What Mamdani doesn't get, & will never get, is that America's greatness lies in the fact that people like him--who revile America, detest its values, & strive to destroy its economy--are not herded into jails or gulags or frogmarched to face shooting squads but get, instead, to run for and win elections. America's greatness lies in its limitless tolerance of obnoxious, ungrateful wretches who spit in its face. America is wasted on Mamdani. Think of the many millions of people the world over who would trade places with him in a heartbeat--and actually be thankful to be in America.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
The optics are incredible: a trust fund baby failed musician who embraces a political philosophy that has killed hundreds of millions of people lecturing the greatest country in the history of the world, FROM ITS FOUNDER’S DESK, on what it could be.
They hate us.
Zohran Mamdani offered a group of new citizens his dark view of Independence Day. Instead of "rockets' red glare" or "purple mountain majesties," he described "oligarchs who buy elections," "children go to sleep hungry," "monopolies that dominate every industry, and oligarchs who buy elections." Oh, and of course "masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans."...
2.6M Cubans. 1.6M Vietnamese. 2M from the Soviet Union, including me. 2.6M Chinese. Hundreds of thousands of Eastern Europeans. Nearly 1M Venezuelans.
We don't "think" we know what socialism becomes.
We know.
You idiots keep pretending your solution has never been tried. Every time it is, millions try to escape.
On today's date in 1901, over half of the U.S. was at or above 90°F and nearly 9% of the land area was at least 100°F. The same weather occurring this week occurred exactly 125 years ago, but according to most climate alarmists, it was just weather in 1901, but this week's three-day event is undeniable proof that we are facing a climate catastrophe.
It’s 100 degrees and Democrats are still whispering about climate change 🙄
Thankfully, New Yorkers elected public power champions at the state and federal level to take on the fossil fuel industry and protect us from these deadly heat waves.
New Yorkers demand climate action and democratic socialists will deliver.
“No money for schools.” NYC has a $43 billion dollar school system whose funding has gone up as enrollment has gone down. It has the highest per-student expenditure in the nation of up to $40K a year. 28-29% of students test proficient in math and reading (NAEP).
New York City just approved a rent freeze on nearly one million apartments. Sounds great until you realize what happens next. Landlords stop maintaining buildings because there is no return on investment. Developers stop building new housing because it is not profitable. The housing supply shrinks. The shortage gets worse. Every city that has tried rent control has ended up with less housing and worse conditions
New York is about to learn this lesson the hard way
As a general rule, anytime Barack Obama lectures the country or its people on their purported sins—with Khalil Gibran pop platitudes—he is seeking absolution for his own obsessions by projecting his own guilty desires onto others.
The latest? At the dedication of his narcissistic Obama Presidential Center in Chicago—a $850 million flak-tower, monolithic boondoggle mired in debt—Obama lectured us on the need to resist the allure off "money, attention, [and] fame."
Thus spoke the owner of four homes, three of them multimillion-dollar mansions, whose last inert year in office was spent closing book and Netflix deals that ensured he would become a multimillionaire the moment he left office, and on spec, jets private to sermonize to various audiences–often at $400,000 a shot—on their own false-consciousness shortcomings.
Plain-speaking, frugal Harry Truman in obscure retirement in Independence, Missouri Obama certainly is not.
When Trump secured the World Cup during his first term:
—Mikie Sherrill was a random lawyer running for Congress
—Kathy Hochul was Lt. Governor under Andrew Cuomo
—Zohran Mamdani wasn’t even an American citizen
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools just paid $95K for a lesson on the First Amendment.
That payment is part of a settlement with Gabby Stout— the high school student who painted a patriotic tribute to Charlie Kirk on a spirit rock last year.
Although Gabby had gotten permission—and although other students had been allowed to paint messages in support of causes like Black Lives Matter—school officials responded to Gabby’s message by painting over it, publicly accusing her of vandalism, interrogating her at school, and calling the police.
@ADFLegal helped Gabby sue the district late last year. Now, besides the payment, the district has issued a statement of regret for its actions and changed its policies to respect students’ free speech rights.
Schools can’t censor student speech just because they don’t like its message. ADF is thrilled to get this vindication for Gabby, who courageously lived out her own admonition to “live like Kirk.” I think Charlie would be proud.