It’s Only Been A Month And Zohran Mamdani Is Already A Disaster

It’s been a little over a month since a Muslim socialist from Uganda named Zohran Mamdani became the mayor of the largest city in the United States. And while a month isn’t a lot of time in a normal administration, you have to wonder what the city’s many young “democratic socialists” think about the progress so far, or lack thereof. 

After all, Mamdani wasn’t supposed to be like any other mayor. The whole point was that he’d be a “revolutionary.” He’d take quick, decisive action to “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” He would disregard the rule of law, tax all the rich white people, and make everything cost zero dollars.

Unfortunately for Mamdani, it looks like the locals are getting a little restless. They’re not happy with his mother’s appearance in the Epstein Files (she was mentioned by Epstein’s publicist, who said she attended an afterparty for a film at Ghislaine Maxwell’s house). And they’re also angry that Mamdani hasn’t shifted oversight of the police department to a civilian board called the CCRB, which he promised to do, as a way of dismantling the police force and terminating more police officers.

So, the other day, a mob gathered outside Mamdani’s house.

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New Epstein files show filmmaker Mira Nair, mom of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, went to an afterparty at Ghislaine Maxwell’s house.

Now Zohran’s getting called out by voters.

“We know about your mom! Shame on you, Zohran, you lied to us.”pic.twitter.com/8msbgWx8eY

— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) February 2, 2026

Credit: @MarioNawfal/X.com

That didn’t take long. 

They elected a theater kid — supposedly from the middle of nowhere — who promised to burn everything down and completely transform New York City. A month later, they realize he’s a fraudster who has no idea what he was doing, and that his life story is a lot less “storybook” than they had been told.

You see, when these people heard Mamdani reading the speechwriter’s line about the “Mexican abuelas, Yemeni bodega owners, Uzbek nurses, and Ethiopian aunties,” they were under the impression that Mamdani had something in common with the working class. And now they’re finding out that, while the Yemeni bodega owners and Trinidadian pimps were earning a living the hard way in the Bronx, Mamdani’s mother was getting name-dropped by Epstein’s publicist. That’s got to be a tough, confusing realization.

And it gets worse when you realize that the buses still aren’t free. Mamdani hasn’t even done that yet. The whole point of his campaign was to enable every hobo, drug dealer, and psychotic murderer to hop aboard a bus, any time they wanted. And yet, the buses still cost money. In fact, bus fares have increased since Mamdani took office by around 10 cents. And now the Trump administration says they’re thinking about cutting federal funding to New York if they don’t charge fares, as part of a new transportation bill. So all of a sudden, what seemed to be a very simple, straightforward proposal is turning out to be a lot more complicated. And from the moment Mamdani was elected, that’s raised some questions for New Yorkers.

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New Yorkers are fuming bc Mamdani ain’t delivering on any of the free s’hit he promised

So this TikTok’r goes up to a NYC bus driver and asks, ” I thought the fares were free now since Mamdani won ” – driver laughs, “that’s funny, that’s never gonna happen”

Can’t make it up pic.twitter.com/iL4CuAPXAc

— @Chicago1Ray 🇺🇸 (@Chicago1Ray) February 2, 2026

Credit: @johnnysaffra/tiktok.com

Credit: @Chicago1Ray/X.com

It’s almost like the bus driver, who has an actual job and familiarity with the mass transit system, knows something the socialists don’t. It’s almost like he knows that these “free buses,” if they were ever actually offered, would inevitably transform into rolling crackhouses. But if you look at the comments on that video, everyone insists that the free buses will indeed arrive. And these will be magic buses. They will be the first mass transit service ever invented in a “diverse city” that will serve millions of people, with absolutely no cost, no overcrowding, no overdoses, and no random stabbings.

But again, the buses still haven’t arrived, which has led to some uncomfortable questions about what, exactly, Mamdani is doing. He certainly doesn’t seem to be attending to any of his day-to-day duties. More than a week after a major snowstorm, trash is piling up everywhere. 

Here’s just some of the images of what that looks like, courtesy of The New York Post:

Credit: Linda Santangelo/X.com

Credit: Linda Santangelo/X.com

Credit: Linda Santangelo/X.com

Credit: All images courtesy The New York Post/Credit: Linda Santangelo/X.com

It’s like the 1970s all over again. There’s so much garbage that the New York Post is now calling New York “the city that never sweeps.” And the residents who spoke to the Post aren’t particularly amused by what they’re seeing. One man, a native New Yorker named Josh Tepper, said, “It’s the most vile thing; I think it’s the worst in New York history.”

He said Gracie Mansion, where Mamdani lives, looks clean and trash-free, while the rest of the city is a “complete disaster.” Another man living on the Upper East Side stated that, “It’s very dirty. It’s a little embarrassing.” And a third man stated that the situation was “very concerning” because recycling hadn’t been picked up for nearly a week.

Meanwhile, the snow is piling up, and the buses aren’t running on time.

From Reddit. 🤯 pic.twitter.com/kIXDQjFXzm

— Queens Crapper (@QueensCrapper) February 3, 2026

Credit: @QueensCrapper/X.com

And yet, faced with mobs at the gates and trash piling up in the streets, Mamdani has not convened an emergency meeting with his many emotionally unstable advisers. He hasn’t explained where the garbage trucks are. Instead, Mamdani’s latest proposal is to enable New Yorkers to sight-see from the observation deck of a tall municipal building in Manhattan. That’s his “big idea.” 

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The Boy @NYCMayor held a press conference on the 25th-floor roof of the Dinkins Building to announce public tours starting in June.

Zohran kept press waiting over 20 minutes (in 20 degrees) while drones shot video of him on the tower above.

Zohran’s a narcissist.

16 dead. https://t.co/nc3nWX3gXP pic.twitter.com/AorZtNsX1Z

— SCOOCH דוד (@david_sivella) February 3, 2026

Credit: @david_sivella/X.com

Everything from the way that video is shot to what he’s saying makes it abundantly clear that New Yorkers elected a third-rate influencer. He won’t honor his campaign promises, or pick up the trash, but on the bright side, he’ll let you stand on the top of this very ugly building, and look at all the other very ugly buildings. And just for good measure, the building is named after David Dinkins, who oversaw the biggest rise in New York’s murder rate in roughly a century. The city had nearly 2,000 murders in his final year in office, compared to around 350 in the last year.

Take a look at this chart.

Credit: NYPD Compstat, NYS DCJS, FBI UCR

The high point of the chart, on the far left, is when Dinkins was mayor. That’s how extraordinarily, uniquely incompetent he was. Dinkins would say things like, “If we had a police officer on every other corner, we couldn’t stop some of the random violence that goes on.” So he just allowed the violence to continue, including a lot of ethnic and racial violence. The city lost hundreds of thousands of jobs. He increased taxes to unsustainable levels. And then Giuliani took over, reversed all of Dinkins’ policies, and arrested criminals. And the city immediately turned around.

But in Leftist mythology, Dinkins was a great mayor simply because he was black. They’ll remove Teddy Roosevelt’s statue, because he was white and effective. But they’ll honor Dinkins at every opportunity — not despite the fact that he nearly destroyed New York, but because of that fact. And Mamdani plans to do exactly the same thing. He doesn’t care if people die as a result of his policies. His only mission is to dismantle the nerve center of American capitalism, strip it for everything it’s worth, and send our money overseas.

Actually, Mamdani has already killed people in New York City. He’s not doing much in office, but in those rare moments when he’s chosen to take decisive action, it’s resulted in the deaths of actual human beings — already, just one month into his term. 

Take a look at this video from last December. It was uploaded by the outgoing mayor, Eric Adams. If you know anything about Eric Adams, you know he’s pretty checked-out, as far as ex-mayors go. Let’s just say, he certainly seems very happy to be a private citizen again. But in December, in his last days in office, Eric Adams felt compelled to speak up about Mamdani’s plan to stop law enforcement from sweeping up homeless encampments during the winter and forcing the homeless into institutions.

He knew what would happen if Mamdani actually followed through. 

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There is nothing “progressive” about leaving people to freeze in makeshift encampments. It harms residents and dehumanizes the very people who need help.

New Yorkers should call on Mayor-Elect @ZohranKMamdani to reconsider this policy. pic.twitter.com/mGIzoRQOMI

— Eric Adams (@ericadamsfornyc) December 5, 2025

Credit: @ericadamsfornyc/X.com

This is a useful illustration of the distinction between old Democrats and the Leftists who now control the party. The old Democrats were wrong, misguided and dangerous. But some of them still retained a semblance of understanding about human nature and cause and effect. Those Democrats are now completely gone. They’ve been ousted. Eric Adams, of course, was supportive of Trump’s immigration policy, which is why Biden’s DOJ tried to throw him in prison. You simply can’t express any basic, fundamental understanding of human nature or common sense, and remain a member of the party in good standing.

So now there’s no one left in the party who understands the truth about the homeless (among many other things). No one in the party understands that someone doesn’t become homeless without being highly dysfunctional as a human being. They have to alienate every person in their lives, including their family, in addition to failing to achieve a basic level of self-sufficiency. These are people who — for their safety and the safety of the general public — should not be on the streets. They shouldn’t be placed in taxpayer-provided apartment buildings or hotels, either. They should be jailed or institutionalized. 

And Leftists will say, “well, not every homeless person is using drugs, or committing crimes. It’s just 99.9 percent of them.” But even if that were true, it doesn’t matter. In a functioning, civilized society, public order matters. The sidewalks are for walking. The parks are for enjoying nature and fresh air. Lobbies are where you go when you want to enter a building. When homeless people stink up all of these places, they degrade every aspect of civic life. They make everything worse, in every way. They’ve also demonstrated that they aren’t really in charge of their own lives, which is why the government — which exists to protect the rights of its citizens — should assume agency over them.

But Mamdani reversed the policy of Eric Adams’ administration to get these people off the streets during the winter.

As the Post reported, 

New York’s new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has barred the NYPD from closing down the ramshackle camps that have been springing up in neighborhoods across the five boroughs ever since he previewed his policy in December. … No matter how many neighborhood residents call 311 to report a new encampment, the NYPD is now powerless to deal with them — and even New York’s Strongest are barred from cleaning them up. The Sanitation Department has orders to remove garbage and human waste, but must leave mattresses, clothing, makeshift cardboard huts and other items intact.

The direct result of the policy — as Mamdani announced from the top of that Dinkins building — is that more than a dozen New Yorkers are now dead. They froze to death because Mamdani didn’t want to round them up, on the theory that rounding up homeless people is somehow inhumane. 

Here’s Mamdani with the announcement:

Mayor Mamdani confirms sixteen deaths during dangerously cold weather in NYC https://t.co/pQ0L9i5Yzz pic.twitter.com/zHAPfvu95u

— New York Post (@nypost) February 2, 2026

Credit: @nypost/X.com

The dead homeless people ranged in ages from mid-40s to 90, according to the Post. Many of them, as you heard, basically froze to death. So unfortunately, they won’t be getting any free tickets to the Dinkins building, where they could’ve observed the trash piles lining the city of New York. And that’s a real shame. 

Actually, it’s a lot worse than that. Mamdani is responsible for every single one of these deaths. That is not hyperbole. And he doesn’t care, in the slightest. He’s not going to change his policy. He’s not even going to express regret. That’s because Mamdani’s goal — like the goal of every Leftist who pretends to “care about the homeless” — is not to improve anyone’s life, whether they’re homeless or not. His goal is to funnel taxpayer money to Left-wing NGOs that claim they’ll fix homelessness, and then do absolutely nothing (other than redirect some of that money back to Democrats). Ending homelessness would cut off one of the major funding sources for Democrat activists. So he wants homelessness to continue. He wants it to get worse, in fact. He wants these people in the streets, at all times, so that he can justify more spending on fake Left-wing nonprofits. And if a few hobos die, he genuinely does not care.

And make no mistake — many, many more people will die as a direct result of Mamdani’s policies. It’s true during all communist regimes, and it’ll be the case in Mamdani’s as well. Consider the case of “Jabez Chakraborty.” He’s 22 years old. His family called 9-1-1 about a month ago, saying he was in “emotional distress.” When officers responded, Jabez produced a kitchen knife and charged at them. So the officers, acting in self-defense, shot the guy and put him in the hospital. It was clearly a justified shooting. The body camera footage makes all of this very clear, as we’ll demonstrate in a second. But the family of the attacker has put out a statement, saying they’re “shocked and outraged” by the NYPD’s actions. Apparently, the officers were just supposed to let themselves get stabbed to death.

For his part, Mamdani has decided to use this case to make an argument that, in the future, the police shouldn’t be dispatched to calls like this at all. He thinks a counselor or a mental health professional from the “Department of Community Safety” should go to the scene instead.

So now, Mamdani is visiting the attacker and his family in the hospital, and implying they’re victims. And he’s giving press conferences about his plan to unleash lunatics like this on the general public.

We’ll play part of that press conference, followed by body camera footage of the shooting.

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Mayor Mamdani just visited a man who got shot while charging at a cop with a knife pic.twitter.com/VYbJFHPGbW

— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 4, 2026

Credit: @EndWokeness/X.com

It’s probably the most open-and-shut, clear-cut case imaginable. The officers obviously did what they had to do. But in the eyes of the Left, they’ve just lost a footsoldier. They’ve lost someone who could’ve stabbed an innocent woman to death on the train one day. And that genuinely bothers them. They stay up at night, thinking of ways to allow more lunatics like this to go free. That’s why none of their policies make sense. They’re not designed to keep you safe. They’re designed to make your city more dangerous.

But one reporter tried to make sense of the policy anyway. After Mamdani was done speaking, the reporter asked a pretty obvious question: If we’re going to send emotional support counselors to visit emotionally disturbed people instead of the police, what happens when those emotionally disturbed people try to kill someone? How exactly are we going to decide whether or not the police should be dispatched when we don’t know whether the emotionally disturbed person poses a lethal threat or not? Mamdani had no answer to that question.

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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani fails to explain how his proposed Department of Community Safety will replace the NYPD in handling incidents involving Emotionally Disturbed Persons. pic.twitter.com/AObEBeqMXd

— John D. Macari Jr. 🇺🇸🗽 (@JohnDMacari) February 3, 2026

Credit: @JohnDMacari/X.com

This is going to be a theme of the Mamdani administration and of every socialist administration like it. Assuming he actually starts attempting to govern, instead of shooting influencer videos with his drones, we’re going to see a lot more of this. They will continue to advance Leftist agenda items that would be very popular in a classroom at NYU, or the Soviet Union, even though these policies have no chance of success in the real world. And even as these agenda items result in human misery and death, they’ll continue to press on. They’ll just vomit out some word salad and continue as if nothing had happened.

The death toll will rise, week after week. People will get shanked on the “free buses.” Social workers will get stabbed and shot as they respond to calls that law enforcement should have handled. Tourists will get pushed off the new observation deck on the ugly building in Manhattan. Homeless people will die in large numbers every winter, and they’ll continue to attack New Yorkers — particularly white women. And in the meantime, if Mamdani’s voters continue to feel buyer’s remorse, and if they decide to get too unruly, they won’t be met with social workers. They’ll be crushed by the full power of the state. So their only option is to retreat to the safety of their $5,000 a month, one-bedroom apartments, and scroll Bluesky as they wonder why, exactly, this guy’s mother is in the Epstein Files.

That’s the rather bleak future that awaits New York. It’s also the future that awaits the rest of this country, unless we see New York as the gigantic warning sign that it is. Even Mamdani’s supporters are starting to realize that now. The rest of us should pay very close attention to what happens next in New York. We should also bear in mind that the winning strategy in the Cold War was “containment” — and in the same vein, we should do everything we can to contain “democratic socialism” to the hellhole that New York City is already becoming.