Dear Mamdani,
Let me explain this the way I’d explain it to a five-year-old.
Imagine Tommy has a lemonade stand. Every week, lemons cost him a little more, sugar costs a little more, cups cost a little more, and his parents even charge him a little more for the table he uses. Then his teacher walks over and says, “Tommy, you’re not allowed to charge more than $1 for your lemonade anymore.”
Tommy says, “OK… but everything I need to make lemonade keeps getting more expensive. How am I supposed to pay for it?”
The teacher shrugs and says, “That’s not my problem.”
So Tommy starts buying cheaper ingredients. Then he stops fixing his stand when it breaks. Eventually, he decides selling lemonade just isn’t worth it anymore. His friend, who wanted to open another lemonade stand, sees all this and says, “Forget it. I’m not doing that.”
Now there are fewer lemonade stands than before.
The teacher proudly tells everyone, “See? I made lemonade affordable.”
No, you didn’t.
You made it less profitable to sell lemonade, so fewer people sold it.
Housing works the same way. Property taxes don’t freeze. Insurance doesn’t freeze. Labor doesn’t freeze. Repair costs don’t freeze. The mortgage doesn’t freeze. The only thing that freezes is rent.
And if the rent doesn’t cover the bills, the bills don’t magically disappear. Repairs get delayed. Buildings deteriorate. Some landlords sell. Others stop building altogether because the investment no longer makes sense.
You can’t solve a shortage by making it less worthwhile to provide the very thing that’s already in short supply.
It’s not greed. And it’s not ideology.
It’s basic math.
Ilhan Omar busting Somali dance moves at Minnesota’s Somali Week Festival.
Why hasn’t her citizenship been revoked, and why hasn’t she been deported yet?
“They’re building an entire city — with no permits.”
Greg Abbott says the developers don’t have approval to do any of the construction they’re talking about.
No permits. No authorization.
You don’t get to build a city outside the rules everyone else follows.
A CNN poll showed: 76% of Black Americans want nationwide voter ID. 82% of Latino voters want it. 85% of White voters want it.
Another leftist narrative has gone completely down the drain. And an Obama-appointed federal judge just blocked Trump's voter ID executive order — which means Trump got exactly what he wanted.
It goes to the appeals court. Then the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court rules on the Constitution. And the ruling goes on the books PERMANENTLY — shutting down every future attempt to stuff ballots with illegal votes.
Michelle Obama: "All my scores said I did not belong in Princeton.”
Of course the scores were right about this.
Proof? Michelle Obama’s Princeton thesis, linked in the comment.
Christopher Hitchens said of Michelle’s thesis that it is “written in no known language.”
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Over a million people are on Obamacare with no Social Security Number
The thing that Democrats claim never happens is happening at massive scale
This is why Democrats hate DOGE
Their money laundering fraud ring was exposed
Freezing rent is not about making renting affordable, it’s about making being a landlord so unviable that the government can seize the means of production.
Now the landlords won’t be able to support the maintenance needs and the buildings will go to crap and then the government will go in and seize. Some of us know how this communist thing works.