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Wednesday, June 25, 2025

Mamdani’s Platform

AOC 2028: : The Future of American Progressivism



Zohran Mamdani’s 2025 New York City mayoral campaign platform focused on addressing the cost-of-living crisis for working-class New Yorkers through progressive, socialist-inspired policies. Key proposals included:

  • Rent Freeze: Freezing rent increases for over 2 million tenants in rent-stabilized apartments to prevent displacement and provide immediate financial relief.
  • Free Public Buses: Expanding a successful fare-free bus pilot program citywide to increase ridership, reduce violence against drivers, and ease transit costs. Estimated cost: $900 million annually.
  • Universal No-Cost Childcare: Offering free childcare for children aged 6 weeks to 5 years to support working parents and boost the economy. Estimated cost: $2–$7 billion annually.
  • City-Owned Grocery Stores: Establishing five municipal grocery stores (one per borough) to sell affordable staples at wholesale prices, addressing food deserts and price gouging. Estimated cost: $60 million.
  • Affordable Housing: Tripling the city’s production of permanently affordable, union-built, rent-stabilized homes, including 200,000 new public housing units.
  • Raising Minimum Wage: Increasing the city’s minimum wage to $30 per hour by 2030.
  • Tax Increases: Funding these initiatives by raising $10 billion through higher taxes on corporations (to 11.5%) and a 2% flat tax on incomes over $1 million, plus hiring more tax auditors and cracking down on corrupt landlords.
  • Community Safety: Creating a Department of Community Safety to prevent violence through mental health and crisis response programs, reducing reliance on police.
  • Trump-Proofing NYC: Strengthening sanctuary city policies by expelling ICE from city facilities, increasing legal support for immigrants, and protecting LGBTQ+ and reproductive rights.
Mamdani’s platform, endorsed by economists like Yanis Varoufakis and backed by progressive leaders like Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, aimed to reject austerity and make life more affordable. Critics, including business leaders and opponents like Andrew Cuomo, argued the proposals were fiscally unrealistic and underestimated costs, requiring state approvals unlikely from Governor Kathy Hochul.






In N.Y.C. Mayor’s Race, Mamdani Responds to a Call for His Deportation Vickie Paladino, a councilwoman from Queens, called Zohran Mamdani a “radical leftist” who hates America, and warned against “future Zohrans.” ......... a Republican city councilwoman from Queens called for him to be deported. (Mr. Mamdani is a U.S. citizen.)

AOC 2028: : The Future of American Progressivism

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Monday, November 15, 2021

Bernie: The Elon Musk Of Politics

That designation is not to be taken at face value. He might have been if he had gotten himself elected president. But the execution part of him has been mush. Maybe AOC? She could be the Elon Musk of politics. But spare me the exactitude. I am only reacting to Elon Musk's disrespect of Bernie. Do not respect old people. That does not sound right.

I just finished reading Eizabeth Warren's book Persist a few weeks ago. I am all for the wealth tax. Without the wealth tax America as a country will kill itself. The inequality in America is civilization ending.

I would propose a 10% wealth tax on all billionaires.

That will not take away from innovation. That will not mean Elon Musk will have less money to invest in Tesla, or SpaceX. When was the last time Elon sold his shares in Tesla to put money back in Tesla? Instead I have seen him and Jeff Bezos do the my thing is bigger than yours thing. Give them marbles. Take the money to the homeless, and the hungry.





Knowing God Named by Christianity Today as one of the top fifty books that have shaped evangelicals, Knowing God is now among the iconic books featured in the IVP Signature Collection. ....... "A hundred years from now only a handful of books written today will still be widely read and accepted as Christian classics. Dr. James I. Packer's Knowing God may well prove to be one of them. A gifted theologian and writer, Dr. Packer has the rare ability to deal with profound and basic spiritual truths in a practical and highly readable way. This book will help every reader grasp in a fuller way one of the Bible's greatest truths: that we can know God personally because God wants us to know him." ..... Billy Graham .......... As it would be cruel to an Amazonian tribesman to fly him to London, put him down without explanation in Trafalgar Square and leave him, as one who knew nothing of English or England, to fend for himself, so we are cruel to ourselves if we try to live in this world without knowing about the God whose world it is and who runs it. The world becomes a strange, mad, painful place, and life in it a disappointing and unpleasant business, for those who do not know about God. ............. “God is a Spirit, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable, in his being, wisdom, power, holiness, justice, goodness, and truth.” .........

Why You Need to Read ‘Knowing God’ by JI Packer Christians have become confused as a result of their dealings with modern skepticism. Lacking a strong Biblical understanding of God, believers have become less certain about both God and His Word. The truth of Scripture is routinely questioned, and even the very concept of truth is itself been put up for debate. ........ there is an important distinction between knowing about God and knowing God. Whereas we can know a lot about God by reading Scripture and studying what theologians have to say on the topic, we can only know God by entering into a right relationship with Him ........ “Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life’s problems fall into place of their own accord.” ........ God is “immutable,” which is a fancy seminary word for “doesn’t change” or “unchangeable.” This is a very helpful reminder for the Christian. There is not a discontinuity between God as He is revealed in the Old Testament and how He is revealed in the New. He is unchanging in His truth, in His ways, and His purposes ......... being more diligent in our spiritual duties of prayer and reading His Word, of course, but we also must be more aware of the blessings which come from His hand. .......... how inward trials can be used by God to chastise us for sin, to guide us, and to draw us to fuller reliance on Him .........

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Monday, March 30, 2020

AOC Is Joshua?

“If Bernie is Moses, then AOC is Joshua”
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Wednesday, February 26, 2020

The Berning Question






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