NYC Commie Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani Isn't Just Economically Illiterate, He Can't Read Either

Posted • July 2, 2025: One of the major planks in Zohran Mamdani's NYC mayoral campaign platform was establishing government-run grocery stores. It's a plan doomed to fail, and now it turns out it was based entirely on Mamdani being too stupid to read a website correctly. —— This is a bit embarrassing. Mamdani has a plan for paying for his city-owned grocery stores. He's planning to tap into a $140 million pile of subsidies for "corporate grocery stores." But that pile of money doesn't exist. He just misread a government website. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Guux_lHXsAEuzTp?format=png&name=900x900 —— Embarrassing is an understatement. Here's more from the Washington Examiner: When Zohran Mamdani, the New York Democrat mayoral nominee, defends his idea of socialist grocery stores, he says he can pay for them by cutting city subsidies to “corporate grocery stores.” This claim is based on a basic misunderstanding of the city’s current grocery subsidies. The money he plans to use to pay for his city-owned grocery stores is money the city doesn’t have.

Specifically, he wrongly believes that the city is spending $140 million to subsidize private grocery stores, and he thinks he can take half of that money and use it to build government groceries. “We will redirect city funds from corporate supermarkets to city-owned grocery stores whose mission is lower prices, not price-gouging,” Mamdani said in one scripted video. In another interview, he went into a bit more detail, saying he had already detailed “how we are going to pay … for the entire agenda.” —— The commie is a real galaxy brain. Aww, I wanted him to try this experiment so people would see it doesn’t work. We made popcorn and everything! I thought he was just going to tax the billionaires. And then the billionaires all leave. Thrusting NYC into even further squalor and dystopia. He said billionaires shouldn't exist. Which makes taxing billionaires … impossible. Make it make sense. (…)

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https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2025/07/01/mamdanis-plan-for-gov-grocery-stores-relies-on-misreading-of-website-n2415031
RedState: Communist Zohran Mamdani's Big Government-Owned Grocery Store Scheme Takes a Believably Hilarious Turn
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/07/01/zohran-mamdanis-big-government-owned-grocery-store-plan-takes-a-hilarious-turn-n2191107