A Free Press reporter asks New Yorkers if socialism is good for America.
They all say yes.
Then she brings out Daniel Di Martino, who fled Venezuela, and they get a firsthand horror story they weren’t ready for.
NEW YORKER: “I think socialism is actually really good for society.”
DI MARTINO: “Are you familiar with how socialism worked out in other countries historically?”
NEW YORKER: “Just because it didn’t work out so well in other parts of the world doesn’t mean it won’t work out well for New York.”
Di Martino’s family lived through the promises these voters are buying.
DI MARTINO: “My family went from making $2,000 a month 20 years ago to $100 a month in 2016. That was because the government gave everything you can imagine for free.”
“We went from being a normal middle-class family with a car and then no electricity, no water.”
Asked if they support “government grocery stores,” the answer is just as confident.
NEW YORKER: “Of course I do.”
So Di Martino explains what grocery shopping looked like under socialism.
DI MARTINO: “There was very little supply of chicken, toilet paper. It was a line for blocks and blocks for a grocery store.”
NEW YORKER: “What happened in Venezuela isn’t going to happen here. The policy is more focused on helping people out.”
A man describes lines stretching for blocks just to buy chicken and toilet paper, and a Mamdani voter waves it away. Because THIS time, they’re sure it will work.
REPORTER: “You know, they have tried that in the Soviet Union from where my parents and my grandparents are from. All they remember of grocery stores is empty shelves.”
DI MARTINO: “The DSA went to Venezuela just last year to support the dictator and say that he won the election that he didn’t.”
NEW YORKER: “I had no idea. I did not know.”
DI MARTINO: “Government rent control. It’s going to stop people from renting apartments because they’re not going to be able to profit. There are going to be fewer apartments for rent.”
NEW YORKER: “That’s a good point. I agree with that. Okay. I understand more about socialism now for sure.”
Socialism always sounds good to people who’ve never had to live under it.
Those who have never want to live under it again.
MOBSTER! That’s exactly what he sounds like. Union Pacific fought tooth and nail to bury this video , it took federal regulators forcing their hand to get it released.
And now you can hear why: their own CEO, on tape, threatening higher rates to "teach you a lesson" if Americans dare to push back against one railroad company controlling it all.
He said the quiet part out loud. This isn't business , it's a monopoly flexing its muscle and daring anybody to stop it. Absolutely insane.
NYC With a Muslim Mayor
#ZohranMamdani
Who hired illegals Radical Islamic ☪️ acting as police officers?!!!
WTF?
Fake NYC 🇺🇸 cops arrested by ice
hours after situation
with woman and her dog 🐶 👉🤷♀️
DIVORCE AGREEMENT
THIS IS INCREDIBLY WELL-PUT, AND I CAN HARDLY BELIEVE IT'S WRITTEN BY A STUDENT!!! WHATEVER HE RUNS FOR, I'LL VOTE FOR HIM.
Dear American liberals, leftists, social progressives, socialists, Marxists, and Obama supporters, et al:
We have stuck together since the late 1950s for the sake of the kids, but the whole of this latest election process has made me realize that I want a divorce. I know we tolerated each other for many years for the sake of future generations, but sadly, this relationship has clearly run its course.
Our two ideological sides of America cannot and will not ever agree on what is right for us all, so let's just end it on friendly terms. We can smile and chalk it up to irreconcilable differences and go our own way.
Here is our separation agreement:
Our two groups can equitably divide up the country by land mass, each taking a similar portion. That will be the difficult part, but I am sure our two sides can come to a friendly agreement. After that, it should be relatively easy! Our respective representatives can effortlessly divide other assets, since both sides have such distinct and disparate tastes.
—We don't like redistributive taxes, so you can keep them.
--You are welcome to the liberal judges and the ACLU.
--Since you hate guns and war, we'll take our firearms, the cops, the NRA, and the military.
--We'll take the nasty, smelly oil industry and the coal mines, and you can go with wind, solar, and bio-diesel.
--You can keep Oprah, Whoopi, Bill Maher, Michael Moore and Rosie O'Donnell. You are, however, responsible for finding a bio-diesel vehicle big enough to move all five of them.
--We'll keep capitalism, greedy corporations, pharmaceutical companies, Wal-Mart, and Wall Street.
--You can have your beloved lifelong welfare dwellers, food stamps, homeless, homeboys, hippies, druggies, and illegal aliens.
--We'll keep the hot Alaskan hockey moms, greedy CEOs, and rednecks.
--We'll keep Bill O’Reilly and Bibles and give you NBC and Hollywood.
--You can make nice with Iran and Palestine and we'll retain the right to invade and hammer places that threaten us.
--You can have the peaceniks and war protesters.
--When our allies or our way of life are under assault, we'll help provide them security.
--We'll keep our Judeo-Christian values.
--You are welcome to Islam, Scientology, Humanism, political correctness, and Shirley McLaine. You can also have the UN., but we will no longer be paying the bill.
--We'll keep the SUVs, pickup trucks, and oversized luxury cars. You can take every Volt and Leaf you can find.
--You can give everyone health care if you can find any practicing doctors.
--We'll keep "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "The National Anthem."
--I'm sure you'll be happy to substitute "Imagine," "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing," "Kum Baya," or "We Are the World."
--We'll practice trickle-down economics and you can continue to give trickle-up poverty your best shot.
--Since it often so offends you, we'll keep our history, our name, and our flag.
Would you agree to this? If so, please pass it along to other like-minded liberal and conservative patriots and if you do not agree, just hit delete. In the spirit of friendly parting, I'll bet you might think about which one of us will need whose help in 15 years.
Sincerely,
John J. Wall
Law Student and an American
P.S. Also, please take George Clooney, Ted Turner, Sean Penn, Martin Short, Charlie Sheen, Barbra Streisand, and (Hanoi) Jane Fonda with you.
P.P.S. And you won't have to press 1 for English when you call our country.
Forward This Every Time You Get It !
Let's Keep This Going, Maybe Some Of It Will Start Sink in.
Hi to the people who voted for Democrats… let me explain to you what just happened today.
The stock market just crashed hard. The Nasdaq dropped over 5%, the S&P fell more than 4%, and trillions of dollars disappeared in one day. Investors sold because they believe the Democrats who just won will slow down AI and block new data centers.
AI has been one of the main things driving the economy and stock market higher. When people think that growth is about to get slowed or paused, they pull their money out. That’s exactly what you’re seeing.
Now, here’s the part a lot of people miss. The same politicians promising free healthcare for everyone just made investors think the big growth engine is getting throttled.
Healthcare costs money. A lot of money. That money comes from taxes on a growing economy and from the wealth that growth creates. If you slow the economy down, there is less money to tax and less wealth to go around.
You can’t hand out free healthcare (or anything else) when you’ve just made it harder for the country to produce the money that pays for it.
That’s what happened today. The market is reacting to the idea that growth is about to get restricted. And growth is what funds everything else.
Isn’t socialism great? 😬
We came to America because we ran away from the inferior ideas that destroyed our countries, kept them stagnant, and prevented them from progressing.
The majority of us who came to America from the Third World do not realize that the ideas we brought with us are the reasons our countries failed, while the superior ideas of the West are behind its prosperity and progress.
When you vote someone into public office, you are voting for the values they hold.
Abdul holds the same values that destroyed Egypt and caused his parents to flee to America, while Rogers holds the values that built America and made it attractive to Abdul’s parents in the first place.
Don’t vote for Abdul’s values. Vote for Rogers’s values.