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Mamdani - NY Victory Speech. NBC cut out cos he was laying into billionaire class so well.

Posted by marknadim <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=marknadim' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2025, 5:21 am

Including:
"Dont let the billionaire class tell you your enemy is those earning $5 less than you"

From 28 mins in
http://www.youtube.com/live/y7ysB8KifC8?si=3_UTnAcEjWvdIS--

A great victory; and will send these lunatics even further round the bend....

Posted by Morrissey <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Morrissey' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2025, 8:24 am, in reply to "Mamdani - NY Victory Speech. NBC cut out cos he was laying into billionaire class so well. "

Remember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2025, 9:13 am, in reply to "A great victory; and will send these lunatics even further round the bend...."

QED

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I hope he has more integrity and courage than that bag of wind.

Posted by Morrissey <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Morrissey' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2025, 9:30 am, in reply to "Remember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?"

So far he looks more resolute than Corbyn ever did, but we'll see.

Re: I hope he has more integrity and courage than that bag of wind.

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2025, 10:06 am, in reply to "I hope he has more integrity and courage than that bag of wind."

Reformists never deliver.

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Re: Remember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

Posted by Sleepy George <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=brengun' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 6, 2025, 11:25 am, in reply to "Remember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?"

I will have told you so

Voluptuous pessimism. I noticed Jimmy Dore justified anticipatory outrage by making a guilty association with AOC. It is not that the new mayor supports her. It is that she is on record as supporting mamdani. From the truismm that reformists never promise revolution it is deduced that they never can or will deliver promised reforms. Judge Napoalitano, not a socialst, thinks those promised refrorms are silly. George Galloway, an undemocratic socialist, has so far withheld his precise critique of the modest economic reforms which might lower living oosts.
gb

Re: Remember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 6, 2025, 8:17 pm, in reply to "Re: Remember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?"

A hundred years of reformist sell-outs and you're still shooting the messenger? Piffle.

The last working-class hero in England.
Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
Jasper the Ruffian cat ??? - 4 November 2021
Georgina the cat ???-4 December 2025

Re: Remember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

Posted by Sleepy George <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=brengun' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 7, 2025, 6:16 pm, in reply to "Re: Remember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?"

“Piffle”
There is no arguing with that. And I would never try arguing with a Lifeboater. Lifeboaters believe the source of error lies not in social forces and powers but the in the individual will; individuals must be monitored not only for current deviations from party line but for future careerist sins.

Since German socialists voted for WW1 war credits, the second international has delivered many shocks. As did the Third. As did the Fourth -although in my opinion Trotsky had a better idea of how mass conscious develops than any of his sectarian followers. Trotsky died believing, as was then reasonable, that Capital could not absorb any major reforms without surrendering its own power. He was proved wrong.

But since the great shift in the balance of power away from Labour toward capital, beginning say around 1980, pessimism about reforms of course increasingly in order.
Whereas George Galloway was among the many who set high hopes by Barack Obama, Chomsky and Pilger warned strongly against such hopes, having observed Obamas silky manoeuvrings to win white liberal votes and having observed nothing in his programme that should seriously frighten the bosses. .

Mayors have limited powers but many leftwing mayors have have made good use of them against the odds. Now Mamdami has promised he will try to tax the rich, impose a rent freeze and free public transport. Such measures will seem piffling to Lifeboat revolutionists, who are not New York rent payers. They will not seem piffling to the boss class, who will move mountains to sabotage them. Will they succeed? Does Mamdami really understand the power and virulance of Capital, with its deep tentacles into the working class? I cannot say. But until he stops fighting for these piffling reforms we should give him total applause and support

But, you say, does his wife have the correct line on Syria.? Was his victory welcomed by AOC ?. Is he a bit too woke?. I dont know and I dont care.

Gb

Re: Remember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 8, 2025, 1:39 am, in reply to "Re: Remember Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez?"

I'm a structural functionalist, amongst other things. I agree with Marx that free will exists but that it is constrained by the free will of our ancestors, climate, geography, agriculture and other things.

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Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
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Re: Mamdani: A word of caution from Laith Marouf ..

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2025, 3:01 pm, in reply to "Mamdani - NY Victory Speech. NBC cut out cos he was laying into billionaire class so well. "

Right off the bat, Laith talked about Mamdani in the vid below:

And .. the alarm bell that he heard was regarding Mamdani's wife that has been campaigning for Assad's overthrow and being aligned with murky Sunni elements in Syria for a decade or so. Can't comment since I don't know details.

At the same time he cautioned all that this might de-radicalise New Yorkers if the are given small titbits.

Re: Mamdani: A word of caution from Laith Marouf .. and from another source ..

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2025, 6:15 pm, in reply to "Re: Mamdani: A word of caution from Laith Marouf .."

It is claimed that Mamdani has been funded by Soros. Again, it's a claim for which I have no evidence for myself. Perhaps someone can confirm?

Re: Mamdani: A word of caution from Laith Marouf .. and from another source ..

Posted by t <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=TomskiD' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2025, 7:30 pm, in reply to "Re: Mamdani: A word of caution from Laith Marouf .. and from another source .."

I've just engaged DDG ai with:

How much exactly has George Soros funded Mamdani so far?

Answer:

George Soros has funded various organizations supporting Zohran Mamdani, amounting to over $37 million in total. This funding has been channeled primarily through the Open Society Foundation and associated groups.

Breakdown of Funding:

Working Families Party (WFP): Soros’s contributions to this group alone account for $23.7 million since 2016.
Other Left-Wing Organizations: An additional $13.9 million has gone to other nonprofits backing Mamdani, including:
Make The Road Action: $3.5 million
Community Voices Heard: $2.6 million
MoveOn: $2.3 million
Jewish Voice for Peace Action: $650,000

These funds have played a crucial role in Mamdani's political campaigns, particularly as he positions himself as a candidate opposed to billionaire influence, despite benefiting from significant funding himself.

Also gave me one source ..

Apparently there is an exclusive in New York Post (eyes roll)

Mamdani funding blurs line between charity and pol...
southshorepress.com

And in his inaugural speech, he waffled about confronting "anti-Semitism."

Posted by Morrissey <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Morrissey' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2025, 6:17 pm, in reply to "Re: Mamdani: A word of caution from Laith Marouf .."

If that means what it should mean, then all Zionist hoodlums will be turfed out of City Hall. Sadly, however, I detect the gloomy shade of Jeremy Corbyn in that statement.

TVNZ autocue reader: "It's a bit of a risk for Democrats to back Mamdani isn't it?"

Posted by Morrissey <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Morrissey' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 5, 2025, 6:25 pm, in reply to "And in his inaugural speech, he waffled about confronting "anti-Semitism.""

That was the dismal Chris Chang, talking to A.P. hack Philip Crowther, 7:20 a.m.

Time will tell but.......

Posted by ceemac666 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=ceemac666' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 7, 2025, 3:15 am, in reply to "Mamdani - NY Victory Speech. NBC cut out cos he was laying into billionaire class so well. "

I suspect he,s been groomed by the same team that groomed Obama.

Its not your country, any of you, you don’t vote in the US, so why do you seem to feel so invested?

Posted by Shyaku <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Shyaku' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 9, 2025, 5:58 pm, in reply to "Mamdani - NY Victory Speech. NBC cut out cos he was laying into billionaire class so well. "

Elect your own socialists and then immediately call the traitors. New York is essentially none of your business.

Re: Its not your country, any of you, you don’t vote in the US, so why do you seem to feel so invested?

Posted by Keith-264 <iframe src='https://members5.boardhost.com/xxxxx/info/user=Keith-264' width='330' height='300' border=0 style='border:none;'> on November 9, 2025, 8:12 pm, in reply to "Its not your country, any of you, you don’t vote in the US, so why do you seem to feel so invested?"

You don't have a choice about this. No taxation without representation.

The last working-class hero in England.
Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018
Jasper the Ruffian cat ??? - 4 November 2021
Georgina the cat ???-4 December 2025

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