Hey, Mambo! Commie Mamdani Bumbles, Hey Mambo!

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Everyone had a sneaking suspicion during the campaign for New York mayor that for all the good looks and personal charm, the beaming smile plastered on political neophyte Zohran Mamdani's face concealed a cold, reptilian heart. One without an ounce of warmth unless a sunbeam or media lighting array inadvertently struck him.

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And, in fact, it didn't take long for the mask to slip, even though the smile remained in place as he apologized or rationalized for various 'slip-ups' isolating long-time New York City groups who had inherent conflicts with, or were targets of, worrisome sentiments often expressed by his band of merry sympathizers and his Islamic religion.

Even before he was elected and suspicions were that it wasn't always just a pandering campaign ploy, but how Mamdani really feels, there was a warning shot to 'whites' who lived within the city's boroughs.

Zohran Mamdani, the presumptive Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City, defended his controversial proposal on Sunday to raise property taxes in what he described as "richer and whiter neighborhoods," while also stating that billionaires should not exist, in an interview with NBC on Sunday.

Speaking on NBC's Meet the Press, Mamdani pushed back against criticism that his tax platform was racially motivated, despite explicitly referencing white homeowners in his campaign materials. He argued that the proposal was based on an economic analysis of who bears the city's tax burden.

One such target is NYC's shrinking population of uber-wealthy, part of Mamdani's crusade against billionaires aka 'the oligarchy.' Their very wealth annoys Zohran Mamdani and his rapacious acolytes, who see that wealth as a resource to be plundered at will. As assets held that do not belong to those who earned it, but to those who would have it.

WHILE ALSO STATING BILLIONAIRES SHOULD NOT EXIST

And so he began an assault on the city's ultra-rich on April 15th this year in a super-cutesy video while standing outside Citadel's CEO Ken Griffin's Manhattan apartment.

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WELL, TODAY WE'RE TAXING THE RICH

He made sure to call out which rich guy he was highlighting for censure.

Jews in the city are increasingly under attack and feel abandoned to their tormentors by the mayor, who calls Jewish lobbying groups 'monsters' (he has no such criticisms for CAIR or other advocacy organizations). And, when protest mobs descend on Jewish gatherings at synagogues, the mayor gently chides the protestors, reminding them to 'mind their manners.' Mamdani then unloads on the Jewish victims of the assaults, dressing them down for having the meetings in the first place, as if Jewish First Amendment rights to gather are somehow to blame for the inability of the Left's Hamas wing to act like civilized human beings.

...A rowdy protest descended last Wednesday on Park East Synagogue, one of New York’s most prominent Modern Orthodox congregations, which had rented space to an organization that helps Jews move to Israel as well as to settlements in the occupied West Bank. Chants of “death to the I.D.F.” and “globalize the intifada” rang through the air.

Mr. Mamdani, the mayor-elect, responded the next day, saying through a spokeswoman that he “discouraged the language” used at the protest and that New Yorkers must be “free to enter a house of worship without intimidation.”

But it was what he said next that alarmed some Jewish leaders: He chastised the synagogue, saying through his spokeswoman that “these sacred spaces should not be used to promote activities in violation of international law.”

When the mayor attempted a clean-up, it was too late, and the distrust has only grown.

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...And though Mr. Mamdani has said he will protect Jewish institutions amid heightened levels of antisemitism and hate crimes, his initial response to the protest did little to quell that unease and was criticized by some Jewish leaders.

On Monday, he tried to move beyond the issue, this time omitting any criticism of the synagogue, with a more forceful denunciation of the protesters.

It didn't help that Mamdani was the first New York City mayor in 61 years to skip the Israel Day Parade.

His brilliant city-run grocery store scheme, guaranteed to be a blow-out bust like every other one ever tried, only spectacularly more expensive, had store owners up in arms at the thought of the city openly competing for dollars against them in an arena with minimal profit margins.

Mamdani's biz whizzes called all the bodega owners in for what was framed as a soothe-ruffled-nerves fest a couple of days ago, but instead really hacked people off as they tried to pimp grocery-business secrets like margins, best sellers, and resources out of these hardworking owners. 

The Mamdani administration is scrambling to ease concerns about its plans to open government-owned supermarkets — but recent talks have instead raised even greater alarms among local business owners, The Post has learned.

New York City bodega owners came to City Hall last week for a “roundtable discussion” at the invitation of Julie Su, deputy mayor for economic justice — only to get barraged with “intrusive” questions about their businesses, a source close to the situation said.

Ahead of the meeting last Monday — attended by reps from city agencies and trade groups for the city’s 13,000 bodegas — Su asked the group in a questionnaire, “What items are sold the most at your stores?” and “Where is your profit margin the greatest?” sources said.

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Immigrant neighborhoods that have been fixtures of the city since at least the mid-1800s are feeling blatantly disrespected by the mayor. Simmering resentments are fixin' to break out into open warfare that I don't believe the mayor, polished, wealthy Ugandan sophisticate that he is, will be able to handle as deftly as he manipulates his Hamas and handout-loving buddies.

Take the Italians, for instance. Mamdani was already in trouble with them last fall when a 2020 Instagram post of his resurfaced. The ever-present smirk isn't seen in it, but his middle finger is, as it waves at a statue of iconic Italian Christopher Columbus.

TAKE IT DOWN

Italian Unity Day has been a big deal in the city's Little Italy for decades, and, well, Mamdani denied them a permit this year.

The Italian American Civil Rights League thought they were smokin' hot about that until, well...Mamdani's updated and rejiggered map of New York City's 'MUST SEE Immigrant Enclaves' finally got noticed. Released in May, it had escaped any scrutiny until someone recently got around to taking a gander at it.

It's an as cute-as-a-button idea - a tourist map like you see in little beach communities and such places. A map with, in this case, little flags dropped on locations, and a brief description of the vibrant immigrant communities settled there which have made the neighborhoods their own.

Only there's a problem...

Little Italy is a New York City landmark. It’s a cultural touchtone where movies have been set. Tourists troop over to pick up Sopranos t-shirts and go out to an Italian restaurant.

‘Little Palestine’ is Islamic colonialist nonsense that no one had ever heard of. But the Mamdani regime predictably put out a map of what it claimed were “New York City Immigrant Enclaves” which listed ‘Little Palestine’, ‘Little Pakistan’, ‘Little Yemen’, ‘Little Albania’ and ‘Little Egypt’, but didn’t mention ‘Little Italy.’

If you’re counting, that’s 5 Muslim colonial enclaves in New York City, but no Irish, Italian or Jewish enclaves.

Indeed, virtually all of the 30 ‘immigrant enclaves’ listed by the Mamdani regime is non-white. The only white immigrants recognized are ‘Little Odessa’, ‘Little Poland’ and ‘Little Ukraine’.

No Woodlawn for the Irish, Lower East Side for the Jews or Little Italy for the Italians.

The systemic racism here is as subtle as Mamdani’s omni-present smirk.

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Yes, that's correct. Mamdani's map has no 'Little Italy.' No Italian anything.

Coincidentally, he's also left off the Irish and the Jews.

Peculiar, no? So many questions for the smirker.

...Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens) said snubbing Little Italy, which was established in the late 19th century, was a major flub.

“They were able to get a Little Bhod-Tibet in there, but what about the original ‘Little neighborhood,’ Little Italy?” Ariola told The Post. 

“And what about areas like Woodlawn, in the Bronx, which are home to plenty of Irish immigrants? Do the Irish and Italians not count for the Mayor’s office?”

Like, how does one include *checks notes* 'Little Guyana' but misses the Italian sector with some of the biggest and best festivals in the city?

...The map, which appears to have been released in May, also includes Little Guyana in Queens, Little Mexico in Staten Island and Little Dominican Republic in Manhattan.

Kevin McCabe, a former City Council chief of staff, said the map shamefully leaves out generations of folks hailing from The Emerald Isle.

...“The Mayor’s Office made a map of NYC’s immigrant enclaves: Little Africa, Little Poland, Little Palestine. But they just couldn’t figure out how to represent 11% of the city. Couldn’t decipher where the Jews are from,” writer Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt fumed on X.

“Huge riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.”

State Assemblyman Kalman Yeger, who represents heavily Orthodox Jewish southern Brooklyn, said it’s not the first time Hizzoner has tried to “erase” the Jews.

“Mr. Mamdani’s erasing Jews is an essential part of his brand. No surprise,” Yeger said.

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You'll notice the smirker made sure his homies in the Hamas wing of the Party were covered, though.

Come to think of it, there were no Italians, Jews, or Irishmen invited to be with Mamdani for his hostage video on the Fourth, were there?

I mean, not that any self-respecting representative of those groups would have been there in any event.

They had twohunnertfittyyears of freedom to celebrate, and no one wants to waste them inside with TEMU Idi Amin Dada.

Besides...

...Commie Mamdani's not fooling anyone anymore, and there's no need to be polite and pretend he ever did.

But, oooh. Unforced error there.

A smarter new citizen would have made sure those Italians were on the map... 

...if you know what I'm sayin'.

Editor’s Note: New York City is now facing the consequences of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist takeover.

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