The Death of the Mine Canaryby James A. Bridge III
JULY 17th, 2025--Zohran Mamdani has been confirmed as the Democrat Party's New York City Mayoral candidate.
Mamdani has writ his beliefs large against the skyline of Gotham. "We don't need any billionaires, in this moment of great need," the high-riding 33 year-old crowed on the campaign trail.
As to whether he would denounce "global intifada" and "from the river to the sea"?
"That's not language I use," was his slick response.
The son of a Muslim Marxist Columbia University Professor (shocker) and a video marketing producer, Mamdani's message nicely slopped into the void left by the lamest leadership of the Democrat Party in many many years.
The bizarre behavior of Democrats in the wake of the 2024 Trump landslide has exposed Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers as truly an operand of mental illness.
As for loaded-up leadership? Chuck Shumer, Senate Minority Leader, and Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader, are as empty as plastic grocery bags blowing around the neighborhood. So, affluent young white voters pulled the lever for the hard-charging, up-and-coming New York Assemblyman Mamdani.
In so doing, this young man, born in Rhodesia and raised in New York, who masks a possible Antisemitic theology with arcane noodling about how he wouldn't say "from the river to the sea," reassured the sheep, alarmed the experienced, and motivated more than a few Jews to look for new horizons. This is no small feat in the nation's largest city with the largest Jewish population. Heck, even Ohio Gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramiswami invited startled New Yorkers to relocate to the Buckeye State on a Manhattan marquee.
Mamdani clearly rode the wave of Democrat meltdown over Trump's reelection and the Hamas college protests to gather votes in response to the non-stop media and UN denunciations of the state of Israel for its war against Hamas in Gaza. The most chilling aspect of his candidacy is his lack of candor when it comes to the October 7, 2023 massacres in Israel. Especially in the aftermath of the Dinah Project October 7 sexual violence reports, the appearance of such a person poised to become the mayor of New York City has all the import of a dead cage canary in the mine.
I am a native New Yorker. Heck, Yogi Berra was my first favorite baseball player. The home of Wall Street, knishes, coconut champagne and a hot dog with kraut and unnumbered great restaurants, is about to elect a mayor who wants to get rid of billionaires, proclaiming that "we don't need billionaires in this time of great need."
Also, how will he pay for his 'pie in the sky' Marxism? He will tax the rich!
What? Mr. Mamdani, New York City ain't Mumbai or Lahore. The only "great need" in New York was the money to recover from President Biden's shoving of illegal aliens into the five boroughs by the thousands.
President Trump has vowed to watch Mamdani carefully should he truly become the mayor of New York City. He has vowed to keep federal money from the city if a future Mayor Mamdani should truly try to roll out Marxist measures in New York City.
In this, President Trump wouldn't be the first.
Once upon a time, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt upset the apparently locked-in winner of the California Gubernatorial race by throwing the weight of his influence into the fray to encourage voters to shun the Socialist Candidate, Upton Sinclair, in the Depression year 1934.
Roosevelt put his finger on the scale, then, fearing the Socialist 'Democrat Sinclair's platform would disparage FDR's own socialistic programs to combat the unemployment caused by the Great Depression. While Sinclair urgently wanted the support of FDR, FDR refused to grant him an audience.
Sinclair was not elected Governor, and FDR worked every possible angle to keep him from Sacramento. Republican Frank Finley Merriam was instead reelected to a second term.
Flash forward to today, 90 years later. There is no Great Depression now, but there is a rise in Anti-Americanism among the young. Two generations of people unlashed from the moorings of solid education and indoctrinated into the panoply of Leftist devices to seize power. The Democrat mask has fallen, and instead of the great big handkerchief, we see him crying crocodile tears for failed people and the poor.
Zohran Mamdani's arrival as the Democrat candidate for the Mayor of New York City comes with this announcement: the mine canary has died.
Beware the poisonous gas.
JULY 17th, 2025--Zohran Mamdani has been confirmed as the Democrat Party's New York City Mayoral candidate.
Mamdani has writ his beliefs large against the skyline of Gotham. "We don't need any billionaires, in this moment of great need," the high-riding 33 year-old crowed on the campaign trail.
As to whether he would denounce "global intifada" and "from the river to the sea"?
"That's not language I use," was his slick response.
The son of a Muslim Marxist Columbia University Professor (shocker) and a video marketing producer, Mamdani's message nicely slopped into the void left by the lamest leadership of the Democrat Party in many many years.
The bizarre behavior of Democrats in the wake of the 2024 Trump landslide has exposed Trump Derangement Syndrome sufferers as truly an operand of mental illness.
As for loaded-up leadership? Chuck Shumer, Senate Minority Leader, and Hakeem Jeffries, House Minority Leader, are as empty as plastic grocery bags blowing around the neighborhood. So, affluent young white voters pulled the lever for the hard-charging, up-and-coming New York Assemblyman Mamdani.
In so doing, this young man, born in Rhodesia and raised in New York, who masks a possible Antisemitic theology with arcane noodling about how he wouldn't say "from the river to the sea," reassured the sheep, alarmed the experienced, and motivated more than a few Jews to look for new horizons. This is no small feat in the nation's largest city with the largest Jewish population. Heck, even Ohio Gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramiswami invited startled New Yorkers to relocate to the Buckeye State on a Manhattan marquee.
Mamdani clearly rode the wave of Democrat meltdown over Trump's reelection and the Hamas college protests to gather votes in response to the non-stop media and UN denunciations of the state of Israel for its war against Hamas in Gaza. The most chilling aspect of his candidacy is his lack of candor when it comes to the October 7, 2023 massacres in Israel. Especially in the aftermath of the Dinah Project October 7 sexual violence reports, the appearance of such a person poised to become the mayor of New York City has all the import of a dead cage canary in the mine.
I am a native New Yorker. Heck, Yogi Berra was my first favorite baseball player. The home of Wall Street, knishes, coconut champagne and a hot dog with kraut and unnumbered great restaurants, is about to elect a mayor who wants to get rid of billionaires, proclaiming that "we don't need billionaires in this time of great need."
Also, how will he pay for his 'pie in the sky' Marxism? He will tax the rich!
What? Mr. Mamdani, New York City ain't Mumbai or Lahore. The only "great need" in New York was the money to recover from President Biden's shoving of illegal aliens into the five boroughs by the thousands.
President Trump has vowed to watch Mamdani carefully should he truly become the mayor of New York City. He has vowed to keep federal money from the city if a future Mayor Mamdani should truly try to roll out Marxist measures in New York City.
In this, President Trump wouldn't be the first.
Once upon a time, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt upset the apparently locked-in winner of the California Gubernatorial race by throwing the weight of his influence into the fray to encourage voters to shun the Socialist Candidate, Upton Sinclair, in the Depression year 1934.
Roosevelt put his finger on the scale, then, fearing the Socialist 'Democrat Sinclair's platform would disparage FDR's own socialistic programs to combat the unemployment caused by the Great Depression. While Sinclair urgently wanted the support of FDR, FDR refused to grant him an audience.
Sinclair was not elected Governor, and FDR worked every possible angle to keep him from Sacramento. Republican Frank Finley Merriam was instead reelected to a second term.
Flash forward to today, 90 years later. There is no Great Depression now, but there is a rise in Anti-Americanism among the young. Two generations of people unlashed from the moorings of solid education and indoctrinated into the panoply of Leftist devices to seize power. The Democrat mask has fallen, and instead of the great big handkerchief, we see him crying crocodile tears for failed people and the poor.
Zohran Mamdani's arrival as the Democrat candidate for the Mayor of New York City comes with this announcement: the mine canary has died.
Beware the poisonous gas.
"Yeah, Boss. Should we evacuate?"
Mamdani: From the river to the sea "That's not language I use."
AOC & Mamdani: Bye bye, Adam Smith;helloooo Marx & Lenin!
Watch the Zensational Zohran make the world'sgreatest city disappear!
FDR laid a heavy finger on theelection scale in 1934
Free stuff ain't free, people
Strap on, NYC!