Republican Want to Strip Zohran Mamdani’s US Citizenship

**** Republicans, Oligarchs, Slumlords, AIPAC in Complete Apoplexy Over Zohran Mamdani ****

Human gumboil Ron DeSatan, Florida's inept Republican governor, slimed both Zohran Mamdani and House Democrat Ilhan Omar and quipped what he might do if Mamdani is elected Mayor of NYC: "Look, if I have to build a wall on I-95 ... maybe we'll have to do it." floridapolitics.com

Chief Junta Propagandist Steve Bannon: "Marxist Jihadist" Mamdani Is "Illegal citizen" and must be "denaturalized and sent out of the country," he brayed on his odious daily podcast. Not linked.

Good-for-nothing Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson: "Zohran Mamdani is ending The Democratic Party. He is expected to take the helm of one of the most important cities in the world and the largest city in America, and he now has the full blessing of the Democrat leader in the House of Representatives. It is shocking, and that leader and all the other Democrats are going to co-own the consequences of what they do to America's largest city." youtu.be

The amount of hatred and fear they are trying to smear Zohran with just shows how much they fear his message and popularity.

The people are tired of republiturds and republiturd light candidates. They're tired of the government protecting pedophiles and billionaires while voters are left to starve caught between poverty wages and ever increasing food and housing costs.

They fear his victory will inspire a generation of Mamdani like candidates that will kick their corrupt asses to to the curb.

Do it, Republicans.

The publicn reaction should prove how much Americans agree with Trump's "mandate".

The national attention this election is receiving is significant.

The oligarchs are terrified by the prospect of working class Americans being represented by our politicians.

Name another mayor from any other city in America that has received the same amount of attention Zohran Mamdani is receiving.

He didn't even say he wants to strip him of his citizenship.......but called for an investigation.
#10 | Posted by eberly

You're lying, Eberly.

I'll demonstrate, by asking a question you can't answer.

What primary purpose could the investigation serve, other than stripping Mamdani's citizenship?

Of course he lying. For attention.

www.theguardian.com

An Irish grandmother who has lived in the US for most of her life and holds a green card is facing deportation because she wrote a bad cheque for $25 in 2015.

Donna Hughes-Brown, 58, was detained in July after landing in Chicago on a flight from Dublin and is being held in isolation in a detention centre in Kentucky. She has lived in the US since 1977, has five children and grandchildren, and ran a horse farm in Troy, Missouri.

Her husband, Jim Brown, a US citizen and military veteran, told reporters his wife was not a criminal and that he "100%" regretted voting for Donald Trump as president.

He said she had been detained on a misdemeanour relating to a $25 cheque she signed a decade ago and for which she made restitution and received probation.

She was detained under legislation amended on 4 July as part of Trump's sweeping "one big beautiful bill" act. The couple visited Ireland that month for a funeral. When they landed at Chicago's O'Hare airport on 29 July a police officer was waiting for her on the ramp.

Five days later she was transferred to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) facility in Kentucky, where she told her husband conditions were "deplorable". He lost contact with her this week when she was moved to an isolation cell, he told the Irish Times.

Brown thinks her requests for low-sodium diet might be the reason she was moved. "[They] tried to feed her hot dogs and chilli mac. She probably told them after the fifth time they tried to serve her: I'm not eating that.' So they locked her up. I haven't heard from her in three days now."

Brown said a deportation was scheduled for 17 September. "Hopefully they'll dismiss it. We have 40 character witnesses we sent to the lawyer."

Hughes-Brown was born in England and grew up in Ireland before moving as an 11-year-old to the US, where she renewed her green card but never became a citizen.

Brown told Newsweek that his wife did volunteer work for the homeless and poor. Last October, instead of celebrating her birthday, she helped to fill a horse trailer with supplies for victims of Hurricane Helene and delivered it to North Carolina, he said.

Brown, who served in the navy and marines for decades, said he had supported Trump's promise to deport "criminal illegal immigrants" but that federal authorities were targeting other people to reach quotas.

"You look at the news, and they're not telling the truth about what's actually happening to a lot of legal immigrants. What's bad is that Trump is so demeaning to people, and he's so condescending and so retaliatory that people are afraid to say anything."

The case has parallels with other cases, including that of Cliona Ward, a green card holder who was detained in April at San Francisco airport after a visit to Ireland because of offences dating back almost 20 years. She was released in May.

THIS is what Republicans are trying to do to Zohran Mamdanis.

Republicans are terrified by what Mamdanis represents.

Republicans are terrified by what Mamdanis represents.
#22 | Posted by Alexandrite

They're terrified that he'll get elected and actually improve life for New Yorkers, that his policies might work, making him and his ideas popular.

If they truly believed socialism would fail, they'd be cheering him on. They'd want him to win, to implement those policies, and to watch them backfire, proving once and for all that "socialism" can't work in a city like New York, let alone in America.

But they're not doing that. They're doing the exact opposite and that speaks volumes.

-THIS is what Republicans are trying to do to Zohran Mamdanis.

treat him like a bad check writer?

No....they are trying to cost him an election. they are trying to frighten new york voters into staying home.

This is what was successfully done to Kamala Harris. Frighten voters into staying home. How? by branding her a ---- and an opportunist who can't handle being president and exploiting what really scared folk...... Her gender and her race.

And look at how many people who voted for Biden last time stayed home this past election. I think it worked.

That's what they are trying to do to Mamdanis.

You don't have run in front of a truck to prove me wrong, Alex. Just disagree and move on.

Calm down, for Christs sakes.

-They're terrified that he'll get elected and actually improve life for New Yorkers, that his policies might work, making him and his ideas popular.

Is that how you would describe the opposition to Trump?

Is that how you would describe the opposition to Trump?
#25 | Posted by eberly

The reaction to Mamdani does echo how people responded to Trump in 2016. But the context is totally different.

In 2016, Trump had never held office, and most of the opposition came from people who saw him as corrupt, power-hungry, and obsessed with notoriety (not because they feared his ideas might work). They thought he'd use the presidency to enrich himself and after seeing how things played out, they weren't wrong.

Mamdani's opposition, on the other hand, isn't about personal ethics or corruption. It's ideological. He's pushing for a level of socialism (e.g., rent freezes, city-run groceries, and free public transit, etc.) that's never really been implemented at this scale in the U.S. The fear isn't that he'll fail; it's that he might actually succeed and prove those ideas popular.

That's the key difference. With Trump, people feared the man and his proven corruption. With Mamdani, they fear a movement that could spread if proven to be impactful and popular.

Very well said, Rsty.

A week away from Election Day in New York City, a national economic justice group on Tuesday released a report detailing how billionaires "outraged at the prospect of the rich and corporations paying higher taxes" have spent millions of dollars to defeat Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani.

"Just 62 billionaires and descendants of billionaire families (billionaire spenders') as of October 14th have contributed over one-third"37%, or $18.7 million"of all the donations collected by so-called outside expenditure groups involved in the race," according to the Americans for Tax Fairness Action Fund (ATFAF) report, Billionaires Buying Gracie Mansion.

The publication notes that "almost all of that money has backed former New York state Gov. Andrew Cuomo," who is running as an Independent after losing the Democratic primary to Mamdani, a democratic socialist in the state Assembly who has campaigned on promises to make the metropolis more affordable for everyday people and "tax the rich!"

"a level of socialism (e.g., rent freezes, city-run groceries, and free public transit, etc.) that's never really been implemented at this scale in the U.S."

Its all been done.

1. NYC and other cities have had rent controlled apartments for many years.
2. Seattle has free city buses for five or ten years -- it made them rolling homeless shelters and eventually they stopped.
3. Everyone in the military gets a government run grocery store called the PX.

Best comment on this was Mamdani pointing out how one of NYC's ideologically opposed oligarchs has spent over $1M advertising against Mamdani's tax on the rich.

But the amount Mamdani would raise his taxes is less than $1M.

From what I am seeing on local NYC news, Mr Cuomo seems to be gaining on Mr Mamdani, cutting Mr Mamdini's lead in half.

Will the gain be enough to matter by next Tuesday? I dunno ...

@#32

And, if I may add ...

the political commercials for the NYC Mayoral race and the NJ Governor race have been taking a new low, imo.

For example ...

Cuomo condemned over racist AI ad depicting criminals for Zohran Mamdani'
www.theguardian.com

... New York City mayoral hopeful Andrew Cuomo has been widely labeled as racist after his official X account posted " and then deleted " an AI-generated ad depicting "criminals for Zohran Mamdani".

Not even 20 minutes into the second mayoral debate, Cuomo's official account, @andrewcuomo, tweeted the video. It was reshared by many before being deleted.

The Cuomo and Mamdani campaigns did not immediately respond to the Guardian's request for comment.

The video, which has been saved and reshared by various people, runs a little over two minutes and opens with an AI iteration of Mamdani, first running through the streets of New York and then eating rice with his hands.

It goes on to show a Black man in a keffiyeh shoplifting, a man abusing a woman, a sex trafficker, a drug dealer, and others, all showing their support for Mamdani.

Reaction to the video, which was re-uploaded by journalist Prem Thakker, was fast and negative. ...

But Mr Cuomo seems to need the support of Republicans in NYC, and that ad looks like it was his campaign's way to get that support.