This speech from Zohran Mamdani on America’s 250th changed my politics.
I’ve never seen a more pompous individual whose life has been void of any sacrifice or hard work confidently lecture as if people like him hold the key to human prosperity.
Here’s a guy who had never held a job until he found the angle to satisfy his thirst for attention through politics at age 30, sit behind George Washington’s desk and give us a lecture on what is supposed to be a day of celebration.
Instead of celebrating what this country built, prosperity and human rights that spread across the globe from basically nothing, he turns the moment into a lecture about how America is this flawed project desperately in need of topdown change from useless academics and politicians who’ve never built anything of value for anybody.
As I get older, I have started wrestling with my own ridiculous and undeserved comforts, and the massive sacrifices of generations that made them possible. We should be expressing sheer gratitude for the families who crossed this country in covered wagons chasing a future, for the young men who died in muddy fields and frozen trenches defending it. At some point we let the children forget about this, and it's going to be a tragedy.
Our ancestors didn’t sacrifice so we could sit around demanding more redistribution while building nothing of value ourselves and living in opulence kings couldn't have dreamed of. They built something exceptional through risk, and relentless work.
Watching someone like Mamdani use the 250th as an opportunity to lecture us about what’s wrong with America, it just flips a switch for me. I’m done with the ingratitude.
We need to defend America from those that leech off it's greatness and attempt to redefine it.
Watch closely new video showing the U.N. reaction: as courageous former hostage Ilana Gritzewsky confronts October 7th denier Reem al-Salem—by recounting the horrific abuse she suffered from Hamas—the U.N. rapporteur on violence against women sits there stone-faced. No empathy.
Today I am proud that the second edition of my 7 October Parliamentary Commission Report is being published. It's on https://t.co/kGBAry0brX We cannot allow history to be distorted and 7 Oct denial to win @AppgIsrael#7October#Israel
BULLSHIT -your family signs up for this as well, it's how it works. She is living in Gracie mansion off of tax payer dollars. My mom had to answer questions about being rodeo queen because of my dad's role in office.
Your wife celebrated the slaughter of Jews. You're both vile.
“In the first nine months after October 7, the New York Times published 6,656 articles about the Gaza War. That compared to 80 articles about the American-led battle to free Mosul [Iraq] over nine months in 2016-2017, [some] 198 articles about the Tigray War in Ethiopia, which killed 600,000 in a year, and 5,434 articles during the first 13 years of Syria’s civil war. One Microsoft Copilot Artificial Intelligence analysis found [that] between 50,000 and 70,000 articles about Gaza were written worldwide in nine months – compared to 1,000 articles about Mosul in nine months. The imbalance becomes even more bizarre at AP when extended further. Israel is covered by more full-time staff than all of sub-Saharan Africa combined, which is made up of dozens of countries, encompassing hundreds of millions of people, multiple wars, famines, mass displacement, and – in some cases – genocidal violence. If news coverage were meant to be a rational analysis, this is not. Even if news were merely supposed to be the coverage of suffering, power, and danger on planet Earth, this would still be indefensible. You cannot plausibly cover Israel more than an entire continent without warping the reader’s sense of reality. This is not accidental. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict occupies a peculiar and disproportionate place in the West’s political imagination, unmatched by conflicts that are deadlier. And so it becomes over-seen, over-examined, intensely dissected, and uniquely moralized until the examination itself becomes both activism and a substitute for understanding.”
RACISM: NYC’s new equity chief pushed race-based taxes and urged liberals to “tax them to the white meat.” Mamdani says he trusts her most to deliver racial equity. Believe him.
Afua Atta-Mensah, newly installed as New York City’s chief equity officer, has repeatedly endorsed race-based taxation and made inflammatory remarks targeting white Americans. One deleted X post urged liberal white women to be taxed “to the white meat.” Mayor Mamdani publicly praised her as his most trusted agent of racial equity, signaling these views are not fringe but central to how his administration plans to reshape New York.
At every critical moment when Iranians are being slaughtered, Christiane Amanpour chooses to give her platform to Islamic Republic officials or their well-known apologists. This isn’t journalism. It is a pattern, and it deserves nothing but utter contempt.
That's why I intensely dislike her.