Sunday, July 13, 2025

Status Quo Dinosaurs Raise $20m to Fight Zohran Mamdani

"New Yorkers for a Better Future Mayor 25" is launching a campaign against Zohran Mamdani, amassing at least $20 million in their war chest.

Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 08:32 AM | 14 COMMENTS | permalink

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AIPAC Democrats, Wall Street, and the GOP are desperate to stop Zohran Mandani from becoming NYC Mayor. As a national avatar, Mamdani leading the Battle for the Big Apple' will be the first skirmish against Dummkopf Trumpf, preceding the 2026 mid-term elections by one full year. If Mamdani wins, lucrative contracts, political appointments, and academic positions at CUNY will finally be given to outsiders. Mamdani will also gain a national and international stage with an opportunity to meet world leaders during the annual UNGA. Mamdani's progressive platform can easily be funded by increased taxes on Wall Street and the banking/financial sector. The wealthy status quo and the oligarchs always oppose increased taxes on their pelf and this is the same in this case with Zohran Mamdani's platform to help the less fortunate people residing and working in NYC.
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Bo Dietl, Bill Ackman, and Rudy Giuliani?
There's a lot I really have enjoyed over the years visiting NYC.
But it's a big place and with the good comes the wretched.
Like this trio of self-inflating bores.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-11 06:14 AM

#1: Top of the morning, Doc. I could just imagine how the immortal Damon Runyan would describe the aforementioned confederacy of dunces: s3.amazonaws.com

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-11 07:11 AM

As a person in the NYC media area (I live in SW CT), my cable company provides the NYC TV channels in HD, and the CT TV channels (those it chooses to provide) in SD.

So, when I watch linear TV, because I choose to watch HD not SD, I am subject to the election ads for NYC.

Do I sense a desperation in those ads against candidate Mamdani? Absolutely. They already seem as fierce as the ones I would expect to watch more in the August/September time frame.

It is going to be a loooonnngggg summer ...

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-11 05:53 PM

Rudy Giuliani

What's Four Seasons Ghouliani gonna do?

Bleed black ink from his temples?

#4 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-11 05:56 PM

#3: I have gotten lost many times in your neighborhood, Lamplighter. I'm glad your state is fixing the signs, which may help. I don't watch TV, but I could imagine the desperate rhetoric on the ads to knock poor Zohran out of the race. Remember, he's one of them.

#5 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-11 05:58 PM

#4: Ghouliani's presence in the campaign will boost Zohran. I hope he hovers around NYC like the flea-infested vampire bat that he is.

#6 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-11 06:00 PM

Both parties are being forced by their owners to fight Mamdani.

Yet people still won't wake up to the fact both parties are owned by the same billionaires.

Reagan, BushSr, Clinton, BushJr, Obama, Biden. They all said different things, but it was the same policies regardless who the president was.

Trump and the far right fascists aren't them, which some people seem drawn to. But at the same time. Rightwing authoritarian nationalism has always led to the collapse of the empire.

Democracy as we've known in our entire lives, has ended.

We've become just another once great nation.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-11 06:05 PM

@#5 ... I have gotten lost many times in your neighborhood, Lamplighter. I'm glad your state is fixing the signs, which may help. ...

That may help, but, imo, probably not enough. :)

SW CT had the history of creating roads by paving over the old cow and other farm animal paths used by the early colonial farmers here.

As a result, the roads tend to do things like go around trees, instead of cutting them down and paving a straight road, as is currently done. That winding makes it tough to keep one's bearing. GPS helps, though, nowadays.

For me, I prefer the winding country roads. ;)

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-07-11 06:17 PM

#7 Spot on.

Uniparty replaced by Trump Cult of Personality.

Different; but more dangerous and stupid.
Hu
Trump kills everything he touches.

The Republicans are his vehicle....He rides them like a Donkey.

They are Worms.

They Surrender their powers like trained Seals.

#9 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-07-11 09:32 PM

"Zohran Mamdani is going to have the entire establishment, the oligarchy, the billionaires coming down on his head.

They are worried that his campaign is an example of what can happen all over the country when you bring people together.

Democratic Leadership is refusing to jump on board a campaign where this guy is their nominee.

I'm going to do everything I can to make sure he becomes the next mayor of New York City."

-Bernie Sanders

#10 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-12 01:58 PM

AIPAC-funded Senator John Fetterman (D-PA) commented that Zohran Mamdani "isn't even a Democrat." (The Hill)

Zohran Mamdani's campaign represents the first electoral counterattack against Trumpf and oligarchy, ahead of the 2026 mid-terms, so why aren't ALL Democrats behind him?

#11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-12 02:07 PM

Republicans support Trump running New York directly.
They're just waiting for Trump to announce it.

#12 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-13 02:40 PM

I'm in favor of letting the citizens of New York get the government they voted for, good and hard.

#13 | Posted by visitor_ at 2025-07-14 05:52 PM

Mainstream and rightwing people hate Mamdani for the same reasons they hate AOC. They are smart, liberal, progressive Democrats representative of the upcoming generation. And the fact that one is Muslim and the other is Latina doesn't seem to help.

#14 | Posted by moder8 at 2025-07-14 09:10 PM

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