Zohran Mamdani defeated former New York Governor and Nursing Home Czar Andrew Cuomo in the June 24 Democratic mayoral primary. While we can’t vouch for its authenticity, Mamdani provided the following statement to The American Spectator detailing his plans for New York City should he win the general election. I am not a communist. Don’t believe me? PolitiFact rated President Trump calling me a commie as false. Communism means I would seize New York City’s private property and take control of industry. If there’s one way to globalize the intifada (a phrase I will never denounce), it’s to arrest the chief opposition responsible for genocide in Gaza. I’m certain New York City’s 1.3 million Jews agree. I merely plan to open a “network of city-owned grocery stores focused on keeping prices low, not making a profit.… (W)ithout having to pay rent or property taxes, they will reduce overhead and pass on savings to shoppers.” No longer will food-challenged New Yorkers who wish to nourish their children pay $6 for a box of Twinkies. They will pay, I don’t know, $1? Fifty cents? It doesn’t matter because I don’t care about profit. The finest roast beef will cost negative $7.89 a pound, meaning hungry New Yorkers can get infinite roast beef for their sandwiches. I feel bad for the guy running the slicer, but a sore elbow is a small price to pay for the greater good. If there’s one word socialists love more than “utopia” or “gulag,” it’s “free.” First: Free childcare will be available for children between 6 weeks and 5 years old. Oh, you don’t have the bus fare to take your kid to free childcare? Let’s make the bus rides free, too. Don’t have whatever the hot dog vendor charges for one wiener after you get off the free bus? Free hot dogs. And free salted pretzels! Those massive doughy ones cooked over hot coals. And if you cook the pretzels? Free coal. But who’s going to pay the estimated $10 billion for all this free stuff? Answer: White people. One of my proposals reads, “Shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.” While taxing people because they’re Caucasian could result in the U.S. Supreme Court ruling it unconstitutional, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown-Jackson dissenting, “Tax the White” makes for an excellent yard sign. U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) just ordered 100 of them, and she doesn’t even have a yard. Rich white people making more than $1 million a year can afford a 2 percent tax increase, as can greedy corporations whose tax rate would increase from 9 percent to 11.5 percent. That rumbling sound you hear isn’t a horde of monied white people fleeing New York for Florida; it’s a stampede of unwashed keffiyeh-masked Columbia University protesters keeping the white folks from escaping. Queer liberation means defund the police. While I tweeted that four years ago and still have no idea what it means (like, for gay people to be free, the police shouldn’t be around to protect them? What?), it sounds pretentiously profound and speaks to the deeper issue that I hate police. I deleted the tweet calling the NYPD “racist, anti-queer, and a major threat to public safety,” not because I have newfound respect for police, but because voters inexplicably like them. Fine. Keep your uneducated Gestapo, but I’m cutting their overtime budget and the department’s $80 million communications budget. And while I won’t hire a single new policeperson to keep the community safe, I will spend $1.1 billion to create a Department of Community Safety to focus on mental health outreach teams in subways and to beef up “gun violence interrupter” programs to reduce crime. And by “gun violence interrupter” program, I mean providing free bulletproof vests to every city resident. Trust me: They’ll need them. Despite my dislike for police, I will order them to arrest Jews. One Jew specifically. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Hamas sympathizer Medhi Hassan asked me in December whether I would welcome Netanyahu to New York City. “No. As mayor, New York City would arrest Benjamin Netanyahu,” I replied. “This is a city (where) our values are in line with international law. It’s time that our actions are also.” If there’s one way to globalize the intifada (a phrase I will never denounce), it’s to arrest the chief opposition responsible for genocide in Gaza. I’m certain New York City’s 1.3 million Jews agree. New York’s Democrats are with me, too. I’ll conclude with what former N.Y. Gov. David Patterson told Politico: “He articulates his points very well, and they make sense. You understand exactly what he’s saying.” Thank you, David! You know quality when you see it. READ MORE from Matt Manochio: Karine Jean-Pierre: A Day With the President Goldberg Wasn’t the Only Outsider on That Message Chain Editor’s Note: Mamdani neglected to include the final sentence of Patterson’s quote: “The problem is: Nobody told him there’s no such thing as Santa Claus.” The post %POSTLINK% appeared first on %BLOGLINK%.