UPDATE: Wow, that was a bit of a surprise in Venezuela. Between this and Iran we’ve just instructed our enemies that there’s nothing they have we can’t take away. This will greatly assist Rubio in “negotiating” with them.
Mamdani in his inaugural address talked of ending “rugged individualism” and replacing it with “the warmth of collectivism”. I found examples of this – bit of a before and after:
That, of course, is Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; first as a young artillery officer in the Red Army, secondly about ten years later after drawing an eight year stint in Gulag for writing a letter mildly critical of collectivist warmth. Keep in mind that he was plucked out of the Red Army while he was at the front and the day after he had saved an artillery battery from a local Nazi counterattack. He was arrested by SMERSH – an organization founded by Stalin (it stood for “death to spies”) – to foster collectivist warmth at the front during WWII…the warmth being fostered was mostly to keep SMERSH personnel out of the front lines.
Because, you see, in a life and death struggle against the Fascist Beast, the Communists were determined to be firmly in the “life” camp. Cowards to a man and woman, the apparatchiks that Stalin had infested Russia with since the Revolution were living a nice life and certainly didn’t want to see it end over something as trivial as a Nazi invasion…but when the Motherland was calling for complete self-sacrifice by everyone, kinda hard to justify keeping yourself out of the combat units…unless you can find something useful to do elsewhere. And where better than ferreting out spies for a paranoid Stalin who couldn’t imagine a Soviet agency not being filled with people who despised him? But this means you had to keep finding them, right? I mean, if there ever came a point where you had defeated the Fascist spies, then it was time to pick up a rifle and charge into a Nazi trench. So, they just kept finding spies…and it didn’t matter how absurd the case was…there just had to be a case. Solzhenitsyn’s letter to a friend was all that was necessary…and the combat officer was degraded in front of his own troops and sent into the sausage grinder of Gulag.
But Mamdani says it will be different! How? Well, he says that if private landowners aren’t proper stewards of their property, then the City will step in and take over. And who decides what proper stewardship is? Well, the City. And never in human history has there been a government swayed by money and connections, right?
I mean, you know what is going to happen – some tenants will pitch a fit about a particular landlord and get the City to take over…and then if its not a desirable property the City will just let it rot (the tenants not paying rent, of course – or only nominal rent)…if it is a desirable property, then the tenants will be booted out in favor of those with City connections (they’ll do this by letting the tenants slide on the rent and then surprising them with eviction for unpaid rent…and these people will suddenly find that the byzantine system of eviction in NYC doesn’t apply to them). The bottom line is that the connected will wind up in all the nice areas – carefully guarded by the police who will never be so defunded that they can’t protect the Ruling Class – and everything else just falls apart…because no landlord is going to invest a cent in property which can be seized at the whim of Mamdani’s college roommate’s brother in law who’s now got a job in City government.
There are two ways to become Communist – and there have always only been these two ways: be stupid, or be evil. You can be a combination of both, but you simply must be stupid or evil. We tend to think of people like Marx as wrong. That is not the way to view it. He clearly wasn’t stupid – whatever you want to say about his philosophy, he certainly did create something that has moved millions. So, not stupid: thus, evil.
You think about it – he was the son of a lawyer who owned land. He had a good education paid for by his father. He dodged the draft (he being then a subject of the Kingdom of Prussia). He started writing for various Leftwing rags supported by rich people and ultimately Engels became his benefactor – Engels being the son of a very rich man. Point blank: Marx never worked a day in his life: he hadn’t the foggiest notion of the economic and spiritual needs of workers. But Marx did find he didn’t like Christian Europe – though technically Protestant (his father – a non-observant Jew – had officially converted to avoid official Prussian anti-Semitism when the Rhineland came under Prussian Rule in 1815), his Jewish background was a social hindrance…but rather than trying to understand why and seek amelioration (as many Jews did through the 19th century, being notably successful in the UK and USA on this front) he just decided he hated it…and cooked up a philosophy who’s main point was the destruction of everything he hated – Christianity, nobility, family and country. His work is very much a work-backwards thing…that is, he knew what he hated and he crafted his philosophy just so the destruction of the hated thing was justified.
I mean, think about “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”. What absolute drivel. What is anyone’s ability? How do you know they are fully employing their ability? What is a need? How do you ensure that everyone’s needs are met all at once? How do you assign priority between needs? It is just stupid – the whole thing is unworkable. But if you want to convince a Christian to murder every priest and destroy every family, nothing better…because if you don’t think about it, it seems like a good idea. I mean, everyone has needs, right? Why can’t they all be met?
Oh, that’s right – what you might call a “need” the next guy might call a luxury…and this is before we get into a debate about having three pairs of size ten loafers but five people need them.
And it lead to 100 million murders…so far. The philosophy is still murdering people in China, North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam and other places…and stirring up hatred, lies and theft everywhere…and even some murder even in places like the USA. Essentially, once you get to Marxism then you can simply justify any monstrous act and dress it up as altruism. Lenin was the first to figure this out…but he was eagerly followed by Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot…and now Mamdani.
He’s not a murderer! How dare you!
Because he’s a communist – the only reason he hasn’t had someone shot is because he doesn’t have the power. If he ever gets the power, he’ll kill people. He’ll steal untold sums. He’ll do everything rotten any human being has ever thought of and he’ll announce it as Serving Humanity. He’s either evil or stupid – though he seems more a combination of the two. A trust fund baby who’s never worked a day in his life is going to make sure the landlords behave…as if he has the slightest clue about maintaining a building or what its like to deal with tenants who treat the property like garbage because they feel immune to eviction. He’s already showing in his appointments that he wants an anti-Semitic, Islamist and Communist regime to punish New York City for daring to be American.
Now, how much damage he’ll actually do remains to be seen – Democrats are in a bit of a bind in that he’s a hero to the far left, but huge amounts of Democrat money are at stake in NYC and if he starts driving that money down to Florida and Texas, that’s going to be a major problem for the Democrats…they’ll start running out of money to steal, themselves. So, we might find that while Mamdani is allowed to make his grandiose communist statements, his wings are clipped in actual policy. But that doesn’t change what he is – remember that. Unless he repents and admits he was wrong, he’s someone to be warily watched.
And watched while we, under Trump, defund the Left. That still remains the key to avoiding a future of Collectivist Warmth…because the real fraud of the Left is that they’ve been subsidized by us. Without taxpayer funds, they will fall apart. That is the best way to torpedo Mamdani right now – just don’t send federal dollars. Say that given his unconstitutional actions, funds are being withheld until policy changes. He’ll want very much to take over NYC rental properties…but you still have to pay the owners if you are taking their property. NYC’s budget is already stretched past the breaking point…he won’t find billions to dispossess the landlords. In my view, the Mamdani experiment can be terribly useful for us – a real dose of Communism to hold up to American eyes, convincing them to never, ever go that route.
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”We reject rugged individualism and embrace the warmth of collectivism” – Mamdani (and the entire Democrat Party)
Wow. What an embarrassing statement. The feminization of the Democrat Party is complete. Fun to watch … but stay vigilant, we may have to kill them.
It’s time to drop the “feminization” slur, as what is happening in NYC has nothing to do with “feminizing” the city. It might apply to the man-bun, murse-carrying, fluttery kinda-men we see so often on the Left, but has nothing to do with the muscular takeover of NYC, which is the result of a long, carefully plotted, strategy that has nothing to do with girly-men.
And “we may have to kill them” puts you squarely in the territory of Leftists, just with a different badge on your shoulder. You have always been eager to play “let’s you and them fight” by talking about shooting and killing people, but unless and until there is an armed physical uprising of the Left talking about killing political opponents reeks of the mentality that murdered Charlie Kirk.
Thank you for setting me straight
You’re welcome, from someone quite familiar with the history of warrior women and a dislike for the default reaction to opposition being one of killing them.
Once again, Sheryl Attkisson addresses media malfeasance. OK, media lying. More media lying. Again.
And as far as this goes:, regarding speculation on how renters can be booted to make room for New York’s apparatchiks: “(they’ll do this by letting the tenants slide on the rent and then surprising them with eviction for unpaid rent…and these people will suddenly find that the byzantine system of eviction in NYC doesn’t apply to them” —it will be faster and easier to start ignoring those byzantine systems of eviction in NYC by simply skipping over the “unpaid rent” part.
Sure, sometimes the Left makes a token nod to process (look at how many ballots we mailed out—OF COURSE we want free and honest elections!) but when push comes to shove it takes what it wants. And it’s not as if there is anyone in New York in a position to object. Who’s going to stop them? The police? The courts?
This is a serious question, because I don’t know the answer: How much of NYC’s Financial District is dependent on brick-and-mortar physical buildings and how much is now so digital that it could be moved to another location? At least move Wall Street off Wall Street? Keep it close, if the stockbrokers etc. want to keep their brownstones and penthouses, but move the working aspect to Connecticut or New Jersey—not just out of NYC but out of the state.
I’m just imagining the impact of decentralizing the financial workings of Wall Street by moving it out of the main corridors of corruption and influence, and most of all out of the tax base of NYC. Similar to Trump’s effort to break up the core of corruption and influence of the Deep State by moving agencies out of the Beltway.
How did Wall Street function during the Covid lockdowns? Thinking of the usual image of shoulder-to-shoulder brokers hollering buys and sells on the floor of the Stock Exchange, how did that all happen during the lockdown?
All the East Coast cities are nearly as corrupt as NYC but not as deep, yet, in the muck and mire of hard-core Communism, and any convention center could accommodate a transitional Wall Street.
I’m just thinking of what makes NYC so important, gives it its energy. Offhand, I think of Wall Street and the whole financial-center-of-the-universe thing, which in a digital age has to be much less anchored in real estate than it has been, the United Nations (which they can keep) and the arts aspect of theater and galleries, which could remain.
“Closing the floor on March 20 — the NYSE’s first such move in its 228-year history — was a grim indication of the impact of the coronavirus on financial markets and on the city’s daily life.”
So yes, the system continued to work even without people on the floor at the Stock Exchange.
“The closure has reignited the question of the longer-term value of so-called “open outcry” trading at the NYSE. In the interim, the exchange has been electronic, in line with rivals like Nasdaq and CBOE Global Markets. NYSE runs three other electronic-only share trading venues.”
“Though going all-electronic had an impact on NYSE’s volumes, “on a logistical level, it operated very well”
Clearly a revolution in the traditional way the stock market has operated is not only possible but a way to exert the powers of capitalism on a Communist regime in the city. Meeting a coup with a coup has a certain element of justice, I think.
Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive.
This is another of the brilliant analyses we have come to expect from Dr. Malone. (BTW sometime during the last year he published an outline of the steps taken to silence him when he started to speak out against the way Covid and the “vaccines” were being handled and reported, and it is like reading something out of the USSR as he details the government and media attacks on him and the damages he suffered, personal and financial and professional.)
One such summary is of particular interest:
Bureaucracies redefined “truth” as that which sustains compliance rather than that which accords with reality.
Science reduced to theater. Data reduced to performance.
And the system, behaving as an organism, evolved antibodies against transparency itself.
We saw this happen. We experienced it. We lived through the redefinition of “truth” by the bureaucracy to sustain compliance. (Spook even had a mask that referred to this when some of us were wearing message masks as the only way we could register our resistance.) We saw science reduced to theater, and we saw the system developing strategies to defeat transparency (though much of this depended on simple lying).
Three key forces drove the COVID data fraud at both the DoD and CDC.
Pressure:
The military side faced existential pressure; any admission of mass injury would mean admitting combat unfitness and massive disability liabilities.
The civilian/HHS/FDA/CDC side experienced both internal and external pressure to maintain the “safe and effective” narrative, under the justification that any data contradicting it would increase vaccine hesitancy and thereby cause avoidable deaths.
Data rewriting removed the pressure signal.
Opportunity:
The administrators and oversight apparatus sat at the nexus, with full access to financial levers and data pipelines. Weak internal controls created the opportunity gap: the breach through which truth evaporated.
Rationalization:
The CDC and DoD’s communications divisions crafted the justificatory narratives, which were that “misinterpretation of preliminary data” would harm public trust, legitimizing suppression and editing.
As these forces and opportunities aligned, they formed an autonomous fraud engine:
Institutional Pressure + Unsupervised Access + Ethical Justification → Systemic Deception
Dr. Malone is one of the strongest voices in the efforts to uncover the underlying foundation of the Covid Scheme and its subsequent scandal as it destroyed millions of lives, enriched some of its participants and deceived the public, with the costs still being tallied.
Rep. Carlos A. Gimenez
Nicolas Maduro should’ve studied history before waving a sword at President Trump.
January 3, 1990 we captured Panama’s narcotrafficking dictator Manuel Noriega.
January 3, 2026 we captured #Venezuela’s narcoterrorist dictator Nicolas Maduro.
Branch Floridian
“Democrats were unhappy with the news”. Of course they are upset that the drug running to the United States might be even more compromised than the sinking of drug boats. That mean old Trump just keeps upsetting Leftist apple carts.
“Folks are done with communism” Well, SOME folks. Some are really really eager to try it out.
UPDATE: Wow, that was a bit of a surprise in Venezuela
How refreshing – ZERO leaks before hand.
Meticulous planning, focus on a specific goal, brilliant execution—it’s almost like we have the grown-ups in charge for a change.
No “almost” about it!
“The Iranian Foreign Ministry called the capture “a gross violation of the country’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity.”
The Iranian Foreign Ministry has always supported any country’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity. We have seen this in their denouncements of terrorist attacks by Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Houthis, and the Assad regime, and in particular their scathing rejection of the October 7 massacre of civilians in Israel. //sarc off
It looks like they would rather have ”rugged individualism” instead of the smothering “warmth of collectivism”.
China’s response…
China has strongly condemned the U.S. military actions in Venezuela, describing them as a violation of international law and a threat to regional peace. Beijing has called for the immediate release of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, urging the U.S. to stop undermining Venezuela’s sovereignty and to resolve the situation through dialogue.
Interestingly, China has no problem surrounding Taiwan with naval ships using “exercises” as an excuse, without any “dialogue” or recognition of her sovereignty.
Yes, China wants/needs Maduro back in charge. Naturally they are piously intoning that this is just support for “Venezuela’s sovereignty” and has nothing to do with the interruption of China’s growing involvement in South America and dependence on its oil.
As for “regional peace” if this is disturbed it will only be if Venezuela stands as inspiration to other Central and South American nations under the iron fist of Communism. The rulers in Cuba might be getting a little nervous, as the people are suffering so badly it might not take much of a spark to ignite a revolution there, and if one were to occur there is little doubt that we would support it.
“Rep. Carlos Gimenez (R-Fla.), who was born in Cuba, also made a statement today suggesting that “Cuba is next.”
“Venezuela has been supporting the Cuban regime for a long, long time,” he said in the video, which he posted on X on Sunday. “The Cuban regime is really on its last legs as far as I see. It’s the weakest position it’s had in decades. And so now, if you lose that support from Venezuela, it makes them even weaker. And then it makes it ripe for the people of Cuba to stand up and say ‘we want change; we don’t want to continue down this path.”