Several billion with 50 cents

Who is the Zaran Mamdani-New York mayor's candidate from the Democratic Party

Before the demo-socialist Zaran Mamdani had time to take the first place on the democratic primaries last Tuesday, which made him a leading candidate for the mayor of New York, as he already had a good opportunity to improve his financial situation. The next day, on Wednesday, the famous rapper 50 Cent proposed Mamdani on Instagram* a quarter of a million dollars with a gaku and a first-class ticket, if the winner of the primaries leaves New York.

The 49-year-old rapper made this proposal to the 33-year-old favorite of the race in response to the fact that on June 11, Mamdani touched him, speaking in a popular podcast, in which he reported an important point of his economic program, namely, intention to cover New York millionaires with additional two percent tax.

“I know that if he listens, 50 cent is unlikely to be delighted,” Mamdani remarked. “He is inclined to dislike such a tax policy, but I want everyone to understand that it is about 20 thousand a year.”

If we are talking about one million, then this is not “approximately”, but exactly 20 thousand. And if we are talking about rapper, whose fortune is approaching a billion dollars, then this is most likely a lot of millions, and 20 thousand can not get rid of it. Here is 50 cent and bleed.

Due to the victory, Mamdani got into a lot of. The couple of my acquaintances of the Republicans, reluctantly, temporarily re -registered into the Democrats to vote against Mamdani on other people's primaries, but the socialist won with such an advantage that the voices of the restrays did not help.

But the Mamdani was a lot of hellish heat, because of which many old people who did not have the Mamdani program, like young people who gave him victory, did not appear in the polls.

A familiar banker sent me several lines from Austria about this program. “The mayor, of course, has been chosen from you (***),” she writes, citing an indecent word. - I listened today to his program for the city, there are no words. Straight Marx and Lenin in one bottle. "

But Marx and Lenin did not have time to speak about Israel and Israelis. And Mamdani managed.

For example, he assures his supporters that if he is chosen in mayor, he will arrest Benjamin Netyanyahu, if he decides to appear in New York.

During the recent debate, the mamdani repeatedly reproached that he does not recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state. Instead, Mamdani proves that Israel has the right to exist only as a “state with equal rights”, which means the “right to return” the Palestinians to the places they left a decade ago.

A few days before the democratic primaries, Mamdani refused in an interview to condemn the expression “globalize intifada”, which is interpreted by his critics as a call to the spread of Hamasovites tactics throughout the Western world.

When Mamdani studied at the college of Bowudin, which I hear for the first time, he was among the founders of the local branch of the progressive organization “Students for Justice in Palestine”. He has long been an ardent supporter of the anti-Israeli BDS movement (boycott, deinvestment, sanctions), which, it would seem, should not enjoy special success in the Jewish city of America, you will not remember that the masses of New York Jews are more gravitating towards socialism than to Zionism.

Mamdani repeatedly characterized the actions of the Israeli army in Gaza as a "genocide". Having been carried away in his youth with ramp, in 2017 he wrote the song “Five of the Holy Land”, which was explained in the love of the leaders of the Holy Land Foundation, convicted in 2008 in the United States for “providing significant assistance to terrorism” Hamas.

Mamdani does not persist in views that do not correspond to the moment. For example, he wrote: “We do not need to conduct investigations to know that the New York Police is a racist, that she is against the Quaries and poses a great threat to public security. What we need to do is to definance the New York police. ”

When it dawned on him that now it was not the 20th year, and the calls to abolish the police have already gone out of fashion, he changed the record, but he didn’t review his views radically, but laid hopes for creating a social security corps called the “Department of Public Security”, which, in his opinion, will be closer to the people and more humane than the police hated by him.

Communicating with voters, the charismatic and eloquent mamdani does not climb into empires, but complains to New York high cost and promises to make life cheaper.

And all.

How not to love this? And they love him, which I was convinced on Sunday morning when I was waiting for Mamdani at the beginning of the annual gay parade (the LGBT movement in Russia was recognized as extremist and prohibited), which New York politicians do not allow. A smiling demo -socialist appeared exactly ten in a snow -white shirt without a tie and was met by a welcoming roar of the crowd, vividly reminded me of the first visit by the Beatles to the United States, which is often shown here in the old newsreel.

The Mamdani program is simple, like mooing. As the conservative journalists Paul Dreyer and Krischen Brown put it the other day, "Mamdani offers simple ideas, but unrealistic." Here they are. Free travel travel (now it is $ 2.90), but not in the subway, in which much more citizens drive.

An increase in the minimum salary rate is up to $ 30 per hour (which of the owners will not go broke from this, part of the employees will have to be fired).

Creating a network of municipal prodmags with affordable prices. Skeptics say that in the hands of the city authorities, these stores will work in the same way as the Lord, which in the United States is considered to be a standard of carelessness.

And most importantly, the favorite promises to freeze the rent. Not all, but 43% of it, which have been “frozen” for so long, but only partially. Economists say that it is precisely the control over the rental plate that ultimately creates all the problems that Mamdani now promises to solve. But its “freezing” sounds good in the city where an apartment with two bedrooms (emigrants call it “two -worn” because it has 2 Bedrooms) costs 5.5 thousand dollars a month, so I saw many hands from the crowd on Sunday, and the drums begin to sound louder with him.