Even Bernie Sanders admits Mamdani won’t have all – Latest News
Standing in line for the “New York Is Not for Sale” rally at Forest Hills Stadium Sunday night meant coping with a gauntlet of Revolutionary Communists of America reps hawking their newspaper. The headline? “Sick of Capitalism: Gen Z Wants Revolution — Time to Organize.”
It felt like Elaine Benes’ communist boyfriend Ned Isakoff had deliberate the festivities.
Vermont’s Sen. Bernie Sanders, NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez headlined a “New York Is Not for Sale” rally at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens Sunday Erik Pendzich/Shutterstock
And whereas the rhetoric on stage wasn’t as explicitly commie, the occasion headlined by Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani was a verbal bonfire of the wealthy. An admonishment of capitalism.
Never thoughts that two of the featured audio system criss-cross the nation in non-public jets. Nor that Mamdani himself is wealthy.
The largest bogeymen for this crowd have been two of the borough’s most distinguished sons: President Donald Trump and Mamdani’s mayoral rival Andrew Cuomo.
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Any point out of them, or the phrase “billionaire,” and the place went wild — booing, hissing and chanting, “Tax the wealthy.“
“Saturday Night Live” comic Sarah Sherman served as MC, and he or she cracked jokes in between introducing union leaders, together with a Starbucks barista who railed in opposition to that company’s CEO, Brian Niccol: “His wealth comes at the expense of workers like me.”
Outside the rally, reps for the Revolutionary Communists of America hawked the group’s newspaper. NY Post/Kirsten Fleming
Democratic Socialists of America members, together with State Senator Julia Salazar and Rep. Claire Valdez, urged viewers members to hitch their ranks.
“Zohran didn’t come from nowhere — he came from our movement,” stated Valdez, giving us a chilling reminder that Mamdani is a Trojan horse ushering in all sorts of far, far left DSA insurance policies.
Then the “Resistance Revival Chorus” took the stage to sing their banger “Which Side Are You On?” They have been joined by City Comptroller Brad Lander who, sadly, danced alongside them like no one was watching.
Gov. Kathy Hochul additionally took half within the rally at Forest Hills, which holds 13,000 people. William C Lopez
I immediately knew which aspect I used to be on — the one which doesn’t permit that goofy boob to hitch the refrain.
AOC drew large applause when she stated town was constructed by Irish people fleeing famine, Italians escaping fascism, Jews in search of shelter after the Holocaust, and blacks escaping Jim Crow legal guidelines.
But there was no discuss of the great issues these people achieved in New York City. Nothing concerning the Big Apple being a place the place ingenuity and grit are rewarded and nurtured.
The occasion basically doubled as a marketing campaign occasion for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. AFP by way of Getty Images
In reality, there was nothing about progress. Only hitting the wealthy of their bank accounts.
Fresh off revealing that his hijab-wearing aunt was the actual sufferer of 9/11 as a result of she allegedly received some soiled appears on the subway (although it’s not clear if he really had a hijab-wearing aunt within the metropolis), Mamdani took the stage to the kind of applause a rock star receives.
He recurrently invoked the money that others are spending in opposition to his marketing campaign.
Lobbyist Andrea Benites confirmed up in a DIY model of AOC’s 2021 Met Gala costume, with “Tax the Rich” scrawled throughout the back. NY Post/William C Lopez
Luckily, the group was far more attention-grabbing. I met a father-daughter duo from Queens who have been attending their first rally. John, a retired federal agent, is a Republican fed up with MAGA and beginning to transfer within the direction of his lefty daughter Rebecca, an actuary. I discovered their household outing charming, even when I disagree with their politics.
Social employee Grace Downs got here out as a result of of issues about affordability and healthcare. She instructed me that “Zohran is charismatic and represents millennials.”
Lobbyist Andrea Benites confirmed up in a DIY model of AOC’s 2021 Met Gala costume, with “Tax the Rich” scrawled throughout the back.
Father and daughter John and Rebecca attended the occasion collectively NY Post/Kirsten Fleming
I share many of their issues about affordability. But neither socialism nor letting a novice nepo child run town is the answer.
Sanders basically admitted as a lot in his speech, saying his younger acolyte “won’t have all the answers” — including that Mamdani would “need your help every single day” if elected.
“Please do everything you can to work with Zohran to make him and his administration the best in the history of New York,” Bernie stated.
But isn’t that why we must always elect somebody who has expertise and understands how to make the machine of metropolis authorities hum? New Yorkers don’t need to wake up and take into consideration serving to a hapless socialist mayor. We have enough to fret about.
We should elect somebody who is definitely prepared on Day One. Not a theater child who has been enjoying one during his marketing campaign.
