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Mamdani Announces Plan To Blame Racism After His Policies Fail
Politics·Nov 4, 2025 · BabylonBee.com
NEW YORK, NY — As residents of the Big Apple made their way to the polls today, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani preemptively announced plans to blame racism after his policies fail.
The overwhelming favorite to win the race, Mamdani made sure to prepare a foolproof fallback explanation that the failure of his progressive, socialist agenda was due entirely to Americans being racists.
"It won't be my fault," Mamdani told a crowd of supporters and media at a final election day campaign rally. "If my plan to turn New York City into a miniature version of Venezuela mixed with a little bit of Sharia Law fails miserably, it won't be because it's a combination of historically evil and unsuccessful ideologies. No, it'll be because of racism. And the Jews."
The Ugandan-born Mamdani, who has pledged radical prison and police reforms to make things easier for criminals and the establishment of government-run grocery stores, expressed supreme confidence that only America's inherent racism could keep his policies that have failed everywhere else from failing again in New York. "It's the only plausible explanation," he said. "Though socialism has failed every single time when attempted on a large scale, it's not because it doesn't work. It's just racism. Because I'm a Democrat, and that's what we say."
At publishing time, Mamdani had taken a commanding lead in exit polls among women, jihadis, and morons.
Politics·Nov 4, 2025 · BabylonBee.com
NEW YORK, NY — As residents of the Big Apple made their way to the polls today, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani preemptively announced plans to blame racism after his policies fail.
The overwhelming favorite to win the race, Mamdani made sure to prepare a foolproof fallback explanation that the failure of his progressive, socialist agenda was due entirely to Americans being racists.
"It won't be my fault," Mamdani told a crowd of supporters and media at a final election day campaign rally. "If my plan to turn New York City into a miniature version of Venezuela mixed with a little bit of Sharia Law fails miserably, it won't be because it's a combination of historically evil and unsuccessful ideologies. No, it'll be because of racism. And the Jews."
The Ugandan-born Mamdani, who has pledged radical prison and police reforms to make things easier for criminals and the establishment of government-run grocery stores, expressed supreme confidence that only America's inherent racism could keep his policies that have failed everywhere else from failing again in New York. "It's the only plausible explanation," he said. "Though socialism has failed every single time when attempted on a large scale, it's not because it doesn't work. It's just racism. Because I'm a Democrat, and that's what we say."
At publishing time, Mamdani had taken a commanding lead in exit polls among women, jihadis, and morons.
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Realtors' phones ringing off the hook as panicked New Yorkers flee Mamdani's chaos
Real estate agents are being bombarded with calls this morning from panicked New Yorkers desperate to flee after Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral victory last night.The most desirable destinations are said to be the city's affluent suburbs and Republican strongholds across the Sun Belt.
Agents from Westchester and Greenwich to Florida, Texas and the Carolinas said they have seen a surge in calls from New York residents desperate to relocate.
Some are said to be searching within commuting distance, while others are looking to get as far away as they can.
'We are seeing interest from New York City intensify because of the election,' Dina Goldentayer, a Douglas Elliman agent in Florida, told the Daily Mail.
'The city's area codes 917 and 212 are popping up now almost as much as they did at the height of the Covid pandemic.
'Most of the calls are from buyers, many Wall Street execs, looking in the $20 million to $30 million range. Specifically for waterfront houses or oceanfront condos.'
The original Manhattan area code, 212, has long been considered a status symbol among established New Yorkers.
Goldentayer said she has been asked to look mainly in Miami Beach, Bal Harbour, Golden Beach, Coconut Grove and Coral Gables.
'This election has reminded people that where you live matters - politically, financially and personally,' said Christie Di Lemme, another Florida realtor, who described the post-election exodus of executives and investors as 'already under way.'
'Florida offers freedom, opportunity, and stability that professionals are craving right now.'
(More on the link)
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Zohran wins: How can our educated elites vote so foolishly?
Americans — especially younger Americans of the sort who just elected Zohran Mamdani mayor of New York City — are savvy shoppers. They excel at comparing products online, assessing quality and prices, delivery fees and return policies. Why don’t they turn those same skills to judging political candidates and policies? Isn’t choosing your leaders more important than picking out the perfect sneakers?It’s not hard. After all, we have real, live and ongoing experiments in governance going on every day across our nation. We can look at how California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) has driven hundreds of thousands of people to flee his state, for instance, and compare that with how Greg Abbott is attracting more and more people to Texas.
Our brilliant founders set it up that way; states and cities can compete for citizens and businesses by making decisions on taxes, environment, energy, development, law enforcement and a host of other issues that impact their citizens’ quality of life and opportunity to prosper. There are stark differences in approaches to regulating and managing communities — and starkly different outcomes.
Here’s the big picture (spoiler alert): red states are winning and blue states are losing. It’s that simple, but many voters seem unwilling or incapable of figuring it out.
It isn’t a matter of capability. We know, for instance, that in New York the most highly educated voters picked 34-year-old democratic socialist Mamdani, who promised gullible followers free stuff to make life in the Big Apple more affordable. His socialist ideas have never succeeded in the real world, but somehow he conned the most educated among us into believing that this time would be different.
Some 57 percent of college graduates voted for Mandani, compared to 42 percent who have no college degree. Another 57 percent of people with advanced degrees voted for the candidate who advocated policies that have a well-documented history of failure. It’s enough to make you question our education system.
Had they bothered to do some research, those university grads would have discovered that in states like Florida, Republicans like Ron DeSantis have delivered outstanding growth, rising incomes, better education and a host of other benefits. The result has been massive migration to his state. In contrast, we have Democrat-run states like Illinois, which has failed on nearly every front, which lose residents on net to other states.
Why don’t Democrats analyze why their states are losing state-to-state movers while red states are gaining them? After all, more citizens means more congressional seats, more electoral votes and more federal funding. Shouldn’t all states be competing for higher populations? Why are some of them losing?
Democratic officials are so committed to their ideology that they prefer failure to course-correction. As California and New York contemplate the impending loss of even more seats in Congress in 2032, their response is not to make their states more appealing by reducing taxes or easing up on regulations. Instead, they work to attract illegal immigrants in order to swell their populations, knowing that the Census will include them in their count.
There is nothing magical about running a town or state. Asked some years ago why New York was losing residents to Florida, then-Gov. Andrew Cuomo suggested that the weather was responsible. And yes, the Sunshine State does win on that score, but Cuomo’s tin-ear answer ignored the real (and obvious) reason his state was shrinking. The difference in weather is a constant. But New York’s onerous taxes and unacceptably high cost of living keeps getting worse.
For example, Florida imposes zero personal income taxes and only charges businesses a 5.5 percent tax. This helps to keep costs low. When a large business in New York City has to fork over nearly 9 percent of its net income, that extra cost gets passed along to consumers, driving prices higher. Even small businesses are socked with taxes above 6 percent.
Mamdani campaigned on making New York City more affordable, but instead of wanting to reduce that tax burden on firms, he proposes to make it even heavier. Two things will happen: that extra tax will find its way into consumer prices, and businesses will choose to relocate outside the city, which will see shrinking sources of supply, driving costs up even more.
New York State ranks as the fourth-most expensive place to live in the U.S., behind Hawaii, California and Massachusetts. What do those states have in common? They are run by Democrats and are among the most heavily taxed states in the union. It isn’t rocket science.
In blue states, taxes are higher in part because the government spends more money, producing, in many cases, unwieldy deficits. Under DeSantis, Florida has cut its per capita budget, is running a budget surplus and has paid off almost half its debt accrued since statehood. Florida has more residents than New York (23 million versus 20 million as of last year), yet its state budget ($117 billion this year) is somehow less than half that of New York state ($254 billion). In fact, Florida’s entire budget is roughly equal to that of New York City ($116 billion).
But doesn’t that mean Florida is starving its people of critical services, like education? Well, in fact, no. Despite being among the lowest 10 states in terms of education spending per pupil, Florida ranks second nationally in education, according to U.S. News and World Report. New York, on the other hand, spends about two-and-a-half times more more per student than Florida, yet ranks far below it at number 17.
There is an overall pattern here: New York spends much more and delivers much less in public services. Even a college graduate should be able to see that there is something very wrong with that picture.
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Europe turns Orwellian state in 2027, all cash goes digital. It will be illegal to have more then €1,000 in cash, so that everything can be tracked.
View: https://twitter.com/shanaka86/status/1987750485840031806
View: https://twitter.com/shanaka86/status/1987750485840031806
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Biden gave away billions of tax dollars for ‘climate justice’ without public consent
Billions of U.S. tax dollars have been used to fund climate initiatives in foreign countries without the American people’s consent, all while government officials travel on jets to attend climate conferences where they “give away other people's money over beef, seafood, and cocktails,” a new report says. Director of Protect the Public’s Trust Michael Chamberlain told The Center Square: “This report details an undemocratic redistribution of American wealth in the name of something called 'climate justice.'”Protect the Public’s Trust released the report. The organization is dedicated to ensuring there is only one standard that all leaders must live by, according to its website. Chamberlain told The Center Square that “these [climate] agreements were never ratified and the American public was never asked permission.” “At a moment when Bill Gates is backing off the doomsday climate rhetoric, Americans should know what's been done in their name and with their money,” Chamberlain said.
Protect the Public’s Trust’s report is especially timely in light of the The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) COP30 event taking place this week in Brazil. The report said that Conference of Parties (COPs) are “negotiating sessions, but with aspects of themed conventions, educational seminars, and social events.” Chamberlain told The Center Square that “the COPs crystallize the hypocrisy of the UNFCCC grift.”
“The spectacle of thousands of government and NGO officials arriving on private jets to give away other people's money over beef, seafood, and cocktails should appall anyone who cares about public probity,” Chamberlain said.
“During the Biden administration, it was not uncommon for individual agencies to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars each to send representatives to give presentations on topics such as indigenous knowledge or to tout the billions their agency had already committed to the cause,” Chamberlain said.
Chamberlain pointed out that “they also had employees who were teleworking during Covid because it was apparently unsafe to go to the office who nevertheless were able to hobnob with the thousands of other COP attendees in person.” As an example of climate hypocrisy associated with the COPs, the BBC reported in March that a 4-lane highway was paved through an Amazon rainforest for COP30 this year in order to “ease traffic” to Belem, where the conference is being held.
Nonetheless, developing countries make a point to show up for COP events as they are “eager for the cash infusions,” Protect the Public’s Trust’s report said. In addition to outlining several of the past few COPs under the Biden administration, Protect the Public’s Trust’s report discussed the amount of tax dollars given to the climate agenda.
As stated in the report, “the executive branch spent $776 billion across 25 agencies on nearly 700 climate programs” during Biden’s tenure. One notable climate spending project stateside was the “Greendoggle,” or the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund that was a part of the Inflation Reduction Act.Chamberlain said This fund gave the “U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) $27 billion to disperse by the end of 2024,” a sum that would serve as “the foundation of clean energy and other green industries and markets.”
“This massive influx of taxpayer cash went to well-connected Biden administration political allies – some of whom may have helped design the program while they were in the administration,” the report said.
As far as money being shipped off to other nations, more than $14 billion was given and another $8 billion pledged as a part of the UNFCCC, according to the report – and many of these foreign recipients are “no friends to America.” These billions of dollars from American citizens go toward “the $1 trillion per year third world countries are supposed to be receiving by 2030, according to the Paris Agreement of the UNFCCC,” the report said.
President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the UNFCCC in his first term and is expected to do so this term as well, the report said. Regardless, “the Biden administration still sent more than 250 delegates to Baku, Azerbaijan” for the UNFCCC’s COP29 last year that took place in November between the election and inauguration. The UN Climate Change Press Office has not yet responded to The Center Square’s request for comment concerning what the purpose of COP30 is and what its response is to those who would say the conference is hypocritical.
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Friends,
Trump has ordered the U.S. Treasury to draft a $1 coin featuring him on both sides, for the purpose of “honoring America’s 250th Birthday and POTUS,” according to Treasury officials.
Meanwhile, Trump wants the Washington Commanders to name their planned $3.7 billion stadium after him. A senior White House source told ESPN: “It’s what the president wants, and it will probably happen.” Presumably, Trump’s name will be carved into a granite facade at the stadium’s entrance.
The giant $300 million ballroom that Trump is adding to the White House is called “the President Donald J. Trump Ballroom” on the list of donors to the project, and senior administration officials say the name is likely to stick.
Trump is moving to immortalize himself with his name etched into coins, carved into pediments, and inscribed into White House marble. He wants to glorify himself in the most permanent ways possible.
This is what fascist dictators do when in power. Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini built monuments to glorify themselves so they’d be exalted in history.
Democracies don’t do this. They memorialize their heroes only after they’ve died, and only if the public wants them commemorated.
Trump deserves to be remembered — but not as a hero. To the contrary: It is our solemn duty to ensure he is remembered for all that he has done and may still do to destroy American democracy.
He must be remembered as the president who claimed without evidence that an election was “stolen” from him. Who then instigated a coup that included false electors, threats to state officials, and an assault on the U.S. Capitol that resulted in five deaths and injuries to 174 police officers.
He should be remembered as the president who, after being reelected, tried to erase the nation’s memory of what he had done by pardoning 1,600 rioters who had been criminally convicted for participating in the Capitol attack and 77 people who had conspired with him to carry out the attempted coup. He called them all “patriots.”
He must be remembered as the president who then usurped the powers of Congress. Who denied people due process of law. Who prosecuted his political opponents. Who violated international law by killing people he labeled enemy combatants. Who sent the military into American cities over the objections of their mayors and governors. And who openly and brazenly took bribes.
We must not allow Trump to erase this history with false tributes to himself, etched into silver, marble, or granite.
Instead, after he is gone, a monument should be erected to remind future generations of Trump’s treachery and the treachery of officials who supported him.
It would be a simple building constructed of iron and cement, containing the records of his attacks on democracy and the names of everyone who aided him.
Over its doorway would be the words “Trump’s Treason.”
It would be situated on the White House lawn where the Trump ballroom (since demolished) once stood. It would face Pennsylvania Avenue so that families visiting the nation’s capital — including those commemorating America’s 500th anniversary — have easy access, and will long remember this catastrophe.
What are your thoughts?
Trump has ordered the U.S. Treasury to draft a $1 coin featuring him on both sides, for the purpose of “honoring America’s 250th Birthday and POTUS,” according to Treasury officials.
Meanwhile, Trump wants the Washington Commanders to name their planned $3.7 billion stadium after him. A senior White House source told ESPN: “It’s what the president wants, and it will probably happen.” Presumably, Trump’s name will be carved into a granite facade at the stadium’s entrance.
The giant $300 million ballroom that Trump is adding to the White House is called “the President Donald J. Trump Ballroom” on the list of donors to the project, and senior administration officials say the name is likely to stick.
Trump is moving to immortalize himself with his name etched into coins, carved into pediments, and inscribed into White House marble. He wants to glorify himself in the most permanent ways possible.
This is what fascist dictators do when in power. Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini built monuments to glorify themselves so they’d be exalted in history.
Democracies don’t do this. They memorialize their heroes only after they’ve died, and only if the public wants them commemorated.
Trump deserves to be remembered — but not as a hero. To the contrary: It is our solemn duty to ensure he is remembered for all that he has done and may still do to destroy American democracy.
He must be remembered as the president who claimed without evidence that an election was “stolen” from him. Who then instigated a coup that included false electors, threats to state officials, and an assault on the U.S. Capitol that resulted in five deaths and injuries to 174 police officers.
He should be remembered as the president who, after being reelected, tried to erase the nation’s memory of what he had done by pardoning 1,600 rioters who had been criminally convicted for participating in the Capitol attack and 77 people who had conspired with him to carry out the attempted coup. He called them all “patriots.”
He must be remembered as the president who then usurped the powers of Congress. Who denied people due process of law. Who prosecuted his political opponents. Who violated international law by killing people he labeled enemy combatants. Who sent the military into American cities over the objections of their mayors and governors. And who openly and brazenly took bribes.
We must not allow Trump to erase this history with false tributes to himself, etched into silver, marble, or granite.
Instead, after he is gone, a monument should be erected to remind future generations of Trump’s treachery and the treachery of officials who supported him.
It would be a simple building constructed of iron and cement, containing the records of his attacks on democracy and the names of everyone who aided him.
Over its doorway would be the words “Trump’s Treason.”
It would be situated on the White House lawn where the Trump ballroom (since demolished) once stood. It would face Pennsylvania Avenue so that families visiting the nation’s capital — including those commemorating America’s 500th anniversary — have easy access, and will long remember this catastrophe.
What are your thoughts?
pigfarmer
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This isn't so much a comment about DT as it is about communication. Agreed, self aggrandizing bullshit is odious but I honestly could care less. Egomaniacs come in many forms and some are more obvious than others and he isn't the first or the last to occupy that position.
If social media, in this case X, were edible it would have the nutritional content of bubble gum. I started poking at it out of boredom/curiosity and like to look at baby animals, gun and car stuff - anything but politics. Something to kill time with in waiting rooms, on the can etc.
I started getting bombarded with endless right wing propaganda so I muted it, now I am getting bombarded with endless left wing propaganda so I muted it. Then it sneaks into unrelated topics and I am about ready to just delete that foolishness entirely. This morning I asked Grok if bots target users in an attempt to sway public opinion and if most of the content I see is AI or bots or what have you. Unsurprisingly it told me that yes indeed we are being deliberately targeted and yes, that it's virtually all by algorithms.
Not surprising in the least. As I have been saying for some time now it's the ability to have a global platform available instantly that's the problem. It amplified every negative trait we have into a monstrous media Thunderdome. Bias in media outlets that attempt to shape public opinion is completely normal and has existed from Day 1. In fact, without getting into dry historical stuff there are things being said now that you could find almost verbatim 100 years ago but the Immediacy of Idiocy has taken that and weaponized it to a frightening degree. 'Fact checking' has become a questionable endeavor at best and most are content to let their media devices do that for them and the result most favorable to their existing opinion is usually accepted without any critical thought. We are all being deliberately targeted nonstop. Go anywhere - to the gym, grocery store, a walk in the park and what do you see? People oblivious to the world around them because their nose is buried in a phone.
I did not get on well with Thomas Morrison here at AE at all but he said that he had a brother in government and that both sides are about the same thing and that it's all a Big Lie being perpetrated on us and in that regard I tend to agree. It isn't Orwellian or paranoid to suggest this, what I saw on X proves the point to me very clearly. No, I don't think Dr. Evil is in his lair controlling all this but certainly biases have been deliberately weaponized by media outlets and very likely intelligence agencies and after years of it we are being and have been conditioned. Voluntarily I might add. When you have to give your dog a pill you can either shove it down their throat forcibly or better yet, let them lap it up eagerly without realizing what they are ingesting.
The goal is to keep us at each other's throats and by doing so blind us to whatever the reality of the situation may be. It reminds me of ancient Rome; bread and circuses, open the public granaries and let the games begin so the populace is distracted and controlled and the Triumvirate can get down to business. I see the same thing today in function of not form. The game's afoot, I'm just not sure what it is.
Like anyone else I have my opinions but have grown sick of all of this, literally all of it. I would imagine my grandparents at my age would have said the world was going down the toilet and I feel that way myself today, maybe that's a generational thing many of us go through IDK.
Every morning I have family members who bombard us with whatever the media talking points are du jour. In two cases they are quite literally repeating word for word what their TV said to them the night before. It's sickening and exactly the same from both the right and the left. Identical.
I consider what affects me and what I directly experience. From my perspective the big thing I can point to that connects to what the propaganda outlets tell me is that the overwhelming number of illegals running around here have vanished. For a while they were everywhere and wherever they went good riddance. The American Dream does not include living in the bushes next the the mall or in snow removal equipment. I can also add that our hard earned investments have been doing much better this past year that for previous few prior. Take that as you will. Beyond that, prices have been steadily on the rise for the past several years no matter who has been elected. You would not want to pay the taxes I pay and you definitely wouldn't want to pay what we do for our health insurance. Death and taxes are not the exclusive purview of any single political party.
From my perspective I have no reason to run around as if my hair is on fire. Partly because I don't have much hair to begin with
and mostly because I see no reason to get upset because my TV and phone want me to be. Most of Life's real problems don't have OFF switches but this one does. I am sufficiently well informed, I pay attention to current events but keep them in perspective. Maybe some have been grossly affected but speaking for myself I haven't lost any rights, none of my 'freedom' whatever that may be has been affected, I don't feel we are living under a dictatorship. The comparisons being made now don't have any connection to real history it's all just inflammatory rhetoric exclusive of fact. I do not give traction to simply repeating talking points endlessly. I love Woody Allen's Sleeper. A man wakes up in a dystopian future in which we are all led by a manufactured Great Leader and in fact, turns out we are literally being led by the nose. I think that's so directly applicable to what I see today it makes me sick. Makes me laugh too, it's a good movie.
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Our Congress is a JOKE...
We have a woman in the House who stole 5M from FEMA.
We have a one eyed dude who has "drinking episodes" in Mexico.
We have a dude who begged Jeffrey Epstein for money after his conviction.
We have a lady who was texting with Epstein during a Congressional hearing.
We have a dude in Congress pretending to be a woman.
We have a jihadist lady who married her brother.
We have a dude who was banging a Chinese spy.
We have an old alcoholic hag who is insider trading.
We have a heavy set lady punching ICE agents.
We have a dude who made up Russian lies.
We have a dude who drinks margaritas with gang members.
We have staffers doing the naughty in the Senate chamber room.
All paid for by the American taxpayer.
We have a woman in the House who stole 5M from FEMA.
We have a one eyed dude who has "drinking episodes" in Mexico.
We have a dude who begged Jeffrey Epstein for money after his conviction.
We have a lady who was texting with Epstein during a Congressional hearing.
We have a dude in Congress pretending to be a woman.
We have a jihadist lady who married her brother.
We have a dude who was banging a Chinese spy.
We have an old alcoholic hag who is insider trading.
We have a heavy set lady punching ICE agents.
We have a dude who made up Russian lies.
We have a dude who drinks margaritas with gang members.
We have staffers doing the naughty in the Senate chamber room.
All paid for by the American taxpayer.
pigfarmer
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I have a relative with TDS who quite literally spends her day foaming at the mouth over whatever her television tells her to. We are worried about her health and a possible heart attack. I've grown weary of ALL politics, I just don't care - the world will turn at the same rate whether I'm pushing or not.
In a less than ten thousand word post nobody will read; we have been and are being programmed. Not a new concept but hideously weaponized by current technology. I was at the gym yesterday and noted that 9/10 people of all ages have their noses buried in their phones. You want to program someone find a mechanism to do it with and make it something they want, not something you have to force.
In a less than ten thousand word post nobody will read; we have been and are being programmed. Not a new concept but hideously weaponized by current technology. I was at the gym yesterday and noted that 9/10 people of all ages have their noses buried in their phones. You want to program someone find a mechanism to do it with and make it something they want, not something you have to force.
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nivek
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We were in the waiting room of my wife's ob/gyn doctor today, 8 people already sitting in there before us, and what were they all doing?...Head buried in their phones, every one of them, none even took a glance up when we walked by, oblivious to their surroundings, until they hear their name called...Sickening to me, my wife and I sat there 14 minutes, no phones in our faces, just talking and holding hands amongst the phone zombies...
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Dejan Corovic
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As you might have noticed I developed some interest in economics and history.
Essentially in time of kings if bankers borrowed money to a king, king can decide not to pay back the loan, so king can bankrupt the banker. So, slowly over the time, particularly with English Civil War bankers, or if you want oligarchs of that period, worked out a system where they can replace kings (who can refuse to pay back loans) with democracy, in which political leaders have drastically diluted power in comparison to kings. Essentially, democracy is just a political system created by bankers so to guaranty that political leaders will pay back loans. Now, bankers, aka. oligarchs, also benefit from political leaders who are total diletants, because they can be easily disposed off. And that's why bar for entry into politics is lowered to the level zero (and even lower), because its much easier to get rid of politicians if they don't do what money-men want them to do.
So, democracy has nothing to do with freedom of speech. Freedom of speech only guarantees that the loudest fools create maximum noise and keeps majority of people totally disoriented, while oligarchs are quietly cleaning up behind the scene. That's exactly the reason why one finds very few oligarchs in parliament although obviously they have the means to buy all kinds of influence.
Simply, oligarchs will always make more money outside of politics, but they'll keep fools busy with it. Very good example of that principle is self-declared "political philanthropist" Soros, who has his brother serving as a consultant to White House during Biden admin. Practically Soros' brother was on all the White House meetings during the week, then he would report to Soros and Soros will then make multi-billion investments and currency raids with insider information advantage that wastly surpases Nancy Pelosy's stock market shenanigans. That's why Soros was biggest Democratic party donor with $100 M, while the second one behind him was "only" donating $40 M. Essentially Soros is paying $100 M retainer to get insider info before of other competing oligarchs, and leaves day-to-day running to disposable diletants. But Republicans are not any better, they just have different oligarch donors.
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pigfarmer
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The new mayor and City Council's first considered act was to vote themselves a substantial pay raise
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pigfarmer
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I've heard of some of the new proposals and existing ordinances passed by the traditionally lefty city council and not too put too fine a point on it, you don't want to own any real estate in NYC because they are going to throttle it's use and make selling it a nightmare, of which they take a cut. Sort of like a Commie HOA from Hell.