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Watch Out New York! Here Comes the Next Bolshevik Revolution.
Yesterday, The New York Times carried a couple of stories about how several groups of New Yorkers got together over the weekend to try and figure out how to prevent Zohran Mamdani from becoming the next Mayor and turn New York into another Communist country the way that Lenin took over Russia and turned it into the Soviet Union in 1917.
One of the stories concerned a get together in the Hamptons where the idea that New York City would be run by a guy who has said that we don’t need billionaires is the equivalent of telling the people who were at this party that they should figure out how much they will get for their Fifth Avenue apartments when they move out of town.
There wasn’t anyone at this soiree gulping down the vegan chicken mcnuggets who had anything positive to say about Mamdani, which is what you’d expect from a crowd which included “real estate behemoths, crypto kings, corporate lawyers, fancy gym owners and a reality television star.”
The idea that there would be ‘free city services’ like free buses and free subway rides for the poor was considered nothing short of a complete breakdown of the moral code which would turn the city into a haven for the dispossessed.
Reading about the fears of New York’s monied class as they were wolfing down linguine alle…
