New in PJ Media:
Comrade Mayor Zohran Mamdani of New York City is a proud member of the New York chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), which claims that “in the United States,” and yeah, there should be a comma right there, but in the original, there isn’t, “voter suppression tactics have a disproportionate impact on the most marginalized communities, especially the African-American community.”
Accordingly, the DSA calls for “Eliminating Voter ID Laws,” and endorsed Mamdani’s candidacy enthusiastically. Now, however, the favorite mayor of every Marxist lunatic this side of Bernie Sanders has discovered that there is something for which he very much believes that there should be stringent identity verification: not voting, but something far, far more important: snow shoveling. And not just one ID, or two, or even three. Mamdani’s New York City wants you to prove your identity with no less than five forms of identification before you can exercise the privilege of clearing away snow for the people, comrade!
What does this clown think people are going to do — steal the snow shovels? Given the fact that this is New York City we’re talking about, that’s a live possibility, but for the princely sum of $19.14 an hour, the requirements are still just a wee bit stringent.
Gotham is facing the likelihood of a blizzard on Sunday, and so on Saturday afternoon, as his sign-language interpreter gesticulated wildly, Mamdani announced: “You, too, can become an emergency snow shoveler. Just show up at your local sanitation garage between 8 a.m. and 1 p.m. tomorrow with your paperwork.”
This is the warmth of collectivism, after all, and so it would behoove us not to look too closely at this particular gift horse, but Mamdani’s Tom Sawyerish offer raises a number of questions. One is, Doesn’t New York City have people who do this sort of thing? This is not, after all, the first snow that has ever fallen in the City That Never Sleeps. Does the city own no snowplows? Or are the city streets too choked with the garbage that Mamdani has left uncollected since he became mayor to allow for efficient snow-clearing?
Either way, it’s not a good look. It looks as if Mamdani is quickly abandoning all pretense and going straight to illustrating that socialism is a failed system that always lowers the quality of life for those who are unfortunate enough to live under it. Is he a closet capitalist?
No, he is a communist through and through. That’s clear from the fact that accompanying Mamdani’s call for help from the comrades with the expected heavy snow is a stultifying layer of needless bureaucracy. In Zohran Mamdani’s New York, you can’t just grab a snow shovel and start clearing pathways for cars and pedestrians. That would be too easy, and allow for all manner of unregulated activity.
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WPM says
How many Moslems in NYC will get paid for not even leaving their home for shoveling snow ? No show snow jobs ,I am sure many people serving time in prison (nonviolent ) who are able body would shovel snow under supervision .To have that money deposited or credit to their commissary account. No ID to vote ,but extra ID 3 forms to shovel snow ?People in prision already have their ID confirmed ,the sanitation union might be putting the screws to this mayor not to hire anyone outside of them for snow removal.
Westman says
Hmmm 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Maybe Mamdani isn’t letting a crisis go to waste with all that “red tape”‘. Information about people, verified by 5 photographed items, is a valuable commodity. Maybe it’s a productivity test to find $20/hr employees for NYC government and its utilities departments. “If he’ll shovel snow, he can shovel dirt and BS for Mamdani.” And those names and addresses can be added to the Democrat Party email spamming and mail-in voter lists.
Think of it, all the morning emails desperately headlined about a current issue, pleading for donations for that extremely timely issue, and a little box at the bottom, “Paid for by the reelect Joe Blowhard committee”.
Trico says
“he (Mandami) is a communist through and through.” No way that could be true. Communists are atheists and oppose all forms of religion as a tool of oppression.
Mandami is a self-described Muslim. There is no Allah in Communism.
Mandami, claiming to be a Democratic Socialist, is a Muslim Brotherhood ruse to get Muslims into political office nationwide by exploiting the Useful Idiots who comprise the Democrat Socialists of America (DSA) while siphoning up the energy given to Socialism by Bernie Sanders, who promised the gullible free everything, a tactic mimicked by Mandami, while capitalizing on the inroads into political power already achieved by the DSA as represented by AOC and other members of ‘The Squad’.
James Lincoln says
Interesting post Trico.
You could be right.
somehistory says
From the NYP
““Mamdani’s snow shovellers must be ‘Eligible to work in the United States,’” an X user posted above a gif of Greta Thunberg mouthing “how dare you.””
No self-respecting guy who is not in desperate need of money, should sign up. Let the snow pile up until the goon can’t leave his mansion.
Kepha says
NYC has a history of electing Communists to public office. Anyone remember Bella Abzug?
OLD GUY says
Is this a $20.00 dollar an hour job? If so, I can see twenty thousand shovels completing the snow removal by June. Maybe quicker if Mamdani can bring in the Somalia’s from Minnesota.
somehistory says
I saw a news headline last evening saying that no one is signing up to shovel.
gravenimage says
Mamdani Says You Don’t Need ID to Vote, but You Need FIVE Forms of ID to Do THIS
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Wait–you need *five forms of ID* to shovel snow for free for your neighbors? Used to be all you needed was a relatively strong back and a good heart.
And I don’t have that many IDs–certainly not nationally recognized ones. State ID, Social Security card, and Passport–and then some local odds and ends that I am not sure would even pass muster. Insanity.