting "fare evasion" is the worst they have ever seen.

Mamdani blames fare evasion on people who can afford to pay it, not paying it, and affordability. MTA already projecting a $300M lost for 2027. "Free busses" will cost the city $1.1B.

LMAO. Commies in action.

Mamdani's free bus push linked to $31M MTA fare revenue loss in NYC | Fox News

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This quote from the article:

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"For all the people who are on their way to office jobs, who are making a good income, who walk by the bus driver and don't pay or get on the back and don't pay, I say it's time to be New Yorkers," Lieber said, according to The New York Post. "You're just passing along the cost to another taxpayer. Somebody's going to have to pay for that ride."

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"free"

YouBet said:

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It's weird how when you announce people will no longer have to pay for stuff while establishing a culture of non-accountability and then people start taking you up on it.

It's just so odd how that happens.

Will this be a $300M ask to Hochul to bail him out again?

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Why would he need 300M? Its "free"

Lead official for Mayor Mamdani's NYC Groceries tells me city may give grants to local grocers fearing competition from city-run stores

"policies and programs, grants, incentives that can come alongside these grocery stores to support other local independent businesses" pic.twitter.com/S57e8Ne13B

— Dan Rivoli (@danrivoli) August 19, 2026

This is what happens when you put gender studies majors in charge of real things

There once was a Mayor Mamdani
Who got all his cash from his mommy
He will tax you to death
And in the same breath
Insist that he isn’t a commie

— David Marcus (@BlueBoxDave) August 20, 2026

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Lead official for Mayor Mamdani's NYC Groceries tells me city may give grants to local grocers fearing competition from city-run stores

"policies and programs, grants, incentives that can come alongside these grocery stores to support other local independent businesses" pic.twitter.com/S57e8Ne13B

— Dan Rivoli (@danrivoli) August 19, 2026

This is what happens when you put gender studies majors in charge of real things

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They have absolutely no idea of how business works, or the unintended consequences their stupid interventions in the market will have.

The answer to every problem is to dump more government money into the equation. All they accomplish is to make the problems they created even worse.

I look forward to seeing this whole thing blow up and fail spectacularly.

Cannot decide if this is good or bad thing regarding NY hellscape. But alas, life finds a way!

https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/north-american-river-otter-returns-bronx-river-100-years

Regarding the grocery store ******ed lady, Jessie Watters said it best - the shaved head hot chicks are all alike. They seduce with their odd dichotomy of good looks and strange style whilst spouting unintelligible bull**** on things they know nothing about.

flown-the-coop said:

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Cannot decide if this is good or bad thing regarding NY hellscape. But alas, life finds a way!

https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/north-american-river-otter-returns-bronx-river-100-years

Regarding the grocery store ******ed lady, Jessie Watters said it best - the shaved head hot chicks are all alike. They seduce with their odd dichotomy of good looks and strange style whilst spouting unintelligible bull**** on things they know nothing about.

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It's proof global warming is good for rivers

Need it to increase the availability and quality of beavers as well, gnomsayin?

Haha!!! Love it! Eating their own.

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As the start of the school year approaches, Mayor Zohran Mamdani is locked in an unlikely showdown with a powerful classroom ally: the New York City teachers union.

Mamdani filed a lawsuit last week to stop a law passed by the City Council to provide one-time $10,000 bonuses to low-paid school aides who typically work with students with special needs. The lawsuit marked a surprising rift between the Democratic socialist mayor and the United Federation of Teachers, the influential labor group that represents the aides, as well as teachers in the nation's largest school system. It was also an about-face for Mamdani, who had the endorsement of the union in last year's mayoral election and said during his campaign that he supported the bonuses.

Michael Mulgrew, the president of the 200,000-member teachers union, threatened an "all-out war" if Mamdani tried to stop the legislation in a New York Times interview earlier this summer.

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Looks to me like Mamdani forgot to veto this and now he's retroactively suing to stop it because there is existing law that says collective bargaining agreements happen between the unions and the Mayor...and not city council. Or, he somehow thought this was good strategy to let it go through and then to try to stop it after the fact. Lol.

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The city has about 25,000 school aides, who are known as paraprofessionals and whose salaries start at about $32,000. In late July, the City Council unanimously passed the legislation granting the $10,000 payments. Mamdani didn't veto the bill, allowing it to automatically become law. Days later, he sued the council in state court, saying the bonuses would cost the city an estimated $325 million.

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Economics 101 is a *****!

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The progressive mayor has backtracked on other campaign pledges when faced with the fiscal realities of his job. While contending with a looming budget deficit earlier this year, Mamdani secured the delay of a state law mandating smaller class sizes and the hiring of additional teachers, despite his support for the requirement during his campaign. Citing ballooning costs, he has also pushed back on a City Council law expanding a rental voucher program that he supported as a candidate.

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A politician, in particular a Muslim socialist nepobaby, lied?

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... because there is existing law that says collective bargaining agreements happen between the unions and the Mayor...and not city council.

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His signing it into law IS the agreement between the union and the Mayor.

This sounds like his attempt at some scatter brained positive political optics that his Marxists advisors came up with.


Mamdani: "I was FOR the bonus, but it was against the law so could not sign it into law and I was forced to sue".

flown-the-coop said:

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Cannot decide if this is good or bad thing regarding NY hellscape. But alas, life finds a way!

https://www.foxweather.com/earth-space/north-american-river-otter-returns-bronx-river-100-years

Regarding the grocery store ******ed lady, Jessie Watters said it best - the shaved head hot chicks are all alike. They seduce with their odd dichotomy of good looks and strange style whilst spouting unintelligible bull**** on things they know nothing about.

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I'm sorry was their a different video to watch then the one above?

Lead official for Mayor Mamdani's NYC Groceries tells me city may give grants to local grocers fearing competition from city-run stores

"policies and programs, grants, incentives that can come alongside these grocery stores to support other local independent businesses" pic.twitter.com/S57e8Ne13B

— Dan Rivoli (@danrivoli) August 19, 2026

Logos Stick said:

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... because there is existing law that says collective bargaining agreements happen between the unions and the Mayor...and not city council.

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His signing it into law IS the agreement between the union and the Mayor.

This sounds like his attempt at some scatter brained positive political optics that his Marxists advisors came up with.


Mamdani: "I was FOR the bonus, but it was against the law so could not sign it into law and I was forced to sue".

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Actually, this is probably accurate. This way he can thread the needle and try to play both sides.

BREAKING: A new report reveals Mamdani’s office runs a Signal group of 200+ influencers, feeding them talking points and clips to amplify online.

Some received $5,000–$20,000 through taxpayer-funded contracts, with little disclosure.

This is taxpayer-funded propaganda. pic.twitter.com/WM2m1rsGve

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) September 2, 2026

will25u said:

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BREAKING: A new report reveals Mamdani’s office runs a Signal group of 200+ influencers, feeding them talking points and clips to amplify online.

Some received $5,000–$20,000 through taxpayer-funded contracts, with little disclosure.

This is taxpayer-funded propaganda. pic.twitter.com/WM2m1rsGve

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) September 2, 2026

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Communism...its so great that you need to pay people to espouse it's qualities.
What next? Build a wall, so that people can't escape utopia?

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will25u said:

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BREAKING: A new report reveals Mamdani’s office runs a Signal group of 200+ influencers, feeding them talking points and clips to amplify online.

Some received $5,000–$20,000 through taxpayer-funded contracts, with little disclosure.

This is taxpayer-funded propaganda. pic.twitter.com/WM2m1rsGve

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) September 2, 2026

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Communism...its so great that you need to pay people to espouse it's qualities.
What next? Build a wall, so that people can't escape utopia?

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I hope so. They all need to be locked away forever. Have helicopters on standby if they try to escape from New York.

"Talking to her, he realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant. In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird." - 1984

"What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?" - 1984

These quotes remind me of the lemmings in NYC that buy into the propaganda, but have no idea or even abilility to comprehend what the outcomes will be. Despite all rationality and common sense, The Party says it, so it must be ok.

deddog said:

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will25u said:

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BREAKING: A new report reveals Mamdani’s office runs a Signal group of 200+ influencers, feeding them talking points and clips to amplify online.

Some received $5,000–$20,000 through taxpayer-funded contracts, with little disclosure.

This is taxpayer-funded propaganda. pic.twitter.com/WM2m1rsGve

— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) September 2, 2026

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Communism...its so great that you need to pay people to espouse it's qualities.
What next? Build a wall, so that people can't escape utopia?

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But he employs unemployed liberal arts majors to write this BS. Though, 20k won't get you out of mom's basement!

Ag87H2O said:

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"Talking to her, he realized how easy it was to present an appearance of orthodoxy while having no grasp whatever of what orthodoxy meant. In a way, the world-view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird." - 1984

"What can you do, thought Winston, against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?" - 1984

These quotes remind me of the lemmings in NYC that buy into the propaganda, but have no idea or even abilility to comprehend what the outcomes will be. Despite all rationality and common sense, The Party says it, so it must be ok.

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Yep, see the Jewish Michigan AG which is exactly why I referred to that whole absurdity as 1984 dystopia in other thread.

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Communism...its so great that you need to pay people to espouse it's qualities.
What next? Build a wall, so that people can't escape utopia?

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Mamdani is a jihadist who supports communism. The red/green alliance in operation. Both evil out to destroy America and Western Civilization.