The redpill on this is: America never recovered from 2008 and it's been 18 years of economic stagnation. Everyone wants to make this more complicated than it is, but it's exactly that simple. Dead zombie economy.
Italian blood built New York City.
Our grandparents and great grandparents came here with nothing and built everything. They laid the roads, dug the subway tunnels, raised bridges, carved stone, poured concrete, and helped build landmarks like the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Central Terminal, the Empire State Building, and countless churches, schools, and neighborhoods that still define this city today.
Little Italy wasn’t handed to us. It was earned through generations of sweat, sacrifice, and relentless hard work.
No stupid Muslim from Uganda gets to erase that legacy or rewrite our history.
Mamdani, GO FUCK YOURSELF.
Italian Americans helped build New York City, and we’ll never let anyone forget it.
Ages of Founding Fathers in 1776:
James Monroe, 18
Aaron Burr, 20
John Marshall, 20
Alexander Hamilton, 21
James Madison, 25
John Jay, 30
Thomas Jefferson, 33
Thomas Paine, 39
John Adams, 40
George Washington, 44
This nation was built by brilliant young men.