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The pair of lawsuits, filed in New York State Supreme Court, allege the city's plan will harm independent grocers, many of whom are minorities, by siphoning customers and forcing their businesses to close.

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Hear me out. What if instead of selling food below cost to all comers at taxpayer expense, then using more taxpayer dollars to subsidize private companies that can't compete, we had a program targeting nutritional assistance just to the people who needed it, as a sort of supplement?

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-- Catherine Rampell (@crampell.bsky.social) 10:31 AM · Aug 20, 2026

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The popular and effective NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) is driving AIPAC politicians from both political parties, oligarchs, and Republicans nuts -- absolutely and completely nuts.

The term is now called "Zohran Derangement Syndrome" or "ZDS."


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#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-25 12:37 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Multicultural Business Coalition?

DEI is peak toxicity.
#7 | Posted by BellRinger

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-08-25 09:14 AM | Reply

"we had a program targeting nutritional assistance just to the people who needed it, as a sort of supplement?"

^
"Had" is the correct verb tense.

Trump has made SNAP more difficult and costly to administer, on purpose.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-08-25 12:02 PM | Reply

"we had a program targeting nutritional assistance just to the people who needed it, as a sort of supplement?"
^
"Had" is the correct verb tense.
Trump has made SNAP more difficult and costly to administer, on purpose.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-08-25 12:02 PM | Reply

There is a thing called the internet that will tell you not to eat that cupcake.

#4 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-08-25 12:31 PM | Reply

I love how to make sure only the qualified people can shop at the store you need to show an id.

#5 | Posted by fishpaw at 2026-08-25 01:07 PM | Reply

I love how to make sure only the qualified people can shop at the store you need to show an id.

#5 | Posted by fishpaw

I love how trump is still hiding the epstein files and you're totally cool with it.

#6 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-08-25 01:32 PM | Reply

#6+ WTF does Trump or the Epstein files have do do with privately run grocery stores suing Mamdani?

#7 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-08-25 01:37 PM | Reply

Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww My heart breaks for them. It really does. Poor things.

#8 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2026-08-25 01:43 PM | Reply

Americans hate helping the poor.

Even poor Americans hate helping the poor Americans.

Too worried the wrong poor Americans will receive help.

It's a mental illness.

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-08-25 01:43 PM | Reply

Flag:

#6+ WTF does Trump or the Epstein files have do do with privately run grocery stores suing Mamdani?

#7 | Posted by BellRinger

It has to do with the things republicans choose to get outraged about.

Not starting a war like republican presidents always do. Not hiding the epstein files. Not raising inflation or gas prices. Not record breaking corruption and profiteering. Not exploding the debt to give tax cuts to the rich. Not crippling public health and increasing foodborne illness and measles. Nope. Nonexistent trans athletes and public grocery stores are the REAL issues facing america in 2026.

#10 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-08-25 01:53 PM | Reply

"The Kansas City Missouri-based Multicultural Business Coalition is suing NYC to prevent them from selling low-cost groceries and fresh produce to poor and hungry New Yorkers. NYC's municipal food stores won't be selling items that are revenue drivers for small businesses and bodegas such as cigarettes, prepared foods, or lottery tickets."

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) helping small business
Whenever there is a demonstration in the US against police brutality or some social injustice, Republicans bellow "outside agitators!" or "Antifa!"

~snip~

As Clownshack wrote: "Americans hate helping the poor. Even poor Americans hate helping the poor Americans. Too worried the wrong poor Americans will receive help. It's a mental illness."

This program would clearly help People of Color in NYC and my parents could have benefited from this last century.

Sidenote:

Until 1981, the US operated 28 free hospitals at harbor or port cities. Republican POTUS Ronald Reagan closed down the last one:

"After World War II, however, efforts began in Washington to disband the system because merchant seamen were being highly paid and some officials felt it inequitable to provide free medical care not available to others."

Source: Free US hospitals

#11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-25 02:10 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

#10. It's the topic of this thread. You do realize a lot of things are happening at the same time. And it's small store owners who are upset not necessarily Republicans. I don't live in NY so this doesn't affect me at all. And taking this thread and bringing up AIPAC? That makes no sense.

#12 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-08-25 03:42 PM | Reply

Thnaks to the beauty and magic of the internet, the entire world sees Republicans, AIPAC pod-people, Dummkopf Trumpf, and the oligarchs attacking and sliming poor NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D).

Marry, the global audience is witnessing a 21st-century David versus Goliath reprise.

When UNGA convenes in NYC next month, this will be His Honor's first assembly.

Some world leaders will take the time to try and meet Zohran Mamdani (D).

Recall, His Honor turned down a personal audience with King Charles III and only met him at a public 9/11 ceremony that the right wing did not protest against earlier this year.

When the nsfarious ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu befouls NYC next month, he will be met by Jews Against Genocide and a chorus of epithets and rotten eggs. His Shin Bet PSD will deploy umbrellas to shield the international fugitive from spoiled produce and invectives. And this will be the first time the Israelis don't get carte blanche treatment from the NYPD.

Argentinian, Indian, and Colombian delegates may be the only freaks willing to sit thru Satanyahu's speech at UNGA.

I wager that Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum and Ukraine President Volodmir Zelensky will want a personal meeting with NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D), as well as the Irish taoiseach and Canada PM Mark Carney.

DEMOCRAT Zohran Mamdani vs the oligarchs, AIPAC, and Islamomisists (AKA Muslim haters):


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#13 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-25 05:09 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

TYPO fixed: "When the nefarious ICC-indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu befouls NYC next month..."

Just thinking of the heinous Benjamin Satanyahu simply roils the stomach.


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#14 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-25 05:27 PM | Reply | Funny: 1


It has to do with the things republicans choose to get outraged about.
~ SpeaksLikeAnIdiot

Still has nothing to do with the thread, even Mamdani recognizes the issue.

Mamdani has proposed funding the grocers that are affected with subsidies, by the State run stores.

#15 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-08-25 05:42 PM | Reply


I love how trump is still hiding the epstein files and you're totally cool with it.

No one cares about the epstein "files", its been almost 15years now.

They care about prices, they care about the economy.

#16 | Posted by oneironaut at 2026-08-25 05:43 PM | Reply

No one cares about the epstein "files", its been almost 15years now.

They care about prices, they care about the economy.

#16 | POSTED BY ONEIRONAUT

We care about all of it, you arrogant twit.

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2026-08-25 05:58 PM | Reply

#10. It's the topic of this thread. You do realize a lot of things are happening at the same time. And it's small store owners who are upset not necessarily Republicans. I don't live in NY so this doesn't affect me at all. And taking this thread and bringing up AIPAC? That makes no sense.

#12 | Posted by BellRinger

Yeah and it's the only thread with any republicans on it. Because you cowards hide from the threads about real issues.

#18 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-08-25 06:01 PM | Reply

This is a real issue, moron.

You act like you are the arbiter of what is and isn't important.

#19 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-08-25 10:22 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

*** Pete Kegsbreath's Pastor: "Zohran Mamdani (D) Voters Should Lose Their Citizenship" ***

"Doug Wilson, a Christian Nationalist pastor in Idaho and a self-described "paleo-Confederate," wants to strip the citizenship of anyone who voted for NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D). As cult leader of the denomination that includes Pete Hegseth, Wilson previously sparked headlines for wanting to repeal the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote and for seeking a return to religious tests for officeholders. But during a recent forum on Christian Nationalism, he went a step further to argue people should lose their citizenship for voting for the first Muslim mayor of the Big Apple."

~snip~

Source: Desperate auper-loser bleating cr@p

"Coriolanus is not an Islamophobe... therefore he is not of... the Body. He must be absorbed into the AIPAC Body... like the other gullible Americans.

Thus speaks Landru Willowby."


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#20 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-25 10:23 PM | Reply | Funny: 2

TYPO fixed: "Source: Desperate super-loser bleating cr@p."

AIPAC: An invasive species secretly taking over American society and the US body politic, like the alien pod-people who look just like us in Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

"Antisemite!"


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#21 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-08-26 03:41 AM | Reply

No one cares about the epstein "files", its been almost 15years now.

Keep giving the billionaire child rapists a tongue bath.

It's what you do best.

#22 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-08-26 11:40 AM | Reply

"Doug Wilson, a Christian Nationalist pastor in Idaho and a self-described "paleo-Confederate," wants to strip the citizenship of anyone who voted for NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D).

Guarantee there are children that have a special relationship with this douchebag and not by their choice.

#23 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-08-26 11:42 AM | Reply

Last American leaving NYC please turn off the lights

#24 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-08-26 11:59 AM | Reply

You lefty clowns are pathetic.

#25 | Posted by BellRinger at 2026-08-26 12:00 PM | Reply

Says the righty --------- who killed his old man.

#26 | Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 2026-08-26 12:02 PM | Reply

-No one cares about the epstein "files", its been almost 15years now.

They care about the politics of it.

No one cares about the victims of the whole epstein rape island.

Just the politics....

#27 | Posted by eberly at 2026-08-26 12:15 PM | Reply

No one cares about the victims of the whole epstein rape island.

#27 | POSTED BY EBERLY

I guess you didn't raise daughters.

#28 | Posted by Zed at 2026-08-26 12:18 PM | Reply

Sorry......people who go on and on about epstein files don't care about the actual victims of epstein..

people like Zed.

#29 | Posted by eberly at 2026-08-26 12:20 PM | Reply

#29 | POSTED BY EBERLY

It's a great thing to raise girls, EB. Gives you a sense of protectiveness and empathy that follows you into later life.

#30 | Posted by Zed at 2026-08-26 12:21 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

#29 | POSTED BY EBERLY

I have this theory that Texas has this cold, cynical aspect to its personality because our infant population was traumatized by the Comanches.

What's the why to what's wrong with Kansas, EB?

#31 | Posted by Zed at 2026-08-26 12:29 PM | Reply

>I guess you didn't raise daughters.
-and let them jet off with strangers

#32 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-08-26 12:33 PM | Reply

let them jet off with strangers

#32 | POSTED BY JOHN_SAVAGE2

So the little girls got what they deserved?

Classic MAGA.

May you also get what you deserve.

#33 | Posted by Zed at 2026-08-26 12:36 PM | Reply

>So the little girls got what they deserved?
Yeah I read that usually it was 200.00 +tip.
None of them complained.

#34 | Posted by john_savage2 at 2026-08-26 01:09 PM | Reply

No one cares about the victims of the whole epstein rape island.
Just the politics....
#27 | Posted by eberly

Does "the politics" include the fact that our President was raping the victims?

Because I don't see any evidence Republicans care about those politics.

#35 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-08-26 01:59 PM | Reply

No one cares about the victims of the whole epstein rape island.
Just the politics....
#27 | Posted by eberly

Well yeah, the POLITICS are the way that the most powerful people on earth blackmail others or are blackmailed by others to do their bidding.

You realize that's what the whole epstein saga is really about right?

That's what makes it different than a house full of human trafficking victims from guatemala.

It exposes the way that power really works in this world. And trump breaking the law to keep it hidden exposes who he really is.

#36 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-08-26 02:06 PM | Reply

crazy that the Left still brings up the Epstein files, if it were true the left would have buried Trump years ago when Obama was in office, or when Biden was in office, why didn't they?

#37 | Posted by Maverick at 2026-08-26 02:10 PM | Reply

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They imagine they know what's in them.

I honestly don't know but I wish we could get to the bottom of it so the actual victims could get their deserved justice.

Not the wimps who pretend to be the victims of this whole thing. Wimps who pretend to give a ---- about blackmail or whatever leverage has been applied to politicians or other powerful people.

It's as if some here believe the notion that uber wealthy people who put their dicks where they want only do it at epstein island.

LOL....as if it doesn't occur everywhere all the time and has for centuries and have been exposed to blackmail all the time for their entire lives.

not saying there isn't blackmail as part of the epstein thing and it's likely included in the files.

#38 | Posted by eberly at 2026-08-26 02:28 PM | Reply

Flag:

crazy that the Left still brings up the Epstein files, if it were true the left would have buried Trump years ago when Obama was in office, or when Biden was in office, why didn't they?

#37 | Posted by Maverick

As has undoubtedly been explained to you a million times, maxwell's case was still under appeal during biden's term and he didn't want to give her a way to get out of jail.

The epstein transparency act was passed in 2025, making it THE LAW that all the files MUST BE RELEASED with only victim's names redacted. Trump and his DOJ are BREAKING THE LAW to keep the files hidden.

Lastly, if biden's goal was to lock up trump, he could have done it for the 11 counts of obstruction of justice left over from the mueller investigation, or a dozen other things. Biden's approach to trump was to ignore him and let him fade away. He thought trump's failed coup attempt would finally break the spell over his cult and they'd rejoin the real world. How wrong he was.

#39 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-08-26 02:32 PM | Reply

Not the wimps who pretend to be the victims of this whole thing. Wimps who pretend to give a ---- about blackmail or whatever leverage has been applied to politicians or other powerful people.

#38 | Posted by eberly

You think we have to PRETEND to care if our president is being blackmailed to do things like...i dunno...start wars that no one in the country wants?

Anyone with a brain would care about things like that. Do you?

#40 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-08-26 02:34 PM | Reply

Of course it will...

Hard to believe any one is stupid enough to think otherwise

....but there's still confusion amongst leftist woke zombies about what a woman is...soooooooooo

#41 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-08-26 02:59 PM | Reply

I love how to make sure only the qualified people can shop at the store you need to show an id.

#5 | Posted by fishpaw

I love how trump is still hiding the epstein files and you're totally cool with it.

#6 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

BWAAAAA...

typical leftist nonsense. .

Change the subject when you get your a$$ kicked with facts like the ID.

BWAAAAAAA

#42 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-08-26 03:04 PM | Reply

....but there's still confusion amongst leftist woke zombies about what a woman is...soooooooooo

#41 | Posted by shrimptacodan

Yet trans porn is most popular in deep red states...interesting.

#43 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-08-26 03:04 PM | Reply

Yet trans porn is most popular in deep red states...interesting.

#43 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

Not in my world.

And how do you know that ?

You must do a lot of research into trans porn.... Any particular reason ?
... Chuckle.

#44 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-08-26 03:09 PM | Reply

Yet trans porn is most popular in deep red states...interesting.

#43 | Posted by SpeakSoftly

Not in my world.

And how do you know that ?

You must do a lot of research into trans porn.... Any particular reason ?
... Chuckle.

#44 | Posted by shrimptacodan

How do you know what the guy is watching in the trailer next to yours?

www.yourtango.com
"Data Finds Republican States Are Obsessed' With Searching For Transgender Porn While Voting Against Trans Rights"

#45 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2026-08-26 03:32 PM | Reply

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