[NYC’s Mamdani is a communist in socialist’s clothing. He is now polling at the 40+% level and sure to be the city’s next mayor. On his current Hate Trump tour he is telling his double dummies that he’s willing to work with Trump as long as the president is ready to federally subsidize his ‘affordability’ projects like free city transit rides and cheap food from city-owned grocery stores. Gerald Baker in the 12aug25 WSJ (here) posits that Mamdani may herald a new kind of class struggle – “It’s the overeducated elites, not laborers or the masses, who are getting behind socialism today.” gjr]
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198 responses to “Sandbox – 12aug25”
The Commie Mandami is transparent. Left Helgelian to the core. His dad is a professor at Columbia, where the Frankfurt School hibernated away from the Nazis during WWII… further refining Critical Theory.
Punch, take a swing at it.
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Creepy grampa joe and pothole pete sucked up to DEI and endangered all of us.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/confirmed-biden-admin-cut-best-qualified-class-of-air-traffic-controllers-made-poorer-candidates-look-better/ar-AA1KwLaM?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=689e28cab6f34a35aeed47ccb0419313&ei=116
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Sr. Fish @10:22AM
After reading the righteous bilge, I felt a strong need to read the fine poem.
Not being able to read the Peoples’ Pennysaver, I thought maybe it would be at archive.is
No dice, so maybe I can archive it.
No dice, so full of crazy online newspaper money grubbing spy stuff that the internet appears broken.
So, I’ll write my own.
Trump.
His gigantic manhood split Lady Liberty asunder.
The heavens open, the thunder cracks, the lamentations of the women fill the air.
We are all handmaidens now.
I’ll check again in a bit.
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George
For the purpose of this discussion can you define your opinion as to what is the difference between a socialist and a communist..
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Punch,
Zohran Mamdani has expressed support for the idea of “seizing the means of production,” which refers to the concept of transferring ownership of production resources from private individuals to the community or state.
That’s one big fig leaf that’s fallen from Mamdani, most “socialists” stay away from that one.
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“seizing the means of production,”
Is that a direct quote from Mamdani ?
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“Right now, if we’re talking about the cancellation of student debt, if we’re talking about Medicare for all, you know, these are issues which have the groundswell of popular support across this country,” Mamdani said in a video to conference-goers. “But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it’s BDS or whether it is the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment.”
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So Punch, yes it’s a fucking direct quote of Mandami’s.
Is that enough to loosen your f’ing tongue?
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Posted by: Paul “I’m Constantly Striving for Accuracy” Emery | 14 August 2025 at 02:09 PM
Is that a direct quote from Mamdani ?
Funny…when it’s not the left under the spotlight Nevada City’s Stalwart Man About Town will accept the word of any poo flinging douchebag who is trying to wring a quick $50 out of rawsewage.com! If not you better have a list of approved sources and at least two verifiable quotes ala The New York Times back when it was a real newspaper!
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So Punch… baby steps.
Do you agree Mamdani meets your definition of a “Communist”?
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Thanks Gregory. Do you support Medicare and Social Security?
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Do you agree Mamdani meets your definition of a “Communist”?
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Gregory – you’re wasting your time. Paul is a total coward.
I’ve caught him lying more than once and he just goes silent or changes the subject or just keeps asking you questions.
In other words – a typical lefty.
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Punchy… are you a total coward?
You engaged when you thought you had an edge, but you didn’t, did you?
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The truth of the matter is that Mandami meets EVERYONE’s definition of Communist.
Punch… yes?
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Oooh lookit him dodge! lookit him weave! That’s it….the years of training…
Dodging paying bar tabs, Ducking dinner checks, dipping out of draft notices, diving away from taxes, and of course, dodging any uncomfortable questions thrown his way…..!*
Here’s where it all pays off! Not having to disavow an avowed communist!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99i-eGDPEX8
* For satirical purposes only! I’m sure that they managed to tag him a couple of times for taxes dodgeball notwithstanding!
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PaulE 124pm – Socialism v. Communism – while the complete and comparative definitions of each take more room than is practical for these comment streams, we can focus on the main difference between these to types of centrally planned and controlled economies. And that difference is private property ownership which socialism supposedly tolerates, but communism does not. The problem with socialism is that it is often the slippery slope to communism. Why? Consider that the definition of ownership is being able to dispose of it as you will. Socialist and proto-socialist regimes (e.g. Democratic Party) remove the fundamental attribute of ownership, hence private property, by ratcheting up ever more laws, regulations, and ordnances that prescribe its permissible uses, thereby effectively compromising and then eliminating private ownership for all intents and purposes.. An examination of the sheer volume of such governmental restrictions over the years confirms this assessment. And a closer look at which political party promotes such regimentation points directly at the Democrats.
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Hey…..where’d Paul Raymond go?
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Thanks George
I’ll respond tomorrow
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“But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in…the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment.”
Ahh, the end goal, seizing the means of production. What should we call that boys and girls?
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….and if the demographic holds from the previous “No Kings”,”Fight the Trump Takeover” and “Keep your Hands off our Depends” protests, the turnout will be exclusively white, geriatric leftovers from the 60’s.
….I’m sure there will be “tens of protesters”! The DNC can’t afford to pay many more.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/democrats-plan-nationwide-protests-over-redistricting
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To our liberal readers – can you even imagine a higher level of lying to their ignorant constituents than the DNC is now doing in misrepresenting the effort to reduce major city crime levels in the ghettos created by Democrat Great Society programs over the last half century???
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Posted by: Gjrebane | 15 August 2025 at 09:40 AM
What are your siloed news outlets telling you that ‘liberals’ are saying?
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Another gun grab goes down in flames in the 9th circuit no less!
https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2025/08/15/ninth-circuit-overturns-californias-one-gun-per-month-restriction/
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RH 1120am – You got it wrong again. My “siloed news outlets” don’t “tell” me what the liberals are saying. They simply present the video and printed materials directly from your media sources like MSNBC, CNN, NYC, WaPo, … . No need for any interpretation of the liberal voices. However, you haven’t a clue as to what the conservatives are actually saying because your media sources are truly siloed as confirmed by their low and ever declining viewership.
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Ahh, the end goal, seizing the means of production. What should we call that boys and girls?
Punch?
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Wow
Only one poll out of 17 shows support for Job Approval. Pathetic
https://www.realclearpolling.com/polls/approval/donald-trump/approval-rating
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91 percent of hispancis hate latin-x, take it as an insult to their religion and family values and know it’s an affectation from skinny white girl wokesters with purple hair. Thats why they will keep losing –
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/even-more-latinx-trump-supporters-now-regretting-their-votes/ar-AA1Hg7L8?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=689fe531b6224f47aa6fc946b3065a04&ei=59
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Where were you 6 years ago?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/chuck-todd-says-biden-s-presidency-was-so-weak-and-ineffective-it-made-people-go-back-to-trump/ar-AA1KBT8L?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=4c7afe0d961f43168b980d9846765dfe&ei=106
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Greasy gavins gambit is DOA –
By nearly a two-to-one margin, voters prefer keeping an independent line-drawing panel to determine the state’s House seats, the latest POLITICO-Citrin Center-Possibility Lab survey found. Just 36 percent of respondents back returning congressional redistricting authority to state lawmakers.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/17/poll-california-voters-oppose-gavin-newsoms-gerrymander-plan/
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DonB 1249pm – And we know who the 36% are; the terminally hard left contingent of the Democrat Party.
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Perhaps a slogan for greasy gavin, WERE NUMBER ONE AGAIN! Unemployment, homeless, deficit spending with budget lies, homelessness and crime. I CAN MAKE AMIERICA CALIFIRONA! –
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/08/17/california-unemployment-rate-highest-in-u-s-again/
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“I sank into Randy Carter’s comfy couch, excited to see the Hollywood veteran’s magnum opus.
Around the first floor of his Glendale home were framed photos and posters of films the 77-year-old had worked on during his career. “Apocalypse Now.” “The Godfather II.” “The Conversation.”
What we were about to watch was nowhere near the caliber of those classics — and Carter didn’t care.
Footage of a school bus driving through dusty farmland began to play. The title of the nine-minute sizzle reel Carter produced in 1991 soon flashed: “Boy Wonders.”
The plot: White teenage boys in the 1960s gave up a summer of surfing to heed the federal government’s call. Their assignment: Pick crops in the California desert, replacing Mexican farmworkers.
“That’s the stupidest, dumbest, most harebrained scheme I’ve heard in my life,” a farmer complained to a government official in one scene, a sentiment studio executives echoed as they rejected Carter’s project as too far-fetched.
But it wasn’t: “Boy Wonders” was based on Carter’s life.
Randy Carter’s collection of historical photos and other memorabilia of A-TEAM, a 1965 program that sought to recruit high school athletes to pick crops during the summer. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times)
In 1965, the U.S. Department of Labor launched A-TEAM — Athletes in Temporary Employment as Agricultural Manpower — with the goal of recruiting 20,000 high school athletes to harvest summer crops. The country was facing a dire farmworker shortage because the bracero program, which provided cheap legal labor from Mexico for decades, had ended the year before.
Sports legends such as Sandy Koufax, Rafer Johnson and Jim Brown urged teen jocks to join A-TEAM because “Farm Work Builds Men!” as one ad stated. But only about 3,000 made it to the fields. One of them was a 17-year-old Carter.
He and about 18 classmates from University of San Diego High spent six weeks picking cantaloupes in Blythe. The fine hairs on the fruits ripped through their gloves within hours. It was so hot that the bologna sandwiches the farmers fed their young workers for lunch toasted in the shade. They slept in rickety shacks, used communal bathrooms and showered in water that “was a very nice shade of brown,” Carter remembered with a laugh.
They were the rare crew that stuck it out. Teens quit or went on strike across the country to protest abysmal work conditions. A-TEAM was such a disaster that the federal government never tried it again, and the program was considered so ludicrous that it rarely made it into history books.
Then came MAGA.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-14/a-team-1965-bracero-program
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He and about 18 classmates from University of San Diego High spent six weeks picking cantaloupes in Blythe. The fine hairs on the fruits ripped through their gloves within hours. It was so hot that the bologna sandwiches the farmers fed their young workers for lunch toasted in the shade. They slept in rickety shacks, used communal bathrooms and showered in water that “was a very nice shade of brown,” Carter remembered with a laugh.
They were the rare crew that stuck it out. Teens quit or went on strike across the country to protest abysmal work conditions. A-TEAM was such a disaster that the federal government never tried it again, and the program was considered so ludicrous that it rarely made it into history books.
Then came MAGA.”
It’s always best when the racist outs himself!
Yeah….farmwork in unpleasant conditions is too tough for young white kids but just fine for the permanent brown underclass that progressive America demands! Just so long as the 500lb. dilettante in Quainty Town, California can have his cheap melon for breakfast every morning.
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Lol, only a racist would think the article promotes racism.
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Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 18 August 2025 at 07:29 AM
Lol, only a racist would think the article promotes racism.
Should have just gone with a “that’s you but what am I?” like they taught you in J-school!
Props though for not challenging everything else! Way to own it!
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If you can get him on camera flouncing in Jazz hands style like Tim Walz I think he’s a shoo in!
Interesting though…it’s usually The New York Times that uses passages like the following to establish conservative bona fides…
Oh well…I guess even the “conservative” WSJ is desperate to get things back to the way they used to be….with the Republicans helping the Democrats pick your pockets at every turn!
Oh….standing in front of a grill too…..swoon!
https://www.wsj.com/politics/meet-the-democrat-republicans-fear-in-red-state-america-d5c5ec86
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Enlighten me Fish Emulsion, how does one own an article written by another?
Time for some more coffee?
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Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 18 August 2025 at 08:57 AM
Much like Paul Raymond…you’re too short for this ride! You should probably get back to penning your memoirs…..those heady days blowing business and tech luminaries while you pretended to be a “news”man.
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Way to answer the responses to your stupid comments Emulsion!
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Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 18 August 2025 at 09:48 AM
Oooh ….sick burn jeffy!
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fish 8:15 – I looked up his web site:
“When he’s not busy working for Iowans and fighting corruption, you can find Rob bowhunting, fishing, biking, spending time with his family, or taste-auditing pizza at the nearest Casey’s. Rob and his wife Christine have two sons and a dog, Pow.”
“…taste-auditing pizza at the nearest Casey’s.”
Oooh – pizza! For a white boy from Iowa, that checks off the “diversity” box.
He mentions absolutely nothing from the DNC’s platform. Wonder why?
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MAGA doesn’t like diversity..wonder why?
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Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 18 August 2025 at 11:14 AM
MAGA doesn’t like diversity..wonder why?
One might ask jeffy why you abandoned the vibrant streets of Than Franthithco for the more sedate environs of the Sausalito of the Sierra ….it being a veritable Lily Whiteistan!
Wonder why?
How on earth are you invited to local cocktail parties after a betrayal like that?
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“MAGA doesn’t like diversity”
Hallucinating again, BeerBelly? Or just pulling crap out of your ass and sniffing it?
It’s racist hiring practices where skin color and gender boxes need to be checked before competence is even considered – that’s what we’re against.
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Ah – looky here – a real red-meat story ’bout them MAGA from the NYTs. BeerBelly reads this crap and takes in the story hook, line and sinker. From the folks that pushed one lie after another for years:
“The far right is surging in the United States, driven in part by white nationalists exploiting economic anxieties and a populace increasingly frustrated with the political status quo”
There’s no definition of what ‘far right’ is and zero documentation of how ‘surging’ has been determined not to mention what ‘surging’ even means. 2 more than last year? Less in numbers but have more articles written about them? Doesn’t matter to the author. Just write what appeals to the crowd you’re friends with and to hell with the real story.
It seems two con artists are setting up a scam to fleece a handful of yokels but Debbie wants this to be about Trump turning our country into a whites-only nation. I’m constantly amazed at what you can write and get paid for in the process.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/realestate/arkansas-white-housing-return-to-land.html?unlocked_article_code=1.fU8.49QC.VSbVOZBewcfm&smid=url-share
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You are so right So&So, MAGA does like diversity.
This ad appealing to uneducated black gangsta wannabes looking for work proves your point.
As of August 2025, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has eliminated its previous age restrictions for recruits, allowing applicants of any age to apply, provided they are U.S. citizens and at least 18 years old.
https://x.com/DHSgov/status/1956077756854186191
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The baby mamas need they lazy ass couch potato daddys to get to work, tariffs are cause mayhem in the beauty parlors…
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-tariffs-are-leaving-black-beauty-businesses-peril-2025-08-19/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=Newsletter&utm_campaign=Reuters-Business&utm_term=081925&lctg=63fa144280351be5fc0578fa
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Posted by: Resurrected Hillbilly | 19 August 2025 at 10:50 AM
I find your constant whining incredibly …..WONDERFUL! Just like Paul Raymonds endless nonsensical bleating!
Looks like MAGA is doing something right!
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Whoopsie Daisy
Is Hegseth running ICE too? lol
https://futurism.com/the-byte/ice-agents-add-random-person-group-chat
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