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I started to feel guilty, in reacting on social media to New York City Democratic nominee Zohran Kwame Mamdani: to this immediate legacy-media darling, this Uganda-born, collectivization-advocating, smugly smiling, beautifully beard-groomed Bowdoin graduate, whose expensive, cleverly packaged Mayoral race launched him into our collective consciousness a few months ago, out of thin air. I try never to be personal, in my political assessments, and I feel guilty because my reaction to Mamdani is so personally aversive.
It is aversive because of the lie-and-deception factor.
Mamdani, as I will reveal, is a nepo son dressed as a communist — but a communist takeover of NYC is not what really motivates this man, not what is really behind this campaign.
Apart from the full-spectrum communist agenda which Mamdani superficially offers, one reason for my sense of personal queasiness when I consider this candidate in various settings is because I know guys like this. Though I am of another generation, some things do not change.
I went to school with guys like this. They are Jaspers. Let’s call that archetypal guy, Jasper.
Here is Jasper with the classic graphic Marxist raised fists and the Chinese communist graphic sun rays:
Jaspers are smarmy legacy rich young men, who never had to work for money in their lives; who have that one darling, costume-y thing – that raffish curl over the forehead; or who wear that quirky fisherman’s cap, or that Palestinian jelabiya, though they hail from Darien, Connecticut — and who embrace the cause of “the workers,” abstractly, or, in my day, say, of the Marxists in El Salvador.
“The people! United! Will never be defeated!” That’s for the march on the campus green. Then — let’s all go have a latte at the dining club.
This cosplay lasts just so long, before they go back to scooping up the vast privileges of their perches on the better-paid edges of the visual arts, or of filmmaking, as they let the interest in their trust funds compound.
In my experience, when it comes down to their personal wellbeing and comfort, I have learned that Jaspers will, right-on pronouncements or no, personally sacrifice nothing.
That’s why I was not surprised when the news broke that Zohran Mamdani lives in a rent-stabilized $2300 a month one-bedroom apartment in Queens. His supporters flocked to defend this situation, stating that there are no income caps for rent-stabilized apartments. That is true now, but was not true from 2011 to 2019; if Mamdani’s $142,000 plus salary, in addition to any other income he had, rose above the cap of $200,000 a year, or if his now-wife or another household member was living with him then, and earning income over $58,000, Mamdani would have been in violation of the program regulations, which were obviously designed to help struggling middle- and working-class New Yorkers: “Between July 1, 2011, and June 13, 2019: [the limit for rent-stabilized housing was] household income above $200,000 for two consecutive years, with the rent at or above $2,500 initially, then adjusted to $2,700 and increasing annually.”
Why am I nitpicking about this? It matters.
One reason is economic unfairness. The average Queens market rate one-bedroom is $4216 a month. So if Mamdani is now living in a rent-stabilized apartment he secured in violation of the pre-2019 rules, he is saving $1916 a month, or $22,992 a year. Now, imagine that you are a trust fund kid and don’t need those savings to live on. Watch it compound. Watch your money, in contrast, — if you need it to live on from month to month — not compound.
Mamdani’s privileged smarminess in taking up an apartment, in violation of the regulations or not, that was clearly intended to benefit people who can’t afford to pay more — and then his defending that decision by hairsplitting — is typical of how these rich young men behave. The Jaspers are always letting others pick up the check. They are always finding the loophole, the tax write-off, the way around the rules, that does not apply to the boring, hardworking rest of us. And their hypocrisy in doing so, even while presenting themselves as champions of the downtrodden, is never, ever evident to them.
I saw the same character pattern when it came to Mamdani’s application to Columbia University. Now, all of us overachievers heading to elite universities, at 19, desperately tried to see if there were ways to get an advantage in the application process. There is nothing unusual about that. But Mamdani’s Columbia University application is a kind of Mobius Strip of wokeness, twisting in upon itself and ending up on an indeterminate plane: Mamdani’s father was a Columbia University professor, so already his application would have garnered favorable attention not available to non-faculty kids. So he is already privileged as a “legacy.” Plus he descends from wealthy parents, which counts, as Ivies are expensive. But no! He sought to compound his actual double privilege with purported double victimization/oppression. So he checked “Black or African American” and “Asian” on his application, and wrote in “Ugandan.”
The New York Times reported:
“Asked to identify his race, he checked a box that he was “Asian” but also “Black or African American,” according to internal data derived from a hack of Columbia University that was shared with The New York Times.
Columbia, like many elite universities, used a race-conscious affirmative action admissions program at the time. Reporting that his race was Black or African American in addition to Asian could have given an advantage to Mr. Mamdani, who was born in Uganda and spent his earliest years there.”
When The New York Times sought a response, Mamdani “said his answers on the college application were an attempt to represent his complex background given the limited choices before him, not to gain an upper hand in the admissions process […]
“Most college applications don’t have a box for Indian-Ugandans, so I checked multiple boxes trying to capture the fullness of my background,” said Mr. Mamdani, a state lawmaker from Queens.’“‘
He could, of course, have written in “Indian-Ugandan” rather than checking “Black or African American”. He is neither Black nor African American.
But no.
And it is Jasper’s language too that sets my teeth on edge, with that flourish of “the fullness of my background.” Do we of whiteness have no “fullness of background”?
(As it happened, Mamdani did not get into Columbia. He went to Maine’s liberal arts college Bowdoin, in which he majored in “Africana Studies.” He also wrote several student pieces attacking “Zionists” and criticizing his own newspaper for its lack of “diversity of opinion,” calling that omission of viewpoints the action of “white supremacists”.
He may deeply believe all these things. But New Yorkers, who actually are diverse, deserve to understand that Jasper/Zohran, who declines to condemn the term “globalize the Intifada”, sees their rich, multicultural city, as if it is divided into warring race- and religion-based factions; not as a melting pot in which we all are individuals, and in which we all become New Yorkers.)
Lastly, there is Jasper’s purchase or inheritance (unclear) of what he calls raw land in Uganda. The New York Post states that Mamdani owns four acres of unimproved raw land, valued at $150,000-200000. Where is it? No location disclosed.
“A quarter of a century after moving to the U.S., Mamdani’s net worth today is still based in the East African country from which he emigrated. According to the financial disclosures he filed as a state assemblyman in 2023, he acquired four acres of land in Jinja—a region of Uganda bordering Lake Victoria that contains the source of the Nile River—in 2012. He lists the land’s value as between $150,000 and $250,000. On the disclosure he filed as a mayoral candidate earlier this year, he says that he acquired the land in 2016 and that it remains vacant and unimproved. Whether he purchased it, was gifted it, inherited it or otherwise is unclear, as is the reason for the discrepancy in the date, and his campaign did not immediately reply to a request for comment.”
This is a weird business deal, because here is what you can get for $144,000 in Uganda. This is the Cadenza luxury apartment building, presented by Vaal Real Estate: you can get a one-bedroom luxury apartment with a barbecue area, track, swimming pool, gym, paddle court, restaurant, concierge and “aroma garden.” “Nestled in the vibrant heart of Nakasero, Cadenza Residence is a living composition of Studios, 1 and 2 bedrooms that redefines the meaning of luxury living in Kampala. Neighboring several embassies, and with the Parliament of Uganda, State House, and the United Nations office nearby, Cadenza Residence’s location in this blue zone area guarantees security and prestige”:
Leaving aside the issue of why there is so much murkiness (two purchase dates, huge valuation) around these four mystery unimproved acres of Ugandan land, and of what all that may mean in entrusting Mamdani, who was a rapper before he was an Assemblyman, who has had almost no jobs (one was for his mom), who has no business background at all, — a man who passed only three bills as an Assembly member and who was absent half of the time, with the highest absentee rate in the Assembly – with the management of the most valuable real estate infrastructure in America, and with a $2.1 trillion dollar economy, the largest metropolitan economy on earth —
Why are almost all of this candidates’ assets still located in a foreign country?
Mamdani became a naturalized citizen only in 2018, the year before he ran for office. Indeed, he is not solely an American citizen. He is a dual citizen.
His marriage is offshore, his land is offshore.
Why would you come to America at 7 and only become a naturalized citizen decades later, just before you run for office in America? If you believe in New York City, why not bring your assets to New York City? Of you really care about America, why do you need two passports?
Why not give one up and just be — an American?
Are you so attached to an identity as citizen of one of the worst regimes on earth — one that engages in arbitrary arrest and detention, assassinates activists, restricts freedoms of speech, and has some of the worst laws on earth against homosexuality — that you would rather cling to being a national of that country, than simply an American?
Why?
In only 2023, Uganda got rid of the death penalty in general for homosexuality, but, according to Amnesty International, “The court upheld provisions in the law that discriminate against LGBTI people and carry harsh penalties, including the death penalty, for “aggravated homosexuality” and up to 20 years’ imprisonment for the “promotion of homosexuality”. “
Seriously.
Seriously Jasper.
Why not just be an American? Why not just be an actual New Yorker?
Are you proud of this?
Zohran Mamdani is like a socially acceptable drug for guilty affluent white people.
I remember when I first saw his campaign material. It seemed so lulling and seductive — like a hunk of excellent hashish wrapped up in the trappings of a political campaign. But when you drill into it, it really amounts to: free everything.
“The Platform:
New York is too expensive. Zohran will lower costs and make life easier.
Freeze the rent.
[…]
As Mayor, Zohran will immediately freeze the rent for all stabilized tenants, and use every available resource to build the housing New Yorkers need and bring down the rent. […]
Fast, fare free buses.
[…]. Fast and free buses will not only make buses reliable and accessible but will improve safety for riders and operators – creating the world-class service New Yorkers deserve.
No cost childcare […]
Zohran will implement free childcare for every New Yorker aged 6 weeks to 5 years, ensuring high quality programming for all families. And he will bring up wages for childcare workers – a quarter of whom currently live in poverty – to be at parity with public school teachers. […]
City-Owned Grocery Stores
[…]
As Mayor, Zohran will create a network of city-owned grocery stores focused on keeping prices low, not making a profit.
Read More at The New York Times
Housing by and for New York.
[…]
As Mayor, Zohran will put our public dollars to work and triple the City’s production of permanently affordable, union-built, rent-stabilized homes – constructing 200,000 new units over the next 10 years. […]
Read more in our policy memo”.
Again, basically — free everything.
The problem is — we have already tried communism, in New York City even, and it does not work.
Public and Section 8 housing exist already in New York and its boroughs; families pass on Section 8 apartments from generation to generation; meanwhile the “projects”, which have been a New York experiment in living since the 1930s, have an unmediated 90 year track record of blight, vandalism , gang activity, violent crime, horrible mismanagement and decay.
Indeed, incarceration and public housing have a long record of going together. A paper titled “Study Reveals Pipeline from Public Housing to Prison in NYC,” found “that incarceration is spatially concentrated in census tracts with NYCHA developments. In 2010, 17% of the state’s incarcerated population originated from 372 tracts with public housing developments, even though those tracts accounted for only 6.3% of New York State’s population. [Italics mine]. Compared to non-NYCHA tracts, incarceration rates (per 100,000 residents) were 4.6 times higher in census tracts with NYCHA developments. Moreover, 94% of tracts with NYCHA developments had incarceration rates that were above the median value for non-NYCHA tracts.”
The thing is, that connection is not new. We have known that public housing leads to crime and gang activity — for decades. But no: Mamdani’s vision is: more of the public housing that has failed for 90 years.
Mamdani’s Manhattan:
As for state-run grocery stores? We have seen those in the Soviet Union. Many New Yorkers who immigrated from that tyranny, remember the experience of waiting in endless lines for inadequate state-managed groceries. This is what that looks like — a Soviet grocery store in the 1990s:
And: what will state-run, “affordable” grocery stores do to the 13,000 bodegas, or small grocery stores, that are the “backbone of NYC”, and often owned by hardworking legal immigrants? Oh — this will undercut them and kill them off. Oh — never mind that, says Jasper.
“Fast, free buses?”
You’d think that free transportation was a boon to communities. But in fact, cities that have tried it, found that there are terrible downsides when transit is free. If NYC did away with fares for buses and the MTA, VitalCity.com estimates that we would need to find $5.2 billion from other sources, to fill the budget chasm left behind by the loss of fare revenue. Studies show that free buses in a pilot program in NYC did not significantly increase ridership by people who were not already using buses; and that without revenue to fix the subway and bus network, systems fall into chaos and disrepair.
Mamdani has not specified where the lost $5.2 billion will come from — or the billions for free child care, the billions for affordable housing units, the billions for the state-run grocery stores, and so on and so on. Oh — except for a Jasper-ish calling for an additional tax on “the rich.”
Eventually, New Yorkers see through this. New Yorkers can do math.
The untruthiness of Jasper is consistent. His campaign was untruthy, as I reported in my last essay, in claiming that a July 2025 poll that was reported as showing him trouncing his rivals, was real. As I explained, it was paid for by his supporters and it cherry-picked respondents. But the legacy media that misreported this poll as a home run for Mamdani did not bother to look at it, as it clearly showed that Mamdani was not in fact “winning”, but was in fact, with registered voters (the ones that count), in a statistical dead heat with Governor Cuomo.
The weird legacy media unwillingness to properly read poll data, continues. As I write, a new poll has been released, by Siena. It is showing Mamdani 19 per cent ahead of Andrew Cuomo. But there are three rivals to Mamdani: Andrew Cuomo, Mayor Eric Adams and activist Curtis Sliwa, splitting the vote, of course. Among registered voters even in this poll, 44% support Mamdani — and 25% support Cuomo, 12 per cent Sliwa, and 7 per cent, the hapless Mayor Adams.
So that opposition to Mamdani adds up to — 44 per cent. Depending on who drops out between now and November, and who aligns, the race is not Mamdani’s by any means.
So the question remains: why is legacy media — funded or owned, often, these days, by Big Tech — so determined to paint a deceptive picture, of Mamdani as the inevitable Prince of New York?
Is it because he is a communist, and legacy media loves communists?
No.
It is because, as I shall explain in my next essay, he is Big Tech’s stealth candidate; the communist free giveaways are nothing but window dressing, to get the man elected — for the benefit of Silicon Valley.
Whether he is facing paparazzi with his mom at a gala, or unhygienically dining where someone’s pants seat has just been on the Q train — as if — dude! — that is how real NYC people eat every day while on a subway —
Jasper abides — but he abides as the stealth weapon of Silicon Valley.
The people who are actually funding Mamdani — who disproportionately own or influence the legacy press — who need him to win –
See our beautiful city, our five struggling boroughs, our roads, our bridges, our infrastructure, even our people, as I shall explain next —
As nothing more
Than as physical extensions of their apps.
That there is an audience for the snake oil this charlatan is selling is a testament to the fall of our education systems and culture.. That New York City is considering an Islamunist 24 years after the Muslim attacks is truly shocking. Let’s hope the onion layers Naomi is exposing raises the awareness of the obtuse Democrats in the Big Apple. America is watching. Do we really need another example of the failure of Communism?
Because this works with people who do not remember and are therefore doomed to repeat history:
Obama in 2008 saying “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for” gave me the creeps. That was him saying “one more time”. And now he’s helping Mamdani. Bad ideas like Communism never die, it just finds new fools.
A question that should also be asked is why is this clown the best that New York City has to offer? ESPECIALLY considering 9/11?
So the Quran, the bible of Islam says “in order for the messiah to come, the 12th Mahdi all other religions of the world must convert to Islam or die. The world must fall under Sharia Law.
Government power used to make everything either affordable or free is not affordable because it does not come free.
I wonder why we are giving ‘this person of venom words’ time in Front Page Magazine?
Why? Because somebody needs to take him to task!
The answer to speech we don’t like is More Speech…..NOT CENSORSHIP. .America is back, our Constitution is back and God Bless America !
i like ms wolfe and her content but she drones on much too long Same disorder as ron unz. I can’t be investing the amount of time one of her articles and non time stamped videos takes. I wish she would cultivate an economy of style.
Yes, she can be long winded, but it’s still a great article. Have you tried skimming it?
Can you imagine being married to her or being her child – “I’m not done yet”…..Ok dear, what was your point again?
The vox populi is more distracted than ever before in human history – and when we weren’t so distracted, we were toiling from sunup to sundown –
President Trump can do a talk for nearly 2 hours but we don’t want to let him go either and he doesn’t want to let us go –
That’s a little different.
Every detail isn’t necessary. This isn’t an engineering manual or a legal case where all this information is armament to perform with.
You say Naomi Wolf “drones on much too long” ? Well, I’m very fond of Naomi and I thought her Front Page article on Zohran Mandani was wonderful! Well thought-out, absolutely accurate, a great read and downright amusing to those of us who have suffered the breathless star-struck fools on on NYC TV hoping to find some actual information. Thanks to Naomi, my opinion of Mandani as an arrogant jerk who thinks he can fool all of the people all of the time is now confirmed. The fact HE has US Citizenship is a joke. So does Obama! So does Soros! So does Kamala! We pass out US Citizenship to ‘some people’ like door prizes as we all know. Yes, he sure could be the next Mayor of NYC, after all over 40 Percent of the NYC Voters ARE Foreign Born and to them he sounds normal….
Agreed. She has very diplomatically and thoroughly taken Mamdani apart. You go girl!
You take Amnesty Internatiinal seriously after they accused the Israelis of committing genocide in Gaza?
Four acres of land for $250,000.00. Remember Lewis Carroll and Through the Looking Glass? “The land there is worth a thousand pounds an inch?” Has 21st century reality surpassed 19th century fantasy?
i do not believe there is ANY land in Uganda, bare and unimproved, without hidden wealth on or under it, is worth $75K/acre. Somebody ought to find out where it is and look up some reliable sourrce to value it.
But why bother? we KNOW this creep is flogging fairy tales and smoke.
So the Quran, the bible of Islam says “in order for the messiah to come, the 12th Mahdi all other religions of the world must convert to Islam or die. The world must fall under Sharia Law.
People focus articles on Zohran’s communist ideology and his trust fund baby status. Too little attention is paid to his (reportedly) 12er belief. An apocalyptic Shia Muslim as mayor of NYC is beyond belief.
Dual citizenship should not be allowed.
My nickname is Jasper because I resemble Jasper Carrot who is a great comedian from my hometown.
Jasper’s will only learn how wrong their political views are when they are personally affected by the criminals they make excuses for. That’s probably true for everyone else too.
Unfortunately, NYC has a long history of electing the most vile, subversive, corrupt and incompetent people.
And islamists – even after 9/11 when they swore they would “never forget”.
Excellent piece, but you forgot to mention on top of everything else that he is a Muslim and therefore wants everyone
converted or dead. It’s interesting how much facetime the legacy media gives him. I think he’ll go up against Sliwaand Sliwa will pull it off. Staten Island loves him. I think the “Jaspers” in college taught you a lot.
Naomi hit every nail in the bag, except focusing on what Mamdani really has in mind if he gets elected: Making NYC Islam-friendly in a big way. He is a total fraud spewing nonsense to under educated and clueless voters. That silly photo of him eating on the subway is a good example of another staged Mamdani moment. I saw many a New Yorker eat on the subway, but they did not eat using a knife and fork, or take up an empty seat for a table top. They ate pizza slices with their hands.
Of course New York is sailing full speed ahead against an iceberg, but, more in general, I wonder why the burgers (same root as bourgeois) of the bright lights big cities around the world tend to elect vapid morons as their mayors, very often from a pool of minorities (females are absolute majority but for unfathomable reasons are here determined to be the underclass). Yes NY, but also the three largest cities in the States, plus London, Paris, Rome, and so on and on. It’s like they almost inevitably, when in the booth, choose to press the big, red self destruction button. Especially in the most affluent districts.
I am a born and raised New Yorker. A MAGA Jew, and a veteran of the IDF. My wife and I fled NYC in 2019 to Nevada because of the woke Progressive take over of NY.
I HOPE AND PRAY MAMDANI WINS THE NYC MAYORAL ELECTION!
Why? Because I want all the NY brain dead liberal jews to get a real dose of their blind irrational allegiance to the Democrat party. I hope they are the first ones to be targeted by Mamdani and his Manchurian Candidate policies.
NYC has to get worse before there is any chance of getting better.!
So true and so tragically true.
I think it all goes back to the communist schools teaching English on the Lower East Side in the Ellis Island days. Those lessons leavened with Marxism have had long lasting effects.
When the secular jews realize they have have exchanged a rich culture for decadent misery – same is true for the ex-christians who think they are more clever than their antecedents – they have wasted their lives in search of something that doesn’t exist.
Emptiness is never fulfilling. Abstraction of abstraction leaves one floating in space never to return to Earth.
I do not find this article to have wasted any of my time. My Thanks to Ms. Wolfe.
That will turn NYC into a shithole for too many years. Just let him lose.
Am Yisrael Chai
Bon Vivant,
Unfortunately, they are like Californians who are convinced of the righteousness of their communistic solutions. That California is in serious debt and dolling out money in deference to those ambitions while taxes rise and businesses leave. There seems to be no intersect where they recognize the cause and effects of their decisions.
Many minorities and working poor in New York, as well as the young, base their decisions on the latest two-minute Tik Toc videos offered by those for whom history defaults in reset after 6-12 hours as the likes diminish and they are bored and in need of a new dopamine hit.
Nothing in life is free but those of wealth proclaiming these communistic virtues are parasites looking to fund their free programs off the backs of those for whom they claim to be saviors.. Their lofty height of hypocrisy.
Proof that prolonged exposure to TDS rots the brain.
As a MAGA Jew I will tell you there are only 7 million Americans with the religion of Jewish. Why is everyone afraid of 7 million Jews here?
Afraid? What are you talking about?
I can only imagine how the “free” city buses will smell once all the hobos, crazies, and druggies take up permanent residence on them for the “free” heat, A/C, and scenic rides.
After the first cold snap, they will become permenant homeless shelters.
Where will they get anyone who will drive them? Next, the buses will become mobile bases for theives, viking ships on wheels.
ESCAPE FOR NEW YORK will become reality.
Cross town bus riders at commute hours are in for a very rude awakening.
The man is a hater. Thousands left NYC during the Covid lockdown – more will flee and take their wealth with them. He is a phony and play acts at being one with the people – but we know the truth. In Staten Island he looked like a deer in the headlights. He cannot deal with people who actually work for a living.
He is counting on people who want something for nothing. Unfortunately it can win elections. I hope. Dr. Wolf’s voice can be heard before it is too late.
Reminds me of another political aspirant, Obama. Yet he was from Kenya. Got away with that birther controversy in spite of birth certificate analysis and a stepbrothers testimony. Now that that, successfully occurred, he brazenly took on the biggest fraud in history with Russiagate. Why not? Criminals always take on bigger challenges. No wonder he sealed all his records ASAP. What other secrets does mamdami hold? Certainly this article was eye-opening. Guess there is no better place to experiment than NYC. They deserve all the craziness they crave. Oh so nice to be so open-minded and liberal. It takes all rational thought out of the equation of making a real choice in anything in life because after-all they are seldom held accountable for their choices. All the reason why things continually get worse and more criminal while the sheep sleep-walk over the cliff.
well, “da kinyun” had some dirty help when he pulled off his coup and was declared “eligible” for the office of President.
When the Constitutionwas written, the term Natural Born Citizen meant that the person in question is the child of TWO parents who ARE US CITIZENS. Place of birth was not an issue.Ted Cruz was born in Panama.. of TWO US Citizens. He was qualified. Obama was not. His pappy was a British Subject as England held a Protectorate ove the country we now cal Kenya. It later assumed sovereignty and became a nation.
The whole fake Hawaii charade built in Adobe Illustrator was a smokescreen.
Well it’s going to be interesting to see just how dumb the avergae NY’er is.
If they elect Commie Mamdani they are going to get what they voted for good and and hard.
TDS is a real thing and it’s very possible that after 10 years of living in that toxic ideology that they are permanently damaged.
Oh well. So Sorry…not really.
My primary wish is that I don’t have to pay for their upcoming bakpruptcy at a federal level somehow.
Four years of Biden/Democrats/MoFoMedia constantly saying the border was unsolvable and then Trump comes in fixes it within 3 months and then the average Democrat doesn’t question Democrats or the media.
Thank you, Naomi, for your candid yet utterly depressing description of what awaits New Yorker’s. One factor I think warrants consideration is the Chinese Communist Party. New York City falling under their influence, as San Francisco, Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Chicago already have, is not a fantasy.
Something else you didn’t mention, Naomi.
I am embarrassed to say Mamdani went to my alma mater, Bronx HS of Science. I am particularly enraged because not only was he not a citizen when he attended (and only took care of that detail in 2018), but because as a spoiled brat from a rich family he took up a space that could have been given to a much more deserving native NYer from a distinctly less privileged background.
When I went there the school was populated mostly by Jewish and Chinese kids–the sons and daughters of cab drivers, garment workers, restaurant and laundry staff. Today it is a free prep school for the spawn of NY’s non-white elite–children of doctors, lawyers, chemists and software engineers.
Make Bronx Science Great Again!
Without all of the pancake makeup he looks like your average dirty smelly Jihadist.
NYC Buyers beware.
Will the city that twice elected the communist Wilhelm/De Blasio suddemly wake up now? In the interim, more solid citizens have left town. Already the radicals control the City Council and the judiciary.
Awesome essay. Filled in a lot of gaps about this guy from a person who is not a New a Yorker. Looking forward to the next one. Have me curious.
Turning New York into a Slum and Poverty Pocket and the fools who vote for him as well
What a tragedy. FPM is platforming Naomi Wolf, whose website (dailyclout dot io) indicates that she is a rabid opponent of Israel. Who can we expect next – Candace Owens?
Nature abhors a vacuum. Especially vacuums lacking order. NYC is the vacuum right now on the east coast.