The Internet Isn’t Giving Up On Beating Zohran Mamdani

Ruth Papazian is a friend of mine. She’s kind of a 21st-century friend, in that I’ve never met her but we’ve had some solid conversations on Facebook.

And Ruth is a New Yorker. She’s also a patriotic American absolutely mortified that her city seems poised to elected a literal anti-American foreign-born communist as its mayor.

New York has had some bad mayors, mind you. It’s a tough city. It survived David Dinkins and Bill DeBlasio. But Mamdani is something else.

As of now, more than half of the city’s voters would prefer someone other than Zohran Mamdani to be its next mayor. The problem is that there aren’t many viable alternatives available just a month from the election for the anti-socialist crowd to get behind.

Curtis Sliwa, the Republican candidate, can’t win. Current incumbent Eric Adams, a Democrat who was running as an independent, just dropped out; Adams couldn’t win.

That leaves disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo, who lost to Mamdani in the Democrat primary and is mounting a run as an independent.

It isn’t an enviable position for anti-socialist voters to be in, being forced to embrace Cuomo. That’s where Ruth is. She’s a committed anti-socialist, and in a Facebook post a few days ago she explained why…

Mine may have been the first generation of public school students in NYC to be assigned books written by anti-American and/or radical authors in place of the greats of American and British literature. For me, the indoctrination started in my Bronx middle school.

Although my parents were *very* liberal in those days, they were not Communists or Socialists, having fled Nasser’s Arab Socialism to come to the US.

I was fortunate in two ways that made me immune to the indoctrination:

I was already an inveterate reader and had been reading classical literature written by Dead White Males on my own since I was six years old.

When I was 10 years old, my parents took the family on the Grand Tour of Europe — but they included several Iron Curtain countries to show us the striking contrast between Eastern and Western Europe.

One incident I witnessed changed the course of my life, and no amount of indoctrination in school could change how I felt about Communism.

In Communist Europe, Americans had to stay in certain hotels. I am sure the rooms were all bugged because the government didn’t know which Americans had useful information and which didn’t until they listened in to their conversations. One night my father was driving around in circles trying to find the hotel we were directed to stay at. He pulled over to look at the instructions again. The street was dark; no streetlights every few feet like in NYC. Suddenly, a young man appeared out of the darkness and rapped on the car window.

In heavily accented English, he asked my father if he was lost. My father explained the situation, and the young man proposed that we stay in his apartment overnight instead of going to the hotel — we were parked right in front of it, as it turned out.

He explained that it was his dream to own a car and that he rents his apartment to tourists to get extra money that helps him save up to buy a car. He told my father that the government sets his salary and while it is enough to buy food, pay his rent and occasionally treat himself to a new coat or a new pair of shoes, it is not enough for him to buy a car. He also said that no matter how hard he worked or how good he was at his job, he could not get a higher salary.

My father asked him, “What happens if we stay at your home, then drive off without leaving any money?”

He answered, “What if an hour after you’re all asleep my friends and I come over and steal your car and everything you’ve left inside it?”

My father laughed and said, “Well, we have to trust each other then.”

We stayed at his home without incident and my father, having also been a poor young man saving up to buy a car, left him three times the amount he had asked for.

I just know this enterprising young man ended up buying a car — I hope he had a good cover story about how he came into the funds. I will never forget him.

At this point, it’s all about trying to derail the runaway train that is Mamdani, in the sure knowledge that he will damage New York in ways those previous terrible mayors stopped short of.

But this being the 21st century, the best way Ruth could think of to get people to oppose the communist takeover of the Big Apple is…

Memes, of course.

Ruth asked us if we wouldn’t mind sharing some of the best ones she’s been spreading. We were happy to. Some of these, after all, are award-worthy – whether they can turn the tide or not.

And if nothing else, they enforce the absolute necessity to ridicule the ridiculous. And Mamdani, whose campaign is an affront to Western civilization and common decency as well as basic logic and reason, is unquestionably ridiculous.

So here are 10 of the best Mamdani memes Ruth shared to us from her extensive stash, and they’re yours to deploy as you see fit in service to the cause…

And one more…