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NYC Goes Full Zimbabwe

Posted on | June 25, 2025 | Comments Off on NYC Goes Full Zimbabwe

Never go full Zimbabwe. You can order a $10 trillion Zimbabwe note online for under $25, which is still more than its actual value as currency, but rather reflects what it’s worth as a collector’s item, a memento of the kleptocratic regime of Robert Mugabe. New York City doesn’t issue its own currency, so we won’t be able to use that metric to judge the consequences of Zohran Mamdani being elected mayor, but a Zimbabwe-scale disaster probably can’t be avoided. Having won the Democratic primary, the socialist Mamdani is all but certain to become New York City’s next mayor. The bumbling incumbent Eric Adams is seeking re-election as an independent, Curtis Sliwa is the Republican candidate and the loser Andrew Cuomo may also run as an independent in the general election, but it’s difficult to see a scenario where any of them gets more votes than Mamdani in November. The writing is on the wall.

New York City is now doomed beyond hope of redemption.

Here’s two words for you: Capital flight.

Mamdani’s socialist agenda will inspire an irreversible exodus of investment from the city. It’s not just a matter of high-earning indviduals fleeing to avoid confiscatory taxation — although that will certainly happen, too — but the simple fact that Mandani’s anti-business policies will make it impossible for any company to operate profitably in the city.

Since Rudy Giuliani left office in 2001, every mayor of New York has been worse than his predecessor. Michael Bloomberg was awful, but Bill de Blasio was a catastrophe, and Eric Adams is a pathetic joke. The city is now prepared to elect a “charismatic” young radical who bids fair to make the David Dinkins era seem a mild annoyance by comparison.

There are some who say a Mamdani administration probably won’t be as bad as his campaign promises suggest. But my guess is that it will actually be much worse than most people now imagine. Which is to say, “this city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions”:

Old Testament, real wrath of God type stuff. Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling! Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes! volcanoes! The dead rising from the grave! Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!

Snake Plissken could not be reached for comment.



 

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