Donald Trump has said that he will withhold funding for New York City if presumptive Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor after November’s general election and doesn’t do the “right thing.”

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        Hopefully he also makes more friends and helps gain momentum to get the rest of the goons out in other jurisdictions

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      I predict Mamdani and Trump will have similar arcs through the media landscape. The media hated Trump but just couldn’t stop paying attention to him, even though every time they attacked him it only made him stronger. Now they are all bending the knee to him.

      The same exact thing is happening with Mamdani, but this time for all the best reasons. Mamdani’s campaign might easily become a nationwide avalanche.

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        might easily become a nationwide avalanche

        Anecdotally, I have fairly non-political coworkers in other states that are hyping up Mamdani. His reach across Gen Z is honestly insane and people are even making TikTok/Instagram hype edits of him all the time

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        Why would liberal media ever bow to a socialist? The capitalists will always understand socialism as a greater threat than fascism.

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          For the same reason they speak in reverence of Martin Luther King Jr. and pretend that liberals didn’t hate his guts back in the day.

          On a long enough time scale the left always wins, and liberals always pretend that they backed the left the whole time and claim the victory for themselves.

          “A liberal is someone who opposes every war except the current war and supports all civil rights movements except the one that’s going on right now.”