Once again, I am here for a 3,500-word satire about handjobs that would make Jonathan Swift do the Wayne’s World “we are not worthy” bit for me.
No, no.
I won’t do that again today.
Though that piece will be included in Lit 101 readers long after I’m dead. And that is just a fact. Sorry to the haters. But that is just life and you’re going to have to deal with it.
But today, in real life, I want to offer something about Zohran’s supposedly stunning victory in the New York democratic mayoral primary. Firstly, people should know I won money on that. I should have written about this before and said “I’m betting money on this just you watch.”
But here’s the thing. Everyone is talking about how this proves that the Democrat base is really into communism and they want to unleash the blacks and the immigrants like an army of orcs to rob and kill everyone. And they want Venezuela-style communist grocery stores. And they haven’t figured out rent control is a gigantic Jewish scam.
The polls of the views of New Yorkers showed that they don’t want no cash bail and unlimited immigrants or any of the things Zohran is promoting as domestic policy.
Newsweek, June 21, 2021:
A new poll shows seven in 10 Democratic voters in New York City favor an increased police presence throughout the city. The same survey also found 77 percent of Black Democrats said they favor more cops in the subways.
New York Post, March 28, 2022:
An overwhelming majority of New Yorkers say the no-cash bail law has contributed to the spike in crime and should be overhauled, according to a study released Monday.
A total of 56 percent of voters in the Empire State believe the 2019 bail reform has been bad for New York compared to 30 percent who said it was good policy, the Siena College survey found.
Nearly two-thirds of voters — 64 percent — think the law has resulted in an increase in crime, compared to 24 percent who said it hasn’t.
Newsweek, May 20, 2024:
On Friday, the poll, conducted exclusively for Newsweek by Redfield & Wilton Strategies of 974 eligible voters in New York City, asked an array of questions about issues facing the city and the nation overall, including how they feel about the current crime rate and if they feel the influx of migrants is having an impact.
According to the poll, over 70 percent blamed migrants in the city for the current crime rate, with 41 percent saying immigration is having a “significant” impact and 31 percent saying a “fair amount” of impact. The poll found that 18 percent said immigration is having a “small” impact and 10 percent said it is having no impact at all.
And it goes on and on. I don’t think there are any polls on Venezuela-style government grocery stores, because no one was really thinking about that. But none of Zohran’s domestic policies are popular in New York among anything close to a majority. These are all fringe policies.
What is not a fringe policy are Zohran’s views on Palestine and Israel. These policies are overwhelmingly popular on the left and are increasingly popular on the right. In March of this year (obviously, before Israel started a war with Iran and dragged the US into it), in the nation as a whole, 55% disapproved of Israel’s actions in Gaza, while only 36% approved. Democrats are only slightly more supportive of Palestine, with a 59% approval of Palestine.
That was what won Zohran the primary. Period. It is not this commie lunacy. Very few people want that.
(Part of it is also that he’s young, relatively handsome, well-spoken, but mostly it is the Israel thing.)
It’s possible that Zohran will still lose the election, because of this communist stuff, particularly the crime and the immigrants. I’m not betting on it. If Cuomo runs as an independent, I think it’s more likely than not he will win, because people do not want this crime and chaos.
But all of the people who are saying that this is about how people support communism are full of shit. If Cuomo would have been out there supporting Palestine, he would have won by a landslide.
But he wasn’t.
He was being constantly endorsed by the ADL.
In this primary, New York voters put their support for Palestine and their animosity towards Jews above their own personal safety.
Let this be a lesson for Matt Gaetz.
Editor’s Note (update): The above sort of reads like the ADL endorsed him for mayor this time around, and I have not found that they actually officially did that. What I meant by the phrase “constantly endorsed by the ADL” is that throughout his 40+ year political career, he’s been a darling of the ADL, and has constantly been praised by them. I think that given the dynamics of this election, ADL head Jonathan Greenblatt was smart enough to know that an official endorsement of Cuomo’s run would have been a kiss of death. However, above I linked his donors, who are almost all Jewish, and are all linked not just to the ADL, but worse, to AIPAC.