{"id":313793,"date":"2025-10-18T16:08:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/313793\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T16:08:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T16:08:19","slug":"mamdanis-debate-lies-dodges-and-fumbles-signs-of-disaster-ahead-for-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/313793\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamdani’s debate lies, dodges and fumbles \u2014 signs of disaster ahead for NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zohran Mamdani on Thursday night treated New Yorkers to a preview of what they can expect if he wins: Outright lies, deflection from direct questions and fantasy economics.<\/p>\n

Confronted about his long-stated belief that prostitution should be legal<\/a>, Mamdani shook his head and said it was all lies \u2014 he never said that.<\/p>\n

Hah! He said it on the floor of the state Assembly while voting \u201cYes\u201d on a bill to legalize loitering for the purpose of prostitution: \u201cWhile this bill does not decriminalize sex work,\u201d Mamdani proclaimed Feb. 2, 2021, \u201cI would like to register my support for such legislation, my eagerness for that debate and for my fundamental belief that sex work is work\u201d (emphasis ours).<\/p>\n

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Saying \u201cSex work is work<\/a>,\u201d means that selling your body is no different from being a librarian or a waiter.<\/p>\n

So Mamdani is either a liar or willfully forgetful.<\/p>\n

Asked if he\u2019d attend the parades that mayors typically march in, Mamdani grinned like a skull and said he\u2019d skip some parades because he would be too busy at work; pushed to specify, he shrugged. <\/p>\n

Come on: It\u2019s obvious he\u2019ll skip Columbus Day, Israel Day<\/a> and India Day, for starters, since he\u2019s openly anti-Columbus, anti-Israel and anti-India. <\/p>\n

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He just won\u2019t risk admitting that he has no intention of being a mayor for all New Yorkers.<\/p>\n

He was utterly incoherent on mayoral control of the public school system: He\u2019s against it, but wants \u201caccountability\u201d and offers plans for running the system, albeit really only about spending even more on teachers when the Department of Education already burns roughly $40,000 per student.<\/p>\n

He can\u2019t quite explain how or why (or, really if) he came to decide that city cops aren\u2019t a pack of rampaging racists, how the Rent Guidelines Board works or why he thinks 911 operators can reliably decide which Emotionally Disturbed Person calls social workers can respond to with NYPD backup.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

And his explanation of how he\u2019d put the Civilian Complaint Review Board<\/a> in charge of police discipline was a Kamala-level word salad.<\/p>\n

How will he help building owners comply with Local Law 97\u2019s mandates to slash carbon emissions? Somehow, city-run purchasing will magically shrink the costs.<\/p>\n

He demands that you ignore even his recent statements of hatred for the cops and support for jihadi terror, simply because he\u2019s not wearing those positions on his sleeve now during the campaign.<\/p>\n

But, hey, he says it all with a smile! <\/p>\n

The day he takes over as mayor and has to start doing rather than talking is the day the disasters begin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zohran Mamdani on Thursday night treated New Yorkers to a preview of what they can expect if he…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":313794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,5297,5340,33599,4691,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,1269,9627,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-313793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-andrew-cuomo","10":"tag-curtis-sliwa","11":"tag-debate","12":"tag-editorial","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","20":"tag-opinion","21":"tag-prostitution","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115396038682438654","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}