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.

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.

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 StoresAs Mayor, Zohran will create a network of city-owned grocery stores focused on keeping prices low, not making a profit.

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. […]

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.

It is obvious that the much-watched New York City mayoral race, and the borough City Council races, are being affected by a group of oligarchs and tech bros working behind the scenes, with their puppet candidate out front… and that Democratic mayoral race primary winner Zohran Mamdani is the symbol of those manipulations.

Mamdani’s lack of preparedness to lead a book club, let alone one of the greatest and most complex cities on earth, and his personal fecklessness, have become only more flagrant. His ballyhooed “Scavenger Hunt” on August 24, 2025, produced the least diverse assortment of New Yorkers I have seen in my four decades living in this city. Indeed, I have never seen so many white people, accompanied by almost no people who were not white, in one setting in New York City. This was a crowd of white people as far as the eye could see.

These thirty-somethings wandered through the various stops set out by the Mamdani campaign. I thought of the hardworking low-income and middle-class people whom I am meeting through my work with the Donald J Trump Republican Club in Brooklyn — ironically, a far more economically and racially diverse group than are Mamdani’s group of self-described “radicals.”

The working people of New York and Brooklyn on August 24 2025 were looking after their families or their businesses, or recovering from a week of labor. They were not inclined to wander like Zohran’s affluent-looking monochromatic followers (many of whom had to abandon ship when the organizers ran out of clue cards for the “hundreds” of attendees).

Given that the Mamdani campaign could not manage the logistics of a scavenger hunt successfully, one thinks about the logistics involved in the aftermath of a terrorist attack, or a natural disaster, in New York City, and quails for the future.

A video has surfaced, one which I cannot un-see, in which Mamdani, appearing as rapper “Mr Cardamom,” is half-naked, for no narrative reason, while wearing an apron and appearing to cook in a food truck. Cookbook author Madhur Jaffrey vamps about, rather fabulously, like a gangster, teaches a class on expanding criminal revenue, and makes the “f— you” symbol with both of her hands. Zohran Mamdani produced this video; he did not simply appear in it.

Lots of comments on Youtube, sounding suspiciously repetitive, try to make the case now that this production of Mamdani’s, and his appearance in it, are not embarrassing, and do not show poor judgement.

High jinks!

What may not be obvious to a general audience is that this video is the product of a specific global creative aristocracy. Madhur Jaffrey, internationally famous as an actress as well as as a cookbook author (and mother of respected actress Sakina Jaffrey), is the former wife of the late renowned Indian actor Saeed Jaffrey. Cultural aristocrats.

Mamdani’s mother Mira Nair, who from a career as a maker of well-regarded, profitable and unprofitable independent films, is suddenly being given the unbelievably lucrative and influential Disney National Treasure franchise, is also from this global cultural-aristocratic class. Nair was educated at the exclusive Loreto Convent, Tara Hall, Shimla, India, and then, as I noted before, went on to Harvard.

Judging from the Mamdani family’s choices, that group of individuals do not care much about its members becoming American citizens. Indeed, at least one prioritizes other identities for “Zohran.”

Mira Nair spent 28 adult years in America, being educated, living, and working in the US, before becoming a United States citizen. Nair’s Ugandan-Indian husband, Dr Mahmood Mamdani, teaches at Columbia University, but is somehow also the Chancellor of Kampala International University in Uganda. His latest book, tellingly perhaps, is titled Neither Settler Nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities.

Dr Mamdani became a US citizen only in 2018, after 19 adult years in the United States as a non-US citizen, teaching at Columbia University.

Dr Mamdani thus became a US citizen just a year before his son Zohran did, who had, as I reported in my last essay, lived for 11 adult years in America as a noncitizen.

There is no reason to resent globally talented and artistic people from Southeast Asian, or any, origins, descendants as these are of multiple generations of cultural- and now-economic aristocrats. They no doubt deserve their good fortune.

But you must understand, looking at this family, that this is a subculture of jet-setting cultural producers, who have shown clearly by their choices about citizenship, that they have no particular allegiance to the United States.

As I have written in my book The Bodies of Others, this “X class” — as cultural historian Paul Fussell names them, in his classic analysis of social hierarchies, Class: A Guide through the American Status System — is at home in capitals around the world; but largely with others similarly positioned. This “X class” often has no need for any primary allegiance to a nation, a local community, a specific people — even if that nation has welcomed a family of immigrants, and offered it a home.

Indeed, Zohran Mamdani’s mother has said publicly, with no evident compunction, that her son Zohran’s allegiance is not to the country in which he is now seeking office, but rather to India.

In a 2013 article titled, “My Son is Not a Firang. We are Desi”, in the Hindustan Times, Nair and her family, including her 21 year old son, who by now has spent 14 years in America, are described thus:

“She left India when she was 19 and has homes in Uganda, New York and India [Italics mine]. But internationally acclaimed filmmaker of Indian origin, Mira Nair says she has kept her son Zohran with husband Mahmood Mamdani, grounded, with his Indian roots intact.

“He is a total desi. Completely. We are not firangs at all. He is very much us. He is not an Uhmericcan (American) at all. [Italics mine.] He was born in Uganda, raised between India and America. He is at home in many places. He thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian,” Nair told us during her recent visit to the capital. […]

A junior in college with one more year to go, the 21-year-old is studying Arabic and Politics. “He is a very chaalu [smart, working] fellow. We speak only Hindustani at home.”’

The first meaning of “desi” in the Oxford English Dictionary is “1. of, from, or characteristic of India, Pakistan, or Bangladesh.” “Firangs” is derived from the Persian “ferenghi”, which contains shades of disparagement of Europeans within the term: “A variant term will be familiar to aficionados of Hobson-Jobson and British Raj literature, in which ‘feringhee’ is a common Indian term of abuse for white colonists.”

So as late as 2013, Mamdani’s mom, who had by then been living in America for decades, proudly told one of India’s largest and most respected newspapers that her adult son was not American but was rather totally identified with his family’s origin of India; and that he was not a “foreigner” — ie, a Westerner, ie an American — but that years into Mamdani’s childhood and young adulthood in the US, he still speaks only Hindustani at home, and that “he thinks of himself as a Ugandan and as an Indian.”

To all this I will ask: why?

Why does this much-blessed family, whose choices show that they have little regard for US citizenship or identity, think that a young man who also shows little regard for an American allegiance or identity, should lead our most important city?

Because that is what elite X class global aristocrats — assume. They are entitled, to whatever role they wish, whatever resources, but they tend to expect of themselves and their families no allegiance to anyone else; to no country, no homeland, no people outside their own.

Once they have the oligarch backers, the whole world becomes their toy.

Rama Duwaji, Mamdani’s 27-year-old wife, and our potential First Lady of New York, also seems ambivalent about her identity as an American: “The bio on Duwaji’s Instagram, where she boasts nearly 85,000 followers, indicates she’s originally from Damascus, Syria, though a campaign spokeswoman told the New York Times Wednesday that the artist is “ethnically Syrian and was born in Texas.”’

The Post has reached out to Mamdani’s campaign for clarification.”

Why is all of this so upsetting to me?

Here is why. I now live half of the time in a working-class neighborhood in Brooklyn. I have learned that the governance of Brooklyn, and of New York, is the merest sham. And that people such as Mamdani and Diwaji and their jet-setting friends, are really a new form of globalist carpet-bagger; that civic representation in this American city is truly theatre.

I stood in line at United States Post Office in Brooklyn, recently. I had to wait almost 45 minutes. There was no air conditioning, and it must have been 85 degrees in the cavernous, shabby, dark building.

Old people, disabled people, suffered.

The lines were so long in part because the facility was understaffed, and in part because eight out of ten of those in line, were healthy young immigrants who seemed to have arrived not very long ago, who were shipping large boxes of items, and money orders, to Ecuador and Mexico and Guatemala and Venezuela, and who did not speak any English.

The elderly Americans, who had worked all of their lives, and who now likely lived on social security, leaned on canes or crutches, or sat patiently in wheelchairs, and waited, and waited, the sweat breaking out on their brows.

I went to the local public library. It is now not just a library, but also a “cooling station”. The people who need “cooling” in the summer, of course, are mostly homeless people. While I empathize, the problem with “some-NGO’s-bright-idea” of turning a library into an unrelated cooling-service offering, is that the library quickly becomes, not a library.

Homeless, drug-addicted people talk randomly into the computer stations, or break out abruptly into loud, alarming babble, or have arguments with themselves or with invisible persecutors. Children and teens stay huddled in the narrowly-provisioned kids’ section. It is not really safe for them to wander the stacks, that blissful experience that can lead a young reader to stumble upon worlds totally new.

Kids can’t get access to the computer stations for their own research, because adults are using them to get connected to social services. Adults have loud phone calls on their cellphones, and raise their voices as they are put on hold by social services.

The librarian no longer even bothers to say “Hush!” or “Quiet!” periodically — that startling, awe-inspiring demand for respect for the sanctity of a library, honored from childhoods past. Because of the noise, it is difficult for kids to concentrate and to do their homework; they lose focus, understandably; they eventually goof around, play-fight, and chatter; and the homework remains open, uncompleted.

The data on New York kids’ learning to read and do math, is shocking. For some reasons, charts stop in 2022-2023. But fewer than half of New York State kids grades 3-8 are proficient for their grades in “English Language Arts”, or what we used to call reading and writing:

So: we have urgent needs in our own neighborhood. Our elders, our kids, have needs.

But I found that our Democratic representatives, part of this “machine” of globalist oligarchs, don’t even bother engaging with the community’s actual needs.

I ran into an event in a public school playground (was that legal?) put out by my City Council member, Rita Joseph. She came to prominence in protesting police brutality. Her event offered free roller skates. Her staff was very nice, and gave me flyers. There were programs for illegal immigrants. I asked if Ms Joseph had a regular meeting for constituents, at which she could be lobbied. The staffers looked at me blankly, and gave me a card.

I looked up “Legislation” on Joseph’s website. It took me to a blank search result. (I am a nerd about making legislative records, which belong by law to the public, easily available to the public, which is my company DailyClout’s mission).

So to be fair to Ms Joseph, I looked at the City Council’s website for her legislation.

I saw in searching the City Council’s website, that the entire City Council agenda, let alone the actual legislation, is hidden away in multiple clicks, so that you literally cannot navigate the legislative process, let alone learn how to affect it.

Meetings are linked to “agendas” that are hidden in turn in other opaque blue links.

This is how City Council meetings are made opaque:

Rather than tearing your hair out in frustration, you decide to click through to City Council activity for “Last Week” — and you get this:

 

Okay, that is kind of incomprehensible, but maybe you can click your way to a primary document from which you can figure out what is happening. So you click on the blue link for the zoning meeting, and you get this:

In other words, though you vote in New York, you are not allowed to find out what happened in that perhaps-important-to-you zoning meeting, or how to lobby the bill sponsor if you don’t like the bill, or even, whom to hold accountable at all.

I tried again to search by Rita Joseph’s name on the City Council legislative site. I got this — in other words, the press release about mental health, which had been on the home page, did not change.

My City Council member’s name yielded nothing via search on the site that is suppose to document her activity for me, her constituent:

Thus are the people of the great city of New York and its boroughs, mocked. By hiding the legislation, hiding the work of the legislators, hiding where the meeting is held, hiding the bill text, hiding the outcome, hiding the sponsors — this noble city, with its billions of dollars in value changing hands continually, becomes un-lobby-able by its citizens.

I saw the same thing on the website of City Council Member of Brooklyn’s District 46, Mercedes Narcisse: this is the former nurse, pal of powerful Democrats, who has been in office for years, and who is being challenged by the candidate whom DailyClout is helping to campaign: the “mandated” Republican schoolteacher, Athena Clarke.

Ms Clarke’s and Ms Narcisse’s neighborhood is also working- and middle-class, and it too has serious needs.

Ms Clarke has described to me, for instance, plans to which no one among the voters has consented, to have lithium battery factories placed in residential areas throughout District 46. Her husband, a firefighter, has warned that there is no way to put these facilities’ fires out; they have to be left to burn, thus creating a permanent toxic site. Ms Clarke, Janine Acquafredda, a realtor running as a Republican for Brooklyn Borough President, and other grassroots candidates whom I have met, have all described hearing from their neighbors about the same needs.

Janine Acquafredda:

Athena Clarke:

Small businesses are forced to close because shoplifting and robberies are taking place with impunity. Kids lack safe quiet places to do homework after school. There is no citizen approval for the homeless shelters, drug treatment facilities, or, as noted above, environmentally dangerous factories, that are being forced on these residential areas. Housing is not affordable.

New struggles have arrived as the tech bros move in, and buy up local politicians, to turn Brooklyn and New York City into extensions of their apps.

There is less and less parking for locals, for instance, because Lyft and Uber have lobbied, and spent millions, to press council members to add bike lanes that remove parking spots; Lyft has also funded Citibikes, the bike rental offering that seems great, til you realize that it is unused 95% of the time, and that the stands chew up what had been parking spaces.

Subways are terrifying, and buses are slow. Now the people of Brooklyn struggle to commute with their own cars — and the car apps, meanwhile, make millions.

Clarke and Acquafredda both spoke of the scary way that Doordash and other delivery ebike drivers, ride on sidewalks, narrowly bypassing appalled pedestrians. We spoke of how alarming that is for the disabled, for the elderly. “For pets!” exclaimed Aquafredda. In the “before” times, such riders would get tickets, or even be arrested.

Who handed over Brooklyn’s pedestrian sidewalks and parking spaces to Doordash, Uber and Lyft?

Could it be the council members funded by Doordash, Uber and Lyft?

Uber NYC PAC spent 1.3 million recently on City Council campaigns, and Doordash plans to spend $2 million.

One of the recipients of this largesses?

Mercedes Narcisse:

Narcisse’s website does not showcase legislation related to general law and order, to environmental issues, to small business support. You can’t find the lithium batteries issue.

It is rather, weird, special-interest legislation: there is a bill for administration of care for Sickle Cells anemia: “Int 0968: (Enacted) A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing guidance to improve health outcomes for individuals affected by sickle cell disease.”

There is a bill to manage how cops interact with autistic people: “Int 0273: (Enacted) Requiring police officers to receive training related to recognizing and interacting with individuals with autism spectrum disorder.”

And there is a bill to support the trauma-related mental health of — migrants, refugees and “asylees”: “Int 1084: (Enacted) A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to creating training on trauma-informed care for persons serving refugees, asylees, asylum seekers, and migrants.”

Oh, in 2023 Narcisse pushed a bill to legalize jaywalking.

I searched “Mercedes Narcisse” on the website that is supposed to document what she is delivering to voters in District 46. I got this:

In other words, exactly the same result as when I searched for “Rita Joseph”: the City Council home page did not change.

So what I see here, speaking as a former political consultant, is a situation in New York City and its boroughs, in which the DNC “machine” is so entrenched that it does not even have to pretend to try.

That is why I am so terrified of this machine, that Mamdani represents. Mamdani, his invisible resume, and his bored-white-people stunts, are just the banal packaging around an unholy alliance: Big Tech, globalist elites, and the dark enactors of a theatre of fake local democracy.

The “machine”’s dimensions are vast. A self-described “white collar felon” turned whistleblower — the former CFO of the retail electronics chain Crazy Eddie, Sam Antar, who now helps law enforcement uncover financial fraud — wrote a magisterial expose, “The Soros-Mamdani Connection: How $34 Million in Tax-Exempt Flows Raise Questions About Charitable-to-Political Conversion”.

Antar showed that $5.2 billion dollars a year flows through George Soros’ Open Society nonprofits; and that $34 million of this flows probably illegally through PACs, that then flows probably illegally to get-out-the-vote efforts and to “volunteers”, that then elect officials, who then dispense another $16 million a year back to the nonprofits — with overall, the incoming tax-deductible funds housed, along potentially with foreign money, in an opaque offshore instrument.

So next up, in Part Three: “White Collar Felon” Sam Antar Identifies the $34 Million Dollar Money Laundering Operation that Keeps Democrats in Power in NYC”.

In short — is New York even Democratic?

Does Mamdani’s Primary victory represent anything real?

Are these insane policies on the Left — free up those sex workers! No more misdemeanors! Ride your ebike on the sidewalks! Liberate jaywalking! End the “carceral state” (meaning, end prisons)!

— Even derived from grassroots New Yorkers’ real sentiments?

Or is the whole thing a massive fraud — the most massive fraud —

Orchestrated by powerful interests, and with a smiling “Desi, Not Firang” “X class” actor, out front, below the proscenium —

Masquerading as the elections of, and as the day-to-day governance of,

A great and populous American city?