Thankful for it, Jo. There have been many times in history that everything seems to be falling apart. There are many places around the world where that is true today. Prayers for our brothers and sisters who are living in or fleeing from persecution today.
This will continue to happen if we continue to allow it. In places like NYC, Dearborn, and numerous others, the same pattern, important immigrants, make them voters, and they take over local govt.
“Comrade Zohran Mamdani doubles down on his victory handed to him by the foreign invasion of our country
“This movement was made by Yemeni bodega owners, Mexica Abuelas, Senegalese taxi drivers, Uzbek nurses, Trinidadian line cooks, and Ethiopian aunties.””
I was thinking of how much this shows the great divide between big cities and those who populate areas just outside of cites and beyond. I also saw someone on a reel saying this will be a great revelation about how bad life can get in these places where either lawlessness or Sharia law creeps in. There may be a great awakening, or maybe not, depending on the brainwashing of people.
In our big city of Atlanta, the incumbent Dem mayor won. He has seemed to do a good job of helping to clean up the city using law enforcement effectively unlike the previous mayor who trashed the city with her putting down of law enforcement. He has some good programs and seems more like a moderate from what little I know of him. We certainly could do worse.
“Trump called the Iraq war “a big, fat mistake,” and Republican crowds applauded. He called the entire Bush-Cheney administration a “disaster.” He dumped all over the Bush-Cheney legacy and went on to win the Republican nomination. Things had changed.
Still, Cheney actually supported Trump as the Republican nominee in 2016. Only after the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot did Cheney declare Trump a “coward” and a “threat to our republic.” Cheney ended up casting his last vote for president for Kamala Harris in 2024.
By then, Cheney’s brand of Republican politics, whatever you might think of it, had receded far into the past. The man who was Gerald Ford’s chief of staff half a century earlier could find no place in today’s GOP politics. The bitter irony was that Cheney, with the misadventure in Iraq and the calamitous end of the Bush-Cheney administration, had himself contributed to creating Trump’s Republican Party.”
Apparently, the results were more favourable to the Democrats that were expected. At least that’s the impression I’m left with after scanning the news feeds. And Trump apparently threw a fit at Republican Representatives and Senators. I’m not sure why.
Janice is correct — its not a blue/red state thing nor is it ideological. Its rural/urban and has been that way for quite a while now. This is true throughout the developed world. Additionally, NYC is like London, Berlin, Toronto, Dubai, Hong Kong, etc — they may “belong” to a country but they are non-national entities — NYC has in more common with London than with Peoria.
Mamdini simply offered pragmatic solutions to urban problems that the older candidates didn’t. And which a party with a rural base doesn’t understand. Idea and solutions which sound familiar to anyone who lives in London, Berlin, Toronto etc
I know the bar graph listing time in the city to the candidate is supposed to imply Mamdani won because of immigrants but I’m sure the residency time also correlates to age demographics. Young people move into New York from just about anywhere … Peoria or Panama, Trinidad or Tonawada , Springfield or Somalia, domestic or foreign — cities attract young people. And the affordability crisis hits them far harder than those who own a home and have been living in the city for 50 years. Mamdani did something the Democratic party will probably ignore — he attracted and motivated non-voters. Young people rarely vote in municipal elections yet they came out in record numbers for him. It’s not whether they were “native” New Yorkers or migrants (domestic or foreign), they were young and/or non-voters.
Both Harris and Clinton missed that pool of voters; they were so busy collecting endorsements from Republicans like Dick Cheney, they missed the larger pool — young and usually non-voting. And that’s why they lost — people weren’t motivated to vote for them (as opposed to against Trump)
Re: 10:20 – Right after mentioning those particular people (who, if they happen to be citizens, would indeed be Americans), Mamdani went on to mention more “American-sounding” people:
~ “To every New Yorker in Kensington and Midwood and Hunts Point, know this: This city is your city, and this democracy is yours too. This campaign is about people like Wesley, an 1199 organizer I met outside of Elmhurst Hospital on Thursday night. A New Yorker who lives elsewhere, who commutes two hours each way from Pennsylvania because rent is too expensive in this city.
It’s about people like the woman I met on the Bx33 years ago, who said to me, “I used to love New York, but now it’s just where I live.” And it’s about people like Richard, the taxi driver I went on a 15-day hunger strike with outside of City Hall, who still has to drive his cab seven days a week. My brother, we are in City Hall now.” ~
Later in the speech, along with mentioning Muslims, Mamdani also said:
~ “And we will build a City Hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of antisemitism.” ~
FTR, no, I am not in favor of Mamdani winning the NYC mayoral race. But I have learned that when I see these brief clips from X or elsewhere, there is a good chance that they have been edited to leave something out that mitigates (or even completely negates) the point the poster wants to make.
Words are cheap, it’s the actions that follow that matter.
Trump has set himself apart by doing what he said he would do.
Muslims will say what is expedient to advance their cause and religion. Ask Londoners about promises made and not kept by their Muslim mayor.
I remember when Obama said marriage is between a man and woman before the election and then he declared same sex marriage to be valid after he was in office. All that led to the Trans disaster and mutilating children. A slippery slope . . . begins with believing lies.
Wandering Views 
God is in control
Jo
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Indeed.
And no one is shocked that the commie won in NYC, and the progressives in deep blue VA and NJ.
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Thankful for it, Jo. There have been many times in history that everything seems to be falling apart. There are many places around the world where that is true today. Prayers for our brothers and sisters who are living in or fleeing from persecution today.
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This will continue to happen if we continue to allow it. In places like NYC, Dearborn, and numerous others, the same pattern, important immigrants, make them voters, and they take over local govt.
https://x.com/DollarTreeTrump/status/1986088990395834470?t=ZnV6SCHgm5py24Uv5qzyGQ&s=19
“Nice to know that he thanked, let me see here, ah yes. He didn’t mention Americans at all.”
https://x.com/CashLorenShow/status/1986049111955804394?t=XkRehNgBm2FqO6T-1OXUAA&s=19
“Comrade Zohran Mamdani doubles down on his victory handed to him by the foreign invasion of our country
“This movement was made by Yemeni bodega owners, Mexica Abuelas, Senegalese taxi drivers, Uzbek nurses, Trinidadian line cooks, and Ethiopian aunties.””
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I was thinking of how much this shows the great divide between big cities and those who populate areas just outside of cites and beyond. I also saw someone on a reel saying this will be a great revelation about how bad life can get in these places where either lawlessness or Sharia law creeps in. There may be a great awakening, or maybe not, depending on the brainwashing of people.
In our big city of Atlanta, the incumbent Dem mayor won. He has seemed to do a good job of helping to clean up the city using law enforcement effectively unlike the previous mayor who trashed the city with her putting down of law enforcement. He has some good programs and seems more like a moderate from what little I know of him. We certainly could do worse.
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So NYC’s newly imported immigrants are the reason, and this is all as they designed it to work.
Told yas.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1986111445189234741?t=lppoPTVt03Ue_F2X_dcRrA&s=19
“Native New Yorkers REJECTED Mamdani while people living in New York less than 5 years overwhelmingly voted for Mamdani.
Democrats imported a new demographic of voters…
This is just the beginning…”
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“I am illegal in this country. My parents are illegal here in this country.”
This person was elected the Mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota last night.”
https://x.com/greg_price11/status/1986108957803618633?t=0rklAZT47cOkEGvstUIkeg&s=19
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Something the establishment types never take responsibility for is their own complicity in the rise of Trump.
https://x.com/ByronYork/status/1985857702732369965?t=LC7S2LhyKoHczRT1ettFsA&s=19
“Trump called the Iraq war “a big, fat mistake,” and Republican crowds applauded. He called the entire Bush-Cheney administration a “disaster.” He dumped all over the Bush-Cheney legacy and went on to win the Republican nomination. Things had changed.
Still, Cheney actually supported Trump as the Republican nominee in 2016. Only after the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot did Cheney declare Trump a “coward” and a “threat to our republic.” Cheney ended up casting his last vote for president for Kamala Harris in 2024.
By then, Cheney’s brand of Republican politics, whatever you might think of it, had receded far into the past. The man who was Gerald Ford’s chief of staff half a century earlier could find no place in today’s GOP politics. The bitter irony was that Cheney, with the misadventure in Iraq and the calamitous end of the Bush-Cheney administration, had himself contributed to creating Trump’s Republican Party.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3874889/dick-cheneys-complicated-legacy/
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Apparently, the results were more favourable to the Democrats that were expected. At least that’s the impression I’m left with after scanning the news feeds. And Trump apparently threw a fit at Republican Representatives and Senators. I’m not sure why.
Janice is correct — its not a blue/red state thing nor is it ideological. Its rural/urban and has been that way for quite a while now. This is true throughout the developed world. Additionally, NYC is like London, Berlin, Toronto, Dubai, Hong Kong, etc — they may “belong” to a country but they are non-national entities — NYC has in more common with London than with Peoria.
Mamdini simply offered pragmatic solutions to urban problems that the older candidates didn’t. And which a party with a rural base doesn’t understand. Idea and solutions which sound familiar to anyone who lives in London, Berlin, Toronto etc
I know the bar graph listing time in the city to the candidate is supposed to imply Mamdani won because of immigrants but I’m sure the residency time also correlates to age demographics. Young people move into New York from just about anywhere … Peoria or Panama, Trinidad or Tonawada , Springfield or Somalia, domestic or foreign — cities attract young people. And the affordability crisis hits them far harder than those who own a home and have been living in the city for 50 years. Mamdani did something the Democratic party will probably ignore — he attracted and motivated non-voters. Young people rarely vote in municipal elections yet they came out in record numbers for him. It’s not whether they were “native” New Yorkers or migrants (domestic or foreign), they were young and/or non-voters.
Both Harris and Clinton missed that pool of voters; they were so busy collecting endorsements from Republicans like Dick Cheney, they missed the larger pool — young and usually non-voting. And that’s why they lost — people weren’t motivated to vote for them (as opposed to against Trump)
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Re: 10:20 – Right after mentioning those particular people (who, if they happen to be citizens, would indeed be Americans), Mamdani went on to mention more “American-sounding” people:
~ “To every New Yorker in Kensington and Midwood and Hunts Point, know this: This city is your city, and this democracy is yours too. This campaign is about people like Wesley, an 1199 organizer I met outside of Elmhurst Hospital on Thursday night. A New Yorker who lives elsewhere, who commutes two hours each way from Pennsylvania because rent is too expensive in this city.
It’s about people like the woman I met on the Bx33 years ago, who said to me, “I used to love New York, but now it’s just where I live.” And it’s about people like Richard, the taxi driver I went on a 15-day hunger strike with outside of City Hall, who still has to drive his cab seven days a week. My brother, we are in City Hall now.” ~
Later in the speech, along with mentioning Muslims, Mamdani also said:
~ “And we will build a City Hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of antisemitism.” ~
Here is a link to the whole speech.
https://www.businessinsider.com/zohran-mamdani-nyc-mayor-acceptance-speech-2025-11?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=yahoo.com
FTR, no, I am not in favor of Mamdani winning the NYC mayoral race. But I have learned that when I see these brief clips from X or elsewhere, there is a good chance that they have been edited to leave something out that mitigates (or even completely negates) the point the poster wants to make.
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Scroll to get the vote by age …… the under 45 vote…….I was right.
The residency length is also in this survey but the age demographic says more. Views on Trump are also in here
https://www.cnn.com/election/2025/exit-polls/new-york-city/general/mayor/0
hrw
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BTW, it was the transcript of the speech that I shared, not a video of it.
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Words are cheap, it’s the actions that follow that matter.
Trump has set himself apart by doing what he said he would do.
Muslims will say what is expedient to advance their cause and religion. Ask Londoners about promises made and not kept by their Muslim mayor.
I remember when Obama said marriage is between a man and woman before the election and then he declared same sex marriage to be valid after he was in office. All that led to the Trans disaster and mutilating children. A slippery slope . . . begins with believing lies.
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