From "The Parents Who Helped Shape Zohran Mamdani’s Politics/Zohran Mamdani’s parents, a filmmaker and a professor, gave him the foundation for his run for mayor of New York. But their own political views may open him up to attacks" (NYT).
I didn't realize until I read this article that the "filmmaker mother" — big deal, I thought — made some highly regarded movies, "Mississippi Masala" and "Monsoon Wedding."
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DEIsm.
Give it to New York. Good and hard. I hope this guy wins and when they come crying to the federal government for the next bailout or when the big new skyscraper experiences Sudden 747 Onset, they can go fuck themselves.
There's already a "Stop Zohran at all costs" movement in NYC. People are demanding Curtis Silwa drop out of the General and endorse Adams. And the same is true of Cuomo.
Its interesting how good Indians (subcontinent not Typee) are at politics in the English speaking world. They seem to zip to the top of almost every political party. Wonder why.
I didn't realize until yesterday that Zohran had earned the wrath of some zionists by refusing to state that his first foreign trip would be to Israel. This seems to be the standard thing every candidate says in NYC. Zohran says he will refuse to visit until War Criminal Bibi is out of office.
Because NYC is very diverse, (70 percent non-white, 15 percent Jewish, 15 percent white other), and 30 percent immigrant, the number of groups that must be pandered to is insane. For example, pleasing both the NYC Jews and Muslims is weird balancing trick. This is America's future.
Pudgy white females in NYC are soon to fall in love with mustard.
While South Africa whites (especially the Boers) aren't doing so well, the "colored" and Indian populations are doing fine. So is the small Jewish population (250K). I'm surprised Zohran's family left but the opportunities in NYC were probably much more lucrative than in Cape Town.
In the DR “mix race” translates as “mestizo”. In Spanish “mustard” translates as “mostaza”. I’ve never heard “mostaza” used in a racial context. Though “mostaza” and mestizo” sound like they might be related. I don’t know.
The country and the world need to see Mamdani burn New York City to the ground.
Mamdani has credited his parents with providing him a “privileged upbringing” that included constant discussion of politics and global affairs. But at a moment of intense political fights over conflict in the Middle East, his parents’ critical views of Israel and his father’s academic work on settler colonialism and human rights could make them a target of attacks from the right.
She also directed Zohran in his RAP videos. No wonder he turned to Politics. Lot's more money to make. He should call Nancy for advise on the stock market.
There is a lot of support among liberals for Islam (especially for massive Muslim immigration). There is something to this union. Like the Woke, Muslims absolutely loathe Christians and Jews, are okay with abortion and easy divorce, tolerate sex work (likely the only real work a woman can get in the most intolerant Muslim communities) and believe that interest charged on loans is unethical or usurious. So these people are all checking the same boxes.
Advice, not advise!
The strategy seems to be hide his crazy and make him look human. It will probably work…
Filmmaker as a word has devolved into bargain basement CV enhancement. Filmmaker should mean I earn my living making movies. Now it means, I have an iPhone.
Looking up “masala” : In English, "masala" generally refers to a mixture of spices used in South Asian cuisine. It can also refer to a dish, often a curry, that is flavored with this spice mixture.
At times like these is always good to remember the ancient wisdom of the ages… ‘Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar’
Meaning: “The phrase "sometimes a cigar is just a cigar" suggests that not everything has a hidden, deeper meaning, and that some things are simply what they appear to be. It implies that overthinking or assigning symbolic significance to simple objects or events can be unnecessary.”
The only silver lining in the rise of Mamdani involves the inverse of Lenin's "worse is better" strategy. Mamdani's inevitable failures ought to accelerate the process of delegitimizing socialism and bring about a return to a moderate capitalist/social safety net society. The problem with this one is that the feedback loop is skewed by the socialist-adjacent media. Failures will be attributed to insufficient ruthlessness. "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world."
Coincidentally, in the DR “Indio” means both, someone born in India and someone mixed, or brown. Btw. To be mixed in Japan is not considered good at all. The world is complicated to say the least.
Looks like Trump is going at the heart of the beast.
These cities that fund riots then beg for money to rebuild can get fucked.
Have fun with your little communist shitbird New York.
NYPD going to quit en mass if the plump-dummies vote Mr. Mustard in.
Reminds me of Trump's popularity, which is partly because of how mad he makes the other side.
Achilles tantrum is case in point. Is it too early to coin MDS?
Mamdani: “The Shitty Candidate You Must Resist”…
BION, I haven't seen either of those two movies.
New York Socialist party. Nyzi? DEIsm, too. Abortive ideation. Nazi... I mean,Yahtzee!
I think Mom made that rapper video for son.
Any reference to South Africa invariably triggers the memory of a poster fired from her job as she flew from London to SA.
from 2013,
A PUBLIC relations professional in the US has been fired from her job following a global backlash after she posted an incredibly offensive Twitter comment about Africa and AIDS.
Justine Sacco, who works for media company IAC, sent out her tweet to more than 4300 followers as she boarded a plane for South Africa from London's Heathrow Airport, according to Valleywag.
"Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AIDS. Just kidding. I'm white!" she tweeted.
https://www.news.com.au/technology/online/social/pr-executive-justine-sacco-posts-an-outrageous-offensive-joke-on-twitter-before-boarding-a-plane/news-story/e98da3d9835071b1a3f674739a370534
Mamdani: “The Secret Ingredient to Any Intifada”
Hello muddah
Hello fadah
Now we have an
Intifada
good grief, the whitewashing of this evil man, who will cause many to die if he takes power, he may kill many if he is stopped from Gracie Mansion
I know it's par for the course for the times that has celebrated Castro, Stalin Mao, Mandela, Ho Chi Minh
but the notion they would do in their own burg
the Journal is only a smidge less repulsive or more (pick your poison)
the Hamas rapper for the Holy land foundation, the ally of every murderer and terrorists,
like MOST marxists..
Mamdani is a wealthy child of wealthy parents
Mississippi Masala reminded me of Denzel which reminded me of the time he walked off The View having had enough of those silly women.
yes Madiba, as his friends called him delivered South Africa into the hellscape where perhaps a few Indian bankers profited, but everyone else suffered,
there's no sugar coating this, if anything Mamdani resembles
both Idi Amin who expelled his parents, and Malema the 'kill the boers' rockstar, (strickly metaphorical)
they are not merely unserious, but profoundly evil, these are the sorts that my parents fled Cuba, and yet too many are willing to infect the Country's largest city with him
conversely he saves his wraith for statesmen like Modi and Netanyahu, there is no level of condemnation that he doesn't deserve,
Nepo baby. Playing with revolution, playing with other peoples future.
Well put, Spiros. Note Mamdani is having Muslin Brotherhood (terrorist)money funneled to his campaign by the terrorist-watchlist CAIR.
"NYPD going to quit en mass if the plump-dummies vote Mr. Mustard in."
They'll be replaced with social workers. What could go wrong.
No Kings!
This is clearly the progressives at the NYT trying to soften, endear, mainstream Mr. Mamdani to their readers. It's playbook puff: the ritual contrast to the evil Trump, the cute boyhood anecdote, the early starry-eyed idealism.
Contrast it with any profile the Times runs on someone from the right: inuendo, darkness, guilt by association.
The Times is traditionally the paper of well-educated Manhattan jews. It will be a heavy lift, but darn it, the Times will give it their best shot.
I dubbed wilhelm mayor bane, after the terrorist warlord in the nolan fiilms, he may have to surrender the title,
He's a nepo baby, commie Jihadist. That shud be all one needs to know. BTW, only 400K voted in primary out of 5MM registered voters.
What I find hilarious is the Wall Street bankers have played footsies with the commie lefties for years. Now a hard-core version surfaces and they are terrified. Idiots.
that link doesn't work peachy, yes they have and they are devoured, proscribed, nationalized, there are exceptions, the head of the security service under Ian Smith,
Catastrophic Anthropogenic Immigration Reform (CAIR)... because acronyms matter.
Baby Lives Matter (BLM)
Mark said...
Reminds me of Trump's popularity, which is partly because of how mad he makes the other side.
Achilles tantrum is case in point. Is it too early to coin MDS?
At this point the results of electing Mamdani are so predictable that only an evil piece of shit or a complete idiot would vote for him.
Your choice on which one you are.
MikeD, there are about 3.3 million registered dems in NYC. Mandarin got 432000 "votes" ( hard to tell which count, given the ranked choice obfuscation), or only about 13% of registered dems overall.
thats the problem the sane people don't turn out, admittedly putting the butcher Cuomo at the top of the platform was ill considered,
Mark, 10:18: Reminds me of Trump's popularity, which is partly because ….” Well it’s not ALWAYS about Trump! Here, for example, is a candidate who is a socialist and bears the telltale signs of an Islamic jihadist. We are not “mad” just concerned that the repercussions richly deserved by NYC may spill over.
NYC mayoral nominee’s anti-Israel views, political rise closely tied to Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour
Well.
it would not be an exaggeration if UBL had a candidate, it would be Mamdani,
.” Like the Woke, Muslims absolutely loathe Christians and Jews, are okay with abortion and easy divorce, tolerate sex work (likely the only real work a woman can get in the most intolerant Muslim communities) and believe that interest charged on loans is unethical or usurious. So these people are all checking the same boxes.”
And a high tolerance, if not actual enthusiasm, for pederasty.
At one time, a certain skin color was called "olive," which complicated things for the colorblind and others who thought olives were green.
Iman said...
Hello muddah
Hello fadah
Now we have an
Intifada
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That actually made me laugh. Thanks.
Lazarus said...
“At one time, a certain skin color was called ‘olive’, which complicated things for the colorblind and others who thought olives were green.”
I prefer the black ones, although I like the green ones, too.
And I’m strictly talking about the fruit here; no debates about Orion women vs Sub-Saharan African ones.
Big fan of Queen of Katwe.
Because OF COURSE our socialist hero is a nepobaby!
So so good.
“Attacks.” Huh, if it doesn’t involve a knife, gun or fisticuffs, it’s not an Attack. It’s criticism.
Long time since I was in elementary school but don’t ever recall anyone getting asked what color they were.
narciso said...
"good grief, the whitewashing of this evil man, who will cause many to die if he takes power, he may kill many if he is stopped from Gracie Mansion"
Well, the second choice of New York City's Democrat Party members has quite a head start on the jihadi when it comes to body counts, as well as general scumbagosity.
https://www.empirecenter.org/publications/cuomos-suspect-covid-statistics/
Democrat Party members are The Good Guys!!1!1!!
Maybe Mayor Mamdani isn't a bad idea. The aftermath of someone like him or de Blasio in office serves as an object lesson in inevitable outcomes. Pour encourager les autres
That's what got Trump elected.
- Krumhorn
LVB (9:34am):
I checked the Spanish Royal Academy's authoritative 'Diccionario de la Lengua Espanola' (link), and 'mestizo' and 'mostaza' are unrelated. Both come from vulgar Latin, but 'mestizo' is from mixticius, meaning "mixed", while 'mostaza' is from mustaceus, meaning "must cake" ('must' is not-yet-fermented wine, so basically grape juice). How that turned into mustard (sinapi in Latin) is not obvious: apparently must was used to make mustard. Anyway, the resemblance between the two words (closer in Spanish, due to sound changes) is coincidental.
So he's been this way since childhood - saying crazy shit just to get attention.
Linda Sarsour. Well done, Peachy. That explains a lot.
Diversity seems to have ruined our politics. Back when virtually all American voters were of white European stock, politics was mainly about the competition between differing policies and governing philosophies. Now, we seemingly can only think and speak of politics in demographic terms: Which candidate will appeal (or won't appeal) to Hispanics, or to Muslims, or Jews, or women, or blacks, or whites, or whomever? It's the main lens through which we seem to look at politics anymore.
" olives were green.”
I prefer the black ones, although I like the green ones, too."
Uuuugh. Satan's grapes.
Reminds me of Trump's popularity, which is partly because of how mad he makes the other side.
It's not Trump's fault you leftists are in a constant state of butthurt.
"Mamdani’s parents, a filmmaker and a professor" Prof specialty: settler colonialism. Anti-American antisemite. Explains some of the son's mad leftism. It's not just illegal immigration that's a problem.
Dogma and Pony Show said...
Diversity seems to have ruined our politics. Back when virtually all American voters were of white European stock, politics was mainly about the competition between differing policies and governing philosophies. Now, we seemingly can only think and speak of politics in demographic terms: Which candidate will appeal (or won't appeal) to Hispanics, or to Muslims, or Jews, or women, or blacks, or whites, or whomever? It's the main lens through which we seem to look at politics anymore.
It is the lens that the globalist oligarchs want us to see things through.
But the reason Trump is triggering the left so hard is because he is breaking the chains and destroying the institutions they used to control people.
One of those is the constant racism and racial division of the left.
Is it too early to coin MDS?
MDS rips off every bad economic idea of the 19th and 20th centuries, they want to rip off their own Joe Rogan…now they want to steal clinical diagnoses, too…
"Mustard?" Well.... OK, I'll take a guess and see if I win:
Colonel Mustard
with the Hammer and Sickle
in the mikveh
Orange trumps Mustard
I hope Mamdaddy wins. Imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth. LOL!
RCOCEAN II said...
I hope Mamdaddy wins. Imagine the wailing and gnashing of teeth. LOL!
When you hate a group so much that you hope ill on others what does that make you?
This is a fake story. Total lie.
Fweedom.
Primary elections are for political junkies and advocate/social justice types. That's why extreme progressives win them. Mamdanis sounds similar to Seattle's Kshama Sawant, but she was a mere city council member. I'll buy a case of popcorn if he wins as it will make for much entertainment for those of us that don't have to live under his leadership.
Honestly I don't like seemingly defending Mamdani because I think he's just saying what people want to hear. But
His mustard comment. Maybe he meant mustard seed colors, not mustard yellow. There are three colors of mustard seed - black, brown and yellow. Look at pickling spice in the grocery store sometime.
His family. I watched Mississippi Masala and it's hard to believe that the son of the woman who made that film would think of driving 7 million Jews out of Israel or 324 million Americans out of America. Yet Mamdani founded an Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) SJP group at Bowdoin and driving out everyone but the indigenous out is what the American branch of the SJP wants.
*(Or maybe we just have to give the land back and have some kind of feudal vassal relationship where we never really own anything and some weird tribal council owns all land rights. )
Mississippi Masala is watchable and when you realize the director's son is running for Mayor of New York on an anti-white, free-this-free-that, no-police platform, it's interesting. It's real background. But it's only background.
wildswan said...
“*(Or maybe we just have to give the land back [to the Indians] and have some kind of feudal vassal relationship where we never really own anything and some weird tribal council owns all land rights.)”
Sounds like what we have now, which people find out the hard way when they don’t pay their property taxes.
wildswan said...
“*(Or maybe we just have to give the land back [to the Indians] and have some kind of feudal vassal relationship where we never really own anything and some weird tribal council owns all land rights.)”
I live in the former Northwest Territory, which we got from the British when they recognized our independence. In turn, they got it in trade with the Iroquois after the French and Indian War when the Brits traded some other land the Iroquois wanted. If we give up the former NWT, then we get back those lands the Iroquois consider sacred.
Wait, the Miami, Illinois, and the other tribes have objections? They’ll have to settle the land claim dispute with the Iroquois. Maybe another round of Beaver Wars.
Sounds like "Fweedom."
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