At Zohran Mamdani’s block party, I observed a simple truth: people want more politics, not less
Samuel Earle
The sort of people who go to a Mayoral block party want more politics. But this is hardly a surprise.
As he was sworn in outside city hall in front of a crowd of a few thousand of us, a nearby street in Manhattan was closed to traffic so that tens of thousands more could gather to watch the historic moment live on enormous screens.
Tens of thousands, eh? In a population of 8.5 million?
Anyone else heard of selection bias?
Sworn in on the koran apparently. New York, another city I won’t visit again.
I hear that there were no porta-potties provided for the tens of thousands. Socialist planning at its best.
Ask this: “Were they paid to be there?”
There’s a line in one of PJ O’Rorke’s books where he goes on a trip through Russia with a bunch of Yankee lefties. Someone was accused of being a paid Communist agent, and the lefties all get annoyed because they’d been supporting the commies for most of their lives but never got paid for it.
Although I agree that the Left probably do pay people to protest, don’t forget the western world does also have a lot of fools and wanna-be commissars, probably enough to voluntarily populate a street party.
True. But American commies have been known to rent mobs frequently, so NO gathering should be suspected of being legit grassroots.
This isn’t even in question, it has been discussed openly including by the companies they pay to provide the crowds.
When a million of us pitch up, it’s ‘close to 100,000’.
When 2,000 of them pitch up, it’s ‘tens of thousands’.
Remember, the media are the enemies of the people.
Yep. You can’t possibly hate them enough.